//------------------------------// // Swinging around the speed of sound // Story: The elegent spider // by Jonny Bench //------------------------------// “Alright you freak of nature, you have exactly ten seconds before i smash you flat like the bug you are if you don’t put Scootaloo down and back away from her.” Rainbow says to Muffet. “Rainbow, wait! She was just…” “Scootaloo, not now. We’ll talk about this later. Now put her down and leave!” Rainbow replies in a more hostile voice than before. Muffet flinches, and lowers herself to the ground to let Scootaloo hop off. “Don’t worry dearie, I’ll be fine. Take care now!” Muffet says while giving Scootaloo a pat on the back. At this Rainbow becomes triggered and decides to attack, flying as fast as she can into Muffet, sending her into a tree. “Alright monster, now it’s personal!” “But Rainbow Dash she didn’t hur…” “Not now Scootaloo. I said we would talk later!” Rainbow shouts just as the rest of the mane seven arrive. They all take a look around, spying an injured Muffet leaning against a tree, while Rainbow stands in front of Scootaloo, wings flared and ready to attack. Just as Muffet tries to move again, Rainbow rushes forwards, slamming into her and driving her into the tree. The sound of the tree snapping in half can be heard, and the great log starts to fall towards Scootaloo. Muffet, seeing her friend in danger, launches out a strand of her purple web from one of her hands, past Scootaloo, and latches onto a tree behind her. She then pulls back on the webbing and jumps forwards, being launched forwards towards Scootaloo, and grabs her as she passes by. They both narrowly avoid being hit by the tree, and all of the ponies present, except for rainbow Dash who was flying high in the sky preparing for another attack, are all shocked at what happened. Muffet closes her dark black eyes, and when she opens them again, they are blood red. “You, how dare you put the life of another in danger! I’m your opponent, so leave everyone else out of it!” Muffet screams towards the sky as Rainbow Dash launches into a dive straight at her. Muffet then starts to shoot webbing out of all of her arms, latching onto multiple trees, and starts to create a giant web. Rainbow sees what Muffet is doing, but she is moving too fast to avoid the web and is snared within the sticky trap. She starts to struggle, moving this way and that hoping to break free of her prison, but she only succeeds in getting caught by even more strands of the web. Muffet sees that Rainbow is unable to escape, and walks over to Scootaloo, her eyes changing back to normal, and asks her “Are you okay dearie?”with concern in her voice. “Yeah, thanks for saving me again. That tree could have really hurt..” “It was no problem dearie. Now go ahead and meet up with the others, I’m sure they’re quite worried about you.” “But, won’t you come with me?” “Sorry dearie, but i don’t think that that’s a good idea at the moment. However, I’ll try to visit that town i saw every now and then. I’m sure we’ll meet again there very soon.” “Okay muffet. But when we do meet up, I will introduce you to my friends!” “Okay dearie, run along now. Stay safe!” Muffet shouts as Scootaloo runs to meet back up with the mane seven. Scootaloo turns around to wave to Muffet one last time, but when she does, nobody was there