Stop Patronizing the Sun!

by Foal Star

Chapter seven: Upside-down...Cake

Celestia was slowly getting ready for bed as Twilight had her teeth brushed, she had a bath, and as the filly sat at the foot of her bed and held the potion in her forehooves, debating in her mind if she should drink it. When she had gotten back from Zecora's hut, the zebra told her to keep the potion a secret. She must've gotten the hint that Twilight and Rarity would try stopping her. But this still didn't make her feel worried about what this potion will do to her after she drinks it. The filly uncorked the vial and slowly held it to her lips as she gulped it down. The concoction tasted rather soothing, and it made her feel at ease. She started to relax and felt her eyelids growing heavy. She slowly snuggled under the blankets hoping that whatever this potion did would help her at least find her cutie mark.

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The princess of the sun slowly woke up, but everything seemed to be in a haze. The alicorn slowly looked around and realized that she was in her room. She got up and flew to a mirror to get a look at herself. The princess saw her long body, her long white feathery wings, and her plump thick rump. She was an adult again! Except she looked back at her backside and saw that her cutie mark was still missing, making her give a disappointed sigh.

"Seems even in the dream realm, my cutie mark is gone."

"Oh, that's all Zecora can do, please!? You should go back to that hut and demand she makes you an actual cure!"

Celestia was stunned at the shouting, wondering who said that, and slowly turned her head to see another version of herself. Still, her mane and tail were blazing flames with this deadly stare, her irises a glowing orange. This evil version of herself was chained to the floor, kicking and snarling like a beast. The true princess of the sun gulped as she stammered. "Who are you!?"

"I'm Dawnbreaker!" the fiery raging alicorn roared out loud.

Celestia stood there shaking like a leaf when she heard another pony reply, "Oh, please calm down, you're going to scare her." She then turned to see herself, but this version of her was wearing armor similar to Dawnbreaker, but her mane was cut short in a military-style, and her tail was braided. She had a long spear and a broad sword at her side and was looking rather smug.

"Who are you?" The scared princess asked.

"haha! I'm Dawnbringer! You don't really listen to me anymore! It's been way too long since we've been on an adventure!" The armored alicorn proclaimed proudly.

Celestia's cheeks flushed pink as she replied, "sorry, after I lost the ability to use the elements of harmony, I kind of hadn't the need of going on one."

"Oh, shut up about your adventures! At least she talks to you in her daydreams! she never listens to me!" Dawnbreaker snarled.

Dawnbringer rolled her eyes. "Oh please, Dawnbreaker, she listens to you all the time, especially in the morning before she has her cup of joe."

"Come on! making her a bit cranky is nothing; I want to rule and destroy all in my path!" Dawnbreaker roared once more, shooting flames from her mouth and mane.

"Oh deary, all you need is some cake." A rather plump version of herself waddled over. This alicorn had her same mane, coat, and eye color, but she sported a hefty pink apron around her waist. She went straight to Dawnbreaker and shoved a cake into the angry princess's mouth, making her cheeks bulge out all the while the true Celesta. "You stop being an angry sun butt and eat your cake like a good filly.

The alicorn spat the cake from her mouth and snapped, "I swear! If I get out, you'll be the first I'll burn!"

She then pinched on Dawnbreaker's cheek and cooed, "Oh, you look so cute when you get cranky."

"Stop that! Please! Dawnbringer, help!" The angry Celestia pleaded, looking rather pitiful.

Dawnbringer couldn't help but snicker behind a hoof. "Oh, how could I spoil Cake Butt's fun?"

"Come on! Just make her st-mmmph!" Dawnbreaker's cries for help were muffled as another piece of frosted vanilla cake was shoved in her mouth.

The princess of the sun couldn't help but snicker behind a hoof and asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm Cake Butt at your service! I'm your maternal instincts, mixed with your obsession with cake." the chubby alicorn chirped out loud as she took the princess's hoof and shook it. At the same time, Celestia rolled her eyes at the name.

"Ha, maybe that should be your name too!" Celestia looked around and gasped as she saw a version of herself in a motley pink jester outfit with a cap full of jingling bells and her mane done up in a clown's afro prancing around. "It's about time you visited us! Is Royal Cake Butt too regal for us!?"

"What no!? I don't even know who you all are!?" the princess of the sun exclaimed.

Cake Butt snickered as she came forward and gave the jester Celestia pat on the back. "This prankster is Morning Bells. She gives you all those crazy ideas to prank Luna and your staff."

"Hey, don't steal my thunder!" Morning Bells shouted, shooting confetti at the plump Celestia.

"Sorry, deary." Cake Butt cooed as she continued to shove more cake into Dawnbreaker's mouth.

Dawnbreaker cried out as she slammed her hooves over her face. "Just kill me! Please!"

"Hey! No whining! You're making us look silly in front of our leader!" Morning Bells shouted and then bounced over to Celestia and popped a big red rubber nose on her muzzle and asked. "So? I had this awesome prank idea where you dress up like Rarity and trick Spikey into kissing you!?"

Celestia blinked as she had this idea come to her mind before but shook her head. "No, that's way to mean...maybe instead we can dye some of my mane purple then leave strands of it about and pretend she's at the library?"

Morning Bells clapped her hooves together and then got in close. Celestia just starred right into her personality's eyes and could see the insanity in them as she continued to ramble on. "Oh, that sounds like a great idea! I also have a few prank ideas like putting slime in Twilight's books, getting your class to ditch school and lie to Cheerilee that you're all sick, or even maybe putting rainbow dye in Rarity's shampoo!"

Celestia was somewhat surprised at the ideas Morning Bells threw out. Most would be a step too far and could even be considered exceptionally cruel. It seems like Discord might've rubbed some of himself on her.

"You call those pranks! You should burn Twilight's books, destroy Cheerilee's school! And burn Rarity's mane to ash! Those would be better pranks!" Dawnbreaker exclaimed, then she began laughing maniacally.

"Those aren't pranks! Ugh, you're always so edgy!" Morning Bells snapped back soon the two were in a heated argument over what a prank is while Cake Butt kept shoving cake into their mouths. Celestia was getting somewhat agitated, slamming a hoof down and shouting . "hey can everypony calm down! I came here because something is messing with my subconscious, and I need to fix it!"

Everypony was somewhat confused by what she was saying until Dawnbringer ran over and shouted, "Hold up! I believe she's here because the little filly of the sun has taken over and is here to defeat her!"

Dawnbreaker roared out loud, flapping her wings and shouting, "I would take her down if you hadn't chained me up! Release me, and I can defeat her!"

"More like you'll take over her body and make her go psycho." Dawnbringer scoffed out loud.

"Would not!" her counterpart cried out.

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Soon the two started bickering while Morning Bells was still ranting about how Dawnbreaker doesn't know what a prank is. Celestia was wondering what was going on, but now she's starting to realize what was happening. She was deep in her subconscious, and these other versions of herself were what made up her personality. The princess's cheeks flushed pink, realizing how flawed she was, and of all of them, Dawnbreaker was the most worrying; she only imagined what havoc she would wreak if she let her lose. But she didn't have time to reflect on this. She turned her head and looked out the window and saw across a sunlit valley on top of a mountain was a white marble throne. On top of that throne, she saw a small filly version of herself sitting on top. Celestia gulped as she asked a rather obvious question. "Ok...so is that mountain what makes other ponies perceive who I am?"

The others nodded as Dawnbringer came forth as she explained. "Yes, that mountain is what we call the center of this land and controls the subconscious. The one who normally sits on the throne is the goddess of the sun herself. But one day, that filly took over and had been ruling over ever since. I would've stopped her myself, but we cannot leave this tower. It's not permitted."

Celestia turned her attention across the field and saw that this filly on top of the throne was not only, but an army of plush bunnies and teddy bears also guarded the throne. There were mountains of cake standing on top of the throne itself. She couldn't help but snicker, seeing that it was just a little filly standing in her way of getting back control, and replied, "that's it just a little filly? Stand back. I got this!"

The princess of the sun unfurled her wings and flew out the window towards the throne. Celestia flew across the valley, not really paying attention to anything around her except her target. It wasn't long until a storm came forth and cakes started raining down from the sky. The princess roared, and she charged up the mountain regardless of the cakes smashing into her, covering her in cake frosting.

"Ugh, after this, I never want to see a cake again!" She cried out while wiping frosting from her eyes.

She then saw that she was flying next to the giant plushies, who then tried to bat at her with their stubby paws, but she skillfully maneuvered around them and got face to face with the little filly. She looked like a stereotypical spoiled brat version of her filly self, wearing a frilly pink dress, pink bubblegum mane done up in curls, with this pouty look on her face.

However, she was somewhat disturbed seeing the filly kicking about laughing. "You actually did it!? You came here on your own!"

"What do you me-" before the princess could finish, she found her hooves stuck in what had to be cake frosting as it engulfed her entire body. The princess cried out in horror as the gloopy white strands of frosting engulfed her whole body and hardened itself.

"Hey, what is this!" She tried to light her horn and blast her way out, but it just shot out tiny sparks making the filly laugh. She then skipped over and got into her face as she explained, "Discord said you would probably come here to stop me from making other ponies, baby you. So we set up a little trap! Now you'll sit on this throne trapped and unable to do anything while I control your body!"

"No, stop! Don't you dare!" Celestia cried out, but the evil little filly just burst into laughter.

"Oh, it's too late! Discord was right; your way too predictable!" She laughed out loud and then spread her wings. "Now you sit on your golden throne while I will be a cute filly for real!" she flew off, leaving Celestia to kicking and squirming in her prison of frosting. "Ugh, it's like one step forward and two steps back!"'

"Need help?"

Celestia gasped upon hearing her sister and looked over to see princess Luna flying down. She lit her horn and helped her out of the mountain of cake frosting.

Celestia shook her body and got the excess frosting on her body, and replied. "we need to stop that filly; she's going to take over my body!"

"I know…" the princess of the night whispered. "Zecora told me you used the potion. I didn't think the filly version of you would have so much power."

Celestia squirmed and shouted, "if you knew about this, why didn't you stop her!"

Luna shook her head. "I couldn't; you had to do it on your own. The potion Zecora crafted would let your main personality enter the realm of your subconscious when you went to sleep. It was something she never brewed before, and we both were unsure if this would work. I was hoping to tell you of our plans before hoof, but I guess your chance meeting with Zecora spurred her to move forward with the plan."

The princess of the sun paused, seeing her assumptions were right as she continued. "So what you're saying is that this is my subconscious… I kind of figured that out...what about those other versions of me? Who are they?"

Luna snickered, "they're your personality types...not so flattering, huh? Most ponies don't realize that our personalities aren't always what you would imagine. That's why you're in charge of keeping them in line."

"Right if I let any of those Celestias take control of my body." She just shivered at the thought of Dawnbreaker taking over as Luna helped her sister back on her hooves and whispered, "that's why you have self-control."

The princess of the night lit her horn to break through the prison of cake, and Celestia got up and sighed, "so...this filly version of myself it's not one of my personalities?"

Luna shook her head and continued to explain. "No, she was created by Discord when he regressed you as part of the curse. There is, however, a missing personality; it's your second in command only to yourself."

"You mean,...my cutie mark has a personality?" Celestia asked, being quite surprised she even said that.

"Yes, but yours have been taken and buried; however, she's not in a state that is reflective of your full potential. Like all foals, this personality is sort of in its dormant phase."

"Right...so even if we find her and she helps me take back my body, I won't have my cutie mark…" Celestia bowed her head; feeling disappointed, she figured that would be the case.

Luna took her by the hoof, and they flew off through the air across a grassy valley, looking how Equestria was before the ponies settled it. The sun was bright, and there was a field of sunflowers dotting the landscape. It was rather beautiful, but then they came to a desert. Its landscape was a sea of sand dunes stretching out for miles. It was all quite breathtaking to take in all at once as they reached the border between the valley and the desert; she peered across the dunes and whispered, "My cutie mark is buried here? It'll take forever to find!"

The princess of the night bowed her head and continued, "yes, and sadly my time here is coming to a close you need to find your cutie mark before that rouge personality takes over completely. Without somepony sitting on that throne, that filly version of you will have full control of your body."

"Don't worry, sister; I'll do it!! Just keep an eye on me in the real world," the princess of the sun shouted as she reared up and flew through the desert, hoping to find this missing personality of hers.

Comments

[badninja]

Interesting.