Episode 10a: Certified Pranksters

My Little Pony: The Mane 12 Adventures

Season 1, Episode 10a: "Certified Pranksters"

Two weeks after the robbery, Hitch had decided to close the case, as not even Zipp could solve it. During that time, Princess Celestia had given Lunar's family quite a lot of money, which Lunar could not stop thanking Twilight and the princess for.

At the Maretime Bay Park, Pinkie Pie was excitedly telling Twilight and Sunny a story. "Hoof-biting action overload! She was like a stunt superstar-" Pinkie excitedly said, bouncing around. "-flying higher and higher, and then Rainbow Dash swooped down, swoosh!" Pinkie appeared next to Twilight, who was busy reading a book. "And right before she hit the ground, shoom! She pulled up! Vroom!"

"Uh-huh." Twilight said, flipping to the next page of her book.

"And then she looped around and around, like woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo!" Pinkie said, mimicking the action with her head.

"Rainbow really did all of that?" Sunny asked.

"Uh, duh!" Pinkie fell onto the ground, she looked up at the sky to see Rainbow Dash, flying. "Oh, it's Rainbow!"

"Oh, hey, Pinkie." Rainbow nonchalantly said, before her eyes widened. "Pinkie?! Oh, not this time!" She zoomed away, with Pinkie following on her trail, leaving Sunny and Twilight alone.

"Rainbow!" Pinkie called out, keeping up with Rainbow's speed.

"Not now, Pinkie!" Rainbow shot back. She started flying faster, to which somehow Pinkie was able to match.

"But... but, Rainbow!" Pinkie said.

"I'm in the middle of something!" Rainbow retorted, going even faster.

"But-"

"I said not now!" Rainbow said, before she hit a rock wall fast first.

"I was going to tell you to look out for that mountain!" Pinkie said. "Oh, well, it just can't be helped!" Pinkie hummed while she bounced away, while Rainbow simply groaned.

"Hi! I'm looking for Rainbow Dash, have you seen her?" Pinkie asked. She was in the town's marketplace, unlike other cities, Maretime Bay didn't have supermarkets.

Rainbow, who had already healed from earlier, was napping on a cloud. "Hi! Have you seen Rainbow Dash?" Rainbow shot up, panicked. She didn't dislike Pinkie, but sometimes she could be a little... annoying. "Hello, have you seen Rainbow Dash? No? Aw, okay!"

Pinkie walked up to Zipp, "Zipp! Have you seen Rainbow?"

"Rainbow? Oh, she's right up there." Zipp said, pointing to a cloud.

"Rainbow Dash~" Pinkie said, in a singsong tone.

"No!" Rainbow said, flying away faster than the speed of light. Pinkie simply hummed while she bounced after Rainbow, taking her time.

Rainbow, who looked quite worried, made it to Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack, who was working, saw Rainbow Dash's worried face. "Rainbow? What're ya doin' here?"

"You have to hide me! Pinkie's on my trail!" Rainbow said, looking around. "Please!"

"Uh..." Applejack stared at her, confused. "Why're ya running away from Pinkie? She ain't dangerous!"

"Hi!" Pinkie said, standing next to Rainbow.

Rainbow screamed, before flying away again. "Bye!" Pinkie said, following the rainbow maned pegasus. Rainbow flew as hard as she can, before she hid in a tree back in Maretime Bay.

She looked around in the tree, before she sighed in relief. "Hi, Rainbow Dash!" She looked down, and realized she was sitting on Pinkie.

Rainbow screamed again, before she left the tree. She flew over across a field and started flying over a hill, and Pinkie bounces after her, taking her time. Rainbow noticed the pink pony coming towards her, and hid in a cloud quickly. A few minutes later, the pegasus cautiously took her head out of the cloud, and looked around. To her relief, Pinkie was nowhere to be seen.

She left the cloud and flew towards the lake, hoping that Pinkie wasn't there. She dived in the water before she spotted Pinkie Pie, wearing a diving mask, a snorkel, and floaties. Rainbow flew back up, and Pinkie swam out of the water.

