Whom The Belle Tolls

by Clockwork Corn

Rating: everyone
Tags: Sweetie Belle, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Rainbow Dash, Silver Spoon, Random
Length: 5479

Sweetie Belle and Silver Spoon get stranded during a school field trip.

An attempts to aquire a cutie mark during a school field trip goes horribly wrong for Sweetie Belle and after some questionable decisions results in her being left stranded with her classmate and rival Silver Spoon. Left alone in isloation and no apparant way to get home, will the unlikely duo be able to co-exist and what lies in store for them over the horizon?

Published 2012-01-11 03:07:35 UTC
Last updated 2012-01-11 03:07:35 UTC

Chapter 1: Ruining the trip.

The air was warm, the sun was shining, and every filly in Ponyville had gathered for a special field trip to visit the coastal ruins of Mytologisk. Most of the classmates were eagerly sitting around Cheerilee as she explained the history and significance of the ruin. But three little fillies had other ideas. After all who cared about silly old ancient history when you still had cutie mark talents to discover!

“Hey look at this!” Applebloom said discreetly while pressing two stones together, carefully trying not draw attention to herself over Cheerilee’s lesson. “Look at me build! I’ll get a building cutie mark for sure!”

“I think building takes more than just shoving things randomly together Applebloom.” Sweetie Belle interjected. Those stones will just fall apart.”

“This won’t fall apart though! Look at this!” exclaimed an excited Scootaloo as she waved around a colourful mesh of…something. “Erm, what is it?” Belle inquired. “It’s art! I’m an artist!” Scootaloo proudly replied. Belle examined the crude mishmash of crayon and awkward shiny objects plastered onto dirty rags. “That’s… Art? If my sister was here, she would burn that insult to beauty.”

Sweetie Belle didn’t mean offence but Scootaloo was visibly very disheartened and upset. For a moment she looked like she was about to cry but instead turned to anger. “Well what have you done that’s so much better then?” Scootaloo stated each word with passive aggressive vemon. Applebloom quickly stood by Scootaloo’s side and agreed “Yeah! It seems your special talent is just sitting back and judging ours! Why don’t you attempt something yourself!?”

Belle was quite taken aback by the accusatory attitude and worse still, she couldn’t think of anything to try. She hoped improvisation would be her special talent as she responded. “Well I… I err… I think I have a special talent down! I can… Use…” Sweetie Belle quickly glanced around to look for something, anything to help her but couldn’t see a thing that would be useful. “I can use…. My horn!...to… do magic!” Belle quickly realized that every unicorn can do that and it was hardly a special talent! Starting to panic now she had to think fast and say something quickly. “New magic! That I invented myself! I can summon bees!” Belle immediately regretted saying that. ‘Bees!?’ she thought to herself. Where did that even come from, her and her big mouth.

Applebloom and Scootaloo looked on with perplexed expressions. Curious as to what Belle was talking about. “Bees?” They both said simultaneously. Belle could barely do even the simplest of spells, few unicorns her age could. She wanted to back out now but she couldn’t bring herself too. With desperate hope that a miracle may occur she closed her eyes and focused as hard as she could on her horn.
Belle felt energy pass through her horn. She had done something but she couldn’t bare to open and her eyes and see what. There was a loud noise and a bright light… followed by a thump and a lot of commotion. When she opened her eyes the entire class staring at her. Except for Twist who was shaking in fear next to a fallen chunk of one of the ruin’s many broken walls.

“Sweetie Belle!” Cheerilee shouted angrily. ‘Uh-oh’ Belle thought to herself. She must have accidently blasted a patch of the wall off and nearly crushed Twist. “I’m so glad you find important history so boring that you pull pranks on your classmates!” Cheerilee spitted out bitterly in the way only teachers can manage.

“Nono no! I don’t find this at all boring Cheerilee! I didn’t mean to do anything! Really!” Belle protested in earnest but Cheerilee was unimpressed. “Oh, is that so? Then can you tell everyone why the Griffins abandoned this outpost over a century ago? Seeing as I just explained it to the class.”

