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.
A Battle Bug
Is this how fighting is done? I didn't know!
In the arena of the sixth floor some figures were gathered, most of them were in one part of the stands, observing what was happening, while two more were in the arena, one watching closely the action, while the other has found herself desperately fighting for her life.
"GHAAAAAARRRGGGGHHHH"
"Umu. What. Good. batlle. Spirit." -Said the Vermint Lord-
"Indeed Cocytus-sama, at least he does not lack the will to fight." -said the Dragonoid-
One of the fighting ancient guards was smashed to pieces by a beam of magic.
"With that one, there are only five left of the fifteen that were initially, that she does so well against enemies of such low caliber was the least that would be expected of her, otherwise it would not be worth our time." -Said the dark elf nonchalantly-
Behind them and in complete silence were two of the Pleiades, Naberal Gamma and Solution Epsilon, who watched the event with a critical eye.
After a few moments, the rest of the old guards were eliminated, either by magic or by direct physical attacks and a new group of skeletons in armor, came out of one of the entrances, it was 15 elderly guards in silver armor.
Seeing them approach, Chrysalis took a deep breath, trying to regain some of her energy.
"Well, these shouldn't be much more difficult, they have heavier armor, so they should be slower, plus they are the same amount."
TThe figure on the shore gave a small face of reprimand for her comment to the changeling, but decided not to comment at all, and as soon as the skeletons were formed in front of his opponent, the fight continued.
"This is the second phase of the test, begin!" -Yuri Alpha said energetically-
The battle was much longer than the previous one, great was the changeling's surprise when the skeletons moved even faster than the previous ones, the sword she was holding in her magic was almost ripped from it when she tried to block the first blow.
"What?!"
Immediately she changed her technique, the previous group could be easily fighted head-on and she was able to keep up with them, the new group was not so easy, she could no longer destroy enemies with a single blow, when in the previous test the first skeleton fell with her first move, this time it took her almost five minutes to defeat the first, the speed of her new opponents made her run, teleport, and evade throughout the arena, so she had trouble landing firm strikes, after almost ten minutes more of fighting, the second skeleton fell after receiving a second blast of magic, but the results began to be obvious, her breathing was very erratic and fast, the longer the battle lasted small cuts or superficial stalks could be seen throughout her chitin, after forty-five more minutes of constant battle, there were only three skeletons left, but the fatigue was now obvious in the former queen, as was bleeding in various parts of her body.
* CLANG CLANG *
* Slash *
"GHAAAA"
* FOOOoossh *
With the defeat of the last opponent, Chrysalis decided to sit down and recover some of her breath, but all her hopes were crushed, one of the portcullis was opened and fifteen skeletons with golden armor came out and Yuri's voice resounded again.
"The third phase of the test is here, begin!"
The changeling stood up immediately, but she was not fast enough, the sword in her magic was whipped out of it and flew out of her sight, she tried to make space between her and her attackers by teleporting, but the attacks would not let her concentrate enough, meanwhile, the figures in the stands watched the combat progress intently.
"Ara, she already lost her sword… Oooh, but she evades quite well for her level." -Comment Solution-
A few minutes later, the former queen decided to change her tactics and began to try different forms, and transforming into a large chimera, she was able to crush two of the master guards that were attacking her; however, getting bigger, only turned her in to an easier target to hit.
* Slice * * slice * * slice *
"GRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR!"
* Clap clap * "Back off!"
The serpent's tail and one of her front legs were cut off, while a sword had slashed her side, splitting her belly open, the hard leather of the beast was not able to repel the enchanted weapons, at that moment, all the combat stopped, and the guards moved away reforming their ranks, a changeling back in her original form, was on the ground, bleeding from where there was now no leg from the elbow down, her entrails were barely inside its body, her tail had been cut a little higer than the tip of her maslo, when she saw the maid with glasses approaching, gathered all her strength and expressed her despair.
(Maslo: protuberance from which the equine tail is born)
"A-Ainz-s-sama promised that I w-wouldn't be tortured!, that d-demon to-tortured me, and now t-this."
Tears welled up in her eyes from the pain as she looked at the maid.
