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Rainbow Rescued is the fifth episode of the alternate seventh season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the one hundred forty-eighth overall.

After Fluttershy saves Rainbow Dash’s life from a Cragadile, Rainbow feels that her ego is in jeopardy and tells everypony that she saved Fluttershy.

Summary
After Fluttershy picks up some berries from a bus, she thanks Rainbow Dash for going with her through Everfree Forest to claim the berries, since it’s the only place in Equestria to find them. Rainbow Dash then begins to boast on how of a protective and loyal friend she is, and that she will always be there for her friends in need, which makes Fluttershy smile and tease. After a bonding moment between the two, they both hear a strange sound coming from the water, and after the sudden suspense, a Cragadile pops out of water and roars at the duo. Fluttershy cowards in fear, but Rainbow Dash suddenly stands up to the cragadile and starts to fight it.

After being so cocky while fighting the cragadile, the cragadile uses it’s breath to knock Rainbow Dash unconscious. Fluttershy tries to wake Rainbow Dash up, but fails to do so. Before the crag could take a bite out of Rainbow, Fluttershy grabs her and starts to fly away as fast as she could, and the crag begins to chase them. Fluttershy claims to have never flown so fast in her life. During the flight, however, Rainbow Dash suddenly wakes up but is unable to move the rest of her body. Unknowingly, Rainbow Dash keeps bumping into branches and rocks while Fluttershy is flying too low, but Rainbow claims not to feel a thing with her body paralyzed. After losing the crag and escaping Everfree, Fluttershy releases Rainbow and lies on the ground to catch her breath. As Rainbow is able to move the upper half of her body, she thanks Fluttershy for saving her life, but suddenly her excitement turns into depression. As Fluttershy gets excited for saving her best friend’s life, Rainbow starts to fear for her ego. She thinks if Ponyville found out that if Fluttershy saved her life, her town hero status would be in jeopardy, and ponies would no longer respect her. Fluttershy also fears that if ponies found out that she saved Rainbow, ponies would pay more attention to her, and she doesn’t want that. Rainbow decides to make a deal with her, and suggests that they tell Ponyville that Rainbow was the one who saved Fluttershy from the crag, and therefore all the attention will be at Rainbow.

Fluttershy eventually agrees just before their friends show up, feeling concerned after hearing screaming coming from Everfree. Fluttershy and Rainbow both explain the scenario by telling the truth at first, but then lying about the climax, in which their friends bought it. Afterwards, Fluttershy returns home feeding her animals, but overhears some school-aged ponies playing with their dolls, reenacting the story of how Rainbow Dash rescued Fluttershy from a cragadile. Fluttershy starts to feel uncomfortable witnessing that, so she decides to fly off into town, but gets stopped by Cloud Kicker and Merry May along the way, saying they feel envious of Fluttershy of witnessing a cragadile and living to tell the tale. Fluttershy then went to see what all the commotion was over at Sugarcube Corner, and she sees Rainbow Dash telling everypony the story of how she saved Fluttershy from a cragadile, but adding into the story of how Fluttershy gave Rainbow the confidence to best the cragadile in combat while saving her. When the crowd notices Fluttershy, they all give praise to her for giving Rainbow the confidence she needed. This made Fluttershy feels very uncomfortable. While trying to talk to Rainbow, however, she keeps getting cut off by Rainbow adding in more to the story, and Pinkie Pie offering free cupcakes to everypony.

Fluttershy decides to give up and tries to sneak away, but gets spotted by Twilight Sparkle who asks her why she’s leaving. Fluttershy tells her that the crowd is giving her too much attention. As everypony asks Rainbow Dash questions about the event, Twilight eventually asks if anything she’s saying is true, which makes Rainbow a little nervous, but she gets back at her saying that she doesn’t have any proof of it not being true. Twilight starts to get suspicious over the whole ordeal.

