Dead Space: Dead Sunset
Chapter 2: Chapter 2 - Escape And Shelter
Previous Chapter Next Chapter6 years later, year 2514.
Sence crossing through the portal, a lot of shit had happened to Sunset.
From being denied going home to Equestria to see Princess Twilight and becoming a unicorn again, she instead found out that she was sent nearly five hundred years into the future and woke up to meet Isaac Clarke. Also waking up to find that she is not on earth anymore but instead in an apartment located on the moon. Yeah, that got her up real quick.
Sunset was still feeling the effects of what happened to her at CHS and confessed to Issac about the event leading up to her life. Everything, she just couldn't hold it in any longer. She needed a friend and admitted who she was. About being born in another plane of existence where she was a was a magical pony. How she felt neglected by her mentor and left to another world. How she became a school bully, how she got turned into she-demon due to anger. How she was saved by her enemy that soon became her best friend and became close to five others. Then later joined their band and defeated a trio of evil sirens bent on feeding on everyone hate, taking over and turning them into slaves. With Isaac, it was a little skeptical of her story, especially the part where she was born a unicorn and came from a world inhabited by ponies and was tempted to put her in a psych ward at a hospital. If it weren't for the fact that she did appear out of thin air in a blase of electricity out of a statue.
After a few moments of careful thought, and listing several scenarios in his head. Isaac knew that he needed to help Sunset, at least to teach how to survive in this new world she was now in.
Then an idea came to him, it was stupid, reckless but it would also greatly benefit both himself and Sunset, but to be sure he had to test Sunset out.
As Isaac is a mastership system engineer of the Merchant Marines working for the CEC (Concordance Extraction Corporation), and with it being a civilian-run industry he can bring Sunset along for an apprenticeship. And him validating her credentials and experience from afar. No one would question his decisions as apprentices are there to learn from them. So he offered up his idea to the young adult.
Sunset's eyes couldn't have been wider at Issac's proposal and said yes to the plan. Following the months afterward, the worries that haunted back at CHS felt like a bad dream. One that she had every once in awhile with her waking up in a cold sweat. But despite a few sleepless nights, she took to the ship engineering work like a fish to water.
Plus there was all the sights Sunset got to see, stuff you could only see in a science book or movies from where she came from. Seeing a planet out a window was a "lot" different than through a computer.
Then it all changed when volunteering for a simple repair mission to the USG Ishimura. Isaac had told Sunset of the repair mission and asked her if she wanted to come along. She accepted and joined Isaac and the crew of the USG Kellion for the simple repair mission.
It was Sunset's worst mistake of her life.
What events followed, Sunset did not blame Isaac one bit for what happened to them. The Necromorph outbreak of the Ishimura, Isaac watching his girlfriend kill herself over a video recording. Being stuck in drugged force stasis-coma for three years just to build the things that create Necromorphs, The Marker.
They soon were able to break out of their situation when another outbreak occurred where we were held, Titan Station or The Sprawl as the locals called it. They soon were able to destroy it and escape with the help of a new friend. Ellie, a pilot that worked for the CEC.
She flew them to safety where Sunset watched a bit of a romance turned romance drama of Ellie and Issac. They break up over Isaac not wanting to move on.
Then came Carver and Norton, claiming that Ellie needs their help, after barely escaping another sudden outbreak caused by Unitologist fanatics. They all end up on Tau Volantis and finding Ellie and whats left of her crew on a dialect ship. After fighting their way down from space to the planet and exposing the truth about the markers, and about what was really happening.
Norton's betrayal, Danik, the Brethren Moons, how they fought tooth and nail to fight against. During all this, Carver joined alongside Sunset and Isaac in fighting every step of the way. All the way till the end where Isaac was launching Markers with super amped up TK module into the eyes of a living moon that wanted to eat them and nearly died in the process. Before proceeding to use the alien Codex machine to kill the Moon and with the three falling from the sky, expecting death to overcome to them.
When they awoke and found out, they were alive and well. But sadly, so were the other Brethren Moons.
When they learned of this Sunset, Isaac, and Carver searched for the nearest way off of Tau Volantis, with the use of the CMS Terra Nova, a two-century-old ship, the three were currently on their way to Earth in the hope that they can warn humanity in time.
Sunset's mind now drifted to where they were now. While on the Terra Nova, they were still traveling through Shock Space. Carver and Isaac sat up front in the pilot and co-pilot chairs as we watched the progress of the Shock Space fly on by. While Sunset was seated in the comms station behind Isaac was sitting. With her favorite pulse rifle resting on top of her legs. Watching out for any lingering surprises that might still be around on the ship. Sure the three of them went through ship twice over killing anything that isn't human or wasn't controlled by the Moons.
