"OK, hold it! Hold it! And... Now!"
The bright flash that came from Yona's camera briefly lit up the surrounding area before the light levels returned to normal. The image sucessfully taken, the sound of printing could be heard as an image popped out of the top of the camera. Yona did her best to reach for it, but her front hooves couldn't reach properly. "Yona can't get picture out!"
The teacher trotted over and with a burst of her magic freed the image, lifting it up into the air. "That's because the mechanism jammed, Yona. I'll need to give these a look before we go out on another photography class."
Yona had to admit she liked the new teacher the school had hired to teach them the art of photography and printing. A unicorn, she had an off grey coat and green eyes, combined with a rather messy two tone orange mane and tail. She also had a cutie mark of a ladybird on her flanks, which Yona guessed explained her name of Shutterbug. These new cameras were also extraordinary.
"Yona want to thank teacher for fixing cameras. Yona think these cameras are better than the ones we have back in Yakyakistan."
Gallus laughed. "I never thought I'd hear Yona say that pony technology was superior to Yak tech."
"Yona think it true!" the yak replied, looking somewhat annoyed at the griffon. "In Yakyakistan, when yak want to take picture, yak need to set up camera the size of igloo. Then, yak needs to hide under black cloth and hold pylon with light up in the air. But no picture pops out of the camera. Yak then needs to take the picture to a dark room and put it in water to develop it. This takes time!"
"Well, I can see why you took to these ones so quickly," Shutterbug smiled, as she checked over the camera. "Of course, we won't be using these polaroids for very long. See all the printing equipment on the top?"
"Yes?" the two students said, looking at what their teacher was pointing to.
"All of this adds uneccesary weight and makes it hard to set up easily, which is why I wear this neck rig to hold it in place. It also makes getaways harder-"
"Huh?" Gallus asked. "What was that?"
"I meant getting away from the media hounds!" Shutterbug said hastily. "Where was I? Ah, yes. They're developing new cameras that store their images on a magical box on the inside of them, which can be taken out and plugged into a printer, allowing you a lot more space for pictures and better and quicker printing, but it also means we don't need to lug as much paper about!" She pointed to the trailer behind them, labelled 'paper'.
Yona nodded. "Yona looks forward to trying these cameras out. But Yona has a question."
"Yes?" Shutterbug asked in return, as she turned around.
"Yona want to try photographing nature. Yona not sure why we've been photographing carts for several minutes."
"I was teaching you the importance of tracking, panning, and tilting," Shutterbug replied. "A tracking shot is when you follow the object on its course of movement. A pan is when you move the camera from left to right. And finally, a tilt is when you move it up and down."
"Shall we start taking pictures?" Gallus asked, as he and Yona began to wander off.
"Sure! Yak love photography! Yak can finally have snapshots of the world around her! Yona can't wait to show parents."
"Don't wander too far! Be back here in 45 minutes!" Shutterbug called, as she watched them step away into the distance. She turned to herself and smirked. "I don't think those two are going to be a problem."
"Do you think there's something off about that teacher?" Gallus asked Yona as they strolled along. "Rock, over there."
"Thanks Gallus!" Yona replied, as she stepped to one side. "Yona don't think anything wrong with teacher. Teacher is... what pony word? Excoriable? Excitable? Excalculable? Excavated?"
"Did you mean 'excentric?'" Gallus asked.
"Yona did! Yona had word on tip of tongue," the yak replied, as she stuck her tongue out. "As well as a brussel sprout." She ate it and burped loudly. "Yona like brussel sprouts."
"I can see that," Gallus sighed. "I'm not so sure she's just excentric. She seems to be rather odd. I can't quite put my talon on it, but I have to say I've seen behaviour like that somewhere before."
"Yona don't agree. Yona think Gallus too suspicious."
"Maybe I am," Gallus brought his camera up. He then took a picture of a copse of demolished trees. They had been reduced to their roots. Oddly, the remaining stumps looked like petals or flowers that were reacting to the sunlight, waking up before the start of the day. "This is weird. These trees fell over strangely, so I think I'll take a photograph." He brought the viewfinder up and took a snap. "Good shot, that," he added, as he looked at the image.
