"So if the Elements of Harmony can get rid of just the nightmare bit of Luna, why didn't they at first?"
"Oh," Nopony began to sweat, "oh, oh well. You know."
The two stared at each other.
"A thousand years ago," Scootaloo continued, "when you fought her."
"When Celestia fought her. And-"
"Sure, when that loser fought her."
Nopony glared at her. "And it was a very intense moment with a lot of magic going on."
"Sounds like that should've made the element's job easier."
"Celestia's skill alone could not purify Luna, wielding all six."
Scootaloo raised an eyebrow. "So she did the more difficult thing and sent her towards a celestial object 238,900 miles away?"
"You're thinking of the moon across the mirror, ours is closer by about roughly 60,000 miles." Nopony corrected. "Wait how do you know about-"
"Why did you throw her onto the moon?"
"Into the moon?"
"Into the moon, which sounds even harder?"
"I was having a bad day okay? A very very bad day."
"For a finite, exact thousand years?"
"I-"
"And then you made the exact day you sealed her away a holiday where you celebrate the thing she grew to hate?"
Nopony quietly stared at Scootaloo.
"Also I thought Celestia did this, not you."
With a flash of light, Nopony turned back into Celestia.
"Go to your room." She said in the stern, disappointed mother voice.
"I GOT YOU!!" Scootaloo broke into a manic grin. "I made you break character!"
"Young lady, go to your room, right now."
"As you say-"
"Good-"
"Mom."
CELESTIA DECLARES NEW HOLIDAY TO APPRECIATE THE SKY
It came as a surprise to many when the Princess of the Sun declared a new holiday to celebrate flight, and all the wonders involved within. Starting today, trained unicorns and Celestia herself will be traveling across Equestria for a week casting a strong enchantment that will let all earth ponies and unicorns gain wings for 72 hours. Many were overjoyed by this, while the minorities cried out racism against cows, donkeys, yaks, minotaurs, and so forth. In other news, strange spots have showed up on the sun, the princess guarantees that they'll only be there for a week, to help her cast her enchantments as she travels the country...
Just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder...
LOL loved it
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Oh you sweet summer child.
That's pettiness on a whole new level. I aprove!
Talk about over-the-top pettiness.
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Savor your blessings of ignorance, the happiness of oblivion; Innocence can only be tainted, never returned.
WHY WONT YOU LET ME SLEEP!!!
Poor Scootaloo she is not going to be happy when all her friends are going to be flying and she is stuck ground pounding.
Scootaloo hottest Crusader confirmed.
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She is our sunshine, our only sunshine.
Oh whoops I forgot the author's note fluff-
That was cruel. Hilarious, but cruel.
Thank you for making that distinction. A lot of authors seem to forget.
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I mean... Honestly it could be either or. I personally prefer on since that's an almost guarantee that Luna was awake the entire time, which ultimately makes her a more interesting character.
In the moon has the higher chance of being 'asleep', which is a little more logical considering she had the same mentality as soon as she came back. But I don't know, I just prefer 'on' instead of 'in'.
pfft.. good going Scootaloo and at the same time... dang sunbutt, that's harsh.
The most extreme time out corner in existence!
Thanks for the update!
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Don't you know?
Sleep is for the WEAK
Celestia doesnt appreciate Scoots sarcasm appaerantly.
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meaner than you think. Everypony is going to e ale to fly, including non-pegasi, while Scoots is stuck in the sun.
TBH, she had it coming.
You never completely "grow out" of certain behaviors. You are an onion of experience and maturity, layers of youth and petulance lying just under the surface.
In Scootaloo's case, she stabbed so deep she hit Celestia's teenage pettiness. Most impressive.
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Miasma of incandescany plasma, thank you very much.
Damn. Short but hilarious. :D
Goddomot Celery.
The ride never ends!!!
Scootaloo did it, she fnally got Celly to break character! Congrats Scoots!
Enjoy your grand prize!
You know, now that we know that Celestia is (for reasons) terrified of chickens, I feel like the 'Scootaloo is a chicken' meme could have some interesting side effects in this setting.
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Exposure therapy.
Or Scootaloo could dress up as one and stalk Celestia for hours on end in vengeance.
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The moon literally has a horse-crater face on it, which makes no sense if she is sealed On the Moon, but a lot of sense for In the Moon.
Plus a thousand years of being on a ball of rock would be horrible torture, whereas dreamless or mostly dreamless sleep not so much
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I mean Discord was conscious in his stone prison, and I'm pretty sure he was in there much longer than Luna was on the moon.
Plus, the craters could be anything from an effect of the curse keeping Nightmare Moon there or Celestia trying to remember her sister.
Aside from that, a lot of the 'punishments' the elements push onto creatures are terrible, Tirak was literally sealed in hell, Discord was aware his entire time as a statue, Nightmare Moon was sent off planet. Those are just the ones the elements directly affected too, there's Sombra, though that's mostly his fault, Chrysalis who basically watched her entire race die for basic predator instinct, the Sirens were tossed off world with their only link to Equestria eventually shattered.
Like I get it "Evil people don't deserve sympathy unless they change their ways", but these are all 'ironic' tortures in their own way. With Discord he had to watch the world pass by him without a single iota of his Chaos, Tirak had his power stripped and imprisoned in the same way he wanted to do to equestria, and Nightmare moon gets to look at her precious moon the entire time while imprisoned.
hahahaha. Orange T-rex is a legend. Yeah how did she know how far the moon is?
Kentucky Fried Blessings, the ride continues!
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I couldn't find something saying anything one way or the other but the MLP wiki said that Nightmare Moon has no hobbies and that's pretty brutal.
Hahahaha, I didn't expect this fic to update, but I won't complain.
Prompt: Scoots parents can’t get past Nopony to get to Scootaloo because of how unbelievable their sudden appearance is.
Prompt: Scootaloo brings a few chickens home. The buildup is for one joke Nopony subvert. There’s three obvious jokes.
I appreciate the fact that Celestia created a reocurring revenge plot against Scootaloo out of sheer pettiness on Nopony's part. This. This is what I live for
It's just so staggeringly petty to uphold this every year as a holiday.. the real question is whether or not Scootaloo is going to be annually grounded to her "room" on the sun
'Salutes pettiness'
Aw man, I'm dry. Probably for the best, maybe now I won't lose sleep.
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Yeah, but I think this fellow puts it best
First, wonderful story/short stories/whatever I only found this a few days ago. Heres to hoping for more.
Second, picking on Luna is kinda lazy but I guess that never really gets old.
Third, Scootaloo is disgustingly underrated. I always wanted her to get more attention beyond "Scootaloo is a flightless-chicken"-jokes.
A good quick read, made me cackle repeatedly. Well done
Well damn I’m all caught up.
Has Scoots ever tried to fall and miss? That might work