"Flood hive destroyed." Virgil says right after Ahriman disappears. "Changeling hive is within a few miles."

I see the land flying past me from inside the copilot seat in the cockpit of the pelican. After a few seconds we are already there. This thing is fucking fast. At least I have it's blueprints, which are complicated...

"We have reached our destination, Lopez 3, Lopez 911, Lopez 565, and Lopez 1032 watch the pelican!" The hatch doors shut behind me and Virgil.

She has a pair of energy swords and a Plasma Launcher or Type-52 Guided Munitions Launcher/Explosive.

We see a pair of Changeling guards in front of us who also have blue colored chitin.

"Let me in and I won't blow up this entire canyon."

"There is no way you could possibl-" I interrupt the female changeling by pulling out the Type 4 Galaxy Destroyer and setting it on its lowest setting... which is still pretty damn high. I fire at a mountain behind us and it just disappears, well not without a loud bang of course but yeah.

"There is no way I could possibly what? Level this entire canyon? Are you sure?" The changeling shakes her head fearfully and she is revealed to be a changeling noble guard. Huh, that might be useful. "Let me in, or you won't be the only thing dead."

The changeling guards, albeit hesitantly step aside. My and Virgil step past them undetected by their sensing of emotions since we are artificial intelligence constructs. But I'm pretty sure their entire hive knows about us already. We just follow the link until we get to the throne room, passing drones along the way who hiss at us. I kick the door into the throne room, which is an extravagant blue with paintings of past Changeling rulers. Interesting, so not all hives are ugly like Chrysalis'.

"Tell me why you were spying on us using information from Chrysalis and I won't teleport out of here and have this whole hive blown up from outer space and send in demons from places worse than Tartarus to finish the job. The queen just laughs at me.

"Oh, nice try but I know a bluff when I see one. Wait, why are you completely emotionless?!" She backs away fearfully all of a sudden. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. This should give me a trump card.

"You don't know if I'm lying. Maybe this will help you see the truth then." The changeling queen and her guards look at me in confusion. A holopanel appears with a button that says Orbital-Strike on it and it shows the topographic and geographic maps of the canyon we are currently in.

"W-what!? Okay okay! Chrysalis forced me to!"

"Is that your final answer?" I see an imperceptible smirk appear on her muzzle. She is planning something. A changeling stabs me in the back, but their blade doesn't go through. I pick them up and hold them several feet in the air in front of all the changelings. "Really? Is that all you got?" He nods fearfully. "Well then, let me show you how it's done." I concentrate for a few seconds and then a portal opens above him and in view of all. "Prepare for insanity. THIS. IS. SPARTA!" I spartan-kick the changeling into the portal with it closing behind them.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!"

"Sent one of your drones to the void?" I answer simply. She looks at me in shock. "Tell me what I want to know. Your name, everything. I won't tell anyone else as I'm not allied to anyone as you may think. But if you lie I will know. I will destroy everything you care about, drive you insane, and make you want to die, but I won't grant you that mercy."

She gulps. "My name is Queen Raffashua. You already know where my hive is, considering you tracked me... I was forced to track you as I lost an event to Chrysalis. I was to provide her with information about you."

"I'll just have to neutralize the problem then." She looks at me and shakes her head rapidly.

"No! Please no! I didn't want to-" I interrupt her as I raise a hand to stop her babbling.

"I wasn't referring to you." She sighs in audible relief.

"I was referring to your sister."

She gapes at me. "How did you know she was my sister?!"

"You just told me." Raffashua face-hoofed.

"We don't appreciate you-" A heroic changelings tries to assassinate Virgil by impaling her but is impaled themselves. "Hurk!" The changeling rolls on the ground and dies.

"For fucks sake call off your changelings. I mean, unless you enjoy them dying."

"I did that already but some of them won't get that through their thick chitin."

"Alright then." I take a step forward, making the queen back up until I'm a few feet from her. "You don't spy on me, and I won't kill you. We go from there and this might even become an alliance, seeing as you were bested by that whore." She flinches and shakily puts her hoof in front of her which I shake.

Point of View: Queen Raffashua

Finally they left! Thank the hivemother! That soldier... warrior... whatever. He's definitely not Equestrian. They wouldn't let him. He must have tricked Celestia into giving him land under the guise of it being a protectorate. That genius... I must find a way to get him on my side completely... Seduction? Possibly... For now though... Patience.

Author's Notes:

The original name for the queen was Aragog but... y'know.I didn't like it.