//------------------------------// // Caught! // Story: Corrupted Friends // by Nightmaresenemy //------------------------------// She didn't want to but they forced her too. No control over her actions and what was going to happen. Nothing could be done about the cause of this issue. These unknown creatures just come whenever they feel like. Why though? Is there something they could possibly want. She's suppose to be the happiest pony around. Sure she has her secrets and such but how can she explain what's going on now to her friends. What would they do to her? It's whenever no pony is around or at night that they decided to strike. How could Celestia or Luna not be able to tell that something is wrong? All these thoughts are cycling in Pinkie's brain while she still has the chance to think. Then it's all over. Her mind is going insane at this moment trying to fight off whatever is corrupting her, but it's too strong of a force that she could not win. Her mind grows blank of any happy memories and it turns dark. Her pink fluffy mane and tail go flat. Her eyes have this wild look in them that makes everypony fear her. A sinister smile spreads across her face to complete the look. Getting out of her bed she walks over to the closet and opens it up. Grabbing her saddlebags that contains the elements she puts it on her back, and starts heading to the exit of Sugar Cube Corner. Pinkie had a plan in mind for the elements, which was to completely and utterly destroy them. It might be to noticeable if she did it here in Ponyville. The other keepers might notice their connection to the elements broken, then attempt to find out where it came from and what happened. She had to do it fast since it was starting to become day soon. The main issue was getting past the princess of the night. After all, Luna was known to enter dreams and was able to see everything that is unusual in the night. But this wasn't a dream so that was nothing to worry about, hopefully it wasn't a dream otherwise issues would happen. Slipping out of the door she starts to gallop towards the everfree forest hoping to reach the old castle ruins of the 2 sisters before the sun rises. For Celestia's sake getting caught by Princess Celestia herself would not end very well for Pinkie. A shadow of what looked like a pegasus flying in the air appeared on the ground in front of Pinkie. She had to hide from this pony whether it be Luna or not, the moonlight was to bright for her too just stand out in the open, especially in the everfree forest then suspicions would really rise to the top. Dashing behind a tree Pinkie starts to walk along the shadows of the treetops hoping they would hide her. Poking her head out back into the moonlight to see if that shadow was still visible, and sure enough it was. That's when a big mistake was made because the sound of wings was heard, and it was growing closer as every second passed by. Quickly pulling her head back inside the tree shadows,Pinkie starts to run full speed deeper into the Everfree forest. Still no use because a figure slammed down into the ground causing dust from the dirt go into Pinkie's eyes blurring her vision and making her stumble for a few seconds. Even though her vision was still a little blurry and disoriented she could make out the shape of a pony. 'I hope this is one of the night patrols and not Luna herself. I would be able to escape them easily.' Pinkie was able to see clearly now and she did not like what she saw. It might have still been dark since the treetops were blocking out the moonlight, but Pinkie was able to clearly see the shadowy, dark figure of a alicorn that had wavy, lifelike mane and tail. 'Of course it is. The one pony I really didn't feel like running into right now.' Rolling her eyes at the thought Pinkie starts to turn around but instead stops to turn back around and face Luna. "Who are thou and what are thou doing in the everfree at such a late time of night?" The amount of power that was behind Luna's voice might have scared Pinkie a bit. Her main plan was to run anyway and that's exactly what she did. Spinning on her hooves Pinkie started bolting right for the exit of the Everfree Forest. 'Try to catch me now, Luna' Pinkie smiles at the thought of escaping that she had, but really she didn't get as far as she had expected. Her hoof came out from under her causing Pinkie to fall flat on her face. Something was pulling her back towards the alicorn of the night and sure enough Luna's magic was wrapped around Pinkie's back right hoof and was pulling her closer. She starts cursing herself out about her stupid decision. Luna was now dragging her out into the bright moonlight so she could see this intruder more clearly. 'No not the light anything but the light. Please I beg you anything but the moonlight.' When both of them are out of the forests' shadow and into the moons' light Luna still had her magic around Pinkies' hoof, but pulled her upward while hanging upside down so they were face to face. A shocked expression spread across Luna's face when she saw who intruded the Everfree."Pi....Pinkie pie? What are thou doing out here in the Everfree alone? What is in your saddle bags?" Being hanged upside down while being asked questions severely angered the pink pony. She narrowed her eyes and answered Luna with a attitude. "First of all, I'm not Pinkie ...I'm Pinkamena Diane Pie for your information. I suppose your name is Moonbutt." There was a sinister, evil smile spreading across Pinkamena's face from the way she spat her name out at Luna. She was actually enjoying this. "Secondly, what's in it for me as too why I'm out here alone. Isn't it obvious that I don't want any pony to bother me right now. Finally, why don't you look for yourself Moonface." Luna was dearly struck and hurt at how she was being called names by one of the element keepers. Pinkamena saw this and wanted to continue insulting the Princess, maybe it would make her weaker and Pinkamena could escape from the grip. At the same time, it also hurt Pinkamena's feelings that she just insulted the Princess. Her brain automatically jumps to curious thoughts. 'Why do I care that her feelings are hurt? I should care for no pony but myself. It's not daytime yet. She can't take over. It's impossible." Most certainly there was no way she was going to express that sadness. The saddlebags were being loosened from Pinkamenas' back. She watched carefully as the light blue magic opened up the bags and crashing onto the ground were the elements. "I....I don't get it. What were you planning to do with these? Thou are one of the keepers how could you do this!" anger was rising again in Luna at the same time though a hint of sadness, shock, and curiosity was shown through her turquoise eyes. What caught the dark blue alicorn's attention was the broken element of magic. Instantly Luna released the insane pony, not caring that her face came into contact with the earth. Her magic wrapped around Twilight's element and she summoned it over to her. She could see clearly that the star-shaped stone was cracked and there were shard pieces barely holding on. All attention that Luna had was directed towards the crown. While Luna was too busy inspecting the crown, Pinkamena got up off the ground. She quickly gathered the other elements shoving them into her saddlebags and taking off before Luna even noticed they vanished again. Knowing that she has just been caught and no doubt that Luna wouldn't tell Celestia about this encounter including the elements, Pinkamena tries to think of somewhere to run and hide. The only place she could think of were the Badlands, so she starts galloping full speed towards the Badlands before any pony else could catch up to her. How would she deal with this situation? More importantly how can you escape the princesses?