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We were running as fast as we could to Sweet Apple Acres for something that had to be taken care of. Well, I was in the air alongside Rainbow going as fast as I could and having jet noises being heard across the land. Also, the ground was shaking like crazy because of what we had to deal with. Apparently, this giant tortoise looking creature that had trees on the top of his back was going around Sweet Apple Acres and just tearing up trees as a snack which really didn't help at all since this was Applejack's summer crop. Anyway, Twilight asked rhetorically "Remind me how this happened again?" I have no idea to be honest. I was just doing my own thing when Twilight told me to rush over to Sweet Apple Acres to deal with this crap. We all stopped as we saw the giant creature just rip right down the middle leaving massive destruction in its path. Okay, I might have exaggerated that a little bit, but you get my point. Applejack said "And why there is a giant turtle eating my family's entire summer crop!" Like I said, I have no idea. I'm just as confused as you are, Applejack.

Fluttershy spoke up and said "Oh dear. Mr. Tortoise Snaps said he was hungry." Of course he was. What do you expect from a giant creature like that? "But he promised me he would take only a few small bites." Does that look like small bites to you? Cause it sure don't look like it to me. Rainbow said "I don't think that thing knows what small is." I agree. Did you really expect someone like him to be able to figure out what small bites are? No. I don't think so. When you tell him small bites, you shouldn't be all surprised pikachu when he doesn't understand that and roams around leaving behind his reign of terror. Anyway, the creature swallowed the tree and picked up another one with it's massive blue tongue. Unfortunately, Spike got caught within its grasp and got dragged up to the creature's giant mouth. Rarity yelled in horror "Spikey-wikey!" and the rest of us watched completely stunned as this creature just grabbed a dragon with it's tongue as if it were nothing but a feather. We obviously had to do something. Thankfully, Twilight had a plan. She said "Applejack and Pinkie. You distract him. Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Zach, and Fluttershy, let's save Spike." Copy that. This is definitely going to be very interesting to say the least.

Applejack and Pinkie went over to a tree and Pinkie threw apples at the creature rapid fire like she was operating a machine gun while Applejack kicked the apples as fast as she could. All the creature did was make some noise and opened its mouth towards their direction. Before he did anything, Rainbow flew over with Rarity and had her wrap a bow around it's mouth so he couldn't open it. He gave the face like when a kid knows when they are in trouble and are about to get yelled at. You know what I'm talking about. We've all seen it before. Fluttershy came over and said in an aggressive tone "Mr. Tortoise Snap! I'm only asking nicely once!" That sure don't sound nice to me though. Not gonna lie. But that's what you have to do to get it's attention. To each their own I guess. "Let my friend go!" The creature quickly obliged and put its tongue back in his mouth resulting in the tree falling to the ground. Spike broke free of it, but couldn't fly up because of how sticky the creature's spit was. Twilight flew up and caught him before returning him back down to the ground. I went over to the creature to prepare my teleportation spell. Twilight said "And now, a simple teleportation spell should-" before a voice said "Halt interloper!"

Wait a second. I recognize that voice. Celestia?! What the hay are you doing here?! We all looked up and saw her and Luna flying in the sky blocking the Sun. I hope they don't get their coats sunburned. That's going to hurt later on. Luna said "Stay back friends." Uh, hello?! You are literally talking to the Prince of Equestrian Defense right here. This simple problem is nothing compared to what I've had to deal with before. Besides, we already had this problem taken care of. All we had to do was teleport him away and then we would go about our day. Simple as that. No need to call over the rulers of Equestria for such a small problem like this. We can handle it ourselves. "My sister and I will take care of the beast!" Are you kidding me?! I know Fluttershy would be furious with you guys for calling that thing a beast. I can already see her rage coming. Anyway, they came flying down and started blasting magic at the thing. Weird. Rainbow said "All the times we've actually needed their help and they show up for this?!" Yeah, tell me about it. I could name several instances where we actually needed their help but never showed up, but yet, a small problem like this, that's when they're going to show up. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.

Anyway, Celestia and Luna were coming up at the clubhouse turn and basically wrapped their magic around the creature before teleporting it away. Me, Twilight, and Fluttershy all got out of the way so we wouldn't get teleported to the other side of Equestria and have to deal with the Legion of Doom somewhere in Tijuana. Twilight flew down and said "That's just what I was about to do." Same here. Now I feel like I didn't even do anything thanks to these two up there. Luna laughed a bit and told Celestia "Goodness sister. That was fun!" Really? Seems like more of a chore to me than actual fun in my opinion. Both of them flew over and Celestia said "No need to thank us." Yeah, you basically invited yourselves over here and took care of a problem that was already dealt with. Basically, you were more of a nuisance than actually helpful. Just saying. "To be honest, we've recently realized we like being part of the action!" Uh huh. I do it because it's my job and it keeps Equestria safe from absolute tyranny or dictatorship from evil villains. Luna said "Experiencing life instead of just dreaming about it." Well, why wait until now to do something about it? Gonna be honest here, but you are quite late to the party.

Me and Twilight are going to take your place eventually and you'll be able to experience life then when you retire. Why do something now when you can just wait later? You don't have to wait much longer. Just till the end of season which is only another half away since we are halfway through the season already. So just be patient. Celestia said "And making a difference outside the throne room." I understand that you feel like you are useless most of the time, but we're already so late in the show that people have just generally accepted that you never tried to do anything when a problem arises. It's too late now to try and do something because we've been used to it. So, it just seems out of place to be doing something now when you can just wait a little longer and then do whatever you want in retirement. I know I might be going all over the place here, but I think you can see the argument I'm trying to make here. Anyway, enough of that. Celestia and Luna just laughed and we just stared at them in complete silence. Applejack said to the rest of us "Y'all think they're goin' to be doin' this a lot?" I have a feeling, but I hope not. Otherwise, we are going to have some serious problems here. Twilight looked quite nervous and I simply growled at them before I took off and left. I couldn't deal with this.

