Silence in Equestria

The Sector II: Episode XIX

First phase

It was the middle of the night still, when Silence decided to take her leave from the castle. She felt tired, used and thrown away.

"Leaving already?" asked a two-toned voice from behind. Chrysalis certainly didn't like the fact that her new primary food source is going, but she knew right that like a good lover, if you let it go, it'll come back.

"I have to, sorry." replied Silence. What a night, even though she felt horribly inside, even though the fake Twilight was nothing like the real one, it felt somewhat good as well.

"It's alright, we both have other things to do." replied the queen. "By the way, didn't you mention something about our blood before?"

This made the pegasus think for a little before she came to realization "Oh, yeah." strangely, she didn't try the blood of the changelings all night, despite it would be critical for them to be edible. It seemed that Chrysalis did know about it, though as she swept her mane away letting her charcoal neck open for targeting. Silence saw the sign and didn't hesitate, she leaped up to her and with an experienced, quick move she struck into her neck with her fangs. Chrysalis hissed a little as the sharp teeth drew her blood, that tasted entirely different that what Silence was used to, different, yet it had that wicked, strange, delicious taste. Quiet seconds followed the feeding, wondering if something will happen, but nothing.

"It seems good." she noted. The queen's eyes glinted, everything went as she planned.

"Well, this is wonderful, but we haven't prepared any tonight." she said, letting out a small giggle as her horn became to glow. "No need to worry, I know how I can make up for that." she added as two changelings, one with small and one with a longer fin appear at the door.

"You two! You're now ordered to her." she said in a firm, cold voice to her minions, turning to Silence afterwards. "They all yours."

"Thank you, I'm humbled. Hopefully we'll meet again soon." Silence bowed, as she and the two changelings left the complex through the window.

Chrysalis laughed "Oh, I'm sure about that."

As the three fliers dashed through the black night Silence brought up her control panel once again to tell important information to her clanmate: MERCY.

"Meet me at the Forest Castle, I have some nuts for you."

It took a few seconds till the reply arrived.

"You're the BEST, S!"

Silence smiled seeing the message, it was certainly better than some food. Though her body was tired, the adrenaline boosted her for long enough to soar to the land, towards the ruined castle in the Everfree forest, in which MERCY was waiting for her.

"Do you have everything ready?" the pegasus asked as she and the two minions landed in front of her.

"Do I seem like to take this lightly?" replied MERCY with a confident tone, as she didn't fancy her friend not taking her seriously. Silence just nodded and picked up the scapel from an old table made out of rock, covered in a yellow textile to protect it from the dust piled up for hundreds of years on it.

"Leader, who is this girl, friend or foe?" asked the male changeling in his double-toned voice as he'd not trust the strange looking girl.

"You don't need to know." turned her head back the pegasus, with the blackness of the holes in her faces revealing as she, with a simple move launched the tool right towards the charcoal creature, ending it up in his chest.

The changeling slowly looked down to check his chest, but as soon as he realized what just happened the blade slowly began to slide out from his body. The blood began to flood from his mouth and the would straight on his hooves then all over the floor.

"Nothing personal, pal, just mere research." the voice of his mistress was heard in his ears before he slowly collapsed on the floor, his vision fading away and blacking out. He died.

Silence handed the tool back to MERCY. "You know the rest." she said.

"Wait, what about the other one, she looked towards the other, female changeling who were shaking in fear. The blood of her comrade was making contact with her right front hoof already, but she just stood there waiting for the orders like a good minion.

"I don't know... would be a shame if she'd run back and tell the queen about it, right?" asked Silence, not waiting for the obvious answer.

"Hey you!" she shouted "What part of you make you change your appearance?" she asked.

"I-It's... it's the shapeshifting nodule, t-t-the brain gives a sign to the nodule and the description, then..." paused the creature to take a deep breath "...then the nodule signals to the horn for execution." she stuttered, making the two mechanical equines look at each other.

"Hah, I knew it's not the heart. It's the brain." explained Silence knocking her right hoof to her skull. "Relieved now? Good. See? I knew this creatures will be more useful than resources."

She turned back to the changeling "Stay here and help my partner out, m'kay?" she asked nicely.

"I don't think it is a good idea, what if she runs away or something." MERCY questioned doubtfully.

"If she didn't run until now, I don't think she'll run from now on. Or if she does, stab her down, the more resource the better." Silence replied, slowly leaning to the changeling girl. Her holes were still shown, deep, black and all empty "But that won't happen, right? You're a nice girl, aren't you?"

The creature smiled back nervously, nodding like a crazy. Silence then flew back to her cot, leaving the two mares doing her work.

The gradient of the night slowly began to appear from the east, as the dark blue night slowly faded towards its lighter counterpart when Silence arrived back at home. She could sleep for a few hours, but her system interfered. Running to the restroom to give out her used up blood once again did she notice how late she actually is. The sun was way up ahead in the sky, and she had a job she can't be late from. In a hurry she washed her mouth and teeth to get rid of the smell of blood before soaring out the door to Rarity's boutique.

Two ponies were waiting outside the shop, Rarity and Pinkie (mostly Pinkie) chatting about something that wasn't clear until the pegasus descended from the sky. Rary wore and elegant scarf around her neck, protecting herself from the chilly weather that turned more and more cold day by day. Pinkie however 'wore' balloons instead, tied to her belly.

"Ah, there she is." was the first clear sentence from the unicorn's mouth.

"Hey girls, good morning."

"Good morning, Silence. I'm glad you're so punctual." complimented Rarity. "I have a special task for you today. Pinkie Pie needs some help with baking and decorating for another birthday party of one of her friends."

"And there are lots and lots of things to do. Let's GO!" she screamed bouncing in the air way higher than an average pony would do, even reaching to the housetops because of the balloons making her lighter. Silence, with a strange, disturbed look followed her towards to Sugarcube Corner.

"Helping Pinkie, huh? I hardly-"

"Rainbow Dash!" shouted Rarity at the blue pegasus who instantly jumped out from the bush right next to the unicorn in fear. "Are you spying on Silence?" she asked straightforwardly. Her voice was uncomfortable and piercing for the pegasus.

"I'm not...'spying' on her, come on, why would I do that on Silence out of all ponies?" she asked in a strange, broken tone. Of course, it took more to fool Rarity.

"Go home Rainbow. Not trusting somepony is one thing. Looking for bad things in her for the sake of looking for evidence is downright cruel." explained the seamstress, making the pegasus huff once then turn back and fly away.

"By the way, Pinkie, whose birthday party will this be that we're going to prepare to?"

"Well, Lyra's." replied the pink pony, shocking Silence. She knew her, that passionate mint-green mare from a while ago.