Rainbow was about to fly away, before Pinkie spoke up. "Wait! I need a favor, Rainbow!" Pinkie said, dropping her floaties on the ground.

Rainbow sighed, "Oh, forget it. You're just going to catch up to me, somehow."

"Oh, don't worry! I promise, it'll be super duper fun!" Pinkie said, wrapping a hoof around Rainbow.

"Whatever you say," Rainbow said, rolling her eyes.

"Oh, Spi-ike!" Twilight called out, putting a book on the table. Spike came out of his room, holding a comic in his claws. "Spike, I need you to get some of the scrolls from Town Hall."

"Why can't Sunny do it?" Spike asked.

"Because, Spike, she's busy with Izzy trying to start some smoothie stand cart." Twilight said. "And you haven't done anything all day besides reading comics!"

"Fine, but I better have some snacks out when I get back!" Spike said, putting his comic on the table next to Twilight's book.

Twilight rolled her eyes, "Whatever you say," Spike exited the lighthouse and headed towards Town Hall.

At Town Hall, Spike entered the building while Pinkie and Rainbow were setting something up. Rainbow moved a cloud over the stairs of the Town Hall. "Over to the right! Wait, no! To the left!" Rainbow did so, before Pinkie spoke up again. "Oh, wait! Back to the right!"

Rainbow sighed while she moved the cloud back. "Now... a little leftish? Wait, no! A few inches south!"

Rainbow groaned as she did what she said, "Okay! Then some centimeters north... then a smidge-a-meter to the west!"

"Pinkie Pie!" Rainbow shouted, which caused Pinkie to awkwardly laugh.

"Uh, I mean! It's perfect! Thanks, Rainbow!" Pinkie said. "Just wait for my signal!"

Inside, Spike gathered all the scrolls he could fit in his arms and left the Town Hall. Just when he stepped on the stairs, Pinkie Pie gave Rainbow the signal. Rainbow stomped on the cloud, which caused a sudden flash of lighting that frightened Spike. A few seconds passed by before Spike started hiccuping.

Pinkie and Rainbow burst into laughter. "Oh, Rainbow! We startled Spike to get the hiccups!" Pinkie said, still laughing.

Spike started laughing, before it stopped when he hiccuped. "Oh, that was good, Pinkie!" He hiccuped, "You always do the best pranks!"

Spike picked up one of the scrolls, but his hiccups accidentally caused him to let out some of his dragon fire, which caused it to disappear in a green flame. "Oh, no!" Pinkie said. "Are you okay? You're not hurt, are you?"

"Pinkie, haven't you seen me use my dragon fire before?" Spike asked. "And, dragons don't get hurt from our dragon fire." He hiccuped again, "Can I get some help over here?"

"Oh, right," Rainbow went in Town Hall, and came out with a red ribbon. She grabbed all the scrolls and tied them to Spike's back. "There, that should hold."

"Thanks!" Spike said, heading back to the light house. "I wish scrolls were fireproof too..." He muttered.

Rainbow smirked, "I didn't take you for a prankster, Pinkie."

"Well, duh! You're never there when I pull my pranks!" Pinkie said.

"You know, Pinkie, you're not as annoying as I thought." Rainbow said. "You wanna hang out?"

"Really!?" Pinkie asked, "This is the most amazing thing to happen to me!"

"Yeah, I know. I'm pretty awesome," Rainbow said. "Come on, let's go pranking!"

Pinkie and Rainbow exited a novelty shop, holding bags full of prank materials in their teeth. Pinkie pulled out a list, names of all their friends written on it. They went to Rarity's house, which for some reason, looked like a carousel.

"Do you think she's home?" Rainbow asked.

"Eh, probably?" Pinkie shrugged as she put a package on Rarity's doorstep. "But this is going to be gold!" She rang the doorbell, and she and Rainbow hid behind a bush.

Rarity opened the door, "Hello?" She noticed the package on her doorstep. "My fabric has arrived!" She went back in her house, and opened the package. Much to her surprise, instead of the fabric she ordered, there was a bouquet inside.

"Oh, must've been a mistake." Rarity said. She noticed a note on it, and in her curiosity, read it. On it, was the words 'To Rarity', much to Rarity's confusion.

