Chrysalis sat on the large hill overlooking her empire. Her hair was a mess, more so than usual; these were hard times for her children. After the failed invasion of Canterlot, they barely had enough to eat each day, and many were starving.
She sighed. Her kingdom was falling apart, her empire under attack from the other changeling empire trying to take over while she and her children were weak. It seemed like she and her subjects were doomed to starve.
She was cut short of her thoughts when a large boom shook the ground beneath her feet. She rose a hoof and paused, letting the shaking stop.
One of the most trusted guards, Cratch, ran in, bowing quickly and breathing heavily. “Your highness! We are under attack from the eastern Empire!” he said.
She thought quickly, at first unsure what to do.
“I suggest we take our forces and drawn them into the catacombs, since they outnumber us,” Cratch suggested, looking over his shoulder at a few guards, under his command. They were standing outside the door.
Chrysalis nodded. “Very well. I shall join you momentarily.”
He nodded back before he and his soldiers trotted out.
If they survived this attack, she needed to do something fast. Things were getting desperate.
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This is not good, he thought, looking at each of the ponies. He had gotten himself into a huge situation, one he doubted he could get out of easily. The ponies were stiff in fear, and he was worried at what they might do, even though there was not very much they could do to a large armored creature. The only ones who didn't seem to be as scared were six particular ponies in the middle of the crowd that had gathered rapidly.
But then something even worse than what happened with the three young ones happened, and his senses were overflowed with sound. “MONSTER!” they all screamed at once, running away at extreme speeds, almost as if they had it timed. The six odd ones were lost in the crowd.
He decided to take this time to run like hell and dashed into the nearest alleyway to his right. The swarms of ponies struggled to get out of his way, screeching. He just wanted to get out of there, not wanting to deal with the idea that they might have had some sort of army. But where would he go?
As he tried to race down the alley, still not used to his new form, he fell face first into a metal can. Any pain he possibly felt disappeared in a few seconds. Growling, he tried to pick himself up, but with pure luck of the moment, he found it much more difficult to move fluently. He grumbled to himself, but there was no point to it. He had to keep going.
Choosing a random direction, he took off, half racing, half stumbling. He ended up dodging ponies and carts to and fro, jumping over multiple stands and almost colliding with a bench. However, while he was avoiding one of the ponies in his way, he failed to see the anvil that came out of nowhere.
Bang!
He stumbled away from it, seeing stars too real to exist. It took a while for him to recover as he drifted to wherever his feet took him.
Looking up, his daze gradually leaving him, he found that what seemed like thousands of streets of screaming ponies ended, revealing a large, beautiful orchard, filled with streets stretching off into the distance. Perfect cover, he thought to himself.
He took off as fast as he could manage to going over there. The sounds of the town and the yelling died down to an almost surreal quiet. He arrived to the orchard and relaxed a little. Here, at least nothing felt he was a threat.
He sat, taking a breath. Well, this is one deep hole I've dug myself into, he thought, thinking of what he should do next.
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The Hive
“Quickly, get to the chambers!” Cratch, standing along with other changelings, called out. He quickly ran along the slime covered wall, sticking perfectly to its pasty surface.
Screams and roars of pain and fury could be heard just down the corridor. The hive had been attacked by another Changeling Empire, which had heard of the Queen's most recent defeat as a chance to take over.
Followed by his brethren, Cratch hurried into the chamber at the end of the corridor, drawn right into the scene. Multiple changelings were battling each other, green blood covering the floor. The room was a mess and reeked of chaos.
Cratch joined in, jumping at a changeling that had targeted a Nurse drone and cornered her near the right ride. He dug his teeth in the neck of the attacker, drawing blood. It screeched, desperately trying to get him off. Cratch just held on together, sucking in large amounts of blood. His victim, obviously becoming more and more disoriented, collapsed from blood loss.
Putting his mouth around the unconscious changeling's head, he jerked his mouth, making an audible crack. He fell back and looked away from the disembodied changeling, turning back to the Nurse drone. The drone smiled at him with gratitude before escaping from the chamber.
Glancing back to the battle, Cratch doubted it was going well for both sides. They were both gathered high death tolls, but the violence kept coming. It didn't take long before another changeling charged at him from his left.
He jumped on the wall, firing off two volleys of green blasts at his opponent. It dodged them, leaping onto him to tear him down from the wall. He found himself pinned on the ground. Cratch tried desperately to free himself from the changeling's grasp.
