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Noon. South Side of Island. Jungle Clearing.
Mere moments after dissapearing into the south, and leaving her friends in the dust, Rarity let out a loud horrified shriek.

"RARITY!" The girls galloped towards the scream, hoping that nothing had happened to their friend. After a few moments of full gallop, they came upon a clearing in the jungle. It was wide, and bright with sunlight and blood covered the ground.

Standing a few feet in front of them, Rarity stood, staring, at the carcass of a pig. It was hanging by its hind legs from a tree, and its throat was sliced open. Rainbow Dash stepped forward and gently pulled Rarity back into the group, not taking her eyes off the pig for one second.

"I was j-just r-running when I s-saw it." She wimpered. "I almost crashed right into it!" She wailed in shock. Pinkie stepped forward, wrapping a foreleg around her friend in comfort.

"There, there Rarity." She consoled. "You're okay."

Interestingly enough, the meekest member of their group hardly reacted at all. Flutteshy was surprised at first, but was now eyeing the pig's body like a crime scene investigator would. Right beside her was Twilight.

"How could somepony treat a poor pig this way?" Applejack asked. She had raised pigs on Sweet Apple Acres. They were always playful and friendly. The idea that somepony, or something, could treat them so horribly made her sick to her stomach.

"Some demonic beast! Only the cruelest of monsters could be so callous!" Cried Rarity. Her face was streaked with tears and mascara, obviously still in shock.

"That's not true." Said Twilight and Fluttershy simultaneously. They looked at each other awkwardly.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Mumbled Fluttershy. "You can explain, if you want to, that is." She tried to hide behind her mane in embarrassment.

"No, no." Countered Twilight. "I'm quite interested in what you have to say, Fluttershy. You are our animal expert, after all." Twilight gave Fluttershy a supportive grin.

"Oh, alright. If that's okay with you, I mean." She whispered. Twilight nodded. "Okay, well..." She paused, not really knowing where to start. "First off, this wasn't some crazy animal attack, or an act of cruelty." Explained Fluttershy. "Whatever did this to the piggy was intelligent, and this was the kindest way to kill it." She stated.

Twilight kept her face impassive, not betraying any emotion. The others, however weren't convinced.

"Fluttershy, dear," Began Rarity. "How could you of all ponies not believe this to be an act of pure evil!" She demanded. The encounter with the carcass affected her more that the others, that much was obvious. It would probably be months before she would get over this.

"It has to be evil!" Cried Applejack. She pointed a hoof at the pig, "You said it yerself! Whatever did this was intelligent. That means that it chose to do this! Does this look 'kind' to you!?" She exclaimed.

"Yeah! Whatever did this is a big Meany McMeanPants!" Added Pinkie Pie. Rainbow Dash said nothing, but she obviously share their opinion.

At this time, Fluttershy was on the ground, cowering at her friends aggressive reponse to her observation. At this time, Twilight stepped in.

"Sorry to say this, girls, but Fluttershy is right." The four shocked ponies turned to Twilight. "Look closely at the pig." She requested. After observing it, Twilight began explaining Fluttershy's argument. "If you look at the trap, you can obviously tell it was intelligently put together. It was a basic tripwire activated animal trap." She pointed out. "Now look at the wound on it's throat." She requested again. "This pigs throat was sliced horizontally, severing all of the veins and arteries that led to and from the pigs brain. Whatever did this knew that the pig would be dead in less than a minue. They knew that hanging it upside down and cutting its throat would drain the blood from its body."

"But that's really messed up!" Yelled Rainbow Dash, scaring Fluttershy back to the ground. "Even if this...whatever it is was being all careful and nice while killing this defenceless animal it doesn't change the fact that it killed!" She cried. "What possible reason would it have to kill a pig?" She questioned.

"I-its a carnivore..." Offered Fluttershy. Everypony looked at her. "Well, the technique used by this creature to drain the blood from the piggy is the same technique that Gryphons use when they cure their meat."

"Hold on there fer a second," Said Applejack. "So yer sayin' we got some smart predator runnin' 'round these parts?" She questioned. At Twilight and Fluttershy's nod, she asked: "So what's stoppin' it from, y'know, attackin' us?"

"Nothing, really." Answered Twilight. "We don't know anything about this...thing." She realized they had no idea what it was. "We're going to have to find it and document it."

"What!" Cried everypony.

3 P.M. Southern Beach. Campsite.
The couple had long since dressed themselves since their little incident on the beach. Their clothes, if you could call them that, were made of animal skin, and it had dried into a brownish-beige color. Julian only had on speedo-type trunks, there was too much heat to make them into shorts or pants, and he forewent a shirt altogether. Raquel, on the other hand, wore an animal skin bikini. The bottoms covered her groin, but it was a thong in the back, exposing her buttocks. The bikini top looked pretty typical, there were two tringles of skin that were tied around the back of her neck and shoulders to support her large breasts, and keep them out of the way.

