Trixie and Starlight Travel to Chukotka

"We are now only 200 kilometers away from Anadyr Airport," said the announcer of the flight, that started in Khabarovsk.

Despite being inside the flying airplane for multiple hours by now, Trixie and Starlight were still feeling uncomfortable and scared on it.

"Mother of Luna, is this really how humans travel? No wonder Applejack thinks we ponies are the superior species. Not having the magic to teleport yourself is a real disadvantage," said Trixie with a nervous voice.

"You know you yourself couldn't teleport yourself, until like a couple weeks ago," Starlight told to her with a slightly annoyed tone in her voice.

Trixie responded in an arrogant tone, "Oh come on Starlight, we all know that the Great and Powerful Trixie had the ability to teleport herself this whole time, she just didn't know how to fully perfect it because she was kicked from that shitty magic school, which thought "teaching" magic with fucking books is better, than actually really teaching magic with skill and practice!"

"Well as arrogant that sounded, it is kinda true. The magic school system is definitely not for everypony. Not every unicorn, that has a thing for magic, is a Twilight and your magic does have a lot of power and strength for sure, it is just, you don't really know how to use it," Starlight honestly responded.

"Of course it's true, they call me the Great and Powerful Trixie for a reason," Trixie smugly replied.

"We are now landing in Anadyr Airport," said the announcer of the flight.

"Oh thanks Celestia, we are finally landing!" Starlight said with an exhausted yet relieved tone in her voice.

The airplane lands on the runway. Both Trixie and Starlight were thankful that the flight was finally over and that they can now visit and explore Chukotka and it's biggest city Anadyr. However, after they took their suitcases, left the airport and arrived in the city, Starlight thought something was odd.

"Um, Trixie? Is it just me or did Anadyr looked bigger and less abandoned on the pictures we saw? I mean, I know that Chukotka's population has dropped a lot, after the fall of humans greatest nation, the Soviet Union, but Anadyr was supposed to be not that heavily affected by it. Haven't you even told me that Anadyr has been seeing a bit of a rebound in the last few years?" Starlight questioned with a nervous and confused voice.

"Oh Starlight!" Trixie replied with an amused tone in her voice, "We are not in Anadyr, we are in Ugolnye Kopi, which is a smaller, semi abandoned settlement that is right across the estuary from Anadyr. Infact the airport we landed on is actually called Ugolnye Airport, but apparently not even the announcer of the airplane knew that."

"So wait a minute, are you telling me that we need to cross an estuary to get to Anadyr?" Starlight asked in a surprised yet still concerned tone.

Trixie responded with a relaxed and smug expression, "Don't worry Starlight, there are ferries that will take us to Anadyr. It is one of the reasons why I planned our trip outside of the winter season because otherwise, we would either have to cross an ice road or fly with some weird human machine called heliclocker or something like that. That and the fact that it gets so insanely cold and dark in the winter, it would even make the Crystal Empire look warm and sunny. You seem to be way to concerned about this Starlight. I am a professional and experienced traveler after all. Trust me, I know what I am doing when planning a trip like this."

Starlight, feeling more relieved now, responded, "You know what Trix, you are right. You do have a lot of travel experience, more than any other pony I know. If there is one pony out there that can plan something like this, it is you."

While walking through Ugolnye Kopi, Trixie and Starlight saw many abandoned buildings and little to no humans, which gave the place a weird and uncanny atmosphere. Starlight started to feel rather uncomfortable because of that, but Trixie didn't seemed to mind it. In fact, she seemed to be quite fascinated by the loads and loads of abandoned buildings.

"Wow Starlight, in all my years of traveling I have never seen something like this. I mean, I have seen a good amount of ghost towns in Equestria, but never one that has this many abandoned buildings. Can you even imagine how many humans used to live here?" Trixie said in a relatively joyful tone.

Starlight simply responded, "I don't know if I would be so happy about this. All of those abandoned buildings in this cold landscape make me feel kinda depressed," to which Trixie responded, "Well considering we also plan to go to Pevek and Bilibino, you might better get used to this."

After walking for an hour, Trixie and Starlight have arrived at the estuary. Since it wasn't winter, the water wasn't frozen and ferries were swimming on the waters between Anadyr and Ugolnye Kopi. Still, it was autumn and the weather was already getting colder. It was around six degrees Celsius, which was already too cold for Starlight, who got her jacket out of her suitcase and putted it on. Trixie on the other side, was used to dealing with more extreme temperatures, especially the cold, as she usually toured during the autumn and winter seasons. She also had thicker fur and a stronger and chubbier built body compared to Starlight.

