The Hidden Histories of Twilight's Friends

The Hidden History of Twilight's Friends is the 38th Episode of Season 3B of the SpongeBob and Friends Adventures Chronicles series. Twilight, after wondering what her friends were like after they got their cutie marks but before they met Twilight, discovers an old newspaper that happen 2 years after the Professor Eagle Beak incident, concerning the 5 of the Main 6, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, even Fluttershy, actually meeting Celestia before the canon show events and something about thwarting an illegal pony slavery operation they were captured by. Twilight becomes greatly confused. Celestia never mentioned this. Due to Celestia being too busy hanging out with Shen and the other misfits in Canterlot, Twilight decides to bring her friends over and explain themselves about the newspaper. They explain it as the REAL first adventure before the Nightmare Moon fiasco, to the confusion of Spike and of course, the very curious Twilight which explained why they were so brave to help Twilight defeat Nightmare Moon in the first place. Placed together with Celestia and the Lodgers by the over-hearing Discord, the Mane 5 revealed that during the days before Nightmare, the other 5 were not entirely like what they are today. Rainbow Dash was almost a jerk and very arrogant like Gilda's nasty side due to certain reasons involving the Wonderbolts, Pinkie Pie was almost the annoying bane of everyone's existence since she was just beginning to build her reputation, Rarity was a self-centered type who wanted to get money out of her career since she wanted to provide for her sister, Fluttershy was a shut-in because she was still trying to get used to the world on the surface outside of her animal friends, and Applejack, while still having honest traits, wasn't interested in befriending those OUTSIDE her family tree because she was afraid outside friends would not last very long since life is unpredictable on how their lives would play out. It only took them a situation involving an illegal pony slave trade to turn their lives around. The slave operation was run by Stormtrolli, A near-Giant-like Cave Troll version of Stromboli, and A Nigel the Cockatoo near imitator Griffin who's incredibly violent and scary named Mr. Lawerence, aided by a trio of Hobgoblins named Chuck, Bluck, and Muck. The Hobgoblin Trio and Mr. Lawerence kidnaps the Mane 5 and placed them in a containment area along with other kidnapped ponies, and forced them to not just be slaves, but to serve in Stromtrolli's Bar, 'The Scumbucket Pig', where the nastiest of dragon and non-pony mythic beasts came to drink, eat, and abuse the pony 'waiters and waitresses' as well as female ponies being used as entertainment (sometimes in more ways than one). Ironically, this offers trails based on their true traits to allow them to embrace what they're meant to truly be like and to be enlightened to be the Mares they are today, and inspire them to hopefully stand up to Stormtrolli. But at the same time, can Celestia and a special group of her finest elite also come and save them just in time, and bring Mr. Lawerence and Stromtrolli to justice, and save all of the ponies from abusive slavery?

Transcript

Chapter 1: The Old Newspaper/Confessions of Friends

Party-Planning Cave

• Pinkie: (The Mane Six slid down)... Whew! Never THOUGHT I'd come down HERE in THIS part of the Party Cave again!
• Twilight: I thought we were going to tell the story of how you five made your place here in Ponyville.
• Rainbow Dash: We are. I just... Never expected Pinkie to have a relic of that time here.
• Pinkie: (Rummaging through old newspapers) Now where did I leave that old thing? Oh, no, don't tell me Mr. Cake recycled it! He wouldn't have known this place existed-- YES! Here it is! (Pulls out an older newspaper)... WOW! Praise Gleea this newspaper is STILL readable! It's years old! (She showed it to them as it was in horrible aged shape)... Oh, forgot to... (She blew it off) Read it and weep, Twi-Twi.
• Twilight: (She laid it on a table)... No way... "Five Unexpected Filly Friends Stop Illegal Slave Trade. Celestia Offers Honor To Five Fillies"?... Something tells me Celestia brought me here because she felt you five were the greatest friends available.
• Pinkie: Heh. Who know Celestia was a friend bachelor?... Or... Friendchelor? But still, yeah, it paid off.
• Twilight: Seriously, girls, you did all this at such a young age?
• Applejack: Yep. Who would've guessed we would? That Mr. Lawrence guy was a mean sonova crotch.
• Rainbow Dash: Pfft, I could've gone with 'Sonova Grinch' or some s*** like that.
• Pinkie:... I almost can't believe it's been THAT long since we did this.
• Twilight: I just... This explains SO much. It explains how you five were willing to help me when Nightmare Moon returned. You five had a friendship just as strong as you shared with me.
• Fluttershy: It was honestly not much. We just... Felt like we didn't want to live a life with that mean old griffin selling ponies off as slave labor.
• Twilight:... I have heard that name many times in penitentiaries before. Even Black Stallion Asylum mentioned him once or twice.
• Applejack: Ohho, trust us, sugar cube, we'd have been on our hooves if we heard that name again. Taking him down was how we actually defined ourselves here in Ponyville. Before that time, I was abit of a strict loner. I once thought being social would distract me from work and chores.
• Pinkie: Yep. I mean, I was still this much Pinkie, but, there actually was a time when ponies didn't always appreciate my charm.
• Rarity: And back in my filly years, I had to be a LITTLE greedy so as to found my business. Every businessmare's gotta be that way when they're getting their hoofing.
• Rainbow Dash: Pfft. I always chocked THAT up to youthful selfishness. I mean, everypony, and everyone for that matter, has to start off selfish. How else are people gonna define their lives?
• Fluttershy:... Needless to say I was still a little skeptical about being social, even after this, and especially when there's somepony new in town.
• Twilight: You just got attached to me because of Spike.
• Fluttershy: It still did something. After I got my cutie mark, I found that cottage when it was abandoned. I didn't want to do a lot of paperwork because of how... You know... But I still found it to be a good start. It had a lot of animals inside for me to start too. My talent helped me spruce it up to what it is now.
• Twilight:... And... Celestia honored you for it?
• Pinkie: Yeppity doodah. Before that, we thought we'd never amount to anything.
• Twilight:... Spike? Take a letter.
• Spike: On it. (He wrote)
• Twilight: Dear Princess Celestia, I just discovered something... Surprising. That my five friends have apparently did something heroic before they met me. Something about an illegal pony slavery operation, and I was never even told about it. I... If the Lodgers are at all in town, I'd like them to know this too. After all, seems that Equestria itself has lost a lot of magic relevance in the UUniverses... Or feels like it. So, come by and invite us at any time if you wish. Signed, Princess Twilight.
• Spike: (He blew it off)... Whew. I can't remember the last time we took a letter like that.... Nostalgia seems to be flooding the place.
• Rainbow Dash: Mmmm, I wouldn't say it's an achievement we were COMPLETELY proud of. It had a LOT of... Roughness around it.
• Pinkie: You kidding? You're just saying that because you were the jerk off the group at the time.
• Rainbow Dash: Well, I thought I was too cool for social interaction back then. I mean, the bullies didn't really help me on that matter.
• Pinkie: You WERE friends with Fluttershy before she got her cutie mark.
• Rainbow Dash: Well, we were close, and that was before I became the cool type. We kinda HAD to be close when I was still trying to find who I wanted to be.
• Pinkie: Still counts.
• Rainbow Dash: "It was also because that she was an even BIGGER recluse then even when that dragon slept in the mountain. I mean, if you thought the Season 1 days were bad, Flutters could barely even leave her house without freaking out at even so much as a filly saying hi. She couldn't even handle a neighbor asking for sugar. She handled me just fine cause we knew each other."
• Fluttershy: "Sad, but true."
• Twilight: "Well, the fact you interacted with me all the same when I first came is, a considerable improvement from what was said of you."
• Rarity: "Oh believe me, if she was still THAT Fluttershy, she would've already zoomed off into her house before you completed your first sentence. She one time had to go into the hospital, cause she had a heart attack, FROM FILLY SCOUTS WANTING TO SELL HER COOKIES?! FILLY SCOUTS?!"
• Fluttershy: "(Deadpan) Okay I get it, I was a mess back then. Can we move on?"
• Applejack: "Yowsa, wasn't expecting some Fluttersass today!"
• Fluttershy: Look, it was at least something I HAD to be a part of because Mr. Lawrence saw me as a perfect slave, and threatened my livelihood.... Also, because Rainbow Dash was REALLY pushy.
• Rainbow Dash: Hey, you had to grow out of it SOMEHOW! (Celestia teleported in)
• Celestia:... So you finally discovered the reason Ponyville was a good location to have you make friends.
• Twilight: So that WAS an intentional choice.
• Celestia: Friendship IS our dominant philosophy. Royalty has come to view friendships well and how they can blossom. That day... Was the day that defined these five and showed to me that they were perfect for you.
• Twilight:... Well... What happened?
• Celestia: Well, I'll tell you. (They teleported)

Canterlot Yards

• Lord Shen: (The van landed there)... Good landing for once, Dodo.
• Squidward: And once again, Celestia's topiary garden is spared.
• Shen: (quietly) Thank goodness for that.
• Dodo: Why are you all making it sound like I have a fetish for crashing like Launchpad?
• Squidward:... C'mon. You know why.
• Dodo:... Hmmph. Racist. I am LITERALLY the head driver of the van, why are you NOW assuming-
• White Rabbit: In their defense, Dodo, you've been doing it a LOT lately.
• Shen: And since we haven't visited Equestria in a while-
• Icky: AND because the producers have limited content to work with ever since the canon show ended and that they keep getting distracted with the off-wiki material like- (Shen pointed a blade at him) AHHH!!! RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT, NOT SUPPOSE TO REFERENCE SEASON 9 YET?! Someone get me some lemonade!
• Gloria: Really? You're gonna ASK for that cheap joke?
• Icky: "What can I say? It surprisingly caught on and it's a good way to hide ACTUAL Piss!"
• Shen: JUST, since we haven't visited Equestria in a while... I would like for that to occur right now.
• ???: Then you're just in time. (Celestia and the others teleported there)
• Rainbow Dash:... We're seriously telling this story HERE?! Wasn't the Party Cave secretive enough?
• Celestia: Yes, but it cannot fit the entire Shell Lodge Squad.
• Private: Story?
• Twilight:... Yeah, I just learned that my five friends defeated a pony slavedriver when they were fillies.
• Gilda:... Is that a joke? Why wasn't I told about that?
• Rainbow Dash: Because the guy was a griffin, and I felt that would come off as... Awkward.
• Gilda:... Fair point.
• Pinkie: Wow, even as a former jerk, you sure kept a lot of standards.
• Rainbow Dash: We're PONIES! Everypony's gotta have standards.
• Icky: "Ahem, may we go ahead and get right back into the latest flashback episode?"
• Pinkie: Wait, didn't we JUST have a flashback episode? Feels too redundant.
• Rainbow Dash: Pinkie?... (She did this)

SMG4 Sounds - Nobody Cares

• Pinkie:... OOOOOOH!! Nice voice, RD! Surprised you never sang with that voice.
• Rainbow Dash:... (Face-hooves)
• SpongeBob: So, did you five REALLY defeat a griffin slaver as fillies?
• Pinkie: "Wait, I kinda thought Stormtrolli was in charged-"
• Rainbow Dash: Just roll with it, Pinks. Yeah, I know, hard to believe, right?
• Lord Shen: I suppose it explains why Ponyville was a good choice for Celestia to send you to make friends.
• Boss Wolf: Yeah, I suppose she felt you needed to stop obsessing over Nightmare Moon's return by yourself and have someone else accompany you. Meh, you DID have friends IN Canterlot, why not invite THEM?
• Twilight: THEY seemed a little occupied with something else. Celestia must've wanted some more hardcore ponies to help me out.
• Celestia: It's true. Nopony really expected five new fillies in Ponyville to defeat Mr. Lawrence.
• Razoff: Well, who would? You wouldn't expect a BABY to take down an Outer God, would you?
• Thunderclap: Or an ANT to bring down a SKYSCRAPER?
• Trixie: Or a SINGLE aphid to bring down a large crop.
• Sandy: Yeah yeah yeah, we get it. So... How did you five pull that off?
• Applejack: Glad we FINALLY get to explain this story to Twilight. I felt she had to know about it sooner or later.
• Fluttershy: I... Kinda didn't want to talk about it.
• Pinkie: OHHO, I DID MORE THAN ALL OF US!! That was the day I became everypony's favorite party gal! Now enter the flashback effects! Blublublublublu!

Chapter 2: A Rainbow Jerk, A Pink Outcast, A Yellow Shut-In, A Greed-Riddled Drama Queen, and A Lone Apple

Flashback

• (SpongeBob): (Laughs) That STILL tickles!!
• (Pinkie): "Let's start with me. Those days were a dark time."
• Pinkie was seen being herself, but to ponies, this was viewed as being more annoying then funny.
• (Pinkie): "Ponies didn't really appreciate my charm and style back then, nor my attempts to give them great parties. Back then, they were all like Cranky and thought that I was, an annoyance!"
• (Rarity): "It probably didn't helped that you kept showing up at random when they weren't prepared for you."
• A montage of Pinkie freaking ponies out and/or frustrating them was seen as a lot of ponies scream appropriately!
• Young Pinkie: WHY DON'T YOU LIKE ME?!
• (Pinkie): Okay, point taken.
• (Icky): "Wow, so it wasn't just Cranky that couldn't handle your absurdity back then."
• (Pinkie): Unfortunately, yes. (Pinkie was seen trying to spread joy in a grumpy Ponyville, but she only ended up in comical situations where they ended up getting back at her like when she tried to use her party cannon, but the grumpy pony, angry at being spooked, stuck her head into it as the party cannon blew in her face, or when she tried playing tunes with her many instruments until another grumpy pony stuck an apple in her bugle causing her to blow up on air comically)... And in time... It seemed to aggravate me... Then came a time when it got to me.

