Gilda smirked over toward Rainbow. "So, Dash, got any new moves in your tricktionary, or are you one hundred percent old school?"
"New moves?" Rainbow shot up. "Heh, sit back G, this is gonna take a while."
"Hey Pinkie, c'mere." Gilda wasn't watching Dash's moves.
Pinkie hovered closer on her candycopter. "Yeah?"
"Don't you know how to take get lost for an answer? Dash doesn't need to hang with a dweeb like you now that I'm around. You're dorkin' up the skies, Stinkie Pie, so make like a bee and buzz off!" With that, she grabbed on to the rotor, setting the candycopter into a spin and letting it go. It crashed down with Pinkie screaming the whole way.
A rainbow blur shot past Gilda.
Rainbow Dash swooped in, catching Pinkie just before she crashed into the ground. She set her friend down safely just as the candycopter crashed nearby.
True to form, Dash didn't hesitate. She rocketed back up to the cloud where Gilda watched. "What was that? You almost killed her!"
Gilda looked down where Rainbow was pointing, where Pinkie stood on the ground below. "Dash, come on. I didn't mean it like that. I was just tired of dealing with her lameness, okay?"
"Well, maybe I'm tired of dealing with your lameness! You should know I pay attention to everything when I'm flying. How else could I have ever passed flight school?"
Gilda's face scrunched up. "But you didn't pass–"
"I passed until I quit!" Rainbow stomped on the cloud; part of it disintegrated. "You know what, Gilda, you can just go back home right now! I don't think I need you around here anymore."
Gilda raised a claw up, but let it slowly drop down. Her face flashed through a dozen emotions before settling on a simmering glare. "Fine!" She took off, flying away into the distance.
"Wow, Rainbow Dash, I didn't want to break up your friendship with Gilda," Pinkie said as Rainbow came back down next to her.
"You didn't." Rainbow glared in the direction her old friend had flown. "Gilda broke up the friendship when she attacked you." She smiled again. "Now come on, we've still got a lot of pranking to do, right?"
I have to say, I think I like this alternative a lot.
Funny, I think this version had even better friendships and morals.
Not what I expected.
5030350 I wasn't looking for great art, I just wanted a half decent joke in a comedy.
Nice. Take THAT, Gilda! Rainbow should've also called her out for using words only badly-written 90s bullies would use, like "lame-o" and "doofus".
It's basically a remastered version of the event's in a new form of getting the power of Friendship, now I get!
Good Going, Girl, Guy, what Gender are you Ocalhoun?!
Well, on the upside, Gilda avoided having to go through the humiliation conga at the party or the escalating bad mood, and Rainbow Dash made a clean break where they both know where they stand. On the downside... there was no real downside. Congrats, you made a better moral than the writers.
Now I'm curious how you'll handle Trixie. Will they perhaps *gasp!* realize she's just a performer instead of acting like a bunch of dumb yokels?
5030428
More likely, Twilight will know she's awesome and challenge her. Supposedly, it will be funnier that way.
5030350
... Excluding Spike...? I guess that could be fun...?
5030379
Then I'll call it a success!
5030388
Fair enough. Hopefully I can deliver that a time or two as the chapters go on.
5030404
Heh, you've got a point there. But the show's gotta keep it G-rated, so Gilda can't call ponies 'asswipes'.
5030412
Thanks!
...and I reside on the more masculine side of the fence.
5030415
Nah, duplication magic is just very rare, and only the most
talentedOP unicorns can use it.5030428
Trixie is another good one. ^.^ But it'll revolve around Twilight.
5030444
Pretty much. Hard to say which way is funnier, though.
5030511
Spike gets to be excluded a lot.
Shouldn't that be: "That was easy!" ~ Staples ad.
instead of "this is easy!"
5030526
Well I was honestly expecting:
a. Pinkie being lectured on not making yourself a thirdwheel when a friend is having another friend over.
or
b. Or Pinkie NOT making a thirdwheel of herself and Gilda's eventually leaves and everything is fine.
5030543
I still want to find some way to incorporate that.
5030567
'B' would have made a fun way to do it, too.
But alas, I wanted to write Gilda getting her comeuppance.
"man they could just do that"
"well this episode was nice, but she could have used her magic to..."
and then I found this story.
I laughted hard at the Applebuck season
5030741
Good, good!
5030858
*takes it*
*runs away*
Muahahaha!
*skitters up to the top of favorites pile*
*places yours on top*
*grins too widely, and rubs hands together*
Make like my pants and split.
Make like a tree and leaf.
Make like a hockey stick and get the puck out of here.
KBO.
could have made this better, like pinkie not being a third wheel or realising she is being annoying and buzzing off
5032228
Except then how would anyone find out what a bitch Gilda was?
The poor dragon in two chapters.
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5031135
Yeah, that pretty much sums up this story.
5031284
Just staying faithful to the show's dialog – which I try to do throughout.
5031714
The what now?
5031999
Yeah... things do go pretty fast when all your problems get solved instantly.
Also, I skip over a lot of parts where there's no difference between this and the show.
5032228
Eh, I like this version better. I like the idea of Gilda getting called out for nearly murdering Pinkie.
5032293
I guess they never would.
5032594
Sort of!
But with less struggling and learning.
5033119
Don't worry, he's actually treated somewhat fairly.
But which one of them is really Mary Sue??? Find out, next time!
5033822
Spoiler: All of them!
5033837
No way!!!
I never would have guessed!
5032293 maybe gilda is not as much of a bitch everyone makes her out to be?
5034136 Oh my dog I actually understood that.....Brilliant......XD
5035575
Indeed.
5034788
5034136
Oh, inside gamer jokes.
These are cheat codes, I presume?
Damn it's been a long time since I did that kind of thing.
5034772
Well, I already did that in a different story. So she gets to be a bitch in this one. ^.^
5034772 Oh no, she is. There are no redeeming qualities for Gilda in the show.
5030526
Are you sure? "Consarnit" is the same expletive as "Goddamnit". "Feather" is obviously "Fuck". "Horseapples" literally means "horse shit".
I think there's a precedent for Gilda calling ponies asswipes!
5039564 she wants to spend time with a friend she hasn't seen in forever, and someone is getting in her way. I'd be pissed.
And so fluttershy was spared from Gildas scream. Yes!
5231630
Oh certainly. And flipping out after that huge string of pranks she got hit with at the party made sense, too.
But breaking Pinkie's machine while she's using it to fly and bullying Fluttershy indicate that she's not just a reasonable person pushed too far, Gilda's actually got a large mean streak.
And Dash out-Dashes herself.
I love this story...-ish thing. It's like pony-flavored popcorn. *noms noisily*
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NYOM NYOM NYOM.