'He's dead, Pinkamena. And you're not even a doctor! What do you think you're doing?!?'
'Oh no he's just sick, Dashie. And I can fix it, it's just a tummy ache after all.' Pinkie Pie giggled.
'I'm not Rainbow Dash. I'm you. And he's not sick. He's dead. It wasn't fully your fault, you didn't try to kill him. But he died, and your friends might be next.'
'Silly Twilight. He's just fine. And I don't need to be a doctor.' Pinkie Pie would have been elbow deep in blood, if the ponies technically had elbows, shoving gauze into him and becoming mildly disturbed at the blood.
'You need to stop bleeding Spike, or Fluttershy will be right and you will die.' Then she giggled. 'Nah, you're doing just fine. And you're safe here!'
'If it's just a tummy ache, why did you cut him open?'
'Well duh! He was so stuffed he was going to burst. I had to take it out. And boy was there a lot.' She gestured to a pile. It was Spike's organs. 'Ewww that's so gross! I'm going to have to burn it!' She shoved more gauze into Spike.
'And the stuff you put in him?' The voice was becoming weary.
'Medicine and anesthesia, silly. After all, I couldn't do it without it.' Yet anther giggle. 'Time to sew him up. Good as new. Or maybe even better! He was soooooo stuffed.'
Pinkie Pie sewed Spike up carefully, making sure none of the stitches would show. It would be embarrassing if her friends saw she had performed a surgery over a simple stomach ache. But she hadn't known what else to do. She took the organs out back carefully, as she didn't want to carry the 'gross stuff' out in her mouth. She burned it, then kicked the ashes everywhere. She went back in, and cleaned up the mess.
Carefully she carried Spike down into her basement. She put him next to Twilight Sparkle. All of her friends were still out.
'What sleepy-heads', she thought, amused. 'How can we have fun if all they want to do is sleep? Oh well, maybe they'll want to stay longer. After all, we didn't have any fun!' She injected each friend with a strange liquid. The voice spoke up again.
'What's that then?'
'Vitamins silly,' was the reply. 'They must be coming down sick, to sleep so much. So I'm going to help them get better. They need to feel good, and if there's one thing I know about it's making ponies feel good!They'll be so happy they'll never want to leave. We'll be best friends forever.' She went back upstairs.
'This has all been such hard work. Now I'm feeling like a sleepy-head. Well since they're asleep, a nap won't hurt.' Pinkie Pie drifted off.
She dreamed about her confrontation with Gilda. She had been so brave. Once Gilda had left, Pinkie Pie had gone after her and told her she better never come back. Gilda had scoffed, and asked her or what. And Pinkie Pie had summoned up all her courage and replied, 'it will be the last thing you do.' Of course, she wouldn't actually hurt Gilda, but she was hoping to scare her. And it had worked. Gilda had never tried to come back or contact anypony again.
At least that was what Pinkie Pie dreamed....
Twilight started to wake up. She felt awful. She tried to clear her head and think. The other ponies were waking up as well. She tried to use her magic, and was horrified to find that she couldn't. She felt weak, drained. And she suddenly became even more afraid as she realized their best friend Pinkie Pie had done this, and she wasn't hearing Spike complain. Fluttershy's shriek broke Twilight Sparkle's thoughts.
'Spike!' Fluttershy shouted, absolute horror and pain in her voice. 'What did she do to Spike?'
Twilight Sparkle turned and saw Spike. He was stiff, his eyes were open and unblinking, but it got even worse. He had the biggest smile Twilight Sparkle had ever seen. Bigger even than when Rarity showed him favor in some way. She felt sick. Suddenly, Rarity wailed.
'Oh Spikey-wikey dear. Now it's too late. Now I can't figure out how I feel about you. And you were always so nice to me.' She began to sob. 'You...you always...treated me like...like...like...a princess...'
'I told you Spike. Eating so many sweets would...' Twilight Sparkle started weakly, but she couldn't finish. Rainbow Dash cut in.
'This is crazy, even for Pinkie. And to think I gave her my autographed goggles. So basically Spike's dead and stuffed, and we're next.'
'Now wait just a minute.' It was Applejack. 'We might not die. But we are stuck.' She was trying to stand. She barely managed.
'She's right. It had to be something in the sweets. Spike ate too much.' Twilight Sparkle had finally found the strength to talk to the others. 'It's Pinkie Pie. Gone crazy or not, I don't think she'd want to kill us. I think she's trying to keep us. That's why she had us go to the Everfree Forest. So when we disappeared, everypony would think something happened to us. That's why she didn't want us to tell anyone.'
'Well what do you reckon we do now?' Applejack asked. Twilight Sparkle could only shrug.
'I don't know.' She cuddled into Spike and sobbed.
Pinkie Pie woke up and looked at her clock. 'Okie-dokie-loki, they should be up by now!' She stood up and stretched. boy I slept way too long. They must be soooooo bored.' She started to think about all the fun they had before, and all the fun they would have. She started bouncing and singing as she prepared some cupcakes.
'Cupcakes so sweet and tasty!...'She carried the prepared cupcakes to the basement, to her friends. Boy, they were going to love these!
'Pinkie why?!?'