The light of the afternoon soon faded into evening as an uneasy tension filled the air. Twilight and the others were running towards the castle, hoping to find Celestia and inform her of what was happening.

Spike had sent Twilight’s letter to Luna and Cadence, asking for their assistance with taking care of the Xenomorph. The alicorn realized that she would need all the help she could get when taking on the creature. If it’s transformed into the Queen already, then were going to need all the pony-power we can get to take this monster out.

As they closed in on the castle, they could see the shield shining with its yellow light. They looked to the sky for Celestia to see if she was perched on one of the clouds, but instead of them finding her, they heard the flapping of wings as the white alicorn floated down to them.

“What are you doing here? Is everything okay?” Celestia asked.

“No...everything is not okay. We need to tell you something urgent.” Twilight told her.

A worried gaze came across Celestia as she listened to her report. When she heard about what had happened in Ponyville, she was shocked that Filthy Rich would go so far with his anger. When she heard about Kettlepot and what he tried to do, she felt nothing but sadness and concern for her former student. “Twilight...I’m...I’m so sorry.”

“Never mind about that...it’s over.” Twilight paused for a brief moment before continuing, “But the Xenomorph is changing and it may have already turned into the Queen.”

No...this is most unfortunate news. “What do you need of me? I shall help you in any way I can.”

“Well, I’ve had Spike send a letter to Princess Luna and Cadence. Hopefully they’ll be here soon.”

Right as Twilight said that, blue flashes of light appeared a few feet away from them, revealing Luna and Cadence. “We came as fast as we could when we got the letter.” Luna said. Along with the two princesses, they brought along a few guards.

“Good, since you’re all here, we’ll search the perimeter of the shield.”

“You said that it was getting out somehow, correct?” Luna asked.

“But how was it able to get out?” Cadence inquired.

“We don’t know. So we’re going to spread out and look for the entrance.”

Like that, the group separated and quickly went to find any sort of entrance where it could’ve gotten out. A while had passed and no one seemed to find anything. Twilight was panicking as time passed by. Where is it, where is it!? We need to find it before we’re too late.

She heard Spike call to them, and the ponies quickly ran to where they heard his call. When they gathered, they could see a gaping hole in the ground. As everypony gathered up, she turned to face them.

“Alright everypony, who’s going to go in?” Twilight asked.

“I’ll stay outside by the entrance and maintain the shield while you're inside. We can’t allow the monster to escape while you try to destroy it.” Luna stated.

“I shall join you, Twilight. I won’t have any creature hurt my former student.” Celestia announced.

“I’ll go too.”

“Are you sure Cadence?” Twilight asked her sister-in-law.

“I am. I know that I have to look after the baby but I won’t sit aside while my aunt and sister-in-law go in and risk their lives to protect Equestria.”

“Ah’m a comin’ too.” Applejack piped up.

“What about your shoulder?” Twilight inquired, looking at the bandaged wound on the orange mare.

“That monster killed mah brother. It’s goin’ to pay for what it did and a wound like this won’t stop me from helpin’ you out.”

“I’ll go too.” Everypony snapped their heads to look down at Spike in surprise. “Rarity needs to be saved and I’m going make sure that she’s okay.”

“But Spike...you’re just a baby dragon. What if you get hurt?” Fluttershy asked.

“Spike, I know you mean well, but you’re still just a child. I don’t want to risk your safety.” Twilight told him, hoping to dissuade him from following her in.

“But the Xenomorph is scared of fire. I can take care of myself.”

Twilight wanted nothing more than to keep him safe, but she realized that she wasn’t going to talk him out of this. “Alright Spike, you can come with us. But stay close to me. Got it?”

Spike nodded as he and the others walked down into the entrance. Twilight turned over to see that Pinkie and Fluttershy were stepping into the tunnel as well. “Are you sure you two are ready to do this?”

“Absolutely.” Pinkie responded.

“I will help you guys, too. I may be scared, but my friends are down there and I want to help out with this too.” Fluttershy added.

