• Published 16th Dec 2016
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Lost Moon Dancer - qwefg



Moon Dancer wakes up in a cold room with no idea how she got there as a machine is telling her she is in space... but that can't possible be true.

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Ch3 Looking for Food

Moon Dancer sighed in relief as she walked out of the rest room. It took a bit of work, but she was finally free of that pesky ‘space suit’ and wearing her old sweater once again. She didn’t care that for some odd reason the suit had been placed over her old sweater causing parts of it to pinch her side. Her sweater was soft, comfortable, and a safe reminder of home as the suit was left discarded in a hamper bin.

The unicorn frowned as she noticed a new message on the nearby terminal and muttered to herself “This would be so much easier if you could hear me.”

She didn’t even bother reading the message as she type into the terminal “The suit was pinching me.

What if something happened that suddenly required you to be in the suit?” The machine quickly replied.

Moon Dancer couldn’t help but smile “Then I’d be dead. If something bad enough to warrant me wearing that suit happened while I was inside the ship then I doubt I’d be able to fix the problem by myself.

She watched the screen as she knew the machine was trying to come up with a counter to her argument. Of course she knew that she wasn’t in any danger… well that she wasn’t in space and there was still the chance that Starlight Glimmer… or whoever else (but not likely) had fillynapped her could appear.

Moon Dancer shook her head as she had to figure out how to open up another one of those pods and see if any of her friends were trapped inside. What would Twilight do?

“Well she would probably know some sort of spell that could help her out.” Moon Dancer replied with a hint of doubt “But the spells that I know require line of sight… and I have yet to see a window down here. I also don’t have Spike with me who could simply send a message to Princess Celestia or somepony else.”

That just left following the machine’s advice and going with her own judgment. If she didn’t trust the advise she wouldn’t do it… but for now she just had to play along.

She stared at the new message on the screen “Well why aren’t you wearing any pants at least?

Moon Dancer rubbed her chin as that statement didn’t make much sense because Equestria was used to showing everypony their cutie marks. Sure most ponies started to wrap up when the weather became colder… but she didn’t want to give up her sweater just so that suit wouldn’t pinch her body.

Why should I?” she typed into the machine

Do you really need to ask?” appeared on the screen before it flickered showing a real time image of her flank.

Moon Dancer blushed and quickly typed back “First of all you are a part of the ship and since you are a guy should you really make a comment like that? Secondly unless I’m raising my tail nothing will be seen and the only other being on this ship is a female dog!

There was a slight pause as Moon Dancer took a couple of deep breaths and couldn’t help but tug of her sweater down a little with her magic as her tail made certain to cover everything up. Of course that's when she noticed the camera zoom in on her magical aura that was tugging down her sweater.

The machine must have caught on as it quickly replied “I was just trying to analyze what that light was."

Moon Dancer slowly nodded her head as she typed back “How did you think I was able to use this keyboard? These buttons are far too small for me to use my hooves!

It could have been some sort of unknown function from the suit you were wearing?” The machine replied “It does have a lot of features and...

What about natural unicorn magic?” Moon Dancer interrupted as she waited for a response.

To her surprise the machine replied “Magic? This is all the documentation on magic that I have.”

The screen flickered as it revealed… stage magic. Tricks built upon misdirection, illusions, and stage props as there wasn’t any real magic involved with it.

She quickly took a deep breath and tried to calm down “Remember the Cookie Cutter Theorem Moon Dancer… which is more likely… the fact the machine was fed false information or that this place was built without any knowledge or connection to Equestria.”

She nodded to herself as she looked back at the machine and typed “How do I fix the Hydroponics System?”

******

Getting the Hydroponics System back online was rather simple. She was guided to the gardening section of the ship and found the designated parts located inside the room. The machine claimed they were in a box on the table located in the room… but there wasn’t a table inside the room and the missing parts were sort of scattered around the room.

On the bright side Moon Dancer felt the grass underneath her hooves as the ‘natural lighting’ system felt good bring some warmth to her body or at least some sense of normality to this strange place. The room itself was split into four sections with a stone sidewalk dividing each part of the room.

