I really just wish, if I had a wish, to understand this. What is this anyway? I mean what are these.. Ponies? Are they Ponies? Well let's say there are ponies, what are these ponies doing? I see a lot of running by normal ponies away from the black & holed ponies. Oh, they have bug wings! A horn?

I think I've heard vaguely of such things, changelings. What are changelings doing in- wait here am I? Everything is made out of crystals, and the ponies (not holed ones) have a crystal shimming coat. Crystal ponies… I think someone told me about them but who, when, and why?

The screaming is muffled, do I have something in my ear? I should check. I can't move my hooves. There is… green goo of some sort… eww… It's not in my ear?… no.. my head is at fault for the muffling, it can't register it.

Why? Changelings feed of love, which if taken in vast amounts can have effects of temporary numbness or slight memory loss, but this is on a massive scale in my case. So I've been targeted by the queen. Oh my Celestia! In the flash of the moment ( even though I tried to be calm) my wings flapped, wait I have, I'm an alicorn? Oh no, for however long the queen has been at me. Is Equestria okay?! Oh what if, no my love couldn't defeat Celestia but my power would be multiplied in this form, and it depends on how long… Please be okay.

"We have come to save you!" roared Rainbow, I tried to look away from the window but damn this weak state. Rainbow looked at me,"guess she's not talking, but hay no resisting," they're going to carry me. Either Applejack, the bucker or Rainbow the fast-flying nightmare. A giggle came out of my tired body.

Pinkie jumped at my soft reaction," She understands what's happening! Yay, she isn't a mindless slave" I forgot the queen could do that. Pinkie noticed a reaction," Oops I scared her, see? Her eyes are smaller and wide,"

Rarity cut in," Were in and out, I just need us hoof in hoof to teleport so lets get it done, without scaring poor helpless Twilight," Rarity knows a teleportation spell? I turned my eyes to her, smiling. She chuckled ,"Still happy about learning now, same old Twilight,"

They ran to the other side of the wide room, and hugged me. Maybe after I'm out of here, I can understand again. The sound of slammed doors turned my friends' heads.

The creature I could not turn my head to spoke in a prideful manner,"Think you can take your princess back?" a chill ran through my spine as I figured out who she was.

"Now, it's not nice to bother people on their honeymoon is it?" The queen asked. Oh no. She stepped toward me. Oh please, no! She turned my chin to look at her, my body motionless to any response. It became so blurry, and this is tiring, I'm going to have to find out tomorrow. If tomorrow is ever happening.

She barely heard her friends call,"No!" before silence, they had left. She knew they would save her, but she had to admit defeat and go unknowing.

I was frustrated, I had now clue what to do! I need a way, my hive needs to survive but how can I get a decent supply of love? There are plenty of wild animals, but they run on instinct and would not last if one mistake was made, griffins have a hard time accepting their feelings and would hold back, and ponies are a gem if you could touch them! Changelings have to find a stray out and about and then either replace them or suck them, mostly latter then the former.

One of her scouts spotted the captain of the royal guard proposing to the Princess of love, it went well. Now if she could infiltrate that… but if I chose the princess I need to keep her persona perfect. A wedding jittered gal needs to keep her childish excitement with her thinly veiled stress. I'd need to watch her again, and that wastes time I could spend absorbing love. If I became the Guard, that means I'm going to need to practice acting masculine and I do alright except with charming dorks with athletics. Doing that set with a female has more blend but male I would have blended with disconnect due to insecurity and have overcome it.

A sigh of exhaustion creeped through, I needed help to keep my family alive. A stroke of inspiration came through. Calling in a Stealth agent(meant to transform into objects as to disguise oneself with the background or infiltrate first to target annoying folk that normal Changelings can't fool and is a waste of my time ) and asked, "Get me a Zebra, one that can prophesize my best outcome in taking over Equestria, request scouts to give you coordinates of the closest ones" The Stealth Agent nodded before leaving.

It was only a week later they got Zecora, Her eyes knowing clear as day of where she was and why. So were doing it this way, "I need you to prophesize for me what the best way to take over Equestria is, if you want to to live"

Zecora was of strong-willed zebra and easily rhymed, " For the likes of such a malevolent queen, my knowledge will never be seen, Anything I say would be a lie, Well maybe not my 'goodbye,' "

My chuckle is echoed throughout the room,"Okay then, goodbye"

Then began the battle of wits, which lasted for months but a spell that forced prophecy upon another ended it. Though her resistance against it was impressive, even if she had failed.

Zecora tried to hold each word in but they all came out,"The guard's sister," A heave came out of her throat out of almost choking "apprentice to a ruler, leader of the elements of Harmony," She held her breath to only let out once more, "is the key to your tyranny,"

oh the fool tried so hard to lock what was in her throat away, "claim the title of her lover, she will trust you like no other, wait till she has wings" She started to choke, her breath went fast and mutterings of words only in faint buzz when it reaches my ear.

I grinned as she let out the rest,"and then bring wedding rings, If she is your queen, then nothing shall be able to stop your dream being foreseen," Zecora faints. Her breath slow and unsteady, she isn't lasting long. How depressing for her neighbors worried for her, well what better way to make my entrance.