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Serial Prankster Redux: Her Just Desserts
Oct. 16th, 2016 11:30 pmThat wasn't the end of it. During the night she succeeded in moving Applejack, bed and all, out of her house and into the pigpen while she slept. Applejack had even taken the precaution of stringing up bells and trip wires all over her bedroom, just in case. Apparently, if we need a stealthy pony for some daring doing, we should send in Dash. Or, Applejack is just a very sound sleeper. It's probably a bit of both.
Rainbow Dash did not stop there either. She was off to the races, flooding the pranking void. She gave Pinkie a fright, switched Cranky's toupee for a skunk, hid a brick in Mr Cake's sandwich, swapped out Cheerilee's blackboard lesson with a crude drawing, pranked a number of other ponies in town and was generally very busy. I guess when we said "lazy pranks" weren't funny, her solution was not just to be ingenious, but to be industrious as well. Spike didn't find getting tricked into flooding Princess Celestia with scrolls, again, to be that funny. Not with the cramps he got when she sent them all back in quick succession.
Everypony came to see me, and so we went to see our resident expert on all things funny, Pinkie Pie. She was a bit perplexed as to how it could be that everypony had suddenly lost their sense of humor, but she agreed to go ask Dash to quit pranking. Then she came up with a better plan.
This was the evening that Scootaloo, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle were to sell Filly Guide cookies door to door in Ponyville and Dash had told Pinkie that she planned on swapping those cookies with joke cookies that leave a rainbow stain when bitten. This gave our Party Pony a unifying idea. Cool Rainbow's zest for pranks and build community at the same time. Through theater! It's a shame that Starlight Glimmer is out of town, she would have loved this. Even though we didn't break out into song.
While Rainbow Dash was stealthily swapping the real Filly Guide cookies with her ersatz cookies, Pinkie was filling everypony in town in on what they had to do, and with amazing speed. Dash volunteered to help Rarity and Applejack escort the fillies door to door, just to watch the cookies get delivered and to be there when everypony had realized they'd been pranked. But it didn't quite work out that way.
Pinkie had instructed everypony to wait until nightfall, bite into a few cookies and then shuffle slowly outdoors like they had a high fever, looking for Rainbow Dash and moaning for COOKIES. It worked. Rainbow Dash panicked. She rounded up Applejack, Rarity and the fillies and hightailed it out of town and into Applejack's barn, with all of Ponyville moaning and shuffling after them. Barricaded in the barn, Applejack and the others bit into some cookies and did the plaintive moaning and shuffling act. Dash was frightened to tears and ruing that she had apparently unleashed some ghastly infection on all her friends. But she recovered after Pinkie explained the sting, enough to joke that she'd have to come up with an even bigger prank. That had better be a joke.
My friends were in no mood earlier in the day to think about planning a picnic together, but after the townsponies had gone home to sweep up the cookie crumbs they'd left everywhere and we'd helped the Apple family fix the mess made by barricading and breaking into the barn, everypony was ready to talk picnic. We'll go in three days, to Saddle Lake. It will be sunny and probably not too cold.
Rainbow Dash did not stop there either. She was off to the races, flooding the pranking void. She gave Pinkie a fright, switched Cranky's toupee for a skunk, hid a brick in Mr Cake's sandwich, swapped out Cheerilee's blackboard lesson with a crude drawing, pranked a number of other ponies in town and was generally very busy. I guess when we said "lazy pranks" weren't funny, her solution was not just to be ingenious, but to be industrious as well. Spike didn't find getting tricked into flooding Princess Celestia with scrolls, again, to be that funny. Not with the cramps he got when she sent them all back in quick succession.
Everypony came to see me, and so we went to see our resident expert on all things funny, Pinkie Pie. She was a bit perplexed as to how it could be that everypony had suddenly lost their sense of humor, but she agreed to go ask Dash to quit pranking. Then she came up with a better plan.
This was the evening that Scootaloo, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle were to sell Filly Guide cookies door to door in Ponyville and Dash had told Pinkie that she planned on swapping those cookies with joke cookies that leave a rainbow stain when bitten. This gave our Party Pony a unifying idea. Cool Rainbow's zest for pranks and build community at the same time. Through theater! It's a shame that Starlight Glimmer is out of town, she would have loved this. Even though we didn't break out into song.
While Rainbow Dash was stealthily swapping the real Filly Guide cookies with her ersatz cookies, Pinkie was filling everypony in town in on what they had to do, and with amazing speed. Dash volunteered to help Rarity and Applejack escort the fillies door to door, just to watch the cookies get delivered and to be there when everypony had realized they'd been pranked. But it didn't quite work out that way.
Pinkie had instructed everypony to wait until nightfall, bite into a few cookies and then shuffle slowly outdoors like they had a high fever, looking for Rainbow Dash and moaning for COOKIES. It worked. Rainbow Dash panicked. She rounded up Applejack, Rarity and the fillies and hightailed it out of town and into Applejack's barn, with all of Ponyville moaning and shuffling after them. Barricaded in the barn, Applejack and the others bit into some cookies and did the plaintive moaning and shuffling act. Dash was frightened to tears and ruing that she had apparently unleashed some ghastly infection on all her friends. But she recovered after Pinkie explained the sting, enough to joke that she'd have to come up with an even bigger prank. That had better be a joke.
My friends were in no mood earlier in the day to think about planning a picnic together, but after the townsponies had gone home to sweep up the cookie crumbs they'd left everywhere and we'd helped the Apple family fix the mess made by barricading and breaking into the barn, everypony was ready to talk picnic. We'll go in three days, to Saddle Lake. It will be sunny and probably not too cold.
