Cutter's Revenge (Private: For Dr. Cutter and Silver Breeze)

[Rapid Quill]

ooc: This is a private thread between Silver Breeze and my devious changeling, Dr. Cutter, bur feel free to follow it. So not sure if there is an actual beach in Ponyville, so if I'm wrong just change it to the park or something. Just figured a beach would be the perfect place for Silver to perform her tricks in secret.

bic: Dr. Cutter was busy down inside his secret lab; which he built underneath his house, adding the finishing touches to his new security system when Chauncy, Cutter's faithful pet spider came crawling down the lab's stairs dragging what appeared to be a bag of Cutter's snacks. Hearing her struggling cries, Cutter dropped what he was doing and rushed to her aide! Cutter looked at his beloved pet in disbelief. He couldn't believe she was attempting to fetch him his snacks; something he didn't even order to do mainly because he didn't want her to hurt herself in the process. Not that he liked admitting it, but the very thought of losing her; of having to live the rest of his life without her by his side truly frightened him. Truth is he needed her a lot more than she needed him and it always delighted him that Chauncy chose to stick with him for all of these years when nobody else did. She truly was a great friend! It is just a shame that few ponies understood this as most would see Chauncy as just a spider, a simple animal that doesn't do much! But they were of course wrong in their presumption since Chauncy does quite a lot...for a spider at least. Then again both Dr. Cutter and Chauncy have taken full advantage of the majority's underestimation of Chauncy on numerous occasions; which certainly isn't going to stop anytime soon.

Cutter tapped his hoof rather impatiently while he towered over the fallen spider. "Chauncy how many times do I gotta tell you not to go around carrying things that are much too heavy for you? What, do you think that I just tell you these things for fun? That I'm the bad guy and I tell you these things out of meaness? Is that it?" Cutter scolded in a surprising sarcastic tone. When he had finished he appeared quite out of breath, huffing and puffing. Impressed by her master finally comprehending sarcasm, Chauncy applauded. For a few moments Cutter just stared at her looking confused until it finally donned on him. "Wait, that was sarcasm, wasn't it? I was actually being sarcastic! Me, the one voted least funny in my class!" he exclaimed in surprise. Chauncy who had stopped clapping just nodded. Cutter just smiled. "Well, I must say you are a most excellent instructor in the art of sarcasm as well as what is considered...normal filthy dirt pony behavior. But you're wrong if you think that gives you free reign to disobey my orders. As I was trying to say, I only gave you those orders to protect you from sustaining bodily harm. Now while I certainly appreciate the gesture, I could have retrieved my snacks myself. As you've noticed I've just been kind of...busy lately, ya know with the experiments and installing the security system. These things take time, don't you know. But don't you worry none for it will all be worth it in the end for the ends justifies the means and all that! These are just mere stepping stones for my very first official attempt to take over Ponyville in um in the name of my dethroned Queen of course," explained Cutter in a cool, calm manner while rubbing his hooves together.

Chauncy, meanwhile, started to complain about how messy the house and lab were in her squeaky spidery voice that only Cutter could understand. Watching her gesture like mad all around them particularly at the large clumps of dust, Cutter's pointy ears lowered. "Uh well I suppose this place could use a little sprucing up, maybe a little splash of paint here and there, and some dusting, but really Chauncy I fail to see how it is relevant to my ingenious plans for Ponyville domination and furthermore it..." Using her very long legs, the hairy spider began dusting about sending her master into a sneezing fit. Again Cutter's ears flattened as he rubbed his now itchy nose. "Pardon me," he sniffled as he blew his nose with a tissue.

"Chauncy, I think I am beginning to see your point. However, it'll have to wait until after tonight and while your...cleanliness is admirable we simply don't have the time to clean right now for now is the time we put my latest plans into action. Chauncy, my surprisingly clean compadre, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" the mad scientist asked his now disappointed spider who wanted to do nothing more than to clean and spruce up the place. Likewise Cutter hated it when Chauncy got this way: all bossy and almost motherly. He had a mother once: Chrysalis and in his mind he doesn't really need another. Meanwhile, Chauncy figured that she may as well humor her less than sane master. "I think so doctor, but how will I ever be able to sing in the choir when you are the only one that understands me?" she asked in her squeaky spidery voice. Cutter just looked at her funny. "No Chauncy..." Cutter answered slowly. "My plot to rid Ponyville of all ponies is dare I say a most brilliant, but simple one. Did you ever notice just how much Ponyville depends on Sweet Apple Acres for its sweet, delicious apples?" Cutter asked. Paying attention the large spider just nodded and gestured for her master to continue. "Well, I plan to sabotage their apples with this," exclaimed Cutter as he held up a vial containing a bright pink liquid with said liquid bubbling up at the top. Cutter grinned evilly. "Behold my latest invention and the reason I've been spending so much time down here in my lab lately. With this harmless looking liquid I will infect all of Sweet Apple Acres apples making them taste absolutely disgusting! Instead of being juicy and sweet inside, they will be sour. Best part is nopony will know until too late for my liquid does not affect outward appearance," announced Cutter rubbing his hooves together. "Oh brilliant doctor! Oh no, how exactly will ridding Ponyville of all its inhabitants make Chrysalis happy? Won't she want to keep the ponies around to feed on their love?" inquired Chauncy. Again Cutter just looked at her as though she were the crazy one. "Don't be so foolish Chauncy! Since when have changelings ever coexisted with a bunch of filthy dirt ponies? Not once has our hive had ponies in it. I'm surprised at you, Chauncy. I would have figured you would have remembered that," Cutter answered clearly delusional. Chauncy just stared at him. "Well uh actually there were several times in which your queen had imprisoned ponies in the hive to feed on..." Chauncy reminded him. Cutter stopped and rubbed his chin. "Hm, yes, I suppose that is true. Oh whatever, we'll just hunt down ponies and bring them here as needed like we did before. Trust me, Chrysalis will be so pleased to have such a large space for all her changelings to thrive and grow in. She'll probably even reward and promote me for this!" "And also how will there be enough liquid for every apple inside that tiny, little vial?" This made Cutter smile even more. "I am so glad you asked that, Chauncy. For this vial is but a sample. I made tons of it. Plenty for Sweet Apple Acres or at least enough to send all the ponies fleeing for their lives. It is my hope that they leave Ponyville in search for better apples and with everypony gone I will be able to take over." "Again brilliant. But um what about the Princess Twilight and her friends? They won't be so easily scared off and may even try to investigate the cause," Chauncy pointed out. Cutter who had already anticipated all of that only nodded. "Yes. Naturally being the genius that I am have already anticipated their desire to stick their noses where they don't belong. Don't worry, I have devised a very special plan for them," Cutter reassured his loyal spider friend.

