//------------------------------// // Episode 16: Changeling Revenge // Story: Sarah's Adventure's in Equestria // by Zipp Storm //------------------------------// In the Everfree Forest, in the Castle of the Two Sisters, Chrysalis' army, made up of hundreds of changelings were meeting together. "With this plan, we will conquer Equestria!" the lead changeling. A male who had dark blue eyes and dark blue, transparent wings. The army cheered, "But there's one thing standing in our way; that human hybrid Sarah. We take her out of the picture then we will easily conquer Equestria." The army cheered loudly as the new leader smiled sinisterly. Meanwhile, In Ponyville, there was battle taking place between Blitz and an Allosaurus. The Allosaurus spawned in the middle of Ponyville because of the wind activating the card. The Allosaurus roared and lunged at Blitz but he lifted it with his horn and threw him the ground. "Alright Blitz, let's get him back into his card. Lightning Strike!" Blitz roared and electricity charged up at his two horns. He reared up and blasted the Allosaurus. The dinosaur roared in pain, glowed and turned back into a card. I went over and picked up the card. "Got'cha. I'll call you Swift. Now that's five dinosaurs I have." The ponies of Ponyville cheered for us as I returned Blitz to his card. "Sarah." I turned and saw my friends coming over, except for Nicole and Rantaro who were off doing who knows what. "That was cool!" Twilight said. "You beat the crap out of the dinosaur!" Jack added with a toothily grin. "Hehe. Thanks guys." I said. I turned Blitz into his chibi form and he turned and lunged at Jack, grabbing his jacket. "Gah! Get off, you brat!" he exclaimed, grabbed the chibi dinosaur by his frill. Blitz reached out, giving little roars. Jack groaned and dropped him on the ground. "Anyway, how's Pyrite doing?" Kaede asked. "Did someone mention me?" Pyrite asked, coming over to us. "Hey Pyrite, how's living in Ponyville." Pyrite smiled, "It's awesome! So many new friends!" It made me happy to see Pyrite fully accommodated with Ponyville. "Although..." she trailed. Her voice went from perky to worried. "Although what?" Ren asked. "You're worried that Chrysalis' army might come after you, right?" We all turned and saw Nicole and Rantaro coming near us. "Where did you come from?" I asked. "None of your business." Rantaro scoffed. Typical Rantaro. Secretive and Rude. "Anyway... yes, I am scared they might come after me." Pyrite confirmed. "Well if they do, they'll have to get past us first." Jack said, crossing his arms, giving Pyrtie a toothily grin. "Yeah, we won't let those bugs anywhere near you." Ren added. Pyrite smiled. "Thanks guys." "So do you wanna hang out with us?" I offered. "That sounds great!" Pyrite exclaimed. "Good." I said. Third Person POV Sarah and her friends were unaware that a few yards away a changeling was hiding in an alleyway. "So.. our target has found our traitor, huh?" he asked. "Well we can't have that now, can we?" He quietly zipped away to go tell their leader. POV Ends We were all at Ponyville Park. Pyrite was playing with Kodi, playing tag. Pyrtie touched Kodi, "You're it! Hehehe." and she dashed away. "Come here, you." Kodi called as he chased after her. We were all watching them. "It's good so see Pyrite so happy." I said. "Yeah, she's not under her control anymore so she can finally make up her own mind, instead of being forced to act." Ren said. "Meh, the bugs okay in my book." Jack said. "I'm still worried if the army finds her, still." I said. "Sarah, don't worry, we promise we won't let anything happen to our little bug friend." Mason reassured. I smiled a little. Pyrite and Kodi came over to us, "That was fun! What so we do now?" Pyrite asked. Suddenly, there were screams heard from Ponyville. "What's that?" Kaede asked. "Come on." Twilight said. We all rushed to Ponyville and gasped in horror. "The Changelings are back?!" Carrie cried. "Not these cockroaches again." Jack growled annoyed. The changelings were capturing ponies in their slime and destroying buildings. Pyrite looked horrified and dashed away in fear. "Pyrite, wait!" I cried as I chased after her. Ren's POV "Sarah, Pyrite, come back!" I called, but the girls were too far away to hear me. The changelings spotted us and surrounded us, hissing. "Let's get rid of these pests." Rainbow said. "Right with you, Skittles." Jack added, cracking his knuckles. With that, we all engaged ourselves into battle as the Changelings charged towards us. Twilight fired multiple magic beams at them, shocking them and reverting them back to their original selves. Kaede, Carrie, and Fluttershy stayed together in a small group before noticing their fake imposters approaching them. I shot multipled ‘Paralyze’ bullets at the changelings, shocking them and making them fall unconscious. “You girls alright?” I asked in worried. “We’re alright Ren.” Fluttershy thanked with a soft smile. “Thank you so much.” “Yeah, thanks.” Kaede chuckled. “Thank you Ren!” Carrie giggled with a