Rainbow Dash goes to a Michael Jackson Concert

    "What...." Rainbow trailed off, and as the realization of what Rarity just said hit her like a brick wall, qnd she started flapping her wings like crazy, and she almost started to take off. "Omygoshomygoshomygosh!!" She was squeeing like a little filly who just woke up on Hearth's Warming Day, "I TOTALLY FORGOT!!"

    "Alright, jeez, calm down Rainbow." Twilight put a hoof on Rainbow's back, in an attempt to pull her back to the ground before she completely flew off.

    "Hmm....." Rarity looked around as she levitated the golden tickets out of an inexplicable pocket in her dress, "A-ha! There's guard ponies by the stage, I bet they're the ones who will let us backstage." She said with a smile.

    "Whatever you say, as long as we get to meet the pony that was singing onstage tonight." Rainbow was trying her hardest to control her enthusiasm on the outside, but on the inside, she was freaking out.

    As the three mares made their way over to the entrance, Twilight and Rarity kept mumbling and giggling to each other while Rainbow just hovered just a few feet off the ground, staying silent, but still shaking and occasionally letting out a squee as they got closer. By this point, most ponies had left or were waiting by the bathrooms for their fillies or colts to JUST FINISH ALREADY, so it was not really a long trip, and in less than a minute, the three reached the guards.

    "That's odd.." Rainbow commented as she landed in front of one of he guard ponies, "I thought there would have been at least one other pony who would have gone through the trouble of getting backstage passes besides Rarity..."

    "Actually, neither ticket sales nor backstage passes have been selling very well recently." One of the guards, a mare, answered her unspoken question, "Michael hasn't been taking it well, mostly because somepony always interrupts him during the concert, yelling profanities at him or other things like that. I guess it kinda ruins his spirit to know that ponies attend his concerts to make fun of him. Everypony says that he's just being a greedy celebrity who only cares about being seen as a musical god, but I think the poor guy just needs a break, I mean, between being put through constant verbal and physical abuse AND being the most famous and busy pony in Equestria, he's got a huge weight on his shoulders, trying to please everypony, but knowing that that's impossible because some can't accept who he is. Oops, sorry, didn't mean to ramble." She smiled sheepishly as the other guard, who was a stallion, stepped over.

    "I'll take those passes for you." He smiled at Rarity, who levitated them over, but gave a look at the other guard. He inspected them, and then pulled off his (fabulous) hat to reveal a horn. It lit up as he gave Rarity back the passes and opened a door in front of them. "There you go." He said. The two guards watched as Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity walked in, and once they had, the door was closed until it was open only a crack, just in case something bad that in reality would have no chance of happening, happened.

    Rainbow looked around, expecting the room to be full of fancy things, but it was really just a normal, average room, full of stage props and some costumes here and there, but no over-the-top decorations. Then again, it was Town Hall. Not exactly Canterlot.

     Suddenly, they heard a loud SLAM! as a door was thrown shut, and some hoofsteps as a pony rushed out of one of the other rooms.

    "S..Sorry! I was just getting..uhh...changed out of my.....um....outfit." He stuttered, blushing a little in embarrassment. Rainbow was actually surprised at how he looked, away from all the spotlights and fog machines. He had a long, smooth, almost silky-looking mane, very large wings (even quite possibly larger than Twilight's ), and a very oddly shaped muzzle. Suddenly, she noticed something very weird that she only noticed because Michael wasn't wearing anything at the moment....(And this is because he is a PONY, alright! I'm saying this now so no one mentions it in the comments.)

    "Why don't you have a cutie mark?!?!" She blurted out, causing Michael to step backwards, looking both confused and almost hurt, while Twilight facehoofed  while muttering things that sounded along the lines of 'Not now!' And 'Really, Dash!', etc.

    "Well, I certainly haven't had to explain that one in a......while" Michael sadly glanced at his flank for a second, before turning back to Rainbow. "It all started a few years ago when I found out I had ....this ....um ...thing........Hay, wait a second! Aren't you the mare who yelled at me in the middle of the show?!"

    Rainbow's eyes widened in embarrassment......She had been counting on the hope that Michael wouldn't recognize her, but then again, her mane did make that a little difficult. "I.....was......you see," Rainbow desperately looked at Twilight and Rarity, who just shrugged, basically saying "Yeah, this is your problem."

    She glanced back over to Michael, who didn't look angry or hurt or whatever, but he was tapping a hoof on the floor, Impatiently waiting for an answer. Rainbow sighed, she was going to have to tell Michael what really happened. Even the 'I have an Unfathomably Enormous Ego' part.

    "Basically, when my friends Twilight and Rarity......you know, them," Rainbow pointed a hoof at her friends when Michael looked confused, "Took me to this concert, I tried to act like it was lame, and you know, yelled at you 'n stuff. I.....um...didn't realize what you were going through, so I acted really rude...and um...I didn't mean for it to come out so mean." Rainbow sat down and waited for somepony to mock or laugh at her for giving such an honest and really sappy apology, but her friends looked at her and nodded.

    "That was a very beautiful and honest apology, Rainbow Dash." Rarity stated as she turned to Michael. "And, I hope you accept it, Mr. Jackson."

    "Michael is fi-" He began to correct her, but was cut off by.... surprise, surprise, Rainbow's ego.

    "Ha! I knew it! Take that past self! You thought ponies would make fun of you, but no," She ranted "Even the legendary Michael Jackson thought your apology was awesome and totally makes up for everything you did!"

     "No it doesn't, Rainbow." Twilight looked at her in a silent "Shut up!" sort of way, "That doesn't excuse what you did." Michael put a hoof on Twilight's side, looking amused,

    "If I may?" He interrupted the two mares before things got ugly, "I umm.....er...believe Rainbow had a question for me." Luckily, the two stopped (before they started) bickering and looked over.