His attacker smiled, showing blood soaked teeth. “Your precious Queen is doomed,” he gloated, his horn glowing green as he prepared to finish Cratch off.
However, a chorus of shrieks echoed through the chamber, followed by a blood curling scream. His opponent looked up.
Something with extreme force slammed into Cratch, knocking him against the wall. His vision blurred, and all he heard were screams around him before he drifted into unconsciousness.
About the Predators crossover...
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Not gonna happen. Not from me. I'm working on five different stories already
2234222 Whelp than I leave that open to anyone who is up for it.
2233709 well its out!
Loving this but it was so short. i needs more
A predator in MLP is just begging for disaster. Predators are hunters, that is all. The end. Maybe a gore fic or something, but you cannot make it friendly, compassionate or anything else besides a pure killer with no remorse. Your aliens story works so far because the xeno has somehow gained self awareness and forgot what it is. Trying to put predator in mlp would only end up as a poorly written bullshit story.
2234363 Thanks!
2234379 Unless you give a little friend to distract the predator....
2234472 It would still not work, it goes against everything a predator is. But hey, what the hell. That is just my opinion.
2234546 And i thank you for your opinion. So I take it the story meets your approval?
This chapter is just so good, it was one of the best reads i ever had in a chapter of around 1k words.
And i've watched a lot.
2234587 Thanks! That really mean alot!
i like it
and what ever you do dont make it so they can talk to each other it makes it much more intresting if they can not talk with words
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Why would you tell us that?
2234931 idk
2234906 *Salutes*
Really? You're adding in a new alien in chapter two? What did I say last chapter? Focus on One before you bring in a new alien.
I'm still waiting for Pinkie Pie to attempt to throw the alien a party, she has to, it's in her contract right here. Something like, "Welcome to Ponyville Mr.Alien and thanks for not eating us!"
...actually, that brings up a very curious question. What the hell does an alien eat? I've seen all the movies more than once and as far as I can tell, they don't eat anything. Sure, they might rip up a human or two but my dog does the same to poorly made chewtoys and I don't see her eating them. Going logically about it, I suppose they are meat eaters if the pointy teeth and utter lack of anything molar-like are an indication. Wouldn't need flat grinders when their stomach can digest just about anything (acid for blood must mean the digestive part should be as strong) so rip, tear, and wolf down everything including the kitchen sink (would give a goat a run for their money in a garbage eating contest, ha!). This puts them in the same circle as opportunist predators like T-rex, sharks and bears; sampling from someone else's week-old kill, the garbage can behind a house, or taking down a Triceratops if they're particularly hungry and nothing better presents itself. It would be an interesting thread to carry through this story on how our alien explores this.
As for the Alien-Predator crossover? Uh, why? Don't we already have enough on our plate with the alien (and human mind) trying to find it's place in this new land? And why would a Predator even be there? Ponies are as peaceful and easily scared as sheep which makes them terrible things to hunt. Yes, jumping into the middle of a Changeling civil war might be 'fun'. And yes, I guess the Everfree forest would be excellent hunting grounds against the nastier critters stomping around in it. Just watch out for the poison joke and cockatrices... from what I remember, Predators have no magic to counter curses/petrification and advanced tech only gets you so far. Actually, the Everfree is more dangerous than humans since we're limited to poor hearing, limited spectrum acuity, dependence on comparatively 'low' tech, etc.
2235099 I never said it was an Alien
2235188 I just said that someone else should make one It doesnt HAVE to be related to this one, But yeah what does an Alien eat?
2235099 There are many creatures in Equestria, I just needed one.
to be honest, don't do a predator crossover because it will most likely ruin the story. Like others have said, they're hunters, but they don't hunt anything that would be considered an unhonerable kill (from what i know at least) so unless you're planning for monsters from the everfree to join in, the royal guard and any ponies that decide to help would just be slaughtered. you do need to focus on one thing at a time too. the changeling thing is interesting but i think if you want it to work better, you should probably make the chapters a bit longer.
2235371 I would make them longer, But time is not on my side.
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I still keep coming back to the conclusion aliens eat whatever they want to like some creepy, nightmarish walking garbage disposal unit. At least it makes it easy for the alien to survive wherever it's dropped (which makes sense as it's supposedly the ultimate biological killing machine according to the movie series).
I'm still waiting for the scene where the alien and Fluttershy are having a nice sit-down with tea and crumpets in her cottage (the rest of the critters all huddled tightly in the corner as one big pile with eyes as wide as they can be). The other Mane 6 show up, see this... having their jaws dropped and minds blown, Pinkie's going off literally with a muted *bang* from the back-mounted party poppers, during the long awkward silence that follows.
