What Would Really Happen

by Z-A-C

Day Six: Tuesday

Something strange happened earlier. Aura's appearance changed. She looks a little like Chrysalis now. I don't know if that's because of her being the Queen's daughter or what, but it was weird. Her mane is starting to come in. Her tail was starting to change color and was more like a pony's. I haven't seen her eyes yet. She's still asleep. I wonder if they'll be like Chrysalis'?

What am I doing? Playing apps on my iPod, of course. Shouldn't be, because the battery might die, but I'm really bored. Scavenge for food? It's too dangerous to go alone, and I don't have a sword. I highly doubt there's an old man in a cave somewhere to give me one. Heh, get it? No? ...oh well. My iPod clock says it's about ten in the morning. Aura should be awake by now. Or am I just up early? Doubt it.

There was a stirring from under the covers. "About time." I thought. She tossed the covers off of her and stood up. "Wakey, wakey. You're ten minutes off."

"Of what?" She asked groggily, with her eyes still closed.

"Your usual wake up time." I said. "It's ten, ten. I should still be asleep, not you."

Why aren't you then?" She asked while opening her eyes.

"I have no-wow." I said with a hint of shock in my voice.

She raised an eyebrow. "Wow what? Did something happen to me?"

A cleared my throat. "Well, not...anything bad....I think." Those eyes.

"What do you mean? Is there something on my face?"

"You...could say that..." She started to get a concerned look on her face. I tried to think of something. "Uh...here." I tapped the camera app on my iPod, and switched it to where it was looking at you aka "selfie mode." And handed it to her. "See nothing bad."

She took the iPod in her her magic and looked at herself. "My...eyes..." She looked...well I'm not sure. She blinked a few times to make sure she was seeing right. "They're...like mother's. Except blue." She brought a hoof to her face. "And I'm...growing a mane?!" She said in a shocked but happy tone. I think. "Zane!? Do you know what this means?!" She asked with a smile on her face. I slowly shook my head. "It means I am the Queens daughter!" She "glomped" me. Taken off guard, we fell backwards. Good thing I was sitting.

Then I noticed the position we were in. It looked rather...shall we say, intimate. "Okay," I said, trying to not let my face turn red. "Calm down and get off me."

"I'm a princess though!"

My face started to turn red and I pushed her off of me. "Yes, yes, very exciting." I sat up. She sat on my lap, and again the position was...you know.

"Are you not...happy for me?" She said in a hurt tone. I responded by hugging her. She gave a sigh of relief and hugged me back. "This is glorious news!"

"It must be, to have you this excited." I smiled. I felt something wet on my shoulder. Was she crying? I ended the hug and looked at her. She was. Tears of happiness. I smiled a little bigger. "Very happy, indeed." She hugged me again.

"Very very happy."

I stretched and yawned. After that bout of happiness, it had grown boring. Aura was indulging in vanity, (which I wasn't happy about) she wouldn't give me back my iPod. And I was just enjoying the peace, occasionally looking over at the changeling. I would shake my head each time and frown. I don't appreciate vain people. Dated a girl that was vain. Didn't end well.

Out of nowhere, my iPod found it's way in front of my face. "Sorry..." Aura said sheepishly. "I got a little too caught up in myself."

"I noticed." I said in a flat tone. She winced at that. I raised an eyebrow. "What's wrong? It happens sometimes, no big deal." I shrugged. "You're fine kid."

"Thanks for not being mad."

I chuckled. "No problem." I patted her on the head. "How's our food looking like?"

She did a quick search. "We can hold off searching until after lunch."

"Cool." I looked at the sky and sighed. "What now? We've eaten breakfast." I thought for a moment. "Firewood?" I looked over at the pile. "No, we're still good there. Well maybe." I looked at Aura. "What do you think?"

She hummed while she thought. "Maybe we should get a little more. We're getting low on fire starter."

I nodded. "Okay. You can stay here. I got it." I grabbed the blanket.

"Are you sure?"

"Yep. They're just twigs after all."

"Okay." She said. "Can I listen to some human music while I'm waiting?"

"Sure." I shrugged and tossed her the iPod. She caught it in her magic and nodded her thanks. "I'll try not to be too long."

"Okay. I'll be here."

I waved and entered the forest. Yes I know it goes against what I said earlier, but it's only kindling. I don't need to go that far into the forest to find it. The forest in the day isn't that bad. It's at a nice temperature. Not too cold, not too warm. I liked being able to see the sun rays come it through the trees. It makes me feel happy. I smiled and started collecting fire starter.

