Applejack got Sunset to her house quickly, and her family saw her with a limping Sunset. Applebloom stood back as Granny Smith and Big Mac tried to get her to lay down on the sofa, but Sunset waved them off to hold a moment and pointed at her stomach.

What they saw terrified them as Sunset pointed to a small metal pike sticking out of her. Their terrified looks became one of shock when Sunset grabbed hold of it. Big Mac tried to stop her but ended up too late as she quickly yanked it out of her like it was nothing.

Sunset just grunts from doing that, for sure she was very used to such levels of pain over the recent years, like a tough girl she is. She looks at the piece before tossing it away pike away before she sat herself down on the sofa while holding her wound.

"What the hay, Sunset?!" Applejack asked in a mix of mad and worried. "Ya' just going to make yourself bleed faster!"

Sunset only grinned and snorted at her reaction, still seeing her RIG is already turned red. "What, this? Compared all to what's happened to me, I've had worse."

"What's worse than that?" Big Mac asked curiously and worried.

"Survived from a fall from orbit," Sunset retorted, seriously. "How does that sound?"

They were speechless to her answer. "That's...... bizarre...." was all Big Mac can say.

"And what are ya' wearing actually?" Applebloom asked, fascinated by the design of the of her suit.

"It's a space suit, a military soldier suit that I customized myself," Sunset then huffed to herself. "That's a bit ironic though."

"Huh?" Applejack didn't understand what she meant. "What do ya' mean?"

"I'm actually a ship systems engineer," Sunset replied, which surprised the Apples. "When I left, Isaac out there found me right where I appeared, and he helped me getting an apprenticeship under him to be a ship engineer, worked for a mining company called Concordance Extraction Corporation. CEC for short for a while."

Kind of odd for Applejack to know that Sunset is an engineer now for a mining company. Applejack herself could do some engineering stuff too, but she didn't think it was on the same level as the job Sunset had now and was likely would not suit her well for it. But now because she just became an engineer, well fuck that. Applejack and the Apples then reminded about her wound again before she's going to bleed out.

"Sunset, could you open the suit?" Granny Smith asked. "So we can try to heal the wound."

"Sure thing, but first," Sunset answered, and lifted her left hand up and a floating blue light emerges from her hand. The Apples were taken back at the sudden floating screen. It reminded them of a TV as they watched Sunset used her finger to swipe some images around and watch her become annoyed with her voice confirming it when she spoke next. "Crap, only one med pack and it's a small one too, damn should have asked Isaac and Carver for some before leaving. Oh well, it'll due." Sunset said before pressing a few more commands and visibly sighed in relief as the cyan gel began to fill her body, stabilizing her condition and healed some of the smaller wounds. Also to Applejack's wonder the light on her back went from red to an orange color.

Applejack was about to ask what she did when sunset got off the couch and proceed to take off her suit....... on site.

"Woah there!" Applejack said quickly, worrying her sister would see something she should not see. "You should-"

"I'm also wearing clothes underneath this suit," Sunset replied quickly, cutting off her sentence. "Don't worry about it." She assured with a small smile. Applejack sighed in relief as well as the other two older Apples much to the confusion of the younger Apple before it hit her.

"Hey, I've seen girls naked before!" Proclaimed the Applebloom. Only to cover her mouth in shock realization of what she blurted out in front of her family. Making everyone look at the young Apple with different stages of embarrassment.

Then the Apple's heard a crackle, looking at the source they saw Sunset was looking at them with an honest smile before realizing what she did and looked away, "Sorry, it's just, nevermind..."

Sunset then proceeded to unclamp her soldier suit. The first thing she did was re-engaged her helmet. The Applejack may have seen it before but even seeing it the second time she was still in awe of the technology in front of her. The other Apples were also in awe at the display with Applebloom forgetting her earlier embarrassment and looked on in wonder. She reached out to her side her hands under her chin and around the sides of her neck and pulled on a pair of clips. Undoing the seals and releasing the headpiece from her. She'd set it down on the coffee table in front of her before reaching to her side and pulled out the futurist weapon Applejack saw earlier and sat it down on the table.

From there Applejack got a better view of it, it reminded her of the Star Wars movies the way most of it looked but also looked like two weapons in one. "What is that, Sunset? Saw you had that earlier and I know a weapon when I see it." Applejack asked. Making the other Apples take a step back with multiple questions that they kept to themselves in wonder why she had that. Sunset paused her actions and gave the farmer her answer.

"That right there is actually two weapons," Sunset said casually further shocking the Apples while the bacon hair women explained. "This is my primary weapon for most of what I had to face to survive were I came from. The top one is a "Pulse Rifle," think of it an assault rifle like you see in a video game." Getting a nod of understanding in the room. "The bottom one is called a "Contact Beam," an easy way to describe it is a small cannon that one shot's anything I point it at with a huge kinetic discharge. I called these combined weapons as The Thunder Strike" She explained before pulling out another weapon, "And this little baby is my custom plasma cutter, worked on it myself and works similar to what you used a pistol in close quarters situations."

Sunset placed both weapons next to her helmet while ignoring everyone's looks and pulled out something else that no one was expecting. A brown book with a red and yellow sun symbol which struck a cord within Applejack, reminding her of her dreams.

Sunset then proceeds on with taking off her soldier suit, reaching to her side she pressed down and un-dew the clamps and let the chest portion of the suit hung loosely. The rest begins to slip off in one big one-piece.

Hanging it limply in her hands, Sunset took a look at her suit on some of the scratches that were in some places as memories of close encounters cloud her mind for a moment. She then puts her suit lays it down next to the sofa before flopping down on the couch, exhausted from the recent battles she'd fought.

Applejack saw the clothing Sunset wore underneath her suit, It was her signature black leather jacket she'd wore back in school, but it has been modified a little with some sort of the device on the back of her jacket like her soldier suit has, and underneath her jacket was her dark grey shirt, and she has brown pants.

Then, suddenly a nurse and a doctor came in the thought the front door and looked to where Sunset was sitting. It was Nurse Redheart and Doctor Whooves and to were by Sunsets side looking over her for injuries. After a few seconds of the Doctor looking her over, he noticed something. "I was told you had something sticking out of you, where is it?"

"It's right there," Sunset said to the Doctor as she pointed at the small metal pike on the table. "It wasn't that deep in me, maybe around an inch or so it didn't damage anything important."

The nurse and Doctor looked at Sunset like she was out of her mind. "Are you crazy?!" Shouted Redheart.

"Jury is still out on that one, I'll call yea when they come back with the decision." She responded.

This made the Doctors hand slap his face in frustration while the nurse just shook her head at the girl's stupidity before they took out a roll of bandages. Nurse Redheart asked Sunset to show them the puncture wound from where the pike struck her. Getting up to do so, the Doctor and Nurse saw that the bleeding had been stopped and looked at the redhead. "The bleeding had stopped, you should still be gushing out blood. What did you do to stop it? I don't see any packing in it."

