Bat Pony Pranks

Luna walked down the dark corridors, using the light of her horn to guide her. She nodded to the bat pony guards that she passed on the way to her chambers, where she would stay while she dreamwalked.

She entered the hallway that led to her bedroom, and saw a shape hanging from the ceiling. The magical aura around her horn brightened and she came face-to-face with Echo, the very same bat pony who had told her that eating hundreds of carrots would improve her vision in the dark.

"Eek!" Echo squealed, her purple wings furling around her head to block out the bright light.

"Ah you little wretch!" Luna shouted.

"Princess Luna, can you please turn out that light?" A bat pony stallion asked politely.

Luna looked down the hallway. Every bat pony in sight was sat on the ceiling. She lowered the amount of light that her horn was emitting, and her eyes narrowed in suspicion. "Why in Tartarus are you all sat on the ceiling?" She questioned. "It's rather conspicuous, after your previous joke."

"Huh? Velvet Wings, are we sat on the ceiling?" Echo asked the stallion.

"I don't think so. Zis is ze floor. I has not had cider in weeks, so I know zat I am not drunk."

"Then why is Princess Luna upside down?"

Luna glared at Echo. "What do you mean I am upside down? You are the ponies sat on the ceiling!" she said indignantly.

"Your majesty, if all of us are on the ceiling, and you are stood on the floor, how do you know that you aren't the one who's stood on the ceiling and we're not sat on the floor?" Another bat pony asked slowly.

Luna thought. "All of the other bat ponies in the other corridors are on the ground, the same as I am," she announced triumphantly. "That's the answer: I know it is!"

"Well, for all we know, a gravity-reversal spell could have been cast, meaning we walked in the right way, then the hallway was flipped upside down so that you ended up walking on the ceiling but it felt like the ground."

Luna began to worry. Had she cast a spell without meaning to? Was there an intruder in the castle? She muttered, "No, it's impossible," then shouted, "No! I refuse to believe it! You bat ponies have been playing too many jokes. I will cut your pay if you are not careful!" She stormed down the corridor and walked straight into the door of her bedroom. Embarrassed, she opened the door with her magic and it slammed behind her.

"Ok, bats," Echo whispered. "We need to be more careful, the princess says. That means that we can still play our jokes on whoever we like, but we MUST NOT be caught. Understood?"

The other bat ponies chuckled, and began to plan their next prank.