The Angry Birds Movie - Opening Scene

• Pinkie: Moving moving moving moving, c'mon, Pinkie, move move move move!! (She fell off a roof and ended up swinging a makeshift box on a clothesline, hitting many trees) Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, why, are there, so, many, trees?! (She almost hit another house) AAH!! (She jumped alongside holding the box, but ended up falling comically on many parts of a tree) MOUTH! LEG! TAIL! RIBS! KKH, GIBLETS!!!... (She arched down on a branch as the box landed next to her)... YAY- (The branch launched her into the air) AAAAHHHHHHHhhhhh!!! GOTTA THINK OF FINDING A WAY TO FLY, AAAAAAaaaaAAAAAAAAAH!! (She felt straight into a pond spooking away fish)... (Gurgling) Oh, good, I'm almost there! (She poked her face out) BREATH-BREATH (Gasps as she got out of the pond and get a fish off her butt) Bottomfeeder! (She ran up to the door and rang before getting a clown attire on. She approached a toddler mare younger than her) TA-DAHH!! (As the toddler screamed) Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear... Uh... (She checked a note) "Skipstep, Wheat Allergy, Doesn't Like Clowns"... Ohhhh, boy. Ehe... Okay, uh... (She got her clown face off) Well, anyway, Happy Birthday!
• Skipstep's Father: Oh, hey, P. You must be SO disappointed for being THIS late.
• Pinkie: Heehee, I'm not late, silly. Look at the clock. The order said "Before Noon". (The clock went to noon)
• Skipstep's Father: Okay, NOW you're late.
• Pinkie: Uh...
• Skipstep's Father: What kept you?... And, what's with the weird box?
• Pinkie: Heh, funny story, you're gonna laugh. I fell on the last one. (She opened it to find the cake was still intact minus a squirrel) Oh, the squirrel, that's on us. Free Squirrel.
• (Icky): "Wait are we suddenly mimicking the Angry Birds Movie-"
• (Pinkie): Hey, who's telling the story here?
• Skipstep's Father: Hear that, Honey? The clown we paid to be here an hour ago nearly fell on our son's cake. That's why our son's birthday party is ruined!
• Pinkie: Oh.
• Skipstep's Father: And the next you mess up, don't tell me a story, just take responsibility.
• Pinkie: It wasn't a story, it's the truth! Here, I think I got the bruise to prove it! (Inadvertently shoves her butt in Skipstep's face) See anything back there?
• Skipstep: Uh...
• Skipstep's Father: Look, why don't we cut to the chase and say the cake's on you?
• Pinkie: "..... (Mane deflates) Oh this is diffidently gonna come out of my pay. The Cakes will NEVER let me hear the end of it."
• Skipstep's father: "Hey it's nothing personal otherwise, it's how the motto "The Customer is always right" works, ya know?"
• (Iago): "That doesn't mean you have the right to be an asshole."
• Pinkie: Look, I did my best!... You're right. The cake's on me! (She splattered herself with it, and it ended up making Skipstep laugh the moment she left and accidentally fell in the water again)... (She was heard gurgle-screaming in extreme aggravation)
• (Rainbow Dash): As for me... Well... I wasn't just a jerk. I was... Well... A BIG one. Not the kind that makes me a local bully or public menace, but the kind that likes to play harmless jokes on ponies. Me and Pinkie had met before this moment, but... Let's just say it... Brought us close.
• Rainbow Dash: (She came in seeing the same guy with another of the same cake and Pinkie was in a corner making a super-sad face)... What's this?
• Skipstep's Father: I'm a SCWEWUP WHO WOKE UP LATE AND FELL ON THE CAKE, WAAH WAAH!
• Rainbow Dash:... Are you talking about HER?!... Are you seriously making fun of her?! What did she ever do to you?
• Skipstep's Father: (He put the cake on the counter) She woke up late, couldn't make it with my son's birthday cake intact, and tried to make up a cover-up story.
• Rainbow Dash: Cover-up story? Why the HECK would THIS pony do something like THAT?! She looks WAY too jumpy and giddy for THAT!... I mean, she doesn't hurt ponies on purpose, but still. She's not THAT bad.
• Skipstep's Father: Well, it's not really your business. The cake's still on her. And frankly, right now, it's on YOU! (He tapped her and it ended up ticking her off a bit)
• Rainbow Dash: I'm sorry, it's on HER?!
• Skipstep's Father: Well who else would it be on?
• Rainbow Dash: Hehehehe... Well... Uh... I'm not sure you're gonna like this, but... Since you asked... Rather than being on her or me, as you suggested... This cake... IS ON YOU!!! (She picks it up and splats it all over Skipstep's Father to even Pinkie's shock) SO, YOU WANNA HEAR A REAL STORY?! I for one RUBBED MY BUTT OFF, to get a GLUTEN-FREE CAKE for my brother! WHAT THE HECK IS GLUTEN?! I MEAN DOES GLUTEN EVEN EXIST?!?
• Mrs. Cake: Who ARE you?!
• Mr. Cake: Get outta here, you're making a scene!
• Rainbow Dash: OH, ALREADY?! But he's the only one that's had cake! (She wiped it off Skipstep's father's head and ate it) MMM-MMMMM-MMMMM, oh, that's good stuff! I mean, come on, Father of the Month, at least your poor kid hasn't been SCARRED for life. So, yeah, I think you owe the poor filly here an apology. But don't just say sorry, I think she's supposed to have some kinda customer satisfaction guarantee, you know? So, on a scale of 1-to-3 stars, what would you say about her performance? Hmm? I bet you that- (Rainbow Dash was kicked out of the place and into the mud) PMMMMMPH!!!
• Mr. Cake: DON'T COME BACK IN HERE EVER AGAIN!!!
• Rainbow Dash: PLEH! WELL EXCUSE ME FOR BEING ASSERTIVE!! Euaahck!
• (Icky): "In hindsight, it's kinda no wonder why you were friends with Gilda even back when she was aggressive as fuck. (Gets smacked) OW?!"
• (Gilda): "I know you're not wrong, but that still deserved a smack."
• (Rainbow Dash): "Yeeeeaaaaah, I admit it, that attitude, got me kicked out of a lot of places."
• (Applejack): "Well you're lucky it didn't catch on, or Alicornia forbid it would've kept you out of the Wonderbolts cause of you mouthing off superiors."
• (Rainbow Dash):... Well... That's what lead up to this attitude. I actually met them for the first time... Then they ended up laughing and humiliating me in front of everypony when I crashed and burned my attempt to do a Sonic Rainboom again. It was a nightmare that has followed me until then. Even those bullies back in Cloudsdale wouldn't let me live it down. So, you can imagine how that would turn ANYPONY into a jerk.
• (Pinkie): I was lucky I talked the cakes into lifting the ban, but we'll get to that later.
• (Fluttershy):... Well... As for me... Like I said, I just refurbished the cottage since it was long abandoned before I came. It had a lot of animals inhabiting it. So, I managed to strike a deal with them. I'd live with them if they could refurbish the place to fit me. And we did. It took a considerable effort, but in the end, the cottage was good as new.
• (Rainbow Dash): Impressive if you ask me. It happened practically overnight.
• (Fluttershy): But still... Back then, I was too scared to even interact with anypony. Given my long history being a social outcast, I couldn't bring it in me to try it again. The closest ponies I ever interacted were Rainbow and Pred and the daughters, but Rainbow was the most frequent since Pred was most doing his mythic slaying a lot of the time. Otherwise....
• Salespony: "(Knocks on door) Sir or madam, I came to offer the newest invention sensation that's sweeping the nati- (Fluttershy was heard whimpering inside the cottage, as suddenly the salespony was attacked by animals) BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH?! WHO KEEPS HALF OF THESE ANIMALS AS PETS?! (Harry pounced in) OH MY CELESTIA, IS THIS A BEAR?! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!?"
• (Icky): "But hey, it kept ya from dealing with solicitors. I bet Rarity was a mess before she became a--"
• (Rarity): Talk and your feathers will become part of my newest winter fashion.
• (Icky): Hey, this was way before you met Twilight, and even longer you accepted Spike's-- (Rarity kicks him into a wall) (Dubbed as Molt) Shutting up.
• (Rarity): "...... This being said, I can't disavow that I was quite the OPPISITE of a pony that would become element of generosity."
• Rarity was seen covering her exported clothing with extortionist prices.
• Rarity: "I am gonna make SO MUCH money with these designs! AHA, MONEY MONEY MONEY?!"
• (Squidward): "You actually said that?"
• Sweetie Belle: "Rarity, did you seriously just said that?"
• Rarity: "Sweetie, be silent and go back to adding in the price tags on the latest summer wear underwear like I asked!"
• Sweetie Belle: "AND WHY BOTHER MAKING UNDERWEAR?! EQUESTRIA IS ESSENTUALLY A LAND OF NUDISTS?!"
• Rarity: "Well that won't change with an attitude like that! Ugh, why mum and dad made me take you in, I can only guess! NOW GET TO WORK OR NO BREAKFAST?!"
• Sweetie Belle: "Can I at least be allowed to make some friends?"
• Rarity: "Now what is the word I'm looking for- Oh quite right! NO?! GET BACK TO WORK!?"
• Sweetie Belle sighed dejectedly.
• (Icky): "Yeesh, did we have to add being a bitch to your kid sister too- (Another smack was heard)..... Shutting up."
• (Rarity): "In my defense, as explained before, I was just recently made to take tin Sweetie Belle and, suffice to say, I wasn't really ecstatic."
• (Applejack): "Not much of a family pony back then, huh?"
• (Rarity): "If it helps, she did came to grow on me with time, especially after what occurs later in the story."
• (Pinkie): And speaking of family...
• (Applejack): Yeah. I s'pose it's my turn.
• Applejack was seen over-working.
• (Icky): "Applejack overworking, how original."
• (Applejack): "AHEM! I was getting to it!"
• Granny Smith and a much younger toddler Applebloom were seen staring at this....
• Granny Smith: "...... (Sighs)..... She's working her flank off again."
• Big Mac: "(Shows up) Eeeeeyup."
• Applebloom: "Gwanny, why is Applejack working too much?"
• Granny Smith: "Cause she ain't exactly a social apple if ya catch my drift. Strict loner that one."
• Applebloom: "She gets awong with us just fine."
• Granny Smith: "That's 'cause we're family. I mean she doesn't socialize with other ponies. She thinks it'll distract her from the farm. (Sighs)..... What became of your parents still gets to her."
• Applebloom:... You never told me what happened to them.
• Granny Smith:... I'll tell you at another time, AB. HEY, AJ!!
• Applejack: Ugh, what is it now, Granny?!
• Granny Smith: Don't y'all think you should, take it down a bit?
• Applejack: Nope. This stuff's gotta get harvested quick. Otherwise, we might have ANOTHER Vampire Fruit Bat infestation on our hooves.
• Granny Smith: Look at ya! You're TOO YOUNG to keep up this pace!
• Applejack: I gave up a fancy life at Manehatten for y'all. The least I can do is prove that I made the right decision.
• Big Mac: No, she may be right, Applejack. You're a little too young to do THIS much work.
• Applejack: Well, you just did YOUR share, and YOU'RE a stallion. You're naturally BUILT for this kinda hassle, even when you're still a pre-teen. But me? I ain't even a pre-teen yet, and APPLEBLOOM just learned how'ta speak longer sentences. SOMEPONY'S gotta do this!
• Big Mac: Well then, I'll take it off your hands.
• Applejack: Uh, Big Mac, I appreciate the kindness, but YOU need a break.
• Granny Smith: So do YOU! In fact, YOU need a BIGGER break than HE does. I say you go out into town and make some friends.
• Applejack:... Granny, you and I both know I don't do well with other ponies.
• Granny Smith: Only cuz you never tried. You tried once, and it was a little hard because they were too civilized to have even seen or even know what a rooster is.
• Applejack: Exactly!
• Granny: Alright, hoof-down time. APPLEJACK!
• Applejack: WHAT?!
• Granny: Get out yer trottin' hat, little filly. You're goin' out there and taking a break. AND I MEAN NOW!!
• Applejack:... (Sighs) FINE! But don't expect me to get all buttery on my first try, kay?
• (Cynder): "Wow, you used to be a lot less upbeat back then."
• (Applejack): "Well that's what personal family drama does to ya. Makes ya question how the world works."
• (Twilight): "Well, I'm honestly glad I met you in a more upbeat tone sense. It would've made it hard for me to befriend anyone if I had met ya in a more, dower disposition."
• (Rainbow Dash): "Much less if the rest of us were still those hot messes. Pinkie would've ended up being too much to you, you wouldn't even be able to TALK to Fluttershy, Rarity would've been a bitch to you, obviously you would've gotten worse then a bad mane day if you met me earlier back when I was a hothead, and Applejack wouldn't even try to throw ya a welcome party with the family."
• (Starlight): "..... Wow, and I thought I was a mess before you showed up."
• (Pinkie): "Well to be fair, Twilight used to be a lot more of a Serious McSeriouson herself back in the day, and kinda still was even after Magic University."
• (Icky): "Yet it's amazing on how you girls shaped up to be able to make an inner circle that prevents world-changing disasters."
• (Rarity): Well, it wasn't easy for US. Like I said, the reason I was a greedy jerk was because, well, selfishness is how all people, including ponies, start. It's how we define ourselves. Unfortunately, I had to found my business... Well... A rather poor position. Looking after my little sister, especially since she was still between a baby and a toddler back then, didn't make that easy for me. The last owner of the Carousel Boutique, my Grandma Dainty Bouffant, was pushing me to be just like her. See... When my mother got her cutie mark for making cookies alongside my father... She disapproved. Her family had long been into fashion, and this... Got her to disown her.
• (Gilda): Wow, what a bitch.
• (Rarity): Yes. That's why she never talked about HER mother. But... When I got MY cutie mark, Grandma couldn't resist the opportunity to have me take over the family business.
• (Napoleon): So, she was using you, huh?
• Rarity: Look, Sweetie Belle, you need to understand that you're not supposed to be here. Not just because I'm at work, but because I don't want Grandma wanting to make a bit off you or something.
• Sweetie Belle: Oh why the sudden inconsistency, you dragged me here to put labels on underpants to begin with!
• Rarity: That was back when I thought I had time to do such, but I discovered that grandmother is coming back earlier, so just- (Suddenly an elder pony with a large diamond cutie mark appeared and was behind Rarity the entire time)
• Old Pony: Why is there a toddler in my boutique?
• Rarity: BAH! Celestia, Grandma, don't sneak up on me like that!
• Dainty: You know how I feel about kids in the workplace. They're not really useful unless it's to make cute outfits for child beauty pageants. Want the kiddies to not grow up with nopony to love. So, give me one good reason why I shouldn't punish you right now!
• Rarity: It's my little sister, Sweetie Belle. Mother and father have positioned the care for her under myself.
• Dainty:... You neglected to tell me about this, WHY?!
• Rarity: Because you never asked?
• Dainty: "........."
• Sweetie Belle: Yeah, you always have to ask-
• Rarity: "(Deadpan) Sweetie, you're not helping?!"
• Dainty: DON'T GET SMART WITH ME, YOUNG LADY!! Well, if she's your sister, then... Maybe she can help test some adorable little baby-style fashion.
• Rarity: Grandma, she's JUST here because mother and father left her in MY care, NOT to become an exploit.
• Dainty: Well CLEARLY your parents forgot that you are in MY boutique, as it appears that you did, young lady, and therefore, it's MY rules.
• Rarity: Grandma, please- (Dainty slapped her)
• Sweetie Belle: RARITY!!
