In the music room of Canterlot High, Rarity and Falling Star are explaining to the girls about the idea for raising money to give to Camp Everfree. Rarity is very excited about it
After finishing explaining her plan, Rarity says, "See? It's a wonderful plan. We'll write some lyrics for our new song, and we'll choreograph some dance moves. Then our video will win a cash prize, and voilà!"
"You make it sound simple as pie," Applejack says, sounding unsure..
"That's because it is! The girls at Crystal Prep even agree. They're making a video, too," Rarity answers with a smile.
"They are?" Twilight questions.
Rarity asks in concern, "I-Is that a problem, darling?"
"Oh, no, it's not. Just haven't heard much about my old school since I left, I guess," Twilight answers, feeling a bit sad.
"Well, if you ask me, Crystal Prep has got nothin' on CHS! I love it here!" Spike says with a smile.
Fluttershy gives Spike on the chin and he shudder in delight, and says, "See what I mean?"
Rarity remembers something, "Okay, before we get started with the choreographing of our dance moves and…"
Rarity mumbles and lets out a sheepish smile as she says, "There's just one tiny, teeny-weensey, little thing I forgot to mention."
"What's that?" Sun asks.
Rarity becomes nervous, then fastly answers, "I would need to use our fundraiser money to buy costume materials for the video!"
The girls look at each other in concern to hear Rarity's request.
Aria asks, "Rarity are you sure about this? The deadline is next week, and when are we supposed to turn in the video?"
"Very soon," Rarity answers.
"How much is the grand prize worth?" Adagio asks.
"More than double what we need to fix up Camp Everfree!" Rarity answers with glee.
"Hah! Then of course you can use the money for costumes!" Rainbow says with confidence.
Applejack sighs, "Oh, what the hay? Why not?"
"Sweet!" Rainbow shouts.
"Whee-hee!" Pinkie cheers, giving Rarity a hug.
Twilight brings out her calculatorp as she says, "According to my calculations, if we lend Rarity the funds we've already raised, we stand to gain four times as much money as we have now."
The girls cheer.
But Twilight says, "But if we lose the video contest, we'll be completely back to square one and zero dollars. Anyone else think this is an awfully risky endeavor?"
The girls look at Twilight with concern and straight looks.
Aria firmly glares at Twilight, "Don't burst our bubble, Sparkle."
"Okay," Twilight answers with a sheepish smile.
Sonata gasp, "Are we going to have bubbles in the music video?"
Rarity shakes her head, "No."
"Aww!" Sonata replies in disappointment.
Rarity smiles and happily asks, "All right, girls. Who's ready to shoot our winning dance music video?"
Everyone cheer in excitement. Applejack then hands Rarity the box with the fundraising money.
Rarity laughs with excitement, and says, "Looks like I have some fabric shopping to do!"
Falling Star become a bit concern, but does agree with the music video. However, there is something else going on in her mind.
In the school gym, the girls are all dressed up for the music video. Rarity has the assistance of Photo Finish and her two friends, along with Vinyl with the video and the music. Rarity is sitting on the director's seat to make sure everything goes right.
Rarity calls out, "Let's take it from the top one more time. Rainbow Dash, don't forget your cue. It's when Fluttershy does her triple pirouette, okay?"
She turns to Photo Finish, and she puts a thumbs up, meaning they are ready to film.
Rarity calls out, "And... action!"
Vinyl plays the music and the girls try their best to dance. However, Sun and Fluttershy are having trouble with their foot work. Fluttershy is able to pirouette once. The Rainbow and Aria gets on stage trying to do some hip hop, but a little hard when more people are on stage.
Fed up with it, Rarity shouts, "Cut!"
Just then, the music scratches and it turns off.
"Hey! What happened to the music?" Rainbow asks, looking confused.
Rarity feels like she is ready to cream, but calm down, and calmly directs, "Fluttershy, it's supposed to be a triple pirouette."
Fluttershy begins to stutter, and says, "I know. It's just that... um... uh, I-I don't think I can do one of those."
"Darling, of course you can, darling. I believe in you," Rarity reassures.
"How about you try "jazz paws" instead?" Spike suggests.
"Heh. Thanks, Spike. But all these moves are pretty hard," Sun replies.
"Oh, I know. But if we want to win, we have to bring our A-game!" Rarity says, sounding confident.
"Crystal Prep certainly will. They're excellent dancers, and you know how they love to compete," Twilight replies.
Rarity becomes a bit concern about Twilight's statement.
Applejack comes over, and suggests, "How about we forget about the other teams and get back to dancin'?"
Great idea, Applejack!" Pinkie happily replies.
The others turn around to see Pinkie imitating a synth drums.
Pinkie continues to do it as she says, "It's really fun!... I haven't stopped this whole time!"
The girls begin laughing with smiles on their faces.
Sonata comes over, and says, " I want to do it too."
Then Sonata begin to copy Pinkie Pie. Adagio and Aria roll their eyes in response while the others, excluding Rarity begin laughing.
Rarity manages to keep cool, and says, "Let's take it from Aria and Rainbow's entrance."
