And So, It Begins...
Pinkie's Grand Quest
Happily skipping through the streets of Ponyville was the town's premier party pony, Pinkie Pie, who was humming a cheerful tune. It was a bright sunny day, and many ponies were out doing various errands. Pinkie, however, was headed towards Ponyville's library to meet with Twilight.
However, Twilight was a bit preoccupied. She had the candles lit, curtains closed. This could only mean...
"No distractions." Twilight quietly said to herself. "Today is too important." She walked to the center of the library and finished, "Re-shelving day!" She used her magic to take all of the books out of their shelves, and began organizing. She levitated all the books into moving rows and she began, "Life in pre-historic Equestria goes in"-
"Hiya, Twilight!" Pinkie exclaimed as she jumped out of a pile of books. Twilight let out a yell of surprise, as the books came falling down from their neat rows. Pinkie's twitching tail let her avoid the falling books easily. Twilight, however, was not so lucky. She was quickly closed in by a barrage of books as they formed a pile on top of her. Pinkie let out a sigh of relief. "That was close!" Pinkie stopped to look for Twilight, but she couldn't find her. "Twilight? You still here?" Twilight came out from under the pile of books that had been holding her down.
"Pinkie..." She said as she took breaths in between. "How did you get under there?!" She exclaimed in disbelief.
"Oh! Twilight! There you are! I was wondering-" She stopped to take a quick look around. "Wow, Twilight! You've sure got a big mess in here!"
"But how did you... Never mind. I'm re-shelving in here, Pinkie, is there something you needed?" Twilight exasperatedly replied.
"Yeah! I'm looking for my cookbook! I can't seem to find it anywhere, Twilight!" She responded as she looked through the book piles.
"Wouldn't it be easier to let me re-shelve first?" She suggested, as she resumed organizing the books.
"Don't be silly, Twilight, it-" Pinkie stopped herself as she saw Twilight put a book back about desert ruins. She deeply gasped and blurted out, "That's where it is!"
Twilight looked back to Pinkie. "You remembered where you left your cookbook? Where is it?"
Pinkie nodded. "The ruins of the San Palomino Desert!" She exclaimed in realization.
Twilight stopped cold. She slowly turned to Pinkie, where she responded with a "...What? Pinkie, how is that even possible?!"
"Well, I was just there yesterday making cupcakes for all the gods there! They really liked my cupcakes, and they said that they had never had any, and I thought it was really sad if they had never had any cupcakes! Because like, how can you-" Twilight cut Pinkie off.
"I get it Pinkie," said Twilight as she cut Pinkie off. "But you're telling me that you went to the San Palomino Desert ruins..." Pinkie nodded. "And you were able to see the gods there..." She nodded again. "...And bake cupcakes for them." Another nod.
Before Twilight could add anything else, Pinkie added, "Ooh, you can come too Twilight! It gets reaaalllly lonely out there, and it's totally not fun being lonely! Or hot!"
"Pinkie... This isn't making any sense! But all right, I'll come with you, although I don't think you'll find what you're looking for out there." Twilight said smugly.
"Hey Twilight, I was just reading through..." Said Spike, as he came into the room. However, Pinkie interrupted him there.
"Ooooh! You should come with us too, Spike! Now it'll be three times the fun! Let's get going!" Pinkie ecstatically yelled out.
Spike gave her a blank look. "And we're going... where, exactly?"
Twilight opened her mouth to answer, but not before she was again cut off by the pink party pony. "We're going on an epic quest to look for my cookbook, in the San Palomino Desert!" She exclaimed. "But somepony," she explained as she gestured to Twilight. "Doesn't think that we'll find anything out there."
Spike let out a chuckle. "Twilight, haven't you learned yet? Pinkie ALWAYS gets it right, especially when you try to prove her wrong."
"But Spike, she's saying that she went there last time to bake cupcakes for ancient deities. Don't tell me you actually believe this!" Twilight responded in frustration.
"Knowing it's Pinkie, she's bound to be right." Spike replied, hoping to end the one-sided argument.
Pinkie was impatiently waiting for the debate to end. "Are we going to head out or what?"
Twilight and Spike quickly stopped their arguing. Spike walked towards Pinkie as he said, "Alright, I'm comi- WHOA!" as he slipped on one of the unorganized books.
Twilight chuckled. "Maybe I should get back to re-shelving the books first..." She quietly said as she started to put them all back. Once she was finished, she went back to her group. They had decided that Twilight would teleport them there, so Pinkie gave her all the necessary information of the ruin so that the teleportation spell would be more precise in its destination.
"Alright, everyone get together, I'm going to start up the spell." Twilight announced. A purple aura covered Twilight's horn as she started to draw large amounts of energy. After channeling for a few seconds, there was a brief flash. Once the light cleared, the trio was no longer there.
The San Palomino desert was a vast, dry area, with Celestia's sun shining down a scorching heat onto the sands. There were no plants to be seen, except a few cacti here and there. Suddenly, there was another flash as Spike, Pinkie, and Twilight appeared once more, in front of a ruined desert temple. While only Pinkie and Spike looked determined as ever to complete the grand quest, Twilight simply hoping to get it over with, and attempt to prove Pinkie wrong.
"So, narrator, are you going to stand here and describe us and the landscape more, or are we going to get on with our quest? Because that part's totally BO-RING!" Pinkie complained.
Spike and Twilight stood there, looking incredibly confused, until Twilight spoke up to break the spell. "Pinkie, who are you talking to?"
