MPPT3K Guest Submission:
Vacation is Elation, Chapter 2
I’m back again. After a bit of consideration (about five seconds worth) I’ve decided to riff all the chapters of Super Big Mac’s story Vacation is Elation. Why? Because if I don’t, I’ll explode. So, we continue where we left off...
Muleicous: (Desperately trying to break open the window with his chair) Must... get... out!
Twilight: It’s not use Mr. Muleicous, we’re stuck here until Pinkie tells Dash to push the button.
Mule: Why?
Rarity and Twilight: What?
Mule: Why are we stuck here? Why can’t you and Rarity teleport? How have we survived all this time without food or water? Why don’t I have to go to the bathroom?
(Random Music plays from the TV)
All: What was that?
Rainbow: (From TV) Sorry, wrong button. Well, Pinkie’s not here today, so I decided to go ahead and let you guys read the next chapter anyway.
Rarity: Oh thank you Rainbow darling!
Rainbow: No problem guys, I know how it is to riff these thing. So, here’s chapter two of Vacation is Elation.
*BUZZ*
All: We got story sign!
Chapter Two: The elation of exploration
Mule: So, it’s a vacation of elation, and the elation is of exploration?
Twilight: Shouldn’t the whole thing be titled Vacation of Exploration then?
Dash's eyes flicked around madly, her head snapping in all directions
Mule: She was doing her best Exorcist impression
as she strived to look at everything at once. "This. Place. Is. AWESOME!"
Rarity: ‘But it could be 20% cooler’
She jumped into the air and did a backflip, causing Rarity's hat to fall off. "Ugh, really, Rainbow Dash. You got my hat dirty."
Shaking her hat to get even the most minuscule pieces of filth off, Rarity sighed to herself. "Although, I wouldn't mind if you were to keep flapping those oversized fans of yours that you call wings.
Mule: Dang, another good burn. Rarity’s two for two in this fic!
I must say that when you do, the tempurature is at least twenty percent cooler."
All: *facepalm and facehoof*
Completely unfazed by the alabaster unicorn's comment, Dash just said, "C'mon, Rarity! This is where Daring Do lived! The best adventurer ever! She! Lived! HERE!"
Twilight: ‘You just stepped on her house see?!’
Rainbow Dash goes for another back flip.
"Heh. I still do." The back flip didn't end well.
Mule: ‘Five ponies lost their lives today in a tragic backflipping accident.’
"You... you're... You're..!"
Rarity: Twilight, dear! Rainbow Dash is broken!
Twilight: Again?
Daring Do, in all her splendid, rugged glory, was standing at the top of the stairs, the crumbling wall behind her creating the perfect backdrop.
Mule: Until it fell down on her. The End.
The nine pony, one dragon entourage ground to a halt as they stared up at the mare
before them. She looked...
Rarity: Dirty?
Twilight: Amazing?
Mule: At a random bit on the ground?
Well, she looked exactly like Rainbow Dash. All that was different was her coloring.
Mule: You think Super Big Mac is trying to point something out?
Rarity and Twilight: Hmmm... Nope.
"C'mon, I'll show you around." The mare smiled dangerously. "Just make sure you hold onto your hats, girls!"
Twilight: What about Spike?
Rarity: He left to get a snack.
Letting out a tremendous
Mule: Shoop-da
whoop, the monochrome maned mare jumped over the wall behind her, tossing a smart salute before disappearing from sight.
Dash, of course, was the first to react. Squealing like a pig trapped under a blanket, she dove over the wall after her new-found idol.
Twilight: New found? She was gushing over her five seconds ago.
A stange grating sound fell onto their ears,
Rarity: Help that poor sound up darling!
emanating from where their friend had just gone.
Once it was clear that Rainbow Dash had, indeed, disappeared, everypony else surged forward.
Etched into the wall was small sign that read:
Mule: ‘Here, there be monsters’
Earth Ponies and Unicorns, <== that-a-way!
Pegasai, up an' over!
Fluttershy slowly floated into the air and alights atop the wall. "Oh, my... I can't get through... there's a grate in the way, and..." Fluttershy's face twisted with confusion. "It's...
Mule: Monty Python’s Flying Circus!
welded shut..."
After trying and failing to lift the grate with magic, even Twilight had to admit defeat.
Twilight: I don’t know the meaning of the word!
Rarity: You live in a library dear, nopony believes that.
"Well gsng, looks like we'll just have to find her the old fashioned way."
Mule: ‘Everyone say that Ditzy Doo’s the best pony, she’ll come flying back.’
The group trotted down the path, looking for any sign of their missing friend. Even though the jungle held all sorts of bizarre noises and sounds,
Mule: Woah woah woah! I thought we were at the beach. How did we get to a jungle?!
Twilight: The Magic of Friendship... I guess.
Twilight was beginning to get the feeling that things were too... quiet.
The sun moved across the sky, but... barely.
Rarity: The sun was stuck in Canterlot traffic you see.
It felt like it had been hours since they had started down the trail, and yet... "Ugh, I think my watch is broken, everypony. It says that it's only been a few minutes!" Twilight grunted in disbelief, before starting forward again.
"Greetings! Welcome to our island!"
Mule: (sings) Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a faithful trip...
"Gah!" Twilight leapt into the air, mane and tail standing on end.
"Oh, my most sincere apologies. I didn't mean to startle you so very badly."
Twilight: ‘I only meant to startle you so much that you’ld pee yourself.’
A stallion moved onto the trail from behind a large patch of multi-hued reeds. He was a deep purple, his mane fashionably coiffed so as to look great with the fedora he was wearing. His barding was made of pleasant brown and tans, and the holster attached was unclasped so that a whip was easily accessable.
Rarity: Well! Hello handsome!
Twilight was positively intrigued. This pony looked almost exactly like her! It was... curious.
Twilight: I was curious because he was wearing pants. No pony wears pants!
"Greetings. My name is Midnight. I'm a professor at the University of Fillydelphia, in the archealogic department."
Mule: Yeah, right. Next he’ll be saying he’s looking for... Oh I don’t know, the Arc of the Covenhoof or something.
The unicorn then adjusted his glasses, a slight blush adorning his cheeks. "I am also the happily married husband to the most famous explorer in the world. Daring Do, of course." He chuckled as he looked over the ponies standing before him.
"Who, pray tell, are you?"
Pinkie Pie, as ever, was able to break the ice faster than anypony else
Rarity: Well, it is her job during Winter Wrap-Up.
by jumping right over to him and shouting, "hi! I'm Pinkamena Diane Pie, but you can call me Pinkie Pie! Which is what my friends call me, ooh, what's your last name I bet it's really cool, did you know that I have like, the longest name ever? I think it's silly, but what is a pony to do, right? Oh, and do you like parties? Those are my friends, but not all of them, most are still at home and Dashie jumped after Daring Do into the pit that said 'Pegasuseseses enter here' and a grate dropped over the entrence, and it was reaaally deep looking so we couldn't follow, and-"
Applejack's hoof shoved an apple into the pink pony's mouth.
