After the changelings' failed invasion of Canterlot, Twilight tries to soothe some of Ponyville's rampant paranoia by casting a spell to prove there are no imposters hiding in the town. But her spell leaves her in an alien body, facing a mob of angry ponies who just don't believe her when she says she is Twilight Sparkle.
Or, at least, she was Twilight Sparkle, anyway...
Featured on Equestria Daily, 2/17/13
Cover art is by the awesome and amazing Conicer
I love it!












have some mustaches!
interesting
Twilight is best Changeling!
Very interesting story you got here. I love the 'X=Changeling' thing (writing one myself) so I'm looking forward to what you'll do with this
I'm always a sucker for the "Twilight becomes a/n x" fanfics.
Interesting idea I'll be waiting for more
....Moar? Plz?
This is amazing! Please, continue.
Fav'ed and voted even before reading. I just love those kind of fictions. I know they aren't the most original ones, but with the amount of fiction the fandom produce it's hard to be original these days.
I'm going to read later, but I'm sure it'll be good.
"Twilight becomes/is a Changeling" fic #51029375!
This fits rather well among my interests, dood.
As a side note, can someone answer a simple question for me?
When Twilight turns out to be a changling, the worst things possible seem to gravitate towards her; When Rarity turns out to be a changling, she gets sex.
Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this, and why people think it's fair, dood?
I like it, very good style and interesting enter to promising plot
My internal prediction algorithms are predicting a 70% chance of Celestia being a changeling queen.
Great start!
Wow, you people are insane. I'm trying to reply to comments and literally every 30 seconds I get notifications.
Edit: NOT THAT I MIND IN THE SLIGHTEST, CONTINUE BOMBARDING ME WITH DELICIOUS NOTIFICATIONS
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My life is now complete. I have drowned in mustaches.
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I've seen that! I haven't had time to read it, sadly. But the art is badass. I'll probably wait until I'm done writing SL to read it because I don't want to accidentally rip anything off.
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Isn't there one where she turns herself into a cloud or something?
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Yessss
Beg meeee
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OH YOU BET I WILL
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I'm the original MC Parasprite, yo! Nuthin moar original than me!
Now I'll go check the 22 notifications I got while writing this comment... I don't know whether to rejoice or be horrified by the number of favorites I'm getting in such a short time.
I got a 23rd while I typed that sentence, ahahaha.
Thanks for all the appreciation.
hmmm, been done before but like I have said elsewhere, "Some ideas are like potato chips, you can't have just one"
I would normally read the whole thing before commenting but this is almost 13k words! Perhaps you should have broken this first posting into two or three chapters?
Oh well, maybe there weren't any good points to break it off *shrugs*
In any case looks like I got me some more reading to do!
best x becomes a changeling story evaar!
this is quite interesting, I look forward to more of this.
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I think it's because in addition to being a changeling, Rarity is actually a robot like her little sister. Except Rarity isn't a normal robot. She's a changeling sex robot. Twilight is just a regular, depressingly ordinary robot with a huge brain, like Marvin the Paranoid Android. Everything bad happens to her because everyone hates her. Don't deny it. You all hate her. That's why she sits in the corner and rusts when Rarity is having changeling sex. Robotwilight hate.
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What does that make Luna?
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Well there was that one time...
hey keep it up i love the story so keep it up
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You know, I thought about doing that, but it would have interrupted the flow. It's one continuous scene, so there really wasn't anywhere I could cut it without resorting to
you need OC's?
well this was long and good and a bit of a change from other chengeling fics
Personally I am glad you kept this together as a single chapter. Longer chapters means that I've got something to read for longer rather than being left bored waiting for an update.
I like this story. Its interesting both in the conditions of discovery and what the possible results might be. I can't wait to see what happens in this.
The greatest story with ponies-are-actually-changelings was the comedy where ALL the ponies turned out to be changelings. That was so beautiful... the way it turned the absurd concept so utterly on its head and pointed out the flaws in such a cunning fashion.
That said, I shall be VERY harsh in my criticisms if you don't have a very good, well-formulated reason for this set-up.
And I am a master at logical plot analysis... especially Twilight's plot... mmmmm, dat plot...