Twilight smiled at the two ponies’ courage. They disappeared into the darkness of the subterranean tunnel, leaving Twilight to look at Luna who was already flying up to the clouds and taking charge over maintaining the shield. Before she went in, Luna flew back to her and said, “You be careful now Twilight Sparkle. And...make sure to keep Celestia safe.”

“Of course Princess Luna, I’ll make sure everypony comes out alive.”

Twilight lit her horn with a magenta light and walked into the darkness. She caught up to the others and walked alongside Celestia, whose horn was glowing with yellow magic. Nopony said a single word as they went through the dark caverns of the old ruins of the castle’s underground labyrinth.

As they ventured further into the darkness, the walls and feeling of the area began to change. The air felt warmer and more humid along with the slimy and black substance that covered the walls and floor beneath their hooves. Not to mention the odor changed too as the smell of rotting flesh entered their noses, making many of the ponies gag or choke.

The uneasy tension rose as they wondered where the Xenomorph was and if it had changed into the Queen yet. Twilight worried about this, but also about Sweetie Belle, Rarity, her daughter Nyx, and not to mention the others that were taken captive down here. Please, let everypony be alright.

They ended up in a large circular room where steam seemed to be venting from the ground. But the sight that awaited them was much more discouraging. The room was littered with holes that led down different paths. Twilight looked from one tunnel to another, trying to figure out which one to take. There are...so many here.

“Okay everypony, spread out and find the missing ponies, but pair up. Don’t go alone.” Celestia ordered.

The guards spread out quickly to explore each tunnel to see if anypony was inside one of them. When Twilight and Applejack were about to walk down one tunnel until they heard one of the guards call out. They quickly ran to where the two heard the shout and found that two of the guards had found a pony already. On the wall, they found an unconscious mint green unicorn cocooned to the wall, covered in the black slime. In front of her was a foal-sized leathery pod that Twilight recognized from the films she recovered from the crashed spacecraft. She gasped at the sight of it, for she knew what it meant. However, she then noticed the egg was unopened and there wasn’t a dead facehugger anywhere to be seen. Twilight sighed in relief. It wasn’t too late. Lyra, thank goodness you’re okay.

Twilight ran up to the incapacitated Lyra and used her magic to zap the slime off of her limbs. Once all four of her limbs were freed, Lyra began to fall to the floor, Applejack caught her before she could hit the ground. She laid her gently on the floor and checked her to see if she was alright. She was still breathing and didn’t appear to have any injuries on her that Twilight could see.

“She seems alright, but we need to get her out of here.” The orange earth pony told Twilight. She then helped lift the green mare onto her back.

“Do you remember the way out?” Twilight asked Applejack.

“Yes, Twilight.”

“Good. In that case, we’ll continue to search for the others. Get her to Ponyville Hospital immediately.” Applejack nodded and then carried Lyra off towards the exit with another guard following behind. After seeing them off, Twilight turned to the guard that remained with her to see that he was walking towards the egg. Panic shot through her, for she knew what horrors was contained within. “No! Get away from…”

As she tried to warn the white unicorn soldier, the four petals atop of the egg curled back, causing the guard to jump back in surprise. There was a sickly squirming sound as something rustled within the egg. Eight bony legs started to crawl out of the egg and soon a facehugger was perched atop of the egg. Twilight recoiled in fear and back away from the creature, trying to put as much distance between her and the facehugger’s jumping range as possible.

“Look out! Get away from it!” She shouted at the stallion. Before he could heed her warning, the spider-like Xenomorph leapt into the air and was heading towards the stallion’s face. The guard’s military training kicked in and his horn glowed with magic. A bolt of energy shot forth from his horn and blasted the facehugger midair. Twilight watched as the creature’s spindly legs and tail were sent flying in different directions by the blast, but she also noticed the yellow-green liquid that spurted out from where the facehugger was struck. The facehugger’s internal fluids splashed the nearby walls and floor of the tunnel. The guard, who was only a few feet away from the creature, was sprayed in the face by its blood. There was a sizzling sound and then the guard howled in agony.