All: Thank you!
"Ho-kay there, Sugarcube. Breathe some, why don'cha?" Turning to the professor, she gave a small bow of apology. "Mighty sorry 'bout that, mister. Ah'm Applejack. Them's Fluttershy,
Mule: Wait, them’s Fluttershy?
Twilight: Yeah, we bought a second one at the gift shop after we arrived.
mah sis Applebloom, Twilight, Rarity, her sister Sweetie Belle, and the li'l pegasus is Scootaloo.
Rarity: I almost forgot Scootaloo was here.
Mule: So did her parents. (punched by Rarity)... I deserved that.
We came here for a vacation, y'see. We dinnit know that there was anypony out here."
Twilight: ‘Ah mean, it’s not like this is a resort or something.’
He smiled, his glasses flashing in the sunlight.
Mule: Dude! The kids don’t need to see your glasses fun parts!
Rarity and Twilight: (groans)
"Not to worry, miss. You probably recieved a letter saying that this island held a certain piece of adventure for ponies who dared to enter its boundaries, hmm?"
"Actually... yeah. Tha' sounds about right."
Mule: Deus Ex Charta
Rarity: Sorry dear, I don’t speak Russian
Twilight: *facehoof*
"Well, then. Know that you are the first group to arrive here since we first landed. We've been... expectingcompany
Mule: ‘To bring a space for those two words’
for quite a long while, and..." His eyes grew wide as he spotted Spike. "Gah!
Twilight: No, that’s a dragon. What in Celestia’s name is a Gah?
It's that devious dragon! I thought we lost him in the Saddle-Arabian desert! Run!" The unicorn fleed back through the overgrowth, disappearing from sight almost instantly.
Rarity: Was he saying that all dragons look alike?
Mule: Ah racism, even ponies arnt immune to your wonders.
"Wait!" Twilight started after him, using her magic to part the reeds just enough to dive through. Barely a second later, a deep rumbling, accompanied by a ground shaking boom can be heard in the near distance.
Twilight: Please tell me I didn’t turn into an alicorn.
Mule: No promises.
Tentatively, Rarity uses her magic on the reeds to see a small clearing a few feet away. On the other side of the clearing...
Rarity: Was a five star spa!
A great, towering door loomed over the clearing, casting its shadow along twin sets of hoofprints that lead right up to, and through it.
Rarity and the rest gather in the clearing, searching for a way to open the door.
Mule: Well, Rarity could use their magic to open it. Oh! Or Pinkie could use the Party Cannon to blast it open! Or...
After giving it a couple of bucks that would've brought down a nice sized apple tree, AJ gives up. "It tain't gonna open, girls. Sorry, but Ah ain't strong enough." She lowered her head, heaving a deep sigh.
Twilight: Or we could give up after kicking it a couple of times...
"Oi, y'all need some help?"
Mule: Is that an Irish Cowpony?
"I'm sorry, AJ, but what would we need help with? We need to help Twilight and Rainbow Dash!"
"Tha' tweren't me, Rarity!"
"Oh, come now, Apple-"
"Howdy!"
"-Jeaah! Don't do that! It's impolite to sneak up on a lady!"
Rarity: Ok, I got a bit lost.
Mule: Well they are in the jungle. (slapped by Twilight and Rarity)
The orange mare in the aviator's goggles
Twilight: How did Spitfire get here?
just snorted dismissively. "Wull, beg pardon, but you're makin' quite the ruckus, y'see. I jus' wanted ta see iffin there was a way ta help ya, if Ah could."
Mule: Oh Luna, her accent’s worse then AJ’s.
Applejack stared at the other mare, her brain seeing the similarities, and yet... There was too much difference. "Wha's yer name, pardner? Mine's Applejack."
The strange doppleganger tore off her stetson, showing a short-cropped shock of blonde hair beneath as she dipped low in a bow. "T'name's Proper Nella. 'Prop'ella, the Aero Belle', at yer service. Ah've won tha blue ribbon in ev'ry flyin' competition Ah 'ave ever entered. Ah'm the best." She snickers. "An' Daring Do knows it. Tha's why I get ta use this island as a landing pad fer free."
Rarity: Equestrian! Do you speak it?!
Mule: Clop Fiction?
Rarity: Mhm, a great movie.
Mule: Indeed.
Twilight: Guys, we kind of have a story to riff.
Rarity and Mule: Sorry.
"So... yer tha one who totes Darin' 'round whenever she's gotta go som'ere to far fer her ta fly herself?"
"Eeyup, tha's me!"
"... Yer accent's purty familliar-like."
"Hey, I ain't got no ack-cent! Ah'm jus' cultured, is all."
"Really."
"Yeah, really."
Mule: Ok, out that whole conversation, I could understand about 10 or 11 words.
Applejack huffed unhappily. "Fine. Waddya want? Where's our friends?"
The other mare chuckled and pulled down her goggles. "Wull, yer jus' gonna need ta find 'em, ain'tcha? Ta, now!" The orange mare disappears through the underbrush, an angry farm filly hot in pursuit.
"Hey! Git back here, ya coward!"
"Applejack, wait!"
Twilight: ‘Don’t leave us with the Cutie Mark Crusaders!’
"Sis!"
"Stop, ya high-falutin', lilly-livered snake in the grass!"
"Applejack!"
Applejack didn't pay attention. As the small plane began to take off, she readied her lasso. Giving it a few twirls, she released it, snagging it on the tail of the plane as it taxied by. With a mighty tug, the airplane took off, pulling Aj with it. "Wra-ree! Fahn Dwi nd Ash!"
Mule: I’m sorry, I understand you. It’s like you have something in your mouth.
Rarity looked on in shock as Applejack started pulling herslef up the rope.
All: How?
"Applejack, wait!" Rarity stamped her hooves with anxiety. She was gone. They were down by three!
Rarity: I was never good at baseball.
"Oh my goodness... Oh my goodness!" Fluttershy sat on her haunches, shaking with fear. "E-everypony's disappearing!"
Twilight: Can’t Fluttershy just fly after her?
Mule: And move the plot along? Are you crazy?!
Rarity, the edge of fear still in her voice, tried to placate her friend. "Now, now, Fluttershy, we'll be alright. We'll all be..."
Rarity: ‘Picked off, one-by-one, by ponies that look exactly like us.’
Mule: And then Fluttershy learned the word cliche.
Rarity looked around, her eyes wide. "Where are the girls? Sweetie? Sweetie Belle? Applebloom! Scootaloo! Spike?!
