The Hands Of Time

     Robert was still shaking in disbelief of what he saw in that old, broken down mirror. He had been turned into a terrible creature. He had a brain, but the question was: Did he even have a soul...? He also had no protection against the cold. Then, however, he stupidly realized that he didn't feel the cold anymore because he was dead. Or was he...? Anyhow, it didn't matter because only one thing was on his mind: Destroy the source of this madness.

    'I wonder if General Mahav has even been to this so-called village...' Robert thought.

    Finally, he decided he was used to his new body, and, just to be sure, he grabbed some shirt and pants leggings to make himself extra warm against the icy ground of Tau Volantis.

Ponyville, Twilight's library

"Spike, where did you put my telescope?" asked the ever smart Twilight Sparkle.

"I put it on the nightstand next to your window." answered her trusted assistant.

"Good..Okay, I found it." she said, picking it up.

"What do you need it for anyway?" asked spike.

Twilight looked to the window, and then slowly back at spike. Her facial expression told all the info he needed to know.

"Oh..your still worried about Pinkie, aren't you?" he asked her sadly.

"Yes..It's been weeks since she wen't outside the border to deliver that large order." said Twilight.

She slowly put the telescope back where she found and went outside to get some fresh air.

Outside the border, Tau Volantis

Robert for some reason didn't need his sight to navigate through the heavy snow. He was going North-West of the abandoned cabin; the way General Mahav had told him to go. His tall, gaunt figure let him slip by the snow. It wasn't until he came across dead human soldiers, that he saw the unthinkable. Something zipped by him at first; then it came to a halt right out in front of him. It looked like a raptor, like the dinosaurs, but this one had a club like head, an open, spike-like chest, and made clicking noises whenever Robert moved around him.

Then, what really got his attention was that it began to talk to him.

"So...aren't you that soldier that killed that new brute that was created?..." it said in a voice Robert could not even begin to describe.

Before Robert could respond to him, six more of the same variant came out of hiding, and lined-up right next to the one who was talking to him. They all started to chatter around him. The middle one spoke again.

"Aren't you looking for a certain town?" he asked.

Robert was slightly shocked. He knew where he was going to, and what he was. Robert nodded, as if in a response.

"Good..Come with us if you want to get there." and before Robert knew it, he was in the pack with a group as they called themselves "The Stalkers".

'I wonder if they know how to get in..' Robert wondered once more.

Ponyville, Canterlot Castle

Princess Celestia was sitting in her throne room looking down into a magical hologram spell she had been working on. She had a look of worry on her face as she saw this new event un-fold before her own eyes. She lowered her tireless eyes once more at the hologram...Such creatures as this were certainly not welcome in ponyville.

"I must warn the others at once."

Ponyville, twilight's house

Twilight was going through her things once more as she heard a soft knock on the door. But just loud enough to be heard by spike, and then she quickly told him to go open it.

When he came back, he had Rainbow Dash with him.

"Twilight, the princes needs you, me, and the rest of us to report to canterlot immediately!" she told her purple friend frantically.

"Okay, calm down." twilight told her friend calmly.

As they packed their things in a hurry, twilight told spike to stay here just in case something comes up. He nodded with a small smile on his face, or grimace in twilight's words. The two headed out the door, and spike breathed a sigh of relief.

"Finally; they're gone...Now I can invite fluttershy over for some "hot-sex"." he smirked, and whistled out to a tree limb in the corner of the room, which when he did so, a certain yellow, pink-maned mare pulled off the head compartment of her new tree limb costume.

"Well baby...do ya' wanna...snuggle?" she said in a seductive tone.

"Hell yes!"

And not a second sooner, the two collided in a mountain of kisses as they fell to the floor, moaning and groaing for a day sure to be full of pleasures.

Outside the Ponyville dome, Robert's POV

Finally the pack of misfits arrived at the gate. Once more, the lead stalker turned to Robert and asked him one final time:

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

Robert slowly nodded his head yes, and the pack jogged slowly up the door. At first, Robert didn't know what to expect, but then, they started violently banging their rock-hard heads on the wooden gate door. Robert's eyes shot open, or so he thought. He was still unsure of his new body's old functions still worked right.

Before he could wonder more about his out-of-this-world-body, they had finally finished breaking down the door, and he was shocked to see they had killed a few royal guards along the way as well.

'I need to quit thinking so hard...it's really drowning out the world.' he thought to himself.

The lead stalker spoke to him again: "C'mon, let's go!" and Robert quickly followed.

They all stopped shortly after the door up ahead busted down in front of them. They all stopped sharply to see a bright white alicorn in front of them. She spoke in a very loud, and broad voice.

"STOP NOW, OR FACE THE WRATH OF-" *STAB STAB*

She was stopped short of her talking because one of the stalkers snuck up behind her and stabbed her in the neck. She collapsed to the floor, and the lead stalker once again motioned for Robert to keep moving. So, he simply followed orders.

Finally the crew reached the door to ponyville. But what came next shocked Robert.

"This is as far as we go, and no further. After this point, your on your own." he told him sternly.

Robert didn't bother to ask questions, so he simply nodded to him and stepped forward to the closes door to him.

"That door will take you to ponyville, that's your best shot at living now...farewell..Parker."

Before Robert could ask him how he knew his name, he gently pushed him through the door, and a bright flash of light surrounded the former rifleman...Then it all went dark for a moment.

Tau Volantis, Pink beast's POV

The old rusty boxes used to destroy the pink monstrosity slowly began to rustle. Then they began to slowly fall off the once thought dead creature. It slowly got up as it shook off the heavy crates once used to crush it. Once it got to full stature, it stood up and looked around. The person who attacked it was already long gone. It reared it's once pink eyes at the small tracks on the ground in front of it. Finding the bastard wouldn't be so hard after all.

The pink abomination began on it's way, bouncing once more on it's way to it's former home: Ponyville.