Voyage Of The Unforgotten!
Chapter 29- How To Trick a Changeling!

Rainbow Dash's P.O.V

I couldn't budge but I did hear the changeling speak. I looked down from my very weird position and saw all my friends hide behind the bushes. I gave a little chuckle and then the changeling answered again.

“Hello!? I did hear someone speak ya know! I'm not deaf! Show yourselves!!”

That's when I saw Sunset peak out the bush and started to smile.

“A-ha! I knew that voice was familiar. I just didn't recognize you.” Sunset smirked. But from far away, it looked like she was smiling.

“Sunset what are you doing talking to a-” I said softly to myself before I got caught.

“Sunset Shimmer?!” The changeling responded.

“Hey guys its okay! It's just Tiran!” Sunset reassured them.

They all came out the bushes and waved at him.

“Hey the friendship squad! You guys came at a great time! The rest of the hive is sleeping since we're nocturnal but I woke up because you guys were talking very loudly. But I'm glad I found you and not the others. So what can I do to help you today?” Tiran smiled as he was was leaning against a branch.

“Uh we're here for the sapphire duh!” Pinkie said while jumping up and down.

“I must say, what is that black mushy stuff all around here?” Rarity asked as she pointed to the black stuff.

“Oh uh hehe…it’s our waste..we don't have bathrooms so we usually do our business outside. We don't expect visitors so-”

“OH SWEET CELESTIA!!!!” Rarity blurted out. I bit my lip and hoped that no one else in the hive heard her. “QUICK I NEED A-”

“Shush! They can hear you. So, where's my wittle Dashaboo?”

“Uh Dashaboo? What type of name is that?” Soarin asked him.

“It's the nickname I gave her. Anyway, where is she?”

“The only she you'll be talking about is me!!” We all heard a voice. The voice was a lot more feminine and her footsteps were loud enough. Each step she made, it would make the branches that I was stuck in crack slowly. I held my breath and crossed my fingers praying that the queen won't find me.

“Oh, hehehehe, your highness. I was just going back to sleep.” Tiran started to sweat and used his little wings to fly around Chrysalis.

At this point, the branches were cracking more and more so I just held onto some sticky sap nearby and grabbed a hold onto it. Luckily, I got out the branches and started climbing a bit more to the top to reach the entrance without getting caught.

“Listen Tiran, I dunno who you're talking to but I heard different voices!”

“What?! No no! Those voices were me! I was practicing my acting skills.”

“Mhmmm! So who's this Dashaboo fellow?”

I started to chuckle slightly but then I heard snickering from a bush and some fuchsia curls bouncing in it. I knew Pinkie was dying of laughter. I rolled my eyes and kept climbing. Soon more changelings were coming out the entrance and rested on a couple of branches.

“Um Dashaboo, she's, um, one of the characters I've created! She's cute, smart, sassy, and boy is she sexy!”

My cheeks turned red and then I shook my head and kept climbing. Somehow, Tiran was looking at me and then Chrysalis found out.

“What are you looking at?!”

“N-Nothing, just the beauty of the sapphire hehe that's all.”

“Tiran I swear if you're lying to me, then you will die as well with whoever is trying to hide!”

Tiran gulped and then Chrysalis was about to turn around but then Soarin jumped out his hiding place.

“Excuse me your highness! I'm terribly sorry. My friends and I were just passing by and we were just leaving.” Soarin smiled sheepishly.

“Oh? What friends do you have?”

“Uh, c-come on out guys.”

All my friends were terrified as they were all coming out the bushes. I looked down and saw Soarin's little scheme.

“What is he doing…?” I whispered to myself. I finally reached a tiny hole in the castle and then I saw the sapphire necklace. I gasped and then tried to fit my hand in the tiny hole.

“What are you all doing here?! Trying to pass my territory?!”

“Queen Chrysalis, you have something bad belongs to us!” Twilight stood firmly. Tiran started to shake and sweat even more.

“Oh and what is that?!”

“The sapphire necklace! And the 2 bags of stolen artifacts!” Applejack added.

“Oh the bags! I gave them to Tirek! It belongs to him anyway!”

“That son of a-” I whispered to myself as my hand felt something thin and shimmery. I grabbed onto it and then I sighed of relief.