2235405 lol Oh by the way im curious on how you guys are receiving the new characters I have dropped in like Cratch.
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If he survives the civil war ripping up the hive in the Everfree... I like him! I think changelings and this alien will get along just fine, even if the alien is something a changeling would conjure up in their worse nightmare.
Ok, maybe not get along well. Actually, they might end up huddled tightly in a corner of the room too, eyes bugged out and staring at the alien.
(The critters and the other Mane 6 in Fluttershy's cabin will have to move over to make room in that corner)
2235529 Ok now im on the floor laughing myself to death! lol Yeah I was not to sure how he would be received.
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Aw... now I feel bad for Mr.Alien.
Everyone just freaks out and runs away like their tail's on fire. He just wants to say hi... twice. With that little mawofteeth too.
And only Fluttershy really understands it.
"Aren't you just the cutest thing ever?"
Giving Mr.Alien a hoofrub under the chin which of course makes it's left foot thump the ground quickly and sticking that chin out further.
Now if Mr.Alien could only do something about that drooling problem. Drooling with it's hungry, when it's about to rip something up, when it's so happy it's left foot thumps the ground because Fluttershy finds this eldrich horror so "cute"...
2234565 I find your story to be interesting and hope to see more updates soon.
2235813 lol still laughing one hour later.
Awesome chapter as for the predator crossover the only way i can see it working is if a human was taken from earth and put in equestria turned into a predator because not being a predator in the first place most of the honor of hunting and stuff is not there that's how i see it.
2236086 Yeah or the Predator is nice because those unarmed are not worthy of being pray. could work maybe lol Anywho glad you liked the chapter!
Nice chapter, but I would have liked it more if it was an actual Alien instead of a human in a Alien suit.
As for the Predator crossover... It could work yeah the ponies would be running away, but wouldn't they want Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and/or Twilight Sparkle. Yes they count they are armed with Magic so the Preds can hunt them.
2236334 ok now i have calmed down. Yes they would consider the guards and the alicorns as Pray. They are screwed!
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That is absolutely not true. Predators aren't bloodlusted murders, they are big game hunters and honorable warriors.
Twice has a predator or tribe of predators recognized the heart and conviction of a human and branded them as a hunter(in one occasion said human actually lived among them).
Predators have in the past recognized the skill of an opponent and rewarded them, then left them alone.
They pretty much absolutely refuse to kill anything that can't defend itself from them or is unarmed.
Several times have they sided with humans to fight xenomorphs.
They will gladly engage in honorable combat.
Honestly, It wouldn't be that hard to write I think. Just use a formula similar to the movies and do a little research into them and someone could write a stupidly good fic about it.
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They are carnivores, but they are kind of like a cross between a bug, a lizard, and a water bear. We never see them actually eat anything because they can go for extended periods of time without eating or drinking anything, and can survive for an unknown amount of time in a vacuum. 17+ weeks I think.
anyway nice story, I shall be following this.
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Er, isn't the story summary at the top saying just that? An alien with a human mind imprinted on it?
If this was an actual alien, it would be an utter bloodbath... not to mention you'd need to add [Gore], [Dark] and [Tragedy] tags as the alien proceeds to hunt down and kill off ponies.
Your request shall be answered. I am working on a predators crossover. It shall be released soon. The hunt begins soon.
2237796 Actually that does not imply all predators. Some clans may be honorable but that does not mean that the others will not hunt them. As for a predator in Equestria is possible. For one, they can and will hunt what they know can fight back. And who is to say that they haven't been watching the ponies of Equestria, probing to locate their strongest. And just because one does not have a weapon does not make them weak. At least there of the mane six can fight back effectually. Also despite being honorable warriors, they consider all other beings and races below them, they only respect those who have prove themselves worthy. And that in itself is rare. Never forget, they may be honorable. But their still Hunters above all else.
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Yeah i know that and I don't mind it I just said that I would have liked it more if it was an actual Alien, but since they don't care what they kill it would mean walking into a slaughterhouse. Not to mention people have a problem with ponies dieing I don't see why, but okay.
(If you think that I like the story the next part is pointless) I still think that it is a good story or I wouldn't even be reading it.
Have a nice day, mate.
Continue! YAY UPDATE!!! !
2240871 I take it you approve! What do yall think of the new character Ive added in!
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Let me address all of you points.
