When Pinkie came awoke, she found herself in an abundant forest with sparkling trees wherever she looked, the sight left Pinkie in awe. With that, arouse from the ground, brushing off the dirt from her coat and mane, and started to observe this strange new place. There was a great purple fog that surrounded the area, but Pinkie could almost see clearly of the place around her. Celestia’s sun pierced through the large oak trees, towering over her like skyscrapers. When she came to her hooves she started to walk around the area, although the place was full of kaleidoscopic birds and rocks in various different shapes and sizes that Pinkie never saw in reality.
Pinkie then saw a few silhouettes in the distance in a clearing in front of her, but couldn’t make them out. There was some pleasant laughter that gave the Pink mare a small smile as she moved closer towards them. As she moved closer a small boulder appeared in front of her. Curiosity took hold of her and she hid behind the boulder, rubbing it a little “Hey, Tom. What’s going on there?” The boulder didn’t reply. “Okay, so you don’t want to talk. You didn’t have to be rude about it.” She peeked over the boulder and there in front of her, were her friends, eating some cake and biscuits over a maroon carpet conversing with each other.
“Pinkie usually has weird and potentially dangerous ideas, but you know what? I couldn’t help but feel relaxed here.” The lavender unicorn said, sighing contently smiling even wider as her friends around her murmured in agreement, enjoying their meals. “Not really Pinkie’s thing either. Why would she call us over here?” Dash asked, the others looking at each other, as if searching for an answer, but none came. Pinkie bit her lower lip, desperately trying not to respond, she didn’t want to give away her hiding position yet.
She waited and listened further. “Well, her ways of thinking is rather unorthodox. I tried analysing her once, got no results that made any sense. The way she’s acting now makes less sense, but this place is nice.” Twilight giggled at the memory of strapping Pinkie to a machine, one time. Temptation rose in Pinkie again, but again, showed self-restraint to respond. “Well she could have picked worse places to start, dear. Nice? Nice?! Why didn’t I think of this? This place is lovely!” Rarity exalted with such passion that Pinkie always enjoyed speculating.
Fluttershy finished her plate and raised her hoof trying to catch the attention of the others as they conversed and joked, even to the point where AppleJack laughed so hard, her hat fell off the orange earth pony’s head. Pinkie at times, couldn’t help but laugh along with them, but remained as quiet as she could. She paused for a moment, thinking they know of her presence, but breathed a sigh of relief when she realised that the pink mare wasn’t discovered and continued listening.
“Um… Pinkie said she wanted to give each of us something, something important.” This piqued the interest of the others as they averted their attention to Fluttershy, careful not to crowd her, stopping their snacks and listening. “I think she said something like, that she wanted us to be happy.” “But aren’t we here happy already?” AppleJack interjected putting her hoof to her chin in contemplation.
Fluttershy shook her head and said quietly “she doesn’t think it’s enough.” Her eyes looked to the boulder and noticed pinkie’s cotton candy like hair. “Um… Right, Pinkie?” Pinkie held her breath, shaking a little. Her mind fogged in the confusion of such a violent change of emotion. Words escaped her, and her mind was blank. They saw her?
“Aww, you can come out, Sugarcube. We won’t hurt you.” AppleJack said, giving a warm smile when Pinkie slowly went from behind the boulder, still sweating. Why couldn’t I think of anything to say?! Why am I so nervous?! Pinkie fretted to herself, the sun brightened more, almost blinding her. The Pink mare tried to focus on speaking but nothing came to her, it only worsened when Fluttershy hovered close to her, and placed her hooves on her forehead.
“It’s okay. We love you, and you’re only dreaming. We know what you want.” Pinkie shook a little more, her nerves only getting a little worse. “T-T-Then what do I want?” “Aww, dear, you’re shaking, here, have this cupcake.” Rarity focused her magic on the cupcake with pink icing there was a turqiuse glow floated it towards Pinkie’s mouth, and with that, Pinkie cautiously ate the cupcake. The flavour was absolutely spectacular; the flavour was savoury and sweet, with just the right texture. Pinkie was eating the perfect cupcake. Flutters is right! Pinkie exclaimed, I’m dreaming! “Makes sense once you really think about it.” Twilight replied to her thoughts, smiling.
Pinkie stood their surprised and her jaw hanging, but she shook her head and regained her composure. “Ha! Look at Pinkie blushing!” Dash said almost laughing hysterically. “Easy, Rainbow, She’s a bit scared is all.” The orange farmer told Rainbow calmly. Pinkie then felt a hoof on her shoulder, and when she turned, there stood Pinkie Pie, herself, smiling down on her. “It’s okay, silly. You can tell them.” With once last exhale from the mare, she spoke. “I… I only want you all to be super-duper happy. At first I wanted all ponies to be happy, I still do. But I wanted to deal with you all first.”
“What do you mean super-duper happy?”
Pinkie shrugged almost frowning at her friends. “I don’t know. Maybe I just wanted to help make your lives better. I mean with you, Twilight, I can’t imagine you becoming a Princess would be easy. Rarity and AJ I could imagine your work would be difficult, and may need some fun or comfort sometimes.”
