Drifter

by Purple Changeling

Chapters

Black Market Enterprise
Street Life
Home?
Prison Visit
My Past's Reckoning

Black Market Enterprise

Name: 321

Rank: 32

Position: Special ops

Division: Third

Squad: 15

Leader: Black Fang

That was all the card said. It really didn't provide me with much help to find where I was supposed to go. I lifted my head up from the paper and started to go back in the direction that I had come. I didn't care for those in my way as I pushed and shoved through the busy streets of Manehattan. The hordes of mares and stallions were so immense that it was hard to squeeze my way through them, even with force.

"Damn ponies, couldn't you just move?", I muttered to myself, still fighting to get through the crowd.

Between a pegasus and a family of unicorns, by what seemed like a miracle, I spotted a small opening that would take me out of the clustered streets! With no hesitation, I burst through it and found myself in an old alleyway.

I was lost.

"Great! Now how am I supposed to find those damn...", I was interrupted by a large earth pony walking towards me.

"Find those what?" He asked, looking at me strangely. I stumbled to answer him.

"Oh, well I um, am looking for a... um, a good pony friend of mine, and I got lost you see an-" He cut me off.

"By the Queens I hope you don't get captured or you'll squeal like a bucking pig. Now hurry up! You're late, and Black Fang isn't too happy about it."

The huge stallion then turned and walked deeper into the alley, with me trailing behind him. We reached the end of the passage and stopped in front of a giant steel door. The earth pony told me to wait while he searched through his keyring. When he took it out in front of him, I saw the ring. And my jaw dropped. I think I saw the biggest bundle of keys in the entire world. It would be hours until this big oaf found the right one! I decided to get rude.

"Geez! Do you have the key to every damn building in this city?! You're the one making me late now, dumbass!"

The huge earth pony turned and grabbed me by my horn. He slammed me hard into the ground of the alley and held me down with one hoof still on my horn. Then he whispered to me, "Listen, fella. I've had the worst day of my life and you're making it even more unbearable. Either you can shut up and stop complaining while you let me find my key, or you can be relieved of your meeting- by me."

The large stallion pulled me up by my horn until I stood on all four hooves, then continued searching his keyring. I stood and waited patiently for him while he took his precious time. I think he was doing it on purpose to see if I would snap again, but I did not fall for his trick. After what seemed like a thousand keys, I heard a metal clicking sound and sure enough, the earth pony had done it.

Now opened, was the enormous steel door. However, I was not paying attention to the door. I was looking at the towering brick walls of the alley. They practically surrounded me.The walls looked like they could fall on top of me any moment, but they never did. I had not realized that the stallion was already halfway through the door while I was in my daydream. Luckily, he got my focus back by banging on the hard steel with his hind legs. The earth pony grumbled and entered the building, with me still trailing behind.

I followed him through the dimmed corridors and didn't say anything so not to cause more problems. He stopped at another door, though this time it wasn't locked. He opened the door and told me to go in. I wasn't about to say no, so I entered the room and paused in front of an unusual scene. There were about several changelings gathered around a small table in the center of the room. They were all from different hives judging by there colors and by how far they sat from each other. At the far end sat a changeling from the green hive he was the first to speak as I closed the door.

"Ah, 321... Late as expected. Then again, you ARE from the purple hive..." Every'ling in the room started to laugh besides me for I hung my head in shame. Out of all of the changeling hives the purple hive was the laughing stalk of our race. For it was the only hive that was destroyed, and all who survived fled to safety. After a while they came out of hiding but it was of no use there was no hive to lead them and all of us where lost...

They stopped laughing and motioned me to sit, I complied.

"Anyways... "Black fang started."... Now that we are all here lets get down to business. Our target is a well known black market dealer and is also well protected. We are told that he is most known for selling slaves to the highest bidder and most of the slaves he sells are stolen from orphanages and hospitals. He has started to escalate at which the rate he sells his victims and has started to steal from the hives. We have information that he has recently stolen from the orange hive and taken all of the nymph's and the females caring for them. Their Queen has requested that we capture him and retrieve those who were taken from the hive. We are expected to encounter heavy resistance and are ordered to kill all who pose a threat. We are going to break into three main groups, group 1 you are going to enter from the basement and clear out all forces and look for the captives. Group 2 you will be with me and we will go to the main entrance and wait for group 3 to let us in. As I said group 3 you will be letting us in but you are going in from the top any way you can got it. "Every'ling in the room responded to him in unison.

"Yes sir!"

"Good, now get your gear together and get ready to head out. Oh and 321 I need to talk to you its about you group members." He said looking at me with his glowing eye's.

"Yes sir." I said, everyone else running to and from to their bag's and putting on gear and gathering weapons.

"321 or Nightshade which do you prefer?" He asked me

"It doesn't really matter to me but it would be nice to be called by my real name for once. "I said looking at him blankly.

"OK then Nightshade it is, well anyway the other members of your group are still out do to there injures. I'm sorry to say but you will have to take part in this mission on your own. You are the only one that will be in group 3 can you handle that Nightshade." He said looking at me with a small hint of worry in his voice. nodded to him before speaking.

"Yes sir I will be fine." I said turning to go and gather my gear and get ready for the mission. But it was strange for him to have worried about me, it is very unlike our kind. I shrugged it off not thinking of it any further ans started to dig through my bag. I grabbed out my whoove blade and dagger as well as my armor. I slowly put on my chest piece which was completely black. I then put on my eye piece which covered my left eye. It gave me a basic zoom of 8 as well as night-vision capability. I slung my dagger across my neck and back leaving the blade hilt hang on the base of my left shoulder. I then went over and garbed the cloaks that we all had to wear and then waited for the rest to get ready to go.

"Hey 321 got done early again I see." Said the red changeling that was now walking up to me. She was the only female on the team but had earned her place being the most gruesome of us all.

"Yes well I would have been done sooner but Black Fang wanted to talk to me." I said looking at her with an icy cold glare. She was one of the only changeling's that had any respect for me at all but was still a bitch most of the time.

"You always have some sort of excuse on why your the first one of us done don't you." She said with a sly smile returning the glare I gave her and even started to laugh a little to.

"Stop that." I said starting to get defensive but obviously she didn't listen to me and kept laughing. I then let out a large sigh.

"Oh poor Nightshade is Blood Crest bothering you again? Maybe you should stop letting her flirt with you." Said Shard laughing operatically but was stopped suddenly by Blood Crest punching him across the face and putting a knife to his neck.

"Um yeah sorry Blood Crest ... Um please don't hurt." Said Shard looking more pale than last time he insulted Blood Crest and I. But he does this a lot for some reason and he keeps doing it too? I'm not sure why but I think he's mental.

"Blood Crest stop it you can't kill him we need him. It's sad but we truly need him you can beat on your brother after the mission got it." Said Black Fang still walking to the back door where the rest of us where waiting. Blood Crest doped her brother shard with a sigh and put her cloak back on.

"Fine" She said very reluctantly. The rest of the team had now gotten there and was ready to leave.

"Well then lets get going then it will be dark soon and we need to be ready when it does." Said Black Fang as we then all left to go to the mission area.

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We gathered in front of our targets location and had gotten there just in time. But since I was part of group 3 I was positioned at a nearby high point which was just a large hill little ways away from the building. I started my advance on the building judging every possible entrance on the roof. Finding none I decided to just break a window and get in from there.

When I got to the window I tried to see if it was open first and to my luck it was! I quickly slipped inside and closed the window once again so not to let on suspicion to a random opening. I scan'ed the room i was in and noticed that it was a large hallway with many doors on each side but there was also a single guard sitting next to one of the doors. I also noticed that the guard was fast asleep so I quickly made my move so not to wake him. I took out my dagger and slit his throat letting his blood spill down his lifeless body. I then checked his body to see if he had anything of value to me. I took his key's and even the few bits he had they could be of some use when in disguise. I then went on my way down the hallway checking each door but found nothing more than empty bed rooms. Although when I stuck my head into the last doorway it had a bed full of pony's and even a griffon but the griffon was chained to the bed and shackled so she couldn't try to leave infarct all of them were except for one stallion with a sly grin on his face as he slept. I put to and to together and went into the room I jumped up and started to hovered over the bed. The griffon lifted her head and I motioned for her to stay quiet. I slowly landed on the bed and on top of the stallion. I then took my blade and drove it deep into his chest and twisted it. He shot up but was stopped by my hoof smashing his head back down. His eyes were bloodshot and he flared as he tried to escape but without warning went limp. He was dead. I removed my dagger and cleaned it on his fur. I then went over and picked the lock on the shackles and brace holding the griffon captive and let them fall to the floor.