"But alas this will need to wait until tomorrow night for right now I need the kind of sustenance that these snacks cannot give me. I crave love; which brings me to the other thing I have been doing lately. Remember our little brave pegasus friend from a few weeks ago? I have obviously not forgotten her. Indeed, ever since we got back to Ponyville I have been...watching her, observing her, rememberizing her entire schedule as well as those closest to her. She had no idea I was there, spying on her of course since I was always masquerading as an object. And after weeks of spying I have come to the conclusion that I would just love to feed on her. I've discovered that my best bet to deceive her is to go to the place where she does all of her fancy flying in the form of her dear mother. Chauncy meet, Dawn Star, the sweetest pegasus in all of Equestria," Cutter announced as he transformed into Dawn Star, his voice even changing into Dawn Star's towards the end of his explanation. Impressed, Chauncy clapped. "Thank you. Thank you," Cutter said giving a little bow.

"I just need my amnesia spray and I'm off. Oh and Chauncy as much as I really don't want to for reasons we have already discussed and given what all I am doing tonight I will need to leave you behind. I just hope you can act responsibly and not throw any wild parties while I am gone. Can you do that for me?" Cutter asked as he grabbed up a small bottle of his very own homemade amnesia spray. He stuck it inside his saddlebag; which had Dawn Star's cutie mark on it. To reassure her master, Chauncy nodded and gestured for her master to leave assuring him that everything was going to be just fine.

Once outside his home, Cutter already began to regret leaving Chauncy behind, but it was too late now. He had a certain plan of revenge he desired nothing more than to unleash upon a certain, unsuspecting pegasus. Oh he could hardly wait! Best of all he knew exactly where to find the pegasus at this time.

She should be down at the beach around this time, performing her tricks in secret, Cutter thought as he flew with all of his might to the beach to find her. It was a lovely, sunny afternoon, the perfect time for one to engage in physical activity. Finding a good spot to sit and wait for Silver to arrive, Dr. Cutter still in Dawn Star's form sat down on some white sand. 'She should be here any moment now,' Cutter thought.

[TwiDashPie]

Silver smiled as she flew in search of her destination. She had just gotten off work and was eager to head to her favorite spot in all of Equestria, the beach. The beach is where she did her tricks and occasionally just flew above, it was nice to be away from other ponies, even if it was just for a few hours. She never was one for being around other ponies, in fact, some days she purposely avoided them. Now don't get the wrong idea, it's not that she didn't like other ponies. Its just, she was a bit self conscious and thought others would never like her for many reasons, most of them being about herself and the way she acted. Now, Silver has made friends before, well, one, but it still counts. Then again, she wasn't sure if they were actually friends, but she thought they were. She had met her a few weeks ago, in a very interesting situation that would rather not be discussed. This month had been so crazy for Silver, she had met so many ponies and been in so many situations, it was rather hard to keep track of them. 

Silver snapped out of her thoughts when she saw the beach in sight. She sighed with relief and flew a bit faster, reaching the beach in only a matter of minutes. She slowed down when she arrived and thought about what trick to do. There were so many, but some were easier than others. She smiled to herself upon thinking of her dream, which was to someday perform tricks in front of millions of ponies. Though the thought of being the center of attention in front of so many ponies made her nervous, she still wanted it. Silver once again snapped out of her thoughts and started to do a trick, when she saw a interesting sight. It was her mom, Dawn Star, sitting down looking up at her. She landed as fast as she could and started trot over to her. As she was trotting over to her, she couldn't help but think, Wait..didn't mom...,she snapped out of it upon seeing she was in front of her mom. "Um, Hey Mom." She said before staring at her. She couldn't help but feel like something was wrong, but she brushed it off. 

[Rapid Quill]

From his spot, Cutter watched as a familiar pegasus started to perform a trick. Cutter recognized the pegasus immediately as Silver Breeze, his special intended target and meal for the evening as it would likely become evening by the time he can get her alone to feed on her delicious love in peace. Silver must have noticed him in the ingenious form of her mother since she ceased performing aerial stunts midflight and flew down where Cutter sat.

Cutter forced his lips into a friendly smile as Silver approached him. As usual being nice and producing genuine friendly, non-threatening smiles was difficult for the devious changeling to do, but he thinks he's nailed it. He just hopes to get the personality of Silver's mom right. Unfortunately, he did not see enough of her to even know of her personality, but he figured it couldn't hurt to guess.

"Why hello there daughter! I hope you don't mind my dropping in completely unannounced like this! But I just happened to be in the neighborhood and thought that while I was here that maybe you and I could maybe do something together like a mother/daughter day thingie," suggested Cutter in Dawn Star's excited voice doing a circular motion with his hooves as he said, 'mother/daughter day thingie.'

He then hugged Silver nice and tight in his attempt to appear friendly. "So how about it? Got any fun ideas in mind?" he asked releasing Silver and taking a step back from her to give her room to breathe.

[TwiDashPie]

Silver smiled at her mom, she couldn't believe she was here, after all this time. She listened as her mom asked if she wanted to do something with her. "Yea definitely!" She responded eager to spend time with her mom. She hugged her mom back before saying "Why don't we go take a walk somewhere? That will give us time to catch up, plus it won't take too long. Sorry I have other things to do, but I'm free for the next couple hours." She was beaming, being super excited to talk to and spend time with her mom. Though, no matter what, she could never brush off the feeling that somewhere was wrong. I mean, she had always had a long distance relationship with her mom. So, they barely even knew each other. However Silver knew her mom wasn't the kind of pony to just come up suddenly out of nowhere and want to spend time with her daughter. It just didn't feel right, in fact, her mom was rather famous. Which explains why she never had time to spend with her daughter. However, Silver was enjoying this moment too much to put that in deep thought. 

Silver thought about places her and her mom could walk. Most of them included other ponies being there, which Silver did not want. Mostly because one, every pony would recognize her mom and paparazzi would surround them. Two, Silver did not enjoy being around others at all. She thought back to the beach they were both on. "How about we take a walk on this beach?" She suggested before looking back at her mom. 

[Rapid Quill]

ooc: And thus I introduce the Diamond Dogs. Feel free to npc some of 'em! Even take over Eddie and/or Jorge if you like!

bic: Cutter allowed the quiet pegasus to return the hug. "Oh, a walk on the beach? That sounds lovely dear. It's almost like you read my mind. I so do want to spend some alone quality time with you without a bunch of other ponies running around. We hardly ever get to hang out anymore. It's so sad. Don't you think?" Cutter asked smiling at Silver.

"But only a few hours? That's...unfortunate, but we can certainly manage it. We just have to hurry is all. It really is nice out here! I see why you like coming out here to work on your aerial stunts! Mmm...just feel that breeze blowing against your mane," Cutter announced as he ran up ahead near the water. He stood at the water's edge allowing the wind to blow through his mane. "Mmm and not to mention the ocean smells so sweet! Just smell that sea salt in the air. Isn't it great!?" Cutter excitedly asked unsure if the pegasus' sense of smell was identical to his own.


Meanwhile, on the other side of the beach, far from the insane changeling and the quiet pegasus were a group of Diamond Dogs. They were busy digging insanely enormous holes in the sand with the hopes of capturing some workers. "Oh this plan of yours to catch us some unpaid help is brilliant Eddie," mused one of the lower ranked dogs. The one called, Eddie was their self-proclaimed leader and he grinned a toothy grin looking mighty pleased with himself. "Haha, isn't it though? Sometimes I am so smart that I uh..." Eddie just sat on his hunches deep in thought as he struggled to come up with a way to finish his sentence.

