For the right price

Chapter 3: Derelict scream.

Esten looked at Isaac, his reaction neutral. The Nordin was Isaacs flagship, but
he had to hide it once he had made himself an enemy with competing mercenary
groups.

"You presume that I still have it?" Esten asked, crossing his arms.

This made Isaac smile slightly, Esten loved to play around, examining peoples
reactions.

"Like I would even remotely believe that you've lost my ship, old friend."

Esten nodded "When do you need her?"

" When can I get her?"

"In an hour or two."

Isaac shook Estens hand, they had come to an agreement.

" Excellent. Now, girls."

He turned around to Spike and the other ponies, grabbing his new weapon and ammunition.

"We can go upstairs to get our gear on, and I promise I'm not trying to sound like a pervert here, but to get used to be around each other in any kind of situation we will change in the same room."

He saw the looks on the girls faces and before any of them got to answer or object to the statement, he continued.

"No we're not getting completely nude, but this is very important in case we
get into any extreme situation where we're required to be comfortable with
each other with less clothes on than normal, allright?"

"It does sound a bit... You know." Spike said, waving his hand around to show an expression of " Odd".

"I know, but if we're afraid of being around each other if we don’t have full
gear on it might be an obstacle, if we ever need to remove gear to get bandages
on or the like."

"I understand, I’m not
afraid of showing myself!" Rainbow dash smirked and put her fist in the air.

"We are not going to show ourselves, it's more about being comfortable, as i
said" Isaac said, face palming.

"But to be honest we might not give a shit if we have a bullet or a blaster wound in our body." He finished with a chuckle.

"Yeah I get it. You girls all right with it?" Rainbow dash put her arm back down and looked around at the others.

"I guess so. Doesn't seem too difficult. No worries. It's all right" They all said at once.

" Good, then lets get going."

They grabbed their newly purchased gear, which Isaac had been generous enough to pay for them, and headed to the dressing room Esten had upstairs. Even though Isaac had paid for this first purchase, he told his crew that they had to pay for everything else they wanted to buy from here on out.

…

As they walked out they looked formidable, all of them wore black and grey "SWAT" looking gear along with their weaponry, except Pinkie pie of course, she still had her imperial equestrian armour on. They all held their rifles in a tight grip, feeling strong and confident.

Esten had told them to meet him at his personal dock in the slum area. If they didn't have their weapons or gear they would have refused to go through that area. but now, well if anyone tried anything all that would remain of them would be a dead, and looted, corpse.

Once again they arrived at a large metal door, this one leading to a hangar. Isaac used the code Esten had given him and they went inside.

"Holy guacamole!" Spike were the first one to react to the ship in front of
them.

It was a large and magnificent ship. It seemed to be big enough to even fit a few
figther ships in it.

"This is The Nordin!" Isaac said proudly as he presented it to them.

"She has served me well and I have a feeling she will do it again."

A hatch opened in the ships side and Esten, dressed in pilot gear, came out of it and waved them over.

"Get in, quickly. I heard a rumour that some of the scum in this area will try to strike
us, apparently they think we have some big treasure on us. Be on your toes!"

Isaac sighed, this wasn't what he wanted to happen on their first day. But this
might be good, it could be an opportunity to see what his new crew were capable of.

"All right, Rainbow dash, Applejack, you stand guard and if anyone comes in... You know what? If I wanted to be cliché I would say shoot first and ask questions later but if you want to ask them questions go ahead, but don't blame me if you get shot"

Rainbow dash chuckled. This guy doesn't seem so bad after all. She thought to herself.

"All right cap'n, just tell us when we are leaving."

"Yeah!" Applejack filled in. "Wouldn't want y'all to leave without us."

Isaac smirked. "If you die, we will."

He turned around and stepped into the ship, followed by Spike, Rarity, Pinkie
pie, Fluttershy and Twilight.

He smiled as they got inside, he finally felt at home, back where he belonged.
Esten walked around, starting the ship up. As the lights and monitors came to life around them a female robotic voice echoed through the speakers inside the ship.

"Welcome back captain, have you been doing well since you last visited?"

Isaac had almost forgot, the ships AI Ilsa had reluctantly agreed to stay under Estens protection when Isaac had asked her to. He didn't want to lose his ship, and since he
had gotten threats that rivalling mercenary groups were going to take him down he wouldn't take any risks. Of course Ilsa could download herself to his holopad and live inside it as a hologram, but Isaac had been firm with her, which made her promise to stay with the ship and Esten.

