> My Little Alien
>  by godzilla54
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> Prolog
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Starshine was just like any other unicorn in Equestria. She had a white coat with a thick neon blue mane. She had gotten her cutie mark earlier than most. It was a small four pointed blue star with a grey ring around it. She had gotten by learning that she was very good with magic that was particularl kind of magic. She liked to play with her friends, use magic, go exploring etc. She would just be a normal pony in Equestria. The only problem with that was, she wasn't in Equestria. Her family had moved to a planet that had been discovered before she was even born. She didn't know much about the actual space travel, and neither did her parents when they came here. Their job was to set up new magic Beacons that helped keep oxygen stable in certain areas. The planet had oxygen of course, but it was not fit for breathing.
Starshine liked their home, but she had never been to Equestria, so it was the only home she knew. If she had been to Equestria, she would have seen all the beautiful things it had to offer. Where as this planet was a barren wasteland. It was dull grey, windy, and could not support life without the help of magic. There was very little light most of the time, because Celestia is to busy with keeping the sun going in Equestria, so there was very dark and even more cold. It's gravity was 10% less that of Equestria's, and the ponies who came here had to fix that to so it would not startle the ponies who did not actually live there on a regular basis, like Starshine and her family.
Starshine had gotten used to all of this though. It was her home, and she liked it. She liked using her magic to let her explore outside the compounds that regulated the oxygen levels, and playing with the shift in gravity that came with it. She helped her parents keep up work around the compunds, and she was actually very good at it. Her magic skills seemed to almost be designed to ise spells that were useful in space, like simulating oxygen, and controlling gravity. These spells were normally very advanced but Starshine had no problem with it. That is was the talent of her cutie mark after all.
She also played tag with her friends, other fillies and colts who's families were workers on the planet.
Her and her parents were going on a scouting mission,  to see if any nearby land was suitable to make another compound. Starshine thought this was exciting! She had never been on a scouting mission before. Well no an official one anyway. Their family was in an advanced all-terrain vehicle designed for crossing far distances on the planet. It was a faded yellow color, with six large wheels that were heavier than Starshine.
After about six hours they came to the area they were supposed to examine, but they found something they were not expecting. They had come across an enormous U shaped spacecraft. It was easily forty feet tall, and probably over a hundred feet long.
Starshine's parents argued aboit what to do but eventually desided to go inside to check it out. They left Starshine in the ATV and went inside.
About an hour of boredom later, Starshines mom came out screaming dragging something. Without even acknowledging her daughter she started calling for help. When Starshine looked at what her mom was dragging she screamed too. She saw her dad, with a spider like parasite attached to his face.



Stoct Ridley was terrified. It had already gotten Dale and the others. Now it was just her, Pren, and Biré. They had no idea where it was or when it would strike next. Their only hope of survival was to get on the escape pod, and self-destruct the ship, killing that bastard.
"I'll go set the ship to self-destruct, you ponies go get oxygen canisters for the escape pod, we don't know how long we'll be in there." Ridley said.
"What about that thing!" Biré screamed. "It could kill us at any time!"
"Then I suggest you hurry up!" Ridley ordered back.
They split up and went on their separate missions to get out alive. Ridley had wound down what seemed like thousands of dull metal hallways. She eventually came to a room with several control panels and buttons, all flashing random colors. Ridley bent down and opened up a small hatch. There was a lock with the words Caution: Self-Destruct below it. Ridley pulled out a small key and unlocked it, opening the hatch revealing a large red button and a lever. She first pulled the lever and tjen pushed the button. She began to here the ship's computer begin to talk. 
"Self-destruct in ten minutes" it said.
Ridley began to gallop down. The hallways. She had not even made it down two hallways wjen she heard the blood curdling scream of Pren. Ridley didn't even have time to mourn her death before Biré's scream joined his. If it weren't for already hearing so many similar screams in the past eighteen hours, this would hqve been the saddest moment of her life. But she had to keep on going, for them.
