Thorax’s House, Soryth, Changeling Queendom, January 18, 1005
The next day… thorax woke up from his slumbering on his Friendship Book, the Alarm clock woke him up. “ Gah! I'm awake, I'm awake- what the… Ah gees! I drooled on it! eew!” he disgusted, he used his magic to clean his drool off from the book.
After he took off the drool, he opened the book and read the last page he let off. He was enamoured by the adventures that twilight and her friends made, all their sacrifices and their crucial lessons of Friendship.
One thing he particularly likes about this page is about twilight Sparkle wrote about her entry about her sacrificing all of her godly alicorn magic to a tyrant Tirek, so she can save her friends including the scheming God of Chaos.
And with the power of their friendship, they have defeated Tirek and banished him back to Tartarus prison where he belongs.
Thorax smiled at the happy endings of each entry they've made and he wants to learn how to do these qualities of friendships to create love from scratch, instead of stealing love.
But he realized something, he goes to his calendar to check the dates and. “ oh no! I'm late!!” he cursed himself. And so he quickly wears his work uniform and leaves his house for his work.
“ oh y-yea! I forgot! “ he grabs his book and finally leaves his house for work.
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assembly floor, Factory, Soryth
After being told off by his boss about being late. He began to do his work, sweeping and mopping grease on the floor of the assembly area.
While he’s working, he read his book more about friendships and adventures of the Heroes of harmony, he couldn't help but twirl in joy while working until he was interrupted by a loud voice coming from this vicinity.
“Thorax!!” it shouted.
Thorax lost his focus and tumbles and fell to the floor and spilt a bucket of water and soap to the floor, making it slippery for poor Thorax, but thankfully the book landed on his face, unfortunately, it hurt his face badly.
“ Ow!” he groaned in pain, the changeling chuckled and flys over and helps him out, by getting up from the floor and lift his book, from his face.
“ is it hurt?” the orange-eyed changeling asked. “Um yea thanks Citrix,” Thorax said to him.
“Aahh no prob bob!” Citrix welcomed.
“Anyways what in Queen’s name you're doing?!” he asked.
“Um hehe... I was distracted when reading this book..” Thorax embarrassed, he then used his magic to lift his book that he was reading then gave it to him.
“Hmmm what is that?” he asked
“Um, it's my book about um…” he hesitated to answer but he gulped and continued. “Friendship”.
Thorax waits for more Humiliation from Citrix but instead, he gets joyful bug noises. “Huh?” he Looked up.
“ WOOOW! A Friendship journal?! So cool!! I wish I had the copy! I’m so jealous of you Thorax!” he Giggled in joy as he started to read it page by page in full attention.
“Well, I'm glad you like the premise of the book” Thorax smiled at Citrix's joyful Demeanor.
“Like? No... I love it!! I always wanted to read their journeys, adventures and their friendship lesson!” Citrix Gleefully buzzed, after that he calmed himself and breathed in. “ but! Of course, my brother always told me that friendship is stupid or weak or whatever…” he said with a downed tone.
Citrix looked at Thorax and saw a bit of scratch he got from yesterday, he immediately knew who did that, it was his brother Septicx.
“I’m so so sorry about my Brother Thorax! He can be a Maggot sometimes!” he Apologises to Thorax.
“ Eh it's alright, It happens…” he forgave him.
“ to make my brother’s bullying to you I'm going to help you clean up your mess, it's kinda my fault that you fell in the first place hehe..” he said while holding a mop by his Magic. Thorax smiled a bit, not only he could finally finish his work, but also he found another Changeling who's interested in Friendship and Harmony, he’s thinking that if he likes Friendship and harmony… the How many changelings do like him and Citrix’s interests. He shook himself and began cleaning the floor with the help of Citrix.
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Later in the late afternoon.
Thorax finally finished his shift for work and he's heading to the train station to get home and take some rest until Citrix taps him on his back chitin which made jumped a bit.
“ Eep!” yelped Thorax.
Citrix Chuckled, “ hehehe! Sorry about that!”