"It's from a medical kit I used if I had more of it the wound would be healed up and your services would be needed elsewhere."

Seeing both annoyed that their services were no longer required and intrigued by the method of medicine Sunset used without their knowledge. So instead they took some disinfected wipes to clean up the blood that covered Sunset's skin and wrapped her bandages.

It was a quick one for Sunset, to be honest, and she was glad they bandage it due to her lack of medical packs. Sunset slowly sat back down on the sofa while she held her bandaged wound again before letting it go without worries. Her health RIG was already in yellow color, which means she's is in a better condition then she was when she came in. But her RIG made the doctor curious about it. "What is that device attached to your back?" Doctor Whooves asked.

"It's called a RIG," Sunset replied. "Or Resource Integration Gear. It's a multi-tool for use in dangerous environments. It's got an integrated health management and strength augmentation system that assists users in their jobs. RIG's varied depending on what you do for a living."

"Oh, really?" Dr. Whooves said as he and Redheart both looked at the glowing spine on her back. "What are the other variants you mentioned?"

"Most people have basic RIG mounts where monitors the life signs of an individual and wrist-mounted holographic projectors attached to clothing that is capable of two-way audio and visual communication like a cell phone. The spine-mounted display serves to indicate's my general state of health as a glowing segmented bar which depletes as the user takes damage. When a person dies, it emits a "flat-line" sound similar to an EKG, which is loud enough to alert others within earshot of the RIG wearer's demise and can display whatever they might need to see" Sunset explain.

Both interested in the device from the future technology. "Do you mind if we could get something like that?"

"Hmm, I don't mind, but I doubt we have some of those lying around," Sunset answered limply. "And I'm not sure how other people will react to you having technology from the future."

"I see your point," Redheart said sincerely. "Well, that's fine. By the way, what's that next to the health management, the small half circle shape one?"

"That would be another variant of a RIG, I worked as a ship engineer, my RIG possesses a Kinesis and Stasis modules to aid in my profession," Sunset answered, as she looked over her wound for making sure it's not bleeding. "The blue meter is the stasis charge for my Stasis module. Useful for temporarily slow down objects or a person, and it's useful to avoid any incoming dangers."

"Really? Can you show us," Dr. Whooves said in disbelieve. Sunset stood up the sofa and looked on her surroundings.

There was a metal pot intentionally left on a cabinet on the right front side of the sofa and a ball on the table for Applejack's dog pet, Winona. She took the ball and looked straight towards the metal pot. Grabbing the pot in her right hand, she lightly tossed it up and unleashed a blast of stasis from the module towards the pot. When the blue blast hit the pot, the whole pot was coated in a light blue aura and seemed to float in the air.

The Apples, doctor, and nurse were surprised with the color change and dumbfounded by the floating pot. Sunset then grabs the ball off the table and throws the ball at the floating pot. The ball hits the pot, and the pot slowly falls in a different direction to the ground like a lazy walking turtle than it should be. After a moment later when the pot nearly reached the ground, the Stasis effect fades away, and the pot resumes its normal speed upon touching the ground and makes a normal metal banging sound.

"So?" Sunset asked enjoying everyone's reactions. "Any more questions?"

"Alright then," Applejack answered at last. "That was weird..."

"You get used to it," Sunset then went back to the sofa and sat back down back.

"Alright, well since we're not needed here we'll go out to sort out our supplies in the ambulance. Be ready for any more craziness that'll happen," Dr. Whooves said as he packed up his medical supplies. "Hope you don't mind."

"Don't worry, Doctor Whooves," Granny Smith added with a smile and a waved hand at them. "Someone else out there probably needs your help than us."

"Alright, we'll be off, holler if you need us" Dr. Whooves added before they both left the house, leaving the Apples and Sunset in the house.
Sunset then reminded about the year they're in.

"Applejack, how long I've been missing?"

"You've been missing for almost a year," Applejack answered, which kind of triggered Sunset by widening her eyes and left her jaw hanging.

"Are you shitting me?" Sunset retorted, which the Apples were slightly frightened by her swearing and Applebloom became a little upset and agitated by her outburst.

"Whoa, no we're not," Applejack said quickly trying to calm her down. "Can ya' try and not cuss in front of my sister we're still high schoolers you know."

Sunset was silent for a moment as she looked at her old 'Friend.' "Applejack, how old you think I am?"

"Well, you should be around 17 years old now!" Applejack answered back.

"Nope, I'm 22 years old now," Sunset calmly answered, but the Apples did not believe what she said.

"What do ya' mean ya' 22 years old?" Applejack asked back. "You've only been gone for a year, Sunset!"

"Blame the time travel for that," Sunset snorted as she shook her head. "When I tried to get away from all of you by returning to Equestria but the portal there wouldn't open with my magic something, and it jumped me nearly five hundred years into the future and been stuck there for over five years."

Applejack suddenly stopped talking after hearing that word, 'magic.' "Hang on, did you said magic?"

"Yeah, AJ," Sunset answered. "I had to use all my magic reserves to open the portal at that statue in CHS. Well, it haft worked I guess. In sted of crossing dimensions, I traveled through time. At least Twilight soon found out I'm alive and well. Ha, she'd loved to hear how I pulled that off."

"Wait, she knows you?" Applebloom asked, which seems to be a stupid question to Sunset.

"What do you mean she knows me? She knows all of us." Sunset asked back. "She's a princess."

"Hang on, Princess?" Applejack asked this was pretty suspicious of her because from what Sunset said it was something she heard from her dream. "Twilight is a student in CHS."

"Wait, what do you mean Twilight is a student in CHS?" Sunset asked, sounding confused as to why an Alicorn princess is attending the high school.

"She'd transferred from Crystal Prep to CHS after the Friendship Games a couple months after you disappeared." Applejack noticed the worried look ushering from Sunset's face at Applejacks words. And believed she was actually telling the truth.

"Hang on a minute," Sunset thinks as questions made up in her head. One being did they already found the counterpart of Princess Twilight. But was for another conversation. "What do you remember about me?"

"Well, at first you were the bully in CHS," Applejack remembered. "Then we became friends with you because you wanted to be friends with us, but then you betrayed us again because you became the Anon-A-Miss who posted everyone's secrets and went back to your old ways."

Sunset stood up from the sofa and approached Applejack as Big Mac, Granny Smith, and Applebloom stepped back from them both. "Do you remember that Princess Twilight defeated me because I transformed into Demon Sunset during the fall formal dance and gave me a second chance to fix everything?"

"No, Ah' don't," Applejack can feel it that what she said matches her dreams.

