Rarity beamed widely with pride as she looked at some kind of device in her hoof. “Congratulations on getting your cutie mark, Sweetie Belle! This invention of yours has made us all rich, especially you. It's simple yet ingenious, and it fits right in your hoof. Every pony in Equestria now owns one of these, and in many cases, three or four.”
‘Device? What device?’ Belle thought to herself. She reached for the obscured device in Rarity’s hoof but she was too small to reach it. “Uh, Rarity? Could I just get a look at that?”
Rarity laughed and pranced away in glee, moving away from Belle “Ha ha! Why would you need to see it? You're the genius that invented the product in question.”
Belle tried to follow Rarity but couldn’t keep up as her sister just went further and further away. “But, uh, could I just… Let me see! Rarity!” As Sweetie Belle shouted her sisters name, she immediately woke up to find herself on a desert island. It had all been a dream.
She clambered to her feet with difficulty; her body was aching all over. She then examined her surroundings. She could see the boat in several pieces sprawled across the coast, the tidal wave had all but destroyed it and carried her onto this island. And the most damning thing of all was that there was no sign of any other land in any direction on the horizon. The island itself was small, less than a mile across. It did however have a batch of trees in the centre, like a small wood. That somehow made it feel bigger.
“Oh finally you wake up! Now you fix this right now!” Silver Spoon’s shrill voice dug into Belle’s ears like a knife. She was standing by the largest heap of the boat wreck. Tapping her hoof impatiently.
Belle looked at Silver Spoon with a puzzled expression. Then picked up a flimsy piece of wreckage and watched it snap into two in her own grasp. “Me? What in Equestria do you expect me to do? I can’t build boats. I don’t even have any tools.”
“You’re the one who brought us here! So you’re going to get us out of here RIGHT NOW!” The anger had quickly returned to Silver Spoon’s voice.
Belle returned the anger in kind. “Well screaming at me isn’t going to fix the boat! Is it? And even if I did fix it, do you even know what direction home is in? Because I don’t!”
“Well you can’t do anything can you! You’re so useless! It’s no wonder you haven’t got a cutie mark!” Silver Spoon spitted back at Belle.
Belle snorted “Ha! You’re calling me useless! You’re the one who was just sitting there waiting for me to wake up. Why don’t YOU do something useful? Well? Because you can’t! You just sit in the background while other ponies do everything important.”
Silver Spoon’s eye began twitching as she felt her blood boiling. “How dare you! I could easily get out of this mess without any help at all!”
“Well then prove it!” Belle said smugly.
“Fine! I’ll find a way to get home on my own! And I’ll laugh when you come begging for me to rescue you!” And with that, Silver Spoon turned her back on Belle and began to walk away slowly. Belle didn’t attempt to stop her and instead turned her back too, so they were facing away from each other.
“Fine! I’ll send you a postcard when I’m back at the Carousel Boutique! Silver GOON!” Belle shouted with pride at her witty pun.
Suddenly they heard loud rustling coming from the trees. They were not alone after all! The unexpected noise terrified the two fillies who quickly rushed back into each other’s arms, shaking in fear. ‘Oh no! It’s a dragon! Or a hydra! Or a dragon with lots of hydra heads or Discord if he was a giant dragon!’ Belle thought to herself in fright.
Then a small bird flew out of the trees and high up into the sky. The noise had just been it making a nest. Belle and Silver Spoon breathed a sigh of relief and then shoved each other aside.
“See! You’re so useless you’re scared of birds little miss blank flank!” Silver Spoon spitted out as soon as her fear had left her completely.
“Nuh-huh! You were scared! I was just… Trying to shake some sense into you! Because you’re… A scaredy pony!” Belle replied, annoyed that she couldn’t think of anything more witty to end on.
“Hmmph!” Silver Spooned muttered in annoyance as she once again turned her back on Bell and they went their separate ways.