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Most Excellent Princess is the sixth episode of the alternate seventh season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the one hundred forty-ninth overall.

When Princess Celestia gets too overworked, Princess Luna, Princess Cadance, and Discord try to persuade her to take a vacation.

Production
This episode comes from one of the chapters from my fake season six fanfic.

Summary
As Princess Celestia was fast asleep in her chambers, Princess Luna barges in and tries to wake her sister up so she can raise the sun. When Celestia doesn’t respond, Luna travels into Celestia’s lollipop sundae dream and yells at her to wake up from the inside. When Celestia wakes up, Luna tells her that it is time for her to raise the sun, and Celestia sighs in annoyance. When she finally got up, she slips into her golden shoes, necklace, and crown, and she heads out into her balcony to raise the sun for the morning. When Celestia walks downstairs in the dining hall, she finds Luna and Princess Cadance enjoying breakfast. Celestia becomes surprised to see Cadance there, but Cadance reminds her about the royal summit. Celestia starts to freak out over the fact that she completely forgot about the summit. Cadance tries to calm her aunt down by asking her to take deep breaths. Celestia eventually calms down and apologizes, and Cadance agrees that everypony has their mornings. Luna tells her sister that there is no time to waste because the summit needs to get prepared. Celestia instructs her sister to be in charge of the food, and Cadance to get things ready in the castle ballroom, while she welcomes the guests.

When Celestia gets to her throne room to greet the guests coming in, the first guest turns out to be none other than Discord, who requests to participate in it. Celestia gladly accepts, but reminds him to keep his limit. She then suggests him to help out Luna or Cadance in setting up the summit. When Discord teleports away, Celestia’s guard Golden Knight welcomes in Fancy Pants and Fleur Dis Lee, who Celestia knew was going to request special permissions in the summit again. Fancy Pants attempts to bribe Celestia with 500 bits, in which she declines and requests the next guest to come in; but when Fancy Pants urges her to reconsider, the guards escort him and Fleur out of the room. While being escorted out, Filthy Rich after gloating at Fancy Pants and greets Celestia, and then requests to buy the Canterlot stadium for his business. When Celestia asks for his briefcase to check on some paperwork, a pie pops out and splats Celestia in the face. Just when a second Filthy Rich pops into the throne room to ask for the investment, he gets confused to see a second Filthy Rich in the room. The first Filthy Rich begins to laugh at Celestia for the prank he pulled on her, and he turns back into Discord. When Celestia complains to Discord’s mature, he pulls off a mask revealing to be Luna, and then Cadance, and then back to Discord again when the joke ran its course. When Celestia asks Discord about helping Cadance and Luna out, they both walked into the throne room; Luna being covered in food, and Cadance wearing 80s rocker make-up.

When Celestia checks Cadance’s progress in the castle ballroom, she congratulates her on a job well done, but Discord suggesting for the room to be decorated with more cats, and that’s when Discord snaps his fingers and the room gets covered in cats. Although, Celestia tells him to remove the cats because one of the delicates is highly allergic to them; and Discord begins to negotiate with Celestia, saying he’ll use the cats in the next party that gets thrown in the ballroom. Celestia then agrees because the next party will be his birthday. After Discord removes the cats, Luna points out another cat scratching on her tail, but Discord claims that his magic doesn’t affect with princess magic. After Luna removes the cat from her tail with her magic, Discord uses the excuse of waiting a half-hour before he could make it disappear. Cadance asks Celestia if she’s ready for the summit to begin, and she agrees that it is, and orders the guards to let the guests in.

Celestia first greets the Baltimare delegate, who starts get an allergy attack over the scent of cats in the room. To distract the delegate from the scent, she offers her some punch. The delegate asks Celestia about what it’s like to set up for the summits, and Celestia admits that it isn’t easy, but it is worth it in the end. Just then, the delegate of Cloudsdale interrupts their conversation, which starts to annoy the Baltimare delegate, but the Cloudsdale delegate insists for Celestia’s attention, because of the Cloudsdale Weather Factory needing a pay rise. The Baltimare delegate informs him that Princess Celestia isn’t a bank, and the two delegates begin to argue. Celestia tries to hold in her stress over the situation by taking deep breaths. Just then, the delegate from Trottingham requests the attention of Celestia, requesting for double the police force in Trottingham; and then the Manehattan delegate asks Celestia to ask the Mareami delegate to stop breathing down his shoulder. So many delegates began to talk to Celestia at once, trying to tell her their problems, but Celestia suddenly snaps in anger, yelling at everypony to be quiet. Celestia started to feel embarrassed after that, as everypony started to look at Celestia feeling surprised, and Discord just clapped in amusement. Celestia embarrassingly walks out of the ballroom, and heads back up to her chambers to calm down.

