Rainbow Dash patted Silver Spoon on the head enthusiastically and then grabbed her securely. “Alright little filly, get ready for the ride of your life!”
Silver Spoon smiled broadly as Dash spread her wings, about to ascend. She always did seem to have the best luck in life.
Suddenly Sweetie Belle’s voice came ringing out in the distance. “Hey Silver Spoon! Look at this! Watch my amazing balance!” Shortly followed by Belle cartwheeling into view, while juggling wooden pieces of wreckage with her back legs and wearing a makeshift blindfold out of the torn ship’s sails.
“What the!?” Dash stopped her ascent and shouted out loudly in surprise at the sudden unexpected appearance of the cartwheeling pony.
‘Wait that’s not Silver Spoon’s voice!’ Belle thought to herself and that slight mental distraction was all it took for her to mess up her timing and fall on her face, sending the sharp wooden wreckage flying in all directions. One particular sharp piece flew through the air and impaled Dash’s left wing.
“Arrrrgh!” Dash squealed in pain and quickly dropped out of the air, plummeting to the ground. “Will you fillies stop throwing things at me!? Arrrg that hurts. That hurts that hurts.”
“NO! What did you do!?” Silver Spoon roared angrily.
Belle timidly removed her blindfold. “What did I do?” Then she saw Dash rolling on the floor in pain and gasped. “Oh my gosh! I didn’t mean too! Dash I’m so sorry! I didn’t know you were there!”
Silver Spoon glared at Belle “What were you trying to do!? Get us all killed!?”
“No! I was just trying to show you my cutie mark!” Belle exclaimed loudly, trying to defend herself.
Silver Spoon blinked. “What cutie mark? You don’t have a cutie mark!”
Belle looked at her flank and saw the brown mark was now smeared all around her back legs from her awkward landing. It had just been a patch of splattered wet mud from the puddle all along. Her eyes must have been stinging so bad that she didn’t truly notice. Now she truly felt like an idiot.
Silver Spoon snorted and then started to preach “You’re a real piece of work you know that blank flank! First you steal my boat, then you destroy my boat, stranding us here, then you insult me and now you attack Rainbow Dash while making a foal of yourself! You should be ashamed!”
Belle looked directly down at the floor to avoid Silver Spoon’s gaze. Trying to hold back the tears in her eyes.
“Wait a minute!” Dash said looking directly at Silver Spoon as she got back up to her feet, still flinching in pain from the sharp wood stuck in her wing. “You just told me you were alone! Now you’re saying Sweetie Belle brought you here!? You were going to leave her behind!”
All the sadness and humiliation Belle was feeling quickly turned to rage. “You were going to abandon me here! How could you!?”
Silver Spoon felt outnumbered and regretted her outburst. She hesitated for a moment nervously but then retaliated. “Well. Yeah… Yeah I was! And you deserve it! Look what you did to me! Look what you did to Rainbow Dash! Why should I help you with anything! You just make everything worse!”
Dash stretched out her impaled left wing and examined it. Then she shrugged “Nah its fine. Think it’ll be okay once I just get this thing out. I mean w-“
“I’LL FIX IT!” Belle shouted as she rushed over to Dash. All too eager to make up for her mistake. Before Dash could react Belle had already grabbed the lodged piece of sharp wreckage in Dash’s wing and was trying to pull it out.
“Hey! Hey! Hey! Stop! Owowowow! You’re twisting it! You’re twisting it! Not helping! Not helping!” Dash exclaimed in pain as all of Belle’s jerking did nothing to dislodge the impaled wreckage and merely caused more pain and damage to the wound.
Silver Spoon snorted, pushed Belle aside and grabbed the sharp wood herself. “Useless as always! Well it’s obvious that we can’t pull it out, so let’s just push it all the way through! Clearly!”
“WAIT! NO!” Dash shouted but too late. Silver Spoon pushed with all her might and forced the sharp wood right through Dash’s wing until it came completely out the other side. Leaving behind a massive, bloody, splinter-filled gaping hole in Dash’s left wing were a simple flesh wound had been moments before.
Dash keeled over in pain and grabbed her agonized wing while screaming in pain. “ARRGH! AAH! SWEET MOTHER OF CELESTIA! AHH! NOT HELPING! NOT HELPING!”
Silver Spoon beamed, proud of herself. “Right, now the instrument has been dislodged all we need to do is bandage the wound!” Silver Spoon picked up the bit of sails Belle was using as a blindfold.
Belle hastily interjected “Nu-uh! First we need to disinfect and clean the wound.” Belle reached into nearby sea and pulled out some seaweed. “I think this will do the trick, I read that somewhere…”
Belle and Silver Spoon butted heads once more as they approached Dash with their contraptions. Each trying to show up the other. Dash winced as she saw them coming close, sprang back up to her feet and pushed them both away. “NO! Stop it! BOTH OF YOU! Stop it! Stop it right now!” Dash yelled hysterically as blood continued to pour out of her wing. “You’re both just making everything worse! Look what you’ve done! There’s no way I can fly with this! Let alone carry you.”
Belle and Silver Spoon simultaneously pointed at each other stated “It’s her fault!”
Dash sighed loudly and held her aching wing. “It doesn’t matter! Do you realize what you’ve done?”
Silver Spoon took a deep breath. “Well first Belle stole a boat, and then she broke the boat’s wheel and then she crashed the boat and then she-“
“No!” Dash stated while burying her face in her hooves. “That’s not what I meant! Why do you think I was even out here!? Didn’t you notice the strong winds? A hurricane is forming and might be heading right for Ponyville! I was supposed to swing by, scout it, stop if it needed and return with an update! I can’t do that with THIS!” Dash waved her broken wing. “Everyone could be in danger.”
Belle and Silver Spoon’s anger turned to concern. Belle bit her bottom lip. “Isn’t there any other pony on weather patrol as backup? You know in case things like this happen?”
Dash sighed “Yeah there is… Derpy.”
Silver Spoon squealed loudly in fright “The village is doomed!”