Indominus Rex (How It Should Have Ended)

Indominus Rex (How It Should Have Ended)
Ohh! Aah! Cat, you need to clean this mess up pronto. We have a contract. All right, I'll try. You don't try. You do. Yes, ma'am. Right away, ma'am. I'll be right back.
:Iron Will: Iron Will lived up to his side of the bargain, and Princess Twilight only has one more thing to do for the day.
:Iron Will: [through microphone] It's your last chance. Come get in line if you want the princess to sign!
:Cruise ponies: [excited chattering]
:[time passing music]
:Cruise ponies: [excited squealing]
:Twilight Sparkle: [sighs] How long have you been waiting?
:Star Tracker: [nervous noises]
:[distant whooshing]
:Twilight Sparkle: Oh, no. What time is it?! [panicked noises, gasps]
:Night Light: [in middle distance] Wow. [laughing]
:Twilight Sparkle: [crying]
:Princess Cadance and Flurry Heart: [laughing]
:Twilight Sparkle: [tearing up] I missed them? I missed the Northern Stars? [crying]
:Princess Cadance: You were right, Twilight. They were breathtaking.
:Flurry Heart: [gurgles]
:Night Light: Aw, we wish you'd been here to see it, sweet-pea, but we're sure you're making a whole bunch of cruise ponies happy.
:Star Tracker: [laughs] I'm so happy I could cry!
:Twilight Sparkle: [suddenly indignant] Oh, yeah. The cruise ponies are happy. My family is happy. Even Iron Will is happy.
:[crunch]
:Twilight Sparkle: You know who isn't happy? Me!
:[smack]
:[crunch]
:Star Tracker: [yelp of pain] Augh, my hoof!
:Twilight Sparkle: [insincerely] I'm sorry. But maybe that wouldn't have happened if you weren't practically standing on my tail! Not even my real family stands so close! Rrgh!
:[thump]
:Princess Cadance: Twilight?
:Twilight Sparkle: I only made that deal with Iron Will so my family and the cruise ponies could have the vacation they wanted.
:Princess Cadance: What about what you wanted?
:Twilight Sparkle: I just want everypony to be happy.
:Princess Cadance: Well, sometimes ponies want more from a princess than you can give, and it can be hard to know where to draw the line.
:Twilight Sparkle: You seem to know pretty well.
:Princess Cadance: Once I had Flurry Heart, the line was easier for me to see. You will always have obligations as a princess, but you also have an obligation to yourself.
:Twilight Sparkle: [sighs] You're right. I think I need to set some boundaries. But first, I owe somepony an apology.
:Twilight Velvet: Aww, how's that, dearie?
:Star Tracker: Better. Thanks.
:[door opens]
:Star Tracker: [panicking] Uh, I think I should go!
:Twilight Sparkle: No, Star Tracker. You should stay. I have something to tell you. All of you. I'm glad you all got to do the things you wanted, but I should have stood up for myself so that I could do what I wanted, too. [to Star Tracker] It wasn't fair of me to lash out at you. If I felt like you were standing too close, I should have said something. I'm sorry. [to everypony] What do you say we do something off the schedule?
:Everypony else: [gasps]
:Star Tracker: Who are you?
:Twilight Sparkle: Yup! We're gonna do something I want us to do, as a family. Honorary members, too.
:Shining Armor: [gags]
:Twilight Sparkle: [giggles]
:Flurry Heart: [giggles]
:Everypony: [laughs]
:Night Light: Now that's cold! This is more like it!
:Star Tracker: You and your family have been really kind to include me, but you deserve your own vacation together. [laughs nervously] And I'm really glad we met, too!
:Twilight Sparkle: Ohhh!
:[splat]
:[boing]
:Iron Will: [through microphone] Attention, cruise ponies! If it's your dream, come to the deck for ice cream!
:Cruise ponies: [excited chatter]
:Zoey: Oh, no! Leave the Rudolph alone!
:Indominus Rex: What did you say to Iron Will?
:Rudolph: It's okay, everypony. [through microphone] [clears throat] First, I want to thank all of you for coming. It means a lot that you'd spend your hard-earned bits just to be with us. But I honestly came on this cruise to take some time off from being a princess. I'm just a pony, too, after all. And even though I want everypony here to be happy, I'd really like to spend the rest of the cruise relaxing with my family.
:Cruise Pony 2: Of course, Princess Twilight.