"I am well Ilsa, and you? Has Esten taken good care of you?"

Ilsa had an amused tone in her voice, at least as much amusement a robot voice could have.

"He actually got some upgrades done on me. The galactic map is more detailed and he installed some automatic turrets. He sure is an effective man."

Esten shrugged and kept walking around turning on minor systems. The
conversation Ilsa had with Isaac were cut off when Esten pushed a few buttons and Ilsa automatically said "Goliath turret defenses online."

"I'm sorry about that captain, I guess we need to rewire so that I don't need to say that every time, or what do you think Esten?" Illa directed the comment towards Esten, who sighed and answered her as he continued to turn everything on.

"Whenever I get the time I promise to do some rewiring on the system."

Isaac unsheathed his weapons from their holders on his back and on his leg and placed them on the table close by.

"So, do we have any new contracts in, Ilsa?"

"Scanning for relevant content... Scanning... Scanning... Sir, you have one contract sent by the United Aerospace Corporation of planet Terra" She answered, and a screen flickered to life in front of them, showing the message from the UAC.

"So, what will our first mission be Isaac?" Twilight stepped forward, looking
enthusiastic. Before Isaac could answer, his communication radio bleeped.

"Isaac! We're under attack! Esten was right!" Applejacks voice shouted to him through the radio. "They're too many! We need to leave, NOW!"

"Esten, get the ship running, I'll get the girls! Ilsa, open fire at the attackers!"

"Yes captain." She answered, and the muffled sound of the defence turrets gunfire were heard from outside as she opened fire.

Isaac grabbed his plasma rifle and ran towards the ships entry hatch. Rainbow dash and
Applejack cowered inside the ships opening, poking their heads out to return fire at the attacking thugs.

Isaac opened fire at the enemies as he reached the opening, the blue plasma orbs shooting from his rifle flew through the air and hit one of the attackers in the face. He let out a howl of pain as the plasma melted his face into an unrecognisable bloody, gooey mess. His limp body fell down on the ground and his comrades scurried to find cover.

Isaac took this opportunity to contact Esten on his communicator.

"There's a lot of them, how long 'till you can get her flying?"

"Give me a minute, gotta wait for the start up sequence."

Isaac sighed and open fire again, Rainbow and Applejack followed suit, the red lazer rounds flying towards the attackers. Rainbow dash went back behind the cover of the large door frame, she reached down to her waist and held up a grenade that she got out from a pouch on her belt.

"Fire in the hole!" She stepped out of cover, moving across the opening and threw the grenade and jump to cover on the other side. The grenade exploded sending heated shards of shrapnel , and a shower of debree raining down on them. The thugs inside the blast radius were either blown to pieces, torn apart by shrapnel, or thrown through the air by the power of the blast.

"Lift off captain! Strap yourselves in!" Estens voice came through the communicator, the ships entry hatch closed and the ship shook as the engines went to maximum speed. Before they knew it the ship was in orbit, quickly flying away from the Sander trading docks.
Once Esten had gotten The Nordin stable the gang sat down in the meeting hall.

"That went smooth." Isaac sighed and turned on a big screen, the contract from the UAC once again showing on it.

"There, this is our first assignment. The UAC is a big corporation from Earth. And they have a mining facility in the Myrath asteroid field, which is where we are heading."

Rainbow dash was fiddling with her chair, but the others were listening and looked interested.

"So what are we doing? Defending people, killing people?" Twilight leaned forward and smiled.

"It's not that simple, it's simpler actually. The workers have stopped answering on the communications. We are going to go in, and find out why they are not answering. We are also to go into the computer mainframe and download all data and return it to the UAC."

Spike cleared his throat and were rubbing his palms together. "Why do they want the data back?"

Isaac smirked, Spike was about to learn one of the many lessons all of them had to learn.

"THAT was your first mistake Spike, we don't ask questions, we do what it says in the contract and get paid. If someone want something done we don't ask why. We don't see or hear anything, because we don't get paid to see and hear, all right?"

Spike nodded. "All right Cap'n."

…

The small landing ship that Isaac and his crew were sitting in were slowly making its way through the asteroid field toward the UAC mining facility. If they collided with any of the asteroids around them the explosion would create a domino effect, which in turn would turn the whole asteroid field into fireworks.The result of that would be anything but lethal to them, so Isaac did his best to navigate them safely through this "minefield".