smile, causing me to smile back at her before he noticed several more clones of me approaching us, causing me to glare at them before raising my Hacking Gun and shoot multiple bullets of ‘Break’ at them. Kodiak was busy fighting off his own clones. Well actually, he looked like he was interacting with them. “So cool…you look just like me.” Kodi said in awe. “Nuh-uh! You look just like me!” His fake retorted till Kodiak shook his head and said “No! You are!” “No you are!” “No you are!” …..It’s best if I skipped that. Anyway, Jack and Rainbow Dash tackled and punched many of their imposters with Jack body slamming some of Rainbow Dash’s clones, much to the imposter’s pain. Rainbow Dash kicked some of the Jack imposters in the butt with an apple-buck, knocking them straight into walls. Twilight was blasting the changelings with magical beams. Applejack apple-bucked them into next week, Rarity used many of the stuff she brought over to fight off her clones, and Pinkie Pie using her party cannon, which confuses me on how she even brought that over here to Equestria, but it’s best not to question that. I’m trying not to keep asking her that many questions. “Guys! Look out!” We looked back at Kaede as she fearfully pointed towards to see another wave of Changelings heading our way. “Dammit! There’s no end to these guys!” Jack exclaimed angrily. “Now frigging what?!” “We obviously can’t keep fighting like this.” Rantaro answered as an unconscious Changeling started to wake up till Rantaro shocked it again with his Taser gun. The Changeling was immediately shocked to death before falling unconscious again. “We need to move!” “No way! We can take them!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed, clapping her hooves. The changelings spit out their slime and it trapped us by our wrists and ankles. "... Or not." "Oh dear." Fluttershy whimpered as the changelings approached us. POV Ends I found Pyrite outside Ponyville boundaries, whimpering. "Pyrite?" She sniffled, "I can't do it, Sarah. I just can't." "You can't what?" "I can't face them again. I'll never win." "Pyrite." I cooed as I sat down next to her. "You will win and you know why?" Pyrite shook her head, "You'll have me there by your side. We're in this together. And maybe you can convince all the changelings to change, like you." "Really?" Pyrite asked. I nodded, "Once they see, what you've become. They'll realize they don't need to steal love to sustain themselves." Pyrite thought for a moment, "I'll do it! For my friends!" she exclaimed. I grinned at her, "That's my changeling." Then we heard a warble and saw Storm coming towards us. "Storm, what's wrong." Storm roared and I gasped. "What?" Pyrite asked. "The changelings have captured out friends and everyone in Ponyville!" I cried. Pyrite gasped and narrowed her eyes. "Well then... let's go save them." She extended her hoof to me. "Together." "Right." I fist bumped her and we were off with Storm following close behind. Ren's POV Everyone, including the Mayor bounded by the changeling's slime in the middle of town. We were all near the front. The leader changeling turned and saw us. "Well if it isn't Sarah and the traitor." he hissed. "Let everyone go, changeling!" Sarah ordered. "The name's Claw, human and we're not leaving until we've conquered Equestria." "Well me and my friends won't let that happen, Claw." Sarah hissed. Claw laughed, "If you haven't noticed, you've friends are captured by my army." Storm roared, raising the spines on her tail as a warning. "I still have one friends with me; Pyrite." "Oh, so the daughter of our originally queen has betrayed her hive for these weaklings?" Claw taunted. "Daughter of the original queen?" Kaede asked. "That means..." Twilight trailed. "Yes... I'm the daughter of Queen Chrysalis." Everyone gasped in shock as the recent news. "No way!" I exclaimed. "Holy crap! I didn't except that." Jack added. Pyrite snarled, "Exactly, so you should follow in our original queens' hoofsteps and conquer this land." Claw said. "NO! I won't follow in her hoofsteps! I don't want to be the same queen like my mom!" "Well with an attitude like that, you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic queen indeed." "Hmph. Not the way I see it." Pyrite smirked. Music started playing and a song started. (Pyrite) I'm gonna be a mighty queen, so enemies beware! (Claw) Well, I've never seen a queen of beasts with quite so little wings (Pyrite) I'm gonna be the main event, like no queen was before I'm brushing up on looking down I'm working on my hiss! (Claw) Thus far, a rather... uninspiring thing (Pyrite) Oh, I just can't wait to be king! (Claw) You've rather a long way to go, young master, if you think... (Pyrite) No one saying do this (Claw) Now when I said that, I - (Sarah) No one saying be there (Claw) What I meant was... (Pyrite) No one saying stop that (Claw) Look, what you don't realize... (Sarah and Pyrite) No one saying Hive Mind (Claw) You're Hive Mind! (Pyrite) Free to run around all day (Claw) Well, that's definitely out (Pyrite) Free to share our love my way (Claw) I think it's time that you and I arranged a heart to heart (Pyrite) Kings don't need advice from little roaches for a start (Claw) If this is where the monarchy is headed, count me out! Out of service, out of stealing love - I wouldn't hang about... aagh! This traitor is getting wildly out of wing (Pyrite) Oh, I just can't wait to be queen! Everybody look left Everybody look right Everywhere you look I'm standing in the spotlight! (Claw) Not yet! (Ponies) Let every creature go for broke and sing Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing It's gonna be Queen Pyrites' finest fling (Everyone) Oh, I just can't wait to be queen! Oh, I just can't wait to be queen! Oh I just can't wait... to be queen! When the song was over, Claw was still hostile. "You and your fantasies won't stand in my way of conquering Equestria." he said. "Changelings, destroy the humans and their ponies friends!" he declared. "What?!" Twilight cried. The changelings hissed and started moving towards us with their teeth baring. "NO!" Sarah cried and something inside me snapped. Wind started to pick up and clouds started to come around. "What's going on?" Carrie asked. "I don't know." I said. "Let... them.. GOOOO!" Sarah yelled and just then she roared like a male lion and the clouds turned into four roaring lions as well! (Like this) "Oh." I said. "My." Jamie added. "God." Kaede added. She roared again and this time something appeared on her hand. Claw didn't say anything and stared in shock. Even Sarah was shocked, "What... was that?" she asked. Claw shook off the shock and decided enough was enough. "Time for me to end this!" he lunged at Sarah. but Pyrtie stood in front of her. "NO!" she cried and her chest emitted this pink energy that threw Claw back. "What the-?!" Jack exclaimed. Pyrite was suddenly consumed in a glowing cocoon. All the other changelings stared in shock as Sarah touched it and Pyrite floated down in her new form. Now her entire body was light blue and little darker blue mane and tail. She was golden covering and her wings were thin and sparkling like butterfly wings. "This is what happens when you give love freely instead of taking it!" Sarah declared and one by one the other changelings shared their love and transformed into small versions of Pyrtie. Some had horns and some didn't and they were all different colors. The bounds disintegrated and we all went over to Sarah and Pyrite. "Okay... what just happened?" I asked. "Looks like you metamorphosed like a butterfly." Jamie said. "When they shared their love, they changed form." Pyrite and the other changelings took in their new form while Claw stood up and growled at all of them. Pyrtie's horn glowed and she blasted the renegade changeling, trapping him in crystal! "Woah! You can make crystal!" I cried in excitement. "I-I guess I can now." "So what are the changelings gonna do now?" Fluttershy asked. "Well... now with Chrysalis and Claw gone." I turned to Pyrite. "They need a new leader." Pyrite was taken aback, "Me?! No, no, no, I can't lead them." "Yes you can, I know you can. You said that when you become queen you'll shared love throughout Equestria and now you are. So make that goal a reality." I encouraged. Pyrite looked at me and her new subjects. She took a deep breath, "Alright... but.. is there any advice I can get?" "I think we can help with that." a majestic voice came and we saw the royal sisters descending towards us. "Princess!" Twilight gasped and everyone bowed to them. Celestia and Luna walked over, "Me and my sister saw everything from the sky and Pyrite, as the new leader of the changelings I look forwards to seeing how we can improve our relationship in the future." Celestia said. Pyrite bowed to Celestia. Luna went over to the crystallized Claw, "What shall we do with this changeling?" "Leave that to me and my sister while you all help Pyrite adjust to her new duties as Queen of the Changelings." Celestia said. Pyrite gulped nervously, but I reassured her, "You'll be fine, Pyrite. We'll all be here for you." "You bet!" Rainbow said. "Hell yeah. We're with you every step." Jack said. "We'll be right here for ya, sugarcube." Applejack added. Pyrite smiled, "Thank you all." "Hey Sarah, what's with that lion mark on your hand?" Kodi suddenly asked. I totally forgot about that. "It came after I roared." "What was up with that roar anyway? The clouds turned into roaring lions.!" Ren said. "Really?" Celestia asked. "Yes." Twilight showed the Princesses the images of Sarah's roar using her magic. "Hmmm... looks like a new power obtained." "A new power?" Pinkie asked. "Yes, It appears her element gave Sarah another power in her arsenal." Luna added. "So she can roar like a lion and make the clouds turn into roaring lions. Epic!" Rainbow exclaimed. I grinned a little, but I knew with this new power and how powerful I felt it was. I only had to use it in dire straits. For now, I didn't decide to worry about that. Right now, I had a friends to help with her new position.