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Pinkie's run out of helium for her balloons, and she won't be able to get any more for two whole weeks—which is practically forever. Thankfully, though, she's found one last balloon to hold onto, and if she can help it, she'll never it let it go.
Written for April Fools' Day, because everyone loves a good prank—including and especially Pinkie Pie.
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Ah this bring back some memories from my childhood.
Good times.
Wait a minute....you're not Pen Stroke! You clever, clever bastard!
All right Obs, what did you do to Pen Stroke and where are you hiding him?
Another wonderful work of art, well done!
so its starting already huh.
I'm not going to lie, I'm impressed. This is exceedingly well written, and it has a little lesson to go with it, too. I like it. And I feel that you really managed to capture that childhood rapture with inanimate objects. I'm fourteen years old, and while most of my peers seem to have gotten past it I still feel a sense of loss whenever an old shirt or blanket or book or favourite toy has to go. I've gotten a lump in my throat on multiple occasions seeing a lone helium balloon floating into the sky, likely let loose by some hapless five-year-old.
It's a strange thing, really.
Pen Stroke lost a fuck-ton of followers.
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Don't worry, he's somewhere safe.
100 likes before the end of the day, but what gives. I though Pen Stroke wrote Past Sins? Yet I don't see the story in his folder, how?
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I've transferred Past Sins to my good friend, Obselescence, for safekeeping while I start work on the sequel. Don't worry, it should be back soon!
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, now if I can just get my first 100 liked story, this will be my best day ever 
!
A reply from Pen Stroke, and rumors of a Past Sins sequel,
Also, you're probably heard this to death, but, you are awesome, best writer on Fim fic with only Kkat of Fallout Equestria coming close.
Wow, what a great story, Pen Stroke! I was just thinking, as I read this, that you are so much better at writing than that Obselescence guy. Good job!
So Pinkie time is Butterfly Labs time?
This whole story is has a horrible flaw in the premise. It assumes that Pinkie doesn't have any hydrogen to use, when she would definitely have some left over from the bombs she keeps in case she ever goes insane and wants to destroy the world.
If you love something
I think I should be saying something about the author here, but I don't know what.
Reason for the ball and eyepatch emergencies revealed!
4164093 Say that with more suspicion:
WHO ARE YOU, AND WHAT DID YOU DO WITH PEN SROKE?!
Quick, guys! We gotta restore Pen Stroke's follow list!
CLICK THAT BUTTON!
I'm glad this made it to the feature box! No matter what that jerk Obselescence says, you are still a masterful storyteller in our brain-hearts. Don't let those meany mods keep you down.
cute
4164770 oK, you may be trolling...
But...you do realize that this story never once mentioned hydrogen...right? 
Was this supposed to be an April Fool's joke? =
It was way too good to be one!
4167933 Yes, I was trolling. And the whole reason why it could ever be considered a flaw in the premise is that it didn't have hydrogen mentioned. If hydrogen was mentioned, stating the Pinkie Pie did use hydrogen, did not want to use hydrogen or could not use hydrogen, it would not be a flaw, because it would explain the absence of the use of hydrogen.
4168704 hydrogenception!
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Ha-ha! I finally caught you with not signing a post!
My life is now complete.
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Maybe it wasn't Skeeter who posted that. ;)
She should have filled the balloon with radon! Then it would never have flown away!
*Pinkie takes this advice... and some months later notices a spot on her face. Foolishly, she ignores it, and 5 years later dies of cancer.*
*The spot, however, flourishes, and goes off to seek its fortune!*
This was surprisingly touching. Well done.
4169265 4169275 you idiots! What have you done!? Don't you know what happens if someone finds one of my comments without my name on it? Do you have any idea at all? You've doomed us! Doooooo--
I have arisen to wreak hell upon the world. The fool Skeeter has violated his pact with Satan, and now this world will pay the price. Make peace with your Gods; they can not save you.
~Skeeter The Lurker
Great!
Loved it
you have a very nice writing style. Grammar was perfect, too. Made me kind of sad...
Yeah. Twilight forgot lessons, too, and she got to be a Princess.