The intense heat forced them to wear such clothes at all times. In the five years they had been on the island, there were only three days where it was cold enough to bundle up. The rest of the time, it was over one hundred degrees, easy.

Thankfully, due to their mestizo heritage, they didn't burn easy and instead tanned. It was a relief to know they didn't have to deal with sunburns and peeling and rashes. Then again, now it probably wouldn't affect them at all.

Raquel stood up, admiring the fire that she had built. Julian was still busy gutting and cleaning the fish, not yet putting them in the fire. He looked over to her.

"Acabaste?" He questioned. She looked around, trying to see if she forgot anything. Nope, everything was clean.

"Yup." She answered. He nodded.

"Can you please go to the clearing and get the pig? It should be drained by now."

"Yeah, that's fine. We're eating like royalty tonight, huh?" She laughed.

"You're damn right!" He said, laughing with her. She turned and headed into the shack.

Their shack was built like a typical treehouse. The entrance was in the bottom, and only accessible through a ladder. The ladder led into a large circular room, about ten feet in height and a twenty foot diameter. On the north side there was an entrance to a larger space. It was actually a cave on the side of the cliff that overlooked the beach. It served as a shelter, if the weather got too extreme. It also had many other rooms inside it, so they used it as bedrooms, and storage rooms.

She headed into the storage caves to retrieve some rope for their kill. After retrieving some, she left the cave, descended the ladder of the shack, then headed out into the jungle in the direction of their hunting zone.

Approximately 3:30 P.M. South Side of Island. Jungle Clearing.
The ponies had argued for a while, trying to decide whether or not attempting to find the creature was a wise decision. Unfortunately, Twilight was the leader of the expedition, and she made the rules.

They ultimately decided to wait just outside the clearing to observe the pig carcass. The predator went to a lot of trouble of catching and draining the pig, obviously it would be returning for its dinner. What they did not know, was how long it would take for the creature to reclaim its prize. So, the ponies had been waiting for over three hours.

And they were bored.

Rainbow and Pinkie had tken to playing a game of Go Fish with Rainbow Dash's set of limited edition Wonderbolts playing cards.

Rarity was still busy applying make up and fixing her coat.

Applejack was reading a novel she had brought along for this very reason. She was also eating some apples.

Fluttershy had taken to playing with some of the local chimpanzees. She seemed to be having a good time with them.

Finally, Twilight was busy reading all of her notes regarding the island. Perhaps the creature had left some clues throughout the island. In fact she may have already found one. On the island was the skeleton of a massive decapitiated dragon. It was the only one there, and it seems to have died while guarding its hoard. There was evidence of a battle, but the ponies had a difficult time trying to figure out what could possibly have killed the dragon.

Dragons weren't just powerhouses, both magical and physical, they were also highly intelligent. Some mindless beast couldn't have simply overpowered the dragon. If something was that large and powerful it would have made itself known long ago. However, if whatever killed the dragon was an intelligent species, and it was smart enough to figure out how to defeat the dragon, then, theoretically, it was possible.

That just wasn't good.

Before she could notify her friends and colleagues about her concerns, there was some activity opposite the clearing.

"Everypony, look!" Said Pinkie. All the ponies turned and hid behind some trees or bushes, trying to remian hidden while observing the unknown predator. "It's coming!" Pinkie said excitedly.

Indeed, directly across their hiding spot, there was movement in the trees.

"So," Began Rarity in an ominous tone. "The beast reveals itself." Everypony rolled their eyes.

Across the clearing a creature came into view. They could not see it very well, but they knew it harms. Whatever it was, was swinging from branch to branch, brachiating at a high velocity. Finally, it used both hands to catch a tree limb, which it used to gain momentum, swinging itself upwards before landing in a crouch on the last available tree branch.

The ponies watched it closely observing its every move. Twilight was scribbling down notes like a pony possessed.

The creature stood up on its hind legs in an impressive display of balance before it jumped off the high tree limb. As it fell it gracefully turned its body in a back flip before crashing to the ground in another crouch. The creature stood up on its hind legs again, and walked casually to the carcass.

It was very tall. Most likely taller than even Princess Celestia. It had light brown hair, and light brown skin. It did not have much fur, just the hair that grew from the top its head, its eyebrows and eyelashes. It was also...shaped funny. On its upper body, just under the neck, were two large globes of flesh. They were held in place by some animal skin, most likely to keep them from bouncing around. Its waist seemed to become narrow down before its hips protruded widely. If Twilight could compare it to anything, an hourglass shape came to mind. She observed the creature much more closely. She noticed how its legs seemed to come together slightly at the knees. And interestingly enough, its knees locked.