• Dainty: You do as I say! She stays, or YOU don't!
• Rarity:... Fine!
• Dainty: Good girl! Alright, little one, how do you feel about- (Sweetie Belle ran off crying)
• Rarity:... Nice job, Grandma, you scared her off! THIS is clearly why mother never talked about you, AND why she changed her name to Cookie Crumbles.
• Dainty: "Still not crazy for that name, by the way."
• Rarity: WELL WHO'S FAULT IS IT THAT MADE HER DECIDE THAT NAMECHANGE?! All you care about is the family business. You don't care about me and MY parents or sibling because of their cutie marks.
• Dainty: "Yet you have NO problem wanting to make a lot of money here."
• Rarity: BESIDES THE POINT?! Well, I may have a fashion cutie mark, but I will NEVER do my job for YOU! If anything, this boutique should be MINE! I have to go. I have to apologize to Sweetie Belle for YOUR behavior. (She left)
• Dainty:... UGH! (She slumped on her desk) Ponies these days are so uncultured and don't see the fine liberties our family gave to them long ago. Now even my GRANDCHILDREN are drifting away.... What am I to do with them?!
• (Patrick): Wow, that is sad.
• (Rarity): Tell me about it. How was I supposed to pursue my career if a jerk like my own GRANDMOTHER of all ponies was the best method of making a big name for myself?
• (Rainbow Dash): I for one didn't have it great either. At school, well... I was caught on with my little Sugarcube Corner stunt and they had a little mock trial.
• Skipstep's Brother: Ms. Jovial, our family had ALWAYS offered the best for our children. The risks of having a ruined birthday are TOO great. My father came with the last cake my little brother wanted in stock, splattered all over his face, by THIS jerk. And all I saw when I arrived, was the sad face of my little brother.... I can NEVER forget that moment, nor ignore how he'll fare out in later years!
• Rainbow Dash: Dude, I NEVER wanted to ruin your little brother's birthday. I mean, what jerk would WANT that?! I'm not THAT kind of filly. I mean, what're we talking about, he's so young, be probably doesn't even REMEMBER that moment!
• Skipstep:... (He cried at the sight of Rainbow Dash angering his brother) I WANTED THAT CA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAKE!!!!
• Rainbow Dash: Aw ponyfeathers- NONONO, KID, CALM DOWN, COOL IT!!... Ugh!... Alright, look, fillies and gentlecolts, am I a passionate mare? Yes. Guilty as can be. It was a QUALITY cake, and Pinkie went through a LOT to make it there, ON TIME! AND HIS DAD, WOULDN'T, EVEN, TRY IT!!
• Skipstep's Brother: You don't get how serious this is, do you, Rainbow?
• Rainbow Dash: Look, he was being a jerk to Pinkie, and SHE tried. REALLY tried. I was ONLY standing up for her.
• Skipstep's Brother: And did she ASK for you to stand up for her? No. Does she even KNOW you till now? No!
• Rainbow Dash: "What can I say, I'm fast at first impressions."
• Skipstep's Brother: BUT CLEARLY NOT VERY GOOD ONES?! And I can see why. You're the town jerk. One who was so humiliated by her own idols, she took her pain out on everypony else, and now look where it got you.
• Ms. Jovial: I am VERY disappointed in your behavior, Rainbow Dash! This recurring issue of yours has to stop.
• Rainbow Dash: Oh? Have YOU been humiliated by YOUR idols? Hmm? No? THEN DON'T JUDGE ME!!
• Filly Bully: Ohho, this is so pitiful.
• Rainbow Dash: STAY OUT OF THIS, SOARING EYES!! THIS DOES NOT CONCERN YOU!!
• Soaring Eyes: It does now, so get used to it. You really think being angry is gonna get ponies to ignore what happened to you? I mean, look at you. Since you dropped out of flight school because you got your cutie mark with that CRAZY Sonic Rainboom making you too good for it, all you've ever done is waste your time here. Frankly, you shouldn't have been born a Pegasus, because, where else would you ever wanna go now? AHAHAHAHAH!!!
• Rainbow Dash: Oh, you're one to talk, Mr. I'M GONNA SABOTAGE THE WEATHER FACTORY ON BRING YOUR KIDS TO WORK DAY AND THEN GET SENT HERE BECAUSE MY FEEBEES GOT HURT!!! (Everyone gasped)
• Soaring Eyes:... This is not about ME, Rainbow! This is about YOU!
• Rainbow Dash: You're ABOUT to make it about you. I don't think I have issues, frankly. I think YOU got issues.
• Soaring Eyes: Hmhmhmhm. A wise mare, huh? Let me ask you something. When you moved outside of Cloudsdale, did you notice that NOPONY tried to stop you BESIDES your parents? Ponies, they may smile at you on the streets and the skies, but that doesn't mean they LIKE, YOU!!!
• Rainbow Dash: Well, at least there was an attempt of BEING POLITE, BUTTHOLE!! (She stomped on his hoof causing him to cry hard causing everyone to gasp in horror) Yeah, that's right! CRY! Next time, remember that he who lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones! Hmph!
• Ms. Jovial: RAINBOW DASH!
• Rainbow Dash: Oh come on, you heard how he treated me! He was saying it IN FRONT OF YOU!
• Ms. Jovial: That's no excuse. I can't have ponies like you giving a bad impression and causing the other students to imitate that behavior.
• Rainbow Dash: Oh come on, who's going to go crazy just because they saw me kick someone? (Skipstep did just that to his own brother laughing, causing Jovial to look angrily at her)... He's a baby, he doesn't count!
• Ms. Jovial: (Sighs) Rainbow, I'm sorry, but given the severity of your behavior, I don't have a choice but to suspend you, but not before giving you a brand new homework assignment:... Make, some friends, and learn to respect others!
• Rainbow Dash: "...... Honestly, that could've been worse. But man, living in a world where friendship is our main religion can do some WEIRD things sometimes-"
• Ms. Jovial: HEAR ME OUT BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO NOT TAKE ME SERIOUSLY?! Don't come back until you do, because if you want to earn back the Wonderbolts' approval, you can't grow up like this! So, since it's almost summer, I'll give you one warning and one warning only: if you don't fix this attitude by the time it comes, you'll have to be sent to... SUMMER, SCHOOL!
• Rainbow Dash:... Uhhhgh. Okay, that, I am obligated to take seriously now. Buck my life.
• (Tito): "Maaaaan, you got chewed OUT!"
• (Rainbow Dash): I know. You don't have to rub it in.
• (Tito): Whoa whoa whoa, gal, I didn't mean it to be an insult... Much!
• (Rainbow Dash): I was a kid, okay? Kids do all SORTS of stupid things, they watched the Fred movies for crying out loud! Besides, how was I supposed to know that was the last one in stock?!
• (Fluttershy): Well... I wasn't exactly able to keep myself unknown forever. After that... Stunt of Harry's, Pred came and told me that I might end up becoming a menace of sorts, and that I'd probably get sued, or worse. So... He and his daughters convinced me to go out and socialize.
• (Pleakley): Well, I can imagine THAT went well.
• (Fluttershy): It was terrible. I was so scared, that Pred had to keep an eye on me.
• (Squidward): Woooow-
• (Sandy): Squidward, don't speak... Unless it's not something mean!
• (Squidward):... Hmmph! (She was seen with a younger Pred and her daughters as fillies)
• Pred: Oh come now, Fluttershy, it's NOT that bad out here.
• Axe-Rella: Yeah, it's wonderful out here. Look around. There's so much s-
• Pred: Axe! Language!
• Chain: Ahh, come on, that's on you, Daddy! (Woody laughs)
• Sharp-Pay: Yeah, you've used bad words around us all the time.
• Axe-Rella: I was going to say "There's so much stuff to see." (Sighs) I still can't believe we have to babysit this poor creature.
• Pred: She's rather live here with her animal friends than go back home, especially since she hasn't properly learned how to fly yet, we have to do SOMETHING for her!
• Axe-Rella: Why don't you just have her parents pick her up?
• Pred: I tried, but... Apparently, she's a REALLY good hider, and I felt that if she's going to go back home, she has to toughen up, and I'm the best pony for the job.
• ???: YOU'LL BE SOOOOORRYYYYYYYY-
• Chain: AAHHHHH, SHADDAAAAP!!! (She tossed a beehive right next to the pony's seat and caused the bees to swarm over her, causing Chain to Woody laugh again)
• Pred: CHAIN! What kind of example is THAT for Fluttershy?! You go there, save that pony, and APOLOGIZE!
• Chain: Awwww, do I HAVE to-
• Pred: DON'T MAKE ME SPANK YOU IN PUBLIC AGAIN!!!
• Chain:... Okay! (She went to the pony and saved her, coming out with sting marks all over her)... Done!... Uhaahhahh! (She fell)
• Fluttershy: You could've just had me talk to the bees.
• Pred: No offense, Fluttershy, I know that cutie mark means you're good with animals, but I don't think bees are good starter animals for you. Bees are aggressive creatures. Especially if they're the killer variant.
• Fluttershy: Well, how do I know they're aggressive if I don't actually talk to them?
• Chain: (Recovers cartoonishly quick) Kinda ironic this came from somepony who accidentally pooped herself after seeing a dragon.
• Pred: CHAIN!
• Chain: Sorry.
• Pred: "Anyway, I think we're side-tracked. Now, Flutters, there ain't nothing wrong with animal companionship. Heck, what's why I have Toadstool. (Toadstool baas) But by George without proper interactions with ponies, ya might end up being a cat lady at best, a hoarder of beasts at worse. And I'm worried that arguably you are already on the path of that. And obviously me and my daughters are gonna be busy at times going after mythics, so, you clearly need friends. Heck, why not at least hang out with that Rainbow Pony more, she's basically the closest to a pony you're comfortable with."
• Fluttershy: "Well, yes, but, Ms. Tweet-Tweet told me she got in a bit of trouble recently."
• Sharp-Pay: "Oh I heard about that, IT WAS HILARIOUS?! (Breaks into laughter) She smacked a birthday cake in some dude's face?! SOME BIRTHDAY THAT KID GOT?! (Laughs but Axe-Rella smacked her) OW! THE BACK OF MY HEAD?!"
• Fluttershy: "..... And I'm worried she, might be busy dealing with a punishment."
• Pred: "Well, actually, luck would have it, gossip says that the punishment might be about how she has to make friends."
• Fluttershy: "Why would ponies gossip about her like that?"
• Chain: "We're talking about a pony infamous for being a REAL- (Pred cleared his throat)...... Jerkface. And you think ponies would NOT talk about Rainbow getting due karma?"
• Pred: Who cares? What matters is that she'll need help herself. Fluttershy? What do you say we do that for her? At least help her out, to help yourself?
• Fluttershy: I... Don't know...
• Pred: Hey, she'll at least protect you as well as we can.
• Sharp-Pay: Yeah. She could be REALLY violent if she put the effort into it.
• Chain: Hey, ain't that her over there? (Rainbow Dash was seen prancing angrily through Ponyville)
• Filly Berry Punch: Oh, hey, Rainbow Dash! How are you today?
• Rainbow Dash: Oh, I'm horrible, thanks for asking, go get drunk off of wine or something! (She left in a huff)
• Axe-Rella:... Sweet Celestia... She must've been chewed out hard.
• Pred:... Well, what're you waiting for? Go with her. She'll at least need YOU. You're the only friend she's got at the moment.
• Fluttershy:... Alright.... (She tried to take her first step until she panicked and hid underneath Pred, and then tried to do the same multiple times)
• Axe-Rella: Wow. THAT was hard to watch.
• Sharp-Pay: COME ON, IT'S NOT THAT DIFFICULT!!! Let me help you! (She bucked Fluttershy as she screamed and landed on Rainbow Dash)
• Rainbow Dash: AHHH!!... Oh... Hey, Fluts. You finally decided to come out of that rickety cottage.
• Fluttershy: Oh, it's just Pred and his daughters who helped me do that.
• Rainbow Dash: Of course.
• Pred: Rainbow Dash? Would you kindly help Fluttershy? She clearly needs friends of her own as well, that AREN'T animals.
• Rainbow Dash:... Heh. Always thought you'd need ME to come out of your shell. Alright, big guy. I'll do it. She DOES feel safe when she's next to me anyway.
• Chain: Ohhohoho, given what YOU went through, I doubt tha- (Axe-Rella smacked her) OW!
• Axe-Rella: (Clenched teeth) SHUT, UP!
• Rainbow Dash:... (Sighs)... I'd better go, I do NOT like seeing your kids argue like the fillies they are. (She left with Fluttershy)... So, what's new? One of your animal friends need a bottle or something?
• Fluttershy: No, I just...... Look, I didn't want to do this, but-
• Rainbow Dash: Fluts, just, just stop. I can see why that Pred guy brought you out here. You just need to toughen up a bit. Take a look at me.
• Fluttershy: I am. And now you're in trouble.
• Rainbow Dash: BESIDES that. (Sighs) Alright, let's just go find some friends already. I'm starting with that Pinkie pony I stood up for.
• Fluttershy: Alright.
• Rainbow Dash: But... there's a problem. I've been banned from Sugarcube Corner, so we're gonna have to meet her at the right time. Particularly, if she's trying to do another one of her crazy parties.
• Fluttershy: Oh, you mean THAT pony? The one who scared me with her fireworks?
• Rainbow Dash: Yep.
• Fluttershy: Um, I'll pass-
• Rainbow Dash: Nope. Not taking that for an answer. Pred told me to help you out, so given I have to do this to avoid summer school, that's what I'm gonna do. Now come on!
• Rainbow Dash charged off.
• Fluttershy: "..... (Sighs), (Follows her)....."
• (Spyro): "For as much as I was once terrified of the guy back in the Tman era of things, I kinda have to give mad props for that he's why Fluttershy got set off to be with you six."
• (Sparx): Yeah, how did that make sense again?
• (Icky): "A lot of Tman tropes make me ask that question, especially with things involving Kairi, Spyro, Tyro, and the over-romanticizing of the three, Centaurs, and the occasional attempt to try and fetishize BUTTS for some reason."
• (Rarity): "Back, on point with Pred: I know, it really almost gives you a new viewing of him...... Warts and all on what interactions would be like SINCE. Now, back to me...."
• Rarity: Look, Sweetie, I'm sorry. I'm sorry Grandma was a little... MEAN to me, and I'm SORRY you had to see her SLAP me!
• Sweetie: Why do you WORK for Grandma?! She's awful!
• Rarity: Well, yes, she's not the most, grandmotherly of grandmothers, I'm aware, but she's my only ticket to fulfilling my cutie mark's needs.
• Sweetie: Why haven't you exactly gotten any PROGRESS then?
• Rarity: UGH! She INSISTS on doing things HER way. And HER way? That posh has been LONG dated. Nopony wears her gloomy dresses anymore, but she keeps saying 'her fashion is timeless'.
• Sweetie: "Is it really necessarily that and not your extortionist prices-"
• Rarity: "HEY, ALOT OF THAT IS HER PRACTICE TOO, TO BE FAIR HERE?!"
• Sweetie: Just saying you adopted some of her bad habits, Rare.
• (Icky): "Damn, Sweetie Belle was a smart kid for her age."
• (Rarity): "One does have to give her credit, she mentally grew faster then her body."
• Sweetie: You got the cutie mark to HELP her, so why don't you ACTUALLY help her fashion with it?
• Rarity: You think I haven't tried already? Last time I added MY spin to her fashion, she had me punished greatly. She is JUST so difficult to impress, and she has HIGH expectations on how her fashion is supposed to be, ignoring the fact that NOPONY HAS EVER BOUGHT A SINGLE DRESS FROM HER!!! If she CONTINUES being this pushy, her boutique is going to go out of business!
• Sweetie:... Well, why not ask for advice from some, friends or something?
• Rarity: Nonsense! Just because I live in Ponyville doesn't mean I'm not a Canterlot Pony at heart! I mean no serious offense to ponies here, but Ponyville, is certainly NOT Canterlot! It's most iconic location is A FARM for no reason!
• Sweetie: "Well I had heard it was a key factor to why Ponyville exists, to be fair here-"