"thank you, thank you, thank you." She said hugging me and squeezing all of the air out of me before putting me down. I then turned to her.

"Go out the door and take a left, go down the hallway and jump out of the window." She looked and me and tears filled her eye's and she was about to cry when I held her beak shut.

"No don;t cry you need to be quiet or else got it." I said, she nodded in response. I let her speak.

"I can't fly they broke my wings so I couldn't get away..." She said trailing off tears filling her eye's again.

"listen just be quiet and you can come with me ok." She motioned to the others and I shock my head no.

"We can't take them with us yet but when the rest of my team gets in I will bring you to Blood Crest and she will take care of you and help them to ok." I said hoping that she would listen and let me continue my mission. She nod'ed and I walked out the door her following me. I went to the set of stairs that lead to the floor below us. When I got down I noted that there were two more guards but these two were wide awake. I motioned for the griffon to stay put, she nod'ed. I slowly crept closer to them, I noticed a small picture hanging on the wall next to me. I garbed it and throw it across the room past the guards getting there attention. The guard closest to the sound went to investigate, in turn I slit the throat of the other guard before he came back. Sadly the guard turned around before I could make a proper move on him and had to jab him with my blade. He let out a cry of pain before I used my hoof blade to cut his neck and stop his cry's. I was behind scheduler so I kept going to the next set of stairs, the griffon close behind. When I made my way to the main floor I ran into group 1 who was just cleaning up the last of the guards.

"Your late Nightshade you were suppose to bet us here" Said Shard as he stabbed the last guard in the chest. The others of the group looked at me before one asked.

"Whats with the griffon." He said pointing to her.

"I found her upstairs it looked like she needed help so I lent her a hoof. But I need Blood Crest to help her right now there are still some others on the top floor and I know Blood Crest would like to be the one to do so." I said walking down the last few steps and going to the door to let in group 2. They all nod'ed as I opened the door letting in Black Fang, Blood Crest, and 476.

"did I hear my name?" Said Blood Crest as she came through the door and looked around her. Her eye's landed on the griffon and then she barred her teeth.

"Ok I got it give to me I'll take care of the rest..." She then turned to Black Fang. "... That is if its ok with you sir?" She said He nod'ed to her and without a second word went with the griffon and started to talk in hushed whispered.

"Nightshade you and Shard come with me. 476 and Taco stay here until we get back." Said Black Fang

"I thought I said to stop calling me taco sir?" Said Taco

"Well then you shouldn't have stopped mid-mission to eat one!" He said in response still walking towards the gold plated doors Shard and I in tow. We entered the door and inside it was mostly empty there was some furniture and other things here and there but over all it was a fairly blank room.

"spread out don't want to get trapped" Said Black Fang. In response shard and I split off and stuck to the wall. Black Fang walked up to the next door and slowly opened it. To our surprise a guard jumped out and drove a sword straight into him killing him instantly. Shard quickly cut him down with his sword and we watched as his body split from the neck and shoulder making him two. I checked the next room as Shard check Black Fang seeing if there was anything left we could do or anything on hi we may need. The other room had a large desk with a signal pony sitting behind it there were also two guards on ether side.

It was five against two and maybe four on two depending on if he would fight or not. To my relief he waved his hoof and the four guards charged us. Shard killed the first two using his throwing knives getting direct hits on both of them. I took the next one throwing my dagger into him and hitting him in his chest. I quickly ran up and stab'ed the other with my hoof blade barely missing his attack on me before turning to the first one I killed and retrieved my dagger. Taking my dagger I then slit his throat, he fell into a pool of blood and even made a splash as he hit the floor. I then turned my attention to the pony at the desk and saw Shard making his move. I quickly ran to assist him but before I could the pony behind the desk shot him with a crossbow. He flew back and hit the ground hard before sliding to a stop. He had managed to reload and point his weapon at me but wasn't fast enough for I drove my blade deep within his skull and left it there. I then quickly ran to Shard who was still conscious.

"You weren't suppose to kill him you..." He started to cough up blood then spoke again. "You idiot..." He said. "But help me up will you I'm just a little weak right now."He looked at me I could tell he was scared.

"Don't worry Shard I'll give you a ride back to the main room I heard that Taco is one of our best medics." We both laughed as I gently put him on my back.

"Yeah maybe but only ... only when he's not hungry." We laughed again as I brought him to the room. I gave him to Taco and 476 and they immediately started medical procedures. I looked to my left and saw that Blood Crest had gotten the rest of the slaves from upstairs and was also covered in blood. She came up to me and had a worried look on her face.

"Were's Black Fang?" She said tears in her eye's I knew that they were lovers but was taken back when I saw her cry. No'ling had ever seen her cry before and truly she had every reason. I shock my head and the tears came down her face as if a damn had broken. In between sob's she asked.

"...and w-what of Sh-Shard?" I put my hoof on her shoulder and moved so she could see her brother on the ground 476 and Taco working on him fiercely to stop the bleeding.

"Is...is he going t-to be alright?" She asked me I turned to look at him myself and closed my eye's before looking back to her.

"I don't know." Was the last thing i was able to say before she burred her head in her hoof's and cried.

Street Life

"You failed the mission! All you had to do was go in and get the captured changelings but you failed! I can't believe you even came back to report to the board about your failure! Your squad is a complete disgrace to this organization and have made a laughing-stalk of our race! If I were aloud to I would throw all of you out myself but the rest of the council and committee have to make a vote on your states and let me tell you mine is to have your squad skunked!" The Queen of the orange hive had finished her rant and had sat back down in her chair rubbing her temples. The others in the room diverted their eyes back onto me and my squad expecting us to defend ourselves. But for some reason it felt like my tongue had been cut out and I couldn't speak. Luckily Shard spoke up when the rest of us wouldn't.

"Your Majesty we understand your anger and displeasure with us for not returning with the captured members of your hive but have good reason not to. You see we found that they were never even at the target location but were in fact sold off right away to another by the name of Silent Root. The transaction paper is being decoded as we speak so that we can gather additional information to the board and return your hive members as soon as potable. We truly wish that you would reconsider your opinion on our status and let us return those stolen from you ... you majesty." He said as he then bowed his head and step'ed back to his place in formation with the squad. There was small chatter between the Queen's and other hive representatives but was stop'ed as a Representative of orange spoke for the Queen.

"Our Queen has heard your response and simply wish's you to hurry for among the stolen from the hive was her daughter." He sat back down and looked around for his Queen who had left the room when he started to speak.

The small chatter again as the changelings spoke in hushed whispers to one another and pasted notes from Queen to Queen. This went on for a total of ten minuets before the council keeper slammed his hoof on the table, the room fell silent. Every'ling in the room looked in his general direction even the queens turned to look. He slowly rose from his seat for he was very old and rearing the end of his term as keeper. He then spoke with an old and scratchy voice.

"Queens of the hives have you agreed on a statement?" All nine of them nodded their heads and a Representative of theirs brought the Keeper a small peace of paper. He looked through the papers slowly and Calmly showing no hint to our fate. He looked up from the small pile of paper's and looked straight at us.

