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Rainbow Dash takes her friends for a ride. It doesn't go well.

An entry in the A Thousand Words Contest under Humor.

Thank you to The Sleepless Beholder for pre-reading assistance and assistance in locating this beautiful cover art that, it so happens, was also based on the same song as the fic.

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So, in summary:
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:applejackconfused:
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Howdy, hi~!

Pffft, this was positively goofy and morbidly humourous. I do enjoy the conclusion brought forth over a rather unassuming picture that this would not end well for anyone involved. Really good flow to this one, getting the full story through without any bloating through the middle.

Fun read, thanks Dews :D

I knew I recognized this series of events! Question, what species are the blood sacrifices?

I can't decide
Whether you should live or die
Oh, you'll probably go to heaven
Please don't hang your head and cry
No wonder why
My heart feels dead inside
It's cold and hard and petrified
Lock the doors and close the blinds
We're going for a ride

Well, I knew there was going to be a bit of morbid humor in this, but I have to say, I'm glad that death is just a minor inconvenience to the parties involved (except perhaps the blood sacrifices). At first, I thought everypony was scared because Rainbow Dash had gotten ponies killed in a drunken crash before, but I didn't expect the scared ponies were the ones that were killed!:rainbowlaugh: A very humorous tale that I think I'll favorite! Hope it does well in the contest!

Well, the song did say "One horse open slay..." :applejackunsure:

Applejack always forgives Rainbow Dash for killing her. It just gives her a little time to hang out with her parents until Twilight whips out her necromancy.

“Oh Rainbow…” Fluttershy let out a world-weary sigh. “I’ll go get the blood sacrifices.”

...beg pardon? You know, of all the things I was expecting with Fluttershy...that wasn't one of them. XD ...how often has she done this though?

Dammit, Rainbow. :rainbowlaugh:

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Oh, that is just a horribly morbid idea....

Dashing through the snow, in a one horse open sleigh... I have this art on a t-shirt, its great!

Almost any tragedy can be turned into a comedy with the line ‘I’ll go get the blood sacrifices’

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Well, I guess she had some in her shed...

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Yes.

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:pinkiecrazy:

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Okay, you managed to find a way to create a sad twist to my silly morbid comedy. I applaud you. In fact I almost want to write this follow-up.

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More than you might think.

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Go for it! You can even still make it a comedy if you play the cards right.

Comment posted by MDCommissioner deleted May 22nd, 2022

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Well, based on the dialog I'd have lowballed it at...2? Maybe three times?

... Yeah, with the likes of Dash, Pinkie, and even Twilight herself in that social circle, this seems believable. Thank goodness for sanctioned necromancy. (At least, I hope it's sanctioned.)

Most entertaining bit of black holiday comedy. (Unholiday?) Thank you for it and best of luck in the judging.

Rainbow Dash’s hooves slammed into the snow, followed by her barrel, the rest of her body, and the remnants of a sleigh. Scattered fragments of wood chips and dust flew through the air, which was filled with the screams of dozens of ponies as they fled the scene. Stray pieces of debris burned only to be quenched by the snow all around, sending spirals of billowy black smoke soaring skyward.

augh i always love how rich your descriptions of action scenes are! really makes them come alive in the head

She looked at the destroyed remnants of the sleigh still attached to the yoke around Rainbow’s neck, and used her magic to unhook it. “What in the wide, wide world of Equestria were you doing with a sleigh? The last time you gave ponies rides, you… oh. Oh no. You did not do that again.”

aww, the mental image of Rainbow Dash pulling a sleigh is equal parts adorable and frightening!

Her head pounded like the Friendship Express ran it over three times while carrying the entire Apple Family aboard, then once more with the Pies for good measure.

well, that is a very specific analogy!

Cider. She needed more cider.

Where the heck was AJ?

oh no. oh noooooo

“Ugh! What do you think it is, Rainbow? It’s a piece of Applejack’s hat! And it’s all burnt up!”

noooooo not her hat!

Twilight spouted out several words in a language that Rainbow Dash didn’t understand…something about puh-talks?

dangit, i can't even guess what Twilight's physics exposition is when it's through the filter of Rainbow Dash's smoothbrain!

I was dashing about in that one-horse open sleigh!”

ahaha love it!

Twilight grimaced.

damn, i bet Twilight would have loved that line were it happening in any other context, but here it must be oof!

“W-well, you can’t just drag a sleigh around without anypony in it, right? So I started asking, but then everyone ran and hid… I figured they were just palling around, so I went and found Pinkie Pie, then Rarity… finally had to track AJ down in her barn. She was hiding in her barn. Who does that?”

love how this makes Rainbow Dash sound like some sort of deranged serial killer, haha

“Yes, Rainbow. You Sonic Rainboomed.” Twilight sighed. “And, in the process, you burnt them to a crisp.”

aaaaaa that makes too much sense!

“Oh Rainbow…” Fluttershy let out a world-weary sigh. “I’ll go get the blood sacrifices.”

“And I’ll get my necroponicon… again.”

ehehe "necroponicon", love it! and love how blasé Fluttershy is with the blood sacrifices. it works as a gag by contrasting with her gentle personality, but when one thinks about it, having to also take care of animals that are carnivores that eat equally sapient prey animals, it makes sense for her to be able to exchange one life for another in a moral calculus without being disturbed by it, so it works on mutiple levels, i like it!

Rainbow Dash didn’t hear any of this, having long since passed unconscious into the snow. She’d later be found, dead of frostbite, and when brought back, told she’d deserved it for her actions.

And she couldn’t blame them. It wasn’t every day that Rainbow Dash murders her friends.

ahaha, love the ending!

And then I listened to the Pony Christmas album again at random because it was in my music playlist, and all of a sudden I realized there were some really weird lyrics in Rainbow Dash's song. I'd only ever listened to it once before back when it came out and I must not have noticed then or else I would've written this idea way sooner; as soon as I heard it I couldn't unhear it. It's so bizarre.

oh, wow wow wow, yeah, a lot of the elements are here!

those really are bizarre lyrics, and honestly, i love how this fic digs out the hilariously dark story that lies like a seam to be mined underneath the lyrics. and dang, this being what Rainbow Dash is like when she is drunk is way too believable! and agh, her thirsting for more cider and wondering where Applejack is from the beginning, then the perfectly comedically timed reveals of just what it is that happened, and Twilight's role of being the exasperated one; you make all of these elements come together so perfectly here. ah, i really loved this one!

Dammit Rainbow, it's a sleigh ride, not a slay ride! :rainbowlaugh:

A very enjoyable little bit of holiday-themed carnage.

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Like Rainbow would know the difference?
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Old comment I know, but true.
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But those are the best kind :twilightsmile:.
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This.
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Same.
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:facehoof:.
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I know right?
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:facehoof:.

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