As the first egg hatched, it caused a chain-reaction among the others. Right now, I was sitting among 127 grubs, all in which were climbing, chirping, and staring at me.
I stared.
They stared back.
I stared.
They stared back.
'Welp, this was not what I expected' I concluded, as I continued to stare back.
Then, one of them that was resting on my back raised its little front legs, and squeaked.
*Mama!* echoed through my mind.
My eyes widened, and the other grubs perked up. Immediately, hundreds of little voices filled my head.
*Mama!*
*Da!*
*Lovey!*
*Ma!*
*...umgi*
I scrunched my snout at that one as well as the others. All of them turning and staring at one grub who was sitting in the middle. Its mid-section rumbled and it shrugged.
*Umgi!*
I facehoofed.
'Scout we are going to need at lot more food than planned'
'Why is tha- '
'The eggs hatched.'
'...I'm on it your majesty.'
With that, the connection was cut off and I looked back down at my new children.
They stared at me with wide red eyes, and gave me big toothy smiles and I sighed. Of course, the shear innocence destroyed my composure, and I began nuzzling every one of them.
'What am I going to do with all of you.' I thought to myself as a small smile worked its way onto my lips.
Scout shook his head once the hivemind connection cut out.
'Well, looks like this feeding won't be as easy as I expected' he thought grimly and a few dark specks caught the corner of his eye.
He turned and glanced at it, after identifying it his eyes widened.
It was a changeling raid party.
'Time to take my leave' he thought calmly as he turned to leave the village, and a burly zebra blocked his path.
"I don't believe you're going anywhere" the beefcaked equine said quietly as its eyes flashed purple.
Scout swallowed, 'Hivemother help me.'
I chuckled as I let a few little grubs play wrestle with my hoof, and suddenly a message echoed through the hivemind.
'Hivemother help me.' my eyes widened.
'Scout?!' I messaged.
No reply.
I rose up, Scout was in trouble, but as I looked at my grubs a dark thought came to mind.
'Just leave it, drones can be replaced.' it tried to tempt me and I immediately dismissed it.
'He's my drone and my responsibility. No fucking danger is going to take him from me' I thought with determination coursing through my veins, and I looked at my grubs.
'Children.' I announced and all my grubs looked up.
'I will have to go out and save a hivebrother, do not leave the nursery unless you are in imminent danger' I ordered and my small spawns nodded in acknowledgement and bared their little fangs and hissed at the thought of something hurting one of their brothers.
I eyed all of my grubs "Alright, which one of you was the first that hatched" I asked and one that was to the left raised one of it's forelegs.
I gave a stiff nod and focused on the grub, "You will supervise your younger siblings, any problems and you will notify me" I said calmly and the grub chirped happily.
I looked over the rest of the grubs for any objections (there were none), and carefully walked forward as my children parted to make a path.
'This actually would be pretty cool if the people I was giving a speech to weren't a couple hours old' I randomly thought to myself as I made it to the outside of the nursery.
'Well, never mind I've got a Scout to retrieve.' I thought as I leapt out of the cave, and followed Scout's mind link.
'I'm trapped!' Scout panicked as he was grouped with the rest of the tribeszebras that were surrounded by hissing purple eyed changelings.
As the rest of the raiding party combed through the village, the bigger raiders began to separate the foals from the parents.
"Mama!" The young filly Scout had seen earlier cried, as she was being forcefully pulled out of a zebra mare's arms.
"Zeki! Let go of her you heartless spirit beast!" The mare screamed at the raider, but it ignored her and finally yanked her from the mare's arms. Tears ran down the filly's cheeks as the raider took her off to where they were keeping the foals.
The other raiders noticed him watching and growled as they tore off his disguise, the zebras around him immediately backed away in shock, "Stupid feral." The lead one snarled as they promptly began walking forward.
As he turned to look back at the mare he saw her glaring at him, righteous anger burning in her eyes and Scout looked away, 'I never knew it would end like this' he thought dejectedly as the large changelings got closer.
'I hope have served well' he thought as he faced his imminent doom.
Suddenly, a explosion rocked the village.
The raiders turned-
"What the-"
I crashed into the dirt as I leapt out of the cave. 'Oh yeah, don't know how to fly' I reminded myself, and ran in the direction of Scout's link.
With each step I took I buzzed my wings, trying to get some momentum like an airplane. Eventually my hoof hit nothing and I saw I was flying!
Two feet off the ground.
'Eh, its better than running' I shrugged and I buzzed my wings faster and jerkily shot forward.
Eventually, I saw a village come into view and stopped my wings so I dropped/landed out of detecting range. I saw tons of purple backed changelings flying around, and to my envy they were a lot bigger than Scout.
'Why couldn't I have gotten one of these guys' I thought irritably and then reminded myself why I was here.
'Ok, it looks like there's about thirty of these guys' I examined as I tried to count their flying black bodies, I accidentally looked up at my horn.
'Hey, I almost forgot about you' I thought and tried focus on it.
A few pitiful sparks came from it, and I put together a plan.
'Alright. Maybe, I can use this to cause a small distract-
As I was trying to plan, my focus slipped off my sparking horn and huge magic missle shot from my horn and exploded right in the village.
'...'
"Ok, I guess stealth out of the equation" I said slightly dumbfounded and headed toward the highly dangerous (half on fire) village.
As I made my way around the burning buildings, I saw quite a few of the purple changelings flying above me. They seemed to be occupied with other things, so they didn't notice me as I continued forward. Before I made it to the center of the village, I heard crying. My ears perked up, 'Trouble?' I wondered as I directed off course toward the sound.
I slowly got closer and what I saw disgusted me. Foals. Over at least a few dozen foals were trapped in changeling goo cages (its called chaligite but I call it changeling goo) all in which they were being taunted/guarded by three Scout eating changelings.
