Vinyl stared at the ex-showmare, confused. She turned to the gangly tan pegasus who bore the brunt of the verbal assault, curious. "...do you know her?"
He shook his head decisively, denying any knowledge of her.
Of course, this only caused her anger to rise. "Really? You don't remember Trixie? The mare who you slandered in that rag of a paper?!"
At this point, Applebloom decided to speak up. "It wasn't slander." Everyone turned to her, surprised. "Slander's spoken word. What ya prob'ly mean is libel. Still, it wasn't him."
"Really? Then how do you explain this?!" She tossed the paper at the filly's hooves, the article visible and the picture showing clear as day. The Great and Powerful Trixie's Secret Revealed! Photo by Featherweight. "He may not have written the article, but he's still responsible for my pain!"
Applebloom stared down at it, shocked. "...Ah thought we got rid a' all these?"
Trixie, of course, didn't hear her, pointing an accusing hoof at the poor colt. "Trixie challenges you to a rap battle! Tomorrow at high noon!" She turned to Octavia, a serious look on her face. "Trixie shall train with you, so she can be prepared to make that colt pay!" With that, she stormed off.
Applebloom glowered at the retreating mare, calling after her in her anger. "Fine! Ah'll just help Featherweight, then!" She tugged on his foreleg, leading him along behind her.
Vinyl just groaned, shaking her head. "...I'm just gonna...stay here, then." She lifted her sandwich, taking a bite out of it contentedly. "Yum."
"...well Trixie feels foalish, now."
Octavia had just explained to the unicorn how Featherweight was just doing as his editor told him to. "What now, Trixie?"
"Trixie shall..." She paused, thinking carefully. "...have to go through with it. She can't withdraw now. Everypony would call her a coward."
Octavia smiled kindly, offering her some vegetable soup. "Eat. Afterwards, we'll begin practicing."
Trixie graciously took the bowl, touched by the mare's kindness. For the first time in a long time, she smiled.
Applebloom's jaw was threatening to detach just so it could hit the ground with her shock. Recovering enough to talk, she cleared her throat, a bright blush coloring her cheeks. "...glad ya can talk, Featherweight...honestly, Ah almost thought ya were mute..." She put a hoof up to her chin, thinking for a few moments. "...yer entire fam'ly's quite interestin'..."
He chuckled, and the sound alone almost made her swoon. He gestured, as if to make a point.
She sheepishly rubbed the back of her head. "Yeah, Ah see yer point. L-let's get ta practicin', then."
The next day, at ten minutes to noon, they all gathered in the town square. Vinyl finished putting the headsets on the two ponies, and was about to begin the microphone check. "Trixie, say something, please."
She held her head high, smirking at the colt across from her. "Featherweight will lose soundly."
Vinyl rolled her eyes, turning to the pegasus. "Your turn, kid."
He glanced at the filly in the crowd, who was nodding, encouraging him with a wave of her hoof. He turned to the blue unicorn in front of him. "Trixie - egotism made direly listless."
Everypony, save a certain yellow filly, stared at him in stunned silence. Even Vinyl stared at him over her shades. Dear Celestia, his voice! It's so...so...
"Deep!" Trixie broke the silence with that one word, her irises almost pinpoints. "My goodness, you sound like Smokey Robins!"
Vinyl cleared her throat, catch their attention. "Let's begin, shall we?" She started the music, her grin wide as she began to lose herself in the music. Hopefully, no one will notice my knees turned to jelly.
EPIC RAP BATTLES OF MLP!
VS.
BEGIN!
Alright, you little filly, it's time to duel
Now you'll understand why Trixie's so cool!
Put a mirror near her, there's no reflection to see
You freak, there can only be one Trixie!
Let's take a close-up shot of the issue at hoof -
A unicorn that makes claims without any proof.
I, for one, have all the proof that I'll need
To show that this mare will never win a steed!
Only one Trixie? That's too good to be true!
Then again, no pony would wanna be like you.
If a pic's a thousand word, then consider this -
There's millions out there showing your shame, Trix!
Your rap was weak - couldn't wait for it to end.
Trixie may be single, but you've got a coltfriend.
She can tell photography is your highest passion
But was that one pic really about tail extensions?
Ponies got mad at Gabby, but the fact they let slip
Is that, without those pics, there wouldn't have been gossip!
You're bucking high above your weight class.
My raps will crack your buck-toothed jaw of glass!
All you do is tell lies nopony wants to hear.
Your only trick makes a stallion's rod disappear!
You only made fun of ponies in your awful stage show.
