Chapter 3: Escelating quickly

Morgan's apartment, Apartment complex M-42,District M1,Detroit

January 18th, 2728

The next morning Terminal awoke with a head ache. He sat up on the couch."Ugh I haven't had that much booze since I was a Colt." Terminal said.

Morgan was passed out on the other side of the couch with her mouth open and half a bottle of Brazilian ale clutched in her hands.

"Hey, hey. Morgan wake up!"

A series of gurgling noises escaped Morgan's mouth as she sat up. Her hair had been frizzled by the drinking from last night.

"Well crap. I guess you weren't an alcohol induced dream." Morgan said.

"Afraid not." Terminal replied."Well I guess you'll need a place to stay out of the eyes of the Government."

"Why would I need to do that?"

"Come don't you have any alien crash landing movies where you're from. Governments don't take kind of aliens. Especially colorful equine aliens."

"Well ok."

"You can stay here if you promise not to destroy the house while I'm gone."

"Don't worry I haven't burned down a building since I was a colt."

"Ok. I gotta go to work. See you in the afternoon."

And after that Morgan walked out the door to the apartment.

UNSC Alpha base, Rio de Janeiro

A man sat at his special rainforest wooden desk. His picture of his family sat facing him on his desk. This was the leader of the modern UNSC and humanity. An ex-Spartan that became Admiral. The leader of this elected Empire. This was Admiral Derek shuffled some paperwork into the Mark VI Paper Euthanizer paper shredder. Courtesy of Big MT Dr. Halsey came into the office with her data-pad.

"What is it Halsey?" Hicks asked as he dropped a paper into the shredder.

"The translation is complete."

Hicks stood up in his chair. "You mean the one you've been working on since Requiem?"

Halsey shook her head yes.

"Where do the coordinates lead?"

Halsey turned on her data pad."The star system of MARKAB. Also known as Alpha Pegasi. In the 21st century we researched the system believing it was a red giant star. But after focusing our instruments... We've discovered that it is actually revolving around a body. We've also discovered a moon is revolving around this body as well and has not collided with Alpha Pegasi. Explanation? None. Also we've detected major RSN activity in the system. The entire system has an RSN field surrounding the star and lunar body. We've detected that the source of the RSN is coming from the central planetary body. The star and moon seem to be orbiting a planet."

"And this will be where we're taking the Infinity, correct?"

"It would be a good start."

"How long?"

"A couple months to finish the paint jobs, cafeteria stocking, ammo stocking, and software upgrades. As well as getting small fighters and Frigates loaded."

"Frigates?"

"This vessel will be able to carry a fleet of 50 frigates and destroyers within its hull. There crews can remain aboard the Infinity and can be launched in 15 minutes after the order."

"Good deal. I'm still working on a captain."

"No need to rush." Halsey replied. "Just one of the greatest scientific discoveries awaiting to be discovered."

And after that Halsey left Hicks's grabbed his data-pad and wrote up a report on Halsey's findings. 'Too enthusiastic.' He wrote.

After that he chucked a pencil into his fancy Big MT paper shredder and carried on.

Morgan's apartment

Detroit

Terminal Velocity tried to grasp the remote to the television. But due to having no fingers or thumbs. So he accidentally changed it to channel 34. He was disgusted at what he saw and hit the remote with his hoof and it changed to channel 42. Some old movie about 1000 year old computers trying to come up with the meaning of life and everything. He decided that human movies were lame and flicked off the telivision. He then proceeded over to Morgan's fridge.

He used his mouth to open the door. In the fridge was 6 six-packs of Brazilian ale, a tub of cream cheese, a half jug of milk, a half eaten burger, a quarter 2 liter of Mountain dew, and a bundle of brown bananas.

"Ugh what does that woman eat!?" He then trotted back to the living room and tried once again to use the remote. Unfortunately he could only change the channels using his nose.

Nothing was on the television so he snatched a book from the book shelf that he found after moving a pile of dirty cloths out of the way. A few titles. Terminal learned interestingly that the humans wrote in the same language as Equestrian.

Some of the titles on Morgan's shelf were 'HG Wells The war of the worlds', 'Gone with the wind', ect. Most of had notes in them with a triangle on them. Terminal looked closer and it looked more like a D. Terminal shrugged and laid down on the couch. 'Ugh.' He thought.'

UNSC Delta base, Detroit

Delta base was much like Alpha base in Rio. It was a SWORD class base. But it lacked the underground secret projects. It overlooked the detroit river. Its grey exterior matched that of the cloudy overcast in the sky.

Morgan's Blue Prius pulled into the parking lot of the base. She climbed out of the vehicle and strutted over to the base. The receptionist area was painted with a slightly lighter grey than the one outside. Behind the receptionist desk was a short girl with brown hair and tannish skin. She was Alyssa Morse the receptionist at Delta.

"Hey, Alyssa."

Alyssa looked up.

"Your not supposed to be back until the launch of the Infinity in March or April. You're getting paid vacation!"

"Yeah I'm not here for that. I need your help."

"Mine? What could I possibly help you with?"

"I've got a teal Pegusus in my house."

"Oh so you need mental assistance. You should see Dr. Helpinghand in Manhattan."

Morgan's face replied: }:l

"What?"

}:l

"You're serious aren't you?"

"Ya think! I get a CAT scan every month! Company policy!" Morgan yelled.

"Ok, calm down. Is it a mutation or Alien." Alyssa asked.

"Extraterrestrial. Seems to be from a place called 'Equestria'. He's staying in his apartment. I found him over by Joe's burger's in the alley."

"That's where an RSN burst accrued yesterday. Brass came down hard on ensign Lafler for registering it as a 'minor event'. He got kicked off the satellite. Now they've quarantined the site and are trying to find out what caused it. It was probably your Pegusus dropping in."

"He said he was testing a teleporter for his friend Twilight."

"I think you're thinking of Bella." Alyssa thinking of an old movie said.

"No Alyssa! Her name was Twilight Sparkle and she was helping the alien leader to build a teleporter to make contact with aliens. He said it must have malfunctioned and sent him here. "

"If it was an RSN teleporter than he must be covered in the compound. Luckily it does not harm humans or intelligent species. But the feds are probably going to track the RSN to your car, through the street, and to your apartment."

"Oh crap!"Morgan dashed out the door and back to her car.

"Well that escalated quickly." Alyssa said as she sipped some coffee.