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Cleared to Engage

by SomeAsian2347

Chapter 28

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Act 3-8
What are Changelings?

As the early morning train was on it's way to Canterlot, Twilight couldn't control her anger and frustrastion with her older brother, Shining Armor. As he was going to get married to somepony she didn't even know, without telling her until now. On the other hoof, she and her friends were all really excited about seeing Andrew and his friends after such a long time being away from Ponyville.

"Are we there yet?" Rainbow moaned, Twilight shook her head, continuing to pace back and forth in the train car.

"I can't wait to see Helena again! We can do so many things together!" Rarity said happily, Fluttershy nodded, agreeing with her.

As the train caught sight of Canterlot, they noticed a giant pink-ish bubble that was formed around the exterior. They were all awe struck as they impacted the bubble, knocking everypony off of their hooves. As the train reared to the station, they were greeted by Andrew, who had a warming smile one his face. Rainbow was the first to meet him, tackling himm to the ground.

"I'm so happy to see you." She said, squeezing him tight.

"Me too Rainbow, me too." He patted her on the head, trying to get her off of him.

"Ooh! Andrew, where did you get the new sword?" Pinkie took it, leaving in its scabbard, and started to swing it around.

"It won't come out!" She said in a sad state.

"That's because only I can use it." Andrew said, gently taking the sword away from her.

As Andrew put it back on his belt, Twilight ran off to see her brother. Andrew guided the girls to their designated areas, as he heard that they were each assigned to do something for this wedding. Rainbow flew right above Andrew, who just now started to guide them to their rooms.

"So, what have you been up to lately?" She asked, Andrew looked up to her and smirked.

"Nothing really, I've been training a new set of Royal Guards for the past few months. I also found out that I'm related to Prince Night Shade, I-" Rainbow stopped him right there.

"Wait, you're related to The Night Shade?" She exclaimed, Andrew nodded as he opened another door to let Pinkie through.

"Yup, turns out that he was a human turned into a pony. This was originally his sword." Andrew took it out of the scabbard, revealing a pristine blade, as if it just came out of smithing.

Just then, Twilight came up to Andrew and tugged on his uniform, him getting annoyed as he opened another door for Rarity to get to work.

"Good luck with the dress making Rarity!" As he closed the door he gave Twilight a dirty look.

"Now what is it that you want that you possibly can't wait to see me for?" He asked.

"Why did you not tell me that my older brother is getting married?" She asked angrily, Andrew chuckled.

"Us guys have to keep secrets too, right?" He joked, Twilight closed her eyes and nodded.

"I guess you're right. At least he's marrying one of the best ponies I know since I grew up."

"Yeah, Cadance told me about her foalsitting days. She's told me a lot about you when you were young." He mused, making Twilight blush, while Rainbow was left laughing really hard.

"I'll leave you guys here, I need to be getting to work." Andrew waved goodbye, going back into his room to change suits.

Andrew set down his weapon and he crawled inside of the machine. He then came out wearing the Elite Advanced Suit, complete with the Carbon Fiber plating and the color palette. He stretched his arms to position the suit where he wanted it, and he then went on over towards the meeting room. His helmet was off out of respect for being indoors, plus that the helmet covered some of his peripheral vision, otherwise he would have it on most of the time.

"I see that the Major *snort* had an apparel change. *giggle*" Luna giggled, Andrew sat down, oblivious to all of the laughing.

"Uh, is something wrong Luna?" Andrew asked.

"Oh, we're laughing about your suit. It makes you look like some sort of futuristic demon." Both sisters giggled.

"Yeah, that's the point. It also grants me some abilities, extra damage for my weapons." He said, proud of his work.

"Anyways, we may have found out what that threat towards Canterlot may be."

"And what may that be?"

"Changelings." Celestia said, as if she had a sour taste in her mouth.

"By the looks of it, I don't think that's a very good thing." Andrew said, pointing out the obvious.

"Changelings are shapeshifters, they can disguise as anything, and they feed off of the emotion of Love." Luna explained.

"So, what's our plan?" Helena said, placing her elbows on the table.

"As of right now we can't do anything. We have to continue with the wedding, and we have to keep this from Shining Armor and Cadance. We don't want to ruin their big day today. There's a practice wedding in a few minutes, you all may join if you wish. Meeting adjourned." As they all left their seats at the same time, they went towards the wedding hall. Andrew wasn't really dressed for the occasion, but he wasn't really meant to in the first place.

As the practice wedding started, it was going really well. Andrew stood with his hands behind his back, standing over by the groom, which was Shining Armor. Jhon and Nick also joined Andrew, but unlike him they were wearing their normal security uniforms. Celestia was in the middle of her speech, until Twilight burst into the room, with a look of determination in her eyes.

"Guys! Stop! She's evil! Cadance is evil!" She accused, cornering her with accusations.

Cadance ran out of the room, crying. Twilight chases her out, making sure she wouldn't come back. They all looked at Twilight with disappointment, Shining Armor explained that Cadance was helping him with his migraines, and that she shouldn't even come to the real wedding. At this point, Andrew didn't even know who to side with, because Twilight's accusations were somewhat correct, but he knew that his team would shun him if he joined their sides. At this point, everyone left to go and try to comfort Cadance, leaving Twilight heartbroken, as even her mentor, Celestia, shunned her.

"I guess I really am on my own." She cried. Andrew, feeling pity for the lavender mare, put a hand on her back, petting her.

"It's okay Twilight, everything will be fine."

"Does that mean you believe me?" Andrew chuckled, shaking his head.

"I don't know what to believe in anymore Twilight. I've been through so much I've stopped believeing in things. The only things I believe in, is the truth. Now, let's go find it." As Andrew helped up Twilight, they both went towards the other room for Twilight to apologise to Cadance.

As Twilight posed herself on the stairs Cadance comforted her, even stroking her mane even. Andrew was in the background, standing behind Twilight as she said she was sorry. In a matter of secinds it seemed like time stopped, for a brief moment. Night Shade appeared, out of nowhere andhad a serious look on his face.

"What could you possibly want at a time like this Night Shade?"

"Cadance is a Changeling. It explains everything. The weird behavior, the kiss-up personality towards her husband. Do you even pay attention to how she treats the others when you're not around?" Andrew put a hand on his chin, thinking.

"I guess it does add up, but how do I prove that?" He asked, Night Shade didn't like where this was going.

"Just keep watching what happens, you'll know when it happens." Time went back to its normal state, and just as Night Shade predicted, both Andrew and Twilight became enveloped in green flames.

"Goodbye Twilight Sparkle." Cadance laughed, her eyes were green and she let out a maniacal laugh.

Before Andrew sunk into the ground along with Twilight, he flipped Cadance a middle finger. Though it didn't look like it worked because ponies don't have fingers, and they donlt know what those gestures mean.

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