The pulse rifle was also the same one she got from where she purchased it from a shop on the Sprawl, now modified and well used from their journey. Sunset was also wearing her favorite custom Soldier suit, another souvenir she got during the outbreak of The Sprawl (The second fav was the Forged Engineering Suit). With her special Pulse Rifle, It wasn't her only weapon that she collected but also a Contact Beam. But during the fight to escape from the Unitologists, her Pulse rifle and Contact Beam got damaged in the escape. Leaving Sunset with only her lucky Planetcracker Plasma Cutter.
Instead of just throwing them away, Isaac asked for them and with a few minutes only to make her day by combining them together. Her new "special" pulse rifle, which still functions as one, but now had an underbarrel where all Sunset had to do was flip a switch and was instead firing her contact beam. Which she decides to call her rifle-modified contact beam as The Thunder Strike.
Looking over at Isaac, he was still wearing his Arctic Survival suit he got after his EVA suit got busted in the crash down to Tau Volantis. He had by his sides were his weapons, an AL-9 Clearcutter, and his own personalized Planetcracker Plasma Cutter that he heavily modified.
For Carver, who is actually sleeping in his chair right now, was still wearing his Special Forces suit, with his weapons by his side. An Evangelizer, an assault rifle with a sweet shotgun underbarrel attached to it. A small submachine gun attached to his right hip for emergencies and an another heavily modified V211 Plasma Cutter that was gifted by Isaac.
Sunset could see Isaac and Carver were smiling to know that they able to get back to Earth, hopefully in time. Sunset also smiled to this sight as they could only wait for the Terra Nova to De-shock. Man, it was a stressful and dangerous day for them. As they wait, Sunset remembered again about the past. About how Isaac taking care of her back in 2508. Gosh, it felt longer than that.
But now, all that matter was getting back to Earth, hopefully before those space moons. Because when they were trying to put the shock point drive back online. The leader of the new Unitologist Cult and the dementia of the Brethren Moons tried slow down their progress and had made them fight each other over who's making the decision whether no one leaves or getting back to Earth, until they realized everything was just a distraction, so they waste time on getting back to Earth. Isaac and Sunset had to pray that they made it in time as Carver just kept on sleeping from the rough adventures they just went through. Isaac then looked up on the radars and had good news for Sunset and Carver.
"Sunset, good news," Isaac said limply, looking over at her. "We're nearly there."
"Really?!" Sunset asked, excited a little as she got up from her spot and looked over at Issac's instruments looking at the radars. "God, I hope we made it in time." To which Isaac nodded his head in agreement.
"You and me both, for everyone's sake." Isaac then looked over to the sleeping Carver and woke him up. "Carver! Psst, hey Carver!" Carver then woke up by opening his eyes and just looked over to him and Sunset. "We're almost there!"
"What? We made it?" Carver asked, with a surprised tone.
"Yeah," Isaac answered with a smile while both him and Sunset nod at Carver.
"I don't believe it," Carver said, happy that they have reached their destination as he looked at the pilot window that had the view of shock space.
"De-shocking to Earth Space," the robotic voice of the CMS Terra Nova reported. "In 3, 2, 1."
And then they de-shock out from the shock space, and it still there, right where it should be. The view of the Earth along with its moon is insight of their view of the bridge window. The three were smiling to the sight of the Earth and the space around it. Sunset and Carver were still smiling at the sight until it was interrupted by the laughs of Isaac, who just pressed the panel on the left side of the main radar and opened a com channel so they can contact any stations nearby.
"Earth Orbital Control, this is Isaac Clarke aboard the CMS Terra Nova," Isaac said through the channel. "Requesting clearance, over."
They waited a moment, but for some reason, they only received a static signal from the EOC, which Sunset quickly concerned about this.
"Why are we receiving static?" Sunset asked as she looked over to that panel.
"Are you sure this is the right channel?" Carver asked as he stood up from his chair and walked over to the sitting Isaac and Sunset next to him. "This is 200 years old."
"Yeah. No, I changed it over right... trust me," Isaac said as he clicking the left side panel with his fingers.
Carver then used the right panel to open the comms towards the Earthgov Command. "Earthgov Command, this is Sergeant John Carver, do you read me. Is anyone there?"
Again they received the same static again, which concerned them more and more by the second.
"It's weird," Carver said as Isaac clicking the comms on the right panel to get on another channel and then set the channel of the left panel like the right one, and Sunset spoke to the comms on the left panel.
"United Mining Traffic Flow, do you copy?" Sunset said through the comms, but then they received another stasis again. Isaac set in another channel in annoyed to the fact that no one receiving their transmission.
"Lunar Flight Control, this is CMS Terra Nova, does anyone read us out here!?"
Then they received a reply, but it was a more shocking one. Their transmission was replied with the sound of cries and shouts of people... that sounded like they were transforming into monsters or those were the screaming of Necromorphs. It made the three of them looked at each other in shock. Then their attention was brought over to bridges window again when they noticed something behind the horizon of the Earth. It was something they three deathly afraid of.
