Chainwings Adventure

Chapter 1

Rough Starts

Chainwings POV

Deep within the caves that changelings had called home, a changeling who was determined to be different gets caught in an explosion caused by a barrel filled with explosive powder. The changeling had been flung forward against the side of a cave wall. Unable to react in time to a large chunk of the ceiling that had begun to crack and was about to crush the changeling, who happened to be a female named Starburst.

But one changeling, whose stupidity could not be matched, flew over, and pushed her out of the way, and gets his hind legs pinned under the rock. And this is where we meet Chainwing.

Luckily I didn't break my hind legs, but it did hurt way more than it should have.

"Who just- Chainwing? Oh no! Are you alright Chainwing?" Starburst shouted flying over to me and helping with the other changelings prying the large chunk of rock off my legs.

"Starburst I'm fine… J-just a little hurt for a moment is all, as long as you're okay" I said making a forced grin, ignoring the pain I was feeling in my legs as I forced myself stand back up.

"S-see? Perfectly fine" I said, forcing myself to not be appearing in any pain at all, but it was clearly lying through my teeth.

"Well then… T-thanks Chainwing, I'll see you around" Starburst said with a smile as she walked off to help clean up the damage done by the explosion. I won't lie, I may have a little bit of a crush on Starburst, so when she smiled at me I felt my heart skip a beat.

"I can only hope- I mean of course you will- I mean, okay… See you around" I managed to say as multiple armor wearing changeling flew over to me in an instant frightening me slightly. "Chainwing!" They all said in unison, likely thinking I was the one who ignited that barrel.

"That's my name ain't it?" I said trying to be casual, except I had clenched my teeth down from the pain pulsing through my hind legs.

"Watch your mouth Chainwing, for we come to deliver a message from the Queen…" One of the armored changeling said walking right up to me, completely oblivious to what just happened to me.

Wait, did he just say the Queen? The Queen of all changelings, had a message for me? Wow! Moving up in the world! "Really? What is it?" I said, making my wings buzz as I began to float into the air with excitement.

"Queen Chrysalis has requested…" The armored changeling closest to me said but stopping himself from saying the last words, intentionally playing the pronoun game which I wasn't having no part of.

"Could you just tell me" I said with an impatient tone as I began to lower myself back down.

"She has requested that you be removed from the hive…" A female changeling voice said, but she hadn't had the nerve to show her face as she spoke.

I had essentially lost all my strength, I fell to my front legs as my hind legs gave out underneath me, tears quickly forming in my eyes, I shifted my gaze to each of the changelings who stood before me. I prayed to the gods that it was just a very cruel joke, and I wouldn't have to leave and face the monsters of the cruel world.

"You must leave immediately… Even though you have what you looks to be two broken legs, but it doesn't matter. You leave our hive, now!" The changeling guard closest to me shouted in my face, absolutely no sympathy for another changeling.

"A-are you serious! W-w-why? Why does she want me gone?" I managed to spout out, tears streaming down my face onto the ground forming a small puddle.

"That knowledge is classified, now, go before we have to strike you down." The armored changeling shouted in my face. I used my wings to hover into the air, assuming my legs had been broken.

I started to fly over to my room, but the armored changelings quickly stopped me "no… You take no resources from here, you go out onto the surface with nothing" the main armored changeling who seemed to do all the talking said.

"Are you serious?" I asked drooping my ears down. "Fine" I muttered flying off towards the exit. It was right then I tried to imagine how long it must have taken to mine out the caves we lived in, or we possibly may have went into an old diamond dog base, but either way how long.

It took me nearly half an hour to fly out from the tunnel at my top speed of flight. I didn't notice the stone door that had been in place though, and even if I did I was going too fast to have stopped in time. I slammed into the stone door and a burst of pain shooting through my body made me cringe.

I fell to my back as the stone door looked about to fall down on top of me. I flew out of the way just before it could crush me. And what I saw through that stone door was a higher concentration light than I had seen in a very long time.

