*Flashback to roughly 15 minutes after the big split-up*
“You’re not going to get away with anything on my watch…”
Rainbow Blitz was stationed upon a cloud above Ponyville. He was staring through a pair of binoculars that he had “found” lying around. The orange pegasus’ eyes were intensely staring at his main goal right now. It was pink unicorn named Elusive.
“I’m going to make sure that if you do anything girly, I will know,” Rainbow muttered to himself, “I’m not going to lose this bet to you! Nothing is going to stop me!”
Rainbow’s mind, however, had a different idea. It started to wander back to the time where he found the fancy binoculars that he was using.
“I’m glad I found these,” Rainbow said moving them around in his hooves, “This spying thing would be way harder without them. However, I’m not sure if I should keep them…”
*Flashback to about twelve minutes ago*
Rainbow was flying above town, searching for something to do.
“You know, I thought this trying to save ourselves from a completely different dimension would be, I don’t know, more exciting?”
Rainbow Blitz had blasted off as soon as the order to split up had been given. However, his enthusiasm was quickly sapped dry. He decided to land on a decently sized cloud placed over the center of town.
“No giant robots, no secret clans, no super villains, not a single dangerous thing has happened!” Rainbow Blitz exclaimed. “Who knew alternate universes were so…normal.”
Rainbow collapsed on the cloud. Suddenly, something caught his eye. Two ponies were huddled in a corner. One was definitely old, with his thin white hair completely screaming it. His body was a light blue, and this seemed to stand out due to the red cloth thing that the other pony was wearing. Rainbow Blitz couldn’t tell from his perspective what the cloth exactly was. He could see the red clothing colt’s brown hair sitting upon a green head. They put a black object down, and quickly walked away.
“Hmm, that’s strange,” Rainbow’s curiosity was piqued, “I wonder what that could be…”
Rainbow dashed down to see what it was. He landed and walked up to the mysterious object. It was mostly two black columns, with glass on both ends. They were connected by a small black square. This had a dial on it, which seemed to move the black columns when twisted.
“Binoculars!” Rainbow had seen a ton of the years, mostly in movies, “But why did these two have a pair of binoculars?”
Rainbow tried to think of ideas, but came up completely blank.
“Well, I could use them to search around town…” Ideas were brewing in Rainbow’s head. “I could also…use them to make sure Elusive doesn’t cheat on our bet! Finally, something to do!”
Rainbow quickly grabbed the binoculars and flew away to find Elusive.
*Flash forward to where the first flashback flashbacked to*
Rainbow stared at the newly gotten possession.
“I probably should give them back,” Rainbow thought, “it would be the right thing to do…”
*Poof* A cloud of smoke appeared on his left shoulder.
“Pffft, who cares about them?” A mischievous voice shot out of the smoke. “You know what they say, ‘Finds keepers, losers weepers!’.
As the smoke cleared, Rainbow saw a tiny, dark red pegasus standing on his shoulder. His hair was even a darker red looking closer to black than red. The style was so that it stuck out from the front of his head, and ran down the back of his neck. His tail was actually not hair, but resembled a thin dragon tail. Two horns stuck out of the small stranger’s head. His wings did not come to a curved end like normal; instead they ended at sharp points.
“Who are you?” Rainbow was completely caught off guard by this new comer.
“I’m the malicious side of your personality,” the little red pony gloated. “I resemble all the evil thoughts you have every day. I show myself like this when you’re having a moral dilemma. You are having one, correct?”
Rainbow Blitz nodded.
“Good. Now I say that you should…” the evil side of Rainbow’s thoughts started.
“Hold up, hold up!” Rainbow stopped him. “If you’re my evil side, shouldn’t I have a good side here too?”
“He told me he was going to be a tad late today,” the dark side responded, “something about the traffic being bad or something.”
“Traffic?”
The red menace just shrugged. “I don’t know! He was the one who said it, not me. He should be here any second.”
