//------------------------------// // Dance Magic Part 1: Fundraising Issues // Story: Magical Movie Night: Another Story // by ArcanaMaverick7 //------------------------------// It was a sunny day at Canterlot High School and the Rainbooms were busy with a car wash they were holding. As Sunset Shimmer and Applejack soaked their sponges and scrubbed the vehicle that needed cleaning, Pinkie Pie was cheering on her friends as she spoke in rhythm. "To the right! To the right! To the left! To the left! Now up! Now up! Bring it down! Spin it around! Wash that car like you mean it! Come on!" After the muddy truck was scrubbed down, Fluttershy took a hose to spray off the soapy water and mud. When the truck was rinsed off, Rarity used a cordless blow dryer to dry off most of the vehicle. When the fashionista finished, Pinkie grabbed a pair of towel brushes and wiped down everything she could. With a job well done, Big Macintosh payed for the Rainbooms helping him out before he drove off. "Hah! Thanks, Big Mac," Rainbow Dash said as she accepted the money. "Sweet! More cash to add to the stash!" As Pinkie Pie cheered, Rarity wiped her forehead as the heat was getting to her. "How about a little break? All of this sunshine and suds are doing a number on my hair," she suggested. The other Rainbooms agreed and they walked off to a cooler where they had drinks. As they started to relax, a rainbow-colored flash of light appeared and revealed their friends from the world of Remnant, Fragment Hunter. "Hey, girls," Layla Carbuncle greeted as the group, but noticed that there were only six girls instead of seven. "Where's Twilight?" "Yeah. Has anybody seen her lately," Rainbow Dash questioned as well before their friend showed up. "I'm here. I was just going over the numbers again," Twilight stated as she held a money box in her hands. "Still raising money after what happened the last time we were here," Rebecca Haze asked. "Have we raised enough to make all the repairs to Camp Everfree," Sunset Shimmer asked hopefully. While the ball they hosted helped raise enough to pay back Gloriosa's overdue rent to Filthy Rich, the battles that took place at the campgrounds still did a number on the buildings and landscape. Not to mention all the times that the groups had to repair the dock after it kept getting broken. "We've only raised half. I counted the money four times just to be sure," Twilight replied as she opened the money box to check once more. "We'd help out, but I don't think this world takes Lien," Azalea, in a new casual attire, remarked as she held out a small card with a magnetic reader strip. "If it did, I could ask my uncle Mason for some money. Or my cousin, Valencia." "It's all right. We can just wash more cars. There's gotta be some we missed," Applejack said as she put her hands on Azalea's shoulder and glanced at the parking lot. Looking in the same direction, everyone saw that the lot was completely empty and the only sound they could hear was the wind blowing. To show that the place was deserted, a tumbleweed even passed through the lot. "I, uh, think we're gonna have to come up with a new plan," Sunset Shimmer voiced as everyone saw the empty parking lot. "Where did the tumbleweed come from," Slate Quartz asked as he looked at the lot. "But we're running out of time," Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "The camp fundraising deadline is next week. And Pinkie Pie's already hosted a bake sale with Applejack, Twilight and Fluttershy had that doggie daycare, and Sunset Shimmer and I planned this car wash." "We could help. But, I don't think this place would pay us to be Hunters like back at Remnant," Rua Amaranth said. "Not to worry, darlings," Rarity told her friends. "It's my turn to devise a plan, and I already have something amazing in mind. It will be the most profitable of all of our fundraising events! The pièce de résistance!" "What about peas," asked Slate's sister, Pinkamena Momo Quartz. "Hee-yoo! Now we're talkin'," Applejack exclaimed. "What's your idea?" "Meet me in the music room later this afternoon, and I will explain everything," Rarity said to them. As the Rainbooms and several members of Fragment Hunter walked by Rarity to head off into the school, Sunset Blaze and Spike stayed behind. "You got nothin', huh," the two asked Rarity, which immediately changed her smiling face into one of panic. "How did you know," Rarity asked as she looked at the Huntress and the dog. "I don't need to read your mind to know this sort of thing," Sunset Blaze told the fashionista. "You gave subtle clues during the whole thing and I've been getting good at reading them thanks to my friends." "And I know Twilight does the same sort of thing when she has inventor's block," Spike explained. Rarity sighed as she tried to calm herself down. "I'll think of something in time. I'll just go clear my head at the mall. Bring some of the others with you if they want to join," Rarity said to Blaze before walking off. As the girls separated, Blaze thought she sensed something and looked up at the roof of the school. Suspicious of what she was feeling, she decided to investigate. On the roof of Canterlot High School, a young man with a raccoon tail wearing a black trenchcoat and a mask looked at where Rarity and Blaze were talking. "Well, things certainly got more interesting if Wildfire's here," the man said as his tail twitched. "And who's that beautiful gem she was talking with? I should go see for myself," he told himself before he phased through the roof like a ghost just before Sunset Blaze arrived. Changing from his black coat to a hoodie and removing his mask, the man hid his tail under his clothes and ran a hand through his black and gray ombre hair. "Let's go do some recon," the male said as he began to silently follow Rarity to the Canterlot Mall.