//------------------------------// // Good Friends // Story: Welcome to Batstralia // by Damaged //------------------------------// Language check. All in Equish. Pinkie Pie had been a little worried all day for her friend, but she tried to put on a brave face despite it. It was a test. An exam. She was facing the first true challenge to her cutie mark and she, Pinkamena Pie—or Pinkie Pie as she started to prefer since getting her cutie mark—would not be found wanting. "So he just woke up with crazy hands and feet, and has a horn and everything?" She bounced along beside Robin. In the back of her mind she planned a party. It wasn't her first, but it would be her best so far. Robin nodded, her cute little bat pony ears tucking to the sides. "Pretty much. And we all had ears, and—" Cutting in, Misty Rainfall swooped down and landed beside her friends. "And I didn't even notice mine were tufted! I am going to be a bat too!" "Bats forever!" Robin held out her hand, fingers splayed for a high-five. Misty returned the gesture to Robin with one of her wings. "Best bat sisters!" "Wait, you're sisters now?" Pinkie looked between Robin and Misty. "That's great news! I need to plan a second party now!" Robin tapped her chin thoughtfully. "Couldn't you combine the parties? Make it one huge party, and invite everyone? Then no one would be left out!" Pinkie felt an odd tingle in her sides. Her smile pulled wider, and she let out a yell of pure exuberance. "Yes! Best. Party. Ever!" She turned to face Robin. "You are the best friends ever." She reached impossibly wide and pulled Robin and Misty into a hug. Taking Pinkie Pie for the extrovert she had become since getting her cutie mark, Robin squeezed back. "Did you want any help getting it all set up?" "Hey yeah, we could help!" Misty's mood, too, was catapulted upwards by Pinkie. "Welllll… I might have had some of this planned out already. You know, in case there was a party emergency?" Pinkie looked around suspiciously. "And there was. So I need help getting everything moved and ready for tonight." "Wait, tonight?" Misty looked up to the hills west of them. "It's getting dark already! How are we going to move enough stuff for a party?" "Well…" Pinkie's who body seemed to tingle in delight, and anticipation at expressing her cutie mark, and special talent.