//------------------------------// // Pinkie // Story: Battlefield: Equestria // by Capanna925 //------------------------------// Everything went silent. So this is where Pinkie's been all along... I thought she was dead, or at least at another camp, but no. She's part of Celestia's army to overthrow us. How could she?! After everything we've been through! Celestia must have brainwashed her into becoming one of her own. Pinkie was a ditz, but she wasn't stupid. She knew where she stood in all this. "Don't just stand there, you twit! Go find the others!" Rainbow snapped as I heard a bowl being tipped over. Shoot! I needed to get out of here before they found out I was out past curfew, but apparently I was too late. "Ah! Rarity! Just the pony I wanted to see. Come in." Rainbow had her head poking out of the tents door. "Oh! Hey a Rainbow Da- er, Captain!..How are you..?" I tryed my best to pretend I was on my way to the bunker tent, knowing it probably wasn't very convincing. "I'm fine, Rarity. Thank you." Rainbow then whispered annoyedly to her soldier to gather the other ponies, and picked up the bowl that had dropped. "And what about you?" Rainbow said. I blinked. "How are you?" She said, flipping back her rainbow colored mane. "I..I'm holding up. I suppose. I mean, as much as anypony is holding up." It was obvious in my voice that I was nervous. I didn't know why, Rainbow had been one of my closest friends. I guess it might be her authoritative role she played in this. "Hm." She replied. "And how about your friends? How are they doing?" She added. My friends?! It's always been our friends. Always. The war has pushed countless ponies away from each other, but this feels almost unacceptable. And the fact of how calm and, well, ‘proper’ she acted.. it just made my blood boil. How she acted like she had to put on a play, transform herself into someone entirely different. "The girls are doing just fine, thank you for asking." I said through gritted teeth, and almost too sharply for my own good. Rainbow Dash stared blankly at me for a minute, and then said, "I suppose I don't need to fill you in about Pinkie, then? Just promise me when "the girls" come in you act surprised, yeah?" The tinge of shortening up her sentences at every end rang in the air, suggesting she had picked up an accent from somewhere up north..I just couldn't put my hoof on where exactly.. The guard stepped in with a bedragled Twilight and Applejack, still covered in blood, by his side. "Captain, I have Applejack, and miss Sparkle was found behind the weapons crates." "Out past curfew again, Soldier Sparkle? Oh, who even gives a flying feather anymore.." Rainbow shooed away the guard and stood up. "Hello Applejack. Twilight." She added. "They found Pinkie." Rainbow said bluntly. "What?? Where?! Is she okay?" Twilight was almost touching noses with the rainbow pony. Rainbow Dash sighed, and took a step back. "Apparently troops found her snooping around our base.." She held up dog tags with Pinkie's name and rank on them. She flipped them over to reveal a Solar Empire logo engraved in it. Applejack gasped and covered her mouth. "Impossible.." She whispered from behind her cracked hoof. "We currently have her in the chambers. She's been asking for us four. I think we should get going if we want to get back by daybreak."