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// Episode 97: Appleoosa's Most SMASHED 
// Story: Yak to the Future 
// by hazeyhooves 
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“Aren't you glad y'all came with me to see Applejack compete in the Appleloosa Rodeo?” said Apple Bloom.

Scootaloo looked around excitedly. “Totally! This place is a cutie mark gold mine! There's barrel racing...”

The yaks shattered the barrels. “Yaks SMASH!”

“... roping contests...”

The yaks tore apart the ropes, then flattened the scarecrow dummy used as a target. “Yaks SMASH!

“... rodeo clowning...”

The yaks trampled the clowns underhoof. “Yaks SMASH!”

“... steeplechase!”

The yaks bent the metal fence poles in half. “Yaks SMASH!”

Fluttershy stamped a hoof down. “Okay, I've had just about enough of you yaks making a mess out of everything you see. You need to stop that right now.”

Sweetie Belle looked confused. “Fluttershy? How did you get here? I thought you were staying Ponyville.”

The yaks ignored the pegasus while they pulverized the sheriff's office. “Yaks SMASH!”

Fluttershy took a defiant step forward. “I mean it. No more smashing and no more yelling. Do you hear me?”

The yaks charged through the tower of hay bales, scattering them through the air. “Yaks SMASH!”

Fluttershy narrowly dodged a hay bale that went flying past her head. “That's the last straw! I want you be QUIET!” She grabbed hold of the lead yak's horns.

The lead yak whipped his head, swinging Fluttershy's body like a flail as he crashed through Braeburn's cabin. “Yaks SMASH!”

Fluttershy kept her grip on the horns while kicking a hind hoof into the yak's ribs. “Be QUIET!”

The yaks charged through the forest, disloding trees as they went. “Yaks SMASH!”

Fluttershy released her left hoof's grip on the horns to shield herself from the flying trunks. “Be QUIET!”

The lead yak flipped over to slam Fluttershy into the giant hoofprint imprinted on the dirt. “Yaks SMASH!”

Fluttershy rolled out from under the yak's weight and kicked him in the jaw. “Be QUIET!”

The yaks leaped high into the air to extinguish the thick storm clouds that had just activated. “Yaks SMASH!”

Fluttershy got trapped between two of the clouds, as the magic of her pegasus body refused to let her pass through. “Be-- oof.”

The yaks, now free of the interloper, moved on to raze the rodeo's barn. “Yaks SMASH!”

Fluttershy threw Troubleshoes's trailer house at the yaks. “Be QUIET!”

The yaks deflected the trailer into the sheriff's hat, flattening it against the ground. “Yaks SMASH!”

Fluttershy grabbed the yaks and flung them into the bars of the jail cells. “Be QUIET!”

The yaks jumped onto the pile of mattresses and destroyed them with their teeth. “Yaks SMASH!”

Fluttershy swung the base of the golden rodeo trophy at each of the yaks' skulls. “Be QUIET, Be QUIET, Be QUIET!”

Everypony in the audience laughed. Troubleshoes finally understood his cutie mark and his true destiny.

Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo cheered together. “Best rodeo, ever!”