"It's for me?" Rarity asked aloud. "This is a nice surprise," She sniffed the flowers, and started sneezing uncontrollably."Achoo! Achoo!"

"This is a prank, isn't it!" Rarity stormed outside, sneezing. She looked around, and saw the blue pegasus and the pink mare leaving, snickering. "Rainbow Dash! Pinkie Pie!"

Rainbow and Pinkie ran away while Rarity slammed the door, "Achoo!"

"Who's next on the list?" Rainbow said, still running.

"Pipp is!" Pinkie cheerfully replied. "And I know just the thing!"

Inside Mane Boutique, Pipp was experimenting with her products. She poured some liquid into a cauldron before it exploded in front of her eyes. "Well, that didn't work... aha!"

She grabbed a bottle full of a pink liquid and poured it in, along with a bottle of glitter. "There! That should do it!" She heard the door open, and went to check it out.

Pinkie, who was in a disguise, went inside the boutique. "Uh, hello, pegasus princess I have not met!" Pinkie said, nervously.

Pipp, who noticed it was a disguise almost instantly, laughed. "Pinkie, I know that's you! You didn't have to dress up, y'know!"

"Oh, uh, right!" Pinkie said. While she was talking to Pipp, Rainbow sneakily entered the building without getting caught. "I need a... uh, full makeover! Give me everything you've got!"

"Everything, huh? Well, sit down, and I'll see what I can do." Pipp said.

Pinkie sat down in one of the chairs while Pipp grabbed some beauty products, "Get ready, because I'm going all out!"

Rainbow, who was hiding behind some tables, went out of her hiding spot. She grabbed anything she could find her hooves on, and put it in the cauldron. The mixture inside it started to bubble, which Rainbow didn't notice. She put a lid on it, before she left the boutique.

A few minutes later, Pinkie exited the building as well. "That took you long enough!" Rainbow said.

"Yeah, well, Pipp really did go all out." Pinkie said. "But on the bright side, I look amazing!"

A shriek came from inside the building, as Pipp was covered in a rainbow substance. "My mane! Who could've done this?!"

Rainbow started laughing as she and Pinkie left, "What are we going to do for Twilight?" Pinkie asked.

Rainbow started rummaging in her bag, until she pulled out an invisible ink bottle. "Perfect!" Pinkie said.

At the lighthouse, flasks and test tubes were on the table next to an ink bottle. Twilight was holding a scroll with her magic, she turned to her equipment before she started writing on the scroll with a quill pen. She turned back to the flasks, which were bubbling, she turned back to her scroll to find that the words disappeared.

"What the..." She eyed the mixture, which was fuming. She turned to the scroll again and wrote something on it, not too long after, the words disappeared. "That's weird..." She turned back to her mixture for it to explode in her face.

She turned to the window to see Rainbow and Pinkie, snickering. She rolled her eyes before she went and grabbed a wet cloth. She used her magic to grab the ink bottle and found out, it was an invisible ink bottle. She put the invisible ink bottle down before she grabbed a real one.

Somewhere in Maretime Bay, Sunny and Izzy were setting up a smoothie cart. "Oh, thanks again for helping me with this, Izzy!" Sunny said.

"Aw, don't worry about it! I've always wanted to start a smoothie cart, among other things." Izzy said. "Anyways, I've made some fruit-tastic decorations!" Izzy levitated Christmas lights up, except the lights were shaped like fruits.

"Izzy! These are amazing! How'd you make these?" Sunny said, inspecting the lights. "Do they even work?"

"Maretime Bay has a lot of fruit themed lights, it wasn't that hard!" Izzy said. "And yes, they do work!"

"This is going to be a success, I can feel it!" Sunny said. "Now, we need to sell samples! Where's our fruit boxes?"

Izzy levitated a crate over to Sunny, "One crate of fruit, coming up!" She opened the crate, and saw that the only thing inside was air. "Hey, where's the fruits?"

"Check the other crates!" Sunny said. She and Izzy opened the other crates they had, and like the first one, there was nothing. "Who would do something like this?"

