Trixie and Starlight Travel to Chukotka

It was the next day, Trixie and Starlight were still sleeping in the formally abandoned commieblock. The sparkler lights, created by Trixie, have decayed over the night. The sun was already shining brightly. The light of the sun eventually landed on Trixie's face, which woke her up. She rubbed her eyes, got up and saw how bright it already was outside. She quickly realised that they have slept for too long. She took a look at an old clock that was on the wall. After wiping the dust away from it, she saw it was 13 o' clock.

"Fuck! Starlight wake up! It's late!" Trixie yelled to her friend, who was still sleeping.

Starlight slowly opened her eyes as she said, "Ugh... how late is it? I usually don't sleep for so long. You are the late sleeper of us usually."

"It's 13 o' clock," Trixie simply replied.

Starlight jumped up in shock and screamed, "13 O' CLOCK? Since when did I seep for so long?"

"Well honestly," Trixie replied, "I am wondering, since when I have woke up so early without feeling tired?"

They both chuckled afterwards and then quickly began to pack their stuff and make themselves ready for their next stop, Bilibino. They left the commieblock with the ice sheet windows and began to head to their final destination of this trip.

While they were on their way, they talked about what kind of things they wanted to do in Bilibino.

"Well Trix, what kind of stuff have planned for us to do over in Bilibino?" Starlight asked to her friend.

Trixie replied, "Originally, I planned us to do some bear hunting over there, but I'm not sure if you are into that."

"Bear hunting?" Starlight curiously questioned, "I don't think I'm into that. I would probably prefer it if we would do something else."

"Well we can also do other things over there," Trixie replied in excitement, "Like urban spelunking, exploring the nature around the city or try to visit their nuclear power plant. Yes they have one too, but theirs isn't floating."

Starlight thought and replied, "I think I would like to explore the nature near the city, that sounds nice. I have another question tho. Do we have to travel with one of those crazy big firework rockets again?"

Trixie comfortably responded, "Of course, do you really think we would walk all of that distance? The rocket is our only way to get to that place. Bilibino is actually one of the most remote places in Chukotka and not even you are able to teleport that far, to a place you never have been before."

Starlight started to get a begrudging look on her face and replied, "You are right, but flying on that rocket thing once was already scary enough. Like, I was actually afraid that we will die. These things feel dangerous."

Trixie tried to make her friend feel less afraid, "Don't worry Starlight. It worked perfectly the first time, so I am certain it will work this time too. Especially because this time, the distance we have to fly is shorter, there are less tall mountains and the first third of it, we will only fly over water... or ice with the current temperatures."

Starlight, feeling less scared now, replied, "You know what, I should feel less afraid about this. As you just said, it worked well the first time and this time the route is shorter and less dangerous. I think I'm indeed ready for this."

After walking for about an hour, they arrived at a coast, where Trixie began to set up the rocket.

While that, she said, "There is no reason to be afraid to fly on Trixie's Great and Powerful Fast Travel Firework Rocket 6000. Do you really think I want us to die?"

"Of course not," Starlight replied, "It's just, you can seem somewhat crazy and careless at times, but that's ok. One thing tho, don't you think that the name of that thing is a bit too long? It's quite a mouthful of words."

"It's a working title!" is all what Trixie replied.

After she was done setting up and aiming the rocket, they sat themselves on the rocket and tied up themselves and their luggage.

"Are you ready Starlight?" Trixie smugly asked her friend.

"Yes I am Trix!" Starlight comfortably replied.

"Well then, let's get this rocket to fly!" said Trixie proudly while she lightened up the fuse.

The rocket began to fly a couple of seconds later. The flight was indeed a bit shorter and less scary than the first one. In fact, Starlight even began to like the view from far up, of this fast flying rocket. Even when they flew over mountains, Starlight was no longer feeling scared. Eventually, Trixie began to see the first buildings of Bilibino and thus, pressed the button to launch themselves of the rocket. They landed on the ground via parachutes, the rocket flew up in the sky and exploded, once again creating Trixie's face in the sky and they began to enter the city of Bilibino.

Bilibino was the greyest city they visited on their trip and just like Pevek, there were a lot of abandoned buildings. It was the coldest city too. In winter the average temperature is around minus 30 degrees Celsius. As of the day where the two ponies were there, it was minus 5 degrees. This time, Trixie did book a hotel, which they went to first, to put their luggage over there. After that, they went to a restaurant to eat something. There weren't many restaurants in the city, but eventually they did manage to find a good looking local restaurant. This time, they both ordered different things. Trixie ate Chicken Kiev while Starlight ate an olive salad.

"An olive salad?" Trixie asked to her friend in disgust after they ordered they food, "How disgusting is that? You are afraid of a yogurt that is a couple days over it's best before date, but eat fucking olives?"

