Chapter 16: Mental Combat

As I stiffened up and surrounded by the cocoon, I heard Chrysalis yell one thing at me before it sealed me in,

"FIGHT IT GEORGE, THINK OF ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU ON OUR SIDE,"

I tried as soon as the cocoon started working on me. Strangely enough, I underwent some physical change as well, loosing my rank as a guard and becoming a drone. I had flashbacks of being in a cocoon and I remembered the pain I went through. That pain was starting up again.

My legs shortened and I Lost some of my chitin armour. I felt me eyes change colour as well, signalling I wasn't a member or Chrysalis' hive anymore, I belonged to Metamorphosis. I fought to keep control of my mind. The cocoon was strong, breaking through all but three of my final mental defences. If the Lasting Light incident never happened, my mental barriers would never be this strong.

The cocoon was fighting well, trying to make me loose focus by distracting me with other thoughts. I looked outside and saw the army of 3000 guards charge the changelings. With me distracted, the cocoon broke through two more of my mental barriers, leaving me in my last holdout once again. I fought back against the cocoon, trying to hold out. I was severely tempted to give up, to join Metamorphosis and Sombrero, but I didn't listen to the voice in my head and continued on to weakly push back.

In the corner of my eye, I saw the re-converted changeling kings and queens charge Celestia, Luna and Chrysalis. All Metamorphosis was doing was guarding the re-conversion cocoons, slightly to the left of me and the other guards in cocoons. Sombrero was commanding his army from in the middle somewhere. If I ever got out, I had to kill him and Metamorphosis to end this.

I lost even more energy and the cocoon was only one last stand away from fully re-converting me. I was desperate yet helpless to stop the process. I saw Chrysalis glance at me cocoon in horror as I was pushed back even further into the realms of my memories as the cocoon completely took over, giving me a drone's personality of obey, obey, obey.

I was let out of the cocoon and looked at my new queen, Queen Metamorphosis expectingly, she would tell me what to do, the queen always knows best. She commanded me to enter the battle and I did, attacking and snarling. I managed to work me way into hoof to hoof combat with Twilight Sparkle, the new alicorn. She changed her magic and shot at me. It bounced off my chitin armour. I smirked and tackled her to the ground as as she charged up her horn, I slapped at it, distracting her and turning it off. We rolled around on the floor and I tried to bite her. She must have seen a faint sign of recognition in my eyes because she speedily shot me with her magic. I dodged and took a right hook to the mouth. I jumped back in surprise and she teleported away. I realised I was next to The Dark One and I straightened up, not looking sloppy in front of our king. Celestia was suddenly overwhelmed by General Daggerfang and she was cocooned. Good.

Chrysalis then blasted Daggerfang, stunning her. I threw myself onto a royal guard and stole its spear, I flipped it around and rammed it into the guard on the floor, killing it. Celestia was being converted into another loyal general like General Daggerfang and General Nightshade. She was writhing in the pain of the conversion. Her white fur turned black and multi coloured hair turned yellow, her respective colour now. Changeling Generals were separated by respective colours. They were like flags. Chrysalis's is light blue, Nightshade's is light green, Crimson's is red and so on. Celestia was then released from her cocoon,it obviously didn't take much to break her and it seemed like we were winning. General Celestia fought her way over to Metamorphosis and they fought together. I was still having skirmishes with guards, our numbers were growing as the number of re-conversion cocoons on our side was too. We wanted everyone to join our hive, and we meant everyone. We wanted our hive to rule under Queen Metamorphosis and King Sombra. We planned on re-converting Chrysalis, Crimson and Luna next and the opportunity arrived when Chrysalis let her guard down for a second. She was overrun by us changelings and Nightshade cocooned her.

Crimson was tougher to get. Her magical ability was next to undefeatable but when King Sombra challenged her, things changed. The battle stopped as all ponies and changelings wanted to witness this. King Sombra fired out a black and green ray of dark magic that was met by Crimson's red one. They fought for dominance, no magic pushing either back, until Twilight put her magic in. Sombra started loosing but General Celestia added hers. Pushing back on Crimson and Twilight. The other Generals added theirs and their combined magic destroyed any resistance. They were both cocooned, leaving only Luna the powerful one on their side. This was very biased in our favour. Crimson was rather quickly re-converted as she was weak from the duel and so was Twilight. As they joined us, Luna grew taller, darker. Armour appeared on her and she challenged Metamorphosis to a duel, she agreed and they fought. As they did, I remembered who I was, George Mills, and I had to kill Sombra to end this. I stood up stiffly next to Sombra, like his guard.

"Nightmare Moon…" I heard him mutter under his breath. Those were his last words. I turned around and drove the spear into his black heart. He roared in pain and Luna defeated Metamorphosis. He fell to the floor and his eyes went blank as his body evaporated into smoke. All that was left was his horn. Metamorphosis teleported away with her army excluding Twilight and Chrysalis but she had taken Celestia with her. Luna de-converted and unbrainwashed them. In return, Chrysalis made me her changeling guard again except I had another promotion, I was now prince of her hive.

"Is anyone gonna keep Sombrero's horn?" I asked, everyone shook their head,

"I'm having it then," I was going to take it to the jewellers to get it made into a necklace. Meanwhile, we had to prepare for Metamorphosis's next attack and with Celestia on her side, things were not going to be a walk in the park. I returned home and lied down on my bed. After half an hour of thinking, I got up again and took the horn to the jewellers. I waited in the shop as he drilled a hole into the horn for the chain. After it was finished I put it on and let the horn dangle over my black t-shirt. I returned home and went to bed.

I woke up in my changeling form. The first thing I noticed as I looked into the mirror, Sombra's horn had replaced my own.

A/N:

Did you like that battle? I anyone willing to make me art of George in his black t-shirt, white hoody, blue jeans and Sombra's horn necklace looking like a badass. I'm not demanding anything I just think it would be so cool and I have 0 photoshop skill to do it myself. Nobody has to.

Please can someone review, even a guest, I am begging now, please. I love reading your positive comments and I want to know where you think I should go with this war between Metamorphosis and Chrysalis.

Have a good day/night

MichaelTheBoss