One day, Rarity was busy picking up supplies for her store while in deep thought about Twilight and the rest of her friends playing hoofball. She felt... Excluded just being a manager.
"What is this feeling of... Loneliness?" Rarity asked herself "is it because I did not want to play hoofball though everypony wanted me to? What can I do?" Rarity started to worry as she hurried on, not looking where she was going and bumped into a pink earth pony.
"Oh my! I'm so sorry!" Rarity apologised
"Oh no no! It's ok, no problem." The pink pony replied.
"... That's some weird accent you've got." Rarity answered
"I can take that as a compliment." The pony sarcastically joked
"Hey..." Rarity took a close look at the pink pony, whose pink mane was tied in 2 spiky pigtails and had a naturally straight and wavy tail. This pink pony also had naturally feminine eyelashes with a bright blue iris, sported with a cutie mark of a hoofball surrounded by mist. "You look very stylish."
"Really? Now I can take that as a real compliment!" The pony laughed
"No..." Rarity corrected "you look very beautiful!!! Oh how I am so honoured to meet you! My name's Rarity."
"Uh... Well hi Rarity." The pony greeted back "I'm..."
"Let us save our introductions for later." Rarity interrupted "why don't you come into my boutique and try on something that can bring out your stunning style?" And pushed the pony towards the boutique "I'd love to know all about you! Say, are you one of the visitors from Neighpon?"
"Yes, but..." The pony explained
"That's very lovely! Why, I bet every mare would be jealous at your looks and I'm sure you would attract a lot of stallions!"
"Envious mares? Attracting stallions? Are you trying to imply that I'm a... Wait! I'm..." The pink pony tried to object but Rarity was already occupied with the planned activities for the two of them. With a green pegasus watching from nearby.
"My oh my..." Aitor laughed "what did you get yourself into? Have fun with the clean freak fashionista, cause I'm not pulling you out." And trotted away.
Meanwhile Flash was busy trotting around the area on high alert for any small conflicts... No he's not, he's just buying and refreshing isotonic drinks, food, tea, baguettes, etc. All for the hoofball team of Ponyville.
"Being a manager is... Extremely difficult. So many supplies and rations to capture." Flash sighed.
"That's why we'll help you, soldier foal!" A chuckle from behind. Flash turned around to see three mares, one with a coat of sky blue, one that has a rose red coat and the last mare has a jade green coat, the three primary colours together... Sort of.
"Hmm... Are those???" Flash pointed
"Yep!" The Green pegasus stated "these should be the remaining things that you need to get on your shopping list."
"Thank you very kindly. It clears out most of my missions. May I know your names?"
"You don't know us?" Skie asked "oh yeah, you didn't come along with the Princess to visit us. I'm Skie Blue, one of the managers of the Raimon Eleven. Princess Twilight has told me all about you."
"Jade Greene." The green pegasus answered "another manager of Raimon."
"And I'm Rosie Redd. Manager and photographer of the Raimon Eleven." The red unicorn replied "it's very nice to meet one of the managers of the Ponyville Eleven."
"Except..." Skie chuckled "aren't managers normally mares?"
"But mares can also be hoofball players. Why can't stallions be managers?" Flash asked
"True..." Jade wondered
"By the way." Rosie asked "have you seen the other manager? I think her name was Rarity..."
"Lady Rarity?" Flash replied "yes, she at her famous carousel boutique. I recall she was dragging a pink earth pony along."
"Really? I guess we'll have to meet her later." Jade sighed
"There's something strange about Rarity's new customer though..." Flash added "she looks very pretty... But at the same time, my instincts are telling me that she is--"
"--A 'he' ?" Rosie finished with fear in her eyes
"... It seems you know this mare... Wait a minute..." Flash replied
"Nothing's wrong." A voice called from afar, the 4 ponies turned around to see Aitor strolling up to them. "I'm pretty sure that's just another stylish mare that came to visit."
"But Rarity is the only stylish pony in Ponyville." Flash reminded
"Aitor..." Jade glared
"Whatever, good luck getting him out!" Aitor laughed as he flew away.
