Chapter 6: The Canterlot Secret
The ponies had arrived in Canterlot and had been searching for what Celestia had been talking about. they brought the shattered elements of harmony to try and find a way to fix them.
"WAIT!!!" Shouted Twilight with one hoof in the air to represent her getting an idea. "Celestia had told me back when we used the elements of harmony to defeat Discord that she has a safe. She told me that when the time comes and I'm ready to use it, i'll know, and the answers will reveal themselves!"
"What do you mean Twilight?" Applejack asked the purple pony. "The answers will reveal themselves? Does that mean that Celestia had anticipated this happening?"
"I don't know for sure, but what I am certain of is where this safe is!" She told Applejack happily.
"And it's where exactly?" Asked Rarity.
"Well, Celestia has a special chamber that she keeps it in, from what she has told me, there is a test for each of the elements, and the master of each element must pass a test in their own respective chambers." The pony replied.
"So what your saying..." Rainbow Dash started as Pinkie Pie jumped in and said,
"So it's like we will have our own little parties!?"
"No, no, we need to pass a test to show we are really worthy to be the bearer of each element."
"Well, if it will help Celestia, I say we do it!" Rainbow Dash said, hovering in the air with two hooves in the air to represent her toughness.
The ponies headed to the chamber following Twilight, then they stepped in the chamber and each went to their respective elements' room. Pinkie Pie to 'Laughter', Fluttershy to 'Kindness', Rarity to 'Generosity', Applejack to 'Honesty', Rainbow Dash to 'Loyalty', and finally Twilight Sparkle to 'Magic'.
Starting with Pinkie Pie, the chamber had completely changed to represent Ponyville. Pinkie was walking through and went to the Bakery where she saw Mr. and Mrs. Cake along with their two kids, Poundcake and Pumkin Cake.
"Hello Mr. Cake! Could I get some cupcakes?" She said very cheerfully.
"No Pinkie, you cannot, now get out of my store!" He said in a very harsh voice. Pinkie's ears went down as she got really sad.
"Wh-what do you MEAN, Mr. Cake!?" She asked, trying to fight back some tears at this very mean Mr. Cake.
"I mean, GET OUT Pinkie, we don't want you here, just leave us alone!" he said to her again firmly.
"Mrs. Cake, kids? Do you all mean this?" She said sadly, but they didn't say anything to her, they just looked away from the pony in disgust. Pinkie walked out the door as she heard the voice of Mr. Cake behind her say in a relieved way, and he said it loud enough for her to hear, "Yeah, good riddance! We don't need that pony!" then his family replied in the same tone of voice, "Yeah, we never liked that pony!"
Pinkie thought this was really wierd and travelled over to where Cranky Doodle lived, she knocked on his door and he opened up.
"WHAT!? Can't you see I'm spending time with my wife here!? I told you kid, I don't want to be your friend!" He said very angrily.
"B-but Mr. Cranky, I thought we WERE friends!"
"What gave you that impression? I wouldn't be your friend to save my life!" he said in a hate filled manner as Pinkie heard his wife, Matilda, yell from the background, "Is that Pinkie again!? I thought you told her NOT to come around here ever again!?"
"I did, but I guess she didn't get the message!" He said as he brought out a basket of apples. "Now, I'm gonna give you 'til the count of THREE to get off my property, or else you will get some apples to your noggin'! 1... 2..." He started to count, as Pinkie ran away promptly.
She was walking through the town very sadly, as the Pegasi moved rainclouds over her, gave her a disgusted look, then made it hale right on top of the pony! She didn't mind so much as the pain of losing friends was too painful for her to so much as even be phased by the hale! She looked over at a group of ponies who she thought were her friends, but they just yelled at her and threw stuff at her. A bunch of ponies ran by and pushed her into a trash can as they ran away sniggering, then ponies had started to board up their homes with threats written on signs with things like, 'Stay out Pinkie, or we will have the Royal Guard on you!' and 'Pinkie Pie's: NOT ALLOWED!!!'. Pinkie sat under an awning, and next thing she knew, she was surrounded by ponies.
"Pinkie Pie, we need you to get out of town! You're a nuisance, and none of us ponies want anything to do with you!" Mr. Cake yelled at her, leading the pack. This broke Pinkie's heart, and she started walking away, head down as all the others yelled stuff like, 'yeah, good riddance!' and 'I feel sorry for the town that has to take her sorry flank in!' This however, was the time when Pinkie had remembered that this was all just an illusion and she stopped dead in her tracks as she picked her head up and got a huge smile, as big as the sonic rainboom was. All the other ponies yelled even louder and stepped toward her. That is when Pinkie jumped in the air and landed in the middle of the crowd, every pony gasped then got really angry again as she began playing the drums and started singing very energetically.
"You all don't really hate me!
You ponies I will make you see!
I am..." She started a very big burst of energy for the next few lines of the song.
"Fun, and cooky, and whacky!
I'm energetic to the core!
Every pony you know I like to party,
and they are made foooooooooooooorrrrrrrrr..." She held the note on the word 'for'
"you, and, you, and even Cranky Doodle..." But as she got to this last note, they all advanced towards her again, even angrier than before!
