Photo Dash

by Vortaxonus

Rating: teen
Tags: Comedy, Random, Slice of Life
Length: 7039

....What is Photo hiding?....What is Rainbow hiding?....RPAGEABSDUESRDF, EEMV SI'TCIE!

"In fairness, the openers are not in-universe cannon (discord is shown living in Flutter's home, despite three's a crowd implying he lives somewhere else) and the mirror universe converts dragons into dogs and dogs into humans, turning alter egos into serperate enities (like the shadow bolts, an alternate form of nightmare moon) does not seem far off in my opinion, i would like to see a main series where they are both in the same shot in the same scene and is clearly seperate characters in-universe."
-here, on deviant art

Ponies, and in general most everybody, keeps secrets in in form in another, right? But there is one cyan Pegasus who has a rather surprising secret for the tomboy, but first, you gotta know somethin' 'bout me over here.

*Coughs*

I AM PRINCE ARTSY CANVAS, ALICORN OF THE ARTS AND IMAGINATION AND I WILL SERVE AS THE NARRATOR (WHO NEVER TAKEs ANYTHING SERIOUSLY EVER) OF THIS SEMI-BIZARRE TALE ABOUT RAINBOW DASH AND HER BIZARRE FASHIONISTA SECRETS!!!

based on a personal headcannon of mine, with the above comment being a argument of why it's still the case and possibly canon. My oc, Artsy Canvas will serve as the narrator, as he did for my early proto-fics

the cover art is the image from the deviantart page link from above
props to stanku as the proffer
Disclaimer: (insert standard licensing disclaimer here)…and Constructive criticism is the best criticism, all other criticisms are, above all, pointless of fixing the issues and thus will be considered useless and will be deleted, the only reason i bothered writing this is that they are not any other fanfics where Photo Finish is a stage name for Rainbow Dash, but recommendations with this headcanon as a plot element are welcome, as long as you put the link in the comment.

Will be rewriting this as a separate fic.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-12-28 00:00:39 UTC

Photo Dash: Final Mix

Photo Dash

-By Vortaxonus

"That right there is me, Artsy Canvas, also known as the narrator for all 'Our Little Fairy Tale (Horror Story)' series of tales and stories, and a few others on occasion." -Artsy Canvas

"

Youtube Video

-Artsy Canvas's Theme"

Hello, i'm Artsy Canvas, Alicorn of the arts and imagination and half-pony, half-zebra hybrid.I have a purple body with gray stripes and blue and red mane and tail. But enough about me, i'll narrate this story because why the tartarus not, and it's take two on an attempt to make this better. So, let's start Fillies and Gentlecolts.

Note:Play the music while you're playing, as far as i can tell, there's literally nothing from stopping you.

*Clears throat*

"

Youtube Video

-Cloudsdale's Theme"

Rainbow Dash was working particularly hard today and was finally finished with the weather. It was hard, why wouldn't it, but she did the job. But, after moving several storm clouds and averting a hurricane and one or two tornadoes from Ponyville and Cloudsdale, she was done weather managing for the day. Indeed, it was a tad exhausting to do all that work for the day, but damn, was it awesome.

Anyways, she cleans herself off via into the shower, checks on her pet tortoise, cleans up her house....etc, etc, etc. Then she checks her schedule and she realizes she has to attend something. She then goes to a (secret) room that was hidden by false wall-type door, and in this particular room was something Rainbow herself would not like most ponies to see, save for Pinkie Pie.

The room itself was some kind of closet with dresses of black, white, and pink on hangers hanging on the dressers. Nearby was a mirror, a highly luxurious and decorative mirror, but a mirror nonetheless.

She walked into this hidden "dressing room", of sorts, and put up the hidden door so nopony will stumble into it. She then walked up to a table where a chair was in front of, yes i know the meme is coming and i deserved it, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!!!

LATER...

"

Youtube Video

-Photo Finish's Theme"

Photo Finish was done transforming herself from her usual persona from an athletic tomboy Pegasus known for being a speedster, to a fashion photographer with a dress purposely hiding her cutie mark, and even covered her original with either aperture blades or, rather rarely and only used it when encountering certain ponies for the first time, twilight's star cutie mark via paint or something like that. Don't ask, it will be explained later.

It was surprisingly easy to hhide, she even managed to fool Rarity and even Fluttershy! Fluttershy (as far as i could tell) didn't see through or at least seem to imply she's aware of Rainbow's disguise. Indeed, for Rainbow Dash to keep a secret like this is quite an impressive feet, considering that one time with Pinkie's surprise party. Anyways, it took her awhile to get to work and not get any suspicious glares from anypony, with Pinkie's help (who disguises herself as an assistant which i think was named "High Style") she was almost guaranteed to pull it off in some manner.

