“Arrrg, what is that racket?” Chrysalis lifted her head from the pillow, noise filtering into her royal chambers from above her. She had been recovering for days, the stress of the situation overwhelming her both physically and mentally. She shambled out of her bed, her hooves clacking on the hard floor as she left her chambers to investigate the noise.

She reached the throne room, the room filled with numerous changelings celebrating enthusiastically although Chrysalis did not know why. She entered the Humans’ area, seemingly the heart of the party

‘Why am I not surprised’ she thought, gazing at the large mass of changelings spread around the room, all of them in intense states of enjoyment. A large crate was in the middle of the area, a large amount of pony alcohol bottles resting within and even more spread out around the room.

“Heys Qu-queeny” Chrysalis looked down at the voice, a changeling drone looking up at her with his solid blue eyes, a large smile planted on his face “Has any- *Hic* anyone ever told yous that you have a fant… fantastic flank?” he slurred
Chrysalis was speechless, watching on as the drone stumbled and fell onto his side, giggling like a fool.

“Hey everyone, Shade actually did it, fucking hilarious!”

Chrysalis recognised the voice of Commander Chalmers, the biped waving at her as she looked at him, surprise evident on her face.

The Commander was sitting down, his helmet removed and a bottle clutched in his hand. Lying up against the armoured human were four Changeling females, all giggling at the expression on their queen’s face. The pony foal was curled up in the Commander’s lap, one of the changelings next to him rubbing the foal’s head as it slept.

“Glad to see you decided to join the party Chrysalis, have you heard the news?” Chalmers asked, holding the bottle out to Chrysalis

‘Why not, it’s not like this could possibly get any worse’

The Queen walked over towards the biped, sitting next to him as she took hold of the bottle of cider in her magical grasp. She took a long hard swig, the cider’s effects taking hold of her almost immediately

“Where did you find this?” Chrysalis questioned as she looked at the bottle “It seems quite strong, and no, what news, I assume it has something to do with all of the celebration?”

“Strong?” questioned the human, reaching behind him with a hand and grabbing a bunch of empty bottles of the cider, eight in total “I drank all of these myself and while I do think that it is quite good cider it’s done absolutely nothing for me. Actually, now that you mention it the only ones that seem completely smashed are your subjects”

The Queen looked around the room and the human was indeed right. While the rest of the bipeds were all standing or sitting around the room rather relaxed it was her changelings which were causing the majority of the noise. All over there were changelings passed out on the ground, up against the walls, changelings running around after their own tails and one changeling was even attempting to dance, although to Chrysalis it looked more like she was trying to figure out how to walk on one leg. Chrysalis took another swig from the bottle, hoping that the alcohol would make the pain in her head go away.

“As to where we got them” Chalmers continued “I forgot the name of the hotel, but it was from the minibar in the penthouse suite, really nice place. Well, it was until we trashed it, but I left them some money so it’s all good”

“Th-that’s great Nigel,” Chrysalis’s vision had started to become fuzzy “but what was- *hic* the news that you wanted to tell me before?”

“Oh, that” Nigel answered, waving his hand “well, we had a good long chat with the Princess and we declared a truce, as long as we don’t attack them they’ll let us move about up on the surface, I believe that we have access to an area between ‘Manehattan’ and the south western border of the Griffon Empire. We are able to enter the city of Manehattan and the town of Appleoosa but if we do we have to stay together, changelings cannot disguise and we will be escorted around the city by guards or police forces” the Commander paused as he uncapped another bottle of cider “we are still at war with the Griffons, Minotaurs and Zebras though, so we still should be prepared”

Chrysalis emptied the bottle she was holding, placing it on the floor. As she looked back towards the Commander he was currently emptying the entire bottle in one go, the four changelings next to him watching in awe. Without taking a single breath, the human finished the bottle, placing it on the top of his head, the bottle balancing perfectly in place

