//------------------------------// // Frankenstallion's Monster // Story: Heart Of The Guardians // by BodhiBRO100 //------------------------------// "Now I remember ya, Private." Applejack said. "Ya came to talk to me before, and I said that ya and my brotha are very alike. Ya were part of the Captain's groupies." The Private nodded, and then sighed, lowering his head, depressingly. Applejack's smile turns into a frown. "Hey, what's wrong?" she asked him. Private prepares to write something down on parchment, but Applejack stops him. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, don't write nothing this time. I wanna hear the words come from ya peeper." AJ said. "Please?" she then asked. The Private then grunted, shyly, and shakes his head. "Ya can talk to me, Private." Applejack said, trying to comfort him, putting her hoof on his shoulder, and smiling. "Ya talk to Big Mac just fine, why not me?" Private gives up, and sighs, then finally speaks to Applejack. "I'm still grieving from the fall of the rest of my team. Even the Captain's dead. I'm the last of the B.A.D." he said. "They were like family to me, and I never had family till the B.A.D, since my parents passed." he sighed again. Applejack looks at Private, in a kind of sad look. "Aww." she said. "Tell ya what, Private, why don't ya talk about this subject over dinner tonight?" she asked him. "I'm sure we'd all like to know your story, and help ya through the sorrow." The Private beamed. "Really?" he asked in surprise. "You'd really be willing to help me?" Applejack nods and smiles. "Anything for somepony as depressed as ya." she said. "Thank you, Applejack." Private said, finally giving her a small smile. "No prob." AJ replied, hugging him. Then, elsewhere, Zeeby is seen walking through Canderlot, looking around the area, and sees a couple ponies walking into a restaurant, smells the trail of their hooves, and finally smells the stench of changeling magic. He then walks over to the restaurant, and walks in. He looks around, to see only the two ponies that walked in before, and a waiter pony. No other customers, and no chefs or anything, which made Zeeby suspicous. Zeeby speaks in German to the waiter pony. "Need a smoothie, please?" The waiter pony nods, understanding the language, and goes to get the smoothie. Zeeby then sits down in a booth, waiting, and suddenly, the two ponies, with gray coats, short, wavy manes and tails, and one with a plain white horn, and the other with a black and blue striped horn, coming up to the booth, and one pony sits next to Zeeby, and one sits on the opposite end. The white horned pony spoke in German. "Just a smoothie, eh?" he asks Zeeby. "Ehhh, yes, I've had a rough day, chasing the wind left and right." Zeeby replied. "Ha, understandable. We just had some apple cider not too long ago." the pony said, and laughs. "Ah." Zeeby replied, smiling. He then smells the air, sniffing the stench of changelings next to him and in front of him, but he keeps his cover, and stays smiling. "You know, you sound familiar. What do you ponies do?" he asked them. The waiter pony comes back with a smoothie for Zeeby, then leaves. "I've been working on construction for a while. Always love doing it." the white and black horned pony said, laughing again. "Doctor." the blue and black horned pony said. "Flu shots for anypony is always a life saver in my opinion." he then laughs and winks at Zeeby. "My mother used to be a physician. My sister always wanted to be one." Zeeby said. "What about your father?" the blue and black horned pony asked him. Zeeby then sighs. "Died before I could even walk. If only there was a cure to Swamp Fever..." he said, depressingly, and drinks some of his smoothie. The waiter pony comes back, speaking in German as well. "I couldn't help overhearing. Where's your mother and sister?" he asked. "Well, that's actually why I've been chasing the wind left and right." Zeeby explained. "They were taken away from me, by....construction workers....and doctors." he then said, with a smile, and drank more of his smoothie. The 3 ponies looked at each other, confusingly, the waiter pony looking at Zeeby, suspiciously. Zeeby then looks at the ponies, lifting his right arm up, revealing a large scar, that the ponies recognize, and Zeeby nods slowly, and smiling sinisterly. The white and black horned pony makes a move, but the zebra blocks his arm, and smells him. "Hello, changelings." Zeeby said in English, as he gripped the white and black horned pony's horn, making him turn back to an unreformed changeling, with orange eyes. The blue and black horned and waiter ponies turned back to changelings after Zeeby has discovered the other one. The blue and black horned one, as a changeling, had a longer right fang, and green eyes, while the waiter changeling had purple eyes and a longer horn. "Deceit. I've ran into it before." Zeeby said in German."Especially from Changelings, I knew this was a trap." "Ho...How did you know we were..." the long fanged changeling started to ask, but Zeeby interrupted him. "You already know what I can do, all three of you helped Hopper experiment on my powers." the angry zebra said. "No more! All of you took my mother and sister away from me! Well now...you're all on my death list." he finished. He then looked at the orange eyed changeling's horn, seeing words engraved on it. "Change of Heart, Pain or Gain, Long live Queen Chrysalis!" Zeeby read, then looked at the changeling, dead in the eyes. "What should I give you first? Pain? Or Gain?" he asked him. The changeling looked at him, with abit of fear. "Hopper...told us to find you.." he started saying. "Pain then, finally." Zeeby interrupted, then grunts in anger, as he uses his powers to make a big burning sensation in the orange eyed changeling's magic, which causes him pain. "AAAHHH!!" the changeling screams in pain. "Take this, zebra!" the waiter changeling exclaimed, pointing his horn towards Zeeby. The zebra looks at him, with a sinister grin, and uses his powers again, to maneuver the changeling's head, to aim his horn at the long fanged changeling, while the waiter struggles against Zeeby, and the zebra makes a deep, evil cackle. "No!" the waiter said, not being able to control his head, and suddenly, Zeeby makes his horn shoot a green killing blast at the long horned changeling, instantly killing him. Zeeby then breaks off the waiter's horn with his powers, making the changeling yelp loudly in pain, and the zebra kills the waiter with another killing blast, then drives the broken off horn into the last orange eyed one's right wing, causing him to scream again in more severe pain. Then the zebra rustles his mane abit, and drinking the rest of his smoothie. "Gaaahhh!" the changeling screamed, then whimpered in pain. "Argh...be..before you end m.me..gah! Wh..Who are you? Wha...What are you?" he asked Zeeby. The zebra finished his smoothie, and slammed the empty cup onto the ground, looking at the whimpering changeling. "Who am I? What am I?" he repeated in English. "I don't know what I am yet, but for now, how about I'm...Frankenstallion's Monster...." Zeeby then said, and walked up to the window, looking into the distance. "....and I'm ready to meet my maker." he finished, as he used his powers to break off the changeling's engraved horn, hearing a final scream, and grunts angrily, as he shoots a final killing spell at the changeling, his shadow on the wall appears falling to the floor. Later, in Ponyville, at another restaurant, Brainy is seen doing an apple cider drinking contest, with a bunch of random ponies, and Poison, cheering for him.