The Unexpected Saviour

-Jackson-

I have been at the spa for approximately an hour. I have gotten an amazing massage already. I am currently wearing a revitalizing face mask and relaxing in the hot tub thing. I couldn’t be more relaxed than right now.

Suddenly, Luna appeared next to me. I could tell from a crack, and a frantic-sounding Luna.

“Jackson, we must go, now. My sister has turned into a tyrant. We must take you somewhere safe.” she exclaimed.

“Aw man. Really? I was just getting relaxed.” I complain, not really caring at the moment.

“When my sister finds you, there will be no relaxing, unless if it is in death or a dungeon’s cell” she yelled at me. I look at her like she is crazy.

“I think you are overreacting-” I start before I am cut off.

Luna’s horn touches my forehead and I see a quick run-through of a confrontation between Luna and her sister. Luna pulls away and my relaxed mood is gone in an instant.

“Okay, we do gotta go! Where do you have in mind?” I ask.

“The changeling hive. I will teleport us nearby. You must go on alone after that. If they do not accept you or they act hostile in any way, I give you permission to annihilate every last changeling in the hive.” She explains.

“Works for me. You mean, like, use Rage, or use magic?” I ask.

“Preferably Rage, but you can try it yourself.” She answers, smirking lightly. I close my eyes, hear a cracking sound, and feel a strong compression on my body. Then the feeling suddenly stops. I open my eyes

We are in a dark forest. I look around as I shiver as it is quite cold here. Then I notice why I’m so cold.

“Dammit!” I exclaim as I notice my clothes are probably still at the spa.

“Oh, my. Jackson, you’re. . . naked. And what is that-. . . nevermind. . . here are your clothes.” She blushes as she teleports her clothes to me. I dress quickly and tell her I’m ready. Then I ask her a question.

“Luna, can you come with me to meet the new Queen? I want to see if we can get a diplomacy going between you, me, and the Changelings. They would be an invaluable asset when we attempt overthrow Celestia.” I say.

“Why should we do that? Changelings are evil creatures that steal love that doesn’t belong to them.” She replied. I frowned in frustration.

“wouldn’t you resort to stealing after a few hundred years of hatred and poor treatment? Where you ask politely and they deny you anything? They steal because everyone- no, everypony thinks they are monsters. Then think about why they steal love.” I reply, annoyed by her obvious ignorance.

“Fine, but don’t expect me to trust any of them.” Luna said defiantly.

“God, some ponies need a backhand from how ignorant they are” I mumble to myself.

“What did you say, Jackson Tyler?” Luna said angrily, her horn glowing and her eyes filled with anger.

“Oh you heard me. Since you did hear, I’m going to be blunt with you; quit being so ignorant of others reasons for doing things. What would you do to a poor thief for stealing from the rich?” I stop walking and ask her.

“Execute him or put him in the dungeon for life. Why do you ask?” Luna says.

“Just imagine a pony you just sentenced to death for stealing. But he has a family, and his family is on the verge of death by starvation. And since the stallion of the family is sentenced to death and cannot support his family, his family will die within the week from starvation. So there will be more than one death from a single execution. And if it were the dungeons for life, he’d be surviving just barely on the food you provide for him, while his family starves from the lack of food. The pony that stole bits, food, whatever he could steal was all to support his family better. And at the same time he and his family starve, there are ponies that are getting obese from the amount of food they can afford with their bits. Do you see why I am angered by this? That is why I hate society classes such as. Do I make sense now? Your society classification is a way for the richer ponies to get richer and fatter while the poor ponies get poorer and hungrier.” I say angrily.

Luna just grumbles and says, “c’mon, let’s just meet the queen and get this over with.” She hangs her head low and continues walking.

We walk towards a cave entrance and walk in, the darkness making bumping into things inevitable.

“These will help.” I say gruffly. I summon a mental image of Night Vision Goggles. I summon a set for me and a set for Luna. I put mine on and help Luna with hers. I switch the power on for mine and use magic to turn Luna’s set on. She doesn’t even show any surprise or anything. Just silence.

“Come on, lets go meet the new changeling queen, and get this over with” I say gruffly. I hear Luna’s hooves clopping quietly behind me. After a few minutes of walking through the cave, I hear an extremely quiet chittering sound. I motion for Luna to stop and be silent. I scan the surroundings slowly for movement.

I see a shiny part of the wall right next to us. It is a black-gloss shiny, and it is moving ever so slowly down the cave wall. I summon a .44 Magnum Revolver and point it at the changeling on the wall.

“Stop moving and I won’t hurt you.” I growl at the changeling. It stops and hisses at me.

“What issss a human doing in our Hive?” It hisses at me.

“One of the Princesses and I are on a diplomatic mission. We wish to become allies with the changelings.” I say, fueled by my anger at Luna and her sister’s treatment of their subjects.

“One Princessssssss, you ssssssay? Where issssss the other Princessssss?” it asks.

“I will only speak of this matter with your queen. Take us to her, and NOW” I reply, yelling the last word loudly.

It looked like it was about to fall off of the wall at my statement.

“jusssst calm down pleassssse. Your audience with Queen Delilah will be arranged immediately. Come along” It says and walks down the wall and onto the cave floor. It trots off and we follow quickly, still wearing our Night Vision Goggles.

After a long while, we arrive at a heavier populated area of the hive. There are changelings doing business in the dark of the cave like it was bright as day, which is probably how their eyes have been developing for decades; darkness.

We meandered through the crowd, me ignoring the stares, glares and double-takes sent my way. Luna is still hanging her head sadly, not paying attention to anything but where I am walking.

