Chapters Prologue
Shadow let out a deep growl as the Hunter Pred whipped a deep cut across the top of the Xenomorph's dome carapace. Scootaloo eyed the large beast and its arsenal of weapons that it had placed on its body with wide eyes. Shadow raised his tail and roared taking off towards the Pred with a wide open mouth. The dagger-like tongue shot out as the Hunter jumped towards the alien. The two creatures smashed up against each other and the Yautja Predator took advantage grabbing with both hands onto the long tail. Scootaloo pushed herself up grabbing her rifle taking aim, Shadow flew like a heavy stone smashing into the pillar. The Hunter clenched its fists and two long blades shot out from its wrists.
"Shoot!! Shoot it now!" White reached up holding his shoulder to keep his wound from bleeding any more than it already was. "Shoot it!" Scootaloo looked through the glass of her red dot scope once again with two feathers on the trigger of her weapon. Shadow let out a small weak hiss pushing up to get back into the fight but the Yautja wasn't allowing that, smashing both fists down the beast knocked the Specimen back down to the ground before taking out a large knife to finish the job. "SHOOOT IT!! NOW!!!" Closing her eyes she pulled, the shot rang through the entire castle. Scootaloo's radio began to buzz with voices. The troops were now aware there was something going on and were now on the way to the shot. She opened her eyes and the Hunter was gone, the Xenomorph with it. A trail of bright fluorescent green blood leads out the window that was now smashed into pieces. Could this get any worse was the only thought that was going through her head now as she heard the stomping hooves of the troops enter the room
Chapter One
"Y-yes..Yes! I am fine...I just thought I saw something" Sunset smiled and turned her head to look at the approaching filly. Scootaloo had a very faint smile on her face and tears laying in the corners of her eyes. The filly tried her best to look strong in her uniform but it was really hard. If not for Twilight Sparkle, Scootaloo wouldn't be standing here among all these ponies. "I know Scoot, I miss her too but let's save the tears for after the signing of the new law." Sunset's hoof drifted up to move a segment of loose mane out from her eyes so she didn't look any more like an emotional wreck than she already did. "She saved us all and showed me how to fix the life I was living. I promise I won't leave your side, Scoot. Twilight would want us to stick together..."
Her eyes stared at the eggs as they sizzled on the top of the stove, how long had she been standing there staring off thinking about it? Sunset let out a long sigh and with a quick burst of magic she levitated the pan up and shook it to make sure the food would not stick because there was no butter left to prevent this from happening. Iron Will was at the table typing away on a keyboard with aggressive hard fingers against the plastic. He wasn't angry, it was just how he typed on a laptop.
" I really wish you would get off that thing while I am cooking. Hearing you type is like...like....." The Television interrupted her with a loud beeping noise. Will looked up and coughed as it was just another alert of space debris breaking through the atmosphere. It was never really anything serious, usually, just a segment of a room from a destroyed station or a satellite but these happened every day. "The only thing I regret about the choice is Seegson is not very good with cleaning up what happened" Will closed his laptop and pressed the tips of his fingers together while also pressing his forehead into his fingers.
"Seeing as parts of my station are still floating around up there. The fact that I made it out of what happened makes me scared what else made it out, Sunset" Iron Will said this with a forced smile as he now got up out of his seat. "Can you change the channel? I would rather hear something about progress on the captures of Weyland Loyalists"
"Have you heard from Scootaloo?" Sunset closed her eyes worried to hear her friends answer that question. Iron Will sighed and shook his head before actually responding to that.
"She doesn't call, send letters, or even seem to want to talk. I want to believe she is just busy but I know it is because of Seegson that she is so forgetful all the time and that she will probably be late for dinner" Sunset turned off the stove and looked to the television one last time to see all the information on the new impact. The pony speaking was a member of Seegson Security and he was very detailed on what was going on. The debris was part of Fort Waid Station and was also confirmed to be nothing serious but just a couple segments of a busted wall and a very old satellite it took out on the way down. The reason the alert was even broadcasted would be to notify it was not going to be striking any population or occupied areas of Equestria. Iron Will was at the door listening to the last few words before he would leave and Sunset didn't say a word about the breakfast she was cooking for him because she knew why he was leaving. The broadcast closed and returned to the regular program. Before Sunset was fully turned to look at the door Iron Will was already gone and out the door.
