Chapter 1
Tilt your horn at a ninety degree angle, and summon up a thirty-five fiftieths urge power, and repeat the following words in your mind: una decama celdasse--
"HIYA, TWILIGHT!" Twilight Sparkle jumped and accidently dropped the ancient spell book she was reading into the bowl of soup she was having for lunch. She shrieked and pulled it out quickly, then hastily put a drying spell on it. Turning around, she saw Pinkie Pie standing there smiling, like one of her precious books hadn't almost been ruined.Twilight sighed. "Yes, Pinkie?" she asked.
"I just wanted to come say hi!" said Pinkie cheerily. Twilight Sparkle didn't want anyone to come say "hi" at the moment, but she knew this fact wouldn't matter to Pinkie. "Alright. Hi. Now if you would plea--" Suddenly she realised Pinkie had a golden flower in her hair that strangely looked like...
"Is that a golden rose?" Twilight Sparkle asked curiously. "Yes it is!" said Pinkie. "It even has a scent! It's kind of like a cinnamony, caramelly scent." "Amazing!" Twilight Sparkle sniffed the flower. It did smell, but it smelled more like a vanillaly, carame--
*SQUIRT!!!!* "HAPPY FOOL'S DAY!!!" Twilight gasped as she was hit by a burst of some goldish-brown stuff. She cautiously licked it.
Cinnamon and caramel.
"Well, at least it was a tasty surprise!" Pinkie said happily, and licked Twilight's face. The poor purple pony was utterly disgusted.
"Pinkie, why would you--" *poof* The brown coating vanished off Twilight's face. "See, just a small thing, and it doesn't even stay or hurt anyone!" Pinkie bowed proudly. "Would you like one?" She certainly didn't, as most fillies could tell by the angry look on Twilight's face. But Pinkie was still happy and rolling, so she rummaged in her tail for a minute, then brought out a purple wrapped package with Twilight's cutie mark on it. "I got Rarity to make you a present!!!" She said, smiling. Twilight opened it and gasped, all her anger fading away.
"Oh, Pinkie, it's the most beautiful dress I've ever seen!!!" Twilight sparkle said. It was a pink dress, the same color as the streaks down the purple filly's mane. Somehow, it bothe sparkled and glowed at the same time, and her cutie mark wa on the front of it. "TRY IT ON, TRY IT ON!!!" shouted Pinkie, looking excited. Twilight pulled the dress over her head. Pinkie gasped. "Pretty!" she said.Twilight smiled and took a step.
A bunny fell out of her sleeve.
"Huh?" Twilight said, and took a step back. A few mice flopped out of her skirt.
"HEY!!!" she said, walking around in circles as animals kept falling out. "PINKIE!!!!" She shouted. Animals were everywhere, and more were falling out even though Twilight was standing perfectly still. Pinkie giggled and patted a little parrot on the head. The door opened and Spike rushed in from his usual afternoon nap. "Twilight, what's going on?!" he said as he looked around at all the animals. "GET FLUTTERSHY NOW!!!" shouted Twilight as she struggled to get off the dress. She threw it away from her as soon as she got out of it. The last animals came crawling and flying out. Her own owl was sitting on the window sill chatting to a few others. Twilight sat down on the middle of the floor and put her face in her hoofs. She couldn't bear the thought of talking to Pinkie at the moment. She was stressed, angry, and impatient for Fluttershy to take these animals back to...wherever they cam from.
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The incident happened five days ago, but Twilight was still angry, and there were still bird poop in places neither her nor Spike could reach. Twilight thought of nothing nowadays except how to get revenge on Pinkie.
A little voice in her head always told her that perhaps Pinkie thought that it would just be something that could be laughed off, and that she should explain to Pinkie how much it made her angry. But it was a little voice that Twilight always tried to ignore.
"Nope. Nothing that's big enough in here." She set down The Art of Practical Jokes and sighed. Nothing seemed to be big enough to pay Pinkie back. She gently put her head on her dresser and gazed around her room mopily. Her bed was right beside her small window, with a guest bed next to it and a doggy-bed thing for Spike, which was currently vacant because Spike was out buying some more parchment scrolls. Twilight looked on her own desk and saw three small notes taped there. There is almost nothing you can't learn from a book. spike needs to always be in bed at nine. Poison joke--do not go near!!! That last joke had a drawing of a strange periwinkle colored plant that caused so much trouble a while ago. It shrunk Apple Jack, made Fluttershy sound more like Big Mac, and made Pinkie unable to talk properly because her tongue was too bloated up.
Tongue...poison joke...Pinkie.... "THAT'S IT!!!" shouted Twilight. She ran into the library and took out a book about poison joke and its repellents.
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"Thanks for inviting me over, Twilight! I always knew you would forgive me for the small animal joke." "Yes. Ha ha. It was really funny." said Twilight with a forced grin. Pinkie bought it easily and bounced over to Twilight's table, which was laid out with teacups and sugar in small decorated bowls. "You know, I was thinking, I'm kinda sorry for what I did to you." said Pinkie. Twilight stopped as she felt a lurch in her gut. But she convinced herself that kinda sorry was not enough.
"Yes, Pinkie." she said. "But that's alright. Have some tea." She poured her friend a big cup, then dropped two sugar cubes in it. "Oh, I like mine with five." said Pinkie, putting in three more. Twilight had poured herself some, but hadn't drank it yet. "To everlasting friendship." said Pinkie, happily raising her cup. Gut lurch. "To everlasting friendship." said Twilight and connected her glass to Pinkie's. She set her cup down as she watched Pinkie sip-chug hers down. Pinkie smiled and said "That tasted great!"
Pinkie sat there for a few moments, then put a hoof down on her tummy. "I feel funny." she said, in a small mumble. It was very unlike Pinkie. "Yes, Pinkie." Twilight Sparkle said, leaning back in her chair and smiling sweetly. "Such a silly pony as yourself should always feel funny." "No, not that kind of funny." said Pinkie softly.
"Did you feel funny when animals were running around, pooping in the library?" asked Twilight. "N-no..." Pinkie said. Twilight smiled. Pinkie's tongue would blow up any time now.
But that never happened. Because instead of bloating up her tongue, the poison joke decided to do something funnier.
And at that moment, Pinkie started shrinking. "H-HUH?!" Twilight said, watching Pinkie go lower and lower in her chair, watching Pinkie's frantic eyes get smaller and smaller. Funny, her mane was actually getting longer. Twilight watched wordlessly until just a wad of Pinkie's curly mane remained. Well, not exactly. It had eyes and a small mouth. That mouth licked its lips and smiled. "MMMM!!! I TASTE GREAT!!" The pink-mane thing bounced up on the table. "Hey, Twilight, taste me!!!" she shouted. Twilight bent over and cautiously took a lick.
It tasted just like cotton candy.
"Oh no." she gasped. "What have I done?!"