Belle was caught out here and she knew it. She looked down to avoid Cheerilee’s gaze and kicked at the ground softly. “Because…It… was too… cold?” The other fillies chuckled loudly at Belle but Cheerilee just frowned. “I’m very disappointed in you Sweetie Belle. And I’m going to have a word with your sister when we get back. Anyway class, follow me. Let’s go see the remains of what once was the hatchery.”

Cheerilee lead the class further into the ruin and up some old broken stairs. The entire class followed eargly expect Sweetie Belle who intentionally lagged behind. “Hey Belle! You comin’ or what?” Applebloom shouted merrily. She had already stopped caring about the whole escapade but Belle hadn’t. “I’ll catch up later.” Belle whimpered in little more than a whisper.

“Okay suit yourself! I’m going to see if hatching is my special talent!” Applebloom exclaimed joyfully. “But the actual hatchery’s been gone for over a century silly! She just said so!” Scootaloo interjected. “Well… Maybe rebuilding it is my talent! I haven’t given up on my builders cutie mark!” Applebloom replied.

Their voices got quieter as they walked away until eventually Belle couldn’t hear them at all. Then once she was all alond she turned around and left the ruins to walk down the coast alone. “It’s not fair.” She said to herself, as she sulked. “They all have cutie marks or ideas of how to get cutie marks. While I do is get into trouble and feel dumb...”

Then she looked up saw something that caught her eye. A small boat was floating very close by, loosely hitched to one single post. A smile appeared on Sweetie Belle’s face as she suddenly thought of a new idea.

Chapter 2: The winds of change

With an excited skip in her step, Belle rushed right over to the boat and clambered aboard. It was in pristine condition and small enough to be sailed by one pony while being big enough to be spaciously comfortable! It even had a shiny, recently polished ship’s wheel that was bigger than Belle herself! Not to mention an entire lower-deck. It almost seemed to scream out to her. It was perfect! ‘Why did I never think of it before! Sailing must be my special talent’ Belle thought to herself. ‘This must be fate! The boat in the middle of no-where, the school trip, the trouble I got into! It all makes sense now.’

Belle looked around and saw nopony in sight in any direction. Any doubts or second thoughts quickly left her mind as she justified herself. The weather was so mild… Even if this was a mistake it wouldn’t be a problem for her to get back to shore. And Cheerilee is still so close by.

With insatiable anticipation Belle leaned over the edge of the boat and eagerly cut the rope that tied it to the shore using her sharp horn, without the slightest bit of regret. She then rushed over to the ships wheel as fast as she could. She felt the boat slowly begin to sail into the sea as she played with the wheel like a toy, not even caring if she was doing anything useful with it or not. She was having the time of her life and all the memories of what happened in the ruin escaped her mind for a moment.

”HEY! What in Celestia are you doing!? AAARGH!” The scream was so loud, ear-piercing and so unexpected that Belle fell to the floor and shook. Followed by feeling incredibly fortunate that she didn’t have a heart attack. She got back up to her feet and too her horror saw Silver Spoon’s head popping out of the trapdoor to the lower-deck. Her mane was unkempt and messy, she must have been asleep down there. If only she had looked down there before she set sail!

“Silver Spoon? What are you doing here?” Belle stated in confusion.

“WHAT AM I DOING HERE? What are YOU doing here!? This is my father’s boat!” Silver Spoon responded. Belle gulped hard and felt like she just swallowed a stone. “Your… Your father?”

Silver Spoon snorted more in disgust than anger. “Yes! My father runs the biggest shipyard in Equestria don’t you know?” Belle twitched nervously, she had always known that Silver Spoon’s father was an important and powerful pony but she never knew why.

Mental images rushed through Belle’s mind of what would happen to her now. Silver Spoon is such a drama queen she could tell her father that Belle kidnapped her! And stole her boat! And with her father’s influence and Cheerilee angry at her! She could be banished to the Everfree Forest! Or worse! Maybe she’d have her horn removed as punishment! Would Celestia do that…?

“He’s a busy man and this trip gave us a great chance to spend some time together! I got permission to come out here. Now take me back to the land right now!” Silver Spoon continued her speech.