*Shigh*
But again, the response was unexpected, as it was becoming customary for her, and as the maid poured the red liquid from a bottle over her body, she spoke.
"And that's right, I'm sure Demiurge-sama didn't torture you 'physically' as Ainz-sama ordered, and the mistake was yours this time, this is a 'combat' practice, before starting you were told to use just what you knew about 'phisical' combat,"
The effects of the potion allowed her to recover at that moment, so now all her attention was on the words of the maid.
What?!, why is it MY fault?!
"The master guards had orders to fight with an equine and stop if you could no longer continue or stopped fighting after losing your weapon, at the moment they were about to stop you transformed, their normal function is to attack everything that invades Nazarick, so I had to personally stop them before they killed you. "
After a few seconds of going over the instructions in her head, her restored hoove slammed into her forehead, a true 'Facehoof'.
It's true, but how stupid! I was so into combat that I forgot it was training! MOTHERBUCKER! COLT OF A PRENCH
(AN: Originally here I was using a phrase of a character of 'el Chavo del Ocho', more specifically 'don Ramon' that directly is translated as 'it takes me the' and comes from 'me lleva el chanfle' a kind of censorship of 'me lleva la chingada' that directly translated will be 'it takes me the whore' or something similar.)
Her thoughts were again interrupted by the maid's words.
"For now we have to continue, there are still other tests to be done."
But before the former queen could sink into depression, a deep voice interrupted.
"That will. not be. Necessary. We have seen. Enough. Now. We will. Discuss. You can. Return. To your. Room. to rest. Tomorrow. We will. start the. Training."
Grateful that she was allowed to rest, Chrysalis took a proper goodbye to her 'superiors' and retired to her cabin to rest, although her body had been healed, she was still very fatigued from the constant hard fight of little more than an hour.
-O-
The next day, and after several nightmares of being vivisected by the Arch-demon, the former queen, entered the coliseum early in the day, as she had been instructed when she was allowed to go to rest the day before, and curiously she was not alone, From another of the doors that lead to the arena, she saw a cherry-colored unicorn that was known to her, although she had only seen her once until now, thanks to her intelligence sessions with Demiurge, now she knew a lot about her, but what she did not know about was the armor she was wearing, it seemed to be something invaluable, what was more strange was the leather collar with a piece of chain that hung from around her neck.
"Tempest Shadow? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in the sorcerer realm?"
"Mhn? Oh, now I remember, if I'm remember correctly you are… Chrysalis! I haven't seen you since I first came to Nazarick, usually yes, I have a lot of work, but I come to train four times a week every morning."
I see, so I'm not the only 'weak' jejejeje. "And what is that collar on your neck? In short, it does not match the armor."
After so many things that happened to her in such a short time, the former queen no longer had bitterness or hatred towards ponies, now she saw it as something stupid and useless to maintain, little by little she began to understand that only the orders and wishes of her new master were absolute, so her question had been born of true curiosity, but before Tempest could answer, a firm but soft voice answered the question.
"It is an item that accelerates the increase in their level, allowing them to improve significantly in a short time."
They both turned to the voice and immediately bowed.
"Sebas-sama, good morning."
"Welcome, Sebas -sama."
After they greated him, both crossed their eyes for a moment, their words enunciating the level of familiarity they felt clearly and concisely, but upon hearing the butler speak, they immediately returned their attention to the front.
"You can leave the formalities, stand up Chrysalis, this is Solution Epsilon, it was decided that she will be your teacher to start your training, get to know each other, Tempest, let's move to that side to give them space, today we are continuing the unarmed fighting and magic less lessons."
With this said, the butler and the unicorn left the place to start their training, leaving the blonde and the changeling looking at each other and who broke the awkward silence was the Pleiad.
"As Ainz-sama said, you are a kind of mixture of assassin, warrior and war-wizard, something I call a spy, we have already seen your capabilities as a warrior, so first of all we will begin by verifying your capabilities as an assassin and/or spy,"
As she spoke, she brought a hand up to his chest and in disbelief, Chrysalis saw how the skin became watery and the hand crossed the surface, when she took it out again, on it was a collar like Tempest's.