Ridley found the escape pod, and got in, locking the door nehind her. She trotted down to the control panel and blasted off. She had made it out jist in time. If she had been less than a minute later, she would have been blown up with the ship. She came to a large clear tube with cushioning in it. This was the hyper sleep chamber. This is where she would be spending the next who knows how many years. She went back to the control panel to make sure she was on her way baxk to Eqestria. She couldn't wait to be back in Manehatten, where she belonged. She thought about every thing tjat had happened in the past eighteen hours. All of her crew had been killed by that, that... thing. She began to cry. She cried for hours. But it was over. She had escaped that abomination and made it out alive. Feeling a sense of content, she trotted over to her hyper sleep chamber. About half way there, her hoof was grabbed by the very creature who had tried to kill her. It had long hands with long claws. It was a greenish black, and it's body was very bony. No eyes, a large bumb on it's head it, anout three feet high and seven feet long, from head to it's spiked tail.
She kept trying to kick it off, bit it held on tight. After all her work, after all her efforts, she would end up just like the others. But then she saw it. The air-lock door. If she could just reach her hoof to the panel she could blow this thing out into space. She tried reaching for it but it was just out of reach. She thought she was done for, when she saw a small wrench. She picked it up with her mouth and hurled it at the air-lock button. It shattered the glass around it, and activated the air-lock.
The creature was taken abck by the sudden force that pulled him into the void of space. Ridley held on to the control panel trying not to be sucked out. She eventually made it to the air-lock button, and shit the air-lock door.
She looked out the window at the creature. It had been blown into the engine amd was slowly being incinerated by it. She watched it slowly die. She felt no remorse for it.
Slowly she walked over to the hyper sleep chamber, closed, and drifted off to sleep, saying, "Thank Celestia it's all over."
If only it were true.
> Chapter 1: Awakening
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Ridley woke up screaming. Where was she? What was she doing here. She looked around. She was on a small bed in a dull grey metal room. The sheets she was on felt really uncomfortable. She kept looking around and notice two doctors, one a light green with a combed mane, the other white with a black shaggy mane that made him look like he was from the 70's. They came in, gave her a quick shot, and left.
Ridley had no idea what just happened. Her body began to feel wierd. Her back legs felt heavy, but her front hooves felt weightless. Sloowly, with more feelings to obscure to describe, she drifted off into unconsciousness.

Dr. Heybale began reading Ridley's psychiatric evaluation. So far she seemed totally crazy, yet. The evaluation from 61 years ago said she was fine. Did something happen to her hyper-sleep chamber? He didn't think that wass the case based on the condition the team said they found it in. Not to mention no one knew what happened to the rest of her crew. What could have happene to her to cause so much trauma?
He looked at his patient the pink pony with shaggy, curly purple mane and tale. He noticed something odd though. His patient did not have a cutie mark. Somepony of her age should have by now gotten their cutie mark, right? Heybale merely made a brief note of it, and decided it waas best to just ignore. He continued to examine her, but physically she was in perfect health. This would not be the case had the reason for her psychiatric problems been caused by a hyper-sleep chamber malfunction. This meant some thing did in fact happen on the ship. But what?
Before Heybale could continue his evaluation, Checkers came in. Checkers had been given his name do to his coat having a black and white checker pattern. He had a short cut black mane, and white tail. Where his cutie mark should be theree was merely the number 224. This was not surprising, given that all android pones had numbers for cutie mark based on when they were made.
"What is your evaluation doctor?" Checkers asked in a low, emotionless voice.
"Other than what appears to be trauma, all well." Heybale replied.
"That is good, she will need to be well for when she gives her debriefing to Weyland."
"I understand. I will have her transported to one of the open living quarters, if that's all right."
"It is fine."

Shooter was having such a normal morning. How could it have gotten so weird? He woke up like always, on his same bed with the other soldiers beside him, asleep. He was always the first pony up. He liked to get so flying in before breakfast. So he got out of bed,and walked over to the bathroom. He splashed some water in his face and looked at himself in the mirror. He was just a normal pegasus. Dark green, with an even darker green mane and tail. He looked down at his cutie mark. Hard to believe they still called it that with what some ponies were getting as them nowadays. His was an assault rifle, which is why he joined the military. Did not do much. Not since the last Celestial war. That was only 5 years ago that it ended, and it wasn't to bad. he was so young at the time too. Shooter only saw action once, and he was dead terrified. Ironic the battlefield was where he got his cutie mark.