'A biped! It's thigh bones are pointed inwards to maintain balance, and it's knees lock to facilitate walking!' She thought excitedly.

Finally, the creature reached he dead pig. It observed it closely, then sighed.

"Sorry little pig." Its voice was soft and feminine.

It was a female!

'Could those be her breasts?' Though Twilight. Every ounce of data that she had concluded that this was some sort of ape. An intelligent, talking, bipedal ape! She knew that a female apes breasts swelled when they were pregnant, could this female be pregnant?

The female ape spoke again: "But, we have to eat. It isn't my fault you're so delicious." She tried to joke. No one laughed though.

She began untying the pig from the trap and lowered it to the ground. Once there, she began to tie its legs together and casually lifted it up over her shoulder and tied the rope around its body, creating a makeshift harness. She turned and began walking away.

However, instead of walking throught the brush, she looked up. She seemed to consider something for a moment.

The ponies froze, thinking perhaps she had noticed something.

Instead she jumped high into the air, landing on the branch she had been crouching on minutes before, then jumping ahead through the jungle.

A few moments pass then: "Rainbow! Fly up into the air and track her!"

Rainbow Dash looked confused, but obeyed Twilight's demand, flying up over the jungle and disappearing from view.

"Twilight! Why did you send Dashie after that thing!" Cried Pinkie Pie. She voiced everyponies curiosity. Before anypony else could question her, she explained.

"I don't know what that thing was, but I do know that it was a unique creature not seen anywhere else in the world." She said. "We just discovered a new species." She claimed. The ponies didn't really know what to say to that so they stayed quiet.

"Do ya know what kind a animal it was?" Questioned Applejack.

Twilight considered the question.

"I think it was an ape of some kind. It had arms instead of forelegs, along with hands with opposable thumbs. Those are almost exclusive to primates. It was able to rotate its arm a full 360 degrees and it lacked a tail. Those trais are exclusive to apes."

"What do you mean, darling?" Questioned Rarity. She seemed a lot calmer now. Maybe it was because she knew what she was dealing with, rather than some unknown creature.

"Primates means apes and monkeys. The difference between apes and monkeys is that monkeys are unable to rotate their arms and they have tails. Apes can rotate their arms and do not have tails." She explained.

Fluttershy decided to step in now, happy to educate her friends about her animal friends.

"That's because monkeys climb trees. A monkey sits on top of the trees so it's arms are always in front if it, holding on. Their tails help them keep balance. An ape, like a chimpanzee for example, swings underneath the trees from branch to branch, like we saw the creauture doing, so they have a full range of motion in their arms. They also lack tails because a tail would weigh them down and make their swinging clumsy. Its just how they evolved." She finished with a smile.

The others nodded in understanding. So they were dealing with some sort of smart ape? It was hard to comprehend, but at least they had some idea of what they were dealing with. It was a few minutes before Rainbow Dash returned. She flew down, and landed beside the group. She looked alarmed.

"There's two of them!" She cried. This alarmed the ponies.

"What do you mean 'theres two of them?'" Questioned Rarity.

"I mean there are two of them! I followed the monkey-thing back to some camp on the beach. There was another one waiting for it. And it was bigger than the first one!" She cried.

This was definitely something to be worried about. They had absolutely no idea how this species would operate. What if they were hostile? Dealing with one was bad enough, but two of them? Twilight sighed.

"What else did you you see?" She asked.

"Well, they have this big shack-house that's like 30 hooves off the ground. It looked like it was built off the side of a cliff. A little ways away from the shack is some kind of fire pit. They put fish in the fire, and the second one grabbed a knife and started cutting the pig up!"

Okay, so they cooked their food. That was one more thing Twilight logged away for future reference.

"Could you describe the second one?" Asked Applejack. Rainbow Dash nodded.

"Well, it was only a couple'a inches taller than the one we saw, but it was...bigger. It had a lot of muscles. It's body was kinda like that Minotaur's---Iron Will---only toned down some. It was hairier than the one we saw, also." She finished.

Twilight nodded. Okay, it made some sense.

"It must be a male." She said. "The one that we saw was female, I'm sure of it. So it makes sense that this second ape is male. Its muscular and hairier than the one we saw."

"What does that have to do with anything?" Asked Rarity. Fluttershy answered this time.

"Since males have testosterone it makes them more muscular than females. Males will oftentimes also grow more hair as a result. Think about lions and lionesses. Lions have a thick mane, and lionesses don't." She explained. Everypony nodded.

"This might also explain the females swollen breasts." Twilight added. "Female apes breasts swell with milk when they become pregnant. If there is a male on the island as well, than they must be mates." She concluded.

