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Something inequine lurks beneath the frozen wasteland of Antlertica, Equestria's arctic territory. Twilight Sparkle and her friends are in the midst of setting up Equestria's most scientifically advanced research facility in one of the most remote locations on the planet...when some unexpected visitors arrive. What horror has been awakened? What long-buried secrets have been unearthed? And just how can you trust anypony when that pony just might be...a thing?
Excellent question.
One huge pet peeve of mine with crossover fanfics is when an author cuts and pastes the story from the source material pretty much scene-for-scene and just puts ponies over it. I'm trying to make this original as possible while still staying true to the source: a creepy, paranoid, isolated arctic setting with an otherworldly entity stalking about. If you are familiar with the 1982 "The Thing," you will notice that things are looking somewhat familiar so far; fear not, however! The story is going to heavily deviate from the original plot of The Thing - I plan to take this tale in very different directions, while putting a unique pony-type spin on it.
This is a fantastic story dude. I'm looking forward to where its going.
As for how your doing it, i'm actually glad you will be putting in your own touch. As a fic-writer myself, i don think sticking with the origional is such a wise idea. True, its easy, but thats only because the entire thing has already been thought out. And wheres the creativity in that, you know?
Anyhow; i prefer to take characters, preset or origional, and/or settings from one or both and jumble them together with an interesting plot (and not THAT kind of plot) tha involves both sides interacting with eachother.
But thats just me. And it seems i'm beginning to ramble, so i'll summarize. 
The story is fantastic and i love how you are aproaching it. Keep up the grea work!! 
Hi!
People already have pointed out how awesome this is, and probably will do so in the future, so allow me to be the bucker pointing out something I think could be fixed:
Chapter 2:
Pinkie (to Applejack, granted, Twilight didn't hear that one) : "Um, there were voices on the speaker-thingy so I’m trying to see if they want to talk to somepony.”
Pinkie: "“Yep! Voices on the speaker thingy!”
Twilight: "If you heard voices, it must mean that somepony’s trying to say something"
Well, yes . I mean, these ponies are thinking a lot faster than I do in the morning, but still, I would expect a little more from the one and only Twilight Sparkle 
This is 'stating the obvious'-deluxe. I'm sure this could sound smoother and less redundant with just one little tweak
Chapter 3:
“Does she always do that?” Arcane Fire asked. Applejack merely nodded her head.
“She does that sometimes, yeah.”
I'm not sure about the choice of always/sometimes. See, it's just little things, but to me that looks like an easy way to improve a text that is already great
Re-reading that line from Chapter 2, I actually facepalmed at the redundancy. Thanks for pointing that one out! As far as the line from Chap. 3 goes, the working felt a bit iffy to me to begin with. I'll change it to something more appropriate.
Thanks for your interest in the story, and thank you for the compliment! Glad you like it! 
With regards to the Ch 3 thing, I personally think it's fine the way it is. It kind of fits Applejack's personality to make a deliberate understatement about something like Pinkie Pie's method of movement.
Oh, and a wee typo in Ch 2:
Applejack, having been sprawled out across a table and for some reason wearing her signature cowboy had on her rear, groaned and flopped onto the floor.
All in all, a good read thus far; keep it up, man.
DUDE!? I'm going to start to slit my wrist soon if you won't continue with this story 
. I LOVE THIS FIC AND WANT IT TO CONTINUE! Here! Take all my internetz and produce a film! But please! For the love of Celestia AND Luna! GIVE ME A NEW CHAPTER BEFORE I START TO CRY 
!
PS: No. I'm not desperate............................
Having reached a point in my own Thing fic where I figured it would be safe to look in on the other interpretations, I gave this a read. And I do like what I was reading (Fluttershy's reaction to the dog situation especially). Definitely a straight adaptation you've got working here.
Hopefully, someday, somehow, we all get a chance to see the rest of it.
please continue this, i just saw the 2011 remake of this movie, and it was awesome, and i am probably not going to sleep for the next few days. this is a great story so far and i can't wait to see where it goes. since the 2011 version is slightly different from that version, so even if you don't change the story much, it will still be new to me. please either update this, or put it as canceled.
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. Also? Griffons doesn,t come from norway right? Or do they? I don,t know and neither do i care
. Keep up the good work though
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, but it's nothing, i can wait.
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