//------------------------------// // Sassaflash, Speech Writer // Story: The Electric Medley // by Fandom Trash Snivy //------------------------------// The light from the morning sun blared through the windows of Sassaflash's house and woke her up. Sassaflash yawned her usual, long yawn that woke up all of her friends. "Speech, speech," she drowsily spoke. Sassaflash's friends got up and sat on her bed. "And you've got a 'speech, speech' to write!" Medley told a drowsy Sassaflash. Sassaflash's ears perked up. "Then I've gotta go downstairs, then!" Sassaflash dashed down her stairs and faceplanted on the floor on accident. Her friends giggled as their friend slowly got up on her four hooves again. "Stop giggling! I only slipped because I was hurrying downstairs." "Better get to writing that speech, then!" Cloudchaser and Flitter both smiled. Sassaflash's friends got downstairs as Sassaflash herself got out five chairs. She arranged the chairs around her large, round table. Her own chair was seated already. "Now I'm gonna need some paper and a nice, sharpened pencil." "On it!" saluted Cloud Kicker. She galloped quickly to a pile of paper and grabbed some paper with her wings. She grabbed a pencil with her mouth and galloped back to the table where Sassaflash was standing by. She took the pencil and papers and set them down on the table. Sassaflash sat down on her chair, pencil in her mouth. She slowly began to write... An hour later, Sassaflash was finished with writing her speech. She was so exhausted that she passed out on the floor. Medley walked over to her. "Are you done with your-" Sassaflash was spread out on the floor with her eyes closed. "-speech." There was a pervasive silence that filled the room. "Did you finish your-" "Yes!" Sassaflash answered loudly. "Yes I'm finished!" "May I read it?" asked Medley. Sassaflash nodded yes. Medley picked up the paper and started to read: "Hello, citizens of Ponyville! I am Sassaflash, a pegasus who has been framed for a crime that I didn't commit. My friends have been framed for this, too." Medley continued to read the rest of Sassaflash's speech until she finally finished. "Wow, Sassaflash! What a good speech!" Sassaflash blushed. "None taken. I did a really good job on it, don't you think?" Sassaflash stood up on her four hooves again and folded her wings. Dizzy Twister walked next to her. "Yeah, but we need to find a day to present that speech of yours." "Maybe tomorrow," suggested Sassaflash. "I need some rest today after writing that long speech. I can't wait to deliver it to the citizens of Ponyville!" "I'm sure everypony will like it," Medley complimented. Cloud Kicker galloped into the room. "Of course everypony will like it! You're Sassaflash!" To convey her message to her best friend Sassaflash, Cloud Kicker flew throughout Sassaflash's house. She landed on the hardwood floor with a thud. "Cloud Kicker..." growled Sassaflash, "How many times have I told you to not fly in my house?" "Sorry..." Cloud Kicker got up again on her four hooves. Cloudchaser and Flitter both walked silently into the room. The sound of stomachs rumbling could be heard. "Ooh," Flitter spoke, "looks like it's lunch time now." "We can go out to Sugarcube Corner," Medley suggested. "But they don't have a real meal!" Dizzy Twister responded. "How about we go to that nice café called Down To Earth?" Cloudchaser suggested. "They've got the best food ever there!" "Down To Earth it is!" Sassaflash spoke with confidence. The pegasi exited Sassaflash's house and flew down to Ponyville. Immediately after they landed, everypony's heads turned to look at them. "Get out of our town, you thieves!" Sassaflash and her friends started to run away from an angry mob of ponies. "Yup," Medley told a nervous Sassaflash, "they totally believe Lightning Dust." "RUN!" shouted Cloud Kicker. Sassaflash and her five friends flew in the air. They thought they were safe, until... "Fly after them!" A group of angry pegasi started to fly after Sassaflash and her friends. They kept flying like a mob of angry birds. They thought the pegasi would catch up to them, until... "There's Down To Earth!" shouted Dizzy Twister. Sassaflash landed safely on the ground in front of Down To Earth. Her friends landed safely after her. "Quick! Inside!" shouted Cloud Kicker. Sassaflash and her friends quickly entered the Down To Earth café. The angry pegasi were angrily knocking out the door. "Come out, thieves!" Sassaflash was panting. "Pheeeewwww! I thought we would be caught by those angry pegasi!" There they were: Down To Earth. As the angry pegasi were still knocking angrily at the door, Sassaflash and her friends walked over to a table. The hostess greeted them with a smile. "Hello and welcome to Down To Earth! How-" The hostess mare noticed outside the angry pegasi. "Do you know why they are here?" Sassaflash glanced at her friends for a few quick seconds, then gulped. "They're...ravenous with hunger?" The hostess gasped. "Bring them inside! They'll love the soup of the day!" Cloud Kicker walked outside and brought inside the angry, ravenous pegasi. "Get them- OOH! COFFEE!" The hostess took a glance at Sassaflash and her friends. "Now, where was I... Oh! How many ponies are with you today? "Just six," answered Sassaflash. "So, those other pegasi are at a separate table?" the hostess asked. "Yup." "Then I'll take you to table five. It has just enough seats for your party of six, including you!" The hostess mare led Sassaflash and her friends to table five. They sat down in the very comfortable chairs, looking at their menus. "Will you take our orders soon?" Dizzy Twister asked. "Excuse me," the hostess replied, "I'll