Chapters Jack Patrick: The Secret World of Mesozoica
Hell Creek, Montana. 65,000,000 BCE...
It is a sunny afternoon in Montana.
But, on this afternoon and in this time, animals roam across the landscape. Animals that are far from ordinary and are the most magnificent creatures to ever walk the Earth--the dinosaurs.
On a conifer forest floor, a small feathered theropod dinosaur, with its hands facing each other and a large claw on its second toe, appears out of some bushes which are across from a large nest. This animal is an Acheroraptor .
With a few sniffs of the air, the raptor turns its head to find the nest in sight. It jumps out of the bushes and looks around to make sure that nothing is guarding the eggs. The Acheroraptor walks over to it, closing in on the nest until it’s over it like one would be with a dinner plate. Carefully, it digs into the nest for the treasure which it holds: eggs.
It stops for a moment because he completely struck oil: an egg the size of French bread.
But, before it can grab the egg.
CHOMP!
A large set of jaws grabs the raptor from above, crushing its ribs until it falls.
When the giant creature senses that the raptor’s life has been taken away, it devours the raptor, never to be seen again except for inside the creature’s belly.
The attacker: a male Tyrannosaurus Rex . A carnivorous bulky theropod that is gigantic, lips covered its teeth like a lizard, two small arms each with two clawed fingers facing each other, and extremely colorful, as well as the guardian of the nest to boot.
He checks his nest to make sure no eggs were stolen. Finding that everything is okay, he rebuilds the nest.
Just as the father T-Rex is finishing rebuilding the nest, he suddenly catches the scent of another creature nearby. Turning around, he finds...a female T-Rex, as shown by how dully colored she is, carrying a small hadrosaur carcass in her maw. The nest guardian growls at the intruder while showing his teeth to show signs of aggressiveness. But, instead of backing off, the female gently puts her food down and shows her gular pouch color.
Immediately, the male calms down, because he knew exactly who this is: his mate.
Wanting to show that he didn’t mean to act the way he did, he moves to his mate and nuzzles her with his nose, the female doing the same in return to show she forgives him.
After that, the male goes back to guarding the nest.
The reason that the male acted so aggressive before is that Tyrannosauruses are powerfully protective of their offspring and they become fiercely territorial towards anything, even a mate. All of this being because T-Rex hold extreme parental care towards their young.
The prime weapon that all T-Rex have is their mouth, which contains the most powerful bite out of any land animal. Their sense of sight, smell, and hearing are also some of the most powerful of any creature, making them perfect hunters.
The female moves the carcass towards her mate and even though he isn’t hungry because he already ate, he saves the carcass for later by concealing its scent with dirt. The female moves out, leaving the father T-Rex to guard the nest.
The mother moves further away to explore the forest and as she does, everything seems quiet, the only exceptions being the sounds of birds chirping in the distance. The female isn’t hungry, but, she is thirsty, so she uses her sense of smell to locate water. A few sniffs into the air and she turns right to the direction of the smell of water and follows it.
Meanwhile, a herd of Triceratops gather near a stream for a drink. If you look closely, you’ll find that the males have large colorful frills for display while the females have dull colored frills. You’ll also find that the youngsters, that have their horns curved upwards, of the herd are sticking closely to their parents and whatever adult they’re closest too, mainly because predators will take any opportunity to attack a baby. And it’s a good thing that they are because the sub-adults, that have straight waved horns, and the adults, whose horns are curved slightly down, definitely have what it takes to defend the entire herd, especially with the three horns they have to fight off meat-eaters, as well as to fight one another during mating season or for leadership of the herd.
Nearby, the mother T-Rex from before emerges out of the bushes, and she approaches the stream for a drink. She can see the Triceratops herd a few yards away, they, in turn, taking notice of her and immediately distancing themselves further from the large carnivore.
Triceratopses are the favorite source of prey for T-Rexes, but for this female, she doesn't mind bothering them. She ignores the herd and drinks from the stream.
On the other side of the river, a herd of Edmontosaurus arrive.
Edmontosaurus is the second favorite source of prey for T-Rexes. They don’t have too much defense, but they can run as fast as they can from predators and run for long periods of time when threatened.
A bull Ankylosaurus also arrives on the other side of the river, not hesitating to drink once he approaches the water’s edge.
Ankylosaurus is the largest armored dinosaur ever. The back of an Ankylosaurus is covered in boney plates that protect itself against attacking predators, and if that isn’t enough, the club on the tip of its tail provides as a defensive weapon against predators like T-Rex. They are however vulnerable in the soft underbelly, so the Ankylosaurus has to support its weight to prevent it from flipping over and exposing its soft belly.
The female T-Rex doesn't mind bothering the Edmontosauruses who are distancing themselves like the Triceratops are. The T-Rex doesn’t even mind an Ankylosaurus on guard, although unlike the others, the Ankylosaurus , in turn, doesn’t mind because his armor and tail give him confidence.
At last, the Tyrannosaurus finishes her drink, and goes off into the forest, leaving the ceratopsians and hadrosaurs to calm down and drink in peace.
Back at the nest, the father Rex sleeps around it for protection, his body encircling it like a barrier protecting the city. Suddenly, however, he wakes up to hear squeaking from the nest, so he stands up and checks on it.
What he finds...is one egg shaking a little, meaning that the newborn is ready to hatch. However, he’s having trouble getting out of the egg.
With his mouth, the T-Rex picks up the hatching egg and puts it in his mouth without swallowing it. He then closes his jaws to help the baby break out of the egg.
He then reopens his mouth and reveals a healthy male Rex hatchling the size of a house cat and unlike adults, the babies are skinnier than their parents and its head is narrow. The father Rex gently put his offspring on the ground, allowing him to walk for the first time in his life.
The T-Rex hatchling looks around, seeing the world for the very first time. Then, he smells something for the first time ever. He directs himself to the origin of the smell to find the hadrosaur carcass that his mother brought earlier. He runs over to it, but tripping in the process when he's halfway there. His father helps him up before his son continues to run over to his meal. When the hatchling reaches it, he feasts, digging into it like it’s the best thing he ever tasted.
All of a sudden, he and his father hear more shaking and cracking. They turn to find three more hatchlings emerging out of their eggs, and climbing out of the shells and nest.
The hatchlings immediately run over and join in the feast with their brother.
They aren’t the only ones attracted to the feast.
Nearby, a group of small mammals, Didelphodons , watch them as they feed. They want nothing more than to take the carcass, but they're unable to approach because the male T-Rex would kill them if they get too close.
One Didelphodon leaves the group, finding himself wanting to do better things than waiting. His destination: his territory.
After traveling for five minutes, the Didelphodon comes across a lone Pachycephalosaurus that is feasting on ferns.
Pachycephalosauruses are related to ceratopsians, although they don’t have horns or a frill; instead, they have a thick boney head for defense against predators or for competing against males.
The male Didelphodon moves out, ignoring the lone bipedal herbivore.
A few more steps away from the herbivore, and he comes across a burrow. His home.
Without hesitation, he enters it and meets up with other members of his kind: his mate, as well as pups that are feeding on their mother's milk glands.
Outside the burrow, a large feathered raptor that looks like an Acheroraptor but the only as tall as a man called a Dakotaraptor is nearby and she spots the Didelphodon territory. She immediately investigates, hungry enough to see if what’s inside is a perfect picking. She suddenly hears some scuttling inside the burrow.
Then, like a gopher popping out of a hole, the father Didelphodon pops out of the burrow and suddenly catches the scent of the nearby meat-eater. He spots her and screeches at the intruder. Finding this creature slightly intimidating, as well as having an interest for something else, the raptor backs off and moves out.
Dakotaraptors are large dromaeosaurs about as tall as a fully grown man. For the past decades, we thought raptors hunt in packs like modern-day lions, but it was debunked since there's no evidence of dromaeosaurs that are social creatures so Dakotaraptors are solitary hunters, and this female is looking for food. Similar to T-Rexes and other carnivorous theropods, she has a highly developed sense of smell used for locating food, water, and even danger.
Her snout picks up something in the air. Something...delicious.
Following her nose and taking a few steps to the east, she comes across the perfect source of food for her: A flock of Ornithomimus , gathering around and feasting on insects and vegetation from the ground.
Ornithomimus are the size of ostriches, and they're almost similar to ostriches, including that they have feathers only of different color. They're omnivorous, eating both plant and animal matter, including insects, small reptiles, small mammals, eggs, fruit, and leaves.
The Dakotaraptor finds an easy meal to get from hunting the flock. Quietly, she creeps toward the Ornithomimus , concealing herself behind a tree before taking another peek at her food. But, before she attempts to strike, a loud bang startles the Ornithomimus , causing them to run in panic. It doesn’t bother the predator because it evens causes her to run away scared.
Meanwhile, at the stream, the herds of Triceratops and Edmontosaurus , including the Ankylosaurus , are running scared because of the same loud bang, and it painfully punctures their eardrums, causing many of them to shake their heads to try to shake away the pain.
Just then, a flowing cloud of vaporized rock appears southwest on the horizon. The cause of the loud bang, as well as the flowing vaporized rock, is a six-mile-wide asteroid that has landed in the Yucatan Peninsula. The loud bang is a soundwave from the asteroid, and the flowing cloud of vaporized rock is a deadly shockwave that is ruddling towards Hell Creek.
The animals run from the shockwave, but they're unable to outrun it. The shockwave engulfs Hell Creek, tossing everything in its path, including pterosaurs that are flying in the skies. The painful and scared cries of each and every creature could be heard as the shockwave continues to spread across the quarter part of North America.
In the aftermath of a shockwave, the lands have now become a barren wasteland.
Everywhere you look, you not only find the plant life gone, but the bodies of several dinosaurs killed off from the blow.
The Ankylosaurus , with all the confidence he had, did not survive the impact, his entire body slumped down on the ground belly first.
Half of the Edmontosaurus and Triceratops herds also died, but half of those herds are still living because they each took cover in a hillside. A mother Edmontosaurus ushers her babies on, while a male Triceratops supports his mate.
Sadly, none of the Ornithomimus flock survived the asteroid impact. Except for a few babies, who managed to take cover in a burrow.
The female Dakotaraptor also survives. She manages to take shelter in a cave, but the shockwave caused a rock to fall on the tip of her tail and crush it. But at least it didn’t cause anything fatal to her.
And finally, there is one last creature whom we’ve caught sight of that is among the lucky ones of this devastation.
Out of a burrow, comes the first male T-Rex hatchling from the nest. The only survivor of the T-Rex family, and worst of all, an orphan who barely had a life with his family, to begin with.
He looks up at the sky to find the sun to still be showing itself and he walks over to something in particular: the fallen bodies of his father, mother, and siblings. Slowly, he decides to consume the carcasses of his family to not let them go to waste and to have help from them one last time.
For several months, a cloud of dust blocked out the sun, turning our planet into total darkness. Acid rain comes down from the sky and kills all plant life, destroying the food chain. The dinosaurs are once again forced to seek shelter and when the rain finally stops, not even a flower is in sight.
Plant-eating dinosaurs, such as this female Edmontosaurus , are unable to find food and collapse on the ground because of starvation.
The meat-eating dinosaurs are to be the last to die from starvation, only at a much slower pace since carcasses have been a common sight and find for them.
For instance, after all these months, the male Tyrannosaurus hatchling has now become a juvenile with its snout is slightly wider than his younger age and narrower than the adults, truly standing as a young king amongst others. But he’s starving, and with each passing day, food is growing scarce, which will cause him to weaken and die.
Hope, however, comes to him...in the form of a dead Triceratops . The only trouble, however, is that a Dakotaraptor is already feasting on it. She’s the same one whose tail got crushed by a rock.
The raptor spots the young T-Rex not far away from her and she screeches at him to back off. But the T-Rex isn’t going to stand down and he roars at her to tell her he won’t leave. The Dakotaraptor jumps over its food and starts to engage in a fight. Competitions can be fierce, but the two of them are willing to do whatever it takes to survive.
But before the two dinosaur species could engage...two beams of light shine down at the two dinosaurs from above, and then...they slowly ascend towards the sky.
More tractor beams from the sky pick up the surviving animals, large, small, predator, and prey, and as each of them disappear into the sky because of the tractor beams, the beams themselves disappear.
Some of the animals are left behind to stay on Earth.
The male Didelphodon and his family, for instance, are the only ones able to pull through the impact of the meteor without any problem.
They leave the burrow and approach a dead Edmontosaurus and they eat it up like Tasmanian Devils.
The reason they are left behind, of course, is because, indeed, they will be leaving quite a legacy on Earth.
Jack Patrick: The Secret World of Mesozoica
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It is 2:45 in the afternoon, and many hours after Jack’s time in biology class.
The school bell rings throughout the hall once more, and while it does, Jack is at his locker. He had a lot of homework, as well as a lot of studying, and, pretty much, he hated it just like any other school attendee would.
He pulls out his PE bag, and an Algebra book out of his locker. Believing that no one else is around, he digs into his backpack to pull out something that he especially wants to bring to his eyepoint: a stuffed Twilight Sparkle doll he got from Toys R Us when he was ten.
He looks at her as if she’s the best thing he ever had.
I wish you would come here to help me with my homework, Twilight. Jack thought, We have so much fun together.
Jack looks around to make sure no one sees him with his plushie before he stuffs it/her back into his backpack. He closes his locker, making sure the combination of the lock is perfectly in place and walks down the hallway. The hallway is empty, and for anyone that would be a great thing, but, Jack has to be cautious because around every corner, a bully could pounce out at any minute.
He sighs, thinking that he’s the only one here. He approaches the front door, opens it, and walks outside, before shutting the door behind him.
“Well, well...” a voice suddenly says from behind.
Turning around, Jack suddenly sees three bullies appear from behind the dumpster. The two henchmen are Chuck, who has black hair, a stubble beard, and wears a grey cap, white sleeveshirt and light blue jeans, and Jeff, who is Asian with a black haircut, and wears a black T-shirt and grey sweatpants. The alpha is Henry, who is tall, has blonde gelled hair, and wears a red T-shirt and blue ripped jeans.
"Hey, small fry." Henry says, "Did you miss us?"
Jack didn't say anything because he's grown nervous at the sight of those three guys.
"Look at him. I bet he’s ready to have his mother tuck him in for the night." Chuck teases.
"Good one, Chuck,” Henry says.
Suddenly, someone behind him grabs Jack's backpack. Jack turns back to see Jeff, who pulled his stuffed Twilight Sparkle out of his backpack.
"Ooo hoo hoo. What have we here?” Jeff says with fascination.
“Hey, that’s mine,” Jack says, before suddenly covering his mouth because of what he just said.
“Really? I didn’t know you liked a show full of technicolor horses,” Jeff teases, “Hey, Henry. Jack's got his cute little Twilight Sparky." Jeff teases.
"Give it back!" Jack shouts.
Jack runs to get his stuffed pony, but Jeff tosses her to Chuck.
"What's the matter? Do you want her as a friend?" Chuck teases.
"That's mine!" Jack runs over to Chuck.
"Hey, Henry. Catch." He tosses the stuffed Twilight Sparkle to Henry.
"You better come and get it." Henry taunts.
Jack runs over to Henry to get his toy back.
Henry tosses the stuffed toy to Chuck. "Too slow.”
Chuck catches the toy before he tosses Twilight to Jeff.
Jeff catches it, but then, he throws Twilight again. "Oops."
Jack's stuffed toy lands into the dumpster.
"NO!" Jack yelps as he runs over to the dumpster.
When he makes it there, he tries to grab Twilight.
Henry walks over to Jack. "Why don't you get a closer look?" Henry shoves Jack into the dumpster. "You're welcome, loser." He slams the dumpster lid.
Knowing that he’s alone again, Jack sighs in defeat. He still has his Twilight plushie, but he's unlucky that he’s gotten bullied... again. He picks up his plushie and holds her close, glad that he at least didn’t lose her forever.
But, as he continues to hold onto the toy tightly, something all of a sudden catches his eye: some kind of object, trapped under a box.
He reaches for the box above it and moves it out of the way. And to his surprise, he finds...an old book with a T-Rex skull icon on the cover.
"Does that look interesting to you, Twilight?" Jack says to his toy.
He nods Twilight plushie's head, and after doing so, he reaches for the book and grabs it, holding it to where he could see it up close.
"I wonder why someone would throw this away?” he asks his plushie.
Shortly after, the dumpster lid opens, the sunlight outside shining in as it does.
Jack sighs, while landing his head on the garbage bag hoping that what he’s laying his face on is a bag full of school stuff.
"Jack? Are you okay?" a girl’s voice asks.
Jack perks his head up because right away, he recognizes that voice. He glances up to see Emily holding the dumpster lid opens while outside.
Jack smiles. "Not really. But, I’m much better since you showed up."
Emily held out her right hand. "Let me help you."
Without hesitation, Jack grabs Emily’s hand, and she pulls him out of the dumpster. Finally, she manages to get him all the way out of the dumpster to where he’s standing on his feet again, and the two look at each other eye to eye for a moment.
"Henry jumped you again, didn’t he?" Emily asks.
"Yeah." he nods sadly.
Emily glances at Twilight Sparkle plushie. "Is that yours?"
Jack looks at the toy he's holding and he hides it behind his back. "Uh, nope."
"Jack, I saw you trying to grab your toy from the bullies."
He sighs, now knowing that the jig is up and that she knows. "Alright, it's mine." He says with some slight embarrassment.
"Are you a brony?" She asks with curiosity.
Jack nods and he shows his plushie. "She's now contaminated."
Emily reaches into her backpack and she pulls out her hand wipes. "Let me see your toy."
Jack hands Emily his stuffed Twilight, and she uses her hand wipes to wipe Twilight clean.
“It's okay if you're a brony,” Emily assures while cleaning the toy. “I know you’re being bullied because of being autistic, so, I can understand why you want to keep being a fan of the show a secret.”
Jack watches his crush cleaning his favorite pony. "Yeah."
"What's her name?"
"Twilight Sparkle. She's my favorite pony."
"I'm not really an MLP fan, but I don't care,” She tells him.
"I have a best friend named Will. He’s a brony too."
"That's good." Emily's done cleaning Twilight. "Now she's Twilight Sparkly clean."
Jack laughs. “Good one.”
Emily hands the toy to Jack, then catches sight of the dinosaur book Jack is holding. "Did you find that dinosaur book at the dumpster?"
"Sorry. I can't help it." Jack says sheepishly. "Can you clean it for me?"
"Sure."
Jack hands Emily the book and she wipes the covers.
Jack stuffs Twilight into his backpack.
"Why do you keep Twilight with you?" Emily asks.
"Twilight's a smart pony and she always helps me with my studies."
"You know Twilight's just a toy, right?"
"Yeah. I do.”
Emily finishes wiping the book and she hands it over to Jack. "Here you go."
"Thanks." He stuffs the new book into his backpack.
"I'll see you tomorrow, and, uh...tomorrow after school...” She says with a slight blush. “Would you like to come over to my house for a visit?”
“Uh...okay." He laughs nervously while blushing.
"Great. I'll see you tomorrow." Emily walks away.
Jack waves. "Bye."
As Jack watches Emily leave, he literally couldn’t help but note how beautiful she looks to him. The sun giving her hair radiance to his point of view.
His thoughts about Emily are quickly interrupted by the sound of a car horn honking. Turning to the source, he finds his mom’s car pulling up in front of the school and he quickly walks over to the car.
When Jack reaches the car, he opens the backseat door and throws his backpack inside it before shutting it. Jack open the shotgun door, and he sits in it, his mother looking at him to greet him.
"Hey, Jack, how's school going?" Mom asks.
Jack sighs as he closes the door. "Brutal."
His mother’s smile turns upside down upon hearing that. "Let me guess. You got bullied again." She guesses.
"Yep.” He responds. “By Henry and his gang of lackeys.”
Mom smells Jack's coat before she pulls back and focuses her attention at the front of the car.
“You need to take a shower, you know that?” She says to him.
"I will when we get home." He responds.
Mom drives off with Jack to his house, the latter looking out the window as everything passes by, finding nothing else to do at the moment.
In the caves of Canterlot Mountain, the Mane 6, Starlight, and Spike explore the cavern while Twilight, leading the group, lights her horn. Her magic shining throughout the cavern like a lantern. Rarity and Starlight also had their horns lighting the way.
"Are you sure this is the location the map wanted us to come to?" Fluttershy asks. "It's so dark and creepy in here."
"Stay strong, Fluttershy." Twilight replies. "I know where I'm going."
"Twilight, you know I don't like being in dirty caves, right?” Rarity asks, her horn also lighting the way.
“Well, if you don’t like caves, then, why do you even go inside the ones in Ponyville so much?” Applejack asks.
“Applejack, you know as well as I do that that is a completely different matter,” Rarity points out. “The reason I go to the caves in Ponyville is to look for gems and other kinds of minerals. If this cave had any, I would certainly come here more.”
“Right. Ah think Ah get yer point.” Applejack understands.
Starlight meanwhile can’t help but look around this cave as if something could happen. She knows that neither she or her friends have never been to this cave before, and if not too careful, the group could very well get separated and lost.
"Too bad Maud isn’t here. She could probably navigate this place with her eyes closed.” Starlight says.
"Maud has never been here before, silly,” Pinkie says.
“How do you know?” Starlight asks curiously.
“Oh, well, she often keeps track of what caves she’s explored before in a journal. She showed that to me herself, and really, this place hasn’t been listed.” Pinkie explains.
After processing the entire explanation, Starlight couldn’t stop herself from feeling amazed by it. “Oh,” she says with amazement.
"Guys, we have to stay focused." Twilight says, "There's no telling what we’ll find in this place."
"I don't know, Twilight." Spike says, "What if this is all some trap?”
"There won’t be a trap as long as we stick together," Rainbow says to Spike assuringly, “Besides, the map doesn’t call us just for us to suddenly get tackled by somepony.”
