Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
While Don Canter spoke closely with his thugs, Top Dog gathered with the freshly recruited mutts from the teleportation spell. The canine cretins gathered together seveal spears, sharpening and examining them while Top Dog barked orders. Meanwhile, several henchstallions pulled a crate full of ranged weapons from the summoning circle and began assigning them to various members of the gang.
"Well..." Rainbow mumbled. "All things considered... that went kinda okay..."
"Seems like they're setting up for a war," Lancie remarked. "And now they've got you as the spearhead."
"I figured I'd always make for a good hood ornament."
"Well, at least you're honest." Clearing his throat, Lancie leaned against her head and smirked down at her. "Y'know, I suppose I should be thanking you."
"Hmmmphh... for what?"
"For sticking out for me the way you did." Lancie adjusted an invisible collar, his granite features wincing. "For a moment there, it looked like the big fat one wanted to turn me into kitty litter."
"Don't be silly," Rainbow droned. "You're not nearly that absorbant."
"Hardy har har..." Lancie cleared his throat. "Actually, Sparky, there's... something else I'd like to bring up."
"Yeah?"
"About what you said earlier to these punks and punkettes—"
"I was bluffing," Rainbow said quietly. "I told you before. Remember?"
"Yes, but even still." His brow furrowed. "Just how far are you willing to go with... all this?"
"What does it matter?" Rainbow muttered. "And, furthermore, why do you care?"
"Well, it just so happens that I think that—"
"Well well well..." Flim shuffled up, smirking coyly. He folded his forelimbs. "It seems like you smooth-talked your way over the boss. But you can't fool me."
Rainbow sighed. With a flick of her tail, she trotted across the clearing. "Buzz off, spitwad."
"Do you seriously think that Romulus and his idiot allies are gonna buy your schtick forever? Huh?" Flim trotted swiftly after her. "My brother and I have seen the inside of your head, filly. We know that you're loyal... but we also know that you're loyal to a fault."
"Jee... how'd you figure that one out?" Rainbow rolled her eyes. "By endangering the lives of ponies for no good reason?"
"You call our mother's well-being no good reason?!" Flim snarled, his teeth showing. "She had a life to live in the world that we gave her! Your so-called friends?! They don't even scratch the surface of Mother's legacy! Just who were you to play executioner in the end?!"
Rainbow turned to glare at him. "...you're a friggin' lunatic." She waved a hoof. "Go find yourself a cork factory and plug up both of your mouths, ya melon fudge." She turned to trot off again. "At least that way you can keep the manure to yourself."
"I'm serious!" Flim hissed, hopping in front of Rainbow Dash and growling in her face. "This isn't over once we find the shards. Oh no..." He shook his head with a wicked smile. "Once we get our piece of the cut, we'll bring back Mother. And then we'll head to that rinky-dinky little hole-in-a-ground you call a hometown. Once there, maybe we'll play a game of 'executioner' ourselves."
Rainbow squinted. "Back. Off."
"Ahem..." Lancie pointed. "I... would listen to her if I were you, 'old chum.'"
"Why's that?" Flim cackled. "I'm not afraid of her! I'm not the one who should be afraid, after all." He turned to leer at Rainbow again, smiling. "You know... the last time we had your friend, we gave her a heaven." He licked his lips. "Maybe she could use a good dose of hell this time... though it'd be heaven for Flam and me—"
WHACK! A string of blood flew from Flim's nose. It may have had something to do with the massive uppercut Rainbow had just given him.
"Oboy—" Lancie fell off Rainbow's darting body. "Oofa!"
"Rrrrrrrrrgh!" Rainbow plowed the stallion to the ground, gripping his skull. THUD! "You even think about touching her, and I'll shove that catapult down your throat and pull it out the other end until you turn inside out, ya lame waste of noodle!"
"Gaaaah...!" Flim wheezed and flailed, gargling his own blood. "Flam! H-help!"
