The Tram slowed down to stop at the Titan Shard Mines. When VANDAL left the Tram, he noticed another Store and another Bench. He also noticed some boxes on the wall, like the one that had held the Power Node back by the Plasma Cutter. One next to the bench, and one in the waiting room of the station. The first thing he did was activate the bench and upgrade his RIG and Plasma Cutter. He then went to the store and upgraded his suit to level 2 for the cost of 30,000 credits. He stepped into the store and it closed, in about three seconds, he had his level two suit. He left the Tram Station and he entered a big room, it looked like a sort of decontamination room or something. Two of the doors in the room were locked. There was one open, however.

He entered the door, and found himself inside the huge Titan Shard Mine. He entered and the door closed behind him. He was standing on a catwalk, high up above the bottom level of the mines. It was a dark area, but he was able to see with the aid of a few lights along the catwalk. He then had a new objective, Activate the Tram. He noticed as he started walking that the tram that he needed to activate was the mine elevator that would take him to the upper level. "This tram isn't working right now.", Tyler said. "You'll have to go to the worker's quarters down below in order to get it running."

VANDAL kept walking, he rounded a gentle curve in the catwalk, and came upon an intersection, up ahead, there was another elevator shaft that was working, but it wasn't up on his level. He decided to go up to the tram, and bring it up. When he walked over and hit the button to bring it up, he heard a weird sound; a moaning sound. It was coming on the tram. He backed up, so that he didn't get ambushed right away. When it reached his level, he noticed that this pony wasn't going to get him right away, because it had to go around the circle he noticed was the intersection.

This pony was white, had purple hair, and covered in dirt. The one main thing that he noticed, however, was the huge orange pustule that was one of its fore legs. It was walking on three legs, because of this. It moved pretty fast, but not fast enough. When he backed up and went around the intersection, he engaged it. When he got too close a couple times, it brought the pustule back, and VANDAL backed up, to be cautious. His instincts were right, as it attempted to swing it at him. He shot the pustule, and it exploded, killing the pony. It dropped some ammo for the Plasma Cutter, being one of the first to be carrying anything, unlike the other ones back in the government sector. He also found some more Plasma Cutter ammo on the ground.

He picked it up and he went on the tram, pressing the button to go down. He went down to the next level below him: the bottom level. He had a short walk before he reached an archway composed entirely of rock. When VANDAL walked through, his vision started to flash between him being a person and being a slasher necromorph. He started imagining himself being a slasher for a short while, and he kept walking, thinking, "What the Hell!?!" He made his way to another archway, before his vision started flashing again, and he was himself again. VANDAL screamed, "What The Fuck Is Going On!?"

He received no answer. He just continued walking, passing a locked door that appeared like there was someone waiting by it, showing the display. He found the worker's quarters, and noticed it needed two batteries to unlock. He had another goal, Gain Access To The Worker's Quarters. He turned around, seeing an open doorway to another area. He immediately heard another moan, turning to his right and seeing another pony with the pustule. He immediately shot the pustule, killing the pony and another one with the tentacles out of its back, magenta hair, and deep orange coat that he had not seen for it was hidden. He noticed that it moved quickly, and decided to call them "Scootaloos", referring to its speed.

He ran down the way he was facing and found two boxes he could stomp on, when he did, he found Ripper ammo in both. He then turned around and ran past the door down the mine until he ran into a slasher. He quickly dispatched it with the ripper by cutting off the four limbs. He continued walking and turned a corner, coming up to another archway, noticing that there was still some of the mineshaft left down the way he was walking, so he decided to keep walking. He just was making a really wide right turn around to the back of the shaft, running into a few ponies and Necromorphs every now and then. He didn't really run into the white ponies with the pustule a whole lot.

When he reached the back, he noticed another archway and one of the batteries he would need to get into the workers' quarters. He used Kinesis to lift it up, and he carried through the archway, following the short path from the workers' quarters to the back of the mine. He ran into ponies too much, and it was getting annoying, because he had to be diligent, otherwise it would shatter. He managed to make it back to the quarters and put the battery in place, hearing a sound that was like a mixture between whirring and buzzing. He ran back down to the archway, went through, took a right, ran down to the end and found the other battery sitting there. He picked it up with Kinesis and went back to put it in the proper place, hearing a different sound, now a mechanical whirring sound. When he entered he had his first objective back, Activate the Tram. When he walked down the short hallway to the first intersection, Tyler radioed in, saying, "Check the service chute. I left a little something for you."

