//------------------------------// // 3 (Changed ending) // Story: Are changelings... Ants???? // by ImClinicallyDepressed //------------------------------// I still think your mentally insane. -B.B.F.F.F **NOW EDITED BECAUSE I FORGOT MY STORY HAPPENED BEFORE THE RAINBOOM! STARLIGHT WILL NOW BE 14-16! RETCON OVER!*** ??? Pov "My... Delicious hay bars..." I whispered while trotting through the shabby town. Yes I was still sulking. No I will not stop. I came across a bar of some sorts but I ignored it for now, since I was broke. I have not forgotten my reason to coming here of course, this little walk around town can help me greatly in locating the changeling queen. The changeling queen will most likely be disguised, maybe as a stallion or a mare. This was gonna be tough, I don't know anything about anypony in this town, so I can't really discern if one pony was a changeling or not. I could use magic, however my magic can only do so much (also it hurts the target). There were so much area's that the ling can hind and escape from my grasp. Only tine will tell when or how I capture the ling because I KNOW I will catch her, with enough time. I could do this because I, am STAR- *Clank* "Oh! Sorry!" The mare shouted. I then promptly passed out from getting hit by a pan. "Just... My... Luck..." I arrive at the shabby town. I look up at the sign above me, I then slowly realize that I cannot read a single fucking letter from the sign, "Of course I can't read..." Just my luck! Now I need to learn how to read. 'Aughhhhhhhhh'. This might throw a wrench into my lunchbox. My plan that I made in a record time of 3 minutes was to get a job as bartender of some sorts, this job was very important because I could gain easy love from the surrounding ponies. Or at least that's what I planned, who knows it might go terribly! I started to walk into town at a calm pace. As I walked by most ponies only glanced over to me and went back to what they we're doing before, some looked at me puzzled, one just stared at me blankly and shrugged. Seems like my epicly cool disguise works. Still not used to pinkie talk though. As I walked I came across a bar and decided to go inside. Inside was what you would expect. Lots of tables, and lots of ponies drinking their lives away. I looked over to the counter at the end of the room and saw a stallion having a mental break down. "I can't do this bucking shit anymore! Every day there's something that happens here! Yesterday there was a fucking sex pit here Celestia dammit! Fuck this SHIT!" The stallion then threw the drink he was holding, shattering it on another stallion, "I BUCKING QUIT!" He then stormed out of the bar and past me. 'Well that was way easier than I would've thought.' I really thought I needed to kidnap that guy and throw him in the forest. Guess not. I saw what I could assume to be the manager of the bar come out from the back and gave me a glance. He looked at me for a good few seconds, sighed, then threw me a pair of sunglasses. "Pays' a bit an hour, get an apron from the back and start tending to the drunks." He said as he went to the poor stallion that was hit by the glass that the bartender threw. I looked at him quizzically for a second and a half, "What? I know already that you want work. Just don't buck up like the last guy," He said while wiping the beer out of the bleeding stallion and escorted him to the back. "Well I guess you're right," I said. 'Wow no check up? No test if I can read? Neat' Achievement unlocked! A bit too many! Oh shut it I deserve a bit or two. Anyways I did as I was told and went over to the back. A couple aprons where hanging on a wooden plank so I just grabbed one, put it on and went over to the counter to start my new job as a bartender. What's the worst that can happen? I rub my head softly as I wake up, still on the street, "I'm so tired of this bullshit," It wasn't even funny at this point. As much as I want to just kill the pony who did this to me, I really don't want another charge plastered on my already long enough list. It was already almost dark out at this point, and I was really thirsty. I grabbed my canteen from my saddlebag and tried to drink from it. It was of course empty. *Pop!* *Crumple* The canteen suddenly stopped existing and I don't know who did it, maybe only the most beautiful mare maybe? ... I really need a drink. Fortunately I remembered a bar that I passed by not long ago. Only a couple drinks, a couple. I arrive at the bar, gently opening the door and walking inside. There were multiple stallions and mares chatting about, clearly drunk. I went to the counter at the end of the room ad sat down on a bar stool. There was a black coated stallion operating the counter, he was cleaning out a ping with a table cloth. I couldn't help but stare at him for a moment. "Oh! Hello, what can I get you today?" The stallion said. I examined him further, he had a fedora atop his head with a horn slightly peeking out, he also had trench coat covering most of his body and finally an apron covering the fron of his body. "Just a pint of cider please," I said tiredly. I can't believe I'm actually doing this. I mean, me? Drinking? Getting drunk? It's a waste of time! But I feel like I need this. So I silenced my egotistical side of me and waited for the