“This stuff is like apple juice, It’s a shame we already drank all of the harder stuff, that griffon ale was quite good” The Commander picked himself off the ground, scooping the still-sleeping colt up in his arms. The four Changelings previously lying against him watched in disappointment, the human proving to be quite adept in partying

“Are you sure you have to go?” One asked, batting her eyelids at him

“I’m sorry Ladies but I better get the little one to bed, I also have to go over a few details of our plans so I’m afraid I have to leave your fine company, until next time” he nodded his head, the bottle falling in front of him before he caught it with a free hand, placing it on the floor nest to the seated Queen. Chrysalis looked at the retreating form of the human and sighed

‘Bed sounds good to’ with great effort she rose up and stumbled back down towards her chambers, longing for the embrace of her mattress.

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“Are you okay your Majesty?”

Celestia awoke to the sound of a stallion’s voice, the princess raising her head to look around the room she was in. She was lying on a bed that was much smaller than she was used to, a white sheet covering her Royal body. To her left was the owner of the voice, one of the solar guards that she had brought along on the mission

“Guard, what happened, is everypony okay?” Celestia hurriedly asked, bolting awake as she recalled the earilier confrontation with the Human

"Everypony is fine your Majesty, there seemed to be some sort of sleeping gas that also affects magic released during the incident, so far nopony has report any other effects. The only pony still asleep is your student Twilight Sparkle but our field medic says that it shall not be long until she awakens”

“What of the townsponies and the former captives, are they all alive?” Celestia replied after the guard had finished

“All well Princess, the prisoners’ collars just broke apart ten minutes ago and the townsponies arrived soon after the humans left, saying that they were held at the apple orchards at the rear of the town. They have reported that they were guarded by Changelings and one human in white armour and that they were treated fairly. It seems that every pony except for the unicorns and you and Princess Luna awoke after half-an-hour. We tried to rouse you but to no effect and most of the unicorns recovered after three hours”

Celestia began to get out of the bed “So it would seem that the substance the Humans used targets the magic inside the body of a pony, which would explain why I wasn’t able to raise a shield” Celestia began to walk towards the door “Where is my sister, Guard?”

“She took a number of guards to remove the… corpses of the Diamond Dogs killed in the fighting, forgive me for asking Princess but what exactly happened? My mind is still a little hazy thanks to the gas; all I can remember is blue dots and bangs”

Celestia stopped at the door, her back to the Guard

“The Humans happened Guard, and we are incredibly lucky that they didn’t decide to do the same to us. This incident, while incredibly distressing only highlights why we should avoid confrontation with these insane creatures, I want you to dispatch messengers to Canterlot and Manehattan to deliver the news of the truce and the conditions. I also want extra guards to be posted at Manehattan; I suspect that the humans will take full advantage of the terms”

“As you will it, your Majesty” the guard replied, following his Princess out of the doorway into the blood-stained town.

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“Pssst, Murray”

Corporal Murray looked over towards the whisper, Corporal Rogers gesturing for him to enter a side room. Murray followed his fellow soldier, Rogers checking to make sure no-one was in earshot

“What is it Roberts?” Murray inquired via his external speakers, Roberts obviously not wanting to risk the chance that the Commander could over hear via the radio

“What happed to all of those magazines we nicked from that hotel, I’ve got a group of Changelings offering some griffon booze they found in a town for them, they said they’ve got a few jugs worth”

“The Commander found them after Peters stashed them, I think he confiscated them, saying something about how he had plans for them”

“Plans?” Roberts replied, confusion evident in his voice “What plan could possibly involve porn magazines except for… you know”

“Jeez man I don’t know, just don’t go putting those images in my head” Murray walked out of the door, leaving a very puzzled Roberts behind.

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“Mhhhhhmmm that was such a good sleep, I actually feel like I can deal with Chalmers and his nonsense today”

Chrysalis gave a stretch as she exited her bed, her eyes still fogged from sleep. She ambled over towards her mirror, shaking her head from side-to –side to improve her vision before gazing upon her beauty-

“AHHHHHHHH!”

