//------------------------------// // Slumber Prank // Story: Sunny Knight: a Pony's Tale // by TheothersideofSunny968 //------------------------------// "Twilight, will you put the books down already?!" Rainbow Dash said as she zoomed in and snatched the book Twilight had in front of her. "This is supposed to be a slumber party, you know, with all of us having fun?!" The girls had gathered in a sort of meeting room Twilight had in her castle. But instead of having long tables and chairs at the center for meetings and the like, Twilight and Spike had moved things aside and set things up for the girls to lay out their sleeping bags, board games, and a very large snack table. Twilight told Spike he was more then welcome to join them, but he had just gotten some comics from Shinning Armor for his birthday, and he wanted to spend some quality time with them. The baby dragon had set up his bedroom for a party of his own. Where the girls had trays of veggies and candy, ready to be washed down with some Apple cider, Spike had chips and gems, ready to be swallowed down by some soda pop. "I'm sorry, Rainbow" Twilight said as she got up and stretched. "I just had an idea when we were doing facials about how I might be able to crack Sombra's code if I combined old Dragon language with Gryffin script, but it looks like that won't work either." "Lay off Twilight, Dash" Applejack said as she stepped forward, her mane all done up in a towel, met muscles still tingling from a soak in Twilight's hot tub down the hall. "She's just tryin' ta help them fellers in the hospital." "Pft! Who cares about those three, I bet they're faking it anyway" Rainbow said as she continued to hover. The book Rainbow Dash had snapped up away from Twilight then disappeared in a flash and reappeared in front of Twilight again. "They weren't faking it, Rainbow. I know. Spike and I were under the same spell for a while ourselves, back when we were looking for the Crystal Heart." "Pardon me darling," Rarity spoke up as she laid on a couch, with her face all covered in her green mask, eyes covered by cucumber slices, and Fluttershy happily working on her hooves with a new kind of hoof polish. "But can't you just simply wake them up the way Spiky woke you up, you know, by physically shaking them?" "We've tried that" Twilight said with a sigh as she walked over to the snack table and began making herself up a small plate of veggies and dip. "But that's another thing that bothers me. The spell that Sombra cast on the door only had about half of its original strength. If Sombra had cast the spell directly himself instead of setting it up through a door as a trap, I don't think Spike or I would have been able to break free from it." "Ugh... S-so you think Sombra might have cast that spell, h-h-himself?!" Fluttershy stuttered as she stopped working on Rarity's hooves and expressed her worries. "It's a possibility" Twilight answered honestly. "That's why I need to find a way to decode these books. I know Sunny promised to help me tomorrow, but while we have fun, those three ponies are stuck in their worst nightmares in the hospital." "I really wouldn't worry about them, Twilight" Rainbow said as she landed next to her and began helping herself to some of the cupcakes Pinkie brought. "Those guys have come out of it in a day or two before, still claiming its 'because of stress'. Saying they work SOOOOOO hard. Ugh! Those guys goof off and take more breaks in one day then i do in a week!" "Ah don't know, that's really saying something" Applejack said with a smirk. "Ah seem ta recall seein' a certain mare snoozin' on th' job last week." "I want 'snoozing'" Rainbow Dash defended herself. "I was taking a power nap. You know, so I can be at the top of my game." "Ya just have been power napoin' awfully hard. 'Cus ya were snorin' like ah grizzly bear!" Appenjack sad then mimicked what Rainbow sounded like in her sleep, causing the cyan colored mare to turn slightly red. "Ugh, yeah! Whatever!" Was all Rainbow Dash said before she put the book Twilight was reading on a random shelf. "Point is, those guys could already be out of the hospital and back at home, sleeping soundly, and you're here spending more time with your books then with your best pals!" "Yeah! What is this? Season 1?" Pinkie Said as she popped up out of the bowl of carrots, grabbed a slice of chocolate cake, and sunk back into the bowl, disappearing, only to reappear beside Rarity and Fluttershy. Applejack, Twilight, and Rainbow only watched in a moment of confusion before they all thought the same answer as to how their pink friend does that. 