Too young to die

I awoke to find myself hanging by one hoof upside down. To say I wasn't freaked out would be the understatement of the year. I gasped and opened my eyes, I nearly called out for help when I noticed something on my nightstand. I began to flap my buggish wings which emitted a low buzzing sound. After righting myself, I undid the clothe that was somehow attached to the ceiling which had held me suspended. After falling flat on my face, I picked up the little paper and package on the stand. It read...

Hiya, Justin! So I guess if you're reading this you got out of my prank :D Anyways you left your gold sword at the hospital silly goose so I decided to bring it back! Sorry about the prank! I couldn't resist! Your sleeping form just makes me want to go and make a party!

I cringed, she watched me while... I slept? Eugh, I guess she's been affected by Princess Molestia's magic! I hefted the package and laid it on my bed, tearing off the pink wrapping (which had Pinkie's cutiemark emblazoned on it) a box appeared! I pulled the sword out of the box and inspected it. It looked the same as before, just, I couldn't figure out why the universe would do this... did I do something? What did I do if that is the case, hmm, meh? Meh. Wait, why hasn't Chryssy been speaking to me lately? Herm, more questions than answers... HMMMMMMM.

I opened the nightstand and pulled out the Halo magnum, Halo Battle Rifle and the mags. that go with them. I pulled the metal suit out of the wardrobe, putting it on along with the two holsters I made a green magical holster for the sword. Well, this is a lot of power for one simple kid. Hell, why did Sombra even choose me? There were tons of other, better, choices. So why me? Eh, trying to figure this out will be like trying to find Waldo in a factory that made red and white striped clothe. I stood up and trotted around in the heavy suit for a few seconds. Breathless just from that little exertion, this suit really weighed a ton. In the fictions the changelings could change how thick their muscles were... and it affected their physical physique but would cost mental energy. What's the worst that could happen?

Oh yeah, thats right. I facehoofed, I would have to increase lung size, heart power, bone strength along with other things for my body to cope with the increase in muscle strength. Gah! After doing the necessary changes the suit still bore weight on me, but way less than before. I looked at myself in the mirror and found the green frills where my mane would be sticking out the top. Making me look like a motherfucking boss! I took off the armor and weaponry, putting it back where it used to be, I kept the sword. Better to be safe than sorry.

Switching into my pony form I trotted downstairs and outside, with no real destination in mind, but fate had other plans. Fluttershy came up to me, and forcefully bumped into me, "If somepony doesn't get out of your way, make them pay!" I only had time to say, "Wha.." Before I was bucked over probably half of Ponyville. I smashed through Twilight's window, sending glass cascading all over the room. I felt the glass shatter my disguise, and pierce my carapace with it's unnatural sharpness. I groaned, and sat up, "Oh my Celestia! Justin! Who did this?" I felt a hoof against my chest, "Don't get up, it will only make it worse." I complied.

"I think it was Fluttershy." I grunted as pain rocketed up my abdomen, I don't know how I didn't see it earlier but a large shard of glass had impaled my stomach region. I gasped at the offending object, pain pulsed from the wound. I gingerly touched it, causing even more waves of agony to wash over me. Twilight began to lift me up with her magic, I heard a squelch as she pulled the glass out. I ground my teeth, and clamped my eyes shut, trying to walk off the pain. I felt an odd sensation as she began to heal the wound, it felt somewhat like clothe being stuffed in there and it itched. It took just about all my will power not to reach down and rub vigorously on that area.

When she was done, I gingerly rubbed the area, to find black carapace. I leapt up and hugged her, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" She giggled before removing me from her chest, "Jeez, your welcome, I didn't think you'd act like about a simple healing." My jaw dropped and my left eye twitched, "Simple? Sim-.. no, Twilight you just saved my life twice! How could I repay you? Literally impossible!" She giggled and blushed, before scuffing the ground, "Oh, it was nothing."

"How could you say that was nothing? You just healed a wound that would've taken days to heal. Not to forget you recently also exerted yourself from the squid!"

Her blush deepened, she looked cute when she was flustered, "Oh stop, you know it wasn't much." But that didn't deter me from complimenting her further.

"Even though I know next to nothing about magic I can tell that would've taken a fairly powerful unicorn to pull it off."

"Thanks, anyways who did this to you again? I didn't quite hear what you said." I shifted from hoof to hoof, "It was Fluttershy." She looked at me like I was crazy, "Now why would Fluttershy do that? Not saying I don't believe you just it doesn't seem probable." I deadpanned, "Think I'd lie about this? Hell, you just saw me smash through your very own window!" She thought for a moment, "B-but... we need to see Fluttershy, now!" I deadpanned further (if that was possible) "Think so?"