But, of course, this day was special in Photo Dash's heart (screw you, i'm making my own nicknames) for this is a "Filly Beauty Pageant" or a "Filly Fashion Contest" or something like that, i didn't catch the name for it when i visited the place, so excuse me for my inaccuracies.

"Indeed," the cyan mare thought as they travel to Ponyville, "I Thought she is that loyal to your fellow friends."

If you are wondering, she was looking at a list of contestants for whatever this fashion-based event is and/or is called.

The list of fillies attending this contest were, in no particular order, Diamond Dazzle Tiara, Silver Spoon, Dinky Doo, Ruby Pinch, Twist, Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and....Scootaloo?......WAIT BLOODY WHAT!?!?!

"Hmm..." Photo Finish (really Raainbow Dash) emitted from her mouth in a kind of humorous manner, whatever that means.

"It seems she is following my hoof-steps more then she thinks," Photo Dash thought jokingly, "....Just like you sister,scoots,...Just like you sister...what an odd coincidence...."

"HeyPhotoFinishwhat'supisitnicethatyoursurrogatesisterScootalooisatthefashionshowthingyareyouexitedbecuaseiamexitedaboutthefashioneventthingand...." said a  disguised pinkie, whose personna is i think was High Style, barely made an attempt to put pauses between her words, who had her mane-style redone to a straight-as-a-razor-blade fashion with some of it slightly dyed and her eyes slightly darken because she's Pinkie and nobody knows how she even works in reality in general.

"Photo, it's near the time the contest would be here," said an assistant, which i might as well name 'bob' for the importance she would make.

"Hey, i hear th-" quiet living prop, i'm narrating here.

"I'm not a livi-" that's it, SALMON CANNON.

"What did yo-" and then she was hit by a flying salmon fired from the above mentioned cannon.

*Coughs deeply* anyways, enough with arguing with extras, i will cut to Scooot's perspective some time later because at this rate, the audience would get bored out of their minds.

A huge stage stood now in the center of Ponyville's place (what place? All i remember is sleeping at least half the time and paying attention to my electronics too much to remember all that much of the contest thing so i can't really answer that) as Several ponies checked if everything was alright. Looking at it from afar, Photo Finish discussed with a light browwn stallion.

“So, are the preparations over?”

“Soon, madam!” he replied,“Everything goes smoothly!”

“How many contestants we have?”

“Eight, madam!”

“Good, good.”

Behind the group, Scootaloo approached, not very confident about she was doing. She noticed her friends talking to each other happily.

"Go Scootaloo, you need to be loyal to your friends! They would never let you down in the same situation."

She trotted to them, without looking elsewhere. She was too embarrassed. She focused her friends, forgetting completely her surroundings. So much that she bumped into Diamond Tiara.

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Youtube Video

-Scootaloo's Theme

"Watch where you are freaking going, bloody blank flank!" was the words Diamond Tiara responded with.                                                                                  Scootaloo barely did much other then a huffing and moved out of the spoiled brrat's and moved on with her path.

After a while she had at last arrived at the level of her two friends and saw that they weren't the only fillies to participate. Ruby Pinch, Dinkky Doo and Twist were already there (rather redundant i know.) The young orange pegasus heard Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon snnickering behind her back, meteers away from her.

Photo Finish's (or Rainbow Dash's, to be more accurate) caught the sound of an upcoming conversation and decided to listen in on the conversation, because she is her semi-adopted sister.

“You've made it!” Applebloom exclaimed, “Ah never thought that you'd come.”

“You didn't have too much trouble asking your parents?” Sweetie Belle asked.

“They're the same as ever,” Scootaloo sighed. “How about you?”

“As soon as I said that I'd participate to this contest, Rarity spent the entire afternoon getting me ready,” Sweetie Belle complained.

"I knew it!" thought Scootaloo.

“I at least convinced her that we didn't need dresses for this one.”

Applebloom didn't have the time to say how it went that a pretty old unicorn mare, levitating a parchment, indicated her arrival by light coughs.

"So, I waant your attention, please! Is everypony here? I need eight fillies,” She began to count the fillies in her head before adding, “Perfect, my name is Starrting Line and I'm one of the assistants of Photo Finish. Fillies, it's time to shine!”

As Soon as that was announced she rushed towards the front stage, trying hard not to bust her disguise.

Several shouts of joy were heard as Fillies ran towards the stage to climb on it.

Diamond Tiara leaned close the Cutie Mark Crusaders and whispered, “Don't ever hope to win this time,”

and then she moved away from them LIKE A BOSS.

“We need that at least one of us win, we can't let Diamond Tiara (The most spoiled of them all) win!” the white unicorn filly asserted.

"No, you need to win, I'm just here to support you. I can't win. I'd be too embarrassed," thought the tomboyish orange Pegasus.

