Chapter 1 The Falling Star
It was nighttime in Equestria, and everypony at Sweet Apple Acers was fast asleep. Only one pony was there that fateful night. Twilight Sparkle was sitting on a hill looking over the Apple Tree fields with a telescope watching the star filled sky’s. She was writing down some observations when she saw it.
“What is that?”
Twilight saw something in the sky. It was a bright star streaking though the darkness. At first she thought it was just a comet, but as she was reading its trajectory she realized something important.
“IT’S GOING TO CRASH IN PONYVILL!!!”
Twilight was already running towards the house where Applejack and her family was when the bright orange light fell out of the sky and exploded in the middle of the Apple field. The Alicorn was flung to the side of the path onto her wings by the shockwave. As she pulled herself up Twilight looked up to the sky to see the pillar of smoke rising into the night.
“What in tarnation is going on!?”
Twilight looked down the path to see Applejack with her siblings Big Macintosh and Applebloom running up to her. Twilight blushed herself off.
“I don’t know, but I’m going to find out”
The group walked cautiously though the trees until they found the crash site in the middle of an open patch of ground. The object was completely black and polished shaded like a ball with a large needle at the front stuck firmly into the ground and three large spikes pointing on the opposite side of it. Slowly Twilight reached out a hoof to touch it. The object was metal and despite falling from outer space cold to the touch. Applejack walked up to her side keeping her eyes on the large black dart shaped thing.
“What in the name of Celestia is this thing Twi?”
“I…I don’t know, I’ve never seen anything like…”
She stopped talking when she saw a series of lines in-between each of the spikes slowly stretching from a thin ring around the sphere to a point the direct opposite of the needle. Twilight jumped back just as the metal object broke into four pieces with a loud clang. One of the spikes was on each of the now curved triangles of metal wile the needle was still embedded in the earth along with half of the ball. Twilight looked for a moment before seeing that inside of the ball, was a strange thick harlequin green substance slowly dripping from the edges of its container.
“What in Equestria is this?”
Applebloom walked past her. Looked at the slime for a seconded. Poked it with her right hoof and then continued to lick it.
“APPLEBLOOM!” Applejack rushed over and took her sister in both her hoofs.
“Hay! This stuff tastes like our apples”
Big Mac was next to try the green goop and agreed with his baby sister “eyep”
Applejack looked at the two with ‘irritated sister’ eyes and looked at the green. Half reluctantly she took a hoof full of the thick sludge and ate it. “ay hate to admit it, but there right Twi”
“Will you guys stop eating that stuff! You don’t even know what it is!...or even where it came from”
Twilight looked at the metal object and then up at the sky. She thought to her self, where did this thing come from, it’s not a naturally formed meteorite that’s for sure, just what could it mean?
If Twilight was able to see underground, she would have seen that the tip of the needle was flashing bright red, and making a rhythmic beeping sound. A beep that many, many lightyears away was heard by something not of Equestria. Or even the same galaxy.
On a large glass orb that contained a three dimensional map of the depths of space, a single red light was flashing and making a beeping noise. The creature that was viewing this was the same size as Celestia and roughly the same shape. It had two talons on each foot, light green newt like skin, a pointed nose with no nostrils, long greenish blue hair as well as a long tail like that of a ponies, both made out of thin lizard scales, strait pointy yellow horns next to black bug antenna and red eyes with vertical rectangular pupils. Well one red eye the other one had a metal eye patch covering it. The creature was also wearing a yellow full body suit with yellow claw cloves on all of its legs and a metal chest plate with a green screen on it. The suit had a symbol of a circle with another circle inside and a single line coming from the center to the edge of it. The last thing was the pare of metal appendages with green holographic triangles coming from the back of it.
Yes I know that was a lot to take in but I like for others to know what new characters look like so bare with it!
“Grrrrrrrr” the creature said as it looked at the blinking light “what part of ‘don’t touch my equipment’ does she NOT understand!”
At the side of the room was a large square machine with a hatch at the top. The thing resembled a giant toaster to make things easier. There was a sudden “Ding” and the hatched ejected a small sleeping body. The seconded creature was similar to the other one, but was the size of a young filly with short stubby horns, fluffier scale hair and an identical suit to the taller one, except that it was blue with no wings attacked to the metal band on the back and the symbol had three lines instead of one making a Y shape. The small creature got up and stretched yawning.
“Enjoy you little rest S-Pod 2876?”
The small life form known as S-Pod looked up to her commanding officer with her big red square pupiled eyes.
“Oh, hi D-Cinter, I was just…wait…wasn’t I 2875?”
“Why yes. You where. But that was before you decided to fall asleep in one of my scouters and sent it CRASHING DOWN, ON AN UNKNOWN PLANET. RESALTING IN BOTH A LOST SCOUTER AND OUR MARELIAN MATTER RESOURCES TO BE USED IN CLONING YOU! YOUR LUCKY YOUR SO SMALL OR I WOULD…” the one known as D-Cinter just stared down the smaller one with fire in her one eye. She probably would have done something extreme if a third green skinned creature hadn’t walked in. this one was the size of a normal pony with short spiky lizard hair, sharp horns and a zig zag tail. The suit she wore was red and the symbol had only two lines making a V in the circles.
