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I open my eyes slowly and yawn as the pretty colours of my room greet me, I can hear my brother making noises as he sucks on his thumb while looking up at the ceiling where pretty clouds go by, I wonder how that works? Did my mamas catch them and bring them in?

I hear the door open and my white mama walks in with a smile on her face, I reach out to her wanting her to pick me up.

She smiles wider and picks me up out of my bed and then walks over to my brother picking him up as well. She then walks over to the couch and sits us on her legs and starts making noises at us.

My brother giggles when white mama starts to nuzzle him before turning to me and doing the same, her fur is so soft, I wonder why my mommy and I don't have fur?

After some time of her playing with us, she stands up and heads towards the door. I see my mommy with both blue and pink mommy laying on a big bed together with daddy.

White mommy makes some noises to daddy who makes some noise back to her, she then sits on the bed and I watch as her horn starts glowing with a pretty gold colour. I hear my mommy groan as she's shaken lightly by the gold glow, after a few more attempts she gets up and pushes her face to daddy's.

I'm feeling hungry so I reach out my hands to her. "Mama!" I say which makes daddy smile big, mommy takes me from white mommy and starts feeding me.

It tastes so good and I burp quietly.

After my mamas and daddy do their things, mommy takes me out of the building and down the mountain in a flying box again.

I giggle as the box bounces around a bit when it lands in front of the home of others that look like me and mommy.

Mommy gets out of the box and walks over to others as they make noises to each other. I look around and see a big tall thing with brown fur and two long pointy things on its head walking through the doors leading inside the mountain.

One of the others like mommy starts to tickle me making me laugh as I try to push their hands away. I then blow a raspberry at them and giggle.

Mommy then walks inside and heads to the room where three others like me are playing together in a small pen. Mommy gently places me inside and starts making noises to the other one her size in the room.

The ones like me giggle and one of them rolls a ball over to me. I smile and grab the ball and then roll it to another who then rolls it to the one next to me.

I'm not sure how long we were playing but it's a lot of fun, but mommy returns and picks me up.

The others seem a bit sad but I wave at them and they wave back.

Mommy walks down a hall to a room with a desk and chair with paper that has these strange markings on them, I wonder what they mean, maybe mommy can teach me!

Mommy places me on a small bed in the corner and starts making this very nice and relaxing noise, my eyes slowly shut as I yawn and fall asleep.

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I wake up to my mother quickly picking me up out of my bed, the sudden movement makes me cry as mommy looks scared.

Two others that look like mommy open the door and make firm noises, then something big, hairy, and mean looking with sharp nails and teeth swipes away the one making noises to mommy.

The other pushes a long thin black thing into the hairy thing's head and then checks on the one who was knocked to the floor.

I'm trembling at the sounds and noises all around us as mommy holds me tightly. She then follows the one with the black thing and leads us to a shiny room before a click sounds out from the door. There are ten others like mommy with long black things and large round disks on their left arm surrounding us.

Where's daddy? I want my daddy!

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Mama is sitting on her big golden chair with a line of others who are talking to her. I ignore them as some of them are mean looking and suck on my thumb while looking around.

Mama suddenly makes a loud noise which makes the one in front of the line cower back but the noise scares me and I start crying. Mama starts rocking me in her arms and makes soothing noises making me feel safe again and I calm down.

The one in front of the line quickly bows and then makes his way out of the room, I'm sniffling as the room goes silent for a while until one of the ones in the shiny stuff with a long pole in his hand runs over to us, he then talks to mama who gasps and talks back.

Her horn glows and after a bright light we're now in another room with the big orange thing I saw before floating in the air. It turns around and looks at mama with wide eyes before a pair of large orange wings appear on its back and takes off out of the room.

Mama passes me to daddy's mama and then takes off after the orange thing.

I whine wanting my mama back as daddy's mama makes soothing noises to me.

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There's loud bangs coming from the door as scary noises sound throughout the room. Mommy holds me tighter as the door begins to crack.

The room then seems to be getting warmer as the noises outside change from scary to fearful. I grip mommy as tightly as I can as the door is finally broken down and one of those hairy things leaps at mommy, but an orange hand quickly grabs its tail and pulls it out of the room and around the corner where a bad smell starts to flow into the room followed by smoke.

