This piece was commissioned by . The request was to transform Sweetie Belle into a Changeling Queen as a result of the magical wishing flower that turned the CMC into adults. The client provided the following description:

1. “The warning had come from a future version of the CMCs - where they had come from, a ‘renegade alicorn’ had, unknowingly to anyone else, taken out Cerberus and turned the imprisoned population of Tartarus into her own personal army! Things had gotten so bad that the now-ruling Twilight had seriously considered sealing away all Equestrian magic before Starlight had sent the trio back via her time travel spell. Although the present Twilight was initially skeptical of this, her verification of their claims of the ‘wishing flower’ she was studying at the time gained them her trust and a plan was created. The ‘doomed’ future versions of the trio would wish themselves into becoming ‘raw magic energy’ that the present versions of the Crusaders would then use in their own wishes - to become powerful enough to stop the ‘renegade alicorn’ before being able to open the gates of Tartarus.”
2. “Sweetie Belle’s wish would be straightforward, to become a ‘Changeling Queen’ stronger and more powerful than Chrysalis had been after revealing herself in the Canterlot Wedding, but also retaining all the natural beauty and grace a ‘regular’ alicorn would have.”
3. “The magic energy crafted from Sweetie’s alternate future self would be harnessed to allow the wish to come true…”
4. “Even Sweetie herself was surprised at the final result, with the long-sought cutie mark being the only clue as what she had been before. Nevertheless, she hesistated to believe what she was experiencing - the gleaming white carapace covering her new form, the large iridescent wings, and tides of magic power surging and pulsing within her - was real, perhaps afraid that it would disintegrate like the butterfly wings Rarity had at one point if was overused. It was only after seeing her friends complete their own changes, and having it ‘stick’ instead of them snapping back like she feared would happen, that she began to believe that the plan would actually work to save the future…”