Rainbow Dash ran through the long, white, sterile corridors. She wanted to get away from the thing that wanted to keep her bound;Its tendrils wanting to grab her and tie her down. She never liked getting tied down. She stopped at a dead end, then she turned around only to get caught by the malicious tentacles.
“You will get your Feather Flu shot!” the tendrils spoke
“Noooooooo!” Dash screamed.
Rainbow Dash awoke with a horrible sounding cough; she groaned as she looked over her shoulders and at her wings. Her droopy, pale feathers attached to very droopy limbs. “I hate Feather Flu.” She moaned. She hated the fact that the flu not only gave her a terrible cough and a horrible sneeze, but it kept her from flying. She was also a bit annoyed that her friends kept telling her that she should’ve gotten that shot; she didn’t want to get a shot, as she hated getting her legs tied. The cerulean mare looked in front of her... right into a pair of yellow wall-eyes.
“Hi Rainbow Dash!” The gray coated mare said. She was in a nurse’s outfit, and right next to her was a bowl of daisy noodle soup.
“Hi Derpy-” Dash went into another fit of coughing.
“Oh, That sounds terrible! Time for your medicine!” Derpy grabbed a spoon full of syrup and shoved into the other pegasus’ mouth.”Now I know it tastes bad, but don’t spit it out! Now its time for your soup-” Derpy’s wing accidentally tipped over the bowl and onto Rainbow’s lap. Rainbow yelped in pain,” Whoops, sorry, I’ll get you new bowl!” Derpy said, happily walking away.
“You mean to tell me that we only have five Elements available!?” Luna yelled as they went closer to Sugarcube Corner.
“Um, I’m sorry.” Fluttershy’s head drooped.
“Four actually,” Mrs. Cake’s head popped out of the store,”Pinkie’s off to get us a branch in Canterlot!” She said with a big smile.
Luna glared at the mare.
Mrs. Cake, realizing who she spoke to, quickly closed the door.
Luna snorted,” Well then, We will have to do things the old fashioned way!”
“And that would be?” Rarity flipped through her golden wig.
“First, I duel my sister, then after I kick her flank, I will stuff her into a locked box for all eternity!”
“That’s a well thought out plan, but I think you forget step three... “ Rarity mused..
“That’s still-” Fluttershy was about to say.
“And you will help me! It is likely Celestia will get some ponies to her cause, and I need some distractions!” Luna grinned maliciously.
“... You want my help for what now?” Applejack asked as she sat on the grass in front of the two figures in front of her.
“To help defeat my sister once again. She has gone insane with jealousy and you six have to put her in the moon again!” Celestia looked down at the earth pony.
“... And we can’t cure her again because?” AJ stared at a very focused-at-reading Twilight Sparkle.
“... She’s too far gone, my little pony. I’m afraid there’s nothing we can do except put her in the moon.” Celestia shook her head in sadness.
“I’m mighty sorry Princess, but that sounds kinda-”
“LIKE A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS!?” Luna landed in front of her sister, nearly breaking the ground under her.
“Oh look, it’s Temper Tantrum!” Celestia smiled,” Decided to take away my AJ?”
“No. You see, Princess Sparky-Hooves, The Element of Loyalty is out of commision so I decided to do this the old fashioned way!” Luna glared up at her.
“Out of commision? Well, I’m fine with the old fashioned way. Speaking of which, how are you going to fight me, Short Stuff? Hopping?” Celestia chuckled.
“Short!? I am not short, you are unnaturally tall!”
Meanwhile, Rarity and Fluttershy had reached their friends,”Celestia has gone nuts too?” Rarity asked, “Darn, I was hoping she was going to help fix this mess.”
“I don’t know! I feel like I just randomly got shoved into an argument!” AJ scratched her head.
“Hmm, Twilight?” Rarity poked the reading purple unicorn to get her attention.
“Huh? Sorry, I was reading up on the Haricaneitus... mons... ter. What happened to your mane?” Twilight looked at Rarity in confusion.
“Long story. Do you know what’s going on?”
“Well, no. Apparently Celestia wanted to gather the Elements to banish Luna. Let me guess: Luna wanted to do pretty much the same thing?”
Rarity nodded,” But I didn’t expect you to go along with it! I mean, I did it as a promise and Fluttershy is, well, herself, but you?”
Twilight’s tears burned her cheeks,”I was bribed!” She hugged the book tightly as she cried.
“It’s okay, we all make mistakes.” Fluttershy caressed the librarian’s back.
“Enough talk! Rarity, Fluttershy, fight for your future sole ruler!” Luna shouted.
“Oh, really? Sending the fashionista and the quiet one to fight for you? Aren’t you scraping the bottom of the barrel? At least I have the most powerful unicorn in existence and one of-if not the- strongest earth pony on my side! Applejack, Twilight, defend your princess.” Celestia ordered.
“Now hold on a minute! I didn’t agree to fight for you! Besides, look at Fluttershy, poor filly wouldn’t survive against me!” AJ protested.
“And why would we fight our own friends anyway?” Twilight glared at Celestia.
“Hah!” Luna pointed at Celestia with a hoof.
“We’re not going to fight them either!” Rarity exclaimed.
Celestia just chuckled.
“Well... I guess...” Luna lunged at her older sister,” IT’S BETWEEN ONLY US! TIME FOR A BEATDOWN!”
Celestia teleported behind the night princess, letting the younger hit the ground face first,”Nice try.”
