Pinkamena just wants to stay in her own lane. If Pinkie has a problem that needs yelled at, kicked at, or jeeringly tolerated until it goes away, she can handle it. But what’s a sourfaced split personality to do when her agreeable half vanishes overnight like a fart in the wind?

Pinkamena is not a sleuth. Nor a convincing actress. But she’ll need to be both to guise as Pinkie and solve the mystery of where her better half went.

What a pain in the flank.

(Teen rating for Pinkamena’s crassness and comically short temper.)

Its National Novel Writing Month! I'm breaking my regular short story conventions for a multi-chapter tale of fumbling comedy, uneasy mystery, and (most frightful of all) first-person narration.

It's been five years since the 'Too Many Pinkie's' incident, and despite Twilight Sparkle and co disposing of the clones one still remained. Her name is Detective Pinkamena, or 'Pink' for short. After a life on the run and foraging a life and career for herself in the Manehattan Police Department and climbing through the ranks and becoming a Detective. Pinkamena now lives a life separate from her original counterpart.

Until now. The past has a way of rearing it's ugly head in and it has a face and name to go with it. S.M.I.L.E. agent Sweetie Drops or 'Bon Bon' as she goes by now. Tasked by Celestia herself to contain the anomaly Agent Drops is now tasked with detaining Detective Pink.

Written by me and https://www.fimfiction.net/user/174091/ponyfag-not-brony

Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 were edited by: https://www.fimfiction.net/user/363323/Sebastian99

Featured on 10/24/22,10/25/22, 10/26/22,11/6/22, 11/7/22, and 11/20/22!

Thank you, guys, for reading!

Pinkie Pie kills her hair.

Content Notice: Hair isn't/manes are not alive (Except for the Mane-iac's )... but the "death" tag is for more than a homophone; it is out of caution due to cancer-related treatments for a child.

- This idea is from the My Little Pony Renaissance competition, which required that a story: "follow the set theme of "Change". This can be as small as Pinkie Pie deciding to dye her hair...", but it was not quite a 4,000 word idea, so my contest entry utilized the 'other' main prompt: "[or it can be] as dramatic as Princess Twilight embracing the dark side".

This idea was, however, long enough for the Thousand Words contest.

Image: as credited at this link; also, further edited by this author.