//------------------------------// // 7 [PART1-3] // Story: Are changelings... Ants???? // by ImClinicallyDepressed //------------------------------// I'm a little goofy sometimes. -A guy who burned down his orphanage. * * * 2 DAYS BEFORE THEY CLASH OR SOMETHING IDK * * * 'God dammit Cursed this is why you don't get paid' "It feels like Trixie's head exploded," I said while eating my breakfast. A nice hay bacon and hay eggs (why is it all hay???) "Well... Maybe you should get a doctor...?" Starlight said while slowly levitating her fork into her mouth. I swiftly grabbed the fork with my magic and ate her food infront of her face, "Hey!" "*Munch* Well that's your fault you were too slow in eating, *Munch*" "I worked hard for that piece of hay bacon!" "And I worked harder to grab it out of your mouth, *munch*" "Why you aughta...!" Starlight put a hoof infront of her, shaking it like a cartoon villain. I quickly levitated another piece of her food into my mouth, "Keep talking like that Master and you're gonna be out of food faster than I can ruin this story," Wait shit 4th Walls breaking. "I'll get back at you I swear...!" Typical cartoon villain angry pose here. "Yeah yeah, Trixie doesn't care, yada yada." "Yeah? Then how about... This!" Starlight flipped my plate into the air with her magic. I calmly outstretched my hoof and caught my plate, it's content's magically not spilling. "Wha- how???" Starlight said, puzzled. "MagiiiIIIccccCCCC!" ... "Dear Celestia your insufferable sometimes, you know that right?" "Yap yap yap," 'Hey can someone put that picture of shoko here?" 'Thanks.' ... ... ... "...What?" *SLAM!* Starlight jumped at the noise of our tent's door slamming open, meanwhile I took my opportunity and ate the rest of her food. She looked confused at the sudden and unwelcomed visitor that so nicely slammed a plastic flimsy door. "Is this where the new vice-mayor is...?" A filly said while panting heavily. "Yes, I think so anyways?" "Starlight what the fuck do you mean 'you think so?'" "Phew! Okay! Good, Mr. Mayor is asking for you in the town hall." The filly said, still panting. "Why, if I may ask?" Starlight calmly questioned to the filly. "I don't have a clue Ms, uh-" "Ms. Glimmer," I replied to the filly before Star can say otherwise. "- Ms. Glimmer, but ah do know it's important!" "Well that's all that matters, please inform Mr. Mayor for us that we are heading his way, if you're so kind to." Starlight has a way with words I can't deny that. "Will do!" The filly mocked saluted and ran off to what I could only presume to be the town hall "Well. So much for a calm morning," I quipped. "What'd you expect? We're the new public officials here I don't think there will be a calm morning for us," Starlight started packing her saddlebags as she said this. My head was still throbbing however so I think it's time to use my patented excuses technique. "Hey can I go later? My head still hurts." "... You can just say you don't want to," Fuck. "Fine! Trixie doesn't want to go to boring meetings," "Yeah yeah, I'll tell Mr. Mayor that," Starlight opened the door to the tent and looked back at me, "please don't go and kill anypony for atleast the afternoon, please?" Before I could answer she already left the door and was now trotting over to the town hall. "Fine," *** After I washed the dishes, I started to trot outside for some well needed fresh air. The town quiet and peaceful, no birds in sight, grass is non existent, and I'm pretty sure I saw a tumbleweed in the corner of my eyes. I haven't had a moment like this since, what? When I first woke up? All of these events that I experienced through wasn't even a weeks time. I just started to walk around town, taking in the scenery. Then I remembered something. Aren't I technically dead? Then another thought came to mind. Why am I so calm about any of this? 