A/N: The cousin Caramel mentioned is not Caramel Apple. Caramel is the pony from Winter Wrap Up who forgot his seeds. Poor guy. Tries his best I bet.

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Chapter 5: The Best Night Ever

"Harry Trotter-Apple!" Rarity shouted in the room the Mane 6 where in getting ready for the Grand Galloping Gala. Also Harry was supposed to be getting ready but at the moment, our colt wonder was hiding from the terror that was Rarity. "Come out right this instant young colt!"

"NO!" Harry's voice rang through the room but the others could not pinpoint his location.

"A Voice Throwing Spell." Twilight said. "Clever." She had curlers in her hair. They had let Harry hide for a while while they got ready but now he needed his bath and grooming.

"He's always been like this on Bath Day." Applejack said as she looked for her son. "Usually takes two grown Stallions to hold him down. Even when he was little."

"Your joking?" Rainbow Dash said from her "He's a little puny now! How much trouble could he have been when he was smaller?"

"How about running through the town with suds all over his body shouting "NO BATH!" Till ya had to catch him and drop him back at the farm?" Applejack shot back.

"I remember that. That was hilarious." Rainbow Dash laughe and the other mares giggled.

"From then on we had Big Macintosh and Cousin Caramel hold him down while me and Granny Smith scrubbed him."

"That was when I first met Featherweight and Shady Daze." Harry popped up from behind a couch with a grin remembering when the two colts had tried to hide him from Rainbow Dash. Then he realized what he had done. "Horseapples." He said and was caught in a Twilight Bubble by Twilight. "No fair." He said as he flapped his wings faster than a hummingbird. "I can't get out of these yet." His horn glowed his light black color of magic but the TB canclled it out with a weird noise like an elictrical mishap.

Twilight brought him over to herself. "Exactly." She smiled at him before levitating him over to Rarity who was near the tub.

"Harry I refuse to let the grandson of Princess Celestia greet her looking nothing short of three times his best." Rarity said to Harry's face. "Now. BATH TIME." She nodded over to Twilight who nodded back and moved him over to the bath tub full of suds and warm water. She released the bubble and Harry dropped right into the tub.

"No fair." He said as he spat out sudsy water in an arc barely missing Rarity's hair. Which thankfully hadn't been done up yet. She and Twilight grabbed scrubbers and nodded at each other before grabbing onto the young colt and starting to scrub. "Get em off momma!" He pleaded with Applejack. "Please!"

"Sorry sugarcube. But I'm agreein' with Rarity on this one." Applejack smiled at her son from under a hair blower.

"And your not just meeting Princess Celestia." Twilight said as they scrubbed the squirming colt. "Your meeting members of the Royal Family. Ponies directly related to you by blood! You want to make a good first impression don't you?" She asked the now glaring Harry.

"Somehow I don't think doing all this girly stuff to my mane, coat and tail will make a difference when they find out I was raised by the Apple family." Harry pointed out as Rarity pushed his head up to scrub under his muzzle and his neck.

"I hate to say it, but sugarcube's gotta point." Applejack said. "Twilight didn't you say once that the big wig fancy unicorns in Canterlot think of us Earth Ponies as uncouth, cheap labor?"

Pinkie looked over. "What's uncouth?"

"Not pleasant, bad mannered." Applejack gave examples. Then Pinkie let out a loud burp from the cola she was drinking.. "Exactly." She said to the pink mare.

Twilight laughed nervously. "Some unicorns do think that in Canterlot." She said sadly as she scrubbed Harry's dirty wings. "Unfortunately. But not all of us do. My godmother is an Earth Pony."

"Come on...Let me in!" Spike said

"Ok Spike hang on." Rainbow Dash said with her curlers still in her hair as she got out from under the hair dryer.

"Are you insane? We're still getting dressed! And Harry's still being groomed!" Harry was out of the bath now and Twilight was attacking the colt with brush and comb at his mane.

"Uh, Rarity, we don't normally wear clothes." Applejack pointed out.

Rarity growled. "Fine. Sorry Spike." She said as she opened the door. "Some of us do have standards." She said as she went to help with Harry's tail and mane. Twilight moved to his coat.

Spike laughed on his hind at the colt. "They finally caught you?" He asked. "Thirty minutes is a new record."

