Celestia 1: An Account

Chapter 4 : Job To Job

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Operational week: 4

Working week: 3

Incidents to report: None

Errors to report: None

Details: N/A

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It had been almost four weeks since the arrival of the science team. The facility had been a blur of activity, there was so much down here that nopony was aware of before. Many new species of sea life had been discovered by the exploration teams, fish, squids, and so much plant life.

Twilight had even been out her self to collect samples of the sea bed. The geology team had been working hard, breaking down the composition of the ground, so they could learn how and when it was formed. It seemed that Equestria had entered a new golden age of discovery.

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Fluttershy had been called to the science block urgently, apparently one of the animals that had been brought back to study had proven very unruly. The doors hissed open as she made her way down the tunnel leading to the biology section of the lab, not allowing herself to be distracted by the view outside, this was far more important.

She looked through the window of the bulkhead door that separated the biology section. Lots of ponies were crowded around one door particularity. Taking a deep breath, she entered the hallway to see what the commotion was about. Quietly making her way to the front of the crowd she was able to get a good look. One of the scientists was backed into the corner of the room, using a clip board as an impromptu shield. Also in the room was a large crustacean, about half the pony's size, lunging towards the scientist, and trying to get at him with its claws. Fluttershy recognized it, it was the thing she'd seen on her first day here, but whether it was the same one or another was unknown.

The crab-thing made a move for the scientist, only to be swatted away by the clip board. Both the crab and the stationary flew across the room. The crustacean quickly righted itself and made another run at the now defenseless stallion. The scientist made a run for the door, but was intercepted and thrown to the floor by the mass of his attacker. The creature lowered itself down onto the stallion, and he let out a shriek.

Fluttershy almost vomited, she could not handle the sight of another pony's blood. She wanted nothing more than to just run away, but that stallion, and the rest of the biology team were counting on her to rectify the situation. She knew what she had to do. She gulped, and shakily entered the room.

"JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?"

The creature removed itself from the stallion, blood fresh on its mandibles, and turned to face Fluttershy, It dropped down into a defensive position.

"I'll be having none of that! Just look what you did to this poor stallion!" Fluttershy gestured over to the scientist, who was hurriedly making his way over to the door on his 3 good legs. "Now he is going to have to go to infirmary, do you think that's what he wanted? He just wanted to understand you better!"

The creature climbed up onto the wall, giving the appearance of an enormous spider.

"You climb down this instant!" Fluttershy said with a scowl. The creature did not budge.

"Fine then, I didn't want to have to do this..."

She unleashed the stare on the creature. There were a tense few moments, in which the crustacean remained still, apparently resisting. The creature poise itself to lunge at Fluttershy, but relented when her scowl deepened. Seemingly defeated, it slowly got back on the floor. Fluttershy corralled the creature into one of the large holding pens, and locked it shut.

She stumbled out of the room; using the stare like that had really taken it out of her, and the blood in the room left her feeling uneasy, there was a worrying amount of it. What drove the creature to attack like that? Was the poor scientist going to be ok? She exited the biology department to various "Thank you"s and "Well done"s, and made her way back across the facility, to her new home.

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Twilight had just finished organizing her notes when a knock came from the door. Standing in the hallway was a trembling Fluttershy.

"Fluttershy? Whats wro-"

She was interrupted by Fluttershy, who had broken down crying and had Twilight in a hug.

"I-i-it was awful! There was so much b-blood..."

"Blood?! Is everything ok?"

Fluttershy gently nodded. "Y-yes, now...but it was so terrible..."

"Come on now, lets go inside, you can tell me all about it over some tea, how does that sound?"

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Gleaming Waters did not have a good day today. First he's late getting up, then when he gets to work, he's attacked by an unknown creature. Now he had to stay in the medical bay overnight while they ran 'tests', and with his foreleg like this, it could be weeks until everything was back to normal. Still, It could have been worse, he could be dead...

There was a knock on the door. "Visitor for Mr. Waters."

A visitor? Well, now he wouldn't just be milling around mindlessly, the infirmary staff were no fun anyway. He leaned up in his bed to get a better look. The door opened, and a yellow pegasus walked in. It was a yellow pegasus her remembered, this was who had saved him from that...thing. What even was it, anyway?

"Oh, hello miss..." This was awkward, he didn't know her name..

"Fluttershy..."

"Sorry, I didn't quite catch that."

"F-Fluttershy..."

"Well then Miss Fluttershy, I owe you a massive thanks. I dread to think what could have happened to me had you not stepped in..." He held up his bandaged foreleg to emphasis his point, there were red blood splotches around the bandage.

"Oh, its quite alright, I just wanted to say sorry for not coming in sooner...Maybe if I had come right in you wouldn't need to be...here..."

"Please, you give yourself too little credit, I don't think I've ever met anypony who performed a heroic act, and then apologized for not performing it sooner!" He chuckled. "You should be proud, and I'm very grateful."

Fluttershy stood awkwardly for a moment, not entirely sure what to say.

"Well, I'm glad you're ok." She shifted uncomfortably. "I-I should get going. Get well soon!"

The door clicked closed as she left the room.

"She seemed nice. Awkward, but nice. And I guess that broke the monotony...briefly."

He settled back down in his bed, he was likely to be here until tomorrow, maybe longer. He looked down at his bandaged leg and sighed. Something was off, and not just that he had been attacked by a weird animal. Something felt wrong. Wrong wrong.

"Well, if there is something bad going on, I'm sure it'll come up in the test."

He started counting the tiles on the wall. There was precious little else to do for the time being.

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Operational week: 5

Working week: 4

Incidents to report: 1

Errors to report: None

Details: Attack on a staff member by an unidentified animal. The creature has been contained and the staff member has been sent to the infirmary for treatment.

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