Deleted due to word counts, so I finally decided to add it in.
HA! Like anyone cares about this. I could write anything now and no one would realise. I could even give away my bank account details and no one would care in the slightlest.
But anyway. Deleted scene. Comes in after the paintball fight!
Pinkie Pie was getting into an argument, a very bad one. Four young foals had literally planted their flag on Pinkie’s hole. They got into a sand fight, much less dramatic than their previous paintball fiasco, and not very fruitful either, Pinkie was overwhelmed, and when the parents came over she was given a right earful and had to sacrifice her hole.
She turned away and walked angrily, shouting over her shoulder. “Hmph! Doesn’t matter. I’ll build my own hole. Twice as- no, EIGHT TIMES as big! With a moat! A-and a pool. And maybe a little garden.” Pinkie kept going on like this and never realised she walked into the sea, but this didn’t stop her ranting whatsoever, now she just swam.
Twilight put her book down, she never thought she would think this about a book but it was really boring. “Okay. I'm going swimming. Anypony else?” Twilight stood up and looked at her friends, they were all asleep, she thought, or they were just ignoring her, both possible.
“I’ll go with ya!” Pinkie Pie shouted from behind her, her mane sopping wet yet somehow maintaining its poufy nature. She was placing an air tank on her back.
“Where did you come from?” Twilight asked with confusion.
“I was always here.”
Twilight opened her mouth to begin to speak but decided against it. “Where did you get that air tank from?”
“There’s a stall over there.” Pinkie pointed a hoof at a small wooden shack set up on the beach. She did the last strap up on the tank and tested the air flow, it was all good. “C’mon Twi, let’s go see some Sea Ponies!”
“You don’t honestly believe in Sea Ponies do you,” Twilight spoke with much disappointment. “They’re just something to tell little foals to make the seaside more interesting.”
“But I saw them Twilight!”
“I'm sure you must have been mistaken.”
“Well, it’s your loss. Are you still going in the sea though?”
“Yep. My book has lost its appeal.” Twilight looked forlornly at her book, the only one she brought with her that day. She grabbed her goggles and snorkel and the two Ponies walked to the sea.
“Pinkie?” Twilight called out, her concern growing, Pinkie had been under for well over half an hour now and Twilight asked her to pop up every ten minutes just to make sure she was okay. A loud splash came from behind, showering water on Twilight. Pinkie had surfaced dramatically.
“Twilight!” she shouted through her breathing apparatus, she spat it out this time and shouted again. “Twilight! LOOK!” Pinkie pointed down below the surface of the water. “SEA PONIES!”
Twilight sighed exhaustedly. “Pinkie. How many times to I have to tell you: Sea Ponies are NOT REAL!” Twilight shouted incredibly loudly, upsetting a nearby group of foals who were looking for them.
“Well thank you Miss. Thanks for ruining our day,” scalded an angry parent.
“Oh… I'm so sorry…” Twilight said sheepishly, the sight of the crying children almost bringing her to tears.
“NO WAIT!” Pinkie shouted at the little Ponies. “She is just too grumpy too believe in that kind of thing. And that’s why she can’t see them. Follow me and I’ll show you where they are!” The kids didn’t hesitate and swam frantically towards the pink Pony with the parent following closely. Pinkie dived down again, her new entourage followed her below the water.
“But Sea Ponies aren’t real…” Twilight said quietly to herself. Suddenly, she felt a weird thin thing poke her in the leg. Twilight turned to see what it was, but nothing was there, except for a small glimmer of light under the surface. Twilight placed the goggles over her eyes and put the snorkel in her mouth. She pushed her head under water and was given the shock of her life. The thing that prodded her on the leg was a fin, which was now placed in a judgemental manner on the fish equivalent of hips. It was a Sea Pony, giving her a very contemptuous look. It was the spitting image of Lyra, which confused Twilight so.
“HUH?!” she shouted through her snorkel. The Sea Pony swam away quickly into the depths of the sea. Twilight removed her head from the water, never before had she felt such great confusion and doubt about what’s real and what’s not.