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// Equestria, the Final Part: A Song of Smiles 
// Story: Friends, Forgiveness, and Magic 
// by Invinsible 
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Friends, Forgiveness, and Magic

Equestria, the Final Part: A Song of Smiles


“You know, bad language makes for bad feelings, Rainbow Dash,” Pinkie said.

Dash didn’t have anything to say. She just sobbed and writhed in her tight bonds.

“Well” said Pinkie with an air of finality, “that’s enough reminiscing. It’s time to begin.”

“I think I hate you most of all.”

Dash’s eyes widened at the presence of the newcomer.  There were now two Pinkie Pie’s in the room with her.  The one with the scalpel and the skull and the hideous dress…and the one with glowing red eyes, like a vengeful pink demon.  She didn’t know which one was worse at the moment.

The first Pinkie blinked in surprise.  “What?  I…what?!”

The other Pinkie’s eyes stopped glowing as she stared at Dash in concern.  She waved her hoof and suddenly, Dash was free.  She wasn’t strapped to the table anymore and was instead lying down next to the other Pinkie.  The other Pinkie smiled lovingly at her and gently brushed her hoof over Dash’s mane.

“P-Pinkie?  W-what’s going on?” Dash whispered, her voice full of confusion, fear, and a tiny bit of hope.

“It’s okay Dashie,” the other Pinkie said as she placed her hoof over Dash’s forehead, causing her eyes to swirl with hypnotic colours.  “Fly home Dash.  Fly back to your cloud house, climb into bed, and close your eyes.  When you open them again, this will be nothing more than a bad dream.

Dash slowly nodded before the other Pinkie waved her hoof and teleported her away.

“Hey!  Why’d you do that you meanie?” the Pinkie with the scalpel complained.  “Her number was up!  I was going share my work with Dashie in her final moments!  I’m gonna-”

But she didn’t get any farther as Pinkamania glared at her.  The Pinkie wearing the dress was sent crashing into the wall, then the ceiling, and then the wall again, before she landed onto the table, the straps tightening as they restrained her.

“You don’t get to talk!” Pinkamania snapped at her evil alternate self.

“Hey!  Lemme go!  I have to get to the numbers!  Dashie’s number is up!” the evil Pinkie whined as she struggled against her restraints.

Pinkamania shook her head in disgust.  “You don’t even know what you did wrong, do you?”  She smirked coldly and poked the other Pinkie’s head with her hoof.  “That’ll be the first thing I fix.”

The other Pinkie’s eyes began to swim with hypnotic colours.  When the spirals vanished from her eyes, she shook her head slowly, before she let out a horrified gasp.  “What…what did you do to me?”

Pinkamania smirked and lazily floated above the other pink mare.  “I reversed your personality…by changing it back to what it was supposed to be.”  She levitated the scalpel over to herself and made it float around her hoof as she examined it with a bored expression.  “You had the cheerful and goofy attitude…but it clashed horribly with…well, with every other part of your disgusting personality.  So I gave you the same loyalty I feel towards my own friends, just to let you know what a horrible pony you are.”

The other Pinkie whimpered.  “All those ponies…poor Gilda…oh Dashie!  I was going to…to…to my own best friend!” she sobbed.

Pinkamania nodded.  “It’s good that we could finally get to the biggest part of the problem.  I really don’t like all these other bad habits you picked up either.”  She conjured up a piece of paper and frowned as she read it.  “I mean, would you look at these puns?  ‘I’m going to wing it now?’  ‘I got my I on you?’  Not to mention these puns with the pancreas, kidney, liver, bladder, and stomach.”  She shook her head and lit the page on fire with a wave of her hoof.  “Those aren’t just horrible, those are weak.  That’s not up to my standards for comedy at all.”

She glared at the sobbing Pinkie.  “Looks like your skills in dress making are just as bad.”  She waved her hoof and the dress vanished off of the other Pinkie, as well as the horn necklace.  “You are definitely no Rarity,” Pinkamania said as she set the dress and necklace on fire too.  “Oh, that reminds me.  Somewhere out there are some universes where my friends caught the same sick thoughts that made you do all this.  There’s one where Rarity tried to make dresses with all the wrong parts, one where Dr. Twilight went way too crazy with her experiments, and one where Rainbow treated Scootaloo rather horribly.  I mean, I’ve tasted rainbows and let me tell you they are NOT made out of little ponies.  And I’ll have to talk to two different Fluttershys about how badly they were treating Dashie.”

The other Pinkie wasn’t even listening, too busy crying her eyes out and being overwhelmed by guilt.

Pinkamania wrinkled her nose in disgust at the room.  “Your interior decorating is also horrible.  Really, I’m just sick of everything here.”  She waved her hoof again and erased the years of work that the evil Pinkie had put into her cupcake operation from existence.  “Ah, that’s better.  The air actually smells clean again.  When this is over, I think I’ll go back in time to whenever it is you first started doing this.  I may not know who those other ponies were, but I’ll be happier knowing that they’re alive again.  Gilda too, I mean she might have been a bully but she’s WAY better than you.  I guess the only reason I came to this point first is that, well…I wanted to enjoy this next part.”

The other Pinkie’s eyes widened as Pinkamania hovered over her with a vicious grin.  “Well as you said, it’s time to begin.”

Pinkie sniffled.  “Y-you’re right.  Oh Celestia, you’re right.  I’ve been a horrible pony.  I deserve the same fate as all those others…”

Pinkamania chuckled, but there was no humor in her voice.  “Silly filly, I’m NOT going to kill you.  I think we already established that you’re the only sicko who tries to ruin cupcakes for all of us.  Besides, I already cleaned up all the messy stuff.  I’m trying to keep my adventures and my revenge kid-friendly after all.”

The other Pinkie gasped.  “W-what?  But then…w-what are you going to do to me?”

Pinkamania smirked coldly at the evil Pinkie as her hoof glowed with chaotic power.  “I don’t know yet.  I guess we’ll have to use our imaginations…”





Sunset and Smog screamed as they flew through the crystal mirror and landed on the floor.

“HA!  You have foolishly sealed your fate Gilda!  For Trixie has been hiding a royal flush from you all!” Trixie declared from her spot on the floor.

“Oh no you’re not, you liar!” Gilda argued.

“Um, guys?  Sunset and Smog are back,” Chrysalis said as she looked up from the card game they were playing.

“Ah!  You have returned,” Trixie said as the three of them stood up from their game and walked over to where the unicorn and dragon had fallen.  “Were you successful in recovering Nightmare’s Element?”

Chrysalis frowned.  “Where is Nightmare anyway?  Why isn’t she with you?”

“Guys!  Nightmare’s in trouble!” Smog cried as he sprang to his feet.

