I am shook awake by the trains squealing brakes slamming my head off the bed post. They stopped hard at a small town near the desert. When I see the others waking up and stirring about I ask about whats going on and they all shrugged. We walk outside to the blazing heat of the dry desert air. A few ponies adorned in armor frantically ran about the town like lost children.

An older one approached us and began to tell us. " A meteor fell last night and the ponies who went to investigate never came back. "We went to investigate and found the object with nopony around its like they just disappeared."

I ask about the object and were it fell. He had the stupidest look on his face and pointed to a mesa about 4 miles to the south. I bolt towards that direction not even saying a word to the others. They trail behind me and try to keep up.  The sun blitzed the sand causing them extreme pain. They plead with me to stop and turn back to town. I pause and look at them. They werent meant for this type of environment.

I sigh and put it as nicely as I could. " If you want to go back GO I wont stop you!" 4 of them trailed back with their heads hung low leaving me with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. We continued on the trail of footprints left in the sand. They could fly and hovered over me trying to block the sun. I thought she couldnt fly but she hovers with ease . We reach the mesa and stopped cold when we saw the impact crater. The blackened sand and small fires confirmed it for me. It was a much larger craft about five times the size of mine. I was excited but scared.

Fluttershy pops out with the first question. "Were did your people go are they inside?" Dash was watching the perimeter and said. " Were did the ponies go?  they were definitely here it makes no sense." I jump into the crater and look around the craft. No sign of blood or bodies anywhere. I hoped whatever was in there got out ok.

I tell the two to fly back to town and tell the others we found something important. They didnt hesitate and blazed off. I go inside and look around. It looked like the one I was sent in. I look at a wall at the various guns and edged weapons in perfect order.

Now why would you need that to survive here I thought. I looked at all the firepower that was in storage. I pick up a pistol and feel something cold strike me in the back of the head. I hear a deep voice boom. " Drop it!" I turn around and see a short manly figure holding a rifle up to my face. He had a solar mask and I couldnt make out his face but I knew it was another human.

When he tells me to drop the gun again I comply and let it clatter on the floor. He asks for my name and I happily tell him. He had no idea who I was but told me why he was there. He tells me in detail about what was going on. "We had a beacon go off on this planet and our commander sent us from orbit to investigate. We had no idea we would find human beings colonizing on such a desolate section of the galaxy." I ask him what year was it back on Earth. He pulls up a pad on his arm and replied "2156" My jaw dropped. How could I be 166 years old. This couldnt be real. Did I even have a home to go back to?

I can feel tears stinging my eyes and held back on them when he called for the others. We walk outside and the rest gather around us. They all had the same suits on that hid their faces. They looked me over with their scanners and paid particular attention to the device on my arm. They spoke in words I couldnt understand and forced me to sit down. The one I met first asks with seriousness in his voice." These creatures attacked us they just came out off nowhere do you know anything about them?"

I ask them to show me what creatures they were talking about. They stand me up and walk me to a small pit. I was in shock when I saw the mangled and dismembered bodies of three ponies with their eyes and mouths wide open. I flew into a rage and asked with spit flying onto his visor. "What in the Fuck have you done? How could you do this they wont harm you." They all started laughing like it was some big joke.

They didnt care that I was crying seeing that threw my emotions overboard. And caused me much anger. The short one approaches again and kicks me to the ground. The others stop him and pull him off me. I see an assault rifle on the ground and scrambled for it. They werent paying attention to me until I clicked the safety. They all stopped and looked motionless.

I tell them to line up and they all took places in formation. I ask them what happens when they take off their masks. They tell me they would die. They came to colonize and to do that they would kill off the indigenous species by making the atmosphere breathable for them so it didnt matter if they shot a few they would all die anyway. I shot him in the face and watched him hold his bleeding face with it pouring through his fingers before falling to the ground.

The others didnt say a word. I walk up to the next one and ask what the device on my arm was. In a shaky voice he replied with " Its a nuclear powered tool used to power your heart. They did away with them because when they went critical they caused massive damage." I ask why I could breathe the air and they couldnt. The one at the end speaks up in a feminine voice."We dont know but whoever made you thought of everything." I was still pissed about their barbarism and shot her in the stomach.

Her white suit changed to a color of crimson red. She rips her helmet off and begins to bleed out of every orifice of her head. It swells up and explodes and making her body slump over. Blood splattered everywhere and all over the other two. That was fucking awesome how her head came apart. I never seen brains like that before. I laugh like I never seen anything so funny.

I ask the other two how the device on my arm would go critical. They both replied nervously that either my heart had to stop. Or its half life is over and it would become unstable and explode.

Satisfied I let them return to the craft to get back to wherever they came from. I told them to tell their superiors that  I want no part in any of this I just want to go home. They hurry back inside and shot out of the crater in a smaller pod back out into the sky. I watch the white trail it leaves and look back at the pit. I walk back over and shove the bodies in and covered them with sand.

I decided not to tell them about it  and hoped they didnt see them leave. I knew that I fucked up when I killed them two.   And if I did make it back to Earth I would go to prison. I go inside the craft and load up on guns and ammo. There couldnt be that many of them I thought. How far could technology have advanced in 143 years?