//------------------------------// // New Pony In Town // Story: Your Smile // by destinedjagold //------------------------------// It was a beautiful sunny morning in Ponyville, where the birds flew lively and cheerfully in the heavens above, and where the ponies around town trotted to their destinations with smiles plastered on each of their faces. Pinkie Pie was the local party mare. She's pretty well known to make everypony smile. She hummed a song to herself as she merrily hopped around town to...nowhere in particular. She just goes around town and helps anypony who needed her. That's what good friends are for! She stopped on her tracks after she heard a distant whistle of a train. Blinking, she found herself in Ponyville's train station. Huh, her Pinkie Sense must have brought her here. She turned and stared at the tiny train from the distance. “Oh!” She jumped with glee. “It's coming this way! That means there's going to be a new pony in to—!” She gasped long and hard, receiving curious looks from nearby ponies. She didn't mind them...or probably didn't notice them. A huge toothie grin has stretched her smiling mouth. “Or maybe even better! Maybe a lot of new ponies will come to town today!” She giggled in excitement as she waited for the train to arrive. ‘Oh, this is going to be so so perfect!’ She thought as another whistle from the train was carried by the cool summer air. ‘I'm going to patiently wait here, on this very spot!’ She sat down on the earthy ground. ‘And then I'm going to wait for the train to arrive.’ She started imagining a train arriving right in front of her, and stopped, where conveniently, the train's door was in front of her. It slid open, and lots of new but frownie-faced ponies were inside. She stretched her smile wide while in reality, the train was already pulling to a stop. ‘And then I'm going to sing them a song,’ the train has stopped, and a grayish-ash steam escaped from the engine car. ‘And there's going to be dancing,’ the train whistled loudly, but it wasn't even enough to snap the grinning pink pony back to reality who was sitting a few hooves in front of the train's door. ‘And then there's going to be cookies, pies, muffins, and cakes!’ The door slid open. ‘Oh! And punch!’ She finally blinked after her perfect plan has been all planned out, and now she found herself staring at ponies who are eyeing her with great confusion. “S-see honey?” a unicorn stallion chuckled as he turned to his fiancé, “I told you the ponies here are very welcoming.” “Uh, yes, quite...” the unicorn mare responded that was full of doubt while Pinkie forced herself to smile as she sweated. ‘This is so not part of the plan...’ She thought bitterly, but she was here, and, ‘time to improvise!’ She puts her grinning game face on as she stood up. ‘I have no idea what I'm doing...’ “Hi!” she nervously greeted the unicorn couple, “welcome to Ponyville!” And she greeted the other ponies who came out, and the next ones, and the next ones, and the next ones, until she finally greeted the last pony who got off the train. “Phew...” she sat, raised both her front hooves in front of her face, and stared at how wrinkly they were. “Shaking hooves with seventy-two ponies sure is hard work...” She then stood up, took a deep breath, and sighed with a victorious smile. “Well, at least I greeted everypony! That's better than throwing them a cake from my party cannon.” Her smile became an angry frown as she crossed her hooves on her chest and sat down again. “Which I still think is a better way of greeting new ponies, but noooooooooooooo. Rarity and Twilight says otherwise...” Her ears drooped as she sighed. And then she sprang back to life as she got to all four hooves. “Well, I'm sure they're right for whatever reason.” She started humming as she hopped away, but instantly stopped after she heard sets of hooves from the train behind her. She turned around and saw a brown earth pony stallion with black saddlebags, and with a semi-messy darker brown mane and tail. Pinkie smiled as she walked towards him. ‘I guess I missed one. Tsk. Pinkie, you need to focus more from now on! I mean, what would happen if I already left and didn't notice that there was still one pony left in the train that I needed to greet!’ She already stopped in front of the stallion, who was arching an eyebrow at her. Realizing what she just thought, her smile vanished so suddenly and gasped as if something was about to eat them. Shivering, the earth stallion quickly turned around to see what made the pink pony gasp. ‘Oh my gosh! That would be a disaster! Everypony will be smiling except for one pony! And it's going to be my fault! No! I won't let that happen!’ She shook her head viciously, making the brown earth stallion start to worry if this pony is still sane or is already on the edge of losing it. Pinkie then took deep breaths. The stallion took that as his chance to ask. He cleared his throat. “Uh... Are y—” “HI!” Pinkie shouted as she bounced, startling the stallion. “My name's Pinkie Pie, and welcome to Ponyville!” She had a huge grin on her face as she took a step to the side and extended a hoof towards town. “And I'm going to make sure that you won't be that pony who's going to be forever wearing a sad-face while everypony else are all wearing smiley-faces!” The stallion took a cautious step back as he eyed the weird pink pony with massive confusion. “R-r-right...” “So what's your name?” Pinkie cheerfully asked as she cheerfully took a step forward. “Er...” the stallion tip-toed to the side, “nopony...” another tip-toe. “Yeah, I'm nopony, so uh, have a nice day...” he awkwardly bowed his head slightly at her before trotting towards town in a pretty fast pace with no reason at all. Nope. Pinkie blinked, and blinked, sat, blinked again, and puts a hoof on her chin as she thought about it out loud. “He's Nopony? That's a weird name. And a pretty sad name too. Wait!” She gasped, startling the cyan pegasus who was hovering above. “That is a sad name! Then that means he's a sad pony! And that means his life is sad! And that means he has no friends, because friends don't like it when ponies are sad! So if he is sad, then nopony likes to be friends with Nopony!” She gasps again, making the cyan-coated pegasus to roll her eyes as she lands in front of the pink pony. “Pinkie,” Rainbow spoke with an arched eyebrow, “what are you gasping about?” Pinkie suddenly grabbed both Rainbow's shoulders with her hooves and pulled her face to hers. “This is bad, Rainbow! Somepony's sad and I need to fix it!” “Right...” Rainbow easily pulled herself away from her weird friend. “What a—” “No time to explain, Dashie!” Pinkie then stood on all four, determination written all over her smiling face. “I've got a pony to be unsaddened!” Rainbow shook her head. “I am not an egghead like Twilight, but I'm pretty sure...” Pinkie Pie was already cheerfully hopping towards town. “...that's...not...a...word...? Ah, forget it.” She flapped her wings and hovered towards the heavens. “Maybe Applejack has something interesting going on...”