My Little Pony Equestria Girls: The Moons of Canterlot High 3

Chapter 1

In the home of local CHS photographer known as Photo Finish, which also doubled as a studio for her many projects, the picture taker extraordinaire was currently seated at her desk with a pencil in her hand, a piece of paper in front of her and a large pile of other pieces of paper, all rolled up in ball in the trash. She appeared to be thinking but didn't see to be getting many ideas.

Eventually she groaned in frustration, crumpled up the paper in front of her and tossed it over her shoulder.

"This is a travesty!" Photo Finish exclaimed, dramatically. "I need a great, great for my next wunderbar project and yet… every idea I come up with becomes doodoo!"

The Drama stood up from her desk and began to pace back and forth in the middle of the room.

"I need something very new this time around… something big! Something bold! Something like…" she started to say before she noticed a displaced calendar near her feet. She picked it up and quickly came up with an idea. "That's it! I shall create the most sexy and wunderbar anyone has ever seen! And once I show it to the publishers of Playboy Magazine, my legacy will be remembered for all of time!"

Photo Finish sat down at her computer and began typing furiously, her mind afire with inspiration. A nude photo calendar was bound to help her make a name for herself as a photographer

"Making such a fabulous piece of art should be easy enough" she thought. "With Pixel Pizzaz and Violet Blurr by my side, I will get this done in a matter of days."

Photo Finish stopped typing and moved her mouse over to the 'Print' icon on her desktop. Her printer came to life and spat out a piece of paper. She pulled the page out of her printer, still, quite literally 'Hot off the Press'

"That just leaves the matter of finding the perfect models for the calendar…" she thought looking at the flyer she had just printed. She then glanced at a picture of six girls from CHS AKA The Mooning Girls which was what they were being called following the incident at Everfree High and she was one the lucky ones that got a shot of them. She smiled at the picture. "And I believe I know just who it should be. I just need to make some copies first, and then… I will go!"

She quickly zipped off and got to work on creating more, while the gears in her mind continued to turn as she thought of ideas for what her future models will be going…

A few days later…

Speaking of 'The Mooning Girls', the gang of big butted girls were currently gathered in front of the Wondercolt statue, which was still being repaired following the Friendship Games, and were right in the middle of putting all the money they had in a pile.

"I got a dollar." Fluttershy said, placing her money down.

"I got two." Sunset added, while also adding her own money to the pike.

"I however have three dollars!" Rarity boasted while she placed her money.

Applejack searched her pocket. "I got…" she began before pulling out some change. "A quarter…"

"I got two quarters!" Pinkie piped up, excited as he held them out.

"I got…" Rainbow started to say before taking out a dusty clump out. "Lint…"

The girls looked at the pile of change they had collected, there was barely enough for snacks at the Cake's Cafe.

"This isn't going well…" Sunset sighed. "Maybe we should forget this whole beach vacation idea…"

"Forget our vacation?" Rarity gasped in shock. "Never! I spent all that time making swimsuits for us all, and it would be a travesty if we didn't get a chance to wear them."

"Well…" Fluttershy piped up. "We could always wear them to the pool"

"Aw, c'mon guys…" Pinkie whined. "Our parents agreed to pay for half our vacation if we save up the money for the other half. There's got to be a way to raise the rest of the money!

"But how?" Rainbow inquired. "We've already added in our allowance for the past four months. And even though three of us have jobs, we still haven't saved up enough."

"I've been working overtime at the boutique." Rarity said. "And Fluttershy's been pulling extra shifts at the pet store."

"Don't you work at the animal shelter too?" Rainbow pointed out. "What about that?"

"There's no pay for volunteering…" Fluttershy informed, sadly.

"What!? Can't you like… ask or something?" Rainbow questioned. "I'm sure they'd give it to you"

Fluttershy gasped. "I could never ask for money!" she said, appalled. "Caring for the animals is payment enough."

Rainbow Dash groaned and looked over at Applejack. "What about you?" she said. "Your family owns an apple orchard. Don't you have any extra cash?"