“Trouble?  What kind of trouble?” Gilda growled as her wings flared open.

Instead of answering, Smog made a desperate run back to the crystal mirror.  But when he reached the mirror all he did was smack into solid glass.  “What?  No!  No, no, no!” Smog cried as he clawed the glass, trying to rip the portal open again.

“What?  Why isn’t the portal working?” Chrysalis asked.

“Smog, chill.  What’s going on?” Gilda asked.

“It’s Pinkie,” Sunset growled as she stood up.  “She teamed up with Applejewel, the one who stole Nightmare’s crown, as part of some grand scheme to take over Equestria.”

Gilda raised an eyebrow.  “Equestria?  Like the Equestria forest?  Who cares about that place?”

Sunset groaned and shook her head.  “No, Equestria is the name of the kingdom we arrived in.”

“That’s not the point!” Smog shouted as he glared back at them.  “We saw Pinkie banish Nightmare to the moon right before she sent the two of us flying through the portal and back here!”

“What?!  I’m gonna freaking break Pinkie in two!” Gilda growled.

“Not directly back here,” Sunset groaned as she rubbed her aching head.  “Pinkie thought it would be funny to make us do loop-de-loops all over the sky before we got back to the mirror in the castle.  And now it looks like we can’t get back there to help her.”

Trixie blazed with determination.  “Well then we’ll just have to find someone who can open it again!”

Gilda clenched her talons into fists.  “Now you’re talking!  Let’s get the others here and go kick Pinkie’s flank!”





Discord landed in the gallery with a flash of light, gasping for breath.  Nowhere near as graceful as his other teleports usually were but in his defense, he was a little too terrified to be thinking clearly.  He looked up to see two statues in the middle of his gallery, a solid gold statue of a large alicorn, and a smaller silver one next to it.

“Oh, thank chaos!” he cried as he flew over to the statues.  He snapped his fingers frantically in front of the statues’ faces, over and over.  “Come on!  Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up!”

Slowly, the gold and silver melted off of the two alicorns.  For the first time in what felt like years, Celestia and Luna could breathe.  The two of them gasped for breath for several seconds before they glared at Discord.  “You soulless monster,” Luna growled.

Discord held up his claw and paw in defense.  “Now ladies, I understand that you might be mad at me…”

“What happened to ‘I don’t turn ponies into stone’ Discord?” Celestia asked with a cold glare.

“Technically I turned you to gold and silver, but believe me Celestia, I am sorry for what I have done.  Very sorry.”  Discord jumped as a shiver went through his whole body.  “Gah!  Listen, there’s no time for this!  Please, promise me that you’ll protect me and I’ll give you back your kingdom!  I’ll put everything back the way it was and leave Equestria forever just please!  HELP ME!” he cried as he threw himself at their hooves.

Celestia and Luna both stared at Discord in shock.  While they had been looking forward to reclaiming their kingdom and getting sweet revenge on Discord, this was rather worrying.  If something could scare Discord and could scare him this much, what could they do against it?  “Why do you require our aid?  Who or what is after you?” Celestia asked.

Discord shuddered as he stared at the bottoms of their hooves.  “I-it started out just like any another day, a day for me to do whatever I wanted.  Your little ponies were all hallucinating, heartbroken, depressed, and grumpy.  But then Pinkie Pie smiled at me.  At first I thought she wasn’t angry anymore, she was pink again, all smiley and cheerful and goofy, but no.  No, no, no, I was wrong.  She IS angry, very angry.  Which wouldn’t be a problem but now she’s got chaos magic, she’s got chaos stronger than me and I don’t know what to do, oh chaos she’s going to get me!” Discord cried, blubbering out of confusion and fear.  “P-please!  You have to help me!”

“Oh, Discord.  Of course we’ll help you,” Luna said as she and Celestia gently placed their hooves on his shoulders.

Discord looked up with hope in his eyes.  “You will?”  His hopeful smile died immediately as he noticed their own smiles.  Stretched out grins and wide eyes just like the others.

“Of course we will.  This is a Pinkie Pie party after all, and you’re the guest of honour,” Luna said as ropes, vines, and streamers began to stretch out of the floor and snake their way towards him.

Discord screamed like a little filly as he felt two pink hooves cover his eyes.  “Guess who?”  He jumped away from the floating Pinkie Pie, desperately trying to teleport away with a snap of his fingers.  “Oh no, Dissy!  You’re not escaping my party a second time!”  Pinkamania gave him an evil grin.  “You really should have seen this coming Dissy.  You wanted me to be angry?  Well now I’m really angry…”

“Hush now…quiet now…” he heard Fluttershy whisper.  The other Elements of Chaos had entered the gallery now, their gray coats restored to their original colours as they all stared at him with those creepy grins.  “Auntie Pinkie Pie will make it all better.”

Twilight giggled at him.  “You just had to make a mess of everything, didn’t you?  But it won’t matter now.  Pinkie has already put everything back the way it was.  Everyone has been cured…and blessed.  We just have to deal with you.”

Rarity giggled.  “But don’t worry darling…we can still make this fun.”

Discord gulped before he shakily stared Pinkamania down.  “Y-you think I’m afraid of you?  I’m Discord, the master of chaos!  You think you can boss me around?  You think you can defeat me?”

Pinkamania grinned.  “Sure!  After all…I’ve done it before.”  She snapped her fingers and summoned…another Discord.  Only this chaos spirit was tiny, smaller than a filly’s front hoof.  Pinkamania grabbed the tiny Discord and wiped her mouth with him, as if he was nothing more than a napkin.  She snapped her fingers and vanished him away.

“That…that was just a trick.  A…a c-cheap toy you conjured up,” Discord stammered.

Dash giggled.  “Oh, come on Pinkie.  Let’s hurry up so we can really watch him squirm!”

Discord gulped.  “W-what are you going to do to me?”

“Well gee, what do ya think I’m going to do first?” Pinkamania asked as she snapped her fingers.  Discord screamed again as he felt his limbs begin to turn to stone.  “Aww, that always manages to freak you out, doesn’t it?”  Pinkamania zipped over to him and forced his mouth open.  “But leaving you as just a stone statue is kinda boring.”  She snapped her fingers again, halting his transformation.  The half-statue could only shake with fear as dark plaid magic poured out of his mouth and flowed into Pinkamania’s mouth.

Pinkamania smirked and began to float away as Discord’s face froze into a forced smile.  “What to do now…I know!  I bet a Nightmare or two’s magic would taste really good…”





“And then she waved her hoof and blasted us into the air!” Smog explained to his friends as he finished telling them the whole story of what had happened to him, Nightmare, and Sunset in Equestria.  Discord had immediately got to work on trying to cancel Pinkamania’s spell and open the portal when he had arrived, but it had already been a few hours.  With nothing else to do but wait, Smog and Sunset had told them everything that had happened while they were in Equestria.  “We got knocked back through the portal and now we can’t get it open!”

