Chapter 3
For a long moment, there was complete silence. Ditto sat frozen in the middle of the floor, a book open in front of her, while three ponies sat in the doorway, jaws hanging open in utter disbelief. One was a yellow pegasus, one was a pink earth pony, and one was a purple unicorn. There was nothing but silence for a long time until the pink one gasped. "It's a changeling!"
The three ponies rushed into the room and surrounded Ditto. the purple one gave her an angry glare, the pink one looked suspicious, and the yellow one didn't look angry at all. In fact, she was eyeing Ditto's injuries.
"What are you doing here, Changeling?" demanded the unicorn. "Are you spying on Ponyville?"
Ditto huddled on the floor in fear. These ponies were going to hurt her- she knew it. She turned her back on the purple pony and tried to run away, but her hind legs collapsed beneath her and she fell to the ground. She tried to continue running away, limping for the open door, but the light yellow Pegasus blocked her path.
Finally, Ditto recognized these ponies. They were the ones that her siblings had fought hard and finally captured during the invasion of Canterlot. She had not been in that battle, however, because she was pretty useless in any kind of fight. She had watched from the sidelines, reporting injuries of her fellow changelings to others so they could be taken safely out of the battle. At least she had some uses.
"Wait, girls. Stop." the yellow Pegasus said, observing Ditto. "It's not dangerous. Look, It can barely move."
Ditto blinked in surprise at the yellow Pegasus, who was now crouched beside her and looking at one of her infected cuts.
"Fluttershy, are you crazy?" the unicorn exclaimed. "This thing is one of our enemies!"
"It's an injured animal," the yellow pony, known as Fluttershy, pointed out. "She also has no wings."
"Hey, Twilight!" said the pink pony, who was looking around at the piles of books. "I think she's been reading your books!" Twilight stared at the books, surprised.
"I didn't know Changelings could read," the purple pony said in wonderment, trotting over to her friend and picking up "A History of Equestria".
"Can it talk?" the pink pony asked, bouncing over to Ditto, who was still being examined by Fluttershy. "Queen Chrysalis could."
"I don't know." Fluttershy helped Ditto to her hooves and asked kindly in a small and gentle voice, "Hello, friend. I'm Fluttershy. Do you know how to talk?"
Ditto mumbled in a small voice, "Yes, yes I can." she looked around and saw that everypony was staring at her, eyes wide with surprise. "Changelings can talk in pony form, can't they? It shouldn't be that surprising."
"Your voice!" Fluttershy gasped.
"My voice?" then Ditto remembered. Ever since her fall, her voice had been more raspy. "Oh, my voice, it... it's kinda like a snake's usually. At least in my opinion. But since I fell in here, my voice has been all weird."
"This is the source." Twilight pointed towards Ditto's throat. In the middle of her throat was a scar. "I've read that when some ponies get cuts on their throats, it can make their voice go raspy like this Changeling's."
"Stop calling me 'this Changeling'." Ditto said, shifting in her position as Fluttershy picked up her broken hind leg. "My name's Ditto."
"Hi, Ditto." the unicorn said, unconcernedly. "I'm Twilight Sparkle." Then she turned to her friends. "We have to get it out of here!" Twilight whinnied urgently. "It could lead its friends back here and they could take over Ponyville!"
"It can't move, though." Fluttershy pointed out.
"Maybe it can communicate with the others through magic."
"But if it could use magic, wouldn't we all be fried by now? Like hay fries?" the pink one said.
"Maybe it's just trying to fool us! Maybe it's just a decoy, so it can send back information to its friends while we're here nurturing it!"
'"But Twilight, these wounds are terrible," Fluttershy said. "Nopony would herself like this. Look at this." She pointed a yellow hoof at Ditto's broken leg. "She'll have trouble walking for months."
"You have a point, but we still can't trust it. Think what the Changelings put us and Cadance through, not to mention the rest of Canterlot!"
"We can't throw her out, silly." the pink pony said cheerfully, despite the situation. "That wouldn't be very nice."
"Then what should we do?"
After a bit of discussion, the ponies finally turned back towards Ditto, who Fluttershy had finished examining. The timid yellow Pegasus now waited to know if she should heal Ditto or not. Twilight trotted forwards. "Well, Ditto, we've decided that we should help you."
Ditto just smiled with relief.
"Fluttershy will heal you, and you will live here until you're better," she continued. "We just always have to have Spike watching you to make sure you can't contact any of the swarm until you leave, and you won't be allowed out of the library until we're sure we can trust you."
"Sounds good to m-" Ditto was cut off as she was knocked aside. Fluttershy had flown off so fast that she had knocked the Changeling on her side.