'It's just Pinkie' "I'm sorry girls" Twilight said with a smile, as she looked at all of her friends. "You're right. I need a moment to relax and let my brain cool down. Besides, how often do we get to just relax and have fun all together like this?" "Not enough, if you ask me!" Pinkie said as she stuffed the rest of he slice of cake in her mouth, chewing and swallowing it before zooming between Twilight an Rainbow Dash. "Why don't we go wild and have a little dance off competition? Oh! And maybe some Karaoke! Oh! And games! I wanna play truth or dare!" Applejack and Rarity's ears shot up at the sound of game, remembering the last time they played it with Twilight. Although they made up for it since then, they still remembered and felt bad for how poorly they acted to each other that night. Luckily Twilight spoke up and broke the subtle awkwardness. "That sounds like a lot of fun" Twilight smiled and sat down with her friends, placing her tray of food down in front of her. "So, who should go first?!" "Oh! MEMEMEMEMEME!" Pinkie began waving er hooves in the air like a mad pony. "Ah think Twilight should go first" Applejack spoke up. "It is her place, after all." Pinkie smiled and settled down as Twilight began to think. Her eyes then fell onto Rarity who was still relaxing in her mask. "Rarity! Truth or dare!" "I'll go with Truth, Darling" the white unicorn replied from the couch she remained laying on, enjoying the peace and relaxation. "I still want to relax here for about 15 more minutes." "Ok" Twilight grew a slightly mischievous grin. "Who was your first kiss with?" Rarity shot up, her cucumber slices flying off of her eyes and landed in Pinkie's mane. To which, the pink pony just stuck out her tung and pulled them out of her mane and into her mouth. "S-starting off kinda strong, aren't we?" Rarity lightly laughed, glad that Spike wasn't here to hear her. "Come on, Rarity!" Rainbow smiled, loving that Twilight chose an awkward one to start off with, and better yet, it was with their most girly friend in their group! "And no answers like 'my mom' or 'my dad'!" Rarity gulped as her eyes darted from one end of the room to the other, beads of sweat rolling down the sides of her head and across her mask. "Ugh... Well... It was... Big Mac... In the first grade..." "Really?!" Half of the girls blurted out. All but Applejack and Fluttershy. Fluttershy went bright red while Applejack just remained still with a relaxed look on her face. "What's that look for?" Rarity shot a glare at the smug farm pony. "Ah had ah feelin' that's what happened" Applejack replied, taking a small bite of a carrot. "Ah knew something happened that day of the school play. Somethin' he was mighty embarrassed by. And now I know fer sure!" Rarity was blushing heavily beneath her facial mask. "Well then, missy, I'll ask you! Truth ore dare?" Applejack chuckled, enjoying the fact that she was ruffling little miss prissy's feathers. "Hit me with your best shot! I'll do truth too!" Ratity's mask cracked a little as she smiled, eyes narrowing on her farm pony friend. "Well then, Applejack, you must tell us, have you shared a kiss with anypony? And as Rainbow said earlier, family doesn't count." Applejack's smug look shattered as she herself gulped, her freckled cheeks began to burn as they turned bright pink. "Ugh... Well... Ya see..." Just then, the lights of the room went dark, and all the girls let out screams of fear that echoed through the crystal like walls of Twilight's castle. "What happened? What's going on?" Rainbow asked as she shot up off the ground and started hovering inmid-air. "Who turned out the lights?" Pinkie pie asked, thinking she should have brought her lantern. Partly because it would come in handy, but mainly because she wanted to use it to tell scary stories! Oh! And shadow puppets! "Hold on every pony" Twilight said as her horn began to glow with the light of her purple magical aura. "I'll try and restart the lights. Rarity, can I get your help?" Twilight felt a hoof land on her shoulder and began to relax knowing with Rarity casting a light, she was free to use her magic to restart the crystals that light the room normally. "I'll be there in a moment dear, oh! I think I just stepped in something!" Rarity said, sounding as though she was back in the couch across the room. Twilight's eyes went wide as she gulped and put a hoof on the hood that rested on her shoulder. "Ugh.... Is that you Rainbow?" "I'm over here!" Rainbow dash called out, also from across the room. "Pinkie ?!" Twilight tried again, growing steadily nervous. "Nope!" Pinkie answered. "I'm trying to calm poor, poor Fluttershy out from under the couch! Come on, Auntie Pinkie is here for you..." "A-applejack?" Twilight tried one last time. "Yes, Sugarcube?" Applejack's voice spoke up from in front of her. "Is anything wrong?" Twilight's heart sunk as she felt the hoof was still there on her shoulder. "If you're right there.... Who's hoof is on my shoulder?...." The girls all fell silent and froze with feat until Twilight was able to gather the courage to turn her head and illuminate her horn. When she did, she came face to face with the sunken eye holes of a skeleton! All the girls screamed at the top of their lungs, even Fluttershy, who although could not see what the other girls were screaming about, could only assume whatever they were screaming about, was very, very scary! "BWAH HA HA HA HA!!!!" A deep and rattaling voice echoed through the entire room as the now glowing skeleton began to rise from the ground where it stood behind Twilight. It chuckled as it began to fly all around the room like a vengeful spirit! "You ponies will now face my wrath! Fear the wrath of the Windigos!" As the ghost spoke, a wind began to kick up in the dark, followed by what appeared to be flakes of snow! A storm had begun blowing in the room, sending papers flying