Chrysalis sighed and shook her head.  “Pinkie…how could you do this?”

“I’m a little more shocked that Applejewel would do this,” King Sombra said.  “Although it sounds like she has lost control over the Pink Trickster as well.”

Trixie frowned.  “From what Trixie has gathered from their story, it sounds like Princess Twilight knew at least a little bit about this alternate world.  Do you think she has allied herself with Pinkie too?”

“That’s ridiculous,” King Sombra said.  “Princess Twilight has been with me all day.”

“What?  But we saw Princess Twilight go through the mirror during our turn watching it,” Gilda said.

“Exactly.  She said she was concerned about what was taking Nightmare so long so she went through the portal…and…wait,” Chrysalis said.  Her eyes widened and she exclaimed, “That was Pinkie in disguise, wasn’t it?!”

Duchess Celestia tapped her chin in thought.  “So she disguised herself as Applejewel, then returned as herself to assist Princess Twilight in casting her spell to scan this alternate world, and then disguised herself as Twilight earlier today so that she could enter the portal without any cause for suspicion.”  She sighed.  “The Pink One has proven herself to be a far greater trickster than we had originally thought.”

“We can worry about the details later,” Duchess Luna said as she paced back and forth nervously.  “Right now Moony is trapped in another world and at the mercy of the Pink Demon.  I find that I am not too concerned about her being banished to the moon, as this isn’t the first time Pinkie has done this to Nightmare.  I know that Moony can survive, but I fear that eventually the Pink Demon will return so that she can have her ‘fun’ with Nightmare.”

Duchess Celestia frowned.  “You’re right Luna.  We have some time before the Pink One is likely to return to tormenting Princess Nightmare, but we are quickly running out of it.  How goes the portal, Discord?”

Discord grunted as he gripped the edges of the crystal mirror with his paw and claw, channeling his power into the portal.  “Ask me again in a few minutes.  Or you know, whenever the air doesn’t taste like purple.”

Smog sighed.  “Well that’s better than what you said before…I think.”





Pinkamania smiled up at the moon.  “You know, maybe this is a sign that I’m not taking this seriously enough.  This all feels like a game to me.  Speaking of which, just another friendly reminder that you can stop me at anytime, Nightie.”

Nightmare Moon glared at Pinkamania from behind her crystal cage.  “I will not surrender to your game you cursed spirit of chaos.  I will-”

Pinkamania yawned as a zipper appeared over Nightmare Moon’s mouth and zipped it shut.  “Hey Twilight, was she really this annoying when she was brainwashing you?”

Twilight Sparkle glared at Nightmare Moon.  “She was far worse than that.  Even worse than I could have imagined from what you have shown me Mistress.  I’m so glad that you saved us all.”

Pinkamania grimaced.  “Oopsie, guess I missed part of that spell.”  She waved a hoof at Twilight Sparkle’s head and smiled.  “There we go, you don’t have to call me Mistress, Twily.  You don’t have to call anyone that.”

Nightmare Moon growled as she managed to unzip her mouth.  “Do you truly believe this terrible fate is better for Equestria Twilight?  If you release me, I shall-”

“SHUT UP!” Twilight Sparkle screamed.  “Just shut up!  It’s bad enough that you tried to control me, but Pinkie showed me what you were about to do!  What you did to Celestia and to all my friends!  You don’t control our lives!  You are NOT my princess and I am NOT your pet, you monster!”

“Monster?  I may have tried to take over Equestria, but I never tried to destroy it like your friend plans to do in a few hours!” Nightmare Moon snarled.

“Hours?” Pinkamania giggled.  “You must be really bad at telling time…no, you’ve got less than five minutes now.”

Nightmare Moon gasped as her eyes darted back up to her precious moon.  The moon had a face, but it was very different from the Mare in the Moon.  Instead, two large blue eyes and an even larger pink grin were stretched across the moon’s face.  Ponies all over Equestria stared in horror at the moon with Pinkie’s face as it edged closer to the face of the planet.

“Five minutes…you’re actually serious,” Nightmare Moon whispered.  “You plan to destroy the planet with my moon.”

Pinkamania shrugged.  “You were going to do the same thing, it just would’ve taken a lot longer.  You do know that eternal night would freeze everypony, don’t you?”

Nightmare Moon’s eyes widened in horror, as part of Luna’s personality managed to claw its way to the surface of her mind.  “Please!  I only wanted my subjects to love me!”

“You banished Celestia to the sun.  You brainwashed Twilight into being your pet.  If I hadn’t come by to stop you, you would have hurt my friends, hurt Twilight’s family, and eventually hurt everyone.  You’re not the victim here Nightmare Moon…but you can still stop this,” Pinkamania said.

Nightmare Moon shut her eyes tightly in pain and frustration as she fought herself.  Eventually she cried out, “Alright, you win!  I surrender!  I beg of you, STOP THIS!”

Pinkamania grinned and snapped her fingers, putting the moon back where it was before and removing her face from it.  “There we go!  Once Celestia sees that, she can go ahead and raise the sun.”  She turned to Nightmare Moon and asked, “Now what do you say to Twilight, missy?”

Nightmare Moon’s ears folded down.  “I…I’m sorry for the way I treated you Twilight Sparkle.”

Pinkamania floated over to her.  “There now, was that so hard?  Still, I better make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.”

Pinkamania waved her hoof and the cage around Nightmare Moon disappeared.  Before the dark alicorn could react to this, she gasped as Pinkamania punched her hoof straight into Nightmare Moon’s chest.  Her hoof wriggled around a bit before she pulled out Princess Luna from Nightmare Moon’s body.  “There you go Luna!”

The flabbergasted Princess Luna’s gaze darted all over the place.  “I…I am free?”

“Yepperoonie!  You’re free of your nightmare, princess.  Here, you should go see Celestia now, she’s really worried about you,” Pinkamania said.  She teleported Princess Luna away before she returned her attention to what had previously been Nightmare Moon, before it had turned into a cloud of dark magic.  “Oh, don’t look so sad Moon cloudy.  I’ll put you to good use.”

Twilight Sparkle smiled as Pinkie drank the leftover magic of the monster who had tormented her.





“Okay, we might be onto something here,” Trixie said as she backed away from the mirror.  “Individually, the portal resists our attempts to open it.  But combining our magic could force the portal open.”

“Yeah, for less than a second,” Gilda growled.  “Even I can’t fly through a tiny portal fast enough.  Come on, there has to be something we haven’t tried yet!  Darn it, why isn’t Dash or Rarity helping us here?”

