Extraequestrian Xenomorph

Special thanks to:

Wishy Washy of Cloudsdale for great suggestions.

Indigo Rave of Cloudsdale for lots of support.

Shivvy of Shivvy for being Shivvy.

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Extraequestrian Xenomorph

Applejack ~ Alive, Nostromo

Twilight ~ Alive, Nostromo

Vinyl ~ Alive, Nostromo

Fluttershy ~ Alive, Nostromo

Rainbow Dash ~ Condition Unknown, LV-426

Pinkie Pie ~ Alive, LV-426

Rarity ~ Alive, LV-426

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"Open ap tha hatch, Twilight, Dash is here and she's got sumthin on 'er face, we gotta get 'er medical attention stat." said Captain Applejack.

Applejack and Pinkie were both standing right outside the Nostromo, holding Dash by her hooves. Pinkie clutched Dash with all her might, afraid she might lose her best friend.

"Wait wait wait Applejack. If we let you bring in Dash, that risks all of our lives. We need to follow standard quarantine procedures." responded Twilight formally.

"What? She can't just let us leave Dashie out here!" Pinkie exclaimed, worried for her friend.

"Listen here, Twilight. I wantcha ta ferget about all yur contracts, protocols, procedures... We're all ponies here; Dash might not live for more than a 24 hour period! Now open ap the hatch, this is a direct order from your captain. Open ap."

"I'm sorry AJ,  but we can't put in jeopardy the whole crew. The answer is negative."

Rarity then walked to the hatch, and pressed the open button, letting in Applejack and Pinkie, along with the infected Rainbow Dash. Twilight, noticing this, threw down her headset down and walked down to the hatches.

"Rarity! We had to follow standard quarantine! Now Rainbow is here on the ship, with something attached to her face! It could be dangerous!" Twilight nearly screamed, getting right up in Rarity's face.

"Oh come now, darling, you weren't really planning on leaving poor Rainbow out there, were you? Besides, it was an order, standard chain of command - " Rarity then emitted a strange sort of whirring noise for a second, then repeated the last four words of her sentence, "- standard chain of command."

Twilight stared at Rarity with a blank expression for a bit, begin a little thrown off by the sudden unusual speech impediment.

"Uhh, Rarity, are you alright?"

"What um, no, yes, I mean um, I'm fine." she said unusually quickly.

"We best be going to the medical room to examine the specimen, then."

Rarity then shot Twilight a faint smile and trotted off quickly, wiping a tad of oddly colored sweat off of her head as she walked away.

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*Bzzzzt*

Went the laser, as it was held in Rarity's trembling hooves, slowly slicing open the outside of Rainbow's helmet. Rarity shuddered as a drop of bizarrely colored sweat slid down the side of her face, only for her to quickly wipe it off with a hoof, and check nervously to make sure nopony had seen it out of the corner of their eye.

*Kerchuck*

Went the helmet, as it was pulled apart, like a suction cup from a window, or an octopus from a rock. Nothing could prepare the six crew members, for the cosmic horror they would witness, as the helmet was removed, and dropped to the floor, revealing the condition of Dash.

Applejack and Rarity's mouths both dropped open simultaneously, Rarity a look of mortified terror, as Applejack slowly muttered to nopony in particular with cold, trembling lips.

"Mother of god..."

What lay on Rainbow's face was a sort of greenish crab looking thing. Eight long tendrils, divided equally among both sides of the symmetrical creature, were clutching to Rainbow's head with impeccable ferocity. The tendrils had 2 joints in them each, like knuckles in a finger, and there where spiky, bony tips on the end of each "finger", for extra grip. A long, green, tail, divided into segments like that of a snake's body was wrapped around Dash's throat, tightening and loosening the grip by however much the creature deemed necessary. The creature had a long, bony spine, that stretched the moist, pulsating skin of the creature to the point where you could see the outline of the spine aswell as the rest of it's bones through the skin.

"It appears to be supplying our dear Rainbow with oxygen, so it looks like Rainbow herself is fine." Rarity said, after visually examining the unique specimen in awe.

Pinkie quickly clung to the glass at the sound of hearing this.

"OhthankgoodnessyouralrightRainbowIthoughtsomethingextraordinalyhorribleandterriblehadhappenedtoyoubutitlookslikeyourok, yay!" Pinkie said quickly in a single breath, relieved that Dash was still ok.

Pinkie, Twilight, and Applejack were all sat on a bench outside of the lab, where they could peer into the lab through a glass wall and watch the procedure.

Applejack picked up a pair of tweezers from the medical tray that sat next to her and carefully held it in two trembling hooves. She inserted one end of the tweezers between a tendril and Dash with much trepidation. She had to be very cautious dealing with an unknown specimen, for one mistake could easily kill Dash in the situation she was in. Applejack clamped the tweezers on the tendril and began to pry it off.

In response, the creature constricted its tail around Dashie's neck, starting to choke her. Applejack quickly removed the tweezers and the tail loosened its grip.

"Well shoot then. How in tarnation are we expected to get this here thing offa Dash?" Applejack questioned.

"I suppose the only logical thing to do at this point would be and try and cut it off, as repulsive and nasty as that may be." sad Rarity.

"It's all part of the job Rarity. If you don't like being dirteh, you shouldn't have signed up for science officer."

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Applejack carefully warmed up a sort of super-powered soldering iron of sorts, ready to cut the creature off of Dash. She gently inched and inched the burning metal closer to a tendril.

Closer.

Closer.

*BZZT*

It pierced through the flesh of the tendril, and at the same time a green goo spurted out from the wound, and onto the floor. It made a very loud and unpleasant noise as it dissolved and fizzled through the floor.

"Ohhh Crap!" Applejack shouted. She threw down her medical gear and slammed on the open button of the door, frantically running out into the hallway and hitting the wall.

"It'll bleed through the hull! That acid'll bleed through tha god damn hull!" Applejack shouted at the others, as a signal to get moving.

The acid had already bled through 1 floor of the ship.