For several more weeks, Pinkie Pie used the telescope to spy on Ponyville. She had gotten so into it, it was almost becoming an addiction. The ponies had so many interesting things: Big Macintosh as an Elvis impersonator, the Mayor drooled in her sleep, Bon Bon and Lyra were fighting over the same stallion, Derpy Hooves had a terrible allergy to carrots (they made her face swell up beyond recognition) and Daisy, Lily, and Junebug were deathly afraid of mice.
One afternoon, Pinkie Pie was busy with the telescope when she heard hoofsteps coming up the stairs. She quickly got away from the telescope, and sheepishly started painting her other hoofs. Twilight, Rarity, Rainbow, and AJ came up.
"Hi Pinkie Pie." Said Twilight cheerfully.
"How's the leg this afternoon?" said Rainbow.
"Oh, It's okay." said Pinkie nervously. "You know, slowly but surely." she patted the cast with her hoof.
"I see you really got into my telescope." said Twilight. Pinkie shuddered.
"What? Oh yeah." she gulped. "It's great. I look through it every night."
"I knew you'd love it." said Twilight
"What are you all doing here?"
"We're here to have some fun with ya Pinks." said AJ
"How bout we play your favorite game. Ponopoly." Twilight set up the board, and the ponies gathered round on the floor to play. Pinkie looked anxiously at the telescope, itching to get back to it.
"Pinkie, why don't you roll first." Twilight levitated the dice into Pinkie's hoof. She rolled and moved her piece.
"Fillydelphia Water Works. Too expensive. I'll pass." Rarity rolled next.
"Ponyville. I'll buy it, and I'll put a hotel on it, the Hotel Rarity."
"Sounds lovely." Said Twilight as she rolled.
"Las Pegasus. I'll buy it." Applejack rolled.
"HooWee, Dodge Junction. I'll take it. That place needs some sprucin up anyway." Twilight levitated the dice to Pinkie. She rolled and landed on Go To Jail
"Oh batworms, off to jail."
For quite a while the girls played the game, they all bought property and got extra money except for Pinkie Pie.
"Pinkie. You hardly played at all tonight." said Twilight.
"Is something wrong darling?" asked Rarity "You didn't buy any property, and lost most of your money." Pinkie couldn't tell them that what she really wanted to do was get back to the telescope. She had to think of a good excuse.
"You know, I'm not feeling so well tonight. My stomach's been upset all day."
"Oh you poor dear." said Rarity. "Lets get you to bed." She levitated Pinkie up, placed her on her bed, and tucked her in.
"You know girls, maybe we should call it a night. I have things to do anyway." said Twilight.
"Yeah." said Rainbow. "How do you win Ponopoly anyway? It just goes on forever."
"Ya know what." said AJ. "I had this game when I was a filly, and even then I didn't get it." Twilight put the game back and all the ponies left Pinkie's room.
"Goodnight Pinkie." said Twilight. "We'll see you later." Pinkie watched as the four ponies trotted down the stairs and out of the sweetshop. Once she was sure they were gone, she shut her lights off and hobbled back to the telescope.
"Okay Ponyville, show me the good stuff."
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Pinkie spent several hours looking through the telescope at the village. She was almost unaware that it was now after midnight. After weeks of non-stop action, suddenly there was nothing to see from the local ponies.
"Come on Ponyville. Show me some action." She focused the telescope on several hot spots in town, but all was quiet and normal. Even Daisy, Lily, and Junebug were quiet, which was unusual.
"Maybe its just a slow night Gummy." She turned the telescope to Fluttershy's cottage.
"Wonder what Fluttershy is up to" She focused in on the window of the upstairs room. In it she saw a silhouette, which looked like Rarity. In the next window, she saw Fluttershy sharpening a pair of sheers.
"What's Fluttershy doing with those sheers? I've never known her to handle tools." She kept watching. Fluttershy was singing to herself as she approached Rarity.
"Just a few more snips and you'll be perfect." said the yellow pegasus. Pinkie watched suspiciously through the telescope.
"Snips?" Fluttershy appeared to be trimming Rarity's face with the sheers, but in the next instant she sliced Rarity's head off.
"Whoops." said Fluttershy.
Pinkie Pie went pale with shock. Her mouth gaped open and her pupils shrunk. She couldn't believe what she just saw.
"I'm dreaming." she giggled. "Yes. I'm dreaming. Well we'll solve that problem." she kicked her cast with her other hoof.
"Ouch!" She then lightly slapped her cheeks.
"There." she laughed. "It's probably my imagination. I mean really. Fluttershy killing Rarity? That's very funny." she chuckled to herself as she looked back through the telescope at Fluttershy's window.
"I guess I killed her." said Fluttershy passively. Pinkie went into shock again. The pink melted away from her body, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
Next morning, Pinkie awoke on the floor of her room. She had fallen backwards out of her chair and only just now came too. Her head was spinning from the impact. She looked around the room. Gummy was right next to her looking oblivious as always. Pinkie got to her feet.
"Ooh what a horrible dream Gummy." She rubbed her sore head. "I dreamed that Fluttershy cut Rarity's head off." She hobbled her way over to her vanity to brush her mane. "How silly is that? I mean Fluttershy's so timid and meek, she couldn't possibly have done something like that."
Outside her window she saw Fluttershy trotting into town. Rainbow Dash swooped down to meet her.
"Good morning Fluttershy." said Rainbow.
"Oh, morning Dashie."
"Have you seen Rarity at all?" asked Rainbow.
"Oh, she's gone to a better place." Pinkie dropped her brush.
"Oh well, I'll catch up with her when she comes back. See ya later." Rainbow took off. Pinkie ducked behind the wall next to her window shaking with dread.
"She's not coming back Dashie. Fluttershy killed Rarity."
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Pinkie Pie paced nervously around her room hobbling on her crutch. Gummy stood in the middle in his usual dazed stupor.
"How could Fluttershy have killed Rarity? They're friends, and we're friends. It doesn't make sense, but I saw her cut Rarity's head off last night, and this morning she says Rarity is in a better place?" She thought for a second then went back to the telescope.
"Wait, I'm sure there's a logical explanation for everything." she focused the telescope back on Fluttershy's cottage.
"Hmm. Fluttershy doesn't appear to be home. Maybe..." she turned the telescope elsewhere to the meadow where Fluttershy lived and saw the yellow pony filling in a large hole in the ground.
"Maybe there is no logical explanation. Fluttershy actually killed Rarity, and she's burying the body in the field behind her house so nobody knows." Fluttershy turned and looked directly at Pinkie. Pinkie ducked away from the telescope and hid underneath her window.
"I think she saw me. I hope she didn't see me."