My Life Is A Lie

Standard procedure for convicted criminals is that they are questioned and detained until further notice. If enough evidence proves them guilty, they have their memories scanned with magic as a last line of defence to prove their innocence and paint a picture of the crime. Their memories are copied and stored on a crystal and they can be displayed on a flat surface. This is usually done with the convicted pony's consent.

In Blue's case however, the guards got his memories as soon as possible. They didn't even wait for him to regain consonances. Once they got his memories, they put a strap jacket on him, put a magic cancelling ring on his horn, and threw him into solitary confinement.

After all, the crime: being a changeling. Evidence: he obviously is one.

Form what the guard gathered, 'Blue' is real. He was born in Canterlot and passed any and all tests for changelings after the invasion as well as his parents. So the guards searched the memories looking for the 'real' Blue's whereabouts. Unfortunately, from what they looked through so far, the replacement didn't happen in recent memory. A few guards are staying on overtime to look at the earliest memories.

Blue woke up in a room with only a single source of light. It didn't take long for him to find that he can't move his forelegs. He's lying on his back in a barely adequate bed and he sits up. He's a little drowsy and has a minor headache. At first, he can't remember much of anything. He looks down and is filled with dread when he sees his holey, black legs. This memory is one he wants to become a bad dream, but instead is a nightmare that even The Tantabus couldn't conjure up. He's a changeling.

Why is the first of his questions. Why is he like this, why hasn't he noticed, why can't he remember ever being a changeling, why can't he live in peace, those sort of questions. He also can't but help to wonder how long he'll be in the room he's in. For a while, probably.

He quickly dismissed the thoughts. It all doesn't matter. Even if he got out of jail or wherever he is, he can never return to his normal life. His friends, as trusting as they are, will never want to be with him. Surely White would want nothing to do with him. Who knows what her father would do if he even got near her. Speaking of parents, what is the truth to his parents? How can he be a changeling all his life and his parents not notice? It's very unlikely that they're changelings for that would stupid to willfully live in the ground zero of hatred and prejudice towards you.

As much as he feared that his family are changelings, he found the the idea of his parents being normal and not knowing of his true self much more frightening. How would he ever then have a home after this? His parents would want nothing to do with him. They will never let him be with his siblings. They might be understanding, but if they see him as a treat (which they have reason to) then they cast him out of their lives.

As he processed these thoughts, he became aware of his utter isolation. The comforting warmth he became accustomed to was gone. In its place is cold bitterness. It occurs to him that the warm feelings was love and that's what he has lived off for years. Now nopony is around, nopony knows where he is, and in his mind, nopony cares.

He laid back in the bed. His biggest fear came real. For the first time in his life, he felt truly alone. Not just alone in a room, but completely and utterly withdrawn from society, friends, and family.

Alone.

The guards began looking at Blue's earliest memories. The memories are so old that Blue wouldn't remember them himself. Looking at these memories is possible, but a little sloppy. The memories remained even after they're forgotten, but looking at them is like looking through water soaked binoculars.

As they looked at Blue's foalhood, they noticed something interesting. From looked like the original changeling parents, it didn't seem like they were a community of their own. It seemed like they were alone in what looked like Canterlot's sewers. After speeding through the first day or two of Blue's life, they found what has to be the most important information they could come across. Blue was in a room with one of the changeling parents and a hospital nurse came in. The nurse revealed to be the other changeling parent and was carrying what looked to be Blue's foal pony form. The changeling exchanged some illegible words and casted a spell on Blue. One changeling kissed Blue on the cheek and hoofed him to the changeling that disguised itself as the nurse. The changeling carried Blue through the hospital the room was in (presumably a janitor's closet) and hoofed Blue to the pony parents.

This made things complicated for the guards, so they made a request for Princess Celestia to make time to cast her judgment.