Twilight sparkle had a problem and it as no understatement to say it was a colossal problem. And that problem was sitting across from her in the basement of the Golden Oaks Library, Which had been converted into a sort of officer for her to run the EDF out of and let her be close to home while having peace and quiet when she wanted it.

The trouble shifted a bit uncomfortable in her custom made EDF officer’s uniform as she warily eyed the purple mare who sat across the desk from her. “So tell me.” Twilight put on her friendliest smile as she leaned forward, resting her chin on a hoof in a relaxed manner. “How long have you known exactly?”

“About…two weeks I’d say. “Major Chrysalis replied not daring to take her eyes of the unicorn before her.

Twilight nodded. “I see.” Twilight said drawing out the last word slightly.

“Did you really think you could hide something…..like that from an empath as powerful as me?” The major said nervously.

Twilight rocked her head side to side a few times as she thought about that. “I suppose I should have thought of that yes.” She said and her chin came to rest on her hoof once more. “So do tell me, why did you come to me and not the Princess?” Twilight smiled.

“Because I fear what you would do to me and the hive if I tried that and I thought it would be….safer to tell you rather then you find out and take…..action.” The Changeling Queen answered knowing it was best to be totally honest if she wanted to survive this meeting.

Twilight nodded. “You are correct in that.” Twilight chuckled. “So then what exactly gave it away that I was….”Twilight searched for a word.

“Insane? A mad mare, a crazed lunatic?” The Major offered.

“Eh, I was going to say taking pleasure in both life and death but what you said is shorter.” Twilight smiled again.

“IT was when you were demonstrating hoof to hoof fighting and broke the instructor’s left so severely. You did it on purpose and while you didn’t show it on your face I could sense the joy and….pleasure you felt as you looked at him writhing on the ground as the medics tended to him. You kept it under enough control that a drone wouldn’t notice it but I’m much stronger than the drones are in sensing emotions.” The Queen said. “After that I started to pay attention and I noticed small things that would look normal and innocent unless you can sense the emotions behind them.”

Twilight nodded. “Hmm…Supposed I did over look that it seems.” She sat back in her chair and her fingers drummed on the desk. “So it seems we have a bit of a problem on our hands as I want to keep this secret do to how others would react and then how I would react to their reaction and frankly it would just get rather……messy.” Twilight said smiling and watched as the Major shuttered, no doubt from the emotions Twilight was keeping buried deep.

“I did come to you and tell you I knew and not the Princess.” The queen said. “You have kept your word concerning my Hive and we have actually started to get food from the other soldiers who have actually started to form friendships with them.”

“Friendship formed while under fire is very strong. “Twilight said “It’s why I sent your soldier through Camp Mendez so they would go through the same things as the rest of the shoulders and the recruits would either come to rely and trust them or wash out.”

The Major nodded. “Yes that seems to be what happened, though there are still issues with the rest of Equestria the EDF seems to have adjusted.”

Twilight nodded once more. “Told you I’d take care of them, they are under my command after all Queeny.” Twilight said with a grin. “Though now we need to deal with the issue at hoof as Equestria will come around in due time.”

“I swear to you I won’t tell a single living being what I know.” Chrysalis said, meaning every word.

Twilight nodded again and smiled. “Good.” Before the Major could reach Twilight came over the desk and drug the larger being from her chair and slammed her against the wall of the office, holding her in place with her fingers around the Changeling Queen’s throat, one of her hoof blade four centimeter from her eye. “Because if I so much as suspect you are going to tell anyone.” Twilight moved the blade closer. “Let’s just say you’d beg for death to take you, am I clear?”

“C-Crystal.” The Major replied.

Twilight withdrew her blade and let the officer go. “Good good, well I suppose I should let you get back to your duties Major.” She said fixing her uniform as it had becomes rumpled in the brief altercation.

A knock at the door drew the attention of the EDF leaders. “Twilight? Is everything alright? I thought I heard a crash.” Came Spike’s voice from the other side of the door, Twilight had imposed a rule of not entering her officer unless asked to or given permission after knocking.