"Laugh it up dragon boy." Harry snarled with gritted teeth. "Your next." That stopped Spike in his tracks. He turned to see Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy behind him.

"Just get in the tub Spike. And nopony will be hurt." Rainbow Dash threatened.

The nervous dragon hatchling obeyed immediately. He was a bit afraid of Rainbow Dash at times.

Later everypony was in their dresses/tux.

"Wow." Harry said as he looked at himself in the mirror. He was wearing a small tuexedo. woth small holes in the back for his wings. It was white. Rarity said it would compliment his black mane and tail and wings. "Just give me a top hat and monicle and call me KID!"

"Three times your best darling." Rarity called from the door.

The group heard Spike telling them about things he wanted to show them. And have a doughnut eating contest with Harry at Pony Joe's. "Let's go! Hya!" He flicked the reigns on cousin Caramel and Lucky Clover's backs.

"Excuse me?" Caramel growled up at him.

"Uh."

"If you weren't friends with our neighbor Rarity, and my little brother Shady Daze wasn't one of Harry's best friends." Lucky Clover growled up at the dragon."

"To Canterlot please." Spike asked politely.

"That's better." Caramel snorted angrily. The two took off.

"Wow. There it is!" Twilight said from the window of the carriage a few hours later.

( Best Night Ever Song, Harry: At the Gala, with Grandma, and all my birth family. I'm sure, their excited to meet me as I am to meet them. At the grand galloping gala.)

"This is gonna be the best night ever! And cause we'll be here together!" Spike said eagerly. But the ponies all left him hurriedly. "Or not." Spike said sadly leaning his head to the side.

"Grandma!" Harry said eagerly seeing Celestia greet other ponies as they entered the Gala. He bounded up to her eagerly. Many ponies wondering who this colt thought he was. Harry stopped at Celestia eagerly and his grandmother embraced him.

"My little Prince. I've been looking forward to seeing you in formal attire. You look very handsome." She teased her grandson. "Are you ready to meet your descendatnts?"

"I have descendants? How? I'm 8." Harry pointed out.

"Eight years old you may be, but you are the firstborn foal of my oldest daughter. I have had several children over the mellinium but Lilliana was the fairest of them all. So kind and compassionate even as an infant." Celestia said in a loving tone. "Blueblood."

"Yes Auntie 'tia. I'm here." An older unicorn male, many years old by the length and size of his horn. He had a white coat and blonde mane. He spoke in a self important tone that Harry did not like but brushed it off. This was his family after all.

"Harry, this is Prince Blueblood. Your Eighth generation great nephew."

"So Alicorn blood dies out after a few generations?" Harry asked his grandmother.

"It will when other pony breeds are introduced to the bloodline." Celestia explained after waving in and saying hello to a pair of old friends of hers who tried to get a good look at Harry. "However before the Alicorn race was depleted the genetic traits of Alicorns where known to pop up every few generations."

"Cousin Candance is a fine example." Blueblood suggested. "Her parents where a Pegasi and a unicorn. But both had Alicorn in their family histories. Their genes created Princess Mi Amor Candeza."

"You've been studying your family history." Celestia said in an approved tone.

"Of course Auntie 'Tia. I had to prepare in case young Harry had any questions." Blueblood bowed politely to his aunt. Harry heard Rarity squeal with excitement. She had a major crush on his eighth great nephew. "Come along. Stick with me and I'll tell you everything you must know about being part of the Royal Family."

Harry eagerly followed Blueblood away from the entrance hall where everypony was trying to get a glimpse of the foal that Celestia had spoken so kindly to.

Harry stuck with his nephew a good bit of the night. They finally came across his motherabout to set up her stand. He was kind of hungry and had three bits. Enough for a fritter. His favorite apple treat. "Hi mom." He trotted eagerly up to her.

"Hey there sugarcube. Havin' fun?" Applejack asked her son.

"Yep. Prince Blueblood gave me a tour of the castle away from the hustle and bustle of the gala! The library here is amazing! All this walking around the castle got me hungry. Apple Fritter please. He handed her the bits.

"I got ya covered sugar cube." Applejack pushed him back his money and Harry popped his fritter into his mouth and chewed happily.

"Howdy partner, ya hungry?" Applejack asked one of the Wonderbolts that Harry recognized as Soarin. He blushed. Soarin was his favorite.