"And, uh, Twilight? You said something about 'Mesozoica'. What is that, exactly?" Starlight asks,
"I don't know, Starlight. I've never heard of that word before." Twilight replies.
"Hmmm...Mesozoica...” Pinkie thinks to herself, before saying to her friends. “Anyone get the feeling that it sounds like the name of a place or parallel world?” She suddenly gasps and says with excitement, “OR PERHAPS EVEN A HOLIDAY OR PARTY?!”
"Pinkie, darling. I know that the word sounds peculiar, but, let’s not jump to conclusions just yet.” Rarity says with a roll of her eyes.
Pinkie thinks over what Rarity says to her. “Well, okay then. It was only a guess anyway,” She agrees. “Personally, I definitely hope the map gave us an invitation to a party or holiday.”
While they're exploring, they have no idea that they are being followed. From the shadows, two creatures with clear blue eyes are watching them, the darkness of the cavern perfectly concealing them. They head throughout the cave to continually follow the heroes closely.
Back with the gang, they continue to explore, unaware of the danger with them. Suddenly, they come across something that makes them gasp at the sight of it: a large chamber, big enough to contain fifty ponies.
"Wow! Look at this place." Spike says in wonder, “It’s so big!”
Pinkie is also intrigued by this unexpected room when suddenly, another thing catches her eye: cave drawings on the walls.
She hops on over to take a look at the ones on the left side of the wall. She sees that they are of strange tailed creatures: all of the creatures shown are either bipedal (two-legged) or quadrupedal (four-legged), although each of them aren’t without their differences. Some have long necks; some have spikes; some have horns; some have armor; some have feathers; and some have wings too.
“Hmmmmm...intriguing.” she says, before putting a detective hat on and getting out a magnifying glass to look even closer.
Fluttershy comes over to see what Pinkie is looking at.
“It looks like these pictures are of animals we’ve never seen before,” Fluttershy says with astonishment. “Not even in Equestria.”
Starlight and the others join the two. "Or maybe they’re ancient species that have been here long before us." Starlight says, feeling astounded as well.
As they all continue to look at the cave drawings, Rainbow suddenly sees a picture of something that completely stands out: a drawing of a hoop. “Hey, Twi,” she says. “What do ya suppose this is?”
Twilight catches sight of what Rainbow is looking at. "It looks like some kind of...ring," Twilight says, looking closely at it.
“A ring? But, that doesn’t make sense! What could it possibly have anything to do with...” Rarity asks, then suddenly comes to a thought, “Unless...Twilight, do you suppose the ring could be magic?”
"I don't know, Rarity," Twilight says. “I haven’t even known about all of this until today.”
"Well, it’s gotta be at least," Applejack says, before pointing towards the animals on the wall. “Because somethin’ tells me that it must have somethin’ to do with these here critters.”
“I think you’re right, Applejack,” Twilight agrees, “But, how will we know for sure?”
“Well, we could start by checking out the ring on that pedestal over there.” Spike points out. “I think it’s the same one on here.
The ponies turn their attention to what Spike is pointing at, and find, to their surprise, that Spike is right. Up against the wall, and sitting on a pedestal with a velvet cushion on top, sits the ring, contained inside of a glass container to protect it. The ponies are awestruck by it.
“Now how the hay could we have not noticed that before?” Applejack asks.
All the other ponies and dragon can do is shrug in response.
So, without any second thought, they walk right over to the pedestal. Once they approach it, they get a closer look at the ring to see that it’s made out of a mix of pure gold and bronze, with carvings of triangles on it in a repeating pattern of right side up and upside down, and a dot at the center of each.
The only obstacle in their way at the moment is the glass container casing the ring, and it looked to be accompanied by a set of ancient buttons, meaning that it’s locked by a code. Twilight takes a closer look at it just to be sure.
“It looks like it’s locked by an ancient code,” Twilight confirms. “It may take a while to figure out, but with some translations and deducting, I’m sure that-“
“Or we can use this,” Pinkie says out of nowhere.
Seeing what Pinkie is talking about, everyone finds Pinkie holding a large diamond.
“Where did you get that?” Twilight asks.
“Oh, I found it while we were here,” She explains, before handing Twilight the diamond.
“Well, in whatever case, this is a great idea, Pinkie," Rarity points out. “As an expert in minerals, I can definitely tell you that diamonds can cut through a number of objects. Including glass.”
“I know right.”
So, with a plan now set, and a way for them to get the glass container open, Twilight uses the diamond to make a circular hole. With a quick and precise encircling, the container is opened like a spy would do with a window, Rarity catching the now fallen glass before it could ever hit the ground and break.
With the use of her levitation, she gives the diamond back to Pinkie, the latter whom puts the diamond in her poofy mane. Then, Twilight directs her attention to where the ring is sitting and uses her magic to levitate it off of the pillow.
She brings it closer to her face as if it is the most significant thing she has ever seen before finally, she puts it down on the ground.
“Stand back," she tells everyone else.
The ponies and dragon back away from Twilight as she tries to concentrate on using her magic. She fires a magic beam at the ring and then...it glows purple, before creating a vortex appearing in the air, the light of it brightly shining throughout the room.
"Whoa!" They say in wonder.
From the window of the vortex, they could see various objects and events appearing right before them. The first one that they see for instance is a head of a man made of stone; another that they see a very realistic cheetah chasing down an ostrich; and another is a group of dogfighting fighter planes.
But, their moment of captivation is not to last long...
Suddenly, a group of five strange pony-like arthropods, with blue beetle-like shells, wasp-like wings, horns on top of their heads, two long saber-like fangs, blue pupil-less eyes with a nictitating membrane, a snake-like tongue, and holes on each leg, appear from the darkness and surround Twilight and the gang.
"Oh no! Changelings!" Spike cries.
"I thought they all transformed to no longer forcefully feed on love!” Twilight exclaims.
In defense, she tries to use her magic against them, blasting one of them back to make a gap as a getaway. For a moment, it seems like it’s going to work, but instead, the changeling is strong enough to stay put. He grins at her gloatingly.
“What the...?" Twilight becomes wide-eyed with shock.
An evil cackle suddenly echoes throughout the room.
"Well, well, well, look what we have here." Someone with a voice of an evil women says from behind them,
An Alicorn-like arthropod, that looks like the other Changelings, but with green reptilian eyes, green-blue hair, long twisted horn, short fangs, and a light green beetle-like shell, appears from the darkness behind Twilight and her gang.
"Queen Chrysalis?!” Twilight gasps.
"That's right, Twilight Sparkle," Chrysalis smirks. "It’s been a while since I abducted you and your friends, and even a longer while since the wedding.”
Again, Twilight tries to make an escape by blasting Chrysalis. However, just like her minion, Twilight’s magic doesn’t even touch her.
“What’s the matter? You can't use magic when I'm wearing this?” She taps her necklace with a rock attached to it.
Twilight and the others are shocked upon finding this.
"That’s some rock leftover from her throne." Starlight whispers to Twilight.
"What are ya’ll up to, ya overgrown cockroach?" Applejack glares at the Changeling Queen.
Chrysalis chuckles, “Quite simple really, my dear. I want that book that you’re tracking down. And when I jump through that portal to retrieve it, I will use it to travel to Mesozoica!”
“You know of it?” Twilight asks with a raised eyebrow.
“Yes. It is another place quite like ours and the ones you are seeing before you, but with one difference...it has something I want. And when I get my hooves on it, I will use it to rule Equestria! And after that...the world!”
Twilight looks back on the portal behind them. She realizes that Chrysalis has been smart enough to follow them, but not smart enough to plan ahead on stopping them from entering the portal. Turning back to Chrysalis, she knows what she and her friends need to do...
"Not this time, Chrysalis!" Twilight smirks. “Come on, you guys!”
Twilight and the gang quickly turn to the portal and run towards it.
"Get them!" Chrysalis shouts to her workers.
A couple of changelings immediately try to apprehend them from the left and right, but with one quick zoom and hit of the forehoof, Rainbow knocks down the one coming to their left. Applejack also jumps into the air towards the one on the right and uses her hind legs to buck the Changeling up against the wall.
Before more of the Changelings could try to apprehend the Mane 6, Spike, and Starlight, however, our heroes disappear into the portal.
Chrysalis, in anger, stomps on the ground. "You three! Don’t just stand there, after them! And don't come back until you bring them to me!"
The three Changelings ordered to go after them run straight to the portal jump through the portal.
Meanwhile, Twilight and the others are all falling through a swirling tunnel, screaming as they do while also passing windows that could give you a glance to objects and events on the other world the book is being tracked on, such as a hurricane in New York; one with a group of religious people in church praying; one with a great white shark snatching a seal; one with a space shuttle blasting off from the launchpad; and one with a fossilized skull of an animal, with sharp thick teeth, five holes and a narrow snout, but it looks nothing anypony or dragon has ever seen.
At the end of the tunnel, a large white light suddenly makes itself known, meaning that they must be coming to a stop in a world that isn’t their own.
“Everyone, hold on!” Twilight shouts.
They all hold on tightly to each other as they approach the light, until finally...they emerge out of the end of the portal, and land into a forest, belly first and piled on top of each other, Twilight, of course, being on the very bottom.
With no problem, she raises her head up.
“Is everyone alright?” Twilight asks.
Everyone says things like “Yeah”, “I’m good”, and “Perfectly fine”, the only exceptions being Applejack and Spike.
“All good, Twi.” Applejack says.
“Not a scale damaged,” Spike says.
And with that, everyone gets off of each other and back on their feet.
Twilight stands up and looks around. The world around her and her friends looks really strange. Unlike theirs, everything seems...so much more 3-D than their world, unlike they who look like cartoon characters out of the picture.
“Where in Equestria are we?" Applejack asks as she and the others look around too.
"This place doesn't look like Equestria to me," Twilight says. "Everything looks so...I don’t even know how to describe it. The plants and animals look more realistic...”
"But, It looks like we're not as realistic as this place.” Rainbow finishes for her.
"Yeah."
"So, why are we here?" Starlight asks.
"I don't know, Starlight." Twilight sighs, "We’re probably going to be stuck in this world for a while consider we don’t know how to go home yet."
"What about the ring?" Pinkie says, pointing her hoof on the ground.
Everypony looks at the ground, directing their attention to see Pinkie’s hoof showing the ring, a blinking golden light going off as it sat there.
Twilight tries to levitate the ring, but nothing happens. "Oh no! My magic isn’t working!"
Rainbow tries to use her flight, but the balance and weight of her body cause her to fall. "What happened to my flight?"
"We're not in Equestria anymore." Starlight says. "That's why it's hard for the Pegasi to fly and magic to work."
“Let me help you, Twilight.” Spike offers.
So, Spike grabs the ring with his claws, and, finding that Twilight would have a lot me assurance if she’s the one carrying the ring, he climbs up onto her back, and puts the ring on her horn, the ring itself getting nestled to where it’s at the very bottom, and inside her mane. Spike hops off afterwards.
“Whatever shall we do now?” Rarity asks with slight panic.
“Well, we don't have to stay here and do nothing." Twilight says, "We have to find that book before Chrysalis gets it."
Suddenly, the three Changelings appear from the flashing lights, and they land feet first on the ground. Seeing the heroes in front of them, they bare their teeth with grins of maliciousness.
"RUN!" Twilight yells.
They turn and run through the forest, the Changelings chasing after them like a predator would its prey. And with that, they run into a world completely unknown to any of them.
Author's Note
Sorry for taking too long. My editor said that editing chapters is kinda hard.
The next chapter will be there soon so stay tune.
Jack Patrick: The Secret World of Mesozoica
About an hour after leaving school, Jack and his mother arrive at home, and their car pulls into the driveway.
When the car is in just the right spot, out of the road and completely on the driveway, and in front of a house that is a story high, Mom turns off her engine, everything in the car turning completely off with the twist of the key. Then, she opens her door.
Jack follows suite by opening his door and hopping out of the car. "Hey, Mom. I talked to a girl at school, today."
"You did?" Mom asks, "Who is she?"
"Emily Ridley." Jack opens the back seat and grabs his backpack. "She asked me if I could visit her home tomorrow. Can I?"
Mom sighs. "Jack, I don't want you to hang out at someone else’s place alone."
Jack closes the doors. "Mom, Emily's a nice girl. She would never bully me."
"I just want to make sure that you're safe with mommy," Mom says. "Unless of course, you have your cell phone so that we could keep in contact.”
Jack smiles upon hearing that because it just so happens that he has his own flip phone, which his mother gave him for Christmas.
"Okay. Thanks, Mom." Jack says.
“You’re welcome.” his mother responds.
Jack and his mother walk to the door. Getting out her keys, Jack’s mother unlocks the door before opening it. Mother and son enter the house, at last, Jack closes the door behind him since he’s the last one to enter.
With his backpack on his shoulder, Jack walks through the hallway. "I'll be in my room, Mom.”
"Alright. Don’t forget to take a shower." Mom calls.
"Okay."
Jack opens his bedroom door and takes a look at his bedroom as if it’s the first time he’s ever seen it. His room is filled with dinosaur posters and decorations, and he has a pet gecko inside a tank on top of a drawer. He steps inside and closes the door behind him.
Jack pulls out the book, and his stuffed Twilight Sparkle, out of his backpack before he drops it next to his dresser.
"Hey, Rex. I'm home from school." Jack says to his lizard as he put the book on the bookshelf and his stuffed toy on top of it. "Oh, what's that? Did I forget to feed you? Pft! Nah! Of course, I didn't forget." He walks to the drawer and he pulls out his extra clothes: his dark blue sweatpants, a green T-shirt, and midway brief underwear. "But I'll feed you after I shower. Just kidding."
Jack grabs a jar full of crickets. He opens the lid and pulls out four crickets before closing the jar back.
Then, he put the crickets in the tank and closing the tank lid, his gecko looking as thought he’s definitely hungry. "There you go. You enjoy your food.”
And just like that, Rex feasts on the crickets, his tongue catching them one at a time lightning fast.
“I'll be in the shower," Jack tells Rex.
Finally, Jack walks out of his bedroom and into his bathroom, an extra change of clothes in hand, as Rex continues feasting on the crickets.
Little does the gecko notice while he’s eating, however, as well as Jack not noticing because he’s in his bathroom, that on the dresser where the book is sitting, the T-Rex icon on the book itself briefly glows bright gold.
Meanwhile, Twilight and the gang are running through the forest from the dreadful Changelings. Unlike Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy in this world, the changelings have the ability to fly, but only for short distances, an example being right now where the first one looks like he’s flying perfectly, but then...he collapses face first onto the ground, the other changelings running ahead of him. But, that doesn’t stop him from picking himself up and keep going after his quarry.
"Can’t you do something with the ring on your horn, Twilight?" Spike yelps.
"Do something? I’m not even sure what we can do with it without magic," Twilight says.
Suddenly, a blinking light activates on the ring, slowly increasing as they travel like it’s a GPS. It gives Twilight an idea. "Keep going this way. We’ll follow the beeping.”
"But how do we ditch those guys?" Pinkie asks, pointing out their enemies relentlessly chasing them.
"I got this!" Spike climbs on top of Twilight's back, standing up while holding onto her mane, and turns to the creatures chasing them. "Get toasted!"
Spike breathes in, and blows his breath, but...there’s no fire. Instead of fire, it’s just Spike blowing his breath out, with only a small spark of fire leaving him like one would a lighter.
“What the...?" Spike says, completely shocked by this.
"So much for traveling." Rarity groans.
The ponies run across an old bridge over the rapid creek, but Fluttershy, who is behind, trips over on a crooked plank completely out of place of the others.
Rainbow stops for Fluttershy. "Fluttershy!"
Not wanting to leave her friend behind, Rainbow quickly runs over to her.
The rest of the gang stop upon noticing what’s happening.
“Rainbow Dash, wait!” Twilight exclaims, before running towards Rainbow.
Fluttershy rolls over on her back, dazed from the hard trip she just had. But, when she looks up, she suddenly wishes she hadn’t because the three changelings stood in front of her menacingly.
"Well, well,” The leader of the changeling trio says. “It looks like we have ourselves a straggler.”
Scared beyond anything else, Fluttershy covers her face with her mane and shakes like a leaf, while the changeling leans himself closer to her. But before any further action could take place, Rainbow jumps over Fluttershy and stands between her and the changelings.
“Nobody messes with any of my friends!" She exclaims with a defensive pose.
Rainbow bucks the first Changeling, causing him to fall over the side of the bridge. The second changeling snaps its jaws at Rainbow, but misses by that much because Rainbow quickly evades. Then, she headbutts the creature, before throwing it off the bridge opposite the first changeling.
Rainbow turns to the last remaining changeling. "You're next!"
"Oh yeah?" The changeling is about to shapeshift, but, when he tries to use his horn, nothing happens. He tries again a couple of times, but still, nothing. “Uh, why can't I change my form?"
"You do realize that we're not in Equestria anymore, right?”
As if he’s just now realizing that, he gives a look of shock, although, that doesn’t last long.
"Foolish pony! You will never get your hooves on that book!" He exclaims.
"Hey, you got something on your face." Rainbow points with her hoof.
"Huh?"
"I'll get it." Rainbow offers, before punching the changeling in the face, and making him fall off the bridge where the second changeling is. "You're welcome!"
Rainbow helps Fluttershy up. "Um, thanks,” Fluttershy says.
"No problem, Fluttershy."
Twilight and the others run over to the two pegasi.
“Nice one, Rainbow!” Twilight exclaims.
"Just doing my best to keep my friends safe. Besides, these pesky pony-like bugs will never catch up with us."
Suddenly, the bridge shakes, the ponies and dragon shaking with it.
"That's not good." Applejack says.
Pinkie looks down over the railing of the bridge and gasps. "Look!"
The others run over to Pinkie, and they see...the changelings down below, chomping down the legs of the bridge.
"They're destroying the bridge!” Starlight says.
"Come on!" Twilight says.
The ponies and dragon run across the bridge, but by the time they get close to land...it's too late. The bridge tumbles down, carrying Twilight and the gang with it as they scream. They land into the water and drift through the current, the water carrying them as if they’re leaves until they swim to the surface. The rapids are too risky to swim, but that doesn’t stop them from trying without giving up.
Twilight climbs onto a floating log. "Everypony, climb on."
The rest of the gang swims to the log Twilight climbed onto and follow her example by climbing out of the water.
Spike holds onto the big branch at the end of it. "So, we're safe now, right?"
"Uh, not exactly," Starlight says staring at the river's following current.
They turn to the direction where Starlight looked, and they realize that part of the river is gone, and the current is moving fast. That’s when everyone realizes that they’re heading straight towards a waterfall the size of a five-story apartment.
"Everypony, hold on tight!" Twilight shouts.
Everyone does as Twilight says. With that, the log tumbles over the waterfall, and the ponies and dragon scream as they fall and into the plunge pool below.
Meanwhile, the three changelings watch the ponies fall over the waterfall, and they cheer for victory.
"We've got them good!" The first changeling says.
“Yeah. Let's go find that book.” The second changeling says.
"But how are we gonna find it?" The third changeling asks.
"We'll figure that out later." The first one replies, “C’mon, let’s get moving.”
They trot through the forest, disappearing into the trees like ghosts in a dark house.
For a moment, it would seem that the changelings are right, because they have now been underwater for longer than anyone can imagine. However...
Twilight emerges out of the surface, gasping for air as if she never breathed before, and the others follow suite.
When they quickly spot shore, they swim towards it and crawl out of the water.
Pinkie falls to the ground in exhaustion. "I'm glad...this party...didn’t lose the music."
“You mean that we made it?” Starlight asks.
“Yeah, that.”
"In that case, me too."
Twilight uses her hooves to pull out the ring, sits it down on the ground, and moves around it to measure the blinking light.
Applejack meanwhile is drying her hat, even by scrunching it up like it’s a rag before putting it back on. “So, where are we going?" She asks.
"I'm working on it,” Twilight says.
She turns the ring forty-five degrees to the right, and then...the blinking light increases before arrows suddenly ignite from it, pointing in the direction Twilight turned it.
"This way. Come on, guys." She puts the ring back on.
Twilight leads the group through the forest while she follows the beep.
"Um, guys. What about the changelings?" Fluttershy asks.
"Not to worry, Flutters, I took care of them,” Rainbow says. “At least until they destroyed the bridge.”
"Well, it's a darn good thing they thought we drowned from the waterfall bellow ‘em." Applejack says.
"That's a good point." Starlight says.
"Yeah. Applejack's right. The changelings think we’re dead, so we’re totally." Twilight says.
"But, I wonder what Chrysalis is up to in Equestria?" Starlight asks curiously, “Is anybody besides me worried that she'll do something extreme while we’re gone."
"I'm worried too, Starlight, but what she wants is that book we're looking for." Twilight points out. “Wherever that is.”
The gang emerges out of the trees, and near the hillside. When they do, they gasp upon a sight that takes them by surprise.
In the distance is a large town, but, it’s completely different from the ones in Equestria, especially by advancement.
"Wow. We’re definitely not in Equestria anymore." Starlight says.
"Yeah, but...where are we?" Fluttershy asks.
"We’ll investigate on the matter," Twilight says. "Come on.”
The gang treks downhill towards town.
Author's Note
The next chapter will be available next week or so because my editor will be gone today until the 28th so stay patient.
Jack Patrick: The Secret World of Mesozoica
After taking a shower, Jack dries himself with his towel, puts on his new clothes, and walks out of the bathroom while holding his dirty clothes and a wet towel. He walks back into his room and throws his dirty clothes and towel in the laundry basket.
"Hey, Rex. How’s your food?" Jack asks his pet.
Rex is munching on a cricket.
"Great. I guess I'll let you eat your dinner while I read this new book I found."
Jack walks over to his bookshelf and grabs the book he found in the dumpster after getting bullied earlier today.
