My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Better Together (Season 3)
Chapter 19: “Naked Sic Skateboard”
Previous Chapter Next ChapterRainbow Dash was on skateboard park during the day completely barefooted and naked now that she's has no longer her remaining clothes left. She's only wearing knee/elbow pads and a purple helmet marked by multicolored lightning bolts to match the ones on her previously pants, she jumps her board onto a rail, rides it sideways from one end to the other, her light blue bare breasts are boucing so much each rails Rainbow jumps, and hops off to roll through a few more turns and jumps. A handstand at the top rail of a half-pipe—one hand on the rail, the other on the board—and she cruises down to jump clear and catch the rig under one arm. The deck bears a design of a rainbow issuing from a cloud at the nose. Her words are directed toward the camera, marking this as an online video.
“Hey, everyone! I’m super-stoked because today is the day! This skateboard trick is gonna blow your mind!” Naked Rainbow Dash says energetic.
Each of these last three words is delivered from a different camera angle, the last in a zoom in from overhead with one blue index finger pointed emphatically toward the lens. From here, cut to her riding up one quarter-pipe, flipping over the rail at its top, and riding down an adjacent one.
Naked Rainbow voices over. “It’s been a super-intense four weeks of training. Nothing but grinding, claw stretches, shredding—” Close-up of each activity as she names it. “Grinding”: riding with the tail of her board tilted back to scrape the ground and throw off sparks. “Claw stretches”: with fingers interlaced and palms facing away from her naked body, she stretches her arms forward to pop and loosen the joints. “Shredding”: she rides while squatting down to let one set of fingertips graze the concrete and the breasts bounces more and more, up and down. Finally the camera cuts to a close-up. “—and shredded lettuce!” She holds up a fistful of said produce, bites down, and chomps noisily. The next shot is of a group of younger skaters murmuring excitedly among themselves.
“Some say it couldn’t be done—” She blurs into view among them, drawing on the power of her pendant and no longer carrying her board or the remains of the lettuce. “—but get ready, ’cause today you’re going to witness…the first-ever Tortoise Kicker Ramp Ollie!”
On the end of this, she points off to one side and the camera pans quickly in that direction to stop on Tank at the top of a ramp. He inches up to the edge, having been kitted out with his own board and safety gear, and cringes away from it in a panicked sweat upon getting an eyeful of the drop.
“Time to bust out of that shell, Tank.”
Finding his owner’s palm extended toward him, he touches the sole of one stumpy foot to it in a slow-motion high five and smiles at the encouragement. In a blink, Rainbow has whisked back toward the spectators.
“Let’s do this!” A calm nod from the tortoise; she addresses the group. “Wait ’til you guys see this!”
Pan quickly back to Tank, who raises a foot from his deck. The young skaters gasp excitedly…he begins to push off…two direct worried looks at each other, then toward him…Naked Rainbow Dash grins from ear to ear, eyes shining as a giddy little squeal finds its way out…sweat dribbles down the wizened green face…two skaters clutch fearfully at each other…and finally, in extreme close-up, gravity pulls Tank and the board over the edge. Almost at the same moment, the camera zooms out quickly to reveal that this ramp stands only up to about Rainbow’s bare waist. Tank goes airborne for a moment off the raised lip at the lower end, then plunks back onto solid ground and almost immediately comes to a stop. There follows a long, stunned silence, broken by the stripe-haired daredevil.
“Awesome!” Cheers from the others; she picks Tank up. “Don’t worry. I’ll add some sick special effects later.”
Her wink is followed by a brief flash of white and blip of sound, which give way to an extreme close-up of Tank lifting his head. The wrinkled features are set in stern concentration and thrown into relief by the sunlight glinting off his helmet. Next is a shot of him launching into the trick, the camera aimed at him from the ramp’s lower end. The descent is then seen from two additional angles, the second of which frames him rolling directly toward the camera. Fade to black, then snap immediately to a close-up of his wheels arcing through the air in slow motion, framed by glitter and an icon of a trailing fireball. This is followed by a normal-speed close-up of Tank and his board being held up by Rainbow’s hands and raised/dipped to simulate a dramatic trajectory—“sick special effects” on no budget, perhaps—and finally the takeoff and ending jump are seen again. Slow motion on the latter, one green foot lifted in triumph as icons fill the surrounding air—fireballs, stars, a thumbs-up, a dragon’s head breathing fire—then “iris out” to black, centered on his face.