Disobedience in Ponyville

by Blazing Pegasus

Rating: teen
Tags: Main 6, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other, Romance, Original Character
Length: 5715

Jazz Rhythm isn't the most popular student, but after she and her friends take a trip to Ponyville things might start to look up for her and her friends. As long as they manage to keep the peace between each other...

Jazz Rhythm and her friends never seem to fit in, but when they go with school on a trip to Ponyville they start to discover themselves and things start to look up for their future. But things might change after the events that unfold. Will they find themselves tearing apart, and will Twilight push herself to the edge?

Published 2013-06-12 17:20:03 UTC
Last updated 2013-12-03 20:17:34 UTC

The trip

The sun was shining through the trees in Trottingham while birds were flying around the school campus. Jazz Rhythm was gazing at the clouds through the window, maths had to be the worst subject to have last lesson. The unicorns sitting in front of her were gabbling on about the school trip to Canterlot and it was making her head hurt, her bright pink hair was tussled from the heat and she was so tired that her black coat seemed more colourless than usual. Just five more minutes, she glanced over at the elderly, dark red unicorn who was the teacher.
"-and that is how you solve quadratic equations. Any questions? No? Good." he said as he finished his speech. The bell rang to indicate the end of a school day and everypony sighed in relief as they started to stand and pack up all their things.
"Don't forget to hand in your homework on Friday class!" he called as everyone started to leave. Jazz picked up her purple saddlebag and walked out into the corridor.
Outside the classroom was crowded and Jazz had to push her way through to her friends class, young pegasi were flying overhead and somepony kept hurling balls of paper towards her. It could have been a coincidence, but it wasn't that and she knew it; it was because she was probably the only blank flank left in her entire year group. Even the fillies and colts that attended the school already had their cutie marks, but she didn't dwell on it. There was more to life than that, she turned the corner and was greeted by a group of her closest friends standing just outside their classroom.
"Jazzy! Hey!" shouted a light blue unicorn who was waving madly to get her attention, this pony was called Rosie Bloom. She had a short lilac mane and a pretty, yet detailed cutie mark. A brush painting a cupcake with a rose on the top of it, Jazz was envious of Rosie Blooms cutie mark but she was envious of everyponys really. She walked over to the group of four ponies and they started towards the exit.
"Everyone in our class just now was talking about the Canterlot trip." scowled the white pegasus who was standing opposite Rosie Bloom, her name was Starry. She had a long blue mane and her cutie mark was a gold star with a big smile. Everyone keeps asking her what it meant but all they got was a cheeky grin and a tap on the nose. "Why don't they just come and rub it right in our faces! It wouldn't be so annoying to hear them constantly yapping about it!" Starry started to go off on a rant.
"Starry there's no point moaning, we don't even have enough money between all of us! And anyway the trip would be full of annoying rich kids." Rosie pointed out. Just as they were having this conversation, Jazz had walked over to a nearby wall. On the wall was a bright poster and some letters pinned below it which were surprisingly untouched. The poster said:

Anypony not attending the trip to Canterlot may attend another cheaper trip to Ponyville. Take a letter from below and have it returned by the end of the week. Details about the trip are in the letter.
Signed Mr Sun

The small group of friends smiled at each other as they each took an envelope from the wall and slipped it into their saddlebags. The next day they handed in the forms and the 25 bits needed to pay for the trip and that's all they talked about for the week as they prepared everything they needed for the voyage in a fortnights time.

The travel

The group of students carried their bags onto the train. They had been looking forward to this trip for awhile now and they were buzzing with excitement. On the platform was about 40-50 other students preparing for the long voyage, so Jazz Rhythm and her friends could pick the best seats before everyone else. Rosie and Techie levitated their luggage onto the shelves above while Jazz and Starry shoved theirs underneath the seats.

"I. Am. So. Super. Duper. Excited!!!" Jazz screamed, right into Rosie Blooms ear. "I can't wait for you guys to meet my cousin, she's the best."

"Alright Jazzy we get it, I'm sure we'll have loads of fun just quiet down!" Rosie hushed as she levitated the last of her bags.

