Twilight stared in horror at the pages before her. “Daring Do and the Lost Treasure of Igrofnkovhghprm” was far from being as good as Rainbow Dash had led her to believe. But how could she politely tell her friend how she felt? She’s seen clopographic movies with a better story.
“Twi, you’ve been really quiet for a few minutes. Is there something wrong?” the cyan pegasus frowned. She’d never written anything before, but she was proud of her work. She was certain that Twilight would find it great too.
“So what do you think?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Well...it’s...Oh! You know who would love to see this?”
“Who?”
“Princess Luna! She’s recently started reading the Daring Do series herself!”
“Wow, cool! I bet she’ll love it!”
“Spike, take a letter.” The baby dragon groggily rose from his bed, grabbing quill and parchment. “Dear Princess Luna, I know how much you’re enjoying the Daring Do series, and my friend Rainbow Dash has written her first fanfic based on the series! Enclosed is a copy of her story. We are both eagerly awaiting your response. Your loyal subject, Twilight Sparkle.”
“It’s not often that you send letters to Princess Luna.” Spike said as he was handed the pages of Rainbow Dash’s fanfic. He took a deep breath, and the flames engulfed the letter and the story, disappearing out the window with a puff of green flame.
A few hours had passed since the letter was sent. Twilight was starting to worry about Luna. Her mental state was still a bit fractured from her imprisonment, but she had improved so much. Twilight hoped she didn’t cause Luna to lose progress on recovering.
Then again, she had also sent the letter during the daytime. She wasn’t entirely certain how the princesses handled their duties. When she was still being taught by Celestia, the goddess of the sun often seemed tired due to handling both transitions. Maybe Luna was only awake at night. If that was the case, she should be waking up around now. The sun’s almost set.
Storm clouds started to form over Ponyville. “What the? There isn’t supposed to be a storm in Ponyville for another week!” Rainbow Dash looked upwards, towards a descending shadow.
“Princess Luna! You’ve come to visit us personally! Did you re-” Twilight Sparkle was cut off by the commanding voice.
“SILENCE, TWILIGHT SPARKLE!”
“Princess, we talked about this. You don’t need to use the Royal Canterlot Voice anymore.”
“NAY, FOR THIS IS AN IMPORTANT DECREE FROM YOUR PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT!”
A wide grin appeared on Rainbow Dash’s face. “Twilight, she must have liked it so much that she wants everypony to read it!”
“CITIZENS OF PONYVILLE! BY ORDER OF THE ROYAL COURT OF CANTERLOT, THE PEGASUS KNOWN AS RAINBOW DASH SHALL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED TO PEN NARRATIVES OF ANY FORM! THAT IS ALL!”
As the form of Luna disappeared into the rising moon, Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle stood there, their mouths agape.
“Did...Did she just...?” the pegasus was too stunned to finish her sentence.
“I think...she just...You know what? Let’s forget this whole thing ever happened. Except the part where you’re not allowed to write stories anymore. You should probably remember that part.”
Yes. This is well done. Dashie is so awesome
Me: "The Lost Treasure of a word I can't pronounce? And reviewed by Luna, Celestia, and Twilight?" clicks Read Later button "This should be interesting..."
Oh look.... It's me in Third Grade. Thank God I've improved greatly since then. Great story!
Hmm... not meta enough to get banned!
I hate to be "that guy", but sorry, its been done
.Rainbow Dash Writes Fanfiction
707853 Aww.
707858 its okay, the idea is old enough that this will still be fresh.
707676 Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
707715 I hope you like it when you get around to it! I still giggle at some of the jokes I made, if only because I wrote this as an homage of sorts to exactly what you can expect.
707794 Oh this is so true! I can imagine myself back in third grade doing something like this and thinking it was great!
707850 The funny thing is, I saw that rule posted when I was putting the finishing touches on it this morning. I said a couple profanities to myself, and decided to take a more detailed look. I think the rule only applies if you reference stuff that wouldn't necessarily be referenced in the MLP universe. The original version of the prologue chapter had Dashie claiming she was going to make Equestria Daily in 10 seconds flat. After I saw the new rule, I altered it to say that she believed she could be one of the (possibly many) writers of the series. Even then, I was hesitant to try to submit, but as you can see, I took the risk. Seems it does pass. Hopefully this one passing won't cause issue with someone who wants to be picky that theirs got denyed but not mine.
707870 Yay. Actually I'm not too surprised the idea has been done before. It's a pretty juicy thing to pass up! I just added that fic to my "Read It Later" list. It's only right, really.