All: Spike’s not a girl.
Where did they go? They were just here with us, not a second ago!"
"Pinkie's gone, too."
Twilight: *sarcasm* ‘Oh no, what ever shall we do?!’
"But- bu- ba-wha huh?"
Mule: Whaaaaaaaat?
Rarity teetered for a second.
Rarity: Fluttershy tottered.
"Oh, please don't faint, Rarity!"
Rarity snapped out of her daze. "Faint? Faint? Not here, I won't! It's waay too filthy, and there's not a fainting couch to be seen!"
Mule: Yeah, cuz Rarity's never fainted without a couch
Rarity's eyes brimmed with tears. "My sister! They took her! My little Sweetie Belle!"
Sweetie Belle giggled. "Wow! What other kinds of fun can you do in the jungle?"
All: … O.O
Twilight: No...no... just, just no.
Rarity: We already know this isn’t a clop fic. Why are we worried?
Mule: Have you read Pinkie Pie’s Tasty Testing? Have you noticed that it’s incomplete?
Her teal-tinged twin smiled. "Well... D'you think we should show them the old ruins, Skaterate?"
Mule: Really? Skaterate? That’s the best he could come up with.
Twilight: Do you have anything better?
Mule: Hmmm... Touche.
The magenta maned, pink pegasus smiled in reply. "It depends. Think they can handle it?" His smirk was directed right at his look-alike.
"Wull, they might be able ta, 'specially if they're wit' us, since we know's all tha dif'rent traps n' hidey-holes."
Rarity: I found Applebloom’s double!
Mule: A blind man could find Applebloom’s double.
"Good point, Appleblossom! We'll get these crusaders their cutiemarks yet!"
Twilight: I wonder if these three have a club too?
Mule: What would their name be thought? The Hind Symbol Searchers?
Rarity: The Fanny Note Finders?
Twilight: No, probably the Butt Drawing Bounders.
"Yeah!" All six jump in the air for a group high-hoof.
Spike grumbles. "As long as there's food, I'll be happy."
"Don't worry, Spades!
Mule: (laughing) Spike’s so meaningless in this chapter that even the spin off characters mess up his name!
Twilight: Either that, or the CMC’s did. It’s hard to tell.
Just don't try no funny business, er else Sugar Horn's older sis Velvety'll turn ya into Swiss Cheese!"
"... Well, um, what's she like?"
Rarity: (blushes) Probably a hussy!
Mule: Ooooo, somepony’s jealous!
Pinkie Pie was hopping down the trail, just as happily as ever. "Oh, gi~~rrrls! Where arrre yooou!"
Twilight: ‘I need to move the plot alo~~~nnng!’
Her body stopped in midair, her legs still curled at the apex of her hop. Then, they started shuddering. 'It's almost like they're trying to war-'
Mule: ‘warn me that some wierd, hairless paes are watching me.’
with a yelp, Pinkie Pie turned into a tornado in miniature.
Rarity: Twilight, what does that mean?
Twilight: (reads the sentence over) … I think it means bad grammar.
After a few seconds of spinning, she popped into the air, her body folding up like a piece of paper in the Unicorn's ancient art style of Hornigami.
Mule: Oh I bet she was ‘Horni’ for Gummy. (kicked in the groin by Twilight and Rarity)
After flipping through the forms of a crane, a boat, and a frog, Pinkie's body popped back to normal, dropping her gently to the ground. "Wooooo! Now, THAT was a doozy!"
Pinkie blinked. It sounded as if there had been an echo, but... at the same time as her!
Twilight: So... Not an echo?
"Hello?!"
"Who's there?"
"It's just me!"
"Me, who?"
Mule: Didn’t we do this joke for the first chapter?
"Well, me, obviously! I love Cupcakes! Do you?"
All: No!
"..."
Pinkie rubbed her chin. Every time she said something, she was sure somepony else was saying it, too.
Rarity: Hold on, does that mean they both said that joke at the same time?
Mule: Probably, the author didn’t say who said it... again!
Time to try a new tactic.
She began to sing.
Twilight: I vote for a quick break, just incase the next thing we read is the ‘You have to Share’ song. Agreed?
Rarity and Mule: Agreed!
***
Mule: Ok, so there are two things I don’t get in this story.
Rarity: Which are?
Mule: Ok... One, why are Daring Doo and the Doppelgangers all at this island?
Twilight: Daring lives there.
Mule: That explains Daring and Midnight, but what about the pony with the plane and Velvety and the CMC’s doubles?
Rarity: Hmm... That’s a good question darling.
Mule: And two, why can’t Super Big Mac tell us who’s talking?!
Twilight: I don’t know, but it’s starting to bother me. I couldn’t tell who was talking between AJ and Nella sometimes... It makes my head hurt.
*BUZZ*
All: We got story sign!
***
Oh, There's someone here I know it,
Somepony close to me!
I don't know how to show it,
But I'll do it to find some peace!
Twilight: Do what? sing?
Rarity: Dance?
Mule: Party Rock?
My name is Pinkie Pie/Blinky Clyde,
And I'm sure to find you!
I just need to find out where it is you hide,
I promise I won't turn you into glue!
Mule:... That’s kind of morbid. Also, don’t ponies use glue?
Twilight: We arn’t that pround...
I just wanna make friends with yous,
So come out at any time!
Come on, there's nothing to lose,
Rarity: *sings in tune with the song* Except my bucking mind!
And you can join me in a friendly rhyyyme!
Oh, Granny Clyde/Pie said that friends all come,
from many different plaaaaces,
So it's always a good idea,
to greet all their friendly faces!
"Aha! Huh? Hey, you're me! No, I'm you! No! No, wait! We're US!"
Rarity: What’s happening?!
Twilight: I don’t know!!
Mule: (raises his arms in frustration) You are tearing me apart, Super Big Mac!
The two pink ponies fell to the ground, giggling madly.
After a few minutes, they got up, and Pinkie decided to introduce herself. "Hi! My name is Pinkamena Diane Pie, but you can call me Pinkie Pie!" She giggles. "Everypony does!"
"Hi, Pinkie! My name is Blinkeria Dmitri Clyde! But every pony calls me Blinky Clyde!" She giggles. "You can, too!"
Rarity: Oh goodness there are two of them...
"Hey, have you seen my friends? I can't find them anywhere! Twilight went off to some school with a scardey-professor, and Applejack went flying on a prop plane! Dashie flew off after Daring, and, the other four just ran off with three little fillies!
Mule: ‘And worst of all, I’ve lost Waldo, Carmen Sandiego, and the City of Atlantis!’
Shy and Rare-Bear are still together, though. I think. But I'm lost!"
