After the rent problem is over, Twilight and Ben decides to make sure to not cause any further trouble when paying the rent. The last thing they want is to make Diamond Tiara angry again.

Of course, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon and the bodyguard Maxin Talos isn't the only villains that come to the club that they need to worry about. There are also the other villains who attended the party as well. Yeah, they Pinkie Promise not to break any rules, but one can never know with these guys; Most of the gang work to see what the villains want, even if it's something minor.

But of course, when it comes to Rainbow getting humiliated so far, even one villain can use that to his advantage to get what he wants...

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Onstage, Spike smiles as he exclaims, "All right, and now, better than Rainbow Dash in every way possible, TWILIGHT SPARKLE!"

Of course, near the entrance, Rainbow looks a bit annoyed upon hearing that. Some folks here at the club, even her own friends, like to poke fun at her from time to time. She usually gets humiliated a few times but her friends aren't cruel; though the jokes can get a bit annoying.

Twilight teleports onto the stage, smiling as she speaks to the crowd, "Thanks, Spike! Speaking of Rainbow Dash, we gave her a lot to do around here and yeah, we sometimes humiliate her, but she is still a good friend of ours...even if Rainbow is sometimes a big ham!"

Everyone, including some pigs in the audience, laughs loudly. Rainbow in annoyance, snaps, "Hey, what are you trying to pull?!"

"Just kidding, Rainbow! You know that we love ya!"

Rainbow groans a bit. She knows that her friend is kidding and meant no harm, but the mare still doesn't want that joke funny. Just then a familiar voice spoke up, "Now, now, Rainbow Dash, if I were you, I wouldn't let Twilight Sparkle get away with what she just said."

Rainbow blinks and turns to see a familiar villain nearby: the smirking Smaug. The Pegasus pony, frowning, said, "Hey Smaug. What do you mean by that?"

"Come now. She just insulted you, the most awesome and fastest flier in Cloudsdale. You should fight back, get a big comeback."

"Look, Twilight didn't really mean that. Yeah, she sometimes humiliates me without talking to me first but the unicorn is still a cool pony."

"Yet mocking you onstage? Per shame," Smaug insists to Rainbow as if trying to convince her otherwise. "She even went as far as called you a ham and you're a pony! That is a low!"

"But Twilight Sparkle is my friend! You heard what he said!" Rainbow exclaims in concern. The jokes may hurt but the mare would never go after her friend like that, right? Smaug sighs as he makes his eyes go a bit spirally. Rainbow rolls her eyes while asking, "What's this? Some kind of trick that you stole from Disc..."

Of course, Smaug send some sort of wave on Rainbow and soon spirals appear in her own eyes. The pony is now hypnotized and under the villain's control.

"Now listen up, Rainbow Dash. Twilight Sparkle just insulted you, called you a ham! She isn't your friend for doing that." Smaug said slowly to Rainbow, putting her under his control.

"No she isn't..." Rainbow said in a daze while staring.

"Good, good. Now listen, I am sure that you would do anything in exchange for getting back at that horn head."

"Yes, yes, I will do anything for you, Smaug..."

"Oh, anything, huh," Smaug ask eagerly as he drops his hypnosis act, snapping Rainbow out of it but the mare now got a post-hypnotic objective. "Very well, Rainbow Dash. I got a job for you. I will help you get back at Twilight Sparkle...but you must bring me the amulet. Got that?"

"Oh yeah, yeah! Of course, you want the amulet? You got it! I will meet you at the end of the show with it!" Rainbow, out of her hypnotism, exclaims as she took off to do the job. Smaug smirks sinisterly.

"Take your time. No need to rush, Miss Dash."

Rainbow heads off on her mission: to get the Alicorn Amulet for Smaug. And the Pegasus pony knows where to get it.

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At the same time, Pinkie came out of the kitchen with 3 platters on her head. She put them in her party cannon while calling out, "All right, here's food, fresh from the kitchen!" The mare opens fire, serving the three dishes to Daring Do, Baby Lickety-Split, and the Witches of the Volcano of Gloom.

Daring removes her cover...but saw no food underneath it. Baby Lickety-Split removes her own cover and saw...no food underneath it. The witches of course just roll their eyes as Hydia ask dryly, not bothering lifting their own lid, "Why bother? We already know that it's empty by guessing."

"Wait, no food? Something isn't right here. In fact, something's smelly is happening!"

Indeed, in the kitchen, the Cakes' foals Pound and Pumpkin Cake are helping themselves to a huge cake. They are the ones eating all the food so far, but no one has figure out that it was them so far.

Pinkie bounces into the kitchen, frowning as she calls out, "Mr. and Mrs. Cake!'

"Yes, Pinkie," Mr. Cake asks Pinkie in concern. The foals look up to see what's going on.

"Somepony has been swiping the food meant for our guests!"

"Really," Mrs. Cake gasps in surprise and concern. The foals look worried and nervous. Not good, does their foalsitter and friend know that they were the ones who were eating the food?

"Yep; I don't know what's going on but we got a food thief...and I will need your help, along with the twins to find him or her!" Pinkie exclaims in determination.

"We will do what we can to help find the thief!"

No one notices the foals sighing in relief. Looks like Pinkie doesn't suspect that it was them who was eating the food all along. The pink pony go a mystery on her hooves...not realizing that the culprit are Pound and Pumpkin Cake themselves!

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While the Cutie Mark Crusaders (dressed as a different band now, changing their names to 'Spice Fillies'), perform for the guests, backstage, Twilight is talking with Ben and Nyx, "I sure hope that Rainbow isn't too sore about that ham joke. I know that I humiliate her without speaking to her first, but it was all in good fun, right?"

"Relax, it's just Rainbow Dash. Not like she would want to get revenge after us later." Ben assures Twilight with a chuckle.

