Weeks Since Invasion: 9
Cloud was done being upset. It had been more than two months since the invasion of the changelings. She knew deep down that normality wasn't returning, but she chose to lie to herself. It's okay, the changelings will let us live. The food and water had been reduced, they had reduced one of their boxes to half. The food had started to become bland. She had her daily allocating of food and water lying infront of her, but she didn't want to eat any of it. The room was extremely hot, slightly due to the inability to vent air, causing the ponies discomfort. Suddenly, she heard a splash of water.
"What the hell?! That's my water!" shouted a male pony.
"Watch where you leave it!" shouted another male pony.
The mix of the sweltering heat and reduced rations left the ponies in a constant state of paranoia and aggression, showcased by the violent shouting between the two ponies. Cloud turned on her side to see one of the ponies had knocked over a bottle of water, leaking it all over the ground. That's where it had happened. One of the ponies picked up the half emptied bottle of water in his jaw, and threw it hard against the other pony. It struck him hard in the throat, and he fell to the ground still. The ponies in the bunker looked at the body in horror, as a thin blue stripe of light ran down the unconcious pony, revealing black skin and exoskeleton.
It takes years to build trust, and seconds to destroy it.
The fluorescent lights flickered in the cement bunker. It had been mere hours since the changelings and Queen Chrysalis had managed to overcome Celestia's rule, and invade the pony inhabited town of Ponyville. A small handful of ponies managed to flee alongside Celestia to an emergency bunker buried a mile below the chaos above. About fifteen ponies were living inside the bunker. Although they had enough food and water for now, they couldn't live within the room forever. Along the ponies whom had managed to escape the Changelings was Cloud Chaser. Cloud, a full grown Pegasus, had just barely managed to reach the bunker before the doors were sealed.
"How long are we going to be down here?" she asked hopefully.
Nopony had a response. An eerie silence washed over the bunker as the ponies wondered what was happening on the surface. Cloud felt hungry. While there was no way of telling the current time, she felt as if it was around the time she would have been eating dinner. Princess Celestia stood up.
"I am going to get food rations for everypony." Celestia said, walking towards a group of boxes. She pulled out bottles of water and cans of vegetable and handed distributed them to the hungry ponies. Cloud received her ration happily and peeled back the lid of the can. She quickly ate at the liquid contents of the can. It wasn't the most pleasant food she'd tasted, but she was glad they had food. She followed her meal with a sip of water. The bunker was barely big enough to house the ponies, and starting to heat the bunker up. Cloud drank another sip of water, hoping to quench the heat of the small concrete room. She knew she had to make the water last long, there wasn't enough water to waste on anything besides drinking. She glanced over at the boxes of food and water. There's only three boxes....
