Mordecai: The Last Of The Dinorex

Mordecai: Last of the Dinorex

Chapter III: The Changeling

As Mordecai, Spike and Twilight were headed to meet other four, the day grew quiet and the sun started to set. “Twilight?” asked Mordecai.

“Yes Mordecai?” she replied.

“Why does spike sit on your back? Surely he can walk by himself” he asked. Confounded, Twilight looked at Spike, then back at Mordecai,

“I guess it just makes us… comfier” she replied. Mordecai shrugged it off as they arrived upon the town. Something sped past Mordecai,

“What, hey!” he shouted, but they had already gone.

“What’s the matter?” asked Spike.

“Some donkus bumped into me” he replied agitatedly.

“Donkus? Nice word” said Spike, laughing. Twilight told Mordecai to stay put as she and Spike went into a lacy looking building. Mordecai heard a flapping sound from behind him.

“Hello?” he said, looking for someone. “I know someone is there, I just heard you” he continued. “This isn’t funny, I just found out that there are others besides me in this world, and you’re freaking me out” he said. Now, getting rather impatient, he decided to look around.

Mordecai heard a cooing sound coming from a crate of some sort. He opened the crate and saw a dark looking pony; only it had a green mane and blue eyes. It had curious holes in each of its hooves. “Hello?” said Mordecai, trying to be friendly, but the creature backed away in the crate.

“Mordecai?” asked Twilight from a distance.

“Twilight, come here, I found something” he said, then saw a note pinned to the side of the crate that read ‘Give to Twilight Sparkle’, “And I think it’s for you” he finished.

“Whatever do you mean?” he said, coming into view, it was rather misty. “What is that?” she asked.

“Come and have a look, I don’t know—“, said Mordecai, but was interrupted by a scared looking Twilight.

“A-A changeling?!” she squealed. She looked at the note and it read fully;

‘For Twilight Sparkle,

You know very well who I am, and I know that would probably reject the offer. The offer is that you take care of this drone, I have separated if from the hive and it now has its own emotions, the first it will feel is a thing called fear. I need you to understand that the changeling race have no other source of nourishment than emotions. I have devised a system, where if you could… love this drone, he wouldn’t need to weaken you, for you would be feeding him willingly. The changeling race is suffering, and I, Queen Chrysalis, cannot go another day seeing my children in pain. I want to know that at least one of them is safe. I know it will be safe in your hooves. The last thing I want to say is that as a Queen, I can too feel emotion, but not love, only hate, I cannot feed my race forever, but the world could help. If you really think about it, we’re the victims, forced to live in the shadows.

From Chrysalis’

Twilight looked again at the changeling Child. “The others need to see this” she said.

“It’s so cute” said Mordecai, pulling a face that said OMGSOCUTE!

“Are you serious, they almost enslaved us at my brother’s wedding!” she screamed. Off in the distance, somepony shouted shut up, but it was night now.

“You read the note, right? She said that they were the victims, having to feed off innocent ponies because no-one would help them” he said. Twilight blinked,

“I… never looked at it that way” she said, sighing.

“Twilight, dear, are you alright?” came a posh sounding voice, which soon Mordecai saw was being emitted from a white unicorn, similar to Twilight, and had a white coat, and a purple main, it looked like velvet.

“Oh, Rarity, I’m fine” she said, trying to hide the changeling.

“What is that?” asked Rarity. Spike smiled,

“It’s a changeling that chrysalis wants us to help” he said, looking in a trance. Mordecai tapped Twilight, who looked displeased,

“Does he always act like this around her?” he asked.

“Unfortunately” she answered, nodding slowly. Rarity dropped her jaw and looked at the letter that Twilight failed to cover.

“Chrysalis… Asking for help… of ponies?” she stuttered, “It has to be a trap” she said. Rarity walked up to the crate, and saw the contents, “It is cute, but isn’t to be trusted, Twilight” she said.

“But it’s scared, all you need to do is love it willingly” said Mordecai. Rarity looked at Mordecai and squealed. The pony from a distance was getting annoyed.

“Is that a Dinorex?” she said.

“Yes, I think Celestia would like to see him herself” she said. All Rarity was doing was bouncing up and down.

“I thought they were extinct” she said.

