Rarity and Twilight were walking over the footbridge to fluttershy's well hidden house. But that was when things started to become slightly concerning... Fluttershy's usually quiet voice could be heard in a semi loud panic.

"Oh, Dear. Oh, Dear. Oh, Dear! Everyone Calm down! Please! I cant understand what your all trying to say when you keep talking over each other!"

Rounding the corner the two mares were greeted by the Custard yellow Pegasus currently surrounded by an inconceivable amount of animals. All of which were seemingly yelling things at her in their own languages.

Twilight walked over to Fluttershy, a look of deep concern mixed with a twang of confusion as she could see Fluttershy's fuse slowly burning short.

"What happened here Fluttershy?" Twilight asked her frustrated friend, but she didn't get a response, due to her voice being drowned out by the cacophony of noises being made by the small army of animals. "Of, Course... FLUTTERSHY! FLUTTERSHY! HELLO!?" Twilight yelled to get her friends attention, eventually succeeding.

"Oh, Hi Twilight!" Fluttershy yelled with her usual hushed tone, but she too was subject to having her voice drowned out by the animals panic.

"WHAT?! I. CANT. HEAR. YOU!" Twilight yelled each word with emphases.

"OH, HI TWI- oh that's enough. QUUUIIIIEEEEEET!" Fluttershy yelled at an unnaturally loud volume, a volume the girls had never heard her use before. Her voice acquired a high pitched pang from it.

All the animals shut up at her mood swing.

"All of you! Quiet!" She said through an annoyed glare, before pointing a fore-hoof at a squirrel closest to her."You! What is the matter!" After the squirrel frantically made a series of noises and waving its paws around for several minutes it finished its explanation. Fluttershy looked troubled.

"Whats wrong, Fluttershy?" Twilight asked, stepping closer to her friend.

"This squirrel just told me that a huge monster sped through the forest last night, before crashing through my fence, stealing my new chicken coup that i was going to show my chickens today. And continuing down the road towards Ponyville.

Twilight then turned to where Fluttershys new chicken coup was being build to discover that the whole thing had been ripped from the ground and taken. And on top of that. Four sets of continuous tracks had been left gouged out in the mud.

"What kind of monster... Could have that kind of strength and leave these tracks..." Twilight openly mused whilst staring at the tracks with fear driven disgust.

Rarity and Fluttershy joined her as they looked in the direction the tracks were leading to. The tracks were at least twenty centimeters deep. This creature must of had the weight near upwards of five or six manticores!
Twilight followed the tracks to the well used dirt road that lead to Ponyville, before turning on the spot and looking towards her home town.

"There are monsters among us girls... we have to protect everyone..." Twilight mumbled, shortly before having a blue and rainbow coloured blur fly from P-ville and come skidding to a halt in front of her.

"Twilight! Theres Trouble in town!" Rainbow blurted out, eliciting a shiver from Twilight, and worried gasps from Fluttershy and Rarity.

"Monsters?!" Twilight yelled at Rainbowdash?

"Wha- NO!" Rainbow said with frustration, coming to a hover mere inches from Twilight's face. "Some Snobby Pegasus captain just arrived in town and is causing a ruckus!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"Ah, so then, Captain Stryder has arrived... Excellent! He arrived sooner than i expected!" Twilight said beaming with relief.

Rainbow's jaw dropped agape at her friends response, having it not be the lest what she was expecting.

"WHAT?! I'm sorry, WHAT?!" RD nearly screamed, her tone loud enough for a voice crack. "YOU! YOU CALLED THAT!? THAT? THA-"

"Showoff?" Twilight cut in with a sly grin.

"YEAH!... NO! Hes a Jerk! He's Treating Everypony like his servants!" Rainbow yelled her shade turning from blue to red as she was clearly fuming.

Twilight sighed deeply "I was worried that this outcome would be a possibility." Twilight groaned. her horn lit and before any of her attending friends could react she -Telipoofed- them into town center.

