//------------------------------// // A heroine is MADe? // Story: Pinkie Pie Blows up Ponyville // by ReikoRye //------------------------------// Pinkie Pie Blows Up Ponyville Pt. 3 By ReikoRye Three...Two...One...Ha! You're late! Don't shake your head 'no' at me. You are so late! By a whole two seconds! I knew you couldn't stay on time forever. Remember this day well for it was the day Twilight Sparkle caught you not being on time. Before I dive back into the story I want to tell you the great news. Filthy Rich and I are officially co-founders of that book club and we are also scheduled to start dating. It is on a trial basis as neither one of is totally sure we can run the book club AND have a meaningful relationship without interfering with the club. Also he wants to see if I can survive his circle of friends. He is surprisingly considerate of my feelings since I do not have a ton of experience with rich and famous. Now with my personal news out of the way I guess I can get back to telling you the story. Last time I think we were at the part where Applejack lost her barn, Rarity stabbed me for not giving my maidenhood to Filthy Rich as insurance that he wouldn't go back to his wife. Which is a non issue now. There was also my upcoming need to acquire something called the Pink Buster as well as milk cause Applejack used the last of her freakish dependability to remind me before fainting on Rarity's floor. I am sure there is a story there, but thankful I have no idea what happened with it as Rarity has not shared and A.J seems to be in no hurry to say much of anything about that section of time. There isn't much to the getting the milk part of the story. There was a small argument over the sudden two bit increase in price, but after some intense negotiation I got it for the original price. Dropped it off with Spike who was busy trying to Pinkie proof the library. For some strange reason he figured if he decorated for a party that she would not find our home in need of an explosive makeover. “Twilight do we have any streamers and ribbons?”, he asked as he scurried about storing the milk away and then inflating some balloons. There was a sense of urgency that I had never seen in him before, but we were out of streamers and ribbons. So I couldn't help him and told him as much. I hated to just leave him in his panicky state, but the sooner I got my hooves on this device or charm that could stop Pinkie the better. Now usually getting to Fluttershy's suburban cottage was an easy trek. She didn't live right inside Ponyville, but more on the edge, sort of farmland adjacent. Yet, for some reason there was a stampede of potential pets barreling down road right for me! I dove off the road with as much agility as I could must. I am sad to say that I have the agility of a librarian. I'm just not as physically inclined as the rest of the girls. This meant I ended up getting clipped by a flamingo or an ostrich. Getting hit by a bird after getting gouged by a sewing needle has a way of making you just want to lay down. So here I am in the ditch covered in dust when I see just the mare I was directed to see. “O-oh dear. I'm so sorry Twilight. Today is annual animal stampede day, but Pinkie scared them off course.”, my meek motherly friend Fluttershy informed me. Have you ever met Shy? You haven't? That is no surprise as she is an expert in many skills. One of which is remaining unseen and unheard by most of ponydom. It makes up her entire personality, she could be in a room alone and one pony enter that room only to look right through her. She just blends right in to the background. It sort of scares me at times. Anyhow, now that the stampede of exotic animals was gone and Fluttershy was found I needed to get some answers. “You saw Pinkie?”, I asked her err.. I probably wasn't that calm when I questioned her. I may have been screaming, but regardless she just shrank like a violet before nodding. “S-she used her party cannon to start the stampede before I could direct the animals on the right path.”, she responded in her trademark super low indoor/outdoor all the time don't hurt me voice. She's so quiet that one. “Applejack tried to stop Pinkie, but got blown through Rarity's shop for her troubles. That pony is out of control and before AJ passed out she said you had something that could stop her.”, I said making my way out of the ditch while Fluttershy just nodded in reply. “You mean the Pink Buster, I have that, but if you don't mind I'd rather you not use it. I mean if that is ok with you, Twilight.” Can you believe that? She has the one thing capable of stopping this insanity, but she is asking me not to use it. I thought she was just being overly cautious, but I wish I had of just listened to her. Of course any pony who knows me knows that I can be a bit stubborn. Why are you giving me that look again, huh? OK! So a great deal stubborn! This time it wasn't for studying well pass the safety of my health or magical experimentation leading to becoming a tyrant. This time I was putting my hoof down for the right reason! I'd like to see you make a different call. Like I was trying to say I just couldn't heed her request so she took me back to her cottage. That is when I learned a great deal more about how talented the land dwelling pegasus really was. “I don't want to upset you, Twilight. I-its just that t-the Pink Buster isn't something simple to use. No one has ever tested either. W-we all sort thought that Pinkie Pie wouldn't go this far as to need it.”, my pink maned friend said as she led me into her cellar which turned out to be a huge underground complex of little contraptions. “Wow....Shy did you make all of these?”, I said seeing them in all their hoof crafted glory. Fluttershy's yellow cheeks turned beet red with blush. Apparently, acknowledgment was her hot button. “Oh...My..”, was all she could muster as I found myself looking around. Half dazed half awed by the amount and the complexity. “I've got a master's degree in Contraptionology and a advanced journeyman's certification for sewing and tailoring. I hope you don't mind me telling you that. I wasn't trying to gloat or anything. I leave now.”, she said as turned to head back upstairs. I had to stop her from leaving her own basement and home. It was rather difficult too, but I managed to bring her back to show me which one of her creations was the Pink Buster. The land bound pegasus had contraptions of all shapes and sizes! So looked like they could be pretty dangerous and there was one that looked to pretty intense. It was labeled the Mare Stand and before I could question my friend about its purpose she shooed me away deep blushed yet again. I think I know what it is now, but I'd rather not dwell on that. There were contraptions for automating