Friendship is Puppies, episode 2 Part 5 [30]
Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR
Friendship is Puppies, episode 2
Part 5
[ Everfree forest]
“.....Just me, Thunderlane, Fireball ,and Raindrops are full time, Flitter and the others are part timers who show up when we need more wings in the air.” Rainbow Dash explained her job as the group walked along the path. “With the weather the Everfree kicks up we really need an full crew, but we don't have the budget for it and we're too far out of the way to get Cloudsdale to send us some extra help unless the cities nearby. I mean I'm awesome, but I can only do so much against wild storms on my own.”
“Sounds like quite an issue. I'm pretty sure Canterlot's weather patrol is fully staffed, I'm surprised they haven't sent any one down here to help. I'm sure some Pegasus would want the over time.” Twilight suggested.
“Tried that. None of them want to come down and deal with wild storms, too dangerous. On top of the mountain like that, they're all cushy and they don't even have to do much aside from make some rain or snow every so often to keep the place from drying out.” Rainbow Dash snorted. “Whole office up there is a bunch of lazy trust fund foals who've never worked a day in their lives.”
“I had no idea weather management was such a chore.” Rarity pointed out.
“The jobs fine, fun even sometimes, setting up the weather and everything's the easy part... the paper work though.......” Rainbow Dash shuddered.
“Woof?” Rahs questioned.
“Hahahaha. Good one Rahs, the mayor supply a budget to the weather team.” Pinkie Pie laughed.
“Pinkie's got a point. Mayor Mare's not a bad sort but she's notorious fer being tight with tha bits.” Applejack added. “If'n yah didn't notice tha town halls in pretty bad shape under all that decoration. Surprised Nightmare........”
“Black Snooty.” Pinkie Pie corrected.
“…... didn't drop tha whole thing on our heads.” Applejack concluded rolling her eyes.
“What does she spend the money on?” Twilight asked.
“Repairs to public and private property mostly. “Rarity chimed in. “The town has a ridiculously large disaster budget that gets depleted nearly every year due to something or another coming out of the Everfree. One cannot even get proper property insurance in town any more unless you have more bits to spend than what you wish to protect.”
“That doesn't even sound right. Why would any one even live here if it's like that?”Twilight asked.
“Family's owned our land since near tha founding of tha town.” Applejack replied.
“Property is very affordable....” Rarity sighed. “Ridiculously so. I barely had to take out a loan for shop space in the center of town.”
“There's so many animals around in the forest...” Fluttershy uttered.
“Better than a rock farm.” Pinkie Pie offered.
“Ehh, yah gotta live somewhere. Sides Rarity's making it sound worse than it really is. At most a monster shows up once a week and more often than not it doesn't do anything or only breaks a few things. Last time we had something really big going on it wasn't even from the forest.”Rainbow Dash shrugged glancing to Applejack at her last comment.
“Usually on a Tuesday.” Pinkie Pie pointed out.
“Rivers a good shipping lane plus we're pretty close to Canterlot compared to most towns. So something does happen tha Guards usually get here pretty quick.” Applejack sighed. “Only really bad thing is it tends to make ponies kinda jittery bout things. Ah assume yah met tha flower trio?”
“Flower Trio” Twilight asked.
“Couple a mares that run tha flower shop. Skittish things. We used ta use them as sorta a warning sign that somethin might be up. They'd run and hide when anything they didn't recognize popped up. Social butterfly types other wise.” Applejack explained.”Gossip hens too.”
“Woof?” Rahs questioned.
“Yeppers. Used to. About a year ago the town got invaded by star spiders. Every pony was freaking out except those three. Along with Fluttershy they just wandered around town and shoved the spiders into bags and boxes and dumped them at the edge of the forest.”Pinkie Pie chimed in with a shudder.
“Wait so the three most skittish mares in town....” Twilight looked at Fluttershy.” Four most skittish mares in town, went out and got rid of a swarm of spiders that every other pony in town was scared of?”
“In their defense star spiders do get pretty big.” Fluttershy added.
“How big?” Twilight asked.
“About the size of your head big, on average... there were bigger and smaller.” Rarity sighed.
”The trio seemed more annoyed at them than scared though. It was strange.”
“ I find it hard to believe you three were scared of any kind of spider.” Twilight stated looking to Applejack, Dash, and Pinkie Pie.
