Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,
--Deuteronomy 32:11
"Walk the plank!"
"Walk the plank!"
"You're insane! You're certifiably insane!" Psalms screamed out as he along with Applejack, Spike, and Rarity teetered on the edge of a wooden plank, being slowly pushed off inch by inch by two burly storm beasts as the shouts and calls of various creatures resounded all around, hooting and hollering for their plunge. Psalms shifted his panicked gaze over to one guffawing rainbow alicorn. "What the hell happened to baby steps!?"
Rainbow's chortles died down as she picked herself off the floor and wiped away the last of the saliva adorning her cheek. "What? We are doing baby steps." She snickered once more. "Baby bird steps that is." More laughter echoed across the deck.
"So this is your master plan!? Throw us off the ship and hope for the best!?" Rarity Screeched.
"What can I say? As one great saying I know goes, 'Everypony knows the best way to learn quickly is under intense, life-threatening pressure.'"
"That's a fucking Spiderman quote!"
Rainbow ignores Psalms shout. "Momma birds gotta force her chicks outta the nest, and this seemed the best way to replicate that."
"We're not birds!" Spike boomed out, his hulking figure was the only obstacle that was heavy enough to keep the beasts struggling.
"Eh, potato tomato, quit stalling and follow after Pinkie's lead for once."
"She jumped off the ship before you even explained what we were doing!"
"Exactly! Look how well that worked out for her." Rainbow extended a hoof into the air at a pink blur that swooped elegantly around the ship's gasbag while gleeful cheers reverberated across the air.
"The exception is not the rule, Darling! What works for Pinkie Pie doesn't necessarily apply to the rest of us, you know this!"
"Oh shut your trap, Rarity. You already have some experience flying, what's the big deal now?"
"I was not being forced off the edge of a ship against my will a thousand meters in the air by a couple of mangy brutes last time!" Spike's planted feet gave for a split second before anchoring once more, but it was enough for Rarity to scream and shout out. "For Celestia's sake, Rainbow! End this shenanigans at once!"
"You can end it by walking the plank! Yargh!" Boyle drew his cutlass and began to toy with the dragon with fainting slashes, which earned flinches from Spike.
"Walk the plank!"
"Walk the plank!"
"Alright, alright, that's enough we had our fun," Rainbow announced, halting the storm beasts in their track much to the dismay of the other onlookers.
"Aw," Boyle disappointedly began, "but they're right there, and we have never managed to get anyone to walk the plank before, tis a real mark of shame for pirates to go this long without having someone thrown overboard."
"Well, when you put it that way..." The storm beasts resumed the push a second later.
"RAINBOW!" Her victims called out.
"Ok, ok, you win, we're done for real. You guys can come back-"
*SNAP*
"-...aboard?"
Everycreature standing upon the rickety wooden board took a glance at their feet before slowly turning to collectively give Rainbow a glare, storm beasts included.
"Oops?"
*SNAP*
Another snap and screams from her 'students' briefly filled the air before they disappeared into the misty sea of clouds.
"...Ah ponyfeathers."