A lone gunship rocketing through space, only four people aboard. All of them survivors of a previous nightmare.

Only now, they were in trouble yet again.

The ship had been attacked, now it was plummeting towards the planet Tau Volantis. Where, they all had been going to destroy the black Marker.

"Were coming in too hot!" Isaac said worriedly as the windows cracked and flame surrounded the edges. "Give me a course correction!" He yelled at the man behind Ellie.

"The plates are shaking loose." Ellie said as they hit turbulence.

"Were dropping like a rock!" She said as they entered atmosphere.

The windows burst open; the side of the ship punctured and made the other half break off. Ellie went out too, screaming, a look of horror on her face.

"Ellie!" Isaac yelled trying to grab her.

He looked forward right before the crash, and an icy slumber.

Ponyville. Sweetapple acres.

"Ah'm so excited! Babs is coming over!" Applebloom said, smiling widely, bending her scar into a half-ring.

"Now settle down," Applejack said. "Ya still have to go camping with your friends, remember?"

"Oh yeah." She said. "Thanks, we'll make sure to be careful. Always stay near the edge of town and never leave out tents at night."

"Good, now why don't ya go? The others are waitin'." Applejack shooed her little sister away as she smiled warmly.

Applebloom said a quick 'goodbye' and left out the door.

At the front gate to the orchard, Sweetiebelle and Scootaloo, were waiting.

"Hey girls. Ah'm ready." Applebloom said.

"About time, these suits don't have any ventilation..." Scootaloo said motioning to her CEC engineer suit. "And they're tight around my flank."

"Maybe it was all those mice souls you ate yesterday." Sweetiebelle teased.

"Very funny," Scootaloo rolled her eyes. "Do we need anything else? Like anything from the clubhouse?"

"Uh," Sweetiebelle said, blushing. "I think I forgot the map."

Applebloom and Scootaloo face-hooved, their boots leaving small marks between their eyes.

"I'll just teleport us." Scootaloo groaned.

She grabbed her friends, swapped her wings for a horn and disappeared in a flash of light.

They re-appeared in front of the club house. A singed ring around them.

"I'll be right out." Sweetiebelle said going up the ramp.

Her friends watched her go in, and saw her come out with a shocked expression.

"Uh, girls. Did we leave a suit in here?" She asked.

"We only have three." Applebloom said. "How can there be another?"

"There's another one up here, a human sized one. Could you two come up here?" She asked going back in.

They shrugged and went up the ramp. What they saw made them stop in their tracks.

A suit was lying against the wall. It had black armor, red lights, a Pulse rifle and a strange fur around the collar.

"Who's suit do you think it is?" Applebloom asked.

"I think a better question would be; where is the owner?" Sweetiebelle said.

"I-I think I see something around its neck." Scootaloo said. "Maybe it’s a tag?" She reached out.

She didn't notice the lights grow brighter as she did, or even the temperature drop. Her friends tried to stop her, but she had already touched the suit.

In a flash of light, they were gone.

Manehatten. Apartment 117.

"Are you all ready dear?" Apple Thorn asked her daughter.

"Yeah I'm ready." Babs seed smiled back. "I'll be back before ya know it." She nuzzled her mother before going out the door.

She hurried across the street, the cool morning air fresh against her coat. She trotted own the sidewalk, humming to herself as she went. Or, atleast, until she spotted something in an alleyway.

Curious she went over. She could make out a few red lights in it, just sticking out in the darkness. She went in and looked around.

"Nothing but trashcans and garbage," She huffed. She looked ahead and saw the lights. "And that. Whatever it is?" She blew her hair out of her eye and continued forward.

She got to its boots and stopped, staring, mesmerized.

It was black, had a small bit of fur and had red light's coming from its face. If that was its face she was staring at.

"Hello? Anypony home?" She waved a hoof in front of it.

Nothing.

"What is this thing?" She asked herself.

She looked at it and saw it wasn't even flesh or fur she was looking at, it was metal.

Curious, she reached out with a hoof and touched he boot.

She only had time for her eyes to widen before she disappeared.

Tau Volantis.

Isaac awoke groggily and cold. Frozen blood on the side of his face as he fell to the ground.

He looked around and saw only snow, but for the briefest second, a flash of light. He dismissed it but saw another. Now he went forward, his steps heavy in the snow and from exhaustion.

As he went he called out to Ellie. In moments, he saw three shapes or maybe it was one large one, he couldn't tell.

As he approached, he could make out ears, a horn and hooves.

"Hooves? A horn?" He asked himself, and then it hit him. "Sweetiebelle! Applebloom! Scootaloo!" He called out, running now.

The shapes turned to him and began running.

In seconds they all met, the crusaders tackling Isaac to the ground while saying in-coherent greetings.

"Calm down! Calm down!" He laughed. "I'm happy to see you too!"

They got off and smiled brightly under their helmets.

"How did you all get here? Why are you here?" He asked.

"Oh," Sweetiebelle said. "We found a human suit and when Scootaloo touched it we disappeared and now we're here. Wherever here is...?"

"Well," Applebloom said. "What's going on right now? Why are ya here?"

"I’m here to destroy the black Marker. The source, but, I need to find-"

"H-Hello? Anypony out here? H-Help!" Called a voice.

"Babs seed!" The crusaders yelled. "Over here! Follow the light!"

Sweetiebelle charged her horn and let the light shine.

Soon, a figure came from a wall of snow, cold and snow covered. Her orange coat showing slightly through it.

"Hey cousin!" She greeted. "A bit nippy out, isn't it?" She joked. "I'm so cold..."

"Babs! How did ya get here! Wait, you need a suit! Here, take mine." Applebloom was slipping out of her suit, but Sweetiebelle had already handed hers to Babs.

"T-thanks, but won’t you freeze?” She asked.

"Don't worry about me." Sweetiebelle said. "You were turning blue!"

Babs nodded and turned to Isaac.

"So, what are you?" She asked.

"Your cousin’s friend," he stuck out a hand. "Isaac Clarke."

She shook it, looking strangely at his fingers.

"Babs seed. So, where are we?"

Before he could answer, his radio flickered on. It was a man, thin, white, bald, but had a greying handle-bar mustache.

"Listen, to anyone who can here this. Get off the planet!" He said, terror showing in his blue eyes. "These things won’t stop! They won’t stop until were all dead!" Roars were head and in a second, a blade went through his chest and after, a Slasher knocked out the camera, but not before they all saw it.

"W-What was that?" Babs Seed asked, horrified.

"Necromorph's..." Applebloom groaned.

"W-What?" She turned to her. "What’s a Necromorph?"

"A twisted life after death." She said. She opened her inventory and took out her Plasma cutter. "It seems we landed in another outbreak."

"A-Another? You were in one before?" She asked surprised.

"They were in the second." Isaac said. "I was in the first and fought alongside these three in the second. Now," he took out his Plasma cutter and threw it to her. "Now, were all in this one."

"I-I think I'm going to pass-" Her eyes rolled up in her head before she passed out.

"Ah have a lot of explaining to do." Applebloom sighed.

"We are too." Scotoaloo and Sweetiebelle said, glancing nervously at each other.

"How well do you think she'll take having a near psychotic cousin, a supernatural pegasus that eats the souls of Necromrophs and animals and the hybrid which can grow even larger than most buildings?" Isaac said.

"Not good." Applebloom said, putting Babs on her back. "Not good at all."