“I saw Rainbow Dash and Rarity in Ponyville,” Sunset said.  “With two Applejacks and two Pinkie Pies in there already, I’d rather not risk upsetting the balance by bringing anyone else who has a counterpart in Ponyville.”

“We’re bringing Discord, aren’t we?  And who gives a flying feather about the ‘balance’ of this world?  We’re trying to save Nightmare, aren’t we?” Gilda argued.

Duchess Luna frowned at the mirror.  “We’re running out of time.  There must be something else we can do!”

“Pardon me, Yer Majesty.  But Ah think Ah can help y’all.”

Everyone in the room turned around to see Apple Bloom enter the mirror chamber.  “Apple Bloom?  How did you get in here?” King Sombra asked.

“And what happened to your eye kid?” Gilda asked, feeling a little creeped out at the sight of Apple Bloom’s red eye.

Discord grinned.  “Now Gilda, you should know the answer to your question already.  And I was the one who invited her here, King Sombra.  I take it Eris wasn’t any trouble?”

Apple Bloom walked towards the mirror.  “Nah, she knew how serious this is.  Ah would have gotten here myself, but Big Macintosh didn’t believe me when Ah told him what Applejack was doing.”  She stared at her reflection in the mirror and shuddered.  “Ah can see her.  Mah sis is terrified outta her mind right now, not knowing what Pinkie’s doing.”

“What is she doing?” Princess Twilight asked.

“Um…it’s actually not that bad,” Apple Bloom admitted.  “She’s getting rid of a lot of bad guys in worlds where they won.  But…Ah’d be lying if Ah said Ah’m not worried about what this’ll lead to.  That’s why Ah’m here.”

“If you have an idea, please share it,” Duchess Celestia said gently, but with a scared and desperate edge to it.

“Yeah, Ah’ve got an idea…and the key to open this thing.”  Apple Bloom cringed as she closed her normal one and focused her red eye on the mirror.  “This is gonna hurt…”





Empress Twilight Sparkle cried out in pain as she was thrown into the wall.  Her entire body ached from the losing battle she was fighting in, but she stood back up to face the chaotic version of her former friend.  “You…I have to stop you…you’re chaos incarnate…you’ll destroy my perfect…harmonious Equestria if I don’t…stop you…”

Pinkamania yawned and went back to inspecting her hoof as another spark zapped across it.  She then smiled sheepishly and said, “I’m sorry Twilight, that must have looked a little rude.  I’m not yawning at you…okay, never mind I am.  It’s not your fault Twilight, it’s just…I’ve kinda heard you say that already.  You’re like the thirtieth evil Twilight I’ve fought today.  Then there are all those evil versions of our friends…”

“Friends?  W-what have you done to them?!” Empress Twilight growled.

Pinkamania shrugged.  “I guess I can show you some of them.”  She waved a hoof and a door appeared in the wall.

Empress Twilight glared at the chaotic Pinkie suspiciously, before curiosity overwhelmed her and forced her to take a peek inside.  Empress Twilight took several steps back out of fear as several creepy grins stared back at her.

Pinkamania floated over to the room and began pointing at ponies.  “Those are a few Nightmare Moons, Discords, changelings, and Sombras over there, you can guess what their stories are.  That’s Rainbow Dash, she worked at an evil rainbow factory and she was about to seriously hurt Scootaloo before I stopped her.  There’s Big Macintosh, he tried to hurt Scootaloo too plus Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle.  There’s Cheerilee over there and she tried to hurt a whole bunch of colts and fillies.  That Fluttershy tried to hurt Rainbow again and that Fluttershy tried to turn Rainbow Dash into a baby, so I had to stop her too.  There’s Rarity and she tried to…you’re not listening to me anymore are you?”

“What have you done to them?!” Empress Twilight snarled.

Pinkamania rolled her eyes.  “Boy, your memory must be terrible in this world Empress Twily.  You’re really going to be mad at me after what you tried to do to our friends in this world?  I’m just glad that I reversed what you did.”  She smiled at Empress Twilight and said, “But that’s enough reminiscing for now.  I really should just skip ahead and drain your magic now, shouldn’t I?”





Apple Bloom smiled and rubbed her eye as the last traces of magical mirror glass floated out of it and back into the portal.  “It’s all gone…oh thank Celestia, it’s finally all gone!”

Duchess Celestia smiled.  “I played no part in healing your eye Apple Bloom.  You came here of your own volition to help us restore the portal.  We might be able to save my niece now because of your bravery.”

Apple Bloom weakly smiled.  “Thank ya kindly, Princess Celestia.  Oops, I mean Duchess.”  She rubbed her eye and began to crawl over to the wall.  “Sorry, but Ah feel pretty drained right now.  A nap…sounds good…”

“You’ve earned it Apple Bloom.  Now stand aside everyone!  The Great and Powerful Trixie has so got this!” Trixie declared confidently.  Her horn glowed with power and she shot a beam of magic at the portal.





“Well that didn’t work,” Spike said.

Twilight Sparkle was dead inside.  After all the loops, after that nightmare she had forced everyone under during her time as the changeling queen, and after catching a glimpse of hope that she might be free of this never-ending nightmare only to wind up back in the library…she was dead inside.

Spike was able to pick up that something was very wrong with Twilight just from the expression on her face.  “W-what?  Twilight, are you okay?  Can you hear me?  Twilight, what’s wrong?!”

“Don’t worry Spikey, that’s what I’m here to fix.”

Twilight’s eyes widened and she quickly scrambled to her hooves to stare in amazement at her friend.  “Pinkie Pie?  How, what, how, why, what, HOW?!”

Pinkamania smiled.  “I know about the time loop Twilight.  I’m from outside the loop and I’m here to end it.”

The flabbergasted Twilight could only stare at Pinkamania with her mouth hanging open.  “What?  H-how, possible, time, Elements, changeling, Star Swirl, tea, what, how?”

Pinkamania winced.  “Ooh, you’ve had a pretty rough time, haven’t you?  Well Pinkie’s here to cheer you up.”  She bounced towards Twilight and tapped her on the horn three times.  Twilight violently twitched as she felt something snap through her entire body.  Pinkamania stepped back and gave her a smile.  “There you go Twily!  You’re not in a time loop anymore.”

“THANK YOU PINKIE!” Twilight cried, tears of joy pouring out of her eyes.  She threw herself at Pinkamania’s hooves and began to kiss them over and over, expressing her undying gratitude to Pinkie.

For her part, Pinkamania was happy to meet a nice version of her friend again.  “Aw, it was no problem Twilight.  Sorry, but I better get going.  I’ve got a changeling invasion to stop…again,” she added with a giggle.

