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// Luna Goes Bowling 
// Story: Equestrian Recreation 
// by luigitime22 
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The doors to the bowling alley opened up and in came Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Seashell, Peach Fizz, Glory, and Princess Luna. After Luna hoofed over the required bits for 7 bowlers and greeted the cashier, (which wasn’t as bad as you would think, retirement didn’t put a stop to Luna’s enormous supply of bits) they all prepared for a round of bowling. Or total destruction, depending on who’s turn it was.

“Thank you for inviting us along,” Seashell said to the Crusaders and Luna, with nods and smiles from the other two Pippsqueaks.

“Anytime! This is gonna be fun,” Apple Bloom said.

“I do have one question,” Peach Fizz piped up.

“What seems to be the matter?” Luna asked.

“The cashier called you ‘Screeching Comet,’ what does that mean?” Peach Fizz asked.

Luna let out a short laugh. “That’s what they call me around here at the alley. The Crusaders and I frequently come here to play, and regulars have a tendency to get names or titles to refer to them here.”

“So why do they call you ‘Screeching Comet?’” Glory pondered.

“You’ll find out soon enough,” Luna said with a soft smile.

“Our names aren’t quite as flattering as Princess Luna’s,” Sweetie Belle admitted with a sheepish grin. “They call me ‘Gutter Belle.’”

“Ah’m ‘Bowler Bloom.’”

Scootaloo looked like she didn’t want to say hers in immense embarrassment.

“They call me several things,” she finally admitted.

“Like what?” Glory asked curiously.

“‘Wrecking Ball,’ ‘The Destroyer,’ and the most popular one is ‘The Grim Reaper.’”

The Pippsqueaks simply looked at each other in concern.

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Soon enough, the game was going underway pretty well into the first frame. True to their titles, Sweetie Belle rolled a gutter ball and Scootaloo had nearly performed extreme property damage after she pretty much turned the bowling ball into a cannon ball.

Thankfully, Princess Luna managed to stop it before anything extreme could happen.

The other bowlers weren’t masters, but far less terrible. Peach Fizz, Seashell, and Apple Bloom all secured good scores, with Glory raking in a spare.

All eyes were on Princess Luna though when she gracefully placed a 20 pound bowling ball in front of the lane and lifted it magically. The Crusaders seemed pretty used to this by now and watched with a smile, while the Pippsqueaks watched in awe.

With a glow, the ball suddenly rocketed forward with a blue tail of energy trailing it, smashing into the pins and rather easily securing a strike. Turns out that when you magically control the stars in the sky every night, bowling is a pretty easy game.

Cheering instantly burst forth, as the Pippsqueaks, being new to this event in particular, broke forth into wild applause.

~~~

The rest of the game followed a similar pattern. Scootaloo nearly caused severe injury to a few ponies, were it not for the intervention of Luna each time she would have likely been banned from the alley again.

Sweetie Belle managed to get 10 pins knocked over by the end of the game.

Apple Bloom, Seashell, and Peach Fizz all scored pretty good games, and Glory broke 200 hundred points and recognition at the alley as “Glory the Great.”

Princess Luna rolled a perfect game for the 28th time in a row.