Did the Grand Galloping Gala truly end after the mane cast left? Was the night truly over with those dreaded events? Or was it possible that something could have been salvaged of that disastrous evening of broken hearts and shattered dreams?

"This is an absolutely brilliant comedy of errors. An extremely clever subversion of the final episode with great pacing and dialog. I giggled openly; we don't get anywhere near enough silly pieces like this."-Equestria Daily Pre reader #2

A/N: This idea struck me at midnight one night. Four hours later (yes, that's 4am) it was finished. Confound these ponies! They drive me to write fanfics!

Bear in mind that this story was written almost immediately following the debut of the final episode of season 1, and therefore some fanon personalities (specifically, those of the musicians, Octavia in particular) hadn't really been developed yet.

Funny story about this story. It was featured on Equestria Daily on May 11, 2011. Shortly thereafter, blogger had a massive crash and went down, causing a rollback of recent posts. This featured story just happened to be stuck on the very front page for several days, garnering much more attention towards it than I ever imagined! Most favorable, thank heavens.

Equestria Daily page can be found here.

A Dramatic Reading of this story was created and done for a contest that Celestia Radio held last year. It can be found here.

A week after the Gala, the six friends come to grips that the things they expected to happen never did. Two particular ponies are faced with the idea that everything they were familiar with, everything they've become confident in has been turned upside down. Is it possible to recover your ideals when you've been proven unreliable at your talents?

Note: Formatting for the first five chapters has been corrected. Geez, why didn't anyone /tell/ me it was so bad!? It was missing everything! Story should look MUCH better now.

Twilight Sparkle understands that she alone knew of the prophecy of the return of Nightmare Moon and she is determined to do her part to prevent history from repeating itself, but can one little pony possibly make a lasting difference?

A short story written over a year ago (So take that into account, season 2 hadn't happened yet) this story was written mere days after I fell in love with the show. Lunafics were all the rage at the time.