A Unusual Foe

by Collared pet

Rating: teen
Tags: Main 6, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Sad, Original Character, Comedy, Suicide / Self Harm, Profanity, Random, Violence
Length: 3067

A stranger enters ponyville, terrifying the towns folk, causing the Mane 6 to deal with the threat

After the events of the Canterlot wedding incident, the mane six returns to a town full of panicked ponies. Without a doubt they rushed to the townhall to find the mayor with a horrible monster. A royal changeling.

Published 2024-07-09 18:20:00 UTC
Last updated 2024-07-10 18:15:31 UTC

Chapter 1

by: Collared Pet

A random story

a spur of my overloaded depressed mind

Returning to Chaos

Twilight and her friends were riding the train from canterlot to ponyville, many of them talking with eachother about the crazy shenanigans they were in two days ago.

“Those changelings couldn’t handle my moves! I bet if they weren’t blasted away I’d kick all their flanks!”

A loud and ego driven Pegasus said confidently, only for a southern accent to ruin their fun.

“Rainbow you know that you couldn’t take on all those varmints by yourself. You would’ve been squashed like a apple during cider season”

The Pegasus, Rainbow Dash, looked over at the voice and glaring at a earthpony; with a blond mane, orange coat, and a large cowboy hat. Rainbow Dash landed infront of the earth pony before speaking in their face as if it was a challenge.

“Oh yeah!? And do you think you’d do better Applejack?”

Both Applejack and Rainbow Dash push their muzzles together before growling at eachother like a pair of deer’s showing dominance. A purple maned unicorn let out a peeved sigh before speaking up while a buttery colored Pegasus hid behind them.

“Honestly why must you two fight over something that barbaric…? Why not talk about something else that would brighten the mood…? Oh did you girls enjoy the dresses I made for you? I think they were splendid!”

The unicorn said, causing both Applejack and Rainbow to look at them with utmost disfavor towards the girly idea of dresses.

“Rarity they were wonderful but-“

“Seriously Rarity..? Dresses..? Why is everything about dresses with you…?”

Applejack began to say before Rainbow rudely and bluntly called out on Rarity’s distraction.

“Gasp. How rude of you Rainbow..! I worked hard on your dresses..!”

Rarity said, sounding hurt but with a slight bit of narcissism in her tone.

“SCREEEEEEEEECH!”

Everypony who wasn’t sitting on their seats fell onto the cabins floor in a bundle of a pony pile as the train came to a unexpected stop, a loud speaker inside the cabin drowned out the mares complaints.

“Now at Ponyville, please make room for those stepping off”

Twilight, the butter colored Pegasus and the bright pink earthpony helped up their friends before helping take the luggage they brought out with them from their hour trip back to ponyville. Shortly after everypony got themselves back to their usual conditions before the crazy incident did the train begin to roll away.

“Chung.. Chung.. Chung…— into a silence that occasionally was broken by the trains horn as it made its destination elsewhere.”

Twilight and her friends began to walk into town, barely passing the marketplace before seeing a crowd of ponies running in a panic frenzy.

Arrival: thirty minutes Prior to Mane Six return

A large lone figure looms over the hill; their insect like wings, sharp and jagged horn, the body size of Princess Luna, light blue and turquoise eyes, and finally the holes in their hooves. The figure was a Changeling and more importantly a royal one, the changeling was named Speasksy.

Speaksy slowly trotted into town, looking left and right quietly before heading towards a direction. Speaksy heard a few pony’s gasp in shock but they didn’t seem to care, as the ponies began to panic from a sudden appearance of a large changeling. Many ponies heard about the attack at canterlot and had a good photo of what a changeling looked like so when one showed up it felt as it was silently threatening them into submission. Speaksy noticed the large building in the middle of town before smiling, slowly trotting their way to the building and leaving the panicked ponies behind.

Opening the large brown double doors, Speaksy saw a mare at a desk, organizing papers when they noticed the guest.

“Hello how may…. I-?”