Then that big orange thing I've seen at home comes in and makes noises to mommy who nodded. White mommy then enters the room and then makes noises to mommy and the orange thing.

The orange thing nodded to white mama and leaves the room where bright orange lights and heat fade down the hallway followed by more of that fearful sounds.

White mommy then hugs mommy and makes quiet noises to her.

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How did diamond dogs get here undetected? And how did they find out about the crystal and gem storage room that the changelings have once they dig them up?

Another diamond dog thrusts a rusty spear at me which harmlessly passes through me, I reach out and wrap my hand around his throat where the sound of sizzling flesh and his cries of pain echo throughout the halls, after a few seconds I burn through his neck and his head rolls off.

I continue down the hall where seven diamond dogs are attacking two changelings and three unicorn pony guards who are protecting the door to the storage room.

"Clear the hall!" I yell out to them.

The unicorns horns glow and they along with the two changelings teleport behind me.

I channel a lot of mana into my hands and force it out violently, spraying flames down the hall where every inch is scorched black and the dogs are engulfed entirely. I hold the spray for ten seconds before stopping, revealing piles of ash and half melted armour in the dog's place.

"How many are left?" I ask the changelings.

One of the changelings closes his eyes and frowns for a few seconds. "The Queen tells us there are five left, and that's not all, some of Chrysalis' changelings are with them and they tried to steal the life crystals," he replies.

"Did they take any of them?" I ask him. I hope not, if she got hold of one then she'd be strong enough to attack us without much worry. Shella's magic is really strong thanks to my love and the life crystals, but she doesn't really know how to use it, maybe we should teach her some protective spells.

What troubles me more is how did Chrysalis' changelings get in undetected...

"Did you sense Chrysalis' changelings before the attack?" I ask them.

"No, the only way that could happen is if they were disconnected from their Hive mind... It's how we detect other changelings as their link conflicts with ours," he replies.

So Chrysalis disconnected them just to infiltrate? But where do the diamond dogs come in? "Try and capture a changeling or diamond dog so we can interrogate them, I want to know how they got in and how they knew where the storage area is," I tell them.

"Yes, my King!" they reply and head off into the Hive.

I frown and look back at the ashes of the diamond dogs, that armour looks just like the ones from the dogs who took Rarity.

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Mommy and white mommy are talking to each other while the others are surrounding us with the long black things pointed at the doorway. White mommy's horn glows as a pretty gold wall is now in place of the door.

After a while daddy walks through the door and I hold my hands out to him. "Daddy!" I say to him and he smiles at me.

He picks me up and hugs me to his chest. Now I feel safer with daddy here.

Daddy starts talking to both mamas and they reply to him. I yawn, tired from all that's going on and fall asleep in his arms.

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Daddy's mama is playing with me by rolling a ball to me which I pick up and throw back at her a short distance.

She says something in a happy tone and I giggle as she rolls the ball back to me.

Daddy and all my mamas walk into the room and I look up at them, but daddy doesn't look that happy as he talks to the long funny looking thing floating in the air.

Pink mama picks me up and stands next to furless mama who's holding my sister.

They talk to each other but pink mama starts to nuzzle me and I hug her face.

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I yawn after mama fed me, she's holding me in her arms and making a relax noise that's making me sleepy. We head through our home and into our bedroom where she puts me in my bed with my sister in hers.

She nuzzles me before the room goes dark and she closes the door, after a while my eyes close and I fall asleep.

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"So what do we plan to do about these infiltrators?" I ask my lovers as Celestia walks back into the room.

"The fact that they knew where the storage area was as well as the locations of the crystals worries me. My guess is they used the disconnected changelings to change into ponies visiting the Hive and gather information over time..." Shella replies.

"If that's true we may need to find a new way to detect her changelings or to find her Hive and either convince them to join us or kill Chrysalis and destroy her Hive," I say with a frown.

"We can discuss this tomorrow, we managed to take a diamond dog captive but the changelings either fought to the death or killed themselves to prevent capture," Luna tells us and cuddles up beside me.

"Alright, I want to know where these diamond dogs come in mostly, they looked like the same ones who took Rarity," I reply as the others get settled as well.

Once we're all comfortable we fall into a restless sleep.

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