My Little Pony: Dinosaurs Are Magic

by AJoltOfDapper

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Romance, Original Character, Science Fiction, Comedy, Violence, Crossover
Length: 59092

Before the Mosasaurus can sink it's teeth into the Indominus Rex, a strange portal transports a vast variety of Jurassic World's dinosaurs to a strange land called Equestria. Forth Part of the Dapperverse!

Rex, the King of the Tyrant Lizards, thinks that all hope is lost when a battle ensues between him and the Indominus Rex... Now, he is in a new world where not even one of it's inhabitants are carnivores.
Three years after the pirate incident involving Captain Jack Sparrow, Onyx and his family find a strange albino unicorn in their yard. Little do they realize that this pony is the hybrid Indominus Rex from Jurassic World.
Things get even worse when another one of Jurassic World's dinosaurs gets a little too comfortable among the residents, causing Onyx some unwanted stress.

This is the Fourth Part of the Dapperverse!
In the first three JP movies THE DINOSAURS CAN CHANGE SEX, hence the male tyrannosaur, dilophosaur, etc. In the Ver. 2 chapters, it should be noted that gender roles have changed in some characters.
Unicorn Wizard and Berries belong to TheGamingBeaver on Youtube.

Published 2016-01-11 18:10:01 UTC
Last updated 2018-09-21 15:35:17 UTC

Chapter Two: Queen of the Tyrant... Ponies?

Author's Note

Please not that this new chapter is the introduction of both Venom and Rex, and the original introductory chapter for Venom is not going to be written.
It should also be noted that Venom is now female, her name being Azalea after a species of highly toxic flower.

Chapter Two: Queen of the Tyrant... Ponies?

-Ponyville-

The unicorn mare slowly began to stir, her head pounding in her ears as she dragged herself into a semi-stetting position. Forcing her eyes open, she instantly wished she hadn't when the bright sunlight momentarily blinded her. Lifting a limb up to shield her eyes from the light, Rexy noticed something very peculiar... Her arms were normally too short to do anything of the such, yet here she was, blocking the sun from her eyes with a hoof...

A hoof...

"What the hell?" she mouthed, looking down at her apparently newly formed body.

Her thought process was interrupted by an obnoxiously cheery voice. "Hello, there!" pink mare chirped as she approached.

Rexy nearly leapt out of her fur, instinct almost causing her to pull the newcomer's head off. "Good God!" she exclaimed, jumping up onto all fours before glaring down at the mare in question once her shock had faded. The tyrannosaur lifted a confused brow at the fact that her aggressor was not making any attempt to get away. The realization was a tad slow to dawn on her that the pink mare was also only slightly shorter than she was.

"Hello, again!" the pony quipped again, bouncing on the tips of her hooves with a wide grin.

Rexy took a step back, an odd sensation drawing her attention down at her body again. She looked down to see her front legs firmly planted on the ground like they'd been there her whole life, shaggy fetlocks and a pair of hooves replacing her claws and scales. Her face morphed into that of shock, eyes growing wide with fear and her jaw dropping slightly.

The pink horse pulled her head back slightly at the sight of sharp fangs poking out of the unicorn's jaw. "Your teeth are HUGE!" she beamed, her eyes popping out wide as she somehow stuck her head into the mare's open mouth. Her words echoed into Rexy's throat before the saurian pulled back with a snarl, slamming her jaws shut.

"All the better to eat you with," she grumbled with the faint remembrance of a story a pair of Jurassic World's visitors spoke of, furrowing her brows.

Fear crossed the pink mare's face as she took a brief step away from the heavily built unicorn.

Rexy noticed this and reacted. "Relax... I'm not going to eat you," she said, "right now," the former Tyrannosaurus rex then whispered to herself.

"Oh, okay!" the mare responded, bouncing back to a joyous attitude. "My name is Pinkie Pie," she giggled, breaking physics and landing on Rexy's back.

The unicorn mare jerked forward in surprise, Pinkie Pie tumbling off of her shoulders as she whirled around to face her with a growl. "DON'T... do that," she growled, momentarily stumbling as she tried to get used to the feeling of being a quadruped. Casting one last skeptical glance at Pinkie Pie, Rexy turned to walk away, yellow eyes wide and teeth clenched as the shock began to settle.

"It was nice to meet you!" she heard the mare call after her.

"The feeling is not mutual," Rexy quietly grumbled to herself in a mocking tone, hooves kicking up dust as she followed the dirt road. She took one last look down at her body, noticing the fact that scales were replaced by a coat of soft fur. Lifting a newly formed hoof, the unicorn pushed a lock of newly formed brown mane out of her face with a sigh, feeling the tip of a broken of horn jutting out of her forehead.

Your definitely not on Isla Nublar anymore, she thought to herself with a grimace, lifting her view to scan her surroundings for anybody who would possibly want to help a tremendously sized mare with a broken horn and sharp fangs jutting out of her jaw.

Her wishes were seemingly answered when a violet unicorn with a pair of wings approached her with a friendly smile, reminding Rexy that she was no longer capable of the intimidation she used to possess. "Hello," the newcomer waved as she advanced towards her.

"Mm," the unicorn acknowledged.

"Do you need any help, you looked a little lost?" the alicorn, as Rexy would soon know the species as, asked with concern audible on her voice.

"Uh... Yeah. First off, can you tell me why I'm a horse? Secondly, how do I understand you? And thirdly... why do you look like something that I used to eat back home?" Rexy questioned, recalling the hoofed mammal that she used to be fed in Jurassic World.

The mare pulled her head back slightly at the words, but responded nonetheless. "To answer your first question, if you just noticed that you're a unicorn, what form did you take when you were at home?" she asked, lifting a curious brow.

"While I was in Jurassic World, I could best be described as a dinosaur," Rexy replied.

Twilight Sparkle dimly recalled a period of Equestria's history called the Jurassic period. It was what the Jurassic Period had to do with where this tall mare came from that had her confused. The alicorn then noted the unicorn's description of what she used to look like. "Wait... Dinosaur?" she said.

Rexy nodded like it was obvious. "Yyyes, a dinosaur... T. rex to be exact."

"T. rex?! You mean like the Tyrannosaurus rex?! King of the lizards?" Twilight stammered. She then noticed that Rexy did look quite reptilian, possessing chest scales, dark brown stripes, and yellow eyes. Her cutie mark was bafflingly odd, resembling a flipped, bubble letter 'q', with a smaller red version inside of it.

"Why does that surprise you?" the unicorn growled.

"Tyrannosaurs went extinct around 70 million years ago," she acknowledged matter-of-factly. "I want to believe you, but the chances that you are normally an extinct animal, let alone the king-"

"Queen," Rexy corrected, rolling her eyes.

"Right, queen of the extinct animals is highly unlikely," Twilight finished.

"How do I need to prove this to you?" the unicorn queried with a scoff. "Are my teeth not proof enough?" With that, Rexy peeled back her lips to reveal rows of ivory daggers that curved back in her jaws.

"Not particularly," Twilight said, sitting on her haunches and crossing her hooves. "Lots of tyrannical beings here in Equestria have fangs," she continued with a scowl at the mare's attitude and lack of respect. "A DNA test is likely the most accurate way of determining your original species... If, that is, your Equestrian body hasn't changed the structure of your DNA too much."

"Maybe try speaking in a language that I can understand?"

-Zap Apple Orchards-

The changeling's brightly colored, membranous neck frill quivered slightly as she snoozed, acidic venom dripping from her exposed fangs. A pair of flaming orange crests with a black stripe each sat atop the skull, covered slightly by a short, disheveled mane. With a quiet snort, the Dilophosaurus stirred from her rest, eyes straining to focus upon the landscape with the early morning sun blazing in her eyes.

Being primarily nocturnal, Azalea lifted a hole filled appendage up to block the sun from her eyes, only for the bright light to shine through said holes and blind her momentarily before she stumbled to an upright position and turned away from the light. Blinking her eyes several times, the changeling Dilophosaurus shook her head to clear the brief wave of dizziness from her vision before noticing the fact that she couldn't feel the earth beneath her claws.

Azalea looked down to notice that she had no claws, in their place a horse's hoof filled with clean holes. The Dilophosaurus cocked a brow, lifting an appendage to study it closely. Curiosity was interrupted by a growl that seemed to ring in her ears, reminding Azalea of a current state of hunger.

Looking around for a possible food source, she scanned her surroundings for something in which to prey upon. Her eyes stopped before snapping over to a being she recognized in shape, but not in color. It was a pony, Azalea could tell that much. But the color was all wrong. Rather than a drab, camouflaging brown that she was used to seeing on prey, the heavily built stallion was a bright shade of red, his attention on a thick tree trunk.

Ducking behind a similarly sized tree, the former dinosaur, opened her jaws slightly, poison green and fiery orange frill quivering softly as she prepared to snap her head to shoot a spray of venom at the unknowing stallion.

Before any such thing could happen, Azalea felt a firm tap to the shoulder. Twirling around, an instinctually fired bullet of poisonous saliva whizzed by a mare's head before splatting against an apple tree. The Dilophosaurus let her neck hood swing out, shuddering as she uttered a rage-filled hiss.

The mare in question dodged her head aside, a glare crossing her face as the changeling stepped back to run with her cover having been blown out a metaphorical window.

"What the hay?" the pony scoffed before lurching forward and biting down on Azalea's frilled ear and pulling her back. As the changeling thrashed to try and escape the hold, the blonde-maned mare obliged, releasing her before snatching her hoof. "Stahp it," she scolded in a thick, country accent, taking off a cowmare hat and whapping Azalea's snout with a scowl.

Instantly, the former Dilophosaurus stopped struggling, rubbing her snout with a free hoof before letting her source of intimidation fold against her neck to give the appearance of a royal collar. But not without allowing for a soft, menacing growl to escape her throat.

"Calm yerself, I ain't gonna hurt ya," the earth pony assured the changeling before turning her head to the glob of saliva that had slowly begun to eat away at the bark of the apple tree it had struck merely moments ago. Releasing Azalea's hoof, she gazed over at the changeling with obvious confusion. "What is that..? And who are ya?"

"Who's asking?" the dilophosaur replied venomously, but without attacking or trying to escape.

"Th' name's AppleJack," the mare replied. "Now then, what is that, and who're ya?" AppleJack asked again.

"I am called Azalea," the changeling acknowledged, the anger in her voice slowly diminishing as she spoke. "What you see on that tree is my only defense."

AppleJack could clearly see the short fangs the gleamed in the sun as Azalea spoke, but could easily tell that the changeling wasn't lying. It was also in this moment that AppleJack got a good look at her. The changeling's skin, rather than composed of a green-grey exoskeletal armor, was a dark yellow, with thin black stripes running down her sides and flank. Her mane and tail, similar to the twin, 'V' shaped crests atop her head, was dark grey, almost black, that melded into a vibrant, blood red. Azalea's eyes were very striking, almost frightening, with a fiery orange iris that seemed to waver in the sunlight. The frill that had been a show of defense was now folded tightly against the changeling's neck, forming an almost choker-necklace-like appearance. If anything, Azalea, having eyelashes that stuck out against the yellow fur and a dark mane and tail, seemed to have an almost gothic appearance. Almost like she was a wannabe-rock star. Finally, AppleJack shook aside her curiosities and spoke. "But ya got a whole mouthful of teeth... And you're a changeling," she said, hoping for a bit more information from her.

"A... what?" Azalea queried, lifting a brow and squinting at AppleJack. "I have no idea what you're talking about. Last I checked, I was a Dilophosaurus... Not a... changeling," she said.

"Dilophosaurus," AppleJack repeated thoughtfully as Azalea contemplated making a meal out of her.

The mare must have sensed it, for she picked a large apple from a tree and tossed it to the changeling mare. Instinct fired off, and she snatched the apple from the air in her jaws, teeth sinking into the reflective red surface. "Huh," she said through a mouthful of fruit. "It's good."

"Obviously," AppleJack said with a smile. The Element of Honesty looked down at Azalea's hooves as she ate, noticing again, the holes that filled them with a sense of growing anxiety. "Yer... not the aggressive type, are ya?" she asked, a bead of sweat touching her brow as memories of a royal changeling flashed across her mind.

"Only when I'm hungry," the former Dilophosaurus replied before finishing off the last of the fruit with a growing smile. "Doesn't quite beat the taste of a fresh kill, but good nonetheless," she exclaimed with a content sigh, licking her lips with a forked tongue.

Noting that changelings only fed upon the love that others gave off, AppleJack spoke again. "Ya really aren't a changeling, are ya?"

"I told you... Dilophosaurus," Azalea said with an eye roll.

"Ah... Okay. Is that some kinda lizard er somethin?"

"Dinosaur..."

-Twilight Sparkle's Treehouse-

"Soooo, how is this gonna tell you if I am what I say I am?" Rexy asked Twilight Sparkle as a thin needle loomed over her right arm, the sight of the syringe causing brief flashes of memory to force themselves to the forefront of her mind. She couldn't really see what was happening, other than a primate in a white lab-coat approaching her with a needle aimed at her previously massive jaws. She could vaguely remember the brief, pricking pain in her gums as a clear fluid was injected into her bloodstream.

"If I test your blood, I can determine if you really are, in fact, a Tyrannosaurus. Doing so will also help me find out how you have managed to survive millions of years," Twilight replied, not letting her eyes stray away from the visible artery after she shaved away a small patch of Rexy's thin fur.

"Oka-OW!!" the unicorn blurted suddenly, jerking her arm as the tip of the syringe was forced through her skin. Twilight lost her hold on the needle with the jerk, the utensil simply sticking out of her forearm before the alicorn grabbed the mare and pulled her back down with a gasp.

"Hold still!" she commanded. "That could've gone so much worse than it just did," she explained, holding Rexy's arm down while bopping her snout with the tip of a hoof.

"How about a warning next time?!" Rexy barked back, throwing up her free hoof in despair as Twilight gently pulled the handle of the tool with a wave of magic. On cue, a deep crimson liquid filled the small compartment of the syringe. It didn't take Doctor Henry Wu for her to realize that the fluid was her own blood.

Twilight set the phial of blood into a plastic bag before covering the pinprick on the mare's arm with a small band-aid. "Okay, feel free to hang and relax for a while. I'll see what I can make of this," the alicorn explained with a soft smile.

"You got anything to eat?" Rexy asked her, the realization that she hadn't eaten for a couple days not eluding her.

"I've got some salad on the dining table," Twilight acknowledged, nodding in that direction.

"I'm a carnivore, remember?"

"Well, us ponies are herbivores."

"You're kidding right?" Rexy scoffed, holding back a jaw drop. She was in a world of colorful ponies that looked like they themselves could be a reliable food source... but they were all plant eaters. That meant she wouldn't find what she was looking for unless she caused mass hysteria by killing one of the natives. Considering her currently equine form, this could mean that she would be considered a cannibal and wouldn't be trusted by anybody.

"Noo, sorry," Twilight said with a nervous smile.

Rexy merely groaned, slumping back into the closest chair like it was something that she'd been able to do in her whole 21 years of existence.

"Twilight? Do we have any more jewels? I'm starving, right now," the unicorn heard a young, masculine voice ask. On cue, a small shape came thumping down the oaken stairs. Spike shared the same look of hunger that was on Rexy's face, his stomach barking and growling for food.

"Sure, Spike. They're on the table," Twilight Sparkle replied with a smile.

"All RIGHT!" the young drake grinned, running over to the table. "AAAH!" Twilight heard Spike shout at the top of his lungs before the sound of burning rubber seemed to fill the air in the building, a now panicked Spike skidding to a halt and clutching his adoptive sister's leg. "W-why is King S-Sombra's wife here?" he shuddered, eyes wide and pupils constricted to pin pricks.

"King Sombra's wife?" Twilight repeated, furrowing a brow before the realization dawned on her. "OH, you mean Rexy? She's not King Sombra's wife, but she certainly isn't from around here," the alicorn chuckled, patting the little dragon on the head.

"Where is she from?" Spike asked, nervously looking up at her with fearful eyes.

"That's what I'm trying to figure out now," Twilight obliged, wrapping her magic around the sample of blood and closed her eyes. By doing this, she could tap into the memories of the one that the blood belonged to, also finding out in the process who the being was and what they were capable of. Her horn hummed and sparkled, the same aura surrounding the syringe before brief images of thundering storms and horrific bloodshed plagued her vision. She could see the deaths of those caused by Rexy's wrath during a hurricane, and in turn heard their pained screams as they were devoured alive.

Twilight let the magic diminish, opening her eyes to a watery veil. She was housing a murderous dinosaur masquerading as a large, irritable unicorn. "Rexy," she called to her guest, wiping the tears from her eyes.

On cue, the Tyrannosaurus walked into the room, a brow cocked asymmetrically.

"Why did you kill them?" the alicorn asked, turning to face the mare.

Shock was visible across Rexy's face at the words, her hoof fall dying as she came to a sudden halt. Her ears swiveled in brief confusion before falling flat at the faint memories from about twenty years ago. She shifted her view down and gazed blankly at the floorboards. "It was instinct... I told you already... I'm a Tyrannosaurus," the unicorn finally replied.

"I can see that now... Princess Celestia will wan't to meet you," Twilight said, fear of the unknown mentally kicking her instincts into overdrive. She trusted Rexy now, as much as she did Queen Chrysalis at the flashbacks from that stormy night.

"Princess Celestia?" the unicorn queried before a brief wave of magic washed over her and Twilight's form.

"Spike, can you hold down the fort while I'm gone?" the alicorn asked the purple and green drake.

Spike swung a clawed hand to his brow in the form of a salute, puffing out his chest slightly. "You can count on me!" he replied in a militaristic voice as the two mares disappeared with a flash.

-Outskirts of Ponyville-

Bastidon woke slowly, a noisy yawn escaping his jaws as he slowly opened his brown eyes. Dragging himself up to a sitting position on the couch, the Kirin was careful to avoid knocking down an expensive looking lamp with his clubbed tail. The bright sun filtered through the closed curtains, dimming the light to his eyes.

"Mornin'," he heard a voice exclaim.

Swiveling his head, Bastidon spotted Scarlet Blitz, Onyx, and a younger pegasus sitting at the dining table, forking eggs and pancakes from their plates. "Mm?" he groaned groggily, squinting before yawning again.

"There's a plate here with your name on it," Onyx told Bastidon with a chuckle, nodding at a plate and chair across from him.

"Thanks," the Kirin stallion mumbled, rising to his hooves and shuffling over to the table. Thinking their sitting down best to copy, Bastidon took a seat with another yawn, wincing slightly at the act that formed along his spine. "Jeez, I feel like I was hit by a gyrosphere," he groaned, craning his back with a pop to loosen his stiff spine.

"What's a gyrosphere?" the younger pegasus asked through a mouthful of egg.

Scarlet shot him a glare and motioned towards her mouth as an indicator of talking with one's mouth full. Her son grimaced and finished his mouthful.

"A gyrosphere is a sort of ball thing that you drive around," Bastidon answered before taking his fork and stabbing a bit of egg.

"Interesting," Onyx said thoughtfully as the Kirin to a bite of egg. "Anywho, this is Obsidian, my son. You two haven't been formally introduced. Obsidian, this is Bastidon," the mechanic said before stopping the last of his eggs onto his fork and finishing the remnants.

Bastidon and Obsidian shared a nod before Onyx rose from the table. "Welp, I suppose we should get you to Celestia. She'll be curious about what happened last night," he said, rinsing off his plate before gingerly putting it into the dishwasher.

Obsidian's ears perked to attention. "Can I come? Doug might be there!" he quipped with a smile before practically inhaling what remained of his breakfast and jumping from the table.

"Don't you have homework to do?" Scarlet Blitz asked, lifting a brow..

The red and dusty brown pegasus groaned, throwing back his head and letting his wings droop. "C'mon, it's a Saturday!" he grumbled, nonchalantly putting his dishes into the washer beside his father's.

"No. You're a Senior and failing three classes already. Do you want to graduate with your class, or not?" the mare said, relishing what remained of her own food.

Onyx looked over before sticking in his opinion. "Obsidian hasn't seen Doug for years, he can come over just for today, right? It wouldn't kill him to hold off on homework until we get back," the stallion said, leaning down and kissing Scarlet's cheek in a classic example of how he turns her to his side.

With a sigh, the pegasus acknowledged. "Fine," she smiled, rolling her eyes and feigning a glare.

"YUS!" Obsidian cheered, throwing a hoof up with a laugh.

"Then let's head out."

Bastidon rose from his seat and followed the two stallions out the door. "Good luck, Bastidon," she heard Scarlet Blitz call after him as he left the building.

Chapter Three: Face Off

Author's Note

This chapter is a combination of "Unicorn Wizard", "Your Nothin But a Big Softie", and "Indominus Wrecks"

MLP style Indominus Rex artwork by ShootingStarAJM

You guys also complained that the I. Rex had a name. Well I ain't calling it the Indominus Rex the entire story! She's gettin' a name! Hence the name Lilith, since the I. Rex was once called the Diabolus, which has the root word 'devil'. Lilith is, in fact, a demon of Jewish mythology who was thought to be Adam's rejected first wife before Eve.

Chapter Three: Face Off

-Canterlot Archives-

The jagged horned unicorn walked slowly down the long aisles of the library, heavy beard and mustache hiding a look of pain with each step, a result of a not-so-nice crash landing after a rainbow colored vortex spat him at a marble wall. Unicorn Wizard paused, gritting his teeth to force back the pain that shot up his left hind leg with each step, an indication that it was broken.

Leaning against a book shelf, the stallion turned to look at the ancient tomes that lined said shelves. Unicorn Wizard cocked a brow and gingerly pulled a thick book from the shelf, flipping open its cover deep in thought. "Interesting," he muttered, squinting his eyes at the unrecognizable text that was spread across the pages yellowed with age. The stallion stroked his long beard in thought, a defeated sigh leaking from his throat as he tried in vain to read its pages.

Wincing under the effort, the former synapsid returned the book to the shelf before rubbing his temple to ebb away an oncoming headache.

"Spell book," an aged voice said, disrupting the old stallion's thought process. Unicorn Wizard shifted his view up to see a similarly aged unicorn with a white beard approaching him, cheeks pushed up in the form of a smile. "A spell book... Ancient, yet still of value," the stallion continued with a nod.

The former Dimetrodon stood back up, lifting a curious brow at the form the newcomer took. "Can I help you?" he asked, taking a limping step towards the opposing unicorn.

"Unlikely... But you seem to be in need to help," he acknowledged, nodding at Unicorn Wizard's awkwardly angled leg. "My name is Star Swirl... The keeper of Canterlot's Archives," the unicorn said, motioning around him. "Your leg," he started, looking down and pointing at the limb, "is broken."

"It happens," Unicorn Wizard shrugged, lifting the appendage with a slight wince. "I'm Unicorn Wizard... But I'm afraid I don't have a special title like you," the synapsid unicorn said.

"Unicorn Wizard... Walk with me," Star Swirl said, horn shimmering with a teal light that enveloped his leg. On cue, the bones melded back together. "I think that we have much to talk about before you and your cohorts can find a way to get back to Isla Nublar."

-Canterlot Throne Room-

Twilight Sparkled stumbled from the airspace to the tiled floor of Canterlot's Throne Room, spreading her wings to lighten up her landing a bit. The one she traveled with, a large unicorn mare with dark brown stripes and chest scales, was not so fortunate.

Rexy yelped as she tumbled to the floor, landing back first with a loud thud upon impact. The broken horned mare groaned in pain as she rolled over and forced herself back to her hooves before noticing the alicorn responsible for the change in landscape bowing with her snout almost to the floor.

The saurian mare cocked a brow before seeing Twilight rise back to her hooves before a tall, regally outfitted mare with a long horn and broad wings. Princess Celestia kept her eyes trained on Rexy in an almost judging manner, as if she was waiting for her to snap.

"Twilight Sparkle," the milky white alicorn said in a voice like a chime, ushering forth a nod back to her pupil before her gaze shifted once again to the fanged unicorn mare beside Twilight. "Who's this?" she asked.

"Princess, this is Rexy... She's not normally a unicorn and she's definitely not from Equestria," Twilight Sparkle replied.

"I can sense that," Celestia acknowledged, gazing at Rexy with a hint of skepticism.

The unicorn in question growled under her breath as another, darkly colored mare came to Celestia's side. She glared at the two celestials with no small amount of menace short of a Velociraptor, and disliked the vibes that she was receiving from the two.

"What are you, if not a unicorn?" the dark alicorn questioned, lifting a quizzical brow.

"A carnivore," Rexy grumbled, baring her teeth as if to prove her point. "A murderous reptile who creates havoc and suffering wherever I go. A Tyrant Queen."

Princess Celestia merely looked down on the glaring mare, horn beginning to hum as her sister leaned over. "I don't like the way she's looking at us," the Princess Luna whispered into Celestia's ear, eyes not moving away from the former tyrannosaur.

"She'll learn some form of manners... even if it's through forceful means," the celestial demigoddess replied.

Memories of Operation: Final Wars flooded Luna's mind at the words, largely the incident in which Captain Gordon lost his temper with Celestia and was thrown into the opposite wall. "You don't mean in the same manner as with Gordon, do you?" the alicorn asked.

"Exactly... But only if she becomes a little too aggressive for our safety" Celestia obliged before raising her voice. "You may be a queen from where you hail from... But this is my kingdom, and you are no queen here, or anywhere," she told Rexy. "And if you will not cooperate with us and wipe that glare off of your muzzle, then we are done here."

"WHAT?!" Rexy barked, eyes wide and jaw slack at her words. Shock was swiftly replaced with anger as the unicorn began to quake with building rage. "You can't be serious?! I didn't come here just to be shoved away by some fancy BITCH and her mumbling LACKEY!!" she snarled. "And let me tell you something, PRINCESS! I have not eaten for days, and YOU are beginning to look an awful lot like a fresh kill!"

Princess Celestia's eyes grew wide at the words, no attempts at hiding her anger being made. Luna shared her fury, eyes leaking with a blue aura. "Excuse me?" she said, taking a step towards the unicorn mare. "You mind running that by us again?"

"Gladly!" Rexy sneered, Twilight grimacing and moving out of the way as the two mares began to advance upon each other. One, with eyes streaming a blue smoke, the other, with pupils constricting to reptilian slits to reveal more of the yellow tinting of the iris.

Before either could do anything more, however, a loud knock echoed upon the tall twin doors of the throne room, stopping the two dead in their tracks.

"Thou may enter!" Princess Celestia hollered before wrapping a gentle golden aura around her sister and pulling her back to her side.

It was in this moment that Onyx, Obsidian, trailed by a heavily built Kirin stallion entered the room.

Rexy swung around with a growl to face the oncoming potential threat, nostrils flaring as a result of the battle build-up only seconds ago. It didn't take a wizard to tell that she saw Bastidon and instantly recognized the heavy tail club and tank-like build. "You," she sneered at the Kirin.

"Uh," Onyx said, retracting his hoof steps to leave. "This seems like a bad time," he muttered with wide eyes, followed by his son.

Bastidon stopped in his tracks, slight fear overriding his senses and causing him to instantly collapse, legs tucked under his body and spinal fur standing on end. The stallion growled a warning, tail swinging back and forth in a display that no pony could recognize.

No pony except Rexy, that is. She could recognize the threat from her hardwired ability to sense a defense mechanism and act accordingly. Bastidon, unfortunately, seemed to have forgotten a distinct lack of body armor in an equine form, even if his skin was tougher to pierce than that of the average equine.

"Obsidian... GET DOWN!!" Onyx shouted, forcing the pegasus to the floor as Rexy charged towards the former Ankylosaurus with a roar.

Just before the unicorn could clamp her jaws down on Bastidon's back, a powerful, searing magic tore her away and slammed her into the opposite wall, holding her there momentarily before Celestia cut her magic off. Rexy fell to the floor with a growl, gasping for breath as she struggled to her hooves. Blood trickled down the corner of her mouth and her entire left side had already begun to bruise upon impact.

"Get her out of my sight," Princess Celestia barked, waving at the unicorn in a 'go away' motion.

As if by magic (how coincidental), three celestial guards barged into the room, shoving Rexy back down before forcing heavy shackles around her hooves and one thick manacle around her neck. "NO!" the unicorn snarled, struggling against the guards with little success. "You can't do this!"

"But I can," Celestia said, approaching Rexy slowly and with menace. "And as I said before... you... are no queen here," she whispered, leaning down and looking the former Tyrannosaurus in the eyes.

Rexy snarled before magic from one of the guards locked her muscles in place, her glare never straying from the alicorn princess. "You're lucky I'm not full sized right now," she sneered as she was dragged from the room. "YOU WOULDN'T'VE LASTED MORE THAN TWO SECONDS!!" The call sounded more like that of a rumbling bellow than it did comprehensible speech, a deep, echoing growl from the back of Rexy's throat chasing the words down like a wolf among sheep.

"I highly doubt that," Celestia grumbled to herself before turning her gaze to the three stallion's that had entered the throne room only moments ago. "Now that that issue is settled, who is it that we have here, Onyx?" she said, her expression softening. "Obsidian, good to see you again."

The pegasus bowed slightly, the circuits in his brain still frazzled and eardrums still beating away at the roar that Rexy had unknowingly unleashed in his ear. "The same to you," he replied before rising to his hooves. If anything, it interested Obsidian as to who, or what, he had just faced.

"Princess," Onyx started, interrupting his son's thought process. "We came from Ponyville with whom I presume arrived here under similar circumstances as that unicorn, based upon his size and appearance-"

Blah, blah, blah, blah, Obsidian thought with an eyeball as he blocked out his father's words, curiosity slowly building in his system. Looking out the door of the throne room, he could see the the foursome that left the room moments ago rounding a corner.

Cocking a brow and looking over his shoulder, the pegasus slunk from the room and, almost hesitantly, crept after the ponies, beating his wings slightly in an attempt to remain as quiet as he physically was able.

Rounding the same corner that the guards had seconds ago, he spotted Rexy trudging with a noticeable limp in her step with the heavy shackles around her hooves. Pity overwhelmed the sense of alien fear he was feeling, and he courageously approached the four ponies with a look of slight worry.

"Is she okay?" he called out to them, trotting to come to their side.

"Obsidian? What're you doing here? Your father's not going to be particularly happy if he finds out your near this thing," one guard pointed out, tugging the chain slightly as the unicorn lifted a shackled hoof with a pant and pained grimace.

"I'm fine," the pegasus heard the mare growl through a thick muzzle that one might place onto a wild dog's snout.

"Are you guys going to heal her?" Obsidian asked.

"If we can get close enough to her without the shackles, maybe," another acknowledged, nodding at the pegasus with a soft smile. "You are right to be concerned. Nopony, equine or not, should be treated like an animal." At the words, she hesitantly lifted a hoof to the muzzle. Rexy ushered a warning growl, pulling her head back slightly with a rattle at the chains.

"Don't do that," the guard stallion ordered, pushing her hoof down with his own and shaking his head.

"Yes, Sir," she addressed, moving back to her position on Rexy's right.

Obsidian looked back up at the unicorn prisoner, curiosity forcing him to take a step towards her and lift a hoof, despite the nagging fear that begged for him to move away. Again, the saurian flinched, but allowed him to bring his hoof to her short mane and gently stroke it, despite its rough feel.

The mare looked into his red eyes with a squint, a curiosity of her own developing at his fearlessness before she felt the yank of chains around her neck.

"Let's go," the male guard said, beckoning Rexy forward.

The former Tyrannosaurus obliged with a shrug, accidentally brushing up against Obsidian's wing in the process.

Obsidian let his gaze wander as he thought about the unicorn, her broken horn, sharp teeth, chest scales, and thin fur. She was definitely odd, he couldn't deny it. But she also withheld a kind of beauty that seemed contrary to the fearsome tyrant that she was. Well, perhaps beauty wasn't the right term. It was more of a word that one would use to describe a motorcycle driver, of monster that he remember his father telling him about while he was in Neighpon. "Damn, she's badass."

It was in this moment that Onyx came skidding around a corner with a glare on his face. "Obsidian!" he exclaimed. "What were you doing?"

"Talking to Rexy," he shrugged.

"What?! Why? I don't want you talking to her! She's a carnivore that would kill you if she had the chance," Onyx scolded, poking a hoof at Obsidian's shoulder. "Of all the mares to be ogling anyway, why her?" the mechanic scoffed.

"What?! Pervert, I wasn't thinking about her like that!" Obsidian shouted in his father's face.

Onyx laughed, nudging his son's shoulder with a grin before his smile flatlined. "I'm serious, though; Stay. Away. From her. Do you understand?"

"Yeah, sure," the pegasus acknowledged, stepping away from Onyx with a shrug.

-Edge of the Everfree Forest, Southern Outskirts of Ponyville-

The hybrid saurian looked up at the trees that loomed over her head like an evil hand reaching out to grab her. She could feel pain

A rumble from her stomach reminded her that it was hanging like an empty sack in her body and needed nourishment. Not only was the Indominus Rex hungry, but she was hot too, unbearably hot. She was used to a sheet of scales on her body, not a fur coat and long mane. Above anything else, the newly formed unicorn wanted a fresh kill to fill her belly and cool breeze to ruffle her fur. It didn't help that her attack on the strange pony last night was a decisive loss on her part, which resulted in an additionally lost meal.

Thinking about this, the dazed unicorn mare didn't notice the shape that glided above her head...

-Above the Everfree Forest-

The large red dragon cackled with glee, a spurt of flame licking up from his maw as he beat long, membranous wings. The dragon could almost feel the warm, pony flesh slide down his throat and taste the sweet taste of blood on his forked tongue.

Letting out a bestial roar, the dragon folded his broad wings tightly against his body and fell into a dive, wind lashing at his face as a hardly visible mach cone developed before him at the speed of his decent. With a shake in the earth, the dragon landed at the edge of the Everfree, startling a unicorn mare in the process.

The dragon laughed in a rough, reptilian voice as the being he frightened leapt aside, her fear one of the few pleasures that the drake had in his life.

Growling, Garble swiveled to face the pony, forked tongue sliding over his lips as he glared daggers at her. "Weeeell," he hissed. "You'd make a nice mouthful, now wouldn't you," he sneered, taking a step towards her with a ravenous look in his eyes.

The Indominus Rex growled, stomping a hoof and digging it into the ground with a snort.

"Your pathetic show of defense doesn't faze me, pony," Garble grinned, splaying his claws.

"Pony?" the hybrid questioned in a voice that defied the fact that she was a mare, lifting a brow and looking down at her body. "That's what you call... whatever the hell I am?" she queried, her typically angry demeanor melding into one of befuddlement.

Garbles eyes popped wide momentarily before he keeled over and started laughing in a malign cackle. "Ar-are you bloody serious?!" he laughed, wiping a crocodile tear from his eye. "Yo-you're so pathetic," the drake grinned demonically, propping himself onto his elbows in preparation to rise to his hooves.

He was stopped by an immense pressure upon his chest. Opening his eyes, he looked into the flaming eyes of a massive, snarling albino unicorn, a firm hoof denting in his thick chest scales. "Pathetic?" she sneered, peeling back her lips to reveal the serrated, ivory daggers imbedded in her jaws. "Do you REALLY think that was such a good choice of words?" the Indominus barked, bloodied saliva lathering her fangs.

Garble felt a brief wave of fear before the realization hit him. This being, no matter how hellish her eyes seemed or menacing her voice was, was simply a pony. "Actually," he coughed, snorting smoke into her face. "Why not?" With that, he rolled away, the unicorn losing her stance and stumbling for a moment before the red dragon leapt up and beat his wings once to put some distance between the two.

With a roar, Garble lunged towards her neck, jaws wide and ivory claws splayed. His foe uttered forth a tremendous bellow in retort as he approached, rearing up just as he came forward. Roaring again, the unicorn slammed her hooves back down when his skull was just inches from her torso. The attack threw Garble into the dirt, sending a small spray of soil up before she herself lurched forward.

With a growl, the Indominus charged the dragon, swinging around and slamming her jaws down onto his neck before he could react. With strength far exceeding any unicorn, she heaved him back to his clawed feet and crunched down with her jaws, teeth piercing his tough scales with a spurt of red.

Garble shrieked in pain as he choked for breath, his own blood pooling in his jaws as he fished his claws between his neck and her teeth. With a growl, the drake managed to pry her off, his new goal to force her jaws far enough apart that they would snap.

A toothy grin slipped across Garble's muzzle as the Indominus roared in frustration, blood beginning to creep from the corner of her mouth. With one last straining growl, Garble yanked.

Just before the action played out, the Indominus slammed a hoof into his chest, knocking the breath from his lungs and throwing him off of her. The unicorn grimaced and flexed her jaws before swinging her head to face the gasping dragon with a glare that demanded obedience even from the most ill behaved. With a snarl, she advanced towards him, nostrils flaring and hooves kicking up clouds of dust.

Garble looked up with fear before feeling an excruciating pain on the top of his snout. Roaring and screaming in pain, the realization was slow to dawn on the dragon through said pain. The unicorn teeth were buried in his snout, blood trickling down and dripping onto the ground under hoof.

The mare sneered before whirling around, with Garble still in her jaws, and slamming the relatively young drake into the dirt.

Releasing her hold on his snout, the I. Rex growled, placing a firm hoof onto the top of his skull. "You made a bad choice," she purred in his ear in a voice that defied the use of the word 'purr'. With that, the massive mare clamped her jaws around his neck again. Garble struggled, but her hoof remained on his snout, the other on his shoulder, and forced him into the ground. Her neck muscles prepared to deliver a killing blow that would separate the vertebrae of his own.

Before the motion could take place, a roar sounded off overhead, tearing her attention away from the mauled form of Garble.

Clump and Fume looked down at the unicorn with synonymous looks of confusion and anger at the size of the mare and what her fury had wrought. The two glanced at each other before roaring again and diving towards the duo of pony and dragon, striking the ground with a dull thud.

The Indominus glared at the two with a displeasing roar, taking a step back and baring her teeth.

Clump came to his boss' side and helped Garble to his feet while Fume approached her with a vile smirk. "You won't survive much longer than this," he snickered, pupil constricting into slits. "The boss wants you dead, and he's gonna get his wish," the biped growled, forcing the unicorn back into the trunk of a tree.