“I’m sorry I’m so sor-… Wait. Take “you” back? Not… “us” back? So… Your father isn’t down there?” Belle breathed a sigh of relief. She had a chance to get out of all this after all.

“Huh? No. This boat has no supplies so he went to get some food before our trip while I took my 4th nap of the day.” Silver Spoon explained matter-of-factly.

Belle couldn’t believe her ears “Wait so your father left you alone in a boat in the middle of no-where? That’s awful parenting.”

The furious anger returned to Silver Spoon’s eyes “Don’t you make fun of my father you talentless blank flank! I’m not the one who’s been raised to be a thief! Now turn this boat back round! When my father here’s about this-”

Belle quickly grabbed cut the rope to lower the ships sails, then grabbed the ship’s wheel and tried to steer it as far away from the coast as she could. “No! I’ll get in trouble again!”

It took a moment for Silver Spoon to register what was happening. Once she realized she leapt up onto to the upper deck and grabbed the ships wheel from the other-side. The two fillies proceeded to wrestle and struggle over it, pulling it every direction. “You’re already in trouble! Don’t make it worse for yourself blank flank!”

Belle got another mental image of her hornless self having to clean out Celestia’s prized pigsty. “Worse!? I’m never going back! EVER! How could it possibly get any worse than this!?”

Suddenly the ship’s wheel became dislodged due to the fillies’ frantic struggling in every direction, causing it to fall to the floor with a thud. The duo looked on in horror as they lost all control of the ship.

“This is all your fault!” Silver Spoon screeched at the top of her lungs as she angrily shoved Belle.

Belle returned the shove. “My fault!? I was doing fine before you broke the wheel! This is all your fault!”

“WHAT!? This is MY boat! And you’re taking us away from land at full-speed! How is this anything other than your fault you stupid ugly haired blank flank frog-faced little troll!” Silver Spoon snorted loudly and furiously as she became enraged and pressed her face right against Belle's. The two went right nose to nose. Which considering Belle’s horn gave her an advantage she thought.

The two stared each other down, both fuming angrily as they waited for the other to blink first. Suddenly the expression on Belle’s face changed from anger to worry as she noticed something disastrous behind Silver Spoon. “Erm… Silver Spoon!”

“Don’t you ‘Silver Spoon’ me! I have half a mind to throw you overboard and let you swim back to the coast while sharks bi-“

“SILVER SPOON! Look!” Belle interrupted as she pointed at the huge 14 foot tidal wave that was rapidly approaching. Unknown to them the weather had drastically changed while they were arguing so severely. Wind was blasting into the sails at an incredibly rate and the waves around them were dangerously chaotic.

They had travelled a lot further out to sea than either of them thought….

Chapter 3: Why can't we be friends?

Rarity beamed widely with pride as she looked at some kind of device in her hoof. “Congratulations on getting your cutie mark, Sweetie Belle! This invention of yours has made us all rich, especially you. It's simple yet ingenious, and it fits right in your hoof. Every pony in Equestria now owns one of these, and in many cases, three or four.”

‘Device? What device?’ Belle thought to herself. She reached for the obscured device in Rarity’s hoof but she was too small to reach it. “Uh, Rarity? Could I just get a look at that?”

Rarity laughed and pranced away in glee, moving away from Belle “Ha ha! Why would you need to see it? You're the genius that invented the product in question.”

Belle tried to follow Rarity but couldn’t keep up as her sister just went further and further away. “But, uh, could I just… Let me see! Rarity!” As Sweetie Belle shouted her sisters name, she immediately woke up to find herself on a desert island. It had all been a dream.

She clambered to her feet with difficulty; her body was aching all over. She then examined her surroundings. She could see the boat in several pieces sprawled across the coast, the tidal wave had all but destroyed it and carried her onto this island. And the most damning thing of all was that there was no sign of any other land in any direction on the horizon. The island itself was small, less than a mile across. It did however have a batch of trees in the centre, like a small wood. That somehow made it feel bigger.

“Oh finally you wake up! Now you fix this right now!” Silver Spoon’s shrill voice dug into Belle’s ears like a knife. She was standing by the largest heap of the boat wreck. Tapping her hoof impatiently.

