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FROM: SUBJECT: PINKIE Saw the roster changes, Cheesy PINKIE Hey, Cheesy. How's it going? PINKIE How much do you know about that Diamond lady? PINKIE Happy Summer Sun Celebration, Cheesy! PINKIE Hey, Cheese, Hiro from the Bishop is back PINKIE Hey, Cheese. Hope you're not too busy. PINKIE Got some more treats for you~! PINKIE Dear Cheese Sandwich...

TO: SUBJECT: CHARACTER NAME THREAD SUBJECT CHARACTER NAME THREAD SUBJECT PINKIE Hey, Pinks. You okay? PINKIE Pinkie!!! I need you on the Bishop ASAP! SORA HEY SORA ARE YOU AWAKE?!!!

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[Mail Time!]

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[Soon after Kotoha sends Pinkie the promised onigiri, Pinkie packages the cheese ones in a nice, space-proof box with a ribbon and attaches a note before shipping it off to the Bishop.]

Dear Cheese Sandwich,

These are onigiri. They're rice balls with seaweed paper on the bottom and filled with all kinds of stuff! My new friend Kotoha sent some to me! Mine were raspberry and blueberry and both, but yours should have cheese inside! Hope you like them! See you soon, i hope!

♥ Pinkie Pie ♥ ♥

[Mail Time!]

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[A box from Pinkie?!!! He'll sure be trying these delicious wonderful snacks, enjoying a few before sending her a video message. ]

Hey Pinkie! Those were super scrumptious! Definitely something to put on the platter for our next shindig, I think. Thanks for brightening up my day!

[And for giving him tiny little hearts. He's gonna treasure that note forever like a creep. ]

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[(She surrounds all her signatures with tiny hearts, take a chill pill.)

Oh hey, good timing, Pinkie JUST finished cleaning up after giving the engine a once-over, so he'll be getting a message back in the hopes of not!FaceTiming.]

Hiya, Cheesy! I know, weren't they tasty?! But you should REALLY be thanking Kotoha, she's the one who made 'em after all! [A second or two of button pressing later and he'll get a new comm frequency.] Here's her comm number!

But yeah, it'd be PERFECT for our next party platter! Hmmm speaking of which, when do I get to return the favor for my birthday party~?

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[He has zero chill. ]

They were SUPER DUPER tasty!!! And I'll do that, it's so nice of her to give us some delicious samples.

[Oh...snap. Let's be purposely obtuse about this. ]

Iiiii'm sure you;ll get the chance sometime.

[Mail Times Two = Package!]

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[Oh, hey, it's another package sent to a certain equine Bishop! This time the box is full of... cheese puff flavored KitKat bars?]

Dear Cheese Sandwich,

Got some more treats for you~! These are from Alphonse, he said they're candy bars that taste like cheese puffs! i tried a couple already, and they're actually pretty good! He said he got them in one of those sponsor drop thingies. Have you ever gotten one? What was in it?

Hope you like the treats!

♥ ♥ Pinkie Pie ♥

And a return video

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[He feels so lucky, so spoiled, and he sure as hell isn't going to complain about it. Pinkie's making him feel better and better about living here, about everything he's been through, all in her own Pinkie Pie way. ]

Wow-ee I haven't ever tasted anything like this before! I'm going to have to add them to my cheese-based snack table back home. I think they'll go down a blast!

Thanks for the treats, you're the best!

Return Return Video~

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[Ah, sounds like the package arrived~ It won't be long before his own communicator pings.]

Yaaaay, I'm glad you like 'em! I'll see if I can try to recreate the recipe too!

[Now open up to all the bad stuff she can help you through if she knows about it...]

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Well, if anypony can do it, it's you, Baker Extrodinaire!

[A little flattery goes a long way, right? ]

Gosh, Pinkie, you've given me so many treats, I aughta do something for you. How about a song?

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[To say the least, Pinkie'd had a rough time responding to the comms. First this new guy had more or less implied she was so horrible to look at she induced vomiting and tried denying that she existed, and then this OTHER meany flaunted how much he liked eating meat and how he wouldn't stop at sentient non-humans.

