My Little Pony: Friendship is Overpowered (Season 4)

by ocalhoun

S04E05 Flight to the Finish

Diamond Tiara smiled at the Cutie Mark Crusaders after their performance. "Girls, we just wanted to say your act is quite impressive!"

"Wait... What?" Sweetie Belle looked to Apple Bloom.

But she only shrugged. "Um... Thanks?"

Silver Spoon circled around the other side. "Oh, but of course. As a matter of fact, we think you're very brave."

"Brave?" Scootaloo asked. "Why?"

"Isn't it obvious? It is to us. In fact, it's obvious to everypony. You're showing all three types of Ponyville ponies, yet you have a pegasus pony..." Both fillies joined in, "who can't even fly!"

"What in tarnation does that have to do with anything?" Apple Bloom asked.

"Don't worry about it," Scootaloo said. "Let me just..." She grunted and strained, flapping her wings very quickly... and she lifted off the ground, hovering nicely for a moment before buzzing around the field happily. "Yeah!" she shouted. "Look what I can do!"

Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon slank away, quietly. What could they say to that?

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Comments

[FanOfMostEverything]

So, overpowered for Scootaloo means flight-capable? That's actually kind of depressing.

[ocalhoun]

6503214
Baby steps, baby steps.

6503190
Why not?

[Biker_Dash]

Proposed theatrical trailer for this fic

[ocalhoun]

6503250
I'll take it!

[ocalhoun]

6503261

vaporized into a smudge

Maybe I should be reforming villains, rather than killing them...?

Nah.

[skunkpi]

6503249
But how is babby step formed?

[ocalhoun]

6503291
Well, when a mommy step and a daddy step love each other very much...

You know what? You should ask my evil twin, dirty little secret.

[ocalhoun]

6503309
Nah, Discord's still evil.

[ocalhoun]

6503328
You're very dedicated with those!

I look forward to getting comments when new ones come out that I haven't seen yet. ^.^

[BlueYoshi]

Whoo hoo! Season 4 is here! My thoughts:

S04 E01: Those vines actually made some noises when they broke through the floor to snatch Celestia. Good thing she looked behind after she heard the noise.
S04 E02: But what about returning the Elements back to the tree? No box as well? Oh well. Twilight's gonna have to go full-on superpowered mode when she faces Tirek in the season finale.
S04 E03: And nothing terrible happened! The end!
S04 E04: KABOOM! Oh, they're gonna have to glue you back together. IN TARTARUS!
S04 E05: Scootaloo can fly in this version? Well that's interesting.

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[ocalhoun]

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Just for future notice, the tree made a box anyway. ^.^

[Neko Majin C]

You know, I carried a flag for a full ten seconds. But then it sprouted legs and kicked me repeatedly in the balls. Needless to say, they were not having any of it and they separated from me, burst into flames, rose from the ashes as male and female phoenixes, and flew away. I cannot believe that that happened to me three times.

~KBO.

[ocalhoun]

6503422
You say that as if I'm proofreading this at all...

6503536
And now you know why this season is rated 'Teen'.
Also because of Trenderhoof and Rarity...

[whizzball1]

Ah, the fresh smell of overpowered friendship. Thank you, ocalhoun, for this wonderful gift.

[Talguy21]

It returns. It is a dark day.

Meh. At least since we're on the dark side, we get lots of cookies.

I, for one, welcome our overpowered equine overlords with open arms.

[Awesomo3000]

Serves you right, Diamond Twerp and Silver Scum!

[StevieBond]

Scootaloo flying with ease turns this like up into a gold star.

Diamond and Silver just got burned!

[ocalhoun]

6503989
No problem. ^.^

6504294
Good thing, because those who don't tend to get rainbow blasted.

6504339
Her knowledge is also OP.

6504384
A small price to pay. ^.^

6504673
Of course. Why should Twilight get all the OP magic?

6504679
Um... Yeah. They started reading them while off-screen. That's how.
(Continuity might not exactly be this fic's strong suit.)

[Smoker]

...what. I thought Twilight was the overpowered one - not scootaloo.

[Aurora Dimmet]

6503214

A crippled kid in a wheelchair is overpowered by being able to suddenly get up an do a jig.

Ergo a handicapped pegasus who can't fly is overpowered by taking off.

[SSparkle]

I love this fanfic. But ignoring disabilities? Nnnnnyeeeh...

[Jake Witt]

That was falling with style.
WHO SAID CHICKENS COULD FLY?!
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[Switch Swap]

SHE CAN FLY!!!!!