The dead breath of of Space.

Chapters

Prolog
Chapter 1: Just a simpel ferryride
Chapter 2: Unwelcome guests
Chapter 3: Regrouping
Chapter 4: As death draws near

Prolog

I write this standing in the yard of my fathers farm, I just stands there and watch the sky dreaming about one day getting to travel into the stars myself, over the last few years more and more groups have left to go inhabit new planets, at Equestrias current state they hardly have enough room to house any pony, let alone the growing population. Fifty years ago we created a engine that can carry a common Type: 100 Space freighter at twice the speed of light, it was the greats achievement since we sent a pony past are own little solar system, it opend up more choices than we could count, in fact the only problem we ran into was that it took at least a good ten years to tare-form the planets to a barely livable condition, so it was hard, we had found a way to get to other planets but there was nothing we could do there. About thirty years ago we found out a highly effective way to tare-form other plants with at least a similar atmosphere, It only takes a few years to get the atmosphere to a livable condition. So now there are hundreds of planet that are livable, and ponies everywhere are trying there luck on what they are calling the new frontier. More than that, Just a few weeks ago we picked up a stray radio signal and it was not of from any known settlement, who knows perhaps there is intelligent life other than us out there! Anyway I guess that is all that I have time to write for now, I can hear dad calling for me, perhaps it lunch time.

John Silverfur

The young colt puts the diary and looks at his grandfather. “Hey grandpa, was it the Hath that you are talking about in your in your diary, what was it like getting to be there for the first alien meeting?”
The old colt shakes his head and says to his grandson.” No we did not find them for another five or six years, no that was the zephrex, and is was strange seeing something that was completely different, something that is so…alien…”
The young colt nods and asks his grandfather.” So why did you not leave, I mean you could have left and joined the others, You could have started a new life, maybe even become rich!”
The old colt laughs.” Yeah, but I would have had to have gone to the right planet and than I would have had to find a decent plot on that planet, anyway I had your father to look after when the ferry were at there cheapest Damon.”
Damon nods.” Yeah, I guess that makes sense…”He thinks for a second than asks his grandpa.” Do you think we will leave ever?”
The old colt smiles.” Yeah, I don’t know about me but your father and you will, I also know that you are going to do great things. You are going to leave a mark bigger than anypony before you!”
Damon smiles.” Yeah, I will, I am going to do something great. I could go find new planets or maybe I could join the army and become some great general and have some museums devoted to me!”
The old colt laughs at his young grandson as he keeps going on taking about what he could do to become great, the colt stands up from his chair and walks outside, he look up at the sky and sighs. “Maybe I should have gone…” He just stays there for a small bit and than looks back inside to check on the young colt…

Later that evening as the two colts eat dinner a third walks into a house, he is a long skinny looking pony with silver fur and a warm smile. Damon runs up to embrace the newcomer. “Pa, How did it go? Did you find a ship?”
Damons father smiles.” Yeah I did, it not pretty but it is a good start, tomorrow I will find somepony to help me get it running and maybe we can start ferrying pony to a few nearby planets. It will help us make a good bit more money!”
Damon grins.” What is it like, is it big, When can I see it?”
The father smiles. “ You can see it tomorrow, I will let you come with me to go see what need repairs before we can get it running again!”
The young pony grin get even wider.” Wow, will I be able to come with you and see the start like the other ponies?”
The father laughs. “Maybe but I will have to learn a lot about flying first!”
Finally the grandfather says.” Well how about we talk about this over supper, no use letting it get cold, eh?
The two colts nod and join him at the table and begin eating….

