The words echoed in Tyler’s mind like a burden. He was forced to abandon his friend to the swarm. God knows what could happen to the charismatic stallion now. One of the guards, a gray unicorn approached Tyler and brought him a bag of ice. His eyes looked up to Tyler with a penitent look,
“What happened to Shining Armor wasn’t your fault…”

Tyler remembered the magic transmission very well. He wanted to give the order to lead a small squad to rescue Shining and his squad. Still the order from Blueblood echoed in his mind.

Tyler closed his eyes in bitterness as he remembered his reaction to this moment of treason to the young unicorn stallion.

Shortly after this the other guards pushed him back into the furthest edge of the cargo hold. Three royal guards were necessary to keep hold of the human.

His yelling was stopped in an instant as a hoof punched him out, sending him into darkness. Now he looked up from the ground, his right eye colored in red and blue, his cheek bloody,
“Yeah, right!” They now approached the Equestrian border and Tyler wondered if Shining Armor would be alright.

* * * * *

Meanwhile a squad of Changelings flew into the hive and into a great assembly hall where they landed among thousands of their brethren. In midst of the hall the few members of the captured Crystal Empire Royal Guard stood together and looked up to the throne of the queen,
“Chrysalis! What’s she after?” One of them asked.

One of the others, an experienced looking stallion gritted his teeth,
“My take is she’s returned to settle this once and for all! Make your peace with Celestia, you all… Chances are we don’t get out of this.”

Looking around, a young rookie looked to the others,
“Where’s the prince?”

But his question should never be answered as the Changeling Queen stood up from her throne, glaring down to them,
“Our irreverent prey has struck deep into the heart of our colony! A puny squad of them was captured on the surface after being discovered near the hatchling hall before they could perpetrate damage.” A loud uproar roamed through the throne hall.

Princess Shiria looked up to her mother as she stood before her,
“This attack was an act of desperation. The ponies feel that we are coming for them, beating them. These few here have failed their race utterly! There shall be no interrogations! They are yours, mother! Do with them as you wish!”

The Changeling queen now towered in her throne and glared down to the ponies before them. Her conviction came swift and decisively,
“Liquidation to nutrition liquid for the hatchlings!” Uproar hissed from the swarm once again, but the queen raised a hoof. “Silence! My children… They are no warriors who deserve a fight to the death… but maggots deserving to be squished!”

Now her horn began to glow and a large projectile arched through the hall before slamming into the group of screaming guards who were reduced to a puddle of white goo. Shiria now turned to the swarm as she continued,
“Only one among them is worthy of being treated as a warrior! The one they call ‘Shining Armor’…”

Shining Armor was led to the throne, heavy bruises and scratches marked his dirty face, yet his face had lost nothing of his defiance. Chrysalis giggled at his glare at her,
“Still defiant, Captain of the Royal Guard? If we were to offer coexistence with your kind-”

“Changelings don’t coexist!” Shining Armor barked back.

Shiria chuckled,
“No! And with knowing that your neck is in our fangs, your defiance is a useless and pitiful gesture! We already know that both Equestria and the Crystal Empire together have 150.000 ponies in weapons. We on the other hoof have a swarm thrice as big!”

But the unicorn only sneered upon Shiria,
“You bore me, insect! Liquidate me! Let me join my comrades!”

Shiria on the other hand shook her head,
“Liquidation is not for you… We will have other uses for you…” With this, Shiria turned to her mother. “What the stallion isn’t telling us is that Equestria has developed a biotech weapon!”

Catching the attention of the queen, this caused Chrysalis to look at her daughter,
“Show me!” With this Shiria’s horn began to glow and a large projection showed Tyler as a whole and in his towering stance. “What is this? This being didn’t exist in our first attempt to invade Canterlot and Equestria!”

Shiria gritted her teeth as she pictured Tyler further while he fought the swarm. The picture showed Tyler from her point of view as she partook in the fight, before he managed to escape,
“This creature is an enemy of the swarm! He is able to deal with dozens of us, maybe even more if he has room enough! He also leveled the equestrian Dragon Mountain with a bright blue detonation! Equestria’s agent of destruction...”

As Shining Armor saw Tyler, a smile appeared on his face, prompting several Changelings to turn their heads at him,
“The pony’s love output has increased!”

With a grim look Chrysalis glared down at Shining Armor. He knew something and she wanted to know who this creature was,
“Identify him!”

Shining Armor raised his head and smirked,
“Alright! If you really want to know… He’s Tilerions!” With this the Changeling queen flinched. This term rang alarm bells deep within her although she couldn’t explain this. Shining Armor already won this little gamble of his. From the letters of his sister he knew of this prophecy about Tyler and the void beings. It was interesting to see that the Changeling Queen as well knew about this and that this prophecy frightened her. “150.000 ponies in weapons easy… One legendary hero from an alicorn legend… Now you’re scared…” With this Shining Armor spat her into the face, prompting Chrysalis to flinch and the Changelings to smash him to the ground harshly. Shining gritted his teeth as he grinned up to Chrysalis.

Shiria growled angrily at this insulting gesture,
“The Pony doesn’t understand the great honor my mother is about to bestow upon him… He not only is a great warrior… but his lair mate is the PRINCESS OF LOVE!!!” Sneering down to Shining, Shiria chuckled. “You will make fine bait to lure her into our grasp…”

Queen Chrysalis however turned to her subjects,
“Tilerions! Where does he come from? Who created him? These are the things I need to know! I want drones to get me information about this being!” Chrysalis then faced her daughter. “Child… I would like to counsel with you…” While Shining Armor was escorted back to his cell, both queen and princess went to the queen’s chambers.

Once there, the Changeling Queen approached the windows of her chambers,
“I will speak with Princess Shiria alone… Guards, you’re dismissed…” The Changeling brutes nodded and left the Queen’s chambers. Once alone, Chrysalis turned to her daughter. “Arise, my daughter!” Shiria now stood up and walked to the side of her mother, who now looked out of the window. “How goes the war against the ponies? I want to know what exactly happened!”

Shiria grimaced and gave her report, growing bolder while doing so,
“The Crystal Empire’s transporter Victory tried to find out what happened here in the Amasian Enclave, but the swarmlings you gave me destroyed it. And soon we will demolish the rest of them.”

Looking with a dunning look at her daughter, the queen frowned,
“Speak of your plans, not of your victories! Tell me how you will defeat the ponies with this creature around!”

Bowing down obediently at her mother’s side, Shiria nodded,
“Yes, my Queen… With the Amasian Empire, Equestria and Crystal Empire at war with each other, they will weaken themselves to a defenseless state. And then our swarm will sweep through their lands to attack their defenseless colonies!”

Chrysalis now looked to her daughter from the corners of her eyes,
“And what of this strange creature Tilerions that caused you so much trouble?”

Shiria knew her mother was testing her. She expected things to be reported at once and this was a rule to be obeyed at all times,
“This blood of his brought down the gates of the Enclave. They will never trust someone like him!”

Hearing this caused Chrysalis’ expression to lighten up,
“Excellent… Without Tilerions, the ponies cannot stand against us! Soon Equestria itself will be in our grasp…”
It wasn’t her first lie to her mother and Shiria had become quite good in it. Let her think everything is fine… Once she’s done, I’ll take her place!

* * * * *

It was dawn when the Harmonia reached Canterlot. An arrival Tyler rather had shared with Shining Armor. As Prince Blueblood stepped outside, the crowds cheered for the soldiers.
There he goes, letting the ponies cheer for him like he's a hero. Canting scumbag… Treacherous dog... Tyler thought in disgust. The wish to kill this self-righteous sucker on the spot grew and grew in him. But not before he revealed the truth. But this moment drew closer as they approached the castle.

Gathered in a side room of the throne room, the two regal sisters and the Mane Six waited for them to report. There was a table with several maps in the room and Celestia and Luna gathered all information they got from their troops with little flags. Princess Celestia had summoned the girls to witness the report, but as Shining Armor was missing when Tyler and Blueblood entered, Twilight became quite nervous,
“Shining Armor… Where is he? Why isn’t he here to report as well?”

Blueblood bowed his head to Twilight and sighed,
“I am sorry, but Shining Armor and his squad didn’t make it. They sacrificed themselves so that we could deliver the message to Equestria.” This message hit Twilight like a sledgehammer and she was reduced to tears in an instant and Applejack and Pinkie tried to comfort her.

By now Tyler broke his silence. Anger boiled deep within him. Obviously he hadn’t beaten the stallion up enough the last time he met him,
“Are you done with your despicable lies, asshole? You are so full of shit I’m wondering why you can still yapper your lies without starting to take a dump out of your mouth!”

Celestia’s eyes widened at this tone,
“Tyler! You mean Shining Armor didn’t sacrifice himself?” This caused Twilight to look up. A slight spark of hope rekindled in her as her herd stallion spoke up.

Coming to the table, Tyler stared at the prince,
“Sacrifice? HA! No, HE left Shining Armor to rot! He sacrificed him to save his sorry little ass! I tried to reason with him, to get Shining out of there, but he simply ordered the others to arrest me if I was to ‘jeopardize’ the mission any further! They knocked me out; otherwise I might have been able to do something!” Celestia and Luna shared a glance, before they glared at Blueblood.

Blueblood, however, sneered at Tyler,
“You are a soldier, Tyler Jones! Your duty is to follow orders without questioning!”

Tyler now approached the stallion, pointed his finger at Blueblood and stabbed it into his nose,
“Don’t play the ‘Obey my orders!’ game with me, you worthless pile of shit! Celestia! Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t kill this spineless sausage right now!”