I was headed to my fortress of solitude because I had to go do something real quick before I headed back to the castle. As I was walking through the forest, I came across some rocks that looked very weird. I tapped one of them and then the entire pile crashed on top of me. Great. Now I'll have to blast my way out without killing myself. But, before I could do anything, I heard Celestia say from the sky way above me "We have come to save you!" Both her and Luna blasted away the rocks and I was set free. However, I saw that both of them noticed my secret hiding place that I was headed to. They were immediately excited and started looking around. They were probably interested in the stone statues I had of them sitting at the entrance. Yeah, I have all four princesses there as stone statues because I needed some decoration and I thought that would fit. I knew that if they were to go back and spread the word, I would have ponies swarm me to death like a bunch of bees attacking me. I can't let them do that to me. I snarled in anger and wrapped my black shadows from my scepter around them which engulfed them and had them teleported away. Basically, I casted a partial memory wipe spell.

They'll still remember the part about where they blasted the rocks away, but they won't remember seeing the statues of them, Cadence, and Twilight. Anyway, I went inside my fortress of solitude and did what I needed to do before heading back to the castle. When I got back, it turns out that Celestia and Luna were doing other things just like Applejack had predicted. The entire group had basically come to complain to me and Twilight about this situation. Applejack said "And then, they carried Granny Smith across the street." How odd. "There wasn't even any traffic." Yeah, how do you explain that one Celestia and Luna? Fluttershy said "It's not that we don't appreciate their help…" I sure don't. It drives me nuts and I don't need them fixing every little tiny problem that I can easily fix myself like I'm some toddler that needs to be watched over because I just burned down a building. I don't need that. It's annoying and it's stupid. Anyway, Rarity said "But suddenly, Celestia and Luna seem to think we can't do anything on our own!" Yeah, tell me about it. Rainbow said "How are we supposed to learn to be rulers of Equestria with them fixing every tinsy problem for us?!" I have a solution. I stood up from my throne and said "It drives me absolutely nuts that we're even in this situation."

"They are basically robbing me of my job and it's absolutely sickening. I don't know how we're going to fix this, but if something isn't done soon, things will get ugly. I don't need this kind of crazy stuff in my life and THEY WILL PAY!" I slammed my paws down on the table and lightning and thunder went off behind me showing my anger towards this whole situation. I could tell that echoed through the whole castle. Suddenly, the door opened and revealed our culprits. Speaking of the devil here… Celestia said "Ahh! A strategy meeting!" Uh, no. We are just venting our frustrations towards you right now. "What is the danger this time?" You. "A rampaging beast, evil spell, friendship problem?" Nope, nope, and nope. Luna said "We're ready to do whatever we can." How about you just get out before I burn down this whole building in anger? I would appreciate that. Twilight turned around and said "Great. But is something wrong?" Yes. "It's just you've been helping us an awful lot and we know you have way more important rulerly things to do, so…" Yeah, I don't appreciate your help whatsoever. You've been useless and you'll continue to be useless as long as the cameras are still rolling. Luna said "We spent more than enough time in the throne room!"

Yeah, and you kinda belong there besides fighting wars and other things that rulers do. I'm not trying to be insulting here, but you really don't need to be out here lingering among the commoners fixing our problems for us that we can fix ourselves. If something is out of our control, then we'll contact you. But for now, we're fine. So you can take your little behinds back to Canterlot and leave us alone. Thank you very much. "Real life is happening out here!" Yeah, and it's not that exciting to be honest. Twilight said "Wait. That's what this is about? You're sick of being princesses?" Can't exactly blame them, but you could have just told us instead of trying to fix our problems. Celestia said "Not exactly. Battling the Everfree Forest alongside Starswirl made us realize what we've missed out on." But that was half a season ago. You waited until now to do something? Oi vey. "So instead of spending the day ruling…" Uh huh. Luna said "And the night patrolling dreams…" Right. Where are you going with this? Celestia said "We wanted a chance to do the things you do." Really? Well, I didn't expect you to say that. You could have told me and things would have been a lot easier. "Save the day! Adventure with friends! Shampoo anteaters."

Uhhhhhh… I have no idea what that means, but okay. Spike said "I'm pretty sure Fluttershy's the only pony that does that." Yeah, pretty much. Also, there is already eight of us that defend the world most of the time. I mean, to be fair, the more the merrier, but I feel like that would be a bit out of place. Don't get me wrong. That would be completely awesome and totally epic, but it wouldn't exactly fit the storyline very well this late into the series, so I'll have to make sacrifices here. Rainbow flew in and said "Well, there are way more fun things to do than follow us around." Tell me about it. I said "Yeah, most of the stuff I do is just a bunch of boring business most of the time just like any royal would do, so you would be bored quite quickly." Pinkie said "Ooh! You should make a list of all the stuff you never tried, but always wanted to! There's a lot of little things out there to do!" Really there is. She is not technically wrong. I have seen tons of stuff and some of them seem fun, but I'm too busy within my lifestyle to actually do anything about it. It doesn't really bother me though if I never do it in my life. Even though I have immortality now, I won't be around forever.

I won't get religious here but basically, I'll be in a much better place one day with my Creator. Celestia said "What an intriguing idea." I agree. "Only, it's much harder to justify a vacation from the castle when it's not an emergency we're responding to." Makes sense. Probably all the nobles don't want you wandering off to different places when you have much more "pressing matters" to attend to. Both of them gave sad faces and Twilight suddenly said "Don't worry. We'll cover your palace duties." Hold on. What?! I did NOT sign up for this. "It'll be a good chance for us to practice when you retire." Are you sure about that? Luna asked "Well, if you're sure you don't mind the extra effort." Please say yes. Please say yes. Twilight simply brushed off and I screamed in rage inside my mind. DANG IT! Celestia said "Thank you, Twilight!" You're not welcome. "What a relief to know the Royal Swanifying Ceremony is in good hooves." The what now? Both of them walked out and Applejack asked "The what now?" I don't know. I said "You ponies can figure that out yourselves. I get to play King for a day. Time to take my throne to the throne room. Toodles! Ha ha ha. HA HA HA!" I disappeared into my shadow form and took off to Canterlot. I can't wait to be King for a day. Even though that's awfully short, it's still something.

