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Hurricane Fluttershy

Rainbow Dash: Calling all Pegasus ponies! Meeting tonight!

Flitter: [reading] "Mandatory meeting for all Ponyville Pegasi."

Rainbow Dash: Library, tonight. Be cool or be mule. No offense.

Mule: None taken.

Rainbow Dash: All right, go on in, find a seat. [groan] You too, Fluttershy. Come on, let's go.

[film projector running]

[old music begins playing]

Film announcer: Every living thing depends on the life-giving nourishment of rainwater, and it is up to Cloudsdale to provide rain-filled clouds to every corner of Equestria. But how, one pony might ask, does Cloudsdale gather all this extra water? Tornado power! That's right, Pegasi-driven tornado power. A team of Pegasi combine their wing power to create a jumbo tornado, powerful enough to pull water out of the local reservoir and funnel it all the way up to Cloudsdale. Remember, Pegasi, your jumbo tornado must reach a minimum of eight hundred wing power to lift that water up to Cloudsdale. So, the next time you're wondering "Where does all that extra rainwater come from?", just remem–

[music and voice suddenly halt]

Pegasi: [confused chatter]

Spike: Uh... intermission?

Rainbow Dash: So, here's the scoop. Cloudsdale has chosen our own highland reservoir as a source of the rainwater they need for all of Equestria. And you know what that means. It means it's up to Ponyville's Pegasi to bring that water up to Cloudsdale.

Pegasi: [excited chatter]

Rainbow Dash: Not only that, but Spitfire, captain of the Wonderbolts, will be here to oversee the water transfer and record our top tornado windspeed. Now last year, Fillydelphia broke the windspeed record with a top speed of nine hundred and ten wing power. But I think we can do better. I think we can get a top speed over a thousand!

Pegasi: [excited chatter]

Rainbow Dash: ...if each and every pony trains, and trains hard to get their wing power numbers up.

Thunderlane: [coughing]

Rainbow Dash: That coughing better be from a popcorn kernel, Thunderlane. Nopony's getting sick on my watch. So, are we gonna train hard?

Pegasi: Yeah!

Rainbow Dash: Are we gonna be strong?

Pegasi: Yeah!

Rainbow Dash: Are we gonna be fast?

Pegasi: Yeah!

Rainbow Dash: Record-smashing fast?

Bulk Biceps: YEAH!

Rainbow Dash: Who's with me?

Pegasi: Woo-hoo! [cheering]

Rainbow Dash: Fluttershy! Stretch those glutes, Flitter! Nice flexibility, Cloud Chaser. A... little too much flexibility, Blossomforth. Uh, somepony give Blossomforth a hoof. Let's see some faster trotting, Thunderlane! Good pace, Silverspeed! [blows whistle] Keep it up! We're gonna need all the wing power we can get to break that record!

Bulk Biceps: YEAH! [snorts]

Rainbow Dash: Good work, everypony! [under her breath] Everypony except Fluttershy. [knocking] Fluttershy? I know you're in there! You're avoiding tornado duty and I want to know why! Fluttershy, open–

Fluttershy: Achoo. Hi, Rainbow Dash. [coughs weakly]

Rainbow Dash: Fluttershy, what happened to you?

Fluttershy: Oh, I [sniffs] I think I have [coughs weakly] the pony pox. I'm sorry. I really, really wanted to come to training day today [coughs weakly], but this pony pox has really knocked me for a loop. Achoo. [coughs weakly]