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A nice heart
And a white suit
And a baby blue sedan
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The wi do w
Der Groß ermane
Drowning
away from the trees
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canyouseethesigns
h(a)unted
iwanttobelieve
Dusk has found us.
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HA HA
YOU PONIES MAKE ME LAUGH SOMETIMES. I'VE DONE THIS MILLIONS OF TIMES WHERE I'VE COME FROM, AND EVEN THOSE WEAKLINGS HAD CANDIDATES. YOU PONIES? YOUR ALL SOFT. YOUR NOT PREPARED. YOU DON'T EVEN FIGHT. FINE WITH ME. TICK, TOCK, RABITS.
YOURS,
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Diving down towards the now rising flames, Rainbow Dash could feel the immense amount of heat rushing towards her face.
“That's it.” cooed a voice in the back of her head. “You know what to do. Your Rainbow Dash, Equestria's fastest flier.”
“That's right...” she thought to herself. “I am the fastest flier! I can do this!” she said to herself. As the wind and heat kept rushing towards her, she stuck out a single wing and let herself start spinning around and around in a circle. Spiraling downwards, she stuck out her other wing and, with one strong push, made a complete circle. Continuing the circle, the air picked up around her and a mini tornado formed.
“No!” cried out a familiar voice. It sounded terrified. “Rainbow Dash! Don't! Your only feeding the fire!” it cried out again.
“That voice...” the cyan pegasus thought to herself. “That's Twilight's voice.”
“No!” cried out the voice from before. “Don't listen to that goody two-hooves! She thinks she's so smart and clever, but you, Rainbow Dash. You know what your doing. She's never flown before! She doesn't know the thrill of flying! She has the knowledge, but not the experience, and experience is power! You have that power, Rainbow Dash. Do it. Save Ponyville from the fires.” continued the voice with it's honey coated lies.
“But... but she's right!” Rainbow Dash thought back. Caught in the tornado, all that Rainbow Dash could do was keep spinning around. The momentum of the circular motion would still keep her going anyways. She was trapped.
“Never mind what she said!” the voice snarled menacingly. “She's just jealous! She could never achieve what you ever will.”
“But Twilight--”
“But nothing! She's just stopping you from reaching your goal! Remember? The Wonderbolts! Your a smart pegasus. Think about it. Saving a town with your amazing flying skills is a surefire way to get on the crew.” cut in the voice.
This new reasoning was enough to push her over the thin line between her friend and what she wanted. Still, Rainbow Dash hesitated as she was just about to take control of the tornado, now at a standstill. Down below, the fires raged on and grew taller as a ragtag group of ponies started getting buckets of water to douse the flames.
“This isn't right.” Rainbow Dash thought. “I'm the element of loyalty! I've turned down the Shadowbolts and I can turn down this chance, too.” she thought. With grim determination, Rainbow Dash concentrated all of her willpower into stopping the tornado. Hoping that she was wrong about her being trapped in the tornado, she prepared herself for one mighty push of her wings to freedom from the strong winds. Taking in a deep breath, the cyan pegasus started to tense up her wings when everything went...purple.
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Twilight Sparkle was standing still, mouth agape, staring at the rampant tornado. If somepony was looking with as much intent as Twilight Sparkle was, they would see what she was staring at: a small figure with wings spinning around inside the raging cyclone. However, all the citizens of Ponyville were preoccupied with other tasks, from holding back the flames to rescuing any trapped citizens. There was even a pegasi weather team trying to contain the tornado, with no avail. Twilight knew that with all the work everypony was doing, it would all be in vain unless she did something. Looking around, she saw earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns trying to extinguish the flames, only to have them rise up again. “Okay...” started Twilight, mentally putting together a list. “First I've got to stop Rainbow Dash.”
Looking straight at the mini tornado her friend Rainbow Dash spun up, she closed her eyes and began trying to remember how to cast a containment spell. After a minute of thought, she recollected the spell procedure and promptly began the process. Digging her four hooves in the ground, she braced herself as she started to imagine the tornado being enveloped in purple. Closing her eyes and concentrating on the image even harder, she started to imagine the purple haze becoming more solid, finally forming bars to ensnare Rainbow Dash and her tornado. She could hear a few ponies around her shout out “look!”, but still she continued. Now, Twilight began to execute the second part of her plan. She read about a spell used to calm down raging winds, and what else is a tornado but wind whirling around in a circle? Resting for a quick second, Twilight took a deep breath in and began imagining a soft purple glow enveloping the tornado again, this time more cylindrical in shape. She “drew” it down with her magic, slowly bringing down the purple haze. With each inch she took down, the wind went away with it. About halfway through, a visible figure could be seen flung out of the tornado.