"Move outta my bucking way!" an older colt shouted as he shoved Rosie Bloom and all the air was knocked out of her as she crashed to the floor. Everypony in the carriage looked over and went silent. Another colt of around the same age ran over and helped her up before any of her friends had even moved.

"Hey are you okay?" he asked, pulling her up. "Sorry about my friend, if you want I can kick his flank later?" he said jokingly as Rosie was on all four hooves again.

"Thanks, I'm fine," she said rubbing her head "I better sit down or something though." She looked up and saw the pegasus stood in front of her and started to blush. "I mean later though... like not now... like I think I'm okay now..." she stammered. Starry and Jazz looked at each other with the same grin on their faces, somepony had a crush.

"Well if you feel okay, then I'll leave you to it, see you later!" he called as he turned and walked to his seat. Rosie Bloom sat down and smiled, then saw all of her friends grinning at her.

"What?!" she asked and they all put their heads down, but they didn't stop grinning for the best of ten minutes.

About an hour later Jazz opened her eyes, she looked out of the window and saw that they were nearing Ponyville. Perfect timing. She sat up and glanced around, half of the ponies were asleep as it was already getting dark. She turned to Rosie Bloom who was sitting beside her and saw she was awake. In fact, not only was she awake, but she was drawing something. She, Jazz, Techie and starry were all good drawers, just in different ways. Jazz looked over at the paper and saw she'd drawn an orange pegasus with a fiery red mane and a fringe over half their face.

"Rosie, isn't that pony you're drawing the guy that helped you earlier?" she asked. Rosie Bloom bolted upright and shoved the drawing behind her in surprise.

"Jazzy?! Oh you're awake! I was just doodling, you know, as you do!" she smiled weakly then leaned over to look outside. "Hey we're nearly there! Lets get ready to get off." Jazz Rhythm turned and saw that the station was just ahead. She nudged Starry and Techie so they'd wake up and they started to get their bags.

The arrival

Pinkie Pie and her friends, along with what looked like most of Ponyville stood at the platform ready to meet the young ponies and welcome them to their temporary home for two weeks. Everypony was chatting excitedly, even though they were all exhausted from decorating the entire town for the party Pinkie Pie had been preparing for so long.

"I can't wait for them to get here!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she looped around in the air. "I can teach 'em my stuff!"

"I just hope they're friendly, and not to loud." Fluttershy wondered.

"And have a sense of fashion, I'm not having anything last season in my home!" Rarity added. Everypony suddenly started squealing and cheering in excitement as the train slowed down to pull into the station. It slowly came to a stop and Twilight trotted to the front of the heard with the mayor to welcome their guests. The doors slid open and a few teachers stepped out of the carriage first and shook the mayor and the princess's hoof.

"Thank you for letting us stay here your highness, I'm sure our pupils will learn a lot while they're here!" one of the teachers said to Twilight while bowing in front of her.

"Of course sir! And please, you are all welcome to call me Twilight Sparkle. Will you and the other teachers be needing accommodation?"

"No need, we're all checking into a nearby hotel for the trip." another teacher said as she beckoned the students onto the platform. Suddenly, the station was full to the brim with ponies of all ages, the sky was full of pegasi trying to make room and get away from the crowd. Pinkie saw a young black pony with a pink mane standing with her friends and screamed.

"Oh my gosh! Jazzy Pie!" she squealed as she hugged the laughing young mare.

"Jazzy Pie? That's not your real name." Rosie Bloom pointed out, confused.

"Oh, well when Jazzy was a little filly I used to try and get away from the rock farm to go visit her and we were so alike that her parents kept calling her Pinkie Pie Jr. or Jazzy Pie. Now its just used as a family nickname!" Pinkie Pie explained.

"Awesome, that's what I'm calling you from now on!" Starry smiled. "Anyway Techie, we need to find the princess. We are super lucky to be staying with her!"

