Rarity hummed to herself as she made her way through the crowd. If she knew her friends, and she liked to think that she did, they'd likely congregate in the middle of the town square so as to have an easy meeting spot. Sure enough, the other five were already there. They smiled when they saw Rarity approach and waved at her.
"So sorry if I'm late, girls. I ran into Kerfuffle on the way over here and we had the most fascinating discussion!"
"Oh, so did she tell you about how she lost her leg?" Twilight asked.
Rarity grimaced and nodded. "She did. Poor dear. I can't imagine being betrayed by a pony you were working to save."
The smiles on the other five instantly fell, only to be replaced by looks of confusion.
"Uh... what?" Rainbow asked.
"Oh, did she not tell you the story?" Rarity replied. "You know, the one about her being a secret agent? She saved a mare she believed to be a hostage, but the mare betrayed her and cut her with a poisoned knife!"
"Poisoned knife?" Rainbow scoffed in disbelief. "Is that, like, code or something? She told me that she had a nasty accident during a hoofball game, and she cut it off to go back to the game!"
"Well that's just silly," Applejack said with a frown. "She told me that she got in an accident while hiking and had ta cut it off to survive."
"So... she didn't save any bunnies from timberwolves?"
"Bunnies?" Twilight raised an eyebrow. "I thought she got it in a lab accident."
"Maybe she did and she was drunk like in my story!" Pinkie said. She frowned in thought and tapped her jaw. "Wait. She told me that she crashed into a china cabinet that landed on her."
"Ah." Rarity grimaced. "It would appear that we have all been had." She chuckled quietly to herself. "Though maybe she should stop fashion and get into fiction. She has the talent for it."
"Maybe she told somepony the real story," Twilight said. She spotted Sunny Skies in the crowd and waved at him. "Mayor Skies? Can we talk to you for a second?"
"Sure thing, Princess Twilight!" Sunny Skies said, walking over with Petunia. "What do you want to talk about?"
"We were kind of wondering about Kerfuffle's missing leg," Twilight said.
Sunny Skies' smile faded and he flattened his ears. "Yeah. Real shame about that. Must have been a real nasty carriage accident to take her leg."
"Carriage accident? What are you talking about?" Petunia replied. "It was a blood clot when she was a foal. That's what she told me."
"Hmm. Yes, that would make more sense than the story she told me about being captured by a serial killer and needing to saw it off to appreciate life more," Mister Hoofington said.
"She gave you that ghastly story?" Missus Hoofington replied. "She said it was during a crash in the middle of Tour de Prance!"
"She told me that it was a disease that was going to spread if they didn't operate!" another stallion said.
"Well she told me that it was it never actually grew in right, and the prosthetic is just attached to what did develop," a mare chimed in.
"She said my Mommy had to give me permission to hear the story because the monster in it was too scary!" a filly said.
"Wow, so, yeah," Twilight said, shaking her head as the townsponies gathered around them. "So has anypony actually heard any overlap in the stories we brought up that she's told?"
Twilight heard various noises of negative and several shaken heads. She tapped her jaw in thought. "Huh. I guess she really doesn't want ponies knowing."
"Or the real story was told to one of us," Rarity pointed out.
"Not likely," Twilight replied. "I don't see why she'd come up with all of this only to put the truth in there somewhere."
"Maybe ta make it seem less plausible?" Applejack guessed.
"Maybe," Twilight muttered.
Before anypony could say anything else, they were all broken out of their thoughts by the sound of Kerfuffle herself humming and walking into the town square. She stopped in her tracks when she saw everypony looking at her, but her smile didn't falter an inch.
"Hi. Whatcha all talkin' about?"