As the chaos surrounding the mirror pool died down, and the original Pinkie Pie was reunited with her friends, the Mane Six had assumed that all was well and good, and they'd gathered up all of the extra Pinkies.
Never make assumptions.
In a valiant effort to escape the fate of being cast back into the mirror pool, the remaining clones gathered their own identities and fled to the best hiding ground for multiple copies of the same pony they could think of: Manehattan. On the first train out of dodge, they set about the city and scattered to the wind.
Though not without promising to meet every week and exchange notes. Welcome to Pinkie Anonymous.
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I wonder how many there are and what jobs they do.
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Don't worry, we got that.
very interesting, going to be watching this
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See now I am going to have to guess.
Pink Belt: Martial arts instructor.
Hot Pink: Graphic Artist.
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I can't help but imagine somepony named Hot Pink working with make-up or as type finder. And considering it's a version of Pinkie Pie...
"I look like a clown!"
"Everypony loves clowns."
Not saying she'd work like that, but chances are it will happen at some point, either on a dare or as a prank.
This is the story nopony knew they needed.
Is there more? Oh silly me, of course there is. Well done. I can't wait to hear more about the adventures of Pink Press and the clones of Pinkie Anonymous.
Give that Patreon supporter a cupcake !
And one to the author for delivering chapter one of what will surely become a Hot story.
Honestly, I lol'd in real life at this story's description. Fav'd.
Dodge is the name of a city, it should be capitalied
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Dodge Junction is a town, but "out of dodge" is an expression. The town is actually likely a play of words on that.
Why doesn't Press know about Code Alpha? Why would she willingly bring the original Pinkie Pie there in the first place when the last thing she wanted herself was to be noticed by her?
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Just checked my recollections on Wikipedia (that invaluable compendium of meaningless trivia & drivel). It originally referred to the city of Dodge, Kansas. Late 19th century, it was a common destination of cattle drives & had a reputation as extremely rough, so it was often used as a setting for Westerns in the movies. They've got it capitalized.
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Find Kansas in Equestria. I'll wait.
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*looks around at colorful talking horses* "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
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Well, OK. But I'm going with something that Isaac Asimov said that someone once said to him "What makes you think that, simply because you're the author, that you have the slightest understanding of the significance of your work?"
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Pinkie P.I. That's inspired xD.
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"P.I. stands for Private Eye."
8550708 Even more inspired, she's also got a job description to go with the joke.
If only she was good at Math as well, it'd be the ultimate punchline.
8550679 Yes, lovely. Will we also be seeing a Pinkie Pi the mathematician? And a Pin-key Pie the seamstress?
This is exactly what they should have done for a follow-up with the Pinky clone episode.
Got to keep this a secret or this'll happen.
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I am loving this story, please tell me there are lots more amazing chapters to come??
Keep up the great (pink) work!!
So how many Pinkies are there total?
My estimate is about 30.
I love the premise of this story and the various Pinkie's you came up with.
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Well, I paid the first chapters in advance. Not sure for how many, but there should definitely be at least a couple more. I'll just presume that all of them will be amazing.
Woohoo! Updates! Can’t wait to see what happens next!
trait*
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Depending on how far you and the author intend to take it, I'd love to add this to my Never Ending Stories group.
She does however, like her job at the department of redundancy department, however.
Lol. Nice joke.
Well, not that I'm disappointed there's more of this, but shouldn't this scene have been expanded into a larger chapter?
Had me-self a nice chuckle there
Yeah, I'm thinking that They, at least, should be told. Twilight, especially, so she knows to hold her fire, but her knowing will obviously give way to the others knowing as stuff like this happens, and they'd need to know why she's not zapping the clone.
She's got a cleaver. Do the logical thing.
Glad to see a new chapter. Seems like the cat is out of the bag, and it's going to be hilarious. All the Pinkies with their different personalities are really fun to read.
PANIC MODE ENGAGE!
Welp, the pink cat's outa the bag.
Oh jeepers here we go.
Can't break a Pinkie Promise. Sorry, Twilight
Oh god, need more!
Oh man, this'll be...
Oh boy.
It does seem like she's making friends, just not within the kind of groups that most ponies would find their friends in. I could see a griffon-pony friendship being a series of continual back and forth insults, but the instant an actual threat appears, there's no one else the pony would rather have at her back.
Looks like it's back to the pool for the lot of them.
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That would be the same as murder!
After all each of the Pinkies have a unique personality.
Keep up the awesome work!
freakin needs an apostrophe
lse = lose
foud = found
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Yes. Yes, it would.
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As a person who tried to write a much lower quality version of this that died before it got past one-shot levels, I agree. Antony C's analysis has the right of it.
...please don't kill us all.
I cackled (as I occasionally do) like an evil villain when I read this line.
So we have Pinkie in the Press department, Pinkie Detective, Froyo Pinkie, Meatcutter Pinkie, Silly Filly who is AWESOME....here's for more Pinkies who greatly unsettle the main six! :D Ooh! How about animator Pinkie! And is Surprise secretly an honorary Pinkie too?! Oh what about Cheese Sandwich...how do you top a birthaversary? With a Pinktastic Pinky Polka Pop Palooza Party of Pink! :D
:D I am greatly enjoying this...Bring on all the Pinkies to torment Twilight! :D