Space Engineer over Equestria

"C-commander! The alien is sending out some sort of signal!" Yang whipped around so fast his neck hurt.

"Where, how?!" The scientist pointed to the bio levels on the screen. They had begun fluctuating.

"Buck, can we block it?" Yang demanded.

"It's ... too late, whatever signal that is it's traveling several times faster than light." Yang forced his jaw to remain stiffly in place.

"Prepare the rocket. We might have to launch at a moment's notice." Yang shoved off of the panel, knowing he should find Luna.

He'd made a choice, and he might have just doomed his people, his planet. Yang felt guilt grip holding every inch of his being. He'd failed.

"SIR! The alien is somehow beginning to stabilize!" Yang turned back to the excited scientist, noting how the undermantained hooves flew across the board desperately. The scientist had been gripped by the same guilt that had taken hold of Yang. That comforted him a little, in a twisted way.

Then it struck Yang.

"Get that Rocket read NOW! If we can get up there before whatever the alien calls arrives, then perhaps we can convince him it was an accident before things get out of hoof!" The scientist scrambled away from his station, Yang turned back down the hall he had just meant to go down, and unfurled his wings.

He'd bucked up, but perhaps it was salvageable.