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// Cue the Fireworks! 
// Story: Amereep's Anthology of Flashfics 
// by Amereep 
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Opaline laughs as Twilight's tattered body skids across the floor.  She points her illuminating horn at the unconscious princess, but hastefully shifts to a barrier for the divebombing Dash.  She snarks at Dash shoving her forcefield, "Back for more?  My, how we never learn."

"I hate losing.  Know the difference!"

"Ha!" Opaline springs Dash off with the pulse of her magic.  She comes back and Opaline smacks her down with the flap of her wings, "Don't talk to me about differences, little pony."

Dash slides back on her hooves, slowing herself and glaring at Opaline as she floats in the air.

"I am an almighty alicorn, reigning power that far exceeds all of Equestria.  Confronting me only postpones my will and forfeits your meager life.  Take your meaningless pride and scurry back to the crack you crawled from." 

"No," Dash shifts a hoof back, tapping Twilight, "I'm not losing her!"