“Ah ain't, they jus showed up during harvest time an we was too busy tah come intah town. Applebloom kept tha ones swarming tha homestead outta tha farm house and outta our way. Spiders pretty good at takin care of any bug problems we got, but all that webbing plays havoc with harvesting.”
“Wasn't afraid, just yah know... busy.” Rainbow Dash stated with Applejack frowning at her.
“What part of 'as big as your head' do you misunderstand?” Pinkie Pie demanded.
“Right.” Twilight sighed.
Rahs considered a moment.” Bark?”
Fluttershy frowned a little and Pinkie Pie shuddered. Twilight just rolled her eyes. “ No Rahs, I doubt they taste good.”
“Bark!” Rahs countered.
“Yes, I am sure magic had to do with getting to that size, but remember when you ate that vespid moth as a pup? You were sick for two weeks and it was chock full of magic. You said it tasted like rancid milk.” Twilight grumbled as Rahs stuck his tongue out at the memory.
“ Umm while we are on the subject, I have a question if you don't mind?” Fluttershy whispered.
“Hmm? Go ahead.” Twilight stated.” I mean we have been getting to know each other better on this trip.”
“Yeah, feels like we've been walking for weeks.” Pinkie Pie stated, glaring at the writer.
“Well I know he eats meat, a lot of animals I know do, but how does Rahs eat magic?” Fluttershy asked.
“Same way he eats meat. By biting it a lot.” Twilight chuckled as her brother rolled his eyes. “ It's a bit more complex than that and he doesn't need to eat magic to survive due to his connection with me. But it's kinda like a treat I suppose.”
“Woof.” Rahs corrected.
“Yeah, like I said, there's more to it than that. He does eat more than meat, it's just the majority of his diet. He's not a true carnivore in that case i suppose” Twilight continued.”I suppose he could eat one or the other without starving, but we've never really tested that and it's not as if our connection can be severed easily enough to see if he can live on meat alone.” Twilight continued.
“That Familiar thing yah was talking about before?” Applejack asked. “ How does that even work?”
“Princess Celestia explained it as a connection he has to both my brothers and I. Shining's is weaker and he can't really understand Rahs, but Spike and I can. There's also the magical synergy where a spell cast on Spike or I will also show up on Rahs and one cast on Rahs will show up on Spike, myself, and Shining Armor. The Princess also said the connection helps limit magical surges and forces me to exercise my magic more even when I'm not actively using it.”
“Sounds rather dangerous Darling, what if Nightmare targets him to take you out too.” Rarity offered.
“Ha.. you would think that would be an issue. Go ahead and try to cast something on Rahs.” Twilight chuckled.
“Bork!” Rahs complained.
“Oh shush, it will be fine. It's not like we haven't done this experiment before.” Twilight chided.
Rarity blinked looking between Rahs and Twilight before the Moon Dog finally shrugged and nodded to her. With that okay from her target, Rarity's horn lit up as she cast a basic spell to change the color of Rahs' coat, that garish thing needed to match something. After a few moments of concentration Rarity's horn faded and she blinked,shaking her head.
“That was one of the strangest things I think I have ever felt.” Rarity stated.
“What happened?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“I tried to change the color of his coat and it was like trying to ice skate on a pool of melted butter, the spell wouldn't focus on him at all. I cast it, but it always felt like it hit him and simply slid off.“ Rarity explained.
“That's how spells work around him. It needs to be a particularly powerful or focused caster to make anything stick and even some pony like Princess Celestia has to put more power into her spells than one would think to affect him with them for very long.” Twilight shrugged. “Shining and I don't have any issue really casting spells on him, but they don't last very long and it's easier to cast the spell on ourselves and let the effects encompass Rahs, then to try and cast anything directly on him. But even those don't last long. No one knows why.”
“He's like a great big mystery wrapped in an enigma sprinkled with questions and loving frosted with glucose.” Pinkie Pie chimed in. “ And he's not even a crunchy frog!”
By this point Twilight and Rahs had simply learned to smile and nod with half of what Pinkie Pie said. Applejack claimed that was the first step to become citizens of Ponyville. Twilight wasn't sure how she felt about that, she rather liked these five and Spike had made friends as well. She wasn't sure about Rahs,but he, Fluttershy, Applejack, and oddly Rarity, seemed to be getting along alright.
“There it is.” Applejack called out.
