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// The Spring Fling 
// Story: Freshman Blues 
// by Wildcard25 
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	As Flash pulled up in front of the school, they saw the rest of the girls waiting for them, "Hey, girls!" Twilight called as she and the others got out of Flash's car.

"Spike, Featherweight!" Puck called, as he ran to the two, and pulled them into headlocks, "You guys are looking smooth."

"Likewise, Puck." Featherweight replied.

"Come on, everybody. Let's go in." Applejack said, as they all went into the building.

As they reached the auditorium, they saw just about everyone from school there having a good time, "Oh sweet!" Spike cheered.

"Our first high school dance." Featherweight added, while feeling excited.

"Yo guys!" a voice called, as the group saw Wild, Muse, and Twistin' walk over.

"Hey you guys!" Spike cheered as he fist bumped with Wild and Twistin'.

"You all look great." Muse smiled at the girls.

"Well of course." Silverspoon answered, only for Puck to eye her.

"Silver, no need to boast." Silver rolled her eyes.

Spike looked and saw Vinyl at the turntable, scratching records, "Man, Vinyl makes it look like an art."

Flash spoke to Twilight, "Well me and the guys don't have to perform until the dance is halfway. So wanna dance?"

"Of course." Twilight smiled, as they went to the dance floor.

"I'm getting out there myself!" Spike cheered as he went to the dance floor.

"Wait for me, Spike!" Rarity called, as she went after him.

Eventually the rest of them went to the dance floor and began partying as well. As they all danced it out, Spike was doing just as he promised, by showing off his dance moves he had been working on in the hip hop club. He looked over at Rarity and took her by the hand and started dancing with her. Rarity blushed as Spike was leading her in the dance.

Soon the music stopped and they were all cheering and catching their breath, "Spike, I'm going to the powder room with the rest of the girls."

"Ok, I'll be waiting." Spike replied as he went to kick back by the refreshment table. He saw Puck and Featherweight join him, "Your dates go to the bathroom as well?"

"Uh-huh." Featherweight answered.

"Those girls, always needing to paint their faces." Puck rolled his eyes.

"Hey you have any idea what girls would look like if they never had makeup?" Spike asked.

"Don't say it, Spike. I'll be scarred for life!" Featherweight cried.

"Ok, I won't. Point is the girls need to look their best just as much as we guys need too," Spike answered, "Believe me, watching countless High school sitcoms and comedy's have taught me a lot about the high school world."

"Won't deny that," Puck agreed as he grabbed a cup of punch, "Come on guys bring them up."

Spike and Featherweight seeing where this was going, smiled and grabbed a cup of punch each, "To our first high school dance." Spike began.

"And many more to follow." Featherweight finished ,as the clinked their cups together, and downed the punch.

"Hm, not spiked," Spike tasted the punch, "Well scratch one thing off the list of high school dance tropes."

"Oh they let you three juveniles in here?" a voice asked, and the three looked seeing the principals' nephew Blueblood standing by the table.

"And they let you in here?" Puck asked, while frowning at his insult towards them.

"Well why wouldn't they let me in?" Blueblood asked in a haughty tone.

"Because you're a bore at party's." Spike answered, recalling how he was to Rarity.

Blueblood just stuck his chin up, feeling too proud to even retort. He eventually spoke up again at Spike, "So I noticed you came here with Rarity."

"Yeah, so?" Spike asked as he eyed him.

"Surely even a freshman like you would have better options." Blueblood continued.

"What the hell's that supposed to mean?" Spike asked, knowing he wasn't wasting any time to bash Rarity.

"Oh you haven't heard?" Blueblood asked, with a smirk, "Well then I'll enlighten you. You remember the party at Joe's last December? Well I was accompanying Rarity there being as charming as I can be, and how did she repay me? She shook cake frosting all over me!" Spike frowned, as the older boy continued to color the real truth about what happened that night, while Puck and Featherweight could see Spike was getting angrier by the minute. Blueblood finished, "So if I were you I'd be careful on this date of yours. You may wind up covered in frosting as well, or possibly worse."

