23rd December 1945 - 10:00 AM (Equestrian time)
In Thorax's Kingdom...
Since the Soviets overran the kingdom nearly a week ago, on the 11th, pony gulag prisoners were sent to demolish the old hive, burn the vegetation in place and build a massive steep pyramid-like fortress with 5 towers with one of them being in the centre. Meanwhile human gulag prisoners were forced to build small-scale factories, 'pony farms' and a pair of train tracks from the fallen changeling kingdom to the recently occupied Dodge Junction. Chrysalis wanted things to move quickly and forced the prisoners to work on just 4 measly hours of sleep. On top of that, they were underfed and are up against the increasingly hostile winter weather. Around 4,000 of the gulag prisoners sent worked to death as a result in just 12 days.
It has been 12 days since. All the factories have yet to be completed and fully operational. Some factories have been completed, and are already manufacturing weapons, which are run by gulag prisoners that are supervised by the NKVD. The old hive had also been taken down. The remnants of the hive had been moulded into the new fortress. Nothing fancy, but a simple box-shaped wall and square-shaped building within the walls, with a HQ inside. The remaining materials would be split between the Soviets and Chrysalis' changelings, to be salvaged.
Chrysalis is in her new HQ. The walls are made of bland and messy bricks. The floor is made of planks. The ceiling is made of rock. She is sitting on her chair, which is made of hard rocks. In front is a wooden desk with 4 legs. On the wall facing her is the door, with a golden knob. On the wall behind her is a portrait of her next to a portrait of Stalin. The wall to the right is a newly-made painting of her standing next to Stalin on the right with scarlet red flags in the background. red flags. Also in the painting, Chrysalis is holding up a hammer while Stalin is holding up a sickle, both tools touching, with changelings and Soviet workers in the background. There is also gold writing that says 'Советское Перевертыш-единство', Soviet Changeling unity.
Chrysalis is sat in her chair. She is in a very good mood indeed. Celestia and Luna are dead, Discord is dead, and even though the mane 6 are still something to be dealt with, them as a threat has been effectively neutered right now. She has got an army of changelings, supposedly in their millions according to Dysthanasia. Things cannot be any better for Chrysalis. The only thing that could make things better is getting hold of that wretched Starlight Glimmer. Chrysalis may be doing all well now, but her fierce desire for revenge against the abominable unicorn is still so great. Chrysalis had dreamed for a long time of all the sick twisted wicked things she would do to Starlight and hearing her screams, and with this conflict, capturing her appears much more likely. Thinking of that, Chrysalis thinks of contacting Stalin.
Under the table is a draw with a gold handle, which she pulls open with her left forehoof, and levitates out the 4 hand-sized black objects with Y markings in them. Chrysalis organizes them into a square formation in the middle of the table. One of the objects flips open and glows green. Then a bright green beam shoots off into the other, and vice versa until theses different bright green beam forms a square. Then dark pale cyan webs form upwards as these objects start spinning around forming green, black and white hoops until they fully merge and form into a magical white circular screen with green fiery edges and a black smokey aura. On the screen she sees Stalin.
"Здравствуйте, товарищ Кризалис!" Stalin said enthusiastically. He sounds happy to see Chrysalis.
"Товарищ Сталин," Chrysalis nodded. She also sounds pleased to see the man, the very man who turned her life around. Her admiration of Stalin and the Soviet Union will never go away.
"I was about to let you know, that comrade Beria said that there is a lead of this Starlight. The target is accompanied by another unicorn, according to reports," Stalin stated. This just went from great to even greater. She is a step closer to getting hold of Starlight.
"First off. Has Tirek been, quote on quote, taken out of commission?" Chrysalis asked. Stalin knew what she meant, and nodded.
"Yes."
"Good. We can't have Tirek stealing our resources for himself. Back to Starlight... how close is your NKVD to capturing her?" Chrysalis eagerly inquired. She feels the evil impatient-like excitement build in herself.
