My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

A Changeling’s Lament

Chapter 13

Volare

“…and then, Sweetie Belle falls in love with Spike and she’s trying and trying and trying to impress him but he was in love with Rarity and she fell in love with him, coming to a quite a awkward moment.”

Dinky was telling her own version of the story up to now to a sleepy Oscurita from his shoulder. He didn’t even ask for a story. How could he? He hasn’t spoken in so long. He is this close [ ] to hitting his head against the mountain and he showed it. Dinky noticed it and nervously chuckled.

“un… sorry. I didn’t mean to go all out. Guess I picked up my mom’s habit of blabbering. In fact, she even gave me this necklace when I couldn’t find mine. Said it belonged to a old friend of hers that disappeared awhile ago. She never said who it was; she never even dropped a name.”

Oscurita softly growled for a bit, wanting her to go away.

“oh, you probably want to go to sleep, don’tcha?” she jumped down from his shoulder, landed on a small outcropping, then jumped off that to the ground. “sorry if I kept you up. Better get back before I get in trouble.” Dinky ran off while waving good-bye.

Oscurita opened his eyes and went to sleep. At least for 2 minutes before he heard foot-steps again. He opened his eye and saw Dinky standing right there again. “Sorry. I forgot to give you this.” she tossed up a shard of a donut. It landed on the same spot where she sat. “sorry. Bad throwing arm.” she ran off again, for good this time. Oscurita closed his eyes and slammed his head into the mountain, falling asleep this time.

Scootaloo and Eris sighed together. Rainbow Dash hasn’t once tried to make amends with Shadow, same with him to her. Both were being stubborn and rather worried by the fact that they don’t know what the other will do, but most of all they were worried that the other will leave again. So, Scoot’s and Eris came up with a plan to try and get them together.

“you want me to look pretty?” a surprised Dash replied, sitting up in the bed in her little hotel room.

“yeah. Men do not like Tomboys. Believe me, I know.” Scootaloo said, feigning a nervous groan.

Dash laughed at the concept. “I do not do pretty. Like, at all. Last time I tried to look pretty, I ended up looking like a dweep.”

“Do you want Shadow or not?” Scoots asked, insisting that she make up her mind.

A dumb expression came over Dash’s face as she thought to herself. She looked up at the mirror and tugged at her hair. She didn’t want to lose Shadow again. “pretty me up.” she sternly said.

Eris tugged at Shadow’s ears, trying to get him to leave his garage.

“for the last time, Eris, I don’t want to play.” he replied as he tinkered with his blueprints.

Eris’s face puffed up as she angrily sat down. so much for that plan. She needed to think of a new one and fast; Scootaloo should be going well with her plan to get Dash down to the beach and if she bombs, there goes any plans of getting Dash and Shadow together. She had to get desperate.

Shadow leaned back in his chair, trying to figure out what would make his invention better, when he noticed Eris standing over him. “What do you want now?” he groaned.

Her response was a frying pan to the face. Instead of knocking him out, as it should’ve, it instead caused a lot of pain. “OW!” Shadow fell back and to the floor. Eris jumped off before the chair hit and tossed the frying pan away, acting like it wasn‘t there. Shadow held his bloody nose as he angrily looked at her. “if I play with you at the beach, will you leave me along?”

Eris delightfully nodded and ran out of the garage to the street. Shadow gave a groaning sigh as he got up and walked after her.

“mind if we stop by the hospital first?”

The basement beneath the library was turned into a make-shift prison for the Changelings prisoners. Well, their non-pony prisoners. Pods hung from the ceiling for their prisoners to hang out. Hehe. Get it? Hang o-- you don’t get it. Anyway, only 2 were filled, both of them human.

“Let us go!” Lina exclaimed, trying to break out of her cocoon. Chrysalis stood belong and chuckled at her naivety and stupidity. Nobodies every broken out of that. “you better let us go before I turn you into a Dragon Slave shish-ka-bob!”

“my my. What anger. If only you were evil like me.” Chrysalis chuckled as she strode throughout the room. “then you would be free.”