Belle looked at Silver Spoon with a puzzled expression. Then picked up a flimsy piece of wreckage and watched it snap into two in her own grasp. “Me? What in Equestria do you expect me to do? I can’t build boats. I don’t even have any tools.”

“You’re the one who brought us here! So you’re going to get us out of here RIGHT NOW!” The anger had quickly returned to Silver Spoon’s voice.

Belle returned the anger in kind. “Well screaming at me isn’t going to fix the boat! Is it? And even if I did fix it, do you even know what direction home is in? Because I don’t!”

“Well you can’t do anything can you! You’re so useless! It’s no wonder you haven’t got a cutie mark!” Silver Spoon spitted back at Belle.

Belle snorted “Ha! You’re calling me useless! You’re the one who was just sitting there waiting for me to wake up. Why don’t YOU do something useful? Well? Because you can’t! You just sit in the background while other ponies do everything important.”

Silver Spoon’s eye began twitching as she felt her blood boiling. “How dare you! I could easily get out of this mess without any help at all!”

“Well then prove it!” Belle said smugly.

“Fine! I’ll find a way to get home on my own! And I’ll laugh when you come begging for me to rescue you!” And with that, Silver Spoon turned her back on Belle and began to walk away slowly. Belle didn’t attempt to stop her and instead turned her back too, so they were facing away from each other.

“Fine! I’ll send you a postcard when I’m back at the Carousel Boutique! Silver GOON!” Belle shouted with pride at her witty pun.

Suddenly they heard loud rustling coming from the trees. They were not alone after all! The unexpected noise terrified the two fillies who quickly rushed back into each other’s arms, shaking in fear. ‘Oh no! It’s a dragon! Or a hydra! Or a dragon with lots of hydra heads or Discord if he was a giant dragon!’ Belle thought to herself in fright.

Then a small bird flew out of the trees and high up into the sky. The noise had just been it making a nest. Belle and Silver Spoon breathed a sigh of relief and then shoved each other aside.

“See! You’re so useless you’re scared of birds little miss blank flank!” Silver Spoon spitted out as soon as her fear had left her completely.

“Nuh-huh! You were scared! I was just… Trying to shake some sense into you! Because you’re… A scaredy pony!” Belle replied, annoyed that she couldn’t think of anything more witty to end on.

“Hmmph!” Silver Spooned muttered in annoyance as she once again turned her back on Bell and they went their separate ways.

Chapter 4: Whom the spoon tolls...

Sweetie Belle continued pacing in circles for what felt like hours. “I’ve got to think of something! I can’t let Silver Spoon show me up here! I’d never hear the end of it. there must be some way off this island” Belle pondered and pondered until her head started to hurt. And then she thought of something. “The birds! Of course! There are birds here. I could get one to deliver a letter back to Ponyville!”

Belle looked up at the trees until she saw a nest. Then she eagerly started climbing the branches towards it. “Fluttershy can get these guys to whatever she wants just by staring at them. That’s not so hard! I bet I could do that.”

Belle clambered up to the nest, balancing precariously on the various branches. Inside the nest were several very small birds, too young to be frightened of her. Belle was hoping for something older and bigger but these would do. She breathed in deeply, pressed her face as close to the baby birds as she could and then leered with the most wide eyed stare that she could muster.

The baby birds ignored her for a moment until one of the more curious ones mistook her for food and pecked her point-blank directly in the eye. Sweetie Belle squealed and recoiled in shock and pain, causing her to lose her footing and fall out of the tree. With a quiet splodge Belle landed in a puddle of mud…directly on her feet like a cat.

For a moment Belle rubbed her aching eye until she realized how amazing her landing was. She was completely fine. Then she saw it, a brown mark on her flank and shortly a broad grin appeared on her face. “Oh my Celestia! My special talent! I found it! It’s perfect balance! Of course! I can’t wait to show everyone!”… ‘But who was there to tell?’ Belle thought to herself. She was still isolated. Then it came to her! She could show up Silver Spoon by dazzling her with a display of her amazing newly discovered acrobatic skills! She began to plan out a whole routine in her mind.