I arrived at Canterlot and saw Celestia and Luna preparing for their trip. I went inside the walls and observed them. Celestia said "Fun not yet had!" What the hay is that supposed to mean? That doesn't even make sense and it's definitely not proper english. All the english teachers would be very disappointed in you, Celestia. "I can't wait to start planning my time off!" I can't wait either as I'll be ruling all of Equestria for an entire day. Well, maybe just the weekend or something. I'm not sure how long they plan to be gone for. Luna said "A chance to do whatever we want!" You're lucky you have bits because some of those things are extremely expensive if you ask me. "And you know what that means!" What? Both of them said something different at the same time and that concerned me a bit. Celestia teleported the scroll away and Luna explained "Well, it's just, I spend each night in every pony's intense dreams, so I could use some real world down time." I see. Celestia said fakingly "I understand. But for me, everyday is real world. Meetings and decrees, meetings about decrees, and decrees about the meetings." Yeah, that sounds extremely boring if you ask me. I'll have to do that eventually though.

"I crave excitement!" And I don't blame you. That stuff sounds extremely boring and wanting excitement is completely normal. However, you need to figure this out quickly or else, this will cause problems and then the trip will be no fun whatsoever. Luna said "I'm not sure how we can both be happy." I might have an idea. "Unless…" What? Celestia gasped in realization and said "We take turns doing what we like." Well, that is a genius idea I guess. Both of them said "Sister Trip!" and clinked their hooves together as if they were geniuses. Luna said "And I have the perfect accessories for us to wear!" Oh really? "Wait right here." Luna teleported away and then came back with beach shirts. Celestia saw them and said awkwardly "Oh. *laughs nervously* We'll be twinsies." How exactly would you though? The shirts are completely different colors and don't even match whatsoever. So, that's not exactly a very valid argument. Luna said "Just like regular pony tourists." Yeah, ponies will still recognize you. It doesn't matter if you have yourselves completely covered in flour, we would all still recognize you pretty darn well. "I knew you'd love it!" Doesn't exactly look like it. Celestia said "I have a few things for us too." She flew out and Luna put on her shirt. Suddenly, a bunch of luggage was given to her and drew a raised brow at Celestia.

She said "Sunglasses. Bug spray. Ice boots. Hoof sanitizer. Travel snacks!" Okay then. That might be a little excessive, but whatever. Wait. What's in that package? Luna tasted some and spit it back out because of how bitter it was. "You have to add water." Yeah, and where are you going to find that? Is that really what you call a travel snack? I guess you haven't gone on vacations enough to know what those actually are. "What do you think?" Terrible. That's what I think. However, Luna had a bias and said "It's perfect sister." They hugged for a bit and I took my leave. Once I put my throne in the throne room, I headed right back out to meet up with the rest of the gang and Celestia and Luna. As we were walking out the gates, Celestia said "And here are instructions of how to prepare for the Royal Swanifying." Yeah, whatever the hay that is. Celestia gave the list to Spike and Twilight said "If it's written down, I'm sure we can handle it. Have fun!" I don't think we're quite done yet. Luna said "One more thing: We're leaving you in charge of raising the Sun and Moon while we're gone." Everypony gasped and I said "That's no problem. Leave that to me. I can easily raise and lower both the Sun and the Moon with relative ease, so you'll have nothing to worry about." Pinkie said to Twilight "Oh, that's an awfully terrifying level of responsibility or anything." Not for me.

Twilight gave a glare at Pinkie and said to Celestia and Luna "We won't let you down, Princesses." I won't. I don't know about the rest of you. Both of them took off and Twilight asked Spike "Please tell me that scroll says what the Royal Swanifying is!" I would sure like to know. Spike opened the scroll and said "Apparently, it's a celebration of all the Swans in the royal lake." Makes sense. "We round them up, parade them through the streets, and finish with a party in the castle." Honestly, that's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard, but at least I'll get free food, so that's a bonus. Food rule number one: Never turn down a free meal. That's facts right there. If you think otherwise, screw you. The swans made very angry goose noises at Spike and he flew back a bit. Rainbow asked "One question: Why?!" I don't know, ask Twilight. Not me. Anyway, Twilight said "It doesn't matter." Of course it does. "Quiet you!" Yes, mother. "This is our chance to show Celestia and Luna we'll do whatever the job requires." Uh huh. "If they can take care of all this themselves, then I know we can." I said "I'll tell you right now. If you think that Celestia and Luna do everything by themselves, then you are sadly mistaken."

"That's not how ruling a country works. You have committees do certain things for you because you simply can't do everything all by yourself. I know that seems lame, but it really is true. Rulers don't have time for everything. That's why they have those committees so they can do the stuff they can better attend to. And before you ask why, it's because rulers already have so much crap they have to do all the time, that they simply can't do certain things because they have so many others to take care of. A ruler can only do so much. So, it's not considered foolish for them to ask for help. Just saying." Twilight rolled her eyes and said "Yeah, uh huh. Sure. Whatever you say." Really? This again? Ugh. I don't know why I even bother. Spike said "You're definitely not reading the scroll I'm reading." Ain't that the truth? Anyway, Celestia and Luna sang some song going to different places and just having a good time. I'm not going to show that part, because it's rather unnecessary for the story here and the author's account will get terminated for inserting lyrics to a copyrighted song into a fanfiction. Can't have that happen.