"Sunny, there's something in this one!" Izzy said. Sunny went over to check it out, and saw a note inside it.

Sunny grabbed the note, and read it. "Get... pranked?" Sunny sighed, and dropped the note.

"Sunny! Sunny! I found the crates!" Izzy said. "They were behind the cart!"

Sunny chuckled, "Well, at least we can still make samples! Izzy, get the blenders."

"Aye, aye, Sunny!"

At Sweet Apple Acres, Rainbow and Pinkie were hurriedly painting each and every one of Applejack's apples with food paint. "Do you really think this will work?"

"Well, duh!" Pinkie said, dipping her paintbrush into the can. "And I couldn't think of anything else, and we had lots of cans of food paint!"

"Rainbow Dash! Pinkie Pie!" Applejack shouted, coming out of the barn. Rainbow and Pinkie took off, which caused Applejack to sigh. "Landsakes!" An apple fell into a water bucket, and the paint instantly washed away. Realizing she got pranked, she chuckled.

At the sheriff's office, Pinkie pulled Sparky out. "Hey- what gives?!" Sparky asked, raising his hands up.

"Heya, Sparky-Spark, listen, we need you to transform some stuff for us!" Pinkie said. "We're going to play a simple prank on Hitch, and we need your help!"

"Yeah, it's gonna be awesome!" Rainbow said.

"Alright, fine, but for a price." Sparky smirked. "As much as I love pranks as the next dragon, my fire isn't free."

"Okay, who taught you this?" Rainbow asked.

"Spike did!" Sparky happily said.

Pinkie pulled out a gem cupcake from her hair, "Gem cupcake~" Pinkie said in a singsong tone.

Sparky grabbed it and ate it, "Deal's a deal, what do you need me to transform?"

"I know just the thing," Rainbow smirked.

Hitch walked into the station, humming. He noticed something on his desk, and went over to check it out. His eyes widened when he saw his badge, except it was made out of candy.

"My badge! My badge!?" Hitch screamed, "What happened to you?!"

"I mean, that badge was kinda giving you the impression that you were better than all of us!" Izzy said, peeping in the station.

"Izzy, that was a year ago! And why are you here?" Hitch asked. "Weren't you starting some smoothie business, or something?"

"Eh, something happened with me and Sunny's smoothie cart, and we need your help!" Izzy said. "And, don't you have spare badges lying around somewhere?"

"Oh, right! I'll be there soon, Izzy, I just need to get my spare badges!" Hitch said.

Outside, Pinkie and Rainbow were watching. "Did you know about the spare badges?" Rainbow asked.

"Nope! Well, next is Zipp and Misty!" Pinkie said. "Though, it's kinda weird Hitch has spare badges..."

"Pinkie, Hitch's cutie mark is a badge, by now it's basically his special talent!" Rainbow said, which caused for them to go laughing.

In Zephyr Heights, Zipp and Misty were in the palace library. Misty sighed and put down the book she was holding. "There's no mention of the Elements of Harmony anywhere else! The only thing about them is the Mare in the Moon section of Prediction and Prophecies, and the Elements of Harmony: A Reference Guide!" Misty said.

"In the story, it implied said that the Elements were used before!" Zipp said. "But there's no traces of them in any history records, nothing!"

"It did?"

"Yes? Maybe I'm over thinking, but there has to be something!" Zipp said. "We learned that the Elements came from some crystal tree called "The Tree of Harmony" under the Castle of the Two Sisters! Somepony has to have planted some weird seed to make it, and for that matter, why?"

Zipp took out a post board with pictures of various drawings and text, all connected by red thread. "The Elements must've been made for something, it's not like they knew Princess Luna would've became Nightmare Moon! Maybe it was made to protect Equestria, so by going on that theory, they must've been used other times!"

"But that leaves the question of why there aren't any historical records on them! The only thing we had were an old book, and some weird reference guide that shouldn't even exist!" Zipp groaned.

"Well, there are gaps in history, so maybe that's the reason why there aren't any records of them." Misty suggested. "The Elements were used to banish Nightmare Moon a thousand years ago, if they were used any other time any records are probably gone!"