He flew out side and began to do his usual warm up exersises. Flew around the course, shooting targets as they came, followed by 200 hoof ups. After that he began taking apart his gun, and putting it back together again. It was an R-6, latest type of assault rifle. Fired magic based ammunition, which were designed to burst on impact. It fired at about 160 feet per second, and fired 7 rounds per burst.
Once he was all done he flew back inside for breakfast. He ate for a little while, but was just bored at this point. Sure he was basically getting paid, and free meals for nothing, but despite this, he missed action. He hoped that something would happen. Inabout 72 hours, he would have never imagined why he thought that.

Ridley was pissed. They didn't believe her. She had told the board what had happened, how the creature had wiped out her crew, but they just thought she was crazy. Maybe she was. No, that couldn't be, she knew it really happened, although, she wished it hadn't. She galloped to her new room. She wished that the doors didn't open on their own with key cards, because she wanted to slam it shut.
Her room was very dull, the only color the black and yellow rug that a small desk with a computer screen on it. She just got into bed, and hoped she would never wake up.
That night she had a nightmare so terrifying it is hard to describe. She was in a room with 7 ponies. They appeared to be in the military. She watched as no one, but dozens of the monsters came in through, not the door, but the ceiling. The. Military ponies tried fighting them off but there were to many of them. They tried running away as one of them was being killed, his face being impaled by the creatures toung. They galloped as fast as they could to the door, but it was locked, they were trapped. She looked down at a young filly, and began to scream as the monsters came at them.
She woke up screaming again. She had these dreams a lot. But something was different,it felt... real. She shrugged it off, and realized her sheets were covered in sweat. She tore them off her, and walked over to the mirror. She was a train wreck. Her mane was drenched in sweat, her eyes blood shot, and she was breathing really hard. She was about to go get some hey for breakfast, when the screen on the computer went off.
There was a small face on it.Ridley recognized him. He had a red coat, a blue mane and tail, and looked like he had just gotten out of the 90's with his mane. Ridley also knew he was the one who had been explaining everything to her.
"Hello Ridley," he said, "how are you?"
"Fine thanks." She replied. "I take it you're not calling me with good news, are you?"
"You're right but not for the reason you probably think. You lost contact with the colony on Lg-28. We aren't sure but, one of those... things you were talking about may be involved."
Ridley could feel her heart racing. No! After all her efforts, these things would just continue to kill ponies. Why? Why did they kill? What did they do to deserve this monster. She was terrified.
"Are you sure?" She asked.
"Well no, but if one is involved, we will need you as a consultant." He replied.
"So you are planning on dragging me, with a bunch of crazy militaary ponies, to what may or may not be a bunch of monsters that killed most of the ponies on the ship I was on for four years, who were my friends, and just go in and tell a bunch of gun happy psychos what to do?"
"Well not necessarily,but over all if tere is one involved then we would like it if you wou-"
"Fin I'll come. On one condition."
"And that is?"
"We wipe those bitches out."
> Chapter 2: Drop It
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Shooter had gathered in the landing dock with the others. First there was Spark, a blue unicorn, with an orange mane and tail, with a bull's-eye as her cutie mark. Second there was Cake Baker, a heavily built blue pony, with a crate as his cutie mark, just because he was good at lifting things. Third there was Violet Sunflower. Despite her name, she was not the nicest pony you'd meet in Equestria. She was covered in burn marks because of all the battles she was in, and all the fights she got into. No one even knew what he cutie mark was, given that the area where it had been was covered in a huge scar. She had originally beena yellow pegusus with green hair, but she dyed her coat black. She said it was to keep ponies from seeing her scars, but everypony knew better. She just didn't like looking like such a pansy. Her wings were still yellow, but they were a much darker shade. Fourth there was Halfwing. He was an olive color with a plane as his cutie mark. He had been born with only one wing so he couldn't fly naturally, but he made up for it by being a great pilot. Fifth there was Flute Bottom, a ginger colored unicorn with a soccer ball as his cutie mark. He was originally just a good athlete when it came to sports, but for some reason nopony can quite understand he joined the military. Sixth there was Sargent Peppers, but everypony just called him Sarge. He wasn't that big but heavily built. He was crimson with a fist as a cutie mark, and had an eye patch, which he never told anypony how he got it, and if they asked he just threatened them with needing one. Shooter and all of them were wearing standard military uniforms, small camo shits with magic-proof vests over them. Seventh there was Checkers, a black and white checkered android pony. There were also ten other ponies, but Shooter had never met them before. One of them didn't appear to be military, company, or an android.
