A Night for Nightmares

by River Road


Nightmare Night

Lyra tugged at the bandage around her foreleg. It was already coming loose and she would have to take it off soon, but she was actually quite glad about that; the fur underneath was itching horribly and more than once on that evening she had been tempted to just rip it off.

“Well, look who it is,” a voice from behind her announced. Lyra looked up to see Applejack and Rarity walking up to her, quickly taking in their costumes; Applejack was wearing a scarecrow costume, just like she had said she would. While it was a simple costume Lyra had to admit the earth pony really managed to pull it off. Rarity, on the other hand, was wearing a completely different kind of costume. Lyra wasn't sure what it was supposed to be, but the large fake butterfly wings strapped to the white unicorn's back, adorned with patterns of tiny gemstones and jewels in all colors, looked simply stunning.

“Ah thought y’all had commissioned a special costume from Rarity for this night," Applejack continued. "So, what’s up with the mummy outfit?”

Lyra smiled at the two ponies. “I thought it would be a little mean to scare all the small kids running around, so I threw something together this morning. I was just on my way to get the dress, actually…” She chuckled. “I’m afraid these bandages didn’t stand much of a chance against the Princess and her ‘Royal Canterlot Voice’.”

“Ah, yes, that was quite a tumult wasn’t it?” Rarity said. “I’m just glad Princess Luna enjoyed herself in the end.”

“Speaking of,” Applejack interrupted, “we’ve been lookin’ for y’all, actually. Ah’m not sure if y’all noticed, but Rainbow Dash is a little… well…” She looked over to her friend to help.

“…Unruly,” Rarity filled the gap. “It’s all just a part of her character, of course, but it gets especially bad during Nightmare Night. Besides her rather… overzealous pranking, she’s always boasting how she isn’t scared of anything. Of course there are things that scare even her, but I have to admit, she manages to keep up the façade admirably well.”

Lyra grinned. “So you thought I could try to give her a scare.” Then her expression changed to confusion. “But didn’t the Princess already do that before she went back to Canterlot?”

“Sure she did, and we all had a good laugh, including Rainbow. But y’all can guess what she thought of that…” Applejack tried to mimic the pegasus’ voice. “‘I wasn’t scared, she just startled me. It takes a lot more than a little thunder to scare somepony like me.’”

“If we want Rainbow Dash to actually admit that we scared her, a simple prank just won’t achieve anything.” Rarity concluded. “We need something that’s actually scary, something original; something like your costume, darling.”

“I see…” Lyra rubbed her chin with a hoof, the bandages on which were slowly unraveling. “I think I have an idea. Just give me ten minutes to change, and we can make a plan.”


Rainbow Dash trotted between the stands with food and games that had been set up in the marketplace. It had been a good Nightmare Night so far – a little confusing maybe, what with the whole Princess Luna/Nightmare Moon incident, but a good night nonetheless. The Shadowbolt costume Rarity had made for her was the best costume she’d ever had; Pinkie Pie’s chicken costume had been too good an opportunity to pass up, and the pink pony played along with her pranks so well that Rainbow almost fell off her cloud laughing; and even Princess Luna had enjoyed herself. Rainbow wasn’t too proud to admit that the Princess had gotten her good; she could appreciate a good prank even in the rare cases when she was on the receiving end. It was all in good fun, after all.

Still, she had made sure to immediately dispel any rumors that somepony had scared her. Princess Luna had pranked her good, but a small surprise like that was nowhere near actually scaring the future Wonderbolt. Rainbow couldn’t think of anything she would be scared of, as she made sure everypony knew.

“Rainbow Dash!” Rainbow turned around to see a mint green unicorn mare gallop towards her. As far as she could tell, the unicorn was wearing some sort of dress instead of a costume.

“Rainbow Dash! Finally…” The unicorn came to a stop right in front of her, panting heavily. “Alley! Monster! I need your help!”

“Whoa, slow down!” Rainbow cut her off. “Lyra, was it? Now tell me, slowly, what happened?”

Lyra stared at her with wide eyes. “There’s a monster in one of the alleys over at Bon Bon’s shop!”

Rainbow raised an eyebrow, smirking. “A monster, huh? You sure somepony didn’t just prank you?”

“I know what I saw!” Lyra shouted, then calmed down a little. “At least I think so… Can you just come and take a look? Everypony says you’re one of the bravest ponies in town.”

