"Go ahead you two, make yourselves comfortable, as this may take a while." My brain is already trying to asplode... Luna enters the room, and takes a seat on a cushion... damn those things are comfy...

"Now that we're all here, we may begin." Oh joy...

"Sooo, how do we do this?" It appears Ribbon knows less about politics than me, and I know somewhere between jack and shit on the subject.

"We'll start by setting some laws and guidelines for both Changelings and Ponies, starting with-" ah, I know this shtick.

"The more important issue." Oh god, my braiiiiin, it burns...

"Yes, like keeping track of my little Ponies, and your... food supply." Luna nods in agreement.

"Agreed, we must insure our Ponies safety" Are you fucking kidding me... Ribbon seems to share my anger, as she gives her a stare of equivalently 0.9 Fluttershys.

"If those are your most important items then let me share mine. I want you ban the hunting of Changelings in Equestrian borders and to officially recognize Changelings as sapient creatures." This shuts up both Celestia and Luna.

Sunbutt speaks first, rather shocked. "Who would hunt changelings, and why?"

Knowing this was something Ribbon REALLY didn't want to talk about, I spoke up. "She told me that dragons and griffons hunt changelings, for FOOD." Celestia looks about ready to blow chunks, and Luna's jaw dropped. -anymore information would be much appreciated, Ribbon.-

'diamond dogs value us quite highly as slaves, until we stave.'

"And diamond dogs, don't even get me started on those mutts. They use changelings as slave labor, until they starve to death!" Ummm, is Celestia supposed to be smoking? Judging from Luna's reaction, I think not.

"Unacceptable..." ohhh... She's PISSED... "I will not allow such practices to occur within Equestria's borders!" Luna looks at Celestia with hesitation.

"Are you suggesting a raid, sister?" I like where this is going...

I nod in agreement. "I'm in, this could help build relations between ponies and changelings, as well as provide a chance to compare military stratagems. If we're going to be working together, we need to know this kind of thing, to allow for maximum efficiency with groups of mixed units." Politically retarded i may be, but not militarily.

Luna shakes her head. "And give the griffons a reason to declare war? I think not..." well then that leaves only one option...

"Covert operations..." seeing the confused looks on everyone else's faces, I begin an explanation. "What I'm proposing, is to train a small mixed unit of about half a dozen ponies and changelings in various forms of warfare, so that they can get in, get the job done, and leave without anyone being the wiser... all of this will be 'off the records' of course. You with me so far?" Ribbon and celestia nod, while Luna makes a 'go on...' gesture with her hoof. "We need to take the best of the best, and make them better, we need to make our foes afraid of incurring apparently divine retribution. Divin... Thats it! We need to form a Tenchu squad." Its takes a few moments to sink in.

Celestia nods, before turning to face Ribbon "And you would agree to this, Ribbon?"

'er, whats a tenchu?'

-divine retribution in Japanese.-

'oh.' "Uh, yes, it's a good idea." Ribbon slowly nods her head. "How long would it take to gather the necessary ponies? With the Hive Mind, we should be able to gather the required changelings within a few days... and we also know some changelings who could help train them."eh? Oh...

"Oh, you mean the Exiles, don't you?" Ribbon nods her head. "Yeah, we can get Lyra to teach them close quarters combat, Tavish can show them how to make and defuse explosives as well as show them proper safety procedures, and Courage, he's just a thestral, can show them how to properly use a sword."

Celestia nods. "A week, a week and a half maximum. We have a few 'quirky' ponies who have shown exceptional battlefield capabilities." Sweet, I get to work with the nutjobs.

Ribbon suddenly flinches. "You think you have 'quirky'? We've got a changeling version of Pinkie who turns into a sadistic war machine in combat!" I let out a whistle at that. I must introduce them to each other...

Luna hesitated for a moment, before speaking up. "There is one other thing we need to talk about..." uh-oh... "You were absolutely brutal in your fight with Chrysalis, never in all my years, have I seen anypony fight so ruthlessly. From what heard from Celestia, you had HER afraid that you had become something worse then the Nightmare could ever hope to be..." I saw Luna and Celestia shudder.

"You can just call me a monster and get it over with, I embraced that fact long ago, I CHOSE to become one after the Discord fiasco, and became one with my primal side, so that others would never need to..." The looks on their faces softened. "Because sometimes it takes a monster, to stop a monster." To be precise, it takes a civilized monster from another dimension, that has had it's body reformatted to resemble the local sapient's, to stop a monster. I do believe the invalidity of your arguments invalidity is now invalid.

Meanwhile, Ribbon had begun scratching at herself uncontrollably. "You're getting ready to shed, aren't you..."

"Shed?" Derp, the princesses don't know about that...

"Yeah, pieces of her exoskeleton fall off, allowing her to grow larger."

Ribbon nods. "Indeed, I'm either going to need a good beating or a pod to sleep it off."