pint. *** A few moments later the stallion hovered a pint of apple cider and I picked it up and drank it down. "AH! That hit the spot!" I burped loudly as the stallion tended to the other customers, "Hey!" I said. The stallion promptly walked over to me, "Another please!" *** "Then I blasted him away with my magicz!" The stallion listened passively as he filled another pint with cider. "Then what did you after?" The stallion asked as he hoofed me the pint. I drank the pint so quickly, "This ciders sow good, hewy stally?" "That's not my name but yeah?" "Can you tell me how they made this stuff? It sowwwwww gewd!" "I think it's just cider," "Cider doesn't taste dis gewd!" "Really?" "Yeah! Are you living under a tree or something?" "I wished, also I never had cider before so yeah," This stallion? Haven't had cider? The worst lie I've ever heardz! "Pshh, stop with the excuses, just tell me how you do it?" "Well, I just pour the cider into the pint, that's all," Liesz! All liez! "Come on! Just tellz mes!" "Im serious! I don't know why it tastes so good for you," You know... This stallion looks so... Handsome. With his black coat, his blue cerulean eyes, his black horn on top of his head. He's so adorable when flustered too! "Maybe you can tellz me if I did a little..." I hovered my hoof around my flank, "Something?" There! I saw him blush! Finally! Now all I have to do is- "No thanks." Wha? "Whatz do you mean no?" "Look your drunk okay? Not gonna take you up on that offer." This. Buckin. Goody tooshu bitch. I just offered him the prettiest mare around and he DECLINES?! He's either oblivious or buckin gay! "Whas do you mean no? Just look as me!" I gestured at my body. "Not really much to look at," *GASP!* I may be running from the royal guard but I kept up my appearance! This purple and blue mane doesn't clean easily you know? "Psh! What, do you not like mare's like me?" "Yes I do, but that isn't the problem. Hey you look like you've had too much to drink, you alright?" Im as good as you can get! Thank so much for askin. "Yeah! Just... Gib me another!" Come on one more pint! "Look, you aren't gonna get more cider okay? You're too drunk," This bucking bull! "where is your house, you're not fit to walk." "Y do u wans to nos zat?" "To make sure you don't peel over and die," The quippy type huh? Just the stallion I want! "Yours cutez and all but I likes marez more, you're cutes and all, no offenze." What do you think of that huh? "No offense, you look like a drunken hobo." ... "Puh- lease! I lookz sow mush besser than yous do pall!" I check him over again, I wonder what he could do in... Wait. Blue cerulean eyes, a horn, black coat, a blue mane with green at the ends of his hair. Now that I look more closely... This buck isn't a stallion! She's... "Wait... You look familiar," "Uh?" "You're..." It's her. This is getting a little too heated. The mare's just looking straight at me with her purple eyes, those hypnotizing purple ey- Achievement unlocked! Still a stallion at heart! Snap out of it me! This mare's drunk and clearly not thinking straight! Gotta focus. But those eyes- No! Not happening! Her purple mane with blue streaks are really tantalizing... Achievement unlocked! Love at first sight! Oh come on she isn't that... Pretty... "Wait you look familiar," Wait huh? I kinda zoned out. "Uh?" "Wait... You're..." Uh did I meet her earlier? The only pony I met before going into town was that pink coated mare with a torn cloth around her body and purple eyes. Now that I look at her she has a torn cloth too- Wait. No. She... Isn't supposed to be here... Starlight? She isn't supposed to be here! And last I checked her coat was light purple! Not pink! Wait her pink is light purple, am I blind? While thinking about how I just fell in love with Starlight fucking glimmer of all ponies, I saw her horn glow brightly. 'SHIT!' I instinctively ducked, luckily too! Since she blasted the entire wall behind me to smithereens! Also the counter. "YOU!" Starlight shouted. Why is she pissed at me?! Was it because I didn't want to buck her?! "I uh- yes?" i said, now on the ground, trying to crawl away. "TELL ME WHY YOU KEEP APPEARING IN MY DREAMS!" Huh? What was this bitch talking about- I was suddenly flung into the air with force, destroying the ceiling of the bar and scattering clouds above me. I flapped my bug wings and stopped mid air. I tried to catch my breath until I suddenly heard a popping noise behind me. *Pop!* I looked above me, only to see Starlight with her back leg out trying to kick me down. I quickly blocked her kicked and soared back to the ground with a thud. "BUCK! That hurt-" *cough cough* Shit. Im coughing up blood. *Pop!* Starlight was now grabbing me with her hoof and looked me straight in the eyes, her eyes full of rage. "TELL. ME." She said gritting her teeth. "I DON'T KNOW!" "HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW? THIS BUCKING INTERACTION WE HAD WAS PRE MEDITATED WASN'T IT?" "What-" "ME GETTING DRUNK, TRYING TO COURT YOU? IT WAS ALL IN MY DREAMS YOU BUCK!" She smacked me with her hoof with full force. I coughed up more blood, some of it getting on her outstretched leg and body. 