"I'd rather not question it, Twi." Spike told her, as Twilight grumbled. "Why don't we just head in the ruin and take a look?"
While Pinkie and Twilight went in, Spike stood outside and took a look around to see who Pinkie was talking to. "Spike?" Twilight called. The dragon shook his head and ran in after them.
The trio wandered into the ruined temple, all but one of them determined to go on the grand adventure. The first room was square-shaped and empty, and had cracked walls with strange markings on them. However, the temple didn't appear to go on.
"Now what do we do?" Asked Spike.
"Well," Twilight chimed in. "We could look for secret levers, or..." She slowly came to a stop as she looked towards Pinkie, who was kneeling at a wall. "Pinkie, what are you doing?" She asked for what seemed like the millionth time that day.
Pinkie looked like she was chanting something to a wall that seemed to have a bit of an indent. After she finished, the wall slowly moved aside, revealing a hallway.
Spike cheered for her, as Twilight simply stared at the open hallway with disbelief. "Pinkie... How?!"
The party pony stopped her trot to look back to Twilight. "Oh, Twilight, it was real easy! All I had to do was chant, 'Klatuu barda ni...'"
Twilight quickly shook her head and added, "Uh... Never mind." She followed after Pinkie and Spike, and quietly whispered to herself, "This is only getting more confusing the more I think about it..."
The hallway led to a long, narrow room, similar to the first. The two ponies (plus one dragon) arrived at the beginning of said room.
"Okay," Twilight commented. "Knowing this ancient civilization of ponies, there are probably traps placed here. I could try teleporting us over there, to not risk any danger-" She stopped and both she and Spike had terrified looks on their faces.
"Pinkie, what are you doing?!" Shouted Spike.
Pinkie was simply skipping down the hall. As she skipped, she unwittingly dodged the traps there, to which she was oblivious of. "La-la-la-la-laaaaaaa~" She sang as she skipped to dodge poison darts and sweeping blades. She reached the end of the hallway and was about to go into the next room but stopped as she noticed that Spike and Twilight were still at the other end, who were both astonished and terrified at what just happened. "What are you guys doing all the way over there? Are you guys coming, or what?"
Spike was about to take a tentative step, but Twilight quickly teleported him and herself over to Pinkie.
The librarian pony looked over to Pinkie. She opened her mouth to comment on how dangerous that situation was, but Spike shook his head and mouthed, "Don't try questioning it." Twilight sighed in defeat.
"Come on guys, let's get going!" exclaimed an impatient Pinkie Pie. She was then followed by an excited Spike and a defeated Twilight.
The final room was large and decorated with the best furniture of the civilization's time. It was also heavily decorated with large amounts of gold and precious stones, to which Spike was drooling at. At the end of the room looked to be some sort of shrine. The group walked in, and Spike immediately went to eat some of the gems decorating the room. However, he was held back by the purple aura surrounding him from Twilight's horn.
"Spike, how about we leave the temple intact for other ponies to research and study from?" She suggested. Spike then walked away from the gems he was planning to eat, grumbling.
The group looked around everywhere, yet Pinkie's cookbook was nowhere to be found in the room.
"See Pinkie, there could have been no way that it was ever in here!" Twilight smugly said, feeling like she had won.
However, Pinkie was far from defeated. She merely walked up to the shrine and began to chant an incantation. After a few minutes, the incantation was complete, and a loud rumble shook the ancient halls. Before Twilight could shout out her obligatory "Pinkie, what have you done", A large spectral, blue alicorn appeared before the group, wearing a golden set of armor. It then shouted out, "WHO DARES DISTURB MY- Oh, hello Pinkie Pie!" The alicorn suddenly changed to greet Pinkie.
"Hiya, Samrio! I hope you don't mind if I brought some friends here with me! This is Twilight and Spike. Twilight, Spike, this is Samrio, god of the earth." She replied to the immortal.
"Uh... hi... your... holiness?" Spike fearfully greeted the deity.
"No need to be so formal, Spike. You may simply call me Samrio. And you," He turned to Twilight. "Greetings, Twilight."
Twilight was in absolute shock. "Oh wow... And here I was thinking that Pinkie was saying a bunch of nonsense... It's an honor to meet you."
Pinkie turned to the immortal. "Samrio, last time I was here making treats for you and all of your friends, I think I lost my cookbook over here. Do you have it here? It's a very important cookbook, because I need it to make cupcakes, and if I can't make cupcakes for my friends, it makes them sad, and that makes me sad, and-"
Samrio raised a hoof to cut her off. "I understand Pinkie, there is no need for a further explanation. And about the cookbook..." In a split second, it appeared before Pinkie. "Is this what you were looking for?"
Pinkie gasped. "My cookbook! Thank you very, very, very, very-"
Samrio raised another hoof before she could go on. "Again, I understand, and you are quite welcome."
Twilight took a minute to absorb all of the events and sighed in defeat. "Pinkie, once again, I'm sorry that I'd doubted you before."
Pinkie chuckled. "That's all right Twilight."
Spike added, "Now are you going to just go with what she says, Twi?"
The librarian snickered. "Yes Spike, I will. Now come on everypony, let's go home."
"Wait!" Samrio shouted. The three turned to him. "You three aren't going anywhere..." Several other alicorns appeared beside him. "Without having a Pinkie Pie party with us first!"
Pinkie nodded. “Good thing I never leave home without my PARTY CANNON!” She smiled. “All right everypony, it's time for a PAR-TAY!” She loudly exclaimed.
The End