Dr. Whooves was getting bored, with nopony to talk to, he was going to get insane. He busted into the hitchhiker storage container and unfroze everypony from their stasis chambers. The ponies woke up pretty slowly, all of them asking if they were at Duna or not. Dr. Whooves had to explain how he got extremely bored and how he lost his sanity.

The other ponies agreed to stay with him until they got all the way to Duna. There was enough food to last and that there was a greenhouse in the rover, meaning that if they got sunlight, they would be able to grow food, which meant that it could theoretically last forever. Other than the greenhouse, the rover had a huge storage for water and food, filling up 2 tanks that could last for months on end. The rover could sustain its oxygen supply by splitting up the carbon dioxide from Duna's atmosphere and water could be found on the poles as ice.

The ponies then continued on their normal business every day, until one day, where a mid-course disaster struck.

'Planetshine,' Dr. Whooves called out, 'We have an asteroid coming our way, well, at least the sensors detect it, it's traveling towards us at 2km/s and it's going to smash into us in about 1 minute. It looks like it is a class A asteroid.'

'Turn the rocket sideways! Now!' Planetshine shouted, 'Don't forget to start burning in that direction.'

'It's not turning!'

'Let me try!'

Planetshine rushed into the command pod and started to turn the nuclear rocket to radial out, but the asteroid was traveling too fast. The asteroid hit a nuclear engine on the right corner, destroying it instantly, but at least it didn't hit the command pod or anything else on the ship. The ship then spun out of control, flinging it off trajectory, but the good thing was that it had more than enough fuel to do 10 course corrections.

Planetshine did a quick course correction that would put her on a crash course with Duna, only burning 3m/s. Once they were done with it, they just let the rocket coast along, not worrying about anything else.

Author's Note

The nuclear engine getting destroyed was because of the Kraken and not an asteroid in the game but in a story, it would be better if it was an asteroid.