Twilight Gets a puppy
Season 6
by TDR
The Claw Before the Pony,
part 3
Work it
Make it
Spike and Rahs lean over a table in on the stage of The Ball, with Rahs pointing at something on the large piece of paper draped across the table. Rahs draws out something on it and gestures to another line then pulls out a magazine showing Spike what he was talking about. Spike nods then draws more on the large paper the pair of them bickering back and forth as they work.
Do it
Makes us
Fireball runs a tape measure over the block of apple wood making a mark on it as Scootaloo does the same on the other side. Scootaloo then grabs for a saw before Fireball stops her and gestures to measure again doing the same herself before they start cutting.
Harder
Better
Faster
Stronger
Sweetiebelle and Sombra look at each other then both nod their heads, the movement flipping the welders masks they wore over their faces. They then both turn their attention to the monstrous thing they were working on as the flare of a blow torch lights up the room.
More than
Hour
Hour
Never
Firefly screams out as he swings around a large mallet over his head. The young changeling chasing after Bees as he runs through the living area of the hive, both of them covered in green paint. Kevin and Thorax stand nearby, the former watching the chase with a small frown and the other with his face buried in his hooves.
Ever
After
Work is
Over
Work it
Make it
Do it
Makes us
Harder
Better
Faster
Stronger
“SONOTA SHUT UP” Aria screamed out throwing a wrench at her sister who dodged it easily as she would a ball. “We are trying to work here and we don't need the musical accompaniment!”
“It was kinda catchy.” Applebloom offered looking up from the plans the two had been making on the drafting table. ”Still not sure where we're gonna git a wind tunnel from but this is doable so far.”.
“Don't encourage her. At least she didn't do the montage song.” Aria sighed.”We only have so long to work on this thing, now that the design is done we need to hit testing to refine it and then work on building it.”
( Day of the Race, early morning)
“Heeeelloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo race fans and non race fans, who are here for some reason which is weird cause this is a race and if they aren't fans why are they here? Welcome to East Slope Raceway for the return of the annual, Applewood Derby. I'm your favorite announcer, an up until now your ONLY announcer, PINKIE PIE!” Pinkie Pie ranted through the loudspeaker connected to the booth she sat in. The wooden structure towering over the field allowing her to see the entire course from start to finish. ” We have quite a number of things to cover before we begin today as there have been a few rule changes by the committee we need to go over. To cover most of those new rules is my lovely assistant, who is totally not here only because she still has community service hours left, Princess Twilight Tuesday Sparkle, who's not really a Princess, that's just her name.”
“Right … thank you Pinkie …. To start with due to the rather excessive amount of entries this year we are separating the speed races into heats, with each racer first racing everyone else from the town they came from The top three from that town will then be put into a final heat with all the others in a ranking system based on the time they crossed the finish line, the faster the time the further up you will be.” Twilight explained. The same shall be done for both the historical voting and the design voting with the top three in each town in each category then competing with the region with different judges who to prevent bribery attempts which would end VERY badly for them, will not be identified until such a time as they are needed to judge. Trophies will be awarded for local and regional races and contests so if you place in the top three of your town you will still be awarded even if you do not place top three in the regional. There will also be a fourth category this year that will be presented by this years sponsor. Mr. Taurine.”
The third figure in the booth also took up the largest amount of it. A large Burgundy colored Minotaur sat beside the two ponies. He wore a blue and silver jacket and had a wide grin and silver sunglasses on as well as a red do rag on his head with his horns painted in a black and yellow checker board pattern.
“Greetings race fans I'm your sponsor of the event that we are calling THE RED BULL CHALANGE!” His words were accompanied by an explosion of fireworks. “My name is Mister Taurine and I've got ONE question for you, just one! EXPLOSIONS!?!”
There were a lot more fire works at that and a grinning Trixie at the launcher who was already counting the bits in her head as a nearby Ember shook her head at the theatrics.
“Why that question you might ask? Well simple, I know a lot of you came out here to watch fast carts tear down the track, and others came out to see what fantastic builds these, kids, grubs, chicks, foals and OTHER SMALL VERSIONS OF THEIR ADULTS came up with. Heck some of you probably came out here to be nerds about how historically accurate some one can make a block of wood. AND THATS PERFECTLY OKAY!! But some of you came out here for the competition the nail biting chaos of a hard fought race. And so for THE REDBULL CHALLENGE!...” more fireworks went off. “....To make this race all the more nail biting we set up ramps and obstacles and traps all along the course selected and we're gonna let everyone who wants to race this all go at once in A ANYTHING GOES EXPLOSIVE WACKY RACE OF CARTMAGEDDON!!!!”
“Ooh sounds fun.” Pinkie Pie chimed in. “What's the prize for the winner?”
“WE DON'T KNOW!” Mister Taurine shouted to more fireworks. “My tech guys set it up and they won't tell me because they know I can't keep my mouth shut, I AM TERRIBLE AT SECRETS!”
“This is gonna be a long day.” Twilight sighed.
...you are a menace, oh Bunny...this can only end in tree sap...
It’s Mr. Torgue! In a surprisingly very family friendly vocabulary.
