Veggie VBS

It had been two weeks since Bob and Larry took the Mane Six and Spike on the third adventure in the VR machine. Today, they were on their way to the School of Friendship for Sunburst's bachelor party, held a week before the big day. Starlight Glimmer had her bachelorette party at the Castle of Friendship. The invitees were the Mane Six, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Trixie, Cadence, Sunset Shimmer, Yona, Smolder, Ocellus, Silverstream, and Cozy Glow. All were the bridesmaids at the wedding, and Trixie was the maid of honor. The bachelorette party was a slumber party, and Cozy Glow brought some board games that Bob and Larry introduced to her, which was the conversation between Bob and Larry as they walked to the school.

"So get this, Bob. Cozy Glow's choice of board games was the more advanced, like Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit. I reminded her those games were too tedious and challenging for a slumber party in Equestria. So I recommended she bring easier games like Chutes & Ladders and Hungry Hungry Hippos."

"Well, Larry, that shows you just how intelligent Cozy Glow is for her age. I can't believe how easy it is for her to learn the Bible. I haven't seen our men's Bible study members understand so fast."

"Anyways, Bob, do you know what this bachelor party will entail?"

"Just that Spike told me and you to enter the School of Friendship's gymnasium around this time. He is one of the groomsmen, along with Big Mac, Cheese Sandwich, Sandbar, Gallus, and Shining Armour as the best man."

"Oh boy! I can't wait for our night of fun!"

Bob and Larry entered the school and hopped to the gymnasium, where Spike and Big Mac greeted them.

"Good evening, Bob and Larry," said Spike. "You are not going to believe your eyes when you see what this bachelor party has in store for you tonight."

"Eeenope!"

"You see, Big Mac and I met with Discord at one of our club meetings, and we all agreed that since he has been using his chaos magic for good. He could plan our bachelor party for tonight."

"Eeeyup!"

"Oh my!" said Bob, "this night will sure be unpredictable."

"True," said Larry, "but since Discord was kind and generous enough to build our church. I think we can still trust him."

"Hey, groom and groomsmen!" called out Spike. "Our officiators are here!"

"Hello, Bob and Larry," said Sunburst. "Thanks again for letting Starlight Glimmer and I have our wedding in your church."

"By the way," said Shining Armor. "I gotta thank you two for giving confidence to my younger sister the night you met her."

"Bob and Larry!" exclaimed Cheese Sandwich. "I'm thrilled to be in your presence once again, and I can't wait to perform a selection of songs I have planned for the wedding reception."

"What's up, dudes," said Sandbar. "The classes here at the School of Friendship have been much funner since you two came around. After forgiving Cozy Glow, I've also felt much happier and more peaceful inside."

"I couldn't agree with you more, Sandbar," said Gallus. "Who would've thought a talking tomato and cucumber would be so beneficial to all our lives."

"Awe, God blessed us with friends such as yourselves," admired Bob.

"Yeah," said Larry, "you're all the pals. By the way, when do we start the bachelor party? It seems like this gymnasium is empty with no decorations or activities."

"We have to wait until Discord arrives," said Spike. "He is the party planner for this event."

"Eeeyup!"

All of a sudden, a giant canister vacuum cleaner appeared and sucked up the nine male partygoers. The vacuum cleaner then teleported into a dimension of a carnival with a colossal roller coaster and spat the group out.

"Well, I hope that mode of transportation didn't suck," joked Cheese Sandwich, causing everybody else to laugh.

"Hey, what's with the giant cake?" asked Larry, who noticed it in front of the entrance to the roller coaster that lit up with a spotlight.

"Welcome," said the voice of an unseen announcer. "To the Amusement of Bemusement. Now, please welcome your host Discord!"

A fanfare played as Discord popped out of the cake wearing a purple pinup leotard, fishnet stockings, high-heel boots, make-up, and a blonde wig. Bob, Larry, Spike, Big Mac, Sunburst, and Shining Armor stared awkwardly as Cheese Sandwich, Sandbar, and Gallus laughed until their sides hurt.

"Hey Discord," mocked Sandbar, "nice outfit!"