He looks at his stuffed Twilight Sparkle and his Toast Plushie (which is described as a stuffed Carnotaurus with a stuffed piece of bread with butter around its neck) he got from an online store. "You two stay out of trouble while I'm reading this book."
Jack hops up on his bed and sits behind a pillow and headboard. But, when he starts looking at the cover closely, Jack notices this book has a lock.
Jack sighs in frustration. "Now what?"
He mimics Twilight voice. "'I know what to do!'"
Jack acts surprised and sits at the side of the bed. "You do? What is it?"
He shakes Twilight's head while mimicking her voice. "'Remember the times when your uncle would teach you how to unlock things without a key?'"
"Oh, that's right!" Jack turns to Toast. "Toast, do you know where it is?"
He shakes Toast's head while mimicking his voice. "'Toast!'"
"Thanks. You're the best!" Jack jumps off the bed and runs out of his room.
He runs into the bathroom, grabs a needle from the countertop, and runs back to his room before closing the door behind him.
He grabs the book and starts picking the lock with his needle...
ZAP!
"OW!" Jack yelps from an electric shock as he drops the book and the needle to the floor. "What was that for!?" He picks the book up. "How the heck am I supposed to unlock you?"
Suddenly, a tiny object slips out of the pages of the book. Jack looks down at what's falling out. He finds it to be a small golden key that's been inside the book the whole time, and he watches it make a ‘THUD ’ as it hits the floor.
Jack sighs. "Well, that was easy."
He picks up the key and sits back on the bed. He’s so excited about this new book he found, even though he doesn’t know if it was a dinosaur book or something more interesting, that he feels like jumping around like Pinkie Pie would at a party.
He pulls out the golden key, and he pins it into the keyhole. The keyhole suddenly starts glowing.
Jack's very curious. "That's weird."
He twists the key slowly, and then, after a 'tick' sound, the T-Rex skull icon on the book starts glowing golden. Shortly after, it comes to life. The glowing T-Rex skull turns to Jack in a 3D effect (even without 3D glasses), and emerges out of the cover in a life-sized T-Rex skull hovering in front of him.
"What the...?" Jack says in awe.
The skull grows a spine from the back of itself, then ribs, shoulders, a hip, a tail, legs, and arms, turning it into a life-sized fully complete skeleton. Then muscles and tissues appear and cover most of the T-Rex skeleton, and the skin covers the rest of the body, turning it into a scientifically accurate realistic Tyrannosaurus Rex .
Jack gapes in awe. "I think I took this dinosaur-loving thing too far.”
The glowing T-Rex opens its mouth and roars. It tries to devour Jack as he covers his eyes screaming, the feel of the animal’s mouth over the boy’s entire body. Suddenly, everything is quiet. There’s no more roaring, and he doesn't feel like he’s getting eaten alive. Jack reopens his eyes to see that the glowing T-Rex...is gone without a trace.
At Chrysalis's secret hideout, the Changeling Queen is sleeping in a newly found bed made out of...whatever it is that real insects often making a bed out of. But then...she senses something that jolts her awake with a cold sweat.
Chrysalis hisses. "She has awakened." She turns to her guards. "Guards, message the scouts on Earth to find that book as quickly as possible."
"My Queen, we've lost contact with the scouts." The guard says.
Chrysalis growls. “That does it! I'll find the book myself!"
"But, my Queen, you don't even know what's on that planet.” The first changeling says.
"Silence! I've been on Earth for a very long time. Now, if any of you want to come, it's your choice."
The remaining two changelings, along with an additional seven, look at one another, before making their full decision.
"We'll come with you, My Queen,” The second changeling says. “But, how are we going to get to this other world you speak of? Or even come back to Equestria? Those ponies and dragon took the ring that controls the portal.”
Chrysalis rubs her chin thinking. "Well, I do know that there are a lot of hidden warp gates on Earth in every location. And...” She grins. “There is one thing we have--completely hidden in our old kingdom--that can help us get to Earth and back to Equestria.”
Jack is scared and confused. What's happening?
He sees himself still holding the book with the icon still here. Jack places the book into his bookshelf, runs out of his room, and into the bathroom. He turns on the sink and scrubs his face with water, thinking he's hallucinating.
Jack looks at his reflection only to see that his eyes are golden. However, as soon as he realizes this, they fade back to his normal eye color. He shakes his head to see if it would happen again, but, it didn’t.
Shortly after, someone knocks on the bathroom door. "Jack, are you alright?"
Jack lets out a sigh of relief knowing it was his mother knocking at the door. “Yeah. I'm fine, Mom."
The boy wipes his face with an extra towel.
After finishing, he opens the door, where his mom stood outside while wearing a red office suit. "I swear I heard you screaming. What happened?"
"I don't know, Mom. I might've been hallucinating or something."
His mother has his book in her hand. "And where did you find this?" She asks.
"That book? I found it when I was tossed into the dumpster. I thought it was some sort of dinosaur book or something like that."
Mom hands the book to Jack. "You know that's not yours."
"Well, someone threw it away for no reason."
Mom glances at her watch. "Jack, I'll be at work. I won’t be back until five, but call me if you need anything.”
"Love you, Mom." Jack kisses mom's cheek.
"Love you too, Jack." Mom walks to the door.
As Jack walks back to his room to put his book back into the shelf, his mother opens the door. When she opens it, she sees that Will is out on the patio about to knock on the door.
“Oh. Hi, Mrs. Patrick," says Will.
“Hi, Will.” Mrs. Patrick greets.
"Hey, Will,” Jack waves, arriving to see him.
"Hey, Jack,” Will waves at him.
"You two have fun while I'm gone,” Mom says.
"We will,” says Will, as he steps inside the house.
"Bye, Mom." Jack waves.
Mom walks out before closing the door behind her.
As soon as she drives away in her car, Jack and his friend walk into the living room.
"So, what are you doing here exactly?" Jack asks.
"I thought that I could come over and we’d watch Equestria Girls." Will pulls out an Equestria Girls DVD case.
Jack smiles. "Well, put it in."
Will walks to the digital TV recorder inside the TV counter. "So, what happened after school?"
"Well, while I was alone, Henry and his cronies jumped me again."
Will sighs. "Man, those guys are messed up!"
"Oh! And I found something from the dumpster!" Jack suddenly remembers.
He pulls a DVD out of the case. "What is it?"
"Let me show you, be right back."
Immediately, Jack runs into his room to grab the book, leaving Will to just stand around while using his feet to rock back and forth.
A minute later, he runs straight to the living room and back to Will with the book in hand. "I found this."
Will chuckles. “A dinosaur book? Really?"
"Well, this isn't just any dinosaur book. It’s really eerie. While I was trying to open it, something really, uh, unexpected happened."
Will puts the DVD and the case on the TV counter stand. “What is it?"
"I don't know." Jack sits on the sofa. “I wonder who wrote this?"
Will sits right next to his best friend. “Have you opened it?"
"Like I said, I was about to, but then something unexpecting happens. First, I found the book lock’s key which fell out of the book. Then, I used the key to unlock it, and then, this dinosaur icon came to life and turned into a 4D hologram of a T-Rex! It tried to eat me, but...it never did because it abruptly disappeared."
Upon hearing this, Will scratches his chin with his finger because he finds everything to be really strange. "I think you're just hallucinating or something. I'm just saying." He says.
"Well, you’re not the only one thinking that," Jack says. “Maybe the smell from the dumpster messed up my brain."
Will smiles and laughs.
"What? What's so funny?" Jack says with confusion.
"Never mind. Just open the book."
Jack opens the cover of the book, and he reads the first page which contains the title.
Mesozoica By: Starswirl the Bearded
"Starswirl the Bearded?" Will says surprised. "That Gandalf Pony from the season seven finale?"
"I thought he was just a fictional character." Jack turns the pages.
"And what the heck is 'Mesozoica'?"
"How should I know? That word isn’t the name of some seafood restaurant that’s for sure," Jack says. "Did Dr. Henry Wu from Jurassic Park & World write this?"
Will shrugs.
Jack flips several pages, with some, having images of animals from the Maastrichtian Era while others have writings. “And Lauren Faust never mentions dinosaurs."
"Except in the nineteenth episode in the sixth season." Will points.
Jack sighs as he closes the book. “That's NOT a dinosaur; that's a dragon fossil that looks nothing like a real dinosaur; and Archaeologists don't study dinosaurs, they study humans!"
"What about those comic books? There are dinosaurs in some of them."
"Comic books are just fanfictions made by a division separate from the show staff, whatever happens in them didn't happen in the show," Jack answers. "And besides, the designs on the dinosaurs are way worse than the ones from the Jurassic franchise, and that’s coming from a guy who thinks the Jurassic movies’ dinosaurs are designed in a way that’s fun for everyone."
"Let's change the subject,” Will says. “Who the hay wrote that book?"
"I don't know,” Jack says. “It can’t be Starswirl the Bearded. I mean, he’s fiction.”
"I don’t think you should keep it."
"Why not?”
"Well, you found a book about dinosaurs written by a nameless author, exactly like a kid who would take his dad's drink."
Jack shrugs. “Obviously, a kid might have taken his dad's drink and threw it away when it was empty."
"No, Jack, that's not what I'm saying. This book you got must've been thrown away for a reason. We don't even know where it came from, so, who knows where it’s been."
Jack looks at his book, “Well, that explains why I saw the icon coming to life."
"No, no, no, Jack. I'm just saying that this book was thrown away because this one has no author tag, no publish tag, and no company tag. The only tag that the book has is with that fake author tag." Will explains.
"So, you think I need to sell or give this book away?" Jack asks, looking at the book.
"Probably." Will shrugs.
Jack places the book next to him. “Let's watch that movie."
"Okay." Will shrugs.
He stands up, walks over the TV, turns it on, inserting the DVD in the digital TV recorder.
Jack glances at the book. I wonder if someone wants it back or not?
Deciding that Jack wants to take his mind off of the book for a bit, he turns his attention to the television.
Meanwhile, Twilight and the others trek into the grasslands, towards a large town with several trees. Noting that it seems to be getting dark, they look up into the sky to see that it’s almost sunset, so it’s going to be dark very soon. But, that isn’t what caught everyone’s attention the most. What really stuns them, especially those who aren’t Twilight & Spike, are that the sun is moving with no pony magic to aid it.
“D-darlings, i-is anypony besides me seeing the sun setting by itself?” Rarity asks with shock.
“You’re not the only one, Rares.” Rainbow says.
“How is this possible?” Starlight asks.
“Spike and I have often questioned that the first time we visited Canterlot High,” Twilight tells, “Around the second time we visited, Sunset told me about how the sun and moon rise and set, which is because their planet, as well as obviously this one, slowly rotates every day, with one half of the planets being either day or night each time.”
The others blink with complete shock, except for Spike, who already knew this.
“Oh my.” Fluttershy says.
Shortly after, Pinkie spots something not far away from them and points. “Look! A sign!”
The others see the sign Pinkie is seeing, and quick as lightning, everyone runs over to look closely at what it says.
The words on the sign say: Welcome to Bozeman .
"Bozeman? What kinda' name of a city is that?" Applejack thinks out loud.
"I don’t know. But, come on, everypony." Twilight says.
They continue to trek down the area up to a mile before heading uphill. When they reach the top, they find themselves in the distance of a town populated by bipedal mammalian creatures with hair on their heads, five digits on each hand and feet, all wear clothes, and their carriages aren't powered by horses, they have wheels instead. To make sure what they are seeing is correct, each of them grab out some binoculars.
"Oh, my Celestia." Rarity says in awe.
"What are they?" Fluttershy asks.
"Humans," Twilight replies.
"How do you know that?" Applejack asks.
"I've been in the human world before, which is where Sunset currently lives. But, these humans aren't multicolored like us."
"Awesome," Pinkie says in awe.
Using her hooves, Twilight pulls out the ring and the blinking light starts increasing. "We need to focus on finding that book before the changelings do."
"Sounds like a good plan, but, how are we gonna get right past them ?" Starlight asks, pointing her hoof to the town full of humans.
"We’re ponies. We can blend in since our species is a common sight to them."
"Okay, but, speakin’ of ponies, we're not as vivid as them humans down there." Applejack mentions.
“She’s right,” Spike agrees, “And besides, I’m a dragon, not a pony. And, if this is anything like where Sunset lives, doesn’t this world not have unicorns, alicorns, & pegasi."
Twilight looks at herself, just now remembering that she's not as real as those humans and that Spike had a large point about the species many of them are, "Oh, right. We can’t just walk in then, we would attract too much unwanted attention to ourselves.”
Spike taps on her shoulder, and points at a pullover pickup truck on a road halfway downhill towards the town. The pickup box is covered by a blue tarpaulin sheet that holds the stuff inside.
"Good thinking, Spike."
"But, how are we going to get past that guy?" Starlight asks with a point of her hoof.
A big and fat male human with signs of a growing beard is standing beside the truck on his cell phone, either talking to someone important or just chatting it up with a friend or family member.
"Let's sneak in and get into that truck." Twilight whispers. “We’ll walk in quietly from the other side while he isn’t looking.
The Mane 6, Starlight and Spike quietly trot downhill without drawing attention from the man on the phone. The ponies and dragon make it to the truck, and they quietly walk right behind the tailgate. Spike quietly climbs up to the tailgate and lifts the sheet up.
Each of the seven ponies quietly climb up the tailgate and jump inside the pickup basket filled with antiques before Spike jumps inside it, closing the tarp behind him. While the seven ponies and the young dragon are hiding, the man hangs up his cell phone, walks to his truck, and he hops into the driver's seat, not knowing at all what is in the back of his truck.
The engine starts, and the truck moves down the road towards town. The Mane 6, Starlight and Spike feel the force of the truck moving, but they keep hanging on.
Twilight pulls out the ring again, and the blinking light increases. "We're on our way, girls." She whispers.
Pinkie shouts. “ROAD TRI-"
But, she couldn’t finish because Rainbow covers Pinkie's mouth. "Pinkie Pie, are you trying to get us captured!?"
Pinkie immediately nods ‘no’ to answer that question, and with that answer, Rainbow uncovers her mouth.
"Sorry." Pinkie whispers.
So, with that, everypony and dragon sits quietly in the truck as it drives along, not knowing what to expect next.
Jack Patrick: The Secret World of Mesozoica
It is four o'clock in the evening.
At the moment, Jack and Will are watching the part of Equestria Girls where Twilight meets up with Flash Sentry at the Sweet Shoppe. While they watch the scene, Jack can’t help but feel reminded of having a crush on Emily, especially in the same way Twilight has a crush on Flash.
"Can you believe that Twilight has to crush on Flash?” Will asks, “She doesn’t even live in the human world!”
Jack shrugs. "I don't care."
"I mean, come on. Twilight's your favorite character."
"I know. But, I don't care if Twilight has a crush on somepony else."
Will smirks at Jack. "Is it because of your girlfriend, Emily?"
"She's not my girlfriend!” Jack denies with a blush. “Shut up!"
"Ah, come on. I saw her talking to you while my Dad was picking me up from school."
"But, you didn't saw Henry and his gang?" Jack raises his eyebrow.
"Nope." Will says. “Sorry, dude.”
“That’s alright,” Jack assures. “On brighter notes, Emily asked me to come to her house tomorrow after school."
Will chuckles. "Ooo. Someone is gonna watch My Little Pony with a Dino Expert."
Jack rolls his eyes as he places the palm of his hand on his forehead. "Emily's not a Pegasister, you know.”
"Yeah. Well, she washed your stuffed Twilight Sparkle.”
"And my book," Jack says. "I just asked her to clean it."
Will puts a finger to his chin, finding that to be a good point.
"Well, she's a nice girl. And I think she likes you," he adds in mischievously.
"Knock it off, Will!" Jack punches Will's shoulder. "She's just trying to be generous."
Will is about to say something, but Rarity from the TV screen shouts "I'VE GOT IT! " which startles Will.
“If you say so." He continues to Jack.
As the two friends turn their attention back to the movie, something happens from right under their noses. The icon of the new book Jack found briefly glows as Jack’s palm still rests on it.
"I wish Twilight was real."
"So do I. Although, I mostly prefer Rainbow Dash."
"And if Twilight’s real, I wonder if I could introduce her to my Mom and..." Jack sighs looking depressed.
"What's wrong?"
"I was about to introduce Twilight to Emily, but... she isn't a Pegasister, and I'm not sure if I’d be the guy for her since she already has a boyfriend."
"Cheer up, Jack. Emily broke up with two other guys before. I'm sure the third one will break up with her, and-"
"I really don't think Emily will break up with her fiance. Especially since he‘s really nice to her."
"Well, she likes you."
"That's because she likes everyone in school."
"Just like you liking dinosaurs." Will turns to attention to the movie. "Just like your father."
Jack nods. "Yeah."
Without anyone noticing, a fog of golden aurora flows from the icon of the book to Jack’s hand. The aurora absorbs into Jack's skin until the icon stops glowing.
Jack glances at the book. "Do you really think I should read this book or something? Because you said that the author tag on it is fake."
Will shrugs. "I don't care."
Jack grabs the book, and he opens it.
Suddenly, before Jack is about to read, the words in front of him seem to blur a little and he feels dizzy. Jack shakes his head.
"Jack? Are you alright?" Will asks.
"I feel... kinda funny," Jack says while rubbing his head. "Can you pause for a minute? I gotta go to the bathroom."
"Sure."
After Will pauses the TV, Jack stands up, and he runs to the hallway. He keeps running, but, due to dizziness, he ends up hitting his head against the wall.
"Ow!" Jack yelps.
Jack struggles to run to the bathroom. He makes it to the front door of the bathroom, and he turns on the light. Then, to his shock, he sees that his eyes are glowing gold. As he keeps looking in the mirror, his head begins to hurt and the room begins to spin until finally, he collapses on the ground.
“Jack?” Will calls out, hearing the commotion.
Immediately, Will runs to the bathroom to see what’s going on with his friend. When he arrives, he gasps upon seeing his friend unconscious.
“Jack!" He rushes to the unconscious Jack and shakes him to wake him up. "Jack, say something!"
Will checks Jack's pulse. Jack's still breathing, but, he didn't wake up.
"Stay here, Jack. I'll go call for help." Immediately, Will runs out of the bathroom, pulls out his cell phone, and dials the number of Jack's Mom.
Jack, meanwhile, is still unconscious.
Meanwhile, the pickup truck is driving in the streets of a suburb part of Bozeman. The Mane 6, Starlight, and Spike are still hiding inside the pickup basket filled with antiques. Starlight is impressed with all the stuff she is seeing.
"I didn't think humans could have such impressive things in this world." Starlight says.
"Tell me about it. I didn't even know humans wear clothing like ponies can." Rarity says happily. “This is so exciting!”
"We're ponies, Rarity." Applejack explains. "We don't wear clothing unless we want to. So, why the hay do humans always wear ‘em?"
"To adapt in different climates, and also, um...you wouldn’t want to know the other reason." Twilight replies, blushing in embarrassment. "Trust me."
Rainbow peeks her eyes outside of the tarp to see where they are, and she finds that they're in a town lined with houses. What catches her interest the most though is that the 'carriage' they're in is moving by itself.
"Speaking of humans, how come their carriages aren't powered by any ponies?" Rainbow asks.
"They're called 'cars', Rainbow," Twilight explains. "They have a large machine at the front called an engine. You know, kind of like how an airship is powered.”
"Oh, I get it. How come we don't have any?"
Twilight scratches her head. “Good question. Maybe we're on a different planet with a sapient species more advanced than we are."
"Except the fact they don't have magic." Starlight says. “While we're off of our world, we don't have magic. I still can’t help but find that to be mysterious."
"I've been into the human world where there's a little magic, but this world...is nothing like the one I’ve been on before."
Fluttershy is sitting on the side of the pickup basket staring at a moth on her hoof. "Well, at least this place has animals."
"You're staring at a moth on your hoof." Applejack says.
"I know. This moth looks, um...different compared to Equestrian moths, but, it's so cute."
Twilight's about to say something when the ring starts to glow rapidly.
"Uh, guys. Something's happening!" She announces.
"What is it?" Spike asks.
"Hang on." Twilight tries to take it out, but it won't come off. "What the...?"
"Twilight, take it off," Rainbow says.
"I'm trying, but it's stuck on my horn!" Twilight exclaims.
"Here let me help you." Spike grabs the ring...
ZAP!
"Ow!" Spike yelps.
"Sorry," Twilight apologizes.
The ring glows into a bright light.
"Twilight. Take it off." Starlight says.
Twilight tries to pull the ring off of her horn as the glowing increases. But even after a couple of mighty pulls, it still wouldn’t come off. "Somepony get this thing off my horn!" She cries.
Pinkie looks dumbfounded like the rest of the gang. "Uh...Twilight?"
"What?" Twilight didn't notice the flowing aurora spreading like lava from her horn to her forehead, and then, it keeps spreading.
"It's not just the ring glowing." Applejack says.
"What are you talking about?!" Twilight exclaims, the aurora spreading all over her face and mane.
Shortly as the aurora spreads to her neck, shoulders, and half of her frontal legs.
Twilight sees the aurora spreading around her body. "Um, I don't know what's going on, but PLEASE HELP ME!”
"Stay calm, Twilight. Don’t panic." Starlight says.
"Don't panic!?” She moves her face completely close to Starlight’s. “My body's turning bioluminescent and all you can tell me is to not PANIC!”
After the aurora spreads all over her forelegs, it spreads all over her flank, then her back legs, and then, her tail.
Starlight steps forward. "Let me help you."
Twilight steps back. "DON’T TOUCH ME! YOU MIGHT GET INFECTED!"
As the aurora spreads all over her body, she starts to glow rapidly, and by the second, the glow gets brighter and brighter.
"Twilight!" Spike runs over to Twilight.
But before Spike could reach her, Twilight turns into a bright light and in the blink of an eye...she disappears with the exception of her saddle pack that drops down from midair.
"She's gone!" Rarity exclaims.
