Ponyville Police Department

by Omega6047


21. Apex Predator

--Chapter 21--
Apex Predator

Revan brought his sword down as he run through the darkness of Everfree forest, cutting his way through the bushes and branches. In the corner of his eye, he noticed a little white bunny, running away with his badge held in mouth. Immediately he doubled his efforts in attempt to catch the little thief. Mischief was also running after the bunny, but numerous bushes and branches made it difficult for the dog to maintain high levels of speed.

Bunny of course faced no problems like that, as his small size made it easy to move around the forest.

Seeing his target running into the fallen log, Mischief run into it, since the log was large enough for him to fit inside. Meanwhile, Revan jumped on top of the log and run as fast as he could, trying to cut off the bunny's way of escape.

Unfortunately though, Angel was able to escape through a hole in the log's side, barely escaping Mischief's jaw. The dog was way too big to fit through the hole, so he had to get out the other way, while Revan quickly noticed bunny's escape and turned around, returning to the chase with full speed. He cut another branch out of the way and jumped over a large rock, almost catching the bunny before he disappeared in a sea of blue flowers.

Mischief caught up to Revan and begun leading him towards the bunny as soon as he caught bunny's trail. Przysięgam, że zarżnę tego skurwisyna! ((I swear, I'm going to kill this motherfucker!)) Revan swore in his mind. In that moment, he noticed white ears sticking out from the blue flowers. He swung his sword at that spot, but yet again, Angel was able to dodge and run back into the bushes.

Immediately, Revan and Mischief returned to the chase, almost catching the cursed bunny again, only to find themselves smashing their heads into a tree. They both fell on the ground, as Angel jumped on the nearby rock and did what could be only translated as laughing.

But to his surprise, Revan quickly recovered and swung his sword at him again. Angel barely avoided the incoming blade, which bounced off the rock and slid down to the ground as he made his escape, disappearing in bushes again.

Mischief was the first one to return to the pursuit. He run underneath the branch and begun to catch up to the bunny. Dog’s fangs were about to grab Angel’s tail and tug him back to Revan, but yet again, fate decided otherwise. Angel tripped over the rock and Mischief ended up biting the air.

Revan was already back on his feet and joined the chase. Seeing that bunny managed to avoid Mischief’s jaw, he reached his hand out in attempt to grab the bunny. However, Angel had enough time to react, and jumped away from Revan’s hand and with the badge still held in his mouth, returned to his great escape.

Eventually, after almost five minutes of running around the Everfree, Angel has run into a rather large clearing in the forest. It was in that moment when he has lost his biggest advantage that allowed him to avoid The human and his dog for this long. For all this time he was able to avoid Revan and Mischief thanks to his small size allowing him to move in the forest without any problems.

Now however, he was out in the open.

He tried to go back to the cover of the forest, but Mischief has already caught up to him and soon enough he found himself hanging down from dog’s mouth. The dog walked up to Revan, who with unnecessary strength grabbed the bunny with one hand while the other one shoved the sword he was holding into the ground. With his now free hand, Revan grabbed the badge in bunny’s mouth and pulled it out, along with part of Angel's teeth. He reattached the badge back to its rightful place.

He was about to do more than just break bunny’s teeth, but suddenly he heard a growl coming from his left side. The moment he turned to see where it came from, he almost got a heart attack. He was looking at a four meters tall monstrosity with scorpion's tail, bat's eyes and lion's body. In other words, a manticore.

The monster had its muzzle covered in blood and from the amount of sections on its tale he could tell that the manticore was fairly young. Right next to it, lied its previous prey - a half eaten tiger. And from the look it was giving him at the moment it was clear that it intended to turn him into supper. Revan also noticed a young tiger cub next to the dead one -most likely its mother.

With no warning, the manticore rushed at him with a loud roar. Revan quickly threw the bunny away, grabbed his sword and jumped out of manticore’s way just before he was crushed by its huge paw. Mischief has also dodged the attack, running to the opposite side. Revan was quickly targeted again and managed to dodge under monster’s paw. From there, he stroked its side with his sword, but the wound didn’t go very deep and the beast didn’t seem to care much.

In fact, it didn’t even made a sound. Instead, it swung its tail at the human who barely dodged it. He wasn’t however able to avoid the beast striking him with its paw. Manticore’s claws cut deep into Revan’s chest as well as broke his ribs and pushed him on the ground. The beast was about to finish the job quickly and strike Revan down, but just as it was about to deliver the fatal blow, something jumped on its back.

