My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

The test team is made up of half-pony and half-changeling. As for the pony half, it can also be divided into half and half - half unicorn and half Pegasus. Those unicorns are specially selected horses recruited by Twilight Sparkle who are good at long-distance teleportation.

The test content is very simple: place the test aircraft and the propulsion array composed of fifteen enchantment towers on the launch pad, activate the drive enchantment, and then quickly avoid it to avoid being hit by more than ten tons of rapidly rising (or falling) metal. pulpy.

"The fourteenth test, launch timing T minus thirty seconds," more than a dozen loudspeakers scattered on a small island far offshore from the Houston Space Center shouted loudly, and the countdown echoed across the island, "All staff Prepare to evacuate. T minus twenty-five seconds..."

Farther out on the open sea, above a small barge gently swinging in the slow ebb and flow of the Celestia Sea, unicorns one after another were shrouded in bursts of light (among them One of the chosen destinations was preempted by another unicorn a moment before reaching it, so the teleportation was accidentally pushed aside by the spell's failsafe setting, and appeared out of thin air with a splash of water. Then some Pegasus and most of the changelings followed the group at normal flying speeds, and the four fastest Pegasus and the two fastest changelings, plus one Both Alicorn princesses were hovering in the air, observing everything that was about to happen.

The princess just mentioned, Twilight Sparkle, was wearing a recently invented wireless headset on her head. Every word she uttered during the countdown echoed above the island's launch pad, "...seven... …six…five…four…three…two…one!”

According to the experience of Tests 1 to 8, the scene that will happen next is nothing more than a sudden shock wave of magic energy, a rapidly expanding force field dome blowing through the woods, and at the same time, it will bring the test aircraft - usually accompanied by many Unplanned test objects - flying into the sky together.

The ninth test was the first attempt to see if the research they conducted could narrow down the scope of dome generation. After subsequent rounds of testing, the dome was reduced to a roughly circular magic disk - or actually it should be described as a trampoline, because its function is basically to make everything above it move to a huge size. Speed ​​catapults into the air.

However, as in every previous test, test fourteen proved that this spell has difficulty distinguishing between what should be thrown into the air and what should be kept in place. The spacecraft model used in this simulation only touched the edge of the force field, but it was still enough to lift it slightly into the air; then it slipped out of the force field's range and almost immediately fell back to the ground.

In contrast, the launch tower skyrocketed, almost rushing into the sky in a straight line and continuing to accelerate, quickly breaking through the sound barrier under the continuous drive of the fifteen towers carrying the propulsion spell.

"Don't worry about the cockpit! Track the transmission tower!" Twilight, who was wearing a headset, shouted on the communication channel, "At least there is still valid data!"

A bossy and harsh voice came from her headset and cursed loudly, "I don't care if that thing is data, I just know that it is flying straight towards my space center!!!"

"Shh." Twilight disagreed, "It's still accelerating upwards. I can follow it to prevent it..."

At an extremely high place in deep space, the transmitting tower that was uprooted from the foundation by a spell and accelerated to a flight speed exceeding three times the speed of sound was already crumbling due to all this tossing, and now there is not much structure left. The strength could no longer support it, and it completely disintegrated from a slightly twisted complete object into hundreds of small but still extremely destructive ballistic fragments of staggering weight. The spell loses focus, and stops immediately without a target.

"Princess, consider my space center!" Cocoon on the radio urged her to take action.

"Fuck. Just wait for me."

Twilight Sparkle had also heard the jokes about her being called the obsessive Alicorn Princess, but even her detractors had to marvel; she first magically teleported her from miles away. The robot captured almost a Luo (numerals, 144) of various objects weighing a total of about seven tons. Then there was another large-scale transmission, and the pile of metal was carefully arranged in several rows and neatly placed next to the launch pad. to be reassembled; such a feat would be impossible even for someone as powerful as Celestia.

"It's done. Everything has been taken care of. What's the result?"

"Tracking reports show that the maximum flight speed at the time of disintegration was one thousand two hundred and sixty-two meters per second," Warner von Braun, chief scientist of the Minotaur of the Changeling Space Program, replied, "The flight altitude was approximately fourteen thousand One thousand and five hundred meters. The acceleration was 14 percentage points lower than the expected value of the launch. The specific value measured was inaccurate due to the failure to track the launch tower in time during the initial six seconds of the flight phase."

"Perfect!" Twilight Sparkle cheered after hearing this, "Ladies, ladies and gentlemen, we have a proof of concept!"

"What?!" Yu Yuxing didn't buy it, "Did you not notice that the test aircraft that was actually going to be launched only flew about two hundred meters before it fell down and blew up the launch pad? Not to mention that we still Didn't you find any way to actually control the flight direction of that thing without a unicorn personally controlling the spell?"

"Oh, what are you talking about? I solved it a week ago," Twilight's voice was so cheerful that she didn't feel smug at all. "The only problem is that with Starlight Glimmer's now greatly weakened magic output, with her ability Can the same type of projector obtained be able to produce sufficient thrust that has a significant effect during flight and is worth our efforts to achieve! Today's experiment proves that the actual situation is just the opposite. The thrust output of the propulsion spell may be even greater. A little too much!”

"That's true," the Minotaur's deep voice came from the other end of the radio. "We have estimated the G force generated when the tower is launched, and the results show that this launch will cause a changeling crew A serious inconvenience and a fatal danger to almost any other living thing on board."

"Then why didn't you tell me that you had solved other problems?" Yu Yu was still not very happy.

"Aren't you going to ask me how I solved it?" Twilight asked with a disappointed pout.

"Can I understand it? Impossible. And I don't need to understand it - at least I don't need to understand the theory. I just need to know how to make it fly in the right direction."

"I'll show you when I get back to your space center," Twilight replied, "I have to call Rainbow anyway. Test Fifteen requires a pilot on board."

"Let her stay at home," Yuyu replied, "I will do the fifteenth test."

"Weren't you supposed to be on duty at Concordia two weeks ago?" Twilight asked.

"Concordia has been handed over to a suitable horse by me." Yuxu replied.

At the same time, thousands of miles above her head, the current commander of CSP Concordia was glaring at her subordinates with stern eyes and said, "I told you a long time ago, no matter whether you can After teleporting here, you are absolutely not allowed to visit your mother while she is at work."

"But mom!" Ning Xinxue'er cried and acted coquettishly.

"It's nothing," Cadence continued to lecture, "Now go find a corner to face the wall and think about your mistakes, and reflect on how dangerous what you just did is."

"Mom, there are no corners here."

"Okay. Then go to the ladder."

"I can't sit down in zero gravity."

"Figure it out yourself."

As this gifted alicorn child passed the bridge on its way to the wall, it floated past a certain changeling who was also on duty on this hybrid aircraft that was half spaceship and half space station. So she asked, "Can the changeling be allowed to fly?" Mr. Ling, will you play with me?"

"No." Cadance turned back and glared at the bug, because he was guilty of (1) being a changeling other than Thorax, and (2) appearing here and now.

The targeted changeling remembered that his current commander had thrown himself, his queen, and tens of thousands of his friends of the same kind over hundreds of miles at the speed of a cannonball, and leaned down to shrink. In front of his terminal station, he silently grumbled.