The Savior of The Hive

I am in my bed, waiting three of my children to appear, as the door opens three xenolings enter, one with tattoos on the four hooves resembling fire tornadoes, Karov, the oldest of my sons with 30 years, the second being a changeling with a gas mask, one that resembled a stallion that name was Hunk, but with blue lenses, Duo the middle son with 23 years and lastly my youngest daughter with 23 years, Karenn, she used glasses because she got one of my bad vision genes, her glasses resembling the glasses of a little filly that I killed and eaten when I was younger, this pony being a gray furred filly with a gray almost blue mane, Karenn’s glasses had one difference, they were red instead of blue, they sat down near my bed like dogs waiting treats of their owner, sorry, there were no other comparison I could make, just because my children’s tails waved like happy dogs and their eyes are cute as puppy ones, but I miss one of my children, Chrysalis II, but what can I do, she is now the oldest daughter of Queen Chrysalis with 29, she don’t have time for me because she now is the Queen of the Xenoling Hive, someone needs to guide our little drones.

“Dad, did you call us?” Karov start speaking, “What is the problem?”

“None, I just wanted to tell you all a story.” They always ask if there is a problem or if I am feeling something, just because I have 150 years.

“What story? The Ghost Squadron and how they fought 2000 Sol Soldiers bare hooves? Or How a Changeling revenged his lost niece by knowing what ponies would do in the next minutes?” Duo asks, his eyes almost turning into spotlights as they shined. “Or about-“
“Enough is enough, Duo! Let our Daddy speak!” Karenn speaks almost hitting the back of Duo’s head, only these two know and can control themselves, “Now, what story are you going to tell daddy?”

“Well, I don’t know if I call this story “Our History” or “How I ended in Equestria and feed the changelings with Hope” but I will tell anyway” I say, but I think Our History is better and shorter, so, yeah.

The first thing I can remember is that I was in a big convention, full of bipeds like me, but more simple, they didn’t had my big head nor a tail like mine nor my “N” shaped-like legs, they we’re almost like a plank of wood, all of they were very different from each other, well almost, I think I saw a pale biped with red paint details using a brown skirt 3 or 4 times, I don’t know, I was in a shopping area of this convention, and I saw a biped using a black coat and a purple scarf hiding half of his mutilated face, only a part of his forehead and his orange shining eyes could be seen, he was holding a sign saying “I have everything you want by the price you can pay”, I was looking for a katana with a dragon mouth in its handle, and no other shop had it, so he was my last chance, I made my approach, avoiding hitting anyone with my shoulders, my head or my tail.

After some minutes of avoiding, I reached the biped, he said that he was just know as the Merchant and he had anything we wanted, except ammunitions, one of my brows raised to a questioning stance to his affirmation, then I asked him for a katana, he just said.

“Do you mean this one?”

As his opened his long coat, I saw it, it was perfectly like I imagined, the sharp part of the katana had a meter and a half of length, the handle was big enough for fitting my two hands, and the dragon head on the handle had 4 teeth on the superior jaw and three on the inferior jaw, it’s eyes where made of two rubies which were neon red colored, I did a simple and slow vertical swing with it, the point of the Katana draw a red trace, it was strangely perfect, when I asked him a price, he said it was a gift, then he blow a red dust in my face, and I fell unconscious.

“You accepted? Even if it was strangely perfect as your thoughts on the Dragon Blade?! Daddy, what in the Tartarus!?” Karenn almost jumped to my neck to strangle me for that.

“Yes, I know, I were an idiot at the time, I only had 27!” I just threw my arms into the air to emphasize my completely irresponsibility at my younger times.

“Well, if our dad wasn’t so idiot we wouldn’t exist!” Duo said as he hit his sister in the ribs with his elbow, not too strong I might say.

“Well, I think that was the only time my irresponsibility did something good.” I can remember various times my irresponsibility was a disastrous thing, but let’s save that for later.