One eager Diamond Dog started waving his paws excitedly in the air as he had an idea. "Oh I know! I know Eddie! You're so smart that you stuff jalapeno peppers up your nose for precious rare jewels like that one time, Eddie! Do you remember? You were howling for a week after that one! Ya remember, huh? Do ya?" answered the eager dog out of turn as he hopped excitedly up and down. Eddie despite not being so bright shot the eager little Diamond Dog a disapproving glare before bopping him on the head. "Shut up Jorge! I told you not to bring that up again! Why you keep bringing it up? You got a parasprite stuck in your ear or something?" Eddie snarled at his little minion.

The other dogs just started snickering to themselves earning a warning glare from their leader. "And you, stop laughing! It ain't that funny!" Eddie growled in warning. "You're right Eddie! It's not that funny at all! It's...hilarious!" squealed one of the dogs before he and the others burst into laughter yet again. "That's it! I'll teach the lot of you not to disrespect your fearless leader!" And with that the dogs all began rolling about in the dirt wrestling each other.

[TwiDashPie]

OOC: Awesome! Though I forgot the third Diamond Dog's name 

Silver smiled at her mom's response, she was glad her mom understood and was fine with it. She ran after her mom, who still seemed a little bit suspicious, then again, she never knew her mom at all. "Yes, it is wonderful and the smells are pretty great. Though sometimes there's not a breeze but it is nice when there is one." She replied smiling at her mom. Silver couldn't be enjoying this any more than she already was. She was at her favorite place in all of Equestria with her mom, and no one to bother them. Things couldn't get better, though, no matter what, Silver couldn't shake the feeling that something was definitely wrong. After all, her mom seemed very chipper and excited, a bit too excited, if you ask Silver. She had often read things in the news and heard things about what her mom was like, and chipper and excited were not two of them. However, her mom was probably just really excited to spend time with her daughter, or, that's what Silver thought. 

-With the Diamond Dogs-

"So, Boss, when is this plan getting started? We've been sitting here for hours doing nothin but sittin and waitin, it's gettin a little boring, if ya ask me." Said one of the Diamond Dogs, probably the only one who had the nerve to complain to their leader. The others wouldn't dare to even say anything close to a complaint, however, this Diamond Dog was stupidly brave enough to ask that. 

[Rapid Quill]

ooc: I actually didn't name the third npc I used. But I decided to call your Diamond Dog npc, Travis. Hope that's cool with you. Also sorry for taking awhile. Haven't been feeling all too great lately. Also been having some writer's block.


bic: When Silver agreed with him about the ocean's sweet smells, a sly smile crossed Cutter's face. "Ah, so you can smell it? Excellent. I mean for a second there I thought I was smelling things that weren't really there. So relieved that's not the case," Cutter mused as he gave his forearms a good stretch. Cutter couldn't believe his luck. Silver Breeze was actually falling for his little scheme and best of all they were out all alone in the middle of the beach! Perfect to feed on unsuspecting ponies! No witnesses! Oh if only Silver knew that she was about to have her love sucked out of her by a desperate, starving and vengeful changeling, she probably would have flown off right there and then. "So where shall we walk from here?" Cutter asked looking all around them. There admittedly wasn't very many places they could go along the beach.

Meanwhile, with the Diamond Dogs at the other end of the beach:

Eddie and his followers just continued to wrestle among themselves upon the sand until one of them dared to complain about his most ingenious plan ever! Eddie ceased wrestling to glare at the only dog stupid and brave enough to complain about the plan. HIS plan; which in Eddie's mind at least was the best, smartest plan ever and anyone that dared to question it was a fool such as the sad, pathetic looking pooch that stood before him. The dog's name was Travis. Eddie's other followers just meanwhile whispered among themselves going, "ooooh, he's going to get it now!" Eddie just shot them a warning look to get them all to shut up before returning his attention back to Travis. Sighing, Eddie shook his head at Travis. "Travis, Travis, Travis just what am I going to do with you? Allow me to answer your...inspiring query with a riddle! We built this little...sand trap to catch us some workers. Now then Travis, my most observant friend, do you see anybody on this stupid beach but us!? So unless you are willing to volunteer and hop into our hole yourself then I highly suggest you shut your mouth and leave the thinking to me! I'm the smart one while all of you are just my followers! And that is why I am the leader cause like you gotta have some brains to be the leader; which luckily for you overgrown hairballs I have plenty of," retorted Eddie with a sneer.

He then turned to the others. "So," he announced clapping his paws together, "what about the rest of you lazy good for nothings? Any of you willing to volunteer as an unpaid worker and jump into the hole? No? Then shut up!" Astonishingly, one of the dogs was actually stupid enough to volunteer. Unsurprisingly, the volunteer was none other than Jorge who jumped up and down waving his paws excitedly in the air. "Oh! Oh Eddie, I'll do it! I'll volunteer! For the clan!" And before any of the other dogs could blink, Jorge jumped into the hole landing at the very bottom with a loud thud. "I'm okay!" Jorge shouted from the bottom of the hole as he climbed back to all four of his paws. Peering down into the hole, Eddie just shook his head. "Idiot," he mumbled.

A smile slowly crossed Eddie's muzzle as he was suddenly hit by a familiar scent. "Hey, you furbrains smell that? Smells like...ponies! Quick, everyone take cover behind those tall rocks and Jorge...?" ordered Eddie gesturing fiercely at the tall rock pile just standing about the beach. "Yeah boss?" asked Jorge nervously. "Make yourself scarce! We don't want our new visitors spotting you down there! It'll give us away," Eddie ordered the clueless dog. Not wanting to displease his boss, Jorge saluted. "Aye aye captain! Oh and visitors! Does that mean we're gonna have a party with cake and cookies?" Poor Eddie did not know how to respond to that. Jorge was so out of touch with reality that it was just sad. "Just...hide," Eddie repeated, exasperated before following the others and disappearing behind the rock structure.

Not wanting to disappoint his boss, Jorge dug a tunnel out of the hole and collapsed it behind him. Popping his head out of the sand he climbed out and rejoined the others behind the rock structure.

[TwiDashPie]

Silver Breeze was beyond excited, so much that she almost didn't hear her mom's question. She came out of her thoughts and looked over at her mom. "Oh, we could..." She paused for a bit while looking around. There really wasn't many places on the beach for them to walk along. "We could just walk along the sand." She finally said, before starting to walk. She hummed and started to trot faster, she was too excited to say anything. So, she simply trotted in silence, occasionally looking over at her mom. This was probably the best day ever, or, well, that's what Silver thought. However, the feeling that something terrible was gonna happen had never left her. She did her best to ignore it, but, it seemed to be getting stronger as they continued walking. She tried to think of something else, but, no matter what she thought of, her mind would eventually go back to thinking about the feeling. She snapped out of her thoughts upon feeling herself trip, she felt herself crash through the ground, wait through!? Sure enough, she had landed in some kind of trap, and by the looks of it, accidentally dragged her mom down with her. She looked back and suddenly felt a surge of pain. In the process of falling, she had apparently bended both her wings backwards, which caused them to break. She sat on the ground in pan, not sure what else to do.