Spike had enough as he grabbed another cup of punch and threw it in the boy's face, "Shut up!"

"Blah!" Blueblood cried, as the punch covered his face, and stained his white suit. He saw what the drink did and frowned, "You ruined my suit!" the other party goers heard his cry, and looked over seeing what was going on.

"Looks like the only one covered in something tonight is you, Bluey!" Spike mocked.

"You little..." Blueblood growled, until Spike held a hand up to stop him.

"I'm not finished, man!"

At the entrance of the gym, the girls returned and looked ahead seeing Spike and Blueblood staring each other down, "What's Spike doing?" Twilight asked.

"Is he actually getting into a fight with Blueblood?" Rainbow asked them.

"Oh no, Spike." Rarity gasped.

"Shouldn't we do something?" Fluttershy asked her friends.

"Not just yet, sugarcube," Applejack replied, "Let's just see what he'll do."

"Yeah, Spike can handle himself." Rainbow agreed, while Rarity and Twilight were still worried.

Back with Spike, he continued to chew Blueblood out, "All you told me was nothing but lies! You didn't show Rarity any respect or were charming in the least bit. And you only got covered in cake frosting, because you used her as a shield to protect yourself from the confection. If that's the way you treat women, then you are by far a lousy excuse of a man!"

"You dare talk to me in such a tone? Do you have any idea who I am?" Blueblood asked as he got angrier by Spike's opposing.

"Nice try, but that's not going to save you this time." Spike answered.

"Then do you want to take this outside?" Blueblood asked, as he was about to grab Spike, only for two hands to grab his own shoulders. He looked back and saw the ones restraining him were Twistin' and Fido, with Spot, Wild, and Rover as well.

"Touch our friend, and we're gonna be the ones to take it outside." Twistin' warned him.

"Fight! Fight!" some of the students began ranting, until they were broken up by Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna.

"There will be no fighting here." Celestia ordered.

"Aunt Celestia, Aunt Luna!" Blueblood cried, "Look what that juvenile delinquent did to me and my suit!" he put on a sob fest.

"What a whiner." Featherweight mumbled to Puck, Rover, and Spot.

"You know who whines... Babies." Rover replied, and they nodded in agreement.

Blueblood continued to spout lies about what happened between him and Spike, only for Vice-Principal Luna to speak up, "That's enough Blueblood, we heard and saw everything."

"And while it was unwise of Spike to get punch on you, your words of disrespect to both Spike and Rarity were uncalled for," Celestia continued, "Furthermore, lying to your aunts faces like that shows how little respect you have for us as well."

"And we can't let this go unpunished." Luna added.

"So we're gonna have a little family talk." Celestia finished, as the two sisters each grabbed Blueblood's ears and he groaned and cried.

"OW! OW! Not the ears!"

"Come with us." Luna said, as they dragged the groaning teen off, while all the other students were laughing at his misfortune.

"Everyone continue with the party!" Celestia annoucned, and they all went back to their thing.

Spike let out a sigh of relief, seeing it wasn't going to get too ugly, "Hey, you ok?" Puck asked him.

"I'm fine." Spike asnwered.

"Ya did good there kid." Twistin' smirked, while patting his shoulder.

"Not many would risk calling out Bluey like that with him being the principal's nephew." Rover noted.

"That gives him no excuse to treat others like garbage." Spike answered.

"Spike!" the girls called as they ran over.

"He didn't do anything to you did he?" Twilight asked as she checked her brother over for any injuries and such.

"I'm fine, Twilight. Take it easy." Spike said, as he straightened his jacket.

"Did you really knock punch at Blueblood?" Pinkie asked.

"I did do that." Spike admitted.

"I would've preferred you dumped the whole bowl over him, but what you did was cool too." Rainbow admitted.

