Alright! This chapter was pretty easy to write, not gonna lie. But I still had fun with it and made some changes her and there so I think it turned out good, hope you all enjoy.
Oh, and responding to those two guest reviews, no. I'm not doing Pinkie x Spike.
At the Ponyville train station, the Mane 6, Spike, Lincoln, and Wendy were getting ready to board the train that was station there with all have them having a bag. Well, expect for Rarity who didn't have just one bed…but a crap ton!
And all of them being on a cart being pulled by Applejack.
"Oh, I can't thank you enough darling. I knew I could count on you to help me with my bags." Rarity said in a thankful tone to her marefriend followed by a kiss to the cheek.
"Heh, anything for mah girl." Applejack said as she pulled the cart without difficulty. Thank God for all that farm work improving her strength over the years.
As everypony approached the train Rarity raised her head and sighed in delight before speaking up. "An entire week in the fabulous city of Manehatten, plus all of my very best friends there with me!"
"Hehehe, Manehatten." Wendy said with a giggle with Lincoln rolling his eyes. "I think Luan would like this place."
"Oh don't even talk about that." Lincoln groaned as his older sisters many, many, MANY, bad puns came into his mind. "She'd be making horse puns non-stop!"
"Anyway…" Twilight said, getting the conversation back on the topic Rarity was talking about. "Of course we'd come along to support you during Fashion Week, Rarity."
"Now that you'll need it." Fluttershy said encouragingly. "We're sure you'll win."
"She's right." Lincoln said with a smile towards the white Unicorn. "You could give me sister Leni a run for her funny in cloths making."
Rarity beamed at their praise as she started stomping her feet up and down trying to contain her excitement. "Ooh! I can't begin to tell you how excited I am that you'll be there with me." But Rarity then smirked as she used her magic to pick up the one pink suitcase she was carrying herself. "However, perhaps I can show you…" Rarity then used her magic to take 9 tickets out of her bag and unraveling them in a similar manner to a paper fan.
"What's that?" Twilight asked as everypony in front of Rarity looked at them with a curious expression.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! I know! A paper fan!" Pinkie Pie guessed, assuming due to the shape the tickets were all making together.
"No." Rarity shook her head with a laugh. The fashionista was about to properly explain but was cute off when Pinkie started jumping up and down and talking again.
"It's a magic trick!" Pinkie Pie said in her usual excited tone. "You know, where I pick a card and remember what it is and then put it back in the deck so you can't look at it and-"
Pinkie was then cut off my Lincoln putting his hand over her mouth. "Pinkie, maybe just let Rarity explain it." Lincoln told the pink pony with a chuckle.
"Thank you Lincoln." Rarity said as she started walking up to the rest of the group. "These are tickets to the hottest musical on Bridleway!"
The group took a look at the tickets again and their eyes widened a bit as Twilight looked to Rarity with a small grin and asked. "You couldn't mean Hinny of the Hills, because that show's been sold out for months! Or could you?"
"I could. I do." Rarity said while looking right in Twilights eyes.
"YES!" Lincoln, rather surprisingly, heard. "I've been wanting to see that musical for so long! I story of a girl who wants to leave her home on the farm and pursue her dream of going to the big city to achieve her dream of being a song and dance pony!"
Everypony, including Wendy, looked to Lincoln with a rather surprised expression with some of them raising their eyebrows. "What?" Lincoln asked all them. "I like stuff like that…" Everypony continued giving him strange looks. "I have a life outside of all of you!"
"Well then…" Applejack said awkwardly before wrapping a hoof around her marefriend. "Ya didn't have to go and do that for us sugarcube…but…since you did," The rest of the Mane 6 and Wendy started jumping up and down and cheering.
"This trip is already fun!" Pinkie cheered as she started bouncing up and down. "I love jumping up and down!"
After about a 3-hour train ride, the group all found themselves in the city of Manehatten. It was much like cities back in Lincoln and Wendy's universe. With the exception of the vehicles being chariots painted like taxi's being pulled by other ponies.
There were tall buildings everywhere, it was very noisy and busy, ponies moving everywhere around the streets. So yeah, other than the lack of cars, and ponies instead of humans, it reminded Wendy and Lincoln of the cities back home. Especially Great Lakes City where the Casagrande's live.
Once they stepped outside the train station, Wendy took a deep breath of Manehatten air and sighed with content. "Gotta love that big city air."
Rarity mimicked Wendy in her actions and sighed as well after taking in the city air. "Indeed." The fashionista said in agreement. "Now then, come along everypony. I found us a place to stay only a block from the station, in the very heart of this glorious metropolis!"
"Wow, you thought of everything didn't you Rarity." Wendy complimented while reading a 'Welcome to Manehatten' brochure.'
"Of course darling!" Rarity said as the group started walking through the streets of the city with Applejack once again pulling the cart filled with Rarity's bags.
As they were walking, Applejack looked to the side and smiled as she pointed to the direction she was looking at. "Hey look! There's the theater where Hinny of the Hills is playing!" Applejack told everypony as they all looked to see a theater with ponies lined up all the way down the block and maybe even longer then that.
"Hehe, enjoy the line." Lincoln muttered quietly so the others wouldn't hear as he looked at the dozens of ponies standing in line.
As they walked past all the ponies, Twilights turned to the fashionista and asked. "Wow Rarity, how'd you manage to get us seats for tomorrow night?"
"Yeah, it couldn't have been easy." Spike said as he walked next to the purple Alicorn.
"Well, I gave some designs to the pony who designs the costumes for the play and he pulled a few strings." Rarity explained with a proud smile on her face.
"Cool!" Everypony else said in unison.
"That is what makes Manehatten so splendid and amazing. You do something nice for somepony, and you never know when they'll do something nice for you."
