Author's note: A chapter without Paul!!!!!
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"RELEASE THE OMEGA SPIDER!" Yelled Celestia

Luna and Shining Armor gasped while all the other ponies in the immediate area looked confused. "Umm Princess, I don't mean to sound rude, but what in tarnations is an omega spider?"

"Not 'an' omega spider Applejack, 'the' omega spider. Come, I'll explain once we get there." With that said, Celestia turned and started walking towards the castle. The main six along with Luna, Cadence, and Shining Armor all followed after her. It didn't take long for them to make their way through the panicked crowd, being with royalty helps with that since all of the ponies are scared of getting in their way. Once they were inside the castle they walked through several hallways until the princesses stopped randomly by one wall in a random hallway. Looking around none of the others could see anything special about this particular wall.

They stood there like that for a few moments without saying anything until Celestia and Luna both put their hoofs to the wall. Suddenly two of the white bricks slid away where their hoofs were revealing some kind of panel underneath. They kept them on that spot for a moment while a blue light traced their hoofs before they both moved their heads closer to the wall. Once they were close two blue lasers shot out and scanned over their eyes before disappearing. Next they each pulled a small orange key from under their wings and inserted them into the wall. They looked at each other before quickly nodding and turning the keys at the same time.

That seemed to do the trick as suddenly the wall pulled back with a hiss of escaping gas and slid into the ground to reveal a long staircase surrounded by metal walls. Once the door opened the lights started to turn on one by one illuminating a long path in front of them that seemed to go on forever. All of the ponies except for Celestia and Luna looked pretty awestruck by the display as they had never seen anything like that before.

"Let's get going." Said Celestia as she began to descend down the long stairway. The others were close behind and once they all made it inside the door slid shut on its own. They then walked down the staircase for at least five minutes until they finally came to a room. By this point they were in the heart of the mountain that Canterlot was built on. It was a lot warmer down here than it was on the surface and for some reason there was a constant humming noise coming from the walls that sounded like some kind of engine.

"Alright." Started Celestia who turned to the other ponies who seemed very confused and somewhat out of breath. "What your about to see hasn't been shown to a single other pony in over twelve hundred years."

"And what exactly are we going to see? What is this 'omega spider' thing?" Asked Twilight who looked hungry for information.

"What you are about to see is the prison of Azitol, the omega spider. I suppose I should explain everything though. Four thousand years ago the planet was ruled by a race of giant spiders who lived in peace and harmony. They were a highly advanced race who managed to create all kinds of technology. Most of our modern technology is based on what we found from them. They even invented the sun and the moon and the elements of harmony to make things more interesting. Of course their greatest invention was ponies."

All of the other ponies gasped when she said that. "But princess, you can't mean-" Yelled Twilight.

"I do. The original ponies were just small horses that lacked a wide color variety or intelligence of any kind. Through years of breeding and genetic experiments the spiders were able to create our pony ancestors. We speculate that the main reason why they did this was because they were bored. Anyways, the omega spider was the most powerful of the spiders and the leader of his people. Because of him all the spider nations lived together in harmony, but then everything changed when the fire nat- I mean discord attacked. No one knows where he came from, but one day he came out of nowhere and sent the omega spider forward in time."

"What happened next?!" Twilight was really getting into the story at this point. She'd never heard anything about this before and it would be farfetched if she wasn't hearing it from the princess herself.

"Well, Discord sent the omega spider into the future because he knew that he could never defeat the spider. Back then he wielded the elements of harmony, not to mention that if he dies he revives somewhere else in the world, so you can't kill him. Once the omega spider was gone, discord was able to wipe out all the other spiders. But, in his blind rampage he accidently broke open an extremely secure underground facility, thus releasing all the ponies. Among those were my sister and I who were a special experiment. The omega spider foresaw our growth himself."

"But that means--" Twilight nearly passed out from the revelation.

"Yes, the omega spider is practically out father!"

All of the ponies shared a gasp from learning this. Who could have possibly guessed? (Seriously, did anyone see this coming?)

"So what happened after you escaped?" Asked Twilight.

