A/N: Yay! Another deleted scene! Onward!
Suited for Success: Deleted Scene 2: Help From An Unlikely Source!/Fashion Do-Over!
*Want a speedy recap or should I not bother this time? Basically, Rarity's fashion show ended in complete and utter disaster because the rest of her friends (except Sunrise) wanted their Gala dresses to be exactly how THEY wanted them to be instead of how SHE wanted them to be. Now, she's locked herself inside her bedroom at Carousel Boutique in shame, hiding herself from the world and refusing to come out. Luckily, her friends are on they're way to make her feel better and snap her out of things, hoping she will forgive them all for taking advantage of her generosity. Well, that's what Sunrise Blossom here is hoping for anyway.*
Pinkie Pie: (knocking on Rarity's bedroom door) Rarity? Is everything okay in there? You haven't come out for a few days.
Rarity: (wailing from inside her room) GO AWAY! I'M NEVER COMING OUT! I can't show my face in Ponyville EVER again! I used to be somepony. I used to be respected. I made dresses. Beautiful, beautiful dresses! But now, everypony is LAUGHING at me! I'm nothing but a laughing stock! (Breaks down in VERY unladylike tears)
Pinkie Pie: (shrugs helplessly) Well, I've done all I can do.
Twilight Sparkle: (reassuringly) Oh, Rarity, that's not true. You're not a laughing stock at all.
Rainbow Dash: (muttering under her breath) She kind of IS, Twilight.
Twilight Sparkle: Shhh!
Rainbow Dash: (flinches) Sorry.
Twilight Sparkle: Come on, Rarity. Please, come out and talk to us. We only want to make you feel better.
Rarity: (still making quite a scene) LEAVE ME ALO-HO-HO-HO-HONE! (Flops onto her bed) I want to be alone! I want to wallow in...WHATEVER IT IS PONIES ARE SUPPOSED TO WALLOW IN! Do ponies wallow in pity? Oh, just LISTEN to me, I don't even know what I'm supposed to wallow in! I'm so PATHETI-HI-HI-HI-HIC! (Continues her uncontrollable sobbing)
Applejack: Uh, ah think the term you're looking for here is you want to "wallow in your own filth".
Rarity: (suddenly stops crying) "FILTH"?! Well, that only makes me feel WORSE! (Starts crying even more) BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Rainbow Dash: (claps her front hooves slowly and sarcastically) Oh, bravo, Applejack. Bravo.
Applejack: (snaps) AH'M SORRY! OKAY?! AH JUST CHOSE THE WRONG WORDS! IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYPONY!
Pinkie Pie: (starting to freak out) This is NO time to be arguing with each other about what Applejack should've said right now, Dashie! What are we all supposed to do NOW?
Rainbow Dash: (looks at Sunrise expectedly) Yeah, Sunrise. What ARE we all meant to do right now? After all, coming here to apologise to Rarity was all YOUR idea! Remember?
Sunrise Blossom: (desperately trying to think of something) I'm thinking! I'm thinking! Don't rush me, okay?!
Fluttershy: Um...I vote we all panic.
Rainbow Dash: (shoots the pegasus a look) Seriously?! That's your answer for LITERALLY everything, Fluttershy! What's WRONG with you?!
Applejack: Well, one's things for certain, we can't just leave Rarity like this! Ah mean, we're the ones who caused her to get so depressed in the first place! At least, that's what Sunrise told us after the fashion show ended anyway.
Pinkie Pie: And if we don't do something soon, she may leave town and run all the way into the Everfree Forest where nopony will ever think to look for her again! And she'd probably have to stoop to using animal instincts just to survive! (Gasps) Or even WORSE!
Fluttershy: (shivering) W-w-w-worse than r-r-running away from h-h-home?
Pinkie Pie: She could become...(gulps) A CRAZY CAT LADY!
(DUN! DUN! DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!)
Rainbow Dash: (now giving Pinkie a rather confused look) "A crazy CAT lady"?
Pinkie Pie: (nods) Uh-huh.
