A/N: Told from Olivia's POV, this covers the 1-hour special that aired in the United States and was uploaded to YouTube in multiple parts.

Full character bios are on my profile, but here is a brief summary. Told from her POV, Olivia Frost is light grey with shoulder-length brown hair, and she wears a below-the-knee prosthetic right leg (which is normally covered up) and round glasses (same size as Twilight's). Throughout this story, she is wearing a black t-shirt with the logo for the band DragonHearts – a fictionalized version of the band DragonForce – on it, and the shirt is pulled up slightly and tied in the front, exposing her midriff. She's also wearing black shorts that stop about an inch above her over-the-knee socks. Cloudflare, who goes by his nickname, is light orange with short green-blue hair, and he's wearing his usual clothing.

We're sitting outside the RV, eagerly waiting for Sunset to wake up so we can enter the festival together. I never took Sunset to be the type of person who sleeps late, especially with her and Pinkie being super hyped over seeing the duo PostCrush at the Starswirl Music Festival. They make me look like an average Cheese Sandwich fan by comparison! You figure she'd be the first one up.

Flare and I are engaged in our 4th favorite thing to do. We're holding both of each other's hands and giving each other quick kisses, which is the furthest I'm comfortable going in public. I like when he gets grabby, but only when we're alone.

Ever since the cruise all of us went on for spring break, he and I have been closer than ever. With Lemon Zest's encouragement beforehand, I convinced Flare to take the next step in our relationship. I wanted to do it on the cruise, but Rainbow interrupted us when she saw the Storm King's insignia in the water, which wasn't there when she dragged everybody onto the deck. We were both mad at her for interrupting us, and I was annoyed at Flare for telling our friends we were about to have sex. One surprise visit to Equestria later through a portal on a random deserted island, and we find out some of the Storm King's magic leaked into our world and was threatening to capsize the ship. I gave Flare a "told you so" expression when I found that out. He said I'd be safer on the ship than following him, Sunset, and Twilight in their search for Rainbow, and it turned out to be the opposite. We used the Storm King's staff to absorb the magic, but the ship was beyond repair. With everyone safe, we all went back to Equestria and through Princess Twilight's portal to return to Canterlot. Well, our Canterlot.

While my parents were relieved that I was safe, I knew my father would be upset if I told him exactly what happened. I convinced him to be satisfied that I'm alright and he didn't need the details. I told my mother later, but of course Dad overheard. He wasn't very pleased, and once again I got frustrated by how much he's trying to "protect" me.

My father hates all this magic stuff. As soon as he found out my friends have all these magic powers and the dangerous situations I was in because of them, he forbade me from hanging out with them. He even wanted me to break up with Flare. Thankfully, my mother was able to talk him out of it. She saw how happy I was after becoming their friend, and I begged him to let me keep dating Flare. He gave in and let me continue hanging out with them, but he doesn't want them in his house. Flare can come in, but he can't have his geode on him. If something were to happen to me, Dad is holding him responsible.

I know why Dad overreacted. He almost lost me once, and he doesn't want something like that to happen again. That said, I'm 18 now. If I want to spend time with them, he can't stop me. Besides, nothing life-threatening is gonna happen to me. Aside from nearly falling into Equestria during the Friendship Games. And nearly falling into Juniper's mirror void. And maybe being imprisoned and sensory-deprived for hours when the Storm King took over, but was that really "life-threatening"? Really, as long as there aren't any pits, I should be fine. Hell, I avoided a life-threatening scenario by disobeying my boyfriend!

Something Dad isn't concerned about is the age difference between me and Flare. I'm 18, but Flare is still 17. Technically, it's illegal for me to engage in sexual activity with him, and Twilight reminded me of that. She and Timber Spruce waited until she turned 18 because she didn't want him to get in trouble. It's only a problem if Flare's mother doesn't approve, though, and she's okay with it. Besides, he's only 7 months younger than me. We're practically the same age!

Flare and I ended up having our first time at his house that day. Gotta admit, it was very awkward. It's to be expected when neither of us had any experience, although he had an idea what to do, but I didn't think it would be that awkward. While it felt great being so close to him, Lemon definitely overhyped it. Flare's performance didn't have me "seeing stars".

