//------------------------------// // Transportation and an upcoming predicament // Story: The Gala Rocks // by CrossRedstone //------------------------------// This was something none of the girls had thought through. How could they possibly get their instruments to Equestria without accidentally breaking them? On the other side they would end up as ponies and then they would drop their instruments. Not to mention they had to pick apart Pinkie's drums and reassemble it on the other side. They had been pondering about this particular matter for half an hour and soon the first students would arrive. The Rainbooms originally planned on giving the instruments to Twilight's care before school started. But as things stood that wouldn't be possible. Worse, the princess of friendship was supposed to be already with them, yet that wasn't the case. "Oh, come on! Where is she?!" a very impatient Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "Oh...I'm sure she has a good reason for being late." Fluttershy whispered nervously. "She's the one who wanted us to meet up so early!" Rainbow continued, ignoring the other girl's comment. "Simmer down Dash, will ya?" Applejack said annoyed at the blue girl's antics. "She's a princess after all. Maybe the gal got caught up in somethin'." "Argh!" Frustrated, Rainbow threw up her arms and simply gave up, grumbling something incomprehensible. Sunset herself had to admit she was a little frustrated herself. She wrote at least three messages to Twilight, yet their friend had answered none of those. She was about to try another time, when Pinkie Pie exclaimed. "There she is!" she pointed outside the window of the music room. Everyone ran towards the window and to see Twilight getting back on her feet. The girls quickly made their way towards the school entrance, where they greeted the purple girl with their at this time usual group hug. After they broke up, it was Twilight who quickly spoke up. "Hi girls. Sorry I'm late, I had some last minutes appointments." Twilight explained quickly. It was then that her friends noticed that Twilight was almost out of breath. She must have really hurried in order to make it more or less in time. "Are you alright Twilight?" Sunset asked. "You look a little exhausted." "It's...*yawn*...fine. After this I'm going to catch up some sleep. Preparing the Grand Galloping Gala, you know the food, sending out the invitations, solving upcoming problems..." Twilight stifled another upcoming yawn. "Do you perhaps want some coffee, dear? I have some in my backpack. Oh, I left it in the music room." "Oh, thank you Rarity. That'd be really nice. So, should we start?" "Actually sugarcube, we mighta hit a wall here." Applejack scratched the back of her head. "What do you mean, we hit a wall?" the princess asked confused, titling her head. "Well" Fluttershy spoke up "we do get turned into ponies, once we're on the other side, right?" Fluttershy sounded ever so excited about the prospect of being turned into an animal. "Yes, so what?" "Uh...you know...we can't really hold our instruments without our hands." "We'd drop them the second we step through." Rainbow Dash explained further. "Oh!" Twilight slapped her forehead. Or rather fisted, since she was used to facehoofing. The others minus Sunset Shimmer found this a little confusing. Twilight put her fist under her chin, thinking on how to solve this little problem. "Hmm, I could just wait on the other side and catch everything you would drop with my magic. The downside is I would have to time it perfectly, since you will probably stumble over your own legs the moment you step out. Hmm..." Twilight appeared to be lost in thought. The others cast worried glances at each other, trying to come up with their own ideas. Unfortunately five of them had no idea how pony bodies worked and all six of them didn't know what was available on the other side of the mirror that might help in some way or other. Finally Twilight's tired brain managed to come up with something. "Of course. I got it." "Really?" Everyone asked. "Yes." the princess nodded eagerly. "We'll just use my mattress!" "...Come again, sugar?" "It's simple really. My mattress is really soft and big enough for the instruments to land without them accidentally getting damaged." No one had a better idea and time was running short. So Twilight went to the other side to carry her mattress to the mirror. The rest went as one might expect. The instruments weren't heavy for humans and easy to handle, especially Fluttershy's. However, as Twilight said once on the other side, each of the humans fell flat out on their snouts, sometimes they landed on their instruments. Twilight quickly helped them up again with her magic and put the instruments in a corner of the room for the time being. What Twilight really was interested in, was the reactions of her friends being turned into a pony. Rarity for example after finally being able to stand up examined herself. "Oh my, well...this is certainly a new experience." she stated. "Oh my" she rubbed one leg over the other, feeling her own fur. "This is really smooth." she commented. "Do you have a mirror dar- oh Twilight!" "W-what? Is something the matter?" Twilight asked. "Oh nothing's wrong, it's just...well...don't take this the wrong way, but you look positively adorable." "A-adorable?!" Twilight cheeks flushed. Before Rarity could elaborate on what she just said, the mirror brightened up. A second later Rainbow Dash fell out of it, the far end of her guitar hitting the back of her head. "Ow..." the now pegasus groaned. Just like before Twilight helped her getting back up again. It wasn't too long however before the rest came out of the portal, each with their individual instruments, except for Pinkie Pie. She only came through with her drumsticks in her mouth. After helping each of them to recover, Twilight let them examine themselves and each other. "Oh yeah!" Rainbow exclaimed, flapping her wings a few times. "Ah'll say, glad ah still got mah hat." Applejack titled said hat a little upwards. "Wow Fluttershy!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed, bouncing over to her friend. "Your hair is really pretty, when you're a pony." "I agree with Pinkie Pie, darling. It simply looks fabulous!" Rarity said, while carefully walking over to her friend. "It's called mane over here." Sunset explained. She proceeded to look over to Fluttershy, who was as surprisingly silent. Sunset had expected the animal lover to be the most excited one out of all of them. Maybe she was just nervous again, because everypony's attention was on her. Walking over towards the shy girl or mare in this case, Sunset put a hoof on the shoulder of the butter colored pegasus. "Fluttershy? Are you alright?" she asked. ... Fluttershy slowly looked up from behind her mane, showing Sunset the most creepy smile she had seen in her entire life. And she was friends with Pinkie Pie! "Uh...Shy?" Slowly Fluttershy raised one of her legs and stroke Sunset's mane. "...so adorable..." "What?"