"Uuuugh, it hurts more than I thought it would," you groaned, feeling the cuts and bruises from your fight with Vespa sting every time they were touched. You could have stopped the pain, but you couldn't find it in yourself to sit up and pull away from the embrace of your numerous children. Seeing as you were just lying on the floor, letting the larvae crawl over you, it was like the world's ugliest puppy pile, but you still loved it as they squirmed over you.

Watching you with amusement, a mild concern present due to your injuries, Chrysalis asked "How did this happen again?"

Sighing, you answered "I was cheering for joy over the knowledge that I am an unlimited source of power for you and my lovely little larvae, when I tripped over my own feet, cause I forgot to tie my shoe. I ended up crashing into one of Chitin's cabinets full of medical supplies. Scalpels, bonesaws, those little hammers you hit knees with."

"I believe Chitin said he'd need to replace those, as well as get some other medical supplies. For Anon's sake, I suggest we provide him with what he needs, or your beloved will hurt himself beyond repair one of these times," Chitin, disguised as Vespa, stated. You wanted to glare at him or flip him off for the comment, as well as shameless plugging of his own resources as a priority, but you had to let it go. Both because Chrysalis was watching and you yet again had to rely on him to imitate your personal guard.

Chrysalis hummed in consideration, then nodded her head. "For the sake of my Anon, I'll do whatever it takes to keep him in the best of health. He's my precious mate, and that was before we learned of his astounding capacity to create unlimited love. Honestly, divine flavor and without limit, I feel spoiled at this point," Chrysalis agreed with Chitin, which would have pissed you off had she not taken to complimenting you. You'd consider stroking your ego, but your kids were crawling all over you and that'd just be creepy.

"Chitin touched my no-no zone," you stated, trying to get some vengeance, if only verbal, on the Changeling. You saw out of the corner of your eye his facade as Vespa, eyes narrowed at you, then grinned. "Of course, he was doing it to make sure Vlad the Impaler could keep doing his job, not in the way you touch me," you stated, just to make sure Chrysalis didn't end up disemboweling your remaining friend.

"True, but if you'd like, I'll gladly stand in next time and do all the actual touching myself. Maybe even transform a little nurse's outfit on me," Chrysalis suggested, licking her fangs at the thought. You were reminded how you suggested Ap do the same thing, forcing you to bite your tongue instead of coming up with a retort, just in case your stupid ass said something.

Instead, you were considering something else to talk about, when you noticed something. Rising up, sending El Presidente and Molt tumbling down your chest, pleased squeals telling you they were fine with it, you looked around your body. While your larvae had been crawling all over you and it was hard to keep track of who was where, you could at least feel the minuscule wait on your body to know they were there. Your eyes darted around, spying each of your children further down your body, while fully aware that Pupa was perched on your head, hissing triumphantly as she remained.

"Where'd Vespidae go?" you asked worriedly, looking over to Chrysalis as you had realized one of your babies was now unaccounted for, the parental instincts strong in you, and the worries that came with them even stronger.

Unconcerned, perhaps even amused by the smirk she had, Chrysalis pointed a hoof out, drawing your eye to the spot she was pointing at. Sure enough, you saw the little yellow-eyed larva crawling up in front of Chitin, which had made sense since she'd taken to liking Vespa before. However, as she looked up at Chitin, who stared down without making any motions, the little worm baby began to hiss angrily.

Shifting his gaze from the larva, to you, then to Chrysalis, then back to the larva, not betraying what had to be an inordinate amount of tension. "Odd, Vespidae's been rather fond of you before. Whatever could have changed?" Chrysalis asked, her eyes narrowing, increasing the intensity of their glow.

You opened your mouth to expel some sort of bullshit excuse, but Chitin answered "It's probably because when I was picking Anon up the other day, Chitin spilled some medicinal ointments on me by mistake. He said they were going to throw off my pheromones, which is probably making Vespidae not recognize me as she should."

"Hmmm... very well then. Do try to fix that, I'd rather my lovely little larva enjoys those that are around her," Chrysalis stated, stroking her hoof under her chin.

You looked between Chrysalis and Chitin, then thought of something. "Speaking of Chitin, let me take the brood to him for another check up. I just want to make sure that they're as healthy as possible" you declared, rising up while moving the larvae from your to the basket meant for carrying them.

Smiling sweetly at you, something that felt out of place with her sinister and deadly look, but at the same time felt so... right, Chrysalis said "Such a loving father you are, I'd be jealous of our brood if I wasn't enjoying this so much. Besides, I do have to continue the plans for our invasion of Equestria."

You cocked a brow at the statement, gently placing Vespidae in the basket with the others after removing her from in front of Chitin, your yellow-eyed baby calming down in the presence of her siblings. "We're still going to invade Equestria? Even though I can provide all the love the hive will ever need?" you asked, making a point of saying it as the two of you together and not solely Chrysalis doing it. You had to be a team, a united group, or she'd see there was a divide.

"Of course. While you are our secret weapon, that which will fuel our hive toward the future it deserves, and could even sustain us for years to come, and beyond once we find a way to extend your life," Chrysalis acknowledged, giving you a loving smile simply thinking of what you meant to the hive, and even more so, to her. And yet, with all the menace of a wounded predator, which you figured she was in a sense, she added "However, the ponies made a fatal mistake. They dared to try and steal you away from us, from me, and that... that cannot be allowed. Not only because you are our lifeline now, but because they would dare to shatter our family, our hive, and I have no reason to doubt they'd try to do it again. They must pay for threatening us in such a way, just as we must make sure they can never do it again. So this is for the survival of the hive, as well as vengeance for thinking they could ever harm us in such a way to start with."

