A Very Special Canterlot High Holiday.

When their rotuine was finished, the stage hsd gone back to the un decorated stage that had only a stool on it, briefly the curtains were lowered over it. As Mrs. Finish crossed over to the microphone.

"The Dazzlings, ladies and gentlemen, now before our next act..." she said reading the program with a slight confusion, "ppetry reading...by...Maude Pie."

"Wooohooo! Go sis! Yeah!" Shouted a very excited Pinkie from the audience at the news that her sister's act had gotten in the play. The curtain rose and the spotlight fell on a grey girl in a blue dress with a belt around her waist tightly, and a blue beret on her head. She shuffled a few cards in her hands before taking a sip from a coffee mug hat she placed on a separate stool beside her, it wasn't hard to believe she was at some poetry corner.

"Rocks Rocks, big rocks, small rocks. No such things as small rocks. Oh where are you my rock? Big strong rock in the sea for me to seek comfort in a storm, where are you my rock?"

"Come on on Plath! at this pace we're not going to get to the best part of the show, my play!" She said while placing a hand on her forehead in angst. As Maude went on and on.

Backstage

"Flash are you sure about this?" Peter Page-turner asked as he made a few last minute adjustments to the pressed black suit he wore. It was a lot like the one's Flash, Mark, Cheese Sandwich, Harvey, Party Favor, Double Diamond, Norman, and John had all put on for the performance.

"I wanted to do this for our Girlfriends, show them how much they mean to us you know?" Flash asked as the guys all gathered to the blank stage as they could hear Maude on the other side still going on and on.

"Rock, you are a rock, grey you are grey, like a rock, which you are, rock." "

This next one's about Rocks they're all about rocks." If the audience wasn't so polite, more than half of them would had let out a collective, "NOOOO!"

"You mean you're girlfriend right?" Harvey said as he adjusted the hat on his head by running two fingers across the brim.

"Don't you feel the way I do about Sunset with Trixie?" He asked him as they took their positions on the stage, while Maude went on and on with her poems.

"About that," John Sweetstuff asked Flash. "Doesn't this...I don't know feel awkward to you? I mean, you do know that me and Sunset and Trixie when we were going back to my folks home a few months ago..."

"Just....Look so long as we don't go bragging or talking about it, and there's no secret between any of us and we know who likes who. Then I really don't think this should be a problem. The days of relationships like this..." He said taking his phone out and showing them a picture of a young couple sipping an ice cream float with two straws, looking longingly into each other's eyes. "Going steady, exchanging rings, and all that picturesque stuff. They are all in the past, so long as everyone's okay with this, I think there's to be no hang ups or taboos between us how things are.'' Flash said giving the others a hug. It was a "We're cool right bros?" hug not a, "I'm game to try anything once." hug.

"I guess that I'll work, besides it always feels like there's more ladies than gents in this place anyhow, you'd think Canterlot High was a girl's school or something." John said as the stage began to turn.

"Look alive fellas, We're up next." Flash said lowering his hat over his eyes, the other guys did the same thing with their's. Like with the round of sound from The Dazzlings, the lights had gone dark. One by one the spotlights came on on each of the boys in turn as their song began to play.

"Hey Pinkie? What's the next act supposed to be?" Sunset asked Pinkie Pie in the audience just before the act started. Sunset, and her friends had been given front row center stage seats. The Dazzlings had even been asked from backstage to the seats for the show.

"Our boyfriends have a surprise planned for us...Whoooo Hooo Maude you rocked out there!" She said as her sister took her seat beside her. As she did, a grey boy with jet black hair and a black tee shirt with an anarchy A in the center, in the adjoining seat leaned over to her.

"Hey, I liked your poems out there, you really know how to capture the essence of rocks." He said in a tone not too far off from Maude's own.

"Thanks, do you like poetry too?" Maude asked him as she sipped from her paper cup of black coffee.

"I've written a few of my own poems, they're about air though." He said smiling at Maude and hoping she'd do the same back at him.

"Really? You know air complements rock rather nicely." She said as her lips curled slowly and softly into a warm and tender smile.

"You wanna hear a few?" He asked her scooting closer to her.

"Sure'' She replied fluttering her eyes at him flirtatiously.

"Air, Air is good, the Air I breathe is air that's free. Air, Air, Air, how I love how you gently fluff my spiky hair."

"That was....deep man." Maude said as her hand found its was to his lap. "You got any more?" She asked as she brushed against him playfully.

"I've written my thousandth one recently, you?"

"A hundred just last week, how'd you find the MOJO to write a thousand?"

"Well I..." but he was interrupted by the next act starting. The spotlights shined on each one of them as their song began to play, the ones they dedicated the very act to just inches away from them. Flash looked up from his hat directly at Sunset.

This is...a little something me and the boys threw together at the last second, It's a little something for...a few people who are very special to us tonight...I hope they appreciate it and...well I think I'll just let the music speak for itself. Uhh my life..."

The nearby girl's jaws practically hit the floor as the whole stage got lit up by the singers in pressed suits and hats on stage. "Sunset...I...I didn't know Flash could sing like that..." Fluttershy said as he balanced his hat on his fingers and made it spin before making it land on Cheese's head. "And my Mark...look at him go." She said as Mark Phantasm, almost like his namesake. He seemed like a mere figment of their imagination. The way he moved in sync with the others. The guys had a rhythm to their act, not directly coping anything from their choice song, but rather able to move as a single well organized machine. every note and beat was timed perfectly to their actions with a few notable differences.

"They're quite well choreographed for something last minute." Pinkie whispered to Rainbow Dash. "Almost as if they knew exactly what to do despite being thrown together at the last possible second." She said as she turned her head smiling to, from her friend's perspective empty air.

"Pinkie who are you talking too?" Twilight asked somewhat concerned for the girl.

"Don't...just let her do her thing Twilight, just let her do her thing." Sunset said as Pinkie smiled and nodded to empty air. As the guy's performance ended. The final spectacle just about ready, Mrs. Finish's production of Tim Burton's...Edward Scissorhands.