Before any of the Mane Six or the princesses could say something, a cold voice sounded from the door,
“Because there won’t be anything left of him when I’m done with him...” Cadance stood in the doorway and glared at Blueblood. Her eyes were an expression of rage and madness.

Blueblood, however, waved the idea away like something ridiculous,
“Now Cadance, as commander of my troops I only had the best intentions-” It was in this moment that Cadance raised her head and blasted half the table away with her alicorn magic before stepping closer with a face impression of lust for blood. Tyler didn’t move a muscle, but his index finger was still raised and his eyes were as wide as Blueblood’s.

But unlike him, Tyler was allowed to step aside as the pink alicorn approached the two of them,
“Oh I’m sorry, cousin. Did I break your little speech? I didn’t mean to do this… Please, go on! You were saying something about ‘best intentions’?” As he stammered inaudible words together, she cocked her head and arched a brow. “Lost your tongue? Oh, that was all? Then allow me to ask you a question…” Leaning towards Blueblood she smiled in an awkward manner. “What does Princess Mi Amore Cadenza look like?”

Blueblood was baffled by this question. Why was she asking him how she looked like? Cadance was Princess Mi Amore Cadenza,
“What?”

In the next moment both parts of the broken table were levitated and tossed aside as she approached the stallion. The pieces almost hit two guards,
“What country are you from?”

“What?”

Pushing him around Cadance’s voice became louder,
“That’s not a country I ever heard of! They speak equestrian in ‘What’?”

“Huh?”

“EQUESTRIAN, IDIOT!!! DO YOU SPEAK IT???”

“Yes!”

Magic now accumulated in her alicorn horn,
“Then you know what I’m asking. Describe what Princess Mi Amore Cadenza looks like!”

Still, Blueblood was heavily confused,
“What? I-”

Pointing her glowing horn right on his nose she growled furiously,
“Ask me one more stupid question again, you little bucktard! Ask me one more stupid question one bucking time again and I’ll break your bucking leg!!”

While Blueblood stammered his answer, Celestia and Luna looked at each other. Both had expressions of deep concern on their faces. Cadance slowly got out of hoof there,
“You’re… You’re pink-coated!”

Glaring down at him Cadance gritted her teeth,
“Go on!

“You’re an alicorn!”

Cocking her head again, she shook her head for a bit,
“Do I look like a bitch?”

Once again baffled, he arched his brows,
“What?”

With this Cadance delivered a blast to Blueblood’s right foreleg, breaking it. Blueblood screeched high up in pain. Cadance on the other hand yelled at him,
“DO! I! LOOK! LIKE! A! BITCH!”

Wincing in fear and pain, Blueblood began to yell as well,
“Nooo!!!”

“Then why are you trying to treat me like a bitch, Blueblood?”

He held his other foreleg up in defense, crying now,
“I didn’t!”

“Yes, you did, Bloody! And Princess Mi Amore Cadenza doesn’t like to be treated like a bitch by anypony except Prince Shining Armor…"

With this she turned away and was meant to go to Tyler as Blueblood managed to stand up on bobbly legs, holding up his broken leg,
“Just because she lost her little plaything…”

Hearing this caused Cadance’s eyes to shot wide open and her pupils to shrink down to tiny dots. How dare you… With this she turned around and blasted Blueblood between the hind legs with a mad roar, what prompted the unicorn stallion to fall down, shrieking in agonizing pain. Tyler grimaced painfully as he saw this. Oh shit… Nutcracker!

The Mane Six gasped upon this, yet Twilight showed some grade of satisfaction in her eyes. Celestia and Luna now stepped to Cadance with Celestia raising a hoof before her niece,
“That’s enough!”

Luna on the other hand laid a hoof on Cadance’s shoulder,
“Cadance… Are you OK?”

But Cadance only stared down to the weeping Blueblood. The pain had caused him to wet himself. He was lying in a puddle of urine and blood and Tyler could only imagine what Cadance had done to him. But from the whimpering and weeping, he assumed that she castrated or even emasculated the prince,
“No, aunt… I’m pretty far from OK…“

Luna gulped and took a look to Tyler who simply shrugged before he stepped to Cadance,
“What now, Cadance?”

Cadance’s eye twitched a bit,
“What now? Let me tell you what now…” She then looked to Blueblood. “I’m going to call myself some rape convicts from the worst slams of the Griffin Kingdom and will send this little wiener right to them on a silver plate and an apple in his mouth.” With this she used the Royal Canterlot Voice and yelled at a still whimpering Blueblood. “You hear me talking here, bloody dick? I am not through with you by a damn sight. I’m getting medieval on your sorry ass!”

Tyler grimaced and took a short peek to Luna who shook her head. In this state, Cadance was an unpredictable risk,
“I mean what now between me and you…”

Cadance turned to Tyler, her expression still stern and cold,
“There is no me and you… You tried to rescue my husband before this sorry ass stopped you. You go and do what you intended to do and get my husband back to me! That’s all I ask of you.”

Tyler then grabbed Cadance’s cheek and looked into her eyes,
“That I will! I will either bring him to you alive or I’ll bring you his remains so you can be certain.”

It was then that a damn broke and Cadance was reduced to tears as she leaned against Tyler,
“Please! Please do whatever it takes!” While she cried, Tyler looked to Celestia and Luna. Both nodded and silently agreed that things demanded action now.

As the Mane Six, and the princesses left the room, Tyler looked back to Blueblood,
“What about him?”

Cadance stared onwards with her voice as cold as liquid hydrogen,
“He’s not of your concern anymore, Tyler… He’s of my concern and he will get what he deserves! I will make his life miserable for what he did…” Tyler then decided to avoid this topic for now.

Rainbow leaned to Twilight as they left the room,
“Phew… I’d never thought one of the princesses could become THAT angry…” Twilight nodded. Cadance was pissed off and in this state she was able to wreak havoc upon others. But this was even better than all the things she had in mind for Blueblood.

Back in the throne room, Tyler took out a knife,
“First of all, before we continue, I’d like to make sure that we all are who we claim to be…”

Luna arched her brows,
“Do thou think that we are Changelings?”

Tyler shook his head and cut his own palm,
“It doesn’t matter what I think… The blood test will deliver proof!” Bleeding several drops on a white handkerchief he presented the red blood. “If I determine the enemy’s disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless. If it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it…”

Celestia nodded,
“…Nor the wise make plans against it… Sun Tzu!” Tyler smiled at her. She really internalized the book. Celestia now held her hoof up and Tyler pricked it carefully so that she could shed just a few drops of blood as well. Luna and Cadance and the Mane Six did the same.

Applejack arched a brow,
“Come again?”

Tyler looked up from the handkerchief. Every drop was red,
“It means I found a simple way to make sure that no Changeling could espionage of what we decide here. I saw that Changelings bleed green. So maybe they can mimic other ponies, but once something is leaving their bodies this no longer is in this mimicry field of theirs. Which means we have a way to identify and hunt Changelings down in our ranks.”

Twilight nodded,
“Of course! If we do that on key security points, they can’t infiltrate us anymore! Good thinking!”

Luna nodded to a guard who took the blood test as well and proofed himself pony,
“Good. Now make sure that this test is done throughout the entire guard.” The guard bowed and left the throne room.

It was in this moment as a large green object slammed right through the window and slammed into the ground. Tyler and the others jumped up and Tyler raised his arms to shield the others with as much of his body as possible, even if this would be useless in case of an explosion,
“Holy shit! What is this? A bomb? A Changeling egg?” As they watched it for half a minute, nothing happened. It was in a shape of an egg, yet it pulsated calmly.

Twilight cocked her head,
“It’s obviously not a weapon… Maybe it’s a Changeling device for spying?”

Tyler slowly approached the device. While he approached it, it shimmered a little before it shined brightly and the face of Chrysalis appeared on it. Everyone behind Tyler got into fighting stance in an instant. Tyler however studied the Changeling queen. She looked almost exactly like Shiria, but older and had her crown on. “So I take it that’s the Changeling boss bitch?”

Chrysalis looked to Tyler. Her face showed that she wanted to tear him apart. He was something standing between her and her prize and a threat to her swarm as well,
“Tilerions… So finally we see each other in person… Equestria’s walking talking bioweapon…” Celestia wanted to say something, but Tyler raised a hand to her. This was interesting. So the Changelings think I am a laboratory product… Well this might be handy in a way…

With this he walked up to her image.
“Yeah… And I think I’ll come back right now. Now that I know where your ugly hive is. I think I’ll blow it up just like Dragon Mountain! Yeah… This would make this day just perfect!”

But the queen looked at him as both tried to stare each other down.
“With my Changelings you’ve gone way over your head. Declaring war on my swarm was the worst mistake you could have done!”

Tyler began to grin sadistically again,
“This isn’t war… This is pest control! How long do you wish to continue this madness? How many kingdoms shall fall before you’re satisfied?”

With bloodlust in her eyes she eyed at all of them,
“I will never stop until Equestria and the Crystal Empire are barren wastelands! And Shining Armor will be witness of it, just before he dies!” This caused Cadance to grit her teeth. Tension built up in her as she thought of the evils the Changeling Queen would do to her husband.

In his mind, Tyler wondered why Chrysalis was so gosh damn fixated on Equestria. Why? Why these lands? It’s not only because of love… Arching a brow, the human gave her a smirk,
“We’ll see about that… when I’ll rip your precious swarm into pieces!”

With this she laughed manically and bared her fangs to Tyler,
“I am the swarm! Your kingdoms shall be mine!”

Tyler now raised his right arm to the egg-like object,
“Well then… I just have to kill you as well, I guess…” With this he blasted the object to pieces. “Get this stuff out of the throne room! Who knows with what little size these things can still listen. As he turned to Cadance, he lowered his voice. “At least we know Shining Armor is still alive. IF she had spoken the truth, that is. Don’t worry, Cadance… I’ll get him back to you.”

