Unexpected twist of the four unwelcome guests

A few minutes had passed and the captain slowly picked his head off of the ships dashboard. It took him a few moments to realize what had happened. With the sudden realization that he had just landed, well crash landed on an alien planet that may be inhabited by a race he had no knowledge of. He decided it would be best to round up all of the survivors on the ship and establish a perimeter around the ship.

“Jack are the intercoms still functional?” Mark asked.

“Yes.” The A.I. said

“Good, I need to make an announcement.” Mark said.

“Powering intercoms, battery reserve low. The ship will run out of power in ten hours twenty minutes. Intercoms ready to use.” The A.I. said.

“Attention all personnel, please make your way to the artifact storage area. We need to regroup and come up with a plan. From what I have seen this planet is most likely to be inhabited. I do not know where we are, but we are definitely in an unexplored region of space. So we need to be prepared for anything. We will do a sweep of the ship to search for any injured so
if you cannot make it to the storage area we will not leave you.” Mark said over the intercom.

“Jack how many survivors are there, I need to know how many survivors there are.” Mark said.

“Currently there are four heat signatures including yours.” The A.I. said.

“What do you mean only for check again!” Mark yelled.

“There are only four consistent heat signatures, the rest are slowly dropping indicating multiple deaths.” The A.I. said

“Fuck my head is killing me, Jack transfer yourself into my A.I. storage space in my helmet. I have a feeling you might come in handy later.”

“Transferring Jack to personal storage unit.” The A.I. said.

A few minutes passed as the to soldiers waited silently. Waiting for someone or anyone to come along. Time seemed to move slower as the soldiers waited, but in reality instead of it taking hours they were only there for five minutes.

“We can't just sit here! Someone might need our help!” James said angrily.

“Well you heard the captain we should stay here. Listen this is an order from a superior officer, we can’t go. Besides he said that in ten minutes when everyone gets here we will go looking for the injured.” Rostislav said calmly.

“By the time the captain and the others get here it might be too late, you know as well as I this ‘crash’ was a hard splashdown. Not a light crash. There might be only us and the captain left!”

“Don’t be so dramatic there is going to be more survivors than just us.” Rostislav said.

“I have been in several crash landings before and you were with me. You should know as well as me that this was most likely the worst yet.” James said.

“Well James you're right there were almost no survivors.” Mark said from around the corner.

“Captain.” They both saluted.

“Who no need to be so formal with protocol. After all we need to find someone.” Mark said

“Yes sir. How many survivors are there?” James said.

“Four including us. The rear of the ship was tore off when we entered the atmosphere. That is what most likely killed a majority of the crew and scientist.

“Shit, what condition is the rest of the ship in?” Rostislav asked.

“Well getting here was tricky. There was a fire that I had to get passed and a few corridors that were blocked by rubble.” Mark said.

“So, not so good.” Rostislav said.

“Wait you said there were four survivors including us. Where would this other person be?” James asked.

“Well he or she is in the main research wing of the ship. We need to get the survivor and the artifact then we need to get out of this ship.” Mark said.

“Well he was in the main research wing.” James said.

“What do you mean he was in the main research wing?” Mark asked

“Well why don't you ask him, he is right behind you.” Rostislav said.

“Holy hell captain, you really banged my lab up.” The scientist said.

“Chang, im surprised you survived and it looks like you brought the artifact with you.” Mark said.

“Yeah well I know how you think Mark, the mission is top priority always.” Chang said.

“Well its true and lets all get one thing clear, I am still your captain so dont call me Mark. Now lets get out of here.” Mark said.

The griffin panicked and dove down into some nearby bushes trying to avoid being found. He knew it would only be a matter of time before he would be found. The griffin decided that he was going to risk it, actually risk everything and fly straight to the thing that crashed. He slowly got up and spread his wings and then took off. He flapped his wings hard and fast picking up speed, dodging the trees. He could see the thing through the clearing He was almost there. All of a sudden he felt a sharp pain in his left wing, an arrow hit him. The impact causing him to fall.

"Stop now, or we will be forced to terminate you." A soldier said.

The griffin didn't listen he started to sprint towards the object, he was so close. He was almost there. The griffin ran passed some invisible barrier and when he looked behind him he saw an arrow coming straight at him, but the were stopped by the barrier he had just passed. When the griffin turned around he saw something so strange and terrifying, he had no time to react to what was about to happen.

"Holy shit! What the fuck is that!" James yelled.

"I dunno and I don't want to find out. Kill it." Rostislav said.

“Wait!” Chang said.

It was too late the soldiers each took a shot. The griffin didn't have time to react his chest being shot twice. The griffin fell to the ground, and as the griffin lay there he said one thing.

“I never said my name…” The griffin said with his dying breath.

With that the griffin died, being silenced forever. The four strangers that killed him to only wonder what his name was.

“Shit, did it just talk?!” James said.

“I think they are the locals, and we just killed one of them, and it looks like there are more of those… um creatures.” Mark said.

“Those creatures seem to be griffins captain.” The A.I. said.