"

Youtube Video

-Fashion Contest Theme"

Fillies lined up on the edge of the stage. Now a crowd filled the place to see the contest (or whatever it is.) Scootaloo began to scan the public like she wanted to forget what she was doing here. It wasn't easy with Photo Finish (who has glasses to protect her from her own insistent camera flashes) who had started to take photos every 1-3 seconds.

"These flashes are gonna make me blind!" thought Scootaloo, as the flashes continue to assault the filly with their light.

In hope of giving her little sis' some well needed encouragement, she took off her glasses before the last shot to elimination, and whisper, in her non-disguised speech pattern, "I'm so proud of you sis."

Since Scootaloo was closest to Photo Finish (which, unaware to the orange filly, was her usually [currently non-]tomboyish big sister) she was managed to hear the whisper and nopony else beside disguised!Pinkie and maybe one or two assistants, but one flash was enough to get her slightly slipped disguise back together.

“Yes, show Photo Finish something!” the photographer that is Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

Every filly posed and looked, at best, ridiculous. For example, Applebloom made her best fake smile while Sweetie Belle pursed her lips. The worst was the attitude of Diamond Tiara who would pass Canterlot's nobles off as uncouth ponies. The only one who didn't pose was Scootaloo. She had lowered her head like it was going to hide her.

It's not like she's biased or anything, but it seems that all shy Pegasai are destined to be fashion models or something like that. The others performances did not help her case at all.

An angered frown appeared on Photo Finish's face.

“The cream filly on the right, no! I won't do!” Twist was posing like one of the Canterlot Garden's statues when Starting Line came to make her climb down from the stage. She left head low with her.

“And the magenta one too, on the left,” the photographer continued. This was Ruby Pinch. She was leaning on a bar of the stage. The old mare sighed and announced to Berry Punch's sister her fate.

“Yes! Wunderbar!” the heck is a 'Wunderbar' Photo, but anyways,back to Scootaloo as she looked at the two fillies going back to their relatives, pretty sad, their faces did show.

Scootaloo, the tomboyish orange Pegasus filly who's sister is a fashion photographer and a world-class athlete/weather manager, heard Diamond Dazzle Tiara making a "faint" giggle of sadistic glee.

"How could Diamond Tiara do that? That you feel relieved to not be eliminated, I'd understand. But I can't stand her laughing at ponies who had failed. Apple bloom, Sweetie Belle, you need to win against her." Scootaloo thought as she continue to chuckle as "quietly" as possible.

She noticed that her friends (as in Sweetie Belle and Apple) had seen the same thing and they were also pretty angry about it.

A new round of flashes began, and Scootaloo proceeded blinked each time.

"How famous ponies can endure that is beyond my understanding," i have the same question Scootaloo, but i'm afraid that question is a mystery for all of the ages.

Finally Photo Finish stopped to take pictures and reappeared from behind the camera. She frowned looking at Scootaloo.

At least I'm gonna leave the stage to explain to Rainbow Dash why I'm here. That I'm loyal to my friends and didn't want to do this silly thing.

Oh, naive fool, i'll know your fate and i would tell you first hand, but i have narration to finish.

She stared at all the remaining fillies. Her look stopped at Applebloom, glancing at her bow in her mane.

“You! No no no no, I said that I didn't want additional accessories or dresses for the contest.”

Starting Line poked the young farmer on the withers(?), gently showing her the exit of the stage.

"Applebloom is out. Sweetie Belle had a good idea convincing her sister she didn't need to wear a dress." was the words that popped into Scootaloo's head.

A shout was heard from the public. “Don't worry. This ain't yer kind o' contest, yer better at the farm nonetheless!” Scootaloo instantly recognized it as Applejack's voice.

She now imagined the look on Rarity's face (if she was next to her in the audience, by the way) when the farmer yelled that out loud.

Rainbow Finish had a much better view and confirmed that Applejack and Rarity are indeed in the crowd next to each other, with Fluttershy in a gardener's hat and scarf and, surprisingly enough, Princess Twilight in her royal garbs.

"So she is the reason i got such an audience today," Photo Finish thought, "Hope she didn't see through this attire unlike last time."

The young Scootaloo the Pegasus expected that the flashes from the camera started again but nothing happened. Photo Finish continued to stare at the fillies. One in particular was aimed, Silver Spoon. All this attention seemed to cause unease to the young gray pony.

“I think that isn't your usual spectacles,” the photographer finally exclaimed in a questioning manner as she sports a look of slight suspicion.

“I need my glasses to see,” Silver Spoon defended.

“I don't think you wander around town with these spectacles covering the half of your face,” she made quite a point, Photo Finish did.

Rainbow Dash (or at that moment, Photo Finish) had a couple of encounter with the two bullies, being the surrogate sister of Scootaloo, she remembered what her glasses were supposed to look like.

