A changeling defect escapes into Equestria as another pony, having to face the life of a normal filly. Meanwhile, she writes in a small journal she finds. This is what she's written.
FIFTY TWO an escaped changeling defective escapes exile, only to face the life and hardships of being a pony. She finds a journal and a pencil, and uses it as a diary. This is what she has written, and shows her thoughts, hardships, and life. She faces things like school,bullies, and everything else. Can she make it through?
Dear Diary, Okay, I found this thing stuck in a tree by The Hive, there's no words in it, so I guess I'll just write in it. Let me introduce myself, I'm 52. No, I'm only 2 years old. My name is 52, and I'm a defective. Defectives have different qualities then expected by the Queen. Some are mean, some are shy, some are nice. For me, a lot of things. First, changing HURTS a lot! I'm also afraid of heights, but thats just because I was flung off into oblivion after seeing my species terrorize a happy little town called Canterlot. That wasn't the finest experience.. I'm also clumsy, talkative, and sometimes sarcastic. Luckily, I have a few good traits with my defectiveness too, not many though. I can turn filly-size, not many changelings can do that. And.. You know, when I said a few, I lied. My bad traits overrule the good ones in the eyes of the queen. So, the queen hates me. In the Canterlot invasion, I caused a bit of a stir.. I accidently bumped into a rock, which then rolled downhill, rolling over a changeling.. That wasn't nice. I also flew face-first into a changeling elite. Elites are special changelings, they're usually defects too. But the good overrules the bad. They're smarter,stronger, and basically they're super-changelings. They get high ranks and special armor and actual names, instead of just numbers. So, when I flew into the changeling before I gained my heights fear, he bumped into another, and then the chain began. I ended up weakening the army enough for the queen to have to send three brainwashed ponies to attack Princess Cadence and Twilight Sparkle, so they escaped, interrupted the marriage, and the mushy stuff defeated us and blew us into oblivion at nine hundred miles per hour. Doesn't that sound fun? Yeah. It doesn't. Oh wait, the queen is asking for number #52, thats me, so I have to go. I'll hide this journal in my piece.
Okay, I'm back, in my piece. Oh, and, you don't know what a 'piece' is do you? Well, pies are, well, their like houses. But their little dents or holes in the side of the Hive. The Hive is huge, huge enough to have a capacity of over 5 million changelings, thats really big. The only problem is finding your piece. Luckily I've memorized the spot of my piece. Sadly, I have a really small piece, and its originally empty. We have to figure out what to put in it and how to get it. Personally, I think mine looks best. In my piece, I have a few pillows I found and a box. I put stuff in the box, and I sleep on the pillows. I hid this journal under a bunch of stuff in the box. Elites have bigger pieces and it comes furnished, honestly I don't think its fair they get all the praise and good stuff just because they were born strong and everything, I mean, they're as much as a defective I am! I can't really do much about it though, the queen doesn't like being disturbed. Oh... Have you ever wondered what I was doing after I stopped writing to see the queen? Yeah.. I wasn't lying when she said she hated me, she hates me at a level where she wants me, and a few other defectives, dead. Yep, actually dead. Me, 162, and 4. 162 is even differenter then I am, he has green eyes and a longer "mane", that and he can be REALLY moody and annoying! Hes like a dude-diva. 4 doesn't have wings, and has a smaller horn, shes also scared of just about everything and she can hurt herself really easily. She planned to make the three of us dead. I can see why she is fine with it though, having less changelings to take care of would seem great to her I bet. She has to feed us. All 3 thousand of us, and theres not enough love to go around. Sometimes we're lucky enough to ambush a family of ponies that stupidly walk by. I think I know of a question you might be asking though, if your a pony reading this in maybe like twelve billion years. If we feed off love, why can't we just walk up to everypony and hug them? Well, there's a reason. There's a lot of us, more then the main population of Canterlot. If the pony we feed off of is willing, the amount we get is cut in half, because it doesn't harm the pony, and most of the love is a need to ponies, if the pony is unwilling and the feeding is forced, then all of the love is feed off of, fulling strengthening and powering the changelings. We need all the love we can get, though the queen usually hordes most for herself, but she still feeds us all too because she'd be weak without her army, while still having all the enemies in Equestria. I'm hearing a couple of changling hatchlings talking about rumors.. I think their talking about a changeling origin story.. I'll listen and see what their talking about.