As Fluttershy begins to shop at the market, the lettuce merchant begins to tease Fluttershy over the crag situation. Rainbow witnesses it, and tells Fluttershy not to let it bother her, and then she realizes that Fluttershy isn’t herself. Fluttershy doesn’t tell Rainbow what’s bothering her, but Rainbow guesses it anyway and starts to feel bad. Rainbow then explains that the attention wasn’t meant to happen, but she wanted to give Fluttershy a little bit of support in her fake story because she didn’t think it was right for Fluttershy to just be the helpless victim. Rainbow then promises to never bring the story up again to anypony ever again, so the whole subject can just be dropped, and Fluttershy agrees. However, much to their disappointed, a journalist by the name of Blue Print shows up to interview Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy about their encounter with their the cragadile. Fluttershy starts to coware in stress, and Rainbow keeps trying to tell Blue Print that the subject is dropped, but Blue Print kept asking them questions about their encounter. Rainbow and Fluttershy both hesitantly start to answer Blue Print’s questions, hoping that would make him leave faster, but Blue Print keeps requesting more detail in their answers, and after Fluttershy begins to freak out, Rainbow confesses that the story isn’t true, and that Fluttershy was the one that saved Rainbow Dash’s life. All of the Ponyville citizens overheard the confession, and Rainbow Dash explains that she feared for her ego, which is why she made up the story, and now she doesn’t care about her ego anymore because it doesn’t replace the fact that Fluttershy is her hero. Twilight and her friends felt proud of Rainbow for telling the truth, and say that she will always be a hero to them, and that heroes sometimes need saving too. After a friendship lesson is learned, Rainbow tries to get a hoof-bump from Fluttershy, but she claims to have never done a hoof-bump before, and that she’s afraid of being hit in the face; but ironically, it was Fluttershy who accidently hits Rainbow in the muzzle, and that accident became Blue Print’s new topic.

Credits

 * Ashleigh Ball as Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Cloud Kicker
 * Andrea Libman as Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Liza Doolots
 * Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle
 * Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity, Aura
 * Cathy Weseluck as Spike, Mayor Mare, Merry May
 * Terry Klassen as Blue Print, Merchant

Quotes

 * Rainbow Dash: Of course I’ll always be there to help my friends out in their time of need! Ponies always feel safe around me, and I’m super loyal too, just like my element! Nopony could beat that kind of awesomeness!
 * Fluttershy: (giggles) I know you will! I mean, it’s not like I can protect you from any harm.
 * Rainbow Dash: Whoa, is that a joke, or are you being scenere?
 * ’’’Fluttershy:’’’ Hmm… both, maybe?


 * Rainbow Dash: Luck? Ha! There’s no such thing as luck! Just courage and awesomeness!
 * Fluttershy: Well… um… courage and awesomeness is your department. I have just… patheticness and cowardness.
 * Rainbow Dash: Well, hey, at least you’re not a square!


 * Rainbow Dash: Don’t get too cocky, Fluttershy. I saved your life many times before. Don’t forget that.
 * Fluttershy: Oh good, I didn’t want you to owe me a life debt or anything. Remember what happened last time?


 * Fluttershy: Oh, but… that would be lying.
 * Rainbow Dash: Uh, we’re Elements of Loyalty and Kindness, Fluttershy. Applejack’s honesty; totally different thing.


 * Pinkie Pie: Did you two run into spooky monsters while in there and get eaten by them?
 * Applejack: Uh, Pinkie, how can they get eaten if they’re right here?
 * Pinkie Pie: They got digested, duh!


 * Cloud Kicker: Hey, Merry May? Did anypony ever tell you we look alike?


 * Pinkie Pie: To celebrate her, cupcakes are on the house!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Mmm! Thanks, Pinkie Pie!
 * Spike: Are you sure the Cakes would allow you to do this?
 * Pinkie Pie: (giggles) I have no idea!


 * Merchant: Hope you don’t meet any crags on the way home!


 * Blue Print: Of course we are, Fluttershy!
 * Rainbow Dash: I’m Rainbow Dash.
 * Blue Print: Really? Oh, beg your pardon. All I got was your names. My sources didn’t say who was who. I mean ‘Rainbow Dash’ and ‘Fluttershy’? Those names don’t resemble you two at all.


 * Rainbow Dash: No amount of popularity and praise would make-up the fact that you are my hero, Fluttershy!