It was the middle of the night, around 8:00 PM, it was dark. Mister Psyche Illution, one of my best friends, but my least favorite of best friends, was at a Canterlot observatory, talking to Princess Luna.
"Thank you, Princess Luna!" Psyche started. "This place would work perfectly for my studies!"
"Thou welcome, Psyche!" Luna said. "A friend of Flare's is a friend of mine! Feel free to use it as much as you want!"
"Thanks, Princess!" Psyche said. “I really appreciate this. This is more of an opportunity to me than the time I went to that club full of supermodels.”
A cutaway shows Psyche walking into a club for a beautiful pony supermodels. A mare walks up to Psyche and says, “Hey big boy!”
“Hello, beautiful!” Psyche said as he was walking towards her.
“I’m open for you taking a picture with me while I-“ the model said but gets cut off after Psyche walks passed her and towards the Complimentary Breakfast Buffet.
“Oh snap, baby! You’re lookin good!” Psyche said to the buffet. The cutaway ends.
"So do thou need anything, Psyche Illution?” Luan asked.
"Nah, I'm good." Psyche said.
"Good night, loyal subject!" Luna said as she flies out of the observatory.
"Okay! This is great!" Psyche said to himself. "A whole observatory all to myself! I never thought I'd see the day. I have my books, my research, and of course the replica of the solar system for safe keepings.” Psyche takes out his solar system model and places it next to the big telescope with his stuff. “My research is going to make me famous! Now let's see what we can see in the sky. Hmm.... that's weird. Why is the sky red? And I see a big line....." Psyche looks at the other end of the telescope and sees me sitting on the other end. "FLARE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"Oh hi! Lion face." I said
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE?!" he yelled.
"I was going around Canterlot, finding a location to expand my shop, and then I happened to notice that Princess Luna let you borrow the observatory! Am I right?" I asked.
"Yes. But I'm trying to use this observatory for a reason." Psyche said.
"Enjoying the view of the full moon? LAWL!" I teased.
"Get down." He demanded. I jumped off the telescope and walked over to Psyche. I then went through his sattlebag and took out Spike.
"I bought Spike along too!" I said.
"Hi!" Spike said.
"Why?" Psyche asked.
"Because he wanted to." I said.
"I couldn't breathe in there." Spike said.
"No, I mean why are you here?" Psyche asked.
"I wanted to come visit my old pal Psyche!" I said as I placed my arm around him.
"That’s very nice of you, really.” Psyche said as he removed my hoof from him. “But I need to continue my research.”
"Sorry brah." I said. "So what are you studying?"
"I came here to study the planets." Psyche said, looking through the telescope and taking notes. "I heard they are forming a line for something, for some reason. I'm trying to find out what it is."
"Oh really?" I asked.
"Yes, really." Psyche said.
"What did you find out so far?" I asked.
"So far, nothing. I just got here." Psyche said.
"So did I! And I sure noticed something." I said.
"What?" Psyche asked.
"That you saw a big red full moon earlier! HA!” I chuckled.
"You said that joke already." Psyche said.
“Problem?” I asked.
"Well, the same joke won't be able to be funny twice." Psyche said.
"It can. It's all about timing, brah!" I said.
"Well it's TIME for me to work." Psyche said.
"Go ahead! Nopony's stopping you!" I said as I popped up in front of Psyche.
"That means I have to concentrate." Psyche said.
"Of course!" I said as I got closer to Psyche's face with a creepy smile.
"That means you have to get outta my face." Psyche added.
"But I'm not in your face. I'm close to your face.” I corrected him.
"Look dude, seriously. I have work to do." Psyche said.
"How about taking a break?" I asked.
"I just got here!" Psyche said.
"Your point?" I asked.
"That was my point." Psyche said. "Look, how about you go.... give this scroll to Princess Luna for me?" he reaches inside his satchel to get a scroll out and he gives it to me.
"Sure, but did I need to tell you something first.” I said.
“What is it?” Psyche asked.
“You know how astronomers say that other planets are uninhabitable?” I asked.
“Yeah, why?” Psyche asked.
“Ok, the death total on Mercury: 0. The death total on Venus: 0. The death total on Earth: over a billion. Death total on Mars: 0. Death total on Jupitor-“ I explained.
“Ok I get it.” Psyche interrupted me.
“Even the sun is safer than Earth! Who’s the uninhabitable planet now? Huh?” I asked.
“Just deliever the scroll, please.” Psyche asked.
"Huh? Oh I did that already.” I said.
“Really?” Psyche asked.
“Really really!” I nodded.
“I know; I can’t believe it either.” Spike said.
"How can you be done?” Psyche asked.
"Uhh… is that a rhetorical question?” I asked.
Psyche gave himself a facehoof and said. "Okay. How about this? Go to the....."
"ON IT!" I yelled.
"No, no, listen to me." Psyche stopped me. "I want you to....."
"RIGHT AWAY!" I yelled.
"LISTEN TO ME!" Psyche yelled.
"Kay." I said.
"I.... want you.... to go to the...." Psyche started.
"YES SIR!" I yelled.
Psyche then started to steam. "GO-TO-THE-BACK-ROOM-AND-FIND-ME-A-MAP-OF-NEPTONIA!" he said really fast.
"Neptonia? What's that?" I asked.
"A planet beyond our solar system." Psyche said. "Can you get that for me, buddy?" I didn't say anything. I just stared at him with a blank expression on my face. "You can respond now."
"CAPIEESH!" I yelled, and then I ran into the back room to look for the map.
"Ha!" Psyche said to himself. "That'll keep him busy for a while. That planet doesn't exist." Psyche looks through the telescope again and takes notes on what he sees, but then Spike came up to him.
"Uh, Psyche?" he said.
Psyche sighed, then turned to Spike. "What is it Spike?" he asked.
"I'm hungry." Spike said.
"There are snacks in the fridge over there by the break area." Psyche pointed.
"Thank you!" Spike said as he walks over to the fridge, opens it, and looks through it. "Psyche, do you have any gems?"
"No." Psyche said.
"Well that's what I'm in the mood for." Spike said.
"Well I'm sorry." Psyche said in a grumpy tone.
"Do you have any lava juice?" Spike asked.
"No." Psyche said.
"How about mashed rocks?" Spike asked.
"No." Psyche said.
"Unmashed rocks?"
"No."
"Prehistoric bones?"
"No."
"Mine ore?"
"No!" Psyche said a little louder.
"Ice cubes?"
"Actually, yes. There are ice cubes in the ice tray in the freezer." Psyche said as Spike walks back to the fridge and opens the freezer and sees the tray of ice cubes. He eats them all in one bite. You know ice cubes are bad for your teeth? I mean, I’m not sure if that rule applies for a dragon but it sure does on a pony…. And a human being like you. Unless you’re a dog on the internet.
"Got any more?" Spike asked.
"No, you ate them all." Psyche said.
"What else do you have that's cold and hard?" Spike asked.
"HA!” I laughed from the back room.
"There are chocolate bars in the fridge. You can have ONE. Don't eat them all." Psyche instructed him, but Spike was already eating all the chocolate bars.
"I'm sorry, what?" Spike asked with his mouth full. Psyche gave out a loud groan and slammed his head on his desk, but he continued with his studies.
