//------------------------------// // 10: KILLDOZER, Part 1 // Story: Uncle Nic-fit's Drunken Story Time // by Nic-Fit //------------------------------// KILLDOZER Twilight tracked the shooting star as it flew across the sky. Another pro of having a telescope this huuuge. She keenly watched as it streacked across the navy blue expanse, it was very very pretty. Aloughy something seemed off about it. It suddenly hit her; it was'nt streaking off, it was burning up! It had fully entered the atmosphere and was leaving a trail behind. Only the trail didn't stop, it kept going, which meant that the object hadn't been destroyed ! Spying where the shooting star should have landed, Twilight galloped off to find it. Science awaits! By her reckoning, the comet should have landed a few hundrend meters south of the old castle in the Everfree. Armed with only a few scientific instruments, she made her way to the castle as fast as possible. Fighting her way through manticores and all that assorted bollocks, she found herslef at the old castle of the twpo sisters. She knew that from here, the crater should be a little bit south, so she turned and searched. The forest was, as always, a dense mess of undergrowth and vines that made the journtey a fucking bitch, but she eventually made it. The crater was huge, and the force of the imepact created a clearing in theo forest. Twilight tentativley aproache d the hole in the ground, still glowing from heat. 'Thats not right.' she thought 'It shoudl be freezing cold.' Approaching the crater, she peeked inside. It was not what she was expecting. Inside of the hole was a great yellow...thing. It was a massive rectangular looking object, with an enormous scoop on the front, an odd box with a seat on the back, and several wheels surrounded by a...track...tracks?...underneith. Fucking weird, right? Twilight apporached te object, slowly, taking care to not fall down into the hole. This object was clearly not natural. No two ways about it, she was looking at a UFO. "Incrdible!" sHE said to nopony inparticula.r Adding to the mystery, he item appeared to have surviverd re-entry compleatly unscathed, and looked to be in pristine condition. At least, she assumed so anyway, haveing never seen one of...these...before. Oh, and it was glowing. Not a magical glow, either, Twilight would've noticed if it was. No, it was somethign different. There was something off about this whole thing. The object gave off a signal, a familiar one. It wasn't adark magic, but ot was pretty close to dark magic';s signaure. She got a feeling that this wasn't somethint that she should be trifling with. Not alone, anyway. This, however, presented a prblem. Twilight knew that she couldn't deal with this alone. She'd have to go and get help, probably from the princesses. But she'd left Spike back in Ponyville, so the only way she would be able to contact them would be to go back there. But if she left this thing unattended, ther was a chance, as mall one, but still a chance, that somepmony else might find it, and who knows what would happen then? She attempted to pick it up with her magic. No dice, this thing was heavy. Grittin her teeth, she tried again, pumping more energy ino her horn. Again, nothing, this thing weighed an ass load. 'One more try' she told herslef. She scruched her face in concentration. A second aura appeared over her horn,and she broke into a sweat. The thing lifted mere inches off the ground, and then Twilight's magic cut out. She'd reache her limit. As the object fell back to the ground, so did she, panting and covered in sweat. "Theres...huff...got to...huff...be ano-another way" She said, heavily breathing. Laying in the clearing, the only sound she could hear was her own breathing. It was odd, the animals werent' even makinf any noises. They'd probably all been scared off by the fuck-off massive boom this thing mustve made when it hit the ground. She perked her ears up to try and hear if anything was nearby. She could hear nothing all around. Except...except there was something. Something quiet, faint and rythmic. Swivelling her ears around, she located the source of the faint noise. It was coming from the space object. Twilight pushed herself to her hooves and went over to investigate. She gingerly stepped over the mouth of the crater, and gracefully tripped and slid down the side until she was face to fa- uh, scoop, with the thing. She could hear it louder now, it was still faint, but it was much more notucalbe. It seemed to be coming from the scoop-bit itself. There was definetly something, she could hear a rythm, and a voice! She pressed her ear up to the scoop, the object having apparently cooled down quite a bit. As she did so the noise suddenly became deafeningly loud. In a panic, she tried to pull herself away from it, but her body wouldn't respond, she was stuck! There was a big flash, and a huge wave of not-magic eminated from the thing. And then Twilight knew. An unsettling smile graced Twilight's face, her now-red eyes intesnifying the effect. She knew. Twilight trotted around the the back of the bulldozer- it was called a bulldozer- and climbed up into the cab. She knew exactly what to do. Starting the monster of a machine, she laughed manically as the engine let out a roar and the bulldozer pulled itself up out of the crater. She turned it back to face the way she came and began to plow through the treees. She had to get back to Ponyville. She had to start working.