Sure enough, it was Mischief, who bit into beast's neck. Manticore reacted quickly bringing its tail up and aiming the poison filled tip at the dog. However, as Mischief was about to be hit, he jumped out of beast’s back, resulting in the manticore hitting itself with its poisoned tale. It roared in pain and stood up on its back paws. Using that opportunity, Revan got up and pinked up the sword again, striking manticore’s exposed chest as hard as he could.

Manticore roared again, and brought it’s paws down on Revan, who jumped away. Mischief attacked the beast again, this time with no luck. Manticore swung its tail again, hitting the dog and sending him flying into the tree. It was about to rush to the dog and finish him, but just as it was about to do this, Revan fired from his gun, aiming at the manticore’s head.

The projectile bounced off of the beast’s thick skull, but it has left a large crack on it and spilled some blood. Manticore roared again, but this time immediately rushed at the attacker. Revan quickly turned around and run towards the tree as fast as his legs could carry him and when he got there, he run up on the tree, using momentum to go up. Once he was high enough and the beast close enough, he pushed himself away from the tree, while manticore hit it with full force.

Revan landed on beast's back and run towards its tail, swinging his sword at it. The chitin armor covering the tail protected it from being chopped off, but the strike still left a visible crack on it. And since the tail was one of most sensitive parts of manticore’s body, it hurt.

The beast quickly regained concentration and charged at Revan with its mouth wide open and ready to swallow the human. Revan jumped away in the last moment, pointing his gun at the beast when he landed on the ground. He pressed the trigger again, and the bullet hit its target again, this time piercing the bone in the ribcage and penetrating monster's body.

Not waiting for manticore's next move, Revan begun his own. He grabbed his sword by the blade with both hands and before the manticore realized what was going on, he stroke the mighty beast in the head with the cross-guard, using the sword as an improvised mace.

The attack was strong enough to crack the skull, but didn't managed to damage the brain. He was about to strike again to change that, but the manticore wasn't going to allow him to gain any more advantage. Revan was quickly thrown off his feet as he was hit by the manticore's tail. The tail hit his side and made a small cut there with the poisoned tip. He got up and tried to back down, but manticore swung its tail again and Revan was sent flying away, and rolled on the ground once he landed, dropping the sword in the process.

Manticore didn't wait for him to get up and immediately rushed to him, eager to end all this and start to eat. Revan tried to get up, but it was pointless to try, he felt the broken bones in his chest as well as dislocated leg. There was also a burning pain coming from his chest as well as his side, which felt like it was about to melt.

However, he managed to find a long branch lying next to him, and just as the manticore was about to crush him with its paw, he thrust it into beast's extended limb. With another roar of pain, it stopped its attack as the branch pierced the skin on the bottom of its paw.

Using that moment of opportunity, Revan grabbed his gun again and pointed it at the beast's bottom jaw, unloading the rest of the magazine into it. There were no hard bones protecting the beast from the bullets as they dug into its flesh and then into brain. The pain filled roar stopped and the manticore begun to fall on the ground.

Revan, who was lying under the beast, tried to push himself out of the way, but he was too slow to get away. Dead manticore's head fell on top of him, the shear mass of the beast being enough to crush his bones even further. He wasn't even able to scream out of pain at this point, and just allowed his head to hit the ground and his eyes to close.


It took Mischief almost an hour to get up after the huge beast has hit him. He still could feel the power of the strike in his chest as he picked himself up from the puddle of water. He noticed that the rain was falling from the dark clouds above him he also sensed a smell coming from the opposite side of the clearing.

He looked in the direction of the smell, noticing the large beast from before lying dead on the ground. There was also two other smells coming from that direction, one belonged to Revan and the other he didn't recognized. Knowing this, Mischief begun to walk in that direction.

Once he closed in to the beast’s corpse, be immediately noticed a large rat biting Revan’s shoulder. Not thinking about it for any second longer, Mischief growled at the rat and rushed towards it. Before the rat was able to react properly, Mischief has already bitten its neck and begun to violently shake it around until it was dead.

The dog dropped the dead rat on the ground and quickly rushed to Revan. At the first glance it looked as if the human was also dead, but when Mischief brought his muzzle to his face, he felt a faint breath on his nose.