"Oh no! The ring is too!” Fluttershy says before tears start to form, “It d...d...disintegrated her!”
With what she said, tears begin to form in the eyes of the ponies, as well as Spike. The only exception is Starlight because she knows what really happened.
"Fluttershy, it’s okay,” Starlight puts a comforting hoof on her shoulder. “Twilight isn’t dead.”
“S-She’s not?” Fluttershy says, tears still in her eyes.
“Of course not.”
“B-but darling? How can you be sure?” Rarity asks, suddenly more confused than sad.
“Everyone come over here,” Starlight motions with a hoof.
Immediately, everyone else comes over to where Twilight has last been seen, and also her saddle pack.
“What do you see?” Starlight asks them.
“Nothin’. Just the mark showing where she was before.” Applejack answers. "Plus her saddle pack."
“Right, but do you see the ring?” Starlight asks again.
“Uh-uh,” Pinkie says. “No sign of it at all.”
“Exactly. If Twilight disintegrated, except her saddle pack, then the ring would have done the same thing since it was on her horn,” Starlight reveals. “That can only mean one thing too: Twilight and the ring teleported somewhere.”
The others look at Starlight with wide eyes upon finding this out, Spike and Rarity being the only ones to blink. Then, they smile and sigh with relief.
“Yippee! Twilight’s not dead!” Pinkie exclaims happily until suddenly, her look goes from happy to worried. “Wait! No, yippee! If Twilight and the ring got teleported out of here, then that means she’s MISSING!”
Suddenly, the pickup truck slows down and stops.
"Why are we stopping?" Fluttershy asks.
Starlight peeks her head outside to take a look.
The truck has stopped in front of a traffic light that turned red and it's right next to some trees.
Starlight moves back inside the pickup basket. "We're going to have to get off this thing."
"What about Twilight?" Spike asks.
Starlight grabs Twilight's saddle pack, and put it over her's. Even though it's a little heavier than she thought. "We'll figure it out when we get off. Come on."
Without the driver noticing, the ponies and dragon crawl out of the pickup basket and they quickly run into the trees before the traffic light turns green and the truck moves away.
"Phew. That was close," Rainbow says.
"Now what?" Applejack asks.
"We have to find Twilight. She could be anywhere." Starlight says.
That night, after the sun disappears into the horizon, Jack's Mom is sitting on her son's bed next to Jack's unconscious body, the latter which is lying in his bed.
A physician walks in with his clipboard.
Mom stands up. "How is he?"
"He might have some sort of short-term coma. We're not sure what's causing it." He says to her.
"Will he be okay?"
"He'll be fine in the next few hours,” The physician says. “Unfortunately, he likely won't be going to school tomorrow."
"Okay. Is there anything else?"
"No. The report just about sums it all up.”
"Thank you, doctor."
"You’re welcome,” he responds. “If I may advise, you might want to give him some time to himself in order to recover."
Before doing as she’s told, Mom kisses Jack on his forehead. She walks out of his room and shuts off the lights. The physician closes the door behind him, the two of them leaving Jack alone to continue resting.
Changeling Hive, Equestria
It is nighttime at the Changeling Hive, and most of the Reformed Changelings are sleeping peacefully in their beds including their Changeling King, Thorax, while soldiers guard their hive and their kind from intruders.
A Reformed Changeling Soldier is trotting down the hallway, patrolling the place for intruders and spies. But then, he hears a small noise. He looks around to see where it could be coming from, but, not a single sign of life came forth. Thinking it’s his imagination, he shrugs it off as nothing and continues his rounds.
What he doesn’t notice however is ten pairs of eyes suddenly blinking into existence from the wall, watching him trot on. When he disappears, out of camouflaging from the wall comes Queen Chrysalis and her band of followers.
Without a sound, the ten changelings walk towards a couple of double doors.
“This is it.” The Queen confirms.
She opens the door, without it even making so much as a creak, to reveal the throne room. Thorax, the changeling king, has obviously gone to his room to sleep, so he isn’t around to notice.
Throwing caution to the wind, the group of ten quickly run inside, the two at the rear closing the door behind them.
Chrysalis leads her band behind the throne, and when completely behind it, she inserts her horn in a hole that has apparently been on the back of it the whole time. Her horn glows green with changeling magic, and she takes her horn out of it afterwards. A platform underneath their feet descends into the floor and some stairs begin to form for them to walk down.
Without wasting time, they disappear inside the dark hallway the stairs are inside and the trapdoor shutting above them. They light their horns in order to know where they’re going.
After a few minutes of walking down the long-winding stairs, they finally approach the entrance of the cavern where the stairs ended.
"There it is," Chrysalis smirks.
Looking to see what their queen is seeing, they find that it is a warp-gate made entirely out of alloy and advanced machinery.
"So...what now?" The bewildered changeling beside Chrysalis asks.
"Get that warp-gate online!” Chrysalis commands, pointing at the warp-gate.
"But, shouldn’t you use magic to power it up?"
Chrysalis glares at her worker. “This machine isn't powered by magic and magic never makes it work."
This revelation only makes the worker become more perplexed, as well as ashamed because magic is something that he has known how to do all his life. "I-I don't know how to use it."
Chrysalis growls. "Fine, I'll do it myself, since you nine are apparently useless when it comes to technology!"
The Changeling Queen trots over to the computer next to the warp-gate. With the push of a button, she turns the computer on, before using her hooves to type the buttons with strange symbols to enter a sort of password.
Completely online, she types a square green button. After a few seconds, the portal activates.
Chrysalis steps in front of the vortex with her evil smile, and then...she laughs hysterically.
Author's Note
Stay tuned. Because there's another chapter coming up.
Jack Patrick: The Secret World of Mesozoica
Jack slowly opens his eyes. Groggy from the night before, he blinks whatever crud is in his eyes before he sits up. He finds himself on his bed after sunrise, still wearing the clothes he wore since yesterday. He rubs his eyes, eager to get rid of the eye crud.
How long was I knocked out? He wonders.
He sits up from laying down and dangles his legs off the right side of the bed.
Suddenly, his cell phone rings, startling him with a jolt and a gasp.
He finds his cell phone on the dresser next to him and picks it up. "Hello?"
His mom is calling him. "Hi, Jack. You feeling better today?"
"Yeah. What time is it?" He asks his mother.
"It's eleven in the morning. I let you sleep in because of how sick you were, so you have no school today."
Jack smiles, glad that he has no school today, especially because when he’s at home, he doesn’t get bullied.
One question comes to his mind, however, so he asks his mother. “How long was I out?"
"I don't know. A few hours?" His Mom answers.
Jack stands up. "Where are you?"
"I'm at work. I'll be home at around two. Make sure you eat breakfast and lunch, and, uh, don't answer the door. I have a key."
"What about Will?"
"It's okay if he comes over.”
"Okay. I love you."
"Love you too."
He hangs up and he places his cell phone next to his Twilight plushie.
Twilight is inside a thick shrub, lying unconsciously on the ground under it, and unable to wake up. A butterfly shows up and lands on Twilight's nose. The feel of the butterfly landing on her causes Twilight to moan, causing the butterfly to flutter away. Slowly, she flutters and opens her eyes, finding herself inside of the thick shrub.
"W-wha-?" She can barely speak.
Slowly, Twilight stands up, as well as get into a crouching position since she’s inside the bushes.
She glances at the ring on her horn. Is it still on my horn? She wonders in thought.
Using her tail, she hangs onto a branch next to her and grabs the ring with both of her forehooves.
Twilight realizes the ring is loose, so slowly, she pulls it out.
She sighs in relief. “I'm glad it won't be getting stuck to my horn again.”
Knowing the ring is not glowing, Twilight puts it back on her horn.
“I wonder where I am?” She wonders.
Twilight slowly moves her head out of the bushes to see where she teleported at. Looking around, she finds herself in the backyard of a one-story house. Twilight slowly crawls out of the bushes.
Twilight's about to call her friends, but if she does, that would draw her attention to the humans.
"Stay focus, Twilight. I need to find that book, and get back to my friends." Twilight whispers to herself. "But a quick reminder: what does that book look like?"
Suddenly, Twilight sees a person from the window, and then, she dives into the bushes.
Jack walks out of his room while rubbing his eyes.
Suddenly, after rubbing his eyes, he sees the bushes slowly moving outside in his backyard. Wondering if he’s hallucinating again, he rubs his eyes. When Jack stops rubbing his eyes, he looks at the bushes to find...that they aren’t moving anymore.
Jack shrugs. Just the wind, I guess.
He walks into the kitchen and heads to the fridge.
As the human inside opens the fridge door in his kitchen, he is unaware of the four-foot tall animated lavender Alicorn outside, watching him.
While he isn’t looking, she trots out of the bushes, tip-toeing on her hooves quietly before hiding behind the wall underneath the kitchen window.
Jack grabs a milk carton from the fridge before closing it up. He also grabs a box of Cheerios from the cabinet above the countertop, a bowl from the other cabinet beside it, and a spoon from the drawer. Afterwards, he walks over to the table and places them on it.
As Jack pours cereal and then milk in the bowl, the lavender Alicorn outside peeks her head and watches him curiously.
But before Jack is about to eat his cereal, he suddenly spots...his book. Sitting right next to his bowl.
"How did you get here?" Jack grabs it. "Hmmmmm... I guess either Mom took it out of my room while I was in bed, or Will placed it here because I left it in the living room."
Meanwhile, Twilight spots the book the boy is holding, and she hides behind the wall out of view from the window as the boy is eating cereal.
Is that the book Chrysalis is after? Twilight thinks. If it is, I better get my hooves on it. But I can't just steal the book from him. I need to find a way to get it.
Twilight looks at the back door that's eight feet to her left.
"Perfect." She says quietly.
After Jack finishes with his cereal, he grabs the bowl and puts it in the sink. He walks back to the table and grabs the milk carton before walking to the fridge and opening it. He puts the carton back in the fridge before closing it.
Jack looks at the book on the table.
I swear I've been knocked out after I was about to read it. Maybe it's some sort of psychological problem I have. There's no way that book can knock me out because it's just a book.
Jack walks over to the table. But, before he's about to pick it up, Jack realizes something.
Or maybe, since I saw the 4D golden T-Rex yesterday after I unlocked that book, it's that book that knocked me out somehow. Or maybe I'm just... hallucinating?
Jack grabs the book, afterwards, he walks out of the kitchen and into the living room. Once there, he walks over to the sofa and sits down. He opens the book and starts reading the first page.
When I was young, I encountered some of the most magnificent creatures I've ever seen. My mother told me they were rescued millions of years ago. Sadly, they all disappeared. My mother transported them all in a safer place known as Mesozoica--where rescued creatures are kept safe from the dangers of our world...
Jack stops reading because he has no idea what the writer's talking about. "What does that mean? I gotta skip the page." He says, then turns the page.
The page on the right reveals an image of some sort of nodosaur, which Jack can't identify the genus because there's no name for it. There are more than one species of nodosaurs, and this one looks like an Edmontonia . However, it isn’t the only species to look like what Jack is currently seeing.
Jack glances at the page on the left to reveal more writings.
This animal looks a lot like a turtle, but, its legs were straight up instead of bent, and instead of a shell, it's covered in hard bony plates and spikes on its shoulders, probably for a defense against predators...
Jack sighs. "Man, this book is confusing."
He stands up and immediately walks to his room.
While the boy is going to his room, Twilight trots under the door handle, and, after some slight difficulty trying to stand upright, she stands on her hind legs to reach the handle. When she stands on her hind legs, she easily grabs the door handle.
“Oh. That was easy," She says to herself.
She gently opens the backdoor a little to fit her body in and quietly steps inside. Silently, she shuts the door behind her.
Twilight takes a deep breath quietly. “Okay, Twilight. Stay focused.”
She lifts her frontal body ninety degrees to stand on her hind legs, and she grabs onto the edge of the table. She doesn’t see the book on the table.
Darn it! Where is it? Twilight thinks.
Then, Twilight hears someone typing from the hallway.
“Hmm...” She says.
She lands on her forehooves on the floor and quietly follows the typing noises. She hides behind the wall on the side of the opened door, and she slowly takes a peek, only to see the boy in his bedroom typing his laptop. She also sees the book right next to his laptop.
Jack is in his room using a laptop that he got for Christmas.
At the moment, he’s on the internet, researching nodosaurs that match the one in his book; however, he's unable to find the perfect match for the color and appearance of the nodosaur in the book.
Jack sighs as he exits his computer and closes it. "I'll never be a paleontologist like my Dad." He groans. "I mean, how am I supposed to know what genus of dinosaur I see in the fossil record?" He rests his palm on his eyes.
In the hallway, outside of Jack’s bedroom doorway, Twilight is watching Jack and becomes curious about what she has heard him say.
Paleontologist? Dinosaurs? What does that mean? She wonders with curiosity.
The boy grabs his book and stands up from his chair.
Shoot! Twilight exclaims in thought.
Hurriedly, she runs into the living room, through it and into the kitchen, and then through the kitchen and behind the wall in the dining room.
As Jack stands up from his chair while grabbing his book, he hears clopping noises coming from outside his room
"Mom? Was that you?" Jack calls.
No response.
Jack slaps himself on the back of his head, thinking he’s imagining things again. Stupid brain!
After that, he walks down the hallway and arrives at the kitchen. He puts the book on the table, thinking that he’d like to be away from it for a bit. When he puts the book down, he walks into the living room. He arrives inside and grabs the remote, turns the TV on, and sits on the sofa in front of it.
As the boy's watching TV, Twilight peeks her head around the corner from the dining room to the kitchen. She spots the book sitting there on the table. She could now officially tell that it is the book she’s looking for because on the side of it is a golden three-toed footprint.
It really is the book we’re looking for! Twilight realizes. This is my chance to get it!
Without the boy noticing, Twilight tip-hoofs quietly towards the table. It doesn’t take long for her to make it. Once again, she stands on her hind legs and grabs onto the edge of the table, then, she reaches her hooves towards the book. Finally, Twilight gets her hooves on the book and slowly drags it towards her.
But, after she drags the book to the edge of the table, the book slips out of her hooves and tips off the table. Twilight catches it, but using her hooves to hold onto the book causes her to fumble with it for a bit because, without magic or hands, her hooves are useless for holding things.
Finally, the fumbling causes Twilight to drop the book. She quickly tries to grab it, but she is unable to as it lands on the floor with a thud. Realizing that she has failed to get the book quietly, she rushes back to her hiding spot.
Jack is on his sofa using the “Science Channel” to watch a show called “How the Universe Works”. For the moment, he doesn’t think there’s anything to worry about, but suddenly...
THUD!
He hears a very loud sound.
He turns to the kitchen to see where the sound comes from.
"What the...?" Jack turns off the TV.
Right away, he walks into the kitchen to investigate the noise. To his shock and confusion, the book he left on the table is on the floor instead.
"How did you get here?" He picks it up and scratches his chin as he holds it.
He places the book on his Mom's desk next to the doorway of the dining room.
Jack looks around the kitchen for signs of activity.
Is my house haunted? Or is it some animal in my house? He wonders. If it’s an animal, then Mom needs to call the pest control.
Jack walks to the fridge for a drink of apple juice. When he opens the fridge, he grabs a bottle of apple juice.
While Jack drinks the apple juice, he turns around to where the book is. Suddenly, something startles him while he’s swallowing his drink, causing him to also quietly cough because his drink went down the wrong pipe. What startles him...is an animated lavender handless arm reaching for the book from around the corner of the dining room.
Quickly, Jack closes the bottle, and he quietly places it on the countertop.
Like a ninja in the night, Jack quietly dashes towards his Mom's desk and grabs the book swiftly before the arm can reach it, whoever owning the arm obviously not noticing because it’s still trying to reach for it. Then...he smacks the arm hard with his book.
"AAAAAOOOWWW!!!" Comes the scream of a teenage girl.
In front of his very eyes, a four-foot tall lavender pony-like creature, with purple mane and tail with pink highlight, large purple human-like eyes, and a tattoo-like mark on its hind legs the shape of a pink six-pointed star, falls onto the doorway screaming in pain from a bruise from the left hoof Jack smacked with his book.
Jack is dumbfounded, dropping the book as he saw it , or her , with his very own eyes.
"What was that for?" The creature yelps.
I...I can’t believe it! It’s...Twilight Sparkle, in my own...house! He realizes, And did she just...speak my language?
The creature then stares at Jack in awe. She blushes nervously. "Hi?"
After she says that, Jack faints backward.
The creature gasps. "Oh no! What've I done!?"
She glances at the book right next to the unconscious Jack. Twilight is about to get the book, but, something in her subconscious tells her that she can't just take it from him. It would be stealing. Since Jack encountered her, all she has to do is introduce herself to the human.
She trots over to Jack, and she shakes him to wake up. "Um, Sir?"
But there’s no response from Jack, which causes Twilight to grow worried.
Across from her into the living room though, she spots a couch.
“Maybe he’ll wake up in a spot comfier than the floor,” She says in thought.
Twilight all of a sudden realizes something: In order to get him to the couch, she will have to push and roll him there with only her hooves and head since she has no magic in this world.
Twilight sighs, thinking that she shouldn’t let that bother her. “Okay, okay, it will be a challenge, but I should not let that stop me.”
So with that, Twilight walks around Jack to where he’s behind his back. She puts her head under his and pushes it up. When she lifts his head, she puts her own head under the top of his back and uses all the strength she has to lift his body straight up.
She breathes with slight relief and exhaustion, glad that she managed to get the upper half of his body off the floor. But then, his body leans forward to where he falls on his chin, his rear end still sitting on the ground.
Twilight puts her hoof to her face in exasperation upon seeing this.
Later...
Twilight is pushing Jack, who is still sitting on his bottom, all across the house from the kitchen to the living room.
She is having a hard time getting to the couch because pushing him is apparently like pushing a heavy sack of flour. She grunts as she pushes him, even while wondering how long she’s been doing this.
Suddenly, something in the way stops her from pushing the boy any further. She looks above him to see that she made it to the couch.
She moves around him to where she’s in front of him and lifts his head and front of his body up. She puts his chin on the couch before moving around to behind him and lifting his bottom up. However, as she lifts his bottom, his chin is lifted off the couch and his back goes backwards. Twilight immediately rushes herself to his backside, but the weight of Jack’s body causes her to flop on her belly.
Much later...
Twilight (who had somehow gotten out from under the unconscious Jack) gets the boy up on the couch, the only problem...she got him up there but put him upside down.
She breathes heavily from all the effort it took.
Suddenly, Jack stirs in his sleep, meaning that...
He’s waking up? Now?! She exclaims in her mind.
Jack slowly opens his eyes and rubs his head. "What a weird dream I had."
When his eyes are open, and the fog in them clears away, his eyes catch sight of the same creature as they did before he fainted.
"Are you alright?" The creature asks.
The human screams and his upside down position causes him to fall in a somersault to the ground, a lucky thing being that he lands on his butt.
He crabwalks over to the corner by one of his living room chairs until he bumps into the wall.
"Hey, hey, hey! Easy, Sir." She says. "I'm not going to hurt you."
"Y-you're not real!" Jack cries.
The creature sports a look of confusion. "What?"
Wait! I shouldn't tell her that! He begins to think with wide-eyes.
What runs through Jack’s mind is that even though he knows who this is, he shouldn’t just tell her that he knows her because of a tv series! He’s afraid of what would happen if he does tell her, such as that she’d be so freaked out by that, or worse...he would cause some sort of catastrophe on the world. So, he decides to act, drawing on what he learned in a Drama class of his at school.
“Okay. Uh, hi there.” He waves his hand, all the while being careful not to give away the astonishment of seeing his favorite character here.
“Hi.” Twilight replies.
“So, uh, this is kinda strange. Seeing a strange creature right here in my house, and very much being...some kind of pony, right?”
“Oh, um, that’s right actually,” Twilight confirms nervously. “I am a pony.”
“I’ve...never seen a pony like you before,” Jack comments. “Are you some sort of new species that escaped from the zoo? Or are you some kind of experiment gone wrong that escaped from a science lab?”
Twilight giggles, suddenly not feeling as nervous. “No, no, I’m not any of those things, although they are interesting thoughts.”
“So, what are you?”
“An Alicorn. And I come from a world called Equestria.”
“And...how did you get in my house?"
"Oh, I used the back door. It was unlocked when I opened it.”
“The back door?” He suddenly facepalms himself. “Oh boy, I am a dingbat. I knew I should’ve checked to see if that door was locked this morning.”
“It’s not your fault,” Twilight tries to assure. “I was the one who entered your house uninvited. I’m sorry for doing that.”
"It’s okay. You were just trying to keep yourself scarce from eyesight.”
A moment of silence suddenly comes upon the two, until Twilight decides to break it by clearing her throat.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle. Princess Twilight Sparkle to be precise, but you can just call me Twilight.” Twilight introduces herself. “What’s your name?”
Jack stands up. "I'm Jack Patrick. I'm a Homo Sapien , or-“
“Human.” Twilight interrupts.
“Y-yeah. How did you know that?” He asks, pretending to be surprised.
“I visited a world full of your kind before, which was called Earth. Although, ironically the one I visited was in a different dimension and not yours, and the humans that I first saw were multicolored instead of...well, you know.”
“Oookaaay.” Jack says, pretending to feel weirded out. Now I definitely know that Equestria Girls is canonical with the show. He thinks with astonishment.
“Well, anyway,” Twilight lets out her right hoof. "It’s nice to meet you, Jack Patrick."
After Jack notices that that is basically a handshake, he shakes Twilight's hoof. "I'm sorry I hit your hoof with the book. I got scared."
"That's okay." Twilight rubs her left hoof. "It’s just a bruise."
Jack then realizes something...his Twilight plushie is in his room, and if she went in and saw it, then what?
“Wait right here," He says, before rushing to his room.