"You look gorgeous!" snickered Gallus.

Cheese Sandwich wolf-whistled and taunted, "I think we have a winner for the Miss Draconequus Pageant."

"I'd be tempted to have some fine-looking mares dressed in that style," commented Larry. "But that would be just wrong, especially with Sunburst about to be married."

"Discord!" rebuked Bob. "There are children here; you can't wear an outfit like that!"

"Oops," blushed Discord, "wrong outfit!" Discord quickly changed into a red suit with a matching top hat and cane. "Welcome ponies, dragons, griffons, and vegetables to my dimension. For tonight's bachelor party, you will get to ride my Raging Rapid Roller Coaster of Risk and Ruckus! Cost-free and line-free, please keep your hands, feet, hooves, claws, and talons inside the ride at all times. Amuseument of Besusement is not liable for any injuries resulting in breaking the rules."

When the nine partygoers got inside the roller coaster, they sat in the order they were seated in from the back to the front: Sandbar, Gallus, Cheese Sandwich, Shining Armor, Sunburst, Big Mac, Spike, Larry, and Bob.

"Oh boy! Bob," exclaimed Larry. "Every carnival ride will be a bore after riding this extravagance!"

"You said it, Larry, " Bob responded. "I just hope I don't get motion sickness."

The nine roller coaster cars moved down the tracks to the launching position as Discord counted down to the start of the roller coaster. "In five, four, three, two, one...BLAST OFF!!!" The roller coaster went from zero to sixty in the fragment of a nanosecond; in fact, the roller coaster went faster than the speed of sound as it zoomed across every mile of track, drop, and loop-de-loop.

"LARRY!!!" yelled out Bob. "I THINK MY NOSE WILL TURN INSIDE OUT!!!"

"OH YEAH, BOB!!!" yelled out Larry, "I FEEL MY TOOTH IS GOING TO BE PULLED FROM MY GUMS!!!"

"THIS IS JUST PURE AWESOME!!!" yelled out Cheese Sandwich, the only one not overwhelmed with his hooves in the air. "I'VE GOT TO RIDE THIS ROLLER COASTER A SECOND TIME WITH PINKIE PIE!!!"

Then, from the back to the front, every single partygoer was flung from the roller coaster outside of the dimension to different locations across Equestria.

Sandbar found himself atop a snowy mountain and landed on a little shed made of sticks that smashed into bits when he found himself in the company of satisfied yaks.

"Green pony smash like yaks!"

"Green pony make great competition!"

"Green pony isn't just any. Green Pony has our beloved Yona as love interest."

"Oh my," said Sandbar, "I'm in Yakyakistan; wait until Yona hears about this."

Gallus had a bubble over his head and was rushing under the ocean, where he crashed through a girly bedroom window; when he looked around, he noticed that this was Silverstream's bedroom.

"Huh," he wondered, "I've always wanted to know what my crush's living quarters looked like. So why don't I feel that satisfied."

All of a sudden, Terramar came through the entrance to the bedroom door.

"Gallus!" he exclaimed. "What in Celestia, are you doing in my sister's bedroom? You better not have been stalking her, or you're dead to me!"

"No, don't be mad, Terramar," said Gallus, "I can explain!"

Cheese Sandwich slid across the rocky surface of Griffonstone and got himself tangled into some long rope with a grappling hook. The grappling hook stood firm on the edge of a cliff as Cheese Sandwich dangled upside down deep into the Abysmal Abyss.

"So, this is what the Arimaspi thought when he fell into the Abyss. That was his karma for stealing the idol from King Guto."

He then noticed three griffons look down upon him.

"Ha!" taunted Grampa Gruff, "that is what that cheese clown gets for defending that nasty good-for-nothing brat! I wouldn't care if he dropped down to the bottom!"

"Shut up, Grampa Gruff!" snapped Gilda. "I've had it up to here for how you treat us, especially Gabby and Gallus!"

"Don't worry, Cheese Sandwich," called out Gabby, "I will get you out of there."

"Thanks, Gabby," said Cheese Sandwich, "in the meantime, I'll just hang around."

