Roman's Time to Shine

—Official warning

**Roman's Time to Shine** is the seventh entry in a nine-episode of Luna the Miracle Boy miniseries about the Canterlot Presidential Tales. The story involves Princess Roman of Sunset Shimmer, trying to make peace with Luna and his Petrovburg Heroes at Canterlot Presidential University.

## Summary

### Storm on the horizon

In Canterlot Presidential University, Roman meets Luna and the Petrovburg Heroes as they prepare to take a chemistry exam after having spent the previous night studying together. Roman is confident that Luna and his friends pass the exam, but she is disappointed to have missed out on the group's study session. In class, after finishing the exam before everyone else, Roman thinks about the magic that Luna and the Petrovburg Heroes create through their music and how it works. Struggling for answers, she tells Luna about the magic of his friends and friendship-related troubles with him.

After college, six friends of the Petrovburg Heroes decide to celebrate getting through the exam with a slumber party but also mention that they have extracurricular activities after college. Roman feels left out due to not being a part of any presidential clubs, so she focuses on figuring out how the magic of the republic works.

### Getting the green light

That evening, the Petrovburg Heroes have a slumber party at the Vernadsky Family House. In the middle of their fun, Jason mentions that the presidential sports teams need new uniforms in time for next year's Friendship Games. Roman suggests putting on a fundraiser to raise money for the new uniforms. Her oppositions think it's a great idea and decide to put on various events including a fashion show to model the new uniforms, a bake sale, and a pet parade.

Roman is unsure what to do herself, so she simply agrees to help her friends with their events. Soon after, she finds a response from Luna in her journal offering his encouragement. She reasons that the Petrovburg Heroes' magic was tied to their individual talents, and she resolves to uncover the mystery as a "magic investigator."

### Roman's true colors?

The next day, Roman gets permission from Luna's mother to put on the fundraiser. She then helps out Luna's friends with their activities while also attempting to monitor them for magic. She gives Jason a wrist device to track his heart rate and caloric burn, she takes photos of Tobias' uniform designs and uploads them to the Friheten Rainbooms' website, she observes Dennis as she bakes for the bake sale, and she helps the Fluttershy Brothers (Vincent and Polina) out at the Fluttershy animal shelter.

However, Roman's assistance does more harm than good. Jason becomes too distracted by Roman's wrist device to focus on practice, Tobias' online photos are met with public ridicule, Roman's equipment makes a mess of the presidential cafeteria kitchen, and Roman accidentally leaves the door at the animal shelter open for the Fluttershy animals to escape.

When Princess Finlandia learns of all these developments, she questions Roman's ability to be in charge. Roman briefly doubts herself, but she resolves to fix the mess she made.

### Picking up the pieces

With Luna's guidance to look to his Friheten friends for help, Roman helps the Petrovburg Heroes with each of their difficulties and apologizes to each of them for her various blunders. She also develops a special computer application to show off the new uniforms to restore public interest in the fashion show.

However, when ticket sales for the fashion show are low due to Roman's campus image, while Cecil spreading rumors about her, she approaches her college mates one-on-one to befriend them better. She also extends her friendship to Cecil, and Cecil helps her sell tickets.

### Roman's shine

On the night of the fashion show, Luna and the Petrovburg Heroes get ready to perform for a sold-out crowd, and Roman overhears some students talking about her positively. In a new dress that Tobias made for her, Roman finally mended the friendship with Luna and the Petrovburg Heroes. The magic of their singing causes them to sprout pony ears and tails, and the auditorium lights up with tiny sparkling rainbows in the air.

Sometime later, Roman (realizing that her special talent in the republic is being helpful) is now a student of Seborga High School since Principal Tony fired her from the presidential campus. Besides that, she is also an animal shelter volunteer and a part-time math tutor. She writes to Luna that she's still curious about the magic in the republic as well as him, but Luna tells her that it's okay not to understand everything and that magic just happens without explanation sometimes.