"Good luck friend because you're going to need it today" Sunset flopped back into a chair and leaned back to look at the ceiling. Today was not a bright day Equestria. Today was the day that it was announced to her. The day Celestia found out what happened on Valuntas Station.
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"This was something you thought I shouldn't be told about!?!? Do you realize what kind of shit you just put me into, today?" Celestia flared her large wings and they casted a shadow down onto the circle table. Moon Dusts, Speaker of the Seegson's and Iron Will who spoke for the creatures of Equestria both tapped their papers against the table. Iron Will began to sweat and shake as the large alicorn began to grunt and glare at the two of them. "Well!! Which one of you wants to start, Hmmmm?" Moon cleared her throat and began speaking about the events that took place on Valuntas Station very quickly as to not keep this meeting waiting any longer.
"Too defend Seegson, Weyaland Corp was in charge of this information for years before the events even occurred and Seegson was not able to access this information until after the fall" Moon smiled and stood up from her seat setting her papers down and headed over to one of the wonderfully designed windows the castle had to offer. "However the information was discovered only a year after the fall and Seegson Security decided that this information continues to be held away to prevent panic" Celestia shook her head with eyes closed and this caused Iron Will to adjust his tie in great fear as to what was going to happen.
"Panic? What if it happens again and because nopony was informed of the threat that is up in space millions die again? Three stations were infected with a threat that was hidden from me and the public for years! We have two new stations circling the planet and they have no idea that the thing that caused this is still out there" Moon stepped in again not allowing Iron Will to speak his part for the creatures of Equestria.
"The creature known as Specimen Xenomorph-97xex was killed on Fort Waid Station and the other Specimen now known as Specimen Xenomorph-ork987 was killed after the station itself fell apart. The events that happened on WeyU Station were confirmed to be caused because of a lab failure. Turns out they had specimens of their own on board and something went wrong but WeyU was the only Weyland Official Station with a lab the size to hide such and organism" Iron Will sat up and tried to speak his part while there was a pause.
"To be fair your highness the creatures that live here did not know about any of this and I think they should have been told" Celestia looked to him with a smile that turned to a disgusted glare. "Your highness?"
"You knew, correct? Why did you not tell them yourself?" Iron Will clenched his fists and sat down. Moon Dusts then continued to clear things up with what she had to say.
"There is almost an eighty-five percent chance that this will never happen again. There is nothing left for the creatures to live on and from what we know about living animals. They need to breathe air in order to survive and there is no way there is air left on any of those stations anymore after all these years"
"What about the other fifteen percent? Why not a solid One hundred?" Celestia had a much calmer vibe radiating from her now but Iron Will got up and dismissed himself heading to the door. He got to say one thing and it was the worst thing because he could have said something years ago about this. "Tell me what that percent is about and I will be much more comfortable about the larger percent trumping over it"
"The fifteen percent is that these things might not need air to live"
"If I had known these things years ago maybe Twilight Sparkle would have never gone to Valuntas. She might still be alive if she had stayed here in Equestria" Celestia moved away from the table and Iron Will clenched his fists more hearing her name. Twilight probably would have never gone to Valuntas if she knew the dangers that were in space. "Meeting is over. I would like it if you could go now, Moon Dusts" Iron Will closed his eyes and a tear fell from his eye as he remembered Valuntas and when he met Twilight.
"The creature!! It's here MOVE!!" Iron Will shouted as he ran down the hallways opening a door before rushing inside. Sunset stood there as Fractured tugged on her. The captain poked his head around the corner of the door and held his hand out waiting. "Let us move!! Forget them! MOVE!!" Sunset lowers her head as Twilight and White try and pick up speed as the creature was about to gain on them moving faster than them with ease. Sunset rushes up and places her hooves on a wheeled table and pushes it.
