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// Introduction & Foreword 
// Story: Changelings: A Summary 
// by HypernovaBolts11 
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	When I first met my associate, I locked him up in a jail cell underneath my house and accused him of seeking revenge for Queen Chrysalis's defeat in Canterlot, but discovered that he was neither involved nor interested in the attack. He even presented a solid argument in defense of his queen's actions, stating that they had been starving to death, and that, if I had a thousand children to feed and no money, I would justify raiding an apple orchard.

After explaining some basic facts about changeling physiology to me, and a night spent resting, he attempted to escape, and almost made a meal of my fear in the process. He stopped, and, taking pity on me, confessed that he couldn't bring himself to do it, before locking himself back up without ever touching me. He promised that he would help me learn about changelings, so that I could defend myself in the future from other attacks.

I allowed him to live with me in secrecy, and have since come to know him as my friend. He and I have spent many a sleepless night working together in order to formalize this study, so that the world may understand the changelings as they truly are. He has no intention to harm anyone, and has been convicted of a dozen crimes he didn't commit.

He and I are now advocating for the rights of changelings in Equestria, and ask that you will stand by us in an effort to bring equality to the world you and I know, so that he and his people can live peaceful lives.

After a few days of interviewing him, we discovered a way to access some of the final queen's memories. By connecting to her personal hive mind through her removed horn, we have before us plentiful lifetimes of knowledge and data on changeling biology. Though some of it is inaccessible and much of it is vague, the queen was very familiar with these things, largely due to her vital role in reproduction.

This is a summary of all we have learned, and the most thorough study of changelings I have yet to find.

A fair word of warning: some of this will contain fairly unpleasant topics, and descriptions of the changeling reproductive systems and processes.





When Twilight Sparkle first asked me to help her with this project, I was less than enthusiastic, being chained up and still in a state of shock after my mother's death. But, as time passed, and we came to trust one another, I began to see the value in this study, and then, the necessity of it.

Changelings are a misunderstood phenomenon, and I am the last drone, the last changeling capable of reproduction, the last shred of possibility that my species will exist in a generation. I hold the last semblance of hope for the survival of my people, and, though I still grieve for my mother, for my queen, I look to a new person for support.

Princess Twilight Sparkle gave me the benefit of the doubt when no one would, when I wanted to throw myself onto the spears of my enemy and just get the whole thing over with. She is my friend now, and I have come to understand the magic of friendship through her teachings. She is a mentor, a guide, and a friend to me, and there isn't a shred of doubt in my mind that I would be dead without her help.

To Twilight, to my friends, to my new life as a pony, to my new home, to my fellow creatures, I lower my head in gratitude.

This book is for you, so that you may understand my brothers and sisters, who lack leadership and friendship, who have nothing but pain and suffering left in the wake of their queen's death, and that you may help them if you can. Please, allow us to make amends for our mistakes, and permit us to reach a hoof to you in remorse for our actions.

Please forgive us. Sincerely, Love Bite.