Both Summershine and Nightsky walked down on the road of Ponyville. Summershine was done delivering packages for today and Nightsky was just done with his shift as a weather pony so they decided to both go to a restaurant to grab something to eat.
Nightsky's stomach started to grumble, grabbing Summershine's attention. "You really are hungry from the sound of that, huh?" He asked teasingly not sure if it was embarrassing for Nightsky or not.
"Yeah, I skipped breakfast because I almost overslept," Nightsky replied casually. "I could really go for a hay burger or two now," Nightsky added.
"Yeah, me too," Summershine replied. Hearing Nightsky's stomach grumble actually made him realize that he was quite hungry as well.
As they were on their way to a restaurant, a stallion was walking towards them, carrying a big box on his back as he was walking through the road of Ponyville. It was an Earth Pony stallion with a yellow coat, an orange upstanding mane, red eyes and a pink whoopee cushion as a Cutie Mark. As soon as the stallion saw the two ponies walking towards him, he smiled and waved at them. "Hey there!" He said, causing them both to wave back at him.
However, once the stallion waved at the two of them, he started to lose his balance and the box on his back started to shake, making him lose some of his balance. Realizing this incoming disaster, Summershine and Nightsky rushed towards the stallion. The box started to fall down to the ground but luckily Summershine had his magic ready to catch it in midair so that it wouldn't fall on the ground.
Still, the Earth Pony stallion tripped and fell to the ground. He was relieved to see his box unharmed and released a sigh. "Thanks a bunch, Summershine!" He said in gratitude before he grabbed it with his hooves, shaking it and putting an ear on it to make sure that it had no scratch on it. "It would have been really bad if something in there would have been damaged," he explained.
Summershine and Nightsky seemed to be relieved to see that nothing was damaged. For some reason, Summershine had an awkward smile on his face, much to Nightsky's confusion. "Looks like we managed to save that box before it...crashed, huh?" He said in a tone as if he just made the joke of the century.
There was an awkward silence between the three of them after that sentence. "Oh! I get it! It's because my name is Crash!" The Earth Pony stallion said once he put everything together and busted out in laughter. "That's funny, Summershine!" He said accompanied with some laughter.
"I know, right?" Summershine replied with a smile on his face after seeing how Crash appreciated his joke. But as soon as he looked over to Nightsky who had a pretty unamused expression on his face, he started to feel awkward again.
The laughing eventually stopped and Crash rubbed the tears away from his eyes. "But seriously, it would not have been funny if something broke in here," he said with a more serious tone in his voice now.
"Why? What's inside that box?" Nightsky asked out of curiosity.
Crash took the box and put it on his back once more. "Just something fun! You will see eventually," he just explained before he walked past the two. "Sorry but I was waiting to test out the stuff inside here all day and I can't wait any longer! I need to go home and open it," he said with excitement before he started jumping up and down on the spot.
Of course, Summershine and Nightsky were both still wondering what was inside but they also respected how excited Crash seemed to be about this box so they just let him walk away with it so that he can open it. Before they knew it, the stallion was gone again and the two stood there confused.
"He still hasn't told us what was inside..." Summershine said with some disappointment in his voice.
"Well, he did say that we will see what is inside eventually," Nightsky pointed out.
"Yeah, you're right," Summershine replied with a smile on his face. He decided to leave this matter again and then looked over to Nightsky. "Eating?" He just said.
Nightsky's belly started to grumble once more. "Eating," he replied before he turned around again to walk in direction of a nearby restaurant before Summershine followed him on his way.
A little later...
It was silent and pitch black inside of Crash's home. The package that he brought with him, was sitting right in the middle of the room and was the only thing that was visible at the moment, due to being lighted at by a light bulb that occasionally went on and off, creating a very creepy atmosphere.
The only other thing that was slowly getting visible was a smiling face, that could be seen every time the light bulb was flashing on. It was Crash's face...who had a sharp knife in his mouth and was ready to let it dive down to the package to open it in one quick swoop.