“So did I, but I met him only a few hours ago, we should take him to see the others” said Twilight, then looked at the changeling, “And that too” she said.

Mordecai was getting angry now, “Don’t call him or her it, they have feeling, you read the letter! Stop judging this one creature because his or her queen tried to enslave you!” he shouted.

“My dear, a changeling has no gender” said Rarity.

“But at least call it him or her depending on how it reacts and feels, for example, when it grows up, what if it liked make up and stuff?” he asked.

“Well, yeah I suppose” said Twilight.

“Exactly, I myself have no gender, but I feel free to call myself Mordecai and that I am a male” he said, finally getting the point across.

“You have no gender?” asked Rarity.

“Nope, not a single gender” he said, happily.

The three looked at him, and then at each other. Twilight looked at the changeling, “Moving on” she said, “How are we going to move him?” she asked

“I’ll carry him” said Mordecai. Twilight nodded,

“Good, because I got Spike to look after and Rarity was only free for a couple of minutes, she has a tight schedule” said Twilight, with her eyes closed.

Mordecai looked at the crate, “Hey little guy… or girl” he said, slowly reaching out. The changeling’s eyes suddenly developed irises. “Whoa” said Mordecai. The changeling crawled over to Mordecai and inspected his claws. They sniffed him and then muzzled his claw. ’So cute!’ thought Mordecai.

“I’ve never seen a changeling act like that before” said Twilight after saying farewell to Rarity. The changeling crawled into Mordecai’s claws and since Mordecai’s touch was cold, he used a fire spell he knew of to heat his body slightly, turning himself orange.

“Dude, what going on?” said Spike, concerned.

“Spike, calm down, it’s a heat spell I read about when I was young, it’ll keep him—“, he said, but the changeling started fidgeting around.

“Mordecai, changelings are insectoid, they prefer cold to hot” said Twilight. Mordecai nodded and rid himself of the spell. The changeling seemed content with this and leaned it’s head on Mordecai’s arm.

“Darned cuteness” he said.

The three started walking down the street again and towards somewhere that Twilight described as it’ll make you hungry and hungry it made him, for they had arrived at a farm, an apple farm after a ten minute walk. Ponyville seemed to be smaller than it looked.

“Twilight, who is Chrysalis exactly?” he asked as they walked up to a house in the farm. The door opened to reveal an orange pony with a hat,

“Chrysalis is a demon-hearted cretin bent on destroying all our lives” she said. Then she looked at the changeling, and cringed, “Er… why do you have a changeling?” she said, sounding slightly scared.

“Applejack, this is Mordecai, he is a Dinorex. And this is a changeling, we found him in a crate in town and a note from Chrysalis told me that she couldn’t bear to see another child in pain. She removed him from the hive and asked us to look after him” she said, getting tired, as Mordecai could tell because she had faint bags under her eyes, she had been up since early this morning.

“Alrighty, well, did you give it a name or something?” she asked.

“I wanna name it, if it’s okay with you” said Mordecai. Twilight looked at the ground.

“If you want to name him, you can” she said, then yawned.

“I’m going to call you Chris” he said.

“But that’s just the Queen’s name shortened” said Applejack.

“But it’s a boy and a girl’s name” he said, making his point.

“Ah suppose, and what if it already wants a name for itself?” she asked.

“Well, until then, he’ll or she’ll have to put up with being called Chris” he said, smirking.

“Well, he seems to like it” said Applejack. She was looking at Chris, who seemed to be content with the amount of love Mordecai was producing. “So, Ah reckon’ ya came to see me for something other than showing me the newbies?” she asked.

“Oh yeah, I need you to supply Mordecai… and Chris with a home, you know what I’m doing tonight” she said.

“I’d be happy to, Twilight” said Applejack, moving slightly to let Mordecai and Chris in.

“I didn’t know Chris could walk” said Twilight.

“Neither did I, but I guess I don’t need to carry him now” he said, when suddenly Chris looked at him and made with the puppy dog eyes. “Oh, fine” said Mordecai.

Applejack looked back at twilight, “I’ll seeya tomorrow” she said, she had a city accent. Twilight nodded and started walking away.

“Come on Spike” she said, then she looked back, Spike was not there nor on her back. “Spike?” she said a bit louder and then she realized where spike was. Rarity’s boutique.