"No you're not, silly! You're found! C'mon, I'll help ya find your friends!" Pinkie smiled as she shook her head in earnest. But... as she followed her new friend, she couldn't help but feel an odd tremble travel down her spine and through her stomach, racing as it went to the very tips of her hoovesies!
Pinkie ignored it, putting it off as excitement and nerves.
Twilight: Wait... Pinkie actually ignored being scared after the Nightmare Moon incident?
Mule: Did Super Big Mac just... remember that she sang Giggle at the Ghosties?
Rarity: It’s a miracle!
But... she'd never felt like that before...
Mule: Cue up the Elton John love song guys, I think we might parody the Lion King soon.
Twilight: What’s the Lion King?
Mule:... Ponies, Mule... Remember they’re ponies.
"Come on, Pinkie! This way!"
Pinkie looked up. Her new friend was standing on a square block in front of a huge door. Blinky pointed to another block, and motioned for Pinkie to stand on it.
Mule: The Legend of Zelda: Pinkamina of Time. They made it to the forest temple!
Pinkie bounced over to it. When she got on, the button began to sink into the ground. The door opened, and they walked inside. Pinkie felt really, really sleepy-weepy
Twilight: Ok, Pinkies thoughts can’t have that much baby talk in them.
Rarity: I’d rather not know what Pinkie’s thoughts are dear, thank you.
... She coulda sworn that she'd been awake not a mome-thump.
Mule:She dropped the sentence! Ba dum-tss
Blinky stood over Pinkie's body, a syringe clamped in her teeth, only her narrowed eyes and smile showing in the darkness as the door closed behind her. The last thing to go through Pinkie's mind was a strange laughter. So happy, and yet, so... strange...
Twilight: This just turned into another Cupcakes sequel, didn’t it?
Mule: Eeeyup
"Are we there, yet?" Scootaloo was bored.
Mule: Yeah, I didn’t care for that movie either Scoots.
She hated being in the passenger seat. She wanted action! She wanted excitement! Instead... she was in the cart.
"Almost, Scoots," Skaterate said. He smiled. "Trust me. It's worth the wait."
Twilight: Anyone think that they should trust her?
Mule and Rarity: Nope.
Finally, they stopped in front of an old, abandoned mine shaft.
"Wo~w! It's sooo deep! Echo!" Applebloom chuckled at her unicorn friend's reaction.
"Ah'd assume it had ta be, Sweetie."
"Yeah, but, it's... it's so... deep!"
Mule: Please... Stop making the clop fic jokes so easy...
Scootaloo grunted in impatience. "So? Can we go now, or what?"
All: I wish!
Her twin gave her a smirk. "That depends. Wanna race, or d'you wanna go on the same track?"
"Race!"
"Fine, then. Left or right side?"
"Left!"
"Ha! Chicken!"
Mule: Hey! Don’t insult Scootaloo’s mother!
"No! Right!"
"Ugh, fine... I never get to take the right." He turned away with his group, all smiles.
"Let's show these girls who's boss!"
"No way am I gonna lose to a boy!"
Rarity: Wait wait! They’re boys!?
Mule and Twilight: (mouths agape)
"We'll see about that! C'mon, Spades! You're with us! Onetwothree go!"
The race was on!
Mule: In front comes This-is-a-bad-idea! Followed by Some-stupid-kids! But right behind is Obvious-plot-twist! Oh! But here comes old Cliche to take the lead!
Sweetie Belle slumped over in the minecart.
Twilight: When did Sweetie die?
"Schweetee? Ahyu oka- huaahm."
Mule: I don’t even need to read the next word to know it’s Applebloom.
Applebloom's eyelids were blinking out of sync, her mouth in a slight frown. "Gosh, I sure am Tahrd."
Scootaloo yawned. She crawled over to her two friends and, using Applebloom's side as a pillow, fell asleep.
All: D’aaaaaawww!
The cart slowed down, coming to a halt in front of a giant cage. A unicorn stallion picked up all three and threw them inside. crack!
Rarity: They all broke their spines, the end. Are we done now?
Mule: Almost...
Scootaloo's head slams against the floor and the stallion lets out a slight chuckle. "Oops. Shoulda been more careful, I guess." His chuckling grew louder as he moved away, echoing around the great chamber. He sat down at the table, kissed the monochrome-maned mare beside him, and started eating.
Twilight: Worse dinner party ever!
"Ohhh... Where are we? Fluttershy? Darling? Oh, my! Are you okay?!" Rarity looked around in panic. They were inside a cage, and... "Twilight!"
Twilight: I didn’t do it!!
"Ugh, Rarity... not so loud! Head... hurts..." The purple mare whimpered as she cradled her head.
"Wh-where are we?"
Mule: A slightly decaying fanfic.
Fluttershy was so terrified, she wasn't even panicking. She was strangely... calm.
Another whimper was heard, but this time from a small bundle near the back of the cage. "Oh, Sweetie Belle! Are you okay? Oh, please, please, please, answer me!" Rarity was doing her best not to freak out, but... it wasn't working.
Twilight: I wonder why? I mean, it’s not like we’re all in CAGES or anything!
"Rarity. Please, calm down. I-if you can. Okay? Please?"
The only sound in the cage was the creaking of chains high above, and the whimpering of the ponies inside.
"We're all here... We're trapped, and there's nopony that can save us. One day into our week-long vacation, and we're already done for."
Rarity: You know, if Spike hadn’t have sent that letter to the Princess, Twilight wouldn’t even be in this chapter... Just saying.
Fluttershy lowered her head as she struggled not to cry. She walked over to Rarity and laid down next to Sweetie Belle.
Spike was getting tired of waiting. "Jeeze, can't we just eat without them? I mean, seriously, sure I'm worried, but I'm still hungry!" Spike grumbled, his stomach growling back.
Mule: It was sick of Spike’s complaining.
"Ugh, I wish I had my backpack..."
Skaterate was getting tired of his complaining.
Twilight: He agreed with Spike’s stomach aparently.
Motioning to Appleblossom and Sugar, she pantomimed hitting him over the head. The other two nodded.
One solid sounding thud later, they had a young dragon splayed out in front of them.
"Now what?"
"We report back in. Sure, we got those three losers, but they might need help with the others."
"Watta we do wit' him, though?"
"I don't care.
Mule: Neither does Bakura
Tie him to the tree. Whatever. Just get back to the Shrine."
"Yes, sir!"
Dash looked around. She wanted to fly, but...
Twilight: If she’s tied to any table, ANY table at all, I’m leaving.
she felt so heavy. It was like having a mountain above her. Crushing her.
"Oh, good. You're all awake. Wanna join us for dinner, or do you want to be dinner?"
Mule: Cake or death?
Rarity: I’m not sure who was speaking, mostly because it doesn’t say, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say Dashie was talking to herself.
Twilight: So, I’m going to say this is turning into Cupcakes.