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Rainbow Dash didn't know what was going on, just that she was being freed from the winds. She felt herself getting rejected and flying out. She saw the ground raising up to meet her, and she quickly popped out her wings to try to slow her decent a little. It helped, but only enough so that she didn't hurt herself. The way she saw it, she was only twenty feet up in the air, and the air brake from her wings made the fall a little slower. The ground was now rising up to meet her, as the cyan pegasus braced herself for impact. Closing her eyes, Rainbow Dash expected to feel the ground meet her, but instead felt wind beneath her wings. Opening her eyes slowly, she looked behind and saw that she was now gliding about 5 feet off the ground. It took her a few seconds to realize what was going on, but then her mind kicked into gear and she started to slowly drive herself downwards. She did a little back flip in midair, and then landed gracefully, striking a pose.
“Very impressive.” said a voice in the back of her head.
Rainbow had forgotten about the voice in her head. She needed serious help. Maybe she was going crazy, and only Twilight would be able to help. Looking around, she tried to find any sign of Ponyville only to find a giant pillar of black smoke in the distance. Gasping at the raw shock of the image, she started running and took off, flying as fast as her tired body could take her.
“Tch.” said the voice in her head again. This time, Rainbow didn't hear it. “Feeble minds are much easier to manage...” it murmured as it began to plan dark schemes.
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Twilight Sparkle opened her eyes and looked all around her. Some had stopped and pointed at the tornado-free skies, while most others continued working. Pausing for a minute to rest from the medium level spell, she then breathed in deep and shouted out, “EVERYPONY LISTEN UP!” At this, everypony stopped to look with frightened and lost faces, hoping that she would know what to do. She did. “Now, this will only take a minute. I've taken care of the tornado, so this is what I need you all to do.” said Twilight as she had everyone's attention. As she explained her plan, the citizens of Ponyville started to execute the process. In an hour, the fires were put out and everypony was accounted for, except a few who lost their lives helping others.
The worn out purple unicorn looked around as people started to clean up and even began to rebuild some destroyed buildings. Looking at the school where the fire started, she saw a few unicorns putting out a few small fires with water buckets, while some pegasi flapped their wings to clear away the remaining smoke. Smiling to herself, she felt satisfied until her eyes happened upon something on the roof moving. Peering at the area closer, she saw a tall pony in a dark suit looking down on the school, which had strangely taken the least fire damage. Gasping, she frantically looked to see if anyone else could see it. The creature was on the other side of the roof, which was obscuring it's view from the pegasi trying to blow away the smoke on the other side.
“Twilight Sparkle?” said a gentle, yet firm voice. Jumping a bit, she turned around and saw the Mayor with a gray pegasus with bubbles for a cutie mark and yellow eyes, wearing a fire resistant uniform that the fireponies wore.
“Oh! Hello, mayor!” said Twilight after calming down.
“Twilight Sparkle, as Mayor of Ponyville, I would like to introduce you to the Head of the Fire Department, Ms. Ditzy Doo. We both would like to thank you for your contributions today with the tornado and bringing order out of chaos.”
“Oh!” replied Twilight, a little flustered. “It was no big problem, really.” she said, blushing a bit.
“I'm sure Ms. Doo would like to thank you too?” inquired the Mayor looking at her pegasus companion. But she didn't say anything. Instead, the blonde pegasus seemed to look past Twilight, and her eyes started going opposite directions.
“Um...is she okay?” asked Twilight.
“Oh, that's just Ditzy. Her eyes go cross-eyed when she gets agitated. Ditzy, is something wrong?” answered the mayor.
Twilight remembered that the school was behind her, and she turned around to see the tall, slender pony turn it's head from Twilight to Ditzy. It started at Ditzy and just stood there, silently. A moment after, the Pegasi team finally managed to clear away the last of the smoke. In one great flap of their wings, the smoke all blew away at once. When it went away, It was gone.
“What? On the roof of the school? I don't see anything.” said the mayor.
Ditzy Doo shook her head and blinked. Her eyes reverted to normal. “Oh, it's nothing.” she said. “And, like the mayor said, I do thank you deeply for the assistance. Now, if you'll excuse me...” Ditzy replied as she opened her wings and flied away.
“Thank you again, Twilight. We'll be holding a meeting tomorrow in the town square about this...incident. Go home. You deserve the rest.” the mayor said as she, too, went on her own way.
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Voices.
“Did you do it?”
“What do you think?!”
“He's not going to be happy.”
“How the hell can you tell that!? He doesn't even have a damn face!”
“Calm down.”
“Don't tell me to calm down! It's not my fault that you picked this hellhole. There's no anger here! These stupid, bloody ponies and their princesses and friendship.”
“I have my reasons.”
“Well, you better be right.”
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Twilight Sparkle trotted her way back home, taking in the sights of a very, very different Ponyville. Lingering a bit, she couldn't keep thinking of the pile of burnt wood awaited her. Seeing a last hill, she gritted her teeth and slowly walked over it, head down. When she looked up, she saw it, still there, without a burn mark at all. A smile spread over her face as she looked over and around it, peering intently for any sign of damage, with absolutely none at all. Looking up towards the leafy branches, she saw the window where Rainbow Dash crashed into so many times, and saw it was open. And looking down on her was the slender pony.
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