That would be a clan of OC predators since that is pretty much the MO for the entire race. There are rogue clans but they are unliked by their fellow Yaujta and have minimal presence in canon. Those that break the rules of the hunt are no longer considered Yaujta, the entire purpose of the fic would be lost, if one of those were used.
This would be the rising action part of a predator crossover. Which is why I mentioned using the movie formula, since it does it so well.
I never said that, or implied it. Equestrians have various forms of magic, even without it if an observed individual was a good CQC fighter they would still be prey target. Predators have engaged in melee at least twice in the movies with a human, and consistently go close quarters with xeno's. They know being unarmed is far from being helpless.
This just flatout isn't true. They just don't hold beliefs like that, they fight ("hunt") other species for honor. If they thought they were better than X they wouldn't hunt X because there is no honor in besting something you know you're superior to. If you're on their prey radar, then they respect you. They do everything in their power to level the playing field.
It's rare because there are only 3 important sentient races in AvP lore. Humans, Predators, and Engineers. Their connection with the engineers i don't know. But they respect the human race greatly, and it's been that way for a long time. They respect the human race so much that they jump started our tech and allowed us supervision over the xenomorph breeding areas that they used to test unbloodeds with and consistently pick our planet when they want opponents.
Honor is above all else in their society. The hunt has at least 10 tenets with the consequence for breaking some of them being somewhere between suicide and execution. The sole purpose of the hunt is honor.
2242817 You sir bring up some valid points and for that I respect you. Now allow me to point out reasons for what I said. Point 1. When I said that not all clans are the same. Now please note that this is coming from a true fan boy of the franchise as in I read all the comics and book and played every game and seen every movie involving the yaujta. You must realize that their species is not perfect in the sense that they are all united. There are at least two large clans that disobeyed the tenets. One of them (which I sometimes wish to God wasn't canon) is the super predator clan which is at the moment been fighting a war with the other clans. They too hunt,but they will not always give the opponent a fair advantage and they instead focus on getting better and killing their prey in the most gruesome way possible than in honor like the others. The other clan (to which as far as I know) is extinct. The killers clan, they practically had no disregards for the tenants and they didn't hunt but rather they fought to kill. They wanted nothing more than to kill in anyway possible and were a very chaotic and brutal clan. They were wiped out by the other clans for their crimes.
As for them considering all other races below them, that is true to some extent. While you are correct in saying that they respect us, they respect us as prey. My point in this one is like this, when a human goes out to hunt animals for sport, does he respect his prey? I like to think he does, but just because he respects it, does not mean he treats it as his equal. Humans still consider themselves above animals.(In my opinion, we are nothing more than evolved animals.) So the yaujta of course respect their prey, but do not treat it as an equal. A xenomorph for them is the ultimate prey, their greatest test as Hunters. Humans to them are just good sport to hunt. While they do respect us and will level the playing field if they have an unfair advantage, that dose not mean we are their equal. Being their equal is a status that is earned. Heck, some clans have gone as far as to take humans who have earned the warrior status and room them to be trained into being like them. Please note that only rarely does that even happen, the training I mean. That's considered unorthodox for them. And also to quote a yaujta elder, the humans form of combat is like that of juveniles, mostly due to our species being young compare to them. But nevertheless they still considers us worthy prey. Also another reason why they don't consider all species on their is this, when humans are uses as host for an infestation so that they may hunt, they're okay with it. But when one of their own is implanted and from them is birthed a predalien, they consider it an abomination. They won't even take it as a trophy, but rather it has to die for what it is. Now of course, if humans are uses to start a hunt, they tried to do it in a controlled environment and they try not to let the infestation get out of hand.
And lastly, I actually am curious as to where you got that one part of information on them allowing humanity too get ahold of some of their technology and use it to advance our kind. Because from everything I've seen so far, they would never allow their technology to fall into human hands. If it did, it was because we got lucky and scored. But besides that, they would often send predators to wipe out evidence of their kinds existence or technology just so that humans couldn't get it. This was often done when a predators is slain in battle by humans and failed to commit suicide by the explosive device on their wrist. Another reason for this was one predator failed in his hunt and was exiled for his failure on suicide was later called back to fix his mistake a hundred years later for in that timespan, the tech that the yaujta had left behind as he escaped allowed the humans to build better weapons and when other youngbloods and good veterans went to hunt on earth, they found themselves killed or capture at the hands of humans who had learned to combat them. The only times I can think when they willingly have tech to humans is when a human bested a predator in battle, they were often rewarded with a rare and exotic weapon from them. As I mentioned earlier , those that were taken to be trained to be human predators were often given there own armor and weapons. But yes, I'm am not aware that they would willingly allow us to take their tech and use it. So thank you for bringing.up those valid points. You were correct on most of it and you fixed what I meant to say about the honor. I'm glad we can have conversations like this without arguing.