“What’s shaking D, you look a little…what’s the word, constipated”
The two turned their heads to see the new arrival. D-Cinter turned her attention away from her fury for a moment.
“Prob-I 137, it seems this little idiot managed to get herself squelched, YET AGAIN! The way I see it my little scout, you are her superior and as such YOUR responsibility! WHAT THE QUARKS HAVE YOU BEEN DOING!!!”
“Chill oh mighty one, at your age I would have thought it was best to avoid stress”
“I’m only 100,300,501 years old thank you! And 4,248 years from the last time I was squelched!”
“Whatever, besides I was working on my Saucer, the char was sticking”
D-Cinter held the bridge of her nose in her two talons and breathed out. “shall I tell you two a secret, not many of our kind know this but the Marelian Matter used for cloneing isn’t limitless, with each new clone your resources become lower and lower”
“And that’s bad?”
“Only if we want to keep our immortality, OF CORSE ITS BAD! Why do you two think that such things like dare devil stunts and alcoholic bar fights have been all but stopped during the past few years? If we don’t find a source of Marelian Matter soon, our race will be in danger of becoming extinct. I have been sending scouters across the galaxy to try and find a deposit of the substance said to have been hidden eons ago, but so far I…”
Her rant was cut short by the sound of a loud ‘woop woop’ sound coming from the orb map. The three Marelian’s turned to see a green light on the map, right where the crashed scouter was located.
“I don’t believe it! The little atom brained imbecile’s alteration of the scouters path has actually found a supply of M-Matter!”
“Yay me!”
Prob-I walked over to the side of the taller Marelian. “so what your saying is that there is a fresh supply of M-Matter, and if we don’t get it we won’t be able to have any fun anymore coz we will have to deal with the grim specter of death looming over up”
“Indeed”
“Well then what are we waiting for an invitation? Lets just go and take it already!”
“Not so fast, first we must think of…”
“Think, Think, Think that’s all you ever do, let me tell you something Cinter, you’re a smart cookie, but there’s a time for thinking and a time for action!”
The small blue Marelian walked up to her two superiors “which?”
“The Seconded One!”
D-Cinter rubbed her chin “perhaps you are right Prob-I, prepare the Mothership for long range travel”
“Now that’s what I’m talking about, say what is the name of this dump?”
“Our destination, the Planet Equu’s”
Chapter 3 Prepare to Launch
Equu’s. Home planet to the land of Equestria and all of pony kind. And hundreds of miles above it in orbit was a large blue and silver construction that resembled some sort of exotic corkscrew with a blue dome with two spikes on top. Inside was three pony shaped aliens heading for the ship bay. D-Cinder was explaining a few things to her companions.
“Centuries ago our kind was facing the threat of our kind being wiped out from the face of the universe, apparently a lot of other species resent the fact that we attacked there planets and took some of them for experiments. Cloning allowed us to survive by having our minds transfer to new bodies every time our old ones become unsuitable for using. However after the threat was eliminated our race became reckless, seeking thrills and danger out of the freedom of death, but now after years of idiotic self-destructive actions our race is almost out of the Marelian Matter used to create new cloned bodies. Without it we will all be faced with the grim reality of the grave, or worse trapped in some sort of mental limbo without any body’s to occupy.”
The three of them finally reached Prob-I’s ship, the Saucer X 3000. The ship was a black disk with grey panels at the side and an orange dome on top with two metal spikes coming out the top. Prob-I’s V circle symbol was on the front in bright red. D-Cinder continued her speech.
“One Marelian scientist however realized this early on however and began working on an organic renewable source of M-Matter on another planet light-years away from our own. And it seems that we have found it, your job Prob-I 137 is to go down there and get it back here”
“So what am I looking for exactly?”
“Unfortunately there is not data on that, just go down there and start scanning anything you see that looks like it could be M-Matter. Oh. Before you leave I suppose I should give you some equipment to settle any…problems you might face”
S-Pod brought a floating metal table across the bay to the ship. On it was a pare of metal wings, a pare of round green balls with a nozzles at the end. Two grey and orange mini cannons. And two white devises that looked like hand Tasers.
“As well as your holographic generator and scanner I am equipping you with these devices that link to your clipper”
“And I notice that once again you’re the only one who gets to have Holo Wings”
“These are only for VIM’s thank you, as in Very Important Marelian’s. the Jet Wings will allow you to fly at high speeds and stand on high concentrations of water vapor. The Gooper will allow you to immobilize any natives you might encounter wile the D-Constructicator will turn them in smouldering piles of chard jerky. And then there’s the ever popular Zapalater that shoots electricity, good for charging a dead battery or making a dead body”
Prob-I watched the item’s get loaded into the she “well golly gee, and its not even my birthday, anything else I should know”
“No! Now go down there and start scanning the environment for M-Matter. Oh and try to resist the urge to probe everything you see!”
Prob-I entered the ship and adjusted herself into the seat. “I promise nothing!”
And with that she flew out of the Mothership and headed for the surface of Equestria. Destination. Sweet Apple Acers.