“Everything is alright Spike; I just knocked a book off the shelf is all.”

“Alright, I should have lunch ready in a bit if you are hungry.”

“Thanks that would be nice.” Twilight waited till she head the little dragon’s footsteps fade from here before looking back down at the other officer who had yet to get up off the floor. “Would you like to stay for lunch? I know changelings can eat normal food even if it doesn’t give them nearly as much nutrition as emotions do.” Twilight smiled offering a hand to help the Queen up.

The Queen hesitantly took it and Twilight hauled her to her hooves. “No, thank you Commander but as you said I have Duties to attend to.” The Major said brushing herself off.

Twilight nodded. “Alright the, have a good day and I’ll see you this evening for your report on the day’s events.” With a nod the Queen left the office happy to have made it out with her life as all things considered that had gone better then she thought it would have. Though she was concerned what the future held now that the Commander knew that she knew she was a psychopath. She would just have to prepare for whatever the future may hold as it was for the good of her Hive and she would make up for her mistakes.

Twilight was walking along one of the paths of Camp Mendez when her attention as draw by two medics racing past heading for the main gate. Curious Twilight galloped after them. When she reached the gate she saw the Medics pushing their way through a crowds of recruits and base staff, the recruits were on lunch break so had a small amount of free time while the base staff were either the perimeter guards or some drawn like Twilight, curiosity.

“Medical emergency, make way, move it!” One of the medics shouted as they pushed through the mix of ponies and changelings.

“Make way!” Twilight shouted as she got close causing everybody to clear a path for her and the Medics. The medics rushed forward and Twilight got a look at what had drawn the crowd and medics, three changelings were at the gate, one lying on the ground the other slung over the back of the third that looked to be barely standing. All of them looked in bad shape, their chitin cracked and bleeding and one of them looked to have his wings torn off. The one who was still standing only had one eye open as the other looked to be severely damaged.

The medics wasted no time moving to the two unconscious Changelings, one of the medics lifting the injured one off the back of the one still standing while Twilight made her way over to them, she immediately recognized them as Workers. “What happened?” She asked, keeping her anger under control, it was clear someone had attacked the three and worked them over good.

“We had gone into Canterlot to pick up some supplies that were ordered for the mountain defense bunkers last night. We didn’t request an escort as it would only take a few minutes to get them and be back.” Twilight nodded and motioned for him to continue. “On our way there some ponies saw us and started to yell at us and tell us we weren’t welcomed, we did as you told us to and ignored them and continued on but the….”The changeling looked at his two brothers as the medics prepped them for transport to the infirmary. “I tried to take them to a hospital but they wouldn’t let us in and threw stings at us till I was forced to flee, the bunkers don’t have the facilities to deal with this so…so I brought them here….I’ve been walking all night as my wings were injured.”

Twilight nodded. “You did well, do you know about where you were when….this happened?” Twilight asked.

“Yes we were…”The Changelings worker was cut off as Twilight held up a hoof. “Later, right now you need to focus on getting to the infirmary and getting looked at; I’ll be by later to ask you about this till then get better.” Twilight said and smiled at the drone. “You did very well and you should be proud at what you did, not many could walk here all the way from Canterlot with your injuries much less carrying two others with him.”

The changeling nodded and smiled weakly at the praise. “I…I couldn’t leave them.”

Twilight nodded. “I know, now go get looked at, I’ll be by later.” She order and the Changeling worker followed after the medics as they ferried the injured away.

Twilight turned back towards the base with two things on her mind, one was getting the Worker a commendation, and two, getting a team together to go after these sons of bitches and from the look of anger on the faces of the gather changeling’s and ponies, finding volunteers for that team would not be hard. No one fucks with the EDF without expecting them to come down on you hard.

In one of the few bars in Canterlot called the Ivory Wheel a mare walked in from the sleepy street, she wore a cloak against the cool night air. She approached the bar and sat on one of the stools. The owner of the bar made her way down to the new arrival. “Welcome to the Ivory Wheel, what can I get you?” The yellow Pegasus mare asked.