A few months later the young colt walks out of the ship with his father and he laughs.” Well maybe tomorrow we can get this thing running, we seem to have worked out most of the kinks in the engine and it should run!”
Damons father smiles a warm friendly smile.” Well Damon, you seem to understand that ship better than that engineer we hired to fix it!”
Damon grins.” Yeah, It just kinda comes to me, I don’t see you you guys don’t get it!”
As the two leave the ship Damon looks up at the ship and admires it. To the normal eye it you look like a bucket of junk, but to Damon it was a type 30 Gearwing, it maybe not be as fancy as the other ships but as long as he can keep it running it will hold together longer than he will. It seems like just few days ago that he first laid his eyes on the ship knowing little to nothing about it, now he knows how it works and even how to fly it a little.
The young colt smiles as he looks at his father.” I think I have a name for it!”
The father smiles and says.” What are you thinking son?”
Damon smiles.” How about Serenity?”
Damons father smiles.” Yeah I like that, tomorrow we can change the name in the data core so that it can be official.”
Damon grins.” Oh yeah that’s a good idea!” He hugs his father and says.” I thinks we are going to have some great advancers in this ship.”
Damons father smiles. “Yeah we will.” Than he looks at the sun and says.” Well Damon, I says its about lunch time, lets head back to the house and find some food!”
Damon nods and with that he and his father walk back to there home….

Chapter 1: Just a simpel ferryride

There is a loud rattle that would put the noise level of the engine room over the top for most ponies, along with that there is the loud hum of the engine and that musky smell that has developed over the years from ponies working in the small hot room, but this is all welcomed to Damon. The young pony who looks to be in his late twenties, has a long sliver mane and matching fur, he has a simple shirt with a work belt on as the colt makes his way down into the dark muggy room. Damon looks a a flashing screen to see why the the engine was acting up again, he as pokes a few buttons he soon finds the problem and gets to work trying to fix it. As the colt climbs into the engine its self to change out a few parts a head pokes though the door and yells over the engine." Hey Damon, you find whats wrong yet. We have a ship full of ponies that are wanting to get of this ship,you said we would get them home today!"
The colt sticks his head out of the engine and yells."I will have her running in a little bit, just have to replace a few things, wont be to hard. Just keep them calm and let them know they will make it on time!"
The head nods and than shuts the door, Damon soon gets back to work trying to fix his ship...

After about an hour of work Damon finely leaves the engine room with a smiles and finds a com system to tell everypony that they will be underway in just a few moments. When he is done with his announcement he works his way up to he main deck to get the ship underway, as he climbs the final flight of stairs a female voice calls out behind him in a playful voice. "Oh are glorious captain has returned from below to honor us simple ponies with his grace!"
Damon does not need to turn around to see who is speaking to him but he does anyway. He sees a tall Pegasus mare about his age, with light orange/yellow fur and a matching main, she has a jumpsuit that is common among the crew, it has a belt holding mischances junk and a holster for a revolver with a few spare rounds here or there on the belt, but the most noticeable feature on the mare is her happy childlike smile, which matches her personality superbly, as she bounds up to meet the captain he smiles. "Nice to see you to Carrot Cake."
The mare smiles and bounds past the captain and into the control room, Damon cannot help but laugh, the two have known each other for most of there life's, she grew up on a carrot farm *Hence the name* about a half mile away from his fathers farm. ever since Damons father handed the ship over the him, carrot has been his first mate.
As Damon makes it to the control room he walks up to the controls and fires up the ship."There, should be smooth sailing from here on out!"
Carrot smiles and says to the captain. " Hey dutch was looking for you, said something about needing to pickup for meds when we drop off everypony."
Damon nods and says." Yeah that is fine, if you see him tell him that well stop at a market before we takeoff at are next stop."
Carrot nods and messes with some of the controls for a little bit.
In a few hours they are nearing segma 3, it is a somewhat new planet that is known for its fetal soil, that's were they are ferrying there group of ponies to and Damon says over the intercom. "Ducth and Dream, get up to the upper deck!"
After a few minutes the two appear though the door and look out the window at the oncoming moon . The captain looks at the two, Dutchoven who is the ships medic is a tall gruff looking pony with white fur, than there is Dreamfly, she is a smaller built Unicorn with a jet black fur, but what she lacks in size she makes up for in attitude, she serves as the ships armorer.
Dreamfly is the first to speak of the two. "That is sigma 3?, why would anypony want to live on THAT heap...?"
Dutch looks at dream and sighs."To them its a new start, you know..."
Dream laughs."Yes yes, very poetic dutch..."
Damon watches the two for a few more minuets, than says."Ok you two, now that you are here we can get down to business
once we drop these ponies off we have got a job, there is a group of bandits a few miles out of the settlement that we are stoping at, there is a rather large bounty on there leaders head, just wanted to know if what you two though before we started planing."
The two dont even need time to think before they agree, so with that they spend the rest of the trip planing there attack plan

