Trixie and Starlight Travel to Chukotka

It still was quite gloomy outside when Trixie and Starlight woke up. Starlight has put on her alarm clock for today, so that they don't sleep for too long. They were both still feeling tired and wanted to sleep for longer, but they couldn't, because they will go back to their homes in Eqeustria today. They both packed all of their stuff and left the small hotel. Bilibino was a landlocked city, but there was a small airport south of it in a small settlement called Keperveyem. It was around 33 kilometers away from Bilibino, so they had to walk quite a bit to get there. They were also afraid of having to fly on an airplane again.

"Ugh, do we have to fly on one these things again?" asked Starlight to her friend, sounding somewhat afraid.

"Unfortunately yes," Trixie replied, "but things went fine on our first flight and I am sure nothing will happen this time too. Plus, we will fly on a smaller airplane this time, which will probably be less scary, I think... I hope."

Eventually, they arrived at the airport. It was much smaller than the one in Ugolnye Kopi, in fact, there weren't even any real big passenger planes here, only smaller ones. At the airport was a chubbier male human with a full beard.

"Privyet ponies!" the human greeted the two ponies with a very thick Russian accent, "How can I help you?"

"Hello, we would like to take a flight form here to Khabarovsk please," said Trixie to the man.

"To Khabarovsk? I'm sorry but the only planes we have here, that can fly all the way to there, only have space for two people... or ponies," the human replied to them.

"Wait, does that mean one of us has to steer that thing, if we want to go to Khabarovsk?" Starlight asked in concern.

"Yes, one of you two has to steer the airplane," replied the human to them.

"Well then, I am doing it" Trixie replied in loud and proud tone.

"Trixie are you sure you want to do that? None of us two even has the slightest idea on how the controls on that thing work," responded Starlight, sounding even more concerned now than before.

"Don't worry ponies," the human tried to calm the situation down and explained to them, how flying an airplane works, "flying an airplane isn't difficult. You just have to make sure everything on the airplane is closed properly, take on your seat belts and then activate this lever, which will start the airplane. Then you just have pull the steering wheel down and the plane will fly up in the sky. All what is to do then is pressing this button to retract the landing gear and follow the navigation system, which will show you the route to Khabarovsk. Once you have arrived there, you can land the airplane by activating the landing gear and flying the plane to the ground by pulling up the steering wheel and land on a nice even spot. Get it?"

"Sure!" Trixie comfortably replied to him, "Come on Starlight, let's get this thing ready to fly."

"Well, guess I have no other choice," Starlight said in fear, while she begrudgingly went into the back seat of the airplane.

"Oh and one more thing blue one," the human said to Trixie, "don't press any other buttons during the flight."

"Yeah sure, got that," Trixie simply replied.

The both putted their luggage in the airplane, sat themselves down in seats and putted on their seat belts. Starlight was still feeling somewhat nervous about having Trixie flying the airplane.

"Are you sure that this is a good idea?" Starlight asked to her in concern.

"Well, we don't really any other choice," Trixie replied to her, "besides, the Great and Powerful Trixie will do her best in steering and flying the plane," in a smug tone.

Trixie started the airplane and began to fly it straight to the sky. Starlight was still feeling nervous. However, Trixie did ended up making a better job at steering the airplane than expected. After being 10 minutes into their flight, everything was fine and Starlight was feeling more relieved.

"I got to be honest, you do a lot better job on flying that thing than I thought," Starlight complemented her friend.

"See, I told you I can do it," Trixie replied in a comfortable tone, "however, I do wish it would fly a bit faster. I wonder if any of the buttons here will make it fly faster."

"Trixie no!" Starlight yelled to her, feeling more afraid again, "Haven't you hear what the human said to you?"

"Yes I did," replied Trixie smugly, "but honestly, I think he was underestimating my abilities. Besides, why would these buttons even be there, if there are so dangerous. For example, how about this one with that black and yellow symbol on it?"

"No Trixie don't press it!" Starlight yelled to her in fear.

But Trixie didn't listen to her and pressed the button. As soon as she pressed it, the airplane started to activate a nuclear nitro. The plane began to fly in an unimaginably high speed. In fact, the plane quickly left the earth atmosphere and flew through space with a speed faster than light. Starlight and Trixie too, were absolutely terrified.

"WHY DID YOU PRESS THAT BUTTON?" Starlight yelled in fear and shock.

"I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HUMAN AIRPLANES HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS!" Trixie screamed as a reply.

The nuclear nitro went on for a long while and the two ponies eventually began to say goodbye to each other as they thought, that this will be the last moment of their lives.

"Trixie, even if you just killed us and I got mad at you a lot of the times, I will still remember you as my best and closest friend!" said Starlight, who already accepted that she and her friend will probably die.

"You too are the greatest and most powerful friend I could have ever asked for. I never even had a friend before we first met each other and the fact that you even forgive me for the fact, that I probably just killed us, shows how strong our friendship really is," Trixie replied while a tear ran down on her face.

They held on closely to each other while they continued flying through space, waiting for the plane to crash or getting stuck in space. Eventually the plane began to slow down, as the nitro has used up almost all of it's fuel. They began to accept the fate that they will be trapped in space and die. Tears ran out of their eyes, as they more and more accepted their deaths. However, as the last bit of the nitro went on, the began to get close to a planet, a planet that seemed quite familiar.

"Wait a minute," Trixie said in surprise, "that is Equus, our home planet! Starlight we may survive and get back to home!"

"What? That can't be true!" Starlight replied in disbelieve.

However, as soon as she took a look out of the window, she saw, that they were indeed nearing their home planet.

"Oh sweet Celestia, there is hope for us!" Starlight yelled in relief, as the plane got closer and closer to their home planet.

Eventually, there were in the atmosphere of Equus and it was exactly then, where the nitro has emptied all of it's fuel. The plane began to fell and the two ponies screamed loudly.

The plane crashed on the ground. Fortunately, the two ponies weren't injured and survived. They both crawled out of the wreck of the airplane and took their luggage. Trixie eventually saw something from the distance.

"Starlight look," She told to her friend in excitement, "my precious trailer!"

"I can not believe we landed directly to the place where we live," Starlight replied, being amazed by the fact they were home.

"Well Starlight, seems like pressing that button wasn't a bad idea after all," Trixie smugly said to her friend.

"Yeah, but you still could have killed both of us," Starlight simply replied.

After that, they both made their ways back to their homes. One thing is for sure tho, that they will never forget this trip for the rest of their lives.

THE END