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"Friendship is an island that you retreat to. And you fall on the floor and laugh at all the ninnies who don't have enough brains to have your good taste." --Ray Bradbury

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It's not easy being a filly Pegasus in Junior Speedsters Flight Camp. Things get more complicated for Rainbow Dash when her desire to nap all day makes life worse for those around her. Cue the shenanigans.

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That was really cute! I love the concept! :pinkiehappy: Can we get a sequel that takes place during the invasion with Rainbow and/or Buzz narrating their thoughts/potential worries about the other?

She just said the c-word.

Reminds me or Marty McFly :twilightsmile:

"My hive-name is hatchling minder eleven thirty eight, but you may call me Carapace.”

Can I call you "Shell" for short?:rainbowwild:

Gilda held out her hands and wiggled her fingers.

Ahem. *cough cough*:trixieshiftright:

Besides those other comments and that last correction, I must simply say this was a very lovely story and has a good moral to it too!

AAAAAHM LOVIN IT!

Interesting story. Nice, and worth a read. The title concerned me a bit, but I was nicely surprised!

I nodded. “Yeah, that’s how I remember what a conjunction is by thinking about that railroad worker song.”

“Rainbow?” said Buzz. “You mentioned a railroad worker song to Carapace. How does that song go?”

:pinkiehappy: Conjunction junction, what's your function?
Oh my gosh, I love School House Rock! :yay:

That was cute. Dash would totally use a changeling to get out of work.

7105534 Same here. I'm forty-eight, so I remember seeing those songs on fifty-pound televisions. Nowadays, I have a flat screen TV that I can lift with three fingers. Everything changes, but those songs are still remembered. I'm glad you got the joke.

7107012 So would I, come to think of it. (Fallout 4 is calling my name, but because of my job, I can't always answer.:pinkiesad2:)

7104968 Gilda has fingers. She waved them at Pinky when she asked "Let me guess; friendship?" and also used them to haul Pinks and Dashie out of danger in the episode "Lost Treasure of Griffonstone".
Carapace's number is a reference to THX-1138, one of George Lucas's more interesting movies.

I'm very glad you liked it. Thanks very much for the feedback. I feed off of this stuff like a changeling nibbles on love.

7104895 I don't normally do that many sequels, apart from my horror series of Equus Mortis stories. This story takes place in a world where changelings aren't hostile. But I bet somepony would find a reason to hate them. Hate doesn't need rational thought, after all. It just needs a convenient target.

It would be nice if I could come up with a filly Rainbow Dash story, however. I keep thinking of a scene where filly Dash asks filly Fluttershy,
"What's the first thing I taught you?"
"Uhm, snitches get stitches?"
"Oh. Right. What's the second thing I taught you?"

That's all I have for now. I'm glad you liked my story.:rainbowkiss:

Kudos.

Youtube holds all of our memories!

7112838 You are awesome for plunking down this video. Oh, man, that song takes me over three decades back.

Aww man, at least my childhood had a good soundtrack. Ya finished me off with that one!:rainbowlaugh:

7112870 In the first draft, that was the last line. I knew that someone would find it amusing, for it seems a lot of us bronies were raised
on Schoolhouse Rock.
I'm glad you liked my story.:rainbowdetermined2:

7112881 Yep, it made my morning. Also I dropped this little gem in the Comedy and Changling group as well, keep up the good work.:raritywink:

7112855
Thanks.

The fact that youtube holds all of our memories is a double edged sword.
:fluttershbad:

7112725 I think what 7104968 meant is that fingers belong on human hands, and Gilda technically has talons. Honestly, I've had the same problem when I write/edit Discord, especially since he has a paw and a talon as hands. Coming up with a 'proper' term for digits is obnoxious when it comes to those, and using the word 'digit' in a story generally just feels... meh. That being said, I think settling for fingers was probably easier than wracking your brain for the 'proper' term. It didn't really stop me from enjoying the story, though I did take notice of that term usage as well.
Oh well, you can't win 'em all.

7112725 , Gilda has talons!
7113052 understands what I mean. And
Level Dasher, I agree with tha digit problem and suggest stick with the paw most of the time.

The Carapace/Shell comment thing was joke. I thought people would understand it was joke after i put :rainbowwild:. O well.

I surprised no comment on the Marty McFly thing. Like seriously? Nothing? Nada? Zip? Zero?:derpyderp2:

No problem with the feedback!

It was funny but now it make me think about what if Dash and Buzz meet each other in the wedding.

Well, that was fun. I think it maybe should have an [Alternate Universe] tag given the open presence of changelings at Flight Camp, but that's a minor niggle. The songs feel a bit too Oompa-Loompa-ish for me, though. I like the way you show Rainbow's friendship with Gilda developing, and it's all pretty readable. Worth a like from me. :twilightsmile:

MJP

The pacing in this's story was way too fast in my opinion, needs to be stretched out over a longer period of time, this all just seems like a summary of a much larger story imho

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