“Griffins?” James said.

“A griffin is a mythical creature with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion.” Chang said.

“Wait… Did it just say somethi….”

It dawned on mark that creature they just killed spoke, and there was a griffin heading back into the forrest. He just realized the soldiers most likely killed a civilian of an alien planet that was not part of the Galactic Alliance. The penalty for a crime like that was life imprisonment, even if you were associated with the crime.

Twilight looked on at the large object in disbelief. She couldn’t understand what she was seeing. Well couldn’t rationalize it. This couldn’t be possible real aliens, well crispy and burned aliens. She scoped out the metal structure from a short distance and then decided to get closer to it. She studied one of the charred bodies, disgusted at what she saw. She went to touch it, when she did a piece of the shoulder she touched broke off. Seeing this she reeled back.

“Rainbow since you are the fastest I need you to go get spike. I have a letter to write.” Twilight said.

With that Rainbow flew off. Speeding through the sky towards Ponyville.

“Twilight what do ya suppose those uh burnt critters are?” Applejack said.

“I’m not certain Applejack” Twilight said disheartened. She was certain that the creature before her was not in any of her books in her library. ‘Furthermore it seemed like this was Equestria’s first contact with aliens. One that would, with the recent destruction of the ship and the death of the crew, not be in favor for Equestria if they were to come by only to find what little of one of their ships remained’ Twilight thought. What if the aliens think that we somehow destroyed it, and seek retribution for their dead. Oh, what if it was a civilian transport or a military class spacecraft, would that see this as an act of aggression towards them?’ Twilight panicked.

Applejack, seeing that her friend was going to freak out at any moment, spoke up.

“Are ya ok Twi?” Applejack said cautiously, she had never seen Twilight so distressed except when she failed to write a letter to Princess Celestia that one time.
“No! What if this craft was a civilian ship that belongs to an advanced race of beings that would see this as an act of war?! What if they think we did this?! Or what if this was an invasion attempt that ended up going wrong! What if...” Twilight was interrupted by Applejack.

“Don’t worry so much Twi. What if this thing crashed here accidentally?” Applejack said in an attempt to reassure her friend.

“But we don’t know that!” Twilight yelled.

“And thats just it Twi we don't know what happened.” Applejack said slightly worried.

“Thats what worries me the most.” Twilight said with a sigh.

As the four humans stood there in silence for a bit longer to grasp what had just occurred not a few minutes before.

“Shit, man this is totally not good. The Alliance will have our asses for this.” said a panicked James.

“Chill dude, chill it’s going to be fine.” Said Rostislav in effort to calm his partner down a bit. Although he knew that getting out of this mess was slim if not impossible, but he figure that if they hid the body and everyone agreed not to…. wait there was still Jack and one definitely couldn’t modify his programming or delete some of his memory without an Alliance official looking into why an A.I. was missing a few bits of its memory or had a modified base code.

“Um… guys not to be whiny bitch or anything, but there are more of these griffins heading towards us. I mean when they see the body and all, don’t you think we should prepare for their arrival?” Chang said in a worried tone.

“Changs right we need to roll out the welcome mat, James get the tea, Chang get the table and chairs, Rostislav get the body out of sight and dispose of it, burn it if you must I am going to go and greet our house guests we are going to invite them in for some tea.” Barked the captain.

“Yes, sir.” Came the reply from the remainder of the crew as they set about their assigned tasks.

Rainbow Dash was back at the library when she saw a bright flash of light. When she opened her eyes she saw Twilight sparkle. Seeing her made her slightly annoyed as she could have done gone to the library instead of her.

“Twilight, sometimes you annoy me.” Rainbow dash said.

“Lets worry about that rainbow. Spike! I need you to take a letter please.” Twilight said.

“Ok im ready.” The little dragon said.

Dear Princess Celestia,

Today Rainbow Dash has found a crashed alien ship in the Everfree. Well, I am assuming that it is as but there is no confirmation of such. When we got there, all we found was twisted metal and burnt corpses of unknown creatures scattered about the immediate area. So far there are no survivors from the crash and nothing that seems to be salvageable except for whatever metal that was used to build the ship. Also of note was the fact that not all of the ship seems to be present only a small portion of it, which greatly concerns me. What if one of the other nations gets the rest of the ship and whether or not there were survivors. Also I should note that when I scanned the the remains of the ship with my magic I was not able to detect and sort of magic at all, which should be impossible for anypony to build any sort of spacecraft without magic. I mean how could you not use magic, its necessary for any kind of feat like that! Plus not only did the ship not have magic but the bodies as well. Life without magic just is not possible, magic gives life to everything as well as the ability to think. I am not certain what to think of this. I mean the existence of aliens was thought to be impossible, but here is an alien ship. It was thought that life without magic was not possible, the bodies at the crash site say otherwise. Its like everything we ever thought that was right gets tossed out the window, how do we know what's right anymore?

Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle.

With that Twilight ended her letter nodding to Spike. The letter burst into a green flame and disappeared.