Adaptation

Chapter 1
(short chapter, sorry)

Fireworks flew into the sky and popped as a group of mesmerized ponies witnessed below, oohing and aahing, just by the dark, Everfree Forest. Each firework ended into a flash of colors, followed by slight haze, which occupied the skies and the space above the dark forest.

A lavender unicorn mare sat on a small picnic blanket, watching as each firework dispersed into dozens of pieces in mid-air. On her flank was a star, pointing in six separate directions along with five smaller stars surrounding it.

As she was proceeding to take a bite our of a daffodil sandwich, she was interrupted by an abnormal jolt in the ground, then another and then another, each jolt becoming more vigorous.

“Twilight!”, A high pitched voice called out.

The lavender unicorn began scanning the perimeter, trying to find out the source of the voice and the miniature earthquakes, until her search stopped at a pink pony, with fluffy hair bouncing and a giant grin on her face. The pink pony had an extremely large backpack, filled with who knows what and she was heading straight for Twilight. By the looks of it, she had no intention of slowing down, but instead, was speeding up.

Panicking, Twilight quickly tried evasive maneuvers, but by the time she stood up, the pink, bouncing pony collided with her, sending both of them rolling in a big heaping mess of purple, pink and party equipment.

The flurry of mixed objects and emotions stopped right in front of a yellow Pegasus mare with neat, pink hair. She cringed, hoping she wouldn’t be part of the mess she just witnessed.

Twilight pushed herself away from the still energetic pink pony. “Pinkie Pie, what the hay?!” She shouted, dusting herself off. The yellow Pegasus cringed further.

Pinkie hopped back up, ignoring the verbal lashings. She looked over to see the frightened Pegasus, shivering in a little ball.

“Look at watcha done now, Twilight. You made Fluttershy all shivery and scared…” Pinkie frowned at Twilight, signaling that she wants her to apologize.

Twilight rolled her eyes and walked towards Fluttershy, showing her a weak grin. She opened her mouth to speak, but a pony interrupted her, an orange farm mare to be exact, trying to get her attention.

Twilight sighed with exasperation as she turned around to see the mare on top of a small hill. “Twi! Y’gotta come see this!” The mare shouted.

“Yeah! Applejack wants you to see something!” Pinkie Pie repeated. Somehow she had disappeared from Twilight’s side and reappeared by Applejack.

Twilight began trotting her way to the orange farm pony, Fluttershy following. As the reached the top of the hill, she peered down the other side to see two other mares watching the sky. One was a Pegasus had a cyan coat of fur with short rainbow hair. The other was a unicorn that was a bright aqua color with neat and curled hair.

“Alright, Applejack. What do you want me to see?” Twilight asked.

“Look at that.” Applejack said uneasily, pointing at the firework filled skies.

Twilight raised an eyebrow. “Applejack, those are fireworks. Nothing unusual here.”

The rainbow Pegasus spoke up. “Oh really, Twilight? Then how do you explain that?

She raised her hoof at a peculiar red dot in the sky. Twilight squinted at the red dot, noticing it was not one of the stars, nor a delayed firework, but something different. Something that gave Twilight a sick feeling in her stomach. Upon further examination, she noticed that the dot began to grow larger by the minute.

“Twi, what is that… Thing up there?” Applejack asked, still uneasy about the situation.

“Is it an asteroid that is going to send us all to oblivion?!” The other unicorn asked, who was on the edge of fainting.

“Don’t be so scared, Rarity. Whatever that thing is, I could probably take it down, all by myself.” The rainbow one said, her cockiness annoying Rarity.

“Darling Rainbow Dash,” Rarity began, “If that thing were to be even a bit larger than you, it would have the highest probability of winning this fight.” She explained mischievously.

Breaking up the arguments, Fluttershy spoke up. “…W-well Twilight? W-what is t-that… thing?”

“Well, I can’t say for sure what it is, but something tells me… This isn’t an asteroid or some space rock that’s going to crash into us.”

Pinkie Pie looked baffled. “Whaddaya mean, Twi?”

“I think that this is worse. Whatever is up there, it’s going to do a hay of a lot more destruction than anything we’ve seen.”

“How in the hay do you know that?” Applejack retorted.

Twilight closed her eyes in fear. “Because I felt a more subtle feeling when Discord, God of Chaos, began to roam free in Equestria.”