Apple of My Eye

by musicalreader


Post Party Pinkie Pie

Apple of My Eye- Ch. 14

Post Party Pinkie Pie

AKA- And Now, For Something Slightly Different…



Pinkie Pie is arguably THE pony to see if you want a great party. Not only was she the Element of Laughter, but she was also a graduate from the University of North Manehattan (go gryphons!). She held a Masters in Geological Studies, Bachelors of Baked Goods and Armaments (which are, surprisingly enough, the same thing in Equestria) and a Doctorate in, you guessed it, Interdimensional Communication and Physics (She’d single hoofedly pioneered the field actually…). She was so far ahead of the curve for what ponies considered reality, she was able to safely communicate across the 4th wall, putting her in the same league as one of the Pony Sisters.


Our hyperactive pink little super powered Earth Pony was currently bounding her way around Ponyville, unsure as to where exactly she was headed, but greeting everypony by name along the way.

“Wait a minute….” She said, stopping just outside the town limits, a few yards from the Everfree Forest, “Why am I out here again? I feel like I forgot something important…”

You’re looking for Orion, remember?

“Oh yeah! Thanks Narrator!” she responded, confusing anypony within earshot, and doubling back towards the town. “Not sure why I was heading towards that spooky forest anyway… Anypony with a brain knows not to go in there. Maybe I should ask around town?”

Seems like a good idea to me… Is it alright if I tell the readers how your night ended after the party while you find somepony to talk to?

“Go ahead. They might think it’s kind of funny! Or maybe not… But that’s okay too. I can always make everypony smile one way or another!” Pinkie said, bouncing off back to the town, as a convenient flashback set in…

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The party had started to wind down, and Pinkie was none the worse for wear. Despite almost going drink for drink with Berry Punch and Vinyl Scratch, she was still exceptionally coherent.

“I’m telling you guys!” Vinyl said loudly, herself and her two drinking buddies the only ones still conscious around the hall, “I love Octy, I really do… but DANG does she make it hard for me to show her! I can’t make a song for her cuz she doesn’t like listening to my stuff, and if I even TRY and suggest spicing things up in the bedroom, she gets all moody!”

“Maybe you should try getting her drunk?” Berry Punch suggested uncertainly, while staring at a particularly blurry section of the wall, “I mean, yeah, she kind of passed out after that fifth shot, but I mean, there’s gotta be a middle ground with her to where she just starts to loosen up…”

“Maybe you two should go talk to a counselor.” Pinkie suggested sagely, taking a sip from her bottle of sarsaparilla. She’d stopped drinking the hard stuff around the time she noticed that everypony else was starting to wind down. (Wind down, pass out, whatever)

“Nah… Counselors are for ponies with problems…” Vinyl said, waving a hoof dismissively in Pinkie’s direction. “I know! I’ll make a song for her! Maybe I could use some sound clips from her stuff…”

The three party-hardy creatures were interrupted by a tall Unicorn stallion in the uniform of the Lunar Guard.

“Are you Miss Pie?” he asked, looking at Pinkie.

“Yep! Who are you? I know you’re a guard, but I mean come on, who can’t tell that? Nopony, that’s who. Now what’s your name? I know everypony in Ponyville, and if you’re here in Ponyville and I don’t know you, then I can’t keep saying that, can I?” Pinkie responded, catching the usually stoic guardspony off guard.

“Uhhh… I’m Stone Wall, part of her Majesty Luna’s Lunar Guard. Now that the pleasantries are out of the way, Miss Pie, It’s been brought to our attention that almost every citizen in town was at this party. Is that correct?” Stone Wall asked, breaking his training and showing a look of confusion as he looked around the hall.

“Sure is! Everypony except for the little ones and anypony watching them tonight was invited. And I’m pretty sure that everypony showed up… There might be a few that just didn’t feel like coming here, but I mean really, who doesn’t like parties?!” she answered, still full of energy despite the fact that dawn was only a couple hours away…

“Well I’m afraid that I couldn’t tell you Miss Pie. They don’t cover partying in Guard training.” Stone said, smirking at the infectiously happy pink pony. “Now, I’m here under orders from Princess Luna to ensure that everypony makes it home if at all possible, and I have a small squadron outside the building willing to not only help transport everypony home, but also help you clean up the Town Hall.”

