The sky was starting to darken. I would have started to fear if not for the connection still existing. Though it has only been serving at putting me to ease. It should be fine to move now.
Time has come by slow for the changeling. He waited and watched as many changelings came and went the past few hours. They seemed to be looking for them or something from where the ship has crashed. Though the patrols seemed to thin out and mostly disperse by now.
Tempo grabbed hold of John and swiftly brought him down to the ground into the cover of foliage next to the tree. He know from when he used to be connected with the… king. That they would still linger for a while longer.
Tempo didn't have to wait long though for John to start stirring. He moaned while he stated to push up and backwards onto the tree. “Damn what happened.”
“Ah your awake. Well we were attacked and you were rendered unconscious. We're not far from where it had happened and you might still habe some side effects so just wait.”
John sat against the tree to rest a few minutes. Once ready he shifted to a crouch. Tempo just shifted his position and know where John wanted to go. He relayed the direction he saw it in and the two went to move out to it.
The conversations between us were short. Though this is contributed to how thoughts are processed faster than speech. We started moving but got held up while going past a large ass moat.
A large group of changelings were walking around the moat. So we forced ourselves down and I had tempo move up to spread us out. When they came by a singular slimmer looking changeling that I felt was female separated from the group. She walked over towards the edge of the forest a few feet from me. This changeling also seemed to be lightly armored.
While we could have snuck around this one it would have been much trouble. I'm not the best when it came to sneaking but wasn't willing to test my luck. Since my skill only worked in a crowd… of technicolor ponies… not even the same height…. No wait it's just that I'm not the focus and not mentioned most of the time. Anyways she was too close for my comfort. Like this was some form of top down strategic resistance from aliens game comfort, except without being able to run 100ft with 250 pounds of equipment and a minigun.
Tempo already know what I wanted to do. He stepped out of the foliage behind the other her at a distance. While he drew the changelings attention a moved subtly out of my closer position and wrapped an arm around the changelings windpipe. I also shoved my arm into her fanged mouth and grabbed her horn to hopefully stop them from calling for help. If it needed to be done through the horn.
They went down though but were still alive. My arm from doing this was cut open like a cat scratch. Tempo came over with a slight blush on his black exoskeleton somehow. I shot him a small glare then rolled my eyes. He looked away and started watching for any patrols as I pulled the changeling with me over into the forest. “Do you think the other changelings know?”
“I’m sure she didn't get off any messages. Though if she did we should have been swarmed by now. Unless… no the king wouldn't change tactics. If she had then… well, we wouldn’t be standing here. I can’t be entirely sure anymore though since things could have changed.” The changleing mumbled the last part to himself.
“If we’re lucky Murphy would somehow make them like you. But as I see it only electricity and physically having their horn tap you can do that. I am still getting used to fully hearing you in my head. Now let's get going while we're covered in honey.”
Leaving the unconscious changeling in the bushes we pushed into the forest. We didn't get far when we came across another patrol of just two changelings. This two seemed ablivious though annld we were able to go around them. Best not to leave a trail of bodies. We came across a few more patrols like this but they seemed to be looking out for the wildlife. This being obvious when we came across a single changeling flying away from manticore that seemed to have some 5 star gourmet sticking out.
After that we didn't run into anymore more changelings. After 15 minutes it wasn't far to the castle. All that stood in the way was a rickety looking bridge. Instead of taking chance on life over this bridge Tempo carried me over. After landing tempo kept watch behind us as I walked over to the closest door. I looked behind me at Tempo and the the land around us. Seeing nothing I pushed the door in and took a few steps into the old castle.
As John and tempo entered the castle he saw a very big room absolutely swarming with changelings tempo quietly emitted a noise that seemed to be some sort of swear. Suddenly Luna came crashing into the room from a window holding the elements of harmony and quickly sped into the throne room.
A faint ripping sound was heard and suddenly Luna was thrown back into the large room as an all out brawl commenced between the changelings and Luna. A stray shot of magic split open a nearby cocoon and out popped Clyde. He quickly jumped into a shadow portal and reappeared behind John and tempo before grabbing them and jumping back in. They reappeared on a balcony above the throne that appeared to be a place for a council of Pegasi. Before they could ask questions Clyde pointed towards the massive pile of trash beside the throne and hiding behind it was Noah tightly clutching what looked like a large tank of propane. The group was too far away from Gary to hear what he was saying to the mane six as he taunted them. John looked at the entrance to the throne room and saw another Noah taking aim at Gary with a Remington. John could only watch in horror as the Noah behind the trash pile suddenly sprang off of the trash pile and thanks to the past Noah’s poor aim was shot causing a massive explosion...
And then everything went dark