"Afraid I only get paid the normal rate and unless a big load of people buy our apples and fizzy apple cider in the next few seconds I don't see me making nearly enough…" Applejack sighed.

The girls all groaned with disappointment, while they're world's Twilight Sparkle, the newest addition to the school, walks over.

"Girls? Hey, what's wrong?" she asked, concerned. "Did something happen?"

"Uh-huh…" Pinkie muttered, moping.

"We're trying to pool our money together for the beach trip but it's still not enough…" Rainbow said, dismayed.

"Oh… I'm sorry…" Twilight said, sympathetically. "I wish that…"

"Hey! I got an idea!" Applejack interjected before gesturing to Twilight. "Maybe she could loan us some money."

"Yeah!" They all agreed.

"Uh… no! No, I can't!" Twilight denied, fearfully.

"Why not?" Fluttershy asked, confused and concerned.

"Because! I already told you that I don't do well on beaches and… you girls would probably strip bare the minute we got there…" Twilight stated. They all looked at each other and then voiced their agreements when they realized that she had a point.

"So what if we do? We gotta let our freaky flag fly some time!" Rainbow Dash pointed out as she wiggled her rear end.

"I wish you wouldn't do that so much…" Twilight said, grimacing a bit.

"Why's that? Applejack inquired, not getting it.

"Mooning people like that is gross!" she expressed. "And downright rude…"

"Normally it's rude." Sunset shrugged. "But in our case, considering how many people want us to moon them, it would be even more rude not to.

"I just don't get it." Twilight sighed. "How could you all expose yourselves like that. It seems so… so embarrassing."

"What so embarrassing about it? Pinkie questioned before happily wiggling her rear in front of Twilight, making her cringe. "When you got it, you flaunt it!"

"And we should be flaunting it on the beach." Rarity added. "But that won't happen unless we can get the rest of the money we need…"

"Maybe I could start a pet sitting service…" Fluttershy suggested

"That would take too long." Rainbow shook her head. Maybe I can play my guitar in the subway for quick cash."

"And look like a hobo? Get grabbed by harry perv's?" Rarity questioned, appalled. "Out of the question!"

"Then… what are we supposed to do?" Sunset asked. They all folded their arms and began to think before they soon noticed a flyer floating by them, which Pinkie Pie manage to catch.

"Ooh! What's this?" she wondered, curiously.

"Probably just trash." Applejack shrugged, not paying much attention.

"Ugh, would it kill someone to do a little cleaning up around here?" Rarity remarked, disgusted.

"Ooh! This is interesting!" Pinkie said, with a big smile.

"What is it Pinkie?" Sci-Twi inquired, trying to get a look.

"Photo Finish is doing a photoshoot for Playboy Magazine! With calendars and so much more!" Pinkie answered, excited.

"A photo shoot…?" Rainbow repeated as she began to ponder. Then it hit her. "Hey! We can do that!"

"Yeah, it could get us enough money to go on our vacation." Fluttershy realized.

Sunset smiled. "Your right! It could!"

"Then we should waste no time and go to Photo Finish's residence immediately after school." Rarity declared. "Everyone in agreement?"

"Yeah!" They all cheered, excited for what was about to come. Unknown to them, Photo Finish's flyers weren't limited to just Canterlot High…

Lemon Zest danced her way up the street, jumping, kicking and air guitaring all the way there. She had the rock music on her headphones up to a near deafening level. The guitar riffs and drum beats were like candy for her, and she was on an incredible sugar rush.

Along the way, because she was so into the groove of the song that was playing in her headphones, she failed to notice a flyer floating in the wind and coming her way, causing it to smack right into her face, startling her.

"Ah! I'm blind! I'm blind!" she screamed over and over while running in circles.

"What th…" she sputtered pulling the flyer off her face. "What's this?"

On the paper she say several big red letters that read 'Models Wanted' as well as the amount of money that was being offered for the ones who volunteered.

"Whoa! Awesome!" she said, intrigued and excited.

