A/N: I hope that Jody and Nick can get Pumbaa calmed down soon since I saw him rage-paging through the backyard earlier about being called a pig. Onward!
Dragonshy: Deleted Scene 2: Anti-Flutterbullying PSA/More Of Prince John's Grand Debut!
*It's been a painfully long journey up the mountain for the poor Mane Seven. Well, it probably wouldn't have taken so long to reach the top if Fluttershy had been a bit more cooperative and less of a scaredy cat. But still, after much time and effort...and a brief rock avalanche, here they now stand. Right in front of the Dragon's cave. Now, how exactly do both they know AND I know that it's the Dragon's cave? Simple. There's a huge sign above saying ''DRAGUN'S HYDE OWT! DIS CAYVE IS MYNE!'' And as you can probably tell, the Dragon hasn't really taken spelling lessons if you're wondering why it's spelled wrong.*
Twilight Sparkle: Alright, ponies, here's the plan. Rainbow Dash. I'm gonna need you to use your wings to clear the smoke.
Rainbow Dash: (gives her a confirming nod) Yes, maa'm! (Flies up to wherever she needs to clear the smoke from)
Twilight Sparkle: Sunrise, Rarity and Pinkie. I'm gonna be needing the three of you to come up with a distraction to distract the dragon in case things get a teensy weensy bit ugly in there...
Pinkie Pie: (getting excited) Ooh! What would you like us to do? Dress in drag and do the hula?
Rarity and Sunrise: (confused) What?
Sunrise Blossom: (thinks to herself) Hmm. I'm sure I've heard that line of dialogue somewhere before. But...where?
Twilight Sparkle: Um...no offence, Pinkie Pie, but I really don't think that would apply to this particular situat...
Pinkie Pie: (now wearing a hula skirt as an all too familiar song starts playing) LUAU! If you're hungry for a hunk of fat and juicy meat, eat my buddy Sunrise...
Sunrise Blossom: Wait, WHAT?!
Pinkie Pie: ...here because she is a treat!
Sunrise Blossom: B-b-but why me?!
Pinkie Pie: Come on down and dine on this tasty...
Twilight Sparkle: (interrupting) Pinkie! We don't need you to do the hula to distract the dragon! And what's more, you CAN'T seriously be thinking of using my sister here as live bait! That's just...CRAZY!
Sunrise Blossom: (begins pondering to herself again) Now, I'm DEFINITELY certain I've heard that song and idea from somewhere before. But I can't quite remember WHERE! (Just shrugs it off) Meh. I'll worry about that later.
Pinkie Pie: Oh. Well, in that case, I have another idea for a distraction! (Gets a squeaky rubber chicken and begins playing with it like it's some kind of toy)
(To this day, I STILL have no clue whatsoever about what she was planning on doing with Not-Boneless as a distraction. So, if anybody, presumably Dede42, has a good answer for me there, please let me know...or at least ask her yourself for me if it's not too much of a bother.)
Twilight Sparkle: (looks at Pinkie playing with the rubber chicken with an unsure look) Ooooooooooooooooookay then. (Turns to Applejack) AJ, have you got some apples to use as a weapon in case the dragon decides to attack us in a fit of maniacal rage?
Applejack: Ah sure do, sugarcube! (Reveals the apples from her saddlebags kicks two of them causing them to splat into a tree) All set!
Twilight Sparkle: Good. But just in case we don't need the distraction or apples, we'll need Flutters here will do whatever she needs to do to wake him up and and get him to understand why he needs to go. So, are we ready, ponies?
All (except Fluttershy): Aye aye, Twilight!
Twilight Sparkle: I can't hear you!
All (except Fluttershy): AYE AYE. TWILIGHT!
Twilight Sparkle: Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh...
*And then, just as Commander Twilight is about to go all Colonel Hathi or Spitfire on these ponies, the scene suddenly switches to the Spongebob Squarepants theme song!*
Painty the Pirate: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Kids: Spongebob Squarepants!
Timon: (utterly confused) What the? Spongebob?! What does HE have to do with any of this?! And why is the theme song even playing in the first place?
Sunrise Blossom: Well, Twilight WAS referencing it just then. Also, I've got a pretty good idea on how this happened. (Turns to Pumbaa) Uh, Pumbaa? I hope you don't mind me saying this but...I think you might be sitting on the remote again.
Pumbaa: I am? (Looks underneath him) Oh yeah. So I am. Well, it's not my fault if I keep mistaking it for brownies!
Timon: Even if it WAS a brownie, why would you even sit on top of it?!
