As we both step out, the cool evening breeze blows past us. When I look at my side, I see Chrysalis in her new dress made specifically for this occasion: an obsidian dress with light green and white details all around. It was flowing with the light wind, and she looked beautiful.

“Citizens of Equestria, we gather today for a very special event, one that will change not only the pony's lives but also the lives of other species, most of you might already know them, not in a positive light unfortunately... but I Princess Celestia of the Equestrian throne Diarchy can assure every single one of you that they are trying to be better. Now, without further due, hear what our guest of honor has to say, Queen Chrysalis, may you step forward please?”

After the not-so-little speech, Celestia nods to her side, where Chrysalis stands a few steps behind, after a quick breath exercise, she steps forward.

When she becomes visible to the crowd, things get... a bit shaky, a lot of whispers and murmurs can be heard from the crowd, and lots of worried eyes, even the soldiers look ready to pounce at any time.

“Dear citizens of Equestria, I, Queen Chrysalis of the Changeling kind am here not as an enemy or obstacle, I’m here as an ally or a friend for some” She then looks at me, taking a brief pause.

“Today, as Princess Celestia said, is a very special date, I’m here to say a single word that many may find easy to say without thought, but in reality, it’s a hard word to mean it, I’m here, to apologize” She then kneels so low that her face is almost touching the ground.

That wasn’t part of what we trained for, not only is the crowd surprised, but also Celestia and Luna, hell, even I am surprised by this action.

“I’m sorry everyone, I’m sorry if I hurt you or your family, I’m sorry if didn’t hurt you directly either, all of my past actions were acts of stupidity, pride, and desperation” After a couple more minutes, she gets up, looking at the crowd in front of her.

“But after my last attempt at taking the equestrian throne, I met Anon, at first, I hated him, he was weak as a rat, frail as a stick, but still, he was able to defeat me” After a light chuckle, she proceeds.

“Even so, he didn’t beat me with violence, and his first act was to befriend me, not only that, but he also helped me and my subjects to integrate with Ponykind, and he also made me remember a promise of decades ago, a single filly that I can’t forget to this day, I made her a promise to be better, even though, now she is just a memory of the past, I will honor our promise, for this day onward, I Queen Chrysalis, will only be called Chrysalis, the Changeling race will be part of the equestrian regime under the Princess of the Sun and Moon, no more Queens”

Holy shit, did she mean that? She can’t be serious right?

After many, and I do mean MANY gasps of shock, not only by the ponies, but also by the changelings and the rulers, Chrysalis picks up her crown, chugs her in the air, and blasts it with magic, once what was an obsidian crown, only dust remains.

Nothing but a whisper I hear the now Ex-Queen say “I will make you proud Sparkler” And it seems I wasn’t the only one who heard that, Twilight of all ponies looks at Chrysalis with shock in her expression.

With the speech now done, only one thing remains, what will the crowd say?

Most ponies there are silent, evaluating their choices, until 5 colorful ponies in the middle of the crowd shout at the top of their lungs.

“IF TWILIGHT AND ANON TRUSTS YOU, WE TRUST YOU” I will be dammed, the elements of harmony were the first to forgive her, that much I wasn’t expecting.

After these first few words, the crowd went wild, every single pony there was cheering and congratulating Chrysalis and the changeling kind, but you know what was the best thing to see here?

Chrysalis's face was not only surprised, but now, she was crying, not from sadness or anxiety, but out of happiness, I can’t control myself anymore.

“Come here Bug Butt” I go there and hug the big changeling, and the only thing I hear is quiet sobbing with chuckles in-between, why is the big bug horse lady so fucking cute?

After a couple of minutes have passed and both celestial sisters have thanked their subjects, we go back inside, Chrysalis is beaming with confidence and happiness, I try to keep myself from messing with her but I can’t.

“So-” As I start to talk, I get interrupted by no other than Twilight.

“So Quee-, I mean, Chrysalis, you sure are happy now for somepony that hated the concept of friendship huh?” I see a sly smile on her face, cheeky Twilight.

“I... I guess it isn’t as bad as I thought, but that doesn’t mean I will do those prissy lessons you do” Damn girl, didn’t need to touch that subject.

“My friendship lessons aren’t prissy!” Twilight now pouting ruffle her wings with annoyance.

From all being in the hallway now, I didn’t expect to hear Celestia laughing at this, as so did everyone else since we all stopped and looked at her with confusion.

“What? Is there something on my face?” She asks innocently.

“Well, no, but I wasn’t expecting you of all ponies to be so lighthearted with all this” I was the first to say.

“Why so?” She asks looking at me.

“Well, since Chrysalis started living here in the castle, I started to study the changeling story throughout Equestria, and well, both you and Chrysalis have quite the extensive list of battles I will say that much” I look at Chrysalis, I see her awkwardly smiling at me.

“I see, well, I won’t lie, I’m not entirely happy with the situation, as you said, Chrysalis already caused a lot of problems not only for me but for Equestria as a whole” She then looks at Chryssi “But I can’t ignore the fact that she is indeed trying to be better, she has a lot to do before I can truly forgive her, but, I don’t hate her either” I can’t quite say I was surprised by this response, knowing Celestia she probably already was planning on befriending the changeling kind anyway.

“Oh yeah, I forgot to ask back then Chrysalis, but did you say you made a promise to a pony named Sparkler?” Twilight asks the changeling with a serious tone.

“Yeah, she was a filly I met when I was a little nymph, in a quiet village close to the badlands, I fear it doesn’t exist anymore, it has been 80 years now,” Chrysalis says while looking nowhere in particular.

“That’s... no, it can’t be, Chrysalis, tell me, would you be able to recognize that pony if you see a photo of her again?” Why is Twilight so pushy about this? Something isn’t right.

“Probably, changelings can remember faces for decades easily,” she says with a proud tone.

After 2 quick pops, Twilight teleports to somewhere and comes back in a few minutes, she then hands Chryssi an old photo of an old mare holding a baby in her hoofs, the baby I assume is Twilight, the older mare had a purple mane with a brighter purple for her coat, she had a cutie mark of three diamonds.

“That’s her indeed, but wait, why is she holding a baby you?” The changeling looks back at Twilight with a confused glance.

“She was my great-grandmother,” Twilight says with the most confused look I have seen.

“What?” All the other ponies (and human) say in unison.

Author's Note

Welp, remember when I said that I was working on the next "My Little Lunar Guard" chapter? I lied (sort of), I was indeed working on it, but I sort of got into the groove for this chapter
Anyway, I said that Sparkler would be brought up later didn't I? It won't be anything life changing for the plot but it will be a little fun exploring this version of the character, at least I hope so.
I don't know how much longer this fic will last not gonna lie, probably around 3-5 more chapters, maybe more, maybe less, we will see, I still want to do 2 big things with the story in this, I won't say what but hey, that's why you are here aren't you?