//------------------------------// // Battle of Canterlot part 1 // Story: Imprisonment of a Changeling // by Southern Wing //------------------------------// Wing lead Sev through the alley, and they watched as Twilight and Cadence approached the chapel. “We gotta know what’s going on. Think you can connect to Twilight again, buddy?” Sev asked. “Sure thing, Sev. Just give me a moment” Once again, Wing connected his mind to Twilight’s to see what was going on from her point of view. After getting the view going, he streamed it to the other red changelings in Canterlot. “And now, Princess Cadence and Shining Armor, it is my great honor to pronounce you…” Princess Celestia began the ceremony. All the other ponies were there. Witnessing what they thought would be a picture perfect pony, with a slightly derping Shining Armor. Only to be interrupted by Twilight. “Stop!” she shouted. The ponies in the crowd gasped at that. Several of her friends shook her heads, with Applejack even facehooving. “Ugh. What must she be so possessive of her brother?” ‘Cadence’ asked aloud. She looked around, realizing what she said. “Why must she ruin my special day?” she cried out. “Because it’s not your special day. It’s mine!” the real Cadence declared,standing next to Twilight, causing almost all the attendees to gasp. “What?! But how did you escape my bridesmaids?” ‘Cadence’ asked. Twilight and Cadence looked at each other and smiled as they explained how. As it turns out, a bouquet can distract even the most brainwashed mares. “Heh, clever. But you’re still too late!” ‘Cadence’ responded. “Ah don’t understand. How can there be two of ’em?” Applejack asked. “She’s a changeling! She takes the form of somepony you love, and then gains power by feeding off your love for them!” Cadence explained. The fake Cadence finally had enough. She stomped her hoof and her entire body was consumed in a green fire. Right before their eyes, the former pink mare turned into something black, tall, un-ponylike. It looked more like a bug pony than anything else, as she opened her bright green eyes. “Right you are princess” she cackled. “And as Chrysalis, queen of the changelings, it is my job to find food for my subjects.” Wing cut the link in an instant, enraged by the sight of Chrysalis alone. “That...maleficent...BITCH!” Wing shouted. “So...that’s her plan,” Kierzack said quietly. “Guess you two were right.” “How dare she claim she’s queen of all changelings? But that just screws us over. If we go in there to help, they’ll think we’re with her,” another red changeling said. He passed the news to the blue and violet changeling standing next to him, the other changelings sending it down. Wing reconnected to Twilight to find Celestia confronting and fighting Chrysalis. Sev set his hoof on Wing’s shoulder, catching the feed as it happened. “Alright, Celestia’s gonna take this bug down! Um...no offense.” “None taken, bro. But there are much bigger problems.” “What do you mean?” “Well, when a changeling queen is fully fueled on love, like Chrysalis is…” Sev watched in horror as Queen Chrysalis’s magical beam hit Celestia squarely in the horn, throwing her to the ground. The tip of her horn was blackened. “...that happens.” “Well, we’re bucked.” Sev commented. “In more ways than one.” Wing pointed to the shield to reveal that there were now several hundred helicopters outside. A dozen of them being heavy duty machines that were firing on the shield. The shield continued taking hit after hit Twilight and her friends ran out. When they were only twenty feet from the chapel when the final strike hit the shield. It collapsed into a million pieces in front of them. Wing watched as the shield surrounding Canterlot collapsed. “Here we go,” he sighed. He watched as one of the helicopters flew over. He raised his RPG and fired the rocket, zooming to the chopper. It hit in the tail rotor, sending it spinning toward the ground. It sent shrapnel as it crashed while the main rotor blew up completely. “Cover me, I’m taking another position!” Wing stated “Got it!.” Sev replied. Wing rushed over, arriving at the crashed chopper as one of Chrysalis’s soldiers began to emerge from the wreck. He was terribly wounded from the crash. Wing scrambled to “greet” him and bashed him in the face with the stock of his AK. The soldier fell back into the cabin from the blow. Wing climbed over the side into the cabin, emptying his clip on the soldiers inside. Once that was over, he came back to meet up with Sev again. They noticed Twilight and her five friends on the street, watching them right back. “Go get the elements!” Wing growled. Twilight motioned for the other Element bearers to follow her before they ran off. Panicked citizens ran for their lives from Chrysalis’s troops, as they enveloped the city in a pincer movement. Wing sent a telepathic message back to his hive. “Alert! Canterlot is under attack by Chrysalis forces! This is not a drill! Repeat this is not a drill!” “What?! There’s fighting