//------------------------------// // Chapter 10: The Test Begins // Story: The Journey to the Xenomorph Temple // by sonicdash123 //------------------------------// Twilight and her friends including Cadence, Shining Armor, and Daring Do were playing a card at a table called Uno. The card face up on top of the other cards was a green ten. Cadence placed a green skip card to skip Rainbow Dash's turn then it was Twilight's turn. She placed a green reverse card on top of the card. Now it was Rainbow's turn. She puts her hoof on her chin to think a good move with her last two cards. "Uno!" Rainbow shouted as she placed a draw four card and chose a color that was in her hand, "blue." It was Cadence's turn and she threw down a blue one. It was then Shining Armor's turn and placed a blue zero. Pinkie placed a blue six during her turn. A couple of turns later, it was Rainbow's turn again. In her hoof was a green card and she looked at the number to make sure if she has the same number on her card. She then smiled and said after she placed the card, "I win." "You never loose, Rainbow," Applejack said. Charming Thunder entered the room while Twilight levitated the cards back in the box. "The doctor said that the Facehugger is asleep," Charming Thunder said as he placed the test tube in the pillar in the room they were staying in the castle. "We are going to hatch this egg tomorrow morning." "Well," Pinkie Pie said she then yawned and said, "Don't you think that it is time for bed?" "Yeah," Daring Do replied. "I'm getting tired, too." "Everypony can go to bed. I'll be up in a second," Charming Thunder said as he was walking to a couch to sit at. "Good night." --------------------- A few minutes later, everyone was asleep upstairs. Rarity however came downstairs to make sure if Charming Thunder is okay. When she got downstairs, she saw Charming Thunder asleep on the couch. "Oh, Charming Thunder." Rarity whispered to herself. "Why does everypony sometimes sleep without a blanket. Ponies can't get some warmth without one." She then levitated a blue blanket over Charming Thunder so that he can be warm. She then walked up to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek like how she would say good night to her sister Sweetie Belle. "Good night, Charming Thunder," Rarity whispered while heading back upstairs to bed. "Tomorrow is going to be a great day for your greatest discovery." Rarity continued to walk upstairs so that she can get some more sleep and prepare for tomorrow morning. "I wish that you lived with me," she said silently to herself as she went back to bed. --------------------- Ponies gathered around the stable which was set up in the middle of the castle courtyard. Celestia, Luna, and Charming Thunder were the first three ponies to step on stage. Luna stepped up and gave an announcement, "Mares and gentlecolts, we are gathered here today for my nephew's greatest discovery and we have-" Luna stopped when she heard a familiar voice. "I know you have one of my Changelings," Queen Chrysalis said. She was similar to a Changeling except that she is a queen and that she has teal mane and tail, blue-green chitinous plating over her midsection, and she wears a small, black crown tipped with blue orbs to represent herself as the queen of the Changelings. "I demand that you give that Changeling back to me this instance." Guards came and surrounded the queen to make sure that she doesn't get in Charming Thunder's way. Charming Thunder clapped his hooves and the doors opened to reveal two guards with the Changeling in chains to make sure it doesn't fly away or run away. They proceeded to the stable to place the Changeling on a table and chained it on. "Queen Chrysalis," Charming Thunder said as he approached the queen. "You are just in time for my little experiment." "What experiment?" the queen asked angrily. "You'll see," Charming Thunder replied. He then levitated a scroll which he needs to read to explain the experiment. "Fillies and Gentlecolts, you are about to experience a greatest discovery when me and my new friends dicovered the temple of the Xenomorph." Everyone gasped in a happily way. "I give you the egg of the Xenomorph." He levitated the curtain of the test tube off to reveal the egg. "This egg contains the Facehugger which will go on the victims face and lay an egg inside it. This Changeling has been found guilty for the crime for invading Canterlot weeks ago." He looked away the scroll and continued. "The sentence...death." Queen Chrysalis struggled to go through the guards that are blocking her way but they keep pushing her back. Charming Thunder opened the tube, grabbed the Changeling, make it look at the egg to wake up the Facehugger. "Aunt Celestia and Luna, we need to stand back for this," Charming Thunder said while the guards connected the chained legs to the ground and his neck to the tube so that his face could stay where it is for the Facehugger to jump on its face. The egg started to shake as a sign that the creature in the egg is about to come out. It stopped shacking and the egg opened like how a flower would bloom. It's skeletal hands popped out of the egg to reveal itself and then using its agility, it did a leap like a frog and attached itself on the Changelings face. Its spine like tail wrapped its neck so that it can lay its egg inside of the victim. The Changeling muffled a little bit. When the guards came to remove the chains, the Changeling collapsed to the ground on its side. "Take him to the lab," Charming Thunder said to one of the guards. "and make sure you have him chained to the wall." The guard nodded in a reply and dragged the Changeling away into the castle. Hopefully its the matter of time when the Facehugger gets off of the victims face for the start of the third stage of transformation. "Oh and one more thing," Charming Thunder said as the guards stopped. "If the Facehugger is off of its face come and tell me." The guards then continued to walk into the castle. The doors were then slammed shut and everyone then went back to town going back to what they were doing.