>Mayday
>Mayday
>Lights flash all around you
>Sirens blare
>Your tentacles flail all around, grasping at knobs and buttons
>Doing all they can try and right the ship
>Still,
>Mayday
>Mayday
>There was no saving it
>Your best bet is to point it at the nearest planet and hope your biomass doesn't sustain too much damage from the impact
>You do so and put yourself into stasis, it will help with what's to come
>Only dimly aware of your surroundings at this point, you sense the ship go dark and the cold of space start to creep in
>It is going to be a long journey
>...
>CRRRSSSHHCRCRCSHRCHRCHSRCHCSRHCHSR-BOOOOOOOM!
>The impact rouses you from stasis as your meat is splattered into a million pieces
>Only semi-capable of coherent thought, you will your collective cells back together
>At least, what remains of them
>Slowly at first, but gaining momentum as your pieces regain mobility
>Finally together again, you sprout a pair of eyes and begin to take stock of your situation
>The only thing left of the ship was a smoldering crater, no surprises there
>You look around and see that you are surrounded by vegetation
>You've seen much of them before on other planets
>What looks like trees, grass
>At least that's what they called them
>Turning your search inward, you inspect the damage done to yourself
>Most of your biomass had gone
>Burned in the flames of the wreckage
>Hopefully this planet had animal life on it so that you may replace what was lost
>As is, your current state limited you on what you could shift into
>More vulnerable than you had been in a long time
>You shoot out tentacles, perhaps a dozen or so of them, and scurry off for some cover
>Ultimately deciding on a bush for hiding
>If there were any intelligent life nearby they would be sure to investigate soon
>And then would be your chance
>The conquer this place as well, organism by organism, cell by cell
>As soon as something comes
>Hours past before your first sign of an approach
>You could hear voices, carried by the wind, giving you advanced notice
"Ooooh! A shooting star! I've heard of Princess Luna accidentally dropping one before but I've never seen one in person! I am soooo excited!'
"I told you Pinkie, I don't know what it is. But it sure didn't look like any normal shooting star to me."
>Whatever it, or rather, they were did not seem intimidating
"Or, maybe, it was a UFO! Space aliens, finally making contact!"
"Don't be ridiculous, darling. Everypony knows there's no such thing as aliens."
>High pitched, gentle voices
"How can you be so sure ? After all, everypony knows it was the aliens who built the pyramids. And what about those crop circles in your orchard Applejack?"
"Ah already told you Rainbow, t'was the Great Seedling who done it!"
>But I've been fooled before, best to use caution
"I'm not buying it. Fluttershy, what do you think?"
"I want to go home"
>Nearly here
"Girls, look!"
>A purple quadruped emerges into the clearing, followed closely after by five others of various coloring
>Before the crash they would have posed no challenge to you
>However in your current state, better to assimilate them one by one
>Just need to wait for one of them to wander off from the group
"I knew it was a UFO! Now where are those aliens? I'm ready for some out of this world fun!"
"Calm down Pinkie! We don't know what this thing is, it could be anything, really. Some type of hot air balloon, a government secret project, or maybe just some Everfree swamp gas making us see things. The important thing is we make sure everypony is alright, if there was anypony aboard."
>The group of them walk closer to the wreckage to inspect, the pink one bouncing as they went
"The pyramids don't seem like such a conspiracy now, do they Rarity?"
"Oh, pshaw. This whole thing could just be an elaborate ruse by someone trying to prove something."