Twilight leaned against the back window of the ambulance craft looking back into the empty darkness of space. She looked at each star in question of where it all started. The pain in her body was easing up slightly and she was starting too feel better about the situation she was in. With all her friends gone, her new friends gone and Valuntas now becoming a horrible memory as the station was no longer in view after what had to be hours of flying after the massacre on the station. Everytime Twilight looked into the glass she imagined Gashes fangs dripping spit behind her, ready to end her life, the creature was beginning to haunt her thoughts. Scootaloo was now sitting next to her leaning her head against the alicorn's leg in comfort. Sweetie Belle was laying on a small table groaning still asleep like before when they left Valuntas. As things were getting quiet and Twilight started to feel sleepy the radio started to scream as a pony on the other end started speaking.
"Twilight...are you still there?" it was the same stallion voice from before but instead of him being hyper and worried he was calmly speaking. "Twilight if you are still there please...please pick up the radio" Twilight looked back and slowly reached for the red button pressing it in with a click.
"This is...Twilight" the alicorn said weakly and she was obviously loosing her voice as it was faint and crackly. She was exhausted. "Twilight signing in....who is this?"
"Twilight, we will have time for our names later, right now we need to know where you are" the sound of rustling paper buzzed from the other end and then the stallion coughed lightly. "We have been calling out for survivors and answers regarding the station your pod came from, however, answers about Valuntas are still close to non existent" Twilight nodded to herself and sat down by the radio listening to the radio some more as he continued speaking. Scootaloo was still near by looking over at the radio as well. "I need you too do something for me if we are going to find you, okay"
"O-okay...what do you need me too do?" Twilight was unhappy to do work but if it meant she would no longer be floating in space she was willing to do anything.
"Alright, every ship has a tracking beacon, we need you to turn that on for us so we can track you down. depending on the age of your craft will determine where your beacon is located" Twilight slowly lowered herself into a laying position as the stallion continued, the things he was throwing out only made her regret agreeing to do this. "Unlucky for you...Captain Will was a man of age, he enjoyed the big clunky crafts for there age and resistance to stress" the stallion continued until her finally revealed where the beacon was located. "The beacon in your craft is under a panel in the mane ventilation, the ventilation in small crafts are short and fat but dark as hell so bring a light" at this moment White Lighting was also around the radio listening in, he was shaking his head at the word ventilation as he remembered it was Gash's favorite place to hide that and the time he had to crawl in attempt to save Sweetie Belle.
"Alright, we will see what we can do , thank you!"White said pushing the red button so that it would pop out and end the line. "Your not going up there Twilight, you are far too injured to do any work. Let me do this one, okay?" twilight shook her head not liking the feeling of being useless. She didn't want to do this but didn't want to sit here and do nothing at all. Scootaloo looked at White and looked scared, "As for you Scoots, not every vent contains a monster okay? I will be fine" Scootaloo nodded slowly hoping he was right.
"Just be careful up there okay...its already isolated in this ship as it is" Twilight said bluntly and with a stern look on her face. Only a slight hint of teasing in the small grin on her face. "Not like it would be any different, you have been in the pilots seat this whole time. I might not notice it if you were gone" Twilight giggled and White beamed a smile at her before heading over to the center of the room and above his head was the ventilation entrance.
"Let us get this over with"
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Pulling himself up White makes his way into the ventilation, Twilight watched holding a flashlight waiting to give it to him once inside. The vent was whistling as the air was moving around it, the panel would be in the middle of the vent above his head when he got there. Luckily like the stallion on the radio said, they were in a small ship so it was small ventilation. White reached down and took the light from Twilight once fully inside, he then wiggled his way down the path. It was a tight squeeze and the air was freezing up here, with every noise that came from him moving around he couldn't help himself but to make sure he wasn't alone once he made it too the panel.
"Alright, lets just open this, get out, done....there is no monsters....there is no monsters here with you" White was like any survivor would be. He was terrified of the fact that something might still be out there, ventilation wasn't his strong suit anymore. He pulled the panel off revealing a blinking beacon, it was flashing red. White quickly moved his eyes around looking for clues on what to do. There was a sticker that stated it simple, red was off, green was on, and press beacon to switch mode. White moved his hoof out and pushed the beacon in until it turned green. After doing so he put the panel back over it and moved as fast as he could out of the vents, not a fan of being up there. Twilight waited for him below starring up into the vent entrance.
"White!! Come on! Get down already....it can't be that hard to find a stupid" as she was about to finish her comment White came down quickly from the vent and smiled at her as he wiped himself clean of vent grease. "Stupid panel..." Twilight giggled and moved to the radio, she placed a hoof on her side because the giggle caused a slight pain in her body from her injuries. Quickly pressing the button Twilight spoke. "This is Twilight...if the one who spoke to me a moment ago is still signed in, please respond! Our beacon is on, pick us up and get us out of here" Twilight smiled having a good feeling of ending their isolation. The stallion quickly answers back ready to brief them.
"Alright, yup, we are receiving a signal from your ship! Awesome job everypony!" Twilights face lit up with joy and she used her magic to swing Scootaloo into a close snuggle, they were going to be getting out of here! Twilight snuggled the filly close and quickly set her down lunging even with the pain into White giving him a big hug smiling wide, she hated space ships even if her fear of space was better being handled after Whites training on Valuntas she hated it out here. "However...it could be hours before we pick up your actual location, maybe days depending how far you are from us" the stallion said sternly shuffling some papers, "Your signal is weak which is a bad sign....could be something clogging up your exterior vent entrance or your far out...sorry" Twilight frowned moving up to the radio pressing her head on the speaker, "We will send our scouts out too get you, do your part, we are on our way! See if you can boos the signal" twilight sniffled and started to cry against the radio.
"Alright...f-fine, we will see what we can do..." Twilight said before ending the call, White had a frown on his lips from seeing the alicorns tears form, she was far different now than before. She seemed weaker and easily pushed off the ledge of happiness. "White, we have to see whats up with the ship, there is no way we could be too far out, something is wrong" Twilight looked up to the vent, they had to gear up and go outside the ship to check that vent entrance but who would go?