The Glue Factory

[RogueIce]

It seems weird that professional flyers are allowed in the Olympics equivalent.

NBA and NHL players go to the Olympics all the time.

[evilsoup]

it used to be the case that only amateurs were allowed in the olympics
I could go into the history of why that was the case, but tl;dr it's class warfare
since Equestria is a talking horse utopia, that wouldn't be an issue

[Crazedwraith]

hmm. well I was aware there were some exceptions. But seriously. Fluttershy is pulled off the street and expected to go up against wonderbolts?

It was a nice thought that Cloudsdale is so replet with fliers it can put three of its best together for the relay. While Ponyville has to be a lot more tactical and free up some of their better fliers fpr individual events.

So general thoughts and impressions guys?

[evilsoup]

haven't seen it yet das lol

[Crazedwraith]

oh well then....

warning: spoilers?

[Crazedwraith]

[evilsoup]

I like that everyone knows who Rainbow Dash is, some episodes were getting ridiculous with nobody recognising the mane characters
aww wow, a horse-shoe shaped baton, that's pretty neat
Please learn something!

lol soarin you loser. Good espionage there, RD!
P is for rainbow dash!
This is a pretty good episode so far. This season is really redeeming Rainbow Dash for me. But Princess Twilight is not impressed!
Wing-ups, lol.

haha, spitfire's kind of a bitch
so glad I murderised her in my fanfic

[Crazedwraith]

Yeah, remember when the wonderbolts weren't asshats? *sigh*

Also; RogueIce might like this one

[RogueIce]

Also; RogueIce might like this one

[Crazedwraith]

Oh and for those who might be shippers out there:
Pies make everything better!

Except when they don't

I may have developed a real mlp problem recently.

[evilsoup]

ja, remember when the wonderbolts weren't asshats? *sigh*

The only time we saw them before was either Being Awesome or mingling at a party, so. Eh. I think it's kind of funny, you know? Like there's this standard children's television thing of 'oh no your idol is a bit of a shit' going on, but Rainbow Dash just doesn't realise it/Spitfire is pretty good at covering it up.

[Crazedwraith]

So Discord's back but apparently the most important thing about this episode for the fandom is that the animators but Flash Century in for a cameo when Megan McCarthy promised he wouldn't appear outside the movie.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=PIi3Xvh5i14

[evilsoup]

Flash Sentry's alive?
Send the war rocket Butthurt to bring me his body.
Flash! Aa-ah! Saviour of the ponyverse!

[evilsoup]

speaking of which, seriously, flash gordon is the best film of all time
it is what all those live action adaptations of animes should have been
it even has his theme tune kick in for the final battle
seriously, imagine what a flash gordon-style dragonball movie would have been like

[Crazedwraith]

Indeed. Stupid Flash Sentry. Everyone knows twilight has the hots for rainbow dash/pinkie pie/discord/celestia. (delete as appropriate)

[evilsoup]

TWILIGHT: Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save Equestria
Flash! Ah-ah! He's a miracle! (dun-dun duh duh duhn-DUHN)

[Crazedwraith]

thus did evilsoup's descent back into fanfiction did commence.

[evilsoup]

speaking of which

Cold dirt and warm mud. Rainbow Dash tried to breath in, but something was blocking her nostrils. She raised her head, slowly -- her neck was aching. Her whole body was aching. She opened her mouth and breathed in and she could taste blood. She opened her eyes and looked up at the sky: it was full of dark clouds. No, she thought, not clouds. Smoke.

Her mind was blank. Why am I here? She was still for a long time, watching and listening. Birds were squaking in the trees. Rainbow Dash's right foreleg was stinging in particular. Her sight slowly drifted down to a deep cut there. It was no longer bleeding. It was coated with mud.

It all started to come back to her. Princess Celestia had asked her personally to come to Cloudsdale. She'd flown with Spitfire of the Wonderbolts. She'd met up with Gilda once more (something moved a little while away: a twig cracked, some mud squelched). And then...

Raindow Dash looked up at the sky again. She tried to flex her wings, but only one of them moved, and that felt as though nails were being driven through it. Celestia had led them into battle. Spitfire had died before her eyes. Gilda...

