Trolluna's Epic Prank

Trolluna's Epic Prank
A MLP FiM Fanfic by brokenhero0409
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Equestria's Moon Princess, Luna of the Moon, the Stars, and the Night Sky, was deeply discontented with how her life post-banishment was turning out. Her sister, the shining monarch of the sun, had pronounced Luna fit to retake sole control of the night soon after her return. No, Luna's discontent wasn't stemming from her Night's Work. Not this time.

In the thousand years that had passed while she was trapped as the Mare in the Moon, ponies all over Equestria began to appreciate the nighttime hours.  The night had become a haven for the young ponies; the rebels and lawbreakers, artistic loners and young lovers burning the midnight oil, budding philosophers and academics gathering in all night coffee shops discussing all manner of topics (some even going so far as to plot revolution against the monarchy), and the musicians – techno ravers like that famous Ponyville DJ and traditional blues- and jazz-stallions collecting tips in smoky bars. Luna loved it.

Celestia could keep the daytime, Luna sneered. The Moon Princess was reclining on a tower balcony, waiting for Celestia to set the sun. Sunlit hours were for hyperactive foals, for the staid and boring adults, living their banal lives. Contemptible, Luna thought grumpily.

Deciding to add a little spice to the otherwise pretty-but-standard sunset, Luna flared her horn. It pulsed with the cosmic Alicorn magic that allowed Luna and her sister to shift the heavenly bodies. Moving a few clouds in front of the setting sun was child's play, and it created a lovely purple and red effect in the sky.

Soon enough, it was Luna's turn. She drew upon the ambient magic of the universe and raised the moon and set it on its ordained course for the night. This act was as fulfilling as it always was, but Luna still felt antsy. Unfulfilled.  The problem lay with her sister of course. Not that it was really her fault, Luna knew. It was just part of the passage of time.

Equestria had simply gotten used to functioning with just the one ruler. There was no longer a space for Princess Luna within the bureaucracy of running the country. After she became Nightmare Moon and got herself banished and imprisoned on the moon, her role had been filled by politicians, who swarmed over her place in the government like scar tissue over a wound. There was no way to plug herself back into the system without completely upsetting it.

Luna filled in for Celestia once in a while on the occasions her sister was needed elsewhere in the kingdom and the two sisters often held court together. But many ponies, upon learning that their cases would be heard by the younger Princess, opted to defer their appointment. Celestia even told her she hoped Luna would find a new place but advised her sister to be patient. The reintegration could take as long as several hundred years

Luna had her own diversions to keep herself busy until then. She'd spent a great deal of time studying all the changes in Equestria since she …left. Ponies always complimented her on how quickly she got caught up, but really, the only things that had changed were the exact workings of the government (which were just her old jobs being done by dozens more ponies), general history and a few new technological improvements that she was able to master in ten seconds flat.

She had a core group of servants and confidants that traveled with her to the seedier dives to hear the hottest, freshest music. Luna had even discovered the simple joy of shopping malls, and she had hundreds of quads of socks to prove it.

But lately her bacchanals and her socks had been less …diverting than usual. The Colt of the Perverse had crept back into the back of Luna's mind, and she had taken to pulling elaborate pranks on everpony around her. Some of her snarkier servants had started calling her Luna-Loki, after the Dragon God of Mischief.

And tonight, having set the crystalline spheres of night a'dancing, Luna decided to sit down and plan the greatest series of pranks Equestria had ever seen. On a whim, Luna decided her sister's pet village Ponyville would be the focus of her Epic Prank. And at the focal point, Celestia's prize student Twilight Sparkle. Luna grinned up at the night sky in delight as she used her magic to enter the dreams of some of Ponyville's most notable residents, gently tweaking things to suit her impish mood.