"Not just yet guys!" Pinkie stuck her hoof in front of them before they walked away. "Your first day in Ponyville wouldn't be the same without a welcome party now would it!" she said. "Everypony follow me!!!"

The party

Everypony was trotting through town to get to Pinkies welcoming party. The new arrivals were gazing at the decorations that were strung about, even without the decorations the town was so different to Trottingham.

"Do you like the de core darling? I did the design myself!" a white unicorn with a lovely purple mane trotted up next to Jazz, seeing how she was staring at the bows and candles down the street. "Don't you think the purple and the aqua look absolutely divine! Oh where are my manners, I am Rarity." she continued, holding out her hoof.

"Well, its nice to meet you Rarity. The decorations are beautiful!" Jazz said just as they walked into the town centre where a big clearing was made for the party.loud music came on and Pinkie introduced the DJ, Vinyl Scratch.

"Right then, I shall go and mingle. I hope to see you soon dear!" Rarity called as she left the group of young ponies to enjoy themselves

"Okay I'm gonna try and find, uh somepony..." Rosie Bloom mumbled before galloping away.

"And me and Techie are going to find the princess," Starry added, "wanna join us?"

"No thanks, I'm just gonna wander around if that's okay." Jazz shrugged. So, it was just her then. It didn't matter though, now she can party like it's nightmare night!

Half an hour later the party was in full swing, Starry and Techie met up with Jazz again and they decided they were gonna enjoy themselves. They'd spotted Rosie talking to that guy again and left her to it, even though they really wanted to run in there and make her jump. The food was great and the music was awesome as well. Starry kept suggesting that Jazz went and danced as she wasn't the worst, but it was so busy that they just walked around. Then Rosie cantered up to them with a huge smile on her face.

"Hi guys!" she said, out of breath from running. "Sorry I took so long."

"No need to apologise, so who's your boyfriend?" Starry mocked, Rosie shoved her jokingly and sighed.

"His name is Blazing Shield, he's super nice!" she continued, "I think he said he was staying with somepony called Big Macintosh and his family on the apple family orchard, so I guess I'll be helping out there a lot!" Suddenly the music changed from a steady beat to a very upbeat tune.

"Okay everypony, lets PARTY!" cried Pinkie Pie who was standing on the roof of someponys house. Everyone cheered her and even the small group of friends broke into dance. The next thing Jazz knew she was being lifted into the air by a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane and placed on the roof with Pinkie Pie. They all thought this was hilarious and everypony was watching Jazz and Pinkie.

"Come on Jazzy! Lets show 'em what we got!" Pinkie cheered and they both stayed up there for the majority of the night.

Author's Note

The song I was referring to in the party was Pinkies fighting is magic theme if you wanted to know! :3

The visit

The sun rose in Ponyville as everyone started to wake up. Twilight was walking slowly through the mess of the town, trying to contain herself. Streamers and cups were strewn all over the floor and ponies were asleep all over the place. Twilight spotted a pegasus flying around who was awake.

"Derpy?! What happened here?!" she asked with rage.

"Sorry Twilight! I just don't know what went wrong!" Derpy apologised. Twilight sighed and started to clean up the mess. After about five minutes she spotted a group of ponies on the roof of someponys house. Outraged, she flew up to confront them. She wasn't surprised at who it was, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, and her cousin. She nudged them all awake and they sat up wearily.

"Oh, morning Twilight! How ya doing?" Rainbow Dash asked sleepily.

"Rainbow, you can go now. I just want to talk to these two." Twilight replied and she watched Rainbow zoom away. "Pinkie, what are you doing here... on the ROOF?!" she continued

"Oh nothing much, we were just sleeping and stuff." Pinkie answered.

"I would have thought you would set a good example for your cousin while she was here!" Twilight said, pointing at Jazz.

"We were just having fun Twilight! I promise it won't happen again. Pinkie promise!" Pinkie said, doing all the actions to match.

"That's exactly what you said the last time I found you on a roof!" Twilight put her hoof to her head, "As long as you can keep Jazzy and her friends out of trouble I don't mind okay? Now get down before somepony gets hurt!" Pinkie and Jazz jumped down and Twilight sighed with relief, right before she fell through the roof and landed in a kitchen.

