Rainbow Dash: Wait, why should we follow you anywhere? Who are you?
Glue: I'm just a simple stallion, who drives a common wagon.
Rainbow Dash: You really don't hear yourself, do you?
Glue: There's been a break in at the local museum. The curator thinks you can help track down the hoodlum. My job is to escort you there...
Rainbow Dash: ...and keep it "mum"?
Glue: Right on, pawn.
Rainbow Dash: Ugh, now you've got me finishing your rhymes.
Rainbow Dash: A break in, you say?
Glue: Yes, I must confess.
Rainbow Dash: With bad guys to beat up?
Glue: Probably. It’s not a comedy.
Rainbow Dash: Well why didn't you say so? Sign us up! We are the best detectives in all the world!
Applejack: That might be a stretch.
Rainbow Dash: We are fierce! We can track down those criminals and bring them to justice!
Rarity: Oh my.
Fluttershy: By "justice" you mean...?
Rainbow Dash: We pound them into the dirt!
Applejack: "Pound" them? Rainbow, aren't you getting a bit ahead of yourself and draggin' us with you?
Rainbow Dash: Trust me, it's about 20% cooler accepting a quest this way.
Guest Authors' Note: "This pony might not have a pedigree, but if he has his say, he's going to stay that way, 'cause high-browed ponies lose their vanities, and a common pony is what he'll be. He's not quite interested in being 20% cooler.
The limerick scans better they say
If you end it with the word of today
The rhyme would be a hit
As the syllables all fit
But I do this for free not for pay.
For some reason, my mind is going: The break-in has yet to happen -- the trash pony (I don't know what he did in Pony Life, but that bilious green makes think of a trash hauler) intends to use the Mane 6 as a distraction while he makes off with some artifact...
Reminds me of a pony RPG I used to play in. One player played Zecora one session but, to make things easier on himself, she didn't rhyme every word. BUT to spice things up, every time he managed to rhyme, he got a story point.
We very quickly started dunking on him by also rhyming our dialogue, especially when he couldn't think of a couplet.
Guest Authors' Note: "This pony might not have a pedigree, but if he has his say, he's going to stay that way, 'cause high-browed ponies lose their vanities, and a common pony is what he'll be. He's not quite interested in being 20% cooler.
Nod to John Conlee's song "Common Man"."