Spring Break had come and gone for Spike, the girls, and all the students at Starswirl Academy. Once it was over they were all back in school picking up where they left off. But the students didn't mind it because they had good memories of spring break. Especially Spike and his ladies.

But currently they and the students were in their last classes of the day, with the day itself a pouring rainy mess. When the bell rang, the students left the classrooms and grabbed their stuff.

Outside, as the rain poured down from the cloudy sky students were scrambling to get to the cars of those being driven by the ones picking them up. Some however got out their umbrellas and walked home using them to stay dry.

Spike and the girls waited on the school porch for the limo to pull up while looking out at the rain coming down.

“Talk about a washout.” Rainbow noted.

“Well, it'll do all the trees in the city some good.” Twilight replied.

“I just hope our chauffeur pulls around soon,” Rarity spoke up, “If I get my hair wet in this rain.”

“Save the melodrama when we get home, Rarity.” Applejack rolled her eyes in annoyance.

Rarity shot Applejack a look, until they saw their limo pull up, “There's our ride.” Spike said, as they hurried down the stairs through the rain before piling into the vehicle.

“Home, please.” Twilight ordered the driver who proceeded to drive them back to the tower.

---

Upon returning home, they entered the living room and removed their wet shoes, “Nice to be indoors again.” Rainbow said, as she took off her jacket.

Applejack looked out the windows, “Well, weatherman said this rain's gonna last the rest of the day and night.”

“Oh, bummer.” Pinkie sighed.

“Don't worry, I'm sure we can find something to do.” Twilight said confidently.

The doors opened and Celestia and Luna entered, “Hello, everyone.” Luna greeted.

“Hi, Ms. Celestia and Ms. Luna.” the teens greeted.

“How about this weather, huh?” Spike asked the adults.

“Indeed. But luckily as long as we're inside and dry, everything will be fine.” Celestia assured them, until suddenly the lights went out.

“I think you spoke too soon.” Rainbow replied dryly.

“Oh, dear. I don't like being in the dark.” Fluttershy trembled.

“Don't worry, Fluttershy, we're right here.” Pinkie hugged her.

“Darn power outage.” Sunset sighed.

“Nobody panic. We're prepared.” Celestia said, as she and Luna went into a cabinet and pulled out some flameless candles.

They sat them around the living room turning them on giving them some light, “Well, at least we're not in total darkness.” Twilight said in relief.

“But now we're without power.” Rainbow reminded her.

“And without power we can't even go to Eden,” Spike added, while grumbling, “Lucky for those not caught in this situation.”

“Now just a minute, ya'll,” Applejack spoke up, “Just because we're without power doesn't mean we can't do anything.”

“Applejack's right,” Twilight agreed, “I mean we've all been in a situation like this before once in our lives, right?”

“Good point.” Rainbow admitted, as the rest started to agree.

“So let's start brainstorming.” Twilight said, as everyone began brainstorming on ways to pass the time.

Applejack snapped her fingers, “I got an idea. Why don't we start the fireplace and make up some s'mores?”

“I could go for that.” Fluttershy answered in approval.

“Me too.” Pinkie agreed.

“Any objections?” Twilight asked all around seeing no naysayers.

“Looks like it's unanimous.” Spike declared.

“I'll get the ingredients.” Luna said.

“I'll help.” Celestia offered.

---

Applejack grabbed a match and started a fire in the fireplace while Rainbow used the bellows to fan the flames until they were good enough. The adults came back with graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallows. The group put their marshmallows on fireproof sticks and held them close to the fire.

“In a way this kinda makes you feel like we're on a camping trip.” Pinkie put in.

“It sure does.” Applejack agreed with a chuckle.

“Indeed so.” Luna nodded while looking at Celestia who nodded and spoke.

“This reminds Luna and I of our days when we attended Camp Everfree.”

“Camp Everfree?” Spike asked them.

Luna nodded, “Camp Everfree is a camp we attended when we were in high school. We made lots of fond memories there. From arts and crafts, hiking, fishing, canoeing, archery, and so much more.”

“And we especially loved the tradition of the Camp Gift,” Celestia continued, “Every year, campers work together to create something useful. A gift for future campers. Working toward this common goal is key to forming the strong bonds that will last well beyond ones time at camp.”

“So what was your years gift?” Spike wondered.

“The sundial.” the older sister answered.

Luna faked a cough, "Even though 'some people' thought it was a little impractical, since the sundial can't be used at night." Celestia scowled at her sisters words while the girls giggled, and Spike held in a chuckle.

“I sure wish I could visit it sometime.” Spike said.