Rainbow Dash: (still confused) Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookay? And just HOW is that a bad thing exactly?
Sunrise Blossom: (looking a little skeptical herself) Uh...yeah. Doesn't she only have ONE cat, Pinkie?
Pinkie Pie: Give her time.
Twilight Sparkle: Hmm. (Looks through the keyhole catching a glimpse of a group of mannequins, rolls of fabric and the unfinished dress design attached on the wall and gasps) That's it! (A lightbulb appears over her head and then suddenly drops onto it) Ow!
Applejack: What's the plan, Twi?
Twilight Sparkle: Well, this may sound rather silly, but I believe that the best way to make Rarity feel like her old self again is to take the time to complete this unfinished Gala dress for her.
Rainbow Dash: (just stares at her for a few seconds until finally responding) I'm sorry, what?
Sunrise Blossom: (gasps) Why, Twilight, you're a genius! (Gives her sister a hug) That's the best idea I've heard from you in a LONG time!
Twilight Sparkle: (has breathing difficulties) Uh...thank you...Sunrise...I think?
Pinkie Pie: Hay, yeah! That will TOTALLY make Rarity super extra happy and cheery again! Best idea EVER!
Rainbow Dash: (thinks over it) Hmm. Well, it's an okay plan, I guess. I mean, it's not like any of us come with anything BETTER to do for Rarity. But I do believe however that there is just ONE fatal flaw in this plan of yours, Twilight.
Sunrise Blossom: (finally lets go of Twilight after hugging her so tightly) Awww! Come on, Rainbow Dash! Why do you have to be such a mood killer right now? We're trying to make Rarity feel better here!
Rainbow Dash: But that's just it, Sunrise! We don't even know HOW to finish that dress...or even MAKE one in general for that matter! Rarity's been doing this for years on end before you two even moved to Ponyville and never even ONCE messed up. Us on the other hoof, I think we're gonna need some help.
Narrator: (clears his throat) Excuse me. Perhaps I could be of some help.
Rainbow Dash: (jumps in shock) Huh?! H-h-hey! (Gulps nervously) W-w-who's t-that talking there?
Fluttershy: (gasps) Oh no! You...y-you don't t-think it's a g-g-g-ghost come to h-haunt us for ruining everything for Rarity, d-d-do you? (Hides underneath Twilight) HIDE ME, TWILIGHT! HIDE ME!
Twilight Sparkle: Whoa! Hey! Come out from under there, Fluttershy! Calm down! There's no such things as ghosts! It's probably just...
Sunrise Blossom: Hold on a second there, sister. I don't know why, but...I think I can remembering hearing this voice from somewhere before.
Twilight Sparkle: (confused) You can? W-w-whatever do you mean, Sunrise?
Sunrise Blossom: (looks up at the ceiling trying to find where the voice is coming from) Uh, hello? Narrator? Is that you out there?
Narrator: Oh! Uh...hey there, Miss Blossom. Um...I wasn't really expecting you to actually recognise me that quickly. Come to think of it, I wasn't really expecting ANY of you to recognise me that quickly. And even if I WAS expecting it, I would have expected Pinkie Pie to be the one recognising me first.
Pinkie Pie: (gasps) That voice! It...it knows who I am! Hey, wait a minute! You're not...(gasps again in realisation) Oh my Celestia! It really IS! You're that narrator guy from all those Goofy cartoons we've all watched as fillies, aren't you?
Rainbow Dash: (confused again) He's who from what?
Narrator: Why, yes. Yes, I am.
Pinkie Pie: YIPPEE! Oh, no wonder you sound so familiar to me now! Man, those cartoons you and Goofy did together were ALWAYS a riot! They still make me laugh even to this day! (Bursts into laughter)
Sunrise Blossom: (remembering her fillyhood with Twilight) Oh, you and me both, Pinkie Pie. Hey, does anyone remember that one where Goofy temporarily becomes a ghost and tries to scare poor Donald?
Pinkie Pie: Ooh, ooh! And Donald doesn't even notice or get scared until the near end when Goofy wakes him up from sleeping with his eyes open? (Goes into a HUGE giggle fit with Sunrise) Ah, that gets me everytime.