I took a little longer than I should have but I have a nice amount of twigs, sticks, and tree bark. It was a good haul for sure. I got to the kindling pile and dropped the twigs and stuff off. I shook the blanket free of debris and set it down on the "mattress" and looked around. "Wait a minute..." Where's Aura? "Aura? Y-you here?" No answer. "Aura?" I called a bit louder. Still nothing. "Aw shit!" One tirade of cussing later. "Imma fuckin' idiot!"

I was sitting down, beating myself up over my stupidity, when I heard the sound of hooves walking through grass. I grabbed the bat and stood up. The hoof steps stopped and a pony spoke. "Human."

I should've known. "I have a name you know, Xavier."

"Figured ya did but I don't care enough ta know it. Now," He started and I turned toward him. "We have yer freaky bug friend, and now we're here for you."

"We are under the protection of both princesses and Twilight. What are you thinking?"

"Well, we're thinkin' that Ms. Sparkle is outta town and the Princesses have better things to pay attention to."

I thought about that for a moment. "Can't fault you for that way of thinking, but, I am the only human here. A new species. Celestia would want to keep me around. Luna as well." I tapped the ground with the bat. "You hurt me, this town is screwed. Do you want that?" I asked in a calm voice. Not the good type of calm either. The ticking time bomb type. "Now," I said before they could answer. "Where is she?"

"Oh come on now! You were much more cooperative a couple days ago."

"And you broke yer end of the bargain. I'm not going to be nice about this. What did you do with her?"

"And why should we tell you?!" One of the cronies asked.

I slowly turned to him and walked over. I started laughing halfway to him, and when I reached him I grabbed his neck. "'Cause if you don't, I'm going to get very familiar with pony anatomy. You don't want that."

Xavier snorted. "You won't kill us! You can't!"

"Oh no." I turned my head to him, laughing. "I won't kill you. Oh heavens no." I tightened my grip on the pony's neck. Red beginning to swirl around in front of my eyes "I'll torture you." I nodded, with a wicked grin on my face. "Oh yes, will I ever. I will bleed you, then heal you, and then bleed you again. I will cut you a thousand times and then let them heal, only to start over." I laughed again. At this point the all looked scared. Even Xavier. " And if I get hungry, I will rend your flesh and eat it in front of you." My vision was now fully red, and I started to strangle the pony I had a hold of. "I will torture you. To the point you wish for death." I hit the pony with the hilt of the bat, knocking him out. "WHERE IS SHE!?!?"

"W-whoa there big guy," Xavier started. "What if we told you we didn't hurt her?"

I calmed down a little. "That'd be in your favor. Is this true?" I asked staring dead into his eyes.

He rapidly nodded his head. "Y-y-yes! Well...for the most part..." I started to walk towards him. "W-w-what I m-mean by that is, u-uh she fought us the entire way there. We had to do something!"

"Was it you?" He shook his head. I pointed to the other pony. "Him?" There was no response from either of them. I have my answer. I spun around and threw the bat at him. Catching him square in the face and knocking him out. I ran over and got the bat. I turned around and saw Xavier trying to get away. I ran after him and jumped. I tried catching his leg but that wasn't happening. So I did the next best thing. I swung and hit his wing.

He screamed in pain as he crashed to the ground. How did I catch him? Well number one: adrenaline. Two: He kinda sucks at flying. That grey, cross-eyed mare I've seen around flies better than him. "My wing! I think ya broke it!" He yelled.

"To be honest with you. I didn't mean to. That is if I did break it, I doubt it though. Get up." I said grabbing his neck and lifting him up. "You're going to show me where you put her."

"A-and I-if I do?"

"I'll spare you." I gave him a creepy smile. "We have a deal?"

"Yes!" He squeaked and I let him go. He tried to get into the air, but yelped in pain. He nervously chuckled. "Walkin' it is then..."

I nodded. "Lead the way."

I don't know how close to town we are now. It's times like these I really hate that they put us so far out of Ponyville. I directed my attention to my escort, Xavier. I had to wonder, is he behind all of this? or is he really doing his job? I then looked at his wing. Apparently I hit the joint where it connects to his body. How could I tell? Well the bruise for one. And it looked dislocated. I actually felt bad, to be honest. I really didn't mean to hurt him that badly.