“Just one of the bravest? Don’t let those guys fool you, I am the bravest pony you’ll ever see around.” Rainbow Dash struck a small pose. “Alright, just show me that monster and I’ll give it a good whooping.”

Lyra led the pegasus to a small and dark alleyway, right next to Bon Bon’s candy shop. She stayed a few steps behind while Rainbow Dash went on ahead, stopping in front of a stone wall marking the end of the alley.

“Hm… it’s a dead end, all dark and stuff…” the pegasus muttered to herself. “Whoever led her in here knew what they were doing. Maybe it was Pinkie Pie; she certainly has the equipment to pull off something like that.” She turned around to Lyra. “Now where is that ‘monst– Augh!”

“Hm… You’re right, there’s nopony here but us.” Rainbow Dash stared with wide eyes at the creature towering before her. It was the unicorn mare who had led her here, but now she was sporting fangs and eight long black legs that went out from her body, along with her four regular green ones. Each of the new legs ended in a black, four-fingered hand and together they lifted the mare two feet above the ground. “Maybe… I’m the monster, then?

Rainbow put a hoof on her chest, chuckling weakly. “Hah… heheheh, you got me. Not bad, that was a new one alright. Is it some kind of spell?”

Hm… Does this look like a spell to you?” The unicorn brought her head a little closer to Rainbow Dash’s. The pegasus felt a small pinch of dread somewhere in her chest when she realized that Lyra’s horn wasn’t glowing. She didn’t know much about magic, but she had never seen a unicorn cast even a basic spell without the telltale glow of magic appearing around their horn. Hadn’t Twilight mentioned something about that once? Rainbow had just tuned her friend’s ramblings out, like she usually did.

“Ah, I get it. Somepony else is probably casting the spell for you,” Rainbow Dash tried to play it down. “Is it Twilight? I didn’t think she was the pranking type, but she always plans everything in advance, I suppose. I give you an ‘A’ for effort, but you’ll have to do better if you want to actually scare me.”

Fufufu, you ponies, always so optimistic, almost naïve… That’s why Nightmare Night is my favorite day of the year; you still think you’re safe, even when it’s already too late.” Rainbow Dash instinctively flinched as the creature brushed one of its black hands past her cheek. “And you’re going to be an especially tasty one.

“Okay… It’s been fun, but I’m out of here.” Rainbow Dash spread her wings and took off straight upwards. For any other pegasus the space between the two houses would have been too small to do that, but Rainbow Dash was the best flyer in Equestria (aside from, maybe, the Wonderbolts). Sure, she couldn’t fly as fast as usual, but she was already halfway to the roofs and in a few seconds she would just–

Something grabbed her left hind leg, stopping her ascent. Looking down, she saw one of the creature’s black hands wrapped around her leg. The arm was surprisingly strong, slowly pulling Rainbow back down to the ground despite the pegasus’ best efforts.

Fufufu, not so fast. Won’t you at least stay for dinner? If I can’t eat you, I’ll have to find somepony else… Maybe one of your friends?” The creature let its tongue glide over its fangs. “You know, I think I might take a look at them, anyway. There’s always room for dessert, after all.

That was all Rainbow Dash needed to hear. With all her strength she kicked at the arm that was holding her hind leg. The black fingers opened enough for the pegasus to slip out. As fast as she could she beat her wings, flying upwards past the edge of the roofs and from there towards the center of town.

Lyra looked after the fleeing pegasus, grinning around her fangs; this had gone even better than expected. She took the fake fangs out of her mouth with one of the black hands, wiping off the small traces of saliva before putting it back into the small pocket Rarity had sewn into the dress, where it was practically invisible. Then she lowered herself to the ground again and cancelled her spell, letting the arms disappear. She stepped out of the alley and quickly cantered the short way back to the marketplace; she wanted to meet up with Rarity and Applejack before Rainbow Dash did anything hasty.


“Well?” Rarity inched a little closer to the other unicorn, looking at her expectantly. “How did it go?”

“It went perfect! I think Rainbow actually bought it,” Lyra exclaimed happily. The two unicorns and Applejack were standing in the shadow of the small stand the Apple family stored their apples for the apple bobbing in, where Applejack had taken over the shift from her brother just a moment ago. They had agreed to make the stand their base of operations, since it was a little bit away from the activity surrounding the marketplace.