Diamond Dogs


Travis observed the area, feeling mad that his boss yelled at him. He was just getting curious and excited. He suddenly heard a snap and saw two ponies fall. "Boss! It worked the trap worked!" He yelled while running over to his boss. "We got 'em, Boss!" He said feeling very proud and excited now.

[Rapid Quill]

Cutter just nodded at Silver's reply. "Yeah, there's not that many places to go on the beach, is there? Okay, we're just go this way then and maybe later we can take a fly, if you're up for it," Cutter suggested before following the eager mare. Cutter watched in silence as Silver increased her speed. 'She sure is a fast pony. I better run faster as to not lose sight of her,' Cutter thought as he increased his own speed. He may not have been as fast, but he definitely wasn't slow either and unfortunately in this case his particular speed proved to be a mistake.

All the changeling could do was watch with confusion as Silver Breeze suddenly fell into a large, oversized hole in the sand. Flapping his wings like mad, Cutter tried his best to avoid falling into the obvious trap with her. Unfortunately for him, Silver Breeze grabbed him last minute causing him to fall into the trap along with her. Cutter let out a surprised yelp as he fell in. In a desperate move to slow down their descent, Cutter continued to flap his wings like mad. His plan sadly did not work out so well since the two still ended up landing on the hard, unforgiving ground below with a loud thud.

As soon as they hit the bottom, Cutter attempted to fly out of the pit to see what was going on only to be hit by a painful stinging sensation. He gritted his teeth in pain as he stubbornly tried to fly again; which he succeeded to do so for a few seconds hovering only a couple of feet into the air before dropping back onto the floor landing next to Silver Breeze who also seemed to be in pain. Glancing behind him he noticed that his wings looked all bent up and broken; which certainly explained why he couldn't fly. 'This definitely was not part of my ingenious plan,' an annoyed Cutter thought to himself. Grumbling to himself, he glanced over at his intended victim only to see that her wings looked just as bad as his own or even worse.

Looking all around them, Cutter realized immediately what this was: a trap made by greedy Diamond Dogs and gasped. He had come across these types of traps before. No he never actually fell for them due to all his studies. He not only recognized a Diamond Dog trap when he saw it, but he also knew just how to avoid them. Except this time due to having been forcibly pulled in by his intended target. How embarrassing! No doubt the dogs set up this little trap in an attempt to catch themselves some slaves. 'Well if they think they can hold me, they got another thing coming,' Cutter stubbornly thought to himself. 'Just gotta think how to escape.'

Turning back to Silver Breeze, Cutter warned Silver in the sweetest Dawn Star voice he could muster, "you okay? Oh, what am I saying? Of course you're not! I know I'm not doing so hot over here! I think my wings are broken! Can't fly out... I don't really want to alarm and rush you, but we really need to get out of here and fast! This is a Diamond Dog trap!" To be honest, Cutter wasn't sure how to escape without flying unless... Maybe they could dig their way out? Being a changeling, he could dig pretty well. Of course that would require him to revert back to his changeling form; which would in turn mean revealing himself to Silver Breeze thus ruining his chances of feeding on her! Oh who was he kidding, he wouldn't be able to feed on her anyway if they are made prisoners of the Diamond Dogs. "I hate to say it, but it looks like we'll have to dig our way out," informed Cutter in a straightforward manner. He still maintained Dawn Star's form and still was using her voice despite his rather rough landing. Perhaps he would have lost control of it if he had not been able to slow down his fall somewhat. Just imagine how hurt he would have been had he not been able to slow himself down.


Diamond Dogs:

From his hiding spot, Eddie grinned as he heard the snap of his ingenious trap go off! Travis really didn't need to inform him of this, but he didn't mind because he too was excited. "Excellent! I knew it would work! See, it's like I told you furbrains: patience is key to a well-thought out plan working out! Now what say, we introduce ourselves to our new friends and fish them out of that there hole?" Eddie ordered his crew, clapping his paws excitedly together.

[TwiDashPie]

Silver Breeze was extremely panicked right now. She, and her mom by the looks of it, had broken her wings, and maybe other bones in her body, and accidentally fell into a trap set by the Diamond Dogs. She looked around knowing that the Diamond Dogs would be showing up sometime soon. She suddenly felt panicked and worried, she hated this. She couldn't understand why though, she didn't feel like that towards the Diamond Dogs, she felt it toward...her own mother!? She was confused, why would she feel like that toward her mom? Her mom was so sweet, generous, dead, loving- wait dead!? She then remembered something that she had wished she hadn't forgotten, her mom was indeed dead, in fact, she had been dead for several years. The reason she died, though, was something Silver didn't want to talk or even think about. She then started to realize something that should've been clear a while ago, this wasn't her mom. She should've known that it was too good to be true, but, if this wasn't her mom...then who was this!? It must be some changeling, one that obviously was targeting her so that it could feed off of her love. It didn't make sense though, she had never met a chang-no....she had. She remembered the incident at Canterlot a few weeks ago with the griffon and the changeling. Ugh, she hoped she would never see him again, but it seems fate had a different answer. 

Silver turned to her "mom" and gave her a obviously fake cheery smile. "Oh, well that sounds like a wonderful idea, Mom." She said, putting emphasis on "mom. "I do have a question though....do you think you're fooling anypony? I mean, you fooled me for a while, until I figured it out. My mom has been dead for years now, then again, you probably didn't know that did you, Dr. Cutter!?" She snapped, glaring at the changeling. 


With the Diamond Dogs

Travis looked down into the hole with nervous anticipation. "Yes! We got them! Boss, let's go get them!" He said to his boss, wanting to go down there immediately. Travis was always one to rush into things to quickly, but he never noticed or cared. Even though everyone else always that he was crazy and stupid. So, without even listening for his boss's response, he started to climb down into the hole. 

[Rapid Quill]

ooc: Feel free to have Travis escape and our characters captured if you want. I think I made it pretty open on what all could happen next!

bic: The mare's reaction to his rather reasonable suggestion really surprised Cutter. She had somehow seen right through his little disguise and confronted him. What she said during the confrontation certainly took him for a loop. He just cocked his head to the side and stared at her in confusion. "Dead?" he squeaked. His voice fluctuated from Dawn Star's to his own. "I must have missed the memo," he mused under his breath. "No matter. This filthy dirt pony costume was getting tiresome anyway! Think I'll just slip into something a little more comfortable and to your liking," he sneered as both his eyes and body glowed until he morphed into that of a famous musician. Said musician was a handsome male earth pony named, Smooth Jazz. "Better?" he asked with a smirk and in Smooth Jazz's voice. "Yes, it really is too bad that Smooth Jazz won't be able to perform for awhile. Oh well, everypony's gotta make sacrifices," he teased with a laugh as he circled around the angry mare. Cutter, suddenly stopped circling around his intended victim.

