//------------------------------// // Super-Duper-Extra-Amazingly-Hard // Story: Prance Prance Revolution // by EpicGuy //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash quickly took the lead, but her newfound victory was short-lived and Pinkie Pie easily overtook her. The mare's magenta tail streamed behind her like a fluffy flag. "You're not taking my crown that easily, Dashie!" Pinkie called out. She didn't move her intense eyes from the bright screen. Rainbow Dash cocked her head and momentarily missed a set of arrows. "What in Celestia's name are you talking-" She paused as from thin air Pinkie Pie conjured up a regal crown and set it atop her head, not missing a beat. "Oh." She murmured. This song was a bit more upbeat and had a lot more accents then the previous ones. Rainbow Dash was having a tough time dealing with these, but Pinkie Pie excelled at them and thrived on the dancefloor. In the background, a gray mare with eyes that went opposite ways was taking bets on the competitors. She held a bowler hat in her mouth and mumbled around it whenever somepony passed. "Tank fo!" She called out happily as a drunken Applejack waddled by and accidentally dropped her entire bag of bits into the small hat. "Whatevah ya say, sugarcube..." Applejack slurred heavily, heading towards the bar that was manned by a familiar earth mare. Through black hair her dark magenta eyes shone and blinked with confusion as the farm pony wobbled up and fell into a padded chair. She sighed and straightened the mandatory apron over her chest, just in case this one was a little too tipsy for comfort. "What would you like, dear mare?" She asked flatly in an English accent. Applejack, who's head banged on the table bar, lifted to attention and she smiled. "Heh, I know you..." She reached out to touch the bartender. "Ya from the Gran' Gacloppin' Gala, right?" She giggled. "Ya one pretty mare, ya know..." Octavia blushed furiously and quickly flicked her head so some of her hair covered her red cheeks. "Oh, thank you... I guess." "I'll have ah..." Applejack pointed at a bottle of Applejack Daniels on the wall behind Octavia. The mare went to grab it when the farm pony stopped her with a grunt. "No, how 'bout ah marga-whaha from over there-" The musician groaned. Sometimes I wonder why I applied for this job. Applejack was still debating. "That tequila looks nice, but ah'bit too fancy for mah tastes..." She went on. Octavia sighted Vinyl by the competitors, her eyes drooping heavily and leaning on the machine. She saw Octavia behind the bar and blew a lopsided kiss. She smiled. As long as Vinyl's happy, I guess. Back at Applejack's table, Rarity had gotten bored of the main event and decided to take to the real-life dancefloor with a reluctant Berry Punch. "Come on, Berry dear," Rarity cooed as she got ready to twirl the wine mare, "show Rarity what you've got!" Berry Punch tried to resist, wanting to get back to Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie on the virtual dancefloor, but Rarity's lithe figure and graceful moves changed her mind quickly. She yahooed and twirled with the unicorn, yanking her back around and holding her in a romantic position in the spotlight. "Oh!" Gasped Rarity. Berry blinked slowly, her eyes drinking in Rarity's deep blue ones and her smile, stained by years of professional wine-drinking, enticing the pure-white unicorn to come closer. Rarity giggled and thrust her head upwards, making both pairs of lips meet in perfect harmony. Berry flinched, as if she wanted to get away from the embrace, but after a few seconds she closed her eyes and savored the moment. Much to the ponies' surprise, the song was almost over, and Pinkie and Rainbow were only a mere five points apart. Pinkie's face of stone had melted and it was clear she was getting tired, but Rainbow Dash had dropped her stoic expression only a few seconds in. The last chorus was almost complete, and Rainbow slipped abruptly on her board and fell back almost a hundred points. Pinkie Pie saw this and laughed heartily, pushing forward. "Nice try, Dashie, but this is my game!" Dashie felt like crying; she didn't want to dance, not at all, but she had come so far and was about to lose to a hyper earth pony with the Princess of the Sun on her side. She felt a single, salty tear escape. The pegasus shook her head violently and narrowed her eyes. No. She would not loose when she had come this far. This was her game. And she would do whatever it took to make sure she won. Rainbow Dash stuck out a hoof onto Pinkie's board and watched in delight as she tripped over it and nearly fell into the system's LCD screen. She raced ahead by twenty points. "What did you say about it being your game, Pinkie?" She sneered. The earth pony found her hooves again and frowned in despair at her friend. "H-how could you do such a thing, D-d-ashie?" Unlike Rainbow, a waterfall of tears sprang forth instead of a single one. She narrowed her ultramarine eyes and frowned when Dashie didn't answer and kept dancing. "If that's how you wanna play-" she bumped Rainbow Dash so hard she nearly fell off her board- "Then we're gonna play it that way!" The blue pegasus roared and bumped the mare back. Back and forth the two went. In