Shining Armor slid down a rocky wall in the depths of a dark cave and landed upside down in a minecart, where he heard a voice walking over to his area.

"Hey, Fido and Spot, I found a unicorn pony!" said Diamond Dog, Rover.

"We could have him search gems for us since we were banished," said Fido.

"He sure looks stronger than that whiny mare we tried beforehand," said Spot.

When the trio of Diamond Dog miners tried to grab him, Shining Armor reacted by kicking them with his hooves. "Take your filthy paws off of me, you disgusting demon dogs!"

"Ow," said Spot worried, "this pony knows how to defend himself."

"That ain't just any pony," said Fido nervously. "That's Shining Armour, ruler of the Crystal Empire, former captain of the guard to Princess Celestia."

"You got that right!" growled Shining Armour. "If I'm not mistaken, you are the Diamond Dogs that abducted Rarity and made her dig up gems. Give me one reason I shouldn't throw you canines into my dungeon!"

"Please, your majesty, spare us!" begged Rover. "We never wanted to hurt the mare; we're just finding a way to make an extra bundle of bounty. It's been hard for us to be banished from our kingdom with no job or source of income!"

"Okay, I'll leave you alone, but there will be Tarturus to pay if I catch you three trying to kidnap again."

Sunburst fell through trees of a forest above a little wedding between two kirins in their village, which Rain Shine was officiating.

"By the power's vested in me, and I know pronounce you husband and wife."

Sunburst dropped between the bride and groom on a vine. They inadvertently kissed him on both cheeks, and his glasses fell from his face.

"Well, this ironic," he commented, "a groom-to-be crashes a wedding right before his wedding. Hey everypony, I'm sorry for interrupting. I didn't mean to teleport here; please don't transform into niriks and roast me aflame."

"Don't worry, my dear stallion," said Autumn Blaze from the audience. "Ever since Applejack and Fluttershy visited here, we've been more welcoming to visitors in our village, and it helps us be more welcoming to strangers of different species."

Big Mac slid down the rocky hillside of a volcanic mountain and felt relieved he didn't fall into any lava. But then he fell into a pit of dragon eggs that began to hatch and crawled all over Big Mac as his heart was warmed by the contagious cuteness from the newborns.

"Eeeyup, I know Sugar Belle, will consider me the best father a colt or filly could have."

"Ahem," said Ember as she flew to the pit, "I don't think I recall hiring any ponies to be wet nurses for our babies. Especially not a stallion like yourself."

"Eeenope, it's a long story, your majesty."

Spike found himself inside a tiny tub of water and noticed that apples were floating from the surface above; when he noticed that the contestant was attempting to bob for them, he widened her eyes at the sight of Spike at the bottom.

Spike rose to the surface, coughed, and noticed that the individual bobbing for apples was the buffalo calf Little Strongheart.

"Hey," she said, "you're that dragon that played piano at the peace meeting in Appleloosa a while back."

"Spike?" said Braeburn, confused about who was hosting the bobbing for Apple game. Didn't Applejack tell you these tubs are not for bathing in?"

"Oh, Hi, Braeburn," said Spike. "I teleported here via a very mysterious method."

"Spike, my little buddy!" said Capper. "How's my favorite dragon doing this fine evening at Appleloosa's first annual rodeo-pow wow?

"Rodeo-what now?" asked Spike.

"You see," explained Capper. "After we saved Equestria from the Storm King, with you as my flamethrower. I repented from my past as a con artist and decided to go into event planning; Pinkie Pie taught me everything I needed to know. This rodeo-pow wow combined the two events of ponies and buffalos alike to increase their peaceful relations and apple sharing."

"Wow, Capper," said Spike. "I knew your charming craftiness would be used for good someday."

Bob fell from the sky into a giant cannon on a beach, which his falling into went unnoticed by its users.

"Uh-oh," said Bob, worried, "I think I'm stuck."

"Avast me, Mullet! " a female voice yelled, "Your cannonball traveled thirty yards faster than Boyle's. Alright, Lix Spittle, it's your turn!"

