"Well your clear just as we suspected, White, we thought we might as well scan your chest cavity while your here. Thank you troops for finally finding little Scootaloo too. Now we can get the show on the road, prepare for next scan, this time for the filly" Sunset smiles and slowly hands White his chest scan which shows a regular chest cavity. "Congrats, its your lucky day, I can't say the same for Scootaloo though" Sunset giggled and walked over to the radio to check on everypony who was still currently doing their tasks. This included Twilight who was finally on her way too the generator and would be there in a matter of second. "Everypony report in, what is your status" Twilight stopped looking down and shaking her head. She let out a long sigh and couldn't believe she was helping Weyland, especially after what they did.
"This is Twilight, reporting in, I am about to enter the generator rooms, over" Twilight pressed her hooves on the door and pushed it open. Steam came flowing out from the heat that was being made by the generators and the alicorn couldn't help but wonder if she was too late. Stepping inside the room was filled with smoke and steam. "Things aren't looking so good here" As Twilight was pushing forward, Sunset was prepping Scootaloo for her scan. "I'm going to try and do this as quick as I can.....dammit...." Twilight lowered her head to keep the smoke out of her eyes
"Just keep moving, the station is seal limiting the movement of the Xenomorphs, you'll be fine especially if you pull that lever. Okay?" Twilight nodded to herself hearing Sunsets voice, she was hoping she was right but had a huge doubt that she was safe down here. Twilight pulled out her motion tracker and pushed forward, she saw nothing, the walls were thick so there were no signs of the motion that the ponies were making above her as they worked. So she knew if something popped up on the screen it would be down there with her. Twilight moved slowly and she began to hear the generators roaring as they worked, the sound was like freight trains running at full speed along the tracks and they seemed like they were about to derail. Sunset shimmer slowly lifted Scootaloo onto the table under the scan. "Now lay still and this will all be over soon okay?" Scootaloo looked at Sunset and frowned still not having been told what this was for and she was still terrified of Sunset Shimmer. "Lets begin shall we? Begin the scan, this should only take a couple minutes." Sunset punched the button and the scan began. White looked at Scootaloo and frowned, he was afraid to see them correct, that Scootaloo was infected with the Xenomorph spawn.
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Twilight levitated the lever up placing it in the activation slot too turn it off, this was the first of four and she pulled her hardest to turn it off. It was hard, it was like these emergency shut off slots hadn't been used in years. They were rusted and a pain to use, Twilight pulled the lever out and fell to the ground as it finally gave. Falling onto her back the alicorn began to grown , she slowly pushed herself up to move onto the next generator, thankfully they were placed side by side otherwise she was unsure she could do it and even with that she felt it was slim. the first generator came to a stop and all lights turned off as it finally shut down, the other three were still roaring and continued to get louder. The second generator had an open panel and tools laying in front of it as if it was being worked on earlier, a flashlight not far illuminated the area while it laid on the floor.
"Oh come on...just make this easy, please! I should have just left the damn ship and called it a day" Twilight grunted and slammed the lever into the slot of the second generator and thats when Coco started talking in her ear.
"Twilight, Twilight are you there...please come in, Twilight" Twilight stopped with the lever and quickly answered hearing her voice.
"Coco!? Coco how are you on this"
"Twilight, no time to explain! I heard you were sent down to the generators! Get out of there right now!" Coco seemed frantic as she spoke, something was very wrong and Twilight tossed the lever down to the ground.
"Coco, what is going on! Slow down and speak!"
"Twilight, don't shut down the generators, we will be left in the dark and everything down there will open up!" Twilight stopped and began to pace back and fourth as the generators began to speed up.
"But they are going to die, the generators are overworking themselves! We need to shut them down" Twilight was sure that was the truth because it sounded like it would be, without them this place would not run, turning them off and then back on might save them. Coco spoke louder and slammed her hoof down on the table.
"Twilight, you were right. There is something on this ship and its down there with you! Twilight if you don't get out of there your going to die!" Coco screamed and then pounding was heard coming from where Coco was, "Twilight I over heard the Weyland troops, they managed to lock down the ventilation, the creature...it only has one place to be, with you! RUN!!" the door burst down and Coco Pammels voice went dark. Twilights eyes widened as the generators began to howl, she was sent down here to never return, that was the plan. Twilight growled and threw the lever down and ran, she was out of ideas. Her stress levels peaked as her motion tracker began to beep on her side.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck!!! God dammit not again! I fell for her again!! UGH!!" Twilight took a turn and the generators began to rattle in the room, shaking they began to buckle off their mounts that kept them on the floor. Twilight opened her wings in attempt to fly her way through the tight hallway and then the generators gave way exploding, the shockwave picked the alicorn up and slammed her face first into a wall. The walls around her were smoking as the papers and boxes caught fire. The lights around her went black and flickered as the emergency lights turned on, the ship was going dark. Twilight's gun came flying out of its holster as she hit, her head began to pound along with her chest and a loud screech could be barely heard from above and around. Twilight began to bleed from the nose as she pushed herself up, all she could think about was how she fell for Sunsets tricks, again. Twilight looked down at the floor as the blood started dripping from her mouth, her hearing was extremely muffled and all she could feel was the pain. The ship walls were creaking from the explosion, light were flickering all around her as the motion tracker rested on the floor. Twilight looked over to her pistol and slowly levitated the gun up to her chest as she pushed herself up onto her hooves. The taste of iron in her mouth was overwhelming as the blood continued to gather there. Pushing her gun into its holster the alicorn uses her levitation spell to raise the motion tracker up to her face. The screen was blank, no movement, nothing. Twilight tried to smile but the pain in her chest was extreme and was all she could really focus on, except of course the motion tracker. She began to walk forward to exit the room as the fire inside began to spread, red lights flickered all around her until she excited, once she did the motion tracker began to beep a dot revealed itself on the screen and Twilight froze in place pulling out her gun.
