General Glow, two cigar on her mouth. Walking towards a cushion, waiting for something to happen. Right after her 5th blink, a time wreck reveal itself to her. Older grown up her showed up, yet she wore a bandage on her whole face but hair. "I bet there is something i had to do with my own face, am i right?"
"That is up to you, but never ever trigger the bootstrap paradox." General Glow spit one cigar out of her mouth towards her future self, and light both of the cigar with a single flame.
Young G.G tap the floor from cushion she sit on, with Adult G.G sitting to the next cushion besides her younger self.
Y.G.G had examine her older self, she was rather healthy even tho she keep did a cigar and vaping. For that is just her assumptions, for clarify she said "Yours is-"
"Indeed empty, yes. Barely miss them, got butload things to do than smoke."
Casual words, from a calmer version of Glow.
A.G.G exhale her smoke, several other Cozy appear from several time wreckage. With them, they each bring younger version of another to make this paradoxical problem normal.
Proud mother happy tap on the floor, calm and not a rush tap.
"Good girls, please leave from this room."
Questions no longer hold it's place on these adult cozy variants mind, they merely obey with no doubt.
7 Cozy were present on this exact room whilst including General Glow herself, excluding her future version. Wreck mayhem, the kidnapped Cozy variants keep attempting to run away. But they can't because they are tied with nearly unbreakable cuff, and weight more than themself.
"Hello, all of you. My younger counterparts, hope we will able to enjoy each other's accompany."
"Why did you kidnap us?" All Cozy variants say in unity, their trick will never work at each other.
Adult G.G gave an unreadable smile, all attention to her. "One, question for all of you. Did you value your existence?"
"Of course!"
"What about i tell you that your will cease to exist if you refuse this offer?" Adult G.G wink at our present G.G, make her move somewhere.
"Nonsense!" One of the Young Cozy shout, other follow up with the same response.
Put Adult G.G laughing, before present G.G went back on the room with a battle knife. "Here she is, the brave young Cozy. She have big trust on me, and i already told her to do something with that knife."
The variants of Cozy, pounding heart, shrunken pupil, unable to move but see and sound.
"Do it."
Present G.G, slash her own face without doubt. Put the other young Cozy horrified, completely speechles. "Dang, you're rough. Albeit didn't really hurt like, birthing pain."
"A- definitely agree with that, we don't talk about that part." Adult G.G give a light stare at her younger counterparts, she just turn around each other.
Exhales, Adult G.G unveil bandage on her face. The same exact scar, carved with the same place and precision as Young G.G's self inflicted face wounds. "See for yourself, now you can differentiate us."
The G.G said at the same time, Cozy variants began to trust G.G. For in their mind, 'She's bold enough to do that at her young age, and nopony will dare to do that.'
"Especially i don't have any healing capabilities."
"Yes, she didn't. I'll keep an eye at older them, just good luck on teaching them!"
"I already said that to myself!" Both G.G depart, leaving Adult G.G among these unnamed Cozy variants.
A.G.G inhale "Have any idea to call yourself?"
"Misltoe?"
"Ra Tionale?"
"A La Lune?"
"Ares?"
"Loki?"
"Centurion?"
A single chuckle went off A.G.G's mouth with an asymetric smile. "That, is your name. Hope you can differentiate yourself from another, you can always know who's me."
She didn't resemble close to Cozy Glow we know, both hair and coat is still hers yet how she act is barely recognisable. Instead of small gremlin feature, she show tall and serious mare with nothing to think but mission. Reflect how she looks now with her short mane and simple looks. "Follow me, for i am your guide on this Haven."
"Yes, Ma'am!"
Laughter, albeit not as loud. Changeling Queen, or we should call General Chysalis. "You indeed have that naughty part of yourself. I am impressed, you didn't relflect on yourself."
"Shut yourself up, it's none of your business!" Y.G.G attempt to open this vault with scanning her eye, yet it keep failing.
G.C had something clicking on her mind, yet it very concerning. "Yea, but keep in mind of what you did. Your weakness is him, yet that is up to your problem."
G.C pause, she now understand what she herself had said. "Shit, you got me there."
Y.G.G's attempt keep failing even tho it's the same exact thing her older counterpart have, but she pause just for "What? I didn't even do anything, yet."
While G.C was irritated, she spot something else on the table.
"Glow, maybe you forget to wear both of it." Y.G.G put her gaze at the table, the eye contact is perfectly placed and untouched. Let sigh out of Y.G.G's self, 'Maybe my mental state is getting older, i hate this change.'
Clean code eyelens, made in Svadi as military equipment. Yet, only special unit have these lens.
The seal had been broken, revealing wrist wrapping time-space incissors. 'Finnaly!'
