MMMystery on the Twilight Voyager
Twilight Sparkle gathered all of her friends to the conference room, where they began to discuss their course of action. She thought that perhaps her friends could help figure out both what to do and whoever sliced the oil tank.
"I bet it was a spy. Probably trying to get us to stop so she can watch us easier!" Rainbow Dash said.
"Oh, I don't think anypony would do something like that!" Fluttershy responded. She was under the belief that everypony was kind and compassionate.
"Thanks for the thought, Rainbow Dash, but I have to agree with Fluttershy. It's very unlikely a pony on board would do that! And even if they would, no pony but us even knows how to access the machine room. They'd have to discover it by accident or something, which of course didn't happen. I say it was just some kind of pipe that may have snapped, and on it's way down sliced the canister." Twilight thought she was right at that point.
"Look darling, I am not going to act like I have any sort of knowledge of machinery, but I am pretty sure a falling pipeline would not cut a metal tank!" Rarity replied.
"Also, I don't think a pipe could cut every darn tank in there! Twilight, I was in there with you, and I saw every one of those tanks were cut. I ain't no smart pony like you, but I reckon I know enough to say that's crazy. Sugarcube, don't you remember that pile? And what was in it? Somethin' got into that room!" Applejack said back.
"Um, I hate to interrupt, but, something got in the room?" Fluttershy asked, sounding very afraid.
"I suppose I should tell you all what we saw." Twilight sighed. "After we entered the machine room, we heard some strange noises. Once we began to walk down the stairway, something broke the bridge we had just been on. Once we were at the bottom, we saw the remains of that thing. It looked otherworldly."
"But wait, if this super-duper crazy creepy alien thingy came after you did, how could it have cut the super strong oil tanks?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"Yeah, that's what I think too. There's no way it could have done that!" Twilight stated.
"Then what did?" Rainbow Dash questioned.
"I don't know, Rainbow Dash. I just don't know. But whoever, or whatever cut the tanks, remains a mystery. Besides, it's more important that we fix this, and continue our trip." Twilight said.
"Well we should not go to fix it now! We don't even know where to look!" Rarity pointed out.
"Yeah, and, um, I don't want to go. It sounds scary." Fluttershy whispered.
"Well right now girls, I'm under a lot of stress. I don't want all of these ponies to die! And it's all my fault we're stuck here anyway. I didn't think this through enough. And now I'm starting to realize the scenario here. Life, or death. This is the kind of trouble I thought I'd never face!" Twilight was slowly talking louder, faster and angrier. "And now that I am, I want it to stop. I want us to be okay. Who doesn't? Well I know who doesn't! The pony who sliced those fucking tanks! And yes, it was somepony on board. It has to be! That horrible monster Applejack and I saw came from this planet! And I think there's more where it came from!" At this point, she was yelling. "The stakes are only getting higher and higher! Ponies might fucking die! Do you girls not understand that this mystery is more important than you think?! I mean, that pony who cut the tanks might have more in store for us! But I don't fucking know that! None of us do! But we fucking need to know before this pony fucking kills somepony! And that possibility is only becoming more and more real! And I can't fucking take it!" She was breathing very loudly and quickly after she finished her speech.
Fluttershy started to cry. The fear was unbearable to her, and Twilight's tirade about death certainly wasn't helping. But no pony said anything after this. There was just a prolonged silence, allowing them to take in Twilight and Fluttershy's outbursts of emotion. They all now knew how serious this was becoming.
