Alien – Equestria 2.0
Based of Alien - Isolation
Chapter one: Waking up
“Hah!” I yell as I wake up. Steam hisses around me as I hear an artificial voice.
It’s freezing in here.
“Hello, Base, you have been in cryo sleep since 2015. The date is 28 June, 2059. Please look up and activate the release valve”
I look upwards, finding a small lever. I grab it and pull as hard as I can. I feel horribly weak and can’t do much.
I grab it again and slam it down, which activates the door.
Steam hisses all around me as I step out of the small chamber.
All I remember is my name is Base Kick, I have a very light grey coat, with a lime and dark blue mane. I am a Unicorn with a rare condition which means my eyes are both different colours.
A little robot flies over to me. He’s a small parasprite bot with one eye. And two jets hovering him in the air.
“Hey, my name’s Proton, I’ve been your bot, waiting for your wake all these years”
I rub my mane.
“So, what happened here? Where am I and where is everypony else? All I can remember is that I signed up for Cloudsdale’s cryo sleep program…”
“You did! And our new technology prevented you from aging all these years. I don’t know much about this ship, as uh, I think we’re the only ones here”
“Ship?” I ask.
The little robot flies over to a tiny window, showing me space, with a planet close by.
“That’s Equestria there” He says.
“I… I need to get out of here… “I say.
“No, I can’t let you go; you’re confined to this room, Please wait until an administrator is able to get you out”
“Well, I need to find out what happened here”
“Hey…” Proton starts.
I get changed into the clothes lying on the bench. They’re a tight grey-ish two piece suit.
I notice that they have many pockets, with a belt and a gun holster.
I step out of the room, noticing its pretty dark outside. The only light is the light of the sun, through roof windows.
There is steam hissing everywhere, from several busted pipes.
“Hey, if you’re leaving, I’m required by protocol to stay with you” Proto says.
I walk through the room, getting worried after I see blood on the walls.
“Oh, I don’t know anything about that, this place is quite old, after all” Proto says.
“Hello? Anypony there?” I yell.
No answer.
I keep trotting though the room, turning a corner as I spot a small white box with a cross on top.
I trot up to it and drop it into my saddlebags. I might need it.
I get scared every time I hear a clank, or steam hiss.
I look around the room, finding a small leather book, with a cartoonish ‘diary’ written on it.
I open it.
’12 February, 2020. Dear diary: today is the first day of the new SS Equestria 2.0! I’m so excited to board it! Today some ponies are being wheeled into the ship before us; they are in some kind of white tubes, so we aren’t really allowed to board it until tonight. I’m so excited about finally living in space after Equestria’s over filling of ponies, we have nowhere to live except in that ship!
So I was one of the people in the cryo tubes…
“Proton, how big is this ship and what is it for?”
“It’s basically a giant spaceport. Just like an airport, but in… space” He says, “I haven’t really explored it, I've been with you the whole time”
Suddenly, I hear a loud scream.
A colt scream.
I rush to the site of it, with Proton not far behind.
“What the hell was that!?” I yell to him.
“I don’t know!”
I find the source. A colt lying against the wall. Unicorn.
There is a large bloodstain next to him.
“Oh, Celestia!” I yell as I crouch next to him.
I check his pulse. Very weak.
He coughs up a bunch of blood.
“G-get out of here while you ccan. Get to t-the e-escape p-pods…”
He drops on the floor. I start to get worried.
Get out of here why?
I get up and quickly rush into another room. I find another dead mare with a security guard uniform. I notice she has a Taser.
I hesitantly take it, knowing looting is very bad, but I’d just seen a pony die, I don’t want to be the next one. Did a war break out or something?
I tell Proton to look around the hallway, see if there's anything useful. When he comes back with nothing, I decide to continue.
I walk through a large doorway to find a sign:
GENERATOR ROOM
The room has a large device implanted into the side of it, which I guess is a generator.
There is a small hoof crank on the side. I grab it and rotate it faster and faster. The thing starts up like an old gramophone.
The generator starts vibrating violently as the lights begin to come on.
Now the hallway is lit.
