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// Alternate Universe 
// Story: What's in The Box? 
// by Silver Inkwell 
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Alternate Universe

Pinkie Pie didn’t know why she was here exactly, why she had been chosen for the games, and she didn’t really care either, she just wanted to get out, live through this, and survive. She just wanted to win the games and then get back home alive, that’s all that she really truly wanted right now at least. The other things and stuff could wait until later when the games were over.

Every year ponies had what they called ‘The Games’, nothing more or less, because it was just so huge, too huge in fact that it just had a great big huge ‘The’ tacked on in front of it just to let every other pony know how important it really truly was, yet she never imagined that she would be playing in it, ever.

She lived a very simple life, but it was still required to cast your name in the lot at least once every single year, however you could cast it in more than once for some extra food, money, gold, cash, silver, bronze, copper, or whatever else was valuable that they just so happened to have in supply at the current time.

She had always enjoyed what she had and so every year she only had to cast her name in once, but somehow despite all her previous good luck she still had been chosen among all the others and rest of the other ponies as well too.

Well, this was simply just perfect because now she was stuck in a game where death was a very real possibility and chance, where friends could betray you at any moment given the chance and opportunity to, she couldn't leave because that would mean death and the only way to win was to be the last one standing, the last one living, the only one to survive, those were the rules, she hated the rules, they were very stupid, but they were still the rules nevertheless.

But despite the rules there was never anything saying that she had to play fair, after all, deep down inside of her was buried a very dark and angry side of her, one that was completely insane and crazy, one named Pinkamena.

And this was the identity that she had taken on right now in order to survive.

And when she entered the arena despite her meager score of three every pony quickly learned to avoid her because in the first five minutes she killed half of them… with or without knives, because she really liked knives, and she knew that they always had some kind of knife or sharp object inside the arena.

And once she had a knife, well let’s just say that it wasn’t a very pretty sight.

It was really bad and very creepy because the first pony that she had to kill, well, she did kill them with the knife by carving a smile into their face while saying the ever-classic and famous quote of, “Let’s put a smile on that face, shall we?”

But now that over half the ponies had died it only remained that there were eight ponies in the whole entire arena, including her. Right now she was in a cave waiting for something to happen when she heard the sound of a package or rather a ‘gift’ arriving instead. She went out very curiously to explore it and merely just saw a cardboard box on the ground tethered to a white parachute, which was definitely a sign that it was indeed a ‘gift’ given from a sponsor.

She was very curious about what could be inside it, could it be food or a weapon instead? Right now either one wouldn’t help he rout that much anymore.

After all, she had all the food she could need by eating the meat off of the other ponies, and she had plenty of weapons, maybe it was medicine just in case.

Well, whatever it was it would only help her out so she opened it.

She pulled out a pirate sword and an eye patch, how odd and weird and also very strange and unusual, she thought to herself, but no matter, a weapon was still a weapon, no matter how strange, bizarre, odd, or unusual it really truly was. She smiled to herself, another weapon to add to the pile.

But before she could she suddenly was sucked into the purple portal just like the very first Pinkie Pie and nothing stood in the place of Pinkie Pie.