"Wow!" Psyche said to himself. "The moon looks great tonight! The universe is fantastic! You know, I wish there was some way for me to go up to the moon, just once, just try it."
“Hey Psyche?” I asked.
"What is it now?" Psyche asked.
"I found Neptonia!" I said as I held up a book and a map.
"What? But.... that's not a real....” Psyche decided not to say it because he just can’t win with me. That’s my super power, you know? I’m really good at winning arguments! “Thank you, Flare."
"No problemo brah!" I said with a smile. "Anything else you need help with?"
"How about keepin it quiet so I can work?" Psyche asked.
"Alright! I know I could've done it earlier if you asked! Winky face." I teased him. Psyche huffed out a loud sigh. "Hey you said something about going to the moon right?"
"Yeah I wish I could go to the moon." Psyche said. "Too bad I don’t have a rocket.”
“Can’t you just ask Celestia to take you? It’s not much to ask for. She did it before on her sister.” I suggested.
“WITH the Elements of Harmony though.” Spike added.
"Yeah whatever." I said.
"You think she knows a spell for that?” Spike asked.
“Besides, what makes you think she’ll do it?” Psyche asked.
"How about me? I know magic! Teleporting powers go!" I yelled out as I tried to activate my horn, but it wouldn't even spark. "Oh that's right, I don't know that spell. Maybe I'll go talk to Twilight."
"No don't bother. I don't think even her magic is strong enough to travel to the moon, dude." Psyche informed me.
"So if you want to travel to the moon so much, why not BUILD a rocket or something?" I asked.
"Flare, I don’t think- Wait a minute." Psyche thought to himself for a moment. It’s too bad I don’t know what he’s thinking about, otherwise I’d type it down. "That's actually not a bad idea, oh but wait, do we have the necessary parts for it?”
"Took you that long to figure it out?" I asked.
“Doesn’t Mareami have a Lunar Space Center? Why not I just go to Mareami?” Psyche asked.
I was actually quite surprised when he said that. “NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!”
“Why not?” Psyche asked.
“You… you forgot 6 more ‘why nots’ because I said ‘no’ 7 times.” I pointed out.
“Why don’t we go to Mareami then?” Psyche asked.
“Not ready to return home yet!” I said with a frightening tone.
“Who said you were going?” Psyche asked.
“Trust me, I believe it’s a bad idea for you to go there too, not at this time.” I said.
“Ok fine, whatever. We’ll try to build one, but how can we do that?” Psyche asked.
“Leave that to me… to call Engie for assistance, and then leave it to him!” I said.
“If you say so, man.” Psyche said.
“Oh boy, this is going to be more fun than seeing Crystal hosting a cooking show!” I said excitedly.
A cutaway shows Cooking Time with Crystal, with our host: Crystal Iceblast! The audience cheers for her as she stands behind a counter on the kitchen stage. “Hello, and welcome to Cooking Time with Crystal! My name is Crystal Iceblast, and today I’m going to show you how to make any type of food taste good. Right here, we have bowl full of steamed broccoli, every child’s worst enemy, but I have a way to make this broccoli taste good. Everypony say ‘how Crystal’!”
“How Crystal?!” the audience cried out as Crystal places her hoof on her ear, listening to the crowd.
“It’s simple! All you have to do is go into your spice cabinet.” Crystal started as she walked towards the spice cabinet and opened it. “Open it up, take out the salt shaker, walk back to the broccoli, and just add some salt inside.” Crystal did so. “After you’re finished shaking some salt in, you have to do one other thing; everypony say, ‘what other thing’!”
“What other thing?!” the audience cried out as Crystal places her hoof on her ear, listening to the crowd.
“I’m so very glad you asked! The answer is quite simple – MORE SALT!” Crystal said as she keeps shaking the salt on the broccoli. “And more salt, and more salt, AND MORE SALT!” Crystal yelled in a maniac tone. “Just keep shaking until you’re satisfied! I guarantee, it’ll taste delicious! Just don’t shake until a lethal dose! Anyways, that was Cooking Time with Crystal! Everypony have a great night!” the audience started cheering.
The logo pops up on Crystal’s face and the TV announcer said, “That was Cooking Time with Crystal!”
“Hey, get this logo out of my face! I can’t breathe!” Crystal yelled and started choking. She kept choking until she fainted and collapsed on the ground with the logo falling behind her. The cutaway ends.
So I called up the members of the Noble Six and we waited for them to show up. It took a couple of hours because they were all still in Ponyville. Hey did you know that Ponyville’s original name was going to be Fillydelphia but they scratched it and it became only a mentionable town? It’s true! Look it up! I’d give you the link, but I’m too lazy to, so look it up yourself. When Engie, Crystal, Blaze, and Aqua finally showed up, we discussed the plan with them, and luckily for us, Engie already had some blueprints made.
"So what do you want us to do partner?" Engie asked.
"BUIIIIIIIIILD UHHHH ROOOOOOCK-IIIIIIIIT!" I yelled.
“YEAH-YUH!” Engie yelled back.
"What's the rocket for?" Crystal asked.
"We're going to the moon! Psyche and I!" I said as I placed my hoof around him.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who said 'we' were going?" Psyche asked as he removed my hoof from behind him.
"I did." I said.
"Thanks, but no thanks." Psyche said. "I'd rather go on this trip on my own."
"But dude, I thought we were gonna be moon buddies?" I asked.
"Sorry, but you'll just get in the way." Psyche said.
“Wow, rude. You didn’t even say ‘no offense’ to Crystal.” I pointed out.
“Yeah, rude!” Crystal agreed.
“She wasn’t even talking.” Psyche said.
“It’s not just me right? Would you allow them to come along too?” I asked.
“No I wouldn’t.” Psyche admitted.
“It’s fine.” Aqua said. “I’m afraid of heights and I have a peanut allergy anyway.”
“Here, Aqua, have a Snickers.” Engie offered.
“Why?” Aqua asked.
“Ya get a little negative when you’re hungry.” Engie said as he gave Aqua the Snickers. “Better?”
“Noph.” Aqua said with a swollen up face.
"Kay, I see that you don’t want us to come over." I said to Psyche. "Then I guess you'll have no trouble building this entire ship by yourself, do you?"
"What, you're not gonna help me?" Psyche asked.
"You said, we’ll just get in the way. So, we’ll just go." I said.
Psyche gave himself a facehoof. "Okay, okay" he said. "You can join me in my moon trip."
"Happy face!" I cried out. "Alright, we’re gonna go to the moon! I just hope we don’t get lost on it. You know, just in case, I’m gonna bring Wooden Toaster and Living Tombstone with us. Anyways, you guys in?" I asked the others.
"No thanks, dude." Engie said. “Ah’m gonna be spendin’ the day tomorrow with mah mom.” A cutaway shows Engie sitting on a couch and watching cartoons with his robotic mom. “Wanna get somethin’ to eat?” he asked.
“I do not have a digestive system, nor do I have the logical urges to eat. It will melt my circuits and I will probably die.” Engie’s mom said.
“Wanna go swimmin’?” Engie asked.
“Electronics such as myself will not survive in water, especially if it’s chlorine. 8 out of 10 of electronics get destroyed by water every year and I will not go through that risk… honey-bunch.” Engie’s mom said.
