AVP: After the Fall

The sky was filling up with smoke and the troops were moving up to the location quickly as the vehicle raced to the crash site. Rahzzy held his weapon close and listened to a helicopter rush over them heading to the impact area. Rahzzy was a red-coated stallion with a dark black mane, he was smaller than the others in the platoon and always wore a black vest and golden colored glasses over his eyes. Adjusting his glasses so he could see better Rah peaked up over the open roof to see the stations pieces scattered in the distance. He didn't get to look long because he was soon pulled back down into his seat. The station pieces belonged to Wey-U Station, the station had an unexpected reactor malfunctioned and went from two halves to many large segments.

"Why all the troops for a station impact if it's so far from population!?" Rahzzy screamed so he would be heard over the loud vehicles, one of the troops shrugged and decided to say his best conclusion.

"Well Rahzzy, the only thing I can think of is that there is something inside that Seegson wants. They wanna make sure it's dealt with quickly and with such a large crash site they need more ponies on the site!" Rahzzy could understand the situation more now that he had an idea why he had to be here. Every troop was hardly informed on what the situation was but they all figured it wouldn't be long until they knew. The helicopters flew faster and would be there before the land vehicles, Rah took a deep breath and everypony in the truck pulled a gas mask over their head as they were nearing the site now. The black smoke was thick and small bits of ash and dirt was floating around in the air from the wreckage. It was not long after the vehicles came to a stop that this dust began to collect on Rahzzy's mask lenses, constant rubbing of the eyes of the mask was needed so he could continue to see where he was going.

"Oh wow, this is really messed up guys. I thought it was supposed to be a small debris shower or something, not something like this" The station rested in the mud and dirt and everything was surprisingly intact despite the size of the station segment. Rah, along with the rest of the unicorns in the group were required to have their horns glowing during the mission for additional lighting. "Well if this was a war zone I would be the first to be shot. I stick out like a candle in the night, so what are we looking for again?"

One of the stallions looked over breathing heavily through his mask, "A commander landed here in a helicopter to brief us on site. We should look for the helicopter and get briefed" Rahzzy nodded as always, the more information the better was his method of staying alive in combat and everyday life.

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"Let me talk to her, Coco!" Sunset Shimmer pushed through the two blocking androids and growled as the two guards used their magic to quickly stop her from getting any closer to Coco Pommel. "Let me talk to her! I deserve to talk to her as much as everypony else in this place. Please, Coco, let me talk to her!" Coco's eyes were blood red, as always the android didn't look happy with the situation. Everypony around them was working at the computers. Coco Raise a hoof and the guards let the unicorn go, the area was in a frantic situation, ponies rushing back and forth, reading scans on the computers and punching in numbers.

"I don't see a reason to not let you in, Sunset Shimmer, there isn't that much to see here" Coco turned and started to walk away to get back to work. Sunset followed and looked at what was going on here. She saw the crash site of the station on the largest display monitor. She gasped and placed a hoof over her mouth looking at the video feed of the smoke billowing out from the wreck. Wey-U Station had fallen and now everypony here seemed to be on edge. "I would take you to see Velvet but I am just not allowed. She is locked up somewhere in this headquarters ... how do you keep managing to sneak in here?" Sunset almost had tears in her eyes as she stared at the wreck footage, the memories that were now filling her head.

"What has the company so worried?" Looking away from the monitors, Sunset now looked at the Coco android.

"Inside the craft, there is a large reading of magical power." Coco took a deep breath and then bluntly spoke, Sunset was ready to listen but Coco had a look on her face that almost said it all. "The magic signatures very closely resemble that of the Element of Magic ... Twilight Sparkle" Sunset's face turned almost white hearing that name, Coco got ready to do anything in order to keep the unicorn calm in this kind of news. Sunset took a deep breath and the color started to return to her face and the mare was surprisingly beating the odds, she was perfectly calm in her actions but she was ready to break out in tears as her eyes were filled with tears. "Don't celebrate yet because these signatures are not confirmed to be her. If it is her she could be very close to death at this point from all the years the station was up in space" Coco was tapped on the shoulder and told to turn around. "Yes, what is it?"

"The signatures have popped up once again, the troops are heading right onto it as we speak, the commander who will be briefing them on what to look for, however, has yet to respond to any of our attempts at contact with him" Mint coughed after that segment of news and then headed back to the monitors to assist in the situation. Everypony in the company was up at headquarters doing what they could to help. Mint Strings, who was used to paperwork was now dealing with communicating with troops at the crash site. The stallion sat down and cleared his throat, he knew he had to keep trying to contact the commander if the troops did not get briefed this whole mission could go horribly wrong. "Alright let us try again..." Mint pressed the mic towards his face and began to call out to the troops. Maybe they had already met the commander and could answer some questions on why he was not responding to them.

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Rahzzy and the rest of the troops were now moving up on something strange, the helicopter they were all supposed to meet was on the ground, however, it did not appear to have landed at all. The glass on the windows were all broken in and there was allot of blood all over the windshield, seats, and the ground below an open door of the chopper. Rah was shaking as he looked at the scene and then his radio began to buzz. It was Mint calling out to the troops for answers on the chopper and commanders location. None of the troops, however, could respond, how were they suppose to explain this, what could do something like this? The smoke made this scene ten times more fucked up and scary for Rahzzy. He couldn't see more than three feet in front of him. His motion tracker, the thing everypony seemed to have on this mission began to beep slowly. Something was out there but nopony could see it, Mint called out one more time and this time Rah was the voice he would hear.