“What is it!? What’s wrong!?” Twilight urgently asked the stallion as he thrashed about in pain, covering his face with his hooves. She rushed to his side and placed a hoof on his shoulder. Then he fell to the floor and rolled onto his back as he kicked and screamed. When he moved his hooves away, Twilight screamed in awful surprise as she saw that the pony’s face was being eaten away by the facehugger’s blood. Noxious fumes rose from the dissolving flesh and she watched in horror as layer after layer of flesh melted away. She could only watch helplessly as she saw his skull being exposed and his eyes melt away into a bloody mess.

His cries of pain faded into gurgling chokes as he started to drown in his own blood. Soon, he stopped making noise and moved no more. Twilight looked down in disbelief and shock at the now faceless pony before her. She breathed in and out deeply as she tried to keep a hold of herself. She looked to where the blood had landed on the stone floor and saw that it too had been corroded by the substance. Looking between the smoldering holes on the floor and the dead pony before her, her analytical mind deduced that the Xenomorphs’ blood must have been an acid, a highly powerful acid. It’s a wonderful defense mechanism. You don’t dare kill it.

“Help! Somepony, I need help!” She called out to anypony who could hear her. Soon, guards came in and saw the mess before Twilight. “What happened to him?”

“The facehugger’s blood, it’s acidic. He got too close and when he shot it with magic. It’s blood flew out and...and hit his face.”

The guards nodded and carried the dead guard out of the tunnel. Twilight stood behind for a little while before coming out to the main area. When she got out, nothing new was reported yet. So far the other tunnels had been cleared and registered empty, meaning that there were only a few tunnels remaining.

“Twilight! Come in here and quick!” She heard Pinkie yell from one of the tunnels and headed down that one. When she finally made it into the small chamber, she saw that Pinkie Pie was furiously trying to get somepony down. She ran over to her side and saw who it was. The orange earth pony she saw before her was covered in black slime and was unconscious as well. “Twilight, we got to get Mr. Cake down now!”

“Stand back Pinkie.” The pink earth pony quickly moved out of the way and watched as Twilight activated her magic and blasted away the black slime around his hooves. He too slowly fell down, falling into the hooves of Twilight and Pinkie Pie. As the two looked over to their left, they saw an already opened egg and a dead facehugger was lying on the floor. When they looked at the wall adjacent to Carrot Cake, they both gasped as they saw a light brown stallion covered in black slime. “Doctor Whooves, we need to get him down too.”

But who was impregnated? The egg was centered between the two, and so was the dead Facehugger. Twilight looked at Doctor Whooves and then back to Carrot Cake. The sad truth was that one of them now had a Xenomorph gestating inside them, but she had no idea which one. She also didn’t know how long had it been since the facehugger did its work. She frantically stepped in place as she tried to think of a solution. She desperately wanted to save the both of them, but she was running out of time. Maybe if we rush them both to the hospital, they’ll be able to remove the embryo before it emerges. But the hospital in Ponyville isn’t equipped for a procedure. The closest hospital for that kind of surgery is in Canterlot and I’m not powerful enough to teleport that far. We need Celestia.

“Princess Celestia! We need help!”

She didn’t hear any hoofsteps until a few minutes after waiting. Celestia arrived along with a guard next to her. “Twilight, I came as fast as I could. What’s happening?”

“Doctor Whooves and Mr. Cake had the facehugger between them both and I can’t figure out which one has the Xenomorph inside them. I don’t want to guess and end up hurting the one who isn’t impregnated. I need them to be transported back t-”

They were interrupted when they heard a coughing coming from behind them. They spun around to see Doctor Whooves had begun to squirm inside his slimy restraints and his face contorted in pain. His coughing intensified and soon was moaning in agony as his chest started to bulge. The cocooned pony’s eyes snapped open and he screamed loudly as he convulsed.

“No! No!” Princess Celestia cried as she watched as one of her precious subject writhed in unspeakable pain. Doctor Whooves threw his head back in one last scream as the bulge in his chest ruptured, sending blood splattering everywhere. From within the pony’s chest emerged a flesh colored larva that resembled an eyeless snake. The chestburster shrieked as it entered the world, baring its tiny fangs at the ponies that surrounded it.

