Rarity's Dresses

"Twilight, I had to close up shop today to visit you! Are you SURE you don't think you can help me?" Rarity was whining loudly, in hopes that Twilight was just trying to hold information from her.

"Rarity, really, I've never heard of anything like this before! It's very unusual for ponies to just faint, and when they wake up the other pony with them has disappeared!" Twilight became somewhat exasperated.

"Oh, and it seems I can't remember the dresses I make. Could you at least help me with that, then?"

Twilight sighed. "Well, I suppose I could-"

Out of nowhere, Pinkie Pie popped out from upstairs in the library. "You can't remember making dresses AND ponies are disappearing? Maybe it's connected!"

"First of all, Pinkie, what are you even DOING here?"

"Well, Gummy kinda ate my mane, and now he's coughing up hairballs even though he doesn't even have HAIR! So, I wanted to know if something is wrong with him!" Pinkie held out her foreleg for the two mares to see. Gummy was gnawing on it, but he popped off and coughed up a slimy ball of pink strands.

Twilight facehoofed. "Pinkie, he's coughing up YOUR mane."

"OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH! That makes SO much more sense! Thanks, Twily!" She hung upside down from the above floor by her hind legs and faced Rarity. "So, about the dress and disappearing ponies thing, maybe they're connected!"

"Connected? How?" Rarity was perplexed by Pinkie's idea. "You can't possible mean..."

"Yup! You turn them into dresses!"

Rarity gasped in horror. "Why, Pinkie, that's ridiculous! I would NEVER kill another pony!"

Pinkie laughed. "Maybe not you right now, silly, but maybe you have a crazy psycho side that does the killing for you!"

Twilight groaned. "Pinkie, I have been your friend for a while, and that has GOT to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard come out of your mouth."

"You'll see I'm right! Hey, I have an idea! Why don't you put a video camera in the boutique so you can see what happens next time you faint?"

Rarity thought for a moment. "Pinkie, that has to be the most intelligent thing I've ever heard! I'll do that right now!" She galloped off.

Pinkie called after her as she ran. "Remember, you might not like what you see!"

Rarity had already ran off.

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"There we go!" Rarity sighed happily. She had fixed up video cameras in all the rooms besides her bedroom.

The doorbell rang, and none other than Hoity Toity trotted in. "I want to see some of your newest designs! They had better be good!"

Rarity nodded. "Oh, right away!" She used her magic to bring over a couple of clothing racks with her work on it.

Hoity Toity examined the clothes carefully. "Hm... neat stitches... looks very good... some of these dresses seem very similar, was that on purpose?"

"Um, yes! Of course! I think it adds a nice effect, don't you?" The nervousness began to show in Rarity's voice.

"I suppose." Hoity Toity continued looking over the clothing, muttering to himself constantly. "I'd like to see about... hm, let's say ten of these, five of these, and fifteen of these for me. I don't have the bits now, but I can get them."

Rarity nodded, not really listening. She silently took a few deep breaths. The dizzy feeling came on again and she began to stumble. "Miss Rarity, are you all right?..."

"Well, I think... not." Rarity collapsed once again, and woke up once again to find that she was alone, with two new suits on her clothing rack. One of them looked exactly like the one Hoity Toity wore. She sighed and got the video tape from the camera and trotted to Twilight's, hoping Pinkie wasn't right after all.

"Rarity. Did you... faint again?" Twilight bit her lip, nervous.

Pinkie Pie popped out of nowhere again and bounced in front of Rarity's face. "Am I right? Did you watch it? I wanna watch it!"

"Calm down, Pinkie! Come on, Rarity, we should watch it and see what happened." Twilight used her magic to bring up a small screen and a VCR.

Rarity swallowed nervously. "Oh, I feel like I have needles on my head! Wait... needles?" Rarity was silent for a moment, then began hopping up and down, rubbing her mane. "Opalescence, get out of my mane right now! AAAA! Oh, she's scratching me! AAA! GET HER OFF! Opal! BAD kitty!" Rarity finally managed to rip Opalescence from her head and set her down. Rarity was bleeding a little, but she used her magic to conjure up a bandage, put it on her head, the fix her mane so it'd look normal while hiding the bandage.

Opal meowed in a bored tone, then began to groom herself. Twilight rolled her eyes and popped in the video tape. There was a bit of static at first, but in a matter of moments, the video began to play. "Skip it to where I faint!"

Twilight got a remote and skipped some of it until they saw Rarity hit the ground.

They watched the video from there.