A/N: Now that Pinkie Pie is ready to explore other universes maybe I should explain exactly what I'm going to be doing with this. The basic idea is that Pinkie Pie jumps into other much better written fanfics and just goes wild, there will definitely be spoilers or sometimes Pinkie will spoil the ending. So before reading these chapters I highly recommend reading the other fanfic's first. In Pinkies first stop in her quest to stop the party crashing griffins she finds herself in The Empty Room. Read it at http://www.fimfiction.net/story/53/The-Empty-Room.
Darkness. Pinkie Pie was in a void of absolute nothingness, no light, no sound, no nothing. In the void she felt as if her entire life had been a dream, a figment of her imagination. Well if that where really the case then she would be disappointed in herself, her head is a supernova of imagination and randomness. There's just no way she could imagine such a relatively tame life for herself. Pinkie looked around trying find an up or down, sadly no such thing exists in a place like this. She looked down at where she assumed her body was, despite there being no light she could still somehow see herself floating through the nothing. Or maybe she was motionless, or maybe she was flying at the speed of light, she wouldn't be able to tell either way. Pinkie figured it would be best not to question the logic of this place, she was sure that if Twilight could be here she would just give herself a headache with questions like 'If there's nothing here then how can I breathe?'.
'Well I could try to explain but sadly you never gave me an answer when I asked' Pinkie heard the voice in her head, surprised because she had completely forgotten about Pink snooty and the reason she was here.
'I'm asking you now though.'
'And I still don't know so lets just say it's Pinkie magic.'
'But last time I asked you something like this you said that you knew the answer because you remember you telling it to yourself.'
'Look the wibbly wobbly thing is going to get really old if you keep setting me up to use it. I don't know everything so lets just move on.'
The colorful pink earth pony wasn't normally the type to try to make sense of things, she just accepted things for what they where, knowing the reason for why they where wouldn't make any difference. Pinkie giggled once again thinking of her favorite bookworm and to her surprise she could hear herself. Now why would be surprised by that? She can see herself with no light, breathe with no air, it only makes sense that she would be able to hear herself clearly even if there was nothing to carry the sound. 'I don't like this place it's turning me into Twilight'
'That wouldn't be good for us, she's too serious for her own good'
'Oh forgot again, you can hear what I'm thinking' Pinkie made mental note that from now on she needs to be more careful what she thinks to herself.
'Pinkie I know this is really hard for you, I should know, I'm you after all, I need you to stay focused'
'Oooooh I think I feel a song coming along!'
'No Pinkie! No songs!'
'Party pooper' There was silence in her mind for a few moments and Pinkie immediately regretted saying that as she remembered that it was the Party crashing griffins that had made Pink snooty's life miserable. She couldn't imagine what it felt like to her to be called the very thing that she was fighting against, 'Oh no I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it, you're not a party pooper'
'I'm not a what now? Sorry I spaced out for a second there, you know how hard it is for us to keep focus. I think you're right we need a song but that'll have to wait till later. For now I need to explain to you just how you're supposed to move into another world'
'Wibbly wobbly?'
'Now you're catching on' Pinkie felt that if she was face to face with Pink snooty she would probably have a smirk on her face right about now. 'And seriously stop the Doctor Whooves refences, they're getting really lame!'
'Allons-y!' Pinky tthought to herself
'I really hate you, you know that?'
'Can I sing about it?'
'You can keep doing this forever can't you?' Pink snooty shuddered at the thought of spending an eternity with her excitable younger self. 'I never imagined having a conversation with yourself could be so painful. I'm putting my hoof down and getting this ball rolling, and don't you dare try to say party pooper.' There was a long moment of silence between the two, well technically there was silence between the two this whole time since Pinkie was talking with voices in her head. Only Pinkie Pie could make something like that seem normal.
Now that Pinkie Pie was finally being compliant Pink snooty could explain to Pinkie how to get out of the void before they both went crazy. Now that she thought about it an eternity with herself in the void didn't sound too bad. At least least she'd never get bored, in fact it sounded like it would be lots of fun and it was very tempting for Pink snooty to join Pinkie. Yet another sacrifice she must make for the greater good of Equestria.
'Ok listen carefully Pinkie because I'd rather not repeat myself', snooty paused expecting Pinkie to make some comment about not paying attention just as she had done so earlier. 'Now that you're in the void the entire multiverse has poured into your head'
'In my head? Wont it explode?'
'Well yes, and no. You see if you where aware of it all then your mind would burn so instead all that information is safely tucked away. When you enter a new world you become aware of everything you need to know about that world and you're even aware of what nearby ponies are feeling and thinking. Think of your head as a massive library and you only check out the one specific book relevent to the new world you've entered.'