"The board and council have both agreed that squad 15 of the mixed hives special forces is being disbanded do to their failure to retrieve an essential asset of the orange hive. The information that they have gathered will be given to the next squad to take and use to help them on their mission. The members of squad 15 are to gather all of their belongings from their barkers and return to their hives of origin. From there they are to await orders from the board about being restated but until further notice squad 15 is decommissioned." He slammed his hoof on the table again making it finale. Every'ling in the room stood up and bowed after that it was a disorganized mad scramble to get out of the room and out of the way. I walked as quickly as I could out of the room before being trampled by the large crowd behind me. None of us liked being in a small confined room for a large period of time the room had no venting so the temperature rose quit fast. I looked to my right right and watched as a flood of changelings pored out of the room some panting. I then turned to leave as I no longer had a choice of staying. I decided to take my time walking back to the barracks and look at some of the bleak and lifeless decorations that littered the hall. I really wasn't like our kind to be very fancy but this was as good as it got. I let out a sigh as I reach the room that I had hated but now didn't want to leave. I opened the door and found that all of my things had already been packed for me except my armor and weapons. I let out another sigh as I put on my armor and garbed my weapons so it would be easier to carry. I then left the room and also my home....

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Walking that's all that I have done now. Two whole months have past since my squad was disbanded and I've been walking since. I gone to five of the hives and asked for refugee but they turned me away. I already knew this would happen for I had tried before and had gotten no where. The hives don't want to take me on for I am of purple decent and taking pity on one is seen as weak by most Queens so they turn me away. I'm so tired and am so weak to continue for much longer. I have decided to try and hide in some pony city I believe its named Canterlot but I forgot it hurts to think right now. I now sit in one of its many ally's and cower near a fire for warmth like some damned grub. Their are a few others around the fire as well and are very kind to me for some reason. They sat they are homeless like me but with so little to their names they are eager to share and help others. I like these pony's and have even shared my true identity to them and they still accepted me as their own. In the ally-way that I now called home with these pony's there where five of us. there was a light green earth pony with a black and green main named or we called him just green. He said to call him that because he wanted to try and forget his past ... I know how he feels with that. Also there were two twin sisters named Berry and the other Bliss. they where both Pegasuses and the only difference between them was their eye's. Berry had a dark blue while Bliss a very unique purple and blue mix. Then their was Clearest who used to be one of the high noble's of Canterlot until she was crossbreed by her son so he could have her fortune. She was very old, very kind and, very white, it was hard to tell her from the fresh snow on even the best of mornings.

"Whats the matter Nightshade hungry again are we" Said Bliss with a sly smile trying to break the endless silence around the fire. I blinked my eye's and adjusted my position as I was dragged out of my thought.

"Hmm um no, no I'm fine just tired and was thinking to myself." I said putting a smile on my face as I looked back at her. She too smiled before going back to her spot and looking through the donation's from the locals. Also known as the trash that they thew at us so we would leave them alone not bother their more important live's. Silence took control once more as none of us wanted to talk it was far to cold to go out and scavenge since it was snowing you couldn't even see ten feet in front of you. There was a loud clanking sound behind me and I turned back to see that three pony's had entered the ally and was making their presence known.

"Well look at this guy's I think we found ourselves the lowest point in the entire city." The three of them started to laugh while every'ling / everypony in the group stared at them with pure hate in our eye's. These three had been bothering us for some time and where really starting to get on our nerves. But their acts on us has been getting more violent every time. Last we meet they Beat up green and tried to rape Berry.

"So guys what are we going to do for fun today? Said one

"Maybe we should beat on them again and teach them a lesson for not being worth a crumb under Celestia's hoof?

Said another

"Or we could just kill them..." The other two looked at the last one to speak and gave him an evil glare before continuing their advance on us.

"Just leave us alone you three we haven't done anything to you so why do you keep bothering us?" Said Green

"Because we can and it's so much fun!" With that the stallion picked up a rock and threw it at Green and hit him in the head. There was a loud creak and he fell to the ground blood trickling from his skull. Berry and Bliss started to scream and ran to the end of the ally for cover White did the same but much slower. I stayed sitting looking at Green and watching the small pool of blood form around his head. I slowly stood up and turned to see a hoof make contact with my face. I fell backwards and landed in the fire. I let out a loud yelp as my wing got caught by something and it felt like some'ling just tore it off. I got up as quickly as passably and threw of my cloak for it had caught fire and stared at the three stallions who where now frozen still see what I was. I was still wearing my armor and still had my weapons as well so not to loss them and this was the first time that it had tactfully helped me. I started a steady pace walking towards them but took off my weapons so not to get in more trouble then necessary. The first one threw a punch at me I moved my head to the left and dogged it, quickly grabbing and breaking his arm. He fell to the ground crying in pain. The second one hit me in the chest and the third came and bucked me, I flew back in response. One of them jumped on top of me before I could get up and punched me profusely in the head. I gave him an uppercut and kicked him in the groin then pushing him off me. I then went to the last of the three and he punched him multiple times in the head and chest. I landed one final punch to his jaw and he fell to the ground. I then turned and went to check on Green. He was still unconscious but it seemed that the bleeding had stop'ed. I used my magic to gently pick him up and set him on my back. I looked over to the end of the ally and saw the three mare's looking at me with concerned eye's. Berry and Bliss quickly ran up to me.

"Nightshade is he ok?" Asked Bliss. I gave a blank look before answering.

"I don't know Bliss but I do know he has a concision and needs to go to the hospital." She looked at me with wide eye's then she softly spoke and it was hard to hear.

"Please put him on my back I will take him to the hospital. It's to dangerous for you to go and you don't even know where it is." I let out a sigh and moved Green from my back to her's. She shuddered under his weight at first but quickly got used to it and headed out at a quick pace. I turned my attention back to the three stallions and noticed that only one was still there but was limping away with his broken leg. I then went to the back of the ally and joined Berry and White but collapsed before I got there. They ran over to me to see if I was ok but I didn't respond for I was being engulfed by darkness. My vision was fading on and it was far colder then I remembered. I no longer had the will to keep going for I was to tiered to even try. I then slipped into darkness.

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My head hurt and so did the rest of my body but I didn't care for I was now warm. I couldn't see anything but felt the sensation that something was covering my eye's. I went to remove it with my hoof but I couldn't move it very far for something was stopping me. I kept trying and noticed that there was a jingle of chains as I tried to move and figured that I was restrained. I then noticed that there was some'ling or most likely somepony talking to another. I tried to listen in to their conversation but couldn't make out anything important for they were talking about some sort of ice cream. I then heard whoove steps coming closer to me and started to panic do to natural instinct for I was once captured and tortured before.

"Wow there buddy its alright I'm not going to hurt you." Said a voice followed by a small chuckle. I felt the something be taken off of my face and the darkness was replaced by a blinding light. I hissed in response to the sudden brightness and shut my eye's hard. There was another laugh from the pony that had taken ti off of my face. I slowly opened my eye's and saw that I was in a hospital of sum sort and the pony standing before me was some sort of doctor to my understanding. I then noticed that there was two guards in the room as well watching me and waiting for me to do something stupid most likely. I looked back at the doctor pony for he was tapping on the bed to get my attention.

" Well good morning, I was starting to wonder how long it would be before you woke up. I am going to be your doctor while you are here at the hospital and these two lovely gentalcolts are your guards. Sorry to babysit you and all but we have to be sure that you wont do anything to harm somepony here. But besides all of that may I ask you what your name is?" He said with a warm smile on his face. I looked around the room again and tried to see if there was anything that they would use to try and hurt me or something along those lines.

"Nightshade" I said still looking around the room.

"Well then Nightshade may I ask what it is you are looking for?" He said laughing again. I looked at him blankly before answering.

"I'm looking for what your going to use to torturer me." The doctor and the two guards all started to laugh at me. I looked at them with confusion and they stopped laughing when they realized that I was being serious.

"Nightshade your here because you blacked out from both physical and mental exhaustion and you were starving. A young mare brought you in and left you here she said that you had been protecting them and there was enough evidence to back up her story. The reason that there are guards here is because everypony just feels a lot safer with you being watched.

But you have been unconscious for three days and we had you secured because we didn't know how you would react when you woke up let alone when." He then started to untie me. When he was done I jumped off of the bed that I was on (or table whatever it was). It took me a little while before I could get my balance and tied to walk around a little bit. In doing so I managed to fall several times and knock over three table tray things that they used to hold tools and such.