"So then you can do something nice for us!" Applejack said as she gave Rarity a kiss on the cheek, making the fashionista giggle and blush.
"Like gets us in to see Hinny of the Hills." Fluttershy added in with a happy smile.
"That's a pretty good policy to like by Rarity." Lincoln complimented as he crossed his arms. "Just being nice to people just for the sake of being nice and sometimes you get something back. Although you should still be careful, not everyone is like that. There's always gonna be something out there looking to scam ya."
"Oh, pish posh darling." Rarity said with a smile as she waved off Lincoln's claims. "I believe everypony has good in them and it just takes you showing them goodness yourself to help bring it out."
"Well…if you say so." Lincoln said with uncertainty in his voice. He just hoped nothing bad would end up happening to the fashionista. "Anyway, Hinny of the Hill should be a lot of fun."
"Well duh!" Rainbow Dash of all ponies stated. "Its only like, the best musical in all of Equestria."
"Ah, so I'm not the only one with a love for the theater huh?" Lincoln teased the Pegasus with a mocking grin.
Rainbow blushed in embarrassment and rolled her eyes at the Loud boy as she crossed her hooves. Applejack then chimed in as she chuckled from what Lincoln said. "Yeah, it must be good if Rainbow likes it. Normally, she doesn't even like musicals."
"I know." Rainbow said as she turned to the farm pony. "Ponies just bursting into song in random places at the drop of a hat. Who does that?"
"And 3, 2, 1." Wendy counted down in a smirk as Rarity…
Rarity:
Oh Manehatten, what you do to me.
"Called it!" Wendy cheered with a pumped-up fist.
Rarity:
Such a huge bustling community.
And there's always opportunity to do the friendly thing.
If some are grouchy, pay no mind.
Surprise instead with something kind.
As Rarity sung thing, she watched her marefriend wipe some sweat off her forehead as she pulled her luggage and went over to a carrot dog stand and got one for her and one for Applejack which the farm pony happily ate.
Rarity:
Lo-and-behold you may just find
A smile is what you'll bring.
The group then reached the hotel they were staying where a pony in a doorman uniform came out with a luggage cart. "Welcome to the Mane Fair Hotel." The door pony welcomed with a smile. "Please allow me to take those bags to your room for you."
"Only if you'll accept this gratuity first." Rarity said as she used her magic to pull up a purple gem and put it in the door ponys pocket.
"Oh ho, ho! I'll get your change." The door pony said as he couldn't believe a pony would give him something like that as a mere tip.
But Rarity simple shook her head and told the door pony. "Do keep it all. I insist."
Rarity:
Generosity!
I'm here to show all that I can give
Generosity!
I'm here to set the bar
Just sit back and watch how I live
The group then all took a boat to the Statue of Ponerty where they went up to the look out on the torch. Rarity was about to look through the binoculars set up on there, but a tourist stallion was wanting to look through at the same time, so Rarity simply stepped aside and let the stallion go first. "After you." The fashionista said kindly.
"Why thank you!" The stallion said thankfully.
Rarity nodded and then heard somepony shivering and looked to see another stallion shivering from the winds up on the torch. Rarity then went over to him and took her pink scarf off and wrapped it around his neck. "Please, take mine." Rarity told the stallion who smiled as the scarf instantly warmed him up.
"Wow, ok!" He said gratefully.
Rarity:
Some may say, "Rarity,
Don't be so big-hearted and bold
Treating strangers like they're friends
This town's too big and cold"
The group were now walking through the streets again with Rarity bumping into a stallion and making him drop the newspaper he was reading causing him to growl at Rarity. But Rarity smiled as she used to magic to bring up a single yellow flower on a flower cart. Rarity gave the pony running the cart a purple gem and put the flower on the Stallion hat which made him smile widely.
Rarity:
But this is how I play my cards
I'm not about to fold
Where I see a frown, I go to town
Call me the smile patrol
Fluttershy:
What if you find a Gloomy Gus?
Applejack:
It's no intimidatin' thing
Pinkie Pie:
Just be kind without a fuss
As they sung, they saw a Taxi-Chariot with a broken wheel and the pony riding the chariot complaining about it. Wendy then easily lifted the chariot up to where it was standing upright which allowed Lincoln to turn into Clockwork and reverse time around the chariot to where the wheel was repaired once again.
Rarity:
Generosity, I'm here to show all that I can do
Generosity, you are the key
Manehattan, I'm here just for you
Just for you
Once Rarity was finished, Wendy giggled happily as she said. "I love this world."
Later, Rarity was now looking at the window of a fashion store where a beautiful dress was being displayed with the white Unicorn with a dreaming look. "To think my dress might be on display on the most glamorous shopping thoroughfare of the most glamorous city in Equestria." Rarity said as she fantasized about it in her mind. "Oh! It would be my dream come true."
"Is there anything left to do we can help you with?" Twilight asked as she and Pinkie looked to Rarity with smiles on their faces.
"Hmmm…" The purple maned Unicorn hummed. "Nothing I can think of. The dresses are all completely finished, all made from a fabulous new fabric I've been developing for months stretchy but not clingy, shimmery but now showy."
"Sounds amazing." Fluttershy complimented.
"Thats mah girl." Applejack said as she nodded at Rarity. "Always giving everything her absolute best."
"Why thank you darling." Rarity thanked her marefriend with a blush on her face. "There's nothing left for me to do but check in at the runway with my dresses by two this afternoon."
"That's funny!" Pinkie said as she pointed up at a clock tower. "Because that clock over there makes it seem like that's only two minutes from now."
Everypony looked to the clock and indeed saw the time.
1:50.
"Uh-oh…" Lincoln said as dark clouds started filling the sky followed by rain and thunder.
"Oh my ribbons and threads." Rarity said as she started to panic. "And the runway ballroom is all the way across town! If I don't get there, I'm disqualified! Taaaaxiii!" Rarity then ran off calling in desperate need for a cab.
