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* RefugeInAudacity: Twilight steals two of Randy's spare pressure suits and has them adapted for ponies, giving them cutie marks and an embroided name tag reading “Sparkal (sic) Space Program”, all before even getting his permission to take either her or Rainbow Dash into space with him. Randy can't help but be impressed.

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* RefugeInAudacity: Twilight steals two of Randy's spare pressure suits and has them adapted for ponies, giving them cutie marks and an embroided name tag reading “Sparkal [[VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram "Sparkal (sic) Space Program”, Program"]], all before even getting his permission to take either her or Rainbow Dash into space with him. Randy can't help but be impressed.



* ScreamDiscretionShot: After realizing she just ate - ''and enjoyed'' - meat, Twilight quietly excuses herself from the room and shuts herself in another, but Randall can still hear her scream...which is so strong that it affects the Arrow freighter's ''power'' as well.

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* ScreamDiscretionShot: After realizing she just ate - -- ''and enjoyed'' - -- meat, Twilight quietly excuses herself from the room and shuts herself in another, but Randall can still hear her scream...which is so strong that it affects the Arrow freighter's ''power'' as well.



* TaserTagWeakness: Randy tasers Twilight to get her out of his ship and into bed when he becomes concerned about her obsessive studying. He tries it on Rainbow Dash during her panic attack later, but it doesn't work.

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* TaserTagWeakness: Randy tasers Twilight to get her out of his ship and into bed when he becomes concerned about her obsessive studying. He tries it on Rainbow Dash during her panic attack later, but it doesn't work.work -- pegasi are more resistant to electric shock.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Or what did I ''almost'' do in Chrysalis' case. Doubles as a BreakTheHaughty moment for her.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Or what did I ''almost'' ''[[ApocalypseHow almost]]'' do in Chrysalis' case. Doubles as a BreakTheHaughty moment for her.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Or what did I ''almost'' do in Chrysalis' case. Doubles as a BreakTheHaughty moment for her.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Randy is injured after the Ravenstar malfunctions while taking off, losing both legs. But he survives thanks to Luna, and has managed to help forge a good relationship between Earth and Equus (as well as between the Equestrians and the Changelings)]].
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Both stories are currently incomplete, and ''Sparkle's Notes'' is significantly behind ''Lone Ranger'' in the timeline.

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Both stories are currently incomplete, and ''Lone Ranger'' was completed in June 2015, with ''Sparkle's Notes'' is significantly behind ''Lone Ranger'' in the timeline.
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--->I'tok! Uno-tok! Tok'i![[hottip:*:I'm talking! You don't talk! Talk to me!]]

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--->I'tok! Uno-tok! Tok'i![[hottip:*:I'm Tok'i![[hottip:*: I'm talking! You don't talk! Talk to me!]]
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** Later, Rainbow Dash gives it a try and fares even worse!
--->I'tok! Uno-tok! Tok'i![[hottip:*:I'm talking! You don't talk! Talk to me!]]
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* HeroicBSOD: When Randy discovers that yes, [[PhysicalGod Celestia and Luna]] do in fact literally control the sun and moon, he kind of... breaks for a little while.

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* HeroicBSOD: When Randy discovers that yes, [[PhysicalGod Celestia and Luna]] do in fact literally ''literally'' control the sun and moon, he kind of... breaks for a little while. Particularly noteworthy in that he was perfectly willing to consider it as a ''hypothesis''; seeing actual evidence is a different experience entirely.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Twilight teaches herself English from Randy's ship's computer impressively fast. Otherwise averted.

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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Twilight teaches herself English from Randy's ship's computer impressively fast. Otherwise averted.averted -- Luna ''tries'' to speak English, but only manages to sound like a horrifically malfunctioning toaster.
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''Arrow 18 Mission Logs'' is a the banner title for two ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics written by [[https://www.fimfiction.net/user/AdmiralTigerclaw Admiral Tigerclaw]], depicting a FirstContact scenario between Earth and Equestria. ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/41863/arrow-18-mission-logs-sparkles-notes Arrow 18: Mission Logs Sparkle's Notes]]'' tells the story from the ponies' point of view, using Twilight Sparkle's diary and correspondence, while ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13616/arrow-18-mission-logs-lone-ranger Arrow 18 Mission Logs: Lone Ranger]]'' mostly uses the log of human astronaut Randolph Edwards.