“Oh that’s okay.” Pinkie said dismissively, “I can clean this place up easy. And if you need help figuring out where somepony lives, I can tell you.”

“I’m afraid that I can’t accept that Miss Pie. Princess Luna’s express orders, Do not let Pinkie clean the hall, it may end up becoming a cleaning party, and then it only goes downhill from there.” He said matter-of-factly By this point in the conversation, Berry Punch and Vinyl Scratch had finally taken notice of the Lunar Guard, and were edging their way towards the wall to try and avoid any trouble Pinkie may have accidentally dragged them into.

“Well then I can still help you get everypony back home!” Pinkie volunteered, her smile becoming a bit forced.

“Negative to that offer as well Miss Pie. The other part of Princess Luna’s orders were, Do not let her try and help move anypony back to their home, as it will most likely turn into a musical number. Don’t look at me like that, just trust me.”

“Then just what the frosting are you talking to me for?!” Pinkie asked in exasperation, her short amount of patience apparently reaching its limit.

“I’m simply here to make sure that you exit the hall in a quiet manner, and that any other party goers that are conscious are seen safely home. Now, if you and your two friends trying to sneak off would follow me outside, I’ll make sure a guard personally sees you all to your homes.” Stone said, the look of trained indifference finally returning to his face as he gestured to the front doors, grabbing Berry Punch and Vinyl in his magical grip and lifting them easily.

“Whoa whoa whoa!” Berry objected, “I know my rights! What’s the big deal!”

“Can it Berry Punch, you’re drunk!” Vinyl said, laughing at her friend. “Besides, we’re not in trouble. He’s just gonna make sure we all get home safe.”

“Then if we’re not in trouble, why were you following me?!” Berry asked, trying to glare at her Unicorn friend, and failing miserably as she noticed that Vinyl had suddenly learned how to clone herself… or at least, it looked that way…
Pinkie just sighed and shook her head. Her friends were all special in their own ways, but sometimes they could be really silly.

The three mares were led to the doorway and deposited just outside the doorway.

“Now then, seeing as you three are all conscious, and presumably sober.” Stone said, his eyebrow raising as Berry Punch launched herself towards one of the bushes near the doorway and throwing up, “Well… two of you are at least presumed sober… Is there anypony inside that lives with you that can be escorted back safely as well?”

“Oh! My girl Octavia is in there. I think she was asleep on the steps to my set. Grey Earth Pony, snooty manecut, little bow tie…” Vinyl said, raising her hoof and gesturing at one of the platforms, where sure enough, there was a passed out Octavia, one hoof dangling off the side.

“Alright. Miss Pie? Miss Punch?” Stone asked, grabbing Octavia and carrying her out of the building with his magic.

Pinkie shook her head, and Berry kept muttering something about everypony needing to just sit down and stop moving…

“Alright then… Aegis, escort Miss Punch to her home. Crescent, you’re in charge of Miss Pie, and I’ll take care of Miss Scratch and her marefriend.” Stone Wall instructed, selecting two more Lunar Guards from the twenty or so standing at attention outside of the hall. Aegis was a Pegasus Stallion, and Berry Punch started cuddling up to him almost immediately. Crescent, meanwhile, was a Unicorn mare not much older than Pinkie.

“The rest of you, go inside the Town Hall. Those who cannot be roused are to be placed on cots in the back, those who can are to be taken home and a note left for them once they awaken. After everypony is accounted for, begin cleaning the hall itself. You all have your assignments, now get to it!” he barked, the group of guards saluting smartly before hurrying inside, while the three remaining guards went off into the night with their respective charges.

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Did I miss anything?

“Nope… Seems like you told them everything. Oh, and they know I met with Rarity and Twilight and Luna at the shop a little while ago, that everypony is acting all sick and angry, and that I’m looking for Orion now, right?”

Yep. That was actually covered about three chapters ago. And maybe if you didn’t serve so much alcohol, they wouldn’t be as sick?

“Oh shush.” Pinkie reprimanded the Narrator, “Now help me figure out the trajectory for this quartenary trampoline…”

While the flashback had been going on, Pinkie had managed to set up a multi level trampoline on the side of the hill directly underneath Rainbow Dash’s home. She started out by bouncing on one trampoline, then when she got up to the second level, she used the extra momentum to climb up higher and higher… kind of like an exceptionally springy staircase…

Looks fine to me… Although are you sure that just bouncing into her room is a good idea? What if you miss the trampoline on your way down?

