Suddenly my senses were absolutely flooded with the world around me, the humming of the ship reached my ears, the coldness of the floor reached the pads on my fingers, and my eyes shot open to take in the environment around me, Until suddenly the voice i recognize as Winter reached my ears. " Oh thank god your awake! Please get up! We ran out of time a minute and a half ago!" while i was dazed for a second i quickly registered what she meant, all options had been exhausted and she now needed my help to save our asses.

" what the hell is going on? As far as i can tell we're in a broken ass space ship that's falling apart, we are falling towards a populated planet and we need to get the fuck off. That about right?" She was silent for a few moments, probably surprised at how much i knew about what was going on and how prepared i was to act, which in all honesty surprised me to, guess there's more that changed about me than just body huh? Anyways after apparently recovering from her state of shock, Winter began to explain the situation.

"basically I've exhausted all of my options, I may not know how you got here or who you are, but somehow a box addressed to you ended up in the storage room on the same route to the escape pods, just a minor detour. The ship is in ruins, we are currently on a collision course with an unpopulated section of land, a desert. The maneuvering thrusters took care of that. After you get your gear and salvage as much as you can carry from the supply room you will grab my AI chip from one of the panels, after that both of us will head towards the escape pod, load up, and launch. I will do my best to maneuver us as close as possible to the green section of land, someplace filled with horses that apparently are intelligent.

"ok than, point me where i need to go, we haven't the time to lose." suddenly i was interrupted as the ship was rocked by an explosion that made itself present on the exterior hull, the power flickered and the console where winter had appeared was dark. "Winter? You still there!?" I called in a panicked voice. A door on the other side of the room dinged and opened, guess that means yes. Not wasting anymore time i started moving towards the door, though i was having difficulty because of the new legs.

As i walked into the hallway winters voice made itself heard again, "sorry about that! power-failures all over the ship have made it difficult for me to move about, that last explosion cut off my access to several rooms, it also took out 3 out of the few remaining thrusters."

Well shit! gotta hurry, picking up the pace and using the wall for balance i continued through the hallways of the ship, eventually i came up to a door marked storage bay 16. with a ding the door panel glowed a bright green, and the metal door slid open.

Rifles lined a few walls, a few packs and boxes. and one of them looked, familiar, i couldn't for the life of me explain why, but i could swear Ive seen it somewhere before. All i could tell is it has a note attached to it, fuck it, its gonna bug me for the rest of my life if i don't read it. I moved up to the box and took the note in my paw and began to read out-loud.

"Give this box to the white fox" huh, guess this is the box Winter was talking about. I lifted the lid of the box slowly, and when i saw what was inside my jaw dropped. There was a Black and blue skintight suit with an accompanying helmet, A long blue scarf which even with it tied around my neck it would reach the almost to the ground, A small computer tablet that can be strapped to your arm, an earpiece that was designed for an fox ear, and a small oxygen tank to hook up to the helmet.

"Well than, guess i better suit up than." Wasting no time, mainly because even though i got fur its still a bit drafty just letting it all hang, oh yeah and the whole falling from the sky bit too. I slip into the suit and zip it up, I tie the scarf around my neck and wouldn't ya know it, i was right! i swear this thing just barely doesn't drag across the flooring. I strap the CT to my left arm and pull it tight, and last but not least i put in the earpiece and slid on the helmet. The second the suit had a seal a HUD lit up on the visor, an oxygen readout, a power readout, must be for the Wrist Computer, and last but not least, is that a shield? holy crap, i got a shield! it must be similar to that of the Master Chief's Shield because its giving the same readout. its also got a slot for an ammo readout for whatever weapon im carrying.

"holy crap this gear is aweso-"

The ship lurched and sent my flying to the floor, a roar could now be heard on the exterior of the ship, we must have just hit the atmosphere. " Winter! how do i get to you? I'm not leaving you here!"

While her voice seemed like it was behind a veil of static i could still make it out " Go to the Holopanel by the door where you came in, Ive already sorted myself into the AI chip there. all you gotta do is pull it, and than slide it into your Wrist Pad, ill than be on your person. After that arm yourself, your suit has a space for 1 pistol and 1 MA5B assault rifle, grab them and a few clips for each, there should be an ammo bag to your left" and sure enough there was a bag there filled with clips for both the pistol and the rifle. i slung the bag over my shoulder and moved on to grab the weapons specified. Afterwords i moved to the holopanel and pulled the chip, than i pushed it into the slot on the Wrist-pad and sure enough her voice filled my ears. "Alright fluffball, we just ran out of time, now that you've gathered everything you can carry you need to RUN! ill mark the way-points on your HUD as we go but that roar your hearing is the atmosphere, meaning we are falling, if we don't launch ASAP we wont survive the landing. don't take time to answer me just GO!"

As she finished her sentence the first way-point lit up on my HUD and i LAUNCHED myself towards it, moving faster than i ever thought possible. The way-point led me to a junction where the way-point moved itself to what appeared to be the escape pod bay. Launching myself through the hallway one of the doors slid open and winter's voice filled my ears again. "GO! through there! slot my chip into the dashboard and strap yourself in, ill handle it from there!"

I quickly slid into the pilot seat and inserted the AI chip into the slot in the dashboard, the Second my harness was fastened i felt the pod LAUNCH forwards at high speeds. Almost immediately after we cleared the Arctic-Freezer we were absolutely bombarded by the fiery inferno that is re-entry, the view-screen was impossible to see out of because of all the red that filled it. "Winter! are you sure you can fly this thing?"

"Of course im sure! don't worry, your just feeling the turbulence, you should be getting a visual on the landing site in a few moments" And sure enough, just moments after being told so, the view-screen cleared up and i was greeted with what looked like a badlands area.

"well shit, that's not an ideal place, especially for an Arctic Fox. i mean its literally the opposite of where im conditioned to be."

"well it could be worse." Winter spoke up "we could have ended up in the ocean for all i knew." wait what? that was seriously something that could have happened? well no point arguing now. As we sped towards the ground i suddenly felt the pod begin to decelerate, than i felt a jerking motion, like if you slam on the brakes in a fast moving car. I brace my arms on the dashboard in-front of me and close my eyes, waiting for the loud bang that would come with a crash-landing. and sure enough, i heard an ridiculously loud KERBLAM, and darkness immediately followed.

Author's Note

That is the end of chapter 4! now we're finally getting started, prepare for craziness as frosty moves across the badlands towards Equestria! All that and more on the next chapter of Frosty-Fox's Equestrian Adventure