Before the infant Xenomorph could crawl out of the corpse of Derpy’s husband, a golden blast of energy obliterated the small alien creature. Its acid blood sprayed onto to floor and sizzled. Everypony was silent as the reality of what just transpired struck them. Twilight Sparkle had seen the videos on how the Xenomorphs reproduced and she had shared this information with the others, but nothing could have prepared them for what they witnessed.

Princess Celestia walked up to the corpse of Doctor Whooves and stared at the frozen look of agony on his face. The solar alicorn’s own face had been speckled with red droplets by the birth of the creature. She activated her horn, using her magic, she lowered the body from the wall. With a quiet voice, she whispered to Doctor Whooves, “I’m sorry, my little pony. I could not save you.”

“Princess…” Twilight unsurely began to speak.

“I’ll be fine, Twilight.” Her former mentor reassured her with her back towards her, but Twilight could hear the tremor in her voice. She could tell that she was crying. Inclining her head a little towards one of the guards, she said, “Please carry him outside along with Mr. Cake.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” The guard picked up the body, being careful to avoid touching the gore, and hauled him away. Pinkie, whose mane had deflated, silently followed after him as she carried her employer on her back. Though she was sad for the late Doctor Whooves and the now widowed Derpy, she was relieved to be able to bring Carrot safely home to Cup Cake and the twins.

Twilight and Celestia watched as they carried the ponies away. The lavender alicorn heard her former mentor still crying. She approached her quietly and asked, “Celestia...are you alright?”

The white alicorn slowly lowered herself to the ground, crying a little louder now. “I’ve...I...I failed him. He needed me...bu-but I w-wasn’t th-there for him. It’s...it’s all m-my fault. It’s the Changeling Invasion all over again. My subjects were threatened by an unknown enemy and I was powerless to protect them.”

“Celestia, I know how you feel. I felt the same way...after Nyx and Spike found out about the creature.” When her two young charges found out about this, they were literally terrified by the sight they saw. She felt that she failed them and blamed herself for exposing them to such a nightmare. “I wanted to keep them from having to live with the knowledge of such a horrible monster, but now...now my little girl is down here somewhere. I need to find her. I need you to help me find her.” Celestia looked over to see the desperation in her dear friend’s eyes. “Please…help me.”

The white alicorn looked at her for a moment before nodding, a new determination set in her eyes. She got up and walked out with Twilight at her side. They passed through the hall and noticed that everypony was still looking through the many halls.

As Princess Celestia was about to call out, but a faint voice echoed throughout one of the tunnels. “Wait...does everypony hear that?” Cadence announced.

Everypony went quiet for a few moments. Nopony heard anything before a faint voice penetrated the silence. “Quick! Everypony go down that way!” Celestia ordered.

The hallway was quickly filled with ponies as they neared the source of the noise. Twilight was hoping that whoever was calling out was either Rarity, Sweetie Belle, or more importantly, her daughter Nyx.

When they got closer they could hear the pony yelling for help and it became clearer. When they reached the room, the noise they heard was from a certain filly hung up against the wall in a black slime.

“Sweetie Belle!” Fluttershy called out as she saw the filly struggling in her prison.

They quickly converged onto her. Twilight blasted the goo away and caught Sweetie Belle as she fell down. She cried as she was finally put down onto the ground, worrying everypony as to what she was crying about. “Sweetie Belle, what’s wrong? Why are you crying?”

“My...my...my…” She cried into her shoulder, sobbing loudly. Fluttershy walked over to where Sweetie was and noticed another pony next to her. When she got a clear view of who it was, she screamed loudly. Celestia, Applejack and Cadence ran over to what they saw made them stare in disbelief.

“Rarity!” Applejack yelled.

Twilight quickly let Sweetie Belle go to one of the guards with Spike following behind. When she moved to what they saw, her breath caught in her throat.

“Rarity! N-no...No!” Spike screamed. Rarity’s face was covered, hidden by a facehugger that had attached itself to her.

“No...Rarity.” Twilight murmured sadly. Seeing her friend in this condition was heartbreaking. Rarity was one of her best friends and her fellow bearer of an Element of Harmony. It was only a matter of time before she met the same fate as Doctor Whooves.

“Heh...heh...heheheh…” A voice laughed from behind them.

