Author's Note
NOTE: The Predator does speak in his own language, but he will use voice lines from the other characters to taunt his prey.
If It Bleeds
In Equestria, a spaceship crash-lands in the Everfree Forest. A mysterious entity crawls out of the wreckage, coughing up a green substance. However, it made its way through the dark forest and found some prey.
Night time. The perfect time of day for a predator to hunt its prey. In the Cutie Mark Crusaders' clubhouse, four fillies were peacefully asleep, but little did they know... they would sleep forever. Outside of the clubhouse, a camouflaged entity readied a weapon and shot four blasts, successfully completing its first hunt in this new land. Of course, this was just the beginning.
When morning arrived, Applejack walked over to the clubhouse to wake the fillies up... only to find horror. Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Babs Seed were all dead. Applejack screamed in terror, waking up Rainbow Dash and Rarity, who were nearby.
"Applejack, what the hay was that for?!", Rainbow Dash complained, but her mood quickly changed when she saw the orange pony in tears. The rainbow-maned pony looked inside the clubhouse and saw what had happened. Rarity walked over as well and saw what had happened. Blood and gore were splattered everywhere. "Oh... oh, my Celestia." Suddenly, Rainbow Dash heard a rustling nearby... but she didn't see anything. "Run." The three ponies fled the scene, but the camouflaged entity gave chase and managed keep up with the ponies. It saw Gabby flying overhead and used its plasmacaster to shoot the griffon down. However, this caused the entity to lose track of its prey it was chasing. It decloaked itself, revealing it to be a Yautja... and he was ready to hunt. He camouflaged himself again and killed three ponies who were out and about. This was seen by some residents.
"Run", the Predator said with Rainbow Dash's voice. Seeing the dead ponies, the residents of Ponyville began running back to their houses, unaware that this was an Elder Yautja with centuries of experience. With his various weapons and tools, he slaughtered 54 more ponies. However, before he could resume looking for the trio he was chasing, two unicorns began shooting magic blasts at the alien hunter, but he quickly disposed of the two unicorns. Four pegasi above him began dive-bombing the Predator, but he used his plasmacaster to quickly kill the attackers. One final pony attempted to attack the Predator, but he used his combistick to kill the attacker.
At Sugarcube Corner, the Mane Six and Spike had gathered to figure out what was going on. Fluttershy, however, knew what they were up against.
"The year was 1987. In the balmy jungles of Central America, an elite American Spec Ops unit would come into conflict with Soviet-backed insurgents. Their mission was a success, but little did they know, they were the ones being hunted. It was almost as if the jungle itself was killing them. But in reality, it was a traveler from beyond the stars. A superhuman killing machine whose entire life was devoted to murder. This was a Predator, and these men were its prey", Fluttershy explained. "And this alien hunter had more than enough gnarly gadgets to take Dutch and his crew down, like the plasmacaster, a shoulder-mounted laser cannon. It has a tracking system connected to the Predator's Bio-Helmet, which allows him to see in X-ray, UV, and Night Vision. This is on top of the Predator's own unique way of seeing, through natural infrared sight. Essentially, he tracks individuals by recognizing differences in heat signatures. Too bad humans or ponies can't do the same, since the Predator's full-body, light-bending camouflage makes him invisible to the naked human eye, letting him blend into the shadows and pick off his prey one-by-one. But as ruthless as that sounds, the Predator is actually an honorable fighter, who relishes the chance to fight up close and personal with his iconic wristblades. Unfortunately, there's an entire planet of these guys. These are the Yautja."
"But why would he kill Apple Bloom and the others?", Applejack asked.
"It saw you, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity as worthy opponents. However, this kind of Predator is an Elder Yautja", Fluttershy answered.
"How do you know so much about this, Fluttershy? Only I have ever been to the human world", Twilight Sparkle asked.
"Because I am well-knowledged in predators and prey, and the Yautja is no different", Fluttershy answered. "The only way to take one down is to defeat it in battle."
"Alright. Do you know where it might be?", Twilight Sparkle asked.
"The Everfree Forest. This is a Predator, so a jungle or forest is its preferred hiding spot if its hunting animals", Fluttershy answered. Unbeknownst to the Mane Six and Spike, the Predator, camouflaged, was watching them. He fled the scene.
In the Everfree Forest, a crashed spaceship was billowing smoke. The Predator was attempting to fix it, but nothing he did worked. He tried everything, but nothing seemed to work. When he went to Equestria for a hunting session, he did not expect his ship to crash and burn. He was already somewhat injured from the massacre he committed, so he had to patch himself up. Eventually, the gasoline from the spaceship ignited, resulting in a massive explosion that sent the Predator flying through the forest. He crash-landed on the ground, hard. His cloaking system was all messed up, and his mask was banged up. He took off his mask, revealing his face. Unbeknownst to the Predator, the Mane Six and Spike had seen the explosion... and were running towards it.
When the Mane Six and Spike made it to the crash site, all they saw was a massive crater where the spaceship once was. The Predator was forced to use the forest's shadows to hide himself as he closed in on the Mane Six and Spike, but he was still too far away, and his plasmacaster was malfunctioning. The Predator screamed in Applejack's voice in annoyance, but that only gave away his location to the Mane Six and Spike. With no other options, the Predator put another mask on and readied his wristblades.