It was definitely sloppy on his part to impersonate a pony that was supposedly already dead! It was indeed strange that he didn't realize the famous mare was already dead. He could have swore... 'That's it, that's the last time I trust the words of a Yak! Then again was he really so surprised? Yaks don't know nothing about anything except how to yell real loud and stomp their hooves like a bunch of overgrown children! Idiots! That Yak is so fired when I find him! But first things first...' he thought to himself before looking into the mare's angry green eyes.

He opened his mouth to say something-anything, but nothing came out except for a long, heavy sigh. "Look, I know you're angry at me and that you hate my guts and probably never want to see me again and I can't say that I blame you, but we really don't have time for this! In another minute or so this hole will be crawling with diamond dogs who will take us both prisoner and do horrible things to us; things I don't even want to think about! So I say we do what I suggested and dig our way out! That is unless of course you have a better idea," reminded Cutter in a no-nonsense tone. He then smiled a sickly sweet smile at Silver while extending his hoof to hers. "So what do you say we team up and teach these pathetic filthy dogs a little lesson about digging giant holes in the ground? After all. it just isn't nice! You and I, we got hurt! They can't get away with that! I won't let them! So, how about it Silver? We a team now?" he offered holding up his hoof to hers for her to shake. "Uh temporarily of course! I'm pretty sure you don't want to see me again after this and that's just fine with me! 'sides, we wouldn't even be in this mess if you had just paid attention to where you were walking and didn't fall for the lamest diamond dog trap ever made! And oh the way you dragged me down with you, so I could be trapped too? Genius," he quickly added with a hint of sarcasm at the end.

The changeling's ears flickered at the shouting going on overhead and even moreso at the sounds of something climbing down the sides of the large hole. Obviously, the sound of diamond dogs climbing down. Cutter's mind whirled with all sorts of crazy, devious ideas as a sneaky smile formed on his face. "You hear that Silver? That's the sound of our new 'friends' coming down to say, 'hello.' But no worries cause lucky for you, I have a plan. But I need you to trust me first. Just remember, whatever I do next is so that we can escape. Now just follow my lead and don't say anything unless I ask you to. And if all goes well, we will be free soon. You got that?" Cutter calmly explained as he tried to retake control of the situation.

To Cutter's delight there was only one diamond dog coming down to see them. If he hurried and so long as none of the other dogs see then maybe just maybe his plan will work. 'Those filthy dogs have no idea who they are dealing with,' Cutter thought deviously with a laugh.

When Travis got close enough to the bottom, Cutter still in Smooth Jazz's form looked him over while grinning madly as though studying him. "Why hello there. Fancy seeing you in this hole. Didn't think anyone would come, but here you are just in time for the party! Anyways, that's a pretty cool body you have there. Yeah, you must really work out. Mind if I borrow it," Cutter observed rather creepily no doubt creeping the poor diamond dog out not that Cutter cared. Without any warning, Cutter's eyes and body glowed as he now morphed into Travis and thus revealing himself as a changeling to the hapless diamond dog. Still grinning, he looked himself over. "Thanks! I so do hope you don't mind my being you for awhile. You don't, do you? Nah, of course you don't!" Cutter then glanced over his shoulder at Silver. "Say, Silver, you mind lending me a hoof with this guy? He's kind of heavy," Cutter asked as he made a grab for Travis. The dog wasn't knocked out or anything, so there really wasn't anything keeping him there.

Eddie, meanwhile followed his goons to the edge of the hole and peered down. He was able to spot two ponies: a mare and a stallion. Disappointed in the small catch, he groaned. "Only two!? Man, that'll never do! But, fine, whatever, we'll just deal with it! Okay furbrains listen up, here's my plan: half of us will climb down to the right of them while the rest of you climb down the left. That way, we'll surround them and they'll have nowhere to go! You got that Travis? Everybody got that?" Eddie ordered not even noticing that Travis was already climbing down without them.

When Travis didn't answer, Eddie asked again, "Travis? Travis? Where did you go? Hey, how about the rest of you furbrains? Any of you seen Travis?" "Uh boss, try behind you," answered Jorge, pointing excitedly behind Eddie. Confused, Eddie looked behind him. "Huh? Oh what, he's climbing without us! He's going to ruin the plan! My plan! Ack!" yelled an infuriated Eddie, clearly annoyed by Travis going over him.

Eddie then began to pace in front of the rest of his pack. "Okay, here's what's going to happen, the rest of you will follow my plan and climb down like I told you. I'll punish Travis later for his insubordination! Alright then. Let's go fetch our prisoners! Dismissed!" ordered Eddie causing the rest of the dogs to start climbing down into the hole with Eddie acting sneakily climbing down the back.

By this time, however, Cutter had already turned into Travis, but was now panicking since even more dogs were climbing down and he still needed to hide the real Travis for his plan to work. For if he failed to hide the real Travis in time then his plan will be all ruined and after seeing two Travises the dogs will realize they have a changeling on their paws! Cutter shot a final pleading look at Silver. "Please Silver, I beg you help me hide him! Can't you hear them coming? In another minute we will be surrounded by dogs and for my plan to work I have to be the only one that looks like this dog. I don't know about you, but I don't want to be a slave to a bunch of filthy diamond digging dogs," a panicked Cutter anxiously explained. For their sakes, he hoped Silver would come through and help him hide Travis.

[TwiDashPie]

Silver Breeze was probably the angriest she had ever been in her entire life. Not only had she been foolish enough to fall for Cutter's plan, but now, she was stuck with him in this hole, almost no way of escape, set by the Diamond Dogs. She already hated this changeling, but, now she pretty much despised him and now he was saying it was her fault they were in this mess, which, if possible, made her even more angry. She listened to his response and rolled her eyes when she saw him change into some earth pony. She watched as he started to circle her, never breaking eye contact. Without any control of her actions, she smacked him as hard she could. She needed something or somepony to take her anger out on and he seemed to be the closest thing to her. She didn't care what he thought of her, she was too angry to even think about his thoughts or feelings. 

Silver stared him down as he started to speak again, saying that they should team up because of their current situation, which, to Silver, didn't seem like a good enough reason. She suddenly felt a new emotion inside her, hurt, no not physical pain, she had already experienced that, emotional pain. She knew how much she cared about and missed her mom and this changeling had tricked her into getting her hopes up. She felt even more anger rise inside her. She wished she could make him feel the pain he amde her feel. However, there wasn't time for that, due to their current situation. Without saying a word, she got up and dragged Travis to a place the Diamond Dogs wouldn't even think to look. "There, it's done, this better work." She snapped, never breaking eye contact with Cutter. 


Diamond Dogs


Travis climbed down, not even thinking about what trouble he was getting into. He confusingly looked up at the male earth pony who was looming over him. He opened his mouth to say something but nothing came out. He watched as the earth pony transformed into him in front of his very eyes. Before he even had time to think about reacting, he felt himself being yanked from where he was a dragged to someplace where he couldn't see what was happening on the outside. Not knowing what else to do, he curled up and stayed silent, being slightly afraid of what would happen if he even dared to move or make a sound.

