Celestia was in her bedroom room, sipping some tea just after sending the letter to Twilight. Luna was right next to her talking about what happened.

“What do you think that blue light was, Tia?”

“I do not know, sister. But I am confident Princess Twilight will further investigate.” Celestia replied.

Just then, a letter popped up right in front of Celestia. She Unrolled it and began reading aloud.

“Dear Princess Celestia,

Yesterday afternoon, Rainbow Dash come to me with news. A changeling with abnormal abilities has been found. Pinkie believes that he was the source of the event. Currently, we are watching him from afar. I am going to continue to investigate the site in hopes to find him and talk to him.

Your friend and former student,

Twilight Sparkle.”

Celestia looked puzzled for a second, then took a look of concern. A changeling? With abnormal abilities? This can't be good.

-

I found my way to the spot I was before the whole ‘Trixie getting kidnapped’ incident. I can still hear that growling.

“Whoever or whatever’s making that growling sound, you better either stop, or you’re getting the same fate as that dragon.” I said.

The growling stopped for a few seconds, but started back up again.

“Alright, don’t say I didn’t give you a chance.” I said as I started to get up. I already had a plan as how to get rid of them, but first I needed to find them. I hopped it was a creature that came from the Everfree. Oh this is going to be good. I started walking in a random direction, hopping that it would get louder. It did. I kept walking closer. Now it was really loud, and there was a bush right in front of me. I stopped for a minute, before saying. “Last chance to stop.” It didn’t heed my words. “Alright, prepare to get exploded.” The growling continued. I used my magic to uproot the bush. And so the thing is revealed.

It was a baby Timberwolf. Now, I know Timberwolves are supposed to only be native to the Everfree, so one being here meant something was up. It was asleep, and I guess the snoring was what was making the growling sound. I eyed it for a minute before decided not to explode it.

I simply put a sound bubble around it so I couldn’t hear its snoring, and went to sleep.

-

After Twilight sent the letter to Celestia, she got her friends together to investigate the site. They started looking around for anything that could lead to the location of the mysterious changeling. Nothing.

“Ugh, there’s nothing here.” Rainbow eventually stated.

Twilight thought for a second, before speaking. “I got an idea!”

“What is it?” Rainbow asked.

“Well, I’ve been working on a tracking spell.”

“Ok, power it up.”

Twilight did just that, and quickly found a trail of magical residue. But tracking isn’t the only thing the spell is good for. Twilight gasped at what else the spell implied.

“What is it?” Everyone else asked.

Twilight looked at them, before saying. “Well, you see, the spell works by sort of ‘sniffing out’ the pony’s magical reserve. The bigger the magical reserve, the more magical residue is released, and the easier it it to pick up. My spell almost instantly picked it up, usually it takes at least 30 seconds to find a trail, but getting one so fast either means it has a really big magical reserve, or it used a lot of magic at once.”

“So, what’s that mean?” Applejack asked worriedly.

“I think that changeling is what caused this.” Twilight stated. They all gasped.

“B-but h-how?” Fluttershy asked.

“I don’t know, so that’s why we’re going to follow its trail and ask it.” Twilight said.

“So let’s git’ goin’!” Applejack replied. “So which way?”

Twilight turned around. “That way!”

-

I awoke to the sound of growling, which is weird, as I’m a pretty heavy sleeper. But wait, that would mean that that Timberwolf left the soundproof bubble. I lifted my head up to look around, finding nothing. I felt a breath on my stomach. I looked down, and for the… 8th time? I almost jumped out of my skin.

The baby Timberwolf was curled up against me. Still sleeping. Now that I calmed myself down, I could finally think straight.

“That’s adorable.” I whispered, not wanting to wake the sleeping Timberwolf.

I gently nuzzled it. If it’s going to stay with me, then I need to name it.

…

…

“Paradox!” I decided. It finally awoke and looked up at me. I suddenly felt good, like really good. ‘Must be changeling biology, I mean they do feed off love after all.’ But I thought changelings had to do some kind of special magic to feed, I’m going to have to experiment with that later. I decided I should do something with it, so I gently picked it up, and put it on my back, and started walking in a random direction.

When I reached a clearing, I decided to have a little fun with Paradox. I took him off my back, which invoked a few whimpers, and put him on the ground.

“Stay here.” I told him. He nodded and sat down.

I needed to find a stick. What? It has ‘wolf’ in the name, and wolves like sticks, right? I went to the edge of the clearing, and picked up a stick.

