//------------------------------// // The letter // Story: A quick trip through the universe // by Quick lightning //------------------------------// POV: Tim changeling cave Tim was in the hives questioning and converting room. His body had changed back to a human and the queen was standing in front of him. He was tied up in a green sack of changeling slime. The room was made of some sort of black shiny rock and there was a table in the middle with 2 chairs. Tim was trying to think of a way out of the situation. “frost, any ideas?” ‘No. I got nothing at all.’ “really? I thought you could know everything” ‘well I do and um…I don’t know maybe use magic’ “but I already tried that its blocked!” ‘ah, but that is were you are wrong. You simple magic like teleporting is offline, but not universe magic’ “so…um…what should I do” ‘your helpless’ “…” ‘ugg, fine. Do a rock transiting shifting spell’ “in English or as you call it, equestrian” ‘like I said before helpless, it means you switch the rock out for a another one from across the universe’ “got it” Tim was sitting in the room thinking the whole time while chrysalis was staring at him. She was utterly and the utmost confused at the humans rambling to itself. “um…hello, are you going crazy or something?” the queen asked. “hmm…what? Oh, that’s right you. I forgot you were here” Tim replied. “alright, I guess. are you alright?” “oh I am going to be just fine” Tim started to summon up the spell to change the rock while chrysalis was just laughing at his attempt. That was untill the rock around them changed into a bunch of cobble. “H-how d-d-did you do that? This rock is magic proof!?” “well if that’s the case you should contact your dealer” tim grined at the queens panic. She immediately made a weird screech noise that attracted all of the hives military to her. They swarmed the room and took a stance towards Tim who was freeing himself from the goop and his ears were ringing. “again with the fighting” Tim sighed This time instead of about 10 there was hundreds upon hundreds. There were forming teams of defense and attack that had the majority. They came in waves and waves at Tim who turned to his Alicorn self once again. The first wave was fairly simple a few tackles and scraps but he took care of them all quite efficiently by summoning a nice sword to take them on. The next came with more force. They were getting too close for comfort. He took a slash to the leg and side. There were around ten of them this time and with only six of them gone and a new batch coming he was going to need help. “frost help, once again” ‘god. fine, summon a army of your own form of who knows what’ “Hm…that could work” Tim thought hard and summoned up a army of knights to fight alongside him. There were around 15 of them, all with armor and swords to bat. They all took there stance as the rest of the army approached. They fought in hard battle with lots of changelings falling to the blades of the knights and Alicorn. It was getting intense as the whole force was there. They dog piled on Tim with one biting into his leg and side. The bite had a magic stone from before with a draining feature. It was slowly sucking the magic out of Tim. He quickly flung them away with a magical blast of energy. He manged to kill two with the blast. “Sir, there forces are great. We have lost 3 men to these creatures” “just keep fighting!” They continued to come with better and better strategies. The queen was watching the scene with great interest. It had been a long time cense somepony was able to take on her forces. The last time that happened was with celestial and she is the most powerful pony in the world. She wanted him to be under her spell so bad. The fight continued for another hour or so with just around 400 changelings to the 3 men left standing to fight the changelings. They were all exhausted from the fight with the remaining bugs flying around. These were not the stupid ones though, these ones were the experienced fighters who knew what they were doing. They formed a sky brigade and swooped in on them in surprise taking out one of the men who were left. Now it was one knight and one Alicorn with disabled powers. To about 250. Fair, yea it seams like it. “WE MUST WIN FOR THE HIVE” one of the commanders called out sending in the rest of the troops. They managed surprise Tim and slash him up his side forcing him to revert to his normal self. His other had a massive gash on the side of his body that could have possibly took him down. The army was continuing the barge of attacks. There we only around 50 left so they started to back off at chrysalis’s orders. After all the bugs were gone they could finally take a breather. Tim looked at his summoned being in question. What would he do with him now that the battle was over? “um…are you alright” “quite sir, I wish I could say the same for my men though” “yea me too. May I ask who you are?” “ah, I am sir higgem of the sire knights and you are” “oh, the names Tim” “now I have one question. Where am I?” “ok don’t freak out but, you are in a world inhabited by colorful ponies and other mythological creatures” Higgem chuckled at Tim “yes, of course we are. That explains everything” “look I know its hard to believe but its true. I am a human as well but, the only one who is here on this entire world” “you are serious, aren’t you” “sadly yea, I am” “well what do you want to do now?” “I could try teleporting out of here” Tim begin to try to teleport away only to be stopped by the rock that was inside him. “bah, why cant I teleport?” “maybe it has to deal with your energy” “no I should be fine” “what about that gash on your back” “wait, what gash? I should have nothing wrong with this body” “well there is a gash with a rock in there is what