A Soldier's Story

The guard carried the newborn changelings out deep into the badlands, how many had he brought out here, how many young changelings had died because he had left them at the mercy of the Shadow Program. He looked back at the foals, these were the last hope for changelings, and Chrysalis was sending them to their death.

After several hours of trotting they came to a large stone building. Along the sides a solid stone wall rose way up high cutting off any path into the dead forest it surrounded. As they entered the large wooden doors they were greeted by a peculiar changeling wearing a lab coat.

"New specimens?" the odd changeling asked a his mouth turning up in a grin. "Chrysalis must really want this to work, we've had more changelings come in than ever before, and you can report that we've still only had limited success?"

The guard had dealt with this changeling before, but he couldn't stand by and let this happen anymore. "Limited success?" the guard began shouting "you call piles of changeling corpses, limited success? These are the queens own foals!" the guard leaned in close nearly touching muzzles with the now frightened changeling. "and should they end up in the same situation, I will make sure your body is the next one on the pile!"

The guard turned and left, leaving the other changeling frightened and holding the foals. "Th-the queens foals." He muttered staring at the foals in the floor. "Then its worse than anticipated, and we really are headed for extinction." The changeling examined the two little ones and spotted their number tags just behind their horns.

"8436 and 8437, you know we used to be over ten-hundred thousand  strong, but now we have to fight for scraps of the love essence around here and we are dying faster than we can reproduce." the changeling said as he carried the newborns to a small room towards the top of the building. "Tomorrow begins a new day for both of you, and I pray i get it right this time." He said as he layed the two down on a soft bed.

As the two foals lay there the filly turned and curled up beside her slightly larger brother, and he covered her as much as he could with his wing trying to comfort her. The changeling scientist quickly took note of the strange behavior.

"Hmm newborn siblings already have developed a bond, this is highly unusual." he said quickly writing it down on a small notepad. "This time should be different, I don't know if we will succeed, but something will definitely be different."