Lightning Dust has seen better days. She’s on the verge of becoming a full-blown alcoholic, and her career is in shambles. She’s gotten so desperate that she even found a support group to help her work through her problems, but the first meeting turns out to be nothing like what she expected. This isn’t the gathering of former antagonists that she was looking for. In fact, some of these creatures shouldn’t even exist!

Rarity has just opened her boutique in Ponyville and has become a Real Fashion Designer.

Except she’s so bored.

Rarity needs something fresh to keep her in the public’s eye. A drama, a scandal, a rival.

And it seems one just moved in down the street.

Fluttershy has the chance of a lifetime: to perform at the palace Hearth's Warming party with her bird chorus. Alas, it is a suit-and-tie event... and that applies to birds as well.

Enter Rarity, to save Hearth's Warming! But as the deadline looms and complications arise, perhaps Fluttershy isn't the one who'll be saved.

Written for Ghost Mike for Jinglemas 2021. I hope you enjoy it!