:Cruise Pony 3: But why was this trip advertised as a Cruise of the Princesses if you just wanted to get away?
== Headline text ==
:Fluttershy: [sneezes]
:Iron Will: Huh, sounds like the search won't be necessary. Iron Will collects now.
:Pinkie Pie: But we had an agreement! You gotta come back tomorrow!
:Iron Will: "When somepony tries to block, show them that you rock!"
:Pinkie Pie: [screams]
:[splash]
:Pinkie Pie: [spits]
:Willful Stage Manager: [munching]
:[crunch]
:Iron Will: Your payment is overdue, Fluttershy! [knocks]
:[door opens]
:Iron Will: [snorts] You were nothing but a doormat, and Iron Will turned you into a lean, mean, assertive machine! Now, pay Iron Will what you owe Iron Will!
:Fluttershy: Um, no.
:Willful Stage Manager: [munching]
:Willful Lighting Tech: [simultaneously bleats]
:Iron Will: What did you say?
:Fluttershy: No.
:Iron Will: Ohhh, I'd hate to be you right now, because Iron Will is gonna to rain down a world of hurt unless Iron Will gets his money pronto! [snorts]
:Fluttershy: As I recall, during your workshop you promised one hundred percent satisfaction guaranteed, or you pay nothing. Well, I'm not satisfied.
:Iron Will: What do you mean you're not satisfied?! Everypony has always been satisfied!
:Fluttershy: Well, I guess I'm the first then. But since I'm not satisfied, I refuse to pay. It's as simple as that.
:[goats bleating]
:[goats bleating]
:Iron Will: Ohh, are you... sure you're not just a little bit satisfied? B-because maybe... we could cut a deal. I-I mean we're both reasonable creatures, aren't we?
:Fluttershy: I'm sorry, but no means no.
:Iron Will: No means no, huh? Nopony's ever said that to me before. Huh... I gotta remember that one. That's a good catchphrase for my next workshop.
:[goat bleating]
==Quotes==
:Rarity: You've got to stop being such a doormat.
:Fluttershy: A doormat?
:Rarity: A pushover, darling. You've got to stand up for yourself.
:Iron Will: Woah! He’s blocking your path. What are you gonna do about it?
:Fluttershy: Um, politely walk around him?
:Iron Will: No.
:Fluttershy: Gingerly tip-toe around him?
:Iron Will: No!
:Fluttershy: Go back home, and try again tomorrow?
:Iron Will: No! When somepony tries to block, show them that you rock!
:Pinkie Pie: Old Pinkie Pie's not so sure new Fluttershy is such a good idea after all.
:Rarity: Old Rarity agrees.
:Fluttershy: You make me lose, I blow my fuse!
:Rarity: What happened to nice Fluttershy? We want that Fluttershy back.
:Fluttershy: No, you want wimp Fluttershy. You want pushover Fluttershy. You want do-anything-to-her-and-she-won't-complain Fluttershy!
:Pinkie Pie: Nyaaaaah! Too many Fluttershys to keep track of! Make it stop!
:Fluttershy: I can't believe that the two most frivolous ponies in Ponyville are trying to tell new Fluttershy how to live her life when they are throwing their own lives away on pointless pursuits that nopony else gives a flying feather about!
:Pinkie Pie: [starts crying] Looks like nasty Fluttershy is here to stay!
:Rarity: [starts crying] I cannot believe what that monster Iron Will has done to you! 
:Iron Will: Iron Will's my name, training ponies is my game!
:Rarity: Oh, sweetie, we all said things that we regret. 
:Pinkie Pie: We did? 
:Rarity: Shh. 
:Iron Will: What do you mean you're not satisfied?! Everypony has always been satisfied!
:Fluttershy: Well I guess I'm the first then. But since I'm not satisfied, I refuse to pay. It's as simple as that.
:[goats bleating]
:Iron Will: Ohh, are you... sure you're not just a little bit satisfied? B-because maybe... we could, cut a deal, I-I mean, we're both reasonable creatures, aren't we?
:Fluttershy: I'm sorry, but no means no.
:Iron Will: No means no, huh? Nopony's ever said that to me before. Huh... I gotta remember that one. That's a good catchphrase for my next workshop.
:Iron Will: [whistling] Iron Will's Cruise of the Princesses makes no guarantees as to the participation of actual princesses.
:[pages rustling]
:Iron Will: But Iron Will learned his lesson before. Satisfaction not guaranteed. No refuuuuuuunds!
:[guitar riff]
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