private Revolution

[That One Techpriest You Used To Know 2,286]

Cloud Dreamer fumbled to his feet and shook his head. Of course the others had left him. Oh well. He was certain that when the Doctor came back, he could introduce himself. So, while he waited, he stood by TARDIS, and started inventing a song.

Edited May 22, 2012 by No.1

[Midnightive 458]

Ivy smiled at Draw, she waved a hoof. "hello, I'm Ivy" she paused "I used to bring the autumn" she sighed. She then blinked and she saw a brown pony flying at the side of her. She looked over and saw Prince "yes... yes you did" she giggled. She then looked over at the doctor "Are timelines have always been entwined ... even before i was born."

[dar tunsh 446]

"Oh autumn. Man I miss crunching dried leaves under my hooves..." Draw said, remembering better days. He then looked at Prince. "Ha ha ha, that's silly! Look what I can do!" With that, Draw levitated out his paper pad and flipped it to a self-portrait he had drawn a while back. The portrait had been colored, which he found would stay on the drawing when he used his spell on it. With a small burst of light from his horn, he brought his portrait to life. Both the portrait and Draw stuck their orange tongues out in a playful manner.

 

"I call him Doppel-Draw!" Draw said enthusiastically. Then he glanced at Doppel-Draw, and noticed something that made his eyes widen a bit. Doppel-Draw was a mare. Yep, eyelashes and everything. Draw began to wonder, "So does this mean I could- NO! NO! I already am forced to do things by the changelings, I don't need to do anything to myself! Just no, why would I even begin to thing that?" He shut his eyes and shook his head slightly as he released the spell. The rest of the group had noticed the gender switch. "eh heh... stupid glitches" Draw said as he rubbed the back of his mane nervously with a fore hoof.

[Twilicious 150]

"Oh Crud, I'm in for it now." Peeps thought as she looked around at all the Changeling faces. Peeps bowed her head and tried desperately not to meet the gaze of the Changeling gang around her. "Um... I'm sorry sirs. I'm just really hungry and I found out that paper isn't so bad really... I mean I can deal with it... I don't know who you're talking about, or anything about the poster except that it is a nicer quality paper that makes for a better meal."

 

Peeps was almost certain that this excuse wouldn't fly and she had to stop the Changelings from doing the same. "If their shapeshifting powers are linked to my love, if I love something hard enough... I wonder" Peeps concentrated on her love for her parents. She remembered the way her father used to sing her to sleep, the smell of her mother's mane and tail products, the look of love shared between them when they thought she wouldn't catch them. "Please Celestia, let this work."

Edited May 22, 2012 by Morning Amnesia

[Pencil J. Doodle 242]

Pencils eye's began to slowly open in shock at Draw, but it was barely noticable

"I can tell from your body language that you were just thinking certain thoughts... and quite frankly, i wish i couldn't read what you were just thinking..."

Afterwards, Pencils eyes returned to their normal half-shut expression. Passing those thoughts out of his mind, he began to wonder about what Draw really just did

"How did you do that anyway? Duplicate yourself from an image in a book? Even my drawings aren't THAT good..."

[dar tunsh 446]

Draw flustered and began to stutter. "Erm, um... that was part of the curse of an over-active imagination earlier. ANYWAYS," Draw moved on, "I picked up this ancient spell from one of the books in Twilight's library... Well, when Twilight and libraries were around. It has it's limitations and I haven't perfected it yet so there's still glitches, as you saw. The magic can be quite draining though if you keep a drawing 'alive' too long, or you try to make something large or complicated. OH! I'd also like to apologize for spacing out when you offered a hoof-shake earlier. I know it may seem... odd to fret about something like that, but I feel I should apologize."

[Doctor Whooves™ 332]

The Doctor came back up from downstairs, followed by an explosion.

The crew looked at him, dumbfounded.

"...What? Oh, that. No worries, I'm just adjusting the TARDIS.

Hr stepped up to the console, flicking switches and pressing buttons and whatnot.

He seemed to have calculated everything perfectly.

This was disproven by another explosion.

"Okay."

He said, raising an eyebrow.

"I don't know what that was. Prince, have you been pressing buttons again? You know only me and Ivy can drive the TARDIS."

Another boom.

"Something's off."

He searched around the TARDIS, but nothing seemed damaged.

He facehoofed.

"Oh, hahaha! Of course there's explosions, we're heading to the engine room of the breeding centre!"

He realized he was the only one chuckling, and also realized why. The breeding centre?