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''Arrow 18 Mission Logs'' is a the banner title for two ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics written by [[https://www.fimfiction.net/user/AdmiralTigerclaw Admiral Tigerclaw]], depicting a FirstContact scenario between Earth and Equestria. ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/41863/arrow-18-mission-logs-sparkles-notes Arrow 18: 18 Mission Logs Logs: Sparkle's Notes]]'' tells the story from the ponies' point of view, using Twilight Sparkle's diary and correspondence, while ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13616/arrow-18-mission-logs-lone-ranger Arrow 18 Mission Logs: Lone Ranger]]'' mostly uses the log of human astronaut Randolph Edwards.
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** Later Justified by Twilight. Rainbow Dash is a pegasus and is used to flying under her own power. To be flying in an enclosed space not under her control is hell!
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* MagicVsScience: An interesting take. Twilight manages to hack into Randy's computer with magic. Specifically, by using her magic to painstakingly track the electrical currents within the computer, poking and prodding at different circuits until she found the one bit that needed to be flipped which told the computer that the correct password had been entered. It apparently took her over eight hours to find it.

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* MagicVsScience: MagicVersusScience: An interesting take. Twilight manages to hack into Randy's computer with magic. Specifically, by using her magic to painstakingly track the electrical currents within the computer, poking and prodding at different circuits until she found the one bit that needed to be flipped which told the computer that the correct password had been entered. It apparently took her over eight hours to find it.
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* MagicVsScience: An interesting take. Twilight manages to hack into Randy's computer with magic. Specifically, by using her magic to painstakingly track the electrical currents within the computer, poking and prodding at different circuits until she found the one bit that needed to be flipped which told the computer that the correct password had been entered. It apparently took her over eight hours to find it.
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* CarnivoreConfusion: Inverted at one point [[spoiler: when Twilight mistakenly eats one of Randy's meat-based [=MREs=] and discovers, [[HeroicBSOD to her dismay]], that she likes it.]]

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* CarnivoreConfusion: Inverted at one point [[spoiler: when Twilight mistakenly eats one of Randy's meat-based [=MREs=] and discovers, [[HeroicBSOD to her dismay]], that she likes it.]]



** [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash is discovered to be claustrophobic...when they're on a ship traveling over twenty times the speed of sound.]]

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** [[spoiler:Rainbow Rainbow Dash is discovered to be claustrophobic...when they're on a ship traveling over twenty times the speed of sound.]]



* ScreamDiscretionShot: After [[spoiler:realizing she just ate - ''and enjoyed'' - meat]], Twilight quietly excuses herself from the room and shuts herself in another, but Randall can still hear her scream...which is so strong that it affects the Arrow freighter's ''power'' as well.

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* ScreamDiscretionShot: After [[spoiler:realizing realizing she just ate - ''and enjoyed'' - meat]], meat, Twilight quietly excuses herself from the room and shuts herself in another, but Randall can still hear her scream...which is so strong that it affects the Arrow freighter's ''power'' as well.



* TaserTagWeakness: Randy tasers Twilight to get her out of his ship and into bed when he becomes concerned about her obsessive studying. [[spoiler: He tries it on Rainbow Dash during her panic attack later, but it doesn't work.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash proves to be extremely claustrophobic once in Randy's spaceship, going into a panic attack during takeoff.]]

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* TaserTagWeakness: Randy tasers Twilight to get her out of his ship and into bed when he becomes concerned about her obsessive studying. [[spoiler: He tries it on Rainbow Dash during her panic attack later, but it doesn't work.]]
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: [[spoiler:Rainbow Rainbow Dash proves to be extremely claustrophobic once in Randy's spaceship, going into a panic attack during takeoff.]]
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* CarnivoreConfusion: Inverted at one point [[spoiler: when Twilight mistakenly eats one of Randy's meat-based MREs and discovers, [[HeroicBSOD to her dismay]], that she likes it.]]

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* CarnivoreConfusion: Inverted at one point [[spoiler: when Twilight mistakenly eats one of Randy's meat-based MREs [=MREs=] and discovers, [[HeroicBSOD to her dismay]], that she likes it.]]
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash proves to be extremely claustrophobic once in Randy's spaceship, going into a panic attack during takeoff.]]

