Rainbow Dash pushed the DVD into her Pony DVD player. It made a slight whirring sound as it disappeared into the slot.
A screen came up of a huge concert hall. Many screaming fans were pushing and shoving in the mosh pit, while others were in the stands jumping up and down.
A smoke maker was pumping white smoke onto the stage. One by one, compartments opened from the bottom and pushed up ponies with spiky hairstyles and painted eyes.
As the last one came up, the crowd screamed and screeched so loudly Rainbow Dash felt as if the speakers would blow. The shape was still too small to make out properly, but she could tell it was white.
She pressed Play.
The screen went dark.
In faded a logo. It was a circle with a triangle through it.
It faded out again.
In faded a screaming, the same screaming from before. A crazed fan screaming.
The stage appeared. The compartments opened up again and Rainbow Dash still couldn't make out the figure on the stage.
The camera zoomed in.
It was Rarity.
She'd done her mane and tail in the same way on the dummy she'd shown Rainbow Dash.
Her three-diamond cutie mark had been painted over in jet black paint. Over the top of it was the same symbol she'd seen before. It was hastily painted, but it was there all the same.
Her blue eyes were rebellion in themselves. With painted bloodred stripes down her face on either side, you noticed the pure blueness of her eyes. Her black eyeliner also made them stick out. But it wasn't the eyeliner and lashes Rainbow was used to. It was messy, rushed and spiky. It'd been smudged in many places, and Rainbow almost didn't believe Rarity had put it on.
Come on. She's a different pony now. She used to be a hellion.
Rarity held her front hooves up to the top of the stage, and the crowd did the same.
Grinning, Rarity took out her microphone, and yelled, "Hey, there Las Pegasus!"
"The crowd screamed and screeched, jumping up and down constantly.
"Before we all start, I wanna sing something I'm sure you all know...this one's called Equestrian Fly!"
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"I'm an equestrian fly
And I don't know why
I go, 'Buzz, buzz, buzz,'
And it's just because,"
The audience, even though Rarity hadn't written the song, thought she was amazing. They sang along in the same low key as Rarity and waved tiny battery-powered glow sticks that changed colour if you pressed a button. She had one of those from the Colts Like Fillies concert.
The song ended and Rarity stood up, panting.
The crowd screamed its approval.
Rarity's own songs were much more rebellious.
"I know you always thought you'd win!" she yelled.
"I know you always thought you'd win!" the crowd chanted.
"Yeah! I hope you burn in Tartarus!
I never thought you knew I hated you
But Yeah! My love, thats a lie! Lies, lies, lies!"
The crowd chanted Lies, lies, lies over and over.
After watching the whole DVD Rainbow Dash had decided that Rarity had been awesome when she was younger.
So...what happened to make her stop...?
She was on the stage, breathing heavily. The roar of the huge creature below her was deafening.
It wanted her, her voice.
It wanted her.
She stumbled back, eager to escape, but a furry arm engulfed her into redness.
Stumbling and batting away the redness, she tried to scream, but nothing came out.
"Aaaaand good morning, fellow ponies! I'm Broadcast, and this is the morning radio chat station! I'm here with the main actor of the recently released movie, The Amazing Spider-Mare!"
Thank Celestia. It was just a dream.
But how much of it was just her overactive imagination, and how much of it was her memory?