Sunrise Blossom: (wipes a tear from her eyes and sighs happily) Really brings back good memories, doesn't it, Twilight?
Twilight Sparkle: Uhhh...I guess it WOULD...if I could actually remember them as well as you two seem to. So, uh...hey there, um...Mr. Narrator.
Narrator: And a hello to you too there, Twilight Sparkle. So nice to meet you and all your wonderful friends here today.
Twilight Sparkle: Oh. (Blushes at the compliment) Well, thank you very much for saying so. But if you don't mind me asking this, what exactly are you doing here?
Narrator: Well, you see, it's been so long since Goofy and I last made a cartoon together. So, I thought I'd try my hand at doing the same things I used to do back then but in other worlds with other people instead. Just recently, I visited your good friend, Rarity, right after she finished making her first lot of Gala dresses and complimented her on them. I know a lot about dresses and how to make them. But then, I'm a narrator, I know how to do just about anything!
Sunrise Blossom: And you're here to help show us how to finish Rarity's Gala dress as perfectly as she does, right?
Narrator: But of course, Miss Blossom. I always like helping people...or in this case, magical talking ponies. It won't take long at all.
Twilight Sparkle: Well, let's hope not. At the moment, Rarity's in such a bad state and may leave town or worse if we don't get a move on.
Narrator: Right, Twilight. Let's gather all the things we'll need to do this and make a start.
Everyone Else: Right!
*First, after a few minutes of waiting until Rarity falls asleep from crying so much, Twilight uses her magic to unlock the door and they rush into the room to gather up everything they need for the dress while Sunrise finds the sketch and a horse-shaped mannequin.*
Sunrise Blossom: (pins the sketch on the board) Here's the sketch. And this mannequin here has what Rarity did right before this madness all started.
Rainbow Dash: (gathering some purple fabric from one of Rarity's drawers) Uh, Sunrise? (Looks left and right) Um, WHO are you talking to?
Rarity: (Both ponies freeze when Rarity starts crying in her sleep.) "No…no…I'm am a good designer! Stop saying that…no…it's not true!"
Sunrise Blossom: (keeping her voice as quiet as she can) Shhh! Not so loud, Rainbow Dash! We mustn't wake Rarity! (Takes the sketch and the mannequin outside her room quickly) Now, come on! We've got a dress to make here! Grab your fabric and let's go! (Follows everyone else downstairs)
Rainbow Dash: (now carrying a whole pile of purple fabric in her hooves) C-c-coming! (Struggles) NNNNNNNNNGH! Oh, Celestia! This is heavy! (Starting to lose balance as she flies out the room quietly) W-w-whoa! Starting to l-lose...b-balance! W-w-whoa! C-c-can't...keep like this...much...longer! (Loses balance completely) WHOA! (Tumbles all the way down the stairs) OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW! OOF! Uhhhh...I'm okay!
Everyone Else: (from downstairs) Shhh!
Rainbow Dash: (also from downstairs now) Sorry!
Timon: (pauses the scene) Okay, l-l-let me just ask you a quick question real quick for a moment here, Sunrise. Was it REALLY madness with all the decisions that your sister and the others were making about their dresses? Tell me honestly.
Sunrise Blossom: (sighs and nods sadly) Yes. It WAS madness. And poor Rarity nearly lost all her sanity because of it.
Pumbaa: That's sad.
Sunrise Blossom: Yeah. It was. (Clicks the play button on the remote continuing the scene)
Rainbow Dash: (now outside with her friends where everything else is, still struggling with her pile of purple fabric) NNNNNNNNNGH! Where do you...want me to...drop...all this? (Losing balance again) W-w-whoa! U-uh oh! N-not again! (Falls over and drops her pile) Whoa-OOF! (Dazed) Ugh...how about here? (Passes out)
Sunrise Blossom: You know, you REALLY didn't have to bring down a whole PILE of fabric, Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash: (sarcastically) Great! NOW, you tell me! Thanks a lot, Sunrise! (Passes out again)
Sunrise Blossom: (takes a look around at everything they've gathered) Well, it looks like we've got just about everything we need for the job. Okay, Mr. Narrator, now that we've got everything we need, what do we do next?