Twilight at first felt like she should’ve recognized the voice, but couldn’t put her hoof on it. She turned around like the others and was almost surprised to see who it was. Hanging on the wall behind them was Kettlepot. At the sight of the lunatic unicorn, Twilight’s blood ran cold as she remembered what he tried to do to her. She also noticed the opened egg and dead facehugger before him.

She quickly looked up from the dead facehugger and back to Kettlepot. Though he tried to do something horrible to her and he had killed a filly, she felt twinge of pity for the doomed stallion. He had lost his love and went insane. Now, he was infected by a terrible parasite.

Kettlepot’s eyes were unfocused and he continued to laugh insanely, even as his body began to shake. His eyes rolled back slightly and foam formed at the corners of his mouth. Even as the extraterrestrial larva was violently making its way out, Kettlepot’s laughter continued, intensifying with each push. While one last maniacal cackle, Kettlepot arched his back as the Xenomorph ripped through his chest cavity and landed on the floor in a pool of blood. The chestburster squealed and slithered away.

“Stop it! It must not escape!” Twilight shouted.

The guards quickly converged upon the small creature, but it avoided and dodged all of the blades that came down upon it and the energy beams. It was closing in on a hole located on the wall but before it made it, a yellow beam of light made direct contact and blew the small Xenomorph to nothing but acidic chunks. Everypony gazed over to Celestia, seeing her breathing heavily. “No more of these nightmares will live another day.” She quietly murmured.

Twilight stared for a moment, before going back to Rarity. If somepony could bring her to Canterlot hospital quickly enough, then we could possibly save her. She looked over Celestia and said, “There’s a possibility that we could save Rarity. We just need to get her to the Canterlot hospital and quick.” Twilight quickly blasted the slimy bindings, catching Rarity as she came falling down. She laid her down, staring in horror at the disgusting entity on her face.

“Are you sure?” Piped up one of the guards. “We don’t know how long that thing has been on her. For all we know, another one of those things could come out of her at any moment. We should just put her out of her misery before she suffers.” He then raised his weapon and was about to swing it.

“No!” Twilight yelled and went to intercept him. But before she could make it, Spike pushed him and the blade missed by a few inches.

“Nopony is going to hurt her! If there’s a chance she can be saved then I’m going to make sure that she survives!” Spike proclaimed, daring anyone else to try and hurt her. Greens flames seethed out from between his clenched fangs, warning the guards to keep away. The guards took the hint and backed off.

With a sigh of relief, Twilight then looked over to Fluttershy and asked, “Fluttershy, could you take Sweetie Belle and get her out of here?”

Fluttershy nodded and picked up the traumatized filly and quickly ran through the corridor, disappearing in darkness.

Celestia then voiced, “I shall take Rarity to the Canterlot hospital and return quickly.”

With that, she lifted her upon her back and summoned her magic. Her horn glowed a golden yellow again before vanishing in a white flash of light.

“Wait, why can’t I go with Rarity?” Spike asked.

“Because I realize that we’ll need you here. You’re the only one who can breathe fire, and we’ll need all the help we can get to destroy the rest of the eggs.” Spike hesitantly faltered for a moment, before coming to term with his task and nodded. “Alright everypony, let’s venture up ahead and see if we can find anymore eggs. We need to make sure that not one of them survives.” Twilight announced.

The ponies soon went down more tunnels that littered the labyrinth. She and Cadence went down one way alone searching for anypony else that was trapped down here. They soon came upon the end of the tunnel they found. Twilight sighed, disappointed that they had come to a dead end without finding a missing pony. A sudden fit of coughing startled them both as they quickly turned around to look at who it was. What they saw, made their breath catch in their throats.

A pony was strapped to the wall in the same black slime that the others were covered in, but they could distinguish that this pony had a white coat with a mane that was a mix of blue and dark blue. The pony’s voice was male, but who it was surprised them.

“S-Shining!” Cadence cried out at the sight of her husband stuck to the wall. She and Twilight ran up to his cocooned form and hugged him to the best of their abilities. Their emotions overwhelmed them and they cried as they were reunited with him.

His eyes fluttered open as his vision focused on the two before him. “Twilight...Cadence.” He whispered weakly.

