FTL: The last great voyage of the Osprey

"Catch you later Twi! Can I call you Twi? ah bugger it I will anyway!" Ryan said as he exited the library.

"Captain?" Cronos spoke up.

"Yes my little Zoltan?" Ryan replied.

"Never call me that again. Moreover, isn't it convenient how these creatures speak Basic? I'd think they would be like those six legged things that led us to Mallard."

"Well Cronos. Sometimes species evolve similarly and this could lead to a shared language structure. It's a low chance but it happens. As a scholar I'd think you would of known that and would of explained it to me in several paragraphs." Ryan stated.

"Shut up." Was the only reply Cronos could think of.

Ryan laughed. "C'mon guys we got a ship to reclaim." Ryan looked to the crash site. The ship had been pulled from the rubble but was surrounded by guards. They seemed easy enough to get past or take down. A pool of FTL fuel had pooled underneath the remaining engine. "Too dangerous to fight them. We could spark the fuel. We need a plan to distract them."

"Slug nebula 26-Z?"

"No ion storm."

"Rock monastery of the cracked star?"

"Area's too open."

"Manor of Hugo Greeves?"

"Not enough water."

"Well then captain I got nothing."

"We need something new, something.....foolproof."

"Foolproof is not a word to describe our endeavours captain."

"Well it will be!"

"Like it would be on Raxus 7?"

"Quiet Cronos." Ryan continued to scan the scene. "C'mon think of something."

"There you are!" A familiar raspy voice sounded from above him.

"That'll do!" Ryan said as the light bulb above his head was smashed by a cyan hoof. "Cronos! Remember when you teleported Lucy into the oxygen room when it was on fire?" Ryan managed to say before the wind was knocked out of him by the same cyan hoof.

"Yeah? I needed Mallard's help with some calculations though. Why do you ask?" Cronos said, being slightly amused as his captain was pummelled.

"Move-oof! Her over-ow-there!" Ryan said in-between beatings "MY NARDS!" He screamed as Rainbow managed to hit a rather sensitive spot. "P-please hurry dammit!"

Cronos began to focus. "On it." In his mind he saw Rainbow Dash and the ship. He had no clue what the captain was planning but that didn't matter. Cronos began to glow brighter, burning some of the grass around him. In an instant Rainbow Dash was now at the crash site and had accidentally attacked a guard. "Done." Cronos said as he observed Dash be chased off by a group of guards.

"Et voilà." Ryan butchered a French accent. "Now c'mon let's see what we can salvage from this wreck" Ryan only wanted one thing from the ship though.

"Uhh captain?" Cronos pointed towards the sky, where a highly ornate vehicle towed by two bat like guards descended.

"Are we there yet?" Kazaaak hung bored over the side of the carriage.

"For the last time neigh!" A rather archaic voice sounded from the back of the carriage.

"Hey Kazaaak? Wanna here a joke" Lucy spoke up.

"Dependssssss. Is it dark?"

"Zoltan boarding parties."

Both of them erupted into laughter, even Horrigan joined with a creepy metallic sounding laugh.

"Horrigan." Kazaaak stopped laughing.

"Yes?"

"Never laugh again. Ever, I'm a mantisss and that ssscared even me,"

At this point the mysterious mare in the back of the carriage started to laugh.

"Oh now you K'tle'ning laugh" Kazaaak swore again, the word sounding out of place among the basic he spoke.

"Well that was a rather...odd word thou have uttered." The mare spoke up once more.

"For the love of Brood ssspeak in a more modern way. Pleassse?" Kazaaak was growing tired of the dated speech patterns

"Well we see no reason to not and we see no reason for thee to be so rude." The mare stepped forward from the shade revealing herself to be no other than Princess Luna.

"Isssss that sssso?"Kazaaak asked in a slightly annoyed tone.

"Why yes it is." Luna replied glaring daggers at the Mantis.

"Well if thatsssss how it'sss gonna be then-"

"Both of you shut up I think I see the ship!" Lucy broke up the impending argument.

"Isssss that? CAPTAIN!" Kazaaak observed, almost falling out of the carriage.

"Kazaaak? KAZAAAK YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD! YOU'RE ALIVE" Ryan yelled upwards towards the carriage.

The carriage landed and Lucy, Horrigan, Kazaaak and Luna stepped out of it.

"I thought you guys were dead!" Ryan was glad to see his crew alive.

Lucy promptly punched Ryan on the shoulder. "That's for not turning off the vindicator you Slate-cracker!"

"I'm sorry but I had more pressing matters to attend to. LIKE THE ENTIRE BLOODY SHIP SPLITTING!"

"We have recovery arms! I sure they could of held the ship together for a bit longer! But no your main priority was landing your half of the ship! Do you even care for us three!?"

"OH YOU'RE RIGHT I SHOULD OF SELFLESSLY SACRIFICED MYSELF ALONG WITH MALLARD AND THE DATA CHIP! WHAT A FOOL OF ME!"

"CAPTAIN! YOU KNOW I HAVE FAITH IN YOU BUT AT TIMES YOU CAN BE SO DUMB, DUMBER THAN A FLINT SHARD!"

"LUCY YOU'RE REALLY GETTING UNDER MY SKIN YOU TWIT!"

"Ahhhh jussssst like old times eh Cronos?" Kazaaak asked leaning over to the Zoltan.

"Reminds me of sector 4 all over again." Cronos responded, prompting them both to laugh.

"So this is a common occurrence." Luna asked as she watched Lucy and Ryan argue.

"Honestly I'm surprised it's as tame as it is infa-oop never mind, duck." Cronos commented. The others did so just in time to avoid Ryan being thrown over them by Lucy. "And who are you by the way?" Cronos continued as if nothing had happened.

Luna was speechless for a second but eventually spoke up. "We are Princess Luna of Equestria, ruling monarch alongside Celestia and controller of the night and all it shrouds."

"Wait. Controller of the night?" Cronos wore a puzzled look.

"Yes We control the night! We move the moon with our magic!" Luna responded.

"Move the moon? Magic?" Cronos was even more confused.

"Sssssigh, Horrigan could you go find a bench or ssssssomething? I have a feeling thisss will be a long talk."

"Captain we are arriving in the beacon's sector now. There is a slight problem however."

"Out with it then!" The captain snapped back at his navigator.

"We can't pinpoint the exact location of it. We have however narrowed it down to 10 possible...."

"Planets? Good." The captain's face began to from into a vile grin.

"Uh no sir. Solar systems."

"YOU BUFFOON!" The captain's fist slammed down onto the arm of his chair, smashing any circuitry within the chair.

"Also sir. We have detected a cruiser inbound to our location." The crewman paused. "Zoltan sir, Ship Identified as "The Adjudicator" Orders?"

"Open fire. They are but alien scum leave no trace of them."

"Sir yes sir" The crewman gave the traditional rebel salute.