On the top left corner of the room stood a tree as an open field of grass with a park bench. The top right part of the room had an open field that reminded her of one of those pictures of a farmer’s field. There were even a few green sprouts sticking out of the ground as she couldn’t help but wonder if they were weeds, grass… or possible crops. What type of crop she had no idea, but she could tell it had green bits sticking out of the ground. The last two patches of the room were just fields of grass… but there seemed to be some work on clearing out some of the grass for more farm land.

As for the missing parts that she had found… they were the same strange ‘chips’ made out of small pieces of metal and wires that she seen before. She didn’t detect any magic in these parts nor did she find any gems or arcane secrets… just small bits of strange machinery that would somehow work when she wiped the dirt off them and plugged them into their assigned spots.

Once that was done she had spent her time waiting for the system to finish booting up as she looked over the various documents dealing with Hydroponics… and subsequently the gardening system. She couldn’t help but feel a little bit squeamish as she saw how they recycled the water from the plumbing system to help improve plant growth without any magic. She really felt nervous when she took a look at the various chemicals used to speed up plant growth.

Sure the documentation claimed they were safe… Moon Dancer started to hope that the next pony she found was a farmer or had some knowledge about farming. She just always put farming down as… earth ponies used earth pony magic and left it at that. It was something she was starting to regret.

This became more evident when her stomach started to grumble as she looked back at the grass and the growing crops. Sure some ponies had ate grass… but was that normal grass, wheat grass, or some sort of specially grown type of grass? All she could remember was that some health diets involved eating grass and her old kindergarten teacher told Bootleg not to eat the grass around the school… only for him to end up sick one day and being sent straight home when he didn’t listen to her.

What exactly was am I suppose to eat if the food had yet to be grown?” Moon Dancer muttered to herself as she looked for a nearby terminal.

There was some talk about dry rations… some in the kitchen and the extra supplies in the storage room. Some of the plants in the garden were budding… but she didn’t know what they were. Did she want to eat the mystery plants and hope nothing bad happen or take a shot with the ship’s rations?

What do I have to eat while the crops are growing?” she typed into the machine

There are dry rations aboard the ship that should be able to satisfy all nutrimental needs of the crew.” The machine replied back to her “Of course most crew members and reports seem to complain more about the taste than the nutrients given. On the bright side the system used to grow the crops is self-regulated so it does not need anyone to constantly look over the plants to ensure they are doing alright.

Moon dancer sighed “Self-regulated… so this place doesn’t need an earth pony to look over the crops. Of course I’d rather have an earth pony here to speed up the process.

She looked back at the room and began to wonder how the other races dealt with their method for growing food? Were diamond dogs meat eaters… or did they chew on gems like dragons? Sure griffins were omnivores so they didn’t need as many greens grown to suit their diets… and zebras probably had some sort of weird alchemy potions to speed up the farming process.

I won’t take earth pony farming for granted when I get back home.” She muttered to herself.

She couldn’t help but smile when the system had finished updating and more importantly… allowed her to wake up another pony trapped in the cryo pods and typed “Show me the cryo pods.

Moon Dancer looked at the pods as she tried to figure out which one needed to be opened up next. She began to sweat as she tried to figure out what she could say to the pony that woke up. She was the first one to wake up so naturally they’d expect her to know more than they did.

What if it wasn’t a pony, but a diamond dog, or maybe a dragon? She found a dog inside one of the pods and the keyboards didn’t seem to be designed for non-unicorn to be able to use.

Don’t worry Moon Dancer…” She muttered to herself “Everything is going to be just fine…"

Moon Dancer pushed the button as she stared at the screen waiting for the next member of the crew to be revealed. Fear coursed through her body as she tried to hope that it was one of her friends… than she wouldn’t be alone and she could try to explain what had happened. Maybe she would be lucky as they would know more about what was going on or how they got here?

Of course she didn’t want her friends trapped in this place with no clue on how to go back home as she wanted them to be safe. She wanted them to be back in Canterlot telling Twilight, Celestia… anypony that she was missing.

She stared at the pod both in hope and dread as the mist started to clear as the pod opened up. To her horror a series of books, boxes of herbal tea, various herbs and spices fell out of the pod with a rather irritated looking phoenix… that fell beak first onto the floor.

You’ve got to be kidding me.” Moon Dancer replied in annoyance as she banged her head up against the wall.

******

Half an hour must have passed as Moon Dancer was left lying on her back. The ship’s crew consisted up of a lost unicorn, a dog, and one phoenix that was currently pecking at a bag full of bird seeds that was also apparently packed along with it.

