The rights of the original works belong to Kugane Maruyama and Hasbro respectively, this is a work with the purpose of entertaining and if possible to get a smile.
NOTES
EEA = Eight Edge Assassins, (I'll abbreviate because it's a hat to write it every time, Xd)
DK = Death Knight
SD = Shadow Demon
ES = Undead Emotional Suppressor.
This is a side story, a complement of AOGIE, and it's not necessary to read to understand the principal story; it is a direct and crude description of Chrysalis hardships under Ainz rule, in my opinion is one of the best villains if not the best of MLP series and this is her redemption from my perspective.
An Entomology Session
The days continued with similar tests, for five days Chrysalis ran until she collapsed, jumped rope until her hooves couldn't take another rep, did push-ups until she couldn't get up off the ground, and lifted weights until her whole body was sore, all of these tasks. They were repeated with and without the aid of magic, for five days in a row and she had two days of rest after this torture.
When the exercise sessions that pushed her to her limit were finally over, the next step came.
Not being taken back to the area where she had been exercising previously, the former queen's curiosity won out over prudence and she asked her guide.
"Aren't we heading to the exercise area?"
"No, Demiurge-sama said that the data collected was sufficient in this regard." -answered the rough voice of the lesser demon that walked in front of her-
WHAT !?, SO SOON WE WILL CHANGE THE TYPE OF TEST! *glup* he said he wanted to get an idea of my previous basic abilities, does that mean he is going to do something to me that is going to change me?
But before the changeling could ask another question, the demon stopped and turned around.
"We have arrived, Demiurge-sama is waiting for you inside."
Swallowing, the changeling nodded and gave a nervous thank you, which was barely audible, put the hoof on the door handle, took a deep breath and with the other one knocked on the door a couple of times, the answer did not take long to come; from within the voice of the arch demon was heard.
"Come in"
With the permission received, she opened the door and entered with her eyes downcast so to not show her nervous, after silently closing the door behind her and turning around, she finally looked up at her superior and what she saw began to make her tremble.
The place was not dirty, far from it, it was even cleaner than a hospital, but the large number of surgical tools from different times to some that she had never seen filled the tables around the place, while the largest as saws for bone and others of strange shape that I was not able to define their function were hanging on the walls as if it were a workshop, the only thing missing was the smell of antiseptic in the air.
"Let's start as soon as possible, first of all, stand in that corner, the necessary cleaning spells will be used on you to make sure that nothing changes the results, then I want you to fly back and lie on the table." -said the demon as if talking about the weather-
The causality with which he spoke only made her more nervous and she began to tremble, which finally caught Demiurge's attention.
Ha, I see, she is nervous fufufu forgetful creature, if not for Ainz-sama's instructions I would treat you worse than the other specimens in this place for not remembering her words.
"Chrysalis, I remind you that you are under the protection of my master's name and I have his instructions not to cause you any physical harm or torture, I want to assume that you have not forgotten his words, have you?" -he finished seriously-
His tone finally made the changeling react while also making her tremble more.
"NO! No! I-I'm just nervous, is it going to c-change me in some w-way?" -asked the changeling stammering-
"No, of course not, at least not without Ainz-sama's authorization, what I will do from this moment on is try to understand your inner workings, this in accordance with what our master wishes."
The smile that always graced the creature's face spread slightly, giving Chrysalis chills as she remembered her master's orders and apparent goal.
'You will participate in the necessary experiments to find out how your abilities can best serve Nazarick.'
"To better serve… Nazarick."
"Excellent, I see you remember, now if you don't mind I'd like to start as soon as possible."
As she reluctantly walked to the corner of the room, where multiple magic circles were etched on the floor, ceiling, and walls, she tried to collect her thoughts.
*Glup* I don't like this at all, I feel like I'm going to be vivisected, I feel like I'm a specimen that will be torn to pieces and later discarded, but... if that were their goal, there would really be no point in the time lost with the exercises… *Shig* in the end I have no choice, at least that skeleton ordered that I will not to suffer pain or torture, haaaaah, here it goes then, all or nothing.
At the end of her brief and quick internal monologue, she stood in the corner with the engravings of multiple magic circles, but nothing happened, so she turned and gave a questioning look to the demon who had a curious look while a hand rubbed his chin.
"Mmmmmhhhn, interesting, it is something unexpected, but I will point it in the points to cover, apparently the conditional automatic activation spells do not work at all with you or your species," -and his expression changed to a smile of interest- "Try applying a little of your magic to the patterns, one at a time if they don't all activate after the first one, start with the one on the ground. "
Not trusting her voice for the moment, the former queen nodded and applied her magic to the circle of the ground, the effect was immediate, as soon as her magic came into contact with the engraving, it was activated and a bluish glow bathed the body of Chrysalis, causing burning everywhere, absolutely everywhere, the burning was not unbearable, but it was quite uncomfortable, especially in her eyes.
"Just as I expected, for some reason the auto-activation spells aren't reacting to you, continue with the others."