"Yona wander what happened here," Yona noted, trotting over to a tree stump and poking it with her hoof. "Tree appears to have totally vanished. In fact, Yona think that the trees were removed with some tools or magic."
"That would explain the hair here," Gallus noted, pointing to an orange hair stuck in one of the weird tree stumps. "Possibly left over from one of the construction workers."
"Gallus, Yona!" called Shutterburg's voice from over the hill. "We need to start heading back to the school, as it's starting to get late! Besides, you don't want to miss dinner, do you?"
All other thoughts suddenly vanished from their minds, and both the griffon and the yak shot out of the trees and back towards the school at a speed that rivalled Rainbow Dash's sonic rainboom for sheer endurance. However, the strange discovery and the behaviour of their teacher sat at the back of Gallus' mind.
Well this was short, but certainly interesting. Is this Shutterbug the exact same one Chrysalis used as a disguise in The Mean 6? If that’s the case then Gallus is right and the school could be in trouble.
you spelled "eccentric" wrong
Oh I see the mess up right there you can't fool me chrysalis I know its you
Oh so Gallus and Yona took interest of taking pictures that's pretty cool but the new teacher is acting really weird which I'm sure a lot of people knows who is it is so basically they took a pictures a couple of Natura and everything which that's pretty interesting I guess but Gallus is right something is odd about her I can't wait to see how this will work out
Oh no.
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Yes.
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Oops! I'm not sure what happened there.
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Wait and see.
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Indeed.
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OK then, here we go;
1. Twilight basically pulled a Celestia by, and I quote the episode directly;
This would not be a problem if it was Twilight and Celestia, as the former is the pupil of the latter. It is a problem with Twilight and Rainbow Dash, as RD and Twilight are equals. Not only that, they are colleagues, putting them on equal footing. Twilight should have known that putting Rainbow Dash into a job that she didn't care about (and also had no experience in, something that Dash points out in the episode) was going to cause problems (as the Smarty Pants incident demonstrated, artificially generating conflict leads to big problems).
2. Snips' dialogue in the episode makes it pretty clear that he only cares about making money off the back of the cheer squad;
Is it really that hard to dislike a character who acts like this?
3. How do we know that Cheerilee isn't a qualified cheerleader? There's never anything in the episode that suggests she isn't.
4. Ever considered the possibility that somecreature told Silverstream about the Applewood Derby? I imagine it would have been discussed at least once somewhere.
5. I've noticed that many of your objections are to timeline changes. Just to reiterate; this story is set in an alternate timeline to the original series.
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Twilight had faith that Rainbow would do the right thing in the end. She trusts in her friends above all else. And she wasn't planning for any "conflict". That was all Rainbow.
And yet, you don't think Rainbow should be disliked for not putting any effort into the cheer squad, and acting like it's pointless. Besides, Snip's "unless you can think of something else for me to do" line implied he was still willing to stick around and help, even without the promise of profit.
And nothing to suggest she is, unless you consider a brief moment of cosplay "evidence". Does that brief scene in "Rainbow Falls" make Twilight a qualified cheerleader? I doubt it.
By who? And for what reason would someone bring up a grade school cart race? And how convenient that someone would tell Silverstream that Cheerilee wore a cheerleading outfit while officiating the race, leading her to assume Cheerilee is qualified. That requires for Silverstream to suddenly have a lot of coincidental knowledge at this point in time.
One where you're retconning or changing everything you personally didn't like about the last two seasons (with little in-universe reasons for these changes), rather than exploring alternate versions of events for the sake of narrative intrigue.
Personally, I thought "2, 4, 6, Greaaat" was the worst episode of season 9. But at least Rainbow learned not to be so dismissive of cheerleading, and became encouraging and supportive to the squad. Here, she just bows out of the story without learning a thing.
And how "lucky" that Cheerilee just so happens to have enough free time from her job at this particular point to take over from Rainbow. Hardly a better ending, in my book...
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It's my story. That means I can do what I want. On the other hand, you've done nothing but complain about the choices I have made (again, keep in mind this is a request), which raises the rather obvious question of why you're still reading.
I've had enough of your endless complaints. If you don't like it, don't read it.
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You are obviously a person who doesn’t understand how fanfics work.
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Thank you.
Okay, well, this happened. I'm a little scared about what it might lead up to, but let's see where this goes.