He now turned to Celestia, Luna and Twilight,
“I believe it is my fate to be on this world… It is my destiny… I believe the victors of this impending conflict will dictate the very future of this entire planet. Either for love or fear…”
He then looked at the guards before him. The guards of the throne room looked grim and fierce just like the ones he fought among while fighting in the Enclave. “This will be war and we are soldiers…What if our struggle could end this conflict once and for all? Isn’t that worth fighting for? Isn’t that worth dying for?”

Celestia shook her head,
“Tyler, do you truly believe Luna and I would steer Equestria into war? For millennia this land was free of the terrors of war! I won’t allow-”

But Tyler turned around and cut the princess off in midsentence,
“War will come to you, whether you prepare for it or not. If the Changelings want war with Equestria, that’s fine with me.” He then pointed his thumb at him. “I’ll happily release all hell upon them! So I’m ready to give my blood for Equestria to get the job done!”

One of the guards whispered to those beside him,
“Now that’s a commander worth waiting for!”

Celestia gulped and took his cue. He had his point no doubt. The Changelings wouldn’t care if she or Luna would allow war to happen or not,
“But Tyler… Didn’t you say yourself that you abolish these devices? I’m worried about your role in this.”

Tyler sighed as he understood her worries,
“I DO abolish them, Celestia… But I’ll have to do this. If the Changelings get out of the Enclave and into this land, it’s all for nothing! Equestria will get what I will give from my own free will. That’s something quite different than to take this blood from me by force. I won’t stand by and watch others suffer. This is my country now as well… I love this land. Sometimes I wonder if love is worth fighting for like this, but then I remember the faces of those I love and I'm ready for all-out war!”

Celestia sighed,
“I think I understand your point there… And although it hurts me to send our loyal guards to war… it has to be done for the sake of all our subjects.”

Luna nodded as she stepped to the side of her sister,
“We shall support thy plans, Tyler. The Guard will assemble and thou shall speak to them as strategic leader.” A mare of the guard approached them and nodded as Luna continued. “After the incident on Dragon Mountain, the former captain resigned, said he felt unfit to the position. So as of today, Captain Shimmerwind will be of assistance to thee.”

Shimmerwind gave Tyler a brief nod and looked up. Tyler returned the nod,
“I’ve met your father…”

With this, the mare blushed,
“Oh, sir… I’m sorry for this…Some think you are a saint or something. I apologize if it gave you a hard time…”

Tyler saw back to Twilight and Applejack,
“I had friends to help me out of this.” After he exchanged winks with his herd mates, he returned his look back to the Captain. “But please… Continue!”

After they went out of the throne room to discuss military things, Princess Celestia turned to the Mane Six,
“Twilight? I’d like you to organize Ponyville’s defense in case our troops are defeated. Every city and town of Equestria must take precautions to ensure the safety of our subjects.” Now facing her sister, Celestia closed her eyes. “Luna? Please come with me. I’d like to discuss Canterlot’s defenses with you."

As the two regal sisters went to their chambers, the Mane Six looked at each other. Applejack corrected her Stetson,
“Now… This looks pretty grim, y’all…”

Pinkie nodded,
“You bet! It’s not fun when everyone’s worried! It will take forever to party this away!”

Twilight looked after Tyler, who now seemed so far away,
“I’m worried for Tyler… He said he would give his blood for Equestria… That means he’s going to redo those war devices. We all need to watch him after this conflict, should we win it. We mustn’t let Disharmony get grip on Tyler.” All of the Mane Six nodded with determined eyes. Everypony agreed that they needed to watch Tyler to make sure this war wasn’t going to change him for the worse.

* * * * *

One day later, Tyler stood before the equestrian military. Around 75.000 ponies in weapons with pegasi, unicorns and earth ponies stood before him and awaited his speech. The guards of Equestria… They are more than I expected…,
“I am Tyler Jones! Our shared enemies, the Changelings once again threaten our peace. Princess Celestia and Luna, your diarchs, have asked me to teach you the things you need to know to crush the swarm.” He shook his head. “But we need to do more than that. We must make sure they never come back. He who can destroy a thing controls a thing. I will take 100 of your soldiers and train them. These 100 will train the rest of you. When the swarm takes too much damage, its many eyes will turn to the Queen. Chrysalis herself will be forced to deal with us.”

Later that day Tyler stood together with 100 stallions and mares of the guard. Pointing at a stallion, he began the drill. “Steel Hammer! This cube here is made out of solid stone… Kill it!” The earth pony nodded and slammed a sword into the stone, but did nothing but a few sparks and a scratch. Tyler nodded and gestured to Steel Hammer. “Kick it!” Turning around, he buckled the cube with even less results. “Yell at it!” This order caused the other 99 guards to laugh.

But Steel Hammer got in stance with a smile. Then he looked at the stone and yelled at it,
“BREAK!!!” The training hall was filled with laughter now.

Tyler then pointed at a unicorn stallion coated in slightly darkened blue,
“Dusk Aegis! Try to cut it with magic!” Dusk nodded and stepped forth, raised his horn as bright magic caused the stone to spread sparkles all around. But all it was able to do was a burning mark and a deeper scratch. Unsatisfied he looked up to Tyler.

The human nodded and gestured them to move,
“Please move back…” As they both were in safety distance, Tyler raised a barrel run that seemed to be to be of a musket. He then took a shining red glass pearl and stuck it inside the barrel and aimed at the cube while his hand held the pearl at the end. Magic formed on his hands. Then, with a slight motion, the magic catapulted the projectile at the cube. With a deafening detonation, the block broke in half with the upper half torn to pieces.

The ponies gave a cheer in unison as Tyler lowered the barrel,
"I demonstrated the power one Human Blood Projectile can muster. I don’t know exactly why, but my blood can be charged with magic and release the equivalent of ten horns. With the projectiles I will supply our forces with, you will be able to splatter the swarm, crush the walls of the hive and set fire to their land. We will kill until no Changeling dares to step onto Equestrian soil again!” This earned another cheer, showing Tyler these patriotic ponies were eager to fight for their land.

* * * * *

Now it was the troops’ turn to practice with the beads and while the unicorns could use the barrel runs to shot the beads away like with a gun, the earth ponies and pegasi used slingshots or simply tossed them away like grenades or as bombs from above. Tyler meanwhile instructed the unicorns,
“Be careful when you prepare the blood beads for battle! You must know when to stop! With the size of those beads you can only charge 23 attack spells! This is enough to blow up some Changelings, but if you overdo it…” One of the beads was overcharged for demonstration purpose now and exploded in a big detonation. “…Then the bead might kill you! Also focus only on the glass of the bead, not on the blood inside! If you focus on the blood, it will blow up! Which means you will kill yourself and your comrades! Don’t haste with this!”

Three days of drill and crash course later Tyler had instructed the guard with his new idea for the arsenal and had taken blood from his body. The Royal Guard and the scientists had portioned his blood into thousands of tiny glass beads. Tyler had made it quite clear to Shimmerwind that he would hunt her down if only one would take imprecise note of how many beads he got and how many he fired. Shimmerwind nodded and agreed that these beads were a necessary evil and needed to be strictly controlled for the sake of peace.

Later on, Shimmerwind presented some pegasi to Tyler, who each had a special armor on with Tyler’s crest on it,
“Tyler Jones, these are ten of the guard’s finest Pegasi who volunteered to serve you as your personal guard… the Tellyhawks!”

Tyler gulped and inspected them,
“I take it you return to another squads once this is over?”

One of the Tellyhawks nodded,
“This is correct, sir! Once we’ve won, we are going to different wings again. But we’ll happily greet you in our wing anytime. “

Tyler waved the thought away,
“I’m not a flyboy, folks. At least not yet that is. I would make a poor wingman for you now. But I appreciate the offer. I’d like you guys to keep the skies clear over me. I don’t want any Changeling from above to tackle me down.”

With a “Sir! Yes, Sir!” in unison, the Tellyhawks saluted in front of Tyler, who nodded and saluted for them as well, before he dismissed his personal guard and went outside.

Outside, Rainbow sat on a cloud and looked grim at him,
“I see, you’re getting yourself a wing together, T-man! That’s cool, but why haven’t you asked me to join? You know I’m the fastest flyer around…”

Tyler looked up to her in worry,
“This is not about flying fast or pulling off stunts. It’s about fighting and I want you to fight here on the home front!”

But the cerulean Pegasus mare refused to be sent away like this,
“So why can’t I fight with you? You know every of us Elements kicked some sorry Changeling ass on our way to the Elements of Harmony! We know how to fight if we have to!”

Shaking his head he gave her an understanding, yet strict look,
“Rainbow, I know you want to show how awesome you are, but you are needed here, girl! I need you to keep an eye out on Equestria! You and the others must stay here for the unfortunate event that I won’t make it. Then you and the princesses are all that stands between Equestria and the swarm!”

Shaking her head wildly, she pointed her hoof accusingly at him,
“You won’t leave me or anypony behind, T-man! I’m the Element of Loyalty and we’re a team!”

He then grabbed her cheeks and stared into her eyes,
“Well then, RD… What’s it going to be? Loyalty to your country and the Elements of Harmony or loyalty to me? Your mission or your personal feelings?”

