It had been two days since we made up, and I was more or less better today as I relaxed out by the lake.

It felt good to rest in the sun, shirt off, and watch voyeuring pegasi collide with clouds as they dropped their attention from their flight path.

Considering how ponies are all about strengthening ties to other races, it’d make sense we’d develop a more varied concept on physical attraction… maybe I read all those faces wrong, I mean they never actually said they were disgusted or that they found me freakish… and there were foals around-oh my Celestia they thought I was showing off too much with the tank top.

My growing dread at my complete misunderstanding of a situation managed to be knocked away by the sounds of distressed ribbits.

“Huh?” I decided to get up from the grass and flutter (hehe) over to the sound of the noise, pulling back hedges to see-“HOLY BUCK!”

This was clearly an issue with overpopulation, I could barely see the pond over the massive amount of frogs. “And I thought Angel reproduced fast, and he’s the only male rabbit that doesn’t go out into the wild.”

Yeah, that’s right, Angel was the one to sire all those baby bunnies in Applebuck Season, surprising, isn’t it?

But back to the amphibians, it was obvious this pond was not going to cut it, they need relocation. “Hold on my Semi-Aquatic Compatriots, I’ll be back with a wagon and some baskets and I’ll take you to Froggy Bottom Bog.”

*ribbit*

“...yes, I’ll be putting on a shirt too.” I say with a blush and proceed to head off to attain the necessary items.

“Alright, everyone ready.” a cheer of croaks from behind came in reply…

Unfortunately, I still had the old wagon built with a pony harness… that meant I had to be on all fours to use it, so I was in a rather… suggestive, position, but I didn’t let that get the best of me.

No siree I was DEFINITELY not blushing like a tomato with my head flooded with images of Luna appearing and rutting me like a horny slut as payback for the escapades we shared in my dreams NOPE!!

I proceeded to fly up and off over Ponyville, since the Lake and pond were on the other side of town from the Everfree Forest, making it a bit awkward to make that trip to my cottage and back.

Though it was relaxing to fly about to the gentle croaking of the frogs, I didn’t even realize when I started giving out a bit of a song in kind, or even when they decided to join me.

It was a rather catchy, rhythmic choir of croaks that flew across the sky of Ponyville that day, until one of the frogs knocked me out of my stupor to inform me we have a frog overboard, I immediately rushed to retrieve him from… Twilight’s face.

“Sorry Twilight, I was just at the pond and saw the extreme overpopulation, so these amphibians required a proper relocation to a larger habitation.”

“...wut?” Spike asked.

“She’s moving the frogs to a larger spot.” Twilight explained.

“Thank you, and thanks again for saving this one… I… would do this on hoof but the wagon demands that I be on all fours.” I give a wave before heading off again.

I knew I would see them later, but I pitied all the pain Twilight is going to go through.

Now, I know I think it’d be more engaging if I didn’t count these skips… the alternative was boring, I had to spend the whole time counting the frogs to make sure I had a full headcount.

“3,267... 3,268... 3,269, nice… there! 3,270 relocated, hopping, happy frogs!”

“Fluttershy! You’re okay!” I heard a Dragon call out as I was hugged from behind.

“Well, why wouldn’t I be?” I asked, knowing the answer already.

“Phew, what a relief.” Applejack said with a relieved tone.

“I’m so glad everything’s alright!” Pinkie cheered, and this would be when Twilight would gloat about Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense being debunked, but I wasn’t having any of that.

“Of course, there isn’t any danger out in Froggy Bottom Bog, well, except the Hydra.”

“H-Hydra?” Spike asked.

“Well sure, the frogs here tend to attract a lot of large predators, so they’ve formed a symbiotic relationship with a large four-headed Hydra that lives in the water, they continue to act as bait to lure food for the Hydra, and it makes sure to have itself look enticing to insects so the Frogs get an easy meal. I never bother to stay here long, as the Hydra has a taste for ponies.”

“So you’re saying that somewhere around is *cough* *cough*, some big, stinky, fly-attracting Hydra?” Twilight asked as the stink clouds rolled in.

“No, it’s actually right behind you.”

Her eyes turned to pinpricks as she slowly turned to face the monster that had revealed itself.

“Meep…”

The beast let out a vicious roar that sent the ponies and dragons into fleeing… but I stood my ground, causing Twilight to turn to me in horror. “Fluttershy! What are you doing?!” She bellowed. “Nopony can fight a Hydra like that!”

“Yeah, you see, that’s the big difference here Twilight, if we ran in that direction, we’d run to a cliff.” She flinched, and the Hydra got ready to lunge. “And I may be a pony, but then again you forget that to change me, you hybridized me with another creature, granting me the traits of both races.” The first head launched forward ready to snatch me up in its jaws. “So I’m not just a pony!” and I swung my (magically assisted) hoof forward.