Adult fear. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdultFear
That is all.
Congrats on the feature box.
Woa.
Heh, yeah.
If you need OC's, i can give you a bunch just off the top of my mind. They'll be all yours.
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I bucking hated that one. The Fridge Horror in it nearly broke me.
Reminded of this for some reason. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTss-ueSQvo&feature=relmfu
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Wow this just came out and it's already this popular, nice job guy!
Love the story by the way.
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Would you kindly have a nervous breakdown and make everyone think you're crazy so no one believes you when you say your old foalsitter is actually the queen of the changelings?
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I could come up OCs on my own, but I want to interact with my readers a little.
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There are so few good ones out there! Actually that's true of cliches in general. They can be the best stories, but only if you write them right. Ex: all the Cupcakes/My Little Dashie sequeripoffs out there. It's not the idea that's bad, but the way it's written...
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I fucking hate short chapters of anything arghghghh
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Fear not the dark unknown of the future, my son. I wouldn't write something as complex as this without determining how it would work first.
oh. mmm... you can use my OC Storm Shadow.
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Bioshock changling Twilight mashup? Hm... would Twi need plasmids? Oh bugger you lot have me pondering things now.
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A CHANGELING ROMANCE YES
Wow this is great I can not wait for more.
I have a possible picture for you:
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She may not look particularly distressed, but she looks less like it's a gradual thing.
Status?
Curiosity: piqued
Favorite: commencing
Thumb: waiting...
could of left twi with her mane
I was pretty sure this was going to get featured from the moment you mailed the first version to me. This is the best "X is changeling" story i've seen, and it was a pleasure to preread. This story is going places. Congrats on the feature.
I'm curious. Is this one of those things were "X was secretly a changeling the entire time and never knew it", or "X was turned into changeling at some point.". I kind've hope it's the latter, because the former usually opens up a bunch of plot-holes if it's one of the mane 6.
My OCs name is Borderline hes a grey and black unicorn with a dark red secondary ^^ if you use him great if not ill still love ya ^^
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Thanks. It wouldn't have turned out half as well without your help!
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You'll find out... eventually...
My OCs name is Borderline hes a grey and black unicorn with a dark red secondary ^^ if you use him great if not ill still love ya ^^
Im not sure if i already posted this and it derped or I posted this on a now very confused author's page who is now wondering why i sent him this... oh well what happens happens
Wow, great job! =O I really felt the panic and desperation, man! You got me right in the feels XD
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Lol, Yeah, I finely read through all of it, extremely well done and very descriptive without breaking story flow. Though there definitely are limits, for the most part even the most bland or simplistic story can be made a work of art with proper imagery, or likewise a wonderfully thought out and intricate story rendered worthless by the lack there of. Your story has both a well constructed backbone and flesh to go with it.
Big thumbs up!
As for why it was one big chapter I can see what you mean, its the same sort of issue that leads to many of my sentences becoming run-ons whenever I write anything.
But I think I could find a few places to make a couple breaks, I mean all three chapters would need to be posted together to make sure and hook a worthwhile hunk of readers while its still on the front page but I think you could place cuts around here,:
and over here,
Tee-hee, anyways that's where I would put it, also if you don't already have a head cannon on how/why changelings need love see what you think of my explanation in my blog, hopefully I can get around to altering it soon myself as I have decided to write the story it contains and want to eliminate what now amounts to a giant spoiler not to mention thank the ones who did reply, anyways love your story, keep up the good work.
Man. That was intense...
saw this in the new fics page, decided to skip over it, refreshes the fimfiction later, same fic is now featured, very well you have my interest
I don't usually read non-gore, non-violence, non-profound-evil-killing-a-lot-of-characters-taking-over-the-world stories...
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But you just gotta love 'em changelings... Especially when someone turns out to be one not even knowing about that before... Sort of like a sleeper agent y'know? And this, thing right 'ere seems to be this kind of story and who knows... Maybe I'll find just a little tiny bit of gore there? Small amounts of violence? One can only hope... Will read this splendidly promising story for sure!
Bloood!
You just always have to put something like this in every single comment?
Well, technically I'm YOU so YOU'RE putting it there...
Well played...