Rhett & Link Eat Equestria

by toxiconym


Chapter 2

Rhett & Link woke up on the grass, facing the starry night sky. Crickets chirped and birds sang, while a cool breeze ran through their hair. They were in some sort of clearing, facing a small town with funny-looking houses with hay for a roof. The windows were circular, and the paths weren't paved. There were street lights here and there, but if you looked closer you'd realize the lamps didn't run on electricity, rather they ran on fireflies.

Link stood up and sat down on the grass. On his right, Rhett had done the same.

"Hey Rhett?"

Rhett turned his head to look at Link. "Yes, Link?"

"Are you gonna eat that?" Link ate a patch of grass next to Rhett, as music came out of... seemingly nowhere.
"Are you gonna eat that?" Rhett picked up a firefly near Link's face and plucked it into his mouth, exaggerating his chewing by moving his jaw up and down in circular motions.

"Are you gonna eat that?" Link stood up and walked next to a tree dangerously close to what seemed to be a cottage, and reached up for one of the branches. He split the branch in half, and bit into the smaller half.

"Are you gonna eat that?" Rhett picked up one of the rocks near the cottage, and threw it at one of the windows on the cottage. A surprised, highly feminime voice shrieked inside it, but Rhett ignored it as he went inside. He found a small songbird sitting on a pole next to the door, and shoved it into his mouth. A yellow pegasus with a pink mane hurried down the stairs, but stopped upon seeing the giant ape-like creatures in her home, one of them with a few feathers sticking out of his mouth.

"Are you gonna eat that?" Link twisted his head vertically and looked at the pegasus. She screamed and ran backwards through the door. Link caught up to her, took the carrot that she was somehow holding in her hooves and shoved it into his mouth, stem and all. The pegasi's eyes rolled back into her head and she slumped down onto the ground.

Both Rhett & Link walked out of the cottage, staring out into the wide town. Most of the houses were about as tall as they were, and it's inhabitants about a quarter of their size. They walked into the town, broke into a house, and yelled "Are you gonna eat that"?

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Twilight Sparkle layed on her side on the bed. She kept her wings close to her, and hugged her Smarty Pants doll as she slept soundly.

Except what was really happening, was that the Smarty Pants doll had been torn in half, the bedsheets were strewn across the room, and Twilight was practically doing somersaults on the bed from her constant rustling.

She couldn't get what happened earlier in the night out of her head. She looked over to Spike's basket on the edge of her bed, he sucked his thumb with a blanket neatly covering his scales, and was curled in a baby position. Twilight sighed, resting her head on the edge of the bed for a moment before getting up and silently walking to the door. Well, as silent as you can get with hooves, anyway.

She opened the door, walked down the hallway, and out into the balcony. The night's cool, crisp wind softened her mane as she looked out at the moon. Judging by its position, she deduced it was only a few hours until dawn. "Why do things never go as planned in Ponyville? Nightmare Moon, Princess Luna, Trixie... our plans always fail, and we keep having to fall back on the elements," she pondered. "I have the uneasy feeling that blinding light earlier was the start of another mistake," she looked down at the floor, sighing internally. However, when her gaze met the town around her, all seemed nice and quiet. There were no immediate signs of anything out of place.

After a few minutes, all of the lights in Rarity's boutique suddenly turned on.

"Huh." Twilight thought. "How'd she turn all the lights on at once?"

Her confusion was interrupted by an unnecessarily dramatic screech, and when she turned around to find its source she discovered that she was looking right at it. Rarity's door slammed open and Twilight raised her brow at a maniacally screaming white unicorn rolling around at the speed of sound in front of a tree roughly 350 meters from the shop. Her horn flared up, and she teleported next to the panting Rarity.

After a quick noise-reducing spell reflectively magicked after hearing Rarity's wails, Twilight leaned her neck down and said "Rarity! What's the matter?," Her thoughts quickly turning to the blinding light. Knowing Ponyville's radical history, it wasn't too far-fetched for it to be the source of the problem.

Rarity didn't respond. Since she just kept bawling on the floor, Twilight rolled her eyes and walked up to see what the problem was for herself.

You see, that's the thing. She didn't see any problems, but that's because she didn't see anything. The inside of the boutique had completely vanished, and nothing was left but rubble. Twilight had no idea why Rarity had rocks or cement in her room that could break down into rubble, but she cast a spell that checked for any living signatures. If a monster had raided Rarity's home, Twilight would find out which monster it was, and where it would go next.

The spell took effort, but Twilight had been long since using that spell, and cast it without any problems. Unless you counted what the results were.

The creatures that she saw, there were two of them, she had never seen before. A hoof fled to her mouth as she tried to contain her gasp, her eyes lighting in wonder. There was a new species in Ponyville!

Summoning a quill and ink, Twilight ran off with her horn leading the way for wherever the two creatures would be headed next.