The rain kept pouring down as the grey clouds remained in the sky. Time had passed and things weren’t looking up at all. A pegasus was walking down the streets of the town. Her mood was saddened, for a certain pony had not come home last night. She had a gray coat, with blond hair, her eyes were a yellow. They were different though, for her right pupil pointed down while the left pointed up. Why didn’t he come home? Where is he?

She was worried and hoped that he was alright. This matter was important, and she hoped that she could ask the mayor to help out with her search. The pegasus couldn’t understand why her husband didn’t come home, as he was always on time. I hope nothing got to him...please let him be alright?

The Mayor was standing up over by town hall, talking to the press about the events that had been transpiring. “So is it true that somepony has been running around, causing the disappearances of others?”

“We don’t have all the facts as of this moment, but I hope that everypony can calm down and let the authorities handle all of this.” These reporters are so persistent. I would do anything to get away from them. As she continued to answer more questions, she noticed that a particular pony was standing there. What does Derpy want? She’s never come to me before. She felt like her prayers were answered and quickly announced, “I’m sorry but that’s all the time I have. If you have any other questions, I’m sure that my secretary can answer anything you have to ask.”

With that, she quickly left and nodded at Derpy to come inside. The pegasus quickly trotted after her, and soon the two were inside the confines of town hall. Mayor Mare sighed and was happy to be away from the spotlight. She looked over to Derpy and noticed that she looked miserable. “Hey, what’s wrong?”

Derpy hesitated before speaking. “I...I have a problem.”

Happy that she could help somepony out, she asked, “Well, what is it? I’m sure that I can provide you with the assistance you need.”

“It’s...my husband. He hasn’t come back since last night. And I’m afraid something bad has happened to him.”

Mayor Mare was worried at this troubling news. Oh dear...another missing pony case? This was getting ridiculous as she had already heard a few others from other ponies. Bon-Bon had come in yesterday and she said that Lyra was missing, and then soon after, Pinkie Pie and Cup Cake reported that Carrot Cake was missing as well. This is not pleasant news at all. If anymore ponies disappear, then ponies will certainly begin to panic. So she approached Derpy as she had with the others. “Do not worry Derpy, we will send a search party out for them as soon as we can. Right now everypony is busy with all the mayhem that is going on.”

“It’s okay...I...I understand.”

Then the doors were flown open as ponies began to enter the building. The noise soon began to rise up as ponies shouted and voiced questions that Mayor Mare couldn’t handle all at once. She scanned the faces of the crowd and found her secretary, who gave her an apologetic yet overwhelmed shrug. “Please! Hold your questions! One at a time!”

She backed up and went onto the stage. Ponies quickly found their spots and sat down. The noise continued until Mayor Mare grabbed a microphone and said, “Please...everypony settle down. I can only take one question at at time.”

Soon the voices died down and all became quiet. “Okay...so I’ll answer the first pony who raises his or her hoof.”

She spotted the first hoof that rose up and nodded to him. He got up and asked, “Who's behind the disappearances?”

“Well, ummm…”

“Why haven't they apprehended him yet?” Another pony interrupted.

“You see…”

“What are you doing about it?” A mare asked.

“One at a time, please…”

“How long have you known about it?” A stallion impatiently demanded.

Before Mayor Mare had the chance to answer, she saw Twilight Sparkle come to her rescue, walking up to her and saying, “Listen everypony. We are trying our best here. We don’t have all the facts right now, but we are working hard and diligently.”

“Well then...who’s behind all of this then? And what has been happening around here?” Another stallion asked.

"Ah'll tell ya what happened!" Applejack burst in. Everypony turned to look at the farm pony as she walked in, the rain dripping from her hat and body, with something red on her forehooves. But what everypony else saw was that tears were streaming down her face from her eyes, and behind her was Scootaloo and Applebloom, who seemed to have tears coming down her face as well.

Everypony stood still, except for three ponies who rushed to her side, hugging her. They parted, and then Fluttershy asked, “Applejack...are you alright?”

“Yeah, why do you look so sad?” Pinkie Pie added.

“Applejack...what happened?” Twilight softly inquired.

AJ looked at her, but when she answered, her voice was filled with nothing but hatred. “Ya’ll want to know what happened!? Mah brother was murdered!”

What followed was an echo of ponies gasping in shock. Her friends stared in horror and shock. Fluttershy’s eyes began to water and she covered her mouth as she whimpered in sorrow. Pinkie Pie’s mane deflated drastically, but still retaining some of its poofiness, and Twilight was stunned, her mouth agape as her eyes began to water as well. “Wha...what do you mean?” Twilight asked.

“Ah said...mah brother was...murdered. And it was because of that...that monster!”

“Wait...who are you talking about?” A pony from within the crowd piped up.

She turned towards him and replied, “He was killed, by that evil and heartless pony...Kettlepot!” AJ hissed his name with such hatred and anger.

“Wait...you mean the escape hospital patient? He’s responsible for all of this?” Another pony asked.

“Yes...he’s the one who’s been causin’ nothin' but trouble...and he’s the one who’s been takin' ponies without us knowin’, and he...he took Rarity and Sweetie Belle.”