2243359>>2242817 lol I never thought we would get into this kind of conversation on an Aliens/Xenomorph Fan fic. lol But its fine.
Aliens aren't stupid, and they aren't bloodthirsty killers, they do WHATEVER their queen orders, and if there's no queen and it somehow lost it's breeding instinct and has slight amnesia I would expect them to be intelligent. The queen is supposed to be as smart if not smarter then a human, but this isn't a queen and not much is said of the intelligence of the drones, though they are smart little fuckers in certain situations so they have to have SOME brain power.
Loving this story BTW.
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Aliens are monogender. If the queen is lost one can molt into the new queen.
In general aliens, seeing at they were bioengineered as weapons to kill humans, are very intelligent. The Queens have IQs above 200 on average and every alien can learn to operate machinery or use pretty advanced combat tactics like diversions, flanking, divide and conquer, and demoralization.
"They cut the power..."
"What do you mean they cut the power, how could they cut the power they're animals?!"
My favorite quote in the second movie. In aliens the Queen nested under the reactor because it knew that the marines wouldn't be allowed to use pulse rifles and smart guns in there, not to mention it was nice and warm. She could also operate the elevators and knew to hide in the landing gear of the drop ship to escape.
Honestly, i xeno in Equestria could learn to use all their tools since it's no where near as advanced as the marines.
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Also I have the answer to the food question.
The answer is they can live a long time without anything. If you've seen Prometheus and Aliens you know that both movies took place on LV426, Prometheus ended with a single xenomorph on a dead wasteland... first off that shows that they don't need air, because lv426 wasn't terrafarmed yet and they obviously don't really need food because the only thing on the planet was sand.
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I see why you think that. I think it is kind of ambiguous on purpose. Definitely with their relationship with humans on one hand as you said, they are respected as worthy and exceptional prey, but on the other hand how they helped us, and put responsibility in our hands, and are willing to side with and take humans under their wings suggests that we may be more than just prey to them.
No argument unnecessary, always good to see how another fan interprets the canon.
Oh they didn't really give us any of their tech, they may have, but it was mostly teaching how to build. Basically the canon reason why the Egyptians were so advanced is because the Yuajta helped.
2247572 Ah, now I remember that. Yes, the yautja had been visiting humanity since it's early days and helped some of the civilizations in building and life styles. They were worshipped as gods, but if I may point out this did not last forever obviously. They eventually, for unknown reasons, left the humans alone and went back to just hunting them. And for the part when I mentioned that some clans actually took humans to be trained, I also meant that it was rare. They had their rules and a status quo for hunting humans. When some clans decided to take some human who had proven itself worthy of a warrior, they would take them but this was seen as bizarre and unorthodox by the rest of the clans. The closest analogy I can think of is this. It was strange for them because it was like for us in ancient times when during colonial times or anytime really, when during the time of the slave trade, Africans were taken to be slaves but there were rare or uncommon occasions when people would free them and then reach them to be like them. The same thing was often done by others, like the Romans, the the Persians and several others. But just like them all, it was seen as strange, unusual or sometimes just plain wrong.
For example, one strong human female who had fought alongside several predators on a colony against an aliens infestation who was then taken later to become one of them often faced discrimination by other yaujta. Or at least one, the rest just ignored the fact she was human or were just impressed. Plus , that very same human despite the moral and teachings she had learned as a human suddenly found itself being challenged as the longer she was with them, the more she discovered that she loved to hunt. But her human ideals still clashed and she would later leave the clan when she found out that they were going to a human colony to hunt, you guessed it humans. But despite returning back to human civilization, she would later return because of the desire to hunt was simply too great. Yeah I got off way off topic there. Sorry about that. It was a good read.
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Yeah, I can't 100% explain why they stopped either, but I do know that they did hunt humans while they were helping them. Kind of like how many civilizations worshiped gods that required sacrifices.
If you ask me, my theory would be that the Yaujta left because someone dropped the ball when it came to raising Xeno morphs on earth and neither side would own the folly.
I know who you're talking about, but I can't remember her name.
2247178 Thanks!