Diamond Tiara Hosts: TwiliCon 2015
Scootaloo was so excited for the coming weekend! All of the necessary funds had finally been collected, thanks to a little help from BuckStarter, and all of the planning and scheduling had been completed. All that was left was to sign one final document from Mayor Mare and DashCon 1 would be a-go!
“Hope you guys are ready for an awesome weekend!” Scootaloo said to her two friends as they entered their classroom together. “I already sold like fifteen tickets around Ponyville! I’m tellin’ ya, this’ll be Ponyville’s hottest Rainbow Dash convention ever!”
“Won’t it be Ponyville’s only Rainbow Dash convention ever?” Sweetie Belle enquired.
Apple Bloom shook her head. “Nah. She held one herself a couple of years ago. Nopony showed up so ma sis dragged me an’ Big Mac along ta cheer her up.”
“Well of course nopony showed up,” Diamond Tiara said. “Who would take time out of their precious day to see a lame pony like Rainbow Crash?”
Scootaloo narrowed her eyes as her two greatest rivals approached her. “Everypony would, except you two that is, ‘cause you have no taste!”
“We’ve got like more taste than you and your uncultured friends ever would.”
“I’m no uncultured,” Sweetie Belle mumbled sadly as she lowered her head.
“What kind of convention can you even run on a meagre one hundred bits?” Silver Spoon asked. “A big room with a small ball pit?”
“Hah! Joke’s on you!” Apple Bloom shouted. “A ball pit and an extra hour for those who pledged us!”
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon chuckled loudly. “Well, it’s just too bad that our convention happens to be at the same time as yours,” Diamond Tiara said, making the Crusaders’ eyes all widen.
“What convention?” Scootaloo asked.
“Our convention for Princess Twilight Sparkle, of course,” Silver Spoon said. “We know what ponies really want to see.”
“Why is it at the same time as DashCon?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Oh gee, I guess it must have been an unfortunate accident, huh?” Diamond Tiara said in a sweet, angelic tone.
“I thought we did it on purpose to overshadow them,” Silver Spoon interjected.
“Oh yeah, that was it.”
The two performed their secret hoofshake whilst the Crusaders watched with un-amused faces.
“You realise I already have fifteen tickets sold, right?” Scootaloo asked with a grin as the two rich fillies giggled before her. “We’ll have more attendees and a much better convention than you could ever dream of!”
“Puh-lease!” Diamond Tiara scoffed. “The main attraction of your convention would probably wreck the building before it even starts!”
“This isn’t gonna be like MuffinCon!” Apple Bloom argued. “An’ what about Twilight? She’s so bad with them wings it’s a wonder there are any windows still in Ponyville!”
Twilight’s eyebrow twitched as she stared down hard at the apple she was about to eat. “Why do I suddenly have the compulsion to crush this thing with my magic?”
“Well, good luck with your sure-to-fail convention, Looserloo!” Diamond Tiara sang as she returned to her seat.
“You’ll need iiiiit!” Silver Spoon said.
“Yeah, well, you too!” Scootaloo retorted with a huff.
Sweetie Belle patted a forehoof onto her friend’s shoulder. “Nice one.”
After returning to their seats, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon leaned forward to whisper to each other. “Okay, so we need to throw a convention together by this Sunday.”
“Where are we going to get the money?” Silver Spoon asked.
“Uh, we’re rich?”
Silver Spoon nodded. “Riiiiight. But what about the venue?”
“… Mansion?”
Silver Spoon smiled. “Gotcha. And the food?” Diamond Tiara raised an eyebrow. “… Oh yeah. Butlers.”
Diamond Tiara grinned. “It’s so great to be rich.”
“Totally.” The two hoofbumped and then class began.
After school, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon set out to acquire the financial aid for their convention. It did not go as smoothly as they had planned.
“But Daaaaaad,” Diamond Tiara whined.
