(Delta POV)

“Bye mom! I’ll see you on Friday!” My daughter Apogee called out as she took off with that dick of a father, Jet Stream.

I didn’t bother to say anything as I slammed the door to my trailer shut and made my way to my fridge. Swinging open the door, I grabbed myself a beer, kicking the fridge door closed before jumping onto my bed. I looked around my shitty-ass room as I popped the cap off my beer and took a long, long, very long swig of it. I looked out my window to see the moon was full and the stars were shining bright. ‘Bout the only good thing about living out here. No fucking salesponies, and a damn good view of the night sky.’

Taking another swing of my beer, I rolled onto my side and looked at my room some more. When I did, I was greeted with a painful memory. A photo of me fifteen years ago. I looked so much happier back then, and I had so much potential. I was going to make history, and then that son of a bitch betrayed me and made it big. “Gah! Fucking traitor!!” I screamed out, throwing my bottle away to hear it crash against the wall.

For the last thirty minutes, I tossed and turned in my bed, too frustrated to even try and sleep. “I hate this…I hate him…Why am I even still trying anymore?” No, really, why am I still trying? After I lost my job at EQSA, my chances of making it big and having a good life had gone down the drain. ‘If only I hadn’t let that fucking prick manipulate me that night, then none of this would have happened. I wouldn’t have had to live in this run-down dump. I wouldn’t have to sell scrap parts to keep myself from being evicted. And I wouldn’t have had…Apogee.’

I felt like shit, and my life is shit. What does it take for a mare to catch a break in this world? “Psh. Yeah right. Like asking that is gonna help. Next thing you know, the solution to all my problems is gonna come falling out of the-“

BOOOOOOMMM!!

I was cut off as the ground shook violently and my whole trailer rattled from the shockwaves. “Da fuck?!” I quickly opened my window and stuck my head out to look around for the source of all the commotion. That’s when I saw a small trail of smoke not too far off in the distance. “A meteorite?” I ran to my door and kicked it open as I trotted out to where the meteorite landed. I ran as fast as my legs could take me before unfurling my wings and taking to the sky.

Within a minute, I could see the crash site where the meteorite had landed, only to see it wasn’t a meteorite, but a space capsule. “Ugh, there goes my idea for a tourist attraction. Or selling it to make some bits.” I touched down and carefully made my way over to the space capsule. “I bet this is one of Jet Stream’s. He probably said this place would make the perfect area to test his rockets and shit.” I tried to find his stupid logo for his compony to confirm it’s one of his, then maybe I could call the news saying how he did this on purpose to try and almost kill me. Seriously, had the trajectory been off any more upon reentry, this shit would have landed on my trailer.

While I circled around the capsule, I couldn’t help but take in its design. Despite it being for that asshole, the shape and design was unlike anything I had ever seen. The shape reminded me of a cone, and I could also see the remains of the parachutes that probably didn’t deploy fast enough to prevent the crash from being this serious. “Sure hope nopony was riding inside this thing, otherwise they may be dead.” The design was so sleek and almost slender, but I didn’t find Jet’s logo anywhere. When I moved to the front of the capsule, I did see a logo that had a picture of a dragon with its wings wrapped around the word “Dragon”. What really threw me off was the flag atop of what I guessed was the door. Instead of being the usual flag of Equestria or any other flag I’ve seen in the history books, it was a flag with red and white stripes, and in the upper left corner was a blue rectangle with white stars.

I flared out my wings again and flapped them as I moved over to one of the windows to see what pony was inside. It proved to be pointless as the windows were rather small and tinted to the point where looking inside was impossible. “Probably to prevent too much light in during space travel.”

Seeing I wasn’t getting anywhere just staring at this thing, I quickly flew back to my junkyard to bring over my excavator to haul this thing back to the hanger.

One hour later and I finally managed to hall the damn thing back to my hanger. It would have been less than that if I hadn’t accidentally slammed the thing into a rock I didn’t see, making it detach from the magnet. Thankfully, there wasn’t any damage to it, so meh. I grabbed my crowbar and jammed it into the door, making sure it was in there pretty good. “Let’s pop you open and see what you’ve got for mama.” With any luck, there wasn’t anypony but a training dummy inside, meaning that if I’m quick enough, I can salvage the tech inside before whoever launched this thing can come try and find it. I grabbed the crowbar and started to pry open the door. The thing was shut pretty damn tight. “Fuck! What I’d give to have some earth pony muscles right about now!” After I gave the damn thing another hard push, I heard a hissing sound, a slight breeze of air coming from the door, and stepped back as the crowbar fell to the ground. The door slowly started to slide upwards until it was completely opened. I couldn’t help but smile with satisfaction as I grabbed my flashlight with my wing and turned it on. “Alright, time to see if you were worth the trouble or not.”

Stepping inside, I saw that it was much bigger than the space pods I read about. The walls were a pearly white and I didn’t see much in terms of buttons or knobs, which was rather impressive since you usually see tons of those in any shuttles or escape pod. As I walked around inside, I shined my light around and spotted the seat, which is what really surprised me. The size of the chair looked big enough to fit a minotaur, meaning they might have been the ones who made this thing. But this is odd since, from what I’ve heard, they had no interest in this kind of stuff. “Could that have been a lie so we wouldn’t know about this kind of tech?”

As I was about to try and hop into the seat, my front hoof bumped into something, or more like someone. When I shined my light down, I saw a figure lying face down on the floor. I had to step back to get a better look at the unconscious pilot and saw that it was no minotaur. This thing didn’t have any horns growing out of its head. This thing also has five fingers where minotaurs have four. And its body wasn’t as bulky or large like a minotaur and didn’t have cloven hooves below its legs. “What the fuck kind of creature are you? I’ve never seen anything like you in Equestria.” No sooner did those words leave my muzzle did I finally piece it together: highly advanced space capsule, unknown flag, a species not seen on Equestria. “Holy shit…it’s an alien.”

I was snapped out of my revelation when I heard something similar to a groan. Looking down, I saw the hand of the creature begin to twitch. I just stared in awe as the thing slowly moved its arms under its body and pushed its upper half up. When it did, I was now face to face with a reflection of myself in the creature’s black helmet visor. For what felt like freaking who knows how long, we stared at each other until it slowly tilted its head to the side. Leaving me with the only logical choice any sane pony would do when making first contact with an alien species, I swung my flashlight at its head and knocked it the fuck out.

Author's Note

Delta vee and her home

Apogee and her father Jet Stream

This is what the space capsule and astronaut look like.