I came back and waved the stick in front of Paradox, which immediately caught his attention. I threw it to almost the edge of the clearing. He immediately darted off for it. He came back and I threw it again, and again, and again.

-

“We’re getting closer, just a little bit more.” Twilight said to her friends.

They almost got to a large clearing, when they heard something hit the ground. They walked behind a bush. It was a stick. Then something came out to grab it and leave.

“W-was that a T-timberwolf?” Asked Fluttershy fearfully.

“I think it was, but that can’t be right, Timberwolves are only native to the Everfree.” Answered Twilight.

“Well then what’s it doin’ here?” Applejack continued the questioning.

“I don’t know.” Twilight answered again.

Just then, they all heard a loud whimper, likely from the Timberwolf. They all turned their heads to the direction of the sound. Twilight slowly started to walk forward, the rest following a bit behind. They kept walking until they heard talking.

“This will teach him to not mess with us.”

“Yeah boss, he won’t know what’s coming.”

“Do you think he’ll do something like last time?”

“Not with his little friend on the line.”

After that was just laughter. The Mane six, especially Fluttershy were appalled at what that could mean.

“Well, let’s go, we got’a do this fast.”

“Start walking then.”

They got up and started walking to the clearing. The Mane 6 started walking after them, slowly and far behind as to not attract their attention. They eventually started to reach a large clearing. The kidnappers stopped.

“Well, there he is. Let’s get going.”

-

“Where is he?” I asked worriedly.

Just then I heard a loud voice.

“Turn around slowly, or your little pal here gets it.”

What went through my mind at that moment:
Pal = Paradox.
Voice = Kidnapper.
Kidnappers = Apparent idiots.
‘Get’s it’ = Knife to the wooden throat?
Plan = Use my superior intelligence to outsmart them.

I turned around as slow as I could trying to hold in my laughter at their stupidity.

“Your gonna come with us, or your friend here gets it.”

“No.” Their eyes, or eye, in three cases, went wide.

“W-what?” One said.

“I’m going to give you one chance to put him down peacefully, and just walk away.”

“Don’t you care for your little pet here? ‘Cause we will kill him” Another one asked with obvious fear.

“How stupid can you get? If you did kill him, I’d have no reason not to make a move. So go ahead and just try.” I said confidently, I knew that wasn’t the only reason they couldn’t kill him., but better to not let them know that.

They looked at each other for a second, before the one who I assumed was the boss said: “Do it.” I winced internally at how stupid one can get in this dimension, I’m glad I wasn’t born here.

The one holding Paradox drew back the knife he was holding, and trust it at Paradox.

…

…

Nothing. The knife caught in the wood, completely non lethal. They all looked puzzled, but when they looked back to me, I was already in their faces.

“Strike two.” I simply said. “You don’t seem to have any unicorns, that’s going to be detrimental to your little revenge plan. I’m faster than any pegasus and I can use magic to make myself stronger than any earth pony.” I slowly walked away with Paradox in my magic. I set the sleeping baby Timberwolf down in a magic shield box. “So, are we going to fight again or what?” I asked them, getting in a defensive position. There was only four of them, two earth ponies and two pegasi, even if they doubled their numbers with two unicorns, this would still be an easy fight.

“GET HIM!’ I heard the ‘boss’ say. The other three started to run towards me. I simply activated my molecular reinforcement spell and waited for them to get close and punch me.

…

…

CRACK!

I had to choke back laughter at the look on their faces. I was finding it increasingly difficult to keep my poker face. I’m pretty sure they should start writhing in pain right… about…

“OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!”

… now. Wow that took a while for the pain to register. All three of them were immediately rolling back and fourth on the ground in pain. That’s when I simply left, picking up a now awake Paradox as I passed by him.

“Hey! You can’t just leave!” I heard the ‘boss’ say.

I turned only my head around swiftly, changed into a Rainbow Dash copy, and said in the most cocky tone of voice I could muster: “I kinda can!” I again had to choke back laughter at that reference. I changed back into my natural form, and walked out of the clearing, into the thick of the forest. I just left behind one really angry pony, three ponies who need to go to the hospital, four dumbfounded ponies, and two slightly ticked off ponies.

I’m sure you can guess which one is which.

Author's Notes:

Let me know of any and all spelling/grammatical/punctuation errors, as I consider all of them cancer.