//------------------------------// // 1: A Super Dooper Problem // Story: Pinkie Pie's Problem // by JP Jackson //------------------------------// A streak of pink ripped through the trees as Pinkie dashed down the hard dirt road that lead to Sweet Apple Acres. This was a big problem, a super big problem, A super doper double loopper big problem! A.J. would know what do, whenever any of her friends had a big problem, (though she doubted any of them had one this super, and definitely none this loopper) they went to A.J. for advice. She bolted through the gate that was emblazoned with the Apple family logo, making the hanging sign beneath swing wildly in the back draft. She glanced anxiously left and right. THERE! She dashed to the orange furred pony that was carrying four times her weight in apples to the barn. Apple jack, or A.J. as her friends call her, was a young Earthpony who lived and worked on the Sweet Apple Acres apple farm, she was no stranger to hard work or problem, but Pinkie knew she had never been faced with a problem as humongously huge as this. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ!” Pinky called in a panicked squeal. A.J. looked up from her load and turned to see pinky bolting toward her. “Whoa! Slow down there-.” But it was too late. Pinky smashed into A.J. sending apples flying in all directions! Pinky looked around. “A.J.? Where did you go!?” “I’m right here, Gosh darn it!” snapped a voice from below her. Pinkie looked down to see the prone Apple Jack laying beneath her. Good, she hadn’t been vaporized! “What in Celestia’s name has you so riled up?” her friend said wriggling out from under the excited pink Earthpony. “That’s Just it!” Pinky squealed “I Don’t know.” “Well why don’ you begin at the bingin’ and go on to the end and then stop? That should Explain all this.” A.J. quipped slapping he crumpled hat back onto he head. So Pinky did. “I had just arrived at the baker’s convention in Cantelot, so that I would be able to see all the yummy nummy treats that everypony had made! But then I met this Stallion (A.J.’s eye brow razed at this, Pinky had no idea why.) And he was really nice, he’s an apprentice baker, just like me, and I said ‘that’s so cool’ and he agreed, he was all like ‘we should hang out’ and we did! We had a lot of fun talking and being friends, I love making new friends! But then some weird stuff started happening! Every day that I saw him after that my knees got all knocky, knocky, and my stomach was all like Wooo! Wooo! Even my Pinkie Pie heat was all messed up! That’s why I think he was actually a monster in disguise, like a Changeling! He was trying to turn me into a Pinky Pie cupcake!” after this grand exodus of information pink took a big breath and calmly said "What should I do?” A.J. scrunched up her face in thought. “You say you had fun with this Feller’? “Yep, we hung out pretty much every day, except for the days we didn’t.” “And that you got all, whatdoyacallitnow? Nevoucited whenever he was around?” “yep, yep, yep!” Apple Jack grinned wide. “Ah ha, I reckon I found your problem!” the Earthpony said. “What, what, what!? Is he a Changeling? Do we have to use the Elements on him!?” A.J. trotted off. “Nothin’ that drastic, sugar cube, you just hold tight I know what to do.” But Pinkie couldn’t sit tight; this was the biggest, hugest. Scariest problem she had ever faced! She needed somepony to help her RIGHT NOW! Then she thought, Twilight! She was just as helpful as Apple Jack and really smart, she would know! Pinky turned and dashed to Twilight’s tree house. Twilight Sparkle was a unicorn from Canterlot, she had been living in Ponyville for several years now though and was good friends with everypony. She was the smartest pony in all of Equestria! She would know what to do RIGHT NOW! Pinky Screeched to a halt in front of the door to the Ponyville library that doubled as Twilight’s house. She anxiously knocked on the door and waited for a response. A purple haze surrounded the door handle, indicating Twilight’s magic, the latch clicked and the door swing open. “Ok, I promise not to tell her, COME IN! This will be so much fun!” Pinky dashed in quickly startling the Purple unicorn so much that she dropped the phone she was holding. “Twilight!” Pinkie yelped, “You have to help me!” Twilight picked the phone back up off the floor with her magic and gently placed it back on to the table. “I had just arrived at the baker’s convention in Cantelot, so that I would be able to see all the yummy nummy-.” “A.J. explained the situation to me.” Twilight interrupted. She skipped over to the little corner of the room and poured steaming water from a kettle into a mug and levitated the beverage over to Pinky. “This is an herbal draft I learned from Zecora, it’ll help your nerves.” Pinky took the brew and drank it all without waiting for it to cool. The effect was instantaneous. Pinkie slumped and her eye lids wavered over her eyes. She fought the urge to sleep, but it was too strong. Latter Pinkie woke up in twilight’s bed judging by the sun in the sky, pinky calculated that it was still early in the afternoon, that and the clock on Twilight’s wall said 1:23 PM. Pinky ambled down stairs to the library. She hear Twilight’s voice speaking. “Thanks for coming out on such short notice,” She said. “Oh! I wouldn’t dream of missing this opportunity for the world, darling!” Judging by the sound of the mare’s voice, Pinkie guessed correctly that rarity had joined them in Twilight’s little library. She wandered down the rest of the steps until she entered the room where she had been before. There was Twilight, standing with Rarity, who looked like she had brought half of her Boutique with her. “There’s the lucky mare!” Rarity said. Rarity was a unicorn like Twilight, but with white fur and an elegantly curled purple mane. “Lucky?” pinky asked. “Why yes of course darling!” Rarity said skipping over to Pinky and levitating her dressmaking supplies along with her. “Now stand still, love,” she said, beginning to take pinky’s measurements. “But why am I so lucky,” she asked again. “Oh well it’s a rare treat, for this to happen to you so young!” “Why is being possessed by a Changeling so lucky!?” Pinky asked impatiently. Rarity looked up in astonishment! “You mean somepony else hasn’t explained it to you?” “Explained What!? What are you guy’s hiding from me!?” Rarity turned to Twilight, “she really doesn’t understand?” Twilight shook her head. “WAT IS IT!” Pinky demanded. Rarity turned, a devilish grin on her face. “Why, my sweet, sweet, Pinkie Pie! You’re in Love!”