I twirled the bat and looked forward. I would say we were half way to town hall from here. Outskirts? Yes, they did take us to the outskirts, but Ponyville is bigger than it looks. And we were taken farther away from everything. Basically on the "poor" side of Ponyville. The reason I say poor, is because there's not much over here. And there's even an abandoned house. I found that very odd. Xavier said it was due to be torn down within the week. I was confused as to why he was talking to me.

It had been fairly boring, to be honest. Which is good, all things considered, but still. I had my iPod on me but I didn't want Xavier to think it was some "evil human magic". I shook my head at the thought. Mad? Yeah, but not at Xavier. Not directly at least. I'm mad at the fact that they took her and I didn't hear her make any sounds of struggling. I know she wouldn't have gone quietly. I couldn't help but wonder why they captured her in the first place. He might tell me. "Xavier?"

"Human." I glared at him but mostly ignored that.

"Why were you after Aura? And what do you want from me?"

"Well," He started. "There was a break in at Barnyard Bargains. We were just rounding up suspects."

"So you go after the ones who are different? That's fucking great."

"Now hold on there. We rounded up Vinyl Scratch, Rainbow Dash, and Thunder Lane prior to the changeling." He shook his head. "We didn't single you out."

I found that surprising. That is, if he's telling the truth. "Alright. Where are you taking me?"

"To where we took Aura."

"I know that." I said in a flat tone. "But where?"

"Where else?"

I thought about that for a little bit. "I didn't know Ponyville had a prison."

"Sure do. We just lack the proper police force is all." I was going to ask, but decided against it.

"How much farther?"

"We're almost there." I just nodded.

We were now standing in front of the prison. "Here we are." Said Xavier. "Now we can continue with this, and get it done." He opened the door and we walked in. It was a small prison with only four cells. I saw the three arrested ponies staring at me with weird looks on they're faces.

"I bet it was him!" A black stallion with a light blue mane said, pointing at me.

"Oh man this isn't good..." I heard Vinyl say. I raised an eyebrow at that.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Rainbow Dash said, with an almost panicky sound to her voice.

"Some break in, apparently." I shrugged.

We stopped. "And this is your cell. I made sure you were with her. I hope-" He suddenly stopped. "W-what the buck!?"

I looked in the cell, and there she was. Aura had been beaten. Her horn was broken off, her wings were broken, as well as a leg or two. And who knows what else had been done, but I can see that her muzzle is bleeding. I felt rage like I haven't felt in awhile bubble up to the surface. "Xavier. What is this?" I growled.

He opened the cell quickly and ran in. "Oh no oh no oh no."

I grabbed him by the shoulders. "Answer me!!" He, as well as the other ponies, flinched at the volume of my voice.

"I-I-I don't know! This wasn't me! I didn't tell them to do this!"

Red swam into my vision once more. It was hard to remain in control. "Who?! The one's that were with you!?"

"N-no, not them! They wouldn't do this!"

"Then who!?" I yelled in his face. "Who would have the fucked mind to do such a thing!?!?!"

"That'd be us." I turned around. There was three ponies standing there with smiles on their faces. Two were earth ponies and one was a unicorn. "What do you think Xavier? Did we do good?"

"What?! I didn't tell you to do this!"

The unicorn shook his head. "No you didn't. We just thought we would take the initiative to interrogate her. She didn't confess, so we kept going."

"She didn't confess, because she didn't DO ANYTHING!!!" I shouted and ran up to him. "She was with me for the whole of yesterday, she couldn't have done anything!"

"And why should we believe you?" He asked with a snort of laughter.

"You should, but it doesn't matter now. She was under my, Twilight's, and the princess' protection. Not to mention the Queen. Congrats, you just fucked this whole town."

"Ha! We can take you down right here!"

"Sure, you can. But then you have Twilight Sparkle. If you hurt her, you have Celestia and Luna to worry about. And the Queen. She had a direct link to The changeling queen Chrysalis. She knows everything. What you did, where we are. All of it. And Luna knows she in the country." I spit in his face. "You fucked up." He laughed and pushed me away. Then, "AUGH!!" I lost it.

I rushed forward and grabbed his horn. Snapping it off was easy with the right leverage. He screamed in pain and I punched his face, knocking him out. The two earth ponies recovered from being surprised and went after me. I kicked one in the neck and turned around. The other one kicked, I tried to dodge it but I was too slow. I flew backward into a wall. The pony helped the other one up and the two began to walk towards me.