Lemon Zest ran the rest of the way to Crystal Prep, weaving around every obstacle and other student in her way, much to the annoyance of some of them. She ran up the stairs into the school, and headed into the cafeteria. She looked around until she saw her group of friends; the Shadowbolt Five. "Hey guys!" she called out rather loudly.

"Lemon Zest?" Sunny Flare acknowledged her.

"Ugh, what is it this time?" Indigo Zap asked, flatly and annoyed.

"Probably something to do with music." Sugarcoat guessed.

"Well that'd be just marvelous!" Sour Sweet gushed before shifting her tone. "If we didn't want to be bored out of our minds…"

"Sour Sweet, remember we talked about; be nice." Sunny Flare reminded her.

"I can be nice!" she said, defensively before her tone turned changed again. "Provided I have a reason to be…"

Lemon Zest pulled out a chair and sat down next to Sugarcoat, who inched away. "You are sweating like a pig." she remarked, disgusted.

"Yeah…" she admitted. pulling out a hankie and wiping her forehead. "I ran most of the way here, so I could show you what I found before class started."

"Show us what?" Indigo Zap questioned, growing impatient.

Lemon Zest then held out the flyer right in front of them. "This!" she exclaimed. The girls all leaned closer to get a good look and read the flyer. Each of them were very surprised.

"A modeling gig?" Sunny Flare remarked.

"Yeah! With cash too!" Lemon Zest nodded, excited.

"Sounds a bit fascist." Sugarcoat noted, bluntly.

"Why would we do that?" Sour Sweet asked before growing angry. "It sounds like a waste of time."

Lemon Zest shrugged. "I dunno," she said. "I found it and I thought it sounded like fun."

"How many times have you done something that sounded like fun, but wound up being trouble?" Indigo asked

Lemon's face became a look of deep thought. "That depends," she said. "Do you mean this week or last week?"

"She means in all." Sugarcoat replied.

"I don't think I can count that high…" Lemon confessed.

"There's a surprise." Sour muttered under her breath.

"Come on! We never get to have any fun! And if we keep acting the way we were before the friendship games, then the Wondercolts will never let us hear the end of it!" Lemon reasoned.

Sugarcoat actually looked impressed. "I have to admit, her logical does seem sound."

"Yeah, the last thing we want is to fall under that lousy Cinch's influence again." Indigo Zap agreed. "Besides we kinda do need the cash..."

"That's the spirit!" Lemon said

"I think I'd like this…" Sunny began "But it still might not be the best idea. Can you imagine what Principal Cinch would say if she found out about this?"

"Why should we care what she thinks?" Sugarcoat asked

"You know her." Sunny said "She's always looking out for things that could ruin her reputation. That witch…"

"I'd think that five of her students becoming models would be a boost for her precious little rep" Indigo pointed out, saying the last part of her sentence with venom in her voice.

Sunny Flare pushed the flyer closer towards Indigo Zap. "Look again" she said "The add is for nude modeling."

Indigo and the other girls crowded around the flyer to get a closer look and blushed. "Oh…" she said "I guess you're right about that. Cinch would blow a gasket it she found out we we're going to be naked…"

"Principal Cinch would never approve of us doing something so indecent" Sour Sweet said, bluntly.

The girls sat back down, each looking equally deflated over this revelation. Until Sour Sweet spoke up again

"But then again…" she began, gruffly. "What we do outside of Crystal Prep is up to us. It really isn't any of her business."

"Exactamundo." Lemon Zest nodded with a smile.

"So? It's decided then? We're going to this 'Photo Finish' and doing this nude modelling thing?" Indigo Zap asked the others.

"Indeed." Sunny Flare nodded.

"Oh yeah!" Lemon Zest added, making a 'rock on' hand sign.

"Me too!" Sour Sweet said sweetly, which quickly faded. "But don't blame me if we get humiliated."

"Eh, it's not like we have anything better to do." Sugarcoat shrugged.

"Great! Then after class; we're going to be models!" Indigo declared, loudly. The others all nodded in agreement.

This is a collab written alongside TheScarletSentinel.