Luna's Science Fair Sparks

Luna's Science Fair Sparks is the second of nine chapters of Luna the Miracle Boy series about the Canterlot Presidential Tales. In this miniseries story, Luna Vernadsky is partnered with the Seborga High student – Yogie Ismanto, when Canterlot Presidential University and Seborga High School come together for a joint science fair.
==Summary==
===Signing up or sitting out===
The story begins at Canterlot Presidential University during the afternoon announcements. Principal Tony announces through the campus' P.A. system, in order to promote a positive relationship between Canterlot Presidentials and Seborga High, the two campuses will be holding a joint science fair this year, for which the grand prize is a trip to space camp. As part of the Canteborga Science Fair, each participant will be partnered with a student from the respective campuses.
Despite his love of inventories, Luna is nervous about signing up and seeing some Seborga High friends, especially after what happened if Roman joined the campus since the Friendship Games. His friends, however, encourage him to participate for the sake of showing off his science talents and winning the grand prize. Several days later, Luna learns that some of his companion girls – Martin and Dennis, plan to enter the science fair, but he is still hesitant. While approaching the fair's sign-up sheet, he runs into Princess Finlandia, who also offers Luna support and encouragement. Inspired by Finlandia's advice, Luna agrees to enter the science fair.
On the following Friday, a mixer between Canterlot Presidentials and Seborga High is held in the CPU auditorium, with Mrs. Keith Theresia and First Lady Camilla also in attendance. Luna feels nervous when several Seborga High students stare at him, but Martin and Dennis are there to support him. Princess Finlandia and Principal Tony arrive and start announcing the science teams; Luna is teamed up with a new Seborga High student named Yogie Ismanto and he is immediately taken by his good looks and charm. Yogie expresses how impressed Luna is by his past academic achievements, and they start to brainstorm plans for a machine that uses lights and music to stimulate the Vibes of Principal Levers.
===Secret of Yogie Ismanto===
Sergey the Twilight Sparkle watches Luna and Yogie from across the auditorium. Jealous of Luna's handsomeness that charming Yogie, Sergey suspects Yogie actually is not as perfect as he outwardly appears. After the mixer, he follows Yogie to his home at Seborga District, but after some time of observing Yogie's very normal behavior, Sergey starts to believe he was wrong about him. However, he hears Yogie go into the garage a short while later. When he peeks through the window, he sees a map of what appears to be Canterlot Presidentials and plans to brainwash and control all of its academic civilians.
The next Monday after college, Sergey meets with Martin and her friends just as they are wrapping up Blitzball practice. He informs them of what he found out about Yogie and suspects that the machine he and Luna are building for the science fair is actually a brainwashing device. Concerned by Sergey's discovery, Martin and her friends go to inform Luna. At the presidential library, Martin and the others find Luna and Yogie working on their science fair project. They pull Luna aside and try to tell him that Yogie is not what he seems. However, when Sergey calls Yogie "Aulia-infected person that trying to destroy the country", his choice of words reminds Roman of her painful transformation into Nightmare Moon – even Roman transforms herself as Princess Aulia, and Luna quickly leaves.
Luna rushes down the lever as if he is haunted by Princess Aulia, and the effects they had on his relationships with other people. When Martin catches up with him, she insists that Sergey didn't mean to hurt his feelings and was only trying to warn him about Yogie. They go to a nearby sweet shop, and Martin explains to Luna what Sergey found at Yogie's house. When Martin mentions Yogie's plans for a brainwashing device, Luna explains that the VPL Modificator just makes people want to dance. However, Luna realizes that in his haste to leave the library, he accidentally took Yogie's notebook. Inside it, he and Martin discover incomplete blueprints for a device to brainwash the palace as Roman ordered so, and with Luna's notebook left behind with Yogie, he now has everything he needs to build it.
