Meanwhile at the parade...
Cherry's double AKA Zoe was in fact at the parade with Thor as he held her in his arm due to his deep love and support for her.
"Be yourself, but better, Or don't be yourself at all, Follow Vignette on SnapGab, That's V-I-G-N-E-T-T-EEEEEEE!~" Vignette sang to the crowd, but it was very off-key.
"Hey! How about you get some singing lessons!" Zoe complained. "Or better yet, stop singing entirely!"
The crowd jeered along with her.
"I sing better in the shower!" Thor added.
"This crowd isn't cheering enough for my taste," Vignette muttered to herself before bringing out her magical phone. "Luckily, that can be tweaked with the flick of a finger. Say 'cheese', everyone!" But before she could take the picture, her parade float was stopped and lifted.
Patch, Atticus, and Applejack all lifted it together.
"Sorry to rain on your parade!" Cherry smirked.
"Nice one." Atticus smirked back as he Patch and Applejack let the parade float land back on the ground.
"But I'm afraid this evening is cancelled," Rarity told Vignette. "Now turn off your phone and hand it over!"
"What's going on?" Thor wondered as he stood with Zoe as everyone else was just as confused.
"Are you honestly asking a social media star to hand over her phone?" Vignette scoffed.
"Yes, she is." Cherry nodded.
"Rarity, this is the version of your friends that will be popular," Vignette told the fashionista. "I have the metrics to back that up."
Rarity and Applejack both looked unimpressed by that.
"Doesn't matter if they're real. It's what you show people online," Vignette continued. "This is your chance to be everything you've always wanted!"
"Still confused what's going on." Thor said.
"You're not the only one, Muffin." Zoe agreed as she hugged him.
"No! It's a chance to look like everything I've always wanted!" Rarity told Vignette. "What I really want has been right in front of me the whole time! My friends!"
Applejack and Rarity then joined hands and that made them both glow. The others soon joined their hands with them. This caused all of them to pony-up. This also surprised Vignette a lot.
"No amount of online success is worth it without my real life friends to share in it!" Rarity glared to Vignette.
Each of the geodes soon glowed as green electricity went to Rarity. The others smiled as they felt proud of Rarity for learning a lesson. Rarity soon had her own line of electricity and thrashed it against Vignette's phone, destroying it itself with the holograms along with it.
"What have you done?!" Vignette snapped. "Now how can things ever be perfect?!"
The group soon landed on the parade float.
"I love nothing more than someone telling me I made a perfect outfit, but I'd say you got a bit carried away." Rarity told the celebrity.
"I-I... Guess so..." Vignette replied, uneasily.
"You guess so? You were just about to send all these people to Squish City which would be a simple white room in the park!" Cherry told her.
The whole crowd disapproved of that, but of course, Thor was the most vocal of them, being quite loud at times.
"No! No, no, no, I don't like that." Thor commented among the rabble of the crowd.
"But BYBB..." Vignette pouted.
"It's not a bad thing to want to be better, but not at the expense of others or your friends." Mo told her.
"Friends?" Vignette sighed to that. "I have 3,000,000 followers, but no real friends. How pathetic is that?!"
"Hmm... You've got one. If you want." Rarity smiled softly.
"Make that two." Applejack added.
Vignetter smiled as she accepted their friendship. This made the crowd cheer and applaud.
"Why are they clapping? Do they even know what's going on?" Pinkie Pie asked.
Fluttershy shrugged to that.
"I love the Pony Girls!" Thor beamed which made them anime sweat drop slightly.
"Not the sharpest crayon in the pack, is he?" Cherry muttered.
Rainbow Dash soon checked on SnapGab to see why the crowd was cheering and applauding. "Whoa! The Rainbooms are trending on SnapGab!" she then told the others.
"People are saying that rainbow laser thing was the coolest light parade show they've ever seen!" Pinkie Pie beamed.
Thor soon reached out and grabbed Cherry with his phone after pulling Zoe in his other arm. "Selfie! I wanna selfie with two of the cutest girls in the universe!" he then beamed while taking a picture.
"Uh, thanks, I think, but Thor, I think you should just stick with Zoe." Cherry told him.
"Come on! Double Trouble!" Thor smiled.
"Okay, fine, but one picture..." Cherry groaned.
Thor smiled as he took a picture of the three of them.
"Aw, it's so cute~" Drell cooed to his nephew.
"Thanks." Thor smiled back.
Cherry soon got out of Thor's hold and began to run for her life.