Had Fume known how dangerous a cornered dinosaur could be, he probably wouldn't have been so quick to back her up. When he did finally notice that the dinosaur-turned-unicorn was growing much more aggressive, it was just a tad late for him. With a growl, the Indominus charged forward, head low. Her head struck his upper chest with surprising force, robust, forked horn sinking into his shoulder.

Fume shrieked in pain as the mare pulled away, horn stained a deep crimson. A twisted grin crossed her face as Garble pulled from Clump's grasp, who followed en suite, and surrounded the unicorn. "You are no pony," he sneered, raking his claws across her face. She shouted in pain as blood ran down three horizontal gashes across her left cheek. "You are Lilith masquerading as a demonic unicorn!" the dragon shouted, throwing a fist at her shoulder.

The mare was thrown down, her breath coming shallow as the dragonetic trio began to close in on her. Just as the first hint of flame began to build in Garble's maw, a roar like thunder echoed forth from above, a black silhouette eclipsing their forms.

The juvenile delinquents looked up at the horrifyingly familiar appearance of demonic, curved horns, interlocking fangs, and scales stained black with ash. Before the three dragons could do anything more, however, a series of higher pitched screams and smaller shadows grew apparent.

Like a king leading his soldiers to battle, the massive black dragon was being trailed by dozens of small wyverns, nasty creatures with nothing more than a pair of hind legs and wings to walk on. Pitch uttered another bellow, a spurt of flame streaking from tremendous jaws and tearing apart the already sparse clouds before it.

Garble, Fume, and Clump began to backtrack into the forest, fear diminishing any sense of greed or pride that they were formerly feeling. "Let's go!" Garble barked to his cohorts, turning tail and sprinting into the trees, Fume and Clump hot on his heels.

The massive black dragon arched his wings, holding them in a tight formation that would allow for the creature to plummet into an effective dive. Whereas the younger dragons folded their wings completely, Pitch new better. He'd had hundreds of years of experience flying. A roar echoed out of a thick pair of jaws as he spread his wings back out feet from the ground and landed, the impact of his landing and his weight shaking the earth beneath his claws.

The Indominus Rex glared up at the black dragon with boiling hatred as he stood with his back to her, a flock of smaller wyverns circling above like vultures.

With a snort, the Dragon Lord turned to face the unicorn, a gust of hot air and smoke billowing from his maw and nostrils. Pitch squinted at her lack of fear before a deep voice rang out. "Why do you not run? Do you not recognize the impending doom that you face?" he questioned.

"Doom?" the mare snorted, her eyes beginning to leak with a faintly luminescent, violet aura.

"Yes, doom!" Pitch roared, lunging towards her with gaping jaws, the back of his throat glowing a bright orange.

The unicorn leapt aside, fangs bared as the dragon charged forward. Though she avoided the ivory daggers that interlocked in Pitch's jaws, she wasn't fast enough to avoid the dragon's tail as it scraped against her chest and threw her across the road into the Everfree.

The wyvern's above screamed with glee as the thought of an easy meal plagued their minds. Pitch would do the killing, and the marauding dragon's would drive him away with annoyance.

Meanwhile, Pitch uttered a demonic laugh as the hybrid unicorn forced herself to her hooves with a groan, eyes flickering with hatred and violet energy slithering from her horn in tendrils. Before Pitch was able to react, she rocketed forward, her form changing as she approached.

Several changes took place as she charged the dragon; her mane and tail disappeared, in their place were thin quills and a long, thick tail were visible. Her front hooves were swiftly positioned so that she stood in a bipedal stance, hooves being replaced by sharp grey claws. Her snout grew in length, a pair of robust brow horns sprouting up and her nasal ridge growing more bony and rough. The final, most prominent change was her size. When the transformation was complete, she was easily the size of the Dragon Lord.

The newly formed Indominus Rex uttered a hissing roar, jaws wide before she slammed her jaws down on Pitch's neck. The dragon bellowed in surprise more than he did pain as she thrashed her head back and forth, clawed forelimbs gripping his shoulder blades and skull. With a grunt, she pulled her head back, tearing a shred of flash from Pitch's neck.

Pitch howled in pain and rage before twirling to face her and rearing up onto his hind legs in what could best be compared to an enraged bear. Pure rage became alight in his system before he threw his weight forward, shoving the Indominus Rex down with a bellow. Flames began to erupt from his eyes as he grabbed her by the chest and effortlessly lifted her off of the ground in his jaws.

The hybrid shrieked in pain as his fangs pierced her thinly armored breast before the dragon attempted to hurl her away. She wasn't having any of that, and clawed at his throat and skull while kicking his belly and chest with a barrage of angry roars and growls.

The dragon dropped his foe with an agonizing bellow, stepping back a few feet and shifting his gaze down at his wounds with a grimace. They hadn't cut too far into him, but his breaths still came ragged at the gashes that covered his chest. "You dare assault the King of the Dragons?!" he snarled at her, leering back up at the genetically altered dinosaur as she dragged herself back to her claws.

The Indominus Rex didn't verbally respond, but the glare that she returned were the only words that Pitch needed. The carnosaur ushered forth a rage rilled scream, and the two charged towards each other.

-Canterlot's Archives-

"Unicorn Wizard, I have been many places... and I have seen many things. A being such as yourself, though, never," Star Swirl the Bearded explained as he walked alongside the former synapsid. "The only beings that I know of who possess a jagged horn are the notorious changelings, and you, are clearly no changeling."

It was only than the Unicorn Wizard actually looked himself over. His coloration, patterns, and horn were the same as he remembered. His horn was jagged, hide dark pink with black markings that made the pink look like splotching, but the form they belonged to was all but foreign to him. He was not the Dimetrodon that he recalled, but rather a unicorn stallion with a medium length, grey beard. "What does a changeling look like?" he asked with a frown.

"They have an almost insect-like appearance about them, with a tough exoskeleton, hole-filled hooves and wings, and fangs," Star Swirl replied as they rounded a bookshelf corner.

The two walked in silence for a time before the royal wizard came to a halt. "Ah, here we are," he exclaimed with a soft smile, hoof beginning to trail over the lines of books before he grabbed at an old tome and diligently flipped the pages open. "Nnnope, this isn't it." With that, he closed the book and returned it to its residence upon the shelf. "Um... Unicorn Wizard? Can you help me look for 'Methods and Spells of Cross-Dimensional Locomotion', by Clover the Clever, please?"

"I can't read," the synapsid said with a sigh.

"That's all right, might you look for the book via pictures then?" Star Swirl smiled, patting Unicorn Wizard's shoulder.

"Of course."

-Ponyville-

The Indominus Rex and Dragon Lord rolled among the streets of Ponyville like wrestlers, clawing, biting, and kicking each other with growls and roars. A torrent of flame was misguided by a shove to the jaws that Pitch had been on the receiving end of. The flame had collided with a residence at the edge of the town, resulting in an explosion as the building collapsed into a heap of rubble.

Pitch swatted away his adversary's jaws as she made a lunge for his throat before feeling the claws on her feet rake away to the softer scales of her belly. The dragon roared in a picture of pain and unholy rage before breaking away from the Indominus with a gasp, blood during steadily from his wounds.

To say he looked bad was an understatement, he looked horrendous. Many bites pitted his hide and wings, the membrane torn. One wing was broken, evident in the fact that it hung limply by his side, the other ripped. Several of his beloved teeth were broken when his albino foe had slammed her head into his jaws, and his tail was kinked, suggesting it, like his wing, was broken.

If he was horrendous, the Indominus was absolutely terrible. She, not having terribly thick scales in comparison to her foe, was covered in shallow burns that sizzled the flesh that was unprotected by her melted scales. Her right arm hung limp and lifeless by her side in a show of a fracture and her hide was covered from nearly head to tail in claw and deep bite wounds.

This fight needed to end. She couldn't keep fighting for long, and Pitch knew it.

In a show of force, Pitch inhaled before a tremendous roar rang forth, flames developing in his throat.

The Indominus roared back, and before Pitch could respond, she rushed headlong across the battleground, head low. She made impact with the Dragon Lord's chest, the crack of ribs ringing above the pained gag that Pitch uttered as he was thrown down. In another roar, the hybrid clamped her jaws down on his neck and attempted to thrash her head to pierce his throat and break bones.

Before any such thing could happen, Pitch kicked the dinosaur off of him before leaping back and spreading his wings. In spite of his shattered wing, the dragon flapped it with great force and grit his teeth under the effort, taking to the skies. "I will have my revenge!" he shouted in a voice that sounded like thunder as he beat his wings and flew away. "You won't survive me again!"

The Indominus Rex watched as her foe and the swarm of wyverns flew away, her breath ragged and blood running down the corner of her mouth as she fought against the blackness of unconsciousness. Before long, she collapsed, a beaten and bruised unicorn mare. The unicorn tried to struggle back to her hooves, but with a broken leg and ribs, the strain was too much for her.

The mare fell into a heap as a young orange pegasus and cyan pegasus approached her. "Ma'am?!" the older mare said with worry, flying to her side. "Scoots, go find help!" she ordered the filly, pointing towards Ponyville with panic on her voice. "Ma'am, you're gonna be okay, help is coming," the pegasus assured as she turned her attention to the wounds that lined her side.

"I'M FINE!" the hybrid snarled in pain as the mare gently moved dirt away from one such wound, snapping her head up and slamming her jaws shut inched from her wing.

"Whoa!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, leaping into the air with a frown. "I'm trying to help you!" she scolded.

"I don't want your help!" the Indominus sneered before forcing herself to her hooves, pain rocketing up her spine and leg. The unicorn cried out in pain and collapsed, breath coming in shallow, ragged gasps.

"You gotta name, Miss Snotty Britches?" Rainbow Dash scoffed, placing a hoof on her hip.

"You gotta death wish?" she grumbled in response, her own blood beginning to soak into the ground beneath her.

"What's your name?" the pegasus asked again, rolling her eyes. She didn't bother retorting. Being a stunt flier, she was asked this more often than she care to remember.

Remembering what she was called by the younger dragons, the mare responded. "Lilith."

This name put Rainbow Dash on edge. Lilith was a notorious demon from mythology who represented aspects of darkness like terror and sensuality. The mare having this name was not invoking the nicest of feelings from the Element of Loyalty. If anything, it made her distrust the massive mare before her. "Lilith?" Rainbow Dash repeated in an attempt to make sure that she wasn't deaf.

'Lilith' didn't reply.

As Rainbow Dash opened her mouth to ask again, Scootaloo came trotting to her side, trailed by a nurse who was fortunately not busy aiding in calming the panic that had ensued with the building that Pitch had blown up. "I gotta doc!" she exclaimed, huffing for breath.

"Kay. And, hey, Doc... Be careful, she's aggressive," Rainbow Dash told the nurse.

She gave a polite smile before going about her business. "You needn't worry," she said, pulling medical supplies out of a saddle bag and leaning down to swab one of Lilith's wounds.

Before the gauze made contact, the unicorn whipped her head around with a snarl. "Don't touch me!" the former dinosaur snapped, lips curled back to expose her yellowed teeth.

"I'm trying to help you," the nurse cooed, hiding well a sense of fear. "If we don't tend your wounds, you could die of blood loss. If that doesn't happen, they could become seriously infected," she explained, lifting a hoof to try and calm the mare enough to help her.

Lilith glared at her skeptically for a moment before flopping her head down in a submissive manner. "Hurry up... Before I change my mind and you become a meal," she grumbled.

The nurse smiled before wading a bit of gauze and gingerly pressing it to the Indominus Rex's wounds.

Chapter Four: Birth Story

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Chapter Five: The Way the Cookie Crumbles

-Isla Nublar, 120 Miles West of Costa Rica-

Owen Grady looked up curiously at the swirling vortex that thundered overhead, sucking up the debris that came off of buildings struck during the Indominus and Tyrannosaurus Rex's short lived battle. The Velociraptor trainer had watched as the two titans were pulled into the vortex, a flash having been emitted from its core as the two had entered. "What the Hell?" he muttered as Claire Dearing came up beside him and joined Owen in his musings.

"What is it?" she questioned, turning to look at Owen with a confused expression before transitioning her gaze back up.

"I don't know," Owen acknowledged, furrowing a brow as he stared up at the strangely colored cloud. Looking down at feeling his feet not having to support as much weight, the Jurassic World employee noticed himself being lifted off of the ground. "Uh, Claire?" he started, dropping his rifle in surprise.

Looking up, Claire noticed her co-worker being airlifted. "OWEN!" she exclaimed, jumping up and grabbing his foot as he levitated up. Yanking down with all of the might that she was physically able, Claire only succeeded in joining his levitation, a panicked scream audible as the two hovered up towards the vortex of light.

Before either were able to react, they had entered the cone of light and disappeared with a flash of light and rumble like thunder.

-Canterlot Archives-

Unicorn Wizard sat on his haunches with a sigh as his current companion, Star Swirl the Bearded, scanned the vast shelves of Canterlot's Archives. Despair was beginning to take hold of the synapsid's mind as the hours bore on without any sign of the book that the duo was currently looking for.

Star Swirl must have sensed this disappointed air about the unicorn, for he turned to face the stallion with a look of slight concern etched across his wrinkled face. "I understand your worry," the old wizard assured his friend, approaching Unicorn Wizard and patting his shoulder. "We will find it eventually. These things just take time, alright?" Star Swirl said with soft smile.

Unicorn Wizard looked to the stallion and forced a slight smile to his face. "I can only hope that we find a way for me to get home sooner than later," he muttered through a deep exhale.

"We will," Star Swirl acknowledged before a glow formed upon the tip of his horn and a slight wince came upon his face, eliciting a concerned expression from his fellow wizard.

"Master Swirl?" Unicorn Wizard queried, lifting a brow.

The grey unicorn merely waved a hoof whilst rubbing the base of his horn with a hoof in the hopes of ebbing away an incoming headache. "I'll be alright. It happens when something-" Star Swirl trailed off and jerked his head up, ears flicking to attention. "Tell me, were you around anypony else when you were transported to this place?" he asked suddenly.

The former Dimetrodon cocked a brow asymmetrically, confusion evident as he spoke. "Not that I can recall, why?"

He received his answer in the form of a loud crash and pained shout, a loud bang echoing through the library as a flash of light momentarily blinded the two unicorn stallions. Looking to the direction of the noise and now diminished light, Unicorn Wizard moved towards said area, led by Star Swirl.

The two were shocked to see a pair of ponies sprawled across the floor, one a red maned unicorn mare dressed in a grit covered white outfit and the other an earth stallion with a bit of stubble upon his face, a grey vest, and sky blue t-shirt.

The bookshelves that had been around them were now toppled over, the books spread out messily as the two stallions looked down at them in clearly visible confusion.

Noting the fact that the mare had a horn, Star Swirl surmised that the two probably just had a magic mishap. Reaching down to feel her horn, the wizard was shocked to find that there was no heat coming off of it as he would've expected from somepony who'd used magic recently. Looking over at Unicorn Wizard, Star Swirl noticed a thoughtful expression coming across his face. "Master Wizard?"

"I feel like I know these two," the jagged-horned stallion acknowledged.

"How? I thought you weren't from here?" Star Swirl inquired.

"Neither are they," he answered. "I saw these two during the evacuation that occurred at home when a big white dinosaur broke from her enclosure," Unicorn Wizard explained. "I could see them from my paddock," he went on to say. "The two got onto some sort of vehicle and drove away."

His companion was beginning to grow all the more curious as he heard Unicorn Wizard's explanation. "You mean to tell me that these two are from Isla Nublar... like you? I wonder how they got here," Star Swirl said, stroking his beard deep in thought.

It was then that the unicorn mare began to stir back into consciousness, a low groan slithering from her throat as she put a hoof to her forehead. "Urg, what happened?" she muttered with a grimace before noticing the two horses standing before her. Her eyes popped out wide as a bright purple and pink unicorn with a beard waved at her hesitantly. "Uh... O-Owen?" she spluttered, rapidly tapping the earth stallion's shoulder.

"You needn't be afraid, Miss," Star Swirl assured the mare with a bow, only receiving a shocked scream as she picked up a book and hurled it at him. Star Swirl jerked aside, a frown coming upon his face. "Excuse me, Madame! That tome was nearly two thousand years old!" he barked as she rapidly backed away from him.

"Why are you talking?!" was all she could get out.

"Begging your pardon?" the wizard queried whilst lifting a brow and squinting at her. "My name is Star Swirl, this is my compatriot Unicorn Wizard," he explained, gesturing towards the synapsid.

It was then that the unicorn mare looked down and noticed that the being she'd tried to wake was also a horse. Though still in shock, she paused in her attempts to escape at noticing the all too familiar, oil stained vest and shirt that he wore. "What the Hell?" she gasped, looking down at herself and noticing hooves instead of hands. "What happened to me?" the unicorn asked, stumbling forward and looking up at the two. "What did you do?!" the mare spluttered.

"Us? Nothing, it was neither of us that caused your transformation, Unicorn Wizard here was from Isla Nublar, as well," Star Swirl explained.

"What? I don't remember seeing you in the Control Room," she exclaimed, pointing at the stallion in question.

Unicorn Wizard rolled his eyes. "You wouldn't... Because I'm not a human. I was a Dimetrodon in my former state," he told her matter-of-factly.

"What, you mean one of the assets?" she questioned.

Star Swirl cocked a brow at the statement before Unicorn Wizard answered her question.

"Asset? No, I'm a living, breathing thing just like you are and resent being spoken of as though I'm some kind of number on a spreadsheet," he barked.

-Canterlot Dungeon-

Rexy's thoughts were behaving like an obnoxious raincloud, all jumbled, but not ceasing to exist or diminish in the slightest. She wasn't one to dwell on the circumstances of her birth, even for a dinosaur from Isla Nublar. It was just something that didn't concern her. Why should it? She wasn't unhappy in Jurassic Park, she didn't particularly regret anything she'd ever done in the past... It was following her conversation with Obsidian that the oversized unicorn mare found herself lost in thought. Rexy furrowed a brow at the unpleasant thoughts. Was bloodshed and fear all she ever brought upon others?

As she entertained the thoughts, Rexy became dimly aware of a distant thud in the background. Lifting her head and unconsciously flicking her ears to attention, the tyrannosaur's nostrils flared as she tried in vain to sense the cause of the sound. Rexy tried for another moment to capture any sent, but the air of Canterlot's dungeon was stale and motionless.

Reacquainting her chin with the concrete floor, Rexy closed her eyes, ears still swiveling back and forth in an attempt to pick up any other sounds that might be emitted. A sigh slithered from her nose that was visible in the movement of her ribs as her thoughts wandered. When no sounds were to be heard in the air, the saurian mare's breathing became more smooth as she slipped into a light sleep.

-Canterlot Archives-

"H-how could this happen?! I-I saw that strange cloud, but it shouldn't've turned me into a horse!" Claire Dearing rambled, pacing back and forth with her cheeks flushed and hoof to her forehead. "I can't believe this is happening," the unicorn choked.

Star Swirl and Unicorn Wizard exchanged awkward glances before the former moved towards her. "Miss Dearing, please. There is no need to get worked up over this... I'm sure we can find a way for you to get home," he assured her, lifting a hoof in an attempt to calm the panicked mare.

It was in this moment that the trio noticed the fact that the earth stallion, which had practically been forgotten about, had begun to stir, a low groan escaping his throat. Grimacing, the stallion smacked his lips together as he came to, exhaling deeply as he sat up.

Noticing this, Claire turned to face him and dropped to her knees before him. "Owen!" she choked, placing a hoof on the pony's shoulder and shaking him slightly.

Looking up at the 'aggressor' said stallion was clearly shocked to hear his co-worker's voice coming out of an equine with a red mane. "What the Hell?!" he hollered, surprising Claire as he leapt up and away from her, his former state of exhaustion having been rapidly torn away by the maraud of knowledge entering his brain at once. "What the Hell are you?!" the earth stallion shouted.

Claire stood back up with a concerned expression. "Owen, it's me, Claire!" she exclaimed, a hoof to her chest as the duo of unicorn stallions watched on in slight amusement.

Owen Grady stopped freaking out long enough to notice that the unicorn wore a dirt covered, white suit, her orange mane was cut in an all too familiar way to the Velociraptor trainer as he looked over her form. "Claire?" he queried, wearing a cockeyed expression upon his face. "What... What happened?"

"I dunno, something about that funny looking cloud we entered last night," Claire explained with her own confused air, shaking her head.

Owen looked down at his own body and if he could've he would have reeled away from it in shock. "The fff-"

Claire wore a worried expression upon her face as she looked Owen in the eye. "Are you alright?" she questioned.

"Y-yeah... I feel faint is all," the stallion spluttered, leaning against a bookshelf and putting a hoof to his forehead. "Claire," he coughed, desperately beginning to scan his surroundings for any windows or doorways to an open area so that he could have a breath of fresh air to clear his head. "I think I'm freaking out."

It was in this moment that Star Swirl lunged forward to help steady the shaking stallion. "Put your head between your knees," the unicorn ordered sternly.

Upon hearing the words, Owen pulled away slightly and promptly stood straight up. "Nope." With that, he fell to the tile floor stiff as a board, having fainted with the shock of the information he'd yet to process. A dull thud echoed out as his body made contact with the tiles, surprise coming across both Star Swirl, and Dearing's face.

"Oh my gosh! Owen!" Claire exclaimed, dropping down and propping the earth stallion up slightly.

"Um... Is he alright?" Unicorn Wizard finally spoke.

-Canterlot Dining Hall-

The heavily built kirin looked down at his dish with a slight smile upon his face at the assortment of greens that were scattered upon it. The eggs and pancakes, as they'd been called, that had been provided to him by Onyx's family were good, but nothing beat a dish of fresh vegetables. Combined with the fact that Bastidon was unable to go as long without feeding in a smaller form, the sight was more than welcome to the Ankylosaurus.

Lifting the fork placed meticulously beside the plate, Bastidon fiddled with it in slight curiosity and some alienation before stabbing at the salad with the utensil and lifting it to his now beakless lips. Taking a bite, the stallion ushered a content sigh as he chewed the food, a smile upon his face that the mare across from him shared.

"How's the food?" Princess Celestia queried, forking her own salad with Princess Luna sitting next to her.

"I haven't had a fresh salad for two days now... It's very good," Bastidon said through a mouthful of food.

Celestia nodded with a smile before an off-thought crossed her mind. Noticing the bandage that was upon her guest's spinal column, the celestial alicorn thought back to when she'd seen the kirin and Rexy in the same room. She'd never seen such violence between two beings for decades now and was curious as to why things happened the way that they did. "I appreciate that you do not behave as recklessly as your carnivorous friend, Rexy, was it?" she said.

Slightly confused as to Celestia's wording, the kirin spoke. "That's her name... Buuut I wouldn't call her friend. Being a T. Rex, she has no friends," Bastidon snorted slightly. "Come to think of it, far as I know, T. Rexes live alone," he said thoughtfully, lifting an elephant-like hoof to his chin in his musings.

"And what about you?" Luna added with slight skepticism in her tone. After having nearly been attacked by a dinosaur from an alien planet, the lunar demigoddess was lacking in trust for any of the newcomers that might arrive. "Do you have any friends?"

Bastidon dipped his head slightly. "I used to have three... Until some monster murdered one of 'em," he said sullenly.

"What monster?" Princess Celestia queried, furrowing a slightly saddened brow. Luna's expression also softened slightly upon hearing the words.

"I don't know... But it was white and had long arms," the ankylosaur acknowledged, anger growing on his tone. "I saw it earlier last night, and it looked like one of you," he growled.

Princess Luna's demeanor became uneasy as Bastidon leered up at the duo as though they were his enemy. "So you mean that it's here in Equestria?" Princess Celestia asked before her sister could do anything, diligently laying a wing across Luna's back for reassurance.

"If that's what this place is called," Bastidon shrugged, returning to a more manageable mood.

Luna sighed slightly before looking upon the kirin stallion's partially exposed hip and noticing what looked like a three leaf clover upon his hip, though it was a deep grey in color. Looking more closely, she could see that it more closely resembled a club from a deck of cards. "Bastidon, how did you come upon your name?" she queried, cocking a brow.

"I don't know... I heard humans say it and point at me... so I assumed that that was what they had decided to call me. Personally, I hate it," the former dinosaur grunted, taking in another mouthful of food.

Celestia and Luna exchanged glances, both of which were that of warmth. "Bastidon... How would you like a name change?" Princess Celestia asked with a kind smile.

Bastidon looked up with an almost disbelieving expression. "Really?" he asked, a slight smile coming upon his lips.

"Yes," Luna added. "How would you like to be called Shamrock?" she snickered, lifting her chin in a sense of slight pride.

"What does that mean?"

Celestia chuckled slightly. "A shamrock, also known as a clover, is a token of good fortune in some areas of Equestria. It is a type of plant that can grow either three, or four leaves. Four is considered good luck to some. Your Cutie-Mark, which resembles a clover for some reason, is the perfect inspiration for your name," she explained, nodding at his flank.

Bastidon looked to his hip as she spoke, indeed seeing three circles connected together by an odd triangle. "That looks like my tail," he exclaimed whilst furrowing a curios brow, lifting the clubbed appendage into the air slightly to reveal, more or less, the same look as the mark. The corners of his lips curled up slightly as he dropped his tail and looked back up at the princesses. "I like that name... Yes, my name is Shamrock, now," he declared, eliciting mutual smiles from the royal sisters.

"Well then, Shamrock... Welcome to-" Princess Celestia was cut off as a foursome of one mare and three stallions barged into the dining hall, one of the stallions unconscious and being levitated along by Star Swirl, who the alicorn recognized. He was trailed by a unicorn stallion with a jagged horn and an orange maned unicorn mare, neither of which she recognized.

"Your Majesties," Star Swirl said with a brief bow, worry etched upon his wrinkled face. "These three that I am with are not from Equestria... They came here with whom I was told was a Tyrannosaurus rex and something called an Indominus rex," the wizard explained.

Both royals were in shock and very much confused at the interruption up until the mention of a certain dinosaur in particular. "Did you just say, Tyrannosaurus?" Luna queried with a stern glare.

"I fail to see the relevance, but yes. Anyway, this is Unicorn Wizard, Miss Claire Dearing, and Mister Owen Grady," Star Swirl told the two, gesturing towards the trio behind him respectively.

Shamrock, who had turned in shock at the sudden noise and accidentally knocked over his dish with a misaimed swing of his tail (though nopony noticed at that time), cocked a brow at the mismatched group before beginning to recognize two of the beings that Star Swirl was with. "Hey, I know you," the kirin stallion exclaimed, pointing at Claire almost as if accusing her of something.

Looking to the heavily built pony, Claire squinted at him before noticing the uncanny resemblance to one of the dinosaurs that the Indominus had killed during her rampage. "You're one of those armored things," she noted, her eyes going wide at the realization.

Unicorn Wizard, who'd practically been forgotten in the current situation, stepped forward, deep in thought. "So... I know her, she knows you, but we don't know each other... WHAT PART OF THIS AM I MISSING?!!" he roared, chest heaving, limbs flailing, and eyes wide before he dropped back down onto his hooves. Unicorn Wizard's chest still heaved and his eyes were still wide, but he no longer defied physics and floated in the air whilst his limbs flailed wildly.

The others in the room looked at the unicorn stallion like he had three heads.

The Tyrant Lizard King Versus The Tyrant Crystal King

-Crystal Empire-

"He calls himself tyrant king..." King Sombra growled, glaring into a crystal globe. Purple energy slithered from his green and red eyes as his horn crackled with dark energy. "He will learn what it means to be a true tyrant king..." he snarled to himself, spinning around and furiously trudging from the room.

-Canterlot-

"Stop!" Rex whispered, holding a hoof in front of Venom. The dilophosaur changeling did his best to resist the urge to clamp his jaws on the carnivore's arm and inject his deadly poison. "It's a guard." the larger stallion murmured, slowly sneaking up behind the armored stallion.

"What are you doing?!" Venom hissed, horror filling his body. Rex's response was to quietly hit his front hooves together and point at the guard. Venom tried to stop the former Tyrannosaurs but to no positive result.

With a metallic clang, the armored pony collapsed to the ground. Rex began to place the armor on himself.

"ARE YOU CRAZY?! THAT WILL NEVER WORK!" Venom shrieked at the large stallion with wide eyes. "YOU'LL GET CAUGHT!!" he continued with fear rising on his voice.

"Why won't it work?" Rex asked, already placing the helmet onto his head.

"Because your tooth is kind of a dead giveaway!" the changeling snarled.

"Oh yeah." the large unicorn muttered, feeling the fang with his hoof. "Well then I was hired by... whatever her name was, to work as a guard." Rex grumbled, picking up the guard's crossbow. "Now how's this thing work." he muttered inspecting the weapon. It was then that he pulled a small lever that fired a single arrow into the no longer armored guard.

"Nice job!' Venom snapped. "We're dead. Not how I expected to go. Always thought I'd get killed by my own species." he growled through clenched teeth.

"Whoops." Rex muttered, staring down at the Celestial guard with wide eyes.

"HEY! You there!! Stop!" a voice called. Venom looked up and spotted another guard approaching the two dinosaurs.

"QUICK! Use the gun in your hoof!" the changeling yelled at Rex with wide eyes and pointing at the crossbow. Venom was in a state of panic as the guard approached them. "FORGET IT!" Venom yelled, his frill of skin swinging out and vibrating. With a loud hiss, Venom unhinged his jaws, exposing the rows of small, needle like teeth imbedded in his jaw.

"What the heck?!" the guard exclaimed, reeling back at the sight of Venom's frill and teeth.

Rex then charged passed the distracting dilophosaur and rammed into the guard, who was sent sprawling to the floor. "Serves you right." the stallion growled sternly.

"Let's get out of here!" Venom said to the tyrannosaur with wide eyes.

"Yes! Let's!"

-Canterlot Library-

Unicorn Wizard scanned the tall book shelves, trying to find a way home. "Hmm." the Dimetrodon said to himself, stroking his long beard with confusion.

"What can I do for you?" an elderly voice asked. Unicorn Wizard turned to see an old unicorn with a pointy hat and cape. His mouth was slightly hidden by a beard and mustache. Seeing Unicorn, he continued on; "It is good to see a fellow wizard!" he exclaimed. "Especially since we get very few wizards around these parts nowadays."

Unicorn Wizard nodded that he understood. "My name is Unicorn Wizard. I am trying to find a way for me and my friends to get back to Jurassic World. Perhaps you could help me?" the stallion asked with a friendly grin.

"My name is Star Swirl. I have never heard of this Jurassic World that you speak of, but I could probably find something." he replied, walking amongst the shelves. "We've had things like this happen before. Except it was pirates. Nasty creatures. The only reason we got them back was because they were a royal pain in the behind." Star Swirl said as he scanned the shelves.

Unicorn Wizard politely nodded as the old pony spoke.

"Ah! Here we are!" Star Swirl exclaimed, carefully pulling an old looking book from a shelf. "Here you are." he continued, handing the book to Unicorn Wizard.

"I can't read it." the Dimetrodon said, squinting as he tried to read the pages.

"It's just dusty... Blow it off." Star Swirl said, waving at the book.

With a deep inhalation, Unicorn Wizard blew on th dusty pages. A sparkling dust flowed through the air, taking the hazy form of a young mare with a green mane and tail.

"Is this thing on?" the holographic image asked. "Testing, testing, one two three." she said.

"Yes. It is working, Clover." Star Swirl said to the holograph with a cheery smile crossing his old face.

"Star Swirl! It has been too long!" the dust image exclaimed with a warm smile. "Well then! What seems to be the problem?" she asked, her cheerful tone becoming serious.

"Unicorn Wizard here is trying to find a way for his friends to get home. We were hoping that you might be able to help him find his way." the unicorn replied.

"It all depends on where he came from and what his previous form was. The legendary humans are an easy fix. Animals, particularly extinct ones, are a completely different matter." Clover said.

"I am a Dimetrodon." Unicorn Wizard spoke up. "My friends and I are dinosaurs." he continued.

"Oh. THAT won't be easy. Are you trying to find a way back to the time of the dinosaurs? Or are you trying to get back to the present?" she asked.

"The present." he replied.

"That makes things a whole lot easier. But because you are not human, it will be tricky. Have all of your friends at this spot before the next full moon, and I will see what I can do, alright?"

"Okay."

"Goodbye. It was nice to meet you Unicorn Wizard. Remember! Before the next full moon!" the fading image said with a smile. With a poof of air, the dust returned to the book.

"You better get right to work, finding you friends!" Star Swirl exclaimed, taking the book from Unicorn Wizard's hooves and placing it back on the shelf.

-Road to Canterlot-

King Sombra angrily trudged down the dirt road, a sneer forming across his face. It had been many years since the dark stallion paid Canterlot a visit.

A motorized carriage sped passed him, the wind ruffling his cape as he moved. With a twisted smile, Sombra's horn crackled with purple energy. A large blast streaked toward the carriage, and with a loud explosion, the vehicle was obliterated.

King Sombra calmly walked passed the flaming carriage with a wicked grin.

-Canterlot-

Owen Grady sat at the table, a bag of ice held to his forehead. "So what you're telling me, is that I'm stuck as a pony until I get home?" he asked Princess Celestia.

"Yes." she replied.

"I just hope that Blue is alright." Owen whispered to himself with a worried expression.

"I'm sorry? What was that?" Princess Celestia asked. "You said something about 'Blue?'" she continued with a confused look. "Who's Blue?" the celestial alicorn asked.

"A Velociraptor that I used to train." the stallion replied flatly.

It was then that a grey unicorn entered the room, a cape covering his back and his horn crackling with energy. "Sombra!" Celestia exclaimed, anger already swelling up inside of her.

"Where is Rex?" the tyrant asked.

"Is that what you guys call him?" Owen laughed. "He's nothin but a T Rex!" he chuckled, wiping a tear away from his eye. "I'm surprised he has his own nickname."

"SHUT UP!" Sombra boomed, telepathically throwing Owen against a marble wall... "Now that HE'S out of the way... Where is the one you call Rex?" he snapped, taking a step toward Princess Celestia.

"I don't answer to demons." she snarled, her kind tone vanishing along with her happiness.

"You think I'm a demon, ay? Well let me show you the POWER of the demon!" he boomed, dark energy flowing fro his horn and striking the monarch. With a demented laugh, Sombra ceased fire.

"HEY!" a voice called. King Sombra swung around to see a stallion with a broken horn. Behind him was a changeling with saliva dripping from it's jaws.

The stallion was brown in color with lighter brown stripes. His bottom jaw down to his hind legs were also a dusty brown. It was colored like that of a dragon, with dark scales and lighter chest scales. His cutie mark was also strange. It looked like the letter "J" with a loop.

"Who're you!" Sombra growled at the newcomer.

"You're worst nightmare." the stallion growled, positioning himself into a battle stance. "Now... Back away from the... unicorn thing." he continued, preparing to charge Sombra.

"You wouldn't." the tyrant threatened.

"Oh, but I would." the stallion replied with a menacing smile.

Sombra rolled his eyes and his horn began to glow with a dark purple aura. "What! You're CHEATING!!" Rex shouted, diving out of the way of a blast of energy.

"It's not cheating! You just can't do that!" Sombra laughed.

"It is TOO cheating!"

"Is not."

"Is too!"

"Is NOT!"

"IS TOO!!" Rex yelled, charging the unicorn with a scowl on his face. Sombra easily sidestepped the attack and brought a hoof to the stallion's back, slamming him to the ground.

"THIS is the Tyrant Lizard King?" Sombra laughed wickedly. "He can neither fight nor fend for himself." he continued. As if to prove his point, the unicorn tried to lift the dazed stallion off of his feet.

"You know, there's a saying... a rule that you were too stupid to remember." Rex growled, bucking Sombra in the gut. The dark unicorn gasped for breath as the former Tyrannosaurus lifted himself to his hooves. "You mess with the Tyrant King... you get the teeth." Rex whispered into his ear.

"That's not a rule!" Sombra growled, throwing a hoof at the stallion's face. Rex dodged the attack and clamped his jaws on the dark stallion's forearm. "AAAAAGGH!!!" Sombra yelled in pain, trying to pull away from the predator's vice like grip.

Finally, Rex released, but only to grab the unicorn by the collar of his cape and slam him into a wall. "I'm going to kill you!" the tyrannosaur snarled through clenched teeth...

"REX!! That is enough!" Princess Celestia yelled at the furious pony. "I may hate that unicorn you are trying to murder, but I do not allow others to kill." she told him. "Release him, NOW." Celestia commanded sternly.

Rex looked up at her and with an irritated snort, dropped Sombra, who gasped for breath.

The dark king jumped to his hooves and glared down at his bloodied arm. "Y-you BIT me!" he yelled at Rex, looking up at him with wide eyes. "YOU BIT ME!!"

"And? Your point is?" the stallion replied, shrugging his shoulders.

"That's cheating!"

"It's not cheating. You just can't do that." Rex chuckled, using what Sombra had said earlier against him. Sombra glared up at the tyrannosaur and tried to come out with a comeback that would really get under Rex's fur.

All that came out was; "BLEAH!!"

"Good to know." the stallion said as Sombra turned to walk away.

Change in Plans

-Canterlot-

"You broke out of that cell on PURPOSE!" Princess Celestia yelled at Rex with a glare. Then, softening her tone, she continued. "And for that I am grateful. Sombra could've done serious damage, had you not come along." she said to the stallion.

"Thanks, I think?" Rex said with a slight grin.

"As for YOU, changeling, you are in BIG trouble." Celestia growled at Venom.

"Venom." the former Dilophosaurus corrected, rolling his eyes.

It was then that Owen Grady slowly stirred into consciousness. "Wha happened?" he asked groggily, rising to his hooves. "Ow." he muttered holding a hoof to his forehead with pain.

Rex turned to look at the Velociraptor trainer with a look of confusion. "Hey... I know you." he said, remembering the little man he saw while battling the Indominus. It was the blue shirt and vest that caught the stallion's attention.

