Danger in Equestria

"So what happened here?" A white unicorn asked as he walked up to a few stallions who were examining the body in the room.

"Well, we currently don't know the primary cause of death, but we can tell that according to the cuts around the mouth we can conclude that before the throat was slashed what ever did this probably used something sharp and thick to muffle the screams from him while it slashed out his throat, before the thing ripped the head open and ripped the skull out. Then most likely something caught it's attention over at that wall and when it went to go see what it was it burst through the wall and saw something out the window and went after it. We don't know if this was a targeted murder or just a random killing." A red stallion said as he stood up from examining the body.

"So we don't know who or what did this?" The stallion chief asked putting a hoof to his chin.

"Yes sir." The red stallion said.

"Damn. Can you get anything else from the body?" The chief asked.

"We might be able to if we can take it to the morgue for more examination." The stallion said as he took another look at the body.

"Um excuse me, but I think I can help." A voice said as the chief turned around to be greeted by the sight of a lavender unicorn and a small yellow pegasus

"Hello Twilight. And who's the little pegasus that's with you?" The chief asked.

"Well this is the pony that witnessed what went down here, and we both saw what did this and we both might know how to keep it away." Twilight said as everypony stopped what they were doing and looked at the two of them.

"You can help us then. Little girl what happened here?" The chief asked as he sat down on his haunches.

"First off my name is Little Light and it wasn't another pony that did this. It was a creature with the head and tail of a cobra, a big

body, razor sharp claws, dragon-like wings, and a small dragon-like creature was with it." The pegasus said as she sat down on her haunches and looked into the eyes of the chief pony.

"Okay. That's one question answered. Can you tell us how you managed to escape this monster?" The chief asked.

"Okay I escaped by going through the emergency shafts,, and flew to Ponyville where we learned that it can't be in the light. The light hurts the creature." Little Light said.

"And it can travel at speeds even Rainbow Dash can't reach." Twilight said as she sat down next to Little Light.

"Damn, that mother bucker must be a fast bitch. Oh pardon my language." The chief said remembering that there was a little kid in the room.

"It's okay, oh, and before I forget, the creature can fly and slither on the air." Little-princess said as she remembered the animal it was eating in mid-air.

Up in the outer reaches of the planets atmosphere, Samus Aran was reading a book the GFMC had given her to read. While she was reading her ships console lit up.

Message Received

She put the book down and stood up to access the message

Scans show biological signature of creature not native to the planet hostile creature just made an attack. Coordinates being sent now, intervention highly recommended.

"Well this is an interesting turn of events." She said as walked to the rear of her ship which housed a circular plate on the floor surrounded by other forms of equipment. Standing in the middle of it and after tying up her hair in a ponytail with a red band, she keyed in a few commands on the console, bringing everything to life. Samus spread her legs slightly and held her arms out as a small anti-gravity field suspended her about a foot in the air. Satisfied that everything was running its natural course, she sighed in contentment and closed her eyes, putting her full trust in the mechanics of what was essentially her home.

Two mechanical arms combined orange and yellow armor over her lower body, sealing the two parts together and encasing her long and toned legs in nigh impenetrable armor. Black underlay was added as necessary as the largest armor set was attached to her torso. The golden abdominal armor was of a more flexible material to allow for natural breathing cycles. Next was her breast and back plates, with the former jutting outwards and forming a ridge on account of her bust. Finally, her arms met the same fate as they were encased in their own armor, although her hands donned a more flexible form of the exoskeleton to allow for full use of her digits. The forearm of her right appendage was left without any protection, making way for her weapon, the Arm Cannon, to slide over it and connect to her elbow plate. The arm armor was then connected to the entire exoskeleton with two large, spherical shoulder plates, completely flanking her head on either side. At last, the gravity disengaged and Samus was set on her feet with a resounding metal "clink." Her Chozo exoskeleton lit up green on several points; especially the top of her hands and two slits on the breastplate.

The suit was now active with The Powered Armorsuit that was largely biological in nature, and bound to her, was once again summoned for duty. Samus normally didn't have to have each and every part of her Varia Suit put on her body, for she could easily equip and unequip it by keying in a few commands on her Arm Cannon or arm (or simply willing it by her conscious thought). However, the suit had to physically come off once in a while, usually after large amounts of time being deployed, so it could be cleaned and repaired.

