When Scootaloo is summoned to her family's lands in Marexico, she and the other Crusaders will be needing some adult supervision... also Spike tags along. When a foolish mistake places all of their lives in danger, can Spike keep it together long enough to keep everypony from killing each other?
Rated Teen with a sex tag for drama and steamy novela plotlines.
Cover art shamelessly stolen from Spanish-Scoot: an artist I'd never heard of until I was nearly finished writing this. Bit of kismet, that.
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A bit of a FlutterSpike, this I like. And I like how Spike had to improvise his role in a story and just went with his instincts. This is a nice and funny story you have here. Though I do wonder why Spike was left alone, maybe because he fit his character so perfectly that he didn't need to be changed.
This is an incredibly entertaining story, I had a gleeful smile on my face the entire way through. I loved almost everything about this: the plot, the tone, the characterizations, the setting - everything was superb. And then the shipping on top of that is a nice treat. There aren't many stories on this site that are just a joy to read all around, and almost none of them feature Spike.
Without a doubt one of my favorite stories that I've read on this site. Great job.
So, scoots is mexican?
Great fic, you got a good streak goin'.
I have to admit, I was openly laughing aloud during the "That's good! That's bad..." segment
Overally a very cute/entertaining fic, and I do love me some Spike shipping.
Thanks for the kind words! Looks like this one was pretty polarizing for people if the likes/dislikes are any indication. Figured it would be, it's hardly standard fare around the old fimfiction. Oh well I still had a lot of fun writing it. I've got something else coming next week sometime that I hope you'll all enjoy, so stay tuned!
This is beautiful.
Also:
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There is no reason for this not to be featured. I was grinning through the entire read. The good/bad exchange actually had me laughing out loud.
Novelas are entertaining as hell, though I will say they're not the best method of learning spanish. Unfortunately, it's a choice between them and futbol, so I'll take my chances.
Back to my point, this was an excellent read. Well done.
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I always try to steal at least one joke each story from the Pre-Crisis Simpsons. Because I'm the kind of hack that thinks focused-plagiarism makes for a fun maker's mark.
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What are you talking about, bad for learning Spanish? How else are you going to learn the nineteen different inflections with which you can say "Maria... POR QUE!?" Not in American public schools I can tell you that, thank you very much No Child Left Behind and your Teaching for the Test nonsense.
4273908 Evey time I say hola now, I'm forced to remove my glasses in dramatic fashion, especially if I'm saying it to someone who thought I was dead. The upside is that they don't recognize me until the glasses come off. Clark Kent was on to something.
4273908 Love it. Reply to this so I can add this to the library. Black-light's library.
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4309734 Its also in the federation of likes.
Why does this have so many downvotes? I've seen horrid cliche'd HiE with undeserved ratings higher than this. This deserves more upvotes.
A bit abrupt of an arc, but still a well done short-story. I enjoyed the inclusion of elements from telenovelas, especially how those elements were used to drive the plot forward and emphasize each character.
Oh man, i used to watch those things when I was home sick. They're nuts. Another insane but awesome piece. Bravo. Only gripe is it felt a bit rushed but its' not a dealbreaker.
The actual novela bit had my laughing my ass off. And when Scoot came swaggering in as an evil hacienda owner with her dead dad's mustache on her face I died. Pitch-perfect story: the comedy was really exception.
FlutterSpike feels maybe a little rushed, not a lot of development, or possibly I overlooked it. But the story is so darn funny I don't care at all.
It was inevitable: the scent of sweet apricots always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love...
I may be falling into the trap of comparing this to magical realism because of its Latino influence, but, in the same way that magical realist stories present fantastical events as commonplace, this piece has a hint of absurd realism, in that completely silly things happen (e.g. possession by ghosts smells like apricots, Scootaloo's father's prized possession is his mustache) and the characters seem unphased by them. The absurdity gives the piece levity without becoming too random. Great job!
This story needs many, many more likes. It's short, but well-written and very funny.
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Thank you, I don't think I've laughed that hard in a long time.
One of the better examples of subverted expectations I've ever seen.
That was just funny as hell. La mejor estoria de ponies magika en todo del Fimfic!
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You know, these CMC are just gonna bring about the end of Equestria as we know it with the way they keep going. Especially if they keep listening to Scoota-The Don-loo here. xD
Exchange rates are a bit_...
Um......ok. That just happened, funny as hell....somehow....ummm.....well at leas we got some FlutterSpike, yeah!
I died mentally of laughter. I've seen an episode of a show kind of like this before, where the characters get sucked into a Spanish soap opera thing but only one of them is actually aware of it. I love this story. So random. So dramatic. I also think it's funny how Big Mac and Spike like the show. Rarity for sure and Fluttershy maybe, but Spike and Big Mac???
Super funny how Scootaloo is just like, "Let's go rob some graves. Cutie Mark Crusaders Grave Diggers, YAY!!!"
I'm not so sure.........
Yeah, their ghosts and stuff?
Who cares? I don't. And it's my house!!!!! Let's go!
That does not sound like Fluttershy. Did you mean Rarity?
Because I refuse to believe Fluttershy isn't scared of ghosts (and you even write her as scared of the house being haunted just a few paragraphs later) and flirting with people to get her way is more of a Rarity thing.
I find your lack of ñ disturbing(unless that was part of the joke) otherwise spot on and really funny with it's novela style
This was pretty good. You get a moustache, good sir!
One of the best endings ever.
And also one of the best Fluttershy on Spike pairing are shipping
TRUCKALOO
I almost vomited I laughed so hard.
So expensive bullshit.
ZEPPELINALOO
You and me both
That's a sentence I didn't think Scoots would ever say.
...that's...uh....that sure is a fact? (Spike, what the hell are you talking about?)
YIIIIKES.
Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a Spike/Fluttershy pairing before.
But this was wonderfully silly and definitely had the vibe of those telenovelas I'd see people watching!