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It’s interesting that you see absolutely nothing of Chrysalis before or after this part in the Manga.
In fact, while you initially see changelings after the main timeline was altered from the Elements of Harmony being stolen by Discord in the past for the scavenger hunt, they conveniently don’t exist, to the point it feels like they’re (along with Chrysalis) entirely forgotten about for either the action scenes taking place when this timeline is returned to (Nightmare Moon brings out a “bugbear detachment” instead of any changelings, after the individual alternate timeline quests, or the resolution where Celestia gets freed (with Luna of course noticing her tan) and they reconcile.
It’s frankly jarring how meaningless this setting detail is as exposition, because not only does it never factor into the plot (Nightmare Moon could’ve taken over anyway as presented by canon, as far as the show went), but it seems rather OOC for both parties involved to be willingly working with a similarly power-hungry villain without some pressuring involved, or backstabbing (or the lack thereof) mentioned. You could take it, and the random changelings out, and there would be less questions raised.

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I always figured that Nightmare Moon was like “haha sike” and just blasted Chrysalis after she stopped being useful to her.
The only reason she beat Celestia was because she was supercharged on Shining Armor’s love, and Nightmare Moon kicked the shit out of Celestia so bad she had to get Plot Device’d to the moon.
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Be that as it may, as far as I can tell, the manga chapters were all released at once within their respective volume; it appears there were no weekly releases, and there was only one volume per year for three years, so I’m not sure that applies in this particular context; it felt like it’s the equivalent of setting up a future climactic plot point in a (relatively) self-contained book, and then dropping it without explanation in said book, because this all happens within the same volume.
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It’s not like serial fiction churned out on tight deadlines week after week has a tendency to just forget certain characters, elements, or plotlines.