The Unlikeliest of Heroes (S1: "Dragonshy")
The dragon threatening Equestria by snoring smoke had long since packed up and left, and the six mares from Ponyville made their way back down the mountain in high spirits.
"Y'know, though," Applejack said as they hiked the long, winding trail, "there's one thing that bothers me about this whole adventure."
"Just one?" Rarity asked, arching an eyebrow.
"Well, it's just..." Applejack's muzzle scrunched up, and she stopped walking. The others stopped and turned to her, curious.
"What's on your mind, Applejack?" Twilight Sparkle asked.
"Well..." Applejack looked around. "Okay, so...Fluttershy, animal expert, stared down that dragon mighty good, got 'er done, Ah git that. But if'n you stop an' think about it..." She began pointing at each mare present in turn. "We got a farmer, a librarian, a dressmaker, a baker, a weatherpony, an' a...whutever Fluttershy actually does besides feedin' an' carin' for animals." She frowned. "Don't it seem odd t' y'all that this is th' group Princess Celestia sent t' vanquish a dragon?"
The other mares blinked, then looked at each other. Then they looked at Twilight.
Twilight shook her head. "Princess Celestia has her reasons," she said. "Besides, we vanquished Nightmare Moon! Of course we're the logical choice for...for saving Equestria from a giant fire-breathing dragon..."
"Really, darling," Rarity said flatly.
"Well we did!" Twilight protested.
"Technically Fluttershy did," Pinkie Pie pointed out. "The rest of us didn't do squat!"
"Hey! I kicked him!" Rainbow Dash pointed out.
"Ah, yes, let us never forget Rainbow Dash's epic feat of bruising her hoof on a dragon," Rarity said sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
"Look, all Ah'm sayin' us, we ain't exactly adventurers," Applejack said. "Why in th' name of pink lady apples would th' Princess send us an' not, Ah dunno, th' Royal Guard, or th' Wonderbolts, or...or anypony whose job it is t' deal with stuff like this?"
"Because she knows we're awesome!" Rainbow Dash asserted. "Especially me!"
"Princess Celestia has her reasons," Twilight said firmly. "She always knows the right thing to do, and she's always right. Just...just trust the Princess, alright? If somepony else had been the right pony to send, she would've sent them instead of us. She's been ruling Equestria for over a thousand years, after all! She always knows what's right."
Twilight's firm conviction quieted Applejack's protests, and the group fell silent for the rest of the return trip to Ponyville.
Later that night, when Twilight put out the lights and tucked herself in to sleep, she found she lay awake until the wee hours of morning, wondering why Princess Celestia had sent a farmer, a baker, a dressmaker, a weatherpony, a librarian, and a Fluttershy to vanquish a dragon.
By the time the rooster crowed, she still hadn't figured it out.
She debated asking Spike to send a letter to Princess Celestia asking her. But then she reminded herself of her own words.
"Princess Celestia is always right," she said as she closed her eyes. "Always right. She's always right..."
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The letter Celestia sent Twilight told her to STAY AWAY from the dragon.
Except when she's very, very wrong.
I take issue with that statement.
Dash didn't make any indication that her hoof was hurt from kicking the dragon.
Yes, I'm not sure that even qualifies as a nitpick, but it still bugged me.
Still waiting for this little issue of Twilight's to be addressed in the show.
"The Princess works in mysterious ways."
"That's all well an' good, Sugarcube, but I'd prefer a mite less mystery when she's throwin' me at dragons."
The best I can think of is that Celestia wanted to see if Twilight could handle this kind of work for when she becomes a princess.
because a group of ponies who came together in a night to a friendship that could destroy a world destroying evil is better for negotiating than an active military force
I want to say that Celestia sent them because they were the closest available ponies that she trusted to get the job done, but at the same time...
Could it be that Princess Celestia knew the dragon wasn't directly threatening or attacking anyone, and rather than spark an international crisis by sending in the military, it was better to send her trusted student and her circle of friends?
Still, I can imagine Shining Armor wouldn't be too happy to find out the princess sent his sister on a perilous mission and didn't tell him.
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You're wrong. Taken directly from the episode dialogue:
I think you've gotten Tired Old Man's fanfic and the actual show mixed up, possibly? ^^;;
And then Twilight asks only for her to learn that much like the Ticket Master episode. It was Tia just trolling Twilight for the lolz.
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What MythrilMoth said ... and you forget. Celestia has trolled Twilight for a good chunk of her interactions with Twiggly Wiggles.
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You know, I always thought (in other words, headcanon) that she just sent the other pony's invites through the actual mail, and the just hadn't arrived yet.
The sad part is that I'm pretty sure that Princess Celestia would cry if she knew that this was the kind of mentality she had fostered in Twilight.