Taken

"Ha! You can't have two moms!"

"Lesbian! Lesbian!"

Chloe was smacked with insults from her bullies left and right. She covered her ears to shield out the insults, but the words got the better of her. She ran off in tears.

"Yeah, run from your problems you chicken!" The bully said.

Peter walked up to the bully.

"You talking bad about my friend?" He threatened.

The bully turned to him. "What are you, her boyfriend?"

Peter grabbed the bully's arm. He twisted the bully's wrist.

"AH!" He screamed.

Peter then attacked the other bully by kicking him between his legs.

"OUCH!"

"Run!"

The bullies fled from Peter.

"Are they gone?" A voice said.

"Yeah, they're gone." Peter said.

Chloe emerged from hiding.

"Thanks." She sniffed.

"Why would they call you a lesbian?" Peter asked.

"It's because I have two moms."

"Two moms? Can I go to your house and see?"
Chloe nodded.

Walking up to Chloe's apartment, Chloe stared into Peter's eyes.

"Promise me you won't laugh."

"I won't."

"Moms, I'm home." Chloe said while knocking on the door.

One of Chloe's moms, Dana, opened the door. She seemed pretty stocky with long hairy arms and uneven teeth, but Peter decided to be polite and not talk about it.

"Oh, who's your new friend?" She asked.

"This is Peter." Chloe said.

"Hello." Peter said.

"Your other mother is making dinner." Dana said.

Dana then turned to Peter. "Would you like to join?"

"Ok." Peter said.

Peter followed Chloe into the kitchen. The other of Chloe's moms, Carol, was stirring pasta sauce. Peter noticed her as very youthful, with strawberry-pink shoulder length hair, and small height and weight. Chloe was about the same height as her, which also seemed very strange to Peter.

"She's a very small woman." Peter remarked.

"She is." Chloe said.

"Why hello there!" Carol said, noticing Peter.

"Mom, this is Peter." Chloe said.

"Hello, Peter."

"Hi." Peter said.

"Just wait for dinner okay?"

"So what now?" Peter asked.

"Wanna go see my room?" Chloe suggested.

The two walked their way to Chloe's room. Chloe's younger brother, Max, noticed Peter.

"Who's he?" Max asked.

"This is Peter. Peter, meet Max."

"Hi?" Peter said.

"Sup." Max said, trying way too hard to be hip.

Peter left Max standing there as he followed Chloe.

"Welcome to my room." Chloe said, opening the door.

Peter immediately noticed the MLP plushies on Chloe's bed. But the thing he noticed most were the Funko Pops of Resident Evil characters, mainly Leon Kennedy.

"I guess I can't give up my one true love..." Chloe chuckled as Peter examined the Leon toy.

"And I'm guessing you have Resident Evil games."

"Of course. I have Resident Evil 2, 4, 6, Gaiden, 3-"

"So any RE game with Leon and you're sold?"

"Yep."

"Should we play Resident Evil right now?"

"Sure."

Peter booted up Resident Evil 2 on Chloe's game console. He blasted zombies with Leon's police gun as Chloe watched. As he played on, he became more immersed into the game.

"Dinner's ready!" A voice said.

"And just when things were going good." Peter groaned.

Max, Peter, and Chloe sat down for dinner. Dana and Carol set up dinner.

"I hope you like pasta." Carol said.

As Peter sat down, he noticed Chloe's family getting along well, unlike his. He kept to himself as he ate.

"Hey, I'm not going to hurt you." The yeti-like creature said. "Let's get you out of here."

Footsteps of reinforcements shook up the creature.

"Oh snap!"

The creature hid behind the door as it was kicked open. Two guards, one a dragon, and the other a pegasus walked in.

"Where is he?" The pegasus guard said.

The creature killed the pegasus guard with his gun. He then tackled the dragon guard. He plowed the dragon, knocking Peter to the ground, freeing one of his arms. The dragon knocked the creature to the ground and thrusted a knife to which the creature blocked. The two were in a stalemate, Peter grabbed the gun the creature dropped and pressed the trigger.

*Click Click*

It was out of bullets. Peter threw the gun, stunning the dragon, allowing the creature to smash him in the jaw.

"AUGH!" He screamed as he fell back.

The creature stood over him and swiftly choked him out. Peter grabbed the knife the dragon dropped to cut himself free.

"You got skills kid." The creature said.

The creature then went over to check on the creatures that were with Peter. He tested the pulses on the hippogriff and the earth pony. He then untied the earth pony and carried her out the door.

"You coming?" He asked.

Peter quickly followed.

Avoiding the guards and the eyes of normal civilians, Peter and the Creature arrived in the forest.

"Hey, give me the gun."

"Why?" Peter asked.

"I know more about the gun than you. Plus, even though you saved my life, you could still be a changeling."

Peter reluctantly handed the gun. In turn, Peter held onto the blue earth pony. He watched as the creature reloaded his gun.

"There we go, nice and crisp."

The two continued on their way. Peter began watching the details of the forest. There were strange plants, bugs, spooky eyes, creatures-"

"We're here. Safety."

It seemed like a normal rock covered with moss. The creature uncovered the moss revealing a button. He pressed on the button as as part of the rock moved revealing an underground entrance. The two went down inside it just as the rock moved back into its original position.