It helped that most of the other humans aboard were nice, especially her crewmates, but sometimes... sometimes you just need to talk to another pony.]

Hey, Cheese.

Hope you're not too busy. I could use some company right now. Text or voice or video's fine, or if you wanna come over. If you are busy, that's fine, the day after tomorrow works.

Pinkie Pie

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[Well, that's really worrying. If Pinkie's upset well... well, that means something is horrifically wrong with the balance of the universe and it needs to be put right, ASAP. Cheese isn't about to stand idly by and let her be sad about anything. Not on his watch. ]

I'm never too busy for you. Hold tight, Pinkie, I'll be there before you know it.

[And lo, he is on his way. ]

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Hey, Cheese, Hiro from the Bishop is back if you haven't seem his comm yet!

Speaking of which, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THERE WERE BAD GUYS ATTACKING YOU/US?!?!?!

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Hey Pinkie! I sure have, I'm really glad to see him back. I know his brother will be super glad to see him again.

Oh.

Those.

They just shot at us a bit then knocked us into a nebula which drained our power for a while, then left. They've never actually hurt anypony.

It's okay :)

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Really?! Because Hiro said the time before THAT that the Bishop was almost destroyed. And the power thing's kinda bad too! What happened to all the stuff that gives you gravity and oxygen and all that?

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[Hope you're an early riser, Cheese, because this text is coming in a bit early this morning. In fact... it's about half an hour before when sunrise would've been on the last planet.]

Happy Summer Sun Celebration, Cheesy!

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Oh wow, you're right! That's today!

Happy Summer Sun Celebration, Pinkie

[Okay there's no Celestia and no...real sun but whatever. They can celebrate this if they want. ]

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[Yeah, maybe they can watch a sunrise when they get to an actual sun.]

Hope I didn't wake you up too early. I know we don't have an actual sunrise since we're in between systems now, but it kinda feels WRONG to sleep through a Summer Sun Celebration, you know?

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[Well, that sure was a bright, chipper voice over the comms. Something about it, though... REALLY made her feel uneasy. Almost as much as seeing a town full of empty smiles and identical, boring cutie marks. So a little while after that broadcast, Cheese Sandwich'll be getting another message on his comm.]

Heeeey, Cheesy! Hope you're having a good day so far! <3<3<3

Sooo you've been here for a while, right? How much do you know about that Diamond lady?

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It suddenly got way better :)

Oh. Her. She's the face for Atroma, there's usually a guy with her too, he's called Beau. He was the one talking before her.

They never really do anything aside from announce things once in while. I haven't heard from them for a looooong time, come to think of it.

They only ever responded to us when the Calibrations were happening. Other than that, they ignore everything we say to them.

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Yeah, apparently those devices we've been finding in the comm systems were blocking them from talking to us. What is she like?

"Calibrations?" What are those?

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[Shortly after Tyrion's message goes out, Cheese gets a more private message on his comm. She doesn't quite know if he saw it yet, but...]

Hey, Cheesy. How's it going?

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[She's good to him. He's already gathering his supplies and preparing to head out when he gets it. ]

Not great. One of my friends has gone missing. I'm gonna head out onto the planet and see if I can find her.

It's not like her to just up and vanish.

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Yeah. Didn't know if you'd seen Tyrion's post or not yet.

Want some company? We could cover more ground and... kinda need a break from the Caprine right now anyway.

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[Well. As if losing Tadashi the week before wasn't painful enough, last shuffle took Hiro away again.]

Saw the roster changes, Cheesy. Need me to come over?

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[She's so good to him. ]

I'm okay. Mostly worried about Belth. But you know I'd never say no to my Special Somepony coming over.

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[Well of course, he needs and deserves it.]

On my way.

[And it's not long at all before the Pony Express docks in the Bishop bay, and if Cheese isn't there to greet her Pinkie starts making a beeline for the bridge.]