• Rarity: It just drives home my point! Besides, not a lot of these ponies share my vision. As you once said, Equestria may as well be a nudist country! I literally feel like I'm the one with real vision here! I can't have anypony else clash with MY style. I need MY views to build my career, or I may end up losing MY special touch.... Or, rather, I risk stealing somepony's work.
• Sweetie: Then don't let them do any creative liberties. Just ASK for advice on how to help with Grandma!
• Rarity:... Alright... I shall... Attempt to get some... Counseling advice.
• Sweetie: Yeah, I mean, this town's got a LOT of ponies who'd like to help you. Just do what I do and give them puppy dog eyes.
• Rarity:... You ACTUALLY do that?
• Sweetie:... Just once.
• Rarity:... Sure. I'd rather just ask. Seems less manipulative.
• Sweetie: This coming from the girl whose greed is growing as she tries to jumpstart her new career whenever she needs to.
• Rarity: I have to start said career SOMEHOW. Seriously, Sweetie, how did you get so talkative? You're barely old enough to go to school.
• Sweetie: "But I AM a fast learner."
• Rarity: ".... Well I suppose that DOES have benefits."
• Sweetie: So?
• Rarity:... Alright... I'll give it a shot.
• Sweetie: Good. You can start with... Uuuububububububuuuu... (She saw Applejack, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy all together)... Those four.
• Rarity: Wait, why those four specifically?
• Sweetie: They look like they're pretty good friends, and who knows? You could ask for advice from the modern era, and make sure to add a modern spin... Just... A suggestion.
• Rarity:... As you wish... (Deep breath)... Excuse me, mam?
• Applejack: Me?
• Rarity: Yeah, you. I was wondering- (Sniffs) Ugh, my GOODNESS GRACIOUS! You smell like you've been bathing in your own sweat!!
• Applejack: I know. I've been working non-stop lately, and Granny insisted I be more social. What's YOUR deal?
• Rarity: I'm just... Asking for some modern fashion advice from a... Country pony. No racism intended.
• Applejack: It's not so much racism as it is more of a thing between city slickers and country folk.
• Rarity:... Surprised you knew what that word meant.
• Applejack: MANY country ponies do... Are you SURE you're not being racist?
• Rarity: UMUMUM, NO!!! I didn't mean anything by it, HONEST!!! Ahem. Uh, what would YOU consider is a good fashion statement these days?
• Applejack: What do I look like, a fashionista?
• Rarity: "Not with that hat. Seems a LITTLE too big for you."
• Applejack: Ha ha, real cute, fancy-mane! I'll have you know, it was my dad's. He... Well... Granny said he and my mom left to go to finer pastures.
• Rarity: Oh... Must hold value to it then, ehe.
• Applejack: So, yeah, way to not be harmful in a DIFFERENT way. My cutie mark ain't diamonds, or thimbles, or whatever. They're apples. So, you can guess what I'm meant for in life.
• Rarity: Just try. Just because you do not have a cutie mark like mine, that does not mean you're useless at something else. Everypony’s got to have a hobby or two. Go on, darling. Give me any ideas. Any at all.
• Applejack: "...... Dare I even ask why you're even trying to fish for advice?"
• Rarity: "Well, I-"
• Pinkie: "Wait, you're the fashionista pony with the mean granny that made ya an extortionist meanie."
• Rarity: "....... So much for tact, then."
• Applejack: "Wait a second, you're Dainty's granddaughter? That old crone chewed my Granny out for her scarf!"
• Rarity: "(Nervous laughter), I apologize on my grandmother's behalf. She's not what one calls, a ponies pony."
• Applejack: "(Skeptic stare) Okay, so far, you look like a fruit that fell far from the tree."
• Rarity: "Uh, to be fair, I more or less take after my mother, Cookie Crumbles. Which I guess you can say that she's the fruit that fell the farthest from the tree."
• Rainbow Dash: "So that makes ya like the seed that fell from the fruit that fell from the tree, but the tree somehow managed to get it back..... Yeah that doesn't make sense to me neither."
• Fluttershy: "(Quietly) Must, resist urge, to mimic an ostrich and bury head in ground."
• (Kolwalski): "That's actually a myth about ostriches, they don't actually-"
• (Rarity): Quiet!
• Rarity: Well, anyway, I'm trying to wriggle out of my grandmother's grip and put my own spin on things. She’s a… What do you say… Old-school pony when it comes to fashion.
• Rainbow Dash: Oh we know about that old crone’s obsession with old-timey dated fashion. Glad she’s not into those hippie or cool era ponies, or you would have been MORE embarrassed.
• Rarity: Yes… Lucky me…. So, any advice you can give me, any at all, I'll gladly take it.
• Rainbow Dash: What's it matter to you?
• Rarity: Just wanna do something good for my cutie mark. But I sure am not going to just waste it by being like my ‘old-school’ Grandma! I want to be a MODERN fashion pony.
• Rainbow Dash: You ask me, just wait for the crone to croak and take her business.
• Applejack: WOW! Really?!
• Rainbow Dash: Hey, at least I didn't suggest she MURDER her to take the business!
• Applejack:... I recognize you now. You're the local, as Granny sometimes likes to put it, jackass. (The adult ponies gasped at that)... Wait... Was that a bad word?
• Rainbow Dash: EEeeeeeeeeyep.
• Fluttershy: "(Anxiously) If not also a slang slur for donkeys, and by extension, ponies since we're closely related."
• Applejack:... Oh, crab apples! UH, SORRY, EVERYPONY, GRANNY AIN'T QUITE THE, MOST MATURE PONY IN PONYVILLE! JUST, GO BACK TO YER DAY, AND WE'LL GET BACK TO OURS!
• Rainbow Dash: OR I'LL KNOCK YOUR BLOCKS OFF!!!
• Fluttershy: RAINBOW DASH!!
• Rainbow Dash: UGH, I STINK AT THIS!!!
• Applejack: I doubt you even TRIED!
• Rarity:... Heeheeheehee... You four are actually pretty entertaining oddballs if I had ever seen them.
• Rainbow Dash: WHO ARE YOU CALLING ODDBALL, SISTER?!?
• Rarity: I MEANT THAT IN A GOOD WAY!! You... You four aren't really that bad if you just put your mind to it. Take it from me. I may be a little... Full of myself, but I'm a filly! We're SUPPOSED to be filly ourselves, I MEAN, FULL OF OURSELVES!!... (The five laughed)... My name's Rarity, by the way.
• Rainbow Dash: Ah, who says that nowadays? We say BTW now.
• Rarity:... Odd words to abbreviate. They’re already short words.
• Rainbow Dash: Hardly understand it myself, but who am I to question it? Name’s Rainbow Dash.
• Applejack: Applejack.
• Pinkie: Pinkie Pie.
• Fluttershy:... I... (Muttering under her breath) fluttershy.
• Rarity:... Could you repeat that, darling?
• Fluttershy:... (Muttering again) fluttershy!
• Rarity: Not quite catching you!
• Fluttershy:... (Squeals softly)
• Some Ponies: AWWWWWWWWWW!! (Fluttershy ended up hiding her face in her hair after that)
• Rainbow Dash: HEY, BUZZ OFF!!! (Sighs) Her name is Fluttershy, and... She's the perfect textbook definition of shyness. I'm watching her to take her out of her comfort zone and grow as a mare.
• Applejack: Why does she look a lot slimmer than us?
• Rainbow Dash: How the heck should I know? Your guess is as good as mine! Even she doesn't know! Least she's not as slim as her BROTHER! ICK! Guy flirted with me every chance he got. Don't ask.
• Applejack:... Well... I guess... Much of us just got what we needed. I got friends, and so did RD, Fluts got to meet new ponies, Pinkie got her... What I can assume, first friends in a while... And... Oh, yeah, you were here for fashion suggestions. Anypony got any ideas?
• Pinkie: What, like, how to be a fashionable clown for her birthday?
• Rainbow Dash:... Wow! I can't tell if you're stupid, or just so high on sugar that you have little common sense. Either way, no offense.
• Pinkie: "(Sighs), Don't worry, I'd been called worse. Ponies usually have a hard time appresiating my charm."
• Rainbow Dash: "That might be because you're so, random. You tend to be abit hard to predict."
• Pinkie: Kinda the point. I can hardly explain it myself, but since I became... Who I am now... Things have started to crop up in me.... (She began twitching)... Oh boy! Not the muscle spasms again.
• Rainbow Dash: Muscle spasms?
• Pinkie: Oh, it's nothing, just some freaky psychic tremors that my body goes through a few times.
• Rainbow Dash: Psychic?... Pheh, yeah right, and I'm a flying pig- (Suddenly, a carriage ran past them and splashed them all with mud)... WHAT THE MUD?!? Okay, note to self, spend more time in the air! Also, WHAT THE WHAT?!
• Pinkie: See? Psychic muscle spasms.
• Rainbow Dash:... PFFT! That was just a coincidence. (Pinkie shook again)... Again, coincidence. I can just fly around. (She did just that until a young Derpy appeared and accidentally struck her with lightning)
• Young Derpy: OH MY GOSH, I KILLED MY BIG SISTER!!!
• Rainbow Dash: NO, I'M GOOD!! OWWWW!!!
• Pinkie: Yeah, sure, you can try and run away, but it'll still happen, if not to you, then to somepony else.
• Rainbow Dash:... Okay... Are you an alien or something?
• Pinkie: Heeheehee, I get that a lot.
• Rainbow Dash:... Ooooookay, I'm in the midst of somepony that can defy the laws of common sense. I've officially gone insane. I guess that's the price I pay for being such a jerk.
• Applejack: Nah, if you were insane, that'd mean so are we. And we're more sane than... Uh... Uh... Wow. I lost my metaphoric edge lately.
• Pinkie: More sane than a Cornish pixie on a sugar rush?
• Applejack: Thank you.
• Pinkie: Oh, you're welcome, I heard that from a foreign pony. Anyway, I kinda don't have a name for these spasms.
• Rainbow Dash: "I'd go with "Pinkie Sense"...."
• Pinkie: "(Looks like she was just enlightened by that)...... I don't know what, but, that has to be the greatest name anypony has suggested to me."
• Rainbow Dash: Really? What else did ponies suggest?
• Pinkie: Eheh... You don't wanna know. They're too weird even for me.
• Fluttershy:... Somehow, being near somepony whose spasms can cause bad luck, does NOT make me feel safer.
• Pinkie: It's not bad luck.
• Rarity: Certainly feels like it. Whatever this phenomenon comes from, I do NOT want it to soak me in mud again! UGH! If it wasn’t easily washed off, YOU COULD'VE RUINED ME!!
• Rainbow Dash:... Wow. You are SUCH a drama queen. Have you considered being in the theater?
• Rarity: Oh, very funny.
• Applejack: We’ll like you said, everypony’s gotta have a hobby or two.... I'm confused, are we friends or not?
• Rainbow Dash: Well, I wouldn't go THAT far. I'd say more like... Acquaintances.
• Applejack: Oh... Well, it's a start.
• Rarity: "Oh yes, it's, somewhere, at the very least."
• Pinkie: Bring it in, acquaintances! (Pulls the rest in for a group hug)
• Rarity: "..... Well, I see you're, uniquely affectionate."
• Pinkie: I try. HEEHEEHEEHEEHEEEEEE!!!
• Rainbow Dash: Well, how about you try learning about PERSONAL SPACE!
• Pinkie: Oh, uh, sorry. (She let them go)
• Fluttershy: (GAAAASP) AIR!!! THAT DOES NOT MAKE ME FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE OUT IN PUBLIC!!!
• Rainbow Dash: See? Like I said, personal space. If you wanna be a GOOD party pony or whatever you wanna be, then you need to UNDERSTAND ponies. Get to know them.
• Pinkie: Isn't that stalking?
• Rainbow Dash: Not if you-... Okay, you know what, yeah it is, but, I can't think of any other way to get these stubborn ponies to like you.
• Pinkie: Still feels naughty.
• Rainbow Dash: Hey, the word 'naughty' didn't exist for nothing. Sometimes you gotta get your HOOVES dirty.
• Pinkie: Well, I'm STILL not doing that. My parents taught me better than that.
• Rainbow Dash: Ohho, really? Were they like dirty rock farmers or something?
• Pinkie:... As a matter of fact, yes, they were.
• Rainbow Dash: Oh... Ehe, for a second there I thought I was gonna sound offensive, AGAIN!
• Pinkie: Again? I mean, being fair, we do get kinda dirty on the rock farm, ya know, sometimes there being rocks deep in the ground at all, and hey, again, I had heard worse. I'm extremely numb to insults unless it REALLY gets to me in a special way.
• Applejack: Alright, alright, everypony, calm down. We're acquaintances, so we can just TRY to be better than this.
• Pinkie: Oh, it'll be easy if you put effort into it. What could possibly go wrong?
• Fluttershy: EVERYTHING! That's why I prefer to stay in my cottage. Ponies here can-
• Rarity: Cottage?... You live alone, in a cottage?... Don't you get lonesome?
• Rainbow Dash: Well, if you haven't noticed her cutie mark, she's got animals to keep her company. It was once an old abandoned cottage infested with animals. She just booked it like a hotel and had them refine it for her.
• Rarity:... My word! You got wild animals to refurbish an abandoned cottage?
• Rainbow Dash: Cutie mark, baby. Makes us literally GODS to what it represents.
• Fluttershy:... I've said enough! I'M OUT OF HERE!! (She tried to run, but Rainbow Dash grabbed her long tail as she could only run comically going nowhere)
• Rainbow Dash: You ALREADY came this far, Fluts. Don't throw it away now.
• Fluttershy: (She wimpers softly)
• Ponies: AWWWWWWWWWWW!!
• Rainbow Dash: WHAT DID I JUST SAY?!?
• Fluttershy:... (She fainted)...
• Rainbow Dash:... (Sighs) This is going to be a painful experience. (to the others) The point is, she can't just keep living by herself. Next thing you know, she's gonna be a feral pony, and THAT'S sadder than being a shy recluse.
• Applejack:... Well, should we get out of her mane?
• Rainbow Dash: Might as well... Uh... Nice to meet you girls.
• Rarity/Applejack/Pinkie: You too.
• Rairty: But you STILL haven't-
• Rainbow Dash: (As they left) LOOK AROUND TOWN! YOU'VE GOT AN INSPIRATIONAL MIND, YOU'LL FIGURE IT OUT!!
• Rarity: "..... A bit brash, but I'll be fair here and acknowledge that as a part of your persona. But decent advice nonetheless."
• (Twilight): Hey, uh, not meaning to sound like I don't care for full details, but can you girls skip to the part about the slave trade? Don't get me wrong, it's great hearing about how you all met, but we just need to get to the point here.
• (Icky): "Oh, way to pull an X on us and not have ANY respect to world-building and character developments!"
• (Rarity): "AHEM! That aside, we were GETTING to that, just a few intermediate things first. I mean, if we skipped to that now, you'd ask how we knew each other anyway."
• (Twilight): Alright, alright, just keep going.
• (Rarity): "Thank you, now please be patient with this."
• The young five go their separate ways, with Fluttershy still with Rainbow Dash.
• Fluttershy: "Well, that was...... Something."
• Rainbow: I'll say. But, at least we're right on track with the friendship or summer school thing. At this rate, I wouldn't have to worry about summer school after this.
• Fluttershy: "Well, you're kinda only acquaintances at best at the moment."
• Rainbow Dash: Hey, like AJ said, it's a start. Hmm... maybe I'll run that by her, see what she thinks. Anyway, give it time. I'm sure YOU'D fit right in yourself.
• Fluttershy:... (She hid her face in her hair whimpering)
• Rainbow Dash: DON'T MAKE ME IMPALE SOMEPONY!!! (The ponies stopped and went back to their day)... (Sighs) This is going to be a PAINFULLY long day.
• (Icky): "Honestly, I can personally appreciate Modern Fluttershy more then past Flutters. Past Flutters was an even BIGGER wuss!"
• (Fluttershy): I WAS a filly back then. Being as cute as any animal has its perks... AND disadvantages. Now I'm finding myself with ponies who want to go on dates with me.
• (Missing Link): Well, not that I blame them. Look at you. You'd be like a Disney Princess if you put your mind to it.
• (Fluttershy): Umm...... Thanks?
• (Applejack): Now then, onto the REAL salad of the story...