They both quickly turned to look at Rainbow’s other shoulder, in hopes that the good side would show up in some great convenient timing. Sadly, that was not true.
“So…umm, what’s your name?” Rainbow decided to try to make small talk until the other half of his thoughts were represented.
“My name is…,” the red colt paused for dramatic effect, “Bill.”
Rainbow splat out a laugh. “Bill?!”
“And what’s wrong with the name Bill!” The owner to that name shot back a glare.
“Nothing,” Rainbow couldn’t keep the laughs from passing his lips, “but I was expecting…I don’t know… a little more devilish name.”
“What name would be a more devilish?”
“Well…” Rainbow started, but was interrupted by a sudden noise coming from the other shoulder. He turned to meet another newcomer.
“Hello! I have finally arrived! Sorry for making you guys wait.”
Rainbow was met with a bright yellow pegasus. His light blonde hair flowed further down the neck than either Rainbow or Bill. His white wings almost shined and were bigger than the dark half’s. His tail took up the fashion of most ponies; with it being hair. This hair was a glowing light yellow.
“Finally!” Bill muttered, “We were getting bored here!”
“I’m so sorry! Let’s get started then, shall we?” the bright one asked.
“May I ask you one question before we start?” Rainbow raised his hoof and point at the yellow stranger. “What’s your name?”
“Oh, how impolite of me for not saying anything before!” The yellow colt cleared his throat. “My name is Paul.”
“I need to have more creative thoughts…” Rainbow thought.
“Hey!” Bill, who had clearly lost his patience, screamed. “Can we start now? I say you just keep those binoculars. They won’t miss them!”
“Au contraire!” Paul gave his counterpoint. “Since that was the only thing they put down, they would definitely see that it was gone!”
“It doesn’t mean that they held any value in it. They could be trying to get rid of it!”
“Who would get rid of perfectly good pair of binoculars?”
“They’re some strange ponies in the world!”
“Did they seem strange to you?”
“I don’t know, but I have never seen them around before. Suspicious I think.”
“We’re in an alternate universe; you’ve never seen anyone around here before!”
“Oh…well you know why I think you follow my idea?” Bill turned to Rainbow, “Because I’m the cool one!”
“You’re the cool one?” Paul raised an eyebrow. “What makes you the cool one?”
“Because,” Bill pulled something black out and put them on his face, “I have the shades.”
“What does that…,” Paul stopped midsentence, “Where did you get those shades?”
“When you’re a figment of someone’s imagination, you can do things like this!”
“It doesn’t matter anyways!” Rainbow butted in, “I’ve forgotten where I got them from anyways…”
“I win!” Bill raised his arms into the air.
“And your conversation has made me lose Elusive!” Rainbow added.
“That’s something else I wanted to talk to you about,” Paul turned to look up at Rainbow, “Should you really be spying on your friend? Don’t you trust him?”
“Seems like a good tactic to me.” Bill commented, “That way Rainbow here can make sure he will not be fooled at all!”
“Arrgh! You guys are so annoying!” Rainbow Blitz flew off as fast he could.
He landed on the ground about a tenth of a mile away. He breathed a sigh of relief.
“You know we are parts of your imagination, you can’t really run away for us.” Bill’s words startled Rainbow.
“You could just think us away though…” Paul commented.
“Why do good guys always have to be so helpful all the….”
Rainbow was finally alone, even though he really wasn’t with anyone before. He looked up to see that he had arrived at a tall fancy building. The outside walls of the first floor were a light blue, with a fancy white pattern. The upper walls had a purple checker pattern, with the colors alternating between purple and light purple. Two silhouettes were on poles that lived near the top. At the tip top there was a lonely red flag.
“The Carousel Boutique… “Rainbow muttered to himself, “Well, if I’m going to look for Elusive again, I should probably start here.”