* * * Three Weeks Later * * *

Twilight Sparkle, still blinking the sleep from her eyes, gaped up at the Alicorn on her doorstep. "P-p-princess Luna… I, uh…" Twilight's mind flashed back to all the etiquette lessons she'd had growing up in Canterlot. The Unicorn dove to the floor in a deep bow, hiding her blush. "W-welcome Princess Luna, My home is yours for as long as you wish it."

Luna giggled, and Twilight blushed even redder. "To your hooves, Twilight Sparkle," the princess said. "You and your friends have seen me at my weakest, and rescued me from myself. You above all others have the right to informality."

Twilight slowly straightened up, smiling uncertainly. "You're sure, Your Majesty?"

"I am, Twilight. And please, call me Luna."

"Well then, Pr—I mean Luna, please come in. Would you care for some tea?"

"Ah, did you get it from your Zebra friend?"

"Zecora, yes."

"Zebras are fun," Luna said, sitting on one of the couches in Twilight's living space. "I remember one time; oh it must've been almost twelve hundred years ago. There was this Zebra stallion…" Luna launched into a story the young Unicorn was quite sure she didn't need to hear. "…and that's how the zebra kingdom was made," Luna finished. She looked over to Twilight expectantly. "Well? What did you think of my story?"

"It… it was… informative?" Twilight said. "I never would have guessed Zebras were that dexterous with their tongues." Mercifully, Twilight heard somepony hammering on the library's front door. "Excuse me princess…" The Unicorn was out of the room in a flash, leaving Luna shaking with repressed laughter. After composing herself, Luna went out to stand at the top of the stairs and watch her prank unfold.

* * *

Twilight had never been so happy to STOP spending time with a princess. Celestia was usually able to refrain from telling her such …lurid stories. Usually. 'I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at Zecora the same way…' Twilight thought, as she hurried down the stairs to the library's main floor. The hammering at the door increased. Finally, the hinges gave out and the door flew back into the library's atrium. The knocker charged in, looking frothy and frantic.

"Excuse me!" Twilight shouted, furiously. "As the sign next to the door you just kicked down said, the library doesn't open until 9 a.m. Which isn't for another…?" Twilight checked the clock. "…two minutes!" The intruder was a stallion with a light brown coat and spiky brown hair. His Cutie Mark was a golden hourglass. He stared at Twilight with a wild look in his eyes.

"Ah, Twilight Sparkle. There you are. I've been looking all over for you," he said. Twilight opened her mouth to respond, but the stallion's hoof shot into her mouth. "No time to talk now, Miss Sparkle. We've got trouble. This town is in serious danger!"

Twilight pried his hoof from her mouth with some difficulty. "What are you talking about? Who are you?"

"Don't be stupid, Twilight. We haven't the time for it," the colt said, harshly. "It's me, the Doctor! You know, the Time Lord-turned-pony? Time traveler? Snappy dresser, well, most of the time… Ringing any bells?"

"W-what? There's no such thing as time travel," Twilight said. She backed away nervously. Where was Spike and his dragonfire when she needed him?

'The Doctor' sighed. "Good. Great. Whatever psychic force that's attacking the town has affected you too…" He shook his head. "If you come to your senses any time soon, meet me out at the TARDIS." He shouted "Allons-y," a nonsense word if Twilight ever heard one, and sprinted out the door. Stunned, and frankly kind of scared, Twilight used her magic to prop the door back up on its shattered hinges. She turned and saw Luna hiding a smirk. Twilight blushed again.

"Sorry about that, Princess…"

"Quite alright, Twilight. Ooh…" Luna trailed off. Somepony else had begun tapping at the library's door. Twilight had to leap out of the way to avoid getting crushed by it as the taps knocked it off its hinges again. Luna's hold on her giggles slipped a bit and she let out an unladylike snort. Luckily, her outburst went unheard.

"Oh Twilight, it's positively horrid! My day is simply RUINED!" Rarity, Ponyville's premier fashion designer, with eyes on expanding to Canterlot, strutted into the library. "You're the only one who can help me!"