"Not sure what you see in her, but good job." Drell muttered slightly. He soon saw that Zoe didn't get out of Thor's hold.
"You're so snuggly with those muscles." Zoe smiled.
"Gah, this must be the perky in perky goth." Drell grumbled.
"You know it." Zoe told him.
"Can we go out to SugarCube Corner together?" Thor pouted to his uncle. "Pleeeeeeeaaaase?"
"Alright, alright." Drell said.
"Yes!" Thor beamed as he held onto Zoe again.
Zoe smiled as she nuzzled up to him while blushing.
"Hey, maybe the parade ain't ruined after all!" Applejack smiled.
"We do still have our real instruments up there." Sunset added.
"You're not too nervous?" Rainbow Dash asked Fluttershy.
"I should ask you the same thing." Fluttershy replied.
"That rollercoaster really gave Fluttershy her confidence." Atticus smiled.
"Yeah, I suppose it did," Rainbow Dash smiled back. "I feel so proud!"
"I think we all are." Mo smiled back.
"So, uh, Applejack, you wanna play?" Cherry suggested.
"If you're up for it." Rarity added.
Applejack soon nodded as the crowd cheered for them.
"Then let's rock out!" Mo cheered.
They soon got their instruments ready to give a special song to the crowd.
"A blemish on the surface, Of a perfect happy pic, Just add a fancy filter, And that's an easy fix~," Rarity began to sing. "But behind that perfect snapshot, Are the people who you love, Don't forget those happy moments, Are because of~"
"Our memories together~" Applejack sang.
"They will last forever~" Mo sang.
"We won't let this break us~" Applejack sang.
"We'll get through whatever~" Rarity sang.
"Side by side on this adventure, Our friendship will never, ever end~," The Rainbooms all sang. "Side by side, besties forever, We know that it's more than just a trend~"
"'Cuz it's you~" Atticus sang.
"And me~" Cherry sang.
"That's how it should be~" The Rainbooms sang.
"The whole world stands before you, Full of things to see, Pay attention or you'll miss it, Life's best is always free~," Applejack took a solo. "Don't lose sight of what's important, Give more than you can take, There's so much to strive for, So many friendships you can make~"
"All those likes can measure~" Rarity sang.
"The fun we have together~" Applejack sang.
"When we're in the moment~" Rarity and Applejack both sang.
"Everything is better~" Cherry sang, trying to avoid the gaze of the audience so she wouldn't freak out.
"Side by side on this adventure, Our friendship will never, ever end~," The Rainbooms all sang. "Side by side, besties forever, We know that it's more than just a trend~"
"This is how it should be~" Rarity and Applejack then concluded.
The instruments then faded out with the singing and the crowd applauded them.
After some time, they left the park.
"Well, that was a lot of fun." Sci-Twi said.
"Sure was," Mo said before smirking. "Sorry my brother couldn't be here, Twilight~"
"It's alright, I'm sure he was busy." Sci-Twi blushed.
Mo giggled a bit.
"Cheeky." Atticus teased his girlfriend.
"Whatever you say." Mo teased back.
"I'm exhausted..." Cherry said.
"All right, Cherry, we'll see you later then. Sunset said.
Cherry nodded and soon went to go back home. Everyone else soon went home too.
Cherry flopped onto her bed and cuddled with the sheets and locked the door even though she wasn't allowed to for her bedroom. "Now for some rest." She said.
Atticus soon walked Mo home like he usually did so they could be alone together. Once there, Mo went inside. Atticus gave her a kiss goodbye. Mo waved as she then went inside to relax. Once home, Atticus did the same.
Patch laid on the couch while having the TV on.
"Well, that must've been some park if you guys were gone all day." Emily chuckled.
"You could say that it was magical." Patch said.
"I know what that means..." Emily said. "Was it Equestrian?"
"Yeah, Mom," Atticus replied. "You know, the magic of friendship."
"Who was being corrupted this time?" Emily asked.
"Well, Rarity wasn't being her generous self..." Atticus began to explain. "She got a bit bossy when she was being brainwashed by Vignette Valencia."
"Whoa." Emily said.
"It was a pretty big adventure, Mom, I'm sure we're done for a while..." Atticus smiled. "This was a great summer though."
"Hope you're ready for back to school then." Emily giggled.
"Maybe." Atticus shrugged.
"Why does summer go by so quickly every year?" Patch pouted.
"Sorry, Patch, that's just how it goes sometimes." Emily soothed him.
"True." Patch shrugged.
Emily soon decided to give them their dinner right to them since they were clearly exhausted from today's adventure.
The End