“Good job” Proton says.
“Thanks”
I trot through the hallway, seeing many office rooms and air vents.
There is random stuff all over the floor. Chunks of metal to pipes.
I feel my flank to find the taser. I float it out, holding it in front of me as I enter the room.
Nothing. Just a large office room.
I find a small terminal, glowing green.
I play the first audio file:
“Year 1: The SS Equestria 2.0: Whooee. This place is fulla luck. We've got nearly twenty jets flying in every day, with the stores nearly out of stock. The companies here are getting rich off this spaceport, sure, it took two years of hard labour to build it, but boy, was it worth it. If anyone happens to find this, send it to the Pegasi of Cloudsdale. We're getting rich offa them.
It was clearly a stallion with a western accent.
“So, this ship, the Equestria 2.0...” I start.
“SS Equestria 2.0” Proton corrects.
“Yeah, is an abandoned spaceport, but what actually happened?” I ask myself.
“Dunno” Proton replies.
This room was quite clearly a radar tower, where they created the jet's flightpath and detected them all across Equestria.
Proton looks around the room and finds a small combat knife. Probably from a security guard or something. He tells me where it is and I drop it into my saddlebags.
I trot downstairs from the 'control tower' room and enter a massive lobby. The place with all the stores and stuff, with a huge window out the side. I trot up to a higher level to get a good look out of it.
Suddenly I hear a massive rumbling as a giant ship flies past the window!
I see the Cloudsdale logo on the side. Maybe they'll save me!
I jump up and down trying to get their attention.
“Proton! Can you contact them?” I ask.
“I'll try” He says as he flicks through radio channels.
Most are fuzzy, with few music channels being hit.
“I can't find their frequency!” He yells.
“Warning! Emergency light shield has been activated in control tower!” Says a loud female voice from the loudspeakers.
Suddenly I hear an even louder rumble as the giant glass windows are covered by huge metal covers!
“No! NO!” I yell as the doors shut completely.
“Oh... That just completely cut off our frequency” Proton says.
The big question is, the voice said that it was 'activated from the control tower'
Who activated it?
We have lost all hope.
I keep trotting as I hear a light groan.
I rush over to the source and see a beautiful yellow mare, bleeding and hurt, on the floor.
“Do you know anything about this place?” I ask her.
“Th-the creature... It... was here...” She stutters, “Get-t-to the p-pods”
“I know, I know!” I yell, “Can I help you?”
“I – I need mor-morphine” She says, “In that room” She points a hoof at a room, one floor up.
I nod as she drops and smiles.
I climb up the old, dusty escalator as I hear another ship rattle past.
“Is there anypony, somepony out there?!” I yell at Proton.
He starts to flick through channels.
“Nothing. I can't get through the barrier” He says.
“SHIT!” I yell as I slam my hoof down on the metal.
I hear a loud screech coming from the place we came from.
“Get down!” whispers Proton as I take cover behind a barrier.
I carefully peek over the barrier and wish I hadn't.
Two floors down is a horrible creature. It has a tall, black body with a head like a pod, with no eyes and a terrifying drooly mouth. It also has a very sharp looking long-ass tail.
I quickly glance at the pony, as she screws her face up in pain and moans loudly.
“Shit!” I whisper.
The monstrosity rushes up the escalator and towards the mare.
I keep watching as it steps in front of her, as her eyes widen and she tries to escape.
“Help! The creature!” She yells as it impales her through the body!
Blood splatters everywhere.
“Celestia!” I whisper as it slowly brings her defenceless dying body towards it.
It hisses at her as she mouths the word, “bitch” at it.
The lifeform starts to vibrate it's head as it opens it's mouth.
Suddenly, like a flash of lightning, a smaller mouth pops out and bursts through her face, blood splattering everywhere. The beautiful yellow mare takes her last gasping breath, and dies.
I gag as I keep watching.
The alien carefully slides her body off it's giant tail, letting the blood pool around her.
It lets off another loud screech as it wanders off into the next room, making a crunch as it steps on the mare.
I start to panic as turn to Proton.
