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// Please Don't Stop the Music! 
// Story: Clop on the Ground 
// by overlord-flinx 
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	As a young stallion, Flanky had a simple dream; to open an Italian-themed family restaurant. After years of hardship and smart business investments, as well as a chance buy-out of a police auctioned lot, Flanky found that his dream had finally come true. However, the hardships were not over for Flanky. As it turned out, an Italian-themed restaurant without meat was a hard sell. Thus, Flanky was nearly forced into bankruptcy. But, before the final nail was knocked into the coffin of the dead-end restaurant, a ray of hope came to Flanky in the form of a crafty sales-pony.

This stallion sold to Flanky at the low price of half his earnings for life a machine. A dancing machine. A revolutionary dancing machine, if you will. With the dance machine in place, colts and fillies all over Equestria begged their parents to bring them out to eat there so they could play with the rare marvel. To this day, that machine is still there, reworked and calibrated daily to keep it at top performance.

Flanky himself, still a modest and cheerful stallion gladly allows all comers to see and play at his machine at the fee of a dinner. Even more so, he is eager to allow young mares and stallions to come by with offers to hold--





"Dance-Off Tournament!" the mare slammed the case of solid bits in front of Flanky, "Here's the fee you call for. We're taking the building for the day."

Flanky eyed over the bits and started to grin like a boy in a candy store. "Esta! You and your frien's enjoy the -ah- game. Just don't make a mess," he reminded the coming lot.

One by one, mares and stallions filled the entirety of the restaurant, followed by the thumping music and cheering screams of a rumble about to go down. Flanky looked out at the crowd, unfazed by the collection for this event. Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia, the queen of the Changeling army, some stallion with a broken horn? After so many years, he's seen weirder turn outs. In fact, just last night he saw pretty much everyone filling one room...! All of which had to pay once they finished. Because of that, Discord was among Flanky's favorite customers...