The dog begun to whine as he tried to wake up the human by licking his face and gently muzzling him. Seeing that it wasn’t giving any effects, Mischief grabbed the collar of Revan’s shirt and begun tugging him from under the beast’s head.

It was hard to do this, but eventually, Mischief managed to pull Revan out. He made another attempt to wake him up, but it was as effective as the first one. Not knowing that else to do, Mischief grabbed Revan’s clothes again and begun pulling him out from the forest.

But suddenly, he heard something in the clearing. He turned in the direction of the sound, only to see a small cat’s pup lying next to the corpse of its mother. He was about to ignore it entirely, but then he noticed the cub move and heard it calling out for help again.

Mischief hated cats, it was nothing personal, he just did. But at the same time he wasn’t going to leave a little pup like that to die in the middle of the forest. Even if this pup is an overly cute demon spawn covered in fluffy fur.

Mischief gently laid Revan on the ground and begun to slowly approach the pup. The little one has noticed him and Mischief grabbed the back of pup’s neck, taking him away from the dead parent. At first the pup protested, but soon enough gave up and Mischief lied him down on Revan’s chest. The pup curled himself up in a little ball of fur as Mischief went back behind the human and returned to pushing him out from the clearing.

But as he was about to leave the area and disappear in the forest, something else came into the clearing. Mischief instantly recognized the smell o rats and turned in that direction. He immediately noticed a swarm of rats surrounding the dead manticore, tearing the corpse apart. The swarm surrounding manticore was huge, easily over one hundred, and unfortunately, some of them have noticed him tugging Revan away. They left the manticore for the rest to finish and rush at the dog.

Immediately, Mischief doubled his speed, trying to get away from the swarm. Unfortunately, it was impossible to do that with a human slowing you down and your paws pushing through mud (there was also the fact that he broke a few ribs, but it’s not like he knew about that). Despite this, Mischief still managed to get out of sight of the rats feasting on the manticore before the rest of them caught up to him.

The fastest one jumped at Revan and intended to attack the little pup on human’s chest. Mischief let go of Revan’s clothes and grabbed the rat in his mouth, sinking his fangs deep into its body and killing the attacker.

The rest of rats were quick to surround him from all sides, cutting off his way to escape. He barked at them, hoping to scare them off, but just by looking at their number, it was clear who was afraid here. Five rats run towards him, he caught the first one in his mouth and stomped on the other one with his paw, but the other three jumped on him, biting his back leg.

He shook the rats off, but more came in their place, attacking not only the dog, but also Revan and the little cat. Mischief pushed the rat away from the pup and moved forward to protect him and Revan with his body. Another rat jumped on the dog’s back and bit into his shoulder.

He shook the rat off of him and crushed one more in his jaw before it bit Revan, but as soon as he did that he felt more rats jumping on him and sinking their teeth into his flesh. Mischief let out a loud yelp of pain, but continued to fight back nonetheless, even though he knew the fight was nothing but pointless.

Mischief felt two rats biting his front leg and he chased them off, only to have two more doing the same to his other leg. Three more rats jumped on his back and one more bit into his ear, while Mischief begun to break under the pressure. One rat managed to sneak its way under Mischief’s belly and was about to bite him there, but then it noticed an easier pray.

The rat approached the young cat hidden under the dog with watering mouth. The rat was about to bite its delicate neck to quickly kill the cat, but something stopped it from doing that.

And that something was Twilight’s magic…


“Come on, quick!” Pinkie yelled as she run ahead of Twilight, who was running as fast as she could. “We must find them before something happens!”

“I know, Pinkie!” Twilight yelled back and doubled he efforts. They reached Fluttershy’s cottage and immediately saw Fluttershy looking at the large storm above the Everfree. “Fluttershy, what’s going on here?” She asked her Pegasus friend.

“Rainbow said that the storm is forming and I’m waiting for any animals that may run out from the forest to give the shelter. Why are you and Pinkie here? And do you know where Revan is? I can’t find him anywhere.”

“Pinkie said she saw him enter the forest. If the storm is about to begin, then we must hurry, there’s no telling what could happen to him by now.” She run after Pinkie and Fluttershy joined her. The rain has already started and the weather team was flying around the edge of the forest, keeping the clouds from spreading out to Ponyville.

“Hey!” They heard Rainbow calling out. “What are you guys doing here!? Can’t you see that the storm is about to begin?” She flew down to them.

“Revan’s in the forest Rainbow!” Pinkie explained. “We have to get him out!”