"Prepared to say 'blow me down!' Captain Celaeno," Lix Spittle said as she lit the fuse, causing Bob to launch and scream as he flew from the air into the sea.

"Avast me, hearties!" exclaimed Boyle, "that cannonball is red with a face on it!"

"That's no cannonball, matey," responded Mullet, "it's that tomato fellow who saved that lassie from the scourge of the seven seas."

"All hands on deck, crew!" commanded Captain Celaeno.

Squabble let out a squawk as he leaped into the water and swam to Bob's rescue. Bob was not unconscious but delirious, having been knocked out by the wind; Squabble grabbed Bob, swam him back to the shore, and attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

"AH!" Bob shouted, frightened as he returned to his senses. " No kiss on the mouth, please!"

"You got to be careful, matey," said Celaeno, "if you want to be shot out of a cannon, you should look into circus lessons."

"Thanks for the tip, my birdie buccaneers," said Bob, exhausted, "but you won't believe the night I had."

"Delicious," said Grubber to himself as he sat inside a diner in Manehattan. "The only food that nasty Storm King served me was stale wholegrain bread. But now I get to chow on all the chocolate-flavored desserts this establishment offers. Chocolate cake, chocolate cookies, chocolate pie, chocolate pancakes, chocolate ice cream, chocolate muffins, chocolate pudding, chocolate milk to drink, and a side of giant chocolate pickle!"

Larry crashed onto the dining table as Grubber took a few seconds to realize what was up.

"What, ewww! I hate pickles! Who would put chocolate on a pickle!"

"Uh, I'm a cucumber, you skunk."

"I'm a hedgehog, and what are you doing in my desserts?"

"If you can believe it, I was flung from a roller coaster into this diner. Hey, waiter, check, please!"

Discord then snapped his finger and transported the nine partygoers back into his dimension. Still, this time, he had them teleported inside a giant spa with an enormous hot tub for everybody and complimentary smoothies decorated with tiny umbrellas.

Boy," said Larry, "that was a wild escapade. I'm glad we can finally relax and stretch our legs, not that me and Bob have any."

"Yep," said Bob, "I think this is my preference for a bachelor party anyway."

"You know," said Discord, "I have an excellent idea; why don't we make this bachelor party a stag and doe party!"

Discord snapped his fingers again, and all eighteen bachelorette partygoers fell into the hot tub to join.

"Ooof," said Smolder, "what is the purpose of this place for the bachelorette party."

"I have no idea, Smolder," said Ocellus. "But it sure looks relaxing."

"Yona wondering what Sandbar and Gallus are doing here?"

"Oh, hi, Yona," said Sandbar, blushing, "tonight I got into a smashing competition back at your home."

"Uh-huh," said Gallus, blushing, "and guess what, Silverstream, I got to see your house and meet your brother."

"What kind of activities have you been up to?" asked Silverstream with a raised eyebrow.

Cadence fell into the hot tub next to her husband. "Honey, what is going on here?"

"Let's just say Discord, put us on a roller coaster of a night both metaphorically and literally," said Shining Armor, "I also got the chance to confront some Diamond Dogs."

"And I thought the bachelor party for your wedding was insane," said Cadence.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders fell into the hot tub together.

"Amazing," said Scootaloo, "this is even better than the spa in Ponyville."

"I know Rarity will love this place," said Sweetie Belle.

"Hey, Big Mac," Apple Bloom asked her older brother, "I thought the purpose of the bachelor and bachelorette parties was to have them separate?"

"Eeeyup," agreed Big Mac, "I also thought that baby dragons wouldn't cuddle with a pony after hatching."

"Hmm," wondered Sunset Shimmer. I have traveled across dimensions before; I wonder what this experience will be like."

"The Great and Powerful Trixie must know all the magical properties of the chaos dimension to make her magic shows even more spectacular."

Starlight Glimmer landed next to her soon-to-be husband.

"Oh, hello, honey," Sunburst said. You won't believe the trip I took tonight. Don't be jealous, but I accidentally stumbled onto a Kirin wedding and was kissed on the cheeks by both the bride and groom."