Chapter 3: Raid Of The Weirdoes/The Scumbucket Pig/Meet Mr. Lawrence

Meanwhile...

• The Everfree Forest is seen...
• ???: "SKIP TO THE LOE, MY DARLING?! (A tree was smacked down as Ed Edd and Eddy sound effects were heard as they crashed down)....."
• A Hobgoblin with a fur coat came in laughing.
• Another Hobgoblin came in with a mushroom hat, nervously looks at the damage.
• Mushroom Hobgoblin: "For heaven's sake, Blunk, much you disrupt the ecosystem with such carelessness?"
• Blunk (Fur coat Hobgoblin): "...... I forget what we were doing..... Wait, my brain stopped."
• Mushroom Hobgoblin: "...... Oh Blunk, what are we gonna do with you?"
• Deformed Hobgoblin with Peglegs: "(Gets by the duo) HEY MOVE IT OR LOSE IT, MUCK, BLUNK?! (Tries to move but plops into the ground) D'OOW!!...... (Moans)...... Muck, are we at the pony place yet?"
• Muck: "Oh, well, (Pulls out map) According to my calculations, Chuck- (Blunk chomped onto the map) BLUNK?!"
• Blunk: "(Burps)! Location, location, location?!"
• Chuck: "BLUNK, YOU IDIOT?! THAT WAS THE LAST MAP THE BOSS WOULD LET US HAVE?!"
• A Hobgoblin on a worg came in.
• Hobgoblin on a worg: "Hey, the others are getting impaitent, when are ya gonna find that Pony Town already?!"
• Muck: "Um, well, Carver, there were, um, complications. Blunk ruined the map..... Again."
• Carver: "I'd figured as much. DORKS?! (Laughs as he rides off on the Worg) LET US KNOW WHEN YA FIND THE PONY TOWN?!"
• Chuck: "..... NOW LOOK WHAT YOU DID, YOU MORON?!"
• Blunk: "(Laughs stupidly), Gravy."
• Chuck: "(Groans)!"
• Muck: "I don't suppose there's no shame in asking for directions?"
• Chuck: "Oh, and who are we gonna ask, IN A STINKING FOREST?! (An owl flew past him) AAAAGH?! I HATE BIRDS?!"
• Blunk: Oh, birds are too PRETTY to hurt people. (He strayed into the nest of a long-legged ostrich that looked at him)... Oh, hye there, pretty bird. Can you say- (He was smacked into a tree with his neck going through the trunk) AAAHHHHH!!! (The bird screeched) I KNEW YOU COULD!!!
• Chuck: (Sighs) WHY did we keep him around?
• Muck: Because he has the brute strength to carry 50 ponies at once... Somehow!
• Chuck: Yeah, if he KNEW how to USE it right!
• Muck: DUMB strength is STILL good strength.
• Chuck: He hit you so hard, he's PROBABLY the reason you're the smartest of us.
• Blunk: OOOHOHOHOHO! YOU GOT BURNED, MUCK!! (The bird lunged for them)
• Chuck: AHHH!!!! WE TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THAT BIRD!!!
• Muck: (Sighs) Blunk? That bird thinks you're a weakling.
• Blunk: IT WHAT?!? I'LL SHOW HIM A WEAKLING!!! (He comically fought the bird cartoon style and caused the bird to be scared off as it took its eggs and ran)
• Muck: See? Dumb strength is GOOD strength, IF ANYONE ELSE knows how to use it.
• Chuck: You're lucky ONE of us is smart enough to keep him under control.
• Blunk: So, where are our next PONIES?!
• Chuck: We'd know, IF SOMEONE DIDN'T EAT THE MAP!!!
• Blunk: Oh, then in that case, ask me! I can take us there!
• Chuck: Pfft, yeah RIGHT!
• Blunk: OKAY THEN, LET'S GOOOO!! (They ended up riding him like a horse and they ended up where they were headed)... TADAAAH!!!
• Chuck:... (He fell down comically as his peg legs popped off)...
• Muck: "..... Well, that was, an experience."
• Chuck: Remind me to feed him a TREASURE MAP after this. Alright, let's do this in a quiet and sneaky fashion- (He stopped Blunk by giving him a bacon strip)... And see which pony is the best at our whole slave trade!
• Blunk: "Forced Manadory labor."
• Chuck: "....... Yeah, that's, what slavery is."
• Muck: "Sometimes I feel like he's in his own little world."
• Chuck: "Ya don't say? Okay, who do we got?"
• Muck: "Well the setting looks to be of primary healthy adults, so options are limitless."
• Blunk: Let's pick ANY pony then.
• Chuck: No, you numbskull! We can't just nab the first pony we see willy-nilly! (He gave him a bacon strip to stop him from doing it anyway)
• Muck: Good that you're starting to catch on to controlling Blunk's stupidity.
• Chuck: Don't push it! Anyway, that random pony we get could buck us so hard we could be hospitalized or worse. Gods forbid it be those Sweet Apple Acres farmers I heard about. I heard their bucks could KILL!
• Muck: Actually, recently, the ones called Bright Mac and Pear Butter... Left due to an incident involving a business and vampire fruit bats, the granny is too old to properly buck anymore, and the two ponies' kids aren't even at PROPER bucking age. The stallion and mare are still young, and there's one recent toddler addition.
• Chuck:... Oh... But still, we GOTTA be careful! We don't want to end up with a concussion worse than what BLUNK here can give us. We'd rather be comfortable abducting fillies at this point.
• Muck: NO! We can't abduct CHILDREN! That'll bring us unwanted attention, and that's the LAST thing we need since pony slavery was banned. We could ALL be tracked down and arrested.
• Chuck: Well so would if we abducted ponies of ALL ages! Kidnapping is STILL a crime that can draw attention, and look how well we've turned out.
• Muck: YEAH, but KIDS are more serious!
• Chuck: "Well excuse ME if I think kids would pack less of a punch then grown ups!"
• Blunk: "Not unless they're that kid. (Points to a colt with extremely gigantic hoofs for his age)."
• Chuck: "..... Well, freaks like him are outliers, I meant in GENERAL, a kid wouldn't be able to fight back as hard. (Notes some fillies being trained karate)..... Well, provided if they don't know martial arts. (Saw colts and fillies being able to train with swords)...... Or know weapons. (Sees a lot of fillies with stranger danger-whistles) Or if they have stranger danger whistles- OH COME ON?!"
• Muck: "Well, there goes your hypothesis of children "Being Easier"."
• Chuck: "Aw shut up, Mushroom Head."
• Blunk conked out and drooling randomly....
• Chuck: "..... Okay, maybe we can try like, I don't know, the most isolated and off-mind of ponies here, like, outcast level here, thing these equines won't bat an eye too much for!"
• Muck: "Well given their extremely social nature, as ponies are herd animals, the odds of such a individual case seems questionable."
• Chuck: Let's just PICK one already before ONE of them sees us!
• Muck: Alright, alright, bossy! But remember, no children.
• Chuck: Whatever you say. (Sighs) Alright... Let's see... (Pulls out a telescope to monitor the entire area).
• Blunk: (He looks around, too, then sees Rainbow Dash with Fluttershy) Ooh, oh, Chuck, Muck! There are some ponies we can get!
• Muck: "What did I JUST say about going after fillies?!"
• Chuck: "Ahhh, they look like they're in their early teens at best. Especially the yellow one. She's slimmer than you."
• Muck: Wow. First off, and pardon my pranch, screw you. Second, no! Young ponies, whatever age, are STILL risky targets. Police investigation will STILL sniff out the kidnappings right to us, and before you know it, we'll all be locked up and our business shut down!
• Chuck: Well, again, that's gonna happen to ANY kidnapped individual, and yeah, even though kids are a HIGHER priority, then we may as well... Say... Raise them to grow up in a setting that allows them to SEE the benefits of pony slavery. I mean, they ARE creatures that can carry LOADS on their backs. They could do SO MUCH MORE! Maybe if we can Stockholm syndrome them into our cause, MAYBE we can-
• Muck: CHUCK- (He covered his mouth as they hid before ponies who heard them could see them)...... (Quietly) CHUCK CHUCKY CHAYKOVSKY!!! I CANNOT BELIEVE THOSE WORDS CAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH!!!
• Blunk: "Would that be because we can't see words outside of written form?"
• Awkward silence....
• Muck: "...... That meaning to say, that I am SHOCKED and appalled by what you're suggesting!"
• Cluck: Oh, since when did YOU have ethics in that shroom brain of yours?
• Muck: Well not enough to keep out of this life in general, but enough to have commonsense of at least wanting to be SMART in this charlatan life! I just want us to do our job in a way that does NOT make our business look INSANE!! Raising ponies, to side with our cause?!
• Chuck: Come on, it's a GOOD idea!
• Muck: Perhaps in OPPOSITE WORLD it does! But in the UNOPPOSITE WORLD, (Quietly) IT'S PRACTICALLY CRAZY ENOUGH TO GET US ALL IN DEEP S***!!!
• Blunk: "Good thing I already took a mud shower this morning."
• Muck: "It's metaphorical, Blunk."
• Chuck: Look, I get what you're saying, but, think about this pragmatically. We can return them back to this place when they understand what we're doing. We won't do any real harm. We just need to find a way to boost our business, that way we can thrive.
• Muck: Uh, how long do you think ponies age?
• Chuck:... A few years?
• Muck: (Quietly) NO! THEY AGE AT THE SAME RATE AS ANY OTHER RACE!!! THEY'RE NOT ANIMALS!!!! YOUR PLAN WOULD TAKE YEARS TO COMPLETE, AND THAT'S STILL NOT ENOUGH TIME TO AVOID INVESTIGATION BY THE KIDS' PARENTS!!! We are NOT abducting them into slavery, and that's final!
• Chuck: "Ugh, spoilsport. Ya know Carver's gonna give us crud for time-wasting."
• (Icky): "Something's gonna happen that's gonna make these idiots nab you girls anyway, I just know it."
• (Rainbow Dash): "This episode wouldn't even be a thing if it was that simple."
• (Icky): "Well that, and those Hobgoblins are OBVIOUSLY ED EDD AND EDDY ANALOGS! Something ALWAYS goes wrong with that trio!"
• (Iago): Not quite. Remember the Big Picture Show moisode?
• (Icky): Don't push it, Iags! They still manage to screw up somehow! And at the risk of insulting X, this is probably the reason why he may have to scrap those three from PTE. I mean, he does have plans for them, but it's like he doesn't know how to execute them.
• (Lord Shen): "May we PLEASE put the meta aside and continue the story?!"

At carousel Boutique...

• Rarity: I'm back! And I've got some brand new ideas!
• Dainty as seen sitting at a sewing chair by a sewing machine completely motionless......
• Rarity: ".... Now Grandmother, I know we had our, moments, earlier before, but, that's no reason for something as immature as the silent treatment?! (Approaches the still figure of Dainty) Now how's about you pay attention to me for once and- (Saw that Dainty's eyes were closed)........ Oh for Equine's sake, I know you're old, but I didn't fancy you old enough to need naps. Surprisingly silent sleeper though. Not even a light snore-...... (Rarity's face melted from one of annoyence to shock)......."

Outside the Carousel.

• Silence...... Then Rarity was heard screaming like a banshee as ponies were shocked!

Later…

• Paramedic Ponies zipped up Dainty in a bodybag as ponies stare in surprise......
• Rarity and Sweetie Belle were staring sadly at this....
• Sweetie Belle: "..... Rarity, why is grandma being taken in a bag? Isn't she only sleeping?"
• Rarity: "..... Sweetie..... You're, going to have to take this up with mother and father. When, they get here."
• (Icky): "HOLY SHIT, THE OLD BAG DIED?!"
• (Rarity): "I may have, neglected to mentioned that, my grandmother was, of a very frail heart."
• (Iago): "But what triggered it?"
• (Rarity): "Would you believe, because she saw a MEASLEY LITTLE MOUSE?! She got so scared of it that her heart couldn't take it?!" (Scoffing was heard) OKAY, SERIOUSLY?!
• (Iago): SORRY, BUT WE PREFER LAUGHING OVER CRYING, ESPECIALLY IF THE DEATH IS TOO FUNNY TO EVEN APPROPRIATELY BRING UP!! It’s KINDA how we cope with death in general. That’s how we easily got past STOICK’S death.
• (Thundera): Still, shame on you.
• (Iago): Oh, kiss me where you dared not to!
• (Shifu): "My apologies for your loss."
• (Rarity): "I mean, I know my grandmother wasn't, a very sunshine and smiles pony, but, she was family nonetheless. And because of the apparent existence of rodents in the Carousel, well, obviously I was now interested in having a cat."
• (Spongebob): "You mean that's why you have Opal?"
• (Icky): "Though how did ya know it was because of seeing a mouse that caused your grandma to drop deader than Jodie Foster's career?"
• (Iago): Wow! When’s the last time we made a pop-cultural joke?
• (Icky): Well those ARE some of the hardest jokes to make. When we DO make them they’re usually one of the stolen jokes from other media.
• (Rarity): "AHEM!… As for how I knew, there were, prior red flags of rodent presence time and time again. Mouse holes, food being ruined, um..... "Presents". Grandmother was uneased by this as she had a more severe mousephobia than an elephant if it was like Fluttershy."
• (Twilight); Actually, that’s an urban myth. Elephants are just surprised by mice. They could instantly shoo mice away. Also, there are multiple terms to describe the fear of mice, such as musophobia, from the Greek μῦς "mouse", murophobia from the taxonomic adjective "murine" for the family Muridae that encompasses rodents, or suriphobia, from the Pranch-
• (Rainbow): AHEM, HOW OFTEN HAVE PEOPLE OR PONIES THANKED OTHERS FOR NERDY RANTS OF INFORMATION?!-
• (Twilight): "WHAT’S THAT, NEVER?!” Yeah, we used that Camp Camp line plenty of times already, it’s no more original than the old-school cut-and-paste scenes in the Moisode days. But, we’re getting off track again. AND SO HELP ME CELESTIA WHO’S PRESENT RIGHT HERE, MARCH HARE, IF YOU SUGGEST WE CHANGE THE SUBJECT AGAIN!!!
• (Icky): "Yeah way to pull a Kolwalski on us, Sparks."
• (Kolwalski): "HEY?!"
• (Skipper): "Is he inaccreate on that, Kolwalski?"
• (Kolwalski): "..... Touche."
• (Rarity): "Ahem. Point is. my grandmother was afraid of mice. So I sought out a cat… You know, in case I got close to her age and ran the risk of dying the same way.”
• (Icky): You mean if you don’t outlive it?
• (SpongeBob): Anti-catism, Icky!
• (Icky): Oh what, are we supposed to pretend cats are immortal?
• (SpongeBob): Well no, BUT STILL?! It's also in bad taste to remind Scroopfan of what happened to his earlier cat!
• (Icky): Just saying!
• (Rarity): But alas, Ponyville wasn't much for pet stores, and thus, if anyone wishes to procure an animal, you would have to see Fluttershy. So call it, fate's cruel way of getting me to know Fluttershy more.

At Fluttershy's cottage...

• Fluttershy: Oh... I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother, Miss... um... Charity?
• Rarity: Rarity. Well, never mind the miss. Just plain Rarity will do. I mean, we have met before.
• Fluttershy: Right. And to be fair, we didn't, really interacted. So.... You're here to look for a cat?
• Rarity: "Well, yes. Cause I need one to sort out my mice problem after the little vermin cause a death of my grandmother. Now, say what you will about her attitude, but it's the PRINCIPAL AT STAKE HERE?!"
• Fluttershy:... Well if it’s a mouse problem, then why get a cat to do that problem for you?
• Rarity: Beg pardon? (Fluttershy went to a mouse hole and brought out her cute mouse friends as Rarity squealed comically)
• Fluttershy: CALM DOWN! They’re friendly! They were living here long before me. They helped me redecorate the cottage for me.
• Rarity:... (Deep breath)... I almost feel uncomfortable being here. But, I do have to respect that you're a very, animal person kind of pony.
• Fluttershy: I promise you that none of the animals here are dangerous. (Rarity was on edge as she saw a spider cage with the spiders she had in present day still in eggs, and even Harry when he was still a cub)
• Rarity:... (Gulps)
• Fluttershy: Alright, alright. How about this: I’ll give you a kitten as a pet. But I’d much rather you not have her around as a guard animal. It could make things very messy, and you wouldn’t want that, would you?
• Rarity: I-... No, actually. I didn’t even consider that a cat would drag a dead mouse in my place.
• Fluttershy: So let me take care of your mouse problem. They can live with me.
• Rarity:... Why on Earth have you not considered doing this more often, dear? You would really benefit from this if you could just… Passively remove an infestation.
• Fluttershy: I’m not comfortable around other ponies, remember?
• Rarity: Ah, right, you have social anxiety issues, that is, much apparent... You really should work on that, then. Otherwise you may end up... Well... You know.
• Fluttershy: What?
• Rarity: Alright, just get me my kitten and I’ll let you keep the mice in the boutique as payment.
• Fluttershy:... Alright. I suppose that sounds fair. (She got out a small kitten as it let out a small adorable meow) I haven’t given her a name yet. I just found her abandoned on the streets. I don’t even know what breed it is.
• Rarity: Oh that poor thing... Oh... Those eyes... They aren’t exactly bad to look at... I shall name her Opalescence. But for short, I’ll call her Opal.
• Fluttershy:... That’s a very good name. Alright. She’s all yours. Take good care of her.
• Rarity: I shall indeed. Now then, you are free to help with my mice problem.