Shaking from her brush with death, Twilight managed to say, "H-h-hello R-rarity." She shook her head to clear out the cobwebs. "What's wrong?"

"Oh, it's those Cutie Mark Crusaders again! They were playing at becoming…" Rarity put on a convincing imitation of four screaming fillies. "…Cutie Mark Crusader Weathermares! YAY!" the designer snorted sarcastically. "How do those four expect to become weathermares; Scootaloo's the only Pegasus. Honestly, once they let little Dinky Doo join their little gang, their plans have gone from silly and dangerous to just plain ridiculous. I know it's important for a filly to find her special talent, but they've simply gone too far this time."

"I'll be glad to sit down with them," Twilight said. "But right now I've got Pri—"

"That's all well and good Twilight, but I've got a much more pressing problem!" Rarity interrupted. "Those fillies forgot to shut the window they were using. Sweetie Belle said they were trying to diagram the weather patterns or something. My entire collection of romance novels got wet from the rain that got in!"

"Oh no, that's terrible!" Twilight exclaimed. Just about everything she knew about romance came from those books.

"Isn't it just? What I'd like you to do, my dear, is teach me a spell to suck all the water out of them and fix the books good as new," Rarity explained. Twilight thought for a moment, then nodded. She led the white unicorn into the stacks, found the right book and they sat down to practice the spell. Soon Rarity could perform the spell well enough for the more learned mare to declare the spell officially learned.

"Ooh, you two were working on a spell? Sometimes I think about two mares doing a spell, and then I do a spell myself," a cheerful, bubbly voice said from over the two mares' shoulders. "Ooh, I know…" Pinkie Pie produced a kazoo and started tooting out a victory fanfare for Rarity's new spell. Neither Unicorn was particularly surprised by Pinkie Pie's abrupt entrance; once you spent enough time around Pinkie Pie, you stopped noticing the weirdness.

"You can't leave yet!" Pinkie Pie said. She restrained Rarity as she tried to escape. "I'm not finished with you yet!" The two mares glanced at each other.

"What can we do for you today, Pinkie?" Twilight asked. Pinkie Pie beamed.

"You can pick a raffle number!" the pink Earth Pony said. She pulled a roll of tickets out of nowhere. "Here, take one!"

"What's the raffle for, Pinkie Pie?" Rarity asked, tucking away the tiny red ticket stub.

"Oh, it's a super duper big secret!" she said, bouncing up and down excitedly. "But you'll know all about it if you win. You'll know all about it BIG TIME!"

"Uh…" "That's all right, darling…"

"Oh don't worry, it's not a raffle for anything bad," Pinkie Pie blew out a breath. "Sheesh. Anytime I try to do something nice for the town, everypony always assumes I'm going to chop somepony up into little little pieces." She looked into both Twilight's and Rarity's eyes. "I would NEVER do anything to hurt you guys!" she said, uncharacteristically serious.

"Oh, perish the thought!" Rarity said. "Now, if you ladies will excuse me, I've got first editions to save!"

"Ooh, do you think she has the new one Fluttershy claims not to have written?" Pinkie Pie asked after the fussy Unicorn left.

"What? Fluttershy doesn't…" Twilight trailed off. Somepony was calling her name from the library's atrium. Twilight ran out of the stacks with Pinkie Pie bouncing close behind.

Standing in the atrium, hoof tapping impatiently was Ponyville's only full-time medical pony, Nurse Redheart. Flanking the nurse were two stallions so big they could've been confused with Diamond Dogs. When the two ponies reached her, Redheart started yelling at the studious Unicorn.

"I don't understand how you could let that mad stallion get away from you?! Do you know how unpredictable he can be when he goes off his meds?!" the nurse shouted. Even Luna, still reclining on the landing above all the chaos, felt cowed.

"S-sorry, which mad stallion is this?" Twilight asked. Redheart sighed.