"Nightshade I think it best that you rest and come back and lie down." Said the doctor. I looked over to him and managed to fall down doing so then scrambling to get back up.

"No!" I said starting to walk for the door. The doctor quickly cut me off so I couldn't leave.

"Nightshade listen I may not know very much about you and you culture but what I do know is that you are very sick and that you need to stay here and rest at least for another day ok." I looked at him and thought about what he said for a moment.

"Listen doctor I know that you mean well but you truly don't know anything about me. I cannot stay here and seeing how my presence is known throughout the building and maybe even the city those who want me dead my come here and try to kill me. They don't care what they have to do to get me as long as they do. They will kill everypony in this damn city if they have to! Now please give me my items so I may leave." The doctor took a few steps back before speaking.

"Are you saying that you know of an attack that is coming to our city?" I looked at the doctor stupidly and tried to explain it to him again but maybe he would understand me this time.

"No that's not what I said but if I stay here any longer that might happen because others are already after me!" He still didn't seem to understand what i was saying and started to panic so he ran out the door yelling for assistance I then felt a pain in my neck and looked to see that one of the guards had ejected me with something. I felt light headed and soon blacked out once again.

Home?

I slowly started to open my eye's and move around again. There was a heavy pounding in my head and the side of my neck hurt like hell. I then started to look around the room to see if I could recognize anything or get an idea of where I was. It did me no use for the room was blank. There wasn't a single thing in the room except for the table or tray that I was on. I then realized I couldn't remember anything from what happened. I started to panic.

"Hey let me out of here! Please I didn't do anything wrong ... Ok maybe I killed a few pony's ... or a few hundred. But that's not the point! Just Let me go please ... It's COLD!!!!!" And I wasn't lining I could see my breath in the room and also there were even some ice cycles that were on the corners and even the ceiling. I then felt really stupid for I had just been broken by a little chill. I sat up on the bed and decided to look around again. I only saw the same four walls but I did see a door were I could try to get out. There was also a small camera in the top corner by the door. I instantly felt unsettled and went up to the camera. I flew up to it and examined it. There was a red light on it indicating that it was on, so I did what any idiot would do. I smashed the camera and then went down to the bed again and went and hid under it. It didn't take long before there was a noise at the door and I just hoped that they didn't turn on the lights. The door opened and a single changeling stepped in and looked around. I wasn't as supervised as I thought I would be for I have made many enemies most of which where changelings. I waited for him to pass me and for some reason the dumb ass didn't look under the bed. I got out behind him and strangled him for I didn't truly know weather or not that the ones keeping me captive where trying to hurt me. When he collapsed I checked for a pulse to make sure that he was still alive. I then went out of the room and looked around the hallway. To my left there was a large amount of door's on either side but was a dead end. Although my right was the same but was not a dead end and went in that direction and started to look for an exit. When I got to the end of the hallway there was a set of double doors, I looked through the windows and saw that there was a whole room filled with changelings all of various colors. I then had to duck for a changeling was coming right for the door that I was hiding behind. For some reason waking up in this place made me really stupid for the door crushed me against the wall and my cover was then painfully blown.

"Oh I'm sorry are you alright? Wait aren't you the one we had in the cold room because yo had an allergic reaction?"

I stared at the changeling female that was apparently a one of the nurses or something at the medical area I think that I am in. I then gave a stupid response that you would hear from an idiot. Like me.

"Cold room?" Was all that I had to say and a very concerned look took over her face.

"Where is the assistant that I sent to check on you?" Guilt took over and my face obviously showed it.

"Um... I kinda strangled him... But! he is still alive I checked for his pulse!" I said trying to in a way right what I did wrong but it did me no good. She quickly ran away and went to the unconscious assistant. I hung my head in shame for the one I thought was trying to kill me was there because he was told to check on me. I walked out into what I guessed was the lobby or waiting room and quickly found an exit. I soon that I was in the same place that all of the hive meetings are held and realized that I was in the same hive I was in when the squad was disbanded. I then had to sit down for I did not feel well anymore and was also a little light headed.

"Nightshade?" I heard a familiar voice say but really didn't want to see any'ling at the moment for how I felt and feared that I might. I then vomited all over my friend for they had turned me around and that was enough for my to hurl. Sadly for them though I released a large amount of builders goo. Or at least that's what I call it there are many names. I then noticed that the changeling that I throw up on was a now very purple looking Blood Crest and was not very amused by what had just ended up all over her face.

"Good to see you to ... I guess." She then started to try and wipe it off of her but sadly wouldn't come off for a changelings goo is only compatible to the changelings of the same hive. There for she could not get it off herself and now had her whoove stuck to her face as well.

"A little help her Nightshade..." Her face was completely red, well besides the purple.

"S-sorry." I stuttered and I started to wipe off the goo from her face. I then tried to apologize to her.

"Listen um Blood Crest I'm really sorry about this but I'm not really feeling well right now and I don't know how I got here. I know where I am now but ... I've already almost killed a guy and I have no memory of what happened to me before..." I stopped for I still couldn't remember. I know of some if not most of it but I'm still fuzzy and most all of what happened after some hospital thing.

"Nightshade are you ok?" she asked pulling me out of thought and from what I could see looked really concerned. I stammered at first before answering.

"I-I.. I'm fine just ... I'm just a little confused at the moment as well as scared. I really just want some sleep right now an-" She cut me off.

"Nightshade listen you just need to calm down ok..." I had gotten most all of the goo off of her by this point and her hoof was now free. Since it was free she put it on my shoulder to try to comfort me.

"You can come with me there is an empty bunk in my room now. Shard was there but he moved rooms so that he could be with a female. And we both know by now that he won't be moving back any time soon." With that she stood up again and motioned me to follow her so I did. She lead me to her room and said that I would have the bottom bunk. She then went into the bathroom to bath to get the rest of the goo off. I went to lie down on my new bed and sunk deep under the covers. It had been so long since I had sleep in a bed let alone get myself there. I closed my eye's and soon fell asleep.

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I sired in my sleep and got up twice to get more blankets. It was still winter and it was no more warm inside than it was out.

But now it was morning and I know this because an alarm had gone off to wake me. I tried to settle down to get more sleep when I noticed that some'ling else was in my bunk. I shot my head up to see who it was, and obviously it was Blood Crest.

"Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you." She said looking at me as if there was nothing strange with her being in my bed.

"Why are you in my bed?" I asked in response a sly smile grew on her face and she started to giggle.

"I'm in your bed because I was cold. And because you invited me in." With that she nuzzled me and put her head back down and shut her eye's again. But came considerably closer than she was before. My head was left up stuck as if it was frozen and my face red as ever.

"I-I ... I don't remember inviting you to into my bed..." I said stuttering over almost every word but could barely manage to speak the first ones. She opened her eye's again and had wore another friendly worm smile.

"Well I guess that I should have expected that, you were very tired and I had to help you back into bed. But don't worry nothing happened between us last night. Well unless you count cuddling." She said once again nuzzling me as well as pulling me back down to the bed again.

"But I still don't understand if nothing happened between us than why are you nuzzling me and wh-" She stopped me burring her head into my chest.

"Because I'm lonely and I now that you are too. I'm not stupid I've had my eye on you for a while but I was still with Black Fang but..." She stopped and pushed her head against my body. She started to cry for I felt her tears against my skin. I rested my head atop her's and hugged her. I was very uncomfortable about the situation but I had known her for almost my whole life and she was my best friend. She had always somehow made me feel better when I was sad but I had never been able to do the same. She brought her head up and looked at me. Tears where still falling down her face and I don't believe I had ever seen some'ling cry so much. She hugged me tightly and I held my grip on her as well. We stayed in this warm embrace for a long time before letting go. I have never been with a female before and have no fucking idea what I am doing.

She looked at me again before nuzzling me. Then without a word she got up and left for the bathroom. I soon heard the water running and figured that she was bathing again. I lied my head back down and tried to think but all I could think about was her. Unfortunately like most all males I have an extremely perverted mind and well they are not the best thoughts. I decided to get up as well and started for the door.

