//------------------------------// // From cheatings to beatings // Story: It's a...Pony? // by Dr Atlas //------------------------------// “Okay...well, I spy with my brown eyes...a..uh...” “A cheater…” The crystal guard looked at his partner. “Cheater? How am I cheating, in fact, how can you even cheat in this game?” “Not the game, Hiver!” Hiver stepped back. “Uh...you okay Loula? You’re not acting-” Loula glared at him. “I’m acting just fine, you on the other hoof…” Hiver tilted his head. “What’s wrong with you, Loula?” “Oh, what’s wrong with me?” The crystal mare went face to face with Hiver. “What’s wrong with YOU!” Hiver raised his hoof to his chest in defence. “What do you mean ‘what’s wrong with me?’” Loula stepped closer to him. “You know exactly what I’m talking about. How you ran off with that mare and totally forgot about me!” “Ran off with some...I didn’t run anywhere, I’ve been with you this whole ti-” *SMACK* Hiver felt the sting of a slap on the side of his face. He rubbed it and looked at Loula again. “What was that for?” He asked, only for her to do it again on the other side. “Stop lying, Hiver. You ditched your post and left me for that mare!” She frowned and looked away. “What ever happened to us, Hiver?” “What mare? I seriously don’t know what you’re talking about, Loula.” He rested a hoof on her. “And I would never leave any mare for yo-” “OW! W-Will you quit tearing off my hair!” Both crystal guards jumped in surprise as a familiar white stallion made his way to them. “C-Captain Shining?” Hiver said while saluting. Shining took his eyes off the colt and faced them. “At ease, soldiers. I-I really don’t have time for-” Loula gasped. “W-Were’d you get that foal?” Shining raised a brow and looked back at the colt, which was chewing a piece of hair. “Uh...I-I found it…” “Found it?” Hiver frowned. “I guess some mares need to know what responsibility is before raising a kid.” Loula tapped her chin. “I swear I’ve seen that colt befo...w-wait! Are you trying to get at something, Hiver!” Hiver backed up, as did Shining. “W-What? I-I wasn’t.” Loula then leaned on him with lidded eyes. “Because I think I have an idea as to what you mean~” Hiver stood still. “Y-You do?” Loula then went nose to nose with him. “Oh yes...I think I do.” Without warning, she stepped back and slapped him so hard he fell to the ground. “You need to learn when a mare needs space!” Hiver stood up and Shining held his hoof to his mouth, both stunted as to how this mare was acting. “Loula?” Loula then sniffed and turned away. “You just don’t understand!” She then ran away from them, crying the whole time. Hiver and Shining stood on the road in astonishment while the colt giggled. Shining stepped beside the guard. “Uh...soldier?” He said. “Is there a reason why she’s acting like that?” Hiver shrugged. “Dames, who could figure them.” He turned to Shinings back. “What’s with the kid? Can’t say I’ve ever seen this little guy before.” Hiver chuckled. “It kinda looks like you, Captain.” Shining flinched. “Uh...y-yeah...q-quite that coincidence. heheh.” Hiver then widened his eyes. “No way, y-you actually…” “What about me?” Shining asked. Hiver smiled, already guessing why the colt was with him. “So, what’d you name him.” “Name?” Shining looked behind him again, seeing the colt with his tongue out. “Uh...I-I don’t know his-” “Come on, Captain, you can tell me, it’s nothing to be ashamed of, you just gave the little guy a new home is all.” Shining turned back to Hiver. “A new what?” “Yeah, I mean, you and the princess have been together for a while, I could’ve guessed sooner or later you would’ve had one, but I guess the princess just couldn’t wait and decide to adopt one instead.” “A-adopt!” Shining looked at the colt again, who was looking around the town in astonishment, mostly at the mares. “I-we...we didn’t adopt a colt!” Hiver rolled his eyes. “I guess you were the one who picked him out, I mean, he looks just like-” “He’s not adopted!” Shining yelled. Hiver laughed. “You just said you found him, Captain, and I doubt your wife can deliver this fast, it’s only been like...what, half a year...more?” “This child isn’t Cadance’s either!” Shining growled. Hiver stepped back. “I don’t know, Captain. Either