He rushes inside his room and takes a quick look around for his backpack until finally, he sees it. Immediately, he grabs his backpack, rushes to the shelf that his Twilight plushie is sitting on, and stuffs it into his backpack before closing it.
Feeling assured that it’s concealed, he runs back to Twilight, who is looking at him with some suspicion for why he rushed off like that.
"I was just checking on my pet lizard." Jack lies.
"Okay." Twilight understands, although she still feels suspicious.
Jack grabs the book. "Is this yours?"
"No, but, it is actually what I came inside for."
Jack opens the book and reads the title. "Do you know of something called Mesozoica?"
"Not really. Although, I have learned that it’s a different place, possibly another world much like ours, but with different life forms.”
"Oh, well, that certainly makes things clearer. It does actually sound like a name for one,” Jack responds. “Then, you know who this ‘Starswirl the Bearded’ guy is?"
"Oh, yes I do. I rescued him a year ago. He’s a terrific and powerful unicorn wizard in Equestria, who also lead the Pillars of Old against the forces of evil.”
He flips the pages until he sees two with images of theropods with two tiny arms, as well as two clawed-fingers on each of them. Unlike the last creature, he actually finds the two to be extremely recognizable, and can even tell what they are: Tyrannosaurus Rex and Tarbosaurus .
A significant reason for how he’s able to tell is because the skull of Tarbosaurus is slenderer from front to back than a T-Rex, and the lacrimal has more of a domed shape. The skull of a T-Rex is much more heavily built and flares out abruptly at the back, and the lacrimal has a concave shape at the top. Also, unlike the T-Rex, not only that the Tarbosaurus is slightly smaller and less bulky than its North American cousin, but has a throat pouch for mating display.
He shows it to Twilight. "Do you know what these are?”
Twilight analyzes it. "I've seen one of them in cave drawings, but I have no idea what they are. Do you?"
"Yes, actually. The one on this page is Tarbosaurus . The one on the other page is a Tyrannosaurus Rex . Or T-Rex for short." He closes the book. "The animals here are dinosaurs, except for the reptiles that fly, the ones that swim, and-"
"How do you know so much about them?"
"Well, my Dad was a paleontologist. Together, we found fossil bones of dinosaurs and dug them up for like...forever."
"Where is your Dad?"
Jack suddenly becomes sad (for real) and shakes his head. "He died in a car accident when I was eight."
"Oh!” Twilight gasps, putting a hoof to her mouth. “I-I'm sorry."
“It’s okay.” Recovering from his sadness, Jack spots something shiny on Twilight's horn hidden under her mane. "Hey, Twilight? What's that on your horn?"
“Huh?” Twilight looks at her horn. "Oh." She pulls an object out of her horn to reveal a ring. "This is a ring that my friends and I found recently."
Jack becomes surprised (for real). "'Friends'? You mean...you're not the only one traveling light years to Earth?"
"Well, long story short: my friends and I were sent to Canterlot mountain by a magic map, and after we found the ring, we entered a portal. But, when we came to your planet, our magic disappeared. And while we were in town, the ring glowed on my horn. After that, I suddenly found myself in your backyard, and...well, you know the rest."
"Can I have a closer look?”
She thinks it over for a moment, before saying. “Sure.” Twilight hands the ring over to Jack.
He closely inspects the ring that is made out of a mix of pure gold and bronze, with carvings of triangles on it in a repeating pattern of right side up and upside down, and a dot at the center of each.
"Does this...ring happen to do anything special?" Jack asks.
"It tracked down the book I came here for. I guess that’s why it’s not working right now, because it teleported me to the precise location, which is your house."
"So, let me get this straight. This ‘magic map’ sent you and your friends on a mission, and you discovered this ring which made you all travel to Earth in order just to find this book I have?"
Twilight nods.
Jack puts the book on the table and grabs his drink. "So, how did you know about this?" He takes a sip.
"We’ve known about it after finding the spell to locate it, and... a little bit before Queen Chrysalis and her Changelings chased after us."
In shock, Jack tries his best not to spit out apple juice as he swallows it.
"You okay?” Twilight asks with concern.
"Yeah. I'm fine,” He composes himself, “So this ‘Queen Chrysalis' character is after you? Why?"
"I don't know. She wanted it so badly so she could take over my planet."
Jack puts the ring and the bottle next to the book. "Don't worry, Twilight. We'll find your friends in no time."
Twilight smiles.
"But first, I gotta call my friend, Will."
She gasps. "No, Jack. I don't think that’s a good idea."
"Twilight, he’s my best friend. I promise he won't tell anyone.” Jack assures.
“Well...” Twilight thinks it over in her head for a moment, nervous about this. But then, she concedes. “Alright.”
“Great. Now, you just wait here and don't touch anything. Copy?"
"I copy."
"Oh, and, uh, you could watch TV if you want. But, don't watch something that's not suitable for children."
"I'm seventeen." She deadpans.
"Just don't leave the house, okay? I'll be right back." And with that, Jack leaves the living room.
He walks down the hallway and heads straight to his bedroom and closes the door behind him.
When he’s sure that no one is around, his expressions of excitement are no longer contained. Right away, he grabs his phone out of his pocket, and looks for Will’s phone number in his Contacts app, intending to tell his best friend the biggest surprise of all.
Author's Note
The nodosaur that Jack saw in a book was a Denversaurus . The reason why he can't identify the genus because every species of dinosaurs belong in family groups related to the species like for example: in Jurassic Park, Alan Grant, who is holding a (scientifically inaccurate) Velociraptor hatchling, can't identify the genus until he asks Dr. Henry Wu what it is because there's more than one dromaeosaur in the family group such as Utahraptor , Deinonychus , and Dakotaraptor .
Also. I'm sorry for taking too long. My editor has some difficult time editing this chapter after I realize I forgot to use google docs. Maybe next time, I'll do it.
Jack Patrick: The Secret World of Mesozoica
Jack clicks Will's contact number on his phone. After just one press of the button, he waits for his friend to answer, but...there's no response.
Jack sighs. "Great! I forgot that he's at school."
Finding that calling Will would be a useless gesture, he texts Will instead.
Hey, Will, I want you to come over to my house. There's something I want you to see. Don’t tell anyone else about it, okay?
He sends it.
Before Jack's about to return to Twilight, his cell phone rings with a new number.
He answers. "Hello?"
"Hi, Jack. It's me, Emily."
Jack's surprised when his crush knows his number. "Oh, Emily? How did you know what my number is?"
"Your friend Will told me,” Emily explained. “I asked him what your number was, and he gave me a little piece of paper containing your number.”
Darn it, Will! Jack thinks.
"I heard you weren’t feeling well. Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine,” He answers, then wonders to the point of asking. “Are you in class?"
"No, it's lunch break,” Emily responds. “So, remember when I asked you yesterday if you could come over to my house after school?"
"Um…” He thinks for a moment before remembering. “Oh yeah! Yeah! I forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me. I’ll still come over, don’t worry,” Jack assures. “But, uh, Emily?"
"Yeah?"
"There's something I want to show you when I visit your house. Are your parents there?"
"No. My sister and Mom are visiting my grandparents in Alberta, I elected not to go since I’m staying at my house with my Mom's boyfriend."
"Mom's boyfriend?"
"Oh, my parents have been divorced for two years."
Jack chuckles. "Did not see that coming."
"So, you want to show me something, right? What is it?" Emily asks.
"You'll see, but don’t tell anyone else, okay?"
"Okay."
"Oh, and I just told Will about it too."
"Did you tell him not to tell anyone?”
"Yep, already did."
“Okay. I’ll send you a text when I get home. And don’t worry, whenever I come home from school, my Mom’s boyfriend is always out to work.”
"Okay. Bye, Emily."
"Bye, Jack."
Jack hangs up.
He looks at Rex, who is staring at his owner while he licks his own eyeball.
Jack walks over to Rex's tank, and he picks up a jar of crickets. "You really saw me stuffing my Twilight plushie, did you?" He whispers as he opens the jar. "I know, Twilight's real, but I just don't think I should tell her about the show or anything else involving it." He picks up three crickets, opens the tank, and he drops the crickets into the tank before closing it. "I’m gonna go do some homework."
Jack walks over to his backpack, zips it open, and he pulls out his algebra book and journal. When the books are completely in his grasp and they’re all the way out of the book, he zips his backpack up again.
While Jack is in his room, Twilight climbs on the sofa in front of the TV and sits on it.
She finds that the remote is lying right next to her. However, the one thing she remembers is...without magic or hands, it will be difficult to use the remote. Nevertheless, Twilight opts to use her mouth to grab the end of the remote. She lifts it as she aims the remote towards the TV cable. She puts her left hoof on the bottom of the remote, and she presses the power button.
The TV turns on, with a loud sound that made her jolt because of the volume.
What she sees on the screen in front of her right now is a man with a lab coat and goggles, showing his viewers how to combine some potions. But, when he pours the blue liquid into the red..it explodes.
Twilight rolls her eyes at this, believing that it isn’t giving off actual science at all.
She presses a button that says CH on it to switch the channel to find an anthro rabbit and duck arguing about something.
“Duck season!”
“Wabbit season!”
“Duck season!”
“Wabbit season!”
Finding this show to be of little interest, she flips the channel.
The next thing she comes across is a show where four large turtles are fighting a giant worm-like monster. But she found herself uninterested in it too.
She flips the channel and finds herself seeing a red & golden metallic man flying past some planes.
She flips the channel again, only unlike the other things she has already seen, this channel was showing a news reporter.
“And that concludes our broadcast day, where we give reports on the weather as well as give reports on what’s happening in the world,” The reporter says. “I’m Jerry Winston of the LTV News Channel 196, good day folks.”
She flips the channel again, but this time, she finds that she has come right in the middle of some kind of horror movie, where a really ugly and scary looking monster is chasing after a man and woman. The effects used on the monster are apparently so realistic, that they cause Twilight to jump and cover her eyes.
“Okay, immediate feeling of a nightmare coming while I sleep.” She says to herself with fright while the remote's still in her mouth.
With enough courage, and without having to look at the screen, she flips channels again, this time to find...two guys (one with blonde hair and goatee and wears black glasses, and the other with a tan goatee, wears a black flat cap and glasses) talking about their experiments.
Twilight drops the remote as she shows interest in this TV show which is called 'Mythbusters', the image of that monster from before fading away.
Jack walks into the living room with his journal and algebra book. "You're watching Mythbusters?"
"If that’s what it’s called, then yes." Twilight replies. "This really interests me."
Jack walks to the table and sits on it. He opens his algebra book and turns the page to chapter 5, where his homework paper is, and pulls it out.
As Jack's doing his homework, he's having a hard time doing it. Sometimes after school, Will helped Jack with his algebra homework since Will's an expert on mathematics and physics.
"I wish Will was here." Jack groans.
Hearing his groan, Twilight turns to Jack. "Whatcha doin’?"
The abruptness of Twilight’s question makes Jack jolt a little. He turns around to see her wondering what he is up to.
"Oh, just trying to work on my homework." He explains.
"You have school today?" Twilight asks.
"Well, today's Thursday, so...yeah."
His answer causes the Alicorn to get confused. "Well, if you’re supposed to go to school, how come you're here at home?"
"I had to call it in sick. Last night, I wasn’t feeling too well.” Jack explains.
“Why?” Twilight asks.
“My mind, for a reason I have no idea what the cause was, had a mind of its own and it caused me to get knocked out. By the time I woke up, it was around eleven."
“Oh,” Twilight understands. “Well, I’m sorry you had to miss school, then.”
“It’s alright. I actually like being out of school more than in it.”
Twilight hops out of the sofa and she trots over Jack. "You need help with your homework?"
Jack looks at Twilight, filled with surprise by her question. "Excuse me?"
"You are having a hard time with your homework, aren’t you?"
Jack sighs. "I'm not as smart as Will, who is an expert on math and physics. Do you... study?"
"Well, I am an expert on magic mostly, but I'm also an expert on science, math, and Equestrian history."
"So...can you... help me with my work?"
"Sure."
With that, Twilight goes to get a wooden chair that is sitting next to the doorway to the living room, and she pushes the chair right next to Jack and sits on it.
She looks over at what Jack’s homework is. “So, Algebra, huh?"
"Yeah. You take any algebra classes?"
"Of course. The time I started was when I was a filly, before I got my cutie mark and went into magic school."
"Wow,” Jack says with astonishment. “Kinda reminds me of those Harry Potter books."
"Harry Potter?” Twilight says with confusion. “I've never heard of that. Does it have ponies too?”
Jack gives Twilight a smirk upon that question, mainly because, ironically, the series doesn’t focus on ponies.
"You sure you know about algebra?" He asks to change the subject.
"I got an A in my math class, so that should qualify."
"How about science?"
"Just a B."
"Oh."
"What's your favorite subject from school?" Twilight asks, tilting her head to the right as she does.
"Biology." Jack answers.
"That’s great. It must be really fun to know a lot about animals."
"Well, I'm not really an expert on microorganisms and plants. I have mostly been more into extinct animals."
"I have a friend of mine who knows a lot about animals. Her name is Fluttershy. She also loves animals to the point of taking care of them, and trust me, you do not want to irritate her."
Jack knows who Fluttershy is and her behavior, though he does use his own acting skills to give a look of confusion. "Right. I have a friend who helped me with my biology homework during lunch one time. She's an expert on biology, and she loves animals too."
"Like Fluttershy?"
"Yeah."
"What's her name?"
"Emily Ridley. She's... a nice girl, and-"
Twilight smirks. "Do you like her?"
Jack becomes nervous by this. “What!? No, no, only as a friend. Do you have a crush on somepony?"
Twilight’s eyes widen nervously. "What!? No, no, I don't!"
He raises a mischievous eyebrow at her and smiles. He knows Twilight has a crush on Flash Sentry since the first Equestria Girls movie, though he does feel disappointed that her human world counterpart doesn’t share the same feelings for him or that the pony world counterpart of Flash Sentry didn’t share the same feelings for Twilight.
Twilight clears her throat. "So let's get on with your homework, okay?"
"Okay."
And with that, they get started.
Deep in the forest, Starlight, Spike and the rest of the Mane 6 explore, trying to find Twilight and make sure she’s alright. They have been looking everywhere for her for hours. Pinkie even tries looking under a rock for Twilight by somehow sliding herself under it.
“Twilight!? You there!?” She calls out.
No response coming, Pinkie finds that Twilight obviously isn’t under the rock.
When she slides herself out, her time under the rock reveals that she’s flattened her face and she’s covered with bugs. So, she uses one of her hooves to blow herself up back to normal and then shakes her head like a dog to get the bugs off.
"Twilight!" Applejack calls.
"Twilight!" Rainbow calls.
"Girls! Keep it down!" Starlight hisses. "We don't want to draw any attention to ourselves."
Rainbow faces Starlight as the group stops. "Are you kidding me!? Twilight is lost, and all you’re telling us to do right now is keep it down?! You don't even know where Twilight is, do you?"
Starlight glares at Rainbow. "How should I know where ponies teleport? And besides, we're on an alien planet with no magic, remember!?"
Applejack shows up between Starlight and Rainbow and pushes them back. "Will you two just knock it off!? Arguin’ doesn't help when we're tryin’ to find our friend!"
"Really, Applejack!" Rainbow flatly says. "Then how are we supposed to find Twilight without magic? How come I go find her and bring her back here ten seconds flat when I have wings that can’t help me fly!?"
"Knock it off! Both of you!" Spike shouts. "Listen to what Starlight says. If we don't stop arguing and focus on finding Twilight, there's no telling what will happen to her."
"No, Spike. Rainbow's right." Starlight says. "Without magic or flight, we'll never find her in time."
"Maybe Twilight teleported to where the book is located," Pinkie says.
Starlight's surprised. "How did you know that?"
"Just a hunch."
Despite Pinkie saying that it’s just a hunch, Starlight can’t help but feel that Pinkie is right. The ring must have teleported Twilight to where the book is.
"Come on, guys." Starlight says. "We have to find Twilight before the changelings do!”
They continue to move on, no longer just walking, but walking really fast or trotting.
I wonder what Twilight's up to? Starlight thinks. I mean, if humans have found her, then...there's no telling what they'll do to her.
Author's Note
The next chapter will be available soon. Stay patient.
Also, in the TV part, my editor came up with an idea of Twilight changing the channels, and I found it quite funny to me, but it is not some sort of joke or pun because it's 'real life'.
Jack Patrick: The Secret World of Mesozoica
In Jack's room, hours after he finishes his homework with help from Twilight, Jack is on his computer playing Minecraft, while Twilight's on Jack's bed reading one of his books; it and every other book being non-fiction.
Twilight is reading a dinosaur book. "Wow! I've never seen any animal like these. So these are dinosaurs, right?"
"Yeah," Jack replies.
"Well, some of them look like dragons, but yet, all of them don't have wings...well some of the smaller ones do, but only with feathers."
"You have dragons in Equestria?" He asks, acting like he’s inquisitive.
"Well, I have a friend who is a dragon. His name is Spike, and he's just a juvenile."
"Wow. I thought dragons were merely a myth."
"Excuse me?" Twilight asks, raising an inquisitive eyebrow.
"I mean, there have been many stories about people of the medieval times fighting dragons, but...I never thought they were real."
Twilight's surprised. "How do your people know about dragons then?"
Jack pauses the game. "Well, this is... strange. People think dragons are real, but it turns out...they are. Only they’re also extraterrestrials from your home planet."
"Your home planet does seem to be the same, mostly anyway. Except...it doesn't have magic. Do you believe in magic?"
"Kinda." Jack answers. "I mean, I have known that there are many who try to practice it, like witch doctors, but I always thought magic was the rarest element in the universe."
"Something tells me our planet is connected somehow. I mean, the plants and animals look very similar to the ones in Equestria."
"It's called convergent evolution. It's where unrelated or distantly related organisms evolve to have similar body forms, coloration, organs, and adaptations. It's kinda like when God made a crocodile with fins of a dolphin and a tail of a shark. Maybe your planet looks very similar to Earth with similar ecosystems; that must be how these organisms look almost the same except for the fact your kind is the dominant species on your planet."
"Ponies aren't the only ones who are the dominant species. We have Griffins, Minotaurs, Dragons, Mules, Donkeys, and some other creatures who are sapient."
"What about primates?"
Twilight shrugs. "I don't see sapient primates, not even humans. I've heard that you humans are apes, is that correct?"
"Well...I wouldn’t say that,” Jack says, becoming nervous because he doesn’t quite know how to put it, “I mean, humans and apes do have some similar characteristics, but, we’re not entirely related to them.”
"Oh.” Twilight says. “Well, are there sapient dinosaurs?"
"I don’t think so. In fact, the chances of that are slim,” Jack explains, “We've heard that the Troodon is the most intelligent dinosaur ever, but we've never found any fossil evidence of them using tools and weapons during the Mesozoic era."
"So the dinosaurs were already extinct for sixty-five million years, right?"
Her question surprises Jack because he has no idea how she could know that. “How did you know?"
Twilight shows Jack an image of an asteroid hitting Earth and the extinction of the dinosaurs. "It shows it right here on this page."
Jack chuckles. "Right."
On Jack's desk, his cell phone vibrates.
"Hey, Jack? Someone's calling you." Twilight says.
Jack takes off his headphones. "Oh, okay. Thanks."
He stands up from his chair and he walks to his phone right next to Toast Plushie.
Twilight giggles when she sees a funny-looking toy. "That's a funny-looking stuffed animal. What is it?"
"Oh, it's a Toast Plushie. I got it online."
"It looks like a, uh... K-arno...ta-ur?"
"Carnotaurus ." Jack corrects as he picks up his phone. "Close enough though, I’ll tell ya that."
"Right. Thanks."
Jack glances at the text message which is from his Mom, and he becomes wide-eyed with fear upon what he’s reading.
Hi, Jack. I'm off from work. I'll be home in about five minutes.
Jack gasps. "Oh no!"
"What's wrong?"
"I-It’s my Mom. She'll be home shortly.” He exclaims with real worry.
Twilight gasps. "Oh my goodness, I forgot! What should I do when your Mom gets back?"
Jack turns to the window, and from there, he sees his backyard. "Follow me."
They walk out of Jack's room. Then, like it’s a race against time, they run towards the back door.
When they arrive at the back door, Jack opens it up.
“Just hide in the bushes. Hurry!” Jack quickly says.
"Okay." Twilight runs towards the bushes.
"And if you need me, go to the right side of the house. My bedroom window's in between two windows," Jack calls.
"Got it!" Twilight dives into the bushes.
"Don't let my Mom see you. And if she's outside don't move a muscle."
Like a meerkat popping out of a hole, Twilight's head emerges out of the bushes. “Got it!" She replies before her head disappears back into the bushes like a meerkat.
"Good luck!" Jack tells her.
Quickly, Jack closes the door behind him, before suddenly sliding his back down the door, sitting on the floor, and sighing.
He’s glad that that Twilight is at least safe for now, but he’s worried that she’ll suffer from the cold outside.
As if to take his mind off of the whole thing, Jack glances at the table to look at the book, and the ring on top of it, wondering what to do with them.
Something in my gut tells me that the ring and book are connected somehow. He thinks.
He walks over to the table and picks up the ring, deciding to have another look at it.
He glances at the symbols. “Triangles and a dot in the center of each? I wonder what that means?”
Before Jack could look into the book and find something related to the ring, the front door opens.
"Jack! I'm home!” His mother calls out.
Quickly, Jack puts the ring into his pocket and grabs the book, before running off to meet up with his Mom, not wanting to keep her waiting or course her to wonder why he wouldn’t come to see her.
He arrives a distance from the front door to see his Mom closing it. This time, she’s wearing a violet office dress.
"Hi, Mom." He greets.
"Hey, Jack.” She greets, locking the door behind her. “You feel better?"
"Yeah." Jack says. “So... can I still go visit Emily's place?"
"As long as you take your phone with you, then yes."
"Great!" He walks to his room.
