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// A Wakeup Call 
// Story: Pinkie in the Sky with Aliens 
// by DoctorWhooves42 
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It was a warm night in Ponyville as Pinkie Pie lay sound asleep in her room above Sugarcube Corner. It had been a long day for her, as it was Rarity’s birthday and Pinkie had thrown a huge party for her friend. Now was not the time for partying, for once, it was time for sleeping. Or so she thought.
In the middle of the night, she felt a twitch. It was the strangest twitch she’d ever felt.  Wiggle of the ears, raise of the eyebrows, bucking of the back legs, and a sneeze. Pinkie had no idea what it meant, and sat in excited anticipation to see what it foretold.
Suddenly she felt herself rising through the air.
“Oooh! It’s like I’m underwater!” she exclaimed, making a rapid backstroke motion with her arms. She continued rising into the air, enveloped in a green light. 
“Mmmmmm, I love mint” she said, sticking her tongue out to taste the light. “Blech, it’s all tinny and spacey” 
She was now almost a mile above her house, and she was drawing closer to a large disc shaped object floating in the sky above Ponyville.  For once in her life, she was speechless, the immense size of the craft astounding her. The bottom of the disc opened, and drew her into a hole the size of sweet apple acres. She was surrounded by white light, and then all went black.
Pinkie Pie woke up in a small room, with blinding white walls. There was no door, no windows, and no furniture. 
“Somepony hasn’t had time to decorate. What would Rarity say?” she said to herself, perplexed at the sparseness of the room. She started bouncing around to see how big it was. She quickly became bored with this, however, and began to tell jokes to herself. “Knock Knock. Who’s there? Interrupting Cow. Interrupting Cow wh-MOO!!!” she said, followed by some laughter and a snort. Little did she know that she was being watched.
<This Creature is strange. She does not seem phased by the capture procedure>
<Surely she has a will of iron>
<Indeed brother, we must examine her further. Send Zorblax to take her to the laboratory>
Pinkie had run out of jokes quickly, and was halfway through an a capella version of the Parasprite Polka when a wall slid open with a whoosh. In the threshold stood the strangest thing she’d ever seen. It was tall, grey, and skinny. She wondered whether it ate anything, as skinny as it was. It had claws at the end of its arms, which looked like spikes but were longer and grey like the rest of the creature’s body.
“Do you like cupcakes?” she asked cheerily. The creature opened its mouth and the sound that came out sounded a bit like a crack of thunder. She stared at it, still smiling but a bit confused. Noticing her confusion, the creature walked over and pushed a button on the wall. Suddenly she felt a tingle in her head, and she heard a voice.
<Greetings, Pink One> it droned
“Hi! My name is Pinkie Pie! Are you a psychic?”
<No, I am merely using our technology to allow me to transmit my thoughts into your mind>
“Neato! Where am I?”
<You are a captive of the vanguard of the Tugon Empire.>
“That’s a funny name ‘Tugon’, heeheehaha” she said, chuckling at how ridiculous the name was. 
<SILENCE> boomed the creature, giving her a slight headache. <You are an example of your people. You will tell us everything!!>
Pinkie looked at him and smiled.
“Not unless you say the magic words” 
<I do not understand this ‘magic’. Tell me the meaning of this!!!>
“Weeeeeell,” she took a deep breath “Unicorns use magic. With their horns, like my friend Twilight Sparkle! She’s purple, like grapes. Or plums! ooh ooh! Mrs. Cake made a plum cupcake once, it was awful. Blech! But it was purple. Like spike! Well he’s purple and green. Have you ever seen a green apple? I have! They go in pies and…..”
The creature became agitated at the torrent of words, and it angrily advanced towards Pinkie.
<I already commanded you to be silent pink one! You dare stand against Zorblax, Master of Interrogation!>
“Silly, I’m not standing, I’m sitting” (she was)” And anyway I’m not against you. I’m not against anypony! Want to hear a joke. I made it up a few minutes ago.  A Pegasus, a dragon, and Princess Luna walk into Sugarcube Corner. The dragon says…..wait…….no LUNA says…or was it the bartender? Anyway…..”
At this point Zorblax was visibly shaking, and placed its claw up to its head it backed up into the wall, fumbling for a switch. It stumbled back and fell into the blackness beyond the opening. Pinkie Pie couldn’t help but giggle at the lanky alien stumbling over itself. Her watchers were not as amused.
<She is a formidable opponent> 
<Indeed, she has outsmarted Zorblax. Not even you or I could do that!>
<She must be this world’s greatest warrior.>
A soft squeak was heard, and behind them a chair turned around to face them. It was covered in shadow, except for its left claw, which was extended out, pointing at the view screen. A low rumble shook the ship as it spoke.
<Bring her here>.
Pinkie was humming when the door Zorblax fell through reopened with a hiss. She heard a voice in her head, much like Zorblax’s.
<Come, Pink One>
“Okey Dokey Lokey” replies Pinkie, bouncing her way into the darkness. She soon arrived in a large room, with a huge window on the top, where she could see the stars above Ponyville as clear as day- er…night. Pinkie ignored the sky (she’d seen it a million times) and instead focused on the lights on the dashes to the left and right of the room. She bounced over and began examining them. She was disturbed in her excitement by a deep, authoritative voice filling her mind. It seemed to emanate from a platform in the middle of the room, which had a chair perched on top of it.
<Greetings, Pink Warrior>
“Hiya! My name is Pinkie Pie, and I was just looking at your blinking lights!” she said, doing just that.
<Pink Warrior, why do you defy our superiority? Do you not fear us?> Despite his monotone speech, the surprise in his voice was palpable.
“You guys are too silly and cliché to be scary. Really? Grey men, saucers, abduction? This author has no imagination, and you guys aren’t scary” she said rather matter-of-factly.  The creature sat in silence for a while, pondering the meaning of these words. He was interrupted, however, by Pinkie’s head appearing upside down in his field of vision. “Hiya!” 
<How did you perform such a feat? You must have some sort of teleportation technology!> he said, taken aback by this strange pony.
“Nnnnnnnope! I’m Pinkie Pie!!” she said cheerily, pulling out a cupcake from seemingly nowhere and taking a bite out of it. She dropped it immediately when she noticed a big button, the biggest and reddest button she’d ever seen (she’d seen many). “Oooooo! What does this do?”
The remnants of the captain’s cool façade shattered as he jumped up and in a loud rumble let loose an incomprehensible scream. It was not one of rage, but of fear. It reached its’ claw out in a feeble gesture of warning, but too late. A loud explosion rocked the ship, and it lurched severely to the left. The aliens all fell sprawled on the ground, which entertained Pinkie to no end.
“You guys crack me up!” she snorted. She quickly suppressed a yawn and realized that she needed to sleep. “I need to get home guys! Mrs. Cake needs me to make a whole mess of cookies, and I have to start planning for Fluttershy’s birthday! Any way can I use your minty beamy thing to get home?” 
The captain ran quickly over to a small podium and pulled a switch. Pinkie was immediately enveloped in the light again, and a hole opened up beneath her. She fell slowly back down to Ponyville, quicker this time, like they were in a hurry. She assumed it had to do with the billowing smoke coming out of the saucer, but she couldn’t be sure.  In any case, she was deposited safely back into the room above Sugarcube Corner, and her bed was right where she’d left it. She lay down and closed her eyes to the sounds of explosions, smiling as always.