A/N: Sorry about that, Roleplayer48, I had to help take Panda94 for her haircut appointment before she was taken to her day program, and then I had to catch up on my sleep. Anyhow, here's the next part.
(Luna Eclipsed: The What You'd Normally Expect In A Timon and Pumbaa/MLP Crossover From Dede42 and RolePlayer48 Edition)
Chapter 5: Can Luna Have Fun? Part 2
Returning to Ponyville and the festival, the ponies were all having fun again with games and dancing, but the moment they saw Sunrise Blossom, Timon, and Pumbaa return with Princess Luna, they all became scared and a few ran away.
"It is of no use, Sunrise Blossom," Princess Luna said sadly, glancing around at the ponies that were steering clear of them with scared expressions on their faces. "They have never liked us and they never shall."
"''Oh don't be such a sourpuss, Lulu. I'm sure Sunrise knows somepony who can help you see how to have fun!'" Timon exclaimed, unaware that a certain tiger, in a skeleton costume, had overheard him from where he was busy pranking the Mayor of Ponyville. "I'm sure Sunny Bunny knows some pony who can help you see how to have fun!"
Sunrise Blossom nodded. "I sure do. Come on."
Pipsqueak tried to reach in and bob the apple as best as he possibly could. "Almost...got it...whoa...whoa...WHOA!" And he nearly fell in!
Applejack caught Pip in time. "Don't you worry none, Pip," she advised, putting him on the ground. "Ah got ya. You gotta be more careful next time, sugarcane."
"Hey! It's not like I WANTED to fall in or anything!" Pipsqueak protested and he ran off to try and find something else to do.
"No wait, sugar!" Applejack called out after him. "Ah didn't mean you were stupid! All ah meant was...oh never mind. I..." She turned and found herself standing face to face with Princess Luna along with Timon, Pumbaa, 'Tigger' and Sunrise. standing next to her. "HOLY GEESE ON A PAPER MACHE SWAN BOAT! IT'S A BIG OL' NASTY NIGHTMARE MOON THINGY! KILL IT! KILL IT!"
"OH COME ON!" Timon shouted, making Sunrise Blossom clamp her hooves over her ears. "NOT YOU TOO, APPLEJACK! WHAT IS UP WITH EVERYPONY THIS EVENING!"
"Applejack, don't you remember?" Pumbaa asked. "Luna's on our side now. You have no reason to be frightened of her too like all these other scaredy ponies."
"Besides, the princess is looking for a little advice on how to fit in around here," Sunrise Blossom added after uncovering her ears once again.
Applejack blinked. "''Fit in''?" she repeated. "You serious? She'll never be one of us after the things she did to us when we last me-"
Timon suddenly held up various torture weapons that appeared from nowhere out of his back. "YOU'D BETTER HELP HER OR I'LL TURN YOU INTO A PERMANENT SCARECROW!"
"Gee Timon," said Pumbaa, yanking away the torture weapons, "you don't need to be that violent."
"You got any better ideas on how to get Applejack to cooperate?" Timon demanded and when Pumbaa went "Uhhh...", he nodded. "Yep. That's what I thought."
Applejack laughed nervously. "Uh, that is...well, what I meant to say was...uhhhhh...fitting in is really easy! All you gotta do is have the right attitude. You know, loosen up a bit, be positive, play a few games. Have some fun!"
"Fun? W-what is this ''fun'' thou speakest of?" Luna inquired.
They all gasped, staring at her.
"You don't know what fun is?" Pumbaa asked, surprised to hear this.
"Oh great!" Timon groaned. "Next thing ya know, she'll be saying she don't know what Hakuna Matata is either even though she knows where we're from considering the princesses somehow know about Disney characters since Dr. Hooves and stuff."
"You mean to say that you've never had fun in your life before? Like...at all?!" Sunrise Blossom asked, surprised that the Princess of the Night and her own sister never had fun together.
Luna shook her head uncertainly. "Nnnnnnnnnnnnnno? But I take that thou knows what fun is?"
"Well, fun is when you...fun is...it's like...uh...tell her Pumbaa!" Timon exclaimed.
Pumbaa tried to tell her, but he was struggling with the words, too. "Well you see, it's kinda...sorta like uhhhh..."