"What is this place?" Peter asked.

The creature took out a flashlight and lit the way.

"Come on."

Peter followed the creature down the tunnel. They soon reached a dead end blocked by a rock. The creature removed the rock, revealing an underground city of yeti-like creatures. Peter was the first to step out. As he got out of the tunnel, he was hit in the back of the head with a blunt object.

"So gullible." The creature said, seeing his unconscious body.

"Tie him up!"

Peter awoke to find a unicorn with an asymmetrical black mane and white coat holding an army knife in front of him. As he tried to get away, he found his hands tied behind a chair. His whole body was tied to a chair. The unicorn walked up to him holding the knife to his hand.

"Hello there." The unicorn said. "My name is Gusty Gallows. Or you can call me Newton. What's your name?"

Peter was too afraid to speak.

"I shall call you, Mr. Changeling." Newton said before correcting himself. "No, Mr. Spy."

Newton took back the knife.

"You and I are gonna play a little game. You're gonna tell me about your job as a Canterlot spy and I'm gonna free up some blood from you."

Beads of sweat ran down Peter's face as he held his breath.

"It's going to be a lot more fun for you than me I'm afraid." Newton threatened. "Question is, should I end it for you really quick? Or should I make it slow for you to suffer?"

"I'm not a changeling!" Peter shouted.

"That's what anyone would say."

A sharp pain occurred on Peter's hand. He winced at the pain. Newton noticed the red on his hand. Normally, changeling cuts are in green, not red.

"Oh, snap. Someone get him help!" Newton said.

A paramedic came into the room carrying a medkit. She wrapped a bandage over Peter's hand.

"Sorry about this, pal. We have to take extra measures to prevent changeling spies." Newton said.

At that point, two more of those yeti-like creatures came in. One of which was the creature that saved Peter.

"Newton, you done interrogating this guy?" He asked.

"For now." Newton said.

The creatures then turned to Peter.

"Who are you? What are you? You stand on two legs like us. Are you a different kind of Storm Creature?" The creature that saved Peter asked.

Peter had a lot of questions to ask. But he decided to answer first.

"My name is Peter, and I'm a human." Peter said. "So you guys are Storm Creatures? What are they?"

"Before we get into that, my name is Leon." The creature who saved Peter introduced. "The other guy with me is Connor. He is the leader of this underground city. The Storm Creature who tended to your wounds is Angel."

"Hello." Angel said.

"Leon, Connor, and Angel, got it." Peter corrected.

"I already introduced myself to him." Newton said.

"Good for you." Leon said.

"So what are Storm Creatures?" Peter asked.

"Storm Creatures come from a faraway land known as the Storm Kingdom." Connor said. "Our technology is more advanced than the creatures here. But one day, they attacked."

"What do you mean by they?"

"I'm talking about Celestia and Luna, the previous rulers of Equestria. They sent an army to attack our kingdom. We did our best fighting back, but we didn't win. So we went into retreat. We found a land, safe from Celestia and Luna, and plan to build our new kingdom there. But as we used our boats to escape, a terrible event happened."

"What happened?" Peter asked.

"A changeling snuck on board. He got rid of most of us with these orange spores."

"Orange spores?" Peter asked.

"I heard any creature is immune to them except for the Storm Creatures. When Storm Creatures inhale these spores, their minds become gone. They only behave violently. They follow Celestia's army like slaves and attack like zombies to those who refuse to follow Celestia."

"That explains why they attacked me in the arena." Peter thought.

"But as the years went by, Celestia and Luna retired from leadership. They passed it all to their top student, Twilight Sparkle."

"Twilight Sparkle..." Peter realized.

She was the pony that greeted Peter and Chloe at Canterlot Castle. She was the bad guy after all. And she also had Chloe.

"Where are these creatures getting these spores?"

"We sent a spy to investigate. She's the one who was interrogated along with you." Leon said.

The blue pony with a messy red mane must've been that pony.

"The good news about rescuing her is that she's going to live." Connor said. "But let me finish. Twilight Sparkle ruled Equestria with an iron fist. She recruited her friends as high-ranking members of the castle. She recruited one of her students as captain of the royal guard. Her assistant became her bodyguard. And who knows what else? She could be recruiting another student to take her place!"

Peter was speechless. How could Twilight do all of this?

"Anyway, I'm off track. The source of these orange spores come from a plant that emits these spores. Celestia, Luna, and now Twilight uses these spores to keep us under her control. She used all of us to expand on her castle, lavish her with treasures and food, make low quality TV shows."

Peter paused at that. "Was that last one a joke?"

"No, that really happened." Angel said. "I was the clown, so embarrassing."

"But fortunately for us, the spores began to disappear over time. Our minds became clear, but we ran away like frightened toddlers." Connor continued.

"Why run?" Peter said. "You had the chance of fighting back."

"They're too big. We would get wiped again." Leon said.

"However, some of our people are still under her control. Our spy informed that they're now looking for a new creature to support her. Someone who is everything to them. Someone whom they can use to make their plant grow once more."

Peter knew what that meant.

"The Chosen One!" Peter gasped.