Chainwings Adventure

Chapter 5

Unfortunate Events

Rainbow Dash’s POV

“Hey! Leave Scootaloo alone!” I shouted at the three bullies but they didn’t seem to hear me or were choosing to ignore me. I felt my body jolt up into the air as I saw one of them raise a hoof to possibly hit Scootaloo.

My eyes locked onto Dumb-Bell. The stallion who was about to strike Scootaloo and before I could do anything a blast of blue light shot through the air and struck Dumb-Bell in his wing making him fall to the ground.

It was Chainwing, from what Scootaloo had told me this changeling had saved her life from dragons, timberwolves, cockatrice, and a hailstorm of arrows. All to help her get back home, only to get knocked into a Coma. I didn’t honestly believe it but I was starting to come around to the idea.

Chainwing leaped out from the tree he must have crashed into, landing into the snow and aiming his horn to the three of them. I could feel myself make a devilish smile as Chainwing wrapped a field of levitation around the tree, ripped it out from the ground roots and all. And began to walk forward with ease as though the tree was just a small twig.

“A CHANGELING!” The three bullies shouted in unison. I would be scared too if I was in their situation.

Hoops kicked Scootaloo into the ground then flew off into the sky. I flew fast as I could for Hoops but I stopped as a flash of green light passed me. Chainwing? Wasn’t his magic blue though?

I flew down and stared Dumb-Bell and Score in the eyes “You two better get lost before that changeling comes back.” And just like that the two pegasi flew off like the cowards they are. I approached Scootaloo but her eyes were locked on the sky. I looked up and saw exactly why!

Chainwing was chasing after Hoops and was gaining on the coward. I felt my jaw drop as Hoops flew higher and higher, but Chainwing still kept going faster than Hoops.

“Was that Chainwing?” Scootaloo asked.

“Yep” I replied struggling to keep my eyes locked onto Chainwing and Hoops.

“Well that pony is pretty much doomed” Scootaloo peeped. Chainwing and Hoops flew into a cloud and they seemed to just stop.

It felt like my jaw came loose from its socket when I barely saw two figures falling from the cloud. Chainwing had gripped onto Hoops and was going to pile drive him into the ground! I heard the distant shouts of Hoops trying to apologize and Chainwing remaining silent.

The rest of the gang ran outside and looked up to see Chainwing stop in midair and let Hoops fall into a frozen lake. I looked around and saw multiple ponies’ looking to the sky in both amazement and horror, Chainwing then did something I wasn’t expecting, I was expecting him to hover back down but, in a blinding flash of blue light the changeling was gone!

“That was the changeling you told us about darling?! How and why pray tell did he come to protecting you again? That changeling seems to be nothing but a monster.” I heard Rarity ask Scootaloo in a nervous tone.

“Monster? Monster? A monster would have kept flying that pegasus into the ground. I think he just wanted to give him a scare, let em’ know not to mess with his friends?” Scootaloo retorted giving a shrug, she was wrong but i'll just pretend that's what I actually intended.

“We need to find him before somepony hurts him!” Fluttershy said making me want to hit my head against a wall. Of course Fluttershy would sympathize with a changeling who has shown only aggressive traits so far. Fluttershy did defend the spirit of chaos after all so it’s not that big of a surprise but really?

“B’fore somepony hurts him? Sugarcube ah’m pretty sure it’s gonna be the other way around” Applejack said seeming to be on the same page as me.

“Let’s just find that changeling before it escapes!” Twilight said then after getting a glare from each of us changed it to “Let's… Find Chainwing before somepony hurts him or he hurts somepony” Twilight said then gave a painfully forced smile.

Literally five minutes earlier.

Chainwing’s POV

"Hey! Leave Scootaloo alone!" Rainbow Dash shouted at the three but they didn't seem to hear her. I felt my body jolt up into the air as I saw one of them raise a hoof to hit Scootaloo!

Big mistake pal, big mistake! I Looked down and saw Rainbow Dash who seemed to have the same plans for those ponies if they hurt Scootaloo. The white substance that covered the ground would soon be either stained a bright blue from me, or a dark red. And it was more likely to be the dark red that stained the ground.

I saw the stallion about to strike Scootaloo and it felt like time screeched to a halt. I charged my horn up quick as I could and let forth a concentrated beam of magic straight into the stallion’s wing. Forcing him to fall to the ground for the moment.

I then leapt out of the tree and landed onto the ground. To demonstrate what they would be messing with I pulled the tree I had just came from right out of the ground, roots and everything. But I quickly dropped the tree out of the air as I saw one of the stallions kick Scootaloo down then fly off into the sky.