"Don't worry, it's all part of the plan."

He said, and went back to flicking switches.

the last statement brought up an obvious question:

How long had he been planning? And if he had been planning this long, why didn't he do something beforehand?

 

---

 

The changeling seemed unamused with Peeps.

"We're not going to feed off you."

He was amused by the sudden hope on her face, and even more when it disappeared as he said:

"We're taking you to the breeding centre."

She tried to struggle, but the insects were too powerful, though the commander seemed to try and hurt her as less as possible.

But it was probably just so she wouldn't be damaged.

 

As they brought her to the large, jail like facility, she was disgusted to see tanks and tubes connected to every cell.

Celestia knows what was going on.

Suddenly, they stopped and one of the changelings pointed at the blue box flying towards them.

"What the bu--"

He was cut off by the box suddenly slamming into the tanks and machines, apparently losing control, and causing a lot of explosions.

By this time, the only changeling left with her was the commander, apparently defending her, but it was probably because of the shortage of mares.

The thing pointed straight at them, seemingly going to crash... Right next to them.

A brown stallion poked his head out, his mane a bit messy and sweating from all the smoke coming out of the machine.

He stared at them.

"Come on then,"

He said,

"Inside, quick quick."

He stepped back inside, adding nothing else.

[Twilicious 150]

Relief flooded through Peeps and she wasn't quite certain why. She didn't know this stallion, but anypony is better than being surrounded by Changelings, and Peeps was completely certain she had no desire to be "bred," so she hopped up and over the Changeling commander in front of her and ran straight into the blue box that she recognized from the poster.

 

Peeps skidded to a halt and looked around, completely dazzled. She beamed and danced around the strange contraption excitedly. "It's bigger on the inside!" Peeps took on an almost Pinkie Pie-like ability to move from one place to another through this interesting blue box, as she popped around the room she began writing and asking questions, "What does this lever do? Is this contraption a flying vehicle of some kind? This is amazing."

 

Finally Peeps looked around and realized that there were other ponies around... "Oh," Peeps's ecstatic shining eyed curiosity melted into the friendliest of smiles "Hello, everypony. I'm Peeps. Thanks for stopping."

Edited May 22, 2012 by Morning Amnesia

[Midnightive 458]

Ivy flew around in expulsions, she landed back next to Prince. She laughed a bit and look around "Everypony ok? The doctor is not the best flyer" she giggled some more. She then slowly walked towards the middle panel. Ivy then peered out side the door.

 

She looked shocked to see the breed room. "So this is where they wanted me to go..." she tailed off. Then put a hoof to her mouth can time lords even bred... Well half time lord. Her thoughts were broken after the pony ran in.

 

Ivy looked at her as the red pony ran around the TARDIS. She laughed as she heard the quote 'it's bigger on the inside.' She looked at the lever and pulled a face "Well that lever it um..." she got cut off as greeted everypony. Ivy smiled and waved a hoof "Hello, I'm Ivy!"

[Pencil J. Doodle 242]

Pencil was trying to look out the Tardis, but the Doctor was in the way. he was curious to see what this place was. He was told that it was a breeding centre, and that brought a shameful smirk to Pencils face. He wasn't proud of it, but he was amused by some of the most perverse concepts.

He then jumped in a startled manor as another mare flew through the door way. He thought to himself:

"What in the world?! more ponies joining us?"

 

Pencil seriously wanted to ask the mare some questions about what just happened, but knowing that she just came from a breeding center, he didn't want to seem too harsh. After all, depending on her treatment, the slightest push could shatter her psyche.

Instead, he just looked at her and tried to force a smile on his face; but failed horribly

In the end, he just settled for:

"greetings"

[Twilicious 150]

Peeps stepped right up to Ivy and scooped her hoof into a very intense and happy hoofshake. "Hello Ivy, Thank you so much for stopping. You're a very pretty green. Where are you from? Is this the revolution?"

"You're doing it again Peeps. Take a breath. Calm down." ​Peeps made a noticeable swallowing noise as if she were attempting to swallow the torrent of questions she wanted to ask and turned to the brown pony with pretty cool spikey red hair, he seemed upset, and why shouldn't he be? Peeps just smiled again. A smile was really the only positivity she could offer at this point. Equestria seemed in tatters and so it had become even more important to maintain a positive outlook.

[Doctor Whooves™ 332]

The Doctor let the changeling in, and closed the door behind him.

Before anypony could jump to it's throat, he stated:

"Everypony, this is Agoun. He's my inside-pon-- Changeling."

