My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 339

ARES 3 solar day 334

So, yesterday we talked about Rainbow Dash. Whose story are we going to tell today? How about Twilight Sparkle?

Mark had heard enough about Twilight Sparkle. Let's pick something else.

yes. agree.

Okay then...how about we talk about Fluttershy? We don’t get to tell her story that often.

really. You barely even mentioned her.

This is because Fluttershy has the least relationship with our space program. To explain, Twilight Sparkle asked all of her closest friends to help out at the beginning of the pony space program.

But she believed that only Pegasus could become a good pilot, so she selected Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy as her pilot candidates. She didn't even think twice about asking me to run, which is why I ended up working with the changelings.

Anyway, it’s a profit for us!

Anyway, Rainbow Dash is a natural aviator. Fluttershy is not. In fact, she is one of the weakest and shyest Pegasus in the world. In the end, they could only arrange ground work and equipment testing tasks for her. After her fifth flight nearly crashed, she was completely absent from the space program for several years. It took a long time before she was finally willing to go up to the space station for a day to check on some of the lab rats and see if they were doing okay, but that was less than a year before we set off, and she was gone the next day. Back on the ground again.

She almost made it into our mission. Princess Twilight wants unicorns, pegasus, and earth ponies to fly. But Xiaodie...how to say...

Fluttershy takes care of many animals. They really depend on her. She can talk to them. She didn't want to be away for a long time. It would have been disastrous if she had come with us.

yes. So I'm not here for her. Fluttershy has trouble flying, but Doc is much better.

Wait a minute. Why is it so important to have one pony of each race? Is there any kind of bias involved in this decision?

bias? Well...how should I put it, to a certain extent. After the founding of the Equestrian Kingdom, various pony tribes began to intermarry. I also met an earth pony couple whose children were a Pegasus and a unicorn, so it certainly doesn't look like the tribes are at war. What the status looks like. But significant cultural differences remain. The residents of many towns are dominated by a certain ethnic group. And once they find that a pony of their own clan has been excluded from something very important, everyone will not be happy. So it's always important to remind ponies that we are united, work together, and are all equal.

Starlight, can we get back to Fluttershy's story?

Oh, I forgot! Anyway, that's why you don't hear us mention Fluttershy much. She's afraid of heights, hates flying, and can't talk to strange horses, but she definitely loves animals.

And she is known to everyone as the most beautiful Pegasus. Being next to her makes me feel like a gosling, and I'm sexy.

Oh yes! Another time Fluttershy had to ask other ponies to help look after her animals because she was dragged off to a... job, I guess that's the word? Wearing clothes and taking pictures and, uh, stuff to sell...

advertise? Commercials? Wait, are you trying to say she's a model?

What I heard is that there were months when she was the only model.

right! She offered to help Rarity by wearing the clothes she made and being our best photo taker...

photographer.

...Then the guy you named him ignored his clothes and dragged Fluttershy to, uh, Manehattan?

Hat Hair City. I think so.

In short, you can see her everywhere - magazines, posters, newspapers, and even banners dragged by Pegasus in the sky! Everyone wants to see her, meet her face, and let her help sell their things!

And it was all done by such a shy pony?

That is! She hated this so much. Completely hated every second of it.

To explain, Fluttershy thought Rarity would be sad if she didn't take advantage of this opportunity to become rich and famous. Rarity was extremely jealous of this because she wanted to be like Fluttershy, but because she wanted Fluttershy to be happy, she didn't say anything. She thought that Xiaodie was lucky and should be happy, but Xiaodie was in pain and wanted to quit. It took a long time for them to actually talk to each other about it.

Of course, once Fluttershy found out that Rarity wanted her to be a model just because she thought she liked the feeling of being a model, she quit immediately! From then on, the only time she allowed herself to be photographed was when she was modeling for Rarity's fittings. But she was the first of Twilight's friends to become truly famous.

Who cares if Pony is famous? Why don't you talk about those important things? This is Xiaodie. She's so scary, she makes dragons cry!

What? ! Sorry to interrupt, but what did you say?

I heard it from my brother. This dragon, whose name you can’t pronounce, moved all his treasures and everything to a cave in the Kingdom of Horses. It was high up on a hill, so he thought, no pony would bother me here. So he settled down and took a nap, maybe for two or three years, thinking that no one would disturb him.

But that dragon sprayed smoke everywhere in the middle of the horse kingdom!

Yes, he snores. But he didn't know this. No one would tell you such a thing, you know? Anyway, the next thing he knew, one pony after another was coming to wake him up. One of them tried to steal some of his treasure, while another kicked him in the nose. Well, you'll get tired of this kind of thing soon. So there he was, ready to kick them all off the mountain...

