The light's go out, a hush falls, and the spotlight flashes on with a clunk. Without any further warning, a pair of ponies twitch aside the curtain and take to the stage, both dressed in formal evening gowns... though one seems more reluctant than the other to take to the spotlight.
"Good evening mares and gentlecolts! Who's ready to cheer for the two best pegasi in all of Ponyville!? Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy! Yeah!"
"Um, actually, I don't really think we're the best. There are a lot of other really great pegasi in Ponyville you know."
"Don't be modest Fluttershy, we wouldn't be up here, center stage, with potentially millions of eyes upon us if we weren't the best!"
"P-p-p-potentially... Potentially millions!?"
"Well... Maybe not millions. It really depends on how popular the show is and how many people felt like sticking it through our last story. You know, the one where we were the stars? Though I guess it's safe to say that it was really all about me."
"I think I remember the Author saying the only reason you were the star of the last story was he didn't know how to write you in the first one. So you and I were really more leftovers, loose ends, than stars. Myself in particular, since he didn't want to write my death in the first story since I was his wife's favorite pony."
"Why are you blushing about that? I think you must have heard wrong. We are far too awesome to be 'leftovers'. I mean come on! In Something Sweet to Bite Too we nearly killed the Candy Mare! I mean, you were a crazy half undead changeling ghoul hybrid...thing."
"If you say so Rainbow. All I know is that I'm glad this is all almost over. I don't like Nightmare Night at the best of times. I can't say I like it anymore when I have to participate in a story where most of my friends die."
"Aww lighten up Fluttershy! It's all in good fun. And hey, turns out you're not even in this years story. Though, of course, I'll still be performing. The show couldn't go on without yours truly!"
"Maybe we should just do as the Author asked, so these folk can get on with the show?"
"*Sigh* Fine Fluttershy. You sure now how to suck the fun out of the room. So anyways, we're here to explain what's happened in the story up to now and give you an idea of what to expect from The Last Something Sweet to Bite, A.K.A. Equestria Girls: Rainbow Dash is the Best!"
"*ahem*"
"Okay, okay, jeez! Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rots. Bleh... What an awful name. Anyways, as you might guess from that wonderful title choice, the third story is going to be set in that universe that Twilight pops off to every couple of months and never lets the rest of us visit."
"I'm sure she has a very good reason Rainbow. It's probably dangerous."
"She probably just doesn't want us to see how goofy she is around Flash."
"What was that!?"
"Nothing Twi! Go back to your time loop or whatever!"
"I think we're getting a little off topic again Dash. Let me try. Something Sweet to Bite is a terrifying story about the Candy Mare. The first story chronicled her return from the d-dead. She m-murdered almost everypony in Ponyville and...ate them. The ones she didn't eat she turned into mindless candy ghouls. *ahem* Rainbow Dash survived because she was out of town in Cloudsdale. I was... there when everything happened. But I escaped and met up with Big Mac and Zecora in the Everfree Forest."
"Meanwhile I was super down about being out of town when all my friends had disappeared. I was in a funk for a long time, but after looking for my friends and not finding a trace of them, I started having these really depressing nightmares. Apparently I wasn't the only one. Princess Celestia had been having them too. I was asked by Celestia herself not just to find out what happened in Ponyville but also to track down her missing sister, Luna. There were rumors that Luna was the one responsible for what had happened on that Nightmare Night, but Celestia couldn't believe that. Trixie Lulamoon, Twilight's brother Shining Armor, and myself set out on our mission but things went south in a hurry. I barely escaped from a horde of candy ghouls, but wound up being too injured to fly to safety. I landed in Everfree Forest where..."
"Some mistakes were made. Unfortunately I was a partial victim of the candy curse. Thanks to Zecora's treatments I mostly had it under control but every now and then... well, lets just say I got these cravings. I almost took a bite out of Rainbow Dash, but thankfully Big Mac stopped me. Thankfully, once we were reunited, we quickly came up with a plan to defeat the Candy Mare together."
"And to make a long story short, it didn't exactly go the way we had expected. Otherwise there wouldn't be another one of these stories, am I right?"
"Well, I'm not entirely sure what happened to me. Either I went off to be with the Breezies or I ended up falling under the Candy Mare's control. It was all a little confusing."
"Yeah, well, at least that thing didn't end up sliding it's way down your throat. I should probably be flattered that it considered my awesome bod an upgrade from Princess Luna's, but who would've thought that the Candy Mare didn't really have a body of her own? I still remember the taste of that thing, her soul or whatever it was, in my mouth. Grossest thing I've ever tasted. And I took a bite of Sugar Belle's Muffins!"
"Rainbow Dash! There's no need to be so blunt."
"I'm just saying, anyone who plans on having anything to do with this story is going to be pretty lost if they haven't seen the first two."
"...And the prequel..."
"There was a prequel!?"
"Apparently the Author wanted to try writing a horror story for another holiday. Since the Candy Mare's story starts around the same time as the Hearths Warming tradition began, he thought it might be fun to write a short story for the winter holidays."