The Pegasus now shook her head,
“Oh, ponyfeathers! I hate it when you do that, Tyler!” With a sigh, she bowed her head. “I get it… I can’t be much of use on the battlefield, but I can defend the civilians here with the others…”

As she bowed her head, Tyler patted her shoulder,
“You are a brave mare, Rainbow! One of the bravest I’ve met! But war isn’t about being awesome! It’s a monster and it turns good souls to hideous monsters. It’s a place I do not wish to see you in. I promise you, we will have plenty of time to do all the most awesome stuff, when this war is over.”

She looked up to him,
“Pinkie promise?”

With a smile he held his fist into his eye,
“Pinkie promise!” Rainbow looked around to see if anypony was watching.

When she confirmed that they both were alone, she jumped up and hugged Tyler, gave him a short peck on the cheek and buried her face in his shoulder.
“You make sure you come back in one piece to the girls, you hear? I mean it, Tyler! I couldn’t stand both of them unhappy if anything happened to you. I can’t stand the sight of a friend in misery.”

Tyler patted her back, careful not to touch her sensitive wings,
“Thank you, Rainbow… For being you…” He hugged her back now as several airships were prepared to leave Canterlot.

Rainbow looked up and eyed the airships,
“You’re leaving right now? Tyler… Shouldn’t you say farewell to the others?”

Tyler nodded,
“I probably should… But this would only complicate things. I’m afraid I couldn’t part from them if I see into their bidding eyes. Tell Twilight…” He hesitated for a moment, thinking about the message he’ll make Rainbow deliver. “Tell her I’ll bring her brother back. And tell her and Applejack, that I love them.”

Rainbow beamed broadly,
“Will do, T-man!” While she flew off to Ponyville, Tyler went into the hold of one of the airships.

Once they were in the air again, Tyler looked into the faces of the guards and nodded,
“Equestrians! Warriors! Your seats in history are promised! From today on, we fight for those who can’t! Protect Equestria with your life!” With a united cheer the airships of the first strike forces went off. “FOR EQUESTRIA!!!”

* * * * *

Two days later, back in the Enclave, Tyler was lying in the dust of a rock formation and watched some Changelings through a pair of binoculars,
“Here they come… Switch off any emotion, folks. If they can feed on it, maybe they can scent it as well…” The officer beside him nodded and translated Tyler’s orders into hoof gestures and several hidden heads nodded. Patiently they waited until the Changelings were in the middle of their trap.

Then, the order finally came,
“Attack! Now!” With this, the strike force attacked and let the trap spring. The pegasi slammed the flying Changelings to the ground, while the unicorns blasted their bombs and spells at the Changelings on the ground. While they utterly destroyed the patrol squad of the swarm with a swift assault, Tyler watched them silently. Once done with the attack, they retreated and regrouped elsewhere to set the next trap. For days this method dictated their fighting as they scouted the area, evaded tightly guarded areas and attacked targets with only a few guards. Already several hundred Changelings died like this and Tyler knew that it wouldn’t take long until the remaining Equestrian forces would enter the Amasian Enclave as well to do exactly the same in a wider area. When the swarm takes too much damage, its eyes will turn to the Queen. Chrysalis herself will be forced to deal with us…

* * * * *

Later that week, a squad of Changelings brought in a bloody and half dead Changeling who repeated Tyler’s full name over and over again. Shiria held him up in a tight grip,
“What happened? What in the hive’s name happened to you and your underlings?” But the Changeling drone only repeated Tyler’s name until Shiria tossed him away in anger.

A Changeling warrior shook his head and faced the princess,
“Since we found them, the surviving Changelings repeated this name over and over again…”

Gritting her teeth, Shiria fumed with anger,
“Who is this … Tyler Jones?”

Shining Armor sneered down to the princess,
“Seems to me you’re having problems!”

Shiria now narrowed her eyes as she thought things over,
“What to do, what to do… Hmmm… I got entire strike forces ruining my day, the area around my mother’s hive has become a damn warzone, I’m losing Changelings faster that the queen can give birth to them… and all of this unrest… Well it began soon after you were captured, Shining Armor.”

"Could be a coincidence…" Shining replied with a shrug.

But the Changeling princess began to smirk,
“Oh don’t sell your friends short. I can see that they’re out for blood for the death of this human… Obviously they are out for revenge to avenge him!”

This prompted Shining Armor’s eyes to widen,
“He’s dead?” It must be a trick! He wouldn’t die like this…

“Unfortunately he did something to your armies before dying! They don’t fight head to head anymore! Their tactic is that of cowards!” With a smirk she looked at Shining Armor. “Our drones say that his herd mates grieve greatly at his death. Especially little Twilight…”

This prompted Shining Armor to fight against the chains that held him in place,
“Damn you!!!” But Shiria only laughed and several Changelings approached them both.

With a dark grin on her lips, Shiria raised his chin,
“Now, now… No reason to curse already… The fun is just beginning!” As Shining Armor saw them closing in, he knew they were going to torture him. That’s when he remembered his mental training with Cadance. What was it again? Yes… Closing in… I have to close myself so they won’t get to me… His mind locked itself up and darkness engulfed him as he fell unconscious from a punch to his head.

* * * * *

In the two standard weeks that followed, the equestrian strike forces delivered several severe guerilla attacks to the swarm, killing tens of thousands of Changelings. Unable to handle the situation, the swarm only reacted on the attacks delivered to it. But as soon as reinforcements arrived on the scene, the equestrian strike forces were already long gone and lurked well hidden in the shadows. Fearing for her life, Shiria hid the real loss numbers from her mother, the queen. Tyler’s reputation among the equestrian troops grew.

It was a hot day and the sun burned down on the dry wasteland of the Enclave as a transporter of the hive rolled down the valley. Inside the Changelings backed away from her princess. She was furious by now. A slap hit Shining Armor’s bruised cheek as Shiria yelled at him,
“WHY WON’T YOU RESPOND???” Standing over the weak stallion she wrinkled her nose. For two weeks now she tried to persuade him to talk. She had tried threats, magic, suggestions, seduction and pain. But nothing was able to penetrate his mental shield. And this accursed heat of the wasteland wasn’t helping either. What does my mother see in this unicorn stallion? He’s nothing than a dull pony! And already he knows too much! I can’t allow this risk to endanger the swarm, he must DIE! But just as her horn began to glow for blasting Shining Armor, a detonation brought her off balance. Seeing his chance, Shining Armor awoke from his absence in an instant and blasted her unconscious. As two Changelings leaped at him, his horn fired again.

A battle started outside as a strike force attacked the transporter. Tyler had tracked it down for three days now, but it was heavily guarded. So in order to get it, he had to order another strike force to attack several other targets to get the escorts away. Now was the time to see what the Changelings were transporting through the wastelands. As he ran among several guards, he took out two of the Changelings while he ran towards the transport,
“A pity there aren’t any more changelings to kill!”

One of the unicorns of his current strike force, Dusk Aegis, galloped beside him,
“Yeah, too bad! I hoped for a real fight!” With a swift and decisive assault the remaining escort was killed and Tyler ripped the hatch out of the hull with levitation magic and tossed it aside. He expected heavy resistance once they would enter the transport.

In this moment several Changelings were kicked outsides by magical blasts. Then a grey stallion with blue mane jumped outside and Tyler halted. It took some split seconds before he identified who was standing in front of him,
“Shining!”

With this the grey stallion halted and pointed his horn at Tyler, as black smoke clouds shrouded their view at each other. Tyler recognized the red blood that dripped from the stallion’s lower lip and right front hoof into the dirt on the ground,
“You don’t need your magic for me, Shining Armor!”

The once white stallion was dirty and seemed to be in a bad state. With wide eyes he stared at the human,
“Tyler…? Tyler!!!”

With a shake of his head Tyler approached him,
“Don’t you trust your own eyes?”

Looking in shock at Tyler the white unicorn stallion shook his head,
“They said you were killed back then… They… They said…” Stammering for words, he approached his human friend. As the feelings overwhelmed them both, the two brothers in arms hugged each other tightly. “I should have never doubted you would come for me!”

Tyler patted Shining’s back,
“I would never abandon a friend on purpose, my friend!”

As Shiria woke up thirty minutes later, she was surrounded by Ponies. Fearing for her life, she gasped and looked up, only to see Tyler staring down to her,
“Princess Shiria! I won’t harm you this time, don’t worry. I’m going to allow you to keep your wicked life for I need you to bring a message to your queen. I want her to witness the extent of my mercy by witnessing the deformed bodies of her subjects. Inform her that her prisoner is now with me. I also want you to tell her to end this madness. Tell her I want her to keep away from Equestria for all eternity. And I want to warn her to never underestimate me or she will regret it!” Shiria slowly got up. She expected to being attacked at any moment now, but strangely the ponies didn’t attack. Was he serious about her being the messenger? But as she buzzed away, they didn’t follow her. What a bunch of fools.

Shining Armor sat down, resisting the urge to faint,
“What are we going to do now?”

Tyler patted the stallion’s shoulder,
“Now? Now that you are free again, I’ll make sure you get back to Equestria in one piece! I dare to say at least two mares are hoping for your return…”

* * * * *

Two days later back in Equestria…

The embracement went on for minutes. And although most of the tears came from Cadance, both lovers were more than happy to be reunited. Although Shining was lying on a barrow, they both kissed and cried in happiness,
“Where… Where’s Tyler?”

Stepping forth, Tyler came out of the airship,
“I’m here, why? I wouldn’t miss the reunion of the happy” As he saw them both, he humorously grimaced. “Ewww… Kissing and crying… I think I’ll get back until you both decided, what-”

Levitating him to herself, Cadance laughed,
“Hey, you! Get here! Now!” With this Cadance gave Tyler a long kiss before she parted from him. “I’m actually even more grateful, but more than this and my beloved husband might get the wrong impression of my gratitude… I think a reward is well deserved, don’t you think so, Shining?”

