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// Prologue: Fluttershy's Final Fashion Show 
// Story: The Return of Mr. Bun 
// by zyr1987 
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“You really think it'll work?” a yellow Pegasus, wearing a fancy green dress and clinging tightly to a stuffed rabbit, asked.

“They love you for being you, so all I have to do is make you not be you. Just leave it to me,” her friend, a purple unicorn, said.

It was Fluttershy's final fashion show, though only she and Twilight Sparkle knew it at the time. They were waiting for a tall white unicorn with a pink mane and a very Prench gown to finish her turn on the runway. As the unicorn made her way back, Twilight teleported to a secluded area just off the stage and Fluttershy dropped her rabbit preparing for her last walk down the runway.

When said white pony crossed the threshold to the backstage area, Fluttershy stepped out and waited for the familiar feel of Twilight's magic to envelop her and work to humiliate her. She didn't like it but she was desperate to get out of modeling without Rarity finding out how much she hated it.



Meanwhile, the white pony who had been on the runway right before her, one Fleur de Lis, quickly set about removing her dress. “You think that for all their skill at making beautiful clothes, they would make them easier to take on and off,” she said to nopony in particular. Other than the difficulty of getting dressed and undressed, she thought her first appearance at a major fashion show had gone quite well, even if everypony was desperately waiting for the biggest name in fashion to strut her stuff on the runway instead of putting all of their attention on her.

As she struggled with a particularly stubborn strap around her midriff, she heard booing from the spectators. Being too entangled in her dress to move, she couldn't go and see what it was about. As she struggled, she heard the booing stop, then give way to cheering, causing her to struggle harder to get a glimpse of the stage.

Fluttershy returned from the runway shortly afterwards, right after Fleur thought of teleporting her dress off of her body and the unicorn was going to ask what happened, but she left through a nearby door before Fleur had a chance to speak, not even bothering to pick up her stuffed rabbit. Fleur picked it up, intending to return it to her at her next fashion show, and use it as a way to break the ice with the obviously shy pegasus.

She learned the next day that Fluttershy had ended her modeling career for reasons unknown.