Her mirror was covered in lewd magazine pages, the entire reflective surfaced covered with page upon page of smut. Panicked into full wakefulness, Chrysalis looked around the rest of her chambers, the site that she saw causing her to collapse onto her rump in shock.

Her entire Chamber, the walls, the floor and even the ceiling was plastered with photos of ponies in various seductive poses. Pictures of loose mares bearing all filled the room, everywhere the Queen looked there was more, the pages seemingly never-ending.

Who could have done this? It must of taken them hours to cover the entire room, and without waking her too, although that could probably be explained by the amount she had drank the night before. As she gazed around her once regal quarters only one thing came to her mind

“CHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSS!”
“You’re Majesty, are you okay!?”

Two Changeling drones rushed into her room, summoned by the shout of rage, skidding to a halt as they gazed upon their Queen’s Chambers

“Wow” commented one, moving towards the mirror to get a closer look at a particularly questionable image “You really have quite a good taste in interior design My Queen”

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Three hours. It took three whole hours for a team of ten Changelings to remove every last bit of porn from her bedroom walls. Chrysalis had not responded well, storming up to where the humans where only to be informed that the Commander had gone for a brief walk. He still hadn’t returned to the hive and all of the humans claimed that they did not know where he went. The Queen had to contend with sitting in her throne waiting for his return, every changeling that passed keeping a low profile so as to not cop any wraith from their furious ruler.

Chrysalis had reached her limit, the Commander having gone too far this time. She acknowledged that he was instrumental in the survival of her Hive and that without the help of the humans she would most likely be dead by know but his foolish behaviour would have to stop.

As she was brooding the Throne room doors opened and the target of her anger walked in, accompanied by the pony foal.

“Hello Chrissy, you look a little out of sorts, what’s the matter?”

Chrysalis could not believe how the Commander could just ask that, did he have no idea how pissed off she was?

“I think you know exactly what the matter is, NIGEL!” she snapped

“Wow, calm down, whatever happened I’m sure we can-“

“WHATEVER HAPPENED!? WHATEVER HAPPENED!? YOU COVERED MY ENTIRE ROYAL CHAMBERS WITH PORNOGRAPHY!”

“I certainly did not!”

‘Strange’ thought Chrysalis ‘he actually sounds a little insulted’

“Well if you didn’t,” her voice had lowered in volume, the sincerity of his answer and the fact that she could detect no trace of deceit from him calming her down a little “which I highly doubt, then one of your subordinates must have done it”

The colt had hidden behind Nigel’s legs at her outburst, the Commander stepping towards the Throne

“I assure you Chrysalis, me and my men had nothing to do with it” Chrysalis was about to retort before the Commander stopped her “I think I do know, however, who is responsible for such a prank, a prank i think was targeted at both of us…”

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Transfusion sighed as he once again tried to remove the glue stains from his hooves, the adhesive proved to him by Doctor Thrax preforming the task perfectly. He giggled to himself as he relived his plan, from the point of where he borrowed the stash of dirty mags from the Commander, the Commander offering them to Transfusion saying that he needed to be rid of them and that maybe Transfuion could use them for studies on pony mentality all the way to the joyful four hours he had spent meticulously covering the Queen’s chamber with the torn out pages. As he scrubbed his hooves with soapy water he chuckled as he imagined the Queen’s reaction and the following lecturing of the Commander. Everything had gone according to plan and nothing would stop-

Transfusion paused his scrubbing as two large shadows appeared in the water, the changeling scholar turning around painfully slowly.

Standing in the door way with a sneer on her face was Queen Chrysalis and behind her stood the Commander, a wide grin on his face

“Busted” was all the human said, before a chitin covered hoof connected with Transfusions face, knocking him senseless.