“Wanna go see a movie?” Engie asked.
“Electronics do not have urges nor the emotion of entertainment, and they request electronics to be shut off during the movie anyway, and by the way, we are watching a movie right now. It saves us 80% of money towards electricity than buying an overpriced ticket along with overpriced popcorn.” Engie’s mom explained.
“Can we just sit here?” Engie asked.
“That is not logically possible, counting that I do not have legs, I have wheels, I cannot sit down.” Engie’s mom said.
“Then what do ya wanna do?” Engie asked.
“I have three choices in my system that can be possible. According to my research, number 1: mothers like to show the child’s friends embarrassing baby pictures of him / her. Number 2: They take their children to the mall for a long boring shopping day of buying clothes and houseware, and sometimes finding other moms at the mall and have a 3 hour conversation with them, and finally, number 3: they try to find a satisfying enough future spouce with a lot of money to support the in-law after retirement and is the same race as them.” Engie’s mom explained.
“Mom, why did ah build you?” Engie asked.
“Technically speaking since I am your mother, I… along with my husband, how you say… built you.” Engie’s mom said. The cutaway ends.
So the six of us started building the rocket piece by piece, and I gotta say…. This is super boring and super hard. Engineer started ogg by building a Dispenser that's full of parts. Psyche was putting parts in place while Blaze welds the parts in place with his fire breath, since he’s draconian and all. Aqua and Crystal were testing out the thrusters that go on the bottom. Aqua tells Crystal to go test the thrusters. So Crystal turns on the thrusters, but unaware that Aqua was still behind the thrusters and got hit by the flames, and he turned all black and crispy as he burnt up. Aqua glares at Crystal, and Crystal was wee bit embarrassed. I was using my magic to give Blaze and Psyche some pieces, but I wanted to be goofy and place a part over Blaze's head, so I released the piece from my grasp and it landed on Blaze's head, which bumped his head. Blaze got mad, bursted into flames and started chasing me around. Psyche gave himself a facehoof but at the same time he was entertained. Crystal, Psyche, and Aqua placed the thrusters under the rocket.
Engie and Crystal gave eachother mischievous looks, and started spraying logos and stuff all over the rocket. Psyche got angry and banged his head on the rocket after they did so. I offered Psyche a glass of lemonade because he seemed like he needed to cool off. Psyche smiled and drank it, but then he spit it out. I started laughing, and pointed to Blaze who was making a BBQ on a grill, and there was yellow grease that matches the ‘lemonade’ I gave him. There was a different way I wanted to provide this prank, but it seemed a little gross and too overkill so I decided to not go with it. See? See? I’m improving, aren’t I? Eventually, it was dawn of the day and WE were all standing outside looking at the freshly build rocket.
"She's a beauty all right! And she's mah beauty!" Engie said.
"Nope it's Psyche's beauty." Aqua said. "Well done Psyche! Ya did good! Ya did real good!"
"Hey I'm just glad you guys helped. Thanks." Psyche said. "So who wants to go to the moon with me? I know Aquatic and Engineer's out. Crystal?"
"Yeah I just remembered, my coltfriend wanted me to run some errands while I was in Canterlot. Sorry dude." Crystal said.
"Blaze?" Psyche asked.
"As much as I'd love to go, I can't." Blaze said. "The Wonderbolts are performing at the ground opening ceremony of the new stadium in Baltimare, and Spitfire really wants me to practice for it."
"So it's just you and me, buddy ol pal! Smiley face." I said as I placed my hoof around his neck again.
"Hurrah." Psyche said sarcastically.
"So who's gonna be ground control?" I asked.
"I guess we have time to do it." Blaze said. "Crystal? Engie?"
"Yeah, I'm down." Aqua said.
"Me too." Crystal said.
Engineer's helmet started floating a foot over his head. "Nope." he said as his neck stretched out to reach the helmet.
“How is that physically possible?” Aqua asked. And so, Psyche and I went to the closet of the observatory and found a couple of space suits. Psyche easily was able to fit in his, since he’s so short and skinny, but since I’m a big guy, it was difficult for me.
"This suit is too tight." I complained. "I want larger size."
"Too bad, it's all we got, buddy.” Psyche said.
"It's a good thing there's enough food in the fish feeder to keep the fish healthy for at least a week." I said. "How long were we gonna be on this trip again?"
“I don’t know; as long as it takes.” Psyche said.
“Do we have enough intergalactic laxatives with us?” I asked.
“Enough what now?” Psyche asked.
“Donovan sings a song about astronauts needing to use the lavatory inside their-“ I started but Psyche interrupted me.
“Ok, I really don’t wanna know about what Donovan says, alright?” Psyche asked with a disgusted tone. “The only thing I wanna know is… I dunno, let’s get on the rocket already.”
“What kind of thing you wanna know is that?” I asked. “Oh wait, before we get on the ship. We should hold onto our helmets on our arms and walk very slowly outside before we go on the rocket as heroic music appears in the background.”
“Uhh…” Psyche thought.
“It’ll be cool!” I added.
“Well… I do like cool stuff. Alright, let’s do it.” Psyche said.
“No time, the rocket is already preparin’ for launch. Head inside, heros!” Engie instructed us.
As Psyche and I started walking over to the rocket, I asked him, “How is flying up into space makes us heroes? Are we fighting alien life or something?”
“To be honest, that’s pretty much the only astronomy question I don’t know about. I think it has something to do with surviving the atmosphere.” Psyche said.
“Survive… wait survive? You mean there’s a risk?!” I cried out.
“Oh yes.” Psyche nodded. “The engines could fail while in the sky and then we’d be freefalling and fall to our death’s, but that’s not all, the rocket could blow up. Who knows what’ll happen?”
“Uhh… ok I’m scared now. I wanna get off.” I said.
“Sorry buddy, you’re already sitting down.” Psyche pointed out.
I looked down and I saw myself already strapped into the chair inside the rocket. “OH FOR WIZARD OF HOPE’S SAKE!” I yelled.
Psyche sighs and then talks through his radio. “Ground control, this is Psyche. We’re ready for take off.” he said.
“And we’re ready for nachos! Lion face.” I teased.
“Roger that Rocket 1, you are clear for take off.” Blaze said at ground control.
“Rocket 1? It’s the only rocket here.” Crystal pointed out.
“T-Minis 10, 9, 8….” Blaze started the countdown.
“45, 67, 99, 82….” Crystal teased, trying to confuse him.
“5, 66, 98…. STOP IT CRYSTAL!” Blaze yelled at her.
“HA SNAP!” Crystal laughed.
"3... 2... 1.... LIFT OFF!" Blaze said as the rocket engines activates and the rocket starts launching into the air.
"We have lift off!" Aqua cried out in excitement.
"Wait. Weren't they suppose to be prepared before being launched in a rocket into space?" Engie asked.
"How's that?" Aqua asked.
"Like getting used to non-gravity, and being trained for space.” Engie pointed out.
"I guess they couldn't wait." Aqua said.
“Seems awfully dangerous though.” Engie said.
“Now, now Aqua, they’ll be fine. At least Flare had his practice with no gravity.” Crystal said.
