It didn't take long for Princess Celestia to make a royal announcement to Equestria at large in regards to Amicitia and who he is exactly. While there were a couple of nobles that didn't seem like they appreciated that the son of Chrysalis was being given a free pass, Celestia had explained the entire situation around Amicitia and what exactly happened with him. That pretty much made pretty much all the nobles shut up. All except one. Care to take an early guess who?

"You can't be serious Aunty. I get that he was brainwashed, but I say we blackmail Chrysalis with this information. Tell her that if she doesn't turn herself in, her own son will be executed in her place for the various crimes she's committed." Blueblood said. I growled.

"...Tell me something, Blueblood, how would you like it if Princess Celestia suddenly turned evil, and then the populace basically blackmailed her to turn herself in or you'd be executed. By a show of hooves, how many nobles here would be willing to risk your life like that?" Amicitia asked. Pretty much every noble in the room raised their hoof. In fact, the only pony who didn't raise their hoof was Blueblood. "...Thought so. Seems you've burned every bridge you could with your fellow nobels. Not a single one would think twice then to use you for blackmail. I wonder why that is?" Amicitia asked. "Seems to me, that you've been flaunting your position so much, that you've stepped on the toes of at least every noble in here. So I ask you now, 'Prince' Blueblood: Which one of us is more of a prince now?" Amicitia asked.

"...Auntie, I demand that you go through my demands at once, because this one cannot be trusted." Blueblood said.

"I refuse. Plain and simple. Because it seems that you have not been doing what I asked of you and straightened out that attitude of yours. This better be the last time any evidence of your incompetence to actually work with your fellow nobles, or you may find yourself stripped of your lands and title." Celestia said.

Blueblood gulped. "...Yes Auntie." He said meekly.

After that, my own brother practically praised Amicitia for this little act. Even he had to admit the way he stuck it to Blueblood like that was something many nobles wish they had the heart to do. When I asked Amicitia how he knew, he brought up once again how Changelings can detect feelings, no matter how distinct. And it had occurred to him, that every noble in that room had resentment towards Blueblood for some reason. My brother quite liked that Amicitia practically revealed that Blueblood has burned many bridges over the years.

In fact, Amicitia's changeling abilities came in real handy a couple of days later when Pinkie Pie cloned herself with the mirror pool. This allowed me and the rest of my friends to isolate the real Pinkie Pie so I could dispel all the various clones around Ponyville. It was this act alone that made the populace of Ponyville accept Amicitia a lot more, since he was able to help me get rid of the horde of Pinkie Pies. It was the day after the Pinkie Pie hoard that was very interesting however.

Amicitia was enjoying his time outside with me when who else would crash into him but Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo.

"Ouch. That hurt you know." Amicitia said.

"Scootaloo, you should really watch where you're driving that scooter of yours." I said to Scootaloo.

"I know Twilight. Hey, is this that Prince Amicitia fellow?" Scootaloo asked.

"That is me. You can just call me Amicitia if you'd like." Amicitia said.

"I'm Scootaloo." Scootaloo introduced.

"I'm Sweetie Belle." Sweetie Belle said.

"And ah'm Apple Bloom." Apple Bloom spoke up next.

"AND WE ARE THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!" The three fillies yelled at once.

"MY EARS!" Amicitia exclaimed. "How on earth are the three of you able to have such high volume when you yell together?" He asked.

"Beats us, we just go with the flow mostly." Scootaloo said.

"Besides, we're busy trying to get our cutie marks. So that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon won't pick on us anymore." Sweetie Belle said.

"...Two fillies are not treating you as equals?" Amicitia asked.

"Yeah." Apple Bloom said.

"...I'll be right back. I'm getting to the bottom of this." Amicitia said before teleporting away.

"...Wonder what that was about?" Scootaloo asked.

"Do you honestly think he believes Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon have a reason for their actions?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Well he is a changeling. Didn't you hear how he basically turned the entire noble class on Blueblood with just one question?" Apple Bloom asked.

"...How do you know that?" I asked after blinking.

"We may have heard a few rumors of about it." Scootaloo said. "Even if we don't work for the Foal Free Press anymore, we still can't help but here about gossip." She added.

"Fair point." I said. There was a large yelling coming from half-way across Ponyville.

"...That did NOT sound like Diamond Tiara." Apple Bloom said.

That was when Amicitia re-appeared. "...Well. Turns out that Diamond Tiara's mother was mostly to blame. Got the full story. Silver Spoon was only doing things because Diamond Tiara was her only friend, and Diamond Tiara was being trained to basically step over all her peers and drag them into the mud. I highly doubt that after basically scaring Spoiled Rich into stop raising her daughter so harshly, that those two will ever do it again." Amicitia said.

"Wouldn't that be a bad thing?" Apple Bloom asked.

"...You're complaining to me about not having to deal with Diamond Tiara's bullying anymore?" Amicitia asked.

"Well, when you put it that way, guess scaring DT's mother was better than anything else you could've done." Sweetie Belle said.

"How exactly did you scare Spoiled Rich anyways?" I asked.

"I just hope I didn't scare her so bad that she'll end up needing to be sent to a mental hospital. I shouldn't have been able to scare her that bad by transforming into a manticore and roaring at her." Amicitia said.

"I guess it depends on how afraid Spoiled Rich would be by something like that." I said.

The good news is that when Apple Bloom's cousin Babs Seed came by things went by rather smoothly and Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon stayed mostly away from the action, allowing the CMC to get one new member easily. The bad news, is that Spoiled Rich did have to be given therapy, but after what was revealed about how Spoiled Rich was raising Diamond Tiara, Amicitia was given a pass since it pretty much stopped Diamond Tiara's bad behavior around other ponies for good. There was one more thing the day after Babs Seed left back to Manehatten that Scootaloo told me about.

"I'm...I'm sorry. For everything." Diamond Tiara had told the entire class that day. And then she even said it to the Cutie Mark Crusader's face later. "I don't know if I'll ever earn your forgiveness especially so, but I'll do what I can to do so." Diamond Tiara said.

"Hey, so long as you don't try and bully us no more, we'll gladly accept your apology." Apple Bloom said.

"Th-thanks. I have more apologies to give out. And after that, I'll try and see how I can start earning forgiveness from others." Diamond Tiara said.

Don't worry, the CMC will still be getting their cannon cutie marks roughly the same way, it's that the circumstances around it will be different.