Author's Note

Although my work with Kevin Lee on his story is currently on hold due to both of us having a few RL issues at our respective homes, please rest assured that we are still working on it bit by bit.
In the meantime, here's a little idea of my own I hope you'll enjoy.
For the record, the tags warranting the mature options are for the entirety of the story, so it may be a bit of time before the sex, gore, and horror become evident, at which point, the impact should be that much more intense.

Prologue

Thirty-eight days before the scheduled celebration of Equestria's Nightmare Night in the 992nd year After Nightmare Moon's Banishment, in the middle of a foggy Baltimare Harbor, pony sailors on several ships witnessed a momentarily bright flash that lit up the night and heard a booming retort which echoed throughout the night. As it was the closest to the initial blast that sent the figure here, this was the first to arrive. However, no creature who witnessed its arrival, which had burst out of the instantly fading disturbance and saw it skip several times across the water before it slowed down enough to settle, could ever recall the exact location. And once in the water, it sunk like a rock, with numerous bubbles rising up to finally pop on the briefly agitated surface. After a couple minutes, relative stillness returned to the bay….