*CLANG* “I’m Half-Minotaur, BITCH!”

As the beast recoiled, the group looked absolutely mortified.

“...that’s your cue to run around him, Girls!”

As the beast shook off the attack I knew wasn’t going to do diddly to it until I got more practice, I kept distracting it as the four fled… then I followed, ending up catching up with Applejack and the others quickly and losing the beast in the treeline.

“That was so much fun!!” I cried out.

“...and I thought Rainbow Dash was the Adrenaline Junkie.” AJ muttered.

“Wow Pinkie, you said there’d be a Doozy here and that Hydra sure was a-”

*uncontrollable shaking*

“Pinkie?”

“That wasn’t it.”

“What??”

“The Hydra wasn’t the Doozy, my Pinkie Sense is saying it hasn’t happened yet. *more shaking* see?”

“But… I… you… WHAT?!”

“Uh oh.” I mutter as we backed up.

Then Twilight goes Nirik on us… for less than ten seconds.

“Oh I give up.”

Okay, so this kinda goes the same way as the episode, she admits to believing in Pinkie Sense, the Doozy was fulfilled and Pinkie skipped away happily, now for my addition.

“Wait, you were trying to figure out Pinkie Sense?” I ask.

“Uh… yeah?”

“Oh, I figured that out ages ago!” I say casually.

“You… already… ooooh.” *thud*

“Twilight? ...Twilight?”

{two hours later, Twilight Residence}

“...so it’s just Earth Pony Magic?”

“Mhm! Earth Ponies have a subtle power to commune with the earth, it allows them to easily check which soil is fertile enough for planting or what a certain plant needs, though in modern cases the link to the land has diverged into unique variants.”

“And in Pinkie’s case, the earth is able to warn her about different events through ticks, twitches and the like.”

“Yep, I’m surprised you immediately went for the scientific method to try and figure out a clearly magical solution.”

“Yeah… now I just feel silly.”

“Oh, it happens to the best of us, now about that magic lesson?”

“Really? After that stunt you pulled with the Hydra?”

“Because of that stunt, I want to actually get magic techniques so I can actually drive off a beast next time.”

She paused, but then sighed in defeat. “You’re… okay, you’re not exactly right, but you’re not wrong either, you’re going to need someone to teach you magic and I don’t think any normal tutors would go along with it.”

“Yay!!” I cheered excitedly.

“But only on the same days I have lessons with Trixie.”

“Aww.”

{Next Episode}

“Alright, so now that you know the elements of a good cheer, let’s hear one!” Rainbow said to me as she somehow convinced me out of bed for this horseshit.

Oh, you’re gonna pay. “Yay.”

“... come on, you’re going to cheer for me like that? Louder.”

“Yay!”

“Louder!”

“YAY!”

“LOUDEERR!!”

*deep inhale* moment of truth.

“YAY!!”

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa-” I heard Rainbow scream as she… flew off into the distance.

“...BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! HOLY FUCK I… I JUST ‘FUS RO DAH’D RAINBOW INTO THE NEXT COUNTY! AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!”

{~~one intro~~ twenty minutes later}

After a few apologies, and a request to tone it down, the performance of Rainbow Dash began.

“Yeah Rainbow!” I said, cheering with actual enthusiasm as she began.

She rushed in immediately, working through the Tree Slalom.

“Alright!!”

She aced it on the cloud spinning technique.

“Woohoo!”

And she almost, ALMOST got the Rainboom down… but her momentum choked at the last minute and she got sling-shotted by the re-straightening Mach Cone.

I blanched until I realized just where she was gonna land.

“If I let her send the books sprawling! I’ll have to wait another week for lessons! Alright Fluttershy, time for some hope and faith.”

I cast Accelero, and raced off, unlike before, I was in an open space, meaning I had a bit more time to get used to the increase of velocity than I did in Rarity’s Boutique, sure I almost bisected a poor pony but I managed to dodge just in time and managed to get the hang of it as I arrived and entered the Library, Dispelling the enchantment.

“Fluttershy? I thought-”

“No time to explain!” I declare as I huddled like a Quarterback at the window I knew Rainbow was gonna crash through and Caught her, leaving me to skid back a bit but I did it!

“You okay Rainbow?” I glanced at the Pegasus.

“Mmf! MMF!” She muffled back with her muzzle in my-oh dear!

*drop* “ow!”

“Sorry!”

“Well, whatever, you did kinda well with your performance.” She complimented.

“Thanks! I’ve never actually cheered for anypony before…” But I do know how to be loud if you know what I’m saying hehehehehehe…

“Cheering for what?”

