Chapter 12: (Unedited)
The Savanna glided thought the blackness of space, her ragtag crew working diligently on keeping her in topshape.
Midnight however, was nursing a massive hagover.
The party the day before had been a good one with plenty of drinks, Incuding some very strong alien bevrages.
Needless to say Midnight had, had one too many Bottles of taquila which had lead to her ending up passed out.
The lights in her shared room flashed on, making her burry her face into her pillow to hide from the light.
"the light!" she hissed "It burns!"
Midnight heard a fillys laugh "Well surves you right for drinking so much"
Midnight groned as Empathy Flame jumped onto the bed "Who ever said that drinking so much taquila was a good idea is an idiot" she grumbled as she got out of bed.
Empathy smiled "You know that you just called yourself an idiot right?" she said amused "How are to felling?"
Midnight groned "I feel dizzy!" she said as she swayd on her hoofs.
"well Thats to be expected, you drunk enough to kill a normal pony" Empathy told her "I'm surprised you havent-"
"I think I'm going to stop standing up now" Midnight colapsed onto the hard cold floor.
"-passed out" Emapthy finished.
"My body is trying to die..." Midnight moaned.
"Good thing I called Redheart to come check on you" Empathy said as the Medic pony came into view.
"I'll need you to leave so I can examin her" the Stalion said, nealing down next to her.
"Dont leave me with the horrible doctor"
"Oh shut up Sargent"
"Blaarg!"
"Empathy could you be a dear and make some Coffee"
The filly rushed off and got a kettle.
One thing Midnight knew for sure... Taquila had made the list!
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A day (and alot of Morpheen) later Endless Midnight was walking throught the narrow corrodors of the Savanna, making her way to the ships bridge.
She still had little idea about what went of two nights ago other then the fact that she had Passed out at the bar and had to be draged onto the savanna
the doors to the bridge slid open, the bridge was full of consoles and big screens, ponys were sat at most of them, whatever they were doing she was too tried and still had a headach, granted it was a small one.
A large view screen dominated the room, showing a feed from a camra along prow of the ship, the harsh liquidy white light of quantom space.
Goldroot sat in the center of the room in the command chair, hunched over a small screen on the chairs arm.
Midnight stood next to him and looked at the main screen, watching the lights fly past.
"Finaly got you up and about did they?" Goldroot chuckled, not looking up from his pannle.
"Mostly sir" she replyed "Theres probably a reason why Xenos and Prometheans dont drink"
"aye, probably right" he looked up and at her "But if you want some advice, never drink that much Taquila again"
"Dont worry sir" she said "I'm likly to avoide that piticular drink for a while"
"Rightly so" He turned off the chair console and got up "We're a few hours out from the Arralia system" he Said "We've still not detected any singnals coming from the target planet"
She nodded "Could be their sun or the nebula, This isnt called the dead zone for nothing"
The dead zone was the area of space they had been in for the last month, and area of space that was mystiros and peroless.
As well as comunications to anything outside the dead zone beign inpossable, the zone also held huge nebulas, death worlds and other dangers.
But it also held wonders, it had many habbitable worlds some full of jungles or just oceans, but the mystorys of the Dead zone had never been uncoverd, it was the Everfree forest of space.
"Well I want you on comunications" Goldroot told her "You have the best ears in the Battalion so I'm sure you'll fit right in"
She nodded and took a seat at the empty seat.
"I still dont know why we cant use this new Q.S.D to just jump straight to Equus" Midnight said "If it takes us a few days to make a jorny that would have taken a normal ship weeks, then how long would it take to get from the Ragnarock to Equus?"
A pony at the helm console looked back at her "Becuase the drive would burn out before we reached there" they said "Your Promethean buddys may have worked mricles on the Savanna but she's still needs a complet overhall"
"Yea" a pony on the other side of the room "And its not just the drive, every cannon's offline except for one, gravitys still down on most levels and the computers keep going glitchy"
as if on cue, Midnights screen began flickering on and off.
"I see what you mean"
"Try hitting the side of the screen"
She curled her metal hand into a fist and slamed it into the side of the screen which stoped flickering and started working properly.
"There" she said smileing "thats better".
The screen started flickering again.
This was going to be a long few hours.