One of the ponies Shooter didn't recognize came forward. He was in an officer's uniform, with a yellow coat and blue mane and tail. He was pretty scrawny for somepony in the military, so he was probably a chair officer, who had never seen action.
He began to address the croud.
"Hello," He said, "I am lieutenant Frost, and I am going to be in charge on this mission. What we think we have is a possible ponymorph infes-"
"I'm sorry, a what?" Flute asked cutting him off.
"A ponymorph."
"Oh so a bug hunt."
"Sure, you can call it that if you want. Anyway, this here is Ridley, she will tell you what you're dealing with.
The pony Shooter. Didn't recognize came forward.
"Okay, so I'll tell you what I know." She said, "My crew and I came down on to LG-28. We found some sort of spacecraft, or, something. Once we were insisde we found several, hundred strange eggs. One of them opened and attached itself to my crew member, Plumflower's face. Eventually it came off on it's own, but later when we were having dinner, a small snake like creature burst from his chest. We all went looking for it, but we were never able to find it, it found us. It slowly picked us off one by one, and uhm, uhh." It was clearly emotional for Ridley to talk about this, so Frost decided to cut her off.
"Alright so if there aren't any questions, then we'll get moving."
And with several jokingly phrased questions, they made their way to the ship.

The flight was over all a routine one. The ponies stayed in their hyper-sleep chambers, while Checkers ran the ship on the way there. Checkers, despite being an android, did get very bored. He was given television, but only to learn how to interact with ponies better. He watched them quite often to have something to do, but he never truely understood somethings. For example, he could not comprehend this thing that the ponies called "friendship." He did not understand what made somepony a friend. Was it a sort of symbiotic relationship? Was it having common traits? Enjoying the happiness of others? Checkers understood so much of it, yet still had no idea what exactly it was. He was able to understand and feel some basic emotions such as happiness, disappointment, and the one most promenent now, boredom. However, because of efficiency problems, androids no longer were programmed with saddness, anger, and emotions such as these. But he felt he still had know idea. While he wondered what friendship could be, a light began flashing, which ment the others were about to wake up, which ment they had arrived.

All the ponies had arrived at the LG-28 space station. It was a thin cylinder, with tubes connecting it to a circular ring like section, that had large antennas sticking out of it with a purple glow. These were made to magically keep astroids from hitting the station itself.
Ridley was one of the last to wake from hyper-sleep. It had only been about 16 days, but they were required to use hyper-sleep so that the ship's small food supply wouldn't run to low. As Ridley looked around, she noticed that the others were already getting off the ship. She quickly ran over to the others to try and catch up. As she did she realized that they were all joking aboutthe mission.
"No way that these things are real." Flute said, "We get missions like this all the time, and it just ends up being nothing. It probably was just some pony who accidentally overloaded the magic on the com tower. Waste of time."
"And if it is real," Violet said, "just point me in the right direction and they won-"
"Will kill you." Ridley said correcting her sentence before she could finish. "They will kill you if you don't take this seriously. They will kill all of you."
All the ponies including Violet were scared, but they just shrugged it off to nothing. Ridley hated how they treatedd this as a joke. What if those things were there. What is they had infected most, if not all of the colonists there. Ridley couldn't stand the idea of one of them, but a couple hundred. That made her hair stick up. Would they even be able to make a difference? To be honest, Ridley highly doupted it.
Nopony stayed. On the station very long. They all made their way to the drop ship. It was a large prismatic ship, with foor wings on it's sides that had rockets at the ends. It also had three magic pulsers on the back, which was the main thing that kept it moving. The other was gravity. Once they were all on, the ship was sent towards the planet. Ridley had never been on a drop like this, despite having been trained. It wasn't that different. Some of the others  had actually had been in drops, but it was still wierd for them. Ridley could tell this based on most of the facial expressions on them. Most were fine but a few, including the lieut. looked like they were going to throw up.
As. Ridley looked out the window she saw they were rapidly approaching LG-28. Ridley hoped to Celestia that they were wrong, that those things weren't down there. But Ridley knew in her heart that they were, and she knew that most of them, were going to die.