My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 14

ARES 3 solar day 18

"I can do this too," Lingting climbed over Mark's shoulder and watched him remove the pre-launch ground power socket next to the Amicitas main airlock.

"Didn't you just say that he was happy doing this job?" Starlight asked from inside the open airlock. The cabin is currently not pressurized, at least until Mark connects the Amicitas to the base's power system. After considering various options and various safety considerations, the power socket is actually the best way. It is much safer than directly exposing the emergency solar array debris through the top of the spacecraft, and it is also less expensive than directly connecting the cables to the control cabin. Lots of attendant hassles.

Everyone is busy today. At first it was because Starlight suggested through a translation spell that the space in Amicitas' cabin could be used for planting. The large hole in the engineering cabin expanded a lot during the towing process, but the other two cabins still maintained good airtightness, at least theoretically capable of sustaining life.

So everyone went out to work. After Mark spent a few minutes cleaning the solar panels, they moved the spacecraft to the No. 3 airlock and power output interface. Everything seems to be in order. Berry, Spitfire, and Fireball continued digging, while Mark, Dragonfly, and Starlight had a serious discussion about connecting the base's power to the spacecraft system.

The final solution was fairly simple, and it was Mark's idea. He found a multimeter from the tool box and showed it to Ting Ting, who also dug out the pony version. They then measured the rover's charger, heater, exposed broken communications dish, and the base's power output. The readings are not the same, but they are relatively close, and they are both stable and can be converted to each other with simple calculations.

Dragonfly, Starlight and Mark returned to the base for a while. Now they know the general power output of the base, but if they want to connect the base's power system to Amicitas, they must know the power requirements on the spacecraft. Fortunately, the flight manual recording the relevant information is not lost, but it is also crumpled. Starlight used a translation spell to tell Mark the necessary data, so the three of them went back to work with their heads full of data and a large box of electronic devices, until now.

"Yeah, he's happy like this," said Tingting, "but I'm not happy. He won't even let me touch his tools. I'm just here to keep an eye on him and prevent him from getting off the boarding stairs. fall down."

"Put yourself in my shoes," Starlight tried to reason. "Would you let another changeling touch your tool?"

"What? Absolutely not!" Isn't this nonsense! "You know, they just break the tools!"

"I'm sure Mark feels the same way."

"But this is not the same thing!" Dragonfly still refused to accept, "I am not an ordinary changeling! I am a trained engineer and pilot! I am in charge of this matter! I will not damage anything else. Tools of the changeling!"

"You," Starlight said nervously, looking at Mark standing on a metal plate that was previously clamped at the top of the boarding ladder, "I really feel for you, you can't understand the horse's feelings well."

"Nonsense," Tingting said firmly, "For example, I know what you are thinking." Although lying can still get away for Tingting now, her ability to control the situation in the short term is not worth the risk she takes now. The risk of long-term relationships that need to be maintained. "You are very satisfied with yourself because you have come up with many ways to help us survive that no other horse has come up with."

"That's right, I...wait a minute, what did you say!?" Starlight rushed out of the airlock and almost kicked Dingding down, "You can't even flatter a horse like you!"

"Okay, let's take a look at the current situation," Dragonfly said, "Spikefire has been busy taking care of you; Fireball does nothing unless he has a mission; I tried to dig out some information from Mark, but there was no There is no progress at all; Berry has been trying to maintain a good relationship with everyone, and her mind is also in a mess."

"It's a gross exaggeration of the facts and it's complete nonsense," Starlight retorted without even thinking. Later, her tone softened and she added, "What did you say happened to Berry?"

"What's wrong? Aren't you and Spitfire always quarreling?"

"Yeah, that's because she always thinks of me as a filly instead of a full-blown unicorn!"

"You know fireballs always piss off the other horses, don't you?"

"He's a dragon. All dragons except Spike."

"And the boss is the horse who keeps resolving conflicts, right?"

"Of course," Starlight said, "She is the leader, so of course she has to settle disputes."

"Then she came and talked to you shortly after, didn't she? Said some nonsense about cheering up and relaxing and some nonsense about understanding the other person's feelings."

"That's not nonsense!" Starlight insisted.

"Okay, okay, that's what she said to every horse anyway. In fact, that's all she can do!" Dragonfly didn't flinch, "At least except for the sludge mixture she tinkered with. Time. By the way, even by changeling standards..."

"Let this be clear, I don't want to discuss the smell in the base," Starlight interrupted the conversation, "There's nothing we can do about it. Don't change the subject."

"Okay," Tingting disagreed with this, "Anyway, what I want to say is that she spent a lot of time maintaining the team order on the surface and had no suggestions for actual practice. You also know this, after all, besides you, The only big guy besides Mark who is trying to keep us alive."

"Look at what you said, it's not the truth." Xingguang emphasized again and again.

"Yes."

"no!"

"that is!"

"Are you done yet?" Xingguang was impatient.

"Fortunately our communication is on the private horse channel," said Tingting, "otherwise, Berry might be on her way to break up the fight now."

Starlight struggled to resist the urge to spray a certain changeling, took a deep breath and said: "I am indeed very satisfied with myself, yes. I am also worried that our current situation is far from safe. For The fact that I am the only wise person among the team members makes me even more unhappy, because this is simply not true! You can't get into the Rockets if you don't have a high IQ!" She stared at Tingting's emotionless eyes, "You too! Don't think you are pretending to be stupid. You can always gain something by saying good things and fishing in troubled waters!"

"Just tell me if it's useful." Dragonfly said with her signature changeling smile that made horses' hair stand on end.

"Okay, I won't bother you anymore." Starlight shook her head and turned to Mark, "Is he done?"

Dragonfly took a look, "It looks like he connected the transformer to our power input... Oh, it seems he wanted to connect the spacecraft to the base's power supply, so as to avoid the risks caused by hard connections. Great! He should be finished soon."

"That's right," Starlight said. "I'm going to check the switches in the cabin and make sure everything is disconnected. Don't let him plug it in until I'm done."

In fact, Tingting had done this in her first EVA, and had done it once in the previous drag, but she didn't tell Starlight. "OK, no problem."

Starlight glared at the changeling again. "You'd better not forget it," she warned.

"Didn't you just say that there is no wisdom on our ship?" asked Tingting.

"As you wish." Starlight turned and stepped through the open airlock and into the ship.

Done, Tingting thought. The hole has been dug. At least I won't be able to get love from her in the short term until her anger subsides. However, this gap can be made up by Mark. In the meantime I'd better leave Starlight in charge of communicating with the aliens on the technical details of the ship. This wave of operations is already fierce enough.

Hopefully this will make her notice more of the other horses, especially improving her relationship with Spitfire and Fireball. I was tired of all the crap I had to worry about every day, and Berry's worries tasted almost as bad as the shit she spent an hour tinkering with every day.

Mark stopped what he was doing, stretched his hand and knee joints, and signaled Dragonfly to get out of the way so that he could get off the temporary scaffolding.

Dragonfly tried her best, stepped forward with a smile on her face, stretched out a hoof and tried to take the tool box from Mark's hand. Mark protected the toolbox and made a gesture, insisting that Tingting get out of the way.

TND, I can't do anything fun here.