into the air! Twilight looked around the room for an exit, but as she did, the doors and windows began to violently shut and lock closed. One after another! The room became almost pitch black, if not for the glowing green light of the self proclaimed Windigo spirit. "Twilight! What are we going to do?!" Rainbow Dash landed close o her alicorn friend as the others began to meet up and bundle together in the fearful situation. "I.... I don't now" Twilight said honestly as watched the spirit over them, laughing insanely. "Can't you just shoot it outta' th' sky?" Applejack suggested. "Yeah! Like when I picked you up and used you to shoot all the changelings back at Cadence and Shinning Armor's wedding! We were all like 'pe-teww', 'pe-teww', 'pe-teww'!" Pinkie began mimicking her movements from back then. "Pinkie! That gives me an idea!" Twilight began to charge her horn, lighting the area around her a little. "I've been wanting to use this spell since I became an alicorn!" "What's the plan Twilight?" Rainbow Dash smirked, knowing that if it involved pegasus abilities, that she was defiantly going to jump in! "Well we need to position ourselves at opposit ends and begin a steady climb-" Twilight began so say when Pinkie tapped in her shoulder. "What, Pinkie? We don't have time to-" "Not to stop you Twilight, but maybe you could just ask the Ghost to stop" Pinkie said very matter-of-factly. The girls then looked at her like they couldn't believe she suggested something so outrageous. Before anypony could say anything, Pinkie pointed to the ghost who's back hind legs had been revealed by Twilight's glowing magical aura. While the ghost appeared to be a glowing skeleton, the illusion was only don't by a pony's body being painted black! And the pony missed his back legs! The girls caught a glimpse of it before the ghost began flying around the room again, kicking up the speed of the storm it was making. "Wait a minute! That's no ghost!" Rainbow said as she took to the sky, Twilight quickly behind her, lighting the way. As the two flying ponies chased the 'ghost' Appeljack and Rarity noticed an odd humming noise coming from the far corner of the room and moved in to investigate, this time with Rarity lighted the way with her light blue magical aura. This left Fluttershy and Pinkie in the middle watching Twilight and Rainbow chase the ghost. At the far end of the room behind a table they pushed out of the way was a large fan hooked up with a slow leaking ice cube tray! The fan appeared to be angled upwards, allowing just barley melted ice shavings to be shot into the air, creating a snowy chilled wind! Without hesitation, Applejack flipped the switch, stopping the Arctic like winds almost immediately. Out of the corner of Fluttershy's eye, the timid mare noticed that a shadow stood at the top of a balcony on the east side of the meeting room. When she pointed it out silently to Pinkie, the party pony winked at her then disappeared, only to reappear behind the shadowy figure. "Hi there!" Pinkie screamed at him, causing the figure to lose his footing and fall over the railing, dropping his megaphone and landing right on top of the couch Rarity had been relaxing on moments ago. The ghost paused to look back at his companion who had fallen, worried that he might have gotten hurt. But in that brief pause, Rainbow and Twilight caught up to him and tackled him out of the sky! The ghost grunted as the three came tumbling down, thankfully landing on another couch that Pinkie pie pulled out of nowhere and carefully place under the three flying ponies. Rainbow Dash and Twilight held the ghost down, but Rainbow turned to give party loving friend and shot her a smile. "Thanks Pinks!" "Any time, Dashie!" Pinkie squeaked. "Now we'll see who this 'ghost' really is...." Twilight declared as she moved off the 'Ghost', leaving Rainbow still there holding him down while she pulled off a rubber mask, revealing the ghost to be none other then Thunder Lane! "Thunder Lane?!" Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Fluttersht, and Pinkie all called out. "I knew it!" Pinkie went on. "You wanted to scare away all the tourists so Twilight would have to sell you the amusement park at a cheap price!" Everypony, Thunder Lane included, looked at Pinkie, completely baffled as to what she was talking about. But decided to chalk it up to just 'Pinkie being Pinkie' and turned their attention back to Thunder Lane. But before they could begin the interrogation, the stallion who was hiding on the balcony in the shadows joined the group. "Big Mac?!" The girls cried out again, surprised again. "What in tar nation are ya doin here?" Applejack began scolding her brother. "What are the both of you doing here?!" Twilight said, sounding more then slightly irritated. "Well, ya see..." Big Mac began to say. "Sunny had the idea that we should-" Thunder Lane was trying to continue what his big red cohort started. "Sunny?!" Twilight repeated the name, then narrowed her eyes at the two stallions. "Where is he?" Before the two could answer, there came a loud screaming from down the hall followed by the sound of clunking wood and clicking. Everypony's pupils shrank when they recognized the screams echoing down the halls.