A couple of hours later, the town was clean and everypony was walking around as normal. Pinkie was leading Jazz and Rosie to sugar cube corner.

"You guys are gonna love it here! Its so super duper fun!" Pinkie said bouncing through the door. "The cakes have gone away for a couple of days but you can meet them when they get back." Rosie stared in awe at the cakes and pies and everything that was in the display case. "If you want we can make some cupcakes later?" Pinkie suggested to Rosie.

"Sure, but I'm gonna go and see my friend Sugar Quill, she staying with someone called Fluttershy..." Rosie said

"Oh! I know where that is, I'll take you! Jazzy, you're in charge of the bakery until I get back okay?" Pinkie asked, pushing Rosie out the door.

"Okee dokee lokee!" Jazz saluted before she was by herself. She got to work on making some chocolate cupcakes when the door swung open and a familiar looking pony walked in. He had a brown coat and a black mane with tiny purple stripes in it.

"Hey, I'm looking for somepony called Rosie," he explained, "I came to apologise for pushing her." he finished. That's where Jazz recognised him from! She turned her back to him.

"Well, sorry but she isn't here right now. Though she does deserve an apology!" Jazz said to him.

"Look, it was an accident! My friend just told me he kissed my marefriend and I just got a bit upset." he retorted.

"Oh, I'm sorry about that. I'm Jazzy, what about you?" she asked.

"Midnight Blitz. Will you apologise to your friend for me then?"

"Will do! But you can stick around if you want?" Jazz suggested. Midnight paused for a moment then shrugged.

"Sure, I can hang here for a bit." Jazz smiled and told him to go and sit at a nearby table while she got him a milkshake.

The work

The sun was beaming down on the citizens of Ponyville, everypony was up and walking around town doing something. The Trottingham students were all walking to the town hall. Even though it was a trip for the young ponies to enjoy themselves they had to do something while they were there other than mess around. So the teachers were leading them there to get assigned to do something for the day. Rosie Bloom and Jazz were walking side by side behind there teachers, Jazz wished they could've just stayed to work at sugarcube corner but no! They had to go off to some random ponies house and stay with them for hours.

"I hate this" Rosie muttered sleepily. She usually didn't have to get up so early and she definitely wasn't planning on getting used to it.

"Honestly Rosie it could be worse, knowing you you'll probably get a really cool job as well seeing as you're so bucking talented!" Jazzy said to her friend, in mock envy. The group stopped at the town square as they were given their assignments for the day. Rosie spotted Techie and Starry and asked them where they were going.

"Oh, I got a job helping clear the weather for today! I get to work with Rainbow Dash!" Starry claimed with wide eyes and a grin on her face. " I might not be the best flyer but its still super cool. What about you guys?"

"I'm staying in carousel boutique for the day!" Rosie squealed. "I get to actually help making the dresses!"

"Yeah you're good at stuff like that so no wonder, well I'm working with some musicians who live in Ponyville." said Jazz Rhythm casually. "I guess that'll be fun. What about you Techie?" she asked as she saw her silent friend squirm.

"I'm helping princess Twilight in the library..." Techie smiled.

"Cool. Well I guess we can meet here later kay? See ya!" Jazzy called to the group of friends as she trotted towards a unicorn and pony who were supposedly the two best musicians in Ponyvile, Vinyl and Octavia.

After waiting with the two for awhile for another student who was meant to be with them the trio finally decided to leave.

"Well I guess they aren't going to show up. That is such a shame." Octavia sighed as she turned to walk to their destination.

"Damn that sucks! Another pair of hooves would make double the noise!" exclaimed the white unicorn known as Vinyl. Just as they started to walk to the music studio without the other student turning up they heard a shout behind them.

"WAIT!" shouted a young stallion who galloped forwards. They turned and Jazz smiled as she saw a familiar face. Midnight. He eventually reached them and stopped to catch his breath.

"Hey, sorry I'm late. I slept in!" he apologised, still breathing heavily.

