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// Quibble Pants and Daring Do's latest book request 
// Story: Drabble Kaboom! 
// by Alex Warlorn 
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"Quibble Pants rants about the new daring Do book which is like the new Indaina Jones Dial of Destiny... here's the trailer to get that comparison going.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfVYgWYaHmE"


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"I just can't believe this! THIS is the 'new and improved' Daring Do Book?!" Quibble Pants stomped his hoof having read though AK Yearling's latest novel. "It reads like they hired a completely different author to write a story that just used the original characters to attract old readers and went on an ego trip trashing the books that came before!" 


"You think reading it is bad, you should try having gone through it."


Quibble Pants startled and found AK Yearling staring at him with a tired faced.  Quibble Pants looked around, no other pony seemingly realizes who she was. 


"AK Yearling?!"


"The one and only... "


"So... what happened here... did happen?"


"... In a manner of speaking... my editors... insisted I get creative with my dramatizations. With my worst enemy now suddenly the hero, ponies were calling me a grave robber. So Twilight Sparkle to save me assigned me a 'apprentice' a watch-dog really. Making sure I 'behaved'. 


"And her first bright idea was to return the Idol of Insatiable Flames back to its original owners...  Who were a cult who worshipped Lavan and used it bring their master back to fire, his first words being, 'I SHALL DEVOUR EVERYTHING!' which is why I stole the idol to begin with... "


"That's... not included here."


"My editors told me to leave it out. That felt it would be offensive to Island Ponies. Next she returned the crown jewels of the original Hearts and Hooves princess... who happened to be Queen Chrysalis, releasing her, and inspired several parasitic changeling to come out of hiding and flock to her side and try to conquer the Crystal Empire."


"It says here she just returned the many mystical treasures that Daring Do had stolen from innocent creatures back to their rightful owners."


"Yeah. It doesn't help the treasures I've collected are DANGEROUS and I've been keeping them in an obscure unaddressed tiny cabin in the woods that no one would look at twice... until certain idiots decided to expose my double life outside of Equestria."


"Given how the world is shrinking, it was only a matter of time."


"I should have had Daring Do 'die', fake my death, and retire when I had my chance, at least Daring Do would have gone out honorably instead of being demonized." 


"And people wonder why I ignore everything after the first three books... oh, no offense." 


"Even I'll admit my ninth book wasn't my greatest moment."


"So... where your assistant now?"


"She tried to go back in time, kill me, and take over my identity, erasing me from existence, and taking my life as her own."


"Oh. How'd that work out? I mean, you're still here so-"


"Thankfully Rainbow Dash was visiting at the time, and called her 'more crazy than Starlight Glimmer', got into a fight with the 'Moon-dial of Fate' and sent her off into time... by the time we found when she ended up... she play cards with Granny Smith now."


"So... would you like an apprentice who actually likes your adventures?"


"... Maybe."


~Fin