My Little Trekkie: First Contact is Magic
A My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic crossover with Star Trek.
By Jacos.
Just another ordinary day, thought Twilight. Rainbow Dash had already crashed through a widow, promising to try to not do it again. Just like every time, thought Twilight. Pinkie had appeared out of nowhere, just like normal. And Rarity had almost herded her into doing a little modelling work for her, though she had managed to avoid it – narrowly. And now, when she was finally thought she had a chance to get back to studying, they came back – all at once.
“Twilight!” all her friends shouted at once, except for Fluttershy, who was obviously too timid. Twilight was barely even surprised, but for what she lacked in surprise, she made up for in raw, seething fury. She slowly turned around, in the slowest, most exaggerated way she could muster, and said two words: “What. Now.”, seething with anger.
They all stayed quiet for a moment, before Pinkie burst out. “Twilight, something really big fell out of the sky!” she said, hopping around. Twilight gasped. “How big? What did it look like? Pinkie, have you been picking up alien distress signals with your Pinkie sense? Ooh, I can finally use my new 'My Little Xenobiologist: Alien Dissection Starter Kit” kit! If there are aliens. It might have been a meteor, of course!”
They all looked at her for a moment, surprised at the outburst – it was more something they would expect from Pinkie Pie, not calm, stable Twilight Sparkle, but still. They were excited. Twilight could tell it was something important. “Okay, okay,” Twilight announced. “Now, can someone tell me the story about-”
“First!” Pinkie started, “We and Dashie and Applejack were hanging out-”
“Actually,” Applejack interjected, “We were hanging out together in the park when somepony happened to show up out of nowhere, anyway-”
“Anyway, me and Fluttershy,” Rarity began, “happened to see them both and decided to say hello, when we saw the most odd thing...”
“Something was falling out of the sky! Right into the Everfree forest! It was awesome!” Rainbow Dash finished.
“Woah, woah.” Spike grumbled. “The Everfree forest? Are you sure you want to start going into that place, just to find some dumb rock from the sky or something?” Twilight sighed. “Spike, it isn't a “dumb rock from the sky”. It could be an alien rock! It could be some sort of debris from some alien spacecraft, however unlikely, it could be-” “CUPCAKES! From SPACE!” Pinkie Pie shouted, hopping around excitedly.
Nobody exactly had the heart to tell her that cupcakes didn't fall from space, though this did mean that Pinkie Pie was quick to get everybody moving, and the whole group of friends were off to search for the cupcake from space in mere minutes. Spike had decided to stay in the library and clean up after the mess Twilght had made, gathering a few books.
As they finally neared where they thought the unknown object had landed, tension was quickly growing, and the group had long stopped talking. There was an eerie silence about the forest, and the group seemed all too ready to leave the dreadful place after a while of searching, when Twilight gasped. “Over here! It's over here! My goodness, that's big!” she exclaimed, noticing the sheer size of it.
The whole group slowly gathered in front of what appeared to be some sort of alien machine – it was absolutely massive, and, despite its rough landing, appeared to be in a fine state – it was as if this was some sort of gift, just for them. Twilight shook her head, and decided to take the initiative to approach it. As she made her first few steps, a few of her friends took steps after her, until they were all slowly but steadily following her.
As she approached the strange, large hull of the alien craft, she suddenly stopped, hearing a loud, whizzing sound, followed by a strange blue light enveloping them all. The world began to morph, twist, and slowly fade, as all the ponies found themselves slowly disappearing.
The group slowly raised themselves off their feet. They seemed to be inside some sort of metal room, complete with strange, alien devices and what appeared to be a door. Twilight was the first to speak, with a puzzled look on her face. “What? What's going on?” she began to say, before a strange, pony like creature appeared out of thin air in front of her. No, not a pony, she thought... A zebra.
“Greetings, ponies, welcome to the ship.” it said, in an unnatural calm, considering she had just appeared out of nowhere, and was approached by ponies, a hoofed cousin she might have never even known of. Twilight, of course, being the most intellectual of the group, decided to make the first move to communicate with the strange being. “GREETINGS, ALIEN OVERLORD!” she said, as loud and clear as possible. “WE COME IN PEACE.” The zebra sighed. “Excuse me, can you speak louder and clearer for me?”
