The next morning
I was woken up by somepony knocking on the door... hard. "Yeah yeah! I'm coming!" I yelled as I jumped out of bed forgetting the fact that Dash was sleeping next to me.
"Where are you going?" She asked. The knocking returned. "Oh, right" she continued. I just grunted before I walked to the front door. As I opened the door I saw princess Luna of all ponies standing in front of my door.
"And what are you doing here?" I grumbled.
"You don't talk like that to the princess!" Luna said.
"Okay who are you and what have you done to Luna?" I asked.
"What are you talki-" she was cut off by me lunging to her and pinning her to the ground.
"I am going to give you one more warning to drop that disguise! You better act on it!" I said as I turned my right-front hoof into a blade.
"Okay! Okay! Jeez sorry dude!" She said in a voice not hers. The Luna imposter then went up in green flames and when the fire disappeared I looked at the changeling in question, then for the third time in two days a huge grin spread over my face. In front of me stood a changeling with golden slitted eyes, emerald green chitin and azure wings. The son of Chrysalis himself, and my long time friend; Switch Kick.
"Switch long time no see!" I said as I jumped of of him. "How are you doing?"
"I'm fine, no thanks to you!" He joked. "I see you haven't changed a bit?"
"Oh things changed, like the fact I'm now paid 750 bits per week to guard the elements of harmony!" I boasted.
"Really!?"
"Yes, and that's not all. When I first came to Ponyville I was hit by them, and guess what... they strengthened me!"
"Dude really!? You gotta show me!" He practically begged.
"All in due time Switch, all in due time" I replied cryptically. "Come on in" I said motioning for the door. When we got inside I asked, "want some coffee?"
"Sure why not" he replied. As we walked into the kitchen I saw Dash and Scoots sitting there drinking a cup of hot chocolate. When Dash saw Switch standing next to me she immediately took a defensive stance in front of Scootaloo. I took my own stance in front of Switch.
"Now Dash before you jump to conclusions this isn't one of those changelings that attacked Canterlot!" Dash stood up normal as if to say 'continue'. "Rainbow Dash I want you to meet my long time friend Switch Kick" I said as Switch walked past me and to Dash.
"It's nice to meet you Rainbow Dash" he said as he held his hoof out. Dash reluctantly complied by shaking it.
"How do I know if I can trust you?" She asked.
"When I was just a hatchling I was dumped at an orphanage in the human world" switch said.
"The world beyond the magic mirror in the crystal castle" I clarified.
"Exactly. I lived the first five years of my life in that hellhole, after that I was adopted by the Luna from that world, when I was seventeen, in other words five years ago, Twilight Sparkle came through the mirror and because of it I got my changeling powers back, when Twilight came back here I followed to learn of my real heritage, I was captured when I came through the mirror on this side. I was eventually released as they had no evidence against me. That is when Overkill found me, he taught me how to control my powers and we have been best friends ever since, and I don't use my powers of disguise like the usual changeling, I use them to become various characters from the culture of the human world and with them fight crime" Switch explained.
"Yup, but where have you been for the past two years?" I asked.
"The last time the gateway opened was two years ago, I had to go see mom, cause I promised her to always come visit whenever it opened, and I got full permission from Princess Celestia to always be allowed to use the mirror whenever it opened. After I came back you weren't at the meeting place in the forest, after that I went looking for you for two years until I gave up and went here, I saw this huge building and just knew it was you" Switch explained.
"Oh, sorry" I said sheepishly.
"Anything interesting happen while I was gone?" He asked.
"Well Dash and I did slay an Ursa Major two days ago, and Dash will have the same powers as me till next Wednesday" I explained.
"Same powers? Then shouldn't she look different than the usual pony?" Switch asked.
"Yes, and she does. Dash would you?" I asked.
"Fine, Scoots would you mind going to your room please, I don't want you to see this" Dash asked.
"Sure!" Scoots said as she walked to her room.
"Okay, here goes" Dash said as she took of the necklace for the first time, when it was off she put it on the table as she glowed white, after a couple seconds she stood there in all her vampony glory.
"Well, that's certainly... something" Switch said.
"Yeah" I said in the same trance as yesterday.
"Overkill? Yoohoo!" Switch said waving a hoof in front of my face... no response. "Watch this" he said smirking. He then punched my in my side knocking the air out if me.
"What did you do that for!" I yelled at him. I got my answer in Dash blushing heavily, and Switch laughing his ass of. "I was staring wasn't I?"
"You should've seen the look on your face! And hers once she noticed you staring at her all cavepony like, priceless!!!" Switch said before continuing with his laughing spree.
