Celestia PoV

I entered the Library which my former student called home. I greeted her casually as I trotted into the center of the library. She bowed and called me 'Princess’ My response was a casual giggle as I told her that there was no need to call me that since we are both alicorns and have similar positions, but for different purposes.

This thought, though, was short lived. As I looked at the human that laid in the corner of the room, I told Twilight that I was taking the girl to Canterlot and that she needed to come too for some assistance and to help decide what to do with her. I lifted the human into the air using a levitation spell and loaded her onto the carriage outside to take her to Canterlot. As soon as the girl was safely secured into the carriage along with myself and Twilight, I nodded to the stallion who was waiting. I gave a signal for the flyer to take off, and we ascended into the sky.

In the middle of the flight, my thoughts drifted towards the human. How did it transform into an earth pony without magic? I would not have believed it if it wasn't for the fact that Twilight had seen it transform before her eyes, along with others that had also observed it. I was glad that it turned out not to be a changeling, as that would have created still more problems and questions than it would have solved. It also made me wonder what else could it transform to. I paused for a moment then shuddered at the thought of her transforming into a second Discord - one of him was bad enough.

"Is something wrong, princess?" asked Twilight, snapping me out of my thoughts.

I looked at Twilight with a reassuring look saying "Nothing, Twilight. I was just wondering how this human could turn into a pony," I told her.

"I know, I’m wondering what's in her bag that she has, to be able to protect herself with such powerful magic," Twilight said in a worried voice.
"Well, don't worry. We can figure it out soon," I said, pointing out the fact that we’d landed. I lifted the human with my magic and teleported her to the dungeon to be dealt with later.

Gwen's PoV a few moments later

When I began to wake up again, I noticed that I was locked up in some kind of dungeon. After taking a few minutes to further observe my surroundings, I was able to take into account that the guard probably wouldn't let me out, even if I asked politely. Fortunately, the lack of shackles on my arms meant that I would be able to simply escape by exercising ... other methods.

Quickly, but with caution, I went through my playlist to see what aliens I had. The first was Swampfire. I could burn my way out …but I didn't want to bring attention to myself after the village problem,where ever that was I thought a little more. But not Rath or Humungousaur. And Canonbolt was out of the question, due to them being focused on muscles and therefore not particularly good at sneaking. This left me with two final options. Ghostfreak or Grey Matter.

The choice in my mind was obvious.

Ghostfreak could defend herself, Gray Matter couldn't. Quickly, I rotated the dial selecting Ghostfreak and I slammed my hand on the dial. In a flash of green light I was transformed and shouted "Ghostfreak!" I looked around for a final time before heading through the floor to explore where I had been Imprisoned.

The room I was under was an armory of some kind. There were spears and swords along with some horse armor, but apart from that there was nothing of interest. As I floated there, I wondered why the armory was under one of the cells, and were I was?

There was no way that I was in the town where that school house was. Ii would have seen from there or at least from the forest I’d woken up in. I floated towards the door to see if it was guarded. When I phased my head through the door, I saw it was unprotected. 'Why have an armory unguarded?' I thought as I flew through it and into an empty hallway. 'Where is everybody?' I thought to myself as I flew through the empty hall, before I finally heard that dreaded 'beep beep beep' before falling to the ground. "Great, now I have to walk the rest of this hallway," I said to myself as I got up off the ground. It took a second to see that the hallway was longer than thought, with no windows and barely any doors., I wondered where I was and how long this hallway was?

After half an hour of walking down the hall and occasionally looking through doors to empty cells and a few empty rooms, I finally arrived at the end, which was a door. I looked inside the room to find some kind of alchemist or maybe a wizard's lab. In the middle of the room was a glass case with a red horn along with some tubes attached to some weird devices. I did my best to avoid the container, but when I was passing it to get to the staircase behind it, I tripped on a loose wire, falling and knocking over the horn and knocking me out. The last thing I heard before blacking out was 'uncatalogued DNA detected.'

My mother was dead. I had proof that she was killed during the battle for Canterlot. This lead me to being the new Queen of the changelings officially. This made me feel uncomfortable. On the one hand my Mother was dead, on the other I didn't kill her myself as is tradition, and many will question my reign as Queen.

I sighed and began the climb down from my tower to meet with the goat, that Dr. Animo. He promised me an army and I wanted to see that he delivered. As I entered the lab, I was given a mean look by one of his monstrosities I ignored it since my business was important. "Okay, Goat. How are the new scorpion changelings coming?" I ordered.

"They are coming along well, but you lack imagination on these," he gloated.

"I don't care how imaginative you want me to be, just get the job done. I need my army soon," I demanded

"Perfection takes time ... speaking of perfection, have you chosen the animals you want for yourself?" he asked.

I looked at him for a second before going "Timber wolf,chameleon, wasp and frog."

He smiled a sadistic smile before mumbling "good, good" as he started to prepare his machines for the procedure "Blast it all," he said looking at one of his screens. "Tell the chameleon changelings to secure more thunder clouds from the nearby city," he ordered.

"I will send my changelings to secure the clouds, but order me like that again and I will remove one of your legs," I threatened. He took a step back when Ii said that but he got the message as he immediately apologized and went back to work.

An hour passed as the clouds were quickly delivered to the point on the top of his lightning rod and he started the finishing touches on my procedure. I asked him how long it would take. "With the complexity inherent in your request, this will take a month, perhaps two. Unless we remove the sedation and pain medication then perhaps three weeks at most," he reported. I asked why he sedates his creatures if it's quicker to do it without it. "It's so the creatures don't go berserk and try to kill me."

I told him that I want him to perform his procedures do it without the sedation. Though hesitant at first, he warned me that I would feel pain beyond imagination, but if it works I could be stronger than he originally planned, and he was excited.

I took a deep breath of air, because for the next few weeks Ii wouldn't be in incredible pain. But in the end, both Canterlot and the princesses would be dead by my hooves.