"Well this sucks," Spike muttered, "I can't even build a multi-purpose room because the PDA's data is corrupted." After he built the tool he had started to go through what he could build, but there were a lot of missing blueprints. All he was able to build were hallways, solar panels, and a few accessories, such as a chair and a trash can.
He started to think of how he would build a base without multi-purpose rooms when his radio started to blink. He moved over to it and pressed play. "This is Officer Twilight. The Captain is gone so I have taken command. The last thing the captain did was give me directions towards dry land for us to rendezvous at. Everyone try to regroup at these coordinates."
"Rendezvous coordinates corrupted, life pod transmission location updated to PDA."
Spike stood staring at the PDA with wide eyes. Twilight had survived, and there was dry land in this planet of water! "I have to find her life pod to see if she is ok," Spike said, rushing to open the hatch.
"Maybe if I hurry I can find Twilight before something happens to her," Spike said as he pulled out his seaglide and made his way to the coordinates. As he was making his way there he heard a loud moaning noise similar to a whale.
He immediately stopped and looked around and saw a huge fish thing with tentacles sprouting from its back. He was immediately frozen in fear of being attacked, but after a few minutes saw that it wanted nothing to do with him. He started to leave but stopped when he saw a second one. He decided he could spare a few minutes to scan the fish and look at it.
Spike began to swim closer when he saw they had very colorful backs. As he approached he saw that it was really covered in plants and barnacles. He moved in closer just to have a thorn quickly stab into his side. He moved away as another thorn shot past him. He looked around and saw that a plant was shooting thorns at him.
He removed the thorn that hit him and swam away from the plant. He was on the other side of the fish when he began scanning it. After a minute the scanner was done scanning and showed Spike it was called a Reefback Leviathan and was peaceful. He quickly read that he could break open the barnacles for a few materials.
He decided he would have to come back to the Reefbacks later for more materials and a chance to study the thorn plant. He began to make his way towards the transmission location of Twilight's life pod. As he was swimming he noticed the area starting to become slightly barren with towers of smooth rock surrounding the edge of a 100 meter drop.
He surfaced to refill his air tank and began to dive straight towards Twilight's life pod. Using his seaglide, he was able to descend faster than with just his head. After moving forward and down he began to notice it got way darker. Once he was close to Twilight's life pod, he almost burst into tears immediately.
Twilight's life pod looked similar to what had happened to Pinkie Poe's life pod. The only exception was that Twilight's appeared to be blown outward, not inward. He swam closer and saw a PDA inside, so he grabbed it hoping that Twilight's death was a quick one.
"To anybody reading this, you have obviously followed the distress beacon on this life pod contrary to my orders. I want everyone to meet up at these rendezvous coordinates on the nearest land mass. Good luck and be safe, Twilight Sparkle. P.S. I will be blowing a hole in the side of this life pod, nothing came and ate me."
Spike was filled with joy when he read the ending. "This means that Twilight is ok! I have to go to the rendezvous coordinates immediately." He noticed that the coordinates were almost straight above him. "Are you kidding me!? I just came all the way here to find out the dry land is right above me!?" Spike thought absolutely brimming with anger.
He made his way up but quickly stopped when he saw a few glowing pink blobs on the underside of the landmass. He decided against scanning them because he was about to run out of O2. He decided to go straight to the rendezvous and went into the center of the floating island.
He ascended the water and was met with the surprise of a hollow area with different tunnels leading out of the area. He soon spotted a blue glow nearby and went to it. He saw it was a PDA, so he played the message that was recorded on it.
"Twilight, we need to teleport back to the Aurora to use the long range comms and get in contact with everypony."
"Starlight, we can't just teleport there, we don't know what the inside looks like, we might try teleporting inside the comms room and instantly be impaled or crushed by debris thats filling the room, so stop charging your spell."
"Fine, how about we swim? The front of the ship looks open, so we can swim inside there."
"Shouldn't we wait a little longer Starlight? There might be somepony on the way and if we leave, it will look like they got left behind."
"I know that's why I'm going to leave my PDA here so they can listen to this conversation."
"Wait, you've been recording this entire time? Well then Spike, if you're listening to this, remember, stay calm, I will find you after we come back. Okay Starlight, let's go."
[Received emergency message from Officer Twilight 2 hours after transmission]
"My PDA intercepted a transmission from Alterra HQ. Seems they sent a data package to the Aurora. Starlight and I were intercepted by a huge predator before we could make it into the Aurora. Consider us lost at sea. Spike, if your listening to this, I'm sorry I failed you. I love you and you need to keep going on without me. Don't give up. Twilight out."
Spike couldn't even tell what he was feeling after he finished listening to the message. He was mad at whatever forced them to crash, he was depressed that Twilight died, and he was happy there might be a chance for escaping because of the data package on the Aurora. He chose to focus on being happy that there was a chance of escape, even if he never got to see Twilight again.
He got back up and decided to look around the island for supplies. As he made his way up, he began to scan different plants. "Let's see, we have Bulbo trees, a Jaffa cups, a Voxel shrubs, Speckled rattlers, and a lot of other plants too." Spike said as he walked across the island. He looked around and saw two mountains with peculiar looking tops. "I should go up there and see how large the island is and how far I can see."
Spike began to make his way up the mountain with the conveniently made path leading up the mountain. As he approached the top he saw that there was a structure near the top. He began to run towards the structure but slowed as he got closer.
The structure was completely rusted inside and out. He started to walk inside when he realized that he didn't have a bulkhead blueprint, so he spent a minute scanning the door, then went inside to explore. From what he could see, it was used to study some plants; some from the planet, others from different ones. He grabbed a few fruits off of the "lantern" tree to eat and take back to plant. He looked around and found a PDA on the floor, so he picked it up and played the recorded message.
"This is the first time in months I've seen the sunlight. After how long we spent in the deep, I'd been wondering when I would get to see it again. Now that I'm back up here, it's rather hard to enjoy the view alone. Father was right, we shouldn't have gone that far down. They did not want us down there."
"Despite my research, the illness is getting to me. Worse yet, the visions are getting worse and harder to believe they are hallucinations. Iron Whooves and father are now a part of the ecosystem here. It's comforting to know that I will be joining them when I go. Until then… there's always the view."
Spike was thoroughly confused by this discovery. "Were there other ponies here besides ones from the Aurora?" Spike began to wonder, "and if they were, why did they leave?" Spike began to ponder this as he made his way down and around to reach the other mountain.