The next thing I could remember was when I woke up, I was lying in a glade and then I sat up, the first thing I could notice was something between my legs, it was bigger than a velociraptor, it was rising up and it was thick and long like a snake,…
“Father, what the buck?!” -Karov with an expression that could only mean that something was nasty, while the twins were hugging themselves with horrified expressions.

“What? I was talking about my tail.” -I said while it was getting out of the blanket and wrapping around my waist.

“Next time don’t talk about your tail as you we’re talking of your dick! Understood!?” Karov said as he recomposed himself and tried to calm the twins.

“I promise, now let’s continue.”
…my tail wasn’t stiff as before, no, it was like an actually living tail, it moved, swung and corrected itself as I moved, other thing that I noticed was my right arm, it was completely metal and it was cold, every time I move my finger I could her some type of mechanism activating and allowing my finger to move, then I starting to look at the surroundings.

At my right side there was a military box with a chestburster ouroboros.

At my left side there was a little pond, I moved towards it to use as a mirror.

The first thing I saw was a name wrote next to the pond, “Amy”, I seriously don’t know what that means, the second was my face.
First thing I saw on my face, two red orbs moving inside an orange liquid, then I noticed that they were my eyes, I tried closing my eyes, the orbs just turned black.

Second thing I saw, a big inferior jaw almost like the more simple bipeds, it was big enough to cover my superior jaw, even the connection between the jaw and my head could be seen, I can say that there is only one difference between my jaws and a alligator’s jaw, is that my upper teeth are hided, every teeth of my mouth is perfectly placed that if opened my mouth just a little to make the teeth match the spaces, not even a millimeter gap would exist.

Third thing I saw, I am bald and I don’t have ears.

Then I looked at my body, my thorax was bigger, my abdomen was impossible for my body, my head was elongated and the end of it appeared to be sharp, I didn’t knew at the time.

Then I headed to the military box.

And I opened it; it had a Remington R5 with an thermal sight, an infinite symbol was painted on it, a suppressor and five magazines with an bullet going through a white thick line painted on it, a Glock 20 with a laser sight and 5 extended magazines, the Katana, Dragon Blade, that the Merchant gave me, a bowie knife, provisions, some type of golden visor and an iron armor with leather pockets for everything the box had.
I putted the iron armor on me, put the knife on the sheath at my left shoulder, the Glock on a holster on my right thigh, the handgun magazines on my right abdomen side, the Dragon Blade on a sheath located above my tail base, the R5 magazines on my abdomen left side and the rations or provisions at my chest’s right side, I picked up the R5 and started to look around again, I saw something that resembled a trail, and so I followed it.

I walked for almost 5 hours till I reached the end of the forest or jungle by its denseness, I saw another trail, I noticed that if I followed it I would reach a little village, so, because of my total knowledge of the place that it was null or zero, I used some bushes as camouflage, moving between then, occasionally stopping because of some ponies going to and coming from the village, some of them talking about some of the ponies that lived there especially the Bearers of the Elements, or simply The Elements, at the time I didn’t knew what they meant with that, after almost an hour I reached the village, but I only got more trouble, the village was more “alive” than I thought, winged ponies going from here to there carrying things, horned ponies putting decorations all around the buildings, almost all of them had two floors, normal ponies carrying baskets full of food, they we’re preparing to some kind of festival, then I saw an pony with both wings and horn, she was, I knew she was a she because of her voice, marking things on a checklist, I started moving from alley to alley, it was hard because the sun was high in the sky and there we’re ponies everywhere, after sometime I found an open basement window.

While I stayed at the basement, I tried to communicate with others, because I knew I was a Xenomorph, so I might have a mental link, so I started trying to communicate with everything I could.

“Is there anyone out there? I am not an enemy.” I repeated that every day with the intervals of 6 hours, for 3 weeks, my rations ended in the first week, and I needed protein, and I knew that ponies had meat, in the second week, I started hunting ponies that wouldn’t be missed or that was hated, my first prey was the gray filly, and I remember that night like it was yesterday.

It was a cold night, I was the only thing moving between the shadows of the moon, I was looking for an open window were I could break in and take out whoever was in the room with the open window, then I saw the only window, big enough to let me go in, it was in the second floor, but like I said I am a Xenomorph.