They could hear the shouts of the Moons as they arise from the shadows behind the Earth. With their vast tentacles filled with Necromorphs to annihilate Humanity and to fill the portions of the moons that weren't made of rocks as its shell. They were preparing their attack on the Earth for their Convergence. They were hungry; they were coming, they were already here.
"Oh god," Carver said in horror.
"Oh no," Isaac added in horror.
"We're too late," Sunset added lastly in disbelieve and terrified.
Then slowly coming out of nowhere, another Brethren Moon is rising right in front of their bridge view window. The three were quite in shock that one of the Moons was so very close to them by showing off its monstrous appearance. When the moon completely filled the window, they were quickly being subdued to the effects of dementia and high-pitched noise from the living moon and started to scream from the pain as their surroundings were being changed to a nightmarish orange-distorted colored. They quickly tried blocking their sights towards the Moon with their arms. Trying to at least look away from the horror they failed to stop.
Feeling desperate enough to try, Sunset concentrated on her stores of magic she had inside of her to fight off its effects. Gathering what she can, Sunset let loose a burst out her magic making her body glow that sent a shockwave of orange magic at the moon. With Sunset letting out a loud scream, they were now back inside one Terra Nova. Panting like they just sprinted a mile.
The Brethren Moon then somehow shouted in pain, giving the three survivors a sudden conclusion that the Moon was a bit vulnerable to magic.
The three stopped their screaming as the pain from the Moon's attack and looked at what had happened. The three were also surprised by the screaming-in-pain Moon. Isaac and Carver quickly looked over to Sunset to see if she's okay and want to know what the hell she did to the Moon.
"What did you do, Sunset?" Carver asked quickly, shaking off the effects of being stunned by a moon.
"I felt desperate and lashed out with my magic," Sunset replied.
Ever since coming to the future, Sunset believed that accessing the portals magic infused itself to her making her inert magic grow to the point of a young foal. Giving her access to it. It wasn't the same, but at the least, she had access to it like basic levitation and conjuring a small reading light. When telling Isaac of this discovery, he asked her to be careful with it as not to arouse the suspicions of the Earthgov. Then came an idea that brightened Sunset's mind. "Wait a minute. We can still escape from them!"
"How the hell are we gonna escape them using your magic?!" Carver asked frustratedly. "Even if you say your magic can be used for teleporting, you knew you don't have enough to take the three of us far away to the point where we are nowhere near those things and the shock point drive, and if we use it then we lose the ship!"
"I'm going to focus all my magic on the shock point drive and direct it into another overload like we did before to get us back into shock space," Sunset answered back quickly.
"Whoa, whoa, hold on a sec!" Isaac shouted quickly. "Are you seriously telling us you want to overload the shock point drive with magic!? Even if we could overload it again to escape, will be introducing a system with an energy that wasn't designed to handle. The drive core could burn out and will be stuck here, or it'll blow up the ship!"
"Look! It's the only way to escape from them!" Sunset shouted back as she points her finger towards the Moon. "It's our only chance unless you got a better plan!"
"But we need to go back to the reactor room for that!" Carver said, surely no way for her to overload the drive that easily.
"No need, a console for triggering the shock point drive should be enough for me to direct my magic at."
"Are you even sure that'll work!? That sounds absolutely impossible to do with a button!" Isaac asked in panic and doubt. "This sounds like a bad idea!"
"We're full of bad ideas remember?!" Sunset asked back with a laugh. "I'm going to do it!"
"Wait, what about Ellie?!" Isaac said in a sudden panic. He became selfless and worried about her since realizing that they were alive after killing the first moon. "We need to find Ellie!"
"Isaac!" Carver called him to calm him down.
"Ellie is on Earth!!" Isaac shouted, starting to scramble around the panels.
"We need to get down there and save her!"
"Isaac! Isaac!" Sunset shouted as both she and Carver stopped him from scrambling on the panels by grabbing his shoulders. "It's too late!"
"She's still alive!" Isaac shouted back. "I'm not going to leave her!"
"Isaac! ISAAC!" Carver shouted, Isaac finally stopped on what he's doing, then he looked over to Sunset.
Sunset didn't know what she can say to him. Ellie was very much a part of their family. Isaac very much cared for her since their time on The Sprawl. But now, they don't have any way to save Ellie or even anyone on the Earth from the Brethren Moons. Not with how they are now, or ever. Sunset spoke her words to him softly. "Isaac, it's too late for us to do that. We don't have the means to do so or any choice for that. We can't save earth and Ellie. We were too late. We're sorry, Isaac. I'm sorry..."
