Battle of the Changelings

by Cyberponychronics


Episode 11: Battle of the Changelings

Gary opens a bottle of water as he prepares his room for Applejack.
They have a date together to learn more about Jay's current location.
Looking at a picture Skulyo, which features him and his siblings as humans, had taken back from Earth, he sighs.
''Where are you Jay? You've been gone for quite a while now.''
He sighs again.
''Wish the others were here too. Especially Rick would know what to do.''
Then he hears screaming.

Gary steps outside and notices dozens of Changelings attacking Ponyville.
Knowing some tricks that he learned from Twilight, Gary blasts a beam to blow the Changelings away, but instead he only let's them notice him as a powerful treat.
As Gary backs off into an alley, the Changelings, hungry for his life energy, disguises as Jay, Cyan and Applejack.
Gary gets more and more scared. ''Back off, you! Don't you dare come near me.''
Then the Changelings step aside and a white pony with a sallowness green and grey mane steps towards Gary.
Gary is shocked. ''J-Jay?''
The white pony looks at Gary. ''Well if it ain't that Giratin guy. Long time no see. How's the Original?''
Something snaps in Gary.
''C! What are you doing in Equestria? How'd you came here?''
C laughs.
''When I found out that the Original and one of his pathetic brothers were in a different Universe, I had to go aswell. You know, to stop you from doing something good here. When I arrived, I found out that it was a world of colorful ponies.''
He makes a sound of disgust.
''That's when I found four Changelings. Broken as they were that some guy called Mothball was gonna be doing a mission involving a so-called Cyberchild, they were brewing hatred against their former leader. As more and more recruited my empire of hate, we started planning out an assault on the Cyberpony household. and here we are!''
He starts levitating.
''THE NEO-CHANGELING TRIBE HAS CONQUERED EVERYTHING IN THIS PATHETIC FAILURE OF AN UNIVERSE!''
Every Changeling raises their hooves and shout: ''ALL HAIL THE ONE!''
C floats back to the ground and grins.
''And now, let's finish the only Cyberpony left in this place.''
But as C tries to grab Gary, a beam of yellow light blasts C away and a grey flash takes Gary away from the horde.

When Gary opens his eyes, he notices a red roof and quickly rises.
He sees Applejack and her family, Twilight, Rainbow and Scootaloo, Pinkie and Rarity.
Rarity cries loudly and shouts the name of her sister, while Rainbow holds her.
When AJ notices her coltfriend awake, she walks to him and asks: ''You okay, hun? Those guys really got yeh there, didn't they?''
''I'm fine. But what saved me from that mess?''
A familiar voice fills the room: ''Who'd you think, Uncle Gary.''
Cyan Flower, carrying an unconscious Sweetie Belle on her back. ''Take care of her.''
As they reach each other, Cyan and Gary hug.

''So it isn't Chrysalis who leads the army of Changelings, but an old enemy from your world?''
Gary nods. ''A long time ago, when me and my brother discovered Universal Travel, we met our own ancestor. He's the creator of everything in the entire existence. You've met him before.''
He takes a swig of water and continues.
''But in that period, we were not all that mature we are now. So, Indy, as he is called in our world, created a clone from Jay, just for pure Trolling. But things got quite outta hand as he started cloning himself and became one of the greatest evil of our world. And now, he has followed us here.''

It's quite silent after the story.
Then they hear slamming on the barn door.
As Twilight, Cyan and Gary are ready to fire when Fluttershy, Discord, Celestia, Luna and Flash Sentry rush in, followed by Chrysalis and Cadence.
''Next time shout, when you get in, we were about to blast you into bitcoins.''
''We were late, sorry. I see you found Gary too.''
Gary looks questioningly at Discord. ''Come again?''
''We were out looking for you.'' Luna says. ''You are the only one who can find the source of stopping the Changelings.''
''Do I?''
Then it springs in Gary. ''Of course! Jay is the one who can stop him.''
Celestia shaes her head. ''It's not Jay. It's your other brother.''
Gary knows.

While they'd fought their way to the lake, they all had fought great mental weakness as well.
When they reach the lake, Gary starts to hold back. ''You sure it'll work?''
''It will work if you have a close memory to this person! JUST REMEMBER ANYTHING!'' Twilight shouts.
As Gary thinks of the times that the three siblings were together, a red vortex opens above the lake and a red Cyberpony falls down in the water.
Gary loosens the tight memories and inhales. ''It worked.''

Rick opens his eyes and looks around, noticing a red barn.
Then he sees multiple multi-colored ponies surrounding him.
He shrieks and sits back.
''What in the name of Poseidons Great Storm do you alien creatures want?''
''Rick, it's me. You're needed in this world to save it.''
''G?''
Rick stands up from the haystack and starts looking around.
''I need an explanation.''

After hearing what's all about where he's at, Rick starts to get kinda hyped up: ''So this is a world where magical colored cartoon ponies live in harmony and are protected by in total of twelve ponies that are called the Elements of Harmony and now because of Jay being away this world becomes weak and some creatures that are called Changelings who are under control of our oldest enemy are attacking this world.''
He inhales. ''Try saying that in one bit.''
He looks at the others. ''What?''
Then Pinkie does her weird inhaleing and says: ''You just did something only me could do!''
Rick scratches his head. ''You mean talking on one inhalation? Do that all the time. You got a milkshake?''
Twilight is the first to react: ''Maybe he's also represents the Element of Laughter.''
She looks at Rick, who's bouncing around with Pinkie.
Gary looks too. ''Maybe it ain't that strange that there are two types of elements. I mean, we could have the Elements of Harmony divided in Friendship and Family. I think that it world be the best for the entirety of existence.''

Everypony sleeps when they hear strange sounds from outside.
Before they know it, the barn walls are on the ground and they are surrounded by Changelings, with C in front of Gary.
The white Pony smiles and says: ''Well, well, well. Look who we have here, Rick. So, you finally manages to get here? That's sweet! Now I can extinguish the Legend Family flame all together.''
He flies up.
''Changelings, attack!'' He hisses.
That's what they do, but they're stopped by a green beam of magic.
Everypony hears a familiar voice asking: ''Did I miss somethin'?''
As everpony looks his way, Jay walks up with somepony wrapped in a sheet on his back.
''Oh, it's just a wild C. Not much.''
With one blast, Jay sends his clone into a portal and claps his hooves off. ''Done.''
He then turns to the crowd.
''Hey y'all, look who I found in the Craystal Mountains. Poor guy only ate rocks.''
He takes the sheet off the pony and everypony is shocked as they see Shining Armor, thin but alive, laying in front of them.

Next Episode: Crystal Mountain Hike.