Myself and all of the Toa were standing in the sparring hall, Vapaa had made a prototype for the grenades and was explaining how to activate it.

“You press this button, which lights a fuse” he said, gesturing to a button on one side “you should have about five seconds before it explodes, so get ready to run if your throw is terrible” he then pressed the button and I heard a click, he than chucked it to the far side of the room, the grenade exploded with a loud bang and scorched the floor.

“So we’re gonna use shit grenades?” Vinyl said.

“Put simply, yes” Vapaa said.

I never thought I would end up using grenades that use shit” Minion said, chuckling, Natrix, the newest human to join our team, looked like he wanted to say something, but didn’t, I paid him no mind, if he wanted to say something, then he was free to.

*a few hours later*

We were all relaxing on the beach, I was cooking a barbeque for everyone in our group, the exact same way my dad used to do them, by cooking ten times more food than is actually necessary, I was just about to serve some food up when I heard a commotion a ways away, I looked over to see a group of about five changelings from the Chrysalis hive circling Natrix, I ran over.

“HEY!” I shouted, the changelings turned to look at me “back off, he’s under the protection of the Equestrian Diarchy now” the changelings began talking in their language, I called for a changeling that was part of my crew and the senior member of the changeling crew, one of the warrior caste from another hive, flew over, he was called Echo, and he was big, around the size of a pony like Big Macintosh, had a heavily armoured carapace, four bright purple eyes, two pairs of forelegs with small pincers at the end of each leg and two pairs of clear purple wings, shaped and arraigned like those of a Dragonfly, with similar proportions, giving him greater speed in the air than normal changelings, he was a pretty intimidating sight and the other changelings hesitated slightly when he landed, kicking up dust as he did so.

“What do you need?” Echo asked in a deep, baritone voice

“Tell them that Natrix here is under the protection of the Equestrian Diarchy” I said, Mirage began talking to them, and they said something back rather harshly, Echo’s ears and fin pinned back and he bared his teeth, I walked forward “Alright you scum, if you don’t get out of here within the next five seconds I’ll order the ship to open fire on you” I then tapped something on my phone and all of the cannons of the ship turned towards us, including the rail gun, Echo relayed the message to the changelings and their eyes widened, they then took off like a shot.

“AND TELL YOUR QUEEN CHRYSALIS THAT IF I SEE YOUR HIVE OF CHANGELINGS ANYWHERE NEAR ME OR MY FRIENDS, I’LL AIM THE RAIL GUN STRAIGHT AT YOUR HIVE AND BLAST YOU ALL TO TARTARUS!” I shouted, I took a deep breath to calm myself before turning to Echo “are you alright?” he nodded.

“I’ll get over it” he said.

“What did they say to you anyway?” I asked, he scoffed and rolled two of his eyes, which looked weird with the other two still looking at me.

“They called me a traitor for siding with Equestria” he said “I’m not even part of ‘that’ hive”

“Don’t take it to heart” I said “anyway, as you were” Echo nodded before flying back towards his group, which consisted of various castes of changelings from various hives, there was even an exiled princess from the same hive as Echo.

“Thanks for the save” Vapaa said.

“You have Echo to thank just as much as me, he can talk most languages, which is why I chose him to be in charge of the changelings” I said.

“What about the Princess over there?” he asked, tilting his head towards the exiled princess.

“Well someone knows their changelings” I said “but seriously, yes, Princess Mirage is technically in charge of all the changelings on the ship, but Echo relays my orders to the other changelings, he’s just one rank below her, so they answer to him as well, plus I can’t give orders to a princess, even if she is exiled and works on my ship” the princess in question saw us and waived, I waived back before walking back to our group.

*the next day*

We were getting ready to leave, I was sat in the captain’s chair on the bridge in full armour when I heard Minions voice through my mask.

“We have a situation on the beach” he said.

“What is it?” I asked, startling a few ponies who were working, I waived for them to continue with their work when they looked my way

“Remember you sent those changelings packing?” he asked, I sighed and slouched back in the chair, squeezing the bridge of my nose.

“Let me guess” I said “they’re back?” he scoffed.

“And the rest” he said “Queen Chrysalis is here, Princess Mirage is trying to resolve the matter, but things aren’t going well” I sat bolt upright before standing up, apparently Autumn heard it as well as she stood up from where she was sat and looked at me.

“Blazewing, take over for now” I said, he nodded.

“Aye, aye cap’n” he said, before taking my place in the chair, I walked out of the bridge with Autumn.