Shining Armor nodded with a smile,
“If I had any with me, I would stick medals upon your chest, Tyler… Without you, I would be-”

But Tyler only rolled his eyes,
“Oh shut up and kiss your girl, Shining! I didn’t bring you back so you can go on my nerves! Or for glittering metal sheets! I brought you back because I owed it to you and I promised your family to bring you back. I saw the misery your abduction brought to the ones who love you. And you would have done the same for me if you would have seen the misery in your sister’s face.” That prompted Shining Armor to nod with a smile and he and Cadance shared a deep and longing kiss. After they parted he turned to Tyler again and nodded. Deep gratitude was in his eyes.

Tyler now turned to Twilight, who embraced him dearly,
”Thank you, Tyler…”

“Don’t thank me for this, Twilight… I did this for you as well.”

* * * * *

Later that day Shining Armor returned with several bandages on his body. He was also sitting in a wheelchair since he wasn’t strong enough yet to walk again. As he and Tyler hugged, he went on with their conversation,
“The armies of the Crystal Empire will come to the aid of the equestrian forces in the Amasian Enclave as soon as I’m fit again. I must say… Princess Celestia and Cadance told me what strange tactics you used on the swarm. The way you lead the troops... Is this how humans fight?”

Tyler nodded,
"Sort of... It’s called guerilla warfare. Rest now, Shining… You’ll need all your strength very soon.”

With this the young husband arched a brow,
“For battle?” But Tyler looked up to Cadance, who entered the room now.

As they both shared a chuckle, Tyler shook his head,
“Among other things… I’m sure a certain someone is glad to have you were you belong.” Cadance winked at Tyler and smiled. Tyler then turned to Shining again and gave him a strict look. “Listen, Shining… I tried my best to-”

But he was cut off in midsentence,
“I know! Cadance already told me. They knocked you out. Otherwise this whole ordeal wouldn’t have happened."

As he left their room, Twilight and Applejack came down the hallway, obviously to fetch him. Twilight again hugged him and he closed his eyes while redoing the favor. Patting her back, he looked to Applejack,
“I think I’m hungry for some apples here, AJ. The farm’s still intact?”

Correcting her Stetson, she nodded at him,
“It’s in a worse state than before, now that yer not around, but it’s still there. Granny told me to bring yer some pie. And Applebloom is asking for yer.”

Tyler nodded,
“Let’s spend the night on Sweet Apple Acres. I don’t know how long we have until I have to go back to the front lines.”

Applejack nuzzled him while they went to the carriage. “Tyler, Ah know yer feel it’s yer duty to do this, but why aren’t yer stopping with this and simply hand them the beads? Let others fight! Ah don’t like the thought of yerself risking yer neck for our sake in a faraway land… If yer never come back to us… Ah don’t know what to do then…”

When the carriage started and brought them to Sweet Apple Acres, Tyler looked down to Applejack,
“Come now… it’s not that I have a death wish or something… But I have to do this, AJ… I would feel ashamed if I wouldn’t fight as strong as I can. My effort can save lives.”

The orange mare gulped and looked up,
“And if yer own life is at stake, Tyler? Who’s coming to save yer then?” Tyler gulped and looked at Twilight, but the lavender unicorn shook her head, hinting him that he had to sort this out himself.

As they landed on the farm, he hugged Applejack tightly,
“I’ll never die as long as I haven’t seen our foal laughing, AJ. And if the whole of Equis crumbles together: I won’t die before I made you happy, AJ. I swear to you I won’t”

The orange mare smiled and went towards the barn,
“Care to proof it, pardner?”

Tyler rolled his eyes with a smile,
“Twilight, do you want to join in this time?” With a beaming face, she nodded and followed Applejack as well. Her friend always spoke of the kinkiest things she did with Tyler in the barn, so maybe she could get the chance to learn something.

* * * * *

Later that evening, while his wounds and bruises were treated properly and he had regained strength to walk again, Shining Armor was up to inspect something he waited long for. In fact, the hope of seeing this was partially what kept him alive during his days as prisoner of the Changelings. As he approached the strong steel door, two guards of the Crystal Empire looked at him and saluted. When the steel door opened, Shining Armor could see Blueblood lying dirty on the ground, surrounded by big muscular griffins. Hope rekindled in the dirty prince as he saw a fellow pony,
“Shining Armor! Finally someone who will help me!”

Shaking his head in surprise, Shining fought the urge to chuckle,
“Excuse me? I won’t hinder them if it’s that what you think… I just wanted to see what punishment Cadance gave you, before I leave you to your fate.”

By now Blueblood’s pupils became tiny as dots as griffin claws raised his flanks again while another griffin held his head in place,
“No… You can’t leave me here with them!!!”

Arching a brow, Shining Armor now wrinkled his nose,
“I can’t? Oh I think I can as well as you could when you left me and my squad back in the hands of the swarm! Those ponies are dead now, which is YOUR fault! You are a coward and risk the entire army for your selfish desires. Not even in the face of impending war I want to have you among our ranks… Gentlegriffins? Enjoy your stay. Your ‘host’ will make sure you are more than pleased…”

Blueblood raised a hoof as Shining Armor closed the door,
“No! Don’t leave me here! Noooo!!!” With this the door shut tight behind Shining Armor and he sighed as the griffins inside began to have their ways with Blueblood again.

“Come on, little white royal piggy! Squeal! WEEEEEEEE” As Blueblood began to squeal beneath the gang rape, Shining Armor closed his eyes and continued to walk away, back to Cadance. In his mind he made a mental note, never EVER to piss her off like Blueblood.

* * * * *

One day later, Tyler and Shining Armor returned to the Enclave. Tyler shook his head as he watched the unicorn stallion,
“Do you think this is wise? You were a prisoner of war a few days ago. Don’t you need more time to recover?”

But Shining only shook his head,
“Don’t worry, Tyler… Cadance took personal care of these wounds and patched me up nicely. I’m almost in top condition now.”

Tyler chuckled at this,
“Hmpf! Alicorn girls and their magic, huh? Well I say that’s a good thing. At least I can say now you died because you overdid it.” Shining chuckled at this and nudged Tyler a bit, betting he could kill far more Changelings than Tyler could.

This prompted the human to chuckle,
“That’s the spirit, buddy! Go get them for what they’ve done to you!” And slowly but surely they went back to the Enclave. Tyler thought of all the shadow ponies that died during the first attacks of the Changelings. Or the many more that were sucked dry when the victors of this invasion turned to the defeated. He thought of Irtex, the young prince who lost his mother. For their sake, he would rip this swarm to pieces. He then gathered three unicorns and asked them to follow him into the hold for charging.

Meanwhile Shiria reported the queen the loss of her prize and Tyler’s warning to her. Hearing these words from the human caused Chrysalis to foam in rage,
“Who does he think he’s dealing with? So I’ll regret it? We’ll see about that! I want my swarm made ready! Every single hatchling! NOW!!!”

An advisor spoke up,
“Every hatchling? But my queen-”

Without warning, he was blasted by a ray of green magic as Chrysalis raised herself up,
“This is genocide! The systematic extermination of all life in Equestria! This Tyler Jones… HE WILL DIE BEFORE MY EYES!!! AND HE WILL KNOW… HE’LL KNOW THAT IT IS I, QUEEN CHRYSALIS OF THE CHANGELINGS, WHO ENCOMPASSES HIS DOOM!!!” With a frantic laughter she took off and buzzed over the corpse of the advisor. Biting off the chitin plates of this most recent victim of her cruelty, she feasted on the Changeling in a wild feeding frenzy. The other Changelings stood emotionless at the side and witnessed the gory spectacle. As the queen looked up again, only Shiria grinned in a perverse manner to her mother. Chrysalis chuckled in madness and licked her bloodstained snout. I’ll do this to that human and his beloved ones as well… With this she jumped back to her throne. “Come, my children! IT IS TIME WE FEAST UPON PONYKIND!!!”

With a big buzz of hundreds of thousands lift off and marched through the tunnels. “Long live the Queen! LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!!!”
Stepping on a balcony the queen watched as her subjects goose-stepped in several rows, executing an ordered march to the surface. As they passed the balcony, the Changelings looked up to her beloved queen as the drumming of marching hooves echoed through the hive and the underground city,
“It's great that we'll soon be feed from a queen who'll be all-time adored.” While Chrysalis wallowed herself in lust for war and blood and gloated with her swarm, Shiria silently sneaked away. Now everything depended on the ponies. Soon… Very soon… I’ll be queen instead of the queen…

As the Changeling swarm slowly came out of the underground city, the Equestrian forces already took position in front of the city and prepared for the Changeling’s arrival. It wasn’t before long that the Pegasus scouts spotted the first Changelings. With that the rows of swordsponies formed, right in front of the spearponies. Behind them were the rows of archers and unicorn magicians. Above them all were the pegasi ponies. Chrysalis couldn’t understand how her daughter could lose so often against such a feeble force. Obviously she wasn’t bred to be a queen,
“This human is ridiculously stupid! This little army is all they bring out against my entire swarm? Oh well…How many are we?”

A Changeling drone looked up to her,
“We are 407 thousand, my queen!”

Chrysalis sneered on the army of ponies,
"More than twice as much as they have… What does he think they could achieve? Let’s give them a chance to surrender before we crush them!”

Cloaked in a robe Tyler got himself a view of the battlefield,
“Are the trenches ready?”