It had been forever since I saw the sunlight, the only time I had seen sunlight was during… The battle… Queen Chrysalis, rather than try and make peaceful relations with the ponies decided to try and invade their capital city… Didn't work out so well.

I was one of the changelings who had been called into battle… I swear I will never forget that day…

Flashback

Me along with many other changelings had hid inside the mountain the ponies capital city rested on, it was a mostly hollow mountain to be honest, it wouldn't surprise me if somewhere a massive creatures hid inside.

We each waited for Queen Chrysalis to give the signal and destroy the shield. Once inside I was part of the group that would secure the elements of harmony. The ultimate super weapons the ponies hogged for themselves.

The signal was Chrysalis revealing herself to the ponies causing a massive blast of lime green light. She would then buy as much time as she possibly could by either monologuing about the plans, or she would attack their leader, which would make her a prime threat. No pony would care about the few changelings breaking away at the pink shield that covered the city. They would all go after Chrysalis.

When the signal came we went to work. We slammed our bodies into the pink shield repeatedly. It hurt us more than it did the shield, but after a few moments the shield burst. Shards of the pink shield falling down onto the ponies below, but they had been the least of my problems. We had to figure out where the elements of harmony were being kept. It wasn't easy considering the city had been so huge! My ears twitched to the sound of a fellow changeling shouting that they found the elements. Now Chrysalis had a plan that ensured the weapon wouldn't be able to be activated, over half of the army would be stationed to guard them. When the wearers of the elements came to retrieve them we would overwhelm them with our superior numbers.

When the six ponies showed up, I had been expecting them to be wearing some sort of armor but they hadn't, this would be too easy I had thought.

I was wrong, oh so very wrong… It started out with one of the changelings disguising as one of the ponies who had multi colored hair and messed with her head, mimicking all the movements she had made then pushed her away using their forelegs.

The confused faces the ponies had made… Priceless, we all then disguised ourselves of the six ponies, I kept my eyes locked on my target. A Pegasus I think they are called, with yellow fur and a long pink mane, she looked to be the weakest of the bunch.

I however took a similar form to the rainbow haired Pegasus, it was honestly the most weird feeling in the world. Male changeling one moment female pony the next. Next thing I knew it was a massive mosh pit.

I approached the yellow Pegasus, a large evil grin across my face seeing the terror in her eyes. But then… She stood up straight and stared me back in my eyes… She was looking into my soul, I backed up slightly with my eyes more narrow than I would have liked. I was seriously being intimidated by a weak little Pegasus's glare.

I grinned widely and mirrored her stare as I changed into a copy of her. She was the one backing away now, next thing I know she spreads her wings and flies away from me out of my sight.

I growled slightly not knowing who was a changeling and who was a pony now. I finally saw that yellow coated Pegasus, but she was about to be stomped to bits by four copies of the rainbow haired pony. I watched in awe as the rainbow haired pony was actually amongst the changeling fighters, and she knocked the three of them away and helped her friend up off the ground.

I turned my head to see the pink pony pulling out a cannon… And aimed it at me. Luckily it was just confetti or else I would have been blasted apart. The confetti did hurt a lot though, well more than you expect little pieces of paper to hurt.

In a matter of moments we had all been defeated. I lay on my stomach and watched with a grin as they opened the door, to see twice as many changeling as before. We had tired them out, the plan worked like a charm! They surrendered and were brought to Queen Chrysalis for some reason.

I stayed behind to ensure the elements would still be protected and guarded, I had a full five seconds to react before the explosion took place. I looked to the part of the city where Chrysalis had been inside. I watched in absolute horror as an orb of love expanded from where Chrysalis had likely stood. It was so powerful it repelled all the changelings. Every changeling inside the city had been blasted off into separate directions. The reason it was scary was some changelings were inside buildings. Did they get crushed? Or just smashed through the walls? I sincerely hoped it was the latter over the former option.

