My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Green Isn't Your Color

A/N: Rarity here with the first chapter of the next story, and believe me, had I know just how picky Photo Finish would be, I would've rethought some of my actions in this story.

Fluttershy: It isn't your fault that Photo Finish wasn't interested in your designs or anything else that happen in the story.

Rarity: I know, and I'm glad that we're still friends despite everything that happen.

Sunrise Blossom: Twilight had it tough with all those promises she had to keep.

Rarity: Speaking of your sister, where is Twilight?

Sunrise Blossom: Still working on Timon and Pumaa's virtual safari rides to figure out why they keep malfunctioning.

(Cutscene to the jungle, where Twilight Sparkle is tinkering with the control box for one of the virtual rides.)

Twilight Sparkle: Hmm, it looks like I just need to replace this computer chip, which is clearly faulty.

(Cutscene back to the writers studio.)

Sunrise Blossom: Yeah, Twi is going to be busy with that for a while.

Fluttershy: I hope she can fix the rides.

Rarity: Same here, darling.

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Disclaimer: I don't own anything from My Little Pony: Magic is Friendship. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.

CHAPTER ONE: PHOTO SHOOT NERVES

It was another beautiful day in Ponyville and Fluttershy was at the spa, reading a magazine while waiting for Rarity to show up for their weekly get-together. She looked up when Rarity rushed in, wearing an elegant blue hat with light blue fur, green feathers, and a green gem to hold the feathers in place.

"So sorry, Fluttershy," Rarity apologized while magically putting her hat on the nearest hook. "I hate being late for our weekly get-together. The usual!" she called out to Lotus Blossom, who beamed and hurried them both through the door.

A short while later, Rarity and Fluttershy were dressed in robes with towels wrapped around their heads and they were in the sauna, where steam hissed as Lotus Blossom poured water onto the hot coals, and the grey unicorn was eager to tell the yellow pegasus about why she was delayed.

"But you will not believe what happened to me," said Rarity, relaxing on the bench.

"Is everything all right?" Fluttershy asked, concerned.

"Oh, it's much more than all right," Rarity said brightly. "I was on my way here, wearing my latest hat creation, when who should stop me on the street but Photo Finish!?"

"Photo Finish?" Fluttershy repeated as more water was added to the hot coals and the steam hissed.

When they were done in the sauna they moved onto having a mud facial… well, Rarity was getting the full mud facial while Fluttershy only needed some mud added to her cheeks, and the grey unicorn continued her story.

"She is the most famous fashion photographer in all of Equestria," Rarity explained while she was giving pillows to rest on as they got on the massage tables, and Lotus Blossom used a file on her horn to smooth it out. "Anywho, she saw my hat and said it was absolutely marvelous!"

Fluttershy smiled when one of the spa ponies came up to her with a file and flushed when she realized that the pegasus didn't have a horn. "What a lovely compliment," she commented.

Rarity nodded happily. "She was so impressed that she wants to take some pictures of my shop featuring some of my clothes!"

Fluttershy squealed a little. "That's wonderful."

Up next was the massages and Rarity kept talking while getting her serious massage. "Do you know what this could mean for my fashion career?" she asked.

"Oh, Rarity, I'm so happy for you," said Fluttershy while she got a soft massage.

After the massages, they went into the next room for seaweed wraps and mud baths. Rarity grunted, but kept talking as she was wrapped up in the seaweed. "But I'm going to need somepony fabulous to model for me," she continued, sliding into the mud bath. "Somepony with beauty. Somepony with grace. Somepony… like you?" she offered to the yellow pegasus.

"Oh, goodness," said Fluttershy, taken aback by the offer. "I don't know."

Once they were done with both the wraps and the mud baths, they were having hooves baths and Rarity was still trying to convince Fluttershy to model for her. "Oh, this is such a huge opportunity," she pointed out. "And it would mean so much to me."

"I'm flattered, really," said Fluttershy politely.

"Nopony is going to have your elegance and poise," Rarity added.

"But…" Fluttershy began.

"Nopony!"

Fluttershy still wasn't sure. "There has to be somepony more quali…"

"Please!" Rarity pleaded.

"Somepony more into fashion."

"Please!"

"Somepony more comfortable in the spotlight."

"Please, please, pleeease!"

Fluttershy sighed, caving. "Oh, if it's that important to you, of course I'll do it," she agreed.

"Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" Rarity squealed. "You are the best friend a pony could ever have!"

Two hours later the two ponies excited the spa and Fluttershy sighed happily. "What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon."

"Isn't it?" Rarity agreed, but she wasn't as relaxed as she normally would be after getting her usual treatment. "Though I was so afraid you wouldn't agree to model for me that I felt completely frazzled. I think I feel a pimple coming on. Oh! Only one solution!" And she hurried back inside while Fluttershy left to take care of her animals.

Back inside the spa, Rarity put on a fresh robe and stepped out from behind the changing curtain. "The usual!" she announced and the spa ponies popped up with eager smiles.

The next day at the boutique, Rarity was getting Fluttershy ready for the upcoming photo shoot and Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Sunrise Blossom, and Spike were helping.

"Hm…" said Rarity, pacing in front of the stage that Fluttershy was standing on, wearing a black/pink outfit with gems on both the gown and the headdress, which had pink feathers. "She's going to want to see attitude and pizzazz."

"A-a-attitude and, um… pizzazz," Fluttershy repeated nervously.

