Life of a Wanted Changeling Season 3: Tyrants, Terrorists, and Tiaras, Oh My!

by Down with Chrysalis


Episode 23: Level 2: The Search For The 3 Hidden Challenges Begins! (The Video Game Arc Part 2)

Opening Theme:

As you begin to frantically look through the security screen to find either the animatronics or one of the hidden challenges, you can't help but think,

I'm bucked! I'm bucked! I'M SO BUCKING BUCKED! There is absolutely no way this can get any worse!

You hear Selena giggle when you say this before she says,

Ohhhhh...You said the magic words! Now something funny is goanna happen!

You gain a confused look as you think,

What are you talking abo-

Lord Sergal's Comment

Suddenly, you hear an ear-slitting racket. It sounds like someling turned three different radios on and strung them right... Above...

"Oh, buck."

You dodge to the right just in time to see something slam down where you were just standing. I looks like a mangled heap of animatronic parts with two heads, a fox one that was still snapping at your previous location and a skull-like one that was already turned to stare at you. It lines up the next pounce and soon both sets of teeth are careening towards you.

"Falcon Punch!" you shout, blasting it in half along its torso. Almost as soon as it hits the ground, though, random pieces of metal are connecting together to rejoin the dismembered halves. It doesn't even seem like they were the same pieces that were connected before, but they hold together all the same.

"That is... Actually kind of cool," you mutter as it stands back up. It tilts its fox head to the side, confused by the praise and giving you an idea. "No, seriously, can you repair any part of yourself like that?" It nods rapidly, lips curled back in a horrifying expression that it must think is a smile. "What about adding new parts? Can you control those too?" Another nod. "Well then, why don't you use the parts from the other robots to make yourself even cooler?"

It has that confused look on its face again, so you explain that it could take the parts from the other animatronics to make itself bigger and stronger than it already is. It once again nods eagerly before running off, hopefully to dismantle the others.

"...Why do I get the feeling that suggesting it upgrade itself is going to bite me in the flank?"

Hehehehehe! Bugze mad a oppsie!

You gain a annoyed tick before sighing and saying,

"You know what, buck this! If I'm gonna find those hidden challenges, then I'm gonna do it my way!"

With that said you march out of the so called 'office' and you begin to search the diner for any sign of the first challenge. You do so sneakily by going from wall to wall Resident Wevil style. As you peak around the corner you see the bear, another fox, and a plastic looking chicken looking over the remains of what looked like another chicken, but is now just a pile of scraps. You gulp at the sight as you think,

I guess that white fox things been busy.

Deciding that this was a good distraction you begin to sneak by them, but as you do...

The Pony Spartan's Comment

You begin to think about the animatronics. You never actually remember the animatronics' names so you decide to give each animatronic a name of your own. The fox is Foxer, the rabbit is Bugs, the bear is Teddy, and the chicken is goose... yeah.

Before you can continue sneaking away, you bump into something. Your eyes widen as you see that you bumped into Bugs. As Bugs tries to grab you, you look straight into his- its eyes.

They glow red. An evil red piercing through you.

You remember that you're about to get caught when something happens. You can't see it, but your right eye closes as your left eye widens and turns from blue to a bright red with sharp pain, and the next thing you know is that Bugs is on fire.

You also take into consideration that the fire is black... and that its close to you.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!" You scream as you try to put it out but fail miserably.

Wooooow that looks sooooo cool. Just like Simba's Dark Magic.

"Ohh, that makes sense- wait? Did you just call him Sim-"

*RING RING* *CLICK*

"Hey, that's cheating!" Kichi shouts from the phone.

"You specifically said I couldn't break doors. You didn't say anything about the robots!"

"Okay fine, from now on, the only thing you can break, is nothing alright?"

"Yes. I will follow your orders like I'm your good little friend," You say sarcastically while putting out the fire.*

"Good. Now get going."

The phone hangs up.

"Oh great. More magic moves at my disposal and I have to control them. Lady Luck just come kill me already. Besides why does he care if I break these things, they just fix themselves after all?"

As if on cue, you hear the dreaded laugh of Balloon Colt....coming from right behind you. You turn around to see him pointing at you..as well as the animatronics who were looking at the scrapped chicken now looking at you and the (already reforming) Bugs. You gulp slightly and can only say one thing to convey how much this sucks,

"Buck you Lady Luck!"