Isaac only glared at Sunset in sorrowful silence. Sunset was right about this. He didn't have any chance to save her. There's no way they could save her from this goddamned Convergence shit that those moons were running with. Isaac couldn't let her go, he'd already loss Nicole to the Markers, and now he was going to lose Ellie too, what choice did he have now?
Isaac was voiceless for this as he looked away from his friends, but had one sentence in mind. "Everybody's dead......... because of us....."
This was the hardest truth to swallow, every time when people tried to help them or in vice versa, they all died along the way. Though, they didn't complain about it before. Because they knew what they were getting themselves into when they joined them. If they had a chance to prevent this from happening, but like before it was met with failure.
"I know, Isaac, I know," Sunset comforted him. "I'm sorry."
Then suddenly, their moment was interrupted by the shout of the Brethren Moons that was still right in front of them. It was not done with them yet. It talked to them through their minds as it growled at them.
"YOU MAY BE ABLE TO FIGHT...... BUT YOU CAN'T KILL THE GOD. WE ARE NOT DONE WITH YOU YET......."
Carver quickly returned back to his pilot seat and buckled in the straps before turning over to Sunset she had switched place with Isaac, now sitting behind them. Right where she can access the Shock point controls.
"Do it, Sunset!" Isaac said in a low voice, bravely, bracing for impact.
"Just don't fuck us over!" Carver added from his fastened seat.
To which made Sunset chuckled, "Here goes nothing," Sunset added before she proceeded with pressing a few commands to the Shock point controls and transfer all of the remaining magic she had to the shock point drive through the controls, similar to what she had done to the portal that time.
Isaac and Carver could only watch in awe as they saw Sunset's whole body was fully aglow in light orange and red aura. What was shocking most, Sunset's ears moved from the side of her head like a pony or horses would have followed by a ray of orange energy spiraled up and a horn appeared out of her forehead along with a set of wings flowing out from her back, lastly was her normal long hair grew at an impossible speed and length down to her calf legs. By now the Terra Nova was shaking from the massive force of magic being introduced into its systems. They swear that they even can be heard the Brethren Moon said something.
"WHAT IS THIS??!!"
Then, there were spires circling around the hall of the ship they were in. For the first time in Isaac's and Carver's life, they bared witness of Sunset's magical power the like of which they've never seen before. Then her light began to glow even brighter as she fed the machines, then spires were making a sun around the Terra Nova. As that happens, the robotic sound of the Terra Nova reports that they were about entering Shock space. But Sunset forgot to enter in an entrance vector to shock space, without importing the entrance data to any known destination, but it insists on getting them in there.
"Entering Shockspace in 3....2.....1...."
*DUAAARRRR* the engines sounded off in a mad screech.
Upon entering the Shockspace, it sent out a shockwave of multi-hued light of magic in all direction. Like a nuclear detonation, it spread out and impacted against the Brethren Moon. It screamed in pain as chunks of were broken off, it growled, it shouted. Without knowing what the hell just happened. The Moon looked over to where the CMS Terra Nova was supposed to be, only to find out that its foe and the Fore and half Mid of the Terra Nova were now into thin air, leaving another half Mid and the Aft section intact in the space.
"IMPOSSIBLE...!!!" The moon screamed.
One year after Sunset's disappearance
Canterlot City, Applejack's house, year 2016
Applejack was at home in her house with her family, Big Mac, Granny Smith, and Applebloom. She was currently hanging out with her little sister Applebloom in her bedroom, insisting on having a slumber party with her. Though the whole school had some vacation and the rest of her friends were out of town, the reason why Applejack wasn't with them was due to financial problems and chores around the farm to deal with. Now they had about three days left of vacation before the school days would start up regularly again. But right now, she was trying to have a good time playing board games with her sister for the night.
Although for some reason, after a year of Sunset's disappearance, she's still reeling from the events of Anon-A-Miss incident and how such a bully she was back at the school. At least Applejack had new friends in their band, Twilight Sparkle, who transferred from Crystal Prep, Juniper Montage who is a movie enthusiast, and lastly Wallflower Blush who has been with AJ's and their group friend after Sunset's disappearance.
But there was something that disturbed Applejack. She somehow has this feeling that it was all wrong like something was messing with her thoughts and memories of not only herself but for the rest of the school. Because for the life of her she can't remember anything that involved around what Sunset did except for when she was a bully and when was given a second chance to be her friend. Then suddenly betraying them again and accusing her of being the Anon-A-Miss. First off, she can't even remember if any magic was involved in any of that time. Secondly, every night she'd fall asleep, she had been dreaming about another person, Twilight Sparkle. But not that Twilight, another one. A Princess counterpart from another world Twilight Sparkle, and for some reason she couldn't remember her except for when she is dreaming.