Rainbow: (from the TV) Well, at least it started better than some other spin offs. Two more chapters to go!
*BUZZ*
All: We got break sign!
Muleicous: (Desperately trying to break open the window with his chair) Must... get... out!
Twilight: It’s not use Mr. Muleicous, we’re stuck here until Pinkie tells Dash to push the button.
Mule: Why?
Rarity and Twilight: What?
Mule: Why are we stuck here? Why can’t you and Rarity teleport? How have we survived all this time without food or water? Why don’t I have to go to the bathroom?
(Random Music plays from the TV)
All: What was that?
Rainbow: (From TV) Sorry, wrong button. Well, Pinkie’s not here today, so I decided to go ahead and let you guys read the next chapter anyway.
Rarity: Oh thank you Rainbow darling!
Rainbow: No problem guys, I know how it is to riff these thing. So, here’s chapter two of Vacation is Elation.
*BUZZ*
All: We got story sign!
Chapter Two: The elation of exploration
Mule: So, it’s a vacation of elation, and the elation is of exploration?
Twilight: Shouldn’t the whole thing be titled Vacation of Exploration then?
Dash's eyes flicked around madly, her head snapping in all directions
Mule: She was doing her best Exorcist impression
as she strived to look at everything at once. "This. Place. Is. AWESOME!"
Rarity: ‘But it could be 20% cooler’
She jumped into the air and did a backflip, causing Rarity's hat to fall off. "Ugh, really, Rainbow Dash. You got my hat dirty."
Shaking her hat to get even the most minuscule pieces of filth off, Rarity sighed to herself. "Although, I wouldn't mind if you were to keep flapping those oversized fans of yours that you call wings.
Mule: Dang, another good burn. Rarity’s two for two in this fic!
I must say that when you do, the tempurature is at least twenty percent cooler."
All: *facepalm and facehoof*
Completely unfazed by the alabaster unicorn's comment, Dash just said, "C'mon, Rarity! This is where Daring Do lived! The best adventurer ever! She! Lived! HERE!"
Twilight: ‘You just stepped on her house see?!’
Rainbow Dash goes for another back flip.
"Heh. I still do." The back flip didn't end well.
Mule: ‘Five ponies lost their lives today in a tragic backflipping accident.’
"You... you're... You're..!"
Rarity: Twilight, dear! Rainbow Dash is broken!
Twilight: Again?
Daring Do, in all her splendid, rugged glory, was standing at the top of the stairs, the crumbling wall behind her creating the perfect backdrop.
Mule: Until it fell down on her. The End.
The nine pony, one dragon entourage ground to a halt as they stared up at the mare
before them. She looked...
Rarity: Dirty?
Twilight: Amazing?
Mule: At a random bit on the ground?
Well, she looked exactly like Rainbow Dash. All that was different was her coloring.
Mule: You think Super Big Mac is trying to point something out?
Rarity and Twilight: Hmmm... Nope.
"C'mon, I'll show you around." The mare smiled dangerously. "Just make sure you hold onto your hats, girls!"
Twilight: What about Spike?
Rarity: He left to get a snack.
Letting out a tremendous
Mule: Shoop-da
whoop, the monochrome maned mare jumped over the wall behind her, tossing a smart salute before disappearing from sight.
Dash, of course, was the first to react. Squealing like a pig trapped under a blanket, she dove over the wall after her new-found idol.
Twilight: New found? She was gushing over her five seconds ago.
A stange grating sound fell onto their ears,
Rarity: Help that poor sound up darling!
emanating from where their friend had just gone.
Once it was clear that Rainbow Dash had, indeed, disappeared, everypony else surged forward.
Etched into the wall was small sign that read:
Mule: ‘Here, there be monsters’
Earth Ponies and Unicorns, <== that-a-way!
Pegasai, up an' over!
Fluttershy slowly floated into the air and alights atop the wall. "Oh, my... I can't get through... there's a grate in the way, and..." Fluttershy's face twisted with confusion. "It's...
Mule: Monty Python’s Flying Circus!
welded shut..."
After trying and failing to lift the grate with magic, even Twilight had to admit defeat.
Twilight: I don’t know the meaning of the word!
Rarity: You live in a library dear, nopony believes that.
"Well gsng, looks like we'll just have to find her the old fashioned way."
Mule: ‘Everyone say that Ditzy Doo’s the best pony, she’ll come flying back.’
The group trotted down the path, looking for any sign of their missing friend. Even though the jungle held all sorts of bizarre noises and sounds,
Mule: Woah woah woah! I thought we were at the beach. How did we get to a jungle?!
Twilight: The Magic of Friendship... I guess.
Twilight was beginning to get the feeling that things were too... quiet.
The sun moved across the sky, but... barely.
Rarity: The sun was stuck in Canterlot traffic you see.
It felt like it had been hours since they had started down the trail, and yet... "Ugh, I think my watch is broken, everypony. It says that it's only been a few minutes!" Twilight grunted in disbelief, before starting forward again.
"Greetings! Welcome to our island!"
Mule: (sings) Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a faithful trip...
"Gah!" Twilight leapt into the air, mane and tail standing on end.
"Oh, my most sincere apologies. I didn't mean to startle you so very badly."
Twilight: ‘I only meant to startle you so much that you’ld pee yourself.’
A stallion moved onto the trail from behind a large patch of multi-hued reeds. He was a deep purple, his mane fashionably coiffed so as to look great with the fedora he was wearing. His barding was made of pleasant brown and tans, and the holster attached was unclasped so that a whip was easily accessable.
Rarity: Well! Hello handsome!
Twilight was positively intrigued. This pony looked almost exactly like her! It was... curious.
Twilight: I was curious because he was wearing pants. No pony wears pants!
"Greetings. My name is Midnight. I'm a professor at the University of Fillydelphia, in the archealogic department."
Mule: Yeah, right. Next he’ll be saying he’s looking for... Oh I don’t know, the Arc of the Covenhoof or something.
The unicorn then adjusted his glasses, a slight blush adorning his cheeks. "I am also the happily married husband to the most famous explorer in the world. Daring Do, of course." He chuckled as he looked over the ponies standing before him.
"Who, pray tell, are you?"
Pinkie Pie, as ever, was able to break the ice faster than anypony else
Rarity: Well, it is her job during Winter Wrap-Up.
by jumping right over to him and shouting, "hi! I'm Pinkamena Diane Pie, but you can call me Pinkie Pie! Which is what my friends call me, ooh, what's your last name I bet it's really cool, did you know that I have like, the longest name ever? I think it's silly, but what is a pony to do, right? Oh, and do you like parties? Those are my friends, but not all of them, most are still at home and Dashie jumped after Daring Do into the pit that said 'Pegasuseseses enter here' and a grate dropped over the entrence, and it was reaaally deep looking so we couldn't follow, and-"
Applejack's hoof shoved an apple into the pink pony's mouth.