"Put on the collar and we'll start as soon as possible."
-O-
She would have liked to curse the collar, but she did not have time to do so, as soon as she put it on, could feel something change, as if she were weaker, which was a fact, and it was clear when the training sessions began, for a whole week, Chrysalis was beaten by her teacher who was not at all kind to her when teaching her, but this curiously motivated her to try harder, but not out of fear of punishment, but rather to defend her pride; in fact, the first two days she tried so much, that at the end of the practice she could not move, the hoof-to-hand combat was quite hard; fortunately, her natural flexibility, allowed her not to fall so many times by the treacherous blows of an elongated limb, however, the infiltration missions and/or murder in which they used skeletons, zombies and other Nazarick POP creatures as targets or dummies, were the most fruitful for the changeling, thanks to the watchful eye and heavy hand of her instructor, she began to see some common flaws in her procedure.
Unfortunately, the sessions had to be interrupted, when the Archfiend requested her presence again.
-O-
The mere fact of being in the presence of the guardian of the seventh floor again, made her tremble, she definitely wished to be somewhere else, and not at the 'ranch' again.
These are probably good dates to visit Tartarus. -the changeling thought-
"Welcome back Chrysalis."
"I am here as ordered, how can I serve you Demiurge-sama?"
"At the moment I no longer have tasks that require my full attention, so we will pick up where we left off."
The news broke the former queen's composure.
"A-a-am-I'm going to b-b-be vivi-vivisected a-again?"
If her shell allowed it, in addition to shivering like jelly, the changeling would be forming a pool of cold sweat under her hooves.
"Something like that, but apparently the previous test caused you lasting stress, so this time we will also use a spell to eliminate your irrational and unfounded fear, after all this time I need you to stay conscious for the tests."
* GLUP *
-O-
A few minutes later, the former queen was back in the room that fed her nightmares, just as she remembered, the central metal table caused her chills, she automatically went to the corner to be sanitized, with the intention of drawing her attention away from the center, with the process completed, she turned around and finally noticed that there was something different in the room, puzzles and weights of different sizes were on a side table, gathering her courage and with some problems due to fear, she took flight and stood on the table, immediately heard the voice of the demon.
"Excellent, the tests we will do will be to check if your magic works differently from other creatures, you will lift the weights one by one and solve a puzzle between each weight, while we test if it affects in any way, that a part of your functional anatomy stops operating as it should, first we will do a control test, you can start. "
With some indecision, the queen began with the tests while the figure next to her recorded everything on the clipboard that had in its hands, and as soon as the test was over she received more instructions.
"Excellent, the rest should not be long in coming, you can lie down."
With the demon's words, the hooded figures from earlier entered the room, but this time there was an additional figure, a dark-skinned maid, with her reddish mane tied in two thick braids.
"Mh? Ah! You arrive at a great moment, we were about to start the tests, Chrysalis, this is Lupusregina Beta, one of the pleiades, she will see to it that you do not feel stressed by fear."
"Yosu! I would rather make you suffer, but that would be against Ainz-sama instructions-su's."
*Glup* Th-that doesn't inspire much confidence, you know. -thought the changeling-
As if reading her mind, Demiurge continued his explanation.
"She is a sadist, but you don't have to worry, she is only here as a support for these experiments, she will perfectly comply with our master's orders."
Not that I have much of a choice, do I? -she answered in her mind as she nodded-
"Then let's get started, [Painless]" -said the Archdemon-
A purple light covered her, something she didn't notice last time because she couldn't move.
"[Lion's Heart]" -said the maid-
And a golden light covered her, then she saw that the demon was approaching with the scalpel in hand, with curiosity she saw him cut part of the chitin and skin on her side; not feeling the cut was nothing new, but what was really amazing to her, was the fact that she felt nothing, she was not afraid and the fact that she was being dismembered alive did not cause her any stress.
Wait a second, Why I don't feel anything, I should be shaking like jelly, in fact I was doing it until a moment ago! Is this the effect of the spell that the maid used? I can't believe how calm I am or the way I can reason what they are doing to me, with my previous trauma I should be a complete nerve ball, to put it mildly
"Ok, I already have access to all your internal organs, you can start the tests."