"How cracked is this guy? Did anyone even bother with it?"
"Um... Not really. Even though it had a lot of details about the Candy Mare, including what happened to her after she first appeared and a lot about what happened to her mother. It seems most people passed on it."
"I'm going to be honest here Fluttershy, it sounds kind of boring. I think we should just stick to the main series, don't you?"
"If you say so Dashie, but I think we've covered pretty much everything the Author asked us to."
"Good! My wings were starting to itch from me standing still so long."
"Just one more thing..."
"AWWW! Come on!"
"There's no need to be rude. On behalf of the Author, we would just like to thank all of you so much for waiting patiently for this, the final tale in the Something Sweet to Bite trilogy. We hope that you enjoy it, and don't find yourselves too sickened by the over the top violence and gore."
"And with that folks, lets get this show on the road! Whoo!"
Like how your promoted the prequel here. I found it better than SSTBT. Then again, I enjoy prequels and story-driven content over mindless action any day.
ok i love these fics and i got a friend who loves em 2
ytimg.googleusercontent.com/vi/JMaII1NrxYE/sddefault.jpg I'm sorry it took so long for me to get around to reading this story. I was busy with high school and I also had some real life mental break Downs to keep me busy. By the way it was me having those break Downs. As for if I am okay I am recovering let's just say I can relate to insane characters like Pinkie Pie or grim dark Pinkamena now. I love this story by the way and think it is compareible to some of the works of the jaw dropping HP Lovecraft. Thanks so much for your masterpeacses Knackerman.
I’m a little confused on what happened during the first and secounded SSTB. Because I recalled no survivors happened in ether one of them. Because I was sure that by the end of SSTBT that they failed stopping candy mane and found out it was just a illusion. Some explaining would be nice please.
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In the first story the Candy Mare makes her return and wipes out most of the population of Ponyville in the processes. The only ponies who escape are Rainbow Dash who was in Cloudsdale at the time, Big Mac whom the Candy Mare let go for sport, and Fluttershy who escaped to the Everfree Forest, though not before accidentally swallowing a piece of a candy ghoul... more on that later. The first story ends with the Candy Mare and an army of candy ghouls made from the citizens of Ponyville sweeping through Canterlot and invading the royal palace, where they confront Princess Luna.
In the second story it is revealed that Luna was not killed, but she was kidnapped by the Candy Mare for unknown reasons. An investigatory team is sent by Princess Celestia (comprised of Rainbow Dash, Trixie, Shining Armor and what remains of the royal guard) to find out what happened to Ponyville last Nightmare Night. They dis cover that the town and surrounding lands have been overrun by Candy Ghouls and Shining Armor and the royal guard put u pa brave defense up until the Candy Mare herself intervenes eviscerating Shining Armor and robbing the team of his protective shield spell. Rainbow Dash escapes, crash landing into Zecora's house in the Everfree Forest where she discovers Fluttershy in a semi-ghoul state. It turns out she and Big Mac have been living with Zecora since the events of the first story, trying to devise a way to cure Fluttershy and combat the Candy Mare. Rainbow Dash entrusts Fluttershy with warning Celestia about the Candy Mare while she and the others go to confront the Candy Mare directly in the Castle of the Two Sisters. Fluttershy bumps into Trixie but Trixie is murdered by Chrysalis shortly after they return to Canterlot, where the Changeling Invasion had occurred while the remaining royal guard were all out of the city. Fluttershy ghouls out and starts devouring the changelings, starting with Chrysalis, and in the process finds and frees the real Princess Celestia. Meanwhile Rainbow Dash and crew fight through a horde of Candy Ghouls using special made flame throwers Zecora built using her alchemical knowledge. When they reach the Candy Mare they discover that Princess Luna has actually been forced to ingest the Candy Mare's core, and she's been slowly absorbing Luna's powers for her own. The big show down goes down and it looks like our heros win when Celestia and Fluttershy swoop in to back them up, but it turns out that just after they arrived that the Candy Mare used Luna's powers to knock everyone into a dreaming state, leaving her candy ghouls free to move in for the kill. Meanwhile Luna's body is on the verge of dying so the Candy Mare decides to take a new vessel... Rainbow Dash.
There is also a prequel to the first story called Home Sweet Home, a Candy Mare Tale, that gives a little backstory about what happened to Pumpkin Patch after she first escaped. At the end of that story their is a teaser for THIS story, where Sunset Shimmer returns to a Equestria to steal Twilight Sparkle's element of harmony only to find that it has been completely taken over by candy, and a massive monstrous Candy Mare composed of the corpses of all the inhabitants of Equestria is there to greet her. The events of this story follow on from there.
all right just finnished the second one 2 more and a prequl to go
Yes, I shall have a double serving of that roast on Rainbow Dash, please. 👏😆
*Looks at the list and sees the next… three sequels*
Hrmm… *clears reading calendar*
You thought it would be the last anyways. But really you got more sequels