The child had come back to me that night, and I told the drone to take the egg to a swamp in the Everfree, anywhere with a cragodile.

The drone did so, and succeeded in baiting out a large cragodile. It lead it towards the egg, and the facehugger did the rest.

The resulting Xenomorph was a giant, armored xeno, with thick, muscled body, and walked more on all four than upright.

I then told the drones to find a Timberwolf, which wasn't hard, and the embryo was laid.

The Xenomorph glowed a dark, almost black purple, and looked to be piecemeal, shattered. It had sharper claws than the other xenos, and had more teeth.

An interesting find, a creature attacked the cragodile drone while they were going around the swamp. It surprisingly looked like a deathclaws from the game Fallout 4. I had the drones subdue it, and it was impregnated, and the Xenomorph child was a demon. That's how it came out looking.

It was the tallest of them, just under me in height. It's claws were thick, but sharp. It had horns on its head, near the front and sweeping forward. And it's tongue, the second jaw, was different. It was more malleable, and wasn't a jaw, but a sharp barb. It would often dart from its mouth, mostly to help it see.

After that, I had the two drones head to other lands, and impregnate the other sapient species. Minotaur's, griffins, no changelings, they would come later, zebras, centaurs, and hippogriphs.

Then, I recalled my children, to hide. All but one. The first. He, was to watch the ponies, and stay out of sight, and hunt only when necessary. And so he did.

Twilight Sparkle got a scroll from her teacher, and was on her way towards Canterlot with her friends.

After the crazy morning on Applejacks farm, it had appeared in a flare of smoke. Grabbing some popcorn on the way out, they hopped on the train.

Arriving in Canterlot, the six ponies made their way to the castle. When they entered, Celestia was pacing at the top of the grand staircase in the castle foyer.

"Princess Celestia, we came as fast as we could." Twilight says to her mentor.

"Thank you Twilight, thank you all." Celestia says back.

"Is this about the weird crap going on around Equestria? My magic just wasn't able to stop what was happening, and everything kept getting weirder." Celestia nods at Twilight's comment.

"Follow me." And turns away.

My first drone came in, and told me what was happening. I hiss out some orders to my drones, and they take off, going to do their jobs.

I give my first born his task, and he goes out.

Time to protect, the fate of Equestria.

"I need you to wield the elements again, to help stop Discords reign of chaos from spreading across Equestria once more. Will you do it?" Celestia finishes telling Twilight. Twilight stops for a second, looking to her friends for comfort.

They all gave her a nod. Twilight smiles, looking towards her teacher.

"Celestia, you can count on us. Since you no longer can wield the elements, then it is our duty to help protect Equestria."

Celestia smiles softly, then turns towards the giant vault door that was behind her. Walking up, she lowered her head, and slid her horn into a hole on the door. Lighting up her magic, she pushes a small bit in to open it.

The magic glow spreads across the runes of the door. It opens, and inside on a pedestal sits an ornate chest. Celestia picks it up in her magic, and brings it out.

"Then, if your going to stop Discord, your going to need these." She says, while opening it. Upon doing so, it is empty. Everyone is shocked. Then Pinkie just up and says.

"Oh well. If anyone needs me, I'll be out side having some chocolate milk." And starts to walk out.

Twilight snaps out of it, and pulls her back over with her magic, and then says.

"How did someone steal the Elements of Harmony?" Celestia shakes her head.

"I don't know. The vault was sealed with a spell and lock that would only react to my magic signature. It doesn't make sense." She says.

Just then, a sinister chuckle echoes across the castle, coming from everywhere.

"Make sense? Sense is overrated. Randomness is so much better." Celestia Growls.

"Discord!" She says, through grit teeth and anger heavy. "Show yourself."

They all look around at everything, and see one of the stained glass windows blink. Looking at it, the little Discord starts moving.

"Did you miss me, Celestia? Cause I missed you." And Discord chuckles.

The drone goes into the tree house in Ponyville, and moves around. Moving around the library, the drone creeps along. Moving to the lower floor, it sees a book glow for a second, and goes over and grabs it.

It opens it up, and sees what it was told to grab. Scooping them up, it puts them in a old molded skin, and rushes back to Canterlot.

The girls all stepped into the labyrinth, and then the walls of the labyrinth changed, sprouting up between each of them, cutting them off from one another.

"Girls, we all need to calm down. We can still do this. We just need to get to the center, and we can regroup there." All the others but Fluttershy, who was having a heart attack in her section, heard her, and gave an ok. The girls then dart off, but not before a rustle behind them signifies something watching them.