(Yeah. That's one moment in Lion King 1 1/2 I never really quite understood. In fact, I still kinda don't understand it. What about any of you?)
Pumbaa: (just stares at the two do them) ...I have NO idea. (Presses the button on the remote to change back to what got so rudely interrupted)
Twilight Sparkle: Right then. We're going in. Come on, Fluttershy. (Begins walking towards the direction of the cave until she realises Fluttershy isn't there) Fluttershy? Fluttershy, where are you? (Sees her hiding her head in a hole) Oh, for ponies sake, Fluttershy! Come on! (Goes back and begins trying to shove her toward the cave) We have to do this! Now!
Fluttershy: (digs her hooves in the ground determined not to move an inch) I...I...I can't go inside that cave.
Rainbow Dash: (covers her face with her hooves and groans) Oh, great! "Big Brave Animal Tamer Fluttershy" now has a phobia of caves! Surprise, surprise! Can you BELIEVE that?!
Fluttershy: It's not the cave that I'm scared of, Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash: (confused) It's not?
Twilight Sparkle: Well, what is it then? Because you've been acting pretty strange throughout this whole journey and...
Sunrise Blossom: Wait a minute, sister. I think I probably know the answer already. Fluttershy, are you trying to tell us that you're afraid of dragons?
Fluttershy: (sadly nods) Uh-huh.
All (except Fluttershy and Sunrise): WHAT?!
Rainbow Dash: (just full on rage-quits) OH, COME ON!
Twilight Sparkle: But Fluttershy, you have such a wonderful talent dealing with all kinds of ferocious animals.
Fluttershy: Yes. But that's mostly because they're not DRAGONS.
Rainbow Dash: (still throwing an uncool tantrum) But you tamed a KILLER manticore like it was nothing!
Fluttershy: He wasn't a killer, Rainbow Dash. He was just angry because he had a thorn in his paw.
Rainbow Dash: Well, he DID nearly kill us!
Fluttershy: (ignoring Rainbow Dash) And he wasn't a dragon either.
Pinkie Pie: But Flutters, our good old pal, Spike, is a dragon and you don't think HE'S something to be scared of.
Sunrise Blossom: I think, Pinkie, it's because unlike most other dragons in Equestria or in many cartoons I believe we've all seen, Spike is a nice, small and friendly dragon.
Pinkie Pie: Oh yeah.
Twilight Sparkle: But Fluttershy, there's something I still don't quite understand here. If you're so afraid of BIG dragons like this one, then why didn't you say anything before we came all the way up here?!
Fluttershy: Actually, Twilight, I TRIED to. But none of you gave me a chance to speak, you wouldn't stop bullying/forcing me into doing this against my will despite my best protests, and even if I DID get a chance to say anything, I'm sure Rainbow Dash would've gotten so much more madder at me than she is right now that she'd kill me.
Rainbow Dash: (still in a grouchy mood) I WILL kill you when this is over!
Twilight Sparkle: (surprised at this) Rainbow Dash!
Sunrise Blossom: Oh, Fluttershy's right, Twilight. We weren't really being nice to her at all with our brute force. And besides, although it's what Celestia ordered us to do in the first place, we can't force somepony into doing something they clearly don't want to do because they're too scared to do it. It's just not right. Not to mention bullying.
Fluttershy: Exactly. I WOULD like to help you anyway I can, but...I...I...I just... can't. (Begins sadly walking away)
Sunrise Blossom: (looks at her sadly) Oh, Fluttershy.
Applejack: (begins regretting everything) Sweet Celestia. What have we done?
Pinkie Pie: (begins tearing up) We're bullies!
Twilight Sparkle: (sighs) Looks like it's just you and me then, Sunny. I don't know about you, but I'm not giving up this mission no matter what. Let's get inside that cave and convince that dragon to leave as politely as we possibly can. (Takes Sunrise inside the cave)
Sunrise Blossom: (unsure about this as she walks inside) W-w-what exactly am I supposed to say to him then?
Twilight Sparkle: I don't know. But I...i...i...(realises that they're staring face to face with the sleeping dragon sleeping on a pile of treasure)...HOLY MOLY!
Sunrise Blossom: (begins hugging Twilight for dear life) M-m-m-man, that t-t-thing side is...(gulps)...huge!
Twilight Sparkle: (begins shivering in fear herself) Yeah. I think I'm about to see why Fluttershy's too scared for this job. (Notices a familiar looking lion prince) Wait a second. Who on earth is that with him?