“Oh, the Best Young Fliers Competition.”

“What’s that?”

“Oh, it’s where all the best pegasus fliers from all over Equestria show off their different flying styles to compete to see who’s the best of the best! Some are fast!” (insert car impersonation) “And some are gracefu-UuuULL!” *crash*

“Go-lly, I’d love to see you strut your stuff at this competition.” Applejack said.

“Actually, maybe we can all go!” Twilight said, causing the others to make a noise of confusion.

And here is where my influence has affected certain characters.

“Thanks to me teaching Trixie and Fluttershy new magic, I’ve had to look through all the basics, including two new spells that might help, The first one should grant me and the others temporary wings, while the second one is a basic cloudwalking enchantment.” she explained. “I’d like to try the first one, the second one sounds easier, but it means we won’t be able to save ourselves if we happened to fall off, or the enchantment wore off while we were still on the clouds.”

“Thanks girls, I’d love for you to come to Cloudsdale, any amount of support from my friends is awesome.” Dash said.

“Speaking of which, I think we should go, all that practice might make us late for you to enter.”

“What?!” And with that, Rainbow was off.

“Seeya girls!” And I soon followed.

Now, I know what you’re thinking, ‘But Fluttershy, there was no way you’d be late, I thought Rainbow Dash leaves in the episode to rest up.’

Well you see that point is very simple, I lied.

You see, Cloudsdale is really fucking far away, and while my minotaur potential changed me for the better in some ways, it’s changed me in others as well.

For example, while a normal Pegasi is a speed flier, I, with my new Griffon-esque wingspan (I have had a lot of time to compare with an actual Griffon) am more akin to an endurance flier. Sure I could still help create tornadoes with my slower, stronger flaps so ‘Hurricane Fluttershy’ isn’t a doomed episode, but there was no way I was gonna be able to get there in time after Rainbow’s nap, and Rainbow’s too loyal to leave me behind so she’d be late for the tryouts.

So yeah, I’m making Dash get me there earlier so I don’t slow her down later.

Now that exposition dump is out of the way, I need to stop stalling and go about… the encounter.

“Well, well, well, what do we have here?” Dumbbell (yes, that is seriously his name) calls out to us.

“It’s our old friend, Rainbow Crash!” Hoops added.

And here we go with the insults, I can’t-

“Say, who’s your friend?”

“Wut?” me and Rainbow said at the same time.

I found myself in a very uncomfortable situation as the three stooges ignored Rainbow to casually surround me.

I think I liked it better when I didn’t know I was still attractive to ponies like this!

“Hey hot stuff, what’s a fine piece of flank like you doing with some Flight School dropout like her?” The Leader of the trio asked, making it undeniably clear he was hitting on me, the other two getting grins.

“Yeah, you should hang out with some actual stallions instead of some tomboy.” Plothole number two added.

“Right, what’s say you and we go talk over a few glasses of cider?” The Third guy, Quarterback, offered.

Contain the bile fluttershy, fill your throat with Sass instead.

“Wow, and I thought Flying Pigs were supposed to be impossible.” I say as I strut off, giving Dumbbell a good crotch-kick for good measure before heading away from them with Rainbow.

“Sorry you had to go through that Fluttershy, I felt sick just watching.”

“It’s okay, it’s better than them going after you, you don’t deserve any stress or pressure if you want to pull off the Sonic Rainboom.”

“Fluttershy, I… I don’t think I-” I interrupt as I place my hands on her shoulders.

“No, you can and you will, don’t let anypony doubt how amazing you are, not even you, okay?”

“Uh… okay, thanks Fluttershy.”

“Hey, that’s what friends are… for?” I blink as I saw Rarity appear from under the clouds, shimmering wings like thin crystal panes of colour. “Woah…”

“Huh?” Rainbow blinked as she turned around and saw- “Rarity?!”

“Hello Rainbow Dash, you’ll be happy to know Twilight managed to succeed in her spells… partly.”

“Partly?” She asked before the balloon came up from the clouds like Rarity, revealing Twilight and co.

“Hi Rainbow!” Pinkie exclaimed before hopping onto the cloud.

“...I take it the wing spell takes too much effort?” I assumed as I looked to Twilight.

“Yeah, we’re just going to try and avoid the edges.” She admitted.

“Since you’re here, and Fluttershy decided to get us to come here earlier...”

“Hey, I haven’t gotten used to my new wingstyle, okay?”

“I know, I know… how about we give you a tour of Cloudsdale?”

With the group chorusing out an agreement, we were off on the tour… and immediately Rarity got distracted by herself in a mirror, and then some road workers decided to admire her wings too.

Well at least I’m not being noticed anymore.

