//------------------------------// // Chapter Two: How to Interrogate a Changeling // Story: Doctor Whooves: Ever changing // by AvianAlpha1 //------------------------------// Doctor Whooves: Ever Changing Chapter two: how to interrogate a changeling The Doctor blinked as a bright light suddenly shined in his eyes. If his arms weren't bound behind his back, he would have been able to lessen the pain of his eyes having to adjust quickly to the change in lighting. Though no matter how much he struggled, his binds where to fight for him the break out of. At this point he couldn't feel his fingers or toes. He at first chalked it up to the binds being too tight and therefore had cut off circulation to his extremities. Though the more the Doctor thought about it, the more his body felt more foreign to him. Suddenly, a book crashed down in front of the Doctor, pulling him from his thoughts, as its pages started to flip all by themselves. No, that wasn't right; he could see some sort of field manipulating the pages. He tried finding the source of the field when the Doctor felt a tingling sensation all around his body. Perhaps they were scanning him, trying to find out what he was. “What's your name,” a voice called out that the doctor recognized as the gray mares voice. “I know what you look like, you don't have to shine a light in my eyes,” the Doctor said. There was a groan as the mare seemed to start whispering to someone else in the room, though the light shining in the Doctor’s eyes made it impossible for him to see anything else in the room. “Just answer the question,” the mare said with a sigh. “I’m the Doctor,” he said as he felt a tingle run through his body. “Doctor who?” she asked. “Just the Doctor,” the Doctor said in a calm manner. “Why won't you tell us your name?” the mare asked. The Doctor remained silent. “Okay, what do you know about the attack on Canterlot,” the mare asked. “I don't know anything about it,” the Doctor said as another tingle ran through his body. The Doctor could only surmise that the tingling was from some sort of scan they were doing on his body to show for any signs of deceit. The Doctor was surprised by this but decided it best to cooperate for now, since he really didn't want to become public enemy number one on a new planet. “Do you know where you are,” she asked as he could hear whispering for a second. “You tell me, as far as I know, I'm in a basement tied to a chair,” he said as once again his body was scanned. He started wondering where this line of questioning was going. “Do you know who Queen Chrysalis is,” the mare asked once more. The Doctor was starting to wonder what they knew that he didn’t. “No, is she your leader here? I would very much like to talk to her...” There was a long pause before a shuffling of hooves could be heard and the shut of a door. The Doctor thought for a moment about the questions that he was just asked. They weren't personal questions, nor where they of any military or strategic importance. From the way the mare asked them, they were probably questions of common knowledge on this planet. “What are they after?” the Doctor asked himself. Vinyl was signing angrily as Octavia was pacing back and forth as numerous thoughts ran through her head. “Yes, I know Vinyl, but he couldn't be lying, you would have known if he was,” Octavia said as she sat on her haunches. Vinyl huffed as she did a few more hoof movements before crossing her hooves in front of her. Octavia groaned as she rubbed her temples. “You said it yourself that the spell would work on any creature.” Octavia stared out the window for a minute. “I think he’s telling the truth.” Vinyl quickly looked at Octavia as she began to sign again when Octavia interrupted her. “Look I know its crazy but think about it. This changeling… There’s just something about him.” Vinyl huffed as she folded her hoofs in front of her chest. Octavia sighed as she walked over to Vinyl and put a hoof on her shoulder causing Vinyl to look her in the eye. Octavia and Vinyl both stared at each other for a long time before they let out a sigh and proceeded to make their way back down to the basement. When they got to the basement, Octavia turned off the lamp that was aimed at the changelings face and sat down in front of him as Vinyl cast the spell once more on the changeling. “One last question,” Octavia said as she took a deep breath before asking, “Do you plan on hurting us or any ponies in Equestria?” The changeling sat there for a few minutes before he answered. “No.” Octavia looked back at Vinyl who nodded back at Octavia who then sighed as she walked behind the changeling and began to untie him. Was she was done the changeling groaned as he stood on his hind hooves, stretched his back out, began to take a step forward and fell right on his face. The Doctor thought that something was wrong with his body, but now he was sure something was wrong. He groaned as he began to push himself up and saw his hands or lack thereof. The Doctor began to panic as he tried to