Chapter 3:Blood Caked
Twilight peeked down the hall left and right, to the left a light flickered around the corner casting ominous shadows against the wall.On the right an unlocked door waited for command, twilight didnt know exactly which way to go so she typed,"maintenance room, floor one", then held out her hoof and activated the deck navigation.
A turquoise blue light lit at the bottom of her hoof, its light displaying a line in the direction of the maintenance room in the opposite direction of the flickering light.
But something called to her as she slowly walked to the left aiming the plasma cutter out in front of her she made her way down the hallway to the flickering light. Around the corner layed another one of the creatures dead or seemed to be, starring cautiously at the body she moved forward stepping on some crumpled paper.
The leg twitched and twilight jumped back just as the creature thrusted itself upward onto its hooves swinging at the place she had stood just moments before, wasting no time and luckly not stalling twilight shot a plasma bolt at its right leg tearing it off. Another bolt ripped through its upper arm and the creature fell to the ground dead, now a twisted mangled rag doll.
"Wow my own conscience is trying to kill me", muttered twilight as a soft glowing light caught in the corner of her eye, she made her way to it kicking the now limp body aside, it was an audio log.
Activating it a voice spoke,"we think we found the way to kill them, you half to cut off their limbs!! Shooting them in the body is useless!", the frantic voice shut off and the audio log went silent, tossing it aside twilight started her way back to the right direction.
Twilight approached the door and placed her hoof on the hologram it paused then hissed open, just as she walked in a dead body of a stallion fell from the ceiling making twilight jump, she sighed and pressed on.
The door came to a long corridor her hoofsteps echoing of the great metal walls, it went down for what seemed like miles like the throat of a beast. Twilight walked forward the repeatable slaming of a door coming into ear shot, she could see that one of the doors had short circuited and was opening and closing way to fast to enter.
A stallion unicorn had tried to go through but had gotten his body cut in half, one on one side the other on the opposite, blood had spattered on the door from the incident. On the ground twilight caught a glimpse of a small mechanical device, her horn glowed softly as she levetated it off the ground to eye level.
Her chest display popped up and displayed,"STASIS MODULE", she starred at the small mechanical device and noticed it fit on her arm close to her hoof. Clamping the small device on her arm a small noise came from the back of her suit, the same noise when the rig syncs to your lifeline.
A rig sync popped up and mikes voice spoke,"twilight use the stasis module to slow that door down", the sync cut off and twilight glanced at the bloodied door.
Raising her left hoof to the door she activated the module shooting a small blue vortex with lightning pulsing around it as it collided with the door casting a light blue haze enveloping the door slowing it down dramatically. Twilight ran through the door without pausing for wait.
The haze around the door faded as the door returned to slamming over and over, she walked onto a small incline that opened into a hallway with multiple entry ways, confused on where to go twilight activated her deck navigation it pointed to her left the line resting on a door.
She began to make her way down the hallway when the lights shut off, twilight aimed her weapon a flash light coming on with it, panic and fear rippling through her body like a stone splashing into a pond.
Twilight swung the plasma cutter back and forth expecting one of the creatures to come from behind and stab into her neck or back. The lights snapped back on and the air still calm and motionless as if waiting for her to make the next move, placing her hoof on the door panel she entered the repair station and a rig sync popped up.
Circuits voice came on the rig sync,"twilight use your stasis to slow the arm when grabbing the damaged tram", the rig sync minimized and twilight started to walk towards the control console. She activated the first arm grabbing the tram and made her way to the other, a necromorph lunged out of the vent but quickly dispatched as twilight cut it down with a few bolts.
Activating the second arm was a bit more tricky, at first she missed and struck the floor, activating the it again twilight hit the claw with the stasis bolt. Making her way back up she then pressed the control panel activating the replacement procedure the two arms dragged in the damaged tram as the ishimuras voice spoke,"replacement in progress please stand-by".
A rig link popped up as static cleared and circuits face appeared,"twilight now that you got the tram replaced make your way down the way you came and retreive the motherboard. Please hurry i can hear something outside", the rig then minimized.
Twilight took the chance to take a breath, the air tasted like iron, the iron of blood and made a nasty taste within her mouth, the tram was being lowered for replacement rather quickly. The rest was cut short as a necromorph burst out of a vent than slamming into twilight knocking her off her hooves.