Although the tears in her eyes did not let her see clearly, the former queen had no problem to comply with the orders, as soon as she touched the second circle that was on the wall to her right, a new yellowish light bathed her; eliminating the burning from her body, but replacing it with a strange sensation, as if she had been washed from hooves to horn in an instant, when she touched the circle behind her, the light was orange, and she felt as if she had been put into boiling water for an instant, everything burned again, but this time due to sensitivity due to heat, when she touched the last one, a green light covered her, cooling her and making all her discomfort disappear.
"What… what was that all about? Demiurge-sama." Chrysalis asked as she flew to the table.
"They are preparation spells, the first is an antiseptic, it is not convenient that any external agent damages the results, the second is a cleaning one, it removes any external dirt, the third is redundant a superficial sterilization, and the last is one of healing to reset the body to its original state, but without external agents. " -answered the demon-
While Demiurge spoke, he put on his equipment to start and other creatures entered the place, these were quite pale, at least the skin that was seen, they were quite tall and bipedal, they wore a black apron that almost covered up to their feet and a hood without holes that completely covered their faces.
How can these things breathe? -the ex-queen thought-
The demon turned around and was decked out in many materials that would usually be seen in doctors.
"Well now relax, we are about to begin."
The seventh floor guardian spoke without giving her time to question anything while giving a signal to one of the creatures in a black apron and immediately, the changeling collapsed motionless on the table.
HEEE?, WHAT IS HAPPENING ?!
Although the former queen wanted to scream her thoughts, the only thing she could do was roll her eyes, then the demon's voice was heard again.
"My helpers just used the [Paralysis] spell on you, to prevent you from hurting yourself by moving involuntarily, now [Painless] let's start, the first thing we'll do is see your complete anatomy." -said the demon using a reinforcement spell on her, himself-
With horror, Chrysalis saw how the demon took what looked like a scalpel and began to cut through the joints of her shell, her heart beat at a thousand per hour watching how the razor approached her body in slow motion, although she could not see everything, her wide line of sight allowed her to know where he started to cut, the moment the razor was about to touch the junction of her rib cage and neck, she squeezed her eyes hoping to feel the agony of being vivisected, but when This did not arrive, she slowly began to open them again, to her surprise, the cut was already reaching the height of the ridge on her chest.
With morbid fascination, she watched as the scalpel cut through her chitin as if it were butter and after a moment a large section of her shell was completely removed with a professionalism that terrified her, what seemed curious to her was that, although she felt absolutely no pain, could still feel the hands working around her breastplate and then the total loss of sensation in the area, if she were not so lost in the scene and paralyzed, on more than one occasion, between all her breastplate and skin that had been completely removed, she would have vomited repeatedly, at this moment she felt absolutely nothing from her right side from the neck down, but on her left side she could feel the blood slowly accumulating, then she began to feel like all her internal organs were completely moved or removed as she listened to speak to the guardian of the seventh floor, a true chilling sensation.
"Very well, now let's see what is here... curious, your digestive system is quite simple and similar to that of other echinoid beings, I thought it would be different given your feeding of emotions ... aahh, now I see," -said the demon after removing the intestines and examining them- "apparently they are a kind of vestiges but at the same time functional, I suppose that is due to the fact that you transform into things that use them, that means that your species not only transform on the outside, also inside, wonderful!. "
After these words, her entire digestive system, from the stomach to the beginning of the large intestine, was cut and placed on a tray, because of her position she could not see, but felt that her hind legs were beginning to move to a diferent position or something like that.
"You know, it's quite curious that you not only have an exoskeleton, apparently you have a semi-rigid cartilage pseudo skeleton inside, I suppose the case is similar to that of your digestive system, your muscles are not fully attached to your shell, it is they support more on the internal structure. "
With what she saw and heard, Chrysalis not only felt sick, her face was in total shock, in her eyes, her pupils looked like two heads of pins and abundant tears came out of them, she was terrified and could not do anything about it rather than looking, a sick sound brought her attention back to what the figure was doing above her, then her panicked eyes saw what she wished she could forget.
*Slice* *crrunhch*
In a single cut, the now exposed part of her pseudo ribs was cut and removed and like the rest of the pieces that were extracted, it was placed on a tray, while she followed her bones dripping with blood, noticed the amount of trays that were being checked and/or subjected to experimentation by diverse creatures that she had not seen enter the room.
"Mmmh your heart is quite racing, as is your breathing."
With these words she felt fingers wrap around her heart and for a moment it stopped in shock as did her breathing, but only to become frantic and uncontrolled the next instant, as did her heartbeat.
NOOOO THEY ARE GOING TO KILL ME, THEY ARE GOING TO KILL ME, IT WAS ALL A LIE; NOOOOOOOoooooo; NOT THIS WAY; NOT BEING AN EXPERIMENT NOOOOOOooooooo; NOOOOO PLEASE!
As her throat was paralyzed, it was not possible for her to express any words or noise, but that did not prevent her from thinking about it, and a few seconds after giving her last words in silent screams, she lost consciousness due to mental stress.
-O-
"Uuuughhnnn"
The figure in the bed began to move under the sheets, the sunlight of her hated rival, which came through the window bothered her, she wanted to continue sleeping a little more... but then, everything returned to her mind suddenly, with a rather loud scream, she jumped out of bed and as she did so, this caused her to fall to the ground tangled in the sheets.
