Prologue
Prologue
It was like waking up.
Like she had been sleeping but- not, and certainly not a restful sleep, nor was it exactly a nightmare. It was like that exhausting half-sleep where one could think and be aware but could not bring their body to open its eyes. A purgatory of thought and oblivion, of feeling and void. Not to mention, ‘waking’ to have the first thing she saw the big yellow eyes of their ‘friendly’ draconeqous was not exactly the best way to come out of said ‘sleep’.
“Twilight? Miss Sparkle, hello,” she felt a lion’s paw knock against the side of her head. “We don’t exactly have the time to lollygag here, wake up!”
She blinked once or twice, shutting her eyes tight and letting out a groan. Her head was throbbing, her entire body felt like it was…flimsy.
“Uh..Di..Discord?” she opened one eye, trying to get her thoughts about her. “What are you doing…what’s-“
“Oh finally!”
He disappeared from her view and she felt him pick her up from behind, a paw slapping over her muzzle. She let out a muffled cry of surprise, wriggling.
“Listen, you can’t make a sound, understand? Make a sound and both of us are in trouble, not to mention every other thing capable of emotion on this world.”
Was this one of his tricks? Granted the spirit had promised to cease such actions ever since Fluttershy befriended him, but she still wouldn’t put it past him to do something like this as an elaborate joke. At least, that’s what she wanted to think; his voice was….eerily somber, it was almost as if he was being…serious? No that was ridiculous, if Discord was ever really serious it’d be a sign of the end.
It was then she finally realized where she was.
Her purple eyes widened dangerously, taking in her surroundings. Black and green, everywhere; bulbous green sacks pulsing on the walls, the ceiling. What looked like some type of dark wax was erected in pillars and chasms, almost like honeycomb, like a hive- a changeling hive. The mare felt her blood run cold as she realized this part of ‘hive’ had not been built from scratch, rather it had been modified from a room she was nearly certain was part of the Canterlot castle…
“Given your silence I assume you’ve caught on, about time, really Twilight I thought you were the smart one,” Discord huffed, keeping his voice hushed. “Now listen to me, you cannot panic- as much as I love ponies panicking, in this case it won’t help either of us. I need your he…haa…damn that word. You know what I mean.”
Twilight struggled with renewed vigor, attempting to shake free from the spirit of disharmony.
“Sshhh! All right I’ll let you go but you have to be quiet, all right? Don’t panic. Is that clear?”
She frowned a bit, scanning the room- the ‘hive’ chamber and desperately trying to figure out what had happened. What was going on? Then again she wasn’t going to figure anything out like this and Discord seemed to know what was going on…
“All right I’m going to let you go now, don’t panic, you won’t panic?”
She nodded her head.
“Good.”
With a brief flash of light indicative of Discord’s teleporting movements, she found herself on four legs again, looking up at the rather anxious looking ‘friend’. Discord did indeed look unnaturally serious, flashing quickly to look around the corners before appearing before her again, shrinking to the size of a rabbit and perching on top of her head.
“Look,” he whispered into her ear. “I wasn’t here, hm? We have to be on the same page about that, not that there’s anyone you could tell at the moment…”
“Discord, what’s going on?” she asked, keeping her voice down and backing up into the partially hidden corner of the ‘room’. “Is this the castle? What happened?”
“Okay well I suppose that’s second most important to explain, firstly I should probably bring your attention to your new uh…style, shall we say?”
She didn’t like the sound of that.
“What-?”
“Let’s cut to the chase here, Twilight Sparkle. To be frank, you’re a changeling now and so is everypony in Equestria- most of them anyway, I’m sure there’s a few pockets of resistance left. This was Celestia’s castle but it’s been put under new management by Queen Chrysalis, as has basically every other place.”
She froze, clenching her jaw shut and trying desperately to keep herself calm as Cadance had taught her. Before she could ask or react at all, he continued.
"I managed to find you and snap you out of it, easiest given that out of the six of you, you have the most magic wrapped up in that body of yours. Now then, you are going to need to find the rest of your companions and I can help you with that, provided you assist me with something a little more..personal, first. Given it's something I'm sure you are going to be set on doing anyway, it should not be a problem. That's the gist of it, any questions?"
“I’m a…changeling?” she managed to force, trying and failing to keep the crack out of her voice.
Discord made a snarky response that she paid no mind too, shakily looking down at her legs only to find they were not the purple pony legs she was born with. Instead ebon appendages with mottled holes meet her vision, her knees- what she thought were her knees, began to wobble dangerously as she stared down at them. She stifled a yelp and spun around, trying to get a good look at herself. Discord said something again but she wasn’t registering anything but her body, her eyes and mouth wide open in terror. Ebon body with torn, gossamer wings, an eerily purple tail, glowing dimly in the darkness also with mottled holes. She had no way to see the rest of her but it wasn’t necessary, she knew it was true.
She had been transformed into a changeling.
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