Love Me

"So that is why you attacked Canterlot like that...some greedy Changelings ate the love supplies for the entire Hive. But after all the damage you did and the fear you caused, it'll take a long time to ever get either Princess Celestia or anypony in general to trust you again ever."

"I know, which is why I want you to choose a pony that we hold to be freed and to go back home with a message-we are tired of war and wish to gain love by other means. Such as by replacing ponies which have died, with the consent of their families. Or by setting up a Changeling Dating Service. Which single pony could resist it? Are you longing to date an ex-coltfriend or ex-marefriend but she can't stand you anymore? Do you wish to date way above your station with a famous pony such as Octavia Philharmonica or DJ Pon3 ? Maybe you wish to mate with the holy of holies Princess Celestia herself? Never fear, the Changeling Dating Agency is here, you can date anypony you like. If true love results, enough to feed the hive with what's left over, you don't have to pay any bits, otherwise if you want to go on using the service you have to pay up."

Diamond Tiara grinned at the thought. "I'm no lawyer, but I think Equestrian law would forbid such a dating agency, as ponies own their own images. Plus most ponies totally hate and fear Changelings, remember? A pony would have to be desperate to knowingly date a Changeling for the most part. Unlike me. And Celestia would be furious at the thought of false Celestias even if they were only peacefully dating ponies."

Just then a Changeling flew in, bowed low to the Queen, and said "Silver Spoon's family found out who I really was, they must have been tipped off about us by the real Silver Spoon before we kidnapped her."

"Well, in that case, please find the real Silver Spoon and let her go free, so that she can go back to her parents again. I owe her that for the trouble that I've caused her. I know the Spoons, they are good ponies."

At a nod from the Queen, two Changelings flew up and detached a green cocoon from the ceiling and brought it down with care, and slit it open with their fangs to free the pony within.

*****
Princess Silver Spoon flexed her wings and sat down upon her royal throne. Life as an immortal alicorn surrounded by her friends and family was great. Until the walls of Canterlot Castle shivered and faded away and was gone and she found herself lying on the floor. She flexed her wings...and they were not there, and felt for her horn and it was gone. She was back to being an earth pony again. As her vision cleared and her sleepy mind fully woke up she saw Diamond Tiara and the Changelings that were all around her. She backed off against the wall, and her anger mixed with her fear.

"I'm in a hive, a Changeling Hive...Diamond, if it is the real you, what have you done? You had me kidnapped and replaced, didn't you, and some Changeling has taken my place to feed off the love of my family."

"Yes....yes I did, but the replacement was discovered and I asked the Queen of the Changelings to set you free and let you go back home. How was it in that cocoon?"

"Not bad surprisingly, but what you did was still wrong. Very wrong. Where am I and how, by Celestia, am I ever going to get home from here?"

"You are in my Changeling Hive," Queen Chrysalis said. "A perfect place for a Changeling-not so for a pony. We will fly you back to Equestria with a message-we want peace. We know that after what we did it will be a very long time before a Changeling can openly enter Equestria again, but we want to send three diplomats to Canterlot in the hope that one day relations between ponies and Changelings can be normal."

Silver Spoon curtsied. She had been taught from an early age to always show respect for royalty, and this Queen was letting her go home instead of keeping her here as food. She said to Diamond Tiara "If I were you I'd make your home here in the Hive, and stay away from Equestria and far away from me. I don't know if I will ever be able to like and trust you again."

"Go, my changelings and bring Silver Spoon home in a chariot...take Pegusai shape until you are very close to Ponyville and only reveal yourselves when you meet the Spoon family."

*****
When Silver Spoon was brought back in a Changeling-pulled chariot, it made the news all through Equestria. Some ponies suspected another Changeling trick, but once it was established through questioning and a blood test that Silver Spoon was indeed Silver Spoon, Princess Celestia agreed to meet the envoys and listened to what they had to say.

"Peace is always a good thing-three Changelings hand picked by the Queen itself may be sent as ambassadors to Equestria, provided they stay in their Changeling form and behave themselves. The pony Golden Dawn and two other pony ambassadors will go to the Hive of Queen Chrysalis to represent Equestria. It will take time and trouble to settle the love problem, but I hope one day it will be sorted out and the Changelings will be able to enter Equestria openly, and ponies may visit their Hives and trade. I would advise Diamond Tiara to stay away from Equestria for the foreseeable future, but I will not be demanding her extradition. Exile away from her fellow ponies will be her punishment."

It was Chilek who brought Diamond Tiara the news that she was officially persona non grata in Equestria for her part in getting Silver Spoon kidnapped.

"Does this mean I will never see my parents again?" Diamond Tiara asked sadly.

"I'm sure that given enough time Princess Celestia will reconsider and meanwhile I can take the shape of anypony that you want me to be," Chilek replied.

(OOC-Apart from the Epilogue, to sum this story up, it is finally at an end. Thank you to everypony who read it.)