"Uh, daddy; Auntie Dashie was upset over the humiliation that she has gotten so far. I mean, there's her first time at hosting, the time when she has Gilda as a guest, when she has her ego-trip and Auntie AJ and Derpy has to humiliate her on stage, when Dashie has her brief partnership with Sweetie Drops, the time that she tried to get Auntie Pinkie Pie fired and was almost beaten to death when she found out that she broke her Pinkie Promise of not doing so, and there's the time that Auntie Dashie paid mommy to put Auntie Rarity on stage, only to get into trouble." Nyx points out to her parents, making them concerned. "Not to mention the cartoons that we show of her being the butt of some jokes."

"Ooh right, I guess Rainbow Dash would do that; that is a possibility. As far as we know, we don't know what that pony could do to get back at those who made fun of her."

"Right, we better keep an eye on her." Twilight said in concern. She doesn't know if or when Rainbow could get payback but the ponies better be prepared in case the worst is to come.

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In the audience, Chief Thunderhooves, Braeburn and Little Strongheart sat at a table with the apple tree known as Bloomberg. The chief of the buffalo tribe yawns a bit, "Ugh, I didn't get enough sleep last night."

"Oh I don't know. Bloomberg slept like a log." Braeburn jokes making himself and Little Strongheart chuckle at that.

The audience applauds as Twilight appears, saying, "All right, folks, time to see if you can survive this Rainbow Dash cartoon!" They applaud some more as the first cartoon of the night begins.

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It was a big day for the Cutie Mark Crusaders who are also the Cutie Mark Scots. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo follow Rainbow as she leads the way. The mare smiles as today is the best day for the trio of fillies.

Once Rainbow stops on top of a hill, she turns and blew the whistle, saying, "All right, girls, front and center!" The CMC quickly line up in front of the mare, saluting her as she is also their scoutmaster. "All right, today is the day that you will all take the survival test."

"Yay! Survival test," The girls exclaims excitedly. Today is the day for them to pass their toughest test to earn their biggest badge yet!

"You got it. If you girls pass the test, you will get these." Rainbow said as she took out a case and opens it. Inside are three badges, much to the CMC's excitement.

"The Survival Badge!"

Rainbow takes a flag out, putting it down while saying, "All right, scouts, the trail starts here and ends..."

Rainbow then points to the trail and then motions down it, going past some long roads on the hills, a few rickety bridges, past a raging river and a deserted wasteland (at one point as a camera goes by it, a skull remarks "Long trail, ain't?), past some traffic, then back to some trails hill, goes past some thorny bushes and way up the mountain where another flag is at.

"...about there." Rainbow said with a nod before turning to the CMC. "You girls think you can handle this?"

"Eeyup! We done journey fer our own Cutie Marks, we can handle 'dis!" Apple Bloom exclaims with a nod. "We are 'de Cutie Mark Scouts after y'all!"

"Sure, you passed this test when you were a filly." Sweetie said with a smile. "If you can do it, so can we!"

Rainbow pauses as if looking worried, but calms down as she said with a smile, "Well then, I'm sure you three fillies will do awesome." The mare got out a stopwatch. "Now then, I am giving you an hour to complete this test. If you do so, those badges are yours. Ready, set...GO!"

Rainbow then press the button on the watch to begin the test.

"Hoo doggy, 'dis test will be 'de greatest," Apple Bloom exclaims eagerly as she and her friends heads off down the trail.

"Right, a piece of cake too...which we could get if we do this." Sweetie remarks with a cute giggle.

"We done are glad 'dat Rainbow Dash is our scoutmaster who done got faith in us! We will be done in no time!"

Of course, the fillies fail to see Rainbow giving out a devilish smirk as she said, "Heh heh...let's see how you do when I'm done." The mare decides to have a little fun with these fillies.

The CMC marches on until they begin to cross a bridge...and until its ropes snap off, causing them to scream in alarm as they fell.

Rainbow is behind a bush, smirking as she held a pair of scissors. The mare look at her watch, commentating, "Oh yeah, this will be awesome."

The CMC manages to recover from their incident with the bridge as they move on. The trio reaches a fork in the road and took the right path...running right into a huge bear. The CMC screams as they run off, taking the left side.

Once the girls are gone, they fail to see the bear taking the head off, revealing it to be Rainbow who looks at the timer, saying, "Yeah, a lots of time still!"

The CMC arrives at a raging river; Scootaloo smirks as she has an idea. The mare uses a slingshot to make a bridge out of some fallen rock. The trio begins to cross it...but heard a explosion! They turn and scream upon seeing a river near a dam that blew up...and the raging water send them washing away!

Rainbow laughs near the plunger that she push down to blow up the fun. Oh, the mare is having so much fun watching the CMC get into so much chaos! Yeah, these are the kind of pranks that Gilda would enjoy...but Rainbow wasn't intending on torturing the three fillies after all. She just want to mess with them.

The CMC kept trotting up the mountain. They seem to be lacking the spirit that they themselves had before when leaving Rainbow earlier.

"Oh, 'dis is plain bad." Apple Bloom said with a sigh.

"I don't know how Rainbow Dash does it. This is hard." Sweetie said with a sigh. At this rate, the scouts will never get their survival badge!

"Awww, come on. We got to almost be done." Scootaloo insists to her friends. "Those freak accidents couldn't just be some pranks used to mess with us, right?"

Of course, the ponies heard a familiar laugh coming from a cabin nearby. Apple Bloom said, "Huh. What do yew know? Rainbow Dash must've flown up ahead 'ta see how we're doing."

"Oh man, those girls are...oh man; I just love to prank them!" Rainbow is heard laughing. Hearing that made the CMC frown suspiciously as they trot over to the cabin and peeks through the window to find out what's going on.

Sure enough, the CMC saw a pair of scissors, a bear suit and a plunger with dynamite attached. And there's Rainbow near the fireplace, looking at her watch. She grins while saying, "Oh man, those traps are the best pranks ever! Those girls would lose the will to continue on after the next few prank traps. Man, I wasn't being mean...but oh man! What a hoot! I betcha they wouldn't even make it this far!"

