Sand... sand as far as the eye could see. A gold colored pegasus with a grey mane and tail had her last drop of water a few hours ago. The Deadlands were not her first choice to find an ancient temple that would predate ponykind. In her saddlebags rested a metal tablet she found a few weeks ago underneath the Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters in the Everfree forest. The odd thing about this tablet was the engraving on it: a capital letter R with a five pointed star at its bottom. On the back were coordinates to somewhere, apperantly in the Deadlands.
When she finally saw something other than sand in front of her, she got excited. This should be the correct location for the temple.
It was indeed a temple. The same symbol as her tablet was engraved above its entrance. The building was huge compared to other temples she found. It was built entirely out of sandstone and had a long, wide ramp coming from the entrance. It was a simple looking building, almost modern.
The moment the pegasus had entered the large gate to the inside of the temple, she noticed two extraordinary things different from any other ancient building she had come across: one, the almost impossibly smooth floor, and two, the atrificial lake on the other side.
Not thinking straight from dehydration, she took off towards the lake, diving right in. The moment she got up though, she noticed four suprised wild cats and her worst enemy.
"Well, well, well. Miss Daring Do." It clapped its hands while slowly walking towards the pegasus.
"Ahuizotl..." Daring clenched her teeth while saying her enemy's name. Ahuizotl picked her up while the hand on his tail grabbed her saddlebags.
"It appears our paths cross again. Tell me, why are you here, Miss Do?" He asked while idly looking for whatever the pegasus was forced to bring to the temple.
And then he found the tablet with the same symbol that could bee seeen throughout the entire temple, before Daring could anwer.
"Ah, the final piece of the door."
Ahuizotl threw the saddlebags on the floor while grabbing Daring Do by her waist with his tail, taking the metal tablet in his hands.
"Can you read these ancient runes, Miss Do?" he asked while pointing at a wall filled with them. "Because I can. Long story short, they tell about a powerful army. So powerful, in fact, that nothing could control them, not even death itself." Ahuizotl put the tablet inside a mirror image of itself.
"I plan to change that." He smiled.
The gigantic stone door opened and revealed a bipedal creature with a dark skin, wearing a white tank top, saggy blue jeans, a cap with the stylized words of Los Santos on the front, white sneakers and a neutral expression on its face. It stared at Ahuizotl in while walking towards him.
"I am Ahuizotl, your new master!" Ahuizotl practically screamed at the creature. The creature responded by pulling a strange two barreled, pink object out of nowhere and aimed it at its 'master'.
It pulled the trigger and Ahuizotl dropped to the ground, lying in a puddle of his own insides, dead.
Daring could barely evade the falling Ahuizotl and flew to the exit of the temple. 'If this is only one of the creatures that are supposed to be an entire army... I shudder at the thought what they could do to the entire world.'