Luna walks up to Celestia’s door and knocks on it; and then Celestia yells out that she doesn’t want any visitors, but as Luna peeks her head in and says that it’s her, Celestia allows her inside. Luna asks her sister what happened down to the summit, and Celestia explains that she’s usually clam and collected during the summits, but for some reason, she just snapped. Luna tells her that it isn’t her fault, and that she can relate to not being in control of her emotions. When Celestia wonders what is happening to her, and that she just wants to impress her subject as much as she could, but Luna tells her that she’s been doing it for so long. She wonders why Luna’s been calm after so long, and she answers that she had a long break at the moon, and suggests that Celestia should take a break. When Celestia realizes how much responsibility she has to go through in keeping Equestria safe from harm, she knows how stressful it could be, and knows that one day, Twilight Sparkle would have to go through the same situation. Luna is about to suggest something to her sister, but she tries to change the subject. However, Celestia starts to tease Luna, in an attempt to get her to change her mind and say it. Luna asks Celestia to promise not to get mad, and after she does, Luna tells Celestia that she needs to take a vacation, and just then, Discord and Cadance, while overhearing the conversation from inside hear yell Celestia yell “absolutely not” from inside.

Luna argues with Celestia about how the vacation would help her feel refreshed and not stressed out anymore, but Celestia disagrees and tells her that Equestria needs her allegiance, and reminds Luna that she said that princesses don’t play hooky. Luna then corrects her that taking a vacation isn’t playing hooky. Celestia fears that if she cannot lead Equestria, she doesn’t know who will. Luna offers to take that position, along with Cadance by her side. Discord starts to complain that he should help her out as well. Luna, Cadance, and Discord promise to keep Equestria safe in Celestia’s absence for five days.

The next day comes, and Celestia finishes up packing up her stuff while Luna and Cadance check the list of appointments Celestia was requested for. Before Celestia leaves the fate of Equestria in the other princesses’ hooves, the other princesses try to get her to leave sooner so she can relax, but Celestia keeps wanting to make sure Luna and Cadance know what they’re doing. It starts to annoy Luna and Cadance, and they keep asking her to leave. However, Celestia shows them a magical bracelet strapped to her wrist that would flash and vibrate if the other princesses were not doing their princess duties while she’s away, and her pet phoenix Philomena would watch over them and alert Celestia back there. After Celestia finally leaves after stalling some more, Luna and Cadance, feeling relieved, begin Celestia’s work. When Luna asks Cadance what they should do first, Cadance reads the list and says that she loves Discord and appreciates his love and friendship. When Discord thanks Cadance and agrees with her about him being the best, Cadance tells him that she just said that so he would show up, and she explained that he agreed to help with Celestia’s appointments. When Discord checks the list to see what Celestia has to do, the only one he agrees on doing is tasting the cookies from the bakery shop. After Luna asks Cadance and Discord if they’re ready, she tells them that they’re going to be just as good as running Equestria as Celestia, if not better.

First off, all three of them head over to the Canterlot trainstation to meet with the mayor of Manehattan. Discord was getting impatient, and Luna realized that the train was experiencing delays; that was when Cadance realized he could’ve used the time to finish something else on the list, and just then, Philomena began to screech, causing the three to be concerned of why she’s doing that. Meanwhile, at the Clam Bag Hotel, she checks into her royal suite and was just about to relax, only to find out her bracelet is vibrating. Celestia immediately teleports back to the Canterlot trainstation and asks what happened. Cadance explains that he was about to go to Donut Joe’s to check off his appointment from the list, but Celestia tells them that they have to do it in order. Luna assured her that she and Discord would wait for the Manehattan mayor to come and greet him, and only Cadance was going to Donut Joe’s sale. Celestia eventually agrees, but tells her that only if she comes back to the station on time to meet with the mayor, because all three of them have to be there. That is when Celestia teleports away, and Cadance to sigh over the fact that it’s going to be difficult to do two things at once. Discord asks if they mind a suggestion, and then he snaps his fingers to teleport the mayor’s train instantly to the station. Cadance feels relieved that it solves one problem, but there’s still so much on the list left to do.