A cutaway shows the previous chapter of this book when Psyche made his birthday wish. “Uh oh, I only got 5 seconds!” Psyche runs out of the room and he comes back with a hammer and some nails and then he hammers the nails on a chair in the room and then he sits on it, holding onto the sides, and then suddenly, everypony in the room, including most of the objects immediately ‘fall’ onto the ceiling. “HA! No gravity!” he said mischievously. The cutaway ends.
Inside the rocket, Psyche and I were screaming while we were pushed into space. Our manes were blowing behind our heads, and our lips and eyelids were tingling back. Several times, Psyche kept using his inhaler because he kept having asthma attacks while we were being launched into outer space. "Why did you talk me into doing this?!" I yelled with a shaky voice.
"I didn't, you got yourself into this!” Psyche yelled with a shaky voice.
"No you!" I yelled.
"No you!" Psyche yelled.
"No you!" I yelled.
"No you!" Psyche yelled. We kept saying 'no you' to eachother until the rocket left the Earth's atmosphere, and then we started floating, but our seat belts were still holding us down.
"No you infinity!" I yelled.
"No you infinity plus one, HA!" Psyche yelled.
"Lawl, that is so lame! Plus one? That all you can do?" I asked. "Pathetic! No you, infinity plus infinity! You can't beat that!"
"Technically, there's nothing beyond infinity." Psyche corrected me.
"Except 'beyond'.” I said.
"That doesn't make sense." Psyche said.
"Neither does your face." I said. "And quit floating on your chair, it's getting creepy."
"I'll stop, if you stop." Psyche said.
"I'm not floating!" I corrected him, but then I looked down and saw my bum was not on my seat. "I stand corrected. I don't know how it's happening. You're the pegasus here."
"You're the unicorn here." Psyche pointed out as he starts taking his seatbelt off. "As far as I'm concerned, maybe you're using your magic."
"I'm not using my magic right now. If I were, my horn would glow." I corrected him. "And don't take off your seat belt, you'll get hurt. Or worse… you’ll get a ticket!”
"I'll be fine. There isn't much gravity here anyway." Psyche corrected me.
"Luna did say something about not much gravy in space when she used to be stuck in the moon." I said. "Sounds awful! What will we do without gravy?"
"It's not gravy you twit, it's gravity." Psyche corrected me as he unbuckles his seat belt, and starts flying. "Wow! I guess I don't need wings to fly while we're in space." I started inhaling real deep and Psyche started to get a bit aggervated on what I was gonna do next. "DON'T DO IT, FLARE!"
I then yelled out, "SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!" Psyche covers his ears as I yell that. "I've always wanted to say that! Happy face!"
"I've always not wanted to hear you say that." Psyche said. “Now c’mon, Flare, unbuckle and join the fun!”
“I don’t want us to get pulled over by the space cops for this.” I said.
“Flare, there’s no such thing as space cops.” Psyche corrected me.
“If you unbuckle in space, they’re gonna pull us over and give us a ticket.” I said.
“No they won’t.” Psyche said.
“You don’t know that; this is your first time in space. Not even I know, but I don’t want to take that risk.” I said.
“Flare, it’s ok. If there’s ever a ‘space cop’ around, I’ll buy you lunch all next week.” Psyche offered.
“Hey seriously? Like seriously actually? All next week?” I asked.
“I guarantee it. Now unbuckle.” Psyche demanded.
“For the lunch, ok!” I said as I buckled my seat belt and started flying. "Wow! It's as if I'm an alicorn now! Except I don't have wings. I'm a flying unicorn! Pretty leet, huh?"
"Mmhmm." Psyche nodded in agreement.
Just then my stomach starts growling. "Wow, that normally doesn’t happen." I said. “Normally I fill up my belly before it’s able to do that. Good thing I bought a bag of potato chips." I then took out a bag of potato chips and opened them.
"WAIT! Don't open them!" Psyche cried, but it was too late. The potato chips started floating in the air.
"Whoa! Epic!" I cried out. "Check it out dude! The chips are flying!”
"No, really?" Psyche asked sarcastically.
“It looks so beautiful, man! I never thought I’d see chips fly. I’m putting this on my Instagram.” I said as I took out my phone from my pocket and took a picture of the flying chips. “Hey Psyche, come take a selfie with me.” I grabbed Psyche and leaned him towards me as I was aiming the phone camera right towards our faces with my magic and I did a duck face and took a picture of us. Psyche didn’t smile for the camera, he was mostly surprised on how I grabbed him like that. “Awesome possum!” But just then my phone started flying out of my hoof. “Whoa! My phone is flying! I should take a picture of that too.” I went through my pocket and got my spare camera and took a picture of it, but then my spare camera started to fly. “Wow, I should take a picture of that too, if only I had anything else to take a picture with!”
“Flare, these chips flying around is going to be a little too dangerous for the rocket. We need to clean them up!” Psyche said.
"No problemo brah! I can eat these chips without using my hooves, or magic!" I said, and then I started flying around and eating them while the Blue Danube Waltz was playing in the background. Each chip I ate was once every musical note. As I was eating them, I was also doing a bunch of spins and twists and awesome tricks I wasn’t able to do with gravity in the way.
"This is ridiculous!" Psyche complained with a facehoof. "If a chip gets jammed on something, it'll be your fault!"
"Don't worry buddy!" I said. "We'll be a-okay! I'll have the place cleaned up in no time!"
"You think you'll get every crum?" Psyche asked.
"Don't act so crummy, Psyche." I teased.
"Why did I bring you along?" Psyche asked.
"Because I'm awesome possum!" I said. "And we're the Noble Six! The Noble Six sticks together!"
"We left over half the group back on the planet." Psyche pointed out.
"I said the Noble Six sticks together, I didn't say we'd be all together." I corrected him.
"That doesn't make a hick of sense!" Psyche said.
"Nopony is hiccupping here, brah." I corrected him. "Now quit being a bore and help me eat these chips."
"A bore?" Psyche asked as he floated around not eating any chips.
"Yeah a bore." I said I was still floating around eating chips. "You're boring me with your chit-chat."
"You're starting to get on my nerves." Psyche said.
"Well I have no idea where your nerds are, but I'm pretty much not on anything except the air." I said.
"What?" Psyche asked.
"Hey, I'm getting full from these chips." I said as I continued to eat them. "Are you gonna help me eat them, or what?"
"No." Psyche said.
"Why not?" I asked.
"Because I'm not hungry." Psyche said.
"Remember when you said if the chips get jammed on something?" I asked. "Well it'll be partially your fault too, because you didn't help me out."
Psyche gave out a sigh. "You maybe getting on my nerves, but you make good points." he said.
"Again. Where are these nerds you are talking about?" I asked.
"NERVES, not NERDS!" Psyche corrected me.
"What you talking about? Speak Equestrian dude." I instructed him.
A few hours later, we finally arrived at the moon. "Alright! Check it out Psyche!" I pointed. "We made it to the moon without Celestia banishing us here!"
"Yeah, that's nice." Psyche said. "Just put your helmet on so we can go outside."
"Why do we need these stupid suits for anyway?" I asked.
"Princess Luna says the air is not breathable out there." Psyche said. "We need oxygen in order to survive."
"Oh, so that's what this green cylinder thingy is for?" I asked.
"You catch on pretty quick dude." Psyche said as we both put on our helmets, but while Psyche was about to open the hatch, a remaining potato chip got inside a vent. Psyche opens the hatch and he glides outside, and I follows. "This is one small step to ponykind!" Psyche said.