If you want to hear the song, just search it up on YouTube and listen to it. But we're moving on now. However, I did notice that Luna was eventually starting to get tired and wanted to take a break, but Celestia wanted to keep going. This isn't going to end very well. Anywho, I sat on my throne and waited for some company. Finally, the door opened and I heard Fancy Pants say "Princesses, we are to… Oh." before seeing all of us here in the throne room and me sitting up on the throne. I said "Before we address any urgent matters, you must address me as King Zachary. No ifs, ands, or buts. Am I clear?" Fancy Pants stared for a second before saying "Um, yes, your Royal Highness." I smiled and said "Good. Now that we got that out of the way, what is it that you have come for? Me and my secretaries down there would be glad to help you solve any problem that you might have. Yes, I know, I have quite a bit of secretaries here, but there is a lot of important business here in Canterlot." Fancy Pants stared some before saying "I say. How irregular." Yeah, well, that's how it is. "Well then, we offer our assistance as Heads of the Royal Swanifying Committee." Hmm very interesting. I said "That actually is quite helpful if I do say so myself." Twilight didn't like that and said "Thank you. But we have it all covered." Uh, no we don't. You are making me look bad here Twilight. Fancy Pants seemed skeptical about that. I don't blame him.

He said "Really? Well, good luck with that." They walked away and the doors closed. Great. Now because of your stubbornness Twilight, we lost out on potential help for something that is really important to Canterlot heritage. We all gave her glares and she explained "If we ask for help, it's just like admitting we're not as good at the job as Celestia and Luna are." That is faulty logic right there. I said "Let me make something clear to you, Twilight. The world does not revolve around you. I don't care what your excuse is, but that's not going to get you anywhere. Also, did you forget I said "RULERS CAN'T DO EVERYTHING BY THEMSELVES?!" I made that quite clear, and you chose to ignore it. Saying that asking for help is as bad as admitting we aren't as good at a job as Celestia and Luna are is faulty logic. Letting the committee help us out is actually a favor and NOT a nuisance. If this is how you're going to behave as a ruler in the dear future, then I promise you that you will not last very long. I can guarantee that right now." Twilight growled at me but Applejack said "He brings up a lot of good points, Twilight. I would listen to him if I were you." Twilight ignored that and said to me "You don't tell me how to live my life. If I think something will work, then that's how I'll do it."

"You need to respect that." I said "First of all, don't you even DARE try turning the tables on me because I will shame you in front of Equestria in two seconds for trying to pull a stunt like that, and second of all, this has NOTHING to do with being a proper ruler. I'm just telling you the facts about life as a ruler and all you're doing is rejecting it like when a teenager refuses to listen to their parents about doing something. Don't play this game with me because you will get humiliated and I shall spare no mercy. Also, one more thing: I make the rules around here and you will listen to ME as King! If I give orders to you, you better listen to them or I will give you consequences. I'm not playing here and that's how it will be for the REST OF THE WEEKEND! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?!" Twilight was about to retort something, but I gave my death glare at her and that got her to chicken out. She quickly nodded and said "Good. Now GET OUT! Make sure you follow that list since you want to do "everything on your own." I have military paperwork I need to do. Dismissed." They all walked out and I slammed the doors behind them. Good grief. It's difficult sometimes trying to explain the realities of ruling a kingdom to Twilight. She really should know this stuff, but I have to constantly repeat it to her.

I sat on my throne for a little bit and did some military paperwork. "Really? That boring crap again?" Ugh. What do you want, Nightmare? Can't you see I'm busy? "Yes I can, you scumbag. But why sit around doing a bunch of boring paperwork when you could be having fun?" What do you mean by fun? "Oh, you know, just causing some havoc and messing with those foolish pony friends of yours." NO! I'm NOT doing that! They might drive me nuts sometimes, but that gives me no excuse to try and get back at them. "That doesn't matter. You're a king now. You're supposed to take charge and show everyone who's boss and teach them to FEAR us." First of all, I'm only King for a weekend, and second of all, I'm not going to be some tyrant trying to rule a country with an iron fist. Unlike you. "So, you're basically going to be Celestia who never does anything and be considered the weak link of Equestria?" NO! I'm going to be a benevolent ruler who leads this kingdom with a good heart but will punish those who do evil. "Bah. That sounds so boring." Oh really? When tyrants such as Sombra tried the evil tactic, they've failed miserably. "That's because the show's villains have no logic or any common sense whatsoever." I guess that's true.

"Remember, I am very different from the other villains and have my own personal goals for Equestria." Yeah, very bad ones. "I doubt that. I'm sick and tired of all this kindness and other sweetness crap in this forsaken land. It's time for us to prove that mankind is the SUPERIOR race to ponies and that nothing shall EVER stand in our way!" Yeah, that's not going to happen. The light will ALWAYS terrify the darkness. "Really? You're going to use the title of this fanfiction to try to stop me from my glorious reign?" Wait. How do you know about that?! "Are you really that stupid? I'm in your mind, you dumb asshole. I can read EVERYTHING in your mind. Everything you know, I know as well." Well, this is just great. But regardless, you will NEVER have this land or any other as long as I live on this Earth. "So naive. You will find out someday. Once I take over your entire body, Equestria will fall and I WILL RULE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE FOREVER! HA HA HA! HA HA HA!" I don't think that will happen. Oh, while that entire conversation was happening, Nightmare King had basically came out of my body and stood right in front of me just taunting me to death and even touching me which made me really uncomfortable and just mad.

Anywho, I teleported away from the throne room and went to see what Celestia and Luna were up to. Hey, just because I'm King for the weekend, does not mean that I can't visit different places. I am a diplomat for a reason you know. It's part of the military lifestyle and the royal one too. Anyway, I heard Luna say "Uh, Celestia, since we're both a little tired, maybe the first thing we do shouldn't be too wild." I would have to agree. But knowing Celestia, I doubt that'll be the case. Celestia said "Exactly what I was thinking." So then, what's your idea? Suddenly, the scenery changed and Celestia screamed out in joy "Zipline" while Luna was holding on for dear life. Yeah, I can understand that. There was one time where I attempted ziplining at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, but I backed out at the last second because of how terrifying it looked. It basically went over the river and I was afraid I was going to fall in the water from like 100 feet up in the air. Yeah, I know. Extremely childish fear. But that's how I felt back then. The worst part about it though is that my mother paid a lot of money for that and we wouldn't get a refund if I backed out. I felt extremely awful about it, but my mother said it was okay. I still feel kinda guilty to this day.