"Once we were free, the elements of harmony came to us. You see, without the omega spider around they needed a new host. The elements of harmony must always have a captain (pirates of the caribbean reference, I thought that one would be too far fetched for people to understand without me saying something). So we used them to defeat discord by trapping him in stone. After that the world was in ruin and the ponies scattered and built their countries on the bones of the spider civilization. After several hundred years, Luna and I came in and united all the different subspecies of ponies and created Equestria."

"But where does that leave the omega spider?"

"Aw, he appeared a few hundred years after Equestria was founded. Thankfully, he was severely weakened when he first arrived from discord sending him forward in time so Luna and I were able to subdue him deep in a cave. Of course we couldn't simply use the elements of harmony on him since he built them and made sure he was protected from their power, so we couldn't just put him in stone like we did with Discord. Instead, to keep constant watch over him, we built Canterlot here to seal his prison and we left behind our old castle. That was over two thousand years ago."

"How did you guys know that he couldn't simply be killed anyways?"

"Well, like I said, he was the one who created us. He also raised us and was the closest thing to a father we've ever had. Anyways, he shared some information about himself with me and Luna, the fool thought we could be trusted."

"So, if he was like a father to you guys, why did you imprison him?"

"He could have potentially been a threat to the country... But more importantly spiders are really scary. Now that I'm not an ignorant foal I can see that. The last thing I want is some giant spider running around my country."

All of the ponies nodded their heads in agreement to this. Fuck spiders! "So, what do you plan on doing now?"

Celestia sighed. "We're going to release him to destroy Paul. We can't let Paul get away with almost murdering my star pupil and attacking my guards. His punishment will be having his guts sucked out by a giant horrible spider."

The other ponies, especially Twilight, seemed to agree with this notion. Unfortunately, there was one small problem and Twilight was just the one to ask about it. "How are you going to get the spider to kill Paul? Won't he attack us instead for keeping him as a prisoner for so long?"

"We managed to reverse engineer some of the spiders' technology. One of the things we figured out how to create was a mind control device. We put one on the omega spider so now he follows our orders without question. We were going to try to mass produce them and use them on pony kind, but we found that it would be much too expensive. Besides, we've found plenty of other ways to control ponies." Like saying that they control the moon and sun. "I know it's strange to put our trust in a spider, but he will get the job done. The last time we let him out was over eighteen hundred years ago when the griffin nation threatened to attack us. He wiped out over half their population and dismantled their government. They're still scared of us doing it again, that's the only reason why they've never attacked us."

"Now then, let's go see him." With that said Celestia walked through a nearby door into another room with Luna close behind her. The other ponies reluctantly followed after her. They didn't seem too keen on seeing a giant spider. Bad news for them because the next room was filled with giant spider. The room was pretty large and circular and in the middle was a huge pit with what was obviously the omega spider chained down in it. He is basically a giant brown and black tarantula with several metal devices strapped onto his back as well as thin metal armor that covered parts of his legs.

Celestia walked up to a command module on the edge of the pit and pushed several buttons on it before speaking into a mic. "Wake up Azitol. I need you to go out and kill the sex raptor, Paul. Once you do, bring his corpse back to me." She then pushed a few more buttons which released Azitol from his chains and opened a huge metal door on the far wall. The giant spider then wordlessly crawled up out of the pit and exited through the open door making loud thumps with his legs as he went. He emerged from a huge secret exit on the backside of the mountain that Canterlot is built on before scurrying off after Paul.

As Celestia watched Azitol leave she chuckled silently to herself. "Gg Paul..."

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Ok, got that done. Not a lot of jokes in this chapter unfortunately, but this explains the origin of ponies pretty well. I wouldn't be surprised if in season 3 they reveal that all of this is canon.

I would have spent more time going over this one, since it's kinda' short and boring, but I have to get ready in about an hour to go to the airport. Looks like no sleep for me to tonight...

So if you didn't read it already in a different author's note, I'm leaving to go to California until the 20th with my family. Gonna' fly there and then we gotta' drive from there to Missouri and then back to here (Virginia where I live) to see some family I haven't talked to in like six years. The only reason I'm going is because my grandma is giving me her old car since she's too old to drive now and I have to drive it back. I'm probably going to die on the way...

Anyways, I won't have any way to type while I'm gone (and probably no internet access at all D: ) So don't expect any updates for the next two and a half weeks. Sorry :[