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Appledashery - Just Essay



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.

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Aerial Chase Scene, Now

Rainbow Dash looked behind her.

Blood Fire's massive wings occasionally blocked out the sun. With each flap, he and his fellow broodlings drew closer and closer to her windblown tail. After a few moments, he reared his neck back and launched a plume of flame at her figure.

"Grnnngh!" Rainbow rolled to the left—losing airspeed. She came within snapping distance of Blood Fire's jaws, and had to rotate to the right before his teeth could sink into her. CLACKKK! Kicking off his burning nostrils, Rainbow dove low and threaded her way through a dense forest of trees.

Blood Fire—in the meantime—flew up high, gained altitude, then took in a deep... deep... deep breath. After his lungs were full, he spat out an enormous barrage of fireballs. They impacted the earth in several dozen places, sending a veritable wall of flame surging after the pegasus.

Rainbow Dash held her breath and juked left and right, narrowly threading her way around tree trunks and over/under tree branches. This task grew more and more difficult as the wave of burning vegetation caught up with her.

All around, animals shrieked and dove out of hiding. Anything with wings took to the air in a panic while lesser creatures dug desperately into the earth for cover from the impending firestorm.

Lancie coughed and wheezed from the building smoke. "Now... m-might be the time to get some air, Sparky!"

"No way in heck!" Rainbow sputtered, eyes darting left and right. "That's just what he wants!"

"But—"

"Dude, look, I know a thing or two about dragon tactics!"

"Jee, I wonder why that is."

"For real, though!" Rainbow glanced at the statue in her saddlebag. "He just wants to flush me out of the woods so his little brothers can finish me off! Well, I'm not giving him the satisfaction!"

"What about my satisfcation?"

"Shut up! You can totally resist an open flame!"

"Yes, but it singes my complexion."

Rainbow's tail hairs curled from the murderous heat behind her. In her peripheal vision, blurring trees exploded one by one, bursting apart into puffs of ash and cinders.

"Notgoodnotgoodnotgoodnotgood...!" Rainbow hissed, squinting hard to see through the vaporous heat and debris. "Definitelynotgood!"

"Too bad you're not a statue too," Lancie said, his granite arms shrugging. "Although I'm sure your burnt fossil will resemble one—given several eons later when they dig you up from the mud—"

"Mud!" Rainbow's voice cracked.

"Eh?" Lancie jerked as Rainbow suddenly dipped down.

Fwooooosh! Barely outflying the flames, Rainbow dove towards a small patch of wet brown earth situated between the trees.

"It's worth a shot!" Rainbow stammered, dive-bombing.

"It's worth several!" Lancie retorted, already ducking into her bag. "Provided you can make it alive to a pub after this!"

Rainbow had no response, for she was far too busy with holding her breath. Then—like a torpedo—she plunged deep into the mucky layers of the miniature bog. Her back legs wriggled and struggled for a brief moment, but soon she plunged completely below. The mud closed up behind her just as the flames ripped across the tiny clearing.

PHWOOOOMB!

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