Chapter 3
A New Threat
Inside the Ponyville General Hospital, A group of nurse ponies and doctor ponies were busy examining the creature that Rainbow Dash brought into town earlier. It was like nothing they ever seen, most of the cuts the creature had already healed completely and the green jewel on its head never came off. They were baffled that such a creature could exist. They continued examining it, and took some blood and fur samples for further study.
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Fluttershy and Hope tried to get in to see the creature but none of the hospital staff would let them through, claiming that the creature had to stay in quarantine. Hope was a little disappointed that she couldn't see the creature and left with a sad look on her face.
"Perhaps we could see it tomorrow." Fluttershy said to Hope. Hope's face lit up a little and she smiled. They went back to the cottage for the rest of the day, and Hope had a hard time falling asleep because she was so exited about tomorrow. Fluttershy told her not to get her hope's up to high though as they might not be allowed to see the creature. With that Fluttershy went to bed and fell asleep.
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Rainbow Dash had a hard time sleeping that night, as something kept bothering her. She tossed and turned in her sleep as a horrible scene was playing in her mind.
It looked like she was seeing through someone elses eyes as her body felt different. She stood on two legs and had hands and feet instead of hooves. She was running from something and all around her she saw death and distruction. She was running through a metal hallway as explosions hit left and right. She kept running until a monster with a snake like head and body had appeared right in front of her. She rammed right through the creature as she continued running. She then came to a door and she put her hand on the keypad and punched in some numbers. As the door opened she was impailed on the side of her gut, she turned around to see a black cloaked, hooded figure, who was holding what looked like a sword. She punched the figure sending it flying against a wall and pulled the sword out of her side and threw it away. She limped into the room. Inside the room were metallic spheres lining the walls. She went up to one and opened what looked like a door and went inside. She pushed a red button and an alarm rang in the distance as the sphere was shot out into space. An explosion went of and shook the sphere and her head was banged against the side.
Rainbow Dash woke up in a cold sweat, panting loudly. Never in her life did she have a dream like that. Her right leg was burning and the mark on it was glowing.
"What the hay did that thing do to me." She said to no one in particular. 'Tomorrow I will get to the bottom of this' she thought as she laid back down. Surprizingly no more nightmares came that night as she fell into a deep sleep.
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Pinkie Pie was having trouble sleeping. Ever since her Pinky sense told her that something bad is going to happen she has been desperately trying to figure out what it was. It didn't dampen her spirits, though it did affect the way she worked. Most of the day has been one mishap after another down in the kitchen. Mostly due to her Pinky sense acting up. The feeling of something terrible coming to ponyville still bothered her. 'I should tell twilight tomorrow, she would know what to do' she thought to herself. With that in mind she fell asleep.
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Down in the everfree two spear like objects fell from the sky and into the ground with a loud bang. Debris and dust scattered through the air as woodland creatures ran from the impact sight. The spears stood erect from the ground. On both spears near the top was a red gem like crystal that seemed to be fashioned into a single eye. The two spears shook as metallic arms with long blades at the end tore away from the middle. Legs appeared beneath them as the two robots came to life. The head was just a round circle with the red gem in the middle. Their body's were a dark purple color and they hummed to life as they crawled out of the ground. They looked around and made small beeping noises as they communicated with each other. A small howl came from the right as a pack of five timber wolves came out in the moonlight. They were not happy with the metallic intruders. One of the robots looked at them as its eye started to glow. Just then a long red laser beam shot out and crawled along the ground towards the wolves. They let out pained yelps as they cought fire and exploded. One of the wolves was still alive and badly burnt. It was in the fetal position and shaking. The two robots walked towards their helpless prey as they made clanking noises with each step they took. The other robot lifted its blade like hand and brought it down hard on the timber wolf's skull shattering it. The two robots looked at their handy work and continued walking, heading in the direction of ponyville.
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Down in ponyville hospital the creature that Rainbow Dash brought in woke up with a jolt. It looked around the room and spotted an open window. It got up and went towards it and proceeded to jump out. It landed with a thud on the ground and started running into the night with no clear destination in mind.