End of Flashback

After a while, my eyes adjusted to the light. The capital city was not too far away. I looked to my right and saw a large thriving city built near the coastline, and when I looked to the left I saw trees for miles on end and a tall crystal castle- no tree- no… was it both? A large crystal tree castle at the bottom of the mountain the capital city rested on and it hadn't been visible during the battle. So many questions right now.

I decided I would head straight towards the crystal castle. I mean sure it would be a long journey, but what could possibly go wrong right? I just got to head through some not so menacing looking forest, get to the large castle and just check out what's going on.

I slowly descended to the ground putting pressure onto my hind legs, having no pain at all? What the heck? I thought I had my legs broken by the rock. Oh well. A pleasant surprise is better than pain.

I took literally one step, I didn't realize I was on a mountain, lost my balance and slid down the mountain side on my stomach. I was screaming the whole way down until I face planted onto the ground with a painful thud.

At this point I would have preferred my legs to be broken. I lifted myself back onto my hooves quickly by using my wings, wait, I could have just used my wings instead of riding down on my stomach like a penguin would. I am such an idiot! A moth would look at me and laugh, and they will fly right into fire and burn. I thought to myself in my head.

I was about to put myself down again when a piece of paper that had been carried off in the wind smacked against my face. I winced for a moment before using my magic to levitate the paper away from my face and see what it had on it.

It was a fully done up map of Equestria! Wow, it's like I get one case of terrible luck, then one heaping dose of good fortune.

I strained my eyes looking to the map, so many pony cities… And according to this map there was a town nearby the major crystal castle tree thing- oh… And that original name though, 'Ponyville' Gee… Wonder how many minutes it took to think of that name.

Ponyville… Might as well just called it pony village… I thought out loud as I walked forward. I stopped and quickly flew up into the sky to check what part of Equestria I was in.

Apparently the town I saw to my right was named Fillydelphia… Amazing originality for these town names… Actually, now that I am looking closer… All the town and city names are some kind of horse pun! That is so cocky! That would be like us changelings setting up a town in Equestria and calling it "Change-Ville" It just sounds so stupid.

Oh, and the one seemingly normal name is reserved for the major capital city "Canterlot" hmm… No horse puns clearly visible, nice.

I began hovering back down, choosing to walk instead of fly. If I were to fly then I would possibly miss out on the wonders of this forest I am about to walk into.

"Mm-mmm… The air is amazing near this forest! What was its name again?" I thought in my head as I checked the map. 'Everfree Forest' is what the map said it was named, pretty cool name considering it was named by ponies.

I walked in through what seemed to be a peaceful little pathway, it was nice and quiet, some would say too quiet but I prefer silence. My ears twitched hearing something call out for help from off in the distance. I folded the map up until it was small enough to fit into one of the holes in my left leg, I made my wings buzz as I flew in-between trees to investigate what had called for help. Next thing I know I hear a mighty roar which made me stop flying immediately and look around.

The roar was followed by the call for help again, this time, more distinguishable than the last time, it sounded like a hatchling! A changeling too young to properly defend itself like an adult could. I quickly galloped in the direction of the call for help.

I screeched to a halt for a second time seeing what caused the roar. A large wolf made almost entirely from trees and other natural things that had been digging its claws at a small cave trying to get something out of it.

I turned around and began to sneak away. It hadn't seen me yet so I could possibly get away. My ears drooped down hearing the hatchlings voice call out again echoing slightly like a changeling's voice would "please someone! Anyone! Help me!" The voice cried out but turned to a sad whimper. When I turned around I saw the large wolf thing had something inside of its wooden mouth, I clenched my teeth and closed my eyes.

A burst of adrenaline began pumping through me, I buzzed into the air and shot straight forward into the large wolf's neck making it chip and crack slightly, the weight of the large wolf's head was too great for the rest of the neck to handle.

I essentially decapitated it, its head cracked off the neck and fell to the ground with a crash and the body spreading out in random directions. I hovered in the air looking down to the large pile of trees and twigs as I took it all in.