Scootaloo hadn't noticed that at first, but it was true that they weren't her regular glasses. It was the kind of glasses which on famous ponies wear and look ridiculous on any given normal pony, and a few others (like me, being mostly purple and gray, though it might match the red stripes on my mane). They were big, red, and flashy. The young daredevil didn't care for thing like that; that was why she hadn't noticed.

Starting Line caught the gray filly that didn't want to move and made her leave the stage.

"Yeah, one all!" don't ask me who thought that, i didn't necessarily recorded this entire event so a few things had slipped by.

They were now four fillies remaining on the stage. Sweetie Belle was sweating heavily, due to the increasing stress. Dinky Doo was waving at her mother happily and Diamond Tiara was still so full of herself.

Scootaloo looked at the three of them when she realized something.

"Diamond Tiara always wears her stupid..." Her thought was interrupted by the lack of headgear on her mane. Shoot, she should thought about that before-hoof.

Photo Finish resumed her work. The white unicorn sweat more and more. The photographer popped her head again from the camera.

“No no no no!” she exclaimed, looking at Sweetie Belle with a concerned look.

“If you sweat already like this outside, undressed by this fresh night, what will happened when you'll be inside, dressed and under the heat of the projectors?” Photo Finish said, sounding slightly more concerned, probably Scootaloo's fist hint at Photo Finish's true identity, since she was Scootaloo's big sister and was somewhat concerned about her friends, as she is displaying right now.

Starting Line poked the unicorn's withers (again?), showing her the way to leave the stage. Sweetie Belle lowered her head and frowned.

As she dragged her hooves to leave, she whispered to the young Pegasus, “You need to win this one!”

She got to her big sister who was already in drama queen mode. Scootaloo only saw Photo Finish rolling her eyes at the antics when she received a nudge from Diamond Tiara.

“I told you!” she boasted. “I'm the best for this contest. There's no way any blank flank like you can win.”

Okay that's it, SALMON CANNON!!!

"Ow," yes, right in the eye. Take that Diamond Dazzle, you totally deserved it.

The orange Pegasus's only response was to to make a angered huff and puffed out her chest and gave a death glare to the filly to her left.

The flashes of the cameras continued, only interrupted by compliments both in Equestrian and in a language (Griffionese? maybe those humans, but i heard that the humans are easily adapting other languages at the time of the contest) that Scootaloo didn't understand.

Dinky Doo seemed enjoy the contest more and more as the flashes continue for a long time, and she couldn't help but jump up and down quite a lot. Trust me, from how i narrated it, it seems to not be that long, but i myself looked at the clock the entire time, and it was 10:30 AM when it first started and 1:30 AM when i ended, it was that long. i'm surprised nobody died of boredom or at the least fallen asleep during the entire thing, i barely remembered most of it because i slept through at least an hour of how long it was, but enough of my complaining, i have stuff to narrate.

Anyways, Diamond Tiara was, on the contrary to Dinky Doo, very calm. She acted like she had already won and that was normal.

"I cannot let her win! She'll never shut up if she does!" thought the rest of the young contestants (i.e Dinky and Scootaloo) and, admittedly without shame, myself.

“I bet she noticed how bad you look when you frown,” she whispered, laughing at her.

The daredevil made every effort to prevent hitting her in the face.

If she did that, she would be surely eliminated.

Photo Finish suddenly decided to look at Dinky Doo instead.

“She didn't look at me because I look bad, she looked at me because I look good,” Scootaloo whispered back.

"NO!” the photographer yelled,making the two bickering fillies jump in the process. “You're too excited for this kind of thing. You must stay calm and serious when you do this!”

She made a sign to Starting Line.

The old mare accompanied the young unicorn who her over-enjoyment changed to a big disappointment.

As she was climbing down, Muffins, a gray pegasus with yellow mane and tail with odd looking eyes, shouted from the public, “Don't worry! You'll stay my little muffin to me, star or not!” Dinky cheered up again and left the stage.

Photo Finish appeared to be smiling at the two remaining fillies, but the glasses block which filly she truly had her sights on, “It's going to be difficult to decide between you two.”

She placed herself again behind her camera for the last round of elimination.

“I never imagined that you'd be in final against me,” Diamond Tiara complained, before getting to a more calm composure to boast about her near-victory “At least, my victory is insured with you as my opponent.”

"Don't listen to her. It's just gonna be worst if you do." Thought Disguised!Pinkie (oh look, I've mentioned her again, after who knows how long), Scootaloo, Photo Finish, and myself.

Scootaloo looked in every direction, except where the bully stood. She sighed. At the edge of the stage, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom looked at her expectantly.

"Yes, show Photo Finish... de magicks!" the photographer yelled, her eyes pointed to the stars and a hoof in the air. Scootaloo's friends showed her to smile insistently.

