Run, hide, or die Part 2
“Okay changeling, I’m counting’ to three. One. Two…”
“Three!”
The private burst through the bathroom door before the captain could finish. Making him groan in anger. “PrrrrriVATE!”
The guard stood up in attention and saluted. “Sir yes sir.” He then regained his composure and looked at his commander.
He walked in and glared at the private. “And why did you run in?”
The private looked around the bathroom. “B-Because I thought that the changeling was….gone?”
The captain rolled his eyes. “Son, I doubt that that monster is…gone…” Both ponies looked around in shock to see that their prisoner was no where to be seen.
“Where did that slimy little rat get off to?!” The captain looked around in anger, trying to find some hint as to where the changeling could of gone.
“Uh...sir?” The private pointed at the grate on the ground, his commander turned around and gasped at the sight of the exposed air vent.
“Why the dirty, unoriginal little...” The captain turned around and pointed at his fellow guard. “Private, you stay here.”
The private shuttered. “Me? But-”
“Don’t throw your buts at me, son. Just follow my order, I’ll be right back with the shape shiftier in my hooves.” With that he turned around and started crawling through the vent, leaving the private alone in the bathroom.
The private sat down and sighed, wondering what to do next. “Why would the changeling be going through an air duct, it doesn’t even go outside, now if I were a changeling, I would-?”
“Be knocking out a guard.”
“Nah, that’s not something I would want to…” The private quickly turned around and came face to face with the changeling.
Stan smiled and grabbed him by the head. “Now just hold still.”
The private started shaking, knowing this was gonna hurt. “I-I’d rather no-”
Before he could finish, Stan headbutted him, instantly making him fall to the floor. Stan stumbled a bit and shook his head. “Whew...Glad to know I still got it.” He picked up his helmet that fell of the pony and put it one.
He looked in the mirror, then back at the now unconscious pony, making sure to get every feature that the private had. “Now lets see, gotta get every detail down, not a single thing missing, and to make sure you look-”
“Delicious”
Stan screamed again and fell to the floor...again and clutched his chest. “For Faust sake! When will this end!” He got back up and made his way to the door.
“This will all be over soo-”
Stan closed his eyes and ears and ran out yelling. “Just shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!”
*CLANG*
Stan landed on his flank and rubbed his head. “Ugh...Will you watch where...you’re…” He slowed his speech once he saw what hit him. He had no Idea that this pony was here, nor did he know why, but he knew exactly what he was gonna do next.
The stallion in front of him got back on his hooves and looked at Stan in concern. “Wha...Private, is that any way to talk to your-”
“Changeling killer!” Stan leaped on the white stallion and knocked him into a wall, pressing his hooves around his throat. “You...YOU!...”
The stallion struggled. Using is back legs, he kicked Stan off of him, smacking him on the other side of the wall. “*Cough* what is wrong with you cade-”
“The brothers and sisters shall be avenged!” Stan charged at him again. making sure to end his life by any means necessary.
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The private laid in the bathroom, groaning in pain. He had never experienced getting hurt in the head before, he had a few punches and kicks to the stomach and legs, but getting head butted, it was something else. After coming to his senses, he turned over on his belly and pushed himself up.
“PRIVATE!”
He jumped into the air and held his hoof to his forehead. “Sir yes...sir?” He then landed on the ground and saw that his commander was covered in dust. “Um...Sir?”
“Private…” The captain sighed. “I’m gonna give you some advice. One, don’t go in air vents, they are...evil, and second.” He closed the gap between their faces. “Don’t go to sleep ON THE JOB!”
The private shifted his hooves. “I-I wasn’t sleeping sir, that changeling came in here and-”
“Oh, so now you’re telling me another one of your ridiculous lies.” The captain was now starting to glare daggers into the private.
“Sir, I’m telling you the truth.” He pleaded.
“Really now? Well then where is he?” The captain snarled.
