Secret of My Excess
"Look! The Wonderbolts!"
Rainbow Dash's exclamation was not a strange one for her. She would have been excited to see the Wonderbolts no matter what the situation. This time, though, the Wonderbolts were a very welcome sight for the entire group of friends. Things had really gotten out of control, and anypony who could potentially help calm the situation down was more than welcome.
Twilight Sparkle and her friends had been trying to deal with a new threat that was rampaging through Ponyville. Unlike their previous threats, though, this was one that was very close to their hearts. Spike's greed following his birthday had gotten way out of hoof and caused him to mature rapidly, and now a fully-grown Spike was wreaking havoc in Ponyville, taking anything and everything he could get his claws on. Stopping any rampaging greed-driven dragon would have been tough for the group already, but this was their friend, and as such, excessive force was out of the question. Not that they were likely to employ it otherwise, but to know that it wasn't a viable option at all was a bit frustrating. To make matters worse, they were one pony down, as Spike had ponynapped Rarity. Even if Twilight was able to bring herself to take a magical shot at him, the risk of hitting Rarity was too great.
The Wonderbolts zoomed through the skies, preparing for another strike on the massive dragon that was threatening the town. The three on task had hoped that their two close shaves would have convinced him that they meant business, but all they had served to do was trim some of the scales on his neck. With their two warning shots having been fired, it was time to show him that they meant business. The three moved into a tight divebomb formation, hurtling towards the dragon at full speed. Before their forceful charge could make contact, the dragon whipped out the top of the water tower he'd ripped up. The three Wonderbolts slammed one after another into the cold metal, becoming so dazed that they couldn't even dream of stopping the dragon from slamming the tower against the mountain wall and trapping them.
"And what was that supposed to accomplish, exactly?"
The Wonderbolts turned to look at the source of the voice, although the darkness made it difficult to locate. It wasn't until Blaze's face made contact with a giant pigtail that they found their pony.
"We were trying to stop the dragon!" Surprise said.
"With a haircut?" Sugarcoat asked.
"We thought we'd intimidate him and show him we meant business," High Winds said with a frown.
"This might come as a surprise to you ponies," Sugarcoat said, with a roll of the eyes that couldn't be seen in the darkness. "But dragons are big and you are not. If something small tries to attack something big, the big thing might not necessarily be scared of the small thing. Plus, three small ponies divebombing into a huge dragon probably won't do anything more than annoy him, something you already managed to do with your little barber routine. If angering an already-rampaging dragon is your idea of protecting Equestria, then maybe Princess Celestia should look into funding an actual military instead of sending the local performing troupe into the front lines."
The Wonderbolts were dumbfounded. Nopony had ever talked to them like that before. None of them wanted to admit it, but perhaps their attack plan hadn't exactly been perfect. In fact, it had left quite a bit to be desired. If they were lucky, the divebomb would have stunned the dragon, but if not, they could have been in a lot of trouble. Being trapped in a mountain wall under a water tower was much better than what could have happened. This realization, however, was not enough to break through their pride.
"Uh-huh," Blaze said. "And if you're so smart, why are you trapped here too?"
"Because dragons apparently don't listen to blunt truths when they're in the middle of a greed-induced rage," Sugarcoat responded simply. "So just sit back, shut up, and wait for Twilight and her friends to save us. Maybe we'll luck out and this will be one of their less incompetent days."
The Wonderbolts groaned and sat down. If the reckless manner in which Rarity had acted at the Best Young Flyers Competition was any indication, this was going to take a while.
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Okay, this was a fun way to handle Sugarcoat in the episode.
Lol, right as the question of how Sugarcoat got there was at my lips, she gave me the answer. Nice work.
Always finds a way to give advice, even if the people needing it have to come to her.
What kind of blunt truths would she have for a greed-induced dragon on a rampage?
Also, no Soarin or Spitfire? That would explain why they came with such a unthoughtout attack plan.
Sugarcoat finds something that she can't solve with words.
Then again, maybe it'll give a wake-up call to the Mane 6 just how many disasters Sugarcoat HAS averted with just her words, when the one she can't avert ends up with a giant dragon running around.
So there are some problems that Sugarcoat can't solve... I wonder if this is gonna happen again? I'd enjoy it either way.
Are you going to include the Equestria Girls movies in this fanfic?
Because if you do, the Crystal Preppers will be surprised to find that there's two Sugarcoats. One who fell through the rift, and the other one before the games...
And that would make for an amazing chapter...
Awesome way to handle this chapter.
6680880 either way, shes probably determined to hammer some good ol' blunt truths into someone!
After the equestria girls chapter I got to thinking. She is back in time yes, but also dimensions! Not just pony world to human dimensions, but further than that. You could say that the human and pony dimensions we know are just 2 parts of 1 larger dimension. It seems sugarcoat is in a completely separate larger dimension that likely includes its own pony and human worlds. So the crystal prep students looking for sugarcoat could feasibly go to equestria through the portal and find that sugarcoat is not there. She never was there because she was sent to were she is now because her arriving there is a defining part of what makes this dimension unique. Therefor there would be at least 2 pony worlds connected to at least the 1 human world we have seen. And all of these could be classified as being just 1 single overarching dimension were these 3 smaller dimensions connect.
Or not, this is just a possibility I feel might be truth or I could be flat wrong. It's late, I'm tired. This took a lot of time to word correctly.
... Rude.
6774839 Why point out that she's rude? Being rude is her hat.