October 2
I'd picked a good bed, 'cause aside from Rocky Storm, everypony was an early riser, and we got out of bed and all three of us went over to the window so that we could look out and see what the weather was like.
It was cloudy outside, and so Lofty got out her folding computer and made it show us all the weather charts—she'd gotten pretty good at using it, 'cause she had a little pen with a rubber tip that she could use on the screen to move things around with and she could also use the letter buttons with it. And we all thought that it didn't seem like it was going to rain, and I sniffed at the little vents at the heater but you couldn't smell the outside through it.
Paradise said that there should be a way to get on the roof, besides going downstairs and flying up. She said that Merry May had told her that there was a door up there but you could only go off the roof and into the hotel through it; it wouldn't open up the other way without a plastic key.
Then Lofty started making coffee for everyone—they had lots and lots of little packets for their coffee maker, and lots of cups, too, and she said that you just had to ask and the hotel would give them to you. They'd had to get plenty of extra towels, too, because the room hadn't come with enough for everypony.
We went and got in the shower, and we were washing each other's tails when Prism Glider stuck his nose in the bathroom and got in with us, and we moved out of the way to let him get his coat wet, then had to shuffle around so that we could rinse out our tails. It was getting a little bit crowded with four ponies, 'cause the shower stall was long and narrow, so we had to move around a lot to stay under the spray.
But you could go right to the very back and shake off in it before opening the door, and that kept all the water inside, which was smart. And they'd laid down a bunch of floor-towels outside of it, 'cause the tile floor was kinda slippery.
Electric Blue came in when we were drying off, yawning and stretching, and when we got back into the lounge, Rocky Storm had got up, too, and she was sitting next to the coffee maker, with a cup of coffee in her hooves. And I saw Dewdrop come out of the bedroom, too, and he just went straight for the shower.
Paradise went over and took the cup that was full of coffee out of the machine and then refilled it and put another cup in. There was already a little row of filled-up cups, so Electric Blue must have made a couple before he went into the shower.
Lofty said that she was gonna make sure that everypony was awake or almost awake, and she went into the bedrooms and then went out of the second bedroom and said that she'd found Meghan and that she was really cute. So I went in to look, too, and Meghan was asleep on her back, and Stormbreaker had his head on her breast and a wing stretched out over her bare belly, and Flanking Line was snuggled up against her side, with Meghan's arm around her barrel and it was really cute. I didn't have my camera to take a picture but Paradise had hers and so we really quietly took a picture of them all snuggled up together and then Lofty woke them up while I was brushing Paradise's mane for her.
When she came out of the bedroom she had her shirt on, and she looked around to see if there were any other people in the room, then she got a cup of coffee and sat down on one of the chairs and asked how soon the shower would be available.
I said that there were only a couple of ponies in it now so there was probably enough room for her, and it kind of took her a moment to think about it and then she drank the rest of her coffee and went into the bathroom.
She had a couple of minutes alone, 'cause Dewdrop and Electric Blue both came out of the bathroom and then Rocky Storm went in and Stormbreaker followed her.
When she came back out, I said that she was really good at preening and I didn't think that anypony was going to trust her too much, so I had her sit down on the bed and I stuck my left wing in her lap and let her preen it—Paradise had already done my right wing—and once the other pegasuses saw what a good job she was doing, Flanking Line got on the bed to take my place and Dewdrop lined up behind her.
She wasn't going to have enough time to do everypony's, though, which was too bad. I think she would have liked to.
So about a half hour before we had to go downstairs for breakfast, everypony who was still in line had to preen their own wings, except for Velvet Light who said that she'd just wait and have Meghan do it on the bus, and she didn't mind going to breakfast with her feathers ruffled from sleep.
Meghan almost didn't have time to dress at all, and she had to do a little hunting in the bedroom 'cause her bra had gotten tangled up in the sheets last night but she finally found all her clothes and I brushed her hair for her, and then everyone went downstairs to breakfast.
They had the same breakfast as before and when everybody except for Aquamarine had arrived and eaten, we got back in the bus to ride out to the race track again, and Meghan sat in the back and I sat next to her and Velvet Light sat on the other side and Meghan preened her wing, then we switched seats so that Meghan could get her other wing.