Wait a moment. This is referring to Twilight Sparkle and her friends, right? Princess Twilight Sparkle?

I guess so. The story I heard didn't mention any other names except Xiaodie.

Indeed. But back then Twilight was just a unicorn, not a princess. It's a unicorn with strong magic power, but it's not an alicorn.

Yes, in short, suddenly such a small yellow thing appeared in front of him, and then all he could see were those angry eyes. Then when the pony finished speaking, he cried in shame. The dragon, which was almost as big as the Hab, howled like a hatchling, all because of such a pony.

So he packed up his things, moved back to his old place, and told the story to the other dragons. The news just spread. Don't mess with the pink-haired yellow Pegasus.

And I told you that story so that I could tell this story.

Oh yo.

So serious?

Shut up. After Rainbow Dash walks in space for the first time, Twilight Sparkle has all the astronauts come to her space center to practice spacewalking. I was the only astronaut on the Dragon space program, so my boss ordered me to go. There were about twenty astronauts there, all of different races, ponies and changelings and griffons and some whose names I didn't know. And I.

Doing EVA training is difficult, you know. I'm having difficulty. It always gets tossed around. The training building takes away, uh, the kind of thing that you look at to tell where you are and where you're going.

Reference object.

clam?

Reference point. A point that you can use as a reference to tell you where you stand.

I thought the reference was when the boss calls your friend and says, what kind of employee is he? It's something Jim Rockford doesn't have.

This word has various meanings.

Stupid language. Anyway, it’s easy to get confused. I failed the test again and again. Then I was thinking, "I don't want to stay here anyway, so I'll give up. Maybe my boss will let me quit this time." But I don't want to be a quitter or a loser.

Then this pony I didn't recognize spoke to me. The voice was really soft, almost a whisper. Ask me what's wrong. I said go away and leave me alone, but she asked again. So I said, I can't spacewalk. Then she looked me in the eyes and said, "I know it's hard, but I believe a dragon as smart as you can do anything he sets his mind to."

Yes, it sounds like what Fluttershy said. And your translation is very good, Fireball.

How can it be! I was there at the time, but I never saw her!

I didn't see her there either.

It was her first time back at the space center after her fifth flight. She was really forcing herself. We later found her lying on her side outside the EVA training building, her body stiff. We took her to the infirmary and looked after her until she woke up. Then we called some pegasus to accompany her and fly home. She was only there for half a day. After that, the next time she sets foot in the space center will be when she comes to visit you and participate in... the joint development of the first successful space probe.

Yes yes yes, listen. If anyone else, especially any other pony, said that to me, I wouldn't pay attention. But when she said those words, it felt like she was right. I know she's right. When she looks into your eyes, it's like... well... no pony, no dragon. Just soul and soul. It sounds sensational, but that's how it feels. She gave me a few tips for doing better—one helpful, the other two not—then wished me good luck and walked away.

Okay, then her fainting will be explained. She must have had a particularly severe reaction after seeing you.

Boss Ma, it's not fair to scold me like this.

No, that's not an insult. do not you know? Fluttershy is scared to death of dragons.

Yes. Phobias, except for Spike. It was Twilight and her friends who dragged Fluttershy up the mountain inch by inch before facing the dragon of your friend's friend. Add to that her social phobia under normal circumstances and her night dimples about the fifth flight...you're saying she talked to you first? Didn't you say hello to her?

I didn't even see her until she spoke, and then - wow! It was in front of me all of a sudden. And you said she is afraid of dragons?

Just like some ponies are afraid of heights, or shadows, or the number five. Totally a knee-jerk reaction. But now that I think about it, Xiaodie is also afraid of heights...and shadows...but I don't know if she will react to the number five.

That was weird, even by pony standards.

I get it—Fluttershy has so many different fears, but she loves the biggest, wildest animals. And to think, she even made friends with Chaos!

Aren't you also a friend of chaos?

I guess, in a way. But Fluttershy is his first and closest friend.

I heard she even glared away at one, I forget the word, a chicken-snake hybrid! It's like a lizard, but completely different! Instead of turning to stone, she managed to get it to free her friends who were turned to stone by it!

What? ! Are you saying she glared away a cockatrice?

That's the word! That’s what I heard from Kevin!

Who is Kevin?

broken! I shouldn't have talked about that. Just forget that name. There is no changeling named Kevin.

Don't even think about getting away with it! Tell the truth now!

Forget it, seriously, everyone, don’t ask this. I've asked Cocoon Cocoon who Kevin is before, and that time was the most angry I've ever seen her get. It's better we don't cause trouble for Dragonfly.

A changeling that makes Cocoon so annoying? I think so.

Come on, everyone, who is this fat guy you are talking about now?

No, Mark...