“Ah’d still like to know how y’all managed to hide the glow around your horn,” Applejack said, gesturing for her friends to follow her back to the marketplace.

“You know I can’t tell you anything about that…” Lyra frowned. Bon Bon had been a little hesitant to let her test one of her experimental creations, but so far the candy had worked without a glitch and hadn’t shown any side effects. Still, her friend wasn’t technically allowed to do this kind of experiments, so she wouldn’t tell anypony about it, no matter how nice they seemed.

She was snapped out of her thoughts by the yelling of a certain pegasus galloping up to the group. “Rarity! Applejack! Finally I found you guys!” Rainbow Dash came to a halt right in front of her two friends, visibly exhausted. “I need your help! There’s this crazy monster that’s–“ She blinked and turned around to Lyra with wide eyes. “You!”

“Huh? What about me?” Lyra did her best to look puzzled and slightly intimidated as the pegasus snarled at her.

“Don’t play dumb!” Rainbow Dash turned back to her friends. “I swear, she’s some kind of spider monster! She tricked me to follow her into an alley and tried to catch me!”

“Now hold on just a second, Rainbow Dash,” Applejack interrupted her. “Y’all can’t just go and blame random ponies like that. Do you at least have some sort of proof for that?”

Rainbow raised a hoof and opened her mouth to spit out more accusations, but stopped. “Well, uhm… no.” She frowned, but after a second the fervor was back in her eyes. “But I know what happened! She said she wanted to eat me!”

She took another step towards Lyra again, but Rarity stepped between them. “I’m sorry, darling, but without any sort of proof we can’t just take your word on something like this. This is a huge accusation you’re making.” She put a hoof on Rainbow’s shoulder in a calming gesture. Then she trotted off into the mingling ponies with Applejack, leaving the pegasus to look after them speechlessly.

“If it’s any consolation, I believe you.” Rainbow Dash flinched at the sound of Lyra’s voice coming from right next to her, and turned her head. The unicorn was smiling, her clean white fangs glistening in the light of the streetlamps. “By the way,” Lyra continued, walking right past the stunned pegasus to join the crowd herself. “The ‘weird spider monster’ is called a Dryder. Just an FYI.”


“Hey Rainbow Dash, what are you doing?”

Scootaloo winced a little as her idol jumped up in surprise and hit her head on a low-hanging branch of the tree she was hiding behind. The filly took a step back in embarrassment, chuckling weakly. “Oh, sorry…”

Rainbow Dash rubbed her head with a hoof, hissing in pain through her clenched teeth. She looked at Scootaloo and wordlessly put a hoof in front of her mouth before gesturing the filly over to the tree trunk.

“What are you doing?” Scootaloo whispered, carefully sneaking over to Rainbow Dash. If the pegasus thought they needed to be quiet, Scootaloo would do her best to make as little sound as possible.

Rainbow Dash pointed at a mint green unicorn mare in a dress who was slowly walking past the stands, stopping to watch ponies trying their luck at the Nightmare Night games. As soon as the unicorn appeared to turn their head in their direction Scootaloo was yanked behind the tree, a blue hoof clamping over her mouth.

“That ‘unicorn’ is trouble, and I’ll prove it,” Rainbow Dash whispered, just as much to herself as to Scootaloo. “I know she’s some kind of monster, but she’s not going to hurt anypony here in Ponyville as long as I’m here.” She looked down at the orange filly who was staring up at her with wide eyes. “You believe me, Squirt, right?”

“Mm-mph.” Scootaloo nodded rapidly and gave a muffled reply through the hoof still over her mouth. Rainbow Dash quickly removed her hoof, allowing the filly to finally breathe again. Scootaloo took a deep breath, then peered around the edge of the tree, taking another look at the unicorn. “She doesn’t really look like a monster, though…”

“She doesn’t, now. But I saw her!” Rainbow Dash looked Scootaloo right in the eyes, a dead serious expression on her face. “She had those eight spindly legs and fangs, like some kind of pony-spider monster.”

“You mean a Dryder?” Scootaloo asked, earning a confused look from the other pegasus. “What? There’s not a lot of interesting stuff they teach us in school, so I pay attention when Miss Cheerilee talks about the cool stuff like cryptozoology…”

Rainbow Dash’s face lit up. “That’s perfect! You know stuff about that monster and I am just generally awesome. Together we’ll have that monster caught and unmasked in ten seconds flat.” She looked back at the marketplace, searching for the mint green unicorn, and let out a gasp; the mare was standing at the corner of a house, looking in all directions before sneaking into the alley behind her. “That’s our chance! Come on!”