“Hold on, we’re getting you down right now.” Twilight quickly said.

“No...it’s already too late.”

“What...what do you mean?” Twilight asked worriedly.

“Shining, we’re here and we’re going to help you.” Cadence reassured.

“No...it’s already too late. You need to…”

“Shining, we’re getting you out of here, and then everything will be alright.” Twilight interrupted.

“Twiley…” Shining moaned. “I can feel it moving…”

“W-what do you mean?” Twilight asked, dreading the answer.

“No! Oh no!” Hearing Cadence’s despairing cry, Twilight looked over to see the pink alicorn standing over an empty egg. Lying beside it was a dead facehugger. Both alicorns knew what this meant, and were fearing the worse.

In an instant, both Princesses quickly shot away the black goo and caught him as he fell. They propped him up against each other and ran as fast as they could. “Don’t worry Shining, we’ll get you to the hospital and get that creature out of you.” Twilight tried to lighten things up, but the truth was quickly closing in on both alicorns.

“Twilight...Cadence...stop...I won’t m-make it.”

“Yes you will!” Cadence cried out. “Don’t believe that you won’t make it! Your not leaving me or Twilight this time!”

“Cadence...Please…” Shining Armor’s voice was strained and he began to cough. “I don’t have much time...You have to...You have to do it…”

“What are you talking about?”

“You have to kill me…” The mares couldn’t believe what they were hearing. Shining then fell off their support. They quickly moved to his sides.

“Don’t talk like that!” Cadence shouted, tears falling from her eyes. “You’re going to be fine. We’re going to get you out of here and you’re going to be fine! You’re going to a father, Shining. I need you. The baby needs you!”

Shining looked up at his wife with a look of regret and then hung his head in shame. “I’m sorry...I should have listened to Celestia.” He looked back up to Cadence, with tears of his own. “I should have never left you.”

Before he could say another word, he groaned in pain and placed a hoof to his chest. After the moment had passed, he gasped for air and panted.Twilight watched the reaction of her brother and knew that Xenomorph inside was stirring. She desperately tried to think of a solution, but she couldn’t come up with one. All she could do was watch as her brother and her sister-in-law sit on the floor of the dark catacombs beneath of the ruined castle and cry as they held each other.

Another wave of discomfort struck Shining. He gritted his teeth and then placed a hoof on Cadence’s cheek. “Cadence. You have to do it.”

“I...I can’t…” She said between sobs.

“You have to...You have to make sure it’s dead. You have to stop the Xenomorph before all of Equestria ends up like this.” Cadence only cried harder at his words. “You have to be strong, Cadence. For the Crystal Empire...and for the foal.”

Cadence looked him in the eye and nodded as she cried uncontrollably. She took a step back and charged her horn with her blue magic. She lowered her head and pointed the horn at her husband. Shining closed his eyes and braced himself.

“I...I...I can’t do it!” Cadence shouted and then she fell to floor, covering her face with her hooves as she wept.

“Cadence...Please...kill me…” Shining begged. His chest began to bulge.

“I’ll do it.” Cadence looked up to see Twilight stepping forward, her cheeks stained with tears. Just then, Spike, and the remaining guards rounded the corner to see the lavender alicorn with her horn glowing with a magenta aura. They then saw the crying Cadence, the suffering Shining Armor, the opened egg, and facehugger, and knew what was transpiring. Twilight lowered her horn and prepared a spell. Hopefully, it would be painless for him.

“Twiley…” Shining whispered, causing Twilight to look up at him, a tear fell down her eye. “I love you, L.S.B.F.F.”

“I love you, B.B.B.F.F.” She told him.

He then turned to Cadence and said, “I love you, Cadence.”

“I-I love you, Shining.” The sound of a shot of magic filled the air and Shining Armor’s body slumped against the wall. Smoke rose from a small hole that had been burned right through his chest. The bolt of concentrated magic had seared right through his heart and the alien embryo as well, the heat of the shot cauterizing the wound and preventing the alien’s blood from doing any damage.

Twilight’s body shook as she looked down at her brother’s unmoving form.

“Twilight?” Spike quietly murmured.