===Science Fair sabotage===
The Petrovburg Heroes all gather at Martin's house, where Martin and Luna bring the rest of their friends up to speed. As they discuss how to put a stop to Yogie's plans, Yogie sends a text to Luna saying they accidentally swapped notebooks. With his friends' guidance, Luna replies to Yogie and gets him to tell him where his half of the machine is, which Yogie says is in one of the Seborga High science labs. After Luna tells Yogie to meet him at the Wondercolt statue outside Canterlot Presidentials, Luna and his friends plan to break into Seborga High and steal that machine.
Using some of Seborga High's uniforms, the Petrovburg Heroes disguise themselves as the SHS students and sneak into Seborga High School the next day after college. They split up into three groups to search the science labs for Yogie's machine, Dennis and Jason quickly locate it. Before they can decide what to do with it, Yogie appears and catches them in the act. As they confront him about his plans, Lord Twilight Sparkle also appears to incapacitate him. They accuse Yogie of planning to brainwash the CPU civilians with his machine's subliminal messaging, but Yogie says that his machine was intended for Seborga High, not Canterlot Presidentials. When Luna plays the machine's pre-recorded messages, it plays positive messages like "kindness is a virtue" and "be a friend to everyone".
Yogie explains that when he first arrived at Seborga High, he found the students distant and unfriendly. So he wanted to build a machine to make the campus a better, friendlier place. In order to accomplish this, he entered the science fair and rigged the pairings so that he would be partnered up with Luna and they could then finish the machine together. But after meeting Luna and seeing how kind and honest he was, Yogie couldn't bring himself to reveal the machine's true purpose. Despite feeling hurt by Yogie's deceit, Luna says that they need to submit something for the science fair, Martin and Dennis having barely worked on their own projects offer to help.
===Vibes of Principal Levers===
With several civilians from both Canterlot Presidentials and Seborga High working together, Luna and Yogie finish building their VPL Modificator after successfully testing it on Tobias and Celestia. Using a specific spectrum of flashing lights and subliminal messaging, the machine compels Tobias and Celestia to dance. For the accompanying music, the Friheten Rainbooms write a new song called "Get Up and Dance", and Vincent suggests having all of the campuses' civilians join in as backup singers.
Several days later, the Canteborga science fair gets underway, and when Luna and Yogie demonstrate their VPL Modificator for the judges, it succeeds in compelling Principal Tony, Princess Finlandia, Principal Keith, and First Lady Camilla as well as several nearby students to dance. Though Keith calls it hypnosis, Luna explains that the machine merely coaxes people's inner desire to dance to the surface. Overall, the judges are impressed, and as they leave to judge the other projects, Sergey apologizes to Luna for hurting his feelings at the presidential library. Luckily, Luna forgives Sergey and he asks him to save a dance for him at the science fair after-party, to which Sergey agrees.
During the after-party, the principals of Canterlot Presidentials and Seborga High award second place to Luna and Yogie's VPL Modificator. Though Luna and his friends are disappointed that they didn't win the trip to the space camp, they are happy for the students who did win. The Petrovburg Heroes celebrate the successful joint science fair with a live performance of "Get Up and Dance", Luna and Lord Twilight Sparkle dance together as promised.
==Quotes==
:Luna: Blitzball practice this weekend?
:Jason: Maybe after we can all go to Sweet & Sour Resto. I've been craving those chocolate marshmallow puffs.
:Luna: Ohhh... Or those sour huckleberry candies.
:Celestia: Did someone say 'sour huckleberry candies'? You're not going to Sweet & Sour without me, are you?
:Princess Finlandia: Luna, I know the last time you made an invention it didn't turn out the way you had hoped, and the Seborga High's experience was less than perfect. But you're so smart and talented. You shouldn't let anyone stop you. Besides, don't you want to go to space camp? I mean... even I want to go to space camp.
:Luna: Okay, mom... I'll give it another try.
:Princess Finlandia: That's all I can ask.
:Luna: Thanks.