"Spike," Rarity began, as she hugged him, "I'm happy that you called him out about how despicable he is, but I'm more grateful to see you weren't hurt."

"We made sure of that." Spot spoke up, only to be hushed by Twistin'.

Rarity looked at Spike, "Though please promise me you won't try and get into trouble like that again. I wouldn't want to see you getting hurt, or possibly expelled."

"I won't." Spike promised as he hugged her.

"Hey there!" Vinyl called, as she walked over, "I saw what happened from the turntable equipment. Spike, you really knocked that guy down a ton of pegs." she chuckled, while patting his shoulder.

"Vinyl, shouldn't you be back at your position?" Fluttershy asked.

"Don't worry I'm on a break for now." Vinyl assured her, and spoke to Spike, "So first dance and already getting into squabbles with older guys. How do you feel?"

"Hyped up." Spike admitted.

"Well channel that hyped up energy into dancing, because when I get back to my post I'm gonna play some more good jams." Vinyl promised.

"Excellent." Spike smirked.

After Vinyl delivered some more remixes, Flash and his band were on stage performing for the party goers. Spike was even starting to lead Puck and Featherweight in a three way performance, which started giving Puck and Featherweight good reputations. Soon slow dance music started playing as all the students who had dates began slow dancing. Puck took Silverspoon, Featherweight took Sweetie Belle, while Spike had Rarity.

As they danced, Spike spoke up, "Takes you back to New Years eve doesn't it?"

"Oh yes, Spike. That was a wonderful night." she agreed.

As the students danced, Discord offered his hand to Principal Celestia who smiled and accepted his offer to dance, while Coach Iron Will danced with Luna. As everyone continued to dance, Spike and Rarity looked over and saw Rainbow Dash was leaning against a closed up bleacher looking bored. Spike noticed that Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Applejack while not having dates per say were still offered to dance by other boys.

"Rainbow sure looks dismal." Spike noticed.

"You're right. We should go talk to her." Rarity suggested, as the tow went over.

"Rainbow?" Spike asked.

Rainbow saw them, and put on a fake smile, "Oh hey guys. Why aren't you out there dancing?"

"We saw you looking lonely here and wanted to see what was wrong." Rarity replied.

"Nothing's wrong. I just like kicking it back here is all." she answered.

Spike spoke up dryly, "You're a terrible liar, Rainbow. You know that?"

Rainbow seeing the two saw right through her facade sighed, "Ok I admit it, I'm depressed. Yeah I said it I can be depressed too."

"We didn't say you could never be," Rarity noted, "But what's got you so depressed?"

"No one's asked me to dance with them." she answered.

"That bothers you of all people?" Spike asked, while feeling flabbergasted.

"Yeah! I may be a tomboy, but I'm still a girl!" she snapped.

"Rainbow, relax." Rarity instructed her, before she would start a scene.

"You're right I'm sorry, Spike." Rainbow apologized.

"You don't need to. And you're right. You deserve to have fun like this." Spike replied.

"Yeah, but with who?" she asked as she sulked.

Spike was torn to see Rainbow of all the people he knew like this. He wasn't sure what to should say or do, until Rarity put a hand on his shoulder. He looked up at her curiously, as she smiled and nodded to him. Spike was shocked, until she lifted a finger up signaling what she meant by that. He nodded and held his hand out to the rainbow haired girl, "Rainbow Dash, would you like to dance with me?"

"Huh?" she asked.

"I'm asking you to join me for a dance." he repeated.

"What? Are you doing this out of pity, Spike? Because let me tell you I don't need it." she explained, wanting to preserve her pride.

"This isn't about pity. This is about doing something nice for a good friend of mine." Spike answered.

"But Rarity..."

"I'll allow it so long as you don't try putting any moves on him." she warned the sports loving girl.

Rainbow blushed, and answered, "Well I wouldn't think of it."

"So about my offer?" Spike asked as he felt like his arm was getting tired from still being extended to her.