We were all watching from the same place as before, and so most of us didn't bother going through the door and up the stairs but just flew around to the balcony and went in that way. I stayed with Meghan, though, 'cause she couldn't fly up, and she said it was really strange to see a flock of pegasuses all take off at once like that.
They had food for us again today and so we all got comfortable while waiting for everybody else to arrive, and looked out over the crowd, too.
They had big televisions in the room and someone was taking pictures of the crowd, and I saw a woman who was wearing a blue shirt with a horseshoe on it, so I guess she was a pony fan. It had the number 12 on it, too, but I didn't know what that meant, except that there were 12 weatherponies, so maybe she'd really liked seeing us yesterday. Of course, we'd flown with thirteen but maybe she hadn't known we would and had gotten the shirt before.
Even though it was cloudy and overcast it wasn't raining, and so there weren't any delays today. Almost everybody had arrived by the time the race started, but Cayenne and her friends hadn't arrived yet. I thought that maybe they were having fun back at her hotel room, and so I asked Gusty if they'd ridden down together, and she said that they'd come in an airplane, and none of Cayenne's friends had.
Watching the airplanes race was a lot like watching them practice. They couldn't go all at once or they might crash into each other and fall out of the sky—Aric said that in car races, the cars crashed a lot, and he didn't think that they'd want to have that happen with airplanes.
Prism Bolt and Velvet light were both out on the balcony with their wings out and it was kind of funny to see them banking along with the airplanes. They didn't tilt as far, but you could see them dip their wingtips down each time the airplanes turned.
People who were inside could see pictures on the televisions and sometimes that was better 'cause you got a closer view than we could from the balcony and also they had cameras inside the airplanes, too, but overall I thought it was better to see them outside.
There were only a few airplanes that flew in the Challenger class, which was the first competition, and then when that was done they announced that there was going to be a special performance by the Wonderbolts before the next race started, and there was a lot of cheering for that.
I was really excited, too, 'cause I hadn't seen a Wonderbolt show in years.
Everybody crowded out on the balcony and some of the pegasuses flew up to the roof or hovered just in front of the balcony, so that everybody would have lots of room to see. Cedric lifted Aquamarine up on his shoulders so that she'd have a better view, and then the Wonderbolts dove into the stadium.
They must have been waiting for their cue somewhere outside of the stadium, 'cause they all had pretty good speed when they dropped over the center field, and they didn't run the course like we had, but they just did their own routine. I recognized a couple of moves like the Buccaneer Blaze, which they did right down the middle of the runway, but there were a lot of moves I hadn't seen before. They'd probably had to change the show a little bit for Earth, 'cause it wasn't as easy to fly here.
Everybody in the crowd seemed impressed, though. There were lots of cheers and so much applause that it sounded like thunder when they did their last fly-by and zoomed out under the same bridge we'd used.
Their smoke hadn't quite cleared when the first airplane that was competing in the Master Class took off. The pegasuses on the roof flew back down and landed, and I saw Stormbreaker inside begging Mister Dove for a chance to meet the Wonderbolts, and he had a little smile on his face that told me that they were probably going to get the chance. Mister Salvatore got that smile a lot when he knew something that I didn't.
I was disappointed that we didn't get to see Kirby get to fly again, but I found out that he'd gotten disqualified for making his engine go too fast. I would have hated to have come all the way to a race and then not be able to actually race, but I guess if they let everybody race it might take days to get it all done. And if that was a rule he should have obeyed it.
While the afternoon races were still going on, a woman called Mélanie who was another pilot came by to visit us. We'd seen her race in the morning, and she'd finished in second place in the morning races. She had a friend with her who could translate for her, because she didn't know any English or Equestrian, and none of us knew any French.
Even so, she was really fun, and she loved watching us fly. Every time somepony flew off the balcony she'd look right over at them and even stop talking in the middle of her sentence, and watch as they flew around the balcony and then landed again. And I heard her translator ask Paradise what they were doing, and she shrugged and said that they were just flying around 'cause it was no fun to have your hooves on the ground all the time, and Mélanie smiled when she heard that.
