> Changeling Shenanigans > by theassassin > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prologue > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Queen, we must kick one out to make room! "Why can't we just expand?" "It will take too long, my Queen." "I don't care! I refuse to throw out one of my subjects!" yelled Queen Chrysalis. Her and the Hive's Local Issue Committee were discussing a certain topic: the Hive. Wait, you already knew that? Oh well, story's over. Just kidding, there's more to it. They're discussing about what to do, kick out a changeling to make room for a game room, or to expand and wait for the game room. Queen Chrysalis wanted to be a good ruler to her changelings, and wait for the game room. However, the entire committee acted selfish, wanting the game room more than the respect of the other changelings. Due to this, the Committee of 14 changelings won, and an unlucky changeling had to leave the Hive. All of the changelings grouped together to form a crowd around a stage with a podium on it. The Queen stood by the podium. She looked at the podium, then at a microphone that sat offstage. She did this repeatedly until she finally stopped, grabbed microphone with her magic, and started her speech, "I know you're all aware of why we're all here today. We are here to choose the poor, poor changeling that shall leave us for today, and every other day that is yet to come. We are releasing a changeling into the outside world, alone. I know that this is unlike me, due to the fact that I know that we are greatly frowned upon by the other creatures of Equestria. But this wasn't my choice, for the HLIC decided against me, and wanted to game room so badly, that they betrayed us to get it. I'm sorry." With those two words, the changelings burst into tears. Yes, the HLIC is evil. You all believe me. Chrysalis thought. After the changelings stopped crying, with the exception of most of the young changelings, the lights went out. Everyling thought that the power went out. After all, this room was at the top of the Hive, inside an abandoned movie theater that was turned into the Hive's top layer as most of the changelings built the many floors below. Today, many changelings, but not even half of the entire changeling population, continued the work of their ancestors, who were under Queen Sectonia's harsh reign, unlike today's changelings that lived under Queen Chrysalis' kinder rule, who were treated fairly and got rights, while their ruler would do anything to keep her subjects alive, even invade a royal city during a royal wedding that belongs to a powerful civilization, just to get a food source. Luckily, when the changelings were launched, they found a different yet better food source. However, Queen Chrysalis wanted revenge, but she didn't get it, and was forced to leave and find a new place to live. She and her changelings tracked and found the movie theater, and moved into it. Luckily, the food source was brought along, and the changelings... farmed?... it. They ended up turning the place into their Hive, where the lights are currently out. Suddenly, a spotlight popped up, and started roaming around the crowd. "Wherever the spotlight stops, the changeling under it will be banished. Good luck!" the Queen informed. She had said it in such a cheerful tone but on the inside it hurt. She didn't want to banish one of her changelings, but she had to. She watched as the spotlight struck fear into the changelings, knowing that the eerie silence was caused by everyling holding their breath. When it stopped, an unexpected event happened. A claw shot out from the ceiling and grabbed the changeling under it and lifted him up. After that, the spotlight went off and the normal lights went on. The Queen heard the unharmed changelings release a sigh of relief as they discovered that they were fine. However, she and many other changelings were disturbed as the rest of the event continued. Several changelings fainted at the sight and sounds of the next part, while others screamed, cried, and even vomited. It was horrid. It was terrible. The changeling that was grabbed up by the claw was releasing blood curdling screams as the claw moved arounaround above the crowd. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! IT'S DIGGING INTO MY STOMACH! AAAAAAAAAAGH!" he screamed. Several more changelings fainted and vomited as the looked up and saw the claw digging into the changelings stomach, knowing the horror that would happen if it dug into his stomach any further. They hoped that it wouldn't happen, but it did. The claw compressed, smashing through the changeling's exterior, crushing it's rib cage as the changelings screamed, vomited, and fainted more and more. Some just stood there in horror, unable to move. Some went into shock. The claw eventually dropped the changeling's carcass down. While some Hive guards grabbed it and disposed of it, a servant came over to warn the Queen of some bad news. "Umm, Queen. Two things." he said. "First off, the claw was faulty, so we shut it down and will be replacing it. Secondly, we still need to banish a changeling-" "WHAT?" the Queen shouted. "ONE OF THE CHANGELINGS JUST DIED AND WE STILL NEED TO BANISH ONE?" "Y-yes, ma'am, the changeling had a brother who was his roommate, and he is still occupying the room." he said in a voice that was almost a whisper. The Queen seemed enraged about this, but remembered that she had to set a good example for the changelings. She took deep breaths and calmed herself down. Then she noticed something else that she hated even more. "Woah, dude, did you see how he exploded?" a changeling said. He was standing in a commotion circle with some other changelings. His question was answered with a series of "yeah man"s and " yep"s. But one of them, who the group of changelings only befriended for his brain and to have someone to sacrifice to those who catch them doing trouble, noticed