"Look out!! Move" Sunset falls over from her hard push, Twilight barely dashes out of the way as. The creatures speed was enough to gain but it had no time to dodge the table. The table smashed into its waist sending it face first to the floor. Its Dome head smacks the floor and it rolls head to tail in a ball before coming to a stop on its belly. This gave Twilight room to join the Captain
"I didn't know at the time but she was going to be something I missed greatly. I have to get out of here!" Iron Will finally pushed through the door and left the room. He wasn't the nicest of creatures and was defiantly not a good captain. That didn't make him a bad man and he missed Twilight. He missed her every day.
The sparks were flying back against the face shields of everyponies spacesuit as the leader of the group was almost done breaching the door of the lone spacecraft. Their radios were buzzing about how they wanted to kill the pony inside and allot of them wanted to do it in very cruel ways. Except for Scootaloo, she hated Weyland Loyalists as much as anypony here but to kill them so violently. That didn't seem right to her, a blue hue shined onto them from the planet below. Equestria and all the land below looked so beautiful below her. The door was ready to burst open so the pony cutting quickly motioned a hoof to let them all know to back up for safety. Scootaloo ran her hoof against the tether that was keeping her attached to the craft as she floated back a bit to get to a safe distance.
"I can't wait to stand again. All this floating around is starting to make me sick and why do the majority of them flee to space just to run out of gas?" Just as Scoot said this the door flew open and quickly it let out a burst of air before a field turned on to prevent any more air from leaving the ship but it allowed others to come aboard. "Whoa! That was crazy!!"
"No crazier than what I want to do to whoever is in there!!" One of the troops laughed and they all made their way inside to brief and search the craft. Once inside they would be able to take off their helmets and begin working. Scootaloo pulled herself through the forced entry and took off her helmet, she pulled her mane back with one hoof and took a deep breath. The air reeked of burnt metal and maybe even some bodies it seemed. "We are in! Great! What do we do now?" Scoot like the rest loaded her weapon and quickly adjusted her sights she had mounted on the top of her gun. The debris that was announced to pass through Equestria was going to rip through this area in an hour maybe minutes. Everypony knew that they had to work fast and capture the target. The commander had stated several times that this target was to not be killed at all costs. The commander who had cut down the door turned slowly to look at the troops and the mystery pony was wearing all black and a face mask to hide who was behind. With one nod from the figure, all the troops moved out to search the stationary ship for what they were told to be a Weyland Loyalist. Each weapon had a flashlight latched to the barrel and the light that came from them beamed left and right as the troops moved. The bright beams showed just how long the craft was sitting there in the dark as plumes of dust rolled through the light. Scootaloo took a deep breath and kept her feather off the trigger of her weapon. Being a Pegasus soldier was much more difficult than most would think. The weapons were modified to rest up against the suit of armor the pony was wearing and the trigger lighter and easier to pull back because all she could use was her feathers to pull it. The modified suit was a bit heavier than unicorns because of the extra tech for attaching the weapon so moving around the tight corridors of the ship proved to be difficult.
"It looks like she just vanished! Everything in here is set up as if she was about to eat and just disappeared" Scoot stopped and moved her head to better look around the room. "I don't see her anywhere here. Anything on your end, Mick?" she let go of the button on the side of her radio and waited for a response from her troop member. Mixed Delights but better known as Mick was a very close friend of Scootaloo. He joined after a successful run as a bartender. He was well known for the drinks he served back in the day but was now less known for the other ways he served the land. It wasn't long before he responded with a slight laugh in his voice as he responded to the question.
"Why do you always ring my radio? I don't see anything over here but broken cups and burnt photos...wow....looking at them sprawled on the floor kind of makes this place that much more depressing being out here all alone" Scootaloo blushed a bit hearing his voice and she went silent, not sure how to respond. Mick had always been the backbone of what kept her happy because he always knew how to make a pony feel better. If it meant a good joke, classic conversation, or even just listening to others. Mick was the guy who could do all these things and still just smile about it and he could do this even in the darkest of scenarios. "Did you know the pilot of this ship was looking for her daugh..."