“The trenches are ready and waiting, sir! We have prepared enough beads to blow them away!” a stallion answered. Tyler nodded and looked on the swarm which now closed in. With our technical advantage, their numeral advantage should be equaled. I gave enough blood for five thousand beads… if those hit we give them a punch they won’t forget so quickly…

By now a lone Changeling buzzed to the middle of the battlefield and yelled at the ponies,
“Equestrians! This land is besieged by the Changeling swarm! Surrender your weapons!” The stallions of the royal guard showed mixed feelings. While the hardened soldiers gritted their teeth in determination, the new recruits backed off a little.

Shining Armor, now full recovered, raised his spear and turned his head to the soldiers,
“Fear not, brothers in arms! We are…” He suddenly stopped as he recognized a glow reaching the front rows of the soldiers. Tyler passed Shining, grabbing his spear while passing him. The soldiers gazed on him in wild wonder, forgetting their fears for a moment.

The magic in his body seemed highly concentrated and every inch of his body shimmered and shined as he began to yell. “CHANGELINGS!!! YOU WANT OUR WEAPONS??? HERE!!!” Tossing the spear towards the swarm with strength and guiding it with magic, the spear found its way and impaled the changeling who shouted at the equestrian army. The creature shrieked in pain, its limbs twitching as the others bared their fangs partly angrily, partly fearful. “COME AND GET THEM!!!” Tyler then turned to his allies. “Sons of Equestria and Sons of the Crystal Empire! Show no mercy, for you won’t receive any either! Believe in your leaders and fight!”

He then stepped beside Shining Armor and went into fighting stance as Armor magically levitated another spear to him,
“Good speech, Tyler! Maybe Shimmerwind should watch herself. You would make a fine Captain as well!”

But Tyler simply waved the thought away,
“Nonsense! I’m no better than anypony here! You are in charge here; the new guys only seem a bit skittish! Remember these void guys from this Rainbow Gem? Feels like old times already!”

Shining was chuckling at this,
“Good to have you with us, Tyler! Your presence is a real boost to morality for the soldiers.”

Tyler grinned as sadism grew in his face again,
“That’s a party I wouldn’t dare to miss. I’ll try to restrain myself on your behalf, boys.”

Chrysalis gritted her teeth as she heard Tyler and saw him glowing on the front lines. Pointing her hoof at him, she yelled her order. “CHARGE!!!" With this, the swarm stormed right at the armies of Equestria and of the Crystal Empire.

While they waited, several drops of sweat ran down the one or another temple. But Tyler narrowed his eyes,
“Ready….” By now the swarm was only 500 meters away. Tyler gritted his teeth. “Steady…” Now the archers and unicorns got into stance and Tyler raised his arm. As the swarm was only 100 meters away, he pointed his arm at the swarm and yelled his command.

With this the arrows shot into the air and before the front rows several unicorns revealed a large trench where they were hiding in. Blankets had hidden it under an inch of sand. Taking aim, they shot their human blood payload into the storming swarm that was ripped to shreds. A large row of fireworks flashed on the front of the Equestrian Army and a dreadful wall of clouds of magic and fire caused the swarm to halt. Now the unicorns in the back rows fired their magic with their horns taking out several rows as well. The swarm, uncoordinated and puzzled regained its strength after several seconds after realizing of what happened. Chrysalis gritted her teeth. Without knowing it precisely, the ponies had taken out one fifth of her swarm with these bombs. Commanding her swarm to attack from above, several Changelings began their approach from the skies, but pegasi ponies gave their best to protect the artillery row. By now the ground forces engaged the swarm and a fierce battle started. As Tyler jumped right into the middle of the swarm, he discharged several hundred spells on impact, thus killing everything around him in a radius of one hundred meters.

Tossing aside dozens of changelings and ponies alike, Chrysalis and Tyler neared each other. As they stood face to face, circling around each other, a barrier raised to hinder anyone, changeling and pony alike to intervene. The barrier was several dozen meters wide and reached up into the sky. Leaping off the ground and buzzing angrily in the air, the Changeling queen charged her horn, shooting several shots at Tyler,
“Accursed ape! You’ve killed my children!!!”

Jumping away from three blasts, Tyler blocked the other two shots with a force field, just big enough as a shield,
“Nothing compared to what I’ll do to YOU!!!” With that he leaped up to her, boosted by magic. Grabbing her in midair, he delivered several hard blows to her torso. As both opponents fell to the ground, the queen pinned Tyler down.
Chrysalis sank her fangs into Tyler’s shoulder, penetrating the leather armor. Screaming out in pain, he punched her jaw and neck, causing her to release him. As Tyler held his bleeding shoulder in pain, Chrysalis coughed and gasped for air. Both looked in each other’s eyes stabbing each other down with hate in their eyes.

Gritting his teeth, Tyler went into fighting stance again,
“CHRYSALIS!!!”

As her breath took in just in time, she charged her horn again,
“JONES!!!”

And when they charged at each other, a large energy detonation wave penetrated the barrier from inside as they met, tossing changelings and ponies into the air. Shining Armor, sweaty from all the battle and with several fresh bruises and scratches already, looked in awe at the energy detonation at the base of the force field pillar. By now the battlefield had become bedlam. Changeling brutes tore ponies apart with mighty blows, Earth ponies tossed the blood beads into parts of the swarm like grenades, causing severe detonations what splattered changeling limbs all over the battlefield. Pegasi battled the swarm in the air as the Tellyhawk squad dropped blood beads into the swarm on the ground. More and more of the battlefield emptied, yet the changelings still outnumbered the ponies two to one. And slowly but surely, the swarm encircled the armies of the two kingdoms.

But Shining Armor also recognized an approaching army on the hills in the south, their black silhouettes stood out on the fields of the enclave. Coming out of the ranks of the shadow ponies, a sturdy black stallion looked down to the burning battlefield,
“So it is like my son has reported to me… And the ponies of the north have come to his aid… To liberate this land from the evil that befell it!” As he saw the swarm of Changelings, his look grew grimmer. “These vile creatures have killed our brethren!” With this he turned around to his soldiers. “Sons of Amasia! Avenge your brothers! Avenge your children!” As they roared in unison, he turned to the battlefield again and raised a sword. “FOR THE AMASIAN EMPIRE!!!” With this they approached the battlefield.

First the army came closer in a slow speed, but this speed became a full speed gallop really fast, prompting in a ground-shaking cannonade of hundreds of thousands of hooves. Several Changelings turned around due to this cannonade, but it already was too late. The Amasian forces lead by King Arthax hit the swarm on the ground like a tidal wave from behind and began to slaughter in wild rage. This slowly began to turn the tide between the swarm and the ponies and more and more, the swarm began to diminish. The Equestrians were startled at first, but then recognized the Amasian forces as allies against the common enemy.

Meanwhile Chrysalis and Tyler were still fighting. As Tyler’s right arm and Chrysalis right front hoof slammed against the opponent’s cheek, they both swayed back, shaking their heads. Tyler spat blood to the ground as Chrysalis eyes went wide. It was shortly after that, that she spat one of her fangs. This made her anger for the human boil even hotter as she roared in blind rage. As Chrysalis blasted her poisonous Changeling magic directly at Tyler, Tyler’s eyes widened. His body was engulfed in pain in an instant as he raised his arm to her, sending the magic back to her. While he was in an agonizing pain between being under high-voltage and poison, she got the whole physical damage of her own magic. As their magic seized, they both glared at each other, both almost at their limit. Tyler, having spent all the magic within him huffed and puffed heavily. His leather armor was torn to pieces and sweat was burning on his bruises and wounds. Green blood dripped from the queen’s snout and she spat on the ground,
“Accursed equestrian ape!”

As she charged at him on groggy legs, Tyler span around, delivering a heavy blow to her face with his feet. Off balance from the kick, Chrysalis stumbled and fell to the ground. Tyler didn’t hesitate, jumped at her and grabbed her neck. That’s when his mind finally went black. For minutes the other ponies hesitated and watched as the Changeling queen was pummeled mercilessly. Green blood was spilled more and more, when Tyler finally raised a boulder…
And then he slammed it down.

What followed was the most painful and agonizing shriek ponykind ever heard. As Tyler came to his senses, Chrysalis lied beneath him. Heavy bruises marked her face, blood dripped from her mouth. And her horn… Tyler gasped as he saw her horn shattered and broken. Only then did he realize the boulder in his still raised hands. His torso and arms ached. There was a moment of complete and utter silence as both opponents faced each other. Tyler didn’t know what had happened, but the tears in her eyes, the quiet sobbing, the fright and terror in her look…

Stripped of all her powers she was at his mercy and this situation frightened her more than anything in the world. Tossing the boulder away, he grabbed her by the neck,
“You are beaten! Your powers are gone, your kind is at my mercy! Admit your defeat!” Looking around the battlefield, Chrysalis noticed that her swarm was dead; the ponies had suffered heavy losses, but were victorious. They now gathered around the barrier, glaring at her angrily and determined. She was defeated. Her swarm had failed. Realizing this she let out one last fierce and raging roar of desperation.

Two days after that, the victors returned to Equestria with Chrysalis as prisoner. Under strict and constant surveillance the Changeling queen was kept in her cell with ten stallions to guard her together on her way to Canterlot. Fanfares sounded off as the ponies cheered for those returning home. Several families found together as their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters. Twilight gave a chorus of stallions a go and they sounded off with the ancient alicorn song Twilight now had completely translated. Luna helped and amplified their voices to a Royal Canterlot Canto, so the song was heard on all streets of Canterlot.

“Child of man, Child of man
Doing what nopony can
To keep evil forever at bay!
And the mightiest knaves flee
When his triumphant banner they see
Child of man, for your blessing we pray!

Hear now, you children of ponykind,
From the prophecy soon to unwind!
Promised a hero of law and might!
For he will come in time of need,
Picking up a blade for the terrors he will fight.
As they enter the child of man’s sight!

