"Twilight, you should really go to bed soon." Spike yawned as he opened the door to the patio where Twilight was sitting. "It's getting late."
"Yes Spike, I'm just thinking about what happened back in that bog." Twilight muttered.
"You mean when Church got almost eaten by the hydra?"
"No. After that we were attacked by a manticore, so to confuse it Pinkie went with Derpy one way and I took Caboose a different way. It decided to follow us, but something changed in Caboose once he saw its tail..."
"Changed?" Spike asked as he scratched his head. "What do you mean he changed?"
"His features darkened and his voice became extremely deep."
"That's what you're worried about?" Spike chuckled lightly. "So his looks changed, that isn't something to get worked up about."
"No, that was just the start. After he changed he started to attack the manticore. Every time he got hit, he just shrugged it off, laughed, and went back in for more. After a few hits the manticore grabbed him and flew up into the air with him, while he just laughed the entire time. And that laugh..." Twilight shivered viciously. "There was something evil in that laugh of his. I'm going to have to ask Pinkie to keep her eye on him."
"Do you think he got possessed?" Spike asked nervously.
"Don't be silly Spike. There has to be a logical explanation for it..." Suddenly the sky lit up as it was streaked with the white lines of hundreds of stars.
"That was tonight?" Twilight asked as she ran inside her room. "Spike, where did you put my telescope?"
"I didn't touch it." Spike grunted as he went back inside.
Twilight quickly re-emerged with a telescope and placed it on the banister. She looked through it and began to watch the flurry of stars, which now filled the sky.
"I completely forgot about tonight with all that has been going on..." Twilight said regretfully.
One of the stars then fell out of the sky and crashed into the ground.
"Oh dear." Twilight gasped as a pillar of dust shot upwards. "I hope nopony was in the vicinity of that..."
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A lone unicorn was sitting on a bridge over the stream, watching the stars that lit up the sky.
"It's beautiful..." The pony gawked at the beautiful display. "I feel like I can just touch the stars..."
One star caught her eye, as it did not shoot across the sky, but rather slowly started to expand. The ponies eyes shot open when she realized that the star was shooting right towards her. She jumped to her feet and jumped off the bridge and into the stream. After a few seconds she crawled up the bank and shook most of the water off. She looked up to see a cloud of dust surrounding the landing area.
"My goodness..." The pony said quietly as the dust began to fall down.
Once the dust had settled, she approached the edge of the crater and looked into it to catch a glimpse of the star. But what was inside was not a star, but was a seven foot long figure. The pony blinked, confused by what she saw, believing it to be a statue until it groaned, causing the pony to yelp and fall on her flank. She blinked and went back up to the crater. The figure slowly started to get to on it's hind legs and began to shake.
"H-hello?" The pony asked.
The figure slowly looked up and wiped the dirt off of its body, revealing a light blue, metallic skin. The figure then jumped up to the edge of the crater, landing a few feet away from the unicorn.
"What happened?" The figure asked quietly.
"Y-you fell from the sky and landed h-here." The unicorn said as she motioned towards the large crater.
"Oh." The figure coughed.
The figure looked down at her leg, which appeared to be fine, but it knew that it had been broken on impact.
"Are you alright?" The unicorn asked quietly.
"I just fell from the sky and broke my leg, do you think I'm alright?"
"S-sorry." The unicorn said quietly. "Are you an alien?"
"I guess you could say that." The figure said, extending her hand up to the unicorn. "My name is Carolina. What's yours?"
"I'm Aqua Dew." The unicorn said with a shaky smile, as she shook Carolina's hand. "Do you think you'll be okay?"
"I've had worse." Carolina shrugged as she took off her helmet, allowing her crimson red hair to fall to her shoulders. "Are you from around here?"
"Yes, why?"
"I'm looking for someone, maybe you can help me."
"I would love to. Who are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for someone, who is wearing stuff just like me."
"Sorry, but I haven't seen anypony that looks like you. But maybe I've heard of him, what's his name?"
"He has a lot of names. Alpha, Epsilon, Church..."
"Sorry, none of those ring any bells."
Carolina darted towards Aqua Dew, grabbed her by the horn and, with a flick of the wrist, snapped it off. Aqua Dew let out a yelp and started to scream. Carolina's free hand darted to the pony’s mouth, stifling the screams. Soon the pain became too much for Aqua Dew to bear and she fell to the ground, unconscious.
"That's a shame." Carolina said quietly. Carolina sat on the ground and started to feel her leg. She felt a sharp pain as she touched her ankle. "Dammit."
Carolina looked at the horn in her hand and began to slowly examine it.
"How am I going to find him when my foot is broken..." Carolina groaned.
Suddenly, the horn began to glow bright blue and a beam shot towards her ankle. Carolina instinctively threw the horn away from her. She stared at it silently for a few seconds before getting to her feet once again. Her eyes snapped to her ankle in surprise when no pain accompanied the action. She slowly walked up to the horn and picked it up.
"What the hell is this thing?" Carolina asked herself.
She slowly turned and faced towards the town and pointed the horn at the bridge. She focused on it and a ball shot out of the tip of the horn and blew up the bridge. Carolina held herself back and smiled at the horn before putting her helmet back on.
"I'm coming for you Alpha." Carolina said as she tightened her grip on the horn. "And I'm going to kill anything that gets in my way."