“Thank goodness! Now we can leave!” I thought. But I saw a baby changeling on the necklace and it was chewing on it. I blew on the necklace softly so it could come off but then after a while, it wouldn't budge. So, I flinged the necklace and the changeling came off and I placed the necklace around my neck and then saw the baby changeling starting to cry.

“No no…” I said softly and then here's when things were awful!

“MOMMAAAAAA!!!!” The baby changeling shrieked. All the changelings turned around and so did the queen and Tiran smacked his forehead.

“Uh, hehehe, hi?” I smiled sheepishly.

“Dashie, I think it's time for us to go now!!” Soarin hollered at me.

“She has the sapphire!!!! Get her...NOW!!!” Chrysalis shouted. All the changelings were following me and then I let go of the branch and started falling down and screaming.

Eventually, I landed on another branch but this time, I was on it and I wrapped my legs and hands around it. I clutched onto it hoping that I wouldn't get hurt but I saw them coming straight at me. 5 of them pounced on me making so many others leap on me and I fell again with all of them on me and I finally jumped onto a tree and then grabbed a stick and started beating up the changelings. The queen came and pushed me off the tree and broke the stick too. I fell on another branch wishing that this was all a nightmare but it wasn't. This time, both of my hands were on the branch and I was hanging there for a while. Some of the changelings were around my body and tried to snatch the sapphire away from me. I started grunting and closing my neck so they won't do anything suspicious!

“Wait stop! This is what she wants!” Chrysalis growled and was walking on the branch I was on. I started grunting a bit more and started to shift my way down the branch but every time I did, my weight would make me fall lower.

“Wait Dashie! Fall!!!!”

“What?! Soarin are you crazy!?”

“No! Trust me! Let go!”

I looked down at him and then at the queen as her hand reached for the necklace.

“Nowhere to run, baby! Nowhere to hide~” She grinned deeply. I closed my eyes and held my breath.

“S-Soarin? I hope you know what you're doing….” I faded out as all my 10 fingers let go of the branch and I was falling down rapidly!

“Soarin!!!! Catch me!!!”

And that he did! He was waiting for me on one of the branches and he caught me with both of his hands and smiled down on me.

“Hehehe, gotcha.”

“Yeah but who's got you…?”

We both looked down and saw the branch crack and we both were falling down. Rarity used her geode and her shield carried the of us. We both fell on the ground and reached my friends.

“Let's get out of here!!” Pinkie shrieked as we all made a run for it but the changelings guarded the way we came in with our boat.

“Not so fast!” The queen yelled. Tiran tried to find excuses but it wouldn't help. “You're not getting away so easily!”

“We are actually! By the power of-” Twilight spoke up but got rudely interrupted by Chrysalis.

“Ugh! Who cares about friendship?! Actually, if friendship gives love then of course!!!” She slithered. All of the changelings snickered with her and Tiran stepped forward.

“Oh this is all ridiculous! Feeding off of love?! Seriously! Humans need love so they can grow and mature daily. I see love between these guys right here and they need it to become a better human being. Why were we created to feed on love and why not something less valuable to a human? This is all too much! I say we spear the humans and let them live! We're wasting our energy to drain their love and when we do feed on it, we would get more hungry but they will have no more. So we're basically, wasting time. So please, let them be!”

It was quiet and everyone started was tearing up.

“Thank you Tiran.” I smiled at him and touched his shoulder.

“Your welcome princess.” He winked at me.

“I told you he was different from the rest.” Crystal whispered in my ear.

“You know what's wasting time? ABOUT THE FACT YOU SAID THAT MINUTE LONG SPEECH WHEN WE COULD'VE BEEN ENJOYING OURSELVES A MEAL!!!!” Chrysalis growled in furious anger. “CHANGELINGS!!! ATTACK!!!!”

We all ran away and started running for our lives. Each of the changelings were chasing after us and then we all hid someplace under a tree.

“Oh my gosh! What are we doing?!” I yelled in anger.

“Uh we're hiding Sherlock!” Twilight rolled her eyes.

“No! We need to be fighting these guys! They want love to feed on, let's give them love!” I smirked while balling my fist together.

“Uh, D-Dashie, that's a bit um dangerous…” Soarin said while placing his hand around my arm.