I slowly lighted my horn.
'I got this'
Scout thanked every deity he could think of when the changelings that were advancing pulled back when the village caught fire.
Most of the changelings rushed off to help their comrades that had gotten caught in the explosion, but the leader stayed a little longer and glared at him.
"I will come for you later, feral" it spat and slowly walked off.
Scout swallowed at the threat and slowly looked at the remaining changelings for a weakness in their defenses.
Soon, the zebras around him soon got a little braver and one of them eventually stomped right up to him.
"You brought them upon us!" he accused and Scout ignored him.
'Idiot' he mused, but of course his silence was taken as agreement, and the rest of the zebras began to get threateningly close as they threw more accusations.
Before things could escalate any more, a small explosion rocked the village, startling the small mob. Smoke rised to the sky as the huts near them caught fire.
Strangely, Scout felt a familiar presence and slowly turned his head.
Out of the fire and smoke waltzed the insane queen.
"Hello boys"
Umgi? Umgi!?
Oooh, that little scamp of a dawi grub better be grounded. I mean, he's technically correct, but calling your mother shoddy? That's a grudging.
7935097 He means hungry
As always short but very entertaining can not wait for the next one :)
F*ck I want next chapter now.
This should be fun.
I love this! I love all of this!
Is there a weekly update schedule?!
nice i want more
Shits about to go down.
Hey did you know you got featured today?
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Yep
7935097 What are you thinking they said?
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I know, but the coincidence was too amusing to pass up.
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In the old Warhammer Fantasy game, umgi was a dwarf word to refer to humans. It also loosely translated to 'shoddy.'
Here we have a formerly human queen, who's also doing a rather, er, improvisational way of building her hive, being called umgi by one of her own grubs. Accidental or intentional, the coincidence is rather funny.
This is always such a treat when it updates. Sadly those I've seen like it tend to die before they go anywhere.
So need more of this.
7935820 That sounds rude, what a little shizno
This chapter has some really, REALLY confusing perspective transitions, probably because there's so many of them in such a short space. Make them cleaner; extra space, a big fat line across the screen, whatever you need to do to make perspective transitions clean.
I immediately bust out laughing because the title made me remember something: It's at 1:14.
7935820 Ah, Didn't know that.
oermagersh i love this story!!!! a trillion out of ten!!!! have some flutteryays!!!!!!
* scout * " OSHIT IM SAVED!!! ITS THE MAD QUEEN! YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE MAGGOTS!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! "
* enemy * " uhhh...... "
This is certainly something, i was not expecting a human, since it has no human tag, but i'm glad i decided to read the first chapter.
You sire got a new fave.
7962770 i dont know, you tell me.
Um, are these grubs(larvae) or nymphs? Having a hard time imagining larval changelings wrestling. Rather easier to imagine little nymph changelings doing things. (grubs, maggots, and caterpillars are larvae, nymphs look like tiny adults)
Though, caterpillar changelings would probably be adorable.
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Well I'm trying to use the season 6 grubs from the show, and later on use the nymph idea for the toddler years.
Yeah, I know it's not like a regular bug timeline, but I mean their changelings, from what hasbro did to them I think this can pass.
P.S: The grubs have front legs so I thought play wrestling could be a thing.
Duuuuuuude. This is amazing. Love this story
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*Queen's reaction through fourth-wall*
Any idea when this is going to get some new chapters
MORE!!!
Need more Fourth-wall breakage, please.
*inner thoughts* 'really I'm all about reading but freaking out isn't helpful. Why don't you ever listen to me? '
*reply* 'Oh and where is the fun in that?'
*inner thoughts* 'inner peace, inner peace, Inner Peace, INNER PEACE! Sweet Void! Why am I stuck with YOU?'
Come on you might make Flutters cry. Is that something you really want one your hooves/hands/paws/etc.?
Or if that isn't enough you may just cause AB and Rarity to cry too.
'your kidding, your kidding right? 'that's never going to work'
"hey you never know unless you try. Right?"
Once there's more every(body-pony) will be all like
'your an idiot. You know that right?'
Normally, frequent typos and grammar issues would be good reasons to not read a story.
Sometimes, however, you find a story that is either entertaining enough or who's true character shines through despite the mistakes and problems.
This is one of those times.
Bravo.
8013478 aye, we need more. We need our fix.
Please give more, I am addicted!
8013478 Heh, I'm usually the same. But honestly, I was so entertained (and consequently burned through all the chapters so quickly) that I didn't notice a single typo.
Honestly loved the story, and I do hope to see more of it. Don't worry to much about update cycles, I wouldn't want you to burn out, just as long as you update eventually I'll be happy.
Honestly curious as to how Kerrigan will explain her complete lack of knowledge. Go the amnesia route (kinda true)? Or say that she's been in isolation her whole life? And I'm just loving her introduction to the attacking swarm. Curious to see if she gets the "Queen of Blades" moniker.
Also, looking forward to the aftermath of the battle. Will the Zebras become allies, or at least mildly friendly neighbors? Could be useful as a future trading hub.
This is pretty good. Main female character that is entertaining and relatable... An HIE.... Unexpected actiony progress? Moar?
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Ich bin nicht zu gut mit Deutsch, aber die Hauptfigur sollte ein Mädchen um 19-20 Jahre alt sein
I can't wait to see the next chapter good job
8037340 I feel like i should put this through google translate...
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Sure
8040378 found out what the conversation was about
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
If this isn't updated soon, I will fucking scream. I need more. We all need more.
so, how long till you update?
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interesting story so far
Loving this story so far, keep up the great work.
MORE
Woah... I swear to god, if this is abandoned....
Blood for the blood god?