AMICITAS FLIGHT THREE – MISSION DAY 528
ARES III SOL 518
TRANSCRIPT – VIDEO TRANSMISSION FROM ARES IV MAV, BEGINNING 13:22 HOURS (ARES III CLOCK)
FIREBALL: Hermes, MAV, standing by for press event. Over.
BETH JOHANSSEN: MAV, Hermes. Hello, Fireball. What are you eating?
FIREBALL: It was a potato. With bits of quartz stuffed in. Thought it might taste better. It didn’t. Let’s go. Over.
JOHANSSEN: Okay. First question: “How are you getting along with your crewmates?”
FIREBALL: All right. Not fried, cooked, eaten any yet.
DRAGONFLY: I taste better slow-roasted!
FIREBALL: Though there’s STILL TIME! Rrgh. Bug aside, we’re okay. Looking forward to going home and being by myself, though.
JOHANSSEN: Next question: “What was the most inconvenient thing about spending so much time in such close proximity with others?”
FIREBALL: Being everybody’s cuddle mattress. It gets chilly in the ship at night, even with life support. Everybody piles on me for body heat, ‘cause dragons are hot. Not fun being on bottom. Nobody likes couple hundred kilos on top of them when they try to sleep. But better than freezing, so I don’t complain.
JOHANSSEN: “Dragons are big and powerful. Are you using that to help get off the planet?”
FIREBALL: Dragons are strong. But right now dragon claws- and dragon thumbs- more important. I use wrenches and move things easier than ponies and bug. Do so well, we more than half done with MAV mods. Then, I inspect suits, help Dragonfly make ready for launch. I do my job.
JOHANSSEN: You’re well ahead of schedule. That’s great. Next question: “I heard that dragons collect hoard. Is it true for you? And what's the thing of your hoard that you missed the most if you do?”
FIREBALL: I have hoard. A small one. Dragonlord back home is watching it. But nothing there as good as what I bring back from this trip. Some things you can’t count in bits of gold or jewels.
JOHANSSEN: Aww- er, okay. Next: “Can you tell us your most memorable space experience except this one of course?”
FIREBALL: Oh, YES. My very first flight. Flew straight into mountain. Spent month in full body cast eating through a straw. Flying into mountain VERY memorable.
JOHANSSEN: You crashed a rocket and lived? And you went back up? That’s amazing!
FIREBALL: Yeah. Amazing. I can’t believe I was that dumb. Coin flip chance I crash on each launch. This time when I get home, they can find some other dragon to put in a can!
JOHANSSEN: Er… um… moving on. “We know you want to try driving a car. Do you have any ideas as to what kind of cars you'd like to try?”
FIREBALL: Not a cop car. They crash too easy. I think I want to try a car that doesn’t have a trailer. Also, one that doesn’t jump broken bridges. I fly with my own wings only from now on.
JOHANSSEN: “What changes would you make to your spacesuit design to make them better prepared for the vigors of frequent and extended planetary EVA?”
FIREBALL: They work pretty good. Yeah, we patch them-
DRAGONFLY: What do you mean we? I don’t see you throwing up for science!
FIREBALL: Did it become tomorrow when I not look? Get! Pushy bug. What I say… yeah. We patch them a lot to get this far, but they plenty tough to last like this. Never meant to go so long. But bathroom thing still needs work.
JOHANSSEN: Agreed. Next: “Do gemstones have flavour to a dragon? Can you describe them in terms of equivalent taste to other foodstuffs?”
FIREBALL: Hard to say. More color is usually sweeter. Darker is spicier. Clear is blah. Eat diamonds like eat ice, except not cold, not wet. So, not much like ice at all. Really hard to say.
JOHANSSEN: “Would you become a gem expert?”
FIREBALL: Why? Life too short to spend it as store clerk. –OH, wait. I forget, gems worth lots of money on Earth. No, no need for Earth-like gem expert at home. Which is where I’m going.
JOHANSSEN: Last question: “Would you be interested in a movie career? Hollywood would love to put dragons in films without expensive special effects.”
FIREBALL: No. Nose too big for films. But I’d like to see some fake dragons in films sometime. I could use a laugh. We done now?
JOHANSSEN: That’s all, Fireball. Dragonfly’s interview is tomorrow, the last one.
FIREBALL: Good. Stay tuned. Bug don’t know it, but payback is coming.
DRAGONFLY: Fireball, I’m still right over here.
FIREBALL: Payback coming anyway! MAV out.
We ever need a backup Element of Honesty, we got one right here. Just sayin'
Between the bluntness and the completely honest bit about what he comes back with being more valuable than his hoard, he's going to have some new favorites back home.
You can tell he spends a lot of time with AJ...
*Hopefully gets a Dragonfly love confession tomorrow*
Somebody enjoyed episode 20.
I could probably go back and look in up, but when is launch day?
Furries around the world: *nods sagely*
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you.
Tomorrow, you’re only a day away.
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The best line in the show: IN A FULL BODY WING-AND-HOOF CAST, DRINKING THROUGH A STRAW!!!
My question is, why didn't Spitfire get to say it?
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I believe it would be around sol 550-560 last I checked the dusty archives in my brain
9199948
I was immensely disappointed when the episode did not end with Lightning Dust in a full body cast drinking through a straw.
Epic missed joke.
9199900
I have the utmost respect for Kris. Any mention of him not liking the story and I'd pull it down. I'm hoping it brings more fans to this great work!
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Thanks, It's hard to believe how close to the end this story is getting!
