A Man and his Ponies

by Tower of 0


Suddenly, Changelings

The stallion had gotten closer to their table. Glaring more so at the human rather than the other two ponies that were with him. The entire establishment had gone silent and were staring right at the stallion who seemed to be near snarling at the human. Fudge started to tug a bit at Chrysalis' hoof and got here away from the table.

"That was MY slice of raspberry cheesecake too." Justin picked up the teacup and tossed it at the stallion.

The teacup bounced off the stallion's nose, which caused him to sneeze so hard that his disguise came off. Justin just raised a brow as he looked over the changeling. The changeling was dazed for a little bit before shaking its head, then taking an aggressive stance. Lowering its body a bit and stretching out its wings, screeching at the human.

"Well Fu-"

The window shattered from a bipedal mass flying through it and landing in the street. Ponies that saw the spectacle stopped and that to crowd around the seen like moths to a fire. The human rolled over with a somewhat audible groan and slowly rose to his feet. He started to dust himself off.

"Damned if I wasn't in a cartoon land, I'd be a video game character.. "Justin muttered to himself.

Just then, he and everypony else noticed a prompt box appear in front of him. Justin looked at the box before poking it, causing a message to appear. 'New items added to inventory' it read, which just confused him before disappearing. The moment, however, was short lived when a screeching changeling came out of he same window he had.

Fudge came running out, yelling for her dad as she tried approaching only to be kicked away by the changeling. She yelped out and Justin's demeanor visibly changed. His hands clenching into fists and baring gritted teeth. The changeling looked to to filly it had kicked away before looking back to its intended target.

"Noone.." Justin growled as he approached the changeling,"... lays a hoof like that on my filly."

The changeling tried to step back only to be grappled and a knee connected to its side. This fluent move took every other pony by surprise, heightened the interest of Chrysalis, and knocked the wind from the one it was used on. Justin went over to Fudge, checking to see if she was alright. He gave a sigh when he found no real harm to the filly and pulled her in close.

There was a raspy groan as the changeling used some of its strength to charge a spell in its horn. A ball soon shot out in a large arch, once reaching the apex, automatically exploding. Everypony and human watched the ball of magic go up, exploding out as if it was-

"A flare..." Justin mumbled to himself, picking Fudge up into his arms again.

The human then looked to Chrysalis and nodded to her. Changelings quickly started to fly in from every direction. The streets were filled with panic as ponies of all kinds blurred together, leaving the human to stick out like a sore thumb. Chrysalis crawled her way over to Justin and then stood with him.

The human was watching in slight awe. He had heard the account of Canterlot Invasion, but this was more like a siege. They were far more Changelings here than in Canterlot. Justin was nudged out of his daze by both Fudge and Chrysalis, causing him to look at each. Fudge looked over and pointed at the hotel, and the mad dash began.

Justin was having a hard time trying to get over and around the panicking citizens, let alone pushing aside Changelings. The Changeling gave puzzled looks as they were merely just pushed aside with ease. When the trio made it to the door, another Changeling landed and started hissing only for the door to swing open and smack its face. The door close following the human and pony, leaving a dazed changling on the sidewalk.

Justin burst into Twilight's room and inhaled. "TWI-" he then noticed she was busy reading, "Have you been reading this entire time?"

Twilight just nodded then looked over at him. "Why?"

"'Cause there's a cahngeling invasion happening.. like RIGHT NOW!" Justin pointed to the window.

Twilight just so happened to look over as a changeling smacked against the glass. This caused the alicorn to raise a brow. Both her and Justin watched in some slight confusion. Twilight turned her head and looked at the human, whom of which just shrugged at her. The human's attention turn towards somepony a short distance down the hall, more or less next door.

"We have to let Celestia know about this." Twilight commented, watching a squadron fly by.

She looked back to the door and found it closed and human not here. Next door, Derpy was kinda having a quiet freak-out, cause by Chrysalis going back to her true form. Justin,tightly holding on the pegasus mare, had his interest peaked as he looked at Chrysalis. Fudge was kind of copying the human, both analyzing the sight before them.

Chrysalis looked like, well, Chrysalis, but with a few changes. First, the obvious difference was her height, she was smaller than before. Not too small, Justin estimated maybe Luna's height. The second was something that the human noticed, her little crown-like antennae were missing. Not something noticed right off the bat, yet noticed by the human. The last detail were eyes.. mainly irises, they were faded and didn't seem to contain slits, rather just a solid mass of color.

Chrysalis looked down a bit in shame at her appearance, "I apologize if I startled the pegasus, my form isn't what it once was."

Derpy had calmed down a bit and Justin let her go to walk over to the Changeling Queen, or once was, and tightly hugged her. Chyrsalis was taken back by this, it caught her off-guard when the human got his limbs around her and tightly squeezed. Eventually, she accepted the hug, reluctant to return as something form across her face she usually feigned: A smile.