Chrysalis woke up slowly, putting a hoof to her head, which hurt badly. She blinked open her eyes, looking around the living room, widening her eyes at the scene before her. Twilight and her friends, along with Discord, Spike, and Starlight, were all sprawled across the floor, deep asleep. The Queen's ear twitched when she heard somepony stir. Looking around, she saw Twilight turning on the floor.

Walking over to the alicorn, Chrysalis prodded her side. Twilight sat up for a second, still half-asleep. "Just put the hay in the apple and eat the candle...", she murmured dreamily. Chrysalis rolled her eyes, prodding Twilight with her hoof again. This time, Twilight was fully awake. Well, sort of. She looked up at the changeling who had waken her, jumping up in alarm and looking around the living room.

"What happened..?", Twilight asked, looking around with a confused expression.

Chrysalis shrugged. "My guess is Discord happened," she replied, pointing a holed hoof at the draconequus who was still asleep on the couch, his head hanging off and resting on the floor.

Twilight sighed. "Well, that figures."

"Though I don't remember much after dinner...", Chrysalis muttered.

"Me neither," Twilight muttered in agreement, "But I do remember Discord bursting in the door."

The Queen nodded. "He had your pupil and your assistant with him, I think."

"Yea, they're right over there.", Twilight nodded towards where Spike and Starlight were asleep, laying next to each other.

"So now what?"

Twilight shrugged, walking around the room, only to trip over a large mug. "What the?", Twilight looked down at the mug.

Chrysalis then noticed the mugs littered all over the floor. "Well...", she picked a mug up with her magic, her horn lighting up in an acid green aura.

Twilight looked at the Queen's horn, noticing the nullifying ring was gone. "Wait a second.. What happened to the ring on your horn?", she asked.

Chrysalis shrugged. "Someone must have taken it off last night. Fluttershy must have, she's the only one who knew where the key to unlock it was."

Twilight tipped her head. "Key?"

The Queen nodded. "The ring on my horn was kind of like a cuff they put on prisoners. It can be unlocked with a key. Sunbutt gave the key to Fluttershy before I was brought here."

"Oh."

Chrysalis lifted the mug up towards her muzzle, licking up some of the liquid that was inside. "Huh. Tastes kind of like cider..."

"What?", Twilight seemed unconvinced. Picking up another mug off the floor, which was still half full, Twilight took a sip of it, "You're right. It is cider."

"So does that mean we all got drunk last night, then?"

Twilight nodded. "I'm guessing that's what Discord did. I wonder if Spike drank any."

Chrysalis took another mug, one that the sleeping Spike was still holding. "Doesn't alcoholic cider taste different than regular cider?", she asked.

"It does. Here, let me see it.", Twilight took the mug in her magic, bringing to her muzzle and taking a taste of it, "This is normal cider, thank Faust."

"Okay then. Mystery solved. Kind of. So basically, after Discord came in, just as you were finishing up dinner, he must have given us all cider, cast some sort of spell to make us drink it, and then we got so drunk we passed out.", Chrysalis said after a few minutes of silence.

"How do you figure that?", Twilight asked.

"It's obvious enough Discord gave us the cider. We have enough common sense not to drink it. He must have made us."

Twilight put a hoof to her chin, contemplating the Queen's theory. "I wouldn't put it past Rainbow and Pinkie to hesitate when given a drink, though."

"You know your friends better than I do.", Chrysalis replied, looking over at the pink earth pony and cyan pegasus, both in a deep sleep on the floor.

"Well, then. I didn't expect anyone to be up yet.", a new voice remarked from behind, causing both Twilight and Chrysalis to jump. The pair turned around quickly, looking at who had just spoke.

"Discord..", they said in unison, both Princess and Queen sounding irritated.

Discord looked at the two of them, an innocent looking smile on his face. "What? Did I do something wrong?", he asked, sounding as innocent as he possibly could. But then, this is Discord, so he didn't sound too innocent.

"....", Twilight glared at Discord, not responding. Chrysalis leaned in to Twilight's ear. "You know, Fluttershy totally should have let me tear his throat out yesterday," she whispered in Twilight's ear.

"Maybe, maybe not.", Twilight whispered back. Chrysalis looked back up at Discord, her eyes ablaze.

"What gives you the right to make us drink like that?!", she shouted, hovering off the ground to look Discord in the eye.

"I'm the Lord of Chaos...? Does that count?", Discord asked, taking a step back from the raging Queen.

Chrysalis didn't answer, letting a growl rumble in her throat. Discord gulped, snapping his claw and making a balloon bat appear in his lion paw. He held it close to his face, stepping back further until he ran into the wall. "I-I'm not afraid to use this!", he snarled.

"Chrysalis, back off," Twilight said in a commanding voice, causing the Queen to lower herself back onto the ground.

Chrysalis turned to look at Twilight. "But he... he...", she stammered, too angry to speak.

"I know what he did", Twilight responded calmly, interrupting Chrysalis and walking closer to the Queen. Twilight's voice lowered to a whisper, "We can get him back later. Deal?"

Chrysalis sighed. "Fine. Deal."