I climbed the two stories building carefully, I didn’t want to scare my prey, and she was there innocently playing with some dolls.
“And then Applebloom hugged her and they started to be best friends!” –she said with such a smile that I almost felt ashamed of killing her, but my stomach won over my heart, and I proceeded with my stealth approach, a hand and a foot at a time, some seconds after that she dropped the dolls and started to cry.

“Why can’t I be friends with them? Is it because Diamond? But she is my sister, I want to be with her.” –she said that between tears and sobs, I stopped, my heart was getting more and more small, but my stomach kept pushing me, I was hungry, but I didn’t want to kill her, but it was my only chance, it was like a fight between two of me, my logic and my emotions, but after some second, we/I made an agreement, I would kill her but quickly and painlessly, so, I wrapped my tail to something to the window, the tail till had some meters before being stretched out, and it I did, I jumped on her, holding her muzzle with one hand and wrapping my other arm around her chest, then I used my tail as a spring, pulling me in the window’s direction, jumping out of the house and into the alleys again, when I landed the filly started to fight, but she was only wasting her strength, it took just two seconds to break her neck and her legs going limp, I put her in the ground and climbed again, getting inside her room again to see if I messed something, I didn’t want any prove of me that could harden my night hunting, nothing was out of its place, so I exited the room, closed the windows and landed on the alley, I ran while I picked her body, no body heard me while I ran in the dirty terrain carrying a dead filly, only the Moon watched me.

“Only the Moon?” –said Duo, the lenses could move because of a spell used on they, mimicking his eyebrows movements, “So, They saw what you did and didn’t made anything to stop you?” –he mentioned They, Luna and Nightmare, I hadn’t made contact with they in a while, well, I bet it’s because the frontier battles between the Xenoling Hive and the Darkness Kingdom, but, in my dreams we can communicate, other day I will do that.

“At the time, or they didn’t had the power or they didn’t knew they could do that, but let’s continue the story.”
I entered the basement I used as a house, and started to eat, her hind legs gone first, like fried chicken, after that I tried again.

“Is there anyone out there? I am not an enemy.” -and I had a response.

“I am sorry, but, I-I can’t feed you, M-My hive can’t hold more, we are all h-hungry.” -the voice was made a mare, I felt sadness in every of the letter she vocalized.

“Wait! I can help you!” –after that, Silence reigned.
I tried again and again, just wasting time, during rest of the week I tried to contact the mare, and nothing, but at least I had hope, even if it was little, at the end of the week I hunted again.

The wasn’t nor cold nor warm, just in the middle of it, the village, that now I knew what was the name of it, Ponyville, was a little more alive, there was a little bar open, a purple mare with no wings or horn, with two fruits painted in her flanks, a strawberry and a bunch of grapes, was serving drinks and beers, drinking one or other, logic me started to talk.

“By how much she drank, we going to have quite a hangover if we eat her.”-then hungry me said.

“Whatever, like someone would miss a drunk mare, just kill her.”
So, I hid and waited till her work time ended, I almost fell asleep waiting for her, she was walking away from the bar, it was still dark, so I could follow her using the main street, I just needed her to turn into an alley or get into her house, then I would snap her neck and everything would be over.

She reached the door and opened, and everything gone downhill, first there was a scream, then she saw me and then, blood was everywhere.

“Are you serious that you will just say that?” -Karov said, his brows and his nuzzle showing disappointment.

“Problem is, Twilight always interrupt when we are about to have fun, am I correct Miss Sparkle?” -She was standing there looking at me with those shut sewed eyes, with dry blood coming out of them, why I did that?

“I bet that were going to tell what you did to Berry Punch and Berry Pinch?” –her eyebrows and lips showed disgust.

“Yes, so what do you want, Grumpy Face?”

“Celestia wants to talk to you, she waiting in the Panoramium.” –the Panoramium was my favorite place on my castle, it was a semi globe, the sun couldn’t escape my sight in that thing.

