My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: A Dog and Pony Show

A/N: (Lyra sneaks into the writers studio by way of the special door, using her magic to carry a container of soup, and she looks around as she heads for the main door to go outside.)

Lyra: No pony is here. Good.

Sunrise Blossom: (pops up from behind one of the comfy chairs) Hello, Lyra!

Lyra: (jumps and the container flies away, but is magically caught by Rarity, who sneaks in by way of the special door, too) Eep! Where did you come from?

Sunrise Blossom: I was sharing Roleplayer48's review with Dede42, and when I saw that you were planning on bringing over soup, I decided to be here when you arrived. Now, about the potion you took from me…

Lyra: (pleads) Please don't hate me! I've been reading those fanfics about me being fascinated with humans, and when I heard about the potion you made to give yourself fingers so you could type, I just couldn't resist trying it out! What can I do to make it up to you?

Sunrise Blossom: (glances at Rarity) What do you think, Rarity? How can Lyra make up for stealing my potion?

Rarity: (thinks for a moment) Hmm, well since Dede42 is still recovering, Lyra can do her chores around the house and in the front garden.

Lyra: I can do it! I can do it!

Sunrise Blossom: (nods) Ok, Lyra, once you deliver the soup to Dede42, you can start on the chores.

Lyra: Thank you, and I won't steal from you ever again, Sunrise! I promise!

Rarity: (gives the soup container back to Lyra and turns to Sunrise Blossom as Lyra heads out to go to the house) Well, I think that was a good lesson that Lyra just learned.

Sunrise Blossom: Yup.

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Disclaimer: I don't own anything from My Little Pony: Magic is Friendship. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.


CHAPTER TWO: OPERATION: RESCUE RARITY!

Spike raced back into town, almost knocking over a few ponies in his rush to get to the library, where he found Twilight Sparkle, Sunrise Blossom, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie. The six ponies blinked at the baby dragon when he burst through the door out of breath.

"Spike, you ok?" Sunrise Blossom asked, concerned.

"Aaaah! Rarity… woods… jewels… dogs… hole… taken… Save her!" he screamed before face-platting on the floor unconscious.

The six ponies exchanged perplex expressions, unsure of what was just said, and they went to work on reviving the baby dragon to find out exactly what was going on and where the heck Rarity was.


It took a half-hour, but they finally managed to wake Spike up and get him to focus on what he was trying to tell them earlier as they raced back to where Rarity had last been seen.

Twilight Sparkle glanced at Spike, who was now sitting on her back, doing the paper bag trick to get his breathing under control. "Spike, can you breathe now?" she asked.

Spike lowered the paper bag and nodded, still looking freaked. "Yes… I think so."

"Good," said Twilight Sparkle. "Now tell us what you know."

"Yeah," Rainbow Dash agreed, flying next to them. "'Cause all you said earlier was a lot of confusing words and something about Rarity."

Applejack nodded. "Not a whole lot to go on there, sport."

"Sorry," Spike apologized. "Rarity and I were in the woods looking for jewels when these creepy guys showed up."

"Creepy guys?" Sunrise Blossom repeated.

The baby dragon nodded. "They called themselves the Diamond Dogs," he explained. "They grabbed Rarity and disappeared down a hole in the ground."

"Well, this sounds mighty easy," Applejack remarked. "Just take us to that there hole and we'll save Rarity."


When they reached the area that Rarity had been abducted, they all skidded to a halt and gasped, for the whole area was covered with large holes, and even Spike wasn't sure which hole was the one that the Diamond Dogs had used to grab Rarity.

"Holy moly, that's a lotta holeys," said Pinkie Pie and no one disagree with her since she was right about the amount of holes.

"Come on, girls!" said Twilight Sparkle, running down the slope toward the field of holes. "Let's get started." And her friends followed as she reached one of the holes and peered inside. "Hello?" she called out, her voice echoing until something growled and a pair of eerie yellow eyes appeared, and her startled gasp turning into gagging when she was suddenly hit in the face by an eruption of dirt that sealed the opening. "Puh!"

The other five ponies and the baby dragon all got hit in the face with eruption of dirt filling in the holes they'd been peering into, and they looked around with horror as the holes were being filled all around them.

"Quick!" Twilight Sparkle shouted, running toward a hole that hadn't been filled in yet. "We gotta get down one before they're all filled up." And the ponies did try to get down one of the holes, but the Diamond Dogs were quick to fill them up, and they had an advantage since they were underground, most likely using tunnels to get around.

"We can't muscle through it!" Applejack shouted, frustrated.

Rainbow Dash wasn't about to give up and did a dive-bombing run toward a hole. "We'll see about that." And just when it looked like she was going to get inside, the hole, she ended up colliding with a pile of dirt instead and she groaned. "So close."

"Whew. Heavens to Betsy," said Applejack, shaking off the dirt. "Now I'm used to pickin' myself up and dustin' myself off, but Rarity won't even touch mud 'less it's imported."

The ponies nodded, already imaging what Rarity was enduring, knowing her need for being clean would be sorely tested by being underground. "Oh, Rarity…"


Rarity was in a cell, pacing around in frustration. "Oh, woe is me!" she sighed dramatically. "Whatever shall I do?" She then stepped into a bit of dirt and she panicked. "Ah! Dirt, dirt! Get away, dirt!" She tried to shake the dirt off, but she ended up running into the walls, and she was soon covered with dirt. "Oh! Make it stop, make it stop! Ah! Filthy, disgusting dirt. It stings, it burns. Help! Oh, somepony save me, save me!"


Applejack shuddered at the image. "We gotta save her."