"What in Tartarus do you think you're doing?!" Flam galloped over, hissing. "Get off him, you crazed harpy—"
"Rrrgh—" Rainbow immediately flew off Flim's figure and howled in Flam's face. "Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh!"
Flam teetered back, his resolve instantly melting as he stared at her with shrinking pupils.
Several diamond dogs and thugs looked over. Squidgy rolled in his emerald jar.
Rainbow Dash panted and seethed. After several hyperventilating breaths, she stood in place with her backhairs bristled. "You two dapper dorkfarts know me so well..." She exhaled menacingly, taking bold steps towards them. "Then you know... you know what I'll do to you if you so much as threaten my friends again—"
"I can expect anything..." Flam growled. "From the mare who murdered our mother."
"Will you stop—!"
Whump! Sunset Shimmer suddenly charged in, knocking Rainbow and Flam apart. "Alright! That's enough!" She glared at Flam. "You heard the boss! We're going forward with this group effort! So stop your brother from shaking the hornet's nest for once!"
"I swear..." Rainbow pointed. "If you don't make Romulus or someone tie these two jokers up—"
"And you!" Sunset frowned. "Don Canter doesn't take kindly to you messing up the goods! He's hired these tinkerers, and for better or for worse, they're helping us achieve the same goal you want! Doesn't mean you have to like them! Tartarus, I don't even like them! But we have to make do, don't we?"
"But—"
"Don't forget it was me who agreed with you on the whole 'team-up' thing!" Sunset's voice cracked. "While it was Romulus who wanted to gut you like the pig you are. And believe me, I'd like nothing better." Her eyes narrowed. "You left me to rot in a hole in the ground, with all of my dreams and hopes crushed to dust. You're lucky I didn't boil your blood the very moment I saw you in the squirrels' den. But that's not what we're here for, anymore, is it?"
"I am not about to be preached to by—"
Sunset shoved her hoof in Rainbow's chest. "Leave your anger at the door. When all of this is said and done, then you can commit bloody murder on any punks you want. Quite frankly it's the same hole you dug for yourself in the first place. But don't buck up the operation because of it!"
Silence.
"Are we done butting heads?! Good!" Sunset stormed off. "Now, if you don't mind, I have to meditate super-hard to regain the magic in my horn... ... ... again!"
Rainbow seethed and seethed.
Flam helped Flim up to his hooves. The half-bleeding brothers glared back at Rainbow, then trotted up to their mechanical catapult.
Meanwhile, Romulus leaned against a dead tree, sharpening a dagger. He smirked bitterly, chuckled to himself, and kept grinding away.
Rainbow hung her head while Lancie climbed back on her shoulder.
"Well... that was certainly..." Lancie blinked. "Cathartic."
"Not really," Rainbow muttered.
"Need help with the not-killing-creeps-who-deserve-it schtick?"
"Mmmf..." Rainbow Dash trotted swiftly north, stretching her wings. "I... I need to do some thinking."
"About...?"
"Everything. But most importantly this mission."
Romulus glared at Rainbow Dash as she streaked by. "And where do you think you're going?"
"Reconnaissance."
"But now's not the time for—"
"Reconnaissance!" And Rainbow took off for the northern horizon.
"Hmmmff..." Romulus shook her head, grumbling. "She's so dead."
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Flim and Flam really are deranged.
Nice to see even evil has standards, no one else likes the lunatics.
Celestia in the fucking sun, if you love her that damn much, let her rest in peace! Don't drag her back into the world, away from her husband. Isn't that what the two of you dickwads were trying to do in the first place? Reunite her with the love of her life? Well she's with him now! And you want to drag her away from him?
Fucking ay.... if that's meant to make us feel sorry for them, it's not working.
Tartarus, the only one who even has a semi-viable reason to be pissed at her at this point is Sunset.
Dash told her that she'd come back to get her out of the pit and she didn't.
It's not a good reason, but it's better than the others.