“What I said about Celestia? You shall call her Princess Sun Butt!” –I came with that ages ago and she still didn’t learnt, even the others do that, but not she, sun idolater.

“I won’t call her that and she is waiting.”

“I shall rename you Princess of the Grumpiness! Karov, give me my Armor.” –seriously, staying in the bed is great, even greater if I was with my children telling them a story.

Every time try to put my on, the difficulty was one step increased, I bet it’s because I am becoming a little more rusty, the armor can be a little more rusty too.

“Son, you want to hear a tip?” –my son Karov was like my security guard, he accompanied me, where I would go, he was there at my side.

“What tip you want to give me now father?”

“If you build your own castle, put elevators and automatic passageways, or even better, teleporters everywhere, because in a huge ass castle like this you will be walking for miles.”

“It’s just because you are getting older dad.”

“Oh, shut up you! I only have 150 years!”

“Yeah, but are no princess.”

“Of course not, I am a king! Oh looks like talking does kill time, here we are, could you wait outside, I know how you get angry with her around.” –One time he almost boiled her alive, so this time I will talk with her alone.

I open the gigantic 4x3 sliding doors, and there she was sitting like a dog in the semi-circle couch, with her mane and fur not as vivid as decades ago, I bet that the suffering of her population made her pay this price, just like what happened when I saw the situation of the hive a 123 years ago, I approach and sit on the other side of the couch.

“So, Sun-Butt, what is the matter, your last visit was like, I don’t remember, like 60 years ago? When you desisted and tried to make a peace agreement?” –I remember that day, she tried to give me boxes of gold, but that didn’t have any value to us.

“I came here peacefully to ask for some farm lands of yours.” –She says that in such a defeated tone, I will tell why later.

“I can give you as much as you want, and I will only ask for one thing.” –I put one of my claws in front of my creepy grin.

“Even if I am willing do anything to save my little ponies, I am very afraid of any asking made by you.” –Her expression changes from defeated and sad to angry, very very angry in less than a second, no, serious, now I am scared!

“Heh, you shall not have worries, my asking is very small, small like a seed” –I wink at her, the only mare that could know what this seed meant.

“Like you and all of your putrid bugs say, fuck you! I would do anything to save my ponies, but that asking is out of my limits!” –She is angry, neither in Hell I saw demons angrier than her eyes right now, but let’s balance this.

“Celestia! You Shall Not Curse About My Children!” -I rise showing my entire 2 meters and 31cm, or 7ft and 7in, I don’t care- “Do you remember what happened to the last idiot that cursed at my children!?”

“Don’t bring that back, I already forgot all those nightmares.” –She was almost crying, so I continued.

“Oh, I can, and I will! You know why? Because I was the one that that killed him, torn him apart and forced you to watch all of what happened to that Mal-formed fetus of a chimera.” –that fucking maniac, so much power and he wasted everything into friendships with those little things.

“Now listen Celestia, give one of the seeds of the Tree of Harmony and I will give you enough farm lands that you can make the Remains of Equestria grow again.” –What I mean by the Remains of Equestria is just a little 10% of what was the entirety of Equestria.

“But what will I say to my ponies after a give the key of our most powerful weapons to our worst enemy!?” –Some tears started to run down her cheeks.

“Say that you to choose between protecting you honor and letting your children die of starvation or feed your ponies and have some decades to build defenses against us.” –I say while I approach the windows to look at my hive, it covers 40% of Equestria and the entire Kingdom of Griffonia, the Xenoling Hive started very small 123 years ago. “I will send some of my children to redo the frontiers of your farmlands, after you meet me at the Main Division of our territories in the old train tracks that led Ponyville to Canterlot and give me the Seed, I will be with two other soldiers, you can go with two of your guards tomorrow’s midday.”

She stand on her four hooves and go away saying no words, it’s very sad to see her now, I remember when I fought against her, she had such energy and power, her magic was just powerful, but, decades of fighting and stress made by loses in wars, failed attacks to stop advances of my troops and physical/mental pain, that I take responsibility, made her fade and smaller in power.