//------------------------------// // Chapter 21: The Tall One // Story: The Dalek Invasion // by the ghost //------------------------------// Chapter 21: The Tall One. Dalek Lez was burning his way through the Everfree Forest. “BURN EVERTHING.” Lez had told his subordinates. “WE OBEY.” Said the daleks. They swapped their death beams for flamethrowers and began burning a ashy white path through the forest. Lez was enjoying this. He had five thousand troops, including himself, under his control and no Zek telling him what to do. Zek would probably have told him to avoid burning the family of rabbits. But Lez didn’t care, he burned them alive like he burned the rest of the forest. Yes it was good to be the leader. They had run into timber wolfs, a manticore, and a very flamboyant dragon, but they had proven not to be a problem for the daleks. They would exterminate anything and everything that crossed their paths. The toughest challenge for them so far had been the hydra. It had destroyed two daleks before Lez dealt with it himself. Finally they came to a peculiar group of trees. The trees were short and stubby with oil black bark and had a strange yellow fruit hanging on them. When they burned they let off a screaming sound. “WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT THESE TREES?” Asked one of the daleks. “SAME AS WHAT WE DID WITH THE REST OF THEM.” Said Lez. “BURN THEM.” The daleks went to work burning the trees. The trees let out a piecing scream that shook the daleks to their very core. Ordinarily Lez liked to hear screams. But these screams. These screams were different. They made Lez feel sick in side. As the trees burned their fruits fell and splattered their juice on the barren ground. The juice was red like blood. After the trees had stopped burning and the screaming had quieted down the daleks stood around waiting for Lez to give them an order. “ADVANCE.” Commanded Lez. The daleks advanced forward through the clearing they had just made. Getting the blood red juice from the trees all over their metallic bodies. Lez looked to the right and thought he saw something moving just out of his range of vision. But again he dismissed it as part of his imagination. *** Rainbow Dash tried to pull the magic knife out of the corpse of the dalek she had just killed. No luck. The blade had completely fused itself with the dalek. “No luck huh?” said Pinkie Pie. “Well don’t worry Dashie there are plenty of other knifes out there. Plastic knifes, butter knifes, carving knifes. Oh and spoons! there are lots of spoons too! For example—“ “No Pinkie you don’t understand, Princess Celestia gave me that spoon, I mean knife.” Said Dash. “It’s one of four magical knifes the colts in black use to stun dragons. She’s going to kill be when she finds out it’s broken.” “We don’t have time to worry about that right now.” Said Twilight putting Rarity onto her back. Twilight had been unable to remove the mind control helmet from Rarity. It was beyond Twilight’s power. They would have to ask the princess to do it latter. We have to get back to Canterlot before the daleks do.” Said Twilight. “The quickest way to Canterlot, since the train is probably not running, is through the Everfree forest so that’s the way we’re going to take. The daleks may have gone through there as well but as long as we don’t meet up with them we should be fine.” “T-the Everfree Forest? “ Said Fluttershy. “Oh come on. Said Rainbow Dash. “Haven’t you got over your fears of the forest yet Fluttershy? I mean it’s right next to your house you know.” “Yeah but…” said Fluttershy. “Lets go Everypony.” Said Twilight “There is no time to lose.” The group started to gallop into the Everfree Forest trailed by Fluttershy with Pinkie Pie. Fluttershy kept looking in all directions frightened. “Hey I know a way to get you mind off you fear.” Said Pinkie Pie. “Lets sing a song.” A happy familiar tune begins to play. Who can make a mind think some scary thoughts? 
Make us so afraid that we dare not connect the dots? The Slender Mane (Slender Mane)
 Oh, the Slender Mane can! 
The Slender Mane can cause he makes us live with fear and makes the world paranoid. 
Who can take a thought, make it disappear? 
Replace it with a terrifying, heart-stopping fear?

The Slender Mane (Slender Mane) Oh, the Slender Manee can!
The Slender Manee can cause he makes us live with fear and makes the world paranoid. The Slender Mane seems to haunt us in our dreams, He's otherworldly and malicious.
 He'll take up all our hopes and wishes, And eat them all like gourmet dishes. (Mmm, delicious!) Who can take tomorrow, infuse a little fear? 
Rake up all our sanity, then make it disappear?