"What?! How could you all forget about that? The six of you literally blasted me into the ground and made a huge creator in front of the school. Principal Celestia was still sore about the cost to fill it up when I left. What about that time we defeat the Sirens from manipulating everyone by using their magic, and we put a stop to them and save CHS at the Battle Of The Bands?"

"Ah' don't remember that either."

"Do you don't even remember anything that I had tried to fix with everything I've done before The Battle Of The Bands and Anon-A-Miss?"

"No, Ah' only remember that you were a bully to everyone in the school and made enemies to everyone in the school. You are the Anon-A-Miss of the CHS, and then you just vanished into thin air. Most of the school was glad that you're gone."

Sunset paused, and her tears were starting to pouring out from her eyes. "All of them don't remember anything besides that?"

Applejack became kind of afraid to answer her, she was sad, she was angry, she was...... very broke to of own personality. "Yes, they are....."

Sunset only stood frozen and stared at Applejack in sorrow. Sunset slowly backed up to the sofa and weakly sat down. Applejack then sat down next to her as the rest the Apple family decided to leave the two of them alone for some privacy. Sunset reminded herself of everything that she'd been through again, and reminded something that was supposed to be to happen. Something that made Applejacks blood run cold with fear and regret at the next sentence Sunset spoke.
"Why didn't I die back there?"

---

Isaac and Carver have led a group consisting of four members of the SWAT, along with Sergeant Kurt, and Deputy Copper. The SWAT were armed with their M4s with flashlight mounts, while Kurt had his Mossberg 950 shotgun, and Copper used her Glock. While Isaac and Carver still had their weapons, they used throughout the previous events evolving Necromorphs and had their Plasma Cutter's out because they know that most of the monsters in the Terra Nova are dead so there should be no need for immense power from their heavier weapons. A Plasma Cutter was enough to cut the limbs of any Necromorphs since it can cut through metals and rocks alike with ease.

While Carver and Isaac were the ones who lead the way, the police forces found it uncomfortable while they traveled around in the close dark halls of a dead ship. Especially when both of their guides had their helmets up with their visors making creepy light-shape figures of weird shapes in the dark, at least they helped out a little on seeing anything ahead. They have currently checked the forward section of the ship and looked at places that Isaac and Carver missed during their first two trips through the ship and when escaping Tau Volantis orbit. They were continually being held up by doors that had no power running them and been airtight sealed for a while. Unlike the officers, Isaac and Carver knew that some of the doors wouldn't be functioning due to lack of maintenance over the last two hundred years it was sitting in orbit filled with the undead. Luckily they had an engineer in their group that can easily open all the doors in the old ship, with or without power.

"Couldn't we try using explosives on that door?" one of the SWAT members asked.

"You'd be wasting it," Carver said as he chuckled. "Even without power, these old doors can still be open with those crack system.

Isaac used his Kinesis Module to turn the clockwork hydraulic cranking system. The law enforcement officer watched in awed at the marvelous piece of technology used in front of them like it was magic.

"That's a cool tool," Kurt complimented, jealous getting that tool.

"It's nothing for sure," Isaac added casually. "Let's go, Carver."

They then entered the next room, and they walked on along the dark halls of the Terra Nova, and Isaac switched to using his rifle without realizing it. Isaac and Carver did remember these halls they just entered. The ones where those Unitologist cultists attached dead Necromorph bodies on the walls. And there were some of the dead Necromorphs fell off the wall and some still attached to the wall and some hanged standing in the middle of the hall blocking their way. And they were creeping the hell out of the officers after seeing the Necromorphs they saw, all the dead slashers.

(Note: The rifle he is actually wearing is AL9 Clearcutter, not the chaingun in the image)

"A-a-are tho-those.....?" Copper asked as she shivers and shakes uncomfortably as the other officers only gave a fear expression amongst the dead slashers. "The Necromorphs are you talking about?"

"Yeah, we called these things Slashers," Isaac checked each of the Necromorphs to double sure it's dead. "At least they're dead."

"Huh," Kurt kicked a little at a corpse that lied down on the floor. "So, just like zombies?"

"Reanimated human corpses to be precise as to what Isaac said," Carver said, humorously. "Unlike zombies in the movies, they don't go down after shooting their heads, cop."

"Oh really?" a SWAT Officer asked. "How you kill them?"

When Isaac about to answer them, Carver nudged him and told him there's a corpse ahead looked suspicious. Isaac and the rest looked at the Slasher ahead that was laid down on the floor near the crates. It didn't look suspicious for the officers, for them both it is. They all still stood silent while staring at the Slasher.

"What's with that?" Copper asked confusedly. "It's dead, right?
"
"Not sure," Isaac replied as he holstered his Clearcutter and use his Plasma Cutter. "Rule number one in facing Necromorphs: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."

As if Isaac can predict something going bad to happen, he just shot the suspicious dead Necromorph with his Plasma Cutter and began shooting each of its limbs off. Officers were surprised by the engineer as he shot at the corpse. They were shocked to found out that Isaac just cut off the limbs of the dead Slasher before Isaac looked over at them. "Rule number two: Cut off their limbs, it's the only way to kill them."

Isaac and Carver just moved on like nothing happened, while the officers were left behind and stood frozen. "What?" Kurt asked himself.

They moved up along while checking one by one to make sure each Necromorphs they came across are dead by dismembering them. Even if they were all already dead due to the lack of any active markers nearby, they still didn't give fate any chances. And also the officers remind themselves to shoot off their limbs if they saw one alive. When they were about to pass by a Slasher that lay down next to Carver, he just stomped the Slasher brutally which surprisingly is actually alive. After Carver finished stomping the Slasher into a pulp, he and Isaac looked over to the officers again who were in disgust by Carver's act. "Do you really had to do that?" A female SWAT member asked. "That was brutal."

"Rule number three: When in doubt, stomp everything," Carver said until the officers managed to understand the third rule they meant.

As they kept moving on, silence atmosphere filled the air as they move on. They were inspecting the next dark hallways ahead, and they discovered something that made them beyond disgusts. Besides the candles lighten up around the hall, they found a lot of stacks of mutilated hands and arms around the halls. The sort of how those Unitologists stacked their hands and arms were piled upwards, for the offerings for the Necromorphs and The Moons.

"Jesus..." Kurt felt he's going to have a nightmare tonight as the rest of the officers closed their mouths to avoid getting puke. "That's a lot..... why are they willing to do that?"

"They all went insane like hell," Carver said carefully looked at those mutilated limbs. "They were worshiping the Necromorphs. Talking about a church, not made from rock and mortar, but from flesh and blood. I wonder how the hell they're going to do that."