Meanwhile on the other side of the island, Silver Spoon was carving improvised wooden spoons out of planks of wood using sharp stones. “Haha!” she said out loud to herself. “Soon I will show that fool Sweetie Belle. With this arrangement of spoons there are no limits to what I can do! Stupid blank flanks, this is what having a special talent is for! I can use them to escape the island by… Erm…Well I could…”

Silver Spoon sat there in silence unable to think of a practical use for the spoons until it finally dawned on her. She had wasted over an hour carving several spoons for absolutely no reason. They were of no use here and they were the only thing she knew.

Silver Spoon breathed heavily for a minute before shouting out angrily and throwing the spoons wildly in every direction “Blarh! You damn things! I hate you!”

As one of the spoons was hurled high into the air, a blue blur zoomed by at an incredible speed which by complete coincidence accidently collided directly with it. “Owww! Who threw that! Come on! It was you wasn’t it!” Silver Spoon looked up at the voice and to her complete shock and happiness, saw Rainbow Dash hovering above her.

Silver Spoon couldn’t help but shout out in uncharacteristic glee “Rainbow Dash! It’s you!”

Rainbow Dash pulled a quizzical expression as she descended down onto the ground and rubbed the spoon shaped bruise on her cheek. “Err. Yeah it’s me. I know you, aren’t you one of Scootaloo’s classmates? What are you doing out here in the middle of no-where?”

Silver Spoon chuckled still in good spirits from Dash’s appearance. “Heheh, it’s a long story. But I’m stranded here. Do you think you could carry me home?”

Dash laughed “You kidding? I could carry you home with my eyes closed and still be back home before dinner.”

Silver Spoon couldn’t believe her luck and she bounced on the spot excitedly “Fantastic! Let’s go let’s go!”

Dash smirked. “Sure thing kid, you all on your own out here?”

“Well there’s Sw….” Silver Spoon stopped and hesitated for moment.

Dash raised an eyebrow “There’s a what?”

Silver Spoon gulped and then smiled slyly. “Nothing, nevermind. Yeah I’m on my own.”

Chapter 5: A stitch in time.

Rainbow Dash patted Silver Spoon on the head enthusiastically and then grabbed her securely. “Alright little filly, get ready for the ride of your life!”

Silver Spoon smiled broadly as Dash spread her wings, about to ascend. She always did seem to have the best luck in life.

Suddenly Sweetie Belle’s voice came ringing out in the distance. “Hey Silver Spoon! Look at this! Watch my amazing balance!” Shortly followed by Belle cartwheeling into view, while juggling wooden pieces of wreckage with her back legs and wearing a makeshift blindfold out of the torn ship’s sails.

“What the!?” Dash stopped her ascent and shouted out loudly in surprise at the sudden unexpected appearance of the cartwheeling pony.

‘Wait that’s not Silver Spoon’s voice!’ Belle thought to herself and that slight mental distraction was all it took for her to mess up her timing and fall on her face, sending the sharp wooden wreckage flying in all directions. One particular sharp piece flew through the air and impaled Dash’s left wing.

“Arrrrgh!” Dash squealed in pain and quickly dropped out of the air, plummeting to the ground. “Will you fillies stop throwing things at me!? Arrrg that hurts. That hurts that hurts.”

“NO! What did you do!?” Silver Spoon roared angrily.

Belle timidly removed her blindfold. “What did I do?” Then she saw Dash rolling on the floor in pain and gasped. “Oh my gosh! I didn’t mean too! Dash I’m so sorry! I didn’t know you were there!”

Silver Spoon glared at Belle “What were you trying to do!? Get us all killed!?”

“No! I was just trying to show you my cutie mark!” Belle exclaimed loudly, trying to defend herself.

Silver Spoon blinked. “What cutie mark? You don’t have a cutie mark!”

Belle looked at her flank and saw the brown mark was now smeared all around her back legs from her awkward landing. It had just been a patch of splattered wet mud from the puddle all along. Her eyes must have been stinging so bad that she didn’t truly notice. Now she truly felt like an idiot.

Silver Spoon snorted and then started to preach “You’re a real piece of work you know that blank flank! First you steal my boat, then you destroy my boat, stranding us here, then you insult me and now you attack Rainbow Dash while making a foal of yourself! You should be ashamed!”

