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// Oh God Oh Frick, It's Some Huge AF Dragonflies! But First, Are We Alone? 
// Story: All Equestria's Tomorrows 
// by GodzillaSpino 
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The Heavenly Equines spread themselves across the galaxy like a girl's legs when she wants to commit the deed. I probably should've come up with a better and less dirty analogy, but a lot of people here are down bad, so why not take advantage of it?

This disperse around the galaxy didn't mean that separate civilizations formed. The big wrinklebrains were smort chads and knew that would probably cause an intergalactic war somehow. So through the use of radio, magic, and all that jazz, the separate colonies stayed in touch and made sure no one decided to split off or anything. Eventually, the people realized something. While they encountered extraterrestrial life, not once had they run into anything on levels of intelligence comparable to themselves. This made them wonder. Were we truly alone? Real good to see the people use that giant brain to use. That totally hasn't been used before somewhere else like this joke (AZFK be like).

One small discovery answered that equally little question.

You see, in this alternate timeline, dinosaurs did once exist in Equus and birds were a living offshoot of them, just like in our timeline. So imagine the surprise these equines had on their face when they discovered a derived spinosaur on one of the planets they colonized. And no, I'm not talking about a fossil. I'm talking a living, breathing population. By comparison, the creatures that dwelled in this planet had iron-based skeletons and seven limbs, contrasting the calcium skeleton and four limbs of this new critter.

(See, I'm original! The first one had a therizinosaur, and it was extinct (well, from what we can tell due to the vagueness of the text.)! Which was also derived....was also a theropod.....was also a dinosaur.....and was also a sign of wrinklebrain aliens......yeah, nevermind.)

A creature like this couldn't have just coincidentally evolved like that, especially considering the situation our equine friends had to consider. So, remembering the Centuries-Long Discussion, they began stockpiling weapons of mass destruction in fear of whatever would come, just in case the species was malevolent. How potent they were is better left unsaid because I am lazy and I'm writing this at 4 in the morning.

However, nothing could prepare anyone for the GIANT EVIL SPACE BUGS that were about to wreck their day.

The Qu were generally unchanged, as they hadn't had any relations to the ponies beforehand and therefore needed no bastardized pony equivalent. Basically, they were still glorified dragonflies with a tentacle on their butt.

These dragonfly-looking mofos were a billion years old, and were on a quest to genetically manipulate every echelon of the universe to their image. This behavior was rooted in a dogma that had benevolent intent but was taken WAY too seriously by the giant space arthropods (not really, but you get the idea), resulting in something comparable to the Crusades and medieval age Catholic Church. Deus vult, I guess.

Anyway, because these Qu dudes were much, much older than our interstellar ungulate friends and had more time to technologically advance, the Equines were just mere, annoying ants. So, naturally, they got pissed off when the Equines, harboring the same strong and stubborn independence of their pony and horse ancestors, gave them the figurative middle finger and defended themselves, as anyone would when giant prehistoric gene-manipulating space dragonflies ruin their day. However, within less than a thousand years, the Equines' attempts proved futile as the Qu quickly made their civilization commit the not alive. However, the Equines themselves were not given the heart-not-pump treatment. Rather, they faced a more gruesome fate.