It was another quiet afternoon in Ponyville, with residents once again winding down for the night, the sun was getting low on the horizon and Fluttershy was, as usual, making her way back to her cottage, with a cluster of animals at her side ,when she heard rustling through the trees. Which seemed to be more than just the odd gust of wind.
"Hello, is anypony out there?" She asked with a meek tone. The noises got closer, and closer, and closer, at last, a dark humanoid entity burst out of the forest, crossing the path about 40 yards from her.
"Oh, William, it's you, don't sneak up on me like that-" The being let out a low shriek, and ran across the road.
"Wait! Where are you going!?" She galloped over to the treeline, to find it already gone.
"Oh well, he probably isn't in the best mood right now." She continued on her way, unbeknownst to her, what she had just seen wasn't William, in fact, it wasn't even human. The entire town was in for a night they would never, ever forget.
"Damn, it's been 2 whole day's, and I still don't find this thing boring in the slightest." William thought to himself as he slung his MG 68 over his shoulder, patrolling the edge of town. So far, this day had been like any other day for him, consisting of waking up, eating breakfast, and then heading out into the Everfree for what he had labeled as 'recreational violence' after that, he'd usually head back into town, tall with his friend, then head off to Twilight's school of friendship, give the students there a few lessons of common sense, and life tips, albeit, being sure to never reveal too much to them, he had a policy of keeping the Equestrian as much in the dark as possible when it came to himself, he could. It was about this time when he heard the familiar sound of wing flaps. He turned to look behind him, and found Joey and Rainbow Dash.
"So, what've ya got for me?" He asked with mock enthusiasm.
"Well, not much." Said Rainbow," One thing, why did you jumpscare Fluttershy earlier?" William was taken back by this.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I mean, it was you, right?" William facepalmed"
"No, I haven't seen her all day. You sure it wasn't just a lost timber wolf?"
"I just talked with her, said it looked like you, just without your armor, it was wearing a hoddie." Added Joey.
"Well, you know me, I've never been much for civilian clothing, which means-" William stopped for a moment, and clenched his fist.
"What?"
"There's another human in Equestria."
"What?" Joey asked.
"We ended up here, it clearly didn't stop with us, who ever this person is, we need to find them before they 'break' anything."
"What do you mean by that?" Questioned Rainbow. "You destroy things all the time."
"You sure have, on my last fly over the castle of the 2 sisters, the area around it looked like a warzone."
"Not that kind of damage morons, it's that I don't need another helpless retard to babysit, Joey's an exception because he's an alicorn, and plus, what happens if they somehow make it back to earth without our help? The last thing I want is the governments of earth knowing about all of...this." He gestured to the sky.
"I see your point, so, how do we find them?"
"Well, that's simple, just find their footprints, and follow them 'till we catch them, then, we simply have Twilight wipe their memory, destroy whatever evidence they have of this place, and send 'em back home, there, done."
"You sure?" Joey asked.
"Yes."
"Let's go then." William followed the 2 to the spot were Fluttershy had claimed to have spotted the being, William studied the ground.
"Huh."
"What, is it someone you know?" They both asked.
"No! It's that these are footprints, not shoeprints."
"...Meaning?"
"Meaning, that either this person likes walking around barefooted, they don't have shoes, or..."
"Or what?"
"It isn't a person. Anyway, lets keep going, the tracks continue here. "He plunged into the brush, only to walk out a minute later.
"Yeah, they're gone, track disappear 'bout 20 yards into the trees."
"What now?" They both asked.
"Well, you can fly, means you can cover more ground than me." He watched as the sun set in the Distance. With the moon rising in it's place as usual.
"Keep looking, I'm off to bed, I'll let you know if anyone come's a'knocking on my door." He walked away, leaving the 2 ponies alone in the darkness.
"You in for night time flight?" Rainbow asked, turning to Joey.
"Yes, plus, I'd really like to meet another human that isn't an antisocial-gun toting maniac after all this time, it's getting a little old." Rainbow gave him a slight nod of understanding, and the 2 took off into the night sky.
William sat in his bedroom, all alone, casually sipping his coffee all while blasting heavy metal through his laptop. He had had a long day, and this was a way for him to relax. On his bed lay dozens of firearms, all of various sizes and types. One by one, he disassembled, and reassembled them, falling into a sort of rhythm as he did.
"Hmm, I wonder how Joey's doing? Eh, best not to worry about that, humans later, guns now!" His enthusiasm was interrupted when he heard banging coming from his backyard window, he immediately knew, or at least, thought he knew what it was. Slowly, he pushed himself off the bed, a Glock 19 appeared in his hand, loaded with armor piercing- tracer rounds, and sporting a red dot sight on top, as well as a flashlight mounted to it's underside. As he left the bedroom, his pace quickened out of instinct. He advanced down his stair case, to his back door, he made it to the door peered though the window, nothing. As he turned away from it, he heard another knock, this one was clearly made by a hand, not a hoof. He swung the door open, to find nothing there, except the darkness, and the pale glowing of the night sky. As William stepped outside, he suddenly say something rush out of the dark treeline, heading for him. As it got closer, he noticed that it was indeed a hand, although not a human one by any means, it was long, bleached white with elongated claws. The suddenness of it all made him freeze for a second. That soon faded when his adrenaline kicked in, just as the grotesque claw began wrap around him.