"Oh no!" We've got to help her find a cab now!" Fluttershy said with everypony nodded in agreement.
"I'm on it!" Rainbow Dash said as she quickly flew to and landed up onto the nearest cab and asked the pony pulling it. "Is this cab taken?"
"Hey!" The pony already inside the taxy said in an annoyed tone. "The line ends back there, buddy!"
"Huh, what?" Rainbow Dash said as she looked behind her and saw a line of ponies so long it went through the corner of the street. "Does everypony in town want a cab?"
"You'd think it'd be fast to walk to where they're going then to wait in this line." Lincoln said in a deadpanned tone.
"I'm afraid getting a taxi at this time could prove almost impossible." Rarity said sadly as she used a newspaper as an umbrella.
As another Taxi came up, Twilight walked up to the next pony in line. "Please won't you let her have this taxi?" Twilight asked the Stallion. "She has somewhere very important to be right away!"
"Not likely!" The Stallion rudely said to the purple Alicorn. "She can get in line like the rest of us!" As the Stallion got on the taxi, the other ponies in line yelled at Rarity and told her to get in the back.
"Oh its no use." Twilight said sadly as she, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash sat on the curb. "The cab drivers just drive right past to get to the next pony in line!"
But right as she said that, a taxi was pulled up to them with the taxi being the same one they helped repair the wheel for. The Stallion pulling the taxi looked to the group with a smile. "The wheel works like a charm." He told them as the Mane 6, Spike, Lincoln, and Wendy smiled back at him. "So now which one of you nice folks are hoppin' in?"
Rarity was quick to hop inside the taxi and told the stallion. "Fashion Runway Plaza in seven minutes. Can you make it?"
"Hang on!" The Stallion said as he bolted at top speed toward said destination with Rarity giving a quick ta-ta to her friends.
"Crisis averted." Wendy said as she placed her hands to her hips.
"Eeyup!" Applejack said, quoting her brother. "That sure was a close one."
Everypony nodded happily in agreement, but Spikes eyes widened as he realized something. "Anypony else got a sneaking suspicion we're forgetting something?"
Everypony put a hoof/hand to their respective chins in thought. Lincoln was the first to realize as he said. "Ah…crapbaskets."
"THE DRESSES!"
They completely forgot about the dresses! Without those, Rarity won't be able to compete! But luckily, Lincoln was quickly at it as he activated the Ultimatrix. "Don't worry! Leave this to me!" Lincoln then slammed down the core and transformed into…
"XLR8!" Once transformed, the Loud boy quickly lowered his visor and got in a running stance. "Gotta run!" The kineceleran then sped off in a blur pushing everypony back a bit.
In a matter of seconds, XLR8 was at the hotel and ran right up to the room he and the rest of his friends were at. And XLR8 stopped right in front Rarity massive mountain of luggage. The transformed Loud Boy groaned as he face palmed. "Who bring this much stuff when we're only stay here a couple of days!"
XLR8 then decided to just go down to it and with his usual speed and opened each case one by one. What would have taken a normal person/pony probably hours to do XLR8 only took about 7 seconds until he finally found what he was looking for. "Got em!" XLR8 said before speeding out of the hotel.
"My– My dresses! How could I possibly forget them?!" Rarity yelled in a panicked as she realized on crucial thing. She forgot her dresses. And without them, she was disqualified. "I'm dooooomed!"
"Not quite!"
Rarity and the desk pony looked, with the desk pony gasping and falling backwards in her seat in response, to see XLR8 standing in the doorway and holding all of Rarity's dresses. "Looking for these!" XLR8 asked while holding up the dresses.
"Lincoln!" Rarity said with stars in her eyes. "Oh I couldn't be happier to see you right now!" Rarity then ran up the transformed boy and took all her dresses from him with her magic. "Oh thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You've saved me!"
"Its what I do." XLR8 said with a thumbs up.
However, Rarity then raised a brow as something came to her mind. "Now hold on, in that form you should have been here before me, what kept you?" The fashionista asked as XLR8 rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"I…had no idea where this place was." The kineceleran admitted with a nervous chuckle. "I kinda got lost and was just running through the city randomly until I found this place. On the bright side I found a place that makes great chimichanga's."
Rarity sweat dropped in response but nodded. "Yes well, you got here just in time darling so no harm no foul."
"Welp, glad I could help." XLR8 said to the fashionista as he raised his visor and gave her a smile. "I'm gonna go look around the city some more. Good luck with the competition!"
"Oh, don't worry darling, I won't need luck." Rarity said confidently as she started walking to where she needed to be for the fashion week competition.
XLR8 gave one last wave to Rarity before hitting the Ultimatrix symbol and transforming back to normal. Lincoln stretched out a bit, his joints cracking a bit, before sighing. "Well, might as well see what Manehatten has to offer." Lincoln then went outside and started walking through the city streets. And as he was passing an alleyway…
"Alright, the heist begins tonight."
Lincoln's eyes widened as his ears perked up a bit when he heard a gruff voice from inside the alley. Lincoln looked in both directions to see if anypony was watching him and when he saw nopony was, he carefully tip toed in the alley and put a hand to his ear to hear better.
"Alright, we gotta do this right. We'll only have on chance."
Looking closer, Lincoln saw a group of 3 stallions with appearances that just screamed criminals. All them had ski mask on covering their faces as well as long black jackets that hid their cutie marks.
"Hahaha! We are gonna be some rich ponies once we get that bank!" The third pony, a short and rather overweight stallion said.
"Yeah, it'll be the crime of the century!" The first Stallion, a tall and skinny one stated with a grin, showing off a gold tooth.