"Get Riccardo. NOW." Skie commanded
"Roger." Flash saluted and flew off to the direction of the manor.
In the Carousel Boutique, Rarity was happily choosing and picking the most stylish dresses for her stylish customer, who was sweating nervously as he was fitted into yet another pink frilly dress.
"Uhh..." The pony winced as he looked at himself in the mirror. Although, one time when he stepped into a normal pink dress with no accessories or attachments, he did look very cute and pretty in his own opinion, but wearing too many female clothes one after another is crossing the line. "Rarity, there's something I need to tell you..."
"Yes?"
"I've been trying to tell you this, but I'm not what you think I am..." The pony explained
"What are you getting on about?" Rarity asked, the doors to the Carousel blew open, revealing Riccardo, Flash and the Raimon managers. "Oh my! New customers! It's great to meet you! Let me just finish with this gorgeous mare first." Riccardo wasn't listening, he was completely speechless at the shocking but beautiful appearance of his own cross-dressed teammate and friend.
"GABRIEL!!!" Riccardo yelled with horror.
"Wait..." Rarity stopped "Gabriel? That's your name?"
"Yes." The pink pony Gabriel nodded "Gabriel Garcia. People call me Gabi for short."
"B-But that means!!!"
"Yes, I'm a stallion. Not a mare. I've have been trying to tell you this ever since you dragged me towards your boutique."
"I-I-I..." Rarity stuttered, her face growing as red as fire.
"Bad time Rick." Gabi sighed "we better gallop."
"She may not let us go that easily..." Flash implied as Rarity stutters grew in pitch, staring at Gabi, her mind full of confusion and rage.
"In that case..." Gabi breathed "Mystifying Mist!" A thick mist flew into the boutique, fogging up the interior and shielding the group from Rarity's view.
"Mystifying Mist..." Flash wondered "how can you control it? You're not a pegasus!"
"No time to explain!" Gabi replied "everypony get out of here!!!"
"Hey!!! Where did all this fog come from?" Rarity gasped as she tried to find vision through the forest of mist. Luckily, she managed to spot the open entrance and galloped after them. "No wait! Please! Come back!" Rarity cried. In response, a heavenly light shone from above and in it's spotlight, a large Parthenon rose from the ground bringing heavenly choirs of singing. Rarity was distracted for a short moment by it's beauty, but then remembered why she galloped out of her shop. Going around the Parthenon, she continued galloping towards the path in hopes of catching up to the escaping ponies, not knowing that there was another Parthenon in the way and collided head on. Rarity gave up the chase as she lies defeated on the ground.
"Oh Celestia..." Rarity cried as the two Parthenons faded in view. "What did I do to deserve this? Is this my punishment for not joining hoofball with Twilight and friends?"
"That was a close one." Skie sighed as they watched the crying Rarity from a safe distance.
"That was pretty mean though." Flash noted "I think you've broken her heart. You'd better apologise to her next time you come around for hoofball practice."
"Okay then, whatever you say sir."
"Now." Flash changed "can you explain how you can send a dense cloud of mist into the boutique?... And how can you summon these Parthenons?"
"Mystifying Mist." Gabi explained "is a hoofball blocking technique. But this is the first time I had to use it for escaping."
"Hoofball? Are you kidding?" Flash replied "you actually use all sorts of techniques and energy that harnesses the 4 elements, just to keep, steal, catch or kick a ball?"
"Yep."
"Then what about the Parthenons?"
"That would be me." Riccardo answered "my dribble technique, Athena's Anthem. Though, I can't use the move twice at a split second. I don't know who performed the second one."
"Sorry." Rosie piped up "that would be me. I thought she wouldn't be distracted for long, so I put in another one."
"Wait." Flash noted "you three managers also play hoofball? As well as have special techniques of your own?"
"Anypony can play hoofball!" Jade chuckled "and when they put in lots of practice, anypony can learn a special move by nature!"
"You should try it sometime." Skie encouraged "and so should Rarity."
"We'll see... We'll see..." Flash sighed.