Suddenly, both of Isaac's and Carver's RIG comms went online, they were receiving a sound of a man whimpering in pain. Isaac and Carver hoped that what they were really hearing wasn't another hallucination. But then the sound changed from a whimper to groan in pain. They then moved up following the source of the sound, via locator tag of someone's RIG.

"Know where it coming from?" Copper asked as Isaac looked towards the locator lines that pointed towards the source of the sound.

"That was a life signs tag. It seems we're not alone here and it's coming from the cargo bay," Isaac answered. "Let's go."

As they traversed through the halls and had to use the elevator that is conveniently still running due to its own reserve power, they reached the cargo bay. The room has a large window screen that displays the half-mid side of the ship and the environment where the ship has landed and there two ladders, each one on the left side of the wall and right side of the wall. And there was a spacious floor in the middle of the room below, and there was some sort of controls underneath the where the group stood, while at the window there was a console for the cranes located in the rib-like portion of the ship. When they went downstairs separately, they were shocked to found someone was indeed alive near the controls underneath the second floor.

He was sitting down alone against the controls on the floor, more than that to the shock of Isaac and Carver, the guy was one of the Unitologist survivors that were getting converted into a madman by the new Unitologist Cult group, he was wearing his Unitologist snowsuit with the Markers symbol on the armor. What to everyone's horror, they saw he had lost both hands, fortunately for him, he wasn't bleeding.

"Fucking hell, he's still alive?" Kurt asked in horror.

"Wait a minute," Isaac said as he and Carver approached the traumatized man who lost his hands whilst opening their helmets at the same time. "Hey, hey. You're okay?"

"Marker Killer?" the Unitologist asked. "Isaac..... is that you?"

"Yes, it's me," Isaac replied as he tried to heal him with the medpack he had as the Unitologist's RIG turned from red to yellow. "The Cult Leader did this to you right?"

"Yeah,...... it's-its..... God," the Unitologist stammered catatonically. "Unitology was all a lie. Why did I join them in the first place?"

Isaac and Carver were both were felt a bit of pity for the guy and was glad about this, as some of the police officers tried to apply another bandage on his bloody bandaged-limbs. "You can blame Altman for that. He took the whole thing in a whole new wrong direction with that, and that Cult Leader sure didn't help anyone. What's your name?"

"Carr," the handless Unitologist replied. "Randall Carr." Which surprised Isaac and Carver.

"Wait, you're the one who tried to get the Shockpoint Drive back online?" Isaac asked quickly. "We thought you were dead!"

"I was lucky," Randall chuckled in sorrow. "There was another surviving Unitologist saved me after that crazy prophet after he cut my hands off. He was smart or lucky to use explosive Stasis cans to froze those madmen for a moment before they could gouge out my eyes and brought me here. After that, he just left me after he bandaged my handless limbs and went off to get the Shockpoint Drive from them. That was the last I saw of him, guess he didn't make it. Shit....."

"Easy there, let me patch you up," A SWAT officer said, while another SWAT officer, a female one contacted the Police Command. "TOC, this is Gold Team. We found another survivor in the ship, I repeat we found another survivor in the ship. We are going to get him out now. Be advised, the paramedics' team is needed. Both of the survivor's hands are cut off with some sorta saw."

"Damn, Roger that Gold Team. Get him out there, the paramedics have been alerted and will be sending him the nearby farmhouse before transferring him to the hospital."

"Roger that, we're moving out."

"So we're on earth?" Randall asked.

"Yes, we are," Isaac answered. "But... it's not the earth we know."

"What do you mean?" Randall confused with his statement.

"To make it short, we able to return to earth by overloading the shock point drive," Carver said firmly. "Alright? But we're too late to return back in time. The Moons were already there and attacked earth. We had to escape again by overloading the Shockpoint Drive and which turned out to be a bad idea and literally jumped through time and landed on earth. We're stuck in the past, it's 2016 now."

"Hang on," Randall tried to understand it. "You're telling me that we travel through time to escape The Moons and landed back on earth in the past?!"

"Yes, that's what we're trying to tell you," Isaac said as he nods.

"Shit..... that almost sounds worse," Randall complained. "At least we don't have to worry about those Necromorphs anymore... Do we?"

"Actually, for now, we still to worry about it," Carver said to him. "Do you know where the Markers gonna be so we can fucking shoot it?"

"Hmm, I heard all of them are inside the cargo hold in the ship's AFT section," Randall said. "Worth to checking out I guess."

"Thanks for that which puts a lot of worry to rest," Isaac then help him get up by giving his arm around his left shoulder. "Can you walk?"

"My ankle still twisted a little, but I think I can. Why do you say that?" Randall said with a little doubt in his mind

"When we landed we found the entire AFT section, which includes the shuttle repair bay, cargo hold, and engineering to disappear," Isaac explained which shocked the former Unitologist.

"How did that happened?!"

"We don't know, all we could tell is that when the ship traveled back either the entrance vector or our exit point wasn't calculated in proper. I don't know I wasn't the one piloting this heap of junk. Will talk later on theories, now let's get you some help."

"Carver, Donald, Porty, Ferrell get him out of this ship will ya? While me, Kurt, Copper, and Zinnia will continue on with our search of the ship," Isaac ordered.

"Alright, you heard him! Let's go!" Carver ordered as they all walked on to their objectives.

5 minutes later. Forward Cargo hold.

Isaac, Kurt, Copper and SWAT female officer Zinnia reached the cargo hold and open up every each of the crates available in the forward sections cargo hold, either opening it by crowbar, destroying the crate with Plasma Cutter, or in Isaac's case, stomp every crates on sight whether it's big or small. Some of the crates were coffins from when the ship was carrying corpses away.

Isaac wasn't going to give these things a chance and ordered the officers to destroy them, of course after telling them that the Markers was an alien artifact that made people insane and transforms them into Necromorphs by the signal alone, they had no problem following that order. After dealing with those, they opened the rest of the crates that contains useful scraps and tools. Then they were going for the big one crate, a very big one. Located in the middle of the cargo hold, it was made from solid metal and looked vulnerable to be damaged by explosives.

"Zinnia, you have that breaching charges, right?" Isaac asked.

"Yes sir," she replied. "Wanna open up that with a charge?"

"Yeah, I do. Set them up. "

Zinnia placed two of her breaching charges and plant them on the crate. Then they backed off from the crate and out of the blast range before Zinnia clicked the detonator.

*BAM*

The explosives made a nice hole on the huge metal crate, which can fit two people each when entering it. And when they entered the crate, it was like both a treasury and armory for Isaac. Which Issac smiled happily at the sight.

"So what's all of these?" Copper asked Isaac, which he grinned at her before looking back to their findings.

"Looks like we got what we need."