"You all, get into the new Changelings base. It is massive with more than 30 main chambers inside, because we need that chambers." G.C dumping information to the grown up Cozy variants, which they managed to be responseful and suprisingly submisive.
All of the Cozy variants went towards the new hive, it indeed the same size as mountain at this point.
"Not a suprise if your colony can built that large of structure, yet really elegant." Y.G.G walk to the scene with time-space incissors, strapped to her wrist.
"Won't you need to thank me?"
"Yea, sure, Thank-You." Joy on G.C's face fades away, not like her usual overcharged style. Of which the role had completely reversed.
"So, anytime you ready."
"Now will also be the good moment to access it, i know what to do." Smug of confidence, shimmering on her face before Y.G.G open the wreckage.
It was the same time and space before Chrysalis turn like herself now, yet this version of her didn't have the same headache like this good version of hers.
"Belial~"
"What?! What is this? Who dares to mess with Changeling swarm?!" The room fell in silence, with mere presence of The General Crhysalis make any unchanged changelings unable to move.
For which completely overrides The Black Queen's control over the swarm.
"What are you doing?!" Bark after bark of command, not a single Changelings want to engage.
Distance shrunk between the Queens, black and white.
"Seize her." Out of fear, all of the changelings obey and supress The Black Queen from action. Now the situation is swapped, no one dare to do anyting for their Queen anymore.
"Good thing, all you know who you're dealing with."
"Especially you, Bel. It seems, your demeanor didn't change for slightest." General Chrysalis shift from her usual white skin to darker one, getting closer towards her unchanged counterpart.
G.C ignite her horn, on the way to connect it with her counterpart's. "No, what are you doing?!"
"Shhh, it will less hurt if you didn't struggle." The Queen saw shut her counterpart's mouth, keeping her from saying anything.
Instant blackout to the Black Queen, she was dragged towards [Timeless Memory].
Place where time didn't really works, but only event moving forwards.
"Wha- where am i?" White empty space with no light cover the entire space, leave her levitating inside.
Stood there, a humanoid horse headed woman. "This is [Timeless Memory], and there is something i want to show you."
So many times The Black Queen wash her eyes, believing she isn't. With the horse headed woman moving towards an empty void, for which no lights came out.
"Where did that lead me into?"
In fraction of moments, Horse Headed Woman flick her head towards The Black Queen. Yet she keep fly inside the voidcrack.
"Hey, wait for me!" The Black Queen rush towards the voidcrack, something is holding her back from this choice. There is no turning back...
***
Vision on her eyes, rubbles and mere dust of everyhing that matters. Alas, only one supergiant orb and massive starry figure present. Among thoose rubbles were a familiar stuff she used to care until now, strapped in pain and sorrow of never ending unity from inevitable end.
Everything return to nothing, reshaped to nothing like it was.
The woman stepped up, her vision fades with The Black Queen began seeing the woman's face turn to her own with half of them burned to bones. "Chris, all your loved ones. All you cared about, everything you chase, everything you invest, everything you do, will return to nothing."
"Yet, you just barks order with no real act. You barely even trying to conquer Equestria with that perfect army, yet you expect everything will go on your way?" The woman laugh, histerical.
"Oh, young innocent Chrissy. You will end up just as another rubble of useless junk on this existence, replaced by another you."
"No, no, NO!" The Black Queen's stuggle, meaningless in front of the true changelings queen.
Horse headed woman shift her forme, skins falling off from this new arrival. "Do not worry, Chrissy. We all here to keep our existence in tact, you're in pity to be choosen among creations."
Horse headed woman lend a hand to The Black Queen, an invitation. Heavy heartbeat, skips of beats. "Promise not to betray me?"
The angelic woman send off a small chuckle, The Black Queen felt a falling sensation wakes her up from her sleep. Her eyes roam around, her throne cease to exist and most of her changelings had shift to their better self.
Whilst The Black Queen herself still on her black exoskeleton, General Chrysalis decrease the distance to The Black Queen. Full on white, blue eyes and heavy flower scent.
"Have you rethink about it?"
Hesitation still holds her back, but the memories. Timeless memories she had shown, it feels and did real. The last straw of hesitation have gave up on their own, overidden by hope and sense of acknowledgement from someone higher than herself.
"I have, and my purpose had shift." All attention had turned to her, this new purpose reshape her whole understanding of this fate.
Her Black Exoskeleton burst open, revealing a fresh lime underneath those hard exoskeleton.
"Great, now it's the time to move out into our headquarters."
"Wait, the entire hive?!"
G.C laugh, with the crack swallow the entire hive. It appears right in top of this new Mountain-sized hyperhive, sending applause troughout the entire area. "This will be the least you think it will be, am i wrong?"
The new hive have no words to utter about how this place is basically heaven for them, yet the civilization here unlike heaven but mildly modern.
"I really have no words to say."
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[To be continued]