“There's always a chance we can go out there and show you around during Summer.” Celestia offered.

“I'd love a chance to be out in nature.” Fluttershy smiled.

“Yeah, great outdoors without having to worry about all the problems of the city.” Applejack agreed, as they saw their marshmallows were roasted enough and pulled them away from the fire.

After making their s'mores, the group started to eat them and enjoyed the soft feeling of melted marshmallow and chocolate together.

“Mm, just like how we made them at camp.” Celestia said in joy.

“Very delicious.” Rarity agreed.

---

The group continued eating, until Pinkie looked at one of the flashlights they had on them and got an idea.

“Hey, guys!”

The group looked and saw Pinkie turn the flashlight on while aiming it at the wall. Then they saw Pinkie make a shadow puppet in the form of a dog, “Bark, bark!” she mimicked a dog.

The girls chuckled, as Fluttershy smiled, “Good one, Pinkie Pie.”

“There's more.” Pinkie said, as she made more shadows on the wall from a bird, a cat, a deer, a crab, an elephant, a rabbit, and more.

“Not bad, Pinkie.” Rainbow admitted.

“Aw, these are child's play. Let me show you real talent.” Pinkie smirked, and once again performed more shadow puppets.

This time she ended up making more complicated shadows of the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the Sears Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The group watched looking astounded, as Spike spoke, “How does she do that?”

“Now here's something you'll all recognize.” Pinkie smirked, as she suddenly made a shadow puppet of Twilight.

“Twilight, it's you.” Fluttershy said.

“Amazing.” Twilight confessed.

Pinkie made one of Fluttershy who blushed, and when she did Rainbow Dash the athletic girl smirked proudly at how she captured her. Pinkie's next shadow puppet was of Applejack and made her tip her hat which impressed A.J. As Pinkie did Rarity next the fashionista spoke.

“Well, you got the look down, but it still could use some charm.”

Pinkie continued to make shadow puppets of Sunset Shimmer, Celestia, Luna, and then Spike. Spike looked at the shadow puppet of himself while admiring how good she made it look.

“You really got my good side.” Spike told Pinkie.

“Naturally. And here comes the best part.” Pinkie did a shadow puppet of herself making the shadow jump around and waving her arms around like cheering.

The group applauded, as Luna spoke, “Well, done. Pinkie. A marvelous performance.”

“It's definitely lifted my spirits.” Rarity smiled.

“And it was a good way to pass time.” Twilight added.

“Yeah. And I think we should keep our spirits up,” Spike said with a smirk, and I know just the way.” he headed up he stairs to get to his room.

Twilight called to him, “Careful! Don't trip!”

Spike being careful got what he needed and came back down holding a mini radio with a built in CD player, “Good thing this is battery powered.” he told himself.

“Ya wanna listen to music?” Applejack asked him.

“Actually why not have us a dance party?” Spike suggested, “We got enough light to see so we don't bump into each other.”

“Ooh, I love that idea!” Pinkie jumped with joy.

“And it would help the mood around here.” Rarity added while motioning to the rainy weather they could see from the towers window view.

“So let's make sure there's enough space.” Rainbow said, as she and Sunset moved the coffee table and other things back giving them enough dance space.

Spike turned the radio on, and put in a CD of dance remixes. When the first dance mix started, Spike started moving to the rhythm while motioning to girls to join him. Even Celestia and Luna got up to join the teenagers in dancing.

As Spike danced he watched the girls dance while feeling hypnotized from how their breasts and their butts shook while dancing. He blushed while watching, until he felt Rainbow dancing closer to him with her butt close to his crotch, “Having fun, Spike?”

“For real.” Spike answered, as Rainbow chuckled knowing she got him excited.

The girls each catching on started dancing closer and closer to Spike making sure they were brushing up against him as they they danced. Spike didn't mind it, as he took comfort and pleasure having his ladies close to him as they danced away.

They danced for what felt like hours with one remix after another, until the lights suddenly came back on in the tower. This took the group by surprise and gave them a moment of blindness having not been prepared for it.

“The power's back!” Twilight gasped.

“Well, it's about time.” Rainbow crossed her arms under her rack.

“Well, we did manage to pass the time while waiting for it.” Fluttershy noted.

“Yes,” Celestia agreed, “It just goes to show you even without power and technology there are always different ways to finding fun.”

The girls nodded, as Pinkie spoke, “So does that mean the dance party's over now?”

The adults saw the teens giving them sad faces. The two sisters smiled, as Luna spoke, “We suppose it can keep going.”

“At least for one more hour.” Celestia added.

“Yeah!” the teens cheered, as they resumed their dancing.

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