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// Chapter 7 
// Story: Ponetheus 
// by Shadowpony0071 
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Twilight was thinking, while eating, about the events that had taken place. She was studying the footage of the holographic projections of the aliens running and taping an audio diary. "I keep wondering. Was there an outbreak?" She said to herself. Faint walked into her chambers and noticed her recording. "What are you doing?" he asked her
"I'm studying"
"Your always studying"
"I know but I think I'm trying to find something important---" She noticed he had a flower "What is that?" She asked slightly annoyed
"This is a rose. That I had frozen with the ship and I was gonna give it to you if we found what we were looking for"
Twilight grinned "We did find what we were looking for." She started on what they had found only to be interrupted by Faint again "The most significant discovery in the history of ponykind" He said nodding "Oh I know" Faint put the rose on Twilights desk. "But don't you wanna know why they came? Why they abandoned us?"
"We have the answers" Twilight said before giving him into a short kiss "Look" She said pulling out a small glass tablet. She tapped it a few times and it showed the DNA match. "They're DNA pre-dates ours" Twilight says "We come from them"
"Ok" Faint laughed "They made us"
"But who made them" Twilight said jokingly.
"We will never know" Faint realized something


"Alright so Spike said its to the west." Rainbow Dash said to her two friends that were with her "So let's go in the opposite direction." Fluttershy and Applejack nodded and they turned around and started walking "What the buck" Applejack said, nervously. The group walked and eventually got to the chamber with the face. They walked around the chamber which was now flooded with black goo due to the canisters opening. "Uhh whats all this black stuff?" Rainbow Dash asked. "	Hey you think this was a god?" The mare asked pointing to the face with her hoof "That they worshipped?" Fluttershy who was standing idly saw something moving in the goo. She jumped "Whats that!?" She hid behind Rainbow. Applejack was the first to respond "Alright stay calm girls..." Some snake like thing with a round head slithered out of the goo. "Hello..." Applejack said getting closer to it. "To Ponetheus, we have some sort of snake type of creature here. 40 inches I think... Transparent skin..." She crouches in front of it and it hissed. She fell back "Woah!" She recovered and put her hoof near it. "S'okay..." She said trying to remain calm. It then opened its facial flaps and its mouth with little sharp teeth and hissed. She continued trying to get her hoof near it calmly only to be scared of once again. Then it bit her hoof and stuck to it. Applejack screamed in pain. "Help!" She cried. When Rainbow got close the thing rapped itself along Applejacks leg and squeezed. She screamed "GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!" The thing continued to squeeze and brook her leg while Rainbow Dash desperately tried to get it off. When she got the head cut off acid sprayed onto her helmets visor and burned through it, burning her skin. She grabbed it in pain and fell into the goo causing her head to melt. Meanwhile the other part of the snake still on Applejack regrew its head and got into her suit and went into her mouth, choking her. Fluttershy watched in horror, weeping. She was paralyzed with fear.

Faint Heart looked in the mirror in the morning. He saw something in his eye which was now red. He looked close and pulled it down. What he saw almost gave him a heart attack. In his eye, there was a small tentacle wiggling about.