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// Log Three 
// Story: Twinkless Spot of Black 
// by Toodle Flip 
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Log Three Date Unknown

Extrapolation: Large temporal interference detected within teleport. Live units detected within shuttle.

The camera displays static before slowly fading to show a mare, lying against the far wall covered in her own blood at the back of the shuttle. 

Airheart groans as she begins to move, but fails and slips off from the wall and onto the floor. Her eyes flutter open, and she groans again. She is in a complete mess, her flight-suit soaked in sweat and blood, and her mane completely disheveled. She tries to move, this time with more success. “What… what happened?” Airheart tries to look around, but cannot see anything because of the hair covering her face. Her voice was cracked, “I need to… to get to the med-kit.”

After waiting a couple minutes to regain her strength, she begins to move again. This time, she rises from the floor, unstable on her hooves. She changes from trotting to limping in a sort of trance only focused on the medicine kit located near the bridge. Limping along the corridor, she focuses solely on her task, ignoring her friends in crisis nor does she pay attention to the strange lights on the outside of the ship shining in chaotic hues of the rainbow.

She reaches the med kit, and takes a small potion out of the box. She drinks it, staring blankly at the wall while doing so, until her eyes begin to focus again. She quickly slumps over after finishing, causing the plastic bottle to hit the floor. Her face meets the floor, unable to keep herself standing as the potion repairs her body.

A few minutes pass, and she picks herself up again. She looks around the cabin, staring at the outside for a few short moments, before turning back towards her crew. “What happened? The crew!” She rushes towards the stasis pods, her previous injuries gone from the emergency potion. Upon reaching the stasis pods, she notices they are still frozen over. “I wouldn’t dare eject them… not like this. It may melt them, but who knows happens then, if they come out too early… after all, this was experimental…”

She looks at the controls for a moment, “Maybe I could… no… I won’t. I’m not going to sacrifice another crew-member. I am going to be alone for the entire mission…” She looks at the stasis pod containing the sky blue pegasus with the whitish silver mane and tail, a large, melancholic grin plastered on her face, “At least you were having fun. You just wanted to get back at that mare you always talk about. You didn’t want this. At least you won’t know what happened. You won't have to feel this Fleetfoot…” 

Moving her head towards the other capsule, she sees the look of horror on North Pole’s face. “Maybe you were right. Huh? A simple joke turned out to be right. Maybe we should have waited. Should have asked if it was safe.” Her expression begins to deteriorate, and what was a melancholic smile turns into a deep frown, and tears begin to flow. “I didn’t ask enough questions and I lost my crew again!” Airheart bangs her head against the capsule, leaving her with a screeching headache. 

She backs away, and continues to stare at the two malfunctioning stasis pods. She throws both of her hooves against the glass and screams, “Why does this always happen? Why!? Always, my dreams are wrecked by this! Always I think, ‘things will get better, no need to worry’ but they don’t! It isn’t fair! First with that wretched mare and her balloon, then with sleeping in, then with him, and now this!” 

After finishing her rant, she looks at the pod, which is still in pristine conditions. “I didn’t even make a scratch. I doubt anything would. But how will I get them out? I… I don’t think I can… Even if I bring them back to Canterlot I still don't think they could be able to save them” A tear forms on the side of her eye, “They’re gone… aren’t they?” 

She begins to hug Fleetfoot’s pod, “We had such a good chance to become friends… I know you didn’t have the best past but we shared similar ideas. Heck, you may have wanted to stay after I showed you the stars… I wouldn’t be alone out here.” Her tears trail down and freeze on the surface of the pod.

She looks toward North Pole, “North, I know we have our differences, but I know you would have grown to love us, at least as friends. But… I failed you… I didn’t say goodbye to your brother. You didn’t get the chance either did you? So… so much was lost.”

As Airheart moves towards the small cabin, her tears touch the windows and disappear. The light shimmers for a moment, but Airheart wasn’t paying attention. She sits in the chair and swivels, the lights dimming. She begins to close her eyes, and accept her fate, the lights slowly faded to black, the darkness trying to embrace her and calm her with its silence.

The rainbow hue begins to shift, creating ripples all along the ship, and inside the lights brighten near the stasis pods. The voices of her crew-members begin to whisper to her as she falls asleep, “Why did you do this to us? Why weren’t you there? You should have gone first.”

Airheart turns to find the voice, but nothing was there. She grabs a flashlight, and moves towards the pod section where the lights were still on. The gravity system was still in fluctuation due to the teleport, and so she would start floating occasionally. Airheart searches and finding nothing to her interest, and turns the lights off in the pod area. She moves, and the lights along the entire ship begin to flicker. In the shadows, she can see faces, ponies, all of them with twisted smiles or deep frowns. 

Airheart releases a blood-curdling scream. Her eyes flash about the room as she scrambles for what, in her panicking mind is safety, the broken stasis pod. She rushes down the corridor; her mind trying to process what is going on, trying to avoid the voices of her dead former crew-members. Cutting herself a little on the pod, she ignores the pain and blood as she curls into a tight ball, hoping for the voices to stop. She lights continue to flicker, eventually shutting off entirely, save the core systems. She opens her eyes, and looks outside the pod, and sees darkness again. She lies there in the pod and tries to sleep. She sits there in the darkness, trying to sleep. A light on the other end of the ship would flicker on occasion but Airheart was trying her best not to look.

Finally, Airheart fell asleep, but the system continued to watch. It could see the distressed Airheart. It could see the rainbow surrounding the ship. The system continues to watch. However, for a moment, something flickered in its vision. Outside the window, it detected movement for a second. Seeing nothing, the system focused on Airheart again, being the only active member of the crew.

Automatic log end due to inactivity…