*SMASH*
Both ponies shielded their faces from the door debris as another pair of ponies came crashing in, one of them strangling on top of the other. The one on top yelled. “This is where you suffer the same fate as Terry! He died for a cause you son of a-”
Stan then landed outside from a fearsome punch to the face, where he then undisguised and looked up at his assailant. The captain, who then cracked his hooves. “You dare try to assassinate the captain of the royal army.”
“No, I will assassinate that murderer.” Stan charged at him while the private pulled the white stallion up and saluted on instinct.
“Are you alright, captain Shining?” The private said in worry.
Shining dusted himself off and coughed. “At ease private, I’m fine. Just a bit shook up is all.”
“Sir, what are you doing here?” The private continued to salute.
“I heard yelling while I was in the main halls. Thought I should check it out.” They looked back at the fight to see that their friend was currently getting kicked in the stomach. “Turns out it was this beast of abomination!”
Stan stopped and turned around. “Like you’re any wor-” Stan yelped in pain once he felt his leg get a powerful kick from the captain, making him fall while the guard started getting his revenge.
The private shifted his hooves nervously. “Should we...you know, help?”
Shining pointed at him and said. “Private, go get reinforcements. This bug is dynamite.”
The private nodded and started running, with his hoof still to his forehead. Stan noticed this and pushed pushed the pony off him. “Ohhoho no you don’t!”
He stood up and ran at him with full speed, tackling him to the ground. “Private! Why did you let the bug tackle you?” The captain yelled. Shining shook his head and starting running to help.
Stan turned around and held the private by his neck, making everyone else in the hall freeze. “Make one more step. I dare ya.” Stan said with an evil smile. “I’m sure necks can snap faster than you can run anyway you...monster.” Private looked up at Stan in fear while Shining and the captain stood their ground.
“Changeling,” Shining said. “think about what you’re doing.”
Stan snickered. “I know what I’m doing you murderer. I’m giving payback for what you’ve done to us. You and your precious pink princess.”
“Nice alliteration.” Private whispered.
Captain growled. “What's with your hate toward captain Armor, what has he ever done to-”
“He killed two-hundred and fifty-three of my brothers and sisters! That’s a start as to why I hate him.” Stan heavily breathed while both guards looked at each other.
“How’d you do that captain?” Private said through the slight pressure on his throat.
Stan looked down and adjusted his grip on him. “Oh, you wanna know how?” He looked up at Shining with fire in his eyes. “He and his wife blasted us with that spell, it knocked us clear out of Equestria. I hope you know that some of them had the slowest death imaginable, and others had to kill the ones they knew weren't gonna make it, and only six made it out okay!”
Shining couldn’t say a word, he never knew what happened to all the changelings once he blasted them, he thought they landed without a scratch. That’s what made him sleep at night. Shining looked up at him with sorrow “Look, changeling. I know what I did was a little bit too harsh.”
“YOU THINK!" Stan adjusted his grip on the private again, making the others flinch.
“B-but I’m sure that princess Celestia will help you with this.”
Stans heart skipped a beat once he said that. “T-That princess won't help us.”
Shining took a step forward. “Celestia is sparing, she will understand what you’re going through.”
Stan was starting to shake and his grip on the private was starting to loosen. “She won’t un-understand a thing.” His breathing sounded more afraid than angry.
Shining was now a few yards away from them. “If you just let him go, we can bring you to her, and then you can talk about this.”
The right side of Stan's face twitched. “Is that just some sick way of telling me that she’ll kill me!”
Shining stepped back after his outburst. “No! Why would you think that, she is a-”
“MONSTER! You’re never taking me to her.” Stan lost it at that point, he held his hostage into the air and flung it at them before he made a run for it.
Shining helped the private up. “You okay?”
The private was about to respond, but the captain shouted. “There’s no time for that! We need to stop that bug before he goes after the princess.
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Present
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Stan continued to run, he didn’t care about being disguised at that point, the fear in his mind was making him not even think about where he was going, or what he was seeing. He thought he was hearing screaming at one point, a snap of a stick, a punch and a kick, the feel of a bite, these sounds and images and feelings were going through his mind until he finally came to his senses, he found himself on the floor with a stick in his hooves and was now looking up at a group of guards, Shining being in the middle.