Later on, Luna was in the throne room, reading some of the mail that has been delivered for Celestia. After receiving a spam mail, Luna tosses the scroll to the spam box, and then Philomena begins to screech again. Celestia teleports back into the throne room while still relaxing in a longue chair, and tosses the spam scroll back to Luna again and tells her to read the whole thing, and to not skip to conclusions. During a montage, Celestia was relaxing in a sauna when suddenly her bracelet starts to vibrate again. She teleports to Donut Joe’s shop to realize that Cadance was just finished eating a whole pile of donuts, and then Celestia leaves a sack of bits on the table. Later, while Celestia was getting a massage over at the spa, her bracelet begins to vibrate again, and she annoyingly teleports to Discord, who was dressed as a hobo clown juggling chainsaws at a foal’s birthday party, who were really enjoying the show. When he notices Celestia glaring at him, he turns the chainsaws into fish, but when that wasn’t enough, he turns them into regular rubber balls. After Celestia teleports back to the resort, the kids at the birthday party just yawned in boredom. Later while Celestia was relaxing in a mud bath with cucumbers on her eyes, and then… well you know what happens. She teleports to Luna, was reading Daring Do and the Marked Thief of Marapore to the students in a school, and then Celestia replaces the book with some children’s counting book before she teleports away again. Luna, feeling annoyed, knew that the students of second graders already knew how to count.

After Celestia has corrected more mistakes for Luna, Cadance, and Discord throughout the day, later that night, they met in the castle dining hall, feeling exhausted. The three start to complain about how tired they are, and that it might all be in vein if Celestia keeps coming back and not relaxing on her vacation. After Luna said that she didn’t even lower the sun and that she just blocked it with her moon to make it night time, Philomena began to screech again, causing Celestia to teleport back to correct Luna that starting an eclipse doesn’t make it night time. After Luna sets the sun too quickly, and Celestia complains about that too, Luna begins to stressfully spaz out and acts sarcastically towards her sister. Celestia suggests to cancel her vacation, but Cadance insists that they have everything under control. Celestia tells them that whenever they need her back, she will come back. Celestia tells them of a good job they’re doing before teleporting back to her resort. Luna starts to complain to Cadance that she’s too tired out to go on, and that Celestia’s work is harder than she thought. Discord then tells them that they’re only tired out because they’re doing things Celestia’s way and not their own way. Cadance agrees and that the best way to get Celestia out of the way is to make sure she doesn’t come back by disabling her bracelet.

The next day, Celestia is having a suntan on the beach, and she meets a little filly by the name of Rainbow Berry who tells Celestia that she’s a big fan of hers, and that she loves her sun. Celestia thanks the filly for her compliment, but tells her that Luna does as good of a job running Equestria as she is, if not better, because since Celestia only runs Equestria during the day, Luna runs Equestria in the day, and looks over pony’s dreams while she sleeps. Rainbow Berry tells her that it doesn’t make her better in general; it’s that it makes her better at just her own thing, and that Celestia is the best at hers. Celestia impressively agrees with the filly, and tells her that Luna’s not perfect, but that she isn’t either because she messed up a couple of times before getting the hang of how things worked in Equestria, and that Luna never messed up in one thing before she went on vacation. After getting inspired by the young filly, her bracelet begins to vibrate again, and she teleports back to the castle.

As Philomena continued screeching, Celestia gets confused to what Discord is doing wrong, and he claims to just be standing around and doing nothing. As Discord begins to distract Celestia with his conversation about ‘standing around’, Cadance sneaks over to the bracelet to try to disable it, but then immediately gets caught. Celestia tells Cadance that she can’t remove the bracelet because only she can. When Discord asks if he’s allowed to do Plan B, Cadance approves, and a giant magic-proof cage falls on top of Celestia, trapping her inside. When Celestia asks them why they would do that, they both claim that it wasn’t their idea. When Luna comes in, she explains to Celestia that she coming back constantly to check on them is going way out of control, and that she is going to spend the rest of her vacation in the cage if it means she’s going to relax. The three explain that they’re going to be doing Celestia’s job their own way without her in the way. When Celestia begins to mischievously ask Luna to let her out of the cage, Luna felt suspicious, but after Celestia used her clever words, Luna eventually couldn’t resist and lets her out, only to have Celestia remove her bracelet with her magic.

When Luna, Cadance, and Discord get confused to why Celestia removed her bracelet, Celestia explains that she only came to check up on them only because she was afraid they would get stressed out for doing her job like she was, and apologizes for coming back constantly. She said she’s going back on vacation, and she’s going to completely trust Luna in running Equestria. When Philomena begins to screech in joy, Discord demands that she take Philomena with her. Later that night back in the resort, she starts talking to Philomena and explains that she is really enjoying her vacation, and completely trusts Luna, Cadance, and sort-of Discord in running her kingdom for her, and that it’s ok to take a vacation every now and then. Celestia then decides to write down the friendship lesson she learned, and to send it to Twilight. When Spike receives the scroll, he gives it to Twilight, and feeling inspired, Twilight suggests Spike to pack up his bags because they’re going on vacation. When Spike asks where they’re going, Twilight looks at a picture of Celestia and herself, still as Celestia’s student hanging on her wall and answers: somewhere away from the books.