Rushing up to where Applejack was, the seven of them gazed out over a mist filled chasm towards a crumbling castle on the other side. The ruin was massive and covered in creeping vines and plants. A large oak door sat bare in the middle of the near wall, with a over grown path leading up to it. Mist floated and drifted around the castle obscuring the other side at times rolling over the area like a thick fog..
“Here we are, back side of tha castle, right where ah said it'd be.” Applejack smiled proudly.”Falls are what's making all tha mist, river plunges down inta tha gorge around tha other side of tha castle.”
“Hold on, I thought you said there was a bridge?” Pinkie Pie asked.
“I see it. Looks like it fell” Rainbow Dash pointed down into the mist.
“Woof.” Rahs stated as he sniffed one of the stone pillars holding the bridge ropes.
“Yeah there is a pretty strong enchantment on it. I guess that's how it remained undamaged after all this time, same as that door over there.” Twilight pointed out.
“But why would it fall now if it was enchanted?” Fluttershy questioned.
“Obviously what ever is trying to stop us must have cut the bridge or untied it darling.” Rarity hypothesized. “It seems to be the things modus operandi.”
Rahs perked his ears as he and Twilight looked back at Rarity curiously at her use of the words.
“I read a number of detective novels......” Rarity huffed.” Don't judge.”
“Yeah, I got this.” Rainbow Dash stated leaping off the ledge and spreading her wings as she dove into the mist.
“Be careful Rainbow.” Fluttershy chided.
It took a few moments before Rainbow Dash came back into view pulling up the other end of the rope bridge lifting it up to the other side of the chasm. She looped one section around the stone before flying back across the chasm to the group.
“Hey AJ, lemmi get your rope I wanna make sure this things on there tight.” Rainbow Dash stated.
“Sure thing.” AJ said hoofing it over.” Hows it look?”
“Like it was cut, Rarity called it.” Dash smirked, darting back over to the other side.
The group watched as Rainbow Dash managed to secure part of the bridge before she stopped and turned to something behind her.
“What is she doing?” Pinkie Pie asked as Rahs sniffed the air.
“Grrrrrrrrrr....” Rahs growled his tail whipping as his ears flattened to his head.
“Uh oh.” Twilight winced as she looked across the ravine.
“Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiinnnnbooooooooooooooowwwwwww......”
“Who's there ? Rainbow Dash demanded hearing something in the roiling mist calling her name. She reared up on her back legs like a boxer jabbing her hooves into the air as she danced about looking for the source.”I ain't scared of you. Show yourself!”
“We have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the best flier in Equestria.” the voice stated, oozing charm.
“Who?” Rainbow Dash blinked.
“Why , you of course...” the voice sounded a little annoyed.
“Really? Me? I mean, of course... hey you wouldn't mind telling the Wonderbolts that would you?” Rainbow Dash smirked.” Cause I've been trying to get into that group, like forever.”
“ No Rainbow Dash, we want you to join us.” There was a sound of hooves as a trio of dark forms galloped out of the mist.” The Shadow Bolts!”
Rainbow Dash whistled at the black and purple uniforms the trio were wearing, the gold goggles were a bit creepy and the grin on the face of the smoke colored mare in the middle didn't ease the creepy factor any. Still the outfits were pretty neat.
“We are the greatest aerial team in the Everfree, soon we will be the best in all Equestria.” The smoke colored mare spoke. “ But to do that we need a captain. The magnificent......”
“Yep “ Rainbow agreed.
“...swiftest...”
“Mmmhmm” Rainbow nodded.
“......Bravest flier in all the land.” The mare cooed.
“Yep, it's all true.” Rainbow Dash beamed.
“We need...” The mare smiled whispering in Dash's ear.”... You.”
“Woohoo, sign me up!” Rainbow Dash shouted. “Let me tie the bridge real quick and then we can....”
“NO!” The mare shouted zipping up in front of the cyan Pegasus. She and the stallions taking up points on either side of the mare, blocking Rainbow Dash from getting to the bridge.
“It's them or us.” the mare hissed.
Rainbow blinked hearing Twilight yelling something from the other side of the chasm. She glanced back as the mist billowed up blocking the rest of the group from view.
“Well?” The mare demanded.
“You.......”
The mare grinned.
“Thank you for the offer, I mean.” Rainbow Dash corrected” But I'm afraid I have to say no.”
The mare growled.“Well that's too bad.” You would have made a good captain.” “Hehe well thanks.”Rainbow chuckled.
“I'm sure you'll make a good corpse as well.” the mare hissed.” The mistress ordered you stopped!”