I had just decapitated a creature five times my size, I was referred to as being the weakest changeling by Chrysalis. If so, then how did I manage to destroy this creature, or did Chrysalis possibly lie? Or… Am I truly the weakest and the other Changelings are all better in every way? We would have been able to easily take the capital city if that was to be the case.

I heard the hatchlings voice cry out in terror, I snapped out of my little thought and looked down to see large pieces of the wood were reforming into three smaller versions of the big wolf. Great! Even more enemies!

I hovered down to where the hatchlings voice had cried out to only see a little pegasus pony with a dark orange coat and light purple mane and tail. I was rendered speechless. I had just saved a pony's life. What would the other changelings think of me! I was a border line traitor now, aiding a pony.

I didn't have time to dwell on that thought however, because one of the wood wolves had leapt at me and knocked me away from the pony I just saved. "No!" The pony shouted for some reason, not coming to my aid when I needed help. Typical pony.

I still was having an adrenaline rush however, so I pushed it off of me high into the air using my strength Then used a bolt of green electricity to tear it apart before it could fall down and crush me or the pony.

I glared to the other two wood wolves as they approached the pony, who had been pinned down by a log twice the size of her. So that's why she didn't come to my aid, she literally couldn't.

I levitated the log off the pony and used it like a large weapon to smack the wolves away. It was four for four now. Three wood wolves taken down and one major one. I was on a winning streak!

I looked to where the pony had been pinned, seeing nothing, I looked around me. Still no sign of the pony.

I directly behind me and saw the pony backing away with a look of fright across her muzzle, I threw the large log to the ground and opened my mouth to speak but the pony cut me off.

"W-what are you?" The pony cried out in an adorable voice, it must have been the echoes of the cave she had hid inside that made her sound like a hatchling.

"A changeling my little pony. Why do you look so afraid? If anything you should at the very least thank me" I asked with a grin.

The pony made a wide eyed look and took a step forward "you're… a changeling! Why should you be afraid of anything! You can change form can't you?" The pony stuttered with narrow eyes.

"Really? Well I can change my form yes, but only to either a pony or horse like creature" I said perking my ears down slightly.

"Oh. Rainbow dash told me that the changeling who attacked Canterlot had the ability to change forms, I thought at the drop of a hat you could just become a dragon or something" The pony said, referring to a pony with an honestly weird name Rainbow Dash. I am assuming she has something to do with going fast or rainbows.

"No… changelings can't just go 'poof' and change into a dragon at will… Also, what were you doing to anger that thing anyways?" I asked, as the little pony's face going a light shade of red with embarrassment.

"D-don't mind me then, I'll just be on my way-" The pony said obviously not wanting to tell a stranger and began to walk off, letting out a low quick scream.

She had accidentally looked right into the sun. Which I hadn't, surprisingly enough, and the scrunched up face she made was absolutely adorable and priceless.

I had to cover my mouth with a hoof to stop myself from laughing "really? I just fought four wood wolves for you and I don't even get a 'thanks' before leaving?" I said making my voice change to her voice only to say the 'thanks' part.

The ponies' jaw dropped, she walked up to me with a wide curious look "Two things, did you just copy my voice?" The pony peeped. Any sign of fear that once been on her face now turned to a grin of curiosity.

"Yah you don't say…" I said copying her voice again and rolling my eyes, it was actually difficult to get her voice just right, but what it gave me in return was the cutest reactions I had ever seen in my life!

"Okay then, also wood wolves? Hope you realize they are actually called Timberwolves" The pony said with a smug tone. Hmm… Timberwolves wasn't that bad of a name, has a nice ring to it.

"Shouldn't you just be on your way back to uhh- 'Fillydelphia' is that right?" I questioned looking to where I saw Fillydelphia to be.

"What makes you think I am from Fillydelphia. Wait how do you even know about that place?" The pony said getting suspicious.

"A map hit me across the face, I had just guessed we are near Fillydelphia. Are we not or something?" I said levitating the map out from my left hind leg and unfolded it.

The pony looked to the map and her ears perked back "yep! We are near Fillydelphia by the looks of it. Did I really run that far?" The pony asked herself looking to where I assumed she had ran in from.

