The start of something

(Without a good title)

The void, the black sea, endless space. There was nothing so calming as the vast darkness and silence of space. He hated it.

He was standing at the window on the bridge of the research cruiser knowledge. He smirked as he thought of the name. The lack of originality was appalling. Technically he owned half the ship, or at least he had paid half of the costs but his brother had paid the other half and had designed the ship so he had chosen the name without his consent.

His brother loves space, he loves the calm and the silence, he preferred peace and quiet when he was tinkering at his machines and inventions. He himself didn’t like silence at all. In fact it makes his job a lot harder. It is far easier to tell if his research subjects are still alive when they are screaming.

He and his brother were two complete opposites. Yet they could not live without each other. They both were experts in their field of knowledge and together there was no problem they couldn’t solve, no creation that couldn’t be created, no invention that couldn’t be invented.

Of course they bickered all the time and they made each other’s blood boil with anger now and then. But in the end they would always support each other.

And now, after years of research, hard work and a bit of fraud they had gathered enough credits to fund this expedition. The expedition that would bring them what they always wanted. Not fame, credits or glory, like all the others wanted. No, they desired power, they desired the might to reshape the universe, they sought the sword of the stars.

And so he stood there at the window, looking to the world where they finally hoped to find it.
It was a curious world, to say the least. It was one planet with one moon, on itself not very strange where it not for the little sun rotating around the planet. It was for this reason that the world had been hard to find. Finding a world rotating a humongous star in space isn’t very hard. Finding a world with a tiny star rotating it in space is as hard as finding a needle in ink soup.

‘Hey, Casper. Why are you staring out the window like that.’

Casper turned around to face the person that had called him. The man was tall, with a gaunt face and neatly combed blond hair that came halfway his neck. He was wearing an armored suit of which Casper knew it was full of gadgets and gizmos. He was also wearing goggles that covered his eyes. The armored suit was the standard issue Sol Force light armored suit, perfect for the frontlines, combat maneuvers and the Sol Force experimental science labs.

He recognized the man immediately because it was the same man he saw in the mirror every morning. It was his twin brother Jasper. The only way you could tell the difference was by the color of their hair and their clothing. He used to have blonde hair himself, but after a little ‘accident’ in the lab his hair had turned pitch black. As for clothes, he preferred black pants with a black shirt, a long black lab coat, shiny black shoes and to top it all off a nice black tie.

“What are you looking at Jappe?’ Casper asked with a mocking tone in his voice”

“I thought I asked you not to call me that ‘Cassy’.” He answered with as much venom as he could possibly put into one word.

“Tss, no need to get a knot in your lab coat.” He said while he looked out the window. “So there it is. The world were we will finally find It.”

“yes indeed, did the scans show anything worth noting?”

“A few things, but because the sun is rotating the planet the scans aren’t very precise.”

“Are there any intelligent life forms?”

“Yes, the scans also indicate powerful psionic waves emanating from some of the life forms”

“really?, I didn’t expect that.” Jasper said in surprise

“Neither did I, but the most peculiar thing is that some sort of psionic field surrounds the sun and moon and they seem to be controlling their orbit.”

“Are you telling me that there are creatures on that planet who have the ability to move the sun and the moon with their minds!?”

“It seems to be that way.”

“oh my, if I could get hold of such a specimen the possibilities could be endless. I could dissect their brains and…”

“Now hold it, you can go dissect as many brains as you want after we find what we are looking for. The scans show six powerful energy signatures but they are not of psionic origin.”

“You’re right, but we shouldn’t rush this. After all, we have all the time in the universe.”

“That is, as long as our cellular regenerator stays operational.”

“So” Jasper said “enough of this dreaming and vague scans. It is time to get started. 2B-AI bring us to the planet’s surface!” He yelled through the seemingly empty control bridge of the ship.

“Yes sir.”

The voice that answered sounded like it was pulled through a processor, printer and hard drive at the same time. This was probably the case because it was. One of the minor design flaws.

“Sir?”

“Yes, AI.”

“Sir, I know it is not my place to question your orders, but this ship is made for space travels only, landing it on a planet without the necessary specialized infrastructure may cause damage to the ship and we won’t be able to re-enter orbit.”

Casper, whose hair stood on end by just listening to the annoying voice of the AI, yelled:
“You are right about one thing AI, and that is that it indeed isn’t your place to question orders. Now get this ship to the surface before I put you into a toaster!!”
“Yes sire, of course sir, right away sir.”