When Rainbow pushed open the door, he got a sight that almost made him barf. There was more purple, pink, and hearts then a seven year old girl’s room. Every piece of cloth that hung around the room was saturated in purple and then tipped at the edges with pink. Sometimes, pink bows were tied on to add even more girliness. And there were a lot of pieces of cloth. Curtains were everywhere, hiding random corners and mirrors. Walls even had pieces of cloth hanging from them (“What is that even for?” Rainbow thought). The walls themselves were painted a rich purple color, and even some sported a pink “x” pattern at the bottom. Red hearts were painted on the top as a decorative border. The floor was mostly not purple, but when the white color of it stopped, sometimes it had a band of light purple going around. The only thing in the whole room that wasn’t pink or purple was the mirrors. The mirror themselves was obviously clear, and the border was alternating yellow and orange stripes.
“Has this place always been so girly?” Rainbow thought to himself, “It doesn’t seem to be like this back home…I wonder if Elusive changes it. I don’t know how any guy could live in this place! Well… I guess it is ‘Lucy.”
Since he was as transfixed as he was, he had no clue where he was going. Suddenly, a loud *CLANG* rang out. Rainbow turned to see that he had knocked over a metal stand used for holding clothes. When Rainbow scooped down to pick it up, a high pitched voice rang from upstairs.
“A customer! Hold up, I’ll be right down!”
Rainbow Blitz muttered a word that will not be written so this story can keep the rating it has. He stumbled around with the stand, trying to get it upright as fast as he could. However, due to that he was in such a hurry, he ended up knocking it down again. Finally, he got the stand to stay upright, but by then it was too late.
“Ah, that’s what got knocked over,” the voice spoke again, “Don’t worry about that stand, it has a weird a habit of falling over. Come, what can I do for you good sir?”
Rainbow slowly turned to see one of the most gorgeous ponies he had ever seen. She had beautiful purple hair that curved and fell in the most perfect way. Her pure white body showed off all the feminine beauty any pony could have. She was skinny, but at the same time had more curves than the Lombard Street. Her long tail followed the wonder perfection of her hair, curling and twirling all the way down to just before the floor. Her well-shaped posterior showed three light blue diamonds. Her dark blue eyes were accented by a patch of light blue above each of them.
“She’s hot…” was all the Rainbow’s mind could think of.
The hot one just looked at him. She decided to speak again. “Welcome to my boutique good sir. Is there anything I can do for you?”
The words “my boutique” echoed over and over again in Rainbow’s head.
“Wait a minute…you mean…this is…Elusive!” Rainbow’s mind almost exploded.
Rainbow’s stomach couldn’t handle this thought well either. Rainbow was snapped back into reality by a sudden disgusting feeling in his stomach. He summoned all his willpower to prevent himself from showing this pretty girl his lunch.
“Are you alright sir?” She-Elusive was looking at Rainbow with concern.
“Ya…I’m fine,” Rainbow was barely able to spit those words out.
“You really don’t look fine though…” the boutique owner said as she pointed to Rainbow’s orange face, that had started to get a hint of green in it.
Rainbow quickly turned away. “C’mon Rainbow, don’t let this mare get to you!” Rainbow tried to focus himself, “Stop thinking about the fact that this hot pony here is your girly colt friend. Think…that she is just an assistant to him…that he has hired to work when he is out of his shop. She’s not Elusive…she’s not Elusive...”
Surprisingly, this mental process actually got the green out of his face and allowed him to actually speak without the fear of making the carpet light purple and green. However, the queasy feeling in his stomach remained.
“I’m sorry for coming in here and disturbing you,” Rainbow quickly changed the subject. “I’m new to town and…I’m just been wondering from store to store, seeing the sights. I’ll be leaving now...”
Rainbow quickly turned for the door. “Well that was easy! Now, to get back to finding the male version of Elusive.” Rainbow was already making plans in his head.
A sound pierced through his thoughts though. “Wait!” it cried, “This is going to sound weird, but can you actually stay?”
The noise was the voice of the only other pony in the room he was in. Rainbow turned back to look at her and gave her a puzzled look.
“Why?” he asked.
