On His Last legs

Drone 1864 awoke to the feeling of hard iron under his barrel, confused about his surroundings, he opens his eyes to find himself inside a cell.

Very scared and confused, he bolts upright only for his head to hit the ceiling, after a minute of pain, he refocuses and notices the guard on the other side of the cage.

He walks up to the edge of the cage and taps the bars,only to get shocked by lightning. Lifting his head, he sees that the guard is laughing. Still confused, he asks "Where am I, and how did you find me?" the guard calms down and says sternly "bug, i am going to be the one asking questions, but you are in Little Hoofington Guard station, and we found you by magicaly tracking the teleport you used."

at seeing 1864 about to speak, the guard quickly zaps him with magic "Silence, i am questioning you, remember?!?" Not wanting to get zapped, 1864 nods quickly. "good, now, whats your name?" the guard asks. 1864 sits there for a second, then says "i.....dont have a name..."

the guard raises one eyebrow and asks "then howabout a title?" 1864 nods, and says "i am Worker drone 1864." the guard writes down on his clipboard. 1864 checks his wing and is glad that his knife is still there, but quickly closes the wing to keep it hidden. the guard says "i am the guard captain of little hoofington, pretty easy job since its a small town, but anyways, you will refer to me either as captain or Sir, got it?"

he nods quickly. captain speeks up again, "well, we cant just call you Drone 1864, so we need a name for you..." 1864 asks "can i choose?"

captain quickly slaps 1864, and yells "THATS SIR TO YOU, AND SPEEK ONLY WHEN SPOKEN TOO, YOU CHEESE LEGS!" 1864 shys away from the slap and nods very quickly. the captain puts a hoof on his chin and thinks, then says "that could work.... it fits pretty well,actualy...., yes, your new name is now Cheese Legs, any questions?" cheese raises his hoof, as not to anger the captain, "when can i leave, sir?".

Captain laughs for a good minute before asking in a grim voice "you said you were a worker drone, correct?" cheese swallows and says "yes,sir"

the captain replys "Get comfortable, because your not going anywhere anytime soon, because recently, we have become understaffed, and you are a worker, you now work for us, and by the way did i mention you get no say in this, or any pay for that matter?" Cheese meekly nods

"good, from now on you call me captain, sir, master, or your highness, and any opposition will be dealt with quickly,got that?"

cheese sighs, and says, "yes, my captain." captain nods grabs the key for the cell and opens it, and says "step over here for me, bug"

cheese complys with zero complaint. captain then slips a magic nullifying ring over his horn and says "no more spells for you, now wait one more moment" he grabs some chain, and chains his wings together. "there, your not escaping now, your first job is to take this key to the janitors closet, and clean the hallways, got it?" cheese nods and takes the key,and scurrys off to the janitors closet.

once the door is closed, he checks to see if he can grab his knife with his mouth, which he can, and returns it to his wing, before grabbing a mop and bucket and begining his job.

halfway through cleaning the building,captain approaches and slaps him. "what in tartarus are you doing?" cheese answers "cleaning the halls as ordered sir" captain facehoofs and says "not that, bug, out of disguise! you will start a panic if someone sees you!" cheese blinks before assuming a dark green unicorn disguise with a brown mane. "is this ok sir?" captain sighs and replys," yes bug, that will do, after your done with this hall, go to your closet and sleep in there, i will send a doggy bed down by 10:00 pm, and just so you know, its 9:00 pm right now,any questions?" with no reply, captain walked away leaving cheese to work. after 30 minutes, cheese had finished the hall and went to the janitors closet, 'i guess this is home,now' he thought as he slipped in and dropped his disguise, he noticed a comically small dog bed in the corner, and a box of oats by the sink, he sat on the bed after eating some oats. Luckily for him, he had found the captains joy in inflicting damage to cheese, giving him a little bit of emotion energy, but only enough to survive. after sending a distress signal to the hivemind,cheese went to sleep.