The young Pegasus obeyed and make her best smile.

“No!” Photo Finish exclaimed. Scootaloo frowned, disappointed.

“Yes...” she (Photo Dash) mellowed.

“Now this is what any pony will call, a real smile,” Diamond Tiara showing how she made the smile which helped her avoiding punishments and looked good towards adults.

Photo Finish stopped nearly immediately.

She put away her camera and gave it to one of her assistants.

She stared at the two fillies. The smile the pink young pony gave get wider. Scootaloo even wondered if her smile got wider her checks would tear up and give her a permanent Glasgow Grin. She didn't try to smile now, despite the desperate signs her friends sent to do so.

“I, Photo Finish, have found the next fashion filly star tonight!” she declared.

“And this night's future star is...” The entire public hanged at her lips and on the edges on their seats.

“This adorable orange Pegasus right here!”

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-'YOU WIN SCOOTALOO!!!' Theme"

Scootaloo's and Diamond Tiara's (and my own) sets of jaws hit the floor rather hard by sheer shock and surprise.

“I won?” the tomboyish daredevil asked in disbelief.

“I won, I won, I won!” she then repeated, jumped up and down, at the great (but well deserved) misfortune of the pink filly.

Then she (finally) realized what it meant.

“I... won?!”

As the celebration of the aforementioned winner is underway, Photo Finish and Disguised!Pinkie slink off to the backstage dressing room to cool off for a bit and cool off, probably slink back to their default egos and be back home and nopony would notice. But of course, this time, it seems a bit of a thing will be called back to.

....

....

....

....

Sorry for my poor choice of wording there.

Anyways, Twilight from earlier snuck away to speak to photo finish.

She was around with Rainbow Dash for about a year, and noticed she never saw Photo Finish and Rainbow Dash in the same place, and that rule also goes onto High Style and Pinkie.

She remembers back in that one episode when there were on the sweatshop, Rainbow Dash leaves for the poorest excuse ever, so poor that the author can't think about what it is, it's that bloody poor.

But back to Twilight as she is behind the door to the room Photo's room, creaking open the door.

You can tell where this leads...

"Oh, hi Photo Finish, how are you doing," said the voice of a particularly dark-colored Alicorn.

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-'DISCOVERED!!!' Theme"

"Oh, hi miss sparkle, i d-din't see you there," said Photo Finish, in an awkward, worrying manner, who jerked then towards the purple princess as she fixes up her disguise slightly to hide her identity, but already her accent is starting to slip into Rainbow's usual tomboyish kind of voice.

"

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-Okamiden (by capcom) Soundtrack - A Real Knee-Slapper"

"Do i really have to say this line," yes Twilight, you bloody say THAT line, the one that everyone cries "HoYay" about like how a fan-base cheers about a well-done triple A licensed survival horror, and we can't go on with this unless we do exactly as destined, so please hurry on before the readers get bored or just set us on fire.

"

Youtube Video

-Cloudsdale 2 Theme/ Flashback Theme"

Twilight let out a slightly annoyed but bored sigh and said, with the most straightest face and most non-romantic face and tone of voice after spontaneously warping in front of her and cupping her face with her forehooves, "Rainbow.....I mean Photo Finish-" Twilight then give a quick look around before continuing on, before disclaiming "-i forgot who i was talking to again....."

Awkward silence...

"Well, vat was awkward," though Photo Finish as she let eyes wander to check for any passerby seeing her disguise peeling off like a banana peel.

"....You don't have to hide your feelings from me," Said the princess, which Photo Finish then noticed that she lacks the royal garbs from earlier, how or why was a question that seem to be evaded for the moment.

"Well, why are you bothering me Twilight..." was the words Photo Dash moaned with mile annoyance.

"Take a random guess Photo," said the purple princess with sarcastic reply.

"It's the whole double life thing isn't it Twi," was the response that came out of Pinkie's legendary motor mouth, but was filtered through a calm Slavic accent, which the author did not bother due to their being no Slavic accent translators of any variance i could find.

"Well thank you for making that guess for me Pin-" Photo Dash realized if she say her name she would blow her cover, since Photo Finish never knew about Pinkie (well, to the point of view of others), and thus corrected herself after the pause with the following "-er, i forgot your name their, fellow assistant."

"Your welcome, Photo."

"Why hide such a thing Rainbow?" said Twilight, who seems to opt to being Suspiciously calm about the whole double life thing.

"Well Maybe i'll start when i first got a rub from the fashion Photography business and how i got to the star i am today..." was the last words Photo Dash a.k.a Rainbow Finish a.k.a Photo Finish a.k.a Rainbow Dash said before getting sent back to a flashback which i will narrate so we will tie up loose ends of this story.