Carousel Boutique

• Fluttershy: (After a while she came outside)... Well... It’s going to be harder than I thought.
• Rarity: WHAT?! Whatever do you mean?!
• Fluttershy: Turns out mice are not the only pests here. In fact… I don’t think it’s MICE that scared your poor grandmother to death.
• Rarity:... Then... What did?
• Fluttershy:... (Deep breath)... Rats.
• Rarity: RATS?!? (Some of the ponies freaked out at this) NOT OUT HERE!!!
• Fluttershy: I think it wasn’t just her frail heart that killed her. It was... Possibly these rats infecting her food with diseases that made it easier to kill her. Has there ever been any pest problems bigger than mice lately?
• Rarity: Well, now that you mention it, Grandmother DID bring up that there were bigger chew marks in places. I just assumed these mice were the nastier type.
• Fluttershy: They may have been... Thanks to these rats.
• Rarity:... I’m sorry, dear, you’re not making any sense.
• Fluttershy: See for yourself. (She opened the door)
• Rarity: Why, what’s going on in THEEEEEEERE?!? (She saw that the mice in the boutique were being treated like slaves by bigger rats, and they noticed her arrival)... HOW IN THE WORLD DID THEY TURN MY GRANDMOTHER’S BOUTIQUE INTO A SLAVE OPERATION THAT QUICKLY?!? I WAS ONLY GONE FOR LIKE, A FEW MOMENTS?! (The rats squealed and attacked, but they closed the door before they could hit her)... MY HOLY WORD!!! THESE RATS ARE EVIL!!!!
• Fluttershy: (Deep breath)... I got this.
• Rarity: Are you sure?! Those rats aren’t the kind that will hesitate to infect you! And I'm kinda sure these rats aren't much for suggestion!
• Fluttershy: "Don't worry, I have a special technique for animals that AREN'T so easily nor readily nice!"
• Rarity: And what might that be?
• Fluttershy: Just trust me.
• Rarity: "...... Okay, you're the expert." (Fluttershy went in and confronted the rats)
• Fluttershy: (Softly) ALRIGHT LISTEN UP- (She was immediately tied up in the next shot)... Maybe I need to work on my tone. (Some of the rats squeak-laughed)
• (Icky): "Not gonna lie, I'm kinda disappointed the stare wasn't used here."
• Rarity: (She saw this through the window) Oh dear! I KNEW I should’ve gotten an ADULT cat for this.
• ???: And what was a CAT gonna do about this? (Rainbow Dash was looking through the window with her)
• Rainbow Dash: I’m pretty sure these rats have EATEN cats for breakfast!
• (SpongeBob): AHEM! Anti-catism!
• (Rainbow Dash): Uh, yeah, I’m making Icky’s point, cats aren’t immortal and no standards and practices are going to change that.
• (SpongeBob): I get that, but I was more referring to the implication that these rats had KILLED cats! That's my point of contention here.
• (Rainbow Dash): Okay okay, yeesh, forget I said it that then!
• Rarity: (Sighs) Then what are we supposed to do?... Wait! You’re a quote-on-quote, jackass- (Ponies gasped) OH DON’T YOU PONIES HAVE JOBS?!? (To Rainbow Dash) So can’t you kick their butts?
• Rainbow Dash: And risk getting a disease? TO HECK WITH THAT! I’M JUST A FILLY!!
• Rarity: YOU’RE COMPLETELY USELESS!!!
• Rainbow Dash: NOT SO MUCH USELESS AS MORE LIKE I DIDN'T GET A CUTIE MARK FOR PEST CONTROL!!!
• Rarity: "Just because a Cutie Mark designated you with a specific ability doesn't mean you can't multi-task!"
• Rainbow Dash: Well that's to say the methods I would've used on the rats, would also mess up your clothes store.
• Rarity: "...... Fair enough."
• Rainbow Dash: Besides, usually Fluttershy is the best at those. Just have faith in her. I have many times before. I mean, just the matter of the Stare getting involved in the case of THESE literal rats.
• Rarity: "..... The what?"
• Fluttershy: Here, I'll show you. (to the rats) EXCUSE ME! Which one of you is in charge here?
• A very fat rat with a sewing thumb protector for a crown came in.
• (Icky): "Hold up, how can that rat have that thumb protector thing for a crown if ponies don't have thumbs?"
• (Fluttershy): "He was a rat from Abyssia I had since discovered."
• Fat Rat: "(Authoritive Squeaking and Screeches)."
• Rainbow Dash: "That is one fatass rat."
• Rarity: SHH!
• Fluttershy: Tell me, sir, why are you using my new friend's boutique as a workshop for those cute little mice? (The Fat Rat snorted with a scoff and just gave a short angry squeak) Of course, you tell me that's not my business. And I respect that. It's just, the grandmother of a pony I am getting to know ended up dying cause of seeing you. She had, real bad musophobia. (The Fat Rat squeaked offendedly for a bit) Hey now, I know that phobia comes off as racist to you and you didn't liked her, but I think what was done about it was, a gross over-reaction. (The Fat Rat Squeaked again) The same applies to her nearly discovering your colony.
• (Icky): "One-sided conversation much? (Gets kicked)... Continue."
• Fluttershy: You rats have caused her a lot of grief, so if you could just apologize to her and leave the boutique for a new place to live, then everybody's happy. (The Fat Rat Squeaked aggressively) Oh believe me, you wouldn't WANT me to "Make you".
• Rainbow Dash: I'd listen to her if I were you.
• Fat Rat: (Screeches aggressively)
• Fluttershy: All right, then. Just remember, I warned you. (Gets close to the fat rat and uses the Stare)
• This effected the fat rat greatly that he got so fearful, he ended up farting in fear!
• (Icky): "Fear-farts. Epicly hilarious!"
• Fluttershy: Now then, what do you say? (The fat rat squeaked to the other rats and they decide to clear out and let the mice go)
• Rarity: ".... Incredible! Who would need a pied piper if you are around? Now I can get to work on getting my boutique up and running again.. (Starts feeling sad) And perhaps... Ornery as she was.... Grandmother can rest in peace."
• Rainbow Dash: "Yikes, tough break on that, by the way."
• Raruty: Thank you for that, darling.

Back at sweet Apple Acres

• Applejack was getting back to work and doing it hard.
• Mr. and Mrs. Cake arrived.
• Mr. Cake: "Excuse me, Young Mare, do you know where Granny Smith is? We need some apples to make our latest order for Apple Pies. A baker's dozen of them. An order made by Big Gulper."
• Applejack: "Big Gulper?"
• Mrs. Cake: "A Unicorn from canterlot who's a netourious gultton. He's been known to eat pasteries out of business because, he orders way too much deserts! We need to keep up with this order and all other pastry orders!"
• Applejack: "....... Have you tried getting Pinkie Pie to help?"
• Mr. Cake: "..... I mean, Pinkie Pie, I'm sure she means well, but.... You did hear about the birthday incident, right?"
• Applejack: "Heard it from the pink pony's mouth herself."
• Mr. Cake: "Well, her problem is..... Well not meaning to be mean, but..... She's, kinda a spazz."
• Mrs. Cake: "I'd go with utter imbecile."
• (Icky): "Dayyyyyyum, the Cakes used to be JERKS to you, Pinks."
• (Pinkie): "In their defense, it, might be abit of a response from how I made Sugar Cube Corner what it is. It used to be a normal building till I came to work for them."
• (Iago): "Somehow, I can believe why that building looking the way it is was somehow you're doing, obvious homage to what PTE did with ya aside."
• Applejack: "Yikes, why so hard with her? It was just one birthday cake?"
• Mrs. Cake: "I can handle a dilivery gone south. IT'S THE FACT SHE TURNED MY BUSINESS INTO A GIANT SWEET IN OF ITSELF?! IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF HORSEAL AND NEIGRETAL?!"
• (Icky): "Is THAT like Hansel and Gretal but horsified?"
• (Applejack): No idea. YOU tell me!
• (Icky):... Toushe. Just tell the story.
• Applejack: Look, the filly means well. Much of that was on Rainbow Dash. As for HER... She ain't really bad if you get to know her. She just... Well... Had a bad day involving her idols, and it... Labelled her persona for life.
• Mrs. Cake: I would hardly call that a good excuse.
• Applejack: My point BEING, Pinkie could do WELL if she JUST had the chance. I'm sure we could both work together on this one.
• Mr. Cake: Are you sure?
• Applejack: Well, I'll STILL get Granny Smith for ya, but maybe I can go and arrange something. Maybe you'll find your good ol selves surprised.
• Mrs. Cake: Well, after the reputation we got lately, we'll need it.
• Applejack: Then I guess it's a done deal.

Later...

• Pinkie: And you think we can do it?
• Applejack: We CAN do it. I may be a filly who can hardly do a full-strength buck like my Pa, but I can work PRETTY darn fast.
• Pinkie: Well, did you get the apples?
• Applejack: Ohho, I got em. (She pointed them all out outside)... Let's get sweet cookin'.
• (Icky): Yeah, I'm gonna save you guys the trouble and say ahead of time that you five started helping each other out, right?
• (Applejack): I-JU-BA, DUDE, ARE YOU ALWAYS A SPOILSPORT?!
• (Icky): No idea, YOU TELL ME!
• (Applejack):... A touche back at ya, Icky. Alright, yeah, that's basically what we've been doing for weeks. We came close to appreciating each other's strengths, and improving them.
• (Iago): "Yeah we kinda figure that's the direction the story's gonna go for until the main plot kicks in."
• (Rainbow Dash): Speaking of which...
• Chuck: (The three Hobgoblins were watching them)... Are you SURE we can't take no fillies? Look at those five!
• Blunk: All I see is a nice-looking and FRIENDLY one! She can even pull a good conversation. (He was talking to a pony-shaped stump)... See? She even agrees with me on that.
• Muck: Ugh! Blunk, that's a stump!
• Blunk: HEY, CAREFUL! SHE COULD BE SENSITIVE!!!
• Chuck: ".... Yeesh, and I thought Woody from the Tribe was the weirdo that talks to wood."

Cutaway.

• A Hobgoblin like Johnny 2/4 Was seen with a tall stick he was walking with.
• Hobgoblin (Woody): "What's that Sticky McStickerson? (Silence)...... (Laughs)! You're funny."
• (Icky): "Okay, are a lot of the Hobgoblins in this tribe these three are from gonna be based on Ed Edd and Eddy characters?"
• (Pinkie): "Most likely, give or take outliers."

