It was a cool summer night-drive home for the middle of May. The windows of my car were rolled down, my music was blasting through the speakers, and I wore my Black jacket (The one with the words "Wolfpack" over a number 1 on the back, in respresentation of my former University Marching Band nickname) to keep myself from freezing too much. As I adjusted my glasses whilst driving down a long strip of highway, I noticed the moon, which was really big for this time of year.
Maybe it's a harvest moon? I thought in my head. I quickly dismissed the subject and kept driving, suggesting that it was just what I thought it was. I looked at the clock, which read 9:30pm. That's also odd… I thought again, I could have sworn that it was 9:30 when I left the bar… Once again I quickly dismissed the subject, assuming it was only me reading the clock wrong when I left the bar that night.
That's when my dashboard lit up. "Unknown Caller" popped up on the dash since I was using bluetooth with my vehicle. I answered the call, not knowing who it could be.
"Hello?" I asked in a polite tone.
"Hello, Joe..." A female voice said on the other line, which made me jump a little at the unknown caller knowing my name.
"May I ask who's calling me?" I asked in a still polite tone. There was a pause, then the voice spoke up.
"Eyes on the road." The voice said before ending the call. As I took my eyes off of the dashboard, I saw something extremely unsettling. What looked like a big, black and green unicorn stood in my path, and I was just seconds away from hitting it. I screamed and slammed on the breaks, my car swerving out of control, where it went off the highway, past the creature and into the grassy field beside me, where I crashed. Instantly, upon impact, I hit my head on the steering wheel, where I blacked out. The last thing I could remember was blacking in and out of consciousness, where I was dragged out of my car by the neckline of my jacket, and seeing a blurry image of the creature smirking as I drifted off into unconsciousness once again.
"Wake up, buttercup." A female voice announced, afterwords I felt water splash upon my face, causing me to open my eyes. I coughed, and struggled to breathe as water got into my lungs, but eventually I calmed down. Well, for about a few seconds. When I was fully awake, I realized something off about where I was. It was dark, dank, and cold, with the sound of water dripping somewhere far off in the distance. I tried to move, but I couldn't get up from where I was at: I was strapped down to a stone slab of sorts, which was leaned diagonally to the ceiling that I was looking at. I panicked, and tried to move a little more, but the restraints that were holding me were too strong; I was pretty much screwed for the most part. I looked around as I tried to get out of the restraints, seeing that I was in some sort of cave. And I was not alone either.
In front of me stood the creature from before, yet I could see it in it's entirety: It looked like a cross between a bug and a unicorn, with insect-like wings on it's back, and a single, crude horn jutting from it's head, which was covered in a messy, bluish-green mane. It's two, green, snake-like eyes stared deeply into my own, causing me to shudder in fright.
"What the hell is that?!" I shouted, struggling even more, trying to get away from this beast of terror. The creature took a few steps back and grinned, showing it's sharp fangs.
"My name is Chrysalis." It said in the voice that I remembered from the phone call in my car, "And I am the TRUE queen of this realm!" I gave the creature a puzzled look, then started to laugh a little. "What's so funny, human?" Chrysalis asked, leering at my reaction.
"To be honest," I started, "This is some pretty messed up dream I'm in, for one. And second of all, you can't be real. You're from a kid's television show and that is clearly-" Chrysalis then flew over to me and placed a hole-covered hoof on my throat, blocking my air vent, causing me to gasp for air.
"DO I LOOK IMAGINARY TO YOU?!" Chrysalis screamed at me, pressure building on my throat, "IF I CAN TALK, AND YOU CAN DEFINITELY FEEL MY HOOF UPON YOUR THROAT, DOES THIS SEEM LIKE A DREAM?!" She then released my throat as I coughed and gasped for air once more. Chrysalis then started to smirk, and chuckle to herself. "For a human," She started, "You sure know how to piss things off..." I laughed at that statement.
"Oh, so you're calling yourself a thing? Wow, way to insult yourself..." I remarked, grinning like a madman. Chrysalis responded by shooting a bolt of green energy at me, which was aimed directly to the right of my face, where it hit the rock fizzing.
"Don't play that game with me," Chrysalis growled, "Or I'll be sure to make your time here MUCH more painful. And you know what?" She then approached me, and leaned into my ear. "I can make everyone forget that they had ever met you, and make them ALL hate you…" I spat in her face at that, causing her to wheel back in retaliation, hissing.