Credits

 * Nicole Oliver as Princess Celestia, Fleur Dis Lee
 * Tabitha St. Germain as Princess Luna, Cloudsdale Delegate
 * John de Lancie as Discord, Stew
 * Britt McKillip as Princess Cadance
 * Trevor Devall as Fancy Pants, Golden Knight, Bellhop
 * Brian Drummond as Filthy Rich, Trottingham Delegate
 * Sharron Alexander as Baltimare Delegate
 * Jason Schombing as Manehattan Delegate
 * Vincent Tong as Mareami Delegate
 * Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle
 * Cathy Weseluck as Spike, Rainbow Berry

Quotes

 * Princess Luna: Oh good, you’re awake, dear sister. Now if you be so kind, I already lowered the moon. Now it is time for you to raise the sun. Come on, sleepy head! Princesses don’t play hooky!
 * Princess Celestia: (sighs)


 * Princess Celestia: My apologies, Cadance. I’m not much of a morning pony as you might’ve witnessed.
 * Princess Luna: How ironic.
 * Princess Cadance: We all have our moments.


 * Princess Celestia: Oooh, sister, sister, sister. I’ve been handling the summit for thousands of years. I think I know what I’m doing.


 * Discord: Oooh I do love being helpful! Maybe I can help Cadance out with the decorations, or help Luna make the best stew ever made!
 * Stew: Hi, my name is Stew!


 * Fancy Pants: I’m prepared to pay you a small fee if you give me special privileges at the summit.
 * Princess Celestia: Hmm… sounds tempting. How much are we talking about?
 * Fancy Pants: 500 bits.
 * Princess Celestia: No thank you. I’m good. Next!


 * Felur Dis Lee: Hey! Hooves off the mane! It’s worth more than your salary!


 * Filthy Rich: Fancy Pants.
 * Fancy Pants: Mr. Filthy.
 * Filthy Rich: How mature.


 * Princess Celestia: Perfect! Absolutely perfect, Cadance! You never seize to amaze me!
 * Discord: Although it could use more cats. (snaps fingers) There! That’s better! Everypony loves cats!
 * Princess Luna: Not everypony.
 * Discord: Eh, who asked for your opinion?


 * Cloudsdale Delegate: But the factory is in need of repairs! We still don’t know who sabotaged the snow machine, but we need repairs before next winter comes!


 * Manehattan Delegate: Princess Celestia? Will yous please ask the delegate from Maremi to stop breathin’ down my shoulder?
 * Mareami Delegate: Broooo! You have, like, the wackiest tie in the whole room!


 * Princess Celestia: I don’t know what went over me. I usually stay calm and collected during the summits, and suddenly, I just snapped.
 * Princess Luna: What happened down there wasn’t your fault, dear sister. You had no control over your emotions. I understand, as I once shared a similar experience.


 * Princess Celestia: Hey Luna?
 * Princess Luna: No.
 * Princess Celestia: Hey, Lunaaaaa.
 * Princess Luna: You’re not going to break me, Celestia.


 * Princess Celestia: Oh yeah? And who should take my position while I’m gone?
 * Princess Luna: I will.
 * Princess Celestia: By yourself?
 * Princess Luna: Not by myself.
 * Discord: Hellooooo!
 * Princess Celestia: Really?
 * Princess Luna: Well… not Discord.
 * Discord: Hey!


 * Princess Celestia: I can see you two are making your schedule for when I’m gone.
 * Princess Cadance: We learned it from you, Aunt Celestia! Sometimes constant need for organization rubs off on other ponies.


 * Princess Celestia: I’m going now! See you soon! I’ll be back before you know it! I’m trusting you to keep watch over EQuestria. Because… you know, I’m responsible for-
 * Princesses Luna and Cadance: Get out!


 * Discord: Now let’s see… hmm… boring, boring, boring, done that before, boring, boring, I’m not wearing the right shoes for that occasion, boring, boring, hmm… I suppose I can squeeze in some time to try some cookies from the bakery shop.


 * Princess Celestia: Thank you so much, good sir! But really, I would’ve been okay with just a plain room. You didn’t have to go all this way to- ooo, is that a bowl of chocolates?


 * Princess Luna: Hello! You’ve just been chosen to win a new toaster for- wait, what’s that bacteria stuff I see on the paper? Oh great! There’s a virus on this mail!


 * Princess Luna: What? No jokes this time?
 * Discord: Oh you want a joke? Ok, knock-knock.
 * Princess Luna: Who’s there?
 * Discord: I’m too tired to make jokes.


 * Discord: So it’s agreed then. We’re doing to catch Princess Celestia off guard, and we’re doing to DESTROY her! Or, we can just disable that bracelet thingy of hers. You know, that’s an option.