Equestria was on high alert. Guards roamed the land through all hours of the day and night. The Wonderbolts were called to help patrol the skies, and the Buffalo tribe was called to scour the lands for Pinkie. After two days since her escape, there was still no trace of her. Twilight and Spike were in the Ponyville Library. Twilight paceing and going over the drawings and paintings that were confiscated from Pinkie in her cell. Spike was staring out the window with a picture of himself and all his friends in his hand.
“Spike, come look at this, I have been looking at these pictures that Pinkie kept on drawing and I think I have discovered something.”
“What is it Twi?”
“Look at the color pattern on all the cupcakes and pastries, notice anything?”
Spike examined the pictures, on all of the various sweets was red icing but the wrappings and edges all had the same shade of purple and patterns of white. Even the floral designs had a similar swirl pattern to them. Spike gasped.
“They all look like Rarities mane!!!”
“That’s what I thought and I began to fear the worst, but then it occurred to me, why just Rarities mane, why not the others. Even the questions she would always try to ask, they were directed towards you most of the time.”
“What are you thinking twilight?”
“Spike I don’t think Rarity is dead, she may very well still be alive. Don’t you see? She was obsessing over what she had not finished. She wanted to complete her…twisted plan.”
“Then Twi, we need to tell the princess, we need to get a search party to find Rarity!”
“It won’t do any good, we have been searching for days, and there is no trace of her let alone Rarity………Wait, I think I know one person we can ask, but it’s still a long shot.”
“Well we have to try!”
Spike and Twilight ventured into the Everfree Forest towards Zecora’s hut. It did not take long to find her. Zecora was in the middle of brewing a potion, after entering her hut, they explained the situation.
“So we were hoping that you might have some sort of potion or spell that would allow us to find a pony.”
“A dangerous pony she is in my eye, help you I will to find Pinkie Pie. A potion to seek I have for you, but time it will take to make the brew.”
Spike fell to his knees. “Please, do what you have to but we need the potion now.”
“Spike she will do what she can, but it’s not like she just has a potion like this lying around. We will save Rarity I promise.”
“An ingredient I must have for sure, a tuff of Pinkie's fur.”
Twilight left to go and get some of the hair from Pinkie's mane that was collected when she was arrested. During this time Zecora and spike helped to brew the Seeking Potion as quick as possible. After a few hours the potion was complete. It had quite a unique smell and look. The liquid was as pink as pinkies fur and smelled of candy and sweets almost as if it was a Pinkie Pie potion.
“So how will this help find Pinkie Pie?” Twilight asked.
“This potion you must drink, your eyes will see only pink. A trail of hoofs your like ink, this will lead to Pinkie Pie I would think.”
“Twilight, please let me be the one to drink it, I have to find Rarity.”
“Alright Spike, hurry and lets go save our friend.”
Spike took a small wooden cup and filled it with the potion, after which he took a drink. A sensation began to surge through spike. His eyes began to glow like the color of the potion and in his eyes he began to see pink spots on the ground in the shape of hoof prints.
“Twilight, its working I can see a path, I’m sure it will lead us to Pinkie!”
Zecora stepped forward. “Pinkie will surely give no charity; go now and save fair Rarity”
As soon as the words were spoken, even sooner they were on their way. With spike riding on Twilights back, he directed her on the path that he saw before him. Spike had sent a message to the Princess through the use of his fire breath. Not too long after were Princess Celestia and her Royal Guard following after Spike and Twilight. The path surprisingly was not that far from Ponyville. After a couple hours of riding through the forest around the town they discovered a large stone and the path that Spike had been seeing seem to disappear behind the large boulder.
“I don’t understand Twilight, I can see the path but it stops at the boulder…Gah I don’t understand!”
Celestia laid a wing on Spike. “Don’t fret, I think I know what to do, everyone stand back.”
