//------------------------------// // Arrival of more enemies // Story: The person from the devastated lands. // by Green-Venom //------------------------------// Charlie was lying in his sleeping, recovering from a mining trip from the day prior. He still hadn’t found any iron. *BOUM!* Charlie looked up, blinking the sleep out of his eyes. “Explosive ghoul?“ he guessed, slightly annoyed. “Affirmative.“ HAL-1 said, stumbling in to the base. He had some dents and his lense was cracked but he was fine overall. “The ghoul attacks are getting more frequently.“ the devaster realized. “This is the 3 one this week.“ “The ponies are having the same problem. They are currently building a wall around their village.“ Lapy said. “I can’t believe that we’re building a wall around our village...“ Rarity said, looking at the workers that where assembling the construction. Multiple guards where there, keeping an eye on the Everfree forest, the place where the monsters had come from. “True.“ Applejack replied, standing next to her. “We never had problems with monsters, at last not at this scale, and suddenly we have there... things. Lapy called them Ghouls if ah remember correctly?“ “That’s correct darling. He said that they where from the place he come from. I was shocked at first when he killed that one on the market place, but now that i seen what they can do I can actually understand his motivation back then...“ “Does Twilight already know more about what’s going on?“ “Not really... Now that there are so many Ghouls running around, she decided that it might be better to not go back to his house. She’s currently waiting for him to come to us, but he’s quite busy himself.“ “At last the wall‘s almost done. That way we can sleep safely again.“ “True. Those things seem to get stronger at night.“ she shuddered. “It’s almost as if black magic is involved, even trough Twilight already confirmed that that’s not the case...“ “Princess Celestia is currently trying to keep the Ghouls hidden from the press to avoid mass panic, but it can’t be kept hidden forever... What do yah think will happen once the public finds out?“ “It might go well since they currently only showed up in the Everfree forest.“ “Let’s hope it stays that way.“ “Don’t be so negativ. Even if they would, we can deal with them. We always do. We’re not dealing with some major supervillain after all, but with some monsters that got lost in the wrong world.“ Somewhere in the Everfree forest. A glitch was floating in the air, humming softly. The numbers around it where constantly switching around the pixel vortex. Suddenly it rippled, and an entity stumbled trough. It was completely black with the exception of its blood-red eyes. It looked up from under his leather jacket, before picking up the AK-47 it dropped. “Strange place.“ he mumbled. “But clean... Wonder if there’s anything of interest here.“ He started looking around, noticing the glitch behind him. “Need to prevent that from closing on me.“ He took a stick placing it in a way that it was halfway trough. “That should work for now...“ He continued it’s walk trough the forest, making sure that he remembered the way back to the glitch. On it’s way he spotting some animals and sometimes even monsters, but they all avoided him. “Could get used to that…“ he said with a snicker. After a while he left the forest, arriving on a field. He looked around and suddenly picked up a sound. A humming to be precise. When he peaked trough the undergrowth he saw something rather strange. It was a dark blue harbevor that was collecting flowers for some reason, putting them in a basket. It looked around regularly, clearly nervous. Then it suddenly spoke. “OK, I need to calm down. Twilight said that the ghouls are only dangerous at night, and very slow at day, meaning that i can escape them easily if i see them. She’s princess Celesta‘s student, she won’t make mistakes… right?“ “It can talk? Interesting…“ he thought. “OK, i should have enough.“ the equine said. “Poor Daisy, Lily and Rose... They’re way to afraid to collect flowers themselves with all these ghouls running around. Well, I’m happy to help them.“ “Oh, ghouls are not that bad…“ the unknown entity said, stepping out of the undergrowth. “There are other things that you should worry about.“ The mare whirled around spotting him, and her eyes went wide. A moment later she had dropped the basket and was running away as fast as she could. The entity‘s hunting instincts kicked in, and he draw his AK to kill the fleeing mare, but he stopped himself. He still wanted to know more about what she was and where the glitch had brought him. “Stop right there!“ he shouted, firing a warning shot at her legs instead. Blood splashed to the ground, and the mare collapsed with a scream of agony. “Only one bullet and already down?“ the entity though surprised. ““I never seen something so weak and fragile before.““ A smile crept on to his lips. “I like that…“ “Please, don’t kill me.“ the mare begged, “I didn’t do anything to you.“ “Don’t worry, i won’t kill you jet. What are you by the way? I never seen a being like you before…“ “I’m a p-pony.“ “Pony? Where you you come from.“ “From P-ponyville. Please don’t k-kill me…“ “Ponyville?“ The entity chuckled. “Funny name. I assume that more ponies live there?“ She carefully nodded. “That’s great. If your kind isn’t that rare i don’t need to bring you with me for research.“ “R-really?“ she asked, a hint of hope in her voice. Maybe she would be able to get out of this after all. “Yes.“ the entity replied, before an evil grin appeared on his lips, before he suddenly pointed his weapon at the injured pony. “Now let’s see what you drop…“ The mares eyes went wide in horror, and she desperately tried to crawl away. “SOMEPONY HEE-“ *PANG!* Charlie snapped out of his sleep with a panicked expression. He had a bad omen, a subconscious feeling of danger, something he hadn’t had in a long time, but he still knew exactly what it was. “Are you ok?“ Lapy asked him with a worried tone. “No…“ he replied, pulling open a mental map. He still hoped that he was wrong, but the lingering feeling was still there, pointing him to a specific location on the map. “ Scavenger…“