With that said the leader bear animatronic lets out a loud piercing scream and they begin to chase you...except Balloon Colt, who was dragged into the darkness by a white furry hand...

As you continue to run from the animatronics, you can't help but think,

What was up with that Kichi dude? He sounded a lot more annoyed then before, I wonder if something happened...


A FEW MOMENTS AGO, WITH KICHI

Kersey's Comment

"Ugh! I can't believe my bucking card is maxed out! Now I can't pre-order that advanced copy of Pokemon Celestia and Luna!" the changeling shouts as he throws a videogame catalog to the floor. "Bucking Kersey, I was supposed to have that deposit this morning! He probably used the deposit for a napkin again." He then shivers remembering the last payment that was covered in Thousand Island Dressing and Mushroom stains.

"Seriously, how unhelpful can you get? Even that lazy mutt let me borrow his latest recruit for the weekend, I mean, changelings gotta stick with changelings right?" he huffs before shaking his head and looking at the catalog again in anger.

"You had ONE job Kersey, what else could you possibly be doing?"


MEANWHILE IN AN UNKNOWN LOCATION

In a messy-looking apartment, we see an obese Earth Pony with glasses, a green coat, orange mane/tail, and a Cutie Mark of a Messy Burger on a Film Reel poring over a large desk with several abacuses and stacks of paperwork.

"Gorram it!" Kersey yells in exasperation, "I told those bucking idiots we're taking on too many members too quickly!!"

He shoves another hoofful of chili-cheese hayfries in his mouth before continuing, "Ever since Flag Burner got splattered and that brown bitch forced me out, they got to go off on their own schemes and adventures while I'M the one who has to balance the checkbooks!"

Kersey gets off the chair and goes over to a map of Equestria dotted with several pictures of various Crimson Knight leaders with crisscrossing strings before he continues ranting to himself,

"It's bad enough the Crimson Knights are divided among almost a dozen sub-leaders, but each of those morons is each off doing their own thing without ANY coordination or a clear plan! Gorram it Flag Burner! If only you had just blasted the real Hooded Offender with the face with a cyanide-coated cannon, cut off his head, bisected his body, threw half of it in a vat of acid, threw the other half in a volcano on the other side of the continent, and encased the head in cement before dropping it in the ocean like I advised you to when you had the chance instead of leaving him alive with a cute strumpet with a crush (stupid shy bitch, turning ME down...) then you'd still be alive and we'd have some actual gorram leadership in this bucking organization!"

He waddles over to a stack of pizza boxes and opens it only to find it empty.

"GAAHHH!! I need a bucking break!!!"

With that, Kersey leaves and locks his apartment door (covered in stickers reading "No Lives Matter" and "Donald Trumpkin for Mayor") with a wide variety of locks, bombs, and traps before walking down the hallway muttering,

"Note to self; Recommend to whoever's in charge that he brings the sub-leaders together and have them all fight to the death with rusty jagged chainsaws. THAT outta thin the herd of the morons..."

With that said he stalks off, grumbling profanity all the way...


BACK TO THE PRESENT, WITH YOU

You managed to lose a couple of the animatronics, but you got cornered by the plastic looking chicken. But you managed to trick it into smashing itself into a wall...and then proceeded to get crushed by a nearby arcade machine that you may or may not have pushed.

Kichi said I couldn't break anything, but he didn't say anything about the bots themselves breaking stuff. Ha! Take that you creepy cultist, I found a loophole!

Yeah LoopHole master! If he can't sneak his way out of an agreement, nopony can!

You smile smugly at this as you think,

Yes yes I know I'm aweso-Hey! Wait a min-

Your thought is left unfinished as...

BrownDog's Comment

You are tackled from behind by the fox with the hookhand and eyepatch, and he bites into your shoulder.

“AAAHHHH!!! Watch the coat you sly buck!” you yell as you kick him off of you and hide in the Mare's bathroom.

Looking at your wound in the mirror, you see a row of teeth marks in your shoulder, and a bit of your Midnight Blood is seen.

