Captive of a Changeling Bride

The next day I woke up when Pinkie crashed into my room telling me to get ready for the main event, after hours of complaining from Rarity I wore a black vest and tie with gold framed sun glasses then we walked into the crowded main hall and Pinkie and Rarity took their place at the wedding arch leaving me sandwiched in between two fat motherfuckers who drenched the floor beneath them with sweat when the music started we stood and turned to see Cadence walking down the aisle. Once I caught a glimpse of her malicious smile, the knot in my gut began to tighten as I searched the room to see four other ponies with the same grin we sat back down and the fat fucker sitting to my right was also smiling. I looked at Shining to see an emerald film over his eyes. I slowly took off my glasses, broke the lenses out of the frames and twisted the wires into a screw then the doors slammed open and there Twilight stood along with the real Princess Cadence everyone stood in shock while I was more fixated on the goo sticking to her hooves, I turned back to the bride as she was engulfed in a bright green flame, the gown burned off the pink coat faded to a dull black while her gold and pink mane was reduced to a cerulean web. The queen giggled as the remaining guests ran out of the room as the other four guests were engulfed in bright green fires, before the fat fuck next to me was obscured by his fire I stabbed the glasses into his throat making him lurch forward and crashed to the floor sending all eyes towards me.

“Impressive-“the queen laughed as I ripped off my vest“-maybe it WAS a mistake not to send you to the mines when you witnessed Twilight’s removal from my wedding” she stepped forward and charged her horn.

“Looks like they got out just fine without me” I said when Celestia teleported in front of me.

“If you have a quarrel with him then it shall be with me creature” She growled charging her horn with her bright yellow aura.
I jumped towards one of the windows when the queen unleashed beams of pure magic for one brief second it looked like Celestia would win then I blinked just in time to see her launched ten feet across the marble floor.

“Bravie, bravie, bravisima!” I sang as Twilight and the six rushed to Celestia aid while Cadance tried to snap Shining out of his trance when a loud blast shook the castle and the pink shield surrounding Canterlot evaporated ,screams began to fill the air as the room began to fill with changelings I turned to the queen and shouted “Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to jump out a window, kill as many of your subjects as I can come back to this room and have a civilized chat with you about how far this little invasion will send you.”

Even though the windows were opened, I grabbed a chair threw it at the glass and jumped into the shards in mid-fall two of the changelings from the main hall flew after me, I grabbed a few of the glass shards and threw them in between the bug ponies’ eyes staining the white marble walls of the castle with a noxious black slime, I looked down an alleyway to see a violet Pegasus mare surrounded by four more changelings, without hesitation I slammed into one of them launching it into a nearby dumpster and used the last two glass shards leaving the last one to back away and charge its magic.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?” the mare shouted as I held her between me and the changeling, I barely had time to blink when she was shot with thick neon green goo.

The changeling looked at me with amusement until I threw the mare at it; before it could use its magic again, I jumped onto its horn filling the streets with a bright green flash then as it hissed at me; I grabbed its throat and looked into its dull aquamarine eyes.

“Do you speak?” I asked, the Changeling let out an even angrier hiss and thrashed under the mare’s body until I gripped its neck harder and started to bend “Do.You.speak. Motherfucker?” I growled.

The changeling stopped thrashing and a familiar sneer stretched across its mouth.

“Yes, no, maybe what’s it to you… motherfucker?” It spoke copying my voice down to the last vowel.

“So you can copy me-“I scoffed “-is that supposed to scare me?”

“It does with most your kind… but you’re not like your kind it seems, but seeing as I have the upper hoof, I suppose I can answer some questions IF you let go of my throat.”

I look up to see around a dozen changelings blocking the alleyway ready to fire whatever green goo that was shot at the mare though when I looked into her white eyes, they were darting back and forth like a junkie on withdraw.

“As you can see your kind is worth more to us alive” It laughed.

I looked back at the Changeling then up at the rooftops more than fifty changelings surrounded me yet they didn’t attack. What are you waiting for? I thought.

“As you can see even we value the lives of our comrades, let me go and we’ll give you a five second head start” The Changeling said as I looked down the left wall, chuckled and spread my wings.

“Two seconds” I whispered as I jumped onto the Changeling’s skull and darted through one of the windows. The shattering glass blocked out the screams of the family of the house, I looked on the walls and saw a sword and shield hanging over the hearth.

“Fake” I muttered when a bright green flash blew the entire front room in half.

I lunged towards the fire poker when a changeling darted through the debris, I swung the iron stick and it me its mark on the bug’s skull. Since the log sifter was never meant for combat, it bent with each strike until it finally broke off in the Changeling’s head.

“Look out!” a stallion shouted when ten more changelings rushed into the room.

The five that came through the window paid no attention to the cowering family and formed a firing squad with the ones that rushed in from the streets. I knew it was a losing battle, knowing that when I killed this group more would come, I let my guard down twice… the first time I should have died and this time I’d be dragged off to some dark cave to have the one emotion I never experienced fed to parasites.
I sighed and let my muscles relax… the adrenaline silenced the screams of those being captured and the destruction of the city. The Changeling’s magic energy was inches away from my chest when an amber unicorn colt with a short silver mane no older than thirteen jumped between me and the Changelings with the shield from the mantle, the magic came into contact with the shield and the colt gave me the sword and I cut off each of the changelings heads with one fell swoop.

“Should have used the sword first dummy” The colt scoffed using a fork to pry the green goo off the shield.

“Nine times out of ten it’s a fake” I said sliding the table to the window “Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to have a word with the bug queen.”

“Take me with you then” the colt demanded.

“Where I’m going is a one way trip kid if you want to help tell anyone you can find to use anything they can find as a weapon, the guards are won’t help and the princesses are too preoccupied to care.”

“THAT”S A LIE!!!” a deep voice shouted.

I looked back at the other three ponies to see the colt’s father, a fit black earth stallion with a long sleek fire ruby mane walked to the colt and yanked the shield out of his hooves, as he placed the shield back on the mantle I looked at the spot where a cutie mark would have been only to see deep faded scars he then turned to me and held out his hoof waiting for me to hand over the sword I looked deeper into his blood red eyes I saw something… dead.

“What’s your name?” I asked stabbing the sword into the floorboards.

“Valkyrie” he answered as he placed his hoof down but not so he could take the sword.

“Is that your real name or the one you just got used to?” I asked.

“It’s my name” he answered coldly.

“At least you kept yours” I mumbled.

“Please leave my home” he ordered taking the sword out of the floor.

“Do you really think no matter how hard you hide that they won’t find you? How long-“

“SHUT UP AND GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!” he roared as the cold steel was pressed against my throat, his wife did nothing but the shock in her eyes told me this was the part of her husband she would ask about only to be shut out.

“As you wish-“I walked to the remains of the front door “- but with eyes like ours, there’s no running from our past… true you’ve made it farther than most of us but even a father must do what he can to protect his family even if it means breaking a promise of not showing them his past sins.”

When I stepped out of the house another group of changelings landed in front of me but not to blast me with their magic goo.

“The Queen wishes to see you now-” the commander said in Shining’s voice “-don’t worry about the other drones, after your display she has given us strict orders not to attack or follow you” he then nodded to his followers who hissed and rushed into the house.

I started to head back to the castle when I heard Valkyrie’s wife scream followed by the hiss of the changelings and the sound of blood spatter but it was the smell of oil that made me look back to see the colt shoot out of the house, crushing the changeling commander’s skull with the shield and Valkyrie step out clad in bright silver armor with the sword in his mouth. I turned back around and flew back to the queen knowing that Twilight and the other five would keep most of the swarm busy for awhile.