This is the 6th picture of the comic written based on a story commissioned by vavacung (AKA Loveless) and written by me, LegionofPony.
The story can be found “HERE”: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/372367/1/misguided-love
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The Queen pulled away with what strength she had, finally moving. “Leave me be! Let death be a punishment for my crimes against pony-kind and my failures to Changeling-kind! I…I don’t want to live anymore! I’m so tired…I just want it to be all over…” the Queen said in an exhausted tone, before flopping limply to the ground a few inches further from Shining.
Shining Armor merely shook his head. “No, you don’t deserve to die. Your crime isn’t unforgivable, given its noble purpose. Get up…” Shining Armor said and, upon not getting a response, he dragged the Queen to lay on his back with his magic. The queen moaned from the pain of spending too long laying, as well as her strained muscles and tendons from slamming into the ground. She didn’t resist nor try to struggle to get off of Shining Armor’s back however, simply laying as limply on him as she had on the ground.
“You can’t die yet. You still have a role to play in this world…your race still needs you.” Shining said, reaching up a hoof to lift her sunken head so she could look around them; so that she can see so many Changelings around them, finding with a heavy heart that some of her fellow Changelings were indeed dead in their own craters, not having the strength to survive as she’d feared, and some were badly injured. But, to her happy surprise, the Queen found that most had lived, and that some even had enough strength to stand and watch their queen and this pony with her on his back pass by.