"Oh! oh! oh!" The pink pony leaped up in the air excitedly and pulled a large cannon out of nowhere. "That means that we can throw a 'Welcome to Ponyville' party, right Twilight?"
"Fine, Pinkie Pie."
"Yay!" Pinkie Pie pressed a button on the cannon and party supplies shot out, instantly decorating the room with streamers and confetti.
Ditto looked about in amazement. "But... but... how is that even possible?"
"She's Pinkie Pie," Twilight explained. '"The laws of physics and her don't get along well."'
The Changeling blinked in confusion, then limped over to where the others were gathering for the party.
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"I know, Twilight, but we can't just through this poor thing out!"
*record scratch* wait...
"...can't just through this poor thing..."
"...can't just through this..."
I think you mean "throw".
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It's an interesting prospect.
Let's see where this goes.
like it lol\
Different take...not bad. Let's see where this goes...
Yeah, Physics does get a good beating from Pinkie, I should know...
I haven't been on good terms with him lately...
you know, Ditts, I would be insulted if somepony was talking about me like I was an object. PUNCH TWILIGHT IN THE NECK!
interesting....
looking forward to more, also ditto that is a cool name for a changeling
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522543 her name is Ditto not Ditts.
Wow! this is more popular than I had ever thought It would be! Thanks, readers!
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Lol, I didn't notice
I fixed it, I also fixed the scene where they were talking a bit.
In the Pokemon anime, whenever a Ditto transformed, it would retain its general eye and mouth shape. Just sayin'.
524757
*coughcough* yes, um.... because I didn't think of that when I was making her character... hehe....*whistles innocently*
524125 It's called a nickname.
Getting interesting...Why did you tag it as "Random" though? I mean it's far from random...
Seems to fast paced and happy to me, I for one expected more conflict. Not enough chaos. dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/discord.png
524757
That only happens to 1 Ditto in the show that I know of. All the others are capable of replicating other Pokemon perfectly. Even then, by the end of that episode, that Ditto is able to fix the mistakes and also transform perfectly. I think it was Team Rocket that scared it enough to fix its disguise, if memory serves.
Too fast paced for me, even rushed.
Hmm, not really digging this one... read a bunch of changling fics at this point and I just can't get into ditto as a character. Very 'land of misfit toys' kind of thing which is fine but I wasn't convinced. I'm probably spoiled by 'The Visionary' with how changlings work... the love as 'food' thing doesn't seem to match up with how they are presented in the show... more that love = power. But you can't be faulted for my own head cannon
Though I will say this chapter really jumped forward suddenly, the pacing of the fic in general hasn't been too great, way to fast. This chapter actually made me think I missed a chapter with where it started out.
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This is amazing
Jeez, Twilights all 327* on Ditto.
*Rule 327 of the internet: "If something is greatly repulsive, kill it with fire."
wait i thought this was based off of party cannons story of mirror, u know this being the changeling that was mirrors friend?
Okay, I have finished revising this chapter. This may need people to re-read it, as I have pretty much re-written it.
The reason Fluttershy and Pinkie are still there in this chapter is because 1.) I needed more than one pony for this scene and 2.) I've found a way to explain away why they didn't tell Mirror about Ditto.
I think that's all for now.
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Wouldn't it be a better idea to remove Fluttershy and Pinkie (and use Rarity and Applejack -- or somepony else) so there would be a good reason they didn't told Twilight about Mirror (because they had fears about Twilight reaction)?
'"But Twilight, these wounds are terrible," Fluttershy said. "Nopony would herself like this."
I think you mean "Nopony would wound herself like this."
Anyways, I'm finding this enjoyable, even though this scene seemed short. On to the next chapters I go.
... Fix the ending. Fix it! Flutters let Ditto walk on a BROKEN LEG?!
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Well, that sure escalated quickly.
Being tackled didn't hurt your broken legs at all. Oh right, its fluttershy.
Missing verb: injure
Huh. A party for an injured changeling huh? Wow, Ditto is one tough nut. I'm surprised she can walk at all with injuries like that.
2017372 ponies are tougher than humans(rainbowdash to a hit from a manticore that would have killed a man in armor,with no armor on at all),and changelings have natural armor,so they're even more so.
Great story, although it must be noted, i find it hilarious that the only spelling error you have is when you mention your proofreader.
Although I guess it does mean he did do his job and it was necessary.
Good chapter, though I noticed that the ponies accepted Ditto a little too quickly for coming back from where changelings just attacked them.
Im quite glad they didnt just freak out.
They actually thought sensibly.
Kudos to you.
Heh. Twilight's about-face into acceptance was fast. Why did Fluttershy jump away?
Of course Fluttershy should heal her. Regardless of who the individual is they all deserve medical care. I’m pretty sure people have heard of a section in hospitals for criminal called the prison ward?