Both alicorns slowly hugged and cried, as they stared at the deceased form of Shining Armor. A couple of the guards slowly and sadly walked over to his body. They picked him up, avoiding the hole in his chest and carried him back to the entrance of the tunnel, leaving a few guards to quietly walk away, while a guard went up to Spike and led him away to let the two princesses be alone.

Both Twilight and Cadence continued to sob for a very long time, both wishing that this didn’t happen. My husband...he’s dead...why Shining Armor...why!?

Shining, why did you have to leave me and Cadence like that? Brother...I don’t know if we can go on without you…

After tears were shed, both princesses calmed down and regained their composure, but a new feeling soon overwhelmed them. The feeling was of hatred and a desire for revenge on the creature that committed such a horrifying act.

“Twilight...when we find that monster...I’m going to tear it to shreds!”

“When we find it...it will wish it never came to this world! That Xenomorph is going to burn in Tartarus!” The two alicorns quickly ran back down the hallway they walked through and soon emerged back into the central room. They saw that a few guards were still with them, along with others coming back from carrying back the dead. “Alright everypony, there’s just one more tunnel to go down through. If we find nest then, we’re going to destroy every single egg we find.” And hopefully Nyx is down this way.

The group quickly ran down the tunnel, the air getting warmer as they continued on. When they reached the end of the tunnel, they all gasped as they saw that there were many eggs located in this room. “Alright everypony, get to work by destroying the eggs.” Cadence ordered.

“And be careful to not awaken any of the eggs.” Twilight added. She looked over to Spike and then said, “Alright Spike, I need you to set fire to all of these eggs. Don’t get anywhere near the guards, and if you see one egg open up, get rid of it quickly.”

He nodded and went to work, inhaling and then setting fire to the first row of eggs slowly, making sure that not one of them was left unattended.

Twilight watched as beams of magic went through multiple eggs from many of the guards while a green blaze was lit, illuminating the room with a light green glow. Twilight was so busy paying attention to the work in progress that she almost didn’t hear another pony coughing before turning around to see what was causing it.

When she did, she gasped at the sight until a overwhelming sense of happiness and fear rocked her. “Nyx!” She yelled out as she ran over to where her daughter was located. The little filly soon began to cry as her mother quickly zapped the slimey bindings off her. Nyx fell down and was caught by Twilight, who cried happily along with her daughter at their reunification. “Nyx...I’m so glad...that you’re okay.” She whispered quietly.

“I knew that you would come.” Nyx softly replied.

The two ponies hugged tightly, but then Twilight felt her daughter’s body shake. She quickly looked to her to see what was wrong. “Nyx...are you alright?” She didn’t see an egg near where her daughter was, but Nyx seemed to be staring at something. When she turned around, fear quickly rose up when she saw what it was.

A large figure was hanging from the ceiling, looking almost dormant, until she heard heavy breathing. The mouth of the creature slowly slid out from its carapace and looked around. It saw her eggs being destroyed or incinerated by the small creature she saw before. When she looked down, she saw the ebony filly and the purple alicorn also from before. It quickly grew mad and roared at the ponies.

Everypony stopped what they were doing as they looked on in horror at the large Xenomorph. The creature then violently pulled against its egg sac until it was ripped from its abdomen, sending a torrent of slime flowing from the ceiling to the floor. The Queen fell down, causing the ground to shake before her. She slowly looked up at the ponies, outraged that they were destroying her future. She roared again, seeming to shake the whole room.

Twilight knew that this was going to get very bad now, but anger rose within her too. Standing up defiantly, she silently challenged the Xenomorph, ready to take on the monster that had caused so much pain.

Author's Notes:

Hey there everypony! It seems that we are getting close to the end here, so I hope you all had fun reading this. As you know, make sure to leave a like, comment on what you thought of this chapter and I shall happily reply to anything you ask. (Hope you like big fights, because things are going to get a little chaotic).

As always, I shall see you all in the next Author's Notes. Have a good morning, afternoon, evening, night or whatever. Bye Bye!

(Oh and...sweet dreams...).

(One minor little edit. Applejack will help the guards in the Lyra scene. And another edit to exclude Applejack because she's with Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie).