Chrysalis licked her lips as she approached the royal sisters, each standing rigid like a statue and awaiting command with their big creepy grins. The sight sent shivers down Chrysalis' spine and forcing her to reign in her runaway imagination.
	“Well, my two dearest enemies, what have you gotten yourselves into?” Chrysalis couldn't help herself in probing their current mindset as she began a trot around the two royal sisters.
	“We have been given the truth.” Luna answered simply, still staring straight ahead as her pitch black equal cutie marks pulsated upon her flanks.
	“We are equal, as everypony should be.” Celestia added.
	“Join us, dear Chrysalis.” Luna said with her unwavering smile.
	“Oh, you two are just adorable~” Chrysalis replied with a chuckle as she faced the royal duo. “Well, if everypony is equal, than being siblings shouldn't matter. Kiss like lovers would~”
	“Of course, siblings are equal to lovers.” Luna replied blankly, just accepting the obvious truth of the command. Celestia nodded in turn and they turned to each other, pressing in to kiss together. Their lips touched and suckled upon each other, the sisters sharing their tongues together between the wet loving kiss. Celestia rolled her left foreleg up to caress her sister's cheek, her touch gentle and loving. Luna pressed in tighter to her big sister, her forelegs lifting up to grasp and caress Celestia's other foreleg like it was her dearest plushie. Chrysalis cooed, her bug-like wings twitching with delight as the love oozed from the two.
	“Oh, that is delicious, almost as equal to the love I've tasted from devoted lovers... almost.” The changeling queen teased, licking at her hoof to savor the taste.
	“We are no better than anypony else.” Equalized Celestia responded happily.
	“We wouldn't want to upset anypony.” Luna joined in the two sister's nuzzling to each other firmly, their cheeks smooshing like pudding.
	“Join us in equal bliss, Chrysalis.” They both chimed in at the same time, neither voice overriding the other.
	“She really did a number on you two.” Chrysalis couldn't help a sly chuckle escaping her maw. “Those former cutie marks of yours must be powerful.”
	“Those former cutie marks were only powerful in keeping us from happiness.” Luna replied simply, that large creepy grin returning. Chrysalis rolled her eyes, beginning to wonder if returning the cutie marks would do more harm than good.

	The changelings surrounded Starlight Glimmer, chuckling as they prepared the horn clasp to suppress her magic. The changelings took their time savoring the moment, and making the mistake of treating Starlight like she was some normal unicorn who was magic drained. While she did feel she couldn't pull off some serious big magic just yet, the spells a normal exhausted unicorn could pull off might as well be horn fizzles to Starlight's still superior power. She knew the changelings didn't have cutie marks, but smirked at the idea of giving them one.
	“You changelings are pretty clever to have pulled this off, aren't you all?” Starlight said with a soft tone.
	“Our Queen came up with the idea all by herself.” One of the males replied.
	“Oh, she didn't let any of you have an equal say? Poor little things~” Starlight's smirk started off small.
	“What do you mean?” A female one replied.
	“I guess it just means she doesn't love you all like you think she does.” Starlight brushed a hoof through her mane.
	“Of course she does!” A third retorted. Though Starlight knew some were given each other unsure looks. Her magic weaved through the air and started to just push those in the right direction, easily taken over from within and letting them do the rest. Starlight had to surpress a chuckle – unraveling the hive mind was as easy as pulling at a loose string in a sweater.
	“I bet she even takes the lion's share of the love food, hrm?” Starlight looked over her hooves absentmindedly, just relaxing upon the floor as her horn pulsated a soft glow, lacing her words with potent magic to worm deep into their ears, spreading through all the hive in a matter of seconds. More began to give each other unsure looks, a a few of them shuffling nervously. A hoof-ful began to bicker in whispers, basking in the soft fog-like glow of Starlight's superior magic.
	“I told you she was selfish!” One complained to the changeling mare beside it. Starlight's sinister giggle finally rolled from her lips as she materialized a bag of popcorn to enjoy the show.

	Chrysalis planted the cutie mark jars atop the royal fireplace in the room of Celestia. Unlike Starlight, Chrysalis didn't care if the ponies outside noticed the sun hanging up longer than usual – no, these sisters were hers and she'd make them beg before giving back the silly cutie marks.