    "Well, I did kinda want to know why you don't have a cutie mark, I mean, you're a super

awesome singer and dancer, uhh..speaking of which, why didn't you fly around on the stage?" Now Michael was starting to regret bringing Rainbow's question back up, "I bet you would have been a better flyer than the Wonderbolts! Not better than me, of course, but ya' know!" She grabbed one of Michael's wings and unfurled it, getting her answer. Some feathers fell off, shriveled like a dying plant, while most just looked sad. "Wha..?" She curiously picked up one of them and examined it as Michael pulled his wing back and sighed.

    "Vitiligo." Twlight said bluntly, "A disease that turns your fur white, including your.....cutie mark. It also usually ruins Pegasus feathers, causing them to be burned and weathered really easy, so just a little flight can cause them to become sunburned and fall off."

    "Uh.....wow..." Rainbow sat down, speechless.

    "Oh, where are my manners?" Michael exclaimed, trying to break the awkward silence, "Anypony want a drink?" He pointed over to a small, compact fridge in the corner of the 'kitchen' section of the room, smiling awkwardly the whole way! Michael opened it and looked inside, obviously disappointed. "Well, we got....juice boxes, water, and..cider." he concluded.

    "Cider!?" Rainbow flew over at the speed of light, knocking Michael aside. She looked in the fridge and grabbed a little bottle of Apple Cider, left over from the recent Cider Season. As Michael got up and her friends walked over, she downed the bottle and licked her lips.

    "Ahem..." Rarity cleared her throat, "This is really nice, and I'm sorry about her."

    "It's alright." Michael said as he got up, "I've seen.......and been at the end of worse manners." He shuttered before adding, "Tabloids."

     Rainbow tossed her empty bottle to the floor and landed next to Michael. "By the way, your performance was super cool, even if I hadn't known about you before. if your wondering, I'm just trying to be humble about my amazing......ummm...."

    "Tact?" Twilight asked, raising an eyebrow.

    "Right. Just in case you didn't know how I felt." Rainbow leaned closer, like she was about to whisper something in Michael's ear, and burped loudly, making him instinctively flatten his ear against his head and mumble under his breath.

"Very tactful." He said sarcastically as he scooted away from her nervously and looked at Twilight, "I assume you're Princess Twilight?"

    "Yes, but I prefer just Twilight." She replied cheerfully, "So, what songs were you planning on performing tomorrow?" She asked.

    "Well as long as you don't tell anypony, I was planning to do Pony Nature, Rock with You, Scream, and lastly-"

    "REALLY!? Is your sister going to be here to perform with you!?" Rarity asked.... really loudly. Twilight and Rainbow just rolled their eyes. Sometimes Rarity was way to obvious about picking her favorites in a family.

    "I'm tried to contact her, but if it doesn't work, I could always just sing it myself or sing "Leave me Alone" instead. It's the same concept, so I just figured if I couldn't manage one, Why not just do the other?"

    "Are you gonna do any other songs?" Rainbow smiled, eagerly waiting for an answer.

    "The last one is going to be a secret." He said, smiling mischievously.

    "Awww man....." Rainbow whined, "I was going to bug Twilight into letting me hear the records over and over again so I can sing the words at an obnoxiously high volume."

    "Rainbow, I think they'd 'escort' you out of the area if you did that." Twilight said, "And by that, I of course mean the Security Ponies will throw you out of Town Hall."

    "Yeah...." Rainbow sighed. Suddenly, she looked up and surveyed the room, rapidly looking back and forth. "Did you guys hear that?!" She asked.

    "I think I know who that is...." Michael said, raising an eyebrow in amusment, "PRINCE! PARIS! I KNOW YOU'RE UP THERE!" He yelled. The three mares looked at each other, confused as the sound of two pairs of little hooves came rushing downstairs.

    "Hello, everypony!" said a little Pegasus filly nonchalantly, as if she intended to be caught spying on them, "How are you doing?"

    "You must be Paris!" Twilight smiled enthusiastically.

    "You really are ADORABLE!!!" Rarity crouched down to pat her on the head, but her hoof was slapped away by a slightly taller Unicorn colt with a slightly darker brown mane than his sister.

    "I exist too, ya know." He said, obviously irritated by how everypony (Who wasn't trying to get her to admit her father was a foalfooler) always thought his sister was sooooo cute.

    "You must be Prince, then....right?" Rainbow Dash asked.

    "Yeah.." he looked at her, obviously still a little annoyed, "Prince Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., to be exact."

    "C'mon, guys, have some manners!" Michael poked Prince with his hoof, only making Prince roll his eyes. "These ponies are our guests, in this, um.....small town that is nothing like home!" He said cheerfully, giving that awkward smile again.

    "I like them!" exclaimed Paris, who was just glad to be getting some POSITIVE attention for once in her life. Michael opened his mouth to say something, but one of the guards called from outside,

    "MICHAEL, SOMEPONY IS HERE TO...uhh....SEE YOU!" She yelled.

    "Uhh, I guess you guys should stay here, while I talk to this pony." He said, sounding a bit unsure of himself. Rainbow glanced at Twilight and Rarity, who just shrugged as Michael walked out the door.

A/N

So.....this is Part 1 of the....finale I guess, of my first story on Fimfiction.

Alright, so real notes, I'm really sorry if Michael (or anypony else for that matter) seems out of character at times, but I was trying to write him as more of an individual pony and a little less like Michael himself. Sorry, but I thought it was better that way, since, you know, he is supposed to be a 'Character' and not a 'Pony embodiment of MJ'.