Scene 19: Signups

BB=Bon-Bon

AN-"Welcome to Ponyville's Second Annual Preened and Pompous Pet Project! This is your announcer, Soarin! We have an amazing show for you today! Our show is divided into six portions: Vocals, Dance, Obedience, Fashion, Instrumental and Race. The pet's owner can perform with the pet if need be, but only for Vocals and Instrumentals. First up is the Vocals portion. We have Fluttershy performing with her bird choir, Carrot Top and her ferret, Hank, and Dinky Hooves and her snake, Jake."

Rainbow Dash was at the table where the sign up sheet was a few days earlier.

RD-"Yes, I'd like to enter Arizona here into the Race portion of the show."

BB-"I'm sorry Miss Dash, but it's too late to sign up. The show has already started."

RD-"But you have to let me in! You don't know what I've been through to even get this far!"

BB-"I'm sorry, but the sign ups are finished. It's too late to enter the show at this point."

RD-"But I went through the Everfree Forest, I teamed up with zombie ponies, I even performed a double sonic rainboom! I trained this phoenix myself! We flew through custom made courses and weaved through the trees in Whitetail Wood! You HAVE to let me in!"

BB-"Look, I'm really sorry, but entering the show now is not a possibility. Unless we get special certification from a ranking official, we can't make any exceptions."

Twilight walked in on the scene with Spike on her back.

BB-"Hello, Miss Sparkle. I hope everything's okay for you."

TS-"Of course they are, Bon-Bon. Hey Dash, Apple Bloom just told me about the adventure you had! It sounded amazing! So are you entering the show with Arizona?"

RD-"I'm trying, but apparently it's too late to enter. The only way I can enter is if I have some sort of special permission or something... Wait... Are you a ranking official?"

TS-"Does Celestia's apprentice count as a ranking official?"

BB-"Of course!"

RD-"So if Twilight vouches for me, I'm allowed to enter the show?"

BB-"...I suppose so."

TS-"Well, after hearing what you went through, there's no way I could deny."

BB-"Well... I suppose that since the Race portion of the show is at the end, I could nudge you into the queue."

RD-"THANKS SO MUCH TWI! YOU'RE AWESOME!"

With that, Rainbow dashed off backstage.