Of course, in front of the service chute, on the floor was some credits, Plasma batteries, and Ripper blades. He picked up what he could of ammo, and then an Applejack jumped from the ceiling, letting out a deathly roar. It rushed towards him as he backed up, reloading his Plasma Cutter. He wasn't fast enough, as it wrapped its bony knives around him. He was fighting off the knives, and he grabbed his Plasma Saw, cutting off one of the appendages. It then backed up to charge at him, but he finished reloading the Plasma Cutter, taking out its front legs, killing it.

He turned around, walking down to a locker room, finding some power nodes, when he grabbed them, the lights turned off, and when they came back on, there was an Applejack, and two Scootaloos. The Applejack swung one of its blades at him and he cowered, but then the lights turned off and came back on again. He looked back up from the "protection" of his arm and noticed they weren't there, so he stepped back up.

"Tyler, I'm sick! I'm seeing things!"

"Don't worry, you'll be fine."

VANDAL then left the room and walked down to the computer systems, and then he activated the three that were off. When he did so, he had a new objective, and he walked back out of the workers' quarters and walked back to the elevator and went back up to the level he first was on and went back to the elevator he had just recently activated, walked on to it, and up he went.

When he got up, he had another objective, Activate the System and Open the Door. He went around the bend and checked his locator, pointing him to his objective, directly in the center of the intersection of the catwalks. Then he saw another person and asked with a loud tone, "Hey, who's down here?" He received no answer. He walked down to the computer system to activate it. He noticed that the person was doing exactly everything he did, so he decided to mess around with him/her, noticing that they backed up like he did, when he did, everything. He walked into the Intersection and ran into the person.

A flash of white blinded VANDAL's vision for a brief second, and then he found himself wrapped in a Slasher's hold. He did like before, and took out his Plasma Saw to cut off its arm, he quickly used his Ripper to cut off the other arm, and it died in an instant. He then activated the computer system and found himself in a quarantine lockdown, with ponies and necromorphs surrounding coming over the rails, he even ran into Lurkers, reanimated infants that attack their opponents from afar, and jump on them when they get close enough. One even jumped on him, and he had a struggle getting it off. When he did, it raised the tentacles from its back, and VANDAL used the Plasma Saw to cut them off, the he turned sideways and punted it like a football.

He also ran into two ponies with the pustules that moaned, and he took them out no problem, now he noticed that they had three gems on their flanks, thinking, "This is starting to get out of hand." He decided to call them "Rarities", being as they didn't show up a lot. He had killed enough of them that it took at least a couple minutes to finally get out of the lockdown. When he did, he accessed his locator, and it pointed towards his objective, and he followed it, coming upon a door. When he entered, there was an Applejack, and he killed it. Then he noticed a swarm of about ten small ponies that were black, with holes in their torsos, ears, and legs. They had sharp fang-like teeth, with blood stained on them. They had green eyes, and they were coming at him.

He took them out before any of them got anywhere near him. VANDAL then walked to the only door that was at the end of the hallway, locked.

"Alright VANDAL, you missed something. You're gonna have to backtrack about 300 meters and—I'm just messin' with you, here you go." Tyler said that last part with a laugh, easy to say that he meant it too, cause then the door unlocked. VANDAL opened the door and walked inside, seeing he was in the same room as when he first arrived to the mines. He entered the door that was to the right, knowing it was the one to the Tram Station for it said 'Tram Station' across the electronic banner. He entered and walked to the bench to upgrade his Plasma Cutter some more. He then turned around and walked onto the Tram.

Author's Note

Alright Lurkers are the reanimated corpses of infants, with tentacles protruding out of their backs, like the Scootaloos. A Rarity is my take on the Exploders in the original game, with the pustule and the suicide attack(swinging the pustule at enemies to attempt and kill them, exploding it and killing themselves in the process).