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Keeping her head the young alicorn snuck around the small medical room that was abandoned after the reports of a creature lurking the ship. She wasn’t sure if she was alone or not. All she knew was that she needed to reach the escape pods on the other of the station. She locked the door and made sure that every entrance was blocked. She sat on a seat and entered the password to unlock the computer screen. If there was a way to receive help this was it.
“I am calling from the Lunisdora. I’m nothing more but, a traveler. I landed on the this staton a few days ago. Everypony is dead or missing. The entire station turned to Tatarus. I don’t know what to do. The androids the ‘Working Spikes’ have been corrupted. They are murdering everypony. I don’t know how long I can survive please send help. Nyx out.”
Nyx ended the transmission. She jumped to the sight of a Working Spike slamming on the window. The glass began to crack. She fell off her seat trying to reach her closed weapon. The bolt gun. She loaded the last of her ammo and charged the weapon. When the android broke the glass she fired her weapon and hit the android in the head. It fell to the ground. Making not second thought she jumped out of the room and made a run for it. Her small legs were tired from all of the running she was forced to do when she encountered the creature for the first time. She was hungry and hurt and tired but, she kept moving forward. She stopped at the beeping of her motion tracker. She levitated the device in front of her.
The small green dot was coming from behind her and was closing in fast. She was now breathing heavily and her heart was beating fast. She flinch with a yelp as a medical bed was tipped over. Nyx looked to her right where she found and desk. She rushed towards it and pulls a few boxed to hide herself.
She was catching her breath and wiped the sweat off her forehead. She took a deep breath through her nose and then out her mouth. Her tracker was still locked onto whatever was after her. She waited for the worst. The only thing that was small enough to maneuver was her revolver. She was placing fresh new bullets into the gun. She was going to make every shot count. A leg with rough scaly skin and talons on the end appeared on the other side of Nyx's hiding spot.
She levitated her weapon waiting for the worst. She felt her heart rate rising again as it drew closer. The head of the creature suddenly turned around and made its way to that direction. The beeping of the motion tracker slowed down and then stopped.
"Thank Celestia." She pushed the boxes away and crawled out of her hiding spot. Nyx looked down to her left foreleg. "I'm almost out of time. If It weren't for those androids my ship would still be outside."
The filly was now in the hallways looking for ammo for her bolt gun. Saving her revolver ammo might just save her from being killed. Nyx opened a lid off a box. She rustle through it finding nothing to her use. Old medical papers and nothing more. She then moved over to a cart that only had containers.
She shook her head feeling her hope fading away. Her friends were dead and she was next. A door slid open leading to the main room where all the departure schedules were. Nyx looked around the. She stopped at the image of her home planet. Equis.
She was now remembering the fun times she had with her friends and family. Tears formed in the bottom of her eyes.
"I will not die here."
Nyx turned to her right towards the path if the escape pods. It was now or never. Nyx trotted to a counter to check her inventory.
"Fourteen bullets left. My stun rod... molotov and my bolt gun with no amm... wait" the filly rushed to a nearby maintenance room and looked inside. She stood on her hind legs and looked on the shelves. “Yes!” She grabbed the the small box of bolts. Nyx then returned to her weapons and quickly packed her things. “Now lets do this.”
The filly ran through the hallways once more. Only this time she will not stop until she reached her destination. She jumped over boxes and maneuver around the tipped over chairs and tables. Nyx passed by an open path on the trail. She turned to take a quick looked. Her eyes widen with the sight of the creature watching her running past it. The creature screech and began to chase the small alicorn.
“No not now!” The creature drew closer to her. The hand of the creature swung for the tail only to miss it by an inch. The monster jumped to the wall and kept chasing her. Nyx moved further away from the walls avoiding the grip of the creature. Nyx looked ahead of her where the door slide open. She jumped inside and bucked the emergency close door button. The door began to door. The creature barely reached the door. It pushed it to the side trying to force it open. Nyx screamed in fear and the hand of the monster clawed towards her. Nyx grabbed her revolver and fired at the creature.
Four bullets forced their way into the head of the creature and two into the right arm of the monster. Nyx unloaded the empty bullets shells and placed fresh new ones into the gun. The door finally forced itself closed. Nyx tried to relax from her scare once more.
She took one more deep breath and got back on her feet. She was still shaking from the attack. Nyx new she was where she was going for. The escape pod. Happiness and relief filled her heart. Her smile grew more the closer she approached the door. It has been days since she last smiled. The alicorn open the door to take her seat.
Her eyes widen in what she saw in front of her. A small creature jumped into her face. She tried to take it off but was too strong. She screamed in fear and ran around the room.
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“AHHHH! Twilight! Twilight! MOMMY!” The small filly ran around trying to take off the piece of clothing that was on her face. She ran around her room. Nyx attempted to use her magic but, fail, as her magic was still too weak than before. Not realizing she ran out the room and bumped into a wall. She stepped onto the piece of clothing and pulled up but, also resulted into failure. She ran down the hallway and fell down the stairs. With no injury she sprinted once.
CRASH
The filly fell over a pair of forelegs. Not knowing what was going on Twilight looked down towards her daughter as she tried to recover from her fall. The unicorn even noticed some feathers from her wings on the floor.
Nyx opened her eyes to see it was only a sock that was stuck on her face. She gave it a death glare. Twilight raised her eyebrow. She was aware of Nyx’s new found temper. All she could think of to do was just to lay her head onto the back of Nyx. Nyx flinch up feeling her mother trying to calm her.
After a slow long day of playing inside due to rain Nyx embraced her mother’s snuggle and slowly fell asleep.