“Well…this is also going to sound strange, but I have this strong urge to make a fancy suit,” the seamstress began, “I get these random urges now and then. One time, it was to make edible hats. That was a disaster! None of them looked good. All the colors clashed and the styles were completely off! I would definitely say they would not look good enough to eat, but they were made out of food.”
Rainbow still had the puzzled look on his face.
“Oh dear me, I’m getting off-track aren’t I?” the fashionista apologized. “The colt I usually get when I want to make a suit is sadly working all day today, and currently I’m looking for someone to make a suit for. The suit I make for you will be free of course, take it as your pay. What do you think? Will you stay, please?”
Rainbow started to think about this offer. Suddenly, before he even could get his thoughts flowing, a voice interrupted him.
“Pfft, who cares about her? Leave and get back to finding Elusive, to make sure he doesn’t do anything girly!”
Another voice soon followed. “The poor mare has asked you for your help in her time of need, and you’re just going to abandon her?”
Rainbow looked down to see that the red devil-pony and the yellow angel-pony had both returned.
“Ah, shush it you two!” Rainbow told them, “I already made up my mind.”
“Yes?” they both questioned him at the same time.
“I’m going to take her up on the offer. Number #1: An independent bachelor like me is never going to turn a hot mare down. Number #2: Knowing how good Elusive is at making clothes, this mare here should do a great job. Even if I don’t want to keep the suit, I can sell it for some money!”
“Oui, I’m so glad you’re going to accept my offer!” the only female voice rang.
Rainbow’s face got a hint of red when he realized that his conversation with Bill and Paul was out loud.
“Oh…umm you heard that?” Rainbow said, “Umm...ya, I guess I will be your…model for a suit.”
“Great, come this way please!” she gestured to the staircase, “My work studio is upstairs.”
They took only a few steps before the tailor stopped abruptly. She did a quick 180 and faced Rainbow.
“I am so sorry! Where are my manners? My name is Rarity, the fine owner of this magnifique place called the Carousel Boutique! What’s your name?”
“My name is…” Rainbow stopped to think quickly. “My female counterpart might have a very similar name to me. Since she would look similar to me, I would say the rainbow hair would stay. She would probably keep that part of the name also.”
“Blitz,” the orange pegasus replied. “My name is Blitz.”
“Wonderful!” Rarity turned back to the stairs, “Now let’s get started, shall we?”
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“I do have to say Mr. Blitz,” Rarity held up a tape ruler with her magic, “you definitely have a great body!”
“Umm, thanks,” Rainbow replied. He would normally jump on that statement and brag about all the things he has done in the air, but the extreme awkwardness of the situation kept him from doing so.
“I should be excited to get a mare this hot give me a compliment like that,” Rainbow thought, “but the fact that this is Elusive is ruining the whole thing for me.”
Rarity was running the tape rule all over the place, measuring Rainbow’s neck, back, legs, head, and even his tail. After every measurement, she jotted something down on a piece of paper she had placed on a nearby table.
“Can you bring that piece of fabric over here darling?” Rarity asked the filly standing next to her.
“Sure thing sis!” the filly replied.
The filly then scampered off to the far side of the room. She had joined them when she saw Rainbow and Rarity heading upstairs. When Rarity explained what was going to happen, the filly eagerly asked if she could join them. Rarity had said yes.
The filly had alternating light purple and pink strands of hair coming off her. Her hair fell in small curves down her neck. Her skin was a very light grey, almost as white as her sister’s. Her eyes were a rich green color, way different from Rarity’s blue eyes. She was definitely on the young side, probably the same age as the apple filly Rainbow had met earlier in the main part of town when he was with the rest of the group.
“Thank you Sweetie Belle!” Rarity responded as the young unicorn gave her the cloth. “Now, let’s work some fashion magic!”