"What are you doing chatting soldier!" Scootaloo quickly turned around lowering her weapon and standing straight for the commander. The black mask covering the identity of the pony. Blood red eyes staring from the black and menacing shotgun strapped to the side of the mystery pony. "You should do more walking than talking Scoot! You do remember the talk we had before the space walk...don't you? The academy will look down on your mistakes the more you make them"
"I wasn't making any mistakes sir.." The captain's head lowered and shook with disappointment. It was hard to tell if the pony in charge was upset or tired of having to be in charge of everypony in this platoon. "I am trying my best to make this easier for you..." The captain pressed a hoof against the radio on the young mares upper shoulder and removed it. The captain always sounded a bit like a sci-fi villain when he/she was speaking because the mask contained a powerful voice changer.
"Mick...I suggest you get back to what is at hoof..." The captain turned to stare at Scootaloo and chuckled. "Remember that if we find her first and your busy talking or joking around when the debris rain sweeps through here. I will leave you to be shredded by each individual metal fragment! Are we understood?" Captain put the radio back on Scootaloo's shoulder and then moved deeper into the room. "Looks like me you from this point on. Follow me and keep your weapon on safe! We need this mare alive despite the option given to kill if needed and I mean even if she shoots at you....do....not shoot her" Their lights only helped so much with lighting up the place but it was clear what went down here before the lights went out. Signs of intense sorrow and emotions as if the pilot failed her mission. The captain raised a hoof as muffled audio played behind a door. They were already close as if this whole thing was staged for them to find and Scootaloo could feel that uneasy feeling in the back of her head as the door slowly opened from their presence in front of it. They both pushed in slowly listening to the voice of a mare on a recording on one of the computer monitors.
"Hi mom! Just arriving at Valuntas Station. I wanted to leave you a message before we begin traveling. The arrival went great, docked in one peace. I still have space sickness, like I discussed in my last message..." The audio skipped and rewound replaying the Hi mom at least five times before continuing on what was said after the mare's mention of her sickness "I'm sure I will get used to it soon." The caption moved over to the monitor pressing the power switch to stop the message from continuing from there.
"She is here but we have to do this as quickly as possible. The debris is about to hit and all of this would have been for nothing for you and the rest of the platoon. So if you could do the honors and move ahead?" The captain stepped back and spoke rather slow but with a hint of no fear. "I will be fine and she shouldn't be too far up ahead. I think she wants to be found...but not by a face like my own.."
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"Well, you knew why didn't you tell them! Can you believe the princess could be so cruel!" Iron Will slammed his hand on the table and the thunder it created made dishes shake in the sink. Sunset Shimmer smirked used to that kind of anger and moved over to him placing a soft tender hoof on his cheek. " Yes I did know about the alien organisms and yes I didn't tell anypony but that doesn't make me a bad guy. I didn't say anything so that nopony had to live in fear like I do every day!" Iron Will closed his eyes and two tears rolled down his cheek and he began to shake with sadness.
"She doesn't understand allot of things and this I know from experiences when I was her student. However, in time, she might come to realize why you kept things a secret? She is ignorant at times but she is a good princess and knows when to reason and listen to others" Sunset looked over her shoulder briefly to look out the window as the sun shined through it. The grass green, the sky blue, and ponies running by playing just outside with their children. "You just need to give bad times more time to bloom into good times" The news on the T.V. was still talking about the small debris shower. Every time they would say the same thing about it. That the pieces would land far from civilization and not to worry about the cleanup because the parts would burn up in the atmosphere before actually hitting the ground. To the regular pony this kind of news sounded truthful but to Iron Will and Sunset they both couldn't help but to not trust words anymore. After White Lightning's lies to the world and Twilight Sparkle. Nothing seemed truthful because if a pony as kind as White Lighting was on the outside could be so evil on the inside. Who was to say allot of the world wasn't the same as he was?
"I just hope the good blossoms soon. I cannot take another meeting where the ponies of Equestria are not represented good enough through my words and that I am looked at like a bad representative. I need to be their words and not my own but Celestia and the others do not look at it that way anymore. Not when everything is Weyland this and Weyland that!"