“Where did she go?” Rainbow Dash looked to all sides while Scootaloo went ahead to carefully inspect a few wooden crates at the end of the dead end alley.

“I can’t find her,” the orange filly announced, trotting back to her idol. “Are you sure she went in here?”

“Of course I’m sure!” Rainbow Dash replied. “She must have gotten away somehow. I think she can… climb…” Her sentence trailed off and her eyes widened as she looked at Scootaloo. The monster was hanging in the air just above the filly’s shoulder, slowly lowering herself with four of the black legs and extending two more towards the filly. The monster looked up to notice Rainbow Dash staring at her and grinned, showing her fangs.

Watch out!” Rainbow Dash pounced forward, missing the monster as it quickly pulled itself up again. Instead she hit Scootaloo, ending up in a heap on the ground with the orange filly lying on her chest. She pushed the confused and dizzy filly off of her and frantically got to her hooves, turning her head upwards just in time to see a figure disappearing over the edge of the roof.

“You’re not getting away this time!” she yelled, taking of as fast as she could in the space between two houses, flying straight upwards. Within seconds she was in the air over the town, quickly turning her head left and right in an attempt to spot any suspicious shadows in the dark.

“Come on! Show yourself already! Are you scared?” she shouted into the darkness, trying to bait the monster. After a short moment of impatient hovering she began to scan the roofs again.

Aaaiiig-

The scream was cut off as suddenly as it came. Rainbow Dash spun around to locate its source, before realizing where it had come from. “Squirt!” She dashed straight downwards, back into the alley, almost clipping her wing on a gutter.

When she reached the pavement of the alley, she was the only pony there. “Squirt? Hey!” She took a few unsure steps in a random direction.

“Come on, stop hiding. This isn’t funny!” She pushed one of the wooden crates over, looking behind it.

“Squirt? S-Scootaloo!” She frantically looked in all directions, trying to find a trace of the orange filly. The monster had said it would eat her friends. It hadn’t actually…

She shook her head, trying to clear it. Her legs were shaking from… rage, that was it. She was angry towards that monster. She was not scared. She wasn’t scared about what might have happened to the filly. She wasn’t even thinking about how the little filly might be trapped in a cauldron with boiling water, or rolled up in dough and cooked in a giant oven, or even eaten raw and alive, or…

“Scootaloo!” She galloped out of the alley, into the light of the marketplace. She had to find her other friends, immediately!


Lyra watched from behind the chimney as the blue pegasus hovered in the air over the alley, scanning the rooftops. She waited until Rainbow Dash was looking in away from her before she quickly sneaked back to the edge of the roof.

The orange filly had gotten back to her hooves, but was still shaking off the last of her dizziness. Lyra climbed back to the ground, careful not to make a sound until she was right behind the filly. Just as she wanted to grab her, though, the filly turned her head.

Aaaiiig-

Lyra quickly clamped a black hand over the filly’s mouth and grabbed her with four other arms while she galloped out of the alley. Thankfully, she made it the short way to the Apple family’s stand without anypony noticing them. Slamming the door closed behind her and leaning against it she finally relaxed and let out her breath, releasing the orange filly in the process.

“Ahhhh!” The filly immediately scurried back into a corner, backing up against a pile of apples and cowering. “I’m sorry! I’ll never skip curfew again, I swear! I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry–“

“Scootaloo? Well, Ah’ll be. What are you doing here?” Applejack stepped out from the shadows, chuckling a little as she gave the filly a pitying look.

Scootaloo looked at the earth pony with wide eyes. “I, uhm… Wha–?”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to terrify you that much.” Lyra chuckled, stepping a little closer. Her additional arms were gone again, as well as her fangs. “We should probably fill you in… The truth is, I’m not a monster. Applejack and Rarity want to play a prank on Rainbow Dash and I’m helping them.”

“That’s right, Ah’m afraid y’all just got caught in the middle of it.” Scootaloo turned her attention back to Applejack, trying to process everything she was hearing. “Rainbow Dash always boasts how there ain’t anythin’ she’s afraid of, so Rarity and me decided to try an’ get her down from it a little.”