"Oh?" Owen asked, walking up in front of the broken horned pony. He then noticed a marking on the stallion's hip that set him off.
"Y-you're that T Rex that was fighting the I Rex." he exclaimed, taking a step back at the thought of the tyrannosaur taking his head clean from his shoulders.

"Brilliant, Holmes." Rex growled sarcastically. "Now then, I never caught your name."

"Owen Grady." the trainer replied, eyeing the pony suspiciously.

"I'm not going to eat you! Why does everybody seem to think that?!" Rex growled in irritation, his eyes seeming to flare with his built up rage.

"Maybe it's because you were a... How do I put this? I know! A TYRANNOSAURUS REX!!" Venom yelled at the furious stallion, his frill of skin swinging out and quivering.

"True, true." the stallion replied, nodding his head in agreement.

"Now then." Princess Celestia started, catching Rex's attention. "I see that you are experienced in the field of battle. So I am prepared to make you a deal." she continued.

"EXPERIENCED!!" Rex burst out laughing. "I've been stuck in a cage for years, living off of GOAT! You call THAT experienced?" the stallion snorted. "I was built for hunting. This fighting thing comes with luck. Until you stalk and overrun, you can not kill anyone." Rex said, remembering the phrase from humans.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Venom asked, looking up at the unicorn.

"It's a figure of speech." Rex whispered.

"Can we focus on what I was going to say, please?" the monarch asked, slightly irritated. Rex nodded. "Good. This deal, more like, you don't have much of a choice. I am going to make you a Celestial guard." she told the pony.

"WHAT?!! There is NO way that you are going to make me protect a bunch of lousy, flea ridden ponies." Rex growled at the alicorn. It was then that two guards walked to either side of the stallion. "Uh... I mean, when do I start?" he stammered with a nervous grin.

"That's better." Celestia said with a smile.

-Canterlot Guard's Barracks-

A muscular armored stallion approached Rex with a cheery grin crossing his face. "Nice to meet ya. Name's Ratchet." he said, holding a hoof in front of Rex. The large stallion gazed down at the hoof and raised an eyebrow. "You know what? Forget it. You don't even know where it's been." Ratchet chuckled, turning to a pile of clothing. "Speaking of names, you got one?" he asked.

"Rex." the unicorn replied flatly.

"Nice." Ratchet said with a smile. "Tell me, Rex. You got any family?" the former mechanic asked with a smile.

"No." he acknowledged.

"Oh... Well, MY family is in Ponyville. I don't see 'em often. You should meet them. Nice bunch. I got a brother, a sister in law, and a niece." Ratchet told the stallion, turning around. "Put your head down." the stallion commanded.

Rex listened and lowered his head, where Ratchet placed a metal helmet on the unicorn's head. "There. A little tight, but it'll work. How's it feel?" he asked.

"Comfortable." Rex replied, lifting his head back up.

"Good. You from around here?" Ratchet asked.

"No. I'm from Jurassic World." the unicorn replied. "It's on an island called Isla Nublar." Rex continued, felling the helmet with his hoof. "Which is in... Central America? I think." he said with a questioning tone.

"Round here we call it Isla Neighblar." Ratchet said with a confused look.

"I'm not from Equestria. I'm from Earth, where I was a Tyrannosaurus Rex." he snorted in response.

"I know what a T Rex is. I DON'T know what Earth is." Ratchet explained.

It was then that a teenage pegasus entered the room. "Obsidia." Rex exclaimed, a warm smile crossing his normally angry face. "It's nice to see you again."

"Hello Rex." the light brown pegasus said with a grin.

"Obsidia!" Ratchet happily laughed, wrapping his arms around his niece in a bear hug and lifting her off of her hooves. "When did you arrive?" he then asked, letting her down.

"A couple days ago." she replied. "Dad was saved by somepony, so we brought him here."

"What brings you to these parts of the castle?" Ratchet asked, his smile morphing into a frown.

Obsidia pointed at Rex. "Him." she said. The large unicorn grimaced at the prospect of the pegasus coming to see the former Tyrannosaurs.

"You know each other?" Ratchet asked with confusion crossing his voice briefly.

"A little." Rex replied. "She helped to calm me down when I was first captured." he continued.

"Oh." the guard said. "Now then, where IS your father?" Ratchet asked the pegasus with a smile. "It's been weeks since I've seen him." he continued.

"He's talking to Princess Celestia." Obsidia answered.

"Thank you." Ratchet said, walking to the door.

Wounding Tooth

-Ponyville-

Fluttershy walked down the dark streets of Ponyville, her head rocking back and forth as she hummed to herself. A loud crackling hiss echoed through the night air, stopping the pegasus mare dead in her tracks. "Hello?!" she called, nervously. The hissing came again, louder than the last. "I'm not going to hurt you!" she reassured, worry lines crossing her face. "Come on out." Fluttershy continued.

A pair of large, glowing spots then startled the pegasus. "Hh!" she inhaled deeply as a reptilian head poked out of a bush. A large pair of eyes gazed up at the pony with an almost sad honesty.

"Hello, there." she whispered, lifting a hoof to the creature's snout. Hesitantly, the creature reeled back and hissed, exposing rows of tiny dagger teeth. "I'm not going to hurt you." she reassured the creature, slightly pulling her hoof away from the thin reptile. With a soft, purr like growl, the small animal lifted it's snout to Fluttershy's hoof.

"You're not so big and bad, are you?" the Element of Kindness said with a slight smile. The creature blinked once before revealing the rest of it's body.

At first glance, the creature was a new species of drake, but closer examination revealed what Fluttershy assumed was a type of dinosaur. It was a thin creature, with downy feathers covering the majority of it's body. It's hind feet had small claws, but what really caught the pony's attention was that one of these claws curved up and was held off of the ground.

"What are you?" Fluttershy whispered to herself, stroking the animal's head.

Suddenly, a larger creature leapt from the bush and angrily hissed at the mare, it's yellow eyes squinted and it's jaws opened wide. With a high pitched bark, the larger saurian pushed the smaller creature away.

"Hey!! That's rude!" Fluttershy scolded the creature, lightly tapping a hoof to it's snout.

With a loud screech, the creature clamped it's jaws on her arm and thrashed it's head. Fluttershy screamed in fear and pain as the reptile released it's hold and scampered away, the bushes loudly rustling as Fluttershy weakly fell to the ground.

-That Morning, Canterlot-

"Hey... Time to get up! C'mon! Wake up!" a voice shouted.

"What? What happened?" Fluttershy murmured as the voice continued to call to her. "Where am I?" she asked groggily as she woke from her sleep. Propping herself onto her elbows, she felt a soft cushioning underneath her body.

"Are you okay?" Rainbow Dash asked the pony with worry on her voice.

"I think so." the pegasus mare replied, rubbing her forehead.

"What happened?" the cyan pony asked.

It was several moments before Fluttershy answered. "I found a small creature in Ponyville last night." she started. "It was perfectly friendly. But then another animal came along and bit me before it ran away. That's all I can remember."

A large bearded unicorn entered the room. His horn was more like a jagged spike and he wore a cape. "Tell me..." he started. "What did this creature look like?"

"It had big eyes and was covered with feathers. It also had weird looking claw on it's hind feet." Fluttershy acknowledged, slightly confused. "Why?"

"Hmm. I've never heard of THAT." the unicorn muttered to himself. "I'm sorry. My name is Unicorn Wizard." he corrected himself, holding out a hoof for the pegasus mare.

"Fluttershy." the pony said, taking his hoof. "What kind of dinosaur is it?"

"Sounds like a raptor. THIS kind of raptor uses a fast acting venom to subdue it's prey. It's mostly nocturnal, so the only hope of finding this creature is with a night watch." Unicorn Wizard said. "Where did you say you found the creature?" Unicorn Wizard said.

"Ponyville." Fluttershy replied. "You're not going to hurt it, are you?" she then asked with a look of worry.

The Dimetrodon looked at the pegasus with a sad expression. "Of course, not." he replied. "I just want to get a look at the dinosaur. I've never seen one up close, so it should be interesting."

Ponies and Gryphons

-Canterlot-

Rex's eyelids slightly dropped and his muscles were loose. He was tired, and not in the mood to be a guard. With a loud groan, the stallion lifted his head and tried his best to stay awake. If anything, he expected just a little bit more excitement than what he was receiving at the moment.

A loud clang startled Rex out of his groggy state. With a shake of his head, the unicorn lifted the tip of his spear and poised it to battle. A faint hiss echoed through the castle halls, landing upon the tyrannosaur's ears like snowflakes.

With a menacing growl, Rex bared his sharp teeth and approached a large figure.

"REX!!" the figure called, exposing itself. It was none other than a Spinosaurus mare.

"Talon?" the unicorn asked, flabbergasted that the Spinosaurus managed to wind itself up in Equestria's capital. "How did you get here?" he asked.

"You know... I haven't the slightest clue... How did YOU get here? And why are you wearing... armor?" Talon asked with a look of disgust crossing her newly formed face.

"I'm a guard now." Rex growled in annoyance.

Talon burst out laughing. "He he he... These people don't know what they're doing!" she chuckled. "I mean, seriously? A Tyrannosaurus Rex as a guard?"

Rex glared at her.

"I'm sorry. But HEY! Look at you! All armored pon-" she stopped mid sentence. "Why, if I may ask, are you our main FOOD SOURCE?!!" she yelled in confusion.

"YOU'RE ONE TO TALK!" Rex snapped.

Talon looked down at herself with horror. "AAGH!! What happened to my beautiful body?!!" she cried with fear, shock, and confusion. The spinosaurid then looked up at Rex with a terrified expression.

"It's hard to explain. But you'll get used to it." Rex reassured the mare, grabbing her hoof.

"My beautiful body!" Talon whined as the stallion dragged her down the hall.

-Manehattan-

The Pteranodon gryphon stumbled about, not being accustomed to walking on four legs. "Rrgh. Stupid body." he growled to himself, glaring down at his body.

"Hello." a calm voice said.

The gryphon looked up and saw a pony. It was a light blue in color with a darker blue mane and tail. A strange marking was on her left hip. "Uh, hi?" he replied nervously.

With a chuckle, the mare spoke again. "My name is Frost Bloom. What is your's?" she asked calmly.

"I... don't really... have a name." the former pterosaur muttered, slight guilt growing on his voice. "Well. I wouldn't say THAT. I'm a Pteranodon, but if you mean a personal nickname or something... I don't have one."

"Well... I'll call you... Toucan!" she exclaimed with excitement.

The gryphon lifted his head, his eyes growing wide with joy. "Really?! You would do that for me?!" he asked with built up happiness. Frost Bloom smiled at Toucan's joyful appearance. She nodded.

-Canterlot-

Owen Grady walked down the hall. He had a lot to take in at the moment. He was a pony, Jurassic World was gone, he knew a talking Tyrannosaurus, the list just went on and on. To top things off, though, Blue was gone. Owen hadn't seen her since she attacked the Indominus Rex.

A pair of large ponies pushed past the stallion, rambling on about what they were. Hearing something about a Spinosaurus, Grady swung around and stared at them with confusion. It was then that he noticed one of the ponies had a small ridge of bone and skin running down the length of her spine.

"What the hell?" Owen muttered, raising an eyebrow. "Hey!" he called. "Wait up!"

Rex and Talon turned their heads in unison to see a smaller pony with a blue shirt and vest. "What can I do for you, Mister Grady?" Rex asked the stallion.

"You know this guy?" Talon asked the unicorn, raising a lip.

"Yeah." Rex muttered.

"Rex. What is that?" Owen Grady panted, pointing at the mare with a hoof. Talon glared at the pony with disgust at being referred to as 'that'.

"This is Talon, the Spinosaurus." Jurassic Park's Tyrannosaurus Rex replied.

"Spinosaurus?" Owen gasped, still trying to catch his breath.

"Yeah." Talon snarled at the Velociraptor trainer. "What's it to ya?" she continued, lowering herself to eye level with the former navy person.

"I-I didn't mean you any harm." Owen stammered, taking a step back.

"No... You didn't." the spinosaurid snorted, rising back up.

-Canterlot Throne Room-

"These newcomers are a potential threat to us." Commander Hurricane started. "We do not have any idea if they mean us good or if they plan to attack us. I suggest we lock them up until we know otherwise." he continued sternly.

"You always were the punch first, ask questions later, kind of pony, Commander. But I will not allow it. Rex saved Canterlot from disaster, so I will do what I wish, without interference." Princess Celestia retorted.

"Yes, Your Majesty, but-"

"No. You can keep your negative comments to yourself. You were the same way about Onyx, Ratchet, and Captain Sparrow. Maybe you should try fitting into MY position for once in your career. Do you understand?" the celestial alicorn said to the commander. "If not, Captain Gordon would be happy to take your place."

"Are you kidding?! Captain Gordon tried to KILL you! He held a gun to your HEAD! What makes you think that he wouldn't do it AGAIN?!" Commander Hurricane shouted angrily.

"He helped save the planet." the pony replied. "Have you ever done such a thing?" she continued.

There was no reply.

"That's what I thought. Now then, fetch the newcomers for me please. I wish to speak with them." Princess Celestia commanded the... commander.

Hurricane rolled his eyes but did not object. He was, after all, talking to the monarch.

-Jurassic World-

"What the heck?" Claire said to herself, walking out into the open. Owen Grady, the raptor, the rex, and the I-Rex, were gone. "Where'd they go?" she asked herself. Zach and Grey walked up beside her with confused expressions.

"Aunt Claire, where are they?" Grey asked.

"I... don't know." she replied with a worried expression.

-Ponyville-

Dawn trudged down the street, her hooves kicking up dust as she walked. Patches of fur had been burnt off by the dragons' flames, exposing blackened skin. The Indominus' hide was pitted with long scratches and bruises.

A small pony followed her with a ridiculous smile. "Why are you following me?" Dawn growled, not turning her head. The foal stopped. The Indominus turned around to see a young orange pony with small wings and a pink mane and tail.

"Hello." the small pony said.

Dawn rolled her red eyes and gazed down at the small pony. "Hi." she grunted in reply.

"What's your name?" the little pony asked with a wide grin. "I'm Scootaloo." she continued, not giving the former Indominus Rex the time to reply to her question.

"Dawn." the unicorn said, turning back around.

"You're really big." Scootaloo said, following the unicorn mare with a big grin. "Are you a monster? Why do you have big teeth? Are you hurt?" The questions just went on and on.

Dawn's eye twitched

Finally, the unicorn cracked. Swinging around, she glared Scootaloo in the eye. "Stop... Following... Me." Dawn commanded, stiffly trudging away. She desperately tried to resist the urge to kill the young pegasus.

It was then that an odd looking creature walked into dawn's path. "What in the-?" The Indominus was cut off as the creature leapt at her face, it's jaws wide and claws splayed. "ARGH!!" the unicorn yelled as she tried to fight the creature away.

A loud scream sounded off like a bullet.

Dawn swung around to see the foal surrounded by a group of the creatures. With a furious roar, the Indominus swung her head, throwing the creature off of her. A triumphant growl leaked from her throat as she charged the group of animals. One creature's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets as she swung a hoof at it.

With a painful shriek, the creature struck a building. It fell with a puff of dust.

The other creature's leapt on top of Dawn's back and angrily bit the Indominus. The unicorn angrily bellowed and clamped her jaws on the closest one to her mouth.

Thrashing her head, Dawn instantly killed the reptile. The hybrid dinosaur then bucked the other bird like animals off of her.

The dinosaurs scampered away, screeching at each other with angry hisses and growls. With a triumphant bellow, Dawn watched as the animals ran off.

The unicorn gasped for breath and fell to her knees and elbows. "Are you okay?" Scootaloo asked Dawn with worry.

"I'll be alright." the dinosaur reassured the orange pegasus foal. "I just need to rest for a little while, is all." With that, Dawn lowered her head to the ground and closed her eyes.

Berries soared high above the town. Flaring his nostrils, the Dimorphodon gryphon smelled fresh blood. Berries lowered his altitude and spotted the source. It was an albino unicorn.

The gryphon uttered a cackling laugh and lowered his altitude.

With a small shockwave, Berries slammed into the ground, his clawed wings digging into the gravel. Cautiously, the Dimorphodon gryphon approached the downed hybrid, not knowing that a small foal was on the other side of the large unicorn.

"Yesss. It will make a good meal for Berries, it will." he hissed, preparing to take a mouthful.

"HEY!! Get away from her!!" a small pegasus shouted at the gryphon, startling him. "Go away!" Scootaloo commanded the Dimorphodon with a stern expression.

"ACH!" Berries shouted, glaring up at the orange pony. "It talkss!" the gryphon exclaimed to himself. "Our fishes doesn't talkss." he growled to himself.

"I said GET AWAY!!" Scootaloo yelled, leaping at Berries with and angry expression.

"EEK!!" the Dimorphodon shrieked in fear, leaping out of the way as the small pony jumped at him. "It's attacking!" Berries screeched, beating his leathery wings.

"It made Berries lose hiss meal, it did." the gryphon hissed to himself as he flew away, his wings pushing down with great strength.

Author's Note

The Spinosaurus is NOT a villain in this story!

Fueling Hatred

-Canterlot-

Dawn shifted her eyelids. With a noisy yawn, she lifted her head and groggily looked around her. Beside her was the little pony that had been annoying the crap out of her.

"You're awake!!" Scootaloo cried, leaping on top of the Indominus with a delighted squeal. Dawn grimaced and calmly lifted the happy pegasus off of her. "I saved you!" Scootaloo said proudly, puffing out her chest. "I saved you from the weird green dude." she repeated to the exhausted unicorn.

"What are you talking about?" Dawn growled in confusion, looking herself over.

"Scootaloo here says that a gryphon planned to make a meal out of you." a doctor said as she entered the room. "You were mighty lucky to have survived. You were bit. By the looks of things, by something venomous." she continued.

"Whatever." the hybrid grumbled, rising to her hooves.

"NO!" the nurse commanded. "You need some rest! The antidote is still doing it's work!" she said, placing a hoof against Dawn's chest with a stern look.

"Get out of my way!" the unicorn snarled, pushing the mare out of the way with an irritated snort.

"At least let me take you to Princess Celestia!" the nurse called after her. Dawn swung her head to face the pony. With a deep growl, the dinosaur stood aside for the pony to lead the way. "Thank you." the doctor said.

-Canterlot Throne Room-

"This is Talon." Rex said with a smile, introducing the mare to Celestia.

"Talon isn't, you know, like you, right? A carnivore, I mean?" Princess Celestia asked, a look of nervousness ever so slightly crossing her normally calm face. She had seen what a stallion like Rex could do when angered, so she felt a little nervous to meet another carnivorous pony.

"No, Your Majesty. A piscivore, would be the correct term." the Spinosaurus said, bowing down to the celestial alicorn. "A fish eater, in other words."

Princess Celestia let a deep sigh of relief escape her throat. "Okay, good." she said with satisfaction. "So, you don't eat meat, if I understand correctly?" she asked Talon.

"Not unless the opportunity presents itself." the ridge backed mare said reassuringly.

Rex brought a hoof down onto Talon's back. "How's THAT going to help." he growled into the mare's ear.

"Sorry!" Talon replied, rubbing her shoulder bone with a hoof.

At that moment, a loud knock echoed throughout the room. "Come in!" Princess Celestia called. A doctor entered the room, followed by an excited foal holding something. She was holding a mare's hoof.

"YOU!" Rex snarled as Dawn entered the room.

"Well I'll be d***ed. If it isn't Microarmosaurus and his long snouted friend." the Indominus Rex chuckled with a smirk. "I will take great joy in killing you both." she continued.

"SHUT UP!!" the large stallion bellowed furiously.

"Maybe this was a bad time." the nurse said with a guilty smile crossing her face. Princess Celestia nodded in agreement. "Okay. I'm just gonna go now." the doctor said, turning to leave as the two dinosaurs took a step toward each other.

"Please don't fight." a tiny voice squeaked. Dawn looked down to see Scootaloo pressed against her front leg. "I don't want you to fight. Please don't." she said, looking up at the unicorn with sad eyes.

"Aww. Does the wittow Indominus Wex have a fwend?" Rex taunted the hybrid. "Awwwww." He then began to laugh.

"Shut your trap, before I tear your esophagus out, you overgrown LIZARD!!" Dawn snapped, her eyebrows forming a glare. If the Indominus was angry before, it's NOTHING compared to the rage that was swelling up inside her now.

"This is getting interesting." Princess Luna said with a small smile. Celestia nodded in agreement. "I've never seen dinosaurs go at it before, you?"

"Nope."

Talon's expression remained that of anger the entire time Rex was taunting Dawn. Until, finally, she spoke. Well, more like yelled. "BOTH of you, SHUT UP!! Can't you two get along?!!"

Rex and Dawn glanced at the spinosaurid with wide eyes. "Nope." they then said in unison.

Talon rolled her eyes. "Why do you two hate each other SO much?! Why can't you get along?" she continued, rambling on about fighting and other stuff.

"Well, I could ask you the same question about why you and that other Tyrannosaurus couldn't get along. I mean, you KILLED him. Killed him!" Rex asked

"That was a territorial thing." Talon stated, matter of factly.

"EXACTLY!" the stallion shouted.

"Please... Don't fight." Scootaloo begged Dawn, tightening her grip on the hybrid's leg. For such a small pony, she had quite the tight hold. The Indominus looked down at the pegasus.

"Could you possibly loosen your grip. I can't feel anything from the shin down." Dawn asked Scootaloo with a slight smile crossing her normally rigid face. "I won't fight... if you get off of me, okay?" the unicorn asked politely.

"Okay!" Scootaloo chirped happily, instantly letting go of Dawn's leg.

"There so cute together." Rex teased. Dawn shot a glare at the tyrannosaur but kept to her word. With an irritated snort, the hybrid let herself out of the room, Scootaloo following close behind.

Princess Celestia impatiently tapped a hoof against the marble floor. "Ahem." she spoke up, gaining Rex and Talon's attention once again. "What were you two saying?"

Going Home Already?

-Canterlot-

Unicorn Wizard walked into the throne room, followed by Rex, Talon, Dawn, Venom, Bastidon, and Owen Grady. "I've found a way, with Star Swirl's help, to get us home." he told the seemingly asleep Princess Celestia.

"Good." she said calmly, trying not to throw the changeling into a wall with her telekinetic powers.

With that, the Dimetrodon unicorn placed a book onto the ground and opened it up, where he exhaled onto it's yellow pages. The cloud of dust swirled through the room and landed, showing the unicorn mare called-

"Clover the Clever. Good to see you again." Princess Celestia said to the sparkling image.

"Your Majesty." the green haired pony replied, bowing down. She then turned to the former prehistoric animals. "You have everypony here?" Clover asked Unicorn Wizard.

"Yes. I want to say thank you for your help, before we leave."

"Tut tut. No need for gratitude. Now then, you may feel a slight pinch as you find your way home." she told the bearded unicorn as a swirling vortex opened up.

"I'll go first." Unicorn Wizard said, his voice ever so slightly showing signs of nervousness. "Here goes nothin." he said to himself as he walked into the portal.

"It worked!" Talon said with excitement. "We can go home!" As if to prove her wrong, a startled Unicorn Wizard was thrown back, his face sliding along the marble floor with a painful squeak.

"Ow." his muffled voice said.

Rex could almost see the smoke coming up from around the unicorn like it was a car on asphalt in Jurassic World. "That couldn't have felt good." he muttered, wincing at the sight of the Dimetrodon stallion. Many of his teeth were broken and his grey beard was a mess of tangled hair. One eye was tightly shut and instantly bruising.

"I don't understand. Why didn't it work?!" Unicorn Wizard shouted, looking himself over for any possible changes in his appearance. Other than his damaged face, he didn't look any different.

"Hmm. It's your body." Clover the Clever explained. "Unless you are in the form that you were in before arriving, you can not go home." she continued.

"You mean we're STUCK here forever?!!" Venom shrieked in fear. "I do NOT want to be stuck eating VEGETABLES for the rest of my life, thank you!" he growled.

"We're not stuck here." Dawn muttered.

"What?" Talon said, swinging her head around to face the Indominus. "How are we NOT stuck here, you mutated rip off lizard?!" she growled.

The hybrid glared at the Spinosaurus but did not attack. "When I was in a town, I was attacked by some creatures. I got really ticked off with 'em and turned back into myself."

"So what you're telling me is, that we should just poof ourselves into our true form? THEN, you expect us to fit into THIS tiny thing?!" Rex asked, pointing at the swirling vortex.

"I'm surprised you haven't eaten any of us yet." Venom grumbled to himself. Bastidon brought a hoof to the back of his head. "OWW! What the hell was THAT for?!" he snarled at the ankylosaur. The stallion only rolled his eyes in response. "HEY! I'm talking to you!" Venom shouted, charging Bastidon with a furious expression.

"Back off." the stallion growled, kicking Venom in the chest.

"GAK!!" the changeling choked, tumbling into a wall. "I'LL KILL YOU!!" he gasped, limping toward Bastidon as fast as he could.

"ENOUGH!!" a booming voice yelled, stopping Venom dead in his tracks. The changeling swiveled his head to see a tall, muscular stallion. His pupils were constricted to small dots.

"Who're you?" the dilophosaur asked with a slightly disgusted expression.

"Uh, Onyx." the pony said as if it were obvious. "But that's not the point. Obviously you guys are stuck here until you can find a way home. Which, if you couldn't tell, is going to take a while considering all of you are at least thirty feet long..." Onyx continued.

"Onyx, eh?" Rex asked, approaching the young adult with a smirk. "Isn't Obsidia YOUR kid?" he asked, lowering himself to eye level with the mechanic.

"Yeees." the stallion replied. Then realizing who he was talking to jumped to attention. "YOU!! You're Rex!"

"Nah. How'd you know?" the large unicorn said sarcastically.

"You stay away from my daughter!" Onyx snarled at the tyrannosaur with an angry scowl.

"Whatever." Rex grumbled, rising back to his full height.

Surprise!

-Canterlot-

Obsidia sadly walked down the castle's long halls. Bastidon, deceased. Rex wouldn't talk to her. Venom was leaning toward darkness. Talon and Rex were constantly arguing now. Even Owen was effected by the turn of events. This was all because of Bastidon's death. With a sigh, the pegasus reflected on the fact that Rex would probably not talk to her for weeks.

"Obsidia. Could you come in here for a minute?" her father's calm, reassuring voice said. Obsidia turned to see her fathers head poking out of a doorway. The light brown pegasus nodded.

"We wanted you to know something." he started with a smile. Scarlet Blitz sat next to him, trying her hardest to contain the excitement inside of her. "You... are going to be a sister." Onyx told his daughter with a smile.

"Wait. What?!" Obsidia said with surprise.

"Surprise!" Scarlet said with a wide smile. In this state she almost seemed like a foal with her excitement. "You're gonna be a big sister!" the mother said joyfully.

"I... don't know what to say." Obsidia said, flabbergasted. "I am?" she stammered.

"Yep!" Onyx answered, swelling with pride.

"HEY! Wazup?!" Ratchet's voice said as he barged into the room. "How's the little kiddo?" he said playfully, nudging Obsidia's chin with a bright smile. "Pretty exciting, huh? Yer gonna be a sister!" he said.

"Ratchet?" Onyx asked with joy.

"Sup, dude?" he said. "How's things still being a mechanic?" the stallion asked. Onyx shrugged his shoulders. "Congratulations, Scarlet!" he exclaimed, turning to the white pegasus.

"Thank you." she replied with a smile.

"Hey. Cheer up!" Ratchet said, nudging the quiet pony next to him. "Your a sister!" With a frown, he turned to his younger brother. "What's wrong with her?"

"A friend of her friend's just died. Everypony's effected by the death." the stallion replied with a slight frown on his face. "I guess the pony whose friend died isn't talking to Obsidia anymore."

"That's not cool!" Ratchet growled.

"No, it's not."

"I'm just gonna go spend a little time alone." Obsidia said sadly, walking out of the room.

"Okay. Feel better." Scarlet Blitz called after her. "Poor kid." she continued when Obsidia closed the door.

Obsidia sat against a wall and buried her head in her arms. It was then that something nudged her hoof. Looking up, the teenager saw a muscular stallion standing before her. "REX!" she exclaimed, rubbing her eyes.

"Hey." he replied. "I'm sorry I haven't been talking to you. Everybody's stressed by the situation lately, if you know what I mean." the tyrannosaur said reassuringly.

"No, no! No need to apologize." Obsidia said.

"Did you want to, I don't know, what do you do for fun?" Rex asked.

-Ponyville-

"Wait, wait, wait. Somepony in HIGH HEELS out ran you?!" Obsidia laughed as Rex ate. "You're kidding, right? Tell me that you're kidding!" she chuckled.

"I'm dead serious." Rex tried to say in a serious tone. "She used my weakness against me too! She cheated!" he told her.

"What weakness is that?" the light brown pegasus asked.

"Flares." Rex said spookily. Obsidia looked at him like he had three heads. "What?! It's true! I'm attracted to flares for some odd reason. And I DON'T like it." he grumbled, finishing off the remnants of the ham sandwich. "Not bad." he muttered, licking his lips.

"You know, for a carnivore, you can be pretty tame." Obsidia exclaimed.

"Please." he snorted. "Don't call me tame. I'm far from it." the large stallion grunted with slight annoyance. "I've just lived in a cage all my life. That's why it may seem that way." he continued.

"Come with me." Obsidia said, taking Rex's hoof and pulling him from his seat.

"ACH!" he shouted, stumbling for footing.

-Ten Minutes Later-

"Woow." Rex exclaimed. "It's so, so beautiful." he said with wide eyes.

"Yeah." Obsidia agreed, "At night, I would sneak from my house and come up here to watch the stars when my parents were asleep." the pony said with a smile.

"Can't say I blame you. It's an amazing view of... whatever this place is called." the large stallion said, a smile crossing his face.

"Dude! You got some big teeth!" the teenage mare exclaimed with wide eyes at the sight of his teeth. "What do you use 'em for?" Obsidia asked.

"Well... Normally, I would use them for hunting, but I couldn't really do that in Jurassic World because instead of letting me hunt the humans fed me." Rex replied.

"That's not right." the light brown pony responded.

"I agree. But I didn't have much of a choice."

"C-can I tell you something, Rex?" Obsidia asked with a nervous smile.

"Yeah. Sure. What's up?" the unicorn replied, turning from the view of the town to look Obsidia in the eye. It took the pegasus teenager several moments to answer.

"Uh... I, Hell! I don't know how to word it!" she exclaimed.

"I think I do." Rex said, lowering himself to eye level with the nervous mare. Obsidia looked at him with honest eyes and dropped her head.

"You do?" she asked, adjusting some stones with a hoof.

"Sure! You wanted to tell me my breath smells like a dead animal, right? It's okay I get that a lot." he said with a playful grin crossing his face.

"What?! No! That's not even CLOSE to what I wanted to say!" Obsidia laughed, giving him a soft punch on the shoulder.

"Dang it! Looks like this horn is no use." Rex exclaimed with a fake disappointment. "I thought it would help me to read your mind." he said, waving his hooves in front of the mare. "Anyway. If THAT'S not what you wanted to tell me, than what is it?" the large pony asked.

"I... uh, might... love... you." she stammered, dropping her head.

"Really? Most of the time, a girl shows me that she likes me by chasing me around until a quote, quote, surrender to her." Rex chuckled, looking her in the eye.

"You probably think I'm crazy, though." Obsidia continued with an embarrassed expression, her cheeks flushing red.

"No! Not at all!" Rex shouted with wide eyes. "I love you too! I mean... uh... yeah, I do." he rambled. Obsidia's ears pricked up and she lifted her head.

Obsidia leaned forward and loosely wrapped her arms around him. Rex hesitantly pulled back slightly for a moment and then loosened his body.

"You catch on to pony behavior pretty fast for a dinosaur." Obsidia said, her voice muffled by the stallion's shoulder. "I was told that dinosaurs were stupid, emotionless animals. They couldn't have been more wrong." she said, lifting her head to Rex's. The large stallion lifted an eyebrow and ever so slightly jerked his head back. With that, she leaned forward and pressed her lips to his. Rex's muscles momentarily stiffened and his eyes widened.

Rex closed his eyes and smiled, forgetting everything that had happened over the course of the last few days.

-That Morning

Obsidia stretched her arms and yawned. Rex snored softly next to her, his side moving up and down with each inhalation and exhalation. The light brown pegasus groggily scanned her surroundings.

"I figured you'd be here. But sleeping with HIM!" a voice growled angrily, startling Obsidia.

"DAD!" she exclaimed, looking up a very, VERY furious Onyx. "Uh... Hi... I can explain!" she said, starting to panic as her father seemed to swell with rage.

"Then explain to me THIS! Why are you sleeping with HIM?!" he snapped at her, accidentally waking Rex in the process.

"Mm. Whatimeizit?" the large stallion asked tiredly, sitting on his haunches. "Hello, Mister Onyx." he murmured, not seeing the rage that was swelling up inside of the mechanic.

"You, my lizard friend, have just crossed the f***ing line!" he shouted at the unicorn.

"What the hell?!!" Rex yelled, jumping to his feet. "What's your problem, dude?!" he asked the father with irritation. "You got some kind of problem?"

"Yes, actually. You were SLEEPING, with my DAUGHTER!!!!" Onyx thundered, quaking with anger.

"So?" Rex asked. Obsidia slid a hoof across her throat to try making the large stallion stop talking, but he kept going. "Why are you so tense around me, anyway?! What'd I do to YOU, to make you hate me?! I have just as much reason to be cared about as anyone else in this place!" he snapped at Onyx, causing the father to take a step back.

"What he means is... why can't he be treated like a normal pony?" Obsidia jumped in, hoping to break up the fight.

"HE'S NOT A NORMAL PONY!!! THAT'S WHY I DON'T WANT YOU WITH HIM!!" the mustang shouted at her daughter, his eyes flaming and the veins beginning to show in his forehead.

"Dad! C'mon! Try to see from OUR point of view for once!!" Obsidia yelled at Onyx with a commanding voice. The stallion stood there, speechless at what his daughter had said.

Rex raised an eyebrow.

"Fine!" Onyx submitted. "But on only ONE condition!" He then turned to the large unicorn. "How old are you? If you are over twenty, there is not a chance. She's seventeen." he said.

"HECK! I'm only, what? Eighteen, nineteen?" Rex said. Obsidia let a wide smile cross her face.

"THANK YOU!!" she shouted in delight, leaping into her father's arms. Onyx's eyes widened in their sockets with surprise. "Thank you." Obsidia repeated.

"Your... welcome." Onyx replied, still recovering from the shock.

"You take good care of my daughter. I'll be keeping my eyes on you." Onyx warned the large pony with a smile. "Or I will be your worst nightstallion!" he said jokingly.

"Nightstallion? Is that like an Equestrian pun, or something?" Rex asked with a confused expression.

"Yes." the father replied.

Author's Note

Cue the Love song!!

Side Effects

-Canterlot-

Scarlet Blitz quietly hummed to herself as she trotted down the hall. An old friend of hers had come to Canterlot with a "surprise" as she had called it on the telephone. A smile spread across her face at the thought of Frost Bloom's warm, cheery grin. Now that she had gotten over the fact that Scarlet and Onyx were together, Frost Bloom was a happier pony.

"Congratulations." a tiny pair of voices said in unison, causing the pegasus to leap into the air with alarm. With wide eyes, Scarlet swung her head around, searching for the cause of the noise.

"Who said that?!" the soon mother of two called.

"It was us! Down here!" the voices called. Scarlet Blitz slowly lowered herself to the ground and spotted the source of the noise. It was two tiny, orange alicorns with small smiles upon their faces.

"Hello, twins." Scarlet said, leaning down so that her head was almost on the floor.

"Kon'nichiwa!" they exclaimed. Seeing the white pegasus' blank expression, they continued. "It means hello in Neighponese!" they exclaimed.

"OOH. I see." Scarlet Blitz said. "Anyhow! What can I do for ya?" she asked the tiny princesses.

"It is about Operation: Final Wars!" the said at the same time. "When Onyx was killed... and brought back from the dead, the life force of Mothra was imputed into his DNA..."

"Yeah? What about it?" the mare asked in confusion.

"Well... His blood has strands of Mothra's DNA, so, there will be side effects that may not show for several years." the two ponies said with frowns.

"Like what? What kind of side effects?" Scarlet asked, her eyebrows forming a slight scowl.

"One side effect may be a rapid growth in wings resembling those of Mothra. Others could include mood swings for a certain period of time and becoming more susceptible to pain for a period of time as well. In that time, you may want to keep Onyx away from his job until he is more like himself." the princesses answered.

"Well then, Onyx already goes through mood swings, but he is not weak. So, yes, I will do what I can to keep him away from machinery." Scarlet Blitz said. "Thank you."

With that, the two twin alicorns rapidly beat their small wings with an insect like quality and flew away. The white pegasus smiled to herself. With a chuckle, she thought of how her husband would look with butterfly wings. Pretty silly.

-Gates of Canterlot-

"Look presentable." Frost Bloom commanded the Pteranodon gryphon with a wide smile upon her face. Toucan proudly puffed out his chest and smiled.

"How do I look?" he asked.

"PERFECT!" Frost exclaimed, turning to Canterlot's gates. The icy blue mare banged on the door. "HELLO?!" she called.

"Welcome." a voice said. It appeared to be Ratchet. "Ah, Frost Bloom! Good to see you again!" he said with a wide grin, opening the door with seemingly supernatural strength. "Who's this?" he then asked, nodding at Toucan with a welcoming smile.

"This is Toucan. He's from, what'd you call it? Jurassic World?" she asked the gryphon.

"Yep!" Toucan grinned.

"Toucan, some of the other Jurassic World ponies are here too. Perhaps you would like to see them?" Ratchet asked the Pteranodon gryphon.

"Why not?" he replied with a smile.

Ratchet turned to a guard and whispered something into his ear. The pony nodded in response and approached the gryphon. "This way." he said, leading Toucan away.

"It is good to see you again, really." Ratchet told Frost Bloom when the two were gone. The icy blue mare nodded in agreement. "How have you been, anyway?" he then asked.

"Okay, I guess." Frost shrugged. "Found Toucan on the streets wandering around." she continued, not noticing a trio of ponies approaching her from behind.