The commander nodded.

The Doctor jumped to the console, and teleported the TARDIS.

"Right, we should have everypony now."

The wirring stopped, and he looked outside.

Deep space.

They were safe.

"Okay."

He said, and led them through countless to a huge room, coated in paper files and planning, with a huge table in the middle.

"This is the briefing room. I want everypony here in exactly three hours. During that time, you may rest. We have a big day ahead of us."

He walked to a side door.

"This is the 'elevator'. It'll teleport you anywhere within the TARDIS. Just think of a room you'd like, and it'll take you there. Well, it'll materialize it for you, THEN take you there."

He walked out.

"If anypony needs me, I'll be in the control room."

And he walked out.

 

---

 

Agoun approached Peeps, and if he didn't have a shell, he'd probably be blushing.

Nevertheless, his military training didn't make the conversation any less akward.

"Hello, I'm Agoun. I'm sorry to have scared you before, I'd never harm an ally of the Doctor's."

He bowed a little.

"He said he needed you."

[Twilicious 150]

Peeps was uncomfortable but Agoun was being so unexpectedly friendly that she gave an uneasy smile. "I'm glad you're not all bad. Thank you for your help." Peeps flushed an even deeper red and looked down at her hooves.

 

"Wait... needed me?" Peeps turned to the stallion who appeared to be in charge and assumed this was the pony everypony mentioned as The Doctor. "I'm very grateful for the rescue but could I ask why you need me? I'm flattered and everything but if this is one of those independent breeding ranch experiments I'm really not interested..." Peeps gave the Doctor a once over and smiled in a polite but resolute way.

[dar tunsh 446]

Draw felt slightly overwhelmed when he realized they had stopped at that horrible facility. He glimpsed at Pencil, and softly grunted to himself seeing him smirk. "Looks like I'm not the only pony with an over-active imagination." Draw thought. He decided to keep snide remarks to himself, seeing as he was already a little bit rude before.

 

Draw chuckled when he saw the red earth-pony move excitedly about the TARDIS. Between her, Prince, and himself, Draw felt that this was going to an interesting ride.

 

That's when Agoun got on the TARDIS. The Doctor introduced him as a changeling on the inside. Draw was skeptical about the situation, but accepted it none-the-less.

 

Draw was so immersed in his thoughts that he suddenly realized that he barely payed attention to what the Doctor was saying and that he had already left. "Wait, what was that about rooms?" He said more to himself than anypony else.

[Doctor Whooves™ 332]

Agoun snarled, disgusted.

"My kind has gone too far with those things. No, the Doctor needs you for your wits."

The Changeling sat down next to her. He looked sad.

"Peeps, I don't know if you remember, but before... Before WE happened," he had guilt in his voice.

"I was... I was your friend. Remember me? The happy store clerk?"

[Midnightive 458]

Ivy blushed and the complement to her coat. She then looked at the door when the changeling got in. She was about to protest when the doctor said he was a good guy. She then relaxed, she looked around the TARDIS.

 

She looked at the Elevator and small smile came across her face. She then remember her room, she blushed and awkwardly shuffled her hooves. She remember what had happened in her room in the TARDIS with her travels. She blushed even more and put a hoof on the back of her neck. "Well... i hope my rooms still here" she smiled.

 

She then looked at Draw "well its simple" She said opening the door. "Think of any room any room you could think of" she smiled. She then looked inside "then you'll be taken there... you can even think up your own room" she paused. She smiled "Remember just don't think of my room... its still messy from the last time i stayed"

[Pencil J. Doodle 242]

Pencil just stood there and stared at Augon, not caring if anyone stared back. He had delt with 'inside' ponies before, some of them posing as double-agents when they were really triple-agents; just pretending to help you and when you least expect it, they reveal that they were the enemy all along. Pencil was, as he always is, skeptical, and he knew that he was probably the only one who would keep a close eye on Augon.

[Doctor Whooves™ 332]

The Doctor pulled Pencil's hoof and dragged him along with him while he went to the control room.

"I need somepony to help me with this."

He led him down the stairs, under the glass floor of the console patform, and started messing about with wires.

Doodle was holding a tool box, wich seemed to have everything BUT tools.

"banana."

The Doc said with his screwdriver in between his teeth.

As soon as the fruit reached his hoof, he squeezed it in between wires, and started working around it.

[Pencil J. Doodle 242]

Pencil began to look back and forth between the Doctor and the tool box with a confused expression. He just had to ask:

"What do you want me to do, Doctor?"