'So if my head is a library, who's the librarian?'
'It's an analogy Pinkie, but if it'll help then lets say that the library in you head is run by lots of little you's, and no they're not having a party, its a library after all.'
'That never stopped me from throwing parties in Twilight's library' Pinkie pouted.
'Focus Pinkie. When you're ready to leave just push yourself forward and think of where you want to go, if you don't have specific place in mind then you'll just go someplace random. That's pretty much all you need to know, once you're out there you wont need me to hold your hoof, everything should come naturally.'
'So if you're going to be on standby what will you do while I'm out here?'
'Well you left Ponyville without a Pinkie Pie so until you send some more Pinkies my way I guess I got nothing to do but run Sugarcube corner and do all the things that you normally would do'
'Hmmm okie dokie then just try not to freak out my friends too much'
'They're my friends too remember? Whats the worst that can happen?' Pink snooty had a bad feeling about this.
Satisfied to give snooty the last word, or thought in this case, Pinkie revved up and blasted where she assumed forward was. Soon a portal of light appeared and without hesitating impossible pink pony went through.
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Pincess Celestia stood in a rune filled room in the presence of 4 unicorns and an unseen ghost Trixie. Lance her captain of the guard, Eldritch her most powerful wizzard, and Twilight's parents Midnight and Star Dancer. A resting purple alicorn filly was wraped in Celestia's levitation spell.
“I have cast the most powerful illusion and disorientation spells I could on Twilight's room as you requested, Eldritch. Nopony alive, other than I, should be able to even detect your shielding spell.” Celestia said, looking sadly at her filly.
The robed unicorn nodded. “I have already tied the ĉambro's energy signature to return to the room, where it will be safe until we dispell it and return the power to your daughter- unless entry is forced, in which case it will come back here immediately.”
Lance spoke up. “Are you absolutely sure that it will?”
“Yes.” Eldritch nodded as he walked around the room. “Our memories of the event should also return immediately.”
“For all of us?” Midnight asked.
“Yes, for all of us. Although in your case more work is needed.” Eldritch said. “We will need fake memories for you two... we trust you, but you have to be absolutely convinced that Twilight is yours.”
The two unicorns looked slightly uncomfortable, but nodded, regardless.
“You have to understand that our enemy is very resourceful. We don't know how far their influence goes, so after you two have your new memories, you will be transported back home. It was a happy coincidence that the both of you were gone for roughly a year for your research, so there will be less questions asked,” Lance elaborated.
“I understand, uncle,” Midnight nodded.
“Are you sure you are okay with this, your majesty?” Star Dancer asked after a second, looking at the alicorn with pity. “This seems dangerous.”
Celestia looked at the filly, her eyes shimmering with tears. “For now... I know it is a lot to ask of you all of you, but... I have to do everything in my power to protect my filly.” she hesitated. “If anything went wrong... please take care of my Twilight.” She kissed the sleeping alicorn's forehead and then slowly drifted the bundle up to Star Dancer, who carefully levitated her with her own spell. She looked into the bundle, just as Twilight stirred and opened her big violet eyes.
The unicorn almost melted then and there. “It will be my honor to watch over her for you, Princess,” she whispered.
“We shall start now... I have devised a rune matrix that, once started, will conclude the whole spell, finishing by teleporting all of you back to your rooms,” Eldritch said. The other unicorns and the alicorn stepped back as the robed wizard started intoning a spell.
Before Trixie's eyes, Twilight began to glow. Her wings seemed to shrink until they were completely gone, turned into magic energy. It was then pulled together and a small ball of light formed.
Soon, tendrils of magic whipped about it, looking like long blank scrolls that contorted and swam in the air, the ball of light pulsated with every snap or twist of the tendrils, the magic seemed to want to eat everything around it.
Eldritch's horn was glowing with an almost blinding white light as energy seeped out of it forming floating runes in the air.
A rune flew over each unicorn and the one alicorn.
Celestia closed her eyes and let her magic flow as the rune over her flashed and died. The symbol representing the sun, an exact duplicate of her cutie mark appeared on the blank tendrils. It was soon followed by five more. One was the moon, a copy of Luna's cutie mark, the other four Trixie recognized as representing the four seasons.
The Princess slumped down, spent, although her horn still shone with magic, she looked confused at Luna’s cutie mark appearing on the blank tendrils alongside hers.
Each unicorn's horn glowed in turn after hers, Midnight's cutie mark appeared next, followed by Star Dancer's and Lance's.