“Sorry young lady, but I am putting my hoof down,” Filthy Rich said. “I allowed you to have your way with that orange orchard, that castle-sized tent for camping, and that forged document stating that Applejack was Apple Bloom’s biological mother-”
“Best. Prank. Ever.” The two fillies bumped hooves.
“-But this time, I am saying ‘no’. You’ll just have to find something that doesn’t involve tormenting poor Apple Bloom for once.”
“It’s Scootaloo this time,” Silver Spoon said.
“… Okay, listen. How about this? I will give you the money for this ‘Twilicorn’-”
“TwiliCon,” Diamond corrected.
“-IF you can agree to the butler taking a two month leave of absence and you completing all of his chores.”
Randolph’s eyes lit up and his mouth formed a smile as he heard Filthy Rich’s proposal. He turned to the filly to see her thinking it over.
“Can Silver Spoon help me?”
Silver Spoon turned to her friend with an annoyed glance. “Hey!”
“She can,” Filthy Rich confirmed with a nod.
“Deal!”
The two shook hooves and Filthy Rich wrote out a cheque for Diamond Tiara, whilst Randolph stripped off his butler uniform and ran out of the house laughing and cheering like a madpony.
“Okay, so we have the money now,” Diamond Tiara said. “Now we need a venue… Daaaaaaaddyyyyyyyyy?”
“No.”
Diamond Tiara groaned. “Oh, fine! We’ll ask Princess Twilight if we can use her castle.”
“Oh yeah. That thing.” Silver Spoon looked out of the window to see the large eyesore in the distance. “It’s funny how often you forget about that thing.”
“Well then, let’s go!” Diamond Tiara said with an excited squeal. “Oh, one second! Gotta fix up my mane, and put on some new perfume, and find the right outfit, and-”
Silver Spoon grabbed Diamond Tiara’s ear and dragged her along. “It’ll be night by the time you’re ready!”
Diamond Tiara flailed and eventually managed to free herself. “Okay, okay! Just, tell me which one looks better for a meeting with the princess!” Diamond Tiara removed her tiara and put on an identical one.
“… The first one.”
“Knew it!” Diamond threw the rejected tiara into the trashcan and trotted past Silver Spoon happily, singing the Winter Wrap Up song that had quickly become her number one tune in recent months.
“Uhhh… I’m sorry, can you run that by me again?” Twilight asked the two strange fillies that had interrupted her tea party with her friends to give her the strange request that she was having trouble understanding.
“A convention, all about you!” Diamond Tiara repeated. “Everypony loves Princess Twilight, and what better way to show it than a convention held in your honour!”
“Think of it as a way to connect with your subjects,” Silver Spoon said, which seemed to catch Twilight’s interest.
“And all the money we make will go to charity,” Diamond Tiara added. “Plus, we- er, that is, everypony attending will get to spend the day with their favourite princess!”
“Well, that does sound… interesting. But, it’s such short notice. Who will even be planning this event?”
“That’s the best part!” Diamond Tiara said. “You can be in charge of all the planning and organising!”
“It is your convention, after all, so you can have full say on all of the events,” Silver Spoon followed.
Twilight smiled at the idea. “Well, I suppose I didn’t have anything else to do on Sunday, and this would be a good way to connect with my fans… and I get to spend the whole of tomorrow that I would have just wasted lounging around and catching a tan with my nose in books and putting quill to parchment instead!” Twilight squeed. “I’ll do it!”
“Wonderful!” Diamond Tiara cheered.
“We’ll see you this Sunday theeeeen!” Silver Spoon sang as the two left the room.
Rainbow Dash tapped a hoof against her chin. “This Sunday… Why does that sound familiar? …”
“That totally went well,” Diamond Tiara whispered to Silver Spoon as they walked through the castle.
“Totally. Now we don’t even have to like, plan anything or sign any paperwork!”
Diamond Tiara giggled, before stopping as she realised that she was once again in the throne room.
“… Something else you needed?” Twilight asked the two confused-looking fillies.
