Rainbow Dash was very confused. The first point of oddity was that Pinkie Pie had just seemingly played a game of charades in her doorway, and had apparently told her to go to Twilight’s house, which she was planning to do later anyway. Secondly, the fact that Pinkie Pie was standing in front of her door in the first place was strange, seeming how Rainbow Dash lived in the clouds. Thirdly, and possibly the strangest, was that after her miming act, Pinkie Pie became polka-dotted and teleported away. That was difficult to explain.
Obviously something was important, or Twilight wouldn’t have sent Pinkie to gather up everyone. The last time she did this Fluttershy had gotten herself trapped in a steel box. That was a conundrum. Rainbow ended up using a sonic rainboom to weaken the metal enough to blast through it with Twilight’s energy beams. Rainbow realized she was staring off into space thinking of flashbacks instead of actually going to Twilight’s place. She flapped her wings and rose upwards, and with a bit of a wind-up, zoomed from her house with no further hesitation towards the treehouse library.
Upon opening the door, she saw the rest of her best friends sat in the main room with Pinkie Pie in the center. She was no longer polka-dotted, despite Rainbow’s assurance that she had seen just that but a few minutes ago. Maybe it was just her eyes. But the teleporting was something else. Rainbow rubbed her head. Hopefully this meeting would clear most of this up.
“Attention, please!” Twilight announced, and the subtle chatter the emanated throughout the room died down quickly. “I have some disturbing news.”
A gasp came from a few of the ponies, but silence soon reinstated its overwhelming grasp on the room.
Twilight Sparkle began explaining what had happened the previous night. Pinkie Pie’s sporadic behavior, the glitching, the melting, the cryostasis. Pinkie chimed in at random intervals in various language, until she finally began speaking English again.
“Twilight! I can speak soooo many languages now! But I couldn’t speak English and it was really weird but I can finally talk to you guys again and I’m so happy because I love to talk to you guys because you guys are my friends and friends should always talk—”
“Pinkie, please,” injected Twilight. “this is serious. You could end up really hurt. If you end up ‘glitching’ into an unstable state, we could lose you… and I’m not losing anyone else in this lifetime.”
The rest of the Mane 6 stared at Twilight with wide eyes, shocked at this reveal of her apparently dark past. Twilight began to look somber for a moment, but snapped out of it quickly.
“We have to figure out how we can control these outbursts,” Twilight Sparkle stated very matter-of-factly, reassuming her leadership tone, as if attempting to use it to hide the sadness she felt in that moment. “We could use this power for good, but we need it to not be random and wild.”
At this, Pinkie began to shake. “Pinkie… are you okay?” asked Fluttershy nervously.
“I feel… weird… I…”
And then, Pinkie slowly began to grow to an enormous size. All the others in the room sprinted to the edges of the room. Fluttershy began to cower in a fetal position, Rainbow Dash flew up to the ceiling, Rarity hid inside her hat, and Applejack did the same as Rarity. Twilight, on the other hand, attempted to watch what was happening, but it was difficult with the blinding light produced by the massive amounts of energy due to the conversion of matter centered on the pink pony. It ended a few moments later, with Pinkie steaming, and standing twenty feet tall, filling half the room.
Pinkie looked confused at the situation, and then turned her gigantic head towards Twilight’s figure.
“Twilight?” Pinkie’s voice boomed. “How am I going to get out?”