Changelings, Love and Lollipops

by Georg

Chapter 1 - Hard Landings

Changelings, Love and Lollipops

Chapter 1
Hard Landings

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The world was pink.

One moment the changeling had been happily returning to his Queen after chasing down and glueing another pegasus guard to the Canterlot castle floor. The next moment, pink.

He was beginning to hate pink.

Not just any pink, but the cloying, nostril-stunning, tidal wave of absolute pinkness that smashed him in the face just at the exact moment he had cleared the castle wall to enter the Queen’s new throne room. There was even a flavor to that pink-to-the-face. It tasted pink. Somehow it smelled pink, probably due to the colorful bits of confetti he had still jammed in his nose after that horrible fight with the terrifying mares. Much of the confetti was pink too, and some of it had jammed up his nose so far he swore he could hear it. And worse, it sounded pink.

The air was not pink. It was a soft blue, speckled with little black dots, and one larger dot who his fuzzy pink brain idly identified as the Queen, tumbling head over thorax into the distance. The other dots must have been fellow changelings, caught in the pink too.

Air roaring by his ears grew thicker, and the ground was coming up very fast. Fortunately, it was not pink. Unfortunately, it looked like he was going to land in a tree. Fortunately it was a blessedly soft, green tree filled with springy leaves to soak up any impact.

Unfortunately it had a house.

Right in the middle of the tree. A huge, solid, house. What kind of idiot puts a house in a tree?

The stars he saw when he crashed through the roof were not pink. But somehow even the darkness that swallowed him up seemed to have pink undertones.

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For the fourth day in a row, the changeling lay curled up in the back of the treehouse, wrapped in a blanket and wishing he could just die. The disgusting blanket may have been pink, but it was warm, and the evening chill warranted more than just his chitinous hide for protection. In particular, he appreciated how the soft fuzzy nap protected his battered bottom from the hard wooden floor of the house, because otherwise he would have happily thrown the cursed pink thing out the window. Scrounging through the loose cardboard box he had discovered stuffed under a table, he pulled out the last juice box and slurped the contents down while trying to keep his rebellious stomach in control.

Something inside his gut had certainly broken when that damnable pink sphere had thrown him and the rest of the changelings out of Canterlot, because the low buzzing of the Hivemind was completely absent for the first time in his life, and it terrified him more than his present battered condition. A changeling was defined by his link to the Queen. Without it, he was nothing but an abomination to be rendered down for food or killed on sight. Even though the multitude of cracks in his chitinous skin had healed somewhat, and his wings could be flapped now without the hammering pain in his head making him blind, he had no real interest in flying back to his hive and being killed.

He still could not change forms; the fuzzy spinning sensation that had encompassed him the last time he tried had taken nearly a day to go away. And despite multiple attempts to clear his sinuses of confetti, he still could not breathe right, and little flecks of pink kept fluttering out at random times when he exhaled.

At least for the last three days, noling and nopony had found him in the tree house, giving him plenty of time to distract himself from the stabbing pain in his belly by thinking about his ultimate fate. Since he was unable to return to the hive without being killed, and certainly unable to wander about the pony lands in his natural form given their certain reaction to the invasion, that only left hiding in the dark and forbidding forest somewhere until he either starved to death from lack of love, or became some creature’s midnight snack, neither of which really held an appeal to him.

As the sun began to set, the changeling settled down uncomfortably on the floor of the tree house and tried to sleep. The emotions of any sentient creature approaching his tiny hive of one would awaken him from his slumber, and maybe if he was lucky, give him enough time to painfully fly away into the darkness unnoticed.

What he failed to notice was three little figures who had already crept up to the clubhouse on silent hooves and were watching him through the windows.

With rope. Lots and lots of rope.

Comments

[Georg]

Nothing could possibly go wrong from this first chapter, could it?

[JustAnotherTimeLord]

5514549
Just an extreme game of jump rope, right?

. . . Right?

