Cogsworth had managed to evacuate, carrying his parents as the Galgameth flew over one of the many trains that careened their way towards Canterlot. The passengers inside the train sat quietly, a child or two disrupting the silence with a question like, "What will happen now, Mama?"
The doors of one train car opened, revealing the announcer.
"Attention, everyone!" - He announced as he walked down the car - "We will be arriving at Canterlot in two hours. I repeat, we will be arriving in Canterlot in two hours."
Back up front, the conductor shoveled coal, adding more nutrition to the engine to ensure that they arrived on schedule, and the safer he and his clients would be from the monster for Canterlot has some of the best security in Equestria.
When he looked up after shoveling another pile of coal, his eyes widened.
"By Celestia's-!!!" He pulled on the brake lever immediately, bringing the passengers of the train jerking forward. As hard as the locomotive skidded to a halt, it was the presence of a massive foot that brought it to a, immediate stop.
After recovering from their wounds, Sunset and her posse looked at each other.
"Anyone, okay?" She asked.
Lion Tamer had a crooked forelimb that he soon snapped back into shape.
The PA system buzzed as the other passengers began to panic. "Attention, attention, please leave the train in a calm and order manner. I repeat-"
Zipper looked out the window, opening his mouth wide. It was Monster Zero, right in front of them.
"Wegottamove, now!" He yelled before the train cars tilted upwards. Monster Zero off the engine with his teeth, holding it and swinging his head back and forth before flinging the car over to the army as they lit up their horns.
The Mane Six made their way back to the train tracks and managed to catch a train. While five of the Mane Six sat comfortably on the seats, Applejack walked tediously back and forth. They had received the reply letter, but have yet received secondary letters regarding their new locations. In that light as well, the train took a different route to Canterlot, not Ponyville.
“Applejack darling, you must really calm down.”
“How can Ah calm down when my family and close friend are missin’ because of some monster?!”
“Maybe this monster Cosgrove described was just exaggerating. Nothing can stand over thirty stories and live.”
“Perhaps it is a big thing of burnt pudding!” The other five, especially Applejack, gave Pinkie the look. “That… Shoots… Lasers…”
As the train passed through a tunnel, Fluttershy looked to the window to her left and saw something that made her eyes widen.
“Um, girls… there is something you have to see.”
The rest of the group alongside everypony else on the train looked and saw it. The monster was just as Cosgrove described it, although there are now patches of charcoal black here and there on the skin. Every soldier stallion was hard at work driving it away from Canterlot’s general direction. With no logical reasoning of building a Burmese Tiger Trap of that size as has been done to Schnookums, there were more electric netting entangled in the spines to attract the lightning.
But even this proved entirely fruitless. The monster merely walked it’s way through the army before turning around and sweeping its tail against any and all siege machines. Monster Zero continued walking towards Canterlot while emitting a short grumble. At the city ramparts, unicorns lined up ready to unleashed their magical payload at the beast.
Just before the train arrived, Twilight flew out of the train car, lighting up her horn. Seeing a familiarly winged creature to the one he fought before, Monster Zero roared at her. Resisting the wind from his massive lungs, Twilight fired a blast into his gullet. The monster began to groan as Twilight returned to the ramparts.
"Twilight, what in Equestria were you thinking?" Asked Rarity, having seen Twilight encounter a being much bigger than Tirek.
"Remember that virus Hydia infected you with?" Rarity nodded to her question "My form as an Alicorn should enhance the virus enough to infect something that big."
The beast continued to groan as he shambled forward. Suddenly, the ground erupted underneath Monster Zero’s feet, causing it to plummet to the ground. The dust and gravel cleared very soon. An aged Brobdingnag, thirty-eight meters tall, emerged from a long state of hibernation. Giving a bellow and shaking off the dust, the Brobdingnag faced his newfound opponent, who in turn gave a short gruff snarl. He charged at the monster before being given an uppercut, sending the red beast flying down to a mountain face.
The train made it to its destination. Everypony wanted to go to the ramparts, but aside from the Mane Six, none would make it past the guards. Rainbow Dash gave flew to a higher latitude to have a much better view. The two beasts can be faintly heard down below.
As Brobdingnag tried to get up, he was kicked by Monster Zero. The red beast, with his newfound strength, grabbed a massive boulder and flung it at Monster Zero. While no bruise can be seen, the patched monster emitted a groan. The Brobdingnag bellowed twice before receiving a roar back. The fight was on! Schnookums enclosed his mask and charged. The two clashed their bodies together, slamming their fists, heads, and legs constantly. Monster Zero, with his size advantage, bit him on the back of the neck and flung him to the mountain again. The red monster began seeing three Monster Zeroes as the beast walked towards him, growling. The full Monster Zero roared before giving a good tail reverse, making Schnookums fall to his belly. The larger monster cracked his neck in mere agitation, groaned, then made another roar before stomping on the Brobdingnag.