All the townsponies around Twilight and her three friends were silent, but few had actually noticed the element bearers entrance. Twilight could also hear yelling from the direction Everypony was looking. Rainbowdash took to the air before saying.

"RIGHT! THATS IT!" And darting in the same direction.

After the townsfolk began to notice the Princess of friendship, and began parting to let her through, she found the cause of the disturbance. It was , as Expected. Captain Stryder. His tall lime green lithe form was currently standing in the center of a circle of stunned ponies as he proceeded to yell at an irate hovering Rainbowdash, each staring each other down, nose to nose. A mare was down low to the ground standing over her trembling foal, staring daggers at the captain.

"What. Is going on here!" Twilight Inquired with a ruthless Authority after seeing the cowering foal.

The captain, finally noticing the princesses presence, drops all his previous engagements with a turn of his armour plated back and drops into a swift over exaggerated bow.

"Its a Pleasure To finally meet you, Your Highness!" Twilight cringed at how cushy he was being with her, because of her title alone. She did however, bury her growing disdain for the captain, at least for the time being.

"Captain, I Take it that you and your Pegasai guard are ready for your mission? Are you aware of its parameters, and the conditions at which your command extend." Twilight said deadpan.

"Why, Of course your Highness! 3rd Pegasai~ At your service! Our mission is to conduct Aerial reconnaissance and report back each patrols findings to you... Under no circumstances are we to engage or do battle with anything that we may find, but we are permitted to slow it down if it heads for Ponyville, reconnaissance is our primary objective. This includes anything out of the ordinary considering terrain and the obstacles upon that may have been altered by the creatures!" The captain parroted, keeping his tone professional.

"Very good captain, Get to it." Twilight said dismissively. Before turning and leaving, ensuring that the mother and her foal followed her away from town square.

Once Twilight, The foal and his mother were far enough from the town square Twilight asked the mother what happened. To which she reply's.

"Whilst i had my Attention on a Fresh produce store, i was attempting to haggle with. My colt here noticed that Pompous Buffoon and his flight land." She barked up that description with an alarming amount of disgust. "Jaderunner, wanted to get the captains autograph. But the captain obviously didn't like his attention, and decided the best course of action against my foal was to use 'Gust' to blow him nearly halfway across the square!"

Twilight's disdain had boiled over into a fury that would most certainly be directed at the captain once he had settled into his new Headquarters. Whilst Twilight needed his help, she still demanded that he treat everyone as his Equal. His sole purpose for being a Guard was to protect the ponies in his care!

"Don't worry, I'll see too it that he is punished and with no slap to the hoof either." The lavender Alicorn said with all the seriousness of her title.

The wind howled as two black shadows flew through the onset of a brewing thunderstorm.

Two Pegasai floated through the air, their wings straight so as to catch the rising warm air from the thermals. They continued to glide for a few more minutes, before the silence between them broke.

"Ugh! This is Crazy! We've been searching high and low, under every tree, bush and rock for this beast for days! And all we've found are an abandoned Chicken coup, and sets of tracks that seem to lead no where! And I've Had it! I've Had it!" The completely carbon coloured Pegasus clad in storm grey chainmail practically yelled out whilst having a small mid air temper tantrum.

"Hey! How do you think i feel?!" his counterpart wearing a white scarf and glass flying goggles growled. "I Haven't slept in two days! The captain has run me ragged trying to impress the Princess! So SHADDIT!" The Cobalt blue and orange maned flyer yelled whilst looking at his friend.

With that they flew on for another fifteen minutes, before they both looked at each other questioningly.

"You hear that too right?"

"You mean the princess yelling at the captain? Or that irritating humming?" The cobalt flier asked.

Both Pegasai roll their heads to get a full view of their surroundings. Having heard a loud ear piercing howl pass them and feeling a vibrating hum reverberate the air around them. Before it ebbed off into nothing. Leaving them looking at each other concerned and confused.

