Foundations of our nation

Tough teeth toots!

"There we go Mr. Wolf, good as new!" Colgate exclaimed, cleaning the last of the decay and rotting food from the giant timber-wolf's mouth.

"Now remember to brush at least once a month and floss regularly, unless you want to end up running around with a toothache again."

The wolf whined and gave Colgate a large lick on the cheek with its vine-like tongue, afterwards it stood and looked at her with a sheepish look before padding off into the forest. Silently it weaved its way between the foliage despite its size, heading back towards the deeper parts of the forest.

"Bye!" Colgate waved after it, smiling with a typical perfect dentists smile. Turning around, she trotted off towards the mountain, pausing briefly to chuckle at the large, wolf-shaped dent in a tree beside her.

"Poor thing, a toothache is never fun for anypony, no wonder it was angry." Colgate mused to herself while trotting sedately through the forest, heading on-wards towards her goal. Keeping her pace even Colgate weaved through the thick bushes, occasionally using her brush to push branches out of her way. The brush was a bright blue color, its bristles, the colors of her mane. Bright blue with a dark blue and white streak through it, the white glinted slightly in the spots of sunlight filtering through the canopy above.

The brush was comical in its size, easily as long as Colgate herself and about eight inches thick in the handle. Although it looked like plastic, it was in fact magically enchanted steel; enchanted so it only weighed as much as the shovel sitting in Colgate's garden shed. It gave off a gentle glow of its own as she held it in her magic, small sparkles glinting up the handles leading edge. Colgate was proud of her brush, not only was it a symbol of her chosen career but it also served as a luxurious mane brush. Its soft hairs were softer than any coat-brush's bristles that she had ever tried but stiff enough to comb hair to perfection.

Now the brush proved itself useful once again as she propped it up against her leg as she walked, making an improvised walking stick.

By now, Colgate had worked up quite a sweat weaving through the difficult terrain.

"Now would be the perfect time for a bath, I swear there was a river around here somewhere." Colgate's brow furrowed in thought, she failed to notice the large stream she was approaching until it was too late.

"Waaaaah!"

Splash!

Coughing and spluttering, Colgate surfaced and began to tread water.

"Found it!" she exclaimed.

"Indeed you have..." chuckled a large serpent, circling her with an amused smile on its face.

"But now what will you do with it, I'm fairly sure you've already had a good soaking." Colgate blushed at this and pouted.

"hey! I meant to do that!" she cried, turning as red as an apple.

"I'm sure you did" said the amused snake with a knowing smile on his face.

"But couldn't help but notice you dynamic entry and- Hey!" The serpent cried as Colgate splashed water at his face.

"Ooh now your in for it! I'm going to eat you now!" He roared bearing his teeth mere inches from Colgate's face, expecting her to scream and run from his patch of river. He was therefore surprised when instead she started inspecting his teeth, muttering under her breath about forest creatures and their lack of dental hygiene.

"when was the last time you brushed your teeth?" she asked, pulling out a notebook and dipping a quill into a pot of ink.

How she kept the paper dry after being fully submerged in water was a mystery.

"uh- about two months ago I ate some apples, does that count?" he responded, unsure of what she wanted exactly.

However, the serpents response seemed to have been the wrong one... Yep! Defiantly the Wrong thing to say around this crazy mare.

"Well then! Your due a check-up aren't you Mr. serpent?" Colgate said with an only slightly terrifying gleam in her eyes.

"Uh- I -I mean... sure? The names slinky by the way." said 'slinky', slightly unsure of what he was getting himself into.

His eyes widened in shock as the blue mare pulled a giant toothbrush from apparently nowhere and advanced towards him slowly.

"NO no no no! I refuse to let a pony near my teeth! These things are my most prized possessions, your not going to touch them!" he screeched, acting more like an angry filly than an Everfree monster.

"Oh don't worry dear, this wont take a moment." Colgate splashed towards slinky in an intimidating manner.

"I'll rip you limb from limb before letting you brush my teeth!" roared slinky as he lunged towards Colgate, jaws agape.