"What's so disgusting about olives?" Starlight asked to her in reply.

"That they taste like rotten vegetables," Trixie simply replied.

Starlight didn't care tho and they both ate their dishes. After they were done eating, the waiter asked them for their pay, which was pretty high once again. This time however, the two ponies couldn't fool the humans with the value of pony coins.

The waiter said to them "By the way, I have heard about two ponies that were in Anadyr two to thee days ago, that fooled humans in believing that pony coins are like super valuable, while there are official calculations that say otherwise. The police even began to search for them. Have you heard about them too?"

"Uh no, no we haven't," Starlight awkwardly replied to him.

"And it's definitely not us," Trixie also awkwardly replied, while giving the waiter the correct amount of pony coins.

The waiter chuckled and kindly replied, "Oh come on, of course it's not you two, these other two ponies were in Anadyr just 2 days ago. It's really difficult to get to Bilibino from any sort of place in such a short time."

After that, the two ponies said goodbye and quickly left the restaurant.

"I think we can forget coming back to Anadyr for the next... forever," Starlight said after they went out of the restaurant.

"Well this sure sucks. And the humans there loved my performance so much and I even promised to come back. FUCK!" Trixie replied in frustration.

"Do you really want to come back that place?" Starlight asked her.

"Of course, the humans loved me over there and the Great and Powerful Trixie could be a massive success in the human world if a comeback is possible!" answered Trixie smugly.

Later on, they began to explore the nature that was around Bilibino. The city was surrounded by forests and mountains, making it a great place for nature lovers. Starlight really liked the mountains and conifer trees. Trixie too did at first, but she quickly seemed to get bored of it. Starlight eventually realised that and to bring in some more action, she threw a snowball in her face.

Trixie wiped the snow of her face and said, "You know what that means," and shouted, "SNOWBALL FIGHT!" with a joyful tone.

A massive snowball fight began to break out between the two ponies. They both used their magic to build massive snow fortresses and weapons made out of snow. Starlight clearly was better and more experienced with her magic and thus was feeling pretty comfortable on winning this. However Trixie's magic has not only improved a lot in the recent months, but she was also very experienced with pyrotechnics and crafting firework rockets. She was able to build many, highly powerful rockets out of snow, that she was able to accurately shoot towards Starlight's snow fortress. Starlight's weaponry was clearly weaker, she built some tanks, whose designs were obviously inspired by soviet tanks, but she wasn't as fast and efficient with her weapons as Trixie. Still, Starlight knew how to use her better magic skills to an advantage. Her base was bigger and sturdier than Trixie's and was able to tank the many rockets her friend was firing towards her. She also was quicker at repairing damages of her base. Because of that, it was a fairly even fight and it went on for pretty long. Eventually tho, things began to look better for Starlight, as she managed to become more efficient with her weapons over time. Trixie struggled to keep up with repairing the damages of her base. However, she had one final trick left to possibly make her win. She created the biggest snow rocket she could. Starlight eventually saw the humongous rocket and her thoughts of winning the snow fight began to fade. Trixie's rocket was done faster than she could counterattack and her competitor immediately began to launch it as soon as she was done building it. The massive rocket headed straight into Starlight's base and obliterated everything she has built. Trixie has won the snowball fight.

Starlight crawled out of the snow and said in surprise, "Wow Trixie, I did not expect you to be this good at a magic snowball fight. You won, even tho I am technically the one who is better at magic."

Trixie in a fully smug and proud tone and expression replied, "The Great and Powerful Trixie always knows how to surprise other ponies with her talent."

The both chuckled afterwards and began to walk back to the proper city.

At the time their snowball fight was over, it has already been pretty dark for quite some time and because of that, they went to their hotel. The hotel room this time was smaller and cheaper than the one in Anadyr. There was no shower or TV in their hotel room this time, but since they only stayed there for one day, that was perfectly fine for the two ponies. They spend the rest of the day in the hotel room, talking about their lives, telling funny stories and jokes and talking about tomorrow, where they will leave Chukotka and go back to their hometown in Equestria. They were afraid to fly on an airplane again, but were also exited to see Ponyville again and for Starlight, her other friends too, whereas Trixie just wanted to see her trailer again. Still, they were more than happy with the fourth day of their trip. After the third day, where their friendship nearly fell apart, it now felt like, that their friendship was stronger than ever. Even with some issues and disagreements on the first 3 days, their trip in Chukotka ended on a happy note. Pass midnight, they began to make themselves ready to sleep. They brushed their teeth, comfortably laid themselves down in the beds and closed their eyes, as their took their final sleep in Chukotka, before traveling back to home.