Trixie noticed that the runes on the walls had started glowing softly as this all happened. Then... she felt a tug on her magic. And to her bewildered eyes a soft cloud of magic floated from her horn to add her own cutie mark to the tendrils!
“Where did that come from?!” Celestia asked, worried. “We need to stop this, Eldritch!”
“I don't know!” the mage shouted, confused. “It seems there's another unicorn here! The spell... it can’t be stopped now! It’s still draining our magic!”
“But that can't be!” Celestia shouted as energy began to whiplash around them creating a hum. “There should be nopony here! We all checked!”
“An assassin?!” Lance guessed over the sound.
“I... I think... I see somepony there!” Star Dancer shouted her own horn still glowing, pointing a hoof in Trixie's direction. They all turned to look at her.
"Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie!" A colorful pink earth pony had appeared behind Trixie, waving at the others.
"Oooooh whats that?" Pinkie asked as she bounced over to the ĉambro. "It looks magic, and it has everypony's cutie marks in it!"
Pinkie put her hoof over her own cutie mark and pulled it off and stuck it into the ĉambro with all the other cutie marks. "Now it has mine too!" Pinkie said as she smiled and hopped in circles around the magical device as it's white light was being replaced by pink.
"What is the meaning of this !?" Celestia yelled, clearly angry. "Eldritch stop this at once that pony is ruining everything!"
"I can't stop! She's destroying the matrix! I don't know what's going to happen!"
“Don't you dare risk my filly's life!” Celestia shouted, standing up.
Pinkie help up both hooves to her mouth gasping, "You're filly's in danger? Don't worry Princess I'll stop this!", Pinkie saluted.
“The spell matrix is out of control!” Eldritch said as an angry red lightning bolt made purely of magic hit Lance square in the chest. The whole room shuddered and the air turned heavy as the magic enveloped him.
Suddenly it all stopped as the magic left the room and poured back into the ĉambro. Pinkie Pie was behind the device with an unplugged power cord in her mouth and an outlet in the cave wall next to her, both of witch didn't exist a few moments ago. The Princess and the other unicorns stared there in disbelief at the impossible pony as Pinkie spat out the cord and ashed "What?"
Pinkie then sped over in a blur to where Trixie was standing to talk with her. "Sup Trixie? Long time no see am I right? So what was being dead like? I bet it was boring not being able to talk to anyone! I can't even imagine not being able to talk, well I can, but I can't imagine how sad it was for you not being able to touch anything. I mean booooriiiing."
"Are you quite finished? THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE has no time to waste with foals such as you, but if you must know being dead is very enlightening."
Princess Celestia walked up to where Pinkie and Trixie where standing to extract some answers from this most unusual event. "Little pony I have lived for countless centuries but I have yet to see anypony do the kind of things that you have done this day. Tell me, who are you and why are you here?"
"Don't you remember? I said I'm Pinkie Pie, and why I'm here, well it's kind of a long story and I need to get going. I have to get this world's Pinkie to a party but she's 20 years in the future. So sorry Princess but I gotta plug this thing back in and get Trixie and I back into the future."
Princess Celestia bowed her head a smiled at the pink pony. "My impossible little pony, it seems that your quest is beyond my scope of reason but I will accept what you have said. As for the ĉambro I have to agree that the ritual must continue in order to protect my dear little filly. I won't remember anything that happened here, all memories of this event will be erased."
"Oh I know they will!" Pinkie said with a grin as she pulled down a pair of sunglasses over her eyes seemingly out of nowhere. Out of her tail she pulled out a neuralizer and pointed it at the Princess and all the confused unicorns. "Pinkie ex machina!"
In one swift movement Pinkie flashd the princess and the other unicorns and grabbed Trixie by the arm. "Unhand Trixie this instant!"
Ignoring her, Pinkie swiftly jumped across the room with Trixie back behind the ĉambro to plug it back in. The magical device immediatly resumed it's pink glow as its spell matrix once again drew energy from the other unicorns. Pinkie, still holding onto Trixie, jumped into the pink glow of the ĉambro dragging Trixie in with her. Confetti poofed out of the ĉambro where Pinkie had jumped in and the device was allowed to finish its spell matrix uninterrupted.
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The ĉambro exploded.
Big Macintosh’ eyes widened as Trixie was hurled out of the magical artifact with a pink earth pony in an impressive wave of multi-colored energy. The Showmare flew through the air and slammed into the draft pony with enough force to knock them both down, where they lay in a confused heap. Pinkie Pie ran back up to the ĉambro mid explosion to reclaim her cutie mark and put it back on her rump.
The energy whirled around the cavern before blasting towards Twilight Sparkle's body.