you picked him out for your looks, or your genes are pretty spot on.” Shining turned back to the colt and cringed, it was almost like looking in a mirror, a young one. “Listen, soldier. this colt is...well…” “Well what? Captain, from what I’m getting at...it’s like you cheated on Ca-” Shining smacked the guards helmet off him. “I would never do that to her!” He yelled, just as the colt slid down Shining’s tail on the on the pavement. “And I’ve never had any other relationship in my life!” Hiver put his helmet back on. “What about that queen?” Shining froze. Though he wasn’t surprised that many knew about how he was in control of that changeling during the wedding. “Uh...t-that doesn’t count.” “Yeah, but you were with her for like...what? A couple weeks?” Hiver said. “You don’t think you two ever...you know.” He did two nudges and winked twice Shining dropped his jaw. “H-How dare you even ask that, I am a royal guard, the prince of the crystal empire, and, like I said, am a loyal husband who would never betray his wife.” He stepped closer to Hiver. “And I would never have any consent with that queen what-so-ever!” He continued staring into the guards eyes, but after the face of distrust continued looking at Shining, he sighed and whispered, “Three times.” Hiver smiled and nodded. “niiiice. So, you weren’t brainwashed the whole time then?” Shining stomped the pavement. “I had no choice! I was under her control, and it’s not nice, soldier! How would you like it if part of your mind was hypnotised and the other part of you had to bare witness to some succubus having her way with you!” Hiver shrugged. “I’d be pretty turned on, to tell you the truth.” Shining then knocked the guards helmet off him and glared. “Not the answer I wanted.” Hiver rubbed his head and picked his helmet off the ground. “I’m just giving an honest answer here, besides, I’m sure some chicks would probably be into the same thing.” “What? Getting raped?” Hiver put his helmet back on. “Not raped, just...having sex against your will.” Shining knocked his helmet off again. “That’s the definition of it, soldier.” Hiver groaned, starting to get a headache from this. “I’m sure there’s more detail in that, Captain and you were the one who asked it, besides, I’m sure you liked it.” “I didn’t...I mean, I wasn’t...I couldn’t...it’s not...when we...I was...uhg…” Shining stomped his hoof. “I didn’t even know it was her at the time, though!” “Well, could ya tell the difference?” Shining cocked his head. “Tell the difference...what do you-” He then blushed. “Oh!...well, uh…” “Come on, captain.” Hiver motioned his hoof to make him continue. “I’m sure succubi are a bit better than-” Shining knocked his helmet off a fourth time. “I don’t care how...good she was...I-I’d never choose that monster over Cadance!” Hiver rubbed his head, starting to get sick of the constant pain. “I didn’t say you had to choose, heck, if I were you, I’d pick both.” Shining shivered with that statement. “You. Are. Sick, you know that?” Hiver shrugged. “At least I didn’t have sex with a giant insect.” Hiver then fell to the ground with a bloody nose, he looked up to see Shining staring daggers into his eyes. “Do you know who you’re talking to, soldier!” Hiver got back up, starting to realize this situation. “Yeah, I do, I’m talking to a captain, who probably cheated on his wife and is now carrying a colt on his...on his…w-where did-” Without warning, Shining  grab the stallion by the neck and push him up against a nearby wall. “Take that back.” He said menacingly. Hiver glared back. “Listen, Shining. I can tell what’s going on...the colt; the nervousness; your wife not knowing...from the sounds of it, it’s like you’re just trying to hide that colt from her.” Shining went nose to nose with him. “I. Didn’t. Cheat.” Hiver pushed him off. “Then why does the colt look like you, huh? Cause if the only other thing you did was...well, that bug, then I’m probably sure some weird hybrid would’ve been made out of him and not some regular pony.” Shining sighed. Knowing that telling him the truth would be better than him thinking he was cheating on Cadance. “Alright soldier, I’ll tell you the truth, but after this, we need to rally up a lot of reinforcements, because if we just charge in with this colt on...” Shining craned his neck to look at his back, seeing that nothing was on it. “W-where did he go?” “That’s what I asked you, Captain.” Hiver sniffed and rubbed his nose, getting some of the blood off him. “That really hurt by the-” Shining pulled Hiver to the street and started walking. “Now’s not the time, soldier. We need to find that colt.” “Why?” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Because if we can’t, then the queen’s gonna be pretty mad at us.” The disguised Stan rolled his eyes and looked back at Lee, who was disguised as well. “I really doubt she would care about that colt. She doesn’t even like that thing anyway.” “It’s not just about the queen, Stan. We both know how dangerous that little pony could be.” “We don’t even know if he has powers or not. For all we know, that kid doesn’t even-” *SLAM* Stan and Lee jumped as they witness a Stallion get thrown against a wall. He then fell on the sidewalk and groaned. “I just asked how you’re all shiny like that, no need to.” A mare then ran up to him and pinned his stomach to the ground. “Did I say you could ask!” The stallion cringed. “W-Well…” The mare then turned him over so they were eye to eye. “Cause you don’t have to ask permission~” She said while trailing a hoof down his chest. “W-what are you.” The mare then ran her hoof up to his neck and pressed down. “All you stallions are the same, always thinking about what a mare has on her!” The stallion struggled. “I...geh….d-didn’t...blek…” The mare then wrapped her forearms around him and pulled him in for a hug. “I-It’s okay.” She sniffed. “W-will find a better way.” “Uh…” Was all the stallion could say as she hugged tighter. Stan and Lee could only stare in astonishment. “Well,” Stan said. “I’m guessing the colt is probably nearby.” “W-We were right…” Lee said. “T-That colt can control-” *SMASH* Stan and Lee looked over to where the stallion and mare were, seeing that the stallion went through a window and the mare was dusting her hooves off. “That’ll teach you.” She said before storming off. The stallion slowly held his head up and said, “I shoulda stayed at that train.” He then fell down, knocked out cold. Stan looked at Lee again. “Did you see that!” Lee slowly nodded. “Y-Yeah, m-mares must be tougher than I thought.” “Is that some statement!” Lee yelped and turned around to see another mare tapping her hoof on the ground.  “U-U-Uh...uh..”Lee stuttered, starting to shake. The mare stepped forward and pressed her chest against his. “Cause mares like me are pretty tough, in more ways than one…” She blinked twice with lidded eyes and a smile that made Lee even more uncomfortable. While Lee was getting violated. Stan looked around the street, hoping to find some trace of a blue haired, white colt. It wasn’t until he glanced over at two mares in a catfight to see the colt clapping his hooves together next to them. Stan tapped on Lee’s shoulder. “Lee, I found him, he’s over-” Stan then gasped once Lee turned around with a bruised right eye. “Uh...Lee?” Lee sighed, knowing he felt worse than this a few months back. “I’m fine, d-did you find him?” Stan looked back to see the colt now walking toward another group of mares, all of which were fighting over a stallion. “Quick, we gotta save him.” “Who?” Lee said. “The stallion or the-” “The stallion can handle himself, Lee.” As if on cue, the stallion shrieked in fear and ran out of the group of mares, he continued screaming and ran past them with the mares hot on his trail. Luckily, Stan and Lee were able to get out of the way in time. “See.” “Lucky guy.” Lee huffed. “Getting love for free when we have to bust our-” “Lets go!” Stan yanked Lee over to the colt, who was looking around in amusement. “W-We need to get this guy out of the streets!” Stan yelled, grabbing the colt. The colt only looked at him and and tried to get a piece of his fake hair. Fortunately, Stan pulled away in time. “Any ideas?” Stan asked his brother. Lee bit his lip and looked over to a nearby alleyway. “Better than nothing.” Stan hoisted the colt on his back made a break for it. They managed to make it just as two mares ran right beside them, yelling for someone to stop. The changelings ignored