War with a Changeling Part 1: The Beginning

Time: 4:45 AM

Location: Ponyville resistance camp

Current status of Core: Is making an alliance with Earth pony resistance.

Earth pony alliance strength: normal, is hoping to increase this with further teamwork.

The two pony's and Core exit the library to be met with multiple guards with crossbows approaching aiming them at Core. Applejack dismissed them and told them to rally all the troops for a meeting.

"Alright the meetings at 10:30, until then I need to get back to gathering our food supply, Applebloom will keep'n eye on ya til then." said applejack with a now confident look on her face.

"YAY, first I'll give ya the tour, then...." Applebloom was cut off by Applejack who knew she would ramble on forever if not stopped.

"Maybe you should hurry up, you only have up to the meeting." Said Applejack.

"Only til the meeting? we don't have allot of time, come on Core, lets go." said the filly as she started pushing him with unexpected strength.

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As Applebloom pretty much drags Core around Ponyville she begins to start asking questions.

"So if your not like the other changelings, then that means you have different interests to them too!" Applebloom said to the changeling "Can you eat anything other than love?"

Core answers the question as polite as he can "Well actually yes I can but allot of the food I'm capable of eating is bad taste, only very, very rarely do I find a food I actually like, and when I do it's always a really amazing taste, but like I said the chances of that happening are very, very..."

Core was cut of by Applebloom shoving an apple into his mouth.

He started chewing on the apple, he tasted the 'really amazing taste' he mentioned, the fact that the first thing he ate in equestria was an apple and that apple was amazing was shocking "This is amazing, whats in this stuff?" Core said with a mouthful of food.

"No added artificial colors or flavors" Applebloom answers happily.

Core had a look of shock again "Seriously? I've been starving for about a month and all I had to do was eat an apple?"

"I new ya'll would like it, now next question, why don't you have any holes?" said Applebloom while keeping track of time.

Core shrugged at the question "Even I can't explain that one, it's just another thing that reminds me i'm not like the others."

After a while they arrived at the town hall, the meeting wasn't for a while so Applebloom recommended they rest and catch their strength, she used this time to ask more questions "Whats with the green eyes, you got a reason for that?"

This time he had an answer "Well you see, I hatched with these eyes green, I know changeling eyes are supposed to be blue, Chrysalis told me that this specific difference must have been a sign that said I should never have been hatched in the first place."

Applebloom felt like she was digging a bit to deep into the questions and decided to ask one more before resting til the meeting.

"So, what is the back plate for?" She asked.

Core gladly answered her question "Well it's actually supposed to be armor plating for battle protection, the plate itself is actually part of my body, although it's mainly used for storing things in here let me show you." Core used his magic to lift the back of the plate up and he pulled out the news paper from earlier, some of the medicine he picked up, and a helmet that could fit his head.

Applebloom was surprised how much room there was under the plate, Core realizing how this looked told her how it worked "The plate has the power to shrink any item to fit in it, I've got my whole armor set in it including a weapon in case of emergency."

Once Applebloom understood how it worked she decided to lay down and relax.

"Can I ask you something now?"  asked Core with the urge to ask a few things.

Applebloom sat up and nodded in response.

"Alright, what were you doing all alone in that old library? You know other than waiting to kick me in the back of the head." he asked with interest.

Applebloom looked down "I was trying to find memories of before this stupid war began..."

Core realized what he might have just done.

"...I mean, we used to have friends and now their gone, they could be helping there factions, they could be captured or dead or worse...!" Applebloom was close to tears getting lost in her thoughts.

Core now regretted asking in the first place, he tried to cheer her up "Hey don't think like that, have hope in you friends, because if they are as amazing as you say they are then they should be perfectly fine right now." Applebloom looked up at the changeling with a smile and tears in her eyes, she jumped into the changeling giving him a big hug.

Core was surprised at this but decided to return the hug, Applebloom said something through her tears "Thank you".

When they were done they decided to take a nap and then go to the meeting when they woke up.

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When they woke up they looked at the big clock on town hall, the time was 10:25 AM, they got up and headed towards the entrance of town hall where meeting was taking place.

Applejack was there with two crossbow wielding guards next her, she had a large map in front of her with what looked like every troop leader in ponyville gathered around it.

Applebloom had went to sit next to Applejack, Applejack had gestured Core to sit in an empty space on the opposite side of the table, he sat down in the said seat and was ready for the meeting.

Before the meeting began one of the leaders to the right of him was nudging his shoulder "You must be that Changeling Applejack was talking about, I'm commander whooves but you can just call me the Doctor." Core looked to his right and saw...

...a brown stallion with an hourglass cutiemark.

"Doctor who?" asked Core.

"Just the Doctor, nice to meet you." He extended his hoof as if to hoof shake.

Core accepted the hoof shake with interest "Your the first pony I've met who hasn't wanted to kill me upon meeting, what's your deal?"

The Doctor's answer didn't sound truthful but instead sounded like an over used lie "Well I figured if I ever met a Changeling like you I would take the opportunity to know you and maybe make a new friend."

Core smiled at this and said "Sure, I've only got like two other friends anyway."

After a bit of idol conversation with The Doctor, the meeting began, Applejack dimmed the lights so the map was more visible, now that it was easier to see Core noticed multiple area's on the map marked 'UNICORN TERRITORY' and others marked 'PEGASI TERRITORY', Applejack begun to speak "Alright, as you may have heard, a changeling has joined our resistance with the intention of ending this war." some of the leaders looked at Core "I'm afraid I have bad news from the frontier, our scouts in the Unicorn empire have not been sending any reports lately..." one of the leaders looked down and stamped his hoof on the ground in anger "...I'm sorry Tedeth, I never should have sent your sister, she was too young to leave the camp."

The leader known as Tedeth got up and left town hall.

Applejack continued "(sigh), anyway pinkie has reported that the pegasi in the sky fortress have started constructing some sort of war machine and 'Ropony' production has increased, pushing our forces back across the pegasi city. But our biggest concern is the Unicorn empire expansion, Intel says their taking the wounded alive and executing any surviving leaders."

The leaders began to sound worried and confused Core heard somepony say "Well that's it, isn't it, game over we lose, what are we supposed to do now?" and this made him snap.

Core jumped onto the table and began to speak "NO! We have not lost yet, it's NOT game over, AND WE ARE NOT DOOMED!" his outburst dragged the attention of everypony in the room "You don't understand whats happening, you need new tactics or they'll just adapt to your current ones, look yourselves, you may think that because you've lost so much that the war is already lost, but just look at yourselves, I look at you and you remind me of when I was cut, deep into my rib cage, I was weak and badly wounded, but when I look at myself now I think of one thing and one thing only..."

All the leader's were entranced by the speech, they stood there waiting for those next words.

"I AM STILL ALIVE