"So much love, it is more than I had ever dreamed of." Chrysalis tittered softly as she continued to absorb the unconditional love that the human was exerting as he played with his two faux foals. Chrysalis sitting idly by in the guise as the Sun Goddess, Princess Celestia.

It had been almost a week since he had fallen under the changelings spell, and came to live with her and the entire changeling hive. During this time, the human had spent almost every moment with his children, and quite a few with the queen. But every second spent with the changeling queen all came to the same conclusion. She would end up in bed with the human, only to put off the interlude. She wanted the Alicorns seed, not the humans, and to do that, the human must first change back into the stallion that he had been previously.

Over the few days that she had spent with the human, she would question him about why he had not changed back into his Alicorn body. His reply would always be the same.

"I don't know love, I've told you that I don't know how many times. But if you're so bent outta shape over it, call in one of the doctors or Twilight..." He trailed off for a moment as he scratched his chin idly.

"By the way, where is Twilight... and my other brides as well? I haven't seen them since I got to the castle." He asked, giving a slightly worried expression.

"They are just tending to a few things at the moment my dear." The changeling queen smiled warmly in the guise of the Sun Goddess. "They will return shortly."

"I sure hope so..." He paused as he looked out of the window from within the fake bed chambers that was made to look like Celestias room. "I feel like I haven't seen, nor heard from them in forever..." He paused, getting a playful nudge from his fake son.

"Let's go play father, we haven't played all day." He chirped happily as he bounced around the reclining human.

"Heh, alright then. It feels like I haven't played with my babies enough either. Considering I haven't been myself lately, I will take that as a sign to play more often." He chuckled as he rose form his seat and followed the little changeling from the room, the door closing behind them as they headed down the corridor.

'Your majesty...' A voice spoke out quietly within the hive link. 'Is it safe to enter?'

'Yes, come to me my minion.' She spoke out through the link as she looked to the balcony door, watching as it slowly opened, revealing a tiny changeling that was no bigger than the real Starlight Flame.

"My queen, urgent news from our spies in Canterlot." He hissed out as he flew forth, quickly pulling a small scroll from within a pouch on his backside, hoofing it over to the queen and slowly bowing before backing away.

The changeling queen quickly snatched the scroll up and bringing it to in front of her within a magical levitation field. Her eyes skimming over it once, then again as her eyes slowly narrowed.

"So the Alicorn seeks to retrieve her stallion, does she?" The changeling queen hummed to herself as she gave a devious grin.

"Let's see how she likes our labyrinth tunnels below." She tittered softly as she began to speak out through the hive link.

'My little ones, begin preparations for some visitors in the labyrinth. The humans brides will be here within a few hours. Make sure to vacate the areas quickly. We will make sure that they do not survive their rescue attempt.' She ordered, causing the entire hive to give a battle cry as they all took off toward the massive maze of caves below ground.

"Considering that my entire hive now has been well fed by the human, as well as myself becoming stuffed from his overwhelming amounts of love. I do think that Celestia will be in far more dire a situation than the time I attempted to take over Canterlot." She began to laugh softly before it began to turn into a maddening cackle.

"So tell me again why you never visited the changeling lands?" Rarity asked Celestia as they flew through the brilliant blue sky, on their way toward the changeling lands.

"I never visited those lands because of Chrysalis and my prior history. She was my student long ago, and when she was banished, I never kept tabs on her until the first infestation of changelings began to show up throughout Equestria. I admit that, at the time, it was a foolish decision, and even more so that I did not end her life when I had the chance. But now, I must face her, knowing that she has taken our stallion to become her own, just to feed upon him until he... until he..." She trailed off as her eyes began to mist up.

"Don't you worry none, ahm sure that the big lug'll be right as rain once we find'im. Then we can open up a barrel'o flank whoopin on that giant roach pony." Applejack grinned with determination as they continued to fly toward their destination.

"Oh, and Twilight, darling. I am just oh so thrilled to have these wonderful wings once again. Remind me to thank our darling stallion for sharing his spell with you and the princess." Rarity giggled as she looked back to her elegant white wings.

"Yea, ah don't mind having'em again either. They're a might handy right now considering we couldn't teleport to the changeling lands. *urp* But it does make me a bit air sick considerin." AJ groaned out slightly as her face turned a little green.

"Are you sure you're up to this fight AJ? I'm sure we can get Midnight back without your help." Twilight asked as she looked over to the flying farm pony.

"Ahm sure, sides, ya'll don't think ah'd let ya'll take all the credit in'is rescue now, do ya?" She chuckled seeing them roll their eyes.

"No darling, the thought never crossed our minds." Rarity sighed in exasperation.

The four ponies continued flying toward the changeling lands, two of which were in a fury over how wreckless the changeling queen had been in capturing their husband. The other two, waiting in anticipation to have their love back in their arms once again.

