Rainbow jumped down from her tree branch. "Hey, now wait a minute! Just because I don't have a pet now doesn't mean I never want a pet!"
"Ohh! Oh, really? You really want a pet? Really?" Fluttershy caught her and dragged her away. "Because I have exactly the pet for you!"
* * *
Rainbow Dash stared at it. "A turtle?"
"Tortoise."
"Fluttershy, this is not flying or cool."
Fluttershy pushed the two of them closer together. "Rainbow, remember when you said you owed me one?"
"No."
Fluttershy smiled. "Well, way back in flight school, when you'd gotten your tail stuck in the locker, remember when I..."
"Oh." Rainbow rubbed the back of her head. "Right. Let's not re-live that again."
"Well, I'm calling in my debt. This tortoise is the perfect pet for you, and you need to trust me... if that's okay with you."
Rainbow winced. "But... Fluttershy. It doesn't fly! How am I supposed to take him home?"
"No problem! Here, I keep these around for pegasai who come looking for pets." Fluttershy rushed inside, then back out, holding some propeller with a strap. "They're good for keeping all kinds of animals up in the sky where pegasai can enjoy them."
A few minutes of fumbling with straps, and the tortoise was flying around merrily.
"Well..." Rainbow watched it careen around. "It is flying now... and big."
Fluttershy winked. "That's two out of three!"
"But it's still not cool. Can't I have that falcon instead?"
Fluttershy had to duck to avoid the flying tortoise. A moment later, it smashed into the falcon, knocking it off its perch with an ungraceful squawk.
Rainbow stared at it. "Oh... heh. That was kind of cool."
"And you do owe me one," Fluttershy added.
"Okay, fine." Rainbow shrugged. "I'll take The Turtle."
"Tortoise."
"Nope. I'm naming him 'The Turtle'. I don't wanna be corrected about it all the time."
... Just what did Fluttershy do? And that's a long time to be keeping track of debts Flutters. Do you have a little book in a hidden closet somewhere you note all these things down in?
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Fluttershy never forgets.
Never!
You only want to get hit in the head by a flying tortoise once.
Disney is super litigious. And racist. So very racist. Just like the duck.
KBO.
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So she's part elephant?
Also, love the bit with Rainbow naming him 'The Turtle' to avoid being corrected all the time.
And Fluttershy having propeller things for Pegasi who come looking for non-flying pets? Makes so much sense.
Noodle incident, anyone?
5329695 She has so little ability to argue that she needs straight-out leverage and debts to get ponies to do what she wants. So she keeps track in case she ever needs it. The vast majority of Ponyville owes Fluttershy something, and someday, when she takes over the world, there will be a reckoning...
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Wacarb is on season three now. He just did "Just for Sidekicks."
5329836 That was one crazy Yom Kippur.
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Ooh, I may have to check again, then. New ones! ^.^
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You know her well, I see.
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Yeah, I liked this one! ^.^
5330148 http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident
5330196
Ah.
Forgive me for not being a troper.
You're not gonna name it Raph, Leo, Donnie, or Mikey, Rainbow? Or how about Slash?
(those brownies that know what I'm talking about, BRAVO!!!!!!!!)
But then later on, Rainbow decides to call him Tank instead.
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Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun!
Teen-age mu-tant nin-ja tur-tles!
That is wonderful.
6810330 I'm laughing at that more than I should be
I liked the actual episode more