"Uh, I guess you guys don't like the song..." She had pulled out a special confetti cannon she usually kept at home, then she blasted them all with it, instantly making them into party guests, they all got confused, but this made them less angry. Pinkie had decorated the town at break neck speed to be for a party. All the ponies became even more happy, as some cheered and others still were unsatisfied. Next Pinkie had gone onto telling some quick jokes she thought up on the spot,
"What's tall, funny looking, and looks great in a garden!?" she said very cheerfully.
"What?" Asked everypony there.
"DISCORD!!!" She screamed as they all fell to the ground laughing, and were friends again. This is when the town had started fading away and Pinkie was back in the chamber she started in.
"Wow, what a crazy time!" She laughed as the element for laughter had began to reform itself. "The element is back to normal!" She said with glee, as she walked to the next room.
Along in Fluttershy's room, She had been sent to a version of Ponyville too, this version however, no pony hated any other pony. Fluttershy had walked into her home, when she saw all the animals being mean to one another. The sheep had been fighting back and forth with other sheep over a little toy that Fluttershy gave them to keep them occupied, they were fighting over one toy while there was a pile of toys right next to them! Angel was going around kicking over all the other animals' food, and two birds were just fighting about where they could stand on the couch. Fluttershy had tried to calm them, but it didn't work, not even her famous stare would help! She left the animals alone and walked out to see everypony in Ponyville acting mean towards them, not hateful, just mean. Nopony would share even the dirt! Two ponies were so stubborn that they were fighting over which one was allowed to sleep at one time!
"Why is everypony acting this way?" She asked shyfully to two passing ponies.
"Not now Fluttershy, we are busy fighting over who gets to order our food!" Said one of the ponies, as they walked off she could hear the two bickering, "No, I'm gonna order!" Said one of them agrivated.
Fluttershy had walked into the Bakery as she saw the Cake family fighting over who was going to pull the desserts out of the oven, she watched it until she couldn't take it anymore and ran outside. She saw all the ponies fighting until she snapped and yelled, "STOP IT!!!" at the top of her lungs as all the others trotted up to her.
"Oh yeah, and what are YOU gonna do if we DON'T?" Said one trying to start an argument.
"No." She said shyfully again as the pony got in her face.
"Well I'm gonna keep on doing my business, what will you do to stop me?" she said, smiling smugly. Fluttershy had remembered that this is a test, and started solving all the problems, returning Ponyville back to kindness.
"You two, order your own food, and try to be kind to each other." She pointed to the two she passed just a few moments earlier. "And you, Cakes, Mr. Cake, you can pull out desserts by taking turns." Now she went over to the animals and solved all their problems. A few minutes later, she had returned kindness to the town and returned to the real world. The 'Kindness' elements had fixed itself just like the 'Laughter' elements, it floated down around Fluttershy's neck, and she walked into the next chamber, where she met up with Pinkie Pie, and they told each other about their experience.
Rarity had been walking through Ponyville, watching everypony steal other items away from other ponies.
"What is going on here!?" She yelled in horror, as a pony came by and stole the hat she was wearing, right off the top of her head, she then took it back and ran to her workshop. When she arrived at the workshop, the door was wide open, and the lock busted clean off, she walked inside and noticed every fabric, jewel, gem, paint, picture, outfit, and other such crafts had all been stolen, they even went so far as to clean out every room in the workshop and stole everything, right down to the last little crumb.
"What in Celestia's name is going on here!" she exclaimed, horrified. She walked outside and saw every house in Ponyville broken into, ponies running out with hooves full of items. This angered Rarity to no end, she was so mad to see all the kind hearted ponies resorting to thievery, that you could actually see steam coming out of her ears, accompanied by a loud whistling noise, then you can see fire in her eyes, and she turned a slight shade of red.
"YOU THIEVING LITTLE PONIES!!!" She yelled, nopony even turning in her direction. She ran towards a pony and picked her up.
"EMPTY YOUR HOOVES, MANE, AND ANYWHERE ELSE YOU MAY HIDE YOUR LOOT!!!" She yelled, the pony still lifted up in the air.
"O-okay, just don't hurt me!" The pony pleaded with Rarity, shaking in Rarity's hooves. "Okay, here's everything, just take it, and don't hurt me!" The pony started to cry as she ran away. This commotion attracted a large crowd.
"Why are you all STEALING FROM ON ANOTHER!!!" She yelled, demanding an answer.
"Well Why not? Who's gonna stop us? YOU? Ha, ha, ha!" laughed the same pony from Fluttershy's test.
"Well, Why steal, can't you just borrow what you need?" She asked everypony, as they all gave a huge laugh at her.
"Borrow? Ha, don't be naive!" laughed the same pony.
"It's easy though!" Rarity said to her.
"Oh, and you think you have a clean slate? What about that giant rock?"
"What? You mean Tom? I told everypony not to speak of that ever again! Besides, you should not be stealing, because it's not going to get you anywhere!" Rarity went on to make a long speech, eventually convincing everypony to quit stealing, and she reappeared in her chamber, and the element of generosity reassembled and was set down right next to her. She went to the next room to find Pinkie and Fluttershy waiting to exchange stories with them...