//------------------------------// // T-Rex Intruders // Story: The Lost World: Jurassic Pony // by mistercokehold8 //------------------------------// It would be several more minutes before Goliath noticed something different about the group walking through the jungle. Making a head count, he noticed somepony had gone missing. “Hold up!” He ordered. The group took this as a sign of another break. Putting his weapon over his shoulder, the griffon moved over to Bloody’s partner, who too was noticing the pony wasn’t here. “When did you last see him?” Goliath asked sternly, his cold eyes looking deep into the pony. “About ten….fifteen minutes.” By now the group was listening in. Goliath thought for a moment before making a decision. “You come with me.” He said to Bloody’s partner. “And you.” He motioned to the pony next to him. “If he’s alive we’ll find him.” Then the griffon turned to the group. “You lot continue on. In ten minutes you’ll reach the ridge. Wait for us there.” As he lead the two ponies away, he stopped in front of Rarity and Fluttershy. “No one tells the little girl alright?” The two mares looked at him before nodding. The last thing Anypony wanted was a panic. Goliath turned to his little group and walked off into the jungle. “Alright!” Blueblood stood up, trying to take charge. “Let’s move on.” To his irritation not one pony or griffon stood up to listen to the prince. “Everybody up. Come on! Up up up!” Big Macintosh stood up. “Okay fellas, let’s get out of here.” The group of survivors then retrieved their gears and began down the trail once more. It appeared everyone here has had enough of Blueblood. Point Blank followed behind the group, his rifle in hand as he kept his eye out. Something just felt wrong to him. Celestia’s sun lowered beyond the horizon as Luna’s crescent moon took to the skies. The ridge was a good enough area for camp for the evening. Before any arguments could happen, it was decided the only tent they had left would go to the ladies of the group. Everyone else was gonna be sleeping out under the stars. Sleeping bags scattered the ground as the survivors snoozed on into the night. Only three ponies lay awake: Point Blank, Applejack and Fluttershy. The two mares couldn’t sleep while Point was lookout for the evening. The pony in question held his rifle out as he eyeballed the woods. He heard what he thought sounded like twigs snapping as he turned to the brush, seeing figures appear into the camp. “Goliath…” He said quietly, lowering his weapon. Applejack and Fluttershy joined Point Blank as they approached the griffon. Goliath dismissed his two partners as they wasted no time finding a spot to sleep. Picking a log to sit on, Point Blank handed the griffon a canteen of water. “Did you find him?” Applejack asked as the griffon drank away. “Only the parts they didn’t like.” He responded grimly, pulling out his flashlights. “Map.” His close hunting friends pulled out the map from his saddle bag. “Hold this please.” The griffon passed his flashlight to Fluttershy as the four looked over the map. “The operations building is right now in there.” Goliath said, pointing a talon on the map. “About a mile and a half from the base of these cliffs.” “How do you know that?” Fluttershy asked curious. “I’ve seen them.” Goliath answered. The griffon had no problem with the group of ponies they took in, minus Big Mac. He knew they were all in the same boat now. “The climb down won’t be easy….we’ll let them sleep for about one more hours, then we hit it.” The griffon took his flashlight back, handing the map over to Point Blank before looking for a spot for look out. The two mares and close friends rubbed their sleepy eyes before trotting off towards the tent. “Think it’ll be much longer till we can go home?” Fluttershy asked. “At this rate it won’t. Just gotta keep moving forward, one hoof ahead of the other.” Applejack said. “Applejack….what are we gonna do about this when we get home? Scorch sent us out here to help get evidence to protect the island. We haven’t gotten one thing yet.” “Aw it’s alright Fluttershy. We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. Right now let’s try to get some-“ *Thump* “…….shut eye.” The two mares froze in their place, hoping they didn’t feel what they just felt. “Ma-ma-maybe it was our imaginat-a-ation?” The shy pegasus stuttered in fear. The two stood their ground as they waited. After several moments nothing else happened. “Let’s get back to the-“ *Thump* There was no mistaking it that time. The two looked into a puddle of water from the recent rain, looking at the eerie rings that formed. Inside the tent Tree Hugger, Rarity and Babs slept peacefully until a rumble woke the naturalist pony up. There wasn’t any chance that it could’ve been… *Thump* Tree Hugger rolled to her side and glanced up. Her neck scarf was dangling on the wire, still covered in the infant Rex’s blood. “…..oh no….” She whispered in horror, putting two and two together. She quietly turned to her side and gently began to shake Rarity. “Rarity…..please wake up!” The mare quietly hissed. “Five more minutes darling….” The unicorn moaned. *Thump* Rarity sat up quickly at the rumble, looking at Tree Hugger alarmed. The two then quickly, yet quietly, began hiding anything that might attract what was coming their way. Any of the snack items, clothing, anything like that was hidden away. For good measure Rarity used her magic to turn off the lantern. The two mares froze in fear as a large shadow passed over the outside of the tent. As Applejack and Fluttershy looked on in petrified horror, one of the T-Rex’s slowly bent down, letting