---

Applejack had just told Sunset how school was going without her around, after a few moments of silence and after the rest of the Apples left to give them privacy. And what experience she had to tell to Sunset, but not most of it. Sunset felt broken-heart about Applejacks explanation. Someone had erased all their memories of the good time she had with everyone and somehow leaving only and knowing she was this Anon-A-Miss was still around until now but not yet posted anything in particular after she left. Applejack did wonder what did she meant by 'why didn't she die back there.' Instead of telling her, Sunset reached into her rig and pulled out a device. She pressed some of the holographic controls and gave Applejack a tablet-like device.

"This is a video log," Sunset explained with an empty voice "With engineers like me, I can record all my finding on video to look again if I want to. Press play to get a taste of what I've been through and a piece of what's hell is like..." Sunset did show Applejack on how to use it.

Applejack was about to turn on the video log, but stopped by Sunset, telling her to watch it when everyone went to bed. Which wouldn't be long as it was only nine PM and still not yet their time. The video log that Sunset gave to Applejack was actually the moments where the alien machine was turned off, and she was with Isaac and Carver had fought and flown their way to turn the Machine back on and their final fight with The Brethren Moon over the planet, Tau Volantis.

Another why she wouldn't say with her to watch it after everyone's sleeping is because she doesn't want anyone to call her up to watch what the hell AJ was watching, she had enough facing those bastards for a lifetime.

After a moment, someone else came inside AJ's house, and Sunset was shocked to found out who entered the house. Dr. Whooves and Nurse Redheart had escorted a wounded Unitologist into the house. But Sunset stopped herself from taking up her weapon to shoot him after seeing that his hands were cut off and didn't have the knives at the end. Sunset saw that he still had his eyes new that this guy right here, was a nearly-converted victim of the Cult Leader. Applejack just stood next to Sunset in horror seeing he was handless. The Unitologist looked up and saw the two girls in the living room. When they landed their eyes on Sunset, he gasped in surprise at her sight.

"Holy shit," the Unitologist said. "You're Sunset Shimmer? The other Marker Killer?"

"Whoa hold on a sec, he knows you?" Dr. Whooves asked as he, the nurse, and Applejack looked surprised when he said Sunset's name.

"Yes, indirectly," Sunset answered with a nod as she kept a close eye on the wounded Unitologist soldier. "I assume you've just met Isaac and Carver. What's your name?"

"Randall Carr," he replied, which surprised Sunset for his survival.

"Wait, you're the one who tried to get the Tera Nova's Shockpoint Drive online?" Sunset stated. "I thought that Cult Leader already turned you into one of them."

"I got myself saved by another ex-unitologist and hid me in the cargo bay," Randall replied. "But he didn't make it."

Sunset only stood silent for a moment, before replying. "Sorry to hear that."

"Come on, let's put you down on the sofa," Nurse Redheart said as she and the doctor slowly put him down on the sofa, with the assistance of Applejack and Sunset.

"What happened to your hands?" Applejack asked worriedly.

"His hands got cut off by a madman with a bone saw," Sunset answered, which surprised the three of them to know that Sunset saw that part. "It's good to see you alive, already realized the Unitology religion is all fake, ain't you?"

"Yeah," Randall answered. "Glad to be alive for sure."

"We'll take it from here, Sunset," Dr. Whooves said before he turned to Applejack."He's going to stay here for a bit to stabilize his condition first before we take him to the hospital to get these adequately treated."

"Alright, Doctor," Applejack said, stepping away from them along with Sunset.

"So... ya' think he'll be fine?" Applejack asked, concerned about the stranger's condition.

"Don't worry, if he lasted this long, then he'll live."

Suddenly, Sunset's RIG blinked as a video link of Isaac displayed itself with the image of Isaac along with the others and showing the content inside the metal crate. "Hey, Shimmer. Good news, we just hit a gold mine."

"What do you mean?" Sunset asked as Applejack were curious about the display of the video link.

"Guess what? We got ourselves found a lot of military supplies in this huge crate, an armory's worth by the looks of it. Probably was for the soldier down on the planet before they went and scrubbed the whole thing." Isaac said as he looked back at the inside of the crate. "Got a lot of ammo universal ammo we could convert for all for our weapons. As well as a few racks of pulse rifles here that the police forces could use. Well, we got all those schematics for making them too, right?" Sunset nodded silently. "I also got emergency power to the forward section of the ship and got a BENCH and a Suit Kiosk working, and they also have the schematics for all the suits we found back in Tau Volantis. And we can also put in the schematics we found when we were back on The Sprawl too, so that's good news."

"Whoa, that's great," Sunset replied, but she was not being high spirits yet. "Alright, I'll gear back up and help you guys out on that."

"No, don't Sunset," Isaac said somehow in worried. "You better take a rest."

"Isaac, look," Sunset insisted. "I'm alright, just let me help you sort some-."

"Sunset, get a rest, please," Isaac begged. "You haven't gotten much sleep since we escape The Sprawl and its gotten worse before we took the trip to Tau Volantis. More than that, I doubt you have any energy to work on something especially after you got stabbed by a metal pike and the battle fatigue we fought not too long ago. Just get some rest, me and Carver will take care of this alright?"

"He's right, Sunset," Applejack agreed. "Looking at how you are ya' doing right now, ya' are in no good shape."

Sunset was actually eager to help him, but he was right about what he said. She had barely slept for last few months only to avoid any nightmares that have haunted her along the way. She sometimes gets some sleep by purchasing sleep medication to give her dreamless sleep but get running out of those and didn't have any with her now. Plus, she used all of her energy from all the fighting she did. She was of course out of shape to do more heavy jobs for it.

"Alright you've made your point, I'll get some rest," Sunset said sincerely at last.

"Thank you, Sunset," Isaac said with a smile. "Alright, see you morning, Sunset."

"See you tomorrow, Isaac," Sunset then closed the video link, but then looked down at the ground and sigh.
"Ya' okay?" AJ asked.

"I'm fine, it's just..." Sunset paused a moment before she sniffed herself and wrinckled at it. "... need a bath. *cough* Wow, ok yea a bath would be great, where is it? I smell worse than Rainbow Dash from when she refused to take a shower for those two weeks during soccer practice."

Applejack shivered at that memory, "Follow me," Applejack as she leads Sunset to the upstairs to go to the bathroom.

Applejack told Sunset to hold on for a moment so she could grab some proper clothes so she could get the ones she was wearing cleaned. Sunset Thanked her for that and stripped her clothes and removed the RIG from her jacket before handing them off. Applejack comes back with a set of clothes and hands them off to her before starting up the tub. After the filled up with water, Sunset took a step in and felt like six years of stress melt away. When Sunset entered the bathroom and began to take a bath as Applejack only wait outside the door. Applebloom did happen to pass by her sister and asked why she was waiting at the door.

"Why are ya' waiting at the door?"