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Worth it.
4169480 Now let's see how powerful demons are against a custom 50 cal. Minigun!
Been a while since I read a piece of fanfiction. This was pretty good. I needed this. You probably handled maud even better than hasbro did. And of course, handled pinkie flawlessly. Filly Pinkie is a great pinkie.
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Filly Pinkie is simply a great everything. :V
4171526 That she is. Especially when handled well.
I also liked what you did with her mother and father and stuff. It felt really "authentic", if you know what I mean. Even with such little cannon framework we have for such characters, you played them out perfectly. I'm sure its partly because you were drawing on some of the more... not exactly "stereotypical", but you know, "common" kinds of mannerisms and, just behaviors and things. (I really need to crack out a thesaurus too, I'm out of practice reviewing fics; I been doing too much computer bullshit lately)
You really are a great writer. I mean, I know I say this a lot, and there are a lot of great writers on fimfiction, but I mean, I remember you. I know of a lot of your work, and it's always good. I can't remember everything i've read from you off the top of my head, but I remember the "celestia memory management" fic. (I can't remember exact titles, so i'm using descriptive titles instead) The one where you proposed the whole "what if she was actually manipulating everypony's memories" thing. I remember you wrote the one about twilight developing alzheimers. You wrote "atenumbre" (I probably fucked the spelling horribly, on that one), the one where luna created chrysalis. And, I wish I could remember more off the top of my head, but it seems like everything you end up writing, I end up enjoying. And there's just something about your avatar too. I remember a lot of fics, but I don't always remember which author wrote what. But with your avatar, somehow, it stuck. You ever watch "pokemon" when you were a kid? There was this character named "brock", and in one episode, we saw his father or something. The first time I saw your avatar, that's what I thought of. Shit i'm rambling. I'm just trying to say, you're both a memorable user, and an excellent writer.
Sigh, back, to shell-scripting and GNU/Linux System Administration for me. (rocks aren't the only thing that can dull your mind; I'm beginning to feel just like maud from being in the terminal too much, just typing commands/scripts away)
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Wow, thanks, man. It means a lot to hear you say that. Really, it does.
Also, Brock's Dad was the bomb. Brock was the bomb. Pretty much everything in Pokemon was the bomb.
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Wow, the resemblance is pretty uncanny.
Great story man!
I am never going to look at a balloon the same way again. Bloono has touched my soul. May he drift happily in the Big Sky in the Sky forevermore.
Oh, and Pinkie and her family were cute and likable and junk, too. Good stuff.
She... Make confetti from books?! What a sacrilege! Books (and other information containers) are sacred things! The one who destroy books will not hesitate about pissing on his grandfather's grave! Your version of Pinkie is even worse than "Cupcakes" version! Have a dislike for this.
And the balloon soars free for a moment as the "Born Free" theme song plays... until a young Gilda flies up to the balloon and squaks, "Outta my way, dweeb balloon!" She pops it with a claw and flies off.
Pinkie blinks as the gory latex tatters plummet to earth, "Wow, nature actually sucks!"
And so wild balloons were held captive FOREVER afterward!
Wow. Great story!
Really good grammar! 
Pretty good. Didn't feel like the ending was resolved quite as well as it could have been, and the whole story seemed a bit rushed. Granted, I generally despise April Fool's Day. But the quality is good enough for a thumb up.
Favorited.
Dawwww, look at these feels!
That was wonderfully charming. Thank you for this! I loved your little rock puns. They fit gneissly.
So much cute. I liked seeing Pinkie's family as happy, if not boring. A lot of people write them poorly.
All in all, a 9.5/10!
Not bad. Loved the puns.
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They rocked.
Isn't that assonance, rather than alliteration?
Oh, wait...April Fool's. I get it.
Maud is nicer than I imagined you'd portray her. Why, I bet if Pinkie was really down, Maud'd give her the chert off her back.
Mm. Glad I finally got around to reading this, tho this sort of thing always makes me sad. I've cried over popped balloon animals; I can completely understand Pinkie in this.
(On a side note, man do the rest of the comments not make sense after April 1st.)