Applejack ran along, running around corners, backtracking at dead ends, and trying her best to not panic.

Running past a turnoff, she sees something out the corner her eye, and stops, heading back. Getting closer to what she saw, it was three apples on the ground. When she got close, they started to roll away.

Chasing after the apples, she knew they weren't right, but they were the only thing she had to go off in this large maze. After chasing them for a few seconds, they get to a large grove of Apple trees, with apples of all different colors.

An apple falls on Applejacks head, and unseen to her, a creature moves along, into a large pond nearby, submerging itself to remain unseen.

More apples fell off the trees, and started to move towards Applejack. Gathering into like apples, they started to circle her.

"What in tarnation are ya?" Applejack asks.

One of the piles rises as it circles, and a face forms in the apples.

"We are the keepers of the grove," it says. "You may ask us one question." It finishes, before collapsing and circling.

Another pile rises, and a face appears.

"Past, present, or future." And collapse, before another pile and face.

"But know, the truth might not be so nice." And collapses as well.

Applejack thinks, and then asks her question.

"Alright. I don't like this Discord feller, and so I want to know. What is going to happen when this whole ordeal is over?" The piles of apples stop circling suddenly. Then, they all rise, and move away, towards a large pond nearby. As they get close, the three apples rise.

"The answer you seek, is shown in this pond." One says.

"Go ahead, take a peek." Says another.

Applejack gulps, but as she moves forward to look into the water, the creature that had been stalking her jumps from the water, and grabs Applejack.

Applejack screams, and tries to pull from the creature, but the creature holds her, and jerks her into the water, dragging her under. Applejack struggles, and tries to hold her breath as the creature drags her farther into the water. Eventually, she cant anymore, and she passes out.

The creature that had been digging through the ground sensed that something had changed for the mare in its grasp, and saw it had passed out. Feeling something about the earth change behind him, he moves back through the hole he funneled, and takes Applejack back to the surface.

The Timberwolf Xenomorph puts Applejacks limp body back on the surface, just as one of the walls of the labyrinth moves, and a path behind it is opened.

Twilight comes through, just as the Xenomorph puts the element of Honesty beside Applejacks unconscious body.

Twilight saw the creature, standing over her friend, and panics. Charging a magic blast, she prepares to fire.

Only for the creature to look up and see her. It gets on four paws, and screeches at her, and then runs off into the bushes off the maze. Dispelling her magic, she runs up to her friend.

Pinkie was bouncing along through the maze, cheerful and happy, when she hops around a corner and sees a large party setup. Seeing smiley faces on the balloons, and hearing laughter, she happily giggles along, bouncing around in the center of the party.

Suddenly, she gets tripped. Looking behind her, she sees one of the balloons has her ankle. All the balloons start to laugh at her.

"Hey, that wasn't nice. What gives?" Discord appears.

"Whats the matter Pinkie Pie I thought you liked laughing?" Pinkie nods.

"Yes, but even I know the difference of laughing at and laughing with someone. And don't even try to tell me my friends laugh at me, because I know for a fact that they do. But, it is only when I do something stupid. A good friend will laugh at you and help you get out of the stupid. A best friend will laugh, and then join the stupid. And all my friends have done that. So good luck changing me." And she gets up, and trots off, leaving a flustered Discord.

As she trots away, a creature darts above her, and drops something in her path. Looking down, she sees her element of laughter, and giggles, before picking it up and putting it on.

When she does, walking around the next turn, she sees Applejack and Twilight, both happy and cheerful to see each other. She runs over to her friends. She knows they laugh at her.

But she laughs with them.

Rarity trotted along, discussing with whatever the hell seemed to be following her. She heard it rustle about half an hour ago, and not a peep since, but she had the feeling that the thing might still be around.

"I had wanted to see the queen, not do outdoor sports. Oh well, it does one good to keep a healthy physique. Don't you agree?" She says, looking around, and not receiving a hint of an answer.

Turning her had back forward again, she runs into a stone wall. When her tears dry from knocking her face on the wall after a few moments, and maybe some unladylike swearing, she sees the wall has three diamond like gems, shaped and placed like those of her cutie mark.
Discords face appears in all of them.

"Congratulations, you found the only thing that is prettier than me. And I know you like it." He says, making them start to shine and gleam with surreal beauty. Rarity tries but fails, to stop her self from looking at the diamonds. Discord grins.

"Go ahead, dig it up. And it will be all yours." And Rarity grins.

Frantically, she starts to break away the surrounding stone from the diamond. Upon uncovering the massive chunk of diamond, about the size of a refrigerator, she hugs it and pets it.

