After thinking of what kingdom to target, he came up with the decision.
"We target the Changelings first." Naruto told Gnarl as he looked at the Badlands on the hologram "Their civil war makes it perfect. Plus, nobody bothers to go into the Badlands which presents an opportunity to move the Infernal Army into the real world."
"How will you do it, sire?" Gnarl asked to his master.
Naruto grinned and an image appeared, it showed a giant gateway with two hooded statue figures on each side of the portal and on the top of it is a statue of a dragon (the image is the Dark Portal of World of Warcraft). In the center, the portal showed the Infernal Abyss.
"By creating a gateway to allow my army to walk through." Naruto replied before the Infernal Gateway disappeared and appeared five Changeling Queens.
The first one was Miasma, leader of the Miasma Hive. The Miasma Hive is the second largest of the known hives. It usually resides underneath or at the edges of big cities like Las Pegasus or Manehattan, modifying sewage systems and/or garbage dumps to their needs. They use their environment to get around the city quicker than even the surface ponies. They use the garbage and bad smell to act like beggars who ask for help and they usually do, which is sort of effective. Their body liquids, which, in addition to their choice of living space, gives the whole hive a particularly rancid smell. Sometimes it even gets so bad that it's noticeable when a changeling has transformed himself into another creature. Their Queen, Miasma herself, is a very vain and snobby person and tries to appear better than she is. She has two changelings follow her around with incense burners wherever she goes and douses herself in perfume as often as possible. Although trying to appear noble and sophisticated, the queen has a very bad temper and can turn from sweet to sour in mere seconds. (She also has very bad table manners (and taste), and won't even stop short of literally rolling around in her food. It's not helped by the fact that she has holes in her cheeks so you can see her chewing even if she has her mouth closed) The hive's manner of gathering victims isn't very sophisticated, ranging from cries of help from out of a gully to simply waiting for someone to get stuck in their secretions while drunkenly wandering about at night.
The second one was the Nekropolis Hive and its queen Calliphora are probably one of the most elusive and least explored hives in all of Equestria. They make their home in graveyards, feeding off ponies' love by posing as ghosts of dead relatives and loved ones. Their size is unknown. Usually they move into already existing family graves and crypts and only set up rudimentary constructions and decorations. Although they use remains and coffins for this purpose, they don't actually eat either of those to manufacture their building material, as many ponies believe. Instead it has been found their "changeling goo" is mostly composed of various moss and fungi types. They have little to no contact with other hives and are actually often purposely avoided by them, for the simple fact that, even if it sounds unbelievable, even other changelings are creeped out by them. Beside their macabre living conditions, the biggest reason for this are their appearance and their general behavior. While they appear even more "perforated" than other changelings, with colors reminding of dead leaves and decaying matter, their most distinguishing and disturbing feature is what appears to be a second set of eyelids that they can close vertically and, while see-through, allows them to block out most light. This is important because the hive is almost exclusively nocturnal and thus reacts pretty badly to bright lights. Even their hive is kept in complete darkness (which is why they seldomly keep husks).
Their general behavior has so far been described as "sort of otherworldly". They tend to buzz around with their second set of eyelids closed, seemingly without direction, or huddled in dark corners, humming quietly, as if listening to some inner voice. Perhaps this stems from the fungi they consume and the various gases present in a graveyard. Nevertheless the hive never falls into ruin or disarray. When an intruder appears, the hive is immediately at full alert and goes into attack mode without so much as a whisper. Many a pony has already found themselves thinking they just walked into a zombie pony attack when the coffin lid next to them flew off with a loud hiss. One should take special precautions when a full moon is out. For some reason, it sends the hive into even more of a trance and a strange sort of dancing motion above the graveyard it currently resides in. Any intruder is immediately killed on sight, but one can usually tell and avoid these events by keeping a lookout for red eyes dancing in the sky like fireflies. Some ponies refer to this hive as "the order of the fly", proving that they are rather superstitious, but given that anyone who would find themselves in the clutches of this hive would surely think themselves in Tartarus, it is somewhat understandable.
The Hagfish Hive's Queen, Myxine, and her changelings live in hollowed out caves along the shore and eat seafood to produce their building material (which might resemble corals). Usually they'll either play the drowning to be saved, or save the drowning. Sometimes they build sharp spires underwater and try to navigate ships into them. Sometimes they're lazy and just simulate a shark attack by swimming with their horn looking up over the water like a shark fin. They are a pretty small hive as ponies aren't all that big on seafaring. Overall they're pretty pragmatic and a direct contrast to the Honeycomb hive's song and dance. Like the Sirens of legend, these Changelings can mimic the Siren's song to lure sailors to them.