“So, wait…” Scootaloo’s eyes widened as the words finally sunk in. “You’re trying to scare Rainbow Dash. But I thought she isn’t scared of anything!”

“We’re not just tryin’ to scare her, sugarcube; we’re goin’ to give her so much of a scare she’s goin’ to outright admit it.” Applejack’s face took a smug expression. “And it seems we’re doin’ pretty good so far. Nopony is afraid of nothin’. It’s high time Rainbow sees that, too.”

“I’m not sure if it’s really the costume, though,” Lyra spoke up. “She seemed really scared when I told her I would eat her friends…” She stopped and sheepishly grinned at Applejack. “Oh, uhm… sorry about that, I guess. Anyway, Rarity’s advice on acting seems to really help.”

“Trying to scare Rainbow Dash…” Lyra and Applejack nervously turned their attention back to Scootaloo, who was looking down in thought. If she told Rainbow Dash about their plans, their gig would be up.

Suddenly the filly’s face lit up. “I know!” She jumped up and galloped right past the two startled mares, opening the door. “I’ll be right back! I know how we can get Rainbow Dash for sure!”

Applejack and Lyra looked after the filly, then leered at each other.

“That was… weird.”

“Didn’t she say something about curfew just a minute ago?”


“I’m telling you, she’s a monster! She foalnapped Scootaloo, and I haven’t been able to find Applejack, either!”

Applejack and Lyra carefully trotted up to the group of ponies. Rainbow Dash was yelling at some of her friends; Lyra immediately noticed Rarity, right next to Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle.

“Now what’s that about not bein’ able to find me?” Applejack spoke up. “Ah’ve been around the whole time, organizin’ some of the Nightmare Night games.” For a moment Lyra was worried that the earth pony’s awful poker face might betray them, but if anypony aside from Rarity had noticed they didn’t show it.

Rainbow Dash’s face lit up in relief. “Applejack! Thank Luna you’re–“ Her eyes focused on Lyra, and she pounced the unicorn without warning. “You! Where’s Scootaloo?” She turned her head to Applejack, pinning Lyra to the ground with her front hooves. “Get away from her, she’s dangerous!”

“Rainbow Dash! You’re ruining her dress!” Rarity screamed, lifting the pegasus off Lyra with her magic.

“Let me down!” Lyra got back to her hooves, groaning and rubbing her head while Rainbow struggled against the magical grip she was in. “You haven’t seen what she did! She took Scootaloo! If we don’t stop her she might go for one of you next!”

“Oh my, Rainbow Dash.” Rarity stared at her friend in disbelief while she lowered the pegasus back to the ground. “Are you actually… scared of something?”

“What? No!” Rainbow stumbled back in surprise. “I-I’m not scared of her… Rainbow Dash isn't scared of anything! I’m just… cautious, that’s all.”

Rarity raised an eyebrow. From behind Rainbow Dash’s back, Applejack shot her a look that said ‘if that’s how she wants it…’. The earth pony placed a hoof on Rainbow’s shoulder, causing the high-strung pegasus to flinch. “Ah think y’all are just seein’ things. Ah’m fine and I’m sure Scootaloo just had to go home, too. Maybe the Princess’ joke ‘surprised’ y’all more than you thought. Ah’m sure a few games of Spider Toss will calm y’all right back down.”

I am calm!” Rainbow screamed, shaking the hoof off. “I mean… I… Ugh! Why won’t anypony believe me?”

“Now listen here…” Applejack grabbed Rainbow’s head with her hooves, looking her straight in the eyes. “Y’all need to finally calm down. Ah know you, Rainbow Dash, and trust me on this: If Ah honestly think competitive games are going to calm you down, y’all are having serious trouble. Now just follow me, play some games, play some more pranks if that’s what it takes and enjoy the evenin’! And no more talkin’ about some kind of monster goin’ around, do you hear?”

“But… I…” Rainbow looked around for support from her friends, but let her head hang when none came. “Okay… Maybe you’re right.” She pointed a hoof at her eyes, then at Lyra. “But I’ll be watching you! If you do anything suspicious…”

Lyra watched Applejack led Rainbow Dash away towards the games stands. The other ponies scattered as well, leaving her alone with Rarity. “Well, that went as well as we could hope.”

