It has been a day and a half since Twilight and Nightmare Moon had recruited Rarity, and now, the three of them were simply waiting on Chrysalis' arrival.

When Nightmare and Twilight had shown Rarity the ponies that were under their control, she was surprised that they had already gotten that many without any pony noticing, but one thing she was a little angry about was that they had gotten her sister before her, instead of the both of them at the same time. They had been able to avert a catastrophe when they told her it was because she was already there, and they were working on a spell to bring Rarity's nightmare form and powers back. Though it had barely worked.

"Remind me again why we're trying to bring that disgusting changeling into our alliance," Rarity said impatiently.

"Because, Rarity," Twilight said, "she has just as much reason to hate Celestia as the rest of us. If that's not enough, we could always help her take the Crystal Empire once we're done with the bitch. She'd want it, if only for the fact she would get a lot of love from it."

"What did you write to her anyway?" Nightmare asked.

"I simply told her that I wished to speak with her on something important, and that the princess wanted to speak with her as well, obviously meaning Nightmare wanted to. Aside from that, I simply told her to teleport to my castle if she wanted to speak," Twilight said. "As a precaution, I did put a small spell on it that would make her think on it instead of outright rejecting it, though."

"That's more like you, Twilight," Rarity said. "Coming up with back-up plans."

"Thank you, Rarity," the lavender alicorn said as a bright, green light suffused the room, and made all of those present turn their heads away so they wouldn't be blinded. Once the light had gone down somewhat, the three mares looked back to the center to see Queen Chrysalis there.

The changeling looked at the three of them with a curious gaze before she finally said, "When you said 'Princess', Sparkle, I assumed you meant Celestia, and not the Nightmare, or Nightmares, as the case may be. Now, why do you wish to speak with me?"

Twilight looked at her allies, and they at her, before she looked to Chrysalis with an evil grin that made Chrysalis shudder a little. "Revolution."

. . .

An hour later, they were trying, still, to explain all of this to Crhysalis so they could get to the actual terms of the alliance.

"So all of this," the changeling said, gesturing to the three mares in front of her, "started out with a book? A. Book? I know I should be skeptical, but given the fact you kept with that story, not to mention you took the risk of bringing me here, I suppose I could at least hear what you have to say."

"That's good," Twilight said. "Now, the first part of this is what we want from one another. You first, Chrysalis."

"First off," Chrysalis said in annoyance, "you are not my equal, and you will add Queen to my name, is that clear?"

"Yes," Twilight said.

"Good. Second is what I want. Of those, the first is that I want the Crystal Empire, and I want Princess Cadence and her husband, Shining Armor, though I doubt you'd give them up, little Sparkle."

"Actually, you can have them," Twilight said, surprising the changeling. "They're bound to be loyal supporters of Celestia anyway. Anything else?"

"Yes. I also want more land for my hive. The amount of land we have is too small, and we are currently overcrowded. In addiiton, changelings are to be allowed to move through Equestria freely, and can feed off the love of it's citizens with out fear of retaliation or at least persecution, unless they over feed to the point of actual physical harm, which there are obvious physical signs of, by the way. That is all I can think of for now."

"I expected more," Nightmare said. "Like resources."

"More land means more resources, Nightmare," Twilight said. "As fr what we want, we only want the support of you and your hive when we make our move, as well as for you to stay here in Ponyville so we can more easily have a war council when the need arises, disguised, obviously, as a changeling, you especially, would attract royal guard attention we don't need. Is that good?"

"I suppose. I shall have to inform my hive, which won't take long, and I already had some changelings here in Ponyville, actually. It should be easy for me to hide. And I've already invited the changelings that are here in Ponyville, seeing as how they're taking orders from the four of us," the changeling said as Spike came into the room.

"Twilight, there's a few ponies outside. They told me to say something called 'primrose'. I don't know why, though."

"Those would be the changelings already here in Ponyville," Chrysalis said. "Send them in, dragon."

Spike didn't seem freaked out about the fact a changeling was in close proximity to him, but he looked to Twilight, who said, "It's fine Spike. She's a part of the group now, which also means you take orders from her now as well."

"Right," the young drake said before going to the front door and letting in the changelings, who were still disguised as ponies.

They made their way to the war room, where the two alicorns, one unicorn, and changeling were waiting for them.

There were three ponies, all mares. One had a chartreuse coat with a pinkish mane and tail, with three flowers with smiles as her cutie mark. The second was a white-green unicorn with an even whiter mane and tail with a lyre for a cutie mark. The other was, actually, a small filly, with a gray-pink coat with a golden yellow mane. There was another changeling in Ponyville, and she was on her way. She crashed through the window as the other three were going to the war room, actually. She had a gray coat, mismatched eyes, a golden mane and tail, with bubbles as her cutie mark. "Hey, muffin," Derpy said to her daughter, as the small changeling had come with her mother when he was meant to infiltrate Ponyville.

"Hey, Mom," Dinky said, going to her mom and giving her a hug.

"Would you two save it," Lyra said. "The queen wants to speak with the four of us."

"Yeah," Cheerilee said. "You two see each other every day. This is the first time the queen's been here since we arrived, so it must be important, especially since it's in the most recent pony princess castle."

"Then let's go," Derpy said, dropping her disguise in a flash of green flame, as well as Dinky. The other two just rolled their eyes and continued on. They made it to the war room in just a few minutes, with Spike leading them. Needless to sat, both Twilight and Rarity were surprised to see that two of the ponies they knew were changelings. "Hey, guys," Derpy said, further surprising the two mares, along with the fact there was a small changeling with her that they knew to be Dinky, if only because of how much she hugged the other changeling.

"Your majesty," the other two said, bowing to Chrysalis. "We've come as you asked."

"Good," the changeling queen said. "We are now in an alliance with these three," she said, gesturing to the two alicorns and singular unicorn, "and, amazingly, it's to over throw Celestia."

Raising an eyebrow, Cheerilee said, "I'm curious as to how Nightmare Moon is back."

"Top secret," Twilight said.

"Regardless," Chrysalis said, "I wish for the four of you to spread word to the other in Canterlot, and tell them to await my word to attack."

"They can come with me as an entourage, as well as the other Elements. Celestia wants me in Canterlot for a Princess Summit, and I was hoping to bring a few nobles under our rule."

"And both me and Rarity can change into our normal, but also weaker, forms so that there isn't any suspicion, which means, if you can find some way to get into Canterlot, we can still have our war councils, while we're there. As an addition, two of Twilight's friends are already a part of those that follow us, so we also have that to use to our advantage," Nightmare said.

"Then it's settled," Twilight said. "Next stop, Canterlot."