going on in Canterlot as well?” came the reply from Queen Chiton. “Mother, what do you mean ‘as well’? Canterlot is not the only place under attack by Chrysalis? We have covering forces to get our people to the shelters. We will hold out and survive or fight to the death!” “Several of our own bases are under attack by Chrysalis. Don’t go wasting your lives unnecessarily!” “I know. We won’t. Schkitz out.” Wing cut the communication. Queen Chiton began speaking to another of the defending red changelings. As this was going on, another helicopter carrying Chrysalis’ changeling soldiers roared overhead. Sev lined up his RPG and fired a missile right at it. The missile struck the fuel tank, vaporizing the chopper immediately. “Good shot, buddy!” Wing shouted. “Thanks!” Sev replied. “We’re not done yet.” The two took down eight more choppers with some well aimed missiles, as the fighting was now raging all over the city. Helicopter after helicopter was shot down by both defending changelings and the royal guard, but they kept on coming. A large group of blue changelings began to surround Wing and Sev. “Take that lovist bastards!” Wing screamed as he fired a burst from his assault rifle, taking down a charging blue changeling. He aimed at another and pulled the trigger, but he heard a click come out of it. Empty clip. Not to worry, he just pulled out his machine gun and mowed down more changelings that way. “Get some! Come on and get some!” Sev screamed as he fired his machine gun. Changelings fell at his hooves by the bushel as they tried charging at him foolishly. With every ten blue changelings the pair took down, twenty took their place, and the battle was beginning to take it’s toll on the pair. Wing continued gunning down his enemies with his machine gun. “Get back!” he screamed as they kept coming. The pair was beginning to be surrounded by the blue bastards. But they used their experience with weaponry to stand their own against such massive forces. “Hold them back!” “What do you think I’m trying to do?” Sev saw a blue changeling just hovering in the air, and aimed his weapon at it. But he just couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger like that, and he aimed at another blue changeling to feel better instead. After they exhausted all their clips and rounds, It soon came to hoof combat. Wing switched to his sword and charged at the invading forces. He took several hits along the way, every hit knocking off bits of his pony disguise. Soon after, he took a massive blow to the face, destroying half of the disguise leaving a two face pony/changeling form. He roared in anger and knocked the blue changeling responsible to the ground, and brought the sword down on the changeling in a deathblow. He then raised one of his pistols and decided to take care of the bug trash the old fashioned way. But the numbers soon overwhelmed the two, and they had no choice but to surrender. “Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!” Sev cursed under his breath. “Just keep it together. They’re not going to kill us, so we might have a chance still,” Wing pointed out. The loyalists took Sev and Wing directly to Queen Chrysalis herself. She looked out the balcony and enjoyed her handiwork, while Shining Armor was still in a trance. Cadence, trapped by green goo on her hooves, was devastated to see the changeling queen bring in two more prisoners. “Well. What do we have here?” Queen Chrysalis tsked. “A traitor to all thing's changeling and a worthless pony. Quite the acceptable pairing, given you’re beneath the ground I walk on.” Wing only growled in response. “Behave yourself, Schkitz. Don’t do anything to antagonize her,” Queen Chiton communicated to Wing telepathically “Yes, mother.” “Even for bugs, you’re one ugly mother!” Sev said aloud. “Charming,” Chrysalis said, before slapping Sev across the face. “How long have you practiced that line? I imagine five seconds, which might be your total attention span given your low intelligence!” Cadence was still horrified by the sight, glancing to her beloved Shining Armor longingly. Chrysalis quickly caught this and smirked. “You never knew, did you? What do you think now?" Chrysalis chuckled. Cadence was unable to find the words to say. She was clearly ticked off at Chrysalis, though. “Take them away! We’ll deal with them later.” Chrysalis commanded the changelings. They nodded and took Wing and Sev away. Wing looked to Sev as they were carried off. “On three buddy,” he told him telepathically Sev looked to Wing with a smile “One...” “Two...” “Three!” the two said at the same time, thrusting their heads back to stab the changelings with their horns. The two fell to the floor dead, and Sev and Wing were finally free. They picked the weapons off the dead bugs and ran away from the castle, back into the streets of Canterlot. “We can’t do anything for them now. Twilight’s got this.” Wing said. “Sure hope you’re right,” Sev replied, as they went back to work taking care of the blue pests.