Apple Bloom and Sweetie fumes on as Scootaloo looks near the window. The first two scowls, "That Rainbow Dash is a rat!" She set up those freak accidents on purpose just to pull prank on the girls. Rainbow may claim that she wanted to be mean but even what the mare did was going too far!

"Hang on, girls; this is Rainbow Dash, the Element of Loyalty." Scootaloo insists as she takes Rainbow's Scoutmaster Book from the cabin desk, the mare was too busy laughing to notice. "She is also our Scoutmaster Leader. She swore an oath!"

"Oh give me a break!" Sweetie snaps as she push the book away from Scootaloo. "Rainbow Dash has been messing with us! Why would she do that anyway? Doesn't she want us to get our badges at all?"

Just then the book lands on a certain page. Apple Bloom notices something as she say, "Wait a darn picking minute. Look! 'Dis book is Rainbow Dash's! It shows a list o' badges 'dat she earned when Rainbow was a filly! There's diving, jumping, swimming, pouncing, flying, snorkeling, rinsing, folding, boasting, crying, carrying on...hang on! There isn't nothing in 'dis here book about her gitting her Survival Wilderness badge!"

The CMC took a closer look. Apple Bloom was right! Rainbow has gotten every badge except for one...the same badge based on the test that the CMC were doing right now!

"Rainbow Dash never passed the Survival Test!" The CMC exclaims in shock and anger. Rainbow didn't pass the Survival Test at all!

"Oh man, she's a fake!" Scootaloo exclaims angrily. Her own idol that she looks up to like a sister has lied all this time!

"As well as a phony," Sweetie exclaims while fuming a bit.

"Oh, she's more than 'dat...she's fair game." Apple Bloom said a slight smirk; Time for the CMC to teach Rainbow Dash a lesson...and maybe get everyone their own badges afterwards.

Rainbow sat in her chair, sleeping when she was awaken up by crashing noise. The mare flew towards the window while asking, "What the hay?"

To the mare's shock, Rainbow saw a huge truck ramming her cabin before it was pushed towards a cliff with the mare still in it. To her shock, she saw that it was the CMC doing the driving. The jig is up!

As the start begins to fall, Apple Bloom declares while looking at the stopwatch, "All righty, Rainbow Fake! Survive 'DAT!"

The cabin slid down the hill, Rainbow tried to fly out but she can't. The mare saw that her wings are tied down all over; the CMC must've done that while she was sleeping! Rainbow tumbled out of the cabin and flew up. She freak out before falling right down the chimney and back into her cabin. Rainbow recovers to see a tree out her window. She goes to the window to look down to see how far from the ground. Not too far, but enough to make a fall.

Rainbow got an idea as she saw some string (apparently not realizing came from the dynamite's plunger). She ties herself around with the said string and made a lasso from the other end, putting it on a branch. Rainbow now slid down the stringed rope which causes the rope to bend a little.

Upon reaching the ground, Rainbow smiles as she exclaims, "Oh yeah, piece of cake!"

Rainbow however spoke too soon. When she let go of the string, the house begins to fall...and the mare realizes that she is still attached to the string! Perhaps Rainbow should've untied herself first! She screams as the falling cabin pulls up her the hill, causing the mare to slide on her hooves as the cabin flew off a ski rift before going past a goat pasture. This causes the Pegasus pony to knock off two horns off a goat, causing her to ride in them.

A rabbit was drinking water from a lake when he saw the cabin passing by with Rainbow sliding after it on goat horns. He frowns and looks at the water before tossing it to the side. Someone has spiked it and made him see things!

Rainbow now saw that her cabin door is opening with stuff falling out. To make matters worse, she saw her favorite chair was going out. Rainbow can't avoid it, causing her head to get stuck between the chair's railing. She then yelps as the mare saw the dynamite plunger bouncing over to her. Rainbow does her best to escape the chair but all she did, luckily, was pushes a button on it to cause the chair to jump, avoiding the plunger in time.

Rainbow sighs but then saw the scissors coming towards her. She gulps...but the things ended up cutting the string and passing Rainbow. She screams while heading towards her runaway house.

Rainbow screams as she ducks, causing her and the chair to go lower. But as she does, going past an opening of two trees, the cabins went up on the trees that send it flying right back. The Pegasus pony looks back and chuckles in triumph but she rams across the branch of a tree. This allows her to get freed from her chair prison, as well as untie her ropes, before she fell down.

As Rainbow recovers, she saw her cabin landing on a nearby hill, about to topple. The mare yelps, "Oh horse feathers."

Rainbow screams as she saw the house sliding after her, causing her to fly away like mad. During this time, the same rabbit from before was talking to a psychologist one, explaining what he just seen. Both rabbits saw Rainbow flying off from her sliding cabin. The rabbit psychology can only blink before joining his patient on the couch, believing that he too has gone mad as well.

The house slid as Rainbow somehow flew backwards into it, causing her to put on the bear costume as a result. The mare stops as she saw the house falling down away from her, causing her to laugh in triumph. Of course, the scissors ends up falling down and hit the bear costume. This causes Rainbow to fly out of the thing in pain as she joins the house that stops a cliff, stuck in the chimney.

Rainbow does her best to get out but saw the dynamite plunger coming down, making her scream in terror. The mare flew down the chimney and out of the house. Once she is in safe distance, the mare stops to sigh in relief. Too bad that Rainbow has forgotten that the string she was attached it is attached the dynamite plunger, causing her to drag it right over.

"Ha, shows those girls a thing or two!" Rainbow laughs as she leans her hoof down...only to realize that she push down right on the plunger itself. The mare has time to yelp as the whole thing explodes right on her.

Back at where the cabin once was, the CMC laughs at Rainbow's misfortune. Maybe that will teach her a lesson on lying and pulling mean pranks on them. But then they stop as a shadow appears over them. The fillies gasp as an angry Rainbow is there and she is none too pleased.

"All right, nopony makes a fool out of Rainbow Dash!" Rainbow snarls furiously.

The CMC screams as they gallop off, going past the trail of hills with a mad Rainbow in pursue. They run past the bridge, the chasing Rainbow puts the whole thing up. Everyone flew past the desert, causing a bird to lose all its feathers as a result.