With a small nod, from her reclining position, Chrysalis used her magic to lift the first weight, the test was repeated with only the open body, as soon as it was done, Demiurge proceeded to remove pieces.
* slice slice *
Her intestines were removed, and the test was repeated, then these were healed by the maid and the test was repeated by removing the stomach.
* slice slice *
When finished, her stomach was healed and her back legs opened, the first time she did not realize it because she could not see, but this time she could see clearly what they were doing, with a noticeable embarrassment in her pulse and the amount of blood that came out of the cuts, she saw her genitals being removed from the outside to the inside.
"Mh?, hoo?, what's up Chrysalis?, your pulse increased." -Asked the Archdemon calmly-
"I-is that, it's kind of embarrassing for me to see you work those parts, Demiurge-sama."
"Mmmm, interesting, even though you don't reproduce sexually you have a reaction similar to that of a species that does, does this have something to do with your vestigial genitalia? We will have to do tests later."
Hearing that there would be more tests on her genitals in the future, her embarrassment increased again and to distract herself she devoted all her concentration on the tests.
* slice slice *
The processes was repeated for several hours, until Demiurge's available time was up, the same process was repeated for the next ten days the tests were always similar, but they changed shape, sometimes it was to put together puzzles, other times it was to solve logical tests; Some others times she had to separate strange wire figures, they were always challenging for attention to detail of Chrysalis, sometimes the weights were relatively light, sometimes quite heavy, and sometimes mixed, the funny thing is that they never changed in size.
-O-
With the Archdemon's curiosity satisfied, Chrysalis returned to her combat practices with Solution on the sixth floor of Nazarick, the surprise was when between tests she sometimes had to fight against Tempest, hoof to hoof, magically, and in a combined way being only able to the unicorn in magical combat.
Lying on the ground after the beating, the former queen was trying to catch her breath.
* Pant pant pant * How the * pant * buck are you * pant pant * so strong * pant pant pant *
The unicorn standing up, was barely sweating and slightly agitated.
"You don't have to worry about anything, you still surpass me in magic combat by much, and the reason is simple, since I lost my horn when I was a little filly, I had to fend for myself wherever I went, my combat capabilities without Magic were already good before I met the storm king, in fact when the attack on Canterlot took place, I personally took care of the princesses."
* pant pant * "WHAT! I don't believe you! Celestia is not a defenseless filly, she has many years of combat experience and Luna is an enemy to be recognized by herself." * pant pant * -said the changeling standing up-
"Well it probably helped a lot that I didn't give them time to fight back."
So the first comment was properly digested.
"Wait, did you just say you lost your horn when you were a filly?"
"Yes, that's right, why?"
At this Chrysalis felt some pity for her.
"I am very sorry, I do not wish that to anyone, not even to my worst enemy, and less to a filly, but how did you get it back? As far as I know there is no magic capable of restoring a broken horn, repairing one damaged yes, but to fix a total missing, I had never heard of it."
"Ainz-sama fix it like it doesn't matter, but enough of the talk, shall we continue?"
To be expected, stupid question, right? "Of course, I have to take you down at least once!"
"Well, then truly try." -The unicorn answered with a smug smile-
The combat training continued normally, in the end, in all the time they trained, Chrysalis was never able to take down Tempest in hoof-to-hoof combat, but it was improving rapidly and the training with Solution was more and more hellish, several times payed her procedural errors losing limbs or suffering serious injuries, things that were quickly healed and she had to repeat the exercise from the beginning.
-O-
The days flew by for the Changeling, her basic training with Solution had just ended two days ago, and she was again in front of the Arch-demon in his office, she no longer trembled when she saw him, but, still had nightmares from time to time, every time she spoke with him, so he was not the creature she would most like to meet.
This was no longer the first time Chrysalis had been here, but that didn't mean it was more bearable, after all, what normal creature could get used to living in literal hell?
