Taking Place before Season 4
The outskirts of the Crystal Empire were never really the warmest places to be. It was normally being pelted by snow storms, despite the Empire itself being as warm as a day in the spring. However, that wasn't important. A few miles to the north were two changelings walking through the snow.
One of the changelings donned a mane that was slicked in the back in the style of a duck tail and very messy in the front. He also, unlike his partner, wore clothes. A dark grey partial zip up jacket with green flames on the bottom of it. He also had no hind legs. Well... no natural legs at least. He had cybernetic hind legs that were around the same size as a normal pony. They were very obvious that they were cybernetic given the light grey color, blue tech lights illuminating from them, and the armored plates on the front of the hoof. He also didn't have blue eyes. They were purple.
His partner was a female changeling, and she didn't have that many details to her, but there were a few notable things. First, she wasn't black, she was white. Second, she had a mane with a braided ponytail. Next, she had yellow eyes. And finally, she had gauntlets around her hooves.
These two were known as Lance and Jen, and they were two of the queens fighters. They went by a very famous name in the hive. 'The Thief and The Assassin.
"So then the guy was like 'Hey! That mare stole my wallet!' So that's when I dashed around the building and the poof. I transformed into someone different and I was away Scott-free." Jen said. Lance wasn't all that interested in the story and just responded with a 'mm hmm'. Which caused Jen to groan.
"Come on Lance. I will literally pay you to say something." She said waving a wallet in her partners face. Lance simply just smirked and shook his head, preferring to remain silent.
"What if I said, pretty please?" She asked. Lance shook his head.
"How about pretty, pretty please?"
Lance shook his head again.
"Pretty please with 250 bits and some love on top?" She asked. Lance held in a chuckle and still shook his head. Jen groans again.
"Fine! I'll keep us both entertained. So there's this one time where I manage to snag an artifact from Da-" Before Jen could finish, Lance placed his hoof on her mouth. He then pointed forward with his free hoof.
Jen looks forward and they see who they wanted to see.
The prince of the crystal empire, Shining Armor. And beside him, was an orange Pegasus guard. The two look at each other and smirked.
"It's go time." Jen said. Lance nodded and then the two of them began to make their way to them.
Shining Armor and the orange Pegasus were walking through the snow. The Orange Pegasus was Flash Sentry, one of the guards under Shining Armor's command. He wore the normal golden guard armor with a little modification. It had two mini guns attached to them, turning his saddle armor, into a battle saddle.
Shining Armor had his normal purple armor, and had a new weapon. A sword that was a little longer than him and nearly as thick as his body. It was dual-edged and two-toned; the flat being a shiny silver while the edges appear to have a golden sheen. The blade is slightly curved, ending in a reversed, barb-like hook. It was also new. Very new. And Shining Armor was pretty eager to put it to action. So eager that he had been doing Snow patrols for the past month. They continued walking until Flash noticed something through the blowing snow.
A black silhouette walking towards them.
"Sir, there's something over there!" He said. Shining Armor focused his vision to look forward. He somehow managed to see the figure's head. But it was blurry.
"HALT!" Shining Armor commanded. The silhouette seemingly stopped.
"Who are you?!" Flash Sentry shouted. No response.
"What are you doing here?!" Shining Armor asked in a shout. Still no response. The two stallions were starting to get a little nervous. Flash got his mouth in position to activate his mini guns.
"If you do not reveal yourself, we are authorized to attack!" Sentry informed. The silhouette slowly backed up. But it wasn't out of fear, it was the kind of back away that let others know, he/she/it had something menacing up to mind. It disappeared into the snow. That's when they got really nervous. Whatever or whoever was the owner of the silhouette was not friendly.
"Sir, Permission to-"
"Granted!" Shining Armor answered. Flash bit down on the mouthpiece and fired into the vision impairing snow up ahead. He continued to fire until he decided to stop. They continued to look towards the snow and see nothing.
"Should we call for reinforce-"
"Look out!" Shining Armor warned. They both looked up to see the owner of the silhouette. The purple eyed changeling with cybernetic hind legs, Lance, jumping to the ground to ambush them. Shining Armor pushes Flash out of the way and blocked a double kick from the changeling with his sword, that he was holding the handle of with his magic.
Lance jumps back from his attack. As he did this, Flash began to fire at him with his mini guns. But Lance ran in circles around them both, avoiding the bullets. He then makes his way in between the two. Shining Armor revs his sword and Flash takes aim. Lance uses his left front hoof to reposition himself before coming up with his left cybernetic hoof and kicking flash in the face. He lifted himself off the ground far enough to avoid Shining Armor's sword swiping at his legs. Lance lands on his hind legs facing Shining Armor and continued to stand on them. Without stopping, he hits Shining Armor in the face with a reverse heel kick and then follows up with a tornado kick. Causing him to stumble. Lance remained on his hind legs, not letting his front hoofs touch the ground. He turns around to see Flash taking aim at him. Lance jumps into the air, avoiding the bullets by 0.5 seconds. Lance lands on Flashes back and pushes his head down with his hind hoof before jumping as Shining Armor came in with a single swing of the sword. Missing Flash's mane and Lance's cybernetic leg by mere centimeters.