“Do you have any information on that thing?”
“No, I already scanned it for all our known alien databases”
“Then we need to find a weapon” I say.
I float the taser out of the holster.
“This isn't gonna cut it” I say.
Proton gives a little “Mmm” and a nod.
As I get up I notice something on the ground, a tattered piece of paper.
I coat it in my magic and hover it up towards me.
It's a map.
It shows the way around the place, even the vents.
“We should probably go back to the control centre to find out where the escape pods are” Says Proton.
“Yeah”
We wander to the place we, and the lifeform came from.
What surprises me is the huge door. It's at least one metre thick of solid metal and has a small keypad on the front.
My heart starts to race.
I turn to Proton, with a sad look on my face.
“Please tell me you know this one” I ask.
He pauses for a few seconds.
“Sure don't” He says.
“SHIT!” I yell as I slam my hoof on the giant door, making a loud clang.
I hear something that destroys me.
Another screech.
I see the huge black alien step into the door.
“Get down!” Whispers Proton.
The alien starts to run.
Towards us.
It's huge thumping footsteps are like a gunshot.
Suddenly, it's huge body leaps over the desk we're behind.
I yell as I draw the taser and fire right into it's body.
It screeches as the electricity reaches it's massive leathery black torso, until the prongs literally fall off, hissing.
The alien screams again, and leaps into the vent above us.
The taser automatically sucks the two prongs back up, which are covered with a green liquid.
Suddenly, the liquid begins to hiss as the prongs drip and begin to melt the tip of the gun!
I yell and drop it as the yellow taser begins to vaporise until nothing but a yellow puddle is left.
“What... was that...” I stammer.
“I-t's blood is... Acid?” Says Proton, “Wow”
I pull out the map and look at it.
“Ok... it says... there are some escape pods here, although they are all the way on the other side of the ship”
“Well, lets go then” Says Proton.
“Looky ‘ere, missy ‘ere just got ap from cryo sleep!” One of them says in a thick accent.
I don’t say anything and wrap my magic around the revolver.
“Okay guys, at ease” Another one, which I presume to be the leader, says.
Everypony lowers their weapons.
I slowly walk backwards.
“Little bitch doesn’t wanna talk, ey?” The leader says.
I quickly draw the revolver and aim at them, while Proton hovers up behind them.
“If you don’t mind, I’ll be going now” I say.
Suddenly, they draw their weapons!
I scream and fire two rounds into the leader’s chest.
He gasps and steps backwards, then looks up and smiles.
My heart sinks into my stomach as I realise he’s wearing a bulletproof vest.
“Get her” He says.
Two of the guys jump at me.
I plant a hoof right into a pony’s stomach, sending him flying.
The other one gets behind me and punches the back of my head.
The pain is unbearable.
I collapse on the floor, ready to die.
All I can see as I’m being hauled away is Proton.
? HOURS LATER
“hh” I hear as my vision and hearing regains.
“Hey” Proton says as he hovers in front of me.
“Ah, shit, my head” I whisper as I touch the back of my head.
“They’re playing a drinking game or something; this is my chance to get you out”
A laser emits from his green eye, poking at the cheap lock.
Eventually, the lock gives way and I catch it to prevent noise.
“They left your stuff in the armory” He says.
Before I can raise a hoof, he turns and faces a corridor.
“That way”
I gently place the half melted lock down and slowly trot to the room.
It’s not that big, one thing I notice is the sheer number of weapons.
They have hatchets, weapons I don’t have a name for and at least 10 of the same model of my revolver.
I find my saddlebags and drop them over myself.
Before I go, I decide to replace the revolver for a lightweight handgun that looks like a Glock.
As I’m leaving, I notice a large chest. Not wooden, but a futuristic metal.
I open it and see a giant L118a sniper rifle with metal camo.
I instantly grab it and sling it over my back, taking a few magazines as well.
Next, I trot carefully to the main room, which is easy to find because of the voices and laughter.
I pull out the Glock and carefully peek around the corner.
Three of them are sitting in a circle at a table, with five bottles of Applejack Daniels on it.