In Applejack’s house

Mordecai went to a sofa and sat down, “This looks a lot like my home” he said. Then he picked up a picture of Applejack, and she looked young. She was also with a slightly older looking red pony, and a very old green pony.

“That’s the Apple family, excluding Applebloom, she will be in the next family picture” said Applejack, walking over to him.

“Cool, is she here?” he asked. Applejack looked to a long staircase,

“She’s upstairs with her cousin and a friend” she said, yawning and then walking up the staircase.

“So, am I to sleep here?” asked Mordecai. Applejack just made a yup sound and exited the lower floor. “Well, Chris, although Twilight is supposed to be looking after you, I think we’ll get along just fine” he said.

“And for the record, I’m a girl” Chris said in a giggly voice.

“You can talk?!” he shouted. Chris nodded.

“In fact, I almost didn’t expect Twilight to trust me with a silly dragon” she said. Then she morphed into a taller looking changeling with a crown, “This…” she said and then pointed to her Chrysalis body, “Will be our little secret” she said. Then Applejack came downstairs.

“Chrysalis?!” shouted Applejack. She ran towards the door and the door locked.

“Sorry Applejack, for the wedding I mean” she said. Applejack started panicking and then looked Chrysalis in the eyes. “I didn’t want to take over Equestria, I just wanted to merge out species, but your pony friends got the wrong meaning” she finished.

“Queen Chrysalis, the most evil of beings, just said sorry to the element of honesty” she said, Applejack was confused. Then a knock on the door, and Twilight and the others were outside,

“Applejack, let us in please, it’s urgent” she said. Chrysalis unlocked the door, and the inevitable came. “Chrysalis?” said Twilight and then she put a spell around Chrysalis, who looked at the floor and sighed,

“I… I’m sorry Twilight” she said.

“This is clearly a trap” said a rainbow coloured pony.

“It’s not a trap, I just… I wanted to be forgiven, but I don’t deserve to be forgiven” she said, almost crying.

“Are you… crying?” said Twilight.

“Yes, for you see, in the past, changelings have reproduced by themselves, cloning. But about a week ago, real changelings were born, and I need help” she said.

“But your evil” said Fluttershy.

“You couldn’t handle my position!” she shouted at her. “Sorry, Fluttershy. But if you were Queen, and all your children were suffering from lack of food, what would you do?” she asked. Fluttershy simply made a scared noise and said “Sorry”.

“So, what do we do with her?” asked Applejack.

“Oh, I have an idea” said Mordecai. “Why don’t we let them merge with ponies?” he said. “Surely it can’t be that bad, if you just loved them like I do—“, he said.

“Why do you love changelings?” asked the blue pony again.

“Because I read this note, and I know how much pain they’re in because I used to feed off emotion” said Mordecai.

“You used to what?” said the queen.

“Around twenty four years ago, you tried the same thing, my mom told me about it when I was little. A dragon and a changeling fell in love a long time ago, and since then there have been Dinorex, like me. Then changelings grew to be… evil, if you don’t mind. Since then, Dinorex have been decreasing in number, some were killed in war, and I am the last of the Dinorex. My name is Mordecai, and I believe there is more to life than suffering” he said, now stood on the table.

“Wow, he’s a speech master” said a pink pony, cheerily.

“Chrysalis, I’m taking you to see Celestia” said Twilight. Chrysalis looked at her,

“So she can banish me? So she can let my children starve to death? So our race is wiped out because no-one would help us?” she gritted through her teeth.

“No, so I can get this merging thing sorted out” she said, looking calmer, “I want this to work as much as Mordecai or anyone else. But for tonight, everypony go home, Applejack, I’m going to stay here tonight, as much as I don’t want too, just in case” she said.

Everypony went home. “Well, chrysalis, you’d better not have set a trap, because we can easily take you down again” said Twilight.

“I know” she said. Applejack and Mordecai had gone to sleep.

“Your new friend Mordecai is quite passionate” she said.

“And until Celestia allows it, you are not to feed from anypony” said Twilight.

“Alright” said Chrysalis. Then she turned back into a cute looking changeling and drifted to sleep. As soon did Twilight. Just a few metres away, Mordecai kept dreaming about Chris and ‘So cute’.