"Well better send a message to the Galactic Federation. Computer send message to Galactic Federation." Samus spoke with a firm voice. The ships console lit up once again as Samus wrote the message.

Hostile creature has been spotted on the planet Equis in sector 1.049.Going to the surface to help in anyway possible and to take the creature out. Requesting back-up equipment.

End Transmission.

"Well now that the transmission has been sent better get down to the surface and get to work." Samus said as she set the coordinates into the computer and started to drift into the planets atmosphere.

*A few days later*

"Well, this is where the coordinates say the creature attacked." Samus said as she landed her orange plated ship in a small field outside of an old abandoned shack three miles from the closest town. Her sensors detected no advanced technology of this place, meaning that they had yet to develop space flight. Galactic Federation protocol stated that non-space flight planets were to be untouched. However, Samus was a bounty hunter, the laws didn't apply to her. Still, it would be best to avoid the locals as much as possible. "Now to go investigate the area where the creature attacked." Samus said to herself as she activated her suits cloaking device and started to walk towards an old barn. She held her arm cannon at a semi-passive angle. Samus was about three feet from the barn when she heard a twig snap. Upon instinct she turned around to face what had caused the twig to snap and pointed her arm cannon at the source.

"Whoa hold up."

Well this is new. Samus thought to herself as she lowered the barrel of the arm cannon and checked to see if her helmets translator was on. "Whats your name?" Samus demanded.

"My name is Sharp Wits." A medium sized earth pony said as she stood up.

"Will you come with me for a little while Sharp Wits?" Samus asked as she relaxed her guard.

"Sure, and all I know about the monster attack is that it attacked a small shack about two to three miles that way and there was a survivor. She's a little pegasus filly and right now she's in Ponyville with Twilight, she lives in the only tree house library at the center of town. So if I were you I would put that rock down and start heading over to Twilights." Wits said as she raised a hoof pointing to the south.

Damn, how did she know I was going to do that? Samus thought as she charged a small concussive beam she forged from a few other beams that was supposed to knock an enemy out cold for a few minutes and erase all memory for the past few minutes. "So how did you know that I was going to ask about the monster attack and that I was going to knock you out with a rock?" Samus asked as she dropped the rock and slowly raised her arm cannon.

"Because even though I'm as stubborn as a mule, I have fought spirits that could kill you just by uttering a single word. I have fought spirits that are almost impossible to kill. To make a long story short, I have way more experience in my pupils than you have in all the universes and galaxies that you've been in. Oh and I don't know much about Equestria so you going have to go to Twilight to find out more. Tell her Ah mak fula, shul ak dsh, cohak shalt hoct shalkt, usam lakt masu. She will know what that means."

"Thanks that's all I needed to know." Samus said as she released the charged blast right at Wits' head. "Now that she's out I can go talk to this Twilight." Samus said as she started walking to Ponyville.

"So what's going to happen to my father?" Little Light asked as she and Twilight got back to the library.

"Well he's going to get patched up and have a funeral. Do you have any relatives you can stay with?" Twilight asked a little concerned for the citizens of Equestria.

"No I don't." The little pegasus said with a sigh.

"Well you can stay with me until we can find you a home, is that okay?" Twilight asked as she sat down on the couch.

"Yeah that'll be fine." Little Light  said as she crawled up onto the couch. At that moment a sound came from the basement. "What was that?"

"I don't know, but I'm going to go see what it is." Twilight said as she got up off the couch and grabbed a small candle and went down into the basement. When Twilight got down in the basement she saw something had fallen from a shelf and the window was open. Better close that window. I don't want that creature getting in here. Twilight thought as she closed the window. Right after she closed the window she heard a hissing sound from behind her. Slowly turning around she stood right in front of the creature. Oh crap. Twilight thought as the creature looked right at her and let out a slow hiss. Remembering its weakness Twilight brought the small candle up in front of her getting a hiss of pain from the creature as it swung its arm and knocked the candle across the room and putting the flame out. Oh crap, I'm fucked. Twilight thought as she backed away slowly. At that moment the door to the basement was kicked open and Samus came sprinting down the steps.

