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// "The Forbidden Dance of Confusion: Twilight Sparkle Versus an Angry Swarm of Bees" [Slice of Life; Rated E For Everyone] 
// Story: "Proverbial," and Other Very Short Stories 
// by Mockingbirb 
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"...and do a little shake!" Twilight and Cadance chorused as they waggled their hindquarters.  

The alicorns giggled. 

Cadance said, "Don't panic--" 

"AAAAAA!" Twilight screamed. 

"...but you have a bee on your mane." 

Twilight laughed nervously. "One little bee. I can handle--" 

A cloud of bees surrounded the pair.  

"AAAAAAAA! BEES BEES BEES A SWARM OF ANGRY BEES AAAAA--" 

"Maybe if we just stay very still and ignore them, they'll go away." 

As the bees circled, Twilight stood rigid with fear. 



 

"So it turned out our "sunshine, sunshine" dance is too much like the dance bees do to show their sisters where flowers are...but ours is a confusing, nonsense version. So Fluttershy made us promise to never do it again." 

"Huh," Pinkie said. "Where IS Fluttershy anyway?" 



 

In a faraway meadow, thousands of creatures transformed from bees (and one pegasus) into changelings.  "They'll never do that annoying dance again!" Chrysalis gloated.







Epilogue


If you want to read another story about about honeybees' communication through dance, you can read articles such as https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/dance-bees/, and Pineta's story "Bee Kind and Waggle On."