The plasma cutter was knocked a couple hooves from her, using her stasis the creature slowed in mid-air as if in a slow moving movie, taking the chance she scrambled over to the plasma cutter and aimed then fired at the creatures limbs.
By the time the quarel was over the new tram was just being installed onto the tracks, twilight made her way back into the hallway but something above caught her eye, the cold hungry stare of a necromorph, its two hind hooves now formed a tail, the flesh molded together and the bone of the spine formed now a sharp dagger sharp enough to cut through flesh.
The creature was behind the cieling grate but its dead rotten eyes seemed to burn into twilights soul, it screeched before running into the venting duct.
Twilight shook it off and continued to follow the deck navigator, once again she stasised the door and ran through it. Making her way towards the end she felt the ground underneath her vibrate as a floor vent burst open flinging into the stagnent air, from the vent came the very creature that had been staring her down, its dead eyes glaring hungrily at her as it launched itself through the air.
Its speed was fast and made it extremly hard to shoot, remembering her stasis twilight managed to capture the twisted creature in stasis and cut off its limbs. It lay there motionless its bottom jaw also gone like the rest and had long sharp fangs at least 6 inches long.
Twilight quickened her pace and made it to the lower deck the air was just suffocating with stalenessan and rot the office that contained was on the same level but the key was uptop. As she ran towards the elevator a necromorph had begun to chase her, flipping around she dismembered the creature as it screamed rocking the area.
Activating the the elevator control she road up the shaft and exited, a necromorph crashed through a air duct and charged at twilight grabbing her and biting for her neck. Twilight used all her strength and broke free of the necromorphs grip then slugging it in the head with the plasma cutter.
The necromorph stumbled back a little then snapped its head back in place with a load crack, twilight fired the plasma killing the necromorph. Twilight made her way up the scafolds to the area of the key and found it laying in the corner, a bloody hoof print smeared onto it.
Twilight raced back to the elevator luckily not coming into contactwith any of the necromorphs and road the shaft back down. Entering the maintenance office blood was caked all over the walls as if a spray painter had come in and blasted the whole place red, twilight saw the motherboard sitting there, just waiting for someone to come and snatch it away and thats exactly what she did.
Making her way through the hallway she then entered the control room and made her way to the damaged motherboard taking it out sparked a little and tossed it on the ground, twilight placed the new motherboard and clicked it in.
She then made her way to the control board and pressed the tram activation tab, her rig link buzzed then came on,"twilight thank celestia you made it, i need you to make your way to the bridge and check the damge report", said mike in an assuring voice, the rig switched over to circuit,"mike this is suicide your gonna get us all killed", snapped circuit at mike.
"I am not going to get us killed, i came her on a mission and im going to finish it. With or without you",said mike stearnly to circuit who was now shaking her head,"fine mike just dont get us killed", the rig link went to static then minimized.
Twilight made her way through the halls and arrived at the place where she had found the plasma cutter, the light now flickering furiously casting long shadows on the floor that looked like the spirits of the crew now bound in blood.
Before she entered the elevator twilight glanced over her shoulder thinking that she had heard someone whisper her name, but shrugged it off as a stray noise.
The elevator slowed to a stop at the lobby they had been ambushed at, the bodies of the repair crew now gone off probably mutated and hunting for her.
Making her way to the docking bridge a tailed necromorph had climbed over the railing, luckily twilight stasised him in time and dispatched him in a couple bolts. She starred at the repair ship, its body twisted and mangled as if forming a twisted metal origami figure.
Stepping inside she could see the screens and control panels now in static or broken entirely, she stepped into the flight control and came in front of a screen that,"LOAD DAMAGE REPORT?", she clicked the tab labeled 'load' with her hoof.
A violent explosion then rippled through-out the small ship almost knocking twilight off her hooves, running to the exit twilight leaped out of the ship just as another explosion knocked her to the ground.
Midway of getting up a final explosion thrust her to the ground as the reapair ship slided off the docking station crashing down below.
Twilight pushed her self up to her hooves and glanced over to her right, three necromorphs had just climbed over the railing. They wanted her and were hungry.
They wanted her among them.....hungry...and ready to feed.....