FLASHBACK SEGMENT...

Rainbow Dash was a young yet fairly curious filly, living with her parents and brother at the time, the mother's (or in pony talk, dam's) name in particular is Aurora Dawn and is a "artist", though which kind she is seems to switch quite a lot within a short span of years, though she starting to settle in as a painter or sculptor nowadays.

She's currently an author (though which genre she specializes in jumps, she often has a least one cosmic horror book a year, though expected or not, or dark or not again jumps about), but at the time, she was a fashion magazine writer and was known for traveling around a lot.

She is, however, a noble, though she does not believe that she must simply sitting on her family's great fortune, instead earning said wealth via working a job and raising through the ranks of her company and/or group she's working with/hired by, but for reasons i can't understand because i am asocial.

Aurora Dawn is something we would like to talk about, but our next work (which this version's sequel) would be spoiled if we don't mention her appearance here, so we'll move on to something else for the sake of this story.

On this particular day, Rainbow Dash decided to join along on one of her trips, curious about fashion photography and the rest of her family. While not necessarily what she calls an "Egghead" at the time, she does read the occasional magazine where her mom's articles and columns are featured in one of the pages somewhere.

While she just looked at most of the (fashion) magazine without second thoughts unless it was written by her mother, or the Wonderbolts are involved, which was surprisingly rare at the time.

Yet, there something about fashion photography that had clicked with her. Maybe it was all that travel, or meeting with the celebrities or something. Whatever made her click made her click for her only as far as i can tell, as i do not know since i'm as asocial as a depressed dragon with no special one on a dragon's equivalent of Hearts and Hooves Day (Hearts and Claws Day is the name the author apparently dubbed it) on pretty much any given day of the week, i really can't judge the more social of sapient and/or sentient entities in my lifetime at the moment, so let's leave that story for when i can grasp others in a finer light.

She decided she might as well check it out before her interests fades, but of course, if been reading the entirety for this long, then you know the end result so i might as well get on with it. This lead her to go with her parents to a trip to great-dam's house, which was the archduchess of Cloudsdale, which i'll bring up again later. She heard that at least one of her relatives other then her mother was interested in fashion, and in fact picking said relative up on the way to the Archduchess's house.

"Hey mister...uh....who are you."

Well, i am ALICORN OF THE ARTS AND IMAGINATION, ARTSY CANVAS, if you are wondering why i am here, i am here to narrate a flashback you future self is having, Rainbow Dash.

"Okay, would you like to here a joke,"

Eh, why not.

"knock, knock," the little Rainbow Dash responded.

Who's there?

"Banana! " the cyan filly said.

Banana who?

"Knock, knock," Rainbow Responded once again.

Who's there?

"Banana!" the cyan filly with magenta eyes said the second time.

Orange that a tired old joke.

"*Giggles* got me there Artsy," Guess you're right there Rainbow Dash.

See, comedy through subversion of expectation, that is how it's done.

"We're here honey," Raindrop, i.e. Rainbow Finish's mom that i mentioned earlier said as the train FINALLY goes to a stop.

forgive me for being a tad sloppy and rushed in my narration style, as i am VERY new to this.

They walked down the alley of some town in Cloudsdale (i won't specify which town) towards some kind building, possibly something to do with fashion, if the large dolls (which i think are called mannequins, i have a poor memory with certain things) wearing various dresses, but oddly enough one mannequin was wearing what the cyan filly assumed was, what later in life she confirmed as, a captain's uniform of the Wonderbolts.

Something in the young just clicked in the young filly's head, and when they entered the building she saw what she swore was a cousin of her's, who has the same name as her, albeit with slightly different visual cues (such as lack of wings) which i might as well slap a picture of her adult form below...

...because i'm lazy like that.

While her mother, Aurora Dawn, talks with a sister of hers, which was named Diamond Glare, which has more or less the same reason to not sit on her nobility's wealth as her sibling.

Diamond Glare herself was a Pegasus mare with a magenta coat, triple-colored mane of yellow, blue, and red and gray eyes.

Her mane was tied in a ponytail (get it?) via a black-and-white striped bow and was wearing a necklace with a heart-shaped ruby as the center piece of said necklace.

To distinguish between the Rainbow Dashes, the Rainbow Dash we'll be following (which was known for the Sonic Rainboom) i'll refer to as Photo Finnish, while Photo's cousin with the same name i'll still refer as, well, Rainbow Dash, rather obvious, right?

Anyways, while Diamond Glare and Aurora were busy in the background, Photo's dad, Rainbow Blaze, a rainbow-maned stallion with gold eyes and a dark blue coat, was busy talking to his Wife's Sister's Husband, dubbed by everyone as "Dr. Atmosphere."