Prison Visit

I crept deeper into the small hole in the tree as I watched the guards pass. My plain of going to the mountains was cut off as I was spotted and now every damn pony in the area is on high alert even Canterlot. I turn I went into hiding and will be hiding until this all blows over and it shouldn't be to hard with my most favorite disguise. I am currently a black and purple parasprite and am able to hide almost any were do to my small size. Plus no pony really cares if they see me for to them I am nothing more than a annoying insect. The guards soon pasted and I came out of my small little hole and started off in the direction of the city that I was in but sadly still have no idea where I am or what city this is. I flew around for a while and soon found the answer to my question when I found a sign that said "Welcome To Ponyville". What little hope I had of this blowing over soon was now gone as all changelings knew that this is the home of the elements of harmony. I let out a yelp that only a parasprite would understand as I was grabbed by something.

"Oh aren't you just the cutest little thing! But I don't believe that I have ever seen a black one before? I think that maybe you should come home with me and I can take car of you, and feed you, and I shall name you?" The strange white unicorn with wild blue hair and purple sunglasses said. She looked as if she was in deep thought before another mare came by and tapped her on the shoulder. The unicorn turned and looked at her and a large smile then grew on her face.

"Oh hey there Fluttershy look at the cool bug I just found!" Then she practically threw me in her face and also was squeezing fairly hard and kind of started to hurt. The yellow pony jumped back in surprise and hide behind he large pink mane.

"Um that's very nice Vinyl but um I think that your hurting him ... and um I saw him come out of a tree and um if you don't mind um could I have or um at least um ... could um I see him?" Said Fluttershy in a very shy and quiet voice. It also seemed to make seance how she got her name. Vinyl then hung her head.

"Ah I was so close to completing my bug collection too..." She said as she handed me over to Fluttershy and then turned to leave. I sat there looking up at her and she was still trying to hide behind her mane but was also looking at me. She then gently picked me up and held me closer to her face and then she started to speak to me.

"Oh I'm so glad that I was able to save you. I know that Vinyl is really proud of her collection but I just couldn't stand watching her take you and I knew that if I didn't that she would kill you." She said and put me in her mane and made sure that I was tucked in and wouldn't fall then she took off and started to fly. She soon landed and put me down on a nearby tree. "Ok now little guy be careful and make sure to watch out for Vinyl." She said and then took off again leaving me by myself. I looked around and found that there was nopony or anything for that matter any where near me. I let out a sigh and sank down on the tree and returned to my true form.

"Hey over there I found it!" I looked over and for what had been a small group of guard's going in the opposite direction must have turned around and seen me. But I guess I didn't think that they would be coming back this way any time soon. I then turned back into a paraspite but as I started to take off turned back to a changeling and fell flat on my face.

"Oh shit!" I said as I picked myself up and started to run in the apposite direction. For some reason it had not dawned on me that it had been almost five months since I last feed and had no energy left and actually now that I think of it I don't know why I didn't have any hunger pains.

"Stop you!" Said one of the guards that where chasing me. I didn't care to look back for it wouldn't be long before I wouldn't be able to run any longer. I then found that my stupidity must have really wanted me to be caught for I somehow tripped on thin air. Once again my poor face got the full blunt of the impact as I slid a whole three feet before coming to a stop. But before I could even get up the guards jumped on top of me and knocked all of the wind out of me.

"Ha we got you!" Said one of the guards.

"You shouldn't have tried running away from us you just made it harder on yourself." Said the other and then they picked me up and brought me back to the other guards and then we started to head for the prison.

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"Put him in that one and stay in here just in cause the two of them decide to start talking I want to know what they say got it." Said the warden to the guard that was escorting me to my cell.

"Yes sir." Said the guard and threw me into a dark cell before closing the door and posting right in front of it. I then looked around the room and in the other cell's to try and figure out what he meant when he said if we started talking. As I looked around the room I didn't seem to find any other changelings just one drunk pony that kept talking about fruit punch. I then felt something touch me and jumped to the corner of the cell and hissed at the other how had obviously been the one to touch me. The figure then stepped back words until it hit the wall and got as close to the wall as physically possible. I then noticed for the first time a set of glowing purple eye's and now I realized that it was the same female from earlier.

"Oh it's you." I said with some sorrow in my voice for I felt bad for hissing at her and for a changeling to do that to another is actually very offensive. Fortunately she picked up on that and came out of the corner and sat only a few feet away from me. "Still not talking I see." I said trying to start some small talk with her so that I could hopefully kill the time. She shook her head to answer my question. I looked over to the guard for some reason and noticed that he was watching us and when he saw me he turned back to his position. I looked back at the female. "Well we are going to be here for a while so you might as well start talking." I said trying to get her to talk but sadly for me she just shook her head to say no again.

"May I ask you your name?" I said and in response she nodded her head and started to write in the dirt on the floor. After she finished she lifted her hoof to let me look. it slept whore. I gave her a confused look before asking her my next question. "That can't be your name that is an insult or title not a name." She shook her head again and tapped the floor right in front of her and pointed to the word again. "You know that if you like you can change your name now. I killed the one who claimed to be your master and he tried the same for me too but well we both know how that ended." I said and she looked down at the word again and wiped it away and then started to write many more words but all of which she wouldn't let me read for she would get mad at me and push my face away so I could not see. I then sat there for about five minuets before she tapped my shoulder and let me look at her writing.

It said. *I know that he is dead and I am very happy for his death but I do not have a name for I am a whore and the name fits me well. I am no changeling that any other would car to look at and the others in the cages always made fun of me and called me by this name as well. You were different at first for you weren't mean to me but when I tried to follow you, you simply yelled at me and told me to leave you alone. You made your intention's clear to me then and now that you try to talk to me and ask me about my name your intentions are now different than before. Why is this?* When I finished reading what she wrote I felt guilty for the way I had been treating her and I sat there looking back and forth between the words and her.

"Listen I'm sorry that I offended you but it is ok for us to talk one another for ..." I hesitated before saying the next part for I am far more friendly then most any other changeling, and this was about as close as I would like to be at playing nice with others. "... I-I ... listen you are very nice to me and I am not nice to you but ... I'm trying to be nice and you are making this really hard. But I don't want to be mean to you because you are so nice but it is really frustrating that you can't just talk to me or some thing." I said and even worked up a little sweat. She looked at me and the the ground and erased her previous writing before making more and once again wouldn't let me see until she was done. When she was done I looked at the few words that she had wrote.

*I do not talk because it hurts to.* I looked up to her in confusion and before I could ask she started to write again and I thought I should wait just in case she was already answering my question. I looked at what it was she had written and was startled by what she had written. *The master didn't like my voice and said that he would cut out my tongue if I ever spoke to him without changing it and he even put a caller on me that would shock me if I spoke. I haven't spoken in nine years.*

"But you still have your tongue yes? So can't you still speak if you would like?" I asked her and apparently had caught her off guard for she stepped back. She then opened and closed her mouth and it seemed as if she was trying to speak again but couldn't. Which didn't make seance for I saw her tongue and had heard her speak in a disguise so she know how and she shouldn't have any problems. She then sat down again and started crying but wrote two more words in the dirt.

*I'm scared.* Was all it said and I felt really bad for making her do something she has been living in fear of for nine years. I then both in pity and instinct went up to her and hugged her and try'ed to comfort her. To my surprise she hugged me back and quite tightly for that matter and started to cry even more. Her sobs where heard by the guard who in turn also looked on in both concern and confusion. I gave the guard an icy glare and he averted his eye's and left us alone. Before I turned my head back to he she had let go and had returned to the far corner of the cell. I wiped away the words from the dirt and then went to join her.

"Are you alright?" I asked her tilting my head for some reason but I didn't know why I did. But in turn when she looked up at me she started to laugh. It was very weak and very hard to hear but I could easily tell that's what it was. She sat back up and looked at me again and then brought her face very close to mine. Thankfully she bypassed my l snout and went for my ear's. I felt her mouth move up and down as she was trying to speak again and she tickled the top of my head.