"Y-yeah, priceless" Dash said as she put the pendant back on reverting herself back to normal.
"Well, what do we do now?" Switch asked.
"Well my idea for the best course of action is... that we gather the rest of the girls here to tell them about your 'condition' Dash" I said.
"Yeah, that's probably the smartest thing to do isn't it?" Dash said.
"Okay let me get the rest if the girls then okay?"
"Yeah"
"Switch I want you to stay here, got that?" I asked
"You got it, if you need me I'm on the roof napping, bye!" Switch said before leaping out of a window.
"I'll see you later" I said to Dash before I walked out of the house.
"Yeah bye" Dash said with a small smile. 'So he does like me' she thought.
I was currently flying over the town on my way to Sweet Apple Acres as that was the farthest and I could walk back home and with a small detour pick up the girls. As I flew over the Acres I was looking through the orchards for AJ, I found her in the west orchard bucking trees with a red stallion. "Hey AJ!" I yelled. At that she looked up and saw me flying down.
"Well hello there sugarcube, what's going on?" She asked.
"Rainbow send me to get you all, she wants to tell you and the rest of the girls something important" I explained.
"Mind if I go with him bro?" She asked the stallion.
"Nope" he answered.
"Lead the way" AJ said to me. I nodded before I walked away to get the rest.
A half hour later
Dash was standing in the middle of my workshop and C.R.O.W. had taken project L.B. and put it back in storage. The rest and me then walked in. "We're here" I said.
Rarity was the first to speak after that, "Darling where did you get that amazing necklace?" Rarity asked.
"Overkill gave it to me, but that's besides the point I want to show you all something" Dash said shedding a small tear. I walked over to her and put a hoof on her shoulder.
"It's for the better" I said with a small smile, she smiled back.
"Thanks"
"What's going on, y'all are creeping me out" AJ said.
"Promise me you won't scream" Dash asked, they nodded. "Pinkie promise" they did the movements in sync. "Okay here goes nothing" Dash said. She then took of the necklace and gave it to me, within seconds she was a vampony again. When the rest saw their best friend in this state they all got shocked expressions on their faces. Rarity shed a few tears, Fluttershy cowered behind AJ who bore a stern expression, Twilight and Pinkie both had a look of interest on their face.
"Darling what happened!?" Rarity asked running to Dash, but was stopped by Dash lunging at her only to be stopped by me. "Rainbow Dash? Is that still you?"
"Partially" Dash said. "It's still my memories but beyond that... there is a vampony who can change the form of her body and is a genius in engineering" She continued.
"Genius in engineering?" Twilight asked.
"The reason that she is now a full vampony is, because she wanted to help me work yesterday I had to give the knowledge necessary to do so, I did but it also made her a full vampony" I explained.
"So you did this!" AJ said running at me and bucking me in the chest sending me pretty far back.
"No don't do this!" Dash yelled with tears in her eyes as she went to stand in front of me.
"Get out of the way sugarcube, all I want to do is buck him into next week" AJ said bluntly.
"No! I won't let you!" Dash yelled again.
"Me too!" Came the voice of Switch Kick from the door, they all minus Dash looked at the changeling in question with shock.
"What is that changeling doing here!?" Rarity asked.
"Protecting Overkill that's what!" Switch said flying next to Dash.
"And me!" C.R.O.W. said as the lightning-tank rode up besides Dash with the holo-pony floating above it.
"Why do y'all protect him!?" AJ asked.
"Cause he's my only and best friend!" Switch said.
"Because he created me!" C.R.O.W. said.
"Because... I like him!" Dash yelled as she shifted into her version of the stalker.
"So who would win? An all seeing A.I. two shifters and a changeling with knowledge from a world beyond our own versus the elements of magic, kindness, honesty, laughter and generosity?" I asked as I jumped out from behind them, shifted into a weird thing with claws and wings and hovered over them.
"Why don't we find out" AJ said as she jumped towards me.
"STOP!!!" A loud voice came as AJ and I were captured in the air by a golden glow and blue glow respectively. When we turned our heads to the source we saw Celestia and Luna standing there.
"We are very disappointed in you all!" Celestia and Luna said in sync.
"Overkill if you want to keep your job you will not attack the elements! Otherwise we will have to fire you and make you an enemy of the state!" Luna said sternly.
"Fine! *sigh* C.R.O.W. put project L.B. back in storage would you" I asked.
"Certainly sir" C.R.O.W. said. When the crane put the storage unit with the tank away a loud thump was heard, followed by another that shook the very foundation of the workshop.