"You can't miss him, really. Brown coat, dark brown mane and tail, hourglass Cutie Mark, goes by the name—" Twilight interrupted her.

"The Doctor?"

"No!" The nurse shouted. "Well, that's what he likes to call himself. His real name's Timey Wimey. I'm sure you've seen him around. He works as a handyman, or he did until he went nuts."

Twilight cocked her head, quizzically. "He was in here an hour or so ago. He left when we couldn't figure out what he was talking about."

Redheart nodded sadly. "Yes, the poor dear suffers from paranoid delusions." She gestured back to her tag-along brutes. "These colts are going to take our little "Time Lord" to Canterlot for special care. I'm afraid Ponyville doesn't have the psychiatric staff to treat him properly. Did he say where he might have been headed?" Twilight said all he'd mentioned was something called 'the TARDIS.' Nurse Redheart started at this. "That can only mean one thing, boys. Let's go!" Rearing, the three ponies raced out the door.

Twilight tried once more to fit the badly battered door back in place, and when Rainbow Dash crashed through it seconds later, the poor door shattered into a thousand splintery pieces. All Twilight could do was facehoof.

"Oh, hey there Twilight. Hi Pinkie Pie. Sorry about the door," Dash said in a tone that suggested she felt otherwise. "Ooh, just gimme one sec, I saw Fluttershy creeping around out there." Dash zoomed out the door-hole and returned in a flash, towing their timid yellow and pink Pegasus friend. "OK, Fluttershy, you go first. It'll probably be quicker."

Fluttershy "eep'd," but then hesitated and tried to decide where to begin. Her bunny friend Angel had been acting strangely lately, and had started treating her …not very well. Should she tell Twilight the background first, detailing how demanding and almost cruel Angel had become? Or jump straight into asking for help and let Twilight ask for details. With her mind locked up, all she could do was utter a quiet and bashful squeak.

Rainbow Dash shook her head. "Never mind, we'll come back to her. Twilight, I need your help."

"Wow, that's what everypony keeps saying!" Pinkie Pie said, giggling.

"Apparently I'm very popular today," the grumpy Unicorn said sarcastically. Dash ignored her and pressed on with her problem.

"Ok, so, you know how I've been doing some unofficial training with some of the Wonderbolts?" Twilight nodded. "It's mostly been two of them – Soarin' and Spitfire. The ones I met at the Gala?" She nodded again. "So what usually happens is that one or the other will show up, train with me for a while, and then we go out for hay fries or drinks or something."

"I'm not seeing the problem here," Twilight said.

"I bet I know what it is," Pinkie said, grinning widely.

"You only know because I'm pretty sure I saw you following us one night," Dash said. Pinkie Pie blushed. "Anyway, Twilight, last night both of them came." Pinkie Pie snerked out laughter and Dash shot her a furious glare that would've wrapped up winter in seconds. "ANYWAY… they both came up and told me how much fun they'd been having with me, how good of friends we'd become."

"That sounds wonderful," Twilight said.

"Yeah it does, except now they want me to pick which one of them I want to be More-Than-Friends with…" Dash said. She moaned. "What do I do?"

"Wow," Pinkie said. "A colt and a mare fighting over who gets to taste the rainbow. How C'YOOT!" Dash's look reached some kind of dirty look singularity.

"Huh," Twilight said. "I'm not really sure how to help." Rainbow Dash gave her the puppy dog eyes. "It's really more up Rarity's alley…" Dash's lip quivered. "Ugh fine…" Twilight sighed. "Do you even LIKE mares? You know… THAT way?" she asked. Pinkie Pie coughed for some reason. The question was even enough to break Fluttershy's mental lock for the briefest of moments.

"It's never really mattered to me," the colorful Pegasus said. "I've never really had, y'know, a preference."

"Uh… ok then," Twilight tried to figure out a new way to approach things. "Which pony do you like more?"