Her friends gasped in horror, and the news that Rarity and Sweetie Belle were missing put everypony far from feeling safe anymore. But...how could Kettlepot sneak off with both Rarity and Sweetie Belle? He couldn’t do it by himself. Thoughts of the creature resurfaced again in Twilight. No...it can’t be it. It’s still locked in the castle. But the feeling that the creature was responsible seemed strong.

Filthy Rich, Diamond Tiara’s father, then spoke up. “He murdered my daughter, and you were keeping it from me! Why didn’t anypony tell me who was responsible!?”

“We didn’t want to cause a panic.” Twilight tried to reason with the grief-stricken earth pony.

“You should have warned us!”

“We didn’t know he would be so dangerous and we did announce that he escaped.”

“Why weren’t the guards doing anything about him!? Why weren’t you doing anything about it!?” Filthy shouted at the lavender princess.

“The guards were searching for him, and I…” Twilight hesitated. She wasn’t sure they were ready to hear about the Xenomorph, the crashed spaceship, or Doctor Malcovich.

“What? What were you doing then? Were you hiding away so you wouldn’t get hurt!?” He stopped before adding with anger, “And you call yourself a Princess.”

Twilight was taken aback by such an insult. Never before had she heard anypony call her out like this. She tried to form words, but nothing would come out.

“So what are we supposed to do now?” A mare from the crowd asked.

“Why, we’re going to go find that pony and give out what he deserves...justice! For all the crimes that this monster committed against us.” Filthy Rich exclaimed.

Soon, other ponies began to silently whisper the term justice. Then, they were yelling it out. Then Applejack added, “And...good old fashioned REVENGE!”

The ponies roared in agreement and followed Applejack out the building as she said, “Come on, everypony! Let’s find that demon and give him what’s comin’ to him!”. Twilight tried to call to her, but she was too far away now. The only ponies that remained were Applebloom and Scootaloo, along with Twilight, Spike, Nyx, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Mayor Mare. They sat in a stunned silence, taking in everything that had just happened.

What just happened? Twilight thought as she watched the ponies spread out into the town. She knew that she should have contained the situation, but this was far out of her hooves now. Why...why did he have to say that? This was something that Twilight had never hoped to encounter or witness. She looked at the others and noticed the same fearful expression on each one.

She felt a hoof grab hers and looked down to see her daughter. “Mom...what’s going to happen now?”

Twilight looked back up and thought about that. She knew now that she would need assistance, and fast. I have to contact Celestia...she’ll know what to do.

She looked back down to her daughter and asked, “If it’s alright with you...would you mind comforting your friends?”

Nyx looked back over to Applebloom and Scootaloo. She turned back to her mother, nodded, and got up and walked on over to the others. Twilight began to walk towards the library, but stopped as she saw Silver Spoon coming back through the door. She watched as the gray filly walked up to the others. They seemed to converse before Silver Spoon reached over and gave Applebloom a hug. Scootaloo and Nyx joined in, which gave rise to a sad smile to Twilight.

She then turned to Spike and noticed he was beside himself with grief. “Spike?”

“R-Rarity…” The dragon muttered in despair. Twilight gave him a sympathetic look and raised his head with her hoof.

“Spike, listen to me. We will find them.” She tried to reassure her faithful assistant, but her words did little to comfort him. “We need to get back to the library and write to Princess Celestia. She’ll be able to help us. Everything will be alright.”

“You promise?” He asked as he looked up at her with tear filled eyes.

“I promise, but we must hurry.”

They quickly ran off to her house and went through the door. When she got in, she walked up the steps as Spike sat down on the couch while trying to get a hold of himself. A noise emanated from somewhere within the library, giving rise to a suspicion in Twilight. That sounded like shuffling...but when has anything else ever moved around by itself? But something told her that it might’ve been Owlicious, so she ignored it and walked into her bedroom.

She closed the door and summoned her magic up to pull a piece of paper. She pulled a pen out and began writing the summary of what had occurred over the past hour. As she went to call for Spike, she saw her balcony window was open. The curtains fluttered in the breeze and Twilight gave them a curious look and tilted her head in confusion as she walked up to the opened glass doors. She didn’t recall opening them earlier and Owlicious certainly couldn’t have. As she went to close them, she whispered, “How did…”

A powerful blow struck her in the back of the head and she collapsed unconscious to her bedroom floor. A figure stood behind her, staring down at her as she lay on the floor and whispered, “I’m sorry...Berry, but I had to. Otherwise, you’ll try to leave me again.” Kettlepot leaned down and nuzzled against Twilight’s cheek, but she didn’t respond. “It’s okay now, Berry. I won’t let anything happen to you.”

He stuck his nose against her dark indigo mane and inhaled deeply, taking in her scent. He stood back up and gazed upon the unconscious mare’s figure admiringly. He picked her up with his magic and turned her over, setting her down on her back with her stomach facing upwards, exposing everything to his gaze. “I-I love you…Berry…” He reached down and grabbed her around her waist. “I love you so much…” He raised her hindquarters off the floor and positioned himself over her. She mumbled incoherently as her legs were spread. Twilight only moved slightly but didn’t awaken from this action. “Now we can be together...Berry…”

“Twilight?” Kettlepot heard a voice coming from the doorway and snapped his head to see a small, purple dragon standing there with a wide eye expression. Spike had heard the commotion from downstairs and rushed up to see a strange pony standing over his dearest friend while she laid on the floor, out cold. “What...what are you doing?”

