That was the longest hour ever. Well the only hour I could remember. All of Sugar Cube Corner was a mess. Random items were strewn about. As if an explosion had gone off in the shop. Ruined fruit laid at my feet, forks were stuck in the ceiling, and there seemed to be a familiar shaped pegasus outline, made out of, knives!
"Well Mr.J that was a fun hour, but we should probably go if you want to see Ponyville."
"Umm... Shouldn't we find Fluttershy, and you know, clean up this mess." I gestured to the room.
"Oh don't worry about the mess, I have my best alligator on the job! As for Fluttershy she ran outside twenty minutes ago. She said she had to feed her animals. So I guess that means it's just you and me!"
Well I couldn't blame Fluttershy. Things had been crazy in that hour. It was a miracle no one had gotten hurt, and with that outline of knives, someone had gotten close.
"Okay Pinkie but you have to make a promise. Never do something like that again. Fluttershy almost got hurt! What would you have done if Fluttershy got stabbed by one of those knives." I gestured to the outline in the wall.
"Oh... I didn't know that she was in danger. If I had known..." Pinkie said with a sad look on her face.
"It's okay Pinkie, Fluttershy didn't get hurt. Just promise me never do that again, and apologize to Fluttershy next time you see her." I say, giving her a reassuring smile.
"Okay I Pinkie Promise!" She made a gesture across her chest, then stuck her hoof in her eye.
"Uhh... Okay. Now I believe you were going to show me around."
"Why yes I am!" She exclaimed. Bouncing over to the door. She started to open it and she said "Now welcome to Ponyville!"
As the door opened up, my eye's were blinded by the intensity of the sun. Not again! I should have learned from my mistakes. Why do I never learn? I should have invested in some sunglasses. I strove through the pain. My eye's focused, I regretted allowing them to do so, because what I saw was almost as bad as staring into the sun. "Ponyville" as Pinkie had put it, was a blend of impossibly bright colors. Uhh... I think I had a headache.
Each individual building was its own special color. These colors seemed like they should have clashed, but they somehow managed to blend, somehow. Even the sky was a brighter shade of blue.
"So? What do you think!?" Pinkie asked.
"I think the combination of staring at the sun, and these buildings, is going to make me hurl."
"Ooo, I love staring at the sun, I'm the world champion! No pony can beat me."
Staring at the sun? Who did that for fun?
"Uhh... I'll take your word on that. Now where to first?"
"Oh I know, lets go meet more of my friends."
"Okay."
I needed some social interaction. Besides how many friends could she have?
***
That was a terrible idea. Apparently Pinkie was friends with everypony in Ponyville. The entire morning was spent having Pinkie introduce me... to Every... Pony!
Uhh... so many names. I don;t know how Pinkie could remember all of those ponies names. I guess she is just an extremely exceptional friend. *sigh* Well I guess I could chalk this up on the ever expanding chalk board of Pinkie's impossibilities. Hmm... At this rate I had to get a new chalk board.
I wondered where she was taking me now. We seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. Just a dirt road and grass off too my side's. Hmm... Oh well, I guess had to just trust her. She seemed like she always knew where she was going.
I wandered into my thoughts. I didn't even realize that I was staring at Pinkie. Pinkie seemed to bounce everywhere she went. Her legs had to be incredibly strong if she could use "bouncing" as a way of transportation. I guess this was a further thing to add to the ever expanding chalk board.
As we continued our way down an undisclosed path, my eye's focused on her rump. Wait! Not in that way, I had noticed something on it. There were three little ovals on it. Two blue, one yellow. They were balloons!
"Pinkie I'm curious why do you have balloons on your rump?"
"Oh, are you talking about my cutie mark? Oh that's right you probably don't know. Well you see, this mark represents what everyponies special talent is. Take Fluttershy's for example. She has three butterflies as her cutie mark, and her special talent is taking care of animals!"
"Okay I think I got this, so cutie mark's are a representation of your ability, so yours would mean... You're good at parties?"
"Yep. Right on the mark! So Mr.J what does yours mean?"
"I don't know, but it means something to me, because whenever I look at it I get this feeling of... Dread."
"Hmm... Oh I know, maybe it has something to do with your eye's!"
"My eye's?"
"Yeah your cutie mark is the same color as your eye's! Maybe since it's a fireball you can shoot fire out of your eye's!"
"I'm pretty sure that's not what it means."
"Suit yourself, but don't come crying to me when you burn some pony with your eye's."
"Yeah sure... So where are you taking us?"
"We're going to my friend's to have some lunch. Now lets get going, eye's where I can see them."
Wait, had she noticed me staring at her rump?
"Uhh..."
"I said eye's where I can see them. I don't want to suddenly combust!"
Good, she hadn't realized the truth. Wait why was that good?
***
We had reached a form of civilization, and by civilization I meant trees, trees as far as the eye can see. Well they were apple trees. But did that honestly matter?
Hmm... There was a barn on what seemed to be a farm. Well it looked like we had arrived.
"So is that your friend's farm?"
"Yep." Pinkie then yelled at the top of her lung's "Hey Applejack come meet my new friend!"