On His Last legs

Cheese awoke to loud yelling and banging on his door, he quickly applied his disguise and opened the door to a guard standing there about to knock again. cheese asked "yes?" to which the guard replied, "captain wants you up and ready for work in 10 minutes,bug" he sneered but continued "you will meet captain in the 2nd mess hall, the fancy one for the officers, got it, maggot?" cheese nodded and redid his disguise to have a suit and tie,and said "am i allowed to dress for the occasion since it is as you say "fancy"?" the guard thought for a moment before nodding and walking away. cheese left his "room" and walked upstairs to the officers dining hall, he located captain and said "My captain, you requested my presence?" the captain flashed a angry look at cheese before asking "where in tartarus did you get a tuxedo?" to which cheese replied, "its part of my disguise,my captain." the captain nodded, before turning to the other officers in the room, "gentlemen, i have a announcement i would like to make...." cheese swallowed nervously as the captain continued "yesterday, my guards caught a lone changeling, during a patrol, we successfully restrained it and caged it, then put a magic ring, and chained its wings...." cheese fidgeted a he recalled the memories "and now he is a "employee" of the royal guard, i would like to introduce to you, Cheese Legs, the changeling....." the crowd stared at him, until captain motioned to reveal, so he dropped the disguise, and stood still in all his restrained glory as captain continued "he is our newest janitor, and must follow orders from any guard that tells him to do ANYTHING, so feel free to boss em around a little, show em what his kind deserves" the captain finished and waved his hoof at cheese "come over here bug...." cheese complied wordlessly "i have trained him to follow orders, otherwise he gets punished, let me show you....." he smiled as he says his next sentence "bug, fetch my coat off of the rack" cheese nodded and retrieved the coat, and offered it to him "as ordered, my captain" captain stared at it and said "i dont want to carry it, so hold it for me, bug" cheese nods and thinks to himself 'i have got to find a way out of here and go home, but im LITERALLY a slave here, what am i to do....' he cooks up a few escape plans to pass the time as the captain orders him to do little things, he luckily finds the captain emitting joy and some of the other officers amusement as well. the captain then says "alright bug, thats enough, i think my officers get the point...." the crowd nods and some even chuckle. captain then says "we are a little short of guards at the moment, bug, and we still need somepony on guard, so take your disguise and follow me..." cheese nods and retakes his guise, and follows wordlessly. he takes him onto the guard barracks and puts him into a sparing ring, the captain chuckles and says "since you will be taking the place of a guards position, you need to learn how to take pain, and maybe learn some actual training...." cheese swallows nervously and the captain chuckles "dont worry, we wont be starting today, but i will teach you to be a guard, same rules and discipline, maybe even harsher for you, but i digress, you will be hard at work, and you will not complain, do you understand?" cheese nods quickly "good, now go finish playing janitor, and make sure you get the corners this time, bug!" cheese nodded, and got up and left the barracks, not before glancing and making a internal map towards the armory, and once again going to his closet and "playing janitor" as captain put it. about half way through his shift, a guard holding a cup of some sort of soft drink walked up to cheese, looked at the cup, looked at cheese, and looked at his badge, before pouring his drink onto cheeses mane. Cheese, not wanting to get another beating from captain, simply brushed his mane out of his face and cleaned up the rest of the drink, before carrying on. alas, when cheese returned to his "room" he saw some more oats and a bottle of water by his bed, a couple of notes from captain            . he sat on his bed and sent a distress signal out through the hive mind, expecting it to fail. however, upon a reply, he couldn't believe his luck.

As soon as he recognized the owner of the reply, he immediately attempted to send again, but his luck ran out, and the signal was too weak understand, so he cutoff the signal and went to sleep with renewed hope in his heart of a chance of escape.