If you didn't brag so much, you wouldn't be a hobo!
My house, destroyed; I have no more bits
Yet you displayed my bad luck just for kicks?
The little respect I had for you just died.
Trixie may brag, but you're the real bad guy.
WHO WON? WHO'S NEXT? YOU DECIDE!
EPIC RAP BATTLES OF MLP!
The next battle is under construction. I need to work on it a bit more, so, for now, please enjoy this chapter! Oh, and I have a whole headcanon about his family. It's rather silly, but I think it adds a bit more to my characterization of him. :p
Once again, a round of applause for SuperChaosKG, for helping with the rhymes (and getting me started on the rest of the battle)!
Late due to Left 4 Dead 2 and Portal 2. ^^; Such good games!
Anyways, I'm going to go work on a pic for a friend! Gonna be the second MLP traditional drawing I've done! (Afterwards, I might do one based on an idea that's been in my head for a bit. ^w^ ~ )
By the way...please, for the love of Luna, PLEASE SEND ME A PM IF YOU'RE ONE OF MY PREREADERS!! I lose track of them and then I can't remember who I'm supposed to send the chapter to! :(
Glad to have that out of the way. ^^; Have a nice day!
Enigma out.~
I think Trixie won this one.
I... I have to go with Trixie on this one. I mean, that last line made me realize- it just... Just woah. Morality, man.
Featherweight had some good lines but... Yeah, Trixie gets my vote on this one.
Now to await the likely onslaught of hate for voting for an egotistical braggart over a kid.
Featherweight. Man, he was brutal.
Trixie tried to cheat so Featherweight won
For some reason, I was imagining Featherweight speaking with the voice of the man that speaks in the "Allstate" commercials.
But, despite that... I'm going to have to say Trixie kind of won with that last line there.
I vote for Trixie.
Ow... That hurt to say (I don't particularly like Trixie in the slightest.)
Featherweight.
Trixie won the fight.
Trixie, definitely trixie.
Trixie.
Nice, I would never imagined such a small colt to have a deep voice, kinda wanna hear what you think of it...
Anyway, I vote for Trixie.
Feather Weight won by shear voice power alone.
Trixie won in my opinion, just that easy.
FEATHERWEIGHT FEATHERWEIGHT FEATHERWEIGHT !!!!!!!
I gotta say Featherweight on this one. Trixie did pull the morality card at the end, but the fact remains that the picture is old news, she started the battle out of a desire to get revenge and insult him, and if she has in fact 'changed' like her interactions with Octavia imply, then she should have been able to just let it go.
trixie
I say Trixie won.
Trixie won. she is best pony.
I call draw, fell out of the rhyming scheme and pretty much put each other down equally
Somehow I now imagine Featherweight's voice like Bane in the new Batman movie. Very deep but at the same time very sweet. But Trixie won, just because Trixie is Trixie and she always wins (except when two stupid colts do something stupid)
The only way I can honestly see Trixie winning this one is due to all the Trixie fans out there voting for her just because (and, actually, in a way I'd be a bit surprised if this didn't play out exactly like that). I'm not a fan of Trixie myself, I'm not anti-Trixe either mind you, but the bottom line is that her rhymes were a bit off at times. The most notable offence of hers I can pick out is "passion" and "extensions". On the other hand/hoof Featherweights' raps on the other hand rhymed both good and better, were solid, and hit harder.
So, I'm making the only vote I can make without making kittens and puppies cry, and voting for Featherweight.
I vote for . gotta go with So-great-and-powerful on this.
Trixie
I vote Trixie!
Featherweight was just mean.
I think featherweight won the rap battle. He had the best rhymes. Also valve make the best games.
Featherweight, as for the morality issue he's just a colt, still learning. Not to mention Trixie had this coming, she challenged him (expressed intention of insult and "get-backing" (for something which should've blown over, also she's more mature and despite her attitude should have some grace), he's gotta defend himself through any means necessary, so kiddie gloves off he had full permission to use that kind of ammunition. Also, that voice.
Trixie. 'Nuff said.
One does not simply become a prereader. Can you explain thoroughly how one would become a prereader?
...Trixie, I guess?
Trixie's right, low blow. Trixie wins.
And I was hearing Featherweight as Ron Perlman, for some reason.
Featherweight, hands down
i gotta say trixie
I vote trixie!
showponies always win, plus she did pretty dern well.
and when i read about deep voiced Featherweight, my mind went to flutterguy, and i wound up reading the whole rap in that voice, priceless
Featherweight, his raps were better and more consistent, plus I heard him in a Flutterguy voice.