“What the buck is he doing there!? Didn’t anypony tell him it’s dangerous out there!?”

“I don’t know what he’s doing there, but we need to hurry! My Pinkie Sense is telling me that something bad is going to happen if we don’t get him out fast!”

“Then hurry up. It’s about to get pretty nasty out there.” She flew back into the air, delivering a round-house kick to the cloud that was about to get away. Meanwhile, Pinkie, Twilight and Fluttershy run into the dark forest, immediately getting covered in rain water. Twilight lit up her horn and begun to scan the forest. She couldn’t sense Revan or Mischief, but she was able to sense Revan’s clothes.

It was of course going to take a while to find anything in this forest, but its better then nothing.

Fluttershy tried to fly up and scout from above, but with her wings wet she wasn’t able to keep herself in the air for very long. If she would train a bit she could probably pull it off, but with her current strength levels, she was simply incapable of doing much. Pinkie was of course also scanning the surrounding, but in a different way.

She kept her nose down, sniffing her way through the forest.

Surprisingly, that method was the most effective one out of the three and Pinkie quickly found a trail. “Come on girls, I’ve got them!” She begun to run. Her head was still down, but somehow she was able to avoid every obstacle on the way without an issue.

They run through the forest for another five minutes as the rain was getting worse and worse. Eventually, Twilight’s scan begun to pay off. The group immediately changed turned in the direction she pointed out.

And it was a good thing they did. Soon enough they have found their target and it didn't look well. Revan was lying on the ground, unconscious and covered in bruises and deep cuts, while Mischief was fighting for his and Revan's life against a hoard of rats.

Not waiting at all, Twilight lit up her horn again, sending a powerful, blast of magic in direction of rats. The beam coming from her horn splitted itself into several smaller beams, each of them finding a rat and picking it as a target.

Immediately, those rats who have not died have noticed her and begun to rush towards her, though few have stayed behind to finish off Mischief, who was already on the edge of his strengths. This reaction surprised her, she expected rats to run away after that. But either way, she released another beam like that, killing several rats. But rats' numbers were still huge, and they managed to get close enough to attack the Unicorn despite her efforts.

Twilight stopped her attack and begun to raise a shield, but the swarm was too fast and few rats have managed to get inside. Twilight was surprised when they completely ignored her presence and run behind her. The rats immediately jumped on Fluttershy, biting into the yellow Pegasus. It was in that moment when Twilight realized the sudden change in the color of rats' eyes, which now were shining with a deep green light.

She wasn't however going to spend any moment on analyzing this, her friend was in danger after all.

Her horn begun to load with magic, but just as she was about to release a burst of magic, Pinkie pointed her portable cannon and shot it at the rats, blasting them all out of Twilight's shield. "I'll take care of her, you take them out of there!" She yelled as the yellow Pegasus fell on the ground, bleeding from all the bite wounds on her body.

Twilight quickly turned around and released the energy she stored at the rats that have remained behind to kill Mischief, most of whom were already dead themselves to her surprise. She created another barrier around the dog to make sure no more rats can attack them and opened a portal under dog's paws.

She may not be able to directly teleport them, but as she have already figured out, portals are still available for them to use. She opened another portal a little above the ground –high enough for them to not be cut in half after the portal closes, but low enough not to damage them further- and connected it with the first one.

Mischief immediately fell down on the ground exhausted and wounded, along with Revan and what appeared to be a little tiger cub.

She couldn’t say she was very fond of cats, but she mostly didn’t mind them. At least as long as they’re not huge killing machines with sharp claws and fangs that could kill her in a blink of an eye. Those she treated in the same way as snakes, with ‘stay the buck away from me!’ policy.

But for now she had more important matters at hoof, like for example the huge swarm of rats emerging from the nearby clearing. She strengthened the shield as the rats begun to cover it from the bottom to top, trying to get inside.

“Twilight, we have to get out of here!” Pinkie yelled, helping Fluttershy to stand up, though as soon as she noticed the little cub trying to wake Mischief up, she rushed to them on her own.

“I know!” She begun to push magic into the barrier, turning it into huge electricity field. This was enough to make rats run away so she lowered the barrier, almost falling on the ground from exhaustion. “Come on, we need to get to the hospital.” She took Revan’s shirt’s collar into her mouth and begun slowly pulling him out of the forest while Pinkie did the same for Mischief and Fluttershy carried the little cub in her hooves.