“Who said I was coming back down silly?”

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Rainbow Dash was having a wonderful dream… seriously, this one ranked up there with her Wonderbolt dream where they made her the team captain on the spot after watching one of her practice sessions. Although, it did have a completely different feel… this was a more intimate dream…

“mmmrrr no dude… you take the emerald idol to Daring before it’s too late….what’s that? A final kiss?... well I’m not going anywhere tied up on this altar… so get over here champ…” she muttered to herself, the string of odd snippets broken up by
a loud snore and a small fit of giggling.

RaaaaaiiinnnboooowwwwwwwDaaaasssssshhhhhh! Waaaaaakkkkkkeeeee UUUPPPP!” came ripping through the cloud house as Pinkie Pie shot up through the floor and landed on top of her friend.

“WHAT THE BUCKING HAY!?” Rainbow screamed, bolting up in bed and almost throwing her friend off. “Pinkie?! What are you doing up here? Why did you wake me up?”

“Please don’t move Dashie…” Pinkie said, hugging the weather pegasus for dear life, “Seriously. I really don’t want to fall all the way back down….”

“Then why did you come up here in the first place?! HOW did you come up here in the first place?!” Dash questioned, looking at her floor and seeing a nice new hole punched through the cloud material…. A hole that went down two more stories and was centered perfectly over a series of ridiculously tall trampolines…

Rainbow Dash looked at her friend Pinkie, then back to the hole, then back to Pinkie, back to the hole…

“Ya know what? I don’t wanna know…” Rainbow muttered, flopping backwards onto her bed and groaning. “This is SOOO not a good way to wake up with a hangover…”

“Yeah, sorry about that Dashie, I really am… but I needed to get your help with something kind of important, and everypony else is feeling too icky this morning.” Pinkie explained, her frame starting to shake a little, “Can we please maybe keep talking on the ground? I just kind of realized how bad of an idea this was…”

Rainbow Dash sighed in exasperation before wriggling her frame around underneath Pinkie’s full weight. Seriously, the clouds didn’t give her ANY support at all… What’s with that?!

Finally, she was in position to spread her wings and glide them back down to the ground.

“Oh Sweet Pony Sisters, thank you!” Pinkie exclaimed, making out with the ground in a significantly messy fashion while Rainbow just looked at the small super structure Pinkie had built out of trampolines and what looked like super sticky tape wrapped around some of the support beams for the Sweet Apple Acres barn…



Meanwhile, across town, Applebloom had wandered over to the family barn to see if there were any supplies she could use to fix up the CMC tree house…… but when she got there, all she found was a roof sitting on the ground, and four very familiar red walls laying on the ground in a pile.

“Ah horse feed…” the youngest Apple swore, “How many times do we have to raise this stupid thing before it stays up?!”



“So uh… Pinkie… what exactly made you decide to catapult yourself up to my house, the morning after one of your parties?” Rainbow asked, deciding that for the time being, ‘Pinkie Being Pinkie’ was NOT enough to satisfy her curiosity.

Pinkie filled her in on everything that Princess Luna had told them, which wasn’t a lot, but she told Rainbow anyway.

“I’m thinking he’s in some kind of compromised, vulnerable state, and that Luna is gonna try and get him back to normal…” Pinkie guessed, tapping hoof to her chin and imagining Orion tangled up in a magically possessed blanket or something.

Rainbow Dash’s mind was elsewhere entirely… And no, we’re not going to give out details, just suffice it to say that the mental image woke her up better than several cups of coffee, and her face turned a lovely shade of magenta. After a few more moments of hypothesizing, she even began to get a small nosebleed…

“R-right… So, we gotta start looking for Orion right? Well, he probably didn’t get that far from the farm, so I’ll start doing a flyby over the orchard. Pinkie, how about you go back to the Town Hall and see if the others have gotten back there. If I don’t find anything, and nopony else has, then we can meet up there in about a half hour and work out a search plan.” Rainbow instructed, slipping into her Weather Manager voice.

Pinkie saluted smartly, turned about in a very neat and organized fashion with a stern and concentrated look on her face…… then began to bounce off towards the town, leaving a zig zag trail behind her while humming a song about some kind of crystal ball and digging holes…