Talk:Tanks for the Memories/@comment-10390252-20150427103511

FWIW, what no-one has shown (and, the more I think about it, this is a better and better objection) is why anypony should think Rainbow Dash was involved in the Nuclear Weatherbomb. All that we see, from the rest of the Six's perspective, is that the factory malfunctions and spits out a huge chunk o'winter, which then impacts Ponyville and instantly changes the season. Rainbow is found, stunned, disoriented and apparently injured in the mess so it's safe to conclude that she was there when it happend. However, if she doesn't tell anypony that she was sabotaging the snowmakers, the most that Cloudsdale's authorities could say is that some idiot was playing around with the equipment and that, fortunately, no lives were lost.

Does that mean that Rainbow Dash gets off scot free? No, because she failed in her objectives and is going to have to be without Tank for three or four months and, from that last reel, it's going to be one of the more painful experiences of her life.

Interesting world-building note: Tank was getting drowsy even before the pegasi started rolling out winter. That suggests that Equestria has natural seasons and that the ponies just manage and accelerate the transitions to minimise disruption to their everyday lives.