Narrator: Ah. Well, this is where I now come in. First, you must take the purple fabric you've collected and gently place it down flat on the table.
Fluttershy: I've got it. (Grabs one piece of purple fabric from Rainbow Dash's enormous pile) Say, Applejack, could you help me make sure this fabric stays flat once I place it down on this table, please?
Applejack: Sure thing, Fluttershy.
Fluttershy: Okay. Here we go. (Spreads the purple fabric across the table while Applejack helps her make sure it stays flat) There. Perfect. Nicely done, Applejack.
Applejack: Yup. That was all too easy. So, what's next, Mr. Narrator in the sky guy?
Narrator: Well, next, you must pin the pattern pieces onto the fabric and then proceed to cut the pieces out with a pair of scissors. (Pauses) This part could get a little bit tricky.
Twilight Sparkle: Not to worry. I've got this. (Magically places the patterns onto the fabric and pins them into place) There. Now then, somepony want to pass me the scissors?
Pinkie Pie: Ooh, ooh! Let me cut the pieces out, Twilight! Please? I've never used scissors before and I want to help out any way I can for Rarity! We all do!
Twilight Sparkle: Sorry, Pinkie Pie, but scissors can be very dangerous things to ponies that aren't careful. Best leave that up to me. After all, it would be rather difficult for you to pick up things like scissors with just your hooves anyway.
Pinkie Pie: (now a little bit disappointed) Oh yeah.
*Carefully as she can, Twilight uses her magic to neatly cut all the pieces out with the scissors without making ANY mistakes.*
Twilight Sparkle: (after she's finished cutting the pieces out) Yes. I think that's it.
Narrator: Very nice, Twilight. Not one mistake made. Only you could've been able to pull something like THAT off.
Twilight Sparkle: (giggles at the compliment while blushing again) Oh, stop it, you. You're embarrassing me right in front of my friends here. (Clears her throat) So, um...what's next?
Narrator: Ah. Now, this one is probably going to take a bit more time than the previous steps, but now, we have to remove the patterns and put them on the mannequin, pinning them together.
Twilight Sparkle: Sounds easy enough. But why exactly would this step take more time than how long the previous steps took?
Narrator: It's because you'll have to repeat the process you've made so far on the rest of the fabric you'll need over there.
Twilight Sparkle: Oh.
Narrator: But don't worry. I'm sure it won't take too long as long as you all work together.
Pinkie Pie: Okie dokie lokie! Come on, girls! Let's do this!
Everyone Else: Yeah!
*So, Sunrise Blossom and Pinkie Pie carefully put the fabric pieces onto the mannequin while everyone else repeats the process they've made so far on the rest of the fabric just as the Narrator had pointed out. This takes a bit of time. Actually, quite a LOT of time. So...let's skip ahead a few hours, shall we?*
Spongebob Squarepants Narrator With The French Accent: Several hours later...
*Well, it's been several hours now and it looks like Rarity's Gala dress is almost just about finished. Don't believe me? Take a look at that mannequin. The full dress is on it.*
Sunrise Blossom: Whew! Man, that sure took a LONG time, didn't it? But it'll all be worth it in the end, right? So, uh...now that the pieces are all assembled, what do we do next?
Narrator: Well, first things first, this part may ALSO get a little bit tricky for some of you a bit like the step with the scissors. But the next thing to do now is to sew the pieces together and carefully remove all the pins.
Twilight Sparkle: Right. (Carries the pieces to the sewing machine, where Sunrise Blossom has set up the thread) Uh, does anypony here know how to sew?
Fluttershy: Um...I can try. (Gulps) I hope. (Sits before the sewing machine) Well, here goes nothing. (Starts sewing the fabric together while the twins magically remove the pins)
Rainbow Dash: (looks at Fluttershy with a rather surprised look on her face) What the...?! F-f-Fluttershy?! B-b-but HOW?! W-w-where did you even learn how to sew so well like that?!
