It started like any other day in Neigh York. Birds flying about. Sun shining as it was raised by Goddess Celestia. Pegasi soaring above, and Earth Ponies rushing about below. And here They were. Trapped in some boring meeting on the twenty something-ith floor discussing...uh...what were They talking about?
"Lucky Brake!" Oh shit, he thought! Mrs Quality was talking to Him! No, yelling at Him! He was in so much trouble! "Care to tell me why you're looking out the window and not taking the minutes of this meeting!?"
"Uh..." Was all He could say. Mrs Quality was scary when pissed. She was scary any way! Earth Ponies were always physically superior than Unicorns or Pegasi, but Mrs Quality looked it. A hulking amazon of a mare! And she was mad. At Him!
"Uh! Uh! Uh! Is that all you can say!?" She began to advance on Him. The closer she got, the bigger she seemed. He just had to focus with all His might, to NOT get turned on! There was just something about larger mares He liked. So pressing His legs together, He managed to stammer. "I...I...um..." shit...
Her eyes twitched with seething rage. "That's it you diminutive sorry excuse for a Unicorn! Out! You're fi-"
That's when the tremors start. Small. Distant. At that moment, He was thankful for the distraction. Everypony seemed to be caught off guard. Looking back now. He was a fool to think that. He looked at the glass of water he had. There were pulsing ripples in the water, perfectly timed with tremors.
It was silent for the next few minutes. As the tremors followed a pattern. Almost like hoofsteps, and as time passed, they got gradually stronger. But every once and they stopped, but only briefly. There was talk of it being a quake. Or Luna knows what else. Then...the sirens sounded.
The evacuation sirens. He, and everyone else trotted to the windows. They couldn't see anything in the distance, but the weather workers above were gone. Now replaced by Pegasi Guardsmen, making fortifications out of clouds. Ugh... I'll never understand that logic!
Down below there were floods of colour as ponies packed the streets, all heading the same direction. Out of the city. But what was going on. Why was this happening. Then, then the small sounds started accompanying the now strong tremors. Getting louder and louder. Stronger and stronger. "Fuck! Alright, everyone out, sound the fire alarms, clear the building. Shit, this will cost me a lot. None of you are being paid for today!" Of course. A disaster is happening and all His boss thinks is income collateral.
Working our way down, the tremors so strong now it started shaking the buildings foundations. And the noise that followed was getting louder. As He got into the lobby, He saw something He still wish He hadn't. A tide of ponies galloping for their life’s. Screaming and crying at the top if the lungs. Only to be drown out by the thunderous sounds of the tremors. Then...His world changed.
BOOM!
The world was shaking violently. Where there was once ponies fleeing...was now a titanic pink wall. A vast pool of crimson flooded out from under it. It was spotted with the same colour all around the bottom. Then it hit Him...that wasn't a wall or object...it was a hoof! A giant hoof!
The building began to shake and collapse! They had to get outside! So out of fear and pure survival instinct They rushed out. Towards whatever was out there. The biggest mistake of our lives... For those of us who were unlucky enough to survive.
A giant hoof, is logically attached to a giant leg. Which is attached to a terrifying...giant mare... Who'd just put her rear hoof through our building. Into the few floors around the twenty something-ith floor He had just been on.
Now, frozen in fear, His eyes followed the hoof, up the leg, to what was definitely the largest plot He'd ever seen! He'd lost all sense of thought, and could feel His own body's reaction. What a bad time to be turned on!
Then came a sound that still chills Him to His core. The mare laughed. "HAHAHAHA! THAT'S IT YOU FUCKING INSECTS! RUN! IT WONT HELP YOU!" She withdrew her leg from the building causing it to collapse, and debris to litter the streets. As chunks of concrete rained down on us, He galloped in the general direction of 'away'.
In their attempt to flee, a sky wagon sized chunk of concrete slammed down on what used to be Mrs Quality. She exploded into bloody chunks of gooy gore and meat. Splattering Him. As He and the few others who lived got out of the area of falling debris, They were exhausted. He was struggling to breathe.
He dared a look back. That mare, that gargantuan behemoth, was still standing there, scanning the crowds of fleeing ponies. Occasionally lifting a massive hoof to bring it down on the crowds. Laughing in glee. Her eyes hungrily looked over the masses as she licked her lips. That frightened Him more that anything...
She was as tall as the sky scrappers, and her mane and tail were a sickly crimson. The same shade that pooled in the deep craters were her hooves used to be. Her soft pink eyes maliciously scanned the crowds fleeing her.
"I'VE HEARD NEIGH YORK HAS THE BEST FOOD THIS SIDE OF EQUESTRIA. THINK I'LL TRY FOR MYSELF!" Her deafening voice thundered over everything. The screams and sirens alike. Even though the screams only got louder now that she'd mentioned food.
The colossal monster laughed, as she took a few steps forward. The world trembling with every quaking step. Looking on in horror, He saw her bend her neck down, and her mouth open. Her enormous tongue must of been half the width of the road! Before anyone knew what was happening, her tongue made contact with the ground. She took a few more thunderous steps, crushing all who were to slow to avoid her trampling them into nothing more than bloody smears, dragging her wet tongue along the street which was overflowing with ponies. Dozens, maybe a hundred caught on her saliva soaked organ, she lifted her head up. Those not stuck, slipped and fell, the fall surely killing them on impact. More than a dozen met that fate.
Those still on her tongue could only be so lucky, as her tongue retreated back into her mouth. She was swishing her victims about her mouth, from what He could see. The, putting a hoof to her throat, she swallowed. She ate them. She ate them all!
