//------------------------------// // Prologue // Story: The Last Something Sweet to Bite // by Knackerman //------------------------------// The light's go out, a hush falls, and the spotlight flashes on with a clunk. Without any further warning, a pair of ponies twitch aside the curtain and take to the stage, both dressed in formal evening gowns... though one seems more reluctant than the other to take to the spotlight. "Good evening mares and gentlecolts! Who's ready to cheer for the two best pegasi in all of Ponyville!? Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy! Yeah!" "Um, actually, I don't really think we're the best. There are a lot of other really great pegasi in Ponyville you know." "Don't be modest Fluttershy, we wouldn't be up here, center stage, with potentially millions of eyes upon us if we weren't the best!" "P-p-p-potentially... Potentially millions!?" "Well... Maybe not millions. It really depends on how popular the show is and how many people felt like sticking it through our last story. You know, the one where we were the stars? Though I guess it's safe to say that it was really all about me." "I think I remember the Author saying the only reason you were the star of the last story was he didn't know how to write you in the first one. So you and I were really more leftovers, loose ends, than stars. Myself in particular, since he didn't want to write my death in the first story since I was his wife's favorite pony." "Why are you blushing about that? I think you must have heard wrong. We are far too awesome to be 'leftovers'. I mean come on! In Something Sweet to Bite Too we nearly killed the Candy Mare! I mean, you were a crazy half undead changeling ghoul hybrid...thing." "If you say so Rainbow. All I know is that I'm glad this is all almost over. I don't like Nightmare Night at the best of times. I can't say I like it anymore when I have to participate in a story where most of my friends die." "Aww lighten up Fluttershy! It's all in good fun. And hey, turns out you're not even in this years story. Though, of course, I'll still be performing. The show couldn't go on without yours truly!" "Maybe we should just do as the Author asked, so these folk can get on with the show?" "*Sigh* Fine Fluttershy. You sure now how to suck the fun out of the room. So anyways, we're here to explain what's happened in the story up to now and give you an idea of what to expect from The Last Something Sweet to Bite, A.K.A. Equestria Girls: Rainbow Dash is the Best!" "*ahem*" "Okay, okay, jeez! Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rots. Bleh... What an awful name. Anyways, as you might guess from that wonderful title choice, the third story is going to be set in that universe that Twilight pops off to every couple of months and never lets the rest of us visit." "I'm sure she has a very good reason Rainbow. It's probably dangerous." "She probably just doesn't want us to see how goofy she is around Flash." "What was that!?" "Nothing Twi! Go back to your time loop or whatever!" "I think we're getting a little off topic again Dash. Let me try. Something Sweet to Bite is a terrifying story about the Candy Mare. The first story chronicled her return from the d-dead. She m-murdered almost everypony in Ponyville and...ate them. The ones she didn't eat she turned into mindless candy ghouls. *ahem* Rainbow Dash survived because she was out of town in Cloudsdale. I was... there when everything happened. But I escaped and met up with Big Mac and Zecora in the Everfree Forest." "Meanwhile I was super down about being out of town when all my friends had disappeared. I was in a funk for a long time, but after looking for my friends and not finding a trace of them, I started having these really depressing nightmares. Apparently I wasn't the only one. Princess Celestia had been having them too. I was asked by Celestia herself not just to find out what happened in Ponyville but also to track down her missing sister, Luna. There were rumors that Luna was the one responsible for what had happened on that Nightmare Night, but Celestia couldn't believe that. Trixie Lulamoon, Twilight's brother Shining Armor, and myself set out on our mission but things went south in a hurry. I barely escaped from a horde of candy ghouls, but wound up being too injured to fly to safety. I landed in Everfree Forest where..." "Some mistakes were made. Unfortunately I was a partial victim of the candy curse. Thanks to Zecora's treatments I mostly had it under control but every now and then... well, lets just say I got these cravings. I almost took a bite out of Rainbow Dash, but thankfully Big Mac stopped me. Thankfully, once we were reunited, we quickly came up with a plan to defeat the Candy Mare together." "And to make a long story short, it didn't exactly go the way we had expected. Otherwise there wouldn't be another one of these stories, am I right?" "Well, I'm not entirely sure what happened to me. Either I went off to be with the Breezies or I ended up falling under the Candy Mare's control. It was all a little confusing." "Yeah, well, at least that thing didn't end up sliding it's way down your throat. I should probably be flattered that it considered my awesome bod an upgrade from Princess Luna's, but who would've thought that the Candy Mare didn't really have a body of her own? I still remember the taste of that thing, her soul or whatever it was, in my mouth. Grossest thing I've ever tasted. And I took a bite of Sugar Belle's Muffins!" "Rainbow Dash! There's no need to be so blunt." "I'm just saying, anyone who plans on having anything to do with this story is going to be pretty lost if they haven't seen the first two." "...And the prequel..." "There was a prequel!?" "Apparently the Author wanted to try writing a horror story for another holiday. Since the Candy Mare's story starts around the same time as the Hearths Warming tradition began, he thought it might be fun to write a short story for the winter holidays." "How cracked is this guy? Did anyone even bother with it?" "Um... Not really. Even though it had a lot of details about the Candy Mare, including what happened to her after she first appeared and a lot about what happened to her mother. It seems most people passed on it." "I'm going to be honest here Fluttershy, it sounds kind of boring. I think we should just stick to the main series, don't you?" "If you say so Dashie, but I think we've covered pretty much everything the Author asked us to." "Good! My wings were starting to itch from me standing still so long." "Just one more thing..." "AWWW! Come on!" "There's no need to be rude. On behalf of the Author, we would just like to thank all of you so much for waiting patiently for this, the final tale in the Something Sweet to Bite trilogy. We hope that you enjoy it, and don't find yourselves too sickened by the over the top violence and gore." "And with that folks, lets get this show on the road! Whoo!"