The mare began to ask before her eyes became wide pinpricks in fear as Speaksy walked up slowly. The mare felt her fur crawl as the imposing beast walked up to her. It wasn’t until Speaksy’s right wing opened up and a light green aura grabbed a folded sheet of a newspaper before gently laying it onto the table.

“I would like to look for work miss…”

Speaksy said in a soft but rough tone, making the mare quiver in fear as Speaksy continued to talk.

“I’m hoping to find a good job somewhere in town. Sure applooza is a great town but it’s too hot.”

The mare was absolutely dumbfounded, the changeling wanted to work for ponies and since when did a tall changeling monster put her at ease. It took her a second to get her thoughts together before speaking.

“W.. well the mayor is currently out and s.. she is the one who knows more jobs that are available… if your willing to wait… that is…”

Fear struck the mare as if anything she said could cause it to attack but saw the changeling nod slowly before looking at her.

“Thank you miss. If it’s no trouble I’d like to wait in the lounge if it doesn’t bother you..”

Speaksy said rather calmly, it was very new how changelings had behaved a few days ago but civil was never in the mares mind. The mare however looked at the door, expecting an army to burst through.

“I see that I’m distracting you from your work.. i understand that what transpired in Canterlot was nearly barbarism. I’ll be back tomorrow morning for a meeting with the mayor… around nine in the morning.. does that seem fair..?”

Speaksy never got a response as the mare hid behind her desk. With a sigh, Speaksy left the building before walking towards a small river before noticing a silver gray mane mare with a dull light brown coat and a scroll wrapped up in a blue ribbon for a cutie mark. The changeling never saw the six ponies approaching them from the nearby treehouse and let out a sigh of sadness before making their way towards the mare with the hope of it being the mayor.

“Why am I still feared..?”

The Main Six approaches, A brawl breaks out

Twilight and her friends screech to a halt before reaching the town hall, seeing the changeling walking away from the building and towards Mayor mare. Twilight noticed how tall it looked before speaking softly.

“That one is a royal..! We must be very careful..”

Twilight said as Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes before letting out a pumped response.

“look at it Twili.. it’s looks like a massive wimp!”

Rainbow began to fly towards the changeling when something grabbed her tail and yanked her back down to the group.

“Oh confound it Dash! Don’t go in reckless!”

Applejack said after yanking Rainbows tail back to the group while her tail was in her mouth. Shortly after Applejack spat out Dash’s tail from her mouth before spitting out any remaining rainbow colored hair out her mouth as for Pinkie Pie, who was absent from the group, showed up infront of her friends with her party cannon and bundles of ribbons.

“I say we give the changeling a welcome party! Followed by making sure it doesn’t escape by tying it up with my super duper ribbon!”

Pinkie said excitedly and loudly, prompting the mayor and changeling to look over. The group cringed as Pinkie’s outburst ruined their stealth but took a breath of fresh air as the changeling looked back at Mayor mare and continued talking. Fluttershy let out a sigh of relief as the changeling and Mayor mare shook hooves, taking it as a sign of acceptance or even friendship.

However the others thought differently, Rainbow bursting with speed and adrenaline charged forth and slammed her body into the changelings side and causing them both to tumble on the ground. Mayor Mare lifted a hood to her mouth in shock, feeling absolutely uneasy about what to do. Twilight and the others, save for Fluttershy, charged in to battle while Fluttershy quickly flew to her childhood friend to check on her condition. Upon reaching Dash’s prone body, Fluttershy sighed in relief as her friend was only unconscious from the serious impact on the changeling before grabbing her friend and flying to ponyville hospital while leaving the others to deal with the changeling.