-Pod?-

'Makes the chitin soft and puts me to sleep, Chrysalis used them to house ponies but that's not what their made for...'

"Well then, I believe we can adjourn this meeting." Luna, you just saved my sanity, I thank thee.

"To the embassy!" I forget to mention that Celestia let the changelings set up a very small hive structure in the caverns, only big enough for 10-20 changeling, didn't I?

I watched as Ribbon was deposited in a pod, and slowly drifted off to sleep. So I sat down, got comfortable, and watched the process out of morbid fascination.

Not much happened on the first day, other than Ribbons body swelling slightly. It was the second day that the changes took place. Pieces of her chitin slowly peeled off, before drifting to the bottom of the pod, leaving a layer of a deep purple in its place. I watched as her mane slowly turned a midnight blue, I swear she was turning into a Changeling version of me, except slightly shorter and skinnier, which I found incredibly attractive.

When she woke up, I noticed her eyes were now the same color as mine, and looked reptilian to boot. She used her horn to cut her way out, before I hugged her. After a few moments of affection, I realized something. Walking over to the pod, I grabbed the shed chiten in my magic, and smiled. "Hey Ribbon, I do believe we can finish that hammer now..."

"You're right." Her voice hadn't changed, thank god, I liked it the way it was, the sound she makes when she's embarrassed is f-cking adoarable! "How do I look, anyway?"

"Ummmm... like a changeling version of me..." please don't freak, please don't freak.

"If I look like you, I must look pretty good. Right?" What... My train of thought had just turned into a jelly donut.

I stare blankly, blushing slightly. "Did I just get trolled, or are you being serious?" She giggles. "Clever girl..." I pause, seeing all the changelings piling in to get a look at their new Queen, realizing how the changelings looked different from each other. "Say, why do all the changelings look different from each other, I mean, I can see one with CLAWS."

Ribbon chuckles. "Yes, I guess I should explain about the different kinds of changelings... first theres scouts, like I used to be, incredibly fast, but don't have anything else going for them. Then there's diggers, the ones with claws, they expand the hive. Next is the Converts... we aren't going to do that anymore... they tend to be as varied as the ponies they originally were. Continuing, we have warriors, they have harder chiten and more strenght. Hunters are extremely agile and have venom strong enough to knock out several ponies, or kill in large enough amounts. Then there's proto-queens, thats what I was for a while, they require less energy to function and tend to be rather strong magically. What I am now is a full fledged Queen, I require next to no energy, am incredibly strong magically, and also very mobile. And finally there's the Hive Guardian, which protects the hatching chambers, something capable of going head to head with a manticore and winning, it is absurdly strong, and has extremely dense chitin. It runs on base instinct and Hive Mind commands. And dont worry, its not here, and I already told it you're not a threat." Wow, thats a lot to take in...

"Wait for me Gary!" What?! Well damn, Gary and Scootaloo followed my scent. "Whooooooaaaaaaaaaah... Thats a lot of Changelings... Oh, hi Chi!" Its good to see she's not afraid of them anymore. Gary ran up to me and began barking happily.

Ribbon seems to have noticed Scootaloo's lack of recognition. "Hey Scoots, I got upgraded!"

Scootaloo stares at her, before bouncing around excitedly. "Cool! You look like a changeling version of Chi!"

Suddenly, Ribbon clutched her stomach and began groaning, before bolting off, more than likely looking for somewhere to relieve herself.

'ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ijustlayedanegg... CHIIIIIIII!!!' Oh... Shiiiiit... it appears every single changeling heard that as well, as they parted to give me a clear path.

Bursting into the lavatories, I wa greeting to Ribbon, wide eyed and hyperventilating, holding an egg in her lap. "That sucked!"

Waiiit... "does this make me the crazy aunt?"

Ribbon giggles. "If thats what you want to be. Now I have half a year to think of name." Ideaaaa!

"Shinkirō." Ribbon tilts her head. "It translates to Mirage."

Ribbon nods. "It's perfect. We need to get this to the main hive though."

"Wheres that?" I get to visit the hive, sweet!

"Remember that cave Fluttershy chased a dragon out of, and you fired a massive beam from? We moved it there." Nice, close to Ponyville, means we can visit Twilight and co. whenever we want.

The two of us walking out, Ribbon carrying the egg gently, before i levitated Scootaloo and Gary onto my back. "Road trip!"

The main hive was actually pretty nice for something hewn out of the side of a mountain, while we had been gone, several changelings had moved everything in Ribbons house to her chambers in the hive. Meeting the Hive Guardian was fun, that thing was one and half times the size of Celestia,and had no wings, and after it started growling at Scoots, I hissed at it in a 'touch her and I will fuck you up' fashion, and it wisely backed down, much to the shock of every changeling watching. I must have looked extremely intimidating when I did that.

