Prompt: Logan's Run (not a prompt as such)

Alternative Title:

The Unbearable Lightness of Ducking

Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy decided to hang out at Saddle Lake on a pleasant day. Pinkie and Rainbow were having a stone-skipping contest, while Fluttershy mingled with the wildlife and watched her friends.

After a while, good-natured distractions were added to the stone-skipping. During one of Rainbow's turns, Pinkie created a particularly distracting effect that threw Rainbow's aim completely off. As they both noticed the stone's trajectory towards Fluttershy, they warned her with a resounding "Duck!"

Although she heard her friends' warning and lowered her head in time to avoid any harm, the loud shouts and sudden movement startled an actual duck and ducklings that Fluttershy had met just moments before, and now they were all quacking up a storm of commotion. Once they settled down, Fluttershy just stared at her two friends while they wore sheepish grins.

Author's Note

So, the prompt itself was a little bit different than the usual fare, being something of an experiment... Details can be found in this link, but basically we were to take a pre-existing story title from a certain user's list of stories, and tweaking said story title by adding, removing, or otherwise changing merely one single letter (though punctuation changes were also allowed). The story title I eventually managed to scrounge this idea from is "The Unbearable Lightness of Bucking."

Originally found here:

https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/339715/flashfic-150-november-2017-logans-run-not-a-prompt-as-such#comment/6198824

p.s. For anyone curious about Saddle Lake, it's to the immediate east of Ponyville, according to this apparently official map of Equestria (linked instead of embedded because it's a fairly large image).