Is anyone else still holding on to the hope that maybe Sunset Shimmer isn't going to be super-mega bad in the end and might be reformed? No? But it would be amazing to have a Sunset and Celestia scene... and then have her move in to Ponyville like The Great and Powerful Trixie did. More characters so that Appledashery doesn't end!
...does anyone remember when Flim and Flam were only hated because they just wanted to sell apple cider in massive quantities? Damn, look at those two now...
"Our cider is better than your cider Nyahnyah"
"We're going to sacrifice your body so that our mother may live on eternally in a completely falsified world powered by chaos itself and in no way can ever backfire because our mother must never die since your lives are insignificant next to her life"
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Honestly, redeeming Sunset is the only way Dash can get out of this without staring down some serious personal moral sacrifices.
Seems to me Dash knows the stakes clearly. Every last sleaze here is likely to try and burn down Ponyville in spite after this. They can't be trusted to keep any deal. If she's going to protect her loved ones, not a single one of these maniacs can leave this place alive. She's prepared to go through with it. The only question is weather she'll have to.
The only way she can manage this without resorting to murder is by denying them Sunset. And even if she uses the shards to do it, taking just her and Sunset out of there, that still leaves her dealing with Sunset. If she doesn't come around, she's too dangerous to let go.
6480118 I'm of the opinion that more than just Sunset will be redeemed by the end of this. Don't forget that there are others here who, distasteful though they may be, still aren't so much evil as they are desperate. Mainly that applies to the sons of Shindig, who, while I can't approve of their methods, can certainly understand their motivations. It may or may not apply to Romulus, who seems like he may or may not have been at least semi-honorable in the past. He did make it a serious point to say that he never goes against a contract. It could be that he just had a bad run in life and is willing to do anything to get ahead. Top Dog and Don Canter are the minority here, one's a mob boss, the other is a genius dictator.
But the thing that I find most interesting: Rainbow is sitting amongst a group of professional thieves, liars, and killers. And she's being forced to cooperate with them and play by their rules. Whereas before she had a moral high ground, now she is slowly becoming like them, in that she is now willing to do whatever it takes to get what she wants, even if it's morally questionable. And if her plan succeeds, then she really won't have to worry about whether or not she'd deserve AJ. Because she'd be exactly the kind of thing AJ hates.
Anyone else who can't wait to see the Jerk Brothers get pressed into cider?
...This all coming from a show called "Friendship is Magic", by the way...
Fight! fight! fight! fight!
Holy fuck, the Flim Flam brothers really are completely delusional.
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It still counts! A true, true friend would help you hide the bodies after all.
6479994 Well put. Couldn't have said it better myself.
6480748 Get, ya think?!
I feel like there won't be a problem with Romulus when this is over, I sense a weird respect for Dash from him.
These guys are jerks. I do hope that this ensemble appearance of villains is leading up to a climactic end for at least most of them.
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I have forgotten what the Dredgemane arc was about. Well, I'll have to start reading it all again.
I think I want the twins dead way more than I want Romulus to be.
Now I'm just thinking of an angry cat.
Flim. Flam.
I can understand revenge for your mother. I can't really respect it, but I can understand it.
But seriously?
She was happy dying. She told you to let her go.
Just let her be happy where she is, guys. If you love her, then move on.
6926829 I agree. If I was in there situation, I will admit if someone killed my mother I would love nothing more than to bust open the killers head with a crowbar and drink their brains with a straw, but I know that revenge would never solve anything. So a message to Flim and Flam.....LET IT GO!!!!
I totally agree with getting vengeance on the ones responsible for the murder of their mother.
See, here's how it works. She died as a direct consequence of a violent felony being committed by Flim and Flam. And that means the ones responsible for her murder are... yes! Flim and Flam! And their little accomplice in the waking world, whatever his name was.
So, y'know, if they'd just get around to offing themselves already, that'd be fantastic.
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Rainbow Dash is canonically the size, shape, texture and temperament of a domestic cat.
(... and she loves to cuddle.)