"Twilight get down! Now!" Samus yelled as she fired a missile at the creature. The missile found its mark on the right shoulder of the creature sending it to the other side of the room. Switching to her scan visor, she pressed and held a button once her visor reticle was trained on the creature. The scan finished with three 'beeping' sounds, displaying information on Samus's visor:

"Recorded to Logbook."

[Morphology: Chalotarika]

[Hybrid Snake predator. The top predator on any planet it's found on. Can and will adapt to surroundings faster than your speed booster can take you. Looking into its eyes causes immediate death, highly poisonous, no known antidote, extremely sharp claws can rip right through your varia suit, extremely fast, can slither anywhere it can see, can regenerate any lost body parts given time. Only known weakness is light, any light will hurt it, but sunlight will kill it instantly. Keep alternating your weapon fire, give it no time to adapt. Proceed with extreme caution.]

Well this will be tough. Samus engaged her combat visor and started to formulate a plan. The  Chalotarika swung at her with it claws she fired a charged plasma beam attack, the fire found its mark cutting off its right claw. Samus rolled out of the way from another attack from the creature and fired a super missile, which found its mark right in the gut. After a few minutes of an intense battle Samus was able to  scare the creature away as the sun started to set outside. "Man that battle drained me of 60% of my energy and 75% of my missiles. Better do a quick diagnostics just to be sure."

[Varia Suit Online]

[Performing System Diagnostic]

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[Defensive Shielding: 15%]

[Varia Suit Integrity: Normal]

[Morph Ball Systems Online]

[Space Jump Boosters Online]

[Speed Booster Online]

[Screw Attack Online]

[Grapple Beam Online]

[Visor Systems Online]

[Arm Cannon: Power Beam Online/ Charge Beam Online/ Wave Beam Online/Plasma Beam Online/Ice Beam Online/Wide Beam Online/Missile Launcher Online]

[Varia Suit Functioning to Battle Ready Capacity]

"Well that went better than I expected I was sure that some powers were lost." Samus said genuinely surprised.

“Um excuse me, but who exactly are you and how do you know my name?” Twilight asked the metal clad hunter.

“Oh, sorry. Let me introduce myself. I’m Samus Aran, of the Galactic Federation. The creature I just saved your ass from is why I’m here. So I know your name from an old friend of yours. She said to tell you Ah mak fula, shul ak dsh, cohak shaklt hoct shalkt, usam lakt masu. She said you would know what that mean." Samus said as she extended a hand to help the lavender unicorn up.

"Thanks Ms. Aran." Twilight said as she took the offer and got up.

"Please call me Samus, don't tell anybody of my existence, and do you mind telling me all you can about Equestria and give me any and all maps you have so I can do my work quickly and efficiently?" Samus asked as she pulled Twilight to her hooves.

"Well not telling anypony will be a problem, but getting you maps to Equestria shouldn't." Twilight said as the two of them walked back up the stairs.

"How can not telling others going to be harder than getting maps to Equestria?" Samus asked as they got up into the living room.

"Because I have other ponies that need my help, I got to write weekly letters to the Princess's explaining what I've learned about the magic of friendship, and I have a little filly staying with me for a while. But here are the maps to Equestria and a few books on the history of Equestria. By the way where's Little Light?" Twilight asked as she got down off a ladder and gave the maps and books to Samus and started to look around the room.

"Don't worry when I came in she saw me and ran upstairs. So she's hiding somewhere upstairs and all we need to do is find her and I can get what she knows about the attack and help her over the grieving process." Samus said as she started to walk up the steps calling the little filly's name.

"Why do you think she ran upstairs?" Twilight asked trotting after Samus.

"Because nine out of ten times if someone runs off to hide they hide upstairs, so they can see whats going on downstairs." Samus opened the door to Twilight's room and went over to the closet. "Little Light, you can come out now, the creature has been scared away for now." Samus said as she keeled by the door. As the door slowly opened a little yellow pegasus poked her head out and saw the metal clad human.

"Eeep. The little pegasus yelped as she ducked back into the closet.

"What's wrong with her?" Samus asked as she turned back to Twilight.

"Well to be honest I think she's scared of you." Twilight stated as she trotted over to the closet and slowly opened it. "Little Light, it's okay this is Samus Aran, and she scared that creature away that had somehow got in the basement." Twilight gently said as she reached in and nuzzled the little scared pegasus.