FiM- WotW. · 10:14am Mar 14th, 2012
I've seen a few genre crossovers since entering this fandom. Sherlock Holmes, Fable, even Battletech. And yet I'm surprised that I've not seen anything resembling a crossover with one of my most favorite old Sci-fi stories of all time.
So here, I've written a scene from such a crossover. No ending, no beginning, just a simple one-shot scene. A glimpse of invasion through a pony's eyes.
The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one, she said...
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Twilight brushed up against the wooden wall, heart pounding in her chest as the being made footfalls across the floor. In even number of threes, just like the machines that they had arrived in.
Spike was gone. Applebloom was safe in the basement... for the moment at anyrate. Who knew where Applejack had gone. Right now, it was just the unicorn, this house... and one of the alien creatures that had invaded Equestria not days ago.
Princess, where ARE you?
And then it came into sight, the form causing the magician's heart to catch in her throat. It was quite large, about double the mass of an Earth pony stallion like Macintosh. It held itself aloft on a trio of tentacles, the ends splitting into fronds that were restless with writhing. The way that its limbs were bent, she could only assume that it was yet unused to the planet's gravity. The bulk of its body was large and bulbous, a crested ridge making up the rear of its 'torso' as it gazed around. It had a beak, like a gryphon, and yet totally unlike one, for it possessed no nostrils, and shone and quivered with a slickness like cartilage.
But most of all, were its eyes. It had two, the only thing remotely equine about this creature. But both eyes possessed a trio of pupils, their irises a constantly sifting blob of color, of a glowing, murderous red.
How could she tell? Easy. She was looking it right in the eye.
It had spotted her.
With a raucous shriek like some demonic macaw it lunged towards her, a mess of its tentacles coming up to grab at her. It was only thanks to reflexes that she dodged out of the way in time, her horn lighting up in order to grapple the creature.
Purple bonds appeared around its limbs. It was tripped up, and it fell to the floor with an indignant cry. The chance too good to pass up, Twilight trotted up to the creature's face and looked it in the eye again, hoping that none of its friends were also in the house. Her horn burned brighter as she opened her mouth, sending words telepathically into the creature's mind.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle. I am a unicorn pony, and citizen of Equestria, the nation you and your people have invaded. Why do you come in such malice and disregard for life? Why do you disregard the motions of peace my ponies have offered? What ARE you?"
It regarded her, unblinking, before she got a reply back in the telepathic frequency. What she got back however, sent her reeling in shock.
They were not words, or at least words that she didn't understand. But she gathered the general gist of its reply. It didn't care. Not for life, not for that of others, or even its own. Its kind was in need of resources. This land had plenty. The ponies were merely an obstacle... and a resource all their own. It had no concept of a soul, or 'friendship'. It had immense amounts of knowledge, but with only a single drive... the continuation of its species assured survival. A single neuron in a mass network of a brain, each linked by telepathy...
And they knew she was here.
The wall caved in as a massive hydraulic limb smashed it down, inches from where Twilight was standing. The monstrous tripod outside proceed to let loose a howl that roared like thunder.
"UUUULLAAAAA!!"
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OSHIT WAR OF THE WORLDS!
HIDE YO FILLIES, HIDE YO MARES AND HIDE YO STALLIONS, CUZ THEY BE TAKING EVERYPONY OUT HERE!
On a side note, when can we expect the next chapter of "On a Whisper of Wind" to be released?
YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, ULAA!
What really baffles me is that almost no one is trying to use good ideas from good science / social fiction.
Culture?
Noon Universe?
Nulapeiron?
Old man's war?
Damn it, I only know of one fic that mentioned germs compatibility. "An american dude in Equestria". And that's comedy with no traces of sci-fi in it.
And now we wait for them to die of the common cold
31960 Oho! I hadn't even thought of the germs compatibility thing! Whenever I get around to writing my technobabble-heavy fic, that will be in it.
Ah yes, the key risk of telepathic communication with a hive mind: You draw their attention. All of their attention. ALL OF IT.
31998 Oh, that's how they knew... I haven't read WotW in so long...
Maybe I will now
That was very good, by the way.
Twilight links to hive mind...and then links to Pinkie Pie
They will beg for death.
Dude you should do a full version of this, its really good
just two words....
Wicked cool
32185 Pinkie would take over...
And then she could throw a MILLION parties at ONCE.
AND NOTHING YOU DO CAN STOP HER.