I wanted to blast him out of the air but a voice similar to the one in the nightmare began to call out; Flyy after him. A simple pegasus cannot outfly a changeling such as yourself. I cringed because the voice made me think everything would turn nightmarish again but I did so anyways. I zipped off into the sky so fast my body actually caught fire, green fire at that.

I passed Rainbow Dash who looked like she was about to do exactly what I was doing. Chase that pony! I was going extremely fast! Faster than I ever had before. The stallion turned his head and saw me coming after him. Rather than zig zag and possibly tire me out he just kept flying straight.

Allow me to energize you for the time being so you may keep up with minimal effort. The voice called out from inside my head. I felt a surge of energy rush through me as though I was being electrified. I felt myself smile as I chased the pony straight into a cloud.

I could see the pony but they couldn’t see me. This was perfect Call out your inner demons, let out a shout that will instinctively paralyze the pony with fear! The voice called out again. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. I heard the pony begin to shout in protest then I opened my eyes, the world around me became like the nightmare I had suffered through before. And by the way the pony was acting somehow he was seeing it too. The ground below me and the pony was a deformed form of the town we once stood in, each cottage was either burnt or on fire, dragons were circling the burnt version of Ponyville and picking off anything they could see.

Remember this is not real, embrace the darkness young changeling. Let out a mighty dragons roar! Scare your victim into submission! The voice called out, I did exactly as the voice instructed, and I charged at the pony and opened my razor sharp tooth filled mouth and roared the best I could. The pony fell backwards out of the sky and everything went normal again. I flew down and rammed myself into the pony and sped up his fall.

If this pony wanted to hurt a young pony- a filly or a colt- Scootaloo or anypony- I would break every bone in their body until their screams echoed throughout Tartarus! I snarled at the pony as we both fell from the sky.

“Please I am sorry! I will never go and hurt another pony again I promise!” The stallion called out, but I wasn’t buying it. The pony could just be lying to me to show mercy. I wasn’t going to give him a chance.

“I- I’m telling the truth! Please I don’t want to die!” The pony called out. Tears floated up into the sky. We were falling faster than gravity would seem to have liked. I decided I would listen to the pony and show mercy. That and I would probably die too if I went through with this plan.

“Fine… I will let you live. But if I catch you hurting ANYPONY again I won’t be so forgiving.” I said then kicked myself away from the pony while simultaneously kicking the pony into a lake which had a solid layer of something on top that he broke through. Strange, really strange.

I saw a vast number of ponies looking to me in the sky. I saw a small alley way I could probably teleport to if I tried hard enough. And nopony except Silver Skies and Chestnut know what I look like as a pony so I could pull this off and get away.

I charged my horn up and teleported successfully to where I was looking. Which at first surprised me to how I didn’t screw up the teleporting spell but, I won’t complain. I took my pony form and walked out of the alleyway. I felt myself just want to eternally scream as the two ponies who would recognize me were right in front of me. Just My Luck!

Silver Skies face lit up with joy, as I expected it would. And Chestnut, well, Chestnut was twice the size of Silver Skies now. I am not even going to try and understand how that works. I wasn’t prepared for Silver to leap at me knocking me to the ground. It was almost exactly how Rainbow knocked me up against the wall except Silver was pressing her muzzle right up against mine.

“Chainwing! Was that you who flew up after that pony then threw them into the lake! If so, bravo Chainwing bravo.” Silver said beginning to nuzzle her head against my neck. Why I don’t know, was this just some weird way of greeting ponies? I saw the six ponies from the battle and Scootaloo walking along the street.

“I can’t be seen by those ponies, if they ask what my name is you just say that it’s Dr. Hoof or something and say I am a mute so I can’t talk to them” I whispered and Silver got off of me and whispered back “okay but you owe me and Chestnut one, deal?” She replied making me genuinely afraid for what she had in store. But I imagined it to be better than whatever those ponies had in store. I nodded as the group of ponies got closer and closer.

The group passed us without a word. I let out a sigh of relief but turned and saw Silver Sky hovering in the air flapping her wings quick as she could. What was she planning? I wasn’t going to like this no matter what.

After the group of ponies left Chestnut spoke before Silver Sky could asking “Last time we saw you your face had shattered like a cracked egg, are you still hurt or do wounds not transfer onto your disguise.”

