Isaac watched the black void thinking of Nicole as he drifted away from that hell hole. He played the recording again, wanting to hear her voice one last time.
“Isaac, it’s me. I wish I could talk to you. I’m...”
He cut it off. She was gone. He had to except that. Sighing he turned his mind to other matters. Where would he go? If he told anyone about this they would lock him, thinking he’s crazy. He could always change his name, make up a fake story and go to some far off colony. No I cant do that. Keeping it suppressed will drive me mad. Alarm bells went off in his head, he heard something. Isaac turned and saw Nicole sitting next to him.
Her eyes lit up with an unholy fire. She leapt onto him and started tearing into him screaming at such a high pitch his ears started bleeding. Alien glyphs flashed and danced before his eyes as he started screaming completely paralyzed.
“Anomaly detected.” He heard the computer quip.
“Anomalies detected.” He heard it chirp again before falling unconscious. His body alight with pain.
<-ooo->
Twilight Sparkle was plucking books from the shelf for her friend Applejack. Humming softly to herself she quickly picked out three books: Math for Fillies, Basic Literature, and Simple History. She then trotted over to her friend who was waiting nervously at the table.
“There you go AJ, your study books.” She said softly.
“Mighty thanks Twilight. An’ ya’ better not say anything about this here situation.” Applejack said, staring seriously at Twilight. “Pinkie Promise?”
“Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” Twilight giggled covering her eye with a hoof.
“Alrighty then.” I better head back now, It is getting’ awfully late!” Applejack said as she trotted to the door with Twilight beside her.
Applejack opened the door then froze. “Uh Twilight, this looks like a problem.” She said.
Twilight looked outside and saw a shooting star. “What’s so bad about that AJ?” Twilight said confused. She didn’t need an answer as she what was wrong. It was getting bigger and was heading straight towards the ground. She gaped in awe as the blazing object roared over Ponyville shaking the windows with its sheer speed. Then the ground rocked as a tremor shot through the ground answered by a distant explosion. Lights all over town started lighting up, as that explosion was bound to wake everybody up.
“C’mon Twilight! Lets go and see that what that was!” Applejack neighed excitedly galloping off to were the object went. Twilight sighed and chased after her energetic friend. They ran through the streets as scared and excited ponies spilled onto the street chatting about what just happened and looking around nervously. Applejack and Twilight galloped through the outskirts of town before they came across the scene.
Unfortunately the object was within viewing distance of Fluttershy’s house, she won’t be getting over this in a while. But most curiously the object was already clean of fire as a bunch of unicorns they had never seen before were scattered around the crash site. One of them trotted up to Twilight, he had an expensive suit on and looked quite important.
“Greetings and salutations. Miss. Twilight Sparkle and Miss. Applejack, I am Director Hammond of Sector X. I would be happy to all your questions this fine night but as you can see, I am quite busy so let’s keep this short.” The stallion said, authority ringing in his voice.
Twilight was about to ask something but Hammond interrupted. “I am sorry Miss Twilight but I just realized I can’t be bothered with free questions so I will you what I can spare. Sector X is an elite and secretive military operation founded by the princesses to help with fragile situations that cannot be seen by regular ponies. As the Elements of Harmony and the Princesses’ friends you have the privilege to join this investigation. I can’t say the same about the residents of Ponyville but that is just business. Now of the object behind me. It is some of some alien origin and vastly beyond our technical aptitude. We have not yet been able to find out much about either then it is a transportation device. Now I might be able to answer a few questions, if it’s worth my time.”
Applejack glared at the rude over pompous stallion. “How did you...”
“Get here first? Princess Luna is watcher of the night, she sent us the instant she sensed the strange object.” Hammond said, interrupting her.
“Is it...”
“Dangerous? Possibly, we have detected no life forms yet.”
Applejack snorted frustrated that he kept finishing her questions. “Would you...”
“No. That would be a waste of my time. And it is too easy to guess the questions of simpletons.”
Applejack glared at Hammond and pawed at the ground but Twilight stopped her friend, she looked like she really wanted to hurt this Director Hammond. “Applejack, please calm down, that won’t get us anywhere.” She whispered to her
.
Applejack looked at Twilight before shooting a look at Hammond.
Twilight glanced at Applejack before looking at Hammond “Director Hammond may I…”
“Yes you may get a closer look.”
Twilight nodded signalling Applejack to follow her as she trotted over to the alien object.
<-ooo->
Isaac awoke, gasping for air. He looked down at himself and he was uninjured. He looked around and saw various warning messages scrawled on the computer screens. The emergency window shutters were down so that meant he crashed.
“Analysis” he said to the computer.
“Multiple hull damages detected. Engines offline. Multiple anomalies detected. Security lockdown in affect.” The computer chimed.
“Open security footage.”
A screen opened up, letting him gaze through the tiny cameras placed around the outside of the ship. What he found astounded him.
There were ponies, walking around and talking to each other.
Of all places I could crash, I crashed on an uncharted planet full of sentient ponies.
“If there’s a god out there. He must really fucking hate me.” Isaac commented dryly to none in particular. Isaac began to laugh, insane crackling laughter. He rolled around the floor just laughing at the situation.
<-ooo->
“Applejack do you hear that?” Twilight asked her friend. Their ears perked up. They could faintly hear something in there laughing then descending into sobbing. “Who or what is in there?”
“I dunno Twilight. But I don’t like it one bit.”