"Aww, how adorable!" Said Fluttershy. "They're a little family." Apparantly, she was not on the same page as the rest of the group.

"Fluttershy, what if these things are dangerous?" Said Twilight. She was speaking calmly, hoping not to upset Fluttershy. "We have to find out whether or not these creatures are dangerous. We can't just take them back with us to Canterlot. Worst case scenario, we'd have to leave the island and warn Princess Celestia to prevent any colonizstion of the island."

Fluttershy sighed. She knew Twilight was right. If they were dangerous, it would be best to simply leave them on the island and hope they never made it to the mainland.

"Okay." She acquiesced.

"Alright Rainbow, take us to their campsite. We have to finish observing these creatures." Rainbow nodded and led them through the woods.

2 Hours Later.
South Side of Island. Beach. Campsite.
Once again, the ponies found themselves observing from a distance the two apes that they had discovered. When they arrived, they were still cooking the pig.

They had discovered some new things about the creatures. For one, they weren't carnivores, but omnivores. They had observed the creatures eating fruits, vegetables and various nuts. Twilight was sure their diet varied more than that, but this was only one dinnersworth of observation.

They also learned that the creatures weren't all that violent, as they had feared. In fact, they were very amicable. They joked, and laughed, they played around with eachother and they touched eachother. A lot. Twilight was certain now that these creatures were mated.

One very surprising thing they discovered was that these creatures had more than one language. They heard the male speak in some strange tongue they had never heard before. Sometimes the female would respond in kind, but she mostly spoke Equestrian.

Now, however, the creatures had become a little...amorous, so the ponies decided to start searching their shack/cave. It was both to give them some privacy, and Twilight was sure they would find some intersting stuff there.

The circular room was fairly barren. They probably only used it as a means to get up to the cave, which was there real dwelling.

The cave itself was large and it branched off into some smaller caves. So the decided to split up.

"All that I found over here is some pieces of plastic." Twilight called out. She used her horn to hold up a rectangular object. On the smooth plastic surface there was a small logo of an apple that had been bitten. Whatever it was, she had no idea what it was for.

"The only thing o'er here are some weapons." Applejack called. Both herself and Rarity were looking at some homemade knives and spears. Some were made of stone, and others were made of bone. Others were simply fire-hardened wood. Rarity magically levitated some strange looking metal handle before her. It seemed to be designed to be held by one of the creatures. On the handle was what looked like a trigger. Rarity examined it closely, rotating it and peeking through the hole at the end, but gave up and tossed it to the floor.

Then everything went wrong.

When the metal handle collided with the stone ground, it went off. It sounded like a cannon firing, and a brightly lit object rocketed out of the metal tube and straight out of the cave. When it collided with the wall of the wooden shack, it exploded.

The explosion was more deafining than the original blast, and it lit up the cave, as well as the outside.

When the lights and sounds finally died down, there was a far more intersting sound that reverberated in the cave.

It was the sound of a baby crying.

The explosion completely destroyed their home. It lit up the whole beach, and the sound was deafening. Julian and Raquel, ran as fast as they could, praying that the cave was still intact, and that nothing was destryed. Especially...

"Alejandroo!" Cried Raquel. "No! Not my baby!" Julian wanted to cry as well. He wanted to scream, and to go crazy, but they had to make sure. They had to know whether or not their baby was...gone.

They reached the cliffside, looking at the destruction. For a second, they both hesitated. The only sound was Raquel's wimpering. Swallowing, they jumped up to the mouth of the cave expecting the worst. Instead, they heard something that made their hearts soar.

Crying.

Alejandro was still alive. Maybe he could still come out of this okay. Maybe everything would be okay.

They ran inside the cave, turning right into their makeshift bedroom. It was full of animal skins to cushion the ground. Alejandro had been fed and put to sleep by his mother, she layed him down on the animal mattress. It didn't look as though the explosion did any damage inside the cave. Perhaps he was only startled.

When they walked in the whole way, and Julian raised his torch, they were shocked at what they saw.

Inside their bedroom were 6 ponies. A butter-yellow one had their baby in its forelegs, comforting him. She, along with the other ponies, were watching them.

"So," The butter colored pony started. "What's his name?"

Author's Note

Hopefully, whatever made everyone hate my story right off the bat will be redeemed by this chapter. Let me know what you guys think. And instead of downvoting me indiscriminantly, why don't you guys actually let me know what sucks about this story so i could change it.

My goal is not to write a bad/mediocre story. I want it to be amazing! And to do that, i'll need your input.

By the way, English and Equestrian are interchangeable. As is their alphabet. If you pay attention in the show, they use the exact same alphabet as we do.

Also, for your reference:
1 hoof=6 inches
30 hooves=15 feet
1 inch=1 inch