"Change into your disguise, and get your sword." I complied and reattached the sword to my magic-made sheath. I disguised myself and made a few adjustments, I made myself eye level with Twilight, and strengthened my organs. We galloped out of the house, running through Ponyville on a course towards Fluttershy's cabin. Well, what I would call running, Twilight would've called parkour if she knew what that was. I jumped over a cart, landing on a barrel with which I jumped and landed on the roof it was propped against. Instead of risking a jump across to another house, I made magical slabs and ran along them. Now you may be wondering, how do I know how to do this? Easy, I compressed the air enough to allow me to walk along it.

Twilight zipped through the streets while I took the easier, cheaper path of running along roofs. After awhile of running I began to feel the adrenaline leaving my body, which means the full effects of running through the entire town was starting to take effect. But just as luck would have it we reached the cabin before I fell over my over-exerted myself. The cabin looked desolate, the trees around looked dead, no animals seemed present but the thing that shook me the most was the house itself. It looked worse than it did in the episode. Part of the roof caved in, windows were cracked, smashed, boarded up the door was slightly off it's hinges and boards covered that part of the house as well.

The bridge that went over the small stream was nonexistent, we slowly trotted up to the door, the only sounds heard were our hoofsteps, our breathing, the wind and... Pinkie Pie? "Twilight get down!" We hid in a nearby bush, watching the seen unfold in front of us. We couldn't hear what they were saying, but it seemed like an intense argument. For a second there it looked like Iron Will was about to leave, but something made him stop and began tearing the boards down that covered Fluttershy's front door.

Iron Will than proceeded to throw Pinkie off into the stream that had turned into a bog. Twilight began to get up, "Twilight! What are you doing! Get down!" She shook me off and said, "Nopony is gonna hurt one of my friends!" She was about to run off, when I stopped her using the compressed air trick I used earlier. Grabbing her tail, I pulled her back, "Twilight let's just watch, maybe the situation will settle itself." She grunted and got back down, Fluttershy was talking to Iron Will, he then got into a goat-huddle, and finally broke off from the little group he and his goats formed. He adjusted his tie, said a few unknown words, pulled a basket out of nowhere and road a goat along the path that we were watching from. "Okay, see, like I said. Now let's get outta here before Ir- I mean the minotaur finds us." We trotted back to Ponyville from the cabin.

Twilight asked me, "You were about to say something before minotaur, what was it? And how'd you know we wouldn't need to help them?" I sighed and shook my head, "The first one is Iron Will, that's the minotaur's name the second one I can't answer." We trotted back together, neither of us wanting to break the silence that settled over us. We soon re-entered Ponyville, well I can say that trip was quite wasteful. As we entered Ponyville I couldn't help but ask, "Twilight, when should I spread the news that I'm actually a changeling? Someone is gonna be wondering where the human went." She looked down at the ground, not answering.

Well that's reassuring. A thought came to mind, "Hey, Twilight. How do you teleport?" She looked up and smiled, "Easy, you just think really hard on the destination you want to travel to, and let magic travel through your horn, if you do it right you should teleport to the place you want." Well that was simple, but there is always a catch, "Is there a catch?" She thought for a moment, "Yes, it costs a deal of energy, if your concentration wavers you could end up teleporting somewhere else, and you could end up teleporting into something. Trust me that's not an experience you want." She shuddered, was it so horrific? Perhaps.

I felt that kind of hunger again. "Twilight you don't mind if I take a nibble of your love do you?" She shook her head, "Not at all, just don't take to much." I did as she said, only taking a few small bites. I smiled, "Thanks." I began to cast the teleportation spell. Trying to concentrate on my room as much as I could. I heard a small pop, the smell of cinnamon, opening my eyes I could see I landed right on my bed. Hopping off of it, I placed my sword and it's sheath onto the nightstand, it was getting late and I really wanted to sleep. I changed back into a changeling and lay down on the bed, falling asleep once more...

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I awoke in the middle of the night, looking around I couldn't see what had awoken me, but something had. I nearly jumped out of my bed, "Hello once again young one. Enjoying your time here?" I groaned, Not you again! "What, don't you feel happy about hearing your queen's voice again? Aren't you happy you can commune with me? After all I'm the only other changeling you could actually speak with." I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and yawned, Why so late though? Couldn't you have chosen a better time? "No, infact this is the perfect time, for I have something you need to do." Aaannnddd what would that be? "Oh something simple, I need you to go on the quest that the 'mane 6' as you put them go on."