"You...you are insane! All of you little bugs are! This is never going to work, The Princesses will stop you!"

Thunder interrupted Shade's moment of glory as he was looking outside of the window at the invading changeling forces. He turned his head towards Thunder and gave him a questioning look.

"Oh? Is that so? Are you certain about that? Perhaps we should ask Luna...ooooh...wait...yeah...I almost forgot."

Thunder shook his head violently as he Shade referred to Princess Luna who was still lying in the corner.

"You little bastard! Celestia and Cadance will stop you!"

Shade gave out a loud laugh at Thunder's statement and shook his head a little bit.

"Haha, please Thunder. I already took care of Celestia. She is in the same state as Princess Luna right now. It's easy to get near a Princess like her when she thinks you come to...please her. It was a piece of cake, really. As for Cadance, I wouldn't worry too much about her, surely she is on her way already. We are ready for her."

Tears began rolling down Thunder's cheeks as he remembered that he once believed everything this...changeling told him. That this was once his best friend.

"You used us...all of us. Not just me, but even Celestia. I knew changelings aren't able to love themselves, they are so ugly and evil that they have to take it from others."

Shade stepped closer to Thunder and stared at him.

"If I were you, I wouldn't worry to much about me..."

As Shade was talking to him a Changeling flew into the room and sneaked up behind him.

"What are you..."

Thunder had no chance to finish his sentence as he was suddenly bitten in the Neck by the Changeling behind him. His two long Fangs drove into Thunder and injected a special Changeling venom.

"Argh! What...what was..."

Thunder felt sleepy, very sleepy all of the sudden. He felt like he hadn't slept in ages. Like he had no other choice but sleep. His eyes began closing but he managed to keep them open for a few more seconds to see the familiar face of Blaze infront of him.

"Thunder? What's wrong pal?"

Thunder couldn't manage to keep his eyes open any longer. The Pain in his Neck paired with the immense sleepiness was too much for him. He swiftly drifted off into a deep sleep as he could heard an evil laugh that became quieter and quieter as time passed.

3 Hours later.

Thunder slowly regained consciousness. He heard a voice...no, multiple voices. they were quiet...no, they were loud, they were yelling at him.
They all sounded familiar to him, but who was talking to him? And where was he anyways? He groaned as he slowly managed to open his eyes. His blurry vision revealed what seemed like 3 Ponies. He was sure to fall back asleep as he was slapped by one of them. He quickly regained his vision and was fully awake again.

"Tia! You can't just slap him like that!"

Yelled Cadance to Celestia who looked at Thunder's face.

"I know what I'm doing. See? He is awake again."

Thunder held a hoof to his head and shook his head.

"Wh-what? Where...where am I?"

The three Princesses looked at eachother quickly and then looked back at him.

"We are in the Dungeons of the Queen Chrysalis' Hive in the Badlands."

Said Cadance while looking around. They were all trapped inside a big Metal Cage. A few torches on the wall were the only source of light. The walls were made out of Dirt so it was sure to assume they were underground.

"What!? Are you telling me that...that these bugs won? They took us all out?"

Princess Celestia looked down and answered with a regretful and sad voice.

"Indeed...Chrysalis and her Changelings were able to take us out before their offensive. Without us Canterlot was vulnerable. Paired with their massive forces, they overwhelmed the Guards and took Canterlot."

Thunder shook his head repeatedly in denial of what had happened. He couldn't believe this had happened. He couldn't believe he himself fell for their tricks.

"You too Princess Cadance?"

The said Princess lowered her Head in shame.

"Unfortunatly I was lead into a trap. I tried to help defending Canterlot but...they were ready for me. They easily took me out with their sheer numbers."

Thunder lowered his head onto the ground. He needed time to actually understand what the hay was happening and what had happened. He felt a new feeling coming up in him: Guilt. He was the one who believed Blaze and let him take out Celestia and Luna. He was the one who let his guard down to go after his personal interests. What did it lead to? It lead to his home city and captial city of Equestria being invaded and having him and the Princesses being captured.

"I am sorry...I am so sorry...especially to you, Luna."

Cadance and Celestia looked at Luna who walked up to Thunder and held out her hoof. At first Thunder refused to grab her hoof but after a bit he decided to give in and grab it. Luna pulled Thunder up onto his Hooves again and looked at him.

"There is no reason to be sorry. We all make mistakes, even we as Princesses do. You didn't mean to harm any of us or cause what has happened. I forgive you."

Thunder wasn't sure if he was supposed to be happy or not.

"No, don't forgive me, this is all my fault...If I didn't close my eyes to get what I wanted, this never would have happened. I-"

Suddenly the Door to their room was opened and the four ponies all turned around to look at who entered the room. A tall figure walked into the room with 2 smaller ones behind it. It stopped infront of the cage and grinned at the Princesses. It was Celestia who walked towards the figure. Cadance jumped after her to stop her but Luna held her back.

"Princess Celestia..."

Said the Tall Figure as it starred at Celestia who now stood right infront of her, the bars dividing the two of them.

"Chrysalis..."