The one-sided brawl, a threat contained

Speaksy groaned loudly, slowly getting onto their unsteady hooves after receiving a vicious blow from an object hitting them at terminal velocity only to get blasted in the face by a spell. Speaksy screamed out in pain as a pair of hooves struck his chitin chest plate, cracking both the shell and a few ribs in the process, spitting out blood as it became extremely hard to breathe. Falling onto a single knee, Speaksy tried to recover from the blow only to receive a harsh slap from a white coated unicorn that made them feel very confused. Shortly after the slap an object went into Speaksys face, only for a second afterwards exploded in confetti that completely blinded them from seeing for a while. While reeling back from the sudden explosion a solid blast of magic blasted them into a nearby tree, cracking their armored chitin and crushing their wings as well while leaving a large crack covered in green blood on the tree. From all the damaged they took, Speaksy fell onto the grass and let their mind and body fall unconscious.

Twilight and her friends started panting a bit while watching the changeling, hoping it was out for the count before using pinkies ribbons to bind their limbs while twilight quickly teleported to and back from the local guard station with a nullify ring before clipping the ring at the base of the changelings horn. Suddenly the body was engulfed in green flame, ripping the disguise off the changeling into itself with a eyepatch and a bandage head. The group backed away from the changeling as the trio of mare guards approached the prone figure. Twilight’s curiosity got the better of her and lit her horn to remove the eyepatch expected a black eye or something only to horrify the entire group and guards. Rarity instantly vomited onto the ground while applejack held her hood to her muzzle as it turned green. Pinkie’s hair immediately deflated as twilights face was stuck in horror. The guards shook their heads before putting the eyepatch back on them before carrying them off to a cell.

Twilight felt her stomach churn uncomfortably before looking down to the ground and releasing her lunch onto the groin as Mayor mare stared at the scene with a horrified expression. Mayor mare was very happy that the changeling was a civil one rather than a psychotic maniac like those in canterlot but it seems that it was from an encounter that left them scarred for life. Only a single thought went thought the mayors mind as the four ponies of the elements of harmony walked up to her.

“Who leaves a blade in an eyeball to rot..?”

Inside Ponville station

The trio of mare guards carried the unconscious changeling into the cell block reserved for ponies that deserve to be solitary before tossing the body into an open solitary room still bound before shutting the door and locking it. With haste the trip left the changeling alone to go empty their stomach in the toilets while a single pained groan from the cells filled the empty cell block.

Waking up to a massive amount of pain, Speaksy looked around the purely empty room as much as they could while still being tied up.

“H-Hello..? Can someone tell me where I am… and more importantly who I am…?”

Chapter 2

Stuck in a Four by Four room

Speaksy looked around the room as best as they could, they couldn’t see out of their right eye for an unknown reason. Time became something like a companion to them as they began counting the cracks and grains in the stone wall.

“Seven thousand three hundred and forty-four, seven thousand three hundred and forty-five, Seven thousand three hundred and forty-six, twenty, twenty one, twenty- ah cranberries I lost count…”

Speaksy muttered before counting again loudly from the beginning, a single mare watching the changeling counting again before jumping in surprise.

“Hey! Whatcha staring at!? You… you flanker!”

Speaksy said abruptly before bitting at the air with soft humming noises. The mare blinked a bit before walking away from the cell door before speaking softly.

“It’s gone mad in only two bucking hours..!?”

Inside the Mayors office

“In all my years of running this town I have never ever seen such violence towards anypony or any creature like that…!”

Most of the mane six were in the office with a furious mayor, getting berated for their actions. Mayor mare eyes were trembling in anger, her usual energetic and jolly personality was replaced with a fury and disappointment.

“M.. mayor mare w.. we only…-“

Twilight began to try and explain their actions only for a loud voice to shut her up.

“No! I don’t want to hear it! Frankly you’re lucky that your hero’s to Equestria and bearers of powerful artifacts but that does not make it right to attack them like that!”

Mayor mare took a deep breath before continuing, her anger still there but much more calmer.

“You four will go apologize to Speaksy for attacking them, when Rainbow wakes up she will apologize as well. But until then the punishment will be on their hooves.”

Rarity’s eyes widen before shuddering out in panic, her thoughts being plagued with thoughts of what the changeling could do.