Rainbow looked at him and smiled, "Let's dance." she took it, and they went to the dance floor. Rarity watched seeing once again her generosity has once again made someone very close to her happy, but made sure that Rainbow didn't put any unnecessary moves on him.

As Spike danced with Rainbow, he wrapped his arms around her waist, while she wrapped hers around his neck, "You're a real pal, Spike." she said.

"I know." he admitted, and found himself embraced by the girl.

"I know this is unlike me, but I'm glad you asked me to dance with you." she said.

"You're my friend, Rainbow Dash. I'd do anything to help my friends."

Rainbow smiled, "Twilight's lucky to have someone like you for a bro."

"I hear that a lot." he chuckled with her.

"Seriously though, thanks," Rainbow smiled. Spike responded as he twirled her, "Nice touch." she admitted. As they continued to dance, she thought, 'Spike once again impresses me to no end, in both parkour and real life. Wish I could meet a guy like him, or maybe... No-no I can't think that! If I think about Spike in this kind of sense I'd be betraying my friendship with Rarity. But still, these moments and fun times I've been having with Spike since the year began has been some of the best fun I've had with a guy. Even for being the brother of my egghead friend. Guess I should try and make the most of it." they continued to dance.

Later, Celestia and Luna went on stage, as the principal spoke up, "Attention everyone! It is now time to announce the winner of the year's Princess of the Spring Fling. All your votes from the last week have been counted up and we finally have a winner," she took the envelope and opened it, "And the winner for Princess of the Spring Fling is... Rarity!"

The student body cheered with applause, as Rarity hugged her friends in excitement, while they were all happy with her. Rarity straightened herself up and proceeded onto the stage. Vice-Principal Luna presented the Spring Fling diadem to her sister, as Celestia crowned Rarity. In the crowd, Spike smiled seeing her look so happy, and that the diadem make her look all the more beautiful, like a real princess.

"Thank you, everyone. This means so much to me." Rarity declared to the student body, "But the real treat here isn't just being voted for Spring Fling princess, but because I got to be here with someone very special to me. And I would like that special someone to join me in this dance." she walked off the stage as she stood before Spike, and offered him her hand, "Dance with me, Spike?"

Spike blushed, but pulled himself together and answered with a smile, "Delighted." he took her hand and they walked to the center of the dance floor. As slow music began playing, the two happily danced, while the student body watched them. Many of the girls started growing envious of Rarity, while many of the boys started feeling envious of Spike.

Spike's boys watched with their dates, as Puck spoke, "That's our Spike taking care of business."

"He is good." Featherweight admitted.

Twistin' watched with a smirk, "That's my boy." he said to himself, feeling proud.

Twilight and the girls watched, as Fluttershy said, "Rarity looks beautiful in that diadem."

"And she sure looks mighty happy with Spike." Applejack added.

"She sure does." Rainbow admitted, while feeling happy to see her friend happy.

After the dance, most of the guests were clearing out, or went to hang out in the parking lot of the school. Spike, the girls, and Flash went to the empty soccer field behind the school, and sat down on the bleachers while looking up at the star filled sky, "It sure is beautiful, huh?" Flash asked the girls, especially Twilight.

"It sure is." she smiled and they kissed.

As Rarity and Spike sat further up from where the others were sitting, the freshman spoke to his date, "That crown looks good on you, Rarity."

"You really think so, darling?"

"Cross my heart." he answered.

She smiled, "Thank you, Spike. And I'm so glad you were my date to the dance." she leaned in and the two kissed.

Rainbow watched them, while sitting next to Pinkie and Fluttershy while thinking, 'Could I really be falling for Spike? If so, then what do I do? Maybe I should spend Spring Break trying to figure out if he feels the same, or if he even sees me as a girlfriend,' she suggested to herself before smiling and kicked back on the bleachers, 'Well tonight I'm just gonna enjoy the feeling of being here with my friends.'