"C-cold." She said and quickly pulled her head back and then covered it with her hoof's. I gently rested mine on top of her's and rubbed them trying to get her to come out of her little shell. She slowly lifted her head and looked up at me and I greeted her with a warm smile. She seemed to be a little more relaxed but her ears where still flat against her head and she was looking at the guard in pure fear. The guard that she was looking at took a step back.

"Why is she looking at me like that?" He said looking at me for he must still think that she is mute.

"She is scared of you and she is also cold. Do you by any chance have a blanket?" I said answering him and in return he didn't say anything but did bring back a blanket for her. "Thank you." I said as he gave me the blanket and he said nothing to me but went over to the chair that he had pulled over so he could watch us. I gently covered her with the blanket and she instantly took the corners of the sheet and pulled them over her head making only her snout visible. "Are you warm now?" She said nothing but simply exhaled out oh her noise and even spat dust into my face. I then positioned myself so that I could lay down next to her. "May I please share the blanket with you?" In response she nodded her head and I didn't hesitate to get under the blanket and she even came a little closer to me as well. Luckily she didn't see that by doing that my face had turned red.

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"Hey you two wake up we don't have all day." I opened my eye's to see three guards looking down at me from outside of the cage and since they weren't inside I closed my eye's again. "Ok that's it you asked for it." Then without anymore of a warning icy cold water was being sprayed on us by a high pressure hose. Both of us jumped up in fright and we both cowered in the corner and continued to be sprayed.

"Warden stop that I wanted to speak to them not torturer them." Said a female voice but I could not see who it was for I could not open my eye's because of the water.

"Y-yes princess sorry princess. Stop the water." The water stopped but the pain and endless cold did not. My body heavily shock from the cold and I looked to my left to try and find the female but she was not there. Instead I found her flat on the floor and blood coming from her head. She wasn't moving and I could not see her breathing ether. I went to her quickly and checked for a pulse and was relived when I found one. I gently picked her up and held her close to me to try and keep her warm. Her head hung down to the side and the blood had started to drip to the floor. I could hear the other pony's outside of the cage talking and heard some shuffling. But I did not care for them at the moment for my attention was focused on her. I blame myself for her injury's for if I had not listened to the guards and now she was hurt. Never before have I been so affected by some'ling being hurt and this wasn't even a fetal injury, or at least I don't think it is. I then felt them tugging at me trying to get me off of her and or just trying to get to her I'm not sure nor do I care. I simply stared at her for the longest time until one of them finally got her away from me and they started to tend to her injured head while another one of the guards was yelling at me and trying to blame me for what had just happened and he was right. It was my fault that she got hurt but he was the one who had sprayed us. Anger built in me and I stared into his eye's pure hate radiating from them and he froze still and simply looked back at me. I then jumped on top of him and punched him in the face many times before I was pulled off of him and cuffed to the wall of the cell.

"You bastard! You did this I have killed may and never have I met some'ling that I have wanted to kill more than you!" I said struggling to get free from the cuff's and continue beating on the downed guard. When sompony sat in front of me blocking my view of him. I then realized that it was one of the pony princess's but not just any it was Celestia herself and I even saw her sister Luna and student Twilight in the back of the room next to the door that lead to the other room of the prison. She gently put a hoof on my shoulder and looked at me as if she had only seen me yesterday.

"Please clam down Night I know that you didn't mean what you said you were just a little upset and said some things that you didn't mean. I'm sure that he meant no harm to you or your friend Night." She said to me then took her hoof off my shoulder but was still looking at me.

"No..." I said and she in response wore a look of concern on her face. "... I meant every word I said to him and I will kill him the instant that I am free. He harmed her when she did nothing to him. She was punished because I didn't care to listen to the guards and she still slept. When he sprayed her she was not already awake and did not try to move to of the was. When the water hit her, she relayed on instinct and curled into a ball and had her head slammed into the wall or cut on a pipe or something because of him." I looked back over to the purple female and saw that there was now a lot of blood and a lot of other things as well. I hung my head in shame and tears started to build up around my eye's.

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It took three hours for them to fix her head it turns out that the water blast had in fact hit her head against the wall and even dented the wall. They said that her skull is not cracked or anything but she would have a large bruise. Celestia had the guards leave and also had her student go back to her studies for she wanted to talk to me herself but did want Luna to be there.

"Are you alright Nightshade." She said as she sat next to me watching me closely. I didn't respond to her and kept stroking the purple females head but not were she was hurt. But the funny thing is I don't even know her name yet I have such strong feelings for he I think that I even like her see how I reacted. Celestia put her hoof on my shoulder and Luna sat down beside her sister so she may hear better. "Nightshade she is going to be ok it was just a little bump on the head, that's all." I looked up to her but brought my head back down to the female.

"I know." I said and Celestia then got comfortable for she was most likely going to be talking with me for a while.

"You know Nightshade after all these years you haven't even said hello to me nor have you meat my sister Luna" She said trying to get a conversation going.

"Hello." I said

"It has been a while since I have gotten a chance to see you and that's all you have to say to me and what of my sister I thought that I had taught you good manners?" I looked at her and then Luna.

"It's nice to meet you Luna." I said and then dropped my head back into place.

"I know that you are sad Nightshade and that you are most likely still mad at me for leaving you but if I didn't he would ha-" I stopped her.

"He would have taken me as he took her. He would have threatened to cut out my tongue because he didn't like the sound of my voice. He would have used me as a sex slave to get money. He would have put me on display and shove me in a small little cage full of other unfortunate souls that were unable to get away from his collection. He would have done all of these things and more dear mother yes and he did all of these things to her! She hasn't spoken a single word in nine years she has been called whore and been referred as one so many times she thinks that it is her real name. I tried to get her to speak and she broke down crying before I could get her to simply say the word cold." I didn't care to look at there reaction's but guessed that they were not happy one's.

"Nightshade I-"

"You what mother you where trying to look out for me? I don't know if saying that you need to go now and not giving that five year old more reason than that before throwing them out the bucking window! I've lived all of my years thinking that you didn't love me and where just trying to fix your mistake. I thought this until this wake job of a unicorn puts me in a bucking electric chair and tell's me all this shit that I didn't want to hear!" I said as I cut her off. I was now looking into her eye's and saw that she was now crying herself. I simply let my head fall back down to the female. Luna however went over to her sister and tried to comfort her. Celestia pushed her away.

"No sister he is right it is my fault for what I did to him I could have simply taken care of this stupid unicorn but I was scared that I would loss him and in the end I still did." I now felt bad again and lifted my head to look at the mare I thought of as my mother.

"You did not loss me mother you never did for I still felt you love long after you threw me but I had no way of defending myself and no idea how to survive with out you to feed me. I did what I had to and did may bad things that you would not be happy with but in the end my kind was the backstabbers that you said they were for they gave me to that unicorn and thought nothing of it. But most of all I feel the love that you have for me now and it is far more powerful than I had when I was younger." With that Celestia's head shot up and looked straight at me. I did not smile but she knew me well enough and could tell I was happy. She hugged me tightly but was sure not to hurt the female. Luna also came and joined us in the hug.

"Nightshade will you please come to Canterlot with me just for a little while I just want to see you for a little while.?" She asked me.

"Yes I." I said but I felt the female move and I got mother to let go so I may check on her. I saw that she was awake and was looking at straight at me.

"Nightshade I will come get you in a few minuets I need to get something for you and now another for your friend here. Luna I will need your help please come with me." She said and then they both left the room leaving the female and I alone and very quickly I felt very uncomfortable. She simply looked into my eye's and had a weak but very present smile on her face. She then started to get up and I helped her so that she not fall. When I got her standing her smile grew and she came close to me and licked me on the check before going to the door and leaving me alone. I sat there for a while and my face was as red as a fresh cherry. Celestia soon came in and laughed when she saw me for she most likley knew what had happened and then lead me out of the room.

My Past's Reckoning

I opened the door to step outside but was greeted with a great deal of pain to my head and fell to the floor. I looked up to see what hit me and only saw an object hit me in the face. Everything went black.

