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Not All She Seems
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Twilight, Alpha, and the two Pinkie sat in the library, doing little more than twiddling their non-existent thumbs, having been able to do nothing since the insane Pinkie erected a massive barrier to surround the library, trapping them all inside without the ability to use magic.
“What does she expect me to do, huh?” Twilight shouted, pacing back and forth in the lobby, “Just live in here for a year until I give birth? Well, assuming I haven’t starved to death before then!”
“Listen, Twi- we need to calm you down!” Alpha insisted, following behind her in a circle as she kept changing directions, “If you’re really pregnant, then we need to sit you down and take a breath.”
“Am I going to lay an egg?!” She asked suddenly, snapping her head back to Alpha with wide eyes, “Because if you think I’m throwing up now, then you’d better get ready!”
“You’re not going to lay an egg.” He said calmly, “Only Chrysalis lays eggs.”
“Does she?” Twilight asked, her insatiable curiosity kicking in for a moment, allowing her a break from the stress of her situation.
“Well, I mean, she uses an ovipositor to... well, I think you know where I’m going with this.” He scratched the back of his head.
And she threw up. What a surprise.
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Pinkie and Sorrow sat silently in Twilight’s room. They had been discussing all that was going on, and it was rapidly helping Pinkie realize the kind of pony that she truly was.
“Everypony is so upset with me...” Pinkie sighed, leaning her head back on Twilight’s bed, avoiding the gaze of her dark self.
“Everypony has been upset with everypony when their dark sides came out,” Sorrow reminded, “This is just another day in Ponyville.”
“Nopony else had a third version of themselves!” She argued back, shifting her body slightly before settling once again, “She’s running around trying to make everypony hate each other…”
“That’s never going to work though!” Sorrow shouted, standing up so she could face Pinkie directly, “How in Equestria could we every hate each other?”
“I- I dunno…” Pinkie huffed, “But she seems so sure of herself!”
“I know… and I guess that’s something that makes me a little nervous too.” She admitted, as Pinkie once again looked away from her, “We could try to figure it out, but you’re acting like a huge baby right now!”
Pinkie only huffed into the pillow, as she mashed her face into it to avoid more eye contact.
“Fine.” She huffed, walking away from herself, and slumping down on the floor. “We can just sit here and wait for you to start acting like an adult.”
For the next few minutes, the silence in the room was thick. Pinkie wanted to say something… apologize more. But she couldn’t bring herself to it. This feeling that she had refused to accept was now rapidly becoming her exact mood.
It was hard to admit, but Pinkie wasn’t having such a hard time seeing her and Sorrow as the same pony.
Finally, after another ten or so minutes, Pinkie shifted her position to face herself.
“So…” She said quietly, “I guess you got lucky, huh?”
Sorrow knew what she meant, and she nodded softly.
“If it weren’t for that crazy version of us running around, you might have a much harder time accepting me.” She said to her normal self, “She’s brought us together.”
Pinkie bit her lip and looked out the window, seeing the strings hanging from the sky.
“What can we do to stop her?” Pinkie asked, “I mean, once we fuse back together, am I going to have any more control over her?”
Sorrow shook her head.
“She’s a separate entity.” She explained, “When somepony comes out of that reflecting pool, there’s only one way to go back inside.”
“What’s that?!” Pinkie asked, looking back to herself.
“There’s a spell that can be used to… well, explode her.” Sorrow said, gesturing to a book she had brought up with her.
“Holy smokes! How did you know about that spell anyway?” Pinkie asked, “I mean, If I didn’t know about that spell, how did you know about it?”
“Discord gave me a little bit of extra stuff in here.” She said, bonking her hoof against her head, “In that sense we’re not the same pony. I’m a lot smarter.”
“Aww.” Pinkie said, shrugging to herself, “Oh well! I’m okay with that!
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“So what’s the big plan?” Alex asked, floating in open space, along with his fiancé, “Are you really doing this just so you can have us all to yourself?”
Pinkie’s insane side only giggled as she watched the fight going on between the two friends below her, as they threw food at one another.
“Pinkie, would you please answer us?” Dash asked.
“I already told you! Everypony needs to give me one hundred percent of their attention!” She said, her voice still as happy as it could be, “I’ll never be alone again!”
“But that’s crazy…” Alex whined, rolling his eyes, “It’d take a lot more than some arguments to have everypony start hating each other.”
“Yeah!” Dash agreed, “And I’ll bet you a million bits that Pinkie knows that! So shouldn’t you?”
Turning around to face them, the confidence seemed to seep from the mare.
“No duh!” She laughed, “This is just the first step! I need to weaken the bonds of harmony!”
“Uh… what?” They both asked.
“Whoops!” She said instantly, turning back to the show in front of them.
“What would you achieve by messing with our harmony?” Dash asked.
She didn’t answer.
“Pinkie!” Alex shouted. “Pinkie! Hey! Answer us! Pinkie! PinkiePinkiePinkiePinkiePinkiePinkiePinkiePink-“
Before Alex could say another word, she turned around with a look in her eye that neither of them had seen before.
“Shut. Up.” She growled, her eyes glowing red along with her wicked smile.
The next thing Alex knew, his mouth was gone.
Patting frantically around on his face, Alex looked at Dash wide eyes.
“Hey, Pinkie!” Dash shouted, as the insane mare turned her gaze toward her.
Dash gulped.
“Uh… I was just- um, gonna ask if you could teach me that spell… haha…” Dash said slowly.
“Oh, sure!” She beamed, her horrifying attitude gone, “Once we’re done with these two, okay?”
As Pinkie continued manipulating the mares below her, Alex and Dash were able to exchange looks, both understanding that she was hiding something big.
But, at this point, nothing more could really be said.
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“Are you sure you want to put on another magic show?” The mayor asked, scratching her chin, “I seem to remember the last one being a complete disaster.”
“I promise, this one is going to be much smoother!” Trixie insisted, “Trixie has- er, that is, I have even promised to have Twilight and her friends join me in the show!”
“Really?” She asked, “I didn’t know you were getting along with them.”
“I’ve actually been living here in Ponyville for a couple of weeks now,” Trixie said, “And after everything everypony’s done for me, I’d love to give something back.”
“Hmm…” The mayor said, still not completely convinced.
“And by ‘give something back’ I mean, I’ll donate all the money I raise back to the town.” Trixie added.
“Oh, why didn’t you say so?” She jumped, always loving the sound of donations, “Are you going to need any bits to get this show off the ground? A small cash infusion might help you make even more money!”
“Oh, I don’t think that’ll be necessary,” Trixie shook her head, “I’ve already got most of the materials that I’ll be needing.”
“When were you planning on putting the show on?” She asked.
“In the next day or so,” Trixie offered, shrugging slightly, “Nothing exciting has been happening recently, so I figured I could spice things up!”