"How far? Where is your home at?" I asked and watching her face light up red with slight embarrassment. "P-Ponyville." The little pony said looking away from me.

My jaw dropped as I flew up seeing how far away Ponyville was from where we stood, I hovered back down in front of the pony with a stern look.

"You ran!? What looks to be seven miles!? How do you plan on getting back?" I shouted getting worried for a pony's safety. Wow.

"I… I Ran in here due to all my friends finding out I was an orphan. They all thought I had a family but in truth I didn't. I don't know why I thought it would be a good idea to run into the Everfree Forever though. And I am likely going to die here in this nightmare of a forest!" The pony shouted with tears forming in her eyes as she laid down onto the ground.

It felt like my heart was being snapped in two, I took a long deep breath and walked over to the pony "don't say that kid. I was going to be heading towards Ponyville anyways, how about we go together, and I won't let you die. By my honor as a changeling, I will stop at nothing to make sure you get back to your home alive" I said with then realizing what I had just gotten myself into. If the pony did somehow die along the way, then I would not only officially no longer have any honor, I would never be able to forgive myself.

"R-really, A-and why should I trust a changeling like you." The pony asked looking at me with her tear filled eyes which made me bite back tears of my own.

Why shouldn't she trust me? Wait… I need to put myself in this ponies' hooves for a moment. I had just saw a creature I believed to be hostile and could change forms to me from four Timberwolves then asked if it could join me. Yeah seems suspicious now that I think about it. I saved her, yet I would accompany her as if she had done something for me.

My train of thought was stopped dead in its tracks as I heard the pony ask again and less saddened than the first time "why should I trust a changeling like you." The pony reiterated glaring at me as she got slightly more annoyed with my silence.

"You shouldn't. In all honesty you really shouldn't." I said closing my eyes and nodding, when I opened my eyes back up it looked like the ponies jaw had been dislocated from its socket.

"What do you mean I shouldn't trust you?" The pony said backing a step away.

"I don't think you should trust me. I mean, I just showed up out of nowhere at your hour of need and now I was going to go with you back to Ponyville. That sounds like something I would expect some mastermind or something to do in order to get somewhere they weren't supposed to be" I said. Then I made a serious expression and began to hover into the air.

"But I am no mastermind, I just want to do something good for once." I said as I hovered back down to the ground and getting painful memories of how most of the time I would always fail at something, no matter what it was either. I could legitimately screw up walking in a straight line sometimes. Yes. Walking in a straight friggin line.

"O-okay, you can come along." The pony said with a smile before I finally noticed she was a pegasus pony when she spread her wings out, guessing to just simply stretch them out for a moment.

"Also, the names Scootaloo" the pony said as she walked somewhat ahead of me.

"Chainwing's mine" I replied making the pony stop in her tracks.

"Chainwing? Are you seriously named Chainwing" the pony asked seeming to not believe it.

"Yes. I know it sounds a-lot like changeling but Chrysalis wasn't all too creative when it came to naming changelings" I said rolling my eyes slighting.

"Your name is Scootaloo. What, did you like scooting around or something as a colt?" I said mistaking the names for young ponies for a moment, big mistake on my part.

"Two things! First off I don't know why I was given the name Scootaloo okay. And second I am not a colt!" Scootaloo retorted before I could correct myself, her voice cracking a little as she spoke.

"I know that. I had just simply mistaken the names for young ponies so don't get your feathers in a bunch" I retorted back with a grin, that made her shut up.

The sound of a lion roaring had come out of seemingly nowhere and it made Scootaloo start to panic "we need to get out of here! Now!" Scootaloo yelled as she began to run in the wrong direction of Ponyville mind you. I folded my map back up quickly and stuffed it into my left leg's lowest hole to the ground.

"Wait up! You're running the wrong way!" I shouted then immediately shut up and ran after the little pony hearing the roar again getting closer. It may have been the wrong way but as if I would just sit around and wait to get eaten by a lion.