The Other Draconiquus - Story 2: Bite of the Changeling

Princess Twilight Sparkle woke up after having a very familiar dream. It was a dream that she remembered having repeatedly back when she was a little filly. In this dream, she had a foalsitter, who was a draconiquus, like Discord, and was responsible for giving her the very dragon egg that brought her number one assistant, Spike, into her life. But why was she having it again now, on this day in particular? The day before her wedding.

Tomorrow would be the happiest day of her life. The day that she would marry the pegasus stallion, Flash Sentry. It had been just over a year since she first met him. Or rather, she met his human parallel universe self, anyway. She was very excited for the big day.

Although she was still living in Ponyville, she and her friends were staying for a week in Canterlot Castle, preparing for the big day.

She got up from her bed and headed into the bathroom for a shower. After washing her mane and the rest of her body, she got out, and dried off. She then attempted to wake up her sleeping baby dragon, Spike. “Time to wake up, Spike,” she said to him, while nudging his head with her muzzle.

Spike groaned in response.

An idea came to Twilight. “Spike! I’m making sapphire gemstone pancakes!”

Spike jumped out of his makeshift basket bed, with an eager grin on his face. “Oh boy! I’ll have twelve!” The grin faded when he heard Twilight giggling, and he realized that he’d just been trolled.

“Come on, Spike. We only have today left until the big day, and we still have a lot to do beforehand.” She and Spike went downstairs for breakfast.

They had a rather rushed breakfast, followed immediately by going over Twilight’s checklist of everything needed to be done by that day’s end. They visited Applejack in the kitchen, creating the baked goods (except for the cake, which was being delivered by Mr. and Mrs. Cake); Rainbow Dash, who, just like with Shining Armor’s wedding, was practicing to perform a Sonic Rainboom as Twilight and Flash kissed; Rarity, who had just completed Twilight’s wedding dress; and Fluttershy, who was having her birds practice to give the music for the event. Everything seemed to be going just perfect.

And then they checked on Pinkie Pie with the décor, and the day went downhill from there.

It wasn’t that Pinkie had somehow managed to destroy the place, or any other disaster. No. It was due to what seemed like a rather odd bit of decoration that Twilight had noticed in the corner of the room. A decoration that gave her an unnerving feeling of déjà vu.

“Pinkie, what’s with that blue box over there? It’s not like you,” she asked.

“I didn’t put any blue box in here, Twilight,” responded Pinkie Pie. “It just showed up there all of a sudden.”

“Pinkie, What do you mean, it just showed up all of a sudden?”

“Well, there was this weird draft, and this weird noise, like” (this was followed by a silly, yet accurate imitation of the vwooomp vwooomp noise that the Tardis makes) “and then that box just appeared out of nowhere. And afterward somepony stepped out of it.”

“Who, Pinkie? Who stepped out of it?”

As if, in answer to this question, a very familiar-looking draconiquus came into the room, heavily focused a very strange device, with a satellite dish attached to the end opposite of himself, that was constantly beeping. He walked forward towards Twilight and Pinkie, and slapped the device across the side, in frustration, exclaiming “Oh, you stupid thing!”

It was then that he looked up and noticed the two of them, standing there looking at him. “Ah. Hello, Princess Twilight Sparkle. And I take it that the other two are Pinkie Pie and Spike.”

“Yes,” responded Pinkie Pie.

“Hello, to both of you.”

“You know, most ponies lose their imaginary friend while they are still fillies. You should have a medal for being persistent,” Twilight Sparkle told L.

“I didn’t! I still have mine!” exclaimed Pinkie. She then gestured to the air next to her. “Say hello, Homey Sompson.”

There was silence from Homey Sompson.

"He says any imaginary friend of Twilight's is a friend of his!"

L waved at Sompson and gave him a thumbs up.

"Um, Twilight," said Spike. "He's not imaginary. I can see him, too."

"You can?" asked Twilight. "You mean, he was real all this time?"

"Apparently. What's his name?"

"That's just it, Spike. Unlike a real person, he doesn't even go by a name. Just an initial. I. No, was it J? Or T? Or-"

"L," said L.

"That's the one! L! He just goes by L!"

"When did you even meet him?" asked Spike.

"Don't expect me to answer that, Twilight," said L. "It hasn't happened for me yet. And don't say it either. I can't have any spoilers on my future events."

"What does he mean by that?"

"When I met him one night when my parents were away, he was my foalsitter for the night, and he told me that he was a time traveler, and that he knew quite a bit about my future, some of which has already come to pass. He showed up in that blue box over there. And he gave me the egg that became you, Spike. And then he- Would you please stop that?"

While Twilight was telling Spike and Pinkie what was obviously spoilers to him, he plugged his ears with his fingers, and was repeatedly saying: "La la la la la la la la..." He stopped, and said, "Sorry. One shouldn't know too much about future events. Even though you met me in the past, it is still the future for me. Don't say any more of it."

"Alright. Why are you here?"

"Because I had a certain tip that Queen Chrysalis is wanting revenge on you, and I figured that your wedding with Flash Sentry would be the most logical place and time in which she would do it. Basically, your brother's wedding fiasco all over again."