“Shot of whiskey please.” The mare said from within her hood. The Bartender nodded and retrieved a bottle from behind the bar and poured the cloaked mare a drink. “Leave the bottle.” The bartender nodded and left the bottle as she went to other end of the as she was waved over.

The cloaked mare turned and faced the rest of the bar as she sipped her whiskey, grimacing at the taste as her eyes roamed over the bar patrons, her eyes coming to rest on a group sitting around a large table drinking and chatting. Downing a couple more shoots of the whiskey the mare picked up the bottle and glass and made her way over to the group. “Mind if I join you?” She asked with slightly slurred speech.

A large red earth pony stallion looked at her for a moment. “Sure pull up a chair.” He said and the mare nodded as she did just that and sat with the group.

“So what you all talking about?” The mare asked as she tried to pour herself another glass but half of it went on the table so she took a sip straight form the bottle.

“Just the bugs that are being allowed to walk around like they own the bucking place.’ The stallion said with a sneer.

“Bugs? You mean the changelings?” The mare asked taking another drink.

The group nodded. “Yeah, I can’t believe they are allowed to walk our streets and what’s worse they have been put into the military.” A dark blue unicorn mare said. “Can you believe that? We are supposed to trust our safety to those disgusting creatures?”

The cloaked mare took another drink. “I don’t know have they done anything?”

“They invaded Canterlot, that’s more than enough but instead the Princesses personal student convinces the Princess to put them in the army. It’s only a matter of time till they turn on us, we need to be ready.” The red stallion said.

The Cloaked mare nodded as the rest of the group did to. “You speak as if you have already started.” The mare slurred.

The stallion nodded as he took a drink of his beer and leaned close. “We saw a couple of them walking down the street up to no good no doubt and confronted them, they tried to run off cause they were caught but we showed them what Equestria thinks of their kind.”

The mare nodded and smiled. “That’s all I needed to hear.” She said, the Stallion had enough time to look confused before both the front and back door was bucked open and a mix of ponies and changelings in full EDF combat gear rushed in and trained their rifled on the group while a couple covered the other patrons and barkeep.

“Hoofs up now! You are under arrest for assaulting Equestrian Defense Force personnel.

The Stallion looked on in shock before he was pulled around to face the cloaked mare who delivered a steel hoof right to his face and he went down clutching his nose as the mare drew a pistol and aimed it at his as she stood on her hind legs over him. “You know there are few things I can’t stand in the world and one of them is a racist so just give me a reason, please.” She said as the stallion lookup up at her glowing red eyes and froze as the EDF rounded up his compatriots with hoof cuffs and inhibitor rings before the cloaked mare stepped back and pulled her hood back reveling the leader of the EDF smiling at him as he was hauled to his hooves and cuffed.

“You made a huge mistake attacking members of the EDF; no one fucks with the EDF and gets away with it.” She said to the group but loud enough so the entire bar heard and would spread the word that attacking EDF personnel would be met with swift force. “I do hope you enjoyed your beer as they don’t serve it in the dungeons and I don’t think you’ll be getting anything good to eat for a long time.” She said as the group was led away to the waiting sky chariots that landed outside.

The Purple mare turned to the barkeep who looked ready to relive herself on the floor. “Sorry for the disturbance, the EDF will be happy to pay for any and all damages caused in the apprehension of suspects.” She took out a piece of paper and placed it on the bar. “Once you know how much the damages are just fill out this form and turn it into the nearby Garrison and you will be compensated.”

With that the mare turned and followed the soldiers out the door pausing a moment to look back at the barkeep. “Also I like the atmosphere here, do you mind if I recommend this place to the soldiers? It would boost your business quiet a lot.” The mare said with a smile to which the Barkeep just shook her head. “Ok, then have a please evening and once more sorry for the disturbance.” With that the mare disappeared into the night.

Author's Notes:

Well the Commander now has someone who knows what she is.

We See how Equestria is taking the Changelings being around.

and we also saw how the EDF handles those who attack their own whether they be changelings or not, no one attacks them and gets away with it.