"Well, when everyone is doing such a bad job at dealing with the Weyland this and the Weyland that's. You are going to continue hearing about it, Iron Will. Seegson needs to focus on the issues and fix them and you need to stop blaming yourself for everything that has happened. Instead show pride and be that leader you were at Wey U Station"
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"I said not to shoot! What the hell are you doing!" The captain ripped off the mask in anger and Scootaloo was now staring into dark red eyes of a female android. It was Coco Pommel who was the commander of the platoon but only those who were on Wey U Station knew what she was capable of and who she was. "Go get her now before I knock your teeth in! I will enjoy that!!" Scoot backed up and rushed out of the room to get the fleeing mare that she had shot at just moments ago. "Don't shoot this time!! THATS AN ORDER!!" the captain's radio was buzzing with ponies asking about the heard gunshot and orders on what to do. The androids eye twitched and she was unhappy that now she had to answer these idiots calls. As Scootaloo sprinted taking a turn The mare was standing there in the dark with her head down looking at the floor of the dusty ship. The suit the mare was wearing was proof she was Weyland property or maybe even a member of it. Blood was dripping down her hind left leg from the gunshot wound inflicted on her from Scootaloo.
"Did you find her! Did you find my baby girl?" The mare raised her head and revealed a loaded weapon strapped to her side. "Tell me you found at least something linked to where she might be" Scootaloo looked confused and backed up slowly raising her weapon a bit scared of the loaded one the mare had.
"I am unsure what you're talking about but you need to drop that thing and come with me! We don't have this time to chit chat because the debris will rip this place apart any moment now. I have wasted enough time and extended the wasted time by shooting at you. I have made mistakes today so maybe you could end that streak and come with me?" The mare smiled and started to walk forward towards her as if wanting to be caught and taken away from here. Coco had said something about this being a possibility earlier, seemed she was right about it too. "Come on let us get you out of here...what is your name? Are you feeling okay after the shot? Lightheaded? Anything?"
"Nothing like that at all because you did not hit me that well. I am thankful for that and I think you are too, Scootaloo" Scootaloo looked surprised to see the mare knew who she was. "My name is Twilight Velvet...it has been a long time and the Seegson brain dump seems to have done a number on you. At least when working with Weyland they didn't do that to me..." She stopped talking looking just beyond the teen Scootaloo to look at Coco who had just stepped in. "Isn't it nice?"
"Good job Scootaloo...for once you did what I told you to do. Let us get her out of here with the rest of the troops and out of the zone of the debris shower" Coco moved forward and used a hoof to move Scootaloo away. Scoot nodded and hesitantly moved out of the room and back to the breached area but Coco stayed for a moment and just looked at Velvet. "Weyland may be kinder to some of its troops but they didn't bother to keep you hidden. We found you after all this time...." Velvet smiled and looked right back at the heartless android showing no fear of what might happen to her.
"I found you first and called you here stupid android! Where is my daughter?" Coco leaned in and narrowed her eyes wanting to smash a hoof into Velvets delicate face to keep her from spitting out any more words like that but she didn't. "Where is she...I know you know and I want to know where she is!"
"Everypony knows and you should know by now too that she is dead. Wey U Station took care of her and Weyland himself. They both fried in a fire pit as the station split in two. Any more questions or can we get moving!?!?" The mission was over and soon everypony was out of the ship and back to the Seegson Spacecraft that brought them all there. Now with one new passenger, Twilight Velvet. The craft did not hesitate to check out of the area as the debris was about to hit in a minute exact. Barely enough time to get out of the way with the new technology they had attached to the ship. Scootaloo who was sitting next tot he only pony who really understood her, Mick, found herself still thinking about how Velvet knew her name. Looking out one of the windows of the ship into open space she could see large craft debris in the distance and soon it would disappear out of view as the craft moved faster out of the area turning into entry position for a perfect entry back to Equestria. This spacewalk had been the strangest of them for Scootaloo and the mission was no different. Everything about this was starting to make her brain hurt. The large debris that she saw shouldn't have been there and was she not suppose to see it there? She could only hope that she was seeing things like a reflection or maybe something smudged on the window. She kept her muzzle shut and didn't speak and if she did nopony would know now as the craft ripped down through the atmosphere and the sound of the flames rushing across the metal making it impossible to hear right now. Twilight Velvet looked over from across the other side of the bay and smiled, a picture rested on the seat where mick was. He must have grabbed one of the burn photos he was talking about earlier...a mare was in the photo along with Velvet. Purple coat color, a bright smile on her face, and the picture were signed in both of their names. Twilight Velvet and....Twilight Sparkle.