That time, anyway. Practice makes perfect, and he's more than made up for it!

"Starswirl day one!" I hear Rainbow yell. I open one eye and look in that direction. "Come and get it!" She's holding some type of oar, which she lifts in excitement and whacks Sunset in the butt with – who must've just walked out of the RV.

I separate from Flare. "Sunset's awake."

"Oh, uh... Sorry," Rainbow says to Sunset. "I'll be more careful from now on."

"Talk about a pain in the rear," I say.

"Eh, not gonna let a little thing like intense pain ruin this perfect day!" Sunset says excitedly.

"Wow," I say to Flare. "She reminds me of myself when we went to the Cheese Sandwich concert."

"No kidding!"

I hear someone spit something out, then they start laughing. I look that way. Applejack has apple juice all over her shirt and Fluttershy is laughing.

"Sorry!" Fluttershy says. "That one has animals in it!"

Pinkie rushes over to them. "What do you call a PostCrush fan with three eyes? Pinkie Pie!"

Heh! I see what she did there. She even motioned to where her "third eye" would be.

"Um... I don't get it," Fluttershy says.

What? "How does she not get it?" I whisper to Flare. "Pinkie Pie has 3 'i's in her name."

"Technically, her name is Pinkamena Diane Pie," he whispers back.

I roll my eyes. "Okay, Mudbriar," I sarcastically whisper. "Still 3 'i's. It's easy if you know how to spell."

"Maybe she thinks 'Pinkie' is spelled with a 'y' instead of 'i-e'."

"Who doesn't know how their friends' names are spelled?"

"I'm just saying."

If only this wasn't one of the last things I do with these girls... and I still need to tell Flare. Well, I need to tell all of them, but my boyfriend deserves to hear it first.

After the festival is over.

After a change of clothes for Applejack, we start walking to the festival gate. The anticipation is almost unbearable! My first music festival!

"Whoa!" Sunset yells. I look behind me. She has her hands on Flare's back.

"Easy there, Sunset," he says with a chuckle. "I know you still have feelings for me, but you gotta control yourself!" I can tell he's joking around.

"I can't help myself sometimes," she replies, also in a joking tone. "You're so handsome!"

I look at Sunset's shoes. One of them has mud on it, and there's a mud puddle next to her.

Sunset hasn't had much luck with guys in this world. Flash broke up with her once he had enough of her crap, Flare broke up with her because he felt they were moving too fast – ironic, seeing he and I moved even faster – hell, I kissed him immediately after asking him out again – and her second chance with Flash only lasted about a month longer than Flare. She never told us why they broke up, but I suspect it's because she still likes Flare.

Pinkie yanks Sunset into the center line, and Flare and I enter the line on the right behind Fluttershy, Rainbow, and Twilight.

There are a few acts I want to see the most. Weez are performing today, DragonHearts are performing tomorrow around lunchtime, and Songbird Serenade is closing out the festival. She's debuting a song from her upcoming album at the end, and I'm really excited to hear it.

"Um... Excuse me... Olivia Frost?" That voice... Why her?

I close my eyes. "Flare? Is the person behind me who I think she is?" I calmly asks.

"Uh... Th-That depends. Who, um... Who do you think it is?"

I hope for her sake I don't flip out the moment I see her. "Well, it sounds like one Wallflower Blush." I open my eyes and turn around. Sure enough, it's her. "What the hell do you want?!"

"I..." She looks very afraid to be around me. As well she should be. "I want to... t-talk about what I did last year."

"You mean how you tried to take away my boyfriend's memories of me because you didn't like that Sunset was never specifically nice to you?!" And my other friends' high school memories.

She gulps. "I'm s-sure you want to beat the stuffing out of me, and I probably deserve it." To be honest, I think she deserves to have everybody's memories of her erased. And I mean eve-ry-bo-dy! "But, um... I... I want to apologize."

Is she serious? "Apologize? That was a year ago, and now you want to apologize?!"

"In-In her defense," Flare says to me, "you said you didn't want to see her."

"I should've said this last year," Wallflower says, "but I was too afraid of what you would do to me. Flare told me how important he is to you and what you've been through with Sunset. I'm very, very sorry. I was so intent on making her miserable, I didn't think how miserable it would make other people."

