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// Two 
// Story: How to Disappear Completely 
// by shortskirtsandexplosions 
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	Wham!

This time, Flash pinballed off the trunk of a tree, backflipped, then somersaulted painfully down a grass embankment.  What finally stopped him was the muddy bank to a river.

Whistling, Derpy flew down until she hovered above his half-submerged figure.

"That was quite the bump!" she chirped.  "You'd make Cheerilee's sister proud.  Have you ever met her?  She spends most her time on the top rope—"

"Mrmmmfff!"  Flash Sentry raised his head, spitting adorable clumps of mud out from his adorable orange mouth.  "Again!"

"Mr. Bard—"

"I almost touched the clouds that time!"

"That was a bush full of carnations.  You were upside down for forty seconds."

"So?"  Flash smiled in spite of a sea of bruises and dirt-splotches covering his coat.  He lifted up slowly with flapping wings.  "Maybe I was just showing off!"

"You'll be showing off, alright."  Derpy frowned as her eyes rolled from horizon to horizon.  "Inside an open casket."

"Wow, you hold pony funerals in this world?  Cool!"  Flash lifted higher.  "Well, I'm gonna hate to miss one!  Cuz I'll be too busy flying!"

"You know, if you've got someplace to be, you could hire a chariot—"

"Are you gonna teach me, Miss Hooves, or aren't you?"

Derpy sighed melodically.  She brushed back her blonde threads.  "Okay..."  A tender smile crossed her fuzzy features.  "Let's start from the top.  Push away from the not-sky and aim for the big, bright, happy blue—!"