The hallway was lined with lights, all of them shining purple as the four silently walked towards the door.

Isaac opened it in an instant, waited for it to open and stepped through.

Half a Stalker crawled towards him, Applebloom bucked it in the side of the head, disconnecting the head from the neck and sending it into the wall on the other side.

"Are we there yet?" Scootaloo whined. "I'm hungry and my head hurts." She continued.

"No, no we are not." Isaac growled clenching his fists. "For the tenth time since we just opened the door behind us twenty steps before, that led to the zero-G area we just left. And you should have eaten before we left."

"Eaten what?" She argued.

"Preferably me..." He whispered under his breath.

"That's a little morbid, don't you think?" Sweetiebelle said as she looked at him.

"Wow, looks like a right big fight happened here. But ah don't remember coming here." Applebloom said pointing to the broken windows and dead Stalkers littering the floor.

"Do you think we could get through?" Sweetiebelle asked.

"You could, but don't." Isaac said. "There's a door right there." He went to the only unlocked door.

They followed as he opened it and were blinded momentarily by a flash light.

"Hey! Hey!" Isaac called out dodging a shot from Ellie's Plasma cutter.

"Oh god, Isaac! Glad to see you've got all your parts." Ellie said walking up to him.

"You alright?" He asked.

She broke eye contact and suddenly found the floor very interesting. "Um, yeah."

"... There are four steps!" Stross yelled out.

Her look faded to irritation as she motioned a hand over to Stross.

"... No thanks to twitchy here." She said.

"One, two, three, four." He counted.

"Step four she'll be waiting." He said as he held his legs to his chest, atop his small domain that was a box he, subconsciously, claimed as, 'Stross land.'

"Stross? Mister Stross? Are you feelin’ good?" Applebloom asked him.

"Oh! Hey little pony. Um... Applebloom was it?" He asked skittishly.

"Yeah! What's yall's name though? You and Ellie."

"Nolan Stross... and-and that's-"

"Ellie Langford." She finished.

"I was going to say grumpy." He muttered. "Step four, she'll be waiting." He continued in his psychotic rant.

"Jesus, Stross. You okay?" Isaac asked.

Ellie crouched down to him and put a hand on his shoulder.

"It's getting worse." She said.

"What is step four? Who will be waiting?" Isaac asked.

"After the screws, after the needle, she'll be waiting." He said again.

"Um, Isaac? Ah think Ah know who he's talking bout'." Applebloom said.

"Really? Well spill it."

"Her." She pointed at the wall behind Isaac.

He turned his head slightly and jumped back as Nicole was standing behind him.

"Dammit!" he fired off a shot from his Plasma cutter nailing her in the face.

"This time Isaac, Sweetiebelle, Scootaloo, Applebloom." She looked at them all as they all huddled together in a defensive stance.

Scootaloo had all her weapons draw and aimed at Nicole, Sweetiebelle was levitating her Seeker rifle and Contact beam out, and her horn was also glowing a blood red as she took her blades out. Applebloom had the crazed look on her face as when she faced the Pack and Crawlers at the school; she was holding her Line gun and Pulse rifle. Isaac had his Line gun out.

"This time you all will listen," she made a scream making them flinch. "You all will succumb to me, eventually. As they all do." She looked to Stross and the corners of her distorted mouth twisted into a grin before she walked over to him.

He screamed and backed into the wall as he watched her stop mere feet away.

"And him," she pointed at Stross. "Is close enough as it is. Goodbye Isaac and friends of Isaac."

She vanished and they all let out a breath of relief.

"Isaac? What the hell was that?" Ellie asked raising her Plasma cutter at him. "Well?"

"My dead ex-girlfriend is trying to kill me and my friends." He said.

"Really? Your single?" She asked before realizing what she said. "As in looking for someone else? To work with I mean!"

The crusaders were laughing at her and started to sing.

"Ellie and Isaac, sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" They all sang.

Isaac laughed slightly before looking at Ellie's blush and then fell to the floor.

"Alright, shut it!" She shouted. "I said shut it!" She fired at the ceiling.

They stopped and looked to her pouting before laughing even harder.

"That time it was funny!" Isaac said between laughs. "I haven't laughed like that in years." He wiped away a tear that was rolling down his cheek.

"There's an Industrial Transport upstairs." Ellie interrupted getting their attention. "Runs on the same spoke as the commuter train. It should get us to the government sector. One of us will have to deploy it from the gear house."

"Stay here and, uh, try to get him on his feet." Isaac said glancing back.

She nodded before walking back to the door.

As Isaac made his way to the other door, clearing debris as he went. Before he opened it he felt something tap his leg. He looked down and saw Sweetiebelle looking up at him with a distinct look on her face that he couldn't quite place.

"What? Are you hungry? Thirsty? What?" He asked.

"Aren't you going to... you know?" She raised here eyebrows twice.

"What? I'm going to do what?" He asked completely oblivious.

"Ask her out." She said between gritted teeth while motioning her head towards Ellie.

"Uh..." He said, O so cleverly.

"Let me take care of this." Scootaloo said putting a hoof on her shoulder.

Her head snapped to Ellies direction and she cupped her muzzle with her hooves, before shouting out...

"Ellie! Isaac has something to ask you! It's really important!"

Ellie jumped from the voice but calmly walked over, Plasma cutter at the ready.

"Yes Isaac?" She asked.

