Unexpected twist of the four unwelcome guests

Forty days of traveling, heading for the Arch facility in hyperspace. The small research vessel shaking after an improvised explosive went off in engine area, the explosion having knocked them out of hyperspace.

The pilot thinking there was no hope, until seeing a planet on his radar. As Mark tried to gain control of the ships failing AI he only had one option.

"Jack give me control disable auto pilot and put the remaining engines that are working in reverse at thirty percent." Mark commanded.

"Disabling Auto pilot. Back up engines online." The A.I. replied.

"Shit, Jack give me a status report!" Mark said.

"Life support at fifty percent. Multiple fires on Deck one and two. Main engines offline. Secondary engines offline. Backup engines working at fifty percent. Backup engines coolant system offline." The A.I. replied.

"Jack how far away are we from that planet on radar?" Mark asked.

"About ten thousand miles. We will arrive in about three minutes." The A.I. replied.

"Wait three minutes! Put backup engines at eighty percent reverse!" Mark commanded.

"At this rate your engines will stop working in two minutes. Do you still wish to put them in reverse at eighty percent?"The A.I. asked.

"Yes!" Mark yelled.

Mark the pilot of the ship watched as the planet slowly got closer. He noticed something odd on the surface of the planet. It was green, a forrest maybe. Yes, it was a forest, but how could this be most of the galaxy was mapped out. That included this region, unless his navigation system was malfunctioning. There shouldn't be any planets out here.

"Jack is the navigation system malfunctioning?" Mark asked.

"Navigation system errors are present." The A.I. replied.

"Ok, Jack send out a distress signal." Mark said.

"Error. Communications array offline. Internal and external transmitters damaged." The A.I. replied.

"For fucks sake can this get any worse!?" Mark said angrily.

"Escape pods 1-10 malfunctioning. Fires are present in shuttle area." The A.I. said.

"Can you put those fires out?!" Mark asked.

"Activating sprinklers." The A.I. replied.

"How much time do we have before..." Mark couldn't finish his sentence before the A.I. cut him off.

"Backup engines one and two are overheating. Powering down" The A.I. said.

"Jack System override 8 protocol 2. Restart engines!" Mark said.

"System cannot be overridden shutting down engines." The A.I. said.

"For fucks sake... Shit, Jack how long until impact?" Mark asked.

"Approximately forty five seconds." The A.I. said.

"Jack how long before we enter the planet's atmosphere?" Mark asked.

"Approximately twenty seconds." The A.I. replied.

"Jack transfer all files regarding the artifact to my helmet. Then delete the rest, and alert all personnel to prepare for a crash landing." Mark said.

"Transferring all files." The A.I. replied.

"Good." Mark said.

"Attention all personnel prepare for a crash landing this is not a drill." The A.I. announced over the speakers.

"Hey you here that James, sounds like we should buckle up." Rostislav said sarcastically.

"Rostislav sometimes I really hate you." said James.

"The feeling is mutual. Now sit down and buckle up. I have a feeling we are going to have a bumpy ride." Rostislav said.

"Bumpy, that's an understatement more like a crashy ride." James said nervously.

"Don't worry about the details. We'll be fine. After all we are in the most structurally safe part of the ship." Rostislav said.

"That makes me feel so much better." James said sarcastically.

"Impact in thirty seconds." The A.I. announced over the speakers.

"Any last words James?" Rostislav said with a laugh.

"Yes actually, why did I think this job was going to be easy?" James said.

"You know we never get easy jobs. I'm surprised you thought this one was going to be different." Rostislav said.

As the ship hit the atmosphere the aft of the ship was tore off falling somewhere on the unknown planet.

"Jack what was that?" Mark asked.

"The engine room has been lost." The A.I. said.

"What do you mean lost?" Mark asked.

"The engine room has been disconnected from the ship." The A.I. said.

"Shit, deploy emergency parachutes!" Mark yelled.