Celestia had a phoenix as a pet… maybe there was some sort of magical trick they could do that could help her out? Twilight had Spike to help send letters… but was that a natural ability or a trick/spell that had been taught to him?

She just had a picture of presenting a scroll to the phoenix expecting to see repeat the same trick Spike did to send letters to Celestia only for the scroll to end up as a pile of ash as the phoenix.

“Just look at the bright side Moon Dancer.” She muttered to herself “There are books, tea, and… a magical bird! Surely you’ll be able to figure something out!”

Moon Dancer looked at the screen as the machine had replied “Do you really need a pet dog and a pet bird?

She could see the point that it was trying to make… she had two useless crew members that were taking up space. Still there were two more tries she could make before trying to go with a more… drastic solution.

What purpose would they serve?” The machine replied “There are no farm animals around for the dog to look after. While the bird is colorful does it really serve any other purpose than to look colorful and eat bird seeds?

Phoenixes are magical creatures and there may be some use for the bird later on in the future.” Moon Dancer tried to explain “While they can be difficult to deal with there are a variety of uses for them… so for now let’s check our other options. How can we retrieve another member of the crew?

Well you can either restore power to crew quarters… but we would also have to assign rooms to the current crew.” The machine replied “That or we can activate the kitchen… you won’t have anyone wake up, but we could get you something to eat.”

Moon Dancer stared at the screen as she felt her stomach grumble once again as she typed “Why can’t we use activating the kitchen as one of the chances to add another crew member?

Because assigning who should be the ship’s chief can only be done when the first crops have finished growing and have been harvested.” The machine replied “So it would be an easy task to simply assign one of the pets as the ship’s chief or get a Kitchen Assistance Unit… but the crops would still take a couple of days or maybe even weeks depending on what was planted.”

Moon Dancer rubbed her temples with her hoof as she muttered “Deep breaths Moon Dancer… Deep breaths…”

She went through a breathing exercise before replying “Take me to the kitchen… then we’ll deal with crew quarters.”

******

Restoring power to the kitchen was easy as all she had to do was simply type ‘Restore power to kitchen’ right at the terminal outside the kitchen door. Using the kitchen on the other hoof was surprisingly a little bit more complicated than it should have been.

It took only a couple of minutes to find the dry rations the ship had listed for her to eat and a bowl for the dog to eat her kibble out of. The phoenix was left in the cryo room with the bird seeds as Moon Dancer couldn't think of anywhere else to put the bird... and it seemed content enough with the bird seed bags left with it.

Still the unicorn started to notice some more glaring signs that this ship wasn’t designed with ponies in mind. The cabinets were much higher than they should have been as a regular pony would need a ladder or magic or the ability to fly in order to reach some of the cabinets.
The chairs and seats were much higher up than they should have been and the space for a pony to sit in was much smaller making Moon Dancer feel a little bit overweight when she was forced to push two chairs to make enough room for her to sit down in front of the table. The last surprise was a little bit concerning… and dull at the same time.

The first minute or two ended with her panicking as she saw that some of the rations had been listed as meat… pork, chicken, hamburger…. It was only after looking at the actual ingredients between one of the meat packages and the vegetable packages did she calm down.

Apparently they both had the same ingredients written in the cryptic text called military ration… otherwise known as ‘taste like cardboard’ as the ‘flavors’ didn’t really make much of a difference between packages. Moon Dancer’s orange colored powder that called itself carrot tasted like dry flour. Adding water only made it feel and almost take like wet paste. Trying the one listed as chicken didn’t seem to make any difference both to her relief… and slight disappointment.

On the bright side she did feel less hungry as the contents were edible… in the sense that her stomach wasn’t grumbling anymore as she suddenly understood why certain members of the Royal Guard could be bribed with cake as the variety of ‘flavors’ was actually which type of food coloring they markers had decided to use.

At least the bottled water inside the fridge tasted like water. It sounded silly, but at this moment she didn’t trust any of the labels inside this place.

The Toaster she had found was strange… it worked similar to an Equestrian toaster. You set the time and press the buttons and lever to make it cook the ‘bread’ placed inside of it. The odd part was the metal coils didn’t have any connection to a magical source to heat it up so she took apart the device placing each piece onto the table before finding that it was made out of more pieces of metal and wire. After looking over the terminal and some of the safety rules for foals for using a toaster… Moon Dancer had discovered just how the Toaster operated.