out a small growl, sniffing and snorting the flaps of the tent. Tree Hugger and Rarity tried to stay perfectly still on the chance the Rex grew bored and wandered off, but slowly the Rex pushed its muzzle into the tent, sniffing the bloody scarf Tree Hugger left hanging. The Rex began sniffing the sleeping bags the three mares were hiding in. Rarity began to whimpering quietly, this being the closest she’s ever come to one of the beast. The grows the creature made slowly woke Babs up from her slumber. “What is that?” The filly asked sleepily, peering over her shoulder. Before she could open her mouth to scream Rarity and Tree Hugger pressed a hoof over her mouth, holding another one up to their lips, telling her to shush. Thankfully the Rex had yet to hear the three. The older mares took their hooves off the filly, Babs trying to hold in the tears she felt forming. She has never been so scared before in her life. The Rex sniffed the bags again, its teeth now simply mere inches from the group. Outside Fluttershy and Applejack looked on, never feeling so helpless before in their lives. Out of the corner of her eye the pegasus saw one of the hunters slowly beginning to stir from his sleep. Shaking her head at him, the hunter turned towards the tent, and then opened his mouth to scream loudly. Around him the sleeping hunters woke up, rising to their hooves in fear and panic at the sight of the T-Rex’s in their camp. “No no no! Stay down! Don’t move! Don’t move!” Applejack said loudly. “Don’t run!” Somepony ran right through Applejack and Fluttershy, knocking the two mares to the ground and out of sight of the Rex’s. At the sound of screaming the Rex stood straight up, yanking the tent with it before letting out a mighty roar. Big Mac hurried over and helped the three ponies up. “Don’t look! Just run! Run!” He said loudly pushing the three along as they ran off with the other hunters. Goliath came to the scene with his weapon in tow. Sure enough the male Rex was here as well. The griffon took aim and pulled the trigger. *click* Goliath opened his gun and found two spent bullet shells in the barrel. “Bastard!” He knew who was behind this. As the hunters ran up the game trail in blind panic, the female Rex gave chase, not bothering to run at full speed knowing full well it could catch her prey at any moment. Babs was held close to Big Mac as he, Rarity and Tree Hugger glanced back at the Rex drawing every so closer. The hunters turned the corner of the trail and ran right past a water fall. In the progress one hunter was knocked over, before being stepped on by the T-Rex giving chase, dragging the poor pony along like gum stuck to a shoe. After several steps, the pony came loose before what was left of him floated in a puddle. Back at the camp Goliath was not gonna let this opportunity go to waste. The bullets for his weapon might’ve been spent, but he had a plan B. Pulling out the special rifle, he carefully unloaded the darts that was used for bullets. Once the dart struck its target, a special fluid in the dart would knock them out. The griffon loaded a dart into the rifle, before placing on in his teeth on the off chance the first dart missed, or flat out didn’t work. Then he carefully and silently made his way through the brush in the direction of the Male Tyrannosaur. The dinosaur was drinking water from the puddles left in the camp, and had no clue it was being watched until Goliath aimed the rifle and pulled the trigger. Feeling the prick of the dart, it roared out and spotted the griffon down below who was hurrying and loading another dart into the rifle as the Rex stomped towards its prey….. The hunters ran blindly past the waterfall until it was only Big Mac, Rarity, Babs, Tree Hugger and last hunter Book Smarts. Babs tripped over a rock left on the path, thankfully being helped up by Book. “In there!” Big Mac led the group right through the waterfall, into a cave located behind it. However instead of losing the T-Rex chasing them, it simply tried to follow them, sticking its head through the water and roaring at its prey. The ponies screamed out, trying to press themselves further against the cave wall. “Can’t get us can you?!” Big Mac yelled at the dinosaur, placing himself in front of the mares and hunter. “It can’t get us!” The Rex let out its tongue; disturbing Rarity and Tree Hugger as it ran it tongue along their chest. Book Smart panted, until he noticed something slimy slithering on his back. “Snake! Snake! Get it off me!” The pony began thrashing about in a panic. The others tried to grab him as he thrashed towards the open mouthed T-Rex. “STAY BACK!!!” Tree Hugger screamed as the Rex bit down on one of the ponies hooves. Book began to scream loudly, thrashing about as the rex dragged the pony out and lifted him above the water fall. A loud munch was heard as the water began to run crimson red. Rarity looked at the sight in absolute terror, Tree Hugger sobbing quietly, unable to look at the sight. Babs clung to her older cousin as tight as she could. “It’s alright its ok.” Big Mac said to the filly, who was shaking in pure fear as a growl filled the cave. “It’s comin’ back!!!!” The ponies began screaming, but to their surprise Applejack and Fluttershy came bursting through the waterfall, having searched madly for the group. “Applejack!!!” Babs threw herself around the southern mare. The pony held the filly close at Fluttershy threw herself around Rarity and Tree Hugger. Applejack then threw a spare hoof around her brother, pulling him in for a hug. “Thank you….” Applejack panted, thankful her brother took the liberty to protect her friends.