Letter 001: This was not on the list.

[draconicmail]

[Hello, viewers, please enjoy this image of an enormous green eye. Apparently some creature (reptilian in nature, judging by the snake-like pupil) is leaning super close to Cambot to peer at his lens. Blink, blink. After a second, he leans away and scratches his head, revealing himself to be a small purple dragon, riding on the back of a purple pony. Just another day on the Satellite of Love.] Uh, hey, Twilight?

[The aforementioned pony seems to have her nose buried in a long scroll of parchment.] So after we go pick up the new quills and parchment, we can stop by Sugarcube Corner and see if we can get some pastries for our next party, and then we'll need to go out to Sweet Apple Acres and help Applejack measure the foundation for that new storage cellar she wants to put in.

[The dragon tugs gently on Twilight's mane to get her attention.] Yeah, okay, but Twilight?

Oh, and Cheerilee wanted to talk to us about coming in and demonstrating some magic for her younger students and she has all those books to return so we might as well pick them up while we're over there, and once we get home we need to reorganize at least the Classics section and possibly Modern Spellcasting as well because someone got into them and messed everything up and nothing's where it should be anymore.

[Tugging gently has been upgraded to tugging not so gently.] Kinda need you to see this...

And the globe needs polishing, and the floor needs to be scrubbed again, and I think our clock might be thirty seconds too fast --

TWILIGHT!! [Finally he gives up and snatches the to-do list away from her.]

What is it, Spi-IIIIIIIIIIIIIIhhhhhhhhhhhhk! [Her eyes go almost as wide as her head as her breath is sucked completely out of her body at what she's seeing.]

Yyyyyyeah. [And Spike just deadpans it:] I think we're lost.


((Double intro post! Expect responses from both Spike and Twilight (sailormagic). \o/))

Comments

[sailormagic]

[And they are half-strangled by a pink pony. Not that this is anything new to either of them, really. NOR IS ANY OF THE REST OF IT save for all the metal and all those stars out there. Twilight doesn't even bother to comment on the gemstones in the cake, instead reaching to keep Pinkie in one spot for a long enough time to ask her question.]

Pinkie! What's going on here? Where are we, and where's Ponyville?

[sailorlaughter]

Yyyyyou bet your little scales they are! I got them out of the food machine! They're not really food for anyone up here - except for you now - but Cammy asked really REALLY nice and it made them for us anyway!

[She lets Twilight's hoof draw her to a halt.] Oh! Silly me, this is the Satellite of Love! We got beamed up here by a bunch of kooky mad scientists to do funny experiments for them! They're not so bad, though, they got me a TAFFY MACHINE for Hearth's-Warming Day! And everypony ELSE up here is TOTALLY super-duper nice...welllllll, only Rarity and Princess Luna and me are actually ponies now, but they're still really nice!

Oh! Hey, this is my buddy Cammy! [She flings a foreleg around Cammy, drawing him closer and whispering quickly to him.] Thanks for covering for me! He's a Cambot! You can talk to people with them and stuff!

[draconicmail]

[The main points Spike manages to glean from that wall of text chatter are, in order:

1. There is a food machine here that makes gemstones.
2. Rarity is here too.

He's liking it better already.]

Wow, it sounds like you've really made yourself at home! Well, if anyone could, it'd be you. [Wait a minute, though...] But how long have you been here?

[sailormagic]

[Twilight definitely agrees with Spike on that - if there's any pony that'll be good at adapting to wherever they find themselves, it's Pinkie. But Twilight gets more out of that than Spike, although really there isn't that much more to get.]

So there's somepony keeping everypony up here against our will, but they're really not all that evil because they give us present for Hearth's-Warming Day? And your friend is... Umm, Pinkie, what is that?

[sailorlaughter]

Welllllll...I got here a little before Nightmare Night, and we just had Hearts and Hooves Day, so...wowie, I guess I have been up here a pretty long time! Time flies when you're having fun~!

[She nods vigorously along with what Twilight's saying. That sounds about right!] Yeppy-deppy! Their names are Dr. Forrester and Frank! Frank'll probably like you, he just LOOOOOOVES unicorns!

He's a Cambot! They're like a camera AND a robot! Most of them don't have confetti guns, though, I got those for him special! [Cammy shoots off his tiny confetti guns again. Wheeeeeee.]