As the three Alicorns made their way into a vacant room, Chrysalis kept eying the stallion that had given her a free meal. A million thoughts raced through her head as she continued to follow behind the duo.

'How is it possible for a being to find a way to give a changeling something as valuable as food, but fix it so that it could also be taken away in case they mean him harm?' She thought as they all finally took a seat. Her expression clearly giving away her discomfort in the situation.

"I take it you disapprove of my ability to give something that can be taken away so easily." Midnight stated seeing Chrysalis glare slightly at him.

"It is not a matter of you being able to, it is a matter of why you would create such an ability." She stated with a little venom behind her voice.

"Midnight dear, I think it best to let our guest in on what has happened in the past with Marina." Celestia piped up causing Midnight to nod in agreement.

"Chrysalis, what I am about to tell you is personal, and I want you to know that even though Marina is a changeling. Celestia and I love her as if we were her real parents. We would never do anything to hurt her, and only want what's best for her. So please know that the information I am about to reveal to you was in no way meant to hurt a changeling." He stated causing Chrysalis to continue her glare.

"Some time ago, Marina had been having some episodes in which she would go crazy from blocking what she states is a hive mind. Where she can hear countless other voices from others within your hive. She had one especially bad episode where she said that you had ordered her to kill everything in sight." Midnight snorted giving a look of anger.

'His emotions are flaring. But why would he be so angry just from something like that?' Chrysalis thought to herself as she continued to listen.

"She ended up hurting several of the royal guard that was getting ready to change shifts. They were taken by surprise that she had taken the form of a guard herself before attacking them. They managed to subdue her though before I could administer a spell to help block your hive mind."

"You WHAT?!" Chrysalis shouted as her insectoid wings buzzed angrily behind her.

"I take it you disapprove of such a method." He stated as he gave her a slight glare.

"Blocking the hive mind is an insult to the changeling race." She blurted out with a snort. "How dare you do such a thing to one of my children."

"There is a difference between having a child and having a drone to do your bidding. Marina was a drone to you and nothing more." Celestia stated with a glare of her own.

"That is a matter of opinion." Chrysalis retorted before Midnight continued.

"Anyway, up until that point, I had to find a way to prevent her from doing harm to others. We found a way through trial and error. That was what you experienced earlier."

"I must admit that what you did took me by surprise. Not only from you giving me sustenance, but having the ability to take it away as well. You are rather intriguing." Chrysalis gave a toothy smile as she placed her forehooves onto the table in front of her, trying her best to give a seductive grin.

Midnight in turn gave a smirk to her as he spoke. "Your changeling magic will not work on me." He chuckled. "I have had time to study changelings over time and have made many counter spells to prevent your mind tricks into capturing my mind in order to feed off of my emotions."

Chryslais gave an annoyed snort as she sat back in her seat before a smile slowly spread across her lips and she leaned back onto the table once again. "I have a feeling though you have not just asked me hear for negotiations." She grinned seeing them look to one another worriedly.

"You are correct." Celestia began. "We have asked you here for two things. One would be to remove your changelings from the Crystal Empire, preferably Equestria in a whole." She began but paused as Chrysalis chuckled.

"That is quite the demand. But please, do continue, what would be the second request?" She giggled.

"The second would be to completely release Marina from the hive mind so that she can have a normal life as our adopted daughter." Midnight stated causing the Changeling queen to scoff.

"Ha! Do you take me for a fool?! To ask me to remove the hive mind from a single drone is bad enough, but to ask me to remove my hive from the lands that we feed upon in order to merely survive? You are asking for us to starve to death!" She erupted toward the two but stopped as Midnight began to speak once again.

"I did not ask this unconditionally." He began causing her to cock a brow before taking her seat once again.

"Then please explain yourself. I am already loosing patience." She sighed in annoyance.

"Midnight.......... Do you think this approach to be wise?" Celestia asked in worry.

"Hmmmmm. It must be something grand in order to make the Sun Goddess worry like she is." Chrysalis smiled as she licked her lips at the flavor of the emotion.

"It would be the only way to keep the ponies of Equestria safe, and to keep the changeling race alive without worry of them taking the lives of others in order to feed." Midnight sighed as he looked from Celestia to the changeling queen.

"Chrysalis, queen of the changelings. I offer to feed your entire hive when needed as payment for our request." Midnight stated causing the changeling queens eyes to nearly pop out of her head in surprise.

"You must be joking?!" She squeaked out before feeling something coming from the stallion. It was love once again, but it began to replace some of the love she already had before stopping just shy of filling her belly almost a quarter full.

"What I have just given you was unconditional love Chrysalis. I will in turn give you a full belly while giving your hive a mixture of the two for a time until I deem that you will no longer be a threat to this land. You will continue to get 'free meals' from me on a as needed basis. I will travel to your lands willingly and give your entire hive what they need in order to survive. You have our conditions." He stated before he and Celestia rose and headed toward the door.

"We will leave you to ponder on this for a short time." Midnight began before Chrysalis raised a hoof to stop them.

"There will be no need. You have clearly made the decision for me." She began with a look of slight disgust on her face. "You have offered to feed countless changelings and their queen in return for leaving your lands and freeing a single drone from the hive mind? I honestly wonder if you are either stupid, or just plain mad?!" She began to giggle as she rose from her seat and headed toward the door, giving what sounded like a purr as she pressed passed the stallion and through the door, flicking her tail at his snout and causing Celestia to glare at her.

"Bring your daughter to me. I will release her from the hive mind. But be warned, releasing a drone from the hive mind can have, undetermined, effects to her mental and physical being." She chuckled.