"You sure as hell didn't!" Well, I'm not as mad as I would've been if she did this right away. I guess time does heal all wounds. Or at least make the wounds less painful. I guess I could forgive her. "If I got my hands on that rock a year and a half ago, who's to say I wouldn't have done the same? Make Sunset Shimmer suffer like she made me suffer, not caring who else gets hurt. I mean, I would be more justified than you." I did say last year making her suffer wouldn't have changed anything, but I probably would get a little satisfaction out of it. "What angered me the most was your reasoning. But," I say with a sigh, "I forgave Sunset for ruining my life and I forgave Juniper for trapping us in her mirror." Who was also more justified than Wallflower. I hold out my hand. "I accept your apology."

"You do?!" she says, surprised. She slowly reaches for my hand.

"Don't get me wrong, I don't want to be your friend. All this means is I don't hold a grudge against you anymore."

She grabs my hand. "Hey, I'll take it! I can finally sleep at night knowing you won't kill me if you see me."

We get to the front of the line. The security guard runs her metal detector wand up and down Flare, then puts a wristband on him and scans it. She does the same for me, and like at the Cheese concert my fake leg doesn't set off the wand. We join the others. Sunset and Pinkie aren't here yet.

"We're waiting for Sunset again," Flare says.

"Their line was moving pretty slowly," Rainbow says.

"Security checks, am I right?" I jokingly say.

"I saw you made up with Wallflower Blush," Twilight says to me.

"Yup. We're not friends, but I don't hate her anymore."

"One step at a time, right?" Fluttershy says.

Wallflower walks through the security gate. "One step at a time." I wave at her, and she waves back.

A minute later, Sunset and Pinkie enter the festival and walk over to us.

"Y'all have fun seein' PostCrush," Applejack says to them. "We'll see ya back at camp tonight."

I look at Flare and hold my hand out to him. "Shall we?"

He takes my hand in his. "We shall."

After roaming around the festival for a while, it's time for the first act: Weez. I saw some rumors online that a certain comedian might be making an appearance during their show. No word on who it might be, but I have a hunch. Even if they're not true, the band is pretty good. I've heard like 20 of their songs, so I'm not unfamiliar with them. We're somewhere in the middle of the crowd.

The band takes the stage and everyone cheers. They start with "My Name Is Wepeel", followed by a few songs I'm not familiar with and several more I do know.

"You've been a rockin' crowd today!" the frontman says about 40 or so minutes into the set. I should probably look up what his name is so I don't have to call him 'Weez's lead singer' all the time. "I think you all deserve a special treat! We're gonna take you... on a distant voyage." Oh, I think I know what's next! Sounds like everyone else does, too. "It's time... to bless the rains." This is the loudest the crowd's been all night.

They start playing. I'm not sure which I like better, this cover or the original.

"We're gonna take the time to do the things we never
Haaaaaaave~"

I mean, it's not the best song from either band, but it's up there.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Cheese Sandwich!" No way!

Walking onto the stage, sure enough, is the man himself, accordion in hand!

Oh my gosh! I shut my eyes and let out a loud squeal. The rumors were true! "Woooooo!" Yes, yes, yes! He plays the keyboard solo on his accordion. Okay, I don't care how much fun Sunset and Pinkie have at the PostCrush concert. Nothing beats a... somewhat... surprise appearance from Cheese!

"Hurry, boy, she's waiting there for you"

So... awesome! As the last chorus begins, I finally stop yelling. The song finishes, and everyone is cheering. I can barely hear myself yelling again!

"Thank you, Starswirl! Enjoy the rest of the festival! Let's have another round of applause for Cheese Sandwich!"

Oh, man! I wonder if I can get a chant going.

"Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!"

I hear Flare join in, then a few people around us, and within seconds the entire audience is chanting. Cheese waves to everyone, and they let out another loud cheer. Best. Festival concert. Ever!

"That was amazing!" I say, voice a little raspy. "I can't believe the rumors were true!"

"I wonder how people found out," Flare says.

I look at him. "Maybe someone in charge of the festival let it slip to one of their friends."