this and ran behind a dumpster. “Y-you think anyone saw us?” Stan said, now holding the colt in his front hooves. Lee panted heavily. “Hopefully not, so...about that colt.” Lee pointed at said colt, who was still trying to reach for Stan’s hair. Stan growled and looked at the pony straight in the eyes. “Listen, kid, if you can understand...well, anything, than stop your crazy powers and-” “No.” Stan and Lee dropped their jaws. “W-What?” “You can’t stop wha͢͡͏͍̗͓̹̯̝͔t͈̖͍̭ͅ’̸̫̩̭̤͎̮̻s̵̡͔̲̝͚̤̜͘ ̡̱̺̖̲͓̹ͅa̧̫͖w̸̱͚͚̖e͏̼̫ḓ̙y̷̛͙ ̴͔͙̖̭̹s̥̞̬̩̱͜͟ͅt̨̯͕̺̦̰́ͅw͖̲̦̩̲̜̳͚a̭̲̙̬͚r̕҉͏͎͔t̝̲̻̰̥͠e̡̖̪̟͖͔̺̝d̷̮̮̻̩͇̘̟͞.” Stan yelped and dropped the colt on the ground, both backing away from him. “D-did He..just…just.” The colt then stood on all fours. “Soon, all of eqwestia will b̵͇͓̝͓̘͙̩͠o̡̠̙̬͍̣̲̪w͙̩͚̳̹͡ ̷̸̩͉̪̝̦t̛̤̯̖̕ọ̷̫̺͓́͜ ̰̠̞̼͖͜m̷҉̱̬̭̹̜̫i̵̳̩͔̮͚̘͖e̶̫̞̱̦͓͓̲̼͍͟͡ ̡҉̳̦̦̮̻̞̘ͅẃ̟͓͍u͝҉̺͕i̲͍͇͕̪̣͝l̸̞̟̹͕͈̠͙̮͝l̹͓͙͡” Lee gasped. “W-what the heck’s wrong with y-” The colt then flared his tiny horn and shot a blast of magic right in front of Lee, making him jump and hug Stan in fear. “Your qween made a wong choice giving birth to mee.” The colt continued. "For soon, evwey mare in the world will b̸͏͈̜̞͎̦͍̳͙͟o͏̷̦̣̙̠͜w̶̸͇̞̗̭ ͇̻̩͝t͡҉̬̭̺̫͎̖̣͙o̺͚̗ ̷͔̭̞̗͉̻̤m͈̥̬͈̮͙͘̕e͈̟̲̩é҉̣̪ once I’m at full powar!” Stan hugged Lee back in constant fear, colt or not, it was really scary the way he talked. “Si-Since when did you act like some evil little-” “S͎̼͍͙̱͕͟I̳̰̖͟͡͠W̶̡͏̣͖͉̬͔E̢͓̥̮̜̜͇̕N̢̛̻̫̤̻̩͓͘C̫̜͈̥̗̳͢E̳͕̗̬͇͟͝!̲͎̕͟” Both changelings fell to the floor from his sudden outburst. “You will soon all obey me. Once I contwool every mare in da world, the stawians will soon do da same!” Stan raised his head. “Why not control everypony? Why just the mares?” The colt paused. “Well, my chwangliny magic can only contwol the oposwet gender.” He then gave a menacing glare that made Lee shiver and gave Stan flashbacks to his nightmares. “But that’s all I need in order to w͏̶̗̩̥͉̰u̘l҉̬̘͎̪̪l̦̮̬̟̬̕ ̸̴̩͓̫̣̹ḑ͓̟́ạ ̴̗͍͓̟̗̯̰͖͘w҉̡̭̳͚͇̤͢o̢̖̹̥̪̺̳̞͢r̢̠̭͇̣͈̖l̷̘̻̠̪͙̼̕ḏ̸̷̣̣̤͜"̸͚̲͔̜̜̹́̕ Lee stood up. “Why the heck are you evil now? You were just an innocent kid a second ago!” The colt giggled. “Like mwother, l̮̝̫̲̪͘i͓̹̬̮k̳̘̭̣̮͝ę̭̤͚ͅ ̷̢̤̹̱̱̖̼s̵̴̪̭̪o҉̢͙̬̙̪̫̳ņ̵̙͉̞̗̱̙̥͚̫͜"̴̪̘̲̺̠̩͜ The colt stepped forward, making Stan and Lee step back. “When I came ouwta tat cocoon, I finowy fwelt fwee! And as soon as I gazed into da eyes of my mowther, I knew she would be my ticket outa dat stupid, stinky cave. I just needed to act just like a inocent widle colt, some stewped stuff here, fear in da miwer der, and once I did tat, I topped it off wiff a letter witten under my contwol.” He chuckled. "And dat hair was so tasty." Lee nudged Stan and whispered, “That probably would explain the poor planning.” The colt stomped the ground. “It was all I could tink of at da tiem.” He crossed his tiny forelegs. “Lets see you try to mayk a pwan in minutes.” Stan rolled his eyes. “Oh please, me and Carl thought up a plan at that train station in under-” The foal shot another bolt of light right in between Stan and Lee again, making them yelp. "̩̪Q͕̝̪͙͉̳̱͜u̴̘̣ị̧͖̤̪̼̜̳̯͟ͅe͙͕͉̗̬͙̘͜t̢̙̤͉̟͕͚̲̲!̷̦̠̕͞"̢̨̟̣̳͈̘̥͢ He yelled. “tat pwan was pwabably stewped, but dis one is betta, this one will mayk evwey pony rule unda my control, and nothing will stwap me!” The colt then raised his head to the sky and cackled with laughter. Stan and Lee looked out of the alleyway and into the town seeing every mare yelling at each other or having a fight with a stallion, as for the stallions, they were all running away like it was spring time. “W-We need to get out of here.” Stan whispered. “This colts gone mad.” Lee pointed at the still laughing foal. “It’s just a little pony, what’s the worse he can do?” “Would you like to f̝̰̜͈ͅi̸҉̲͍͓̖n̠͔̺̘͚͙͘d̡̩̱̘͓̙͞ ̙̪̭̟̳͓͞ǫ̤̘͕͚̠͉͕̕ú͎̹̫t̡̖̭̤̗̬͡ͅ?̬͖̳̙̯̣͓̱"̨̬̜̀̕ Without warning, the colt blasted Lee, sending him tumbling into a nearby trash can. “Lee!” Stan yelled before looking back at the colt, who was now walking closer and closer to him. “Dis will be a day wong wemenbered.” He shouted; flaring up his horn again “It will be da day w̱̹̣͔i̷̱̞̳͜d̸͙͍̤̭̹̕d͕̤̝̕l̨̜̻͕̗͎̖̰̕͟e̲̲̙̘̣̳͚̱̣ ̝̞͍̝̀S҉҉̠̫̠͈͕ͅh̲͎̝̪̮̬͓͟͜i͇̪̙͡ń̴̲͕͟y̩̜͜͜ wuuls all of Equwestia!” Stan gulped. “I shoulda just stayed at the hive…”