“yeah, I think I’ll pass, you prick.” Lina sarcastically said.

“please don’t piss her off.” Aura asked. “I would like to get out of this in one piece.”

“oh, we’re gonna get out of this in one piece, all right. And the queeny down there is gonna get out of this in pieces!” a glow came from inside Lina’s cocoon.

“oh no.” Aura said in worry. Chrysalis wasn’t worried. She just looked at Twilight’s old scientific equipment to try and confirm Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense.

“Gaav Flare!”

Lina’s spell didn’t fire. Instead, her cocoon electrocuted her, very comedicly I might add.

“warned you.” Aura muttered.

“guess you’re lacking in the brain department.” Chrysalis chuckled as she left. A burned and twitchy Lina hissed as smoke rose out of her body.

Chrysalis walked out of the battle-damaged Ponyville and out to a nearby mountain. There rested the reconstructed and all-new Orion. Everything that was inside the ship was now outside with little to no care for the occupants privacy.

one Changeling grabbed a magazine and turned it on it’s side. A much larger picture flipped out but he wasn’t too sure what he was looking at. “is this what humans look like naked?” he said in disgust. he threw the Playboy away and went back to rummaging though the ships contents.

Chrysalis arrived and saw them looking though it. She noticed a odd poster lying on the ground. She grabbed it and it showed a half-naked model on it. “these humans are disturbing.” she said as she threw it away.

“no argument here.” Friction said as she read though ‘Of Mice and Men’. “this is just crap.” she tossed it into the same pile and went though the crap again.

Leon bumped into a box and opened it up. Inside was tons of movies. He grabbed one and looked at the cover. “Land Before Time?”

Friction looked in it as well and pulled out another. “Twilight: New Moon? it’s official; The humans are nuts.”

“yep.” all her brothers and sisters there agreed.

“So what do we do with all of these?” one of her subordinates asked.

“just leave them. We won’t have any use for them.” Chrysalis said, tossing aside a fake earring.

“And what of the ship?” Edge asked, looking up at it.

“leave it. Celestia and her cohorts have been routed to who-knows-where. Besides, that idiot Jax said it was wrecked thanks to Oscurita.” she looked up at it. “they may have fixed the body, but I doubt it’s still flight-worthy.” she turned and left the ship.

Since she never gave orders, the Changelings were unsure what to do. So, they just put the stuff back and went back to their old posts.

Rarity hummed as she worked on Dash’s hair and face. Scootaloo helped out by holding Rarity’s supplies.

“are you sure I won’t look like a complete dweeb?” Dash worriedly asked.

“you want to win Shadow, don’t you?” Rarity asked.

“…yeah, but do I need to look like a dweeb?”

“you’ll look fine, Dash. Trust us.” Scootaloo said as she handed Rarity a perfume bottle.

Dash saw it and freaked out. “no no. no perfume. NO Perfume!!!” Rarity sprayed the bottle on the stubborn Dash, who coughed at the smell of it. “Ach. I said no perfume.” she gagged.

“it doesn’t matter. You’re all done.” Rarity said, feeling confident about her work. Scootaloo smiled at how beautiful her distant cousin looked.

Dash took a deep breath and nervously exhaled. “okay. Let me see it.” Rarity used her magic to bring a full-body mirror in front of Dash.

Dash gasped when she saw that her hair rolled up like toothpaste and curled to the right. A small jewelry scrunchie tied the back of her hair a la Applejack with a headband holding the top of her hair in place.
{in short, this picture:
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Dash looked herself over and slightly blushed. She was never gonna say it out loud but Rarity did a awesome job. She did look beautiful. Now, time to impress Shadow.

A torrent of black fire appeared in the woods near the human ship for a moment before dissipating. Footsteps crunched in the snow as the person who appeared as it walked over to the Orion. It dug it’s hand into the movie bin and pulled out a monster movie.

“hehe. This will get those pathetic morons running.” he snickered.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a blank card. He opened the case and placed the card on the disc. The card glowed a charcoal glow as the image painted by itself onto it. Once done, he closed the case and tossed the DVD back. He raised the new monster card up to the sun and sneered.

