Fancy
"You truly have no idea what the Midnight Oil is doing out here, do you, lad?" Fancy Pants remarked as he paced down the port side of the airship in question.
Flash Sentry strolled along with him, shrugging. "Can't say that I do."
"None of the local gossip has clued you in to our operations?"
"Should they? I mean..." Flash chuckled. "Sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Fancy Pants. But I'm an idiot. That is, I mean well. Honest. A well-meaning idiot."
"Don't sell yourself short!" Fancy Pants adjusted his monocle in mid-trot. "Someone with nimble colt-saving skills such as yours must absolutely possess a certain sharpness of mind!"
"Well, I'll take your word for it." Flash looked up at the gentlecolt. He tried to put his mind on when and where he may have seen that face or heard that voice before—albeit in Homo sapiens mode. Something about the aristocratic nature of the stallion forced him to dwell on his scant memories of Crystal Prep faculty—what few he could recollect. But he was at a loss. Rather than appear even more like a mindless idiot, he blurted forth: "But I truly don't remember any ponies talking about a zeppelin full of non-winged horses."
"Heh..." Fancy Pants adjusted his collar. "Is it that pathetic?"
"Uhhhhh—"
"The result of a once-treasured accountant attempting to make budget cuts," Fancy Pants muttered. "I assure you—as I will most certainly assure his eminence—that mistake will not happen again. This ship is meant to function smoothly... and competently... with or without the involvement of the Wonderbolts!"
"These 'Wonderbolts' must be pretty important ponies."
"My word!" Fancy Pants swiveled to face him, jaw agape. "You must truly be out of your element if you don't even know who the Wonderbolts are!"
Flash shrugged with a stupid smile. "Guilty as charged! Now do you believe the 'idiot' part?"
The older stallion took a moment to polish his eyepiece. "... ... ...I do believe uninformed is the more proper word. Lots of ponies here in the rural valley place turnips before pop culture. Even those with wings. Who am I to judge?"
"You won't judge and I won't care."
"A solid exchange, good sir!" Fancy Pants rested the article back within his eye socket. "The Wonderbolts are the most talented fliers in all of Equestria! Not only that, but they're a supremely reliable defense force—traditionally loyal to the protection of the Royal Sisters and all of their branching relatives. Seeing as I've... how should you say... coaxed Prince Blueblood and his young nephew to join me on this business excursion—heheh—I've been fortunate enough to have the Wonderbolts as an escort along with Captain Typhoon and his crew! An airborne expedition like this hasn't been undertaken in generations!"
"And this is your ship?"
"Indubitably."
Flash smiled. "I guess you must be super proud."
"Hmmmm... indeed. But I mustn't rest on my laurels!" Fancy Pants gestured as the two reached the bow. "Any and all celebration must wait until after the deal has been made!"
"Deal?"
"Mmmm... yes. With the Diamond Dogs, of course."
"Alright. Sooooooooo..." Flash rubbed his thick head through his blue mane. "...if not David Bowie, then I'm guessing it has nothing to do with Beck either."
"I wouldn't know about this 'Beck,' but I'm more than prepared for quite the bite!" Fancy Pants looked out at the rows and rows of arid mountains unfolding before the brightening dawnlight. "The diamond dogs all answer to a Ruling Alpha, you see. And the rumor is that he hails from this part of the continent."
"You're talking about actual, literal dogs, aren't you?" Flash murmured in wonder.
"Not just any canines, but sapient creatures capable of complex underground colonies and subterranean civilization!" Fancy Pants smirked. "And after months and months of diplomatic preparation, I do believe Prince Blueblood and I are about to finally make headway in calming their mangy, violent ways!"
"Are they super dangerous?"
"Oh! No! Well..." Fancy Pants coughed. "To a fault, I suppose. If a wayward pony was to wander into their territory... ehhhh..." He waved his fetlock from side to side. "They just might expect imprisonment and slavery deep within their jewel mines. BUT!" He grinned beneath his mustache. "This expedition seeks to end all of that unethical buffoonery! We're at the dawn of a new era of peace! Of tranquility! Of friendship!"
Flash looked at the immaculate lapel Fancy Pants was sporting. He smirked. "Not to mention a really snazzy new diamond trade. Verdad?"
"Absolutely—errrrrr..." Fancy Pants chuckled nervously. "Let's say—for the sake of good will—that all entrepreneurial benefits will take a back seat to establishing peace." He sighed. "Although there is a reason why I hired a whole new Interspecies Trade Department of my Canterlot business."