She even dreamt about Princess Twilight giving Sunset a chance to be her friend for her and a member in Applejack's band after they defeated her when Sunset turned into a raging she-Demon and made a crater in the middle of the school as a result of her defeat. Then another dream about Sunset helping her band to defeat Adagio, Aria, and Sonata, who were a band called The Dazzlings who used magic to influence others to fight each other and feed on the conflict only to fall to with the magic she and her friends in the Rainbooms used against. And then there were the times she dreamt about how angry Princess Twilight was to them for blindly accusing Sunset as the goddamn Anon-A-Miss and let her disappeared into thin air. Because of that, Twilight left their world for hers, with the portal closed they also had no access to the magic they had before for what they did to Sunset. Now it feels like those events really happened but felt someone took them from her and erased them from their minds. Now she couldn't remember how they were gone in the first place or any other encounter anymore.
Even she dreamt about that too but kept it silent from the others for not wanting to openly discuss this sort of topic encases the one responsible for this was listening in. Things like Sunset was still a sore topic to talk about, and Applejack didn't want to start something.
Who knows what kind of thing was doing this, it must be significant enough to her one day, even though she hadn't tried to find it out what it was all about because she felt a little disbelieve about that. Even now knowing Sunset Shimmers disappeared last year, most of the students in the school, including Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie were glad that she was gone for sure from the school. A few, including Applejack, were worried about her disappearance. Mainly the Principal and a few teachers because for sure there was something off about it, especially when the Anon-A-Miss posts stopped posting something on the Mystable website. Her thoughts were soon interrupted by her little sister.
"Ya' okay, Applejack?" Applebloom asked when she noticed her older sisters silence and the worried face.
"It's nothing, Applebloom," Applejack replied, but then looked away avoiding her sister's eyes. "Ah' just still reeling from that Anon-A-Miss incident."
"It's okay, sis," Applebloom said softly, as she came closer to Applejack on her bed and leaned in for a single arm hug her. "Ah' know it's not something that goes away."
"Ah' know, it's just..." Applejack paused for a moment. "Ah' just it all feels like something off."
"What do you mean?" Applebloom asked, confused on what she meant.
"Ah' don't know, I'll tell you about some other time," Applejack replied, as she doesn't want her trouble to involve her family.
Suddenly, their fun in AJ's bedroom was interrupted by loud throbbing electricity snaping from outside sound like there was a massive thunderbolt striking down from outside. "What was that, AJ!?" Applebloom asked, immediately being scared by the noise.
"Ah don't know, let me go take a look," Applejack immediately looked out her bedroom window to find the source of the sound.
As she looked out the window, AJ's saw nothing is wrong around the house, or at the barn, or even on the orchard. But then, as she looked onward, she found the source of the sound was coming from up in the dark night of the sky. There it was the source, there was a massive portal of black and blue shaping up in the above, and it was producing a very bright light blue color when it's shaping up to be some sort of portal. Applebloom came up from behind where Applejack was at the window and looked at what her sister was looking at only to mimicked her sister's face. They were very shocked at what's going on up there.
"AJ, what... is that...?" Applebloom asked slowly as shivers ran down her spine at the discovery.
"Ah' have no idea." Was all Applejack could reply.
Then, the portal starting to react as it widened suddenly in size and the portal became much brighter than before, almost appearing as a second sun. Then suddenly something massive came through. As if something out of science fiction shows Pinkie watches all the time like a monster came out from the portal. It was a spaceship the likes of which she'd never seen before that they have never seen before and it was falling from the sky.
After about half the ship came through the portal, the portal suddenly closed itself on the ship and was now free falling with the nose of the ship pointing towards the ground. To make the situation worse, it was coming in hot towards Applejack's house.
"Oooh,..... shit," Applejack immediately grabbed Applebloom and jumped backward towards the ground while bringing her sister down with her... "GET DOWN!!"
The ship flew past the house striking the ground a little way's away from the farmhouse, and it kept moving away from them leaving behind a huge trail of dirt being kicked up from the ships wake. As it moves, the ground shakes hard upon the impact, enough to make the whole of AJ's house to shake like there was an earthquake coming. Applejack and Applebloom could feel that the ship was about to slowing down quickly as the shaking ground. The spaceship kept moving towards from the house until the shaking came to a stop right at the fence line of the orchard next to her home. After the ship stopped, so did the ground and the house stopped shaking from its crash landing.
Applejack and Applebloom slowly stood up from the ground and looked out the window again. They were astonished by what they saw. The ship was very huge up close, it must have stopped at the property fence line which was nearly two hundred meters away, and it was wide as an as a football field for them. And we're astonished again by how futuristic this ship was, looked like came right off of a movie set. There was the front side of the ship which was shaped in a similar manner of the front of a cruise liner except it was more in futuristic detail, and what must have been the forward section of the ship. Then there was the rib cage like design behind the front end of the ship, but the rest of the ship's tail was nowhere to be found. Big Mac and Granny Smith quickly entered Applejack's room to check on the two sisters and were shocked at what are they seeing when they came up from behind the girls.