[Rapid Quill]

It really surprised the devious changeling when Silver Breeze just turned around and smacked him right in the face. He really didn't see it coming due to the simple fact that he vastly underestimated her. She just looked so sweet, so innocent that Cutter didn't think she had it in her to stand up to anyone much less hit someone. Weirdly enough, Cutter wasn't the least bit angry nor was he even sad. If anything, being hit unexpectedly by the innocent looking pegasus just left him feeling confused. He just sat there looking dumbfounded as he rubbed his now sore face where Silver smacked him. "Oh wow, you totally just hit me. I...so did not see that one coming. Though, I supposed I deserved it and it is better that you get all this anger out of your system now than later during our escape. Um was there something else you wanted to do or say to me before the dogs arrive?" Cutter responded in an eerily calm tone as he cleaned off his face. All the while acting like this was the most normal thing ever.

To Cutter's relief, Silver ended up stashing a very scared looking Travis in a spot that hopefully none of the other diamond dogs will think to find and as a extra measure, Cutter was going to make sure of it. "So you filthy dir I mean...ponies must do this type of thing all the time. Ya know where one literally smacks literal sense into another? Or is that just a you thing? If so does that mean I'm special?" Cutter asked clearly clueless as he watched Silver conceal a very frightened looking Travis.

Humming a familiar tune, Cutter just slowly walked over to Travis and when he got there he lowered himself to his level. "Okay, so this is how this is going to go down. You're going to stay right here in this very spot and no matter what you may hear or see you are not going to move an inch! And on top of all that you're going to keep quiet because if I hear even the slightest peep from you it won't be pretty! I'm still in contact with my beautiful and glorious queen! I'm sure even you dogs know of her! Well anyway, I am most certain she would just love to feed on your love. Give me a reason and I shall inform her of you right away. You got that Fido?" Cutter threatened looking Travis straight into the eye. Of course the whole thing with Chrysalis was a lie since he still had no idea where she went or if she was ever returning, but he highly doubted that this dog knew that. Besides, it is so much fun making others sweat with fear! Naturally Cutter in turn had no idea that Travis was already planning on staying quiet and not moving.

It was at this very moment, that Travis' companions arrived inside the hole. Cutter disguised as Travis, dusted himself off and stood beside Silver to appear as though he had her prisoner. "Okay, just keep it cool and let me do all the talking," Cutter whispered nervously into her ear as the diamond dogs began to surround them. Instinctively, Cutter began slowly backing away only to end up backing into a rather large looking diamond dog, far bigger than any of the others. Cutter correctly assumed he was their leader. Turning around, his ears flattened and he nervously scurried out of the large diamond dog's way.

He returned to Silver's side where he proceeded to act all calm and cool. "Oh hey there boss! About time you got here in this sand hole! So um anyway as you can plainly see, I got the mare prisoner just like you asked me to. But hey no need to thank me. Just doing my job cause that's how I roll," a disguised Cutter announced crossing his arms. Eddie, however, just looked unimpressed with the changeling's bravado and just groaned. "No. Not like how I asked you to! Not by a long shot! And thank you? Why should I thank you when you can't even follow the simplest of orders? I asked you to wait and did you? No and why is that, I wonder... Probably because you thought disobeying me made you look cool. Well guess what? It didn't! And furthermore... Hey, wait a minute," yelled an enraged Eddie sniffing at Cutter and Silver and looking all around them. The large dog got close; which certainly made the changeling feel uncomfortable. "I see the mare's with you. But where's her stallion companion that was right here with her?" demanded Eddie. As dumb as Eddie was even he was quick to notice the obvious missing stallion. Cutter gasped upon realizing the large, glaring hole in his plan. He was so caught up with trying to deceive the dogs that he totally forgot about that part! His mind raced as he struggled to come up with a good lie to distract the leader with. Cutter just smiled sheepishly at Eddie. "Uh what stallion? Sir, with all due respect you might need glasses because there definitely wasn't any stallion with her. At least there wasn't any when I got down here," Cutter lied with the hopes that Eddie and the other dogs would buy it. Unfortunately for Cutter, the diamond dog's leader wasn't dumb enough to fall for that. "Travis just who do you think you're trying to fool? Just a few minutes ago there were two ponies down here and now I only see one! The stallion was definitely here! I saw him just as you did! So if you know what's good for you, you'll stop lying to me right now and tell me where he is?" Eddie growled.

Cutter hated to admit it, but this dog was really starting to scare him. Ears folded back, Cutter just gulped as he struggled to come up with another lie; one that would hopefully work. "Um there was this um enormous dragon. yeah, that's it and he sort of swooped down into this hole that I helped dig and snatched up the stallion! I tried to stop him, but you know it was a dragon, so what can you do? And that's what happened to the stallion," Cutter nervously lied. Eddie again wasn't buying it. The diamond dog leader just stared at Cutter in disbelief and facepawed. "Oh Travis. Travis, what am I going to do with you? Do you really expect me to believe that ridiculous pack of lies? If there really was a dragon I would have seen it! I've been here the whole time, ya know!" Eddie exclaimed, exasperated. Cutter thought up an explanation and he thought it up quick. "Would you believe me if I said it was wearing a cloaking device, so you couldn't see it?" Losing his temper, Eddie just growled. "No, I would not believe that! And how do you know what a cloaking device even is?" inquired Eddie since last time he checked this particular minion of his couldn't even read. "Uhhhh books?" Cutter's reply sounded more like a question than an actual answer not that it really surprised Eddie all that much. After all, Travis didn't know nothing about anything! Eddie just glared at the one he believed to be his minion. "You read?" a truly confused Eddie asked. "Um yes. Doesn't everyone?" an equally confused Cutter retorted. Eddie didn't answer that and just studied Cutter carefully. "Huh, I didn't know you could read. Oh well you're still getting punished when we get back home," a still very much furious Eddie declared.

Poor Cutter was very much confused by Eddie's response for he didn't understand why he was so angry at this Travis guy he was impersonating! Seriously, what did Travis do to make him so mad? Cutter was starting to think that impersonating Travis was a big mistake! Sadly for him, it was too late to change the plan. He had to continue to play along with Eddie and the other dogs until it was safe enough for him and Silver to flee.

Cutter frowned. "What! Why?" Eddie just smiled at him. "Two reasons. Numero uno because I said. Reason number two is one word: insubordination! You disobeyed orders! My orders and now you're gonna pay!" growled Eddie in reply. If Cutter wasn't nervous before he sure was now! He gulped and took a few nervous steps away from the angry diamond dog only to back right into other diamond dogs that grabbed him. Cutter struggled against their tight grasp. "Hey, what gives!? I'm one of you! This the thanks I get for helping?" asked a very confused Cutter who was growing more nervous by the minute. Eddie just laughed at him. "Yeah, see the thing is Travis, you disobeyed me and went over my head in an attempt to look cool! And to top it all off you somehow allowed the stallion to escape and you keep lying and making up lame excuses for what happened to him. So, seeing how we're currently short one stallion, you're going to fill in for him and do the work we were going to give him. There, that's your punishment. So you see, you're helping me plenty. At least you weren't wrong about that," Eddie explained. Cutter just gulped. "I see... Hehe, good one sir. You were always really good at the jokes, but you can stop now. You got me," Cutter said with a nervous laugh. Eddie's smile just grew at that. "That wasn't a joke," Eddie informed Cutter coldly.