“Thank you Pinkie…” Twilight mumbled.  “I…I don’t deserve you…”

Pinkamania spun back around to face Twilight.  “Hey, no more sad Twilight!  That nightmare is over, you’re free now.  You can forget all about hurting your friends, hurting Luna, and conquering Canterlot.”

Twilight stared up at her friend in horror.  “W-what?  H-how do you know about that?”

“Never mind the how Twilight.  After seeing you escape this time loop in one universe, only for you to never escape it in this universe?  I couldn’t leave my friend to a fate like that.  Sure, I’m very disappointed in you for what you did when you were the changeling queen but…” Pinkamania sighed.  “I have a pretty good idea of how it feels to lose hope and to turn yourself into something that isn’t completely equine anymore.”  She smiled again and said, “Take care of her Spike.”

Pinkamania left the library and began to hover off the ground, slowly making her way to Celestia and Queen Chrysalis.  She smiled when she reached the dozen disguised changelings guarding Celestia’s room, before she opened her mouth and devoured all that lovely green magic.





Discord shuddered as he felt several twitches slide down his body.  “Oh dear…that can’t be good.”

“What can’t be good?” Chrysalis asked him.

“I’m sensing a strong magical disturbance coming from what has to be Pinkie…and Pinkie isn’t even in the same universe anymore,” Discord explained.  “Which can only mean that Pinkie is absorbing magic that she really shouldn’t be absorbing…”





Prince Blueblood cringed as Pinkie levitated him up to her eye level.  “Please!  Stay back!  I just had myself groomed!”

Pinkamania giggled.  “F-funny.  T-that’s what the last B-Blueblood said.”  She paused to straighten out her twitchy alligator tail.  “T-that’s funny.  That wasn’t a Pinkie s-sense.  W-wonder why my t-tail’s a t-twitching?”

Princess Celestia hesitantly called out to her.  “Pinkie Pie…if that is who you truly are…while I am grateful for your aid in capturing Blueblood before he could do something truly unforgivable, I must insist-”

Pinkamania giggled, causing her wings to flutter as she did so.  “Oh, it was n-no t-trouble, P-princess.  D-did I g-get the other n-nobles too?”

“What other nobles?” Rarity asked.

“Oh…w-where am I again?” Pinkamania’s tongue stretched out and scratched the back of her head.  “Is this the o-one where the nobles r-refused to let Twilight be with her human f-friend?  Or the o-one where Twilight was a c-changeling and Blueblood stole an a-amulet and h-hurt her m-mommy?”  She giggled as another violent twitch ran through her body.

“Pinkie Pie.  For your own safety I must ask that you release Blueblood and sit down on the floor,” Celestia insisted.  “You need help Pinkie.”

“I agree,” Rarity said as she stared at the alternate version of her friend with both concern and fear.  “Pinkie Pie…there’s something very wrong with you.”

“What?  I f-feel f-fine,” Pinkamania lied.  She levitated Blueblood closer to her mouth and licked her lips.  “Just gotta m-make sure…his magic must n-never hurt my f-friends again…”





Trixie groaned and backed away from the mirror.  “Trixie has almost got it, she can feel it!”

“Here, let me try,” Chrysalis said.  She turned to the portal and fired a beam of green magic at it.





A changeling flew into the throne room as fast as his wings could carry him.  He stopped in front of the throne and knelt before the ruler of Canterlot.  “Queen Chrysalis!  Forgive me, my Queen, but we can’t stop her!  She’s everywhere!”

Queen Chrysalis growled at him.  “Useless drone!  Get out of my sight and do not report back to me until you have seized her!”  She grumbled as the changeling flew out again.  “Why do you think must I be cursed with such idiotic drones, Twilight?”

Changeling Princess Twilight Sparkle fidgeted nervously.  “I’m sure they’re doing everything they can, Your Highness.  I only wish that we knew more about what or who we are facing.”

“…My name is Pinkie Pie…and I am here to say…”

Princess Twilight’s eyes widened as the doors burst open to reveal Pinkamania floating towards them, magical sparks dancing around her hooves.  “Pinkie?  You’re behind this?  What-”

“…I’m gonna make you SMILE!” Pinkamania sang right before she launched herself at Queen Chrysalis.  The queen had absolutely no time to react before her own magic flooded out of her mouth and into Pinkamania’s.  With a wave of her hoof, Queen Chrysalis’ jaw was forced shut again, only to twist itself into a big grin.

“…And I will brighten up your day-aaay,” Pinkamania sang as she floated over to the terrified changeling princess.





“You’ve done very well Chrysalis.  I believe you’ve managed to loosen it,” Duchess Celestia said.  “Now please stand back and allow me to try.”  She fired her own beam of magic at the portal.





Queen Celestia had never been more terrified in her entire life.  Not only because of the thing that was just outside her throne room, sweeping the floor with her guards.  No, it was because the pink demon had managed to show her exactly what was wrong with her plan.  She had been very alarmed when she discovered the planet Earth and those violent humans.  She had created a potion to turn humans into ponies, and she had believed that everything would work out for the better.  Many ponies such as Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, or Applejack had agreed with, even though they seemed very reluctant to do so.  Other ponies such as Rainbow Dash, or Fluttershy, had insisted that it was a terrible idea.  Fluttershy said that she had met a few humans and that while some of them had scared her, she had also met dozens of humans who had been very nice to her.  But Queen Celestia had refused to listen to them.

The doors to her throne room were thrown off their hinges with a loud bang.  Her royal guards prepared to defend their queen as the pink thing floated inside.  Their eyes widened in horror as a pink, bubbling potion floated out from the pink demon’s right hoof and splashed onto their coats.

“It doesn’t matter now…if you are sad or blue.”

Queen Celestia’s jaw dropped.  She had heard about what the pink demon’s potion could do, but to see it up close was horrifying.  The pink demon has decided that the best way to punish her was by showing her what the potion felt like, not by turning her ponies into humans…but by turning ponies into a specific pony.

“‘Cause cheering up my friends is just what Pinkie’s here to do…”

The guards shuddered as their coats turned pink, their horns or wings were tucked into their bodies, and their manes and tails became pink and poofy.

“‘Cause I love to make you smile, smile, smile…yes I do…”

And one by one, that’s what her former guards did.  The Pinkie clones stared up at Queen Celestia with wide eyes and huge grins.  Queen Celestia closed her eyes as her horn glowed with power.  However something told her that she wouldn’t be able to save herself this time.

“It fills my heart with sunshine all the while…yes it does…‘cause all I really need’s a smile, smile, smile.”

Queen Celestia gasped as she felt something splash across her coat.  Taking her eyes off of the pink demon for even a second had been a very foolish choice.  But as the pain faded away and a smile stretched across her face, she knew there was nothing she could do now but sing along.