"I cannot give a definite answer," Stalin apologized. Chrysalis is frustrated at hearing that. She could feel that it's just so close, but yet has to wait until she gets her desired revenge.
"The winter is being a hindrance. Unless there's an opportunity to, there won't be any advances until it clears. The deterrence from our airforce will stop the pegasi from extending the winter. Should come the spring, Equestria is done. Equestria has less than three thousand tanks left and barely a million soldiers. All four million of our soldiers and seven thousand thousand tanks plus a million of your changelings is enough to subdue Equestria. Then at last, with Equestria's untapped resources, we can compete against the west," Stalin reassured. Chrysalis grins while nodding.
"Now, back to Starlight, I want her brought to me alive! Then, I can finally have... vengeance." Chrysalis is right now super-fixated on Starlight.
"Yes. Cozy has hatched a plan," Stalin stated. If Cozy Glow somehow captures Starlight, Chrysalis will be impressed. If Cozy Glow doesn't, she'll be executed and Chrysalis won't have to get irritated by her ever again.
"But... why not have her assassinated? Get vengeance over with," Stalin added.
"By that logic, why not have Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy assassinated? You could've taken two of Twilight's friends out right there!" Chrysalis sounded annoyed. She wanted her vengeance against Starlight to drag out. Stalin questioning that annoyed Chrysalis.
"It was insurance, that Celestia and Luna would back off. If they done anything, then we would kill those two names you mentioned. Celestia and Luna knew where those two listed names were placed, but they did nothing, because they were scared of us executing them," Stalin explained. It was to deter Celestia and Luna doing anything against the USSR. But it doesn't matter now, because the 2 alicorns are dead. To Chrysalis, this made perfect sense. Now thinking about it, the mane 6 aren't really that big of a threat anymore anyway, the threat they use to pose is largely gone. They may nuisances at best, but their capability to continously save Equestria and keep Equestria safe has effectively been destroyed.
"Now... comrade Stalin, how will we carve up Equestria between us..."
Starlight, Trixie and Sunburst have snuck past the Soviet lines and have been walking for 3 solid days in the thickening snow. A few spells casted by Starlight managed to help them with having the energy to walk endlessly. But they haven't got long until that spell finally wears off. Teleporting into Soviet-occupied territory is super risky, in the off chance that they teleport right into a Soviet military camp or a makeshift runway. A small risk of that happening is still too high of a risk to take.
Right now the 3 unicorns are walking through a dense forest, near Manehattan. There is also artillery noises every now and then in the background. Trixie and Sunburst are following Starlight. All of them are freezing due to the snow, but they haven't got long left to walk. Eventually, they find a white tent, as well as a lit campfire a metre away. Present is Maud, in winter clothing.
"Hello. The others are out scouting the area. They will be back soon," Said Maud.
"Are the new disguises ready?" Starlight asked.
"Yes. There's also paint tubs so you can cover yourself with paint," Maud replied. Starlight walks into the tent and comes out with 3 sets of disguises and 3 tubs of paint being levitated by her magic. She levitates a bucket to Trixie and Sunburst a tub. Starlight has a tub of blue paint, Trixie has a tub of orange paint and Sunburst has a tub of pink paint. Starlight and Trixie opens their tub and pours the paint all over them.
"Really? I get the colour pink?" Sunburst sighed as he opens his tub and pours the paint on him. Then the 3 unicorns hug each other, so they mix up the paint that's on them. Starlight uses her magic to make the paint colours not look messy as well as making it less obvious that it's paint. The unicorns get into their disguises, which is a big winter wooly grey coat, a grey scarf and a grey hat.
"How do I look?" Sunburst asked.
"Well you don't look like Sunburst," Starlight stated.
"Before you three go, take these," Maud said as she gives a weird odd-shaped stone each.
"That particular type of stone is meant to bring you good luck in hopeless times. Some ponies use it as a charm," Maud explained.
"Uh thanks," Sunburst nodded.
