The winter's frost rack my men and mine wings, the time was slowly turning dawn, why oh why had this day turn like this, it was supposed to be a normal attack on the ponies! But I turn traitor, for what you may ask. For information on the ponies, it was a order from the queen herself, blood soak... My friend was there talking smack about our superior, "Blood soak, do not talk about chitin spike like that, ever again"

"Come on tiger, he's a jerk, he should never have been our superior!" Blood soak said with a cocky smile, his emotions read he wasn't lying, his head was screwed on wrong, so was mine, i trusted the ponies to give me the info if I 'betrayed' my family but that was future me problem.... or was it? No, the order to get info came from Chrysalis, and so this attack was supposed to be my turning point,

As we near the empire, thank the queen I remembered where it was, Blood soak asked me something stupid, "Hey staff sergeant, you ain't gonna let me be taken by some ponies, right staff sergeant?" My annoyance came to a grinding halt with what he said.

"Stop screwing around blood, We're here to do a mission, not here to play games!" The face that was made after I said was priceless,

"What happened to you tiger? You were always playful when you were younger..." I brushed off the question then stated "we're in the empire, stay close, and do not kill those who don't see us" I said with a hiss, my small squad nodded.

As we all changed forms to fit in with the ponies, the soldiers nodded to me and my men as we walked towards the castle, their weapons in hand, I saw one with a radio who was most definitely was telling the royals a squad returned, we were then stopped at a checkpoint near the castle... "Welcome back broken jaw!" One said to me, their voice spilled with a Heavy Russian accent, before they annoyed me more I informed them that "it's my and my squad 's day off" the look on wind charger's face said it all!

Wind charger nodded and let us past, his scent was that of a changeling, a grim smile crept across my face as I entered the castle, we broke the squad up in trios to hit three different areas, the armory, the crew quarters, and the canteen, we need to do this to signal the army, waiting beyond the blizzard, if all goes to plan I can trick the ponies i betrayed my hive at the last second.

The one with me was to merciful to survive so I took them, including wind charger, we gotten to the armory and set the bombs, as we moved to head out of the armory we we're interrupted by the officer that commanded wind charger, I took him out with a blade with the symbols of ancient changeling, the guard captain went down easily and we left to a safe area away from the armory, as my men were now regrouping we blew the bombs and went back to our normal forms.

My M1911 grew bloodthirsty as the guard tried scrambling together to make a plan, then I remembered MY mission, I took aim and shoot a comrade in the side and shot the guard the was sneaking up on him, wind charger nodded towards my direction, he knew my mission so did a few of my men... this still hurt me inside as the one that knew turned to me and nodded, I shot the merciful one again and again... the look in his eye's killed me... no matter.... this is for the greater good... right?

"Tiger wake up!" Charlin said while shaking tiger's sleeping body, was that all a dream? Tiger shook his head trying his best to forget his dream.. was it a dream? "What time is it Charlin?" The grey Pegasus looked over at their alarm clock, "it 3:30Am tiger..." 3:30? "don't we have work in two hours?" tiger asked, charlin put a hoof to his chin and thought, "five more hours I think, but what about your dream?" shit "uh, w-what dream?" Tiger asked trying to doge the question, Tiger was trying damn best to read his husband's face; it was that of worry, suspicion and confusion. "n-never mind, lets just go back to sleep." tiger's mask hissed as he heard Charlin's words, happy that charlin didn't push, of course he didn't he knew what the dream was, the same dream that haunted him for over thirty years.

Waterstrider looked at the bright yellow and orange grub in front of him, bleeding from the 'training' that was; having daggers thrown at it's head, being beaten until his exoskeleton was cracked or far worse... broken, but the grub kept up with him, the only thing the grub has yet to do is show on field tactics, a skill every changeling were born with, this one however, took a few blows to understand how'd the enemy fought, a great thing for a spy, but this... this was supposed to replace the dead staff sergeant! "Your skills are shaping up, but why do you always take the blow I yield?" Waterstrider already knew the answer.

"It just something I do to learn the technique of enemies." The grub stated quietly, the grub was healing itself with its magic, it's yellow and orange chitin mingle with the red hue of its blood.

"not bad, for a spy, but you are a soldier. so you train like it, and endure the pain!" waterstrider's voice was filled with poision towards this grub, who he finally got the name for: sunset elytra.

As the training became more dangerous to sunset Elytra, water strider decided to give the grub a few hours off, elytra was confused at first but didn't deny the break time... hopefully chrysalis won't find out, if she did elytra would not be here for very long...

Author's Note

Sorry for the late publish, things have not gone to what I wished for, but you'll get more LOOOOOOOOORE on Black Tiger

Thanks you for reading

-Spacecase