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// CHANGELING OWNAGE!!! 
// Story: The Adventures of Ponybuscus 
// by Supahsnail 
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Toby began his intro in his usual manner. "Hello once again audience!" he began.

"For the last time, keep your voice down!" the guard commanded quietly but firmly. He started sticking his head around the corner of the flower shop again.

Toby continued much quieter. "When we left off, Guardbuscus saved my life. Not that I needed him to save me, of course. I was totally in control of the situation. I just let him think he was helping, you know, to humor him a little."

"I don't have time to force you to stay put," the guard admitted. "If you're going to follow me, you'd might as well make yourself useful." He jestured around the corner of the flower shop. "The entrance to Canterlot's abandoned mines is just around that corner. It's the only entry in the city..."

"Perfect," Toby interrupted. "I have a great history with abandoned mines."

The guard continued. "There's no way those changelings could have flown in here unseen. They've been moving under ground! This mine is the only underground system in Canterlot big enough for them to have done that. If they have been using the mines, the queen must still be in there."

"Okay, okay. GOT IT! All we have to do is go in there, fight through like a million waves of murder, potentially pee on ourselves, find the queen, and destroy her with epic-osity! Oh, she is going to GET IT!"

"No! We can't just jun strait through the mine!" the guard said. "That will never work. There are too many changelings for two ponies to handle!"

"That is your opinion," Toby said. Without warning, he ran around the corner of the flower shop before the guard could do anything to stop him. "IT'S OKAY!" he yelled. "I'VE DONE THIS BEFORE!"

Just like the guard had said, the only entrance to the abandoned mines in Canterlot was just around the corner. It was a large stone cave with rotting plywood covering the cave's mouth and a faded sign that said MINE with larger, red letters painted over it that said CLOSED. Three changelings were standing in front of the entrance. One was standing on top of the cave and two more were standing at its base. They looked extremely surprised to see Toby charging at them.

"Get back here!" The guard demanded; but it was too late. Toby was already on a collision course with the changelings.

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYA!" He cried at the top of his lungs as he ran. "COME GET IT!"

The three changelings hissed and, almost simultaneously, flew to at Toby in a group with their mouths opened.

Toby stopped running just before the creatures got to him and he held out his right front hoof, sticking it into the mouth of the closest changeling. The other two changelings stopped for a short moment. Toby stomped his right hoof on the ground, slamming the changeling's jaw into the dirt and creating a loud thudding noise.

The unfortunate changeling whimpered and crawled back to its comrades, rubbing its shattered jaw.

"OH YEAH!" Toby said with pride. "I read the help page! I actually know the controls to this game now!" 

By then, the guard had caught up with Toby and was pleasantly surprised to see that he had held his own.

The two uninjured changelings wasted no more time. They both dove down and latched onto Toby while he was busy boasting. One of them clung to his neck and started to bite down while the other held onto his lower back and started to kick him.

Toby responded by frantically running around in a small circle screaming, "NO! GODDANG IT! STOP KILLING ME! THIS WAS A BAD IDEA! THIS WAS A BAD IDEA! THIS WAS A FREAKING MISTAKE!"

The guard was trying to grab the changelings off of Toby, but everytime he was close enough to help, Toby ran out of reach. "Stand still!" The guard demanded.

"CAN'T STOP!" Toby answered. "PANICKING TOO MUCH! BRAIN FAILING!"

With no time for precision, the guard lept forward and slammed into Toby head first, knocking him down and causing the changelings to roll off of his back.

The two changelings slid across the ground and stopped when they hit the old wooden wall in front of the cave. The third changeling ran over to them, but did nothing to help them up.

Meanwhile, the guard had already helped Toby back up, and they were both facing the changelings.

"Don't worry," Toby said. "I have a plan."

"Please don't!" the guard pleaded.

"Too late. BOOOOOOOOYYYAAA!" Toby charged at the grouped up changelings, screaming at the top of his lungs once again. The changelings tried to scramble away, but only succeeded in pushing each other over. Toby rammed into all three of them with the top of his head. The force of the impact caused the old, rotten wood behind the changelings to give into the pressure and shatter into a shower of planks and splinters.

The guard ran up to the pile of wood to see Toby unharmed aside from a few small cuts and scrapes. He was looking around the debris.

"Where did they go!?" He asked. "Can changelings turn into wood too? Oh no! That's gonna make this search impossible!"

The guard was about to say something when he heard a loud bang followed by a hissing sound. The banging noicse happened again, this time louder. "Did you hear that Guardbuscus?" Toby asked. He had already begun walking across the pile of wood to find the sound's source. "It sounds like potential murder!"

After shifting through a few planks of wood, Toby found what he was looking for. A hole in the floor of the cave, no bigger than a mare was undoubtedly the source of the noise. Toby looked inside of it. It wasn't very deep, only about ten or so feet. At the bottom were the three changelings all trying to scale the wall at the same time, consiquentially getting in each other's way. Toby looked to the side and located a large, flat rock.

"Hey!" he said to the changelings as he walked over to the large rock. "Have you guys ever read 'The Casket of Amontillado?'" He used his front hoofs to tilt the rock upright, then let it fall over on it's other side closer to the hole. "You probable haven't," Toby continued with a chuckle. "I'll tell you all about it..." As he talked, he was slowly pushing the rock over the top of the hole. "So there was there was this guy who really doesn't like this other guy. So he chains him up and burried him alive, and the only thing he gives the other guy is a torch!" By then, he had almost completely covered the hole. "Well, I don't have any torches, but I'm sure you'll be fine." At this, he finished pushing the heavy stone over the hole, muffling the hissing noises of the changelings inside.

"Was that really necessary?" The guard asked.

"Of course it was!" Toby said. "I had to cover up that hole. Someone could have fallen in! It was for safety! Oh, by the way, I gotta pause it! Thanks for watching!"

"Who are you talking to-"

"Shushushush! Click the annotation in the top right to watch the next video! Bless your face. If you sneezed during this video, bless you! Peace off! Boop!"