Planetshine's Space Odyssey Book 2

I heard something, some buzzing noise, strange to say the least. The buzzing noise was coming from somewhere east or maybe northeast. I went to the other ponies, running down the stairs to the others. 'There's a buzzing noise outside, can you guys hear it?'

'Yeah, kind of,' Starry replied, 'not much though.'

'What Starry said,' Flamerider also replied.

I thought about looking outside, normal for me and whatnot, after all, I like doing random stuff that might suck or be life-threatening. I walked out, looking out east. What I saw shocked me a little, some helicopters flying around and hovering. That didn't make sense to me or anypony else, yes, the others were there too.

One of them landed near us, strange, and one of them stepped out. 'Humans, I knew they existed!' Lyra shout out.

'Shut the hell up you asshole,' Flamerider whispered into Lyra's ear.

The humans were talking to each other, and we could hear them, knowing exactly what they were saying. Lyra was intrigued, very intrigued, to the point that she just wanted to rush into them. One of them said to another, 'What are they? Too small to be horses and they are all coloured strange.'

The other one replied, 'Yeah, don't mention that rainbowish one, you forgot that shit.'

Lyra then stepped into the conversation, 'Hey, you guys humans?'

One of them replied, 'You know our language, that's strange, anyway, we are the humans.'

'YEEEESSSSS! HUMANS ARE REAL, MY THEORY WAS CORRECT!' Lyra yelled in excitement.

'Lyra, don't be like that, seriously,' I said, covering my ears using my wings.

'Are you horse-like things like, uh, got horns, and uh, wings?' Another human said to us pointing to us and the spaceplane debris. 'What is that?'

'Our home,' Flamerider said, stepping in the conversation. 'What are you guys doing here?'

The humans had breathing masks on, plus clothes on. I don't know why they had breathing masks on, just a little strange as the place was perfectly breathable by us. Maybe they couldn't breathe, or they could but the atmosphere was poisonous to them, I may never know, or we may never know.

I asked them, walking up to them, 'Who are you guys?'

The human on the left answered, 'My name is Richard, and the one beside me is called Alex, we are from Earth but we live here now.'

'Why?' I asked, curious to find out.

'We work for the RDA here, which is like a mining facility, also, we were scouting the area and found your place, and we sort of wanted to investigate it.'

'Hmm, ok, whatever, Lyra's into humans, and we live here, for now, that was a spaceplane.'

The humans seemed suspiciously friendly, but I guess that was the nature of them, but what I heard from Lyra, they also have a bad side. We talked to the humans for a while, and we then welcomed them into our home. While inside, Richard and Alex took off their breathing masks, which were actually called exopacks, dumb name really but I knew what they meant by that.

They liked our house, I mean spaceplane debris, pretty much, and asked to stay here for the night. We didn't know if they were just trying to do a reconnaissance mission or whatever, but we let them stay for the night. One thing I forgot to mention about the humans, they were twice as tall as us and they were a little, uh, strange. They used hands and whatnot to pick up things and they had great technology, better than the ones in Equestria.

The night spent with them was ok, pretty nice really, they were friendly to us and even showed us what to eat and what not to eat. It seemed like they knew more about the place than we do, either they came before us, or they just knew about it. The only thing that we don't exactly know is what they do, and where they lived, or really any information about them. They could be the bad guys or the good guys.

The night was normal, me sleeping in the cockpit instead of my cabin, random creatures in the forest roaring and whatnot. The next day was different, as they invited us to visit their place. We didn't know about it, maybe something strange was over there. We also had no idea what lies there, good stuff or bad stuff. Even though there could be a bad thing, we agreed to go, after all they seemed good.

We boarded that helicopter, the inside furnished pretty well, a few seats and a storage section. It took off, blowing wind onto the grass. The chopper ride took a while, but the place started to be visible, and it looked, interesting. We flew over some floating mountain like things, which looked physically impossible, and some big trees.

The human place seemed, uh, full of technology, and cars and stuff. The landing was quick, landing on a helipad. We all dismounted from the chopper, ready to explore the place. There was a person that looked at us, also pretty close to us too. He was on a wheelchair, carrying a backpack. It seemed interesting, and I wanted to interact with him.

I trotted over, only really taking a little while. 'Hey, my name's Planetshine, what's your's?' I asked.

He replied, thinking for a moment, 'Jake, Jake Sully.'

'Hey Jake, so, why are you here?'

'Long story short, my brother died some time ago, and then I took over his spot, and yeah, now I'm here.'

From what I head from him, he was a good dude. I felt pretty empathetic for his brother to die, and how he was on wheels. He later explained that he was reporting to the RDA, and all that. I trotted back, reuniting with the others. Then, Richard gave us authority cards so that we could explore the place with no limitations.

We all set off with exploring the place, but we had to first enter it.