As soon as they get the last of the ponies off the ship they prep two ATVs with weapons and a newly bought medkit, The captain tells everypony there job once each pony is armed and know what they are doing they head out. As they ride though the dark world in silence. In about half an hour they begin to see fires in the distance. They stop the ATVs and prep there weapons, as they do this Dream moves towards the camp to scout and see how meany there are.
Once Dream returns she tells the others what she found. "Ok everypony, it looks like there is ten of them down there, and there is four of us. Now if we can get close enough we can take them down without them even knowing what hit them, now i say me and captain hit them from the left and carrot and dutch hit them from behind. That should stop any friendly fire and still manage to drop all of them!"
The captain nods and says."Ok everypony you heard the lady, lets get to work!"
With that Damon and Dream work there way down to the flank of the group, it takes them about ten minuets for everypony to get into position, when they do they signal carrot and dutch, soon they signal back and they spring the attack.
The fight is not long, as the bullets rip though those siting around the fire and they drop like sacks.
Damon stands up and yells."Ok lets find that leader than go get are bounty!"
The group shifts though the bodies for about fifteen minutes, finally Dream says." Hey captain, he is no here..."
Damon thinks for a second, than a look of horror crosses his face."Everypony get down!" Three loud shots crack, two miss but one catchs Dream in the chest, she falls to the ground with a scream.
Damon look around and yells."Some pony find them, We need them dead if we want any hope of getting out of here!"
As they look around trying to say out of the sight of the snipers, bullets rain down around them, carrot says."Captain, I think they on on that hill."
Damon looks up at the hill, and than ducks his head down as a round flys over his head."Dutch, take him out!"
The large pony nods and takes aim with his rifle."I see him..."He fires off a shot, than another, than another."I got them..."
As soon as dutch finishes telling the others he gets up to check on Dream. He looks over her body and says."Get my medkit, NOW!"
Carrot nods and flys up to the ATVs to grab the medkit. Damon runs up to Dutch and Dream and asks."What can I do to help?"
Dutch does not look up and says."Just keep pressure on the wound."As he looks up carrot flys back with the case and gives it to Dutch."Here, Need anything else?"
Dutch just shakes his head and rips open the kit, he pulls out what he needs and says."You two get back to the ship, i need more than what i have!"
Damon nods and says."Come on carrot, he knows what he is doing."
Carrot nods and the two head back to the ATVs, once they get back to the ship they run to the upperdeck, carrot asks."Hey captain, what do you think happened..."
Damon says with out stopping." We were set up, I don't know by who but that does not matter right now."
As he pushes his way into the deck he powers up the ship and yells. "Hold on to something carrot!"
Before carrot can respond the engines roars and the ship takes off. They dont take long to get to Dutch, as they land the ship they carry out a stretcher. As the two leave the ship they are faced with a group of bandits, they have already have there guns aimed at the two, Dutch and Dream are still there, Dutch manages to stop the bleeding but Dreamfly still looks in horrible shape. One of the bandits who appears steps forward and laughs."Well I must say, You two put on a rather good who, you even managed to kill those cleverly placed snipers, but now, well now your game is up."
Damon just stands there, as the two are lead away to join Dutch and Dream, carrot lashes out, she kicks her captor away and grabs the leader pressing her gun to his head."You are going to let my friends into the ship or I will blow his brains out!"
There is about ten thugs total, a laugh goes up though the group, one of them steps forward."Look sweetcak..*ach*!"
There is a sharp crack as carrots gun is pointed at the another pony."Any other pony want to try?"
The bandits look shocked as they shake there heads. They slowly let the otherponies back into the ship, as soon as all four of them are on the ship carrot fires a round into the leaders head and pushes his body out the ship.
Damon frowns as she walks back to the group."Why did you kill him?
Carrot smiles some, the bloodrage passes over her quite quick."Well we dont need him running around messing with those poor ponies we just left to fend for themselves, eh?"
Damon just nods and says."Yeah..."He looks at dutch and says."Lets get her to the infirmary."
Dutch nods and places Dreamfly on a stretcher and the two begin to move her to the infirmary...

