mylittlejamjar | My Appletree, My Brightness [private visual to Harvey]

[Donna's had some time to think about what she might want to say. She's seen that kind of grief. Seen the Doctor's eyes shine with tears for the loss of so many - for his children and his companions and his people. Felt the grief, sick and heavy, in her own heart when she'd had the children she'd thought were hers, ripped from her grasp in a failing and frantic program. That's not something you just get over, and everybody has their way. The Doctor ran and screamed his rage and feeling at villains and needed to be stopped. Donna stored it away in her heart, pulling it out in the night as she sobbed into her pillow, grieving the loss of people who hadn't even been real.

Her expression is somber as she contacts Harvey. She doesn't really know Flare and they've only just had an argument about the Pale Pony a few weeks earlier. The mare isn't sure if she'll get a response, but he should know there are people who aren't going to kick him in the gut in his darkest hour.]

Missed you at the Decanter last night, Mr. Finevoice. Been missing you for a couple of nights now. Reckon I know what that's all about now, what with the hullabaloo. I know we aren't friends, but... sorry. I wanted to say how sorry I am. Losing your kid- [Her voice cracks and she has to swallow down her emotion.]

If there's anything I can do for you... and Flare. Let me know. I can do cooking, tidy up around the house for you, see to the washing up. Anything you need to make it easier. I'm so sorry.

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Well, they built a machine capable of space travel and managed to trap a bunch of people from all different universes aboard. [She's not saying they're the most moral people, Harvey, but credit where it's due.]

Gypsy was the only thing that kept it from fallin' apart. And they didn't even build her, the guy they stuck up there did.

Mostly they were just crazy as hell.

Gypsy? [That's not a name she's heard before.] Some kind of robot mechanic?

Basically, yeah. Probably the sanest robot up there, good at restorin' oxygen levels quick.

They dropped off often? [She raises a brow and offers a wry smile.] Don't suppose a lack of oxygen could explain Pinkie?

One time this other robot showed up and decided to turn 'em up. Because humans like oxygen, right?

[Wheatley is a moron.]

Started a pretty big fire too, I ain't even sure how.

I really hope somebody reprogrammed it so it wouldn't do that again. [Like the guy trapped up there. That seems slightly safer than leaving a crazy robot to roam free... like Pollo.]

Nah, just took it down off the rails. It didn't have legs or anythin', just a robot eye.

How did it even get up there? Was it already on board or was it transported like the rest of you?

Transported. The robots who were up there already were mostly idiots, but not that bad. As long as you didn't end up on the deck with all their extra bodies.

[That gets a brow arched almost up to her mane.] And what happened if you got in among the bodies?

Whatever they felt like doin' to ya that day. One time we had to go get someone out, it was like Savin' Private Ryan with paintball guns.

They weren't dangerous, just really irritatin'.

[That is slightly better than she imagined, at least. Donna finishes up the rest of her slice of pie as she's listening to him.] So, what did you actually do up on this satellite when you weren't taking on the robot horde?

Well, every week the Mads - mad scientists, that is - they'd try to torture us outta our minds with some new bad book. They were pretty bad, but I guess we had some fun gettin' together to make fun of 'em. Kinda like a tradition.

It was the stuff they did on accident that turned out worse. They actually turned us into ponies one time, exactly like this. [He waves a hoof at himself.]

Seriously? [Wait, but then...] Let me guess, you don't know how they turned you back or it was an improbability drive or space radiation or some other weird thing we can't use here?

Some weird space thing. Either that or us trappin' Discord did it, but suggestin' that ain't too popular around here.

You managed to trap Discord? Were all of the Element Bearers aboard the satellite? [Her brow furrows. She had read about that in one of the books at the Library, how Luna and Celestia had sealed Discord away in stone.]

Nah. Tricked him into entering one of the books, then shut down the file and tossed it into space. I shouldn't say "we", I didn't do anythin'...

[Typical, really.]

Not before he screwed up the minds of half the folks up there, though. I still ain't really sure why they let him walk around here.

Well, here's not there. [She shrugs. Maybe she'd feel differently if she'd met Discord at his worst, but all she's really seen from him is the typical stuff you might expect out of any trickster with godlike powers. He's an Equestrian Loki minus a Thor.] I dunno. Fluttershy seems to keep him in line... more or less. He's a git stealing everybody's powers and the like, but it's not like half of them even needed those.

[Does she sound bitter? She might be just a little bit. Still no cutie mark and just an Earth pony.]

No, they really didn't.

[Does HE sound bitter? Having a cutie mark doesn't really improve things.]

S'pose I could've gone down the dungeon and found something, though. And it's better that we've got people who can take things out, but... is it just me, or have the things we've been facing been getting even more powerful? It's like they're keeping up to match everybody else.

Maybe. I dunno.

I thought about goin' to the dungeon too, but Flare told me about how all that stuff might be connected to the Pale Pony...I didn't wanna risk it.

Connected to the Pale Pony? Just because some of them came through those mirror things? [Donna cocks her head.] But wasn't it that Star Swirl guy and Celestia that did all that?

Hay if I know, I ain't been keepin' track of all this government conspiracy crap.

[He mostly just trusts what Flare has to say.]

[Donna snorts.] All this 'government conspiracy crap' is what you've got to listen to if you want to learn anything Harvey. No room under that hat for paying attention? [She prods the side of his head with a hoof.]

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millionbitpipes - 2014-10-15 04:43 (UTC) - Expand

thedoctorsmate - 2014-10-16 01:10 (UTC) - Expand

millionbitpipes - 2014-10-16 02:27 (UTC) - Expand

Shall we wrap this up?

thedoctorsmate - 2014-10-17 01:54 (UTC) - Expand

Sounds good! We can handwave

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