## Quotes

**Vincent**: Are you worried about the test, princess?
**Roman**: No. You just have to memorize the formulas and the reactions and the periodic table and all the elements, and be able to predict reactions, and check your answers, and do all the math without making a mistake. That's all.
**Jason**: It's our team uniforms. It shouldn't matter, but they are old and faded. We're going to look so scrappy on the field compared to the other teams in the championship. We have to win this year to boost morale. Everyone is getting nervous about next year's Friendship Games.
**Roman**: Princess, I've put on proms in a day and concerts in a night, and you know how responsible I am as a former student of this campus. Right?
**Princess Finlandia**: That's true, Roman. You promise me that you can pull this off?
**Roman**: I promise!
**Roman**: I'm experimenting with magic the way you do with cooking.
**Dennis**: I always follow a recipe.
**Roman**: But we don't really know the recipe yet. Every time you whip up a batch of donuts, people ask what the secret ingredient is, don't they?
**Dennis**: And I always tell them there isn't one. Because there isn't.
**Roman**: That's where you're wrong!
**Dennis**: I am?
**Roman**: There must be. Only it's magic flowing out of you, possibly the very same ingredient that sets off the reaction that results in everyone ponying up when all of you play their music. That's my theory, anyway.
**Polina**: What do you miss most about Seborga High, princess?
**Roman**: What?
**Polina**: Do you miss your French descendant friends there?
**Roman**: My friends? Not really. I was different then.
**Roman**: You know, Tia, it's like chemistry — you have all the right ingredients, but then it takes a spark to trigger the reaction.
**Celestia**: If it's like chemistry, I might not be very good at it.
**Princess Finlandia**: What is going on in this campus? The cafeteria kitchen is in shambles, and the art room is littered with fabric. I've got athletes coming into my office telling me there is no way they want to do a fashion show, and I just got a call from the animal shelter that all the animals have somehow escaped.
**Jason**: Does Princess Roman think she can persuade us to model in the fashion show?
**Tobias**: Can Princess Roman repair my style status?
**Dennis**: Can she do some real cooking?
**Celestia**: Can you invite Princess Roman to blow up some balloons?
**Luna**: Don't worry guys, she and I can do it all.
**Roman**: You've been spreading rumors about me so that nobody wants to come to the fashion show!
**Cecil Lulamoon**: Maybe?
**Roman**: I'd like to be friends with you, Cecil. You’ve got a lot of energy. You really do. It's kind of amazing. But I'm also friends with the Seborga Dazzlings. After all, they've stayed friends with me despite everything I've done.
**Jason**: It's just hard sometimes to find your place on the team. To know how best to play your position. If you know what I mean.
**Roman**: But I don't have any special talents like the rest of you...
**Jason**:Isn't being a friend the most special thing of all? Being on a team is not about being a star—it's about working together.
**Vincent**: What are you thinking?
**Roman**: I'm thinking that I'm lucky to have such good friends.
**Roman**: *Dear Luna,*
*How are things in Canterlot Presidentials? It's been pretty normal there since I left, which, to be honest, is a welcome change. Things have been so crazy ever since I stole your magical moon sphere and snuck through the portal from your house in Vernadia. Believe it or not, I'm glad you followed me back to this strange capital city with no magic. With the help of your friends, you won over the student body and managed to beat me to become the ambassador of the Miracle Contest. Even when the magic inside of the moon sphere turned me into a powerful demon, you wouldn't back down. It was only after I saw the true Magic of Friendship you and your friends possessed, that I realized the error of my ways.*
*Little did we know, Sweyn Forkbeard banished the evil sirens to this world ages ago. And once they sensed the magic you released at Canterlot Presidentials, they showed up as new students. I could tell right away there was something strange about them, and when almost everyone in the campus started turning on each other, you and your friends know we were gonna need your help. To battle a musical threat like the sirens, we needed a musical counter-spell. I wish you told me you were having trouble writing it. I personally just assumed it would be easy for you. The sirens almost managed to tear our friendship apart and use our magic against us, but, fortunately, our friendship was too strong to break. I guess I've learned a lot from your Equestria Girls personnel because I finally found my voice and stood next to you fighting the sirens with our song of friendship and acceptance.*
*Thankfully, no more villainous plots to take over the Unitary State of the Republic of Petrovburg that have popped up. Although, there is still a good bit of magic around the campus. I've been conducting some experiments to figure out why it works effectively in our beloved Petrovburg, but, so far, the results are inconclusive. It would be great to talk things through with you before the upcoming Friendship Games. I've personally joined the Seborga High Shadowbolts with Cecil Lulamoon, Pavel Vedrona, Zaynab Amalina, Benjamin Pradayastri, and especially your actual dear girlfriend - Martin Heldayeti. And it's all anyone can talk about lately.*
*Write me back when you get a chance.*
*Your rival girl,*
*Roman Rosalina*
**Luna**: I'll just have to hope those of my friends keep Princess Roman busy. Very busy.
## References

1. **Main course**
	* https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Sunset\_Shimmer's\_Time\_to\_Shine
2. **Secondary course**
	* https://www.presidentismissingbook.com/titles/perdita-Finlandia/my-little-pony-equestria-girls-sunset-shimmers-time-to-shine/9780316295109/