Dr. Atmosphere is a red, bulky stallion with a red coat and a white mane, and remember that because it does relate to a below detail,

and has light blue eyes, often wearing a top hat and a white coat with a gray bowtie, sometimes wearing black boots with armor-like metal plating on them.

The third of the sisters is unmarried at the time, but is dating some other stallion, but we'll get back to them in the sequel.

But enough about the parents, we have to examine Photo and Rainbow over there, where Rainbow's interest in fashion photography, which seems to originate in loyalty and helping of others in her family, which I know it's quite sappy, but hey, it's life.

"Hi, cousin of mine," said the dahling Rainbow Dash towards Photo Finish.

"Hi, other Rainbow," responded Photo Finish with an unnaturally shy tone of voice.

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Silence.

SALMON CANNON!!!

Dammit, missed them.

"I suppose i might as well show you around," said Rainbow to Photo.

"Okay then, i always wanted to see what Canterlot looks like," was the response Rainbow got from the cyan filly.

Thus they were off to explore what they could while Dr. Atmosphere, Rainbow Blaze, Aurora Dawn, Rainbow's brother Knight Shade (who will be important in the sequel) and Diamond Glare where striking up a conversation and reminiscing on stuff that WILL be important in the future, Photo and Rainbow decide to walk about, making sure they have that map Photo brought on the way to Canterlot so they could not get lost, with the latter taking the former on a tour around the unicorn-filled city.

"...and that's my school right over to the left, it is the hearths warming vacation and we always plan family gatherings on the 2-4 weeks off in the winter," if you're asking Photo, i told her to tell you that just so the readers can get that piece of information.

"Well, why did you tell them that yourself," because why not and i can, so please don't question me Photo Finish.

"Whatever you say Artsy," oh look, somebody refereed to me by name again, after who knows how many paragraphs.

"Well thanks," was Photo's response to my deadpan praise.

"Hey, bloody wingless," said what photo presumed is some student from Rainbow's school, and she could only guess how much of a prick the voice's owner is... this kid, much to the protesting whimpers and cries of Fashionista Dash.

This colt here is a mostly pink pegasus, with a purple wheel and a darker shade of pink for the wing attached to it, with purple eyes, with the mix of dark pink and purple for her mane and tail.

The above mentioned COLT OF PINK's name is apparently Hot Rod. Yes, bloody Hot Rod, that's his name. And he's a pink Pegasus. I can't believe nopony made fun of this kid. Actually, reflecting on Barbara "Babs" Seed and such, that may be why he bullies other kids from his school.

But enough mocking the "villain" of this piece, Hot Rod *Snorts* that name will never not be hilarious walks up to the fashionista known as Rainbow Dash and RANDOMLY PUNCHES HER IN THE FACE. Err....this kid is a bit more awesome then i give him credit for.

"Hey, don't hurt her, don't you know she's nobility," was Photo's first response after she flew right in front of her.

"Ya, Me too," Hot Rod said in a deadpan response.

"Hmm..." moaned Rainbow, trying to ignore the pains from the punch.

"Besides, for a pony of Cloudsdale nobility, i'm pretty sure she is indeed an earth pony," Hot Rod said, and those words alone will be brought up again just for him to be a hate sink.

Photo made a growl at what Hot Rod just said.

"Don't you think a member of nobility of a city that seems to be made to be exclusively Pegasai, you would pretty much be required to have wings, and you are no true Cloudsdale noble," said Hot Rod.

That's it, Salmon Cannon!!!

"OW!"

You deserved it.

Cut to present because of getting very close to a case of writer's block...

"....Well, that was....cruel," said Princess Twilight Sparkle.

While Rainbow Dash (Which i'd refereed to in the flashback section as Photo Finish) talks about the moments leading up to her inspiration that will later be personified as Photo Finish.

"So dass ich herausgefordert dumm , grausam , Geflügel , stumm den Kopf auf ein Rennen nach ziemlich langer Zeit zu streiten ('so i challenged foolish, cruel, foal, dumb head to a race after quite a long while of arguing' thank you google translator)," Photo Dash then said, vat kind of grace in the German language from she gets father's side.

Be warned, it may be a tad serious and sad, so i might as well play some happy music, so i might as well play "Happy" by Pharrell Williams because i will never take everything too seriously.

"

Youtube Video

-'Happy' by Pharrell Williams"

"Did you win the race Dash?" asked Twilight.

"Well, why of course," answered Photo Dash, glaring with a proud face.

"Well of course-"her face grows grim"-i figured out something about cousin dash."

"What is it," replied the lavender Alicorn.

Now, remember everyone, HAPPY MUSIC!!!!

"Well, you know the white mane i have," Said Rainbow in a slightly awkward-yet-grim manner.

"Yes," Twilight said, glaring at the pink party pony Pinkie Pie who was patrolling the parameter of the house.