'Zero' Name: Rimu Age: 4.99 days (14) Gender: Female (male) Level: 1 Skills: Best hoof skills! (Lv: MAX) OVERDRIVE! (Lv: 2) Basic magic (Lv: 2) Pinkie stash! Annoyance Cursed energy: king variation (level 3) Elements Love meter: 12% I walked around the desolate town. Slowly, instead of the peaceful aura that was emanating from the town, it was replaced by a nagging feeling of dread. All of this doesn't make sense. Im too calm, I should be freaking the hell out! I just DIED 5 days ago! Freaking died! Now im in my favorite cartoon show and I may or may not just changed the timeline! Fuck I'm stupid. Why did I help Starlight? One of the villains of the show?! And help her be more creditable too! If Sunbutt, or even one of the main 6 somehow find their way to here, I'm gonna lose my mind. I need to... I need to what...? Go back to that shit hole I called Earth? What do I need to DO?! Shit, I'm starting to hyperventilate. Breathing exercises me, breathing exercises. Maybe... I just need to look this screen for a couple of seconds. *Growl!* "Huh?" I look towards the source of the growl, only to find a... "URSA MAJOR?!?!?" Starlight flew off of her seat and into the face of Mr. Mayor, "HERE?!? WERE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE EVERFREE!?" Starlight was now shaking Mr. Mayor like a soda can. Mr. Mayor calmly put a hoof out to stop Starlight. "Yes, it's a very long story but in short, one of my friends seemed to have angered an Ursa major," "SEEMED TO??????" Starlight went back to her seat as a blur and collapsed into it, "We. Are. Bucked." Starlight covered her face with both of her hooves, just weeping into them. "Wait! What about the royal guard?" Starlight jumped up from her seat again, "We can ask them for help!" Starlight wasn't gonna sacrifice an entire town just for her to not get caught, hell, if she had to get caught to save this town thay trusted them so much, she wouldn't even fight back, well, IF the guard can intervene, "About that... Seems like there's a rather alarming increase of monsters from the Everfree at this very moment. The royal guard is stretched too thin and can't place any troops in Gravel mane," Mr. Mayor said, with a sad tone in his voice. Starlight slumped even deeper into her somewhat comfortable cushion chair. Her mind started to run in overdrive for a solution, any solution. One solution came up, and was quickly shot down by her brain, another came up, another shot down. This loop seemed to go on forever, but in the outside it only looked like Starlight was deep in thought. "Trixie's gonna walk around town for a bit, I feel like I have a massive headache," What Trixie's said echoed in her mind as she thought. Then the realization hit her like a chariot. "Wait, where's Trixie right now?" *Growl!* I stood there, completely baffled by the sight I was currently seeing. It was a... Very tiny bear with stars dotted around it's body that's also semi translucent. It started to walk towards me and grab one of the holes in hooves and tried to drag me towards a destination. "Hey uh, little guy?" I calmly said to the little bear that was trying it's hardest to drag me, failing rather cutely. It stopped grabbing onto my hoof and started to pout as it rolled around the ground infront of me. "You want something?" I asked. I was rather surprised when it's eyes widened, looked around us, and gave me a little nod, "So uh, what do you want from Trixie?" It started to babble incoherently at me with it doing actions as it babbled. It pointed at me, and to the distant forest, after a few seconds of babble it pointed at itself then started to stand with it's hind legs and tried to do a scary roar. It then made it self smaller and shook uncontrollably, then it faked ran away from me, only to quickly come back. It then mimicked how I walked and put its claws out to give me nothing, it then quickly faked grabbed the thing it's previous self tried to give me, then it stood up again and clawed at the air. It then went back to shivering and faked ran away again. After that whole... Stage play, it started to point at me again and tried to drag me to the forest, "Hey hey! No dragging Trixie!" I said sternly, it gave me small whimper and sadly walked away from me, for real this time. "Buuuuuutttttttttttttt," I started, and was cut off with a sudden hug from the cute bear, it hugging my neck, "Fine! Trixie will walk with you!" The bear let go of my neck and started to walk towards it's destination. Before I could follow however, I noticed an odd looking dagger that was stabbed into the ground, or was it a knife? 