She stayed with us and watched the race out on the balcony for a little while, and we all saw when one of the airplanes clipped a cone and tore the top off of it. They weren't supposed to do that, but at least the airplane was okay. The cones were really soft so that they wouldn't hurt the airplanes if they crashed into them.
Before she left, though, she autographed the schedule books for all of us, and we autographed one for her, too—everypony on the weather team signed by their biography, and I signed on the bottom of the page 'cause I hadn't gotten a biography.
So when all the races were over, they announced that Matthias Doldere had won, and there was a little bit of debate about whether he'd really earned it or not, and I thought back to how me and Aquamarine had argued about whether the team who won the wagon hauling competition had really deserved their win.
Some people said their goodbyes at the race track, 'cause they had to get back home. Cayenne and Gusty and Nicky had to get to the airport so that they could fly back home, and so we all hugged and nuzzled them, and I promised that next time we'd meet up in Chicago, maybe in a couple of weeks if that worked out for everypony. And Cedric and Leon had to leave, too, and Aquamarine was kind of sad to see Cedric go, and she hugged him and nuzzled his cheek, and then she left with Jenny and Mister Barrow and Miss Parker.
Then Aric said that they were leaving, so I hugged him and kissed him and thanked him for coming, and I said my goodbyes to Meghan and her roommates, too, 'cause they were also driving back from the stadium.
Peggy and Sean and Christine and me were gonna ride back in the bus, 'cause she'd left Cobalt at the hotel, and then we found out on the way back that the tornado team was gonna meet the Wonderbolts for dinner, and I really wanted to do that.
So there was a bit of negotiating but finally Miss Cherilyn convinced Mister Dove to let us, so we got to go, too.
We had a private section all to ourselves, and I was kind of sad that Meghan hadn't gotten to be here, too, because she really would have liked it.
They had lots of fish, and they also had some pasture grass salads that they'd probably made special just for us. And we all got to eat at a big round table, and mostly talk about the weather and I did feel kind of bad for Peggy and Christine and Sean, 'cause everypony mostly talked in Equestrian the whole time. The only Wonderbolt who could speak any English at all was Sassaflash, and she wasn't very good at it.
Rainbow Dash said that she was impressed that I'd gotten to fly a Dreamliner simulator, after I'd told her that it was a really big airplane, hundreds of times bigger than the ones we'd seen flying at the airshow. And I also knew Pizelle's youngest sister, 'cause she was a sailorpony on the Sea Spray, which sometimes delivered supplies to Chonamare. I didn't know her very well, but I'd seen her around a couple of times.
There was a lot of talk about the weather on Earth, because before she'd become a Wonderbolt, Rainbow Dash had been the lead weathermare in Ponyville, and I wondered if Aquamarine had known her. So we got Miss Cherilyn to show Rainbow the movie of me and the rest of the weather team fighting the tornado, which she thought was really cool. And she asked a lot of questions about our flight gear, and so we had to explain what it all was and what it was for.
I told her how I'd gotten to fly in a wind tunnel and when I said what it was, Rainbow said that she could probably beat it, so I had to explain how it wasn't a race. But she was really determined to beat it anyway.
So we stayed there probably later than we should have, and there were lots of hugs and nuzzles and promises to meet up back in Equestria. I got an extra program autographed by all the Wonderbolts, and I thought I'd give that to Meghan 'cause I knew that she'd like it. Misty Fly had the biggest signature, which she said was so that everypony would know it was her. And Blaze just drew her cutie mark, like a lot of older ponies did. I think she was the oldest Wonderbolt who was still an active flier; she'd been performing since I was a filly.
When we got back to Cobalt, it was pretty late and we still had a long drive ahead of us, and I was a little bit worried that Peggy might fall asleep while she was driving. She said that I should sit in the front seat and make sure that she stayed awake, so I told her that I would. Sean helped slide my seat forward to make more room in the back, and then he got in behind me and Christine put her head on his shoulder and we hadn't made it very far out of Indianapolis before she fell asleep.
Peggy said that it had been a crazy weekend but a lot of fun, and I agreed. I thought that everybody had had a good time, and I was really happy that they'd all gotten to meet the Wonderbolts. And I said that I just wished that we'd taken an airplane, and she said that I didn't like to fly in them and that was true, but I said that I felt bad that she had to do all this driving all by herself.