“Stupid Pirate Fox, I’ll make scrap metal out of you yet, why do these animatronics even have sharp teeth anyway?”

I think that it’s because it helps them eat you better, he he… Selena adds.

“Oh Luna, what the heck did they give me to make you like this?”

I’m not Luna you jerk! She yells and then starts sobbing.

“What? No It’s just a saying! Don't cry” you stammer being caught off guard.

Oh, okay! That makes sense, and the drugs aren’t like Quack Doctor man, but they is close… she says suddenly chipper.

“Oh great, you’re going through mood swings, this is all I need…WAIT! If you’re loopy, who’s keeping an eye on Sombra?!”

Oh dun worry about that…I already shared the happy…he’s worse than me now ha ha…

“You did what!?”

Earlier, while Bugze was still Unconscious

“Oh well this is just PERFECT!!! Why can’t you go one day without doing something monumentally stupid My Idiot!” Selena huffs at the darkness.

“Now I have to siphon it off and…ooooooooooohhhhhhh wow…” she says as the drugs finally hit her.

“Oh well he does try so hard…my silly little idiot…Oh no, I’m becoming inebriated!”

“Good, let your guard down Whorse and set me free!” Sombra calls from the depths of the subconscious.

Selena’s eyes gain an edge to them after hearing that.

“Oh I don’t think so Smokey, You’re cage isn’t coming down, and if I am to become a babbling fool, then so will you,” she declares as her horn lights up and more drugs are siphoned and directed at Sombra.

“What? NOOOOO….oooooohhhhh wooooowwww…was this prison always rainbows?...”

BACK TO NOW

And now, he’s like…watching cartoons in his cell and giggling like a dork…

You are about to question the validity of that statement, but then you listen and in the depths of your mind you hear a faint

That coyote will never catch the giant bird…it’s like chasing your own hopes and dreams…always out of reach…and meeping at you relentlessly

You facehoof at that.

“Great, so now I have two souls in my head stoned off MY mind. Just…make sure he doesn’t sober anytime soon okay Selly?”

Right you are Bugze CV Tennant man…but first, you should watch out for that chicken behind you.

“Wha-?” you turn around and the broken chicken has reassembled itself…jankily. It screams a horrible sound into your face and tries to strangle you.

“GGGYYYYAAAAGGGHHH!!!” you scream as you jump back.

“Why won’t you Buckers Stay down?!”

Because they want to hug and squeeze you a lot...and who could blame them?

Ignoring Selena's comment, you run around Goose and enter into the hallway. Goose make a move to follow, only for a white hand to grab it's leg and pull it back into the bathroom...you are about to run, when you see Teddy right in front of you smiling.

"EEEP!" you shriek, and duck into the Colt's Bathroom.

Kichi's Comment

You quickly turn around planning to juke around the BearBot but you see something odd. The bear, and the rabbit stand in the doorway, not entering. Then then shuffle off down the hallway leaving you alone.

"Oh thank goodness... I wonder why they didn't come in here though?" you mutter.

Just then a phone begins to ring within the bathroom, causing you to jump.

"Gaah!" you look around for the source, and see phone in the sink and an answering machine.

"How many phones does this guy have?"


"Hello? Hello? Well... congratulations for finding this bathroom, for some reason the Animatronics are programmed to not come in here. So you can rest a bit here, of course not all the rooms work like that so be careful because you still need to finish this before the time limit. So have a breather, and have a look around. I'm sure you'll find something interesting."

*Click* the call ends, causing you to sit down and calm your heart rate.

"Okay... I'm safe for now... Time to think...He told me to look around in here for "interesting" things. Maybe there's a challenge room in here?" you think aloud before walking to one of the stall doors and pushing it open.

"Gah! Please don't hurt me!" shouts a very scared pegasus stallion curled up on the toilet.

"Whoah, sorry buddy I...wait...Flash is that you?" you ask as you see an orange coat and blue mane and tail.


Just then a million of voices begin to shout for death and mutilation, but you ignore them as the pegasus looks up at you.

"Y-yes, I'm Flash Sunshine, the Nightgaurd...how did you know my name?" he says nervously.

Suddenly the voices all stop, as if they were never even there.

Whoah...trippy...

"Flash...Sunshine?" you ask in confusion.