"9 o'clock right?" The 2nd Stallion the oldest one of the bunch asked for confirmation. While the other two were Earth Ponies, this Stallion was a unicorn.
"How about right now? And instead of rubbing a bank, its me kicking your guys butts!"
All three stallions gasped and looked to see Lincoln standing in front of them with a fierce look on his face. "What in Tartorus is that thing?!" The short chubby stallion yelled while pointing to Lincoln.
"I think it's some sort of hairless ape?" The tall skinny Stallion guessed.
"I'm not a hairless ape." Lincoln said as he activated the Ultimatrix with the 3 criminals readying themselves for anything. "I'm thee hairless ape." Lincoln then slammed down the core of the Ultimatrix, blinding the three criminals with an emerald light.
When it was gone and the three Stallions could see again, they saw that in Lincoln place…was a pile of orange goo. The criminals all gave confused looks but suddenly a ufo-like device came out of nowhere and somehow picked all the goo up and formed it into a humanoid shape.
"Goop!" The now transformed Loud boy called out in a high-pitched voice.
"What the fu-" Before the tall skinny Stallion could finish suddenly Goop swung his arm at the Stallion and fired a large goo ball at him that launched him into the wall the stuck him right on there.
"We don't have the right to use that word!" Goop yelled as he started spinning around and firing goo balls rapid fire. The two remaining Stallions quickly jumped behind a dumpster to take cover from the goo barrage. "Great! Right as we're planning to do the heist, some freak of nature shows up!" The skinny Stallion yelled
"I can hear you!" Goop yelled as he made the next Goop ball he fired acidic causing the ball to burn right through the dumpster and making the two Stallions flinch.
"Alright that's it!" The old Unicorn said as he stood up. "I've lived to long to be scared of some living pile of snot!" The Stallion then ran out from behind the dumpster and he aimed his horn right at Goop. "EAT MAGIC YA ORANGE BLOD!" The Stallion then fired magic blast right at Goop but all each one did was blast right through Goop and left a hole in the Polymorph that was regenerated almost instantly.
"That all ya got?" Goop asked as he crossed his arms, feeling no pain at all.
The Unicorn gulped a bit as he started shaking. "Uh…y-y-yeah…kinda…" Before the Stallion knew it, Goop shot another goo ball at the old Unicorn and trapped him right next to his friend.
The short and chubby Stallion saw all this and quickly started running away as fast as he could. Goop heard him running away and looked to see the Stallion galloping away with a look of terror on his face. Goop narrowed his eyes at the running Stallion and chuckled a bit. "You're not getting away that easy!" Goop then morph into a ball and quickly zipped forward.
The stallion didn't even notice Goop speed by him in a blur and didn't have time to react when Goop stopped and stretched his entire body out and attached to both walls. The Stallion yelled and tried to stop but it was no use as he ended up running right into Goops body and was trapped like a fly in a web.
Goop moved his eyes over to the Stallion where he glared at him. The Stallion chuckled sheepishly before saying, "We're in trouble aren't we?"
"You have no idea." Goop responded with.
About 45 minutes later, a chariot painted like a cop car with a cage attached to the back of it. And the cage was being used to contain the three criminal Stallions who were tied up in Goops goo and were being escorted by a Pegasus Stallion in a police officer's uniform.
And currently Lincoln was in front of a Police-Mare Earth Pony with her Cutie Mark being a police siren. "We can't thank you enough for catching these three. They've been on the loose for months committing crimes and we're never able to catch em, they always pull the slip." She told Lincoln with a smile and a Manehatten accent.
"Well, just doing my job ma'am." Lincoln said as he shook the police-mares hoof. "I'm always happy to help out the law."
"Well, if there's anything we can do for you, just name it." The police-mare offered kindly as Lincoln looked up with a thoughtful smile.
"Nothing comes to mind but I'll let you know." Lincoln told the police-mare. The officer tipped her hat to Lincoln before going back to their police-chariot.
Lincoln dusted his hands off as the police-stallion pulled the cop-chariot away with the criminals in tow. "Another day, another group of bad guys behind bars."
"Lincoln? What are you still doing here?"
Lincoln looked back and saw Rarity with all her dresses in tow looking at him with a raised brow. "Oh hey Rarity, just got a little caught up with something." Lincoln said as he put his hands in his hoodie pockets and walked up to the white Unicorn. "How'd it go?"
"Oh it went excellent darling!" Rarity said happily as she stroked one of her dresses. "I just have to come back tomorrow…a little earlier. I even ran into an old friend and help them out!"
"Heh, classic Rarity." Lincoln said with a small chuckle. "Wanna get your dresses back to the hotel and meet up with everyone?"
"I was thinking the exact same thing darling." Rarity agreed with a nodded as they both walked back to the hotel together.
THE NEXT DAY
The next day, Rarity made her way back to Faison Runway Plaza with her dresses again and walked up to the desk pony. "Hello! I'm here half an hour early for my run-through appointment, just the way Prim likes!" Rarity said with confidence in her voice.
"Get in line over there." The desk pony said as she pointed to a line of other ponies showing off their own cloths. Just then the desk pony looked at Rarity's and couldn't help but put on an impressed look. "That fabric is gorgeous! Did you make it yourself?"
"Why yes." Rarity answered. "It's stretchy but not clingy."
"Shimmery but not showy."
Rarity's eyes widened as she suddenly heard herself speaking in unison with another pony. "And the entire line is in this same adorable pattern that works on everything from skirts to tops to shoes." The voice continued explaining which is how Rarity would describe her dresses excatly.
Rarity heard the voice was coming from the main part of the building and looked past the other ponies in line and gasped when she saw her old friend she saw again yesterday, Suri Polomare, showing off dresses. Dresses that were exact copies of Rarity's down to the very fabric.