"HMM. NOT EXACTLY THE BEST. BUT THAT WAS BARELY A SAMPLE." Looking around, she gained viciously. Blood of so many littering the ends of her teeth. Dear Luna! She chewed! She ground them! "I NEED A LOT MORE IF I'M TO MAKE A GOOD OPINION. YOU INSECTS BETTER HOPE YOU'RE WORTH IT!"
And with that, the voracious titan began again. Slamming her gargantuan hooves down, her weight causing the ground to shake and crack with each tremor inducing step. Occasionally dipping her head down to lick up more of the crowded masses fleeing in futility. Sometimes stopping swing a rear leg into a skyscraper, causing it to crumble like it was nothing, into the streets. Or pursuing a group between buildings that were to close together for her to fit without her voluptuous flanks carving shapely curves into the offending buildings, causing them to buckle and collapse around the point of impact. She reveled in the chaos.
He looked around Him. Everypony wore the same expression. Terrified disbelief. Then something truly terrifying donned on Him. They'd formed a large crowd of spectators. Immobile. Easy pickings. His fear was doubled when the gigantic crazed mare turned her head their way and spotted the mass of assembled ponies. Licking her plush lips she started stomping her way towards us, hunger in her eyes.
She only seemed to grow bigger the closer she got. And she was closing in fast! He briefly caught a glimpse of His demise. That wide, wet, dark, cavernous maw. But then the waves of ponies began moving and swept Him away too! Someone yelled something about 'underground'.
Of course! The subway! Galloping for their life’s towards the shelter that led underground, the mare's shadow fell on the crowd. He just barely made it a few meters below ground level when the most deafening boom sounded above, following screams, and broken and smooshed bodies tumbled down the stairs as the behemoth of a mare trampled over what used to be a solid concrete canopy.
Less than a second later the sight of her nose pushing down into the tunnel trying to crumble the walls enough to fit her mouth in caused a few around Him to soil themselves in fear. That number swiftly rose as the mare boomed a violent, angry roar down at us. All of us covered our ears. Many had blood streaming from their ears from burst eardrums due to the sheer volume of the massive beast's voice being so close to them. "YOU WORTHLESS BLOODY ANTS! HOW DARE YOU HIDE! I SWEAR I'LL CRUSH EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!"
Rushing further down, They came into the station. It was fit to bursting point with so many ponies cramped into here. They were safe. When the sirens sounded, the stations automatic systems sealed the rail tunnels with blast doors. They were built to hold back flood waters should the river ever burst into the underground. Now, as soon as they opened, They could safely evaluate.
The ground still trembled and the ceiling shock with that monster above doing whatever she was doing to the city. He sat down on the tracks, taking a moment to actually breathe and think about what's happening. But it was all going to be okay.
He could of sworn His heart would stop then. Looking up, the ceiling was beginning to crack, and brake. And in a split moment, it came down on us. Only for the fact that He was on the tracks and not the platform saved Him from the brunt of the debris. He wasn't that lucky...
Looking down at us, was a pair of angry, large purple eyes, on a face that wore a vicious, staving grin. No....they were trapped. "WELL! LOOK WHAT I FOUND! DELICIOUS PACKED SNACKS! PAHYULA IS GONNA EAT WELL TONIGHT!" What followed next, He almost wished He have been crush under her colossal hooves. The gap she'd made was just wide enough for her muzzle to fit into. And she....And Pahyula... Wasted no time in feasting. They were trapped. And being so crowded and tightly packs... They foolishly turned their salvation into a pseudo-feeding bag!
Her hot breath quickly filled the station as screams rang out. Her vicious maw snapping down on the gathered mass of ponies. Her tongue quickly slurping up any that was out of comfortable range of her mouth. Her saliva was covering everything and began slipping down into His hiding spot, and soaked his head and mane, he pressed himself against the platform, sitting on the tracks,staying out of sight, and range, until she was done devouring everyone else.
His heart racing, He dared a look out, only to be greeted with her muzzle withdrawing from what was left of the station. Breathing heavily He looked around. The ground was coated in silva and littered with mashed chunks of ponies who'd fallen out of her mouth while she chewed and tried to gobble more victims. Pools of blood and mounds of chewed flesh, little more than specks to the mare, littered the platform.
That horrifying laughter rang out from above. Out from the hole she'd made He could see the underside of her chin. "HAHAHAHA! THAT'S HARDLY AN APPETIZER! YOU INSECTS ARE PROVING TO BE A DISAPPOINTING MEAL! BARELY CRUMBS! I NEED TO TEACH YOU TO BE MORE...FACILITATING TO YOUR GUESTS! I'LL NEED TO BE BIGGER FOR THAT! MUCH MUCH BIGGER!"
The ground began trembling once more, though this time, Pahyula seemed stationary. In truth, whatever she was doing now, she seems to be shaking or something! With that, the titanic nightmare began to rise and soar higher into the sky. Her limbs lengthening, her body becoming thicker, and wider. All keeping it's proportions. Goddesses no....she was growing! How could this get worse! This whole nightmare... It's only just beginning...
Author's Note
This was my first time writing anything, let alone anything like this. Any and all feedback would be lovely. And if any spelling or grammar mistakes are spotted that I missed, please do let me know! Shall get started on Chapter two as soon as I find time.
HUGE thanks to Pahyula for allowing the use of her OC of the same name. She's an insanely fun character to work with. :D
