Story: Pre-Subnautica + MLP
Chapter: 6. The life & adventures on Planet 4546B
Author: Black--Soul

By now 3 months have gone past. The Community of Equis survivers made a clear ruleset for everycreature to follow verified by Princess Twilight Sparkle:

- 1. No creature is to explore outside day hours around the shallow areas of the Islands and the reefs where the Pod village is located.

- 2. No creature is allowed to play catch with the local aquatic Predators for the fun of it, Gilda is still fixing occasionally leaky floating device of the Lifepod quad for exploration.

- 3. Pinkie Pie is not allowed to break Gales logic cores with her antics in general. Or give him physics defying ideas that cause him to glitch into manic laugher.
- 3.a) No creature is to encourage Gale investing time to think about Pinkie Pie reality bending actions. We are still fixing Gildas Lifepod main computer with Gales copy installed there because he tried to make sence of Pinkie Pie.

- 4. Rainbowdash Do is not allowed to drop Zephyr near Predators to see if he can out swim them because he annoyed her yet again.
- 4. a) So are others for the matter.
- 4. b) Even if Fluttershy is encouraging this behavior so he learns his lesson.

- 5. Fluttershy is not allowed to feed Zephyr to Predators to teach him a lesson. She is only allowed to trade bladder fish to them for exchange of titan and copper pieces they like to hord and chew on.

- 6. Leviathan are not to be played with under any circumstances. One followed Rainbowdash and Gilda to Sharpbeaks Island since they keep annoying it.
- 6. a) Pinkie Pie is not to try to make partys for spontaneous visiting predators that might eat one of us.
6 b) Even if Fluttershy ask for it. Again...

- 7. No creature is allowed to try sneak again into Sharpbeaks Lifepod to borrow his weapons.
While fighting surfacing Predators is entertaining, it is making them very agressiv and Fluttershy will not be ask any longer to stop 'Stare' the predators out if it.
You have been warned.

- 8. The Quad Lifepod platform is for exploration, not for entertainment of hunting parties. The electric Ell might have been delicious for our Griffon community members, but we are still fixing the electronics on all the Pods!

- 9. No creature is to prank Sharpbeak anymore. Seriously!
He has military grade repeat shot Crossbows for Celestias sake!

- 10. No creature is to dare anyone with Shark pranking. We lost 15 double seagliders already and we are lucky Noone lost any limbs yet.

- 11. Rarity is not allowed to redecorating other community members LifePods inside or outside without permission or put self made perfume in them.

- 12. No more hunting parties are to kill aquatic Predators without intending to bring them back for food or other uses.
Seriously, Fluttershy stared until i give in to make this a rule.
Bring back what you killed to Sharpbeaks island.

The following night cycle the survivers of the communitys all agreed that they try actively explore deeper with reinforced divingsuits alongside Spike to gain more valuable materials in a attempt to build a submarine. The Lifepods exploratory platform would be the base of operation. After finalizing a plan of action, did everyone go to sleep in anticipation of a early start in the morning to dive on the edges of the Lifepod Village.

A few hours later.

1 hour before the next morning sunshine would have started to light up the world around them, did Gale woke everyone up to ready up and to get the exporation quad Lifepods platform ready for action.

To everyone surprise did Gale informed them all that a Lifepod had reactivated its distress call just before they would started in literally the opposite direction.
The plans changed from simpel diving into the depth of the dark for ressources to a rescue and salvage operation.

Everyone was is high spirits and with Fluttershy assistance even Sharpbeak reluctantly joined the effort 65 minutes later, after the Pegasus used her weaponized cuteness to guilt trip him into helping.
It might also have helped that she offered to give him guarantees that he get half a electrical Ell all to himself if he would give them a helping Talon.

Today would the crew be all on deck, everycreature was to support the effort of today, even Zephyr! Matter of fact did he was planned to go diving in a special deep diving suit alongside the Griffon Giraldi. Spike in his normal custom wetsuit would be the overwatch with a special military grade aquatic rated rapid fire crossbow borrowed from Sharpbeak.

They would dive down to 800 meters depth and bind multible ropes to the Lifepods climbing rods. The rest of the crew could than help pull the Lifepod up. With a little luck would they gain more members for their community and had one additional Lifepods for a project to build a submarine out of 2 Lifepods.
Since they are rated to stand up to 1500 meters water pressure, could they finally explore the areas deeper below.

The Submarine would hopefully help them collect materials and perhaps salvage some alien tech.
Twilight and Gale where rather giddy to get to explore and unlock the secrets of the alien technology of the Island building, as well of the speculated teleportation gate near it.

The prior unresponsive Lifepod that had sunken, but suddenly reactivated its distress call was unfortunate not reacting to changed distress call from their Pods as a communication attempt.
Everycreature hoped the survivers would be saved.

What made absolutely no sence was that it had two voices in the background of the distress call from ponies that where definitely not on bord when the 'True Friendship' had started from Equis. But that was a mystery for later.

Since Gales had found out where it was and had a solid lock on the Lifepod 33 was the position rather fast reached. It was time to get the action on the road.

Zephyr, Giraldi and Spike had eatch individually a double oxygen canister on their back, giving them instead of 180 seconds air 360 seconds with a total of 390 seconds thanksto the rebreathing masks. 6 minutes and 30 seconds should be plenty to reach the Lifepod underwater, make the ropes ready on the Lifepods ladder rods and come up for air. After returning down to the Pod they tow it up unil it resurface from the water.

Than they used their for this occasion build quad seaglider. The Quad seaglider was basically two double seagliders joined, but a simple solution can be very effective. They are so fast in fact that holding on to it is rather taxing as tested the day prior as a towing tool of heavy salvage like material or hunting game.

With some extra ropes between two quad seagliders and the combined strength of everyone pulling the Lifepods up, this should be a rather easy job.
Nothing should be going wrong to Gales calculations.

Somewhere a lot deeper under water did a Empress watched everything happen trough the red eyes of a fish she had mentaly connected with. She used this mental connection to watch the efforts of the new visitors since they arrived and would have soon enough knowledge collected to talk to them. She really hoped she could entice the little male to her cage. She wasn't getting any younger and should have at the very least one more clutch in her. This male was interessting to watch. While he wasn't apperently able to breathe under water, did he could use fire like the males of her species. That would hopefully be enough compatibility to have her last clutch of eggs successfully fertilized.

The community on Planet 4546B are going to explore the area thanks to their planned Submarine project soon enough.
Once they have the opportunity to explore the depths of Planet 4546B more in detail will the Empress get some visitors eventually.

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