"Open Sesame!" He said in a highly excited tone while still holding the knife in his mouth and quickly slashing across the package in a maniac fashion and laughing insanely at the same time. A few seconds later, the box was open with the top side being cleanly separated from it as if somepony carefully cut it off. "Alright!" He said happily before he threw the knife away into a corner without a thought that it could hit something.
Crash then removed the top side of the package and without any patience in his behavior, he pulled out another package from inside. It was really colorful and had pictures of multiple things on it, like fake teeth, a whoopee cushion, a rubber duck and more. Seeing all those things on the cover of the package sent down a shiver of excitement on the stallion's back.
"Let's see..." he said as his eyes wandered through the text on the box. "The Pranksters Master bundle. Filled with stuff that only the most advanced and experienced Pranksters can make use of," he read out before he stopped for a moment. "Which I am!" He then said as if he wanted to confirm it to someone, even though there was no one else in the room.
A few seconds later, he opened the box and took a look inside, causing a huge grin to form on his face. Shortly after, he began giggling like a little colt and closed the box again. "This is gonna be So fun!" He said in his excitement after just thinking about what he would do next.
Later...
As planned, Summershine and Nightsky both spent some time in a restaurant to grab something to eat. Unbeknownst to both of them, however, somepony was following them closely, hiding in nearby bushes or behind buildings, and getting closer and closer to them while keeping an eye on the two as they walked through the town, all while having an excited expression on his face.
As he was secretly following them, he began to get more and more excited. He was looking inside of a saddlebag that he was wearing right now and had a wide grin on his face as he was moving his hooves around inside the bag.
"Time to test some of this stuff out," he then said accompanied with almost evil sounding laughter.
In the meantime, Summershine and Nightsky were done eating and still spent some time talking in front of the restaurant.
"So..." Summershine started before he went out with one random question. "Do you think Princess Celestia sometimes lowers the sun earlier so that she can end her day quicker? You know...to avoid more work?"
Nightsky gave a quick response in a completely disinterested tone. "No,"
Hearing such a short response was not exactly what Summershine expected. "Uh, yeah...me neither..." he replied in an attempt to end this awkward conversation.
Then, in the middle of their "conversation", Crash appeared next to them with a huge grin on his face that caused the two stallions to get a little confused. "Hi, Crash," Summershine then eventually greeted with a weird feeling in his mind.
"Hey there! Want some peanuts?" Crash then asked out of the blue before he pulled out a little can offered it two the two stallions.
Wondering if that was all that Crash wanted from them, the two were still a little confused about why he was so excited about it. At first, they hesitated, they just ate something after all and that excited smile on Crash was making the situation a little awkward. It was eventually that which caused Summershine to finally realize what the stallion tried to set up.
"I get it," Summershine thought. "He is trying to play a prank on me. Once I open this can a spring snake will come out and jump at me..." he figured as he kept eye contact with Crash, who still was smiling and waiting for Summershine to open the can.
Being the good friend he was, Summershine did Crash the favor and opened the can and pretending to get scared. And as expected, something came flying out of the can after Summershine opened it. "Whoa! What!?" Summershine said in an overly over the top expression that left Nightsky in quite a shock, causing Summershine to think that he might have overdone it a little bit.
However, that was not what Nightsky was actually shocked off. "Isn't there supposed to be a spring snake coming out of those cans?" He said while he backed off a little bit.
Summershine did not understand what Nightsky meant with that. Now that he thought about it, he didn't even notice what exactly came flying out of the can. He just now noticed how something was on his back and turned his head around to see what it was. He was surprised and mostly shocked to see that a pair of snake eyes were staring right back at him. Snake eyes from a real snake.
Summershine let out a frightened scream and tried to get the snake away but he couldn't get it away, which only made him panic more. He eventually decided to run away with the snake sitting on his back. Nightsky could only stand there and watch his friend running away in fear, screaming through the roads of Ponyville. What made the situation even weirder was how Crash was standing just there with a successful smile on his face.
"Awesome, huh?" He had the nerve to ask. "Instead of a spring snake, a real snake comes jumping out of the can. This causes some real shock!" He explained before he laughed happily.