They both orbit around the location for a half an hour before they hear the same sound and feel the same air vibrating hum again.
Only this time, They see it.

Off to their right side, almost matching their height. A Single black spec speeding diagonally away from them in a straight line. The scouts break out of their wide orbit and follow the spec. The sheer amount of effort they had to exert to keep up with it was worrisome, Had the creature seen them, and was running? Or Much more frightening... Was this its normal speed?

By now they had gotten close enough to see its rough form. It was Huge in comparison to they themselves, it was fat, stubby and had short wide wings that it held beneath itself. Most confusing besides its constant headache inducing howl, is how it staid in the air, it never flapped it wings. Seeming to just... hang there in the air... Its skin was shiny, very shiny, probably scales. And coloured in splotches of deep brown, and light green. Its tail was white, and it had a red nose.

Once they were within a few hundred feet of it they noticed that it had many shiny glass looking eyes atop its 'head', they, being alerted to this fact by the rays of the sun reflecting off of them. Due to this disturbing revelation, they dove under it to avoid being spotted. They continued to gain on the beast until they were only a dozen feet from it, they held their ears flat against their skulls in a futile attempt at dulling its constant howl.

They then feel their blood chill, not because of the cold air at their altitude. Butbecuase they were joined by a second even throatier growl, this one sounding like the purr of a Huge Manticore. In fact, thats what they where initially looking for.

Both scouts broke off from the beast they were practically within touching distance from. As they were about descend below the cloud layer and return to their HQ just outside of Ponyville. A robins egg blue and grey blur with a Yellow streak running down its back hurtles from the cloud layer they were about to descend into.

"What in Celestia's Sweet Apple, buckin Rays of light was that thing?!" The carbon pony Exclaimed wide eyed, before his partner could respond their train of thought was drowned out by the new creature screaming towards the other one from below. Its feral growl was drowned out when its wings started to spit green fire that looked like miniature suns at the brown beast. Thunder cracked constantly as Both sky-beasts fought for supremacy of the skies.

"WHAT IS HAPPENING?!" They shouted at each other but they couldn't hear themselves think let alone what either of them was saying over the sudden barrage of sound. By now the 'brown beast' had been hit, Hard several times by the 'Thunderbird', and was now trailing thick black smoke, as they followed each other through tight circles. Each trying to get behind the other... Presumably...

The fight ended fairly quickly, the "Brown beast' was agile and small, making it quite difficult to hit. However the Brutal power and attacks of the "Thunderbird" had it outmatched from the near start of the fight due to its ambush. The 'Brown beast' got hit several dozen times and eventually began spewing red smoke all over the sky before it leveled out and the red smoke changed to a purple smoke. The 'Brown beast' rolled onto one wing before turning sharply away whilst descending and flying in the other direction, leaving the 'Thunderbird' flying around victorious, trailing thick plumes of white smoke. After two or so minutes the 'Thunderbird' turned and began flying in another direction whilst lowering its altitude.

The skies once again turning peaceful, only the sound of the howling wind from the brewing storm around them. Both Pegasai sat in the cloud, their heads poking out the top like small shrubs, with stunned expressions on their faces. What had they just witnessed... They were so baffled by what just happened, that they stared at each other jaws agape, mouths moving silently, they were unable to form words.

"I- Think now is a good time to report to the captain..." The Cobalt flier finally stuttered out.

"Yeah... No kidding..." His friend said comically loudly, Evidently still suffering from hearing loss.

Author's Note

I feel as though im speeding through the story...
If its not too much of a bother, could you dear readers please tell me if the storys advancing too quickly? Or suggest tips or improvements in general. I feel as though i have been 'jumping back and forth' too much. And key parts of the plot are going to seem 'random or forced'.

I think i'm going to slow the story down a few notches...
Dont worry!
I'm still going to update frequently!