Returning to the Ponyville Library after saying goodbye to my friends, I opened the door with Spike right behind me; both of us ready to call it a day. Little did I realize just what would be waiting for me once I opened that door, let alone the fact that my day had only just begun.

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"Ugh. It's so good to be home again." I said as I walked through the door.

"You're telling me, Twilight. I'm all ready to cozy up on my bed and get some well-deserved sleep." Spike had told me.

"The same applies to me Spike. Trust me on that one." I said to him. That's when we both heard banging coming from the library's basement hatch. "I wonder, did perchance some pony lock themselves in the basement of the library by accident while we were gone?" I asked aloud.

"They couldn't have. I remembered to lock the door and everything." Spike said before openening the basement door. But when he did, a changeling burst out from under there.

"Ugh! FINALLY FREE! I'VE BEEN STUCK IN THAT DARK SPOOKY PLACE FOR DAYS NOW!" The changeling said.

"You!" I yelled. "Who are you, do you work for Queen Chrysalis?!" I exclaimed.

"Uh, what are you talking about? Who are you? Whose this 'Queen Chrysalis' creature? Did she do something bad?" The changeling asked, his tone containing a genuine feeling of confusion.

However, after encountering Chrysalis, I wasn't about to take this at muzzle value. "She nearly conquered all of Equestria, impersonated my sister-in-law, and almost permanently drove a wedge between me and my friends." I told him. "Does this ring any bells?" I asked.

"Nope sorry. But I can tell that she must not be a very nice changeling. By the way, what's a changeling? I've had that word stuck in my head the whole time I was down there, and I don't know what a changeling is. I just know that I happen to be one, somehow." The changeling said.

"Um, changelings happened to be creatures who can steal love from ponies like myself." Twilight said.

"Now that's not very nice. And very very wrong. I'd never do anything like that. I swear to the First One's image on that." The changeling said.

"...The First One’s image? What in the world does that mean?" Twilight asked.

"I'm not sure, I just somehow know that when a changeling swears on the image of the First One, they mean it." The changeling said.

"Okay then. So, what name do you go by? Is it insect related?" Twilight asked.

"My name? I do remember that. It's Amicitia. But I don't remember who called me that. I just know that it's my name, and that it's supposed to be special somehow." The changeling said.

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The moment he said the name Amiticia, I had unique reason to trust what he was saying now. For that name was Latin. In English, it means "Friendship". Regardless, I had promptly told Amiticia to wait with Spike as my number one assistant sent an emergency letter to Celestia while I went to round up my friends.

...I had no idea that our meeting would end up the way it ultimately did, but as I've stated, I wouldn't change a thing.

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