Isaac turned around and spoke to the crew sitting in the seats behind him. "Get ready, ten minutes 'till we're in the hangar!" He turned back to the control board, keeping the ship steady.

" Esten? "

He contacted the rodian over the communicator, he had agreed to stay with them, to take care of The Nordin while the group were out on missions.

"Yes captain?" Came his voice in reply.

"I want you on the communicator through this whole thing. You’re getting the schematics, so you'll have to monitor our movement and point us to the right direction once we're inside."

"Understood, I'll start to scan the schematics right now, if I do it right I might find the data center before you're even in there."

Spike were sitting in his seat, quiet. He was trying to keep his cool, he was nervous, the idea of not knowing what were ahead of them inside the mining facility scared him. There could be anything, some disease killing the workers, raiders trying to cash in on the stuff they've dug up and will attack anyone going into the facility.

"Are you all right back there?" He looked up as he heard Isaacs voice, he wasn't looking back at him but somehow he could feel that Spike wasn't at ease.

"Just nervous, is all" he answered honestly.

"You'll get used to it soon enough, I feel the same way, but for me it's more of a thrill because I'm about to get into action."

Spike chuckled, it was easy for him to say. He must have been on a hundred missions like this.

"I sure hope so." Spike answered, shifting his feet.

A blue light started to flash above Isaacs head, in response to this he turned down the ships throttle, pressed a few buttons, making the landing stands go out.

" We're landing in T minus five, get ready ladies!" He informed his crew.

the ship slowed down as it entered through the force field that protected the hangar of the UAC mining facility. Their ship shook as it landed on the hangar floor, coming to a complete stop.

"All right, before we go in, Esten has a surprise for you, hold your rifles in a tight grip and turn the safety off."

The girls and Spike looked at each other, maybe this was some sort of "welcome to the business" thing? They did as he said though, and Twilight was the first one to get her surprise.

"Blaster rifle online, user: Twilight " The voice came from the rifle itself, and it was the same with the others weaponry:

"User: Rarity."

"User: Spike."

"User: Applejack."

"User: Rainbow dash."

"User: Fluttershy."

"User: Pinkie pie."

And lastly came a voice from Isaacs own gun. This was a dark male voice.

"UAC plasma rifle online, user: Stingray."

Isaac smirked, they were ready, more ready than they knew.

"All right, our mission objectives are: Find the data room and download all the files and contact workers, then get back to the landing craft. Get in, find the workers, get the data and get back out . Ready?"

"Yes sir!" They all answered as one.

"All right lets go!"

…

The halls in the facility were dark, even though there were plenty of lights they were not strong enough to illuminate all the dark corners. The group walked slowly and carefully through the hallways, the flash-lights on their weapons lighting up their path even more than the lights in the ceiling. they were all edgy, not even Isaac could shake the feeling that there were something in the shadows, just waiting to jump out at them.

"If you follow the hallway to the left you will come to a big room that has the data central in it. Just make sure to be careful, there are many doorways leading in and out of that room." Esten guided the group through the abandoned facility over the communicator.

"Understood" Isaac answered and kept moving carefully through the dark passageways.

The thing that got under his and his crews skin the most were that they hadn't seen any bodies at all. Plenty of bloodstains on the walls and floors, but no bodies. It was like the corpses had just disappeared, something was very wrong.

"T-this place is really creeping me out!" Fluttershy whined and looked around, holding her blast cannon in a tight grip, she was shaking, clearly distressed and scared by the dark empty halls."Can we please hurry up and get out of here?"

"Don't worry Fluttershy." Twilight reassured her as she aimed her rifle at one
of the corners, illuminating it with the flashlight attached to the rifle, revealing the metal walls. "We will be out before we even know it."

They came into the data central room, the computer screens covering the walls, casting their dim light on the floor.

"We are doing to do this job properly, we're not going to do it quick just because we’re freaked out. The better we do our job, the bigger chance that they keep give us work. Rarity, get working on downloading those files. Twilight, you and me will guard her. Spike, Pinkie, Applejack, Rainbow dash, you guard the entrances."

They all rushed to their positions, growing more and more weary as the shadows around them seemed to close in on them. Rarity were clicking away on the computer panel, hacking into the data mainframe.