The wires connected it to the ship’s power system where they then used the electricity to heat up the metal coils to generate enough heat to toast the bread. Without the wires and the lever on the toaster to connecting the path of electricity to the device than the toaster would not work.

“So the parts I’m collecting and putting back in are being used to help complete the earth for the electricity to move through.” Moon Dancer muttered to herself “But that just leaves the question on where the power source is coming from.”

She lit up her horn as she focused on trying to trace the path of electricity… only to discover that the wires seemed to run through the walls, floor, and even the ceiling above her. The heating of the rooms must have operated on a similar principle like the toaster.

That solved the question on where the heat was coming from… but not how the place was being powered. If electricity was being used to help power parts of this place then where was the electricity being generated?

The dog looked back up at her as Moon Dancer focused on her next task as she typed “Where is the cargo room?”

A map appeared on the screen marking her current position and the path down to the storage rooms.

May I suggest retrieving the Cooking Assistant Drone and securing the riot weapons first?” The machine replied

Moon Dancer looked at the screen and then back at the dry rations. A part of her mind couldn’t help but wonder if they kept livestock in cryo pods. If they had food packages labeled as meat than there must be some sort of means to help provide the missing meat… or this was just an attempt to scare Moon Dancer.

“Or the pony buying rations didn’t bother reading the labels since they all taste the same.” She couldn’t help but reply to herself “Still there has to be something in the storage rooms that could help me out.”

Still the amount of food stored in this building would help her determine how long this place was built to house ponies. Any text books or instruction manuals would help her figure out how this place operated. If worst came to worse finding enough blankets and a crow bar would help her free anypony trapped in a cryo pod.

Sure she had two more chances… to find somepony else…

“And it would be just my luck that I would get a pig… a chicken or maybe a bag of gold fish.” Moon Dancer told herself “At the very least I might be able to find some flour to bake some bread. Flour is easy to keep fresh right?”

******

Moon Dancer shivered as she made her way to the storage bay as the rooms were cold enough for her to see her breath. Her legs were shaking as she tried to bundle in her sweater to keep warm.

“Well the heating doesn’t seem to reach down here…” She replied as her teeth clattered against each other “So there must be some parts missing that prevent it from being connected to the rest of the building’s heating system.”

Every few steps deeper to the storage rooms seemed to feel as if the temperature dropped another degree. Her sweater did help a little… but she had a sneaking feeling that the heat had been turned off on purpose as some sort of attempt to force her back into the suit she had left behind.

Well she wasn’t going to whoever built this place win as she continued pressing forward to the storage rooms and find what she was looking for!

The next locked door had terminal nearby with a message on the screen that read “Warning low gravity in cargo rooms. Please be careful and watch your step.

“Yah right.” Moon Dancer replied as she opened up the door “Walking down stairs will make gravity become weaker… whoever wrote that message must have skipped…”

Moon Dancer never finished her sentence as she tripped underneath her own hooves. With an angry grunt she pushed herself and stepped down the hallway only to start tripping over her own hooves again as her sense of balance seemed to be off.

The unicorn huffed in annoyance as she pushed herself off the ground… only to hit the ceiling causing her to slowly drift back down to the floor rubbing her aching head.

“How... How did that just happen?” She muttered to herself in disbelief.

She pulled out one of the packets of rations that had been tucked away in her sweater pocket and tossed it down the hallway… only to see it sort of glide to the end of the hallway with ease. She tossed a second packet of rations towards the entrance as it fell to the ground much quicker... but not as fast as it should have been.

With a deep huff Moon Dancer pushed herself back up as she tried to deal with her new terrain. As she progressed down the hallway her steps kept growing lighter as she was starting to hop across the room as if it was some sort of trampoline. Near the end of the hallway she was almost ‘flying’ through the air as she managed to reach the doorway and the terminal nearby.

Without any hesitating she typed “What is happening down here?

Is there a problem due to the cold?” The machine replied.

Moon Dancer frowned as she typed back “Yes there is, but I’m more concern with why I’m nearly flying across the room with each step I take.

There was a short pause as Moon Dancer was currently hugging the terminal to keep herself steady. It felt unnerving to not have the reassuring grip of gravity keep her safe. Maybe if she was a Pegasus she would be alright as she could simply fly… but this hallway bothered her in ways she couldn’t explain.