Fluttershy: (shrugs) I wish I knew that myself, Rainbow Dash. I never really learned how I was able to sew, even though a class was offered, but somehow, it just...comes naturally to me. A bit like my stare.
Pinkie Pie: Ooh! Spooky!
Timon: (pauses the scene again) Okay, seriously, where the heck DID Fluttershy even learn to sew like that?!
Sunrise Blossom: (sighs again) I'm afraid this is another one of those unanswered mysteries that will never be able to be properly solved, Timon. Nopony knows how she managed to do it. Not even me. Why, I bet if anypony even went as far as to ask Princess Celestia or Princess Luna that question, they probably wouldn't know the answer to it either.
Timon: (grumbles) Hmph. Some rulers of Equestria THEY are.
Sunrise Blossom: Oh, come on, Timon. They're not all THAT bad.
Timon: (sarcastically) Yeah, you'd like to believe that about Celestia, wouldn't you?
Pumbaa: (whispers to Timon) Psst! Timon? Do you think maybe if I tried sewing without even trying or taking any classes whatsoever, I would do as well as Fluttershy did too?
Timon: (rolls his eyes) Eh...sure, Pumbaa. Why not? Knock yourself out.
Pumbaa: Yay!
Timon: Okay, okay. Let's just continue on with the rest of the story already. (Unpauses the scene with a click of the remote)
*Soon, after Fluttershy somehow manages to perfectly sew all of the pieces together and the last pins get taken off as carefully as possible, Twilight then proceeds to put the now finished dress onto the mannequin.*
Twilight Sparkle: Phew! There we go! All finished! Good work, girls! We did a great job on this!
Sunrise Blossom: We sure did, sister. We sure did. (Looks up at the sky again) So, Mr. Narrator, what do you think of this then?
Narrator: Wonderful! That's really all I can say about things right now, Sunrise! It's...really wonderful! You all did such a great job on this, girls. Not only that, but you mananged to make the dress so perfectly well without making a single mistake or messing up completley like Goofy would've done if he had been here. (Stops to have a quick think) Hmm.
Rainbow Dash: (confused once more) Uhhh...what are you thinking about up there, Mr. Narrator, sir?
Narrator: Hmm? Oh! Nothing. Just...nothing. (Pauses) Well, nothing TOO important anyway. Just thinking about what to do next now that the dress has finished being made.
Twilight Sparkle: Oh, I wouldn't worry about what we should do next. Right, girls?
Sunrise Blossom: Yeah. That's right, Twilight. It's time we go and present this newly made dress to Rarity and see if that makes her feel better.
Pinkie Pie: (getting excited) Ooh, I bet she's gonna LOVE it!
Twilight Sparkle: Well, let us hope so, Pinkie. (Looks up to the sky again) Thanks for all your help, Mr. Narrator.
Sunrise Blossom: Yeah. I don't think we could've been able to do it without you.
Narrator: It was my pleasure, girls. Just doing my job like I always have been doing. I'll be sure to check in with you all later to see how things went. Bye!
Everyone Else: Bye!
Narrator: (waits till everyone is gone to get Rarity's attention) Hmm. Goofy learning how to make dresses. Sounds like the perfect opportunity to spend some quality time with him again after so long. But how to get him here, I wonder? Hmm.
(Foreshadowing to one of my favorite Season 1 one-shots written by the one and only Dede42 herself! It's called "Art of the Dress" just like the name of Rarity's song. Check it out for yourself if you haven't already seen it yet. I'm sure you'll all love it the same as I still do.)
A/N: This is turning out really great, online brother, and yes, I do miss posting on Wednesdays like I used to. Darn writer's block! Yeah, it's been making it hard for me to focus, and I thought it would go away once the holidays were done.
But no, 2020 had to make life harder then it needs to be for the whole world. Anyway, I plan on having more about Lightning Dust's backstory up for Wednesday. Hugs for days! Bye for now! R&R everyone!