“ I was just wondering about your book’s friendship lessons… Can we go to your house and try to learn these friendship lessons?”
Thorax was surprised, no changelings ever wanted to join him doing these friendship lessons and nods. “Um sure! Be my guest!” he Accepted it.
“ yippy!” he glees in joy.
And So Thorax and Citrix sit together in a passenger car talking about their day, as usual, much to the dismay of Septicx, which he stuck two cotton balls on his ears so he won't hear them talking.
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Later at Thorax’s house:
Thorax and Citrix arrived at his own house, packing their things for a sleepover. Citrix pulls out his scratch book so he could note down things about these Friendship lessons, Thorax came with some snacks for them so they won't be hungry when learning friendship lessons.
“ Alright, I grab some snacks and let's learn some friendship lessons!” Thorax exclaimed as he’s excited to do this with another changeling, Citrix was also excited but raised his left hoof in hold motion.
“ Hold on! Are you sure about this Thorax? What we are about to do is a bit heretical in the Eyes of the Queen…” Citrix said, with a worrying tone.
“Oh relax..! we're in the secluded parts of the Forest, Only Pharynx and I know the in and outs of this place!” Thorax said with assurances.
Citrix smiled, he raised his wings like a bird preparing to flap, Citrix looked into the eye of Thorax with a determined fire in his eye. “ ok Thorax! Let's do this!” he is pumped up.
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Throughout the evening, Citrix and Thorax two changelings are learning about friendship. They started simply by sharing and caring staff, to a more complicated, creating what the ponies wrote in this book, friendship bracelets Citrix made out of the orange stones with strings attaching them.
While Thorax makes two bracelets, the first one has one large orange stone on the middle, three pairs of green stones on each side and 2 more pairs of purple stones on each side, and the other one has 3 black stones on the middle and four purple stone which is placed 2 on each side. Thorax smiled at his creation and continued to tie the bracelets so the stones won't fall off.
Citrix saw his creation and was impressed at his creation. “ Woah! Cool bracelets Thorax!” he compliments him with a buzz of joy.
Thorax smiles. “ thanks Citrix!”
“Who’s that bracelet for?” Citrix asked.
“ oh this?” he brings out the Purple Bracelet. “it's for my brother Pharynx”
“Pharynx?! As in Hivegeneral Pharynx?!”
Thorax nodded in response. “Yup! That’s my brother…my big brother”
“Wow, awesome!! You know... My big brother Septicx always wanted to be part of the Wehrmacht, more specifically part of the Queen’s guard.” Citrix commented.
“Hmmm, you mean that brute?” Thorax asked with a bit of insulting tone toward his big brother.
“Hey! Don’t call my big bro like that! He’s just umm… he just doesn't like to be seen as a weakling…” Citrix said in a bit of defensive tone, despite Septicx’s Sour personality he still defended him.
“ Septicx always wanted to join the Queen’s Guards army, he thinks that joining them would make them cool a-and would make a lot of money by joining the army rather than working in the factory, like you and I are now…” Citrix explained one of the reasons behind Septicx’s foul behaviour.
Thorax feels a bit bad about his comment. “ um sorry about calling your brother a brute… I guess..” he apologises somewhat.
Citrix smiled at least, he shook his head and smiled again. “ anyway! Do you like my Bracelets I have made?” Citrix shown
Thorax us impressed at the craftsmanship of his own bracelet. “Yeah! It’s really well made!” he compliments, which made Citrix turn a bit red a bit. “ oh you’re welcome!” he said still blushing.
And so continue to chat anything from, their Grubhoods, the Great Canterlot Raid of 1002 and the current Affairs of their Queendom and Equestria. Citrix and Thorax are now talking about forming an organisation where Changelings can freely express how they feel and wants of their people, as well as promoting Friendship and Harmony, where they believed that by embracing these ideals from Equestria, the Changelings, their kind would never have to be hungry for love ever again. Unknown to both of them, their Wings are now sparkling like glitter in their wings, before their know it. The reformation of them and their kind has begun.