//------------------------------// // The Drill And The Jackhammer // Story: Monsters Out Of Place // by funky108108 //------------------------------// Monsters Out Of Place: Chapter Four: The Drill And The Jackhammer. An Agnaktor was looking over his young, after that glowing beast had mercilessly punched his mate to death he had nothing but his young to call his own. they had recently spotted that glowing monster out in the Uragaans nest, driving it out, so now they had two monsters about who would be more than likely to kill them given the chance, but the Agnaktor wasn’t about to let that happen, not when he had an uroktor to look after. The Uroktor was learning the ropes on how to hunt independently, it had just managed to kill a melynx before a loud explosion came from the Uragaans nest, it had tried to reclaim its nest, but by the sound of it, to no avail, there was a triumphant cry of victory from the area, the Agnaktor called back its young and follow it underground, but the uroktor was too distracted by eating the newly killed melynx, it called louder, and louder but then, out of the blue, the glowing beast leapt onto the Uroktor, its ebony skin reflecting the lava around it, the most notable feature would be its horn and fists, after all, most brute wyverns had short, stubby arms, it then continued to punch the young Agnaktors beak, parts of it flying everywhere, the adult Agnaktor let out a cry of rage, it had spent so long with that Uroktor, its only family. It leapt into the ground, tunnelled underneath the glowing monster, and shot out again, drilling its beak into the monsters underside, revealing its muscle tissue, the beast glowed a bight yellow and roared in anguish, before punching the hardened skin of the Agnaktor at first the beast thought nothing of it, and continued to dig under the ground, reveal its top half and fire a heat beam from its mouth, but just as it did so, the slime that was left on Agnaktor after the punch exploded, making the laser fly everywhere, even damaging its own tail, It eventually stopped firing, giving the glowing ‘thing’ enough time to stick its horn in the ground and let off explosions surrounding it, Making the Agnaktor fling itself out of the ground, and giving an opportunity for the glowing monster to leap on the Agnaktor, and start pummelling it in the chest, making it jerk violently in place, before the glowing one reared back, pulled its fist with it, and finished it with one last punch, shattering its beak into thousands of pieces, blood came running after them. The glowing monster lifted its head up in the air and let out a guttural roar, shaking the earth it stood on, unbeknownst the it, a red mist escaped the neck of the Agnaktor and rose up into the air. Ponyville, Golden oaks Library, lobby. On a sofa in the at the side of the room, two sets of eyes quickly opened, one pair belonging to a large, dark orange unicorn, his mane was a mix of orange and red, almost resembling a live flame, his eyes were a bright red, to match his mane. The other set of eyes belonged to a smaller unicorn filly, her coat was a dark red, brown colour, the mane was a brighter red, not quite as bright as her counterpart, but still pretty red, her eyes were a very bright orange, almost verging on a dark white colour. The larger one sat up from his position, and observed his surroundings in the morning sunlight that was creeping in through gaps in the walls, and transparent walls?, it looked to be the inside of a hollowed out tree, they were scarce in the volcano, but whenever Agnaktor went outside the boiling spot, he saw what his mother called ‘trees’, but more to the point, there were tons of pieces of paper bound together by a thick substance. The smaller unicorn shot up with a gasp, this was not right, where was her beak? Why did she have fur? Had her claws been cut of? But the most important question lingered in her mind, where was she, and where was her father? She looked around the room and she locked eye with a larger being of the same shape, was this her father? There was only one way to find out, she would have to communicate, but how? She opened her mouth, instead of the usual clicks there came another, unusual sound “h-hello?” how did she do that! How did she understand that, more to the point, the larger one made another sound, one that she recognised… as her name? “U-Uroktor? Is that you?!” the large pony stuttered, he then stumbled over to her and embraced her in a hug “it’s me! Agnaktor! I thought you were dead…” he got up from the hug “how are we even talking to each other? It seems odd, but weirdly familiar” he then looked around again “I don’t know where we are, but it seems… nice, calm compared to the volcano” Just then, there came a voice from beside them “ah! Hello, your finally awake, I wondered when you’d wake up. It seems like forever” the mare was a light violet colour, her ‘mane’ (at least that’s what he Agnaktor assumed it was, from his limited knowledge in equines) was done up in bangs, with a dark violet streak going down it “my name is Twilight Sparkle, I found you passed out near the town square in the rain, can I just ask you two for your names and where you live?” she looked at the two ponies inquisitively. Agnaktor reared back from the sudden appearance of 'twilight', but she seemed to pose no threat to him or his child “well, my name is Agnaktor, and this is my daughter; uroktor” he pointed a hoof at the smaller mare “and, well… we’re a long way from home, that’s for sure” Twilight looked at