Alien vs Predator: Equestria
Inside
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Rainbow kept swinging her head back and forth as her heart raced. She was never one to frighten easy, but being inside of this dark thing was giving her the creeps. She felt trapped since they were surrounded on all sides by metal inside of a hallway not more than nine feet tall. To her side, she saw Applejack was just as nervous as she was. She tried to give a smirk to hide her own uneasiness, "Scared of this place AJ?"
Applejack looked over to her, not even trying to hide the fear she had, "Ah'm a little scared. This place is weird. Don't try an' tell me y'all ain't nervous."
rainbows face quirked a little, "O-of course I'm not scared of this thing. This is nothing."
The three guards walked in tight formation as they led the group down the corridor. Coming up to the end of their hallway, they stopped and glanced down the other walkway, unsure which way to go. Wind turned back to Doc, "So which way are we going now?"
Doc stepped forward and looked at his choices, "Well, I'm not sure exactly where these lead. Going down without remembering where we are supposed to go back means we could get lost inside of here."
"Don't worry, I've already thought of that." Twilight said with a smile, "I have been dropping small bits of magic as we've been walking. When we need to leave..." her horn then gave off a small flash. Immediately the path behind them had a trail of small glowing purple orbs on the ground, "I can activate these to light the way back."
Breaker was impressed by the young unicorn, although he knew she was related to his captain Shining Armor, which meant she should be talented in magic. to his surprise, she deactivated the light trail, "Why did you do that?"
Twilight gave an apologetic look, "Sorry, but the magic will only last about thirty minutes while active. I have to leave it idle until we really need it."
"As long as we can find a way back I'm fine with that." Swift answered.
Rainbow glanced down the path to the right and noticed a small glowing object on the wall. "what is that thing?" walking over to it, she noticed it looked like a large button similar to the switch on a lamp. Reaching up, she moved her hoof towards it.
Doc turned and saw the cyan Pegasus moving towards the item on the wall, "Wait, don't!"
rainbows hoof pushed down on the button. Suddenly, the ceiling was faintly lit up by a line of lights.
Dazed, the hunter began to slowly stir. His body was stiff since it had been in stasis for the time that he and his crew were returning to their planet. As he sat up, he was surprised to see that the glass that made up his sleep tube had been broken, meaning that the sleeping gas had been disrupted, causing him to awaken early from what was normally scheduled.
Shoving the remaining glass lid that surrounded him, the predator stepped onto the ground. Despite the room eing void of light, the helmets vision switched from its thermal sight to night, giving a light blue tint to his view. Through his helmet he saw that there was a lot of damage throughout; computer monitors were smashed, the walls were dented up and cracked, and the flooring was all bent and misshaped.
Surprised by everything, the hunter lifted its right arm up towards its face so it could type onto the metal bracelet to check the ships security systems. After a moment, the scanners showed that the hull of the ship inside of the main control room was breached, causing the autopilot to take over and steer the ship off course. Unfortunately, something malfunctioned inside of the safety landing system which caused the ship to not be able to land properly.
Disappointed, he began to use is Location server to find out where they landed. After loading for a few seconds, the small screen told him that it was a small planet that it did not recognize. For this to happen meant their race had never visited it in the past. He then tried to activate his communication signal to notify their home world of their situation. As he tried to do it however, the signal was coming up blank. The only way that would happen is if the transmitter inside of the ships internal system was destroyed. And according to his scanners, the one member of his group that could fix it had been sucked out of the ship during the breach.
They were stuck on this planet.
The hunter sat still for a moment, unsure what to feel. Emotions were something that were stripped from the hearts of the predator kind to not allow feelings compromise what they had to accomplish.
After a few minutes, the hunter glanced over to the other three sleep pods in the room. His allies had not been awakened yet since their glass was undamaged, sealing the sleeping agents inside with them. Deciding it would be best to wake them up, he walks over towards them. Suddenly, the emergency lights flick on above him, Giving off a faint glow for the room. The predator tensed up immediately. He knew that the emergency lights had to be activated manually from one of the switches throughout the ship, meaning something triggered it.
Knowing his crew would be out for another twenty minutes after being opened from the pod, the lone awakened predator decides to leave them sealed to keep anything from getting to them. Knowing that the ship crashed, the cargo that they were delivering could have gotten loose. Activating his cloaking device, the predator leaves the room and disappears down the corridor.
"What are you doing!? Don't touch anything if you don't know what it is!" Doc snapped at the Pegasus.
Rainbow just glared back at him. "Jeez, sorry. How was I supposed to know what was going to happen when-"
"Exactly, you didn't know." Daring said as she trotted passed Rainbow. She didn't even take the time to turn to her as she passed, "It could have been a trap set up, and you just happily just went over and pushed it because it was glowing."
Rainbow wanted to defend herself, but she knew what she did was stupid. She just turned away and walked towards the group. Twilight just shook her head and looked up to the lights that came on. "Do you think this could have attracted anything in here?"
"I don't know." Doc responded, "We should be ready just in case." he then turned to Swift and Wind, "Alright, in case you do have to use those weapons I gave you, be careful. When they go off they will cause a slight ring in your ears from how loud they are."
Wind lifted his hoof to look at the revolver he had. If it was as loud as Doc said, it must have had a pretty good power to it. "Alright, that shouldn't be too bad then. If this can defend me, then I'll deal with some noise."
"Well that's not the problem. These are prototypes, so I still do not have a way to add more rounds inside. You have six shots in there. Once those are gone, the weapon is useless."
Doc then began to walk down the hallway in the front of the group. He hardly went twenty feet when an open door to his right caught his attention. Walking over to it, he saw what looked like a storage room that had a large glass ball in the center that was broken in the side of it. The floor was littered with multiple glass jars that were shattered.
Walking a little closer, he noticed the strange items that were mixed with the glass everywhere. There appeared to be nearly a dozen large, purple eggs.
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