Rainbow Dash Discovers Bad Fanfiction

by TheExhaustedBrony

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Rainbow Dash, Comedy, Random
Length: 1310

Rainbow Dash takes her love of reading to the next level.

Rainbow Dash absolutely loves the Daring Do series, and she's aware that other ponies have written their own Daring Do stories. Once Rainbow Dash had finished the series, she needed something else to read. Perhaps some of the many fanfictions out there would be a good read, right?

Warning: this story contains explicit language and may upset certain viewers. Rainbow Dash gets very frustrated. Read at your own risk!

Submitted for the 31shotober challenge!

3/17/23
This piece has received a very nice reading from
TheLostNarrator!

Published 2013-09-25 00:40:02 UTC
Last updated 2013-09-25 00:40:02 UTC

What the fuck am I reading?

Rainbow Dash returned home after a long day of practicing her flying tricks. She walked over to bed and looked at the stack of Daring Do novels on her nightstand and scanned the spines,

"Read that one three times, read that one six times, read that one once and that was enough, ugh! I've read all of these too recently. What am I going to do now? I need my Daring Do fix, stat!" Rainbow Dash got her laptop and opened up an Internet browser and searched, Daring Do fan stories. She knew that she wasn't the only fan of the series, so maybe somepony out there made their own story. Maybe it'd be as good as the actual books are.

As Rainbow Dash waited for the search results to load, she couldn't stop smiling. There would be no way to contain Rainbow Dash's excitement should she find an amazing story to read. The links slowly began appearing on the screen one by one. She saw the first link that read, Daring Do and The Quest For The Silver Pencil.

"What the fuck is this?" Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow, curious and confused about the obscure title. She decided to read it anyway, she learned from Twilight not to judge a book by its cover. She double clicked the link and the page quickly turned to be story. The top line read:

Author's note: This is probably the best Daring Do fanfic you'll ever have the honor of reading!

Rainbow Dash suddenly felt unsure about this story. Is it really that good? Why would anyone lie about something on the Internet? She ignored all attempts her mind made to rationalize the situation and began reading. It wasn't until about halfway through the third paragraph where Rainbow Dash's eyes instantly regretted ever coming into existence.

"Who the hell is, Cowardly Don't? I-is this a fan character? He said that it was Daring's long lost brother, but what kind of fucking name is Cowardly Don't?" Rainbow Dash found it difficult to hear her thoughts over the sound of grinding teeth. She, for some reason, decided to keep reading. She decided to skip over grammatical errors because she didn't feel that she had a good enough grasp on grammar to be able to correct someone's mistakes. The sixth paragraph nearly sent Rainboe Dash's hoof through her screen.

"Where the fuck did be get the idea that the fucking pencil could cure laziness?! Was this supposed to be the fucking god damn piece of shit plot twist?! You hardly had me on the edge of my seat and this ride is moving at like less than a mile an hour. Your attempt at shocking me, the reader, actually made the ride come to a complete stop and I'd like to get off now!" Rainbow Dash began breathing heavy, ragged breaths of pure anger. Why was she submitting herself to this torture and bastardization of the greatness that is Daring Do? Nevertheless, the cyan Pegasus continue the trek through the seemingly never ending sea of shit that is this story.

Rainbow Dash couldn't help but laugh at herself for believing the author's note at the top of the page. What a load of horse shit. She'd rather kick Scootaloo than say this guy's a good writer. However, the next page revealed that killing Scootaloo would make much more sense than simply kicking her,

"They kissed?! What the fuck is this pile of fucking donkey shit?" Rainbow Dash began pulling clumps of hair out of her mane and scattering it all over her bed. "Why did you have to make Daring Do kiss Abuizotl?! According to canon, aren't they supposed to be enemies? And also, where did that little asshole, Cowardly Don't, run off to? Did he die, like, right after he was introduced? I mean, he's mentioned, but Daring hasn't seen him since. I don't remember him ever describing a scene where Cowardly left his sister!" Rainbow Dash knew in her mind that she should stop reading for the benefit of her health. However, her heart told her that Daring Do would never give up, no matter how from the situation. So she pressed on even further.

"And then Daring Do slowly pressed her lips up against his. They spent about a whole minute making out before she backed up and said... Woah woah woah woah woah, what? B-brother?! As in Daring Do's brother? Since when were Daring Do and Ahuizotl related? Again, what the fuck happened to Cowardly Don't? Actually, I don't care about him anymore, all that's important is that she's making out with her brother and now wants to have sex with him?!" Rainbow Dash slid her hoof down her face and groaned, "thank Celestia this is almost over. Ahuizotl took the silver pencil and... Nope! Not going to read that! That's just fucked up, is someone supposed to get turned on by that?!" Once again, Rainbow Dash couldn't believe what she was reading. Her own crap had more brain cells than this guy had! This sex scene continued for another four and a half pages, which she ultimately skipped to at least keep her sanity.

The last paragraph was near. Rainbow Dash smiled for the first time in what felt like what might as well had been a month. She could see the scroll bar was close to the bottom of the page. She couldn't wait for the nightmare to end so she continued,

"Daring Do took the pencil and forced it into the monster's head. It let out a deafening roar as it writhed in pain. The silver pencil had been magical, just like the old wise pony said. Daring Do pulled the pencil out of the monster's head and shoved it into its mouth shouting, "eat lead!" Rainbow Dash had no words. Words would have to be invented just to describe her fury. That pun took the joys of finally ending the horrible story and made her want to kill somepony. She took a deep breath, picked up her laptop and brought it to her window. From there, she threw it down to the earth below her floating house, smashing it into hundreds of pieces. Rainbow Dash walked back to her bed, crawled into the blankets and fell asleep. From that day forward, she decided that she'd only stick to what the creator of Daring Do wrote.

The next morning, Rainbow Dash woke up in a pretty bad mood. Not only did she just destroy her computer, but also she couldn't stop thinking about how horrible the fanfic she just read was.

"Ugh, I need to talk to Twilight about this. She'll know how to help me." Rainbow Dash knew that Twilight Sparkle was the perfect pony to ask help from.

Rainbow Dash flew to the library, where she was greeted by Twilight who was just returning from the market.

"Hey, Rainbow Dash, good morning."

"Twilight, I need to talk to you." Rainbow Dash said, with a very distressed tone in her voice.

"What's the matter?"

"Well, I finished all the Daring Do books multiple times over and yesterday, I needed more Daring Do. So, I went online and looked up fan fictions. I found one, but it made me so angry that I just lost it. I wound up throwing my computer out the window."

Twilight was surprised. She knew that Rainbow Dash acted irrational at times, but to go as far as throw her own computer away seemed too irrational, even for her. Could the story have been that bad?

"Come inside, I'll make you some tea and we can talk this through. Sometimes it's just best to let your voice be heard when you're frustrated." The purple unicorn held the door open and motioned Rainbow Dash to enter.