But Nightsky didn't find it all too amusing. "Don't you think that was a little too much? What if the snake bites him?" He asked out of worry for Summershine.
But Crash calmed him down again. "Don't worry, it doesn't bite, this snake is fairly good trained and won't do anything to him," he explained. However, Nightsky was not convinced and glared back at Crash. "Come on, don't look at me like that, Night. Here," he said before he offered the stallion his hoof. "All forgiven?" He then asked as some kind of apology.
"I think Summershine is the one who you should shake hooves with..." Nightsky pointed out.
"How about you give him my apology by accepting this apology in his stead,"
Failing to see the logic in that Nightsky still walked up to his friend to shake his hoof. Crash was working in some strange ways sometimes so he might as well go along with it. But that proved to be a grave mistake.
BZZZZZ
Shortly after he was shaking his hoof an electric shock was going through Nightsky's body, followed by some laughter from Crash. Nightsky had a good guess what was going on, judging from what happened to Summershine and quickly grabbed his friend's hoof, that he had previously shaken and inspected it carefully. But to his surprise, there was nothing there. He expected to see some kind of buzzer but Crash's hoof was completely empty. Crash seemed rather amused by Nightsky's confusion.
BZZZZZ
Suddenly, another shock went through Nightsky's body. "What!?" He exclaimed confused. He wasn't even touching Crash this time and looked around him to see what was the cause of this. In the meantime, Crash was laughing his soul out seeing Nightsky in this state. "What did you do!?" Nightsky asked, this time in a more aggressive tone.
Crash tried to hold his laughter for a moment and explained. "Maybe you should look at your hoof, for a minute," he advised.
Nightsky did exactly that and looked at the hoof that he used to shake Crash's hoof with. Something was stuck on it. Some kind of buzzer. Something that he expected on Crash's hoof. "What is that!?" He then asked after getting shocked again.
Crash explained. "A shock buzzer that you stuck on somepony else," he proudly said as he raised his chest in the air. "And the best thing is, it sends an electric shock through you every few seconds," he added, much to the surprise of Nightsky.
"What!?"
BZZZZ
By now, Nightsky was getting really tired of that and tried to get the thing on his hoof off, only to find out that it was stuck on him as if it was glued on his hoof, which he actually would expect Crash to do for something like that. Before he could confirm that from him, however, Crash was happily walking away to probably pick up his next victim to prank. Nightsky would like to get him for this "prank" but right now his main concern was to get this buzzer off from his hoof before he would go crazy.
Later...
The next pair to prank was already waiting for Crash inside of the Golden Oak Library. It was Brilliance and Lightbeam. The later one was preparing some tea and placed it in the middle of the room on a table while Brilliance was writing something in a book. Both of them didn't realize though that Crash was watching them from outside through the window, accompanied by some slight laughter, which he barely could hold back.
"Everything is set...now...all I have to do is wait..." he whispered to himself. He clearly planned another prank on the two and just waited for it to start.
In the meantime, Brilliance and Lightbeam didn't even suspect a thing. Lightbeam was just placing a cup of tea in front of Brilliance who looked up for a second before she stopped writing for a second. "Thanks for helping me today," she said in her usual deadpan tone. "I really appreciate you taking care of the library while I was busy writing,"
"Sure, no problem!" Lightbeam replied as she placed her cup of tea on a table. "Mind asking me what you were writing in the first place? It must have been really important if it meant that you couldn't take care of the library in the meantime,"
After hearing that question, Brilliance stopped with what she was doing right now and closed the book in front of her. "This is something that I was writing in for a few days now. It's a list of plans that I plan to do around here,"
"Oh! Important stuff!" Lightbeam said in awe before she started smiling. "Glad that I could help you in any way," she expressed happily. Brilliance smiled in response. She was really glad to have Lightbeam helping her out. She probably wasn't too excited to help her out even if she put on a smile. But then again, Lightbeam was always putting on a smile so it was really hard to tell. "Anyway, we are done now, right? So let's sit down, relax and enjoy some good tea, okay?"