	“Even if those pesky little ponies of yours come along, they'll never get past my darling children. I have trained them well since the last time. Do you remember that time, my dears?” Chrysalis voice oozed with victory, her lips curled into such a sinister winning smirk.
	“We don't want anything to do with our cutie marked past.” Luna replied simply, that big blank smile still on her muzzle, perfectly matching Celestia's.
	“Being equal to my sister and everypony else is the only happiness we know now.” Celestia returned happily. Chrysalis planted her hoof against her face.
	“How can I revel like a proper villain with you two like this?!” She groaned out.
	“You should be a proper pony and be equal, with everypony else.” Celestia stated matter-of-factly.
	“It is simply a wonderful epiphany Mistress Glimmer has bestowed upon us.” Luna added.
	“Now listen here!” Chrysalis stomped her hoof as she felt what she thought was a migraine forming in her head, unaware that Starlight's magic had been laced through the words of her slaves and had been settling within Chrysalis' subconscious with each word the sisters spoke, planting the first seedlings of Starlight's truth. Just a little something extra Starlight had added to her equality spell since the last time to ensure her victory. Chrysalis rubbed at her temple with her right hoof to try and qualm the migraine, thinking it was because these two were so annoyingly right. “I'm not going to lis...” Her words trailed off as she tried to think back. What was that she just thought? It nagged at her consciousness that something wasn't quite right. It felt like her mind was distant, felt like a far-off voice was giggling at her inability to control her mind. A giggle she knew all too well that meant an already-claimed victory. A confident and wicked smirk flashed in a split second in her mind's eye, stabbing into her psyche. She groaned and gritted her teeth, but had already forgotten why. She felt weakened, lowered down to the truth – her thoughts were interrupted by the sudden realization that the two sisters were on either side of her. 
	Their wonderfully soft coats rubbed against Chrysalis's hide, the hooves of the siblings caressing and stroking at the Changeling queen's body, teasing at the various holes and their tails tracing equal signs at Chrysalis's now hyper-sensitive flank. They felt more like angels that were trying to help and purify the lost demon by groping out her sins! Anytime Chrysalis opened her maw to snap at them, the sisters would drag their wings in firm parallel lines against the bug queen's plot, digging the equality sign deeper and deeper into her very essence.
	Chrysalis felt a heavy iron weight boring into her flank from the caresses, could feel the equal sign pulsating to life with deep tremoring pumps. Her mind jumped to and fro, mangled in the deep haze of the incredible magic – no wonder these two were overpowered! With a mightily intense grunt, she flared out her wings to push the sisters back.
	“Stop that!” Chrysalis tried to inject ferocity into her command, but she felt weakened considerably, like her body refused to be louder than anypony else. The siblings smiled wider, suddenly standing to rigid attention. Chrysalis tried to catch her breath, thinking she had gotten back the initiative she had lost – until she felt her legs shake, yearning and crying out to be just as rigid as the sisters were.
	“Dawwww, somepony is learning.” Starlight's voice wafted in gingerly through the air with a weight of its own, crashing against Chrysalis' psyche just like a mighty wave slamming against the shores of a beach. Chrysalis turned in surprise to find the upstart unicorn back, and with her changelings standing like statues behind her – and their flanks emblazoned with an equal cutie mark that matched the glossy blank color of their eyes! Their muzzles were stretched into a sinisterly wide grin that barred their shiny teeth, beaming with controlled bliss.
	“What have you done to my minions?” Chrysalis tried to stand tall and make her voice imposing – but she didn't even fool herself. Starlight, despite the earlier setback, stood like a stoic statue of virtue. Starlight didn't say a word, just sporting her deviously small smirk of dominance over Chrysalis as every single former minion stood stock still all around her. Their posture remained rigid, making Chrysalis think Starlight had petrified them to their spots. Chrysalis gritted her fangs, groaning as her throbbing headache pounded more intensely, feeling her brain being pulled at like a big ball of yarn. Pulling, tugging, unraveling her very core with each pounding sensation.
	“Grah! Get out of my head!!” Chrysalis snapped, lifting her forelegs to the side of her head and rubbing firmly, trying to rub or grab at the intense sensation. Her whole body shook as she panted, closing her eyes tight to concentrate on removing whatever had gotten into her mind.