Flashback Present

• Muck: But, no, not even THEM!
• Chuck: Aw come on-
• Muck: Don't 'come on' ME! Abducting children is a DANGEROUS prospect. It attracts more attention than a simple abduction.
• Chuck: "Spoilsport."
• Muck: Very good. Now let's move in.
• (Icky): "I know there's gonna be something that makes this trio of obvious homages to old Cartoon Network Characters nab you 5."
• (Applejack): You would. But yes. And it's all because of... A request.
• ???: Oh boys? (A troll identical to Stromboli appeared behind them, shocking them)
• (Icky): "Well, not exactly how Scroopfan wanted to introduce the guy, but then again this episode was also meant to be done with Tman, sooooooo, meh."
• Muck: Mr. Stormtrolli?! What're you doing all the way in pony territory? I thought you were banned in this region!
• Stormtrolli: Ah, it's only breaking the law if you get caught.
• Muck: I thought that only counted for cheating.
• Stormtrolli: THAT'S only ONE way to break the law... Or rules... Or what have you. But I was just, say, doing your job with my own eyes, and I say, these five fillies you're eying?
• Muck: DON'T tell us you want them-
• Stormtrolli: Oh, I do not WANT them... I NEED THEM!
• Muck: "D'ooooh, Drat!"
• Stormtrolli: They're the PERFECT ones to aid me in the Scumbucket Pig.
• Muck: Uh, sir, if I'm correct in assuming you've been spying on us for a while, then I'm ALSO correct in assuming you heard EVERY WORD I SAID: we CANNOT, ABDUCT, CHILDREN!! It's TOO risky!
• Stormtrolli: Nonsense! We have abducted fillies MANY times before.
• Muck: I think you mean YOU have abducted them many times before. Well, we're more careful with this pony slavery operation. We collect slaves in a way that does NOT attract unwanted attention.
• Stormtrolli: "Bahhh, you'a big wimp! Not like we don't have eyes on us at every waking moment anyway! So what are FIVE little pintas gonna change?"
• Blunk: "What do beans have to do with this?"
• Stormtrolli: "...... (Breaks into boastful laughter!) Blunk's stupidity never ceases to amaze me! Well, it doesn't cause accidents anyway."
• Muck: I'll tell you what it's gonna change: A LOT! If those five fillies turn up missing, their loved ones are gonna come looking for them. And THAT one?! (He pointed at Fluttershy)... SHE'S got the WORST ponies imaginable looking out for her: The infamous Pred Judu Des, AND his bloodthirsty daughters.
• Stormtrolli: Really?
• Muck: So yeah, I have a GOOD reason for being against doing THIS! If we abduct HER in particular, then we WILL get attention from Pred, and he won't just shut down the slave operation. HE'LL EVISCERATE US ALL IN AN INSTANT!!
• Chuck: Yeeeeah, I'm NOT one to get on THAT pony's bad side. That is a gamble NOBODY wants to take! EVER!
• Stormtrolli: Well, then, how about this? You get those five ponies, or if Pred doesn't eviscerate you first... I WILL!
• Muck: But, Stormtrolli-
• Stormtrolli: (Pounds Muck into the ground) QUIET! SHUT UP! Before I knock-a you silly!
• Blunk: (Hides behind Chuck) Stormtrolli's dark side makes my armpits sweat, Chuck.
• Chuck: What doesn't?
• Stormtrolli: "So, are we SET on something?"
• Chuck: "(Gulps), Sure Boss, five little snot-nosed brats, coming up!"
• Muck: "(Quietly) Oh, I just know we're gonna regret this."
• Stromtrolli: I have-a NO regrets whatsoever!
• Chuck: (To himself) Famous last words.
• Stromtrolli: WHAT?!
• Chuck: I said we'll get those vast turds!
• Stromtrolli:...... Well, that's a weird thing to say, but whatever! Then DO IT!
• The trio zoomed off!
• Muck: Well everyone, we better say our prayers. We are TOTALLY dying after this because SOMEONE signing his own death warrant!
• Chuck: Well, we at least we have HIM to take ALL of the blame for making us do this.
• Blunk: HaHAhaha, he's gonna get in trouble.
• Muck: BUT, Pred is not one to spare lives. We'll have to run when the getting's good. (They approached the five fillies in a hidden spot in the park)
• Pinkie: "Applejack, I can't thank you enough helping me out with the cakes."
• Applejack: Not a problem. What are friends for?
• Pinkie: Oh, it's ju- FRIENDS?!
• Applejack: I MEAN- UH... Oh, forget it, we've spent enough time together for that.
• Rarity: Oh my goodness, my business may be run by a FILLY, but it hasn't been this big in AGES!! The suggestions you gave me, have worked WONDERS!!!
• Rainbow Dash: Well, Fluts is also becoming less of a p-word now.
• Pinkie: Rainbow!
• Rainbow Dash: I said P-WORD!
• Pinkie: I mean... I guess that's better. But it's a work in progress.
• Rainbow Dash: Look, I'm TRYING, but I've done so many mean things, ponies here aren't going to just act as if it never happened... (Claps her hooves) just like that.
• Pinkie: Just figure SOMETHING out, RD. You can do it. Who knows? Maybe you might get Wonderbolt attention, and they'll start to take it easier on you.
• Rainbow Dash:... You really think so?
• Pinkie: Being honest, I'm not a prophet, so it's not my call to say.... But it's a possibility.
• Rainbow Dash: "..... Then I'll work hard to MAKE IT POSSIBLE! Time for me to lose the 'tude and get, 20% cooler!"
• Rarity: "Why, 20%?"
• Rainbow Dash: "Hey, I have realistic expectations, I know I might still have haters along the way, can't impress everyone. I know 100% is too Alicorn-Tier for me."
• (Icky): "That is ironically humble considering what you end up getting into if canon's concerned!"
• (Rainbow Dash): "(Nervous laughter), I admit I, ended up becoming my own fan. But can ya blame me? I'M ME!"
• (Twilight): Sometimes a little TOO much.
• (Rainbow Dash): I think I can say the same thing about YOU on several occasions.
• (Twilight): Well, Rarity can have that side a little bit too, and SHE'S the Element of Generosity!
• (Rarity): Like I said in the story, pride and greed can be a foundation for our-
• (Everyone): WE KNOW!
• Pinkie: Look, you JUST have to keep trying harder.
• Rainbow Dash:... Like, how much? 2%?
• Pinkie: Nope.
• Rainbow Dash: 5%?
• Pinkie: Nu-uh!
• Rainbow Dash: 7%?!? ARE YOU OUTTA YOUR MIND?!?
• Pinkie 100%!
• Rainbow Dash: WHAT, YOU'RE BEYOND OUT OF YOUR MIND!! NOPONY CAN DO 100% OF ANYTHING!! NOT EVEN BEING COOL!!! IT'S PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!! YOU'RE ASKING ME TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE!!
• Pinkie: NOTHING, is impossible!
• Rainbow Dash: Oh, well that's easy for YOU to say, you LITERALLY defy reality! You have muscle spasms that can PREDICT THE FUTURE!! YOU ARE LIKE A CARTOON AND WE AREN'T!!! You know why? BECAUSE WE ALL AREN'T LIKE YOU!!
• Pinkie: Well maybe that's your problem! You just don't have any confidence in yourself, and somepony like you should have OODLES of that.
• Rainbow Dash: I defended you in Sugarcube.
• Pinkie: I meant the RIGHT kinda confidence, not the confidence that makes YOU look like a jerk.
• Applejack: Alright, alright, everypony, let's calm down for one second. We ALL got what we wanted, except Rainbow Dash, so NOW she's got friends to help her with that. Right?
• Fluttershy/Pinkie/Rarity: Right.
• Applejack: Then let's DO it. Rainbow Dash, NEEDS us more than ever.
• Fluttershy: "Yay verily."
• Pinkie: Ohhhhh, somepony's starting to talk more all by herself.
• Fluttershy: (She hid her face behind her mane)
• Applejack: It's alright, sugar cube, we can get through this as friends. Besides, you were friends with RD before us. Let's at least make it easier for her. Would you want to see her in trouble again?
• Fluttershy:... No.
• Applejack: Then what do you say?
• Rarity: Of course, darling. You helped me with those rats and mice, so you can certainly help with Rainbow Dash.
• Fluttershy: "Well, if it's for Rainbow, then I-"
• Pinkie comedically gasped!
• Pinkie pointed to a solitary pink cake on a small table next to a sign that reads "Free Cake"!
• Pinkie: "FREE, CAKE?! (Charges for the cake)!"
• Applejack: "HOLD IT, SUGAR CUBE!! (Pinkie stops within biting distance of the cake) DON'T EAT THAT! (Pinkie groans) There's, a cake, on a table, in the middle of a park during a lazy day where we're the only ones present, with a conspicuous "Free Cake" sign..... Does nothing in the Apple Orchard smell rotten here?"
• (Donkey): Wait a minute, I thought Shrek 4 didn't come out at that time.
• (Applejack): "Who said I said that line based on knowing about that?"
• (Donkey): "..... Fair enough."
• (Shrek): Well either way, I think we all know where this is going.
• Rarity: Surely you don't- (Pinkie inches closer to the cake) No, what are you- I'm telling you- we said don't! Don't- NO! GET AWAY FROM IT! (Pinkie licks the frosting).... You just HAD to lick it, didn't you?
• Pinkie: MMM- (the cake is suddenly flung off the table) Uh-oh.
• Chuck: "(Appears with a net) (SHOUTING GIBBERISH)!?"
• Rarity: "HOBGOBLINS?!"
• Blunk: "(Appears as well) AHHH-OOOOHGA?!"
• Rainbow Dash: "THIS IS DEFINITELY A STRANGER DANGER SITUATION, LET'S AMSCRAY!? (They fled thanks to her speed)"
• Blunk: WHOO!!!... What happened?! Did they disappear? Or were they NEVER there to begin with? (Dramatic choir until he was slapped by Chuck)
• Chuck: THEY'RE RIGHT THERE, MORON! (They saw them flying away) AW, THEY'RE THAT FAST?!
• Muck: I TOLD you a free cake trap was too suspicious!! NOW we're gonna be reported and chased out for SURE!
• Chuck: Hey, it worked many times before! I just thought those fillies were stupid enough to fall for it.
• Muck: Uh, they're KIDS, NOT Blunks!
• Blunk: Ahahaha, your plan didn't work!
• Muck: You DO realize that this affects you too, right?
• Chuck: I think he's too stupid to even RECOGNIZE danger or even feel it.
• Blunk: (He smacked his head into the ground four times) I'm a woodpecker! (He continued three times) Except with dirt!
• Chuck: Alright, I got a BETTER idea!

Later...

• Chuck: (They saw that he built a trap from captured and caged animals with the cage as a weak trigger for a wooden cage trap hidden in a tree) That wussy little yellow slender pony can NEVER resist the impulse to help animals, so when they do, they'll fall for the trap lickety-split.
• Muck: And you're SURE this'll work better than your LAST ingenious plan?
• Chuck: If it doesn't work, then I'll, uh... I'll be a JACKASS!
• Nearby donkey: "Hey, I find offense to that!"
• Chuck: "..... BLUNK?!"
• Blunk: "(Leaps up over the Donkey) PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER?!"
• Donkey: "Mommy- (Gets bodyslammed) D'OOOOOOOOOW?!"

Later...

• Muck: Did you give the amnesia dust?
• Blunk: Yep. Gave him ALL of it.
• Muck: ALL OF IT?! Blunk, that can cause BRAIN DAMAGE!!!
• Chuck: Well, I guess you learned a valuable lesson.
• Muck: YOU were the one who sought him after the donkey!
• Chuck: SHHSHHSHH!! Here they come! (The five fillies arrived)
• Fluttershy: I'M COMING, LITTLE ONES!!! (She found them)... Ohhh. Poor things. Must've been some nasty poachers.
• Applejack: Whoa, hold up! Must've been them weird hobgoblins again.
• Rainbow Dash: Uhhh, what makes you think THAT?!
• Chuck: ("Yeah, how the f*** did she know that?!)
• Applejack: If it was poachers, why haven't they taken them away by now? In fact, why don't we see any FIRE or encampment anywhere? It ain't poachers. This is CLEARLY a trap.
• Blunk: NO IT ISN'T!!!
• Chuck:... DAMMIT, BLUNK!! (They went in after them as they fell into their own trap thanks to Applejack and Fluttershy, making them flee again)
• Blunk: JACKAAAAASS, A JACKAAAASS!! HEE-HAW, HEE-HAW, HEE-HA- (Chuck shoved a rock down his throat)
• (Icky): "Not meaning to distract the plot, but how did you guys know about that donkey?"
• (Rarity): "We would learned about him as a friendship mission given to Twilight and Fluttershy where Twilight would discover the dust was responsible. See, his brain-damaged nature was being a splintering issue to his other friends and the tree wanted us to fix that."
• (Icky): "...... Kinda sad to know that guy was messed up in the head for that period of time until Sparkle was given a magical "Friendship Conflict Detector" Table Map."
• (Applejack): "We know, real depressing, but, at least that detail was given a happy ending in the end."
• (Icky): Because why the hell not?
• Muck: (Sighs) Alright, let ME come up with a REAL plan!
• Chuck: "Okay, Mushroom head, let's see you do better!"

Later...

• Muck: (He individually set five traps each for the fillies in different parts of town)... Alright. Here it is. We capture each one individually when they least expect it, and made EACH trap inconspicuous. The good ol' divide and conquer. For the apple pony, I made it look like her hat was misplaced earlier today. For the shy yellow pony, I had the trap set near her cottage for animals to be trapped in what looks like a hazard later. Once the animals call for help, she'll go right into it. For the Pink pony.... PFFT, come on, she's easy. If she's distracted well enough and don't give her ANY red flags, she'll fall STRAIGHT into a trap. For the white fab pony, I made sure that her new pet kitten wandered too far and it'll have her go after the poor thing and right into our trap, by having the cat get stuck in bushes. And finally... There's the biggest challenge. The quick rainbow pony.
• Chuck: Pssh, yeah, what's your gameplan with HER?!
• Muck: Simple. I mean, for me, not for you. See, the rainbow pony can be easily provoked, so all we need to do is push her buttons in a way that doesn't make her suspicious and then she can wander right into our trap.
• Chuck: And how are you gonna make sure she doesn't-
• Muck: Bash her way out? Easy. Limb restraints. And ones that I managed to swipe from outside lands. These restraints are great for one as strong as that filly, the more you struggle, the tighter they get. She won't get out one bit. I calaculated it all after some... LOST sleep.
• Chuck: Pheh. What a waste of your sleep. Those five are no doubt weary of us and have told ponies about us by now. There's NO way- (A cut of Applejack finding her hat right where she thought she left it and falling into a trap was seen, alongside Fluttershy freeing her stuck animal pets and getting stuck in a trap, Pinkie falling for a trail of candy and falling into the trap, Rarity freeing Opal from branches only to get trapped, and Rainbow Dash getting lured by Fluttershy's cries as she was being used for bait, and she moved too fast to be warned before being trapped)... A-... A-... A-...
• Muck: You were saying?
• Chuck: "..... Okay, not bad for a guy that didn't even wanted them until the boss made us."
• Muck: "Well given your ego and that Blunk's, Blunk, clearly I have to be the brains around here."
• Rainbow Dash: LET US GO, YOU WASTES OF LIFE!! WE WILL NEVER BE YOUR SLAVES-

Later...

• Stormtrolli: AHHHHH, THEY'RE HERE! Good work, boys!
• Muck: For the record, we are STILL against abducting fillies here. You ARE aware of the risks this poses, like Pred! I must not have to remind you over and over that if he finds this yellow filly abducted, he'll come after us, and leave NO survivors! So, sir, I'm begging you, this may be your last chance to back out and-
• Stormtrolli: SILENCIO!!! MY MIND IS MADE UP! I AM NOT AFRAID OF THAT BROWN TURD PRED!! It's about time SOMECREATURE stops taking s*** from him! He shall not DARE harm-a me unless he wants to see this little yellow pony's throat slit. (He got his blade arm near Fluttershy's)
• Rainbow Dash: Uh, buster, while I was not expecting it to come out of one of these jokeheads' mouths, you MAY want to listen to them. I've seen Pred do NASTY things to non-ponies. Do you WANNA be a part of his kill count?
• Stormtrolli: NO TALKING UNLESS I-A SAY SO, SLAVE!!!
• Rainbow Dash: Oh, I'm not afraid of YOU! We will NOT be your slaves-

Later...

• The 5 are suddenly in cages......
• Rainbow Dash: "....... Frickadick."
• Blunk: BAHAHAHAH! That sounds funny.
• Rainbow Dash: Your NAMES sound funny.
• Applejack: Soooo... (They looked at the place they were forced to work at, which a sign said was called 'The Scumbucket Pig')... THIS is where you're making is work?
• Stormtrolli: Yessie indeed-a.
• Rainbow Dash: Scumbucket Pig? Wow. That's the lamest name I ever heard.
• Stormtrolli: I wasn't the one that named it, so don't judge me. ESPECIALLY since you work for me now.
• Rainbow Dash: Or what? You gonna whip us like we're a bunch of mule-... Don't answer that last question.
• Rarity: But seriously, what happens to us if we DON'T?!
• Stormtrolli: You do NOT want to know.
• Rarity: Oh, I'm fairly certain we do.
• Stormtrolli: Well then... Let me introduce you to the one guy in charge of this. (Whistles as tremors occurred)
• Pinkie:... Who's THAAAAAAT?!
• Stormtrolli: Say hello to... (A black griffin with a hook-hand, a red-and-black cape and a top hat with a purple feather and several stitches appeared)... Mr. Lawrence.
• Rainbow Dash:... PHAH! THAT'S supposed to be a scary name for someone as SCARY-looking as him? I mean, I KNOW a griffin so I know firsthand how vicious they can be, but, COME ON! He could've gone for a more intimidating name, like Sheldon, or Tim. Or maybe even- (Mr. Lawrence grabbed her by the neck and pinned her to a wall)..... (Strained) Stanly.
• Mr. Lawrence:... Hello, pretty pony. Whatsa matter? Griffin got your throat?
• Stormtrolli: Mr. Lawrence! I think they get the idea.
• Mr. Lawrence:... To be continued. (He let her go)
• (Shenzi): Daf** does he sound like Nigel? Didn't we already put FAGIN through that treatment?
• (Icky): "This episode was introduced in the early days back when mimicking villains were more common... I mean, not as common as the Moisode Era, but still common... And is only now being done, so, yeah, it's gonna be like this. Not saying the practices necessarily died down, but, I think later episodes try to diversify their villain of the week formulas since then."
• Rainbow Dash: Where'd you get THAT literal AND figurative loon?!?
• Stormtrolli: Wouldn't YOU like to know? Now get to work, fillies! Don't wanna keep Lawrence waiting.
• Rarity: "(Sarcastically) Oh heavens forbid we get tardy."
• Stormtrolli: What was that!?
• Rarity: Nothing, nothing.
• Stormtrolli:..... Could've sworn I heard you say something. Oh well, I won't further question it.
• Chuck: "Uh, sir, she was literally being sarcastic and sassy with ya- (Rarity smacked up with an Ed Edd and Eddy sound effect heard) YOWCH! JUMPING GERONIMO! HOOVES ARE HARD!"
• Muck: "Well of course hooves are hard, they are made of a biological component that hardens their feet and-"
• Chuck: "I wasn't asking for a biology lesson, Mushroom head!"
• Mr. Lawrence's voice: HEY! YOU PONIES COMING OR WHAT?!
• Rainbow Dash: "KEEP YOUR STUPID HAT ON, WE'RE COMING?! (The ponies enter) (Quietly) Impatient Hook-Handed Freak."
• Mr. Lawrence: I HEARD THAT!!!
• Rainbow Dash: UGH! I always forget griffins have REALLY good hearing.
• (Rainbow Dash): So it was days upon days of back-breaking labor. In the case of Pinkie, literally... And then she spontaneously got back together again. At least SHE doesn't have to worry about actually dying. I bet she couldn't even kill HERSELF... I mean, if for some unlikely reason she GETS that urge.
• (Pinkie): Ah, I didn't mind.
• Pinkie: Hey, girls... It's not always that bad even in crazy conundrums like this. (She sang this, except with no vulgarity)