"Kay," Brilliance replied as she put down her book before blowing on the tea to cool it off and taking a small sip of it. Lightbeam, after setting down the tea on the table did the same. She sat down on a chair and wanted to take a good sip from her freshly made tea.
Then...it happened
PFFFFFFT
A loud fart noise echoed through the library as soon as Lightbeam sat down. Brilliance instantly stopped drinking and just looked over to her friend, which was where the sound was coming from. There sat a highly embarrassed Lightbeam whose face turned bright red after this mishap.
"I just pretend I didn't hear that..." Brilliance said, probably to make it easier for Lightbeam even though the Unicorn didn't really seem to mind at all, given that she was speaking in a really deadpan tone like usual.
However, pointing it out was what made the mare blush even more in embarrassment. "No! That wasn't me! I swear!" Lightbeam immediately denied.
But Brilliance wasn't convinced. "I can smell it, you know," she pointed out.
As soon as Brilliance said that Lightbeam immediately noticed a strange smell coming from her. "Wait! She is right! Maybe it was me?" She wondered after everything was kinda pointing at her now, even though she was sure that it wasn't the case.
As Lightbeam tried to figure all of this out, she quickly heard some laughter from outside, right behind the window to be exact. The mare quickly investigated and found her friend Crash, rolling on the ground laughing. "Crash! That was you, right!?" Lightbeam instantly figured as soon as she saw the stallion enjoy this situation that much.
The stallion got up and explained. "Yep! A Whoopee Cushion! I placed it when nopony was looking," he said. It was kinda impressive how he managed to do that, considering how both mares were inside the library the whole time.
Lightbeam looked back at her seat and noticed the Whoopee Cushion after Crash mentioned it, however, there was still one question in her mind. "Wait, does the smell come from that thing as well?" She asked confused.
"Sure!" Crash replied as he jumped through the window and walked up to the Whoopee Cushion to pick it up. "There wouldn't be any fun if it only made fart noises. This baby even smells like a real fart!" He explained proudly as he showed the thing to the mares, who were both holding their noses in disgust.
"Yeah! Good job! But now please get that thing out of here! It really smells!" Lightbeam said annoyed.
Crash did as he was told but not before he walked up to Brilliance for a short moment with a little giggle escaping him. "You might wanna check that book, that you wrote in. I switched your writing feather with another one,"
Brilliance didn't seem too annoyed to hear that. "Why? Is it writing with invisible ink or something? I don't mind that, I can always rewrite those few words that I wrote today," she explained, showing how unimpressed she was by that little prank that Crash played on her.
But Crash started laughing. "Invisible ink? No, even better! After a while, the ink will not only vanish but also incinerate!" He explained.
Hearing that made Brilliance a little nervous and she looked over to the book on her table. Only a few seconds later, the book started to burn and ended up as a pile of ash right before her eyes. Crash highly enjoyed Brilliance's reaction which was, ironically not really obvious and left the library. What he didn't know was that he just ruined a lot of work that Brilliance had put into that book, making her feel really annoyed but luckily, he was nowhere near her to feel her wrath...for now...
Later at the Ponyville marketplace...
"Here you go! Freshly made tomato juice, hope you enjoy it!" She said in the usual friendly manner while she gave one of her customers a red bottle of tomato juice.
"Thanks a bunch!" The stallion who bought the bottle replied before he dropped some bits on Happytrade's counter.
The mare had a happy smile on her face after another good sale and was about to put the coins on the counter away but then suddenly, something grabbed her attention. It was the stallion who just bought her tomato juice. He seemed to have taken a little sip from the juice and clearly not enjoyed it judging from how heavily he was coughing. He then looked over to Happytrade with an angry expression on his face, that signaled the mare that some trouble is coming after her.
"Was this supposed to be a joke!?" The stallion replied in an angry tone as he got close to Happytrade's face, who was backing down her head in response.
"I-I don't know what you mean!" She replied nervously and confused. She was pretty confident in the quality of her wares and couldn't explain what went wrong.
But the stallion didn't wait for a second to explain the problem to her. "Listen, where I come from, tomato juice is not spice and burns my tongue away!" He said while he put the juice down on the table again and took his money back, which was still laying in front of Happytrade.