Chapter 2: Unwelcome guests

As the Serenity cuts its way though space Damon makes his way do to the infirmary to see how Dreamfly is holding up. As the captain works his way down to the bottom of the ship where the infirmary is housed. As he opens the door and looks around the small white room he smiles to see Dream awake."Hey, good job Dutch, Once again I am glad we took you with us!"
Dreamfly looks at the captain and smiles some."You can put me down that easy..."
She coughs weakly and dutch says."Hey dont talk so much, You are running on one lung right now.”
Dreamfly nods and lays back in her bed.
Damon smiles and walks out of the room to let Dutch get back to his work. As he makes his way down one of the corridors Carrot comes out of her room. “Oh why hello captain, how is Dream doing?”
Damon smiles. “Better, looks like she is going to be fine, just going to need to sit out for a bit!
Carrot smiles and says. “That’s great captain, glad to hear that she is doing better!”
Damon smiles and begins to walk up to the bridge, but after walking only a few feet carrot says. ”Hey.. Hey Captain…?”
Damon turns around. “Yeah, what is it carrot?”
Carrot stand there for second without saying anything thing, than out of no where she leans in and kisses the captain.
Damon does not know what to do so he does nothing, for a few seconds he just stands there in shock After the first few seconds Damon pulls away and walks up to the Control room with out a word.
Carrot frowns and says. “Sorry…”Than returns to her room.

As Damon enters the upper deck he sighs and sits back in a chair, not knowing what to do he scans over the controls. Not much happens over the next half hour, Damon sighs as he stands to exit the control room, he needs to talk to carrot. Than all of a sudden a siren goes off on the radar and Damon turns around to see what is happening. He stairs at the radar for a few minuets with out seeing anything, than it he sees it, It is a large reaver vessel a little under half an hour away from the ship, heading right towards them.
Damon sighs as he backs away from the console and heads for the door, reavers were trouble, they were a group of blood thirst raiders that were only out to kill for fun, they often only killed the men at first, than they would take the women and children and either sell them as slaves or kill them…

As Damon works his way down the stairs he runs into carrot. “Captain… I was just coming to tell you I am sorry about earlier…”
Damon sighs and says. “Carrot…Its fine…”
Carrot blinks and says. “But…you seemed upset when you stormed off…”
Damon nods and says. “Yeah…but…” Than he stops himself an says.” But now is not the time, there is a reaver ship coming right at us we need to do…something…”
Carrot is shocked. “Oh…but… reavers? Could it just be a passing ship?”
Damon shakes his head. “No its them… they will be on this ship in under half an hour…”
Carrot who somehow manages to keep her childlike smiles going says. “Guess we have a nice little fight on are hoofs than!”
Damon smiles some.” Yeah we do, guess we need to get to work. You go tell Dutch, I will grab the weapons and meet you in the infirmary. We are going to have to hold out there because we cant move Dream!”
Carrot nods and takes off to find Dutch. Damon pulls out his revolver and checks to see if its loaded, once he is happy he puts it back and runs down to the armory.

