Mutation Extermination

Queen POV

It started to cool down. Soon it would be safe to come out. The ride into the planet was rough and hot, hopefully none of my subjects were harmed, she would need them to start a nest.

She sat there for a second, before digging out, and to my dismay, several workers lay unmoving, dead. I let out a loud but sad roar, for my lost subjects. I heard a digging noise, so I looked to the source of the sound.

Three workers dug to the surface, looking at me they let out joyous shrieks and came to my side. Satisfied that I had some workers left, I gave a roar that signaled for them to bury their dead brothers.

*snap*

We all turned our gaze to where the noise came from, standing there watching us, was a yellow creature that stood on two legs, it had red hair with a bow tied in it. We stood there, staring at each other. The creature then started to back off slowly, then turned and started running, I knew what it was doing.

I gave chase to the creature, roaring as I did, it didn't take long to catch up. It turned its head, then screamed to see me closing in. I didn't want to kill it quite yet, I wanted to have some fun with it.

I jumped over it landing a few feet in front of it, it ran straight into me, causing me to grin, it saw the grin and screamed again. It wasn't enjoying this as much as me, but, I didn't care, this was fun! It raised its hands in an attempt to keep my prying eyes away. *sclick*

It screamed in pain as I cut its arms and hands with my sharp claws. It started to crawl away, can't have that happen, could I? *crunch* I bit down on its leg, causing it to scream in pain, before it passed out from the pain. Such a shame, I was hoping she would last longer. Deciding this was the first prey we have seen, couldn't pass up a meal like this.

I pocked it up with my tails, carrying it back I saw the workers were done burying their brothers. I roared once more and held up my prize, they roared as well and started digging into the ground. I took one last look around, noticing some sort of structure in the distance. There would be more of them.

Going down into the hole, I heard something making noise, almost as if they were communicating.

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Riots POV

I was devastated, my house was destroyed, ponies were dead, and worse, I could hear something roaring in the distance. I noticed that others were taking note of the roaring to. Deciding to investigate, I start following the path it left.

I almost lost my dinner, as I was walking, I could see ponies either impaled by wood off to the side, or pieces of them off to the side or in the few fires that were around. Quickening my pace I made it to the outskirts of town.

I almost screamed at what I saw, something was standing above applebloom, an abomination. It looked sorta like a mutated pony, but the colors it wore made it hard to tell. I flinched when its dagger like claws flew down at her at tremendous speeds, cutting her arms and hands.

She screamed when that happened, she may have been a little far from town, but I could see the blood on her arms. She started to crawl away from the mutant, I lost it. The mutant quickly bite down on her leg *crunch* I could hear it from hear. She screamed one last time before she passed out, then I saw something come from the back of it, making me question my sanity, twin tails wrapped around applebloom picking her up.

I started to run after it, but I saw more of them. They were smaller then the first one I saw, they only had one tail, but looked almost the same, despite their size. The bigger one I believed to be their leader, because they all roared triumphantly at the sight of the pony wrapped in their leaders tail.

I was about to run out at them but looked down at where I was standing, I was standing right where applebloom was attacked, taking a step back, I tripped on a rock, trying to catch myself I fell face first into the pool of blood there. I almost puked again when I saw her skin lying there, the skin from her arm. I failed to notice that the knife I took with me was now covered in blood.

I looked back to where they were only to see a hole, the leaders tail disappearing into it. "HALT!" I froze "In the name of celeatia, you are under arrest!" I was confused about what he was rambling about, I turned my head, a guard was standing their pointing the spear he had in his hands towards me, ready to attack.

"What? What am I being charged with?" I said as I turned around, this guard was brown, had brown hair, and had the standard guard armor a Pegasus would wear. As I stood up, my knife fell out of my pocket. I looked at wide eyed, I then looked down and remembered that I was covered in blood, the guard got a little closer, jabbing the air in front of me.

"You are charged with murder, and by the looks of it, there's enough proof here." I froze again, was I going insane? No, I wasn't, that's what terrified me more. I was about to protest against this before I looked behind the guard to see a few of the townsfolk making their way over the hill. Most of them gagged at the sight before them, some gave me terrified looks, but what hurt the most, was the look of sheer terror on derpys face.

"I... I can explain"  I said to the guard, "there was something here! Something not even I have seen before, it was almost the size of a manticore, it was attacking applebloom!" I couldn't get anymore out, the guard pulled up the wooden side of the spear, knocking me out. The last thing I heard was the gasp of some one in the crowd as they saw me fall.

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Jack's POV

I had just knocked out the lying murderer, his body now slump down on the ground. I looked to my right, there was some skin, just laying there. I looked to the crowd, they had also turned their heads towards the skin, some looked like they regretted it.

I was about to tell them to return home, but an orange pony with creamish looking hair, she had a stetson on her head, a look of pure terror and guilt on her face when she got to the skin. She started crying, I could probably tell why, that must be her sister. "Ma'am, I'm going to have to ask you to back away from the crime scene." I said in a calm welcoming tone, she looked at me for a few seconds, tears running down her face.

She nodded then backed into the crowd "and I would like to have you all go home, I believe you have all seen enough." The crowd started to separate as they started to walk home. I noticed two filly's standing there, one was orange with purple hair, the other was white with pinkish purpleish hair, they were crying.

I could only guess why, this was probably one of their friends. I walked over to them and knelt down, "what's wrong little ones?" I asked in a kind, and caring tone of voice

The orange one started to reply "o-o-our f-friend was... was j-just murdered!" She replied, I felt a pang of sadness rush through me. I remembered my friend died, he was only 8 when he passed, we were playing by the river, having fun messing around, then he tripped and fell into the river. I panicked when he did, I yelled for help, but none came, I looked down the river to see his small form fighting to stay up. But he was carryed over the waterfall, that was the last time I ever saw him, the terror on his face.

I came back to reality, the filly's noticed my sympathetic look. "I know how you feel, for I have lost a friend too." They both returned the sympathetic look, then they both came over and hugged me, I returned it, a tear running down my face. "Now you two better be getting home, I'm pretty sure your parents are getting worried" I said, they both nodded and started walking home.

I went over to the murderer, he was a unicorn, luckily they got stuff back at base that could keep him from use ng magic. He was black with purple stripes every now and then, his hair was all messed up, but the most disturbing part was the blood that covered the front of him. Shivers ran down my back at the mere thought of somepony committing this kind of a crime, and trying to lie his way out.

*thwoomp*

I turned around quickly, what I saw made me curious, there was a long bone like spike sticking out of a tree 20 feet away. It was long, whatever shoots that I didn't want to figure out. I picked him up, he was heavy, but I managed to get him over my shoulder as I started walking towards the jailhouse.