“Time for the King to make his big return.” he put the card back in his pocket as another torrent of black fire appeared behind him. “and I was so looking forward to that Legendary remake before Catalyst ruined Earth.” he walked into the fire and disappeared.

A bored Shadow blinked a few times as Eris made a sand castle. “Flag.” she said, telling him to put a flag on top of one of the towers. Shadow sighed and begrudgingly placed a seashell on top of it. This may be a part of the plan but Eris was feeling nothing from him. She looked up and saw that the other half of the plan was approaching.

“Can I please go home now?” Shadow asked, really wanting to leave. Eris stammered for a moment, trying to think of a way for him to stay but she couldn’t, unless he could surf. Or she could. Shadow groaned and got up. “I’m heading home.”

He turned to leave onto to run into the BEAUTIFUL Rainbow Dash. Both instantly blushed when they saw the other.

“h-hey Shadow.” Dash nervously said.

“hey, Dash.” he replied, just as nervous.

Eris and Scootaloo walked to the side, leaving them alone. Not far, Requiem popped in a tape into a radio and began playing Volare. How’d she get on this? It’s Req. romance is her drug.

After a awkward silence, Shadow was the first to say it. “you look different.”

Dash brushed her hair back and blushed. “Rarity and Scootaloo got to it.”

Shadow smiled at the gesture. “well, it wasn’t necessary. You looked hot the way you were.” Dash nervously chuckled and groaned as she lowered her head. “but… why would dress up like this?”

“well… because I… I wanted to impress you.”

“me?”

Dash sat down on the beach and sighed. “when you left, I was devastated. I didn’t know what to do.”

“I know. Scoots told me.” he said as he sat down beside her. “you actually tried to kill yourself?”

That was one part she wishes she could forget. “well, you were a big part of why I did that but… another reason was because…” Dash stopped as several tears came to her eyes. Shadow felt bad and looked away. He caused her to try and kill herself. He never suspected that she was hiding her true feelings from Soarin’ to prevent hurting him. Shows how much he knows.

“I left because I didn’t want to hurt you. And I didn’t want to make you choose between me, a going nowhere inventor, and Soarin’, a world-wide celebrity. It’s obvious who would’ve won.”

“you don’t know that. God, you’re just like Halo; completely nervous when it comes to relationships.”

“Can you blame me? I had no experience when it came to this stuff.”

“Halo’s best excuse right there.”

The two stopped talking for a moment and just looked out to the ocean.

“so… where do we go from here?” Dash asked.

Shadow sighed as he scratched the back of his neck. “well… you hurt me when you were going out with Soarin’. and we both know it wasn’t on purpose but you still hurt me.”

“what do you think I felt when you left? I was hurt too. I didn’t even get a proper good-bye.” Dash sighed as she got up. “something tells me you’re not gonna go for this. God, this was such a stupid idea.” Dash started to walk away as Shadow just continued to sit there.

She was almost off the beach when Shadow turned her around and hugged her close. “I know we didn’t leave things on a positive note but…” he let go but still held on to her. “I am willing to put my heart on the line one more time. If you‘ll let me.”

Dash was dumb-struck at first but smiled. Finally, things were going right in her life. “and if you’ll let me put my heart on the line, I’ll accept.”

“Deal.” both smiled. they leaned their heads forward and touched their foreheads together. “so… do we cement this with a kiss, senorita?”

“let’s wait till date number 3. I may be a tomboy but I’m not easy.”

Shadow chuckled. “I know that’s true.” Dash smiled.

Elsewhere on the beach, Eris high-fived with Scootaloo and Req. this was one relationship brought back from the abyss that nobody thought they’d see.

“so… what’s the real reason you broke up with Soarin’?” Shadow asked, curious about the true tale.

Dash broke the embrace and nervously chuckled. “un… turns out we had the same father.”

“oh.” he said, not surprised by it. At first. “OH! So, that means you two are…”

“brother and sister.”

A very disturbing thought entered shadow’s mind, causing him to wince. “did you two…”

Dash knew where he was going before he even said it. “thankfully, no.”