Pony Express: Friendship is Cultural Exchange! Wednesday, period 1

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"Hihihi everypony!" Pinkie greeted as the students arrived, running in circles around them like a sheepdog trying to gather a herd together. "No time for lengthy lectures today! Applejack is all set waiting for us on the other side of the portal to have a PIE EATING CONTEST!!!!!!"

Anyone who tried to take that in a dirty way would get blinked at aggressively until they changed the subject.

"C'mon c'mon c'mon let's go those pies aren't gonna stay fresh forever!" Pinkie was going to start pushing students into the portal if they didn't get a move on here. THERE WAS PIE TO EAT, PEOPLE. "We were going to visit Dodge Junction today but then I mentioned that we'd already seen Appleloosa but no swamps at all and Applejack said she had a big delivery going out and it was practically perf --" Pinkie cut off abruptly mid-manic-rant as she stepped through the portal with the last student and nearly walked face first into a flame geyser. "What the HEY?!!!" Pinkie danced in place, spinning to face each new geyser that erupted from the swampy ground all around the small clearing where the portal had let the students out. The portal which had vanished the moment Pinkie's butt cleared the way. "This is the wrong spot!"

Portalocity was going to get a stern talking to from Pinkie when they got back!

"Um, okay." Pinkie turned in place. "Okay, okay. Applejack warned me about this. We just have to get past the fire geysers and then the town is just over the hill. So long as we don't run into --"

"Well now," a voice hissed. "What treat do we have here?" A green snake with large fangs peered out of a bush on the edge of a clearing.

"Well?" a deep growl asked. "Don't leave us in suspense, sister! What is it?"

The snake narrowed her eyes and smirked. "Dinner."

"-- the chimera," Pinkie finished. "Anypony bring along any ricotta?"

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Re: Conquer the chimera!

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"Maybe we can lure it into a flame spurt?" Kathy suggested to Hanna in an undertone. "If it gets caught in one without thinking?"

Re: Conquer the chimera!

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Hanna stopped for a second to catch her breath, eyes still on the chimera, and said, "Nearest one is at three o'clock. Twenty feet. Could work?"

Re: Conquer the chimera!

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"I can probably outrun it, draw it out over here?" Kathy suggested. "Then vanish, let it catch sight of you and charge right through here where the fire can get it?"

Re: Conquer the chimera!

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Hanna closed her eyes a moment, visualizing that, then nodded sharply. "I'll get behind a rock, ready to jump out and distract it in this direction." She huffed a breath. "Ready when you are."

Re: Conquer the chimera!

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Kathy nodded and beelining for the creature. Before she got within striking distance of any of its heads, however, she bounced, leaping up and over in a somersault and landing on the chimera's far side.

She kicked it, just to make sure that it was paying attention to her. "Hey!" she yelled at it. "We're people! Not for eating! No devouring any species that are capable of calculus!"

And then she started running, darting around its hindquarters (and dodging the snake) to book it back to Hanna.

Re: Conquer the chimera!

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Hanna was crouched down as far as she could go, and when the moment was right, she jumped up, shouting at the chimera's face in German, then Russian, then Japanese.

"//You are a disgrace to monsters everywhere and you run like you're dancing!//" she called, then ran forward, waiting for the flame spout.

In 3, 2--

Re: Conquer the chimera!

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1!

The fire gouted up, catching the chimera right in its hircine midsection. All the heads howled in pain and several sparks caught the mane. "No dinner is worth this!" the lion's head roared. "Run away!"

"...I have no idea what ricotta was supposed to do," Kathy said, coming to stand next to Hanna to properly watch the fleeing creature. "But fire seemed to work pretty well."

Re: Conquer the chimera!

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Hanna sneezed. Her nose twitched. "Do you smell Gouda?" she wondered, then shook her head. She beamed at Kathy. "Teamwork."

Re: Conquer the chimera!

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Kathy held out her hand to shake Hanna's. "Teamwork."