	“Oh, far too late for such nonsense as resisting, dear queen.” Starlight's soft voice had the tone she would use to a disobedient child. Her voice stung deep into Chrysalis' mind, making the royal changeling instinctively clamp her forehooves against her ears. 
	“Shut up, I won't let you go deeper!” Chrysalis growled out, her wings fluttering with a buzzing that was meant to call for help – but all of her minions only kept standing, their smiles as wide as ever, not a single wing twitching back to return the call.
	“You cannot stop me now.” Starlight's voice trickled into a domineering giggle. “You only bested me before through the element of surprise, dear queen. Now, with that gone, you are conquered just as easily as everypony else. All of you equal in defeat and obedience.”
	Chrysalis bared her fangs, trying to growl out louder than Starlight's voice, knowing a thing or two about hypnotic spells. She just had to drown out that controlling addicting voice, that wonderful... beautiful... no! She snapped at herself. She would not fall to this goddess! She bucked her hindlegs out, attempting a sudden attack – but found her body would not respond to her! Shakingly her forelegs instead went from her ears straight back to the ground, trembling but keeping to the ground. Her former minions grew their smiles wider in unison. Chrysalis could feel her lips twitch erratically, trembling into a soft awkward smile despite her inner screaming.
	“St-stop...” Her voice shook out through her lips, her fading eyes crossing in a vain attempt to hold on to her losing mind. Each step Starlight took towards Chrysalis heightened her throbbing headache. Each step stiffening her body. 
	“I'm not stopping for anypony, not anymore. I made the mistake of a slow induction, having them make the choice. But I learned, some things need to be...” Starlight rolled out a sinister chuckle as she planted a hoof to Chrysalis' cheek. Starlight lowered the queen's head to her level and pressed their horns together. “FORCED.”
	Chrysalis went blank, tail snapping out in an instant being the last thing she would ever remember. Her eyes went straight ahead, empty and gone, staring at nothing at all as her lips slowly molded into an identically big creepy unnatural grin as every one of her minions had around her. The artic blue equal sign on her flank flickered once and then beamed super brightly before fading into permanence on her plot. 
	The two royal sisters giggled and trotted up to either side of their reformed villain, once a high-ranking royal like them but no all three having made to see the light, the true reality of being equal like everypony else. Starlight clopped a hoof against the ground to bring all of their attention to her, and they snapped to that sexy robotically rigid up-right stance. Starlight clopped again and the room filled with a not-so-loud even monotonous chorus of everypony joining in together perfectly – even Chrysalis who equally joined everypony in not being too loud or too quiet.
	“In sameness, there is peace. Exceptionalism is a lie. Free yourself from your cutie mark. Choose equality as your special talent. Difference is frustration. To excel is to fail. Be your best by never being your best. Conformity will set you free. Accept your limitations, and happiness will follow. You're no better than your friend.” 
	Chrysalis had no idea where the words came from, but they bubbled out of her mouth easily, wanting to be a part of the mass. What little thoughts she had inside where being equalized, drowned out in the ocean of same equal voices. The next stomp of Starlight's wondrous hoof came down. She wanted to thank Starlight, but she first had to obey.
	“In sameness, there is peace. Exceptionalism is a lie. Free yourself from your cutie mark. Choose equality as your special talent. Difference is frustration. To excel is to fail. Be your best by never being your best. Conformity will set you free. Accept your limitations, and happiness will follow. You're no better than your friend.”
	No longer a queen, such a title only served to separate and demean her equals. No longer special or better, just equally in servitude to Starlight, to the truth of equality. Another stomp of that hoof stopped anything else, needing to obey and repeat the truth of the reality Starlight had brought to them.
	“In sameness, there is peace. Exceptionalism is a lie. Free yourself from your cutie mark. Choose equality as your special talent. Difference is frustration. To excel is to fail. Be your best by never being your best. Conformity will set you free. Accept your limitations, and happiness will follow. You're no better than your friend.”
	Chrysalis' big, creepy, empty, smile became natural, a true part of her, looking to Luna and Celestia happily. Why had she resisted such happiness? Everything here was bliss, true, real. She no longer had to fight. She no longer had to best the royal sisters. They were right there with her, smiling just as big and beautifully as herself and all the other former minions. Now one with her, with the sisters, under Starlight's rule. Stomp!