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// LP39: Equestria Buck Yeah [Comedy?] 
// Story: Half Hour Horses: Legacy Prompts 
// by HoofAndQuill 
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The Prompt: Equestria, Buck Yeah!





This didn't quite work out the way I wanted it, and it's too short.  Oh well.



Rainbow Dash fidgeted a bit in the seat.  It was a little too small for a full-grown mare, like all the seats in the room aside from Cheerilee's.  She remembered these parent-teacher things from when she was a filly in Cloudsdale.  Rainbow Dash squirmed in the filly-sized chair; she didn't even like school when she was IN school.  Scootaloo was sitting next to her, looking both nervous and annoyed, and Cheerilee was sorting through the little book of class records she kept.  So yeah, probably Scoots was in trouble for something.  But one thing was wrong here.  "You know I'm not her mom, right?"

Cheerilee smiled at Rainbow, though it looked pretty insincere.  "Of course, Rainbow Dash.  But Scootaloo has had a few behavioral problems that she says she learned from you."

Scootaloo pointedly avoided looking at Rainbow for the moment.  Rainbow thought back over what all she'd done since sorta-sister-adopting Scootaloo.  There was Wonderbolt Academy, where she nearly got everypony killed with a tornado, but Scootaloo wasn't even there.  She'd made a huge mess of caring for Fluttershy's animals for a while, but it wasn't like Scootaloo would be doing that in school.  Then there was the whole Castle of the Two Sisters thing, and the vampire bats, the Equestria Games mess, trying to sell Fluttershy for a book, but--

"She yelled out 'buck yeah' when she received her last exam results."  Cheerilee looked more than a little annoyed at Rainbow getting lost in recollection.

Scootaloo pouted with her forelegs crossed over her barrel.  "So?  Rainbow Dash says it sometimes!  It's just words!"

"What?  That's it?  Come on, you don't have to bring me in here for that!"  Rainbow Dash flapped her wings, hopping up into the air a few feet and feeling better for being out of the seat.

Cheerilee silently looked up at Rainbow Dash until the pegasus landed on the floor again.  "We have rules about that kind of language, Rainbow.  I just wanted you to know that you shouldn't be teaching a filly that sort of thing."

... Yeah, annoying as she was being, Cheerilee was probably right.  Which meant that Rainbow Dash needed to find a way out of this before she ended up having to apologize or something.  Thankfully, she'd heard two fillies just outside the room who weren't about to get cutie marks in being sneaky.  "Come on, Cheerilee, what the hay?  It's not the end of the world if she says something like that."

"Rainbow Dash!  That is exactly what I'm talking about.  If you go around saying things like 'what the hay', then fillies are going to hear it and use it themselves."

"Now wait just a minute!"  A filly's voice called out from the doorway, and Rainbow grinned.  Just like she thought.  

"My sister says that sometimes to!  An' she says buck when she's talkin' about applebucking!"  Apple Bloom stamped a hoof on the floor defiantly.  "They ain't bad words if Applejack says 'em.  She wouldn't say nothin' wrong!"

"She wouldn't say *anything* wrong." Cheerilee deftly corrected the filly.

Apple Bloom smiled and stood triumphant.  "Darn right she wouldn't!"

"Apple Bloom, that's not what I meant-"

"Ain't that right, Sweetie Belle?"

Sweetie Belle only poked her head around the door frame cautiously.  "Um, Rarity calls that kind of thing uncouth.  She doesn't like ponies talking like that."

"Un-couth?!  Don't you go callin' my family uncouth!"

"But it's Rarity saying that, I LIKE playing in the mud!"

"Now girls, this really isn't the poi-"

"My family doesn't just play in the mud all the time!  We got work to do, if you're doin' work you're goin' to get muddy!"

"Rarity does work too!"

"GIRLS!"  The sharp call dragged both fillies' attention back to the fact that they'd been sneaking around a private meeting, and they had the decency to be quiet and look contrite.  "There's no fighting allowed in school.  Now, Rainbow, I--"

Rainbow Dash's seat was empty, and Scootaloo was nowhere to be found either.  Cheerilee looked around the room, and frowned at the window hanging open and creaking in the breeze from outside.  She turned her attention back to the other two crusaders, only to find them both gone too, with the sound of little hooves clattering down the hallway.  Cheerilee sighed, and glanced back at her cutie mark as if she half expected it to change and let her do something easier than teaching.

But of course it didn't, and all she could do was pencil in a talk with Applejack for later in the week, and then set to grading the rest of the exams.