Ascend from Darkness

by Nightdasher1

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, Crossover, Main 6, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Human, Other
Length: 2165

The Scout, the lowest of the Cryptid ranks, finds itself in Equestria after a horrific accident.

The Cryptids were feared on earth, exterminating the human race. After the Exodus incident, the Medusa Device left a huge dent in their numbers. One Scout however, was not killed, but transported by unknown means, and now must fend for itself in this new land of Equestria.

As a side note, I typically don't plan ahead with my work, I usually just come up with it as I go. :rainbowwild:
~This story is written post-season four, so I have no idea how Season five will change this.~

Published 2015-04-05 05:10:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-04-08 23:31:36 UTC

Chapter 1

Darkness cannot drive out Darkness, only Light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out Hate, only Love can do that.
-Martin Luther King Junior

Something deep inside sparked. This one felt itself slipping, descending into the cold clutches of death, the never ending darkness threatening to swallow it whole.

No.

It would not it end like this.

Flashbacks raced through it's head, the memory of hatching, the memory of it's turmoil. It was never easy during it's life time, being the smallest of it's pack. It was considered a nuisance, never being able to fight, or even defend their hives. The Ancestors themselves never approved of it being allowed into combat. So desperately it fought to be like it's bretheren, but all in vain to itself. This was it's end...

The scout's eye cracked open slowly, desperate to stave off the darkness.In place of it, bright yellow light flooded his vision.

Is this death.. The cryptid thought to itself. Thought.

It could think, it could feel. No longer was the harrowing hive mind of the Ancestors, banished away by this new sensation. The feeling of freedom.

The scout rose to it's feet, rather ungracefully, a feeling of nausea rushing over it. The last thing it could remember was the wave of energy rushing towards it. Terror filled it's last few seconds of consciousness, as it's brethren fell and vanished from the hive mind, consumed by the blue death sweeping though the land. The very last thing it saw as it's life was snuffed away, or so it thought.

Around it, everything had changed, the ruined human buildings replaced with green luscious grass. The smoggy brown sky was replaced by clear blue one, much like how it was when the Cryptids emerged from their ARKs. This wasn't right, far from it. Even though the sky, the grass, even the soil beneath it's very claws seemed very much real, it could not have been. Something nagged at the back of it's mind, as it now realized, with it's new found independence from the hive mind, also brought with it the feeling of pure isolation. Heree it was, in this wonderous world, but there was nothing there with it.

Getting a better perspective of it's area, it took into account the fact it was in the middle of a flowing grassland, not a hint of civilization for miles. Further off in the distance, giant green mountains sprung sharply upwards from the ground, reaching towards the heavens. The edge of the plains was dominated by an abundant tree line, with a thin mist covering the ground.

Even though the scout was never the brightest, it knew one thing it had to do to survive, find food. Without direction, or any particular aim, it set off into the forest, letting's it instincts guide it, oblivious to the three pairs of green eyes watching it intently.

*****

Fluttershy smiled down at the little mouse family, their new baby being born just seconds ago. "Oh my! It's a baby girl!" She exclaimed, looking down at the tiny little white fuzz ball.

The family cheered with excited squeaks, the mother looking down at the newly born. Even though the Pegasus and the mouse were nothing alike, the mice could understand her, and Fluttershy could understand them. The little mouse gave a small squeak, feeling it's way around it's new world. Fluttershy could only d'aww at it, but was promptly drawn from the family when a little white bunny ran up, tapping her repeatedly on the leg.

"What is it Angel?"

The rabbit made a scary face, and pointed towards the Everfree Forest.

"A monster in the Everfree Forest?" She asked, worry beginning to creep it's way into her mind. At that moment, she heard a loud roar from outside, along with shrill cries from her animal friends. There was another roar, but it was nothing like anything she had heard before. It sounded alien, and foreign. She rushed outside to her backyard, and saw it. Standing atop her chicken coop, was a monster, about the size of a large wolf. It had four legs, and gray scales covering it. It's underbelly was bright orange, so was it's mouth. Large claws lined it's feet, and menacing teeth and fangs were bared, as it gave off another roar. It's tail swished from side to side, and it was clearly angry and bent on hurting anything that came to close.

The bear that lived near Fluttershy's cottage was on it's hind legs, swiping at the creature, letting out loud roars at it. The creature's head seemed to grow larger, as two big scales sprang up from it's face, making it seem much more threatening. Fluttershy flew up at the creature, as it turned to face her, screeching in anger at the yellow Pegasus.

"Hey! Stop it!" She yelled at it, in any attempt to tame the wild beast. This only made it angrier, as it jumped over her head, with unnatural ability. It landed on her roof, screeching again as the animals ran, but the bear stood on it's hid legs, gripping onto the roof with it's claws, snapping at the creature. Fluttershy flew to intervene, but before she could, a flash of cyan and rainbow slammed into the side of the creature, sending it barreling of thee roof onto the ground.

"Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy squeaked, as the cyan Pegasus stood on her roof, looking down at the monster, as it scrambled around on the ground.

"What the hay is that thing?" Rainbow yelled, ready to tackle the thing again should it try hurting anypony. Before she could, it came to it's feet, screeching at Rainbow, before fleeing into the Everfree in a panic. Rainbow pursued it to the edge of the treeline.

"Yeah, you better run!" She yelled after it, as it disappeared into the dark forest. The pegasus waited until the orange glow of the creature faded away deeper into the forest, choosing not to follow it in; as she then turned to her friend. "Care to explain what in tartarus that was?"

