//------------------------------// // Helping the Enemy // Story: Alien: Twilight MIA // by TwiRaptor //------------------------------// "Twilight! Wait! Let me explain!" Sunset burst out of the conference room as they were both now out of sight of the rest of the Weyland troops the unicorn seemed to have flipped emotion coins acting all kind and cuddly, "Twilight!!" Sunset stopped and Twilight turned around drawing her pistol from her side pointing it at the Unicorn. Sunsets eyes widened and her ears pinned back as she saw Twilight pull the gun out. "Twilight...." "How did you....How are you..." Twilight whipped her gun to the floor and stomped her hoof seeing the Unicorn again, "How are you alive!?" Twilight teared up remembering the stab wound that was dealt to her gut by the Unicorn. Twilight didn't keep eye contact with her not wanting to get soft or to fall for anything she had to say. "You died, I saw you die" Sunset moved a bit closer and smiled softly. "You hurt me...you tried to kill me Sunset! You lied to me, you killed my friends, you ruined my life!" Twilight growled and Sunset backed up now. "Twilight, I only did what I thought was right. It is my duty to make sure Weyland never falls or that the truth never gets out. Could you imagine what would happen if everypony knew what you do?" Sunset tilted her head and levitated Twilights gun up placing it back in the alicorns holster. "They would never trust Weyland again, there would be constant panic and space travel would more than likely be banned! We need the materials and money that we get from space, we also need the Xenomorph" Sunset snapped the holster shut around the gun and tightened Twilights belt. "You don't know what your doing Twilight, your going to get yourself killed" Sunset narrowed her cyan eyes at Twilight and shook her head lightly. "I get you hate me because of the things I did at Valuntas but you need to listen to me, you need to get off this station right now!" Twilight looked at her gun and stepped forward standing her ground against her old friend. "I am not going anywhere, I am a survivor of Valuntas and I will continue to survive here! I am not leaving til I know the creature is gone! If you don't like it Sunset that is too bad. I am staying even if it gets my flank thrown in a cell for the rest of my life. Coco may be a fool for trusting you but I am not, I know your true plan and intentions" Twilight looked around and noticed White Lightning walking over and he too looked unhappy to see Sunset as well, both he and Twilight had there reasons too, after all, they all trusted her back at Valuntas and she had no problem breaking it. Sunset watched White walk pass and stop , he now stood next to Twilight. "Twilight, you don't understand...there are two Xenomorphs already on this station and if we don't find the chestburster before it feeds we will have a big mess on our hooves. We can't have ponies like you getting in the way" Sunset opened her saddlebag and quickly showed Twilight a picture of a facehugger. "There was one of these found dead on your ship, Twilight. I know this and so does the rest of the troops here. Our doctor has right to believe that Scootaloo has the spawn in her chest..." Twilights ears pin back and she unstraps her gun pulling it out. "If you hurt her!!" Sunset moved forward and pushed the gun down. "We aren't!! We can't without knowing for sure! We never got a chance to to a chest x-ray because Scootaloo was pulled out of the room before the doc could. Coco Pammel didn't see a reason for an x-ray for a concussion which is what we said she had in the report" Sunset smiled and took her hoof off the gun. "We can check again but we need to know where she is" Twilights ears pinned back again and she looked to White before looking back at Sunset. Sunset looked over and around noticing Scootaloo wasn't there. "Where is the filly?" Sunsets eyes narrowed and Twilight glared back at her shaking her head, "Where is she!!!" Twilight lowered her head and sniffled. "I'm not telling you! Your going to hurt her and I won't allow you too do that now back off!!" Twilight stomped her hoof and glared at Sunset with hate in her eyes, Sunset attempted to speak and move towards her "Back off!!" .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Scootaloo began to breath heavily as she stared at the dead pony, it had happened so fast, she was sitting with the family as she was waiting for Twilight and White. Then it happened, it came from the ventilation so quickly and grabbed a hold of the father..Scootaloo was scared as she stared at the body. She was sure that it knew she was in here still as she could hear it still moving around. She was wondering for awhile where Twilight was, unaware of the events that prevented Twilight from coming to get her. She stayed in the room with a kind family that offered her company as she waited and now they were laying dead on the floor. She wanted to run and leave but was afraid and quickly figured out that she couldn't as the feet of the creature walked right by the table she was hiding under. Its long tail slide across the floor lightly smacking the legs of the table as it walked by. Scootaloo managed to move back every time the tail was about to touch her as to not allow it to know she was under there. It was a Xenomorph and it was hissing loudly as it moved around the room looking for her and anypony else who was inside the room. "Go away...go away....go away please" Scootaloo pleaded to herself wishing it would just leave, the blood from one of the bodies was slowly puddling and growing closer to her. The bottom of her hooves were becoming red as she laid there, the dead eyes of the father just stared at her and she wanted it too all stop. "Go away" then the creature reached up into the vent and climbed up into the vent of which it came from. Scootaloo waited for a couple minutes and then took a deep breath, it had been quiet for long enough