"Could we have something to eat and drink, possibly?" Sunburst requested.
"As he brought it up, I could do with some consumables," Starlight nodded in agreement. Trixie also nodded. Even the great and powerful Trixie needs energy.
"I haven't had anything to eat yet either. So it would be a good idea," Maud nodded. The 4 then enters the tent and zips it up. As a precaution, Starlight casts an invisibility spell on the tent, making it invisible to potential Soviets passing through.
(Manehattan)
Cozy Glow and thr decorated Soviet that's part of the NKVD are discussing something, walking along a desolate snow-covered street. Cozy Glow still has her army coat and she still has her ushanka. The decorated Soviet is a middle-aged white man, with a few wrinkles showing his age and has a thick long black mustache. He is wearing blue hat, and a thick brown winter coat.
The ruined bombed-out buildings on both sides look lifeless amongst the snow. There are only a few ponies out on the streets, being heavily supervised by stationed soldiers. The once smooth and neat pavements are cracked massively, riddled with holes, or covered in rubble, same with the road. Usually, everypony in Manehattan would be decorating the streets for Hearth's Warming. The whole street would be decorated. The youngsters would be playing snowball fights. But none of that is happening. The Soviets that are occupying the city aren't allowing it. Anypony that tried to celebrate Hearth's Warming, they later on ended up 'disappearing'.
"This supposed Starlight had come to this city. She most likely has been coming here on multiple occasions. Thanks to some of the unicorn comrades you got to fight for our cause, they used this weird combined spell thingy to track her movements. According to them, she comes here often to let other ponies escape, and we have to stop that," The decorated Soviet stated.
"Barricade the bridge, because nopony can get in or out if we block it. Have your men ready to capture her and anypony with her, and have me there to watch it go down," Cozy Glow explained and instructed while chuckling.
"Something funny?" The decorated Soviet questioned.
"Just that Starlight is so stupid, thinking she can keep coming in and out unnoticed. Ponies like her are so powerful that they forget to use their brains!" Cozy Glow chuckled. The decorated Soviet lets out a small chuckle.
"Sounds like you know who she is, which makes you very important," He said.
"Let's get to any old building to get a vantage point. Get your men ready with a net. If we kill Starlight, we both will be executed. It is important we capture her alive," Cozy Glow sternly said.
"We need no net. We need sniper on a building. One bullet is enough to disable one. Bodies of all living creatures is like a machine. A shot will damage the machine. A shot will damage Starlight, but keeps her alive," The decorated Soviet nodded.
"But first, I must address this to you. There's rumours circulating around that you messed up in the north on purpose when up against Patton. Is that true? Are you a traitor?" He sternly asked. Cozy Glow shook her head. She loathes Patton, because he's too darn good at commanding his troops, and it greatly frustrates Cozy Glow that Patton does it far better than her.
"To confirm you're not traitor, you must execute a pony," The decorated Soviet stated.
"Но я не предатель!" Cozy Glow exclaimed. She has got the hang of Russian, and uses that to show she isn't a traitor.
"Traitors can speak any language, and vary," The decorated Soviet stated. Cozy Glow knows she will have to kill somepony if she herself wants to see the sun rise tomorrow.
"You! Here!" The decorated Soviet yelled at somepony. It is an earth pony mare in a winter coat, who is shakily wobbling while carrying a basket of food on her back. The mare also looks malnourished, very malnourished. The decorated Soviet punches the basket clean off the back, making the mare flinch and whimper. Spilling out of the basket is bread, too much bread in the man's eyes.
"You don't steel food!" The decorated Soviet screamed. The mare quivers in fear. Even Cozy Glow flinched at the yelling.
"My children at home are starving!" The mare cried.
"I DON'T CARE!" The decorated Soviet then kicks the mare to the floor with a solid kick. The man has a Nagant Revolver in his right hand and points it up.
POW POW POW! The decorated Soviet has got the attention of everybody nearby, regular pony citizens, Soviet soldiers, others from the NKVD and Chrysalis-loyal changelings alike.