"Boo." a voice said. With a terrified scream, Frost Bloom swung around and instinctively threw a hoof at the attackers face. With a thud, Rex yelled in pain. "WHAT THE HELL?!!" he yelled, a hoof against his nose, changing the way his voice sounded.

"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry! Are you okay?!" Frost stammered, covering her mouth with her hoof.

"I've been better." Rex grumbled, rubbing his snout. Onyx and Ratchet had collapsed with laughter, their eyes tightly closed as the tried to calm down.

Obsidia, on the other hand, was not too happy with them. "Could you stop, please?!" she asked the two.

"I-I'm sorry, Baby. But that was hilarious. You should've seen his expression. He he." he chuckled, wiping a tear away from his eyelid. Ratchet was still trying not to laugh.

"Uncle Ratchet. Please stop!" the light brown pegasus growled at the guard.

"You should have seen his eyes... They were the size of dinner plates." he giggled, causing Onyx to erupt into laughter. "I should get back to work." Ratchet chuckled. "C'mon in." he continued, waving a hoof for them to enter the castle grounds.

"Glad you think it's funny." Rex growled to himself, rolling his eyes as he held his nose.

It was then that Ratchet noticed a pair of wings seeming to grow out of Onyx's back. Rubbing his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things, the father definitely had wings. "What?" the former mechanic muttered. "Cheese and rice! I didn't know Onyx was a pegasus!" he said to himself with a surprised expression.

-Canterlot-

Onyx and Obsidia trotted down the hall toward Scarlet Blitz. Rex calmly walked behind them, not paying any attention to Onyx. "Hi, Baby." Scarlet said to Onyx as he happily approached her. It was then that she noticed the strange pair of wings growing from his shoulder blades that the twin princesses told her about.

"Hey." the mechanic replied.

"Can I tell you something?" the white pegasus asked her husband with a nervous smile. Onyx nodded. "You remember that time when you died?"

"Yeah." the stallion said, raising his eyebrow. "Why?"

"You- Well. Look at your back." she ordered.

Onyx hesitantly swiveled his head and looked over his shoulder. His eyes briefly widened before he turned to look at Scarlet Blitz with a terrified expression.

"Who's laughing NOW?!" Rex growled at the father, noticing the moth wings.

"REX! Now is not the time." Scarlet snapped at the tyrannosaur. It was then that Onyx fell. Rex dove underneath the stallion as he fainted. With a raspy gasp, Rex worked the lifeless body onto his back.

"DAD!" Obsidia shouted, checking his neck for a pulse. With a heavy sigh of relief, the pony pulled her hoof away. "He's alive." she gasped with released worry.

Bill Redwood

-Gates of Canterlot-

The old, bearded stallion pulled a large cart behind him. The wagon was heavy from the many logs loaded into it's bucket frame. With a effortful grunt, Bill Redwood set the cart to rest momentarily.

The lumberjack lifted a hoof and banged on the large gates of Canterlot.

"Good morning, Bill." a familiar voice said, approaching the gates with a cheery smile. It was none other than Canterlot's Star Swirl. Known throughout the land for his powerful magic.

"Mornin'." Bill replied as the unicorn opened the door for the cargo carrier.

Bill Redwood was a stallion who was well known in Ponyville for his strength with an axe and his reliable structural advice. He was the oldest of three brothers, though neither were spoken of often and both had died. The pony's friends called him Red and he often wore a trademark red, plaid shirt with mismatched buttons, the result of wear and tear. A black, trucker's mustache concealed his lips and a shaggy beard covered his chin. The stallion was widely respected by Ponyville's residents, though he had had a few skirmishes in the past.

It was then that the faint memory of two, tough young ponies floated to his conscious. Though hazy, he remembered his youngest brother having two foals.

Unfortunately, Bill Redwood was a hard working stallion, and rarely got to see the growing ponies. And when his brother died in an accident, Red never visited the two brothers' auto shop in Manehattan.

With a sigh, the lumberjack hauled the load toward a wood frame toward the side of Canterlot's gardens, where he found a young pegasus mare. "Hey. Kid, I'm not sure that you're supposed to be around here." Bill said, haphazardly lowering the cart to the ground.

"Oh! I-I'm sorry! I didn't know!" the light brown pony said in a startled tone, swiftly swinging around to face the axe wielding stallion with a surprised expression.

"Don't soil yerself, Kid." Bill said, turning to grab a wooden pillar off of the cart. His face formed that of concealed pain as he tossed the log onto a pile, causing the teenage mare to jump.

"Did you need any help?" the pony asked, noticing his pained expression.

"Sure." the stallion replied, arching his back. With a pop, Redwood relaxed and turned to another log. "You got a name?" the lumberjack asked as they worked.

"Obsidia." the pegasus replied with a sigh.

"What's wrong?" he asked, looking around as if something would turn up.

"It's my father. He's in the hospital at the moment because he randomly grew butterfly wings. So now I can't see him until he wakes up." Obsidia replied glumly.

"Well... MY family is DEAD. So there's a mouthful for ya to take in." the stallion said with wide eyes. "Name's Bill Redwood. But you can call me Red." he continued, holding up a hoof to the pegasus.

Obsidia smiled and graciously shook his hoof.

A low, long howl rode the wind and rested upon Bill and Obsidia's ears. "What is it?" the pegasus asked, cowering behind the lumberjack with a worried expression.

"Timberwolves." Red growled, pulling a large, double headed axe from a strap around his shoulder and poising it for a battle.

As if to prove his answer, a large Timberwolf slunk toward him, it's ranks of splinter fangs bared as it approached the two ponies with a wild look in it's eyes.

"Run." Bill whispered at Obsidia, not taking his eyes of of the creature as several others followed close behind. "Now! Go!" he commanded as the first wolf leapt toward him.

With a war like cry, the lumberjack swung his axe at the creature with full force. Splinters of wood were flung into the air as the Timberwolf yelped and shrieked in pain.

The other wolves, seeing their gasping, fallen comrade, uttered a series of furious growls and bared their teeth.

"Let's see what yer made of." Bill Redwood growled as the creatures sprang toward him. The muscular stallion swung his axe and called after the pegasus these words. "TELL YER DAD I SAID HI!!"

With that, the Timberwolves piled on top of the pony, excited barks, howls, and yelps filling the air.

-Inside Canterlot-

Obsidia sprinted down the hall, her wings held out slightly as she raced to find somepony who could help Bill Redwood. A deep voice called after her with slight worry. "Obsidia?!" Rex called after her. The pegasus screeched to a halt, allowing Rex to almost see the smoke coming from her hooves.

"Oh, thank God!" she said, trotting toward the tyrannosaur.

"What's the rush?" the large unicorn asked with a confused expression. "You look like you just saw a pack of Velociraptors." he exclaimed, looking her up and down.

"I need your help! There's a pony... He's being attacked by Timberwolves! You HAVE to help him!" Obsidia panted.

"Where?" Rex asked sternly.

"This way!" Obsidia said, leading him down the long halls.

-Canterlot Gardens-

"There he is!" Obsidia cried, watching in horror as Red desperately tried to escape the gnashing teeth of the Timberwolves. With a defensive growl, Rex teared towards the creature's his jaws unhinged and ready to taste blood.

"I haven't eaten anything good in days." he growled as he went. "These should be satisfying."

With that, he clamped his jaws around a wolf's leg and thrashed his head. The Timberwolf yelped in pain as Rex threw the green eyed creature against the castle walls.

The other wolves turned on the large stallion and leapt onto him, their jaws clamped onto his legs, neck and back. Rex furiously bucked the ones attached to his legs away and furiously bellowed a real Tyrannosaurus Rex roar. The Timberwolves leapt into the air with their ears flat and scrambled away, their tails tucked between their legs.

Bill Redwood leaned against his viking like axe and shot a pink glob of phlegm to the grass. "Thanks." he muttered, placing his axe back against his shoulder in it's leather strap.

It wasn't anymore than a few minutes before he collapsed under exhaustion. Obsidia trotted toward the stallion with a worried expression. "We gotta take him to the hospital!" she told Rex, grabbing the unconscious pony by the hoof and trying her best to hoist him up. "A little (pant, pant) help here?" she gasped.

Rex rolled his eyes and effortlessly hoisted the lumberjack onto his shoulder.

-Through The Mirror-

The kind hearted King Sombra gazed up at his opponent with wide eyes. The unicorn stallion before him snorted with rage and his eyes leaked red energy. The grey unicorn stood his ground as the large pony lifted his lips, exposing ranks of large, dagger like fangs.

Sombra calmly approached the furious stallion with a stern expression. His opponent was covered from head to hoof with scars and wounds. One side of his body was severely burned and still sizzling from King Sombra's energy blast. The unicorn's left eye was missing, though not because of King Sombra, and a long jagged gash ran up the side of the dark pony's head.

The good king wasn't of any better. His legs and back were covered with bite marks and bruises. His royal blue cape was filled with holes that let of small streams of smoke and his armor was dented and scratched.

One Eye uttered a menacing snarl as the king approached him. Almost instantly, the evil stallion winced in pain. King Sombra cracked a small grin as his opponent squinted his good eye.

The mirror tyrannosaur had had just about enough of the stubborn unicorn. Though the majority of his wounds were not caused by King Sombra, the ones that his opponent HAD dealt were not helping him any.

"BACK off!" One Eye snarled, baring his teeth in a threatening display of predation. Rather than head his warning, King Sombra marched toward the pony with a defiant smirk across his face. "I said BACK OFF!" the large unicorn boomed, lashing out at the king with a series of kicks and bites.

Sombra managed to avoid each and every one of the attacks.

One Eye, in a desperate attempt to stop the stallion, furiously charged him and clamped his jaws on the unicorn's neck. Sombra yelled in pain as the tyrannosaur pony thrashed his head back and forth.

With an angry growl, One Eye released, sending the unicorn slamming into a rocky wall. King Sombra gasped for breath as the opposing stallion stomped toward him with an enraged scowl crossing his scarred face.

"There can only be one king..." One Eye growled, lifting a hoof above Sombra's head with a triumphant smirk crossing his face. The grey unicorn stallion struggled to rise back up, but could not. With a loud roar, the tyrant brought his hoof down on Sombra's head...

-Canterlot Medical Wing-

Obsidia nervously stared down at Bill Redwood with a worried expression. She then glanced at her unconscious father, resting in the bed beside Bill.

With a sigh, the light brown pegasus let herself fall to her haunches.

Rex, noticing her expression, snuck up behind her. "Rawr!" he whispered in her ear, causing her to flinch. With a chuckle, Rex wrapped her hooves around her and lifted her into the air.

Obsidia loudly laughed and beat her wings. She then playfully dove toward the stallion, her hooves in front of her, and pinned him to the ground.

"NO! My one weakness!" Rex joked, playing dead. "I'm... dying!" he pretended, dropping his head to the floor.

Obsidia chuckled to herself and lifted her hooves from his chest, allowing him to sit upright. "I thought flares were your one weakness?" she said, raising an eyebrow.

"Are you kidding?" he laughed. "You're just as... no... Twice as beautiful as one!" he exclaimed, planting a kiss on her forehead.

"You missed." Obsidia said, pulling Rex's head toward her with a giddy smile. The large stallion smiled, for he knew what was coming. He chuckled.

"You gonna just make me suffer in wonder or can we like... do what you had planned now?" he questioned, lifting her chin with his hoof and looking her in the eye.

Obsidia chuckled at the words and kissed him on the lips. Rex smiled and wrapped his arms around her.

"Aw... You guys are so cute together!" a voice exclaimed. Both Obsidia and Rex swung their heads in unison and looked up to see Onyx smiling down at them. "I don't now how I hadn't seen that earlier." he grumbled, sitting upright.

The light brown pegasus grimaced as the two ponies lifted themselves off of the floor. "Who's that?" Onyx continued with a quizzical expression on his face. He pointed to the old stallion next to him.

"That's Bill Redwood. He saved me... well, Rex did most of it, but he initially saved me." Obsidia told her father. "So! How's the wings feeling?" she asked.

"Alright, I suppose." Onyx replied with a slightly disgusted look on his face. "Bill Redwood, eh?" he continued, changing the subject before it got awkward. "I feel like I know that name somewhere. He certainly looks familiar, that's for darn sure... What did he save you from?" the father then asked Obsidia.

"Timberwolves, I think he called 'em." she replied.

"Nasty things." the stallion growled. "Well... 'Bill' certainly looks like a woodworker."

"He is, I think. Kinda funny. You'd think a dog made of wood'll run away from a lumberjack." Obsidia chuckled softly, gazing at the bearded pony with a concerned expression.

It was then that Bill Redwood woke. "Ugh. What happened?" he asked, holding a hoof to his forehead and wincing in pain as he sat upright. Red looked himself over with a slight look of disgust showing on his old face.

"Red!" Obsidia exclaimed, jumping in joy.

"You act like you know this guy." Onyx said, staring at the light brown pegasus with confusion. He then turned to the lumberjack. "Onyx. It's nice to meet you. Thank you so much for saving my daughter. How can I repay you?" he said with a smile, lifting a hoof.

"Bill Redwood... Pray don't mention it." Redwood replied, shaking the stallion's hoof with that reassuring old stallion smile. "You look familiar. Do I know you?" he then asked Onyx with a quizzical expression.

"I don't believe so... A Redwood, eh?" the moth winged pegasus said slowly, processing the words.

"Who's your father?" Bill asked. "Do you have a brother?"

"I feel like I know your name somewhere." Onyx exclaimed, ignoring the lumberjack's question. "Sorry! Yes I have a brother... As for my father... he's dead." the stallion said, correcting his manners.

"I had a dead brother." the wood worker said, jumping to his hooves. "Ow." he growled, wincing in pain and siting back on the bed. "Was your father, by any chance, Steel Redwood?" he continued.

"Yes, why?"

"I think we're related." Bill said with a serious tone and expression.

The Hunt

-Manetana-

Bone Digger brushed away at the dry, dusty dirt, her tongue sticking out of her mouth in an effortful manner. Her knees ached, despite the knee pads she wore, her lungs burned, and sweat ran down her forehead. She was oblivious to the pain and had her blue eyes practically glued to an area of ground around her. With a satisfactory smile, she sat upright.

Bone Digger was a paleontologist who had lived in Manetana for several years. She was odd for a pony and was most commonly remembered for the scale like appearance beneath her snake like eyes. Dust stuck to her yellow pelt, staining her coat with tan spots, and she wore a green bandana around her neck. A single carnosaur skull with a curve of neck vertabrae covered her left hip, forming Bone Digger's curie mark, a sign of her paleontological career.

Having written several books about prehistoric animals and the theory of evolution, she was well known to some, but not so much to others.

Bone Digger lifted herself to her hooves and looked around the rocky badlands. She didn't picture these dry lands as... well... DRY... The mare pictured the land as a lush, wet, swamp flourishing with dinosaurs and crocodiles. Pterosaurs soared above her, cawing and screeching. Spinosaurids stalked the shorelines, small tick birds resting on their vertabrae.

"BONE!" a voice called, detracting the mare' attention from the mystifying land. Bone Digger turned to see a young pony approaching her with a wide smile. "BONE!" she called again.

"Yes, I heard you." the pony reassured her with a slight smile.

"How's the skeleton coming?" the mare asked, approaching her with a smile.

"Great!" Bone Digger replied. "My best assumption for the animal is a species of therizinosaur, maybe a Deinocheirus. I'm not quite sure anyway, but the creature is reaching record lengths for the only herbivorous theropod." the mare exclaimed, gazing down at a massive pair of claws attached to the animal's forearms.

"Are you kidding me?! That's excellent! A Deinocheirus, and fully intact too!" she replied, jumping in joy.

"Calm down!" the older mare commanded, holding down her shoulders. "I'm not even sure that it IS a Deinocheirus, so there's no need to get overexcited."

"Anyway... Princess Celestia called... Asked for you to identify some creature. She says it bit one of the Mane Six. The pony ended up in the hospital."

"What?" Bone Digger asked in shock.

"You need to go to Canterlot." the mare continued.

"Lemme see the phone!" the pony asked, snatching the cellular device from her partners hoof. With a few beeps, she punched the number into the phone and held it to her ear. "Hello? Yes, this is Bone Digger. May I speak to Princess Celestia please... Yes, I can hold, thank you... Hi. I was informed that you need me... A living raptor?! I highly doubt that... I'm afraid that I can not come. The digging team and I have just uncovered a possibly new species of- Wait... What?! I... uh, I don't know what to say... I-I'll try... Alright, I'll see you then."

The paleontologist hung up and turned to the pony beside her.

"Well! What did she say?" the mare asked in excitement.

"The creature that attacked that pony was described to me as a raptor... I want you to cover the fossil until I get back... Celestia wants me to identify the creature in question, and I don't want the skeleton buried from the wind."

"What?! Are you crazy?! There's only a month or two until winter and we just uncovered a new skele-!" she was cut off by Bone Digger.

"If I go... we'll be given the money to support a full five years of digging here." she said sternly. "I want the skeleton covered. I don't know when I'll get back. Do you understand?" Bone Digger said.

"Yeah." the mare sighed, gazing down at the skeleton.

"Good..."

-One Hour Later-

"Alright! Everypony, listen up!!" Bone Digger started, climbing to the top of a large boulder. "I have been promised enough money to fund the dig site for a full five years if I can identify a creature that is attacking Ponyville's residents! There will be no digging activities until I return!" she continued. "Wish me luck!"

-Manetana Airport-

Bone Digger approached the helicopter, the wind from it's propellers blowing at her short mane and tail. "Bad hair day?" the pilot asked as she climbed into the flying vehicle.

The mare looked into a rear view mirror and smiled. "Apparently so!" she called over the sound of the rotors.

"Well then, buckle up!!" he told her with a cheery grin. Bone Digger found the buckle and pulled it over her chest. With a click, she pulled the strap to tighten it.

-Gates of Canterlot-

Bone Digger rested her pack on the ground and gazed up at the tall, iron gates of Canterlot with wide eyes. "Wow." she exclaimed as a pony on the other side approached the gate.

"Hello." he said, taking a helmet off of his head. The stallion was only able to be described in three words: Tall, Muscular, and Handsome... Well that's three words, but you get the point.

The paleontologist stared at the guard with a flabbergasted expression.

"Uh, Ma'am? Can I help you?" he asked, lifting an eyebrow.

"Oh! Yeah, uh, sorry... I'm here to discuss an important matter with Princess Celestia." she stammered, not looking away from the pony as he leaned against the gate.

"Technically, I'm not supposed to do this, but you seem nice enough. C'mon in." he told her, pulling open the gate. Bone Digger stared at him as he pulled the gate open with seemingly unmatched strength.

-Inside Canterlot-

Ratchet lead the odd mare down Canterlot's long, marble halls, his eyes unnoticeably eyeing the pony. Since the breakup between Ratchet and Frost Bloom before Operation: Final Wars, he had been on the lookout for a mare.

"My name is Bone Digger." the pony said, interrupting the stallion's thoughts.

"Ratchet." he replied, stopping at a large door before him. It had a golden frame and fancy golden plating covering parts of the wooden door.

"Thank you, Ratchet." Bone Digger said with a slight smile.

"Mm... Your welcome." he said as the mare lifted a hoof. Ratchet shook his hoof and continued. "Maybe we could go get a coffee or something, sometime." he said, walking away.

"Perhaps..." Bone Digger whispered to herself, turning to knock on the large door. With a sigh, she knocked her hoof against the large door.

"Come in!" a voice replied. The mare gently pushed the door open and gasped, her breath taken away by the size and gracefulness of the room. Standing in the center of the room were Princess Luna, and her eldest and only sister, Princess Celestia. The alicorn smiled at the pony and spoke. "Hello, Bone Digger."

"Your Majesty!" the shocked mare stammered, falling to her knees in a form of showing the monarch that she was supreme. She remained that way for several moments. Princess Luna raised a brow.

"Please, that will not be necessary." Celestia chuckled. "Rise." she continued calmly.

Bone Digger lifted herself up and smiled. "Now then, what of this... Raptor?" she asked, her pupils dilating as her heart rate returned to a normal rhythm.

"They have been attacking Ponyville's residents... I was hoping that you could identify the creatures and put a stop to their mischief." Celestia replied, her smile vanishing.

"They?" Bone Digger said, a puzzled look upon her face. "They really do hunt in packs." the paleontologist mare added quietly to herself, rubbing her chin in thought. She then turned to Princess Celestia. "Your Majesty, I would be happy to identify these animals, but do you wish for me to kill them off?" she asked.

"Yes... I don't like killing or sending others to kill, but these creatures are threatening Ponyville and it's residents. Do what you must to get rid of them." she replied.

"I will wait until evening to head out to Ponyville." Bone Digger said with a stern tone.

"That is alright with me... But one more thing before you leave, the creature that was initially spotted by Fluttershy did not come to harm her... You will not kill that one. Do we understand one another?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." the paleontologist replied, bowing down. "But how do I tell this one apart from the others?" she continued.

"It will not attack you."

-A Few Minutes Later-

Bone Digger raced down the hall, her hooves loudly clopping against the marble floors. It was exciting for her to know that dinosaurs may not have gone extinct like so many other paleontologists suggested. The mare sharply rounded a corner. With a loud slam, something knocked her to the floor. "Hey!" she snapped, lifting herself up. In front of her was a dazed unicorn stallion, even though his horn was broken.

With an angry growl, the pony jumped to his feet and glared at her. Bone Digger took a step back as he took a step forward. The stallion let an irritated snort loose from his nostrils and lifted himself up.

"I'm sorry! Here, let me help you!" Bone Digger said, softening her tone to an apologetic voice. Hesitantly, she held a hoof out for the stallion.

"Keep your hooves off of me!" the pony snarled, pushing her hoof away.

At first glance, the stallion was just your average earth pony. He was large, muscular, and particularly aggressive. But, the broken horn ruled out that. He was easily the height of an alicorn, though not one. What really caught the mare's attention were the yellow, snake like eyes that glared straight at her. He also had a single fang jutting out of either side of his top jaw, giving him the appearance of a Kirin or changeling.

If she didn't know any better, the stallion would have the appearance of a dinosaur turned unicorn.

"I-I'm sorry. I didn't m-mean to hit you." Bone Digger stammered, staring him in the eyes with awe and wonder.

"What're you gawkin' at?!" the stallion growled, flattening his short mane with a hoof. Bone Digger looked down in response and tried a different approach.

"I'm sorry... My name is Bone Digger." she said.

"Mm, Rex." the unicorn replied, gazing down at her with a confused expression.

The mare pondered for a moment, lifting an eyebrow. "Rex? I didn't know that Rex was actually a pony name." she said, looking up at him with a slight frown.

"Yeah, well... It's NOT a normal name. I was a Tyrannosaurus Rex." he grunted, pushing passed Bone Digger.

The paleontological pony reeled back with a mix of surprise and horror on her face. "Y-you can't be a T-T Rex... Th-they went extinct 65 m-million years ago." Bone Digger stammered.

"It may come as a shock to you, but I'm not from this world." Rex exclaimed, turning to face her. The mare took a step forward and promptly lifted her hooves to his maw. "What are you doing?" he growled as she pulled down on his bottom jaw, examining his sharp, predatory teeth.

"Well, yer no herbivore." Bone Digger coughed, waving a hoof in front of her face as the smell of rotting meat filled her nasal cavities. Rex pulled away and gave her a disgusted look. "We'll talk again... But right now, I have work to do." Bone Digger said, ignoring the stallion unicorn's expression...

-Ponyville-

The Dimetrodon gryphon soared through the night sky with a frown crossing his cragodilian head. "Sssstupid, tiny beast... It made Berries lose it'sss meal." Berries hissed, referring to the small orange pegasus that prevented him from feeding upon the Indominus Rex.

Swiftly, the gryphon dropped his altitude below the cloud line and searched for a meal to call his own. "What isss it?" he breathed to himself, spotting a group of animals traveling swiftly, hissing at each other.

With a quiet hiss, Berries folded his wings together and dove towards the ground. The earth rushed up to meet the pterosaur as he free fell toward a target... Berries uttered a triumphant screech as he slammed his hind claws on a creature. The animal shrieked in pain and swiveled it's head. With a furious hiss, the animal clamped it's small jaws on the gryphon as he tried to take of with his prey.

"AACH!!" he screeched, releasing the feathered reptile. "It BIT Berries, it did!!" he howled, holding the injured claw with a talon and inspecting it. No sooner had he, when the creature leapt up and closed it's little jaws on the thin membrane that made up his wing. "AAGH!!" Berries screeched again, flapping his large wings to throw his attacker away.

Bone Digger watched through her bush hiding spot as an odd looking gryphon was attacked by what appeared to be a Troodon. "Raptor!" she breathed to herself, noting the sickle shaped claw that curved upward on each foot.

The mare held the barrel of her double barrel shotgun into the air and snuck around the corner of a building to get a clear shot at the creature.

"SSSSSSS!!! It won't let go of Berries!!" Bone Digger heard, looking at the gryphon with a confused look.

"What the hell?" she said to herself, raising an eyebrow as the gryphon frantically beat it's wings. "S'pose I should help him out." she coughed, placing the shotgun's stock firmly against her shoulder.

A loud gun shot rang out as the weapon bucked in Bone Digger's arms.

The mare watched as the Troodon dropped from the gryphon like a fly.

"What happened?! It fell!" Berries raspy voice hissed. In confusion, he looked around him. Then, he saw it; a pony moving throughout the bushes. "Ssssss!" he hissed, squinting his eyes and raising his lip.

He uttered a single screech before diving toward the pony, his hind talons splayed out and his jaws unhinged as he though of the warm blood running down his gulet.

What came next was fast, almost too fast for Berries to comprehend.

The mare leapt out of the bushes and swung the stock of a gun at him. With a painful shriek, the gryphon, slammed into the wall of a building.

Bone Digger glared down at the gryphon with the barrel of her gun held to the tip of the former pterosaur's snout. "Move, and the next shot is down your throat." she growled, shoving the barrel into his mouth with little effort.

"Ssssss!!" the gryphon hissed, placing the claws of his wings against the gun and trying to pull away.

Bone Digger glared down at the persistent animal and raised a brow. It was then that it began to panic, making it's best attempt to free itself. He then pointed over her shoulder with a wing claw as a Troodon leapt onto her back, screeching and clawing.

Bone Digger dropped the gun and fought the animal. With a shriek, the raptor pinned Bone Digger to the ground, trying to bite her face as she pushed on it's shoulders with her hooves.

Berries lifted the strange stick and looked up at the dueling animals. With an effortful grunt, the Dimorphodon gryphon brought the gun down on the Troodon's head, knocking it to the ground.

Bone Digger leapt to her hooves and glanced at the strange gryphon. "Thanks." she grunted, snatching the gun out of the creature's clawed arms. "Duck!" she commanded as a Troodon prepared to leap on the Dimorphodon's back.

Berries swung his head around just in time to see a feathered dinosaur jump at his face. With a terrified screech, the gryphon ducked his head.

The dusty mare took aim at the Troodon's skull. A loud gun shot rang out of the barrel and struck the animal in the head, instantaneously killing it. "You alright?" Bone Digger asked the gryphon. Berries slightly nodded his head, his muscles twitching in fear at the ear splitting gun shot.

Berries shakily rose to his feet, the claws on his wings held to his head as he did so. "It saved Berries... Why?" the Dimorphodon asked the gun wielding mare with a confused expression.

"Because I have some questions for you that your dead body can't answer for me." she replied.

The sound of twigs snapping and bushes rustling startled both the pony and the gryphon. With a scared yelp, Berries jumped onto Bone Digger's back and tightly clung to her body.

"Get OFF of me!" the mare breathed, pulling the pterosaur gryphon off of her body.

Berries swiftly jumped to his feet and stuck close to the paleontologist as she approached a large hedge. Bone Digger stuck her ears straight up at the sound of a soft whimpering like hiss. Cautiously, the pony pulled a thorny branch out of her view and spotted the source of the noise.

It was a small feathered Troodon, curled up in an almost sad manner. At the sound of the bushes, it snapped it's head up and stared at Bone Digger with wide eyes. The mare held the gun up to it's head and raised an eyebrow at it's reaction... Instead of attempting to defend itself, the animal cowered in fear. It was then that Bone Digger remembered what Celestia had said about the one animal that wouldn't attack her.

Slowly, the paleontologist pulled a tranquilizer dart out of her saddle bag and approached the animal with a calm look. The Troodon reeled back and defensively hissed at her. Bone Digger hesitantly stopped and then continued her approach. With a careful aim, the pony tossed the dart at the dinosaur.

The animal shrieked in pain and swung around to run. It was asleep before it could even begin it's escape.

Author's Note

Bone Digger concept illustrated by PrehistoricPlague on Deviantart.

Evil Among Us

-Unknown Place and Time-

"Nice place, this is." One Eye grunted in satisfaction, scanning his surroundings. "I must say, Ophiacodon... You have done well in aiding my escape from that wretched reverse world." he told a unicorn mare standing beside him.

"Thank you, but what of my revenge? I am becoming impatient." the former synapsid asked the tyrant stallion.

"Once you have that fool of a Dimetrodon, my brother will be powerless to stop me." One Eye snarled, glaring at the Ophiacodon unicorn with his good eye.

"Yes, King." the evil sorceress replied. "I can't wait to get my-" She was suddenly interrupted by a deep growl leaking from the unicorn's throat.

"DO NOT call me KING!" the tyrannosaur stallion roared. He then, only slightly, changed his tone of voice. "It reminds me to much of that ignorant Rex. Instead, you may call me Comrade." One Eye said, still softening his tone at the former synapsid's expression.

"Yes, Ki-I mean One Eye." she replied, correcting herself.

"One Eye will work too." the mare's partner said.

"One more thing though... Before I go off in search of the enemy... I thought that you didn't have a brother?" the Ophiacodon questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes well, not technically he's not. He's more like a mere copy of my awesome self... Only without the awesomeness." One Eye acknowledged with pride.

"I have to agree with you on that." the mare replied with a mischievous grin.

"Good... Now go. Capture the Unicorn Wizard for me and you will do the honors of KILLING that stupid, spiked lizard." the unicorn growled, beckoning the mare away.

-Canterlot-

"Nice wings." Bill Redwood said to his long lost nephew with a slight smile on his face. "I didn't know we had a butterfly in the family." he continued, ignoring the glare that Onyx fired at him.

"He's my butterfly... My handsome butterfly" Scarlet Blitz said with a smile, loosely wrapping her arms around the mechanic.

With a whistle, Red's eyes grew large at the sight of the pegasus. "She's a keeper." Bill whispered into Onyx's ear. The pegasus stallion nodded in agreement.

It was then that a loud alarm rang in the ponies' ears. The fire alarm... "What the hell?!" Onyx yelled over the sound, his mane and tail bristling at the rarely heard noise.

Red leapt to his hooves and limped to the medical wings exit. With a quiet grunt, the lumberjack yanked the door abroad and took a peek outside the room. Ponies in the halls raced passed the door. Instantaneously, he slammed it shut and lowered himself to the floor. "Uhh. Onyx! You might want to get down!" he yelled.

"Why?!" the stallion asked, puzzled with his uncle's expression.

"Okay. Who's bright f***ing idea was it to let a DINOSAUR loose in the castle?!!" Bill shouted, seemingly ignoring Onyx's question. Suddenly, the door violently shook, followed by a loud, supernatural scream.

Almost as sudden as the vibration, the thought dawned on Onyx... Obsidia wasn't with him. Without hesitation, the father rose to his hooves and went to open the door.

"NO!" Bill told him. "Now, let's not be hasty... There is a fifteen foot long dinosaur out there looking to make somepony it's FOOD. I can not just let you go out there.

"My daughter is out there. God knows when the thing will find her. Let me out!" the mechanic ordered.

Red didn't have time to reply before a thunderous bellow and a high pitched shriek prevented him from even being able to hear his thoughts. With that, the shuddering against the door stopped. Onyx pushed by his uncle and swung the door open. All that he could see was the legs of a reptilian beast. Triangular shaped claws were imbedded in each heavily muscled foot.

"I thought you said it was FIFTEEN feet long!!" the mechanic yelled, slamming the door.

"What are you talking about?!" Bill replied. "Move back." he commanded, swinging the door open. The smaller dinosaur he had been speaking of was standing right in front of him, a flaming frill of skin shuddering and it's jaws unhinged.

Before it had the chance to attack, however, the larger saurian attempted to clamp it's jaws on the Dilophosaurus. The crested carnivore leapt back and shot a bullet of black saliva at the Tyrannosaur's eyes. The venom made it's mark, infuriating the seven ton T Rex.

Aimlessly, the prehistoric behemoth swung it's head back and forth before collapsing. The dilophosaur leapt out of the way before racing from the fallen tyrant.

Bill Redwood stood there, his eyes wide and his jaw hanging down. "I guess we were both right." Onyx said, patting his uncle on the shoulder before cautiously approaching the Tyrannosaurus.

"DAD!" a voice called. Onyx turned to see his daughter running to him with a worried yet relieved smile on her face. Leaping into her father's arms, Obsidia and Onyx remained in this position for several moments before a stunned Scarlet Blitz joined them.

"I thought I lost you." Onyx whispered, a single teardrop falling to the cracked marble floor.

Obsidia was the one who broke the position, seeing the massive dinosaur beside them. Stripes, along with bloody slashes, ran down the length of the animal's back. What really stood out was the "JP" on it's hip.

"R-Rex? the pegasus whispered, reaching a shaky hoof to his venom concealed eyelid. The sudden movement of the predator's belly caused Obsidia to jump.

Instinctively, Onyx reached for his daughter. "Obsidia, get away from him." he told her as she laid a hoof on the dinosaur's belly. A sad expression crossed the teenager's face as she took a step back and turned around.

"You were right, Dad." she whispered as her father held out his arms. "He... is a monster." she continued as Onyx wrapped his arms around her.

-One Hour Later-

"JEEZ! How much does this thing way?!" the stallion grunted to a partner. "I'm gonna have to get back surgery after this!" he continued, taking a single step forward.

"I... Don't... Know." the other pony responded. "I wasn't paid to do THIS. I was paid to do CLEAN UP." he groaned.

"This is clean up... It's just not the clean up we're USED to." the stallion grumbled.

"I better get a DECENT pay check after carrying a seven ton LIZARD out of here." a different pony grunted.

"Ya think?" one agreed.

"Let's just hurry up and get this thing out of here before my spine collapses." a corresponding pony growled. "I can't believe Celestia wouldn't get us a UNICORN to LEVITATE this beastie out!"

-Canterlot Dungeon-

Rex lifted his head and forced his eyes to open. Despite the burning sensation caused by his opponents poisonous saliva, the former saurian could see. Rex exhaled a sigh of relief as blurry shapes slowly came into focus. Including the iron bars imbedded in the concrete floor before him.

"What the hell?" he muttered to himself, shaking the bars in an effort to break free of his small prison.

"HEY! You there! Sit your ass down!" a guard yelled, approaching the unicorn stallion with a scowl across his face.

Rex glared up at the guard pony and uttered a quiet growl. "Are you threatening me?" he suddenly snapped, startling the stallion. "Don't tempt me." Rex growled.

"Whatcha gonna do about it?" the guard taunted with a overly confident smirk on his face.

"Gentlecolts... Now is NOT the time to fight." a dusty brown pegasus said, approaching the quarreling stallions.

"Colonel Obsidia!" the guard exclaimed, swinging to face her. Without hesitation, he clicked his hooves together and swung a hoof to his forehead.

"At ease." the tall mare said with a smile, nodding to the armored stallion... "I see you have met our most recent PRISONER." she said, turning to Rex. Her smile vanished at the sight of the broken horned stallion. The thought of what damage the pony could cause gave her the chills. She was all to familiar of what a furious unicorn was capable of.

The colonel glared at Rex. Rex glared right back. The guard mare couldn't help noticing the yellow, snake like eyes that looked at her with a cold, icy stare.

With a shudder, Colonel Obsidia spoke. "There is somepony who would like to speak to you, Mr...?" She paused and gazed at the pony for a moment, trying to remember his name.

"Rex." the unicorn grumbled, letting himself fall to his haunches with a sigh.

"Okay then... Rex." the pegasus then turned to the guard stallion. "Let her in." she commanded.

"Yes Ma'am!" the pony responded, saluting the superior officer.

Colonel Obsidia turned back to Rex with a stern expression. "What'd you do to get yourself down here? I thought that you were the new guy?" she asked as the guard returned with a light brown pegasus behind him.

"Obsidia!" Rex exclaimed with a smile, jumping up and reaching through the bars to try and hug her.

"Don't touch me!" Obsidia shouted at him, reeling back.

Flabbergasted, Rex took a step back and gazed at her with a confused expression. Obsidia stood there, a frown on her face and her head held high as if she had authority over the stallion.

"What the hell are you doing?" Rex growled at her. "C'mon! Bail me out of this place!" he said.

"Why didn't you tell me?" the pegasus asked sadly. "About your... true form?" she continued, taking a step forward. Rex guiltily gazed down at the colorless concrete and reflected upon how he thought that he could finally have a family.

"We're just gonna go now. Let me know when your done." Colonel Obsidia spoke up, grabbing the guard by the collar of his uniform.

"But it JUST started to get interesting!" the pony whined as his superior officer dragged him away.

"Where was I?" Obsidia asked herself.

Rex responded, though he knew she wasn't speaking to him. "Making me feel like a terrifying monster that can't understand what it's like to have a family?" he said, giving her a remorseful expression. "Don't worry though... By now I'm used to it." he continued, turning his back to Obsidia.

The pegasus snorted before turning to walk away. "Guess it was just a phase." she muttered, barely loud enough for Rex to hear.

At the sound of a door slamming shut, Rex turned his head, his vision blurred with tears. "I guess so." he whispered, lowering himself to the cold floor.

-Half an Hour Later-

"You must be Rex..." a voice growled, waking the dozing unicorn. "I must say though... I expected a mighty Tyrannosaurus. Not just a mere prey item."

A bolt of fury shot through the stallion like lightning. With an enraged bellow, Rex shot up and swung around to face a tall unicorn, a taunting smirk on his face. "How did you find me?!" Rex snarled, glaring at the newcomer.