"No problem dude! We're just about to head out." Vinyl assured casually. They all walked to the studio together, Midnight and Jazz closely following the two musicians.

"So, how are you this fine morning!" Jazz smirked at Midnight who was still obviously tired. He looked coldly at her and smirked back.

"Well I'm doing better than your hair. You look like you just took a walk through some poison joke!" he replied snidely.

"Oh snap!" Vinyl shouted as she joined the conversation. Jazz looked forward and laughed. They continued their behaviour even after they got to the studio and started work. They got to do all sorts, they listened to some musicians record in the studio, they did some cleaning up and after a few hours of sitting with Vinyl and Octavia they went to put up some posters in the arena across the street. After about 15 minutes they got bored and Midnight jumped onto the stage.

"Hey Jazzy! The band we're seeing tomorrow is going to stand right where I'm standing, isn't that awesome!" he said, dancing around. "Hey, speaking of the concert... is Rosie Bloom still okay about it?" Jazz thought for a moment then smiled.

"Yeah! Sure..." she answered slowly. Midnight sat down on the stage and sighed.

"She still doesn't trust me?" he asked. Jazz finished putting up her posters and sat down next to him. They talked until they realised they should probably leave.

The concert

As Jazzy and Midnight walked back to the town hall after they finished their work for the day Jazzy started to ask about the concert that they were going to the next night.

"So, what's the band called?" she asked curiously. Midnight thought for a bit.

"Dunno. Something like 'haunted stallions' or something. It's a band my friends picked out."

"They sound kind of heavy, how many friends of yours are going?"

"About two or three, you're asking a lot of questions!" Midnight laughed. "Do you like heavy music?"

"Yeah, I like almost any music. Rosie on the other hand..." Jazzy trailed off. Midnight looked down. He stayed quiet until they reached the town hall. They said their goodbyes and went to meet their friends. "Hey guys!" Jazzy shouted as she saw three young ponies standing underneath a tree far away from the crowd. They waved and trotted towards her smiling.

"Hey Jazz, how ya' doing?!" Starry shouted at her. "Sorry if I'm a little loud! I busted my ear up today!!!" she shouted again. All her friends covered their ears and continued their conversations about their day until they decided to go home.

"Bye you two! See you tomorrow!" Rosie called to the loud pegasus and quiet unicorn head to the library. When Rosie and Jazzy got to sugarcube corner they helped Pinkie until they went to bed.

The next day was a Saturday so Rosie and Jazzy slept in and helped Pinkie in the bakery again until they decided to start to get ready for the night to arise. Rosie helped Jazzy with her hair even though Jazzy thought her mane was fine the way it was. They got their jackets and went down the stairs to leave.

"Bye Pinkie! We're going now!" Jazzy said before they walked out into the street.

"BYE GUYS!!! BE CAREFUL!" she shouted out of the window, confusing quite a few passers by. The evening was starting to get quite dark, Jazzy loved the night sky so she was trotting to their destination smiling. When they got there Midnight and his group of friends were all gathered near the door. There was about 4 of them roughly and half of them Rosie and Jazzy had never seen in school. Rosie instantly looked uncomfortable but Jazz put her hoof on her shoulder and smiled as they walked over to them.

"Hey girls!" Midnight called. Everypony greeted each other as they showed their tickets to the bouncer. All of Midnights friends were quite dark-looking. Only one of them was a mare, who looked like she was going out with one of the older colts. Jazz was talking with all of them and enjoying herself but Rosie stuck out a bit. Compared to the rest of the crowd she looked very sweet and girly. Jazz hoped she'd enjoy herself.

As the music started the atmosphere cheered her up. The venue was very small with a large amount of ponies and it wasn't her taste in music but she was dancing and jumping about. The concert was in full swing within ten minutes and there was even a circle pit at the front of the crowd, then Rosie seemed extremely excited. She said she would be back in a minute and ran to the back of the room. Jazzy was curious and jumped to see where she was going, and saw Blazing leaning against a wall and talking to her. Jazz sighed, as she hoped Rosie and midnight would make friends.