"No one fucking steals food hwre! You'll all see what happens to thieves! Все вы увидите, что происходит с ворами!" He ranted on, screaming with fury. He then forcibly passes the Nagant Revolver to Cozy Glow as well as a small stick, with his right hand. The stick is so Cozy Glow can use it to pull the trigger.
"Get on with it," Said the decorated soldier.
Cozy Glow gulps, and hesitates. She flaps her wings and hovers up. The revolver is in her right forehoof and the stick in her left. Her whole body shakes, does she save herself or try to save the mother? Her aim is hindered by her shaking. She doesn't want to do it.
"Are you on our side, or are you a traitor?" The decorated Soviet got out his other Nagant Revolver and puts it against Cozy Glow's head, which the filly felt, and flinches. Her eyes meets the mare's eyes, Cozy Glow has a sorry look in her eyes. It's her, or the mother.
"You have ten seconds to pick a side, Cozy." The decorated Soviet began to count.
Cozy Glow begins to sweat. She feels so much pressure, and the pressure from the decorated Soviet crashes down. Cozy Glow collapses under the pressure.
POW!
Cozy Glow fires a bullet into the mare's head. The bullet goes down from the top of the head and out at the bottom of the jaw, taking blood, brains and a bit of tongue out of the exit wound. Cozy Glow flinches in horror, she felt like crying, but she knows she can't.
"You made the right choice." The decorated Soviet puts away his Nagant Revolver while taking back his other from the filly. Seeing Cozy Glow shoot the mare in the head is enough confirmation to the decorated Soviet that Cozy Glow is not a traitor to the Soviet cause.
Meanwhile in Cozy Glow's head, what is going on in her head is that she just killed a mother. Cozy Glow originally went against Twilight and her friends by joining the Soviets. But even the cunning strategist filly has morals, and she broke her own line to save herself, because she saw there was no way to save the mother, because even if she refused to shoot, after being shot herself, the mother would've been shot afterwards anyway. Cozy Glow does really well to hide any feeling of remorse and guilt.
The filly has to capture Starlight still. She was looking forward to capture her and see her suffer, but now it's more something she has to do. Just like that, Cozy Glow wants to show mercy to everypony she once hated. After being forced to do what she did, Cozy Glow is really questioning her loyalty to the USSR, and Stalin.
An hour later...
Starlight, Trixie and Sunburst are near Manehattan. Unfortunately, they see wide grey stone-made barricades with only a small gap in the middle, so they can't just walk over. Even if they could, there are dozens of Soviet soldiers patrolling the area on the other side of the bridge, making jumping over the barricades unnoticed impossible. But from here, they can see that the rumours of unreformed changelings helping the Soviets are true. There are changelings, and they appear to be in e groups of 4 carrying an iron cage from their corners. Inside the cage, it's packed with fillies and colts. Starlight, Trixie and Sunburst don't know how to react, they can't even gasp, they are so mortified and disgusted seeing that cage. There are many more foals that are likely to end up in those cages, all over Soviet-occupied Equestria. But they know doing what they are doing to help fellow ponies, they are going to see horrible things. But they take a few moments to recollect themselves mentally. Once having a few moments, they are ready again.
"Duck!" Trixie gasped as she gets down. Starlight and Sunburst gets down as well. The changelings carrying the cages are suddenly coming their way. They are flying west, most likely deporting the foals to another location. Luckily the unreformed changelings didn't notice Starlight, Trixie and Sunburst. After the changelings passed, the 3 unicorns got back up.
"We're going to have to teleport across," Said Trixie.
"Wouldn't our magic grab their attention?" Sunburst stated. He can see from where he is there's a few dozen Soviet soldiers patrolling the other side of the bridge, wearing wooly coats and ushankas.
"We should observe if they are patrolling on any particular pattern. We can then see if there's any gap in their pattern for us to teleport without detection. That's if there is any particular pattern," Starlight suggested.
