They soon went to go and have some fun and started with a rollercoaster ride, and where it seemed to be scary from the ground to Fluttershy.
"Pretty great, right?!" Rainbow Dash laughed.
"What?!" Fluttershy yelped as she hid behind the map.
"Can you hear me over all the screaming?!" Rainbow Dash asked her.
"I can't hear you over all the screaming!" Fluttershy told her.
The screaming continued as people were already on the ride before them.
"Oh. I wish I'd gone with Sunset and Twilight," Fluttershy shivered. "Or Pinkie Pie. Or anyone else in the entire park."
"How about we start out with one of the other rides?" Atticus asked.
"Hey, good idea! A warm-up before the big game!" Rainbow Dash agreed. "Ooh! What did you have in mind? Dragon Lands Drag Racing? Ooh, the Appleloosa Runaway Train! Ooh, Neighagara Falls Barrel Flume?!"
"Mm-mm." Fluttershy shook her head before smiling and pointed to one ride.
They were soon on a rollercoaster that was for little kids.
'Well, this is a warm-up.' Patch thought to himself.
Fluttershy let out a scream before they went down a tiny hill. "Oh, these kids are so brave." she then smiled proudly at the kids who had fun on their rollercaster.
"Ugh." Rainbow Dash face-palmed to that.
Once they were done with that ride, they soon went on the rollercoaster that was much faster.
Cherry, Applejack, and Rarity soon walked together.
"Applejack, this parade is a living, breathing dance of light and sound!" Rarity smiled to her friend before calling out to the workers who had clothes for her to judge. "Love it, lock it, stitch it. Beautiful, perfect, I just threw up, love it. Now hurry up! I need these done yesterday!"
"And it begins..." Cherry quietly groaned. "Anyway, Applejack, I'm glad you're with us."
"Anythin' Ah can do to help?" Applejack offered.
"Play a great show tonight?" Rarity suggested with a smile before looking to the mascot and glared that way. "Excuse me! I know I am not seeing a lapped zipper on that faux fur! A lapped zipper is simply a stuck zipper waiting to happen! Ugh!" she then looked back to Applejack. "This is what I'm up against."
"Uh, yeah, she can tell." Cherry told her.
"So, uh... Wanna take a break and go get a caramel apple?" Applejack offered.
"That sounds pretty good." Cherry said.
"Oh, Cherry, we can't, we're a tad super busy, remember?" Rarity replied.
"Yeah, but a break would be good." Cherry said.
"In good time, in good time." Rarity told her.
"Of course. Ah-Ah just thought..." Applejack tried to say, but felt nervous. "Uh, never mind. You're right. I wouldn't wanna rain on your parade."
"Rain?! I didn't plan for rain!" Rarity yelped. "Cherry, get me 100 ponchos, stat!"
"Are you telling me what to do?" Cherry glared.
"Cherry, you promised you'd help out, so I expect you to do it." Rarity said to her before walking off.
Cherry soon glared and her left eye twitched as her teeth clenched.
"Whoa, calm down, Sugar Cube, how about you come with me to take a break?" Applejack suggested the perky goth.
"Please...?" Cherry replied, a bit softly.
"Come on, let's go," Applejack smiled. "Ah'm sure Rarity will understand."
"Thanks, Applejack..." Cherry soon settled down.
They both soon left as Rarity kept on her work.
Meanwhile, some of the others were on the rollercoaster.
"I'm proud of you. You know that? You're facing your fears head-on," Rainbow Dash smiled to Fluttershy as they were riding up slowly. "Just like I always did as a kid. I mean, look, a 400 foot vertical drop right into these loop-de-loops and a corkscrew? You're probably super-nervous about that, I bet. Heh. And that next part where it goes backwards? Uh, how are you feeling, Fluttershy?"
"Fluttershy, you alright?" Patch asked.
Fluttershy quietly whimpered and looked terrified.
"Is it even safe to be this high up?" Rainbow Dash asked before seeing that Fluttershy was scared out of her wits. "You're probably thinking, 'Stop the ride! I want to get off!' That's what you want, right? Right now?"
"Don't worry, Fluttershy, you can do this." Atticus assured her.
Fluttershy scrunched up as she looked like she just wanted this to be over.
