"Ah, the Wasteland. A large landscape full of sand, dead plants and predators trying to find fresh meat for themselves. I can't believe, that Hellhole is going to be my new home," said a young Changeling looking outside from his cell.
"What was I even thinking back then? Assassinating the Queen herself!? Huh, I really am crazy," he kept thinking to himself.
Changeling suddenly heard hoofsteps coming towards his jail-cell. It was one of the guards, coming to get the Changeling.
But wait, he wasn't alone! There were two tall Changelings, dressed in red, following the guard behind him. They were Chrysalis' personal bodyguards.
"I guess, holding the knife against Queen's throat is dangerous enough to have both of her bodyguards follow me everywhere," the young Changeling sarcastically said to the guard, who was opening his cell-door.
"You're lucky to still be alive, kid. Not too many have lived longer than few hours after hurting our Queen," the guard answered him back.
The young Changeling really was lucky. After roughly beating up few of his comrades, and almost successfully killing the Queen, it was a miracle, how his head wasn't lying inside a garbage bin yet.
However, this was the last time, our little Changeling would see his home, friends, family and the others. When the bodyguards, young changeling and the guard came to the main entrance, He saw Chrysalis looking at him with her deadly look, which could even kill the "Slender Mane" himself. Changeling also saw his "best friend" with few of her friends laughing at him.
And then there was the large, black metallic door. It was the only way to both outside and inside of the hive. And it made a terrible noise, when opened. The noise was so terrible, that even Chrysalis herself had to hold her ears, when the door was opened.
after a slow opening of the door, it showed a quiet desert, shining as the sun hit the sand, so bright, you could actually think, it was gold, when you'd first see it.
Before Changeling could say anything, he was grabbed by the bodyguards and thrown outside. He turned to look at his folks, as the metallic door slowly came between them, now fully closed again.
AND HOLY CRAP, was it quiet outside. The young Changeling got up and sighed.
"Great, what do I do now?!" he said out loud.
The sun was lowering behind the faraway mountains, and it'd get really cold during the night, So if the Changeling would not find shelter soon, he'd freeze to death.
After couple of miles, he looked back and still saw his hive's entrance.
There wasn't much for him to do anymore. He could walk and struggle as long as possible against death, Or he could just give up and die there.
But no! Changeling was known to be really brave and emotionally tough at his hive. Giving up now was the last thing he would do. So he kept walking....and walking, unless you could no longer see anything but mountains ,made of dust, and sand.
After, what seemed like days of walking, Changeling could not walk any further. As he fell down, panting and sweating more, than a pig inside a Sauna, he actually thought of giving up.
Changeling started closing his eyes, slowly seeing the world getting darker around him, but at his last blink, he saw something moving towards him. It seemed to be his size, and it stopped right in front of him, until he fell unconscious.
The mysterious character kept looking at his dried body. Suddenly it poured water all over him and lifted the wet Changeling up to its back with magic, starting to carry him away.
Next morning Changeling woke up inside a small library of some sort. He kept looking around, until a burning feeling caught him off.
He remembered yesterday, and wanted to drink water so bad. Luckily there were few mugs filled with some sort of liquid. Changeling couldn't care less and poured it all down.
"Aaah, much better," he thought.
Changeling noticed a small bed next to the big one. There was a bookcase full of some sort of notes at the right corner of the room. Taking a closer look at the dark left corner showed a staircase leading downstairs.
Changeling got up, a bit weak yet, and tried to walk downstairs, but fell halfway down, hitting his head. After getting up again, there were about 40 shelves all full of books. and few ladders leading to different balconies. There were also a couple of doors leading to kitchen, cellar and WC. at the middle of the Circular room, there was a desk, three sofas, an empty glass bottle, pens and a piece of paper with something written in it.
Changeling couldn't be more than amazed, how clean the library was. Back at his hive, not too many took care of the dirt around the place. There was also a small clock ticking at the wall, next to a window. The whole place was also made of wood. Golden Oak wood, it seems.
As the young Changeling was sitting there and looking around, he heard the front door's knob moving. He panicked, when he couldn't find any good hiding places, so the Changeling just jumped behind one of the sofas.
The door opened, and two characters came inside. They kept talking quite a long time at the door, before the other one came inside and closed the door. Changeling peaked at the person from behind the sofa.
She seemed to be an Alicorn, kinda like High-Tier-Changelings (HTC). Her flank had a tattoo of some sort. It was a purple star, just like the pony's skin color, with sparkling around it. The character was not a Changeling. SHE WAS A PONY!
Since the first class of school, Changelings are taught to watch out for ponies, as they are the most dangerous race, you could meet.
The Alicorn pony had a crown on its head, referring it to be a Princess or a Queen, which means, messing with her would not be the best thing to do.
As the Changeling tried to come up with an escape plan, he saw this purple pony walking upstairs. He was so screwed right now. Before anything could have been done, the purple pony suddenly came downstairs and started walking towards the Changeling's direction.
"I should first go check out the chemical, I'm working on," the purple pony mumbled to herself.
Just before Changeling was noticed by the pony, he suddenly got up from behind the sofa. It was like time would have stopped for a minute. Both, the pony and the Changeling looked at each other, until suddenly starting to scream their lungs out. Pony stepped back to cast a magic of some sort, and Changeling raised his hooves in front of his face.
"Don't hurt me!" he shouted.
The pony didn't listen, but instead shot a freezing magic spell at him with her horn. As the Changeling desperately tried to move, he was greeted by the pony, standing in front of him, smiling.
"Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle. Sorry for freezing you, but until we get to know each other a bit better, I have to keep you like this," the pony comforted him.
"Please, let me go. I'll be nice," the Changeling answered her with a buzzing noise.
"I will later. But now, I want you to answer few questions. First off, what's your name?" twilight asked.
"My name is Shadow. I'm 19 and I come far from the eastern section of the Wasteland," shadow told her.
"Why were you lying in middle of the Wasteland?"
"I was kicked out of my hive for trying to assassinate the Queen."
"The Queen herself?!"
Shadow was almost released from the freezing spell, with his limbs still being held by the spell. he nodded to Twilight.
"Why'd you do that for?," Twilight asked curiously.
"Because the Queen is a greedy tyrant, only thinking about herself. The problem is, that I seem to be the only one noticing the darn thing," Shadow explained to her.
The freezing spell was no longer holding Shadow. He landed in front of Twilight, giving her a thank you.
"So umm, you're not going to kill me, or hurt me in any way?" Shadow asked Twilight with a confused face.
"What? OF COURSE NOT! I'm going to study you, and make notes about your body, its ways to function and so on.
"Oh, but we were taught, you only want to hurt our species."
"Well, some of us do, but I'm not one of those ponies. I just want to do some research on you."
"oh well...erm, thanks...Twilight."
"You know what Shadow. I think, we're going to be really good friends."