The CMC started to go up a hill as Rainbow zooms over...and took an elevator to head up to the near top of the mountain. As the Pegasus pony hums while waiting, she gave an odd look to Harry the Bear who is riding as well. Rainbow decides not to bother questioning this at the moment.

The CMC reach the top of the mountain at the same time that the elevator reaches them. Rainbow flew out and continues chasing the fillies, they all went up the hills, pass the bushes and up the last mountain, diving right down hard.

As the scouts recover while Rainbow got her head out of the dirty, they look up with Apple Bloom smiling, saying, "Look, everypony!"

"We did it, we passed the Survival Test!" Sweetie exclaims excitedly. It's true; all that chasing allowed the fillies to reach the flag on the last part of the Survival Test that they are supposed to.

Scootaloo push the button on the stopwatch to check the time.

"And we only got 10 minutes left!" Scootaloo exclaims with a proud smile.

"Huh?" Rainbow asks in shock and disbelief. The CMC has passed the Survival Test? That wasn't supposed to happen!

"Eeyup, an' Ah do believe 'dat these are ours." Apple Bloom said as she took the case from Rainbow. The filly pulls the medals out, giving one to herself, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. "Cutie Mark Scouts, fer passing 'dis here Survival Test, we have earned these medals. Not cutie marks but they're 'de closest."

Apple Bloom then took another medal out of the case, giving it to Rainbow while adding, "Also, yew too Rainbow Dash. Yew actually did 'de Survival Test without realizing it too!"

"Wait, I did?" Rainbow asks in surprise then smiles proudly at her new medal. Apple Bloom was right. By chasing them, she actually passes the same test that the Pegasus pony herself failed to pass years ago as a filly!

"Good job, you aren't a phony fraud anymore." Sweetie said as Apple Bloom gave the badge to Rainbow. "But why did you lie to us about the Survival Test? As well as try to stop us from earning the badge in the first place?'

"Well, the truth is though I didn't pass the Survival Test because I gave up after the first attempt. I was partway through it but I got too confident that I did some tricks...and got eliminated for using my wings when I wasn't supposed to when I didn't mean to. I was so embarrassed that I never told anyone. And when you girls got most of your badges and going to get this one...well, I was envious that you may get the badge instead of me and try to discourage you. But...after what happened, I was a darn foal. I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

"Shucks, we forgave yew." Apple Bloom assures Rainbow with a smile. "We done glad 'ta see yew pass 'de Survival Test at last."

"Thanks for everything, girls." Rainbow said, looking at her badge with a proud smile on her face.

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Once the cartoon is done, the audience applauds for another good one that came to a close.

As Golden heart and Pinkamena watch the show the pink one shivers a little. Golden Heart asks, "What is it?"

"I think Smaug hypnotized Rainbow Dash into stealing an amulet." Pinkamena said seriously.

"What amulet?"

"Beats me but who knows when it comes to Smaug wanting something to gain power."

"True but for now, let's watch the show." The alicorn suggests. Pinkamena nods as she and Golden Heart return to watching the show.

Backstage, Ben grin while saying, "The cartoon is over, Twilight; Time for you to get back onstage."

"Yeah, but keep your eyes out for Rainbow. Rarity told me that she was talking to Smaug earlier and you know how sneaky that villain is." Twilight warns her somepony. The mare goes back on stage to the give out her introduction, "Okay, folks. First off, I want to thank you all once more for attending the House of Pony!"

Rainbow during this time is heading to the door to the prop basement, wearing a light helmet. The mare smirks while saying, "The prop basement...the place where the props for MLP shows of the past, present and future, along with stuff from stories as well as stuff that hasn't happened yet. They are in here, stored for memory keeps. One can get lost in here without Koga...but as long as I don't get lost, I'm cool." The mare opens the door before heading downstairs. "The Alicorn must be down here somewhere..."

Rainbow marches down into the basement. She will find that Alicorn Amulet soon enough.

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In hopes to catch the thief in the act, Pinkie and Fluttershy put a pile of food on a table with a sign on it that said 'free'. They hid behind another table with the Cakes and the foals, Pound and Pumpkin look at the food hungrily.

"You sure this would work, Pinkie?" Fluttershy ask Pinkie curiously.

"Yeah, the thief cannot resist this food." Pinkie said eagerly, keeping one eye on the food. "We will catch him or her in no time."

"Wait, Pinkie, can you help me with this?" Mrs. Cake asks Pinkie making her turn for a smile. She saw her employee looking at a crossword puzzle. "What is the four letter word for 'disappearing without a trace'?"

Before Pinkie could answer, the grownups heard a chomping noise, causing them to look up and gasp. The good was gone with the free sign having a bite out of it. Fluttershy gasps, "Oh my! It's gone!"

"Oh thank you, Fluttershy. I should've realize that myself."

"Whoever this thief is, must be faster than we thought." Mr. Cake said sternly. Of course, he and the others fail to see the Cake Twins, smiling in satisfaction, having finish the meal that they stole.

"He or she has to be nearby, come on!" Pinkie exclaims in a determination whisper.

"Right," Mrs. Cake said with the foals nodding...the two belch before following the others.

As Golden Heart and Pinkamena keep watching, her mane twitches. Golden heart asks, "What's wrong little sister?"

"Seems like somepony is going to be in trouble," Pinkamena said seriously to her brother. "Meaning like something bad will happen to them."

"Ok and if it happens, we will see if we can help but for now, let's us keep on watching the show."

Pinkamena nods as she and him go back to watching the show.

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The prop basement looks like a huge museum that hold the props in Ponyland/Equestria history...or stuff that hasn't appeared yet. Unless one has a guide like Koga, the place is so big that anypony can get lost down here for years!

Rainbow looks around at the stuff while remarking, "Man, look at all this cool stuff." The mare passed by an assorted number of items in this place. There is the Crystal Heart, a box labeled 'Parasprites. Do not open', a Mare Do Well outfit, the journal of Star-Swirl the Bearded, a covered up Master Sword that is stuck in the stone that Ben Mare uses, and of course a hourglass from the Canterlot library please that Twilight once uses to try to warn herself 1 week in the past.

