It's Pinkie's first day as a Pokemon trainer! After she selects her Pokemon from professor Sparkle, she's ready to take on the world!

There is a hidden side that asks a question.
Are we good enough?

What happens when one cannot find the answer? When one's family and friends can't understand.

After the Changeling's failed attack, a full-out crusade is set against them. Many find a way to simply slip away. One is hapless enough to fall into the hooves of those his kind fought against. The changeling is promptly sent to the only pony Celestia could trust with such a thing.

Completely revamped, and thanks for constructive criticism and support behind the scenes (you know who you are, people).

Nursing a changeling is like nursing an animal: give it bandages, feed it, take care of it, and when it's better, let it go. Fluttershy knew that it was dangerous, knew that if she got caught, then her life was over. Off to the dungeons she would go. Yet, she couldn't help it, seeing the poor, mangled creature at her own front door. So she took him in, hid him from the watchful eyes of the other ponies. Eventually, what began as an effort to help another creature, blossoms into much, much more then simply a relationship of nurse and patient.

*First story, please bare with me*

Chrysalis' defeat by Shining Armour and Cadence has ruined her once-proud Hive. With most of her subjects either slain or scattered across Equestria and her Hive hopelessly low on provisions, the only way she can survive is to seek outside help.

Seeing no other choice, Chrysalis sends some of her remaining Changelings to appeal to Celestia for help, hoping for some measure of mercy from the alicorn.

But then, a new visitor appears in the Changeling Queen's darkest hour; one that offers both help and a chance at vengeance. But what is his grudge with Celestia, and why is he helping a Changeling?

No matter who Chrysalis ultimately chooses as her savior, there will be a price to pay.

A brony wakes up to find himself in an unfamiliar forest in an unfamiliar body. Will his knowledge of a cartoon about pastel colored ponies help him keep his cover and his freedom? And even if the ponies don't find him will a certain changeling queen?

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Marked teen for occasional swearing and violence
May add more characters as story progresses

Is a changelings only option to be loved through trickery and deceit or can they gain power by being loved for who they are?

After crash landing in the Everfree a changeling is taken in by Equestria's most loving pegasus.

When your life is as dull a gray as the world that surrounds you, the mundanities can make it all seem meaningless. Sometimes all we need is a little color -- or six -- to reintroduce us to what truly makes life worth living.

*6-16-2017 Edit, added Rainbow Dash tag because it triggered knighty.*