"Hmm. I guess the best way to perfectly describe it would to be in song form," Sunrise Blossom suggested. "Here, let me spell it for ya." And she started singing.
"F is for friends who do stuff together,
U is for you and me.
N is for anywhere and anytime at all."
Timon and Pumbaa joined in on the singing, getting in the spirit of things.
Out here in our town of ponies.
Just then, 'Tigger' showed up and he also started singing along with a broad grin.
"F is for fire that burns down the whole town!
U is for uranium...BOMBS!
N is for no survivors!
When you're...
"DISCORD!" Timon, Pumbaa, and Sunrise Blossom exclaimed, shooting him a look and forgetting about the ponies around them.
"DISCORD?! WHERE?!" Luna, Applejack, and other nearby ponies all yelped, looking around as they all panicked and cowered in fear.
Timon flushed. "Uh oh...uh...nope...he's not here folks," he lied with a sheepish smile. "Made you look."
"Nice save Timon," Pumbaa whispered to the meerkat.
"Oh phew!" the Princess of the Night said, wiping her forehead with one foreleg. "For a moment there, thy thought Discord has somehow escaped his stone prison even though we just turned him to stone."
"Disco..." Sunrise Blossom began and sighed. "...I mean ''Tigger''! What the hay? Those things aren't what fun is all about. And you almost made us blow your cover."
"I couldn't help it, okay?" 'Tigger' admitted sheepishly. "You were singing a Spongebob song and I thought that if anyone's gonna do Plankton's verse, it may as well be me. I mean, hey, it's Halloween/Nightmare Night. Those things I was singing about probably happen on scary nights like this."
"Well yes, I can understand that," Sunrise Blossom agreed. "But you almost made us let everypony know that you're not really Tigger."
"I know, I know. I'm sorry," 'Tigger' apologized. "I...oh look! There's more ponies I can pull some more pranks on! TTFN! Ta-ta for now! Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!" And he bounced off.
Sunrise Blossom chuckled quietly so no pony could hear. "Oh that Discord. So delightfully chaotic."
"Uhhh...who was that orange stripey bouncy thing you were talking to, Sunrise?" Luna asked.
"Really? She recognises Pumbaa and I but not a Winnie the Pooh character?" Timon asked, surprised.
The Princess of the Night blinked and nodded. "Oh, is that who that was? What's his name?"
"Tigger," Sunrise Blossom answered. "Anyways, back to the song." And she started dancing on the spot waving her hoofs up and down. "F is for friends who so stuff..."
"Sunrise Blossom!" Twilight Sparkle exclaimed, running up and her twin stopped dancing with a sheepish expression on her face. "Timon! Pumbaa! What do you think you're doing?! I leave you with Princess Luna for 20 minutes after you said you four would look after her just fine without me and you're acting like complete idiotic..."
"Easy there, Twi!" Applejack said quickly. "They're just singing Luna a song about how to have fun."
"Oh yeah," Twilight Sparkle said sarcastically. "That will DEFINITELY help her fit in with every pony."
"Well if you're gonna behave like that to my three new friends, Twilight," Luna said with a disapproving frown, "then do you wish for me to send YOU to the moon for a thousand years and see how YOU like it?" And the purple unicorn cringed.
"Gee Luna, you sure that's the best idea?" Pumbaa asked uncertainly. "We're trying to get everypony to love you, not hate you or be frightened of you even more than they already are."
Luna flushed, realizing that he was right. "Oh yeah. Sorry."
"Alright. Fine," Twilight Sparkle said, sighing. "You win. I'll go back to looking after Spike at the festival. But I still think what your doing right now is completely idiotic!"
"Honestly, that Twilight," Sunrise Blossom said, shaking her head. "What I wouldn't give to have my potion to calm her down with me right now."
"Shall we try again?" Luna requested, really wanting to know how to have fun and have the ponies like her instead of being terrified of her.
"Sure. Listen carefully," said Sunrise Blossom and she started singing again.
"F is for friends who do stuff together,"
Pumbaa joined in on the next line, which was more proper then what 'Tigger' had come up with earlier.
"U is for you and me,"
"Try it!" said the meerkat, gesturing to the Princess of the Night.