“From these happy friends of mine,” she sang.





“You’re doing great sister!  Keep it up!” Duchess Luna cheered.

“Maybe if we try more than one,” Sunset suggested.  She stood next to Celestia and fired a beam of magic from her own horn.  The portal began to wobble.





Adagio Dazzle cowered before the powerful storm that loomed over their stage.  It had been going so perfectly.  Sonata and Aria had made sure that the Rainbooms would not interfere, they had hypnotized everyone at Canterlot High with their siren’s song, and at long last, they had regained their full power.  She thought that nothing could stop them.  That was before those thunderous pink clouds had filled the sky and the pink demon revealed her face.

“I like to see you grin…I love to see you beam…the corners of your mouth turned up is always Pinkie’s dream…”

The sirens cried out as their mouths were forced open and vivid red magic poured out of them and into the grinning pink cloud.  As Adagio fell to her knees in defeat, she was horrified to see a grin stretching itself across Aria’s face.  Aria was smiling.  And from the way her face was being to seriously hurt, Adagio knew that she was next.





“It’s working!  I think we’ve almost got it!” Luna cheered.  “Alright everyone.  If you have magic to give, focus your power on the mirror.  Don’t hold back!”

Discord snapped his fingers and created a storm cloud for Gilda to use.  All together, Celestia, Luna, Twilight, Sombra, Sunset, Trixie, Chrysalis, Gilda, Smog, and Discord fired beams of magic, bolts of lightning, and bursts of fire at the mirror.  Ever so slowly, the spell that Pinkamania had placed on the portal began to peel away.





Queen Twilight Sparkle didn’t know what was going on.  All she knew as she saw her husband, King Sombra, crash into the wall beside her, was that they were in serious trouble.  She was out of world, out of her element, and panicking out of her mind.  The craziest part was not that they weren’t alone, but that the other creatures who were trapped with her couldn’t possibly be there.  She counted five Nightmare Moons, seven Discords, ten changeling queens, and at least a dozen ponies who all looked very familiar.  And every single one of them cowered in fear as the pink thing floated towards them.  

“But if you’re kind of worried…and your face has made a frown…I’ll work real hard and do my best to turn that sad frown upside down…”

Queen Twilight cried out as she was levitated towards the pink demon, before her mouth was forced open and her magic was completely drained.  She landed face first on the ground and slowly lifted her head to see King Sombra, Discord, and Nightmare Moon land beside her.  All of them with the same creepy smiles, just like the one tugging at her own face.

“‘Cause I love to make you grin, grin, grin…yes I do…”





“That’s enough!  I think we got it!” Luna declared.  Everyone in the room stepped closer to the mirror.  Smog stuck out a claw and poked the surface of the glass, grinning as his claw sunk right in.

“Outstanding work everyone,” King Sombra said.  “But reopening the portal was the easy part.  Now, we must prepare ourselves for the most powerful threat that Everfree has ever faced.  Do you have the Elements?”

“Right here!” Smog said as he held up Nightmare’s Element of Power.  With a snap of his fingers Discord donned his own Element, while Sunset, Trixie, Gilda, and Chrysalis retrieved their Elements.

Once their magic necklaces were all on, King Sombra spoke again.  “I must strongly emphasize to you all how dire the situation is and how dangerous this battle will be.  But if we are to save our friend and princess, we must power through!  Pinkamania will only have grown stronger during her rampage so above all we must-”

“Alright chums, let’s do this!  Nightie!”  Discord roared as he charged into the portal.

King Sombra grumbled and covered his face with his hoof.  “Sweet Celestia, he just ran in.  Can you believe-”

“We’re coming Moony!” Luna shouted as she charged into the mirror too.

“For Trixie’s friend!” Trixie roared as she charged in next.

“Yeah, let’s kick Pinkie’s flank!” Gilda roared as she charged in too.

“Charge!” Apple Bloom shouted as she ran for the mirror, before Celestia telekinetically pulled her away from it.

“I know you wish to save your sister, but I refuse to allow a filly to endanger herself.  With that said…for my niece!” Celestia declared before she ran into the portal.

“Appropriate battle cry!” Princess Twilight shouted as she ran in too.

“Stick to the plan!” King Sombra shouted desperately at he ran into the portal, right behind Sunset, Chrysalis, and Smog.





Lord Tirek blasted the pink horror with as much magic as he could fire, only to be smashed into the ground from the gigantic hammer that she conjured up.

The hammer vanished from existence, allowing Tirek to stand up again.  “H-how is this possible?” he cried.  “I stole ALL the magic in Equestria!  What in Tartarus are you?!”

“Bust it out from ear to ear let it begin…just give me a joyful grin, grin, grin…”

The creature held up her claw, creating a swirling ball of immense power.  Tirek screamed as six beams of rainbow coloured magic blasted out from the ball, draining every last drop of magic from him.  A portal to his former prison opened up behind him as he watched all the magic he had stolen fly off to every corner of Equestria.  Except for the large amount of dark magic that was pouring into the pink creature’s mouth.  As he was banished into Tartarus, he could make out the final line of the Pink Demon’s song.

“And you fill me with good cheer…”





On the other side of the mirror, Smog, Sunset, Trixie, Gilda, Discord, Chrysalis, Sombra, Celestia, Luna, and Twilight all emerged from the library.

“Okay, everyone’s here and we got the Elements.  But who gets Nightmare’s Element?” Sunset asked as they all ran down the halls of Twilight’s castle.

“I’ll take it,” Princess Twilight said.  “It was my Element before Princess Nightmare claimed it.”  Smog handed over the Element of Power to her, which she levitated to rest on top of her head.  “Good.  Now to find Pinkie, save Nightmare, and save the alternate version of myself and her friends.”

“Wait!  Stop!” they heard someone shout as they ran past an open set of doors.  They came screeching to a halt and ran back to the source of that voice.

“Uh oh,” Sunset mumbled as they spotted the bearers of the Elements of Harmony.  They were all tied to their thrones in a similar manner to the one that Pinkie had once used to tie Princess Twilight plus their own versions of Rainbow Dash and Rarity to large puppet handles.

“Sunset?  You came back!” Fluttershy cheered.  Her voice became a lot quieter when she saw Chrysalis and Sombra.  “And you brought…oh dear.”

Gilda growled and launched herself at the Pinkie tied to her throne, jabbing her in the stomach with her talons.  “Alright you pink traitor!  Give us back our friend!”

“Wait!  I’m not the evil me!” Pinkie cried.

Sunset’s horn lit up to pull Gilda away from the pink earth mare.  “Gilda, let her go!  That’s the nice Pinkie.  The one who’s best friends with Dash in this world!”

