Opal woke up on a hospital bed with a doctor looking at Twilight Sparkle and Spike.
"He'll be all right, but his horn might take a while to heal. I advise to keep doing his works without magic." The doctor then trotted away.
Twilight walked closer to Opal, "Are you ok? What happened?"
"I just overreacted," replied Opal, "nothing else."
"But the doctor said–" Spike said.
"Like I have been in a madhouse for a week," Opal interrupted.
"An asylum? Really?" Twilight walked closer, "Wow, I didn't know."
"That's how Blank Kick waved goodbye," Opal said, smiling a bit.
"Cool. So, anything out of the normal?" Spike asked.
"Princess Luna warned me about the changeling queen," replied Opal who sat along the bed, "and nothing else."
"Queen Chrysalis?" Twilight looked around. "Gotta be careful today, don't we?"
Opal nodded again.
"Since you have experience living with changelings, what among the ponies are changelings?" Twilight asked, "Who do you think?"
Opal pointed at Spike, who smirked and transformed into the Changeling Queen herself, then takes Twilight, who tried to fight away.
"Opal, call the others!" Twilight shouted, "Help!"
Opal quickly went into his hooves and jumped out of the window, and sees the real Spike coming.
"Spike!" Opal was panting, "send a distress letter, quickly..."
"Why?" asked Spike, "and why aren't you back in the hospital?"
"Changelings." Opal said, loud enough by the ponies beside him to hear, and they all quickly went into the hospital to help, but is blocked by a barrier.
Spike, seeing the barrier, quickly wrote a letter for Princess Celestia and sends it quickly enough. For Twilight's friends, they went to Opal, who were the only standing pony left who witnessed the taking.
'Great. My beloved is a damsel in distress.' Opal looked at the Mane 5. 'No Elements of Harmony can save us, unless I get another plan...'
'Unless he gets another plan,' Twilight thought, 'I'm going to suffer from these changelings.'
Twilight looked around before getting knocked out unconscious again.
Opal, felt weird as Twilight knocked unconscious, as if he was there, as an aftereffect, he nearly lost her balance, only getting backed up by Rainbow Dash who were there with her along with Applejack.
"Woah, nelly. Wha' in carnation is with you, Opal?" Applejack asked, "It'z like you felt somethin' or just lost balance?"
"I... I think you all need to learn something first," Opal stopped walking, and took a deep breath, "My grandmother is a changeling."
Applejack froze in her place while Rainbow Dash stopped moving and looked at Opal.
"Now my secret has to be kept by THREE ponies," Opal facehooved.
"Twilight knows this?" asked Rainbow Dash, "well that escalated quickly."
She received no answer as Opal was sitting on the ground, crying after remembering that part. Applejack tries to comfort him for that. But along the crying, a few words are heard from Opal's mouth.
"One... Two... Three... Four..." Opal muttered, "She's... no..."
Applejack tried to understand his mutterings before seeing Opal's journal which he carried and decided to take it, before Opal's hoof touched it and take it away.
'Calm down Opal...' Opal tried to pull himself together. 'She... she used...'
"Opal?" called Applejack, "Opal you ok?"
"Red...red...red...red..." Opal muttered, before a mysterious unicorn appeared near them.
"God, I think this is where I break down," the mysterious unicorn commented, "Uh, Rainbow Dash, stop looking at me like an idiot."
Rainbow flew closer to the unicorn in blue robes, "Ok, who are you?"
"Let's say somepony from the future, probably my likeness my books and the ability to sense emotions?" the mysterious unicorn riddled.
"Oh, great. We're being visited by unicorns from the future," Rainbow Dash deadpanned, "and Twilight's daughter exactly."
"Haha, you got it~" the unicorn removed her robe to reveal a violet-colored unicorn with a gray mane, "and hi dad."
"Wh...wha?" Opal looked up to see the unicorn and waves his hoof before fainting.
"Well, surprisingly, off the job. Right," the unicorn spawned a piece of paper and nicely sticked it to Opal's journal, before the time spell wore out.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash decided to faint in response.
