From out of this world

                                                                                            Chapter 2

Weightless and dark. These were the first things Hal noticed felt when she came-to. (she does not know the she is female yet)

“Where am I?” she thought to herself. She looked around, it was pitch black and the oxygen level on her screen showed 67% remaining. She turned her head to the right and saw a gaping hole in her ship. Then she remembered the emergency flash light Keg had her keep in one of her compartments in the cockpit. Wait! Keg!

“Keg! Keg, where are you? Hello? Darn it! Is this stupid radio thing working?” she knocked her helmet a couple times and realized that she did not have fingers.

“GHAAAAA!! Why in the living heck don’t I have fingers!!?? Or hands for that matter? Why can I still be alive if my hands are missing?” she wandered for a moment.

Hal then tried to get her bearings. She was floating freely which meant that she was not in the cockpit. She then noticed an increase in light from the hole in the wall and saw a yellow sun and not too far away from that a beautiful blue and green jewel of a planet in the distance.

“Well that’s strange. Maybe even stranger than me not having any hands speaking of which…computer show health and bone structure.” A picture of a small horse with a horn and bat wings showed up on the screen along with a voice, “slight bruising in the lower back and neck area.”

“Huh. Okay I am going to panic now.” From outside the ship nothing heard anything. But on the inside of Hal’s Helmet…“AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I’M A FRIPIN’ HORSE A. FRIPIN’. HORSE. HOOOWW???!!!” After about two minutes…“Okay calm down your fine. You just have four legs and no arms and eat grass all day every day for the rest of your life! Witch won’t be that long might I add!” Hal changed from angry to depressed, “I’ll never get married or get that transfer to the fighter squadron or move off that rock of a planet to Gavron VI or get promoted, or anything. *sniff*” As the ship continued to rotate a light reflected onto Hal’s camera she turned and saw Keg. Or what was left of him. Most of his helmet was missing and it looked as if most of his suit had been hollowed out, there  was blood splattered against the walls behind his equine body.

“Keg.” She whispered. Hal stretched a hoof out to Keg but she was too far away to reach him she choked back a sob but couldn’t stop the tears from leaking from her eyes. “Keg! Oh Keg why?! Why could I not have just turned around? Why?? It’s all my fault!!” Hal sobbed. For several hours she cried until she had no more tears to cry. She needed to get her mind off Keg and back on to her situation. So she began to look around for a way to get her magnetic boots back on the ships walls. Just then the entire ship jolted and started to glow a dark blue color then it started moving Hal hit a wall near Keg and was able to get a hold on it with the magnets and stood, she then made a quick decision and decided to eject Keg into the sun for a standard space burial.

She took a hold of him and dragged his body toward the hole in the hull. When she arrived she said a few words and pushed Keg off into the cold vacuum of space on a path towards the alien sun. With a final glance and farewell Hal turned to face the cockpit and sighed. She then made her way to the controls and surveyed them.

“Well darn, these won’t work again.” she thought thumping the mangled panels with her hoof. “Now what? My ship is glowing and flying through space toward an unknown planet…hold on that planet is getting really big.” She then noticed the increasing amount of space debris gathering around in the vicinity of her ship.

“What in the heck? Oh f=== my life! Ya know what? Who cares I’m going to go sit here in my chair and wait for the end.” Hal sat there for about ten minutes before getting up and looking out the green-tented cracked glass of the cockpit and watched as the first of the rocks in her formation began pelting the atmosphere of the dark side of the planet.

“Well this is going to be new.” She deadpanned as her ship began to collide with the atmosphere.

-Canterlot Castle 9:30 PM-

“This is going to be so exciting!” Twilight Sparkle though to herself. “Princess Luna is making an extra large meteor shower tonight. And she invited me personally to accompany her when she started it!” Twilight had a large smile on her face as she watched Princess Luna concentrate on pulling the space rocks down in to their planet’s atmosphere. “It must be so amazing to be able to cause a meteor shower any time you want to. You could do anything to anypony you wanted to.” Twilight mused.

“Twilight.” Twilight Sparkle quickly snapped out of her day dreams and looked at the princess, “W-what? Sorry Luna I was lost in thought. What did you say?”

“Oh, I was just saying that the show is starting.” Luna stated as she sat down next to Twilight and put a wing around her and pulled her closer, “It is rather cold tonight is it not?” she asked Twilight.

“Oh, Y-yes it is a little chilly tonight.” she said as she blushed and pushed a little closer to the princess. “It’s so amazing Luna! How do you do this?” Twilight asked as they continued to watch the shooting stars fall.

“It’s really nothing to special Twilight.” Luna replied blushing and scuffing her hoof on the ground. “But it is Luna! Nopony else can do this not even princess Celestia! That’s why I love the night so much.” Twilight stated to Luna. Just then a brighter larger meteor appeared in the night sky and began to get larger.

“Uh, Luna? Are you doing that? Twilight asked in a shaky voice.

“No Twilight Sparkle I am not.” They both watched for a moment before Luna grabbed Twilight with her magic and teleported to princess Celestia’s private chambers.

“SISTER! A METEOR IS HEADING THIS WAY AND I THINK IT MAY HIT CANTERLOT!” Luna said in the Royal Canterlot Voice. Celestia jumped so high she hit the ceiling. Then she saw Luna and Twilight Sparkle standing there looking at her. “Wut?” she asked groggily. Just then the tower they were in began to shake and tremble as the meteor went roaring right past the window knocking the balcony off the wall.

Celestia shot strait up and asked in an angry voice, “What is going on? What was that?” Luna answered, “It was a meteor it came slightly out of formation on its way into the Atmosphere.” Luna stated simply.

“Do you Know Where it will land?”

“No but we could find out Tia.”

“Fine. Luna take Twilight here and go find out what it is and where it landed. Okay? I’m going back to bed.” With that Celestia slid back underneath the covers and fell asleep.

“Well Twilight this will be a most interesting evening.” With that they headed off to calm the guards down and get a team ready to investigate the fallen ‘star’.