Gilda’s furious expression slowly softened.  “She is?  Drat, I’m sorry Pinkie.  Discord, see if you can let them out.”

While Discord floated over to the throne and examined the spell placed on it, another voice made Gilda’s head turn.  “Hold on…you’re sorry?  You’ve never said sorry about anything!” Rainbow said.

Gilda flapped her wings and flew over to Rainbow’s throne.  “Hey Dash!  Don’t worry, we’ll get you out of there.”

Rainbow blinked at the smiling griffon.  “You…You’re the nice Gilda I saw…the one who switched places with me in those weird memories that crazy Pinkie forced on us.”

Gilda raised an eyebrow.  “Yeah, Smog mentioned something like that.  Why, what happened to you and me in this world?”

“That…that doesn’t matter!” Rainbow cried, her eyes just a tiny bit watery.  “The point is…we’re friends where you’re from, right?”

Gilda smiled.  “How could I not be friends with the coolest, bravest, and most awesome pegasus I’ve ever known?”

“Sombra?  Chrysalis?  And…you’re me!” the Twilight tied to her throne exclaimed.  “But how can there be…oh no, this is that time travel incident all over again!”

Princess Twilight bit her lip and averted her eyes from her alternate self.  “Trust me Twilight Sparkle…I’m feeling freaked out by this whole situation too.  But if Duchess Luna and Prince Artemis can be in the same room together, then the universe shouldn’t blow up just because I’m interacting with my alternate self,” Princess Twilight said.

Twilight slowly nodded.  “Okay.  But then…Duchess Luna?  Does that mean…you’re not a princess in your world Luna?  Celestia?”

Duchess Celestia smiled kindly at Twilight.  “I’m afraid so, Your Highness.  But while we’re on the subject, where has the Pink Trickster imprisoned your own Celestia and Luna?”

“She locked them up in Canterlot, just like she did with them all here,” Applejewel said as she entered the throne room.

“Now hold on there sugarcube!” Applejack said from her throne just as Sunset’s horn began to glow with furious power.  “She’s on our side now and she’s mighty sorry for what she’s done.  Ain’t that right missy?”

Applejewel flinched at her counterpart’s glare.  “Yes.  Ah’m sorry.  Ah am truly sorry for what Ah’ve done to y’all.”  She sighed and looked down at the floor.  “Ah spent mah whole life trying to fight mah world’s rules, trying to ‘fix’ everything based on what Ah thought was the truth.  Ah turned mah back on the friends Ah made in the Big Apple and even mah own family, all because Ah believed in brutal honesty above all else.  But seeing what that sort of thing has done to Pinkie Pie…Ah don’t want to end up like that.”

“End up l-like what, A-Applejack?” a bone chilling voice asked.

Everyone in the room froze as they heard Pinkamania’s voice echo through the throne room.  “Uh oh, that’s evil me!” Pinkie cried.  “Be careful guys!”

“Alright everyone.  When Pinkamania appears, be prepared for anything!  This shall be our greatest battle yet!  Trixie only wishes…that Nightmare could be part of it,” Trixie said.

A bright flash of light filled the room and engulfed the people from Everfree, teleporting them out of the castle.  They reappeared outside of Ponyville in a very large field.  They looked up to see their opponent…and gasped as they saw what Pinkie had become.

Her mane was just as pink and puffy as always, except that she now had streaks of yellow, orange, and blue.  She had sprouted a pink alicorn horn on her head plus two antlers.  A pegasus wing and a bat wing fluttered from her back, plus a smaller set of changeling wings below the larger ones.  Her forelegs were twisted into a griffon’s claw and a white tiger’s paw while her back legs were blackened and filled with holes like a changelings.  She wore the same dark pink dress and black and pink cape that she wore when they had first fought her.  Her eyes were glowing blue and red and leaking magic.  Her wide grin was filled with sharp fangs.

But the creepiest part of all was that every single part of her body was twitching madly as magical sparks zapped all around her.

Sunset’s jaw dropped.  “Pinkie…what have you done to yourself?”

Discord shuddered.  “Pinkie my dear, I’d rather not be the one to tell you this but…you look like the sort of monster only Eris could dream up.”  He quickly held up his paw and claw and added, “Only a little though.  I’m not trying to hurt your feelings or anything, I mean chaos knows I look strange-”

But Pinkamania only seemed to be half-listening.  “I’ll t-take t-twenty, no t-thirty black and r-red a-alicorns to g-go please…” she giggled.

“Are you okay?” Trixie asked.  “You’re stuttering.”

“And twitching.  You’re twitching an awful lot,” Smog added.

“Oh, a-am I-I?  Hadn’t n-noticed,” Pinkamania giggled.

“Hey Discord?  You said you can sense magical disturbances,” Gilda said.  “So…”

“I know what you’re going to ask me, my dear.  The answer you’re looking for is: too much,” Discord said.  “She has too much magic inside her.”

“What have you done, Pink Demon?” King Sombra growled.

Pinkamania giggled.  “S-simple!  Exactly w-what I s-said I was g-going to…I d-drained magic out of EVERY b-bad guy I could f-find…”  She stopped speaking for a moment and twisted her long alligator tail.  The pink tuff of hair at the end of her tail twisted itself into a hand, which then snapped its fingers.  “Okay, there we go.  How am I doing for stuttering?  Sorry, that was getting annoying, wasn’t it?”

“ENOUGH!  RELEASE MY DAUGHTER AT ONCE!” Duchess Luna demanded.

Pinkamania giggled and floated closer to them.  “Or what?” 

“Or we’ll be forced to use the Elements on you,” Princess Twilight said.  “Please, Pinkie…this is your last chance.”

Pinkamania’s smiled faded when she saw Princess Twilight.  Her eyes actually widened when she saw the Element of Power begin to glow.  She floated higher above them and said, “You know what…you’re right.  You’re not like those bad guys I’ve been draining magic from.  You deserve a proper showdown.  So I’ll bring Nightie down back from the moon on one condition.”

“Name it,” Luna growled.

“Princess Twily gives Nightie back her Element and you three stay out of the fight,” Pinkie said, pointing at Twilight, Celestia, and Luna.  “I want this to be just between us.”

Celestia sighed before she nodded.  “If it means that my niece is freed, then we shall not assist the Elements.”  Twilight nodded in agreement and levitated the Element of Power to Smog.

“Well, alrighty then!” Pinkamania cheered.  She snapped the talons on her claw, trapping Celestia, Luna, and Twilight in large pink bubbles.  The bubbles floated up into the air as hundreds of other pink bubbles popped into existence too, every bubble containing a pony.  “There we go.  That should be everypony from Ponyville, plus the princesses from Canterlot!”  Pinkie grinned at all the ponies, twitching a little more.  “The perfect audience.”