"Simple... I could smell you. I could smell the blood from your jaws in much the same way you find your dinner." the pony hissed spookily. Rex raised an eyebrow. "I apologize. I have not yet introduced myself, Rex. I am One Eye."

"How did you know-?"

"Your name? Another simple answer... I am your mirror self." One Eye said, not giving Rex the chance to finish his sentence.

"Leave me alone." Rex grumbled, sitting down.

"I can sense something in you... You have been emotionally hurt by someone." the strange unicorn said, ignoring Rex. "How's it feel... To be hated, feared, not loved?" he continued.

"I said LEAVE ME ALONE!" Rex boomed, lunging at the bars of his prison.

"Now, let's not lose our temper, shall we?" One Eye said, taking a step back.

Rex let an irritated snort exit his nostrils and sat down. "What is it you want with me?" he growled, glaring up at the stallion. It was a moment before the scarred unicorn answered.

"Tell me, Rex... How does it feel when the one you love, loves you one moment, and then abandons you the next?" he replied with a gloating grin.

A sad frown covered Rex's face before he spoke. "It feels like a raptor pack attacking you, not stopping until your dead." he whispered. One Eye nodded and sighed.

"What if I told you that I could free you from this prison?" the stallion then asked, not adding the plan to kill the heart broken unicorn.

"Thanks but no thanks." Rex replied, turning his back to One Eye.

"Still love her, eh? Well, she doesn't love YOU." the mirror Rex growled, slowly becoming more impatient with each word that the broken horned stallion threw at his face.

"Go away." the large pony muttered, flopping to the concrete. Dust flew into the air and stuck to his mane like a magnet.

"You are starting to piss me off!" One Eye snarled through clenched teeth.

"Now, let's not lose our temper, shall we?" Rex grumbled, mocking what his scarred counterpart had told him earlier. An invisible smirk crossed his face as One Eye angrily bellowed. "Temper." the caged stallion chuckled, taunting the unicorn.

"ENOUGH!" One Eye boomed, furiously swinging around to leave. "You will DIE!" he snarled, angrily stomping away, his legs rigidly moving with his body.

Author's Note

This chapter is not completed.
My apologies for the lack of published chapters recently, I have been very busy.

Return to Me

-Canterlot Throne Room-

"Your friend Rex was responsible for the near destruction of the medical wing and the near death of Onyx, Bill Redwood, and Scarlet Blitz!" Commander Hurricane shouted at Unicorn Wizard.

The former Dimetrodon calmly looked the pegasus up and down before a response was given. "He was doing so PROTECT them, not to KILL them." he acknowledged.

"Yeah! He could've LET them die!" Talon snarled at the military pegasus, taking a step toward him.

"Back off!" Hurricane snapped, lifting a hoof.

"Commander! That will not be necessary." Princess Celestia told the navy blue pegasus softly. "Stand down." she then ordered. "Perhaps they only mean to HELP their FRIEND."

"He's not my friend." a voice growled, causing the two saurian ponies to swing around. There stood the Indominus Rex, Scootaloo not far behind. "Can one of you get this RUNT away from me?! She won't stop following me!" the white mare grumbled.

"Gladly. And I'm glad that you could make it." Celestia said to Dawn with a gentle smile on her face. "Scootaloo, Miss Dawn would like to be left alone. Come along."

"Okay!" the young pegasus pipped up, trotting toward Celestia with a smile.

"Thanks." the hybrid dinosaur said with a confused expression. "She wouldn't listen to me."

"Now then, where, if I may ask, is the changeling?" the monarch asked, looking over the saurians' shoulders.

"That is exactly who Rex was PROTECTING this place from!" Talon shouted before Unicorn Wizard could stop her. "Don't you SEE that?! Let him GO!"

"What my friend means to say is, Venom is no longer on our side. Rex was protecting Canterlot from the Dilophosaurus." the former synapsid said in a more calm voice than the spinosaurid had.

"And what does Mr. Grady think of this?" the alicorn asked turning to the quiet stallion.

"I don't know what to make of it. All I care about is getting back to Earth where I belong." Owen grumbled, propping himself up against a wall.

"I say we let him rot in the prison." Hurricane growled, rolling his eyes.

"Out of the question." Princess Celestia told the commander. She then turned to the Redwood's, who were oddly quiet. "What do YOU ponies want to happen to Rex? It was you he almost killed." she said.

"Don't hurt him please." Obsidia whispered, barely loud enough for her father to hear.

"It would only seem suitable to free the stallion. If it wasn't for him, I might not be standing here right now. And by the sounds of things, he's done a lot to help you and Canterlot." Bill Redwood said before Onyx could say anything.

"If he's not welcome here," a deep voice started, startling almost the entire group. "then I'll take him off your hooves. We could use a fighter."

Onyx, Scarlet, Hurricane, and Celestia instantly recognized the voice. "My old friend!" Onyx shouted, trotting up to Captain Douglas Gordon with a wide smile on his face. Obsidia's jaw dropped.

"Hello, Onyx!" Gordon said joyfully. Onyx stood there for a moment before the two smashed heads, neither stallion caring about the possible damage. The two ponies smiled at each other before Douglas patted his shoulder and turned to the monarch.

"Stallions." Scarlet muttered, rolling her eyes and shaking her head.

"Is that really Dad?" Obsidia asked her mother with a confused expression. "I've never seen him do that."

"Unfortunately, yes. Your father does that every once in a while." her mother replied, rolling her eyes at the prospect of her husband literally butting heads.

"Captain Gordon." Princess Celestia said with a nod, interrupting the two ponies' reunion. Douglas turned to the monarch and bowed to her slightly before speaking.

"Your Majesty." he chuckled at how calm Celestia could be toward him, despite the events that occurred during Operation: Final Wars.

"Rex can not stay with you. As fond as I am of you, you are a little bit reckless when it comes to this sort of thing." the alicorn mare said, noticing Gordon's flushed face.

"You're walking on eggshells." the military captain grumbled.

"Bring the prisoner in!" Celestia called, ignoring his remark.

The doors to the room swung open, revealing a muscular unicorn, chains wrapped around his neck and legs. His head hung low as he stumbled forward, his hooves tripping up the heavy steel bonds.

"Whoa." Gordon muttered with wide eyes, noticing the gusts of hot air exhaled by the large stallion. "I thought this was just your everyday stallion." Douglas whispered into Onyx's ear.

"Far from it." the mechanic and father replied, not taking his gaze off of Rex. "This guy is the reason that we haven't been having problems with Sombra. He ATE the dude." he continued, his eyes growing wide as he finished his sentence.

"Uuuh... How?" Gordon asked, his voice shaking slightly.

"Are you afraid?" Onyx said with a smirk.

"Hell no! Now then, how did he eat Sombra?"

"Transformed."

"Into WHAT?" Douglas muttered.

"Tyrannosaurus Rex." Onyx replied, lowering his tone.

"Rex. What do you have to say for yourself?" Princess Celestia asked the chained dinosaur.

"I'm... sorry." he muttered, turning his head to Obsidia. His vision blurred as he lowered his head to the ground. The lightly colored pegasus' face morphed from a stern expression to a sad, worried face.

"Is that all?" the monarch said, noticing the look that crossed Obsidia.

Rex slowly nodded his head.

"... Free him." Celestia commanded, waving a hoof at the guards holding Rex's chains. The broken horned stallion lifted his head with wide, hopeful eyes. "I only do so because I at least owe you that for saving the ponies of my kingdom." she continued, as not to raise his hopes too high.

"What?!" Commander Hurricane yelled, outraged by the alicorn's choice. "He can not be trusted roaming Equestria's capital! What are you thinking?!"

"I'm sorry, but for a second it sounded like you were questioning my authority?" Princess Celestia said to the furious pegasus.

"N-no, Your Majesty." the commander muttered, softening his tone.

"Good." the monarch said with a smile as Rex was loosed from the chains. The unicorn glanced at Obsidia before swinging around and exiting the room.

"Happy?" Unicorn Wizard grumbled at Talon.

"Very." the spinosaurid replied, trotting after the melancholy dinosaur.

"Ya seem down." the Earth mare exclaimed, walking alongside Rex with concern. "You should be happy. You could be rotting in jail right now." Talon said.

"Sounds better than what I'm going through right now." the stallion muttered in response, his head low.

"What are you TALKING about?!" the pony snorted, pulling her head back momentarily. "What the hell happened that made you so negative?" Talon growled at Rex, raising her lip to expose the gums that rooted her conical fangs in place.

"I don't want to talk about it." he murmured.

"Tyrannosaurs..." the mare growled, stopping for a moment, "always so dramatic... C'mon, spill the fish." she ordered Rex, using her decided favorite phrase since being able to talk.

Rex turned and let his gaze fall on Talon, a blank expression crossing his face. "She left me." he muttered, lowering his head.

"Who?" Talon asked, lifting an eyebrow. The unicorn didn't answer, only turned and walked away.

-Canterlot-

Obsidia quietly walked down the hall in small hoofsteps, her eyes trailing the marble floors. With a sigh, she didn't notice the tall, long snouted mare before her.

"HEY! the pony shouted as Obsidia accidentally bumped into her.

"Ohmygosh! I'm sorry!" Obsidia rambled on. "I-I didn't see you there, it was an accident!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down, kid. What's wrong?" the mare asked, leaning down to eye level with the light brown pegasus. Obsidia dropped her head and gazed at the floor. "What's the matter? Coelacanth got yer tongue?" the tall pony asked, erupting into laughter. "Ooh. That's a good one." she said, whipping a tear from her eye.

Obsidia gave her the "Are-you-dellusional?" look.

"It's a kind of fish, kid." Talon said with a frown. "Now then, what's wrong. Ya look blue."

"I lost somepony I loved." Obsidia replied, turning to walk away.

Talon, even though she wasn't the brightest dinosaur in the bunch, knew how to put two and two together. "Hold it, kid!" Talon shouted, grabbing the teen by the shoulder. "You said you lost somebody?"

"Yeah, so?"

"C'mon." the spinosaurid said, grabbing her hoof and pulling her down the hall.

"Well, okay!"

"Just behind this door is a T Rex who said he lost 'her'. He never told me who 'her' was, but if having people watch me eat, sleep, and poop my entire life hasn't taught me anything then I don't know what can. Tell me, what did this pony look like."

"I already know who your talking about." Obsidia replied flatly.

"Not a very good description, but it'll do." Talon replied, swinging the door open and pushing Obsidia into the room before slamming the door again. "HAVE FUN!!" the mare shouted through the door before trotting away with a victorious smile.

-Meanwhile-

Obsidia turned to face the stallion, and the sight wanted to make her cry. What normally was a tall, and if she had to admit, handsome, unicorn was now a wreck. His eyes were blood-shot, the result of rubbing away tears, and new ones wet his cheek. A tissue lay in his hoof, crumpled and wet. His mane was flat and his ears were laid back.

"Oh, Rex. Look at yourself." Obsidia explained with regret.

"Disastrous, isn't it?" he sniffed, wiping his eyes and face with a new cloth. "I met you, thinking that I could start a new life. A life that didn't involve a cage for the rest of my days. A life that I could be happy. But I guess not." Rex growled, dropping his head.

Obsidia's eyes began to water at the words that struck her like a hoof to the face. "I'm sorry." she whispered, quiet sobs escaping her throat.

Instantly, Rex felt regret for what he had said. His face loosened and his anger vanished. With an effortful grunt, Rex rose to his hooves and approached her. "Me too." he murmured, pulling Obsidia into a hug. The pegasus mare didn't resist and only cried into his shoulder. Rex tried not to do the same, but to no result. The former dinosaur could feel his muscles twitching and shaking with each sob.

Slowly, the two managed to pull themselves together. Obsidia released Rex and gazed at him with a half hearted smile. Rex returned the expression and leaned toward her ear. "I love you." he whispered.

"I love you too. And I knew all along that your weren't nothin but a big softie." the pegasus replied with a smile, planting a kiss on his cheek before turning to leave the room...

To her surprise, the door was locked.

"TALON!!" Rex bellowed angrily.

Author's Note

I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter!

New Life, Old Problems

Author's Note

Hope you guys enjoy my longest chapter yet! It was so much fun to write. And thank you for your support!

New Life, Old Problems

-Three Months Later, Ponyville-

Obsidia couldn't have been happier when she found out that a problem with developing a way for the dinosaurs to get home would keep them stranded in Equestria for at least another year. That meant more time with Rex. The unicorn seemed equally as joyful about the situation as the light brown pegasus did.

She could've been a lot happier when a doctor found out something that even SHE didn't know after a certain furious Dilophosaurus attacked her, a way of taking revenge on Rex... The doctor found out one day after a blood sample to test for venom in the blood stream was ready for analysis.

If her parents found out, she had pretty much decided that they were probably going to kill her. They would already know if the doctor hadn't promised to keep her mouth shut about the situation.

"You can't tell ANYPONY!" Obsidia had panicked. "If my parents find out, they'll KILL me!"

"They wouldn't do that..." the nurse had said with a not-so-heart warming smile. "They'll probably get extremely furious, yes. Kill you? Nah." the pony continued, turning and opening the door for the pegasus.

"Gee. That makes me feel a WHOLE lot better about the situation. Thanks." Obsidia said sarcastically at the time.

"I'll keep my lips sealed. But only because you're my favorite patient with that humor of yours." the doctor said, causing Obsidia's wings to lift, as well as her mood. Obsidia uttered a sigh of relief and a thanks before exiting the room.

-Three Days Later-

Obsidia's parents spoke as if she wasn't there. The pegasus shifted uncomfortably in her seat, dislike the direction the conversation had taken involving 'cravings' or even worse, 'labor.' These were both something that the light brown pegasus would unfortunately have to face in the near future. Obsidia wondered how the foal would look. She made the assumption that it would be an alicorn, due to Rex's and her own species.

With a sigh, the pegasus dropped her gaze to the floor.

Scarlet Blitz looked at her daughter with a concerned expression spreading across her face. "Honey what's wrong?" the white and red pegasus asked Obsidia.

"N-nothing!" she stammered, her wings stiffening with fear as Onyx lifted an eyebrow and shifted his view to the nervous Obsidia, a glare forming on his face in suspicion.

"Something's obviously wrong." Onyx stated, only adding to the pressure. "And I want to know, right now."

Scarlet Blitz frowned and looked at Obsidia with a nerve wracking expression that only a parent could give chewing out their child. "C'mon, spill the oats." her mother told the light brown pegasus with a demanding tone able to be hinted at on her voice.

Obsidia looked at the snow white pegasus with a look of pure guilt. Onyx clenched his teeth together in growing agitation as his daughter bit her lip and avoided eye contact with her momentarily. "I-I... RRRGH! Why is it so hard to talk to you two right now?" Obsidia growled to herself, holding a hoof to her forehead.

"One of classical, first signs of having done something you know you shouldn't have." Onyx grumbled quietly, shaking his head in anger. "Stalling."

"Dad, can I tell you later?" Obsidia asked the irritated stallion. "I would feel safer telling mom, first."

"Fine. Take all the time you need!" he grumbled, rising to his hooves and exiting the room. A loud slam rang out in Obsidia's ears momentarily as she winced at the sound.

"Now then." Scarlet said. "Why the secrets? What's wrong?"

"I-I'm... Well what I mean is, I may be... Uuuhh. I could possibly be..." the light brown pegasus stammered, trying to find the right wording that won't be too angering.

"You may be, what?" her mother asked, lifting an eyebrow at her daughter and lifting her head to look her in the eyes.

"Pregnant." Obsidia said suddenly and swiftly, nervous, stressed, and utterly terrified about what her parents would think of the situation. The pegasus winced briefly, expecting shouts, or negative language of some kind.

Scarlet sat there, her eyes wide with surprise. "Holy hell." she muttered, becoming unmoving, contemplating what to make of the situation. "Hmm." she pondered, rubbing her chin in thought. "Your sure of this?"

"The doctor found out after a blood draw to see if any of the changeling's venom was in my blood stream after he attacked me." she muttered sadly, nodding her head with a disappointed from on her face. "I didn't realize."

"I believe you... Who got you this way, baby?"

"Rex." Obsidia murmured, her eyes on the floor instead of her mother.

"Come again?" Scarlet asked, lifting a hoof to her ear to signal that she hadn't heard the pegasus' reply.

"Rex." the pegasus mare said again, this time just barely audible to her mother. Obsidia looked up at her mother with the look that didn't need her to apologize, it did that for her.

"Soooo, you somehow managed to get yourself alone with him... and go at it?" Scarlet asked, surprisingly calm as she put the reply into the forefront of her mind.

"Yeah." Obsidia acknowledged with clear-as-a-sunny-day guilt... and fear.

"Your father's going to go ballistic, you know that right?" the white mare asked, placing a gentle hoof on Obsidia's shoulder.

"Yes... But that's why I wanted to talk to you first. I thought you'd understand how nervous I was. I just don't know what to do." the pegasus said in a slightly panicked voice, her ears flat and her wings limp.

"HONEY! Calm down! Alright? I'm not mad. Just a little surprised, is all. But I can totally relate to the situation you're in. When I was told that I was pregnant with you, Frost Bloom practically had a heart attack. You see, at the time, she absolutely HATED your father and uncle, so the doctor had to try and get her face to go from purple with anger, to the normal blue you're used to seeing."

Obsidia couldn't help but giggle at the words.

"Anyway, back to the subject. Does Rex know your pregnant yet?" Scarlet Blitz asked, causing Obsidia's heart to sink in her chest. Obsidia's shoulders sagged as she slowly shook her head... "Aw, Sweetie." he mother cooed sympathetically, pulling her daughter into her arms. "We'll sort this out, how's that sound?" she whispered into her ear.

"Thanks for understanding, mum." Obsidia replied, a tear rolling down her cheek.

When the two had finished, Scarlet looked into her daughter's eyes and gently wiped a tear away from her cheek. "You ready, sweetheart?" she asked the nervous pegasus.

"I guess." Obsidia murmured with a sigh.

"Okay." her mother replied, letting an irritated Onyx into the room

"You ready to tell me what's going on lately?" he asked, tapping an impatient hoof against the wooden floorboards. It was a moment before he heard anything more than a mutter.

"Yeah."

"Then let's hear it." he said, terrifyingly serious. His nostrils already began to flare and an underbite already present as he prepared for what he had been suspecting from Obsidia the entire time.

"I..." she began, gulping. "I'm pregnant." Obsidia brace herself for the bellow like shouting that would come from her father. Only, none came. Onyx's hoof stopped tapping as he gazed at the pegasus with a mix of awe and bewilderment.

"Well, to be completely honest, I expected you to confess to doing drugs or something like that." he said with a slightly guilty smile, rubbing the back of his head with a hoof. "But this? Obsidia, you're only 19. And, who on Equestria is the father?" Onyx asked, his voice growing low and serious.

"That's what I was afraid to tell you..." Obsidia sighed, taking a deep breath. "Rex... is the father." the pegasus mare continued, looking at her father with an apologetic expression.

Onyx's expression remained terrifyingly calm, only stressing Obsidia more than she needed to be. "Okay." he replied. "Don't see any reason to be surprised that HE'S going to be the father."

"So, you're not angry?" Obsidia asked, ever hopeful.

"I didn't say that. I'm actually pretty pissed about that, but seeing to the fact that the only solution to the problem is abortion, an option that only a heartless, idiot of a parent, would do to their child, I don't see any reason to be tearing my mane out. Rex being the father, however. That's different." he said, noticing the terrified look on Obsidia's face. "Don't worry! I'm not going to do that! And it doesn't mean I love you any less. It just means that I am going to have to have a serious chat with Mister Rex." he reassured the pegasus with a soft smile, causing her wings to lift and a smile to cross her face.

"Thank you!" she shouted joyfully, wrapping her arms around his neck.

-Thirty Minutes Later-

Rex entered the room, an irritated scowl crossing the unicorn stallion's face. "Was it so important that you couldn't wait until my lunch break or AFTER work?" he growled, not noticing the stern, serious expression on Onyx's face until after he had finished ranting on about his job as one of Canterlot's guards.

"No. I think you might want to hear this." Onyx said, a sarcastic smile crossing his face.

"O-oh! Sorry, Mister Onyx." he stammered, correcting himself as quickly as he could. He then planted himself next to Obsidia, kissing her on the cheek. The mechanic rolled his eyes before starting

"Were you made aware that my daughter is pregnant?" he asked, a quizzical, if not irritated, expression.

"N-no, Sir! W-why?" Rex gulped, choking on the words.

"Because if things go according to plan, that means you, young mare, getting your butt to Canterlot in a few months so Rex can look after you," he started, pointing at Obsidia with wide eyes. He then turned to Rex. "you're going to be a father." Onyx continued as Rex took a swallow of coffee that he had brought home from Hoofington Farms.

Suddenly, the tall stallion held a hoof over his mouth and choked down the coffee. Letting his tongue hang from his mouth, he looked closely at the label and shrugged his shoulders before turning back to Onyx. "So, wait. I'm gonna be a father?"

Obsidia nodded her head, her cheeks flushing slightly.

Rex dropped the coffee cup, its contents spilling onto the wooden floor. His eyes rolled into the back of his head as he fell backward, Obsidia gasping in fright.

-A Few Months Later, Canterlot-

Obsidia lay upon the bed in her designated chambers, Princess Celestia having been kind enough to look after her as Onyx requested until the foal came. Rex gazed at the pegasus mare's belly with a soft smile, a twinkle in his eye. Obsidia, on the other hoof, was far less happy than the unicorn stallion. Hardly a day passed that when she felt a kick, the risk of hurting herself from the shock wasn't present. To make matters worse, the cravings that her parents had spoken of were enjoyable, those cravings involving an item that is frowned upon the usual pony menu: meat. Living with a carnivore changed her from an herbivore to an omnivore.

Looking at the bright side, though, she was a big sister! Her little sister had been born shortly after the discovery of Obsidia's own pregnancy.

Obsidia, grumbling and cursing under her breath while staring down at her large tummy, was beginning to feel resentful toward Rex, though he didn't care much.

"Ah, cheer up!" the former Tyrannosaurus told her, waving a hoof.

"I hate you right now." she growled in response to his comment, her lips curving downward at the thought of the future pain that she would have to go through delivering the foal. Blood, Sweat, and Tears, her mother had once told her when the pegasus heedlessly asked what it was like to give birth.

"You say that now." Rex chuckled, approaching Obsidia with a devious grin on his face. "But just wait."

With that, he sat on his haunches and leaned forward, kissing the pegasus on the lips. It pulled the annoyed feeling from Obsidia like taking candy from a foal. Obsidia's eyelids dropped and her frown morphed into a smile as Rex gently pulled her toward him and wrapped his arms around her waist. Then, cautiously, the stallion lifted her up and let himself onto her bed before releasing Obsidia just long enough for her to get comfortable.

For a dinosaur, Rex was quite capable of being just as romantic as some of the stallions the pegasus used to date when she was just a teen.

"You remember our first kiss?" Obsidia asked the predatory dinosaur king turned gentle unicorn.

"How could I forget?" Rex replied, kissing her again. "It was a full moon, we were under the stars with the sounds of crickets in the grass. he said with a giddy smile, his hoof trailing up her hip toward her wrist.

"Yeah. Then the next morning I woke to my dad yelling in my face." Obsidia said flatly, causing the both of them to laugh. The pegasus winced at the pain caused by the jolting movement and held her belly.

"You alright?" Rex asked, a frown on his face and his brow furrowed. He then held a hoof to her stomach and therapeutically rubbed it with his hoof, a soft reassuring grin crossing his face, revealing some of his curved teeth. The teeth of a predator. Despite what used to be a vicious predator, the stallion was no less a citizen to Equestria than any of its other residents now.

"I'll be okay." Obsidia reassured him, though his expression believed otherwise. Her breath was now coming faster, as well as her heartbeat. Rex frowned and ran his hoof through her mane. Slowly, her breath and heart rate slowed and returned to it's normal state. Rex let out a long sigh, as he knew that this would happen again in the near future.

A quiet knock interrupted the two, the door opening as a familiar face entered the room with a smile. "Knock, knock." Frost Bloom said quietly, her eyes fixed on Obsidia.

"Hello, Frosty?" Obsidia said as her mother's friend was followed by a servant unicorn with a tray levitating beside her. Standing on the tray was a mug of steaming liquid and an assortment of medical utensils... Including a syringe. "Crap." the pegasus muttered as the doctor nurse placed the mug on a nightstand next to the bed.

"Sorry." the icy blue mare said sympathetically, sucking in her breath with an apologetic grin. "It's just to make sure that you're doing alright. Oh, and I brought a little surprise to lift your spirits.

On cue, a metallic clopping and a loud voice caught Obsidia's attention. "Alright, where is she?!" Ratchet called out, entering the room with a goofy grin on his face. "Thanks, Babe." he then said, quickly planting a kiss on Frost's face before turning to the pregnant pegasus.

A joyful grin crossed Obsidia's face at the sight of the guard, his armor and uniform still on his back as a result in the sudden change of plan involving his visit to his niece. "Uncle Ratchet!" she exclaimed, climbing out of bed with an effortful grunt to hug her uncle.

"Hey, kiddo!" Ratchet replied. "How goes things with 'you know what?'" he then asked, winking and nudging her shoulder with his elbow. A grin crossed his face.

"Smoothly. Doctors said it should be due some time this, or next month." Obsidia replied with a smile.

"Good! Good. Anyway, I brought ya a little gift along the way. Thought it might help with them cravings of yours." Ratchet said, pulling a small box from a pocket on his saddlebag with a smile.

"Hey, Ratchet." Rex's voice said, causing the guard stallion to look up.

"How d'ya do?" Ratchet replied, nodding his head to the stallion.

"Not half bad." the unicorn replied, returning the gesture. He then noticed a large steak in Obsidia's hoof, a smile spread across her face. "Yer gonna share, right." Rex the pegasus mare playfully.

"In your dreams." Obsidia replied, rolling her eyes. "Thank you." she then said to her uncle happily, wrapping her arms around his neck with a smile. The Earth pony blushed slightly and rubbed the back of his head.

"Oh, it was nothin, really... But your welcome." the pony replied, gently returning the hug with a smile. "Now, you better get yerself back into bed before you hurt yourself." Ratchet continued, pointing at the large bed.

Obsidia groaned but didn't object to his order.

"Drink this." the servant then told Obsidia, cautiously handing her the mug. "It'll keep the pain at bay, should any sudden movements occur.

"Thank you." the mare replied, gently blowing on the drink before she took a sip. Rex smiled and turned to Ratchet.

"Thanks for stopping by." Jurassic World's former Tyrannosaurus Rex said to the stallion.

"Anytime." Ratchet acknowledged, approaching Obsidia. "Enjoy the steak, stay in bed, and try not to make any sudden movements." Ratchet told her, kissing her forehead and turning to walk off.

"Thank you!" she called after him, a smile crossing her face as she snuggled herself under the covers of the bedding.

"Your welcome." Ratchet said with calm, quietly closing the door behind him as he left the room.

"Now for your shot." the servant unicorn said, lifting the syringe from the tray. "This will only hurt a little." she continued as Rex reassuringly squeezed Obsidia's hoof.

Obsidia's eyes widened as the doctor stuck the needle into an artery in her arm. "MMM." she breathed through tight lips, trying her best not to yell at the pain.

-Later That Month-

Rex's ears twitched as a voice echoed in his mind, arousing him from his deep slumber. Groggily, the stallion lifted his head, he could hear the sound of rapid gasps. Suddenly, the realization struck him like a taser used on his home planet.

Jumping to his hooves, Rex swung his head to look at Obsidia. Even in the dim light he could see that the blood drained from her face. Swiftly, but gently, the unicorn lifted the pegasus and hoisted her onto his back. "Rexy, Baby." her hoarse voice whispered exhaustively as he sprinted toward the medical wing, fear of the worst striking him in the heart with invisible impact. A terrified expression began to cross the stallion's face as he listened to the mare float in and out of consciousness.

For what seemed, like hours, Rex ran until he thought his lungs would burst and his heart explode. And he kept running still.

Finally, a door marked MEDICAL WING came into his well adapted eye sight. Without stopping, he gently placed the labored Obsidia onto the marble floor and bucked the door, throwing it from it's reinforced hinges. He then lifted the pegasus back onto his shoulders and rushed into the room, where he nearly collided with Princess Celestia.

"Y-you gotta help!" Rex gasped, taking gulps of air into his airways.

Seeing the pony on his back, Celestia swiftly levitated Obsidia to a bed with a gentle hold and rushed toward a group of doctors, who apparently hadn't seen the door strike the opposite wall.

The ponies went right to work, helping Obsidia through the grueling process.

"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you have to wait outside." one said, attempting to push Rex out the door. The stallion didn't budge, but only glared down at the struggling mare.

"NO!" he snarled in her face. "I'm not going anywhere!" he shouted, baring the ranks of sharp teeth imbedded in his jaws.

"He will stay if he wishes." Princess Celestia said as Obsidia screamed in pain, startling even the celestial monarch.

Rex trotted to the mare's side with a worried expression, his hoof squeezing her own. Her cries accompanied his own periodic worried sobs.

As the seconds turned to minutes and the minutes to hours, Rex found himself repeatedly slipping into sleep, despite his worry for the pegasus mare. And despite his best efforts, even Dinosaurs need sleep every once in a while.

But finally, when his eyelids dropped and his breath became audible with snores, a new cry startled him awake. That of a child, but not like any human cry he'd ever heard. It was more of a whinny than a cry.

"It's a filly!" he heard a doctor shout joyfully.

Rex grunted from exhaustion as he lifted himself to his hooves. A doctor carefully scooted past the stallion and gently placed what appeared to be a bundle of towels into Obsidia's arms. The mare's cries slowly ceased, except for the occasional gesture of slight pain. Rex glanced from the smiling, though blood drained and sweat soaked Obsidia, to the bundle in the crook of her arms.

It was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen... A tiny pony with a red and brown mane, and a small horn sticking out of the middle of her forehead.

"Congratulations, you two love birds." Princess Celestia said, giving Rex a light punch on the shoulder. Rex could only sit there, his bottom jaw slackly hung open, and his eyes wide. Obsidia smiled up at the stallion, the blood slowly returning to her face. With a noticeable wince, she carefully laid the bundle in Rex's arms. The new father gently pulled part of the towels away to get a better look at his new daughter. Obsidia smiled at the sight of a pair of striped wings slowly flexing themselves apart. It was an alicorn.

Astonished at the first alicorn birth in decades, Celestia gazed down at the brown and red newborn.

Rex cracked a toothy grin as the foal uttered a tiny whinny and placed her front hooves on his snout. With an affectionate nuzzle, Rex's yellow eyes met the fillies' rose red eyes. The tiny alicorn let a tiny yawn from her mouth, her eyelids lowering slightly as Rex gently placed the foal into the crook of her mother's arms.

It was then that the thought really sank into Rex's mind. "I'm a father." he muttered, holding a hoof to his forehead.

"You alright there?" the celestial mare asked Rex, nudging his shoulder.

"Yeah. I'll be fine." he replied, shaking the dizziness from his head and vision.

Suddenly, the room became filled with Talon, Unicorn Wizard, Toucan, and surprisingly, Dawn. "You little charmer, you." Talon teased Rex, a mischievous smile crossing her face as she wrapped her left arm around his neck and rapidly ran a hoof back and forth on his head.

"Get OFF!" he commanded with a grin, pulling away from the spinosaurid's grip.

Unicorn Wizard approached Rex with a smile and a respectful bow. Dawn stood, rooted in a spot, not so much as a twitch in her lips appearing to anypony.

Toucan was the first of the three saurians to get a good look at the newborn. His eyes lit up and the pterosaur gryphon cracked a smile. "Congrats!" he beamed, the same goofy, toothless grin on his face.

"Thank you." Obsidia replied as Dawn finally moved, leaning over the mother and gazing at the frail alicorn. Obsidia pulled the pony away from the hybrid with a deathly glare.

Rex patted the albino on the shoulder, a sigh leaking from his throat. "Don't get yer mane all tangled up." he said as the Indominus clenched her teeth together and growled, resisting the urge to slam her jaws on his wrist. She liked her space, and Rex had just then intruded on it.

"I may be calm now, but I won't be if you don't get your filthy hooves of of me." she growled as Onyx and Scarlet Blitz entered the room and pushed their way to their daughter.

"Obsidia, sweet heart!" Scarlet shouted, her eyes wide with worry. Onyx's expression was hardly any different. As the couple approached the bed, Onyx took one look at his daughters sweat soaked, blood drained face and fainted.

"Dad!" the pegasus mare said with concern.

"Well, that happened/" Rex muttered, receiving a menacing glare from Obsidia. "What?" he chuckled, shrugging his shoulders and putting his hooves into the air jokingly.

Scarlet Blitz swiftly lifted her husband up and opened his eyelid. Quick to react, the stallion shook himself from his daze as Bill Redwood and Ratchet let themselves into the room.

"What happened?" Onyx asked, rubbing his eyes.

"You're a grandfather!" Scarlet explained with a wide smile.

"R-really?" he asked in shock.

"It would appear so." Bill Redwood answered for the red and white pegasus, gazing at the young alicorn with a soft smile crossing his face, his cheek pushed up into his eye.

"I'm so proud of you." Onyx said, Scarlet, Red, and Ratchet nodding in agreement.

"You should be." a deep, menacing voice growled. Rex's pupils constricted as he swung around to see a trio of ponies, lead by One Eye. Venom and the Ophiacodon trailed close behind the scarred tyrant.

"YOU!" Rex snarled through clench teeth, shaking with rage. The other ponies took a step away from him as the stallion's face turned bright red, his mane and tail bristled with growing anger.

"I must say. I felt quite distressed at not receiving an invitation to this marry gathering." One Eye declared, ignoring the stallion. Obsidia could almost picture steam shooting out of Rex's ears like she used to see on cartoons as a foal.

"You're not welcome hear." the former tyrannosaur snarled, baring his teeth.

"Oh, whatever shall I do about this, this... Situation?" One Eye said with a twisted smirk on his face, the smug expression infuriating the father.

"Let me handle this." Venom growled, approaching Rex with an overly confident smirk, his flaming frill of skin slowly spreading. Rex let a chuckle leak from his throat as a particularly fun tactic that he used on King Sombra months ago floated into his conscious. With a devious grin, the stallion threw a hoof at the changeling's face, striking him square in the nose. The now pissed Venom screamed in pain, furiously stomping his hooves on the floor as he held his nose.

"You idiot." One Eye grumbled, shaking his head and holding a hoof to it.

"Let's see YOU try to dodge that!" Venom yelled in defense. "He punches like a god damn bullet!" he continued, his face growing red with anger.

"Language flag." Rex corrected wagging a hoof in the dilophosaur's face. Venom promptly slapped it away and glared at the stallion with disbelief.

Dawn raised an eyebrow, Toucan spread his wings, and Unicorn Wizard's horn was enveloped in a purple aura, the magic pulsing through the floor. Talon joined in as well, unhinging her jaws to reveal rows of conical, fish hunting teeth.

One Eye snarled, Venom held his nose, and the Ophiacodon growled menacingly, her own horn crackling and firing of small, teal sparks of magic.

"ENOUGH!" a voice yelled before the battle could even go underway. It was Obsidia, her face flushed bright red as she gently handed the alicorn foal to Princess Celestia.

"I'll NOT deal with this today." she said in a startlingly demanding voice. "One Eye. Let me ask you a hypothetical question. Would you attack us if it meant looking like a complete LUNATIC in front of EVERYPONY in the room? What did we do that pissed you off, huh? Why do you CONTINUOUSLY, show up, only to kill?" she shouted in One Eye's face, causing him to cower slightly. Rex stared at his girlfriend, flabbergasted with the anger that she was capable of.

"Uh... I... Holy shit." he stammered with wide eyes as Obsidia's look only hardened.

"I-I, blah, blah." Obsidia mocked, either bravely, or extremely supidly. "Stop blabbering and speak up, lizard!" she commanded him, not noticing the scowl on his face.

"You're starting to scare me." One Eye said, reeling back as the pegasus grabbed him by the scruff on his neck.

"Good." Obsidia growled, apparently fully recovered from the three hour long ordeal she just went through. "Now listen up, bird-brain. You're starting to piss me off on a day that is supposed to be one of the best in my life. Are you sure you want it to get any worse?" she threatened through clenched teeth, an angry underbite becoming visible to Rex's mirror brother.

Rex couldn't take his eyes off of the mare with wide eyes as she chewed out the taller, and obviously stronger, unicorn before her.
Looking around, he wasn't the only one staring. Everypony in the room, including Princess Celestia, was staring at the enraged Obsidia with wide eyes, not one of them daring to interrupt her guilt tripping.

Talon was the first to speak. "You're getting your but whooped by a NATIVE." she muttered. "And your a dinosaur!" the spinosaurus mare continued, causing the other former dinosaurs to chuckle quietly to themselves.

"I did NOT wait seven months just to have some scarred chicken headed FREAK ruin my day, understand?!" Obsidia yelled at the terrified striped unicorn, her face now as red as the streaks in her mane. "Now, you and your lizard friends better get your furry asses out of here before I KICK 'em out!" she finished, slapping his cheek with full force.

"That's gonna hurt in the morning." Rex laughed in One Eye's face, noticing that the bruising was already taking affect.

"If he's still alive tomorrow morning." Obsidia grumbled, gently taking her foal from Celestia's hoof and laying back on the bed.

"C'mon, guys! Let's go, before she goes berserk on us." One Eye growled in a slightly panicked voice. The other two ponies nodded in agreement before practically trampling each other as they rushed to the door.

"Is that really our daughter?" Onyx whispered into Scarlet Blitz's ear. "Cause I didn't know she was capable of that."

Scarlet slowly nodded her head in response, flabbergasted with how easily the pegasus scared perhaps the most ruthless and terrifying pony known to Canterlot away.

"I know what we can call her." Obsidia's voice said, interrupting the white pegasus' train of thought... "Thalia...Little Thalia Redwood." she whispered, nuzzling the foal's belly with a smile. Rex smiled and nodded his head, staring into the alicorn's large, ruby red eyes.

