My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 412

ARES 3 solar day 405

"It would be much easier for us if Starlight could help."

"Yes." Dragonfly replied casually in pony language. She was still focusing on twisting the ratchet wrench in her hoof, while Fireball was doing the same work beside her. At the same time, she secretly hoped that the dragon would not pursue this idea further. Yes, if the unicorn was present, the progress of their work of dismantling the Amicitas residential compartment to only the bare walls would indeed be accelerated, but let her help Mark cut the dismantled cabin of the No. 1 rover. Insulation materials are more necessary. Now the work here is straightforward manual labor, but the craftsmanship - and magic - required to remove the insulation is far more meticulous and delicate.

That's why she was on the other end, and their arrangement on this end, a few words of complaining couldn't change the reality.

"And where the hell are we going to put these things?" Fireball paused as he spoke, pointing to the locker he was dismantling and asked, "The bridge is already full now, and it's difficult for us to even get out of the airlock ourselves. Difficult. I’m not even sure we can fit these big guys in the airlock besides the two of us.”

"We don't need to move them out of here," Dragonfly replied, "We can just avoid them while we work. We just need to make room for insulation near the walls."

"Oh. That's okay. Where are you going to put the removed bolts?"

"In the small compartment on top of the toolbox. It's the one with the lid."

"Okay." He twisted it a few more times, "Why don't you use your magic? This will at least make it faster."

"First of all, you should know why I want to use magic as little as possible." Ting Ting's tone became irritable. "Secondly, I will use magic later. So there is no reason to use magic alone now." You waste your magic energy randomly on physical work that can be done.”

"Yes, yes," Fireball continued to grumble, "I'm just afraid I won't be able to do this for the rest of my life." After telling this exaggerated lie, he threw the last bolt that locked the locker in front of him into the tool box. Inside, he slid the entire cabinet up and took it off the fixed bracket, then looked around to find a place to put it down, "Are you sure there's enough space for you to work?"

"Wait a moment." Tingting also removed the last fixing bolt of the cabinet she was responsible for under the fireball, and pushed the locker out of the fixing slot on the floor. “The cabinets can be interlocked. You take a few bolts and screw them into the mounting holes at the bottom of the cabinet, and then you can connect the two cabinets to each other, and then put them together in the middle of the cabin. "She pretended to be relaxed, forcing herself not to care about how little space there was on the ground to store items.

"Okay," Fireball muttered, "if these two are removed, there will be ten left."

"Well, actually we're almost done." Ting Ting replied, "It's the hardest part to clear out everything else at the beginning."

"Wrong," Fireball retorted, "The hardest part is putting everything back in the right order."

After thinking for a while and finding that this statement was undeniable, Xiao Ting climbed into another lower locker and continued to tighten the next bolt.

After lunch, Dragonfly returned to the spaceship, but this time the fireball was replaced by Mark. With the help of starlight and fireballs, they filled the airlock one at a time and finally moved the large pile of carefully sliced ​​and dismantled rover insulation foam into the spacecraft. Of course, in this way, there is basically not much left in the trailer, which is almost filled with piles of food packages, hay bales, various medicines, and other supplies that must be stored in the cabin, that can be used by humans or There is room for the changelings to move.

Tingting cherished the opportunity to come into contact with magic energy more and more, set up the magic energy battery to prepare for magic field projection, and turned on the switch. Most of the bulkheads in the accommodation section are made of exposed metal, and neon sparks rising from the antenna of the projection device occasionally splash out violently and hit the unpainted metal surface.

"Okay," Mark ordered, "We need to use the rover's foam on the roof, especially to cover the docking hatch. Anyway, we will definitely not need this thing recently. The remaining insulation materials of the spacecraft can be used Let it be laid at the installation position of the locker. If the spacecraft insulation material is not enough, replace it with the habitation cabin canvas. The outer partition should be made of spacecraft insulation material, and the bulkhead between the habitation module and the spacecraft bridge should be made of canvas. Are you ready to start glue spot welding in a minute? I just noticed you had a lot of lunch."

"Wait a moment." Dragonfly smiled maliciously and then transformed.

The expression on Mark's face played right into Dingting's hands. "Well," he chose his words carefully, "couldn't you pick a different look? This one makes me feel uncomfortable right now."

"I'm more used to this look," Dragonfly tried her best to imitate Beth Johnson's voice, matching her body in a blue jumpsuit. "And the bipedal form makes it easier for me to squeeze in between the lockers to work. Of course," she didn't forget to tease, "I can become like you, but it consumes much more energy to change the mass. "

Mark avoided his eyes and tried not to look in her direction. "It's really uncomfortable."

"Just think of it as desensitization training." Dragonfly chuckled, "Or would this be better?" Another burst of green flames flashed, and the part from her neck up was still the image of Johnson, But beneath the neck is the torso of an actress best known for playing a character who spent seven years wearing denim shorts. The blue astronaut jumpsuit on her body was also gone, replaced by her signature tight denim shorts and a string bikini bra.

Mark didn't dare to look here even more. "This is really bad," he struggled to keep his firm tone. "It's bad in every sense of the word."

"Mark, relax," Tingting added a southern accent with a playful smile, "I'm different from Xingguang Feihuo and the others. I won't kick people. Not usually."

“This behavior creates a disharmonious work environment!”

Tingting couldn't hold it in any longer, and finally burst out laughing happily, then flashed a burst of green light and transformed back into the image of an ordinary Johnson wearing a one-piece suit. "Okay, okay," Xiaoting finally stopped, "Mark, I'm just teasing you. And it feels so good to have the ability to transform again." In order to maximize the effect of her performance, she paused here. , "But lust is indeed a delicious thing...and I really want to eat some empty calories now..."

"By the way, look!" Mark suddenly shouted, "I feel like that place just needs some insulation!" He pointed to somewhere near the ramp leading to the dorsal docking hatch in a hurry.

"You are really good at joking." Dragonfly muttered uninterestedly, "Okay, I'll climb up first, and you can hand me some foam later."

"Is it like this?" Mark asked hesitantly, "Can you... you know... produce glue... in Johnson's body?"

Tingting felt suddenly and inexplicably blush. MD, sometimes there are always some disguises that are as disobedient as a spirit. "Yes," she replied seriously, "but you'd better not look at it. At least not right after lunch."

Mission Log – Solar Day 405

I'm going to make a note here: changelings are really disgusting. Very very disgusting.

Not since we launched from Cape Canaveral have I wanted to get myself drunk so much...