Luna shook her head after she quickly got up“Well, how about some hard rocks!” Her horn glowed and twelve rocks floated up and attempted to strike at Celestia with them.
Celestia caught ten of them with her own telekinesis, while the other two flew past her. She then threw them back at her little sister.
“Oh no! We need to stop them!” Rarity exclaimed.
“Yeah, but we can’t just go in-between them and go-” Twilight was about to say, when an old voice shouted,
“AHEM!”
The two sisters looked beside them to see an old,, grey-maned, lime-green mare tapping her hoof at them.
“Uh, Granny Smith, is it? We’re kind of in the middle of something.” Celestia said.
Granny looked to the two, and pointed to the farmhouse,” Rooms, now!”
“But we don’t even live there.” Celestia objected.
“Yeah, plus she started it!” Luna pointed at the solar princess.
Granny glared at them,”Don’t make me get the hammer!”
They both sighed,”Yes, Granny Smith.” they walked away to the farmhouse
The old mare walked up to the younger ponies,” Well, now that’s over, who wants some of Big Mac’s apple fritters?” She said with a big grin.
“Big Mac’s made apple fritters!? I’m there!” AJ sped away, while the other just stood in shock.
“Trust me, when you have three kids, and several grandchildren, you’d know how to handle sibling problems!” Granny answered the question that was on their minds
The white unicorn chuckled as she looked at the chest before her; she and Pinkie Pie were in a hedge maze, and they had just found the area Clean Wipe had been looking for. The chest had a cement color scheme, with finishes of sparkles and music notes around the rims. Clean Wipe used her horn to pick up her lock-picks... only for Pinkie Pie to immediately open it without a problem,”Ooh, a Qilinese Box! I love these!” the pink one said as she picked up a box in the chest, opened it to reveal another box, opened that one to reveal a jewelry box and opened that to reveal a long shiny necklace with a big shiny ball on it.
“Give me that!” Clean Wipe yanked the jewelry box away and taking out the necklace,” This is the Amulet of All that is Disco! With it, I will rule everything in a preferably thousand-mile radius! MWAHAHAHA!”
Shining Armor’s head popped into the area,”What was with the maniacal laughter?”
“Hi, Shining! This janitor pony just found a really pretty necklace!” Pinkie said.
“Oh. Well, carry on! By the way, have you seen the princesses?”
“Well, Celestia was in Ponyville...” Pinkie put her hoof to her chin.
Shining grinned,” That’s all I need!” He went back behind the hedge wall,”Ponies! We’re heading to Ponyville, ASAP!”
Celestia stared at the wall. She was contemplating the various things inside the room she was in: the rather nice wallpaper, the big red bed she was sitting on, the Smarty Pants doll near one of the pillows(Which she reminded herself to mention to Twilight later), and the little filly who had just brought in an apple fritter and a cup of coffee.
The little filly looked up at the rather tall ruler of Equestria,”Princess, I was wondering: How come you ain’t queen?”
“Now, that question deserves a long hefty answer, give me a minute,” Celestia smiled as she took a sip of the coffee. Her head suddenly went side to side and then she started making odd noises that sounded like a combination of a train and a gorilla, then finally she fell face first into the bed.
Apple Bloom screamed and ran out of the room,”Celestia’s dead!”
Twilight, who had just eaten her fritter, stared at the filly who came down the stairs and was waving her hooves wildly,”... what?”
“I was just asking her a question, and then she took a sip of coffee and she fell down and I don’t want to be executed!” She was crying into Applejack’s body.
“It’s okay, I won’t let anyone execute us.” AJ rubbed her baby sister’s back.
“I’ll go check on her!” Twilight immediately ran up the stairs and into Big Mac’s room to find... Celestia, alive and looking around in a confused manner.
The solar princess looked at her faithful student,”Twilight, what am I doing here?”
“... What do you mean?” Twilight cocked her head.
“The last thing I remember was smelling zombie pony sweat on the way to the dining hall and then waking up here.” She frowned.,”Do you know what happened? Unless... There is a surprise party here!” Celestia smiled,” Twilight, my birthday isn’t until two months from now, you know that!”
“Um, you don’t remember anything about wanting to banish Luna again?” Twilight asked,”Also, zombie pony sweat?”
“Have you ever smelled it? It’s disgusting! Anyway, why would I want to banish her again? Unless... Twilight, tell me everything that happened.”
“Okay,” Twilight began to explain the events that occurred with her and Celestia.
Celestia frowned at this,”Hate Incense, scourge of ponies everywhere.” She said, finally.
“Hate Incense, the kind that, after being inhaled will cause them to outright despise the next pony they see!?” Twilight exclaimed.
“Congratulations, my faithful student, you gain an A for memorising that.”
“Yay!” the unicorn clapped her hooves together.
“It’s a good thing I drank this coffee, or I would’ve really killed her!” Celestia sighed in relief.
“... wait, the cure is coffee?” the purple unicorn raised an eyebrow.
“It was rare at the time Hate Incense was invented! Anyway, where’s my sister?”
“In Applejack’s room I think!”
“Good,” Celestia ran out to look in AJ’s room and said,”Well, I have some bad news, and some worse news.” She frowned as she turned to Twilight, who followed her,”The bad news is that Luna hates coffee, and the worse news is that she’s gone.”
“Oh, no, what’ll we do!?” Twilight screamed.
“Simple, I’ve got a plan.” Celestia smiled.