"Screw you!" He firmly set his Glock against the appendage, and fired twice. Grinning in satisfaction as the claw retracted back away from him, he heard a shrill roar of pain in the distance, but he wasn't about to let whatever this thing was get off easy. He pulled out a bayonet, and jumped for it's long claw, grabbing on to hit with all his might, he buried the bayonet of his M4A1 carbine into it's treelike arm, and held down on the trigger, sending a 5 round burst into it. He held it down with his right foot, and pulled out a Bowie knife, stabbing it again, and again, and again. Resulting in more roars and shrieks of pain from the woods. Until, finally, whatever it was managed to get it's appendage away from him.
"I'm gonna cut out your living guts, and use them... to grease the treads of my...Soon to be Abrams tank!!!!" He yelled out in between breaths.
"That was the most fun I've had in my entire time here!" He added, pausing to admire his own sick sense of humor, he whipped around, a rushed back inside his house. Locking the door behind him. For the moment, he had gotten the better of the strange creature, Joey and Rainbow, were just about to discover it's true nature.
"Hey, Joey, question, why is William so...William?" Rainbow asked Joey as the 2 of them flew over the forests just outside of Ponyville.
"Eh, how am I supposed to know that? It's not like I can read his mind. Who knows what's going on inside of there." He responded. As he looked back down at the endless expanse of woodland, something cought his eye, a being, just as Fluttershy had described it, hoddie and all.
"There it is!" The 2 of them flew down, landing about 15 yards away, in a patch of bushes.
"Now, careful, we don't want to scare them, we have to let them know we're not a threat." Joey told her.
"I got a bad feeling about this, what kind of human would be out in the woods alone at this hour?"
"I don't know, let's go find out." Joey trotted out from behind the bushes, and approached the being.
"Uh, hello there, are you ok? My name's Joey, I-I don't want to hurt you-" The beings turned to look at Joey, more specifically, it's head turned to look at Joey, rotating 180 degrees, to reveal a distinctly inhuman face. A pair of black, beady eyes, and a long, mouth, locked in a malicious grin.
"Uh, you're not a human." Joey said nervously, backing away. The being's twisted grin grew smaller, as it began to grow in size. The mock sweater and jeans disappeared, replaced by a long, thin, slender body, and tall, freakishly disproportionate legs. It continued growing in size, until it had reached a height of about 20 feet,. It's small yet, disturbing white body towering over the trees, it's head looked down at Joey, drooping it down, it began to twitch uncontrollably.
"Oh ponyfeathers, uh, RD, time to go!!!" He flapped his wings, shooting into the air, his gaze fixed on the abnormal monstrosity below him. It twisted it's neck around to look at him, and began reaching for him with it's long and disproportionate arms, Joey jerked his forelegs away before it could grab them, and flew up further. He turned to see Rainbow, with an equally perplexed and terrified look on her face, as the 2 off them flew off toward Ponyville, they could hear roaring behind them, alongside the rustling of the tree's.
"What in Celestia's name was that!?" Rainbow cried out.
"I have no idea, just keep flying!" The terrain below them turned to meadow, and the shining lights of Ponyville came into sight. Joey looked behind them, to see the creature break through the treeline behind them.
"You get Twilight, I'll get Will-" Joey was cut off when something flew past him, slamming into the abomination below, the resulting blast wave sent a cloud of dust into the air. He turned back to see the shadowy form of William standing at the edge of town, with a Javelin anti tank guided missile launcher in hand, wisps of smoke emanating from it's barrel.
"You're welcome!" He could hear him shout in the distance. William slung the weapon over is shoulder, and ran for the crater which the rocket had made. He came to a stop at the carcass of the monster, and kicked it a few times.
"It's dead!" Joey flew down, landing next to him, shuddering as he stared at the disfigured, mutilated corpse.
"Ugh, thank you so much."
"Hey, what happened!?" Joey turned to find all of the six, rushing for him in the darkness.
"There was somethin' stalkin' around ma barn!" Said applejack.
"There was something fumbling around in my kitchen. "Pinkie shouted.
"Something was trying to grab the students!" Exclaimed Twilight. The entire group came to a screeching halt when they cought sight of the corpse.
"What in Tartarus is that thing!?" They all collectively asked. William calmly turned around, and responded.
"This, is the ####er that's been causing all that commotion around town, tried to grab me right off my back porch, well, it's dead now!" He kicked it one more time to prove his point. This time, it's body shifted slightly.
"Not quiet dead." He drew a flamethrower, and lit it ablaze. "Have the fire ponies clean this thing up for me."
"There it is!" Discord appeared before the group, stopping for a moment to take a long, hard look at the flaming carcass on the ground.
"Explain." William demanded.
"So anyway, as I've said before, I'm big into your world's pop culture, and..."
"Spit it out."
"I summoned a monster created by a human named Trevor Henderson! Please don't kill me, it was an accident!"
"Are you kidding me?" William asked in disbelief.
"No, unfortunately I am not."
"Never, ever, for the love of all Equestria, ever do that again, it that understood!?" Discord swallowed hard.
"Yes." William dusted off his glove clad hands.
"My work here is done, see you all tomorrow morning." He walked away, the slowly dying flames casting long shadows alongside his shiloette as he walked away, he let out a single, blood curdling laugh into the night. leaving Joey, Discord, Spike, the six, Starlight Glimmer, and the rest of Ponyville wondering, who had been the real danger. The monster, or William?