"And if anything bad happens to you, I'll call the cops.”
"Okay." Jack shuts his bedroom door behind him.
When Jack glances at the window, he sees Twilight outside. Jack looks at the door and puts his ear against it to make sure his Mom is out of his room. He walks to the window and opens it.
"Is the coast clear?" Twilight whispers.
"Yeah," Jack says.
Out of nowhere, a chilly wind suddenly makes itself known, and it causes Twilight to shiver because of how chilly it is.
"Jack, I'm... freezing," Twilight says to him.
"You could sleep in my closet." Jack offers.
Suddenly, a growling noise coming from Twilight’s stomach makes itself known to both Twilight and Jack.
Twilight chuckles and blushes with nervousness. "Could I have something to eat too?"
"Sure,” Jack replies. “How do carrots sound?”
"Oh, um, pretty good. Thanks."
And with the arrangement set in motion, Jack closes the window, leaving Twilight to conceal herself in the bushes again.
Meanwhile, Starlight and the gang trek past the trees, searching for Twilight.
As they trek though, Starlight can’t help but have a feeling about this planet. A feeling of...familiarity.
As if to confirm her thoughts, she suddenly sees a dandelion on the ground. She also suddenly hears a chittering sound above her.
Looking up, she finds a grey squirrel up on a tree branch, watching her and her friends before scurrying along with an acorn in its mouth.
"Hey, Fluttershy? Does this place seem familiar?" Starlight asks.
"Well... maybe,” Fluttershy answers, “Why?”
"Something tells me that this planet is so similar to ours,” Starlight explains, “The plants, animals, all of them look similar."
"Hmmm...” Fluttershy thinks, “Maybe it's convergent evolution."
"Well, it's more than that. I've heard that other habitable worlds are very different compared to ours, but this world... to me, it doesn't look as alien as one would expect."
"You mean... it looks almost the same?"
"Kind of. Except for the fact that humans are the only species that can... speak?"
"This is kind of strange, what with this world not being as different as our world.” Fluttershy comments.
Fluttershy and Starlight put their hooves on their chins in thought, trying to figure out what this could mean.
“Hey, guys,” Rainbow says to catch their attention, “Wouldn’t it be better to think about that later after we find Twilight?”
“Rainbow Dash is right, Darlings,” Rarity agrees, “When we find Twilight, we can think more about this situation later. Perhaps we could ask her if she knows something about it as well.”
"Well, at least those changelings aren’t after us now,” Pinkie says, and giggles, “We probably won’t be seeing them again in another million years.”
“Pinkie, how can ya be so sure?” Applejack asks.
“Oh, I’m not. I’m just hoping.”
Applejack blinks. “Oh.”
“Well, it might be shorter than that.” A voice sounding like Starlight says.
Pinkie and the others direct their attention to Starlight. “What do you mean, Starlight?”
“What? I didn’t say anything.” Starlight says.
“Actually, it was me.” A voice sounding like Rainbow says, with Rainbow herself looking around like she’s hearing things.
“Honestly, Rainbow, what’s the idea of the ventriloquism and impersonation of Starlight rolled into one?” Rarity questions Rainbow Dash.
“Hey, it wasn’t me.” Rainbow defends.
“Yes, it was.” A voice sounding like Spike says.
All eyes turns to Spike, with Rainbow’s eyes making daggers at the dragon.
“Spike, I don’t do any ventriloquist acts nor impersonate my friends like this. Why are you accusing me?” Rainbow questions.
“I wasn’t accusing you, Rainbow, honest,” Spike quickly insists, “I know you didn’t do it, so why would I say you did?”
Suddenly, some scary and evil cackling makes itself known, frightening the others.
“Wh-Who’s that?” Spike asks with fright.
Suddenly, as if fate decides to answer Spike’s question, the three changelings from before appear in their views, having camouflaged themselves to blend in with the surrounding trees.
They look upon the heroes with malicious grins.
“Nice to see ya again,” The Changeling leader says, “We literally thought you drowned, but then, we heard your voices while we were here. But, as they say, ‘If at first, you don’t succeed. Try, try again’.”
The changelings growl at our heroes and position themselves like they’re ready to pounce on them.
"RUN!" Starlight yells.
The gang turn and run to the opposite direction, screaming as they do. They run faster than their enemies anticipated.
The changelings pursue them quickly.
In about a few yards of running, Fluttershy, who is behind the gang, suddenly feels herself get caught on something, and it causes her to trip with a jolt. She turns to find that her tail is caught by some thorns on a bush.
She hears the changelings getting closer and closer, and she becomes all the more scared. With a couple of tugs, she gets her tail unstuck. However, the force behind the pull causes her to go tumbling down a ditch, screaming as she falls.
After a few tumbles, she falls and disappears into another bush with thorns, only bigger.
At the top meanwhile, the changelings pass by, not knowing Fluttershy is in the bush, and going farther and farther away.
The moment they disappear, the bush starts shaking. Fluttershy’s head and chest emerge out of the right side of the bush, covered in scratches from the thorns.
Realizing that her friends are way ahead of her, she tries to escape quickly. However, all of her legs are entangled by the branches, and the thorns are hooked to her skin. She struggles to get out, squeaking as she does so because of how scared she is and the pain the thorns are giving her.
Meanwhile, the changelings are still far behind the rest of the gang, persistently chasing after them despite the benefit of their victims’ head-start.
Suddenly, however...
The leader stops, “Hold it!”
But the others don’t. The sudden stop causes them to collide on their leader, and everyone falls on the ground.
The two others realize that they are on top of their leader, and quickly get up. After that, the leader gets up and dusts himself off.
“What is it, sir?” One of them asks.
“Take a sniff.” The leader responds.
And he and the others immediately sniff the air.
“You smell that?” He asks the others.
“I do!” The second one says, “It’s the pegasus with the pink hair, and she isn’t far behind!”
“I smell her too!” The first one says, “She must have gotten separated from the others.”
“You’re right. Come on,” The leader orders, and he and the others immediately go back the way they came. “With the others way ahead of us, the yellow one will be right in our grasp! Our queen will be so pleased.”
And they don’t waste any time in going back to where she is, despite having no idea how they passed by her in the first place.
Elsewhere, our loving and kind-hearted pegasus continues to struggle for freedom. But so far, every attempt has been to no avail.
Suddenly, Fluttershy's ears catch the slightest sounds of soft padding and growling, coming from the bushes to her right. Rustling begins to follow with that.
She turns to see what could be coming her way.
Then, like something out of a horror-thriller movie, a pack of coyotes emerge from the bushes, hungry and looking as menacing as one would expect. And their eyes...are set on Fluttershy.
She gasps with fright because she knows what they’re here for. She struggles again, but this time, it’s also accompanied by a scream.
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Author's Note
Sorry for taking too long. My editor's having a hard time editing this chapter so I hire DGJabberwocky to be my co-editor. He's one of my readers, and he says he's a journalist.
And don't worry; Chapter 10 will be available soon.
Chapter 9
It is 3:00 in the afternoon, and school has ended for the day.
When the bell rings, a multitude of students exit the building, among them being Emily. She walks out of the crowd of people, carrying her book bag on her shoulder and a book tucked under her arm.
She spots a school bench not very far from her and makes a beeline for it. Upon reaching it, she sits down and places the book in her bag. She then smooths out any creases in the light blue skirt she’s wearing, as well as the pink shirt she has on.
Emily gets up and walks to the student drop-off. She looks both ways to make sure no cars are coming, until the coast is clear. The girl walks across the street towards a fence. Behind the fence, there are a few trees, which is why she particularly likes to walk by it.
“Always great to be next to the trees,” She says to herself, “And the nice thing about this school around here: it’s only a couple of blocks away from home.”
Suddenly, Emily's iPhone rings from inside one of her skirt pockets. She fishes it out and takes a look at the screen to see who’s calling her.
She answers, "Hello?"
"Hey, hey, Em. It's me, Mikey-man."
Emily chuckles at his sense of humor. "Hi, Mike. I'm on my way home."
"Great.” Mikey responds, “Listen. I won't be at home when--"
"'When you come home from school'. I know, I know."
"I'll be home at seven tonight."
"Okay, bye." She hangs up.
After she puts her phone in her pocket, she continues to move onwards towards home.
“It’s a good thing I have a key to the house in case it’s locked,” Emily says to herself.
Meanwhile, Starlight and the gang stop running as they notice the changelings have stopped chasing them, and they breathe heavily from all the running.
"I think we lost them." Starlight says, catching her breath.
Spike continues gasping for air until he looks around and notices something.
“Wait, where's Fluttershy?" He says
Starlight and the rest of the gang realize Fluttershy is missing.
"I thought she was right behind me." Applejack says.
"Well if she's not here then..." Rarity says.
"...Fluttershy must have been captured!" Starlight finishes for her. "Come on, we have to save her!"
They run in the opposite direction to find Fluttershy.
As Emily is halfway to her house, a squirrel emerges out of the fence beside her. He scurries until he’s in front of Emily.
Emily smiles at the critter while crouching. "Aww! Hey there, little guy."
As the squirrel turns to Emily, she opens her backpack and pulls out a tiny ziplock bag full of peanuts.
She pulls out a couple of peanuts. "Are you hungry?" She offers them to the squirrel cautiously without scaring the critter. "Here."
The squirrel slowly approaches her palm, and then grabs a peanut before munching it.
Emily giggles. "Cutie."
But suddenly, just before the squirrel can finish its meal, a scream comes from the forest on the other side of the fence. The scream was so loud it causes the critter to run away. It sounds like that of a girl.
Emily stands up while brushing the peanuts out of her hands. She realizes it sounds like someone is screaming in terror.
Someone's in trouble! She realizes in thought.
Quicker than anything, Emily runs to the fence, and climbs over it before jumping to the other side. She quickly and carefully approaches the source of the screaming.
Meanwhile, a pack of hungry coyotes continue getting closer and closer to Fluttershy, who looks on fearfully at the predators.
Finally, the coyotes surround Fluttershy and the bush, growling as they stare at her with their yellow eyes.
“Um, H-hello there.” Fluttershy greets nervously with fear.
They growl menacingly in response, baring their teeth at her too.
“Y-you all look hungry,” Fluttershy comments nervously, “My name is Fluttershy, and, I’m not so sure you want to eat me, because...ponies like me, uh, lack nutrients.”
But the coyotes continue to stare and growl at her hungrily, almost as if they’re either ignoring her pleas or don’t understand her.
“Oh, dear,” Fluttershy exclaims, “I can’t understand what you all are saying, and you all must not know what I’m saying either. I guess my ability to fly isn’t the only thing that’s gone too.”
As if to further answer her question, the coyotes continue what they’re doing, causing Fluttershy to gulp with fear.
“HEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPP!!!!” she screams.
During that time, Emily carefully moves through the trees to investigate on the matter, when suddenly...
“HEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPP!!!!”
She hears a scream not very far from where she’s standing.
Quicker than ever, she continues to approach the direction of the scream, cautiously without making noises. At one point though, she moves so quickly through the forest, she accidentally bumps her head to a tree branch. She rubs her forehead because of the impact.
“No, no, no! Please, please don’t eat me, I’m too chewy!” the same voice exclaims, closer than ever.
Now knowing she’s close, Emily comes out from the trees to see...coyotes, surrounding something inside of a thorn bush.
Someone must be stuck inside that thorn bush! She realizes. I’ve got to help her. But how?
With a plan set, she brings out her iPhone from her pocket. She searches for an app that she’s intent on using, all the while, hearing whoever is inside the thorn bush continually calling for help, and the coyotes growling and snarling at their prey.
Finally, she finds the app that she’s looking for: her animal sound effects app.
If I can just find the right animal sound to scare those coyotes away, then they’ll run away like a pack of scared pups. She plans in her head.
She quickly scrolls through the app for the right animal sound. Elephant, no. Wild hog, no. Buffalo, no. Hawk, no. AH-HAH!
She finds the right animal sound at last. Cougar! Perfect!
She turns the volume of her phone all the way to high, and aims her phone right to where the coyotes are. And with one press of the button...
...cougar sounds emanate.
The coyotes immediately pick up the sounds of a nearby mountain lion, their ears perked high. Then, with scared pup-like whines, they make a break for it and hurriedly sprint away because they know cougars will actually eat coyotes.
When the coyotes are gone, Emily turns off her app.
Now, the only sound Emily can hear is the whimpers of the girl in the thorn bush, who quite likely got scared by the cougar noises.
Without a moment of hesitation, Emily runs to where the voice is coming from, all the way to the other side of the bush.
When she comes to the other side, to her shock, she comes across...
...a four-foot tall yellow pony-like creature, with a pink mane and tail, looking back at her with fright. It also has a tattoo of three butterflies on its flank, and bird-like wings. It was also trying to break free from the thorny shrub hooked onto its body.
What is this? Emily curiously wonders, Is this some kind of new species?
She continues to approach the new creature, the latter suddenly struggling harder, likely because of fright.
"Hey, hey, it's okay. I'm not gonna hurt you." Emily says softly.
The creature closes its eyes like it’s going to die.
"I know you're scared, but I promise, I won’t hurt you." Emily carefully grabs the creature's head as it shakes again. "Hey! Hold still, you’re making it worse!”
Carefully, but also with force, she gets the creature out of the thorny bush.
The two of them collide onto the ground.
After a few seconds, Emily gets up.
The creature, however, even as it looks back at Emily, is unable to move because of its injuries from the bush.
"Oh, you poor thing." Emily carefully approaches the helpless creature.
Suddenly, the creature speaks in a soft girly voice as it closes its eyes again. "P-please, don't hurt me!"
Emily reels back upon hearing that, "Did you say something?"
The creature doesn’t respond.
"Come on. I'm not gonna hurt you. I just want to help you."
The creature glances shyly at Emily without eye contact.
Emily tries to greet the creature. "My name is Emily Ridley. What's your name?"
The creature pauses. "I'm...I-I'm Fluttershy." The creature says quietly, unable to speak out loud.
"Sorry, what was that?"
"I'm Fluttershy..." She tries to speak out loud, but Emily couldn't hear her.
"Can you speak to my ear?" Emily carefully draws closer without scaring the creature.
She holds out her ear.
The creature speaks softly to Emily's ear. "Fluttershy."
"Fluttershy, huh? That's a cute name."
The pony doesn't say anything.
Emily glances at Fluttershy's wounds. "Are you hurt?"
Fluttershy nods a little.
"What happened? Did some predator attack you?"
Fluttershy nods again.
"Don't worry. I'll take care of you."
Emily is about to grab her carefully, but Fluttershy shudders.
"Hey, it's okay. I'm an animal expert. I can help you heal."
"You're an animal expert?" Fluttershy asks.
"Uh-huh.”
For a moment, Fluttershy thinks everything over in her head. She has no idea if Emily is to be trusted, but...she seems so nice.
Ultimately, she decides to trust Emily.
"Okay." Fluttershy complies.
Nearby, the changelings are in the bushes, watching a young female bipedal mammalian creature, which is named as 'Emily Ridley', picking up Fluttershy like a little child.
“No offense. But you sure are heavy.” Emily says.
Then, she heads off with Fluttershy in her arms
As they disappear into the forest, the changelings emerge out of the bushes. "Great! Just great! What would have been our first prisoner, is now taken by a mere two-legged child.” The first changelings says.
“If her and those coyotes hadn’t gotten in the way, then we would have grabbed her for sure!” The second changeling exclaims.
“What do we do now?”
"Well, I guess we either go after those two, go back to tracking down the others, or keep on searching for that book!" The changeling leader says before sighing, “I wish Queen Chrysalis could be here."
"Well then, wish granted." A familiar voice says.
They turn around to see their reproductive female changeling, Queen Chrysalis, and nine more of her workers standing behind them. However, Chrysalis doesn't look too happy.
Starlight and the gang make it back nearby to where Fluttershy got stuck in the thorn bush. But then, they stop when they hear someone talking from the other side of the trees.
"Shhh..." Starlight shushes quietly.
They take a peek and they see Queen Chrysalis talking to the three pesky changelings, and they're nine more changeling workers behind their queen.
"Oh no! It's Queen Chrysalis." Pinkie whispers.
"How did she get here?" Rarity asks.
"Quiet!" Starlight hisses.
The three changelings bow to their mother. "My Queen, so good to see you!" The changeling pack leader says. "How did you get here?"
"Nevermind that. Did you find the book?"
"Pardon?"
Chrysalis moves her faces close to the changeling pack leader's face with a glare. "Did you find it?"
"Uh... no?" He smiles sheepishly.
Chrysalis growls. "Do you have any idea what you have done!?"
"Uh... what're you talking abo-"
Chrysalis interrupts him by grabbing the changeling leader's neck and slams him against the tree trunk. "The Creator was awakened by someone who is the descendant of my arch nemesis!"
"What is she talking about?" Pinkie whispers.
"Shhh!" Starlight shushes quietly.
The changeling's about to speak, but Chrysalis interrupts him.
"No excuses!" Chrysalis shouts. "Help me find that book, or I will eat you alive, got it?"
"Okay... we'll find the book!" The Changeling exhales while choking.
"And that ring too? Who has it?"
"T-Twilight Sparkle."
Starlight gasps. Twilight's in trouble!
Chrysalis grins as she drops the changeling. "Well, I guess the only one, who has her brother's wedding ruined and got abducted, will be my slave. I will get my hooves on that artifact and then take over Equestria and the rest of the planet..." She glances around the place and it looks like Earth is a perfect planet to take over. "...and also, Earth and the rest of the habitable worlds in the Milky Way!" She cackles hysterically.
The Mane 6 and Spike are confused about what Chrysalis is talking about, but Starlight gets an unexpected feeling about Chrysalis and her species.
Chrysalis sniffs the air. "I smell something."
Starlight's gang gets nervous.
She sniffs the ground where the footprints are headed towards her right into the forest. "This way."
She follows the sent into the trees while leading her twelve workers.
As the changelings are gone, Starlight and the gang emerges out of the bushes.
"Oh no! We have to go find Twilight, or else she'll be in trouble!" Spike exclaims.
Starlight glances at the footprint Chrysalis smelt, but those footprints were shoe-prints that come from the direction the changelings are going, the prints stopped where hoofprints and drag marks from the thorned brush.
"I don't think she's after Twilight, I think those are human footprints. And it looks like he or she might've found Fluttershy."
"How did you know, darling?" Rarity asks.
"Those hoofprints and drag marks from the thorned shrub belong to Fluttershy, and those footprints that look like shoe-prints are human footprints."
"So you're saying that a human found her?" Rainbow asks.
"And it looks like Chrysalis is following the trail by smelling." Starlight says. "Come on, guys. We've got to follow Chrysalis before she captures Fluttershy."
The gang follows the changelings' path.
"There's something I don't understand, why would Chrysalis want to conquer Earth and other planets besides our world?" Spike asks. "Who is Chrysalis's enemy? And who is The Creator?"
"Whatever she's planning, I don't like it." Starlight says. "We got to find Twilight and the book right after we rescue Fluttershy."
"Sounds like a plan."
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As soon as Emily reaches her house, she unlocks the door and opens it. Stepping inside, she gently puts down Fluttershy before shutting the door behind her.
Emily wipes her sweaty forehead. "Phew! We made it."
Fluttershy stands up and looks around. "Wow! This is a huge house."
"Well, not that huge," Emily says. "Come on, let's go upstairs."
They walk towards the stairs. Fluttershy, however, is limping. Despite that though, she tries to catch up.
Emily stops for her. "You need a hand?"
"No, I’m alright," Fluttershy says, trying to reassure Emily, “I can catch up, I promise.”
"Fluttershy, you're hurt. I can help you."
She sighs. "Okay."
Emily walks over to Fluttershy and carries her again. She carries the pegasus upstairs.
After they make it upstairs, Emily opens her bedroom door and steps inside. Her room is filled with animal posters and decorations.
Fluttershy smiles because of Emily's decorations. "Oh my gosh!" She exclaims.
"I know, right?" Emily gently places Fluttershy on her bed. "I'll go get the first-aid kit. Be right back." Emily walks out of the door.
Fluttershy looks around the room to see all the posters of animals she recognizes, including zebras, lions, bears, dolphins, birds, cheetahs, and wolves.
"I didn't know humans could be so passionate about animals. This is amazing!" Fluttershy says to herself.
She then looks at the poster of three horses on the wall in front of her. Fluttershy’s expression changes from happy to curiosity when noticing that ponies have been on Earth too. Unlike her species though, they're non-sapient here on this planet.
Suddenly, an orange and white cat jumps up from the floor, climbing on the bed right next to Fluttershy before it makes it up the bed and looks at her curiously.
"Oh, hello there," Fluttershy says to the cat.
The cat pauses before it bunts Fluttershy as she giggles.
Emily arrives with a first aid kit. "Hey, Kelly." Emily puts down the first aid kit, and she pets her cat. "Don't bunt, you silly cat. She's injured."
The cat, which is named Kelly, jumps off Emily's bed before she walks away.
Emily picks up the first aid kit, and opens it before she picks up a box of band-aids and a bandage. "Let me see your hind legs."
Fluttershy sits on her flank, and sticks her frontal hooves outwards.
Emily picks up a bandage and she gently rolls Fluttershy's left injured hoof. "Oh, you poor thing."
"I-I tried to tell them not to eat me, but, they wouldn’t listen. What’s worse was that they likely didn’t understand what I was saying."
"Fluttershy, it's okay. They're just animals. Coyotes are just scavengers, and they found you trapped and vulnerable in the bushes."
After she's done wrapping Fluttershy's left hoof, she rolls her right hoof.
"So, what were you doing in the woods?" Emily asks. "You could've gotten killed today."
"I was with my friends, and we were looking for another friend of ours who went missing."
"And then you got separated? What predator attacked you? A wolf? Bear? Cougar?"
"No. Changelings."
Emily has a look of confusion. "What are changelings?"
