Orbital Friendship Station: Delta

Bzzztzzzt - Tense Minutes Later - Hallway

Me and Twilight Sparkle were creeping down the hallway in the east wing of this space station, keeping close to the walls when-...

Twilight Sparkles POV

I was keeping close behind my squad mate, I wanted to cry but I held the tears back and kept strong. This was not the time to cry, that was later. We kept walking, keeping close to the walls when there was a shuffling from the wall to my right, I stood still and silent. The other mare... I forgot her name, the poor soul. Well, she kept walking, each hoofstep she made was like a call for death, as the sound from the wall followed it. I was in a mix of shock and survival instinct as I stood still, my jaw wide open, as the creature burst from the wall, latching onto her side. She screamed out as what seemed to be a corrosive red liquid mixed with her blood from the creature, killing her from the inside out.

I took the pistol in my magical grip, aimed, then fired. The bullet flew into the strange alien, killing it, along with the mare. She fell over, dead, and I could see acid eating her away from the inside out as her eyes turned into a red mush on the floor. I tried to keep a strait face as I walked past her corpse, the smell of melted flesh still obvious. I took in shaky breaths.

The station shook, as power was restored, I didn't have a clue how, but I was thankful as I heard a buzzing sound from my two-way radio, and quickly brought it to my face as a voice came from the device.

-Baa-zztt- "He- lo? Is any- n in the squad still al- ve? You need to-" Baazzzt  "-vacuate. Come t- the west wing! Now!" Came the voice of a stallion. I wasn't thinking as I dropped it and the gun from my grip and ran.

I realized I dropped my weapon, but I would not waste time, so I took out my standard issue combat knife from my tactical saddlebags and continued. I was a few hallways away from the evacuation point that had been uploaded to my hud when a large creature crawled out from one of the rooms. It looked like some kind of black and red spider with 16 legs, eight of the legs were sharper than the rest and pointed outward as to protect it. As I tripped trying to stop from running into it, it turned it's head, which was looked like a spider head besides the fact it was connected to the body with what looked like another leg, but thinner and longer. It spent no time to observe as it launch towards me with it's legs. I held up my knife, blocking a leg that was aimed for my face, and to my disappointment, dented my knife, leaving no mark on the chitinous appendage. Another leg went flying, aimed for my eye, and struck. I scream in pain as I tried to keep hold of the leg in my magic. It had sunk into my eye ball and was about to lodge into my brain when I had held onto it with my magic. I tried to strike the leg with a forehoof, only to have another leg sunk deep into the shoulder socket, twist, and pull my leg off. The last thing I had heard and saw, was a few loud bangs, the spider going limp, and me blacking out.

I woke up on a cold metal surface. My eye that had been stabbed would have been empty, if not for some metal object inside the socket. Same for my leg, something cold and metal was attached to the nub. The weird part was I could still feel with it. I didn't think about any of this, as I seemed to be in a blanket of pain, leaving me no time to wake up normally. I shot up with a scream, my eyes still closed. I felt a small prick, followed by numbness throughout my entire body as tears began to fall free from my eyes. I fell back onto the bed with a loud thump.

I opened my eyes, closing my left eye at the assaulting light. I was confused at the sight before me. As in, I shouldn't be able to have sight if I remember correctly. My vision had a light purple tint to it. With the numbness of my body, came clarity of thought. With my mind clear as crystal, I realized I had a mechanical eye. Being hopped up on drugs also does some other things to your mind, for example, the only thing going through my head was I had a become an awesome cyborg. I looked down at my leg, forcing myself to think logical thoughts. I also realized I had a modifiable mechanical leg with artificial nerves connected to my stump. It was smooth except for many panels that I knew were where the 'modifiable' part of the name came in. It was a boring grey with a slight purple tint to it. I would not have been so docile if not for whatever drug they had me on, so I was thankful.