“Just when things couldn’t get any worse” I said, looking at Autumn “we now have Chrysalis to deal with” we soon reached the beach where the rest of the Toa were stood. About 20 changeling drones were stood in rank behind Chrysalis, opposite them was Princess Mirage with 800 changelings from various hives that made up the entire changeling crew.

“I’ll be taking it” Chrysalis sneered “and a pathetic exile like you can’t stop me”

“No, but I can” I said walking up “I’ve already said he’s under the protection of the Equestrian Diarchy” Chrysalis laughed.

“Oh really?” she asked “and what exactly would you do if you were to take it?” I tapped on the keypad on my phone and all the guns aimed at Chrysalis specifically, credit where it’s due, she has a brilliant poker face, her drones? Not so much.

“You see the really big gun on the front of the ship?” I asked.

“What of it?” she asked, looking bored.

“That is a lovely piece of technology from my world called a rail gun” I said, she raised an eye “it consists of two metal rails that fires an explosive warhead at Mach 10 using a magnetic pulse, I could, within rights, aim it at ooh, let’s say, your hive and fire it from here, it would hit your hive and level it in about 2 minutes, ‘wham bam thank you ma’am’ no more Chrysalis hive!” she snarled.

“You wouldn’t dare” she said.

“Fucking try me you succubus whore!” I shouted, several of her drones hissed and began hovering “I can think of quite a lot of people that would thank me if I did” Chrysalis growled, I then aimed it at the coordinates of their hive and charged it up, a loud buzz filled the air and electricity began to ark between the two rails.

“Either you get out of here and cease your war with Equestria or I fire this baby” I said.

“Never” she said, I smirked and turned to the ship “FIRE THE RAIL GUN!”

ZAA-BANG

“NOOO” Chrysalis screamed, holding a hoof out at the rail gun.

“You have two minutes” I said, my phone began beeping as I timer began counting down from 1 minute and 59 seconds “to cease war with Equestria, I can still remotely and safely detonate the warhead with no casualties”

“You bastard!” Chrysalis shouted.

“All’s fair in love and war” I said “1 minute and 20 seconds” she looked conflicted, as the timer reached one minute she sighed and slumped to a sitting position, a resigned and tired look on her face.

“Fine” she said “you win” I smiled and pressed the detonate button on the phone.

*meanwhile in Ponyville*

POP

Rainbow Dash woke with a start from the cloud she was napping on, she swore she heard something, after a few moments she shook her head before falling back to sleep, as she drifted off Pinkie Pie shouted.

“Ooh, fireworks!”

We were stood outside the Jörmungandr, after Chrysalis agreed to cease war with Equestria Celestia teleported over at my request so that Chrysalis could sign the official papers.

“I have one condition” Chrysalis said.

“Go on” Celestia said, Chrysalis’s façade broke at that point and she pointed a pitted hoof at me.

“Keep him away from me and my hive!” she yelled, her eyes wide.

“Very well” Celestia said, she then turned to me “Vuur Koning, stay away from her and her hive” although she didn’t look all that bothered as she said this, I turned to Chrysalis

“I don’t need to be anywhere near you to attack” I said, smirking, I then conjured a ring of fire around her.

“Vuur Koning, play nicely with the changeling queen” Celestia sang, I dispelled the ring of fire and Chrysalis took several steps back, eyeing me warily “I hope we can put any old grudges behind us and usher in a new era of piece”

“Yes…” Chrysalis said, still not taking her eyes off of me, she then took flight and her drones wasted no time in following her as she departed, when she was gone Celestia turned to me.

“What exactly did you do to make her cease her war with Equestria?” she asked, raising an eyebrow.

“I fired the rail gun on her hive and in exchange for me detonating the warhead before it reached her hive I made her cease the war” I said shrugging.

“You wouldn’t actually let it hit her hive” she said, she then hesitated “would you?” I deadpanned.

“Keep telling yourself that, Princess” I said, before turning around and walking onto the ship as the doors closed behind me and the ship took off.

in case you were wondering how a changeling can 'roll' their eyes, I have a theory that their eyes are like those of a jumping spider, with a fixed lens and a retina that moves using muscles, like so

sometimes you can actually see their eyes 'scanning'

Succubus (medieval folklore): a female demon or apparition that seduces mortals through *cough*... you can probably figure out how, and absorbs their 'energy', repeated encounters with a succubus can lead to deteriorating health and even death.

I feel chrysalis is a perfect example of a succubus in modern culture.

Yes folks, there is a literal sex demon in M.L.P: F.I.M.

I've probably ruined any positive opinions of changelings for good