"They're bug-like creatures that could change forms and feed on love from other ponies."
Emily laughs. "Very funny, Fluttershy."
"I'm serious. Don’t you believe me?"
"Predators only kill and eat their prey to survive from hunger, and there's no way they could feed on emotions. And, by the way, no animal on Earth can change their appearances. Although, I've heard that amphibians and insects can change during their life cycle like a butterfly. And some animals like chameleons and cephalopods can change skin color for camouflage. And insects used to become larger when the Earth had more oxygen than today." Emily changes the subject. "So, where did you come from?"
"I come from Equestria."
"And where's that at?" Emily finishes wrapping her hoof.
"Oh, right,” Fluttershy remembers, before clearing her throat, “I’m not from this planet."
Emily's surprised. "Wait, you're an alien?"
Fluttershy nods.
Emily stands up.
Fluttershy becomes nervous. "Um, is anything wrong?"
"This...is..." Emily then exclaims. "AWESOME! I can't believe I just discovered an extraterrestrial lifeform! Mankind has been studying other planets for years while trying to find other life out there, and it looks like I've found it!"
Fluttershy laughs. "You look excited, Emily."
"Excited? I'm extremely overjoyed! You're from another planet, and you look... like a pony. Unless it's convergent evolution, right?"
"That's what I said."
Emily grabs a chair from her desk and sits on it. "Well, except for the fact you have the wings of a bird, large forward-facing eyes, very short muzzle, human-sized head, and...you've got a tattoo?"
Fluttershy looks at her flank. "Uh, no, it's a cutie mark. Ponies have it when they find their special talents."
"So you're a...Pegasus?"
"How did you know?"
"I've heard of Pegasi from the children stories I heard when I was younger. So, what are your wings for?"
"Well, we use our wings to fly, but...you’re world doesn’t have magic, we can't fly without it."
"Wait, your planet has magic? So, that's what Jack said is the rarest element in the universe."
"Who's Jack?"
"Oh, a friend of mine."
"How come I can't fly without magic?"
"Well, most birds have wings that are longer and wider than their body, just to support flight. Your wings are smaller than the rest of your body which is why you can't fly."
"Oh, that's right. I had forgotten how different Pegasi and bird wings are from each other."
"Did you just say 'bird'?"
"Yes, why?"
"Do animals from your homeworld look the same kind as Earth's animals?"
"Yes, actually,” Fluttershy answers, “It is strange, really. I'm not sure why every creature on both of our planets look so alike.”
Emily suddenly remembers something. "Excuse me." She fishes her iPhone out of her pocket. "I gotta text someone."
"What‘s that?" Fluttershy asks with a cock of her head.
"It's a cellphone. We use it to communicate with someone from long distances." Emily opens her contacts, swipes down until she finds 'Jack', and she presses it before she texts. "You've never seen a cellphone before?"
"Well, our technology isn't as advanced as yours. We send letters to friends mostly."
"That's good." After Emily's done texting, she sends it. "So, are you hungry?"
"Of course. A fruit salad would definitely be nice since I’m herbivorous,” Fluttershy says, “What do humans eat, by the way?"
"Humans are omnivorous, but I happen to be a vegetarian," Emily says. "Can you walk?"
"I can try."
With unintentional grace, Fluttershy carefully slides down Emily’s bed, until she lands on both hooves.
Fluttershy slowly trots toward Emily. Her legs are fine, but she decides to walk slowly to allow herself more time to heal.
"I'm okay."
"Great.” Emily says with a thumbs up, “Let's go downstairs."
Emily and Fluttershy walk out of the room.
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While Mom's gone, Jack sits on his bed and looks through the book for clues about the ring. But, all he finds are images of prehistoric animals and writings that he doesn't have time to read. Twilight meanwhile is reading Jack's dinosaur book in front of Jack himself.
"You find anything, Jack?" Twilight asks.
"No. Just images of prehistoric animals. And just writing and stuff." Jack sighs in frustration. "Geez! I don't see anything related to the ring."
"Why don’t you just read it all?" Twilight deadpans.
"I don’t have time, Twilight. And these writings make no sense." Jack explains.
"Oh, I see." Twilight understands.
Jack closes the book, and he places it right beside him. "I hope Will and Emily can help us find your friends when they get back."
"Yeah."
"By the way, what're your friends' names? You know, the ones you traveled with." Even though Jack is only pretending to not know who Twilight's friends are, he wonders who else are traveling with her.
"Oh, well their names are Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Starlight Glimmer, and Spike." Twilight tells him.
"That's it?"
"Yeah."
Suddenly, the door knocks.
"Wait right here." Jack crawls out of the bed and walks out of the room, leaving Twilight to hide behind the bed.
Jack walks to the door and looks through the window behind the curtains beside the door, and he sees Will, now wearing his same hooded sweatshirt but he wears blue jeans, waiting outside.
Jack unlocks the door and opens it.
"Hey, Jack. I received your message." Will says. "What is it you wanted to show me?"
Jack pulls Will inside before shutting the door behind him, and locks it. "Will, before you see this, try not to freak out or get excited." He whispers.
Will's confused. "Okay. What is it?"
"Promise me you won't get freaked out."
"Okay, I promise."
"Good. Let me show you."
Jack and Will walk in, but the latter doesn't see Twilight. Will scratches his head, wondering what he’s supposed to be looking at.
Jack sighs. "You can come out now."
Before Will could say something, Twilight slowly emerges from behind the bed.
Will's eyes and mouth widen.
Twilight's nervous. "Um, is he okay?"
When Will starts to get excited, Jack drags him into the hallway. "Please, excuse me."
After Jack closes the door to prevent Twilight from hearing them, he says to Will.
"Oh my goodness! She's real!" Will exclaims quietly.
"I know, I know. But don't mention the show in front of her, and don't say her and the other ponies' names out loud in front of her until we meet them." Jack whispers. "How are your acting lessons from school”
“Oh, pretty good.”
“Great. Just put them to good use and pretend you have never seen her. Don’t mention Equestria yet either. Got it?"
Will takes a deep breath. "Got it."
Jack smiles. “Okay.”
Jack opens the door, and he and Will step inside.
"Is your friend okay?" Twilight asks.
Jack turns his head at Will and elbows him. Go on! Pretend you don't know her! Jack mouths.
Will clears his throat. "Sorry, I just...I’ve never seen a creature like you before."
"Twilight, this is my best friend, Will." Jack introduces Twilight. "Will, this is Twilight."
Twilight held out her right hoof. "Nice to meet you, Will."
Will shakes her hoof. "Nice to meet you too, Twilight."
"Anyway, let me explain." Jack picks up the book. "Twilight ended up getting separated from her friends, who came here for this book. She’s also using this ring..." Jack pulls out a ring out of his pocket. "...to track down the book."
"Wait a minute. She was after this book?" Will turns to Twilight. "How could you possibly know that?"
"It's a long story, but the cutie map lead us to the ring and I used it to track it down. We don't know what it does, but I noticed that Starswirl the Bearded wrote that." Twilight explains.
"What’s a cutie map? And who the heck is Starswirl the Bearded, anyway?"
Jack shrugs in frustration.
Will shrugs back. "I'm just saying."
He sighs. "Anyway. I messaged Emily so that she could see Twilight, and then we'll help her find her friends."
"And, now what?" Will asks.
Jack looks at the book. "And I guess we'll figure out what to do with this book."
"How about this," Twilight says. "After we find my friends, I'll bring the book to Equestria and bring it to Princess Celestia, asking her all about it."
Jack drops the book and the ring on the bed. "Wait, without us?"
"I'm sorry, Jack, but this is a pony mission."
"But, if you go out there without any magic or protection, you'll end up getting yourself torn to shreds."
"What're you talking about?" Will asks.
Before Jack could answer, his cell phone vibrates from the drawer. "I'll get it."
He walks over his cell phone and picks it up. He sees that it’s a text message from Emily.
“Hey, Jack. I'm at my house. But, when you come over, there's something I want you to see.” He reads,
"Who texted you?" Will asks.
"Emily. She said she found something." Jack says.
"What is it?" Twilight asks.
"I don't know. I guess we'll find out though." He turns to Will as he puts his cell phone in his pocket. "Hey, Will. Do you know Emily's address?"
"Sure. She's right across the street." Will says.
Jack flinches a little. "Really? How did you know?"
"I see her a bunch times when I’m at my house."
Jack blinks like he just came out of another world.
"Well, that was easy." Jack grabs the book and the ring. "Come on. Let's get to Emily's house." He grabs his grey light sweat jacket from the closet, and puts it on.
"Wait! What about me?" Twilight asks.
"Oh, that's right!" Jack says.
"How are we gonna hide her while we cross the street?" Will asks.
Jack rubs his chin in thought.
In the kitchen, Emily's making Fluttershy a fruit salad while Fluttershy's sitting on a table, waiting patiently for her food.
"Um, Emily?" Fluttershy asks.
"Yeah?" Emily says.
"Thanks for helping me."
Emily turns to Fluttershy with a smile on her face. "Aw! That's sweet."
Fluttershy blushes.
"This isn't the first time I’ve rescued an animal."
"Really?"
"When I was in Alaska while I was only nine, I was hiking in the mountains with my Dad. Suddenly though, I slipped and fell down the smooth slope until I landed into the river, luckily without any injuries. But then, I wasn't alone when I found a polar bear cub, stranded. He couldn't find his Mom, but he found me and he started to snuggle to me. He thought I was his mother. My dad found me and the polar bear, and we took him with us. After that, we sent him to the animal hospital. So, my dad raised him and called him 'Glacier', but he was imprinted by me since he found me. He snuggled with me every night when I was asleep, like he was a living blanket."
Fluttershy looks kinda sad. "So, what happened to the cub?"
"Nothing. Dad took care of him after my Mom, my sister, and I moved to Bozeman. My parents were divorced for two years. My mom wanted to move here, but, my dad didn’t want to take Glacier here because then he'll suffocate because of the warm temperatures."
"Oh, I see."
"Polar bears aren’t an endangered species, but I find that it’s better to protect every animal from extinction rather than just a few species. I want to grow up to be an environmentalist because I have a passion for animals."
"That's what I like to do. To help animals. I always take care of them at my cottage."
"That’s great.” Emily says, “Did you know that earth has several extinct animals from the past? Especially before humans existed?”
"Really?” Fluttershy raises a quizzical eyebrow, “How do you know that?"
Before Emily could answer, someone knocks on the door, causing Fluttershy to jump and hide underneath the table.
Emily crouches down under the table. "Fluttershy, it's okay. It's just someone at the door."
She didn't answer.
"Just wait here."
"B-but, Emily,” Fluttershy stutters, “I don't want to get caught."
"Don't worry, I’ve got your back."
Emily stands up and walks down the hallway, until she makes it to the door. She looks through the peeping hole and sees Jack, who is wearing a grey light sweat jacket, green shirt and blue sweatpants, holding the same book he found in the dumpster, as well as some sort of ring made of pure gold and bronze. Will, who wears the same hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans, is also waiting outside, but between them is some creature covered by a grey blanket.
Suddenly, the creature speaks in a groaning tone with the voice of a teenage girl. "This is ridiculous!"
"Just relax. No one noticed you under the blanket." Jack says.
I've heard that Jack wanted to show me something, but is that what he's talking about? Emily wonders.
Emily unlocks the door and she opens it. "Hi, Jack. Hey, Will."
Jack doesn’t speak, but shyly waves his hand.
Will elbows Jack. "Go on. Say 'hi'."
"I just waved at her!" Jack says.
"You can come in now," Emily says while stepping aside.
After Jack, Will and the creature under the blanket steps inside.
Before Emily can ask what Jack has, she shuts the door.
The creature removes the blanket in frustration.
This shocks Emily when the creature with Jack and Will is the same exact pony species as Fluttershy, but lavender with purple and pink highlight mane and tail, a horn on its forehead, and wings slightly longer than Fluttershy, and has a 'cutie mark' of a pink star.
"Oh my gosh, Jack! You've found another one?" Emily exclaims.
Jack raises an eyebrow. "Another--"
But then he hears someone with a familiar voice from the kitchen. "Hey, Emily, who's at the door?"
The lavender creature is surprised by that voice, like she knows who it is.
Fluttershy shows up and gasps. "Twilight!"
"Fluttershy!" The creature exclaims as she runs over to Fluttershy for a hug.
"We all thought you were dead!" Fluttershy says with relief.
The creature stops hugging and glances at Fluttershy's bandaged hooves. "What happened to you?"
As Fluttershy explains to her friend what has happened to her, Jack, Will and Emily walk to the family room to have a private talk.
"Emily, where did you find her?" Jack whispers.
"I found her alone in the woods. But, how did you find the other one?" Emily whispers.
"They're from the show." Jack explains before clarifying, “My Little Pony.”
"What!?"
"But don't mention the show out loud," Will says.
"Why not?" Emily wonders.
"We don't know what would happen if anyone of us do reveal the show. If they find out, it would most likely be disastrous,” Jack explains, “Now promise me we don't tell them all about it, okay?"
Emily nods. "Okay."
The three young humans walk back to the two ponies.
"Emily, this is Twilight Sparkle." Jack introduces Emily to the purple Alicorn.
"Hi, Emily. It's nice to meet you." Twilight lets out her hoof.
Emily recognizes that it was some sort of 'handshake', or 'hoof-shake' in their case, so she shakes Twilight's hoof before she turns to Jack and Will. "And, Jack, Will, this is Fluttershy."
Jack crouches down, trying not to scare her. He lets out his hand. "Hi, Fluttershy."
Fluttershy doesn’t shake his hand. Instead, she backs away frightened.
"Oh, Fluttershy's very shy. So, don’t harass her." Emily says.
Twilight turns to Fluttershy. "Don't worry, Fluttershy. Jack's here to help us find our friends."
"Really?" Fluttershy says.
"Uh-huh,” Twilight assures.
"Come on, guys." Emily walks to the kitchen as the rest follow her.
Nearby, Chrysalis emerges out of the bushes, only to see a backyard of some sort of house in the distance. Using the excellent vision that she has, she sees that inside are three young humans. But, the figures with them are what interested her, namely, Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle. As a bonus, one of the humans has the book and the ring she's looking for.
Chrysalis smirks. "You're mine now!"
The other changelings emerge out of the bushes beside her.
Author's Note
Oh no! Chrysalis and her changelings have found our heroes who had the book with them. What will happen next? Find out in the next chapter.
Jack Patrick: The Secret World of Mesozoica
Author's Note
Sorry, I took so long. My editor's having a hard time editing this chapter and this chapter is very long.
Thank you for your patience. Enjoy!
Chapter 13
In Emily’s house, Jack sits on a sofa in the living room, with Twilight laying on the floor across from Jack. In the meantime, Fluttershy and Will sit at the table in the kitchen.
"You guys want some lemonade?" Emily asks while at the refrigerator.
"No thanks," Twilight says.
"I already drank," Will says.
“I already drank too, so...I’m good,” Fluttershy speaks.
"I'll have one," Jack says.
"Okay, Jack," Emily says.
Jack glances at the family picture frame on the shelf next to the window in front of him. Unlike Emily, who is blonde with blue eyes, in the picture, her Mom is Korean; her sister, that looks to be her age, is half-Asian; and her Dad or step-dad, if Jack's not sure, is American with black hair, brown eyes, and a stubble beard.
Twilight trots over Jack and sits right next to him. "Hey, Jack? Are you sure that it's a good idea to trust them? What if Will and Emily tell everyone without us noticing?"
"There’s nothing to worry about, Twilight," Jack says. "They'll keep this between all of us."
"I'm just making sure we don't get exposed."
Emily walks over to them with two lemonades. "Here you go, Jack." She offers Jack a lemonade.
"Thanks, Emily," Jack says.
As Emily sits right next to Jack where he's between her and Twilight, he takes a sip.
"Wow! Your lemonade tastes great."
"That's what Fluttershy told me," Emily says.
When Jack finishes his lemonade, he notices that it’s empty.
He looks over to Emily, “Hey, Emily. Could I have some more?”
“Sure, go ahead,” Emily says with a shrug.
So with that said, Jack gets up and heads for the fridge, leaving Emily and Twilight alone for the moment. The both of them are still sitting between the spot where Jack was just sitting.
"So, Emily, why did you invite Jack over?" Twilight asks, “Any particular reasons?”
Emily blushes. "Um...we’re just friends. Thank you for asking though, um...What was your name again?"
"Twilight." The Alicorn says with a blink and head nod.
"Twilight. Thanks." Emily says to her.
For a moment, the two are once again silent, not knowing what else to say.
"I'll go meet up with Fluttershy at the table," Twilight says.
"Sure thing," Emily responds.
Twilight hops off the sofa and trots over to the table.
Jack walks back to the sofa with a new cup of lemonade in his hand. He sits on the sofa next to Emily.
He looks at the picture again. "Hey, uh, Emily?"
"Yeah?" Emily asks.
"Can I ask you a couple of questions?"
"Sure."
"Is that your Dad in the picture, or your Mom's boyfriend?"
"Oh, that's Mike. He’s my Stepdad."
"And also, why are you...different compared to your parents? Is your dad blonde?"
Emily giggles at the question "No, no. I'm adopted."
Jack turns to Emily in surprised. "Really?"
"Jack, I'm not an alien."
"I know you're not. It's just that..." Jack takes a sip of his lemonade. "I've never met an adopted person before."
"You have any brothers and sisters?"
"Just me."
"I have one sister, and her name is Sarah. And you know something? She's an energetic sweet tooth."
Jack glances at Twilight and Fluttershy on the table. "Like Pinkie Pie." He whispers to Emily to make sure no pony could hear him mentioning Pinkie.
"Who's Pinkie Pie?" Emily whispers.
"She's one of the characters from MLP, but you don't have to say it out loud." Jack changes the subject. "So, why did you want me to see me?"
"Well..." Emily scratches the back of her head. "You like dinosaurs, right?"
Jack nods.
"You see, I love animals, and I also study them. But, I haven't studied extinct animals such as dinosaurs."
Now that got Jack’s attention.
"You like dinosaurs?" He asks with a curious eyebrow.
"Yeah, I do. But, I haven’t taken the time to study them yet.” Emily explains.
Jack sighs. "If my Dad was around, he’d certainly go all-out in helping."
His expression turns to one of sadness at the mention of his Dad.
Seeing his forlorn look, as well as feeling bad for him, Emily puts a hand on his shoulder to comfort him.
"I know that it must be hard, losing your father a while back." Emily assures him, “I know what it’s like to lose someone you love.”
Again, Jack’s attention is caught by Emily.
"How did you know?"
Emily chuckles. "Your friend told me that."
Jack yells out to Will. "Darn it, Will!"
Will shrugs.
He turns back to Emily. "So...you want to learn anything about them?"
"Yeah," Emily replies, putting her hand down from Jack’s shoulder to her own lap.
Jack suddenly feels nervous and he sweaty. It’s not just because he's limited on dinosaur information compared to his Dad, but he has to tell his crush about paleontology. "Uh... well." He sighs. "Look, I'm not an expert. I only know some of the parts of paleontology. I can't tell most of the species of dinosaurs, except the common ones like T-Rex and Triceratops ."
"Jack, it's okay. My Dad's a Zoologist, and I don’t know everything he does."
"Well, even this book doesn't really tell the names of the dinosaurs." Jack shows the book to her. "Twilight and her friends came here for this."
"Really?"
Twilight hops off the chair table and trots over to Jack and Emily. "You see, the Cutie Map, which I'm pretty sure you don't know what it is, sent us to find this book. The ring that Jack has right now helped us to track it down. But when we came to Earth, our magic vanished; and during the middle of our journey, the ring itself teleported me to Jack's backyard."
Emily turns to Jack. "Let me see it."
Jack hands Emily the book.
"So what do you know about this book?" She opens it and flips the pages, only to find images of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals on some of them.
"Very little.” Twilight replies, “It was written by Starswirl the Bearded."
"Who's he?"
"He's a powerful Unicorn Wizard who leads the Old Pillars of Equestria to fight the forces of evil."
"'Forces of evil'? Like what?"
"Lord Tirek, King Sombra--"
Unseen by both girls, Jack rolls his eyes in annoyance and facepalms himself.
Unknown to everyone else, with the exception of Will, he doesn't want to hear the names of the villains because he hates the villains in the series. Which is why he hasn't seen the two-part episodes.
As much as he’d like to tell her to stop naming them, he decides to keep silent. The last thing Twilight and Fluttershy need is something to be suspicious about.
Emily finds something at the endpaper of the book. "Hey, uh, Jack? Have you seen this?"
"Seen what?" Jack asks like he’s just come out of somewhere.
"What is it?" Will asks as he and Fluttershy walk over to them.
Emily shows the endpaper of the book. It’s showing an emboss of a gold pentagon with five hexagon imprints around the sixth hexagon imprint, and above the Pentagon emboss is a ring imprint that fits the ring Jack has.
"What is it, Twilight?" Jack asks.
Twilight shakes her head. "I've never heard of this before."
Will points at the ring imprint. "What's that above the Pentagon?"
Jack pulls out the ring, and he uses it to measure the imprint. It fits perfectly.
"Do you think something happens when you insert the ring here?" Fluttershy asks.
"Only one way to find out," Jack replies.
Jack slowly puts the ring into the imprint. Suddenly, the ring glows, and then...flashes until it fades. The imprint is gone, but the ring isn't.
"That's weird," Twilight says.
"I told you I wasn't hallucinating," Jack says to Will.
"Is that...magic?" Emily asks.
"Definitely," Jack says as he picks up the ring.
Suddenly, they hear voices from outside. "Twilight! Where are ya?"
"What was that?" Will asks.
They stand up as Jack closes the book.
"That sounds like Applejack," Fluttershy says.
Jack walks to the window and scans the backyard. There's no one out there.
"It's gotta be Applejack," Twilight says. "Come on, Fluttershy."