the Queen's rage. "Umm, guys?" he said. But he was too late. "YOU ALL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? JUST A LITTLE JOKE?" the Queen yelled, startling the ones who didn't notice her, which was the entire circle except the sacrificial changeling, who didn't even answer the question. "Umm, no. It... It was all Buzzer's idea!" the one who asked the question said as he grabbed Buzzer and as always, lied to get him in trouble to see his behind. "BUZZER! I NOW BANISH YOU FROM THE HIVE! IF YOU STEP FOOT IN HERE AGAIN, I WILL TEAR YOUR LIMBS OFF!" Chrysalis screamed. With that, she grabbed Buzzer and dragged him outside. "Wait here." she said. She stopped yelling but she didn't seem any less angry. She went back inside and came out again about 4 minutes after. She probably went to the love supply to get more power. Buzzer thought. "Now that I have gotten lots of power from the love supply, it's time to send you somewhere else." Chrysalis said as she charged her spell. "Get ready to blast off again!" After she said her Pokémon reference, she released the spell, blasting Buzzer far away. Then, she walked inside and continued her day. Buzzer was scared. He didn't want to die. He didn't have the spell the protected him during and after the invasion of Canterlot. Speaking of Canterlot, he was about to land there. Wait. HE WAS ABOUT TO DIE! Then he remembered his wings. He buzzed them and tried to steady himself. Luckily, he somewhat did. He knew that the landing wouldn't kill him, but it wouldn't feel like landing on pillows, either. As he was getting closer to his landing, he saw the six ponies that defeated him and his kind long ago. He wondered if he was welcome again. Probably not, so he wouldn't take any chances. He realized something else he could do. He could have fun! He could trick people with his shapeshifting! He got so distracted on what he could do, he ended up forgetting that he was about to crash. BAM! He started to hurt a lot, and all he saw was black. But before he completely lost consciousness, he heard four words. "All aboard to Ponyville!" Then, he heard four more words because the author wasn't done with the chapter yet. "Are you girls ready?" Then, he lost consciousness. > Vs. Twilight Sparkle > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Who? What? When? Where? Why? Banana?" our lonely insect said rapidly as he woke up. He shook off his grogginess and took in the environment around him. Everything felt fuzzy, yet everything was dark. He felt cramped in his position, and he was constantly being bumped around. He tried to find an opening, but he couldn't escape. "What is this magical forcefield of darkness?" Buzzer mumbled to himself. He decided not to move, just in case if struggling made the situation worse. He could hear voices all around him, but he couldn't recognize any of them. Also, there were so many that he couldn't even pick out a single word of dialogue. Then, he heard a door open, and close a bit afterward. The voices disappeared after the door closed. Suddenly, there was a big bump, and he stopped getting bumped around completely. Then he heard comprehensible dialogue. "Spike, could you unpack my bags? I need to make dinner." a female voice said. Of course! Buzzer was in a storage compartment of some sort. Then he realized that he was going to be discovered. Buzzer panicked. He couldn't get caught. Luckily, he was gifted in magic skills, so he knew lots of spells to help him out of this situation. He used a temporary ghost spell to go through the walls of his prison and float into a different room, all while being invisible. He didn't know what ponies were capable of, so he was so nervous that he closed his eyes the whole way. When he opened his eyes, he was in a fancy room of some sort. He figured it was a pony castle, he knew since he was good at most of his classes, and foreign architecture was one of them. As the spell faded into him being translucent instead of completely transparent, Buzzer got an idea. But he needed time to plan it. For now, he decided to stealthily watch. "But Twilight! I don't want to do your work! I want to go outside!" a small, purple and green, wingless dragon with a German accent said. "Spike, I need to finish dinner. I have no idea why you're complaining about doing my work now, but I need you to do it. I can't get distracted because this recipe is very precise!" the lavender pony with a dark purple mane that had a pink stripe in it who owned the female voice that meant she was Twilight said. (Definitely NOT a run-on sentence with grammatical errors) Spike went to the room he needed to go to, grumbling along the way. Luckily, Buzzer picked off a bit of info he needed. "...stupid Twilight Sparkle..." With that info, Buzzer had the last bit of information he needed to initiate his plan. Luckily, he was still in translucent ghost form, since it lasted a lot longer than transparent ghost form. He shapeshifted into a purple pony with a dark violet mohawk mane with a book as his cutie mark (not my OC, I just made it up in 20 seconds) He floated over above the lavender pony to activate his plan. "Twilight Sparkle, I am the ghost of your father." Buzzer said. "No you're not! My dad is still alive and he looks nothing like you!" Twilight countered. "Oh umm... I meant to say that I am the ghost of your great great great 2 minutes later great great grandfather." Buzzer said. "I don't think the entire species of ponies was colorful that far back." she said before she paused and picked up a book with her magic. "According to this book, an unknown fraction of ponies that far back were slaves to evil creatures called humans, and the free ones weren't smart enough to save the other ponies or start civilizations yet. Also, there were no unicorns or pegasi, and I see a horn on your ghostly head." "Ummmm... Yeah, but." Buzzer sputtered. "Screw it." He flew through the wall and exited the building.