//------------------------------// // Chapter 51: Changeling Invasion // Story: The Last Human // by Blackdragn18 //------------------------------// So Shiny and Cadence recently told Celestia and Luna that they were dating and then turned around and are getting married. That escalated quickly. Sadly I’m stuck with a really boring job. You see, there have been a bunch of threatening letters sent here so Shiny set up a barrier. Celestia thinks that for some reason they want to do something to the wedding. So now I’m stuck guarding Cadence. I don’t see why some guards would be inadequate but Celestia threatened to burn all my sugary foods in front of me. The reason this is so boring though is because Cadence just goes around preparing for the wedding. So all I end up doing is following her around being bored out of my mind. I’m jealous of Shiny right now. He gets to at least patrol and imagine killing stuff. Cadence has been acting weird, a few days ago she was all excited for the wedding and wouldn’t shut up. But now she is a lot quieter and nowhere near as interested. I’m completely fine with her not talking and dragging me around doing wedding stuff. So apparently Shiny had invited Twilight and her friends to attend the wedding. They all got weird miscellaneous jobs. Cadence and I ended up having to check on all of them and see how they were doing. I noticed her do some weird things while we were checking. She was being pretty cold to all of the ponies including Twilight. Looks like Twilight got the same feeling as me because later when the ponies were all doing some boring little mock wedding she burst in calling Cadence evil and throwing all sorts of reasons and accusations around. Cadence ended up running off. After her rant all her little friends and even Celestia and Shiny yelled at her and left. Guess I better go find Cadence. “Cadence!” I walked down the hall she had run down looking for her. “Where’d you go you stupid pony!?” Nothing. Weird. Oh well, guess if I can’t find her I can go to bed. “Hey Cadence, have you seen Twilight?” I had managed to find Cadence at breakfast. We were currently walking down the hall to check on her dress from Rarity. “Not since yesterday. Maybe she went home.” She shrugged. Again weird. Since I met her she’s never been this disinterested in Twilight. Maybe there was something to Twilight’s accusations. I decided to keep an eye on her and maybe figure it out. “Come on Cadence! Your stupid wedding is in an hour!” I was knocking on her bedroom door. She had been in there for at least 45 minutes. “Could you come in here?” She finally replied. “Why?” “I need your help.” “Fine.” I opened her door and walked in. She was sitting in her room in front of a mirror doing her hair. “So what do you want?” “Your shape shifting comes from changelings right?” “Yes, what does that have to do with anything?” “Oh nothing.” She then turned to look at me. She opened her mouth and this terrible high pitched shriek came out of her mouth. I fell to the ground holding my ears. “What was that?” “A little something I use to incapacitate disobedient changelings.” “What?” I looked at up at her. “Oh yes, I forgot I was still in this form.” She was then enveloped by a flame and then that changeling queen was in front of me. “You!” I tried to get up but suddenly she shrieked again and I fell to the ground. “Yes me. Interesting, most changelings are unable to move after just one.” “What did you do with Cadence?” I started to get up. Chrysalis just put a holed hoof on my head and shoved me back down. “Don’t worry about her.” She let out another shriek and I lost consciousness. Hey, wake up. What? Bob? Yes, now get up. I sat up and looked around. My head still hurt. We were in some underground cave, crystals were all around. The area we were in was very poorly lit, I had to turn my hand into a torch and lit it on fire. How long was I out? 4 hours. Where are we? Some sort of cave system under Canterlot. Used for mining at one time, though now it’s abandoned. How do you know all that? I could hear Chrysalis talk while you were out. She doesn’t think ponies will notice I’m gone? You think anyone is going to look for you? They’ll all be too busy with the wedding. What’s her plan? Something about a Changeling invasion on Canterlot. Well that’s just great. Any idea how to get out of here? Nope. Thanks. I stood up. There was a small gap between some crystals. I turned into a mouse and walked through it. That lead me to a larger cave, the weird thing was that most of the crystals in the room were destroyed. I spent at least an hour wandering around in the caves before I found a tunnel. I followed it until it came out to a much larger cave that had some moon light shining through the ceiling. There’s our way out. That was easy. I flew up towards the opening and managed to make the hole large enough to crawl through. Now where was Canterlot? I looked around until I saw it. The city was at least ten miles away, the weird thing was Shiny’s barrier was gone. Let’s find out why. When I got back to town it looked horrible. The streets were destroyed, some buildings looked like they had been broken into. It reminded me of the human colony after the griffin attack. Chrysalis must be behind this. The changelings must have already won. Then I heard what sounded like music. I looked over to the palace and saw that there were lights where the garden is. Let’s find out what that’s all about. I jumped onto the roof of one of nearby shops and started to leap from building to building until I got to a tree in the garden where I was not visible but could see what was happening. There was some sort of party going on. It looked like most if not all of Canterlot was here. I was also able to spot others like Twilight, Rarity, and Rainbow. This must be some kind of changeling celebration. They are obviously enjoying their conquest over the ponies. I guess as some kind of mockery they take the forms of those conquered. I will avenge the deaths of these ponies