//------------------------------// // Chapter one: Waking up // Story: Alien - Equestria // by Exo //------------------------------// Alien – Equestria 2.0 Based of Alien - Isolation Chapter one: Waking up “Hah!” I yell as I wake up. Steam hisses around me as I hear an artificial voice. It’s freezing in here. “Hello, Base, you have been in cryo sleep since 2015. The date is 28 June, 2059. Please look up and activate the release valve” I look upwards, finding a small lever. I grab it and pull as hard as I can. I feel horribly weak and can’t do much. I grab it again and slam it down, which activates the door. Steam hisses all around me as I step out of the small chamber. All I remember is my name is Base Kick, I have a very light grey coat, with a lime and dark blue mane. I am a Unicorn with a rare condition which means my eyes are both different colours. A little robot flies over to me. He’s a small parasprite bot with one eye. And two jets hovering him in the air. “Hey, my name’s Proton, I’ve been your bot, waiting for your wake all these years” I rub my mane. “So, what happened here? Where am I and where is everypony else? All I can remember is that I signed up for Cloudsdale’s cryo sleep program…” “You did! And our new technology prevented you from aging all these years. I don’t know much about this ship, as uh, I think we’re the only ones here” “Ship?” I ask. The little robot flies over to a tiny window, showing me space, with a planet close by. “That’s Equestria there” He says. “I… I need to get out of here… “I say. “No, I can’t let you go; you’re confined to this room, Please wait until an administrator is able to get you out” “Well, I need to find out what happened here” “Hey…” Proton starts. I get changed into the clothes lying on the bench. They’re a tight grey-ish two piece suit. I notice that they have many pockets, with a belt and a gun holster. I step out of the room, noticing its pretty dark outside. The only light is the light of the sun, through roof windows. There is steam hissing everywhere, from several busted pipes. “Hey, if you’re leaving, I’m required by protocol to stay with you” Proto says. I walk through the room, getting worried after I see blood on the walls. “Oh, I don’t know anything about that, this place is quite old, after all” Proto says. “Hello? Anypony there?” I yell. No answer. I keep trotting though the room, turning a corner as I spot a small white box with a cross on top. I trot up to it and drop it into my saddlebags. I might need it. I get scared every time I hear a clank, or steam hiss. I look around the room, finding a small leather book, with a cartoonish ‘diary’ written on it. I open it. ’12 February, 2020. Dear diary: today is the first day of the new SS Equestria 2.0! I’m so excited to board it! Today some ponies are being wheeled into the ship before us; they are in some kind of white tubes, so we aren’t really allowed to board it until tonight. I’m so excited about finally living in space after Equestria’s over filling of ponies, we have nowhere to live except in that ship! So I was one of the people in the cryo tubes… “Proton, how big is this ship and what is it for?” “It’s basically a giant spaceport. Just like an airport, but in… space” He says, “I haven’t really explored it, I've been with you the whole time” Suddenly, I hear a loud scream. A colt scream. I rush to the site of it, with Proton not far behind. “What the hell was that!?” I yell to him. “I don’t know!” I find the source. A colt lying against the wall. Unicorn. There is a large bloodstain next to him. “Oh, Celestia!” I yell as I crouch next to him. I check his pulse. Very weak. He coughs up a bunch of blood. “G-get out of here while you ccan. Get to t-the e-escape p-pods…” He drops on the floor. I start to get worried. Get out of here why? I get up and quickly rush into another room. I find another dead mare with a security guard uniform. I notice she has a Taser. I hesitantly take it, knowing looting is very bad, but I’d just seen a pony die, I don’t want to be the next one. Did a war break out or something? I tell Proton to look around the hallway, see if there's anything useful. When he comes back with nothing, I decide to continue. I walk through a large doorway to find a sign: GENERATOR ROOM The room has a large device implanted into the side of it, which I guess is a generator. There is a small hoof crank on the side. I grab it and rotate it faster and faster. The thing starts up like an old gramophone. The generator starts vibrating violently as the lights begin to come on. Now the hallway is lit. “Good job” Proton says. “Thanks” I trot through the hallway, seeing many office rooms and air vents. There is random stuff all over the floor. Chunks of metal to pipes. I feel my flank to find the taser. I float it out, holding it in front of me as I enter the room. Nothing. Just a large office room. I find a small terminal, glowing green. I play the first audio file: “Year 1: The SS Equestria 2.0: Whooee. This place is fulla luck. We've got nearly twenty jets flying in every day, with the stores nearly out of stock. The companies here are getting rich off this spaceport, sure, it took two years of hard labour to build it, but boy, was it worth it. If anyone happens to find this, send it to the Pegasi of Cloudsdale. We're getting rich offa them. It was clearly a stallion with a western accent. “So, this ship, the Equestria 2.0...” I start. “SS Equestria 2.0” Proton corrects. “Yeah, is an abandoned spaceport, but what actually happened?” I ask myself. “Dunno” Proton replies. This room was quite clearly a radar tower, where they created the jet's flightpath and detected them all across Equestria. Proton looks around the room and finds a small combat knife. Probably from a security guard or something. He tells me where it is and I drop it into my saddlebags. I trot downstairs from the 'control tower' room and enter a massive lobby. The place with all the stores and stuff, with a huge window out the side. I trot up to a higher level to get a good look out of it. Suddenly I hear a massive rumbling as a giant ship flies past the window! I see the Cloudsdale logo on the side. Maybe they'll save me! I jump up and down trying to get their attention. “Proton! Can you contact them?” I ask. “I'll try” He says as he flicks through radio channels. Most are fuzzy, with few music channels being hit. “I can't find their frequency!” He yells. “Warning! Emergency light shield has been activated in control tower!” Says a loud female voice from the loudspeakers. Suddenly I hear an even louder rumble as the giant glass windows are covered by huge metal covers! “No! NO!” I yell as the doors shut completely. “Oh... That just completely cut off our frequency” Proton says. The big question is, the voice said that it was 'activated from the control tower' Who activated it?