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This story is a sequel to The Mare In Gold


When a Royal Guard of the Crystal Empire finds an abandoned changeling foal, she takes in the infant and raises it as her own daughter. It’s love at first sight, and the bond that forms between them gets the guard in a lot more trouble than she bargained for.

***Remastered***

***Updated: 07-31-2019***

Up Next: Black Gold

Chapters (19)
Comments ( 187 )

This is a good start so far, Waffen Pony.:twilightsmile:

I am interested in seeing what'll happen next in this story, and I am interested in learning more about Silvershield, I got my eyes on him. :trixieshiftright:

Looking forward to the next chapter.

7551088 Take your laser eyes off the baby before you shoot them off, you crazy robot!

This is going to be fun! I wonder what Pyrite's going to get up to. Hope to see more soon!

7551109 You do realize that yer talkin bout the wrong ling, right? I for one would roast Silvershield to protect Pyrite....... Don't give me looks, roasting things is what an arcanine does best! :pinkiecrazy:

7552815 So your Arcanine would be down with spit-roasting too? You're a weird little man.

7555241 .....................uhm.....Whut? :unsuresweetie: Where'd that come from? I just meant I'd use my flames to burn that stallion to ashes

7556211 Yes. Which means your Arcanine would spit Embers from its mouth and roast the bastard.

Hence; 'spit-roasting'. Silly boy with the dirty mind. XD

Please give me a rating of this joke so I can improve my comedy material.

7556664 OH! XD 5/5 even if you did have to explain it to my tired arse

Interesting, Hope you won't disappoint.:trixieshiftright:

Calling now, Guards like Silversheild killed the other changelings.

i love it and when will more chapters come out for this story

So, for a single, of large, attack where nobody, at least according to canon, died, Shining Armour ordered for any and all changelings to be mercilessly murdered on sight, without questions. Yeah, seems about right. Power of friendship at its finest. I wonder if the princesses know.

Nice start, though poor changelings. Pyrite is dangerously cute, though. I just hope that the Chryssie tag is not for her appearing as the big bad to be killed later.

Found a few small errors, hopped instead of hoped, an instead of an and an unneeded the before Amber's rations.

i like it and i think the limb Amethyst has is from Pyrite but i don't want to believe that

Sergeants are non-commissioned officers. that's why they hate being called sir. Also why in movies, TV shows, books and games they are called sarge or non-coms.

While something similar to this senario is definitely believable, I feel like the way the characterizations were handled were massively in the extremes. Silver is acting like he has a blood feud with the changeling race but meanwhile Amethyst is rooted firmly in the implications that she's desperate to have a child of her own and is willing to take in what seems to be the pony equivalent of a monstrous vampire, even if it is a "harmless child" instead of appealing to the crown like seems to be a far more logical step.

I hope these characters get the appropriate story building to justify and round out the motives behind their actions.

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>don't call me sir, I work for a living!

But really, the main difference is that commissioned officers handle politics and bureaucracy, things that don't always translate well in a much more militant-worker society, while the NCOs tend to handle managing the execution of intent and readiness of the troops. Without a CO, the NCO is to far detached from the government to act accurately and without the NCO, the CO is too far detached from the troops to maintain their readiness and willingness to act.

You will see NCOs that handle administrative paperwork instead of lower enlisted and you will see CO that will oversee troops during their activities but the NCO will still usually be working on managing those below while a CO will be taking in the orders from above and planning out how to carry out that intent.

7569003 To be fair, the only reason no one died is because the changelings either mind raped or cocooned them all. Add to the fact that, in canon, changeling feeding has a detrimental effect on the host, and both Shining Armor and Cadence were negatively affected by Queen Chrysalis, it is reasonable for them to assume that all changelings are evil by default. This is, of course, not true, but they are, by there experiences, justified by Chrysalis' actions. Doesn't mean it still isn't bigotry, though.

7552815 Expand your options by learning takedown. :trollestia:

Is Thorax gonna make an appearance in this story?

Yeah, this isn't goons work out for these two changelings

"... note to self: Snap these changelings' necks. Then stomp on heads. Repeatedly. Until squishy."

... Come stop your crying, it'll be alright... Just take my hoof, hold it tight... I will protect you from all around you... I will be here, don't you cry...

... definitely watching this...

Oh, that explains a lot.

Oh come on! I was hoping Chrysalis to have a caring heart for changeling children! Why not let Pyrite decide when she's grown up.

Ah, so the seemingly-badly-written character was actually a case of bad acting.

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Hells Fire: Different clans tend to hate each other, I don't know how to give you an example of that, think of this as the Crusades, European people and Arabic People are humans, but they used to hate each other.

So the real Silvershield is either dead or held captive. Son of a buck!!

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Or he never existed.

Also THE PLOT THICKENS

7803995 Not to mention Silvermane being a changeling and Cadance being mind-controlled, or another changeling.

Also, bigoted guard is a changeling himself? Attempting to hurt/kill a changeling princess for another changeling queen? Just add helicopters and have Tom117z sue for copyright.

I need some pesticides, specifically made for cicada infestations. Anyone know where to get some?

well shit. how is mantis gonna explain this?

Oh damn. This was intense bruh

very naice

Oh Nose!

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I have some left over from the Ponyville incident. I also know a guy who knows a guy who runs a gem mining company. Really knows his stuff. He can lend you some equipment.

True One: Get me a magic detector and a Flamethrower, there nothing better than that to kill bugs.

Oh ********!!! You changeling ********!!

That's not good!!! Onyx! Amethyst! Get over here on the double!

Son of a buck!!

Amethyst is gonna be pissed.

7875873 question. what do those different tag-lines mean? (I.e True One:)

Good story, few nitpicks about it, military and grammar-wise, but a good story and concept. I like.

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True One: It shows who's talking, my brother (Real One), our bodyguard (Hells Fire) and Real's robot girlfriend (Basilisk) all have different perspectives when it comes to talking.

7878112 ah, thats actually really cool!

Now, Silvershield, find another guard, kill him, and take his place.

Well this got dark.

Awwww! I could never do that to a wee baby :yay: It would be too adorable!
Silvershield, don't like him already, but that's to be expected considering... but I understand both sides of the spectrum, so...

Nice job

Changeling baby poking its head outta a saddlebag? That is an adorable image! :heart:

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