"Or this is one large jump to the Noble Six." I said as I was carrying a flagpole with a giant 6 on it and pictures of each of Engie’s, Crystal’s, Aqua’s, Blaze’s, Psyche’s, and mine’s faces on it.
"What is that?" Psyche asked as he pointed to the flagpole.
"Oh this? This is the flagpole I'm gonna place somewhere." I said.
"What kind of flag is that? What does the six mean?" Psyche asked.
"It represents the Noble Six, dum dum.” I reminded him.
"C'mon, follow me." Psyche instructed me. "We're gonna explore."
"Lead the way!" I said. And so we both explored the Earth’s floating rock; Psyche was walking around exploring and carrying a couple of tools with him, and I was jumping around, spinning and having fun with the low gravity. "Weeeeeee!" I cried out in excitement. "Look how high I'm jumping! It's like wearing spring shoes!"
"Uh huh." Psyche said, not really listening to me.
"Hey Psyche, what are you planning to do up here?" I asked.
"Studying." Psyche said.
"Studying what?" I asked as I was still having fun with the low gravity.
"The moon. What else?" Psyche asked.
"How about we study Uranus?" I asked.
"What is that suppose to mean?" Psyche asked.
"You know, the planet?" I reminded him.
"That's nice." Psyche said with an uncaring tone.
"Oh this looks like a good spot to set the flag!" I pointed down to the ground. Just then, I raised the flag up in the air, and I started screaming like a berserker, and then I placed the flagpole in place. "YES! I dub thee the Noble Six, into a full moon!" I yelled as I shook my flank around. Psyche sighed. "Hey, I'm gonna go ahead. You're going to darn slow!"
"Go ahead. Have fun." Psyche said as started to feel relieved.
“Oh I will have fun, don’t worry.” I nodded. “And when I do… oh yeah…”
“Huh?” Psyche asked.
“You ask too many questions.” I said as I started hoping away, having fun on the moon, but I stopped as soon as I found Super Mario on my flagpole, sliding the flag down. “HEY! Get away from there!” I cried out. Super Mario climbed off the flagpole and walked inside a little castle that I didn’t know was there at first, and then fireworks blew on top of the castle. “Where did that castle come from? You’re trespassing on Noble Six property! You must be hammered! C’mon, bro!” as soon as Mario exited that castle, I started throwing hammers at him along with a duplicate of me doing the same thing.
Psyche sighs and said, “I love that guy, but he’s weirder than a prank friendship letter to Princess Celestia.
A cutaway shows Princess Celestia singing an Evanescence song happily in her shower while she uses her scrub brush as a microphone, but you see there’s something wrong with that. You can’t sing an Evanescence song happily, that’s just impossible. Anyways, while she was singing in her shower, she receives a letter that appears out of Spike’s fire breath. “Oh, what do we have here?” Celestia asked as she opens the letter. “Dear princess celestia, it needs to be 20% cooler- Oh this must be from Rainbow Dash. It needs to be 20% cooler y'all... umm... if you don't mind. Your faithful student, Rarity. Wait, what? It’s from all of them? Hmm…” Celestia starts thinking to herself and imagines a giant blob combining all of the Mane Six together into one freak of nature. “Eww.” She said to herself. “Not something to think about in the shower.” The cutaway ends.
An hour went by, and Psyche wanted to stop and rest for a little bit. He placed his portable telescope down, sat down on a moon rock, and looked through the telescope. As he was looking, he heard whispers in the backgound. "Psyche...." an echo whispered.
"Huh? Who's there?" Psyche called out, looking around and feeling concerned. He shrugged and looked through the telescope again.
"Psyche...." the echo whispered again.
"Flare? Is that you?" Psyche called out. "This isn't funny." Psyche looked around again. A shadow ran by behind him, but it wasn't a pony. "Flare? Stop it! If this is a prank, I'm so gonna kill you!" A sound started rolling towards him, and it was my air helmet. "FLARE?!" A big blue glowing shadow started walking towards Psyche. Psyche screamed and started to run. He ran all the way to the ship. He started pulling the hatch, but it was shut. Luckily, I was there just in time and opened the hatch from the other side, and then Psyche screamed.
"Sup brah? Being chased by space cops?” I asked.
"DUDE! There's something out there!" Psyche yelled.
“A space cop?” I asked.
“NO! An alien!” Psyche yelled. “This is scary yet… fascinating.”
“How can it be fascinating?” I asked.
“The proof of alien life existing out here.” Psyche said.
“Wow, and I thought I was the crazy one.” I chuckled and said.
"Wait, I saw your air helmet out there." Psyche pointed out.
"Uh, I'm wearing my air helmet." I pointed to my head revealing my air helmet.
"So that means there must be somepony else up here with us." Psyche thought "And the alien has him or her!"
"I guess this just turned from a study project, to a rescue huh?" I asked.
"Yeah sure, whatever you say." Psyche said. "But listen, I don't think we can do this alone."
"Look, as long as I have my magic handy, we should be fine!" I said.
"And how you suppose to use your magic with an air helmet on?" Psyche asked.
"I can do magic, watch!" with my helmet on, I used my psychokinesis spell to lift Psyche up.
"Alright..... alright I think you made your point." Psyche said as he was still getting lifted in the air. "Please put me down!?”
"Sure thing!" I said as I released Psyche from my grasp and then Psyche slowly started falling back on the moon. "Oh I forgot about the low-gravity. Oh well."
"What's that suppose to mean?" Psyche asked.
"I'm hungry, let's have dinner." I said.
“What? The potato chips weren’t enough?” Psyche asked.
“Potato chips were more of an… appetizer.” I said.
“An appetizer? Really?” Psyche asked.
“Really, really.” I nodded.
“I really don’t get appetizers sometimes. They spoil the main course and the dessert.” Psyche said.
“How about we just don’t have dessert then?” I asked.
“NO! A meal without dessert is like a telescope without lends!” Psyche yelled.
“I dunno much about telescopes so I wouldn’t know.” I said.
So after a little while, Psyche and I got more comfortable and took off our space suits, and Psyche walked over to the freezer and took out a couple of TV dinners. "TV dinners?" I asked.
"Yeah." Psyche said.
"I'm kinda in the mood for spaghetti." I said.
"Too bad. We left the planet's orbit and now we have to eat food that won't float away." Psyche said.
"This stinks." I said.
"No kidding." Psyche agreed. "But it's the way space works."
"SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!" I cried.
"I told you not to do that!" Psyche yelled.
"I told you to stop whining like a little foal, and start cooking the food." I demanded.
"You didn't tell me that." Psyche corrected me.
"I did now, so hop to it! No pun intended." I instructed him. Psyche takes the two dinners and puts them in the microwave and when they were done, he places them on the table. "What is this?"
"Spaghetti, like you wanted." Psyche said.
"Uh huh, sure. Thanks brah." I said as I began to eat my dinner, and Psyche did as well. "This spaghetti tastes funny, and not ‘lawl lawl’ funny, more like BLAH funny."
"What's wrong now?" Psyche asked with an attitude.
"I usually like to eat fresh spaghetti. I mean, don't get me wrong, this is okay, but I kinda like fresh pasta better. TV dinners… they’re not really real dinners. I said.