“Me and my Berry are going to be together forever! So go away!”

“Twilight! Get off of her you creep!” He rushed over towards him, but surprisingly, Kettlepot never saw a dragon before, so he scampered off of the unconscious mare. But stopped at the balcony window, before turning around. “No...me and my Berry are going to be together forever! And not even a dragon will separate me from her!”

Spike stood his ground, but something caught his eye behind Kettlepot. He looked for a brief moment and felt his breath catch. Fear rose up within him and he slowly backed away.

Confused, the enraged Kettlepot looked behind him slowly, but stopped when he saw the nightmare behind him. Memories from sometime ago resurfaced, and he remembered what this creature did to his love. He screamed loudly and tried to back up, but the creature grabbed him quickly and knocked him out by slamming him into the ground. It picked him back up and looked at the small creature.

Spike didn’t know what to do, as the creature loomed over him. Slime dripped from its lips as it started to approach the young dragon, but it stopped and looked looked over to the mare on the ground and realized this was an easier target. It snarled at him and moved over to the unconscious alicorn. It extended its arm and reached with its black, clawed hand to grab Twilight, lifting her up from the ground. Spike witnessed this and yelled, “Get away from her, you monster!”

Spike charged the creature. When he got close, he breathed in and exhaled fire out. It became startled and frightened as this creature spewed green flames from its mouth. Twilight was thrown onto the bed as it leapt back, shrieking in fury, and made for a quick exit out of the house.

It ran out the window, jumped from the balcony and landed back onto the ground with Kettlepot still in its grasp. As it lifted its head, it noticed there was a filly sitting on her flank, stunned by the sight. She recalled the terrible monster she had seen from the video and slowly crawled backwards. No...mom told me that...this thing...wasn’t going to get out.

The creature snarled at the small filly and saw another chance to capture another pony that would serve its sinister purpose. It slowly walked over to her and in one stride, was on top of her. It picked her up with its clawed hand and carried away the screaming filly. “Mom! Mom, help me! Mooommm!”

Spike ran out to the balcony and watched in horror as his little sister was taken away from him. “Nyyyyyxxxx!” Spike yelled, but he could do nothing but stare as the monster walked away, vanishing into the rainy night.

Spike fell down, completely exhausted and stunned by what just happened. “Nyx...I’m...sorry.” He looked back to Twilight, who was still unconscious from what Kettlepot did. Tears welled up in his eyes. How...how am I going to tell her? He realized that the alicorn’s heart would break with such sorrow if he mentioned what happened to her. But he realized that she needed to know. He quickly ran over to her and shook her. “Twilight...wake up.” But she didn’t move. The only indication that she was still alive, was the slow rising of her chest. “Twilight...get up. I need you...Nyx needs you.” No matter how hard he shook, she would not wake up.

He stopped when he realized that she wouldn’t move or respond. So he sunk down to the floor again and thought about what he should do. He looked back to Twilight and remembered that the others were still out there. Should I just leave Twilight here? He realized that she would be safer here for now. So he went to the balcony window and closed it, locking it and double checking it before heading off. He looked back to his friend and said, “Sorry Twilight, but right now I have to get the others.” He got up and quickly ran down the stairs and out into the night, trying to find his friends.

Hours had passed, and all was quiet in the labyrinth. Nothing stirred, and not a single noise was made. The creature was nowhere to be found, but another object was attached to the wall. The same thing from before happened as cracks soon appeared on the object and a large creature fell down from the wall. The ground shook as a massive behemoth landed on its powerful legs. Its body had grown and now had a build that resembled a great predatory dinosaur. Its arms were longer and stronger and a smaller extra pair grew out from its ribbed chest. Its long, segmented tail whipped behind it as it rose to its full height, barely fitting in the subterranean cavern. Its crest had extended and now ended in multiple points.

A deep, rasping noise came out of its throat as it breathed and turned to look down a tunnel to a nearby chamber. Inside it were the ponies it had gather over the past few days. Their bodies stuck to the wall, covered in a black slime that held them in place. Among them were Rarity, Sweetie Belle, Kettlepot, and her chamber, little Nyx. They were unconscious and unaware of the monster’s intentions. It was time for the Xenomorph to execute her plan.

Author's Notes:

Hey there everypony. Its great to see you all and hoped you enjoyed this chapter. Be sure to like or comment and tell me what you thought about it. I hope to see you soon and until then, I'll see you in the next Author's Notes. So good morning, afternoon, evening, night or whatever and I'll see yah.

(Oh and this chapter was a little hard to write because of you know what happened. Me and Diablo didn't really enjoy this either). One fact is that the scene was a little difficult (And trust me, Twilight is my favorite pony so I had a hard time with this one) but hope it wasn't too bad.