"Alright, ah'm calling the police."
5 minutes later
Pretty soon what must have been half the police force and fire department in Canterlot city had ridden up to Sweet Apple Acres and quickly set up a perimeter around the farm and crashed ship. They had yet to see any media vans from news networks yet because the police have it set up as a crime scene, even if it was a bizarre sight to behold. Seeing a ship that huge of unknown origins on someone's farm is enough to invite the militaries to the site pretty soon, which they didn't know about this. Even if there was no military on site, this was enough to make the mayor of the city, Mayor Mare, come down from town hall to the place of impact and see the ship for herself. No tactical entry was made yet to the spaceship since the SWAT only secure the area to make sure there were no attacks made on or from the ship and pushing back any civilians that got to close. They don't know how the hell they were going to get inside that ship. The mayor then walked over to where the Apple family were sitting, over near the only ambulance that was on site and being questioned by a couple of Officers, Sergeant Kurt Marshall, and Deputy Copper. All talking ceased when Mayor Mare walked over.
"Hello, officer," Mayor Mare greeted.
"Evening, Mayor Mare," Officer Kurt greeted back as he and Copper looked at her. "This is very crazy night isn't?
"Oh very crazy indeed, especially if there's an alien ship that just landed near someone's house," Mayor Mare replied with a shrug. "No one got hurt?"
"No, ma'am," Copper answered, then she looked over to the crime scene.
"Just property damage aaaaand.... the long trail of dirt over there." Officer Kurt point behind the ship. "Luckily when the thing landed, it landed in the forest instead of a public suburb."
"It's good to hear that," Mayor Mare then looked over to Applejack and her family. "May I talk to them?"
"Sure," both the officer and the deputy said before they went to figure out how to handle the crime scene.
Mayor Mare then faced the Apple clan and greeted them. "Good evening everyone."
"Good evening, Mayor Mare," the Apples said in unison.
"Do you know what happened here?"
"Well it all started when me and ma'h sister here was playing games in my bedroom, then we heard a loud electronic-like sound from outside. Ah' looked out the window and looked up to the sky. There was a light blue portal was shaping up in the air, after that the ship came out from the portal and we had to ducked down to the ground to avoid the impact. The last thing we know, that ship was already right there," Applejack explained as calm as she can for experiencing the first time nearly got crushed by a spaceship.
"Was there anything coming out from the ship?" Mayor Mare asked.
"No one came out," Applebloom answered.
"Mayor!" Kurt shouted from a distance, distracting their attention to him as he ran towards them. "We found out something!!"
"Really?" Mayor Mare asked in surprise. "That was fast, what did you found?"
"This ship.....it's... well....." Officer Kurt paused for a moment in doubt.
"This ship we have here.... is not an alien ship."
"I beg your pardon? What?!" the mayor along with the Apples asked in unison and surprised. "What makes that ship not an alien ship?" Mayor asked.
"You better follow me it's easier to show you."
The mayor followed Officer Kurt, and Applejack left her family to follow behind them. Wonder what he could mean by what he said. Officer Kurt lead them to a specific location where they got a good view of the section of the hall where lights illuminated it to see it clearly. What they saw was a shock to find in big white words along its bow on the side of the spaceship. What made this the major kicker to this were the words, they were in English.
CMS TERRA NOVA
"Terra Nova?" Mayor Mare said in the form of a question. "Doesn't that means "New Earth" in Latin?"
"Yeah," Officer Kurt said in approvement. "Don't you find all this weird to think about?"
Suddenly, the SWAT teams, police officers, firefighters, the Mayor and Applejack were startled to hear what sounded like explosions coming from inside the ship. Looking up they see smoke peaking through several cracked sections of the hall. Upon seeing that the firefights redied there hoses to begin spraying water on any fire's that seep through.
Then came the sound of muffled shots going off above them, looking just in time. A window from the top of the ship broke, and there were three figures jumped out from the broken window with a few more smaller explosions following them.
The three individuals landed on an apple tree, breaking several branches in progress before hitting the ground hard.
In an instant, all the SWAT teams and officers drew their weapons on the three individuals but kept their distance. From their distance, they could hear the three figures that landed made groans of pains after their supposed escape attempt to get out of harm's way, which surprised them. The sounds they made weren't what they were expecting aliens to make. From where Applejack stood, she could identify that two sounded male and third one sounded female based on she was hearing. The three figures then slowly stood up on the ground and stood on two legs, reeling in from that crazy action. They can see that those three figures were encased in future armor.
