My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 252

ARES 3 solar day 249

Cherry Berry watched Mark refer to the cheat sheet written on a sample container label (there are seven left) affixed to the empty shell of the control panel above the Amicitas airborne radio controller, and cross the code points recorded on the whiteboard. translated into text. "How's it going?" she asked impatiently, "Has Pathfinder responded?"

"Not yet," Mark replied, "but that's expected. Don't forget that the time before we gave it power and heat for two full days before it woke up for the first time."

"Aw," the disappointed Berry drooped her ears, "but I want to write a letter to Dr. Shields."

Mark was stunned and put down the whiteboard in his hand. "Why, are you having a psychological shadow on the dust storm?" He comforted, "I can understand that."

"No, it was a dream I had last night," Berry explained. "I was in our world over there, and then..."

"If this is a dream about going home," Mark said, "then I don't think it's better to tell me. We all have these dreams every night. Or maybe we dream about this planet easily wiping us out. One of the tens of billions of ways to do it, and then be woken up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night.”

Cherry Berry stared at him, "Can I continue?" she asked with a straight face.

"Oh." Mark re-studied the last few words of the message sent by NASA with interest, "Sorry, please speak."

"I'm on our side," Berry said. "I ran as fast as I could from Ponyville to... uh... to the princess's... uh..."

"castle."

"Yes, that's it. I was late and worried that I would be late. But when I arrived, I was several years late. Then the princess replied, 'I will send you to the moon!' I said I I’ve already been to the moon, but she then said she would use magic to send me up there, and that there would be no rocket to bring me back.”

"Then there's a problem." Mark was much more cautious when he spoke.

"Then she went on to say that she... uh... what was the word that the ruler said that made you leave the country and never be able to go back?"

"exile."

"Is it an exile? Okay. The princess said she was going to exile me. I said I had been exiled to Mars. Then she said she would send me to the moon (the moon) where she exiled me!"

"What?"

"Then I arrived on this little satellite (the moon). Not far away was Mars. It was exactly the same as the scene we saw through the front window of the spacecraft for the first time. The worst thing is..." Berry took a deep breath. He stood upright in one breath, and then burst out, "This satellite (moon) is shaped like a big potato!"

"Indeed." Mark said calmly.

Judging from the expression on Berry's face, her thoughts must have been derailed in an instant. Wherever she went, there was only a piece of scorched earth, "What?!"

"Mars has two tiny moons," Mark explained. "They both look like potatoes. That's absolutely true."

Berry's shattered brain began to gradually return to its original shape. She continued to glare at Mark and asked, "Mars has a potato satellite (moon)?"

"Let's put it this way, one of them is about ten miles in diameter and the other is about half that diameter, and they're both made of rock," Mark explained, "but they do look like potatoes."

Berry's glare turned into an angry look, "Potato. Satellite (moon)?!"

"I'm afraid it is."

"Mark, I'm not in the mood for jokes right now."

"I'll show you some pictures later. You can judge for yourself."

Cherry took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. "If you had a princess who guarded your dreams like a proper species," she trembled with anger, "this wouldn't happen."

"Hmm. Right. Okay." Mark agreed, picked up a marker in his hand, and began to write his reply to the news from Earth.

“This horse-riding planet actually has potatoes with horse eggs!!!”

As the second minute of listening to Cherry Berry's incessant torrent of curse words poured out, Starlight Glimmer put her hooves over her ears in a futile attempt to silence her.

"I told her it's not a joke." The screen in front of Mark showed several images of space rocks; if the viewer is in a certain psychological state, these rocks will look like a few cratered stars. Shriveled potatoes.

Starlight didn't answer.

"I probably haven't heard the same word before," he continued to ask under the hail of bullets. "Has she ever cursed someone with repeated words?"

"No." Xingguang happened to be at the scene when Berry lost her temper three times before; based on experience, she never used the same curse word twice when she was angry.

"There are so many swear words in Pony's language?"

"No." Berry has already mastered Pony Language, Hair Language, Gong Language, Japanese Language, and Gryphon Language, and is now immersed in the sea of ​​ancient Minoan language and can freely chop the waves.

"Can you teach me something..."

"No." In fact, Mark had accidentally said it several times before when he was trying to learn to speak pony language, but in order to avoid the embarrassment during the communication between the two parties, Starlight would definitely not tell him this.

It was around this time that Berry entered the realm of English swear words, picking up the collection of words she had previously requested from Mr. Mitch Henderson and going straight to work.

And she actually scolded them in order. Neatly. Not a single word was missed, and the order of any words was not disrupted. She then continued in one breath with the appendix compiled by Anne Montrose.

"Looking at this posture, it doesn't look like you are eating five potatoes a day. No matter what, you have to start at fifteen." Mark sighed.

Starlight just gritted her teeth silently, blocked her ears with her hoof harder (although it didn't work), and tried her best not to explain that if Mars had a third satellite that looked a bit like a bale of hay, Berry would How to react.

She might have raised the entire Hab.