“You know Casper, I’ve been wondering for a while if B2 may be infected with the ‘Via Damascus Virus’” Jasper said.

“I’ve been thinking the same, but I can’t find any kind of virus. I knew I should have put more effort in the Ai, but thanks to you we had to depart early.” Casper snapped back.

“Hey!, it isn’t my fault the found my laboratory, one of my specimen had escaped and he ranted me out. The little snot.”

“Will all passengers please return to their seats and buckle up; It’s going to be a bumpy ride.” the Ai said.

“I swear to the seven lords of winter that, as soon as we have landed, I will pull out his mainframe and pee on it.” Casper mumbled as he took place in his seat.

All the way down on the surface of the planet, near a little village in probably the largest orchard you’ll ever see, a certain orange pony walked between the trees. And she sight.
It was in the middle of the night and normally she would have been asleep by now but her little sister, Apple bloom, had forgotten one of her favorite toys in the orchard and she had been nagging all evening until Appeljack had finally agreed to go looking for it. The result: two hours of searching without finding the toy.
She looked up to the moon, asking herself what she had done to deserve such a spoiled little sister. She was about to go back to the house when she saw something strange passing the moon. She could not clearly make out what it was, but it was emanating a strange blue glow. She found herself able to say only one thing.
“What in tarnation….”

“What in the name of the directors bald head is happening. 2B-AI, what’s going on.” Casper yelled while the ship shook violently.

“I apologize for the inconvenience, but we seem to have encountered some unforeseen problems.”

“The hell we have, the only problem on this ship is you!!! Why did you steer us so close past that moon, we only missed it by an inch!!!”

“Twenty-four inch, to be exact.”

“ I don’t care, what is going wrong you electronic dim wit!!!”

“We seem to have passed through some kind of psionic field, I shall redirect… ERROR…ERROR…SYSTEM FAILURE IMMINENT, EVACUATE THE SHIP.”

“Aahw, kri’tzé!”

“Could you please keep those hivern profanities for yourself brother, we need to get to the escape pods.”

Casper kept raging on.
“I can’t believe it, all that hard work to gather enough credits and supplies. And now all of that hard work is on a collision course with a planet.”

“Well I can’t believe we only have one escape pod.” Jasper replied. Was it necessary to… wait, do you see that?”

“See what?”

“your skin, it’s glowing!”

“really, what color?”

“Blue”

“Crud, I was hoping for green. Wait… you’re glowing blue too.” Casper remarked. “The entire ship is glowing.”

“Interesting, it probably has something to do with that psionic field 2B-AI mentioned. I would really like to study it but a life threatening situation is a bit detrimental for the concentration. I suggest we make our leave.”

They both entered the escape pod and Casper began pushing some buttons in preparation for their departure. Suddenly the ship stopped shaking and a familiar, if not very annoying voice crackled trough the speakers.

“krrrggtss…tsssghhht…emergency generator activated…ship is stabilizing.”

Casper led out a sigh of relief.
“phew…Looks like it was a false alarm.”

But Jasper was a bit more cautious.
“Let’s wait until we get full confirmation that everything is functioning again.”

“kkrrraagssst…life support operational…engines at full power…power grid restored…
“Well, it sounds like everything is working again.” Casper said happily.

“…node drive at a hundred percent…resuming descent…escape pods activated…”

“See, everything is just fine…wait…what!!”
There was a clanking sound and suddenly the two brothers were pressed against their seats as the escape pod shot towards the planet at a dazzling velocity.

“If I ever see that Ai again I will fry his circuits, I will feed him to the Zuul, I will…I will…”

“Forget about that Ai, this glow is growing stronger. I can barely see anything!”

“Wait… what the!? AAAHH, this pain, what is this burning pain!!!”

“I don’t know, my skin and bones feel like they are on fire!!”

“AAAAHHH!!!!”

The sound of their screams faded away as the pod entered orbit and plummeted towards the surface. The surface of a world that could never be prepared for the arrival of these two peculiar individuals, a world that would never be the same again.

Author's Note

I apologize for any traumas caused by my horrible writing
I wrote this right after all four of my wisdom teeth had been removed and all the screaming at the end of the text are all the screams I couldn't scream because my face was so swollen.