But, ziplining always seemed kinda sketchy for me and I didn't want to risk myself falling from over 100 feet in the air. I wasn't even sure what was in that river to begin with. There could have been alligators in there. It probably was unlikely, but I wasn't taking my chances. Anyway, enough story time. Luna came over to one of the concession stands and she definitely felt sick to her stomach. The ponies there backed away from ehr and Luna removed her helmet with her magic. Celestia came over with coffee mugs that had both of their pictures on them and said "Now every time we have tea, we can remember this magical day." Yeah, good for you Celestia. Both of those pictures look extremely creepy in my opinion. Luna took out the checklist and said "Well, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself." Yeah, me too. But don't tell me about how it's the greatest thing on Earth or anything. I already have enough to deal with as it is. I don't need the ruler of Equestria telling me how "great" ziplining is just so that she could get coffee mugs and have tea with her sister. "But now, we're going to do something I've always wanted to do, but never could because of my night shift." What would that be exactly? Celestia asked with excitement "Is it another zipline?" No Celestia. It's not. We get it.

You like ziplining. But not everyone likes going more than once. Luna said "No" and teleported them both somewhere else. I tracked their location and teleported to where they were. The post office? Why would you come here? Anyway, Luna said with excitement "It's the post office!" Yeah, we see that, Luna. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Celestia said "It is indeed." Somepony came by with boxes on his back, but quickly stopped and backed away because he saw Celestia. Bruh. You really need to stop worshipping Celestia as if she's some god or something. I understand you have massive respect for her as Equestria's ruler, but please for the love of Luna, don't treat her as some sort of god because that is idolatry and that is very sinful to do. Yes, I know. Equestria doesn't have religion, but that doesn't mean they don't have morals. Besides, I have plans to introduce the Christian religion to Equestria at some point because I have been called by God to do that and it's also what I believe in. So, if you don't like that, too bad. Deal with it. Anyway, moving on. Luna said "Just think. All the mail in Ponyville goes through here! Isn't that amazing?" Not really.

I revealed myself in my lion form and said "It's not really that interesting, Luna." Both of them turned around and were completely surprised to see me. Celestia asked me "Shouldn't you be in Canterlot right now preparing for the Royal Swanifying?" I said "Oh please Celestia. Just because I'm King for the weekend doesn't mean I can't go wherever I want. And besides, that's Twilight's and the others' business. I have much more important military paperwork that has to get done. Anyway, there's nothing that great about the postal service here. Ponies just do that as a chore as part of something that just needs to get done. Nobody actually is excited about going to the post office. They just see it as something that needs to get done. But, if that's how you feel Luna, I won't stop you. Anyway, I need to get out of here so I can finish the military paperwork for the next two weeks. Toodles. Ha ha ha. HA HA HA!" I disappeared into my shadow form and hid inside the walls. After both of them staring into space for a few seconds in complete silence, Luna put down the postcard on the desk and said "One stamp please." Here we go. Luna was excited about it while Celestia was clearly annoyed at this. Once the stamp appeared, Luna licked the back of it and put it on the back of the postcard.

I can't believe they still do that. That's really disgusting and that's how you spread germs. Luna pushed the card forward some more and Derpy walked out with it. "Wait for it…" Oh dear me. Celestia pulled out a time watch as she waited and the door opened with a mailpony walking right up to them. He gave Celestia the postcard and walked away. Celestia said "You didn't need a stamp if you were just going to give this to me." Yeah, seemed kinda pointless, but whatever. Luna said "Yes, but I didn't give it to you. A mailpony took it from me, searched to find who it was meant for, and gave it to you. It's about the process!" Oh brother. I said not present in the room "Now you sound like Twilight, Luna. It's already bad enough hearing her say that all the time. I don't need you doing the same thing. Goodbye." I quickly disappeared before they could say anything and I could tell they were extremely confused. But, that's part of my power. I can say things out loud without ever being physically present in the room. It's the beauty of being the most powerful creature in all of Equestria. Anyway, after a bit, Celestia and Luna went to the bottom of some caverns and I decided to troll them a bit. You'll see how in a second.

Celestia said to Luna as they were going down "Did you know that nopony has ever explored the bottom of these caverns?" Doesn't surprise me. Also, I would stop talking so loud if I were you. Here's why. After she said that, I roared as loud as I could and dark crystals moved up from the ground and surrounded them. Luna said "I wonder why." Yeah really. After that whole mess, they went to the Ponyville Spa and did some sort of makeover. They definitely did look somewhat different. "I always wanted to try this!" I say though, Luna does look pretty good in that style. "Isn't this wonderful, sister?" Celestia didn't even say anything and just gave an annoyed stare in the other direction. That makeover definitely looks… interesting to say the least. I'm not saying it looks bad, it's just unusual that's all. They sang the same song from earlier for a bit, and after it was over, I could easily sense the divide between the two. Oh dear. That's not looking good. Let's see how things back in Canterlot are going. I looked to see what was going on with Twilight and the rest of my friends, and it did not look good. It's about time to confront Twilight about this. Suddenly, the doors opened and Fancy Pants said "Princess Twilight! It has come to our attention that you don't intend to serve watercress at the Royal Swanifying Ceremony." That's pretty bad for the swans I guess.