"Oh man, I dunno," Dash said. "They're both really REALLY good in bed."

Twilight's jaw dropped and Pinkie Pie fell over laughing. Up on the landing, Luna smirked. Mares these days…

"I'm… I'm honestly not sure how to help you, Rainbow Dash…" Twilight said after rebooting her brain. "You could try asking Rarity, but she tends to be kind of uptight about these things." Dash shrugged.

"Maybe I'll just figure it out on my own…" she said. "Thanks anyway, Twilight. C'mon Fluttershy." She grabbed the timid mare's tail between her teeth and dragged her out of the library. Twilight didn't even get to start her apology to Princess Luna before Colgate poked her head in and asked for Twilight's help. Luna again had to stifle her laughter.

* * *

The day wore on. Morning slipped away into afternoon. Twilight later swore that she'd seen more than half the population of Ponyville, and all of them had problems "only Twilight could solve."

By the time Luna brought down the night, Twilight had been asked to solve problems for Colgate, Big Macintosh, Lyra & Bon-Bon, Mr. Breezy of all ponies, Carrot Top, Berry Punch, Lotus, and Diamond Tiara, the spoiled little filly who so loved tormenting Apple Bloom.

Close friends, acquaintances, and even ponies Twilight barely knew came to her, their requests getting more and more outlandish.  Twilight was a patient, giving pony, but after nine and a half hours of this nonsense, Twilight was starting to get fed up with it all. Pinkie Pie's constant commentary was getting on her nerves too. It was getting so bad that Twilight's latest supplicant, an Earth Pony named Daisy, left the library nearly in tears.

Twilight considered just using her magic to rip one of the massive bookshelves off the wall and blocking the door with it. Before she could attempt this, another pony soared in.

"Hiya Twilight!" It was Ponyville's beloved mailmare, Ditzy Doo. Or possibly Bright Eyes. Or Derpy Hooves. Honestly, Twilight wasn't sure what her name was. Spike usually handled all her mail. Speaking of Spike, Twilight wondered where he'd run off to. Probably Rarity's…

"Oh, Hello. What can I do for you Di—uh, my dear mailmare?" Twilight asked.

"Oh nothing much," Ditzy/Bright Eyes/Derpy said. "The Doctor sent me to get you. We could really use your help with—"

"Wait, you mean Timey Wimey? The crazy pony that's being chased by Nurse Redheart?"

"No, not him," the mailmare said. "At least, probably not. But I guess it's ok if you don't want to come. The Doctor said if you were still being cranky, that I should just go fetch Colgate, or whatever Romana's calling herself these days." The wall-eyed Pegasus flapped out the door, shouting her farewells. Twilight spluttered in confusion.

"Hi Twilight…" Twilight was able to refrain from leaping into the air and bursting into flames, but only because Apple Bloom and Applejack looked like they actually NEEDED her help. Apple Bloom was pale and sweaty, while her older sister had that spacey, starey expression everypony in town associated with food poisoning.

"My goodness, you two look terrible! What's wrong?" Twilight guided the two farmers to seats around Twilight's kitchen table. Pinkie Pie joined them and even Princess Luna gave up her perch to come down and help comfort the two ponies.

"Hah they're Twahlaht. We cud plum use yer heylp," Applejack said mushily. She swallowed the mouthful of food she'd been eating. "Whoo, those caramel apples sure are sticky."

"Oh man, you are so right!" Pinkie Pie said.

"Twilight, we need a spell t' stop Apple Bloom here from dreamin' about, what was it y' said?"

Apple Bloom's voice was soft and weak, like she wasn't breathing properly. "Ah've been dreamin' of this… thing. It's always right behind me, in town, on the farm, in the forest…" she looked at the older ponies around her, and they could tell how rattled she was. This, from the filly who befriended the supposed Evil Enchantress Zecora. "It's not just me. Scootaloo and Sweetie Bell have had them dreams too."

"What's following you?" Twilight asked.

