So, I know I haven't been as active as I used to be...4k+ and counting. · 9:34pm Nov 7th, 2017
First off, here:
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Moondancer’s head moved in the direction of Naruto’s presence. She could tell it was him so accurately, even though she was sure he wasn’t using his magic.
‘It’s possible that he’s using his chakra instead.’ she surmised before turning her attention back to the group of changelings that barred her path.
An array of changelings met her sight, probably a dozen or so, of different colored eyes; Six red ones, two males and four females. Four green, with three males and one female. One blue male and 1 yellow female.
Among them, they all wore a random assortment of clothes that clearly mismatched in culture and/or era. The most distinctive physical difference was probably between the yellow and the rest.
The yellow eyed changeling was more built than the rest. Her form still feminine but Moondancer had no doubts that she was far stronger than the rest.
Taking their distraction as her chance, her skirt disappeared at the flicker of her horn leaving a pair of dark, knee-high tights in their place.
Her clothes adorned, she saw the changelings still distracted and took her shot.
A quick flick of the glowing finger to her Black Cross necklace and she launched herself towards the yellow one.
The changeling turned around just in time to catch a fist to her face before Moondancer twirled and slammed an elbow into the bug’s side, horn glowing.
She watched the changeling fly away for a moment before turning to the now more attentive others.
She lunged towards the blue one, who let out a yelp before jumping backwards and away from her. She made to follow after him but turned on a dime to dodge a pair of greens.
She saw them pass her before she ducked to dodge a pair of magic beams from above..
Eyes turning upward, she caught sight of the other two green ones, their wings out, as they took more shots at her.
Her horn glowed for a moment before she had to dodge again, from what could only be a pair of three-headed chimeras. Each one made up of a lion’s head and body, an extra deer head, and a tail made of a centipede.
‘Whoa!’ she couldn’t help but think, as she surveyed those in front of her. The beasts had honestly come out of nowhere, which didn’t make sense, unless…
Her eyes narrowed as the chimeras came at her again, leaving her to jump over one and swerve past the other. Yet, as the second one passed her, she slapped the centipede head right in the eyeball.
“OW! Oh my Queen, that hurts!” It screamed, as it furiously waved about. A noticeable "buzz” in its, his, voice.
“Oh, quit your bellyaching.” the deer head stated dismissively, a buzz to it’s own voice that proved her hypothesis.
“Shut up! You’re not currently the damn tail with no arms!”
‘As I thought.’
So she was right, the red ones were the chimeras.
‘A fusion? Hmm, I couldn’t ask Naruto about this, he’s only one changeling. So this is an ability of many changelings. Or is it perhaps only related to the red-eyed ones?’ Moondancer pondered for a moment. The transformed changelings finished their squabbling before paying attention to her again.
Her eyebrows creased as they caught eyes but she shot backwards from pair of crossing beams from her sides. The researcher continued this pattern as more beams rained from above her from the flying pair.
‘I need space.’
Her horn glowed, yet it did she was blindsided by a kick from her side.
“Ah!” she yelled as pain burst from her left. She rolled for a bit before regaining her footing. Enough so to catch sight of the hole-filled hoof of the yellow changeling from earlier.
She seemed no worse for wear, a couple scuffs on her exoskeleton seemed to be all that her surprised hits afforded her.
Said changeling rubbed her jaw for a moment, yet didn’t take her eyes off the unassuming pony.
“I gotta say, I wasn’t expecting any of you civvies to actually hit that hard. At least, not from one that isn’t hard working earth pony. Especially not a pony in Canterlot that isn’t in the Guards.” releasing her chin, the yellow-eyed changeling reassessed her.
“Doesn’t matter. We gotta take her down. Invasion potential, remember?! She’s on the list!” the yellow’s expression soured at the sound of the chimera’s voice as one pulled up next to her.
“Ya damn reds are all so damn impatient.”
“I don’t wanna hear that from a yellow. You guys barely have enough to mobilise without looking like you’re stretching yourselves thin.”
“We don’t need bloated numbers like a certain hive to get things done. You guys probably follow a ‘hit with numbers’ plan to beat ANYTHING.”
“Why I oughta-!”
“Merciful Queen above us, this is what we get for working with other hives. They don’t got no semblance of strategy. One’s a muscle head and the others don’t have a single brain between the sum.” Scoffed a green male, as his hive squad nodded with him.
“What was that?!” exclaimed the red and yellow changelings at the green’s remark.
She didn’t waste any of her good luck, as she quickly used a glowing finger to mark an insignia into the ground.
Yet, as she finished one of her preparations the greens all perked up and turned towards her with narrowed eyes. She caught eyes with them as her sigil disappeared.
“She’s up to something!”
And with that, all eyes were on her.
She sighed before getting up and dusting off her clothes.
This was about to get troublesome.
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So, I AM working on it! I just got back into the whole jig of it again.
So yeah, I'm here.
Also to share with you, and this is kind of spoiler-y so if you DON'T want to be spoiled about some things, don't click the link:
Just glad you're still working in the story I've enjoyed very much.
Yeah! I'm glad this is starrting to come back. This is by far my favorite crossover and I can't wait to see where it goes.