The Return of The Changelings

by Thinkerten

Chapter 3

The lunar princess spoke. “There sure are a lot of ponies here, more then I recall reading about., my book said the population of this city was quite small, and that it’s mostly earth ponies, there seem to be a lot of pegasi and unicorns about.” Twilight said. The eight of them walked through the station and into the city, all over there were massive buildings and bright red banners everywhere. All the signs were written in a bizarre language. “What kind of gobbeldy gook is that written on the signs?” Applejack asked. “That is the old Equestrian dialect.” Luna said. “Good thing I brought my translating book, it has all the concepts and translations for the language.” Twilight said. “Egghead” Rainbow coughed under her breath. “Can we go inside please, I’m very cold” Fluttershy said. “Yes, let us try to find the one who sent this letter.” Rarity said. “I can barley move, I should have stayed in Ponyville where it’s warm.” Spike said from Twilight’s back. The seven ponies trotted down the street, watching the snow fall and observing the nature of the city and the unusual abundance of ponies. “This letter was sent to us by another dragon, why don’t we check the school of magic to see which student sent this letter.” Spike said. “Good idea Spike.” Twilight said. They trotted to the center of town where the school was located, it’s massive domes and unique architecture made it a dead giveaway.

They entered the school and began asking the scholars if they knew where the pony who sent the letter to them might live. They got blank stares and confused looks from all the ponies. “This pony must not have much of a social life.” Rainbow suggested. They continued their search until they ran into a unicorn dressed in a green cloak. “Excuse me sir, but can you look at this letter and tell us where the pony who sent it might live?” Rarity asked. The scholar turned and responded. “Ya ne govorya nova Equestirii yazik.” The pony then proceeded to read the letter and said. “Ya zniou gede Thinkerten Stallionovich zheveosh, ohn zhevoet ve ulitza dvatsit dva.” The main six stared, mouths wide open at what the pony had just said. “Spaceba za informatzia.” Luna thanked the pony for his time and information. “What did she say” asked Pinkie Pie, “I bet that’s fun to speak, how do you know how to do that, it’s so cool!” she continued. “That was the old Equestrian dialect, and I know it because it’s necessary for a princess to keep in contact with all her subjects.” Luna explained. “She said that this pony, Thinkerten lives on street number twenty two.” Luna said. “Well lets get going. I’m eager to meet a fellow scholar of magic.” Twilight said clapping her hooves together.

They trotted off to go meet the writer of the distress letter, and as they walked off the unicorn in the green robe’s eyes glowed brightly and it sank back into the shadows. The eight of them trotted down street number twenty-two. There was only one house, with multiple stories and massive columns near the door. “I don’t think we should go in, maybe they don’t want to be bothered.” Fluttershy said. “Nope this is definitely the place, there’s a dragon living here, I can smell it, and the delicious gems they have in there.” Spike said, drool oozing from his maw. Twilight, eager to meet a fellow magic scholar, pushed open the door and trotted in and began to look around, followed by the other six. “Hello, anyone home?” Pinkie yelled. “Sorry Pinkie, I don’t think they can understand you, remember, Luna said that they only speak the old dialect here.” Rarity reminded the prancing pony. “Hang on, let me see what “hello” is in old Equestrian” Said Twilight going through her book on the language. “Stressvuche!” The purple unicorn said. The voice of a stallion rang down from up stairs. “Kto vwii?” “Well we know someone’s there, what in the hoof did he say though?” Applejack asked. “Who is it?” Luna answered. “Tell him we have the elements of harmony, I don’t want him to think were intruders.” Fluttershy said. Twilight began to flip through her book until she found the words. “Mwii eest eto elementi gramonii” She said. The voice answered back “Idyout sooda.” “He says to come here.” Luna translated. “Well lets not keep him waiting.” Rainbow Dash said as the cyan pegasus took off up the stairs. The others followed her. They reached an open room in which the owner of the voice stood. A tall gray unicorn stood before them, his jet black mane was a wreck and he had bags under his eyes, along with goggles resting on his horn and forehead.

