RAMPAGE: Equestria Tour!

[Galloping Gorge.]

[Day 34.]

  Twilight looked over a map Applejack had given her. The complex paths, railroads, and locations Twilight herself didn't even know about was enough to make her hair start to turn grey. A way from Galloping Gorge to the Frozen North would take another day or so by walking. She looked up from the map, the canyon they were in with train tracks running under them made it feel like they were in the dead center of nowhere. She then looked behind the monkey, seeing all the other monsters with her friends in their hands and chatting with them. Rainbow Dash was flying next to Nick, discussing what would win in a race.

"No way! A Pegasus can total out fly one of those jet things!" Rainbow shot.

"Hehehe...if you say so." Nick chuckled.

  Fluttershy was discussing the beautiful plains of the Earth with Lizzie. Applejack was in a small competition with Marco with eye spy.

"I spy with my little eye something...blue." he said with a smirk.

"Is it Ralph?" Applejack said. Pointing her hoof at the blue wolf next to them.

  Marco growled in his throat while Applejack laughed. Ralph on the other hand was talking with Rarity about the many fashions he had seen on Earth before being transformed into a wolf. Rarity's eyes sparkled with new ideas coming to her from what the blue wolf was telling her.

"I shall call it! Earth Original!" she proclaimed.

  Pinkie Pie was had found a monster just as crazy as she was. Sarah and her laughed for hours about silly topics such as, do monsters wear clothes, can spiders swim, and other nonsense that made them giggle. Returning her attention to the map, Twilight wished her, her friends, and all the monsters could take the train without being wanted by Equestria. She adjusted herself on Georges shoulder, trying not to knock over Spike who was sleeping next to her. George felt her move and raised an eye brow.

"Having trouble Twilight?" he asks.

  Twilight gives the ape a wide eyed look but it soon fades to a worried look. No. She wasn't okay, she wasn't sure if they were lost or if they were going in the right direction. Twilight let out a irritated breathe through her nose.

"I don't know if were going in the right direction."

  George bat an eye toward the alicorn on his shoulder. Ralph still had Bubbas scent but it was leading them in dangerous terrain now. George would be lying if he said he wasn't a little on edge. The eerie feeling this canyon was giving off made his fur stand on end. Their was no fog here, so it would be easier to see enemies coming. However, George could swore he could see dark figures running with lighting speed over the walls of the canyon. George was starting to get anxious, these shadows were starting to look like insects. A strange sound makes the ape stop his in tracks. Its sounded like a insectiod monster. As George continued walking he could smell something rotten, it smelled like a rotting corpse. Before he knew it, the ape stepped into something soft and mushy. He looked down and quickly stepped back.  The rest of the monsters stopped dead in their tracks. All with confused looks.

"What's up George?" Ralph asks.

  The ape turns to his friends with a concerned look.

"You all don't hear that?" George said.

  All went silent. Everyone listened to nothing but the wind for mere moments. That is until the same insectiod shriek made Boris, Curtis, and Ruby jump into each other. All of the ponies screamed as well.

"W-what is that!?" Fluttershy cried.

"Fluttershy! Your an expert on animals! What's making that sound!?" Rainbow Dash said with narrowed eyes.

  Fluttershy hid behind her mane, her whole body shacked with fear.

"I...I don't. I don't know!" she said.

  The shrieking went on for seconds until it abruptly ended. Then, the sounds of large multiple feet were hitting the ground and walking toward them. Soon it sounded like one, then it multiplied into many! Soon, it surrounded the monsters from all sides. George, Lizzie, and Ralph went back to back with the ponies in between them.

  A gold brown insect then came over the ledge of the gorge. Its golden eyes staring at the monsters below it. It clicked its feelers together and cackled, catching the attention of George. The ape looked up and saw the monster before him. It looked like a giant ant. George raised an eye brow at the sight of the monster and he wasn't the only one.

"I've never seen a animal like that before." Fluttershy said with wide eyes.

  A pink blur then zoomed past the ponies and the monsters and soon was on top of the giant ants head.

"That's because this is one of the different skins of a monster called Preytor! Preytor is a giant praying mantis monster who is one of the many monsters who competes for the title of the strongest monster in the world!"

  The giant ant hissed and attempted to grab Pinkie Pie but she was gone and was suddenly on Ralphs shoulder in an instant. Moat of the ponies nodded in understanding. While the monsters were jaw dropped and were collecting what Pinkie just said. The thought of another dimension full of more monsters was mind boggling to the gang. Meanwhile, the Preytor monster hissed and then let out an ear splitting screech. Everyone covered their ears as the sound nearly made their ears bleed. Preytor gave, what looked like a sinister grin, as more gold brown ants came from behind him and across the gorge. Now they were surrounded.