@Blitz Boom
"Here."
Floatin Matter, a light gray pegasus with dark purple hair trotted in a big garage carrying a tablet with some sandwiches and a glass of water with her. Her magenta eyes looked around as she putted the tablet on a little side table.
"I'm going to go to Gravity Wave to discuss the results of our last research now. I'll be back around sunset, I'm sure you'll be finnished until then", she sayed to Steampunk Gear, a tall orange pony with a quite messy brown mane and a short, bushy tail, who was lying under a pretty big mechanic coach tinkering around with a few gears and pipes. His orange-yellow wings who clearly don't fit in with the rest of his body are covered with gears and other metallic parts. The scarred tissue around the coracoid seperates the orange fur and the lighter feathers.
"Okay!" he replied concisely.
"Come on honey, I want to say goodbye to you, not to your wingtips."
The orange earth pony creeped out from under the device. His eyes, the right one totally grean, the other one with a tough of yellow, looked up to Floatings smiling face.
"I'm almost finnished. We can test it when you're back... that's gonna be sooo great!" Steampunk told her enormously excited.
"I'm already looking forward it", Floating replied. "See you later then!"
"Goodbye!", Steampunk answered after standing up and giving Floating a long goodbye hug.
It was already past sunset when Floating Matter returned home. Assuming that Steampunk would already await her, she walked directly into the garage. The tablet still stood on the site table, with an empty plate and glass on it. Steampunk was putting some tools on a rack as he noticed Floating.
"Hey there! Perfect timing! I finnished the engine just now" he said. Floating walked towards the modified coach a bit unsurely while Steampunk opened the garage gate.
"And... you're sure you didn't forget anything?"
"Of cource I am. Just don't worry, this will be great!" Steampunk drove the device out of the garage and closed the garage gate again. Meanwhile Floating took a seat on the vehicle and waited for Steampunk to start the familiar steam engine and drove out of the village. It was the new engine Steampunk just installed on the vehicle that kinda frightened Floating.
"And you're REALLY sure that this engine is save, right?"
"Haha, just calm down, honey. I double-checked everything! Just relax, you'll love it, trust me!"
As they were outside of the village, Steampunk turned off the steam engine and switched to the new gas engine, that could be fueled with an strange, explosive fluid that Burning Oil, a chemist and friend of Floating and Steampunk, just devised by seperating the oil the town ponies found in several components. The vehicle did a jolt forward, then stood still for the half of a second, before it suddenly quickened with a series of loud bangs.
"Now we're getting started! We'll be even faster than the wonderbolts! This is going to be so amazing!"
"Wheeeeeeeee!"
"AAAAAAAAHH!"
The vehicle dashed across the flat landscape. Steampunk really had his fun, while Floating was still worried.
"We totally gonna crash into a tree! Care for the knoll over there! Oh why did I agreed to come with you?"
"Hey, don't worry! Just relax and enjoy the airstream blowing through your mane... oh, I never experienced something that beautiful before!"
"Uhm... wait, what is that over there?"
The vehicle got slower and slower and finally stopped moving. Floating and Steampunk suddenly were verry quiet and watched two strangers walking along in the distance. There were several trees around them, and since the probably elder one was distracted by the younger, littler one, they hadn't noticed Floating and Steampunk yet.
"You know, there are only two possible reasons why anyone could walk along this area. Either they lost the track and wander around this place aimless, or they're traveling towards our town."
"Right. So either they need help to get back on track or they could need someone who carries them to the village."
"Exactly. I say we should ask them if they need any help or something. But Steampunk, don't use the gas engine!"
"Haha, okay okay, if you really hate it so much..."
Steampunk switched back to the steam engine and the vehicle slowly drove towards the two strangers.