"Tissue!" Chrysalis commanded, one of her servants quickly flying up, holding a tissue to the queen. She took the tissue with her magic and held it to her nose, blowing into it hard. The force and snot she apparently blew into it was enough that the thin paper seemed to get drenched, which she then hurled back into the Changeling's face, sniffling as she did so.

"You okay?" you asked, looking up at her from in front of her throne, two Changelings on either side of you. You felt like you were on trial, but the look on Chrysalis face indicated anything such.

Taking a deep breath to stifle her sniffles, Chrysalis said "I'm just... I'm so touched. So... so very happy that you came back to me. I just didn't think you'd do it. I mean, I'm so happy, I'm not even going to execute all the Changelings that failed to keep those horrible intruders from taking you in the first place."

"Good to know," you started with, holding your hands together and giving a slight bow, figuring you'd appeal to her pride to keep her in this good mood. "I have to admit myself, I wasn't expecting you to be so... doubtful that I'd come back here... to you," you stated, adding the last part so she'd focus on the idea it was her you came back to. It was your best shot to keep things in your ballpark and not have you and your friends horribly maimed.

"Oh Anon, don't play dumb with me!" she shouted, somewhat emotional, but quickly sucking in a breath to regain her composure. "I-I've been keeping you here against your will. I-I-I... I figured the first moment y-you got to leave, you would! You were so upset over the whole n-negotiations shutting down, I thought... TISSUE!" Chrysalis ordered, getting another one from the Changeling servant, who didn't even get the tissue taken from them as she pulled the poor servant toward herself, blowing into the tissue and getting the servant snotted as well.

"Well... I guess you should have trusted me," you stated. Ouch, there it was, that stabbing feeling of guilt in your abdomen. You were lying to this clearly emotionally distraught woman, which was in a category of asshole that wasn't really your kind of thing. You were the fun kind of asshole, not the type that takes advantage of those clearly suffering, but you had to now. "You know, we have a saying in my world. 'If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours. If not, it was never meant to be.' You should have given me a chance to prove I cared instead of just locking me up," you explained, every word digging your way to hell, you were sure of it.

"I should have... I should have... but I never thought you would return. Oh Anon!" Chrysalis cried, leaping from her throne to embrace you. While the horse-bugs were fairly light, Chrysalis was still about your size, and the force of impact was enough to send you to the floor, just barely avoiding knocking your head against the ground. "But now I know you're mine, my lovely little human. Mine and only mine," she sobbed into your chest, making a mess of your shirt. You were becoming increasingly less confident in this.

Your hands hovered over the back of the crying queen's neck, not sure if you should hug her, but feeling like you'd be a total asshole if you didn't. Laying your hands on her, you stroked her mane and made slight shushing noises. "There, there, I'm... I'm here for you," you stated, looking around to see the guards all carefully avoiding eye contact.

"I know you are. You came back for me," she sighed out, starting to settle down, now nuzzling into your chest... but apparently aware enough to avoid the area where her snot and tears dampened. "You came back for me, because you are mine and only mine," she stated, the softer, almost sad tone fading away to leave you with one that was far more possessive and honestly scary.

"Yeah, that sounds like the sort of shit you said before this," you pointed out, moving your hands to push Chrysalis off of you, but didn't get the chance as she rose to her hooves on her own, her magic aura seeming to utterly eradicate any remnant of her crying from her face, with the exception of the puffiness around her eyes.

"No, my dear, sweet Anon. This is nothing like before. I told you before that I would not lie to you anymore, and I mean it, despite it going against my nature as a Changeling," Chrysalis declared, her magic aura now engulfing you, lifting you up from the ground, making you hover over her head. "Before, you were but an amusement. I enjoyed your company, your companionship, and all of your antics, and I would have indeed missed you had the negotiations actually worked in my favor, but you were just a pawn for me to use for the betterment of my hive, for that is what I owe my kind," Chrysalis began to monologue, her voice having a sort of chill to it that indicated this was only going to get worse.

"Well, so glad to hear I was your favorite pet. I know I've always treated mine as part of the family personally," you retorted, trying to stretch your limbs out to touch the ground, but Chrysalis seemed intent on keeping you elevated above her, even as she began to march forward. She at least had the decency to turn you around, letting you see where she was leading you.

