Chapter 12:

Two days have passed since the confrontation in the field after Ocean Blue was chased off again. Apple Jack and Big Mac had the most heated argument of their lives. All of the girls still could not believe that Ocean Blue was not dangerous no matter what Big Mac said. Twilight even performed some spells on Big Mac to determine if he was being brainwashed or in any other way manipulated. When all the spells showed he was under control of himself seeds of doubt about Ocean Blue's "evilness" where planted in the minds of the girls but there was just not enough to change their minds completely. Because of this during the two day period Big Mac refused to even look at any of the girls for how they have treated Ocean Blue. This broke Apple Jack's heart and she tried to apologize for it but he would not hear any of it.

Luckily for Big Mac Ocean Blue had made contact with Big Mac the next morning after the fight with Apple Jack. She was using her previous disguise as the pony with a vegetable cutie mark. At first Big Mac was not interested in what this mare had to say. Ocean Blue was persistent in bugging him into talking with her and she then admitted who she really was.

From that point on Big Mac made sure Ocean Blue was taken care of while she was on the "run" hiding from the girls. They talked more about her life and explained in great detail everything the princesses already know. It made Big Mac's heart fill with warmth to learn that the princesses were so kind in helping what otherwise would have been mistaken as an enemy. Hearing her entire back story only made him fall for her even deeper. Big Mac, though not one of many words described his life to her though it did not revolve much outside the business of farming apples. Regardless Ocean Blue was transfixed by his story as she wanted to learn everything she could about ponies and their lives.

The girls were still looking for Ocean Blue but were not trying as hard as they previously were. Rainbow Dash was very sulky and did not display as much of her cocky attitude as she normally did. Realizing that this changeling was able to effortlessly fly so much faster than her devastated her ego. She wanted to find this changeling to make sure it would not harm anypony but perhaps more than anything she wanted to have a race with it to determine for sure who was faster. Twilight continued her studies into changelings trying to find out why this changeling was behaving so much differently from every other changeling ever previously observed by pony kind. Apple Jack's heart was still broken at how her brother refused to talk or even look at her and she had no idea how she was going to correct matters. Rarity while normally loving to have so much juicy material to gossip with did not have the heart to do so seeing how this situation was affecting her friends. Pinkie Pie seemed rather unaffected by the matters in how she acted though she did try throwing some parties to cheer everypony up. They did not work. Fluttershy did not come out of her cottage as she could not bare to see her friends acting the way they were and busied herself by taking care of her animals.

Twilight was deep in her thoughts reading about changelings when a bright flash of dark blue light filled the library. Twilight, startled turned around to find Luna in the middle of the library with a worried look on her face.

"Princess, what is the matter?" Twilight asked.

"Twilight, I fear that something has happened to Ocean Blue. I arrived at her house to check on her and she was not there. Her window was broken from within and there is a mess of broken glass all over the living room. Do you know of anything that could have happened to her?" Luna asked.

"Y-E-S…" was Twilight's answer, fearing what may happen when Luna finds out the whole story.

"Pre Tell, what has happened?" Luna asked happy to hear Twilight may know something.

"Luna, we found out the truth about her." Twilight said with a long pause before continuing. "We found out she was a changeling. I… I mean we, the six of us confronted her at her house about it. She ran off before we could do anything." Twilight responded.

Twilight was horrified to see the growing level of anger growing on Luna's face. Luna shivered from the anger but was somehow managing to maintain her composure. Through closed eyes and gritted teeth she asked. "And what of the broken window?"

"I… i… I tried using a spell on her to make her return to her true changeling self but she dodged it and it hit the window breaking it. We then chased after her and…" Twilight was cut off mid-sentence.

"THOU HAST NO IDEA WHAT THOU HAS DONE!" Luna said in her full volume voice, her eyes glowing white, her wings fully extended her body upright on her hind legs, but her legs were not touching the ground, she was floating in midair. The sound of her yell caused all of the windows in the library to shatter. In a flash Luna disappeared from the library with twilight awestruck, terrified, and bewildered at the princess's reaction.

"I have to find the girls!" Twilight said out loud to no pony in a terror induced shaky voice.

