[ TEXT ] in which cambridge makes a polite enquiry about her location

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[ Hello, fellow crewmembers. If your device wasn’t on before IT CERTAINLY IS NOW! Cambridge - still nursing the mental wound of her power being so rudely culled and currently feeling obnoxiously disorientated - technopathically shoves a text transmission your way: ]

if somebody doesn't tell me exactly where the fuck I am then I am airlocking the whole bloody ship so help me god.

[ An idle threat, don’t you worry. If she had been at full strength then she might have attempted to slip her way through the ship’s systems but as it is she can barely switch a light off, let alone override the hundreds of security precautions that would undoubtedly stand between her and an airlock. Still, the impulse behind the threat is very real: uncertainty and fear mingled with a desperation to check that she wasn’t going mad and dreaming this all... ]

unless this is some hideously unfunny prank in which case you can all go to hell.

bad form, you bastards.

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[mindsext.livejournal.com]

[ oh my god what are you smiling for that is so maddening ]

Nopony? [ Her face creases into an expression of incredulity as she laughs in disbelief. ] Good grief, where on earth are you from?

[eeyupbuck.livejournal.com]

[Oh, she's interesting looking... for a human. Brown hair isn't too common in ponies.]

Ponyville, Equestria. Nice li'l town, lived there m'whole life, eeeeyup. Well, nice for us ponies anyhow. Not sure how you uh, hewmans would find it. Reckon you'd like it all the same though.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

[ a long moment of suspicious silence... ]

[ and then, abruptly: ]

Good lord, are you an alien?

[eeyupbuck.livejournal.com]

[He really doesn't know how to answer that. He supposes to others here he is an alien, though no more than they are to him. It didn't seem like he was, he was just himself from his own town and his own world but he figured everyone felt like that. To him these two-legged animals wandering around were alien, he was alien in his own body. This wasn't him.

So he sits here blinking at the comm device for a long stretch of silence until he finally gives a huff and chuckles.]

Reckon you could say so, Miss.

[mindsext.livejournal.com]

[ that silence had not been a promising one; when he finally speaks up again Cambridge simply knows what was about to be said. She grimaces lightly. ]

Ugh, this ship is like a zoo... [ she shakes her head slowly. ] I don't suppose there are many other aliens like yourself on board, are there?

[eeyupbuck.livejournal.com]

Y'all are aliens t'me, Miss. Haybales, I'mma alien to myself. I got these weird stubby ear things, no tail, [he looks down at himself and makes a face like he is really uncertain] all this.

So I ain't sure what you mean when you say like m'self. Although-

[He looks up and gives a lazy smile through the communication device.] Rarity's here. She's from Ponyville too, and got a body what looks like yours, eeyup.

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[ Cambridge is nothing short of aghast! You are the first 'alien' she has met, Macintosh, and she's struggling to hide her discomfort. ]

Good Lord. Well. I suppose that certainly explains why you didn't know what a 'bastard' was. [ an uncomfortable pause. ] Welcome to humanity, I suppose.

[ least welcoming welcome party ever, right here. ]