Story: Pre-Subnautica + MLP
Chapter: 7. One event with many viewing points
Author: Black--Soul

The Empress watched as 3 of the visitors started to dive deeper than she had them observed to do so with the exception of the young male.
While a four-legged and a feathered visitor seem to focus on diving deeper did the young male swim behind them with something previously unobserved in his claws. Maybe a weapon do to its sharp looking objects on front.

She delighted to see that this male while a lot smaller than any of her previous breeding partners, seem to have a feeling of strength and determination outside mating behavior. It was nice to see that he had his spikes out today. Natural defenses that her last clutch might inherent and help them to stay alive after she would eventually fall to old age. The excitement of him potencialy arriving soon-is had her old heart jump in anticipation.

The bigger protrusion on their backs seem to have a positive effect on their ability to stay under water longer than they ever did before. Maybe with some luck would her future mate use this additional time to spend some time with her after having breed her.
Males had the disappointing affinity to dissappear after they had secured their seed in her eggs.

When her mental connected little red eye in the water swim closer to the other two visitors did they seem to have already finished their goal.
All three of them surfaced.

She in the meantime looked over the object on the oceanic floor. It looked like the one group of afloat things they all seem to sleep in.
It must have come lose and sunk. It spoke highly of them that they take care of their nests so mutch.

She just hoped that non of their offspring was hurt when it sunk. Losing once offspring is a very traumatic event. Especially if their death wasn't a accident...

The Empress was shortly lost in thoughts when 2 of the visitors swim infront of her observing fish.
With a small shake of her actual head, did she swim closer to the surface and consequently to her future mate. To her horror did one if the red scaled Predators had snuck up on the unsuspecting male.

It was obviously a female adolescent since it was not caring for scaring its prey, rather than sneak up to it and then eat it before its prey noticed its doom.

The Empress booped the male twice on its face glass to get his attention, than swim behind him.
His annoyed face morphed into panik when he saw the coming Predator.
To her shock did he not flee like she expected, he looked for a moment to his companions and than with a look of determination swim towards his attacker.

To think he would put his life infront of danger to his companion made her heart flutter. He would be a excellent mate and dare she hope, a father to his offspring!

The Empress could feel that if the young male could have given a war cry of challenge, he would have. Not to intimidating his opposition, but to alert the companions he wanted to see protected.

If he would survive today, no matter the language incomplete set:
She could contact him and if he was to strong of mind to be enticed to be dominated, she would send out some of her own raised Predators to give him more confidence to swim out and eventually meet with her.

The sickness that many developed after the old visitors that had build the cage around her that had no access to her secretions or that of her offspring, often developed between a year and a decade a threshold where the sickness was taking visible hold of them.

She hoped that he would ideally arrive before it became visible to spare him the effort of healing.
Otherwise just like she observed with others she healed, it would be a painful way until her body own secretions healing would restore the sick flesh of the one needing healing.

It took usually ten years of egg development in her body and one hundred years of growing up for her offspring to before fertile, but by the time they had reached adulthood with 1000 years they could start the repopulation of their world.

The salvage and rescue operation with the priority turned around, started. Twilight would infuse all ropes with her telekinesis pull to help for a steady and even accending of the Lifepod, the Griffons would all pull flying towards the sky until the Lifepod was surfaced.

Applejack and Rarity would evacuated the inhabitants before any other action was taken.
Gale would hack himself into the pod and starts its full diagnostic program. Once the problem with its floating platform was fixed did the would either place it next to one of the Quad formed Lifepod to welding them together or if it wasn't working do to for instance a hole in the floating Lifepods platform, they pull it together to the reef for repairs.

Solid plan, it even run flawless for the thirst third of the job when no Predators had been spotted and the secured roped got in place without a hitch in the plans.
After everyone surfaced to refill their doubled airtanks did the second third of the plan started.

Once more they dive deep down.
Zephyr and Giraldi fixed their quad seagliders to the Lifepod and preparing to start the lifting.
That was when a red eyed Glubscher seemingly wanting to play twice tackeld Spikes visor, Spike followed the playfully Glubscher with a red instead of a orange one and to his horror see a previously unknown Predator.

Normally would Gale have warned him, but with his cameras under water on seemingly working for 50 meters, was it still out of reach of Gales cameras for a clear visual identification.
Lucky Spike was warned accidentally by a playfully red eyes Glubscher before it could catch him unaware.

He was about to turned his radio on to warn everyone, but the possible panic might have delayed the rescue and cost the sunken survivers their life's.

So in Spike's eyes there was only one happy ending for this rescue operation. He dropped his PDA so Gale don't alert anyone, he would not have to retrieve a accidentally lost PDA for the first time. It was so common in fact that a weak short range beacon was commonly build in the PDA frames used by everycreature. Gale had stopped thankfully two weeks ago to complain how clumsy every community member was with his PDA frames in general. Especially when Gilda, Giraldi or Rainbowdash used their PDA fames as mouth stopper of another aquatic predator to avoid getting bitemarks.

With determination did he swim towards the Predator. Time to be once more:
'Spike the Brave and Glorious!'

Twilight was very optimistic about this operation.
With ever hoove and Talon on stand by they had more than enough physical leverage to lift the Lifepod up. She could have done it all by herself, but if she made it a team effort would everyone have a bonding experience. Further did she hoped that Sharpbeak might come around eventually and join the Community.

She worked two months on convincing the Griffons that forgiveness was the path of the future.

Sharpbeak might be a facilitating accomplice to the murder of the ships crew, but technically did he only was after the money just like any Griffon and if he didn't help Scharlatan than someone else would have.

Everygriff accepted begrudgingly her logic and would welcome him into the community once he was ready to join.

To everycreatures delight had Twilight and Rarity planned a double hunting plan to obtain electronic Ell for them as food and for themselves and their projects.

Twilight would get the for the Griffons not so tasty conductor rods that naturally grow on the electrical Ells and Rarity used its teeth and spine construction for flexible needles to decorate everyone's bed sheet.
A win-win for everyone involved.

Everything was running smoothly, Gale complained that Spike dropped his PDA again, but it should be fine as long they retrieve it once the survivers of the Pod are save and the Lifepod wasn't in danger of sinking again.

Twilight loved when her plans run smoothly.
Perhaps she could entice Sharpbeak to stay after dinner once they would later today have catched a Electrical Ell. Applejack had befriended him and approached him apperently daily. If Twilight information from Pinkie Pies pinky sence was correctly, did the two even started a relationship.
With only two pony Stallions and one of them being a whiny individual to be polite or a wimpy daily complaining coltcuddler, was her pick rather limited.

Why noone started herding or flocking was beyond her, but perhaps next heat season did that would change.
Twilight Sparkle was very good in multitasking and so,as she was dreaming about herding or flocking and pulling the Lifepods enough so it was supported, but weak enough so everyone feel its was their combination of everyone's strength to accomplish the goal.

Spike situation would be over by the time she noticed Fluttershy & Spike returning together once Fluttershy had been diving after a bad feeling about something to save who ever was in trouble.

The rescue and salvage operation is underway. Spike near future is unclear and with a heavy heart for I have to confirm...:
Zephyr Avatar isn't going to be eaten. Even if Pinkie Pie suggestions from Fluttershy made it sound kinda funny...

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