Rainbow sighs in annoyance, where is that Alicorn Amulet? It's nowhere to be found. As she moves on, the mare fails to see a robotic yellow rabbit/mouse mixture creation with black stripes known as the Rabbitchu opening its eyes the following Rainbow out of curiosity.

Rainbow blinks, having a feeling that something was following her. The mare turns to see...a familiar robot standing to the side. She frowns in suspicion, saying, "Ugh, just that Pikachu copy robot thing; probably been deactivated."

Rainbow was preparing to head off again, but finds herself screaming in pain as the Rabbitchu zaps her with electric tentacles coming from its, then the thing pulls the mare with it, running like mad.

"Hey, hey, put it down!" Rainbow protests to the Rabbitchu. The little robot rush past some ribbons and stuff meant for the rainbow celebration in Gen 3. It run up a piece of the mountain from 'Dragonshy' before it threw Rainbow Dash, causing her to yell like mad.

Rainbow hit a box that is about to open up that said 'Ponyville Dam Flood'. The mare, upon landing on the ground, saw this, yelps and tries to escape but the water came out of the box, flooding Rainbow as she finds herself at another box.

Rainbow does her best to recover then looks up and smile for in front of her is a box that is labeled 'Alicorn Amulet'. The mare exclaims, "Finally!" She opens the box hard, causing it to open to the reveal the Alicorn Amulet itself. Rainbow blinks while picking the items up. "So this is it, eh? Well, Smaug probably got a reason to...."

As Rainbow pockets the Alicorn Amulet, she saw another box nearby, making her ask, "Say, what's this?" The mare goes over and reads the content, "'The Sapphire Stone', eh? All right, that is more like it."

Rainbow opens the box, causing sunlight to shine on a crystal on a pedestal. The mare surveys the Sapphire Stone and prepares to snatch it...but eventually just picks it up with her teeth with a bored expression on her face. Rainbow put the stone on her person and prepares to leave.

But then the whole room begins to collapse, the floor crumbles as lava begins to rise up above it. Rainbow yelps in worry, "Uh oh..." This doesn't end well especially since the mare read it in that Daring Do book.

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In the audience, as the Spice Fillies' played, at a table, Fizzy saw some daisies, making her smiles as she prepares to take them. But her friend Wind Whistler (Gen 1) stops her, saying, "No, Fizzy! Don't! It's a trap!"

Sure enough Wind Whistler points to a trigger mechanism that would've activated a safe that would've landed on Fizzy. The villain Tadaka appears, looking upset as he snaps, "Awww, rats!"

Twilight is on stage, pushing play on the radio as her voice came out, "And now, it's time for our Pinkie Pie cartoon!"

The real Twilight nods while saying, "Couldn't said it better myself!" The audience applauds as the next cartoon begins.

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It was an evening at the home of Pinkie Pie as the mare trots in, slumbering past the TV. She said, "Wow, I don't feel like watching TV or throwing parties today. I was working at Sugarcube Corner all day. I can do some quiet time right now." The mare sat down in an easy chair, taking a newspaper out, "Just me, my newspaper...and my radio!"

Pinkie takes a radio and put it on a table. She smiles while saying, "Nothing like relaxing in my own home after a hard day's work!"

Pinkie turns the radio on to some soothing music. The mare prepares to lie down...but then she heard a lot of commotion outside like Lyra and Sweetie Drops zooming past the house with the unicorn screaming loudly, Derpy making accidents, Rainbow is working on one of her tricks, and there are a lot of horn beeps.

Pinkie groans a bit as the commotion dies down, "Awww! I don't mind noises but when I want to relax for once, I gotta draw the line somewhere! I can't relax with all this noise going on! I gotta get away somehow."

Suddenly an announcer on the radio booms, "Hey you," Pinkie turns to the radio in confusion as if the announcer was talking to her.

"Wait, me?"

"Yeah you; Are you not in the mood for TV or throwing parties but want to relax after a hard day's work, but can't escape the noise of the big city?"

"Yep, that's me all right." Pinkie said with a nod.

"Then how about enjoying the peace of and quiet of...the countryside?" The radio announcer suggests, making Pinkie smile a bit. That sounds like fun.

"Oooh, the country! That's fun!"

"The musical melody of songbirds, fun in the sun, wind whispering through the trees, relaxing pastimes as well as that fresh mountain air! It's all the tranquil tones of the great outdoors!"

Pinkie smiles eagerly, imagining what the radio announcer just said what the country side is right now. The pink pony grins while saying, "Yeah, that is fun. A small vacation in the countryside; I would need it. I got a day off tomorrow anyway."

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The next day, Pinkie drove her clown car all the way to the country side. The mare is looking at a map that shows her where the campsite in the countryside is at.

"Now where is that campsite?" Pinkie mumbles a bit. Suddenly the wind blew the map right into her face, "AHHH! Get off, map; get off!"

Pinkie tries her best to get the map off her face. Unknown to her, she passed by a sign that said 'WARNING: Manticore is seen in the area. If spotted, DISTRACT HIM WITH music'. The mare fails to see it due to the map stuck in her face at this point.

Once Pinkie got the map off her face, she saw that she herself is at the campsite, causing her to hit the brakes, sending her bag that is on the top of her car right into the air. Surprisingly, it landed on the ground before opening up to reveal an easy chair, the table and the radio.

"Wowie; I definitely pick a great spot!" Pinkie exclaims happily as she got out of her chair. The mare bounces over to her easy chair and sat down. She held up an ear, smiling. "I can already hear the birds singing, the wind blowing in my ears...if Fluttershy was here, she would've loved it. Oh, perfect; Time to relax."

Pinkie hums as she begins to read the paper. The mare was so relax that she failed to see that her own Pinkie Sense is going off. That's because on top of a cliff nearby is a Manticore named Manny Roar. The creature saw Pinkie below and smirking. He is going to have dinner tonight!