"As a horse." Soarin said eagerly.

"Well what'll ya take? Apple, apple fritter, caramel apple, apple fries, apple strudel, candied apple?"

"I'll take that big apple pie!" Soarin said eagerly.

Woah. Those cost 50 bits a piece. Harry thought as Soarin took the pie and put the bits on the table.

"Thank you kindly sir." Applejack said and Soarin started walking away.

"Can I get an autograph?" Harry blurted out but he covered his mouth with his hoof. Embarrassed. Soarin turned suddenly and put down the pie with a small smile. He liked kids. And kids looked up to him with him being the youngest of the Wonderbolts at 15. Spitfire herself was in her early twenties and Soarin looked up to her like an older sister.

"Harry, that's rude." Applejack scolded.

"Sorry. Can I get an autograph please?" Harry pulled out an autograph book he hid in Applejack's portable stand when he learned about going to the gala.

"When'd ya hide that there?" Applejack asked in shock.

"This morning." Harry said eagerly. "I hope to get Spitfire's autograph too."

Soarin thought this was cute so he took the autograph book and a levitated a quill to himself that he had on him at all times in case he was asked for one (As they all carried) and wrote his name in it. "Here." He hoofed the book back to Harry and they both felt a spark pass from between the book to each other. The spark surpsised both ponies and the book was dropped.

What the heck was that? I didn't feel any magic from him. Soarin thought planning on asking Spitfire about it later. "Sorry about that." He picked the book back up in a hoof and handed it back to Harry. "Later little man." He said eagerly before picking up his pie and trotting put the small book in the pocket of his tuxedo. "Bye mom. See you later."

"If you where hungry we simply could have gone to get some hor'duerves." Harry's ears perked up when he heard the distaste in his nephew's voice while he licked his lips clean.

"No way. The Apple Family makes the best Apple Fritters in Equestria!" Harry said eagerly.

"That may be but as part of the Royal Family you'll soon learn that we don't associate with certain types of ponies." Blueblood said as they walked away from Applejack's stand.

"Alway's hungry after a show eh Soarin?" Spitfire asked her team mate.

"Yeah." Soarin said eagerly then gasped as his pie started to fall.

As Harry and Blueblood wandered into the hall with the food he heard Soarin shout "MY PIE!"

A few minutes later the Wonderbolts came in. Rainbow Dash, Harry saw, was trying to get their attention.

Guess Dash got her wish. But not in the way she expected...Harry thought as Blueblood sampled a goat cheese tartlet.

"Sip this." Blueblood instructed levitating a wide glass with some crimson liquid.

"What is it?" Harry asked. It smelled a bit fruitish. But rather harsh in something else.

"Wine."

"Hello? I'm underage?" Harry hissed at his nephew rejecting the wine.

"I was sipping wine with relatives when I was nine years old. Its expected of all members of the Royal Family to be taught to recognize fine wines when tasted. This particular one is a rare delicacy from Saddle Arabia. Auntie 'Tia really pulled out all the stops with this Gala."

Reluctantly, Harry took some of the alcoholic drink into his mouth. It turned to cotton. He spat it out "Gross! How can you drink this?" He said outloud.

The rich ponies in the room all gasped at his outburst. Blueblood put a hoof over his face. "He's merely young. And an inexperienced wine won't happen again I assure you all." He pulled Harry from the table forcefully into a private corner.

"By the way Spitfire." Soarin said after the spectacle. "That's the colt who wants to get your autograph.

"I like his style. Not much of a wine drinker myself." Spitfire said with a chuckle. "All right I'm going."

Blueblood back hoofed Harry in the muzzle. "You will not do that again." He hissed in Harry's face while his eyes trickled with tears but he firmly held them back with a glare. "My eighth great uncle you may be, but I am still older than you. You will not embarrass the Royal House of Celestia like that again. Do you understand?"

Harry glared at him. "My Uncle Macintosh is a better Stallion than you." He hissed back. "He would never hit a colt or filly like that. And he was raised in a barnhouse!"

