Easy... Easy Does It
"So..." Rainbow Dash caught her breath. She and Ariel were flying Curveside up the slow incline of the receding canyon. Below her, the rest of the Herald glided along gently atop the hovering wagon. "...what did we learn today?"
"Don't be a dumbass," Logan grumbled.
"No, Big Show..." Flynn smirked, telekinetically empowering the vehicle. "She asked what did we learn."
"Hah!"
"Heheheh..."
"Ha ha ha ha..."
"Rrrrgh!" Ariel spun about. Hovering backwards, she frowned at her comrades below. "Will you cut her some slack?! We lived through it, didn't we? Besides, it was her quick thinking that got us out of a perilous situation!'
"Ourr sisterr is rright," Kepler said. He adjusted his glasses and spoke further: "Wherre would we be without ourr leaderr's courrageous initiative?"
"Under the warm protection of the Right Talon of Verlaxion," Seraphimus droned. "Without the threat of windigoes."
"I do not rrecall asking forr yourr input."
"You're welcome, by the way," Seraphimus muttered.
"Double-yoo—" Logan began.
Seraphimus frowned. "You throw far too much caution to the wind!" she said sternly. "You only go forward, paying no attention to your peripheral. You're just asking to be flanked by some horrible circumstance. If not today, then tomorrow."
"That's some tough talk coming from a stool pigeon," Flynn said. "Emphasis on stool."
"If it weren't for my advice, we'd be dashed to bits several meters behind us right now!" Seraphimus snarled.
"And what are you expecting? A parade?" Ariel tilted her nose up. "I thought you didn't give a crap about yourself! Must have sucked helping us to help you live a bit longer!"
Seraphimus let loose a prolonged sigh. "My only hope is that you'll finally wake up to see the danger in following this chaotic cretin into the darkness ahead."
"Sister... you don't know chaos," Ariel said. She suddenly winced, then smiled innocently in Rainbow's direction. "N-no that you do—of course! Erm... I-I mean of c-course you do, but it's not necessarily a horribad thing! In fact! It's kinda useful in a pinch—"
"Ariel?"
"Yes, Rainbow?"
"At ease, girl."
Ariel hung her head, flying limply forward. "Yes, Rainbow."
"Idiotic echo chambers notwithstanding, I only wish to provide a sense of lucid reason in this banal scenario," Seraphimus said.
"Yeah, cuz it was sooooooooo reasonable how you flew in and tried to wreck our shit back in the Gondola," Flynn grumbled.
Seraphimus glared in the unicorn's direction. "And if I had succeeded, you wouldn't have lived to deal with the sting of shame that's swiftly catching up to you."
Wildcard raised his metal hoof towards her head... exhaled... then dropped the prosthetic in question. After a dreary sigh, the Desperado resumed flapping his wings with occasional bursts of energy, assisting Flynn in the uphill glide.
Rainbow Dash glanced forlornly back at the group. She looked ahead, gaining more altitude while Ariel kept parallel at a distance.
"Well... loon on the bright side!" Pinkie Pie grinned nervously. "We're gonna be out of the deep, dark canyon soon!"
"Right you are, Pinkie." Applejack tilted her hat back and muttered: "Now onto the deep, dark valley beyond."
Fluttershy fidgeted in midair. "You would think they would be more jubilant about having lived through a frightening situation."
"I suppose that's just the thing, Fluttershy," Twilight Sparkle said. "The more crazy situations you live through, the less sting they tend to have in the long run."
"Or perhaps they're just too embarrassed to say we need better navigation!" Rarity looked guiltily in Rainbow's direction. "Rainbow, I'm so terribly sorry, darling. I should have noticed that the unexpected acceleration pushed us off course. I almost led you and your dearest companions into a dreadful demise!"
"Don't blame yourself, Rarity," Rainbow spoke softly. "We've been out of action for a while. Even then—I can't expect all of you guys to be nearly as fast-twitch on the dial as me."
"Hey!" Pinkie Pie suddenly chirped, flying towards their anchor. "Girls! Check this out! It's a boy! It's a girl! No—" She phased through Rainbow's body so that her fluffy head "emerged" between Rainbow's dangling legs. "—it's a baby Pinkie Pie! Hee-hee-hee-hee!"
Rainbow sighed. "I rest my case."
Fluttershy giggled lightly.
"I wouldn't be too worried about the group," Twilight said. "They're only moody because... because... well... look around us."
Fluttershy gulped. "I'm trying not to."
"You know, this might sound strange, but we have it lucky," Twilight said. "None of us are quite as vulnerable as Rainbow's other friends. So long as she stays safe—and we all know how versatile Rainbow is—we're virtually untouched!" She winced slightly. "It can't be easy being flesh and blood in a place like this."