So she told me it wasn't the craziest thing she'd ever done.
We didn't get back to Michigan until almost one AM, and she was yawning a lot so we finally stopped at a rest area so that she could run around the car a few times to get her blood circulating again. And she said that we shouldn't trot through the neighborhood tomorrow, and I agreed with her. We both would want to sleep in as late as we could.
Once we finally got back to school, she had to wake up Christine and Sean, and she let them out at their dorm, then she went up to our parking lot and hunted until she found a parking space. We didn't feel like unpacking our stuff from Cobalt and there wasn't anything that we needed anyways, so we went up to our dorm room and Peggy took off her pants and bra and said that was good enough, and she got in bed.
Before I got in my bed, I reached over the edge of hers and nuzzled her arm and thanked her for driving us all that way, and she scratched my ears and said that she’d been glad to do it.
Ponies!
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Sassaflash
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Blaze
Also, a while back in the comments we were discussing playing ring toss with a unicorn, and just today I happened to find this:
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Also, the presence of Rainbow Dash as just a Wonderbolt reminds me of a question I keep forgetting to ask: What do the Mane Six do in this new world? Which of them don't even give a toss about Earth? And perhaps most crucially, what the hay happened to the Cutie Map?
Sassaflash upgraded into a Wonderbolt.
So Meghan did get some hot stallion dick.
Looks like she's turning into a proper Equestrian pony.
Wonder how Eric would think of that.
Nice to see the Wonderbolts! Kinda sad that Rainbow Dash didn't do a sonic rainboom. I guess it is a bit like a sonic boom which is banned overland in the USA. So I wonder who else from the mane 6 have come over? I definitely can see Rarity and Twilight having visited but who else do we all think would have paid a visit?
I hope Cedric and Aquamarine get to spend some more time together. She should come up for a football game.
Hey, Meghan, when you immigrate to Equestria, you could earn some serious bits putting those dexterous human hands to work.
So happy that Silver Glow got to meet the Wonderbolts, including RD. Awesome entry!
Fluttershy would probably like to see Earth Animals & AJ + Pinkie would find things of interest. However, The Admiral has ruled that trips are
Damned Expensive, so at this time all travelers are either really rich or really official.
286 chapters later, and one of the mane 6 finally shows up.
I'm kind of surprised Silver fixated more on her work as a weather mare rather than, you know, saving Equestria like 5 times.
While I'm curious is Meghan actually when and slept with Stormbreaker, I'm actually kind of curious about what happened to Cayenne; did she ever show up at the races?
Umm, Silver?
Also, the bit with RD was just classic. I could see her trying to set a speed record in a wind tunnel.
Aw yeah!
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Maybe, maybe not. We know they literally slept together, we don't know they had sex. I'm not sure if the presence of the second pony increases or decreases the chances of hijinks or not. Once you've broken one taboo upgrading to a threesome might not seem such a big deal or maybe one taboo is enough.
7771432 That's not all she's going to put to work, sheesh!
Seriously though, that girl needs to give up life on this earth... and move to Equestria, she's practically an equestrian at this point.
I just hope that the pic of her being snuggled doesn't get shown around too much, she might die of embarrassment.
Meghan just had the best weekend of her life, I think.
7771558 She's just being consistent with pretty much everyone else in Equestria.
7771804 the slippery slope !
Meghan is returning to Equestria?
Dash is a good example of why we need large supersonic wind tunnels. I mean, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of aircraft flying and they dont have the engines from a couple of 747s strapped together to form the compression section of the tunnel, or would they literally need an F1 engine for the speed, density. Or would that be used for Reentry Airflow?
So far with Red Bull Air Race, so good.
Hope they never have a Shoreham.
Mister Salvatore is married?
7771335 What, no Rainbow Dash pictures?
Man, Meghan is living the Brony dream rigth now! And even going native...
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Rainbow herself would wonder the same thing.
The show is somewhat inconsistent as to whether the exploits of The Mane Six are public knowledge or not.
One fanfic and episode 100 imply Celestia hushes it up, except for the Star Wars ceremony where they were officially honored for defeating Discord.
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Didn't SG win some sort of lottery for the right to come to earth to go to school?
