Goodbye Dollet and Thanks for All the Fish! (backdated to Sept 28)

[om_nom_namur]

Characters: EVERYONE!!! And any "local" NPCs you want to make up
Location: A warehouse down by the wharf
Rating: G+? idk people will do as they will do
Open/Closed/Finished: Open
Summary: It's an excuse to pump dance music really really loudly, tbh.

The party was put together ridiculously fast, but everyone who decided to help went all out, and the place is pretty damn awesome. There are refreshments, strobe lights, a loudass music setup, and lots of space to dance. Come on in and have a blast! Garden will be sailing off in the morning, and then it's back to school. Time to get in that last hurrah!

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[rewritethis]

And she'd brought company, or more precisely dragged it away from the bottom of the nearby canyon and through the streets of Dollet down to the wharf amid a stream of strangled complaints. By now these had largely dried up, but only because, even coming from Ed, nobody else in the middle of this unholy cacophony would have been able to catch most of them. That and the fact that his skulking around the fringes of the dance floor was making Rainbow look infinitely more at home here by comparison were about the best things you could have said about his disposition at the moment.

(Geez, he didn't even care about music and he could tell this wasn't it.)

The latter wasn't going to last much longer if he had any say in it, though. The instant he thought he'd noticed Rainbow turn her head, maybe to greet someone else or just to take in the atmosphere, he was already halfway out the door.

[elementofloyalty]

Sadly, Rainbow knew his games and him well enough that every time Ed attempted to make a run for it, she casually scooped him back in with an extended foreleg hooked around his shoulder.

"You know, you could TRY to enjoy yourself," she said, with a cheerful grin and absolutely no belief that he'd take that as anything other than something to snarl about.

[rewritethis]

"What's so enjoyable about a headache?" he snapped back, like clockwork, massaging one of his temples just to underline the point. "And what exactly do you think you're doing?"

[elementofloyalty]

"I'm gonna dance! Come join me!"

She started to tug him towards the dance floor, and really it's anyone's guess if she was serious, or if she just wanted to tease him a little.

[rewritethis]

Either way, his response was the same: an indignant "Dammit, I wasn't kidding!" and a backhand to the nose, again more on principle than out of any significant hope that she was going to let go.

[elementofloyalty]

Getting popped in the nose just made her giggle, tough pony that she was. "Of course you weren't! You should still just relax and try to enjoy yourself! Life's too short to be all serious, all the time!"

[rewritethis]

Ed's eyes narrowed at the unfortunate choice of words. "After getting some fresh air," he said, with an extra-spirited attempt to yank her leg off of him. "And I'm surprised you don't need it too - even if you ignore the rest, this place reeks. Makes me wonder what they normally use it for."

[elementofloyalty]

She let go, recognizing when enough was enough for this particular moment. "Okay, Mr. Grumpy, how about you flash up the decorations a little bit? It's not really stylish right now, I bet they'd love making it look a little more... awesome!"

She didn't expect him to agree, mostly because she was so obviously trying to bait him into using his alchemy just to make him enjoy himself. But she DID love to see him do it.

[rewritethis]

At first, going by his expression, it looked like the baiting had worked about as well as anybody could have expected. "I'm not -"

But he trailed off mid-sentence. Yeah, now that she mentioned it... if he thought he knew what was giving him this headache, he did have more options than to just grin (or scowl) and bear it, didn't he?

The realisation was all the encouragement he needed. Purposefully, coattails trailing behind him, he made a beeline for the nearest speaker.

[elementofloyalty]

"Uh." Rainbow followed along behind him, alarmed that he appeared to have listened -- and when she saw where he was heading, she put on an extra burst to interpose herself. "Whoa, Ed, if you take out the music they'll kill us!"

[rewritethis]

Forced to stop short before colliding with her, Ed immediately put on a wide, innocent smile far brighter than anything on the dance floor. "Oh, you're going to help?" he said.

[elementofloyalty]

"Not stopping you would be helping." Rainbow scowled, mostly because him taking the party hostage had completely altered the tone of her banter... namely, in a way that was making her lose. "Okay, okay, no reason to take out everypony else's fun..."

[rewritethis]

"So what you really mean is they'll kill me, right?" Still beaming cheerfully, he cracked his knuckles. "Well, I wouldn't worry about that."

[elementofloyalty]

Okay. He totally won. Rainbow slumped down so far her hooves hit the ground, and she folded her wings up with a broken look on her face.

"Sorry. You can go."

[rewritethis]

He looked down, his grin softening somewhat. What was it he'd said this time? Oh, well. He doubted he'd get a straight answer by asking while she was in that kind of mood.

"Don't apologise. You go have fun."

[elementofloyalty]

"Well, aside from taking out the entire party, what would you consider fun here?" She swept her hoof from the dance floor to the refreshments to... well, the door, admittedly. Even she knew the obvious answer, but she wasn't quite willing to ditch him yet.

[rewritethis]

At least he was willing enough to shoot a few obliging glances around in the directions she was pointing - for about five seconds, before his critical gaze locked onto the refreshments table. "That's right, there's nothing to drink in here either," he said, starting to frown again.

[elementofloyalty]

"Maybe you could make the punch... less fun." Rainbow smiled -- now here was some mischief she could get behind.

[rewritethis]

"Isn't that what someone already did?" he retorted.

But after a moment or two, despite his words, he did take a few unenthusiastic steps closer.

[elementofloyalty]

She nudged him with a foreleg. "By their definition, they made it more fun. You wanna surprise them, undoing that would work..."

[rewritethis]

She managed to nudge at least a dry little laugh out of him. It was still mostly baiting, and it was obvious enough that even he could tell, but he couldn't deny this was an easier kind of prank to get behind. Hell, he'd be doing the other minors in the room a favour.

"Just undoing it? You've got no ambition." Off he went, towards the punch bowl. "Let's see..."

[elementofloyalty]

"Naw, I just know that if I suggested something too wild, you'd lecture me for half an hour about how alchemy couldn't do that!" Good mood restored, Rainbow trotted after him. "And only one of us would find that fun."

[rewritethis]

"I can't even hear myself think in here, and you want a lecture?"

On reaching the punch bowl, he peered over at it for a second, before turning aside and casually swiping one of the cups.

[elementofloyalty]

Rainbow giggled a little, taking to the air to better watch him. "I figured you could do it on autopilot, like you didn't even need to think about it. I bet you could do it in your sleep. In fact I'm pretty sure you answered a question I had about the periodic table in your sleep, once."