They smiled down on me with wicked faces. The beating was going on for I don't know how long. Every time I tried to grab at them, one of them would smack my hand away.

"Stop!" Xavier yelled for the hundredth time. "We were employed to arrest them and bring them here! Not this!!" They weren't listening though. Suddenly there was a flash of light behind them.

What appeared when the light dissipated was a dark figure with a slimy looking green mane and fangs. She use a spell on them, and they froze. Paralysis spell, nice. "That will be quite enough of that!" She looked into the cell and made a noise that almost sounded like a quick sob. "I have the perfect punishment for you," She licked her fangs. "Since you seem to hate us so much!" She hissed those words. It was kinda scary. "I will change you both into changelings." The ponies eyes shrunk and they looked at each other. "It is a long, painful process. You may not even live through it." She said with a hint of happiness in her voice.

"First, I inject a DNA altering poison into the neck. Like so." She walked up to one of them, smiled and the bit down on his neck as hard as she could. She did the same to the other one. "Then, I shall do the same to the legs." And she did so. Taking small bits of flesh along the way. "Now, the option of gender arises. What do you think, Zane? Mare or stallion?"

I looked at them. "Keep the stallions, just geld them. And make sure they feel every bit of it." I said as coldly as I could. She did so, using her jagged horn. They would have cried in pain if they could.

"And lastly," She said. "Sleep." And then they dropped like a sack of potatoes. I stayed slumped up against the wall. Losing it took almost all of my energy. And then the beating those two gave me. I felt my eyes start to close. "Is this him?"

My eyes shot opened. "What?"

"The ring leader. Is this him?" She pointed at the unicorn. I nodded. "Excellent." She levitated him into the cell where Xavier and Aura were. I'm surprised he's still here. Chrysalis looked at him and curtly told him to leave. He nodded. and left the cell. "Now, how about some black magic?"

"What are you planning?"

"Transferring Aura's injuries to him. That would heal her in the process. She'd still need rest though. You seem like you need rest as well."

"I'll be fine. Do the spell."

She smiled. "Gladly." She kicked him and woke him up. He groaned in pain and then saw her. Her smiled turned evil. "You thought you could get away with it, didn't you?" She asked with calm fury. He didn’t say anything. He couldn’t. He was in so much fear of her. “Aw not so brave against the Changeling Queen now are you?”

“I’m not afraid of you!” He yelled in a shaky voice.

She laughed. “Have you grown arrogant in fear? I can sense your emotions.” No more words were exchanged. Her horn shone a sickly green light. The same light traveled off of her horn in an orb and flew in between them. The orb stretched out into small tendrils, connecting them.

“What is this?!”

“You’re going to feel the pain that you inflicted on my daughter.” Chrysalis said in a wicked tone. “You will scream and writhe in agony. And I will relish all of it. Every emotion, every drop of blood I see. I will love it!” Sheesh. Good thing I’m on her good side. I don’t want to be on the receiving end of that.

The spell started to take effect on him. Bruises started to form, cuts started to tear into his flesh. And I grew strangely hungry. He was screaming in absolute misery and pain. Chrysalis was drinking it in. She enjoyed this a little too much. But then again, what would I do in her position? I frowned when she started laughed. Black magic indeed. The users are often…off.

The screaming stopped and I looked over. The unicorn look worse than Aura had. That might have been Chrysalis’ added flavor, or what I did to him. I’m not sure, but I’ll chose to not question it. “Is it done?” I asked.

She licked her lips. “Yes. And it was delicious.”

“Uh you might have went too far there, Queen.”

“Oh?” She looked at me with a raised eyebrow. “What would you do?” I didn't say anything. She took my silence as an answer. “That’s what I thought.” She walked over to me. I tried to scoot away. “Why are you scared?” She asked with genuine confusion. “We are allies, are we not? You don’t need to worry about me hurting you.” She said with a kind smile. “Now, hold still. I will heal your wounds.”

Her horn glowed with the same sickly green but I didn’t feel pain like I thought I would. I felt a warm sensation flow throughout my body. Before my eyes the bruises faded away, the blood evaporated. The numbness went away and, I was amazed. I sat up, moved my fingers, and moved my arms. No pain, at all. She must have sensed my amazement because she laughed. “Never been healed before?”

“Not with magic, no. Thanks.”

“Think nothing of it, human. You have gained my favor.”

“I mean no disrespect, Queen. But how?”

“Really?” She asked, confused. “It should be obvious.”