"Are you okay Jazzy? You don't look like you're enjoying yourself." Midnight asked as he hugged her gently. They had gotten very close in the past couple of days, so surely she could tell him right?

"It's just Rosie, she's gone to hang out with this guy she likes." she told him. "It's no big deal." Jazz didn't want to tell him that it was Blazing Shield because she didn't want them to fight.

They all enjoyed the rest of the concert until it finished, then everyone started to leave. Midnights friends all left but he stood with Jazz Rhythm at the door to wait for Rosie to come out, as she had not rejoined the group earlier. After half an hour Jazz got worried.

"I wonder where she is, do you think she went home already?" she asked Midnight.

"I don't know, maybe. Do you want me to walk you home?" Jazz glanced worriedly at the door, then smiled and nodded as they walked into the dark street.

The planning

Pinkie Pie burst into Twilights library squealing with excitement. What was a quiet and relaxing morning in Ponyville was shattered by the shouting of the obviously thrilled pink pony and the noise of hundreds of books falling off the shelves.
"TWILIGHT! HEY TWILIGHT!" she shrieked, waving around an envelope she had in her hooves. Twilight, who was walking down the stairs at the time, was startled and fell to the ground with a thud, she got up while Spike instantly started cleaning the mess.

"Pinkie! What do you want? I could've broken my hoof!" she yelled.

"Couldn't you just fly?" Pinkie asked innocently, Twilight looked at her wings and turned back blushing.

"Oh yeah, sorry Pinkie. It's taking me awhile to get used to all this." she said flapping her wings sheepishly.

"No problem! Oh yeah, guess what though? You know some ponies are coming over from Trottingham school for a week or two, and people need to volunteer to look after two of them? Well I volunteered to be one of those ponies and its my cousin and her best friend who are staying with me and the cakes! Isn't that great Twilight?!" Pinkie said at a speed that could only just be understood by anypony.

"That's great Pinkie! I didn't know you had any cousins, I can't wait to meet her." Twilight said calmly. "Say, I volunteered to accommodate a pair of students as well. I wonder when I'll find out who it-" she started before an envelope was slipped through the front door. "Oh! I wonder if that's it." she went over and levitated the letter from the floor.

"Wait... you're looking after some ponies as well? I thought you'd be too busy doing stupid, smart, important, princessy stuff." Pinkie said.

"Just because I'm a princess doesn't mean I shouldn't do my part for the community...hang on a minute... did you just call my work stupid?" Twilight asked slowly.

"No I didn't mean it like that, anyways who have you got Twilight?" Pinkie said, desperately trying to read Twilights letter.

"Oh, just a young pegasus called Starry and a unicorn called Techie Sweet, they both are reasonably smart but both at different subjects. Maybe I could help them learn some things while they're here..." Twilight read out before trailing off in thought.

"That's cool Twilight! Anyway, I have to go now. I'm planning a party for when they get here and those cakes and decorations aren't gonna make themselves are they!" Pinkie giggled as she bounced out into the street and almost bounced into a large stallion. "Whoops! Sorry, didn't see you there!" Twilight watched, smiling and shook her head.

"Oh Pinkie Pie!" she laughed to herself.

The promise

Midnight stayed at sugar cube corner for about an hour. Pinkie got back way before that and she saw Jazz was with a friend so she took charge again, despite the good job she was doing. Midnight and Jazz talked for ages, Midnights family actually lived in Ponyville and he has to go all the way to Trottingham for school because he's actually quite smart and his parents wanted him to go to a good school. He has a younger brother called Button Mash and he and Jazz share a lot of interests. Jazz thought she'd definitely stay friends with him. After they'd both made their way through multiple amounts of milkshakes and cupcakes Midnight had to leave.

"Okay then I'll see you around Jazzy, don't forget to apo-" he started before standing when the door opened and Rosie Bloom trotted in, not noticing Midnight.

"Why don't you just apologise yourself before you leave?" Jazz whispered to him. He nodded and walked over to Rosie.