Twilight stood there confused, wondering what to say. Pinkie Pie was making hoof shaking gestures, while Applejack was frantically whispering “SHOOT TO KILL, SHOOT TO KILL” to her. She stood their confused for several moments, until Rarity shoved her out the way. “My apologies deary, Twilight there is a brilliant mare, but at times she can't even understand one of her most commonly used dialects. Sarcasm. Anyway-” The zebra raised her hoof. “Quiet.”
“My name is Verhina, and I am this ships virtual doctor, who happens to have a wealth of data on completely unrelated subjects. I have urgent news. This ship has.. been grounded.” All the ponies shuffle around slightly. “Uhh, if this is a ship, then where are the masts?” she says first. Mumbling slightly, Verhina attempts to communicate again. “Uhh, where is your nearest solar charts?” More shuffling. Verhina sighed. It would take a while to explain it all to them.
“Alright, my little ponies, this ship has to be returned to Moderately Deep Space Nine, a nearby space station. If you can get it back there, maybe we can give you an award. For now, I'll have to instruct you how to pilot this station, as you already all know, after dozens of explanations, that I can't do it, because I'm a magical make belief robot. Now, follow me.” she gestured for them to follow her, and set off, automatic doors whizzing open as she took them through corridor after corridor.
Twilight was confused, and she wanted answers. She didn't like it, but she'd have to do what she feared most. Communicate.. with an acquaintance. Not a stranger, who she'd never see again, but a dreaded person who she'd possible she on numerous occasions. “Uhh, you know, Verhina, you've told us that this is a magical flying boat and all, which is great, just great, but what actually happened to everybody in it? I mean, someone must have brought it here, right?”
The zebra stopped. “Sparkle, I shall debrief you on the subject of how this ship ended here when we reach the bridge. Which shouldn't be long, considering we've just reached it.”
They all sat in the bridge, which actually was some sort of important room. Space talk, Twilight guessed. They were all sat down, including Verhina, which was odd considering that she apparently wasn't real. All the ponies where excited. It was something new. There was going to be adventure. The ponies were quietly talking amongst themselves, as soon as they sat down.
The zebra quickly hushed them down. “Quiet, now, quiet. It is a long story, and you must all be quiet, while I tell it. Pay attention. There will be a quiz later.” Pinkie wanted to make an outburst, until Applejack shoved a hoof in her mouth.”
As silence took the room, the zebra began. “Good. Now, the Hoofed Federation of Planets has been at war with the Webbed Foot Collaboration ever since we refused to stop going through a wormhole which allowed us straight into the heart of their territory so we could colonize any planets we could find and supply worlds in their part of the galaxy with weapons grade Uranium. Ever since, we have been fighting these aggressors for all which is right. Unfortunately, it just so happens that this ship was grounded after a some of them realised that they could just beam off all of the enemy crew into space in the middle of a battle, instead of slowly destroying each other with an exchange of laser fire. I mean, who'd have thought?”
They all found some strange way to shuffle around in their seats, while the zebra waited for their reactions. Content that they had nothing to say, she continued. “Now, to crew this ship. We just so happen to need and have six people. To be honest, the posts are fairly easy.”
“Anyway, we need a Captain..” “ME!” Twilight shouted. Nodding, she continued.
“A communications officer.. Uhh, someone who talks to other people..” “I shall do it!” Rarity cried, standing on her chair. “I shall woo them with my looks, and convince them to set their arms aside and be polite enough to surrender!”
“A helmsman.. uhhh. Mare? Driver.” Dash burst into the air and smashed a light with a mid air kick with her rear legs. “AWW YEAH! Uhh, sorry about that. But yeah, I can do that. We'll whiz past every enemy, and if we ever get cornered, BLAM, we realise space is three dimensional. They'll never know what hit 'em.”
“A weapons officer. You know, the person who shoots the other people.” Several apples whizzed past the zebras head, as Applejack stepped from.. behind her chair. “Ah'll do it. Yeeehaw!” They all looked at her in anticipation of some sort of witty comment. “What? Ya really all think a farmer like me is gonna come up with a stupid thing to say like that?”
“A science officer...” Pinkie began jumping around. “Yay! I get to have pointy ears!” she exclaimed, hopping around while getting strange looks from everybody else, except Twilight who was too busy cursing her head off.
“And that just leaves.. Ahh! One of the most complex, stressful positions. Chief Engineer. To the quiet timid one. Great. Okay, all you work in here, except for the Chief Engineer who works in a dark isolated area near the centre of the ship. Okay, people, lets get going!”