"Yes, Thalia is perfect." he whispered, planting a kiss on Obsidia's cheek.

"AWWWWW!" the ponies whinnied, followed by a single applaud from Unicorn Wizard, then by Toucan, the doctors, Obsidia's parents, Princess Celestia, Bill, Ratchet, and Talon.

"C'mon, Dawn." Talon said, dragging the hybrid into the group. A frown crossed the albino mare's face before the spinosaurid nudged her shoulder with a toothy grin. "Birth. Awesome. Smile." the Earth mare cued, lifting the corner of her lips with her hooves to form a grim. "And don't think nobody saw that last one." she continued. "Behind that stone cold, predatory face lies a heart of gold, and you know it."

"Yeah, sure." the Indominus Rex snorted irritably, rolling her eyes.

Everypony soon grew quiet, watching as a small alicorn wiggled out of the towels with a tiny sounding whinny. Obsidia and Rex smiled as the foal exhaled a small sneeze. With a little help from her father, Thalia stood on shaky hooves momentarily before sneezing again and falling into the beds soft cushioning. Obsidia chuckled quietly to herself before lifting Thalia and holding her to her chest, the mother's heartbeat pushing the pony into a sound sleep.

Finally, Dawn cracked a barely noticeable smile as Rex sighed with a smile before Obsidia was soon asleep as well. Rex rose to his hooves and motioned for his friends to leave. The doctors followed, allowing the family some alone time.

"Let me know if you need anything, Princess Celestia whispered before leaving the room, a aura enveloped door following her. With a quiet shifting, the door was back on the hinges, leaving Onyx, Scarlet, Obsidia, and Rex at peace. As well as the small alicorn snuggling into the crook of her mother's arms.

Onyx and Scarlet stayed awake as Rex soon found himself also asleep. Onyx smiled at his wife and kissed her cheek. Soon Scarlet had her head rested on his shoulder and was snoring softly.

So it turned out, that Rex wasn't that bad a stallion or father, that Onyx originally thought he would be.

"Cute couple, don't ya think?" Bill asked the father with a slight smile.

"Yeah. Glad to have met Rex, actually." Onyx said, his brother turning to face him with a shocked expression. "What?" Onyx asked, noticing the look

"Your starting to LIKE Rex?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Nothing."

Siren

-Saddle Lake-

The long female siren writhed in anger as the Megalodon siren swam after her, her tail sweeping back and forth as she tried to escape. The Mosasaurus released her breath, air bubbles followed by an underwater bellow as the shark siren clamped her jaws on the siren's tail. Without hesitation, the female curved around, her scale like patches of fur flexing as she rebelled against the largest shark known to man, and pony kind.

Blood flowed freely from her tail as she clapped her jaws together, trying to bite down on the Megalodon's vulnerable neck. The two soon became locked in a serpentine position, the mosasaur slamming her hooves against her opponent's snout while the shark siren thrashed her head back and forth, ripping clumps of fur from the blue giant's smooth, velvety body.

With an agitated bellow, the Mosasaurus whipped her body back and forth, throwing the shark siren from her. The siren swiftly swam for the lake's surface for a breath of air, only to find herself wrapped in a strange light.

"RRRRGH!" she snarled, trying her best to free herself of the clinging hold. She was still struggling when the feeling of blades of greenery halted her, mid thrash. Looking down in surprise, the siren saw soft grass beneath her newly formed hooves. She didn't even notice when the iron hold released her.

The water pony was still wondering what to make of the plants around her when an infuriated Megalodon siren leaped from the waters, her chest slamming into the bank of the lake.

The Mosasaurus hissed in agitation as the shark let her body slowly slip back into the blue liquid, air bubbles rising to its rippled surface.

"Pretty beat up there, ain't ya?" a voice asked, startling the normally shy ocean predator. It was then that it dawned on her. Without a word, the siren looked herself over, noticing her own blood staining her dark blue fur. Sweeping her mane out of her eye, the mosasaur spotted a unicorn before her, a concerned look on her face.

"I'll be fine." the siren growled, approaching the mare who had seemingly lifted a pony almost twice her own size.

"You sure don't look it, Miss...?" the unicorn replied quizzically.

"I don't have a name. But I am a Mosasaurus." the siren replied, turning her head to the siren mare who had, moments earlier, attempted to tear her apart. The Megalodon had her head barely visible, the top of it sticking above the surface of the water with small ripples. The siren was eyeing the wounded sea reptile.

"You two know each other or somethin?" the unicorn asked, noticing the shark mare.

"No... But something tells me that I shouldn't go back in." the mosasaur replied, turning back to the pony. "Where am I." she asked, rather rudely to the unicorn.

"Saddle Lake." she replied bluntly, not at all impressed with this supposed 'Mosasaurus'' reply. "And if you don't have a name, how about if I call yoooooou... MOSEY!" she asked the siren, only receiving a flat, stone hard expression from the bloodied mare.

"Whatever." 'Mosey' grumbled, gingerly wiping blood away from an open bite wound.

"You really don't look good. Are you sure you don't want help." the pony asked again. The siren payed no attention to her, only to licking the wound momentarily clean.

"I gotta find something to stop the bleeding." she muttered to herself, looking around for something useful.

The unicorn rolled her eyes as Mosey surveyed the area, as if expecting one of humans back home to deal with the injury.

-Canterlot-

Owen Grady sighed as he stabbed at the salad with a fork, his eyelids dropping slightly from lack of sleep. How could he sleep? He still wasn't used to being one of the animals, though rarely, fed to the carnivorous dinosaurs at Jurassic World. His mind was on the one remaining Velociraptor to have survive Hoskins' men and the Indominus. The fact that a Tyrannosaurus Rex managed to court with a native was also unsettling. Would that mean, if Rex could transform, so would the foal? He didn't know, and sure as hell didn't want to find out.

"Got something on your mind?" a feminine voice asked Grady. Turning his head, he was faced with Princess Luna.

"Nah... Well, yeah. But... it'd be a little awkward to talk about." the raptor trainer replied, putting a forkful of lettuce, tomatoes, and onions into his mouth.

"I won't judge anything you say." Luna assured him with a soft smile.

"Thanks, but I'd rather not talk about it."

"Oh, c'mon, it'll help a lot more than if you kept it a secret," she said, taking a seat beside him.

"Okay." Owen started. "Are you used to outsiders coming to this, realm, did you call it?" he asked her, puzzled and looking for answers. He didn't expect the reply Luna gave him.

"Well. Not really. There WAS that PIRATE incident that we had to deal with around seven years ago. Weird bunch of ponies whose lives revolved around RUM and the Fountain of Youth and Davy Johns Locker. It was very odd, to say the least."

"A bunch of alcoholic pirates... That's uh, interesting." Owen replied, nodding his head quizzically.

"You know, Mister Grady. You're not like the other newcomers. I'm sensing a less, well, chaotic or wild personality to you." she said, looking into the pony's eyes.

"Owen." he corrected. "And that's probably because I'm not a dinosaur on my home planet." Grady continued, saying it as though it were obvious.

"Okay then, Owen." the lunar diarch said, rolling her eyes. "What was your profession back on Earth like? You seem like a strong stallion to me." she asked.

"I used to train Velociraptors." Owen replied glumly. "That was after I left the army." he continued.

"You and I... We have something in common." Princess Luna said, lifting his chin. "We're guardians. We serve for our respecting countries. I respect that."

"Guardian might be stretching it." Owen said bluntly, shunning away the pounding in his heart. He was NOT about ready to get overly comfortable talking to a princess. "I fought for my country, yes. But I wasn't like a captain or a colonel, or something like that." he continued, turning his head away.

"Owen... You still did the right thing, and even still, after you left the army."

-Saddle Lake-

The siren paced back and forth, her long tail thrashing back and forth in impatience. The cool wind blew against her wet fur, causing the former mosasaur to shiver in the cold. "So, what you're telling me... is that I'm in some crazy land called Equestria, where..." Mosey stopped, her voice trailing as she tried to find the right combination of wording to use without freaking the unicorn out. "it's populace is nothing but herbivores?"

"For the most part, yes. Few of us ponies are omnivores with the exception of King Sombra and Queen Chrysalis." she acknowledged with a nod and a grin.

"Then this is going to go f***ing terribly." the blue mare replied with wide eyes, not paying attention to the unicorn's reaction to the sentence.

"W-why?" the mare stammered, putting two and two together.

"Because I have a taste for blood!" Mosey replied, rather irritated and growing more impatient by the minute.

The unicorn practically jumped out of her fur with shock, disgust, and ultimately fear.

-Crystal Kingdom-

One Eye tapped his hoof, his mind racing as to how he got chased off by one of Equestria's natives. He listened as Venom and the Ophiacodon unicorn whispered amongst themselves, eyeing the tyrant stallion with wide eyes. The tyrannosaur rolled his eye as he began to make out faint words.

"Will you two knock it off?!" he shouted angrily, baring his deadly teeth. "I've heard enough of your blabbering!" he continued, cuffing both of the ponies upside the head with a glare.

"The hell was that for?!" Venom retorted.

"All I've been hearing from you two since we got back hear is how I got my ass kicked by a native. Now SHUT UP, or I'll tear your tongues out so you CAN'T talk!" One Eye threatened, his tone of voice showing not only anger, but distress and slight shame. The Ophiacodon, wisely nodded her head in response. Venom was not so logical.

"Whatever!" the changeling growled, only to get another hoof to the head. "Will you STOP THAT?!!" he shouted, spasmodically turning to face One Eye with a red face.

"Then don't talk back." the tyrant snarled threateningly into his ear.

"Fine!" Venom replied.

-Ponyville-

The unicorn pulled Mosey by the hoof down Ponyville's gravel road, a stern, intent look passing by her face. She had a mission: Operation; introduce Mosey to Princess Celestia and hopefully not get in trouble for bringing an outsider to Canterlot. Long title, yes. Logical? Probably not.

The Mosasaurus siren lifted an eyebrow as the underside of her tail soon became caked in road grit and dust. It was surprising how strong the mare actually was. Managing to yank a pony twice her size down a road was no small feat. In fact, it was a large accomplishment. Get it, because Mosey is big? Funny, right? Never mind...

"Uhh. Where are you taking me, exactly?" the siren asked, confusion and annoyance showing through her tone and face.

"Canterlot." the mare replied bluntly.

"Gee. Thanks for the info, that really simplifies things for me." Mosey said sarcastically.

-Twenty Minutes Later-

The Mosasaurus' tail was scuffed and road burned. Dirt lodged itself into the peeling skin, only making it hurt five times more than without dirt in it. Finally, the unicorn stopped at a gate, allowing Mosey to inspect the fur on the bottom of her fin. Much of the blue fur was missing, revealing dirty blue-pink skin. The siren gritted her teeth together as she gingerly felt the area, it burned to the touch. The former mosasaur whipped her head to glare at the mare, a furious underbite barely visible.

"Sorry." she said, not really showing it in her tone and body language.

"Mm hm." Mosey breathed, annoyed as she turned her attention to her road burned tail.

No sooner had she started when a loud banging startled the siren. She turned and watched as a large gate lifted up. It was then that the siren mare noticed a huge white castle in front of her. "Whoa." Mosey muttered, holding a hoof to her forehead in a mind boggled manner. Her eyes grew wide as she followed the unicorn mare into Canterlot's gates. She almost didn't notice the pain in her tail.

Clash of the Titans

-Mt. Everhoof-

Pitch lifted his lips and quietly growled to himself, a sour, angry expression blown onto his face by the mountains crisp, cool winds. Quaking with rage more than cold, the black dragon bellowed his rage, his epiglottis rumbling and thumping as saliva dribbled down one of his long fangs, surprisingly not frozen from the blizzard winds. The white saurian he'd fought months earlier had seemingly vanished like the wind, preventing him from performing his vengeful attack against her. If she was in Canterlot, the risk of being seen was too great, keeping him from launching an effective blow there as well.

With a snarl, the quadruped drake allowed his talons to slip down the mountainside like a snowboarder would. A rocky cliffside came into view. With a growl, Pitch effortlessly leapt from the cliff and spread his long wings, the cold breeze flowing over his aerodynamic body with ease.

Fire licked up from the sides of Pitch's maw, harmlessly engulfing his eyes in flame. His talons clenched together, the cold making him oblivious to the pain caused by the organic weapons imbedding themselves into his scales. Smoke billowed from his nostrils as he dove toward the Crystal Empire, a wicked roar escaping his throat.

Talons squealed against the crystalline building as Pitch slid down it's smooth surface before a loud thud echoed out as he slid to the ground. With a snarl, the dragon thrashed his tail as he walked, not caring that an abandoned watch tower was broken like a twig, quartz crystals falling into the moat with a splash.

-Inside the Crystal Empire-

A loud echoing thunder woke One Eye from his rest. Glancing at the ceiling, he noticed shards of crystal falling from the ceiling, the floor shaking momentarily. With a shrug, he slowly closed his eyelid.

-Outside the Crystal Empire-

Pitch didn't care if lives were lost when he attacked Canterlot. It meant a feast after killing the 50 foot long dinosaur he attacked three months earlier. Not looking back to view the crystalline city, Pitch thundered forward, smoke flowing from his maw and snout with each furious snort. Revenge drove him forward.

Eventually, the Dragon King found himself under a barrage of harmless gunfire. Bullets harmlessly struck his scales and wings as he thundered forward, ignoring the fleet of tanks, helicopters, and military Jeeps firing at him. Without hesitation, a spherical flame shot form his maw, striking a group of vehicles blocking his path. Revenge drove him forward and no amount of firepower would draw his attention away.

Explosions rang out as gasoline caught aflame and burst, throwing scraps of steel into the air, well above Pitch's head. The black dragon let a smug grin cross his face as he thundered passed the heaping piles of blackened metal.

"We got a dragon comin your way!" Colonel Obsidia shouted into a walkie talkie, her revolver held up in defense as the pitch black drake traveled along the road, his forked tongue flicking in and out of his mouth.

"Wait, say again, a dragon?!" a voice replied. "What would you say it looked like?"

"Big... and black." the lightly colored military pegasus acknowledged.

"Rainbow Scale..." the pony muttered under her breath, a sad tone on her voice.

"I'm sorry, who?" the colonel said quizzicly. The dragon didn't look like it had rainbow scales to her. What kind of name was that. Should've called it Black Death or something.

"Nothing. Just do your best to keep it away from Canterlot." Princess Luna's voice commanded.

-Inside Canterlot-

Obsidia gently placed Thalia in Rex's arms as she packed some of her items into a saddle bag. A smile crossed the new father's face as he nuzzled the sleeping alicorn with his snout. With a tiny yawn, the brown and red filly slowly opened her eyes to see her father's gentle eyes looking right back. Thalia tilted her head and adjusted her position in Rex's hooves, her eyes wide with curiosity.

Obsidia chuckled quietly to herself as Rex took a seat on the bed and gently placed Thalia on the soft surface. The foal stumbled out of his arms, gently face planting into a blanket with a whinny. Rex chuckled as the foal rose to her hooves and spread her wings, her legs shaking at the position.

Suddenly, the building shook. Rex's pupils constricted as he could only begin to imagine what was going on. "Keep Thalia safe." he told Obsidia, gently lifting the alicorn into her mother's arms and sprinting from the room.

-Canterlot's Front Gate-

Pitch bellowed furiously as he tried to down a watch tower, it's guards firing their crossbows at the behemoth of a dragon. With an irritated growl, the black dragon swung his tail, the blow turning the brick building into a pill of rubble.

It was then that he noticed a small shape. It was a striped unicorn stallion, his eyes glowing bright yellow. With a snarl, Pitch thrashed his spiked tail, striking the stallion square in the chest. Gasping for breath, Rex forced himself to his feet, a look of disgust across his face as he looked down at his bloodied breast. The warm, red liquid ran down his forelimbs and seeped into the earth.

Pitch was too busy laughing to notice the strange events taking place.

When the dragon was finished, he lifted to his feet and opened his eyes, only to see a pair of yellow, snake like eyes glaring right back at him. With a roar, Rex clamped down on the Dragon King's jaws with all 12,000 pounds per square inch, his teeth just managing to break through the quadruped flier's thick scales. With a mix of pain and rage, Pitch let out a moaning shriek, thrashing his body to break free of the saurians vice grip.

When he finally managed to free himself, he swung around and struck Rex in the face with his long claws, knocking the tyrant lizard to the ground with a small earth tremor.

The dinosaur howled in pain as a loud crack shot from his minuscule arm, signaling broken bones. With a smug grin, the dragon placed a clawed limb on Rex's hip, his jaws opening to their full capacity to reveal long glistening fangs. His horrid breath overtook the Tyrannosaurus as thick, foamy saliva dripped onto his face.

Vague memories of the Indominus Rex looming over him pushed him toward defeat... Rex would be dead if the thought that he finally had a family hadn't dawned on him.

With a bellow that would make thunder sound like a whisper, Rex rolled onto his back, causing Pitch to loose his grip on the king's thigh. With the sound of his teeth clicking together, Rex clamped his jaws around the drake's neck and raked his hind claws along the dragon's belly scales, drawing blood. Releasing Pitch, Rex then slammed his foot into the underside of the dragon's jaw throwing him against Canterlot's protective walls.

The Tyrant Lizard King leaped to his talons and lunged forward, his long, wet teeth closing around the black dragon's hind leg. The quadruped roared in pain as the dinosaur pulled the drake toward him before placing a clawed foot on his chest. His lips lifted to reveal his gums and the skin on his top jaw vibrated as he growled. Saliva dribbled from the T Rex's fangs as he placed a firm foot on the ground, leaving a deep imprint in the gravel. Pitch could clearly see his own blood staining the saurian's teeth and tongue, as well as the scales on his snout. The black dragon winced as he prepared to be killed.

Suddenly, a mirror version of the Tyrannosaurus clamped it's jaws around Rex's neck. It was almost the same exact dinosaur, except it was darker, and could very clearly be seen with a jagged scar covering it's left eye socket. Pitch wasted no time in jumping to his feet and aiding his savior in the killing.

-Inside Canterlot-

The sound of bellows filled the Indominus Rex's ears, agitating the giant of a unicorn. She was about ready to explode from the built up anger that she was forbidden to let loose inside the castle.

"Screw this, shit!" she bellowed to herself, sprinting down the hall, her eyes flashing bright red as her fur was replaced with scutes and scales.

-Canterlot's Gate-

Rex was being killed, his body was riddled with bite marks, claw marks, and burns from the dragon's hot breath. When all hope seemed lost, an albino figure smashed through the gate like it was made of glass. Her red eyes locked onto the one eyes T Rex and the black dragon as she thundered, head long toward them. Her claws splayed out as a loud bellow escaped her throat.

One Eye released Rex and dodged an incoming swipe from Dawn, missing, but striking Pitch just below the eye. The dragon angrily hissed as the Indominus used her skull like a battering ram with a force three times as powerful as that of a squad of changelings using a post to break down Canterlot's gate.

With a sickening crack, one of the four long horns atop Pitch's head snapped, falling to the ground with a plume of dust. Dawn bellowed triumphantly as Pitch uttered a pitiful roar, his head rearing back.

Rex's painful bellows, as well as angry roars and growls, filled the air. Pitch was looking no less wounded than the tyrant king. One Eye was the least wounded, managing to repeatedly throw blows at the Indominus Rex and Tyrannosaurus Rex with minimal damage. Finally, though, and to Rex's surprise, the Indominus at last slashed at One Eye's vulnerable ribs, raking away scales to reveal muscles and tissue. The massive saurian bellowed in pain and swung his skull at the hybrid, shattering serrated teeth and throwing the bloodied weapons from her maw.

While the Indominus was Rex's enemy, he would not be able to fight the dragon and One Eye alone.

Uttering a menacing growl, Rex charged his mirror brother, throwing a stunned Pitch out of his way. With a bellow, Rex slammed his jaws One Eye's tail and yanked him to the ground, the dinosaur roaring in shock as Rex closed his jaws on the tyrant's pelvis. The one eyed reptile lifted his lips and hissed, his pupil constricting as he slapped his tail against Rex's side in a final attempt to get the father dinosaur off of him.

Suddenly, out of the blue, Pitch gripped his claws on Rex's spine and beat his wings as hard as he could. The forty foot long dinosaur began to feel the ground beneath his feet move away. Looking down, Rex angrily bellowed as he was lifted higher into the air, thrashing to try and break the dragon's grip before he was lifted too high.

With a grim smirk, Pitch released the dinosaur.

Rex plummeted to the ground beneath him, his eyes wide with fear.

Dust flew into the air as Rex landed, his eyes closed.

One Eye and Pitch then left, the black drake flying high above the Tyrannosaurus. One Eye bellowed triumphantly, the ground shook with each footstep.

Rex moaned in pain, lifting his lips at the pain from his fall back to Equestria. A frightened and very worried Obsidia sprinted out to meet the wounded dinosaur, her vision blurring. Thalia leapt from her back and stumbled toward her father, recognizing his scent. Rex winced in pain as the alicorn filly placed her hooves on his massive snout, his ragged breaths of air blowing against her mane. With a small whinny, Thalia climbed onto his snout and laid there, her vibrant eyes gazing into Rex's large, yellow eyes.

The Indominus Rex reverted to her pony form, a sigh of relief leaking from her throat as the sweet taste of One Eye's blood rested on her tongue. Looking over, she spotted Rex, still in his saurian form, gazing at a tiny pony on his snout. Dawn shrugged her shoulders and turned to head back into the castle... She would've been able to if the gate's rubble wasn't blocking her.

Obsidia stroked Rex's scaly brow, a half chuckle-half sob escaping her throat in a mixture of relief and worry. The tyrannosaur let a growl similar to a purr escape his throat, his snout vibrating as the noise leaked from his jaws. Thalia leapt from her father's nasal bridge and approached her mother.

Obsidia smiled down at the brown and red pegasus and lifted her so that Rex could see the joy on her face. The Tyrant Lizard King tried his best to turn his head to look at the two ponies head-on, only to be stopped by the gentle force of Obsidia. "Be still." she commanded him, rubbing his snout. She didn't notice when the gleam in his eyes slowly disappeared as they shut, his breath no longer visible on his side. One last breath escaped his nostrils as his muscles went limp.

"No. No! Rexy! Baby, NO!" she started to shout, no longer seeing any signs of life from the saurian. "NO!" she screamed as Thalia trotted to the dinosaur, her smile vanishing as she nuzzled her father's snout. "No..." the pegasus murmured to herself, dropping to her knees with a sob.

"Daddy." Thalia said, tilting her head and looking at Rex's scaled eyelid.

Obsidia gazed at her daughter, tears running down her cheeks as she gathered the filly into her arms. The light brown pegasus uttered quiet sobs as Thalia tilted her head.

Suddenly, Obsidia heard a deep groan. Looking up, a look of surprise and joy crossed her face as a muscular, bloodied stallion limped toward her, a hoof held into the air. "You didn't seriously think that I would die that easy, did you?" Rex breathed, holding a hoof to his chest as he gulped breaths of air. "Damn." he then muttered, looking himself over with a nervous grin.

"Why you little-!" Obsidia couldn't finish her sentence before Rex limped toward her and kissed her.

"Aw. C'mon, just admit it. You're happy that I'm alive." he whispered into her ear with a mischievous grin. Obsidia rolled her eyes and wiped the tears from them.

"DAAAAAMN, Rexy!" Talon exclaimed with wide eyes, looking at the former Tyrannosaurus Rex in surprise. "You can hold up in a fight just as good as your old man!" she said. Rex shot a look at her as if to ask, "Old man?" The spinosaurid slapped a hoof over her mouth. "Whoops. I've said too much."

"What do you mean, 'Old Man'?" he asked, lifting an eyebrow.

"Nothing!" the mare said, turning her head from the wounded stallion.

"Whatever." Rex grumbled, turning back to Obsidia.

"You're such an idiot sometimes." the pegasus muttered, kissing his cheek. The unicorn could only nod in agreement as Obsidia looked down at the gash that made breathing for the tyrant more difficult. Thalia leapt from her mother's arms and leaned her hooves against her father's good front leg.

"Daddy." the alicorn foal said, a childish smile on her face. Rex chuckled and lifted Thalia into his arms, flinching at the pain caused by the movement.

"Yes, that's right." Rex whispered, gazing at the foal with a smile. "Daddy's here." he continued placing the foal into Obsidia's hooves. Holding a hoof to his forehead, the stallion shook his head to get rid of the wave of nausea passing over him. With a grunt, the stallion fell to the ground.

"Rex!" Obsidia exclaimed, rushing to his side.

Talon swiftly pulled the pony up, allowing the large, unconscious stallion to lean on his shoulder. It was like trying to carry a bag of bricks.

-Canterlot Medical Wing (For Like the Seventh Time)-

Rex slowly stirred, his arm in a cast and his chest covered in white bandages. He couldn't see out of his right eye, it was swollen and sealed shut. It felt like a thousand needles were stabbing into him when he moved, and his back was killing him. The pain just went on and on. Grimacing, the unicorn stallion shifted in the bed, his heart beat quickening. A heart rate monitor repeatedly beeped, measuring the thumps of the wounded stallion's heart. With a slight look of disgust, Rex pulled the wires attached to his body off of him. The monitors beeping stopped, and uttered a long, continuous beep. Rex rolled his eyes as doctors rushed to his side.

"I'm fine!" Rex lied, propping himself up.

"You need to rest." a pony commanded, pushing him against the bed.

"OW, damn it!" he shouted, pushing her hoof away from his chest with a glare. The mare grimaced apologetically and moved away from the angry unicorn.

"Rex, baby! Calm down." Obsidia's voice said as she entered the room. "How do you feel?" she then asked, a worried look on her face as she asked.

"I feel like I just got hit by a train." he replied flatly as a doctor held a hoof to his forehead. "Get away from me!" Rex snarled, slapping her hoof away.

"She's just trying to check your temperature." Obsidia assured him with a soft smile.

"Well, why can't she just NOT?! I feel fine, okay?" Rex growled, causing Obsidia to chuckle. "What's so flipping funny? I'm being flipping serious!"

The lightly colored pegasus giggled, her cheeks reddening.

"Mm." Rex grumbled, rolling his eyes.

"Oh, come on." Obsidia said, lifting his chin with a devious grin.

"We'll just leave you two to it." a doctor said, ushering the others away.

"Now then." Obsidia started. Rex smiled. "Let's check out your chest." she continued, changing the topic and gently pulling the bandages from the stallion's chest.

Rex sucked in his breath and placed his hoof on his girlfriend's hoof. "MM." he breathed, squeezing his good eye shut.

"Sorry." Obsidia murmured, pausing momentarily. She then resumed, cautiously unwrapping the white covering. The bandages unwrapped soon became visibly red with blood. Finally, she revealed Rex's bloodied chest, a long gash ran from his right arm to his neck.

"Would ya look at that." Rex muttered as Obsidia gingerly touched a hoof to the wound. "Ow." the former saurian said flatly as the pegasus pulled away from the gash. He grabbed the mare's hoof in retort and held it up. "I don't really know how you ponies do this sort of thing. What did the humans call it." he pondered to himself before his ears lifted straight up.

"Yes." Obsidia said before he could say anything more. She then gently kissed his lips.

"Wait, what?" the stallion asked. "How... did you know?" he questioned, one ear laying flat in confusion.

"Because I wanted to ask the same thing." she acknowledged, replacing the bloodied bandages with fresh, white ones. Rex winced slightly, his muscles tensing for a moment before loosening up as the pegasus finished wrapping him up.

"Thank you." Rex told her with a soft smile.

"Your welcome, King of the Tyrant Ponies." she replied before leaving the room. She was pushed aside by a furious Commander Hurricane.

"What do you have to say for yourself?!" he shouted in Rex's face, lifting a hoof. "You should've been locked up a long time ago, LIZARD!" he snarled, preparing to bring his hoof down on the stallion's face.

"Commander! I won't allow ANY violence here." Princess Celestia's voice said, levitating the navy blue pegasus away from the patient.

"But... But, Your Majesty!" Hurricane retorted. "He nearly destroyed Canterlot... AGAIN!"

"He also saved Canterlot... AGAIN." she replied flatly, gently placing the commander back on his hooves. "Besides, I don't see what your problem toward these newcomers has been. They haven't done anything to give us reason to harm them."

Commander Hurricane practically keeled over at the words. "My problem is that these THINGS are giant, prehistoric REPTILES who either killed to eat, or killed to survive! Do you NOT find that the least but concerning?!"

"Well, Rex here hasn't killed anypony except for our enemy. Do you not remember how he emerged victorious after the battle with King Sombra?" the celestial alicorn said.

"If you mean victorious, as in a stomach ache for the next two days after having eaten nearly an entire army, then yes." Rex grumbled, remembering the gritty, insect-like texture that the Changelings provided for him. It was not a taste that he wanted to experience again while in Equestria.

Troodons, Mosasaurs, and Pterosaurs

-Canterlot-

Ponies worked to lift tall wooden pillars, using them to support the crumbling outer wall of Equestria's capital building. Clydesdale horses pulled large carts of bent iron, remnants of the castle's gates. Talon, Unicorn Wizard, and Toucan helped to remove rubble from the clash between the Indominus Rex and One Eye that took place hours earlier. Talon used her strength, the Dimetrodon used his magic, and Toucan used his wings and paws to lift large pieces of brick and metal.

-Inside Canterlot-

Bone Digger pulled the struggling gryphon and caged Troodon through the halls toward the throne room, not taking any notice to the fact that the toothed Berries was trying his best to gnaw through the rope around his thin neck. The trio was soon met with a truly massive siren and a unicorn walking alongside her.

"Whoa." Bone Digger muttered, looking up at the deep, oceanic blue siren mare with wide eyes. "Who's yer friend, here?" she then asked the brightly colored unicorn.

"This is Mosey." the mare replied. 'Mosey' rolled her eyes in annoyance at the ridiculous name.

"Mosey?" the paleontological earth mare questioned.

"She's a Mosasaurus." the unicorn acknowledged, noticing the gryphon and raptor. "What... the heck kind of a gryphon is THAT?" she asked, lifting an eyebrow.

Berries lunged at the mare in rage, only to find the barrel of a large shotgun shoved into his maw. The Dimorphodon turned gryphon uttered a gurgling growl before pulling the gun out of his mouth. The unicorn mare looked at the earth mare with surprise at the speed and selflessness of her actions.

"Thanks." she said as they continued toward the Throne Room.

"Not a problem." Bone Digger replied.

-Canterlot Throne Room-

"Repairs are being made, but Queen Chrysalis and that mirror stallion won't waste any time in launching attacks at the vulnerable castle." Captain Douglas Gordon explained to Princess Celestia.

"I understand what you're saying. What confidence do you have that we can defend my subjects and their homes?" she asked in response, turning to the Gotengo's main pilot.

"I feel that to defend Ponyville and it's residents we will need to look to Canterlot's guards. In particular, Rex. If he's really what the towns ponies are claiming he is, then we don't have a problem on our hooves." Captain Gordon acknowledged, trying to get Celestia to allow him to work with the rumored Tyrant Lizard King.

"He is what they think of him... But he is in no condition to be protecting the populace right now. Defending Canterlot from his mirror brother did quite a number on him, so using Rex to defend our ponies is not optional.

"And his friends? If they have the same abilities as their leader than we still have little to worry about." Gordon said.

"The white unicorn will not be allowed. If what Rex's friends have told me is true, then Dawn is not to be trusted." the celestial monarch exclaimed. "But the others should do just fine."

It was then that the twin doors to the room opened with a creak, revealing a gryphon, a siren, two ponies, and a caged animal. "Ah, Miss Digger." Princess Celestia started. "I take it you captured the last Troodon?" she asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Bone Digger said, briefly bowing to the floor. "I also captured this slippery bastard." she growled in irritation, tugging the rope, which, in turn, threw Berries to the floor with a choking cough.

"IT BURNSSSS!" he gurgled, gasping for breath and tugging the rope around his neck.

A frown crossed Celestia's face as her horn glowed. The doors gently closed with a click and the rope slid itself off of the gryphon's neck. "Where did you find him?" she asked the paleontologist, gently lowering herself to the frightened Dimorphodon.

"He was being attacked by the Troodons. I caught him and decided to bring him here." the dusty earth mare responded.

"Kind of a weird place." Mosey muttered to herself, looking around the tall room at the paintings on the walls and ceiling. "Where am I?" she then spoke up, lifting an eyebrow.

"Canterlot." Princess Celestia replied, rising back up and letting her gaze fall on the former Mosasaurus. It surprised her how tall the mare was. Even leaning forward to sniff the alicorn with curiosity, the siren still towered over her. "Hey, hey, hey!" Celestia exclaimed, pushing Mosey away from her with slight disgust on her voice.

"What?!" the deep blue mare said, shrugging her shoulders.

"Who do you think you are to SMELL the monarch?!" the ivory alicorn shouted. She was normally a very calm pony, but when it came to her space being invaded by complete strangers instead of friends or family, that's where she drew the line.

"Geez! How was I supposed to know?!" Mosey growled defensively, reeling back and baring her sharp, serrated teeth.

"SHUT UP!!" Captain Douglas Gordon shouted. Princess Celestia glared up at the stallion, disgust crossing her face at the lower class pony's order. "There are worse problems than arguing about SMELLING each other, alright?" he growled.

Bone Digger and the unicorn mare nodded in agreement. Mosey snorted and backed away from the celestial mare. It was then that the group listened to a small chirp. Looking down at the cage, Princess Celestia saw the Troodon pacing the cage, it's eyes wide with curiosity and confusion.

"Son of a gun." Bone Digger exclaimed, looking down at the frightened, feathered reptile. "Well, look who's awake." she continued, clanking the barrel of her gun against the iron frame. The small animal hissed in irritation and attempted to swing it's long claws at the paleontologist's arm. "Little bastard!" she growled, reeling back.

"Miss Digger, please do not harass the creature." Celestia said to the dusty mare, placing a hoof on her shoulder.

"Sure." Bone Digger grumbled, lifting herself to her hooves.

"Sooooo, why am I a, whatever you call a water horse, and not a Mosasaurus?" Mosey interrupted.

"A siren? Probably the same reason that your friends aren't in their original form." the alicorn mare acknowledged. "Entering the portal changed your form."

"That doesn't answer my question. WHY did entering the portal change my form?" the siren asked, rolling her eyes.

"I think that that information can be found among the archives." Princess Celestia replied. "I hope you like to read."

"Read? I've spent my life swimming around a lake. I'm pretty sure books aren't waterproof." the primeval aquatic lizard said, her voice lacking even an ounce of respect.

The sun alicorn rolled her eyes.

"Yay. Reading rules." Captain Gordon grumbled sarcastically. Bone Digger nodded in agreement. Berries saw his chance and tried to slink away, only to found himself enveloped in a golden aura.

"SSSSSSS!" he hissed, writhing to free himself of the telekinetic grip on his body.

There's Only Room for One King

-Canterlot Medical Wing-

One Eye loomed over the snoring Rex, a twisted smirk crossing his face as a low chuckle escaped his throat. "Now, you die." he laughed demonically, his horn becoming enveloped in a red aura. Rex stirred and looked up at One Eye with horror. In an attempt to defend himself, the former Tyrannosaurus threw a hoof at the evil pony. One Eye dodged and forced his hoof against Rex's chest, blocking of his air supply. Rex yelled in pain as his larger mirror brother put both hooves around his neck. The stallion's eyes rolled into the back of his head as the color in his face drained away. "You know what I really hate?" he snarled, lifting his lips to reveal yellow fangs. "Cheap knockoffs!" he continued.

Suddenly, a blur of light brown and red slammed into One Eye from the side, throwing him clean across the room. One Eye snarled his rage as he slammed into a wall, dust and small pieces of marble showering down on him. Rex gasped for breath as the blood returned to his face.

"You'll be okay, Baby." Obsidia's voice reassured the unicorn stallion. Rex gazed up to see the pegasus launching herself at One Eye with her hooves in front of her.

The impact from the blow pushed the two through the wall and into the castle's archives. A stunned Unicorn Wizard dropped the book that he was reading and watched with wide eyes as Obsidia threw a barrage of attacks at One Eye's face. Dust and debris stained Obsidia's lightly colored coat with tan grit. One Eye dodged an incoming attack and pulled away from the mare, craning his neck to head butt her. With a fanged smile, the stallion slammed his head into Obsidia's, knocking her unconscious.

The stallion looked up. What he saw nearly caused his good eye to pop out of the socket. A furious stallion bulldozed toward One Eye. Rex snorted and swung around, his front hooves grabbing a railing and his back hooves striking his mirror brother square in the jaw. As Rex released the handle, it snapped from it's support beams into the unicorn's hooves. Using the broken railing like a club, Rex repeatedly swung the post at One Eye's chest. With a gasp, One Eye was thrown several meters, striking a bookshelf with tremendous impact. Several books and scrolls fell from their positions into piles on the floor. One Eye rolled away from an incoming wooden beam that shrieked toward him. It would have killed him had he not dodged the attack. Instead, the post firmly planted itself into the wall, throwing bits of marble.

"FOOL!" One Eye snarled as Rex charged him, his jaws wide open. The demented unicorn leapt out of the way and grabbed Rex by the stump of his broken horn. With a roar, One Eye pulled down, throwing Rex into the floor.

It was then that a large, violet saurian leapt on top of him. Unicorn Wizard uttered a loud growl before lurching forward to clamp his jaws on One Eye's chest. The stallion's pupil constricted as he threw multiple punches at the Dimetrodon's face. Grabbing the sailed synapsid's horn, One Eye slammed his jaws on Unicorn Wizard's neck. Roaring in pain, the Dimetrodon reared up and raked his claws along the unicorn's back. The stallion released his hold and leapt backward as the horned saurian let himself fall back on four legs.

It was then that a tall mare barreled toward One Eye, her jaws unhinged to reveal rows of long teeth. One Eye swung around and shot a blast of dark magic at Talon. Rex watched with horror as the spinosaurid pony was thrown back, a long, painful, reptilian cry escaping her throat. Her lifeless body struck the ground with a dull thud before laying still. Sorrow and rage welled up within Rex as he let loose a long, loud bellow, his eyes squeezed shut as paintings shook. One Eye looked up in surprise to see the stallion charging him, his anger crystal clear as he struck the stallion in the chest, knocking him back. Rex pinned the demonic tyrant to the floor. "You know what I REALLY hate?" he snarled through clenched teeth, trying his best to hold back the sorrow in his tone.