"It's...my....natural mane color," Rainbow Finish admitted through grinding teeth.

When she was born, her parents had been shocked. The doctors had examined her, and determined that she was in perfect health, but her hair had no pigmentation. But pure white hair brought her other problems.

It was bizarre for a Cloudsalian pony to have pure white hair. Even the so called Great and Powerful Trixie had a single light blue streak through her mane, and she wasn't a Pegasus or from Cloudsdale. Dash’s hair, on the other hoof, was completely colorless, a blank white. For the longest time, she had been proud of her hair, and thought herself as unique.

Then came school. Before she even learned to fly, she was put in basic knowledge schooling, also known as kindergarten. There, she faced her classmates, who immediately belittled the small Pegasus for her unique attributes. She was teased and laughed at, and when she tried to get the teacher to help, the older pony had instead told her to sit in the corner and stop badgering the other students. Rainbow Dash knew the teacher was siding with the bullies, and learned the hard way that her unique trait made her an outcast.

She remembered begging her mother to let her stay inside, probably forever.  The next day, her dam, Aurora Dawn, came in with a can of liquid rainbow, straight from the clouds factory. She mixed it with some other chemicals used in hair dying, along with some water to calm the spice down. she could then bathe in it like a spa, and it was a great moment when she finally gains a partial spice immunity, so from there on it just hair dye and liquid spectra and after a while, full spiciness immunity.

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-'Spicy Hot Rainbow Spa' by Jopiter, subtract rairity and this is how Rainbow spends her mornings."

Then when she was done, after the first time she performed the mane dying anyways, Rainbow Dash looked in the mirror to see a pony with every color of the rainbow streaking through her hair, and instantly fell in love with the look, the look of which her parents and brother has naturally; the Rainbow Mane.

Ever since that day, her hair was dyed every morning. Eventually she learned the recipe from her dam, Aurora Dawn, and began to make the mixture herself. Luckily, the unique nature of liquid rainbow meant it would always apply in the exact same spot. She only needed to brush up and down her mane and it would always come out perfect. This was perfectly convenient, as she couldn’t imagine painting each color individually. It was also very hard to get out of one’s hair without completely drying out, being waterproof and heatproof.

"You can see that the fact those Canterlot-ers don't seem to like isolating those with no pigments, and thus why i use it for my 'Photo Finish' persona. Anyways, at the time i went to Canterlot, it was still before my mom taught me to make homemade hair dye, let alone homemade dye remover, so my cousin's lack of wings and being...isolated by it is something i could relate, albeit with a decidedly more noticeable feature," continued Rainbow, yet again." Continued Rainbow.

"Hold Up give me a sec-" said Twilight, levitating a book she conveniently picked up on the way to the contest, this book is simply titled: 'World of Disabilities' or something like that "-Parvaptera Equogur (corruption of the Latin phrase 'wingless small lightning horse' which is 'Aptera Parva Fulgur Equo'), Pegasai who have this condition have the same cloudwalking and other abilities of normal pegasi but have no wings or flight."

"Is this the condition other Dash has," asked Twilight.

Now, remember again everyone, HAPPY MUSIC!!!! If you can't tell yet what's the joke, it's my narration style contrasting the serious and sad story.

"Yes," Rainbow responded straight and serious.

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Awkward silence.

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More awkward silence.

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Even more awkward silence.

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Even more bloody awkward silence.

SALMON CANNON!!!

"Ow," now move it on ya 2, especially the one i shot the salmon at.

"Later in my life, i decided to help her out, out of sympathy and relation with her in my past, you might heard that my Photo Finish's is 'Spectrum Finish', which is the stage name of other Dash."

"And you got the idea of your stage name because of the definition:

photo finish

N

A race in which the leading contestants cross the finish line so close together that the winner must be determined by a photograph taken at the moment of crossing.

Informal An extremely close competition.

Is it Rainbow (Finish)," asked Twilight.

"Yes, relatively speaking, as i'm not that much of an egghead back then," answered Rainbow.

Rainbow Dash said the below to change the subject back on track to her history with her persona.

"Then it kinda launched from there, and it really helped me with the financial jam, which was why i stepped into the business in the first place," the rainbow-maned mare continued.

The two mares, Rainbow Dash and Twilight, with a pink party pony Pinkie Pie patrolling the parameter of the house in the background for intruders, mentioning a twin sister and older brother that will be mentioned later, her surprising ability to keep her personas a secret and other extremely big secrets hidden away, etc......

"I'll promise i'll keep it a secret Rainbow," said Twilight, ending the conversation.

And to make her keep that promise, i'll shoot my salmon cannon at her if she even comes close to revealing it.

"What," and i'll just launch one at you right now.

"OW!" that never gets old....

RUN!!! PINKIE, RUN!!! mini-game