Underground Terror

They traveled far and wide, but the Appaloosans found the town they were looking for, Ponyville. The mayor of Ponyville saw how many ponies were entering her town and demanded to know why.

"Excuse me sheriff, but why is all of Appaloosa here and not back at your town?" the mayor asked.

The sheriff turned his attention to the mayor with an answer, "Sorry  Mayor, but there's a killer monster on the loose at Appaloosa and we tried to contact the princesses and it  didn't work. The only choice for survival was to leave."

The mayor understood perfectly and allowed the ponies to stay. The town folk had thanked her and settled in. Applejack, seeing all this from her stand, wanted to help her cousin and had thought of an idea. Applejack ran over to Twilight's house and knocked on her door. Spike, the little baby dragon and assistant to Twilight, had answered the door.

"Hey, wassup Applejack. Why are there a whole bunch of ponies coming to town all of a sudden?" asked the baby dragon, seeing the Appaloosans moving in.

Applejack didn't really know so she said, "I'm sorry Spike, but I don't know, said something 'bout a beast that been hunting them and ... you know what, I need to see Twilight, the next part is a little too much for children."

Spike held the door to let Applejack in, thinking about what it could be that is not for children. Twilight came out of her room to go and pick up a few things, bringing along her check list.

"Twilight, Twilight. I need to talk to you about something. We also might need a book to find something." Applejack franticly yelled.

"Sure, what is it?" asked Twilight.

Applejack looked to see if Spike was close enough, but he was cleaning the shelves at the other side of the library. Applejack then came closer and whispered, "Twi, we have a beast that eats others on the loose. They killed the buffalo in Appaloosa and the Appaloosans were also being hunted down. We need to do something to stop that varmit's killing spree."

Twilight was surprised and a little horrified, but was confident nonetheless. She ran to Spike and told him to find any book that talked about carnivore animals. It took a little while to explain what a carnivore was, but she summed it up to meat eaters. Spike obeyed and searched for any book with "meat eaters". Twilight then asked, "Hey, what did they say the beast looked like?"

Applejack didn't hear anything about what it looked like and answered, "I'm sorry Twi, I really am, but they didn't see what it was that was killing everything."

Twilight was now determine to investigate what the new creature is.

Back in Appaloosa all life, except some insects, were long gone. The dirt rose up to reveal some tentacles, three in fact, that were searching for food. The tentacles retracted and the dirt was moved as an underground beast was cutting through, heading straight for what looked like the Changeling Empire, hearing chittering noises from the insect ponies.

Twilight, hinting the want of knowledge, headed for the sheriff of Appaloosa with many questions. "Hey sheriff,I gotta ask you some questions." said Twilight.

The sheriff was surprised, she sneaked up on him somehow. "Well what kind of questions?" asked the sheriff, fearing what the questions might be.

"It has something to do with your so-called monster. My friends and I  need to know what it looked like so we can find it in our books, it might have some information even with how to stop it." answered Twilight. This made the sheriff feel guilty, not knowing what the creature even is.

The sheriff answered with, "I'm so sorry ma'am, but I nor the town folk had seen the deadly creature. All we know is that it hunts in the desert and always gets its victims."

Twilight was disappointed, but now she had one other pony to ask ... well two, Braeburn and Princess Celestia.