My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 498

ARES 3 solar day 489

Dragonfly watched quietly as the sojourners walked through the aisles between the rows of flight seats on Amicitas. The little rover crawled at an almost snail's pace. Navigation instructions were sent from her laptop, relayed via the wireless network to the on-board computer of rover No. 2, and then sent to the sojourner's receiver via radio. Guide it forward. Every two minutes, it will pause for a moment, slowly lift the body and take a few stereoscopic pictures with the front camera, and then lean forward to take pictures with its rear color camera.

"Okay, Bugs, put away the robot Bugs first," Spitfire, who was still wearing Starlight Glimmer's space suit, walked out of the habitation module; without the help of the space suit's communication system, Tingting Her muffled words could only be heard through a layer of helmet, "Take this thing off for me. I want to get on the bow."

"Good morning Feihuo," Dragonfly greeted as usual, "How are you feeling today?"

"I'm going crazy with boredom," Pegasus replied. "I just want to get rid of this space suit completely. I want to move my legs and feet and start exercising again. I still need to work hard to get back to my flying state."

"That's right. Then please tell me again with your own symptoms."

"Sigh." Although there wasn't much room for movement in the helmet of the space suit, Spitfire turned away impatiently, "Okay, okay. The headache is still there, the joints still feel like pins and needles, and the newly grown feathers are itching terribly. , and now I can’t even spell three English words. But everything is much better than yesterday.”

"That's right," Tingting agreed. "After all, when you spoke English before, you never said three words in a row fluently."

"Fuck you. (Fuck you.)"

"The two words speak quite smoothly."

"Okay, I wouldn't mind if it was your space suit, but I don't have any underwear now, and I don't want to make a mess inside Starlight's space suit. Would you like to come and help me take this thing off?"

"Okay Spitfire, you can do whatever you want," Dragonfly stood up on her legs and stretched out her front hooves to hold her helmet, "But after you finish messing around on the bow of the ship, you have to get back into space for me. Just lie down immediately after taking the medicine. You still have two days of treatment, and the only prescriptions are hyperbaric pressure, oxygenation, and lying down without moving. Don’t even think about exercising."

"But I feel better already..."

"By the way, how does it feel to swap roles with Starlight Glimmer?" Tingting changed the topic.

After taking off her helmet, Feihuo drooped her ears and looked ashamed. "Okay, I understand what you mean," she said dejectedly, "You are right. I will be obedient."

"This is how you look like a hero."

"Don't forget it," Spitfire muttered angrily as Dragonfly helped to remove the remaining seals of the space suit, "I will probably have to sit in an office for the rest of my flying career, but At least my record is something Rainbow Dash can't beat even if she wants to."

Dragonfly looked at Feihuo's wings. The wings were still in the same dilapidated state. Overnight, several more main flight feathers sprouted. The feather-repairing potion had taken effect, and new feathers were beginning to grow to replace the ones they had to shear when they peeled off the slime-covered space suit from her body, but the recovery rate was much slower than in Equestria. Many of the new feathers, which can only be regarded as barbs, have not even broken through the skin.

Spitfire noticed that Dragonfly was checking her wings, looked straight into the Changeling's eyes and said confidently, "It's worth it." She threw off her spacesuit and strode towards the bow of the ship, her body following their footsteps. The floor beneath me shook a little. It's still early in the day, and the mobile RV is flying across an unusually flat Martian land at top speed.

The dragonfly turned its attention to the sojourner. In a little while, the little detector will be driven back to its corner to rest; there isn't much sunlight coming through the cockpit window to recharge its battery. However, taking the time to learn the instructions for controlling the operation of the small rover gave her such a life-saving straw, allowing her to temporarily divert her mind away from the good feeling she felt in her body. Hunger gradually built up after days of barely touching any magic energy.

This must be her imagination. Two minutes of magic every day is definitely better than twenty minutes of magic every seventeen days. But... despite this, she still felt weaker and hungrier, and felt that she could not control this feeling.

Even though she knew in her heart that they all hoped that she would not hide her difficulties, she did not mention it to everyone. It's just that she feels that saying such words right now is really useless. There are good reasons for such a significant reduction in the duration of the magic field.

每块电池每天会收集到百分之1.4的能量——他们再三核对过充能速率——也就是说合计每天可以补充相当于单块电池容量29.4%的魔能。其中有7.5%用来注满巨型电池弥补它们缓慢流失的能量。按照新版魔能分配方案，每天持续两分钟的魔法场又要消耗掉5.6%。扣除这些用量之后，每天就只剩16%多一点的能量可以用来填补他们为了击败NASA称为大黑斑的尘暴所消耗掉的十一块电池储能了。

According to statistics at noon on solar day 483, they had ten full batteries and eleven empty batteries. As of tonight, assuming no further emergencies, they will have the equivalent of eleven full batteries and ten empty batteries. Based on Mark's estimated itinerary, they might be able to recharge four more batteries before reaching Schiaparelli. After arriving at their destination, they will consume more energy by modifying the MAV - no one can say exactly how much energy will be used. And at the end of the journey - including charging the giant battery, modifications to the MAV, daily magic fields, and more emergencies that may arise - they must have at least seven full batteries to reach Minimum requirements for supporting equipment of Shining Engine.

All in all: recharging the batteries and leaving enough room to deal with future emergencies has become their undoubted top priority at the moment - even if the cost is to push them to the edge of starvation again when their magic energy is exhausted.

The fight with the big black spot really made Feihuo suffer a lot - but after all, at least she had the last laugh and scored a beautiful revenge. However, its indirect impact also caused Ting Ting to complain endlessly. Now that the dust storm is gone, she doesn't even have a chance to fight back. Not to mention that Starlight has now borrowed her space suit, taking over her duty of exploring the path outside the car with Cherry Berry. With countless time to chew on this idea, her unhappiness continues in her mind. Fermentation.

Spitfire finally returned from the bow of the ship. "Okay," she said bluntly, "stuff me back into the flour sack."

"Rarity will be furious if she hears you say that." Ding Ting said casually.

"Really?" Feihuo became more excited, "Oh, did this place suddenly change from Mars to Horse Town when I went to the bathroom or something? It really confused me!"

"Sure enough, you're recovering well," Dragonfly muttered as she helped Spitfire get back into the temporarily borrowed spacesuit. "Yin Yang requires a lot of energy. What do you want to eat for breakfast?" In order to give Spitfire more motivation to eat it completely After a meal, Mark rummaged through and found the remaining few packs of precious vegan food packs that were originally reserved for use in the scenario of driving the MAV directly to the earth, and laid them out as a means of encouragement to her.