There were no enchantments weakening the effect of gravity… and Moon Dancer couldn’t think of any other way for the apparent lack of gravity to be made. Sure you could fall at a certain rate making it seem as if gravity grew weaker, but that was just a trick of perception. Even then that wouldn't explain why gravity seemed to return to normal going back towards the entrance of this hallway.

In fact a part of her was torn between tearing the floor apart and trying to ripe out anything that looked 'odd' in an attempt to find the very well hidden spell... or trying to find some way to study the phenomenon and write a paper about it.

There seems to be some damage or missing parts to the storage room.” The machine replied “Nothing life threatening, but you may want to be careful since some of the ship’s cameras are also damaged.

Moon Dancer nodded as apparently she wasn’t going to be told the answer to her question “It’s probably chaos magic… Nopony has really studied it in detail due to the lack of chaos magic to study… and Nopony want to have Discord's assistance to help study chaos magic.”

That was the answer she was going to use to explain the phenomenon as she focused on the task ahead of her. Grabbing the ration pack with her magic Moon Dancer opened up the door and tossed it into the new hallway to test the strength of gravity in the hallway. Sadly the unicorn watched the food packet disappear into the distance without even touching the floor.

With a deep breath the she pushed herself into the next hallway and collided into… reached the first cargo room door. She held onto the new terminal in front and punched in the command to make the door open up. The unicorn was rewarded with the sight of floating crates… Large metal crates as big as her body just floating in the air as if they were clouds.

Moon Dancer chuckled nervously “Deep breaths Moon Dancer… just take deep breaths. Just pretend you are practicing for the unlikely chance that you will also turn into an alicorn in the nearby future.” Her horn started to glow “Or you could simply try pulling the boxes over to yourself!”

Her arcane glow managed to grab one of the crates very easily as it didn’t require a lot of effort to pull one to her. The only problem was that the box quickly started to accelerate faster than she had planned as it came rushing towards the doorway.

Moon Dancer ducked behind the wall as the box flew out the door and slammed against the nearby wall as the sound of metal scrapping against metal could be heard out in the hallway. She looked back at the box in a mixture of surprise as it wasn’t damaged… and fear.

She had nearly sent that object flying at her and after hearing it crash against the wall Moon Dancer was afraid of what would have happened if that box had hit her. Would the impact be weaker due to the lesser gravity or would it not have mattered since the box had stayed firmly on the ground after it flew out of the room.

Moon Dancer took a deep breath as jumped over to the box that had come from the room. She used her magic to unlock the box and push open the lid only to find a dead body. An unknown body that certainly didn’t belong to Equestria curled up in what looked like the fetal position… She didn’t know what the creature would have looked like when it was alive since somepony had tried incinerating the body after it's death, but the corpse certainly didn’t belong to a pony!

Moon Dancer slammed the lid shut in fear only to now notice message writing on the top of the lid “Potions are death. Space is Life. It is better to die free than to live in shackles.

So like any highly educated pony who had went to Celestia’s school for gifted unicorns… she ran to the nearby terminal typing/screaming “Can you see anything down here?”

There was a slight pause before the machine replied “The ship’s cameras are down in that hallway. Is there a problem?”

Moon Dancer glanced back at the coffin and the dead body. The dead and heavily burnt body could be seen as she slammed the lid shut once again. Her hair stood on end as she didn’t know if she should be screaming in terror or be thankful that she had already visited the restroom prior to coming here.

Not yet…” Moon Dancer lied “I nearly hit myself when I tried to drag a crate out of the room.”

Be careful as some of those packages can be heavy or have fragile contents.” The machine replied “Here is the location of a few carts to help you push the items along and remember to be careful and take into account of the increase in gravity when moving the items out of the storage area.

She couldn’t help but chuckle nervously as she replied “Thank you.

There was a dead crew member inside a metal box as she had no idea what had happened! She had no idea what she was suppose to say! If this was a horror novel saying you found a body was the last thing you were suppose to do, but at the same time finding a dead body in a mystery novel meant you had to tell somepony because it was important!

Moon Dancer took a deep breath as she walked into the room and check the boxes for any more unpleasant surprises. As long as they didn’t have anything written on the lid then they were safe.