"You're about to yell it? Stop the ride!" Rainbow Dash smiled nervously before she soon got scared herself. "Seriously! Please, somebody stop the ride! STOP THE RIIIIIIIDE!"
The rollercoaster then took them down the hill through the tunnel and the other patrons were excited. Once the ride was over, Fluttershy actually looked like she enjoyed the ride.
"Whoa... Everything's spinning..." Atticus said with a chuckle.
"That was actually kind of fun." Fluttershy giggled.
"See? It wasn't so bad after all." Patch smiled.
"Totally! That's why I didn't want to get off!" Rainbow Dash laughed nervously. "I was just saying what you would've said. That's all."
"You were very brave." Fluttershy smiled, patting her shoulders.
"Yeah." Atticus and Patch added.
"Heh. You, too... By the way." Rainbow Dash chuckled sheepishly as she wobbled.
Fluttershy giggled to that before she got a text on her phone. Patch soon got a text as well. They both looked curious to each other, wondering what it was all about.
Meanwhile, Applejack wandered around with the map, seeming a little lost.
"The caramel apple stand should be around here somewhere." Cherry said.
"Apples! Caramel apples over here!" A boy called out from a stand. "We've got red and green and everything in between!"
"Micro Chips?!" Applejack asked him.
"Caramel Apple?" The boy smiled while Cherry nearly drooled.
"First, yes, second, you're working as caramel girl?" Cherry asked.
"Vignette said she wanted cool nerd chic. I'd say she found it. Wouldn't you?" Micro Chips replied.
"Uhh..." Cherry blinked, not sure how to respond, even as he got the apple stuck in the caramel. "Need some help with that?"
"Uh, do you by any chance have a knife or samurai sword or several tiny but very sharp nail clippers?" Micro Chips smiled sheepishly.
"Uh, no, sorry." Cherry said.
Micro Chips still struggled with the apple and soon got more apples stuck to him with the sticky caramel. Cherry and Applejack both winced to this, even when Micro Chips offered a couple of apples to them. They both soon noticed Fluttershy and Patch with Vignette.
"I know what you're thinking," Vignette talked with the two. "'But, Vignette, how can I ever thank you for coming up with such a brilliant idea for the parade?'."
"I don't understand," Vignette replied. "You want us to pretend we're someone else tonight?"
"Even I'm not sure how to understand about this." Patch said.
"Everyone in the band has a new role," Vignette replied. "It's part of my BOLD, NEW VISION! All caps, Helvetica, 65. 'Fluttershy: Bad Girl'. Patch, you can be The Bad Boy too, all girls love a bad boy. Spiked hair, ripped tights. I've already commissioned an A-list graffiti/sneaker artist to tag up a custom guitar. How do you feel about skulls? B.Y.B.B."
Fluttershy and Patch soon looked to each other, both concerned about that.
"Um, sorry, but I don't think I want to be a bad boy." Patch told Vignette.
"Uh, maybe you, um... Shouldn't do it. At all, and... Um... The same for me... As a bad girl." Fluttershy agreed softly.
Vignette looked to them with a small smirk. "You're right. If collabing isn't your thing, that's your life decision to make. But I just thought of a way for us both to get exactly what we want."
"You did?" Fluttershy smiled.
"Why don't I like that smirk on your face?" Patch asked.
"I don't know why you wouldn't, this is a good thing, of course," Vignette smiled innocently. "Getting what I want is what I do best, sweetie. Now say 'Cheese'!"
Fluttershy didn't even have time to react as Vignette soon brought out her phone to take a picture, but something strange happened, and where Fluttershy and Patch were what looked to be downloaded into her phone.
"Sorry, Fluttershy and Patch," Vignette cooed. "You'll thank me later."
Suddenly, Fluttershy and Patch were shown to be in a blank white room.
"Um, excuse me?" Fluttershy called as her voice echoed. "Vignette? Where am I?"
Patch soon noticed a bowl of fruit salad. "And can we eat this?" He then spoke up.
"I-I'm feeling stressed..." Fluttershy added.
Patch and Fluttershy frowned, both wondering how they would get themselves out of this one.
Meanwhile with Sci-Twi and Sunset...
Two game vendors soon tried to get their attention.
"Step right up! Don't be shy!"
"You like prizes? We got prizes!"
