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// S04E22 Trade Ya! 
// Story: My Little Pony: Friendship is Overpowered (Season 4) 
// by ocalhoun 
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Rainbow gasped. "There it is! The first edition of Daring Do and the Sapphire Statue! It hasn't been traded yet!" She rushed up to the stallkeeper. "Lucky for you, because I've brought my most valuable possession to trade for it: My lucky horseshoe!"

She looked at it blankly. "I don't want it."

"What?"

"It's just a rusty old horseshoe. That's not worth anything to me."

Fluttershy thought for a moment. "What about a bear call?"

"A bear call? Now that's rare!" She shopkeeper held up her Daring Do book. "Let's trade!"


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"Aha!" Rainbow darted up over the crowd. "There it is, a bird whistle!"

She and Fluttershy made their way over to the whistle stall. Fluttershy looked at it gleefully, but then cringed. "But I don't have anything left to trade for it."

Rainbow slapped her lucky horseshoe onto the table. "I'll trade you this for that bird whistle."

The old stallion stared at it. "It's just a rusty old horseshoe."

"It's a lucky horseshoe." Rainbow winked.

"Oh!" He smiled. "Well, in that case, you've got a deal!"

Rainbow and Fluttershy walked away happy. "So..." Rainbow nudged her friend. "I guess there's just one more trade to do."

Fluttershy smiled back at her and traded the Daring Do book for her bird whistle.


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Rarity and Applejack stared at it. It was magnificent.

Never before had either of them seen such an elaborate and beautiful swing set. It glistened in the afternoon sun, sparkling as if taunting them.

Rarity was nearly drooling over it. "Sweetie Belle would love having that at her clubhouse! Just look at those jewel-encrusted supports!"

"And the slide looks like a heap of fun, too. I bet Apple Bloom'd be on there all day." Applejack nodded. "This is definitely something worth pooling our resources for."


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Twilight winced at Pinkie's screeching salesponyship. She didn't want to bank on her reputation as a princess, not at all. She just came to give some books to ponies who would love them as much as she did.

She'd have to do something about it.

Smiling, she teleported a shiny red balloon right in front of Pinkie's face.

"Ooh!" Pinkie cried out, bouncing after it. "Come back, Mister Balloon!"

Twilight grinned. Discord's reformation may or may not have been as sincere as he made it out to be, but she could still learn friendship lessons from him. One of those lessons was how to temporarily distract inconvenient Pinkie Pies.