Act II

(A/E: Hello, just a little thing: I misnamed the character Tender Taps to Tender Hoof, so I used the corrected name here. I'll try to correct that name from the previous chapter. With that out of the way, enjoy it!)

Apple Bloom goes to the dance school where she met Tender Taps. He stayed after class to practice his tap dance and he seemed to improve a lot from the last time. When Apple Bloom came in, Tender Taps looked at her and he tripped up.

"Oh my gosh, are you okay?" Apple Boom asked, approaching him.

"I'm fine" Tender Taps said, standing up "In fact: I've been improving my tap skills since I got my Cutie Mark! All thanks to you!"

"You're welcome..." Apple Bloom said, blushing.

"Is there anything to repay you?" Tender Taps asked.

"THERE IS!" Apple Bloom answered very quickly until she cleared her throat "Ah mean, what Ah'm tryin' to say is this: there is a dance party in my school called 'Hoofloose'. They asked us to bring up a partner and..."

"I'm in!" Tender Taps said.

"Wait, what?" Apple Bloom asked.

"Yeah, it would be perfect for me to show everypony my tap dance now that I don't have stage fright!" Tender Taps said "How 'bout you? Would you like to be my partner?"

"YES!" Apple Bloom answered, extremely excited until she stopped and cleared her throat...again "Ah mean, of course Ah would like to be your partner"

"All right, where do you live?" Tender Taps asked.

"In Sweet Apple Acres, see you there!" Apple Bloom answered as she left.

Meanwhile, in Sugarcube Corner; Snips and Snails (not longer wearing their cupid costumes) were inside of the store.

"Would you tell me again why are we here?" Snails asked.

"We're gonna buy a jar of jelly for Diamond Tiara!" Snips answered.

"Sweet...! But, how is that an ultimate revenge?" Snails asked.

"You'll see soon" Snips answered as they approached to the attending table and they were attended by none other than PINKIE PIE!

"WELCOME TO SUGARCUBE CORNER!" Pinkie Pie greeted "May I take your order?"

"Yeah, we'd like a jar of jelly" Snips answered.

"What flavor?" Pinkie Pie asked as she presented a BIG variety of jelly flavors in the most cartoony and over-the-top way "I got strawberry, raspberry, cranberry, blueberry, cherry, lemon, orange, grape, apple, banana, pear, pineapple, melon, watermelon, green tea, prune, peppermint, cinnamon, chocolate, coffee, vanilla, butterscotch and...Earl Grey! I don't know what the last one is, but it's delicious"

Snips and Snails were blow away by Pinkie's acknowledge of jellies

"Uh...I'll choose strawberry" Snips chose.

"Excellent choice!" Pinkie Pie said "Which size?"

"The biggest one you have" Snips answered.

"ALL RIGHT!" Pinkie Pie said as she quickly went for it and she came back with a really heavy 10-feet tall strawberry jelly jar!

"Uh...second thoughts: just a medium size" Snips said.

It was night already and Apple Bloom was wearing the dress she wore on 'Make New Friends, But Keep Discord'.

"Are you excited to become queen of da 'Hoofloose'?" Applejack asked.

"Sis', Ah'm not plannin' to win" Apple Bloom answered "Ah just wanna have fun with my friends and..."

"With your new coltfriend Tender Taps, right?" Applejack asked, blinking an eye as Big Mac freaked out for hearing the word 'coltfriend'.

"He's NOT my coltfriend!" Apple Bloom answered blushing "He's a colt and he's my friend, but he's not my coltfriend!"

KNOCK-KNOCK

"Here it is!" Apple Bloom said.

But when they opened the door, they found a very elegant carriage being pulled by Diamond Tiara's butler. Speaking of Diamond Tiara; she, Silver Spoon and Tender Taps are inside of the carrier.

"Hello, friend" Diamond Tiara greeted.

"Diamond Tiara?" Apple Bloom asked.

"I found this little friend of yours and I offered him to take him with you to the 'Hoofloose' in my precious carriage" Diamond Tiara answered "Why you never presented him to me before?"

"Wait, first at all: how did you 'find' him?" Apple Bloom asked, suspicious.

"Well...ah...I sorta...followed you" Diamond Tiara answered, nervously.

"WHAT?!" Apple Bloom asked, half angry.

"I just wanted to make sure you would be fine" Diamond Tiara said "Even I asked Silver Spoon to spy on Snips and Snails"

"The last time I saw them were in Sugarcube Corner talking with Pinkie Pie" Silver Spoon said "Hey, maybe they're planning a surprise for us!"

"A surprise for us?" Diamond Tiara asked, curious "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"

Apple Bloom got into the carriage, despite being all confused for all this.

Meanwhile, in the Ponyville Schoolhouse where there's a big dance floor with a coronation stage; Snips was behind the schoolhouse filling a bucket with strawberry jelly.

"All right, it's full enough!" Snips said

"Snips! I already replaced the votes on the box with Diamond Tiara's names!" Snails said.

"Perfect, the prank is all set on!" Snips said with an evil grin.

"Snips, Ms. Cheerilee is coming" Snails warned as Snips quickly hid the bucket in the bushes.

"Snips, Snails, what are you doing here?" Ms. Cheerilee asked, the 'Hoofloose' is about to begin"

"YES, MA'AM!" Snips and Snails nodded.

All the colts and fillies were dancing on the dance floor as they all played different kind of music: waltz, pop, hip-hop and even metal. But the last music was an instrumental version of the song 'Footloose'. Apple Bloom and Tender Taps were the two that sticked out as dancers. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were just sitting waiting for Snips and Snails, but they haven't show up.

"I hope their surprise is good enough to compensate their absent" Silver Spoon said, clearly upset.

"Or maybe they don't trust me that I changed" Diamond Tiara said with a sad tone.

"Hey, cheer up, let's go a dance instead!" Silver Spoon said as she took her hoof to join the dance.

After the final dance, Cheerilee were on the stage to announce the king and queen of the 'Hoofloose'.

"All right, students!" Ms. Cheerilee called "The votes have been counted down and I'll announce the king and the queen" he opened the letter "The king is...PIPSQUEAK!"

Everypony cheered for Pipsqueak, who happily went to stage to receive his crown. Even Tender Taps gave him an approval blink for him.

"And now, the queen is..." Ms. Cheerilee said, opening the other letter "...DIAMOND TIARA!"

Everypony was shocked that Diamond Tiara won, but they still cheered anyway as she went to stage to receive her tiara.

But no pony realized that upstage, Snips and Snails were ready with the bucket full of jelly.

"Sweet Celestia...they all love me now..." Diamond Tiara said with her eyes filled with joy tears.

But Diamond Tiara's fairy tale fantasy ended as Snips and Snails poured the strawberry jelly over her head! Now she was covered with sticky red jelly that completely ruined her dress. After a few seconds staring at Diamond Tiara, they started laughing at her, except the CMC and their respective partners (except Button Mash, getting a slap from Sweetie Belle), Silver Spoon and Cheerilee.

"We did, Snips!" Snails cheered.

"Now we're gonna be loved!" Snips cheered too.

Diamond Tiara felt so heartbroken that she bursted into tears and ran away as fast as possible.

"TIARA, WAIT!" Silver Spoon called.

But it started raining as Diamond Tiara kept running to Everfree Forest.

End of Act II