The Burning Planet

by Discordial

Rating: teen
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Length: 1001

An Equestrian Spaceship has crash landed on Azuxoar V. How will they survive?

Book I in The Chronicles of Azuxoar: Under the Blue Suns

A trading/holiday ship heading for Grazoar XII is ambushed and sent off course, crashing into unexplored planet Azuxoar V. Can they survive? Can they fix their ship? Can they escape Botze-Natzir space? And most importantly…
Can they make it back home?

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-05-06 14:11:32 UTC

Chapter 1: Crash Landing

"Mayday, Mayday! Stabilizers down! I repeat, stabilizers down! Engines malfunctioning! Prepare for crash landing!"

Scoots was already having a bad day, when a fleet of rebel Botze-Natzir MK III Luxvaz ships appeared, taking down their water tank, stabilizers and engine coolant system. the strength of the blast had knocked the spaceship off course, thrusting them towards planet R-1535(Azuxoar V) at breakneck speed. She had tried every possible button on the dashboard, but had been unable to steer the capsized ship away from Azuxoar V's gravitational pull.

She should have been more careful when traveling through Botze-Natzir space. The Botze-Natzir government had already warned the other races in the Great Alliance that a group of QAJIQA(the Botze-Natzir word for astronaut [QAJIQA is the same in plural as singular]) were rebelling, but we didn't take much notice.

We really should have.

She ran into the Brace Room and secured the high-rank passengers into their respective LTH pods. She then left, hurrying to the Somnus Lounge, where she encountered the Captain, Lightning HyperDryve.  he entered his salus capsule and Scoots instructed the staff to do the same. She returned to the cockpit and, as she was encased in her CRB pod, repeated the words Rainbow Dash told her all those years ago on her deathbed:

"Time for you to soar."

With that, the the USS Chicken smashed tail-first into a mountainside.

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When Scoots came to, she was trapped in her CRB pod. She clawed her way out and inspected herself. She was unharmed, but couldn't say the same for the cockpit. The window screen was smashed in, half of the dashboard was pummeled into obscurity, and the yoke had been pulled out of the socket. The readings had frozen post-impact, and she bent over to squint at the display. It read:

Oil Tank pressure: null

Stabilizer function: null

Engine Temp: 150°C

Power Levels: 0%. ON EMERGENCY POWER SUPPLY

Safe Oxygen Field: functioning

Artificial Gravity Cores: functioning

Location: Botze-Natzir space, Azuxoar V, Equator, UNKNOWN COORDINATES

It seemed the Oil Tank had ruptured on impact. She entered the Brace Room, to find it was unharmed by the crash. It definitely was not called the Brace Room for nothing, she thought. She woke the passengers and went to the Somnus Lounge, awakening the Staff and crew. She forced the door of the spaceship open and checked the air with her APHCGP Detector. It read 90% Oxygen, 5% Carbon Dioxide, 5% Gaseous Holoykium Carbonate. Atmospheric Pressure: Equestrian, Gravitational Pull: Equestrian. Rating: Safe.

Scoots stepped outside and looked around. There was a trail of Liquid Holoykium Carbonate Oil, quickly drying up in the  twin blue Azuxoarian suns. the area was Arid, and there was a forest to the right, there they might find edible plant life. To the left was a small patch of grass upon the hill, 20 by 15 meters wide. She ran inside to tell the others.

"Captain!"she saluted HyperDryve. "The outside is habitable! We could stay long enough to fix our ship!"

He saluted her back."This is good. I wonder what possible minerals are on this planet. Hopefully ones we can use in our engines, and it would be fortunate to find traces of Holoykium and Carbon, which we could mix in a lab to make fuel. I do not think it is safe to remain on this ship. There are traces of Melodithiol Oxide in the air. Take the passengers, staff and crew outside with you. I'll try to salvage what I can from the cargo."

She collected the passengers, staff and crew and led them outside. "I'm afraid we'll have to stay here until the ship is fixed."

"Here?" shouted an all-too-familiar voice from the crowd. "I cannot possibly stay here! It is dry and hot! I need sunscreen! I need a drink! I need..."

I extremely hate that pony, she thought. Blueblood is such a pain.

"I don't think so, Dad. This will be super fun!" exclaimed another voice from the crowd.

His daughter was alright, though- about twenty-three, Starbound Voyage saw life as an adventure. She would be be friends, but Blueblood kept his daughter to himself. Starbound had no friends, only Blueblood.

"No it will not. You are the one always complaining that it is to hot."

"You make me say that so I look uptight!"

Scootaloo gaped as they launched into an argument. They had never had an argument before. This would end badly.

"Fine then! I'll leave without you!" he concluded, and teleported off. Starbound just gaped at where he had been and sniffed.

That idiot, she thought. He'll have frassled his horn on Equestria's magnetospherosphere. He won't be able to come back for Starbound.

She went over to comfort Starbound.

"Don't worry, we'll get out of here. You didn't really like him anyways, did you?" she said.

"Yeah, he was kind of a pain. Though, with him gone, we can explore!" Starbound exclaimed happily.

She looked around at the company; It would be important to know what they could do. They had: Princess Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie (aged), Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, Starbound, Clear Parchment the playwright and entertainer, Sweepy Broom the cleaner, Hard Hat the builder and spaceship repairs man, Star Sailor the night-shift pilot, Astro Physics the scientist and astronomer, and Twisted Spectrum of the branch race Equus sapiens carnes comedenti, or meat-eating pony. Normal ponies are Equus sapiens herbam comedenti, or plant-eating pony. Luckily they had packed five years' worth of fish for him. Also,we had Captain HyperDryve inside the cargo hold. These ponies could last a long time with only 14 mouths to feed, especially due to the rainforest nearby..

She wondered what this word would have in store for the group. Even so, spaceship repairs take a lot of time, so they would be stuck here for a while.

"Well then," she said, as Captain HyperDryve left the spaceship carrying a lot of luggage, supplies and trading materials in his magic. "Let's go and explore. First stop, the forest!"