Belle looked directly down at the floor to avoid Silver Spoon’s gaze. Trying to hold back the tears in her eyes.

“Wait a minute!” Dash said looking directly at Silver Spoon as she got back up to her feet, still flinching in pain from the sharp wood stuck in her wing. “You just told me you were alone! Now you’re saying Sweetie Belle brought you here!? You were going to leave her behind!”

All the sadness and humiliation Belle was feeling quickly turned to rage. “You were going to abandon me here! How could you!?”

Silver Spoon felt outnumbered and regretted her outburst. She hesitated for a moment nervously but then retaliated. “Well. Yeah… Yeah I was! And you deserve it! Look what you did to me! Look what you did to Rainbow Dash! Why should I help you with anything! You just make everything worse!”

Dash stretched out her impaled left wing and examined it. Then she shrugged “Nah its fine. Think it’ll be okay once I just get this thing out. I mean w-“

“I’LL FIX IT!” Belle shouted as she rushed over to Dash. All too eager to make up for her mistake. Before Dash could react Belle had already grabbed the lodged piece of sharp wreckage in Dash’s wing and was trying to pull it out.

“Hey! Hey! Hey! Stop! Owowowow! You’re twisting it! You’re twisting it! Not helping! Not helping!” Dash exclaimed in pain as all of Belle’s jerking did nothing to dislodge the impaled wreckage and merely caused more pain and damage to the wound.

Silver Spoon snorted, pushed Belle aside and grabbed the sharp wood herself. “Useless as always! Well it’s obvious that we can’t pull it out, so let’s just push it all the way through! Clearly!”

“WAIT! NO!” Dash shouted but too late. Silver Spoon pushed with all her might and forced the sharp wood right through Dash’s wing until it came completely out the other side. Leaving behind a massive, bloody, splinter-filled gaping hole in Dash’s left wing were a simple flesh wound had been moments before.

Dash keeled over in pain and grabbed her agonized wing while screaming in pain. “ARRGH! AAH! SWEET MOTHER OF CELESTIA! AHH! NOT HELPING! NOT HELPING!”

Silver Spoon beamed, proud of herself. “Right, now the instrument has been dislodged all we need to do is bandage the wound!” Silver Spoon picked up the bit of sails Belle was using as a blindfold.

Belle hastily interjected “Nu-uh! First we need to disinfect and clean the wound.” Belle reached into nearby sea and pulled out some seaweed. “I think this will do the trick, I read that somewhere…”

Belle and Silver Spoon butted heads once more as they approached Dash with their contraptions. Each trying to show up the other. Dash winced as she saw them coming close, sprang back up to her feet and pushed them both away. “NO! Stop it! BOTH OF YOU! Stop it! Stop it right now!” Dash yelled hysterically as blood continued to pour out of her wing. “You’re both just making everything worse! Look what you’ve done! There’s no way I can fly with this! Let alone carry you.”

Belle and Silver Spoon simultaneously pointed at each other stated “It’s her fault!”

Dash sighed loudly and held her aching wing. “It doesn’t matter! Do you realize what you’ve done?”

Silver Spoon took a deep breath. “Well first Belle stole a boat, and then she broke the boat’s wheel and then she crashed the boat and then she-“

“No!” Dash stated while burying her face in her hooves. “That’s not what I meant! Why do you think I was even out here!? Didn’t you notice the strong winds? A hurricane is forming and might be heading right for Ponyville! I was supposed to swing by, scout it, stop if it needed and return with an update! I can’t do that with THIS!” Dash waved her broken wing. “Everyone could be in danger.”

Belle and Silver Spoon’s anger turned to concern. Belle bit her bottom lip. “Isn’t there any other pony on weather patrol as backup? You know in case things like this happen?”

Dash sighed “Yeah there is… Derpy.”

Silver Spoon squealed loudly in fright “The village is doomed!”

Chapter 6: Magic is tricky...

Silver Spoon continued to pace around in a panic. “But if a hurricane hit Ponyville, it could destroy my room! All my toys! My spoons! My outfits! My Jewelry! My-“

“Your friends and family!” Sweetie Belle interjected with disgust.

