//------------------------------// // 2: Call 911 for Friendship Emergencies! // Story: You Have the Right to Remain Silent // by RDDash //------------------------------// The police helicopter has been flying towards its destination when the radio came back alive. "Princess! Are you still there!" The voice of the mare could have been heard. "Where else would I be? So, what is the emergency?" Twilight replied. Princess, everypony is pretty happy to have you in the force because of your extreme flexibility." "And, if you are saying this, that means something somewhere already screwed up...extremely!" "I am glad that you understand, so the job is this! Search and Rescue mission! Our contractors had lost the contact with the space station, we would like you to go there, and I quote Investigate what happened there. " "Space station! What did they do this time, and why do they need me to go there?" Twilight looked at Spike, Spike shrugged off. "Because you are the only one who can do it delicately! We don't know what's happened there, we don't know if there is anyone alive in there, what we do know is that in seventy-two hours from now the space station is going to be spaced out into space per security protocols." "Oh great, let me just put my magnetic boots on, and a respirator!" Twilight rolled her eyes, "Why can't military do it?" "The military would just blast it out of the sky, and call it a day. The corporation that is responsible for the space station would lose everything and they would have to start over without any clue of what they were doing. "One more thing Princess, right now very special friend of yours is distracting those knuckleheads from blowing things up, I guess they really want you to go there!" "Alright, alright fine! I accept the friendship problem!" Twilight put the radio receiver on standby and with the press of a button sealed helicopter, and with another press of the button, she engaged rocket boosters. She pitched the helicopter straight up and zoomed straight into the stratosphere. The view was really beautiful from that distance alone, the stars and the moon had been shining brightly. The computer beeped a warning, and the message showed up on the heads-up display. Identity request send..Identity is confirmed as N.P.P.D.F.E.O. Twilight Sparkle....Proceed to the docking bay 12... Please have a nice day! "Oh, I am sure I will!" At this point, Twilight had been very familiar with an awfully cheerful AIs that's been running half the planet, including the day and night cycles. It's not that she didn't appreciate the effort, it just been awfully creepy. "Flamethrower?" Spike asked. "Flamethrower!"Twilight was more than happy to agree with him. The helicopter's blades stopped spinning a while ago and remained inactive even when the ship entered the docking bay. There was no artificial gravity, and no air, yet. It just easier to dock that way. The air would just get pumped when it was needed. The helicopter landed thanks to the multidirectional thrusters. Twilight and Spike exited the ship and after Twilight took her stun button from the cargo compartment they both went to the exit. There they entered a corridor that should take them to the center of the station. "It is awfully quiet in here, maybe a bit too quiet" Twilight nodded her head, "Yep, but it's probably nothing to worry about!" "Nothing to worry about?" "Have you seen any blood so far?" Spike looked around truthfully to the Twilight's words the corridors had been awfully clean, "I guess you have a point here!" "Exactly I don't see anything that out of the ordinary, so its probably a false alarm, A good thing that we were sent here first." "Yeah!" Several more minutes later both of them had finally reached their destination, the central room, it was empty too. "Okay, now that's getting a bit weird even for me, Where the hey is everypony?" Twilight trotted to the main computer, "Now let's see whats going on here!" she pressed a few buttons "Aha I see what the problem is! All the beacons are turned off and all the communications are too! I guess I had to turn them back on!" Twilight then flipped a few switches. "Ah good, it's working again, now we aren't going to get spaced out, or blown away." Spike gave her thumbs up, then he heard some noise "Um Twilight, I think we have a company!" Once he said that the small pegasus mare came into the room she had a white coat and silver blue mane, she had pink eyes. Twilight couldn't see her cutie mark it was hidden behind the lab coat, she looked really annoyed too. "Can I please get a peace and quiet all the way out there? I go turn off all of the communications down, and they are sending somepony else to bug me! Who are you by the way?" "My name is Twilight Sparkle, I am the Friendship Enforcer Officer of Neo Ponyville Police Department, N.P.P.D.F.E.O. for short, and they wanted to send a kill missile too." Mare nodded in response, "That's a mouthful to speak, isn't it? Damn right they would, all of them are afraid of this top secret lab that has everything you could think off. Everything from the super killer virus to the next generation pacification neurotoxin. Please forget what I just said, let's just say that everything that we came up with here, eventually goes on the market. for example, your vehicle happened because somepony thought it would be a great idea to put something into space that wasn't meant to be put into space. You know like space submarine and solar sailboat." Twilight raised an eyebrow, "Um, solar sailboat doesn't sound that bad." Mare winced, "You don't understand, that particular solar sailboat is actually a wooden sailboat, with some solar sails been installed on it. Imagine what would happen every time they tried to fire at full broadside with an 18-pounders. It has been popular with pirates for awhile!" "Um, did you say we? What do you mean you are the only one who is here." The mare trotted up a lot closer to Twilight and Spike, "Sometimes I forget that I am spending my time with machines. What I mean is, I am here with my coworkers who are machines, it does get really lonely here sometimes!" Twilight realized something, "um, is that's why you did what you did? Just to see if somepony would come!" The mare nodded and then smiled. Twilight's eyes widened,"I am really sorry, but I forgot to ask you your name." . "Silver Star!" "It's nice to meet you Silver Star!" Twilight's ears flattened, "I am really sorry, but I need to get going!" "Oh okay!" Silver's voice was a bit disappointed after hearing that. "Um, I promise I could visit you if you want!" "That would be great, I think!" Twilight almost finished crossing the room, when the mare started speaking again, "Just so you know we do have time machines as well." Twilight's eyes widened, "What? What did you just said?" She turned around and looked at Silver who looked slightly confused. "Um, is something wrong? You are looking at me kind of strange." "Um, Twilight, maybe we should just go!" Spike really didn't like what's going on. "No, it's nothing! I am sorry, I thought I heard you said something." Twilight apologized to her and turned her back around. "Time travel spells are illegal, however machines do not!" Once again Silver blurted out quickly, which in result caused Twilight to mistrot and almost fell. Once again Twilight looked at her, and Silver looked back. "Are you sure you alright, maybe you are stressed out on the job." "I am fine thanks, let's go, Spike!" This time when Twilight turned around Silver didn't say anything. They managed to return to their ship, and with a few flips of the switches the internal air tanks had been refilled, and CO2 had been fed to thrusters once again. With that set and done, the helicopter flew back to the planet. Twilight flipped a switch and the thin pink shield enveloped it to help the reentry. After about a minute of free fall, the blades started to spin once again, and the helicopter recovered from the dive and flew normally in atmospheric mode.