Flutttershy was busy tending to Mr. Bear, who had obviously taken some rather deep cuts from that monster. "I-I have no idea, Angel ran in telling me about it, but I've never seen anything like it before!" She cried in panic, focused more on her bear friend than her explanations at the current moment. Even so, she'd rather try not to think about the beast that nearly mauled her friend.

"Well, should we tell Twilight? She of all ponies would know who, or what, it is." Rainbow replied, rolling her eyes, checking over her shoulder every so often should the thing come back.

"Y-Yes, I think we should." Flutters answered, looking anxiously to the forest.

Author's Note

Yeah....I have no idea how to finish chapters.

Anyways, yeah I know Call Of Duty: Ghosts came out around two years ago but meh, I wanted to write something. Another side note, I'm writing this in the pre-season 5 era, even though it literally aired today.

I would really appreciate comments! I'm open to constructive criticism. :twilightsheepish:

Chapter 2

Pain, once again all this one felt was utter pain. It however had only itself to blame for this, underestimating it's prey. The yellow one seemed like an easy target, but the cyan one was a much different story. The Scout looked down at it's abdomen, which was beginning to form a bruise. Perhaps, it was better off back with it's brothers, as if it couldn't survive on it's own without it's pack.

No.

This one wasn't about to let it think like that about itself. It had a new life here, and if so, it had to forget it's past grievances. Even from the pain in it's side, it would have to learn to cope in this new world and it's surroundings, not to mention the local fauna. The first creature it had encountered was a dark brown in color, and almost the size of a Rhino, and it hurt like one as well. It seemed like a fair challenge, but it had underestimated those around it. The second creature it met, the yellow one, seemed like much easier game. It bared wings, but they were unlike that of a Gargoyle's, but were more like a bird, feathered. But the last it had met, the blue one, was far different. Though they shared similar physique, this one was much more feral, and counterattacked without warning.

The one thing the Scout had running for it against this alien species, was they lacked any sort of armor, or weapons like the humans from Earth. Even with this, they seemed to be rather capable of putting up a fight.

The Scout shook it's head, attempting to shrug off the dull pain on it's side. Judging by the sun, night would be soon to fall over the forest, as the sky was already taking on a orange-red glow from the sunset. The forest grew darker by the second, and the Scout took to the trees, jumping up onto a branch to rest for the night.

*****

Twilight looked through her now expanded collection of literature. The new castle did have it's perks, including an expansive library, much bigger than the one in her old tree.

"Hey Twilight? It's getting late, don't you think you sleep?"

The purple Alicorn turned from her books, to find her Number One assistant standing in his sleep wear behind her. "I suppose so, still getting used to the place I guess."

At that moment, Rainbow Dash shot through the door, carrying a rather shocked-looking Fluttershy underneath her.

"Twilight!!"

Twilight barely had time to react, ducking down as the Pegasus nearly slammed into her. "Yes, Rainbow Dash?"

The rainbow pegasus dropped Fluttershy onto the ground, giving a small squeak. "Do you have any books on the things in the Everfree Forest?"

"I have several in my collection, why? What did you two see?" Twilight replied, dusting herself off.

"Well, I just got into a fight with a monster from in there." Rainbow said, flexing her imaginary muscles. "I kicked it's tail, as if there was any doubt in that."

"Of course, could you tell me what it looked like?" Twilight inquired, rolling her eyes.

"Uhm, it looked like a dragon almost, except it had no wings, and it had a really long tail," Fluttershy chimed in quietly. "Oh, and it was glowing."

"A dragon like that..I don't think I've heard of anything like that. Have you Spike?"

The little dragon just shrugged, rubbing his eyes.

"Yeah, and it had big claws and teeth too!" Rainbow interjected.

Twilight's horn glowed a soft purple, as multiple books levitated off their shelves, as she set them out on the table in the center of the library. "Let's see here.." She said to herself, flipping through the pages of her books. The minutes ticked by, and Rainbow quickly grew impatient, hovering over Twilight's shoulder. "I don't think there's anything in here that matches what you're telling up, I guess the only way to find out is to see it myself, right Spike?...Spike?" The dragon had fallen asleep, laying on the table.

"I guess that's a sign we should all get some sleep." Fluttershy said wearily, muffling a yawn.

"You two are free to stay here if you'd like." Twilight suggested, carefully levitating Spike onto her back.

"Oh, why thank you Twilight." Fluttershy replied, nodding ever so slightly.

"Yeah, it'd be better than flying back to the cloud home."

Twilight smiled, as she walked back up the stairs to her bedchamber.

*****

Morning came more as a nuisance to the Scout, as it slowly opened it's eyes, one at a time. It tilted it's head back, letting of it's trademark call, as a few birds flew off the trees from it. The Cryptid thought of attempting to catch one, but shrugged off the idea, knowing it would more than likely just miss. This brought up another thought; it was going to need food. The fauna it had met yesterday proved a challenge, perhaps there were other creatures it could try...

As if on cue, a small brown rabbit hopped out from it's burrow, directly under the waiting Scout. The Scout pounced down onto it, biting straight down onto it's head, gulping it down almost instantly. It would serve as a snack, but it would require something of real sustenance soon. It climbed back up into it's tree, jumping from branch to branch, trying to find it's way around the dense canopy of the forest, to return to where yesterday's fight took place, and also to find it's next meal.

Author's Note

Here's the next chapter! This came out later than I had originally intended, sorry! I'll try to get content our more frequently now!

Also, Thanks to Mandopony and Groundbreaking who kept me from going insane trying to write this. :rainbowlaugh: