"So is darkness evil?"
"Huh?" Nopony roused from his nap.
"So Princess Luna is the goddess of the night, right?" Scootaloo continued.
"More like god-dense, am I right?"
"..."
"Sorry, go on."
"So she's a nocturnal alicorn." Scootaloo huffed.
"Yes, she is indeed a night owl, or so they say."
"Does that make her the evil alicorn?"
"Of course not, what makes you say that?"
"Well, she did try to bring about eternal night, which would cause everything to freeze over and kill everypony." Scootaloo said with a casual roll of her eyes.
"That is a dark and morbid insight for a young teenage filly to casually state." Nopony responded.
"I made a plan to kill Princess Celestia in a way that would bring Luna to suicidal depression, which involved brutally murdering my best friends."
"Fair enough," Nopony chuckled, "I'm still proud of you for that, in a slightly concerned sort of way."
Scootaloo smiled from the praise.
Nopony cleared his throat, "anyway, no, Luna has dun goofed and almost committed genocide, but she's not evil."
"What the heck is your definition of evil then?"
"Discord used to be very evil, for starters." Nopony said, sounding surprisingly serious for once.
"Did he ever kill anypony?"
"Well, no, but he did cause a lot of mayhem."
"Who else?"
"Tirek, Chrysalis, The Sirens, take your pick."
"Did they ever kill anypony?"
"Of course..." Nopony trailed off, "Huh, actually, I don't think they did. Tirek stole magic, Chrysalis hypnotized ponies, and the Sirens caused internal strife, but nopony was ever killed."
"So, in other words, anything that annoys you is evil."
"Scootaloo, please," Nopony scoffed.
"Well, what is your definition of evil?"
"Those who spread chaos."
"So those who annoy you."
Nopony and Scootaloo stared at each other for a second.
"What was your original point again?" Nopony asked.
"Oh yeah! Is darkness evil? And because darkness is evil, is Luna evil?"
"Well, the idea that darkness is evil is flat out silly Scootaloo."
"We have a forbidden evil magic called Dark Magic."
"That... is a good point, but that doesn't mean-"
"We celebrate a holiday about a spirit coming from the night to gobble us up unless we give it candy."
"Look, I w- Celestia was feeling really bitter over her spat with Luna, and-"
"Celestia, Twilight, and Cadence are the princesses of the Sun, Friendship, and Love. We have three holidays, Summer Sun Celebration, Hearth's Warming Eve, and Hearts and Hooves day, which are all holidays where we spend time loving and appreciating good things in our lives. Luna's is the only one where ponies fear her."
"Are you done yet?"
"Is Twilight Santa Claws?"
"What?"
"Well Twilight is the Princess of Friendship, and Hearth's Warming Eve is a holiday where we remember the importance of friendship. So since that's technically her holiday, would that make her Santa Claws?"
Nopony stopped to think about that.
"Should we tell her that?" Scootaloo asked.
"And have her break into everypony's homes to force educational lectures onto little colts and fillies?" Nopony shot back.
Scootaloo shuddered.
"Anyway, getting back to the point, again, Luna is not evil." Nopony insisted.
"Are you sure?"
"Look, the spirit of harmony provides the lyrics we sing whenever everypony goes crazy and feels the need to do a musical. Can you think of a moment where somepony has sung about darkness being evil?"
Scootaloo stopped to think about that.
"No, not really."
"Well, there ya go." Nopony laid back down to sleep.
Scootaloo shrugged and buried herself under his wing. After getting comfortable, she started drawing on a coloring book she found in the trash.
We're here to let you know~
That we won't let it go~
Our music is a bomb and it's about to blow~!
And you can try to fight~
Be we have got the light of friendship on our side~!
Got the music in our hearts~
We're here to blow this thing apart~
And together~
We will never~
Be afraid of the dark~!
"Geez Sunset, could you think of a different tune?" Rainbow rolled her eyes. "You've been singing that song for the past two days now."
"Sorry Rainbow, it's just that something about that song really bugs me."
Applejack reached over their cafeteria table to put a comforting hand on Sunset's shoulder.
"What's been leaving your behind so sore sugarcube?"
"Well, the spi-"
Sunset stopped to think about what Applejack just said to her, then shook her head.
"Well, the spirit of harmony usually comes and provides lyrics for us when we sing, right?" Sunset asked.
The other six stared at her.
"Right, forgot you girls don't know about that. Well, usually the spirit of harmony provides lyrics if we have none. Fluttershy, was anything I sung with you girls part of your song?"
"No, I just thought we did a really good job ad-libbing. Well, I thought it was good..." Fluttershy trailed off.
"We could have I guess, but it probably was the spirit of harmony. Which kinda concerns me."
"What was wrong with the song? I thought it was super duper awesome!" Pinkie cheered.
"It was awesome, it's just that the song was made from what makes us, well, us."
"So?" Rainbow raised an eyebrow.
"Did any of you girls noticed how often we mentioned blowing stuff up in that song?"
Rarity broke out into a nervous sweat.
RARITY CONFIRMED FOR EXPLOSIVES ENTHUSIAST ON SUCH A LEVEL THAT SHE INFLUENCES THE SPIRIT OF HARMONY.
7234040 SOMETHING SOMETHING CONFIRMED CANON.
Once more good sir this was amazing and brought a smile to my face.
Don't you mean Santa Hooves?
I'll show myself out.
7234065 Nah, it was originally a Griffon holiday. Can't ponify EVERYTHING in the world.
"And it could easily fail laughably easy at every single teeny tiny step in the process, I'm an evil genius!"
"I made a plan to kill Princess Celestia in a way that would bring Luna to suicidal depression, which involved brutally murdering my best friends."
Yup, still remeber that one.
Nice chapter.
This happend before Nopony's / Celestias revelation, did it?
7234125 Yes. The chapters Post Hen House (Scootaloo-chicken joke forever!) takes place at a random point in the year Celestia was with Scootaloo. The story may be done, but the craziness continues.
...wait, so does that mean light is evil? Like the Humane 7 (or 6. Why Humane? Kinda dumb tbh.) are involved in arsons or something?
Poor Luna, maybe it could be good if Nopony invite his cousin MaybePony or her niece QuasyPony or maybe the student Couldbepony
First off, Rainbow was the lead guitarist and lead singer for a bit. Blowing stuff up is awesome. Do the math.
Haha!!
As a point of interest, my headcanon is that dark magic means volatile magic and isn't evil, it's just so difficult the control that it easily corrupts users and turns them evil.
Also, if you keep adding new chapters, shouldn't you set the story to incomplete?
Not only that, but Celestia never did find out how Scootaloo knew what beef jerky tasted like.
Also did Luna never go looking for Celestia?
This story is hilarious - and this chapter just took it to a whole new level.
The closest Nopony's ever come to blowing character. Even tho (by now) we know the truth, it's still making me laugh my ass off.
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So wait could this mean that harmony is evil?! Think about it if you are not with it you are then seen as against it.
I reeaaaallly want an epilogue where Twilight finds out what was going on during the entirety of the story.
How do you come up with these ideas? I mean only a genius would think of something so brilliantly.
Sunset Shimmer has entered play.
7234320 I would suggest Every-, Some- and Anypony
Yes! YES! Thank you thank you thank you!
I have been trying to convince people for years that dark is not evil! Heck, I even wrote a paper on it, but nobody seems to listen to me!
7234529 I think Luna has learned to let Celestia have her vacation time and knows she'll come back when she needs to. This isn't the first time she's done this after all.
7235483 True, but according to the first chapter she always goes full Hobo. And Luna wanted her to mix things up. She even said she was gonna check empty boxes in Canterlot.
So of course Celestia goes to Ponyville instead.
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And I decided that I was tired of lich always portrayed as evil and going out of their way to make everyone want to kill them when the entire point of being a lich was to not die, but what do i know?
Best ending!
7235536 and now that Celestia has proven herself capable of being a hobo in any populated area, Luna may just have to give up ever trying to stop her sister lest she be forced to scour all of Equestria looking for her.
And then when Luna does eventually find her, Celestia shall simply relocate to a place OUTSIDE Equestria on her next vacation
7236705 Maybe Griffonstone?
/╲/( ͡° ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ͡°)/\╱\
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Huh, usually I'm good with those.
Well....shit.
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I call bullshit, 'performed' is the past tense of 'perform'. Source?
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"Okay, let's google this just to make sure I'm not being an idiot here."
"Alright."
*Posts*
*Get response*
"That's fine, I'll just google it agai..."
"..."
"Google."
"Google why."
Anyway, yeah, you're right, sorry 'bout that.
Why did Rarity in particular break out into a nervous sweat? I feel like I'm missing something here.
7239402 because apparently she loves to blow stuff up.
7235365 Dark is not evil. But things that do their deeds in the dark often are. They are also cowards for they wish to hide their actions from public view.
However, the MOST evil creatures are those that perform their acts of cruelty in broad daylight and don't care who sees.
Michael Bay would be proud
7245973 let's see where to begin; Raven from Teen Titans, most of the non-hostile inhabitants of the shadow realm and twilight realm in Legend of Zelda, Cloak of Cloak and Dagger from Spiderman, jak from Jak and Daxter, Cynder from Dawn of the dragons, all dark elements from skylanders, Ghost Rider, and more that i can't think of right now.
I'm calling this now. Rarity used to be a part of a secret government agency that used kids to fight wars. Why kids? Because no one ever suspects that they might be more than meets the eye.
7325376 Look up N.E.R.D.S by Michael Buckley.
7235365 could you send me a link to your paper please? (am always interested in some one who is able to make the distinction.)
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But...I don't wanna! I'm having too much fun reading Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction!
Rarity is a closet explosives expert, calling it now.
Hahaha
Well I mean, if any of the villians were to continue they would cause massive amount of deaths
So wait I'm confused. I remember earlier they got a house together...but now they're Hobos again?? WHAT GIVES????
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ALL CHAPTERS STATE- oh wait it doesn't here.
...
Whoopsie~
Edit: No wait this is right.
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tax evasion.
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Most certainly.
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What if instead of explosions it's about blowing... Bow chika bow wow!
Friendship is highly explosive. Do not shake or agitate friendship. Store friendship in a cool, dry environment away from any sources of flame. Do not trip and drop friendship. Friendship is a serious responsibility and may increase your insurance rates.
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If friendship doesn't increase your insurance rates, is it even really friendship?
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TUCKER!