Zipp sighed, "Yeah, you're right. But there's still a question that's been on my mind, why us? Why were we chosen to wield the Elements of Harmony? And who was that orange alicorn that was with Princess Celestia a thousand years ago? We don't even know his name!"

"The only pony who'll give us those answers is well, Princess Celestia herself! But, there's no way we could ask her, right?" Misty asked.

"I am a princess, remember?" Zipp smirked.

Just as Misty was about to reply, Queen Haven entered the room. "Oh, girls! A package came for you two!" Queen Haven said.

"A package? I didn't order anything," Zipp said, grabbing the package.

"Well, you really should order stuff more. We're royalty! We can afford to lose some bits!" Queen Haven said. "Well, I'll let you be, tell Pipp to get back here soon!" Queen Haven left the room, leaving Misty and Zipp alone.

"Yeah, I will Mom," Zipp replied, opening the package. "What's in this thing?"

Misty pulled a book out of it, "A book?"

Zipp took the book and opened it, her eyes widened when she saw the first words. "You... got... pranked. Signed, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie."

"Ugh!" Zipp slammed the book. "Typical Rainbow Dash! I thought this was something!"

"How?" Misty asked, grabbing the book and putting it down on the table.

"Unnamed package?" Zipp said. "That and the fact that I was desperate,"

"So, who's next?" Pinkie asked. They were walking around Maretime Bay as the sun was going down.

"We did everyone but Fluttershy, and I know just how to prank her!" Rainbow smiled, deviously.

"What?!" Pinkie said. "We can't do Fluttershy! She's so sensitive that even our most harmless prank would hurt her feelings!"

"Yeah, you're right. We need someone tougher, someone who's not a Fluttershy!" Rainbow said.

"Oh, I think I know just the pony." Pinkie said. "The toughest around!"

"Really? Who? Do I know them?" Rainbow eagerly asked.

Pinkie pulled out a telescope from her mane, somehow. "Here! Just look into it and you'll see who!"

Rainbow eagerly looked in the telescope, before pulling out confused. "Pinkie, are you kidding me? I don't see anyone around?"

Pinkie pulled out a mirror and handed it to Rainbow. The rainbow maned pegasus looked into the mirror, and saw that her right eye had a circle of ink around. "Oh, I get it now!" Rainbow snickered. "You got me Pinkie Pie,"

She held out her hoof for a handshake (or would it be hoof?), to which Pinkie Pie happily took. Except, when she grabbed it, she was shocked. "What the?!" Pinkie muttered, only for Rainbow to reveal a modern version of the joy buzzer. "Well played!"

"Well, I'd better get back home." Rainbow said, realizing that the sun was about to go down. "See ya tomorrow, Pinkie Pie!"

Rainbow took off, leaving Pinkie Pie alone. "This was a fun day!"

The next day, Pinkie Pie was in Zephyr Heights, wearing joke glasses with a round red ball and a droppy mustache, along with the classic "arrow through the head" over her mane. She arrived at a medium-small house, and knocked on it. "Rise and shine, Rainbow!"

The door opened, and instead of the rainbow maned, blue pegasus, was a griffon. "Who are you s'posed to be?"

To be continued... in Episode 10b!

Author's Note

Well, here it is, Episode 10! Well, 10a, but, it doesn't really matter. Unfortunately, I realized I couldn't finish the full episode this week, so Episode 10 will be split into two parts! Episode 10b will release next week, obviously.

But, I also come with some bad (neutral?) news, my schedule is a little crazy right now. After Episode 10b, episodes will be released when they're finished, because I'll only be able to write during Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays now. And when you're me, that isn't a lot of time. I didn't want to do this because my fanfic only started, but I must!

Anyway, on a more happier tone, GILDA'S HERE! Also, does anyone want flashback chapters? Because if so, I've got the perfect pony! Also, because Gravity Falls is back from the dead, I've decided that after the mid-season mark, there will be codes! It'll be easy, probably. But maybe not, because I've been losing my head trying to decipher the Bill Cipher!

If there's any mistakes, please comment so I can fix it and get better at writing!