“Danger? Ha! I laugh in the face of danger! Hahahaha!” I proudly said. Pinkie nodded her head in agreement.

“I agree with Dashie! Let's take these changelings out!!” Pinkie touched her geode and was about to throw some sprinkles at one of them but Rarity stopped her in her tracks.

“Woah! Take it easy darling! You two act like ruffians! Alongside with Applejack, but there's another way to do this while escaping in the process. Fighting like ruthless barbarians isn't the answer! I'm sure a good talk will do. Or find a way to escape without causing trouble.”

“Or just fight ‘em! Why the heck are we wastin’ time talkin’ bout a plan, when we could've been destroyin’ their foundation?” Applejack asked in anger.

“Or maybe we avoid making things worse by leaving!” Soarin added on making Applejack more angry.

“I say fight em!”

“Escape!”

“Fight em!”

“Escape!!”

“You know what I say?! Shut up!!!” Sunset hollered out. We all looked at her and then stopped talking.

“This isn't going to help save Gemporia with an attitude like this!”

“Oh who gives a f-”

“Aye! Watch it!” Sunset cut of Pinkie right in the nick of time. “Ugh, what I'm saying is, why don't we just let someone distract them all and the others can leave and then the one who's distracting them joins us on the ocean! What is so hard about that?!?!”

Everyone froze in place and thought for a moment about Sunset's statement. I bit my lip and then I raised my hand.

“I think I have a perfect idea for a distraction!”

“Me too!!” Pinkie and Rarity joined in. Pinkie grabbed some leaves and stuck them together with the sticky sap and Rarity fixed it up making it look like a skirt.

“Here you go Dashie! Go make us proud!” Pinkie shoved the ‘grassy’ skirt in my face. I looked down on it and then gave them all glares.

“I'm assuming you want me to do the hula right? That's the distraction?!”

“Works for me darling!” Rarity clapped her hands and placed it around my waist.

“No! I'm not doing that! Lemme handle this!” I threw the skirt off and ponied up and flew to the sky.
“Go to the boat! I got this!” I told them as I saw the changelings following me. I did some zigzag patterns some circle flying and also now for the finishing touch!

“Alright changelings! You asked for love!!” I yelled at them and started to do my stuff!

I flew higher to the sky and then I did a dive back to the earth and I was going extremely fast. At the corner of my eye, I saw my friends on the boat and going down the other side. I smiled and went even faster. I felt a white glow around my fingers and then a lightning strike aswell and that's when I created a Sonic Rainboom! The whole place erupted with a huge rainbow explosion with a crescendo of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,and violet. I started screaming in happiness and started to giggle as well. The changelings seemed so intrigued and so interested with the rainboom that their eyes were stuck to the rainbow explosion but the explosion somehow was getting closer to them and it swept them all away. The force of the rainboom made them fly extremely far. All of them were screaming as they were all swept away from their home.

“UGH YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS!!!!!” Chrysalis shouted to me but was being pulled back by the huge force and they all vanished. The only changeling that survived was Tiran and when everything was quiet, he flew to me and clapped.

“Oh wow! That was truly incredible! The way you totally made that beautiful explosion it was truly something! That was so awesome!” Tiran was freaking out. “I would say more things but I dunno what to say, I'm totally speechless, I can't even-”

“Hehehe, what you can do is try to calm down.” I chuckled.

“And I didn't know you had wings! They look really cool on you!”

“Thanks! It makes me look more awesome huh?”

“Yeah, it totally does.”

It all got quiet as we were both in the air flying and we both looked away and I did see his face turn a bright pink.

“Well, you could join us ya know?”

“Huh? You want me too?!”

“Well, you did so much for us when we came here and you didn't have to do that but you wanted to.”

“Well, I saw how important all of this was for you so I believe this is your dream. To go out and fight huh?”

“Yup ya got it!”

“As much as I would love to go with you, I'm afraid I can't.”

“Huh? Why? Your whole hive was just destroyed by my Sonic Rainboom.”

“Yeah I saw. But, I'm free now! I can go wherever I want! I'm not staying here. Hmmmm, what I can do is travel to Gemporia and probably meet you guys there? I would love to help you all defeat Tirek.”