"Sorry, no fresh pasta in space." Psyche said.
"SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE!“ I cried.
"Do you have to say that every time I say space?" Psyche asked, and after a moment of silence, he realized he made a mistake there. "NO WAIT-"
"SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!" I cried out again but it was shortened because I needed to cough. “You know, Psyche. It was nice of you to invite me to go with you to reach for the shtars! Shtars, shtars, shtars!” Psyche gave himself a facehoof and finished up his meal. Eventually we were both finished with our food.
"Alright Flare, I'm going back outside." Psyche said.
"Don't let the hatch hit you on the way out.” I teased.
Psyche grunted. "What are you gonna do?" he asked.
"I'm gonna stay put." I said.
"Alright." Psyche nodded as he puts on his helmet and his space suit, not necessarily in that order; he then opens the hatch and hops back outside and closes the hatch behind him. Psyche glided through the open moon space carrying some stuff with him. He hoped for a few minutes and eventually he found a nice relaxing spot to settle down and research. "This looks like a good spot." he said to himself as he set everything down in that spot. I dunno why he’s talking to himself, he’s crazy……… I narrate, that’s different. So, Psyche was looking through the telescope and began to take some notes on what he can find.
"Mmhmm. Interesting. The Big Dipper.” Through the telescope shows the Big Dipper. “Oh and next to it is the Big Double Dipper!” Right next to the Big Dipper is a giant pony double-dipping chips in a giant bowl of guacamole. Psyche turned the telescope to see what else he can find. “Ah, the rings of Saturn!”
Through the telescope was Saturn and her rings surrounding her when suddenly, an asteroid hit Saturn. “Excuse me? Uh huh!” Saturn complained in a fat lady’s voice. “Oh no you didn’t just hit me, fool! Mm-mm!” Saturn starts taking off her rings surrounding her. “Someone’s gonna teach you a lesson, ya jackflank!”
“Oh and lookie here.” Psyche said as he turned the telescope. “It’s Pluto!”
“Woof woof.” Pluto barked.
“I’d look at the Milky Way, but I’m lactose intolerance.” Psyche said. Bum, bum, pssssh!
As Psyche was observing the skies and researching, the strange echo sounded off the open moon desert again. "Psyche...."
"Oh not this again." he said with a facehoof. "I'm not afraid of you! So you can just leave me be!" he yelled out.
"Psyche...." echo said again. "You're trespassing..... leave at once....."
"No. You leave at once. I'm trying to study our galaxy here." Psyche demanded.
"Trepasser...." the echo whispered through the air. ”Trespasser......"
"Princess Luna wouldn't mind us here. We're friends of hers." Psyche said.
"Noooo.... Princess Luna no say so." The echo whispered, and just in case you were wondering, the echo was actually talking like that; that wasn’t a grammar error. Well, technically it was, but… oh be quiet and continue reading! Oh wait… that’s… what you’re doing. My apologies, please continue. "You.... will.... PERISH!" the echo whispered, and then suddenly, the glowing blue shadow from before started walking slowly towards Psyche again. Psyche started screaming and he knocked over his telescope and started running away. As he was running, Psyche tripped over a rock and started slowly moving falling towards the ground and bounces around on the moon with his body until he finally lands on his back, moving his legs around helplessly like a turtle on his or her back. The shadow was moving closer and closer to him.
"Please! I'm sorry to intrude! My telescope is broken now anyway, so there's pretty much nothing more I can do here!" Psyche pleated in fear. "Please! Let me live!" Psyche started crying in mercy.
"LAWL!" the echo said. "You should've seen the look on your face brah!"
"What the?" Psyche said in concern. The shadow appears out of the darkness and it was revealed to be a dark floating cloak with a speaker on it.
"HA! Look at you, Psyche! You were crying and everything! EX DEE! EX DEE!" I laughed through the speaker.
Psyche started getting real angry, and blew steam out of his ears and nose. "FLARE!" he yelled. “WHERE ARE YOU?!” He stood up and slowly walked towards the ship.
“Why would you ask me that if you already know?” I asked from the floating alien disguise. Psyche turns to the alien disguise and gives it a big buck, but unforchuntely for him, he wasn’t able to damage it, and all the damage he could do was his own left-hind hoof. “Wow, you’re weak.” I said. Psyche picks a moon rock and begins walking towards the ship with it. “Psyche, what are you doing with that moon rock? Psyche? Psyche, what are you doing? Psyche? Psyche Illution, are you paying any attention to me?!” Psyche didn’t say anything to me. All he was doing was angrily walking towards the ship to confront me. When he got inside he saw me sitting on one of the chairs.
"THIS IS THE LAST STRAW! YOU REALLY DONE IT NOW!” Psyche yelled at me.
“What? What are you talking about, dude?” I asked.
“YOU SCARED THE LIVING FEATHERS OUT OF ME! YOU EVEN BROKE MY TELESCOPE AND MADE ME SPILL WATER MY JOURNAL! YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!" Psyche yelled.
“I-D-K what you’re talking about, brah. I was just sitting here this whole time, listening to some Arrow-Smith.” I said.
“Really? You were listening to rock?! You playing innocent with me, Flare?!” Psyche yelled.
“I wasn’t listening to rock. I was listening to Arrow-Smith.” I corrected him.
“Aerosmith is a rock band, dude.” Psyche corrected me.
“I wasn’t talking about the band ‘Aerosmith’, I was talking about Arrow-Smith. Listen…” I offered my headphones to Psyche and he took them and placed one of them in his ear, and just as I said, it was Arrow-Smith. It was the sound of a guy smithing up some arrows.
“Well, I stand corrected there. BUT YOU RUINED THIS ENTIRE TRIP FOR ME!” Psyche yelled as he threw my headphones on the ground.
“Excuse me, careful with those headphones!” I complained.
“FLARE!” Psyche yelled.
“Ok, sad face, I am sorry, brah. I was only having some fun is all. For a moon trip, this is a pretty boring one, may I say.” I admitted.
"SORRY AND SAD FACE DOESN'T CUT IT! YOU RUINED MY RESEARCH!" Psyche yelled at me. "BUCKLE UP! We’re going home!”
"But we can still have fun up here while it lasts." I suggested.
"STRAP IN!” Psyche ordered me.
I started to feel bad. I wasn’t trying to ruin Psyche’s research trip. For any reason it was his fault for letting me go with him. I wanted to try to cheer him up. “Would you care for a Jelly Baby?” I offered.
“Wha- NO!” Psyche yelled.
“That’s too bad. Anypony who’s anypony wouldn’t decline a Jelly Belly.” I said.
“OH GIMMIE!” Psyche yelled as he took the Jelly Babies out of my hoof and started eating them.
“Heh, you know, you didn’t expect the alien to be me at first. After all, I was on the ship when the alien invaded. It was pretty funny, wasn’t it?” I chuckled.
"NO IT WASN'T!" Psyche yelled.
"You mad bro?" I asked. Psyche grunted real loud as he tried to start up the engines.