Their saying something about flutterponies and discord.. I think its how discord turned the flutterponies into changelings, but the changelings being still existant after his defeat.. Weird. That means I could of been a flutterpony. But I think I need to think of something to escape the death sentence. I don't think I should include 4 and 162, it might seen suspicious to her if we're all talking together, and might speed it up. I don't think I could simply fly out, because first, I hate flying. I'm scared of heights, these wings are useless to me and sensitive. With that out, I can't walk to the door, because there IS no door. Theres a huge trailing tunnel in the very top of the hive, because the hive is underground. My teleportation magic is also to weak to reach all the way up there, anyway, it only works if we picture the place we're teleporting to. I have absolutely no clue what it looks like, because this isn't the first hive, and I was passed out when I got here. Plus theres guards and non-defectives. Non-defectives wish to be elites or guards, and will attack any who do anything which the queen deems wrong. Guards are like non-defectives with the attacking, but they have armor and weapons so they're even worse. Don't even get me STARTED on the elites. But then again, changelings are aloud to wander and talk to eachother so I may just be able to figure something out.. But with who? If I spoke a single word to 4 or 162 I might be instantly killed! Wait.. Theres a chamber in the lower parts of the hive.. In that chamber? Ponies. A lot of them. Mares, stallions, earth ponies, unicorns, pegasi.. All in clear green chrysalises. Ponies have families,friends, and they can be trusting. What if, I freed a pony and had them help me escape in return for me aiding in their escape? If it didn't work, at least it could cause a distraction and allow me to.. to.. fly.. I'm afraid of heights. I absolutely hate flying. But if its either flight or death.. I'd soar at speeds that could impress the Wonderbolts! How I know the wonderbolts, is I saw a poster for them in the Canterlot Invasion. It said they were an elite group of flight pegasi and the poster advertised a flight show. I wonder if the invasion got in the way. All I have to do, is figure out how to unsuspiciously walk into the chamber, chose a pony (preferably pegasi since if they freak out and try to escape they'll fly in the middle of the entire hive alerting the entire army), then figure out how to free them. Should be simple enough. Wait.. The queen is calling for the entire army to gather in the middle of the hive.. I'm unsure about this. I'm going to hide under the pillows and watch and see if its the exile.. If so, I'm gonna hurry towards the chambers!
I'm back, and I'm sitting in the back of the chamber. I'm not even going to ATTEMPT to look at what she's planning to do to 4 and 162, I can't make a plan with them or else we'd all die. I'm looking all the trapped ponies, and it seems their emotions and looks from when they were trapped are still there. A few of them look horrified.. Some look like they'd be crying, but they've been in there so long the tears dried up, some look like their attempting to escape, and some just look sad.. Its scary in here.. Its dark, besides glowing cacoons full of terrified,horrified,angered,and sad ponies.. I'm looking for a pegasus, and theres one that looks strangely different.. She doesn't have just a one or two colored mane, it looks like every color of the rainbow.. She looks more angry then sad or terrified, she looks like she was trying to kick something.. Maybe a changeling, actually, she probably was. She has blue fur, and shes a pegasus. I think I'll probably choose her, because she looks so different, and I'd like to see her reaction. This is a bad idea, though. She'd probably go crazy and kick everything and fly out. I'm doubting her speed, though. She'd probably get caught if she tried. I think their about to start looking for me, I'll get her out of there.
