Long live the Queen.
An evil mastermind once attempted to take control of Canterlot for herself, if only for the understandable reason of being hungry and wanting to feed her army. She was quickly taken care of. But although nothing has been heard from her since and her army presumably since starved or perished, nothing can push away darkness forever.
When a select few Changelings return to Ponyville, their reception is understandably negative, and questions are asked. What brought them here? Why are they here? What are their intentions? These are only a few of their stories. Each of the Six responds to their arrival a bit differently, from sympathy to distrust to outright hatred.
All of this takes place over the course of one day, at the same time, through parallel perspectives.
EDITING UPDATES
6/26
Sad category removed. Comedy added.
6/27
Grammatical errors fixed. Continuity tightened. Short chapters extended to meet 1000 word goal.
Moar?
Just delete that "one year earlier" its totally useless and it make that one year later instead of present time like jump 2 years ?
2461153 There will be more. I'm currently in production of Angels and Demons 2, pre preproduction of Angels and Demons 3, AND writing this on top of working 40 hours a week. It will come! I promise!
2462490 Your argument is accepted. It has been done.
How interesting!
Now to hope that the changeling isn't evil, poor lil guy :v
MOAR!
:O oh no, but Rainbow Dash is stereotyped as the one who hates changelings with a passion! (Well and Twilight)
I hope their buddy will be alright :<
MOAR!
I love you Pinkie! MOAR!
I can believe that the changelings aren't evil. After all, they are, by popular consensus, a hive mind.
With Chrysalis out of the picture, they're akin to children, I'd wager.
~Skeeter The Lurker
This only gets better and better...
Plus you update every, like, five hours. How could it possibly get better :D?
2469628 I regret that there might not be an update for a day or so, I'll be on the Enterprise fighting Gorn :D I write when I can!
2 references in one short chapter, heh not bad. I hope for some longer chapters
2470423 Regrettably the chapters are not going to be that long, this is just a fun side project I do in my spare time.
Nooo crusaderling D:
*Grabs popcorn, situates self next to Pinkie*
But why didn't they stand up for their new friend...? I thought he saved their lives :(
2474002 They're not necessarily sure what to do with him, and Rainbow Dash is their all-knowing all-powerful idol. They trust Dashie.
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Though I do hope when push comes to shove they'll put in a good word for him
.... Stay outta my shed...? From the lips of AJ?
I'm not... Yeah.
~Skeeter The Lurker
2474370 But she has an actual literal shed, so it's okay!
Hey hey hey.
Then how many changelings there is ? xD
2475148 Four or five.
Nice to see you keep the continuity going on. I've always found that tricky.
~Skeeter The Lurker
It's not bad, I'm just quite lost and confused. Probably because It's pretty simple so far.
...
Wait....
HOW THE HELL AM I GETTING THIS ON A MAC???
~Skeeter The Lurker
Blue Derpy of Death.
Sounds legit.
Yes.
2482610 Yes? Yes what?
Once again, I only get two or three chapters into a story, and I already have something to say that can't wait until I'm finished.
As a rule, only one person may speak in a paragraph. If someone else has something to say, you must start a new one, no matter what. As it is now, it's often hard to keep track of who is talking.
Oh, and Scootaloo isn't yellow. She's orange.
And now, my final evaluation, having read the whole thing.
Aside from the grammar mistakes, this is a fun story. Not sure why you have the sad tag on. The way it is now, I would think the Comedy tag might be better.
Dangit, Rarity; can't you meet even one sentient creature without trying to put a dress on it?
She's Fluttergasted!
:o I do wonder if the changelings will go back to the ones they started with, if only to develop as individuals, if at all :x
.... Also crusaderling is best changeling :3
Uh sooo OOC Twilight
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Not that far OOC, really.
~Skeeter The Lurker
Twilight is supposed to be the logical nerdy one, did I portray her poorly?
Why is Twilight being so nice? Granted, it's a refreshing change from most fanfics, but I don't think she'd be THIS nice. She'd have to be at least a little bit suspicious, but here she's acting like the wedding thing never happened. Spike might be suspicious too, but considering his youth, I think he'd get over it quickly. Once that happens, then I think he'd act exactly like you've portrayed him here.
You mean "hear".
2490930 that's an excellent point. I will incorporate that into the second half
Celestia inbound! That should prove interesting.
~Skeeter The Lurker
How interesting- the princess comes on her own initiative upon hearing through intel reports instead of the cliché "letter for help". That's a refreshing change of pace.
Whoa! I gotta say I was quite startled when I saw you have Pinkie use my name in there. When you said that you'd work it into the next chapter, I wasn't expecting you to do it quite so literally.
Come to think of it, I was just as startled as Celestia and Twilight, so I guess that's a good thing- empathizing with the characters and all that, or something. Startledness is not an easy emotion to bring out using literature.
2506766 I can take it out if you don't like it, it was just my way of showing gratitude for your constructive criticism. Thank you! ^^
Is this going to span a day only? Or a number of days?
~Skeeter The Lurker
2507171 I didn't say it was bad- just unexpected.
2507204 This is all taking place during one day.
Heartfelt. Very nice.
~Skeeter The Lurker
If I understand that paragraph correctly, then you've got more than one character speaking in it. You might want to fix that.
2524298 Thank you! Fixed!
I'm calling that Spitfire's the mom.
Seems to be a popular idea.
(Here's hoping you throw us a curve)
~Skeeter The Lurker
I see Sonic X theme Song.
I LOVE THAT SONG~!
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Same idea, maybe Fluttershy too but its not in her style.