Abandoned Diamond Mineshaft, 102 miles from Appleloosa, same time as Marcus was shot..
Underground in an abandoned diamond mineshaft, Diamond Dogs were going about with their ongoing digging and pickaxing away at the ground and walls, trying to desperately find some diamonds to sell at the black market in Saddle Arabia. Fido was digging about with his paws, not finding a single thing, until he heard one of the other dogs yell out something.
"JACKPOT!! WE HIT THE JACKPOT!" One of the dogs yelled out, throwing his pickaxe down, and waving his arms crazily.
The other dogs and the guards rushed up to him, but were confused to what they were seeing.
Rover, the leader of the dogs, spoke up confused and angry "What in the heck is this crap? It's just some stupid flat rock!" He shouted. Around the dirt and rocks, there was a small patch of perfectly smooth rock. It had strange circles on it, and was very cold. Like touching metal.
"Yeah, but it's.. different. What if it's some sort of treasure chest or something like that?" The dog stated.
"Or some ancient ruins... but it could have treasure!" Spot spoke, picking up his pickaxe and waiting to dig the rock.
Rover thought about it for a while. This WAS something that he or his team have never seen before. So he picked up his own pick and shouted.
"Okay, let's dig this thing, get whatever treasure is in here, and finally quit digging!" He stated, the dogs whooped and shouted in happiness, and started hitting the rock with their picks. The rock didn't even dent when the picks hit it.
"Okay...this is gonna take a while.." Spot said, hitting the rock with all his might, but not making any progress.
"Yep.. go and get the guards to help dig too. We need all paws on this!" He shouted. Fido shouted at the guards and waved them over as the other dogs handed them pickaxes. They leaned their spears and swords on the walls and too the picks, grumbling.
After about 7 hours of endless digging, the number of dogs digging quadrupled since more were called in to dig. They finally dig through, but saw that it wasn't just a rock..
It was a cave..
"DAMN IT!!" Rover said, throwing his pick at the ground, angrily, but Spot spoke up.
"Wait! Let's get a torch in here and see what's in here!" He said, signaling on of the guards to bring him a torch. He complied and brought him one.
"Fido, go in there and tell us what you see." Spot said, handing him a torch and a sword.
Fido nodded, took the items, and walked into the cave. He noticed that the floor was also very smooth and cold. It looked like it was made from the same rock. He then bumped into what seemed like a tall, skinny, rock, but he rose his torch and saw something that instantly made him drop his sword.
It wasn't a rock, but a chamber of some sort.. it glowed a bright blue and had what seemed like a glass casing over it and writing of some sort. He'd never seen anything like it, but what scared him the most is what was inside of it..
It was a tall, bipedal creature with an oval-shaped head, and what seemed like tentacles where its mouth should be, a small, glowing center where its nose should be, and four eyes, two on each side of its face.
Fido just stood there in awe and horror, until Rover called out to him, snapping him back into reality.
"Hey! Fido! You there? What do you see?" He asked.
Fido responded, still in shock "Uh... I.. i-it's something alright.. come look! And bring some guards here too!"
Rover and about six guards went inside the cave, they then saw what Fido was looking at. They stood there with shocked expressions, then Fido spoke up.
"I don't know..what this is.. but I don't think we're gonna get a single bit outta this.." Fido spoke.
"What if we-" Rover spoke, but was cut off when the ground below him started to shake. He looked around frantically and called for the rest of the guards to come in the cave, along with the other dogs.
Fido then saw what looked liked a staircase leading down towards a second floor, he walked to it, stumbling as he did so since the ground was shaking like crazy. His eyes met an odd rocky like pillar with similar writing on it, but the difference was that it had a glass window on it, and some sort of flat surface with words on it.
"Oh my Celestia.." Spot said as the ground stopped shaking. The so called cave was lit up by a light hovering above the chamber containing the weird creature. What shocked him the most is that behind it was more of these things..
About 3 rows of them.. in the same chambers, with tubes of blue light on each, all leading to one huge tube that connected to the one they first found. Then the creature's eyes and body lid up in a bright blue color.
"Guards, prepare yourselves!" Rover shouted. The seventy or so guards raised their spears, swords, and shields as the top of the chamber slowly opened, then fell to the ground, shattering it like glass.
Rover was about to give the orders to attack, until the ground shook again. He turned around and saw what looked like a fist punch through the smooth rock like nothing, then it rose up from the ground, revealing its glowing face, and it had a fierce look with what looked like hundreds of teeth. It had what looked like a protective plating over its upper body, like an armadillo. It punched its fists into the ground, making a little shockwave and disorienting the guards.
"ATTACK THAT THING!" Rover shouted. About four guards went up to kill it, holding their shields and spears. The creature roared and sprinted at them like a bull, ramming into one of the dogs into a wall, a sickening sound of flesh and bone was heard as the dog spitted out blood and screamed in agony. The creature then put its left arm on the dog's face, pushing it against the wall. The dog's screams got louder and louder until they heard a very loud 'CRACK'. It then proceeded to slash the dog's stomach, letting its insides spill out like a can of beans. The ground shook again as another creature showed up from the roof of the cave. This one looked different. It was glowing purplish pink and also had teeth and a glowing face, but it had no plating on its back. Then about nine more appeared from behind the line of chambers and ran toward the dogs with two feet, roaring and screeching.