“What?” Dash blinked, dodging aside mostly on instinct as one of the Pegasus stallions lashed out with wing. A few strands of her rainbow colored mane fluttered free, sliced off by feathers that had formed into blades.
“What!? Aw crap!” Dash cursed, ducking back from another series of swipes, one of the stallions flew up above her kicking down at her as the mare moved to block her retreat.
“You guys don't take rejection well do you.” Rainbow Dash quipped.
“I don't like this idea Rahs, but I will admit you are right.” Twilight muttered as her brother nodded.
“Who was that with her over there?” Applejack questioned.
“Bad news I'm sure.” Rarity frowned.” Twilight what do we do...... what are you doing?”
“Feather fall, Light form, Impact shield.” Twilight frowned, her horn glowing brightly as waves of magic washed over her.” That's the best I can do right now, and it won't last long, are you ready?”
“Woof” Rahs nodded darting back along the path away from the chasm. Once he was a short distance away he dropped to all fours and rushed forward towards the edge of the chasm springing off the edge. While it was an awesome jump, it became quickly clear the Moon Dog wasn't going to make it more than half way across the cleft. Before anyone could shout in panic, Twilight's horn glowed brightly and another spell washed over her, lifting her a ponies length off the ground. Rahs was suddenly yanked up into the sky as well as the levitation kicked in pulling him upwards into an arc that would see him land on the other side of the chasm.
“BOMBS AWAY!” Pinkie Pie shouted.
“You will serve the mistress or you will die!” The Shadowbolt mare hissed.
“Sorry, I'm not into that sort of thing.... that would explain your gimp suits though.” Dash taunted.” Wait is your mistress Black Snooty?”
Rainbow Dash darted to the side wincing as one of the feather blades nicked her ear drawing blood. These guys weren't playing around. She could easily take these chump's if they weren't cheating. Seriously how did they do that with their wings?
The fight paused a moment as the combatants heard a shout from across the chasm.
“BOMBS AWAY!”
“What?” the Shadowbolt mare hissed, yelping in surprise as a large form dropped out of the fog landing hard atop one of the stallions. There was a loud crack of what sounded like a spine or ribs snapping and the Pegasus was pinned to the ground by the large form, the dark clothed pony faded into a purple mist which dissipated into nothing under the canine's claws.
The Moon Dog lifted his head with a growl, his amber eyes darting between the other two Shadowbolts and Rainbow's bleeding ear.
Rainbow Dash moved before anyone else could and planted both her rear hooves into the face of the second stallion. His head snapped up hard and he faded into mist as well from the impact. Like the first stallion the mist condensed into a purple cloud filled with stars.
The cloud existed for about two more seconds before the sharp jaws of Rahs snapped closed around the dark magic creation, ending it's existence.
Rahs made a face and looked like he was going to vomit.
“What? Did it taste like licorice or something.” Rainbow asked as Rahs nodded.
“No no..... this can't be... I need to tell the mistress...” The Shadowbolt mare panicked darting off towards the castle.
“Woof!” Rahs pointed at the bridge before rushing off after the mare leaving Rainbow confused a moment before she realized what he wanted, and she quickly went to secure the bridge.
Twilight rushed across the bridge first barely allowing Dash to finish tying it.
“Where is he, where did he go?” Twilight demanded.
“He took off after one of those Shadowbolt guys.” Rainbow Dash stated as she bound the rest of the bridge tighter. ”That was awesome, he dropped in here like a rock and helped me take out two of them. I mean I had them on the ropes already, but it was still pretty cool.”
“Who were they ?” Applejack questioned crossing the bridge.
“Called themselves the Shadowbolts, wanted me to be their captain. Course when I refused they attacked me. And when we kicked their asses they turned into purple smoke stuff.” Rainbow Dash stated. “Rahs ate one and I don't think he liked the taste.”
“You refused to be a team captain?”Rarity asked incredulously.
“Of course.” Rainbow Dash snorted. “ I'd never leave my friends hanging.”
“We need to go after him. If one of them ran off it means that either they were just projection avatars or Black Snooty is leading Rahs into a trap.” Twilight grumbled.”Or both.”
“Black snooty?” Fluttershy asked.
Twilight blinked a moment realizing what she said before she pointed an accusing hoof at the giggling Pinkie Pie. “Now she's got me doing it!”
