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// Two in one day. FEEL GRACED BY THE GODS, MORTALS! 
// Story: Shift 
// by Silver Sea 
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"That's a reason." Pinkie stares at the changeling standing by the hole. It was after my shift, (As in work hours) so the moonlight was falling through the cavity.

"Come on, we don't have all day." The changeling gestured towards me to come up.

"Yeah, let's go. Well... She sort of hit her head a few minutes ago, and it was rather hard. She sort of got disconnected from the hive, maybe in a minute she'll rattle back." I had to lie. If the changeling figured out that she was a pony, or even worse an element of harmony, then he'd load a clip into her, then me. Honestly, I don't like killing. It's not my speed.

"Okay, okay, we gotta get out of here. Quick." The changeling gestured, once more, for us to come out.

I took a quick glance at Pinkie that I hoped explained the situation, then de-shifted. She stared back at me with wide open eyes. I fluttered up out of the hole and next to the changeling.

Plan, plan, plan... Well, we're gonna die either way. Let's do this.

I turned and leaned into the hole.

"Come on, Morph, we gotta go! We can get out of this shit-hole!"

I mouthed "Play along."

Pinkie groaned, pretending to be a bit woozie.

"I guess she's just not feeling it." I turned to the guard and made an apologetic face.

"For the love of Chrysalis, hurry up!" The guard took three steps back and sat down.

Now.

I leaned in, and bucked him in the face. For all that training, head wounds are surprisingly effective. I grabbed the gun and climbed back down the hole.

"Okay, cards on the table, I'm not really Stellar Shift. Well, Shift is right, but not Stellar. I'm a changeling. When the mountain city thing love exploded, it shot me into the big forest of 3D things. (Seriously, the timber wolves are 3 dimensional. Look closely.) I managed to get here, where I divised a plan and got a job. That night, I met you and your friends. I've been avoiding you because, first, a kiss on the first meeting? Really? Second, you're an element of harmony. Three days ago, you fired a cannon at me. I do not act on my own whim. I am an officer first class of the changeling army infantry, and was under orders to capture you. But now, I'm not really feeling it. So I'm gonna take this gun, sit right here, and kill any sonavabitch who tries to take me first." I plopped my butt on the floor and cradled the gun in my hooves.

Pinkie looks at me.

And that's when I felt it.

Pinkie Pie, element of laughter, was in love with me, a changeling.

Woop-de-fucking-doo.