 The Slender Mane (Slender Mane) Oh, the Slender Mane can! The Slender Mane can cause he makes us live with fear and makes us all paranoid. The Slender Mane seems to haunt us in our dreams, He's otherworldly and malicious. He'll take up all our hopes and wishes, Then eat them all like gourmet dishes. Who can take tomorrow, infuse a little fear? He'll take our sanity, and then he'll make it disappear? The Slender Mane (Slender Mane) 
Oh, the Slender Mane can! The Slender Mane can cause he makes us live with fear and makes us all paranoid. The Slender Mane can cause he makes us live with fear and makes the world paranoid.

Yeah, the Slender Mane can cause he makes us live with fear and makes the world paranoid.

 Yeah, the Slender Mane! (x8) “Feel better Fluttershy?” Asked Pinkie Pie all full energy. “Pinkie… that didn’t make me feel better at all” said Fluttershy. *** “Dalek Lez come in.” Said Dalek Zek over the radio. Nothing, but static. That was weird Lez almost always had his radio turned on. “Dalek Lez you will respond.” More static. “Lez are you there?” Static”…ALERT ALERT WE ARE….” Static again. That was Lez's signal he sounded... panicked? “Dalek Lez, can you repeat, what is you status?” asked Zek MOST OF THE TROOPS ARE DEAD… THEIR………….. I AM THE ONLY ONE LEFT………………………………….PLEASE MAKE IT STO………………………………………… “What is it Lez?” What attacked you? How many are there?” “…ONE…” “ONE? ONE CREATURE DESTROYED FIVE THOUSAND DALEKS?” Asked Zek confused as to what could do something like that. TALL VERY TALL……………… NOT NORMAL…….. NO FACE…………………… THE TREES………………….OH GOD IT”S BACK. “WHAT IS BACK LEZ?” asked Zek. “OH GOD NO NO NO! AAAHHHHHHHHHH…….HHHHH………HH…………….HHHHH……….HHH………………………H……H…………H……………H………………………………………………………………………..!” The radio was completely static. Lez? Lez are you all right? Static was the only answer. “Lez respond… please?” A few seconds went by until suddenly the radio stopped transmitting static. “WHy ArE LiTtLe FiLlYiEs AfRaId Of ThE dArK?” Said a voice. It sounded like Lez, but somehow different. “Lez?” Questioned Zek. “It’S bEcAuSe I cAn FiNd ThEm In ThE dArK.” Then the radio went crazy with static and despite his efforts Zek couldn’t get Lez on the radio again. He turned off the radio. *** “Please stop singing about him Pinkie Pie your going to make him appear.” Said Fluttershy. “Don’t be silly Fluttershy. Slender Mane is just an old ponies tale. Nothing like that has ever been seen in the Everfree forest before.” Said Twilight. “That’s because the ponies that go in don’t come back.” Said Rainbow Dash in her spookiest voice. Fluttershy was shivering. “Don’t let them scare you like that Fluttershy.” Said Twilight. “I-I’m not scared of what their doing. I’m s-scare of that.” She pointed to the scene behind Twilight. The mane six turned around and were astonished at what they saw. This section of the forest was littered with dalek corpses. Some were impaled on tree branches. Others where smashed open on rocks, other where torn in half exposing their soft bodies their bodies that hung as if on noses from the trees. “W-w-what happened here?” Said Twilight. Fluttershy almost fainted. “That’s just gross” Said Applejack looking at one of the daleks that was torn in half. Rarity twitched in her sleep as if she could sense the grossness. “What could have done this?” “Oh oh I know, it had to be the Slender Mane” Pinkie didn’t seem to be bothered by all the blood. “That’s just silly Pinkie theirs no such thing as Slender Mane.” Said Twilight. She turned around and saw the tree that until a few seconds ago was blank. On the tree trunk was a word written in dalek blood. LEZ WAS WARNED NOW HE IS HALLOWED YOU ARE NEXT “You know I think we should get out of here.” Said Twilight. The rest of the ponies nodded in agreement and ran off. Not even looking back when they felt themselves being watched.