The Pinkie Sense was not your run of the mill psychic sense. Most ponies could not actually see the future or detect vibrations in space time. Pinkie Pie, however, could do both. And she did so frequently.
Ponies knew to take her seriously when she mentioned something about to fall. They knew to listen when she said to watch out for opening doors. Even the most steadfast of skeptics in Ponyville were believers after witnessing her sense and its accuracy a few times.
Very few had seen a doozy before. They are, in the words of Pinkie Pie, "the most sensiest of senses that have ever sensed the sense."
Therefore, a doozy was something that was often taken more seriously than a decree from Celestia.
The first thing to occur after Pinkie's whisper-proclamation was stunned silence.
"A DOOZY!!!!"
The next thing to occur after Pinkie's whisper-proclamation was chaotic shouting from the soothsayer herself. It was fortunate that the Elements of Harmony were the only ones on the beach. There would have been a riot otherwise.
Everypony there realized so, as well. They swiftly stuck a collective hoof to her mouth to stop her from shouting like that again, lest a real doozy appear. The ponies of Ponyville are an excitable bunch, to say the least.
"What's say we discuss this matter in a more private setting, girls?" asked Twilight. The others agreed instantly, and they began their run to Twilight's residence.
Twilight Sparkle lived in a bizarre mansion/castle/library love child that any small girl would adore. It was so large that Twilight was fond of joking about still finding new rooms in it. Each of her best friends and her family had their own rooms that they were welcome to use at any time, and she still had empty bedrooms to spare. If that was not enough, most of the first floor was just a huge public library with every book that Twilight knew of. The list of literary works that she didn't know of was very short. She even had a book that Pinkie Pie herself wrote, which did its best to explain to the reader how to "think like a pink." It was not for public consumption, however. One Pinkie Pie was enough.
The tea room was one of the most popular for Twilight and her friends. It was where everything from simple get togethers to meetings were held. While they discussed matters today, however, there would be no young drake to attend to their tea needs- the poor thing was sick with the flu. Instead of his fetching them tea, Twilight made him some and tucked him in. Spike was her baby before anything else, after all.
When Twilight returned to the tea room after tending to Spike, she offered everypony a small cup, and left a platter of condiments in the middle of their table. She took her seat, and pasted a smile on her face while she looked upon her friends.
Rainbow Dash was absentmindedly tracing the lip of her tea cup, Rarity was stirring a bit of sugar into hers and taking dainty sips, Applejack had chug lugged the sucker, as it were, Fluttershy was carefully blowing on her tea, and Pinkie Pie was eating sugar straight from the bowl.
"Okay girls, I think now is a good time to ask."
Twilight slammed both hooves on the table, earning an "Eep!" from Fluttershy.
"What the hay is the doozy, Pinkie Pie?!"
Pinkie, who had both her hooves on each side of her tea cup and seemed to be willing the tea to part, perked up.
"I dunno!"
The room was silent for a moment.
"You don't know?" asked Twilight incredulously. Pinkie shook her head.
"No, silly filly. My Pinkie Sense just told me that a doozy was going to happen. It doesn't tell me exactly what is going to happen. Didn't you read my book? That's one of the first Laws of Pinkie- a doozy is not a doozy if its dooziness is obvious!"
Twilight sighed. "Yes, Pinkie. I've read it- the writing is terrific, by the way. But... can't you give us some inkling of what should be happening?"
Pinkie appeared thoughtful for a moment, and then her eyes widened.
"Let's go around the table and guess! Won't that be fun?"
Twilight sighed again. "Can't you just answer the question?"
Pinkie grinned. "Sure! I think..."
She gasped, and began to rub a hoof on Twilight's belly, causing the alicorn to tense up. She hated having her stomach touched.
"How far along are you?" Pinkie suddenly asked.
Fluttershy let out another "Eep!" and began to shrink under the table. Rarity fell stone cold out of her chair, Applejack was hiding a blush or a laugh behind her hat, and Dash felt no reason to hide her guffaws.
Twilight growled and slapped Pinkie's hoof away. "Pinkie, I'm not pregnant!"
Pinkie eyed her critically for a moment. "Are you sure? That's what Boulder said when I asked him, and two months later, poof! Pebble was born."
Twilight fixed her gaze on Pinkie, while Rarity retook her seat after grumbling about the false alarm. Dash, meanwhile, had take Rarity's place on the ground, kicking her hind hooves in the air wildly as she continued to laugh.
"I'm not pregnant, Pinkie."
Pinkie smiled warmly. "D'aww, then you just have a little tummy on you!"
Twilight blushed. "I have no such thing."
Pinkie nodded. "Yes you do, my pudgy little pony."
She gasped. "Wait! Maybe that's the doozy!"
Twilight sighed.
The rest of the meeting went about as well as expected, with each of them coming up with a theory behind the doozy. Rainbow believed it was a sign of trouble brewing, or in her words, "Another creature needs to be whooped." Rarity thought the rumors of Sweetie Belle being a robot were coming back in force (she asked Discord to turn her into one for Nightmare Night once, and this happens), Applejack feared some kind of calamity killing all the apples in Sweet Apple Acres, and Twilight went so far as to guess that Starswirl the Bearded had somehow found a way to circumvent death without becoming an alicorn.
Fluttershy could come up with nothing, however, and when it came to her turn to speak, she simply told her friends that she loves them and appreciates their patience.
All in all, it was an unsuccessful meeting, and they were no closer to discerning the doozy than before they started. Honestly, the Sweetie Bot rumors had to stop. How many times did ponies have to see Sweetie's x-rays to be happy?
And Twilight wasn't fat! She was just a little chubby, damn it!
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