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I vote to make black snooty the official fandom-given name for Nightmare Moon as seen in the first two episodes of the series
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I second that, and disagree.
I agree and we need more Rahas making funny faces from magic
Heh, Black Snooty.
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It is officially what Pinkie Pie called her in the first episode when she was guessing who she was.
8548502 There's a lot of magic out there for him to taste.
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OMG can u imagine the sugar rush he would get from discord's magic
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no, it wouldn't necessarily be the sweetest thing he ever tasted or ever will taste, but it would certainly have a different taste every time he tried it and it likely would ever taste the way it tasted even once befor
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Ikr imaging him chomping and one second he's eating chocolate next its habenaro chillies to mint ice cream
But I wonder how long it soul take for him to puke from bug queens magic
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since bugponies feed on love (and probably other positive emotions as well) their magic probably tasted sickly sweet, like all the sweetness of 250ml of corn syrup condensed into little more than a single touch to the tongue
8548921 true but there queen is venomous with her personality
Well, it's been a week, alright.
I think this needs some commas or a rework. There's a lot happening here and it feels like a run-on sentence.
he, I think?
Meanwhile, back at the library, Spike feels weirdly light before he's tossed up, hits the ceiling, and then slowly drifts back down.
"Dangit, they're doing something awesome without me. Again."
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Nope. If Twilight had cast the spell on rahs then yes. But she cast it on herself not rahs and that connection is only between the two of them. Had she cast on rahs spike would have been airborne and shining would have been a bit light himself.
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That's rather complicated.
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Yep . Think of it like Rahs is the familiar of all three of them. Spells that affect each of them individually will affect Rahs, Spells that affect Rahs will affect the three of them. Again there's reasons for the connection, but yah know. Spoilers.
Nice to see Rahs make such a big impact here! Though I AM curious as to how this more powerful Spike and the addition of Rahs will change things
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I guess he just SEEMS more powerful with his Dragon Fire against NM, considering there's only like ONE time we see him display much as a Baby Dragon, and that was at the Crystal Games, at least that I can remember.
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fixed
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There's plans for this.
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plans for this too
8549857 from when they first set out about 2....
8550705 Spike's really not any more powerful, a little tougher cause he participated more with physical activities with Rahs than just being beaten by books and the floor like with Twilight alone. He just grew up with an extra brother who was around more than Shining too so his snark is stronger. As it is he's really just a fixed canon show Spike who's not going to have any of the idiot baby moments that most spikeasodes have.
Show Spike drives me nuts. One episode he's a mature wise cracking wanna be hero type. The next he's an idiot who couldn't find his own tail with both hands, a map, and a guide dog.
He's older than the CMC ,and they have more mature episodes than him.
Also I made him Twilight's brother in this rather than son, or the simple canon 'assistant', because it made more sense.
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He had something to protect. Hes used to Rahs doing something but when he didnt spike stepped up.
raise an appendage if you find yourself startled at the fact that Pinkie knows Monty Python.
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Monty Python?
If it's from The Flying Circus then I don't know the reference.
I've only seen Life Of Brian, Holy Grail, and Meaning Of Life(?), but I don't remember much of those anyway.
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And absolutely no one raised their hand.
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Look up the flying circus anthrax ripple.
Why doesn´t
Black Snooty(Ugh, Pinkie Pie!) Nightmare Moon have an emoticon?I wonder if
Black Snooty(consarnit Pinkie, now you've got me saying it) Nightmare Moon has actually got shadowbolts or if they really are an illusion.10052297
Why doesn't freaking Luna have an emoticon? She's been a fan favorite since pretty much forever.
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Because this site's got several priorities backwards (my notifications say there's 2 unread ones, but refuses to display them as it's been too long since I got them for example)...
Amazing chapter. Also shows how seriouse things get. Not many injure or try kill the mane six...
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At least you get the notification ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I say that for years ( including my lost account )
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Not bad, but i call her Black booty
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Because they have only hooves and paws or noone in there right mind would ?
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Spike the flaming knight of Equestria 👏
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Everyone agree on that one ♡
The Pink Abyss strikes again
Already this is becoming awesome. Rainbow's gonna have a couple scars, but that'll just make her 20% more Badass.
Do or die, there is no try...
That black snooty is strong with this one
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Black Snooty with the black booty
Wiggity Woogy, let's get Black Snooty.
Black Snooty...
This chapter shows that spells can be self aware and acting independently. Great lore!
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Just like the booty ~♡