The 3 unicorns relocated and dug into the snow, keeping just their heads exposed. There, they waited, carefully observing the Soviets on the other side of the bridge in Manehattan.
The city used to be alive, especially around Hearth's Warming. But the city buildings are windowless, partially burned black and hole-riddled. No festive flags of any kind either are visible. The only flag visible is the Soviet flag that had been planted on Manehattan's pony statue on, violently blowing in the winter wind. It was planted on the statue on the 4th, 19 days ago. The red flag with the golden yellow hammer and sickle is the only thing of bright colour in Manehattan. The city just remains there, in ruins and rubble.
From across the bridge, they can see a mother and colt trying to jump over the barricades. The mother appears to be a banana-coloured earth pony, and the colt being a darker banana colour.
"Please don't try to..." Trixie gasped. She sees 3 Soviet soldiers approach, but the mother helps her colt over the barricades. This way, the mother will catch the most attention and the barricades will temporarily give her colt cover, giving the colt the best chance to escape.
POW POW POW POW POW POW...
Around 5 or so Soviet soldiers open fire on the mother and colt trying to escape. The mother scream as they fell down, but the colt gets over and makes a run for it.
"ENOUGH!" Starlight roared and teleports onto the bridge tearfully crying. Sunburst and Trixie, with no choice, also teleport onto the bridge. The unicorns immediately catch the attention of dozens of Soviet soldiers in the area.
Starlight uses her magic and beams out a constant bright blue laser from her horn. She vaporizes swathes of Soviet soldiers. Only the legs of the soldiers were left. The ones that did survive immediately fell back. Starlight, enraged, charges forward, in the middle of the bridge, past the barricades. Sunburst and Trixie tries to keep up. Ahead, they see 2 IS-3's next to each other coming up the street, their cannons pointing at Starlight.
BANG! Starlight's magical beam punches straight through the upper hull of the IS-3 on the left. The ammorack had been hit and the turret is sent flying high by a ball of fire. The turret flies straight into the building on the right.
Sunburst and Trixie catches up to Starlight. They both teleport with Starlight behind the nearest building, the one on the left that's a total of 3 blocks of buildings away from the bridge. A block to the left and 2 blocks down. They teleported before...
KLOMBF!
The 3 unicorns are in an alleyway. It is a dead-end, but there is a largw bin they hide behind. There, they calm down. They should've not been able to get out of that situation at all.
"What- were you- THINKING!? You could've got yourself SNIPED!" Trixie yelled at Starlight, who is crying.
"That poor colt- the mother-" Starlight lost it when she saw the mother get shot for helping her colt getting over the barricades. All sense of caution got replaced by rage there.
"Well we will now have to wash the paint off us with the snow. They will definitely be looking for us," Said Sunburst. They take off their disguises to clean themselves with the snow by getting on their bellies and rolling around. They cleaned themselves, but as they get up and before they got a chance to put back on the disguises...
"Surrender, if you want to live tomorrow." There is a Soviet soldier, aiming assault rifles at Starlight, Trixie and Sunburst. The 3 unicorns have been caught. Trixie tries using magic, but it doesn't work. Then she sees on thee coats, they have some sort of stone stitched onto them. The soldier also looks young, but their height is average for a male. It looks like it's made of the same material that Chrysalis' old throne was made off. The 3 unicorns lower their head, showing the soldiers they surrender.
"Follow me." The soldier ordered, walking to get behind the 3 unicorns. They are taken out into the street.
"Turn left," The soldier ordered. They then walk down the path. There is going to be no Hearth's Warming for Manehattan. No laughter, no decorations, nothing, just a few Soviets for every road. The snow, which usually adds to the festivity of Hearth's Warming, but in this situation, the only thing the snow adds is to the depressing background.