Let it be written that in time of great cold
Upon shadow ponies chaos shall unfold.
Chrysalis, Queen of locusts,
Ancient shadow with murderous lusts
Returns with a hunger to devour the world!

But on a day of glory,
When all terrors are history
Her throat shall lie in your will
All of Equestria’s allies will be freed from Chrysalis’ ill!

Child of man, Child of man
Doing what nopony can
To keep evil forever at bay!
And the mightiest knaves flee
When his triumphant banner they see
Child of man, for your blessing we pray!”

Tyler rolled his eyes as he looked to and chuckled at Shining Armor,
“They let it sound as if I destroyed the swarm all on my own. Who came up with this stupid song in the first place?”

The unicorn stallion chuckled,
“Just a little hero worship…”

Tyler smiled at Shining,
“Oh yeah? Well, this is the second time you saved ponykind from the Changelings. If I get an ancient song, then you deserve a full ancient opera!” While they both chuckled, Tyler looked to Chrysalis. The Changeling Queen was very quiet and looked broken. Ripped off her swarm and horn, all on her own, she was but a shadow of herself and not the threat she was before. But Tyler noticed the sturdy black stallion he saw on the battlefield earlier. He and his vassals were obviously Shadow Ponies and he nodded at Tyler with respect. Tyler answered this gesture with a nod himself.

In the throne room Princess Celestia and Princess Cadance and Princes Luna awaited the victorious combatants with the Mane Six,
“A great threat was tamed today! And for this we honor those who gave their lives to make this possible.” Eyeing the black stallion, Celestia bowed her head to him in respect and gratitude. “And from what I’ve heard, You, King Arthax helped to defeat the Changeling swarm as well. This truly is great day for our three kingdoms to unite against a common foe. I hope, the Amasian Empire and its Enclave will accept our friendship…”

Eying Celestia for a minute, King Arthax waited before he began to speak,
“Let it be known that I first got note that Equestria has invaded the Enclave. This army originally was meant for you… But then half way through with the preparations, a letter from my son reached me, saying the Enclave was brought to ruin by another force. A force wishing to bring ruin to our three kingdoms. Seeing the battlefield, I saw the truth. I saw the creatures my son described to me and the ponies that battled them on behalf of the Shadow ponies. The Equestrian ponies and Crystal ponies are friends to the Amasian Empire and your vassals are my vassals such as my vassals are your vassals. United we shall stand strong.” He then looked to Tyler. “But never before did I see such a being. My boy… What are you?”

Tyler nodded to the king,
“I’m a human, King Arthax. A being not from this world and friend and ally to Equestria and its ponies.”

King Arthax slowly nodded as he heard this, taking in the information of speaking to a being from another world.
“You have will strength. You shall be known as Ghora’Khar from now on which means ‘the will to fight for others’. This is a military title our troops will call you with, but you may choose a name the common shadow ponies will call you openly.”

Tyler smiled at this, thinking of a proper name,
“What is your word for ‘the act of justice’?”

Arching his brows King Arthax widened his eyes,
"We call this act ‘Banarium’…”

With a nod Tyler cocked his head,
“Could I be known as Tyler Banarium?”

With a bow, the king smiled as Tyler accepted his gift,
“You are Tyler Banarium. You and your herd mates are welcome in my empire.”

Now Tyler looked at Chrysalis, who was surrounded by guards, spears and horns pointing at her. Taking the leash he guided her before the throne,
“So… What do we do with her, now that she’s at our mercy?”

Cadance glared at her with hatred in her eyes. The memories of her wedding that almost went to disaster still lingered in her memory,
“We kill her!”

Twilight gritted her teeth as well,
“We end this misery! She has brought far too much misery on us!”

Celestia, however, shook her head,
“No! That’s not the solution we should go for!”

Cadance on the other hand began to accumulate magic in her horn to blast Chrysalis to her death,
“Oh, I think so, aunt… Because all these ponies… they still died… Because of her! If it would be the other way around, she wouldn’t hesitate to kill us!”

Tyler shook his head and stepped in front of the pink alicorn,
“Cadance… Come on! You’re better than her!” Gritting her teeth, she looked up to Tyler as tears welled inside her eyes. Shortly after, she turned away to her husband to cry bitter tears. Shining Armor welcomed her with a hug and whispered words of comfort into her ears.

Rainbow hovered besides Tyler as he looked to Chrysalis,
“Come on, T-man! You can’t trust her!”

Shaking his head, Tyler agreed with the cerulean Pegasus,
“No, I can’t… The only safe place for her is in custody. She must be kept prisoner to be monitored all the time.”

Chrysalis sneered on the thought,
“So… You just want to keep me like a pet???”

Tyler shrugged and nodded afterwards,
“Yes, if that’s what it takes? I was fighting long enough…” Looking to Celestia as for asking for permission he continued. “Maybe taking care for this pitiful creature will make a nice change in a while…”

Suddenly the shot of a pistol interrupted the hall as Irtex aimed at Chrysalis,
“Never let a crystal pony do a shadow pony’s work…” Chrysalis looked down and to the hole on her chest. The bullet had penetrated the chitin plate and pierced her heart. She stumbled a bit before she fell. Hastily, Tyler ran to her, catching her while falling. She looked up to him, gritting her teeth.

Everyone else thought she would take the chance to fight one last time, but she remained still,
“I would have preferred to be slain by you… You are a far more worthy opponent… You wouldn’t have given me the final blow while I’m defenseless. Dying in your arms… Are you satisfied now?”

Tyler shook his head and gazed down to her with a stern look,
“You’re not dying! We can help you, come on! Just a little healing magic and you’re fixed up!”

She then wrinkled her nose,
“You don’t know me, you bastard! I refuse…” With this her horn stump shimmered and with the last magic she had left, a green sphere surrounded them both, blocking all outside magic. “To spend my days left as your prisoner? Never shall I or my swarm fall that deep!”

Tyler shook his head, not noticing the tears running down his cheeks,
“I won’t let it end like that! You are the only one left! This is genocide… LET US HELP YOU!!!”

A pleased smile formed on her face,
“How about that… Even in death I can make you shed tears… But why are you crying for me? You above all… I’ve looked deep into your soul…”

The human gasped and his eyes widened in surprise,
“What do you mean?”

Locking her eyes on his, she coughed some blood before continuing,
”There’s a fire inside of you… This eternal flame of war…You are the real monster here, not me. Your fighting will never stop…” She then looked into the air with a sad expression. “I’m sorry, Papa… I couldn’t do as you told me… Now no one… loves me…” Then her head went limp and her eyes rolled back. As her body rested lifeless in his arms, he embraced the changeling queen tightly in his arms, gritting his teeth, screaming in anger.

The others looked to him as the green barrier vanished,
“Why is he crying?" Rainbow Dash asked, "Her death means peace for all of us, doesn’t it?”

“No, Rainbow, that’s not the point." Twilight interfered, "He wanted to give her one last chance to redeem herself under his custody and maybe learn to live a better life, even when her kind of diet is a parasitic one.”

Princess Celestia now approached the six ponies and gave Twilight a brief nod,
“Being merciful to the defeated can be one of the hardest lessons one has to learn. I’m sorry it didn’t turn out as he had hoped it would…” She then turned to Irtex. “Sir Irtex, you have committed murder in our kingdom! While the shadow ponies are welcome here to visit, you as individual certainly are not! With the threat gone, I want you and your kind to rebuild in the south again. And you as an individual are from now on forbidden to enter Equestria ever again!”

King Arthax frowned upon Irtex as well,
“Although I can understand your anger about the loss of your mother, my son… Yet you slay a defeated and defenseless opponent? What a disgrace! We shall talk about the consequences for this dishonorable act once we return home!”

* * * * *

Later that evening…

With the torch in his hand, Tyler set the pile of oil drenched wood on which the corpse of the Changeling Queen rested on fire. None of his six friends, the princesses or the royal guard spoke a word as he gave Chrysalis the last honor by being cremated in a fire burial,
“I feel like a human being. Not the monster Chrysalis thought she would see in me. If there is something like a monster in me, it is buried deep within my sub consciousness, where it belongs!” And he stood there for hours, watching the fire consume Chrysalis as if he was accompanying her into the next life or making sure the terror was gone for real. Only Twilight stayed with him until the end. As she looked into his face, she saw tears glittering in his eyes. Although he had fought Chrysalis for the sake of all ponies, he was willing to spare her for the sake of the survival of her own kind while all other only wanted to end the nightmare. Although Tyler was a fierce fighter, he was fighting for a just cause, not genocide.

When she approached him, he looked down to her,
“It was her choice, Tyler… Don’t feel bad about it. You did what you could to save her…”

His eyes turned to the fire again,
“I know… Don’t worry, Twilight… I’m OK…

After he entered his Canterlot chambers with Twilight, the rest of the Mane Six sat at the tables or around the bed. Tyler went into the bathroom and took a shower while Twilight talked to the girls,
“Well, Twilight? How is he?”

The lavender unicorn grimaced a bit and shook her head,
“Princess Celestia took care of his heavier wounds and the rest will heal in a day or two. But the death of Chrysalis sure took a chunk from his morale.”

Rarity shook her head in grief,
“But of course! What Tyler did was an honorable act, offering mercy to the defeated. Prince Irtex on the other hand…” She shuddered for a moment. “I can’t imagine how someone can kill a defenseless being as cold as he did.”

Rainbow sat at the balcony, thoughtful,
“I can’t understand him on this! I mean sure… That Irtex dude sure isn’t cool! I mean nopony should pick on an already defeated opponent, but Tyler behaves like he had hopes for that Chrysalis.”