"No, what?" One Eye choked with a twisted grin.

"You." the father spat in response as his opponents face began to loose color.

"Long live the king." One Eye snarled with a demented smile as his eye rolled back and his breath became hoarse. Rex's arms began to shake with rage and sorrow as his mirror brother's breathing stopped. His hoof slipped from Rex's arm and his head went limp. The stallion didn't release until One Eye's face was pale and his heart stopped completely.

Obsidia slowly woke to see Rex glaring down at One Eye, his teeth clenched and his face bright red. "Rexy!" Obsidia called. "He's gone." she said, approaching the stallion and placing a hoof on his shoulder. The unicorn released his hold and let himself fall to his haunches. His head turned to Talon.

"So is she." he whispered sadly, his head dropping to the floor. The moment when One Eye killed her played through his mind like a recording. Over and over again he could see the mare's body fall to the marble floor. A friend, comrade, acquaintance, and even a loyal servant, had fallen.

-Several Minutes Later-

When the ponies had gone, leaving One Eye's body behind, the Ophiacodon unicorn and Dilophosaurus changeling snuck out of hiding, slowly trudging over to their dead master.

"Ya think he's alright?" Venom asked his comrade, nudging the defeated unicorn with a hoof. As if to answer his question, a furious, wounded One Eye jerked his head up, gasping for breath. "AGH!" the changeling screamed, leaping onto the synapsid's back and squeezing here in fear.

"Get OFF!" she growled, bucking in response.

"Knock it off!" the tyrant stallion shouted, rising to his feet with an effortful grunt. He then promptly slapped both of the quarreling ponies upside the head.

The unicorn mare grimaced as Venom slipped off of her back with wide eyes, his ears laid flat.

"We thought you were dead." the Ophiacodon said with surprise, taking a step forward and allowing One Eye to support himself on her shoulder.

"Of course I'm not dead!" he snarled. "But I swear on my ancestor's scales that foolish Rex will suffer. First, I think I'll get some rest though." he muttered, leading his organic crutch toward an exit.

Passing On

-Ponyville Grave yard-

"We will forever bear the memory of the Earth Spinosaurus, Talon, as she rests, cold in the grave." Celestia said as a casket was lowered into a hole by Rex, Obsidia, Toucan, and Unicorn Wizard. A tall, stone sculpted Spinosaurus stood proud, it's long jaws pointed toward the sky. The statue's tall vertabrae had carved onto it 'Rest In Peace... The Guardian Spinosaurus, Talon.' Standing next to the stone was the confident statue of an Ankylosaurus, etched into it's revealed side was 'Rest In Peace... A Loyal, Confident Ankylosaurus, Bastidon.'

"Now let us have a moment of silence for a deceased hero." Princess Celestia said sorrowfully, dropping her head and closing her eyes. She was followed by the dinosaurs and the rest of Obsidia's family. Dawn stood motionless, a frown upon her face as an autumn breeze ruffled her fur. Leaves blew around as the hybrid shivered slightly, her teeth clicking together in cold. The only reason that she even came to the funeral was respect.

Rex looked down sadly as dirt was thrown on top of the coffin, hollow thumps coming from the ground as slumps of of dirt struck the sleek black surface. A tear drop fell from his cheek onto the casket as Obsidia squeezed his hoof reassuringly. The stallion's shoulders sagged as his girlfriend handed him a bouquet of blood red roses. Toucan turned his head away from the grave as the last piles of dirt were placed on top of it. Onyx pulled a grimy Harley Davidson Motorcycles cap off of his head and put it against his chest, the wind blowing his mane. Ratchet pulled his metal helm off and placed it at his side. Bill Redwood stood, his head low as he mourned the loss. Scarlet Blitz held Thalia in her arms, rocking her back and forth to keep the alicorn quiet.

-One Hour Later-

Rex was the only one who remained at the grave, the flowers still in his hooves as he wiped away the tears from his eyes. With a sniff, the unicorn stallion gently placed the bouquet at the feet of the carved dinosaur. Rex let a sigh escape his throat before turning to leave.

"You seem like a nice guy." a voice said. The stallion looked up to see a tall, serpentine dragon. Well, at least it LOOKED like a dragon. It had a bird wing and a bat wing. An eagle's talon and a lion's paw. His back legs were a horse's hoof and a dinosaur's. It's head was topped with an antler and a horn. It had both scales and fur. Nonetheless it was the strangest creature that Rex had ever seen.

"Who are you?" the sorrowful stallion asked, lifting an eyebrow in confusion.

The newcomer stifled back a chuckle before a reply came. "You really don't know me? I am Discord, the Spirit of Disharmony. I am a Draconequus who does as he pleases WHEN he pleases. But you, my friend, are looking as blue as the waters of the Atlantic Ocean." Discord said, his smile vanishing as he saw the tears that Rex had been wiping away from his eyes. "You are sad, Rex... Why?" he asked, leaning down to eye level with the former Tyrannosaurus Rex.

"That's no business of yours. Now leave me be." he growled in response, not sensing the powerful magic radiating from the strange serpent.

"I can cure your pain." Discord said, letting his back feet touch the ground.

"Yeah. How?" Rex said matter-of-factly.

"Join me... Help me rid Equestria of those harmony brats." he replied with an intense glare crossing his face. "You will be rewarded greatly."

Rex lifted an eyebrow before hesitantly nodding his head.

"Good. You'll find them in Canterlot."

Blood in the Water

-Saddle Lake-

The primeval siren whipped her tail back and forth, churning up bubbles at the lake's floor. A snapping turtle swam out of hiding to avoid becoming a meal. Ignoring the shelled reptile, the former Megalodon swam toward the surface of the large body of water, her snout the only thing protruding the lake with a ripple. Flaring her nostrils, the scent of flesh flowed into her nasal passages where her brain identified it as a meal.

"Mama, what's that?" a pony asked her mother pointing at a large fin sticking out of the water.

"It's probably just the siren's coming to play." the mare replied with a soft smile. Her smile vanished as a large siren leapt from the surface, her jaws wide and exposing crooked teeth. With a scream, the filly tried to escape the massive set of jaws that slammed on her leg.

"Mama!!" she screamed in pain as the filly was dragged into the water. Blood stained the water around them with a crimson as the mother ran to save her daughter.

"Get OFF!" she yelled, lifting a rock and throwing it at the siren's snout as hard as she could. The shark released, but lunged at the mother instead. Grabbing her left front hoof, the siren thrashed her head, throwing the mare back and forth. The mother beat down on her snout with her good hoof in a final effort to break free of the Megalodon. The siren's long teeth punctured her skin, exposing muscle.

The mother was barely alive when a tall unicorn barged from a hedge, his jaws gaping to reveal long, curved teeth. With a bellow, he slammed his jaws on the siren with a bite that could crush bricks. The Megalodon howled in pain and writhed to fight back against her attacker. The stallion dodged a tail swipe and clamped his jaws on her neck, a wild, predatory look in his eyes as he put his front hooves against her grey fur and pulled on the flesh at the siren's neck. With a sickening shred and a few drops of blood, the siren fell, a gaping hole in her neck. The stallion roared in triumph as the mother limped to find her child in the bloody waters.

"Thank you." she told her savior as she dragged her unconscious foal from the lake. It was then that the sound of crunching bones and shredded flesh filled the air. Looking over, she spotted the unicorn feasting on the carcass, blood staining his snout, chest, and forelimbs. She watched with disgust as a piece of warm, bloody meat was tossed into the air, where it landed in the stallion's jaws. He didn't even chew the hunk before swallowing it whole.

The air became filled with the stench of the corpse as the lake was swiftly cleared of other ponies, those ponies fearing the carnivorous stallion's ravenous appetite.

-One Hour Later-

All that remained of the Megalodon Siren was a few bones, a large majority of the skeleton having been ground into dust by the pony. With an effortful grunt, the stallion flopped to the ground, his belly full of seafood. Slowly, he closed his eyes and began to snore softly.

-Several Minutes Later-

"Careful, he's dangerous." an armored changeling whispered to his counterpart, gazing at the snoring unicorn with wide eyes. "Chrysalis is looking for ponies like this one."

"Right." the other changeling replied, sneaking from cover and slowly approaching the sleeping giant. "He looks like that dinosaur pony that ATE King Sombra." he muttered, noting the darkly colored chest and sharp tooth sticking out of his top jaw.

"Can't be. That guy was almost tame, and he had stripes. This pony's about as wild as they come." the armored changeling said, looking down at the stallion's blood soaked fur. Sombra's army probably would've shown him a lot more respect if he was even half as brutal as the unicorn sleeping before him.

"Doesn't matter who he is, let's just get 'im loaded onto the cart." his counterpart said with a concerned look.

"One question. How do you expect us to do that?" he said, lifting an eyebrow.

"That is a good question... Uh, do you mean without waking him?"

"No. I mean while trying to get ourselves- OF COURSE WITHOUT WAKING HIM!" the armored changeling yelled, throwing his hole filled hooves up in despair.

The large unicorn shifted, his nostrils flaring slightly.

"Well, you done goofed up at that." the other said, rolling his eyes as the stallion slowly woke, his jaws unhinging as he yawned loudly. "NOW we're dead." he continued, grabbing a spear from the cart and readying it to defend himself from the pony's wrath. It was when the stallion was on all fours that he really got a feel of how tall it was. The predatory unicorn was well over a head taller than Queen Chrysalis, and around the height of Princess Celestia. He clearly weighed heavier than Chrysalis and Celestia combined, and the blood that stained his brown coat didn't make him look any less terrifying.

The pony growled, the breeze from his breath blowing at the two changelings.

"He did it!" the armored changeling said, pointing at the other changeling with a hoof and dropping his weapon. With a horrified yell, the green-black bug pony ran off, leaving the armored changeling to fend off the tall stallion.

"Uh... Heh, heh." he chuckled nervously as the stallion lifted his lips to reveal his sharp teeth.

"You dare wake me." the unicorn growled in a deep, almost godly, voice. "You know how long I need to sleep after a meal like that?" he continued, grabbing the changeling by the scruff on his neck and lifting him clear off of his feet.

"I-it was an accident!" he stammered, grabbing the muscular pony's hoof and looking down into his yellow eyes with fear. "P-please! D-don't eat me!"

"EAT you?! I just ate an entire shark, I'm not going to EAT you!" he growled, releasing a member of Chrysalis' army. The armored changeling gasped for breath, placing a hoof to his chest as the carnivorous stallion flopped down beside the remnants of the former Megalodon turned blood thirsty siren.

"Okaaaay, then. Well, would you mind coming to the Changeling Kingdom with me? There's somepony who would like to see you."

"Leave me alone."

"But there-" he was cut off when the predator leapt up and bucked the changeling in the chest. Bones crunched as his body fell into a heap.

With a snort, the unicorn laid back down.

The Hunt is On!

-Canterlot-

"Your Majesty, ponies are reporting an attack at Saddle Lake involving a unicorn and a siren. They're saying that the unicorn killed and ATE the siren." the servant informed Princess Celestia with a grim expression.

"Was there any other casualties?" the celestial alicorn asked.

"A mother and her daughter were almost killed. The foal was mauled by the siren, and the mother was attacked trying to protect her." the servant replied, looking over several sheets of paper.

"I want the unicorn found and brought to me... Send out Toucan for an aerial view and Dawn for a ground search, in case the pony is aggressive." Celestia ordered.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" the pony said, clicking her hooves together and saluting the alicorn.

-Saddle Lake-

The massive unicorn stallion yawned loudly, stretching his front legs in front of him and unhinging his jaws. Shaking his head, the pony rose to his hooves and scanned the water's edge. Ponies lined the opposite bank pointing around him. The stallion turned his head to see a group of uniformed ponies, pistols held to his snout. The unicorn looked at his snout and gazed at the barrel held against his snout, a flat expression crossing his face.

"Get down, on the ground!" the police pony shouted at him.

"I used to eat your kind as a side dish and pick my teeth clean with your BONES." the pony snarled, memories of similar looking prey items from his home floating into his mind.

The police fired a warning shot at his leg, the bullet skimmed his skin and exposed pale flesh. With a painful roar, the stallion whipped around and bucked his legs at the police, throwing him against the sleek hood of a motorized carriage. On cue, the air filled with gunfire as the police officers shot at the unicorn, not noticing the strange transformation taking place.

Well, they noticed when he wasn't a pony anymore.

The forty foot long, twenty foot tall, eight ton Tyrannosaurus Rex uttered a tremendous bellow and thundered away, his tail effortlessly snapping trees like toothpicks under it's weight.

The Tyrant Lizard King trampled bushes and saplings underfoot, his massive skull swinging back and forth to push larger trees out of his way. A helicopter hovered overhead, following the furious saurian. As the airborne vehicle lowered altitude to survey the damage, the Tyrannosaurus Rex leapt up, snapping his jaws on the tail of the helicopter and pulling it down. The main propeller struggled to keep the vehicle up as the engines began to grow hotter, billowing smoke from the damaged, hind rotor. Shaking his head as if taking down a pterosaur, the primeval reptile threw the helicopter to the ground, a series of explosions causing the trees to go up in flames.

"It's headed due North, towards Ponyville!" Colonel Obsidia shouted over the sounds of explosions. "Stop the creature, before we suffer more casualties!" the dusty brown pegasus yelled, pulling her revolver from a holster and firing several shots at the massive creature. The dinosaur angrily roared, the blood curdling sound hurting the colonel's ears.

"I hear you." Toucan replied, fumbling with the odd device around his neck as he followed the Tyrannosaurus Rex's trail of destruction. Directly below him, Dawn ran head long after the dinosaur, her mane blowing against the wind. "How you doing down there?" the Pteranodon gryphon asked into the headpiece.

"Fine." the Indominus Rex grumbled in response, not agreeing with being used to track down an Equestrian nuisance.

"Good." Toucan replied, diving in toward the saurian with a confident grin across his face. Going into a free-fall, the pterosaur suddenly transformed, his body becoming enveloped in golden light as his silhouette grew larger and more aerodynamic. A newly formed Pteranodon dove toward the T Rex, a loud caw escaping his throat.

With a bellow, the predatory dinosaur looked up to see the silhouette of a bird-like animal, the sun blurring his view of the newcomer. The T Rex swung his head back down and focused his view on the path ahead of him, a low growl flowing through the wind.

Toucan uttered an ear piercing shriek before he streaked toward the saurian, his long beak aimed at the carnivore's eye. Wildly jabbing his beak at the tyrannosaur's head, the pterosaur screeched with irritation, his beak not making it's mark, but only angering the saurian.

The T Rex slowed to a complete stop, waving his head to rid himself of the annoying bird attacking him. With an angry bellow, he leapt up and closed his jaws around one of the pterosaur's feet. Toucan screeched in pain as he was pulled to the ground. The T Rex then placed a clawed foot on the Pteranodon's chest, threatening to crush his ribs and puncture his heart. Toucan cowered in fear before seeing a familiar white shape thundering toward them. A smug grin crossed his face as the Indominus Rex swung her spiked skull at the tyrant, throwing him off balance and allowing the pterosaur to free himself.

The tyrannosaur furiously roared a sound not unfamiliar to that of a lion's growl, foamy, bloody saliva drooling from his maw. Unhinging his jaws in a threat display, the saurian exposed his 64 long, glistening teeth. The Indominus swung her head in her own threat display before the two charged each other, kicking up dust as the saurian's sprinted to meet each other... This battle was to the death, no matter how long it took.

-Mirror Kingdom-

The dark alicorn gathered her wits and closed her eyelids, her magic sensing a powerful magic emanating from the Mirror world's Crystal Empire. It was unlike the calm, subtle magic of the goody-two-shoes version of herself. It was a more reckless, even dangerous, magic similar to that of King Sombra's dark magic. She liked what she was sensing.

"What of these newcomers?" the evil Princess Luna asked her older sister. "Their magic is powerful."

"I have plans to bring the evil one here. He is powerful... If he will work with us then Equestria will be mine without failure." Dark Celestia replied with a glare... "We just need to get to him without arousing suspicion..."

"You mean 'ours', right?" Luna replied.

"What?" the celestial alicorn growled.

"Equestria will be 'ours.' Right?"

"Yes, of course..." Dark Celestia replied with a reassuring smirk, holding a hoof to her sister's chin.

-Crystal Empire, One Hour Later-

One Eye held back a painful roar as the Ophiacodon wrapped bandages around his waist, gingerly working to wrap a long, jagged gash without him losing his mind and biting her head off.

"Would you be careful?!" he growled through clenched teeth, reeling back and sucking in his breath.

"Well, if you would calm down and stop flinching, it would be a heck of a lot easier!" the unicorn mare retorted, finishing up One Eye's waist and moving to his left arm.

"My arm's fine... Leave me be." he ordered, waving the former synapsid away.

It was only a few moments later when he heard a knock on the door. "Venom, I swear if it's you-!" he was cut off when a tall alicorn mare entered the room, a stern look crossing her face. "M-my apologies." he corrected himself with wide eyes.

"No need." she replied flatly. "I know how annoying servants can be." the mare continued, approaching One Eye. "I could sense in you, a powerful magic... I need magic like that to help me."

"Yeah... And?" the stallion grumbled, rather rudely, wincing as he propped himself up on his elbows. Dark Celestia rolled her eyes and waited for the pony to heal himself... Except, he didn't.

"Do you even know how to USE your magic?" she questioned the unicorn, lifting an eyebrow.

"Can't say that I do. And you must be expecting that I think YOUR any better at it?" he replied with a chuckle, infuriating the alicorn. She calmly shook her anger away and tried a different approach.

"I do know how to use it... But you're a newcomer. Magic is probably not your strong point." she said, her horn beginning to glow. "I can't have a cripple working with me, now can I?" she said as One Eye's waist glowed and the pain vanished from the spot of his wound. A relaxing feeling swept over One Eye's entire body as all pain was washed away. The stallion lifted an eyebrow and peeled the bandaging away from his waist. He then ran a hoof down the scars that used to be on the side of his head.

"How the hell-?" he said, panic beginning to spread across his face.

"Shush." Dark Celestia cooed softly, placing a hoof against his lips with a smile.

When she pulled away, One Eye spoke. "Why are you helping me?"

"Because I know a little somepony who you would like dead." she replied with a mischievous smirk on her face. The stallion lifted an eyebrow. "A little somepony who you know by the name of Rex."

Subdued

-Everfree Forest-

The Tyrannosaurus Rex was surrounded, no doubt about it. Ponies had him trapped against a cliff face and were jabbing all-too-familiar taser guns into his legs and chest. The Indominus Rex had dealt quite a number on the tyrant saurian. A long gash ran along his back vertabrae and down his right leg. More red was visible on the tyrannosaur's neck than his normally brown scales. His ankle and several ribs, were broken from a tumble down a steep hill as well.

In a fit of anger, the massive dinosaur lunged forward, snapping up a pony in his jaws before throwing it into a different taser-wielding police.

"Fire the tranqs! Do it NOW!" Colonel Obsidia ordered, pulling her own tranquilizer pistol from a holster and carefully aiming at the creature's neck. The light weight gun unnoticeably bucked in her hoof before firing a red feathered dart. The drug filled piece of ammunition whizzed toward the Tyrannosaurus Rex before breaking the skin on it's thick neck. With a furious roar, the saurian shook his head and thundered passed the ponies, his vision blurring and his muscles weakening.

"Toucan, I want you to stay on it's trail and let us know where it falls." the military pegasus ordered the gryphon flying above.

"Roger." the former pterosaur replied, banking to his left and following the giant, slowly gaining on the predator.

Suddenly, out of the blue, the Indominus Rex rushed toward the Tyrannosaurus, her head low as she slammed into his thigh with 12 thousand tons of force, throwing the dinosaur down. The Tyrant Lizard King tried to lift to his feet, but the sleep dart's affect on his brain prevented him from doing so. Slowly, his eyelids dropped and he reverted to the form of a massive unicorn stallion.

Dawn slowly shrank until she as well was a unicorn again. She gazed down at the snoozing, wounded pony and rolled her eyes before dragging the former T Rex by his tail, oblivious to the pain that it might cause him in the process.

Dawn was soon met up with Colonel Obsidia... Hopping out of a Jeep, the pegasus aided the albino unicorn in pulling the stallion along... That was the easy part... The hard part was getting the stallion into the bed of a truck.

The colonel beat her wings as hard as she could, even harder than while chasing down the giant mutated lizard, Zilla during Operation: Final Wars. Unfortunately, no amount of her muscle could make the stallion lift into the air even by an inch. "Here, let me try." Toucan said to her, grabbing the unicorn and beating his wings. With little effort, he had the former dinosaur into the back of the truck.

"You cheated." Colonel Obsidia said, jokingly pointing a hoof at the gryphon with a playful glare.

"Nah... It's just these muscles right here that did the work." he replied with a smirk, lifting his wings and flexing them.

"Suuuuure..." the uniformed pegasus replied, climbing into a jeep. "Now hop in." she told Toucan with a smile. The gryphon chuckled and stumbled into the passengers seat.

-Road to Canterlot-

"So you came from Terra, eh?" Colonel Obsidia said over the sound of the Jeep's tires against the dirt road, lifting an eyebrow. "What's it like? I heard that there's a lot of pollution... I can't even begin to imagine what THAT'S like." she continued with a scoff.

"Yeah, well... It's not pleasant being stuck in a cage with no flying space. I love flying... It's so... so relaxing to just go soaring above the clouds." Toucan acknowledged, a soft smile on his lips at the thought.

"And your friends? What's their deal? I heard your leader actually tried to attack Princess Celestia and KILLED King Sombra. He must be nice to have around..."

"He can be thick headed sometimes... And reckless... And a jerk... And-"

"Okay, I get the gist." Colonel Obsidia interrupted with wide eyes.

-Canterlot Royal Pond-

The aqua blue siren weaved her way between the stems of lily pads, air bubbles flowing freely from her mouth. It had been a couple days since she was able to get her fur wet, and this swept her up in a refreshing coolness. As water flowed over her sleek shape, groups of Neighponese Koi darted out of the siren's path.

Swimming to the surface of the pond, Mosey took a deep breath of air before submerging once again, her tail momentarily breaking the water's surface.

As she dove, she noticed an electric blue tall fin adjusting itself at the pond's bottom, stirring up mud to conceal itself. Curiosity drove the siren mare to inspect the spot. Using her tail to sweep away the cloud of mud, she saw a strong aquatic pony lacking hind legs... It was another siren. The siren stallion swam from his hiding spot to meet Mosey eye-to-eye, a confused expression morphing across his muzzle and eyebrows. Waving a hoof to say hello, the siren stallion pushed himself to the water's surface, his tail sweeping back and forth to propel himself upward. Mosey followed, wanting to get a good look at him.

As she breached the waters surface, Mosey scanned her surroundings for the siren, lifting an eyebrow when she saw him basking himself in the midday sun.

"Uh... Hi?" she said to him questionably, approaching the siren.

"Mm, hello." he replied, lifting his head and looking the siren up and down. She was unlike any other siren that he had seen. The siren mare was tall, to start. And whereas most had extended vertabrae that made up the dorsal spines, she had a short fin similar to a shark's. Her elbows also lacked the similar fin shape. Even stranger, her tail fin was more like a fish's, rather than the structure of a siren's dorsal fin. If anything, she was not a normal siren. "Th' name's Thunderstorm." he said at last, holding out a hoof.

"Mosey." the former Mosasaurus replied, shaking Thunderstorm's hoof.

Dressing Up

-Crystal Empire-

"If you and I are going to work together," the dark Celestia started, looking One Eye up and down. "you can't go walking around looking like this." she finished, walking a circle around the tyrant.

"What's wrong with the way I look?" he asked, lifting an eyebrow and turning his head so that he could see the alicorn.

"If you want to be a tyrannical king, you have to dress and act like one." Celestia answered, forcefully lifting his hoof and gazing at the bottom. She then took a tape measure and put it around his neck, measuring the diameter. "Let me see what I have." she said to herself, turning to a pony with a saddlebag on her back and rooting through it, tossing objects over the former tyrannosaur's head.

"Put these on." she ordered, handing him a pair of silvery-black gauntlets. One Eye momentarily reeled back as the dark Celestia shoved them into his face. Hesitantly, the stallion took them and forced the metal objects onto his front hooves. The gauntlets made a metallic thunk sound as he placed his hooves on the crystalline floor. No sooner had he put them on when the stallion was seemingly attacked... When he could see, he felt something around his neck. Looking down, he saw a violet collar around his neck. Below it was a metal necklace similar to the alicorn mare's, only the same color as his gauntlets. "Now for the final touch." Celestia said, gently placing a silver kingly crown on his head. The front of the priceless piece of jewelry was encrusted in an icy blue crystal. "Perfect." Celestia said with a soft smile, looking at him.

"I want a mirror." One Eye ordered, the unsteady feeling that he looked like a complete idiot dawning on him.

The dark alicorn turned him to face a tall mirror with a golden border, a smile on her face. A frown formed across One Eye's muzzle as he saw himself in the mirror. The first thing he could complain about was the fact that purple wasn't his color. He also hated the way the crown looked on his head. "You have to be kidding me." the unicorn growled, his jaw hanging down.

"I think you look better than King Sombra." Celestia exclaimed, rubbing her chin.

"You don't happen to be talking about that pony who attacked me in that other world, right?" One Eye asked, lifting an eyebrow.

"Yes, actually... How did you know?"

"He's dead." the stallion chuckled quietly to himself. "VENOM! Get in here!" he then yelled, his face turning red as he lifted a hoof to the side of his face. A crested changeling entered the room, rolling his eyes.

"What do you want?" the former Dilophosaurus grumbled, looking up at the new king of the Crystal Empire. He stifled back a burst of laughter at the sight of the dressed up stallion.

"SHUT UP!" One Eye snarled as the evil Celestia approached Venom with a smile.

"Daaw." she said, gazing at the young changeling with adoration. "He's cute." Celestia said to the tyrant unicorn, scratching the changeling's chin. Venom's eyelids dropped momentarily as his tongue hung from his mouth like a dog. One Eye rolled his eye as the dilophosaur flopped to the floor.

"Alright, that's enough." One Eye said calmly.

"Right... Oh, and I forgot something else." the pale alicorn replied, digging a large violet cloth similar to King Sombra's cape from the saddlebag and attaching it to the silver hoop around the stallion's neck. She took a step back with a mischievous grin on her face. Venom's face went from that of trying not to laugh to an almost scared look. If anything, Venom's king now looked absolutely terrifying, the darkly colored cape enhancing his brutal appearance.

"Your Majesty." Venom said with wide eyes, remembering his manners and lowering his head to the floor, his ears laid back.

"I think I can live with this look." the stallion said with a smirk.

"It suits you well." Celestia said, lifting his chin to get a look at him.

Convincing Voices

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The Birth of Hell's Pony

Author's Note

I'm sorry about the lack of chapters! I have been VERY busy lately.

The Birth of Hell's Pony

-Several Months later, Crystal Empire-

The cylindrical test tube hummed with electricity and faintly glowed with a luminescent light, revealing a large pony hooked up to multiple cables attached to the tube's ceiling. One Eye chuckled at his wit and looked up at his creation, a smirk on his face. Suddenly, the Tyrant King reeled back as the contained pony quickly lifted an eyelid, glaring at it's creator with a soul piercing gaze. One Eye stopped heaving for breath and recollected his wits, shaking his head.

"Damn, One Eye." he said to himself, "For Rex to kill THIS thing would be like an ant killing a hornet." One Eye muttered, pulling a lever. Slowly, the liquid keeping the stallion afloat began to drain, lowering it's body to the bottom of it's holding container.

Laughing demonically, One Eye watched as the violet heap shuddered before breathing to life, lifting itself to it's hooves with a growl. Looking down at his creator with glowing eyes that seemed to pierce his soul, the creature only stared.

A sudden wave of fear overtook the tyrant stallion as he tried his best to act high and mighty, though his creation was a good deal taller than him. "I am King One Eye and you are Omega 09." he started, clearing his throat. "You are the result of my tests and will obey my commands." One Eye looked up at Omega 09 and the serrated daggers imbedded in it's large jaws.

It was a sudden echoing boom that startled One Eye. "You are in NO position to tell me who I am." the mutant pony boomed, glaring down at the king with a snarl. Electricity snaked out from beneath the stallion's hooves as it took a step forward, the pale laboratory lights flickering at the electrical creature. "Now... you DIE!" Omega 09 roared, lunging forward and snapping his jaws shut on air. One Eye leapt out of the way and smashed a hoof against Omega's skull, throwing it off balance. The mutation bellowed in anger, his jaws slamming shut as he fell backward, smashing a table behind him into splinters.

One Eye took a step back as the massive stallion lifted itself up, a slack jaw snapping into place. Blood ran freely down Omega's spinal column before the massive gash closed up, the last few drops of blood sticking out against the crystalline flooring. With a snarl, the creature's eyes flashed, lights flickering and lightbulbs dying at the electrical pulse.

The tyrannosaur began to panic as Omega 09 approached him, snarling and growing in anger.

"STOP!" a voice shouted, momentarily distracting the large pony. Swinging his head, the mutated stallion took sight of a winged unicorn, her wings spread and eyes leaking violet magic.

Omega 09 snorted, turning to her and roaring in annoyance. Without a word, the electrically charged pony lunged forward, slamming his jaws shut on the dark Celestia's wing. The alicorn shouted in pain as she was lifted from her hooves and swung by the wing, droplets of blood spattering against the wall before she was released. Striking the wall with a dull thud, the unconscious pony fell, her wing almost torn completely from her back.

With a snort, Omega 09 trudged away. This was before the power was cut short.

One Eye's horn glowed, acting as a flashlight to help him find the unconscious alicorn mare. "Celestia!" he shouted, sprinting over to her and skidding to a halt. Lifting her head, the stallion gently cradled her head in his arms, nuzzling her snout in an attempt to wake her. The world, but mostly One Eye's heart, seemed to stop as he waited for Celestia to wake up.

Finally, she woke, her eyelids fluttering and a soft smile on her face. "You're kinda cute when you're worried," she stated, wincing and sucking in a breath as she tried to flex her wing.

"Don't try to move," One Eye ordered, ever so carefully, lifting her most definitely broken wing. Splinters of pale bone stuck out of her back and blood trickled down, staining her creamy white feathers red. One Eye sighed before using the very little good magic that he possessed to heal her wing. "There we go," he said with a smile. "All better."

Alpha Versus Omega 09

-Crystal Empire-

Brilliant spheres of magic repeatedly struck Omega 09 with seemingly no effect on the monster. Snarling, the creature reared onto its hind legs and smashed them into one guard's chest, throwing it against a wall with a crack. The changeling's body then laid still. The other guards lifted pointed spears and poised to strike, each one flanking around and surrounding the mutant stallion. With a bellow, Omega 09 swiftly, lunged forward, slamming his jaws on a spear and splintering it like it was a toothpick. The tyrannosaur then kicked a back leg into another changeling's chest, shattering its ribs.

One guard loosed a war cry and forced his spear tip into the creature's hind leg. Omega bellowed in pain as warm blood ran down his hoof and pooled on the crystalline floor. The spear had gone clean through his leg, puncturing a large vain that spat blood. With a growl the stallion yanked the spear from his leg with his muscular jaws, stabbing a guard with its bloodied tip.

Without warning, a unicorn changeling fired off several blasts of dark magic at the massive pony, throwing it to the floor. Fur smoked as his breath came in ragged gasps, his jaws wide to let in more air.

"Kill it," the magic wielding guard ordered, swinging around to face the three guards that had been killed.

"Yes, MA'AM!" Shield Wing replied, mercilessly driving a spear into the stallion's lung before yanking it back out. The other guards watched as the mutated stallion choked for breath, coughed a glob of blood, and died, the glowing light in its eyes dying out. Swinging around, the changeling guards didn't notice the creature breath to life, its wounds swiftly closing up and making the blood stains on its fur seem like they belonged to some pony else.

Omega 09 snarled, alerting the changeling's before him. Shield Wing looked down at the pool of blood the creature's body had been laying in only seconds earlier. Suddenly, Omega began his advance on the changelings, his jaws wide to reveal the ranks of serrated teeth used for one purpose... To kill.

"We can't fight this thing AGAIN!" Shield Wing shouted, taking a step back and turning to the magic changeling. "Can we?" he then asked.

"No... We can't," she replied in horror, watching as all but Shield Wing and herself were slaughtered by the monster. She slowly stepped backward as Omega 09 turned to them, growling.

"Go," he commanded. "Let's see what your 'king' can do to stop me," the creature then snarled in a deep godly voice, swinging around and bellowing before breaking the front gate down and leaving.

-Ponyville-

"I apologize for the inconvenience Miss Digger. But I am quite busy reconstructing the castle at the moment. I will be with you as soon as I can," a holographic image of Princess Celestia explained to the paleontologist.

"Yeah," Bone Digger snorted in annoyance. "Sure you will," the dusty earth pony grumbled, dragging the struggling gryphon along.

Berries uttered a loud hiss, tugging at the ropes around his neck and trying his best to fly away. "Let Berries GO!" he hissed.

"Ugh. You idiot!" Bone Digger finally snapped. "Struggling is pointless! You will NOT be set loose until I hear the words exit Princess Celestia's royal frickin' lips!" she shouted at the green gryphon, inches from his face.

Berries reeled back, his ears flat and eyes wide. The former Dimorphodon sniffled, no longer fighting against the mare.

"Oh my," Digger murmured, her ears flat and guilt overcoming her as ponies turned and stared at her judgingly.

"Who do you think you are?" One pony scolded, approaching her with a scowl. The pony was instantly recognizable as Fluttershy, the Element of Kindness, though in Digger's eyes, she wasn't being very kind at the moment. At least not to her. Fluttershy, lowered herself down, pulling the rope off of Berries with a soft smile. "It's okay little guy, I got you." she whispered, stroking the gryphon's head. Berries let out a purr like growl, a smile on his face at the positive interaction.

"Ah, Pterodactylus macronyx," a pony said, approaching the trio. "How odd that the pterosaurs survived the Cretaceous extinction," he said, looking down at the gryphon quizzically.

"Dr. Moneybanks?!" Bone Digger exclaimed, looking at his dirty, mustached face with a growing smile.

"Hello, Miss Digger," he replied. "But remember," he continued, leaning toward her. "you call me just Moneybanks."

"Right, okay. Anyhow, Pterodactylus? I thought this thing was called Dimorphodon?" Bone Digger said, lifting an eyebrow.

"Quite right. It IS a Dimorphodon. The scientific name of this creature is Pterodactylus macronyx, though," he answered, chuckling to himself. "Come along, Miss Digger, you knew that," the dapper pegasus carried on, adjusting his monocle.

It was then that a fang jawed earth pony approached, electricity snaking out from beneath each hoof step. "What the hell is THAT?" Bone Digger asked with a jolt of fear.

Gentleman Moneybanks looked up and lifted an eyebrow, messing with his bowler hat as the creature approached. "I do not know, Miss Digger... But it is no normal pony. I think it would be a good idea to run," he suggested.

"I think that's a good idea," Bone Digger replied, looking at him with wide eyes.

Without reply, Dr. Moneybanks swung around and galloped as fast as he could, trying to keep his top hat on his head while doing so. Berries, Fluttershy, and Bone Digger followed close behind as a large pony chased them, unleashing a tremendous bellow that seemed to shake the ground. It was that or the creature's heavy hoof steps pounding against the dusty dirt road.

"Go to Canterlot! Get help" the pegasus ordered, screeching to a halt. "I'll hold it off as long as I can!" he shouted, swinging around.

"I won't leave you, Doctor!" Bone Digger replied, stopping.

"YES, You will!" he ordered. Bone Digger didn't argue, but only turned back around and ran towards the castle, looking back to see a monster almost twice the size of her teacher lunge forward and grab his neck, throwing him against a brick wall.

Moneybanks only sat there, his heart pounding and neck bleeding as the monster approached, snarling and growling at the rebellious pony. Looming over him, Omega 09 growled, placing a hoof on his chest and pushing, making his breath come in gasps. It was then that, out of the blue, a reptilian bark rang in MoneyBanks' ears. Turning his head, the pegasus spotted a blue Velociraptor sprint from hiding, her claws splayed and jaws wide. With a shriek, the dinosaur leapt on top of Omega's back, barking and slashing at the creature with a crazed look in her eyes.

Blue's violet opponent bellowed in anger, bucking and kicking in an effort to free himself of the pest on his back.

"Get OFF!" Omega boomed, swiveling his large skull and slamming his jaws on the Velociraptor's back, effortlessly throwing her to the ground.

"Hey, ugly!" a voice shouted, stopping Omega 09 dead in his electrified tracks. Swinging his head, the scientific mutation spotted a broken horned stallion atop a hill, behind him a small army of ponies including the Mane 6, Bone Digger, Berries, Toucan, Dawn, and the Unicorn Wizard... Even Princess Celestia, Star Swirl, Captain Gordon, and Owen Grady managed to show up, wielding magic, swords, and brute force with them. Also some wings... and magic jewelry.

Omega 09 snarled, a twinge of fear present in his motions and expression. "You can not defeat me!" he bellowed. "NONE OF YOU!"

"They may not be able to... But I can," One Eye answered, behind him a group of equestrians including Discord, the Dark Celestia, Pitch, Venom, the Ophiacodon, and both King and Queen Chrysalis.

Omega 09 turned his head, fear now making his muscles twitch and jerk. "BURN IN HELL!" he boomed, his body coursing with electrically charged blood, his body temperature swiftly rising. Suddenly, the stallion grew, fur being replaced with scales and hooves replaced with claws. Seconds later, a massive violet Tyrannosaurus Rex armored with black spikes stood where the mutant stallion once was, saliva dripping from his jaws in electrified puddles.

One Eye calmly looked up, staring into the glowing eyes that he created.

