Hello. It's my first fanfiction ever created. I don't own either From the Depths or MLP. I may have some gramatical errors, I may fix it sometime. The chapter tooks time after second invasion of Scarlet Dawn but before the civil war of the Lighting Hood. I hope you will enjoy the story, feel free to comment and critize, it will make the story better. Thanks for support. Let's get to reading, then!

49 ASD, Lighting Hood HQ, 10 AM

It was pretty calm day. Everyone lived their lives in Neter, nothing bad was happening, but, few years ago Lighting Hood sent 5 probes to search for systems and new planets to colonize
and conquer. 4 probes lost contact with the Neter, probably got damaged or destroyed by some asteroid in space, but one, after few years, made an amazing discovery of new solar system
that had 4 planets and 1 sun. 2 Planets were unhabitable because of the close orbit to the sun, one was really far but one, one was in habitable zone, it had animal life, many resources and land
which would be great colony for the Lighting Hood but Scarlet Dawn would probably claim the colony as Lighting Hood is theirs servant.

Of course the information couldn't be hidden, and was in public.

Which made scenario of independent colony impossible. But first, they didn't want to just send colonists to build the basics of the colony on the planet not even knowing if animals would be agressive or not. That's why they sent U3, the elite robot for building the basics of the colony, so the colonists would just arrive, and settle down easily, without casualties and difficult survival. They started building a space ship capable of defending itself in space and on planet, have a crew capacity of 10, and with a warp drive. It was pretty small ship and vulnerable to attacks. The ship was filled with everything it's needed to build a small, starting colony or outpost to extract resources needed to build more.

With help of building robots, the ship was done pretty fast,
in just few days. After it was built, the robots loaded resources and U3. U3 would be activated while it would be already in space, it is automatic process. And the day, when the Lighting Hood could colonize the planet has come, everyting was in, everything was okay and good to go. Operators and Technicans were checking the last parts of the ship, so they wouldn't just lose one of best robots and tons of resources for nothing. Finally, the countdown started. 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 and launch! The spaceship launched! It shocked people how fast it launched, it was a lot more faster than average launch of spaceship today.

The spaceship was flied from the atmosphere and was already in orbit, nothing bad was happening yet. Boosters have been decoupled and after few hours, when it was in good position
to leave orbit and head to the target, it launched it's another engine. The warp drive was almost ready to go, when pirates have appeared on the right trying to catch the ship, and if it would be too fast, destroy it.

U3 was in this time activated, and has been alerted about the pirates coming. U3 has immadietely activated defense systems to shoot two pirate cruisers. The defense system shot at one of the pirate cruisers
without a miss, but it wasn't enough to stop it. 30 seconds of escaping and firing have passed, few rockets from the pirates were shot, but still none of them have hit the target.
When warp drive was ready, there was a big *BOOM* at the back, where warp drive was, in the same time from the shake U3 has pressed the warp button that had coordinates to the targeted solar system,
but the hit resulted in a change of destination but it was too late, the ship already entered warp.

The main engine was heavily damaged from the explosion as well as warp drive.
When the spaceship has left the warp stage, it was found in other solar system, not the one that was meant to be warped to. The ship has been found in a pretty bad situation, main engine was so damaged,
that it couldn't be used to even 20% without repairing. Warp drive was damaged and had to recharge, but the damage had rised the recharge time two times. U3 after finding out the ship status,
checked for the solar system where it is, already knowing that it's not where it should be. After 30 seconds, the ship scanned whole solar system and have detected that it's going to crash to nearby planet.

U3 couldn't do anything about it because main engines were heavily damaged, but he had parachutes on ship for situations like these. There was meant to be 10 of parachutes because of weight of the ship.
But after the explosion 6 were destroyed which now results even if the other 4 will work, it won't be enough to stop it from smashing to the ground unless he will activate every engine he has to at least
survive the crash. Ship systems calculated that the crash will happen in 29 minutes and 25 seconds, it would be enough to repair the main engine to at least 40% and these 40% would save the ship from
total destruction and just little parts to be saved, it would even probably save the whole ship. So U3 activated repairing bots not wasting the needed time. Ship had batteries that could be used for SOS signal, U3 knowing that, not wasting time used antennas on top of the space ship to send SOS signal, who knows who will get it first? U3 thought about who will get it first, pirates or someone else, during that, he joined repairing the ship as well because there is no time to waste.

*Meanwhile at Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle library, Day time, sometime near Morning*

Twilight Sparkle was searching for a book about the life in space on her bookshelf, using her magic to move books and move them, while Spike came inside.

"Hey sparkle, What are you doing?"

"Me? Oh, I'm searching for the book about the life in space, you know, I am interested if there is someopony else out there... Where it is... Oh, here!" Twilight Sparkle finds the book and takes it
to the nearest table

"Do you really think there is another pony in stars like you, Twilight? What if they are like the changelings?"

"I don't know, I didn't really think about that. Let's just hope there aren't any changelings out there...I will just read the book." Twilight replied in worried tone.

"Alright, have a good reading, al-" Spike has spit out a scroll out to the ground.

"A message from someone? I guess it's from Dear Celestia? Twilight spoke.

Spike took the scroll and checked the seal.

"Yes, it's from Dear Celestia...It's for you." Spike gave the scroll to Twilight.

"Thank you. " Twilight took the scroll and started reading it loud.

"Dear Twilight Sparkle, I've found something you need to know, I don't know what it is, but it's coming here. I need you to come to the castle very soon." Twilight thought about what did Celestia found and if it's something from the stars, she was worried and left the library heading to the castle where Celestia is in.

Alright, that's all for first chapter. As I said before, feel free to critize, it makes my fanfiction better. And thanks for nice comments, it supports me and my fanfiction. In next episode I will probably make U3 encounter the civilization. Heh, why probably? Because I don't know if I will make the landing of the ship somewhere far away from Equestria or next to Castle. C'ya.