Celestia hovered over the Chrysalis’ Hive with Aurora beside her as the last drone brave or suicidal enough to challenge the alicorn and the other Queen fell back to the hive beneath them.

“I know that you’d rather me not do this, but it is the way I do things,” Celestia said calmly as she began to gather energy for her final attack. Her mane was whipping around her head like a demonic rainbow and the sheer amount of power already in her body would be enough to make the average being run shrieking away in terror.

“I told her what would happen,” Aurora replied flatly, not in the least bit frightened by Celestia’s open display of power. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a youngest sister to kill.” Her voice was icy and calm, her face a hard mask of emotionless marble. Celestia turned to face her for a moment before glancing back down at the Hive as even more energy rushed into her horn.

“Very well, I shall hold my energy until you’ve returned with proof,” the alicorn said with a slight incline of her head.

Aurora didn’t bother responding and her eyes flashed, teleporting her within the Hive’s bottommost chamber. It was there that she found Chrysalis frantically trying to figure out what to do. Her new body looked fresh and oily, barely minutes old. Despite that, her eyes were wide as she paced back and forth, completely wrapped up within her own mind and the mind of her drones.

“Sister,” Aurora announced her presence to the other Queen. Chrysalis’ neck jerked in surprise at her sister’s voice and then she turned towards her, fire in her eyes.

“How dare you call me that!” Chrysalis growled at her. “You have lead Celestia right to me!”

“No, that was your own foolishness,” Aurora replied in a steely, non caring tone. “I’m here to fulfill the promise that I made you not long ago.”

“What? You’re going to kill me?” Chrysalis demanded with a roll of her eyes. “As if you’d ever really do that. You’re a conceited self absorbed cunt, but you’re not about to murder your youngest sist-”

“Be quiet,” Aurora said, her power flaring around the words and cowing Chrysalis into obedient silence, no matter how much she wished to rage. “My words were this and this exactly ‘the penalty will be the total destruction of said Hive and the death of its queen. No spare bodies, no mind link to another sister, no nothing. Only death. I do not lie, Chrysalis,” she said quietly.

“ALL YOU DO IS LIE!” Chrysalis shrieked, regaining her control of her vocal chords through sheer effort of will. “You lie about loving your sisters! You lie about caring for your children! You lie about wanting peace! The only time you tell the truth is when it serves you!”

“Actually, I love each of my sisters dearly,” Aurora replied quietly. “I love my children even more and peace will give them more of a chance to live than any war ever could.” She stared at Chrysalis and the younger queen was shocked by the amount of... grief in her eyes. However, that grief was backlit by an almost incomprehensible level of pure rage. “And you. You betrayed me as a sister. You plotted against my plans. Always thinking for yourself and your own petty ego. You could have brought death to all of my children and all of your sisters with your actions and I can no longer ignore it.”

Her voice was tranquil but Chrysalis could feel the waves of power flowing through it and the hurricane of fury hiding just below the surface. Chrysalis bared her fangs at her eldest sister.

“All I ever wanted to do was prove that I was better than you! That I should have been the most powerful of us all! That I was the most deserving of-”

“Kneel,” Aurora said, cutting her off.

Unbidden by her, Chrysalis’ front legs gave out and she found herself staring up at her eldest sister who was suddenly incredibly close to her. Silently, Aurora leaned down and placed a soft kiss directly upon Chrysalis’ forehead. Chrysalis’ eyes widened in a combination of surprise and fear as her mind began to fog, numbing sensations beginning to flow through her body. Unintentional tears appeared in her eyes as Aurora gave her forehead another kiss and the numbing increased.

“Your other bodies have already been dispatched,” Aurora said quietly before she placed yet another numbing kiss on Chrysalis’ forehead, her magic oozing into the kiss. “Your free ranged Operators, with the exception of those who betrayed you, are being eliminated as I speak. Celestia is above awaiting my return with your head.”

“Si-sister,” Chrysalis managed to get out between numbed lips.

If Aurora heard her, she did not make any sign of noticing as she placed a final numbing kiss on Chrysalis’ face, this last one upon her lips. She broke it and then looked down at her youngest sister with a cold stare, all emotions leaving her face.

“Goodbye, Chrysalis,” she said, her right hoof became a blur as the segmented leg jammed itself through the center of Chrysalis’ throat, emerging out the back end with barely a sound. Chrysalis’ body fell forwards against the limb, sliding down Aurora’s leg slightly before the Changeling Queen brought it sideways and sliced cleanly through the side of Chrysalis’ neck.

The body slipped to the ground with a small thud and Aurora looked down at it for a moment as her eyes glowed and a golden aura enveloped the head, tearing it off of the few strands of soft chitin still attaching it to the rest of the body. Then she vanished, appearing in front of Celestia.

The alicorn looked over at her and her trophy for a long moment before nodding her head. Her horn glowed brilliantly and then a beam of pure energy fired from it. The beam expanded outwards as it traveled towards the hive and when it finally hit the stone structure, it began to melt.

The towering monolith of changeling engineering withstood the blast for a long ten minutes, it was a large structure after all, before finally collapsing inwards on itself. Celestia continued to pour energy into her work however until the very sand around what had once been a Hive turned to glass and there was a five mile wide stain of rapidly cooling ‘stone’. The alicorn cut off the flow and then turned to Aurora.

“Is there anything you would like to place here?” Celestia inquired neutrally.

“No, we will remember the consequences of Chrysalis’ actions without the need of plaques or monuments,” Aurora replied, her voice steady and calm. As if she hadn’t just killed her youngest sister.

“I see,” Celestia said, nodding her head as her horn began to glow and the pair vanished as the sun began to set, leaving behind only a wide swath of destruction.

Author's Notes:

Yes it's short but I figured it accomplished exactly what I wanted so no point in stretching it out further then it needed to be.