Stan stood up and facing the guards. “If you think...I’m, hugh...running away without him...you are...whew...sadly mistaken, hungh.” Stan used the spear to keep his balance and continued to pant uncontrollably, he had never run this fast in all his life. Nor did he know what he was talking about, who was he talking about anyway?
“Hi Stan.”
Stan’s ears twitched, he thought it was just some wind and said, “Y-Yeah hi Carl. Now I suggest all of you...wait…” Stan’s mind got the picture, he came here to save his friend Carl, that was the whole point, there was another reason why he came here as well, but he couldn’t remember.
With a smile on his face, Stan turned around and said, “Oh thank the queen Carl, I thought you were de..de…..dea…..d-d-d...dehehahaaa….” He dropped the stick and dropped his jaw in horror once he saw what was in front of him.
The entire room was dark with a single light shining on top of Carl, who was dead on the floor with a pool of blood surrounding him, and right next to him stood the worst nightmare of his life with one of his limbs in her mouth.
“Well well well, so you’re the big brave bug that came into my home.”
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THEY FINALLY MEET YAYAY
Why does Shining feel bad for defending his home and family?
My gosh! These are some nasty hallucinations. I would definitely go crazy.
4506562
everyone feels bad when they take a life anonymously.
4506607 I guess Shining did kind of use the nuclear option.
That is one of the best responses to a line like Stan's that I have ever read in a fanfic.
Keep up the good work.
Looking forward to them finally meeting , I'll curse you just a little for throwing that flashback in there for 2 chapters, though it's a good way to introduce a little tension.
Aww, I don't want this to end!
will there be a sequel?
4506562 well wouldn't you be sad if you killed thousands of sentient creatures?
Two complaints. One, this chapter was very unnecessary and could have easily been meshed with the last one. A lot of details were repeated when they didn't need to be (although, you've been doing that this entire fic). Two, Shining's response makes no sense. No one in that conversation even bothered to mention that the Changelings were hostile invaders in the Equestrian capital city and were holding the pony leaders captive. There would be nothing wrong with Shining feeling sorrow and pity for the deaths of Stan's fellow Changelings, but saying "I know what I did was wrong" is just a very strange response.
4506562
I doubt he feels bad for defending himself and his people, but for the fact that there were deaths because of it. It's like how people in a war-zone still feel bad about shooting a fellow human being. Yeah, it was either they shoot or be killed... but it's still life. People feel bad about taking lives, at least most of the time they do.
4506833 You mean sreamquel?
4506917
1. I don't have time to do a whole five thousand worded chapter, so that's why they were cut in half.
(its called graduation)
2. Stan had a pony at neck point
would you be talkin' trash to someone who had a gun to your friends face?
(maybe)
3. No one really know's what their saying when fear hits them.
(Fear of their friend being kill that is.)
I mean...just look at Stan.
He didn't know what he was saying when Shining mentioned Celestia
(though, he is getting a little bit insane at this point)
As for Shining, well, would he get scared to see a privates head snapped in half?
(probably)
And yes...It was a bit rushed...
I feel sad that Stan didn't end off this chapter by vomiting.
Halucinating changeling. This will clearly go very well
4507179 The next chapter will start from that :D
I think.
And thus a berserker is born. I am interested to see where this leads. We got the whole "Changelings aren't evil, just misunderstood" done perfectly, with the changeling ironically fighting for a noble cause against an ironically monstrous pony. We have a hallucinating changeling facing his greatest fear, with the potential for reality to fade away and be replaced entirely by his fear. The story is getting somewhere nice, and I will be sorely disappointed if it ends up being something like, "Oooo, Celestia casts calming magic, and then they settle everything in a calm, rational manner, and yay the changelings are better everything is now okay".
>>>Shining looked up at him with sorrow “Look, changeling. I know what I did wrong.”>>>
Uhm... how is it wrong to repel invaders who launch and unprovoked attack, mind-rape you, capture your ruler and plan to enslave your entire nation?
Seriously, we'd nuke the living crap out of aliens who tried that!