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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash proves to be extremely claustrophobic once in Randy's spaceship, going into a panic attack during takeoff.]]]]
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* ScreamDiscretionShot: After [[spoiler:realizing she just ate - ''and enjoyed'' - meat]], Twilight quietly excuses herself from the room and shuts herself in another, but Randall can still hear her scream...which is so strong that it affects the space station's ''power'' as well.

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* ScreamDiscretionShot: After [[spoiler:realizing she just ate - ''and enjoyed'' - meat]], Twilight quietly excuses herself from the room and shuts herself in another, but Randall can still hear her scream...which is so strong that it affects the space station's Arrow freighter's ''power'' as well.
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* HostileShowTakeover: Takes place whenever Twilight fills in for Randy when he is incapacitated in some way.
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** [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash is discovered to be claustrophobic...when they're on a ship traveling over twenty times the speed of sound.]]


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* ScreamDiscretionShot: After [[spoiler:realizing she just ate - ''and enjoyed'' - meat]], Twilight quietly excuses herself from the room and shuts herself in another, but Randall can still hear her scream...which is so strong that it affects the space station's ''power'' as well.
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The two events happen in the opposite order; he isn\'t stripped until he\'s inside the building, and not being paraded around town in his birthday suit.


* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Rarity reacts to Randy's apparently ugly uniform by stripping it from him, then having Applejack hogtie him and bring him back to Carousel Boutique.

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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Rarity reacts to Randy's apparently ugly uniform by stripping it from him, then having Applejack hogtie him and bring him back to Carousel Boutique.Boutique, then stripping it from him. Twilight arrives soon afterward, having just learned about human modesty, and covers him up.
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* HeroicBSOD: When Randy discovers that yes, [[PhysicalGod Celestia and Luna]] do in fact literally control the sun and moon, he kind of... breaks for a little while.
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* CarnivoreConfusion: Inverted at one point [[spoiler: when Twilight mistakenly eats one of Randy's meat-based MREs and discovers, [[HeroicBSOD to her dismay]], that she likes it.]]
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* AntiMagic: Much like in the [[SleepingWithTheGirls author's other major story]], Rangy is essentially immune to all forms of magic, including [[TakenForGranite Cockatrice Stares]], Luna's Dream Walking and [[spoiler: Changeling Love siphoning.]]

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* AntiMagic: Much like in the [[SleepingWithTheGirls author's other major story]], Rangy Randy is essentially immune to all forms of magic, including [[TakenForGranite Cockatrice Stares]], Luna's Dream Walking and [[spoiler: Changeling Love siphoning.]]
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* AntiMagic: Much like in the [[SleepingWithTheGirls author's other major story]], Rangy is essentially immune to all forms of magic, including [[TakenForGranite Cockatrice Stares]], Luna's Dream Walking and [[spoiler: Changeling Love siphoning.]]
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* FirstContact

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* FirstContactFirstContact: The story as a whole. Actual initial communication uses [[FirstContactMath math]].
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Rarity reacts to Randy's apparently ugly space suit by stripping it from him, then having Applejack hogtie him and bring him back to Carousel Boutique. He

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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Rarity reacts to Randy's apparently ugly space suit uniform by stripping it from him, then having Applejack hogtie him and bring him back to Carousel Boutique. He Boutique.
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''Arrow 18 Mission Logs'' is a the banner title for two ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics written by [[https://www.fimfiction.net/user/AdmiralTigerclaw Admiral Tigerclaw]], depicting a FirstContact scenario between Earth and Equestria. ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/41863/arrow-18-mission-logs-sparkles-notes Arrow 18: Mission Logs'' Sparkle's Notes]] tells the story from the ponies' point of view, using Twilight Sparkle's diary and correspondence, while ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13616/arrow-18-mission-logs-lone-ranger Arrow 18 Mission Logs: Lone Ranger]]'' mostly uses the log of human astronaut Randolph Edwards.