"I'm not jealous, sweetie," said Starlight Glimmer. "Maybe that experience will teach you how to kiss me in a week."

Pinkie Pie landed next to her boyfriend.

"Pinkie-poo!" shouted out Cheese Sandwich.

"Cheesie Weesie!" Pinkie Pie responded, "What fun do the girls and I have to look forward to tonight."

"Who knows," said Cheese Sandwich. "Tonight, I had the most exciting moments of my life. I rode a roller coaster, got flung off, hung from the Abysmal Abyss, and got rescued by Gabby as Gilda finally told off Grampa Gruff!"

"Wow," said Rainbow Dash, "I didn't think that Gilda had it in her."

Rarity landed in front of Spike.

"This is the most unexpected, my Spikey-Wikey," said Rarity. "I hope I don't get my mane wet."

"Speaking of getting wet," said Spike. "I teleported to Appleloosa, where Capper organized a hybrid rodeo-pow wow to strengthen the relations of ponies and buffalo. I landed in a bobbing for apple game organized by Braeburn."

"Well, I'll be," said Applejack. "I'm proud of muh cousin for being the diplomat that Appleloosa needs."

Fluttershy flew over to Discord and asked a question. "Oh my, Discord, I didn't expect the bachelor and bachelorette parties to combine like this. Did you make sure to keep everyone out of trouble?"

"Rest assured, my dear Fluttershy," said Discord. "During our night of chaotic fun, I made all the males keep safe and sound. I know how upset you would be if I put them at harm's risk. Right now, I thought it best for everyone to relax and take a breath."

"Thanks, Discord," said Fluttershy, "this place is free of any stress or worry."

Twilight Sparkle walked over to Bob and Larry. "So," she said. "It seems that while we females were having a slumber party, you males were being flung from a roller coaster across Equestria."

"That's right," said Bob. "I found myself in a cannonball contest with these parrots dressed as pirates."

"Oh yeah," said Twilight, "that must be Captain Celaeno and her crew. We stowed away on their ship, and they initially acted quite mean. But we taught them to have fun, and they helped us defeat the Storm King."

"Cool," said Larry, "and I landed on a dining table, crushing chocolate desserts from underneath my body. Being eaten by a hungry hedgehog."

"That must be Grubber," said Twilight Sparkle. "Right-hand to Tempest Shadow when they were under the Storm King's command. But when she defected, he did the same, and now he can live out his desire for desserts more freely."

"Bob and Larry!" shouted Cozy Glow, who rushed to their sides. "You are not going to believe the night we had! Yona, Smolder, Ocellus, and Silverstream played a round of Candyland. The Cutie Mark Crusaders had a round of Hungry Hungry Hippos with Pinkie Pie. Applejack and Rainbow Dash played Battleship together. Fluttershy and Rarity competed in Operation. Sunset Shimmer and Cadence played a game of Chutes and Ladders. Starlight Glimmer and Trixie played Mouse Trap together, and I had a tournament of Connect Four with Twilight!"

"Wow, Cozy Glow," said Larry with a smile, "I've never seen anybody be as excited to play those board games as much as you did."

"Well, second to God and my friends and family. Board games are what I love the most. I want to start a board game company as I grow older."

"Maybe that is what Jesus has planned for your future," said Bob, smiling. "He created every one of us with a purpose as he shapes our destiny."

A half-hour passed as the bachelor party attendees told all about their antics during the roller coaster ride, and then Discord had an announcement to make.

"All right, break time is over! Now it is time for the next chapter of this night of fun!"

Discord pulled a giant lever in the spa as the hot tub transformed into a big toilet bowl-shaped swimming pool, and all 27 party guests were flushed down a whirlpool leading to the next carnival ride.

"Are you crazy, Discord?" shouted out Bob with uncertainty.

"I sure this won't be overwhelming?" asked Larry nervously.

"Don't worry, compadres," said Discord. "Fluttershy wouldn't let me bring harm to a single square inch of your peel. Besides, I'm coming with you."

Discord changed into a striped old-fashioned one-piece bathing suit and bathing cap with goggles and dived into a whirlpool, which took them all on their next excursion.