"He's NOT YOUR UNCLE DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU STUPID FOAL?" Blueblood demanded. "That is not your family and it never will be." He looked at Harry's other pocket and saw a photograph. "You think THIS is better than we are?" The enraged stallion demanded shoving the copy picture of Harry's first family reunion with him in front of the barn house with the Apple family "This is what they are in the foodchain!" He shouted before throwing the photograph on the floor and stomping it, ripping it up as he did so in front of everyone in the room. Even the Wonderbolts. Soarin was enraged. "Dirt beneath our hooves. He said coldly.

Harry lowered his head to his now ruined treasure and started heaving. A sure sign he was about to cry.. Spitfire had heard everything Blueblood said and saw him back hoof the colt. She was saddened when Harry started to suddenly noticed even the band wasn't playing anymore. And everypony was staring at them.

"Who the Tartarus do you think you are?" Spitfire demanded as Blueblood turned around. "Backhoofing a colt like that in public? Laying hand on a foal at all?! .And who are you to tell him that the Apples aren't his family? Newsflash assface, ever hear of ADOPTION? I WAS ADOPTED!"

"This is a Royal Family Miss Spitfire. You have no-"

"SHUT UP!" Spitfire said. "I've met members of the Royal House of Celestia before and NONE of them have behaved like you did tonight. You have probably DESTROYED this foal's dreams about his birth family! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"

This didn't even reach Blueblood's ears. He was merely flabbergasted why this pegasi thought she had the right to interfere in Royal Family matters.

Spitfire looked down and saw the photo that the colt was crying over. "Come on little guy, let's get you to your mom."

Harry sniffled as she lead him away from his asshole nephew. "Thank you Miss Spitfire." Ponies heard him say.

"Anytime kid. Anytime." Spitfire said as they left the room.

Blueblood had wisely made his escape while everypony was watching Spitfire and his uncle leave. He made his way to the garden and saw the unicorn from earlier coming toward him. "Hello. I am Prince Blueblood."

"What the hay happened to him?" Applejack demanded as she saw Harry's bruised muzzle and tear soaked tux.

"Blueblood back hoofed him after he spat out some wine."

"Harry." Applejack said with narrowed eyes as Spitfire put her autograph in his "Get my rope. I'll hogtie that bastard and snip his apple sac!"

"He also ruined my treasure." Harry sniffled.

"Treasure?" Applejack asked in confusion.

Spitfire sadly pulled out the remains of the family photo from her uniform. "He ripped this picture to pieces under his hoof. That's when the kid starrted crying. Here you go Harry. I wish we could have met under better conditions." She gave him his autograph book back and turned to leave.

"Thank you Miss Spitfire."

"Again, anytime kid."

Applejack stared at the remains of Harry's first family photo. Picturing how to murder Blueblood slowly in her mind. Then shook her head. She had to calm her son down. "Don't worry sugarcube. This ain't the end of Equestria. We'll get ya another copy when we get home."

"I'm sorry Mommy." Harry said sadly as they embraced.

"Its alright sugarcube. Its alright."

Harry stayed with Applejack as she waited...and waited...and waited...

"!20th minute. No sale. This..ain't like I imagined." She looked down at Harry who had curled up next to her. He woke up suddenly and shuddered. "What's wrong sugarcube?" Then she looked and saw Rarity coming that way with Prince Blueblood. I really hope Rarity sees through this fella. "So what'll it be Rarity."

"Two apple fritters please." Rarity said putting her bits on the table.

"I got ya covered." Applejack said as she gave her the four bits back. I don't charge mah friends, but I really hope Blueblood gets whats...did he just spit out mah Fritters?!

"Caramel apples, Apple fritters, apple FRIES?!" Blueblood said in shock. "My royal lips have touched common carnival fare!"

"Hey! There's no need to goin' and insultin' my produce!"

"I'm going to the buffet to get som hor'duerves." Blueblood said as he left Rarity and Applejack and Rarity shot her a look of apology before following him.

"Well no wonder no one's buying my treats! Their filling up on that fancy scmancy food! I'll get a sale if its the last thing I do!"

A few minutes later, Rarity had had enough of had used her as a shield when the cake sprung into the air after Pinkie did a "CAKE DIVE!" And got cake all over her fabulous Gala dress.

"You have to be the most arrogant, selfish, bastard of a Prince I have ever met! The only thing royal about you is that you are a Royal PAIN!" She shouted at him at close range.

"Ugh, stay back!" Blueblood ordered in fright. "I just had myself groomed!"