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sol 551 when they launch
Can we please get Dragonfly's reaction to the trending hashtag online of #hugabug?
Honestly short and sweet works really well for him. Also found it funny that he actually did better with the language than Spitfire. He was smart about it, stuck to smaller words
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Eh, rats are better. XD
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Wow, never thought I would ever hear that beautiful song being echoed through the halls of FiMFiction. Beautiful.
Oh, cool. I get to voice my two favorite characters to voice tomorrow... if I have enough time home alone tomorrow. Whether Saturday or Sunday, I'm looking forward to it.
Awesome!
I'm so stoked for 551 and to see what happens!
Will they have to use the sparkle Drive get ported to other realities?
Will everything go, roughly, as it did in the book?
Will Mars suddenly have a volcano erupt shaved ice and Discord slides down it?
Gah!
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And then the centaurs attacked.
I appreciate this reference.
That is all.
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I've been making recordings where I voice act as all of the characters for each chapter for the past couple of weeks now. My favorite voices to do are Fireball (whom I've made entirely my own, I love doing his voice, even if it grates on my throat) and Dragonfly (I pitch my voice up about 25%, duplicate it, and to the copied track I lower its volume and lower its pitch by one semitone).
There are links scattered throughout the past few chapters, and I have all of the files on my computer, too. After this story concludes, I think I'll put them on YouTube.
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*whispers* "What's a hashtag? I hope it doesn't have anything to do with potatoes."
I wonder if she still has her buggy buzzy accent. But that's obviously a silly question to submit.
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And or, thanks to her latest crowd-hamming antics, #KissABug?
Really, encouraging us was a terrible mistake even as a joke.
Hmm, I wonder if Fireball would like Draxx, since both are pretty blunt and literal.
Liked this interview, kinda sweet in his own way.
i wonder when he sees the fake CGI dragons it is something like half of them is like blackface to him
Any one bother reading that smut fic some guy put out based on this?
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*shrugs*
Might. Might not.
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Element of brutal honesty maybe.
Eagerly awaiting for the day Fireball tries to get her driving license in Earth. I bet the examiner (if survives) quits the job and joins a cloistered convent.
Sorry about the sleep; I hope that the next night is better.
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uhh.. "her"?
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Yak smash human of cultural appropriation! (bad joke in my head)
Because of course it is.
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A well, as we all know, patience is her greatest virtue.
Especially when it comes to topics that are important to her. Like explaining and apologizing for her actions.
She might want to wait another day, and maybe conference with Chrysalis and/or Twilight first and first to make sure she gets it just right.
Meanwhile, Hermes drew closer.
Fireball is best dragon for this mission.
Gotta steam vaporizer? Sometimes it feels good to open a dishwasher mid cycle and catch that heady cloud of steam in the face.
The camera survived the Interview With A Dragon?
Mustve been a GoPro.
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*airplane noises*
9200389 That's rich coming from Miss 'Let's make the most reckless pony in the cadet group a wing leader, ignoring the way she disregards other ponies' safety, and then when she bucks up in a way that can't be covered up, can her completely to disguise the fact that rather than monitoring the situation, you were in your office, putting hoof prints on publicity photos.'
Indeed her appearances in the show have been pretty much a series of buck ups. Anyone knows, if you must approach a drowning person in the water to rescue them, do it from behind to prevent them from grabbing onto you or injuring you as they flail about. How hard is it to apply this to a falling unicorn, when you're3 supposedly a prefessional flyer?
Or chilling on the sidelines, letting a mission critical water delivery fail for the lack of a single pony's wingpower.
For that matter, throwing a team mate under the bus to both acquire a better flyer, and ensure the competing team she's on no longer has a chance to beat you. Great loyalty and teamwork there.
As you can tell, I'm not Spitfire's biggest fan.
You know when you try and ignore a popular thing and it keeps popping up no matter how hard you try? Yeah, guess I'm gonna be reading this nearly half a million monster now.
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Edit: You did this in a year? Like, every day of the year? You lucky asshole! Where do you find the time??
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eh, we're entering *that* era now? When grandma's wisdom is forgotten and people try to use modern appliances in silly ways to emulate it?
A big pot of water. Bring it to a boil. Preferably add good herbs - salvia, chamomile. etc. Take it off the stove, put on a table. Get a big towel, lean over the pot, put the towel over the pot and your head. Inhale the steam and the herbal vapors for a couple minutes.
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Some dragons are going to think Mars drove him insane. More valuable than hoard? What a heresy!
I hear big strong Russian man try speak English.
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I just imagine a Scottish man in kilt with a big sword.
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You know this is just like a big red button. I know for a fact it won't be good if I read it, but now I have to!
Also what's the title (asking for a friend)
I recorded Fireball's interview early this morning. My throat is shot and I think I'm coughing up skin cells from the irritation, but I enjoy this too much to stop. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/450571904462618624/495695913763995648/Sol_518_Fireball_video.mp3
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>Clopficsinthecomments
>"some guy"
Let's be honest here... if anyone was going to write an AU smut story for this, we'd want it to be Clopfics. Dude's something of a legend, and not just "some guy"... he'll do it justice, don't you worry
Snrk, Cuddlebug interviewbombing.
Fireball is correct, just because they know retaliation is eminent, doesn't mean it won't happen...
9200498 Time is never found. It has to be made.
It's interesting how Dragonball has less vocabulary than Spitfire but he manages to be very fluent in it nonetheless.
Too much Dukes of Hazzard, there
Ha. Never change, Fireball. Never change