The Changeling and the Protege (cancelled)

Prologue

Changeling 185 and queen Vhrysalis landed roughly into the desert of the Badlands after being forcibly launched away from Canterlot, 185’s chitin became cracked and slowly leaked blood onto the scorching sand and their wings were shredded to bits and pieces while Chrysalis had taken the roughest landing and was slammed into a large rock, smearing blood onto the scorching stone before falling onto the sand crushing her ribs and right lung causing her to start gagging on blood that slowly filled her mouth. 185 slowly got up onto their hooves before tripping onto the sand, with a grunt of anger they looked down before seeing their left leg was mangled with bits of bone shards poking out the chitin. 185 groaned before limping to Chrysalis, kneeling down as her body was choking for air because her own blood was overflowing her mouth. Lowering their head, 185 shed a few tears before grasping Chrysalis neck before crying out.

“i… I’m so sorry…!”

A sickening crunch drowned the silence of the changeling sobbing, having given his queen a mercy killing because of the lack of medical supplies and knowledge. 185 laid the head of the former queen on the sand before closing Chrysalis eyes in a sign of respect. With a growl of anger, 185 raised their head to roar out towards their most hated enemy.

“Twilight Sparkle.. I’ll get my brothers and sisters and we will hunt you down!”

185 felt the rage of their species flow through there body, having never been one to act on for vengeance before now. Closing their eyes they peered into hive mind, looking for any changeling that was around only to open their eyes and gasp loudly.

“No… t… this can’t be… h… how am I the only one that survived…!?”

185 exclaimed as they began to look around the area for any other changeling that could be unconscious only to find the bodies of their brothers and sisters mangled. 185 nearly lost all hope until he saw a changeling curled up in the sand, with renewed strength they ran up to the curled up changeling before reaching down and shaking them.

“Hey little one… are you ok..? It’s me 185… I’m not mad I’m just happy to see another one of us… c… come on… w.. wake up… p.. please…”

185’s hope was slowly dying as well as their resolve in vengeance with every second that they shook their comrade, upon flipping the changeling onto their back they looked away from the sight. The poor changeling had been with a bundle of joy of their own, most ponies would think that the queen laid the eggs for the hive but that would be incorrect for we as a species can impregnate other species as well conceive their offspring but many changelings prefer to be with one of their own rather than with another species that might harm them. 185 looked back at the body of a mother and saw their stomach had burst upon closer inspection killing the child instantly while the mother held onto them until bleeding out. 185 backed away from the body and felt nauseous, the horrific death of his kind being a traumatic experience turned all their hope into despair and depression and felt suicidal thoughts creep into their mind. It didn’t dawn on 185 that they started flying toward Canterlot, possibly dying to the hands of their species murders. With a shake of their head they stopped mid flight, looking at their hooves with overwhelming confusion.

“What am I doing..? I can’t just march into Canterlot like this… can I..?”

185 questioned himself before looking ahead with pride, a chance to bring fear to the ponies of equestria by showing up to the wedding that was supposed to be our victory before the blast and before all the corpses that litter the badlands sandy surface. It took a rest of the day and following hours under the radiant moon light that was supposed to be their long and tireless hunger away to fly back to Canterlot even with how far and damage they were but what surprised them more was how quickly the ponies went back to normal life.

“Were we a joke…? A completely forgettable experience..? No I’ll show them not to treat us like a bad memory..!”

185 said confidently before flying into the shadows of the night, seeking a certain mare.

“I will avenge us…”

Twilight Sparkle’s 2nd pov

Twilight walked the halls of the Canterlot, lost in thought as the events of the day were still in her mind. All her friends, brother and mentor didn’t believe her when she said that the fake cadence was evil and even worst still was how they didn’t even apologize to her about being wrong. They all wanted her to plan the wedding again and before she knew it, she teleported away from them completely overwhelmed with being used.

“They’re using me… all of them… I… I can’t believe it…”

Twilight said as she rounded a corner to see a couple of guard ponies chatting.

“Ha those bugs were too stupid to win!”

“I know! And it’s even funnier that their leader was an absolute moron! Couldn’t even act to keep that cover…”

“It’s funny that we call it out but we didn’t know beforehoof, we all thought it was stress.”

“Shut up rookie and enjoy having stopped a poorly executed invasion”

Twilight heard as they chatted about the changeling as mere insects to be crushed. True twilight thought about how stupid they were but it was clear that ponies were idiots as well, the guard is a laughable at best since most were immobilized within the first five minutes. Before they could notice her, Twilight walked back the hallway and continued walking with a slow pace to her overwhelming thoughts. It took a hoof covering her mouth and a horn restraint to break her out of her mind. The attacker pulled her into a room filled with used medical supplies and blood stains. The door was closed and locked with a green glow of magic before being shoved away from the attacker.

“The mare who brought my kind so low at my mercy… what a treat.”

Twilight looked at the voice before gasping, it was a changeling drone heavily wrapped in bloody bandage and their dual colored eyes in a threatening pose.

“A Changeling!? How!? How are you still here!?”

Twilight exclaimed as the changeling walked closer, seeing the grin on their face.

“That doesn’t matter.. all that matters is what is going to happen to you!”

The changeling said as they rushed twilight and pinned her to the wall, smirking the leaned in, taking a smell of her scent before bearing their fangs. Twilight closed their eyes not baring to watch their killer get any satisfaction from her death. Twilight waited for the bite for a few seconds before a full two minutes before opening her eyes to see the changeling looking away from twilight having her pinned to the wall.

“I… I can’t…. I can’t do it…”

Twilights eyes widen as she heard the changeling being unable to commit to the vile act of murdering her. It confused her so much before it spoke again.

“What point is there to avenge our loss if no otherling is able to see the justice…”

The changeling backed away pulling off the horn restraint before unlocking the door in magic, sighing heavily.

“Just go… I don’t care anymore… there’s no point..”

Twilight galloped out the room, leaving the changeling in the room alone. When she got back to the group of guards she called out.

“Guards we have a changeling!”

The guards rushed over to her and with a motion of her hoof she led them to the room that she was dragged into and nearly murdered to seeing the same changeling staring out the window with the horn restraining ring on the floor by the spot that twilight was minutes ago was going to be her death. It confused them all as they were expecting a vicious changeling on the floor unconscious or even bound to the floor but not staring out the window covered in bloody bandages looking far worse than before as it seemed hopeless.

“Ah… your back…”

The changeling said without emotion, not even turning to face them. Once the guards were sure that the Changeling wouldn’t attack them they grabbed the same horn restraint on the floor and locking the horn restraint onto the changeling before grabbing the hooves.

“You are under arrest bug, you will be going to jail for your queens crime!”

The guard said, expecting the bug to deny or even struggle for their life.

“I don’t care… kill me or lock me up to starve… I don’t care anymore…”

The guards looked at eachother confused as the changeling had completely had sounded broken alarmingly quick.

“Miss Sparkle what did you do to this bug…?”

Twilight looked at the guards before shaking her head as they dragged the changeling away and the arrival of her friends entering the room.

“I… I don’t know….”