"Sunset's taking a bath," Applejack answered. "Ah' just want to keep an eye on her to make sure she's alright. Why don't ya go back to your room? Ah' think she needs me for now."

"Sure, sis," Applebloom replied, she doesn't mind about that. After all, Sunset looked like she's in bad shape, Applebloom continues walking back to her room.

Meanwhile in the bathroom Sunset was feeling bliss. In the future, all she had to use was cold showers or wet wipes to get herself clean. Hot water was a commodity, and a luxury item on significant settlements and larger ships and bathtubs were like no existent. After a minute of soaking, she grabbed a loofa and some soap and scrubbed her. As she scrubbed, she saw just how much she needed this from the dirt and grime as she watched her skin starts to shine. Switching on the shower portion of the bath she undid her hair ban and let her hair fall freely.

After a few minutes later, Sunset finished taking her bath and wears the clothes that Applejack gave her. She felt relaxed and was actually kinda glad that Issac talked her into taking a break. She hadn't felt this great in years! The clothes she was given were a set of pajamas with red apples that probably Applejack's.

Sunset had cloths shed been wearing them since the Unitologist soldiers came after her Issac on New Horizon moon colony. Coming out the room with her hands filled with her usual clothes. "Let me take those, we will clean it in the morning," Applejack then took her dirty clothes and left her to put them somewhere before returned back to her. "These can get cleaned in the morning' let's sleep in ma'h bedroom," Applejack asked.

"I'm not sure if you-"

"Ah' don't mind," Applejack quickly said back, interrupting her. "Let's go."
They both headed for Applejack's bedroom and entered once they reach it. There was the bed where they both were going to sleep, next to it was a window where Applejack and Applebloom had to look out from. There was a cupboard and cabinet with a mirror on top. Applejack walked over to the bed and laid down on the bed. While Sunset, on the other hand, had a feeling of doubt whether she's sleeping or not as she sits down on the bed, she looked over at Applejack. "What's bothering ya'?" Applejack asked as she lifted her head from the pillow.

"You know, I just don't want to sleep," Sunset replied.

"Why ya' don't want to sleep?" AJ asked again. Sunset was silence for a moment as she shook her head and bit her lips.

"Nightmares..."

"Don't worry, Ah'm right here," Applejack said to her. "Ah' don't you to stay awake the whole night either."

"Ok," Sunset then laid down on the bed started to feel a bit uncomfortable being in the same bed with a former friend. "You're sure about this AJ?"

"Sure Ah' am," Applejack replied as they both covered themselves with a blanket. "After seeing ya' like this, Ah'm starting to believe that you're not the Anon-A-Miss."

"Really?" Sunset asked as she looked at her with a shocked face.

"Yeah," Applejack said. "Maybe Ah' don't remember anything more about you, but lately Ah' been having these dreams about all that you're saying back there."

Sunset could conclude that Applejack may be having 'memory-dreaming.' "I see, we'll deal with this tomorrow. Good night Applejack." Sunset then turned her body away from Applejack, and in seconds she fell to sleep as her body caught up with her from all the recent excitement. Applejack glares at Sunset in silent, before she replied to her and closed her eyes. "Good night... Sunset."

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2508, Four Months after Sunset left CHS, USG Kellion on route to Aegis VII

"How many times have you watched that thing?" Said Kendra. "Guess you really miss her, don't worry you'll be able to look her up once we're on board it sounds like you two have a lot of catching up to do."

"Yea, I can't wait to meet the girl that has this killjoy in the mud wrapped around her finger." Sunset snarked from where she was sitting.

"Oh haha," Isaac mocked back. "Just remember who's the one that controls your paycheck, Miss Shimmer."

"Burn, haha!" Laughed Corporal Chen.

"Shut up Chen, or you'll give me the idea of putting itching powder on your underwear." Sunset threatened. Before Chen could reply, he was cut off by the chief of security.

"Miss Shimmer I would be greatly appreciative that you do not distract one of my pilots while the ship is about to exit shock space." Chief Hammond instructed.

Sunset backed off not wanting to get on the black bald men bad side. "Sure thing chief," she said with her hands razed. Before anyone else could speak the Kellion exited shock space and floated adrift in view of space rock and debris.

"Alright everyone we're here, sinking our orbit in now." Chief Hammond said as he looked out over the planet. Sunset walked bast where Isaac was sitting and stood behind Kendra as everyone looked out the main window.

"All this trouble over a chunk of rock," commented Kendra to which Chief Hammond replies.

"Deep space mining is a lucrative business miss Daniels, Aegis VII is a gold mine according to prospectors reports," Hammond explained. "Cobalt, silicon, osmium. Now, where is she, there she is we have visual contact."

The crew looked up as the ship past by some debris and saw their objective. The planet cracker class ship USG Ishimura.

Sunset's eyes widen with awe as she gassed at the enormous ship that could tear apart a planet. "Whoa..." Sunset said in awe.

"First time seeing a planet cracker Sunset? Thought you seen one before when you're on the shipping lanes." Kendra said to her.

"I'm a planetside kid remember, I've never even been to space until four months ago, and the only time I've seen them is in pictures or on video if they come by," Sunset responded.

"So... That's the Ishimura," Kendra said as she too looked up at the ship. "Impressive."

"The USG Ishimura," Chief Hammond corrected, "biggest planet cracker in her class and it looks like they already pop the cork."

Sunset looked at said "cork," and saw it was the thousands of metric tones of rock floating underneath the Ishimura. A shiver ran up Sunset's spine of the power to pull off a chunk of rock the size of a continent to space with ease was slightly scary.

Kendra leaned closer to the viewport as if she was getting a better look, "Why is it all dark I don't see any running lights." she said sternly.

"Corporal Chen take us in and hail them," Chief Hammond instructed. "And stay away from that debris field, we're here to fix their ship not the other way around."

Johnson nodded as he worked the controls as he set communications with the Ishimura, "USG Ishimura, this is the emergency maintenance team of the USG Kellion responding to your distress call come in Ishimura."

We all waited a few seconds for them to respond but nothing came back as our hail went unanswered. "You're going to need to boost the signal if the powers low," Kendra instructed the pilot.

"Yes, we know that," Hammond said with a hint of annoyance before he turned to the two pilots. "Boost the signal. More."

As they drifted closer to the Ishimura, Sunset and Isaac felt something off about the whole situation. For Isaac, it was his concern for his girlfriend Nicole. For Sunset it was how dead the ship seem to look.

"I've never heard of a total communications blackout on one of these things," Kendra stated, to which Isaac and Hammond silently agreed. Ship-wide blackouts on ships of the Ishimura's size was almost unheard of, "You'd think with a thousand people on board, someone would pick up the phone..."