by killing all of these holed freaks. Starting with Chrysalis. Odds are she’ll still be Cadence. Now where is she? Then Chrysadence came into view. She was dancing with Shinyling. Time for vengeance! I leapt out of the tree and tackled her. The music stopped as soon as I tackled her. I grabbed her and threw her into a nearby table. I ran up and grabbed her by the throat preparing to break her neck while she was too dazed to do that screech. “Sean! What are you doing?” I looked over to see the Celestia changeling walking towards me. I turned my hand into a dragon head and pointed it at her. “Back off changeling!” “What are you talking about?” “I know all about your little invasion.” I lowered my Chrysalis chocking hand but keeping the other pointed at the changeling. “I’m here to avenge all those ponies you murdered, enslaved, used as sun tan lotion, whatever you guys do to conquered races.” Then I felt Chrysalis teleport out of my hand. I looked behind me to see the Twilight changeling holding her in magic. “We aren’t changelings! We beat them!” It glared at me. “Sure you did.” I pointed my dragon hand at her. “Give me your queen and I promise to make your death as painless as I want.” You know, they may be telling the truth. You’re falling for this act? Think for a second, if they were really changelings don’t you think they would have attacked by now? Perhaps, or maybe they are just waiting till I drop my guard to attack. There are ways to find out if they are changelings. Such as? Well, we could use a spell, we could try and use changeling magic, knock one out, ask questions only the reals would know. I like that middle one. Of course you do. I looked around till I found the Blueblood one. Keeping my arm pointed at Chrysalis. I walked over to it. Then I spun around and kicked him in the face full force. He went flying and smashed into a tree. He was unconscious and bleeding. But nothing happened. See, if he were a changeling he’d have reverted back. I turned my hand back to normal and looked at the crowd. “Sorry about that. Little misunderstanding, go back to your party. Someone get Blueblood there a doctor, or not, I don’t really care.” I turned and ran into the palace. So after that whole incident Celestia followed me and explained what had happened. Sadly she made me apologize to Cadence for assaulting her. Anyway, Twilight and her entourage are staying in Canterlot for a few days. I don’t really know why, they gave explanations but I wasn’t really listening. But I’m preparing for my afternoon nap. I found a nice patch of sunlight, flopped over and fell asleep. I could have sworn I heard some snickering. Oh well. Twilight was sitting with Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy having a picnic. “Has anyone seen Pinkie and Rainbow?” Twilight looked around for them. Fluttershy and Applejack shook their heads. “I saw them go into the palace talking about waiting till somepony was asleep and pranking them.” Rarity said. “What? What time is it?” Twilight looked at her friends panicking. “I’d say about 2:00. Why?” Applejack tilted her head. “There’s only one person who is asleep at this time. We have to stop them!” Twilight jumped up and ran towards the palace. Her friends looked in confusion before following. As they neared the palace there were two screams. Then Pinkie and Rainbow Dash came running out towards them. “Girls! What’s wrong?” Rarity and Applejack ran up to them as they stopped in front of them panting. “We were going around pranking ponies. Then we thought hey, he’s asleep good chance for a prank.” Rainbow explained. “Why are you running and screaming then?” Rarity’s question was answered a moment later as a roar filled the air and a column smashed through the palace and landed a few inches in front of them “You woke him up didn’t you?” Twilight looked at them. “All we did was fire a canon and make a bunch of other loud noises. We thought it would be funny to see him jump.” Pinkie explained wide eyed. Twilight face hoofed. “We may want to get out of here before he finds you two. At least till he calms down.” After an hour Twilight headed back to the palace with her friends. When they entered they heard yelling. Running to the throne room they found Luna and Spike standing at the door looking in through a small opening they had made. “What’s going on princess?” Twilight asked walking up. “Sean and my sister have gotten into quite an argument.” She opened the door a little more so they could see. The two certainly looked angry. Sean was sparking and his eyes were green, the princess was glaring and her mane seemed like it was about to catch fire. “You could have killed them!” Celestia shouted at Sean. “But I didn’t! Besides, they are the ones who bothered me!” “That doesn’t mean you get to throw a column at them! What if you had crushed them?” “So what?” “Without Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie the elements of harmony are useless!” “So? They’ve beaten one villain I could have killed on my own, and a freaky statue, whoopdy doo.” “That freaky statue still beat you.” “At least I was able to fight him. What did you do? Sat here lazing around while your student and precious element bearers risked their lives. Then again you couldn’t handle Chrysalis. You’re getting old, it’s not your fault you’re useless.” Sean shook his head shrugging. “Get out.” Celestia glared at him. “Oh making me leave the throne room. Very mature.” “No get out of here all together. Pack your bags and leave! Honestly sometimes I wish I had never helped you.” Sean’s eyes widened. He opened his mouth to speak but nothing came out. He then turned around and walked towards the door. The pack of ponies standing at the door all moved away as he opened it and slammed the door. The hinges ended up breaking and the door fell over. All the ponies ran into the room. “Sister you didn’t really mean that.” Luna said. Celestia didn’t answer all she did was turn and walk out of the room leaving the other ponies sitting confused.