Extraequestrian Xenomorph

A slight breeze of air swept past Dash, as the creature scuttled through the walls.

*Scuttle Scuttle*

"Twilight, I'm picking up some movement on the tracker here, I think it might be alive..." Dash said worryingly into the mic built into her helmet.

A shadow could be seen through the helmet's rear camera for a fraction of a second, displayed against the walls of the hollow cavern, as the creature scuttled from rock to rock.

"Hey, Did you guys see that? There was something there, and it wasn't Dashie!" Pinkie said back at the Nostromo, watching the situation unfurl through the helmet's cameras.

Twilight spoke into her mic. "Dash, there was something I saw behind you through your rear camera, I think it's hiding behind one of those rocks over there, over."

"Oh no, Twilight, I am not checking that out. I'm getting out of here. For god's sake I just help pilot the ship, I shouldn't be out here dealing with bucking aliens!"

"Sorry, Rainbow, but you're under contract, over."

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extraequestrian a. 1. a word used to describe anything not from or pertaining to Equestria.

xenomorph n. 1. the name given by the Weyland-Yutani corporation to the hostile alien life forms that reside on LV-426.

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"Y'all see, Mother's been programmed to stop tha ship, if it picks up certain things." Applejack explained.

"And it looks like Mother has gone and picked ap a transmission from an uncharted planet, which it's our job to explore."

"Wait wait wait." said Rainbow quickly.

"This is a commercial ship. Not an exploratory vessel. It is not our job to take care of this, we should just mark the point of origin and continue on our merry way back to Earth."

Vinyl then let out a rude yawn, in her typical fashion.

"Oh yeah, she's right. Why don't we all go back to sleep in our naked prisons."

Rainbow shot Vinyl a disapproving glare, not liking to be interrupted.

"Oh what. I was agreeing with you! Besides, I'm just an engineer. I'm not trained to do this kinda stuff."

"None of us are! We shouldn't have to go out there hunting for some freaky-deaky aliens!" Pinkie exclaimed.

"Oh, um, it sounds really dangerous... I'm not sure if I want to go..." Fluttershy said quietly.

"Listen up, y'all agreed to this when ya signed that darned contract! It's our job no matter the training to go investigate!" Applejack shouted, slamming a hoof on the table and making Fluttershy jump slightly.

"Besides, it's just a transmission. We don't need to go an' frighten everyponeh by making assumptions it's an extraequestrian life form! What if it's an S.O.S. signal?"

"Oh yeah, sure," Rainbow said sarcastically, "just some random pony in the middle of nowhere on an uncharted planet. Ok, sure."

"It's still a possibility! Tha point is, Rainbow, that it's our job to check it out! If you don't go, ya lose all your shares! No money!"

"We settled that? Good, cuz we're goin' in."

~

A large avalanche of dust and debris swept over the then unnamed LV-426 as the Nostromo and it crew gently set down on the surface of the planet. It was decided that Twilight, Vinyl, Fluttershy, and Rarity would stay behind on the ship, while Dash, Pinkie, and Applejack would go out to explore the planet, searching for the origin of the signal.

"Is it working Twi? Can ya see though tha helmet?" asked Applejack.

They all had front and rear view cameras built into their helmets, and mics built into the interior, for easy communication.

"Nice and clear, Applejack, over." Twilight responded from the interior of the Nostromo with her headset.

The hatch at the back of the ship opened up, greeting the 3 travelers with a bombardment of gasses and speckles of silicon, and the gritting noises of the silicon among other things colliding with the material that made up the interior of the ship.

"Alright Dashie, better get a move on!" exclaimed Pinkie.

The three stepped out of the ship, and onto the rocky floor of LV-426.

"Alright, I think that large dome structure is what we're going for, over." Twilight said to Applejack through the headset.

"Copy that."

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*Drip, drop*

As they entered the large, hollow structure, this was the noise that was heard, as drops of fluid slowly drizzled down to puddles below.

"Alright y'all," said Applejack to the other two, "I think we should all split ap to check this here place out."

"Copy that, AJ." said Dash.

"Okie Dokie Lokie!" said Pinkie.

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"Hm? What's this?" said Rainbow, as she bent to pick up an object on the ground.

"Dash, could you hold that closer to the camera?" asked Twilight from the Nostromo.

Dash held the curved object next to her helmet, which she knew was the vague location of the front camera as well.

Twilight then slid her headset down her neck and called to Rarity.

"Rarity!"

"Oh, yes darling? Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Can you find anything peculiar or maybe try and make out this object Dash is holding next to the screen?"

Rarity squinted a bit, and got closer to the screen, and then picked up the headset to talk to Dash.

"Uh, could you just rotate that just a tad?"

Dash then rotated the object slightly, and Rarity then had some idea of what it was.

"Oh dear . . . "

"I think what we have here is a rib bone, but is seems to be curved in such a peculiar manner, as if something had pushed it outward from inside the chest without snapping it."

"EUGH!" Rainbow exclaims, then quickly drops the rib.

Twilight took the headset from Rarity and put it back on her head, wanting to know the situation.

"What the hell is . . . " went Rainbow, before Twilight even had time for questions.

Rainbow looked ahead to see the ground is littered with curved rib bones; they looked to be fossilized.

"Twilight am I clear to go? I wanna get the hell outta here."

"Not yet Rainbow, we still need to find the source of the signal, and the crew members still on the ship are working on deciphering it, over." Twilight said.

"For now, keep heading deeper into the cave. If there is anything there still alive, the tracker you currently hold in your hands should pick it up for you nice and easy, over."

"Copy that, Twilight," Rainbow said annoyingly, and then lets out a sigh.

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"Rainbow? Come in Dash!" Twilight said into the headset.

"Yes yes, I'm here, what do you need, Twi."

"We have managed to decipher part of the signal."

"And? What did you find?"

"We think . . . " Twilight trailed off.

"We think it might be some kind of warning."