"Indeed you were, but you've become more to me with time. When you finally submitted yourself to the desires plaguing you and divining me with that wonderful stallionhood of yours, I finally saw you as more than a pawn in my plans. You were a centerpiece, even more so than before. One I would not give up," the increasingly sinister sounding queen admitted, glancing at you, but keeping her head firmly set to face only forward as she made her way, an aura about her that seemed to tell any Changeling in her path to move out of sight. "I intentionally sabotaged the remainder of the negotiations so that officially, Canterlot would have withdrawn any of its vested interest in you, with even the princesses hard pressed to seek your freedom through the sacrifice of even a single pony," Chrysalis confessed, although it didn't really come as a surprise to you. Her intentions there seemed so obvious during the second and final negotiation.

Looking around, you tried to place just where Chrysalis was taking you. The halls looked somewhat familiar, given almost all of the hive did at this point, but certain areas you didn't wander about in as much as others. "Yeah, well, I figured as much when you basically made me out to be second only to you as enemy of all ponies."

"Of course, given I knew that the princesses would see through that ruse, to make you worse to the ponies than you actually were, although given your own devious mind and words, I hardly needed to do much at all," Chrysalis said with a sly smirk, the tip of her forked tongue flicking out over the exposed fangs. "But what they weren't planning on was the fact that I knew this day was coming. That they were going to send somepony to take you away, to do as I had done and have you kidnapped from the seat of my power. It was going to hurt letting you be taken away, but I always planned to take you back once the next phase in my plan had started. The only thing I wasn't prepared for was... you."

"That's a very odd statement to make right there, considering you basically acknowledged everything so far has been revolving around me," you interjected. And boy did you love the fact it was all about you. Like a lazy day where you didn't even want to get out of bed and your girlfriend would just bring you some food, let you play video games, and even give you a blowjob without any expectations of getting pleasured in return... at least, you imagined it that way. Past girlfriends expected that scenario in reverse.

Chrysalis chuckled, a dark, almost sad sound that made you frown. "Because while it all revolved around you, it was simply the plans on how to use you against the princesses and all they reigned over, but it won't do me much good to just explain it, oh no. You need to see it, you deserve that much and more," Chrysalis replied, her eyes hanging on you for a moment before slipping back forward.

At this point, you finally noticed it. The turn down a side passage, resulting in you being in a long hallway that ended in a set of double doors. You'd learned by now that so very few rooms in the hive actually had doors. Most belonged to rooms that were specifically tied to Chrysalis herself, such as her bedroom, the throne room, her dining room, and a select few others. Your prison cell room and the love shack as you had learned were others, primarily because they were places that the Changelings kept high value resources. The only other one you knew off the top of your head was... the nursery.

Throwing the door open with her magic, Chrysalis exposed you to the room full of crawling little abominations. As they had with Apocrita, the mini-monstrosities started to crawl over to Chrysalis, but in droves that made you far more uncomfortable as they started to nestle into the queen's leg holes, although they found her legs were lacking in as many vacancies as they used to. Lifting one of her forelegs up so that some of the larvae were closer to her face, she shushed them, the hissing maggots actually calming at the sound of her voice.

"Sssshhhh, easy my babies, easy. Mommy is here, calm down," Chrysalis assured the writhing worm babies. "Most believe that as the Queen of the Changelings, I cannot show any affection, only devour love. However, even I feel love for my babies. Once they grow up, I let them focus on their own duties toward the hive, as their lives belong to the hive, but they are all still my babies."

"So... you really did give birth to all these things? Or lay them, whatever you want to call it?" you asked, feeling like you might get sick as you watch her affectionately lick the head of one of the failed abortions.

"No, not all of them, although most are. But all Changelings are my children regardless," she stated, placing her foreleg down, her eyes flashing a green that seemed to tell the larvae to leave. Once they were all out of her legs, she extended her wings and flew up, carrying you to the top of the chamber where a cluster of eggs were situated. "This is my most recent brood. Usually I don't really know or care about whoever the sperm donor is, but this one I know for a fact who that is... as do you," she announced, looking to you hovering not far away, a knowing smirk on her face.

"... no... no fucking way. I didn't think that was possible," you gasped, feeling your stomach drop like a lead weight. She couldn't be serious. You knew they said they could basically breed with any species they could transform into, but... this was fucking insane.

"Oh, it clearly is. I'd even abstained from letting any of my servants or slaves pleasure me the moment I decided to kidnap you, just so I could test the theory. I'd had nopony but you before laying this cluster," she confirmed, nodding her head slowly before levitating you closer so that you could see the eggs better. "Say hello to your unborn children, Anon."