Damon stacks the last of the crates blocking off the rear hallway as he finshes his work he checks his rifle once more out of habbit and says to his crew. “Ok we are I don’t know how we are going to do this but we are going kill everyone of these Reavers, if my plan works out they are only going to have one hallway to come down, that one.” He says as he points his hoof at the only hall way that is not sealed off, the group nods and Damon says.” They are going to be here any minute so be ready…”
Dutch who is finishing up moving Dream out of the line of fire says. “How many do you think are on that ship?”
Damon sighs.” Fifty, maybe more…”
Carrot laughs nervously . “Well here we go, listen you can hear the ship right outside!”
Everypony is quite as there is a loud hollow thud and than a faint explosion, than they here hoofsteps, They only have to wait a few more minutes before a pair of scary looking ponies walk down the hall way.
One of them says. “You think they jumped out of the airlock or something.”
The other pony says. “I hope not, I have not had fresh meat in days…”
Damon pops up from behind a crate and takes aim at the two, before they can react Damon takes them down with two clean shots to the head each.
As Damon crouches behind cover once again Carrot takes aim and waits for the next group of thugs to show up. Its not long before a large brute of a pony walks down the hall and says. “Did you find them?”
He stumbles over the body of one of the dead colts and lets out a startled yell before carrot can drop him, she also crouches down and loads another round into her rifles magazine and says. “Three down!”
Damon smiles and says.” Yeah, lets just hope they don’t come in bigger groups!”
As Damon finshes saying that a very large creature that is standing on its hind legs walks down the hall, not even noticing its fallen comrades, yelling something in a language none of the ponies on the ship had heard. Three more follow behind the beast and Damon looks at carrot who is worried. “NOW!” Damon yells and the two open fire, At first they think that they can handle this fight, but as the fist of the three falls the other two open fire, spraying rounds down the hall, both carrot and damon duck behind the cover.
Damon yells over his shoulder. “Hey dutch, we could s some help!”
As if a reply to Damons shout a round flys down the hall and drops one of the beasts, than another, and with that Dutch yells. ”Well, that was strange…”
Damon sighs. “Lets hope they don’t have any more slitheen…”

The group waits for the next ten minutes with out a sound than carrot asks. “Do you think they are gone?”
Damon shakes his head. “No… they are just planning…”
Carrot nods her head without a word. Than out of no where the is a scream from behind the two, they see Dutch on the ground fighting with one of the savage ponies.
Damon raises his rifle and shoots the pony off Dutch and yells. They made it though the back hallway, Dutch you need to keep it covered!”
Dutch nods as he gets back to his hooves and wipes some blood from his face. “Can do captain…”
Than a yell comes from the hall in front of Damon and Carrot, As they take am A small hord of at least twenty ponies and slitheen run down the hall way fireing there weapons. The two ponies take down as meny as they can but than Damon takes a stray round, it hits him right in the chest, he hit’s the ground and trys to keep his eyes open. As he watches carrot is soon overrun and a few of the ponies drag try to drag her back to there ship, than the next thing Damon knows somepony is dragging him, as he turns around it is Dutch, he has a lot of blood flowing from a gash in his face and forleg, As Damon looks back to see what happened to carrot he frowns as the goup starts to pull back, still carrying the screaming carrot…
Damon trys to get to Carrot as he crshes the skull of one of the invadein ponies something hits the back of damons head and he blacks out…

