A change in Life

“Here’s your tea” Cadence announced happily, placing a tea cup on a small plate on the small table next to her husband. He looked down at it from his book before giving her a curious look.

“Thank you...though I did not ask for tea...” he said and she smiled.

“true, but the doctor told me to make this kind, he said it would help you heal” she responded cheerfully.

“Oh thats nice....” Shining said before his eyes glowed green. A light green aura shot from his horn to hers before Cadence swayed on her hooves, now hypnotized. Chrysalis returned to her regular form, stood from the bed and hovered off it so she was standing beside Cadence. She took a deep breath before stretching her joints out in her legs, back and neck. “Being in bed all day is not nearly as fun as I would have expected” Chrysalis said to no one, the one other creature in the room currently brainwashed. She always heard voices, every thought, every emotion and every sense that her kind felt she felt as well. All changelings had their own mind, yet they all were one mind. Her mind as queen controlled all the others like a central computer, all the changelings had their own free will yet their idea of free will was to do anything and everything for their lovely, kind and beautiful queen as they saw her.

Chrysalis took another breath and smiled before looking back at the hypnotized princess. “Ah Cadence, you’re a very nice pony. A soft pink coat, a well kept mane, however you have one flaw.....your love controls you” Chrysalis explained knowing in 3 minutes Cadence would never remember this conversation. Chrysalis approached the princess before lifting her chin with her hoof so she was looking up at the changeling queen. “I bucked your husband” she said before giggling darkly. “I’ll give you this he is, quite the stallion, hahaha!” the changeling queen laughed to her own joke before looking into the currently blank glowing green eyes of cadence. “Know what I love about love?, its different for every pony, every dragon and anything else” Chrysalis explained before leaning in close so her snout was inches away from the princess’ before she opened her mouth and began to inhale. To the normal eye it would appear she was simply taking a slow deep breath, but she could feel it. A lovely warm sweet invisible sent that tasted good, very very good. A knock on the door tore the changeling queen’s attention away, making her snarl in anger.

“Princess Cadence and Prince Shining, Twilight Sparkle and her friends are here to visit!” a servant called from outside the room.

“Bring them in!” announced Shining before the servant opened the door to find Shining armor laying on the bed, a cup of tea floating in front of him and princess Cadence sitting in a chair beside him, smiling at him though she looked tired and a little unbalanced.

“Princess, are you ok? you look a little tired” the servant asked who received a nod from the princess.

“I am just a tad tired, its nothing to worry about though” Cadence explained before gaining a concerned look from her husband, in truth 100% fake due to her husband right now being a changeling that only wanted to feast on her love.

“Cadence she’s right, you should go have a nap” stated Shining before Cadence gave a small nod.

“Alright dear, I love you” Cadence said.

“I love you too” Shining replied before the princess stood on her hooves and walked out of the room.

“Are you sure you’re Ok bro?” Twilight questioned before receiving another nod.

“Of course Twi, its not as bad as it looks, I promise. Your friends are probably wondering where you are, I mean you’ve been here since the afternoon and its midnight now, I am glad that you have been catching up with me and Cadence but I need to sleep too” Shining explained, a small smile on his face.

“Oh right!, sorry!” apologized Twilight before her brother chuckled. “Goodnight big brother, I’ll see you tomorrow morning” Twilight said happily walking to the door.

“See you in the morning Twilight” he said back before she closed the door. Chrysalis smiled.

It is time.

With those 3 words in her thoughts she had activated part 2 of her plan.

Screams were what woke the 6 ponies from their sleep. Upon opening their eyes they could see that something was wrong. Buildings below the palace had been set ablaze, black clouds blocked the moon....wait black clouds?

Twilight galloped to the window with her friends and stared in horror at the sight before them. Thousand and thousands of changelings flooded the skies, giant swarms lead by changeling officers bombarded buildings below, using their magic to make a nose dive into a green missile. Crystal ponies below ran in terror only to be grabbed by a changeling and carried into the sky. We got to stop them!” Rainbow growled, slamming her hoof down on the crystal of the window.

“We can’t, if you haven’t forgotten we forgot the elements of harmony in Ponyville!” argued Rarity before Rainbow turned around and shot daggers at her friend with her eyes.

“We can’t just sit here and do nothing! how long do you think till those millions of changelings burst through the front door and claim us as their next snack huh?! Answer that RARITY!!” Rainbow screamed in her friends face, this broke into a giant argument amongst all of them.

“QUIET!!” yelled Spike, catching the attention of everypony in the room. “There is a way out but its risky, it could work two ways, we end up right in the middle of the changelings or we could end up on the other side, I do not know them well enough” Spike explained.

“Know what?!” Twilight shouted, demanding answers. “Ok the Crystal Empire has an underground cave system like Canterlot, I know this because I went exploring in them during the pony games. The caves however haven’t been used for over a thousand years, way back before Sombra took the empire over originally. The caves might have caved in and to be honest I do not know where they come out of if they are even finished. Like Rainbow Dash said, those changelings are coming in the front door any minute, we will have to move FAST if we want to make it there” explained Spike before allowing everyone to think about it quickly.

“Its our only chance” Twilight stated before the 5 mares nodded. Spike jumped up onto Twilights back and with that the 7 friends opened the room door. They didn’t get 2 feet without encountering the changelings and with them their Queen.

“Ah, Twilight Sparkle” Queen Chrysalis greeted, currently hovering in the air to their left with hundreds of changelings behind her, the first row all made up of officers identified by the extra armor and helmets.

“Chrysalis.....you heartless evil twisted....” began Twilight but Chrysalis interrupted, grinning proudly.

“Oh don’t waste your breath, I’ve heard it all: Parasite, witch, bitch, psycho, demon, succubus....husband thief” Chrysalis said, her grin growing wider with the last example.

“So what? you’re going to take Equestria, kill us all and then what?!” demanded Rainbow Dash, stepping forward a bit but stopping once the first row of officers stepped forward to stop her from getting to close.

“Simple, once Equestria is dead I move to somewhere else, maybe the griffons?, who knows I don’t care” Chrysalis responded before looking back to Twilight. “Since that day, the day you ruined everything we worked for, you Twilight Sparkle, I have dreamt of the day that I would suck you dry of your emotions Twilight Sparkle, today is that day” Chrysalis stated happily in a dark way that sent shivers up the 7 friends spines.

“You won’t win Chrysalis, you will fail just like before, Canterlot will never fall to your filth” Twilight replied before her and her friends began running in the opposite direction as fast as they could, trying to outrun the swarm they knew was going to attack any moment.

“Kill them” Chrysalis commanded calmly before her changelings flew past her with precision, avoiding her and their fellow changelings as they flew at high speeds through the narrow hallway after the 6 mares.