"Yeah, well..." Rainbow squinted ahead. The horizon foretold the changing landscape with the hint of starlight glinting across a sea of wild wilderness beyond the final parallel. "...it's about to get a whole lot less easy."
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...Goddamnit, Pinkie.
Relax, Ariel! If you try too hard, it will look like you're desperate
And just a little more of this and chained up metal Death Bird™ will be nothing more than a reluctant member of the party!
Sera, either help, or shut your beak. stop flip flopping between trying to sow dissension and barking out advice.
-Through the path long forgotten, into the darkness long begotten. Ofolrodi.
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Well, at least they are making progress. Take things one wing flap at a time, and deal with the bad situations as they come. Not much else they can do.
I'm not even sure what Seraphimus is trying to achieve by trying to make the Herald doubt Dash, other than petty revenge. Maybe its just reflex at this point, because its clear if she wanted herself and everyone dead all she had to do was sabotage the hover flight rather than aid it.
Although she's got a point that Dash's "forward" focus is as much a danger and hindrance as a potential boon. Sure it's good to have the momentum, but not if it blinds you to threats you otherwise could avoid, or solutions you otherwise could explore. So as much as she's trying to deliver her message in a stupid, adversarial way, the cat-bird isn't being a total moron here either. Mostly.
Small steps, and someday you'll be one of them.
Heh. Because catbirds.
You know, Pinkie Pie's really F'd in the head... God bless her.
Pinkie Pie likes to pretend she's in Rainbow's deep dark canyon...
Pinkie, Pinkie please, please stop.
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Yeah, I really don't get it either what exactly is her plan here? Honestly, I have a feeling she doesn't even know at this point.
AJ channeling her inner Vic Romano.
Sera's starting to be useful to the party, and perhaps in more ways than one. She is right; all of the Herald will almost blindly follow Rainbow ahead and charge forward with her, but nobody's actually taking the time to really be cautious and thinking before moving.
Sera didn't come to be a good leader through her blind faith in Verlaxion or her affinity for excessive force; she's a leader because she knows how to think, plan, and execute... something that Rainbow and the Herald can be in short supply of quite often.
Oh hey look, Sera is trying to be helpfu-oh, wait, no shes not
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And yet she's guilty of the same blind faith that most of the herald are putting in Dash, the same tunnel vision on her objective that has been plaguing Dash since she made land in Rohbredden.
Pinkie, seriously. The last mare that put her head there was Roarke - and you don't want to step in those hoofprints.
Be careful Pinkie. Rourke Will use her mana drive to mess with you in some way, even if its to make your verticle hold roll.
Now comes the nice easy restful transistion, just like in Blackpools, The Big One rollercoaster. You know after teh long wait in the queue and the terror and exitement of finally getting to the cars, dropping in and getting secured and checked? Just that long slow steady climb to the first drop off. Then it gets, intresting.
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I want to get off Rainbow Dash's Wild Ride!
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Sounds to me like she's projecting, here.
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What.
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Actually, I think the loon is on the Dark Side now.
Seraphimus continues her spiel, but it seems without the same conviction as before.
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As a certain guitar-wielding pony once said; "There ain't no getting off this train we're on."
One thought that's occurred to me before is that if Harmony helps sustain harmonic creatures, then wouldn't Chaos also grant benefits? Specifically, the small Chaos part of Rainbow Dash might allow her to draw nourishment from the aether itself, instead of having to consume food? It would help with their supply situation, if nothing else.
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They'll need to catch it and its mate, then stuff them full of sugar if they wish to capture the Medikin.
Riiiiight...
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Rainbow Dash is a better ideal to believe in. She never left anyone behind and took every necessary risk to save her friends from danger. Verlax on the hand did nothing of that sort and ditched Seraphimus personally when she needed guidance and help.
Seraphimus' main problem is her inability to see the real Rainbow Dash behind the rogue alias. Otherwise she may be able to understand why it is easier to justify blind faith in Rainbow Dash than in entities like Verlax(ion)
Wow that was a close call. The next one is gonna be even closer isn't it...
Ponka stahp
This is actually adorable. I almost don't want it to change, but that's just asking for it.
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At this point, she just refuses to be wrong. Big Show made some headway, but she still can't comprehend that her entire life was devoted to a lie, so she argues. She doesn't expect them to realize how "Blighted" Rainbow is anymore, since that'd serve no purpose, but she can't admit it. Also, she is correctly pointing out the Herald's tendency to never question Rainbow.
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We can't stop: The brake's broken!
Pinkie . . . I have no words. That's the worst joke yet, and we've only barely started this journey.
As the Navy SEALs say, the only easy day was yesterday.
10/21/2017
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*facepalm* Pinkie, why.
Yeah, there are plenty of loons on the Bright Side. Got a few on the Dark Side, too.
Whoever expected easy deserves a Wildcard bonk to the head.