I did a favor to the hive by freeing her! She'd be the most insane changeling yet! Transformed changelings are usually more demented and aggressive then natural-born ones. Rumors say its because they remember their past life and are angry that they were transformed into a changeling, if so, I feel bad for the poor ponies that are still in the chrysalises. I'm trying to regain my breathe, sitting under a tree. You'd probably guess how it went. Not well. She even tried to kick me! When I said I doubted her speed? Yeah I was wrong. The only way she didn't get out was because she blasted into the queen! All of the elites and guards were all over her and she was fighting back, hard. I freaked out and flew out as fast as I could, so I'm not sure if she ever escaped. But now, I'm free. Its sunny, bright green grass, a couple pretty white clouds in the sky.. Its prettier then the black and green dark hive. But I'm not safe, I'm never safe. I'm not safe in the hive, not safe out here. Ponies fear changelings, and hate them. Being a weak, lone changeling in the middle of Equestria isn't safe. I'd need a disguise, but I'm terrible at acting.. Well, what if I hid, looked at some ponies, and changed into a combination of them? It should work, I haven't discovered all my defects yet so maybe I might even be able to pull of my own original look! Probably not. I've stared at a group of three fillies, one has a curly mane and a white coat, shes a unicorn with green eyes, an orange pegasus with a purple mane that oddly resembles a hen, and a yellow earth pony with a red mane and a big bow. Ponies are girlish colors, usually. I don't want to look different. How about a curly mane with a white coat, red mane, and greyish purple eyes? Well no.. It would seem to much like copying. I'll keep staring at ponies. A pink mare with a fluffy hot pink mane! Wait.. I have an idea.. White coat, curly mane, hot pink mane and tail, unicorn, with hot pink eyes? The rainbow pegasus had bright pink eyes. The color combination seems fitting, I like it. I don't want to get caught up in adult pony things, like jobs and bits and stuff, so I'll be a filly, obviously a blank since I don't have any good talents. I'll change now, It worked! I look like a filly unicorn now, so I can go to Ponyville and Canterlot safely. I'm in the middle of Ponyville, its around morning I think, and its looking pretty busy. There's pegasi up above kicking, sleeping on, and moving clouds. Down to my level theres those fillies again, but this time theres foru of them, their being joined by an orange earth pony with a red mane and a short tail. Theres also many different types of pegasi,unicorns,and earth ponies wandering around,talking,working, going into buildings.. Its a good thing though, so I'm not any different to any of them. I'll put this in my "mane" and go walk around and see what I can learn about what ponies do.
I was noticed pretty quickly... A bright pink mare with blue eyes and a REALLY squeaky,happy voice appeared out of nowhere in front of me and started talking about not seeing me before and parties at 900 miles per hour! I think she also mentions pickles and mantis shrimps. After that, she just gasped and flew away.. The weird is she wasn't even a pegasus so I don't really know how she even managed to do that. A bit after that, a ear-bursting bell rang. All of the fillies started walking and running to the source of it, so I started too since I look like a filly and I should do what fillies do. I walked to it, and it ends up looking like a school with a schoolbell. I also walked by a weird..blue..box? It said "PUBLIC POLICE BOX" on it, and I don't really understand why it was there for. I really just ignored it since I don't want to get involved in anything if its not supposed to be there. So I went to school, and the first thing I saw was a large group of fillies all sitting in desks. I sat down at a random empty desk next to a fully grey filly with a silvery mane, with glasses and a necklace. Her cutie mark was a spoon. She was whispering to another filly, who looked even fancier then her. She was a pink filly with a purple and white mane, and a wooden tiara with grey paint and some of those little sparkly diamond-looking cheap thingies you see every now and then. I like sticking those things to me. She also had blue eyes, and her cutie mark was a tiara. I bet she gets bullied a lot for that, her talent being the fact she has a tiara on her head. And the filly shes whispering back to, whos talent is a spoon. School started then the teacher walked in. She said her name was Miss Cheerilee, and she sounded cheerful enough, being a pony. She started to talk about cutie marks, and I looked to the filly I was next too, who couldn't stop having a happy little gossip with her friend. I was a bit annoyed, and a few minutes later, recess began! Everypony walked outside, and thats when my AMAZINGLY AMAZING fight began. No sarcasm at all.. The two filliesI sat by started calling me a "Blank flank" and chanted it annoyingly,and as an insult. A group of three blanks walked past us, trying to look small,unseen, and quiet. I'm guessing these are the bullies. I started namecalling back to them, using things like "your talent is the fact you have a crown on your head!" and "Your cutie mark is a stupid spoon, and your crown doesn't even look real!" they paused a few seconds after my first insult, I guess they were just a couple of spoiled brats that weren't used to fillies fighting back, and then they started using more things then just 'blank flank'. I ended up backing up and they kept walking toward, luckily, untill I was next to a mud puddle. Perfecto. I shoved the one with the crown into the mud, and then I just pulled on the hair of the grey one with the lenseless glasses. The teacher walked over, and then disaster struck. They started playing victim and saying "We just walked by and then she started bullying us, Miss Cheerilee!".