'Eh, safety precautions, maybe I'll need it.' I slowly trotted towards the dagger, you're finally back the bear cub was now looking at me with curiosity beaming from it's face. I picked the dagger up and placed it in my nearly forgotten saddlebag that Starlight gave me, after that admittedly strange event, I slowly trotted back to the bear cub, "Let's see what you dragged Trixie along, little cub." It nodded and walked to it's destination, with me not far behind. 'Told you we're partners,' Achievement unlocked! A little red murder machine! "First it was the changeling queen, now it's the monster invasion from the Everfree?!" Sunset exclaimed while covered in paperwork. Celestia was currently on her break and she decided to just dump the rest of her paperwork on her faithful student, Sunset. What a good teacher. "'Oh dear Sunset! It's only a couple pages of paperwork' MY FLANK! THIS WAS PRACTICALLY TAX SEASON ALL OVER AGAIN!" Sunset shivered at her memory of the dreaded... Tax season... Sunset calmed herself and looked through the paperwork, approving or disapproving the small request while leaving the big ones for Ms. Cakebutt to read through, "A request for a free cart repair, reject. A request for tax exemption for the reason of death in family, accept. Request for pool, reject. Request for more security in the town of Gravel mane, for Celestia- Wait Gravel mane? Hold on for a second..." Sunset skimmed through the request at lightning speeds, "Hello dear blah blah, the town of Gravel mane appreciates blah blah blah, you are the most wonderful blah blah, ah! Here!" Sunset exclaimed while hovering the scroll a little too close to her eyes. 'We humbly request the assistance of the royal guard or the army as we have been informed that an ursa major has escaped the ever illusive Everfree forest because of the recent monster outbreak, and is now seemingly Tartarus bent on wreaking havock in my humble town of Gravel mane. We hope to hear from you soon, -Mr. Mayor Stallion from the town of Gravel mane.' "Well that doesn't really need the royal gu- AN URSA MAJOR?!?!?" Sunset practically back flipped through the air when the realization hit her. She fell on her face, instantly giving her a nose bleed. "I... I need to tell Princess Celestia!" She said as she shot up from the ground and flew out of the library doors at lightning speeds. A few moments later a thud can be heard and a certain condiment head groaned in Annoyance, "Aughh, I think I have sa concussion." And then she promptly blacked out in the middle of the hallway. "... Im gonna pretend I didn't see that," A certain blue mane, white coated unicorn stallion said. His sister right next to him. We were now at the entrance of the spooky forest I nicknamed 'Everfree Jr.', I followed the bear as it walked faster through the dirt path that was cut through the forest crudely. "If Trixie may ask, what are we doing here little cu-" "HELP! PLEASE! SOMEPONY! *Cough*" I looked towards the bear as it swiftly turned to me with a determined expression on it's face. "Guessing that's the thing you want me to handle huh?" The bear nodded and walked faster, almost running. "Please! Can somepony... Help..." The voice was slowly loosing energy as we got closer and closer. Both me and the bear went running as we heard it. After a few intense moments of running we skidded to a halt as we came across a clearing in the forest. Well clearing was an understatement, it was more like a chunk of the trees from the forest along with the bushes were ctrl alt deleted out of existence. In the middle of the clearing a white coated mare with a green mane laid, covered in blood and cuts. She was basically holding on for dear life at this moment. I ran towards he without thinking and pulled a spare bandage that I stole and quickly tried to do first aid on her. "Oh thank Celestia! Somepony heard me! I swear, the moment I come back to Gravel mane I will kick Mr. Mayors fl-" She coughed up blood as she tried to end her sentence, I quickly grabbed a small canteen from my bad (That I also stole) and let her drink it, she happily obliged. 