It was a sunny day in Canterlot. Thunder was walking down the streets of the city, jumping in joy. Everypony he walked past greeted him with a nice gesture, making Thunder even happier than he already was.
Then he went into a flower shop. He was greeted by a pink, green maned mare with a bouquet of flowers as her cutie mark.
"Thunder, great to see you! What can I do for you?"
Thunder leaned over the counter in joy.
"Rosey, I need the best flowers for a very special somepony that you can find."
Rosey giggled in joy.
"Oh, special somepony, hm? Great to hear! What kinda colour do you want it to be? Red? Pink?"
Only half of Thunder was actually listening to her. The other half of him was already thinking about meeting his special somepony.
"Blue...as blue as the sky please."
Rosey smirked at the dreamy Thunder that was staring into the air, his eyes full of joy and love. Rosey quickly found the fitting sky-blue flowers Thunder had asked for. She quickly came to the counter with a bouquet of sky-blue flowers.
"Oh wow...they look beautiful...I'm not even sure if I can afford these things."
Rosey remembered her first love, how happy and filled with hope and joy she was. It was the best feeling she had ever experienced.
"You know what, these ones are on the house. All you need to care about is making your special somepony the happiest pony ever."
Tears of joy rolled down Thunder's cheeks as he grabbed Rosey and pulled her halfway over the counter to hug her.
"Thank you! Thank you so much Rosey! I won't disapoint you, I won't disapoint her! I promise!"
Rosey struggled to get out of Thunder's tight hug.
"I know you won't, you're not the type of pony to disapoint others. Now, go and make me proud."
Thunder let go of Rosey and grabbed the bouquet on the counter. He nodded towards Rosey and then ran outside. He continued running down the street towards Canterlot Castle, the beautiful bouquet stuck in his mouth. The guards at the gates to the Castle immediatly recognized Thunder and let him pass. Thunder continued on, he ran past the gardens, through the main entrance, through giant hallways and then arrived at the Throne room. He stopped in front of the giant door to catch his breath. In hindsight it may have been a better idea to not run all the way to the castle.
Still breathing hard, he opened one of the doors to the throne room. He expected Princess Celestia and Luna to be in the room as he pushed the door open. However, he was greeted by an entire garrison of royal guards who made space for a rather wide path towards the actual throne.
To Thunder's surprise, it was Luna who sat on the throne, not Celestia. Celestia herself was nowhere to be found.
"Thunder, my sweetheart. Come on in!"
Luna spoke, her voice echoing throughout the room. Thunder slowly moved forward, feeling increasingly unsafe in the presence of all those guards watching him. As he was halfway to the throne, the door behind him was rapidly closed by Luna's magic.
"Why the stressed look, dear? Aren't you happy to see me?"
Thunder gulped and took a step forward.
"O-of course I-I am...I'm just...surprised..."
Luna raised an eyebrow.
"Surprised? Surprised at what?"
Thunder looked around himself, only seeing a wall of royal guards, both lunar and solar, blocking the way to his right and left.
"I didn't expect you to...bring so much company, I guess..."
Luna giggled as she got up from her Throne.
"Oh, I like to be surrounded by my subjects, dear. You could say that I consider them my family."
Thunder kept looking at the guards around him with an increasingly suspicious look.
"Uh huh..."
Thunder then blinked and shook his head, focusing on his loved one again.
"I, uh, brought you flowers. In your favorite colour too."
He held out the Bouquet with his right hoof. Luna levitated the bouquet out of his hooves towards her, looking at it and even sniffing at it.
"Hm...very nice of you but...I hate flowers."
With that, Luna let the bouquet fall to the ground and trampled it. Thunder couldn't believe his eyes, tears were already forming in his eyes. This time, they weren't tears of joy though...
"I-I'm...so sorry...I t-thought that y-you..."
Luna lifted a hoof to signalise Thunder to be silent.
"Thunder, dear...I'm not sure if this can keep going. You don't even know me well enough to know little things like that."
Thunder's heart was breaking apart as she was speaking. He had only wanted to make her a nice present, thought he had finally achieved what he had always wanted...but no. He had been a fool, ruined everything, just as he always does when trying to do others any good.
"N-no...p-please! I'm sorry! I didn't-"
"Silence!"
Luna's facial expression became angry and grim. She began to slowly walk towards Thunder as she started talking.
"Silly Thunder...did you really think THIS was going to work? I'm a Princess, you...you're a simple guard, a simple pony, a subject of mine..."
Thunder slowly walked backwards, backing away from the now angry looking Luna. His retreat was quickly stopped however, as the guards in the room formed up behind him. As Luna was about 5 meters away from Thunder she stopped, letting the guards finally form a circle in which the two of them stood.
"You don't belong here, Thunder...you never did..."
Thunder tried backing away again, two guards behind him pushed him forwards, towards Luna, however.
"What do you mean...Of course I belong here, I was born here."
Luna let out a loud laugh, making all the guards join in. Thunder wanted to disappear into the ground as everyone around him, including the one he loved, laughed at him.
"Oh Thunder" Luna said as she stopped laughing. "You don't belong here...you belong with...me..."
Thunder couldn't trust his eyes as his loved one was suddenly surrounded by a ring of fire, laughing aloud once again. She was quickly surrounded by fire, making Thunder look away. When Thunder dared to look back at her, Princess Luna, his loved one, had disappeared. Instead, the Queen of the Changelings, Queen Chrysalis, took her place. Thunder fell to the ground in panic and crawled backwards. He wasn't stopped by a royal guard behind him however, it was a changeling that now stopped him in his tracks. He scattered away from the changeling, unwillingly moving towards Chrysalis. He stood still, realizing that everyone in the room was now a changeling. His brain, his mind, was melting as he tried comprehending the situation.
"W-what..I-I don't..."
"...understand? Oh, you will. Soon enough you will! Like all the others before you! You're mine! Forever!"
Chrysalis walked backwards with a histeric laugh and disappeared in the crowd of changelings that now moved in towards Thunder. Thunder moved around in the ever smaller circle. He tried flapping his wings to fly away, however, he simply couldn't lift off. Something was holding him on the ground, doomed to be smallowed by the masses of changelings.
"NO! NO! PLEASE! GET AWAY!"
Then he was grabbed from behind and felt a pain in his neck. He was bitten. The changeling that bit him let go of him, letting the now dizzy Thunder dwindle around.
"No...no...Luna...I'm...I'm sorry..."
After that, he fell to the ground, too tired and exhausted to move any of his muscles.
"So...sorry..."
Suddenly a loud voice echoed through his head.
"THUNDER! WAKE UP!"