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She sits back on her chair, and says, "And... action!"
Fluttershy and Sun do their dance move. Then Aria and Rabinwo enter the stage doing their hip hop dance. Just then, Sun ends up getting her heel snag on to
Rainbow's jacket. They try to get it off, but they end up ripping the jacket. Then Rainbow falls on top of Aria, sending them both to the ground.
Rarity gasps, "Oh no!"
She then runs up the stage, and asks, "Are you two alright?"
"Sorry guys," Sun apologizes.
Rainbow sits up, "I am, but my jacket got ripped."
Rarity takes off Rainbow's jacket, and says, "You girls continue practicing and I'll get this fixed.
Rarity runs off the stage and leave to get this fashion problem fixed. Adagio, Sonata, and Falling Star enter the stage with their costumes.
Adagio sighs, "This video is not going so well."
"Um, are you alright, Aria?" Sonata asks, kneeling down to Aria.
Aria lifts her head with a firm glare, and says, "Music videos are stupid."
At the mall, Rarity has just exist the fabric store. She is so excited that about the video.
"Oh, it's a good thing I budget for backup fabric," Rarity says to herself.
Just then, she star to hear music, and wonder what it could come from. Curious, she looks up ahead to see Sour Sweets and the others.
Rarity gasps and studies the clothes as the girls perform, "Is that a disco-inspired look? And a street ballet tutu?!"
The girls perform their dance perfectly and they have a video camera recording all of this.
Rarity shockley exclaims, "I don't believe it. They stole my brilliant idea!"
In her bedroom, Rarity continues to fix the ripped jacket. She's always focused when it comes to her work. Just then, she hears a knock on the door. The door opens to see Rainbow holding the knob while the others are behind her.
Pinkie happily cheers, "We're here!"
The ten girls enter the room. Some sit on the bed while the others continue standing.
"We got your text. You said it was an emergency?" Twilight questions.
"Everythin' all right, sugarcube?" Applejack asks.
Well, since you asked…"
Rarity begins to sob, and says, "The answer is no!"
Fluttershy gasps, "Oh, no! What happened?"
Rarity continues to cry as she explains, "Sour Sweet... and the... Crystal... Prep girls stole our video concept!"
She sniffs as she whips the tears, "I saw them filming at the mall. They copied my design ideas and everything! So of course they looked absolutely fabulous. But the worst part is that they're all incredible dancers!"
Pinkie gasps, "Major bummer in the summer!"
"Tissue for your issue?" Pinkie adds handing Rarity a tissue.
Rarity takes it and blows on it, then sadly says, "Everyone is counting on me, on the video to win us the prize money for the camp."
Rarity sighs, and says, "Oh, how could I have been such a fool?! Of course, those Crystal Preppers stole my concept! I practically served it to them on a platter!"
Twilight Sparkle: Don't be too hard on yourself. It's gonna take more than one Friendship Games for those Crystal Prep girls to learn that winning isn't everything.
"Still what they did is not right," sun replies.
"You think they learn about this after what happened at the Friendship Games," Adagio replies.
Aria cracks her knuckles and says, "Well, if what happened at the Friendship Games won't convince them that thinking of winning and don't care about what happens cause trouble, maybe I will."
"I don't think it's a good idea to resort to violence, Aria," Sonata says, looking unsure.
"Says you," Aria remarks.
"I'm not going to let you beat them up," Adagio firmly glares at Aria.
Aria rolls her eyes, "Fine."
Applejack comes up, and says, "Eh, maybe this was all for the best."
Rarity looks up at the girls looking confused, "Hmm? W-What do you mean?"
"Uh, your concept and costumes are really awesome, but, uh... our dancin'..." Applejack calmly explains.
"Nnnnot so much," Falling Star replies.
"Our footstep was way off," Aria adds.
Applejack giggles, and says, "We could barely get in a two-step without trippin' over each other's boots.
"You can say that again!" Pinkie replies.
The girls begin laughing, except for Rarity, Falling Star, and Aria
"Nonsense! You all looked great!" Rarity screams.
Rarity sighs, and sternly explains, "Okay, maybe not great, but, but... but it was getting there! And the point is we don't have to let them win! That is our video concept! And I am going straight to Crystal Prep to let them know that they have messed with the wrong girls! Mmm! Who's with me?!"
Everyone is silent for a minute.
Rarity sheepishly says, "No, n-no, seriously, who is with me? I have no idea how to get to Crystal Prep."
Twilight speaks up, saying, "I'll go. Maybe I can try to reason with them. We were classmates once."
"I'm in. Maybe I can help you out," Sun says.
"I'll go too," Falling Star sadly replies.
Then Adagio says, "I'll go too. It's better than Aria beating them up, or Sonata saying something childish."
"Hey!" Aria and Sonata yelp in anger.
"That's the spirit! Come on!" Rarity happily cheers.
With that, the five girls set off to go to Crystal Prep to see if they can reason with the Shadowbolt girls. Hopefully they can reason with them about using someone concept and trying to win. Either way, something has to be set right about this dilemma.