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// An Eye on Ponyville 
// Story: A Fractured Pinkie 
// by RustyNails 
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	The next day, Pinkie Pie sat at her window sucking on a milkshake. She was still bored, and hadn't been out of Sugar Cube Corner for a couple days. Twilight came up the stairs with a long case.
"Hi Pinkie. I've got something for you." Twilight opened the case.
"It's my telescope. Cool huh."
"I guess," said Pinkie, but why are you giving it to me?"
"Because it helped me out when I had a broken leg."
"You broke your leg Twilight?"
"Yes. When I was little, and I still remember it." Twilight flashes back to that time period. As a young filly she plays with three other fillies on an ice skating rink.
"I was at the Canterlot ice skating rink with some other fillies when it happened." Filly Twilight tries to skate, but she loses her balance and crashes. "Turned me off ice skating for life."
"Well that explains a lot." said Pinkie remembering Twilight's skating trouble at Winter Wrap Up day.
"I had to be in a cast for a month, and on top of that my birthday was in a few days. You can imagine how that felt." Young Twilight sobs in her mother's embrace.
"So for my birthday my parents gave me something I had always wanted. A telescope." Twilight opens the wrapping paper revealing the shiny black telescope.
"I set that telescope up right away and started stargazing right from my bedroom window. I saw so many amazing sights through that telescope." Twilight looks at the stars with a dazzle in her eyes. "I almost didn't even notice the days and weeks fly by, and before I knew it. It was time for the cast to come off." Twilight leaves the doctor's office and runs up to her parents giving them a hug. She then flashes back to the present.
"Anyway. I thought you might want to have it as a hobby."
"Hey," said Pinkie. "After these last couple days, I'll try anything." 
"Great." said Twilight. "Let me set it up for you." Twilight opened up the case and used her magic to put the telescope together: first the three pieces of the tube, then the eyepieces, the counterweights, and lastly setting it on the stand.
"And there we have it." For once since the accident, Pinkie was actually excited. 
"Cool. When do I get to use it?" 
"You'll have to wait till after dark." said Twilight.
"More waiting?" said Pinkie with a scowl.
"More waiting." Twilight giggled.
"Hey Twilight, why don't we play a game until then."
"Sorry Pinkie. I have some studying to do for the Princess, and a certain baby dragon needs a bath. But sometime later this week I'll get the girls together and we'll all do something fun."

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At last, night had fallen and the stars were out. Pinkie Pie wasted no time turning the telescope at the night sky. 
"Oooh. Pretty stars." the Equestria International Space Station floated by.
"Wow there's the space station." Pinkie zoomed in on the space station window. She saw astronaut ponies inside playing cards in zero gravity. She then turned the telescope to the moon.
"And the moon. So pretty." 

Several weeks had passed since Pinkie began stargazing every night. Like Twilight said, she almost didn't realize the time flying. But now Pinkie was getting bored looking at the sky every night.
"Hmmm. Same old stars and planets." she sighed. "Wish there was something else cool, like a comet, or a UFO. Wait if I discovered a UFO, I'd be famous...or maybe I'd be one of those crazy ponies in the funny papers. Crazy Pink Pony Sees Flying Saucer.No maybe I don't want to see a UFO." Pinkie bent over to scratch herself, and banged her head against the telescope, pointing it down to the town.
"Oooh. My head." she looked through the eyepiece
"Hey, where'd the stars go?" When she focused the telescope, she found that she was not looking at the stars but on Mayor Mare in the town hall. The Mayor was asleep at her desk in the hall's upper floor, drooling over her papers.
"Wow. I always wondered what is was the mayor does." Pinkie became curious of what other residents of Ponyville were up too. It couldn't hurt to find out, and besides nobody would know anyway. She turned the telescope toward Sweet Apple Acres, and onto Big Macintosh in his bedroom. There was the big red Percheron doing what?? He was dressed up in a shiny sequin jacket with a black mullet wig and sunglasses. He made some poses in his mirror.
"Thank ya very much." he said in an Elvis Presley like voice.
"Wait till Cheerilee gets a look at this." Suddenly Applejack called him.
"Big Mac! Could ya'll help me with somethin?" In a startled panic, Big Mac struggled to rid himself of the Elvis clothes and stuffed them back into a trunk in front of his bed.
"Eeeeyup." he answered. He tripped over trunk on his way to the door. Pinkie Pie took her eye away from the telescope and scratched her head.
"Boy. I'll never look at Big Macintosh the same way again."
Pinkie then turned the telescope toward Twilight's library. Twilight was doing what she always does, her purple muzzle deep in a stack of books.
"Hmm" Pinkie sighed. "Typical Twilight. Lets see what Spike is doing." She turned the telescope to Spike who was alone in the bathroom with a towel around his waist. He made manly poses in the mirror.
"Lookin real good Spike. Man you look good enough to eat." The baby dragon kissed his scaly biceps.
"Wow." said Pinkie. "He really does do that when no one's looking."
"Spike?" called Twilight from downstairs. "Are you almost finished with your bath? You're not making those poses again are you?"
"Not at all!? said Spike in a panic. "I. I was just finishing." He darted out of the bathroom.
"This is way more exciting than looking at stars." said Pinkie. "It's cool to see what Ponyville does." Pinkie had found a hobby, spying on Ponyville. What fun this would be.