"It will just be a minute and then those files are as good as ours Darling." She exclaimed and let out a squeal as the panel let out a bleeping sound, telling her that she had gotten into the system. She took out a portable storage device and plugged it into the panel.

"Just give me a minute darlings and we'll be on our way."

Twilight looked at Isaac, thinking about how to start a conversation. "How did you get that mechanic eye?"

He turned his head and looked at her for a second and then turned back, looking out the doorway.

"Got my eye shot out when I was younger and I have used much of my earned credits since then to upgrade it."

Twilight waited for more, but Isaac stayed quiet. "Uhm... No details?" She asked, giving him a nervous smile, even though he wasn't looking at her.

"What kind of details do you want?"

“Well..." She couldn’t really figure out a good question now that she had a chance to get it answered ."How was it, getting a new eye?"

Isaac slowly shone his light on the walls and floor of the dark room as he got an answer together in his head.

"It was horrible losing half my sight. I can imagine that it was close to the feeling of loosing a leg or an arm. But the operation that gave me this mechanic eye went quick and easy, it was expensive but worth every credit. The first version only restored my sight, but the upgrades I currently have allows me to see heat signatures and night vision."

"Night vision?" Twilight asked, now asking more questions just because she could. "Then why do you have the flashlight on?"

"I do have the night vision on now, but there are some equipment and creatures
that can only be seen with heat signatures when hiding in the dark. The flashlight actually illuminates any enemies hiding in the dark, so I'm just doing extra effort, plus the next upgrade I'm going to pay is to be able to see both heat signatures and night vision at the same time."

"All done!" Rarity said, putting her storage device back into her backpack.

"All right gang, lets get back to-"

Isaac were interrupted by Rainbow dash opening fire and letting out a shout. "CONTACT!"

Pinkie pie ran to her side and opened fire as well.

" TWITCHA-TWITCH! THERE IS SOMETHING THERE!" She screamed, her voice sounding of sheer terror.

The creature that they were shooting at jumped over them, knocking over Spike as it landed behind them.

"Back to the ship! Go!" Isaac let his plasma rifle rip.

The creature let out a howl as the plasma hit one of its arms. It looked like nothing they had ever seen before. The closest resemblance would be a deformed human giant, with long thin arms with large claws on the end of the fingertips. The face had barely any features beside six small black eyes It were crawling on all fours but when it stood up on its legs after getting hit by Isaacs rifle it looked like it were close to two meters tall.

A sudden shot that came from Fluttershys blast cannon splattered the monsters brain on the wall behind it and it fell down limply on the floor.

"Run!" Spike got up and grabbed his rifle, which had fallen onto the floor beside him, and then they all started to run back through the corridors, trying to find their way back to the hangar.

"Esten! Have you seen anything like this before?" Isaac screamed over the communicator as he quickly turned around a corner.

"No! what the hell are those things?"

"I don’t know, but we are getting the hell out of here!"

Another one of the creatures lunged at the from a room they ran past. Spike took
his lazer rifle and shot at it, his blue lazer shots giving the creature immediate burn wounds, causing it to hurl backwards in pain, emitting a loud scream.

As they got to the hangar door, they all stopped dead in their tracks, on the other side of the hallway were another creature, it looked like the ones they had already encountered but it was big enough to fill the whole width and height of the hallway. This creature had eyes that almost seemed to glow red in the darkness and large razor sharp fangs.

"Holy shit!"

Isaac didn't turn his head from the creature, but he spoke quietly to the girls and Spike.
"Go to the ship, I'll lure him away"

Spike gave him a shocked look.

"But-"

"NOW!"

Fluttershy screamed and ran into the hangar followed by the rest of the crew. Isaac aimed his rifle at the monster.

"Come get me, fuck face!" The creature let out a roar and charged at him. He opened fire and the hangar door closed. Leaving the rest of the crew with the muffled sounds of plasma shots and the monsters roars.

Suddenly the door made a loud clanking noise as it locked itself and a robot voice echoed through the hangar."Warning! Hangar pressure change in progress!"

Spike started to feel dizzy, panicked he contacted Esten on the communicator.

"Esten, what's happening!?"

" The hangar is changing pressure, damn! The pressure will cause you to black out, hold on! Try to stay with me!"

Spikes head was spinning, and the others groaned as they one by one fell to the floor, unconscious.

