My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 501

ARES 3 solar day 492

Cherry Berry brought a sample box full of water and started to wash her space suit. She soaked her two front hooves in a plastic bucket and splashed the water on it.

The cabin is equipped with an advanced air filtration system that can filter out dust particles, and a comprehensive decontamination shower is available. There is no such configuration on Amicitas, and there is no space or load capacity in the mobile home to carry these two devices. After several days of driving, Mark began to notice that a lot of sand and dust had accumulated in the trailer. He took the trouble to fully publicize the potential hazards of inhaling perchlorate and floating soil to everyone with vivid and detailed descriptions, and worked hard to mobilize everyone to be aware of the dangers of inhaling perchlorate and floating soil. Clean out the dust inside the trailer.

The final solution took advantage of one of the few spacecraft's inexhaustible resources: cold water. Each space suit must be rinsed as thoroughly as possible, avoiding only areas that may be damaged by water. The flushing work is completed in the airlock, so that when the last spacesuit is cleaned, a team member whose spacesuit has dried can be fully dressed, open the outer door of the airlock, and move quickly before the water freezes or evaporates. Drain the water from the floor inside the airlock.

Today it was Berry's turn to do the job, but she was already exhausted at the beginning. The sky of Mars has long returned to its usual pink color, and there is still a huge rock ridge to climb. (According to Mark, this thing is an ancient river bed. Berry couldn't believe it. How could the river bed rise from the ground? When explaining, Mark mentioned tuberculosis, but Berry was not impressed at all. Interested, unless the resulting river can become a royal highway directly leading to the MAV.) Berry just longed for lunch and the rest that lasted for several hours after lunch.

So when she looked inside the open airlock door and saw Spitfire wearing his own space suit and stretching his legs and legs enthusiastically, CherryBerry's already confused mood became slightly more complicated. Irritated, "Fei Huo," she controlled her temper and asked calmly, "What do you want to do?"

"After you finish cleaning, I'll go out for a run," Spitfire said with a big heart, "It's okay, I will flush the airlock when I come back."

"It goes without saying that you are riding on a horse." Cherry Berry said through gritted teeth.

"Berry? Feihuo?" Mark, who was leaning on the second row of flight seats, leaned over, holding his freshly heated food bag in his hand, "What's going on?"

"Mark, we're fine." Berry replied in English with a stiff smile on her face.

"Yes. It's okay. Everything is fine." Feihuo also quickly agreed.

Mark didn't seem to buy their answer, but he shrugged and found a seat to sit down and eat his meal.

Berry clenched her teeth angrily. Since Mark could now understand a lot of pony language, she could only force a smile and try her best to keep her soft and sweet voice and whisper, "Spike, take off your space suit, let's go have lunch."

"What's wrong?" Feihuo was unconvinced, "I've taken all the rest I should have this week. Now I only have a little pain in my head and my joints don't hurt at all. I'm feeling much better. What I need is to exercise more so that I can recover." Physical fitness." She shook her head and added, "By the way, don't talk to me about the recurrence of old diseases. I'm the team doctor. As long as I don't fly around in the sky or tear my space suit or something, I'll start now. Moderate activity is safe."

Berry was so angry that she gritted her teeth even tighter. "What I'm worried about is not the recurrence of your injury." This is of course not the truth. "The problem is that you look at how damaged your space suit is. Tingting repaired it for you to the point where you can wear it for a brief EVA. level, but the patch gets weaker the longer you're out."

"You should be able to withstand half an hour of jogging!" Feihuo didn't bother to lower his voice and started arguing, "If you can't even hold it up, you should ask Tingting to take it for rework!"

"Did anyone call me by name?" The changeling happened to walk out of the living quarters and trotted up to Mark who was sitting having lunch. He switched to English and asked, "Why is it so busy?"

"What do you mean," Mark concluded, "Splitfire wanted to go outside and run a few steps. CherryBerry was reluctant to let Spitfire out because she was worried that the patches on Spitfire's space suit might pop. And neither of them wanted to let her out because of that. This kind of thing makes a quarrel in front of me. At least Berry doesn't want to."

Cherry Berry's face turned red. It seems that just lowering your voice doesn't work. And to put it this way, Mark actually understood more pony language than she thought.

"Please, Commander," Spitfire sighed, "I've been trapped here for more than a week. You have to let me go out for a while, otherwise I will resort to violence."

"Please bear with me for a while longer," Berry scolded, "Look at Ding Ting, he has been in the car for as long as you, and he is still fine now."

"Are you kidding?" Spitfire refused, "Drington has stayed in a cocoon for two months straight. I'm sure she doesn't have claustrophobia."

"Hey," Dragonfly was a little unhappy after hearing this, "I was sleeping during those two months, thank you. Of course I get cabin fever just like any other insect."

"It's only half an hour anyway."

"It's only half an hour," Berry said seriously, "but what if the patch breaks while you're outside? If the leak is serious, you may suffocate in less than a few seconds."

"Then don't let her go out alone," Tingting suggested. "Have someone bring a pack of Mark's emergency patch kits to go out with her. His kind of patches are also on our space suits. It works just as well.”

"Right?" Fei Huo saw the situation and said, "There's no other reason! Come on, Chong Chong, let's go out for a run!"

"Thanks, no," Dragonfly said quickly, "Have you ever heard of the law of conservation of energy? My energy must be conserved anyway. This is the law."

Cherry Berry cleared her throat, "Fireball?" she called loudly, "Can you come over here?"

"Huh?" Fei Huo's facial expression in the helmet was a little distorted, "Why did you ask Fire Ball to come over?"

Fireball heard the sound and walked up to the bridge, chewing a small piece of crystal in his mouth, "What's wrong?"

"Please put on your space suit," Berry asked. "We need backup when flying EVA. She wants to stay outside the spacecraft for a while."

"We all feel the same way." Fireball couldn't help but complain.

"No, it won't happen." Tingting, whose face was full of innocence, immediately distanced herself from the relationship.

Feihuo looked at the fireball, then turned to Berry, his eyes full of desperate pleading. "Commander, I'm begging you, please don't look for the fireball," she almost cried. "He moves even slower than Mark. If I want to stay near him, I can't even go faster than walking!" Can’t you find another horse to accompany me?”

"His space suit is quite complete - it's more complete than ours anyway - and the important thing is, it's still dry." Berry replied, "Other than that, only Starlight Glimmer's space suit is dry. Because she always borrows Tingting’s spacesuit to wear when she goes out to scout the terrain.”

"But Berry..." No matter how experienced and mature the former Wonderbolt captain was, there was still a pitiful cry in his tone.

"Go and exercise," Berry said coldly, holding a few sets of Ares 3's used clothes to dry her hooves, "Don't forget to flush the airlock when you come back."