The Clockwork Camping Experience (Fireseeker&Gemini)

Hmm.. oh hello!

Trapper smiled nervously up at the Pegasus, having an idea of where she was now, and wondering why he was circling she quickened her pace back to the camp ground, she stepped over the bag of abandoned mash-mellows and picked them up, holding them with one hoof and ripping open the packaging with her teeth.

I am sorry that I took so long, but I apparently don't know the area as well as I thought I did.Did some pony want these?

She held onto the bag of sweet and sat down on the ground beside the fire, watching it nervously, she took one of the sweets and nibbled the edge of it.

Clockwork and chuckled. she pulled out a hoof friendly swiss army knife and after fiddling around and had had a rod extensions. she stuck a marshmellow on the end and began to roast it over the fire.

"these ideas just come to me i guess, or i do research in the Library for Ideas."

-she pulls out of her bag some gram crackers and a chocolate bar and began to make a smore.-

"so how are ya Trapper?"

"research is always good." gemini says to clockwork, then waves to trapper as she approaches." i think i saw fire trying to open those. he didn't even try to use his teeth." he takes a marsh-mellow too, not bothering to put it over the fire as he eats it." i wonder who had the idea to cook marsh-mellows. they must have been very bored or didn't have anything else to cook."

Since he was up in the sky, Fireseeker performed a few simple barrel rolls and a corkscrew dive before landing back among the camp.

Rustling his wings a little, he spotted the marshmallow packet was now open. Finding a sharp stick, he poked a spongy treat on the end and started roasting.

"Maybe they were seeing what you could and couldn't cook over an open fire?" Fireseeker suggested to Gemini.

I am good, it will be wonderful if I escape the trip without bug bites. Don't these explode if they cook for too long?..

She took another sweet and popped it into her mouth now, she gave the bag to fire seeker knowing that she would sit there and eat the entire bag if she allowed her mind to wander with food in hoof.

As she sat still bugs began to slowly gather on her, she twitched a little and sighed trying to ignore this.

while eatign her sweet, she saw bugs gathering. . . on Trappers and sighed.

"Gem in my bag check the LEFT side for a medium sized device that looks like a cicada and wind it up. it will make a noise that tells all the bugs to bug off."

she continued to eat her smores and wonder what time it is.

"so whats your story Traps?"

"sure thing." gemini does as clockwork says, making sure not to disturb anything else in her bag." uh....this one?" gemini winds up a device and sighs in relief as it makes a noise." okay, your bags not on fire, so i think it might have been the right one."

Fireseeker contently chewed on his marshmallow, taking the packet as Trapper passed it to him and starting roasting another one on his stick.

He remained quiet, also interested to hear Trapper's answer to Clockwork.

Trapper smiled properly for the first time in front of the other ponies as the bugs scattered, she stood and put her things in trappers tent thinking about what she was willing to share about herself, she retook her seat and shrugged.

Thank you so much for that, being around my plants so much makes me smell like their scent, I smell like a meal to most bugs.

Not much to me, I have lived in pony vill since I was born, I discovered my love for plants as a school filly. I had a business for a brief time which closed down, so now I do odd gardening jobs about pony vill. I like to breed plants, and I hope to cross breed a new type of larger carnivorous plant.

She looked away from the fire preferring to look out into the woods which was slowly growing darker, she watched as some close by plants closed up their flowers for the night.

"interesting, i'm sorry for your business, but if you need a job, I'm sure the unicorn a couple of streets down could use a gardener, he has three greenhouses from what i seen."

She finished off her smore and cleaned off the rod that was used on the marshmellow and stored the army knife away before going into her ten and took out what looked like the bars of a grill on stilts, and a mental disk.

"anything particular I should cook? beans? hay pasta? it is about dinner time and I can eat sweets all night, ut i'm sure you three want 'real' food."

the way she stated it sounds like she things sweets are real food, but she looked ready to cook anything with her oddily normal looking tools.

"im good with anything really." gemini replied to clockwork."and...cross breed plants? how do you do that?" he asked trapper, taking another marsh-mellow from fire.

Fireseeker finished his marshmallow and mmhm'ed in pleasure. He stared at the dancing flames of the fire briefly, watching as it licked at the air above it. He put his stick down before shuffling over to Clockwork.

"Hay pasta sounds good. You want some help cooking?"

Pasta sounds good to me as well.

Trapper smiled quickly and took her mane down from it's hair band, she took a moment to shake out her mane before she responded, there was many ways but she assumed he meant the way she personally did it.