“I’ll tell you what, if you don't talk to me, maybe I'll forgive you when we get home." Psyche said. I figured that’s for the best. I know I joke but making friends mad is against protocols for me; besides, I wanted to go back to listening to Arrow-Smith anyway. Psyche was about to set course to home, but the engines started to smoke. "NO NO NO!" he cried. I wanted to ask him what was wrong, but I did what he said in not talking. Psyche unbuckled, put back his helmet on and got out of the rocket and looked at the engines. He thought for a second, and then he went back inside and looked inside the engine vents. "WHAT IS THIS?!" he yelled. Psyche grabs something of the vents and shows it to me. It was a potato chip. "LOOK! A potato chip!" I didn't say anything. "I wonder where this came from?" Psyche asked sarcastically. "HEY! Are you listening to me?"
"You told me not to talk to you!” I yelled.
"YOU SEE WHAT YOU DID?!" Psyche yelled. "BECAUSE OF YOUR POTATO CHIPS, THE ENGINES ARE FRIED! NOW WE'RE TRAPPED ON THE MOON!"
"Have you tried fixing it brah? Duh!” I asked.
"SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!" Psyche yelled. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! IF YOU HAVEN'T EATEN THOSE POTATO CHIPS, WE WOULD BE GOING HOME RIGHT NOW! THE ENGINES ARE BUSTED! I DON'T HAVE THE TOOLS!"
"Well it's your fault you didn't bring the tools." I corrected him. "Serious face."
The top of Psyche's head opened like a hatch and an explosion came out, then it closed. Psyche was steaming, his face was turning red, and he was really angry.
"Hey your brain just exploded. I’m guessing I drew some sort of line there.” I assumed.
“NOOO, REALLY?!” Psyche yelled sarcastically.
"Look, I apologize.” I said. “But maybe if we work together-"
"I DON'T WANT YOUR HELP ANYMORE! I DON'T NEED YOU!" Psyche yelled. "ALL YOU DO IS MAKE EVERYTHING WORSE! YOU ARE THE SECOND MOST USELESS PONY I HAVE EVER MET! AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU, OR ANYPONY ELSE CAN DO THAT CAN CHANGE THAT! I HATE YOU!”
“Excuse me, strongly dislike. Hate’s too strong.” I corrected him. “And who’s the first useless pony?”
“Crystal. Who else?” Psyche asked.
"LOOK, IF YOU WEREN'T SO BORING, MAYBE YOU'D STILL BE STUDYING, AND I WOULDN'VE PRANKED YOU!" I yelled.
"OH, LIKE YOU WOULDN'T PRANK ME ANYWAY!" Psyche yelled sarcastically.
"Hey maybe if you just cried about it, maybe it'll all feel better." I suggested. "C'mon Psyche, hold my hoof. Let's cry together. WAAAAAAAH!"
"I thought you were better than that? Clearly I was mistaken." Psyche said. "I'm gonna try to radio home for help. Don't talk to me, and don't get near me. Once we get home, I don't want to see you anymore.”
“That’s your anger talking.” I said.
“Perhaps. But it’s how I feel. So, please… get lost.” Psyche instructed me. I started to tear up. Just as I thought I wouldn’t mess things up anymore. Sigh. Oh well, if that’s what he wants, it’s what he’ll get. I put on my space suit, opened the hatch, and left the rocket, leaving Psyche alone in there. You know, I always pictured Psyche to be a little more joyful than that, and I pictured Blaze to be the critic. Oh well. That is that. I’m sadly moon-walking away from the rocket. Really, I was moon-walking, like Michael Jackson, but I wasn’t in the mood to go ‘woo-hoo’ or ‘yee-hee’, but as I was leaving, I took a spare bag of potato chips with me and opened it up, and the chips started floating in the air again. “SIGH!” I yelled out in anger. “Nothing is ever my way anymore!”
Meanwhile back at the observatory, while Spike was still trying to look for some files, Princess Luna suddenly walks into the observatory. "Psyche? Are thou here?" Luna asked. Luna looked around the observatory and couldn't find anyone around. She looked all over, but still couldn't find anyone. She eventually went into the storage room, and found Spike looking at files. "Spike?"
"Huh? Oh hey Princess Luna." Spike said as he was still looking.
"What are you doing?" Luna asked.
"Looking for a file for Psyche." Spike said. “You know, it’s pretty funny that how our names sound similar.”
"Uh huh." Luna nodded. "Do you know where he is?"
"Hang on second, Princess. Found it!" Spike cried out in excitement as he takes a file out of one of the cabinets. His excitement died down as he looks over at Luna. "I'm sorry, what?"
"Do you know where Psyche is?" Luna asked.
"Oh, him and Flare went to the moon." Spike said.
"What?!" Luna gasped in shock. "How?"
"They build a rocket." Spike said.
"Oh yeah, those new space shuttles." Luna understood. "Sorry, I’m still getting used to things after I was allowed back in Equestria.”
“No sweat.” Spike said.
“I’m still trying to get used to how things work around here. Do you know anything about this phrase I keep hearing – Yolo, I think is called. Know what that means?” Luna asked.
“Some rapper made it up, and now some morons are walking through the streets with their pants down their waists and saying it non-stop. It’s so annoying.” Spike said.
“I figured. I said it a couple of times and ponies just looked at me funny. At first I thought it was because they’re not used to me back yet, but now I see the true reason.” Luna said.
“Yeah.” Spike nodded.
“Maybe I can go check up on them." Luna said.
“Don’t worry, princess. I’m sure those ponies would forgive you.” Spike said.
“I meant Flare and Psyche.” Luna corrected him.
“Oh… alright. I’m not sure how. There was only one shuttle.” Luna said.
“I have my ways.” Luna said.
"While you're at it, can you ask Psyche if he still wants this file?" Spike asked.
“What’s that file about?” Luna asked.
“It’s a file about a star system… the Big Double Dipper, I think.” Spike reads the file.
“Ugh! The ruiner of parties. Some star systems are selfish, thou know?” Luna complained.
A few hours went by, and I was just was kicking a rock around as I was walking around the moon. "That stupid Psyche!" I complained. "He thinks he's so smart. He thinks he's better than everypony else! I wish he wasn't so stubborn, you know? I was only trying to have fun. I didn't mean to make him break his equipment. It should teach him to be prepared for situations like this. He didn't have to bring me with him. Sigh. So much for reaching for the shtars.” I sadly keeps walking, but as I was walking, I tripped and fell in a crater. "Ouch! You know? They should put a 'watch out' sign, or 'crater' sign, or 'wet floor' sign, or something. I just walk into a crater and fall. I'm trapped on the moon with Psyche, I might as well die here." I complained as I laid inside the crater.
As I was laying there, I curiously looked up ahead and saw a light inside a cave. "I guess I'm already dead." I assumed. "I don't feel dead. But then again, I don't feel anything when I'm dead. Do I?" I finally stood up and started walking towards the light on the other side of the tunnel. I didn’t really know what it was, and I didn’t know what to expect. The cave started to get dark, so dark that the only thing visible is my eyes. How is that possible, I have no idea. Even though it was dark, the light on the other side of the tunnel provided a helpful light source. Once I finally reached the light, I found out that it was actually a door with a crystal light, with a big L on the door. "What in the Wizard of Feelings is this?" I asked myself as I opened the door. Inside was a big room that looks like a Living Room with a kitchen. The whole room was blue and had crystals lighting the room around the walls; the couches had stars on it, in fact, most of the furniture had something outer space related on it, or at least that color. "What is this place?" I asked myself. I looked on the wall and I saw pictures of Princess Luna as well as Celestia and many other ponies and creatures I have no idea who they are.