“I was apparently healed by Twilight Sparkle, she had me tied to a crystal chair thing and was asking me questions” I said and watched the two ponies’ expressions turn grim.

Why though, why did she attempt to heal me in the first place. Was it only so I may answer questions for her? What would she hope to get from me anyway? The location to the hive or something- I mused to myself but was cut off by Silver Sky shoving something down my throat, what the actual heck is wrong with this pony! Does she not know what personal space is? I began to cough violently, I had to clench my eyes shut from the pain each cough was causing me.

“What- wa- was- that?” I managed to spout out feeling as though I would eventually choke if this got worse.

“Just take deep breaths. Trust me” Silver Sky said with an almost somber tone, I struggled to open my eyes and saw both Chestnut and her back up and held scared expressions.

I did as Silver asked and took multiple deep long breaths and closed my eyes again. When I opened my eyes I was tied back down against the crystal throne thingy. I don’t think I would trust Silver Sky again after this.

My eyes adjusted to a purple light being shined in my eyes, I let out a moan in protest not having the strength to fight back or use my magic. Twilight Sparkle was shining the light of her horn into my eyes. For the alicorn’s credit I don’t believe she intended this, because the moment she did realize she was straining my eyes with her light, she pulled her head away.

“Look I just want you to answer some questions. They aren’t difficult, and the moment you are done you can go off to wherever you belong. Okay?” Twilight said giving a small sheepish grin, which I wanted to smash against the wall repeatedly.

“Chainwing she just needs to make sure you’re not going to try and kill anypony. Well a physical record saying you won’t. Because your word isn’t solid enough.” Scootaloo said walking into view. From her tone she wasn’t liking this anymore than I was.

“Fine… Let’s just get this over with.”

“Great, question one the most obvious one. Your name, Chainwing right?” Twilight said giving a grin, I noticed out of the corner of my eye Scootaloo’s cheeks turned a shade of pink. Embarrassment or shame, she told her friends about me didn't she.

“Yeah, next question already” I said feeling myself scowl.

“Alright, question two, why did you willingly injure that pony? If you hadn’t stopped when you did you may have killed him. And you have to be honest with me.”

“I… I attacked the pony because they were hurting Scootaloo, a filly, and a child in other words. Would you sit idly by and watch a child be harmed? Of any species? No you wouldn’t. Also at the time it seemed like Rainbow Dash was about to do the same thing I was soooo…” I spoke my gaze trailing away from the alicorn and saw Rainbow Dash standing in the background with a sly smirk as she chimed in “100% would have done the same, but probably much cooler” then went quiet again. The way she worded it in a way, made me almost proud that I nearly killed a pony. Whoa.

“I have a question for him” a quiet voice called out from behind me.

“What do changelings eat. With his fierce dagger like teeth I am scared that… They eat meat” The voice peeped in a scared shy tone.

Oh boy… How do I explain it to a pony… I thought to myself for a moment. “Well… I don't eat meat, or any other physical meals for that matter. Changelings feed off emotions like love and happiness for nourishment… If that's even the right word” I responded then heard the supposed same pony let out a sigh of relief.

Three Hours Later

Some time had passed and most of the group of ponies had left to get some sleep. Twilight Sparkle- or Princess Twilight Sparkle had stayed for who knows how long just asking me some of the most repetitive questions ever. But to her credit she was just as annoyed with them as me.

“And… Final question” Twilight started but paused for a moment to yawn then continued “would you like to live in Ponyville or any other city.”

“Yep…” I responded flatly feeling like I would collapse from exhaustion again.

“Great… Now we can sleep” the moment she said that I fell asleep immediately.

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When I woke up I was inside a wooden structure. I looked around and got up from a pile of hay, not a bed which I was expecting from ponies.

“Chainwing? What a relief to see your finally awake” the familiar voice of Silver Sky called out but the pony didn't look anything close to the backstabbing pegasus I knew.

The pegasus who stood before me had a silver coat and a long dark blue mane. Silver Sky had a light blue coat and silver mane, not like this.

“What? Oh, it's my colour palette right? I look completely different now don't I” Silver said with a sheepish grin, how long was I asleep?

“You look… Nice. Not that you didn't before don't get me wrong but now you look better” I said, wrong choice of words on my part. Or possibly the right words. A shade of red covered the area around the bridge of her muzzle and the tips of her ears.

“Really? Y-you think I look nice?” Silver Sky stuttered as her ears perked up. What was this… Red blushing? I thought when ponies blush it was pink. I thought to myself for a moment.