Well, it's not to complicated at least the pollination part its self isn't, you take the pollen of one plant and rub it into the flower of another, wait and observe the effects on the next generation. That's why I was collecting pollen from the flower I found earlier, it's good for study and if it is a known species then I can find what other plants it is genetically close enough to breed with.

(and that's all I got.)

Cw smiled lightly and put the grilling stand over the fire and put a hoof inthe center of the disk and it extended down into a pot, she dragged out on one of the sides as a handle was made. she filled the pot with water from her canteen and went through her bag for some pasta, still sealed up, and tossed it to Fire.

"if you want to cook, be my guest, i wouldn't mind listening to Traps here while you cook."

she smiled lightly and moved closer to traps before sitting down to exchange stories between the three of them.

"alright Traps, i'm sure you wanna know more about us, feel free to ask anything yoou want to know."

"hmm. interesting." gemini says as trapper explained how she breeds plants." so, you do that for a living then? i just work as an assistant to a vet here, and even then i plan on travelling a bit. maybe if i find a rare plant on my travels, i could bring you back its pollen or something."

"Sure thing Gears," smirked Fireseeker to Clockwork.

He struggled with the pasta packet for a while before using his teeth to rip it open. He poured the pasta into the pot and to start to boil it. With a grin, he listened to Clockwork and the others.

I do odd gardening jobs for work, a pony with my talent is not needed. I will look into the job thank you Clockwork. Oh! If you could bring back some pressed flowers and things like that it would be wonderful, it is very kind of you to offer.

She smiled at Gemini before watching Fireseeker cooking, the cooking contraption was interesting and she was impressed that Clockwork had built it on her own, she thought for a moment about what to ask of them.

Well.. I was an only foal, without much of an extended family. do any of you have siblings or cuzins that you grew up with?

-Cw sighed as she sopose she should say a little about her family-

"I came from a bigger than adverage house of spiteful siblings and parents. i guess if your a loving family it would be tolerable, but how I was treated, the fewer the better for me."

-she sighed and went to her tent and pulled out the music box and changed out the metal cylinder with another one and wound it up, playing peaceful music instead of hikig music from when they were first heading to the camping area.

gemini listened to clockwork talk about her family, mentally sighing." so, how long will the pasta be?" he asked fire, hoping to avoid talking about his family." so, do you have any pets or something like that?" he asked to anypony in general that would answer.

"Pasta's pasta," replied Fireseeker, stirring the pot's contents with a wooden spoon in hoof. "Won't take too long."

Satisfied that the food wasn't going to spontaneously combust, he relaxed and joined the conversation. However, he was vague with his answers

"No pets. And no siblings. Just me, and my parents. Mostly my mum though."

I prefer plants over animals, and I already have a ton of those to feed.

She shrugged a little and stared at the pasta cooking, her stomach rumbled a little bit and she stretched now focused on the pot of food.

Clockwork what can you tell me about the pony who you said may have work for me?

"no pets, the closest thing to a pet are my clockwork toys."

She said and turned her attention to Trappers question.

"hm? him? well i don't really talk to him, from the looks of his store, he makes potions, but I have no use for things like that, only went in there to pick up some lubricant from my gears. If you want to know more about him, you should talk to him yourself."

-hearing Trappers stomach growl, CW took out a mimi muffin and tossed it in her direction to tie her over while the food finishes cooking.-

"speaking of food, what is everyponies perfered meal, mine of corse is anything sweet and baked."

"i prefer ceaser salad, myself. especially with croutons." gemini says, sitting back and looking up at the stars."so, none of you have any pets? huh...well, i guess it means my job's not so useful to you guys. oh well." gemini sighs mentally in relief, glad nopony asked him about his family.

Fireseeker shrugged.

"I'm not too fussy with food," he answered, then grinned at Clockwork. "But who doesn't like cakes and baked food?"

Sitting up, Fireseeker glanced over the pot's edge into the boiling water. Upon seeing the contents, he went back to stirring.

"Speaking of food, pasta's ready."

I like fruit of any kind but my favorite would be oranges. They are a pain to deal with without magic but they are so good.Oh, thank you.

-She scarfed down the muffin and smiled hearing the food was done, she crossed to Fireseeker and took a plate for herself before crossing back to her seat and digging in-

On the contrary, do you know a good way to keep rabbits out of a vegetable patch? they just dig under my fence and its getting too the point they are eating my Fly traps as well, and I need those for other pest control.