Diamond Tiara grinned nervously. “Um… where’s the way out of here?”
Sunday arrived, and TwiliCon 2015 was underway! The line was great, stretching from Twilight’s castle to across the street. Near the end of the queue, a certain magician had set up a stand to sell her merchandise.
“‘How The Great and Powerful Trixie Bested Princess Twilight Sparkle’?” Rumble asked as he read over the book’s title.
“That is correct, my young colt!” Trixie opened the book to show the contents inside. “It comes complete with diagrams of the Great and Powerful Trixie standing victoriously over a bound and gagged Twilight Sparkle!”
“I’ll take eight!” Twist shouted as she threw a hoofful of bits onto the stand.
“What’s going on here?!” Twilight demanded as she approached the stand, catching the attention of every filly and colt there.
“And now, the Great and Powerful Trixie must take her leave!” After unleashing a flashbang, Trixie fled the area, this time having plenty of time to leave before being seen. ‘Totally worth the extra five bits!’
“Is this everypony who’s showing up today?” Twilight asked after her vision had returned to her, looking over the lengthy queue in awe. “That must be every filly and colt in Ponyville!”
“All but three of them,” Diamond Tiara corrected. “The Crusaders unfortunately had other plans today, so they couldn’t turn up,” she added with her best pouting face.
“Well, it’s still a much bigger turnout that I had expected,” Twilight said with a nervous chuckle. “Still, I’ve got a great day of fun planned for everypony! I hope you’re all ready!”
Everypony in the line cheered, whilst Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon exchange grins. “This is gonna be great!” Diamond Tiara said, Silver Spoon nodding in agreement.
“Okay, the next word is ‘transformation’,” Twilight said as she looked up from her book and around the room at all of the fillies and colts sat neatly, in order of height – as the gender ratio was too uneven to form any sort of distinguishable pattern for seating order – with quills and parchment at the ready. “Remember, we’re looking for the longest anagram, and you have to be able to use your new word in a sentence!”
Pipsqueak’s face fell forward and met with the table. “Ah! I-I’m awake!” he shouted. “Um, Princess Twilight? Could we play ‘pin the tail on the pony’?”
“Yeah!” a chorus rang out from the foals around him.
Twilight frowned and then gave her warmest smile. “Now now, everypony. I’ve already explained the schedule and you all know that right now is anagrams, followed by quiet reading, and then lunch, and then we-”
“What about music?” Rumble asked. “Can we have some music on in the background?”
“Oh, I don’t know… Music is very distracting and I’ve already planned a playlist of songs for this evening’s event. If I try to restructure everything now it could throw everything into chaos and-”
“Hey, what’s that?” Berry Pinch asked, her ears perking up as the sound of musical beats entered the room.
“Whoa! That guitar solo… Where’s it coming from?” Dinky Hooves asked, getting up to look outside of the window. “It’s coming from DashCon!”
Everypony but Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon and Twilight Sparkle also got up and rushed to the window.
“Whoa! They’ve got arcade games!” Button Mash shouted.
“And balloons!” Alula cried.
“And a ball pit!” Snips and Snails added in unison before rushing down the castle’s corridor together, soon followed by everypony else.
“Rainbow rocks! Rainbow rocks! Rainbow rocks!”
As the cheers from outside the castle died down, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon exchanged uneasy glances before turning back to the confused princess that they were left with.
“… So,” Diamond Tiara began, “Wanna exchange tiaras for a bit?”
With a sigh, Twilight lifted her tiara off of her head and traded it with Diamond’s. Whilst the two fillies fought over the right to wear it first, Twilight Sparkle looked out of the window with a frown. Nopony understood her or her ways of having ‘fun’, which certainly differed from the norm, but to her were better due to their structure and order.
An entire day of planning and organising down the drain, all because kids these days were more interested in their ‘rock and roll’ than in reading a good book or partaking in some intellectual word games.
On the bright side… Twilight felt damn great in that diamond tiara.