"Through the door, just to your left," The soldier ordered. To the left is a broken glass door with broken windows on either side. The 3 unicorns and the human walk through the broken window. Inside there are 8 tables, 3 of which are flipped, 2 being destroyed, but all of them being disorganized. There is also a counter, as well as a glass window with white shelves inside, the shelves being empty. Behind the counter is a wooden. The floor is also made mostly of tiles as well as the bottom half of the wall, most tiles being cracked or having some sort of damage. It looks like this place was once a cafe.
"Behind that door," The soldier instructed. Starlight opens the door, and they as well as the soldier walks through the door. The wall are made of concrete, and there is a flight of dark stairs, with a door to the left and the stairs continue going up to the right. Once all 4 are through, the Soviet soldier closes the door behind him and slumps down to the ground, dropping the gun and putting his back against the door.
"Go upstairs. There's bread," The soldier sighed. The 3 unicorns are confused. The 3 unicorns had been expecting to be executed or something. But this soldier seems to be protecting them.
"We'll go up together," Starlight said firmly. She recognizes this soldier is here to help. The soldier looks at the unicorn and nods, then looks at the wall, sighs, then looks at Starlight.
"You must leave tonight. They are after you. All of you must leave tonight."
"We can't abandon our fellow ponies trapped here, which are being cruelly treated by your army," Sunburst blurted out. The soldier nods, then gets up, grabbing his gun.
"Go have some bread," The soldier urged. The 3 unicorns and the Soviet soldier walks upstairs. Sunburst opens the door to the left. It is a living room. It looks stripped down. There is only the naked bare brick walls, burn-stained hole-riddled curtains and a round table fixed to the floor in the middle of the room. On the table is a candle, the only source of light other than the light poking through the holes in the curtains. By the candle is as promised, bread.
"Share it amongst yourselves," Said the soldier. Starlight, Trixie and Sunburst are skeptical. They aren't sure if anything dodgy is in the bread. But they trust the soldier, he is risking his life by helping them.
"Thank you," Trixie nodded. The 3 unicorns split the bread amongst themselves with their hooves.
"Sorry. This rock cancels magic. Some soldiers have them," Said the soldier.
"It's okay, you are helping us," Said Starlight.
"Like me, you have a family," The soldier responded. He reaches for the left-side pocket in his coat. He gets out a black and white picture of a woman with long hair.
"This is my wife," The soldier shared as he puts it back away.
"Oh, nice," Starlight nodded.
"I miss her greatly," The soldier added.
"Why don't you go back to her? Why is your nation invading us?" Trixie questioned while frowning.
"I have no choice. Stalin says Patriotic War not ended, Equestria is yet to be defeated. Stalin's orders are Stalin's orders," The soldier replied.
"But I don't kill without reason," The soldier added.
"But you're risking your life helping us," Starlight stated.
"I know. I am a soldier. I kill soldiers, not civillians," The soldier responded.
"The war against Germany was just. This war isn't just," The soldier added.
Then, they are from downstairs the sound of the door being kicked down. Then there's fast-paced footsteps coming up.
"Дерьмо! You must been noticed! Run!" The soldier panics. But it is too late. The door gets kicked down. The 4 just froze. Starlight, Trixie and Sunburst know they are actually now in deep trouble. The Soviets at the door are wearing blue ushankas. They are NKVD soldiers, aiming assault rifles at them. The other soldier drops his gun and raises his hands.
"Привет, Starlight! You all thought you wouldn't get noticed walking down the street!?" The 3 unicorns gasp, realizing who's voice it is. Hovering through the door is a bright pale pink filly pegasus with a turquoise mane and tail in bundles. Her cutie mark looks like a rook chess piece. She is also wearing a coat and ushanka. The filly is also aiming a revolver at the 3 unicorns and the lone Soviet soldier.
"Cozy Glow... you do not understand what you're doing..." Starlight frowned.
"You make me sick!" Trixie yelled at Cozy Glow.
"How dare you... from being somepony that other ponies trusted to who you are now... how dare you..." Sunburst muttered.
"Обвяжите их веревкой!" Cozy Glow said something in Russian which Starlight, Trixie and Sunburst didn't understand.
