Diamond Tiara is perfection incarnate. She usually gets whatever she wants from her father, and whatever she doesn't have she's incredibly skilled at just taking.

However, being forced to work with Apple Bloom on a group assignment as punishment was not on her wishlist.

Neither was getting lost deep in Everfree with the aforementioned blank flank, pursued by timberwolves and any number of disgusting creatures that refuse to bend to her will, and ending up stuck tending to an injured filly that she just can't bring herself to leave for the forest to claim.

Maybe the jeweled tiara on her flank means something more than she'd expected.

Pinkie Pie finds out a new way to prank her friends: bake some poison joke powder into cupcakes and muffins, and offer them to unsuspecting victims. She asks for her usual prank partner Rainbow Dash to help, and together they head off to embarrass their friends once again.

She's the original. She won the paint-watching test, fair and square.

So why do the townsponies keep avoiding her? Why do all her friends keep whispering around her? And why does Twilight keep insisting that she isn't any good at baking or throwing parties?

She's the original. The best Pinkie. She won the test, fair and square. She's not some copy, not anymore…but perhaps being a copy would be easier than being herself.

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Partially inspired by Quadrophenia by The Who. The [Pinkie Pie] and [Other] tags together represent Pinkie Pie's clone.

Editing and prereading thanks; Kuroi Tsubasa Tenshi, CDRW, Sereg, JapaneseTeeth, MidnightRambler, and especially Nonagon. If you liked this story, be sure to check out their pages too!

Now I'm to begin
The life that I'm assigned
A life that's been used before
A thousand times
—The Who, "905"

Rarity has a rather unladylike moment of panic when she thinks Spike has moved away without telling her. Twilight is amused.

Short oneshot that just sort of fell out of my head this evening.

What happened to Pinkie Pie and Rarity after they were left together in the desert, when the others continued chasing Applejack?
Why were they riding a hoofcar back to Ponyville?
What happened during their journey back?
Which one would Rarity prefer: chimicherry, or cherrychanga?

Find the answer to these questions, and some others, in this story.

Set during and right after the events of "The Last Roundup" episode.

Underneath the bridges and streets and buildings of Fillydelphia in the year 3036, there lives a secret organization of hooded ponies that worship a paganistic demi-god who they have foretold to destroy the whole world. Just so happens, the TARDIS, The Doctor, and his new entourage are passing through the area, just as the cult is unveiling their plans.

"My name is Lyra Heartstrings, and you will not remember me. You won't even remember this conversation. Just like with everypony else I've ever met, everything I do or say will be forgotten. Every letter I've written will appear blank; every piece of evidence I've left behind will end up missing. I'm stuck here in Ponyville because of the same curse that has made me so forgettable. Still, that doesn't stop me from doing the one thing that I love: making music. If my melodies find their way into your heart, then there is still hope for me. If I can't prove that I exist, I can at least prove that my love for each and every one of you exists. Please, listen to my story, my symphony, for it is me."

Cover pic by Spotlight: askspotlight.tumblr.com

Did I ever tell you ponies how happy I was when Twilight became a princess? I was so happy I put on some fake wings and a horn and began cheering, "Alicorn party!"

...but, after the coronation, after the celebrating..... I realized just how bittersweet this really was...

If one party is great, and two parties are better, why not three or four parties? Unfortunately, despite using coffee and bigger cakes, Pinkie Pie learns that it's no fun having all fun all the time after all.

Professor Dusty Tomes, Equestria's greatest scholar and Twilight Sparkle's childhood hero, arrives in Ponyville on a mission from Princess Celestia. He must study a unique phenomenon: a being whose inexplicable powers may have the potential to benefit Equestria—or even to destroy it. The object of his research? The cheerful, exuberant pony known as Pinkie Pie.