Sunny Knight: a Pony's Tale

by TheothersideofSunny968

Fiends in Disguise

Everypony remained still, frozen in shock at Sunny's revolution. He stepped forward and kept looking in Rarity's compact mirror as e poked his horn over and over. "It... It feels real, I guess..."

"How long grave you been a unicorn?" Twilight spoke up, taking a closer look at the yellow stallion's newly revealed forehead

"Have you always been a unicorn?" Rainbow asked, half shocked and half annoyed.

"I don't think we had a chapter about Sunny becoming a unicorn, did we?" Pinkie asked, flipping through the printed out pages of Fimfic that discord had sent her for her scrap book. "Nope! None that I can see!"

But the stallion just shrugged. "I have no idea.... I've just always kept the hat on and never noticed."

"What about when you went to go bathe or brushed your mane?" Rarity chimed in. "Surely you would have noticed that?!"

The stallion turned a little red with embarrassment. "I guess I should have spent more time washing my
Mane and brushing it then I really did, he he..." He nervously chuckled.

"But that doesn't make since..." Twilight redirected every pony's attention. levitating the photo album over to her, she began to flip threw the pages, looking at all the photos. "All of these have Sunny as an earth pony, look! Even here with his mane styled back, he had no horn!"

"You know what else's is weird?" Pinkie popped up behind twilight. "See all his brothers and sisters? Here Sunny is really young and cute, but here he's older, but his siblings are the same age! Look! Look! Look!" Pinkie grabbed Twilight's head and began moving it from the photos in the album to the fillies who had stopped playing and began to circle Twilight and her friends.

All eyes fell upon Lemon Marmalade, even Sunny's, the mare's expression was hard to read. Sunny moved away from his 'mother' never taking his eyes off of her as he moved closer to Applejack. His eyes narrowed at the tall mare who seemed to look a lot like him. "Who are you? really?"

"There's only one pony that could be" Twilight said as she slammed the album shut.

The tall yellow mare began to chuckle as a green flame covered her, changing her coat to a dark onyx, opening holes in her hooves, releasing a pair of thin insect like wings on her exoskeleton back, then when the fire reached the end of her long neck, a mane of torn green hair flung down. A long and crocked horn grew from her forehead, standing tall and proud. When the mare opened her eyes, they were green as envy itself, and as she opened her jaws which contained two rows of sharp teeth, she let out a wicked laugh that echoed in through the entire farm. "Yes, Twilight Sparkle! It is I! Queen Chrysalis! The queen of the changlings!!!!"

The so called 'family members' of Sunny's then began to flow and in a bright green flash, took their original forms. They shot glares at the small group of ponies as they began to close in, circling all around them.

"Who, or what, is she?!" Sunny asked, backing up to his group of friends.

"Oh, where are my manners?" The Queen of the changelings taunted as she took prideful strides towards the small group. "Allow me to 'really' introduce myself. I am Queen Chrysalis, Queen of the changelings, devourer of love, and soon to be fueled of all of Equestria!"

"I was wondering when you would show up again" Twilight shot at her. "You're not going to escape this time, Chrysalis!"

"Oh? But why would I want to escape when I can set up a new colony right here?! " the evil Queen flashed a hoof over the Apple farm. "A great location, don't you think? We'll set up in this small town, drain all the ponies of their love, then slowly make out way across all the land!"

"But what does that have to do with me?!" Sunny spat at her. "Why did you have to use 'me' as a part in your plan?!"

The queen chucked lightly. "Well well well, don't you think so much of yourself. Trust me, you aren't anything special. You just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I wanted to get close to somepony who was close to her!" She pointed at Twilight who glared back at her.

"The photos, the names, the entire stage..." Twilight said under her breath.

"Those pictures were my subjects and I. But it seems I should have payed more attention to detail. Who would have guessed that pathetic farm pony would have been a unicorn. Probably doesn't even know a single spell..." She chuckled. " 'oh poor me! Poor me! I can't remember who I am! Are you my mommy? I don't know where my mommy is! Poor me! I don't even know I'm a unicorn!'"

All the changlings began to snicker, but never took their eyes off of the girls, the Apple family, or Sunny. But the more Chrysalis mocked him, the harder it was for Sunny to hold back the tears.