Twilight woke up in a stone dungeon, probably where the changeling hive has lived. Beside her is another pony, which Twilight Sparkle recognized.
"Starlight Phoenix, the Illusionist?" Twilight greeted.
"Nice to be your roommate in this cell, for getting trapped for 20 months," the unicorn said weakly, "so, how's Opal Gemstone, the grandson of the fallen Changeling Queen?"
"He's fine, fine and all," Twilight replied, "sometimes very cool, a good friend, been very nice, all that."
"Don't tell me my sentence 'why did you marry him' is becoming true," Starlight demanded, "he got that stabilizing influence of sensing deep love."
"Oh, o– WAIT WHAT?!" Twilight looked at Starlight Phoenix. "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"
"Eh, don't tell me," Starlight said.
"I got to get out of here..."
Nimrods! Opal Gemstone, Applejack and Rainbow Dash are being carried by Trixie Lulamoon in her wagon.
"The Great and Powerful Trixie is glad that you three are awake!" The blue showmare greeted with a smile, "Why in the middle of a desert, did you ponies have to sleep in?"
"We," replied Opal, "were going to find Twilight Sparkle?"
"Princess Celestia's prized student?" Trixie looked around, "Trixie gives you three good luck."
"What? After the showdown in Ponyville," Rainbow Dash complained, "You gives us good luck?"
"By Celestia's mane, it still was the best show I've ever had!" Trixie puts on her hat, "In fact, Trixie was supposed to visit Ponyville, until Trixie found you three."
Opal felt a presence that he recognized, and it caused him to trot into Trixie. He looked at Trixie, looked at the hat, then facehooved.
"Anything of Victor Blue," Opal muttered.
I heard that, a voice that sounded like Trixie said, and you might need to look at Ms. Lulamoon's eyes for proof.
Opal looked at her eyes, before Trixie slaps him off.
"Trixie has wasted enough time for chitchat;" Trixie looked outside, "Now arriving at the Changeling Hive."
"How!?" Applejack managed to ask.
"Letter from a future pony, quite cute and adorable!" Trixie shrugged before pushing the three outside.
And Victor Red, stop calling me Victor Blue. The voice faded off as Trixie's wagon went off.
Twilight Sparkle had a conversation with Starlight Phoenix, who has just explained who Opal's grandmother is. After realising that Opal is part-changeling, Twilight began to wonder if he really loves her. And if he does, how about his ability passed down from the changelings, and will he use it against Twilight? Twilight felt like listening more to Starlight's lecture about Opal's family line when all of a sudden, a young changeling queen is locked with them.
The changeling queen, transformed into a unicorn filly before hugging Twilight Sparkle. Starlight Phoenix, surprised, smiled as Twilight ask her about Opal's grandmother which Ruby calls as "Mrs. Chrissy" which could also mean that Chrysalis had a twin which fell into loving a pony. So, as Twilight began to lose hope on meeting Opal again, Ruby suddenly transformed herself into a filly Twilight.
"Ok," commented Twilight, "Surprising, sure."
The filly turned back into her regular unicorn form before pulling out a diary she made from ruined books and tree sap. The diary had a cover of Twilight Sparkle's cutie mark, and it is beautifully designed with gems Spike had. It had 1,000 pages, enough for a generation, reasoned Ruby, and each page had a simple but awesome design that Twilight liked very much. On the back, was a letter from Opal, and she began to read it.
Dear Twilight,
If you receive this, that means Ruby Sunshine has already gave her wedding gift. I'm probably out there trying to rescue you from my "relatives" which I take as "enemies." Forgive me if I have done anything wrong, and surely, I know might not forgive. I was recently exploring the human world, well, to read their history actually, until I have discovered something which might erase my memory, so I am actually writing this 2 months from now.
This might be confusing, for I might have told you that I have a crush on you, yadda yadda skip the love part, actually I love you, just can't tell. The book I just had read in the making of this letter was "Alerith Laboratories: The Founders" and found my name and yours in it. The Founders, according to this confusing book, are people who serve the people where the group, clan, or society is placed. And Equestria, had one. It's named "Against The Crowd" and is lead by your friends, not including me.