"It is wonderful to be on solid ground again, don't get me wrong but is there anything else you would like me to do that is unnecessary?"Velvet leaned up against a glass wall and a red laser began to scan her body for anything foreign or deadly. "I was just in charge of the papers and not some Weyland troop or commander..." As the scan completed itself, Coco rolled her eyes starting to get agitated with the all the negative or stupid remarks. The room they were in was some kind of interrogation cell. The walls were all metal and covered in a thin layer of glass to give the whole area a reflection. No matter where Velvet looked she could see herself staring back.
"Can we begin, Velvet?" Coco Pommel took a seat and rubbed her hoof hard against the table. The android's eyes were red still and didn't show a sign of dimming down. "I may be with Seegson Security now but I am far from kind ... so try not to bump me in the wrong ways" The room went silent for a moment and then she took out a folder. It was rather thick and had Velvet's name stamped on it, they both looked at it and then Coco let out a deep breath. Ready to begin and get this over with.
"What do you wanna know? That you don't already know, Coco" Velvet remained calm, moving a stray strand of mane from her eyes. This was going to be a long day.
"Let's begin with what you were doing up in orbit so close to Wey-U Station's remains. Looking for something, somepony?"
"I ran out of fuel"
"That's bullshit!! You cannot just change what you said! Not when it involves her and that station!" Coco got up and growled to herself, this was surprising to Velvet because she didn't expect Coco to loose her temper already. "You did not just run out of fuel ... I am not that clueless because I am a machine" taking a rather deep breath Coco moved back over to the table, opening up the folder there was allot of pictures of Wey-U Station and others showed images of Xenos. "What ... are you looking for up there? Don't say you ran out of fuel or I will rip your stupid teeth from your face" Coco looked up from the photos and to Velvet once again, waiting for a truthful response.
"I had to go to my daughters funeral, a parent should not ever have to do that. I went to something that shouldn't be and that is because she is not dead! Your leaders talk about how horrible Weyland Yutani Corporation is but they always forget the important aspects of the truth!! We only become a problem when it benefits the company ... your company ... you will betray anypony for anything just to save yourselves" Coco listened and Velvet stood up from her seat continuing the rant about what was the truth and what was lies. "Valuntas Station, you said it was Weyland androids that went psychotic and began killing the innocent to save your own image because of the truth of that matter, Weyland Yutani never made androids ... Seegson Security is in charge of that area of artificial protection! The only android that was the property of us was you!!" Coco was about to speak but she was unable because the mother of Twilight Sparkle was still throwing out too much information. "You lied about that and the knowledge of the Xenomorphs! Today you are lying again with saying my daughter is dead ... to protect your image and to destroy the Weyland image" the room went silent, there was nothing more to say and Coco Pommel was shocked that Velvet knew so much. The silence was broken as both mares stood up.
"Thank you? I am not sure if I can thank you or hate you more. Welcome back to Equestria Velvet ... it is just a shame you will be spending it here in captivity" Coco smiled and headed for the door, opening it halfway she stops and looks back. "Twilight ... Twilight Sparkle is dead ... I saw it with my own eyes, I am sorry"
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Sunset's face was now shoved up against the pillow, tears falling at a fast pace up against the white cover. Several photos were laying on the sheets of the bed, Twilight Sparkle was in every single one of them. The unicorn screamed and began to smack the bed with her hooves and slammed her face up then down as she screamed. Going limp after awhile she lay perfectly still on the bed softly crying, missing Twilight still after these years of her funeral. Iron Will was at the door peeking in, the sadness on his face was overpowering and the guilts of the past were getting the best of him. The minotaur stepped away and headed downstairs to clear his mind, he let his hand slide against the wall of the stairwell. The moonlight shined in through the windows of the house beating down on white carpeted floor, Iron Will was thinking back to Valuntas Station about everything he did so wrong.Entering the kitchen now he began to imagine how life would be if Twilight hadn't died, if she was here Scootaloo would have never joined Seegson in the battle and Sunset Shimmer wouldn't be crying so hard, so often.