The guards roared back and rushed at the creatures with their swords help up high. One of the creatures pounced on one of the guards, its teeth clamped onto the dog's neck and shook it left and right angrily, the dog screamed for help as its body was violently thrashed side by side on the ground. Another one then grabbed the dog's head with its short, but sharp hands and ripped its head clean off. Blood sputtered everywhere as the creatures ate what was left of the dog.
The fighting went on and on as more and more of the creatures started appearing, outnumbering the dogs by an unbelivable amount. For every cryptid killed, about 6 dogs were brutally eaten, and more kept showing up for every cryptid killed, about 7 for each one.
It wasn't long before Fido, Spot, and Rover were the only ones standing. Fido had several deep cuts all around him, Spot was trying to keep his intestines from falling out of him as he swung his sword, and Rover had lost his right arm and his left eye and was bleeding out fast.
To the dog's horror, one of the creatures inside the chamber slowly rose from its broken chamber, seemingly levitating towards the dogs. It looked at them with a look of murder and mercilessness in its eyes. The cryptids were all but attacking, as if they were ordered to somehow. They were just eating what was left of the dogs they had so viciously killed.
Rover looked up at the levitating creature, and whispered softly with a shaking voice, pleading for mercy ""P-please... don't kill us.. we're sorry we-ACK!" He was cut off as the creature rose its right hand, he then felt his throat being constricted by an unknown force. He was levitated and brought towards the creature's face. He then heard an echo-y voice in his head..
"You.. and your species.. all who live here.. will be obliterated.. soon.. oh so soon, you stupid mutt.." He heard, then the grip on his neck grew stronger. He tried to plead for mercy, but they were nothing but desperate gasps for air. He then felt blood slowly pour onto the ground, and then his neck was snapped all the way to a full circle.
Spot looked in horror as their leader was killed right before them. The creatures rushed up to his corpse and started devouring him, ripping his limbs as the sound of flesh an bone being ripped echoed. The creature then pointed a finger at him and Fido. The cryptids looked at them and screeched, rushing towards them.
"Spot! RUN! I'LL DISTRACT THEM! GO!" Fido said, he ran towards the opposite direction, grabbing all of the creature's attention. They chased after him as Spot ran from the cave, he then heard screams of pain. He started frantically climbing over rocks and dirt until he reached the original mineshaft they were in. He then ran towards the exit.
"I need to warn everydog.. and pony about this.." He thought as he ran.
4924640 You'll see..
Well shit, talk about coincides on that timing. Well the end of pony kind is near because now matter how much ammo our four devil dogs got it just ain't enough, plus I don't think there's a respawn system in Equestria.
4925058 ... Thay can't be stopped?
Hmm...
4925120 Thank ya kindly
*Hands over a tissue*
4925140 Well I didn't say they can't be stopped it just takes Celestia to use the suns powers as a nuke on that exact mine and have it spread out in 25 mile range in all directions and penetrate the ground for about 20 miles and presto problem solved.
4925227 Hmm...
Who said there was one Ark?
4925120 QUESTION TIME: can I have a OC in the story?
4925349 As of right now I don't plan on putting any O.C's, but if I do (Which is likely) I will PM you. But I will say right now O.C's won't play a huge party in this story.
4925366 *thinks* .................... *pulls out a remote control for a drone* ...................hehe...........WAI-*cuts out* BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *search FNAF 2 know what this means*
4925260 Well Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, the ponies is doomed unless we summon the all mighty doom guy and BJ Blazkowitz along with the lone wanderer and finally robo Chuck Norris.
But that ain't gonna happen so WE"RE ALL GONNA DIE
4925414 Woah there!
For straters, there isn't an infinite amount of cryptids..
Just sit back, read, and maybe they will be screwed or not..
Kill the seeders... KILL THEM ALL
Wait. Since Marcus was shot, will he do some 'Harry potter wizardry shit' or whatever to come back to life and kick all types of alien ass?
4925479 The Seeder is the least of their problems.
4925493 Well, the bullet didn't really kill him. He shot it at an angle where the bullet didn't go through his brain, but I'm thinking of giving him some sort of long-lasting effect... maybe blindness? Amnesia? I dunno yet.
Well...they're done for.
Excellent introduction of the Cryptids! I can only wait for the invasion to begin!
Also, how did the Cryptids even GET to Equestria in the first place? Same storyline as the one in Ghosts or something?
4926083 Thanks! But remember that the squad is still there..
How did they get there? You mean how long..
500 million years ago..
It'll make more sense in the next chapter.. let's just say these cryptids are more "wide-spread" than you think.
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Then there is the pony world been chos by the cryptids was lead by the ancestor the leader of plague of cryptids.
4926141
like thresher maws from mass effect?
4929585 In a way..