"What do you mean?" Celestia asked as they followed her out of the room.

"Let it be known now that I am what she will become in time once her mind is freed from the hive. A changeling that is set free from the hive mind will seek the start her own hive in time. You are not only asking for trouble, but terrible heartache in the future. I will free her, but what she does from that moment forward, is entirely on you." Chrysalis stated as they continued into the throne room. Celestia summoning a guard to go and fetch Marina.

A short time passed as Marina had arrived in the throne room. She continued to glare at her queen as she slowly approached her. Chrysalis giving a smirk to the young changeling as she let her guise fall in her presence.

"Your parents have requested that you be free from the hive mind. What they have offered in return could not be refused. So I must thank you for not only disobeying my orders, but for also helping in unintentionally feeding the entire hive." She smirked as her horn lit up and a beam of energy shooting out, hitting the changeling and making her stagger for a moment before she rubbed her head gently.

"You are now free from the hive mind. You will never again have to listen to the mass of voices until you create your own hive. Only then will you be in control of them." She said as she turned away from the changeling. Marina swiveling her ears to attempt to listen to the whispers of her former hive but couldn't. She gave a smile before looking up to Chrysalis and giving her foreleg a hug. Pulling back and bringing up her guise before rushing out of the room to find her brother.

Chrysalis stood there in shock for a moment as she felt it. The love that she thought only ponies could give. It was love from Marina. But she couldn't understand how. A changeling could never give another love to feed on. How could this one be any different? Those thoughts stopped though as Midnight spoke up.

"Shall we go to the hive? I do have a busy schedule and would love to get this particular event out of the way rather quickly." He stated as the two began to leave the castle.

After a long flight, Chrysalis and Midnight had arrived at the hive entrance. It was in a dry desolate area of dirt and rock. Many of the mounds having hundreds of holes within them. Each and everyone revealing a changeling that began to exit said hole before giving a threatening hiss toward the Alicorn as he walked with the queen toward her tower. As she trotted along though, Midnight would soon find out how well the hive mind actually worked as changelings of many different shapes and sizes began to slowly file out of the mounds and fly toward the tower in the distance.

After another ten minutes of a fast paced trot. The two Alicorns arrived at the base of the tower. Each and every changeling within the hive clearing a path for them as they watched them expectantly.

"Chrysalis, how far does love radiate when I concentrate on the conditional one?" Midnight asked as she looked to him giving a smirk.

"I would say roughly ten yards. Give or take a few yards depending on concentration." She grinned. "With my entire hive ready to feed. I would guess that you will be here for maybe an hour. If you provide them with what you provided me with before. A quarter unconditional love mixed into the conditional?" She said while rubbing up against him playfully.

"Chrysalis, I am going to do something that I promised somepony I wouldn't do. I am doing this though to let you know that I intend on keeping my promise as long as you keep yours." Midnight stated as he concentrated directly onto Chrysalis, looking her in the eyes as they went wide in what seemed like pure ecstasy, her eyes rolled back into her head. A low moan escaping her as her legs wobbled before she fell to the ground panting. After a few seconds she looked up and into Midnight's eyes, hunger evident in them. But not for food.

"That has to have been the only time in my life that a being was able to fulfill me in a way that I cannot explain." She spoke out lustfully as she pressed roughly onto the stallion. "Plus it is the first time a being has also willingly given me a full belly of unconditional love as well. I do believe that I will enjoy feeding on you again in time. But until that moment, please, feed my hive. I will be in my tower until you have finished."

Midnight watched the changeling queen trot into her tower, a sway in her hips as she walked on. He gave a grin watching her but stopped as he heard a few chuckles from the changelings around him.

"Someone has the hots for the queen." One of them piped up causing Midnight to snap his head around as his mane turned a bright pink. In turn causing many of them to laugh.

"Alright everyone, start filing past me at a quick trot, pass the message on as well so we can keep this at a brisk pace." Midnight shouted out in the royal whee causing those within shouting distance to get into a long line filed five thick on each side of the Alicorn.

After an hour and many changelings later. The hive had finished traveling past the Alicorn and had quickly returned to their burrows. Content with having been given a full belly. Once the last few had flown off, Midnight had made his way into the tower and up to the top to see Chrysalis sitting on a large black velvet pillow as he entered the main room.

"Well now, that took far less time than I had initially thought." She purred giving a smile.

"I've done my part. You may send a messenger to request my presence here again when needed." Midnight stated as he gave a slight bow to the queen before turning back to the door.

"Won't you stay for a bite to eat?" Chrysalis purred again causing him to pause for a moment as he turned his vision back to her only to see a couple of drones come out from a side entrance. Each with a roasted pig on a platter before setting them onto a table and making a quick exit. Midnight turned back to the site giving slightly wide eyes at the sight.

"Ah........ so my intel was correct. You do crave meat unlike the pony populace that has taken over this land." She grinned as he walked over and took a seat, closing his eyes and taking in a deep breath of the cook swine that was sitting before him.

"What else has your intel told you?" He asked as his horn began to glow slightly causing his mouth to visibly glow as well.

"That you were once human, which is an omnivorous species." She chuckled seeing him grin, showing his new canines that shone brighter in the light.

"That is true. But I must admit one thing." He chuckled as his magic took a hold of the cooked swine and began to tear a piece of meat from it.

"And what would that be?" Chrysalis purred as she watched the stallion.

"I think I am going to enjoy coming by if you can have something like this waiting for me each time." He chuckled before sinking his teeth into the meat. Chrysalis giving a purr of approval upon feeling his emotion of satisfaction from having eaten something he hadn't in years.