“Careful Rarity,” Twilight warned. “Those wings are made from Gossamer and Morning Dew, they’re quite Fragile!”

“Oh Darling, I don’t think they’ll be worn out by a little attention.”

“Wow, story of Ichor Husk, much?”

“You’ve heard of that old tale?” Purple-Smart inquired.

“Yeah, it’s a classic Filly’s Fable.” Rainbow answered for me. “A Unicorn trying to out-do pegasi with wax wings? It’s hard to find a pony in Cloudsdale who hasn’t heard of that story.”

With that out of the way, the tour went about just as you’d expect, we got a look at all the parts of the factory, Rarity kept showing off and eventually decided to join the competition, if you want to visualize this better, just go through the episode and imagine Fluttershy replaced with a curvy voluptuous anthro mare.

With the big titties. (enjoy your obligatory Hellsing Abridged reference)

Unfortunately when we got to the Cloudiseum I wasn’t able to go backstage and give Rainbow a pep-talk, and that meant events were surely going to happen that I couldn’t prevent… especially with somepony needing an ego check.

“When this is over, me and Rarity are going to have a long talk about not overshadowing the friend you came to support on the way home.” I angrily said.

“Oh come on Fluttershy, you can’t possibly… mean…” the words Applejack wanted to say died in her throat as I looked her dead in the eye, and did something that made her and the others visibly pale with how serious I was.

“Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye, I will be giving Rarity the appropriate scolding.” To hell with a simple ‘learned my lesson’ schtick after Rainbow’s rescue, she volunteered for an untested spell just to help support Rainbow, and now she’s gone all Peacock on her and practically ruined all of the confidence I had worked to help her build up! “And maybe a suitable punishment if she indirectly sabotages Rainbow’s performance.”

“Suitable punishment?” Twilight asked cautiously.

“She’s acting like a spoiled foal, that warrants something fitting, a good spanking.”

That got them to go from white to red rather quickly.

But now wasn’t the time to focus on me, as Rainbow and Rarity came on stage, and just like I expected, Rarity had replaced Rainbow’s Rock and Roll track with something calming, not conducive to stunt flying.

Which… became apparent at the Slalom as she ended up colliding with the wall…

And when one of the clouds she was spinning went out of control and nearly knocked Celestia upside the head…

Meaning now it all relied on her being able to pull off a Sonic Rainboom, but I knew she would, considering the right motivation was about to arrive in 3… 2… 1…

“Oh no! Her wings evaporated into thin air!” Twilight cried out as Rarity began to descend.

“Wow… it was more like the tale of Ichor Husk than I thought.”

“Why are you so calm?! She could be killed!”

“Yes, but I have faith in Rainbow Dash.”

“Why not the Wonderbolts?” Pinkie asked, to which I pointed to the three unconscious pegasi falling with the unicorn in question. “Oooh.” And then she saw Rainbow speeding past towards them. “OOOH!”

This was it, Rainbow was beginning to form the Mach Cone, but she needed all the support she could get to break it.

So I began. “Rainbow Dash! Rainbow Dash!” I continued the chant as I gestured to my friends to join in.

“Rainbow Dash! Rainbow Dash!” It was a cheer that began to spread as the cone got sharper and sharper, until eventually the entire Cloudiseum was yelling out the chant, cheering her on, even Celestia.

It was a giant booming cheer erupting out the bottom and top of the stadium, and from what little I could see from my seat, she could hear it.

“RAINBOW DASH! RAINBOW DASH! RAINBOW DASH!”

*BOOM!*

And there it was, an aurora of colours bursting out from the epicenter, a flaming ring of prismatic power and beauty, and a polychromatic streak speeding through the sky like a bolt of lightning, arching over the stadium before the Pegasus responsible landed and handed the rescued ponies to the response team.

This caused the Cloudiseum to burst into cheers as Rainbow Dash pulled a daring rescue and a legendary trick all at the same time.

If she didn’t win the competition now? I’d be very disappointed in Celestia’s judgment.

“Well, it may be awhile before Rainbow returns to Ponyville, but I say we all managed to learn a valuable-”

“Oooh no, Rarity, you’re not getting out of this!” I interrupted the fashionista as we all took the Balloon back home.

“What…?” she asked, looking to the others.

“She… Pinkie Promised that she would be scolding you for your actions when we started heading home.” Applejack explained, causing Rarity to look mortified, glancing to Pinkie.

“Sorry Rarity, but I’m not letting anypony break a Pinkie Promise.” she said seriously.

“Now, let’s talk about how you disrupted over several months of important weather work at the factory.” I began

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”

Author's Note

behold, another double episode chapter, apologies if it's a bit longer than others.