"Toss this ring onto any one of these bottles! Easiest game in the park!"
"Sounds like fun." Mo smiled.
"Wow! This game does look easy!" Sci-Twi approved.
"Would ya lookee here? Somebody who knows a thing or two about a thing or two!" Flim smiled.
"Guys, they're just giving ya the old bump-and-tingle to lure you in," Sunset sighed. "These games are rigged."
"And these two seem like the untrustworthy types." Mo said.
"Slanderous!" Flim replied.
"Libelous!" Flam added.
Mo narrowed her eyes to them.
"Do you know what's not rigged? The laws of physics," Sci-Twi told Mo and Sunset. "Assuming no air resistance and a vertical displacement of zero, horizontal displacement equals initial projectile velocity squared times the sine of twice the launch angle divided by the acceleration due to gravity."
"You're right." Mo smiled.
"You understood all of that?" Sunset asked Mo.
"Basically it's gravity; what comes up, must come down." Mo smiled.
'Oh... Right..." Sunset then said, a bit bashfully.
Sci-Twi soon gave Flim her ticket and picked up a ring to toss onto a bottle. She then aimed and the ring landed on the bottle, but was still spinning around the neck of the bottle. Mo began to bite on her nails.
"Oh, the suspense!" Flim cried out.
"The drama!" Flam added.
"I can't watch!"
"Hold me!"
Eventually, somehow, the ring bounced up off of the bottle.
"What?!" Mo gasped.
"Argh!" Sci-Twi groaned in defeat.
"You were pretty close, though," Sunset coaxed. "Maybe we should try one more time?"
"Yeah." Mo added.
Flim and Flam hid smirks to each other as the girls brought out more tickets to try out the game.
Meanwhile, back with Applejack and Cherry...
"This should be the set room." Cherry told Applejack before opening the door.
Workers appeared to be in a rush as they came inside.
"Finished!" Rarity smiled to a model, putting a special cowboy outfit on him before plugging in the cords. "Let there be light!" And where the lights on the outfit soon turned on.
"Maybe tonight won't be a disaster after all." Rarity smiled to the model.
Suddenly, the lights began to short-circuit and they powered down.
"I didn't do it!" Cherry cried out.
Rarity soon looked like she was about to lose it before keeping her cool.
The others looked concerned like they were expecting something.
"Will you, uh, excuse me for a moment?" Rarity asked before walking away and leaped into a pile of clothes, looking quite broken down. "OF ALL THE OUTLANDISH CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE UNIVERSE, WHY ARE ALL THE WRETCHED THINGS HAPPENING TO ME?!"
"I ask myself that question every time I get out of bed." Cherry commented.
"Hey, Rarity, how's-" Applejack was about to ask.
"I wasn't having a meltdown!" Rarity glared as she looked mentally unstable. "Who said I was having a meltdown?! I AM NOT HAVING A MELTDOWN!"
"Are you sure about that?" Cherry asked.
"GET ME A PROTEIN SHAKE!" Rarity told her, blowing her hair back.
Cherry felt disturbed to see Rarity acting like this and soon walked off, too shocked to react any other way.
"Uh, have you seen Fluttershy or Patch?" Applejack asked. "See, they went wanderin' off with Vignette and then just disappeared."
"Are you honestly asking me this right now?" Rarity asked.
"Oh, it's not that Ah don't trust Vignette, if that's what you're thinkin'." Applejack said to her.
"We're in a giant fun park with 50,000 people. 'Course you can't find them," Rarity replied before gasping. "50,000 people! All looking at my costumes!"
"Rarity, what about Fluttershy and Patch?" Cherry asked as she came back with a protein shake.
"Are you seriously not concerned about Fluttershy or Patch?" Applejack asked Rarity.
"That's a hundred thousand individual eyeballs, Applejack and Cherry." Rarity clarified.
"Well, if you ain't gonna worry about 'em, Cherry and Ah will!" Applejack replied.
"Come on, Applejack, let's go look for them." Cherry said.
The two soon walked away, leaving the fashionista alone.
"SOMEBODY GET ME A BIGGER PILE OF CLOTHES TO SCREAM INTO!" Rarity demanded like a diva.
Two set people soon placed more clothes into the pile. Rarity then jumped into them with a muffle.