"Is our little malnourished communist already freezing?" Trixie said jokingly.

"At least my plot isn't as fat as yours!" Starlight responded savagely, to which Trixie smugly replied, "Starlight, the Great and Powerful Trixie is a natural and curvaceous beauty. You should know that thick mares are considered attractive these days, it's probably why every stallion in Ponyville is so horny for marshmallow Rarity."

"Meh, I prefer not getting stuck inside my own canon," Starlight brutally replied, with a smug smile on her face.

"DON'T BRING THAT UP YOU FUCKING CUNT!" Trixie yelled at her with a loud and angry voice, but Starlight didn't seem to care about it.

After waiting for a couple of minutes, a small ferry has arrived in front of the two unicorns. Other than the captain, no other humans were on it. The captain was an older male human with grey hair, a full beard and tall body. He instantly greeted both of them in Russian.

"Uh Trixie, do you have any idea about what he just said?" asked Starlight to her friend, who had a better understanding of the Russian language.

"I think he said his name, that he is amazed by fact that ponies are here and asked us if want to go to Anadyr," Trixie replied.

"Well don't worry guys... uh I mean ponies, I can also speak English if you prefer. My name is captain Kolya and it looks like you two want to go to Anadyr, am I right?" said the captain, who had a harsh and raspy voice with a thick Russian accent.

"Yes, we do want to go to Anadyr," said Trixie with her usual smug tone.

"Then get on board ponies!" the captain loudly replied.

The two ponies stepped on board of the small ferry and the captain began to head the ferry to Anadyr. The water was very calm and silent on that day, which gave the little sea trip a very quiet yet eerie atmosphere. In the distance they could the see the city of Anadyr, which was getting closer and closer to them.

"I never thought i would have ponies on my tiny ferry!" the captain said and asked them curiously, "Who are you, how did you two even get to this cold and isolated place and why?"

Trixie replied to him, "I am the Great and Powerful Trixie, but you can just call me Trixie and this is my best friend Starlight Glimmer. Long story short, we have always planned to visit the human world ever since we ponies invented portals, that allow us to visit it. At first tho, we didn't know where to go, because the human world, or earth as it is technically called, is big, bigger than our own pony world. So we looked up on what place fits to us the most and the result was Russia. But since Russia is like the biggest nation in the human world, we also looked up what place in Russia has the most characteristics that are associated with the country and Chukotka was the one that came out on top. On how we got here, we just used one of the portals that brought us to Khabarovsk, the closest human settlement to Chukotka, that has a portal and after that, we took one of those scary airplane things that brought us here."

Starlight nodded approvingly and added to Trixie's explanation, "Yeah, let's just say it already has been quite an adventure and our trip is just starting. I mean we are just arriving at our first real big stop."

"Wow this is incredible!" said the captain with fascination and excitement, "You are like the first ever ponies to come to this place and they are on my ferry, this is such a honor. Yes, Chukotka does rank very high on a lot of things that are associated with Russia, like population decline, low population density and alcohol consumption, all of us that live here know that. But I do wonder, what kind of personalities do you two have, that fit to this place?"

Starlight began to answer this question, "Well I am a communist and big fan of the Soviet Union, so of course Russia is country that speaks to me. I believe in equality and justice. Democracy is something nopony knows about anyway. As for my friend, she just has a lot resemblance to how other humans see Russians. She's a loud and egotistical loner, who does a lot of crazy things and listens to Molchat Doma."

"Hey, I am not egotistical! I am just a passionate performer who has an healthy amount of pride, that I need when I'm on stage!" said Trixie with a loud and prideful tone.

"See, exactly what I mean," Starlight said afterwards.

The captain began to laugh. "Ha ha, you two are hilarious. Always nice to see a friendship between two people... uh I mean ponies, that seemingly have so little in common, yet somehow end up having similar interests. I don't think i have ever seen a friendship between a communist who believes in equality and an individualist performer who has a big ego. But hey, I too listen to Molchat Doma! Great taste for music you got there blue one!" he said.

"Thanks, but I don't have a big ego!" Trixie boastfully replied.

Only a few minutes later, the ferry has arrived in Anadyr and Trixie and Starlight get off of it. They pay the captain with one pony coin and waved to him as a goodbye.

"Thanks for the sea ride!" Starlight said while waving her hoof.

"It was a pleasure having you two on my ferry! Good luck with your trip!" The captain replied back to them.

Afterwards, Trixie and Starlight took their first steps in Anadyr and began to explore Chukotka's largest city.