"Good Captain I was not, Good guy? I don't even know if I can call myself one anymore. This whole world is screwed up!!" His eyes drifted across the table and then he saw the shine. Gash's tooth lay on the table still attached to the string but never given to Scootaloo like Twilight asked in her last moments. "Oh Gash, heh, you would have made a good protector for her against Weyland. Of course, you killed so many ponies and I personally do not miss your sorry ass but ... would things have been different if you managed to follow her to Wey-U?" Looking from the tooth to the clock he let out a sigh. "Looks like another day where we have to wait to give the tooth to her, I wish she would just come back to Ponyville and stay. I can only hope that they are keeping her away for something really important"
"You should start talking to me more, I don't like crying alone and you don't need to be afraid to join in" Sunset was leaning her body against the frame of the kitchen stove and her head was lowered. Iron Will turned around in his seat and smiled at the unicorn happy to see she was up now. "I didn't need to cry for hours this time. I hope she understands I miss her ... wherever she is" The unicorn slowly walked over to the table and sat down. She rubbed her forehead with a hoof and felt the warm hand of Iron Will rest on her shoulder.
"Do you not believe in something after death? She may be gone but she can still see us and I hope you believe that"
"I don't wanna believe she is dead, Iron Will"
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Coco was back in the room talking with Velvet once again, while this was going on they were being monitored by somebody. A white coated stallion stood looking in and writing on the papers. His mane was a dark pine color with a solid black stripe going across the top of his head and down the back of his neck in the mane. He scanned the room with his green colored eyes and though he had never met Android Pommel before he could tell she was kind of a jerk.
"I am really glad I am on this side and not in the room with her! Hehe, she would rip right through me like a paper doll" Mint rubbed under his chin and gulped thinking about what the mare would do if he accidently crossed her. "How long does it take to interrogate somepony? My legs hurt and I am missing lunch..." Mint glared at the clock and licked his lips thinking about what everypony else was stuffing in their face. "It's pizza day! Awwwww~" One of the other workers in the room glared over at him and how silly he was behaving, Mint didn't really care because all he really wanted to do was hang out in the lunch room, listen to some tunes, or maybe even be a little flirty with the mares. On the other side of the glass, Coco continued to scream at Velvet and Mint couldn't help but keep his hoof ready to push the security button. Coco was starting to behave rather violently and that was not excepted. "Come on Coco, don't make me press this button today. I don't like filling out paperwork..."
"Tell me!!" Coco kicked the wall next to her with a hind leg creating small cracks in the surface of the wall. "I am tired of the games! Why is it that everypony in Equestria is some kind of wack job these days! You all complain that Seegson isn't doing enough for the world! HOW ARE WE SUPPOSE TO GET THINGS DONE!! When all you ponies do is complain and make things harder!!" Coco's eyes turned a blood red and she walked up to the table. Velvets eyes widened as the android was now face to face with her, Coco pressed her right hoof against the seated mares chest and pushed back knocking the chair to the floor. "Tell me!!" Velvet heard a ringing in her ears as her head smacked the hard surface of the floor, with Coco now standing over her the odds did not look good. Mint Strings reacted with terror and also great disappointment as he slammed his hoof on the button. Immediately as he did a secret door opened and two working joes stepped out to grab Coco and pull her away.
"You're acting hysterical, please come with me" one of the bald-headed androids spoke and Coco pushed it away. The two droids, however, were persistent and thoughtless and continued to grab her until they were able to pull her away. "Please calm down" Mint rushed in the room and moved to Velvet to get her up.
"This interrogation is over Coco, get out of here! Shit, why does this place have to be so damn hectic?" Any event in Equestria, small or large these days did not take long to go in a dark direction these days. The times have been rough but Mint didn't wanna see it that way anymore because this way of life is way to hard and far to unessasary. Velvet looked up and smiled looking to the stallion who came to the rescue and spoke softly.
"I did it ... I finally did it ..."
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.
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