Entry for Poniverse's Mascot Summerpalooza Contest

A shape-shifting predator comes to Equestria, seeking the threads of the creation, and additional strength for his race. Meanwhile, ponykind is subjected to a new living beast of folklore. (Dark Protagonist

Shorter drabs over a mess of misfit ponies making ends meet in the distant city of Manehattan, far from any world-changed events, yet suckered into their own trials of life.

In the long era of peace, Father Time remains one of the few sources of misery left in the world, leading a select few ponies to attempt to play god, and resume the dark work of so long ago.