the two sympathetically “well, you’re always welcome to stay here until you earn some money and rent a flat or something” she looked out of the window “but for now we need to introduce to the ponies around Ponyville, and saying that, the first thing we need to do is introduce you to my friends, and seeing as I need to check up on some stuff at sweet apple acres, you can come with me so I can show you to Applejack” the large colt struggled to get up to his hooves, but being used to having four legs helped him with walking, eventually they started to head towards the orchard “ooh! Whilst we’re going there, I could pick up some supplies from Pinkie!” the three ponies walked down road that led to the proclaimed ‘sugar cube corner’. As they arrived, Twilight opened the door to the bakery, the sweet scent of cupcakes, pastries and… burning? Slid through the door and into their noses, Twilight chuckled before calling for pinkie “Pinkie? What did you burn this time?” a voice came from the kitchen. “I’ll be one sec Blos, my friend needs to talk to me, just clean that up, I’ll be back before you can say HI TWILIGHT!” Twilight was greeted by a face full of pink mane, which could only belong to Pinkie “sorry ‘bout that, just training up a new baker, showing her the rope ’n’ stuff, would you believe me if I said that she had amnesia? Well she does! Her name’s Diablos Hammer! Also, I found her in my kitchen, crazy right? But then we took her to the hospital, and then we got her head stitched up, and then we-” pinkies mouth was covered by Twilights hoof “yes Pinkie, we get it, anyhow, have you thrown a party yet?” pinkie shook her head “well, you need to get on that then!” at this point, Agnaktor interjected. “umm did you say Diablos? Would it be all right if I saw her?” Agnaktor did sometimes go outside the volcano, however, only to the nearby desert, whilst he was visiting, he met a horned monster, one of few monsters that could communicate with each other, they talked for awhile, shared life experiences, apart from his mate and child, she was his only friend. Pinkie nodded and showed him to the bakery, where a sandy brown pony was cleaning up some sort of burned cake of the floor, god knows how it got there. “hello? Diablos?” the pony jumped, being shocked by the sudden presence “umm, I don’t suppose you ever met anyone called Agnaktor did you?” the attempt was futile, but it was worth trying to find someone that could remind him of home. “Agnaktor?! How do you-” she gasped at the sudden realisation “Agnaktor! How did you get here!?” Agnaktor grinned “I knew it was you! It was a hunch, but a good one at that! I wonder if anyone else got transported here with us?” Agnaktor just sighed “I’m not sure though, if we could find someone who does know however, maybe we could also find a way back home?” just at that moment the two ponies stepped in through the doors, pinkie spoke up first. “well, you two do know each other! I’ll have to throw a double welcome to Ponyville party! There’ll be cake, streamers, party poppers, cake… did I say cake already?” pinkie calmed down slightly after her outburst “well, how about it? Tomorrow night, at applejacks barn?” Just then a small, red unicorn walked through the door Pinkie gasped “you had a kid?! Why didn’t you tell me! We can have a triple welcome to Ponyville party!” she then struck a pose in front of the bewildered guests “bake all the cakes!” she then got to baking so fast that no one could keep up with her. “um, Pinkie? We came here to buy cakes for the meteor shower tonight, remember?” pinkie stopped baking and ran up to Twilight “uh-huh! Pick a cake, any cake!” Twilight considered carefully before she realised that there were going to be lots of ponies there, including the three newcomers “umm, I think that one of each should be enough” Pinkie grabbed a box, and put roughly twenty cupcakes in “that should be enough for tonight, oh! Nah, I don’t want your money, after all, the amount of times that you’ve saved us is more than enough to pay” she smiled warmly to Twilight who took up the offer, and the cupcakes “thanks pinkie, we’ll see you up at the hill tonight, ok?” pinkie nodded at the group “oh! And would it be all right if Diablos came with us? So that she and Agnaktor can catch up with each other?” Pinkie laughed gleefully “of course! By the sound of it, they haven’t seen each other for a while, I’d be more than happy to let them socialise!” at this point, Diablos shakily picked herself up from the floor and joined the other three ponies. “thanks pinkie, I really appreciate it” she smiled at pinkie who returned the gesture, the band of four walked out into the busy streets of Ponyville, Uroktor, balanced precariously on the back of Agnaktor. “so, we’re going up to see my other friend, Applejack, so we can arrange drinks for the stargazing” she smiled before looking at the others questioning faces “oh? You’ve never been stargazing have you? Well it’s just observing the constellations in the stars, but tonight, a meteor shower is predicted, so us and a few friends are going to go and, well, gaze, really” the others nodded in unison before the small red unicorn spoke up. “so, we’re going to go and see meteors? Is there any chance that any of them could hit us?” she hid behind her fathers mane, Twilight chuckled “of course not, there too far away!” then Agnaktor spoke “although Twilight, we used to live in a hostile environment near an active volcano, which constantly spewed out meteors all the time, sometimes hitting our village, so