"What was that?" Rarity asked.
"I'll go look" Luna said.
"C.R.O.W. open takeoff hatch" I said.
"Already done sir" C.R.O.W. replied. Luna then flew out of the hatch, a minute or so later a loud scream was heard.
"LUNA!!!" The mane six and Celestia yelled. Celestia flew out of the hatch followed by Dash. A couple seconds later they came back with Luna in tow.... well, what was left of her anyway. Before us lay the broken body of Luna, her body was bend and broken beyond recognition. Rarity (as usual(once again)) fainted.
"What happened!?" I yelled as I ran to Luna's body.
"There is a huge dragon outside! We think it attacked Luna!" Dash said.
"Please! Can you save her!?" Celestia asked/yelled at me.
"I'll do my best! C.R.O.W. bring Luna to the medical bay, and stabilize her!"
"Certainly sir!" C.R.O.W. said as Luna's body was enveloped in a soft blue glow before there was a flash. When we opened our eyes again she was gone.
"WHERE DID YOU TAKE HER!!!" Celestia yelled in the RCV.
"She was teleported to the medical bay! Any movement would have only made it worse!" I said. "Now if you don't mind I have a dragon to kill! C.R.O.W. activate the scram cannon!"
"Already done sir" he replied as a cannon easily bigger than Celestia rose from the ground. "Need I remind you that it's only a prototype sir" he continued.
"I know it's only a proto and that it might blow up in my face but this is the only weapon we have that can take down a dragon!" I said as I jumped behind the controls of the cannon.
"It might do what!?" Dash yelled.
"Blow up" I said simply. The platform on which the cannon stood then rose up through the hatch in the ceiling. When I was on the roof I saw a giant dragon easily 200 feet tall standing around 400 feet away from the workshop.
"Hey freak! Over here!" I yelled as I fired the cannon at the place the right wing protruded from its back, when the heated ball of lava hit it went clean through the joint and ripped the wing of, the behemoth dragon roared in pain and fury as it stormed at me.
"That's the spirit!" I yelled as I fired again. The ball of lave cut of an arm causing the behemoth to fall over in pain. "Burn baby burn!!! Hahahahahahaha!!!" I yelled as I fired multiple times more killing it. When I was done there was no dragon corpse to speak of, only a mountain of flesh, organs and bones. The cannon then lowered back into the workshop where I jumped of off the cannon as it retreated into the floor.
"Princess Luna is stabilized and ready for surgery sir" C.R.O.W. announced.
"Can you save her?" Calestia asked again.
"Before I give you an answer, the surgery I'm going to do has a mere five percent survival rate, and when it does pay of the patient will be... different" I said.
"Different how?" Twilight asked.
"Different as in partially machine" I said, a nerve wrecking silence filled the room.
"WHAT!!!" Celestia yelled in the RCV.
"With your permission I would like to start the surgery, and when it is complete she will be completely battle ready for when the griffons attack" I said with a stern expression.
At that Celestia closed her eyes in a moment of thought. "Do it" she eventually said.
"The surgery will be over in four hours, I advice you to go back to you daily lives and come back in three and a half hours. Dash would you do me a favor and bring Scootaloo home, Switch I need you to stand guard on the roof, see if any other dragons come here, and if so... deal with them" I said with a serious expression. They all nodded and left after that.
"Oh boy, what have I gotten myself into?" I asked to no on in particular.
"That you now have the life of a royal on your shoulders sir" C.R.O.W. said.
"Yeah I guess so" I said as I teleported to the medical bay.
Three and a half hours later
The mane six and Celestia were currently sitting in my workshop, not a single one of them talked as they were all hoping that Luna will make it out alive.
"I'm sure Overkill will do it, he's certainly smart enough... right?" Twilight asked breaking the silence.
"Of course he'll do it, he's the one who made an entirely new species in general!" Dash said.
"I certainly hope he can save her life" Celestia said. I then teleported into the middle of the workshop.
"Is she alright!?" Celestia asked me.
"Yes!" I answered with a huge grin.
"Can we see her?" Twilight asked.
"Not yet, she needs rest" I replied. Their smiles faded away at that. "Sorry, but like I said. She needs rest, tomorrow you can all see her"
"Very well then" Celestia said with a sad expression. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow then" she continued dropping the formalities.
"Yeah see you all tomorrow" I said with a sheepish smile. They nodded and left to their respective homes. Dash and I went to bed an hour or so later as it was around 9 pm when I brought them the news.
An hour or so later a green and a glowing orange eye opened up in the medical bay, before closing again, seemingly in thought.