Of course, seeing a dissatisfied customer leave like that was nagging at her but she also was confused about what was wrong with the tomato juice that she just sold and tasted it herself by just pouring a little drop on her hoof and licking it off. Instead of tomatoes, however, she tasted a spicy flavor that definitely not belonged in there. But before she could even puzzle together how that was possible, she began to hear laughter from behind another counter next to her's.
She quickly recognized that laughter and took a look behind the counter to find a stallion rolling on the floor laughing his lungs out. "Crash!" Happytrade said annoyed after she got a good guess what was going now. "That was your doing, wasn't it!?"
After wiping away some of the tears in his eyes, Crash replied. "Yup," he said admitted with a smile on his face. He then pulled out a little red bottle. "Ultra hot sauce. The hottest and spiciest sauce in all of Equestria. Really good stuff, I mean you saw what it did to this poor guy, right?"
"Yes, I did!" Happytrade replied annoyed. She clearly didn't have as much fun as Crash was having right now. "It worked so well that it made one of my customers walk away angrily!" She explained.
Crash finally got up from the ground but he still had a wide smile on his face. He didn't seem to show much regret for what he was doing to her indirectly. In fact, he seemed to be prepared for this outcome. "Come on, Happy, it was just a little prank," he said before he pulled out a single red flower from out of nowhere and offered it to the angry mare. "Here, as compensation."
Happytrade still had an annoyed look on her face and was angry at him but that gesture made her forgive him. "Aww, that's so nice of you," she said touched from this gift before she took the flower in her hoof to sniff at it. But then suddenly, she was flushed away from a giant current of water that came out of this little flower and blew her right against a wall on a nearby house.
Before the mare knew what even happened to her, the same laughter that she just heard minutes ago came closer and closer to her. "Haha! That was good, wasn't it! A prank flower that has a hundred times more water in it than normal, guaranteed to blow everyone who doesn't expect it away!" He explained as he hopped past Happytrade who was still hanging against a wall, stuck and completely soaked. She would have liked to give Crash something of her mind but that was not possible in her current state. All she could do was to clench her teeth in anger and hope that he won't cross her path anytime soon, for his sake.
After that encounter, Crash was happily walking around the town and looked inside of his saddlebag, like a colt that was looking inside a bag of candies. "The things that I can do with all of those things! Those were the best pranks ever!" He said excitedly as he started imagining what else he could do. "This is going to be so fun!" He exclaimed as he continued his walk through Ponyville.
A few days later...
As expected, by now, Crash was a big prank parade and everypony who came across him had to suffer under it. It ranged from little things like switching salt with rank four spicy chili pepper to bigger things like placing fake poops all over the town, that smell like the real thing.
Needless to say, everypony was quickly getting sick of all those pranks but they couldn't figure out who was responsible for them because Crash was mostly really sneaky about them. The only exception was, of course, his friends, who were holding a secret meeting inside of the Golden Oak library at the very moment.
Nightsky was the one to took it upon himself to walk in the middle of the room and do the talking. "I think you all know why we are here, right?" Nightsky asked into the round with a serious expression on his face.
"Crash!" Every other pony in the room replied in unison, also with serious expressions on their faces.
"Um, yeah!" Nightsky replied. He probably didn't expect a quick answer like that from all sides at the exact same time and was a little surprised by it. Eventually, he put back on his serious expression. "So...any idea what we should do about him? I don't know about you but I think he is going a little overboard with his pranks,"
"A little!?" Happytrade expressed angrily before she walked up to the stallion. "Do you know how many customers I have lost because of his stupid pranks!?"
"Yeah!" Lightbeam agreed. "You know how long Brilliance and I had to wash that terrible smell away from his Whoopee Cushion?"
"I know, I know," Nightsky replied.
BZZZZZ
Another shock seemed to have traveled through the stallion's body, much to the surprise of everyone in the room. As soon as Nightsky saw the confused expressions on his friend's faces, he explained. "Oh, don't worry. That happens from time to time now. Should be going away soon...I hope..." he said in a pretty unconvincing tone.