The Honeycomb Hive is known to prefer hot and humid rain forests. In contrast to other hives they don't necessarily build their lair underground, but may simply hollow out trees. They are less actively aggressive than other hives and more seldom venture outside their designated area. Their favorite method of trapping creatures is to disguise themselves as dancing females and to lure males into their traps. Those are especially sticky since the hive has an affinity for sweet nectar - and blood. They usually wait for their target to weaken inside the trap, so they can more easily apply hypnosis spells. If they are not outside dancing and creature walks into a trap all by its own, it may take a worker weeks to notice it, which usually leaves a lot of creatures to die in the humid heat. Their queen, Ambrosia, is quite curious and rather playful, but often will harm her victims that way cause she has no concept of, and doesn't care about their natural limits. Some ponies say she is rather beautiful - for a changeling.
Of all the known hives, the Chrysalis Hive is the most actively aggressive. Instead of slowly draining singular ponies of their love by infiltration, this hive will actively overtake whole towns. Scouts are sent out to infiltrate military and governing positions and sabotage them. After that, a full scale attack is launched on the city, until every last citizen is captured. Victims get placed in cocoons and are only released for being fed on. Usually changelings of this hive won't bother with transformations, but instead aggressively hypnotize them. After the feast, victims are sealed up again. Being trapped in the cocoon weakens them and makes them only more susceptible to hypnosis. This hive seldomly uses husks, but usually kills and disposes of ponies who have been drained of their love. After a city is successfully overtaken, the changelings will start occupying various cellars and other underground structures, because they prefer to live in the dark, and will start connecting them, building strange architecture, brood-chambers and decorations inside, correcting errors in the structure and improving stability. After a town is completely drained, the hive moves on to the next location. Sometimes they occupy nearby ruins and/or caves before launching an attack. Even though they are aggressive, no-one knows why they actually tried to overtake Canterlot; one can only speculate that they got greedy. Ghost towns marked their way to the capital city, alerting the royal guard and Celestia to a possible threat. The hive in general is pretty military and has a higher percentage of changeling commanders than any other hive. No-one knows what they eat to produce their building materials, but we can wager it is something icky. Their military nature is reflected in the way they shape their cocoons and other structures. Through this military strength and aggressiveness, Queen Chrysalis has established herself and the hive as the largest of all known hives. Their primary hive is located in the Badlands, but rumor has it that she has a outpost hive, deep in the Everfree Forest where animals are most hostile that provides great defense against wanderers.
Naruto looked and study them all before looking at Chrysalis.
"She will be the Changeling Queen I will contact first." Naruto said, making Gnarl look at her holographic image.
"The most militarized and aggressive queen of them all." Gnarl said as she study her "It is a surprise why they haven't taken over Canterlot and all of Equestria after all this time."
"She is probably planning it, but needs the opportunity to do it." Naruto said as he gets up and puts his helmet on "Time to meet each other."
"But how do you know she will welcome you in?" Gnarl asked to his Overlord.
"If she does try to resist, then I will battle her. She, like all Changeling Queens, have pride and if their pride is on the line, she will not hesitate to ignore a changeling, especially one so aggressive." Naruto said as her finished adjusting the helmet on. He looks at Gnarl "Use the Tower Heart to open the gateway in front of her primary hive. Knowing her, she probably has some defense for her primary hive."
Gnarl nods and goes to grab the coordinates. After that, Naruto stands in the middle of the gateway platform and begins to hover before he goes up the gateway.
There you have it! The target for conquest is the Changelings! There is also the information about the separate hives. While they are at Civil War, all of them tend to avoid each other otherwise they will battle against each other. That is all for now. If you need to know where the information comes from, I got them from My Little Bronies Fandom is Magic Wiki.
That is all for now. The next chapter will be our favorite Nine Tailed Overlord meeting the Queen of the largest Changeling force of all the hives. What will that outcome be?
Here are the votes that were counted down.
Which Kingdom should Naruto conquer first? (Note: These were the votes made so the votes have ended until another vote call is made, which is probably going to be the end of the Changeling Conquest Campaign).
Changelings (4)
Griffons (3)
Minotaurs (1)
Zebra (0)
Dragon (-1) [Fun fact, matthewdeal25 told me not to do Dragons until the tournament to be the next Dragon King is to be chosen. So I counted their vote as negative. XD]
Also...
Alex2909: looking forward to naruto acting out in the open.
Me too, dude. Me too. Though I guess he will be doing that soon.