“So, what should we do ‘ith the ‘ittle bugger?” The one with the accent says.
“Kill her” Says the leader.
“I say we keep her, for… reasons” The other one says mysteriously, smiling.
“Cam on, speak up Ajax!” The accented guy says, “Why?”
“Speakin’ about the girl, i’mma go check on her” Ajax says to avoid saying anything.
I gasp quietly and run back to the cage and shut the door, using the darkness to hide my weapons.
“What are you doing?!” Proton says.
“I’ve got a plan” I say, “Go look for a vent”
“Mmm” Proton says as he flies away.
At that very moment, I begin to hear hoofsteps.
As he trots over, I pretend to act unconscious, until he notices the lock is missing.
I leap out, holding the knife and put a hoof around him, dragging him behind a barrel, knife on his throat.
“Say anything, you’re dead” I say, trying to act as intimidating as possible. I won’t really kill him.
He nods quickly.
“How do I get out?” I ask him.
Suddenly, I feel a searing pain as something large and sharp gets inserted into my back leg.
I hold back the scream and tears and, without hesitation, slide the knife quickly across his throat.
Blood splatters over the dark blue barrel as his lifeless body drops on top of me.
I groan as I slide his body off of mine and look at the bowie knife he stuck in my leg.
I begin to panic as I realised that not only was I in great danger, but had also just killed somepony. I control my hyperventilation and grab the handle of the knife. I pull on it gently to reveal another wave of terrible pain.
I groan as I let go of it.
I put my knife in my saddlebags and think of what to do next.
At that moment, Proton returns.
“Hey, I found one down there” He looks down a 15 foot drop-off into what looks like a hangar of some sort.
“Great” I say as I push Ajax’s body into the darkness.
I go back to the main room and look in horror as one of them is on the floor, bruised and bleeding.
“Okay, I think we’re getting out of here without alerting any attention” I say.
Proton nods.
Suddenly, Proton flies up and hits the roof, while making strange noises.
“What was that?” Says the leader.
“Proton! Let’s go!” I say as I begin to climb down the ladder.
“H-h-hackers!” He yells.
“Shit!” I say as I leap off the ladder, landing painfully and run behind a small space shuttle.
“Hey! There she is” The leader says as he points at me.
He draws an assault rifle and fires blindly.
Proton barely made it over.
“What is up with you?” I ask over the gunfire.
“Th-they h-eerr!-hackers! They’re i-i-interruping my system!” He yells as suddenly his eye turns red.
His voice goes deep.
“Ah, c’mon!” I say as I hold the massive sniper rifle and peek around the corner.
I aim at the accented guy and drop him.
Next, it’s time for the last one.
I bolt the sniper rifle, ejecting the .338 laupa cartridge, listening to the loud PING it makes when it hits the steel floor.
He looks down his sights and fires.
The bullet impacts my scope, flying straight through the first few layers of glass and getting deflected into another direction.
“She’s dead!” I hear.
As my hearing returns, I start to breathe normally and take cover again.
“Oh… my” I panic as I digest what had just happened.
Using the adrenaline rush I got from that moment, I pull the release and rip off what’s left of the sight, using the gun’s integrated iron sights.
I peek around again to see the leader gone.
Suddenly, I hear the last thing I ever wanted to hear from Proton.
“SELF DESTRUCT INITIATED. ETA 60 SECONDS” He says in a deep robotic voice.
I panic and look around for an escape, when suddenly I notice my hooves are covered in a black liquid.
I check the space shuttle and see a massive hole in it, leaking fuel.
“Hell no!” I say as I dive into the vent.
“ETA 30 SECONDS” Proton says.
I crawl through the vent as fast as I can, being slowed down by the bowie knife in my leg.
“ETA 5 SECONDS”
I hear, too close for comfort.
“4”
I see the underside of a hatch.
“3”
I push on it with all my might until it budges, leaving a small gap.
“2”
I stick my hoof through the gap and push the hatch aside.
“1”
I climb up and shut the hatch, not bothering to check where I am.
I hear faintly;
“Self-destruct initia-“
The explosion is tremendous.