Several hours pass and Twilight was able to find all of the girls and explain to them what happened with Luna in the library. During the same time Luna tried finding Ocean Blue, but not realizing what she currently looks like, she failed to locate her.

Just as the girls were running through the middle of town in search of Big Mac they heard the unmistakable sound of Queen Chrysalis's voice echoing loudly through the city center.

"My my, such a wonderful little town, a town filled with so much love it even sickens me. Ha ha ha!"

The girls all stop running in an instant and see in horror that their ears had not deceived them as everyone else around them heard the voice too. They run up to the city center but do not see anything out of the ordinary. In a flash of blue light Luna also appears besides the girls.

"Chrysalis! But how!?" Luna exclaimed.

While still not seeing anything amiss, Chrysalis's voice boomed through the town again.

"Oh won't you just love to know wouldn't you. Muha haha!"

Suddenly a bright flash of green light blinded everypony near the center of the town. When the light subsided Chrysalis was standing alone but to the horror of everypony present a large chrysalis containing an unconscious Princess Celestia was floating behind her.

"You see, I have been busy these last few days. After we were all expelled from the castle my poor babies were all killed." Chrysalis said in a sad tone. "But I survived!" she said in a deep guttural voice filled with pure venom. "I made my way into your precious Princess's castle disguised as a guard. Then I entered her bed chambers while she slept and drained her of all her energy. She was helpless! Muha ha ha!"

"You Monster!" Luna yelled.

"Oh why thank you very much, I do enjoy a compliment." Chrysalis taunted merrily.

"Thou shall de defeated by me!" Luna cried as the sky quickly filled with dark clouds and lightning.

Luna quickly lunged at Chrysalis managing to tackle her to the ground. With Luna on top Luna prepares to fire a strong bolt of magic right at Chrysalis's face, but Chrysalis uses her hind legs to kick Luna right in the gut and then buck her off. The buck was extremely strong, and even with all of Luna's strength everypony in the immediate proximity easily heard a few ribs crack. Luna was hurled back and landed hard on the ground, a little blood dripping from the corner of her mouth.

"Oh I really was hoping for more from you dear Princess of the Night but I guess I will just have to settle with a little disappointment." Chrysalis said then turning her back on Luna and staring down at the mane six.

Luna with a little more strength used her magic to collect lighting into one large concentrated bolt and directed it Chrysalis. It struck her dead on in the horn. The flash of light was blinding and Luna hoped it was enough to stop her. However when the light faded Luna's heart sank seeing Chrysalis fine and well with only a small smoldering section on top of her mane.

"Oh that tickled." Chrysalis said while chuckling.

Luna lost all strength and lost consciousness.

"Two down, six to go." Chrysalis said looking at the girls again. "You six I have heard of before, the so called "elements of harmony" ha! Don't make me laugh. Now, who out of you all shall go first hmm? Oh I know, how about the element of Magic herself?"

During all of the commotion both Big Mac and Ocean Blue still under her different disguise had come up to see what was happening.

"NO! I can't let her do this!" Ocean blue thought and did the only thing she could do.

Just as Chrysalis was charging up her most powerful blast right at Twilight, Ocean Blue began to run as fast as she could to intercept the blast. Luckily for Twilight she was just in time to take the full force of the blast just as she jumped.

The blast pushed her right into the group of girls, a dark burn mark on her left side and a small trail of smoke emanating from it. Everyone including Chrysalis stood in utter shock at what just happened. Just as Chrysalis was about to at, a flash of green light emanated from the mare lying helpless on the ground that just saved Twilight. After the flash was gone all present gasped when they saw a changeling before them.

"My, my, who do we have here? Is that 251-7749 I see before me? Oh this is just too sweet muha ha ha! You seem to have bonded with these ponies. No matter, time to die." Chrysalis said cheerfully.

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Review Responses from the author:

Guest chapter 10 . Apr 23

Well, I guess you just now find out that the princesses are not able to do anything to help ocean blue

Shadow Bolt chapter 10 . 21h ago

Perhaps, perhaps not, you will just have to wait and see.

Guest chapter 11 . 3h ago

As you have just read, Big Mac still cares deeply for her, but now we shall all have to wait and see what happens with Chrysalis ;-)