Wacky Races. Ah yes, hideous childhood memories . . . Can we expect cameos from Dick Dastardly and Muttley - no, wait, don't tell me . . .
Oh no, it's a Red Bull
Oh, I like him already
Dick Dastardly need not apply
Smart guys. They must be engineers.
And yes, I did read everything in MRTORGUE's voice.
Fun fact: the developers of Carmageddon did auditions at a local school and then-14-year-old Faye Morey got the job to portray Die Anna.
They later asked her to reprise the role, but she declined, due to working as a school teacher.
Sounds like the race episode and I am hoping it goes better than the show. The girls thought they knew best when this wasn't a situation where that was required. Just hard work and listening skills were required.
...I understand this reference
It's gonna be an EXPLOSIVE day
You had me at EXPLOSIONS.
If you don't know what Mr. Torgue sounds like, you will need to look up a video of him and listen to get the full effect of this chapter.
Lol
A minotaur announcer with sunglasses and a checkerboard pattern on him? I think I'll give him Mr. Torgue's voice in my head.
I MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE!!
How many vehicles will actually survive to the end of the race?
And where is Discord when this much chaos is about to happen?
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In the crowd. With popcorn.
I dunno, was Cartmageddon first, or was Stunt Cart Racer?
And I cant find the article on the old race car related to Red Bull drinks starting up.
Then again, modern races reaching 250 mph, are only twice the speed of the Bently Blower and compatriots hitting 125 mph 90 years ago?
F1 racing has banned so many technologies and designs over the years though to keep the speeds capped? Because they get so much income from people watching the race,a nd as things get faster, they get less visible?
If someones gone and thrown all in on the most crazed capable race car of vintage design, with that much woodwork and a lost remnant engine, theres going to be someone getting all nitty about the Chitty?
Hey, Rahs, what you say about racing a car made by the greatest spys greatest genius engineer?
Or just settle for the car it was based on? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Bang_Bang
Mister Taurine. I don't know why, but I kept hearing his line in the voice and mannerism of Cave Johnson from Portal 2.
I pegged Torque at the red headscarf, the yellow and black checker just clinched it... And I love you, you madman! 💥 💥
singing along
OH COME ON!
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He probably didn't want the execs installing a censor box in his vocal cords or the equivalent here.
Short yet very entertaining.
I did forsee some explosions, but not like this... very nicely done 👍
Great montage song, girl has a great taste in music.
Question about something we sometimes read in FIMfiction:
If some humans would come over to Equestria to make trouble...
Would Twilight and other God fix it the easy
or
the very creepy way?
-Like easy way would ripping them to bloody shredded pieces if they use firearms against them because they think they can pull it off.
-Or the literally gods outlasting their ammo supplies and asking if the invaders want to know what the wrath of TRUE GODS looks like when they come over to earth to play the game of war they wish to play
👍
No Discord we can't hit him with the orbital ppc, ion, rail cannons, nor the rods, or the laser turrets with out turning a minimum of 10 miles around the target into a crater! NO you can't use the damned phasers as I don't have them even installed. *Gives White a dead pan look* No just no I am NOT going to try and explain to the Sparkles why the town and part of the everfree was unmade because of you two not liking a being.
I love this already this was the funniest DLC for borderlands 2 and I made sure to 100% it cause I was laughing so much
YAY!!! This world has a Mr Torgue.
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The speed capping tends to fall into two categories: keeping the races interesting and competitive, and safety. I wish I could find the complete article online somewhere — even the Wayback Machine only has the first page archived — but a number of years ago there was an article in Popular Science entitled, “Speed: Formula None” where the author asked a noted designer of race cars, Trevor Harris, what could be done if all the rules and restrictions were thrown out the window. The results would be insane!
https://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2004-09/speed-formula-none/ (that’s all there is, unfortunately)
Drivers would need to have their vitals monitored by telemetry. 300+ MPH Cars would be capable of pulling over 9 lateral g’s in the turns, generating so much downforce and traction that existing tires and track paving would simply tear — as could the ligaments holding the drivers’ internal organs in place. The same downforce would be more than sufficient for the cars to literally run straightaways upside-down if the track did half-rolls like a roller coaster to drive in and out. New race courses would need to be designed just to keep the spectators safe because existing safety barriers would be totally insufficient to stop out of control cars and flying debris.
But such a race would certainly be something to see…
Well, points for honesty. I actually kind of like this guy.
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depends on how they show up. If they come in with a shoot first don't ask questions method hunting oil then yeah they ain't going home again in anything bigger than a ziploc. That's still what would happen depending on where they show up as some places have zero tolerence with invaders. Equestria's reaction depends on how they come in.
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Humanity greedy Partys not necessarily American:
Equestria responding:
Collusions!
pretty sure the first 'hour' sould be 'our' since the line ends up 'more than ever our after hour work is never over'
I am looking forward to this.
Honestly, we need more Mr Torgues in this world. Just thinking about his showing in Tiny Tina's wonderlands makes me want to make a Bard/Barbarian character.
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So what you're saying is that if we had g-suits and safety equipment capable of saving the driver against those sorts of forces...we'd have F-Zero racing?
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It shows
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Popcorn?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjxNnqTcHhg
It is isn't it?
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I can already hear the insurance companies crying out in terror.