AJ frowned and tipped her hat forward at Pinkie, furrowing her brow. “You sayin’ I overwork mahself?! I don’t do that anymore!” This was met with many of the sceptical stares, even the two Pinkies “What?” the stares pierced further. “Okay… maybe I still do a little. Sorry.” Pinkie nodded in acceptance before turning to Rainbow Dash who flew up to a tree branch and rested herself there.
“Dashie, oh Dashie, don’t you get lonely sometimes?” The cyan pegasus shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly “At worst, the real Rainbow would pressure herself too much. What would her trying to become a Wonderbolt and all. Which is so totally gonna happen, right Pinks?” She smiled coolly at the Pink mare flashing a wink. “It’s only a matter of when!” Pinkie agreed enthusiastically. “Exactly!” Rainbow flew up and started to slump on a tree branch, relaxing.
“And Flutters, Why can’t you just believe in yourself?” Fluttershy backed away a little shyly, looking down at the floor. “I… I don’t know.” There was a slight pause before Pinkie started to sob a little and produce tears in front of her beloved friends, “I love you all so much!” one yelled, “I would do anything for you!” exclaimed another, “And the thought of you… n-n-not being happy j-j-just…” Pinkie clutches her chest a little, feeling the pain spread from it.
Twilight and Rarity nodded at each other, agreeing of what they have to do, and both focused themselves on the crying mare, Fluttershy slowly moved away and landed with the rest of the group, as the aura of magic from the unicorn and alicorn lifted Pinkie and brought her closer to the group. Pinkie only realised that she was near the group when they dropped her lightly on the rug, moving the plates out the way before doing so. Twilight leaned in and whispered in Pinkie’s ear.
“Tomorrow, ask me to do a spell on you, one that has you feel our love for you. You might be surprised.” “W-W-Why?” Pinkie stuttered inbetween sobs. The Yellow mare stroked Pinkie’s forehead and whispered in the other ear as Twilight kissed one ear and hugged Pinkie briefly with her wings.
“We may love you more than you think.” Fluttershy pointed out “Maybe you completed your personal quest a long time ago, and you never even known it.” Twilight suggested, smiling down on the melancholy mare, tears streaming down. Suddenly Rarity’s face appeared right above Pinkie’s they were nuzzle to nuzzle and this made the usually bubbly mare jump. “You were thinking of our possible unhappiness for this long?! That is unacceptable! You of all ponies don’t deserve to burden yourself in that way!”
Rarity grabbed Pinkie up with her hooves and shook her. “B-b-but w-what a-a-about S-p-pike?- errr He’s a-a-a-a d-d-d-drag-ag-ag-ag-on.” Pinke notified as she was shook with a powerful force. Rarity paused and rubbed her chin with the other forehoof. “Well, I supposed you’re right.” She grabbed the hoof back on Pinkie’s chest “Well tell him…” At that moment, Rarity shook the poor confused pink mare again Yelling into Pinkie’s bemused face. “Not to worry either! I still think Spikey Wikey is the cutest dragon I ever met! He is always worthy of my love!”
“You hear me, Pinkie! Not! You! Or! Spikey! Wikey! Both of you are too! Kind!” The famer pony blocked Rarity with her forehoof, stopping the shaking and calmly said “It’s okay, she won’t be like that fer long, you hear?” Pinkie shook her head, letting the words roam in her head, in particular the ones Rarity empathised, the farmer then continued “We may all be a part of her… and her.” The group shifted their focus on the other Pinkie who was doing archery with an apple hung on a tree. She stared back and inquired at them “What? I got to keep my subconscious busy.”
At that moment the arrow left her wooden bow and hit the apple, pinning it to the tree. Pinkie glanced at the decimated arrow and started bouncing hysterically in celebration “Oh yeah, didn’t even look!” After a slight paused the group returned to the sniffling Pinkie. “But I fer one, think that you deserve to know how much we all here love you.” AppleJack finished, and held Pinkie up to her haunches letting her sit as she placed a hoof on Pinkie’s shoulder. “Yah a good pony, yer hear? Some bronies may even say the best.” AppleJack looked deep into Pinkie’s eyes, as if she was trying to communicate with Pinkie’s very soul. There was a slight pause for that moment, as the ponies looked at each other in confusion “How do you know about the bronies?” inquired the astute Alicorn. “Ah don’t, but Pinkie does, right nah, what she knows, we know.” AppleJack suggested with a shrug.
“Huh, I was wondering what those two legged… things are.” Dash said contemplatively. “Oh, I never saw one before. I think it would be nice to meet one someday.” Fluttershy said smiling at the thought. AppleJack took a step back, letting Twilight’s head hover over her. “Anyway, This may be a dream, but this is the truth, as far as you know it. We love you, and we all hope that one day, you’ll see how much. The world around Pinkie slowly gets darker and darker, slowly turning black, her head started to feel woozy, almost falling back to sleep, and the last thing she heard was Fluttershy’s voice “Thank you Pinkie, have a good day. Smile for me, and I’ll smile back.”