and she was ready to go. Pushing herself out from under the table the filly rushes to the door pushing it open. Two ponies were about to enter as she burst out the door and they both screamed as they saw the blood on her and on the floor. She sprinted faster as when she heard the vent rumble, the Xenomorph slammed down from above and screamed and grabs one of the ponies by the head shoving its dagger tongue into his head. The other pony starts running and quickly passes Scootaloo. "Run!!! Lock this hall down!! Hurry!!" The Xenomorph through the other pony to the ground and hissed, it was the chestburster who was now fully grown. As the other pony made it to the door he waved to Scootaloo to hurry. "Come on little one, move!! Quickly!!" Scootaloo rushed over to the pony but came to a dead stop as she noticed the shine of another dome head rising from behind the pony, "Come on don't be afraid" Scootaloo screamed and pointed behind him, the stallion turned and came face to face with the second Xenomorph, it was Gash. "RUN!!!!" he screamed and Gash quickly slammed its hand into the ponies throat and picked him up above the ground , "Go kid!! Over there!! NOW!" Scootaloo looked to where he pointed and saw a door and she started running to it with tears forming in her eyes. The stallion went limp as Gash shoved its dagger tongue through his head and slowly removed it. Scootaloo quickly pressed the button by the door and she heard the body of the stallion topple onto the floor and Gash hiss afterwards. The door slowly opened and she rushed inside smashing her hoof onto the button on the otherside to seal it shut. She backed up and smiled as she saw the door seal, she was away from them it seemed. "Gash...you can't get me in here...even if you have a friend. I am safe from you and there is nothing you can do to get me" Scootaloo said and she kicked her hoof across the ground and smirked feeling less scared of the monster after managing to escape it with that ponies help. "Take that Gash!" Scootaloo smiled and closed her eyes taking deep breaths. Gash paced outside the room as if looking for a way inside but soon jumped up into the rafters being followed by the other Xenomorph. Soon after they left the area, Weyland troops stormed in holding their motion trackers. "Move, look for survivors and lock down this area, NOW!!" Scootaloo quickly moved back and moved to hide under a table once again, she would always be scared of them. She stared at the vent Gash jumped into wondering where the creature went, or if it had even left the room. "I've got movement, its coming from over there!" The stallion pointed to the door that Scootaloo was behind. "Lets move!" Scootaloo shook her head as the ponies headed over to the door. As they were about to open the door up they stopped. "Wait...I am picking up something else, its right over" they rushed out of the door after it loading their weapons, "Confirmed Xenomorph signature, move!!" .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. "Fine, just follow me then if your not going to help me find her. Don't do anything stupid either" Sunset had finally given up as she came to a stop, she and Twilight were talking for awhile as they walked down the hall. "There are several issues we need to fix before we can get rid of our main problem, me and my team will work on finding the chestburster before it can grow while you two work on the simple tasks" Sunset turned to White Lightning and grinned. "You will be in charge of keeping ponies out of the lab....we don't need panic from the workers, Twilight...you are going down to the generator room to shut them down" Twilight raised a brow and tilted her head in confusion of why. "Wait, why would we need to shut them down, we will be putting the ship into darkness" Twilight tilted her head more and began to tap her hoof, "That and why do you expect me to listen to you?" Sunset smiled softly and levitated a large lever to her, it was the lever she was going to use to shut down the generators. "You can listen to me or be sent out into space on your asses, which do you prefer? We need to shut them down temporarily to let them cooldown. The repair stallion is suspected to have fled the ship or in a worst case scenario, got himself caught by our grown Xenomorph that you saw leave the lab" Sunset coughed and Twilight took the lever with her magic, "So there is no way of fixing them today, they need constant maintenance and we currently can't do the daily part so we are going to shut them down to give them time cool off. Time is short so move fast" Twilight frowned and nodded knowing she didn't have a choice if she wanted to stay here she needed to help the Weyland Corp. "Get moving, I have my own mission to do. Come back to the conference room when your finished. Take a motion tracker with you" White tapped his hoof and slowly moved over to Sunset. "You don't have to be so bossy...I know your still with Weyland but...there has to be more too you than the mare I stabbed back at Valuntas" Sunset pulled out a gun and pointed at him after he mention that. "Or maybe not...your still pissed about that obviously" Sunset nodded and put her gun away. "I'll get to the lab then" White walked off and Twilight looked to Sunset and Sunset looked back and their eyes locked briefly. "I'll go to the generators then" Twilight turned around and was ready to leave but Sunset stopped her and turned her around now looking into the eyes of the unicorn again. "Be careful, Twilight, we will end this...you will see soon enough that Weyland always protects those who follow them. You might find your place working with us" Sunset smiled and turned Twilight lightly nudging her in the right path, "Go on now" Twilight frowned and slowly started walking with the lever next to her, " Oh and don't worry, when we scan Scootaloo's chest and find the Xeno in the x-ray...I will make sure she isn't hurting anymore" Sunset turned and left. "Good luck"