"Yeah, that sounds about right. At least they were smart enough to just say 'a comedian'."

"I guess if you're vague enough, you can't get in trouble for breaking an NDA." If there was one in the first place.

"Step right up!" A voice to our left gets my attention. "Don't be shy!" A couple men have a booth set up of some sort.

"You want prizes?" the man on the right says. "We got prizes!"

I look at Flare. "Eh, why not?" We walk over to the booth. Both men are wearing white pants, blue-and-white striped shirts, and a black bow tie. They have red hair with yellow highlights, and the one on the right has a mustache.

"Throw this softball," the man on the left says, holding a ball, "at these milk bottles to knock 'em down! Easy as pie!" He throws it at the bottles, knocking them over with ease.

I'm pretty sure it's not that easy. "That does look easy!"

"Liv, are you sure you want to do this?" Flare asks.

"Like I said, why not? Seems easy enough."

"Sure, it seems easy enough, but remember what Twilight and Sunset said happened at the amusement park?"

"That was the ring toss game. The most rigged carnival game in existence. This is knocking over a few bottles!" I lean toward him. "I know it's rigged. Let's agree to a limit," I whisper. "If neither of us gets it in three tries, we walk. Maybe we'll get lucky, maybe we won't. I'm not letting either of us spend all our money on this game."

"Got it." He looks at the men. "Okay, my girlfriend has convinced me. We'll give it a whirl."

"Excellent!"

"Wonderful!"

I hand them a dollar. "Ladies first," I say. The man on the left takes it and gives me a ball, and the other man sets up the bottles.

I take aim at the center and throw. It knocks the top bottle off, but the bottom two barely move.

None of my other two throws nor Flare's three are able to do much better. My third throw missed the bottles completely!

Staying true to our limit, we walk away after that. The duo tries to coax us into giving it another try, but we're not that foolish.

We exit the Neon Garden.

"Man, I was not expecting that to be a maze," I say.

"Yeah, but once we figured that out, it was easy to get through."

"Follow the left wall. How did you know to do that?"

"It was the only thing I remember from those old Mickey Dee's cartoons on DVD." In a deeper voice, he says, "'It's not hard to understand. Find the door with your left hand.'"

I feel like I've seen commercials for those. "What was that, a riddle episode?"

"Pretty much. They were trapped in a creepy mansion, and some floating head kept giving them riddles to solve."

Music starts playing nearby. I look in that direction. There's a large blue stage set up, with a cloud of green smoke obscuring whoever's on it.

"Where do we go? Every day's the same"

"I don't remember seeing anyone on the schedule for this area today," Flare says.

"Late addition?" I say.

"So ordinary, stuck on repeat"

"Hang on..." Flare says. "Those singers sound familiar..."

We walk over to the crowd. The smoke starts to clear from the stage, and now we can see who's performing.

"The Dazzlings?" Man, it's been a while since I've seen them.

"Okay... How? They lost their voices when our friends destroyed their pendants!"

Huh? "What do you... Oh, right. Those Dazzlings." I forgot about the sirens.

He looks at me, confused. "What other Dazzlings are there?"

"The ones from Crystal Prep? I told you about them after the Friendship Games."

"Uh... You did?"

"I... You..." What, was he that distracted by Princess Twilight showing up immediately after? I remove my glasses and facepalm. "Yes... It was right before Princess Twilight showed up." I put them back on. "I thought you were talking about those Dazzlings, not these Dazzlings."

"I..." He pauses. "I honestly don't remember that. Maybe it's because I see Sonata at work every Tuesday for the past year."

"How do you know which Sonata it is?"

"She always says hi to me, and we talked a couple weeks before you and I visited Equestria. It's siren Sonata."

The lyrics to their song seem to imply they're tired of spending day after day in this world. I guess when you spend centuries living in a world that's very different from your own, it can become tiresome.

After they're finished singing, Adagio lets out an annoyed sigh and says, "That song's called... 'Find the Magic'." She holds the mic out and says something else, then drops it. All three walk off-stage.

"Kinda odd they would perform at a festival called Starswirl," Flare says.

"It is?"

"I didn't tell you?"