Eric Idle - "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" - STEREO HQ-2

• Troll: SHADDAAAAAP!!! (He tossed a mug at her) WE DIDN'T ASK FOR DINNER AND A SHOW!!!!
• Pinkie: "(Snorts) Everypony's a critic."
• Goblin: NONE OF US ARE PONIES, DUMBASS!!!
• Pinkie: Okay, then. Every-BODY'S a critic! How's that?
• The Mythics Grumbled.
• Rainbow Dash: "..... (Quietly) Gees, what's their problem?"
• Mr. Lawrence: Usual Scumbucket Pig Patron demeaner. Those guys are ALWAYS cranky... I mean... Most of the time, they are. Now shut up and give them what they want.
• Rarity: What does it look like we're trying to do? We're not being clowns here!
• Mr. Lawrence: Well your PINK friend here might be fit to be one.
• (Icky): "Okay I'm kinda conflicted here, cause, in one hand, that came out of the mouth of a bad guy so I know I'm not suppose to agree with him, but at the same time, he isn't, necessarily wrong about Pinkie considering how she is in the canon show, I mean-"
• (Rarity): "Well the way I see it, he loses his right of being even technically correct for being so BRUTISH about it! Especially towards Fluttershy"
• Mr. Lawrence: Well, she's showing off more than that yellow pony! She's... I don't even know WHAT she's doing.
• Rarity: "(Sees Pinkie on a giant beach ball juggling random things in the Scumbucket Pig) We're, getting to know her ourselves, so, how that mare works is anypony's guess."
• Mr. Lawrence: I meant that! (Points to Fluttershy, who is standing there, her eyes shrunk) She's standing around like a peryton in front of a flashlight.
• Burly Peryton: "OY?! I RESENT THAT?!"
• Mr. Lawrence: SORRY!!!
• Burly Peryton: YEAH, LIKE THAT'S GONNA HELP!!
• Mr. Lawrence: SECURITY!!!... Uh... That's YOU!
• Rainbow Dash: WHAT?! What about the OTHERS?!? (Mr. Lawrence got out his hook-hand) Ugh! (She beat him up and kicked him out comically) Happy?
• Mr. Lawrence: Yes. You could REALLY use some toughening up.
• Rainbow Dash: I'm ALREADY toughened up.
• Mr. Lawrence: Not from MY perspective.
• Stromtrolli: Watch it, Mr. Lawrencio.
• Mr. Lawrence: I told you not to call me that!
• Stromtrolli: Don't see what the issue is, really. Anyway, you might wanna be careful. We do NOT want her to be ANY tougher than she already is-a.
• Mr. Lawrence: Hmmph. Like it'll matter. I'D RIP HER TO SHREDS!!
• Rainbow Dash: Would you?
• Mr. Lawrence: I WOULD! I may not be a pretty birdy, but I used to be QUITE the looker. (Music was building up) A MAJOR star player in countless battles-
• Pinkie: (Smacks the appearently present record player as a record scratch was heard) Yeah, we're gonna stop you right there before you rip off a song that hasn't been released yet. Just give it to us straight, we are NOT in a song mood right now, mainly because these guys are quite the philistines.
• Orc: YOU WANNA COME DOWN HERE AND SAY THAT?!
• Mr. Lawrence:... Killjoys. Fine, I'll just boringly talk about my past and- (Pulls out another record player) PSYCHE?! (Plays it).
• Pinkie: "Darn it! You just CAN'T avoid ripping things off, can you?!"
• Mr. Lawerence: "Lights, camera, action...."

Rio Nigel's Song

• (Icky): "Goes to show ya can't keep a villain song down."
• (Pinkie): Yeah, you MAY wanna consider changing THAT for your reevaluation.
• Applejack: "..... Okay, so, judging from all them lyrics, was all that song about how cause of Celestia ending pony slavery and that you lost your hand in the process is why you're in cahoots in all this?"
• Fluttershy:... That's... Awful! But it's still wrong to keep ponies as slaves.
• Mr. Lawrence: Ignoring the talk from a pony who can't even DEFEND HERSELF! So, let me tell you something, pride-mane-
• Rainbow Dash: FOR THE LA- I'M NOT GAY!!!
• Mr. Lawrence: -If you wanna be treated less brutally, you do as we say. Wouldn't even want THESE OTHER FOUR hurt because of you, would you?
• Rainbow Dash:... I swear, one of these days, ALL of you will get exactly what you deserve. Let's not forget the risk you were RETARDED enough to take: FLUTTERSHY HERE IS LIKE A DAUGHTER TO PRED JUDU DES!! (The jukebox in the Scumbucket Pig cut off with a record scratch as everyone was shocked)
• Harpy: DID SHE SAY PRED JUDU DES?!?
• Ogre: YOU STOLE A SURROGATE DAUGHTER FROM PRED JUDU DES?!?
• Stromtrolli: I-I-I- (Everyone panicked and ran out) NO, COME BAACK!!!!... (He looked at Rainbow Dash with a comically-angry expression) (High-pitch angry squealing), (Speaks angrily in Troll Language Gibberish that sounds strangely Italian as he grabs Rainbow by the neck)
• Rarity: "..... Oh nice one, Rainbow Dash, you enraged him!"
• Rainbow Dash:... Ehehe...

Later...

• Fluttershy: (She was sobbing out of control as she heard Rainbow Dash being tortured brutally in another room)
• Applejack: By Celestia's mane!
• Rarity: While I applaud her for making a point clear... That was NOT a good idea to cross these people.
• Fluttershy: SOMEPONY PLEASE MAKE HER SUFFERING STOP!!
• Stromtrolli: You will do NO SUCH THING! You all have put my business in PERIL!
• Applejack: You did that yourself by taking the risk of kidnapping Fluttershy. If Pred finds out what you did, your place will by shut down, and people are gonna DIE!
• Stromtrolli: DO NOT TALK BACK TO ME LIKE-A THAT!! I'LL KNOCK YOUR PLOT INTO YOUR OWN FACE!!
• Applejack: I'm JUST warning you how CLOSE you are to making a mistake that'll cost you not just your business.
• Stromtrolli: "Keep'a talking like that and that party of one becomes TWO?!"
• Rarity: Seriously?! Nobody's THAT stubborn!!!
• Stromtrolli: THERE'S PLENTY OF ROOM IN THAT PARTY FOR YOU!!!
• Rarity:... Fine! Keep us here all you want. Do whatever you desire to us. Whip us like the horses we are. But I advise that if you value your life, you'll free us and AVOID Pred's wrath. You KNOW that when it comes to him, he leaves NO SURVIVORS!
• Stromtrolli: I'll pretend I didn't hear ANY of that. (Rainbow Dash came out mentally scarred)
• Pinkie:... He didn't whip you?
• Rainbow Dash: No! WORSE! He forced me to watch children's shows for an hour! (A winding-down dramatic choir played)
• (Icky): "Well at least Rainbow Dash's nightmare of cutesy flute playing flowers is justified now."
• (Rainbow Dash): "Kinda why I am glad to lose the ability of feeling fear since that time with the robot circus, give or take resurgence."
• Applejack:... (Sarcastically) Wow. How horrible! I'm trembling with fea- (She saw the horrid effects on the screen) AAAHHHH, OKAY, I TAKE IT BACK, IT REALLY IS HORRIFYING!!!
• Mr. Lawrence: Next time it really WILL be whipping! Now you all are going to FIX the mess you made until the Scumbucket Pig looks better than when you came in and bring it ack in business.
• Rarity: I do not think that will be at all possible. Everyone knows that you stole a filly Pred loves as much as his daughters. They KNOW that he'll kill THEM if they're even a yard NEAR him. NO survivors.
• Stromtrolli: NOT ANOTHER WORD ABOUT THAT!!! EVER!!! You will get us BACK in business, or DIE trying! AM I CLEAR?! (The fillies nodded yes) Good! Do not disappoint me! Mr. Lawrencio? You know what to do. (He left)
• Rarity: Fine! You have been warned. Well, everypony? Let's... TRY to get this place back in business.
• (Rarity): "And here's the part where things get LESS dignifying."
• (SpongeBob): Well I certainly believe that.
• (Rarity): Well... Getting the business back was... Shall we say... Not possible. Nobody wanted to go to a place so long as Fluttershy was there and putting a target on its metaphorical back, and that stubborn brute would not listen to reason. The only way to save the business was to get rid of her, and us, but... You know. But at any rate... We went to try, and- (An entire montage of creatures slamming their doors on the five ponies was seen, all out of fear) Well suffice to say, it was the same all over.
• Goblin #1: DON'T COME NEAR MY PROPERTY, I DON'T WANNA DIE TO A NON-PONY SLAYER!!! (He slammed the door in a comedic fashion)
• Applejack: Mr. L, this is hopeless. The people here just won't talk to us because word has ALREADY spread about Fluttershy's relationship with Pred. They ain't ever gonna come back unless you and Stormtrolli let us go.
• Mr. Lawrence: NOT happening! PERIOD!
• Applejack: You two would risk your lives for that?
• Mr. Lawrence: You think we're going to take S*** from that scary pony? NO! We're NOT going to take it. We're NOT going to let Pred know we're just like all the others he killed: dying pathetically. We WILL defend our business with our lives.
• Rainbow Dash: WHAT KIND OF SENSE DOES THAT MAKE?! PRED IS GOING TO KILL YOU AND THAT FAT GREEN SWORD-ARMED TROLL!! In fact, HE'LL DESTROY THIS ENTIRE TOWN TO TEACH OTHER NON-PONIES A LESSON!! (Everyone heard that and began to panic in an angry mob as this played)

Rabbids Go Home Music - Bãtutã Din Moldova

• Mr. Lawrence: NONONO, THEY'RE JUST OVERTHINKING- AAAHHH!! (The six were trampled all over by the people)

Later...

• Mayor: Mr. Stormtrolli, I am going to say right now, that for our safety, you MUST fire these five ponies, IMMEDIATELY!
• Stormtrolli: Mister Mayor, I assure you, maybe our people are overthinking-
• Mayor: YOU KNOW PRED NEVER LEAVES WITHOUT TAKING MORE THAN ONE OR TEN BLOODY SOULS!!!
• Rarity: I TRIED to tell him, but he WOULDN'T LISTEN!
• Mayor:... And you were WARNED MANY TIMES?!?
• Stormtrolli: Don't listen to her, she's a drama queen.
• Rarity: I BEG YOUR PARDON?!?
• Mayor: URRRGHHH!! STORMTROLLI, WHAT THE DEVIL WERE YOU THINKING?!? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW SERIOUS THIS IS?!? YOU'RE PUTTING THE LIVES OF OUR PEOPLE IN DANGER!!! This is the ONLY time I'm ordering this to you: Either let them go, OR YOU'RE FIRED, AND BANISHED!!
• (Icky): "Well that wraps up the story in a nice bow-"
• (Pinkie): "There's still 3 chapters after this."
• (Icky): "..... He's gonna secretly still keep you bunch, wasn't he?"
• Stormtrolli: Mr. Mayor, I can personally guarantee you that these ponies will be returned home safe and sound.
• Mayor: Hmm... well, see that you do.
• Rainbow: Well that wraps things up in a nice little bow-

In a secret area...

• Stormtrolli: (He throws the five ponies in a cage) THERE! (Locks the cage) THIS will be your home, where Mr. Lawrence and I can find you always.
• Pinkie: NO!
• Rainbow: NO!
• Applejack: NO!
• Rarity: NO!
• Fluttershy: NO!
• Stormtrolli: YES, YES, YES, YES, YES! TO US, YOU ARE BELONGING!
• Lawrence: We'll find some people that are NOT afraid of that Pred Judu Des, and we will prevent you from telling them about it, and you'll be sorry!
• Rainbow Dash: "I'm pretty sure guys like that are either long dead for going after Pred to begin with, or are nowhere near any place nor would be interested in a place called "The Scumbucket Pig"."
• Stromtrolli: Be grateful I'm keeping you alive after THAT stunt.
• Rarity: UGH! HOW?! How is it that NOTHING people say GETS THROUGH TO YOU?! YOU'RE-
• Stromtrolli: I HAVE HEARD ENOUGH-A!!! I didn't want to use these, but... I have no choice. CHUCK?! MUCK?! BLUNK?! (The three showed up)
• Muck: Y-Y-YES SIR?!?
• Stromtrolli: GET ME, THE COLLARS!!
• Muck:... Sir, you said you wouldn't use those-
• Stromtrolli: I SAID GET ME, THE COLLARS!!! (They zoomed off and got the box as Stromtrolli opened them with Legend of Zelda Treasure opening music played, but then winded down at the DUNUNUNUUUN when they saw that there were bite marks on them)... AGGUAAAHHHH!! (This played)

SpongeBob SquarePants Production Music - Killer Birds-2

• Stromtrolli: (He made comically weird noises trying to process this and then had an insanely comical smiling expression when talking to them) HEEEY, BluUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuunk... YOU DIDN'T PERCHANCE, EAT, THE COLLARS, THE MOST IMPORTANT BACKUP PLANS FOR KEEPING SAFETY IN MY BUSINESS, DID YOOOOOOooOOOOOOU?!?!?... (His eyes twitched)
• Blunk: (As everyone's expressions were in comical shock) Of COURSE I didn't! And they CERTAINLY didn't taste like lead-flavored BUTTERSCOTCH!!! (Awkward Drum Sound)...
• Chuck: "..... (Quietly) Idiot."
• Mr. Lawerence: "(Quietly) Absolute moron."
• Rainbow Dash: "(Quietly) Dumbass."
• Rarity: "(Quietly) Imbecile."
• (Icky): "Obvious Ed from Ed Edd and Eddy Espie. (Smack) OW?! CHIRST, SHEN?!"
• Muck:... I'm disturbed how you KNOW what lead tastes like!
• Chuck: It WOULD explain a lot. (Stromtrolli got red angry and steaming)
• Pinkie: Wow, when did he become somewhat like me?
• Mr. Lawrence: I had a feeling you'd entrust such important devices to an idiot like him. So I made backups.
• Stromtrolli: RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... OH THANK THE PANAN GODS!!!
• Pinkie: "The whata Gods?"
• (Rainbow Dash): "To interject any ineditable stupid questions from Icky, no, we had never since kept up with what Stormtrolli meant by that."
• Stormtrolli: (He gave them to him and they were perfectly intact) HAHAH!!! Bullet, DODGED!!!
• (Iago): "Wait, how would he know what a bullet is if-"
• (Icky): "Iags, litterally a season 2 episode ago we had Granny Smith weild a shotgun, I think guns are not that outta the question for Equestria to acknowledge."
• (Iago): Whatever.
• Stromtrolli: (As the collars were put on) To make sure you don't cause anymore trouble, you are to be wearing these magic collars. They do ANYTHING to you. Shock you, inflict pain on you, mind-control you, make you dizzy, you name it. It will activate if you disobey any orders or if you try to take them off.

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The Gypsy Bard - Extended