Rarity froze as she saw Suri claiming the fabric Rarity herself made as her own with the pony running the competition, Prim Hemline, clapping in response. "Oh, bravo! I've never seen anything like it!" Suri smiled at the praise and started walking away, put suddenly she was halted but Rarity getting right into her face with an angry look.
"You stole my fabric!" Rarity yelled at the light pink Earth Pony with 3 buttons as her Cutie Mark.
Suri laughed in response as she poked Rarity chest and start walking past the Unicorn. "I I didn't steal it, okay? You gave it to me, 'member?" Suri said, reminding Rarity how she gave her the fabric yesterday.
"I gave you the fabric for accents!" Rarity yelled back as she turned to face Suri. "Not for your whole line! And how could you possibly make all of those outfits out of it so fast?!"
As Rarity said this, another Earth Pony with a light beige fur color and blue mane and tail with lighter blue highlight was pushing the rack of Suri's dresses. "Fast? Hah! Coco Pommel here took practically forever." Suri said while pointing to the pony pushes the dresses. "Nearly got me completely disqualified."
Coco held her head down a bit in response as she tried to explain herself in a meek tone. "Well, I wanted to make sure you'd win, so I took the extra time to—"
But Coco was cut off by Suri yelling "Quiet!" while getting into Coco's face rudely. "I pay an assistant to sew and get coffee, not talk. 'Kay?"
Rarity gasped sadly as she turned around and quietly asked herself. "How could this happen?"
"Aw, sweetie, don't blame yourself." Suri said in a cockily sweet tone. "It takes some small-town fillies a while to learn it's everypony for herself in the big city, m'kay?" After that, rarity took off running away and crying with Suri simply smiling to herself and telling Coco. "Hope you realize how fortunate you are to have me as a mentor."
Coco looked down with an unsure look on herself before Suri yelled at her again. "Now go get me some coffee!"
Back at the hotel, the Mane 6, except Rarity, Lincoln, Wendy, and Spike all walked into the room with smiles on their faces. "Oh, my gosh, what a great afternoon!" Twilight said with a happy tone. "That was almost too much fun!"
"Hell yeah!" Lincoln cheered with a pumped up first. "Getting to see the entire city from the top of that building was awesome!"
"Better pace yourself, cause the rest of the day is jam-packed!" Rainbow Dash cheered while wearing an 'I heart Manehatten' hat.
"First there's the salon appointment to get our manes done." Applejack listed.
"Then visiting the ice-skating rink." Wendy listed with an eager smile.
"Then our fancy dinner at the Far-Afield Tavern!" Pinkie Pie cheered while bouncing.
"And after that…" Fluttershy started saying with an excited smile.
"Hinny of the Hills!" The entire group said while laughing afterward.
But just then Rarity walked into the hotel room with tears running down her eyes and her mane all frizzled up. The group stopped laughing as they heard Rarity sniffling and looked to the fashionista with Applejack gasping and running to her marefriend with concern evident in her expression. "Rarity! Are you ok?" Applejack asked as Rarity quickly lunged herself onto her marefriend and cried into AJ's shoulder with the farm pony holding her tightly in comfort.
"Oh my gosh!" Wendy gasped as she covered her mouth. "You weren't mugged, were you?"
"I might as well have been!" Rarity sobbed while looking up from Applejacks shoulder. "Suri Pommel stole my dress design!"
"What?!" The entire group gasped.
"Uh-Huh." Rarity nodded with her mascara now running. "I let one of the other contestants use some of my one-of-a-kind fabric…and then she turned it into a wardrobe just like mine…only now it looks like I'm the one copying her! My generosity has ruined me, I tell you! Ruined! You were right Lincoln; I should have been more careful!"
"Hey, hey, hey, lets just calm down." Lincoln said in a gentle tone while kneeling down to be on Rarity's level. "Look, these kinda things just happen. There's almost no avoiding it. But ya wanna know my big sister Lynn always says? When life knocks ya down, you just get right back up stronger than ever!"
"That's right!" Applejack said while ripping away her marefriends tears. "Ya just need to buck up and not let this Suri get ya down! Ya just need some fabric and you'll be back in business."
Rarity looked into Applejacks green eyes for a moment before her eyes widened as she took a look at the curtains on the hotel windows. She then looked at the carpet she and Applejack were on as well as the blankets and sheets.
Rarity then gasped as inspiration hit her from the very room they were in. "This new line is going to be marvelous! Perhaps even better than the last! It's daring, it's bold! Perhaps I still have a chance after all!"
Suddenly, the entire group was working on Rarity's new line with them not looking to happy due to working for hours straight at this point. Twilight, Fluttershy, and Wendy were on sewing machines, Rainbow Dash was working on a Tracing Wheel, Pinkie was working on making sewing thread, and Applejack and Lincoln were on folding duty.
"Ok…maybe this wasn't the best idea." Lincoln quietly said to Applejack as the thing they were using for fabric were the various items in the hotel room. "Pretty sure this counts as stealing.
"Twilight." Rarity said in a firm, bossy tone. "Sew these pieces together according to that pattern there!"
"You said if we skipped dinner at the Far-Afield Tavern, you'd order a meal for us while we keep working." Twilight said to the white Unicorn as they had to skip both dinner, ice-skating, and their salon to help Rarity out.
"Yeah, I'm hungry and my fingers are numb." Wendy groaned as she found it hard to bend her fingers. "How does Leni do this all the time?"
"Don't fret. It'll be here in an hour." Rarity before narrowing her eyes at everypony. "That's not going to be a problem, is it?"
"Well…" Rainbow Dash begun in a nervous tone. "we're supposed to be watching Hinny of the Hills by then..."
"Oh! I see! I go out of my way to get you tickets for a show, and this is how you repay me? By abandoning me in my hour of need?" Rarity accused everypony while putting on a hurt look.
