Second ☁ :: [Video/Action on Route 29]

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[It's fairly late in the afternoon when Dash peeks into her communicator, attempting to brighten up the gray-skied day with a positively radiant grin. She looks quite pleased with herself!]

Hey, guys! Finally left that New Bark place! [She looks over her shoulder and sticks her tongue out-- a gesture apparently meant for the town she recently left

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[Video] l-laaaate tag

[foolishwren]

[Heather looks EXHAUSTED, but amused.]

Yeah, there's basically nothing to do in New Bark. There's like. Houses that no one will let you into. That's it.

And uh-- ... wait, what the heck do the clouds do where YOU come from?

[Video] Oh, no problem at all, man! 8D

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Yeeeeeaaah, that was getting kinda creepy... What the heck were they so afraid of? [Because in Ponyville, people only ever turned you away from their house if they were terrified of you.]

Uh, well... They rain and snow and stuff like these clouds... But us pegasus ponies are the ones that move 'em around. And the weather's pretty much left up to us!

[Video] /THUMBS UP

[foolishwren]

Eh... [She shrugs a little bit.] To them, we're foreigners. Weirdos. They can't really predict how we'll act, so-- ... I can't really blame 'em, to be honest. Plus, a few months back, some guy-- kidnapped here, like the rest of us-- went totally apeshit and rampaged around the town, beating people up just because he could. Guess that just reinforced the whole 'lock your doors and close the shades when the weekend rolls around' mindset they got.

[GOOD OL' VANITAS, BEATIN' UP NEW BARK TOWN.]

Anyway--

... So.

I never really asked about the pony thing.

You're seriously a pegasus?

... 'Cause no offense, I've met other animals that were turned into humans here before, but that's the craziest I've heard yet.

[Video] /THUMBS UP! :D

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[She's about to throw out some sort of clever (?) retort, but... can't really think of one. Heather has a point, if what she says is true. So Dash shuts her mouth and frowns.]
... Huh. ... Guess I'd start closing my doors too. [And now she feels... kinda bad. Life lessons: a pony's one weakness. Today's lesson: perspective!] That's kinda weird, I mean... I sure didn't like the place, but I wouldn't go around destroying it!

[Wh-whatever! Dash just loves talking about herself! She brightens, straightening up with a broad smile.]
Yup! Fastest pegasus pony in all Equestria! -- Er. Aside from the Wonder Bolts, of course!

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Eh, the guy was some kind of... psychopath. I dunno, I didn't know much about him. He disappeared awhile ago... I think. [Apart from that he looked almost exactly like Sora under that mask, Heather knew very little. Which was fine. She'd rather keep it that way.] But yeah, you never know what types will show up here. There's more'n a few who I wouldn't put it past to start attacking the locals... [She doesn't mention Joker's violent robbery last month because she's still sort of embarrassed about getting her ass kicked.]

... Huh.

Sounds like something outta a cartoon.

[QUIRKED BROW.]

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[She slumps her shoulders with a scowl.] ... Guess this place isn't as welcoming as that old Professor guy made it seem. [She squints and shifts her eyes back and forth.] Anyone like that come up to me, I'll give 'em a piece of my mind! [She straightens herself up and gives a determined salute and a nod. She's all SRS BSNS.]

Wha...? That's the second time I've heard that! [SIGH. She crosses her arms in a huff.] We're not "out of" anything. Hmph...

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Is ANYWHERE as welcoming as that old Professor guy made it seem? [The truth is that Johto HAS been surprisingly tolerant of all these SOOPRISE FOREIGNERS, and it's... sort of hard to blame them for the prejudices they HAVE wound up bearing. Most of the aggression's been coming from the foreigners' end, after all-- Heather isn't one of the innocents in that regard, either.]

[She does, however, smirk a little and muffle a laugh at Dash's remark.]

Well, that's how I've always dealt with 'em. Or, you know, a piece of my fist.

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[Shrugs.] I'm gonna guess "no". So far, I've only seen things that were... just plain weird. Did you see the giant purple rats? And the raccoon things that stand on their tails? Geez...

[She grins mischievously.] A kick in the face with my rear hooves! [Blink.] Er... Whatever hue-muns call these. [She lifts a foot up close to the screen. Enjoy the beautiful sight of Dash's already mucked up tennis shoes, Heather!] Feet...?

[Video] AUGH LATE as usual, gawd, I promise I'll be better once holiday chaos is over. XD

[foolishwren]

Yeah, I've been here a good six months, so I've... seen more or less all there is to see. [... Karma's gonna come back and get you for saying that, Heather. Just you wait.] I have one of the raccoon things, too! She enjoys stewing in her own anger and hating everything.

And uh-- ... [HELLO, DASH'S SHOE.] ... Yep, that's what we call 'em.

... Do do you like... wear horseshoes or something normally?

[Heather had gone through an OMG PONY phase like most little girls, but she didn't... actually know much of anything about horses.]

[Video] No problem at all! :D The holidays- they be hectic.

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I wouldn't-- Wait, six months?! That's, like, half a year-- Seriously? [She looks absolutely incredulous, and soon slumps forward with a frustrated sigh.] Of course it's not gonna let us go easily.

[She straightens up, shaking her head.] Nope. Just barehooved. [The use of horseshoes wasn't unheard of-- just pretty rare, especially in Ponyville. She takes a moment to glance curiously at her tennis shoes.] I can get why you hue-muns need your own horseshoes though. Your hooves-- feet-- are all... flimsy!

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[foolishwren]

[She actually looks a little sympathetic for once.] Yeah, six months. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. A few people have supposedly gone home, but... nobody really knows anything concrete. It all seems to happen by chance. [She'd thought for sure that the disappearances'd been ... well, deaths at worst, kidnappings at best, but... Time had passed and she wasn't so sure anymore.]

Heh, well, humans are pretty flimsy in general.

We'll surprise ya, though.

We're like cockroaches. We can survive a lot. [And there's a bazillion of us.]

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Well, that's... just... awesome. [SIGH.]

Like cockroaches? [She gives a slightly repulsed face, because now she's entertaining the image of a half-cockroach, half-human creature. Ew. Ew.

Okay, burying that in the recesses of her mind now...] Wh-- I mean... How? [Maybe that was the human specialty: survival?]

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[foolishwren]

[She's snerking at that grossed-out look. HEE HEE HEE.]

It's hard to kill us off, is all.

We're hardy.

.... Well. Some of us, anyway.

[NOT EVERYBODY IS AS IMMORTAL AS YOU, HEATHER. SIT DOWN.]