"…AAAAAAAHHHH!" *PLAF*
How could, she untangled herself and immediately began to touch her body on all sides with her hooves, after several frantic movements she stopped when registering what her eyes saw, she extended both front hooves in front of her face and she observed them carefully, looking for any difference or scar on them, but all she could see was their glistening chitin.
"Was it… * Glup * all of that? Was it just a nightmare?" -She asked herself aloud with a trembling voice-
"No, it was not."
The sudden hoarse, reverberating voice behind her made her stand up and by inertia launch herself toward the wall in front of her, putting as much distance as possible between herself and the voice.
After several seconds of hyperventilating out of fear, she began to take a closer look at where she was, the wooden walls, the simplicity of the place, and the lack of personal items, except for the solid love gem that was on top of a small table on a plate and covered with a glass dome as large as the plate itself; she recognized where she was, it was the cabin in which she was staying, with this revelation in mind, her breathing began to return to normal, like her heartbeat, this allowed her to pay more attention to the figure in the area of the hut that had little light.
It was the Elder Lich in charge of the 'ranch'.
"Now that you finally woke up, you have to move on, there are more tests pending that must be performed."
Finally?
"How long? ... How long was I unconscious?" -the changeling asked with a trembling voice-
"After the mental shock overwhelmed your brain, you passed out on the spot and were unconscious for three days."
"Thre…" -she was speechless- "Three full days?!"
"That's how it is"
"And the… *glup* examination, is it going to keep repeating itself?"
"No, during the time you were unconscious the physical analysis was completed successfully, but there are more tests pending, have your breakfast and we will leave immediately to continue with the next phase."
Not having the foggiest idea of what to say, the former queen simply nodded and proceeded to eat her food quickly.
-O-
At Canterlot Castle that morning, having risen the sun and preparing to fulfill her duties, Celestia entered the dining room to share breakfast with her sister.
"Good morning Luna, how was the night..."
But the face of the princess of the night was with a grimace of displeasure that did not disappear until she finally heard her sister's words when they sounded for the second time.
"Luna? Is everything okay?"
"Mhn? I have? Ah, yes, I'm sorry it's just that last night I could feel that an atrocious nightmare was unfolding somewhere, but I couldn't find it no matter how I looked, it was so dark, it was as if the individual was actually going to die, *shig* I just hope the poor creature is fine, after something like this I doubt the poor thing can sleep for several days without professional medical help. "
-O-
After having enjoyed her breakfast, Chrysalis was guided to the main office of the place, as always, everything she could smell and see around her was unbearable, only this time it was twice as much given the fresh memories in her mind, fortunately this allowed her to walk faster and they reached their destination early.
Inside the office, sitting behind the desk, was the male in red.
"Ah Chrysalis! I see you already woke up, welcome back."
The spirited words left the former queen speechless and with an expression of disbelief.
"But that's enough, let's get straight to the point, the following tests will be to observe the operation of your magic, these will be unfortunately delayed since there are some very important things that require my attention, so, during the next few days, you will be carrying out fight training in the arena on the sixth floor to evaluate your performance. "
Are you serious?!, After scare me into a coma, you tell me with joy that I am going to train because you are busy?! WHAT AN ARSEHOLE!
"Just what kind of creature are you?! A demon?!"
The question was said in the lowest voice the changeling could use, so it was an absolute surprise when she received an answer that was far beyond her expectations.
"No, sorry, I am not a demon, I am not something that low, I am an Archdemon, one of the highest ranks of my species, even if I have to say it myself."
The reaction was the most appropriate on the part of Chrysalis.
"Wait! WHAAAAATH?!"
...
...
The former queen looked in disbelief at the male in red in front of her, expecting him to laugh saying it was a joke, but it didn't happen, she only saw him with his typical evil smile.
"A-are you joking, right? It's impossible for demons to exist, they're just a myth, you're pulling my mane right? Yes, that must be it, hahahahahaha very funny hahahahaha."
But the lack of response made her gulp.
Hey, don't talk nonsense, are you kidding me? You're just making fun of me, aren't you? -the changeling thought in disbelief and cold sweat on her face-
"Er-that, nn-no i-it's possible, it has to be a joke!"
Chrysalis tried to deny Demiurge's words vehemently, but the answer again exceeded her expectations, chilling her blood and making her begin to understand who her new master really was.
"Ainz-sama is a supreme being, even the gods are below him, demons, angels, undead, beasts, etc., there is no creature that does not bow before the will of our master."
Although the guardian greatly enjoyed the expression of horror, stupidity, and astonishment on Chrysalis's face, he still had a lot to do.
"Well, I would like to continue chatting with you, but I still have a lot to do, [MESSAGE]"
bringing two fingers to his temple and after a brief moment of silence, a portal opened next to it.
"Cross the portal, on the other side are waiting for you those who will be in charge of examining your combat capabilities."
Still shocked by the news, the changeling just nodded unable to close her mouth and automatically walked towards her target and as soon as she crossed it it closed immediately.
