1 - Welcome to the Hive
I climbed up the sheer rock face, putting one hand on top of the other. The ponies had highly recommended it as a great place to get some fresh air and work out while admiring nature, and without much in the way of natural predators. If ponies could enjoy it, I was certain I could.
How did they even climb with hooves anyway? No matter, I had fingers, wondrous things, and they hooked into nooks and crannies, bringing me where I wanted to go, so long as I was slow and careful about it. Perhaps I hadn't been quite careful enough, for my hand fell right through the next rock I tried to grab. I was sent falling with a skid of small stones and debris, sliding right into a ravine and landing beside a small cave hole.
I swore with annoyance and moved to stand up, only for my left leg to give its own howl of agony. Did I break it? I wasn't sure, but it hurt a lot and I sank back down to my ass and hoped it would go away on its own. As if summoned by the very tides of fate, it began to rain on my already ruined parade. This is what I got for going outside of town, where the weather wasn't as strictly controlled!
Seeking to escape from the rain, I half-crawled into the cave I had landed beside. I fished out a lighter and flicked it a few times until its little flame shot up. I used to use it for cigs, but I lost the habit a few months after learning to live in ponyland. Whatever they used in their cigs wasn't the same, and I didn't need another addiction in my life. I kept the lighter anyway, and times like that, I was glad.
With the fire, I could see the cave wasn't very large, maybe twenty feet, with some lumpy formations of rocks strewn about. I moved to park myself on one of those lumps, just to find out there was something else there. Behind some of those rocks was the remains of some creature, perhaps black once, but time had dulled its carapace. It was some kind of insect? It had the faint remnant of wings jutting out of it, a horn, and fangs. Yep, definitely some kind of bug.
I wondered if it was the previous occupant of the cave, or some other climber that had the luck to fall down in here and waited to die... like I might? I frowned at the thought. My leg didn't hurt that bad. One night's rest and I should be able to climb back out, or so I convinced myself.
But there was still that matter of sharing space with a body of all things. I reached a foot out to nudge the thing, hoping to be rid of it, not that a little nudge was very likely to do it, but I wasn't thinking at 100% at the time. I shrieked like a little girl when it fell back, then laughed at how pathetic that had been. "A body flops and I get surprised..."
I rubbed behind my head, mussing up my red hair before I leaned forward again, considering the dead bug. I could just ignore it? Yuck, no... I got up to my feet very carefully, hobbling around it. With my good leg, and a hand supporting myself against the wall, I gave the body a much more firm kick towards the mouth of the cave, but instead of it flying, it suddenly grabbed on. I felt a pinch and a sharp pain and I yelped for real. I hurriedly reached for it, which meant my hand wasn't holding me up, and down I went in a pile of limbs and agony.
Whatever it was crawled up along me even as I tried to recover from the stabbing pain of putting weight on my leg, but there wasn't time to be worried about that! "Get off me!" I swatted at the thing, trying to brush it off, but it wasn't having it. The thing was flowing over me, encasing me in a bug suit uncomfortably quickly. The touch of my hands was enough to get its hooves to stick to me and ran up my arms in a fitful surge. Wait, hooves?
What kind of pony looked like an insect? Forget that! What kind of dead pony gobbled up humans in a damn cave?!
I pushed up to my hands and knees, but it wasn't my hands and knees. My rapidly forming shell wouldn't let me stand the old-fashioned way, still forming, squeezing, and spreading. The mask of the thing flopped down over my head and I thrashed around, trying to dislodge it in vain. Everything was colored blue, seeing through its eyes, but the blue was fading away as new scents tickled at me.
I felt a sudden flicking at my back and had to look over my shoulder to see tattered wings giving fitful twitches, and I could feel them. New pain came, and I flopped to the ground as I felt like someone was burning holes right through me. I lifted up an arm, or was that a leg? And saw it was true! A hole fell out of me and became so much ash, and other smooth round spots were falling free of me by the moment. Was I dying? I prayed to every god I could think of that I wasn't already dead and waited for the pain to end, one way or another.