"Oh by the way, don't even try resisting, because..." Cozy Glow hovers to the curtains and opens them.
"There is a sniper on the other side aiming at you all. Sure you could get lucky and get the sniper, or there could be nobody there. But do you really wanna risk it?" Cozy Glow puts on a forced smile while the present NKVD soldiers tie Trixie, Sunburst and the Soviet soldier up with rope which is coated in a weird green slimy substance. Starlight is tied up with a separate piece of rope, also coated in the slimy substance.
"Starlight, you'll be in for a really bad time," Cozy Glow grinned. Her grin seems forced as well, like her smile.
"Why... why join them..." Starlight wept. She remembers when Cozy Glow was a fellow student at the School of Friendship.
"It's not me you should worry about. Let's say... a certain changeling still hates you very very much," Cozy Glow chillingly responded. Starlight gulps, she knew who Cozy Glow meant.
"Забери ее," Cozy Glow said while looking at the NKVD soldiers. Then 2 of them grab the tied-up Starlight by the ropes and start dragging.
"Take me instead! Take me instead!" Trixie begged aloud, screaming.
"Starlight!" Sunburst cried as he manages to get his right forehoof free from the rope and tries grabbing onto Starlight, who barely grabs on with her left forehoof, which wasn't properly secured. The 2 unicorns try holding onto each other, but their forehooves slip as they separate.
Sunburst screams and cries for Starlight. Everybody is screaming for each other, while the Soviet soldier that's also tied up, thinks about his wife back home.
"Help! HELP!" Starlight screams and cries are in vain as she's dragged through the door. She is trying to get free from the rope's constraints. But then an NKVD soldier gets out a solid metal truncheon and whacks the unicorn in the face, instantly knocking her out. Then she continues getting dragged, down the stairs, as if she was just a sack of potatoes.
"Starlight! STARLIGHT!" Sunburst and Trixie cried out while Starlight is dragged down the stairs by the NKVD soldiers.
"I'm sorry." Cozy Glow looks at Sunburst and Trixie before hovering down the stairs too.
Meanwhile back in Thorax's Kingdom...
Dysthanasia is inspecting the construction of the heart of the new changeling hive. He is liking the progress being made. What is being made to the left is what Dysthanasia is really looking forward to see operational. The pony farms.
"Endless material for us to feed on and use as cannon fodder." Dysthanasia is looking forward to having seemingly endless ponies to feed off of. Although Dysthanasia feeds off of suffering unlike most changelings that feed on love, there will be plentiful of suffering when the farms are operational. On top of that, ponies that are born in the farms will obey changeling orders, work in changeling factories, and be used as cannon fodder in warfare.
Dysthanasia looks to his right. The factories. Some have been completed and are already churning out weapons.
"Soviet recourses and material have been beneficial. They have a seemingly endless supply of these gulag slaves. Without them, we would not have factories being built and completed right now. But we should not completely trust them." Dysthanasia, although happy to see factories being built, he is skeptical of having the Soviet Union as an ally. Without the USSR, the 'true' changelings wouldn't be making such a comeback. But that's the thing, Dysthanasia is concerned about how dependent they are on Soviet resources, because it would give the Soviets a massive material leverage should Chrysalis' changelings and the Soviets ever fight each other. But Chrysalis trusts the Soviets, and Stalin. He can definitely tell that Chrysalis admires Stalin. He knows not to put forward his concerns, because he knows it won't end well for him.
Thinking back to the progress, he looks at what's ahead of him. The train tracks.
"Soviet trains seem to work just fine on Equestrian-made rails. Trains seem to also play a role in Soviet logistics. In the USSR itself, trains are used a lot. Not just for public transport, but also for logistics. But it's a vulnerability, being dependent on trains." Dysthanasia could see that a few dozen good attacks against the rail networks would definitely hurt their logistics. Should the changelings ever have to fight the Soviets, Dysthanasia knows they should sabotage the rail networks within the USSR, but a conflict between the Soviets and Chrysalis' changelings is very unlikely as both are relying on each other. Even then, as much as Dysthanasia dislikes it, the Soviets and his fellow changelings and especially Chrysalis have already grown too close.
