War with a Changeling Part 1: The Beginning

...he turned the page, the headline reading WAR UPDATE'S, he read each section bit by bit....

WAR UPDATE'S

EARTH PONY TERRITORY IS DECREASING RAPIDLY AS THE UNICORN EMPIRE HIRE'S MERCS TO KILL OF RESISTANCE LEADERS!

EARTH PONY RESISTANCE LEADER APPLEJACK IS HOLD UP IN THE PONYVILLE LAST STAND BASE KEEPING THINGS UNDER CONTROL!

COMMANDER PINKIE PIE HAS BEGUN AN ASSAULT ON THE PEGASI AIRBORNE WAR FORTRESS/CITY, AND IS NOW CURRENTLY IN A 'DEADLOCKED' BATTLE AGAINST PEGASUS LEADER RAINBOWDASH!

RUMORS OF DISAPPEARANCES NEARBY THE EVERFREE FOREST HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED AS THE FOLLOWING: WILD BEARS, TIMBERWOLFS, POSSIBLE SAVAGE WILD LIFE, AND MORE CREATURES THAT WE WOULD RATHER NOT MENTION.

CHANGELING ACTIVITY HAS INCREASED AS THE UNICORN EMPIRE HAS ORDERED GENERAL SAB GERAL TO MAKE SURE THESE CHANGELINGS ARE NO LONGER A THREAT.

MORE UPDATES TOMORROW.

Core began to feel pain in his back, he thought it might be his cut wound and decided that his first priority would be to find something to heal the wound. He began to search the ruined house in the hopes he would find some bandages or medical supplies.

He checked the upper level of the structure, the stairs were worn out and broken, he couldn't fly up as that would make the wound worse, so he very slowly walked up the stairs and up into a surprisingly intact hallway, the hallway had three doors, one on the left, one on the right and one at the end of the hall, if there were any other doors they were crushed and blocked off.

First he chose the door on the left, it had no handle, (it had fallen off), so he just pushed it open, it was the bathroom, he entered and the first thing to catch his eyes was the smashed mirror and the shards of broken glass placed in the bath. As Core went to check the cabinet behind the mirror, he saw large burn marks along the side of the tub, when he got to the cabinet he opened the door and found some medicine, it was barely enough to keep a burn mark from hurting let alone a fractured rib cage. He put under his back plate with his magic, he knew it might be the only supply he would find.

He exited the bathroom and turned his attention to the door on the opposite side of the room, it was only a top half of the door and was presumably a clean cut considering the other half was on the floor behind the door. Core warily walked over to the door, he touched handle that had survived and the door just fell straight off the hinges. He entered the room which on first view looked like a bedroom, but on closer inspection he realized it was a fillies bedroom, this room was different to a normal fillies room and had a pile of dust next to the fillies bed, and allot of burn marks everywhere, he saw a pile of bandages and some more medicine. He went strait for the bandages and before grabbing the medicine started wrapping the wound with the bandages, after five minutes of wrapping the bandages on the wound like a highly untrained doctor who was doing surgery for the first time, he grabbed the medicine and left the quite room.

Upon exiting he saw the door at the end of the hall again, he already had the necessary meds to heal his wounds but he felt there could be something else he would need in that very room, he walked towards the door, the perfectly intact door, the door with no damage, the door with a strange red light coming from the other side. He got to the door, he could hear himself thinking 'Turn around and leave' but he couldn't help but think if he left without looking through the door he would regret it, but a similar came to mind, if you open that door and see whats inside, you WILL regret it, but Core chose to investigate the unknown, if he left he would never know, so he opened the door.

He looked inside with horror and pain, after exactly fifteen seconds from opening the door he slammed it shut, he immediately began to gallop out of the ruined building fast, he ran out in any direction that wasn't leading to the house, what he saw was two pony corpses, one a Pegasus and the other a Unicorn, the unicorn's corpse was split in half with insides facing the door, a singed picture of the filly in the pegasi's hoof, and there was blood everywhere in the room, the light was on and was surrounded by blood becoming the source of the red light.

Core stopped at the outskirts of Ponyville to breath, he didn't want to believe what he saw but he had to, he knew now how bad the war really was, he had finally realized that the place he adored and wanted to learn about, is now in a blood driven war.

He still had the news paper from earlier, he got it out and looked back at the war updates " This war is not going to last much longer,..." said the changeling with a infuriated look on his face "...not while I'm here, I'm not letting equestria turn into ruins, I may be a changeling but I will end this war before that happens." he put the news paper back in his back plate, then he noticed something in the distance, buildings surrounded by metal walls. Core figured he should head in that direction because he knew he was on the outskirts of Ponyville and need somewhere to start if he was going to end the war...