It did fade, and I wasn't dead, or so I was pretty sure. I could weakly wag one hoof, then the next. I was... alive? I was different. I could see those hooves taunting me, and my snout poking out of my face. I wasn't just a pony, I was some kind of bug pony...
With a slow roll, I got up to my hooves. My leg, for all the pain I had suffered, wasn't screaming in agony anymore. One free healing for the low low price of my humanity... Great...
I looked out of the cave and saw it was still coming down in buckets. The ponies in town would surely know what the heck happened, and maybe how to fix me. I'd go to their smartest one, the purple one, Twilight Sparkle. She knew lots about everything. She'd know what I was, and what to do about it. I sat down and felt around, finding my lighter, and the shredded remains of my clothes and sighed. "Tomorrow, when it stops raining..."
Should I have panicked more? Man! You think I wasn't?! I was clinging to that hope. She had to know. I was going to be fixed. I just had to keep my head on straight, buggy or not.
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hum this is different a first person view I will be watching to see ware this goes.
Typos? You called for typos?
right
uncomfortably
hooves
stray quotation mark at end
Edit: I really like this story so far and I'd be willing to edit for it, if you like. (If not I'll probably still just post them in the comments.)
6792412 Thanks for the typo spotting! I plan to post every day, and with you there to spot typos, I'll be much less nervous about it.
6792437
Alright, cool.
ooh, this is intriguing!
Every other fic I see is by you, jeez.
6792528 Hopefully good ones!
hmmm this is interesting a new work from you?
*faves*
6792727 New indeed! Expect an update tomorrow.
This reminds me of this one picture I was whilst browsing derpibooru.
6792882 Which one?
6792896 Changeling corpse eating/morphing around a human.
6792560
I like most of it.
Huh. It's... all the ideas. And probably some more?
Alright.
Still a little early to tell how much I like it, though. There's a lot to come.
...How exactly is this [Slice of Life]?
6793672 Because we'll be dealing with his reactions, as opposed to him going off on a grand adventure to fix the world. It's about him.
I... don't know what to say.
I.. don't hate it, yet, but...
I'm so very confused.
6794013 Did you have a question? I'm here to help!
6794026 Okay, first WHO IS THIS GUY!?
(in other words, how is he in Equestria, or are humans regular here?)
two, WHO IS THIS HUMAN!?
3, It's kind of hard to see it in my mind, but if I'm right then a dead Changeling turned a human into a Changeling, I know you'll explain it some time in the story; I just need to say that it is very strange.
and finally, (I don't mean to if I sound offensive) What is going on in your crazy head this time.
6792437
6794026
OHHH it's you.
yay another story from the wonderful author.
seeing ur name brings me joy mk.
also.
i came here to chew bubblegum and say no more than thirty-six words, and i'm all out of
weren't the same - wasn't the same
I'm not sure what this means. Is is supposed to be 'run up my arms' ?
She know lots - She knew lots
*****
And we're off at a gallop from the very start!
Eagerly anticipating the next chapters. Perhaps we will learn a little more of our protagonist and the situation in which he, probably now she, finds herself.
The new year is looking up already!
Interesting method, kinda like the cybermen in that one Dr. Who episode where the shell tries to acquire a new biological host.
Like it so far. Curious how X got to ponyland as he puts it.
This might fit better under the drama tag since it isn't 'normal' life.
6794207 Typos left behind in the cave to ambush the next pony that comes wandering by. Thanks for the finds!
what did exactly happened? Did a Changeling bit him to transform him or something like that?
6795912 Well, he seemed to be more engulfed by a dead changeling, as opposed to a lovebite.
Good work. I see no errors.
Also,
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6797006 Welcome to the story!
Not bad at all! Love the 1st person writing style, not very common on FIMFic!
Maybe you could do with just this change. This
to this
But that's just a suggestion.
6819907 Tweak deployed! Thanks!
Reading this chapter reminded me of a song (voodoo by godsmack) and now I am singin "I'm not the one who's so far away when I feel the changeling bit into my veins"
Sorry for the non-helpful comment but... I have no excuse for this comment. But I do like the story!
6868478 Glad you're enjoying it :D
Oh hey, type 17b changeling? New variant recorded!