You looked at the eggs, gulping as though they might suddenly hatch, shooting one of the bug beasts at you like a damn Chestburster. Still, you hesitantly reached out, placing a hand on one of the closest eggs. It was surprisingly warm, and at your touch you could feel something moving around inside. This was like a gross version of touching a pregnant woman's stomach. Gross... but somehow fulfilling. Oh god, what the fuck was she doing to you!?

While Chrysalis smiled, you could see some sorrow in her eyes. "And this is where I must admit the worst part. I was expecting you to be taken back by the ponies. Once you were back in their hooves, I would reveal that I had a brood of larvae that you had fathered, demanding that you be given back with damaged paid for the trauma my... our children and I would suffer at your disappearance. The princesses would have to accept giving into some of my demands, as well as suffer the effects of other nations questioning their decisions in the future, potentially allowing my enemies to take care of each other for me," she confessed, casting her eyes down.

"Wow, that was... honestly a very well thought out and cunning plan. I mean, I know it basically drags me back into your hooves against my will and also uses children as bargaining chips, but... still, two thumbs up," you replied, physically showing her the two thumbs up... wait, did that have any meaning in this world? When most creatures had hooves, what meaning did they see in thumbs.

"Oh Anon, I knew you'd appreciate my deviousness, you're the only being I've ever met that could match it, but even I feel bad about using innocent larvae as leverage. And that was before I realized that you would have come back on your own. Before I knew that you were... mine. Just as my Changelings are my children, you are my mate. Not just another plaything for my amusement or source of seed to fertilize my eggs, but a being that I can truly see sitting by my side," Chrysalis elaborated, her own sense of guilt twisting your emotions even further. You always knew you were kinda scummy, but this was... dammit, if Ap's life wasn't on the line, you'd spill your guts just for the sweet release of death that'd probably follow.

Gulping down your shame, you reached your other hand out and lightly patted her face. It was a very awkward, unusual gesture, but it seemed to settle her. "There, there, it's okay. I'm back now, so... so we're all good. I don't blame you for what you wanted to do, but I'm here to stay now, so no beating yourself up. You don't have to worry about scheming against the ponies with me," you consoled her, even stroking along her snout.

Nuzzling into your palm, Chrysalis cooed. "Oh Anon... no."

"No?" you asked, perplexed by the statement.

"Absolutely no," Chrysalis reaffirmed, looking you in the eye. "Before it was just a plot to get what I could out of the ponies, but now... now it's about revenge. About getting back at them for daring to try and steal you away from me. About making them pay for daring to break up what will be our perfect hive," Chrysalis stated, a fire burning hotter with every word, until you could practically feel the inferno of rage that was emanating off of her. "I was content with working from the shadows, manipulating the princesses and their ponies for the sake of milking resources out of them, but now? Oh-ho, now I will wage open war on those wretched whorses! I will march into the heart of Canterlot, razing everything in my- NO, our path! I will enslave every pony that stands in our path so that our hive, our CHILDREN, will be able to feast without worry!"

"... or... we could not do that and focus on raising our... lovely little larvae," you suggested, trying to get Chrysalis off the warpath, which felt like a failure from the start.

With the fire still burning in her eyes, Chrysalis said "Oh sweet Anon, your natural paternal instincts will make you the perfect king. You'll do well to stay at the hive and look after the children like the father you are, while I take to providing for our hive and eliminating our enemies!"

"You know, I sorta picked up on the reverse gender roles here in Equestria... or at least, reversed by my standards. Regardless, I believe in equality and those find that those statements are offensive for assuming my role is only to stay at home with the kids... wait, I'm getting sidetracked," you protested, only to remember this wasn't the thing to be focusing on right now.

Chrysalis had blinked in surprise, then offered a predatory grin, leaving you swearing that you saw more sharp teeth in her mouth than the typical serpentine fangs than usual. "You're right my sweet, we will be better than those ponies. We will be equal after all. So when we march upon Canterlot, we shall do it side-by-side! And once we have taken their palace and throne the princesses in chains, we will finally have our wedding ceremony! Your coronation to King of the Changelings will happen as we are bound in eternal matrimony!" Chrysalis declared loudly, getting the larvae beneath you two hissing in... celebration? You couldn't tell. What you could tell was... you were fucked...

... wait, no, scratch that. You were fine, you'd be potentially king of the world. Canterlot was fucked. Equestria was fucked!

Author's Notes:

Some may consider Chrysalis a little out of character here, but being the leader of a species that has to physically replace others and take their appearance to consume love probably has some underlying self-esteem issues about their ability to keep their own lover, which Chrysalis would generally bury under mounds of bravado.