she has to get adapted to the fact that not all places can kill” the small red pony got up from her fathers back and trotted along side them “so no, there wont be anything able to hurt us” she smiled, hearing the assertiveness in his fathers voice. The band of ponies walked and talked until they reached the barn that belonged to Twilights friend, who was, at the present, hitting a tree with her back hooves “Howdy Twi!” she nodded at the group “and who’ve ya’ brought with ya’?” Twilight took this as her time to talk. “well, this is Diablos” she pointed a hoof at the sandy coloured pony, who in turn, nodded “this is Agnaktor and his daughter Uroktor” she pointed a hoof at the two, standing side by side “they are going to be watching the meteor shower with us, and I was wondering if you could supply the drinks for tonight’s shower?” The Stetson wearing pony nodded “sure! She noticed that none of the new ponies had cutie marks “so tell me, I can understand why ya’ fill ain’t got a cutie mark yet, but why haven’t you?” from the time that they spent talking, Diablos had learnt that a pony earns his or her cutie mark by achieving your destiny, a sign of maturity, if you will, so she had the perfect excuse. “well, where we’re from, ponies don’t earn there cutie marks, it’s very hard to at least, the only one who did, was our village chief who had his in protecting the village from a monster attack” the Stetson wearing pony seemed to be happy with this answer. “ah, that explains a lot then thank ya’ kindly” she then turned back to Twilight “anyway, about the drinks, I can get us some alcoholic cider, some apple juice, and ah might even be able to bring some apple fritters, sound okay to you?” Twilight smiled at her friends “I should think so, see you up at the hill okay?” they said there goodbyes, and headed up to Twilights house to pick up someone, or something, called ‘Spike’, Diablos and Agnaktor talked endlessly, Uroktor would join the conversation occasionally, but fell asleep shortly after . “so, how did you get here in the first place? I got into a nasty fight with a ‘Jho, tore my horn off, half of my head with it, and then I just, well I don’t really know, appeared? Yeah, that’s just about all I know so far, you?” Agnaktor looked at the small figure on his back. “well, I was teaching Uroktor the ropes of hunting for herself, that was before this glowing thing leapt out of nowhere! Absolutely uncalled for, I tried to protect her but the beast was just too powerful, I managed to scar it, but then it just hit me in the beak, the strange thing is, its fists had some sort of sticky substance on it, which exploded in about fifteen seconds upon impact, making it so my heat beam went everywhere! I even managed to hit myself, it then continued to punch me to death, so we both somehow appeared here, no rhyme or reason to it , just did” the group finally arrived at the massive tree that was home to the golden oaks library. Twilight trotted in through the door and looked around “Spike! We’re back! Are you ready for the shower?” a small purple dragon like creature tumbled down the stairway and landed on his head, it righted itself and sighed. “Yeah, I’ve baked all the cookies, and packed all the stuff” “even my tele-” Spike laughed a little “ yes, even your telescope” he looked over at the other three ponies “well hey! You finally woke up!” spike chirped “yeah” she pointed at Diablos “this is Diablos Hammer” she pointed her other hoof at the other two ponies next her “and this is Agnaktor and Uroktor” the three ponies nodded in turn of there names. “well, I guess it’s time to go, come on spike” the four figures made their way out of the library and started to walk up to the hill where they would watch the shower. Eventually, after a while, the group reached the top of the hill, they were greeted by a group of other ponies, three of which the newcomers had never seen before, Twilight spoke up first “Hello girls! I suppose most of you have already met the three newcomers, but for those that haven’t I would like to introduce to Diablos hammer, Agnaktor and Uroktor” she pointed at them in turn, A white unicorn with a violet coloured mane spoke up first. “well, hello darlings, it’s a pleasure to meet you all” she smiled at the three sincerely. “’sup, welcome to Ponyville” a cyan pony with feathered wings waved her hoof absently. “um” a cream coloured pony fidgeted in place “uhh” the three newcomers looked at the pony quizzically “hi…” Twilight laughed nervously. “uh yeah, she’s Fluttershy, she can be a bit on the timid side” she then pointed her hoof towards the other two ponies “and that’s Rarity and Rainbow Dash” she looked over the ponies around her “ are we all ready for the meteor shower? It should be starting any moment now” every pony in the area looked up at the deep black abyss that was the night sky, that was then illuminated by the flare like stars that were shooting across the sky, this achieved many a gasp, but t hen, one of them seemed… off course, it was smaller than the others, but as it was going across the sky, it seemed to get closer and closer every second, the ponies all seemed to notice that it was dead set on landing on the spot they were stargazing on, every pony jumped out of the way of the impact of the meteorite. After the impact a large cloud of dust escaped from the crater the meteor left, inside which, a ponies figure lay, motionless on the rough ground, every pony gasped, the three newcomers looked at each other. Maybe they could get some answers?