Everyone's attention was soon drawn to the ships com's unit when some unintelligible noises were sounding over the Kellion's speakers. Everyone tried to listen to it, but no one could make out to what it was saying. Putting Sunset more on edge that the ship was giving off ghostly communications."What is that?" She asked.

"It's a busted array like we thought," Kendra answered. "Sounds like they're having problems with their encoder. You get us down there, and Isaac and I can fix it. Forty-eight hours max." She explained to Hammond, who then looked slightly pleased with her answered as he ordered Chen and Johnson to move in.

"Alright, you heard the lady. Take us in. Let's see what needs fixing."

"Gravity tethers engaged," Johnston said, while at the same time he and Chen were pressing a few buttons that caused a light purple aura from the ships gravity tethers to surround the Kellion. Though at the same time Sunset prepared herself for their arrival by sitting down in a chair adjacent to where Issac was sitting, "Automatic docking procedure is a go."

At first, everything went smoothly as the gravity tethers locked on the more massive ship. Suddenly disaster struck as a space rock collided with the ship throwing them off their course for a smooth ride in.

"What the hell?" Chen shouted. Having been caught off guard by the sudden impact.

"Sir! The autodock..." Johnston started to say but was more focused on the growing problem in front of them.

"What is it?" Hammond snapped at him.

"We're off track!" Chen stated. "We're going to hit the hull!"

"Hit the blast shields!" Hammond ordered the pilots as the Kellon. "Their guidance tether must be damaged! Switch to manual. NOW!"

"Inside the magnetic field?" Kendra said in surprise. "Are you insane?! Abort!" she yelled at the pilots.

"NO! We can make it inside!" Hammond snapped at the women as he looked at the pilots. "Corporal, I gave you an order!"

Chen and Johnston gripped the lever that rested above where they sat the majority of the journey through hyperspace and pulled it, to which a blast shield unfolded from wherever it was hiding and connected in front of the cockpit while a screen appeared in front for the two pilots to see out.

"Argh, the field's too strong!" Chen stated, though at the same time the screen started going into a static state.

At this point where Sunset closed her eyes and started to feel regrets for things, she will never get to do in her life. Like making amends to her former teacher and asking for her forgiveness. Now she was about entered the Eylesam Fields where her parents and ancestors awaited her arrival.

The crew felt the Kellion hit a couple of things as they collided with the Ishimura hanger deck and slid until they waited for the ship to come to a complete stop.

Everyone was groaning from where they ended up. Isaac, Sunset, Chen, and Johnston were the least hurt as they were safely seated in their flight chairs. Kendra and Hammon were worst off as they slowly got off the floor. The blast shield soon retracted itself back into the hull while at the same time revealed that they had landed in the docking area of the Ishimura.

"Is everyone okay?" Hammond asked everyone as he looked over Chen and Johnson before looking at Issac and Sunset. Both of which gave him a thumbs up to show they were alive, thou Sunsets was a little shaken by the experience.

"What...? What the hell were you thinking?!" Kendra shouted at Hammond. "Were you trying to get us killed?!"

"I just saved our asses, Ms. Daniels!" Hammond snapped back. "If we had aborted at that speed and distance, we would have smashed right into the side of the Ishimura. Now settle down, and let's get to work. Corporal, report!"

"I'm not getting any readings from the port booster, and we've lost both comms and the autopilot," Chen reported to Hammond. Sunset was already not liking the sound of the situation. Because more then likely from her experience with computers there was definitely more damage than what it was telling them. "It'll take some time to fix," Chen said to the security chief.

"Sunset," Isaac said getting the girls attention. "Put your helmet on." He instructed his apprentice as he already had his mark three engineer suit on. Sunset did the same as she entered the control for her helmet to fold in over her head and sealing her engineer suit.

"All right, let's get some extra hands from the flight deck to help out," Hammond said. Even sounding a bit pleased that they were all alive with only a few bumps. Sunset noticed Kendra walking up to Isaac and her as she was typing on a little handheld a computer.

"Isaac, Sunset, hold still for a few seconds... I'm syncing everyone's RIGs with the ship." Kendra stated, to which she pressed a few keys more on her portable panel, and everyone's RIG's turned on, showing everyone the life support status of everyone's health on their backs. "Okay, we're done. A clean bill of health for everyone."

"All right," Hammond said as he was pleased to hear that news. "We've still got a job to do. We're moving out."

Hammond, followed by Chen, Johnson, and Kendra moved past Issac and Sunset to the airlock and exited the ship. Sunset was about to follow to when Isaac held out a hand to stop her, "Hey you alright?" He asked his little charge.

"Yea, yea. A little shaken from the forced entry there but I'll walk it off. Does that happened often out?" Sunset asked to which Issac shook his head.

"No, it's not. When a shuttle goes into auto docking, it always the hangar computer that takes control. What just happened now was due to debris flying in our flight path to which is almost always fatal. We got lucky this time, now come on before the others forget about us." He waved for Sunset to follow.

The engineer pair walked down the ramp of the Kellion and onto the Ishimura, Sunset got the grand sense of how big the ship is just by looking around the hanger bay. Sunset's eyes then drifted to the Kellion and realized that a good portion of the vessel was damaged and it actually looked like they lost a section of the ship as well. Sunset wasn't the only one looking over the ship. Kendra was looking it over to and didn't look happy either. "You didn't lose power to the port booster. You 'lost' the port booster! Unbelievable..."

Sunset felt like that was going to be a considerable workload for later when work started for them. But continued on and followed after Isaac and the rest of the crew. Sunset spared a glace up at the welcome ad that played above the entrance to what she believed to be the flight lounge to the ship. Walking through the first pair of doors Sunset saw that Hammond, Chen, and Johnson were caring weapons. One of the Sunset never gone around to do was look at firearms, she never was interested in them but could recognize them if need be. Why they need them Sunset didn't know and wasn't her place to question their judgment, and she was only here as an apprentice engineer, so she had no authority over others. She figured it was probably a security officer thing is all.

Reaching the second door, they find it locked for some reason. "Guess the power's down everywhere," Hammond commented on the situation. "Isaac, get over here and hack the door pad."

Sunset watched as Issac walked up to the door and extended his hand out pressed down on the blue light. Moments later the light, and the door opened. Hammond, Chen, and Johnston walked past Issac and entered the area first to be sure that everything was okay. Sunset, Isaac, and Kendra followed behind and saw how messy the place is. Bags, suitcases, and sorts of lugged covered the area. "Seems like everyone was trying to pack in a hurry," Kendra commented as she looked around the room.

"There should be a security detail here," Hammond commented, though as everyone spread out, he glanced around the lounge looking for something that wasn't there. Making him on edge about this and knew that something was wrong here.

"Yeah? Well, there's not. There's nobody here. I can't pick up any broadcasts." Kendra replied as she typed away on her computer.

