A pale yellow pegasus paced outside the meeting center. When Twilight Sparkle came storming out, looking all too annoyed with the villains inside, the pegasus jumped and tried to hide behind the nearest tree.
“Fluttershy, it’s all right,” Twilight said. “None of them are coming out.”
Fluttershy cautiously stepped out into the open. “Do I still have to talk to them?”
Twilight shook her head. “As much as I’d hoped a lecture would inspire them to pursue scientific study, it seems they’re not interested. They won’t want to hear about the cockatrice.”
Fluttershy nodded. “Can we go home now?”
“Yes,” Twilight said. “I need to have Spike write a letter to Princess Celestia.”
Inside, the villains were restless. Diamond Tiara was fawning over Trixie for ‘saving’ her from Twilight, and everyone else was just eager to get on with the stories. Twilight had just been an unwelcome interruption.
While a draconequus and a changeling argued over who had caused the most damage to Equestria, a trio of diamond dogs stepped up to speak.
“We faced the ponies!” Rover exclaimed. “We made the white one hunt gems for us, and the other ponies took her away.”
The others began to be quiet. Rover continued.
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We saw the dragon first. The dragon was hunting gems. We hunt gems, but we grow tired of the searching. The dragon was digging up many gems. We wanted the dragon.
We watched the dragon and we see the pony. The pony is the hunter, the dragon only digs. We don’t need another digger. We need a hunter.
Pony did not want to come with us. We chased her. We caught her but the dragon escaped. It didn’t matter. We had the pony.
Pony found many gems for us but did not want to dig. We made her dig. Pony is not a good digger. We made her haul the wagon instead.
Pony whined! Ooh, she whined so much! We hated the noise. We would do anything to stop the noise! Pony didn’t dig or haul wagon, but she was quiet. We called her Miss Rarity and she was quiet.
But we are dogs! Ponies do not order dogs around! We made pony work anyways. She kept making the horrible noises, but she had to work! Pony still didn’t work.
The other ponies came to take pony away. They fought our guards and they couldn’t guard for weeks! The ponies took the whiny pony away and we finally had quiet. But we lost our hunter and our gems!
The ponies are selfish! They whine instead of work and steal gems! Ponies do not order dogs, and ponies should remember that!
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“Is that it?” Nightmare Moon asked when Rover had finished.
He nodded emphatically, and Fido chimed in, “Ponies took our gems!”
The alicorn sighed. “Has anyone actually fought these ponies besides me?” A claw and a hoof went in the air. Nightmare Moon just shook her head. “I suppose we should meet again next week.”