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''Arrow 18 Mission Logs'' is a the banner title for two ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics written by [[https://www.fimfiction.net/user/AdmiralTigerclaw Admiral Tigerclaw]], depicting a FirstContact scenario between Earth and Equestria. ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/41863/arrow-18-mission-logs-sparkles-notes Arrow 18: Mission Logs'' Logs Sparkle's Notes]] Notes]]'' tells the story from the ponies' point of view, using Twilight Sparkle's diary and correspondence, while ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13616/arrow-18-mission-logs-lone-ranger Arrow 18 Mission Logs: Lone Ranger]]'' mostly uses the log of human astronaut Randolph Edwards.
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''Arrow 18 Mission Logs'' is a the banner title for two ''WesternAnimation/My LittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics written by [[https://www.fimfiction.net/user/AdmiralTigerclaw Admiral Tigerclaw]], depicting a FirstContact scenario between Earth and Equestria. ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/41863/arrow-18-mission-logs-sparkles-notes Arrow 18: Mission Logs'' Sparkle's Notes]] tells the story from the ponies' point of view, using Twilight Sparkle's diary and correspondence, while ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13616/arrow-18-mission-logs-lone-ranger Arrow 18 Mission Logs: Lone Ranger]]'' mostly uses the log of human astronaut Randolph Edwards.

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''Arrow 18 Mission Logs'' is a the banner title for two ''WesternAnimation/My LittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics written by [[https://www.fimfiction.net/user/AdmiralTigerclaw Admiral Tigerclaw]], depicting a FirstContact scenario between Earth and Equestria. ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/41863/arrow-18-mission-logs-sparkles-notes Arrow 18: Mission Logs'' Sparkle's Notes]] tells the story from the ponies' point of view, using Twilight Sparkle's diary and correspondence, while ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13616/arrow-18-mission-logs-lone-ranger Arrow 18 Mission Logs: Lone Ranger]]'' mostly uses the log of human astronaut Randolph Edwards.
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RefugeInAudacity: Twilight steals two of Randy's spare pressure suits and has them adapted for ponies, giving them cutie marks and an embroided name tag reading “Sparkal (sic) Space Program”, all before even getting his permission to take either her or Rainbow Dash into space with him. Randy can't help but be impressed.

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* RefugeInAudacity: Twilight steals two of Randy's spare pressure suits and has them adapted for ponies, giving them cutie marks and an embroided name tag reading “Sparkal (sic) Space Program”, all before even getting his permission to take either her or Rainbow Dash into space with him. Randy can't help but be impressed.
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''Arrow 18 Mission Logs'' is a the banner title for two ''WesternAnimation/My LittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics written by [[https://www.fimfiction.net/user/AdmiralTigerclaw Admiral Tigerclaw]], depicting a FirstContact scenario between Earth and Equestria. ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/41863/arrow-18-mission-logs-sparkles-notes Arrow 18: Mission Logs'' Sparkle's Notes]] tells the story from the ponies' point of view, using Twilight Sparkle's diary and correspondence, while ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/13616/arrow-18-mission-logs-lone-ranger Arrow 18 Mission Logs: Lone Ranger]]'' mostly uses the log of human astronaut Randolph Edwards.

Both stories are currently incomplete, and ''Sparkle's Notes'' is significantly behind ''Lone Ranger'' in the timeline.

* {{Adorkable}}: Twilight, as in canon, but her reaction to realising that Randy is trying to communicate with her using ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome MATH]]'' is a standout.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Twilight teaches herself English from Randy's ship's computer impressively fast. Otherwise averted.
* FirstContact
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Rarity reacts to Randy's apparently ugly space suit by stripping it from him, then having Applejack hogtie him and bring him back to Carousel Boutique. He
RefugeInAudacity: Twilight steals two of Randy's spare pressure suits and has them adapted for ponies, giving them cutie marks and an embroided name tag reading “Sparkal (sic) Space Program”, all before even getting his permission to take either her or Rainbow Dash into space with him. Randy can't help but be impressed.
* ScrapbookStory: Both stories are complied from logs, letters and a transcript from a flight data recorder.
* ShownTheirWork: To the point of simulating flights in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiter_%28simulator%29 Orbiter]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCXvszLlFDc linking the results]].
* TaserTagWeakness: Randy tasers Twilight to get her out of his ship and into bed when he becomes concerned about her obsessive studying. [[spoiler: He tries it on Rainbow Dash during her panic attack later, but it doesn't work.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash proves to be extremely claustrophobic once in Randy's spaceship, going into a panic attack during takeoff.]]

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