It ran at an alarming rate, it's claws outstretched and it's yellow eyes piercing through the flashing light's of the drill.

Seconds slowed down to minutes as it jumped, Babs expression of fear quickly turned into a scowl of anger as she saw it's actual target.

"Leave my cousin alone!" She yelled, jumping up with the plasma blade.

It turned it's head just in time to see the blue blade smash into it's cartilage skull, crushing it like a watermelon.

When she landed, she looked at her cousin.

She unfolded her helmet and had her Appleblood look on. She stood up and faced her cousin, staring her right in the eye.

They hoofbumped before charging ahead together.

Scootaloo was trying to fire at the drill's circuits alongside Isaac. When he slowed it down in stasis, they both managed to get one.

The drill retracted, spinning wildly before going back up to the ceiling, leaving them to fight the Necromorph's.

Sweetiebelle turned back into her smaller, fluffy self but with the bone plating and Stalker claws. She gave a hiss towards a Waster as it walked towards her.

She jumped on it, cawing and biting at the snowsuit. She sunk her claws into it's midsection, severing the spine and the other two bony tendrils.

She absorbed it before it hit the floor.

Appeblood and Bad Seed charged a Waster.

Appleblood took her plasma blade and with one swipe, took out the legs at the knee. Bad Seed cut the opposite direction up above through the chest as it fell. They both ran through the temporary holes, blood dripping onto them, both of their suits being covered in the red liquid as clots stuck to them.

Another Feeder went for Appleblood, she swerved on her hoof and put the barrel of the shotgun attachment into it's mouth before firing. A large hole disconnected it's brainstem from the brain leaving it to roll uselessly across the floor.

Bad Seed took care of a pair of Waster's, She blew the top half off one and the bottom off the other. They fell on each other in a tangle of Necrotic limbs, struggling to break free. She aimed her Pulse rifle at them and fired; the bullets tearing through them easily, ricocheting off the floor.

As the drill descended again, a muffled cry rang out through the room. The crusaders turned and saw Isaac.

Who was running around with a Feeder stuck on his head.

He ran forward and went head first into the wall. The Feeder dropped off with a muffled grunt, blood coming out from it's eyes. Isaac stomped it's head in, his own helmet unfolding.

"Take that you piece of shit!" He yelled as he repeatedly stomped it.

His yelling attracted the other Feeders. He looked to the side, a wild sneer on his face as the first one jumped.

He arched his arm back and his fist shot forward, connecting with the Feeder's jaw. With a sickening crunch, it flew back to the floor. He picked it up by the ankles and started to spin with it, knocking back any other Feeder who jumped.

He let go, sending the corpse right into the drill. He didn't flinch as he plowed his way though the Necromorph's, He blew away Wasters with a shotgun, busted Feeder's heads opened with either his fists or a well placed Force gun blast. He stood, back against the drill, the light's darkening his already ticked off expression.

He shot his hand back, slowing the drill down enough for it to be safe to touch. He made the crusaders gasp at what he did next.

He stepped in and took out his own plasma blade, the Necromorph's screeching at him from outside while a few climbed in after him.

When the stasis began to wear off, the crusaders could only see a few shots off light, the circuits breaking, the drill spiraling out of control and then a yell making them all go wide eyed.

Isaac flew out from the top, his plasma blade above him, ready for a downward arch.

He landed on a Waster, cutting it in half. He turned and finished off the remaining Feeder by grabbing it by the arms, turning it around and ramming it into a wall repeatedly with his elbow.

"Don't you ever fucking do that again!" He yelled, as he rammed into the wall again.

He stopped and jumped back after a small snap was heard, clutching his elbow, he went to go stomp the pile of mush. Before he could, Scootaloo wrapped him in all four of her tentacles, making him face her. His face became blank as her eyes turned green. She gently set him down before ending her trance.

He immediately sat on the ground, clutching his elbow.

"Fuuuuck...!" He hissed. "Why didn't you stop me before I broke my elbow?" He asked.

"W-Well... Ya see, we um, we... Scoot's?" Applebloom said. "Could ya finish for me? Ah'm still tryin' to process what ah saw."

"Isaac, when did you turn into such a kick-flank fighter?" Scootaloo asked.

"I don't know, I took some martial arts so I could atleast be a match for Applebloom if we ever fought... That and I really hate those things." He shot a glare at the pile of red and brown mush. "I really hate those things."

"Come over here, and I'll heal you." Sweetiebelle rolled her eyes. "When did I turn into the shock trooper and the medic?" She mumbled to herself as she healed Isaac.

"Issac!" Ellie yelled. "What happened? We all saw a explosion of snow and a chunk of something sticking out from the side of some rock. Are you and the girls alright?"

"Yeah, I'm alright." He said. "Sweetiebelle's fixing my elbow, I broke it after I jumped from atop the drill and repeatedly smashed some new Necromorph into a wall with it."

"Why the hell were you on a drill?" Norton asked.

"I may have gotten a little carried away after one of them tried to eat my head." He said. "It wasn't pretty."

"I bet..."

The link cut off leaving them in silence. Sweetiebelle's horn stopped glowing and Isaac got up, popped his fixed arm and nodded towards the door ahead.

"Wow, look at this things teeth." Sweetiebelle grimaced at a Feeder corpse. She bent it's head back all the way, it's normal teeth facing directly at her while two large tusks with random enges and barbs came out form the lower and bottom jaw. "Eww." She said, absorbing it.

"Come on, the door should be opening now." Isaac said.

Before they entered, Isaac turned the comm back on.

"Ok Ellie, we're heading back to the warehouse now."

"Is everything alright?"

"Oh yeah, between the planet trying to kill us, your boyfriend hating me, this has been a wonderful trip so far."

"Robert's not usually like this/. I don't know why he-"

"Just let us fight it out. One of us will win, eventually." Isaac said. "Did you find the experiment?"

"Yes."

"And?"

"You'll just have to see it."

"Oh good." He said sarcastically.

The door opened and the link cut off.

The engineer's got onto the lift ahead, as it started to go up, Isaac turned to Babs.

"Hey Babs, good work on controlling your fear back there." He said. "So, what exactly should I call you?"

"What? What do you mean call me?" She asked, blowing some hair out from her eye.

"Well, ever since your cousin and her friends left, and the footage of them fighting was released onto Youtube, people have given them names for their... Other forms or personalities. There's Appleblood, Slenderloo, Sweetiemorph and... Well there's me. So, do you want a nickname like that? Maybe... Bad Seed?"

"Bad Seed." She said to herself. "It does have a ring to it." She snickered.

"Well alright!" He said. "Now... Hold up, there's a body ahead." He said raising his Force gun at it.

He kicked some snow on it and aimed at the legs, satisfied with it being just a corpse, they continued on.

"So, before we go in, anyone want to make a bet on what it is?" Isaac asked. "I'm thinking it's some huge machine. I'm betting 1000 credits."

"Maybe it's somepony frozen?" Scootaloo said. "2000 credits."

"Babs has my suit." Sweetiebelle said. "And I know what it is. But I'm not saying." She smiled.

"Um..." Applebloom looked at her cousin. "Would it be aright' for me and Babs to have the same guess?"

"Sure, why not?" Isaac said.

"We're guessing a Necromorph." Babs Seed said.

"Well, only one way to find out." Isaac said.

He stepped into the doorway, pushing the holographic button as the others entered. When it opened, Applebloom and Babs Seed hoofbumped. Sweetiebelle groaned, asking for her suit.

A frozen Nexus was laying in front of them on it's back.

"Ho-ly shit." Isaac said looking at it.

"Isaac, there you are!" Santos said. "We're up in the observation level."