I nodded. “It is. I was just making sure. She was afraid.”

She smiled. “She was. I thank you for being there for her. If I could, I would make you an honorary changeling.”

I chuckled nervously. “If the process is the same as what you did to those two, no thanks.”

She laughed. “You would not live through it. If only you were a pony. I would have gained three new subjects instead of only two.”

I did help the right side. Didn’t I?

“So,” I said. “Is everything gonna go back to normal?” I yawned. “I wore myself out being pissed for that long.”

Xavier looked at me. “Depends, we still need ta figure out who broke in to Barnyard Bargains.”

“Oh yeah… I forgot about that.” I looked over to the other ponies. “And… them…” I said. “Sorry guys.” Rainbow Dash looked at me with a raised eyebrow. Vinyl Scratch shrugged. And Thunder Lane…is being a dick. I shook my head. “You can let them go now.”

“Well I suppose I can. Just block the door so they can’t get away.”

“Okay?” I walked over to the door. Oddly enough Chrysalis followed me. I didn’t think about it, and watched Xavier unlock everyone. “Hey, how is will this be solved?”

“Mister Rich will stop by with the investigators soon. They’ll go through evidence, and we’ll see if the culprit is here.”

“Well that’s…weird.” I scratched the back of my head. “But okay. Sure.” Bastard’s probably going to try to lock me and Aura up. “How soon will they be here?”

He shrugged. “Oh I don’t know. Should be any minute now.I thought they'd be her by now.”

Chrysalis looked at me. “Are we still going through with the plan?” she whispered.

I looked around. Rainbow Dash and Thunder Lane were talking. Apparently they know each other. Vinyl was talking with Xavier. For some reason I didn’t find it odd. “Nah.” I whispered back. “We’ll keep that on stand by still.” She harrumphed. “Wait till they really screw up.”

“Will that ever happen?” She asked hopefully.

“Hopefully not.”

She sighed. “I shall take my leave. If you are not locked up, I will be at the library.”

“See ya there.” I waved. The others were looking at me. “What?”

“I can’t believe she’s back in Equestria!” Rainbow exclaimed. “You’d think the princess would arrest her!”

“If you knew what we do, you wouldn’t think that.”

“What do you mean ‘we’.” Thunder Lane asked.

“Princess Luna, Aura, and I. Chrysalis told us of what happened to the rest of the changelings.”

“And?” He asked.

“Well, they’re almost extinct.” Everyone gasped. “Luna did a lie detector spell and everything. She’s telling the truth.”

“That’s…some heavy stuff.” Vinyl said, with a sad expression on her face.

“Yeah. Speaking of,” I looked over at the cell I had left my changeling friend. “How is Aura doing?”

Xavier looked at her and shrugged. “She’s still sleepin’.” Restraining myself from being a smartass, I just nodded.

“I don’t even know why I’m a suspect. I’ve been working all week!” Thunder Lane yelled.

“Same here!” Rainbow Dash said.

Vinyl shrugged. “I get blamed for this stuff all the time. I’m used to it.”

“God knows why Aura and I are here.” Bullshit, I know why we’re here. “But let’s just chill until they get here.” Who knows how long that will be.

Xavier nodded. “That would be a good idea.”

So we sat there, using idle chatting to eat up time. No one really had anything good to talk about. Except for one pony. Rainbow talked about her flying tricks, Thunder talked about the weather control. Apparently Xavier works for the town. That would explain why he kept saying he was “just doing his job”. Vinyl was talking about music. She was the only one who had something good to talk about.

I can talk about music for a good while. “So, What do you listen to Zane?”

“Oh, pretty much anything, except for mainstream rap and country.” I shrugged. “Mostly Metal though. Some Pop. How about you all?”

“Rock!” Rainbow Dash answered.

“Electronic.” Vinyl said.

“Country and Pop.” Thunder Lane said.

“Mostly country for me.” Xavier said. Not really surprising.

“Nice. Sounds like we have a well-rounded group here, huh?” I nodded while wearing the “not bad” expression on my face. “Electronic stuff ain’t bad. Ever heard of ‘chill-step’, Vinyl?”

“Hay Yeah! I’ve made a few songs like that!”

“Awesome. I’d like to hear them sometime.”

“How about after this is over?”

“Sounds fine to me.”

“That is, if it wasn’t you who broke into the store!”

“Why are you so mean to him?!” Rainbow Dash yelled. “He and Aura have been out of town all day yesterday!” Rainbow Dash. Thunder recoiled.