Chapter 3: Regrouping

Damon opens his eyes slowly, as he his looks around he finds himself on a table in the infirmary of the serenity. As he trys to sit up there is a sharp pain in the back of his skull.
As he regains his scenes he hears a voice say from behind him."Hello captain, good to see you awake."
As Damon turns around to see who is speaking, as he does he sees dutch standing next to dream. The colt smiles and says. "You took a nice hit to the back of your head, but other than that you should be fine!"
Damon nods his head and asks."Where are the reavers...?"He blinks a few times trying to block out the pain than asks."And...where is Carrot?"
Dutch frowns as he says."The reavers left, we killed about thirty of them and i guess they just thought they would just cut there losses...but...they have Carrot."
Damon get out of the bed and stands up and says. "Than we are going after them. We cant leave carrot..."
Dutch frowns and says. "I understand what you are saying but you are in no shape for another fight, there managed to put a nice crack in your skull, you need rest."
Damon shakes his head and looks over a table full of medical supplies and grabs a morphine needle and jabs it into his leg, he winces and says. "Im fine... let just get to work finding them..."
Dutch nods and says. "Fine...just let me finsh up here, i will meet you up on the bridge."
Damon nods and stumbles out of the room, the effects of the morphine already setting in...

As the bag on Carrotcakes head is removed she gets her first look at her surroundings, She is in a dark room that is only about square feet around, she chained to shackles on the wall, as her eyes adjust to the dark room she sees blood stains allover the room, as yells out untell her voice is horse.
After a few hours the door the the small room opens and a rough looking pony walks in. "Hey there sweetcakes, you know you caused quite the little fight, your group killed over half of my crew. But dont worry, we can replace them, but dont think that will make it any easier for you. Yes we are going to have ALOT of fun with you..." He leans in close, right next to her face and says. "So are you ready?"
Carrot does not say anything, she just headbutts the pony and he jumps back. After staggering for a second he comes back and lands a punch on her face, than Knees her in the ribs which result in a loud crack of breaking bones....

The guard outside the door shutters at the loud screams coming out of the cell, he has seen alot, he has been on this ship for almost a year but the noises comeing out of the room are still enough to send chills down his spine.

Damon staggers up to the bridge and leans on the control panel, he blinks trying to focuses and pulls up the radar, as he does that Dutch enters the room behind him, he sighs as his captain staggers around the room trying to perform a simple task, Dutch says." Damon...how about you let me do this..."
Damon spins around and says."No...Im...Uhh...Im fine!"
Dutch puts a hoof on the druged captains shoulder. "I know you are upset but you need rest, dont worry... I wont let her go."
Damon staggers around the some and mumbles something unintelligible before passing out.
Dutch who is somewhat shocked drags to body out of the way of the control panel and gets to work tracking Carrots captors...

Carrot trys to clear her mouth of the taste of blood once the pony finnly leaves, he did unspeakable think to her, and right now not even Carrot is just trying to think about her time back on the Serenity, her time with Damon and the rest of her friends.
She coughs and spits out another mouth full of blood. About an hour after the first pony left the door opens once again, Carrot trys to get her blood soaked mane out of her swollen eyes. A smaller voice comes from the far end of the room and says. "Its ok, i am not here to hurt you, just brought some food..."
Carrot who is in no mood for any form of contact yells. "JUST KILL ME WILL YOU?"
The soft spoken pony says. "Im sorry for what is happening to you... I know what its like..." As It says this It moves the blood her blood soaked mane out of her eyes. She blinks a few times and sees a very young unicorn with a light green fur, She is very small and is missing alot of fur, it looks like he has been whiped countless times, she is also incredibly thin, she just looks like a bag of bones and fur.
Carrot chokes back tears at the sight and asks. "How long have you been on this ship?"
The small filly sighs some. "About a month, they hijacked are ship and took a group of us, I am the only one left at this point..." Tears flow from here eyes as she says. "My... My sister killed her self last week... so now its just me..."
Carrot lets her head down. "Im...so sorry...Umm..."
The green filly smiles some." Its ok... I heard what they have been doing to you... I should be the one who is sorry..."
Carrot trys to smiles." You know I have some friends who are going to save me, and when they do You can come with us!"
The green filly sighs."My sister would say that al..."As she is saying this the door is flung open and a large colt walks in. "Ok run along little one, us two have things to do." The colt says with a smug smiles.
The green filly shows herself out of the room and the colt says." You know your friends killed my brother, but you might be worth it!"
Carrot spits a mouthfull of blood into the colts face and he lashes out at the mare...
As the green filly walks down the hall she hears her newfound friend let out a scream, she trys not to cry as she makes her way back to the small cell that serves as home for her...