:Princess Finlandia: Very good, son. I'm proud of you.
:Principal Keith: Assalamu-alaikum, Luna Vernadsky. So happy to see you.
:Yogie: So... What do you think, boy?
:Luna: I think I'm very happy I signed up this year, Goy.
:Sergey the Twilight Sparkle: I was at Igoy's house yesterday. And I looked through his garage window, there's this whole map of our campus, and there were all these messages about mind control. And something about wanting to brainwash everyone.
:Martin: I'm not even going to ask why you were at his house. Or why you were looking through his garage window. It's probably better I don't know, captain.
:Sergey the Twilight Sparkle: He's Aulia-infected devil who's going to completely destroy the palace! We have to stop him, or else – our republic is toast!
:Martin: I don't think that Lord Twilight Sparkle meant what he said.
:Luna: Of course he did, princess. Most people don't just throw around the words evil demon.
:Martin: Okay, you've got a point, Luna. It's not that he didn't mean it... It's just he didn't mean to hurt your feelings. He's actually worried that Igoy might be...
:Luna: A bad influence on me? He might make the republic go all Princess Aulia again?!
:Luna: [reading] To be effective, the message must play for at least two minutes. The longer it plays, the more lasting the effect will be. Want the message to take over the campus for the entire school year, so must have at least an hour of music...
:Martin: That definitely doesn't sound like an innocent dance machine. Why are there question marks all over it? What are those scratched-out formulas? These angles and patterns?!
:Dennis: Do you think anyone will notice we're not really Seborga High students?
:Luna: Not if you keep making that expression. You'll fit in perfectly.
:Sergey the Twilight Sparkle: I told you! Igoy's out to ruin our Canterlot Presidentials!
:Yogie: Nonsense! You're crazy!
:Yogie: The machine was never supposed to make every people dance. It was supposed to make our people nicer. When I got to the Seborga High I had all these hopes about what it would be like here. How I'd meet all these great, cool friends and join all these clubs and stuff. And none of that happened.
:Luna: Because everyone there is just so unfriendly. 
:Sergey the Twilight Sparkle: Um... can someone please acknowledge that I was right? Anyone?
:Martin: You were only kind of right.
:Luna: Mom, have we ever been to a presidential dance where everyone was sitting down? Where the dance floor was empty and it was kind of... boring?
:Princess Finlandia: I have been to one or two of those over the years.
:Martin: What if there were a way to liven up any party or event? If you could influence people in a big way, so before they knew it... they had to get up and dance?
:Principal Keith: Some of our people just don't like dancing. What's wrong with that?
:Yogie: But sometimes people don't like dancing because they're afraid they won't be good at it. Or they're afraid they'll embarrass themselves. With this machine, they won't have to worry about any of that. It frees us all up to just...
:First Lady Camilla: Get up and dance?
:Principal Keith: That machine! It hypnotized us!
:Luna: No way, ma'am! It just put us in the exact right mood to dance! Brainwashing not included!
:Sergey the Twilight Sparkle: I'm sorry about what I said, Luna. I didn't mean anything about you or the Friendship Games or anything. I just... I really thought that Igoy was doing something evil.
:Luna: I know. I know. It's okay.
:Sergey the Twilight Sparkle: And I don't think about Nightmare Moon, Princess Aulia, or whatever her name was, anymore. I never thought of you that way. I think you're... perfect.
:Luna: Thanks, Sergey.
:Yogie: Come on! A robot dog?
:Sergey the Twilight Sparkle: I think I finally found one of Igoy's flaws. He may be smart, handsome, charming, and kind... but he's also a sore loser.
==References==
#Main course
#*https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Twilight_Sparkle's_Science_Fair_Sparks
#Secondary course
#*https://www.lbyr.com/titles/arden-hayes/my-little-pony-equestria-girls-canterlot-high-stories-twilight-sparkles-science-fair-sparks/9780316475686/
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Category:Canterlot Presidential Tales