"M...must stay awake! must...stay..awake..." The pounding in his head because too much, and he fell to the floor.

…

Spike didn't know how long he had been out cold, but once he woke up he slowly remembered what had happened. He groaned and rubbed his forehead, the pain was still there but it was fading. He sat up and looked around, the girls bodies laying around him on the floor. he crawled over to Twilight and started to shake her.

"Come on Twilight, wake up!" He turned on his communicator, contacting Esten. "Esten! You there? How long were we out?"

Twilight opened her eyes and sat up. "uhh... Spike? What-"

She were cut off by Spike who got an answer from Esten as he ran over to Fluttershy to wake her up as well.

"Spike! Thank goodness you're awake! you have been out for two hours!"

Spike kept talking to Esten as he woke up the other girls. " Damn! I want you to scan the facility for life forms, we have to get Isaac out of here! He might still be alive!"

Fluttershy sat up, looking over at Twilight. " Spike is right, we can't leave Isaac behind, dead or alive!"

"And I didn't plan to either." Twilight answered, standing up.

"Spike!" Estens voice came through the communicator again. "I can see lifeforms moving all over the facility, oh why couldn’t I see this before!? Would’ve saved us so much trouble!" He sounded distressed but continued. “I can't determine which of them is Isaac, but his radio lost contact an hour ago, I can help you get to where he last were when his radio worked, but from there, you're on your own!"

Spike frowned, the thought of those creatures harming their leader and friend filled him with anger and determination. He were actually shaking with rage, and he were showing his fangs. He were going to save Isaac, even if it were the last thing he did alive! He felt Twilight put her hand on his shoulder, making him turn around.

"Don't worry Spike, we'll find him. And we'll show those creatures who the fuck they're dealing with!"

Spike nodded, he held up his flamethrower and pressed the safety button, making a small flame on the front light up.

"Tonight is the night bitches die! Let's get them girls!"

" YEAH!" All of the ponies voices answered simultaneously.

…

They moved as one unit through the hangar door, Esten speaking with them as they moved down the hall.

"He went down this hallway you're in now and he moved towards the storage areas!"

As they moved through the hall they came across the corpse of the large monster that had chased after Isaac after he taunted it. It was dead, and were laying face down on the metallic floor. It's blood and brain were stained on the walls and floor. Isaac had either gotten a lucky shot or put himself in immense danger moving in close to get such a clear shot.

"Allright girls, I'll go first along with Fluttershy." Spike started to explain how they were going to move through the facility in their search for their friend and leader.

"Applejack, Rarity, you follow behind us giving extra firepower to the front. If needed you'll assist Rainbow dash and Pinkie pie behind you, watching our backs, allright?"

They nodded. " yes! lets do this!"

The floor shook slightly as they jogged through the dark halls. The sound drew the attention of the alien creatures, who didn't take long to show up. As the first creature came towards them, Spike and Fluttershy kneeled down and opened fire. The flames from Spikes flamethrower engulfed the creature, making it let out a high pitched squeal. The shotgun lazer blasts that were provided by Fluttershy caused the creature to stagger backwards as it flailed its arms, attempting to put the flames out. And lastly, by some well aimed shots from Applejack and Rarity the creature fell down dead before them, the fading flames scorching the last of its unburned flesh.

They kept going, finishing off the creatures that came in their way. Spike almost got hit as one of the monsters swung its claws at him, but at the last moment he actually fell backwards and Fluttershy got a clear shot at it, her blaster cannon turning the monsters face into a blood filled hollow.

They searched room after room, but none of them had Isaac in it. They started to get more and more exhausted and frustrated after each room. But soon they found a trail of creature corpses. Figuring that Isaac had been the one killing them they followed the trail, and after a while they came to a big door with a sign.

"Ore storage 501"

The door had large bloodstains on it, one of them looking like a handprint, this was it. They all readied their weapons and stepped forward, the door opening with a slow "Psssssh" noise.

Spike froze in the middle of his step at the sight before him. "Fuck me..."

...

Isaac looked around, where was he? Was this a forest? The trees stood dense around him, yes it was a forest, but how did he get here? As he looked around he heard a faint voice that seemed to be calling his name.

"Isaac..."

The voice came from a small dirt trail, leading into the forest. He frowned and started to follow the voice down the dirt path. The further he moved down the path the farther away the voice seemed to be. He started to run, hellbent on catching up with it. Suddenly he ran out of the forest into a small secluded cove. A tiny hidden beach with snow white sand.