"Damn you small ponies and your romantic intentions!" He cursed in his mind. In reality. "Uh... I'm not sure what I was going to-"

"He wants to ask you out on a date." Scootaloo said.

Ellies eyebrows raised and her mouth fell open, it worked like a fish out of water before she spoke.

"R-Really Isaac? I mean, n-now of all t-times?" She stuttered blushing profusely.

"I guess?" He said. "If we survive, would you like to go out?"

"We’ll see. Call me... maybe." She winked at him before walking back to her post.

They all hurried out through the door. Two crusaders giggling while a human and other crusader were grimacing.

"Really!? Just what tempted you two to do that!?" Isaac hissed at Sweetiebelle and Scootaloo.

"Well... you seemed like you needed a special somepony-" Sweetiebelle said.

Scootaloo finished her sentence. "And you’re horrible with talking to mares if your past says anything." Scootaloo pointed out.

"I had a girlfriend before!" He yelled.

"Yeah... I know the whole 'dead girlfriend trying to kill you' takes its toll. But if you don't have somepony then-"

"You'll end up sad, lonely and angry." Scootaloo finished. "It happened to a local donkey in Ponyville. Cranky Doodle, he met the love of his life at the Gala but then lost her."

"He searched for years, and didn't stop until he was too old, that he just decided to retire. That's when he moved to Ponyville."

"At first he was sad, angry and lonely." Sweetiebelle said.

"But then, Pinkie found his lost love and reunited them. Mable had been livin'' in Ponyville the entire time." Applebloom said.

"So you’re comparing me to a technicolor, talking, grumpy old donkey?" He said. "I can see the resemblance. Since Nicole did... you know." He nodded. "I have been angry, lonely and sad. Everyone I knew aboard The Ishimura, my friends, family by marriage mind you, and girlfriend. I probably hacked them to bits when I was there and didn't even realize it until I ended up here. My whole world changed in a day." He looked down at them with a small smile.

"Maybe all I need is a change for the better."

They all smiled underneath their helmets as they went up the elevator.

Which soon vanished when they hear Nicole.

"We only had two years Isaac. Two years, but they were the best years of my life. I was happy. I had everything I wanted. Until you made me doubt myself."

They all groaned when it ended.

"I think she heard us." Isaac muttered. "Ow."

As they passed a corner a Slasher burst from the vent and landed on Isaac. As it brought it's blades down they stopped.

He looked up and saw two other blades holding them back.

"Isaac," Sweetiebelle said coldly. "Move."

He crawled out from underneath the Necromorph as it brought its blades down again, only for Sweetiebelle to hit them to the side.

It raised them again but she hacked off its arms and sent it to its knees. She walked up to it before taking one blade in hoof, beheaded it.

"Payback is a dish best served cold." She said as the head rolled on the cold metal floor.

They walked past the other corner and stopped dead in their tracks, not one of them even breathed.

"How many damn babies are we going to see?" Isaac whispered.

"Ah don't know, and ah don't care as long as there's no more. Just aim and fire." Applebloom whispered raising her Pulse rifle.

Ponyville.

"Isaac you dog..." Alex chuckled.

"My little Sweetiebelle is a match maker." Rarity said. "How sweet."

"Eww!" Rainbowdash stuck out her tongue. "I hate romantic stuff."

"I think its great their helping him in more ways than one." Twilight said.

"You just want to see how bad they can screw up his chances." Rainbow said.

"What! Rainbow! How could you be so insensitive to think such a thing?" Rarity scolded.

"I know I do!" Alex laughed until being punched between the eyes by his wife. "Damn it all..." He fell to the ground chin first, before long, a loud snoring was heard from him making the windows nearby rattle.

Celestia brushed a lock of her ethereal mane out from her eyes as she gently smiled at him. "I swear it gets harder and harder to do that." She winced as she rubbed her hoof.

Titan Station.

"I hate babies!" Isaac yelled as he was blown back by a Crawler.

They decided on running and not trying to fight thirty Crawlers. Especially since they had crawled behind them.

They ran past them and went through the door ahead. Which Scootaloo shut behind them with a strong hit, denting the outside and inside of the door.

They entered another room similar to the one Ellie and Stross were in. Same flaming lift going up and down, dangerous looking shadows moving from the flames licking at the ceiling and sides of the shaft. Junk piled in heaps; but the only differences were the two Lurkers and Puker in the room with them.

They took care of the Necromorph’s quickly before looking around for supplies. After the search was concluded they regrouped again.

"I guess we go through there." Isaac said pointing at the lone door. "Or we go back to the babies."

The crusaders immediately ran up to the door. Before Isaac opened it Sweetiebelle gasped.

"Oh what now? Is there something in there?" Isaac pointed a thumb at the door.

"It sounds like... someponie’s wailing in there. A pained wail, but also like a groan." She put her ear to the door. "And it sounds bad. Scoot's I think you may need to turn for this one."

Scootaloo raised an eyebrow before changing into her slender self. The only thing with color is her suit and purple hair she kept.

Isaac put his hand to the door and as it opened he raised his Line gun up, aiming straight ahead.

They all walked slowly, step by step, the only sound was their boots hitting the floor. The wailing had stopped along with heir breathing as they turned the corner.

Out from the steam, spreading a lengthy shadow ran out a tall, slender Necromorph.

"Scootaloo, get ready for five times the trouble." Sweetiebelle said.

"Why?" She asked as she got out her Flame thrower.

"Because that's a Divider." She said.

The creature jumped as a torrent of flame was unleashed upon the demonic monster.