[cosmosain]

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Knowing them it could be

[nioniosbbbb]

5514549 I am sorry I dont understand. His HM link was broken so he cant return? Cant he reconnect to it once he returns?

Or is it that he just can't move and is in too much pain?

[Nyerguds]

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I believe this is intended as, sometimes changelings are born in the hive without that connection, and those are immediately cast out as abominations. Having lost his connection, he thinks he falls in that category now. He probably doesn't realize this probably happened to all the rest, too.

[Georg]

5514956 5515382 Please note he was a lot closer to the Love Bomb than most of his fellow changelings, much like being close to a real bomb can result in deafness.
5514648 Cutie Mark Crusader Rope Makers!

[Frogace55]

I have seen enough to know where this is going!

[FancyFan]

New story bey Georg? And its about changelings? And has Pinkie and the CMC tagged as major characters? Away we go!

[gamexpert1990]

Yeah... If I ever have an experience like that, it would most likely result with me also growing to hate pink.

[Lurks-no-More]

I'm amused that the CMC do not, apparently, count as "sentient creatures".

That, or our hapless changeling has indeed been deafened by the lovebomb.

[Rocinante]

I miss reading your stories, Georg.

[thatguy45]

5524186 well, they are really stupid, so maybe.

[DerpedRainbow]

Sooo it is confirmed that the CMC are soulless abominations in this story... That or he is not a changeling anymore.

[PoisonJoker09]

CUTIE MARK BUG CATCHERS YAAAAAAYYYYY!

Decided to give this a swing, cause, Pinkie Pie, why not?

And a Changeling that is choking on confetti.

[Vates Despero]

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Please note he was a lot closer to the Love Bomb than most of his fellow changelings, much like being close to a real bomb can result in deafness.

I'm guessing the reason he didn't detect the CMC was because he has also been rendered at least temporarily 'deaf' to emotions as well?

[ibeachu]

Good, good.
Nice work on the chapter, sir- or-mam.

[CloudG45]

SO MUCH PINK!!! Pink here, pink there.... Just too much pink!!!

[Blue_Paladin42]

Oooh, new changeling story. Aw yis.

[Borock Oboma]

"Pink."
-"No."-
"Pink!"
-"I don't want to pink."-
"I said pink."
-"No."-
"PINK."
-"NO!"-
"You will pink,now."
-"I have followed you into battles,but I will not pink."-
"....."
-"....."-
"Pink."
-"No!"-
"I SAID PINK!"
-"One cannot simply pink."-
"PINK!"
-"No!"-
"ENOUGH."
The changeling took the pink,pinking it slowly.
"Good.Feel any better?"
-"Eh....not really."-
"..."
-"..."-

"Pink again then."

[Majk]

CMC CHANGELING CATCHERS YAY!

[CrystalWaters]

At least it wasn't white?

[Menoshe]

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Giant Cat's Cradle. It's all the rage these days.

[Draco Dei]

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Random stuff:
Fluttershy would humblely like to remind all unicorns (and everyone else, especially thus with fingers) that "cat's cradles" are not actually ergonomically suitable sleeping arrangements for felines. Attempting it may result in injury to said feline... and possibly the maker of said string construct. Not that she would ever hurt anyone for an honest lapse of memory like that of course! Merely that mother cats may not be as understanding and the kittens in question of course will tend to flail about while dealing through/escaping the cradle.

Even showing a cat's cradle to Opalescence will be taken as an insult to her maturity. She will demonstrate her level of development by shredding both string and string wielder.

[tsaukpaetra]

Cutie Mark Crusaders Changeling Snatchers, Yay!

[Dimension Tripper]

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Cutie Mark Crusaders Changeling Slayers! Yay!

[Light Ascend]

With rope. Lots and lots of rope.

This isn't gonna end well... Maybe it might become a little naughty?

[Black--Soul]

CMC Changeling finder

Very unlucky Changeling. Could have ended a lot worse trough a lot of mean... So many hes lucky after all?