“B… But mayor mare…! W… what if he decides to put us in his… his sick twisted harem..!?”

Rarity’s friends looked at her, feeling both disgusted and grossed out save for Pinkie Pie, but what the mayor said next made them feel sick.

“If that is what they choose then yes. But be grateful that Speaksy is an absolutely gentle stallion…. Mare…. You know I never actually asked them about their gender…”

Twilight had a massive blush on her muzzle before she cover her mouth with a hood, Applejack hid her face with her hat to cover the shocked blush on her face, Pinkie looked at the group with a confused face as rarity’s face went green.

“Uhh What’s a harem…?”

Pinkie Pie said, earning a few groans from the others.

The Single mirrored room

Officer Butterscotch, A transferred unicorn from Manehatten, sat on the opposite side of the table of the large changeling wearing a eyepatch. Her eye twitched in annoyance on how anypony considered it a threat as it was contempt to gnawing on the wooden table while repeating the same word over and over for the last twelve minutes.

“Nom. Nom. Nom.”

Butterscotch felt that she was going to go inside before she shouted loudly, grabbing the changelings attention.

“So… Speaksy… can you please explain what you call yourself… so I can list them down in the report…?”

Speaksy stared at her for a whole minute long before responding with the table still in their mouth.

“Speaksy….? What a dumb name….”

Butterscotch could not help but grunt loudly in anger as they completely ignored her. With an intimidating shout, Butterscotch spoke.

“Just bucking tell me about your gender and…”

Speaksy quickly spoke up to respond but forgot to stop chewing on the table.
“Me am male… I’m special… can I have butterscotch from butterscotch…? Where am I…?”

Butterscotch felt her face go red with embarrassment and rage as if giving the changeling her body was an option.

“Listen here bucker!! I’m not some stripper that spreads her legs for anypony! Not even if you payed me in millions of bits!”

Butterscotch leaned forward into Speaksys face, snarling as she was preparing to kill him. Speaksy then licked her nose and giggling childishly before responding.

“I want candy… not whatever you’re offering…. Your very funny…”

It took a few excoriating painful minutes for a pair of strong stallion guards to pull the furious Butterscotch away from the changeling who was in the middle of being beaten the absolute flank out of them. The badly rotten eye had been removed with their skull and left hanging from Speaksy face. After calming down a bit, Speaksy grabbed the daggers blade with a hoof before pulling it out. Completely forgetting the pain, Speaksy then cut the stalk of the drooping eyeball and let it roll to the floor before falling face first into the table and passing out.

Inside Chief office

“Assaulting a prisoner, helpless and in their own words… special… causing trauma and even attacking your fellow officers… are you insane…!?”

The small earth pony stallion said at butterscotch, even so far as to lean forward to the now cowering butterscotch.

“If this thing wasn’t a political figure I’d give you a medal for dumbest cop alive! You are VERY lucky that the mayor has already a bunch of idiot mares to deal with… now you will one day apologize to Speaksy but not today. You are as of right now demoted to janitor and will be cleaning the station top to bottom for the next three months! Understood!?”

Butterscotch nodded before looking away. The chief growling in anger before speaking up.

“Now get out of my office trash can”

Ponyville stations entrance

Twilight and her friends waited outside the station for Speaksy, after dealing with a few issues between themselves and after receiving a harsh speaking too from Fluttershy after she got back from the ponyville hospital. Applejack noticed a small bottle on the floor by the doors to the station, reaching over and picking it up Twilight walked over to her.

“What’s that you found Applejack…?

Twilight asked her friend, getting a short response from her.

“I’m not sure sugarcube…”

Applejack read the name of the owner, followed by the prescriptions description.

“Speaksy Raven… prescription… take one to two pills every month until (NDE) trauma goes away… warning.. forgetting to take pill regularly will result in temporary delusions of seeing objects that aren’t real, depression, lowered IQ and the lack of proper social skills followed by anxiety of gnawing on anything sturdy to keep calm.”