house hold appliances, increasing a pony's strength or speed, even a pair of mechanic wings so an Earth Pony could fly just like a pegasus. Yet, the jewel of her collected works sat behind a white washed door in the back of complex. “This is the Pink Buster.”, she said to me as nudged the door open. It was a mare sized body suit made of a strange material. It hung like regular fabric, but shined as if made of metal. Next to the hanging suit was a table with a face like helmet that had been design so your mane stuck of it comfortably. “Twilight, please don't use the suit. I know if we talk to Pinkie she'll calm down and see that blowing up Ponyville is not as funny as she thinks.”, the pegasus said as her eyes tarted to tear up on queue. I couldn't look Shy in the face when she was like that. No one can. I'm serious if you look her in the eyes when she is like that you could go into a coma from the cuteness. She was a fashion model just for that kind of meek coma producing cuteness. Photo Finish is still sorting out lawsuits in between crushing new models under hoof still. “She's got the whole town save me, AJ, and the Mayor believing this what they want! The Mayor is counting on me to stop it before it is too late!”, I exclaimed starting to get bother by shrinking violet pleading of looking for another solution. I mean wouldn't you? They had her make a suit just to stop Pinkie Pie if she ever went wild so it isn't as if she didn't know that if someone sent me to get it then talking wasn't gonna work. I hated having to get rough with her, but the result was she relented. I'd just have to live with feeling like a bully after saving the town. The ceiling lights flickered and shook just as Fluttershy was going to help me. I knew it wasn't a good sign. Charging out of the room and upstairs I could see that Pinkie was bouncing around the property. The signs of frosting smeared across the windows and smoking wafting from holes in the ground where some of Fluttershy's pet homes used to be was a warning that time was not on our side. Racing back down into the cellar I shouted, “Get me into that suit now! She's outside, Fluttershy and she just turned your pet housing into potholes! We're next if I don't stop her.” The poor girl had been frightened by my screaming. So needless to say, she was very little help as she cowered under the table. It took a solid minute, but I managed to get inside the sleek, form fitting garment only to suddenly feel Fluttershy on my back. She forced my head down and said, “This is designed expressly to stop Pinkie Pie. The only way to accomplish that is to put you and her on even terms physically and mentally. Pinkie Pie was born and raised on a rock farm, so she's not like a natural pony and while you may be smarter than her.”, my friend said as she reached around my head to clamp on the mask for the suit. “She's crazier than you. Crazier than all of us, but the suit will equalize that. That insanity gives her power on par with any high level magic using unicorn.” she went on as she left my back as beeping sound came from the helmet. At first I could see out of the eyes, but slowly everything lit up to show Fluttershy staring me in the face. “In five seconds you're going to go insane, Twilight. After that you will be able to use all of the tricks our friend can along with you own abilities. The suit will keep you focused on Pinkie.”, and true to her word that suit started to work it's magic. I bet you have never know what it's like to be driven mad. Let me tell you it is the most frightening yet enjoyable experience I've ever had! I finally saw why Pinkie Pie was always so bouncy and perky even in the face of certain danger. Insanity is like your mind being open to everything. You can repeat the same action and get different results, predict the future, over even travel to the farthest reaches of Equestria in seconds. It was more powerful than any of my magic had even been. Yet, for all the good you feel there is a clear and present dark side to insanity. That dark side is what most saw when ever someone would encounter a mad pony. Your emotions are divided and intensified to extreme peaks and it is hard to focus. If not for the suit, I'd have never known the world Pinkie lived in and I'd have never been able to handle that kind of power. The truly harsh part was the physical response to the sudden loss of mental limits. The racing heart beat, the ragged panting, the constant shaking from head to hoof, and the feeling of grinding your teeth. I thought I'd burst, but as I took my first steps as a madmare Fluttershy backed to the side wearing a smile. “That's good you're doing fine Twilight. Hang in there a few more seconds. My mother always said the first steps for any newborn were the hardest. You're my newborn, Twilight Sparkle. My newborn madmare and...and...Oh my this just like my time at the farm.”, I heard her say, but my mind was busy pressing itself to the limit. Another step and another and another then suddenly my nerves settled. My vision bright and vivid and my body light springy. My hearing sharp and my horn tingling with wild magic just waiting to be used. I charged out of that cellar and right through Fluttershy's front door leaving it a heap of busted splinters! I'd never felt so strong and my mind raced with a million thoughts and calculations. In madness I could remember all my lessons in magic, all my studied books, and I could feel Pinkie Pie! I could feel her in bleeding soul! How amazing it felt, but when I looked around and caught sight of her I felt something sinister tug at me. It was like a dark side of myself wanted a peek That was when the voices came. Break her, trounce her, send her packing! Tear her apart and put her back together wrong, turn her into a gift for Celestia's stone garden! Make her Rarity's whipping pony, or Aj's slave, or gasp even your own naughty little play thing! Before I could respond to the psychotic voices in my head I heard Pinkie Pie's delighted tenor chiming in. “Ooooh look at you Twilight! You got all dressed up to play with me! You look so silly in that suit, but I think it suits you. Get suit that suits you? Anywho, you don't look so well. I know all about Ms. Animal lover's Pink Buster suit and what it does! I think it's pretty neat, but it must be hard for you right? Right?! Seeing and feeling all that Pinkie Keen energy for the first time? Maybe you're hearing the voices, but don't pay them any attention. Unless that is what you really want.” I think it was then that I knew I'd have to fight her or risk her making me give into the madness too much. So I decided to steel my resolve and give her the fight of a lifetime crazy pony to crazy pony and what a fight it was! I'll tell you about it next! Part Three Over!!