The doors opened and the group was hit by a blast of cold air. Shielding his visor for a second, Isaac saw Ellie in a small part of the room cut off from everyone else, Carver and Babs were standing to the side, but there was still no sign of Sweetiebelle or Nexus.

Inside, a large tomb-like glass case was centered in the brightly lit room, part of the floor had been smashed in by a cart, a set of controls were on the opposite side of it, and dried blood spelled out the alphabet in accordance to a Marker symbol above each letter. Upon seeing it, Applebloom and Scootaloo rushed to it and the flashes of their helmets were a clear sign of them taking pictures of them.

"Wow," Issac said looking at the few pieces of Rosetta in the tank. "So this is Rosetta's lab, huh?"

"Oh, finally." Ellie said. "And this is an assembly station according to the controls." Ellie said over the rooms speakers. "Santos, how are you holding up?"

"Much better," she said glancing at the guard to her right while the one to her left shook his head. "These two are brave. I would have died without them."

"And Sweetiebelle!" Applebloom shouted. "She helped too!"

"Yes, and Sweetiebelle too."

"So," Isaac saw peering into the frozen remains. "We're here to assemble a Codex. That makes sense."

"Uhh... No..." Ellie said slowly as she squinted at the controls. "According to this, we're here to... Assemble Rosseta. They cut here into pieces!?" She said in shock. "Oh my god."

"Fuck this day." Carter muttered as he stepped back.

"You know," Norton said. "It could be getting a lot worse with Danik running around. We need to stop him before he gets the ammo and weapons, otherwise, we can forget making the Codex."

"He's right," Applebloom said slightly hoarsely. "As much as ah hate to agree with that snake, he's right. If yall make the Codex, it won't matter if we're dead. Norton, how'd ya like to go make sure Danik doesn't get the ammo?"

"I suppose a little revenge is in order," Norton said. "But I'm not going alone. Scootaloo, I want her to come with me." He said nodding towards the orange alicorn.

"Hold it," Isaac said with him and Carver said stepping forward. "Why should any of us go with you after you just tried to kill us? And you expect us to just let you walk off, alone with her, to go find Danik? No, fuck you and fuck your plan." Isaac said aiming his Gatling gun at him.

"I'll be in front of her," Norton said. "And she can just teleport away if the bullets start flying." He said. "And if we come across any Necromorphs along the way, she can just turn them or whatever she does to them. She could crush me at any time she feels like it."

"Or turn you into a pile of ash." Scootaloo said dropping her pony look. "If you make one wrong move, I'll tear your head off."

"I don't doubt that for a second." He said going back up to the door. "We'll see you all later. Hopefully alive and not Necromorphs."

As they left, Isaac turned on his heel so he was looking back up at Ellie.

"They sliced her up? Why?" He asked returning to the earlier topic.

"I don't know." She responded gagging for a second before she exhaled. "But some of the pieces are already in the assembly. I think I see another piece over there." She said pointing to the secondary controls.

Going over to it, he pressed the holographic icon and it opened with pieces of ice falling to the ground. Taking it out with his stasis, Isaac looked at the hip-bone shaped piece of frozen meat as it hung in front of him.

"What the hell do we do with it?" He asked trying to peer around it.

"We'll, there should be a receptacle that feeds into the lab's cataloging system." Ellie said searching the controls. "Yep, over there." She said pointing at the opposite side of the room.

"Okay, let me see if I can feed it in."

As he guided the piece over to the vent, Applebloom and Babs were staring at the piece with tilted heads.

"That doesn't look human." Applebloom said. "More like what ah made when ah tried to cook waffles."

"Or when I broke a plastic skeletons hip of a minotaur." Babs said. "Does Isaac have one of those?"

"Ah don't know. Ask him."

"You ask him."

"Ah told ya to ask him first."

"But you know him better."

As the two were beginning to argue, Isaac put the frozen body part into the vent and watched as it was sucked up.

"Great!" Ellie said as another vent opened up above the assembly. "Okay, I'll see if I can route that to the assembly station, hold on."

The piece fell into a slot and a claw grabbed it by the sides, carried it down, and deposited it and retracted back into its place.

"So... According to the records, there are four more pieces." Ellie said. "They were checked out of storage by Dr. Serrano. Well, there are three buildings in the facility. So if there are more pieces, they're either in one... Or all of them."

"Most of the doors were locked down from what I could see." Isaac said before spotting Applebloom and Babs holding each other in headlocks. "Hey, you two, stop trying to make the other pass out." He said sternly. "And don't you think about throwing-"

He ducked as Applebloom took a tile out from behind her and threw it at his chest. Shaking a fist at her, he turned back to Ellie as she was digging in her pockets when she pulled out a shining card.

"Yeah. Well, you're in luck. Look what I found. A security pass. You wanna give it a shot?" She asked sliding it down into a tray.

"Hey, why not..." He muttered. "Great... Thanks." He said pocketing it. "Find out what you can about how assembling Rosseta will create a Codex. Me, Applebloom, Babs, and a guard will explore the labs and recover the rest of the Rosseta slabs."

As the left guard broke away in a hurry, Isaac, Babs, and Applebloom were already at the elevator. Feeling a tap on his leg, Isaac looked down and saw Applebloom and Babs looking up at him.

"Do you have a question, or are you just going to stare?" He asked as they wouldn't speak for about four seconds.

"'Bout that piece ya put in the assembly," Applebloom said over her cousin's snickering. "Do ya have one of those?"

Turning back to look at the frozen slab, he shook his head and stepped in the elevator.

"I can't say I do. Do you have one?" He asked as the guard joined them inside.

"Eenope." She said mimicking her brother.