'Imgonnadie! ImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadie-' OVERDRIVE ACTIVATED FORCEFULLY! WARNING! INCREASED HEART RATE! ADRENALINE RUSH INBOUND! A ball of red magic suddenly appeared on my hoof, on instinct I pushed the red ball and smacked Starlight in the chest full force with it. She flung into the sky, blood gushing out of her mouth. 'This bucking queen was strong as horseapples! She wasn't this strong earlier!' That bitch was holding back her power on me! And what was that ball of magic? I didn't even see her horn glow! It felt so powerful and completely full with magic! If I hadn't casted a shield I would've broken all of my ribs! Or worse, died! "hahahahah... HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!" She's laughing!? Is this some kind of joke to her!? I saw the changeling put her arms together and a smile graced the lings lips, "I don't know why you're doing this Starlight but I don't care. You want a death sentence? ILL GIVE YOU ONE!" I couldn't even see her fly towards me, but in a quarter of a second she was already snout to snout with me, her grin still wide as ever. I felt a cut on my cheek, and another cut, and another and another and- I casted so many shields, as many shields as I could. I almost passed out from the action. I can see it. Slashes. I could see white stars, then a moment later a slash. All of my shields broke the moment I casted them. This is too dangerous! I plummeted to the ground at breath taking speeds, as I did I put up shields where I could see the stars getting wider, the moment the stars could get wide enough a slash would come from them, the star disappearing as the slash appeared. What in Equestria was this spell!? Throughout all my life I've never even heard of a spell that involved slashing! Or atleast not in this caliber! I teleported to the ground, the changeling following soon after with a thud. It stretched it's leg towards me and I could see a sea of stars appear. I tried to put up shields where the slashed would come from first. My concentration almost faltered when I heard the changeling speaking. "STARLIGHT! YOU CAN SEE THEM CAN'T YOU!?" "YOU CAN SEE MY CURSED TECHNIQUE!" What in tartarus was a cursed technique??? If she's talking about the slashing then this type of magic would be foreign to me! Horseapples! *** More and more slashes came through, funny enough I didn't feel tired as I put up my shields. What I felt wasn't tiredness, no, it was FEAR. Fear for my life. If one slash came through I would die. One slash was enough to complete chop off one of my legs if it ever came in contact with me. I didn't want to die, not yet! I could tell the changeling was getting tired. After a few seconds I saw an opening and took it. I teleported behind the changeling and bucked her full force, blood gushing out of her mouth and eyes as I did. She went rolling behind an alleyway. I quickly galloped over and tried to finish the job. I as I entered the alley I saw... Nothing. IT WAS A TRAP BUC- Before I could react, the changeling put her hooves on my legs and pinned me against the wall. I tried to use magic but to no avail as I felt my magic weakening and weakening. Was this it? Was this the end? The ling was eyeing me, relishing in my fear. Suddenly we both whipped our heads to our left as we heard screaming, "CATCH BOTH OF THEM! SEARCH EVERY CORNER!" A royal guard shouted at the top of his lungs. "WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE! JUST TRY AND LOOK FOR TWO SUSPICIOUS MARES!" Another shouted. I glanced over to the changeling, she had a face full of shock. I could feel a grin forming on my face, "Well well well, seems like you and I are- HMPH?!" I tried to quip but I was interrupted by her putting a hoof straight into my mouth "Shut up for a second!" I tried to pull her hoof out of my mouth, but instead of relenting she dug her hoof even deeper. 'This mare's disgusting!' After a few moments of silence, she finally pulled her dirty hoof out my mouth and wiped it on her coat. "What was that for?!" "To get your mouth full so you'll shut up! I would much rather... Kiss you but we're underaged!" She... She just said that. Straight at my face. "Just... Shut up!" "That's the plan!" She said, whispering and shouting at the same time. A moment of silence was shared between us, both us red in the cheeks and looking away from each other. She still tried to wipe my drool out of her hoof while I gagged out dirt that made it's way inside my mouth. Was... The guards gone? Have they left? If they have I'm gonna buck this ling so hard I- Wait. The changeling knew my name, I haven't told her that! "How in Equestria do you know my name?" "Pinkie sense." She replied. "What the buck is pinkie sense!?" "Don't question it," ... "I thought you didn't like me," She whipped her head around to face me, confused. "What? I didn't say that!" "'Not that much to look at'. That's what you said." "It was because you had a cloak dumbass!" "Oh..." I was ever so slightly fuming, not at her but at me. Really? I forgot to get rid of my stupid cloak? I am the smartest alive wow! ... "My names... Trixie." The changeli- Trixie said. "That's not a very changeling name," "Fine! Trixie, Trixie Lulamoon!" "Sounds even more like a pony name," I commented with a sly smirk. "Yeah keep saying that 'Starlight'." "Shut it." ... "Wait what the heck is a 'Cursed technique?' " I could hear Trixie audibly gulp. "Well..."