"It looks like a pony in a suit, but he doesn't have a face," The little yellow filly started crying. "Oh Twilight, what does he want?!"

Pinkie Pie shifted, trying to hide her fear. "The Slendermane? You're seeing THAT in your dreams?" Apple Bloom quaked.

"You know its name?" the filly asked.

"I've heard about it…" Pinkie Pie admitted. "But don't you worry your little hair bow off about it. The dreams are probably all a part of some big prank," she said, her voice artificially perky. She turned to look at Luna, who couldn't meet her eye.

"What in tarnation are you talkin' about, Pinkie Pie?" Applejack demanded.

"It's just part of your prank, right Princess?"

"What? Prank? What prank?" Twilight leapt to her hooves. "Not to be disrespectful, Princess Luna, but what. Prank."

Luna sighed. It'd sure been fun while it lasted. "I'm sorry, Twilight. This whole day has been kind of a big prank." She looked at Apple Bloom, who sat at the table, looking sad, scared and confused – a lost puppy caught in the rain. "But please believe me: I would never joke about the Slendermane. And I tried to keep out of the children's dreams. Applejack, if your sister and her friends are truly seeing that creature in their dreams, you need to take them to my sister as fast as you can."

Confused, but determined to help Apple Bloom out, Applejack left to collect the other Cutie Mark Crusaders. Once Twilight saw them out, she turned to glare at Luna.

"So you're telling me that all of this… this CHAOS today was part of a prank?" she said, angrily.

Luna ducked her head. "Yes, Twilight Sparkle."

"What'd you do, go into everypony's dreams and tell them Twilight could solve all their problems?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"Um, basically…"

"Ha-ha, that's one of my favorites!" Pinkie Pie laughed.

"Why did you do it, Princess?" Twilight asked earnestly. Luna sighed. Part of it had been out of sheer boredom and the Colt of the Perverse playing around, but….

"I wanted to see how you acted under this sort of pressure. This would've been a slow day at court…" Luna said.

"Court at Canterlot? Royal court?" Twilight smiled. "Why would I ever need to know what that's like? Besides, I've watched Princess Celestia hold court several times." Luna gave her a sad, slight smile.

"Twilight Sparkle, you say that like you'll be the Ponyville Librarian forever…" the Moon Princess said. Pinkie Pie regarded Twilight closely.

"Y'know, she WOULD look good with wings," she said. Before Twilight could parse THAT absurd statement, there came a great ruckus from outside the library.

"TWILIGHT SPARKLE, ELEMENTS OF HARMONY! Come, face us in honorable combat!" somepony shouted. Twilight, Pinkie Pie and Luna rushed outside. Luna grinned sheepishly when she saw who it was.

"Oh dear, I forgot about them…" she said. Twilight was transfixed by the group in front of the library.

"Face me, Twilight Sparkle! Face The Great and Powerful TRIXIE! And the Elements of Discord!" The showmare/sorceress reared up, her cape swirling in the wind. She magically created flashes of light and noise. "I, Trixie, hold the Element of Power!" Trixie brandished what looked like a sequin-encrusted cardboard cutout in the shape of her Cutie Mark.

"And allow me to reintroduce my team! Gilda, holder of the element of Fingers-Having!" The gryphon swooped down with a foam cheering finger in her beak. "Pinkamena, holder of the Element of Craziness!" Pinkie Pie gasped as her dark self spat a rubber chicken onto the ground. "Hoity Toity, holder of lots of money!" The fashion critic sneered at the crowd that'd formed up to watch the spectacle. "And finally, Photo Finish, holder of Fluttershy's modeling contract!"

"You vill rue ze day you valked out on Photo Finish!" the insane photographer proclaimed. "Vere are you, Flootershy? You owe me!"

By now, Twilight and Pinkie had been joined by Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Applejack (with the Cutie Mark Crusaders in tow). Rainbow Dash stepped forward, cockily.