“Yeah. Also, where am I?” I asked looking around at the wooden walls. It honestly made it look like we were inside a tree.

“Well, since you're Ponyville's first official changeling resident, a group of ponies built you a house. They weren't told it was for a changeling. So in other words… Your home” Silver Sky said in a relaxed tone despite just saying that I was not only a resident of Ponyville, but also saying they built me a home and everything!

“And Princess Twilight Sparkle herself asked that I look after the house until you woke up. Also I'm so sorry about how I tricked you like that. I shouldn't have betrayed your trust. Will you ever find it in your heart to forgive me?” Silver Sky added with a smile.

“It's okay. I just want to know how you did- what you did and how long I was asleep. And how your colours changed. So many questions...”

“I fed you a Poison Joke, according to research if eaten by a changeling it would knock em out cold. You were asleep for nearly five days, and the poison joke I mentioned earlier switched my colours up but I sorta liked it” Silver Sky said somehow all in one go without taking a break for air.

Before I could respond the demented voice spoke again in my mind; You are in a house created by ponies just for you. A house is like a small nest for a limited number of creatures to live inside. This mare seems to have an… Interest in you. A word of warning, do not betray this pony the way she betrayed you. The voice finished sending a chill up my spine.

“Well, I… Better get going now. Hope to see you around sometime” Silver Sky said as she walked towards the exit. For some strange reason she stopped and turned to me with a sad expression.

“Chainwing, are we friends? I would like us to be… If we aren't already that is” Silver Sky said turning and hiding her expression away again.

“Um… Of course, just try not to do- that again!” I said as Silver Sky rushed at me and began to squeeze me, like a hug but much harder.

“Sorry” Silver replied quickly, but didn't let go. And it was at this moment I realized that I was still undisguised. A changeling obsessed pony is getting a chance to hug one, so I did the stupid thing and continued to let her squeeze me. For all I knew she was going to hug me for eternity.

I swear she just kept her grip on me for nearly an hour before she let go.  Well that voice did say she had an interest in me. That may have been an understatement however. I thought to myself and almost like the strange voice could hear me it responded with; agreed. Keep one eye open while you sleep just in case she is there. The voice chided making me have to fight the urge to cringe.

I opened the door to the house for Silver Sky to leave while still undisguised like a fool. I wanted to bury myself away under a volcano the moment I saw a flash of rainbow light fling itself right into me knocking me against the back wall.

“You don’t move!” Rainbow said pressing her forelegs against my neck, Rainbow- Smash? why do I forget this pony’s last name so much! It felt like she was trying to crush my windpipe.

“Y-yes. How nice of you too drop in… WHAT DO YOU WANT!” I shouted kicking the pegasus away from me and somehow managed to send a bolt of electricity out from my horn and missed her by a hair.

“There is sorta a Timberwolf running around in the streets. Scootaloo said you fought off four of them, last I saw it was going after Fluttershy” Rainbow shouted then added in with a yelp “no need to fry me! I just wanted to know if you can help take it down.”

“A Timberwolf? Are those things actually considered a threat?” Silver chimed in with a smug expression across her face.

“Yes, well no. But the Timberwolf that is running around had… Stone parts instead of wooden. I actually don’t even think it qualifies as a Timberwolf. Maybe a stone hound?” The rainbow maned pegasus said all too relaxed. there was a wolf, made of stone, running around and may be a possible threat!

“Where is it?” I said feeling my lips begin to snarl back. Both ponies seemed to back up at the sight of my sharp teeth. But before Rainbow could respond a howl sounded off. It was close. A scream of a pony sounded. By the pitch of it possibly a filly or colt! I buzzed my wings and shot myself out of the house. My eyes darted around looking for a small stone wolf like create. But instead my gaze fell upon a massive rocky wolf. Its eyes made from a ruby color and its teeth from steel. This was really really bad!

Use your nightmare mode! Concentrate on your enemy and close your eyes. Open your eyes and call out those who have a weaker will than you and send them to attack the beast! The deep monotone voice said making me think that I was conducting Dark Magic. And I wasn’t being corrupted by it, yet.

I did as the voice instructed, closed my eyes and concentrated on the image of the massive stone beast. With my eyes closed I turned my head around and saw golden glowing beings of varying sizes. I opened my eyes and saw it was animals. Little tiny cute adorable animals. That yellow pegasus and a big bear trying to stay hidden under a bridge. I closed my eyes again and looked to the wolf's direction. A golden color surrounded the beast.