With the piece of cloth Sweetie Belle had retrieved, Rarity walked over to another part of the room. Here was a large wooden bookshelf, with a number of fabrics stored on it. Next to this was good sized wooden table with a sewing machine placed on top. Notes in various colors were stuck upon the wall behind this. Some of them had fancy handwriting written delicately on them. A tall mirror with a fancy wooden frame stood right of all of this.
“This might take a while,” Rarity spoke over her shoulder, “You can’t rush art! I’m sorry that I don’t have much for you to do while you wait Blitz. You can check on the hair salon that is downstairs with Sweetie Belle, but I doubt a colt like you would have any interest in that sort of thing.”
Rainbow shrugged. “It’s better than doing nothing though…” he replied.
Sweetie Belle jumped up. “Come this way mister!” she tried to sound professional, but her enthusiasm destroyed any chance of that.
Rainbow Blitz followed behind Sweetie Belle as she pranced down the stairs.
“I’m guessing that this is the female version of Sweepy Belle, Elusive’s little brother.” Rainbow thought, “Makes sense.”
They then came to their destination. It was another room that was stricken by the light purple and pink curse. The main part of the walls was made of a pink wood. The floor was made of substance that was a light purple. Certain parts of the wall, especially by the yellow and orange mirrors that resembled those in the main room, had a checkerboard pattern of light purple and pink. Wooden counters were spread out in front of the mirrors. A couple of silver sinks were installed at the ends of the counter. Giant green hoods sat in the very front of all this, waiting to be used.
“Well, this is it!” Sweetie Belle announced. “We better get started, Rarity doesn’t take long when there’s only one piece of clothing to be made.”
“What do you mean ‘get start….” Rainbow started to say.
He was suddenly shoved by the light grey filly under one of the giant green helmets. As he turned to see what was going on, the green menace fell upon his head.
“Hey!” Rainbow yelled annoyed, “What’s the big idea!”
“I thought you wanted to use the hair salon…” Sweetie Belle replied.
“I wanted to look around, not use it!” Rainbow snapped.
“Oh, I’m so sorry! I didn’t know!”
Rainbow sighed. “Fine. Can you get this thing off my head then?”
Sweetie Belle shook her head, even though Rainbow clearly couldn’t see it. “I don’t know how to stop it after it starts running; I guess you’ll just have to wait until it is done.”
“What!? How long is that!?”
“Roughly ten minutes, it isn’t too long.”
Rainbow mumbled something under his breath. “I guess that isn’t too bad...but what do I do until then?”
“I don’t know…Ooo, I could sing random songs for you! I need to practice singing in front of ponies anyways! Plus, it will be easier for me, because I know you can’t see me!”
So, Rainbow was forced to listen to a few random songs that Sweetie Belle knew by heart. She sang this, this, and even this. Rainbow had to admit, her singing voice was actually quite good. He was still very glad though when the green monster (not the baseball wall) was lifted from his head.
“Finally,” Rainbow breathed a sigh of relief, “I can see and move again.”
He turned to face Sweetie Belle, who was staring back at him with a puzzled face.
“I don’t remember it being able to do that…” Sweetie Belle muttered.
“Do what?” Rainbow was a tad concerned.
“It changed your hair color from its normal yellow to the whole entire rainbow!” she exclaimed.
“Rainbow…?” Fear started to spread over his face.
“Ya!” Sweetie Belle replied, “Don’t worry; it looks really cool on you! It’s almost like you were made for it!”
Rainbow panicked. These thoughts flew quickly around his head. “Oh great, the spell has partially worn off! I’ve got to get out of here! And fast!”
He quickly headed for the door. “Sorry kid,” he called over his shoulder, “I just remembered that I have to go do something important. See ya!”
Right as he ran out of the salon’s door, Rarity came down the stairs.
“What’s that matter Mr. Blitz?” she questioned Rainbow as he flew past her.
“No time to explain, I need to get going!” Rainbow shot out the door.
“Wait!” Rarity ran to the door, “You forgot your…”
But when Rarity peered outside, she saw no remains of the rainbow haired pegasus.