Another long while later, the Changeling, Luna, and I arrive at a great metal door on the other side of the main hive population.

A changeling speaks up from the left side of the doorway. “Queen Delilah has accepted your requessssst for an audience.”

The other changeling says, “Don’t try anything funny, human”

Rage spoke up to that. “If I do, all Changelings in this hive will die. But I agreed with Luna to only do something if you Changelings start it”

“Dammit Rage, I didn’t want you to speak during this. We got so close then you had to screw things up” I think, and also accidentally say to him out loud.

The Changeling looked at me as if I were crazy. I grin darkly.

“Sorry, I have multiple emotional manifestations. They are separate mentalities from myself” I smirk, explaining myself to the bewildered Changeling.

The changeling collects himself after a second and opens the door.

“The human is here, Queen Delilah.” It announced.

We walk in the door and I gasp. I take off my NVGs and stare at everything I can.

“Hello, Jackson Tyler. I wondered when you would finally seek me out.” The Changeling Queen Delilah said in a sort of seductive manner.

“First, how do you know my name? Second, you know why I am here, I presume.” I reply.

“I have many spies spread out in Equestria. And yes, you are here to institute peace between ponies and changelings.” She says. “I know your conditions and they are acceptable, but how do I know you aren’t lying?”

“The best I can give you is my word, Queen Delilah” Luna answers, after she had apparently brought her mood from the dumps.

“Ah, Princess Luna. How can I trust you either?” Queen Delilah asks Luna.

“I wasn’t the one that defeated your predecessor. That was Celestia. Celestia no longer deserves to be Princess, even in honorifics. She is a tyrant now. She might have even been a tyrant since before I had diverged from Nightmare Moon.” Luna replied.

“Okay, Luna. I take your word for it. I have no other choice. I will aid you in your conquest of reforming Equestria. I expect to have my changelings considered as citizens of Equestria when this is all said and done.” Delilah says.

“If Luna doesn’t keep her word, which I doubt that will happen, I will make sure I keep my word.” I say, frowning at Luna. “Now, if you don’t mind, I must return to Ponyville. I have mares that love me. Adieu, Queen Delilah” I walk forward, take Queen Delilah’s hoof in my hand, and kiss it in a gentlemanly manner. She giggled and blushed. I let go of her hoof and smile.

“Luna. Ponyville, Please.” I say. I wink playfully at Queen Delilah just before I am teleported to Ponyville. The last thing I see before I see Ponyville is Queen Delilah with a cute green-tinted blush on her cheeks.

“Hey everypony, I’m back.” I announce as I enter the library.

The 6 other mares in my herd rush to me and hug me tightly. Spike just sits there glaring at me.

“Twilight told us everything. I didn’t believe it at first, but Celestia has gone off the deep end.” Rainbow says. “I cannot be loyal to a tyrant without being crazy, and I ain’t crazy. Crazy is very uncool.”

“Be glad, everypony. The changelings have accepted my offer to help overthrow the tyrant now known as Celestia” I declare.

All the ponies in the library cheered. Suddenly, it got dark and thunder rumbled.

A voice rumbled through the sky and shook all of Equestria.

“Jackson Tyler, you will be thrown in the dungeons for life, the reasons being: treason, aiding and abetting an enemy of Equestria, and brainwashing the residents of Ponyville and brainwashing my sister.” Celestia’s voice rumbled across the lands.

I wanted to retort so I walked outside and used magic to, what I thought to be, amplify my voice. I was thankfully successful with the spell.

“Celestia, you will be kicked off of the throne for the primary reason of being a tyrant. This conversation is now over. I will not consider a retreat, surrender or a cancellation of my plans. Adieu, Tyrant!” I roared back, my voice’s volume aided by magic.

I walked back into the library like nothing happened.

“Spike, can you send a letter to Queen Delilah?” I ask the small dragon.

“Uhh, why would you need to do that?” he asks.

“I have special plans for overthrowing Celestia.” I reply

Spike runs off to get a scroll and a quill. He is back shortly and waits for me to speak.

“Dear Queen Delilah,

It has come to my attention that we need a strategy to overthrow Celestia successfully. I need you to armor all of your changeling soldiers as heavily as you can. You will be a distractive force that will occupy Celestia’s main force. I will face Celestia, with the aid from any Changeling, Pony or other willing to help me.

My strategy to disable Celestia is this. I will break her horn off and magically(or physically, if necessary) remove her wings. If you wish to assist my plan, any help is accepted and will be taken in good faith.

Your new ally,

Jackson Tyler”

Spike finishes the letter, rolls it up, and blows a magical green flame onto it. It disintegrates into a cloud of magical dust, and the dust flies off to the Changeling hive for Delilah to read when it reforms.

“I hope my plan works, everypony. We only have one chance. If we blow it, Celestia will send me to the executioner or the dungeons for life, taking my wings and magic in the process.” I say to the ponies surrounding me.

“Well, that’s why we won’t fail, Jackson. We can’t fail. The whole of Equis might depend on it.” Rainbow says defiantly.

“Equis?” I ask, confused.

“The world upon which Saddle Arabia, the Crystal Kingdom, and Equestria all reside, along with many other countries around the world.” Twilight explains while RD gives me a look.

“Of all the ponies in the world, I get the only one that doesn’t know geography” Rainbow joked.

“Well, excuuuse me, Rainbow Dash. I’m a human and I know Earth’s geography better than Equis’s geography.” I reply in an annoyed tone, yet I smile at her anyway.