1042242 You just summed up my thoughts quite nicely. I can't really add to your thought without adding two paragraphs, so i'll just leave it at that.
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Wow. I was honestly expecting angry responses. The fact that so many people agreed with me is surprising.
I wouldn't mind reading your thoughts on the matter. I love seeing other people's opinions.
Also morality, man. Morality.
This was tough for me. But scrolling down, I keep reading how Trixie's last line was so great. It wasn't. It just reminds me how she made a fool of herself by throwing the challenge in the first place. Also, her first two lines in her last stanza felt awkward; they didn't seem to keep to the beat as the rest of the rap. Speaking of which, any reason why you gave Trixie more lines?
As for what Featherweight sounded like... I know it isn't deep at all, but I kept thinking of AcousticBrony. I imagined this song going to the beat of his rap versus Mandopony.
wins.
Featherweight... all the way
I don't care who won, I just want to see Featherweight accidentally have all the mares chasing him down due to his smooth voice! Sexy hijinks that Stewie Griffin would approve of!
Trixie. I'd say her strength showed its true colors on the last lines. Another satisfactory chapter
Featherweight wins.
I can't wait to try and imitate his voice when I record this rap battle.
Honestly, I thought both of them had less-than-satisfactory raps. Out of the two, I'd say the lesser of two evils is Featherweight.
Trixie
It's tough, but I give it to Trixie
Featherweight, that sh*t was damn brutal! Morality can go kiss my butt!
Oh, and Trixie is a b*tch.
Trixie won.
Featherweight did really well. But, Trixie had this whole thing from the get go. lol
Featherweight completely destroyed with this one, so I have to go with him.
Am I the only one that heard Chocolate Rain kid's voice?
1042584 Ugh, if this is too long, then just skip to the last two paragraphs, be warned, very weird ramblings be ahead.
Yeah, in a nutshell, my thoughts on morality can be summed up with one word: Grey. It's hard to come up with what i think on this kind of subject, as probably all out that can imagine, it's quite a personal one, and i tend to think quite pragmatically, or if that doesn't make sense, overthinking events and such...
Morality in my opinion is more of the intent of an action, than the action itself, and that's where 'grey' comes in. Saving someone's life, but at the cost of something else, possibly others' lives, or their way of life. Imagine a story like this, which i actually read here on FimFiction, (Linky to story, warning, very depressing and feel-inducing) where Twilight suffers a magical incident, and is now blind. Her life is turned upside down and her way of life is now gone. Would you feel like death would be a better outcome or living without the ability to read ever again? Through all of this, of the rest of the mane six, only Rainbow Dash seems to truly care about what will become of Twilight. (Even thinking of this small summary is giving me feels... Sad stories get me, in the worst way, i love them all the same though.)
Morality can be selfless, or it can be heartless, saving yourself at the cost of others' lives sounds heartless, but there has to be context to it (and for the life of me, i can't think of a situation at the moment) for it to be a true moral dilemma. Is that one life have a worth equal to or greater than those others? Without context any 'average joe' on the street would say no, and most would be inclined to agree. I'd rather have the context (and thinking back, the episode didn't give much backstory or followup on Trixie in general. TOO much context is as bad as not enough, if not worse, it can seem to trivialize events, that should be major turning points in any life. Some, to shed a light on how something got to where it did, and where it might go from there.
In this case, the ursa minor destroyed Trixie's home (well, wagon, but for intents and purposes, her home) and lively hood, because two of her 'fans' tried to get her to re-vanquish "The Dreaded Ursa Major", leaving her broke as well, most likely. If Trixie hadn't boasted so much about it, maybe Snips and Snails wouldn't have brought the ursa to town, and Trixie would've probably moved on, and had been just fine, if a little disliked in Ponyville. And that episode wouldn't have been nearly as good as it was, without that bit of conflict, but it does need context to shed light on her actual accomplishments, and what she would've/might've done had the ursa not been involved. At least in the episode, Twilight was able to calm it down and return it to it's original resting-place, without any others getting hurt, physically or not.
Like i said, Grey. It can go either way, but still makes a major impact on at least one life, sometimes multiple. Even after all of this, i still say Trixie, without any added context, she needs some good old karma-loving. What she needs is context in the worst way.
God ... This turned into an essay quick. I also blame the slightly depressing tracks playing on Everfree Radio at the moment. I could probably go on longer, but even in WORD this has reached past a single page... I gotta stop philosophizing about colored ponies all the damn time, it'll be my undoing. Brain, Y U GOTTA WORK SO MUCH TODAY?
Featherweight