Silly Silver Glow, not recognizing the jersey of the Mane 6's favorite football team.
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Maybe.
7771695 It is a bit odd that she doesn't know about the Colts. I myself am a fan of a different #12. Sort of have to be, as I live just one town away from Gillette Stadium.
Ah, I knew that side of her would show up. Leave it to RD to need to one-up someone.
Also, is it just me, or is Misty Fly mostly portrayed as a bit of a jerk canon/fiction? Because I've read a story with Misty Fly in it and she was a real bitch in that story. The only person that put up with her shit was her brother. And not to mention that provided image of her just oozes haughtiness. This is just me though so I could be wrong.
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I have to wonder; do the immigration officials have any procedures in place in case of changeling?
Because, you know, you won't just get one changeling infiltrator. That suitcase is actually a changeling - so is that one - and that one - and, oh, wait, they infiltrated the Equestrian baggage handling side, everypony's suitcases are really changelings today...
Surprise should have been there.
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7773937 I heard that somehow Hasbro lost ownership of the white Pegasus Surprise from G1 or G2.
That's why Pinkie is a pink Earthpony.
I would have liked THAT character to be Pinkie' s half sister from Las Pegasus and appear on the show.
"Morning pony with bedmane and a cup of coffee" is also the subject of one of my favorite Tia pictures:
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I know Silver had her own cuddle pile, but she still really missed out tonight. And meanwhile, Meghan had one of the best nights of her life.
MANE SIX SIGHTING!
I forgot that of course she'd be there along with the Bolts.
Yep, that's RD.
You're teasing on purpose now.
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... And also by preening pegasus wings.
7772115 Episode 100 implies Celestia doesn't even need to hush it up.
She just wanted to wish the ponies luck.
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Seeing your comment before reading the chapter was hilarious.
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Wait a second... Blaze? Isn't that Spitfire?
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corrections made; thank you!
Princess Twilight is probably an ambassador, since 'making friends with aliens' probably falls under her princessly duties. Starlight Glimmer is probably doing pretty much the same thing now, unless she's fallen back into her evil ways and started a weird cult somewhere on Earth
Rainbow Dash of course is on the Wonderbolts, and probably puts most of her energy towards that. Rarity would have a line of clothing for humans, and probably spends a lot of time visiting the various fashion centers on Earth for inspiration and to press the flesh with influential Earthly fashion designers.
Applejack is still on her farm, and now she's got a couple of foals of her own, and no real compelling reason to visit Earth. Fluttershy has probably been touring zoos whenever she gets a chance, and whether or not she wants to be, she's probably the unofficial Equestrian representative for organizations like PETA, WWF, the Sierra Club, and so on.
Pinkie Pie is probably encouraged to stay in Equestria, because her way of breaking physical laws makes people nervous. Of course, that hasn't stopped her.
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She got inspired after Twilight had her dress up as Admiral Fairy Flight, and then worked her tail off to get good enough to join the Wonderbolts. She's not exactly their 'A' material, but when they were forming up a group for Earth, she had the advantage of being a strong flier (important because of the lower magical field) and also because she was the only one who was at least somewhat fluent in English.
It didn't work out like she'd planned.
She's trying!
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Not only would it be banned in the US, but Rainbow probably couldn't do one on Earth anyways, due to the lower magical field.
Probably all of the Mane 6 have visited at least a couple of times, bur Twilight, Rarity, and Fluttershy, and Starlight Glimmer are the only regular visitors of the Mane 6 +1.
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Ask and ye shall receive.
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She could start her own spa--that would be a dream come true for her. Although, honestly, anything that could get her to Equestria would probably be okay with her.
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Thanks!
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Prices have probably been coming down over the years, and of course it depends on where you go. Most of the Mane 6's visits would coincide with Twilight's official visits, but Fluttershy can probably get over her on sponsored trips by various animal rights groups. Heck, if she can communicate with Earth animals, she might occasionally come to help with important animals who are sick, or that are critically endangered and we can't get to breed in captivity. Fluttershy might be a panda pimp.
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Twilight's been mentioned before. :derpytongue:
While this story isn't technically OC, like most of mine I don't focus a lot on the Mane 6.
