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// Prologue 
// Story: Dentistry Sucks 
// by Multi Personas 
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Prologue
“Miss Dash, are you sure that you floss after each and every meal?” Colgate asked the rainbow maned wonder as she canceled out her magic around Dash's muzzle.
“Of course, my wings aren't the only thing that I take care of,” Rainbow Dash said, a big smile on her face, showing she was swelling with pride. Colgate just fixed her with a raised brow in a 'yeah right' kind of look. Dash nervously swallowed and sheepishly chuckled. “I-I may have skipped once or twice?” she nervously said, putting emphasis on the “may”.
“Once or twice, huh?” Colgate muttered to herself. “Well you're lucky you brush every night.”
“Why?” Dash asked as Colgate turned away from her patient and towards a long metal desk, sitting in a chair with wheels.
“Because, if you didn't, then a few teeth would have cavities and we would need to drill into them,” Colgate said as she picked up a quill and dunked it in an inkwell and started to fill out a sheet of paper. “Possible pull them.”
“Oh,” Dash said, laying there. She was starting to feel a little awkward, laying in the chair, looking up at the ceiling, the only sounds in the room being the ticking of the clock on the wall and the scratch of Colgate's quill. After a few minutes of this, Colgate set her quill aside and used her magic to quickly dry the ink.
“Ok Miss Dash,” Colgate said, standing up. She used her magic to lower the chair Rainbow Dash was laying in and reclined it upwards. She floated the piece of paper to Rainbow Dash, who took it in her hooves. “Give that paper to Miss Butter at the front desk, and have a good night. Remember to floss.”
“Roger,” Rainbow Dash said with a quick salute. Colgate turned back and sat back at her desk. Rainbow Dash stopped just before the door when she spotted a colorful something hanging right beside the door. Her eyes widened and sweat started to form on her brow as her eyes quickly shifted from Colgate to the item hanging by the door.
“Just take one Miss Dash,” Colgate said, slightly impatient, looking through her appointment calender.
Rainbow Dash let out a squee and tore off a sticker from the sticker reel. It was a sticker of the Wonderbolts with “A clean mouth is what helps the Wonderbolts fly!” printed on it. With her new sticker she dashed out of the room, letting the door close behind her.
Colgate just gave a small sigh and started to pack up her stuff in her saddle bags. Rainbow Dash was her last patient and she was dieing to get home. Just as she was about to get up to turn out the lights when her door opened and a creme colored mare with a dark blue mane poked her head through the door.
“Dr. Colgate?” she asked, a little nervously.
“Yes Miss Butter?” Colgate asked as she stood up.
“Um, well there's sort of a late patient,” she said with a sheepish smile.
“Late patient?” Colgate repeated raising an eyebrow.
“Uh, yeah.”
Colgate groaned very loudly before hanging her head. “Send her in. And Coco, go home. I'll see her out.” Miss Butter nodded once with a smile and brought her head back in. Colgate blew out a breath of air and, using her magic, opened one of the cupboards that lined the walls, and pulled out a set of clean examination tools. She wouldn't be able to do anything but give a quick examination and have them set an appointment to come back later.
The door opened and Colgate called out, “Just have a seat in the chair,” she was adding something to her appointment calender.
“Ok,” a sweet voice said, followed by the rustling of the chair fabric. Colgate spun around to see a purple unicorn with purple hair with a single pink highlight in it.
“Ok, Miss...” Colgate trailed off.
“Sparkle, Twilight Sparkle,” Twilight said, confidently with a nice smile that revealed pearly whites. But Colgate knew some ponies covered up their yellowing teeth. There was no fooling her.
“Miss Sparkle. Ok, Miss Sparkle, here's the deal. I'm already late for an appointment, so the best I can do now is a quick examination, then have you set up another appointment to deal with the damage,” Colgate explained as she rose and reclined the chair to accommodate her height.
“Oh I’m sorry, I didn't mean to hold you up, but I don't think that there will be anything wrong with my teeth,” Twilight said, once again with confidence.
“Oh?” Colgate asked half-heartily. She had hear ponies say that, then need to have three teeth pulled. 
“Yup!”
Colgate just rolled her eyes as she sat down at her desk, pulling out a blank patient sheet. “So this is your first time here, right?”
“Yes.” Colgate wrote this down.
“Any pains in the teeth or gums?”
“Nope,” Colgate wrote this down as well.
“How many times a day do you brush your teeth?”
“Three times, one after each meal.” Colgate smirked at this. She highly doubted Twilight was telling the truth, but she wrote it down as well. This continued for a few more seconds until Colgate had the basics written down.
“Alright, lets have a look at those teeth,” Colgate said, standing up and approached Twilight, her tools in her magic. Twilight opened her mouth up as wide as it could go and Colgate began.
She started my quickly looking at the outer layer of all her teeth, which were pearly white, then the backs of them. She then started to tap on a few of her teeth, but it all looked like it was all in order. With a hum she brought her tools out of Twilight's mouth and started to cast a spell.