All: Thank you!
"Ho-kay there, Sugarcube. Breathe some, why don'cha?" Turning to the professor, she gave a small bow of apology. "Mighty sorry 'bout that, mister. Ah'm Applejack. Them's Fluttershy,
Mule: Wait, them’s Fluttershy?
Twilight: Yeah, we bought a second one at the gift shop after we arrived.
mah sis Applebloom, Twilight, Rarity, her sister Sweetie Belle, and the li'l pegasus is Scootaloo.
Rarity: I almost forgot Scootaloo was here.
Mule: So did her parents. (punched by Rarity)... I deserved that.
We came here for a vacation, y'see. We dinnit know that there was anypony out here."
Twilight: ‘Ah mean, it’s not like this is a resort or something.’
He smiled, his glasses flashing in the sunlight.
Mule: Dude! The kids don’t need to see your glasses fun parts!
Rarity and Twilight: (groans)
"Not to worry, miss. You probably recieved a letter saying that this island held a certain piece of adventure for ponies who dared to enter its boundaries, hmm?"
"Actually... yeah. Tha' sounds about right."
Mule: Deus Ex Charta
Rarity: Sorry dear, I don’t speak Russian
Twilight: *facehoof*
"Well, then. Know that you are the first group to arrive here since we first landed. We've been... expectingcompany
Mule: ‘To bring a space for those two words’
for quite a long while, and..." His eyes grew wide as he spotted Spike. "Gah!
Twilight: No, that’s a dragon. What in Celestia’s name is a Gah?
It's that devious dragon! I thought we lost him in the Saddle-Arabian desert! Run!" The unicorn fleed back through the overgrowth, disappearing from sight almost instantly.
Rarity: Was he saying that all dragons look alike?
Mule: Ah racism, even ponies arnt immune to your wonders.
"Wait!" Twilight started after him, using her magic to part the reeds just enough to dive through. Barely a second later, a deep rumbling, accompanied by a ground shaking boom can be heard in the near distance.
Twilight: Please tell me I didn’t turn into an alicorn.
Mule: No promises.
Tentatively, Rarity uses her magic on the reeds to see a small clearing a few feet away. On the other side of the clearing...
Rarity: Was a five star spa!
A great, towering door loomed over the clearing, casting its shadow along twin sets of hoofprints that lead right up to, and through it.
Rarity and the rest gather in the clearing, searching for a way to open the door.
Mule: Well, Rarity could use their magic to open it. Oh! Or Pinkie could use the Party Cannon to blast it open! Or...
After giving it a couple of bucks that would've brought down a nice sized apple tree, AJ gives up. "It tain't gonna open, girls. Sorry, but Ah ain't strong enough." She lowered her head, heaving a deep sigh.
Twilight: Or we could give up after kicking it a couple of times...
"Oi, y'all need some help?"
Mule: Is that an Irish Cowpony?
"I'm sorry, AJ, but what would we need help with? We need to help Twilight and Rainbow Dash!"
"Tha' tweren't me, Rarity!"
"Oh, come now, Apple-"
"Howdy!"
"-Jeaah! Don't do that! It's impolite to sneak up on a lady!"
Rarity: Ok, I got a bit lost.
Mule: Well they are in the jungle. (slapped by Twilight and Rarity)
The orange mare in the aviator's goggles
Twilight: How did Spitfire get here?
just snorted dismissively. "Wull, beg pardon, but you're makin' quite the ruckus, y'see. I jus' wanted ta see iffin there was a way ta help ya, if Ah could."
Mule: Oh Luna, her accent’s worse then AJ’s.
Applejack stared at the other mare, her brain seeing the similarities, and yet... There was too much difference. "Wha's yer name, pardner? Mine's Applejack."
The strange doppleganger tore off her stetson, showing a short-cropped shock of blonde hair beneath as she dipped low in a bow. "T'name's Proper Nella. 'Prop'ella, the Aero Belle', at yer service. Ah've won tha blue ribbon in ev'ry flyin' competition Ah 'ave ever entered. Ah'm the best." She snickers. "An' Daring Do knows it. Tha's why I get ta use this island as a landing pad fer free."
Rarity: Equestrian! Do you speak it?!
Mule: Clop Fiction?
Rarity: Mhm, a great movie.
Mule: Indeed.
Twilight: Guys, we kind of have a story to riff.
Rarity and Mule: Sorry.
"So... yer tha one who totes Darin' 'round whenever she's gotta go som'ere to far fer her ta fly herself?"
"Eeyup, tha's me!"
"... Yer accent's purty familliar-like."
"Hey, I ain't got no ack-cent! Ah'm jus' cultured, is all."
"Really."
"Yeah, really."
Mule: Ok, out that whole conversation, I could understand about 10 or 11 words.
Applejack huffed unhappily. "Fine. Waddya want? Where's our friends?"
The other mare chuckled and pulled down her goggles. "Wull, yer jus' gonna need ta find 'em, ain'tcha? Ta, now!" The orange mare disappears through the underbrush, an angry farm filly hot in pursuit.
"Hey! Git back here, ya coward!"
"Applejack, wait!"
Twilight: ‘Don’t leave us with the Cutie Mark Crusaders!’
"Sis!"
"Stop, ya high-falutin', lilly-livered snake in the grass!"
"Applejack!"
Applejack didn't pay attention. As the small plane began to take off, she readied her lasso. Giving it a few twirls, she released it, snagging it on the tail of the plane as it taxied by. With a mighty tug, the airplane took off, pulling Aj with it. "Wra-ree! Fahn Dwi nd Ash!"
Mule: I’m sorry, I understand you. It’s like you have something in your mouth.
Rarity looked on in shock as Applejack started pulling herslef up the rope.
All: How?
"Applejack, wait!" Rarity stamped her hooves with anxiety. She was gone. They were down by three!
Rarity: I was never good at baseball.
"Oh my goodness... Oh my goodness!" Fluttershy sat on her haunches, shaking with fear. "E-everypony's disappearing!"
Twilight: Can’t Fluttershy just fly after her?
Mule: And move the plot along? Are you crazy?!
Rarity, the edge of fear still in her voice, tried to placate her friend. "Now, now, Fluttershy, we'll be alright. We'll all be..."
Rarity: ‘Picked off, one-by-one, by ponies that look exactly like us.’
Mule: And then Fluttershy learned the word cliche.
Rarity looked around, her eyes wide. "Where are the girls? Sweetie? Sweetie Belle? Applebloom! Scootaloo! Spike?!
All: Spike’s not a girl.
Where did they go? They were just here with us, not a second ago!"
"Pinkie's gone, too."