“Awwww that's so sweet of you! So you're traveling alone?”

“Yup, don't worry about me Dash. I'll be okay. Just contact me whenever something's wrong.”

“And how am I supposed to contact you?”

“Don't worry about that no more. I'll meet you there and try to distract Tirek a bit.”

“Hehehe, I know you're good at that.” I winked at him. He laughed and then we both pumped fists.

“You right.”

“Come on Dashie!!! We don't got all day!!” Pinkie yelled at me from the boat. I nodded my head and smiled back at Tiran.

“Thanks for everything Tiran.” I smiled and kissed his cheek and then flew down to the boat. He blushed and then waved goodbye at me.

“Good luck Dash!!”

I flew back to the boat and smiled.

“Well guys, Tiran is going to be helping us defeat Tirek. He's going to meet us there!”

Everyone just stared at me and then Fluttershy clapped.

“Yay.” She said softly like she normally does. Everyone else glared at her and then she hid behind Applejack.

“Hon, that's a great statement and all but-”

“Oh my gosh! Ha! Tiran is working with us!!! Do you know what that means?!?” Pinkie screamed. “We'll have someone who kicks ass perfectly!! This is just awesome!!”

“Hahaha, well um he will help us with fighting Tirek.”

“Seriously?!” Soarin asked.

“Yup! Well, let's go now and sail to Gemporia for good! Wait!!! Where's my Monokokins?!?!?” I screamed out and started searching all over for him.

“Dash, he's in the box where you put him.”

I ran to the box and tried to see if he was okay and then as soon as I opened it, he pounced on me and then started licking my face.

“Welp he's okay. So let's go!”

“Hold on a sec. Where's the compass?”

*insert cricket chirping*

“Oh….”

“Oh?! What do you mean oh?!!?” Twilight shouted making the boat turn. “You were the last one that had it!!”

“Woah chill. We'll navigate the Polynesian way!” I smiled proudly and gave a smug grin to Twilight.

“Polly what in ne asian?!” Pinkie asked as she cocked her head to the side.

“Hahaha, polynesian Pinkie. My other nationality.”

“Ooohhh so how do you do it?”

“First you make sure the water is warm. If it's cold then you're going the wrong way. After that, make sure your sail is perfectly open and then at night you navigate the stars.”

“How do you-”

“Navigate the stars? Easy! Just find the right pattern and whenever the stars stop a pattern in the sky, you follow that path!”

“Um guys?” Fluttershy alerted us.

“Hmmm it doesn't sound easy but I'm sure we can manage!” Sunset smiled.

“Now that's the spirit! See Twilight?! It's all about friendship!”

“Guys?”

“Sorry I'm just tired of wandering ALL around the place and we still didn't find Gemporia yet. Ugh, how many days left till Tirek’s 1,000th year reign as king?” Twilight asked Crystal.

“15 days left. That's good timing!” Crystal smiled at us.

“I'll say!”

“Guys!!” Fluttershy screamed at us and then we looked at the sky and the sky was gray and thunder started to roll. The lightning was striking down fast and the wind was blowing us closer to the storm.

“Everyone! Pull the sails back!” Applejack commanded us. “Dash and Soarin pull that rope to make us turn the other way! Twilight use your geode to try and push the sails back since the wind is too strong!”

We all did what we were told to do but nothing was working eventually, we all were in the storm and the waves were pushing us roughly and then the boat was turning rapidly. A huge wave hit us and we hit the water hard and I swam up to catch some air.

“Ack ack! Monoko!!” I called out. I saw him trying to swim and I grabbed him and started swimming to find the boat and then I found Sunset.

“Where's everyone?!” She tried to speak but got water in her mouth.
“I dunno.”

“Dash look out!!” She hollered and began to swim away.

I turned around and another wave hit me. I was underwater and I saw Soarin sinking. I swam right after him carrying him and Monoko in both of my hands. And then, another wave hit me and the thunder rolled and created a tornado.

“You've got to be kidding me.”

“It's a twister!!” Applejack was swimming away from it but we were close to it either way and we almost got swept by it and then the waves grew worse and we knew we were done for. Well Gemporia, your hero is not going to make it out of this one….

To be continued...

Author's Note

I don't know what to say but all I can say is...

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