"Rarity, tickets we don't use are just useless pieces of paper." Lincoln told Rarity in a deadpanned look and tone.
Rarity didn't respond to what Lincoln said and kept ranting. "Oh, oh, oh! Fine! Go and see Hinny of the Hills tonight! And then tomorrow morning when you come to see my fashion show without any fashion to show, you can have more entertainment! 'Oh, why look, there's our friend Rarity going down in flames! Isn't friendship magic?!"
"…Roll credits." Pinkie Pie whispered.
"Rarity!" Applejack said in a firm tone as she looked her marefriend in the eyes. "You need to calm down! What's gotten into ya? The mare I love would never act this way!"
"What's gotten into me? What's gotten into you?!" Rarity yelled back. "I thought I could count on all of you, especially my Marefriend, to help me during this time! But no, go ahead! See your little show! Congratu-pony-lations, fillies! Sounds like you've all figured out already it's everypony for herself in this town!"
Rarity then ran out of the rooming slamming the door on her way out. Everypony sighed with Applejack rubbing her forehead. "Oh Rarity…" Applejack said sadly.
"Alright, that's it. I'm taking care of this." Lincoln said as he got up and activated the Ultimatrix.
"Lincoln, now don't do anything drastic." Twilight told him in an uneasy tone.
"Relax, you all just keep helping Rarity out, as annoying as it's getting, and I'm gonna do something to take care of that Suri mare." Lincoln then slammed down the core of the Ultimatrix and turned into-
"Big Chill!" Once transformed, the necrofriggian turned intangible and phased of the hotel and started flying in a certain direction 'Time to cash in that favor.'
Later that night, Rarity was back at the Faison Runway plaza where the competition was at full swing with ponies in the stands and watching the fashion show while taking pictures. And currently Suri's line was up with ponies modeling her stolen dress design.
"Let's have another round of applause for Suri Polomare's amazing collection." Prim Hemline said with said pony right next to her and the crowd cheering in response. "That fabric! So original."
Rarity sighed in irritation from backstage as Suri walked up to her and chuckled. "Well, look who's here." The Earth Pony said in a confident tone with Coco following her and giving Rarity an apologetic expression. "Here to show off your copycat collection, mm? Heh"
"And now…" Prim Hemline began announcing. "Rarity from Ponyville with her brand-new line – and I mean "brand new" – Hotel Chic!" The curtains then opened up and spotslights shined down on ponies wearing outfits based on, and even made of, stuff from hotel rooms.
The crowd was quickly impressed as they started cheering and snapping photos. Rarity gasped and smiled as she watched the crowd's reaction. "Oh! They're liking it! I think I may have just won this thing! Oh, I can't wait to celebrate with... My friends." However, when Rarity looked to where they were supposed to be seated…she saw they weren't there. It was then she also realized how she acted to them earlier. Mean, bossy…selfish. "My friends. They didn't come. What have I done?"
As the models showing off Rarity's clothing made their last round across the runway, Prim Headline walked up next to Rarity and gestured towards the cheering crowd. "Rarity, they all adore you! Aren't you going to tell them about your fabulous pieces?"
However, all Rarity could do was stare where her friends were supposed to sit. Despite all the cheering from the crowd, all she wished for was that her friends were there. Suddenly, Rarity's eyes glowed like a rainbow as she realized what she had to do. "I have to go."
Suddenly Rarity began running across the runaway and towards the exit with Prim and the crowd gasping in surprise. "Come back here at once!" Prim pleaded as she ran after Rarity. "This is unheard of!"
Rarity then ran to the hotel as quickly as possible and when she got there, she saw the door pony was scene out front pushing a cart full of luggage and turned to Rarity with a smile. "How do you do, ma'am? Contest going well?" He asked in a kind and curious tone.
"No time to talk." Rarity quickly responded. "I have to find my friends!"
"Oh, uh, they're gone already." The door pony told the fashionista making her eyes widen. "I saw them headed out this morning."
"Oh no! Back to Ponyville, I imagine." Rarity said sadly with a lowered head. "Oh, they worked so hard on my behalf and I repaid them with unkindness. What have I done?" Rarity then started to run off but stopped and quickly hand the door pony two gem shards. "Here you are." She said before running off again.
"B-But miss, I-I didn't do anything!" The door pony yelled to Rarity as it started raining again.
Rarity was now seen walking down the streets of Manehatten sadly with the running flattening her mane and tail.
Rarity:
Oh, Manehattan, what have I done?
The thought of Fashion Week was fun
But I went way too far
My friends gave to me in ways so kind
And I gave them nothing but a hard time
And now alone I stand
And now alone I stand
Once she was finished singing, Rarity made her way back to Fashion Runway Plaza and rung the bell to get the desk pony's attention. "I need a moment with Prim Hemline." Rarity asked the desk pony. "I have to rush back to Ponyville, but I just wanted to thank her first for-"
However, suddenly Rarity was interrupted by Puri Polomare entering the building and walking up to her and Coco right next to her. "Uh-uh-uh, you'd best steer clear of Prim for a while." Puri told the white Unicorn. "She's pretty furious. Isn't that right?" Puri said that while narrowing her eyes at Coco.
"Um…yes." Coco said in a quiet and meek tone.
But just then the doors opening and walking past Puri and Coco were none other the rest of the Mane 6, Spike, Lincoln, and Wendy. Rarity smiled at her friends as she walked up to them and said. "There you all are! I can't believe it, I thought you went back home!"
"We missed the show because we overslept." Twilight admitted with everypony nodding in confirmation. "Suri told us you lost. I'm really sorry."
"I lost…you know what. I don't care!" Rarity said, surprising everypony a bit. "I'm just happy you're all still here after how I treated you. Taking advantage of your friendship the way I did. How could you ever see past it?"