"But they blocked up all the holes," Fluttershy pointed out.

Applejack climbed up onto one of the piles. "Don't mean we can't dig 'em out," she reminded her friends, and she began digging. "Come on!"


Soon the six ponies and the baby dragon were busy digging into the piles of dirt, determined to save their friend, however it turned out the Diamond Dogs had other ideas. The next thing the ponies knew, they were being pranked by the Diamond Dogs, who were popping out of the piles, grabbing and yanking the tails of the ponies and tripping up Spike.

"Ow!"

"Oof!"

"Hey!"

"Whoa! Oof!"

"Get 'em!"

"Whoooaaa!"

"Come on!"


After about an hour of being terrorized by the Diamond Dogs, the six ponies and the baby dragon were grunting and panting, exhausted by trying to stop the Diamond dogs, and having failed to get into any of the holes.

"All those scary monsters popping up everywhere," Fluttershy complained. "Oh, poor Rarity must be terrified." And they were soon imagining what kinds of horrors their friend was enduring.


Rarity was in the middle of a cave and she freaked out when the Diamond Dogs kept popping out of nowhere, demanding different things.

"Give me the baubles!"

"Ah!"

"Give me the beads!"

"Aah!"

"Where are the trinkets?!"

"Aaaah!"

"Where is the treasure?!" the Diamond Dogs demanded and poor Rarity fainted.


"Poor Rarity," Twilight Sparkle sighed. "What are we gonna do?"

"I wish I knew," said Sunrise Blossom sadly. "But those blasted Diamond Dogs keep getting the drop on us, and all of the holes are filled."

Spike looked around and spotted a hole that hadn't been filled, which gave him an idea. "I got it!" he exclaimed, pulling out the gem that Rarity had give him, and he ran over to the hole, confusing the ponies, tying the gem to the end of a fishing rod. "I'll save you, my sweet."

The ponies joined him at the hole, just as the baby dragon began lowering the gem into the hole, like he was fishing. Twilight Sparkle was touched by what he was doing. "Spike, it is very noble of you…"

"Shhh!" Spike hissed.

"…to sacrifice the gem Rarity gave you," Twilight Sparkle whispered.

"Oh, Lady Rarity," Spike sighed, daydreaming. "My damsel in distress."


Sir Spike, who was tall and wearing a suit of arm with a spear, entered the liar of the Diamond Dogs. "I shall save you," he announced. "Show yourselves, you dogs! You curs!" And the Diamond Dogs appeared out of the shadows, growling. "Ah. There you are, you mangy mutts."

"Who are you calling mutts?" the leader of the Diamond Dogs growled. "Unleash the hounds!" And he blew a dog whistle.

Soon over a dozen Diamond Dogs, which were wearing armor, charged out of the tunnels and tried to attack the dragon, but he used his spear, his tail, and his fire breath to chase them back into the tunnels with their tails between their legs.

Sir Spike then confronted the three Diamond Dogs, who were cowering near a wall. "Now, where is Lady Rarity?" he demanded, and they pointed the correct way. He hurried through a tunnel and he soon found Rarity, dressed like a princess, waiting for him.

Lady Rarity gasped when she saw him. "Spike! I knew you would save me!"

"Nothing could stop me, milady," said Sir Spike, bowing.

Lady Rarity swoon for a moment. "Ohohohoh, Spike. You are my… hero," she whispered and shut her eyes as she made a kissing gesture with her lips.

Beaming, Sir Spike bent down so that he could kiss her. "Mmmmmm…"


Applejack, who was standing near the baby dragon, chuckled when it looked like he was going to kiss her. "Hoho there, lover boy," she said and he flushed, embarrassed.

Suddenly the fishing line became taunt and nearly dragged Spike into the hole. "Whoa! Whoa whoa whoawhoawhoa… I got a bite! I got a bite!" he yelped, trying to reeling in whatever he'd caught.

Applejack grabbed the end of his tail with her teeth, trying to keep him from being dragged into the hole. "Hold on there, little fella," she grunted and she soon saw that she was going to be dragged into the hole with the baby dragon.

Twilight Sparkle ran forward and grabbed her friend's tail. "Applejack!" Only she started being dragged forward, too.

"Twilight!" Rainbow Dash grabbed the purple unicorn's tail, only to be dragged, too.

"Rainbow Dash!" Sunrise Blossom clamped her teeth onto the blue pegasus' tail, but despite her best efforts, she was also being dragged toward the hole.

Fluttershy quickly grabbed the orange unicorn's tail, but ended up being dragged forward instead. "Oh my goodness, oh my goodness…"

Pinkie Pie bounced forward and got the yellow pegasus' tail with her teeth. "Wait for me!" And she squealed when they were all dragged into the hole. "Whee!"


The group screamed as they were dragged through different kinds of tunnels with Pinkie Pie being the only one having fun, and they all eventually crashed onto the ground of a cavern filled with tunnel openings.

While the six ponies were grunting and getting up, Spike jumped to his feet, excited that his fishing trick worked. "Ha ha, it worked! We're in! Now we can finally save Rarity!"

Twilight Sparkle got onto her hooves and she looked around at the various tunnel openings. "Um… Which way do we go?" she wondered.

Spike looked around, too, and he was devastated. "Nooooooooooo!"


A/N: You know, it was a miracle you were able to find a way through those tunnels in order to save me.

Sunrise Blossom: I know, and those Diamond Dogs didn't make it easy either.

Rarity: (shudders) I know what you mean. Although that daydream of Spike's was cute.

Sunrise Blossom: Yup, Spike does have an activate imagination. R&R every pony!