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// Pinkie's Offer 
// Story: Rarity's Little Disaster 
// by Saekwaka 
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My house. Destroyed. In flames. My work. Destroyed. In flames. This cannot be happening. Oh, dark and dismal day! The world seems to be spinning. No light shines on my luck!

"Oooh! Can we bring fireworks, too? It would be so pretty! Let's go get some! C'mon, Dashie! They aren't going to buy themselves!" Pinkie Pie shouted. I think at that point, my cheeks were burning red; though I could not rightly say, since I could not see them.

"You!" I snapped at Pinkie Pie. How Pinkie could afford to continue her levity when a house was on fire, I will never understand. "You are not going ANYWHERE until one of you tells me WHY AND HOW MY WORK HAS GONE TO WASTE AND HOW MY BEAUTIFUL BOUTIQUE IS BEING REDUCED TO ASHES!" My nostrils seemed to be invoulintarily flaring, but at that moment, my facial appearance (as BARBARIC as that may sound) was the least of my concerns. 

As expected, Rainbow was the first to step up. "Rarity, Derpy and I were training to make her less destructive-"

"And you see how well that turned out!" I scoffed at the irony of her statement. 

"And you see, well, things didn't exactly go as planned." Rainbow Dash shifted her hooves. Perhaps due to discomfort.

"I certainly hope that isn't the end of your tale! She somehow managed to set my house on fire as well, I presume?!"

"Well, no; that was Pinkie. After Derpy crashed into your roof and walls, Pinkie decided she wanted to set the oven at five hundred in order to make cupcakes."

Pinkie Pie interjected, "and it would have worked, too - if it weren't for you meddling ponies!"

Dash, I noticed, looked upset as well. "Pinkie Pie, you are so RANDOM!"

I could not believe this. Pinkie Pie was making jokes, Rainbow Dash was the cause of this whole mess, and Derpy - wait,why is she crying?

"R-Rainbow D-D-Dash..." She stammered, sniffling. Poor dear! She must have been feeling so guilty over wrecking my house! Well, how could I remain upset with such a kind-hearted, gentle-

"Rainbow, m-my w-wing hurts really b-bad!" Derpy began to wail. My jaw dropped - only by a little, mind anypony containing the decency to even care! "Excuse me?" I said.

"Oh, yeah, right," Rainbow Dash began, her brows furrowing with concern. "When I went to get her out of the fire, I noticed her wing was broken. We'll just need to get her to a hospital."

"Uhm, hello! Let's get those fireworks A.S.A.P!" I am pleased to note (while looking back on this incident) that everypony ignored Pinkie's request to celebrate my misfortune by using firearms.

"And what about my house? Is there nopony to repair this?!"

"The fire-fighter ponies and comstruction workers will. Rarity, I don't say this often, but..."
She muttered the next few words quietly. Prideful pony. "I'm really sorry." At that moment, I thought it best not to mention how much it would have cost to repair the house, since Rainbow hardly ever apologized.

"R-Rarity, I'm s-s-sorry, t-too." Derpy blubbered to me. "Maybe w-when my wing is better, I c-can help fix-" 

"No need! It's quite all right, darling! Feel better soon!" Leaning to my ear, Rainbow whispered, "good call." A few seconds of silence passed.

"Well," she announced to everypony this time. "I'm off to bring Derpy to a medic."

No. She cannot be leaving mw here homeless. I'll have to live the rest of my days in the gutter, begging for some extra money to buy food. My beautiful mane and tail will no longer be styled! No! My poor, fabulous mane! To solve this problem, I did the only thing I thought sensible: cry.

"Oh, woe is me-he-he! I have no place to stay; no place to sleep! My designs are all gone! In the blink of an eye, too-"

Rainbow halted in her tracks. "Well, technically, it took a little longer to destro-"

"I don't care how l-long it took! I'm ruined, finished! Poor Rarity! I'll be too hideous to walk the streets! Woe is me! Woe is m-me!" Since I had no pillow nor my lavishly decorated sofa to fall dramatically on, I simply stood there and wailed instead. Yes, now everypony could see just how bad my situation was.

"Hey, Rarity! You can stay with me!" Pinkie Pie bounced up and down excitedly. Rainbow Dash covered her face with her hoof. "I'll go alert the fire-fighters."

"Silly Dashie! They're already here! See? Lookie! They arrived several minutes ago while Derpy began crying!"

"Why didn't you tell us?!" Rainbow demanded viciously.

Pinkie continued to smile. "Why didn't you ask?"

For some strange reason, we all stood in silence for a moment - prior to Derpy's sniffling, of course.

"C'mon Rarity!" Pinkie squealed, breaking the silence. Startled, I gasped. Her sudden shouts are completely unnessisary; someday, she might give a pony a heart-attack!

"We'll have a fun, fun welcome party for you!" Bouncing, she headed towards the direction of Sugar Cube Corner. I suppose her room will have to do, I thought; then, trudged reluctantly behind her.

"It's kind of a mess now since Derpy made a few holes in the walls and crashed into some furniture, but it's not so bad! Don't worry - you'll feel right at home once you get used to it!"

I sighed. 
Well, here we go.