He was on his home planet, terra. He felt a warmth inside, accompanied with strong happiness. He smiled and waded out into the water. The waves splashed on his legs, sending small droplets of gleaming cooling water onto his face and body. Finally, he was home. He let out a sigh, and fell forward into the water. He felt complete as he slowly sunk deeper and deeper into the cold dark water. finally, he was home.

" Isaac!" Spikes voice cut through his head like it were a loud screech.

Isaac groaned and opened his eyes. Before him were Spikes worried face, and also Fluttershys. She had a stern look on her face and were tending to the wounds on his chest, leg and stomach.

"I knew..." He started, with a cough and another groan of pain. "...That you wouldn't leave me behind, but I were afraid that you wouldn't get here in time."

Rainbow dash, Pinkie pie, Applejack and Rarity were standing at the door, guarding it in case the creatures found them.

" We wouldn't leave our leader to die just like that!" Twilight kneeled down next to Spike and smiled. "Once Fluttershy has taken care of your wounds we'll get you out of here"

Spike looked at Isaac, his face painted with worry. "What happened to you Isaac?"

Isaac coughed again, and looked back at him. He did his best to explain, but his head was pounding.

"I... I ran back through the halls, with that thing after me. I tried to figure out a way to kill it, but it caught up to me and grabbed me. It was going to eat me and opened it's mouth to bite down on my head. But I grabbed my shotgun and pushed it into his mouth and blew its brains out. It fell to the floor, still holding me in its hand, but I freed myself of its grip. The rest is a bit blurry but I remember that I got surrounded and went down the corridor leading to this room. I got many of them, but sadly they chased me in here. I defended myself well, but after I killed the last one at the time, all my plasma round had run out and I was badly wounded..."

He coughed again and let out a scream, that he muffled with his hand, as Fluttershy tightened the bandages around his chest.

"Argh! shit! I only have one shotgun shell left, and I was just waiting for more of them to find me, but then everything went black..."

Twilight looked around at the dead bodies of all the monsters Isaac had killed on the floor. She shuddered, she knew that Isaac weren't telling them everything. She understood, she could almost imagine the fear and paranoia he must have felt, just waiting for the next creature to find him.

"I'm done!" Fluttershy stood up and turned around, reloading her blast cannon.

Spike and Twilight helped him up on his feet, and Spike wrapped Isaacs arm around his shoulder. "I got him, now let’s get the hell out of here!"

...

Their journey back to the hangar was slow and just as horrifying as their search for isaac, the monsters were everywhere, they could not stop anywhere without the risk of being surrounded from every hallway, so they had to keep on going. Fluttershy, Applejack and Rarity were watching the front, while Rainbow dash, Twilight and Pinkie pie watched their rear. Spike had some difficulty keeping Isaac on his feet, which a few times resulted in both of them falling to the floor. The fifth time this happened, Isaac told spike to grab his shirts collar and drag him over the floor so that he could shoot at the monsters behind them along with the others.

The tall thin horrible monsters let out high pitched screams and roars when they charged the group. The girls and Isaac opened fire, the blasts echoing loudly in the halls along with the creatures screams, causing their ears to ring.

Twilight was thrown to the floor by one of the monsters that clawed at her. The monsters claws had been stopped by her rifle but the power of the hit caused her to fly a few meters across the floor.

Pinkie pie ducked as the monster tried to hit her aswell and when it lost its balance when missing her she took the opportunity to shoot it in the knee. The shot severed the lower leg from the knee and caused the creature to fall face down on the metallic floor, which allowed Pinkie and Rainbow dash to get clear shots at its head.

They could see the hangar door in the distance, which made them even more determined.

"Not far no y'all!" Applejack stated, jumping to the side to avoid a monster slashing at he, she then opened fire at it, making it run away down a hallway, howling in pain.

When they got through the hangar doors, Applejack and Rainbow dash helped spike carry Isaac to the landing ship. When they had gotten him inside and had strapped him into one of the seats, Rainbow dash sat down in the cockpit and took control of the ship.

"Esten are you there?" She asked into the communicator, and Esten answered almost immideately.

"I'm here, did you find him?"

"He's alive, and we have the data with us. Tell the UAC that their mining operation has been overrun, no survivors. We're coming back to The Nordin ASAP!"