the background the volume began to rise. Octavia, who usually had a calm temper, had begun to yell at Applejack and threaten to throw her out. "Decide already, you sad excuse for a pony!" She screeched, pounding her hooves on the bar. "Well we wouldn't be in this sit-u-ation if you could jus' decide already!" Applejack countered. "What does that even mean?!" "How shoul' ah know? Ya the hawt bartend-ah!" "I will not be spoken to in that manner, miss!" "Ah ain't no miss!" Beyond them Berry Punch and Rarity had begun dancing again, their hooves clopping loudly as they salsa-ed and tangoed. Both had wide smiles and were blushing like there was no tomorrow. Twilight Sparkle was trying to direct Scootaloo, armed with her own camera, at the same time with minimal results. The poor filly could barely hear over the ruckus, and Twilight had to yell to get her point across. "To the right! The lighting is perfect!" "Why would I move to the left when where I am is fine?" Twilight groaned and tried to convey her words in gestures, which didn't work either. Next to the bickering dancers Celestia and Luna had begun fighting as well over their competitors and who would win. Both were sharp-tongued and armed with over a thousand years of slinging sarcasm and insults. Rainbow Dash was bumped again and this time she had to use her wings to regain her balance. "You're gonna get it, cupcake!" She rammed back into Pinkie Pie with the force of 16.5 wingpower. Pinkie Pie seemed to absorb the blow and fire it right back at her opponent easily. Meanwhile Vinyl Scratch began to feel the after-effects of her five margaritas and was banging her head into the system. "Why did I drink five?" She questioned. "Three was good enough!" The sound reached it's breaking point and blasted Vinyl's sensitive eardrums. "ENOUGH!" She screamed and rammed her head into the machine once more. The impact broke the internal workings just as the song was about to end. Parts of metal flew through the air and a burst of light blinded everypony for a long moment. The two on their boards shouted out curses and insults that even the most sailor-mothed pony would reget saying sooner or later to one another. When the dust settled all that was left of the machine was a metal stump and two very confused ponies. Rainbow Dash had soot all over her face and parts of her chest and Pinkie's mane had spiked three feet high in diferent directions from some sparks that flew during the explosion. "W-Wha jus' happened?" Applejack slurred from her seat. Octavia simply glanced at the ruined machine with her mouth wide open and a look of disbelief on her face. Rarity and Berry Punch, in the middle of a heated samba, stopped suddenly with wide eyes and open mouths. "What?" Berry Punch whispered to her partner. Rarity didn't respond. After a few moments Vinyl Scratch finally spoke. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Her voice was louder than thunder and echoed through the quiet club. Nopony answered her. "I trust you with my newest machine, and the most expensive, mind you," the angry DJ stomped up to Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie with steam coming out her ears, "and this is what you do to it?!" Pinkie Pie was the first to speak. "I-I just don't know what went wrong." She stammered, trying to hide her shame behind Rainbow's figure. Vinyl's eye twitched. "You don't know?! YOU DON'T KNOW!?" Her fur, usually white, turned a scarlet red and her mane turned into pure fire. Applejack tried to roast a marshmellow on the searing flame. Even the Princesses backed up in shock and terror. "OUT- EVERYPONY!" Nopony moved a muscle. "NOW!" The unicorn's horn glowed a violent blue and the tip sparked with a white light that grew until it exploded, much like the machine, but didn't make a sound and was gone as quickly as it had appeared. When the dust cleared everypony was gone except for the rampaging pony (And a cowering Octavia, who was hiding behind the bar). She made an effort to control her breathing. After a while it slowed slightly and her mane and fur regained their normal electric blue and white respectively, and she sighed loudly and began to walk towards the deserted bar, her hoofsteps sounding like gunshots in the silence. "A nice, cold Maretini, will you honey?" She murmured, sitting down in the barstool and laying her head on the counter. The sound of soft hooves on cold gravel came from outside the empty nightclub, bustling with life only a few hours earlier. Broken glass and splashes of various drinks were everywhere in sight, and some toilet paper hung from the disco ball. The door to this club creaked open and a certain pegasus' head popped in. Her fluffy pink mane could barely fit in the small space. Her expressive emerald eyes surveyed the scene carefully and quietly. "Where did everypony go?" She whispered. Author's Notes: Thank you all for the constructive reports and compliments, as well as likes and thumbs-up- it sounds cheesy, I know, but I never thought someone- thirty four someones, to be exact- would like my writing as much as you guys have. Also, don't turn your back on this humble little story now that it's marked complete, there may be some "extras" I'll release sooner or later... -Epic