"HEY! RAINBOW DASH! COME DOWN HERE, YOU SILLY FILLY!"
Rainbow Dash woke with a start and hit her head on the topmost tree branch in the process. "What in the Wide World of Sports do you want?" she asked, rubbing a new welt on her cyan head.
Below he,r Pinkie Pie was shaking the tree her friend was napping in violently. Her hooves were a pink blur and her face was slightly red from the effort of shaking so vigorously. "Wakeupwakeupwakeupwakeup!" she roared, steam beginning to come out of her ears.
The pegasus squealed and leaped from the tree just as Pinkie's force pushed it over. The tree fell with a loud thud, digging itself into the ground, her pillows went flying, and Rainbow dashed around trying to catch them all before they landed. Once she accomplished just that (covered with a bit of dirt in the process), she set them carefully by the fallen tree and turned to her hyperactive earth pony friend. "Once again, what do you need, Pinkie? I was in the middle of some serious business." Rainbow Dash huffed.
Pinkie Pie giggled and bounced about in circles. "Silly Dashie! You were sleeping, not working!"
Rainbow Dash gasped and turned her head in disgust. "I was not sleeping! I was working on resting my eyes! It's hard on them to look at this-" she pointed at her body- "all day!"
The party pony snorted playfully and tugged on the rainbow-maned pegasus' tail. "Come on buddy, we're wasting time standing around like slugs! We've got a date!"
Rainbow's mouth hit the ground. "What?! A date!? Pinkie Pie, I like you and all, but-"
The earth pony narrowed her eyes and frowned. "Not that kind of date, silly! A date with DESTINY, of course!"
"And where is our 'date'?"
"We're going to Vinyl Scratch's night club! She just got a new machine she calls the "Dance Dance Revolution! And we're gonna be the first ponies to try it!"
The pegasus closed her mouth and reluctantly loosened her grip on the ground. Pinkie began pulling her (by her tail) once more. "Why me- I mean, why us? Why not Twilight? She's an awesome dancer."
Pinkie moved into a steady jog and easily moved Rainbow Dash along fairly quickly. "Yeah, she wanted to do it, but she said that she-"
"Had studies for the princess? Been there, done that. No suprise, really."
The magenta mare shook her head, causing Rainbow Dash to swerve around and hit a tree in the process. "No no no, she's coming! But she said that she wanted to upload us to HoofTube, so she's recording us instead! We're gonna be internet celebreties, Dashie! The topic of millions of HoofTube Poops and spoofs for years to come! Someday our grandfillies and colts'll watch us and say 'I'm so proud of my great-great-great-great-great grandma for getting infinity hits on HoofTube!'"
Rainbow Dash's eyes bugged out of her head and she flapped her wings, trying to get away in vain. Pinkie's jaws were as hard as stone, though, and she didn't move an inch. "HoofTube!?" she exclaimed. "No way, Pinkie! Never! I actually have a life, you know! And some stupid video of me and you dancing our flanks off is not going to help it!"
Pinkie Pie groaned and looked up at the sky- it was getting late, and Vinyl Scratch would be anxiously pacing around waiting for them. That pony didn't have the longest temper- in fact, once she spilled a drop of punch on her turntable and the unicorn went ballistic.
Thinking she had no choice, Pinkie Pie yanked Rainbow's tail and pulled her cyan body closer to her pink one. In a single, swift motion, the suave mare had forcefully kissed Rainbow Dash, full on the lips, and held them there in a long embrace. Rainbow Dash squeaked and tried to break free, but ultimately her lips got the better of her and her wings unfolded in a glorious wingboner. The rainbow pegasus promptly fainted, still in Pinkie's hooves.
She woke up in a cramped room filled with flourescent lights and techno music booming in her ears. It could only mean one thing-
"Yay! She's awake, everypony!"
Pinkie Pie hopped out from behind Vinyl Scratch's huge turntable and hopped over to her friend. Out from behind many queer spots, including the Fillie's Room, a recycling bin (What? DJ's can't be green?), and even a glass of some type of clear beverage came the hiding ponies. Almost the entire town was there- Mayor Mare, Derpy Hooves- and even some ponies from out of town as far as Canterlot. From a blast of white light came none other than the princesses, wings spread in their full glory.
Everypony bowed to them, including Rainbow Dash. The Solar princess came forward first, clearly displeased. She huffed and folded up her great white sails, then began to laugh psychodically. "You Ponyville citizens really need to loosen up!" she crowed, asking for a drink and taking a seat at an empty table. Luna came forward next, looking slightly unsure of what the buck was going on. She raised a hoof in confusion. "Are thoust supposed to take part in- how do thy subjects pronounce it- 'fun'?" she asked quizically. Celestia mumbled "yes" and frothy bubbles licked at her cheeks, so the Lunar princess sat in a seat across from her sister and commanded to be given the same drink as Celestia.
