Ponysona 4, the Campaign.

"Uhm, yeah, thanks...Y-You're right, may be a good idea...Knowing where each other lives..." She spoke quietly, nodding for a moment. "Uhm, so I guess the big question is your place or mine first, Zeela...? Er, that...Sounded cleaner in my head." She chuckled softly, scuffing the ground in embarassment. "But thanks, Brash. Mine's not much to look at, but I guess it'd be useful in case one of our Shadows nabs us in the night or something."

Zeela chuckles, getting a wingboner thinking about how that topic sounded... Thanks to that phrasing. "Well my brain's derping a little on how to get from here to my place at this second... So how about we head to yours Mel..."

Melody laughed a little, but nodded and looked around for a moment, getting her bearings before turning. "Alright, pretty sure it's...This way!" she announced, trotting off in what she figured to be the proper direction.

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"So, Brash... How did you end up on this side of the world?" Zeela asked making some small talk as they walked.

"Huh? Didn't you see? I teleported right into ya." Brash replied.

Zeela blinked... "So you ended up here form Equestria by way of some teleport? Why?"

"I was testing my teleporter. Though I'm still not sure why it sent me and not the melon." Brash says, scratching his head.

"Again, why where you dealing with some teleporter spell?" Zeela asked unsure what to think of this.

"It wouldn't suprize me if we have... Given how much I feel my mind's just derping on me..." Zeela jokes.

Icing looks at the injured pony, giving him a brief once-over. "Must have been a rough landing." He notes neutrally, not about to pry into a paying customer's history unless it was volunteered.

"I think Ruby Blood managed to bring in some of her oranges earlier, we should have some."

He goes about making the request, ready to charge the usual cost. Still, he unnerved the foals. Bad for business, that. At the same time, if he got beat up and only wanted a cheer-up ice cream, Icing would be a monster to compound his day's hardships. Treat every customer as if they were the last one. As long as it didn't seem dangerous...

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You glance at him and see that the red pony has started to play with one of the little kids, grinning and laughing with him, and the parents starting to calm a bit down.

"Here you go!" Icing presents the cone to the roughed-up pony. "Though just for curiosity, my name isn't too common, where did you hear it, mister...?"

The earth pony pauses, realizing he did not yet have a name to associate with this client.

The red pony walks over with a smirk and grabs the sherbert, licking it eagerly as he floats it in some blood red magic. "Blood's the name, and healing's my game. And sorry about looking like I just crashed through a window. That's because, well, I did." Blood chuckles. "And I heard about you because you were the best ice cream in town. The shopkeep at Junes recommended you."

"...Hmm, maybe he did. I think we're all just a little out of it from trying to figure out what Arcane was going on about, huh?" Melody looked back at the two, smiling a bit and chuckling. At least they were getting along, that was reassuring. "Though I don't think you ever did mention why you wanted to go to the moon, other than 'because it's there,' did you...?"

Zeela hits herself. "OH yes... That mad scientist rant... That... Was a thing... Can't believe I forgot that after everything else that had happened between then."

Brash gives them both a clearly hurt glare and doesn't say anything.

"Um... Have you tried making something that'd just move really fast upwards? I once think I ended up with a potion that went crazy like that." Zeela offers, trying to defuse what's going on.

"Yes, I have tried rockets. It will require a lot more resources to get one that would do the trick." Brash says flatly but, clearly quite aggravated.

Melody thought for a moment, wondering why he was so upset...Oh, right...She'd been a bit frazzled at the time, but now it was coming back to her..."Well, hmm...Maybe you're running into the same problem I figure pegasi would, you're running out of steam...Maybe if you had multiple rockets, set to go after one runs out? I mean, yeah, it's gonna be a lot of resources...But I suppose if you get the hang of it, it'd show 'em up pretty good..." She looked thoughtful, sighing a bit. "Sorry, yesterday was just a thing all over...Thing is, if your drones can make something like that big horned thing you set on the shadows, why couldn't they form a rocket...? Sorry, science isn't my thing, I guess..."

"Well durability would be an issue. Sure stuff like the robo-rhino works but, you might have noticed it's not still around. It's easy to build quick things that only need to function for a few minutes. It's a lot more trouble for something that'd need to last for days and withstand the forces of gravity, the atmosphere, and empty space. Basically, I'm still working on things and I'm not really rich or anything. So, I try out other stuff. Also, it's just fun building new things." Brash explains, still a bit annoyed.

"Mmm... Well science and magic are two different sides of a coin... Maybe working on 90% science with a piggyback on like 10% of magic could easily help you get some true advances?" Zeela suggests hoping that'll help quell the bad air between herself and brash that has started up. "I offer cause I think I could get a potion out that'd get you the needed engery output to get out of this world."

Brash looks at Zeela then looks at his board underneath him then back to Zeela in utter confusion as to how exactly she missed that he already does stuff like that. "Um... riiiiight. I... kinda doubt you understand just how strong that'd need to be. I guess you'd probably be better at crafting a proper fuel than I would though." Brash says in a generally bemused tone, having gone from being angry because he thought his "friends" didn't care about him to now not really knowing what to think. Maybe they were just more ditzy than he'd realized.

"Maybe... But maybe it could work. And if it did... Just think about how much closer to your goal you'd be?" Zeela said with a smile. "I mean it's worth a shot, right? What's the strongest thrust you pulled off? I'll try to get it 100 times stronger?"

"I'm not actually sure. Last time I even managed to get one off the ground it blew up mid-air." Brash replied.