After observing the pictures, it hit me. “OW!” I yelled as a rock hit me on the head from the ceiling, but then I had a theory of where I was. "AH HA! This must be where Princess Luna stayed in when she was banished in the moon.” I had the feeling it was it at least. I have discovered something that hasn’t been found by pony kind in like… forever. Does that make sense? Well, regardless, I had another theory. “Maybe we won't be stuck up here in the moon forever. Maybe Princess Luna will come here and she'll take us home! Like that! I can’t wait to tell Psyche the good new-“ my excitement stopped and I started to get angry again. "But who cares what Psyche thinks? He can rot here in space for all I care."
I looked around Luna's place some more from her bedroom, to bathroom, to a room full of unique magic. This magic seemed too much for my big but weak horn to handle. His time has not come yet. I found a trash bin over at the wall and I looked inside. “Wow.” I said. “There’s so many pictures of Princess Celestia and a big X over her. Wow so many hateful Celestia stuff in here. This must be when she was still Nightmare Moon. Hello, what’s this?” there was something else in the trash bin. I took it out and observed it. “This looks like story of some sort. Nightmarecord, what?” Before I continue, I’m just gonna say that was a Discord and Nightmare Moon shipping fanfic. Nightmare Moon had a strange imagination, that’s for sure. This is what inspired me to make my own story, which is what you’re reading now! Once I went back to the Living room, I became short of breath. "Wow...... is anypony else having a hard time breathing, or is it just me? Oh wait, yeah it is just me. I’m the only one here." I said to myself. I looked at my oxygen tank meter and it was on E. "I guess E means… end of the line." I said. "If I don't make it...... tell.... my fishies...... I.... less then three....." I then collapsed on the floor. I knew for sure I wasn’t gonna make it. I really didn’t think this is how I’d end – trapped on the moon with Psyche and die of suffocation. Before I passed out, I saw a shadow walking towards me. I didn’t know who it was, but it was no reason not to trust them. Do I have a choice after all?
After I doused off, I started dreaming about strange creatures on floating eyeballs spinning around in a circle around me as I was playing with a sock puppet with a happy face on my hoof and I started to sing, “It’s a cruel, cruel world, and all you little boys and girls, and some mean, nasty people, want to have you for their supper! But if you follow me, you can all be FREE, FREE- you can all be free as a bird on a big TV, if you DREAM, if you DREAM, if you DREAM, MY DREAM!” Just then, I figured out that I was standing on some spinning colorful plates and some more of those creatures that seemed to be speaking backwards were spinning around me on some little Saturns and blue 3D blocks. “It’s a cruel, cruel world full of little boys and girls and the selfish mean nasty people, nasty nasty nasty NASTY! But there’s a way you can make your day, you can laugh, you can smile, you can come and stay a while! You can dream my dream, you can have it all with me; you can dream my dream! You can dream my dream! You can…… dream….. my….. dream.” My dream started to shatter like glass right before I finally gained consciousness.
I finally awakened back inside the ship along with Princess Luna standing over me. "Are you okay, Flare Gun?" Luna asked.
"Oh hey, Luna." I said as I was just coming to my senses. I rubbed my head and grunted. "What happened?"
"I was just checking on things and Psyche said you and him were stranded here." Luna said. "Found you in my old home."
"Your house was pretty leet, Luna, but I’m not into shipping fanfics.” I said.
“Oh… you saw that, huh?” Luna asked.
"So when you were banished up here, that's where you stayed?" I asked.
"Pretty much." Luna nodded. "Your oxygen tank was empty. It was a good thing you were found in the nick of time.”
"Oh. Well..... thanks for saving me Luna. I owe you one." I said.
"You don't owe me anything. It was actually Psyche that rescued you." Luna said.
"Psyche? No." I said in denial. "He wouldn't."
"Actually I would." Psyche said as he walked into the room wearing a sweater and drinking some hot cocoa.
"I thought you never wanted to see me again?" I asked.
"I didn’t at first.” Psyche said. "But I didn't mean it. It's not your fault. I know you didn't know that chips could actually destroy the engines."
"I know. Sorry I ruined your project. Coming with you on this trip was a big mistake. Little did I know it was a research trip and not a vacay.” I said.
"It's cool man. I actually had fun." Psyche said. "An hour after you left, I got worried. I was thinking about how much I hurt your feelings, so I followed your foot prints and potato chip crums on your boot, and found you at Luna's place. You were lying on the ground, unconscious. I was really upset, thinking I lost you, but I couldn’t give up, so I gave you half of my oxygen, and I bought you back to the ship. You were pretty heavy to carry, counting all those chips you ate.”
“Thanks for calling me fat, brah.” I said sarcastically.
“Princess Luna came as I was taking you back to the ship, and she helped me out.” Psyche explained.
“Wow… Psyche… you risked your life to save me. I… you ponies never seize to amaze me!” I said as I sat up where I was laying. “Oh… if there was only some way to repay you for ruining your project.”
“You already have, Flare.” Psyche said. “Discovering Luna’s secret cavern was really one huge step to ponykind. We found the lost caverns. This research I got from the caves will make me famous.”
“Oh… so you researched the cave before you took me back to the ship?” I asked.
“Yeah… I really didn’t think that one out.” Psyche admitted. “But still, if you haven’t runned out like that, I wouldn’ve found those caverns. You really helped my research in a big way, Flare. Thanks!”
“Oh… well then. I guess things worked out after all, huh?” I asked.
“I guess so.” Psyche nodded. “Now would you care for a Jelly Baby?”
“Bro, anypony who’s anypony wouldn’t decline a Jelly Baby!” I said as I took some Jelly Babies out of Psyche’s hoof and ate them.
“I… was only offering one.” Psyche said. Princess Luna started to chuckle.
"Oh.... so we're still in space?" I asked.
"Yeah, why?" Psyche asked.
"Good! I wanted to do one thing real quick!" I said as I jumped up quickly, took a camera, and then went back outside. I placed the camera in front of me, turned on the automatic and then I went in front of the camera, holding my hooves up in the air as I stood right in front of a view of Earth. The camera flashed automatically and the picture came out, showing me holding the Earth. "Kay kay, I'm done. Let's go." I took the camera, jumped back into the rocket, and strapped myself in.
"You ready Flare?" Psyche asked.
"Ready as spaghetti!" I said. "Luna?"
"Yep!" Luna nodded. So Psyche started the rocket and started flying it towards home. The gravity started to pull us in, and we were coming in pretty hot. I like it hot, hot, hot!
“Hey Psyche, when we return, let’s say you discovered the cave.” I offered.
“Oh… well, thank you!” Psyche said.
“I didn’t finish.” I said. “Let’s say you discovered the cave. Now-“
“Ok, thanks, Flare!” Psyche nodded.
“I didn’t finish!” I yelled.
“A little taste of your own medicine, huh Flare?” Psyche teased.
“Oh shut up, that don’t bother me!” I lied.
“Oh Flare.” Psyche shook his head and chuckled. Luna chuckled along.
“Also delete those photos of my full-moon off your phone.” I ordered Psyche.