“Oh yeah, them too. I guess.” Silver Spoon added.

Belle could feel the anger in her reemerging. “You are by the most annoying, arrogant, selfish littl-“

Dash quickly moved over and smothered Belle’s mouth with her hoof. “Stop it! This arguing gets us no where. Wait until we’ve found a way to get back home. Then you two can argue all you like.”

Silver Spoon sighed indignantly. “Can’t you just fly off and get help? I mean I know your wing is hurt but you should still be able to manage just flying gingery home surely?”

Dash hesitated for a moment and then gave in. “Well… I guess I have no choice.” She spread out her wings and began to take flight, trying to ascend slowly into the air… But it was fruitless. She could barely move her broken left wing without feeling agonizing pain, leading her temporarily to hover lopsided less than 4 feet in the air before plopping back to the ground. “Uuugh! No. I really, really can’t.”

Silver Spoon giggled. “But on the plus side, you can do a damn good Derpy impression.” Neither Dash or Belle found the quip particularly amusing.

Dash felt a wave of frustration build and rubbed her face with her hooves. “Come on, Think! Think think think think think think… Ohh what would a smart pony like Twilight Sparkle do?”

“Well she’d use her balloon.” Silver Spoon answered nonchalantly.

Rainbow Dash raised a confused eyebrow “Huh?”

“She has a big balloon. If she was stuck on an island she’d use it and fly away. Obviously.” Silver Spoon explained.

Belle glared at Silver Spoon “And how does that help us!? We don’t have a balloon!”

Silver Spoon shrugged. “That’s not what you asked. You just asked what she would do. And I told you.”

Belle was only too quick to retort. “Why would Twilight even have her balloon WITH her anyway! It’d be back at her home which by the way, she can’t reach because she’d be stranded here!”

Silver Spoon murmured and kicked the ground. “Well… Maybe that’s true but… You know…er… Well I don’t see YOU coming up with anything Sweete Blank! What would a smart pony do if they were trapped here?”

Belle was taken back for a moment. “Well erm…They would erm… Well Twilight could use her magic to teleport! She’d like appear right next to Celestia!”

Silver Spoon chortled at Belle’s answer. “Ha! How would she do that!? She doesn’t even know where she is! She’s stuck on this stupid island. If she tried to teleport she’d just end up in the middle of the sea!”

“Shut up! You don’t know that! It doesn’t matter how far away she is or where she is. She could teleport anywhere she knows!” Belle shouted loudly in defense.

Spoon begun to feel more and more egged on. “Nuh-huh! I bet it’s super-short range and she has to know both where she is and where she is going.”

Rainbow Dash sighed in exasperation. “Guys this really isn’t helping.”

Belle ignored Dash and continued to argue. “Oh? Is that so Mrs know it all. Please do tell, since when were you so knowledgeable about the mechanics of Unicorn’s teleportation abilities Silver Spoon? Did you take a course in teleportation physics while you brushed your hair every morning?”

Silver Spoon nervously flinched a little but refused to back down “No! But I just know! Like everyone knows! It’s obvious! You’re just too dumb to realize it.”

“Dumb!? I’m the unicorn here! I know this stuff better than you do.” Belle’s voice slowly got louder and louder as the tension increased.

Silver Spoon thought back to what her mother always told her, ‘when you have nothing constructive left to say, insults are just as useful.’ It had always worked for her before. “Oh please you have no talent at all blank flank, you’d probably shock the world if you even casted a spell!”

“Celeistia can send letters to Twilight no matter where she is or how far she is away!” Belle stated proudly as she really started to believe she was winning this one.

Silver Spoon was quick to respond “That’s not a pony! It’s just a letter! It’s different!”

Belle shrugged “How so?”

Silver Spoon pondered and bit her lip.“Well erm… It’s…”

“Spike!” Rainbow Dash suddenly shouted.

“Yeah Spike! Wait what?” Silver Spoon added, not sure if Dash was defending her or not.

A broad smile appeared on Dash’s face. “I think I know just how we can get out of this mess!”