Whether Nightsky was fine or not, Happytrade was still mad about everything and wanted to know what to do. "Why is Crash pulling all those pranks now anyway?" She asked, trying to get to the source of all this.
Summershine then began to think and remembered one thing. "It all started around when he got this package, right Nightsky?" He asked.
Nightsky did remember that now as well. "Yeah, and he told us that we would see what was inside it eventually!" He figured.
This was enough to get Happytrade pumped to immediately go to Crash and take away whatever was inside the package. "Then what are we waiting for!? Let's go and put an end to all of this!" She said as she led the group towards where Crash lived to take care of the situation.
Of course, the five ponies considered to talk with the stallion first but Crash was not really known to listen to reasons sometimes, especially since he was having the fun of his life with all of those pranks. They figured that he wouldn't stop if they just asked nicely. With that in mind, the group went to Crash's place to end this madness.
Later...
Crash was sitting in his room and was looking over at a hoof drawn map of Ponyville on the ground and had placed several things on it, like a general who was putting down toy soldiers on a real map to figure out his next strategic move. The stallion was moving back and forth multiple prank tools to plan his next move in all seriousness. Judging from how thoughtful he was placing all those things on the map, it seemed to be really important to him.
After he seemed to be done with it, he formed a smile again and was excited to put his plan in motion. However, he soon heard knocking on his front door and was a little annoyed that somepony was interrupting him now. He opened the door and was surprised to see his friends in front of him.
"Oh! Hey, guys!" He then said with a smile on his face. "Are you planning on going somewhere?" He asked, seeing how his friends all met up with the exception of him.
To confirm what Crash was up to now, Summershine asked a question that would decide what he and his friends were about to do next. "So...planned any new pranks for today?" He asked, hopefully, subtle enough so that Crash wouldn't suspect anything.
Luckily, that was exactly the case. "You bet! I got a ton of pranks planned!" He said excitedly. "That reminds me!" He added before he pulled out a can of peanuts, accompanied with a big smile on his face. "Want some?"
There was a long silence in the group, which was soon interrupted by Lightbeam. "Sure why not!" She said as she was about to reach her hoof towards the can, only to get interrupted by a loud and angry "No!" That everyone else was saying at the same time.
Happytrade then just decided to cut to the point. "Listen, Crash! Your pranks need to stop!" She said bluntly.
"What!? Why!?" Crash replied shocked. "Those are the best pranks that I ever pulled! There is no way I'm gonna stop now! I have so many things planned!" He explained.
"But your pranks aren't funny for anypony else!" Nightsky said. "That's why we decided to stop you doing any more," he explained, much to the shock of Crash, who couldn't believe what he was hearing right now.
The stallion stood in the doorway and looked a little upset. The group was surprised by that. It actually looked as if Crash was considering to stop now, something that the group didn't expect to happen.
But that was not the case.
"No!" He quickly said before he slammed the door shut in front of everypony.
"Hey! Get back here!" Summershine said before he grabbed the door handle immediately after.
BZZZZ
Only to get shocked by it as soon as he touched it. "Really!?" Summershine then exclaimed angrily.
"Alright! That's it!" Happytrade said annoyed before she prepared herself to kicked down the door to break into Crash's house. There was clearly no point to talk with Crash normally so all they could resort to was to force him to stop with his pranks. It didn't take long until Happytrade managed to break into the stallion's house. Once the door was kicked down, the angry mare marched into the house, but as soon as she touched the floor she slipped because there were marbles all over the ground, causing her to fall down.
Nightsky stepped into the room next, luckily, as a Pegasus, he was able to fly over the ground to avoid falling down. "Looks like we have to be careful around here," he said before he ironically flew right into some kind of wire, that triggered another trap, in form of a pie that came flying right into the stallion's face and knocking him down on the ground as well.
Summershine, Lightbeam, and Brilliance were still outside and hesitated to step inside, judging from what happened to the rest of their friends. "When did he had time to set all this up?" Lightbeam asked confused as she watched Nightsky and Happytrade on the ground, who both tried to get up again.
