“I think we should try to take them on.”
Starlight asked, “You sure?”
“Yeah,” I answered. “We have numbers, so if we all charge in at once, we should be able to handle these two.”
Night Glider agreed, “I like the idea. As a large group, they’ll be too much for us, but we can handle just two changelings. Their ‘friends’ must be somewhere else.”
Double Diamond added, “And we have Starlight with us, and she’s one of the strongest unicorns I’ve ever met.”
The other villagers agreed with my idea.
“If we are all for it, then on three, we’ll all charge,” I said. “And Starlight? Stay near me.”
Everypony nodded their heads in agreement.
I made a countdown with my fingers. On “three” we all ran and charged the two changelings. Starlight and the other unicorns in our group fired a blast of magic, knocking both changelings to the ground.
But before we all got to the two changelings, a mob of them rushed out from further in the cave and they all fired magic blasts at us.
All of us were knocked to the ground screaming, except Starlight; I took the blast aimed for her. She ran to me when she saw me get knocked down, instead of focusing on fighting back, and she got hit from behind by a beam. Starlight screamed and the blast knocked her onto the cave wall, knocking her unconscious.
My blood boiled, and flashbacks of when a manticore once hurt and knocked my marefriend out like this made my blood boil even more, I ignored the pain I felt and sprang to my feet. I was ready to knock out the whole mob with one punch. Yet I was simply knocked back down by another blast.
Despite being weakened by the changelings’ attacks, the rest of the unicorns fired more blasts, but they were outnumbered. After more blasts from the changelings, the unicorns couldn’t fire more attacks, and we were all wrapped in weird green “cocoons”.
I’ve made bad choices before. This was by far the worst I’ve made.
As they were carrying us out of the cave to who knows where, I’ve never felt more disappointed in myself. I got my marefriend and a number of good ponies hurt and captured. All because I didn’t just run and warn Twilight and the others instead.
Captured