Chapter 4: As death draws near

As the captain watches the screen that serves as the ships radir, the door to the bride is opened, he does not look up as hoofsetps creep up on him, a gentle hoof is placed on his shoulder and a soft voice says. "Captain, you need to rest you have been up here for a week and I dont think you have even come down to sleep yet..."
Damon slowly turns around and faces the pony who turns out to be Dreamfly. "You should still be down in the infermary..."
Dreamfly frowns. "So should you, you need rest."She smiles and says. "Dont worry, we will find her."
Damon shakes his head. "If we dont get to them now, we might only find bits a pieces of her..."
Dream takes a deep breath and says. "Dont think like that... Now you need to get some rest, I will watch for any sign of her."
The captain frowns and says. "Fine but if you see anything you will find me!"
Dream smiles and says. "You will be the first to know."
Damon nods and leaves to find his bunk.

Carrot is awakend by the squeeking of the door and the blinding light that followed. She does not do anything, She just hangs her head and waits. She though she would be dead at this point but she has become a crowd favorite on the ship. As she braces herself for another night of beatings and torturer she is calmed by a small gentle voice. "Carrot are you awake?"
The mare looks up to see a small green pony standing there. She smiles and says weakly. "Yeah... I am awake..."
The small unicorn smiles and offers some water to the mare, she drinks deeply from the cup held infront of her face but the young unicorns magic. After the cup is empty carrot smiles and says. "Thanks..."
The green filly sits down next to her and asks. "Do you still think your friends are comeing?"
Carrot sighs. "We can only hope...I dont think I can take much more of this Star..."
The green filly smiles, her full name is starfire but she likes it when carrot calls her star, it reminds her of how her sister would do the same.
Carrot hangs her head. "Hey...Can I ask you something about your sister?"
Star frowns for a second but says. "Yeah...its ok..."
Tears flow down her face as she asks. "How did your sister manage to kill herself?"
Star frowns and says. "She found a knife...and slit her wrists..."
Carrot is quite for a second than asks. "Do you still have it...?"
Star begins to cry as she hugs carrot cake. "No...you cant leave me..."
Carrot just hangs her head. "Im sorry star...but I dont think I can take anymore of this..."
Star sobs into her chest. "No, carrot you cant...I cant lose anyone else..."
Carrot looks at the small pony and frowns, maybe she is right, she should still have hope in her crew finding her. But than she looks at herself, both of her wings are broke, almost half of her mane has been ripped out and the countless other things that they have done to her...
As carrot thinks about what she is going to do a large explosion comes from below the two.
Starfire smiles. "Its them its your friends!"
Carrot just shakes her head. "No...that was from inside the ship, the engine maybe..."
Starfire just frowns and leans her head on carrots body. "Carrot...don't leave..."

Dream scans over the consul as she does every hour, it is nice that she finally got the captain to get some rest, he as been asleep for almost ten hours now. As she looks over the radar she gasps, there is a ship no more than half an hour off, she checks for any kind of distress beacon but finds nothing. As they draw closer she runs a scan over the ship that confirms her idea, its was a raver ship, and its engines are dead!

The ships alarms sound and Damon rolls out of his bed, even with the little sleep he has got over the last week he still had a hard time falling asleep. But there is only one reason he cares to think why Dreamfly would sound the alarm, they found carrot!
As he rushes up to the bridge he is greeted but Dutch and Dream, Dream smiles and says. "We found them captain, and they are dead in the water!"
Damon smiles and says. "Good, I want you both ready to board that ship as soon a we make contact, you hear me!"
Both of the ponies nod and rush off to prepare for the oncoming combat, Damon who has already gathered up his weapons days before just stairs out the window at the reaper ship that is still nothing more than a small ball of light...