The Terrors of horror films
Princess Twilight Sparkle had some vacation time and was grateful for it. Because being a Princess is very hard. During the first day of her vacation Twilight spent some good quality time with her friends, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity. The conversation, for some reason, managed to bring up the topic of horror movies.
"I know some animals can be sometimes.... aggressive.... but it could just be in their nature. Manticores for example, eat meat so they hunt" said Fluttershy.
"As understandable as that is I would still prefer not being dinner to any creature" said Rarity.
"I agree. Especially if said creature was a Xenomorph" said Rainbow Dash. Who was flying idly in the air as she usually did.
"A what now?" asked Applejack. Every pony else including her were giving Rainbow looks of total unfamiliarity.
Rainbow looked back in disbelief "come on guys, you can't tell me you haven't heard of the most tariffing monster in horror movie history" she exclaimed.
"You watch horror movies Rainbow?" Asked Applejack uneasily.
"Yeah I do. It's one the reasons why I'm so awesome" said Rainbow proudly.
"But....don't they scare you" asked Fluttershy. She was not liking how this conversation was going. Rainbow dash opened her mouth to respond but Pinkie Pie cut her off.
"You don't need to say it Rainbow Dash. Every pony who's read the story up to this point knows that you're going to say 'of course not' and then make a whole list of reasons on the spot explaining why you could never get scared" said Pinkie on her usual ramblings. Breaking the fourth wall in the process.
"Um...." Rainbow Dash was actually going to say that "but anyway" she said, deciding that this was just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie. "The Xenomorph is from the Alien franchise and I bet your tattooed flanks that you will all piss your selfs something awful when you watch it" Rainbow finished. Giving Applejack a sly glance.
Applejack took the bate and glared back at Rainbow "Do you really think that, well then I challenge you to a-" Applejack started but Pinkie Pie interrupted again.
"Horror movie sleep over! That's right, I know the script to this story and I know who made it. The authors name is Proto-Pony" Yelled Pinkie as she bounced on the spot excitedly. Making all her friends look at her like she lived in a mental asylum.
"What, I love breaking the fourth wall. Especially with my equally fun-" (meaning crazy) "-friend Wade who loves turning bad guys into kabobs" said Pinkie.
That night.....
Pinkie may be one of her closest friends but Twilight thinks she can be a little much sometimes. Twilight ordered a box-set which got to her within the hour. Which to her was pretty fast but she figured she has 'priority one shipping' because she's a princess now. The box-set had six movies total. Twilight took the first movie out and read the description on the back. It doesn't sound to bad but was it actually scary?
Twilight went over a check-list to make sure she was really to find out.
Buttered Popcorn: check
Chocolate candy (Peanut M&M's): check
Soft drink: check
Use bathroom before viewing: check
Sent Spike to Rarity's: check
Favourite plush toy: check
Blanket: check
With the check list completed, Twilight put the disk into the player, turned of the lights (bad idea), and pressed play.
2 hours later...
Twilight was glad that she went to the bathroom before watching the movie. It was just a few minor jump-scares at first but along came the scene when the alien parasite bursted from that ponies chest, she was horrified. The rest of the movie was just twilight sitting on her couch, tightly wrapped in her blanket, with a sense of dread pressing down on the young princess. The Xenomorph itself was part of some jump scares as well. It was also ghastly, terrifying, and it was following every-pony on the ship and killed them one by one, even if they couldn't see it.
Even when it was blasted out the airlock and the movie ended Twilight felt like she's being followed by something on the way to her room. She kept giving the air ducts a glance to make sure to jump out of the why when the alien would try to ambush her from the vent. It moved stealthily through the vents in the movie.
Twilight suddenly heard the sounds of hoof steps and froze in her tracks, the hoofs kept getting closer. Could it be another pony or was it the Xenomorph, it had hoofs too. She turned around and started walking towards the exit of the castle to summon her friends. 'With the elements of harmony, killing that thing should be easy as Pie as Pinkie would say.
Twilight suddenly saw a dark figure at the end off the hallway. It was too dark to see every detail but the body shape was just about visible. It was the exact same shape as the alien. It was the alien!!! The alien started moving towards her so Twilight screamed as she galloped as fast as she could and even started flying. Fore she knew the alien had no wings.
When she got to her room she locked the door and dived under the blankets. She hoped that the alien would lose interest in her and find another place to go. The door clicked, it had been unlocked but how? The alien wasn't that smart, was it?
"I'm terribly sorry that I scared you" said a heavenly voice.
"Celestia?" Asked Twilight, waiting for a hissing sound followed by her death.
Instead, the heavenly voice of Celestia spoke again "yes, it's just me Twilight".
Twilight felt a sudden, wonderful warm encase her body as Celestia cuddled up with her. She felt safe now so she drifted off to sleep.
The next morning....
Twilight woke up and stretched, noticing the familiar, warm, smiling face of her friend Celestia above her.
"How was your sleep twilight" Celestia asked
Twilight smiled "amazing" she said.
"Again, I'm so sorry for scaring you last night" Celestia said with a bit of shame on her face.
"It wasn't your fault, you just looked a lot like the Xenomorph in the movie I watched" said Twilight.
"Well, I did play the part of the alien in the first movie and the Queen xenomorph in the second and fourth movies" explained Celestia.
"Wait....but....how....your horn, there was no magical horn on the alien" Twilight exclaimed.
"Oh, I just made it disappear whenever I wore the costume" Celestia explained further "like this" Celestia made her horn disappear.
"I didn't know you could do that. Could you teach me how?" Asked Twilight
Nightmare Night.....
Twilight did watch the rest of the alien movies but this time with Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash. Rainbows bragging, Pinkies humour and Applejack telling them to shut up did help. Even now Twilight could be very sure there are no such things as-
HISSSSS
There, crawling along the ground, was the Xenomorph.
Twilight fainted.
Celestia pulled of the alien head from her costume "happy Nightmare Night Twilight" she teased. Putting the alien head back on, Celestia walked in the shadows of the night. Looking for her next victim.
Luna flew into ponyville as she usually did on nightmare night
An evil smile spread across Celestias face under the alien head "good thing the movie was made during her banishment"
Just a gag that I thought up in my head while on march break. Let me know if you enjoyed.
Criticism would be appreciated to help me improve my totally awesome stories but make sure it's CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. Don't just be a dick and say how terrible I am, tell me why.
Question: what's your favourite chocolate candy? Mine are Peanut M&M's