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The mares' usual picnic-and-pet outing has arrived, and amidst conversation, Rainbow Dash shares with the girls how she tried to change her nickname.


With special thanks to Ferret, Corejo and RedSquirrel456 for pre-reading and advice.

Featured on 13/5!

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This was a riot! Good story!

Oh, this is beautiful. Good work!

An amusing, even-handed look at that scene from the characters' perspective. Nicely done. I'll need to bear this story in mind next time I start getting riled up over that incident.

hahaha amazing story, I loved it :rainbowlaugh:

"Would it matter if I was a—" asked Fluttershy curiously.
"We've been over this before," cut in Twilight bluntly.

Ah I see what you did there :trollestia:

Am I the only one who thought that RD looked oddly cute with Rarity's hairstyle? I mean, I never would've thought she could pull it off, but sure enough...

7210350 tbh thats the reason i added this story to my "read later"

She grinned and flapped up, widening her legs. "But Pinkie, I've been doing you the whole time!"

"REALLY?"

"Where do you think all those props came from?" said Rainbow Dash with a wink.

Twilight suddenly sat up. "Hey, I was about to ask that—"

*dies laughing*

Ha! Okay, I didn't expect to like this story, mostly because I really hated the episode it comes from. Not so much because of the imitation stuff , but because of, well, virtually everything in the episode. But I did remember thinking that between this scene, Rainbow Dash's imitation of Twilight on the train to Griffonstone AND her imitation of a timber wolf in Spike At Your Service, I thought the idea of Rainbow doing impersonations could be explored a bit more. This was really well written and funny to boot, though I did want to whap Applejack with her hat for seemingly enjoying hearing about Rainbow being embarrassed.

Nice job of producing something cute and fun out of a really poor episode. Well done.

"—SO MANY TINY UMBRELLAS—"

Best quote. Hands down.
This story is way better then I expected it to be

My one and only issue with this fic:

Rarity waved her hoof and looked at Rainbow. "You know, Dashie, honestly, I'm really happy that you bounced back so quickly. You seemed a bit... how do we say... fragile when you went off to impress the Wonderbolts."

I cannot think of one moment in the show when Rarity calls Rainbow "Dashie." It seems rather odd for her, in my opinion. Besides that, though, I thoroughly enjoyed this fic! It's great writing, and it made me appreciate the episode a lot more than I already did! :pinkiesmile:

7211083 Hmm, he's right. A grep of the transcripts of seasons 1-4 shows Rarity doesn't use the word "Dashie" once.

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Rarity calls her Dashie in Newbie Dash itself :P Thank you for reading, glad you liked it!


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Thank you for the comments :pinkiehappy: I'm happy you liked it!

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Looks like the fic is working as intended :trollestia: Glad you liked it, thank you for the kind words.

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Rare!Dash > Rainbow!Dash > Apple!Dash > Twilight!Dash > Flutter!Dash = Pinkie!Dash

>tfw fancy Dash better than regular Dash :rainbowderp:

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Oh, right, there were those other times, weren't there? That's a good catch. I'm glad you gave this a shot, and that it worked out for you! Always love it when that happens.

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It makes you wonder who will start calling her Dashie next.
Also Rare Dash has a nice name to it compared to the others.
It's official. she is slowly reverting back to her G3 self.
What scares me the most is that I think she can pull it off way better then her G3 counterpart.
I remember reading a fic where she does it as a prank to Rarity, but now I want to read a fic where she does it for real.

I feel like Raritys threat against Applejack as she is having her foal happens to every spouse that is NOT giving birth in reality. Lol. I'm sure every man has been threatened to have his balls cut off by his wife after she was done giving birth.:rainbowlaugh:

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In "Newbie Dash," during the first scene with the M6 as Dash is preparing to leave Rarity says "So what do you do now, Dashie?" It's the only time I can recall her using it, but she does use it.

I feel like Fluttershy had her mind in the gutter for a bit there, not that I blame her, I was thinking the same thing.:twilightsmile:

"And Starlight? I thought that maybe you'd invite her. Even if she didn't have a pet, I'm sure Fluttershy could hook her up with one," said Rainbow Dash.

Yeah, she probably has a catchy song to sing while doing it too.:yay:

"Pinkie," said Fluttershy, tapping her gently on the shoulder. Before Pinkie could respond—and this was a matter of milliseconds—Fluttershy whispered something in her ears, and Pinkie suddenly calmed down.
It was almost unreal. She was just there, sitting quietly, smiling all right, but it was like she had fallen into a trance compared to the jittery force of nature not five seconds ago.
"Uh..." started Rainbow.
"Guess there's some things you just can't imitate," giggled Fluttershy happily.

Didn't quite catch what happened here. Did Fluttershy say something in particular?

Well written slice of life and a perfect episode follow up. Thanks for your good work.