Upon seeing the Princess of the night he bowed his head and kneeled to the floor. “He looks like he hasn’t slept in days and those goggles look simply horrid, they don’t match his eyes at all.” Rarity whispered to Twilight. “Rarity I’m surprised at you, he obviously is extremely troubled and those goggles aren’t for fashion, they’re to protect his eyes from bright magic during experiments, you’ve seen me wear goggles like that before.” Twilight whispered back. “Fstavat” Luna said. The stallion stood back on all four hooves, he was actually taller then eveypony in the room. Spike looked over to his left and noticed a small blue figure in the room. He went to investigate, finding a frost dragon, exactly his size. He went to converse, being a dragon they could both converse the dragon language, thus elimination the language barrier between them. The mane six watched the dragons converse, and Luna converse with the stallion. All at the same time, effortlessly. “Gospadinya, ou tebya eyct kiniga obo nova Equestrii yazik?” The stallion asked Twilight. “Do you have a book on the new Equestian dialect?” Luna translated. “Yes, why, do you want to read it.” Twilight asked. Luna translated “Da, pacheemu tvwii hochet chitiaet?” Luna asked. “Da, ya hochu uchitza tvoiee yazik.” The stallion responded. “Yes, he wants to learn our language.” Luna translated again. Twilight pulled the book on the language from her saddle back and in a purple aura the book levitated towards the still stranger stallion. Halfway to him The magic aura changed from purple to a dark forest green as the stallion took the book under his magic control. “Bolshoia spaceba, menyay nado chac, pozhalista, delyat moya doma, vas dom.” He said as he walked into the next room over. “What in Equestria did he just say, I’m begennin ta think this ain’t even a real way of talkin’.” Applejack said with a confused and irritated look in her eye. “He said many thanks for the book and that he’ll need an hour with it to learn our language, and in the meantime to make yourselves at home.” Luna said. “Wow, learning a whole language in an hour, this guy is a REAL egghead, you might have found someone smarter then you Twilight, an egghead couple, just imagine it.” Rainbow teased at Twilight. “I think he’d be better off with you Rainbow Dash, considering you’re both complete slobs.” Rarity scoffed. “Well, he said make yourselves at home, so I’m going to look at his research if he has any.” Twilight said.
She trotted off around the house and found what did indeed look like a laboratory of sorts. Notes strewn everywhere, drawings and diagrams galore, she found a book of notes labeled “Zarad Magii” she thumbed through her pocket translating guide and learned that it translated to “Charge magic” She began looking through the notes of this unknown stallion and realized from the anatomic diagrams that he was on to a major discovery that might change the history of magic as all unicorns know it. She continued reading and translating the notes of this seemingly brilliant stallion, his knowledge of magic would make him a prime candidate for Canterlot School of Magic. “What are you doing with my works?” asked a familiar voice in a language now understandable. “I was just looking through your notes, you’re smarter then your appearance leads others to believe.” Twilight said. “Thank you for what I hope was a compliment to my works and not an insult to my appearance.” The stallion said. “Not at all, I just wanted to let you know I think you belong at Canterlot School of Magic, I could get you in, I know the princess, but what I don’t know is your name.” Twilight said. “My name is Thinkerten, I already know your name Twilight, I heard the others talking to you, all I could understand was your name though.” Thinkerten said. “You speak new Equestrian now, Thinkerten, why don’t you come meet the other elements of harmony.” Twilight said. “Not now, I must go compose and clean myself first, that white unicorn looked upon me with disdain for my appearance, why do you not go and gather them to meet me while I make myself presentable to both the legendary elements of harmony and the lunar princess.” Thinkerten said as he trotted into his bathroom. Twilight shelved the book and put his notes back on the table. She admired his intelligence and was dumbstruck at how fast he had learned the language.
She went back down to the living room and ran into Rarity and Rainbow Dash poking fun at her. The were joking about them as a couple, Twilight walked into the room and they realized that they had been caught. They went silent at her presence. “I am not interested in him, and you should grow up, we are here to help save Equestria, not gossip about whose special somepony is whose, now go get Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, Thinkerten now understands us and he wants to talk about his letter.” Twilight said. Rainbow Dash left to retrieve the others leaving only Luna and Rarity in the room. “Say Twilight, where is your new boyfriend anyway?” Rarity teased. “He’s cleaning himself because he said he noticed how YOU looked at him because of his appearance.” Twilight responded. “Well, he needed to wash up, he looked awful.” Rarity noted. Thinkerten walked into the living room moments after Rarity had finished her sentence. He stood before the main six and Luna, along with the two dragons. “Elements of Harmony, Princess Luna, I am filled with relief that you came, and first off I hope that you have found my city and home welcoming. But I have summoned you for a reason. I fear that this city may have been invaded by an unknown force. For you see I have seen an increase in the overall amount of ponies in the city and the ones that I know personally have disappeared. I think this might have something to do with what happened in Canterlot as this turn of events happened about three days after the rainbow explosion that took place during the royal wedding.” Thinkerten said, Luna’s face went blank with shock, she knew exactly what he was talking about and the main six all reacted in the exact same fashion. Thinkerten looked at everypony, the looks on their faces told him that they all knew the gravity of the situation and he didn’t, and this scared him greatly. “Luna, I need you to come with me and help confirm my suspicions.” Said Thinkerten, the two then walked out the door and before leaving Thinkerten said “The rest of you stay here and prepare yourselves for the imminent usage of the elements of harmony.” The door then shut and the two walked off down the street to confirm Thinkerten’s suspicions.