Rainbow Dash couldn't breath and she thought she might faint again. The princesses were here? To watch her and Pinkie battle it out on the dance floor?
Suddenly an orange flash appeared by her side and she looked down in suprise only to see Scootaloo, with a thifck leather collar around her neck. The filly bounced in her hooves and her eyes were huge, a smile as big as herself trying to fit itself on her face. "Hi Rainbow Dash!" she exclaimed in delight. "Twilight gave me this super-special collar that has a little camera built into it so I can record you and Pinkie up-close!" The Crusader then bounced off towards Twilight Sparkle, who was holding a much larger camera with her unicorn magic, and waved at her idol from afar.
The pegasus felt her heart make its way up her throat. She could already picture it- she, passed out on the floor from exaustion, and Pinkie Pie wearing her faithful sweatband and hoofbands-
The pony in question jumped onto the princesses' table and held her magenta hooves high. "Attention, everypony! The dancing is starting!" She clumsily climbed off of the table, getting a worried look from Luna as her newly-arrived drink swayed to and fro.
"Did a pink pigmented pony just jumpeth upon our divine table?" Her sister nodded and took a sip of her beverage.
Vinyl Scratch nodded at the pink pony and with a flick of her horn the loud electro music was silenced, and the only sound was the pounding of hooves rushing over to see the epic battle between earth pony and pegasus.
Soon everypony was gathered around the strange contraption, and Vinyl Scratch stepped up and with her telekinesis pulled out two long boards from the machine, both decorated with arrows at the top left, right, and bottom left and right on the shining metal. From two more boards at the top came a LCD screen that glowed with the words "Dance Dance Revolution" and said "Press Start" at the bottom. The DJ pressed a small button on the front of the device, and the screen turned into a menu with options for Workout, Multiplayer, Single Player, and Practice. Vinyl got on one board and spread her hooves to cover all the arrows, then pressed a number of the arrows to get to and select Multiplayer mode. The next screen was preloaded with modes, in which the unicorn asked each competitor what they preferred.
"Super-Duper-Extra-Amazingly-Hard mode, please!" Pinkie quipped.
"Newbie, please." Rainbow Dash murmured.
The DJ chose Super-Duper-Extra-Amazingly-Hard mode, much to Rainbow's dismay. She went on to the song selection screen, in which she turned back to the friends for input.
Pinkie Pie hopped on the other board and went through the list until she got to one song in particular, which read Got My Pony Spam for you by lapfoxofficial. "This one!" She pronounced. Rainbow Dash looked at the difficulty- with extremely difficult on it read "You Won't Feel Your Hooves After This Song."
"Nu-uh." She shook her head and pushed Pinkie off the board. She moved through the songs until she got to one that caught her eye- Pony Swag by Viraus2. "No, this one." The difficulty read "You May Have Trouble Getting Up In the Morning."
Pinkie Pie looked ready to argue, but Vinyl Scratch put herself between the two mares before she could get a word out. "Wait a minute, I'm not getting blood on my freshly cleaned floor just yet. How 'bout a compromise- Pinkie's choice first, then Dashie's? If there's a tie, I'll choose."
Reluctantly the two nodded.
The unicorn let the duo get on their own boards and selected the song for them. The loading screen came up and the adrenaline levels immediately flew off the charts. Rainbow Dash lowered herself to the bottom of the board, hoping it would all be over soon. She already had sweat on her brow. Pinkie Pie, next to her, somehow had gotten her trusty sweat and hoofbands on and was jogging in place.
Behind her Rainbow could hear her friends cheering her on- although they might have been cheering for her opponent at the same time. Applejack shouted "Ya can do this, suagrcube!" at Pinkie, and the pink mare nodded whilst still jogging. The princesses had gotten up as well, and had taken sides. Luna had her wings flared next to Rainbow Dash's cowering body- Celestia stood tall by Pinkie Pie's side.
"Have thou misplaced thoust crainium?" Luna sneered. "Rainbow Dash is much superior in the althetic field than Pinkamena!"
Celestia snorted. "Athetic she may be, that doesn't mean that Pinkie Pie here doesn't have a fighting chance."
"Are thou getting defensive, dear sister?" Luna cooed viciously.
The princess of the sun growled and stopped the argument before it got out of control. But in both their minds, they were thinking of ways their side would truely be victorious.
Finally the computerized voice began speaking to the assembled ponies. "Ready..."
Pinkie Pie got into a crouching position, as did Rainbow Dash.
"Set..."
Rainbow held her breath and prepared to dance like she never had or will. Pinkie Pie smiled and her muscles visibly tensed benath her magenta skin.
Silence.
Complete silence was held in the club as everypony held their breath in wait for an epic explosion of dance. They were all leaning forward in anxiety. The princesses were staring at the screen as if they could use their divine powers to get the song to begin. Scootaloo was positioned below the board, camera at the ready while Twilight Sparkle hung back by the others.
Rainbow Dash felt like she was going to explode if the stupid song didn't start.
"Dance!"