[Twilicious 150]

Peeps stared at Agoun, then looked deeper and harder. She was trying to see her friend. It was so hard to hear that her only real friendship aside from with her parents was based on Agoun's need to feed on her. The smile vanished from her face and a small tear rolled down her cheek, she looked away quickly to hide the tears from her strange Changeling companion. "Hello again, Sweet Stuff. Were we ever really friends? Or did you make him up to use me?"

[dar tunsh 446]

Draw followed Ivy into the elevator. "I don't think I'd be able to suddenly know what your room looks like... or is it that I simply have to think of the concept of 'your room'? Well whatever that's not where I want to go anyhow." Draw thought about the main area of Twilight's library. All of the books lining the shelves. The 'elevator' started making noise, and then the door opened to the library Draw had frequented ten years before the attack.

[Doctor Whooves™ 332]

The changeling sighed.

"I was... I was a soldier, at the time. I wanted to be a general, I wanted to be somepony. It was my dream. When I first started working at the shop, I didn't really know anypony... Just looking for a prey..."

If he could cry, he'd be doing it. But his internal organs would probably roll out too, so best not to.

"... When you came along, it was just perfect. Few friends, no real connection, if I had you, I'd have been set for life. But... I..."

He couldn't do it. He couldn't spit it out.

"We didn't originally hate ponies, they just fed us. You've got to understand, we're not monsters. We were basically part of your community, even marrying some of you... The only thing that differed between us was what kept us fed."

He tried to chuckle, but all that came out was a buzzing noise.

"The hatred only started when our Queen married the new King. He hated ponies, he was convinced that they were the scum of the earth, only htere to keep us fed..."

He looked away from her in guilt.

"Most of us believed in this ideas. That's when the invasion started. Before I could realize, I was apponited high commander for my shapeshifting, and was moved to another city as a supervisor. I was..."

He paused.

"... I was sad. You truly were my friend. That's when I met the Doctor. Him and his blue box appeared out of nowhere and promised me that he'd help me find you again. All I had to do was move to Coltimore once "The Revolution" started, and do as he said. Ten years later, I hear of a pony posting anti-changeling propaganda. It was now or never."

"Using my high influence, I got moved here, and two months later, I found you, and here we are."

He waited in silence.

He prayed for her to say something.

 

---

 

The Doctor fixed some wires, and turned to him.

"I want you to start trusting us. I can see you, with your silly magic and silly eyes, always ready to shoot. I have been planning this for ten years, I've chosen them for a reason."

He turned back to the wires.

"Brush."

He grabbed it from Pencil and stuck it in a column, now working on that.

"And above all, trust me. I know we haven't met under the best circumstances, and that I refused to help you out, and that I inspired the killer who destroyed your nation... Wait where was I going with this? Ah, yes, but I was also the one to save you from the genocide, the one to recommend you to Celestia, the one you would hear visit Tia every night asking about you."

He chuckled.

"In a way, I'm your father."

[Midnightive 458]

Ivy yawned and looked around. She smiled and walked over to the middle. She put some music and smiled "Oh TARDIS you still got it!" She started humming along to the music. She the looked at the TV on the tardis and programmed it to show Canterlot. She was looking at all the ponies that where there.

 

She then turned off the TV and shook her head. She looked around her as the music carried on playing. She then sat down on the chair and span it around "Well its good to be back old friend" She told the TARDIS.

[Pencil J. Doodle 242]

Pencils eyes opened wide in shock; wider than they could ever be bothered to before. He was lost in the Doctors words, and admittedly a bit inspired; no pony had ever pointed out his imperfections in a nice way before, and no pony had ever asked for his trust like that. He gently placed the tool box on the ground, placed one hoof over his lips, and the other in the air to perform the 'give me a second' gesture.

He lowered both his hoof's, sighed, then spoke in a soft voice (other than his low pitch-croaky disguise voice):

"I.. i'm sorry. I'm just finding it hard to believe that there are good guys in this world"

He lowered his head in what appeared to be shame

"I'll trust our little team from now on... even that changeling person"

 

Pencil trotted away from the Doctor and into the elevator, trying to get some alone time. But just before he left, he poked his head out the door

"My father? Really?"

[Twilicious 150]

Peeps tried to smile, but she was still uncertain. "Alright, Agoun. You and I will start over. We're not friends like we used to be because I don't know you the way you know me, but we might be someday. No more lies OK?" Peeps gave Agoun a small pat, "It's good to see you again, Sweets."