Equestria in Human
Fluttershy poured another bowl of food, and a flood of squirrels immediately surrounded it. She smiled; she loved her job, after all. After seeing to it that her bunnies were fed – especially the picky Angel – she sighed with content.
Her spa date with Rarity would be in just thirty minutes, so it was probably time to go. Living so far out of town was inconvenient at times, but she had to in order to have room for her lovely animals, and she wouldn't have it any other way.
“Now, you be sure to keep all the other critters in line for me, okay, Angel?”
The bunny took a moment away from his custom-made salad to give her a sharp salute.
“Good bunny.” With another smile, she turned and walked out through the door.
Outside, the sun shone brightly, and her freshly fed birds sang out loud and clear. Only a few fluffy white clouds blotted the sky.
With a spring in her step and a gentle song on her mind, she trotted away toward the center of Ponyville.
The ground shook.
Fluttershy stumbled, her wings flaring out to keep her steady. The song and happy trot vanished, replaced by wary glances at her surroundings. She had a sudden desire to flee, but she didn't know where she could go to be safe from an earthquake.
The rumbling stopped.
She sighed. Of course. She was a pegasus; she had the perfect way to escape earthquakes... If only she was brave like Rainbow Dash, maybe she would have thought of it in time. Still, at least no harm had come from it. As soon as the tremors stopped, the world around her returned to normal.
Shaking her head, she started off toward the Spa again. Hopefully there wouldn't be too much damage in Ponyville, and she could trade stories with Rarity about the earthquake. Rarity's story was sure to be more interesting, anyway. She was always good about dramatizing things.
She trotted on, looking around for any sign of trouble from the earthquake. Even though she was getting closer to town and there were many houses around, none of them seemed badly damaged. It was still a beautiful day, and–
Her glance caught the gleam of something metallic, high in the northern sky.
She stopped in her tracks. Now that was strange, and more than a little frightening.
The metal grew, showing a sharp, triangular shape as more of it appeared in the sky, only stopping when it was truly gargantuan. It dwarfed the morning sun.
Fluttershy winced. She could feel a panic coming on.
The shining edge of the blade slowly sliced across the sky, leaving a widening rift behind it. Fluttershy's jaw dropped. What began to show through behind the red-edged rift was unbelievable.
Some kind of giant creature looked in through the slice. Its face and head were covered with huge, light blue sheets, but its enormous eyes were visible, like nothing Fluttershy had ever seen before.
As the rift across the sky widened, the creature's arm became visible, holding the other side of the blade cutting across the sky. The creature's eyes narrowed, and it leaned in close, filling up the entire view. It stared down into Equestria, and Fluttershy could swear it was staring directly at her.
The giant knife resumed its slice across the sky, and the clear blue sky fell away to either side, revealing more and more of the ominous scene beyond. Huge, square lights hovered above, far brighter than the sun. The shapes of more enormous, blue-clad creatures loomed behind the first.
The blade retreated from the sky, after cutting all the way across. After a moment, a huge, blue hand, holding some strange, gleaming metal tool approached. The two prongs of the tool rushed toward her, separating as they drew closer. They grew to a nearly incomprehensible size, and while one of them disappeared below the northern horizon, the other prong rushed across where the sky used to be, casting its shadow over everything.
It stopped, just for a moment, but then the metallic monstrosity came crashing down, burning through the atmosphere and crushing into the ground. It must have hit miles away from Fluttershy, but she could still feel the ground tremor when it hit, she could still see the shockwave of displaced air approaching, and she could still clearly see it, towering high above the tallest mountains.
The ground shook, just as the blast of wind hit her. It lurched violently, and she fell to the ground.
As Fluttershy looked up, she saw the scene in the sky move, tilting and spinning. Her breathing came shallow and fast. She couldn't take this anymore. With one last little squeak, blackness overtook her.
* * *
“Doctor Hendricks, I've removed the foreign object, and the patient is ready to be closed.” Doctor Miller moved over to the specimen tray, gripping the strange object tightly with his surgical steel extraction tool.
“Thank you.” Doctor Hendricks moved up next to the patient. “Debbie, a sterile rinse, please, and get the sutures ready.”
Carefully, Doctor Miller set the orb down into the small steel specimen tray, releasing his hold on it. He leaned in close again, fascinated by it. He'd never seen anything like that inside a human body before, that was sure. He'd never seen anything like it at all, as a matter of fact – not this size. It looked rather like a planet, complete with continents and oceans. It even had clouds, but it was barely larger than his fist.
He shook his head. Even with it now sitting plainly right in front of him, he still had no idea what it was. When Mister Bennet back on the table there had first come into his office complaining about abdominal pain, this was the last thing Doctor Miller would have expected. Initial scans and X-rays had detected a spherical object wedged just above his appendix. There had been fears of cancer, but now Doctor Miller had no idea what to think. Just what was that thing?
Author's Note
Why not?
It's something I doubt has been done before. (As dangerous as that is to say on the internet.)