"... So... still going to take over Equestria, alright. Still hope we have plans for the princesses, like the sex club thing," you stated, at least wanting to keep the idea of sparing lives in mind. Sure, you were going to back Ap when she got out of the cocoon, but you wanted to have a back up plan. Kinda shitty, considering you already declared that you were going to make things work with Ap, but you were used to having a back up.

"Oh absolutely, I still plan on that sex club where Princess Cadance will get royally fucked, pun intended, in front of her beloved Shining Armor," Chrysalis stated, her tone oddly conversational despite the statement she just made.

"Royally fucked!" Pupa hissed out happily, drawing the attention of all the adults.

Smiling down at her, you reached out to stroke her head. "Oh Pupa, you are a gem and a delight, always knowing just the right thing to say," you compliment the vocal larva. You remembered hearing once that smart people swore a lot, so clearly Pupa was a fucking genius. Looking back to Chrysalis, your nerves settled by the words of your daughter, you said "Alright, gonna go check in with Chitin now. I'll get back to you about the plans later."

Waving her hoof, Chrysalis said "I'll be waiting with bated breath."

"Honey, I'm hoooooome!" you announced cheerfully as you entered your room, basket full of hissing larvae in your arms, and Chitin at your back. The moment the door closed, the Changeling transformed back to his normal state, sighing as he seemed relieved to be in his own form.

Before the two of you, legs folded and tied to her body with as much rope and leather straps as you and Chitin could gather from the love shack, was Vespa. Perched atop your bed, with the shreds of your sheets stuffed in her mouth, which was then bound down with more rope, she glared at you with her one good eye, the venom in the look almost making you forget to breathe when you saw it. You didn't like leaving her in your room, especially with Ap's cocoon, now totally exposed, in here with her. However, transporting a fully grown Changeling, and one that was taller than most others, through the hive without anyone noticing was out of the question. So you'd simply taken to making your room the prison it was, but for Vespa instead of yourself.

Walking over to the bed, you set the basket down and said "Easy there, I brought babies and food." You took Vespidae out of the basket and placed her on the bed, the larva quickly looking at her favorite elite guard and cooing happily, which seemed to make Vespa relax a little... that was, until your hand touched her head.

Her yellow eye flashed with rage, a muffled snarl that still seemed to convey all the malicious intent for you that she could possibly muster, but you ignored it. Instead, you just stroked her head, doing it as gently as possible. She continued to snarl, but with time it seemed to subside as she felt the love you were feeding into her. Sure, she was a colossal bitch, a pain in the ass who tried to kill her daughter and your lover, but she did it out of a misguided sense concern for her hive. That, and the fact that after she heard you had fucked her daughter and put her in this position, she flew into a blind rage... or was it half-blind for her? Hah, still can't let up on the blind jokes.

"This is going to be problematic. If we continue to keep her here, like this, somepony will find her eventually. If not, I've only got enough mirror weed to keep her from shapeshifting for a few more days at most," Chitin stated as he stepped forward to inspect the elite, renewing her snarls. Mirror weed was a plant that could apparently keep Changelings from shapeshifting, which Chitin had a totally convenient supply of for medicinal purposes and totally not illicit experimental reasons.

"Man, I sure could use some weed myself," you stated, then paused and looked over to your basket of larvae, all of whom seemed to have gone quiet for once to look at you. "... don't do drugs kids. We're not going to have the 'I learned it from watching you, dad!' moments when you get older," you advised your brood.

Stepping forward, giving you his best glare, which was pretty half-assed compared to what Ap and Vespa had given you, Chitin said "Seriously Anon, Vespa's going to get out and we don't know how much longer it'll be until Apocrita emerges. We need another plan, even if it means... well... you know."

"... Chitin, if you're seriously suggesting that we murder Vespa, chop her up into little pieces, then smuggle them out one at a time to dispose of them properly, you're a sick motherfucker," you spat, narrowing your eyes. How could he dare suggest such a thing? The nerve on him! This was Ap's mother, she'd be furious if you-

"What? No, I meant have sex with her. You and that magic penis of yours seems to put Changelings under your sway. If anything, you are the one that must be the 'motherfucker' as you call it," Chitin informed you, looking at you with raised brows for suggesting such a thing. Even Vespa had her eye widened at what you had said, ignorant of the fact Vespidae had crawled atop her head.

"Oh... ooooooh! Oh shit, that's what you meant!" you exclaimed, chuckling happily as you realized your friend wasn't a cold blooded killer. Given the fact your first thought was to murder Vespa and not just fuck her made you ashamed of yourself. "Well, damn, yeah, I guess that would work... but let me hold off on that for now, see if we can't get Ap to emerge before it comes to that. I'm sure she wouldn't be happy if I fucked her mom... although... she is already tied up, and I've always been interested in bondage... hmmmm..."

Vespa's eye widened once more in shock, trying to move about, leading Vespidae to roll off her head and back onto the mattress with a little cry. Chitin grunted, then reached over to pick Vespidae up, only for the larva to snap at his hoof. Pulling it away, he said "While I did suggest that plan, perhaps you should wait for when your brood isn't here. Pupa certainly seems to have a tendency to repeat what she hears."

"Fuck off!" the aforementioned larva chirped, making you almost giggle like a schoolgirl.

"I didn't teach her that one," you laughed, wiping a tear from your eye. Sighing, you nodded "Yeah, we'll consider that when the time comes." Then turning to Ap's cocoon, you pointed to it and said "You hear that Ap? If you don't want me fucking your mom, you best get out here soon!"

Author's Notes:

Almost forgot to add a way to explain why Vespa doesn't just shapeshift out of her bonds. That said, this one got a bit harder for me to pull the pieces together for, got kinda scatterminded halfway through, but hey, I've still got my chapter a day in (in America, sorry rest of the world). Next chapter though will... well, you'll have fun with that.