"Y-yeah...please don't kill me..." he whimpers.

You get a better look at the cowering stallion and see that while he ressembles Flash Sentry, he has a completely different cutiemark, a Flashlight, and his mane style is different.

"H-hey, calm down buddy, I'm not gonna kill you."

"Y-you're not?" he asks.

"No, why do you think that?" you answer.

"Well...I thought you were one of those animatronics, your mask is pretty scary. But then you knew my name and I thought you worked for Kichi," he responds.

"Well I'm neither buddy. I'm a bounty hunter, and I didn't know your name, I confused you with someli-er-pony else. You got any relatives named Flash by chance?"

"Um...not that I know of..."

"Nevermind, listen here Sunshine..." you begin only to be interupted.

I'm walking on Sunshineee.... Woooo Selena begins to sing causing your eye to twitch. Further in your mind you hear Sombra's stoned philosophy.

To walk on sunshine, is to walk upon Celestia herself...many have tried...that many have died...walking on squishy ponies is hard...

Ignoring the two, you shake your head and continue your thought.

"I'm looking for Kichi myself, and the Video Game Mafia he works with. What do you know?"


"Uhhh...Well...I was checking the disturbing rumors about the Fazbear Chain of restaurants, this one most of all," he responds.

"Don't tell me that an animatronic killed a group of foals or something like that..." you comment apprehensively.

"What? No! It's just... there are rumors that missing foals with glowing green eyes have been spotted entering this pizzeria at night. I'm a reporter you see, I work for Equestria Daily, the best newspaper in all Equestria and I know there is something in here... I just need proof. When the job of night guard opened I jumped right on it...but then those strange recordings commented about how those animatronics could walk and do things... At first I thought it was a joke but when they began to move and try to grab me I tried to run away, but I couldn't reach the exit and wound up hiding in here," he says as he looks around still with a little fear.

"Don't worry, I'll finish Kichi, you just need to wait until 6 A.M...for some reason, I don't know what happens at 6, but that's Game Over either way."

Flash Sunshine looks at you and nods in understanding.

"By the way, have you seen any hidden rooms or doors around here?"

"Um...the out of order sign on the last stall seemed pretty strange..."

You nod and say to him.

"Alright, wait here and don't do anything stupid!" You then close the door on him and walk to the end stall. And on that stall is a helpful sign.

Here a Key

"Do you grammar much?" you comment as you open the stall door. Where a toilet should be is a hole in the ground leading to blackness.

"Oh no, a Woolie Hole!" you mutter in fear as you flash back to the urban legend of the mythical pie stealing beast. Shaking your head, you look back at it. "Uhhh... So... What? I need to jump?" you ask aloud.

As you do, a hole openes in the roof and an anvil almost falls on you, but you dodge out of the way. Written on the anvil is an inscription

Yes

Well, guess that answers that question.

Do it, do it. Put yourself into the Woolie Hole...

Sighing, you close your eyes and jump in...and it actually wasn't that big of a fall if you're honest. You open up your eyes and look around, but it's still dark.

"Uhh... Where am I?" you ask aloud.

"Welcome...to the 1st challenge!"

Suddenly the lights come on causing you to shield your eyes.

"AH! After images!" you say as you blink the spots away. Once you do, you look around and see

JustYuki's Comment

A strange hall of sorts, with orange and redish colors and for some reason...

you can feel your sins crawl on your back.

You shiver at this, until you notice a strange figure at the end of the hall. He's wearing a blue hoody version of the Knight's cloaks and he's looking down so you can't tell what species he is. There is a pile of fake looking skulls and bones laying behind him. He continues to stare at the floor so you ask.

"Do you work for Kichi?"

"In a way I suppose. Really, I'm just on loan for the weekend, but I don't mind. This job is awesome."


You squint your eyes at this as you ask.

"So, what's the challenge here then? Fanboy at me to death?"

The figure chuckles softly before answering.

"Tell me something buddy..."

He then looks right at you and you can see he's wearing a smiling skull mask with one black eye and one glowing blue eye. Suddenly this begins to play as he continues,

"Do you wanna have a bad time?"

To which you respond with the reasonable response of,

"The buck!?!?!"

Outro:

What do you do?