Rainbow Splash
Jun. 8th, 2016 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyThe Wonderbolts, now with Rainbow Dash, came to town and wowed us with precision stunt flying this afternoon. All of Ponyville was there to watch. Ponies like a good show.
Unfortunately, Dash tried to insert something extra into the finale and she ended up crashing. Pinkie Pie's giant ball of cotton candy broke her fall, but she managed to get pretty scratched up. On the way down she fell into a tree, got pecked by birds and got a little fried by a storm cloud. It was a long and varied crash. If she was trying to avoid getting called Rainbow Crash, this certainly didn't help.
She looked pretty down while she was getting patched up in the first aid tent, but she didn't want to talk about it. We kind of got kicked out of the tent by the nurse pony, there were ten of us there, crowding Dash and getting in the way. But when we caught up with Dash later, around sundown on the fair ground arena, she was sweeping up the place and her mood was considerably brighter.
It took some doing, but she finally told us the detail that made sense of this whole hairpin turn on her mood. All the Wonderbolts have awful, embarrassing nicknames, and when they named her Rainbow Crash, it was part of welcoming her to the club. Dash wouldn't give us any examples, but she did say they usually commemorated some rookie mistake they'd made in their first days on the team. Applejack pointed out that the nicknames probably helped keep the Wonderbolt fame from going to their heads. I think the nicknames also bring everypony to the same level, so that they work better together as a team.
That was the good news. The bad news is that because of her surprise showboating and out-of-control crash landing, Rainbow Dash has to clean the Wonderbolt compound every day for the next moon. She still looked like she was in a state of bliss, despite that. And then we all went and hid in Rainbow Dash's house (with fresh snacks!) to wait for her to finish sweeping up the fairgrounds so she could have that surprise party we'd aborted a few days ago.
Unfortunately, Dash tried to insert something extra into the finale and she ended up crashing. Pinkie Pie's giant ball of cotton candy broke her fall, but she managed to get pretty scratched up. On the way down she fell into a tree, got pecked by birds and got a little fried by a storm cloud. It was a long and varied crash. If she was trying to avoid getting called Rainbow Crash, this certainly didn't help.
She looked pretty down while she was getting patched up in the first aid tent, but she didn't want to talk about it. We kind of got kicked out of the tent by the nurse pony, there were ten of us there, crowding Dash and getting in the way. But when we caught up with Dash later, around sundown on the fair ground arena, she was sweeping up the place and her mood was considerably brighter.
It took some doing, but she finally told us the detail that made sense of this whole hairpin turn on her mood. All the Wonderbolts have awful, embarrassing nicknames, and when they named her Rainbow Crash, it was part of welcoming her to the club. Dash wouldn't give us any examples, but she did say they usually commemorated some rookie mistake they'd made in their first days on the team. Applejack pointed out that the nicknames probably helped keep the Wonderbolt fame from going to their heads. I think the nicknames also bring everypony to the same level, so that they work better together as a team.
That was the good news. The bad news is that because of her surprise showboating and out-of-control crash landing, Rainbow Dash has to clean the Wonderbolt compound every day for the next moon. She still looked like she was in a state of bliss, despite that. And then we all went and hid in Rainbow Dash's house (with fresh snacks!) to wait for her to finish sweeping up the fairgrounds so she could have that surprise party we'd aborted a few days ago.
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Date: 2016-06-09 02:55 am (UTC)