Colgate's horn took on a light blue aura which matched a light blue aura that started to surround a section of Twilight's teeth. Inside the blue aura surrounding Twilight's teeth was what looked like the night sky, with small white dots that looked like the stars moving around in space. In the darkness, amongst the stars, was an outline of Twilight's teeth, a lighter darkness filling where her teeth were. 
This spell slowly moved across Twilight's top teeth, then moved onto her bottom teeth. When it reached the last tooth Colgate stopped casting the spell and leaned back with a hum.
“Curious,” Colgate said, using her magic to decline the chair and lower it to the ground.
“What's curious?” Twilight asked, surprised that the examination was over so fast.
“You are the second pony to ever walk through those doors with perfect teeth. Me being to first,” Colgate said as she sat down in her chair.
“Really?” Twilight asked.
“Yeah, not a lot of ponies take care of their teeth here in Ponyville,” Colgate said as she stood up. Using her magic she levitated her saddle bags to her and set them on her back. “Since you have good teeth and apparently don't need to set up an appointment, both of us can get out of here.”
“Oh, right. You said you were late for an appointment?” Twilight asked as she scrambled out of her chair. “I don't want to keep you any longer.”
“Good,” Colgate said, not meaning there to be any malice but sure it was there anyways. She walked up to the door and turned off the light once Twilight was through it. Colgate closed the door behind her and made her way to the front door of her building.
“Shouldn't I pay?” Twilight asked, hesitantly as she walked through the front door. Colgate followed and, using her magic, locked the door.
“I didn't do much so don't worry about it,” Colgate said, a small smile on her muzzle. She took a second to look up at the sky. The sun was setting, but it wasn't completely down. “Well Mrs. Sparkle, I must be going. Just keep up whatever it is you're doing, and you'll be fine.”
“Ok, thank you very much and have a goodnight,” Twilight said with a smile and a nod before walking away.
“Yeah you too,” Colgate yelled after her, heading in the opposite direction. She let out a deep breath and shook her mane, pieces of light blue and white falling in her eyes. She cracked her neck as she walked through the late night business district, eager to get home and get to her own appointment. A few ponies were still milling around, getting the rest of their shopping done for the day, but she weaved through them well enough.
Colgate let her mind wander while she navigated through the streets and she thought about the weekend ahead of her. Tomorrow she was going to go get a book to read, then she was going to hang out with Derpy, then Sunday she was going to go to Bon Bon's Sweets to sample a new type of chocolate treat Bon Bon made, and things. She was having pleasant thoughts about chocolate when another type of thought decided to invade her mind. Something purple, and round, and hypnotizing. It was Twilight's ass. A smile played at Colgate's lips as she day dreamed about Twilight in manners that would make a minotaur blush. Colgate's last partner was a sweet mare back in high school that ended upon graduation, it was mutual, so when Colgate saw a mare she found attractive she had a bad habit of imagining them in uncouth situations.
In her daydreaming she barely realized that she had managed to make it back to her home sweet home, a single floored, small blue house, which suited her well. The house itself was a two bedroom and one bath, though why she chose such a house instead of a small studio apartment or something,  even she didn't know. It was purely on impulse. It was just her by herself. She magicked her keys out of her saddlebags and inserted the right one in the keyhole, she shoved the door open when it was unlocked and floated her saddlebags to a lazy colt chair and closed the door with her hind leg before making her way to the kitchen. Her fridge to be exact.
She opened it and pulled out a nice cold bottle of rum with her magic and cracked her neck as she made her way back to her living room.
“My appointment may be at nine, but it never hurt to be early,” she muttered to herself, turning on her stereo with one strand of magic while she opened the bottle and took a big drink of the rum with another. She shivered as it made its way down her throat.
Punk rock music made its way to Colgate's ear and she cracked a smile, the first real one all day. There was nothing quite like nice music and a bottle of rum to unwind on a Friday evening. She laid down on her back on her very comfortable couch. She wiggled, snuggling deeper into the couch with a very content smile on her face. Colgate was safe and comfortable in her house and she was getting giddy, but that could have been the rum in her system. Even though Colgate drank herself to sleep every Friday, she couldn't hold her liquor very well but she had fun with her party of one. She used to have thoughts like “Do other ponies think I’m an alcoholic?” or “Do I really need to drink this much?” but she stopped thinking like that. She didn't have a problem, and she could stop anytime she wanted, as she had done before when she really needed to.
She took another heavy drink from her bottle and felt her eyes start to droop. It couldn't be later then six, but on Fridays she often went to bed early. But it was early, even for her, so she just settled for bobbing her head to the beat of the music and taking long drinks from the bottle.
“Ah, now this is the life!” Colgate yelled to her ceiling, giddy from the rum. She drained the rest of the bottle in one gulp and let it hit the carpet with a hard thump! And her eyelids fell with a soft flutter, the rum having another opinion on when it was time to go to bed.