"Afraid to get dirty?!" Rarity snarled then shook off the cake and it flew onto the "Prince" who fell on his back in fright.

Harry, feeling braver now that his godmother had seen through Blueblood, went up to him while he was on his back and stared down at him.

"Harry, how can you associate with this witch?" Blueblood. "You will leave Ponyville immediately and come to Canterlot." He ordered his 8th great uncle.

"You know, momma told me swearin' is wrong. Unless you drop something heavy on your hoof." Harry said. "But in this case, PISS OFF!" Harry bucked him right in the eye and he fell over onto Rainbow Dash who couldn't handle the extra weight as she had the Celestia statue on her back after it fell. She accidentally sent the pillars surrounding the statue of Harry's grandmother tumbling one right after another like dominoes. Just as Twilight and Celestia entered the buffet hall to get something to eat. Twilight's mouth open in shock as well as Celestia's. She then saw Harry's bruised face and Blueblood's black eye. Making a mental note to punish him later.

"Well it can't get any worse than this." Twilight said. All of a sudden a stampede of animals came through running away from Fluttershy who was looking like a crazed mare.

"YOUR ALL GOING TO LOVE ME!" Fluttershy shouted angrily.

Everypony panicked and ran around the palace.

"Run." Celestia said to Twilight. Twilight whistled for everyone of her friends to follow her. Everypony followed Twilight out of the palace

As they where running down the stairs one of Rarity's glass slippers came off.

"Ooh Rarity your glass slipper!" Pinkie said eagerly. "Now your prince is sure to find you!"

Rarity panicked and smashed it to pieces with her own hoof. "Let's go!" She grabbed Pinkie and ran.

Everypony except Twilight ran into the carriage as she got to the drivers seat and commanded the reigns of their escorts to get them away.

Pony Joe's Doughnut Shop

"Hey Pony Joe, another doughnut." Spike demanded

"Don't you think you've had enough?" An earth pony with a yellow coat asked.

"Another doughnut!" Spike demanded loudly grasping his hot chocolate with marshmallows. "Extra Sprinkles!"

He heard the door tinkle and Pony Joe saw Twilight walk in. "Twilight Sparkle. Ha ha, long time no see."

"Hey how was the gala?" Spike asked as he turned around in his seat. "How was your best night ever?"

And they all told him about their Gala. Pony Joe put up Prince Blueblood's picture with the words "BANNED FROM STORE" under it with a red circle and diagonal line across his face..

"That sounds like the worst night ever!" Spike said after hearing about their night.

"It was." Everypony agreed with some laughter. Harry was happy cause he got revenge on his "nephew."

"I just hope Princess Celestia isn't upset with us for ruining the Gala."

Suddenly the Princess walked in. "That was the best Grand Galloping Gala EVER!"

Everypony looked confused. "Uh, pardon me princess." Twilight said. "But tonight was just awful!"

"Oh Twilight, the Grand Galloping Gala is always awful!"

"It is?" Twilight asked in shock.

Celestia sat down next to Harry. "That is why I was so thrilled you were all attending. I was hoping you could liven things up a bit. And while the evening may not have gone as you planned, I'm sure you'll agree that in the end it didn't turn out to be so bad for this group of friends." She saw Harry's bruised muzzle. "If you want I could heal that right up." She offered.

"No thanks Grandma, Uncle Macintosh says bruises build character." Harry said eagerly. " 'Specially if they heal naturally."

"Your right Princess." Twilight said after a moment of thought. "Friends have a way of making even the worst of times into something pretty great."

"Yeah." Rainbow Dash agreed. "Hanging out with your friends!"

"Talking." Came from Fluttershy.

"Laughing!" Pinkie Pie giggled.

"You mean doing exactly what I wanted to do the whole time?" Spike asked.

"Yes Spike, you where right."

"As horrible as our night was..." Applejack started.

"Being together has made it all better." Rarity continued.

"In fact, it made tonight..." Harry started.

"THE BEST NIGHT EVER!" Everypony including the Princess laughed at the groups antics.

To Be Continued...

A one shot with how Harry met Featherweight and Shady Daze will be posted early next week. Enjoy this second chapter in two days until then! I've worked on this for a week cause I wanted it to be a great chapter.

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