But before she can do anything else, it is shattered. The giant diamond breaks, and the Rarity shrieks in horror as it almost explodes in all directions with tremendous force. When she finally can feel that she isn't in much pain from having been thrown from the blast, she looks where the diamond was, to see rubble.

Rushing over, she starts to toss pieces of rock aside, to find any piece of diamond left. Seeing a nice purple glow, she lifts the debris from atop the item, and sees a necklace on the ground.

When she sees it, she starts to remember. The element of Generosity. She is supposed to give more than she takes, but she is still allowed a selfish desire every once in a while. Picking up her necklace, she smiles warmly at her element. How could she have forgotten herself like that? It wasn't the right thing to do. Putting on her element, she felt her mind clear, and she growled lowly. Ahead of her, a wall of bushes came down, and she saw Applejack, Twilight, and Pinkie, all of them seeing her. She waved to them, and went to them.

She might be able to be selfish every now and then, but she could also be generous, and give her friends her time.

Fluttershy had been given her element by the creature she was following about ten and a half minutes ago, and as she followed, all she ever saw when she turned the corner, was a long, spine covered tail disappearing around a corner farther down. She would go to that corner, turn, and see the same thing again, turning a corner. Rinse and repeat, that had been happening since a little after she had started into the maze what seemed to be forty some odd minutes before.

Calmly walking to the next corner she was supposed to turn, she went around it, only to see a dead end.

"Something isn't right. I don't like this." She says, starting to quiver and turn her head about, trying to see if she had made a mistake, or see if something was sneaking up on her. Finding nothing, she turned back to the dead end, only to see three butterflies right in her face.

Squealing, she runs and dives into the nearest bush in a panic, only to finally register what she saw.

"Wait, it was only butterflies." Coming out of the bushes, she sees the butterflies are still there, flitting around. Walking up to them, she asks.

"Um, little butterflies, have you seen anything come this way? I was following some creature, and it lead me here, to this dead end." The three butterflies in front of her, started to answer, when the hedge behind the butterflies was shredded, and a hissing sound came from behind the three Lepidoptera. The three butterflies turn around, to see a black face, sticking out the bushes of the side of the maze, with its lips pulled back revealing teeth dripping with thick, viscous saliva. it hisses again at the butterflies, and then lunges out, trying to bite one.

The butterflies transform back into Discord, who flies away in a panic, as the xenomorph bursts from the bushes and chases after him, shredding the bushes behind him as he exits them.

Through the gap in the wall, Fluttershy sees her friends, and quickly rushes to join them. When they all meet, she hugged Twilight, and then proceeded to tell her friends about what had happened.

She had an interesting day so far.

Rainbow was running as fast as she could through the labyrinth, and she had heard herself being followed. It had happened a while after she had started to run through all the twists and turns, and panicking. If she were ever accused of panicking in the maze, she would deny it flat out. But she did, and after finally calming herself down, she had started to gallop around with a purpose. After that, she only heard a faint rustle. She didnt know what it was, but she had a feeling it was Discord.

Running along, she turned a corner, and saw a cloud in front of her, shooting out rainbow lightning bolts. Seeing it, it moves away.

"Get back here!" She says, running after it.

Going around a few corners, she runs into a clearing. In it, she sees Discord, laying on a hamic of clouds. Stretching, Discords back pops.

"Oh, I can see why you like these clouds. Very plush." Rainbow got angry.

"Okay Discord, I'm tired of this shit. Give me back my wings and element, and we may go light on you." After she said that, the element of loyalty was dropped at her feet.

Both Discord and Rainbow stared at it. Rainbow looks up at Discord, who looks at her. Rainbow asks.

"Was that you?" Discord shakes his head. Rainbow picks it up, and suddenly, all the girls are dropped in the clearing, and as They are all dropped in, Twilights element falls in front of her. When she puts it on, all their horns and wings come back. Discord panics.

"Rainbow, you said you'd go light on me if I gave them back, remember?" Rainbow nods.

"Yeah, if YOU gave them back to us. I have a feeling you didn't, so the promise is null and void. Lets do this girls!" And they all start to power up their elements, and the power surges out, into the heavens, before slamming back down onto Discord as he screams no.

The resulting explosion was a rainbow, and when all the rainbow smoke cleared, Discord was stone.

"You have done well, girls. I am proud of you for stopping Discord. How, though, did you get the elements?" Celestia says.

All six mares look between themselves, before telling Celestia how they got them. Applejack goes first.