I have been in the human world for so long, I think I don't remember the name of my favorite daughter, and your assistant.
So long, bookworm. I hope to see you again.
Your friend,
Opal Stoneheart Gemstone.
Twilight felt happy, and confused at the same time. So the memories that Opal was missing are HUMAN memories, not just pony memories. That's why he swore more than everypony else. Everything makes sense for now. It did make sense until Ruby called Twilight Sparkle "Victor Purple" and "Momma" accidentally.
"Honestly, I'm more worried that the Fallen Changeling Queen," reasoned Starlight, "is at the other side of our cell, waiting for a strike to escape."
"Oh, I need to meet her." Twilight and Ruby followed Starlight in a small hole in the wall and knocked, "your highness, Twilight Sparkle and your great-granddaughter Ruby Sunshine."
A weak voice replied, "Really? After all this years, my grandson hasn't checked on me."
"He hasn't visited?" asked Twilight.
"Yes, roughly my time to escape draws closer, revenge for dear sister, Queen Corona!" the voice replied back.
"Wait so you're Queen Chrysalis," Twilight noticed, "and you tried to invade Equestria."
"I am honestly sorry for that."
"Oh, good," Twilight rolled her eyes, "Princess Celestia might want to rethink about a banishment."
"So, how is Opal?" it asked.
Twilight winced and blsuhed, "Um... I actually..."
"Right, you're already showing it, stop." An eye peeks from the hole, making Twilight jump.
"Wha-?" commented Starlight, "Right. I remember, Opal's a nerd. Reading books like he owns 2 libraries. Wonder if that potion effect resetted him a bit..."
"Potion?" asked Twilight and Chrysalis, "You what?"
Starlight winced. "Said too much. Where is Victor Blue when you need a classy show..."
"Don't you mean 'The Great and Powerful Trixie?'" corrected Ruby, "she has AWESOME light shows, I love the fireworks and stuff!"
Twilight felt like she shouldn't have said that. Ruby was a fan of Trixie so much that, according to Opal, she always would sit in front of the crowd just to watch her show. Twilight shrugged and looked at the others, before going into the land of the dreams.
"And by that," Twilight said to herself, "I can collect enough facts to say that changelings are the cousins of ponies which feed on love. Now, why am I in here?"
She suddenly woke up after hearing a scream. A recognizable scream. Twilight looked around, and finds Ruby hiding. Starlight is trying to knock the wall. Chrysalis is doing the same.
"Well, for walls made of rock, better than wood but more breakable." Twilight pointed her horn to the wall and fired a dash spell she and Opal helped together.
And Twilight Sparkle found herself outside the changeling dungeons, the outside wall having a large crack. Twilight felt relieved, and then fired off a rock-breaking spell to finish off the wall. And the convicts are free. Twilight, having pity on the Changeling Queen, sets her free as well.
"For Starswirl the Bearded," Starlight lit up her horn, "Good luck, Twilight."
She pointed her horn and vaporised into smoke which went directly up. Twilight's jaw hung open, being closed by Ruby, and Chrysalis clapped.
"Fact, she turned me good. By simply teaching us on how important harmony is," Chrysalis said, "but my sister hated lectures and decided to lock us both."
"Oh, story by story, all ending up like a big book." Twilight said, commenting about everything, "while it's all well damn confusing."
"So I escaped, Starlight vanished completely again, Queen Chrysalis overthrown Queen Corona by feeding on my love for Opal. Opal, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash saved me through the horde of changelings." Twilight looked at Pinkie Pie, "anything else?"
"TIME FOR A PARTY!!!" Pinkie took her party cannon and voila! A megaparty for Twilight Sparkle being rescued.
Coincidentally, A pegasus named Internal Blaze is celebrating his birthday, and he decided to visit the party, which split the party into a birthday and a celebration party.
Opal shivered, "Oh, this I'll remember." He was suddenly pulled by Twilight Sparkle as a party dance began.