Applejack then looked up to her Marefriend and looked into her eyes with their muzzles inches apart. And then Applejack spoke. "…Yeah, you were pretty rotten."
Everypony's eyes widened at what Applejack said with Lincoln commenting. "Huh, Element of Brutal Honesty."
Applejack just rolled her eyes at Lincoln and looked back at Rarity. "Look, Last night you may not have seen you at your best, but we know you. And I love you. And we would never let one thing like that change how we feel about you."
Rarity gave a tearful smile as she hugged her marefriend with AJ softly hugging her back. "You're to good for me." Rarity quietly said.
"No." Applejack said immediately in response. "You're perfect for me."
"Aaaaaw." Wendy cooed as she looked at the couple.
Rarity and Applejack then separated with Rarity looking to the rest of her friends. "You really are the most wonderful friends a pony could have!" Rarity said to them in a happy and grateful tone. "You know, I already arranged to make it up to you this afternoon! Hope you're all available for an exclusive performance of Hinny of the Hills!"
"WOO-HOO!" The entire group cheered as they made their way out of the building.
Once they were gonna, Suri smirked and chuckled to herself. "And that is how it's done." Suri said with a confident tone. "Pretty clever how I convinced her to stay away from Prim, wasn't it?" Suri chuckled again before narrowing her eyes at Coco. "Wouldn't have wanted her to find out the truth now, would we?"
Coco looked down in deep thought for a moment. She thought about everything Rarity said and did. How kind she was to her friend. How she would put off everything for them. And compared to Suri…Coco made her decision. "Yeah…I would." Coco said with brand new confidence as she rose her voice at Suri.
Suri was more then surprised as she glared at Coco. "What was that?" Suri growled at her assistant.
"I'm telling her the truth. About everything!" Coco yelled at her, just now, ex-boss. "I'm sick of working under you. Rarity's shown me I don't have to be anything like you to be successful! I don't need you! Now if you'll excuse, I need to speak with Prim!"
Suri watched with a dropped jaw as Coco marched to where Prim was, but that shock turned to anger as she turned back to Coco and yelled. "YOU GET YOUR FLANK BACK HER OR EL-"
"Excuse me ma'am."
"WHAT?!" Suri yelled at the voice behind her. But she quickly flinched when she saw that behind her were the two officer-ponies Lincoln met the other day. "Oh, uh, may I help you officers?"
"Are you Suri Polomare?" The Earth Pony mare officer asked.
"Why yes I am." Suri said with a nod. "Um, could we hurry this up, I'm kinda busy right now."
The mare nodded at her Pegasus partner as the Police-Stallion used his wing to reach inside his saddle bag and pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Suri. "What's this?" Suri said as she took the paper and read it over. But her eyes soon widened as she yelled what it said. "A FINE FOR 75,000 BITS! WHY?!"
"Plagiarism." The Pegasus officer answered. "Got word from multiple eyewitnesses that you tried to show of somepony else's work as your own. Ya know my daddy owned a pottery shop and it was punks like you that put him out of business. It's why I became a cop."
"But-but-but-but-but-" Suri was repeatedly saying as she struggled to think of a response.
"Its either that or spend a year doing time." The police-mare said before the cops walked away, leaving Suri stuck in shock.
"AND I'M A DANCING PONY!"
The pony on stage sung as the Mane 6, Spike, Lincoln, and Wendy, just finished up their private showing of Hinny of the Hills. The entire group cheered as Applejack said. "Wow! That was even better than I imagined!"
"I loved it!" Rainbow Dash cheered as she flew up and did some flips. Just then she looked to see everypony looking at her with raised brows so Rainbow quickly sat back down and tried to play it cool. "Uh, I mean, it was a'ight."
Everypony laughed in response, but then Pinkie looked at a certain Loud boy and gave him a soft smile. "Awww, Lincoln are you crying?"
Everypony looked to see Lincoln sitting in his seat with a few tears in his eyes from watching the show. "Um…no!" Lincoln quickly said as he wiped his tears away. "I'm not crying!"
"Aww, come here you!" Wendy said as she set her boyfriend on her lap and hugged him closely with Lincoln blushing in embarrassment.
Everypony laughed a bit again before Twilight turned to Rarity and asked. "How did you ever get them to agree to do an extra performance just for us?"
"Remember my costume designer friend who got me the tickets?" Rarity asked, with everypony nodding in response. "Well, I offered to make all the costumes for his next show!"
However, everypony frowned a bit as they realized what this meant. "Um, here in Manehattan?" Fluttershy asked in a saddened tone.
"Well, um... yes..." Rarity confirmed with a frown. "It will keep me away from Ponyville for a while." The entire group sighed in response as Rarity continued speaking. "But I so wanted you to see this show! And working for this designer is such a great opportunity!"
"We know." Applejack sadly said. "We're happy for you, Rarity. We're just sad for us…and…me."
Rarity then wrapped her marefriend up in a soft hug and gave the orange Earth Pony a kiss on the cheek. "I know darling…"
"We're gonna miss you so much." Wendy sad with a lowered head.
"Mind if I join you?"
The entire group looked back and saw none other then Coco Pommel looking at them from the back of the theater. "Sure. Come on down." Rarity said, giving Coco permission to approach them. Just then Coco walked up to Rarity and pulled a trophy out of her saddle bag and presented it to the white Unicorn. "This is the first-place trophy for Fashion Week." Rarity then gasped as she read what was engraved on the trophy's stand. "With my name on it! But I thought I lost!"
"You didn't. You won." Coco told the fashionista with a smile. "Suri was hoping that if you didn't claim your prize, the judges would consider it a forfeit and first place would go to her. So, she lied to make you and your friends go away, and, well, I lied too. I've worked for Suri for so long, I started to believe that it really is everypony for herself in this town. Until I saw how generous you were with your friends and how generous they were with you. It made me start believing there was something better for me out there. So, I– I quit. I brought you something to say thank you."
