Space Station 13

**Space Station 13* - Chapter 1*

By: Pnoy

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24 Equestrian Hours Earlier

Princess Celestia groaned as she heard her PDA go off for the third time continuously. She wanted to ignore her duties and go back to sleep, alas, it wasn't easy being captain.

She slowly crawled out of bed and stretched after lounging about for ten minutes. After her pleasantries she looked at her communications console which was asleep and noticed her reflection, 'Ugh, I don't know why corporate insists I keep my hair bundled up like this.' she complained to herself while she prodded her hair buns with her hoof.

She telekinetically levitated her uniform and managed to slip it on carefully without having to strain herself too much. She opened her locker which stood at the end of her bed and pulled out her armored suit, gloves, boots and- 'Wait, where is the cap?!'.

She looked around the locker impatiently to no avail, the cap was not in the locker. She stepped back away from the locker and glanced around her quarters, she stood behind her desk that wrapped entirely around her and her bed, which also had two consoles extending from it. The consoles gave her readily available reports and information on the station, crew and provided her a direct connection to the station's intercom if she needed to address the vessel as a whole.

Suddenly from a holopad in the middle of her room Luna materialized into a hologram and stared at her disgruntled sister. "Is everything ok sister? Are you looking for something?" She inquired peacefully.

"Oh nothing, I must have misplaced my hat is all." Celestia replied, without looking at her transparent, staticy  sister.

"It's right there." The virtual alicorn, pointing at the shelf on the other end of Celestia's bed.

"Oh thank you sister..." Celestia hesitated after securing her headpiece and placing it firmly atop her head. "How.... How are you coping?" She asked solemnly without facing her sister, staring into a mirror while she adjusted the hat.

Luna sighed and looked at her pulsating, illuminated hooves. "Twilight told me they can, and will find a way... But she told me it will take time..." There was an awkward moment of silence, as much silence as possible with the constant humming of the station's generators, occasional clinks and clanks of other ponies wheeling about materials and the noise from the cameras' pivots turning. "I just want my body back."

"I know, and I am sorry this happening to you. You know I would take your place if I could,but for now this is the best we can do. Until we can find a cure for your body we might as well make good use of your new situation."

"Yeah... I know." Luna replied grimly. 'My sister never really cared about my well-being and it's clear she still doesn't now... She hardly shows remorse...'

"Luna, are there any reports from Head Quarters?" Celestia asked as the door which extended from the wall to her desk, slid open on its own.

"No, however there was a warning that there was an electrical storm occurring in our vicinity." Luna responded.

"Will we be effected?"

"Not likely, but with electrical storms nopony can know for sure, their patterns are erratic and hard to predict at best." Luna added giving her sister a look over, "Everything seems it is in order... I'll be around if you need me." As she finished, her holographic image shrunk and vanished into the holopad.

'Hmm, I wonder what it is like being a virtual pony...' Celestia thought to herself almost jokingly.

The door's to Celestia's room slid open as Rarity, the recently elected Head of Personnel came galloping in. "Princehhhhhh- I mean captain! Come quick!" As she glided to a stop, panting heavily and striking a rather drastic and dramatic posture and expression.

Celestia wanted to grumble but that would be too obvious and perhaps cause the already melodramatic unicorn to create even more of a scene. "What is it?" She managed as she approached the distressed fashionista. 'Today is one of those days, I can already tell.'

"Didn't you get my messages!? It's Pinkie Pie, she's dead!"

Princess Celestia was immediately shocked and withdrawn, denying what she just heard. "Wait what!?"

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Author Notes:

I know that was short, but get used to it! I am dividing my chapters up into scenes and plan on releasing scenes daily, because of my tedious schedule I get little free time so I am forced to try writing differently, but this way i can manage to continue to write stories and update them all the while keeping my schedule from getting to clogged up.

I hope you enjoy, and I will try to write longer scenes in the future!