Everypony stared at Pinkie Pie as Applejack and Jade simultaneously said
"Pinkie Pie!? Ah thought you where dead!"
"Pinkie Pie!? What are you doing here?"
As they where talking the cloak covering Twilight's body burned up in the magical vortex and the body was lifted in the air revealing the gruesome injuries she had suffered. Twilight's horn had been ripped off her forehead, where the wound had bled all over her face and revealed little pieces of bone. Her left front leg was twisted in a way that made it obvious it had broken in several parts. The whole left side of her body was burnt; the coat was charred black and revealed the burnt skin under it. Her once carefully kept mane was almost missing completely, also burnt by the magical fires of her encounter with her late father. Her cutie mark had faded completely.
Pinkie Pie sat on her haunches and waved to Jade, "Hi Rarity! Oh cool your an assassin in this universe. Eww why is your hair green? I thought you hated green hair."
Jade stifled a gasp when Pinkie revealed her identity. "Pinkie how did you know it was me!?"
The magical ritual continued to work its magic in the background on Twilight's body, everypony paying attention to Pinkie in lieu of the regenerating Twilight.
"Well duh, who else could it be?" said Pinkie
Slowly, as the magic seeped into into Twilight, the wounds reacted.
"Enough! You will explain yourself little pony."
Twilight's exposed skin lost the burnt look, going raw red and slowly turning a healthy pink as the coat seemed to extend over it, the burnt parts fading into the magic whirlpool of energy.
Pinkie jumped up with a gasp. "Everypony watch out! It's black snooty!" Pinkie said as she bolted to hind behind Rarity.
Twilight's leg stretched into a proper position, the blood slowly faded from her face as the bone seemed to shift and mend as a layer of skin covered it followed by purple fur.
"Calm yourself," said Nightmare Moon. "I am not your enemy this day."
Twilight's mane grew again, settling into the familiar style she favored.
"I know that silly. Oh hey look Twilight's almost done."
Everypony in the cave looked back to the floating body surprised that they didn't notice what was happening.The body was slowly spinning in place, held aloft by the sheer amount of magic acting on it.
Pinkie wanted to start looking for this worlds version of herself and she felt this was going to take too long so before Twilight awoke she asked the group, "Hey where was I last time you saw me? I don't remember what I was supposed to be doing."
"Why I believe you're supposed to be making preparations with Zecora my dear." Rarity answered
"I'm off!" And she produced a pogo stick from behind a rock and pogoed away out of her cave and towards the Everfree forest.
Twilight shuddered and drew a raspy gasp as she took in air. She groaned as her body twitched and slowly shook her head. There remained no sign of her injuries.
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Pinkie Pie and Zacora where in her hut in the Everfree forest. Zacora was rumaging through her different ingredients searching for what she needed as Pinkie was stirring a cauldren while singing about her brew.
*"Watch as I work my gypsy magic, eye of a newt and cinnamon. Watch as the matter turns to batter, open the portal, jump in.
Pinkie and Zacora where interrupted when the door was kicked down with a very pissed off looking Pinkie with a baseball bat. She jumped towards Zacora to attack her with the bat, hitting her in the head and knocking her out. "Buck you and buck your stupid rhyming!"
Other Pinkie was still stirring Zacora's cauldren smiling and still humming her song to herself, oblivious to everything around her.
Pinkie, standing over the unconsious body of Zacora turned to the humming other Pinkie with an evil looking grin on her face. "Hello me...meet the real me, and my misfit's way of life"
Other Pinkie turned her head and glanced a confused look to Pinkie Pie. "Huh?"
Pinkie Pie put a hoof up to her chin."Ugh I'm going to regret this, ok general background." she slammed her head into into other Pinkie as all the information was psychically knocked into her head.
Other Pinkie's eyes widened as she gasped in sudden understanding. "Your a!?"
"Yes"
"From!?"
"Shhh"
"You've got a T-"
Pinkie Pie interrupted her other self "Right, ok. Specific detail" and the two Pinkie's heads impacted each other again.
"Owwwwe!"
"Owwwwe!"
Other Pinkie's head flooded with information for the second time and she knew everything she needed to. "You came here to pick me up for the ultimate party!" she jumped up with glee.
"You got that right sister."
"So what are we waiting for!? Lets go!"
"Aaaaaalriiiiight! Pinkie Pie grabbed her other self and got ready to open up the 4th wall. She counted the walls and punched the hole open to take her first Pinkie back to Pink snooty and be one step closer to the ultimate party.
Footnote: When Zacora woke up she found that the blow to her head had fixed her compulsive rhyming disorder.