Manny, taking the sneaky approach, snuck down the cliff and ducks into a bush. He then sneaks behind a rock then peeks out before sneaking behind a chair. Pinkie blinks a bit, looking puzzled.

"Weird, something isn't right." Pinkie said with a concerned frown. Manny, getting near the chair, prepares to go near the chair. "Ooo, I remember! I oughta turn the radio on!"

Pinkie turns the radio on to party music. Suddenly without warning, Manny begins to dance as if addicted to the party music. As the sign said before, the Manticore can be distracted as if hypnotized by music coming from anything!

"Nah, too party; I wanted to get away from that today." Pinkie said as she switches to another channel that plays Benny Goodcolt music. Unknown to her, the music is causing Manny to dance like him too, "Ugh, too classical."

Pinkie switches the channel. The music is now the country as Manny is dressed in a hillbilly outfit, playing a banjo until the strings broke. The pink pony, still not noticing, groans, "Awww, too hillbilly and would've work better with the Apple Family." The mare changes the channel, making it more tranquil. "Ahh, that's more like it."

As Pinkie goes back to reading her paper, she STILL fails to see Manny who is now in a ballerina costume dancing. The pink pony did notice something else that made her frown, saying, "I got the right music but something is still not right...oh, oh! I know!" Pinkie smiles as she takes out a set of headphones, "Headphones; Okie dokie lokie!"

Pinkie put the headphones over her own head before plugging it into the radio input, causing the music to be cut off and play through the headphones themselves. The pink pony relaxes as she begins to read the paper. However, at this time, Manny snaps out of his dance fever and goes right to Pinkie once more.

Just then, the wind blows away Pinkie's paper, making her frown while saying, "Meanie wind!" The pony bounces off and chases her paper. Manny jumps...and bit the chair, causing him to have a mouth full of stuffing and springs which he spits out in disgust. "Come back, newspaper!"

Pinkie prepares to pick up the paper but it got blown away. The pink pony kept on pursuing with Manny chasing her. She prepares to eat her as Pinkie bend down to pick up hew newspaper, still unaware of the Manticore's presence. But before she is eaten, the headphone cord reaches the height of it being pulled out of the input.

The music, now heard, causes Manny to start dancing as an Saddle Arabian. Pinkie took off her headphone and head back to her chair to read the paper. But the Earth pony trips on the card, causing her to scream and hit the tale, causing the radio to tune in to a different channel.

"Radio Suspense Theater," An announcer is heard on the radio.

"Oooh; It's my favorite suspense theater!" Pinkie giggles eagerly. "And I didn't know that radio serial stuff like this is still on the air! I gotta listen!"

"We last left our heroine at the mercy of a vicious, pony-eating Manticore!" Pinkie was so listening closely to the music that she still fails to see Manny, going back to normal, going near her viciously. "The monster slowly sneaks up behind her, step by step, stalking its helpless prey..."

Pinkie gulps as Manny slurps behind her, putting salt onto the pink pony. The announcer continues, "Our hapless, yet not very perceptive heroine was cheerfully unaware of the danger chasing her."

"Hapleless, what does it mean?" Pinkie asks a bit puzzled by the mentioned word from the radio.

"The merciless beast crouches down behind her, poising itself and is ready to attack."

"WHOA, LOOK OUT, IT'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU!" Pinkie yells so much that she fell down backwards. The mare looks up to see Manny, crouching down and poising itself while preparing to strike. The Manticore growls at her as she says, "Oh, hey Manny...who is preparing to eat me and with Fluttershy not around to..."

Manny pounce at Pinkie who tries to escapes. But when she plays a button on the radio, salsa dance music is heard, causing the Manticore to dance once more. The pony ends up getting caught in dancing, looking surprised. Then she realizes something.

"Oooh, I get it! Manny is calm down as long as I play music! I just gotta not touch the dial until someone arrives or I can escape." Pinkie said as she dances with Manny. Things appear to be doing well...until the music slows sown before it stops. The mare looks shocked as she asks, "Huh? What the hay?"

Pinkie checks her radio carefully before saying, "Huh. What do you know? The batteries must be dead." Suddenly the mare gasps as she saw Manny, back to normal, growling at her, "GAH! AND SO AM I! I hope that I brought along a spare battery!"

Pinkie checks herself quickly as Manny prepares to strike. It looks hopeless...until the mare smiles as she took out a spare battery from her mane. Good thing the pink pony took the precaution of hiding stuff in there in case of emergencies!

Pinkie opens the back of the music and toss the dead battery out. It hit Manny on the head but it made him growl furiously. The Earth pony prepares to put the battery in, but to her horror, it slips from her hoof and beginning to bounce off.

"Yikes! Come back, Mr. Battery! You're the only spare I had and I got Manny on my tail!" Pinkie screams as she chases after the battery with the mad Manny himself in hot pursuit.

The battery soon fell down a cliff making Pinkie dive down after the thing with Manny diving right after. The pink saw the Manticore coming in closely and dive down after the battery faster.

"Got it," Pinkie exclaims as she catches the batteries and put inside the radio. The music came back, this time to a show tune one that Manny started to dance to. The mare sighs, "Phew! My flank is saved!"

Well, almost. Pinkie remembered that she is still falling and look down to see herself getting closer to the ground. The mare lets go of the radio while screaming. She hit the ground, making a face plant to the ground with Manny hitting the same thing.

As Pinkie recovers, she saw that Manny is back to normal, causing him to growl furiously. The pink pony looks around frantically while exclaiming, "Yikes! Where's my radio?!" Pinkie randomly turns to the Manticore. "Uh, did you happen to see a radio around here somewhere?"

Manny blinks as he looks up, just in time for Pinkie's radio to fell right into his mouth and down into his stomach. As he hiccups, the voice from earlier is heard coming from his body, "...want to relax after a hard day's work, but can't escape the noise..."