"Nice new friends, Gilda. Very not-lame…" Spectators giggled and Dash drank it all in. She recoiled when Pinkamena drew her hoof across her own throat and pointed at Rainbow Dash. "Wait, Pinkamena?" Dash looked back and forth between happy and bouncing Pinkie and grim and surly Pinkamena. "I am SO confused right now."

Luna stepped forward. "O Great and Powerful Trixie, allow me to apologize. This has all been part of a prank, and I'm sorry for stirring you up like this. There's no need for you to attack the Elements of Harmony."

The silver-maned Unicorn cut the light show. The spectators grumbled. "Really?" Trixie asked skeptically. Luna nodded solemnly. "Oh. That's convenient then."

"What." Twilight asked.

"Trixie was going to use this foalish mission as an excuse to come back to this …charming… little town and pledge her undying love for Twilight Sparkle!"

"What?"

Gilda stepped forward. "Y'know what? Even though she's a dweeb, and even though she's got really lame friends, I just wanna say: I love Rainbow Dash!"

"Augh! Me too!" simultaneously cried Pinkie and Pinkamena Pie, Fluttershy and the squadron of Wonderbolts flying past.

"Wow, I gotta lot of deciding to do," Rainbow Dash said.

Pinkie Pie shook her head clear of thoughts of her and her Dashie snuggling. She jumped on a conveniently placed crate next to the soap kiosk. "Hey everypony!" she yelled, getting everypony's attention. "Wow. Hi there! I just wanted to say that none of this actually matters, y'know? All this chaos? Luna's little prankey-wankey? None of it. Everypony knows that the only ponies that matter are the six Elements of Harmony! We're the only ones, besides maybe Celestia, with real characterization and stuff. Everything else just comes from figments of the Great Watchers' imaginations. So let's stop all this fighting and get PARTYING!"

Everypony stared at her, dumbfounded. Some ponies looked angry, some just looked confused. The Mayor pushed her way out of the crowd and knocked Pinkie Pie from her soapbox. "Everypony in favor of ignoring everything Pinkie Pie just said, say 'aye,'" she proposed. Everypony said 'aye.'

"Good, now everypony go home," Twilight said. "It's been a really long day and I've got a massive headache. Whenever Spike shows up, tell him to come find me. I need to write a letter to Princess Celestia about giving her sister something to do with her free time."

Luna's eyes began to water. "I'm sorry, Twilight. Really! I—"Luna's eyes widened. The lavender Unicorn's horn was glowing. Before anypony could say anything, Luna vanished with a pop and a sparkle.

"Whoa, what'd you do, Twilight?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"Just a 'Teleport Other' spell I've been working on. She should wake up in Canterlot," Twilight explained.

"Should?"

"Well, I've never tested it before…."

* * * The Next Morning * * *

Princess Luna sat up, looking around frantically. She was in her private bedchambers in the castle at Canterlot. The window let in the sunrise's bright rays. The light made Luna's head hurt. Tia must've taken over for me, Luna thought. She heard the pitty-pat of hooves clopping towards her door. Yawning, she swung her legs over the edge of the bed and ran her fingers through her hair.

Wait, fingers? Luna looked down. Instead of her normal blue-coated Alicorn form, she was now a tall pink …thing with a pair of bumps on her chest and a crevice between her legs. Something was clearly wrong. She reached for her forehead and back simultaneously, her new forelegs allowing this contrary motion. Good, at least her horn and her wings were still there.

Luna froze briefly as Celestia threw open the door to her chambers. She saw her sister magically carrying a letter alongside. Her sister didn't see her right away.

"Luna, dear sister. I've just received a letter from Twilight Sparkle, and it seems you've got some es'plaining to …whoa-ho-ho! Oh my goodness!"

Luna dove under the bed sheets, blushing furiously. All in all, it was pretty much worth it, she thought, as Celestia rolled on the floor laughing.