Flash let loose a hearty laugh.
Fancy Pants smirked. "It's like I said. You're not quite an idiot after all, Mr. Brad."
"Hey..." Flash shrugged. "Whatever helps both you and the Snoop Dogs."
"Diamond Dogs."
"Whatever."
"There's nothing more profitable for business than peace," Fancy Pants said. "It was true in the time of Chancellor Puddinghead, and it's true now."
Flash stared at him thoughtfully. He exhaled, "I wish more people thought like that, Mr. Pants."
"Heheh! Why wouldn't they?!"
Flash bit his lip.
"Ah!" Fancy Pants scanned the western horizon as several winged blue dots formed over the mountain peaks. "Just on time!"
Flash turned to witness...
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Great chapter! I love the contrast between Equestria and the human world. Fancy Pants keeps reminding Flash that he isn't an idiot and it's warming my heart!
When does this take place on the MLP side of the mirror? Is Rainbow Dash a fulltime Wonderbolt already?
Guess we'll find out.
*cockle warming intensifies*
Depending on just how well informed Fancy Pants is amongst the various stories of machinations etc, then his current confusion is due to having read the file on the Crystal Empire Flash Sentry, given his statement of the Royal Guard, and yet this person in front of him is severely twisting his world view, far more than even Kevin would be expected.
Top end nobility, excelent buisnessman, or Celestias own Spymaster, Fancy Pants has serious information, as well as power.
I wonder if the approaching flight are going to do a double helix, as it gives them manouverability, full check on state of vehicle and surrounding air, while confounding return fire. I would suspect a double helix can quite quickly alter into a interdeck figure 8, letting them have multiple attack vectors with little extra effort?
Really need to look up drone swarms and capabilities thereof, because if Pegasi are this dangerous, then Griffons would be a nightmare if they formed cohesive squadrons, and thats even before any of them had usuable magic beyond flight, cloud etc.
Oh boy time for the Wonderbolts!
"There's nothing more profitable for business than peace"
But to create a new big company is only possible during times of great change. Like, when a totally new market of computers was created - that's Apple. Or search systems - that's Google. Or gold - that's Spain after Columb found America. And they killed quite a lot of natives to turn their gold-retrieving "business" profitable!
Well, not entirely true. This is maybe correct for big transnationals, who can slowly strangle their opponents business and grow. And for ponies, too
7915328 Several months after Camp Everfree, according to the first few chapters, so probably post-S6.
That moment when you catch up with the rest of the story, then realize you have to wait now.
Well this has not been turning out as good as I have hoped it to be, IT'S EVEN BETTAAAR!!!!
Please let Rainbow Dash be among the wonderbolts not sure how familiar pony dash is with pony flash but human flash reacting to pony dash based on his knowledge of human dash would be a great background to time on airship.
Wait didn't back in ponyville before derby gave Brad flying lessons didn't one of the other ponies mention Rainbow Dash was on a mission?
It be hilarious to see pony dash build a great friendship with flash then fly back to ponyville and tell twilight about her new friend only to encounter pony flash who gives Rainbow Dash a confused look. Leading to Twilight, pony flash, and Dash to go track down human flash to find out what's going on. Just thought of the look on Rainbow Dash's face when she runs across pony flash after befriending Brad lol.
Let's look at some random theme to find fake symbolism in this story, as I do with all others. Let's go with the Fool's Journey.
The Fool - Flash Sentry
The Magician and the High Priestess - Octavia and Vynil
The Empress - Mrs. Cake
The Emperor - Mr. Cake
The Hierophant - Derpy
The Lovers - Lyra and Bon Bon
The Chariot - Fancy Pants with his fancy ship
What else? Maybe The Moon appeared out of order, with Luna. Another one out of order would be The Star, with Starlight Glimmer, but her role doesn't really fit the description.
Something tells me the diplomatic efforts won't be quite as simple as Fancy Pants is making them out to be. Of course, he seems to be getting the same message; otherwise he wouldn't have gotten some Wonderbolts on hoof. I have to wonder how Flash will react to a less idealistic species in this world.
Ha.
Change one word and humans think the same way.
Here I decided that there was a strange appeal to the story and oh surprise. Shortskirtsandexplosions.
It occurs to me that having BLUEBLOOD of all people, along on a trip to make a deal which requires diplomacy, it the very EPITOME of idiocy.
Hmmm...
Hmmmmmmm....
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