"Well, I was going through the maze, when I came upon some apples that rolled away when I got close. I followed them, and came to an grove of apple trees, and they all dropped apples, and three piles of all the apples started to talk to me. They said I could ask one question, and I asked what would happen if we continued trying to stop Discord. They took me to a small pond nearby, and told me to look inside. When I went to, something lunged out at me and grabbed me. It drug me into the water, and I passed out because I couldn't breath. Then, next thing I know, Twilight was shaking me awake, and my element was on me." Twilight nods. Pinkie takes up the story next.

"I was bouncing along, when I came upon a balloon party in the maze. Going through, I got tripped by one of the balloons. They all started to laugh at me, and then Discord came and tried to make me believe that you girls all laugh AT me, not with me, which I already knew, and told him that I let them, because they do so as good friends. Hell, they've all seen me drunk before, and laughed at the stupid shit that happened. Well, anyways, after I told off Discord, I saw my element fall in front of me, and Discord left. Then, I saw Twilight and Applejack, and went to walk with them." Both the girls mentioned nod, and Rarity starts next.

"I was trotting through, and smacked into a wall. In the wall was some gorgeous gem, and then Discord hypnotized me, and said that the gem was all mine, and that nobody was allowed to have it. I will say, it worked, and I dug the gem out. But, when I did, something made it explode. After it did, I was searching through the rubble, and found my element in it. Remembering myself, I realized, being selfish everyonce in a while never hurt anypony, but being selfish always does hurt everypony. After I put it on, I saw Twilight and the other two walking around, and joined them." Which is then confirmed. Fluttershy then says.

"I was just following the creature that was leading me. The whole time, something led me, at least after the first ten minutes. I was given my element, and then followed whatever gave it to me. After a bit, some butterflies went by after it led me to a dead end. It scared me at first, till I realized they were butterflies but when I started to talk to them, something came out of the maze wall and chased them off. Then, when I looked through the hole left, I saw Twilight and them through it. So, I joined them." Confirmed. Rainbow then spoke up.

"Well, I was running through, and I wasn't really scared by anything they happened. I was somewhat following something, but it didn't show itself. So, I kept running through, when I saw a cloud with Rainbow lightning bolts coming out. I followed it, and came upon Discord. I was tired of his shit, told him so, and said to give our horns, wings, and elements back, that we might go light. Then, my element was just dropped at my feet. I asked Discord if he gave it to me, and he shook his head no. I put it on, and all the girls just appeared. Then, Twilights element just dropped down in front of her. After that, we blasted him. Thats all that I know." The rest of the girls nod, but then Fluttershy thinks.

"Hey, wait a second. I think I know what the creature was that I was following. I didnt see anything but it's tail, but it was all ridged with spikes, and a sharp spike at the end. Almost like the Xenomorph that helped us with Luna." Just then, they all hear a hiss.

It comes from all around them, and they look around for the source. The guards around the throne room become alert, and look around as well.

Then, from behind Celestias throne, it appears. Crawling over the back of it, the Xenomorph from the castle comes out. The guards all rush to get between Celestia and the creature, but then something drops from the ceiling in front of them.

The two creatures have a black carapace, and stand on two legs. One looks like the one that helped them, but the new Xenomorph is massive, twice the size of the first one. It has two horns on its head that sweep forward, and its head is oblong. It's claws are thick, and look sharp. Its feet are clawed. Its back is covered in sharp spines down its spine, and it's carapace looks thick. The guards all step back at this.

Then, Celestia feels something in her mind. It feels odd, animalistic, but of a hive minded animal. She lets whatever is trying to get in in, but only slightly. She then sees some images. Each one is of the girls, and what happened to them, from the eyes of a watcher. She gasps.

"They are the ones that gave you the elements, and guided Fluttershy." The girls all gasp, and the two xenomorphs hiss. Then, the first Xenomorph comes forward, with a scroll in its claw, before dropping it, and the two dash away behind the throne.

The guards rush forward, but find the creatures are gone. Grabbing the scroll, a guard hands it to Celestia. She opens it, and reads aloud.

"Dear Celestia and Elements of Harmony,

My children have helped you out. Tell Applejack I am sorry, but we had to pull you under to get you away from Discords puppets. The answer to the riddle, was the library in Ponyville, if any wanted to know. Also, the next event, shall come soon. Tell Twilight, that I look forward to meeting her.

The Queen."

Author's Note

Okay, it might seem stupid, but in lore, Xenomorph queens are able to use telepathy. So, I am not outside lore yet. Also, the traits that the xenos gained are the deadliest parts of the impregnated beasts. It is part of their biology, that they get traits of the host creature. So, I hope you like what I did, and having the Queen cut Discord off from ever doing any true mischief. Have a good night.