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[Early in the day, people throughout the village might spot a suspicious rainbow streak jetting upwards into the sky. Higher and higher and higher she flies... Until, suddenly, that rainbow streak is rapidly plummeting down, faster and faster until there's a resounding CRASH!

Oh, was that your house she bumped into? Maybe your garden? Business? Whatever the case, there will be a few of these ridiculous crashes until Rainbow, being the stubborn pegasus that she is, moves onto plan B.

A bit later, something a little strange will appear... a cloud floating around the village. Now, seeing clouds in the sky isn't all that abnormal. Just another part of everyday weather.

But what about clouds that float ridiculously close to rooftops? Clouds that hover suspiciously over buildings, people, and are isolated from the others? Tiny clouds that, if one looks close enough, they may catch a bit of a rainbow fringe, sometimes a pair of binoculars, over the edge of the fluffy white stuff.

That's right. This cloud is spying on you strange people. ...Or whatever's up in the cloud, anyway.

Feel free to witness either event-- Dash's crash landings from the lovely barrier or her recon mission.]

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I'll do more than prove it!

[And Kazooie leaps off the rooftop, splaying her wings and Gliding along. Dash's clouds aren't the only clouds around, and though Kazooie can't get to the higher clouds without outright Flying, she's close enough to be able to hit a lower one.

... Which she's going to pseudo-Beak Bomb - not quite a real Beak Bomb, because it doesn't have the weight of anybody behind it, but it is enough to take out a noticeable chunk of cloud... cloudiness.]

Ha! [Yes, Kazooie, your ability to disperse water and ice crystals with your face is beyond compare.]

[...well, she actually did it. Sorta. Dash still won't admit it, though!]

So you took out a chunk. That's nothing!

[Dash is gonna totally use her wings to her advantage and swoop up to kick another cloud out completely. Aw yeah.

And once that's done, she'll land on one of the rooftops.]

[Not one to be easily outdone, Kazooie doubles back on herself, and with some effort, performs a well-timed midair Wing Whack. Suddenly, she's a spinning dervish of red feathers, and the cloud is officially a goner.

Still spinning, she gracefully (well, as gracefully as a spinning cartoon can be...) lands on the rooftop only a foot or so from Dash.]

You were saying?

[Well, touche. Maybe she's not just all talk.]

Fine. But cloud clearing's filly's play. Can you do this?

[She hops up onto a cloud and gives it a good stomp. Now there's some rain pouring down.]

[... Kazooie just gawks. That's just unfair.]

How the heck do you expect me to do that? I don't have those... hoof things. [Since hooves clearly summon rain.]

... I could make it rain if I had my buddy Mumbo around though! He did that back in Cloud Cuckooland.

[Snort.]

Hooves aren't what makes it rain. If they were, then anypony could do it, not just pegasi.

And besides, having a friend do it doesn't count.

So what's special about you that makes you do it, huh? Magic stuff?

... 'Cause Mumbo used magic. He's a shaman! [Like Rainbow Dash knows or cares, Kazooie...]

I bet I could do it if I could do that Luceti magic-thing...

Nope, it's just a pegasus thing.

[So, hah.]

Only unicorns use magic.

Here in this place, everybody can learn magic. Daisy told me so! [And Daisy is apparently an all-knowing figure now.] I can't figure out how to make it work though. She says you gotta listen, but I hear nothing! Not even background music.

[She was going to comment on that magic, bit, but uh...]

Background music?

[Oh, this is another one of those not-game-savvy types.]

... You know, the music that just... plays in a place and changes when you go somewhere else?

It's everywhere! Or at least, it's supposed to be, but Luceti doesn't have any. Whoever heard of a game without background music?!

A game? Who said this place was a game?

[Kazooie, your logic is weird.]

But I think I know what you mean. It sounds kinda like what happens when Pinkie randomly starts singing.

Well, what the heck else would it be? It's got all the stuff to be a game! And I've never been... outside the game before.

[She shrugs a bit.] Who's this Pinkie? Some friend of yours from wherever you come from?

Must be some game, if you've been playing it your whole life.

[What are these things you call video games? She's certainly never heard of them.]

Yep! She's a bit of a screwball sometimes, but nopony can throw a party like Pinkie Pie.

You'd be lucky if your friend showed up. I've been waiting for Banjo and his dumb furry butt hasn't appeared for the whole time I've been here!

[Two months. Two... honestly lonely months. It's not something Kazooie likes to admit...

... Peach has sort of filled the void, but it's not the same.]

He really needs to get a move on and show up already! Or these dumb Malnosso-guys have to bring him in!

I heard Twilight and Rarity were here before, so they probably could come back.

[She's just bummed that she missed them, really. It's weird being the only pony in town.]

Those Malnosso guys sound like real jerks, anyway. If they were here right now, I'd show 'em a thing or two!

Oh yeah - people leave or something. I've never seen that happen yet. [... And soon she will. Sob.]

They sure do! I need to introduce 'em to the business end of a Grenade Egg!

... there's gotta be some way to get to 'em...

Grenade Egg? That does sound pretty dangerous.

[Even if the idea of exploding eggs is pretty serious.]

Yeah, but some guy said they won't work on the barrier. I haven't gone out to it yet to check, but I bet there's some way to get past it!

[She refuses to believe that there is any chance of her failing. Because believing that requires surrender... and heroes never surrender.]

I'll just look for a hole or something to send a Clockwork Kazooie bomb through!

Bombs, too? Man, for a bird, you're packing some serious heat.

[A beat, as she glances up at the sky.]

I guess I could do a quick fly-around and see if there's any holes.

It's too bad there aren't any Flight Pads around or I could just Beak Bomb over to that stupid barrier and see myself!

[That's another thing on the list of Stuff Kazooie has to Bug the Malnosso About.

... Of course, Kazooie is hoping this isn't like the invisible walls of a stage.]

Wait, you need pads to fly?

[But she's got wings! Wouldn't that work?]

Well... I can Glide without 'em, but it's not quite the same thing. I can't go up that way.

[One of those silly limitations of a video game character's. Like fences that they should presumably be able to break but can only do so at a certain specific location with a specific move...]

But you've got wings! Shouldn't that work?

[She's not trying to be rude, honest! Just confused... very confused.]

[She shrugs, flicking one of those aforementioned wings.] Guess I'm just designed that way.

[... It is a pretty frustrating flaw. ~~Though Kazooie would hate it even more if she was realistic. She'd never even get off the ground.~~]

Though I would like to be able to take off anywhere! It's really annoying having to find a Flight Pad all the time!

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