Taking a step back with a mischievous grin, One Eye's single eye flashed, momentarily blinding Omega 09. Every pony watched as a one eyed Tyrannosaurus Rex lunged forward, biting down on Omega's neck with a bite force of 12,000 pounds per square inch, warm blood flowing into his jaws. His mutant opponent let out an almost alien bellow in pain, before he twisted around, kicking One Eye's belly with his black claws. Omega 09 yanked out of One Eye's jaws as the tyrannosaur roared out in agony, falling to the ground with a earth-trembling thump.

Rex watched, a sudden feeling overcoming his senses as One Eye was attacked by the massive electrified tyrannosaur, blood pooling around the two dinosaurs as they fought. "I'm going in!" Rex shouted, rearing onto his hind legs. He was stopped.

"No," Princess Celestia said sternly, holding him back with telekinesis. "It is too dangerous."

"WHAT?!" Rex roared in response, fighting against her magic. "I have to help! Now let GO!" he growled as Celestia pulled him toward her.

"I'll not risk the death of Canterlot's finest guard for a pony who HATES us," the alicorn said, watching him strain to escape her muscle freezing magic.

"Then, FUCK YOU!" Rex snarled, transforming into his original form and charging toward Omega 09, slamming his jaws on the creature's tail before yanking as hard as his muscles would allow.

Omega 09 slammed into the ground, a plume of dust flying into the air in the form of a cloud. The massive purple dinosaur bellowed with rage, his jaw slamming into the dirt and breaking several teeth. Rex took a step forward, placing a clawed foot on Omega's top jaw and bellowing in triumph. Omega 09 winced in pain, snarling as his chest heavily moved in and out. With a sudden burst of energy, the massive predator pushed forward, knocking Rex off balance and slamming his jaws on his pelvis bone. Bone shattered as Rex kicked at the mutation, bellowing in pain.

Suddenly, a large, albino dinosaur lunged forward, taking multiple slashes at the monster's side. Dawn loosed a guttural bellow, her lungs heaving as she then charged forward, her brow horns slamming into Omega 09. The creature's ribs snapped, puncturing his major organs as Dawn lunged forward again, this time grabbing Omega's small arm in her jaws. With a spurt of blood, his arm was in her jaws, and soon, down her throat. The electrical mutant roared in fury as both Rex and Dawn attacked, tearing at Omega's soft belly and muscular neck.

At last, the creature was dead, its body mutilated and softly pulsing with electricity. Rex slowly reverted to his broken horned self, a wounded stallion with gashes and bite marks riddled across his body. Wincing in pain, Rex approached One Eye's lifeless body, worry sketched across his bloody muzzle. With a sigh, Rex placed a hoof on the tyrant's massive bottom jaw, gazing into the empty socket that once held a yellow eye alert for prey.

"It's over, Rex," Dawn assured with a soft smile. "You won." It was the first time that the hybrid was kind to the stallion, and any pony for that matter.

"Yeah, well he helped," Rex replied, nodding at the tyrannosaur before them.

"Uh, Rex, right?" Pitch asked, tapping his shoulder with a large, ash stained claw.

"Yeah?" the stallion replied, lifting an eyebrow.

"I think this battle is far from over," the drake said, pointing at the electrical corpse of Omega 09 with panic spreading across his dark grey muzzle. Rex turned, eyes wide in shock as the violet tyrant forced itself up, its snout rumbling as it growled, exposing bloodied teeth imbedded in a mutilated skull that painfully healed in a matter of seconds.

Rex smiled, watching as Dawn, Toucan, Unicorn Wizard, Venom, Berries, and the Ophiacodon approached, slowly, menacingly, and quietly. Omega 09 looked around him, snarling and snapping his massive jaws at the prehistoric ponies marching toward him. In a flash of blood red, vivid orange, and electric blue, Toucan flew around the monster, stopping periodically to allow the tyrannosaur to try and snatch him out of the air, only to feel a stabbing pain on his snout. Berries joined, biting Omega's shins and small arms with his toothy jaws. Rex watched as a massive shadow blocked his view of the sun before screaming toward Omega 09, slamming into the massive dinosaur and dodging a swing of its barb-spiked tail. Pitch let loose his rage, flames licking up from his eye sockets and the corners of his maw.

Rex joined the fliers, unleashing an earth shaking, blood curdling, guttural roar from his chest, throwing a fiery orange sphere of magic at his electrically charged opponent. A similar energy flowed from his nostrils in the form of smoke, each puff exiting thicker than the last. A glare formed across Rex's face that even Princess Celestia would feel nervous about upon seeing.

The Tyrannosaurus's horn glowed brightly, forming another ball of magic that launched itself at Omega 09, throwing the massive tyrant into a building with a plume of smoke and fire.

"GO, my ponies! Trap the beast in crystal!" Princess Celestia shouted pointing at the growling giant with a glare on her face. Rex stood at her side, nostrils flaring and chest heaving as the light of his broken horn flickered. The stallion watched as the Mane 6 hovered around the furious tyrant, dodging his snapping jaws as a brilliant, sky blue crystal slowly began to surround him. Rex snorted, confusion crossing his scarred muzzle as he watched the massive tyrant struggle to escape the crystalline prison.

"Why didn't you tell me about this BEFORE that monster reared its ugly mug?" Rex asked Celestia, taking a seat.

"For your safety. I knew that if you found out about it, you wouldn't stop asking me how to do it," the celestial pony responded, shifting her face from the battle, to Rex's piercing yellow eyes. The stallion's reptilian gaze gave her an uneasy feeling. A feeling of being hunted, of being the prey of some vile creature.

Celestia turned away, shifting her gaze back to the electrified giant before her. The beast was nearly completely encased in the shimmering jewels, and she began to feel relieved that it was almost over... And this time, One Eye WASN'T getting away from her.

At last, a hovering globe was before them, each pulse of violet from it's prisoner growing more dim that the last. All feelings of relief were soon diminished as the crystal sphere shuddered, bright flashes flaring. Another shake... An almost alien call echoed within the indestructible chamber...

A crack made its way across the crystalline structure, and a pair of small, black claws wedged themselves between it...

"Oh my God," Rex whispered, lifting himself up, eyes wide and pupils constricting as electricity snaked its way out of the globe.

"Th-that's IMPOSSIBLE!" Princess Celestia spluttered, horror stretching across her elegant face as the crystal ball shifted, electrically charged shards falling to the ground with a small spray of violet sparks.

"Your Majesty," Twilight Sparkle exclaimed, swiftly bowing... "It's not working," she continued, turning back to the globe as it shattered, the mutant tyrant bellowing in a mix of fury, pain, and annoyance. She watched as a long armed, albino dinosaur lunged forward, grabbed its jaws, and slammed it to the ground, stopping the creature mid-roar.

Omega 09 bellowed, kicking the Indominus Rex away with a furious snarl. Dawn staggered back, shaking her head to clear her vision as the mutant forced himself to his feet, jaws unhinged to reveal a bloody gape.

Rex growled softly as the massive tyrannosaur used its spiked skull as a battering ram, throwing Dawn from her feet... This time, it was Omega 09 who had his talons on the Indominus's hip, jaws hung wide open above her skull. The gleam of victory flashed in his glowing yellow eyes.

He didn't spot the wounded Tyrant Lizard King approaching him from behind...

A tremendous roar rang out, one feared by most, and loved by few. One Eye's jaws slammed shut on his creation's spine, snapping his backbone effortlessly. Triumphant, One Eye threw his opponent down, tearing flesh from Omega's ribs and throat with a crazed look in his good eye.

Slowly, the monster before them was transformed from the monster before them into a mutilated and scarred pony that slowly turned to stone before the kings eye. Turning, he noticed a glowing alicorn before him, elegant and beautiful, her horn and eyes streaming with a golden aura...

That was all that One Eye could remember before he blacked out.

Author's Note

Pterodactylus Macronyx is truly the scientific name for Dimorphodon!

Please keep in mind that Omega 09, while powerful, was too badly wounded to come back to life. In other words, it was so torn apart that it couldn't have survived, even without being turned into a stone statue.

I'm sorry that I haven't posted for a while! I started this chapter about 3 months ago and never finished... Until now... Again, sorry, and enjoy!

Cool Down Time

-Canterlot's Medical Wing-

One Eye slowly opened his eye, head throbbing and body aching all over. Wincing and cursing under his breath, the dark king grimaced, trying his best to prop himself up, despite the pain.

"Don't move," he heard a soothing voice say. "You'll only slow down the healing."

Squinting in the light above him, the unicorn stallion gazed at the pony who the voice belonged to. A light brown pegasus mare stared back, a soft smile crossing her muzzle. It took One Eye's frazzled nerves a few minutes to realize who was speaking to him.

"Obsidia?" he coughed, his voice gruff with smoke. The taste of iron tipped his tongue as he spoke and his breath came in ragged gasps.

"Mm," his brother's girlfriend replied with a nod, smiling. "Thank you... For saving Rex. You're a hero now, you know?" she continued, gingerly placing an assuring hoof on his shoulder.

"How dare you," One Eye chuckled before the laughter turned into an explosion of coughing, blood slowly running down the corner of his lip.

Obsidia gazed at the stallion with worry, beckoning over a doctor. "Help him," she said, taking a step back.

“We’ll do what we can,” the suited unicorn replied with an assuring smile, patting the pegasus’s shoulder. Nearby, Rex sat at a bench, tapping an impatient hoof. His hooves were to his face and his mind wandered to his friends and the wounded unicorn he would be happy to now call brother.

Obsidia sat at his side, nudging his shoulder. “He’ll be alright... I hope,” she said, worry lines crossing her face.

-The Next Week-

One Eye stretched his aching legs, jaws gaped to their maximum as he yawned noisily. Pushing aside the blankets that covered him, the unicorn stallion rubbed the tired from his eyes, smacking his lips together. Expecting his vision to be restricted to his right eye, the stallion was surprised to find that his range of view was stretched to his left too. One Eye lifted a hoof to his socket and felt a small glass globe imbedded in his skull. Shock crossed the unicorn's face at the realization that he now possessed a glass eye.

"Ugh... Now they're just sucking up," he grumbled, pushing aside the bed covers with another yawn.

"Not really sucking up... More like rewarding you for your bravery," a voice replied, startling the Tyrant King. Jerking to attention, One Eye spotted Princess Celestia at his bedside, Rex beside her.

"Ah... Heh," he grinned nervously, fully aware of the celestial being's power. His expression morphed to skepticism at the uncomfortable feeling that the two had been watching him sleep. "How long have you been sitting there?" he asked.

"Oh, about ten minutes now... Brother," Rex answered, smiling softly.

"Is this going to become some sort of habit now?" One Eye muttered, rolling his eyes.

"Depends on what you make of it," the broken horned stallion acknowledged, rising and leaving the room. "Nonetheless, I'm glad you finally came to."

Chapter One: Bumps in the Night

-Isla Nublar-

The jaws of the Indominus rex loomed over the fallen tyrannosaur as the hybrid carnosaur placed a clawed forehand on her foe's hip. A nasal snarl slithered from the Indominus's snout as the Tyrannosaurus let her head flop aside, hope for survival dwindling with each long second that passed. Blood stained jaws dripped pink saliva as she widened her jaws to deliver a killing blow upon the tyrant's throat.

A reptilian bark sliced the night like a knife, and the Indominus lifted her horned skull, amber eyes roving over the buildings in the surrounding area before she spotted the source of the noise.

A grey and blue Velociraptor charged forward, claws splayed and jaws wide as an unholy scream escaped its throat. Blue. With another shriek, Blue leapt up onto the Indominus Rex's back and started slashing at her vertebrae with the ferocity of a Tyrannosaurus.

The hybrid roared in frustration before feeling a vice packed with teeth grip her neck. The Tyrannosaurus thrashed her head in an attempt to bring the Indominus down. With a growl, she shoved the albino into a building, rods of metal imbedding themselves into the hybrid's shoulder as Blue leapt to the tyrant queen's shoulder to avoid being struck herself.

As the trio of saurians duked it out, a whirlwind of violet and teal crackled and sparked, inhaling clouds as it swirled. A lone Pteranodon soared above the battlefield, hoping for an easy meal out of any that died in the process. A sudden pull against her frame distracted the pterosaur long enough for it to look up at the sky.

Shrieking in fear, the flying reptile frantically beat her wings in an attempt to escape the gravitational force against her.

-Canterlot-

Onyx walked down the long castle walls, quietly whistling to himself as he twirled a key ring around his hoof in an uncanny resemblance to the stereotypical guard.

Rounding a corner, the earth stallion stopped at the vaguely audible sounds of crunching. Flicking an ear to attention, Onyx quickened his pace down the hallway, brows furrowed as curiosity drove him forward. The stallion stopped minutes later as the crunching grew louder and a strong smell of decay reached his nose.

Lifting the beam of a flashlight, horror filled his eyes at the sight of a medium sized animal glaring up at him, fiery orange eyes glowing in the light he pointed at it. The animal looked vaguely like a dragon, possessing a pair of brow horns and a thick tail. But the posture was all wrong; dragons stood either on four legs or vertically on two. This animal was hunched over, with a muscular, clawed forelimb gripping at something on the tiled floor...

A dead stallion...

With a grunt, the creature buried its snout into the stomach cavity and pulled out a thick, slippery mass that appeared to be the intestines.

The stallion, with a spare beard and long mustache, Onyx could clearly tell was Ratchet.

Onyx gasped in fear before taking a step back. The reptile's head jerked up, strands of flesh still hanging from its jaws as it glared at the stallion. With a soft, yet horrifying hiss, the animal crawled forward, gradually rising to its hind legs as it approached.

"G-get away!" Onyx shouted at the animal, swinging his flashlight in a form of self-defense.

The animal's head jerked back slightly to avoid receiving the metal to the jaw before unhinging its jaws and roaring into Onyx's face. Before the stallion could react, the creature clamped its jaws down on his shoulder and threw him down with its weight, holding him down with strong arms and legs.

Onyx screamed in pain...

-Outskirts of Ponyville-

And woke from his nightmare abruptly, lurching to an upright position in his bed with a shout. His breath came heavy, cold sweat drenching his forehead. Gasping for breath, the stallion threw aside his bed covers and sat at the edge of the mattress, wiping his head with the back of his hoof.

"Onyx?" he heard Scarlet Blitz ask groggily, feeling his wife sit up.

"Sorry," he managed to breath, shaking his head.

"What's wrong?" the red and white pegasus asked Onyx, placing a hoof on his shoulder in a reassuring fashion. "Another nightmare?"

"Ratchet was in it... He was being eaten," the mechanic said with a shiver as he recollected the sight. "I need a drink," he then said, rising to his hooves and leaving the room.

Upon entering the kitchen, Onyx rummaged through the cupboards and pulled out a glass before twisting on the tap water. The stallion let the water run for a moment before putting the glass underneath the steady stream of water and looking out the window.

Almost instantly, Onyx ducked down behind the counter with a sharp inhale. Catching his rapid breath, the stallion peeked out the window and saw with horror a pair of glowing amber colored dots emerging from the woods across his lawn.

Slowly, and quietly, as if the animal would hear him from outside, Onyx snuck back to his bedroom and past Obsidian's door. "Stay here," he told Scarlet as he entered a code into the keypad of his safe and pulled out a twin barreled shotgun.

"What is it?" she whispered nervously, coming to his side.

"Trespassers," the stallion acknowledged bluntly, slipping on a work coat and sliding two heavy shells into the chamber of his gun before leaving the room.

Inhaling deeply, Onyx swung open the front door and cautiously ducked behind an outdoor grill, staring at the two glowing orbs with a strong sense of fear developing in his gut. Crouching, as to avoid its attention, the stallion lifted the barrel of the shotgun and crept forward before the outline of the trespasser became visible.

Onyx stopped briefly, expecting the creature from his dream to be standing there... not an equine. As he approached, he could, abet barely, make out a messy mane and tail, a forked horn between the brows, and two pairs of hooves. Onyx lifted a confused brow as he advanced, relaxing his stance slightly, but cursing himself for forgetting to grab a flashlight on his way out the front door. "Who are you?!" he asked in a loud voice, dipping the barrel slightly.

On cue, the being stepped from the shadows to reveal a white mare with a light grey mane and tail. What struck him was the spines that laid flat against the elbows and her sheer size. She was easily the size of AppleJack's brother, Big Macintosh, if not larger, which surprised him considering she was a unicorn, whereas earth pony's are typically the more muscular species. The unicorn was easily a full head taller than he was, and approached with a glare and snarl.

"Back off!" Onyx barked at her as she approached, lifting the gun up and pointing it at her chest.

The mare looked down at the gun before snapping her head up and lunging forward, lips curled back to reveal ranks of serrated fangs in her jaws. Before Onyx could do anything more, he was pinned against the damp grass, forcing the shaft of his gun against her throat to avoid the snapping jaws only inches from his face.

With a growl, the unicorn planted a hoof on his chest and shifted her weight to the appendage, forcing the air from Onyx's lungs.

The earth stallion gasped in pain as his arms began to quiver with the force he exerted at keeping the fang filled jaws away from his head. "HHHHRAAAAAH!!" Onyx growled, adrenaline getting the better of him and slowly forcing the unicorn back despite the profound pressure upon his chest.

With one last shove, the stallion forced her back, quick to roll to his hooves and pull the trigger of his gun just inches away from her hoof. The mare reeled back slightly, an enraged growl escaping her throat as Onyx lifted the gun to her head. "The next one will be between the eyes if you don't get the BUCK off my property!!" he shouted at her, stumbling back to put some distance between the two.

Before she could respond, a massive, dirty brown and grey shape slammed into her ribcage, throwing the mare into the ground and spraying up clumps of wet soil and grass

Shock washed over Onyx as the newcomer came to a halt, giving him ample time to look it over. First, the 'it' was a 'he', evident in a short mane, a hint of stubble, and heavy build. He was also a Kirin, a long, hairless tail replacing the typical hairy tail. The end of the dragon tail possessed a heavy looking ball of solid bone, which swung back and forth in agitation as the unicorn groaned and forced herself to her hooves.

Onyx should have been running to escape the mare that attacked him, but curiosity rooted him in place. The stallion watched as his savior charged forward again before suddenly whirling around and swinging his clubbed tail at Onyx's would-be-executioner.

The mare reeled back to dodge the attack before lurching forward and slamming her jaws shut on the Kirin's spinal column with a spurt of dark crimson. The stallion bellowed in pain and shook himself free of her grasp, throwing his rear hooves at her face. Upon impact, the mare staggered back before collapsing, her breath shallow, taking up the form of a growl.

Before either could respond, however, the unicorn rose back to her hooves, taking one last glaring glance at the two before retreating back into the forest.

Onyx turned to his hero with a look of concern. "Thanks... You okay?" he asked.

"I'll be fine," the stallion replied gruffly, eyes still trained upon the area that his foe had escaped to. It was then that he realized that this horse... was talking to him. "Waaaaaait a minute," he said with shock, turning to face Onyx with wide, questioning eyes.

"What?" the mechanic said, taking a step back with confusion.

"You just talked... And I understood you," the Kirin exclaimed, pulling his head back in no attempt to conceal a sense of alien fear and confusion.

"Nonetheless, thanks again for saving me," Onyx said with a nod.

"Not a problem... More or less wasn't intentional though. That thing killed the only beings that I could call family," the Kirin growled before sitting on his haunches and scratching his ear with the comical appearance of a dog. "What should I call you, anyway?"

"Onyx," the stallion obliged. "Yourself?"

"Bastidon... Some stupid name that the humans gave me," Bastidon replied before brief, sudden dizziness washed over him.

"Humans?" Onyx said, lifting a brow at the word. Needless to say, he'd never heard the word before and desired more information.

"Yeah... Humans," the Kirin stallion said as though it was obvious. Onyx looked at him with a blank expression. Bastidon rolled his eyes. "Never mind," he grumbled, rolling his eyes before rising to his hooves to walk away. "Nice meeting you... Maybe we'll meet again," Bastidon said.

"WHOA, whoa, whoa... Hold it! You're hurt. I can't just let you walk off into the woods like some BatMane character or something," Onyx explained.

"I'll be fine... Had worse," Bastidon replied, shaking his head.

"Well... At least let me get you patched up before you head back out."

"Alright."

-Minutes Later-

"Oh my goodness I thought I might lose you!" Scarlet Blitz exclaimed as Onyx reentered the house, wrapping him in her arms and kissing his forehead. It was then that she noticed that he had been followed by a heavily built Kirin stallion. "Uuh... Onyx? Baby? Who is this?" she asked skeptically, lifting a brow.

"His name is Bastidon... He's hurt and needs something to cover his back while it heals," her husband replied before kissing her back.

"While what hea-GOOD GRACIOUS!!" the pegasus exclaimed at the amount of blood that had stained much of the fur on Bastidon's back. "What happened?!" Scarlet asked, leading the newcomer to the sink and turning on the faucet. With that, she watered down a washcloth and gently pressed it to Bastidon's wound.

The Kirin stallion winced and gritted his teeth as Onyx replied; "He saved my life from an attacking unicorn."

"Attacking?" Scarlet repeated, throwing him a questioning glance.

Just as Onyx opened his mouth to speak, the groggy form of Obsidian walked into the kitchen. His eyes grew wide at the blood for a fleeting second before he swung around to return to his room.

Onyx rolled his eyes and stifled a laugh before haphazardly emptying the shotgun in his hoof and nonchalantly placing it onto the dinner table.

Scarlet shot him a glare and nodded at the weapon before returning to tending Bastidon's wounds. The stallion sighed with a smile and returned the gun to his bedroom, returning to the kitchen with an empty coffee cup at hoof. "So, Bastidon, where you from?" he heard the pegasus ask as he pulled an old coffee filter out of the machine and tossed it into a trash can.

"I don't know," the stallion replied thoughtfully, wincing as Scarlet pressed a wad of gauze against his wounds.

"You don't know?" Onyx said as he replaced the old filter and dumped a mound of coffee grounds into said filter. He looked over at Bastidon quizzically as he poured a pot of water into a vent on the top of the coffee machine. On cue, the aroma of mountain roast filled the air in the kitchen.

"You know, your blood is probably made of that stuff," Scarlet scoffed. Onyx merely smiled.

"No," the Kirin said at last. "I don't remember where I came from. All I can remember is the humans looking in at me," he shrugged.

"Well. Then it sounds like you could use our aid... If there's anything else that we can do to help... we would be honored to," Scarlet said as she finished patching the injury. "And that about does it."

"Uh... sure," Bastidon said.

"Why don't you spend the night? Help you get yer bearings and all," Onyx suggested, stirring a couple tea-spoons of sugar into his coffee.

"I guess. Might be helpful," he acknowledged, stepping away from Scarlet and yawning.

King Sombra Returns

-Canterlot-

Chaos had erupted in the castle's throne room, dinosaur ponies and regular ponies arguing amongst themselves. Venom and Bastidon were fighting. Talon and Dawn as well. Even Rex and Onyx were arguing over Obsidia. It was then that Princess Celestia looked back on the pirate incident. It was NOTHING compared to dinosaurs.

With a sigh, Celestia sat on her haunches and rubbed her forehead. All of this commotion was giving her a manticore sized headache.

Suddenly, a loud knock echoed throughout the room, silencing everypony. "Come in." Celestia said. The doors burst open, revealing a furious King Sombra with an army of changelings behind him.

"Hello." the dark tyrant said with a smirk. "I have a score to settle with that one." he growled, pointing at Rex with a hoof. The large unicorn approached Sombra with a raised eyebrow.

He then promptly, threw a hoof at the grey unicorn's face.

Nearly everypony around the two winced at the thought of the damage that Rex had given. "OOOWW!" Sombra howled, lifting his hoof to his nose. Hesitantly, he pulled his hoof away and looked down at it. Everypony around them was dead silent. They hardly dared to breath as they waited for what was coming. The dark king's eyes began to leak a purple energy as he swelled with rage. "You... You son of a BITCH!!" Sombra snarled, glaring up at Rex.

"Yeees?" the dinosaur asked, acting as if he didn't know what he had done.

"You piece of fossilized S***!!!" the tyrant boomed, his eyes fuming. "I-I'll KILL you!!" he growled, taking a step back. "ATTAAAACK!!!" he yelled. On cue, the entire group of changelings charged the ponies.

"Uh... Oh..." Rex muttered as he was swarmed with King Sombra's army.

Nearby, Venom was dealing with his own problems. Other changelings began to surround the dilophosaur and flood him with questions. The poor dinosaur helplessly sat there.

"What's this for?" one hissed, feeling the frill of skin on Venom's neck.

"Why are you so brightly colored?" another asked.

"Would you like to join us?" And the questions went on.

Venom, becoming irritated with these small ponies, flared out his hood and hissed. The flap of skin furiously quivered as the former dinosaur tried to find a way out of the group.

"I think I found out what the hood's for!" a changeling shrieked as Venom lunged at it with his jaws gaping. The changeling dodged the dilophosaur's attack, only to be blinded by a sudden spray of black saliva. "AARRGH!!" the strange pony shrieked as he desperately rubbed his eyes. "Changeling down! I can't see!!" he shouted as Venom leapt at him with wide jaws.

With a sickening crunch, the changeling was killed. Green blood dripped from Venom's jaws as he began to undergo a physical change. First, his skull transformed, a hook like curve in his top jaw becoming visible. Teeth protruded from his jaw and the downy fur covering his head was replaced with yellow and orange scales.

His front arms grew thinner and grew long, sharp claws.

There he stood, a ten foot long Dilophosaurus with a blood stained snout and flaming orange markings.

"HE'S NOT A CHANGELING!!" a, well, changeling screeched in fear as the predatory dinosaur leapt at him with splayed talons. With a loud shriek, the dinosaur landed on top of the pony and began tearing him apart. Fading screams of pain filled the room along with the yells of other changelings and the clatter of Celestia's guards.

Venom wasn't the only transformed pony. As the Dilophosaurus began to be cornered by furious changelings, a wave of them was thrown into the air. Before he knew it, Bastidon, the living tank, was standing beside him. All thirty feet, seven tons of the Ankylosaurus.

It wasn't long before a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Spinosaurus, an Indominus Rex, and a Dimetrodon were also fighting the army of changelings.

"What?!" the furious King Sombra said to himself as his vast army of changelings, seemingly invincible, were being pushed back by five unlikely opponents. "RRRRRRGGHH!!!" he boomed, charging the armored dinosaur, his horn glowing with purple energy and this same energy flowing from his eyes.

With a twisted smile, a blast of King Sombra's energy struck the Ankylosaurus' skull. With a painful bellow, the massive dinosaur collapsed to the ground. "HA HA HA!!!" King Sombra laughed as Bastidon fell to the marble floor with a dull tremor.

The unicorn turned around, preparing to kill the other dinosaurs. Standing right in front of him, however, was Rex. The forty foot long, seven ton Rex.

"Weakling! You can not-" he was cut off short as the Tyrannosaurus Rex clamped his jaws around the dark king. With a muffled scream, King Sombra was vanquished.

Rex lifted his large skull and uttered a bellow that could have drowned out the sound of thunder. The fighting changelings and dinosaurs looked up at the scarred king.

"There is somepony... somepony that I could call king." Princess Celestia muttered as the changelings turned tail and fled. Rex instantly reacted and ducked his skull, taking a mouthful of the strange ponies in the process.

At last, the battle was won. Rex slowly reverted to his stallion form and groaned. "I think I'm gonna be sick." he grumbled. "Remind me not to eat an entire army of weird ponies again." he muttered, holding his stomach and letting himself fall on his back.

"I'll keep that in mind Celestia replied, looming over him with a smile.

"We need your help!" Venom's voice cried. The celestial alicorn looked up at a panicked changeling. "It's Bastidon! He won't get up! He won't respond to anything!" he explained.

"I'll see what I can do." Princess Celestia responded calmly.

Walking over to the Ankylosaurus, the pony could instantly tell that Bastidon wasn't going to make it. One side of his head was badly burned and smoking from Sombra's blast.

Hesitantly, the alicorn lowered a hoof to his neck for a pulse. Sadly, she shook her head. "I'm sorry." she whispered. "There was only a slim chance of his survival anyway." she said, trying to calm the dilophosaur.

"NO!" Venom shouted, storming away.

"What's his problem?" Owen asked Celestia.

"Bastidon is dead." she acknowledged sadly. Owen Grady looked at her with a confused expression. "He was killed by King Sombra's energy blast." she explained.

"Oh." the stallion said.

The battle was won, but there was no feast, nor celebration. The following weak, the dead Ankylosaurus was cremated and his ashes sprinkled into a famous, respected, nearby river.

Author's Note

The image is the closest I could find to a legit Venom.

Laying Out the Plan

-Changeling Kingdom-

"You have failed me, yet again." Queen Chrysalis hissed at the changeling before her. "Were my instructions that difficult to follow? Have I not given you a home, food, and respect?" the changeling asked as a taller changeling walked to her side.

"What is the problem here?" King Chrysalis asked, turning his box shaped head to face his wife.

"Our troops seem to have difficulty capturing a mere unicorn." she replied, glaring down at the changeling in question with a stone cold gaze. The king of changelings turned to the guard with a stern expression, his gaze shifting over the armored shape shifter.

"What is your name?" he asked in a deep, booming voice that reverberated of of the walls.

"S-shield Wing." the changeling stammered.

"Yes, you have a right to fear my presence." King Chrysalis assured Shield Wing, nodding his head. "Now, why do you find capturing a mortal unicorn difficult. Surely, I have taught my ranks to have no fear for mere mortals, so why do YOU have fear for the mortal?" he asked.

"If I may, Your Majesty, this is no normal unicorn! He's your height and single hoofedly took down a siren of his size in seconds! There's something about him that is not normal." Shield Wing stated, shaking his head.

"So this newcomer is something special? Is that what you're telling us?" Queen Chrysalis questioned.

"I'm just saying, he's not just some unicorn from outside Canterlot's borders. I think he was transformed into a pony." the changeling stated.

"Go find a messenger and send for the others. We'll see what they have to say of this." King Chrysalis ordered Shield Wing.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" he replied, bowing down.

-Crystal Empire-

The Dark Celestia stood rooted to her spot, admiring One Eye's new outfit with a grin. The tyrant stallion looked into the mirror with a smirk, though he disagreed with her color choice. Purple was not his color, but if he had to admit it, the cape, crown, and gauntlets made him look like a true dark king.

"Sister, a message for you." Princess Luna's evil counterpart said, passing a scroll to the pale alicorn. The dark Celestia's horn illuminated with purple magic as the scroll unfurled itself. The royal pony quickly scanned over the elegant writing, mouthing the words upon the delicate paper to herself. Her ears stood straight up as she finished reading the message.

"It's from the king and queen of the Changeling Kingdom." she stated.

"And?" Luna asked.

"Something about a meeting to discuss a new pony who managed to kill two of their guard and a siren with no problems." she acknowledged, giving her sister the scroll. Luna looked it over and lifted an eyebrow.

"NEW... pony?" One Eye asked, swinging around and lifting his ears to attention.

"Yeah. So?" Princess Celestia said.

"Nothing... Now, where is this Changeling Kingdom you spoke of?"

-Changeling Kingdom-

"This had better be good!" King Sombra growled. "You interrupted my plot to kill that stupid dinosaur who decided it would be okay to see how I TASTE!" he shouted, throwing his hooves into the air with distress.

"Yes, Sombra. We understand." King Chrysalis said, lifting a hole filled hoof to calm the furious tyrant.

It was then that a trio of ponies entered the room, lead by two armored changelings. King Sombra swung around and immediately his face grew bright red. "Y-YOU!" he sputtered, lifting his hoof to point at One Eye.

One Eye's reaction was more or less the same, mistaking the dark Sombra for his good hearted counterpart. Before the two could begin the duel, King Chrysalis stood between the two, his magic telekinetically holding them back. "We are NOT here to fight!" he hollered, releasing his hold. "Celestia, who is this?" he then asked, pointing at One Eye with furrowed eyebrows. Rex's mirror brother lifted his lips to expose his sharp teeth.

"This is One Eye." Celestia said defensively, "KING One Eye to you!" She then softened her tone to a more approachable voice. "He is the reason that we don't have to deal with the GOOD King Sombra anymore.

"You have my gratitude." King Chrysalis said to the now calm tyrannosaur with a nod. "The goody-two-hooves version of OUR King Sombra has been preventing us from launching effective attacks against Canterlot. He always had some way of stopping us, even through the mirror." the king of changelings told One Eye, putting a hoof around his shoulder and pointing up at a large massive cloth drapped from a wall. Embroidered on the red cloth was four different castles, each one a different color than the next. One was separated from the rest by a jagged white line. "This is the Mirror Equestria, though it looks hardly the same from THIS one." King Chrysalis stated, pointing a hoof at the separated castle. "Ours is here." he continued, pointing at a castle enveloped in green fog.

One Eye nodded.

"The others are the Crystal Empire and Canterlot, which I assume you are familiar with, since you've been attacking Canterlot." the king said. The former Tyrannosaurus rolled his eye. "I understand that with each of your attacks, the GOOD Celestia and her subjects are only growing more weary of your presence. We can't be allowing THAT, now can we, One Eye? Oh, and your brother, Rex... We've done some looking into his personality and found out that he has a soft spot for a certain pegasus who goes by the name of Obsidia. Here's my suggestion, take her, and he'll come running to find his girlfriend." King Chrysalis said with a twisted smirk highlighted across his muzzle.

"First, Rex isn't my brother, and second, I know for a fact that he has a daughter now." One Eye stated.

Queen Chrysalis then pulled the changeling king aside. "How do we know that we can even trust One Eye? Seriously, you're putting your trust into a DINOSAUR. Didn't you hear? Dinosaurs had a brain the size of a pea!" Queen Chrysalis whispered to her husband.

"His goal is on the same track as ours. He wants Canterlot under his power and I, for one, will do anything I can to see that the Dark Celestia's mirror self is dethroned." he replied, gazing over at the striped stallion. "Oh, and, I thought you knew that certain species of dinosaurs had brains comparable in size to OURS." King Chrysalis finished, stepping away and turning to One Eye. "So! You hungry for revenge, King One Eye?" he asked the stallion.

"More like a fresh kill, but yes." he replied, trying his best to ignore the grumbling from his stomach.

"Then, to the dining hall!" the royal changeling declared.

No sooner had the group of ponies begun to leave when a massive black shape and a slimmer, more serpentine shape entered the room. Discord and Pitch argued amongst themselves when Pitch accidentally squashed Discord between himself and the large door frame. "Would you move, you fat, winged LIZARD?!" the Draconequus grumbled, pushing the black dragon away from him.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A LIZARD?!" Pitch bellowed, grabbing the Element of Disharmony around the throat and slamming him against the granite walls. Discord gasped for breath, his eyes practically popping out of his sockets with the surprise caused by the quadruped's immense strength.

"Boys! That will be enough." King Chrysalis said, trotting up to meet the two saurians.

"My condolences." Discord choked, straining to escape Pitch's vice like grasp. Then, he cracked a devious grin before teleporting from the black dragon, laughing at Pitch's foolishness.

Pitch growled to himself before turning to the group of ponies approaching him. "Ah! King Chrysalis, good to see you." he stated joyfully, nudging the changeling with his spiked elbow. The king of changeling's almost fell, and would've had Queen Chrysalis not stopped his fall.

"Thank you." King Chrysalis told his wife before turning to Discord and Pitch.

"Sorry we're late." the Dragon King said flatly, digging dirt from underneath his claws.

"That's fine, but we're here to discuss the unicorn that had killed two of my changelings and a siren without so much as a scratch. Have you seen him?" the tall changeling stallion said, looking up at the two reptilian giants.

"HA!" Pitch bursted, halting his claw cleaning. "That thing obviously wasn't so strong if it was subdued by a gryphon and a few taser toting police ponies!" he mocked, spraying bloody saliva from his jaws as he laughed.

"So, in other words, yes, you HAVE seen him." King Chrysalis said, rephrasing what the demonic drake said.

"Yep." Pitch said, resuming his claw cleaning activities.

"What could you make of the pony?" the changeling questioned Pitch quizzicly.

"He reminded me of that either very brave, or very STUPID, Rex fellow. Quite the fighter, for a wingless, fireless dragon with tiny arms anyway." the black dragon replied, scratching his chin in thought.

"Speaking of Rex, he is one of our biggest obstacles if we hope to take Equestria's capitol as our own." the dark Celestia explained, noticing Discord's sudden attention toward the situation.

"We need not worry about him... He is going to be our biggest help in achieving our goal. I told him that I could bring back the most recently killed of the dinosaurs if he took down the Elements of Harmony." the Draconequus said with a mischievous smirk. "When he comes back to tell me of their defeat, we can kill him."

"I like the way you think." King Sombra declared, a demented chuckle leaking from his throat.

King One Eye was not feeling the same toward the idea. "You're going to lead him right to us!" he snarled, lunging toward Discord and slamming his jaws shut, mere inches from his face. "You will NOT risk our loss. I know how Rex thinks. He won't come alone. It is likely that he will bring the Dimetrodon and T Rex hybrid!" he explained.

"How do you know this?" Queen Chrysalis asked the former Tyrannosaurus turned predatory unicorn.

"Because I AM Rex... Well, not exactly Rex." One Eye said, his voice going from serious to a more reassuring voice. "But, I AM the mirror Rex." he finished, his voice growing serious again. The dark Celestia chuckled to herself as she imagined serious music when he said that he was Rex, and then going flat when his tone grew less stern, and then the music returning.

"He has a point. If anypony knows Rex, it's Rex's dark counterpart. Just like I know the good King Sombra like I know myself." the tyrannical Sombra agreed. "I think that we should be following what King One Eye says, even if it means being lead by One Eye." he said, taking in the fact that the dinosaur he fought in Canterlot still had two eyes.

"Then what do we do... Your Majesty?" King Chrysalis asked, lowering his head and touching his twisted horn to the granite floor.

All but Queen Chrysalis, who disagreed with her husband's decision to be lead by a primeval lizard, followed his example.

"And besides..." One Eye started, "I have an idea... We are going to create an unstoppable killing machine unlike anything you ponies have EVER seen before." he said, a devious smirk sketched across his muzzle at his plan.