Rainbow Dash, obviously furious about what the Predator did, was the first to attack, but the Predator was smart and managed to grab the pegasus by her tail and swung her around before throwing her aside. Rarity blasted the Predator with her magic, but the Predator camouflaged himself with his cloaking system and slashed and grabbed Rarity, dragging her away. Suddenly, her scream is heard by the others. However, when they find Rarity, her throat had been slit.
"What the fuck?", Rainbow Dash asked. The Predator then shot a hole through Applejack's body using his plasmacaster. However, Fluttershy was seemingly nowhere to be found... until a yellow feather caused Twilight Sparkle to sneeze. It turned out that there was some green blood on a tree above them, and Fluttershy was inspecting it. "Huh. I'm surprised she's not running away."
"If it bleeds... we can kill it", Fluttershy said. "This must've been caused by the explosion. I saw some green stuff just mysteriously hovering around. Yautja can turn invisible, so it makes sense. I've been making a trap while you guys were looking at that corpse. The rules of nature... don't apply to a Yautja. For them... they are the law." Suddenly, a noise was heard, and a net rose out of the ground with seemingly nothing in it... but Fluttershy knew that she caught something. "I got you, you big ugly fuck!" However, the invisible Predator was able to break free and leaped through the trees to get away. "Shit! Rainbow Dash, Spike, you two go after that thing!" Rainbow Dash and Spike listened and gave chase. However, when they eventually cornered the Predator, Rainbow Dash was quickly killed via laser blast. Spike unleased his flames and managed to burn the Predator's skin, but a plasmacaster blast was able to kill Spike. Fluttershy, Twilight Sparkle, and Pinkie Pie all ran over to the fresh corpses and saw the Predator ready for battle. Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie ran off, but Twilight Sparkle was ready for battle as well.
"Let's go, motherfucker", Twilight Sparkle said as she blasted the Predator with her magic. The Predator shot his plasmacaster at his foe, but that wasn't enough to take down the Princess. She managed to stab the Predator with her horn, but this wasn't a good idea as the Predator then ripped out Twilight Sparkle's spine. The Predator tossed Twilight Sparkle's body aside as he took aim with his plasmacaster and killed Pinkie Pie with a headshot. Another plasmacaster blast caused Fluttershy's right wing to get blasted off. As the last pony remaining, Fluttershy hid in a tree as the Predator roared.
Eventually, night fell and Fluttershy, now with only one wing, approached the invisible alien hunter. She threw an explosive from the wreckage, which blew up in the Predator's face, causing his cloaking system to malfunction. Unsure of where the explosive was thrown from, the angered Predator fired multiple shots with his plasmacaster, but he hit everything except for Fluttershy. He then began searching for the yellow one-winged pegasus, which only resulted in another explosive being thrown at him. However, this time, he knew where Fluttershy was and pinned her to a tree. She kicked him, causing his mask to fall off. "Ugh, you are one ugly motherfucker", Fluttershy said as the two hunters began a fight. Fluttershy delivered a bicycle kick, but Predator then grabbed his opponent's wing and tossed her aside. The Element of Kindness, however, was no pushover, and managed to grab the Predator's face and punched it repeatedly. Eventually, the Predator grabbed Fluttershy and threw her like a javelin into a tree. But what the Predator didn't know was that this was a trap, for when Fluttershy hit the tree, a tree trunk from above smashed down on the Predator, severely injuring him. "Got you, you big ugly fuck... again." She grabbed a massive rock with her one wing and was about to smash the Predator's face in when the downed Predator pressed some buttons on his wrist device, activating a self-destruct sequence. He echoed Pinkie's laugh as Fluttershy tossed the rock aside and ran as fast as she possibly could, and 40 seconds later, a massive explosion destroyed the Everfree Forest in its entirety as daybreak arrived. No one survived... except for one. Fluttershy, heftily panting, had survived the explosion and was walking away with her own severed wing in her other wing. "Fuck." She eventually collapsed, and everything around her faded to black as a familiar shadow engulfed her.
In the Chaos Realm, Fluttershy woke up on an upsidedown couch. Discord had saved her. The Lord of Chaos saw what had happened, and was able to track down where Fluttershy was after the explosion died down. He saw that Fluttershy was awake. He had magically put her wing back on.
In the depths of outer space, another Elder Yautja, Greyback, looked out at Equestria. After realizing that there were no Xenomorphs on this planet, the shop landed near Fluttershy's house, where Fluttershy was at the moment. Greyback faced the yellow pegasus and realized the trouble that the other Elder Yautja caused her. Knowing there was nothing he could do to fix this, he gave Fluttershy a flintlock pistol to protect herself with. Engraved on the pistol was the original owner's name and the year 1715. "That's over 300 years ago...", Fluttershy said in awe as Greyback turned around to walk back to his ship. The ship took off as Fluttershy marveled at the weapon in her hand. "This is from Earth... so that means... there's more of them out there. More hunters. More monsters. More... aliens." As she said that, four pods from another ship landed in Ponyville. Out of one pod, a smaller Predator emerged and ran into Fluttershy's house. "Wait... if you're hiding in here... then that means..." The other three pods opened, revealing three super Predators, who were hunting down the young Predator who was hiding with Fluttershy. She readied her flintlock pistol. "Time for a hunt."