Twilight: *sarcasm* ‘Oh no, what ever shall we do?!’
"But- bu- ba-wha huh?"
Mule: Whaaaaaaaat?
Rarity teetered for a second.
Rarity: Fluttershy tottered.
"Oh, please don't faint, Rarity!"
Rarity snapped out of her daze. "Faint? Faint? Not here, I won't! It's waay too filthy, and there's not a fainting couch to be seen!"
Mule: Yeah, cuz Rarity's never fainted without a couch
Rarity's eyes brimmed with tears. "My sister! They took her! My little Sweetie Belle!"
Sweetie Belle giggled. "Wow! What other kinds of fun can you do in the jungle?"
All: … O.O
Twilight: No...no... just, just no.
Rarity: We already know this isn’t a clop fic. Why are we worried?
Mule: Have you read Pinkie Pie’s Tasty Testing? Have you noticed that it’s incomplete?
Her teal-tinged twin smiled. "Well... D'you think we should show them the old ruins, Skaterate?"
Mule: Really? Skaterate? That’s the best he could come up with.
Twilight: Do you have anything better?
Mule: Hmmm... Touche.
The magenta maned, pink pegasus smiled in reply. "It depends. Think they can handle it?" His smirk was directed right at his look-alike.
"Wull, they might be able ta, 'specially if they're wit' us, since we know's all tha dif'rent traps n' hidey-holes."
Rarity: I found Applebloom’s double!
Mule: A blind man could find Applebloom’s double.
"Good point, Appleblossom! We'll get these crusaders their cutiemarks yet!"
Twilight: I wonder if these three have a club too?
Mule: What would their name be thought? The Hind Symbol Searchers?
Rarity: The Fanny Note Finders?
Twilight: No, probably the Butt Drawing Bounders.
"Yeah!" All six jump in the air for a group high-hoof.
Spike grumbles. "As long as there's food, I'll be happy."
"Don't worry, Spades!
Mule: (laughing) Spike’s so meaningless in this chapter that even the spin off characters mess up his name!
Twilight: Either that, or the CMC’s did. It’s hard to tell.
Just don't try no funny business, er else Sugar Horn's older sis Velvety'll turn ya into Swiss Cheese!"
"... Well, um, what's she like?"
Rarity: (blushes) Probably a hussy!
Mule: Ooooo, somepony’s jealous!
Pinkie Pie was hopping down the trail, just as happily as ever. "Oh, gi~~rrrls! Where arrre yooou!"
Twilight: ‘I need to move the plot alo~~~nnng!’
Her body stopped in midair, her legs still curled at the apex of her hop. Then, they started shuddering. 'It's almost like they're trying to war-'
Mule: ‘warn me that some wierd, hairless paes are watching me.’
with a yelp, Pinkie Pie turned into a tornado in miniature.
Rarity: Twilight, what does that mean?
Twilight: (reads the sentence over) … I think it means bad grammar.
After a few seconds of spinning, she popped into the air, her body folding up like a piece of paper in the Unicorn's ancient art style of Hornigami.
Mule: Oh I bet she was ‘Horni’ for Gummy. (kicked in the groin by Twilight and Rarity)
After flipping through the forms of a crane, a boat, and a frog, Pinkie's body popped back to normal, dropping her gently to the ground. "Wooooo! Now, THAT was a doozy!"
Pinkie blinked. It sounded as if there had been an echo, but... at the same time as her!
Twilight: So... Not an echo?
"Hello?!"
"Who's there?"
"It's just me!"
"Me, who?"
Mule: Didn’t we do this joke for the first chapter?
"Well, me, obviously! I love Cupcakes! Do you?"
All: No!
"..."
Pinkie rubbed her chin. Every time she said something, she was sure somepony else was saying it, too.
Rarity: Hold on, does that mean they both said that joke at the same time?
Mule: Probably, the author didn’t say who said it... again!
Time to try a new tactic.
She began to sing.
Twilight: I vote for a quick break, just incase the next thing we read is the ‘You have to Share’ song. Agreed?
Rarity and Mule: Agreed!
***
Mule: Ok, so there are two things I don’t get in this story.
Rarity: Which are?
Mule: Ok... One, why are Daring Doo and the Doppelgangers all at this island?
Twilight: Daring lives there.
Mule: That explains Daring and Midnight, but what about the pony with the plane and Velvety and the CMC’s doubles?
Rarity: Hmm... That’s a good question darling.
Mule: And two, why can’t Super Big Mac tell us who’s talking?!
Twilight: I don’t know, but it’s starting to bother me. I couldn’t tell who was talking between AJ and Nella sometimes... It makes my head hurt.
*BUZZ*
All: We got story sign!
***
Oh, There's someone here I know it,
Somepony close to me!
I don't know how to show it,
But I'll do it to find some peace!
Twilight: Do what? sing?
Rarity: Dance?
Mule: Party Rock?
My name is Pinkie Pie/Blinky Clyde,
And I'm sure to find you!
I just need to find out where it is you hide,
I promise I won't turn you into glue!
Mule:... That’s kind of morbid. Also, don’t ponies use glue?
Twilight: We arn’t that pround...
I just wanna make friends with yous,
So come out at any time!
Come on, there's nothing to lose,
Rarity: *sings in tune with the song* Except my bucking mind!
And you can join me in a friendly rhyyyme!
Oh, Granny Clyde/Pie said that friends all come,
from many different plaaaaces,
So it's always a good idea,
to greet all their friendly faces!
"Aha! Huh? Hey, you're me! No, I'm you! No! No, wait! We're US!"
Rarity: What’s happening?!
Twilight: I don’t know!!
Mule: (raises his arms in frustration) You are tearing me apart, Super Big Mac!
The two pink ponies fell to the ground, giggling madly.
After a few minutes, they got up, and Pinkie decided to introduce herself. "Hi! My name is Pinkamena Diane Pie, but you can call me Pinkie Pie!" She giggles. "Everypony does!"
"Hi, Pinkie! My name is Blinkeria Dmitri Clyde! But every pony calls me Blinky Clyde!" She giggles. "You can, too!"
Rarity: Oh goodness there are two of them...
"Hey, have you seen my friends? I can't find them anywhere! Twilight went off to some school with a scardey-professor, and Applejack went flying on a prop plane! Dashie flew off after Daring, and, the other four just ran off with three little fillies!
Mule: ‘And worst of all, I’ve lost Waldo, Carmen Sandiego, and the City of Atlantis!’
Shy and Rare-Bear are still together, though. I think. But I'm lost!"
"No you're not, silly! You're found! C'mon, I'll help ya find your friends!" Pinkie smiled as she shook her head in earnest. But... as she followed her new friend, she couldn't help but feel an odd tremble travel down her spine and through her stomach, racing as it went to the very tips of her hoovesies!