Manny growls as he turns to Pinkie. Thinking quickly, the mare pushes a button inside his stomach, causing dance music to play. The Manticore begins to dance once more. That was a close one, now to get out of here!

"Okay, you know what? The countryside isn't for this pink pony!" Pinkie exclaims as she rushes away from Manny and grabs her stuff, stuffing them into her car. "I'm going back to Ponyville! At least there aren't any Manticores and all of the sudden I'm in a 'Save Myself from Death' party mood! Better leave before Mr. Battery dies in the radio again!"

Pinkie got into her car and drove off fast. Manny, still under the hypnotic trance of the music, kept on dancing while enjoying the music.

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Once the cartoon is over, the audience applaud for another great one.

During this time, Pinkie and Fluttershy spots a trail of bread crumbs that goes into the kitchen. The pink pony grins while saying, "Ah ha! The old bread crumb trick, I knew it would work!"

Inside the kitchen, Pound and Pumpkin was gobbling up ponymarine sandwiches happily...when Pinkie and Fluttershy came into the kitchen, making them yelp in concern.

"Ah ha," Pinkie exclaims as she points a hoof, making the foals yelp in worry as they duck behind the flour. Their foalsitter has discovered them! "The food thief...IS IN THERE!"

Of course, Pinkie was pointing to a mouse hold right next to Pound and Pumpkin Cake. The two foals sigh in relief. That was another close one. Fluttershy in concern ask, "Pinkie, you sure that the thief is in there; Looks small."

"Nothing is too small for any thief as well as Pinkamena Diane Pie, and I mean me, not the crazy double!"

Pinkie reaches a hoof through the mouse hole and feels around. Unknown to her, her hoof came out of another mouse hole on the other end of the room and it is heading to Pinkie's tail, tugging at it.

Fluttershy, noticing, spoke, "Uh, Pinkie..."

"Sssh, I got her, Fluttershy!" Pinkie exclaims eagerly. She unknowingly pulls at her tail, causing her to stumble as it was ripped right off. The pink pony blinks as she now saw her own tail in her own hoof after it came out of the mouse hole...then nods. "Wow! Whoever is the food thief got a pony tail my own size!"

Fluttershy sighs as she rolls her eyes at Pinkie being random as usual. Pound and Pumpkin just giggle at their foalsitter's crazy antics.

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Back on stage, Twilight smiles while saying, "All right, folks; we got a surprise guest act for you today! From the other Ponyville, here is the Ladybug Jamboree!"

Gen 3 Pinkie Pie pokes her head out and blows on a kazoo. The audience applauds as ponies in ladybug outfits came in, holding a microphone. They prepare their song for tonight...

But without warning, a trap door from below opens up, causing them to scream in alarm; Rainbow came out, flying with her life as she dodges lava that shoots out at her. Twilight looks surprised as the Pegasus pony, shaking her injuries off, flew right over to Smaug's table where the villain is waiting.

"Okay, here you go, Smaug, here is the Alicorn Amulet." Rainbow said to Smaug with a smile as she put the Alicorn Amulet onto the table, much to the surprise of the villain in question.

"Rainbow Dash," Twilight exclaims as she, Ben, Spike and Nyx rush over. The mare frowns as she turns to Rainbow while saying, "So this explains what you have been up to!"

"What's going on?" Pinkie asks as she and Fluttershy came over to see what the commotion is all about.

"As it turns out, Rainbow made a little deal with Smaug; Right Smaugie?"

"Don't call me that. Anyway, I promise Rainbow through hypnotism that I would help her back at you for calling her a ham, I told her to bring back the amulet." Smaug said to Twilight, rolling his eyes.

"Well, looks like you fail, fire breath!" Nyx exclaims to Smaug sternly. "Because we won't let you use the Alicorn Amulet for your sinister uses!"

"Oh yes, that would be a problem...except this isn't the amulet that I wanted!"

"What?" Rainbow asks a bit confused. Smaug didn't want the Alicorn Amulet? "But didn't you say..."

"While in some cases that I would've wanted the Alicorn Amulet, it's not this time." Smaug explains clearly to Rainbow with an annoyed sigh. "Perhaps I should've been more specific earlier. I said I wanted 'THE' amulet."

"What amulet is that?" Fluttershy ask Smaug puzzled.

"The Amulet that I was referring to is the one in Twilight's dressing one, the one that has her face on it."

"Oh, I think I know what you're talking about." Twilight said with a smile. "You wanted the amulet with the built in clock feature, telephone and picture of Celesta in her Trollestia picture, no offense to my teacher."

"Oooh, it got a clock and phone feature now?" Smaug ask Twilight excitedly upon hearing the first part. "Oh yes, that's what I wanted."

"Why would you want mommy's amulet from her dressing room?" Nyx ask Smaug puzzled.

"Oh, I collect items that involve pranks, mischief and stuff. Just because I'm a villain, doesn't mean that I don't have a hobby!"

"Awww, you didn't have to make a big scheme to get that amulet." Twilight assures Smaug with a chuckle. "If you really wanted it, you should've just asked and I would've given it to you."

"What," Rainbow ask Twilight in shock. The mare is willing to give away her dressing room amulet?

"Wait, you would really do that?" Smaug ask Rainbow in surprise and eagerness.

"Yeah, I was planning on getting a new one anyway and planned on giving the old one to the villain who causes the less trouble...and you won, causing less trouble...well, up to now anyway." Twilight said with a chuckle, informing Smaug that he will have the dressing room amulet for causing the less trouble (up to now), "Spike? Will you get the amulet please?'

"No problem, boss!" Spike exclaims as he rush off, coming back with the amulet before handing it to Twilight. "Okay, here you go, Twilight."

"All right, here you go, Smaug."

"Thank you!" Smaug laughs eagerly as he takes the amulet, laughing madly. "Yes, I got it, it's mine, it's mine; HA HA HA HA!"

"Quit laughing like that!" Fluttershy yelps in fear. Smaug wouldn't care less as he teleports away with the dressing room amulet in hoof. The villain has got what he wanted.