He would just as well have been killed had it not been for a sudden Rainboom to the back of Monster Zero’s head. Enraged at what he believed a blue fly, the beast snapped back at Rainbow Dash. The beast’s dorsal plates began to glow green this time but was interrupted when his larger opponent turned him around and upchucked a yellow bile at his eyes. Rainbow sniffed the air, noticing a familiar scent.
In a fit of literal blind rage, Monster Zero kicked the beast a good distance. The soldier ponies at the ramparts began to fire their magic at the larger beast. The Brobdingnag bellowed in pain as he began to burrow to a safer distance. Monster Zero screeched at the city before changing course, shambling once more towards the river that flowed from the waterfall at the castle.
An hour later, Princesses Celestia, Luna, and Twilight were in a war room, trying to find the location of Monster Zero. Suddenly a guard opens the door and runs inside, bowing before the Royal Highness' and took off his helmet.
"Your Majesty, we have received news that Monster Zero has passed through Las Pegasus, no reported injuries among civilians."
"Prepare our carriage," - Luna ordered - "We will drive him to the south," - wrapping the enemy dot, Luna dragged it down to the South Pole - "towards the frigid ice caps of Shetlandia.”
“What will you do?” Asked Twilight
“My sister and I shall transport him to another realm.” Answered Celestia before turning over to Twilight Sparkle "I require that you stay here, and monitor things on this end."
"As you wish." Twilight walked out to meet with the other Elements, now joined by Sunset and her posse.
They look up, seeing the carriage and a whole platoon of armored Pegasi flying to the west. Much further in said direction, Victorian ere style ships bombard the monster with cannonballs as he was waste deep in water after leaving the river delta. The virus was getting the better of the beast, and before long, he submerged into the water, leaving his dorsal plates exposed to the wind.
The boats surrounded the beast, each with their own crew of soldier ponies armed and ready to the tooth. Strangely the monster does not attack them nor does the armada.
Over the course of two months, the whole armada made their journey to the south pole. However, three-fourths of the way there, they lost the monster’s visual in the wind and total darkness of the south hemisphere winter. This was the perfect opportunity. When they decided to turn back, one of the shipmates spotted a blue glow in the ocean, followed by another, and another from out of the water. The captains of each ship began shouting orders as the blue lights revealed the monster’s silhouette. The ships moved too late when the beast fired a blue fire from its mouth, vaporizing a few unlucky ships.
The unicorns unleashed their magic on Monster Zero, causing the beast to flinch and begin to move towards the interior of the frozen wastes. Princess Celestia and Luna, donning heavy layers of clothing, took flight after him. The wind was far worse deeper inside than it was at the shore. Their horns were constantly lit to guide their way. The only form of evidence that would betray Monster Zero’s presence is an occasional howl, but even that was largely masked by the wind’s howl as well.
Perching on a mountain sheltered from the wind, Luna fired a blast into the air. At the peaks of it’s ascent, the blast exploded and flared slowly. As the flare descended, they saw the beast as it’s back plates pumped with blue lights. The princesses took evasive action and attacked the beast. Using the wind and snow to cover their vision, they made hit and run attacks. The beast merely bellowed in pain and anger as it could not see it’s opponents.
It looked up to the sky and fired it’s dragon fire at the clouds, creating a large enough hole to see the two alicorns. The Princess of the Night was spot on in his point of view. The monster began to charge it’s attack when Princess Celestia appeared right behind her, raising the sun. The light, combined with the reflecting ice caps, produced a blinding effect. The monster howled in pain and in blind rage fired around it’s general vicinity, trying to get at least one of the Alicorns. However, hitting the snow at the tops of the mountains, the monster’s feet got buried in snow.
Luna and Celestia looked at each other and gave themselves a nod of approval. Swooping around the monster, they fired at the surrounding mountains. Gradually, the snow and ice immobilized the beast; it couldn’t turn around and use it’s tail. The monster became covered in ice, leaving only the head and neck exposed. The two Alicorns lit up their horns and shot a spell at the beast. The magic pulsed through the monster and gave the monster a rainbow color. Rays of lights shined vertically from the monster. As it faded out, the monster made the largest roar. Even when the beast has vanished, the roar can be heard in echo.
“And so it ends…” Celestia whispered