Ghack, I hate being here, I can barely stand the literal hellish heat, and on top of it all, the agony, despair and fear that permeate the place turns my stomach, not counting the terrifying demons I usually encounter, * shigh * And to think that I am used to seeing demons and creatures that could easily end the world by themselves, hehe, if any of my subordinates had told me that I would end up in this situation when Thorax stole my hive, I would have branded it as crazy or I would have accepted Starlight's offer.
The ex-changeling queen would have remained deep in thought had it not been for the demon's voice that brought her back to the present.
"Chrysalis"
"Uh? Oh, yeah… erm, this one, I mean how can I help you Demiurge-sama?, will we have another 'session'?" -said the changeling apprehensively-
Maybe it didn't hurt, but the mental stress of being conscious while they dismembered her and made her use her magic and/or abilities, was simply too much, she always ended up passing out from shock for several hours, but apparently the demon would take pity on her for today.
"No, that's not the case, in fact, I think we've already gotten everything we could from you, at least physiologically speaking,"
Hearing these words a pessimistic thought crossed the changeling's mind.
They don't need me anymore, they're going to kill me!
But as if reading her mind the guardian continued.
"But you don't have to worry, as long as you continue to serve Ainz-sama faithfully, you will be under his protection, no, you have to suspend your training for the moment, a mission has arisen for you."
"A mission?" - That is something new, I did not think that they would entrust me with anything so soon - "What is my mission, if I can know it."
"It will not be complicated at all, what I plan, is to visit a couple of places, first of all, we will visit your place of birth, we need more information about what generated you; although we already investigated the place and collected samples, want to make sure that there it is nothing that has escaped to me, after all, I need more information about how your 'mother' and your 'father' conceived you."
Hearing this, Chrysalis felt her face heat up, luckily for her, she couldn't blush, unfortunately she could stutter.
"B-b-bb-but w-what is Demiurge-sama saying! I was born from a tree in a swamp! I have no mother or father!, I apologize, but, I was born from a tree, just as I told you before. "
"That reasoning is partly wrong, it is true that your 'mother' as such does not exist since you were born from a contaminated tree, but that is not enough for you to exist, so after a little research we managed to find who it probably is. your father'."
The former queen was totally dumbfounded, she had no idea how to react to that news, her eyes were wide and her jaw almost on the floor, while a line constantly repeated itself in her head.
I have a father, I have a father, I have a father, I have a father….
"Precisely, it is something that should not be possible, so we still have a piece or two of the puzzle that is your existence, so the need to get more information, for that purpose you will meet with your father, you will get more information about you, more specifically about your origin or the conditions that led to your birth. "
"Chrysalis, pay attention." -the guardian of the seventh floor admonished her, making her come to herself- "it so happens that at the moment he is near the place, so we will take him to it, once there, you will face him and make him talk as much as you can of that topic, but you are forbidden to harm Starswirl the bearded."
"WAIT! MY FATHER IS STARSWIRL THE BEARDED?!"
"Yes, he is our suspect."
"It won't be easy, he is the most talented unicorn in combat to date."
"No problem, we'll take care of the capture, you just get information from him."
"So… do I have to brainwash him?"
Demiurge slid a paper across the desk towards the former queen as he spoke.
"Unfortunately, that will not be necessary, in fact, it would be quite counterproductive for future plans, we cannot allow it or simply kidnap him and get everything he knows from him, his disappearance for a long period would be too notorious, is that clear?"
"Yes, it is very clear."
"We have prepared a story that you are going to stick to, study it well, you have a few hours, after that we have to move."
"Understood, I'll make sure to memorize it as soon as possible; What will be the second place we will visit? Will I need to disguise myself?"
"It will not be necessary, in fact, depending on the situation we may delay it a bit, I intend for you to complete the ritual you wanted to do when we found you, I want to confirm some hypotheses."
"I understand, but it will take some time to gather the necessary materials."
"Think nothing of it, the materials are already in our hands, there is nothing to worry about, you have until we leave to prepare what you might need, you can leave."
"Yes, with your permission."
When the changeling said goodbye, the demon lord of greed escorted her to the ninth floor, while the Arch-demon sank back into his thoughts and a smile formed on his face.