I hate those fillies. I will get payback. I need to go, detention is about to start and I'm not supposed to do anything, even write in this journal. I'll be planning justice and revenge.
Detention is over! I didn't get a good plan though. The most I did was make fart noises with my armpit and hoof, the teacher made me stop. I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to do, schools over, and I'm standing in the middle of a nearly empty Ponyville. I guess I'll check out that place that looks like a super-sized gingerbread house. It turns out its a bakery. Its empty and dark, the only thing living thing besides me I see in it is some toothless baby crocodile staring at my with its creepy little purple eyes. Its really dark, I can barely see th
SWEET MOTHER OF THE QUEEN! Thats why it was dark! You know that pink pony that talked at the speed of light then gasped and flew off? Her cutie mark are balloons, she said her name is Pinkie Pie and she made this welcome surprize party for me. Did she invite Ponyville? I'm not sure, but theres a wall-eyed pony here eating all the muffins, A purple alicorn with a straighter mane and a big crown,and.. I'm impressed. Before this day, nopony has ever escaped the Hive when they got trapped in a chrysalis. But she did, and while doing it she kicked the entire elite force in the face about 5 times. The rainbow pegasus, she got away. The pink pony calles her "Dashie" I guess thats her name. Theres also about five trillion other ponies in here, and cake, cupcakes, punch bowls, hot sauce muffins and bagels.. And pink and white balloons everywhere! The size of the party is gigantic. I'm sitting up top writing in this real quick. I need to see what types of food and everything ponies like to eat, I'm new here so its not like anypony is in love with me. Hopefully I can eat pony foods instead of just love. I really hope, or else I'd get caught by feeding off of love in the middle of a party that's made up of the population of Equestria, I think I even see a couple griffins here!
I'm back, and I've found edible golden diamond encrusted deliciousness wads of harmony and friendship. Ponies call them cupcakes, I love them. I can't stop eating them, seriously I'm writing and eating at the same time and I'm trying to wipe all the crumbs off this page. I love cupcakes so much! The punch is also great, it tastes very tropical and yummy. I think I'll make it a need for me to eat a cupcake every day, then I can simply feed off my love for cupcakes. Changelings don't need love to survive, so I can eat it all and stay fine since if I eat my own love, I'll just keep remaking that love by eating a cupcake. This is going well. I still can't be totally happy though, at least till I punch those bully-fillies in the face a few times and not get in trouble for it. I'll figure out revenge, sweet sweet revenge, but for now, I'll just eat sweet sweet cupcakes. I like parties, they have cupcakes. I'm gonna have to go.. I ran out of cupcakes.
I didn't get a full refill, the party ended a few minutes ago, maybe about 30 minutes after the last entry up there,but I know the pink fluffy party pony's name is Pinkie Pie, and the alligator is Gummy, Pinkie is also the element of laughter. That's not surprising, considering every waking moment of her life shes smiling. That also includes every nonwaking moment. Since I pretty much don't have a home here, shes letting me stay in Sugarcube Corner, that's this bakery. I like Pinkie Pie. Her mane and tail smell like cotton candy. Shes nice.
Its Saturday! No school today! That means I can do whatever. I left Sugarcube Corner to see if anythings going on outside, and its pretty and peaceful out here. Theres a slight breeze, and the suns still out, its warm. That little group of fillies is out again, and their staring at the orange pegasus.. I think the white one with the curly mane is saying "Cutie Mark Crusaders, Bird watching!, a and the earth pony one is saying "Yea, the first specimen we watch today is the chicken." The orange one doesn't look to happy about it. I don't really have much to do, and its pretty nice out here, its not like that one time there was a storm and it flooded the hive, so I'll go talk to them. Their just fillies so nothing bad could happen.