A week had passed since the four of us (me, Ribbon, Scoots, and Gary) had moved into the hive, we had Gotten my hammer finished, and I decided to name it Kaminari. Suddenly, one of the scouts burst in. "Their here, the group of ponies and changelings are here."

"Hey Ribbon, you coming to?" My FUN sense is tingling.

"I could use the entertainment." With that, I charged up my magic, and telepoted us to the station.

When the light cleared, their was a red headed scout hovering about an inch from my face. "Hi! I'm Wendy! Who are you? You Look like the Queen! *gasp* Are you rel-" thankfully another changeling, this one a drone, shoved his hoof in her mouth.

"Names Larry, sorry for Wendys behaviour, she never shuts up outside of combat, and she tur- EWWWW, SHE'S LICKING MY HOOF!" He yanked his hoof away.

"Awwww, it doesn't taste like cheese..." She pouted.

It was about this time that i noticed I was being hugged by a yellow unicorn with neon green hair. "Who are you, and why are you hugging me?"

"Names Impulse, and why the buck not?" Fair enough.

I noticed a warrior changeling, who was currently burning a piece of wood, he took notice of that, and turned to face me. "Hehe, names Flint, and it is such a pleasure to bur- er, meet you..." oh joy, a pyromaniac.

Turning to see a thestral, we made made eye contact. "Rushdown." Before he went back to using one of his clawed gauntlets to dislodge something from his hoof. Oh god, its the pony equivalent of Emoticus Duckbuttius...

"Oh... my..." until I heard her voice, I didn't even notic- Is that a kirin? It was a pony covered in scales, and had a serpentine tail and batlike wings, as well as a pair of backwards pointing horns.Upon her noticing me, she 'eep's and hides behind Flint. If it weren't for her personality, I would have labeled her a Mary Sue on the spot.

Hear that? That was the sound of my brain imploding from something so awesome and badass acting so cute and adorable. I sit down, hoping to appear less intimidating. She slowly inched out from behind Flint. "I-i-i'm D-d-dovah... S-s-sorry for being s-s-scared of you..." dawwwwww. Oh jeeze...

"Uhhh, Impulse, can you let go now? I'm losing circulation in my leg..." he obliges.

"Oi! Sorry it took us so long to get here, Lyra was busy 'playing' with Bo-"

*Smack!* "You are not dragging my sex life into this, Tavish! Even Courage agrees with that!" I turn to see Courage nodding in agreement. I couldn't help but laugh at that.

"Say, wheres Vinyl and Snowflake?" They were also suppose to be here, weren't they?

"Their busy running the Wub Shack, it full of ponies AND changelings now..." oh boy, I don't think they're going to be joining us...

Suddenly, I am overcome with a feeling of dread. Two loud gasps rang out, which could only meen one thing...

Pinkie had met Wendy...

Larry facehoofed. "Let the stupid commence..."

...

And commence it did.

I was still trying to get the caramel out of my mane... as well as the ash... Damit Tavish, you just had to give Flint fireworks, didn't you... Lyra and Rushdown got into a fight, that only ended when they were both about to literally rip each others throats out. Larry got along well with Twilight, saying that they were the only sane pony/changeling in town. When Dovah meet Fluttershy, it was hilarious, Fluttershy saw she looked like like a dragon, and started screaming, which frightened Dovah, and made her start screaming, which made Fluttershy scream louder, and so on and so forth, until they both passed out from fright. Impulse, Wendy, Pinkie, and Rainbow, or the Chaos Quartet, as we now call them, went on a pranking spree that would have made the devil weep with envy, it got worse though, CMC pranksters happened... I take full responsibility for giving them that idea... When we got back to the hive, Impulse managed to piss off the Hive Guardian, who knocked him into a wall, before Dovah went Hulk on it, and literally plowed it into a wall. Watching someone with Fluttershys personality body check something nearly thrice her size and pin it to a wall, before roaring in its face and spraying embers everywhere, was a sight to behold. After she snapped out of her frenzy, she ran over to Impulse and checked him for injuries, before shaking him awake. Boy did he get chewed out for that, yet he claimed it was 'totally worth it.' If he's this stupid sober, remind me to never get him drunk, he might just forget physics apply to him and start flying with the power of ignorance. I managed convince Dovah to take Kaminari, after seeing how brutal she can be, by telling her at the very least it would make a great defibrillator.

I swear, Tavish knew this was going to happen, as he gave me a bottle of the strongest stuff he had when the Chaos Quartet started throwing caramel everywhere. Unfortunately, it appears alicorns have über-livers, as I barely felt a buzz from chugging the whole thing. When I asked around for something that could get me drunk, I kept getting told 'we don't need a repeat of the Molestia incident'. Damn, Sunbutt's decency goes down the drain when she gets drunk.

Still, I slept like a corpse that night.