Ciderfest BOAS APP Stories: 86?!

by Janicethelight


34. #ADashofSun

Story
You and Deep Dish wander around Ponyville. Deep Dish sighs. "I hope Hoof Work, Mustard Mark, and Sleepy Bean are having some luck. I don't even really know what to look for, [USERNAME]."

"Anything wrong or out of place," you guess. Deep Dish grabs a caramel apple and takes a bite. She immediately spit it out with your tongue. She turns the apple around to find that it was a caramel onion. 

"Do you mean like this?" she wonders.

You hear laughter nearby and look around. Unsurprisingly, Rainbow Dash is laughing, falling to the ground in hysterics. But the white alicorn laughing with her does surprise you.

Deep Dish gasps. "PRINCESS?!"

Princess Celestia finishes her laughing fit, wiping a tear from her eyes. "Oh, Rainbow Dash. I laughed so hard, I accidentally stopped disguising myself." She takes a few deep breaths and then says, "Yes, it is I."

"When I found out that Princess Celestia loved pranks as much as I do, I miiiiight have used one of those neat page things to help her be able to let loose!" Rainbow Dash grinned.

"And now I can do this whenever I want to!" Celestia baths herself in magic. When the magic disappears, a yellow pegasus with golden yellow mane and tail is standing exactly where Celestia was. Surprisingly, her eyes remain unchanged in color. "I used to try doing this once a moon to check on the Citizens of Equestria. However, it had been getting more and more difficult to sneak out of the palace. With Rainbow Dash's help, I finally get to have FUN!"

"But, princess, if you're here, then who's running Equestria?" Deep Dish asks.

"Oh, I left Luna in charge, of course. I'm sure she'll be fine! Besides, I'm sure Equestria can survive without my leadership for a little while…maybe for a long while."

"This isn’t good." Deep Dish whispers, "I worry that Equestria may still need Celestia, but she's having such a good time. What should we do?"

[CHOICE]

Should you let Celestia keep hiding as a pegasus?

> Celestia deserves to have fun too. Let her and Rainbow Dash have a good time with their pranks! (Chaos)

> Celestia is the Ruler. She should be doing her job ruling all of Equestria! (Hero)


[ENDING A: CHAOS]
You think it over before you answer, "She and Rainbow Dash are having fun. Let them be!" You nod.

"Come on, Tia." Rainbow Dash nods. "Let's go find another prank to pull!"

"Right after you, Dashie!" Celestia grins in her disguise.

The two go off. Later that day, you hear of their mischief making. Twilight has been getting letters from Celestia with words that disappear before she can read them. Pinkie Pie finds everything in the bakery is cake except the cakes, which are decorated hat boxes. Applejack finds the trees she bucked apples from have grapes hanging from them. Rarity notices that every single picture in her house is replaced with a picture of Rainbow Dash. Spike looks at the shelf where he keeps his comics only to see coloring books in their place. Fluttershy notices Angel Bunny trying to jump for a carrot, which keeps raising just out of reach. In every instance, everypony hears the laughter of two pranking friends enjoying themselves.

Meanwhile, in Canterlot, diplomats are waiting for the princess' choices, but she never comes out to greet them. Policies never go through. Decisions never get made. Eventually, ponies give up and start waiting until sunset to ask Princess Luna about policies. 

(+1 page for Chaos)

[ENDING B: HERO]
You think it over and say, "You're right. We should talk to her." You walk to Celestia and continue, "I'm glad to see you enjoying yourself, but Equestria still needs you!"

"Yes!" Deep Dish agrees. "You raise the sun. You first notice when things are off. You know more about the possible problems that can happen, and who to best send to fix those problems."

"I suppose you're right." Celestia sighs, "Rainbow Dash. I had a lovely time but we really must stop. Canterlot needs me. Equestria needs me. Everypony needs me!"

"Spoil sports." Rainbow Dash grumbles, "we were having so much fun! Celestia deserves a break!"

"And a break I had. Thank you, Rainbow Dash, for thinking of me. It was nice to be an average pony for a while. Maybe you can come down to Canterlot sometime and help me prank the guards!" Celestia winks.

"Well, I guess I could do that. Maybe we could have Philomena and Tank join us too. I noticed how much Philomena loves a good prank. And Tank is chill. He's up for anything!"

An orange glow erupts around you and Celestia is gone, most likely back home. 

Rainbow Dash gives you the page, "Here. I don't really need this for anything else, so you can have it. At least Celestia and I had one really fun day full of pranking!"

(+1 page for Heroes)