"Ya ain't gunna get away with this ya varmit!!" Applejack yelled over their sinister laughing.

"Oh? Oh I'm not?" The changeling Queen commented. "I'm sorry, I forgot, all I have is a entire changeling army. What do you have?"

"We have each other, and the power of friendship!" Twilight declared at she, Applejack, Pinkie Pie,Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity all began to glow and float into the air. Their manes began to glow and alter as markings resembling their respective cutie marks began to spread to their hooves, upper bodies, and even as the iris of their eyes!

Sunny watched in amazement as the girls he had hung out with began to gather a large amount of magical energy that flowed around them! His own horn began to tremble as he retreated and stood between the changing queen and the rest of the Apple family, remembering the vow he made when he first arrived. 'I won't let anypony or anything hurt this farm or this family.' His words give him the strength to stand tall and face the army with all he had and then some.

Chrysalis began to panic and ordered her subjects to brace for impact! She then threw up a shield that coved 1/5 of her subjects and herself, but could not stretch it further. As the girls released a rainbow like blast, the changelings that weren't covered were pushed out to the farthest corners of Equestria, soaring thew the air like the fluffy seeds from a dandelion!

Eventually the shield the changeling Queen had cast began to crack and give way. But the deviant Queen refused to give in! She gritted her teeth and glared at the blinding rainbow light, her hatred for the purple alicorn princess fueled her magical drive, allowing her shield to hold up slightly more against the rainbow blast. By the end of it, only the queen and a few tired subjects survived the blast. The remaining changelings, say for one wearing some type of armor, were struggling to remain standing. The one wearing some kind of armor had forced himself to remain standing next to his Queen.

"Is that all you girls have?! Ha! It will take more then a few 'rainbows' to beat me!" The changing Queen growled, but even she was battle warn. Her body was covered in scratches, her breathing was hard, the only thing that had remained constant was the loathing anger in her eyes.

"Leave now, chrysalis!" Twilight said, her and the girls still empowered by the magic of friendship. "Leave, and never return to Ponyville!"

"Oh, I'll leave...." She said, her smile remaining as cocky. "But not without a few parting gifts!"

She then began to charge at Sunny, Granny, Big Mac, and Apple Bloom! The girls started to charge up again, but the armored changeling ordered the remaining changelings to charge at the mane six! With the last of their strength, the remaining changlings swarmed at the girls! With their hooves full, dealing with the remaining changlings, and the queen changeling at the Apple family, fangs barred, it looked grim.

'Don't hesitate' a deep and kind voice rand in Sunny's head. 'They are depending on you to protect them. Don't hesitate.' The seconds seemed to stretch on forever as the yellow unicorn starred down the charging rabid Queen. He took a slow and deep breath. 'I won't let anypony or anything hurt this farm or this family.'

Pressure began to build up as his horn began to glow with an emerald green aura as he focused on protecting the Apple family, his friends, and his home. "This place is my home..." He began to say, "these ponies are my friends and my family..." He shot up a hard glair at the queen who had now lunged at them and yelled "and no pony will take them away from me!!!!"

With that statement, Sunny released the flood gates and let the magic flow! A large green magical blast shot at the changlings Queen, catching her subjects in the cross fire, and with the force of 1000 rampaging manticores, sent them farther then the previous changlings had flown! The last thing the changlings Queen saw were the eyes of a very determined, and average looking unicorn. One who had something precious to him that he wanted to protect with all his might. She saw the will of a single individual who fought for those he saw to protect. She saw a sliver of herself in that ordinary looking pony.

'What makes you so different from me?...' Was the last thing she thought about as the image of the yellow unicorn stallion with the two toned, orange colored mane began to shrink and disappear from her sight....

Back at the Apple farm, the girls began to power down as Sunny stood triumphant and proud for a moment, watching the skies as Queen Chrisalis and the remaining changlings cut across the sky like a set of fly balls. But as they began to disappear and his attention returned to the Apple family members who were cheering behind him. Then to the group of girls running towards him, smiles on all of their faces, with Applejack at the lead, the world began to go black as all sound disappeared. Then his body when numb as the yellow unicorn fell to the ground.

The girls all ran over to make sure he was ok, but nopony noticed that the mark on the yellow unicorn's flank had grown darker and taken most of it's original shape of a black circle, minus a 15% sliver that remained yellow...

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