The Princess approached the boulder and pressed her horn upon its face. With quick serge’s of magic, she shattered the boulder revealing a small hole in the face of the hill.
“There we go, Spike do you still see the path?”
“The potion must be wearing off because it’s fading but I can still see its moving inside the hole.”
“Very well, Guards I want you to wait out here and make sure that no one leaves unless they are with either me or Twilight and Spike.”
“Yes Mam”
“Alright let’s go.”
Twilight, Spike, and Celestia rode into the cave and found a thin path that led into an opening, like a large room that had clearly been dug out a quite a while ago. The smell of blood was light upon the air. Pinkie Pie was here and Rarity could not be far behind. Spike jumped off Twilights back.
“I can hear…crying…it sounds like…RARITY!”
“Wait Spike!”
Spike ran towards a tunnel in the back of the room. As the group continued down the tunnel spike tripped over a hidden wire. A large wall of sharpened candy canes jutted from the wall. Spike managed to get ahead in time but he was now cut off from Twilight and the Princess, both of whom had been caught in the face by the spikes.
“Are you two alright?”
“Don’t worry Spike, they just cut up our faces a little,” the princess moaned, “but our horns were injured as well so we will have to find another way to get to you”
“Spike you have to go and stop Pinkie and save Rarity.”
Spike ran off down the tunnel following the cries of Rarity. After a few minutes he made it into a small room that was much hotter than the previous halls, and the smell was a mixture of candy, sweets and blood.
“Well, Well, seems like Spiky Wiky managed to escape my trap. Did you like my tasty spin on the trap? I thought candy canes would be much more appealing to whoever decided to set it off, you know to make them more comfortable.”
“Rarity!”
Rarity was tied to a table in the middle of the room closest to the open oven, she was covered with cuts that stained her white fur and there were burn marks on random parts of her flank. The table was set on a track and if Spike was not careful she could be pushed into the blazing oven.
“Pinkie, let her go, I won’t let her get hurt.”
“Silly wittle dragon, she is already hurt, but don’t worry she won’t be hurting anymore soon enough. I have an Idea; I will let you be the first to try her when she is done.”
Spikes rage began to boil like a volcano, and he took a step forward slowly taking in a deep breath.
“Ah,ah,ah, not one more step Spike. Tell me spike how do you think this will play out? You think you will stop me and Rarity will fall in love with you? That she jumps on the chance to ride the big heroic dragon? Well I don’t think that’s going to happen and you know it, you cant even blow a flame that can cause any real harm, sure it will sting but I think you know it won’t stop me.”
Rarity then screamed pain, for Pinkie had placed a hoof on one of the injuries on her stomach. It was at that moment that Spikes rage reached it max. The moment he heard the scream of the one he loved he let out his breath. In his rage his normally green fire became a scorching hot red and white stream. Pinkie was caught by surprise and only barely managed to escape the flame.
“Woo, that was cool, but hot, yet cool? I don’t know, but that was still mean spike, you should really learn to say it not spray it.”
Pinkie pie ran over to Spike with a chef’s knife in her jaw. As she brought the knife down upon him, she was knocked back by a stream of magic. Princess Luna had arrived with her royal guard just in time to help Twilight and Celestia. She spoke out in the traditional Canterlot royal voice.
“CITIZEN PINKIE PIE, YOU HAVE COMMITED CRIMES AGAINST YOUR FRIENDS AND AGAINST EQUESTRIA. THEREFORE I HEREBY DECREE THAT YOU WILL PAY THE ULTIMATE PRICE FOR YOUR CRIMES!”
At that moment, Luna cast a spell that surrounded Pinkie Pie in darkness, Screaming, Pinkie's body began to turn gray and become rigid like that of stone.
Twilight gasped, “It’s just like what we did with Discord!”
As the spell dissipated, Pinkie was left standing as a statue in the dim light of the cave. Spike immediately ran over to Rarity
who had passed out from earlier.
“She’s Alive!”