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// Intermission: PARTY!!! 
// Story: Fourty-two 
// by Dusky Flower 
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Surprise grinned. It was her job to greet everypony that came in, and she was going to be the BEST GREETER EVER.

"Hi, Shock! Hi, Author!"

The Author grimaced. "I didn't sign up for this..."

"Hi, Doctor!"

Doctor smiled. "Hello, Surprise. Did you see what caused that Class 4 rift?"

Surprise placed one white hoof on her head. 

"Ummm... Oh! Hey! I got it!"

Doctor's face brightened. "You know! Ah, that's wonderful. I'll have this all wrapped up soon!"

Surprise grinned the biggest grin, then smiled even wider. "You ready? You ready? Okay, here I go!"


"Nope! I have no clue what caused it!"



The brown stallion facehoofed. "I should have known. Ah, well, when life gives you lemons..."

"Hi, Lemonade!"

A neon yellow Surprise hopped through the portal, followed by a somewhat messy green one ("Hi, Lime!) carrying a Neightendo DS in her hooves.

Several more Surprises hopped through, as well as a cloud of Pinkie Pies.

Surprise cocked her head. "Huh? I thought there was only one Pinkie Pie?"

The cloud all cocked their heads at her and grinned, then started bouncing around.

"FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN!"

Derpy tripped through, landing on one.

It looked confused for a moment, then proclaimed "FUN!" at the top of its lungs.

The others all looked at it. "Fun?"

It grinned. "FUN!"

"FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN!"

The Author facehoofed yet again.

"So that's where they went. Here."

Pinkie Pie looked concerned. "Well, at least I know I'm the real one this time!" She then bounced over to the table (wait, was that there a minute ago?) loaded with cake and punch and cupcakes and cream puffs.

The cloud of Pinkies looked at each other. Apparently their vocabulary was not limited to one word. 

They all screamed, "CAAAAKE!" and proceeded to demolish the cake table.

Pinkie Pie looked at the Author. "Oh no! Not again!"

The Author sighed. "You brought them here, you get rid of them."

Pinkie protested, "But I didn't bring them here!!!"

The Author groaned, "Fine. Then figure something out. I'm outta here."

Pinkie gasped. "But you can't go! The party hasn't started yet!"

The Pinkie cloud had completely demolished the party.

The Author rolled her eyes. "From the looks of things, it looks like the party has ended."

The young alicorn swept the quill and notepad over to where she was. "Get over here!" 

She seized the quill in her mouth, and began to write.

"I'm the Author! I can write myself out of here!" she said around the quill. And with a blip, she was one gone.

Back home, she sighed. "That was close. Gotta keep an eye on those typos."