Twilight Sparkle

Now a time traveling pony, along with her friends.

And they will soon have their fair share of close rapes with dinosaurs.

But the Earth has witness more terrible monsters than the ones they soon meet.

What Twilight and her friends are about to learn about prehistory, is that no matter how bad things get on land. The one thing you should never ever do... is get in the water.

SEA MONSTERS

During their latest adventure they visit 7 different time zones as they go. And dive in the 7 deadliest seas ever. Each sea they visits, will be more dangerous than the last. With bigger, nastier predators, creatures that hard to believe once lived on this planet. And of course... The worst is being saved til last.

Their first stop of the 7 deadly seas, is a period called the Ordovician.

7th Most dangerous sea of all time

Name: The Ordovician

When: 450 million years ago

Hazards: Giant Orthcones, Sea Scorpions

Twilight and the others have just arrived in the lands of the Ordovician 450 million B.C. so far they have been walking across the landscape, but not only was it hot but it was hard to breath. The reason for that is the atmosphere at this time is horrible. Much less Oxygen and much more Carbon Dioxide than their use to, luckily Twilight has magical appeared a oxygen tank with a special air mix or they would have gotten sick and bad headaches if they continued to breath through this Ordovician air.

Why is it so hard to breath, Twilight? Rainbow Dash asked.

I don't know Rainbow. Twilight answered unsure.

Well now, I heard everything. Rainbow groaned.

What's that suppose to mean? Twilight said walking up to her.

I thought you were suppose to know everything!

Just because I know a lot, doesn't mean I know everything!

Well, you were suppose to know where we are!

For the last time, I don't know where we're even are!

Well maybe you didn't read every book that ever existed!

Well maybe I should...

Hey, hey, hey just calm down! Starlight said. Look it's hot, we're tired. Let's just keep walking and try to find some shade.

And so the 8 friends continue to walk through the barren landscape.

As they looked and they could why the atmosphere of this time is so different.

There's no life at all on the land, there's no insects in the air. There's not even worms in the ground below them. And most crucially of all, there's no plants. There's not a of green anywhere. So the Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere it's not being absorbed by them and their not boosting the atmosphere with Oxygen.

But it's a different story, out there in the sea. There's been life there for hundreds of millions of years. And what there about to find out, Evolution has produced some real monsters.

Eventually the gang have made it the coastline relieved they rushed towards the water wanting cool off from the burning sun. But then Twilight felt something against her leg, using her magic she lifted the object from the water and revealed some kind of arthropod that was 4 feet long. it's front arms have sharp spines and a strange shaped tail, it was a sea scorpion or eurypterid called Megalograptus.

What is that thing? Spike asked.

I don't know! Twilight said.

She quickly put the scorpion into and it swam off. Leaving the group speechless of what they saw.

Later that day they were on the beach and they were still shocked about the sea scorpion.

That was just about the creepiest thing I have ever seen in my life! Rainbow Dash said.

Even I'm shocked, I mean i seen a lot of strange animals but never that strange. Fluttershy said.

But as fearsome as those sea scorpions are, their not the top predators, there's much bigger sea monsters out there. And they are about to meet them.

Sometime later sunset has approach and it's come so quick. There so many surprises in this time, and this is open of them.

That's because in Ordovician time's the Earth is spinning much faster it is than modern times. And it's a 21 hour day not 24 hours. It will be dark soon and there's not much for them to do today.

How did it get sunset so fast? Spike said.

I don't know. Twilight said. Maybe we should get some sleep.

Yeah, I'm beat. Applejack said.

Within minutes a tent was set up, and since there's wood around at less for another 100 million years, they all went to be.

The next morning Twilight had magically made a boat appear and with some diving gear. She wants to found out what else lives in these Ordovician waters. And after a short meeting the others have agreed to join her. Also since after seeing those arms of the sea scorpions Twilight had each a bite proof shark suit. it's a little off dated because sharks haven't evolved yet and they won't appear for at less another 50 million years from this point, but it should give them some protection. And they begin to head out and they passed a Megalograptus crawling near them.

They headed out to the middle of the bay, where the bigger predators tend to be.

earlier this morning Twilight found a old carcass of a trilobite and place a small camera and some rope on it once it was ready Twilight made a magical screen showing them from the camera. and once working Twilight threw the trilobite off the boat and in the water, it sank till it hit the floor of sand. Pulling the rope and making the Trilobite move which seems to make it look alive, it soon attracted a Megalograptus which she manage to getting to let go.

At late afternoon something appeared on the screen with tentacles grabs the camera. And soon Twilight was in a tug of war with something. But sadly the mystery creature has won and the screen went black

What was that? Pinkie said.

I don't know. Twilight said. But we got to see what it is.

Within minutes they putted on the scuba gear and went in the water.

They followed the rope to the end and found the trilobite was gone, but the mystery predator can't be too far away.

After a few minutes of swimming they saw a few sea scorpions, they we're not sure what is going on. And they all seem to be moving in one direction.

Then they saw the mystery predator, a giant Orthocone called Cameroceras.

The group looked at the shelled squid like creature. And it is the biggest predator in the world of this time. Sensing their presence the Orthocone slowly approaches them, Twilight then flashed her horn hoping that would discourage it. And luckily the Orthocone swims away. And when he was gone he was no where to be seen, but the sea scorpions are still around.

Then the Orthocone appears again and snatches one of sea scorpions, and as the Orthocone feeds the group of 8 can actually hear the beak crunching through scorpions shell even under the water. This Orthocones probably spend much of their time in deep water, and since there's very little light they don't have good eyesight. so they use a different sense, they will smell out their prey and crush them to bits. Cameroceras really is the top predator of Ordovician times.

Meanwhile the gang have swam back up to the surface and got back to the boat. But as they approach to shore there was a swarm of Megalograptus on the beach between them and land. And this was what they were doing they were moving through the shallows, moving towards the shore. And this is a mass spawning, it's a full moon at the moment and it's the highest tide. And their laying their eggs in the sand, the eggs will be protected, and when the next high tide comes in about a month or so, the young larva will hatch and be taken back out to sea. And some of the scorpions will stay around till the eggs hatch. Fossils have been found with baby sea scorpions inside the stomachs of the big one. And that's what they'll do, they'll wait around here and feed on the babies, as they hatch on the next high tide.

Why are they gathered like this? Twilight asked.

I think it's a spawning of some kind. Fluttershy answered.

Luckily Twilight teleported herself and the others on the beach, away from the scorpions.

The Ordovician then isn't exactly a picnic. Anywhere the air gives you a headache, and you can't go swimming without a chain nail suit. probably isn't going to be a vacation destination.

And the gang are lucky it wasn't so dangerous. But prehistory has worse still to offer, and the gang were then sucked into a time warp being taken to their next prehistoric destination.

Next time they'll travel 32 million years to witness their early fish ancestors escaping their armored enemies... the arthropods.