708058 I believe I said to myself "What other staples of bad fanfiction can I add into this? Overused memes!" And Daring Do is an adventurer...
708001 It was...interesting... I wasn't quite expecting the reactions of the reviewers, and the shippness of RD's fanfic was unexpected to say the least...of course, that's why I lol'ed so hard.
708096 Glad you did enjoy it then! I did originally have one more idea for a reviewer, but I decided that might have been a bit too much to run the same joke into the ground.
708001 how could anypony not enjoy it? this was awesome
You dawg...er pony I heard you like fanfics so I put a fanfic in a fanfic so you can read while you read
Wait..... Is this based off of the Tiarawhy flash?
Cliche. I've even written one of these "Rainbow Dash fanfic" stories before...
So, that's 2 ponies who can't write decent fiction. At least Twilight can write good textbooks.
708422
"SPAAAAAAAAACE!"
This is almost like my middle school days, except the part with Luna's decree....on second thought this is exactly like my middle school days
Oh, this was cute. My favorite part was when she was, like, "Please?" and Daring do instantly caved, "Okay, you can come." Rainbow Dash's self insert was just adorable.
Takes "so bad it was good" to a whole new level. I was greatly amused.
And the reviews were hilarious, too.
708240 I've not heard of that before. I'll have to remember to check it out later, though!
708324 Hmm, you mean to reference Portal 2? Rainbow Dash was actually looking at Equestria from the moon.
708383 Fun Fact: "dafuq did I just read?" was the original cover image for this fic.
708476 Fair enough. I even commented to an earlier review that I'd have been truly surprised if it hadn't been taken before, because it's a juicy topic to explore. I honestly didn't think to look before I was typing up Luna's review and by then, I was just kind of "meh, oh well." I wrote this one as a break from my more serious stories.
708504 You're right, the intention is that she did travel all over Equestria between the time she dismissed Dashie and the next morning and destroy every single typewriter.
708514 Other one is Twilight? Someone told me they read one where Twilight wrote a fanfic but I hadn't read that one either.
708526 *stares at that picture for a good five minutes before returning to replying* That pic is hypnotic! And I'm sure that's not the normal word used for it! Glad you enjoyed it!
708609 You got banned by law from writing? I bet that would've made school easy!
708912 Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
709054 Fun Fact: I occasionally will help friends proofread their fics. I don't make comments on the story or plot, because there are many people out there that don't have the qualms I do of being honest about someone's work being bad. One guy, a friend of a friend, asked me to read his fic. I told him that I'd help fix the numerous spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors that I had seen in the first few paragraphs that I had gotten to check. He insisted I comment on the plot. That conversation between Daring and Dashie is an homage of sorts to one of the bits in that fic! ...I ended up having to ask my friend to tell him that I was too busy to go over plot in-depth, because I was too scared of hurting his feelings.
709078 Fun Fact: That line is another homage! There's a fairly popular fic on this site that also got posted on Equestria Daily, and it was really well-written and totally deserving of its acclaim. But the fic ended with that line, and it made me sad. I hope no one gets mad at me for that.
709223 Glad you enjoyed it!
710142 Twilight's review has her questioning if Dash was the one that used up all her hint coins. I actually just finished Unwound Future this past weekend, so I suppose I was a touch inspired there.
709843 Yes. There are actually a few of Twilight trying to write fiction. ALL of them are EPIC FAIL for Twilight Sparkle.
710715 Poor Twilight. You'd think that having all of those books for inspiration would let her not be a terrible writer.
710736 Twilight is a good writer when it comes to FACTUAL stuff. It's FICTION that is her downfall.
I liked seeing the way you approached this with Twilight against RD's efforts to continue writing. Good one!
712154 Thanks! That version of the ending actually took me the longest, mostly because the other two are incredibly cliche for those characters. I had to actually get creative for Twilight! But I think she's proven to be insane enough in certain situations to do something like that.
lol, poor RD. the bigest plot had the smalest of ending.
714272 Thanks for reading! Glad you liked that little ending.
723056 Sadly, she probably could write a decent story with an author insert if she's not go all Mary Sue and Gary Stu on it. But we all know she totally would and that's why we love her! Thanks for reading!
731254 But it was definitely an ending befitting of her! Thanks for reading!
754313 Even eggheads need a little something in their life...even if they are cute enough to probably get anypony they wanted.
795447 Thanks! :D Glad you enjoyed it.