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// 5) Face the Nightmare, Part 2 (April fools) 
// Story: The Awesome Spider-Dash: Origins 
// by Flufux 
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Episode 5
Face the Nightmare, Part 2
A Clash of Spiders and Goblins!


"No!"

That was all she said.

A simple, short, two-letter declaration of decline. A word uttered so often that you barely even think about it when you use it. That one simple word was all Rainbow Dash had to say to the Nightmare Goblin's face when the masked villain made her ultimatum. 

In spite of the fact that she literally held Sunset Shimmer's life in her gloved hand, and could drop the innocent girl to her imminent demise at a moment's notice...the Spider-Girl was not giving in to the Goblin's demands.

Not now, not ever.

A more pragmatic or careful hero, who used their minds to strategically think through every possible outcome of such a scenario, would probably not have made such a decision, and would far more likely accept that there was nothing they could do and give up.

...But not Rainbow Dash. 

Unlike Twilight (or even Celestia at times), Rainbow's decisions were never made from cold hard logic. As a woman of swift immediate action rather than thinking things through, Dash always let her feelings have the final say on the matter...and complying to a crazy terrorist's demands at a time like this, it, to put it simply...just didn't feel right.

While she had no evidence to base it on, she knew she could save Sunset's life...and she knew that she could do it without giving in. Despite everything saying otherwise, she just knew it.  

...And the reason she knew it was because she really didn't have any other choice.

There had to be a way...and as long as she knew that was the case, the more likely she would actually find it. 

In hindsight, Rainbow probably also knew she was acting recklessly by gambling with an innocent person's life, but the alternative was not something she could ever, would ever, choose, not even if her own life depended on it...which, in this case, it might as well be.

At the very least her decision did leave everyone around her, especially the Nightmare Goblin, very confused...and now they were all staring at her, hoping for the masked hero to give some semblance of reason to her madness.

"What did you just say?!" the Goblin wondered, sounding somewhat insulted over the fact that this strange girl had the audacity to say no to her face.

Celestia gave her a sideways glance, herself looking very lost over what the younger superhero was doing...and probably debating with herself internally on whether she should trust the Spider-Girl's judgement on this or not.

Twilight Sparkle on the other hand stared at her as if she'd suddenly grown a second head. "What are you doing!?" she asked hysterically.

Rainbow held up a hand to silence her, but kept her eyes firmly on the Goblin. 

"I said no," Spider-Girl repeated, still sounding as uncompromising and defiant as the last time she said it. 

Thoroughly baffled, Nightmare reiterated after a brief pause, "I don't know if I made myself clear...if you don't comply, I will kill this girl. She will die a horrible, gruesome death...she will be nothing but a gory mess of blood and broken bones on the sidewalk, she will never live to see her nineteenth birthday...and it will be all your fault," she explained as menacingly as she could manage, hoping that the message would get across this time.

But, to everyone's continued surprise, Dash just casually crossed her arms and replied with, "Then what're you waiting for?"

The Goblin's eye twitched, "...what?"

Taking a few calm steps across the extended crane arm to get closer to her, Spider-Girl simply remarked, "Threats are only good if you go through with them, right? So go ahead, do it. At least then we know you're serious."

The Nightmare Goblin paused for second...then she conceded, "Fair enough!" and idly threw Sunset Shimmer away to fall to her death.

Spider-Girl was about to swoop in and save her...but before she even had a chance of doing so, the Goblin decided to unleash an entire barrage of missiles from the Gargoyle at the front of her glider's mouth that hit the roof like an inferno.

Everyone that was there, including Twilight Sparkle, Spike, Celestia and even Rainbow Dash, the Awesome Spider-Girl herself...were all consumed by the explosion and died instantly as a result, leaving them nothing but burning bodies.

"Well...that was easy," the Goblin commented in surprise while watching the fire she just unleashed at the top of the building. "I would have thought that at least my annoying sister would have survived, but I guess not."

That was when Celestia, now having completely transformed into her vengeful evil alter ego with flaming hair, Daybreaker...flew out of the fire, unleashing a spine-chilling war cry that made even the Nightmare Goblin freeze up in terror...and all she could do was stare in horror as the relentless demon that had taken hold of her sister closed in.

With a powerful punch reaching magnitudes above both the legendary Falcon Punch and a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick combined, Daybreaker knocked the Goblin straight off her glider and right up into the stratosphere!

And thus...the story comes to a close...
















...except not really, because that is not what happened.

April Fools everybody!