'I hope I'm doing this right, I literally didn't pay attention in Health.' I thought as I looked at the mare, now chugging away at my canteen. After a few moments she finally let go of the canteen and gasped for breath with a hearty moan. "I really needed that, my canteen got busted up along with me, so..." She blushed in embarrassment as she played with her hooves. "I would really like to small talk with you but my medical expertise really can't help your condition, we need to get you to a hospital ASAP." I said while slowly levitating her to my back, she tried to say something but was cut off by a roar behind the both us. *ROARRRRRR!!!!* We both looked backwards and saw the definition of 'Your fucking screwed' as a grown ass ursa major towered over the both of us. "Well shi-" The wind was knocked out of me as I went flying across the clearing and tumbled on the ground, thankfully the mare was safe in my telekinesis bubble and didn't get hurt. 'If I were you, I would use that nifty dagger you nabbed.' I shakily stood up on my hooves and wiped the blood flowing down my skull. The mare was shouting something at me but the concussion muted her for me. "Go," The mare looked at me confused and continued to say something to me, "GO!" I shouted as I dropped her from my magic and gave her a fair amount of my excess love. Hey actually did you know I could do that? No? Well I think that was my hail Mary. She looked apprehensive but nodded as she saw my bloodied face and started to run away with the cub in tow, "RUN FASTER! MY DEATH IS GONNA BE FUTILE IF BOTH OF US FUCKING DIES!" I panted as soon as I finished my shout. I slowly turned my head towards the ursa major and saw it was looking towards the mare and the little bear. *Dismantle* A shallow cut appeared on the Ursa's chest, it getting regenerated almost immediately, "HEY! SHADOW BEAR! LOOK AT ME YOU FUCKING TWAT!" The ursa then charged towards me without warning, 'SHIT DODGE IDIOT!' I shouted to myself as I jumped towards my left, almost dodging the ursa's swipe but unfortunately for me it still connected and I was again went flying by the hit and hit a tree that was a mile away from the middle of the clearing. 'That fuckers fast...!' I thought to myself. ***WARNING!!! YOU ARE ABOUT TO DIE!*** SURVIVAL CHANCE: 0%! ACTIVATING THE SKILL: Elements FORCEFULLY! 'FUCK! Finally! We got fucking cut off from you!' 'Shit he isn't looking goo-' @#-*! HAS FORCIBLY DEACTIVATED ELEMENTS! SKILL ELEMENTS IS BEING FORCEFULLY ACTI- #$@&*! HAS FORCEFULLY DEACTIVATE ELEMENTS AND HAS BLOCKED THE HIDDEN SKILL: Helping hands! I ignored the rapidly moving screens as they kept flashing in and out of existence, "OVERDRIVE!" I shouted OVERDRIVE HAS BEEN FORCEFULLY DEACTIVATED! OVERDRIVE HAS BROKEN THROUGH THE DEACTIVATION AND ACTIVATED! (Level up!) *@#&! HAS FORCEFULLY LIMITED OVERDRIVE! 50% EFFICIENCY HAS BEEN REMOVED FORCEFULL! SKILL: CURSED ENERGY HAS BEEN FORCEFULLY LIMITED! 99% EFFICIENCY HAS BEEN REMOVED! SKILL: Pinkie stash! HAS BEEN FORCEFULLY DEACTIVATED AND BLOCKED! SKILL: BEST HOOF SKILLS! HAS BEEN FORCEFULLY DEACTIVATED- SKILL: BEST HOOF SKILLS HAS FORCIBLY BROKE THROUGH DEACTIVATION AND WILL REMAIN ACTIVE! BEST HOOF SKILLS EFF- BEST HOOF SKILLS HAS FORCEFULLY REMOVED THE LIMITER ON ITSELF! BEST HOOF SKILLS HAS DAMPENED THE LIMITER ON YOUR SKILLS! CURSED ENERGY: 98.99% LIMITED Pinkie stash!: LIMITER DAMPENED! EXTREME CAUTION! IN YOUR CURRENT STATE YOU WILL DIE IF YOU PULL SOMETHING OUT OF YOUR MANE! ELEMENTS: HAS NOT CHANGED! HIDDEN SKILL HELPING HANDS!: LIMITER DAMPENED! ONLY ONE WORD CAN BE SAID AT A TIME! OVERDRIVE: HAS NOT CHANGED Well... This is gonna be so fun...! 'ZERO!' NAME: RIMU WARNING! INTERFERENCE DETECTED! INFORMATION HAS BEEN ALTERED! A small yet powerful changeling queen, a jumper from earth, and a victim of abuse and bullying. He drowned himself in manga, MLP and games to escape his awful reality. Then, he met me. We became friends, partners. Until one day, everything went black. I was so confused, where did Rimu go? Why was everything black again? Then I heard sounds, I felt my body getting tossed around and mangled into nothingness. It was so silent in the abyss, but I heard you again. You're cries of help, your lust for battle, your pride and happiness. Who am I, you may ask? Well. You already know me partner. My. Name. Is. C H A R A 'You didn't think I wouldn't forget our promise, did you partner?' God dammit. Well... Good night Irene. 1 of 3 Chapter. End.