"You're saying you found something in the depths of a broken and abandoned facility outside of Ponyville?" A real woman's voice called out. Princess Celestia, who had just been awoken abruptly by some small mare who said it was of urgency that she saw this for herself. Beside the princess of the sun, was the princess of the moon, Luna, Celestia's sister, who was wide awake, and befuddled by what type of urgency could've been so important for them to be dragged away from their duties.

"Y-Yes, Princess! I found several tapes that look to be similar to a video log. I saw the emblem for the royal family on one of these tapes, and I was hoping for some kind of explanation." The mare said, excitedly, and slightly worriedly. The mare herself was not someone anyone heard of. Her name was Amethistle, probably due to the Amethyst purple Thistle branch cutie mark on her flank, or her Amethyst purple mane coinciding with her ashy gray coat. She was a pegasus, but she also had a bit of an odd thing with her eyes, as they looked to be snake-like, not that the princesses wanted to pry, since their attention was focused on the big TV hooked up to view a set of tapes, each one stacked up in chronological order.

"Do you wish you continue with this business, miss Amethistle? Let's make it quick, we're due for a visit with the Elements of Harmony about something strange." Luna stated, wanting to get right to the meat and potatoes of the tapes. Amethistle grabbed the first tape and popped it into the VHS as the TV turned on.

"Is this blasted thing on?... it is? fantastic. Ahem. Hello to anypony or any creature that happens to discover these tapes. I am Stable Sorcerer II, formerly known as Dr. Sorcerer, one of the top biologists in Manehattan, as I quit to fulfill my true purpose in life. Genetic studies. With the news about Flurry Heart, a natural born Alicorn being added to the royal family, I decided to try and go out of my way to get fundings for this project by the princesses themselves. Unfortunately, while this place was not my first choice, it was close enough to the local neighboring town of PonyVille. It's through these many experiments, I'll be looking into the possibilities of what types of combinations of creatures can truly exist in the next few millennia when we are all gone. Currently, I'm about to create the first artificially grown embryo of a normal creature with no modifications to its genes. A Changeling. I definitely took some liberties with altering the genes a bit, splicing the sample of an unreformed changeling and the sample of one of the reformed changelings together has created something rather interesting... something that shows that we don't understand Changelings, or other non-pony creatures that well yet on a genetic level."

The stallion, who brushed his hair out of the way, revealed a unicorn horn, as he used his magic to turn the camera to one of the tubes, showing a small bug-like pony embryo growing, some parts of it had holes in its body, while also taking on some traits of the reformed counterpart.

"As you can see, Practice Subject is currently growing well, even after a quick hour in incubation, it's already begun to develop physical traits of both unreformed and reformed changelings. A few of these changes might become prominent when they start developing in maturity, but I'll have to wonder if Chrysalis or Thorax will pick up on this changeling as either a part of their hives, or not. Questions for another day, I suppose. I'll make another video documenting the growth of a spliced Changeling, see if it hungers for love, or requires a dietary substitution."

The video ends as the tape slides out of the VHS. Celestia and Luna, are understandably shocked, astonished, and speechless at what they had just beheld their eyes on. Amethistle chuckled nervously as she frowned and grabbed the second tape from the first stack.

"Would you like to see-" Amethistle could barely finish her question until Celestia barged out of the room, while Luna seemed to remain. The sounds of Celestia's screaming could be heard throughout the castle, while Luna was just calm and curious.

"It's obvious my sister can't withstand these tapes, no one could, but I'll continue to view the tapes, Miss Amethistle. I'm quite curious about this 'Stable Sorcerer' stallion and his creations." Luna calmly remarked. Amethistle popped in the second tape, and it began to play.

"Do I look like I give a damn if this is corrupt?! This is for all of pony kind, all of creature kind, we have to push the limits you daft fool! Can't you see?!"

The two mares were perplexed by this sudden outburst, until the video cut out and cut back to the stallion, who was more visible to the two viewers. The Stallion was a pitch black stallion with gaelic marks on his coat and deep blue eyes. His hair and mane were a vibrant pattern of dark green and pale faded blue, cut short and tied back as to no longer obscure his vision or his face. he wore a lab coat and a brown sweater underneath, his cutie mark was a bit more visible, showing a blue DNA Helix in a background of a type of explosion.

"Day 1 of study. I can happily confirm that the spliced Changeling has survived Incubation, and has grown to maturity. It's currently in the testing chamber, and is unaware of the fact that it's being watched and recorded. In the meantime, I managed to study the concept of love as a food source, and I was able to study my own perceptions of who and what I love genuinely, and by concentrating these thoughts, I managed to actually contain them and with enough preservatives, I've turned my own love into a food source for my artificial changeling subject."

The camera's view switches to a glass window, showing the changeling in question. It's stature is half way to being taller than your average pony, but not nearly as tall as a full grown alicorn. It's black body shifted to a dark and lustrous magenta color, the tips of its wings are of a collage of oranges, yellows, reds and scarlets, almost making it seem like the wings were made of the fires of progress. It had stag beetle mandibles on the side of its muzzle and glowing Aquamarine blue eyes, it's tale was like an unreformed changeling's but with a cleaner and more detailed ember and fire based color, like it's tail was replaced by a consistent stream of never ending fire.

"He seems to understand the concept of consuming love to survive, as per his unreformed half, but due to his reformed half, he seems to be... avoiding eating it, almost like it knows something bad will happen if he does. He'll constantly sniff at it and poke it with its stag beetle mandibles, but it seems to not crave love. If the unreformed genes were taking over more, maybe it would've at least taken a nibble. But aside from being a physical and mental mixture of its two counterparts, it can do everything a normal changeling, reformed or not, can do. though it's new jagged and torn dragonfly wings make it seem more intimidating. Further studies will be required before trying to *CRASH* Oh for Tartarus' sake, you daft moron!! Stop breaking things!... YES I'M TALKING TO YOU, WHAT OTHER DRAGON WOULD I BE TALKING TO RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT!?"

The footage cuts out and the video tape slides back out of the VHS. Amethistle was too lost in the beautiful design of such a strangely hybridized, but almost perfected artificial changeling, until the crashing noise in the video brought her back to reality. Luna was even more intrigued by the subject of these tapes, and knew she had to learn more on this before debating with Celestia on what to do about these findings.

"Next tape. I wish to know what goes on from here." Luna calmly stated, curiosity being obvious in her tone as the pegasus mare grabbed the third tape from the stack, and pushed it in. "I must know more." Luna added.