"Oh, right. Where's Spike?" asked Rainbow Dash.

Ha! Lampshading. When was the last time Spike gave a shit about you or your accomplishments, Rainbow?

Rainbow is a master initator.:twilightsheepish:

"You know, if you were interested, me and Starlight read up on friendship texts

My personal preference for Twilight (headcanon etc. ; ) ) is to have her use a "nice" grammar; "Starlight and I"
and maybe "anyway" instead of not nonstandard "anyways" too.

"Would it matter if I was a—" asked Fluttershy curiously.
"We've been over this before," cut in Twilight bluntly.

I laughed at the reference :rainbowlaugh:

What was the Fluttershy reference to?

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Nice little slice-of-life.

"Would it matter if I was a—" asked Fluttershy curiously.

"We've been over this before," cut in Twilight bluntly.

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Oh man, I love inside jokes. Even if it is just an inside joke that nearly everyone on this site will get.

What a cute little story! I haven't seen the new episode yet, but this seemed like a very in-character interaction between the Mane 6. I really enjoyed reading it.

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That would be real cute! Actually, any sort of Flutters-Starlight interaction would be great. Especially now that we have that shot of her being :fluttershysad: when Starlight left the picnic early.

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The "anyways" was a good catch, I was advised to changed the first one and I forgot to check for more. Fixed!

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Fluttershy has secrets, man. Twilight would have mentioned how weird it was that she could do that, except she's in on it which makes her happy for a change.

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Thank you! Yeah, unless you were a) invested in Rainbow's Wonderbolts arc or b) wanted to see the sequence live I'd say you're not missing too much. Not to say it was bad or anything, just that it's not No Second Prances level in terms of potential setup.

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And thank you for reading! And for answering the guy's question, too.

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Thank you, glad you liked it! :twilightsmile:

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I'm definitely gonna watch it eventually. We've been following RD's aspiration to be a Wonderbolt since S1E1, so I want to at least see her finally get it.

7212904 That story by GaPJaxie did spark a huge mountain of stories, some of which were...highly intriguing. :rainbowderp:

"Sobering up does that to some ponies," sniffed Rarity.

OH! OH! Apply cool water directly to burn!

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I wouldn't mind (and notice) "anyways" at all if it didn't make people use "a ways". Can't unsee now. :) That one was a nitpick you could completely ignore.
"me (...) reads" like for ex. "between we (s/he and I)" on the other hand... :twilightangry2: ;)

7216087 The pinkie smile is too small.

Great story! I really loved he way you wrote that Rainbow Dash was playing Pinkie all along, it was very surprising!

Have a like! :twilightsmile:

7216087 That would be an interesting one-shot. The human 7 would be impressed with Rainbow's impressions, but wonder how she is changing her clothes shape.

...This actually reminds me of a one-shot where Sci-Twi acts like a different element bearer each day because of over exposure to certain magic she kept in hiding. Though, she just acted their styles while still being a Twilight.

Awesome story. You have the characters rhythms and speech patterns down quite well :twilightblush:
One minor thing:

"A lady always keeps a handful of secrets close to her heart," replied Rainbow, giving Twilight a wink that made her gulp.

In the spirit of MLP, shouldn't it be hoofful? It's minor and sometimes they do reference hands.

Liked/fav'd. Keep up the good work :eeyup:

A charming read, but i felt like the ending kind of petered out. The last line by fluttershy felt like it had tne punch of a punchline, but the story didn't feel like it was really leading up to it in a meaningful way. The part afterward just kind of meandered as a result.

The day was beautiful, warm and a little breezy. Having a member of the weather team in their circle meant that Twilight could plan their meetups on perfect days like this every time.

Implying that the weather squedual is not fully public.

and that perfect days in Equestria are at least as frequent as how often the girls have meetups.

"Always funny to hear somepony mention caramel, onnaccount of my cousin."

That would be either Caramel or Caramel Apple.
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Because the idea of having somepony to discuss the proper way of handling subject discourse with respect to chronology makes me really, really excited

Upvote! For a most amusing little comedy. Though, I gotta ask:

"Hey, I might be a good imitator, but I'm not perfect. Or creepy and evil. Ugh." Rainbow shivered and drank her tea in stride.

"Would it matter if I was a—" asked Fluttershy curiously.

"We've been over this before," cut in Twilight bluntly.

Was that a Would It Matter If I Was reference? :pinkiehappy:

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Thanks for the upvote, glad you liked it!

also oh man it's you wow yes. :x It was too good to pass up!

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Yay! Reading that made my afternoon. And yes, I quite enjoyed it! When I saw Rainbow change her mane with a flick of her head in the episode, changelings jokes did immediately come to mind. It was great to see them realized in a nice slice of life scene.

That't two excellent SoL fics oin a row! Really getting that 10% today!

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