Twilight said "There's not enough in the castle kitchens to-" before Fancy Pants raised a hoof to stop her and said "Don't tell me. Tell him." Fancy stepped aside and the swan made very angry goose noises which made Twilight freak out a bit. "And you must do something about the garbage piling up outside." Oh my. I didn't even recognize that. "The Street Sweepers are on strike and the Royal Carpeters can't do their jobs!" Why are the street sweepers even on strike in the first place? Do they want a pay raise? Are there unsafe working conditions? I need more context, Hasbro. This is driving me nuts and I intend to know why they are even on strike in the first place. Applejack asked "Did you even know there were Royal Street Carpeters?" For once, no I did not. That is usually very rare. Fancy said "Oh dear. I do hope those aren't the final decorations for the gala." What do you mean gala? It's not even time for the Grand Galloping Gala yet. That's supposed to be next month! Not now. Also, what's the problem with that tablecloth? It looks fine to me. Rarity took offense to that and said "How rude." Definitely so. You could have been a bit nicer about that, Fancy Pants. I'm just saying. Twilight obviously wanted them out of there and said "Thank you for your constructive criticism." Pfft.

That's way more than constructive criticism. "But we really don't have time to chat, so…" She levatited them out the door and closed it. I said from above "You can't hide this forever, Twilight. You're only delaying the inevitable." Twilight looked up and said "Where have you been?! You are supposed to be helping us out here!" I said "On the contrary, I disagree. I am the King now and I'm not going to waste my time and energy doing something that I'm not even supposed to be doing in the first place. True, you might be more productive than me right now, but when it comes to smarts and logical sense, I have the lion's share. So if you excuse me, I have some military paperwork to attend to and also do Celestia's day court. And you better fix those problems soon or else you're screwed. And don't come asking me for help because you put yourself in this situation. Once you do that, you receive no sympathy from me. See ya! Ha ha ha. HA HA HA!" I disappeared into my shadow form and took off. I'm interested to see what Celestia and Luna are up to now. It didn't take that long to find them. They were having a picnic in the Everfree Forest. But they are definitely quite cold and distant. That's for sure. I can easily tell by reading their facial expressions. I've been there before, so I know it all too well.

Celestia said with a lack of enthusiasm "Well, I hope you're enjoying yourself on your "super-relaxing" picnic, sister." Cut the attitude, will you? Good grief. You're worse than Twilight when she refuses to admit she's wrong about something. Luna said "I would be, if you hadn't made us hike through a million prickle bushes!" Ouch. That looked like it hurt. Celestia retorted "Well, it hurt less than that horrible howling you dragged us to." What do you even mean by that? It's not even night time yet. I'm confused. Luna fired back "That was Pullyla' Actshe! And it's an opera!" Yeah, to be completely honest, I hate operas because of how high pitched the voices are, but I would never call it howling. They don't even sound similar whatsoever. "And you made us leave early even though it was still my turn!" Probably couldn't take it anymore. Celestia said "Oh, just face it Luna. You are NEVER happy!" This sounds familiar. Luna turned around and said "Because you don't want me to be happy." Yeah, she kinda has a point. History has proven that was the case. "I always have to do things your way." Yeah, I've seen it quite a bit. "I bet you wished I never came back so you could still RULE DAY AND NIGHT!" WOAH THERE, LUNA! That was uncalled for. I understand you're mad, but that is no excuse for saying something like that.

Also, Celestia would never even wish that in the first place. You don't say something like that to her in the first place, Luna. Both of you know how difficult it was for you both and the negative emotions that radiated from that terrible night. Celestia gasped in horror and said "You think I like that kind of pressure?!" Not really. I sure wouldn't. "Being responsible for every little thing in Equestria and you?! What I'd like is a SISTER I CAN DEPEND ON!" Really, the Royal Canterlot Voice? Oh boy. Here we go. Luna yelled back "YOU MEAN BOSS AROUND?!" Celestia stuck out her hoof and said "CALM DOWN, LUNA!" How about both of you calm down? You're acting like two year olds fighting over a toy. It's ridiculous. Luna fired back "NO! And don't you DARE use your Canterlot Voice on me. I think this adventure would be better if I did it BY MYSELF!" What's with the extremely low insults today? Good grief. Celestia was obviously hurt by that and yelled "FINE! I just remembered something I forgot I always wanted to do. Be alone." Good going Luna. Now you've made your older sister sad now. I can see and feel the hurt in Celestia's voice. I've been there before and the result was never pretty.

Luna said "Guess we had the same thing on both of our lists then." Luna shed some tears and walked away. I went back to Canterlot and saw that my friends were still trying to prepare for this ceremony and the room had basically looked the same since I left. Applejack yelled over to Pinkie "Pinkie, you got those appetizers yet?" I doubt it. Pinkie yelled "STILL MAKING THE GUACAMOLE!" This isn't going to work, you guys. Rarity said "So we'll just have to do with sequencins!" Okay then. Fluttershy said "Um, sorry for the bad news, but the courtyard is full of swans waiting to get in." They all clearly saw the swans flying towards the window and I could tell they were not happy. Rainbow said "And we're nowhere near ready!" Yeah, I can tell. Twilight said "How does Celestia and Luna rule a kingdom and get this done by themselves EVERY YEAR?!" They don't, you idiot. You seriously need to let go of that ridiculous and foolish stubborn pride of yours. Fancy Pants just laughed and said "Oh, how drol." What is that supposed to mean? Spike asked "Uh, what's the funny part exactly?" The way you guys are acting. Even Discord would find this entertaining. Fancy said "The princesses never do all the ceremony planning by themselves." He's not wrong.

