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Slice of Life

[pages turning]

[door opens]

Cranky Doodle Donkey: I'll never understand the ponies in this town! Everywhere I went, they were all gussied up and lookin' at me funny! Kept asking if I was "nervous"!

Matilda: Did they forget the wedding is tomorrow?

Cranky Doodle Donkey: Oh, maybe they're just as excited for us to be married as I am.

Cranky Doodle Donkey and Matilda: [murmuring and giggling]

Matilda: Well, they're going to feel awfully silly when they realize they've got the wrong date. [gasps] The invitations are wrong! This says the wedding is today!

Cranky Doodle Donkey: But I got such a good deal on them...

Matilda: Everypony in town got these! The princesses have even RSVP'd!

Cranky Doodle Donkey: I told you we should have eloped!

Matilda: Oh, dear. The caterer, the flowers, the musicians! We've got to move it all to today!

Cranky Doodle Donkey: What?!

[door opens]

Matilda: Where's my wedding planner?!

Cranky Doodle Donkey: You told me you could do it for half what the others charged, and then you sent the invitations to everypony in town with the wrong date! [snorts]

Derpy: Muffin?

Meadow Wishes: I really messed up on those invitations! I feel just awful, Doc!

Savoir Fare: Hmph! Perhaps that explains why I never got mine!

Derpy: I told Cranky I could get 'em printed for cheap, but that meant hiring somepony with no experience using a printing press.

[printing press exploding]

[squirt]

Meadow Wishes: Oh, I wish there was a way I could go back in time and fix all this.

Dr. Hooves: [slurping] Going back in time is old thinking, my sister in law and my wife. I was working off a cutting-edge theory of making time come forward to you.

[clunking]

Y/N: My life's work, decades – centuries, really – of research and experimentation, and I nearly had it cracked! Turns out there's a magic spell for it. Who knew?

[zap]

[zap]

Dr. Hooves: But there are so many things that magic can't explain, where science and mathematics are the real magic!

Derpy: Like these? They're pretty.

Y/N: Ah, yes, my flameless fireworks. I never could quite figure out how to get them to ignite.

Meadow Wishes: How did you learn to make all this stuff anyway?

Dr. Hooves: I've been studying science my whole life. Ever since a particularly traumatic experience as a foal, I've been looking for ways to make sense of the world around me. Science provides explanations of things we never thought possible! Now, why did we come here again?

Derpy: Yeah. Oh! Because I accidentally sent out invitations for Cranky and Matilda's wedding with today's date instead of tomorrow's!

Y/N: Great whickering stallions! I completely forgot! And I still need to get my dress tailored!

Dr. Hooves: Rarity? [knocking] Rarity! [grumbling]

[hip-hop playing in headphones]

Y/N: [to DJ Pon-3] Please! You've got to help me! I lost track of time, unbelievably, and forgot that the wedding is this afternoon! [completely drowned out by hip-hop] Have you seen Rarity? She's got to alter the sleeves on my dress, and she's got to do it now! Oh, ha-ha, thank goodness. Lead on, my friend.