“Rainbow, he HAD hopes he could change her…”

The Pegasus mare looked down,
“Yeah… If you put it that way this sucks even worse…”

Taking off her Stetson, Applejack faced the others,
“Come on, y’all! Tyler’s a fierce fighter, but he sure ain’t a killer! He wouldn’t end a life when somepony’s on the ground! Not even a Changeling... For that, Ah respect the big feller big time! Take’s a lot of gut to start a fight, but it sure needs even more to end it. Ah say we give him some space, let him forget some of the fightin’ and feudin’. This can really get to yer, y’all.” As the shower went off the girls went silent.

When he came out with a towel around his waist, Pinkie Pie stood before him with big teary eyes,
“I… I was going to throw a victory party for you… But now you don’t feel victorious anymore… Want a… a cheer up party instead?” Tyler stared down to the pink earth pony, who returned the look with big puppy eyes, before he knelt down to embrace her tightly and began to sob. One after another, the Mane Six approached him and joined into a group hug. Rainbow was the last one who saw to the group. The thought of one of her best friends getting so worked up displeased her. She bit her lip and approached the group as she stood in front of his head, which bowed over Pinkie’s shoulder.

The next thing Tyler could feel was her grip around the group and her forehead resting on his,
“Stop crying, you big moron! You make me all sappy! I’m the one supposed to be cool here!”

As he looked up with tears in his eyes, he smiled at her as he saw her eyes welling with tears as well,
“Crying Pegasus mare joining a group hug… Definitely cool! Come here, you!” Pulling her in, he embraced her as well and the seven friends remained silent for what felt like eternity. It was then when three knocks at the door interrupted their unity. The Mane Six gave Tyler some room and he went to the door. “Yes?”

A member of the royal guard stood in front of the door and saluted to him,
“Tyler Jones! We have captured one survivor of the Changeling swarm!”

This brought back Tyler’s spirit and he looked up,
“A survivor, you say? Who?”

The guard rolled his eyes,
“She said her name is Shiria and she’s apparently a Changeling Princess! She simply surrendered and let us catch her.”

Tyler’s eyes widened,
“Let me get dressed, I’ll be on my way!” With this he went back to the bathroom and dressed up.

Twilight knocked on the bathroom door,
“Tyler… Do you think this really is…?” The bathroom door opened in an instant and Tyler stood there with a jeans.

“Seriously, who would make something like that up?” His mood visibly got better by this message, despite it being a message to be concerned about. “Now…This means the threat still exists, BUT we have it under control! And there is no genocide since with her the whole species could be kept alive!” He placed a long and longing kiss on Twilight’s lips and put on his shirt.

Rarity arched a brow,
“Although I’m happy for you that you no longer have to bear the burden of genocide… Darling, do you truly think that a Changeling can be trained to fit in pony society?”

Tyler shrugged,
“It hasn’t been tried before, has it? I think we at least owe her the chance to try…"

Twilight arched a brow,
"True, just remember to keep an extra eye on her. I for one don’t trust these Changelings as far as I could throw them!”

Looking into her eyes, Tyler gave her a nod,
“Good… That was a great hint towards security. I’ll keep it in mind Twilight. Thank you.”

* * * * *

An hour later…

In her cell, Shiria already cocooned the walls and was buzzing up to crawl on the ceiling to cocoon it as well, as the door opened and Tyler entered her cell,
“Princess Shiria!”

As he looked up to her, she gasped on his sight, falling from the ceiling in surprise. Once on the bottom, she looked up to him angrily,
“Hey! Don’t you knock before entering a ladybug’s boudoir?”

Tyler rolled his eyes. Here she was, at the mercy of others and demanded manners. You have some nerve, girl…
“I’m only here, because I want to save your kind from extinction! While your mother refused to change her way of life, I hope you can lead Changelings to coexistence. A changeling family or something. Small enough to keep check on it.”

Disgust grew in Shiria’s face,
“So you want me to behave and think like my host animals? HA! Sorry, human! No deal!”

Rolling his eyes in annoyance, Tyler cocked his head,
“I talked to the princesses and Shining Armor. You accept to rehabilitate in a limited and guarded area and they write your ticket out of the dungeon and house you in a containment area.”

This made Shiria buzz excited,
“Wheee! A bigger prison cell! Might be interesting!”

Yet Tyler raised his index finger in a scolding manner,
“IF you promise to resign from transformation into other ponies!”

She looked up to him, first baffled, then huffy,
“What? Shoot! Take all the fun out of life!”

Tyler then turned away, annoyed to waste his time with her,
“Fine, have fun starving to death!”

Buzzing loud behind him, she jumped up and followed him,
“OK, OK! I promise! No Mimicry!” With this she held his hand with her perforated hooves and smiled. “Oh, the irony of it! The grim protector of Equestria and the daughter of his greatest female adversary trying to restore the Changeling hive!”

* * * * *

Not an hour later he escorted her to her future containment cell. Her wings were tied to her body and she had a collar with a leash. Holding the leash and her horn Tyler guided her every step. Looking at Tyler, she narrowed her eyes with a pouting face,
“I sense a lack of trust…”

The guards in charge nodded as he came with Shiria to the CCF, the Changeling Containment Facility,
“Sir, did you had any difficulties with her?”

Tyler looked to Shiria who gave him her friendliest smile, which still was spoiled by her fangs,
“No, she was obedient…” As he lead her into her cell, he introduced her to it. “Food, water, a warm bed, books to read… You shall have it nice in here. Snug as a bug… Ooops! Did I say that loud?”

Shiria now looked around and then gazed upon Tyler,
“So you wish me to raise a family inside here? Fine… When are you going to do me?”

Tyler felt like punched in the face,
“Come again?”

Wiggling her Changeling flanks before his eyes, she narrowed her eyes seductively and bit her bottom lip a bit,
“When are you going to have sex with me?”

His eyes now widened. Holy crap! She’s serious?
“What? Me? You have to be kidding! I could never feel something for a Changeling in a sexual manner!”

Turning around to him, she looked at him with desperation in her eyes,
“But… I’m a Changeling princess! Without a male being, I can’t become a Changeling Queen! Even we Changelings need a partner to begin the cycle. And one birth cycle can hold from 50 to 200 changelings. So if you really want to ‘cultivate’ the changelings, you must bring me a male willing to impregnate me.”

Tyler nodded and turned to the door,
“I’ll let the princess know…”

One hour later he discussed the topic with Celestiain her chambers,
“I won’t do this, Celestia. Yes, the girl is a princess like Luna and you and might have her appeal AND she’s not Chrysalis, but I won’t sleep with an insect! Even I have my limits! Do you know that there are two bearers of Harmony elements who are my herd mates with Luna? And I’m not even talking about you!”

The sun princess nodded calmly, smiling as she did,
“Yes, I know, Tyler. Twilight and Applejack both reported me their courting and I encouraged both of them to do as they did.”

His eyes widened in surprise,
“You… You WHAT?”

This caused Celestia to laugh,
“Now, now… Don’t be mad, Tyler. I always tried to encourage Twilight to make friends or find a mate. But my oh so faithful student, always taking her studies first. I deem it the right thing she finds you appealing. Or maybe just the best object to study since she became my student. She can’t have foals with you yet, but maybe a relationship with you will strengthen her wish to have one. As for this Changeling princess… you know I only wanted Chrysalis to leave, not to die. Her death in our kingdom came with a bitter taste, the taste of genocidal murder. We are lucky Shiria exists, so this sin is not complete. And yet… Her last words made me think that she wasn’t always like this…”

Tyler sat down right next to Celestia,
“I guess we will find out soon enough about that… I know you wanted to banish Shiria, but since she’s the only one left, I feel responsible for her. Not for her sick personality, but her species. Maybe we can learn more about the Changelings that way and understand what made them like this. But I can’t simply sleep with her and return to this little… herd of mine saying nothing happened!”

With this, Celestia nodded,
“I will find somepony who will be willing to do this. But if you’re not willing to do it, then I won’t force you. You can return to your chamber then. You have earned yourself all the rest you want now.”
“Thanks for understanding, Celestia…” After this, they hugged each other before Tyler went back to his chamber.

* * * * *

On the next day the guards brought one convict from the Canterlot dungeon to the CCF,
“Convict BJA-836, Black Rock! Guilty of rape and murder in five cases… Well, isn’t it your lucky day? You are about to screw a Changeling princess today! If you don’t… Well sentence is death in that case. Consider it your last chance to do something for society for a change…

Black Rock only looked at the big security door,
"You mean I only have to do it with that thing once and my sentence is reduced by half?”

“If she doesn’t eat you alive afterwards that is…” The guards chuckled in a dark manner. “Come on! Don’t be shy! Don’t harm her, just buck her! Won’t be a big thing for you, eh?”

When Black Rock entered, Shiria was lying on a plush carpet, her Changeling hair tied to a ponytail to differ from her mother’s look and read a book. As she noticed him, she narrowed her eyes and examined him,
“Are you my executioner or my lover?”

Black Rock arched a brow,
“If you’re a good girl I’m your lover. And we will have a lot of fun together.” With this her look became seductively and she raised her flanks for him so he could mount her. Without much thought he grinned and did exactly this.

Shiria didn’t object or flinch as he entered her. Obediently she let it happen. She wondered with how many ponies her mother did the same thing. There was no love in this act and she honestly preferred it that way. It was meant clinical impregnation for her and she ignored the groaning and moaning stallion on top of her. In her mind she already smiled and triumphed as she felt the sperm gushing into her womb. Without knowing, Black Rock slowly succumbed to the Changeling princess. New dark plans began to form in her mind as her horn began to glow and she feasted on his emotions for her womb.

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