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// Too much bubble wrap, Lulu! 
// Story: Little loony Luna and crazy caffeinated Celestia's life in Canterlot 
// by Vidhwansak 
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Too much bubble wrap, Lulu!




"Packages for Princess Celestia, from one Fluttershy!" A brown pegasus that worked in the mail district pushed a cart in, dropped off quite a few sizable boxes inside her room, and then left promptly. A curious Celestia looked up from the piece of cake she was eating, and frowned thoughtfully.

Hm? That's strange; I haven't asked or done anything recently to warrant anypony, much less one of Twilight's friends to send me a gift. I wonder what it could be? After standing up from her chair, it took a short walk before Celestia was within range of grabbing at one of the boxes. Fairly large; doesn't seem heavy if one pegasus could cart all this in, and it was sent by Fluttershy, Twilight's shyest friend, if I remember correctly. Yeah, I have no clue what could be inside these boxes.

She prepared to open the nearest box to her when there was a knocking at her door. Sighing, Celestia waited to see who it was. One knock, two knocks. Punch. She groaned as her door now had a hole the size of a hoof in it, and she called out from her location, certain of the pony's identity now. "Lulu, can you not punch my doors? Please?"

"Tia, it would help if you opened the door before I had to punch it!"

No. "Remember the license plate on the flying poptart?"

Poptarts! I...Oh. "That hurts, Tia, that hurts."

Snorting at her sister and rubbing a hoof gently at her snout, none too fondly remembering that incident, Celestia opened the door to allow Luna inside her room. "Is there something that you need, Lulu?" Please don't destroy anything else, I already have to replace these doors. Again.

"Not particularly, Tia. We...I just saw that pegasus drop by with a cart, full of boxes for you! I'm simply curious about whatever is inside them, Tia. So...Have you opened one of them up yet?"

"No, I haven't, I spent the time thinking about why I'd be given all these boxes first, and then you punched my door." Gently, Celestia poked a box, and it didn't rattle. She didn't know if that was a good or a bad thing. "Hm, it doesn't rattle." She tried poking all the other boxes, and they, too, did not rattle. "What do you think, Lulu?"

I'm thinking Arby's. Oh, and opening the boxes. "I think, Tia, that instead of poking at the boxes, you open them up and see what's inside."

"...Right." Celestia levitated a nearby letter knife, and was just about to slice the tape that held a box together when a thought crossed her mind. Perhaps Fluttershy has sent me something very, very personal, for my eyes only? I best not open it while Lulu is here. "...Actually, Lulu, maybe you should leave."

Open it open it op...What? Leave, after you've received quite a few boxes with unknown contents residing inside? I think not! "Whatever for, Tia? I'm interested in whatever's in the boxes, too! That's not fair!"

After placing back the letter opener to its rightful place, Celestia frowned at her sister, and made a 'shoo' motion towards her doors. "That's the problem, Lulu; what if these boxes contained something very important to Fluttershy that she doesn't want others seeing?"

"Are you saying, Tia, that you're afraid that I'd see something that would be extremely embarrassing for the pegasus, who, I remind you, freed me from my evil persona of Nightmare Moon, takes care of even the fiercest animals that she chances upon, and can snarf down fries like a champion on Fridays would send you something she would find embarrassing to other ponies, much less send it to none other than you, the other half of the diarchy, who could easily reveal it to all of Equestria, and would send twenty boxes full of secret, personal belongings? Does anypony even have that many personal belongings to give out?"

...I didn't catch anything beyond 'snarf down fries' and 'Friday'. It looks like I'll have to challenge Fluttershy to a fry eating contest sometime in the near future! Challenge aside, what do I say now? I didn't listen to the other half of what she said... "...Maybe?" 

...This sister of mine... "...I'm not leaving, Tia, and you can't make me. We're both powerful alicorns, and I have every right and power to see whatever it is that Fluttershy has placed in these boxes and sent to you."

Wrong answer, gah. "Is it really this important for you to see what's inside the boxes?"

"...No, but I'm more curious then when you first smelled cake for the first time."

Sighing, Celestia levitated the letter opener back over, and very slowly began to slice through the tape that shut the box's contents away from the world. As the deed was done, Luna peered over her sister's shoulder, curious as to the contents of said box. Once the tape had been neatly sliced, Celestia opened the box up...

...And was introduced to the sight of bubble wrap. "...Bubble wrap? Is that all?" No wonder that pegasus could carry this in; it's just full of bubble wrap!

Luna, likewise, was disappointed in the contents of the box.  That's...Pretty disappointing. Maybe the bubble wrap is hiding something, however! "Perhaps there is something buried in all this bubble wrap, Tia?"

"Perhaps. Let's see!" Celestia began pulling out the bubble wrap, and after a moment, her sister joined her. On and on, they continued to remove bubble wrap from the box, and both alicorns throwing the bubble wrap around hazardly, not caring where it ended up. This cycle of reaching into the box and removing the bubble wrap continued on, until finally, there box was empty. Celestia groaned, and looked at the other boxes with a sense of fear creeping up towards her. "...Maybe...nineteen of these are decoys...?"

Oh, jeez, nineteen more boxes to go through... "I'm game if you are, Tia!"

I get the feeling I'm going to regret this. Oh well! "You're on!" And so began the unraveling of boxes. Many, many boxes, full of nothing but bubble wrap, and lots of it. Both alicorns tore into the boxes (carefully), flinging the bubble wrap they found within without any sense of where they were throwing it. This would soon be their undoing, as bubble wrap piled up everywhere, making it harder for them to move around. This didn't register to the alicorn sisters, as they continued to unbox every box, until the last one was in front of them. Immediately, Celetia tore into the box, and threw the bubble wrapping away, only to find...Nothing. Celestia stared at the remains of the last box with a blank look on her face, which was equally mirrored by Luna.

I...I can't believe it... "There's...Nothing...Nothing but bubble wrap..."

"Tia, what did you do...? What did you do that...Required Fluttershy to send you twenty boxes of bubble wrap?"

"I-I don't know...A-Am I becoming a bad princess?" Celestia sighed as she sat down. Unfortunately, she just so happened to sit on a pile of bubble wrap that was just so conveniently underneath her posterior.

That day has been recorded to be the loudest bubble wrap pop in history, as well as the only time bubble wrap alone had blown an entire room into smithereens.