Twilight and Fluttershy rush to the door, but Emily follows them. "Wait, something's not right!"
The ponies, unfortunately, ignore her.
Twilight opens the door and she and Fluttershy step outside. Emily tries to stop them.
"Twilight, Fluttershy, stop!" Emily shouts.
Suddenly, three four-foot tall strange black pony-like arthropods, with blue beetle-like shells, wasp-like wings, horns on top of their heads, two long saber-like fangs, blue pupil-less eyes with a nictitating membrane, a snake-like tongue, and holes on each leg, emerges out of the bushes.
Emily, Twilight and Fluttershy outside came to a stop, screaming, and Jack and Will close the curtains.
As the three creatures surround the three girls, Emily exclaims. "What the heck are those things!?"
One of the creatures gave a screeching roar.
"Changelings!” Twilight exclaims.
Jack and Will take a peek through the curtains.
"Are those...?" Will asks.
"Changelings. Yes." Jack sighs.
Then, nine more changelings leap over from behind the fence, and then an eight-foot-tall changeling leaps over with the other ones. It looked like one of the other changelings, but with green reptilian eyes, green-blue hair, long twisted horn, short fangs, and a light green beetle-like shell.
Jack gasps knowing who it or she is. "Queen Chrysalis. She’s… real!"
The changeling queen, Chrysalis, trots over to Emily and the two ponies.
"Get behind me," Emily whispers to the ponies. She turns to the female changeling. "Don't make a sudden move, or I will! Why not go hunt something else?"
Suddenly, Chrysalis speaks. "Where is the book?"
Emily gets shocked when Chrysalis speaks like the ponies, but she takes it out of her mind, knowing that she can talk like them. "Who are you?"
"Queen Chrysalis, the mother of all of the changelings, if that happens to be a satisfying introduction for you.”
They're Eusocial like bees, wasps, and ants? Interesting. Emily thinks.
"Now tell me. Where is the book?"
"Ixnay on the ookbay." Twilight whispers through clenched teeth.
Chrysalis glances at Twilight and smirks. "Well, well. If it isn't Twilight Sparkle."
Chrysalis is about to approach Twilight, but Emily blocks her way.
"Nobody, but me, and my friends, touches these two ponies!" Emily barks.
"We'll see about that," Chrysalis says.
Suddenly, three Changelings pounce onto Emily, Twilight, and Fluttershy, pinning them to the ground.
Jack turns to Will. "We've got to help them."
"We’ll have to fight in order to do it too," Will turns to see a wrench on the desk, and he runs over to it.
Jack turns to the book and the ring laying on the sofa. He knows that Chrysalis has come here for the book and the ring, so he grabs them. Then, he puts the ring into his pocket, and walks over to Will, who is holding the wrench.
"Let's kick their rear ends!" Will grins.
Jack opens the back door and they step out.
"Hey, 'Horsefly'!" Jack taunts.
Chrysalis and the changelings turn to the boys.
He holds out a book. "Looking for this?"
Chrysalis glares at Jack. "The book!"
The changeling queen charges towards Jack, but Will steps forward, blocking her way. "Stop right there!"
Chrysalis stops in front of Will.
"If you want that book, you’ll have to go through me first!" Will holds out the wrench like a baseball player.
Chrysalis's eyes become half-closed, and then...
SMACK!
Jack, Emily, and the ponies flinch when Chrysalis bucks Will in the groin, and after she blows his face, Will falls backward.
Jack laughs nervously. "Ya' know, um..."
Chrysalis grins at Jack.
Suddenly, Emily rolls over, knocking down the changeling on top of her, since it's half smaller and lighter than herself. She quickly gets up, and kicks the creature in the snout.
Chrysalis turns her attention to Emily as she kicks the changeling pinning Fluttershy off of her, and then the other off of Twilight.
Jack grabs the wrench from Will. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine." Will groans in pain.
The other nine Changelings charge towards them as Emily and the two ponies run up to Jack. Chrysalis turns her body toward Emily's group as they stop.
Jack taps the walls to draw Chrysalis's attention, to which he succeeds.
"You want that book?” He asks her as he holds it in the air, her only response being an angry looking growl and scowl. “Come and get it!"
Chrysalis roars at Jack.
"Everybody, inside!"
Emily and the two ponies rush right past Chrysalis, heading straight through the door, but not before helping Will up and dragging him inside.
The changeling queen turns to the three fallen Changelings that are trying to get up. "Seize them!"
The three changelings pursue Emily's group, but Emily herself slams the back door and they crash against the door without bursting through it due to their own weight.
Jack runs to the shed while Chrysalis and the nine changelings follow him.
After Emily turns off the lights, she, Will, Twilight, and Fluttershy run behind the wall, out of the kitchen, and hide. Emily puts her finger on her mouth to tell them to be quiet. She takes a peek around the corner to see the wooden back door with a lever handle.
Suddenly, the doorknob slowly turns downwards.
Emily facepalms her forehead, Why didn’t I think to lock the door?
Before she can rush in and lock it, the doorknob clicks and the door slowly opens. Emily quickly moves her head behind the wall, turning to the group.
She makes several motions and waves with her arms and hands, telling the others to follow her. At first, it’s a little hard for the others to understand, but, they get it.
As the three changelings enter the house and pass by the wall our heroes are hiding behind, Emily's group quietly rush towards the stairs to their left. They quietly tiptoe upstairs. They make it halfway up the stairs, but, with one floor creak from Emily’s foot, the changelings downstairs hiss. Nevertheless, Emily and the others continue to run upstairs quietly until they make it to the second floor.
Emily points to her parents' room.
“This way." She whispers.
They rush in and hide behind another wall. They hear the stairs creak from downstairs.
The changelings make it to the second floor. One of the changelings take a sniff, some certain scents causing him to turn to the bedroom. They are the smells of two humans and two ponies. The changeling rushes into the bedroom, hissing after bursting through the door. But, there's no one in here.
"What is it?" the changeling leader asks.
"I thought I smelled something." The first changeling says, taking another sniff,
"Well, they’re hiding somewhere in this house. Keep looking."
As the changelings keep looking around, they're unaware of Emily and Fluttershy hiding under the bed, while Will and Twilight hide in Emily’s closet on the top shelf. Each of them are careful to not make any sounds. Their faces blend in the darkness, and the dust masks their scents.
The changeling in the bedroom steps into the bathroom to look around, the second changeling investigates Emily's room while their leader stays in the hallway on the lookout.
Will, meanwhile, continues to keep as silent as possible. However, his nose starts to feel tickled because of dust floating into it. He feels like he’s going to sneeze.
“AH-AH-AH-” but before he can sneeze, Twilight uses her wing to cover his nose and keep him from sneezing.
His urge to sneeze leaves him thanks to Twilight, and he gently and quietly exhales, feeling much more relieved.
Knowing that Will won’t sneeze now, Twilight wipes her forehead with a hoof like she’s wiping a bead of sweat off.
However…
“ACHOO!” Twilight sneezes.
She covers her mouth and nose with her wings, knowing now that her sneeze is loud enough to alert the changelings.
And she’s right.
The changelings have heard Twilight’s sneeze, and they turn towards the closet, knowing that that’s where it has come from.
It does not go unnoticed by Fluttershy and Emily either. They look on with horror as the changelings stalk towards the closet.
I can’t let this happen, Fluttershy thinks to herself, If nothing is done quickly, Will and Twilight will get caught! They need help!
Quicker than anything, and with a feeling of bravery, Fluttershy crawls out of the bed.
"Fluttershy, wait!" Emily whispers, trying to stop her.
But it's too late.
With all of the speed her legs can carry her, Fluttershy runs right out the door, but not before willingly knocking the changeling leader into the wall, bonking his head. She makes a run straight downstairs.
The leader meanwhile comes out of his daze, and he follows her without a moment of hesitation. The remaining two changelings see that their leader is on the move.
But, before they can follow, Emily rolls out of the bed.
"Hey, you ugly freaks!" Emily taunts as she quickly stands up. "Have some fresh meat!"
The first changeling leaps toward Emily, but she avoids it as it slams against her Mom's miniature lamp drawer without knocking the lamp over. The second changeling pounces onto Emily. She falls backwards while struggling to get this creature off.
Twilight emerges out of the closet. "Hey you!"
The changeling turns to Twilight. But, before it can react, Emily uses all of her strength to throw the creature off, causing it to crash against the bookshelf.
"Thanks, Twilight," Emily says as she stands up.
The first changeling who has landed against the lamp drawer stands up and starts charging towards Emily again. Before he can even get close enough, however, Will quickly gets out of the closet, and throws a baseball at the creature’s head, causing the baseball to hit him with a smack.
“OW!” The changeling exclaims, and he turns towards Will with a growl.
Then, in the blink of an eye, Emily gives the changeling a low reverse roundhouse kick, causing him to get knocked in the air until it falls backwards, knocking him out slightly.
Twilight and Will can’t help but look at Emily with shock and amazement because of that.
“I didn’t know you do karate.” Will comments.
“Yes, well, I take some lessons in my spare time.” Emily answers.
“Oh.”
Emily hears Fluttershy screaming downstairs. "I'll go save Fluttershy; you two hold them off." She rushes downstairs.
Before the changeling that Emily karate kicked can stand up, Twilight bucks it in the face. Then, Will quickly lifts the creature like carrying a dog, and throws it towards the second changeling in front of the bookshelf, crashing into it.
"That'll keep them busy!" Will says.
"Come on. Let's go downstairs and help Emily." Twilight says.
Twilight and Will run downstairs.
Outside, Jack runs to the backyard shed. He opens the door, quickly steps inside, and closes it behind him.
He takes some extremely deep breaths because of all of the running he has done and the exhilaration of being chased. He feels like a balloon being blown by air going up and down.
He stops breathing, and begins to feel relaxed.
Just as he is feeling safe inside, a changeling bursts through a window to his right and lands between him and the door. The changeling snaps its jaws at Jack, but he avoids it as he backs away from the changeling.
He quickly grabs an old wooden door panel and uses it as a shield. The changeling rams against the door, and the force knocks over Jack before he falls into a pile of old junk. Suddenly, a raccoon pops out of the pile right next to him. Angered, it pounces on the changeling's face.
As the raccoon distracts the changeling attacking it, Jack rushes to the shattered window and quickly climbs out of it. But then, three more changelings surround him. Jack turns right and runs toward the tree right past them just before their jaws snap at him. When he hides behind it, he hears buzzing sounds from behind the tree, and it doesn’t sound like the buzzing sounds of the changelings. He glances at the tree trunk only to see a lone honeybee.
The changeling shows up next to Jack to his right and he runs around the tree. He is cornered by two more changelings. He hears multiple buzzes from behind him, and glances back only to see a medium-sized hole in the tree. Inside, is a beehive.
Jack turns to the changelings as they're going in for the attack. "What're you waiting for?"
One changeling leaps forward and he jumps to his left before he lands on the ground belly first. The changeling misses its attack; instead, it lands against the beehive, and a swarm of angry bees attacks him and the other changelings by stinging them. The swarm is so relentless in their attack, they don’t notice Jack crawling ten feet away from them and the hive.
Another changeling shows up to his left, but he grabs a thick stick to his right and smacks the creature in the face before he gets up and kicks it to the ground. Jack rushes off, but then...four more changelings show up and surround Jack.
Finally, Chrysalis corners him. She steps forward right past the changelings in front of Jack. "Give me the book, human!"
"Or what?" Jack says. "You changelings are no match for the super intelligence of us humans."
Jack tries to punch Chrysalis, but she blocks his attack with her left hoof. Then, she punches him in the face with her right hoof. He falls on his back, and after a few seconds of being on the ground, the shadow of Chrysalis looms over him.
"You were saying,” Chrysalis says, “In all seriousness, there’s no way you can get through me . I am a very quick and agile individual who knows every fighting move in the book. Any half-wit can see that .”
After Jack quickly gets up, he glances at the changelings surrounding him. He realizes that the queen is fast, but, her workers aren't. Jack quickly turns right and shoves the changeling out of the way. He keeps on running towards the shed.
"Get back here!" Chrysalis chases after Jack.
He then climbs on top of the shed; however, Chrysalis leaps on top of the shed with him using her wings for support.
In the kitchen, the changeling leader continually tries to get Fluttershy as they both keep running around a counter.
"Get back here!" He exclaims.
Fluttershy continues her run, until it seems like she and the changeling are going in a circling blur. Just when it appears that the circle will be going on for an eternity, Fluttershy hops onto the kitchen counter, taking some deep breaths because of how much energy she has used in her speeding.
She wipes a bead of sweat off of her forehead with her wing.
All of a sudden, the changeling hops on top of the counter to face Fluttershy, frightening her to where she screams. He roars at her, which only causes her to feel more frightened.
Just before he can attack Fluttershy...
Kelly the cat suddenly jumps out of nowhere between Fluttershy and the changeling. She hisses at him and arches her back, trying to get the changeling to back away.
But, the changeling doesn’t feel threatened in the least bit. He lowers his head down and growls at her. He does not realize though that putting his nose and muzzle so close to Kelly will cause a lot of consequences.
With a large cat yowl, she swipes really fast at the changeling and scratches him on the nose. The pain of the scratch causes him to scream, and he puts his hoof to his nose.
While he is distracted, Fluttershy rams into him and pushes him off the counter, making him fall on the ground.
She breathes heavily from all of the exhilaration. Then, she feels something rubbing against her chest. She looks down to find Kelly rubbing her head affectionately against her.
“Aw, thanks Kelly.” She thanks the cat, petting her on her head and back in return.
But the changeling isn’t planning on giving up. He picks himself up from the ground, and looks back up at the pegasus and cat on top of the counter with a growl.
Emily shows up. "Hey!"
The changeling turns around in a screech.
Emily rushes to a counter on her left and quickly grabs a steak knife.
The changeling pounces onto Emily, and she falls on her back. But before the changeling can bite her neck with his saber-like fangs, she slightly slices the changeling's face with a knife and throws him off.
The changeling's right eye is white, along with a vertical cut. But Emily notices that the blood from the changeling is green instead of red, and the blood itself is on the blade of the knife.
“Who’s the top predator now?” Emily taunts the creature.
Before the changeling can attack again, it looks out the window. It sees Jack and Chrysalis standing on top of the shed, facing each other.
The changeling leader hisses loudly, and seconds later...the rest of his pack show up, and they run out to the backyard. Emily suddenly realizes the behavior of those changelings: they can hunt in different groups!
Will and Twilight show up.
“Emily! Thank goodness you're alright. Why did the changelings leave?" Will asks.
"I think they’re following orders," Emily replies. "The one that was here with Fluttershy and I is the alpha. Of course, wolves that hunt in packs don't have a hierarchy, but they do."
Twilight looks outside. "Jack!" She rushes out of the backyard.
Emily runs after Twilight. "Twilight, wait!"
"Come on, human. Hand it over, and I won't hurt you." Chrysalis says.
"Why do you want it so badly?" Jack asks.
"I feel tempted to tell you, but I won’t,” she says with a smug, “This does not concern you, and I’m in no mood for going into a monologue.”
"Well, if you want to tell me, you better catch me first."
Jack jumps off the shed and lands on the ground feet first.
Jack runs off to the door, but three changelings emerge outside, blocking his way. One of them has a white cut on its right eye. Jack turns right, but the rest of the changelings, including the one from the shed, block his way. He turns back and makes a break for it, but stops in front of the fence. Jack turns back only to be surrounded by all twelve changelings.
Twilight and Emily emerge out of the back door.
Jack has nothing to do; he is trapped, and he has nothing against twelve changelings and one queen who knows martial arts.
Chrysalis grins. "Caught you. And it hasn’t even been much of a chase.”
Jack gulps as Will and Fluttershy emerge outside.
Chrysalis crouches down like she's going in for the kill.
Suddenly, Jack's veins and nerves from his wrists glow slightly purple.
Chrysalis leaps forward as Jack closes his eyes, raising his left palm towards her while Emily and Twilight scream. "NO!!!"
But as the changeling queen pounces for Jack, Chrysalis slams into something that’s in front of him. She lands on the ground.
"Huh?" The others' eyes widen.
Jack reopens his eyes, only to find himself surrounded by a purple force field.
What the...? Jack wonders. Did I just do that?
The changelings, including Chrysalis, stare at Jack in horror.
"No! It can't be!" Chrysalis says, feeling horrified.
She walks to Jack until the two are standing across from each other. She takes a sniff of his scent, and despite the force field dividing them, is able to detect his blood identity. What she discovers...is something that makes her eyes get all the way wider.
“You’re a descendant of my arch nemesis!" She exclaims.
Jack is surprised that he is the descendant of someone she knows. "Who is your arch nemesis?"
Chrysalis glares at Jack. "You'll never know what your Grandfather is!”
She and the changelings turn to the end of the backyard, and they leap over it before they disappear outside.
Jack lowers his hand, causing the force field to disappear and he stares as the direction where Chrysalis had been gone.
I don't understand. Could this mean my Grandfather was her nemesis? But what could've happened to him? He wonders.
Jack had never seen his grandfather since he saw him last time at birth, and he had never visited him. His parents were not sure where he's at even his grandma before she passed away last year.
The others walk over to him.
Before Emily cam ask how he has done the force field, Jack says. "I don't know how. I swear."
"This is impossible. Our pony magic is gone, but you have your own magic?" Twilight says.
"I-I don't know how. I mean, it just came out of nowhere!" Jack complains.
He glances at the book. The icon is glowing golden, and then...the glowing stops.
"Okay, there's something weird about this book," Will says.
Suddenly, they hear voices from behind the fence.
“Twilight? Is that you?" It sounds like Pinkie Pie. Or is it?
"Oh no! The changelings must be back again!" Fluttershy exclaims.
Suddenly, Jack sees something awfully strange. Everything is...purple, except for sentient beings such as humans which are only pink. Through the fence, he sees six figures: five ponies and a small bipedal dragon. He recognizes them: Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, Starlight Glimmer, and Spike.
"I don't think it's the changelings," Jack says. "Just five of one of Twilight’s species, and...some sort of small dinosaur-like creature." He knows it's a dragon.
"Uh, Jack?" Will asks. "Why are your eyes purple?"
Jack turns to Will and then his vision is normal. "What?"
"Alright, now we have two weird things going on."
Then, a pink pony-like creature, with a pink puffy mane and tail, blue eyes, and a cutie mark that resembles three balloons, pops up from behind the fence.
"Twilight? Fluttershy? Is that you?" The pink pony asks.
"Pinkie Pie!" Twilight and Fluttershy exclaim.
"Is that one of your friends?" Emily asks the two ponies.
"It’s A-OK. I'm not the only one here." Pinkie holds up a saddle pack with Twilight's cutie mark. "I found your saddle pack, Twilight." She throws it over the fence towards Twilight.
Twilight grabs it. "Thanks, Pinkie."
"Also, can someone get a ladder first?"
"There’s a door over there." Emily points at the door next to Pinkie.
"We tried that, but it’s locked,” Pinkie comments, “There’s a handle on the other side too."
"I'll unlock it for you guys." Emily walks to the fence, and as she does, Pinkie disappears behind it.
Meanwhile, Jack finds on the ground. It looks like a rock, but made of some sort of metal. He remembers briefly seeing Chrysalis wearing it as a necklace.
Jack picks it up. It’s warm, Jack smells the rock. But it smells funny. Chrysalis, I’m wondering now more than ever why you want the book.
Meanwhile, Jack’s Mom is leaving her neighbor’s house.
“See you later, Jan.” She says to her neighbor inside.
With just a few simple walks, she arrives back at her own home. She unlocks the front door, opens it, and steps inside. She closes the door behind her before locking it.
“Jack, I’m home.” Jack’s mother calls.
No answer.
She puts her hands on her waists. “Huh, Jack’s probably at his new friend’s house. I better call him to be sure.”
But before Jack’s mom can call him, she hears someone from the kitchen.
“I’m here, Mom.” It sounds like Jack.
Jack’s mom sighs. “Oh, thank goodness.” She walks into the hallway. “For a second there, I thought you were-” She enters the kitchen…
And she sees a creature in front of her, digging into her refrigerator. It turns around, revealing itself to be a tall, black horse-like arthropod creature, with green reptilian eyes, a long twisted horn on its forehead, holes on each hoof, wasp-like wings, green-blue hair, two short fangs, and a green beetle-like shell, the only thing about her that’s not a part of her features is a piece of raw steak hanging from her maw.
The creature throws the steak into the air, and eats it up after it lands in its mouth. It chews it up before swallowing with a gulp.
It begins to speak in an evil woman tone. “Oh, I’m sorry. Is my visit too abrupt?”
Before Jack’s Mom can say anything, or run away...a small creature, that looks just like the tall one, but with blue pupil-less eyes, long saber-like fangs, and a dark blue shell, grabs her from behind, covering her mouth with its hooves. It stares at her with its dead blue eyes with a cut on its right white eye.
She tries to speak, but the hoof over her mouth causes her words to sound muffled.
The tall creature walks over to Jack’s Mom, until she is at eye distance with her. Then, she leans her head down, and takes a couple of sniffs at her.
“Yeesss.” The creature says, before turning away towards the window, “Of separate blood, but also of common blood as well.”
Despite her fright, Jack mother raises an eyebrow in confusion upon what she’s talking about.
“Take her to the others. She will be coming with us.” She orders her guard.
The other creature does as it’s told, only, now Jack’s Mom is struggling to get free while also making muffled yells.
The tall creature is left alone in the kitchen.
“Oh, Christian.” She says like she’s talking to someone, “In all my years, I have known that you have carried many surprises. But, I never thought you’d one day have a family, and a continual family line.”
“It’s so surprising, and yet…” she looks up with a malicious grin and licks her lips, “...so delicious!”
“I must congratulate you, Christian. You have given me something new to squish to the ground.”
She turns to leave and catch up with the rest of her gang, giving off a cackle as she leaves the kitchen.