have to take care of these hungry, ravenous customers first." The hostess left the table and went back to her main table. "They must have a very strong support for Lightning Dust," Medley commented. "You said it!" Cloud Kicker added. "They hate us so much, they were willing to chase us into a restaurant!" "A café," corrected Cloudchaser. "How can we convince them," Sassaflash commented, "that we didn't steal the machines? There has to be some explanation as to why all of these ponies believe so strongly in Lightning Dust!" "She gave me a free shirt that says 'Lightning Is Not Frightening' on it," the voice of a mare spoke. "So she's giving everypony free shirts," Cloudchaser added, "to convince them to believe her?" "That sounds like Lightning Dust, alright," added Flitter. The hostess mare came back to table five. "Excuse me as I lead these ponies over to table nine." She quickly galloped over to table nine, the angry mob of pegasi following her. "Well, she had to satisfy them somehow," spoke Medley. An hour and thirty minutes later, the angry pegasi had left table nine. Sassaflash and her friends had finished eating their food. "Color me surprised!" Dizzy Twister exclaimed. "The soup of the day was really good after all!" A sick Cloud Kicker groaned. "My stomach feels like it is about to burst into pieces." "You should've saved that food for later," Medley commented. "This is why I love this place so much!" shouted Cloudchaser. "Every week I want to come back! The hostess even recognizes me, and the waiters know what I want!" "She drags me here every week," Flitter added, "and they know me pretty well here too. I'm not saying I dislike it here, just I get tired of this place sometimes." Cloudchaser's mouth went wide open. "Tired? Of this place? This is the best café in all of Equestria! I've tried asking the ponies who work here to turn this café into a chain of cafés, and every single time I ask them, they tell me that they're working on it! I'm so tired of waiting!" Suddenly, one of the angry pegasi walked up to table five. "Hey girls. I'm sorry." "Sorry for liking Lightning Dust?" asked Sassaflash. "Yes," the pegasus mare responded, "I am. She was bribing us all to believe her. I now know that I don't believe her anymore. We were fooled. Deceived. Cheated. Now she's going to make ponies all across Equestria believe her for something that she clearly has done. She's a liar. I believe you girls now. I feel so sorry for believing Lightning Dust. When I was eating, my friends and I agreed that she deceived us all." "Tomorrow I'm presenting a speech," Sassaflash added. "Great! That'll make those ponies believe that you were innocent! See ya later!" The pegasus mare, along with her friends, exited the café. "Well, I'm pumped for this!" Cloud Kicker exclaimed. "Remember, you are up there on that stage to support me," Sassaflash told Cloud Kicker. "Show them all your enthusiasm!" "I'm great at that!" Cloud Kicker replied. "Well friend," Medley told Sassaflash, "we've got a long day ahead of us tomorrow." A day later, Sassaflash was standing on a stage in the Ponyville Square. A podium was in front of her. Her friends were surrounding her, smiling. The night before, she had revised her speech with updated, fresh information. She was pumped for this moment. "You can do it, Sassaflash!" Cloud Kicker whispered. Mayor Mare stepped up on the stage. "Let's let Sassaflash deliver her speech now." Mayor Mare stepped off the stage to let Sassaflash deliver her speech. Several ponies were seen staring intently at Sassaflash. She gulped as she looked at the paper in front of her on the podium. She took a deep breath, and began to speak to the crowd in front of her: "Hello, citizens of Ponyville! I am Sassaflash, a pegasus who has been framed for a crime that I didn't commit. My friends have been framed for this, too. Of course, there's always another side to a story like this. The pony who framed us for a crime we didn't commit was Lightning Dust. She selfishly bribed you all to believe her. Another pony told me that she was selling t-shirts with the design 'Lightning Is Not Frightening' on them." "Now, I understand that you may say: 'But Sassaflash, t-shirts are COOL!' T-shirts may be cool to you, but they aren't so cool anymore if they bribe you to believe somebody. Apparently Lightning Dust thinks that we were the thieves whom recently stole all of the machines in the electric division of the Cloudsdale Weather Factory. Well, first of all, during our trial at the latter factory two days ago, Lightning Dust had slightly different and more vague evidence than we did." "Second of all, she was very reckless and was willing to guard her opinions at any time. Third of all, she kept butting in when it was clearly our turn to state our sides of the heist and our objections to Lightning Dust's view of it all. I know that you may still not believe us, but if you do, don't buy any of Lightning Dust's t-shirts! If you still believe her, stop believing her and start believing us." On that note, Sassaflash and her friends slowly walked off the stage. What followed was applause from the crowd. Mayor Mare stepped up on the stage again. "We are very pleased with hearing Sassaflash's speech. You may leave now." As Sassaflash and her friends were walking away, she saw some of Lightning's old followers throw their t-shirts on the ground and stomp on them. "What a big liar!" Sassaflash started to flap her wings and fly in Equestria's big blue skies. Her friends were following after her. "So," asked Medley, "where should we go next? What should we do there?" "Pack your bags, girls!" Sassaflash announced. "We're going to Manehattan!"