Twilight asked "They don't?" No, you stupid scumbag. I've been trying to tell you now all day and you NEVER listened to me! "Shut up!" "No, I won't. I was right this whole time and you knew it. You just didn't have the guts to admit it. Such foolishness." I don't know why I even bother sometimes. Fancy said "Oh, goodness no. That's what the Gala Planning Committees are for." I said that from the very beginning, but a certain SOMEPONY didn't listen to that. "Nopony could handle all this." Exactly. "Are those... sequencins?" Technically, yes. Rarity didn't like that and said "Still rude." To be completely honest, she is right. You really could do constructive criticism better. Twilight thought for a second and then said "Oh, new plan everypony. We're going to delegate!" That's a lot better than before. Rainbow said to one of the ponies "You! You're on food duty!" The pony smiled and quickly got to work. Rarity went somepony else and said "Bring me gemstones! And purple satin!" Okay then. Fluttershy then told somepony else "Tell the ponies at the gates there's a slight delay on the gala. Oh, if it's not too much trouble, I mean." Bruh, please do not do that. Applejack said "Uh, now who could we get to clean up all this garbage?" Hmm. I have a few ideas.

Suddenly, the Earth shook and Pinkie yelled "I'm DELEGATING!" Oh, it was that turtle from the other day. How convenient. Twilight overlooked everything and said "So this is how you rule Equestria!" I came out into my lion form and said "Not quite, Twilight. But somewhat close. Honestly, you can't be like this forever." Apparently, Twilight didn't like that and I felt a magical blast to the side of my right eagle wing. I stared at her in complete shock. However, I quickly turned angry. "Did you just attack me?" Twilight said with confidence "Yeah, and I'll do it again!" I don't think so. Twilight charged up the magic from her horn and blasted right at me, but I powered up my scepter and countered her magic. It pushed against each other for two seconds, but then, my magic was quickly overtaking hers and she got engulfed in the giant blast that was the scepter's red magic. She got pushed back by quite a bit, and she was clearly mad now. She charged up her horn to give the biggest blast she could and came flying right towards me as fast as she could. I quickly sent out my shadows to grab her so she would stop flying and then I held her in my magical aura. She tried teleporting out, but it was no use. She said "Wh-what?! How is this possible?!"

I said "Are you really that dumb, Twilight? You just challenged the most powerful creature in all of Equestria. You should know better than to do something extremely foolish like that. Also, get a hold of yourself! I understand you're mad, but that's no excuse for violence." Twilight then demanded "Then how come I can't get out of here?!" I said "Well, my magical aura can easily disable any other magic being used when I'm restraining somepony. You might normally be able to break free with others, but under my control, you have no power here. Only I can release you when I feel like you have learned your lesson and will behave yourself." Twilight was about to retort something, but she stopped to think about it. She then sighed and said "I really did try to fight you, didn't I?" I said "Yes, you did. It was extremely foolish on your part, but it's understandable. You're lucky I care about you and hold back using my full power." Twilight sighed again and said "I'm sorry. I guess I just got so mad that I didn't realize trying to fight you was a really bad idea." I said "Heat of the moment. I understand that. Also, it's okay. I forgive you. Anger often causes us to think irrationally and can be very destructive. But, if we can control our anger and release it like adults, then it won't escalate."

It is completely true. It does say in James 1:20 that "human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires." Basically, human anger oftentimes is different from God's anger. Human anger is unrighteous because it can lead us to sin while God's anger is righteous because he is a Holy God. I'll spare you the sermon, but you get the point. "Anyway, I need to go finish up a few things before I'm done for the day. See ya later!" I disappeared into my shadow form and set off to find Luna. Since both her and Celestia went their separate ways, I obviously had to know where they ended up at. I quickly found Luna at the beach sitting on a lawn chair and drinking some tropical drink from a pineapple cup. She said "Aah. Things are so much more relaxing without my bossy sister." Are you sure about that? Ponies walked by with their younger siblings and Luna noticed them having a good time. I could tell she felt guilty, but all she did was turn in the other direction. It will get to you at some point, Luna. You can't hold back forever. After that, I went to find Celestia. She was apparently skydiving for some odd reason. I hate skydiving. I'm not usually that scared of heights, but that high up is just too much for me.

If I did go skydiving, I would make sure I landed in an empty field or something so I can have a soft landing and not kill myself while doing it. Anyway, Celestia said to the pony across from her "Who needs a gloomy sister moping around all the time anyway?" Luna doesn't exactly mope around. She just wants to relax. The pony just shrugged and Celestia pulled up her parachute. The pony below her now dropped out her parachute and it had a picture of both her and Luna together. How do you think about that now, Celestia? Instead of being an adult, Celestia just brushed it off and looked forward. You really are that childish. I went back to find Luna and she was actually in the Ponyville General Hospital for some reason. Oh dear. That looks like really bad sunburn. It was all over her body. She winced in pain when the cream was being applied and the nurse said "Honestly Princess, didn't you wear any sunblock?" It appears not. Luna asked "That's a thing?" I came out and said "Yes, Luna. That is a thing. Clearly, you haven't gone on vacations long enough to know that. Even in this environment, the power of the Sun is still extremely powerful. That's the whole point of sunblock so you can protect yourself from the ultraviolet rays which are really harmful for your body since they are quite high up on the Electromagnetic Spectrum."

Instead of retorting something, Luna only sighed and said "Celestia would've warned me. If she were here." She looked quite sad and put her head under the pillow. She just felt so ashamed. I feel bad for her. The nurse added more cream and I took my leave. I had to go raise the moon soon. After a few hours, I charged up my scepter and with it's magic, I lowered the Sun and raised the moon with relative ease. Before I went to bed, I went out to the Everfree Forest to see where Celestia was. She was having some trouble with the directions. "Now was it two left turns and a right, or two right turns and a left?" I don't know. I flew across the forest in the shadows so I could get a better look at Celestia. "Luna always handled directions." I guess so. She continued reading, but then a crack was heard and that made Celestia nervous. It was only a chicken but that scared the crap out of Celestia. Bruh. It's just a chicken. It's not a Cockatrice or something. I had to unfortunately run across an entire flock of them during migration season. That was not fun whatsoever. "And scared away the chickens." She was whimpering like crazy and it really seemed strange that the ruler of Equestria was scared at something like this, but not a villain like Discord, Chrysalis, or Sombra.