"This is Private Rahzzy, I don't know what to say! This whole thing is really fucked!" Rahzzy almost screamed into his radio and he began to shake more as the rest of the troops turned their weapons off safe. Mint quickly responded to Rahzzy in a very calm voice, he didn't know what the ponies there were witnessing right now.

"Okay Rah, we are trying to connect to the commander in your area. He landed with a helicopter to brief you, have you or anypony found the landing zone yet?" Rah listened and looked back at what was left of the helicopter. It looked like something smashed it up and then moved it all the way here. "Rahzzy? Are you still there buddy? I would like to get some answers over here because we are all sitting in the dark and the mission is urgent" Rah looked into the smoke to where the motion tracker was picking up movement but he couldn't see anything.

"There is blood everywhere! I think the commander is dead, over, I think he is dead!" Rahzzy lifted up his weapon and aimed down the scope. Mint Strings was confused and now sounded a bit more frantic. "Something is here!"

"What are you talking about!?!? Dead! Rahzzy you can't...there is nothing there that could have killed the commander! " Mint rubbed his forehead and looked to everypony in the room with him. They all heard Rahzzy and what he said. Mint returned to the radio and began to speak again but was interrupted by the sound of gunfire.

"Shoot! SHOOT!!" One of the troops opened fire and then fell to the ground. The pony reached out and then was pulled away into the darkness of the smoke. Rahzzy screamed and dropped his weapon and all the troops started to become frantic. None of them saw what happened, the soldier was there and then something just snatched him away. Rahzzy looked around and saw three more troops who were on the edge of his vision fall and pulled away. some of the soldiers opened fire into the darkness hoping to kill whatever was stealing the ponies. Mint was about to ask what was going on but was again interrupted but this time by Rah.

"What is that thing!?! What the fuck!!!" Rahzzy screamed as a strange creature could be seen slowly pulling off the head of a soldier right next to him. The sound was not very pleasant as the popping of the spine being ripped from place could be heard. Some of the troops screamed a name that was unfamiliar to Rah. It seemed some of the troops knew more than everypony else did, Rahzzy took off running to the rest of the troops as they all raised their weapons.

"Xenomorph!! Oh shit! Shoot it!!" The Xeno let go of the now dead pony and hissed lifting its tail in a fighting stance, it was a warrior and as it got down on all fours, thirty more came from the shadows. The aliens all sprinted and even leaped at the armed military and not a single one missed the target. The aliens smashed into the crowd using their tails like spears, stabbing the soldiers in the heart and then finishing the victims off with a bite to the head. "Rahzzy! Run!! Run with me, let's get out of here!" Rahzzy didn't think about it, he listened and ran out of there. All he could hear was the screams of all the ponies who were not running away. "Keep going! Go! Get out of here"

"Not a problem! I am getting out of here!" Rah looked back and saw one of the creatures leaping in his direction. It had a smooth head but was smaller than a drone would be. The creature landed on a pony that was running with him and repeatedly used its dagger mouth to impale the mare. "Noooooo! Oh crap, oh crap! Where am I suppose to run!" On the other end of the radio system, Mint and Coco all heard something strange, a loud hissing and allot of growls. Sunset Shimmer slowly backed out of the room, she knew what those sounds were. So did Coco Pommel and they both were listening in complete disbelief as they both were listening to the creatures that haunted them all those years ago. That is when the signal returned, the signal of Twilight's Magic radiating from the crash site.

"Is anypony there!! What is going on!" Mint screamed, shaking all over he didn't know what to think. Those noises were so evil and dark sounding to him. He could only question himself on what they could be because he was clueless as to what was going on. "This cannot be happening! Somepony come in, please!" Coco walked up and frowned looking at the feed of the wreck.

"You have no idea how fucked this whole situation is, Mint" Mint smiled a bit hearing Rahzzy speaking into his radio again, the stallion was screaming at a pitch mostly heard coming from mares. That's how terrified he truly was, the scream lasted for about a minute straight and some of the ponies covered their ears from it.

"This is Rahzzy! We are being attacked by weird bug creatures!! They are jumping around stabbing ponies and eating them!!! EATING THEM!!!" Rahzzy started breathing heavy into the radio and then a loud footstep just behind him could be heard. "Oh no! Not the big one! No, no, no, no!! NO!" Rahzzy noted that there were now other ponies with him and they were getting ready to flee. "Fuck it!" Rah tossed his radio and backpack to the ground to make himself lighter. "We are going for it! RUN!" The group of ponies took off running and the larger alien immediately reacted . A bright purple glow was now visible through the thinning smoke and then the fleeing group that was slower froze in place, a magical aura formed around them and they floated up. Rahzzy jumped to a hiding spot in a pile of metal from the station. The ponies floated up in the air and the massive alien stepped out, her sheild like head and the tip of her large tail was glowing the color as if using, magic. The Queen growled and flicked her tail quickly sending the ponies flying into a pile of sharp metal, the shards of ship shredded the ponies into very small pieces. Their head ripping from their bodies and legs flying into the air because of the speed they were all sent flying. The Queen's head dimmed, along with the end of her tail and  she stomped off back into the thicker smoke. Rahzzy stood their shaking and then he screamed louder but once again it was the pitch of a mare. The signature was not Twilight at all, it was the new Alien Queen, the one that was born from Twilight Sparkle so many years ago.