Sunrise Blossom: (takes a look herself) Hmm. I'm not entirley sure. It sort of looks like a lion with a crown on his head. In fact, he looks awfully familiar! If I didn't know any better, I'd say...(gasps) P-P-Prince John?!
Twilight Sparkle: Who?
Sunrise Blossom: Prince John! King Richard's older brother! You know, from Disney's Robin Hood?
Twilight Sparkle: I've never even seen that movie!
Sunrise Blossom: (shouts as quietly as she possibly can) WHAT?! How can you not have seen that film?
Twilight Sparkle: Well, we didn't really have it on DVD when we were fillies unlike most of our other films, sister.
Sunrise Blossom: Oh...right. Well, it just recently got released on DVD by Disney a few days before you first came to Ponyville and almost everypony has seen it and loved it!
Twilight Sparkle: Well, can you fill me in on how bad this Prince John guy is?
Spongebob Squarepants Narrator With The French Accent: One brief explanation of Prince John later...
Sunrise Blossom: And yeah. That's about it.
Twilight Sparkle: (begins freaking out) Well, what's he doing here in Equestria then? And more importantly, how did he even get here in the first place? I thought you said when King Richard returned, he got locked up in the Royal Rock Pile.
Sunrise Blossom: He DID. But I think somehow, he escaped!
Twilight Sparkle: (sarcastically) Well, this is just GREAT! Now we have TWO problems to sort out! And how exactly am I going to convince Prince John and the dragon to politely leave when one of who we're dealing with is an escaped criminal from another world?!
Sunrise Blossom: I'd say a bit of interrogation would do the trick. Sort of like how we interrogated Applejack like detectives that Applebuck Season. You stay here. I'll handle this.
Twilight Sparkle: (unsure) Oh sister, I hope you know what you're doing!
Sunrise Blossom: Relax, Twi, I got this.
*Very, very carefully and very, very quietly, Sunrise Blossom, now dressed up in that detective costume she had been keeping behind her back in case of emergencies, sneaks past the still sleeping and smoke-snoring dragon, not wanting to wake him up just yet, and makes her way up to the ledge where Prince John is lounging on and counting out a sizeable pile of diamonds.*
Prince John: (moving diamonds he counts to a different pile) 54, 55, 56, 57, 58...ho-ho! I should've just run off with the dragons a LONG time ago! Let my stupid little brother have the kingdom. I have these jewels! Aha, AHA! (Suddenly pauses) I really should work on a much more evil laugh. Somehow, just saying "Aha" twice isn't working out for me so well anymore. Oh, well. Now then, where was I? Oh yes! (Continues counting) 59, 60! 61, 62, 63, 64, 65...
Sunrise Blossom: Um...excuse me?
Prince John: (jumps in shock) ARGH! ROBIN HOOD'S FOUND ME...somehow! I'll never surrender these jewels! NEVER!
Sunrise Blossom: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Calm down there! (Gives a nervous chuckle) So terribly sorry about that. I didn't mean to scare you. But um...you wouldn't happen to be that lion prince known as Prince John by any chance, would you?
Prince John: (briefly smoothens his fur down and faces the unicorn with his eyebrows raised) Who and...WHAT are you?! And...(notices the detective costume) what's with the getup?
Sunrise Blossom: Allow me to introduce myself. The name's Sunrise. Sunrise Blossom. And I'm a unicorn. Though, whenever I'm dressed up in this costume, my friends and I only refer to me as Sherlock Sunrise. And right now, I'm on a detective like case. So allow me to repeat my question. Are you by any chance Prince John, future king of all England?
Prince John: (straightens himself up and beams) Why, yes. Yes, I am. You've heard of me?
Sunrise Blossom: (nods) Oh yes. Of course I have. And I've heard that you're close to defeating that infamous outlaw known as Robin Hood, is that correct?
Prince John: (suddenly changes his expression to a rather glum one) Why, yes - I was. (Sinks to the ground with a dejected expression on his face) I ALMOST defeated that confounded outlaw, but he ended up outwitting me instead, and now, my little brother, Richard, is now the king of England.
Sunrise Blossom: (pretends to be shocked) Why, that's just HORRIBLE! (Sits next to him and gets her pencil and notebook out) What happened?
Prince John: Do you really want to know that badly?
Sunrise Blossom: Well, I won't know how to make you feel better and happier again if you don't tell me what happened?
Prince John: (thinks this over) Hmm. I suppose you're right. Very well then, Sunrise. But I must warn you though, it isn't a pretty tale.