Rarity studied the setup for a moment. "More light!" she ordered and both Twilight Sparkle and Sunrise Blossom used their magic to raise the lights to brighten the stage. "It has to catch the sequins just so or the whole outfit is just a disaster. Oh, and the headdress needs more feathers. Pinkie Pie! More feathers!" And when Pinkie Pie came over with a basket full of different colored feathers, Rarity magically added more pink feathers to the headdress. "And sequins! More sequins!" she ordered and Spike raced over with a bowl full of light blue sequins and dreamy expression on his face as she magically added it to the outfit.

Fluttershy whimpered a little, but she was determined to make sure that the photo shoot was a success for her friend. 'I can do this,' she thought. 'I can do this.'

Rarity studied the changes and came up with another one. "And more ribbon!" she ordered and Spike added blue ribbons to the headdress. "Oh no! Less ribbon." He took the ribbons off. "No! More ribbon." And he added them back on. Rarity examined the hem of the dress and was alarmed. "Oh, this hem is completely off. Pincushion!" she ordered and Spike popped up with a number of pins sticking out of his back, and she magically removed some before waving him off, working on the hem. "Thank you all for helping me," she added to her friends. "I'm sorry to be so short with you, but I'm… I'm just so nervous."

Twilight Sparkle looked at the baby dragon with concern. "Oh, doesn't that hurt?" she asked.

"Thick scales," Spike answered, but he did remove the remaining pins. "Can't feel a thing. And even if I could, there is no pain that would keep me from assisting the most beautiful creature in the world." He glanced dreamily over at Rarity, missing the eye rolls from Twilight Sparkle while Sunrise Blossom snickered, and he looked back at them. "I'm gonna tell you two a secret. But you have to promise not to tell anyone," he requested.

"I promise," said Twilight Sparkle.

"I promise, too," Sunrise Blossom promised.

"Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye," said Pinkie Pie, making her famous Pinkie Promise and poked her own eye with her hoof.

Spike gestured the trio close and whispered to them, "I have a crush on Rarity!"

Pinkie Pie gasped. "We won't say a word!"

"That's an easy promise to keep," said Sunrise Blossom, repressing a giggle since it was well-known that the baby dragon had had a crush on the fashion unicorn since day one.

"Give me a break," Twilight Sparkle groaned. "Everypony already knows how you…"

"Twilight!" Pinkie Pie scolded. "You promised Spike you wouldn't say anything. He trusts you. And losing a friend's trust is the fastest way to lose a friend forever!"

"But…" the purple unicorn began.

"Forever!" Pinkie Pie hissed.

Twilight Sparkle sighed. "My lips are sealed," she promised and then smirked. "Though I'm pretty sure Rarity is gonna pick up on your feelings." And the baby dragon flushed since he had on a t-shirt with Rarity's picture on the front.

Just then, the doorbell ringed as the door was slammed open to reveal a pony with pale blue skin, light gray hair, dark indigo eyes hidden behind black/pink sunglasses, and she wore a black/white/pink outfit that covered her star-shaped cutie mark.

"I, Photo Finish… have arrived," Photo Finish announced, stepping into the boutique and posed with her assistants on either side of her.

Rarity greeted her with a gracious smile. "Let me just say, what an honor!"

Photo Finish, however, walked past her to the stage where Fluttershy was waiting. "We begin… now!" she ordered and one of the assistants quickly set up a case that popped open to reveal the camera on its' stand.

Although taken aback, Rarity nodded at the nervous yellow pegasus. "Attitude and pizzazz!"

"Yes!" Photo Finish agreed, stepping up behind the camera. "Show Photo Finish something." And Fluttershy tried to do the poses that Rarity had suggested, but every time Photo Finish objected, she did the opposite and this resulted in some unusual photos being taken. "No! Yeees. No! Yeees. No! Yeees. Enough!" she snapped and walked away while her assistant packed up the camera.

Twilight Sparkle and Sunrise Blossom exchanged perplex looks. "She hardly took any pictures."

Fluttershy was sad, positive that she'd screwed up the photo shoot. "I'm so sorry," she apologized. "I tried my best."

Rarity sighed and magically removed the headdress from her friend's head. "Well, the headdress is too big for you and cape had too much sparkle," she admitted. "I can't believe I ever thought I could impress her."

Suddenly Photo Finish popped up, making them both jump. "It seems that I, Photo Finish, have found the next fashion star here in Ponyville," she announced.

"Really?" Rarity asked eagerly.

"Yes. Really," Photo Finish confirmed. "And I, Photo Finish, am going to help her to shine all over Eqvestria. Tomorrow, a photo shoot in ze park." She paused for a moment. "I go!" And she exited the boutique with her assistants.

Rarity hurried to the door and watched her leave before she turned back to her friends, who were looking equally surprised and impressed. "Did you hear that?" she asked. "I am going to "shine all over Equestria"."

"Oh, Rarity," said Fluttershy, happy that she hadn't screwed up after all. "I was so worried I'd ruined everything."

"Oh, never," said Rarity. "I knew you'd be perfect." She then started doing excited giggling, jumping up and down, unaware that she was jumping on Spike's tail.

Taking pity on the baby dragon, Twilight Sparkle pulled him out of the way, and Sunrise Blossom bandaged his injured tail.

A/N: Photo Finish was impressed, just not the way I was expecting as it will turn out. See you all Monday! R&R everyone!