is looks like to me” Tim realized what was in his body and cursed the changelings for it. He knew there was only one way for him to get it out. “higgem, I need you to get that out of my body now. If you need to cut it out fine” Higgem was shock he would go to such measures to get a rock out of his body “are you sure sir” “yes, now do it” He nodded and gripped his sword to try to get the rock out of Tim. The blade thruster deep into his back curved to get the rock out. Tim was in massive pain the entire time and was screaming like I kid at Christmas. The rock was lodged deep into his skin only adding to his misery. As the rock was exiting it was ripping flesh and other good stuff on the way out. Blood was running down higgem's blade and Tim's back. It popped out and Tim fell to the ground in agony. Higgem ran to him to help him. He did not know a lot but it would still help. "Alright, we need to get pressure on that wound" higgem ripped off a piece of his uniform and tied it around him creating a clot for the blood. "AHH...my strength isn't high enough to heal myself" Tim was trying to get up and use magic but he was drained from the fighting. "Sir we need to get medical help. Is there anything you now that could get us help faster?" "Um..." Tim shot a scroll out into the air. "What was that..." Tim passed out from the blood loss with one thought on his mind. God help me. POV: Princess Celestia The princess of the day was siting in her chambers on a relatively calm day. Well, it would have been if Tim had not gone missing days ago after her fault on the teleporting. Her mind was screaming at her for this. She had not done something like this before. Of course she had seen death and war and pain before, even though there visits were not welcome. She felt as if for once she caused a possible death. She had a weird felling towards Tim as well. Not emotional feelings but more like a parent or sister, possibly like your best friend. She had asked her sister to take over management for awhile so she could get her head on straight. She was in her private chambers thinking about Tim powers when I scroll came shooting through the window hitting her square in the head. She shot up looking for the thrower when she noticed the scroll. "It's not like twilight to be so rough in sending letters" she saw the scroll and it had no sender symbol on it in anyway. She opened it and what she saw shocked her. It was a letter from Tim saying where he was and he needed help it had a picture of him in his current state. "Oh my, I must go alert a team right away" she walked to the captains office in the castle barracks. On her way there she managed to run into her sister who was up doing work in place of Celestia. "Have you finally got over your depression?"Luna asked her sister. "Even better" luna cocked her head in confusion and Tia saw this and handed her the letter. Her expression went from confused and puzzled to a most joyous and concerned one. "We must go locate him right away Tia!" Luna shouted "Yes, and that is were I am headed now" "But wouldn't we just teleport to him" "Yea, we could but we would need a way to bring him back and magic may just hurt him more" Luna nodded in agreement. "Well than let us head to the shinning's office and send a team there" With that they headed down the hall to his courters to talk about the team to rescue Tim. They arrived with not much delay and busted threw his doors. Shinning armor bowed to the princesses "you may rise" Celestia said "Alright, thanks. Now why did you bust through my doors, and did you ever here of knocking" shinning deadpanned. "Well the reason is because we may have found Tim" "Oh, wasn't that the human turned monster" "Yeah, you could say that. Well anyways, we need a team to find and extract him here for imitate medical attention. This letter has were he is" she threw hi. The letter and his face became serious. "I see, well if you would follow me to the search teams that we have here at the moment" they exited his office and made a beeline for the standby units. In the lounge was 2 search teams and a few other types but not many. They all bowed when the princesses entered the room. They let them get up and approved the search team cracker smack. They were led by Mythic Spell. He was a unicorn stallion with midnight blue fur and cyan mane with a bit of white in it. His team was made up of three other ponies. There was the twins wild quest and swift grab. Wild was a pegasus stallion with a ember coat. His mane looked like fire but was still normal. Swift grab was his twin sister who had a bright dirty orange coat with a yellow mane that had small streaks of brown through them. She was pegasus like her brother and they acted as transport and spot out targets from the air if needed. The last was a earth pony mare named delightful pickup. She was one of the ground crew members. Her coat was white with a green and blue mane. They stood at attention as the princess walk to them "We may just have a job for you" "Yes princess, what do you require from my team" mythic asked. "Well I need you to find a friend of mine" she threw the caption of the team the message "he is at that address. As some as you pick his up take his to the hospital alright" The team nodded and did a quick bow to her. She turned back to shinning and her sister "I hope they get him back safely" "Don't worry, that is a fine team there and they have a great amount of skill there" "I sure hope so, I don't know how they girls would take to have to see him dead" "Yes, I understand what you mean Tia, especially loyalty" "Oh, and why is that" Luna blushed a little. "W-well her dreams have been to say the least, interesting" Celestia laughed for a little while "oh rainbow, has he stolen your heart"