“Yeah! Just because he’s different, means you get to pick on him? What the buck, man!?”

He was speechless. I guess he hasn’t been ganged up on before. “Thanks guys.” I said. “But you didn’t need to do that. You scared him.”

Rainbow laughed. “We aren't members of 'Equality' for nothing!”

I raised an eyebrow. “They have a name now?”

“Came up with it yesterday.” Vinyl said.

"Nice and simple too."

“Is this thing happening or not?” I asked with a sigh.

“Well, uh they should have been here by now.”

Just then, the door opened. I was sitting with my back against the door. And the door opened towards the outside. I fell backwards and startled a light brown pony stallion. He had two other ponies with him. One was Twilight. The other one wasn’t familiar, they both chuckled. “Uh hi guys… What’s up?”

“Yes well,” The brown earth pony cleared his throat. “I trust everpony is here.”

“Pretty much, Mr. Rich.” Xavier said.

“Good, good.” He looked down at me. “My name is Filthy Rich. What is your name, Human?”

I sat up and looked at him. “Zane, nice to meet you Mr. Rich.”

“Well depending on how this goes, likewise.” He said in a bored tone. “Well let’s get on with this.”

“Right.” Twilight and the other pony nodded.

“We’ve spent an hour and a half investigating Barnyard Bargains.” The other pony said. “There wasn’t much evidence, unfortunately, just some broken glass.”

“That’s not really evidence…” Twilight said. “But it’s all we have to work with.”

“So then, how do we figure this out?” Xavier asked.

“Old fashion detective work!” The other pony said. “Upon further investigation, we found fur on the shards of glass.”

“I thought you said there was no other evidence?” Filthy Rich said.

“I did? Well, never mind that. The fur was orange.”

“Alright hold up.” I said. “No one here has orange fur. Hell, Aura and I don’t even have fur! Why are we here?”

The pony interrupted Twilight. “Honestly, I have no idea.”

“Seriously?” The pony nodded. “So Aura was kidnapped for no reason?”

“Yup.”

“And I got pissed for no reason?”

“Seems that way.”

Just my luck… “Twilight.” Twilight looked at me. I’m going back to my campsite. Bring Aura along when you’re done here. Okay?”

“Why don’t you just go back to the library?”

“Oh you know, the whole banned from Ponyville thing.”

“Oh. Right.”

“I’ll make sure your friends are okay, Xavier.” He nodded. “Well, this was fun. But I’m out of here. Twilight, tell me how it goes when you drop her off. See y’all later.” I stood up and walked out of the door.

Of all the things that could happen…

How are you not more upset about this?

Used up all of my anger. I shrugged.

Walking back to the campsite, I walked by the town hall. It was an interesting looking building. At least too me. There was a mare with a grey mane outside. And now she’s walking towards me. “H-hello?” She said with a sheepish smile. “Are you Zane?”

“I’m the only human here right?”

“Uh well, um yes…”

I sighed. “Sorry, just not in good mood today.”

“That’s okay. I’m Mayor Mare. Co-founder of ‘Equality’.” She stated proudly.

“Okay.” I said in a slightly unimpressed tone. “What do you want?”

“Yes well, I wanted to tell you that our numbers are growing.”

“Okay?”

“And that you are allowed back in town. I don't agree with what Mr. Rich had his employees do.”

I nodded. “That’s good news. How about Aura?”

“Oh, yes, the changeling…” She looked at the ground. “More ponies are in favor of you coming back over her.”

“Okay, do these ponies know that she goes where I go?”

“Well…”

“Exactly. Aura is here because she was seeking help. Then your precious townsfolk beat her and left her to die. Did you know that? I doubt you did. Twilight found her, and took her in. Sometime later I showed up. And you know what I found out?” She shook her head. “I found out that Twilight is under orders from Princess Celestia, to reform my changeling friend. How can Twilight do this, without Aura in town?”

The Mayor nodded. “I see your point. I will allow her in town as well.”

“Thank you. And look, I know what the changelings did. But you ponies don’t need to be so harsh on her, okay? She’s been giving me the impression that she didn’t want to be apart of the invasion. Chill out on her, she’s not much different from you.” She looked shocked. “And thank you by the way. I appreciate having allies that are willing to fight for me.”

“N-not a problem.”

“I will be staying at the library with Twilight. Just in case you need me for something group related. Good bye.” I walked off toward the campsite.

Things might be looking up.