The first one Applejack saw wore an armor style that was black with a dark grey digital camo cover over a bodysuit of black and olive green colors, and the suit has an intimidating metal helmet with two blue visors on the "face" of the helmet. There was also a familiar decal of a red and yellow sun on its left shoulder. But she couldn't recognize where she remembered it from.
The second one of them wore what looked like some sort of suit made for fighting in cold climates if the brown armor paddings on its chest and legging were to show for. The suit had some kind of fur on the on along the wearer's collar, and the suit was made from some sort of thick fiber of yellow and grey-brownish color. It's the armored helmet had three blue line visors, one straight and two zig-zagging across its front, and the helmet has a cloth mask beneath those visors.
And the last one wore what looked like a combat armor, black blates covered its features along with black military-grade style arm guards, gauntlets, vambraces, leggings and a cuirass with a red underlayer along with a skeletal-looking helmet that emits a red glow from its viewport, on the right pauldron of the suit had some logo that Applejack couldn't identify.
"Tell me again. Why the hell we had to jump through the pilot window again?" The one in the skeletal-looking helmet said, still reeling from the fall.
"Every door on the bridge was without power, and the electrical fire was going to cook us in our suits if we didn't get out of there fast," said the one in the arctic suit. "What did you expect on how to get out from there?"
"Even though that happened and with jumping out of a window at an unknown height, Isaac," Said a female voice coming from the one inside the digital camo armor. "I still prefer Carver's option."
"Hey, we full of bad ideas, remember?" the man in the arctic suit, who Applejack thought this one was Isaac said. "Even our ideas are bad; we still managed to make everything worked."
"Uuuhh, guys?" the combat armored one who said, as he looked over to the army of police officers that surrounded them, who Applejack assumed to be this Carver said. "We got trouble..."
The other two in armor quickly looked at Carver then to what he was staring at, now just realizing there were nearly surrounded by officers armed with weapons. The three promptly drew their weapons as at the same time the police forces raised their guns to them. Applejack quickly stepped back with the mayor behind the nearest officer for protection. The police noticed the differences with their weapons and the newcomers. While the SWAT carried M4 rifles and the regular officers carried a variety of pistols, the spacemen's weapons all had big blue laser pointers attached to them while some of the SWAT officers used small red dots. And unlike the law enforcement weapons, especially rifles, the newcomers had their rifles designed in a bizarre way, for a good example, Isaac's weapon has a triple-barrel rifle.
None of the officers dared to speak as they aimed their weapons at the three, until the one of the three, the one with the black and dark grey digital camo armor, slowly lowered her weapon. Isaac and Carver turned their heads over to their third companion surprise. Though they still kept their weapons aiming at the dozens of the officers, Isaac talked to her in question.
"Hey, why are you lowering your rifle?"
The soldier suit person took a clear look by leaning her head forward until she noticed something. "Hang on. I think I recognized those officers."
"Officers? What do you mean?" Carver asked in confusion.
"Hey!! Are you CPD?" the soldier suit shouted, which made the whole officers, the mayor, and Applejack very surprised as they looked at each other.
"Yes! Yes, we are!!" Officer Kurt shouted back. No megaphone was involved. "How the hell you know that?" this question was due to the fact that they were from another world, presumably.
Isaac and Carver looked at each other were surprised as well as they still aiming their weapons, the soldier suit asked again to the officers. "Where are we and what year is this?!"
Applejack swears it sounded like someone that she was familiar with but quite unsure who was that Mayor Mare replied to her question. "This is the year of 2016; we're in Canterlot City! Specifically, at Sweet Apple Acres."
The girl in the soldier suit quickly surprised by her answer as she took a step back once. "What..........?" she said silently to herself, as she just stood there frozen.
Isaac and Carver were also surprised with the year they're in. "Are you.... telling me that...?" Carver began to say but knew where this was going.
"We jumped through time, back to the past," the girl in soldier armor added, sounded with a mix of sorrow and joy. "I'm..... home..."
"What?!" Carver was very shocked by what she meant. " You shiting me Sunset. This is where you came from?!"
"Yes...." the girl armored replied silently.
After the silence dawned on them again, Deputy Copper shout out at the three armored figures. "Take off your helmet so we can see your faces!!"
The three figures looked over to Copper from a distance in doubt. But then the girl in the soldier suit looked over to Isaac and Carver and shrugged her shoulders and got a nod to both of them. Soon, after the nods, they opened up their helmet one by one, automatically tore apart by itself which surprised the officers on how advanced they are. The one who opened first was Isaac. His face was round, had black and dark grey sporting shaggy hair and more pronounced black stubble that showed off his old age. As well as appearing more weary and haggard plus with dark circles underneath his eyes stating that he has lack of sleep.
The second one was Carver, his square shape face, and his head was bald-like showing that there was thin black hair left on his head, and apparently has large facial damage on the left side of his face, and seemed to be a sturdy soldier from the look he made on his face.