Luna nodded and sang the next line, somewhat uncertainly.
"N is for anywhere and anytime at all."
Timon, Pumbaa and Sunrise Blossom all sang the next line together.
"Out here in our town of ponies."
Luna suddenly felt a strange sensation spreading through her body. "Wait," she said, started. "Thy don't understand this. Thy feel all tingly inside. Should we stop?"
Sunrise Blossom beamed and shook her head. "Oh Luna, that's how your supposed to feel when you're having fun."
"Well thy like it," said Luna, smiling for real. "Let us do it again!"
"Okay!" Timon, Pumbaa, and Sunrise Blossom said happily, and they all sang and danced together.
For the next hour Luna and the trio were busy throwing fake spiders onto the web, doing the pumpkin launch game and other fun stuff, and the ponies around them were starting to warm up to the Princess of the Night, cheering her on with each game that she played. Luna was feeling happier and happier, and soon they were all singing the 'Fun' song together.
"F is for frolic through all the flowers.
U is for ukelele.
N is for nose picking, playing pranks, and candy eating.
Here with my best buddy."
"Oh, I'm having so much fun," Luna said, laughing with delight as the song ended, and the ponies all cheered and laughed. "Thank you three so much."
"No problem," said Timon, Pumbaa, and Sunrise Blossom together, thrilled that they were helping the Princess of the Night have real fun and that the ponies of Ponyville were finally waking up to her.
"Hey Princess, why don't ya'll try bobbin' for apples?" Applejack suggested, nodding to the tub full of water and apples. "We got the best apples here in Equestria."
The group returned to where the tub holding the apples was located, and they were all alarmed when Pipsqueak, who'd been trying to retrieve an apple, began toppling. "Whoa!" he yelped and fell into the water with a splash. Alarmed, Princess Luna raced over to rescue the foal.
"Hey, gals," said Pinkie Pie, arriving with her group. "Anypony seen Pip? We lost him the last time we had to run-" she let out an alarming chicken squawk when she saw the Princess pulling Pipsqueak out of the water. "Aaah! Nightmare Moon is gobbling Pipsqueak! Everypony run!" she screamed and the fillies, also screaming, fled, too.
"Help!" Pipsqueak yelped, yanking free of the Princess and fleeing after the group. "My backside has been gobbled!"
Princess Luna was hurt by this. "'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!" she objected and stomped her hoof, causing thunder to rumble in the sky, startling the ponies so that they backed away, no longer smiling. "Fair villagers, please do not back away. Let us join together in… fun!" She then tossed one of the toy spiders to the ponies, which squeaked when it landed, but they backed away further. "Not enough fun for you?" she asked angrily. "What say you to this!?" And she used her magic to brink the toy spiders to life.
The moment this happen, the ponies began screaming and running away from the spiders as they swarmed over to the web and huddled in the center.
"Huzzah!" said the Princess, looking around. "How many points do I receive?" she asked, but her heart shank when she saw the ponies were running away and making a mess of the festival in their hast. "Do not run away!" she pleaded, but nopony were listening and she became angry. "As your princess, we command you!" she ordered and when this didn't work, she used a deafening voice that brought back the storm clouds. "Be still!" And the fleeing ponies all froze, terrified.
"Oh no," Timon moaned as Twilight Sparkle ran over to help defuse the situation. "This isn't going to end well."
"I think you're right, Timon," Pumbaa agreed uneasily.
Twilight Sparkle and Sunrise Blossom ran over to the Princess to defuse the situation and talk her down. "Princess, remember! Watch the screaming!"
"No, Twilight Sparkle! Sunrise Blossom!" Princess Luna said in her booming voiced as she faced them, revealing that her eyes were now a solid white, and they were both cowed as she rose into the air, her wings flapping. "We must use the traditional royal Canterlot voice for what we are about to say. Since you choose to fear your princess rather than love her, and dishonor her with this insulting celebration, we decree that Nightmare Night shall be canceled! Forever!"
The twins felt their hearts sink as the storm raged around them and the Princess of the Night flew away. Despite their best efforts, Princess Luna had just canceled Nightmare Night. What were they going to do now?
A/N: Ok, that should do for today, and I will do more updates on the rewrite tomorrow. See you all then! R&R everyone!