"Why did I agree to come with you again flutters?" asked Rainbow dash for the tenth time in their boring walk.

"Now Dashie, you know about the roars from the forest as well as I did. Somepony or some creature could be hurt and in need of aid and besides, you were the one who offered to come and keep me safe" Flutter shy responded.

"Just think of it as an adventure into the unkno-"

ROAAAR

"D-did you hear that Dash?" asked Flutter shy, trying to make herself as small as possible underneath the rainbow mane of the cyan winged pony.

"Yeah, lets check it out!" Rainbow dash replied, blushing slightly at the sudden contact.

"I think it came from that way..." she said, dashing off from on top of Flutter shy and flapping up to a short line of scrub and trees.

"Can you see anything?" called Flutter shy from the ground. Rainbow dash did not answer her and she had to hastily land on a branch to stop herself from falling, her wings had gone completely rigid. After being ignored by Rainbow, Flutter shy started working her way through the bushes in-front of her.

Rainbow dash was too busy staring at the scene unfolding to pay any attention to anything else, a blush rising to her cheeks that could shame any apple.

"You couldn't have done this the easy way could you?" shouted Colgate, delivering a vicious uppercut to the giant python.

As she slammed her giant brush into Slinky's chin, she exploded upwards from the water and up to his towering eye level. Rainbow watched as though in slow motion and Colgate flew up from the water, droplets of water covering her body and filling the air around her, casting a rainbow effect around her. Dash swore she could hear the twinkles of light bouncing off each drop, Colgate's mane was wet and hung suggestively down her neck, bringing Rainbow's wings to a standing vertical salute.

At this moment, to Dash at least, Colgate was a daring, adventurous and hot mare. Her awesomeness outstripped even Dash's, although she would never admit this to anyone. Rainbow dash wanted, needed to meet this mare.

Colgate brought her brush crashing down on the giant pythons head, performing a stunning forward flip and bringing her back hooves down towards his for-head. She coiled the muscles in her legs, her damp coat accenting the outlines of each muscle for her silent audience, then slammed her hooves down onto the snakes head.

Just as the python came crashing down to the ground beside the river, Flutter shy broke her head through the thick brambles.

"Was that so bad, the way you were acting you would think I was going to murder you." Colgate scolded the snake.

Flutter shy stifled a gasp as she watched Colgate gently clean Slinky's teeth with a giant brush, displaying a deep caring for animals that Flutter shy thought only she possessed.

"She's so kind..." Flutter shy mumbled under her breath as she watched the pythons grunts of pain cease, Slinky had refused  to let her treat his teeth, the most she had gotten him to do was eat some apples. At this moment, in Flutter shy's eyes, Colgate was a kind angel, similar to herself. Flutter shy's eyes drifted up her flank, Colgate's wet coat and mane made her look extremely hot.

Flutter shy's face flushed.

"O-oh my...."

"there, now can you please direct me to the Ursa cave slinky?" Colgate asked the prone form of the snake.

"hurmph" Slinky grunted unintelligibly, pointing with his tail to a gap between two trees.

"thank-you Slinks, I'll be off now, ta-ta!" Colgate called from the edge of the clearing. Colgate turned back towards the trees and dove into the depths of the forest once again, for half a second she thought she heard a mare's voice cry out through the trees, but it sounded too much like a throaty moan to be a pony. She adjusted her magical grip on her brush and continued through the trees.

"No way!" Rainbow dash cried, hearing Colgate's last words before she disappeared into the trees on the opposite side of the clearing, that last little statement was enough to force her over the edge and she fell from her perch in a sweaty heap on the ground.

"We have to follow her Flutters!" she called to the, still red faced, yellow Pegasus.

"Bu-But the Ursa's are very L-Large and scary dash!" Flutter shy stuttered. "I don't want to go anywhere near them!"

"Don't worry, if we fly to the caves then we can beat her there. What was that mares name again? min- something I think" dash mused.

"Come on flutters! lets go before she gets there!"  Dash cried, picking Flutter shy up by in her arms and carrying her up into the sky.

"with my speed, we will be there in no time!.... whats that smell?"

Flutter shy blushed.