There was a quiet whimper a few feet away. Rainbow Dash turned to look, and felt like a red-hot knife was being shoved btween the vertebrae of her neck. Gilda. She struggled to stand. She ignored the pain in her front leg, and the general cramp all over her body. Gilda.

She limped around in a circle. It hurt to put weight on her right foreleg and her other limbs were shaking.

"Gilda," croaked Rainbow Dash, and got in reply a low moan. She looked in the direction it came from but saw nothing: only churned mud and rocks strewn from the crash. Only a dusty pile of feathers and twisted limbs. Only Gilda.

Rainbow Dash moved as quickly as she could, wincing with every step. She nearly stumbled once and had to stop, but eventually she got there.

"Gilda," she said, and leaned down next to her friend. The griffon twitched. "Wake up, Gilda. Wake up."

One of Gilda's eyes snapped open, but the other was missing. There was an ugly line across her face. Rainbow Dash flinched away.

"Dash," said the Griffon, and closed her eye again. Rainbow Dash watched her friend for several seconds, checking that she was still breathing, and then sat up.

The Everfree forest, she thought. A day ago that name would have filled her with dread, but after what she'd seen (Spitfire had been there one moment, and then there was only fire) -- after what she'd done (his eyes had been so small, but she'd seen the fear in them as she cracked open his cockpit)...

"We're in the Everfree forest, G. I think..." she looked to the pillar of smoke in the distance. She looked at the mountain where they'd run off a dragon. "I think I know where we are. Come on."

Gilda didn't move.

"Come on, G."

"Leave me."

Rainbow Dash sat in silence for nearly a minute. She wanted to say: you'll die out here, but of course Gilda knew that. She wanted that.

"No," said Rainbow Dash. She leaned down and put her head under Gilda's neck. Gilda stank of blood and shit: she grunted but did not resist as Rainbow Dash forced her on all fours.

Rainbow Dash stepped away and Gilda fell down again.

"Leave me, Dash."

"That's not gonna happen. No matter how many times you say it."

Gilda raised her head to look at Rainbow Dash.

"Dash. I'm as good as gone. Leave me. I'll just slow you down."

Rainbow Dash stamped her hoof and winced as pain shot up her leg. She snorted.

"No way. We're not that far from Ponyville. You're my friend, and there's no way I'm going to leave you here. No way."

"Friend? Do you mean that?"

Rainbow Dash could feel tears forming in the corners of her eyes. Gilda sounded so tired. Weak. She looke the Griffon in the eye, tried to ignore the scar and the bloody pit on the side of Gilda's face.

"You've known me since forever, G. Yeah, I mean it. Come on."

Gilda looked at her for a long while, then nodded and tried to get up. Rainbow Dash looked at the griffon's wings: they were little more than charred stumps. Even with the help of a hospital, Gilda would never fly again. But she doesn't need to hear that, thought Rainbow Dash.

"Yeah," said Gilda, and nearly collapsed: Rainbow Dash leaned in and lent her friend support. They moved together, slowly, each supporting the other.

"This way."

I am continuing that thing
just really slowly

[Crazedwraith]

i hadn't actually read it before.

And I'm not great fan of grimdarking up MLP but you did a good job with portraying RD's loyalty there.

[evilsoup]

this is the first place online that little bit has been posted actually
but anyway yeah it turns out the thought of the Imperium of Man invading My Little Pony is much more fun to write than the actual invasion, hence taking six months between updates

[Crazedwraith]

yeah i meant any of the fanfic rather than just that section. not really being familiar with wh40k except in the generalist of senses.

[evilsoup]

oh right, OK
you don't really need any knowledge of 40k beyond the general (i.e. the Imperium are a bunch of genocidal tossers & the setting is over-the-top grimdark) to read it, but if you don't like grimdark in ponies then well, you may not like it

[evilsoup]

anyways
this is pretty great

[timmy]

That explains a lot

And my daughter had actually made theories along the same lines

[Crazedwraith]

So this episode we find out best pony don't have time for any unicorn posers. But cleans up real well if she wants to.