"The emergency parachutes were disconnected from the ship." The A.I. said.

"What? Where were they located? I thought all ships had port and aft parachutes!?" Mark asked.

"This model was built with only aft parachutes. Impact with the surface in ten seconds." The A.I. said.

"Shit, pull up, pull up!" Mark screamed.

As the ship hit the ground it tore apart killing most of the crew instantly. The cargo they had on board scattered across the open field they had landed near. The ship slid across the surface creating a fiery scar in the undisturbed land.

Not too far away was a griffin who saw the burning metal contraption falling from the sky. Then he saw a bright flash and heard loud explosion. The ground shaking from the explosion made him fall out of the tree he was laying in. The sight he had just witness before him was the most breathtaking thing he had ever seen, and he wanted to know what it was. He was only about thirty minutes away by air. So he decided to go and investigate the object that had fallen from the sky.

As he flew through the air he noticed a few griffin soldiers heading to the crash site as well. Seeing this he flew faster to try and beat the soldiers to the site, because they would most likely block the area off to the public. The griffin wasn't really into government conspiracies except when it came to aliens. If this was an alien craft of some sort they would try to cover it up and hide the ship. Another thought hit him, if he were to be caught near the crash site he would most likely be detained and questioned. It would be worth knowing if aliens were real, but was it worth his life to find out? He pushed his thoughts to the back of his head flying faster to the now smoking crater he could barely make out. If he was lucky he could beat the soldiers and get out of their before they noticed him.

"Hey you, stop!" A guard called out.

Unless he got caught before he made it to the crash site. He was almost there.

Meanwhile near Ponyville a rainbow haired mare noticed an object falling from the sky. It was burning bright in the mid day light.

She followed it with her eyes across the sky, watching the object land somewhere in the Everfree forest.

"I got to go tell Twilight Sparkle about this!" Rainbow dash said to herself.

Then the rainbow Pegasus dashed off to the library where she would find her friend, and tell her about the mysterious object that landed in the forest. As she was heading back to Ponyville she heard a loud bang. Her curiosity got the best of her and she headed off in the other direction towards the object that had just fallen. She flew fast to see what had caused the noise and in seconds she was at the spot where the object crashed. She saw a smoldering metal box that looked as if was torn off from something bigger. She got closer and as she did a terrible smell crossed her path. It was like nothing she has ever smelled. Burnt corpses lay inside of the box and a few outside lay strewn about. The sight of the corpses' making her lose her lunch. She went up to one of the still smoking bodies to see if it was still breathing.

When Dash nudged the body's right shoulder it crumbled and fell off the body. She went to check another but it seemed as if they were all dead. There were no survivors it looked like, just dead creatures. Seeing this she flew off to tell some pony, any pony what had happened. She flew for what felt like hours. After a few minutes she reached Ponyville and headed to the library. She saw Twilight and Applejack exiting the library as she arrived. Landing, Dash rushed over to Twilight to inform her of the mysterious object and the dead creatures scattered around it.

"Twilight, Applejack I need your help. Something just fell out of the sky and I think some pony might be hurt." Rainbow dash said frantically.

"Hold on there sugar cube. What fell outta the sky?" Applejack asked.

"Yeah and who is hurt?" Twilight asked.

"I dunno one minute I was just lying on a cloud taking a nap. Then I woke and saw this thing falling from the sky. I was heading over to tell you about it, but before I could head over I heard a loud noise over where it landed and I went over to check it out. When I got th th there w were..." Rainbow Dash couldn't finish, she began crying remembering the burnt corpses.

"Whoa calm down Dashie. What did you see?" Twilight asked.

"Th they were all dead!" Rainbow dash was able to say.

"Dead!? Who is dead?" Applejack said nervously.

"The things, I think they were aliens. " Rainbow Dash said.

"Aliens? Are you sure about that? That seems very unlikely." Twilight said.

"Come with me ill show you, but we should bring a nurse or a doctor." Rainbow Dash said.