She carefully pulled them out of the room and placed them onto the carts after opening them up to make sure they were safe. Most of the crates had simple labels as she found more weird parts, bags of dry sand labeled as food along with some vitamin supplement pills.

She did find three boxes for the Kitchen Assistant Drone as one of them was empty for some reason… in fact only a few of the boxes were full and most were half or nearly empty for some odd reason.

The riot weapons that she had found were also rather strange. She did recognize the standard shield and police sticks… even if the shield was made out of a strange material that she could see through and it as nearly big as her. Some of the items looked more like foal toys as it could have been possible that they were accidently placed with the rest of the riot gear.

Moon Dancer sighed in relief as she did manage to find some flour, a few frozen vegetables, and some other stuff to help make something if she had a cook book.

“Get the kitchen working and try to free somepony.” Moon Dancer told herself “Once that is done then you can worry about the creepy crate. For now just bring everything to the kitchen and then take it from there.”

She glanced back at the crate “Just forget about the crate as…”

Moon Dancer sighed as she took a deep breath and inspected the creepy crate she was planning to leave behind. She also mentally prepared herself to cast a shield spell just to be safe and certainly not because she was scared of what might be lurking with the body inside the creepy crate as she cracked open the lid once again.

The body wasn’t much to look at as it seemed as if somepony had tried reducing the body to a pile of ash. Still she could make out some of the figure as the bones seemed to suggest it was bipedal. The… hands? Hooves? Possibly fins? The front limbs of the creature were either melted together from the intense heat or they were naturally supposed to be together.

The skull seemed to be misshaped, but that could have been due to the intense heat melting the bones and distorting it. It was more likely that used to have been a diamond dog since dragons could bathe in lava.

“Maybe diamond dogs helped build this place.” Moon Dancer muttered to herself “They are good diggers… but why was she or he placed in this crate?”

Her horn lit up as she scanned the body for anything unusual only to find a small piece of melted metal on one of the bones. She gulped as she tried to pull it out of the box only for bits of ash to start getting kicked up into the air. Moon Dancer let go of the item and waved her hoof trying to keep the dust and ash away from her mouth. Only after the everything had settled back down did she try sticking her head into the crate to get a better look at the piece of metal.

She could make out a few letters before she pulled herself away from the crate and closed the box shut. Without wasting any time she typed into the terminal “What does IC3C mean?

IC3C stands for Incendiary Class 3 Container. These are marked for dangerous and highly volatile compounds that are used to remove dangerous contaminants from an area.” The machine stated “In the event of a dangerous biological contaminant one should use an IC3C to cleanse the area.

Moon Dancer gulped as she typed “What classifies as a dangerous biological contaminant?

Unknown disease. Unknown substance. Illegal Substance.” The machine replied

Moon Dancer felt herself starting to sweat as she typed “What is Illegal Substance?”

Information is restricted.” Was the only message that appeared.

Moon Dancer looked back at the coffin “Is there an illegal substance here?

Illegal Substance is not aboard this ship.” The machine replied “If one should be found than deploy a IC3C device to destroy the containament to ensure the safety of the crew. The IC3C will generate enough heat to destroy all traces of Illegal Substance.”

Moon Dancer slowly nodded her head as a new message appeared “Why have you asked for this information?”

The unicorn panicked as she typed “I found an item labeled IC3C.”

Please be careful with IC3C and do not pull the pin on the device. As long as the items are secure in their packaging and the pin stays on the device that the IC3C will not go off.” The machine replied “You may leave the IC3C in the storage room or bring it with you if you wish.”

Moon Dancer chuckled as she glanced back at the coffin… there was somepony or something here before Moon Dancer woke up. The only question was what happened to the creature in the coffin… and what was strong enough to melt bones? What ever the substance was it had to be small enough to fit inside the crate with the corpse."

She quickly shook her head “Now you know why only professionals mess around with alchemy and why there are so many warning signs when dealing with certain items.

She opened the box full of riot gear and pulled out one of the riot shields before slipping it onto her back. She had no idea what she was going to do with it… but she felt safer having it with her right now. There were two more rooms that she hadn’t checked, but she had spent enough time down here.

All she had to do was get the kitchen working or assign room numbers to try to free another pony and if a room had an item labeled IC3C near it… she’d quickly turn around and look for a different room to search.