I wanted to understand what was going on but I didn’t have time to think. The wolf bit me right out of the air. I was inside the steel toothed mouth of a massive stone wolf! So this is how I die.

Command the wolf! Your willpower is stronger than its! Chainwing you can do it! The voice shouted but soon shifted to the voice of the dragon-pony thing I remember seeing from the hospital.

It is hard to describe what I did, but I used my mind somehow to control the massive stone wolf. I forced its mouth open and once I jumped out I lost concentration and it smashed one of its steel claws down on the bridge the animals had hid under. I shouted and let out a blast of magic that knocked it backwards.

I once again gained control over the wolf then instructed it to go back to wherever it came from. And it did. The wolf walked off into the distance without any signs of resistance.

I hovered back down and wanted to laugh at the expressions of Rainbow what's her name and Silver Sky. Their jaws hung open like they couldn’t believe what they were looking at. In all honesty they probably didn’t believe it. I sure as anything know I didn’t. I was expecting to wake up from this insanity filled dream, but it wasn’t a dream, it was real!

“Fluttershy!” Rainbow called out flying to the rubble that used to be the bridge.

The stone wolf had appeared to have crushed the group. But when I closed my eyes the golden figures still were there. I used my magic to move the rubble aside with ease and the pegasus named Fluttershy? Crawled out and her expression made me think she had her life flash before her eyes for a moment.

“Thank you..” Fluttershy squeaked then collapsed to her chest. The other animals soon followed and crawled out from the rubble.

“What exactly did you do? Blast a beam of magic down its gullet?” Rainbow questioned tilting her head slightly to her left.

“Uh… Yeah, that's exactly what I did” I responded making a forced smile.

“Well, that was a little anti climatic. I mean it ran off after like nothing” Rainbow said with a small smile. Yes because what I just did was totally something small hardly anything at all.

Silver Skies POV

I felt my heart rate triple as out of nowhere an apple tree fell right on top of Chainwing without any warning. Rainbow Dash jolted backwards but didn’t seem to be that concerned.

Applejack ran into view and her jaw dropped and said “where’d that massive stone Timberwolf go!?”

“Chainwing blasted a beam of magic down it's throat and it just walked off” Rainbow Dash said seemingly unphased by Chainwing getting crushed by a tree.

“Where is he now?” Applejack asked looking around.

“This tree crushed him!” I shouted flying to the tree and tried to pry it off.

“Big Mac you can stop! The wolf thingy is gone” Applejack shouted but I didn't pay attention. There was a life possibly on the line!

A shadow of a falling boulder or massive rock came into view and stopped on the tree Chainwing was under, I wanted to scream, I wanted to cry! I wanted to help Chainwing but if I did I would probably get hurt worse than he would get.

I flew away from the tree just before the boulder could crush me. Chainwing however, wasn't so fortunate. Come to think of it, he has had nothing but bad luck according to ponies claiming to have seen him.

The boulder split the uprooted tree right down the middle, and a painfully familiar liquid poured out from the cracks. Blue blood. Changeling blood...

A muffled sound came from the broken tree and boulder. I felt as though my heart would explode when the boulder and tree were in essence vaporized by a blinding blue flash of light. Chainwing let out a scream of pain as he flew off into the sky. I looked to the almost disintegrated rubble and saw a little spider, okay so I guess while near something a changeling fears they become stronger?

Chainwing was still alive and by the looks of it extremely mad. He dove back to the ground and pulled up last second sending a wave of wind and dust at all of us. After the dust cloud cleared I saw Chainwing had multiple cuts across his muzzle and forehead along with having a chunk taken out of his left hind leg. Chainwing let out a painful yelp as he fell to his chest. His normally cyan blue eyes flashed bright red for a moment. This wasn’t good.

“We need to get him to a hospital!” I shouted seeing that there was a piece of wood sticking out from his back. I really hope changelings are more durable than ponies are.

To Reader From: The Mastermind

Things could have worked out so much better. But I had to get the most unlucky changeling in existence. Now didn’t I… I need to set the plan back into motion! Wake up you insignificant maggot!

You dear reader. You are confused of who I am and what my intentions are for Chainwing? If everything goes according to plan then there will be peace across the dimensions! All petty fights, wars, and everything in between will be put to an end! If they don’t comply with the plan, then the most powerful weapon in the known world will force them to comply.

Darkness, fear, pain, suffering and immortality! Will end. Forever! But I need a being who can witness such horrors and survive.So I am testing the will of this pathetic excuse of a drone. Don’t cry or fret. His demise will be quick and painless, I promise...