Coco then reached into her saddle bag again and pulled out small blue gift box with a white ribbon on it. Rarity took it and looked at it with a smile as an idea came to her mind. "Hm, I suppose you'll need a job now that you're no longer with Suri. How would you like to work for my friend making all the costumes for his next show?" The purple maned unique offered to which Coco gasped in excitement and happily nodded.
"Manehattan was simply grand." A few hours later, the group check out of the hotel and caught the next train back to Ponyville. Once they were back in town, Rarity went back home and started writing in the friendship journal her and her friends have been writing in ever since the night at the old castle. "It was in this magnificent metropolis that I learned that, while there are ponies who will take advantage of your generosity, you should never, ever let that cause you to abandon your generous spirit. Nothing feels worse than taking advantage of the giving nature of your friends."
Once Rarity was done, she set the journal down and opened the gift Coco gave her. She smiled when she saw it was a sewing thread with rainbow thread around it. Rarity used her magic to display it on a shelf before turning around and walking away…missing it glowing like a rainbow for a brief second.
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THE HUMAN WORLD
"Come…on…just…move…"
In the front yard to Cantorlot hair, one could see the human version of Rarity pushing a full-sized Piano towards the school. Rarity grunted as her hair was all frizzy due to how much she was sweating from pushing the piano. "Come on Rarity!" She cheered herself on. "You have to get this piano into the music room so I can show off my musical talent!"
Rarity then shoulder checked the piano a few times and only got it to move an inch or two. "UGH! What kind of person doesn't put wheels on a piano?" Rarity complained. The fashionista then looked herself over and sighed. "Just look at me. I'm a mess."
Rarity then put a finger to her chin in thought. "What I need is some extra muscle." Rarity tapped her chin a few times before snapping her fingers. "Of course!"
"Oh I can't thank you enough for doing this for me darling!" Rarity said as she laid on top of the piano in an alluring pose with Rarity girlfriend Applejack easily pushing the piano through the school.
"Heh, anything for mah sugarcube." Applejack said while giving Rarity a flirty look. Applejack was easily able to push the piano, but she was suddenly forced to stop as a crowd of students blocked the way. But Applejack wasn't gonna let that slow her down for long as she gripped the piano tightly. "Hold on! This might get bumpy!"
"Oh dear." Rarity squeaked as she held onto the instrument for dear life.
Applejack then started pushing at full force, forcing her way past the students while constantly giving "Sorry!" and "Outta the way!" To her fellow students.
In the music room of Cantorlot High, Rainbow Dash was standing by herself tapping her foot impatiently as she looked at her watch. "Come on! Where is she" The rainbow haired girl said impatiently.
"I'm here!" Suddenly, as if on cue, Rarity came through the door while still on top of the piano with Applejack still behind it and pushing. "Sorry I'm late darling, I got a little held up."
"I'm here to!" Applejack said as she smiled and waved at Rainbow.
Rainbow sighed in response as Rarity jumped off the piano and dusted herself off. "Rarity, couldn't you have picked a more portal instrument?" Rainbow Dash asked the fashionista.
"Oh heavens no." Rarity instantly responded with. "The Grand Piano is the most refined and elegant of instruments I will be able to express my full musicality." Rarity then got ready to play when-
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!
"Well, our times up anyway." Rainbow said while holding a timer. "Looks like you'll have to show me your stuff from the auditorium."
"Ah, applesauce." Applejack groaned. Applejack then looked up when she heard Rarity whine a bit. The farm girl looked around the music room and smiled when she saw something of interest. "Hey Rarity…" Rarity then looked up to see her girlfriend handing her a keytar. "Why don't you try this?"
"Huh…" Rarity hummed as she looked at the instrument with interest. "I suppose I could try." Rarity then grabbed the instrument from Applejack and started playing it with expertise with Rarity nodding in approval of the sound it was making. "Oh my!"
Rarity then continued playing the keytar and really getting into it and making amazing music with Rainbow Dash and Applejack bobbing their heads to hit and tapping their feet.
But suddenly, as Rarity was playing, the instrument started to glow, and Rarity started to float in the air as a light blue aura covered her. Suddenly, like at the Fall Formal, white pony ears appeared on her head and her hair extend into a long ponytail.
Rainbow and Applejack gasped and smiled as they saw magic suddenly go through Rarity body as she continued to play.
Rarity then finished up her playing as she stopped floating and knee-slid on the Grand Piano. "Woah!" Rainbow Dash cheered. "How'd you do that!?"
"I…I have no idea." Rarity said with a smile as she looked at the instrument Applejack gave her. "I just started playing it and it happened."
"Well we gotta tell the others about this!" Rainbow Dash said enthusiastically. "Come on! I'll text em to meet us in the auditorium!"
"Uh wait, before you do that." Applejack said with a frown, stopping Rainbow Dash. "Just so you know, Sunset isn't here today."
"Oh dear." Rarity said as she quickly frowned and gained a worried tone. "Is she having another…episode?"
"Fraid so." Applejack answered as she adjusted her hat. "Wallflower and Pinkie texted me, they tried to get Sunset to come out of her apartment but…no luck."
"That's the fourth time this week." Rainbow Dash said with a frown of her own. "I'm starting to get kinda worried about her."
"Me to." Rarity said in a quiet tone as she got off the piano. "Well…not much we can do now. We just have to go back and try again later." Everyone nodded in agreement as the three headed out of the music room with Applejack pushing Rarity's piano again.
Like I said, I think I did pretty good with this chapter. And I hoped you enjoyed that little EQG's bit at the end, because it won't be the last. Just setting up for the future ;). Well, remember to fav, follow, and leave a review and stay tuned for the next chapter...
"Rainbow Falls."