"Excuse me, Rosie? I'm Midnight, yesterday I kinda pushed you, it was an accident and I just wanted to apologise if I hurt you or anything." he explained. Rosie turned to look at him, she didn't look convinced but she was a friendly pony and she didn't hold grudges for long.

"Okay, apology accepted. You seem sorry enough." she said sharply then smiled weakly. "Thanks."

"Look, I have tickets to a concert at the weekend.Some of my friends are coming and I already invited Jazz, you're more than welcome to come as well." he said before leaving.

"I'll think about it." she replied and Midnight left. Right after the door closed Rosie spun around to Jazz and looked her in the eye.

"Why was he here?!" she asked. Jazz looked at her, confused.

"To apologise! Duh"

"I didn't believe a word he said! You saw him push me! It didn't seem like an accident to me." she turned away again. "I can't believe you're actually talking to him, that you're actually friends with him!"

"Rosie calm down, I think you're overreacting!" Jazz put her hooves on Rosie's shoulders. "Are you all right?" Rosie sighed.

"Well, after I left Sugar Quill I ran into Blazing Shield and we talked and stuff. Long story short Blazing and Midnight hate each others guts big time! I want to stay friends with this guy Jazzy!" Rosie started to look panicked, "Everypony else I meet just makes fun of me, this is the first time that hasn't happened!"

"ROSIE!" Jazz shouted to snap her out of her panic. "I know what you're talking about right now, and I know its hard for you. But could you give Midnight a chance? He's really nice once you get to know him." she suggested. "Just come to the concert with us, and be nice. You'll see!" Rosie nodded. "Promise you'll be nice?" Jazz asked, and Rosie nodded again.

The stress

It was early in the morning and the sun had been lifted over Ponyville. Twilight paced the library, levitating several pieces of parchment in front of her and reading them intently. Spike came down the stairs with a pile of books and set them down on a desk. He saw Twilights look of concern and padded over to her.

"What's wrong Twilight? You look upset." He asked her. She lowered the letters and looked at him calmly.

"I'm fine Spike, but I've received multiple amounts of complaints about a lot of noise being made by some of those students the past couple of nights." she explained, trying to keep her cool. "I have no idea how to keep them all under control! I'm a princess now, I should know how to handle things like this!" Spike could tell she was starting to panic and moved towards her, but she flailed her arms around as she continued to rant. "I need to keep everyone happy. These ponies are young and deserve to have a good time, but I'm in charge of Ponyville for the time being and I need to be more concerned about the residents I am in charge of!" Twilight screamed. Spike jumped back, startled and tried to think of ways to help but his mind went blank.

"You're going to be okay Twilight, maybe you just need some rest." he added.

"I'd love to Spike, but I need to fix this before it gets out of hoof." Twilight finished and began making her way to the town hall. She had a talk with the teachers who were '.' of the students and assured the people who complained that it wouldn't happen again. She managed to stay calm, but the stress was really getting to her.

In sugarcube corner, Jazz Rhythm was getting ready to leave. She'd thought that Rosie had been at home the night before but Pinkie Pie said she hadn't been there since they left for the concert. Jazz was going to go and look for her, she wouldn't be able to stop worrying otherwise. She shouted to Pinkie that she was going and walked into the brisk morning air. Jazz checked the concert arena and the area around it but there was no sign of her. She went to the places where all of their friends were staying and again nothing. By around noon she was really panicking. She had gotten all of the people she knew to help with the search, even Rainbow Dash, but nothing. She went to sit on a bench in the park and sighed heavily. She could burst into tears any second. Then she felt somepony else sit beside her and she jumped, and saw that it was Midnight. He was now considered as a very good friend and they talked for a while.

"Any sign of her yet?" he asked. Jazz shook her head. Midnight thought for a second. " Hey, maybe she went with that guy she was with last night! Do you know who it was?" he said hopefully. She stiffened and nodded. They stood and he looked at her puzzled.

"Follow me." Jazz said and she started walking towards sweet apple acres. "I have an idea."