They call themselves the "Cutie Mark Crusaders", the orange one is Scootaloo, the yellow one is Applebloom, and the white one is Sweetie Belle. Sometimes Applebloom's cousin Babs Seed visits, Applebloom is 'Applejack''s sister, Sweetie Belle is 'Rarity''s sister, and Scootaloo is 'She's the coolest most awesomest pegasus in equestria! she can fly faster then the speed of sound and do a sonic rainboom! Shes totally awesome and I'm her sister! Shes gonna be a wonderbolt and when I grow up I will too! Did I mention shes awesome and fast?''s sister. Their all blanks like me, and their mission is to earn their marks and learn their talents. They asked me my name, and I had absolutely no idea how to respond. 'Hello there my commrades! I am fifty-two of the changeling hive! How life be!?' I'm not gonna say that, I can't say that. Wait a minute.. I'm a unicorn, and I have a pink friend and a pink mane and eyes.. How about Pink Magic?! I'll make my aurora pink so nopony gets suspicious! And thats what I said. Fifty-two is gone now. All that stands in hr place now, is Pink Magic. Guardian of magic and the color pink.
I'm now involved in pony things that ponies do. I'm the 5th crusader. Today we're going to ask all the ponies if they need us to do anything, to see if we can get our cutie marks that way. Applebloom is like the leader, though we all make decisions. I just remembered, I'll never get a cutie mark becasue I'm a changeling and changelings simply don't get cutie marks.. Oh well. It gives me something to do!
Its getting late, and all day we did crazy stuff like bathe pigs and hunt for Dashie's lost Daring Do book. It was fun though, and we even got a few bits out of it! We're all still blanks though. I think I should tell them about getting revenge on those bully fillies.. I really hate those bully fillies. I like the Cutie Mark Crusaders though, their nice. Okay, we're making a plan. Theirs 4 (soon to be 5) of us, so we should be able to. The bully fillies are Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon,and I'm going to have to keep watch on Diamond Tiara, Scootaloo with watch Silver Spoon, and once we find their place of residence, We'll keep planning since they won't be able to tell the teacher on us. This is going to be fun, they might even win their pranking cutie marks!
I've finally found this thing! I dropped this in a cupcake and now theres a bite mark on it, but I found it! Okay, so, I'll track everything i did earlier in this. I had a cupcake, and it had a bunch of candies shaped like the elements of harmony on it. Then I went to the library, and read this book on changelings because I wanted to see how ponies thought of us, exactly. It was more factual then having many opinions. It said it was written be some zebra named Zecora, but I don't even know if zebras exist! It talked about changeling transformation limits, the Hive, defectives and elites, lots of stuff. The thing that really caught my eye though, was "changeling transformation limits" I still have the book so I'll write out what it said.
" Chaptor Four : Changeling Transformation Limits
All changelings but the queen, have limits in transformation. When they turn into a pony, any size, any shape, any color, their energy gets slightly drained by time. When they run out, they turn back into changeling form in a slow process; usually beginning with the hooves. They can regain the energy by eating love. All other foods have no effect on them besides making them feel unhungry. The queen is a special changeling who is larger and more intelligent, but she also goes without this limit, meaning she does long-term changes more often."
I can't feel it, but that must mean every second, my energy is draining! Thats bad. Real bad. What do you think they'd do if I was discovered?! Like, burn me alive like they say the Blanks do?! Banish me to the hive where the queen would kill me?! MAKE ME EAT A WORM?! No pony is in love with me, so nopony is willing. In order to feed on a non-willing pony, it would harm them, and get ME caught! I mean, I can't just go and ask somepony "If by any chance I was a changeling, what would be a good way to feed off of love without hurting anypony?!" that would be stupid. I have absolutely no idea, and I don't know how long I have before I run out of energy. this won't be ending well.