Doesn't really make sense to me, but whatever. I went to bed and then I had to get up at 6:00 AM to go and raise the Sun. Yeah, I am the most powerful creature in all of Equestria. So raising and lowering the Sun and the Moon is no problem for me. I barely even break a sweat with that. However, as I went to go lower the Moon and raise the Sun, I saw Celestia and Luna meet up again where the two paths connect with one another and merge together. "Oh, I thought climbing Mount Fillyjoe was on my list." Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows? Luna said quickly "I'm not copying you. I just wanted to watch the sunrise." Yeah, it's pretty amazing watching that. Celestia said "Oh, I'm here for the uh moonset." That's not a thing you know and also, that's really cringey. I'm just saying. "So uh, how did the rest of your day go?" Not as great as you may think it did. Luna lied and said "Oh, amazing. Yeah, fantastic. Best ever really." I know that's far from the case and you do too. Don't lie to your sister. Celestia lied as well and said "Yeah, me too." Doesn't look like it. I can still see and hear the sadness in your voice. This is kinda starting to get awkward here. Luna said "You-you can walk with me. You know, if you want, I mean." Bruh, stop beating around the bush. It's annoying.

Celestia said "Oh, well since we're going the same way." Both of them walked awkwardly and looked in the other direction to make sure no one was looking. I was up on one of the hills when I saw both of them coming. Since this is the perfect chance for them to make amends, I decided to let them see me lower the Moon and raise the Sun right with their own eyes. Luna said "This is so beautiful. It must be amazing in the sunlight." It is, but I think it's even better at night in my opinion. Celestia said "The night's pretty special too." Yeah, she has a point. I know that ponies and even humans sleep through the night, but that's the whole point. Scary things happen at night, but it also says in the Bible that we are not to fear the night for a new day shall always come. It also says that there may be pain in the night, but joy always comes in the morning. However, that does not say that night is not important, because it is. God created all the stars in the universe himself and the things that are out in the universe is beautiful. You can definitely tell that it is a piece of artwork and not something that just randomly came into existence. Sorry atheists if you don't like that, but that's the truth. If you don't like it, too bad. I don't care.

Both of them sat down and Celestia removed their bags off their backs and put them to the side. Then, a shooting star went by and it looked amazing. Both of them said "Lucky Star!" How interesting. Luna said "You taught me to look for those when I was a filly." Yeah, like over 10,000 years ago. Man, time really does fly. Celestia laughed a bit and said "Hope I wasn't too bossy doing it." Har har. Very funny Celestia. Luna said "You know, being with your sister all the time is hard, but being without her, it's even harder." Yeah, it really is. I know that all too well. My sister would always drive me nuts, but at the end of the day, I still loved her and she was my sibling. It would have been really hard not to have her around anymore. That's why I never said "I wish you were dead." Here's why. My 7th and 8th grade english teacher told our class a story where when she was growing up, she was mad at her older sister and said "I wish you were dead." Well, what happened was her older sister actually had received her drivers license, and instead of obeying her parents and staying within city limits, she actually took her friend out with her and went within D.C. limits. If you live in the DMV area in the United States, you know how bad that is for such a young driver. Even experienced drivers hate it a lot of times.

But one day, my teacher's older sister was coming home from one of the malls in D.C. on I-66 and all of a sudden, she got T-boned by a tractor trailer and crashed into a tree. Her friend got yeeted from the car and landed on top of that tree and both of them were clearly dead. My teacher's parents obviously heard about it, and since they heard my teacher say to her older sister that she wished she was dead, her dad grabbed her and pressed her up against the windshield so she could see her dead sister with blood all over the place and a bunch of broken body parts. It was extremely graphic and my teacher was practically in tears because of that. The worst part about it is that her parents never forgave her for that. Even to this day, they still haven't forgiven her for that incident. You know, speaking of which, I have to get contact with my sister again since she hasn't heard from me since moving to Tampa which was about 7 years ago. She's never heard from me since. One of these days, I'll try to see if I can visit her again. Anyway, moving on. Celestia said "I do know. And I wouldn't trade you for any of the things on my list." That's good to hear.

She pulled in Luna and Luna asked "Not even your zipline?" Probably not even that either. Celestia brought up the list and made it disappear. She said "Not even my zipline." Luna felt guilty and said "I'm sorry I said those things before." You should be. That was an extremely low insult to say to somepony. Especially to your own family. That was hitting way below the belt. "Sometimes, it's just tough being the little sister." Doesn't exactly mean that being the big sister is easy either. Celestia said "It's not always easy being the big sister either." She has a point. "I'm sorry too." You better. They reconciled and that was my cue to raise the Sun. I closed my eyes and charged up the scepter to lower the moon. Once the moon was lowered, I raised the Sun and it shined brightly across Equestria. I did it at a relaxed pace so it would be even more special. Celestia and Luna were completely surprised, and before they could say anything, I simply waved and took off. Well, this was going to be a beautiful morning. Both of them did have a fight, but like any other sibling, they would reunite with one another and make amends. It's like they say: forgive and forget. Hopefully, this will be the last time I will ever have to see this.

AN: Welp, we've reached the end of another chapter! There was definitely a lot of meat in this episode and it was fun to cover. How do you think Zachary did as King? I thought he did just fine, but let me know. Who knows? This could be a preview of what's to come when he and Twilight take over the throne and rule Equestria. Also, this is the last month before I get out of school, so content might be slow as I'm trying to complete these giant projects and final exams. So, we'll see. It might not happen, but I'm just giving you a heads up just in case.

Next Chapter: Manufacturing! Pinkie receives a letter in the mail from Cheese Sandwich inviting her to his new factory. He has a problem and has asked Pinkie to help him. When Pinkie arrives, Cheese tells her the problem. So, Pinkie tries everything she could in order to solve this problem, but it's harder than it looks. Will Pinkie successfully be able to fix this issue, or will Cheese never laugh again?

Until then, my fellow readers