"You don't know me, bug." I remarked, "To you, I'm just a creature who is scared of you as you are of me…" Chrysalis growled once more, and charged up her horn a second time. This time, it struck me in the chest, causing me to cry out in pain. There was a slight chattering noise around me as i saw her Changeling minions giggling around us.
"Oh, I know quite a bit about you, 'Wolfpack'." She stated, causing me to gasp. How did she know my nickname? "You lived on Earth, a planet of a race of beings called humans, which were proclaimed extinct in this world long ago. You have three siblings, two of which are brothers and the last one a sister. Your parents are currently grieving the, what's the word? Unfortunate loss of your life in that dreadful accident on the road…" She then walked up closer to me.
"What did you do…?" I growled at her, trying to break free of my restraints but to no avail. The Changeling Queen laughed.
"I simply took you from this world and placed a decoy of your 'dead' body at the scene of the wreckage. Law enforcement probably have decided that it was a DUI accident due to the nature of where you were, and how the wreck occurred…" I growled even more, my face turning red with anger. Chrysalis laughed, "Look how pitiful you are: A human being bested by an 'imaginary entity' such as I! I'm pretty sure EVERYONE is proud of you for what you have done!" That was my breaking point, and I stopped trying to break free, and accepted defeat.
"Why…?" I asked in a low tone. "Why would you do something like this to me…?" Chrysalis smirked in victory.
"Because, Joe," She started, "You are what I need to begin my comeback and overthrow my sisters from their Equis-forsaken thrones! Also," She leaned in closer at this point, "I can make all of this disappear and send you back to your world. Like it NEVER happened…" My ears perked at that.
"...What is it you want me to do then...?" I grumbled, defeated and helpless. Chrysalis grinned, knowing that she had won this fight. A flash of green light emitted from her horn, and a piece of black parchment materialized before me, along with a strange instrument that resembled a pen, yet had a tiny, thin tack on the grip.
"I want you to simply form a contract with me." Chrysalis stated, "I will receive a bit of your blood, for my own purpose. In return, I shall let you go, send you back to Earth, and I will reverse the whole crash process and will not influence a thing to your precious human lives that you have came to love. Ever. Do we have a deal?" I felt one of my shackles on the rock release, giving my right arm freedom to move.
"Do you swear to never hurt or to even touch my family or my life ever again?" I stated, grabbing the pen, which caused my finger to bleed a little from the tack on the grip. The blood from my finger then sunk into the pen itself, serving as it's own ink. Chrysalis grinned madly.
"Of course." She stated, "I will never lay a hoof on hem." Reluctantly, I read over the terms of the contract, and saw nothing out of the ordinary. Then, I brought the pen down towards the paper.
BANG! Chrysalis yelped a bit as a loud booming sound echoed throughout the chamber of the cave, causing me to drop the pen onto the floor, which shattered upon contact.
"What in Equestria?!" She exclaimed, as the ceiling of the cave opened up with another loud bang, revealing a bright moon shining down upon the two of us.
"There she is!" A voice shouted, and instantly a wave of dark blue pegasi wearing bat like armor swooped in from the opening and tackled Chrysalis.
"Get your hooves off me you lot!" Chrysalis yelled, struggling with the pile of pegasi upon her that was holding her down.
"Restrain her!" A female voice sounded from above us, "We don't want her to get away again!" I looked up and saw a dark blue, winged unicorn with a blue and black mane that twinkled like stars float down in front of me, facing Chrysalis, who started to laugh at this newcomer.
"Luna... Chrysalis adressed, "You've finally found me. Took you long enough too, and how long has it-" A bat-pony then slapped a mouth-restrainer on Chrysalis, shutting her up.
"Save it for my sister..." Luna answered sternly, before motioning the pegasi to take her away. The pegasi then put shackles of blue metal on Chrysalis's legs, and then escorted her out of the cave, though the hole in the ceiling. Luna sighed, and then turned to the remaining bat-ponies. "Lets go, the night is still young and-" I then coughed, the smell of rock dust entering my nostrils. Luna turned, and faced me, a curious look on her face.
"Why is a human here...?" Luna said to herself, surprised to see me. She then turned back to her guard. "Release him!" She ordered. Immediately the bat-ponies flew over to me and released the restraints from my hands and feet, causing me to fall face first to the floor of the cave.
"Ow..." I groaned, just before falling into a deep sleep, as it was late at night and the ordeal of meeting Chrysalis exhausted me beyond belief.