Sunrise Blossom: (thinks to herself in her head) If it's told by YOU of all people, I can imagine.
*So with that, Prince John regales Sherlock Sunrise about his many attempts to take out Robin Hood starting with The Archery Tournament trap, followed by how he raised the taxes so high that he'd had almost ALL the inhabitants of Nottingham locked up when they couldn't pay they're taxes, and how he was absolutely certain that he would win before Robin Hood robbed him blind whilst he was sleeping. Of course, Sunrise knows all this information already due to the amount of times she, as well as other ponies, had seen the film, so she's not really THAT interested in listening to all of this. But she still continues to write all this down in her notebook anyway like a detective normally would.*
Prince John: (begins to tear up as he finishes his tale) ...my home got burned down, I broke my mother's mirror over my former aide, Sir Hiss, and when Richard returned, he had me locked up in the Royal Quarry while everyone else just celebrated his return! (Begins crying in front of Sunrise and starts sucking his thumb as always)
Sunrise Blossom: (cringes slightly as she thinks to herself) Oh, yeah. That's right. Prince John still has that thumb-sucking habit of his. How sickening. Such a big crybaby if I ever saw one. (Stops thinking and regains her fake sympathy and pats him on the shoulder) Aw, you poor, poor thing. I can't even imagine how hard it's been for you. Now, do you mind if I just ask you one last question?
Prince John: (sniffs sadly) Go on then.
Sunrise Blossom: Well, how exactly did you end up here in our world and in this cave with this dragon?
Prince John: (sniffs again and begins perking up) Well, as it turns out, a whole bunch of dragons just so happened to fly over the kingdom and some of the jewels fell from this dragon's claws.
Sunrise Blossom: (interested in this new information) Interesting. (Gets out her pencil and notebook again) Go on.
*And with that, Prince John shares to Sherlock Sunrise how he saw the word "Equestria" and managed to convince the dragon to take him with him so that they could share the jewels, and Sunrise writes all of this down in her notebook for it is very interesting to know.*
Prince John: ...and with SO many jewels, I can't lose! (lets out a cruel chuckle) I WIN! Aha, AHA! (pauses again) I did it again. You know, I really need to start working on an all new laugh now. This one's REALLY starting to get old.
Sunrise Blossom: (thinks to herself again) Tell me about it.
Prince John: (looks back at diamonds) Hmm. That reminds me, I should probably get back to counting all those diamonds. By the looks of things, I may have to recount some of them.
Sunrise Blossom: Oh, of course. Well, I'll let you get back to it then. Hopefully, next time I decide to pay you a visit, it won't be such a bad time. (Takes a look at the notebook) And I've got all the information I've needed to hear from you, so I guess it's case closed for Sherlock Sunrise. It was very nice meeting you, Prince John. And I hope we can have another one of these friendly chats again some day. See you later. (Climbs back down)
Prince John: And it was very nice talking to you too, Ms. Sunrise. (Looks back at the diamonds) Now then, where was I again? (Tries to remember) Hmm. Let me think. "62, 63, 64, 6-"-ah, yes! That was it! (Goes back to counting the diamonds) 65, 66, 67, 68, 69...
Twilight Sparkle was on the verge of freaking out when her twin returned. "Well?" she asked quietly. "Why is he here?"
"Apparently when the dragon migration were flying over England, this dragon accidentally dropped some jewels that landed on Prince John's head, and apparently Equestria was written on them, so he convinced the dragon to take him with him and share the jewels," Sunrise Blossom explained to her sister. "I think we need to get rid of Prince John before we deal with the dragon."
"How do we do that?" Twilight Sparkle questioned.
"Don't worry, I got an idea."
Some time later, Prince John climbed down from the ledge to grab an armload of emeralds to count next, when he smelled something delicious coming from the opening of the cave. 'Ooh, could that be roasting mutton?' he wondered, and followed the smell to the cave opening. Peering out, he couldn't see anything on the plateau, so he kept following the smell around a giant boulder. He frowned when he saw that the smell was coming from an open bottle. "Huh?"
Suddenly a large sack was shoved over his body and he was knocked to the ground. As the ex-Prince screamed like a little girl and struggled to get out, Applejack quickly tied the opening shut, and high-hoofed her friends. "There! That oughta hold him until we can get him back to England. Wherever that place might be."
"Once we get rid of the dragon, we'll take Prince John to Princess Celestia," said Sunrise Blossom, "and she should be able to help us return him to England and prison."
A/N: And this deleted scene is done! Bye for now! R&R everyone!