Lance jumps up and blocks a buck from Shining's legs. It sent him in the direction he wanted. As Lance was knocked back, he grabs Flash's mini gun and flips behind it. He then pushes and holds it aimed at Shining Armor, forcing him to stop.
Flash, noticing this unsafe position, takes his mouth off the trigger, briefly stands on his hind hooves and attempts to hit Lance with his mini gun with a fast enough turn around. This didn't work as Lance back flipped backward (Awkward to type) to avoid it. He then jumps on his back and then springs forward. Upon doing so, two black and smoky projectiles exited his legs and flew toward the two stallions.
The two stallions only barely managed to dodge the strange projectiles. But that was only the least of their problems, as when they looked up they saw the purple eyed changeling performing the air flare and transitioning to the flair, and back. While doing this, the projectiles spiral around him like a storm. He sends the storm of projectiles flying towards Flash Sentry and Shining Armor, landing around them and creating a haze of smoke.
They regain their composure and vision from the smoke. However, when their vision was regained, Lance wasn't there. Instead he was behind them. He uses his front hooves to grab the two and stand them up on their hind legs as well. As they were standing, they became victims of a few kicks going back and forward between the two.
With his right cyber hoof, he kicked Flash in the hind leg, Shining Armor in the torso, back to Flash in the torso as well, back to shining armor in the chest. He let go of Shining Armor after kicking him in the chest which sent him on his back, but still held on to Flash Sentry and pulled him closer. He brought his leg up to the top of Flash's head, brought it down in the form of an axe kick. Brought it back up, snap kicking him in the face and then jumps up bringing his left cyber hoof across the back of Flash's head, causing Flash to flip forward.
Lance goes back on all fours and looks toward the vision impairing storm and nods. Seconds later a chain flies in and wrapped around Flash Sentry's leg. Flash goes wide eyed for a second, before being yanked off into the storm.
"Flash!" Shining Armor called out.
With his opponents separated, Lance moves in while Shining Armor was distracted. Landing a right hoofed tornado kick into Shining Armor's cheek. Shining Armor gains an angry look and gets even angrier. Lance jumps again in an attempt to attack again, but was grabbed by the neck by Shining Armor's magic. He then throws him to an icy terrain, causing Lance to land on his back. Through the snow, he sees Shining Armor falling toward him in order to perform an over-the-head attack with his sword. Lance smirks and blocks by bringing his up his cybernetics. The sword collided with his legs with enough force to cause large cracks around the surrounding ice.
Lance kicks the sword off and springs onto his hind legs. He then attempts to sweep kick Shining Armor's legs. Shining Armor was quick enough to front flip over the kick and him. The changeling remained on his hind legs as he advanced forward. Shining Armor turned around and began to swing. He swung twice, but Lance dodged both. Shining Armor then began to swing some more, but this time, Lance blocked with his hind legs. The second block resulted in Lance following up with a hind hoof stomp which brought up some ice debris. Lance kicks one into Shining Armor's face. When the ice made contact with his face, it broke. Hurting him. Shining Armor swings at him again only for Lance to spin under the swing and perform the flare and shot three more projectiles. Two of which, Shining Armor blocked where as the last one got him in the face. Before Shining Armor could retaliate, Lance performs a back flip kick that sends Shining Armor off his hooves, and onto an inactive geyser. That decided that the second Shining noticed the position he was in to erupt.
Shining Armor let out a scream as the geyser overtook his vision and burned him. Shining Armor didn't have any burns on his face though, but to him it was the fires of Tartarus on his face. The disoriented prince attempting to regain his balance made easy prey for Lance. As Shining Armor's vision came back, it was short lived as Lance came at him with a flying kick.
Flash Sentry was still being pulled by the chain until he slammed into a rock, and the chain unwrapped from his hoof. He stumbles to his feet and shakes off some snow.
"Jeez, I thought Changelings were easy to take down." He said. A throwing knife appears to be launched at him to his left side that he somehow managed to dodge. When he recovered, he began shooting into the snow. Trying to draw out the assailant. But to no avail. He stopped shooting, and began to look around. Trying to see where his attacker was.
Then he heard Shining Armor's scream, causing him to gulp and slowly walk backwards. Unable to control the shaking in his legs, he nervously moved backwards. His enemy could be anywhere, even behind him.
Jen emerges from behind him with some kind of bladed hook like item on her front hoof. And with one blow, Flash Sentry was sent flying clear out of his location and landed next to Shining Armor.
Later on, Shining Armor and Flash Sentry were in a cave, whilst inside Changeling cocoons as the two Changelings changed into them. Jen transformed into Shining Armor, and Lance transformed into Flash Sentry. Jen picks up Shining Armor's sword and placed it on her back.
"Nice sword your majesty. I'll be sure to put it to good use." Jen said, chuckling as they left the location.