"Starlight told us about the Pillars of Equestria, but you didn't say anything about them." Unless there's another Starswirl?

"Well, Starswirl the Bearded and the other Pillars are why the sirens are in this world in the first place. Lured them toward a portal, flew out of the way at the last second, sirens kept on going."

That's how they did it? "Wow... Way to take the easy way out, guys. You're giving the Order of the Stone a run for their money with that one." Well, the Pillars weren't that cheap. "Yeah, I don't see why the sirens would perform here."

The trio walk past a security guard, who ropes off the exit behind them.

"Maybe we could ask them tomorrow if they're still here."

Our backstage passes are only valid tomorrow. "I doubt they'll want anything to do with you."

"Sonata would, and I bet she could annoy Aria enough to make her give in."

"Worth a try, I guess." We start walking away from the stage. Now that I think about it, there's one thing about his encounter with the sirens I don't understand. "So why did you tell them what you were going through? They could've hopped on the bullying bandwagon."

"I... don't really know. I guess I was hoping they'd be different than everyone else since they were new to CHS. Kinda like when you gave me a chance."

That day... "I'm so glad I did."

"Me, too." He kisses me.

If I hadn't accepted his offer, I'd be in Manehattan right now. I wonder if I would've been as happy. Would I have met a guy as great as Flare? Would I have shut everyone out to avoid a repeat of CHS? I mean, I kinda did that at Crystal Prep, but that was because the students wanted nothing to do with an ex-Wondercolt. I ask myself this a lot. It was such a life-changing decision, I can't help but think about what could've been.

With the first day of the festival over, all of us are sitting outside the RV roasting marshmallows, sans Sunset and Pinkie. They're busy having the time of their lives at the PostCrush concert. Maybe I should've gone with them. I'd kinda like to know if their reactions were like mine when I was at the Cheese Sandwich concert last year.

"There they are!" Rainbow says. Sunset and Pinkie are back. "Two peas in a pod! How was it? Rad-tacular? Amaze-magic?!"

By the looks on their faces, I'd say... no? Sunset looks annoyed and Pinkie looks upset. Sunset's annoyed sigh backs that up.

"Did something happen?" Flare asks.

"We missed PostCrush," Sunset says. "Someone wanted to win a bike! Then got us lost in a maze, covered in paint, sidelined by churros, and finally kicked out!" She angrily looks at Pinkie.

I mean, all of those things sound very Pinkie Pie-esque. Except the last one. Did Sunset really not know what she was getting into? While I don't expect to be sidelined by churros when I hang out with Pinkie, I know how easily distracted she gets, and I expect a little sidetracking.

"I'm really sorry," Pinkie says, putting a hand on Sunset's shoulder. "I wish we could do the day all over again. I'd do it different."

Sunset brushes her off. "Me, too..." She turns around and starts walking away. "I'd do it alone..." she mutters.

Man, I would hate to be in her shoes. If someone made me miss Cheese Sandwich, I'd be livid!

After a while, Sunset returns. Flare and I are still outside, while the others are in the RV.

"Hey, Sunset?" Flare says. "I can try to get you back into the festival if you want."

"Yeah, okay," she says, unconvinced. "What are you gonna do, superglue our wristbands back together?"

"I mean, that's one thing." He shows her his ring, which has his geode on. "I can use my siren power to convince the security guards to let you two in."

"Right, I forgot you can do that."

"I'm not surprised. I've only tried using it three times."

"Not counting all the times he tested it on me," I say. It's surprisingly effective. You lose focus for a few seconds and his suggestion is planted in your head. You can't ignore it no matter how hard you try.

"I appreciate it," she says, "but I don't want to get you kicked out."

"I'll be fine," he says. "It's not like the guards will stop me from entering because I started singing at a music festival."

"Well..."

"Just let me do it, Sunshim. You girls said you'd let me use my power to help next time."

"Yeah, when it's an emergency."

"This is an emergency! A fun emergency! You don't deserve to have your festival experience ruined by Pinkie being Pinkie."

Wow, okay! Of course you'd say Pinkie's the problem when you used to date the other person!

"I'll... give it some thought. I'll let you know tomorrow morning."

Good thing Pinkie's not within earshot.