As Golden Heart and Pinkamena watch on and saw the outcome of Smaug wanting an amulet, the pink pony says "Well, seems like Smaug did not want the Alicorn Amulet but a funny looking one."

"Indeed little sister." Golden Heart said in agreement. At least Equestria is saved from the power driven Smaug...for now.

"But I wonder who keeps stealing the food?"

"Ok but let's just watch on."

Pinkamena nods as she and him go back to watching the show. Twilight, Ben, Fluttershy Spike and Nyx glares at Rainbow, who looks ashamed and guilt ridden. Yeah, she messed up in getting the right amulet for Smaug but the mare almost endangered Equestria by getting the alicorn one. Pinkie just looks a bit confused.

"Awww, sorry, Twilight, I don't know what came over me." Rainbow said while putting her head down in shame.

Spike points out, "You know. It was actually more Smaug's fault than Rainbow Dash's. If Smaug hadn't hypnotized Dash, she wouldn't have tried to get Smaug the amulet in the first place."

Twilight nods as she say, "Yeah, but try getting Smaug to admit his own fault at something. Besides, Smaug's an arch-villain, so he doesn't NEED a real reason to do something mean."

"Also, Rarity and Trixie are MUCH bigger hams than Dashie, despite your earlier joke to the contrary." Pinkie said with a giggle.

"Speaking of which; Sorry about my earlier joke, Rainbow.

"Apology accepted. Besides, as Spike pointed out, I would not have betrayed you in my right mind." Rainbow said with a nod.

"We already knew that, silly." Pinkie said with another giggle.

"Well, time for me to wrap tonight's show up." Twilight said. More trouble has been taken care of, time to end the show...but Pinkie has a thought.

"Say...I just thought of something. Smaug was intending on getting back at Twilight for calling Rainbow a ham if Dashie herself got her the dressing room amulet. But TWILIGHT gave Smaug the dressing room amulet instead. Does this mean that Smaug himself will get back at Dashie, just for messing up, instead?"

As if jinxing it, Smaug teleports back in while saying, "Say, not a bad idea; In fact, that is an extremely good one." The villain holds up his horn and fires a blast at Rainbow...but the mare took out a mirror, sending the attack back onto Smaug, causing him to get turned into a ham! The villain in rage yells, "What?! This wasn't in the actual episode!"

"Hey, I am not going to become the butt of someone's joke tonight!" Rainbow remarks with a satisfied smile, "Even if it did happen to Donald in the actual episode.

"Well well, Smaug, looks like instead of Rainbow being a big ham, you are one instead!" Twilight jokes as she, Ben, Nyx and Spike chuckles at the villain looking around helplessly.

"Shut up, shut up; shut up!" Smaug scowls at the ponies angrily and annoyed.

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Pinkamena laughs a little, seeing what has happened.

Pinkamena giggles, "So funny looks like Rainbow did not be the ham but Smaug has become the ham."

"Indeed little sister and we might know who the food thief is." Golden Heart said thoughtfully.

"Yep."

They both watch on waiting for the food thief to be known. Twilight and Ben glances at the transformed ham Smaug, the former ask, "So what do we do with Smaug? Perhaps we should punish him for hypnotizing Rainbow in the first place. Yeah, I gave him the amulet but he still needs to be punished."

"No worries, I got an idea." Ben said with a smile then smiles. "Hey! Free ham dinner!"

Sure enough, Pound and Pumpkin Cake smiles hungrily, both foals are carrying fork and knives. As they charge/flew at the Ham-Smaug, they exclaim, "Yummy!" This causes the villain to scream in terror as he runs off as fast as his new body can give him, Pound and Pumpkin chases after him.

"Well, this solves our missing good problem."

"Wait, we had a missing good problem?" Twilight ask Ben in confusion. "How come no pony told me before?"

The ponies saw Pinkie chasing the Cake Twins yelling angrily, "I should've known that it was you two naughty foals!"

Ben smiles as he nuzzles Twilight while saying, "Keep hosting, that's what you're best at right now."

Twilight nod before she teleports back to the spotlight onstage. The mare said, "All right, that's all for now. It's time to say goodby..." The mare was interrupted as the Ham-Smaug and the Cake Twins zoom past here. "Okay, now it's time to say good..."

"Excuse me, Twilight!" Pinkie exclaims as she gallops past Twilight, interrupting her, causing the mare to frown.

"All right, now it's time..." Twilight was interrupted as the Rabbitchu zips past the mare, causing her to groan. "Oh, never mind! Just take us out of here, Spike!"

Spike appears, saying, "Thanks, Twilight! Long term storage facilities for the House of Pony have been provided by..."

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"...the South Maremerica Tropical Temple! When you need safe storage, think the South Maremarica Tropical Temple!"

We see a picture of the temple from 'Daring Do and the Quest of the Sapphire Stone' along with black and white drawings of money. We see a map of South Maremerica with a question mark on it.

"Our inconvenient location of course can't be found on any map!"

We see the temple surrounded by barb wire.

"Yes sir, at the South Maremerica Tropical Temple, your prized possessions is guaranteed to be safe from everyone!" Spike now said in a low voice, "Possessions not safe from Daring Do."

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Twilight smiles as she finishes the show up, "All right, good night, everypony! See you real soon!"

Author's Notes:

And another episode done! In the next one, 'Rainbow's Sweetie Drops Prank', after Twilight plays a prank on Rainbow on April Foals, Diamond Tiara manipulated the cyan Pegasus pony to do the ultimate prank (in hopes that it will cause the club to be shut down) which involves Sweetie Drops. Not much to say but expect them somehow. Read, review and suggest.

Rainbow stealing the Sapphire Stone is the same thing that Daring Do did in the episode 'Read It and Weep'.

Wind Whistler (Gen 1) and Fizzy is from the first series of My Little Pony. Tadaka is an OC father of Spike made by Billy Arratoon.

Manny Roar is indeed the name of the Manticore in the second episode of the actual show.

The Ladybug Jamboree came from the Gen 3 series of My Little Pony.