Lastly, the girl inside the soldier suit opened up her helmet, but some of the officers and Applejack herself became shocked at who was in that armor, it was the girl the police were looking for on their list of missing persons.
Sunset Shimmer
Isaac and Carver lowered their weapons as the police forces did the same. They slowly got closer to the young women and examined Sunset's face. Sunset's hair was was still the same before and after opening her helmet and had scars all over her face, one small scar underneath her right eye, another scar on her forehead, a small scar just above her left eye. More than that she was weary and haggard as Isaac and had bag eyes indicating she was also been having lack of sleep. With eyes filled with the emotion of sadness and shock.
From there on, whatever Applejack's assumptions of Sunset being the Anon-A-Miss vanished from her mind after seeing the former bully. Applejack even saw that distant look. It was the look of someone who had been through a lot of shit to get a good life at the end. Like the thousand yard stare, she'd seen when she passed some the town's veterans.
"We're not hallucinating right?" Carver asked Isaac.
"No, we're not," Isaac replied.
Suddenly, Sunset went down to one knee, and her weapon dropped in front of her which Isaac, Carver, Applejack, Mayor Mare, along with a few officers quickly ran to her in instinct. Sunset just started to feel intense pain at her stomach. When she looked down at it and cursed to herself. She just found out that a small metal pike sticking into her stomach. Isaac and Carver just realized that Sunset's health rig was in the yellow and about to turn to red.
"You're okay, Sunset?" Applejack asked the bacon haired girl as Isaac and Carver tried to slowly get her up to her feet.
"I'm fine; it's nothing a little med-pack from my RIG storage pocket won't fix," Sunset replied as she was able to get on her feet after their help then held a hand on the metal pike still inside her wound. She looked up at the blond high school student and showed off a small smile "It's good to see you again, Applejack."
After Isaac and Carver learned that this cowgirl was Applejack, Isaac asked them. "Do you have a place we can stay for a bit to treat her injury?"
"At ma'h house right there," Applejack pointed towards her house, which made the trio in advanced suit dumbfounded on how close the ship was with the house.
"Well that's convenient," Isaac commented. "At least we didn't crash into anyone's property right?"
"Actually, you did do damaged to some property," Copper said immediately, pointing to the fences near the ship.
"Those fence lines for the orchard. But don't worry about that." Applejack waved off.
"And I thought the whole ship disappeared with us," Carver added as he stares at the backside of the ship, which made Sunset and Isaac disappointed on one thing. "Dammit! we lost the Shockpoint Drive!"
"At least we made it to somewhere safe from those planet-sized monsters," Sunset added, which made Kurt, Applejack, Copper, and the mayor gave her a questioning look.
"What monsters?" AJ asked.
"You don't want to know," Sunset replied, had enough of the horrors she needs to face with. "Just get me to your house."
"Alright," Applejack gave Sunset an arm over her shoulder and lead her towards her house where her family was already waiting inside after picking up her weapon and hold it by the barrel of the gun (which she wasn't quite sure that was the barrel of the rifle modified-blaster weapon).
Sunset asked AJ to stopped for a moment and looked back. "Isaac, can you and Carver look over whats left of the ship? We both know we don't need any more surprises for today. "
"Sure," Isaac answered limply. "Will take care of it no, worries there, anything else?"
"Yeah," Sunset replied back, then she coughed before adding some words.
"And make sure the police forces have access to anything that we can find, we can trust them. Not like those goddamned Earthgov pricks who tried to murder us back in The Sprawl."
Isaac and Carver doubt that, but then-Mayor Mare convinced them. "You both managed to bring a missing girl back to town and earned our trust. We will do anything you need, and will have your backs in case you are in trouble unless you did something very terrible to our city."
Isaac and Carver looked at each other in content but nodded in consent.
"Alright then, will trust you. But only for Sunset's sake, but your men have to listen to us when they are inside there because I doubt they know what they're doing. "
"Mayor, can you make sure the public doesn't know about this?" Sunset asked she doesn't want trouble come up to the city. Especially multiple federal government trouble.
"We'll try, though it will be hard to hide this huge ship."
"Good, and Isaac, make double sure, no triple sure that ship is clear of Necromorphs. Applejack, let's go before I bleed out."
Applejack continued to carry Sunset to her home for medical treatment. Now Isaac and Carver did their coordinated with the officers and SWAT members on site on what to do. Now being stuck in a new situation, where they have to change tactics, and going to need to adapt to the new environments around them. Change to outdated technology from nearly four centuries to what they are used to. Sunset may have felt much joy that she returned back to her old timeline, but there were some memories of this place when she'd rather forget. Her bad memories of being the she-demon of Canterlot High and as the framing of Anon-A-Miss which had taken with the physical and mental injury with her throughout time.
And now she was back again wondering right now, what was going to happen next?