Eddie turned to the two holding Cutter. "You two make sure he follows my plan this time and doesn't try anything stupid while the rest of you can help me take this mare upside," Eddie ordered.

He looked at Silver. "When we get to our home, you are going to work really hard," Eddie warned her.

Cutter just lowered his head in defeat. Now he was the prisoner. How embarrassing! Things definitely were not going according to his plan. Silver Breeze was likely loving this! Well at least the bit about him getting his comeuppance!

[TwiDashPie]

Silver Breeze didn't know what to say or do anymore. It was already annoying that Cutter actually responded to her, but now his plan failed and now they were going to be forced to work for the Diamond a Dogs. Since the changeling was obviously no help, she looked around trying to see any options of escape. However all of them required flying which was impossible for her because she had broken her wings on the fall down. So she started to think about what else she could've done before the Diamond Dogs got there. Then, it hit her, the most simple and obvious idea ever, Cutter could've transformed into a unicorn and teleported them out of there. She groaned internally for not thinking of that when it was needed. She looked over at the changeling seeing that he was extremely nervous and upset that his plan didn't work. 

Silver couldn't deny she was confused on why she wasn't enjoying this. True, he did deserve this after everything he put her through, but she just could find it in her heart to enjoy this, so she just watched in silence with no emotion whatsoever. She pulled away from the Diamond Dogs and moved away from them. Quickly, she looked around for any way of escape, she didn't want to be captured. Without thinking, she jumped against one of the walls and dug her hooves into it. She bit her lip and started to climb as quick as she could, not caring what would happen to Cutter. She just wanted to get as far away from him as possible. She sighed with relief upon seeing she had arrived at the top of the hole. She pulled herself up and quickly ran away, not even daring to look back.

Diamond Dogs

One of the Diamond Dogs holding Cutter looked around, not sure what to do now, his name was Thomas. He was probably the only kind Diamond Dog there ever was, but he never showed it. "Um, Boss?" Thomas asked, feeling nervous and confused. "What happened to the mare?" He asked while looking over at his boss.

[Rapid Quill]

Poor Cutter just continued to squirm against Thomas' and Randy's tight grip even as he caught sight of Silver making her way up and out of the hole; which surprised him greatly. How could not one of these filthy fleabags notice her escaping? And how could she, dare she just ditch him like this after everything they've been thru together? That definitely wasn't part of his plan! No, the plan was to play along with the filthy dogs some more, wait for them to fall asleep and then sneak out safely together! Not like this! This...whatever she was doing was just plain desperate and not to mention totally crazy! Plus, there was always the high risk of getting caught! Her plan was definitely riskier than his and lacked the subtlety of his plan. Without Silver what was he to do now? Continue with his original plan all on his own or somehow escape from these brainless fleabags on his own and catch up with her? And even if he did somehow found Silver again he honestly wasn't sure what he would do much less say to her! He was so angry that his anger blinded him from the real reason she was ditching him in the first place! So he was an evil changeling that wanted to feed on her love. So what? She was just a pony. Really who cares what she thought of him! He sure as cherry pie didn't!

After what literally seemed like forever to the changeling, one of the dogs holding him, Thomas noticed the missing mare. "Gone," Cutter breathed as he continued to struggle desperately against Thomas' and Randy's grasp. "She escaped clear out of this hole whilst you guys were busy reprimanding me," Cutter explained. The dog, Randy just looked really worried at that. "Oh no she escaped! The boss won't like that one bit! He's gonna be awful mad when he finds out," Randy exclaimed acting as though Eddie wasn't within earshot of them. Eddie just glared at Randy. "What do you mean when I find out? I'm not deaf you furbrain! I can hear you, you know," reminded Eddie, clearly annoyed. Randy just grinned sheepishly at his boss. "Oh so you can. I was just uh...testing ya was all," Randy lied, testing his boss' buttons.

Unamused, Eddie just rolled his eyes at his minion. "Oh whatever. I don't even care! But what I do care about is what you guys just said about the mare, MY mare being gone! And Travis, what are you a dictionary all of a sudden? Seriously, just yesterday I had to explain certain words to ya and now all of a sudden you know the meaning of big words like, reprimand. What gives?" Eddie demanded. Cutter tried his hardest not to laugh, but it was difficult and a few snickers found their way out of his big mouth. Eddie looked ready to scold Cutter yet again when Randy interrupted. "Uh boss what does reprimand mean anyway?" inquired Randy rather stupidly. Randy never was too bright and neither was his boss who just sort of stood there silently a few moments deep in thought as though trying to come up with the definition on his own. "Oh that's easy, it means... Well, you know it's like when you uh... Oh who cares? But if you really want to know, just ask Travis since he's so smart," the leader answered, clearly annoyed. Smiling stupidly, Randy nodded before turning to the disguised changeling in his clutches. "Okay, so what's it mean?" Cutter couldn't believe it! These mangy mutts sure did get distracted easily! "Uhhhh to reprimand someone basically means to scold them. The boss here was merely expressing his displeasure of my actions. He didn't like how I...handled things and yelled at me for it. There, that's what reprimanding someone means," Cutter explained though he probably shouldn't have wasted his time trying to explain something to them. "Oh, I think I get it now. That makes a lot of sense! Thanks Travis. You're good at explaining things," Randy exclaimed happily, wagging his tail.

To this Eddie just facepawed and shook his head. "I'm mad at you. We get it! And of course I'm mad at you! It's all thanks to you that both of our prisoners escaped! And you wanna know why?" Eddie asked rather rhetorically. Still Cutter answered since he didn't always get rhetorical questions. He just sort of grinned sheepishly at Eddie. "Uhhhhh the mare escaped while you and your gang were busy with me?" Cutter answered nervously. It was an answer, but Cutter's tone made it sound like a question. Randy just nodded stupidly earning a warning glare from Eddie. The diamond dog leader then shook his head. "No furbrain! It was because you didn't listen to my ingenious plan to begin with! If you had then maybe we wouldn't have lost either prisoner! No, we'd be back home, mining tons of jewels instead of arguing at the bottom of some stupid sand hole!" Cutter's ears flattened as Eddie started yelling at him again and he gulped. Eddie sure could yell! It kind of reminded him of Queen Chrysalis. Okay, maybe not that far, but still...