Luckily, there were no more traps left and the group cautiously walked up to Crash's room to confront him one more time. Once they opened the door to his room, they found the stallion in the middle of the room who seemed to be ready to deal with his friends.
"You never get me! Not while I have this!" Crash said before he pulled out a little green ball and presented it in front of everypony. The group had no idea what a little ball would do to stop them, but they had a suspicion that Crash would explain, what exactly he was holding in his hoof. And as expected, he did exactly that. "This stink ball will release a stinking gas that will continue to smell for a whole week!"
A huge gasp was released by the group. "No!" Lightbeam exclaimed shocked. "Not more stinky stuff!" She added as she was hiding behind her brother Nightsky.
Crash was ready to throw this ball any second now while looking at his friends to make sure that they were not making any suspicious moves.
Still, Summershine walked up slowly to his friend in order to calm him down again. "Listen...we don't have to resort to that, okay?" He said in a calming voice as he made one step after another towards the stallion.
"Yes, Crash," Lightbeam added. "We just want you to stop your pranks,"
"Why!?" Crash replied confused. "They were all awesome! I never had so much fun before in my life!" He mentioned.
"Yes! But we didn't!" Happytrade bluntly threw at him.
As soon as Crash heard those words, he got even more confused. "What do you mean? You didn't like the pranks that I pulled on you?"
"We like pranks too..." Brilliance added into the round. "But not if we have to suffer because of them," she added.
"Suffer!?" Crash replied as he started to lower his hoof, where he was holding his stink bomb in. "My pranks made you suffer?" He said with a frown on his face. "Wow...I had so much fun with all those pranks that I didn't even notice that...I'm sorry..."
Seeing how Crash had this moment of insight, the group got relieved again. The little anger that some of the ponies had still inside of them completely vanished and they forgave him as soon as they heard this sincere apology.
"Hey, don't worry about it, Crash," Summershine replied.
"Yeah," Happytrade added while smiling again. "It's all forgiven,"
What followed was a big group hug that involved all of the six ponies. All of them were happy that everything turned out peacefully and that Crash was stopping with his pranks. However, there was one thing in the middle of the hug that distracted everypony. It was a strange sound.
"What is that ticking noise?" Summershine asked in the middle of the hug.
The group went out of the hug again to figure it out but Crash quickly remembered something. "Oh, yeah!" He then said in his realization before he pulled out the stink bomb again. "I set a timer on the stink bomb before you entered this room, in case you would have taken it away from me,"
The group instantly got really nervous and shocked at the same time. "A timer?" Happytrade asked.
"Yeah," Crash replied casually. "It should go off riiiiigt about now...Oh, oh!"
What followed was a huge smoke explosion that sent the whole house shaking for a brief moment. Smoke was filling the whole house and needless to say, the smell was horrible, very, very indescribable horrible. There were screams in disgust and some other noises that indicated that the group was not having a pleasant time.
Later...
After the events in Crash's place, the six ponies took a walk through Ponyville. They were happy to spend some time after all those pranks.
"Sorry, for all the things recently," Crash apologized again.
"Don't worry about it," Summershine said in the name of everypony else.
"Yeah, as long as you learned something from all of this," Lightbeam added.
"Sure," Crash replied before he shared his lesson with everyone. "Pulling pranks is really fun but you should always consider the feeling of those that you prank on,"
The group was happy that Crash came to understand this and smiled happily because of it. Even if the last days were a little rough, at least Crash knew what he was doing was not right. But...that didn't change too much about their current situation.
"So..." Lightbeam started as she was looking around her. "When do you think can we stop moving around this huge bubble?" She asked. She was referring to the magic shield that Summershine was using to protect the other ponies in Ponyville from the terrible smell that was coming from him and his friends.
"One week, at least..." Crash explained casually as if he wasn't bothered by it at all.
Of course, the group was stared at by everyone that walked past them and they all got heavily confused by the huge bubble around the six ponies. It's not really as if the ponies could change anything of their current situation so they just had to endure it for a few days. But if there was a group of ponies to hang around with for that long, then they were happy that it was their closest friends.