[HEADING=1]IN EQUESTRIA![/HEADING]
[HEADING=3]FOUR MONTHS LATER...[/HEADING]
After many months of classified training, Knife and I are ready to launch into space. We walk toward the ship in our spacesuits.
Roach: Hey guys.
RaN: "That you, Roach?"
Roach: Yeah. They've got me working ground control for this launch. Go ahead and fasten yourselves in. We launch in thirty seconds.
Knife: "Are you sure this rust-bucket is going to get us up there?"
RaN: "I built it myself."
Knife: "So that's a definite 'maybe'."
Roach: T-minus go for auto-sequence start. Twenty-five seconds.
Knife: "I'm starting to have second thoughts."
RaN: "We've been working our asses off just to get here. We can't quit now."
Roach: Rocket booster steering check in work. Twenty.
Knife: "How do you know this thing you won't go off like Challenger?"
RaN: "I don't, but bitching about it now won't make much of a difference."
Roach: Firing chain is armed. Fifteen.
Knife: "C'mon. Don't tell me you're not scared too."
RaN: "We're launching into space in a scrap-metal ship I built in four months. The only thing keeping it from falling apart is magic. OF COURSE I'M FUCKING SCARED!"
Roach: Go for main engine start. T-minus 10, 9, 8...
RaN: "Here we go."
Roach: ... 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Liftoff!
Engines burning, the ship lifts off the ground. We lose radio contact with ground control. Two grueling minutes later, we breach atmosphere and set a course of orbit to the Moon.
Knife: "I'm in spaaaaaaaace!"
RaN: "Sorry Knife. I already ran that joke through the ground twice."