Dysthanasia then sees ahead of him a few groups of 4 fellow changelings in the air, carrying cages from their corners. In the cages are captured foals. Dysthanasia grins.
"They will be the seeds of our farms. Their minds are so moldable. We will produce ponies that are loyal to us." Dysthanasia sick and twisted plan for the farms is using fillies and colts to start them up. He knows that they can be easily manipulated, through fear, scarring and brainwashing.
Dysthanasia looks back to the factories, in particular, at the chimneys on top. He loves the smoke coming out of them, he thinks they are beautiful. He pretends to hear the screaming and suffering of ponies dying in a fire. He always hated ponies with a passion, especially since the old hive fell to a single unicorn convincing a lot of the hive to betray Chrysalis. Thorax with his changelings were fakes, traitors, abominations thrived, while the true changelings struggled. But now, the true changelings are back, and are back as strong as ever, and in much bigger numbers. Everything about Thorax and his abominable hive is being beautifully dismantled and destroyed.
Dysthanasia hears a truck, and then notices the truck, a Lend-Lease Studebaker US6. It drives past him, and is heading in the direction of the fortress. Dysthanasia smiles with pride, as the old hive was taken down, and the new fortress rose in its place. On top is the flag that would represent the true changelings, a red flag that had the outline of a black star in the middle, with a black hammer and a changeling wing, fluttering on top of a centre tower, surrounding by 4 smaller towers at the corners.
Chrysalis and Stalin had only just finished talking. They have discussed on how they will split Equestria's territories between each other. They did have an argument over who will have what. After the long and tiring debate, they finally agreed on what the other will have. (I wish gave us the add images to chapters so I could show you all what the map would look exactly like. I will try to best explain what it will look like).
The Soviets will have much of Equestria's east while Chrysalis will have much of Equestria's west. Canterlot, the Crystal Empire and Ponyville will be controlled by both Soviets and changelings. Chrysalis' changelings will have the Badlands, which their new hive is located, and although the Badlands is in the east, there will be a corridor of changeling territory linking the new hive to the rest of their territory. To make up for this, the Soviets will have the Ghastly Gorge in the west along with a few other resource-rich territories that's in Equestria's west.
She hears a knock on the door. Chrysalis walks to the door and opens it. It is Cozy Glow.
"A Starlight Glimmer has been captured. She is in the cells on the floor below. All is ready for you," Cozy Glow reported with a forced grin. She can't even do an evil laugh, because the deed she was forced to do was far too evil.
"Excellent work, Cozy. I think I'm starting hating you less now," Chrysalis evilly smiled. Chrysalis leaves her office room, closing the door behind her. The 2 turn right and make their way to the stairs that leads to the cells below.
Cozy Glow is feeling more and more uncomfortable around Chrysalis. She always felt uneasy around the changeling. Cozy Glow's thoughts in her mind is engulfed in a civil war. Her opinions on the Soviet cause has changed. It went from being supportive, to now, questioning her support. At first she saw in joining them, she could get back at Twilight and her friends for sending her to Tartarus. But after being around with the NKVD, and being forced to kill a mother, Cozy Glow questions whether she should stick with the Soviets as there's no turning back, or escape and surrender herself to Equestria and beg for mercy. But she is afraid to make either option, because she will be a target for either side, no matter what. Now, preferably, she doesn't want anything to do with either Equestria or the Soviet Union, but she knows she has to pick a side, because whatever side she picks, she will go down in history for whatever side she chooses now.
Note:
I'm showing a map of all the areas in Equestria that is occupied by the Soviets as well as the general European map with Equestria will be in the EPWT story on Wattpad. My name on Wattpad is ARandomCasualPerson, so if you wanna see the occupied areas and have a better understanding of things, you can.