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"Nightshade wake up your going to miss the show." Said a disembodied voice as I was starting to come too. I am really starting to get tired of being knocked out and moved and shit its really getting old. But I was then pulled out of my thoughts by a shock of electricity. I was now wide awake and was looking around my surroundings frantically. I was tied down in a chair of some sort and had a wired machine attached to me in various places.

"Oh good your awake now." Said the same voice and I looked around to find its source and was greeted by a very strange looking pony. He was a tall unicorn with a very strange looking cutie mark and resembled something like a display piece you would see at a museum. He then started to speak again.

"Welcome dear Nightshade I have been waiting to meet you for so long! And now that I have you I've completed my collection!" I cut in.

"Collection? What are you talking about pony!" He responded by pressing a button, and in turn caused a large amount of electricity to run through my body. I let out a cry of pain.

"Now now Nightshade I don't like it when my pets talk back to me. I will have to teach you some manners now wont I." Another shock hit me and was more powerful than all of the others. He then spoke again.

"Do I make myself clear?" I was trying to catch my breath and was about to speak when he shocked me again.

"I said did I make myself clear!"

"YES!" I yelled back so not to be hurt again but was returned with another shock.

"Now Nightshade, pets should not shout at their masters now should they?" I shook my head no and was given another shock of pain. "You are to speck when spoken to is that understood?" I quickly spoke.

"Yes..." I was shocked again.

"Yes what?" He asked in a very happy and pleased tone.

"Go to hell you baster'ed!!!" I shouted having enough of his crap and started to struggle against my restraints. He then started laughing but spoke.

"Oh I'm going to have a lot of fun with this one aren't I my sweet?" He said turning to his left and out of the darkness came a mare with a caller around her neck.

"Yes my master." She said starring right at me and what looked like pity in her eye's. But in that moment I had some how gotten my right arm free and started to undo my other restraints as quickly as possible.

"Oh I don't think so!" He said with an evil grin and let lose on me with electricity. My whole body felt the blast and I was thrown back into the chair. He left me there like that for what felt like eternity before letting go. I then went back to trying to get free. "You don't take a hit do you Nightshade?" He said shocking me again, but my effort was worth it for I had managed to free both of my hands and now just had to free my legs. After what felt like another eternity he stopped. "Are you going to try to do that again?" He asked anger very present in his voice.

"N-no..." I said trailing off in pain.

"Good..." He said and was about to restrain me again but stopped and an evil grin grew on his face. "Darling would you be a dear and restrain dear Nightshade for me? I have another surprise for him that I need to get ready." The mare took a step back and gulped before answering to him.

"Yes my master" She said and hesitantly walked over to me and started to cuff me back to the chair. However was interrupted by a large shock that was given to her for she was touching me and the metal chair. She let out an ear reaching cry of pain and fell to the ground. My eye's then fell upon her again for there was a purple flash and she became a changeling but a purple one like me? The stallion held up a manacle laugh and started to speak when he was done shocking me here and there for more of his pleasure.

"Oh Nightshade do you like your surprise? You have just completed my set of purple's and from what I hear you two are some of the last living ones on the planet! They say that there may only be five left but I have two of those five! Oh you two are going to make me far more rich than I had ever dreamed I think I am going to go and celebrate! You whore get up and show him his cage and then well you know what to do. Don't be late bitch I hungry." He said leaving the room and leaving us alone.

She stayed on the ground for a while before standing and then started to let me lose without a word. Once I was free I no longer had the straight to stand or really do anything so she started to drag me out of the room. I the hallway it looked like one of the back rooms that you would see at a zoo and after further inspection I realized that it was. There where many different types of rare and exotic animals. I was dragged into an empty cage near the end of the hallway and to my surprise I found that my neighbors where also all changelings. There was two of each color green, blue, red, orange, brown, yellow, gold and now purple. I was pulled out of my thought as I was dropped in the cage and the door closed. All eye's where on me I didn't know why nor did I really care. I closed my eye's and succumb to darkness once again.

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I awoke to some'ling touching me and slowly looked around to see who or what it was. Although it didn't surprise me to much seeing the purple female looking at me. She was stroking my head with her hoof and I got up as fast as

i could and moved away from her so she would leave me be. I sat down in the darkest corner and waited to see what she would do for I didn't trust her. Then again I can't really trust any'ling any more. But I was brought back to reality when I felt something touching me again. I then saw that she was sitting next to me and looking ant me but had only touched me to get my attention. I looked at her and showed that I was not pleased to see her and she instantly fled to the safety of the other side of the cage. She then simply stared at me for a long time but did not bother me. I tried to go back to sleep for I was still very weak and sore but it was very hard to do so with the knowledge that I was being watched. I opened my eye's again and was meet by her right in my face. I pulled back in surprise and then found my words for I was no longer going to fall asleep again.

"What..." Was all I said in a very displeased voice and a grin on my face as well. She started to retreat to the back of the cage again.

I gave her a concerned look and backed up a little bit for there was now a very unsettling atmosphere in the room. She however did not take kindly to my response and hung her head in shame and turned her back to me. Part of me felt bad for her but I really couldn't tell if it was my head or my cock that made me feel bad for her because I get this feeling a lot when ever I upset a female. I decided to forget about it and went back to trying to sleep. But the unicorn that is suppose to be my new master had other plans.

"Good morning my beautiful collection I hope you are hungry because I have extra food for everypony!" He said and in response everything went from quiet and peaceful to loud and painful. I looked around and every changeling was now cowering in the back of their cage's while the rest of the animals or beings where trying to break out to get the food he was presenting them. Suddenly everything went silent as he rang a bell and as though they were trained dog's they sat quietly and patiently for there food. He would go by each cage and drop a large amount of food in two bowls and if the cages owner could speak they would instantly say. "Thank you master..." and they would wait for him to respond before eating the meal in front of them. This continued for ten minuets before he had finished his route and came to us.

"Oh my dear changelings you are of my most prized possession's. I have no food for you today I am quit sorry to say, but you cant serve love on a platter so I'm just going to give you all the usual is that ok with you?" They all gave out a mild "Yes master, thank you master..." All but me.

"I'm sorry Nightshade I don't believe that I heard you speak a reply would you like to correct your mistake?" He said and came to the front of the cage and was standing so close that I could touch him if I tried. I walked up to the front of the cage and gave him a death glare that made him shiver though he didn't acknowledge it.

"No..." I said he gave a sly smile.

"I was hopping that you would say that. How would you like it if I brought you back to your favorite metal chair?" I started to laugh and he looked at me in confusion as did every other living thing in the room.

"Bring me to the chair if you wish torturer me all you want but I will still get my revenge on you. You think that you are so smart and that your planes are flawless but you have a weakness and all I have to do is find it and when I do. I will do everything in my power to destroy what it is that makes you weak. I have nothing to loss but you ..." I stopped there letting my words sink in before speaking again and found that I was starting to get under his skin. "You have something to loss and I will take it from you in the worst possible way..." His face was red with anger and it looked as if he was ready to kill me and if he did I wouldn't be any worse off.

"You threaten me!" He said in disbelief. He opened the door to the cage and grabbed a blade and was about to use it on me but I was faster then he. We fought over the blade and we fought dirty. He tried to hit me in the grown but missed and hit me in the thigh and in response I bit he in the side sinking my fangs deep into his body. He yelled out in pain and hit me multiple times in the stomach to get me to let go. When I did I tried to bit down again but he had moved so I only got the side of his ear. In doing so I pulled away as fast as I could and half his ear came with me. We now stood several feet apart from one another but he had the knife. I didn't care any more and thought that if I was lucky that I would still win but even if I lost he would most likely kill me and I was ok with that. He surprised me by throwing at me and I narrowly missed it but was hit head on by his charge. We both fell back and I had the wind knocked out of me while I couldn't see what he was doing. As I recovered and get back to my hoof's he was in another charge and I had to jump and fly to miss his attack and even then his horn stabbed my hoof. I used my wound to my advantage and pulled him up with me and then dropped him on his

head. I then ran for the knife that he had thrown at me and had to get it out of the wall. Sadly for me the blade broke as I tried to take it out and was useless for not even a sharp edge could be used.