4506848 Were Stalin, Mao, and Hitler sad over the murders of tens of millions?
I kind of find it ludicrous that the Mane 6 could take on hundreds of changelings and hold their own, yet this one nutcase changelings is fighting off multiple guards.
Stan is just facerolling today!
4508391 Well you see, um, girl power?
4508381 well they were sociopaths, and even then they had some people they cared about
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4508391
Yes, but this 'Changeling' is a crazed, scared, lunatical and deranged madman.
Are you familiar with the WH40K space marines? Well how about the Chaos space marines?
Because that is the sort of fanatical deranged, desperate insanity I'm envisioning in Stan.
That desperation alone would give him the ability to just go with it when this happens.
Plus the mane six are the main characters.
So they get to be given stupid combat abilities for short periods of time as the plot demands it.
Not because they actually know how to fight, or retain this knowledge at any other point where it might be useful.
But simply because the plot demands it.
(Except maybe the bear-tamer).
Besides my own (Possibly stupid) opinion (That may be forgetting important facts.). You raise a good point;
How did five untrained and inexperienced mares take on hundreds of Changelings without being beaten into the ground?
I'm pretty sure Stan's got Schizophrenia, the good kind of it.
4506937 Shure, lets og with that! :P
4509570 Yeah, being desperate and insane doesn't mean crap if you're not strong enough to back it up.
Some little 5-year old could go as nuts with desperation as he wanted, but a pitbull would still tear him apart.
Raw power matters.
4513003 I will wholly agree with you on that point.
But I do have to remind you that this is a Changeling, likely extremely fit as he has been part of the invasion force.
And if that doesn't satisfy you then think about this: If a Changeling can alter its physical form to be who, or what, they wish to be, then for it to be at all convincing it would have to be more than skin deep. Which means control over muscle tone and the ability to match whatever levels of muscular fitness and strength of the individual they intend to pose as.
With that in mind, it would be theoretically possible for a Changeling to alter their natural form to be the physically strongest being in whatever room they happen to have walked into. Minus Alicorn's.
Along with that theoretical information, is it really likely that Chrysalis would attempt to start an invasion without sufficiently trained troops?
(And don't give me the "Oh, but she must be the most idiotic individual in existence to leave all of her most dangerous enemies in a room with her back literally turned." I personally hated that Hasbro oversimplified it to such a degree and personally believe that it was just Hasbro providing a suitable way for the 'good guy's' to win given that it is actually a kid's show, with a target audience of young children. The other option was for Chrysalis to properly trap them, isolate them and leave no possible opportunity for them to plan, leaving Equestria to be lorded over by Changelings. Not going to happen with the aforementioned target audience.)
Wow. That was long for a bracketed piece of text...
Moving on.
So, if what I stated about control over muscle tone is at all correct then physical strength would not be a valid issue. Coupled with what you would hope was sufficient training as he is part of an invasion force, is it really all that unlikely that his desperation wouldn't be enough for him to fight through a couple of guards?
Of course you are entitled to your own opinion on everything, people can call it stupid, but it is still your opinion.
With that said, I greatly look forward to your response to this as it could turn out to be a very interesting conversation.
Shining Armour and Cadance as Genocides.... What a stimulating way of looking at it! It is admittedly mildly unnerving, but very interesting never-the-less.
well..........Stan is insane.....
"For Faust's sake!"
So, wait ... is Shining Armor NOT the captain? I'm confused....
Also, Stan does indeed seem quite unhinged.....
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It would appear he has schizophrenia... Amongst other things
I think that Stan has stepped over the line into insanity now. I doubt that he'll be capable of perceiving reality, only his worst nightmare come true.
The irony is, of course, that a lot of his stress was of his own making and it has only built upon itself.
Oh it was a flash back is should have got that sooner.
4593407 That and possible chronic hallucinations from his Phobia of the Princess...
Possible PTSD turned phobia....
Poor Stan :( I've had PTSD before so I can understand
4506670 and its from a hostage who was currently afraid for his life.
Welp, he's gone coo coo for Coco pops.