stand up again, but his body pushed himself back down as he stood on all fours. Something was definitely wrong. He caught sight of a mirror nearby as he made his way to it, the feeling of walking on all four feeling natural to him, which worried him more. As he stepped in front of the mirror, his face went from worried to horrified… This immediately went to fascination. “Wow,” he said as he examined himself, “This is incredible.” He ran his tongue over his fangs and wriggled his nose. He lifted a fore leg up as he examined it. He looked through the holes in his legs before he licked the tip of it. “Hmmmm, tastes like keratin,” he said as he smacked his lips before his eyes lit up, “I have hooves!” He tapped a part of his body as it sounded like he was tapping on something hard. “I have chitin. Never had that before.” He continued to point out changes with his body as he noticed them. “I also seem to have a horn, and look at that I have a tail, and what is this mark on my bum, is that a brand, I hope it's not, and I have wings oh that is top and my mane…” The Doctor’s smile turned to a frown as he began to pout. “Still not ginger, this is so stupid, I wanted to be ginger.” He sat down and crossed his hooves in front of his chest and was about to mope when his stomach started growling. “Um, if you don't mind, I've been held captive for a while so I'm a bit starved,” he said with a smile. After a few hours and many meals made later, the doctor sitting at a table in the kitchen and was happily munching on some hard boiled eggs topped with tartar sauce. Vinyl was currently sitting in front of the Doctor and was glaring at him. Octavia was currently cleaning some dishes in the sink directly behind where the Doctor was sitting. The room was silent for a long while before the Doctor swallowed and looked over to Octavia. “Excuse me, but is she going to do that the entire time I’m eating?” The Doctor asked as he pointed at Vinyl. Octavia chuckled as she looked over her shoulder and said, “She doesn't trust you, and honestly, I can't blame her.” “Why?” The Doctor asked as he took a bite out of another hardboiled egg. Octavia continued working as she started scrubbing another dish. “Because of what you changelings did to Canterlot.” “I’m a Time Lord, not a changeling,” the Doctor said before he asked, “Is that what I look like?” Octavia turned to take a good look at him before saying, “Well you resemble one. Changelings are usually black in color and don't have cutie marks.” The Doctor began to cough and gag as he choked on the hardboiled egg he just took a bite out of. Octavia hit him hard on the back making him swallow. “Cutie marks?” The Doctor asked as he coughed a bit. Octavia looked at the Doctor with a raised eyebrow. “Yes, everypony has one. It signifies what a pony’s special talent is.” The Doctor just sat there for a minute as he processed what was just said. “Cutie marks?” The Doctor asked again. “Is there something wrong with cutie marks?” Octavia asked as she looked back at the Doctor. “No, not at all,” the Doctor said as he snickered a bit before taking a bite out of another egg. As he ate a question came to his mind. “Tell me about the changelings, what do you know about them?” “Well,” Octavia sighed, “changelings are shape shifters who feed off of the love of other ponies.” The Doctor laughed a bit causing Octavia to glare at him. The Doctor straightened up as he cleared his voice. “The day the changelings attacked was also the same day that Princess Cadence was getting married,” Octavia said as she continued to clean the dishes, “the changeling queen abducted Princess Cadence and feed off of her grooms love for her. After she was exposed, the queen and her changelings attacked and took over Canterlot.” “What stopped them?” The Doctor asked. Octavia smiled as she said, “Love, Doctor. A magical barrier made out of love pushed them out of Canterlot and threw them far away.” The Doctor sat there for a minute as he thought about this. “No no no no, it doesn't make sense,” the Doctor said as he got up and started to pace the room, causing Vinyl to get up and make her way over to Octavia “A race of shape shifter’s that feed off of emotional energy and live symbiotically alongside ponies, wouldn't just decide one day to attack their own food source. There has to be another reason.” Octavia looked at the Doctor as he paced back and forth as his wings buzzed in agitation. “Well, they did Doctor, and there is nothing any of us can do to change that.” A grin soon spread across the Doctors face as he looked out the window. “No we can't, but we can find out what really happened that day.” The Doctor walked outside leaving a confused Octavia and Vinyl to stand there before following him outside. “How do you plan on doing that?” Octavia asked, seeing the Doctor standing in front of the blue box that they found him in. “By asking the one who ordered the attack and asking,” he said as he turned and looked right at Octavia and Vinyl Scratch, “I’m going to ask the queen.”