When Pinkie told the others about Rainbow's cookie prank on the whole town, they all decided to fight fire with fire by having the entire town prank her.
It was simple in concept, everypony would act like there was something in the cookies that made them into cookie craving zombies, they'd corner Rainbow in a confined space, and then they'd reveal themselves after scaring her silly, teaching her not to prank so much.
In hindsight, they probably should have known better than to overstimulate the adventurous and action-packed imagination of their pegasus daredevil.
An alternate ending to 28 Pranks Later.
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When I watched the episode I expected exactly this to happen.
(The smash-through-the ceiling thing.)
Nice story!
By the way: this is the first story about this episode I had read.
Edit: I checked the new-story-section. This is in fact the second story about this episode that had been published.
The second story about a new episode! That is something!
One small question:
Did you mean 'high'? (Both would be correct, but I would have expected my version.)
Also: you forgot to add the cover-source. Please add it. I'm sure the artist would approve.
Better than the actual episode
This was hilarious.
I especially loved the bit of dialogue between the factory workers.
Excellent work I loved it!
Thank goodness this is still a g-rated universe.
I just read another fanfic that had the prank spiral out of control, but it read like an attack fic instead. THIS ONE DIDN'T! Congratulations!
And the trend of Rainbow Dash destroying industrial facilities continues. Also: Fic wins award for "most creative use of grape juice".
...I am desperately trying to imagine that the CEO was a Gene Wilder pony.
Out of all the "fixit" fics I've seen about this episode, and there's only a few, this is the only one I actually do really like. It was hilarious and Rainbow still had to face consequences for her actions. This was something that I could see happening in the episode.
Couldve asked Discord to repair everything, xD
Better than the story currently in the featured box.
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AGREED!!! This one doesn't read like an attack fic.
This was good. I really liked this.
This fic is way funnier and in better taste than the featured fic.
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Sure, Discord could fix everything. But the point of making Rainbow Dash clean up all the spilled grape juice by herself was to show that there were consequences for going too far.
Now, if it was just the grape juice mess, she'd probably have someponies volunteering to help her clean at least part of the mess, but I believe that she's actually being punished for the injuries and damages she caused in Fillydelphia. Which means she gets officially punished in such a way to not only show her that there are consequences, but in a way that shows her victims in Fillydelphia that, yes, she's actually being punished this time.
Unlike the time she destroyed the Cloudsdale Weather Factory.
THIS IS HOW you do a 'well intentioned scheme backfiring' story!
Why didn't the rest of the Mane Six get in trouble? Sure, Rainbow Dash trashed the factory and flooded Ponyville in grape juice, but only because she thought her friends were cookie zombies, none of this insanity would have happened if it wasn't for this revenge prank. I'm not saying this needs to be an attack fic, but it would have been better if all of the Mane Six got in trouble instead of just singling out Rainbow Dash, who's just as much the victim as the perpetrator here.
Other than that, this was a funny, well-made fic.
7726656 how would they have gotten into trouble, here not counting the grape juice and the factory stuff dash did ruin a whole supply of scout cookies for the whole town just for a prank and besides every pony trying to get dash to stop, dash did nto get into trouble for her previous ones
7781879 True, but that was because she thought she had actually turned the whole of Ponyville into zombies. At the very least the rest of the Mane Six should be punished too, seeing as their little prank pushed her to this extreme, and the fact that they should have known Dash would have gone to such extreme measures in the first place.
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Considering that all of them got stained purple from head to hoof, I'd say they didn't get off scot-free either.
7782750 Well, there is that, but still doesn't seem sufficient.
Ah shut up. She pays more than that on average for all the crap that constantly gets destroyed in Ponyville.
So what about the consequences for YOUR actions? You were the guys that decided to re-enact a zompony apocalypse.
YOU, as well as the entire town, should clean up their own damn houses. It's not Rainbow's fault if she thought somepony did something to her face. You KNOW how Rainbow can get when she thinks her friends are in danger.
okay, THIS Rainbow should be responsible for.
The first half of this story made me want to give this story a like. The second half made me want to downvote this story. So, I will leave this story be. I like 'A Prank Too Far' better because that was pretty close to my reaction.
7841379 Glad I'm not the only one who didn't like this story, I know Rainbow had to suffer consequences for her actions, but she should've been a little more pissed off. I mean, if I found out I trashed an entire gag factory and flooded an entire town with grape juice all for nothing, I'd be mad as hell.
Yeah, I'm definitely in the camp with people saying that maybe the whole town should take some responsibility and consider not faking an apocalyptic biological disaster. They're just lucky Rainbow Dash didn't reach for the garden tools and start zombie slaying, or decide that burning the entire town to cinders was the only way to ensure the infection didn't spread.