It had taken the better part of a few hours for the group to travel the entire distance into the changeling lands. Once they arrived, they had landed almost a mile from the changeling tower, so as to avoid alerting them ahead of time. The barren land was carved with countless holes, leading into and out of the massive underground hive. The tower however, was as dark as the night itself, with jagged protrusions jutting out from it in every direction. Many holes carved into it to mimic the changeling queen that made it her dwelling.

"Uh... princess... ah don't right know how teh ask this, so ah'll just say it. Why in the hoo ha ain't we just busting inteh the tower teh get our stallion back? Ya know... a full frontal assault?" AJ asked as they began to make their way toward the tower.

"Applejack my dear, Im' not sure if you are aware of this or not, but the spell that Twilight and Myself had cast onto herself, and you two as well, required a lot of magic. Despite it being Midnights own version of the wing spell, it requires normal unicorns and alicorns almost twice the magic it would take in order to cast it properly. The only reason we avoided using the pony version spell was because we cannot afford to have the wings evaporate in the sunlight. That alone could mean a death sentence to you three if we were to get into an aerial confrontation. Although I am powerful, I cannot be in two places at once, and considering that Midnight and I have already... already lost..." Celestia paused in her stride as tears began to stream down her face. the memories of losing her only adopted daughter still fresh in her memory.

Twilight came forth, gently pulling the crying sun Goddess into a loving hug, the others joining in as she sobbed softly. After several minutes they parted as they once again begain to slowly trek toward the massive tower that was quickly closing in on them.

"Have your magic reserves replenished Tia?" Twilight asked as she looked over to her, seeing her nod as a look of determination spread across her face.

"They have, and just in time as well." Celestia growled out as she glared forward at the entrance of the tower where two large changeling guards were station. Both unmoving as they stared back to the alabaster Alicorn.

As the group strode quietly up to the front door, the changeling guards opened the doors to let them in surprisingly.

"The queen is expecting you." One of them stated in a raspy voice, pulling the door open before closing it behind them as they entered.

Once the doors closed, all light was completely void of the room, causing the four to huddle closer, pressing their backs to one another as they attempted to look around in the void.

"Ah think we done walked inteh a trap." AJ whispered as she looked around, trying to get her eyes to adjust to the lack of light.

"No... if it was a trap, then we might already be dead." Celestia growled softly as her demeanor began to slowly change into that of her rage state of mind.

"SHOW YOURSELF PARASITE!" Celestia bellowed out in the royal whee, causing many changelings that were in hiding to hiss out from the volume.

As if on que, a small light began to illuminate at the top of the room before slowly floating down to a large jeweled disc that it began to slowly meld into. Once it had disappeared into the gem, it lit up in a blinding flash before showing a moving picture. Once that Midnights brides found very disturbing.

In giant gem, shone moving pictures, a video feed, if you will, of the human Charles, and two foals that were playing happily in what looked like a copy of Starlight's bedroom within the castle. The video panned quickly to the side showing a snickering changeling queen whom stare into the camera as she spoke.

"I take it you want your little play thing back, do you?" She asked giving a pouting nod.

"Well I am sorry to say that he belongs to me now... Call it... an even trade for all the years tor torment you've made me live as this monstrosity Alicorn. For me to have this human, with his never ending ability to give unconditional love to my minions and I, means that we will no longer need to feed from your precious little ponies ever again. We will keep him happy and healthy until his last breath. We may even find a way to make him live forever so that we will never have to travel into your lands, or any others, ever again." She smiled toothily as the screen panned back to him for a few moments before going back to the changeling queen.

"But now, I must ask you to leave my lands. We will call this an even trade for you having cursed me all those years ago. If you leave him with me, then I can guarantee that you will never hear from another member of my race. But..." She paused as the video panned into the other direction, this time, showing Charles strapped into a large device with several changelings all around him, each with a spear that was pressed to several vital points of his body.

"Should you decide to continue your little rescue mission... I know that I may lose the battle, but it will not be without its consequences for you as well." She snarled as the spears pressed a little into the human causing him to cringe in pain before turning back into a changeling that began to laugh.

"I give you this one chance. Leave now, or try your luck and lose your... lover to death itself. Because, if I cannot have him, then noone can." She hissed as the screen went dark as the light faded from it and onto a large door frame underneath it. Several magical torches lighting up as they lead down the hall that it was connected to.

"Tia... what do we do?" Twilight asked as fear became evident in her voice as she stared down the hall.

"We have no choice, we either try to rescue him, or the the changelings suck the life from his very body until he is nothing but a husk. Even if we cannot rescue him, at least we can grant him a swift death." She gulped softly as they four of them began their trek down the long corridor.