It's probably well over a dozen by this point. But for some reason, nobody in canon really seems to care about that.
Yes, Cayenne did show up with her friends, but I guess she never got mentioned in this chapter.
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Well, it was a reasonable guess, right? And yes, there was really someone there wearing that shirt.
"Does this thing go any faster?"
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Second pony likely decreases the chances of it, unless everypony is into that kind of thing.
Hmm, there's probably some sort of theory on that. Once you've done x you're a lot more likely to do y, that sort of thing.
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That's what she's trying for.
Or else the fact that she's being snuggled by two ponies in the picture will overcome the fact that she's topless in it.
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Absolutely she did. And if she can't get to Equestria, there's still a chance she could get a job as a helper for visiting weather teams.
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Exactly! For some reason, nopony seems all that impressed that the Mane 6 have saved them all multiple times.
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I'm not sure that it works exactly like that. . . .
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Well, who's more qualified?
I can't even imagine what kind of engines you'd need to have a supersonic wind tunnel. You'd have to move an immense volume of air for even a modest-sized tunnel, and I think that a lot of the engineering can be scaled from a smaller tunnel.
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Oops.
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She's in the program, and there are pictures of her on the Jumbo-Tron. And she probably made the local news, too.
It's almost as good as actually being in Equestria.
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She should have brought a stack of pictures of herself, and their final stunt could have been leafleting the grandstands.
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They don't seem to get the hero worship you'd expect, that's for sure. I don't know if Celestia actually hushes it up, or if it's just something that nobody bothers to report, or if there are so many other monster-related incidents in Equestria that the Mane 6 don't really stand out.
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Sort of. I mean, there's a limited number of spots available for exchange students, but then they didn't pick randomly from the pool of qualified ponies, either.
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In all seriousness, American Football probably hasn't made many inroads in Equestria. Although when it does, probably the only two teams that will be popular are the Colts and the Broncos.
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Without television being commonplace in Equestria, it's unlikely that the NFL has had much luck getting into the pony market.
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Well, of course she'd want to race a wind tunnel.
That's a good question. I can't recall her being particularly bitchy in canon; and the only episode that I can think of with her in it off the top of my head is the Sonic Rainboom episode (I'm sure she's been in others). The only other time I've used her in a fic, the running joke was that Rainbow got her name wrong every time.
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I would think that on the pony side of the portal, they check for changelings. Even if there are friendly changelings (and I haven't seen that episode yet, so I don't know how it worked in canon), you can imagine that the thought of them on Earth would worry people, so they're undoubtedly banned.
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Or, as I like to call her, Pinkie Pie lite.
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I heard that somehow Hasbro lost ownership of the white Pegasus Surprise from G1 or G2.
They might have got her back, because it looks like she's in the new Wonderbolts pack.
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I missed that episode, too, it looks like. Gotta do some serious catching up!
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Related:
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True that. If only she'd known that Meghan was still in the room. . . .
Gotta go fast.
Peggy took off her pants and bra and said that was good enough, and she got in bed.
Before I got in my bed, I reached over the edge of hers and nuzzled her arm and thanked her for driving us all that way, and she scratched my ears and said that she’d been glad to do it.
I have no idea what you're talking about
Spitfire's got a two-tone name and tail, but other than that they're practically identical. Blaze is probably Spitfire's stunt double.
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I was kind of thinking that. Still, it's probably for the best that not everypony is running around in a panic anymore when a monster attacks.
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Exactly!
I dunno, I was re-reading that part 'cause it was mentioned in the last chapter and I was assaulted by that weird repetition...
7786534 Not so much lost ownership as they couldn't Trademark it in a lot of cases. Like, they can't use 'Twilight' alone because of those terrible vampire novels, and IIRC Firefly is still over in Nathan Fillion territory, and so on.
So yes! What does Rainbow Dash look like? You didn't post her picture!
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Correction made; thank you!
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Trademark law is weird. Like, a sparkly vampire and a furry quadruped are different things, so you ought to be able to trademark the names for different uses, y'know?
My apologies. Here you go:
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7885487 well, as I am given to understand that you can trademark something for different purposes. So, for example the trademark for Twilight extends to basically everything including, most relevant for Hasbro - toys.