Eddie's nose then started sniffing at Cutter again making the changeling cringe as the diamond dog leader's nose got a little too close for comfort. "Hey, you smell funny. You been rolling around in garbage again?" Eddie accused prompting Cutter to sniff himself. Cutter couldn't find anything particularly rancid with the way he smelled then it donned on him. Changelings has a very distinctive scent about them. Perhaps that was what the dogs were smelling? Fearing he might be discovered, he sweated and gulped. "Uh yeah you caught me! I just couldn't resist rolling around in some um trash. So fun," he lied with a nervous laugh. Eddie made a face and took a step back. "Ew, not when I gotta smell you, it's not." "Yeah, well you're no barrel of flowers either," Cutter mumbled sarcastically under his breath. Eddie eyed him. "What was that? And hey did you get contacts recently or something? I don't recall you ever having red eyes before," Eddie accused getting suspicious making the changeling all the more nervous. 'Oh geesh, my red eyes! I almost forgot about them! They are almost a dead giveaway,' Cutter thought to himself, worried.

Cutter smiled sheepishly. "Uh nothing and oh hey, here's an idea, instead of all this talk about my...smell and new contacts. Why don't we just stop bickering and go after the mare! If we hurry we can still catch her! So how about it, hm?" Cutter asked trying his best to sound reasonable. Randy nodded. "Oooh I like that plan," he agreed. Eddie, however, was rubbing his chin appearing deep in thought. "Oh yeah in a minute Travis. That is assuming you really are Travis," Eddie stated growing even more suspicious of the disguised changeling. "Uh what do you mean boss? Of course I'm Travis. I mean who else would I be?" Eddie just grinned at the physically nervous Cutter. If he truly wasn't hiding anything than there wouldn't be any reason for him to be so nervous. "Oh I don't know, how about a changeling pretending to be Travis?" "Hey, you can't make that kind of claim without some kind of evidence backing it up!" "Okay, so if you really are Travis then what is my favorite dessert? Even Travis knows the answer to that," Eddie rather slyly asked. His goons snickered. Every diamond dog in Eddie's clan knew the answer was plain cheesecake with vanilla custard. "Yeah, everyone knows the answer to that one boss even Travis! It's easy! It's..." Randy excitedly exclaimed about to give the answer before several other diamond dogs shushed him. "Shhh..." interrupted the other diamond dogs, curious to what Cutter will say. "Oh, sorry," apologized Randy earning an eye roll from the other dogs.

Shaking his head, Eddie just turned back to Cutter. "Okay, right then, so what's your answer...Travis? We are all just dying to know," Eddie sneered cackling. Cutter's mind raced as he struggled to come up with a response and he swallowed hard. "Uhhhh...apple pie," he guessed uncertainly. Cutter's incorrect response was quickly followed by a choir of gasping and excited whisperings among Eddie's followers all of whom were surprised that Cutter failed to answer such a simple question correctly. Eddie's smile only widened. "Oh so close! While I do like me a good apple pie, what I really like is a nice slice of cheesecake with some vanilla custard on the side. Well since you clearly got that one wrong I'm not even sure if we can trust you. Heck, I don't even think you're really Travis. Are you? Just admit it, you're really a changeling in disguise, aren't you? And if that's not enough proof for ya then there's plenty more where that came from! You even smell like a changeling. I lied when I said you smelled like garbage just to throw you off your game, you also seem admittedly smarter than Travis, and finally your eyes are very changeling like. What's the matter, can't change your eyes to match your disguises?" Even more gasping filled the ranks. They never before seen their boss make such outrageous claims before, but then Travis did smell an awful lot like changeling...

Cutter glared. This diamond dog leader was actually a lot smarter than Cutter originally thought. Even the changeling realized at this point there was no way he could continue to deceive them. So with a deep breath he reverted back to his changeling form causing the dogs to just stare since some still believed Cutter's lies. Even Eddie wasn't sure what to do or say at this point. "Whoa, lookie here! Looks like we got ourselves a changeling spy in our midst boys! And you know what that means," Eddie announced even though he had a feeling he would end up having to remind them of what they do. Randy just nodded before shaking his head. "Yeah, we sure do boss! I mean, no we don't or at least I don't. Do any of you guys remember what we're supposed to do with changelings?" Randy asked causing an exasperated Eddie to just facepaw and shake his head. "Furbrains! We've only been over this about a thousand times already!" "Oh I remember now Eddie! We run and hide, right? Cause changelings are just plain creepy," Randy exclaimed with a shiver even as he continued to hold onto Cutter.

Eddie just rolled his eyes. "No. Think about it boys, he's a changeling that can turn into just about anything! We can use him to catch us some workers! Forget that mare! There's a whole bunch of ponies where she came from!" Eddie reminded with a laugh.

Cutter just groaned. He so did not like where this was going. "Uh, I wouldn't do that if I were you," Cutter warned.

Eddie turned around and looked right at him. "Oh? And why not?"

"Because Queen Chrysalis won't like you keeping one of her favorite, top scientists prisoner," Cutter stated with a smile hoping that news of Chrysalis being overthrown by Thorax hadn't reached Eddie's ears.

All was quiet for a few moments before the diamond dogs broke the silence by laughing. "Sorry, but if you are seriously counting on her to save you, I'm afraid you're out of luck! I mean nobody's seen hide nor tail of your former leader since she was dethroned by Thorax who apparently is now your king," Eddie pointed out angering Cutter who boldly glared at the diamond dog leader.

"You're wrong! Thorax is not my king! I will never follow him," Cutter quickly retorted.

That caught Eddie's interest. "Really? That a fact?" Cutter nodded. "Yeah, I see it. I mean I thought you looked a little nonreformed and stuffs, but didn't think much of it. Mind telling us what you were doing in our trap? What, can't get enough love from ponies, so now you're going to take all of our love too or what?" accused Eddie. Cutter shook his head. "No, it's not like that! I was only in your stupid trap because I wanted to feed on the mare, but when she fell in she kind of pulled me in with her," Cutter calmly explained. "I see... Make sense I guess. Sorry about that uh what's your real name?" "Dr. Cutter and it's fine. Just let me go and I'll be on my way." Eddie rubbed his chin. "Hm, I don't know Doc you tricked us into thinking you were Travis and now you owe us at least two workers," Eddie mused. "Fine. I'll send you a check. Am I free? Can I go now?"

"I'm afraid it doesn't work that way. We'll let you go after you help us find two new workers," Eddie rather stubbornly insisted. "Okay, fine. On one condition." "Oh, and what's that Doc?" "Tell your two goons to let go of me!" Cutter practically yelled, annoyed. Eddie gestured at Thomas and Randy to release the changeling. "Okay, but we're keeping a close eye on you. We're not letting you out of our sight for nothing. Right boys?" "Fine, Whatever. Just get me out of this hole," a growing impatient Cutter ordered. "Hm, getting testy, are we? Very well. Getting out is the easy part. Alright you furbrains, let's get the changeling out of here," Eddie ordered gesturing at Thomas to pick Cutter up again. "Hey, what gives?" Cutter growled. Eddie smirked. "Sorry, we just assumed that you broke your wing during the fall. That is why you haven't flown away, isn't it?" Eddie mocked. "Something like that," Cutter grumbled, annoyed. He so hated this! The entire thing was so embarrassing! He only prayed that Chrysalis doesn't find out about any of this!