"Now Nightshade it appears that we are evenly matched maybe we should settle this another way. Would you like me to call up Blood Crest and have her tuck you in to your mettle chair? He said slowly limping backwards to the exit. I started my advance forward and decided to play along with him and talk.

"Blood Crest set me up didn't she?" I said and a smile grew on his face.

"Oh Nightshade you are a lot smarter than I had thought but yes she did. You see I had something that your little organization wanted and they had something that I wanted. So we made a trade. I got you and the orange queen got her daughter back so everypony was happy in the end. All they had to do was get you back so they had used the only thing close to you and that was Blood Crest." I looked at him and wasn't as surprised as he had thought that I would be for his smile vanished when I didn't start to flip out.

"I wondered why she was so friendly to me and she was acting very strange for her standers and that's saying something about her. Although it all makes seance now and all I have to do now is kill you and then I can get out of here and get my revenge." It was his turn to laugh now and this time I was quite surprised.

"Oh well I guess that you didn't put all of it together well I might as well explain it to you shouldn't I? You see this is Blood Crest's revenge on you for letting Black Fang die and it didn't help having her brother so close to death for three months to. Then again this is all news to you no doubt. But lets take a trip to the past here quick shall we. Let's see you how old are you again?" He asked I didn't respond. "Oh never mind your age. Give or take 15 years ago the purple hive was destroyed and your mother took you and fled to the closest refuge. In doing she was discovered and sadly executed for all of the crimes that she had committed to try and keep you safe. It almost brings a tear to my eye to know that somepony would kill such a rare and beautiful creature. Any way they would have killed you too but dear old Celestia felt bad for you and decided to take you in and care for you but only in secret. But you already know this part of the story don't you? You lived there and apparently even thought she was you Mather oh what a laugh. But somepony had become wherry of Celestia and found her out he had threatened to tell all of Equestria if she didn't give you up for he wanted you dearly. She said she would but when she went to get you for me she lied! and she told you to run! To run away and never come back! She never said why and even threw you out the window. But seeing how she lied to me I went to the changeling empire and asked for you but they refused me! So I said that I would have you and that they would regret their decision. Then one day one of my dear friend's that you killed by the way gave me exactly what I needed. He gave me the orange queens daughter and fourteen of the hives females. I then went back and they said that they would give me you and so they did. Now you are here and your right about one thing I do have something to loss. I have you to loss and I wont loss you!" He then turned to run and I chased after him. He tried to close the door behind him but I got to it before it closed and locked me in. I saw him running up a set of stairs but managed to cut him off by flying to the top and pushing him back down. He fell backwards down the stairs and made a satisfying sound with every step. When he reached to bottom I had to fly down to him so not to slip in the blood that he had left on the stairs as he went down. He wasn't moving but was breathing heavily and was holding his head. His horn had broken off and had even lodged itself into his foreleg and I pitted him a little bit for I knew that it must have been the most painful thing I had ever seen done to somepony. But I knew that he deserved his pain for all that he had done to me and the others that I don't really even know.

I flipped him on his back and made him look me in the eye's when I talked to him.

"So tell me were might the keys be located for the cages and all of the other doors?" I asked he looked up at me with rage.

"I am not telling you shit I won't loss you!" I took his horn out of his leg and stabbed him in his other leg and twisted it.

"Don't worry about losing me..." I said twisting his horn deeper into his leg. He cried out in shear pain and suddenly coughed up blood. "You aren't going to live until tomorrow so don't worry about losing me for I will kill you. But if you tell me were the key's are I promise that your death will be quick and you won't be in more pain than you are in now." I twisted his horn again before letting him speak.

"OK! I will tell you were they are just please stop!" I stopped twisting his horn and knelt down next to him. "The keys are up stairs on the coat rack you can't miss it! But please don't kill me!" I got up and went to the location he described and found that he wasn't lining to me. I went back down stairs and found that he was trying to crawl away but he only made it two feet and left a blood trail from where he was. I rolled him over again and took the horn out of his leg.

"You kept your promise I respect that so I will keep mine and I won't even be the one to kill you does that sound fair?" I asked him. His eye's lit up with fear and I had never tasted so much fear addressed words me and if felt great. I then walked to the door in which I was held and found that the purple female was sitting there waiting for me to open the door. I half considered closing it on her but thought I could use her to my advantage and gave her the keys.

"I'm sure you know what to do with these." I said and walked back to the injured unicorn. Who was now feeding me more than ever and then heard that somepony was at the front door. I went up to the door and looked through the window to see a about ten or twelve pony's standing outside waiting impatiently. I opened the door and looked at them without changing or speaking.

"Oh look everypony he did get the other purple one like he said he would and it looks like he has been having fun with this on..." They all laughed and then stepped inside right past me and kept going until one of them yelled in panic for they had found my so called master. I closed the door and locked it before they could try to run out and in doing so made them all panic. They all ran upstairs to hide and I really didn't care for I found a little red button and I loved pushing random buttons expensively if they were red. My stupidity had prevailed once again and a voice said. "Now locking down." and all of the doors and windows locked shut and closed with a metal like cover so that no pony could see in or out. I also heard a lot of screaming come from upstairs and found that two mares with collars and chains attached to them run downstairs and hide in what I think is a kitchen. There was also a large earth pony that came down after them and was threatening to kill them if they didn't come back. I decided to get his attention.

"May I ask why you wish to kill these two mares?" He turned in surprise and then ran at me ready to kill me with a single punch. I simply side stepped his attack and tripped him. Then went up and snapped his neck.

"I guess not." I said walking over to the kitchen to find two mares cowering in the corner. I motioned for them to follow me and then went back to the door where I left the purple female the keys. I opened the door and found that instead of just her sitting there waiting for me every last one of the creatures in the room where sitting and waiting for me. It reminded me of a lot of eager puppy's waiting for their food to be put down in front of them. I stepped to the side and watched as they all walked out in single file and then stopped to look at the unicorn that was suppose to be their master.

"He is still alive if you would like some revenge and there are also about nine or ten more upstairs hiding if you would like to kill them too other than that go away I don't need you following me." They stood there for a moment looking at both me and each other and suddenly they all jumped on the unicorn and showed him no mercy then ran up the stairs. After a little while I heard a lot of screaming that soon faded and they came back down, most of which were covered in blood and then went straight for the door and left. I turned then to see once again the face of the purple female who was holding the key's in her mouth and then dropped them in front of me but did not take her eye's off of me.

"Can I help you or are you just going to stair at me" She stood there and did not reply but she did push the keys closer to me and pointed to the caller around her neck. I then figured that she wanted it off so I did just that. There was a loud "clank" as it hit the ground and she then picked it up and looked at it in disbelief that it was off her neck. She then looked up to me again and was going to say something but didn't instead she hung her head again and stared at the floor. I really didn't see any reason for staying anymore for I had to get out of here fast and find somewhere safe to hide. I started for the main door which was broken down by the others so they could get out and left some bloody prints as well. I really didn't care much anymore and was about to fly off when I felt some'ling tug on my tail. I turned to see the purple female sitting behind me and holding my tail in her mouth. I was starting to get a little irritated by this female.

"What do you want now I have to go and I suggest that you do too." She then looked at the ground and kicked at in with her hoof. I really just didn't care anymore.

"Listen you need to start talking right now because I'm getting really pissed off trying to figure out what you are saying and what it is that you want! Now start talking or I'm going to leave you here alone to fend for yourself do you understand me!" I said yelling at her face and she started to cry and she hide her head under her hoof's. I then felt sorry for her and didn't know why I even got mad at her for she didn't even do anything wrong and I didn't know what to do anymore.

"Ok look I'm sorry I yelled but you need to go now or you are going to die so ... um bye I guess but really you need to run now." I then turned feeling like a complete idiot for what I said and that was probably the worst apology in the history of apologizing. But it didn't matter any more for I would most likely never see her again and started in the direction of mountains. It was going to be at least an hour before I got there however and decided to get lost in my own thoughts.