Pinkie ignored it, putting it off as excitement and nerves.
Twilight: Wait... Pinkie actually ignored being scared after the Nightmare Moon incident?
Mule: Did Super Big Mac just... remember that she sang Giggle at the Ghosties?
Rarity: It’s a miracle!
But... she'd never felt like that before...
Mule: Cue up the Elton John love song guys, I think we might parody the Lion King soon.
Twilight: What’s the Lion King?
Mule:... Ponies, Mule... Remember they’re ponies.
"Come on, Pinkie! This way!"
Pinkie looked up. Her new friend was standing on a square block in front of a huge door. Blinky pointed to another block, and motioned for Pinkie to stand on it.
Mule: The Legend of Zelda: Pinkamina of Time. They made it to the forest temple!
Pinkie bounced over to it. When she got on, the button began to sink into the ground. The door opened, and they walked inside. Pinkie felt really, really sleepy-weepy
Twilight: Ok, Pinkies thoughts can’t have that much baby talk in them.
Rarity: I’d rather not know what Pinkie’s thoughts are dear, thank you.
... She coulda sworn that she'd been awake not a mome-thump.
Mule:She dropped the sentence! Ba dum-tss
Blinky stood over Pinkie's body, a syringe clamped in her teeth, only her narrowed eyes and smile showing in the darkness as the door closed behind her. The last thing to go through Pinkie's mind was a strange laughter. So happy, and yet, so... strange...
Twilight: This just turned into another Cupcakes sequel, didn’t it?
Mule: Eeeyup
"Are we there, yet?" Scootaloo was bored.
Mule: Yeah, I didn’t care for that movie either Scoots.
She hated being in the passenger seat. She wanted action! She wanted excitement! Instead... she was in the cart.
"Almost, Scoots," Skaterate said. He smiled. "Trust me. It's worth the wait."
Twilight: Anyone think that they should trust her?
Mule and Rarity: Nope.
Finally, they stopped in front of an old, abandoned mine shaft.
"Wo~w! It's sooo deep! Echo!" Applebloom chuckled at her unicorn friend's reaction.
"Ah'd assume it had ta be, Sweetie."
"Yeah, but, it's... it's so... deep!"
Mule: Please... Stop making the clop fic jokes so easy...
Scootaloo grunted in impatience. "So? Can we go now, or what?"
All: I wish!
Her twin gave her a smirk. "That depends. Wanna race, or d'you wanna go on the same track?"
"Race!"
"Fine, then. Left or right side?"
"Left!"
"Ha! Chicken!"
Mule: Hey! Don’t insult Scootaloo’s mother!
"No! Right!"
"Ugh, fine... I never get to take the right." He turned away with his group, all smiles.
"Let's show these girls who's boss!"
"No way am I gonna lose to a boy!"
Rarity: Wait wait! They’re boys!?
Mule and Twilight: (mouths agape)
"We'll see about that! C'mon, Spades! You're with us! Onetwothree go!"
The race was on!
Mule: In front comes This-is-a-bad-idea! Followed by Some-stupid-kids! But right behind is Obvious-plot-twist! Oh! But here comes old Cliche to take the lead!
Sweetie Belle slumped over in the minecart.
Twilight: When did Sweetie die?
"Schweetee? Ahyu oka- huaahm."
Mule: I don’t even need to read the next word to know it’s Applebloom.
Applebloom's eyelids were blinking out of sync, her mouth in a slight frown. "Gosh, I sure am Tahrd."
Scootaloo yawned. She crawled over to her two friends and, using Applebloom's side as a pillow, fell asleep.
All: D’aaaaaawww!
The cart slowed down, coming to a halt in front of a giant cage. A unicorn stallion picked up all three and threw them inside. crack!
Rarity: They all broke their spines, the end. Are we done now?
Mule: Almost...
Scootaloo's head slams against the floor and the stallion lets out a slight chuckle. "Oops. Shoulda been more careful, I guess." His chuckling grew louder as he moved away, echoing around the great chamber. He sat down at the table, kissed the monochrome-maned mare beside him, and started eating.
Twilight: Worse dinner party ever!
"Ohhh... Where are we? Fluttershy? Darling? Oh, my! Are you okay?!" Rarity looked around in panic. They were inside a cage, and... "Twilight!"
Twilight: I didn’t do it!!
"Ugh, Rarity... not so loud! Head... hurts..." The purple mare whimpered as she cradled her head.
"Wh-where are we?"
Mule: A slightly decaying fanfic.
Fluttershy was so terrified, she wasn't even panicking. She was strangely... calm.
Another whimper was heard, but this time from a small bundle near the back of the cage. "Oh, Sweetie Belle! Are you okay? Oh, please, please, please, answer me!" Rarity was doing her best not to freak out, but... it wasn't working.
Twilight: I wonder why? I mean, it’s not like we’re all in CAGES or anything!
"Rarity. Please, calm down. I-if you can. Okay? Please?"
The only sound in the cage was the creaking of chains high above, and the whimpering of the ponies inside.
"We're all here... We're trapped, and there's nopony that can save us. One day into our week-long vacation, and we're already done for."
Rarity: You know, if Spike hadn’t have sent that letter to the Princess, Twilight wouldn’t even be in this chapter... Just saying.
Fluttershy lowered her head as she struggled not to cry. She walked over to Rarity and laid down next to Sweetie Belle.
Spike was getting tired of waiting. "Jeeze, can't we just eat without them? I mean, seriously, sure I'm worried, but I'm still hungry!" Spike grumbled, his stomach growling back.
Mule: It was sick of Spike’s complaining.
"Ugh, I wish I had my backpack..."
Skaterate was getting tired of his complaining.
Twilight: He agreed with Spike’s stomach aparently.
Motioning to Appleblossom and Sugar, she pantomimed hitting him over the head. The other two nodded.
One solid sounding thud later, they had a young dragon splayed out in front of them.
"Now what?"
"We report back in. Sure, we got those three losers, but they might need help with the others."
"Watta we do wit' him, though?"
"I don't care.
Mule: Neither does Bakura
Tie him to the tree. Whatever. Just get back to the Shrine."
"Yes, sir!"
Dash looked around. She wanted to fly, but...
Twilight: If she’s tied to any table, ANY table at all, I’m leaving.
she felt so heavy. It was like having a mountain above her. Crushing her.
"Oh, good. You're all awake. Wanna join us for dinner, or do you want to be dinner?"
Mule: Cake or death?
Rarity: I’m not sure who was speaking, mostly because it doesn’t say, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say Dashie was talking to herself.
Twilight: So, I’m going to say this is turning into Cupcakes.
Rainbow: (from the TV) Well, at least it started better than some other spin offs. Two more chapters to go!
*BUZZ*
All: We got break sign!