"No..NO!!" Twilight pulled the hammer back as the dome head of the alien began to emerge from the darkness. Twilight teared up as the familiar face was now fully visible. Gash had spit dripping down from the lips as it slowly walked forward from the darkness. Twilight's body began to shake as she raised the gun up a level closer to her head. The large Xenomorph slowly opened its mouth and let out a loud high pitched scream. Twilight whipped the gun up and pointed it to her head and screamed loudly, her reflection beat off the aliens head as a tear slowly rolled down her cheek.
"I'm Sorry!!!" Twilight screamed louder and Gash's mouth opened as wide as it could revealing the dagger tongue that rested inside and a louder hiss escaped the creatures mouth. Twilight pulled the trigger with a click that soon followed. Twilight shook lightly as the gun did not fire. She was hoping she would die by her own will, not like this. Gash hissed lightly but was not killing her, the Xenomorphs tail raised up into the air and smacked the gun out of her magical grip quickly and the alien hissed louder. Twilight opened her eyes and looked at the dome as it reflected the flames that were coming from behind her. Spit dripped from the Xenomorphs mouth and the creature slowly turned away as its dagger tongue flew out of its mouth but not at her, it just did it randomly before returning back into her mouth. Twilight placed a hoof on her chest and the tears continued to fall as she watched Gash jump back up into the vents."W-what......"
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Sunset screamed and pushed White deeper into the lab, the stallion kept falling down with every push. The mare was angry and pushed him down again as he tried to get up, he screamed as his head slammed down against the back of a desk. Sunset tossed her gun to the floor and walked over to the table using her magic to grab something, White rubbed his head and flinched when suddenly a dead facehugger slapped him in the face and Sunset got down to look him in the eye, he was hurting as she huffed out angry breaths.
"What do you see here!! What do you see!!?" Sunset moved the large facehugger in front of Whites face again and he looked at it, the facehugger was big and its legs had some type of webbing on it. "what is this WHITE!!"
"Its a facehugger...what else could it be" Sunset slammed it on the floor and then levitated her gun up smacking him in the face with the barrel, "OW!!! What the fuck!!" the sound of his nose breaking could be heard by anypony in the room and he held it tightly and she picked the creature up again, "What do you want, I answered your stupid question" Sunset smiled and shook her head.
"What...is...this....white? Hmmm, do you realize this was the little shit who was on your little ambulance craft? Hmmm?" Sunset groaned and tossed it, "Thats not just any facehugger, White!! That is a Royal Facehugger!!"Sunset quickly got up and used her magic to push the desk over that White was leaning on causing him to smack his head on the ground, "Now tell me, White, What do you see here" Sunset raised a sheet of clear paper that showed and empty chest cavity.
"A scan of someponies chest....w-why?"
"That is what we saw when we scanned your chest, it was empty as it should be....thats not the problem WHITE!!" Sunset raised another paper that showed another chest cavity. "This is Scootaloo's chest scan, what do you see dammit!! What do you see!!!" White looked and to his surprise he saw nothing, it was a normal chest scan. "What do you see dammit!!! WHAT DO YOU SEE!" Whites eyes widened knowing one thing, if the Royal Chestburster wasn't inside him, or Scootaloo, that means. Sunset smiled and slowly nodded, "Twilight" The vent above the lab began to rumble and Sunset got up, her men quickly took out their weapons and looked around. "I hear something.....i hear something" White looked over to Sunsets gun knowing what they would do when they got their hooves on Twilight. He waited for the right moment and tried his best to not seem obvious. He quickly got up and ran as a long tail swung down from the ceiling slamming into one of the soldiers chests, the blood sprayed all over the floor. The rest of the troops began to open fire, the bullets slammed into the body of their fellow soldier and a couple smacking into the Xenomorph that was responsible for the killing. Sunset looked for her gun turning to see White running out the door with it. "Hey!!"
"Open fire!!!" One of the stallions screams and the body of the dead member was tosses aside slamming into two of the other soldiers. Gash burst down from the ventilation grabbing the remaining soldier from behind shoving his tail up his rear and out his mouth before quickly ripping it out. The other Xenmorph jumped down and walked over to the downed stallion grabbing them both, with a scream the alien picks them up raising its tail and slammed it into the heads of the soldiers from the side. Gash slowly turned and ran out of the room slamming into some other ponies and by instinct Gash used its dagger tongue to quickly deal with them. Red lights in the area began to flash and Sunset quickly tried to lock down the area but Gash was running for her, quickly she stepped away from the panel and ran. Gash stopped lunging at another pony who was closer. Sunset quickly went to her radio and ordered a lockdown.
"Lockdown the ship, nopony leaves! Lock it down!"