"That security console is still active. Isaac, get over there and see what you can find. Sunset go with him you are his assistant after all, and you're here to learn the ropes. Kendra, get that elevator back online." He instructed the two. As the pair walked through the security office door, Kendra walked up to where the elevator was at and typed a few commands on the screen only to get frustrated at it. "Power's dead! I can't!"

"Then re-route the damn power!" Hammond snapped at the hacker, causing everyone to stop in their tracks and look at the two. All wondering if they were about to fight once more, before Hammond sighed and regained himself, "Look, if we all cooperate, we can figure this out a lot sooner. Let's get that computer display up, Isaac."

Isaac nodded before opening the door to the security checkpoint with Sunset right next to him. As he pressed a few buttons, he brought the entire screen to expanded and showed a representation of the Ishimura so that the others can see, with several areas highlighted in flashing red. Johnston approached the screen from his side of the glass and gave it a look over.

"Huh. That doesn't look good. She's taken a lot of damage." He commented on what he looked at the screen.

"The tram system's offline," Hammond remarked. "Getting around is going to be difficult." Suddenly the air vents started humming and air circulated through the room. "The air seems to be flowing again. That's a start."

All of a sudden the alarms began to blare out of nowhere, the room losing all lights except for the orange warning lights spinning overhead. Everyone tensed up, and the security officers brought their weapons up, igniting their flashlights eliminating the darkness slightly.

"What the hell was that?" Kendra asked, sounding worried and somewhat scared while Chen and Johnston prepared themselves for whatever was going to happen. Hammond decided to be the voice of reason and answer her in a calm voice.

"Automatic quarantine must have tripped when the filtration system restarted. Everybody relax..." He assured everyone. Then the sound of something crawling around overhead reached their ears. Isaac fidgeted nervously while Sunset darted her eyes around in a small panic.

"What was that? Did you hear that?" Kendra asked, now even more fearful than before.

"I'm not sure..." Hammond began as he brought up his weapon at the tension growing in the room. Then a crash of a vent breaking overhead reached their ears. Isaac tried to determine the location of the noise. Trying to see anything was hard in the darkness; he could barely make out the silhouettes of Johnston and Chen, and he knew Kendra and Hammond were over by the door. Sunset was also looking around but spotted something rising behind Johnson and began screaming at him.

"Johnson behind you!" But it was too late. Before Johnson could turn around to see his attacker he was dead in moments as the monsters scythe-like appendages bore down on the man, piercing through his body and organs ending his life as his rig went to red in moments.

"Jesus Christ! Open fire!" Hammond shouted to Chen as they opened fire on the creature as they pumped it full of wholes. Isaac and Sunset watched as the creature still stood as it was still standing as they continued to fire. "Kendra, power now!" Hammond shouted as he kept firing.

After he said that another air vent busted out and a second creature jumped down onto Chen and started tearing him apart, killing him in the process, "Kendra.....!"

"Come on... come on... I've got it! Go!" Kendra shouted before breaking into a sprint. With Hammond not far behind her.

"Isaac, Sunset, get the hell out of there!" Hammond called out to them, though that was followed by the door closing, leaving the two of them to their fate as the door near them opened to them. When Sunset reached the door another one of those creatures broke through the air vent to the security office, all Sunset could see from the creature was that it deformed, pale and covered in blood. Before Sunset could take in more detail of the thing, Isaac grabbed hold of her and pushed her through the door.

When the two of them reached the door, another creature fell through the vet above them but didn't look back as they ran around the first corner and around in a u-shape hallway till Sunset caught sight of the elevator up ahead. Sunset for a moment was threaded for a moment of safety from those things if the hall didn't keep stretching out in front of them.

Sunsets panted in her helmet as she ran faster and fast as the hall seemed to grow at an absurd length than before. A flash of red light appeared behind her but did not dare look behind her as the shadow of a Slasher chased her down growing bigger the faster she ran. When the Elevator got closer, her hope skyrocketed as she made a hard dash to live. The sound of two more vets breaking reached their ears as more of them appeared.

Suddenly the Elevator got to close as Sunset and Isaac charged right into the doors with Isaac hitting the open mechanism. "In here! Go!" Isaac shouted.

Isaac punched the console to the elevator, the creatures failing to catch them in time before the doors closed. Both of them were hyperventilating, the shock and terror of death still controlling their bodies.

Before the elevator could get moving, however, Without warning, a pair of blades pried the elevator doors open. Sunset screamed in terror at the apparition before her. She now had a better look at the thing, it looked like the decaying body of a human, with black, glossy, soulless eyes staring hungrily at them, and with its arms raised high in the air with wicked, sharp, bloodied blades ready to tare them apart. It emitted a guttural roar from its jawless mouth, with bile raining out of the exposed throat, before pouncing at them with a deafening roar.

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Sunset woke up screaming from the memory of her first encounter with Necromorphs.

After a moment of panic, she'd remembered the elevator doors slamming hard on that particular Slasher. And Sunset, Isaac, and Carver had killed hundreds if not thousands of them single-handedly. But that memory of Johnson and Chen dying as they did by those Slasher's still put the fear of death whenever that memory came back. She woke up from the bed, and in a panic took some air to calm her down. She was already wet herself in cold sweat.

After a moment of calming herself down, someone touched her and Sunset quickly reflex at that. After grabbed the person's hand in an instant, Sunset looked over to her left. Sunset was a little surprised that the one who touched her was Applejack, she had a worried look about what happened to Sunset. Sunset lets go her hand and then she sits on the edge of the bed, looking away from Applejack. And Sunset just realized the it was still in the middle of the night, it was 3 AM in the morning.

"Ya' okay?" Applejack asked worriedly.

"I'm fine," Sunset replied with a low voice. "Just a nightmare."

They both silent for a moment, before Applejack, talked to her. "I watched the video, Sunset. I did what you asked, ah' can't believe you have to fight those monsters and...... that monster moon above a planet to get here alive. Ah'm sorry you had to go through with that."

Sunset only silences for a while, before she got off the bed and headed for the door. "I'm going downstairs, I just don't want to bother you for sleeping."

Applejack quickly gets off the bed after and runs over to her. "Hey, Ah'm not let you go downstairs because for that."

"I'm just wanted to be alone for awhile, alright?" Sunset said in insist and upset. "Just get back to sleep, I'll be fine."

Sunset left the room, leaving Applejack stood by the door feeling sad and pity for her. But seeing how Sunset is doing now, Applejack decided to better leave her alone for now. She just sighs and slowly made her way back to her bed again. Applejack then slowly lays down on the bed and looked towards the ceiling. She began wondering to herself, why didn't she try to find out earlier about Sunset before she came here with a damn crashed-landed ship from the future?

"Ah' hope you'll be alright, Sunset."

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