“I don’t think I have ever seen Rainbow Dash like this, and she still doesn’t want to admit that she’s afraid of anything.” Rarity put a hoof to her chin in thought. “I’m not sure if that is stubborn or ambitious of her… Either way, we need one more strike to get her to admit to it. Do you have any ideas?”

“I’m afraid I don’t. Her meeting Scootaloo really was a lucky coincidence, but I really thought it would be enough. Maybe we can–“

Lyra was interrupted by a small stone landing between her and Rarity. The two ponies looked up to see Scootaloo hiding behind a stand, waving at them.

“Quick, over here!” Scootaloo tried to whisper as loudly as possible. She waited until the two mares had reached the stand. Her face was beaming with excitement and her wings buzzed happily. “I did it! I managed to convince her to come over here!”

Lyra and Rarity shared a quizzical look. Scootaloo led them around the corner of the stand, bouncing excitedly. Another pony was hiding in the shadow of a tree a several feet away, looking around nervously.

“It took me a bit to convince her to come, but I have the perfect plan,” Scootaloo happily exclaimed.

Rarity took another step towards the figure, squinting slightly. “Is that…? It can’t be… Oh, my.”

The figure’s ears perked up, and it turned its head towards them. “Rarity? Are you the unicorn Scootaloo was talking about? She asked me to help you, so, uhm… I’ll do my best. If that’s okay with you…


Rainbow Dash hid in the branches of a tree, scanning the crowd. Beating Applejack’s flank at Spider Toss had distracted her from her mission for a moment, but now she was even more determined than before to unmask that monster to her friends.

“Come on… Where are you?” she muttered rubbing her eye with a hoof. She had been sitting there for a few minutes, looking for any hint of mint green fur. Blinking sleepily she slowly turned her head, and almost jumped up. That unicorn was back, trotting towards the alley again. She seemed to be talking to somepony, but Rainbow Dash couldn’t make out who it was that–

She gasped loudly as she recognized the other mare entering the alley. Jumping out of the tree she dashed over as fast as she could, reaching the alley in seconds.

“Stay away from her!” she screamed, stopping at the entrance of the alley and flaring her wings in an aggressive pose.

The two ponies flinched and turned their heads. Lyra instinctively backed away from Rainbow Dash a few steps. The other pony just looked at her in confusion. “Rainbow Dash? What’s wrong?” the yellow pegasus asked.

Rainbow Dash stepped between her friend and the monster. “Don’t you dare lay a hoof on Fluttershy! You made a big mistake just now, you hear?”

“Oh, I’m sure Miss Lyra wouldn’t hurt me…” Fluttershy murmured from behind. “I was trying to be brave and look at the Nightmare Night stands, now that it has calmed down a little, but… Lyra found me and talked to me after I had panicked. She said she had seen a few adorable kittens here that might help calm me down.”

Rainbow didn’t look away from Lyra for a second, staring the monster right in the eyes. “A likely story. If that’s true, then where are–” She felt something brush against her leg and looked down. A pair of small white kittens were prowling around her forelegs, purring softly.

“Listen Rainbow Dash…” Lyra said, getting the pegasus’ attention again. “Maybe we had a bad start, but–”

“Save it!” Rainbow interrupted her. “I’m not falling for your tricks. You’re not going to eat me, or Fluttershy, or anypony! You got that?”

Fluttershy put a hoof on Rainbow’s shoulder. “Rainbow Dash, don’t worry. I promise Lyra isn’t going to eat you.” Rainbow frowned. Something about Fluttershy’s voice seemed off to her. She turned around and opened her mouth to ask her friend about that.

No words came out. Rainbow Dash just stared at her friend. Fluttershy was grinning, beaming white fangs extending from her mouth.

I am.


“O-oh my, was that too much?” Fluttershy looked down at her friend in distress. Rainbow Dash had stared at her for a few seconds, unmoving, and then unceremoniously fallen over. Lyra had barely managed to catch her with her magic before her head hit the ground. Now the unconscious pegasus was lying on the ground, unaware of the two kittens trying to climb her back.

“Don’t be silly, darling, that was perfect!” Rarity exclaimed, trotting into the alley with Applejack. Her horn began to glow and Rainbow Dash floated over to her. “I don’t think Rainbow Dash will be able to play this down. Now, I propose we bring her somewhere safer and wait for her to wake up, what do you think?”