She then snapped the fingers on her paw, raising the moon into the sky so that it was positioned next to the sun.  The Mare in the Moon vanished off its face, before Princess Nightmare Moon fell onto the ground with a flash of light.

“Nightie!” Smog cheered as he ran to her side.  He happily helped her stand back up as all her other friends and the king crowded around her too.

“H-hey guys,” Nightmare said, shivering a little.  “The m-moon in this w-world is a lot c-colder than m-mine.  It’s f-freezing!”

“Either that or Pinkie was just being a jerk to you.  Who knows?” Gilda shrugged.

“Here, this should warm you up a bit.  Sunset, can you help me out here?” Smog took a deep breath and spat out a small stream of fire.  Sunset used her magic to wrap the flames around Nightmare, warming her up without burning her.  Nightmare smiled as Smog then placed her Element of Power back on her head before she turned to glare up at Pinkamania.

“And here it is ponies of Equestria!  The grand final battle between the heroes of two worlds!” Pinkamania announced into a microphone she had conjured up.  “In this corner we have the Element of Laughter, the Queen of Chaos, and the vanquisher of evil throughout every Equestria…ME!” Pinkamania smiled and waved at the Elements of Harmony, plus the princesses, and Shining Armor.  “Can I get a woohoo?”

Rainbow glared at Pinkamania and crossed her hooves.  Just about everyone trapped within a pink bubble did the same thing, except for Fluttershy.

“Um…woohoo?”

“Thanks Fluttershy!  I love you too!” Pinkamania giggled.  She turned back to the Elements of Redemption and said, “And in this corner we have the heroic versions of Equestria’s greatest enemies!  King Sombra, Princess Nightmare Moon, Queen Chrysalis, Discord, Sunset Shimmer, the Great and Powerful Trixie, Smog, and Gilda!  Come on everypony, let’s give them a round of applause too!”  A few more ponies cheered this time.

Princess Nightmare smirked.  “Even though I’m going to enjoy this battle very much, I have to ask…how good are our chances?”

King Sombra’s horn glowed with power.  “I will not sugarcoat our situation for you Nightmare…this will be the fight of our lives.”

Discord rolled his eyes.  “Now why must you take everything so seriously?  Let’s just do the polite thing and ask.” He directed his attention to Pinkamania and shouted, “Hey Pinkie!  Just out of curiosity and for the sake of everyone playing fair, exactly how much magic have you absorbed again?”

Pinkamania giggled and waved her paw, creating a large scoreboard.  “Let’s take a look!  Now let’s see here…that’s every evil version that I could find of Discord, Nightmare Moon, Queen Chrysalis and all her changelings, Alicorn Amulet-possessed Trixie, demon Sunset Shimmer, King Sombra, Prince Blueblood, Tirek, Starlight Glimmer, the Dazzlings, the Mane-iac, Ahuizotl, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Flim, Flam, Lightning Dust, Solar Flare, Daybreaker, Queen Celestia, Empress Twilight, Queen Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Spike, Big Macintosh, Cheerilee, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle, and a few others…

“All with a score of zero!” Pinkamania announced.

Chrysalis gulped.  “Uh oh…”

“And in this corner here we have me with a score of…oh dear, that’s a BIG number.”

Everyone stared in shock and disbelief at the scoreboard that read: The Hero Pinkie Pie: 1257.

“One thousand, two hundred, and fifty seven…that’s…that’s gotta be a lie.  You…you’re lying!” Sunset sputtered.

“Yeah, I don’t believe you,” Gilda said, although she didn’t sound too certain.

“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but they’re right.  That’s a pile of nonsense,” Discord said.  “It…it has to be.”

Pinkamania titled her head in thought.  “Maybe you’re right.  I probably just lost count.  I know I can travel through time and space right now but…I couldn’t really have stolen magic from that many creatures…could I?”

“Discord?” Nightmare whispered nervously.

“She’s probably just joking.  She couldn’t have stolen magic from any more than fifty of our alternate selves,” Discord assured her.

“Fifty?!” Trixie exclaimed.

“My dear, I have no idea if she’s lying about that number or not.  What I CAN sense is that Pinkamania up there has absorbed a lot of magic and she has become overwhelmingly powerful,” Discord admitted.

“Hey relax guys.  We have the Elements now.  That’ll stop her,” Gilda said with a nervous smile.

Pinkamania giggled.  “Oh sure!  You guys can try those out whenever you want!  We all know how well they worked last time.”  The Elements bearers froze as they realized that Pinkamania was right.  The last time they had used the Elements on Pinkie, all that it had done was slow her down for several minutes.  And with how much power Pinkamania had absorbed now, who knew what might happen?

“In that case…don’t hold back,” King Sombra ordered them.  “If we must rely solely on our own magical power…we have a very small chance of winning.  So Discord…you can forget the laws I’ve written regarding you and your family during this fight.  Don’t hold back anything.”

A very excited and very mischievous grin spread across Discord’s face.  “Understood, my dear king.”

He turned to Smog and zapped him with a bolt of chaotic power.  Smog grinned as he grew into a fully grown-up dragon, just as big as the great dragon Spike.

“Oh, this is going to be fun.”

Pinkamania grinned as every part of her body twitched with excitement and an overabundance of power, magical sparks zapping all over her form.  “Yay!  I’m so happy that you’re all just as excited as I am!  And to show you just how much fun we’re going to have, here’s a little music to start us off…”

 A rainbow coloured ball of light appeared next to Pinkamania’s ear.

Discord’s eyes widened as he listened to the song, realizing exactly what they were about to face.  “Oh, Eris no.  We’re having that kind of battle?  She’s not serious, is she?  Oh that’s just not fair.”

Pinkamania’s grin grew even wider.  She raised her claw and paw, creating two glowing balls of pure power.  “On your marks…get set…

“GO!”

Nightmare’s eyes widened as it began to rain chaos.  “GET DOWN!” she ordered.

Nightmare, Sombra, Sunset, Trixie, Chrysalis, and Discord all put their power behind a massive shield that blocked them all from Pinkamania’s attacks.  MILLIONS of magical blasts, bullets, and laser beams were fired at them, already making cracks in the shield.

“Are you seeing this?  This is INSANE!” Trixie shouted.

“We’re supposed to fight that?!” Chrysalis exclaimed.

“I’d have better luck dodging RAIN!  In the middle of the worst storm ever created!” Gilda shouted.

“My sincere apologies everyone,” Discord said.  “Eris, my beautifully insane sister, if you gave Pinkie this idea I will be very cross with you!”

“My friends, I’m afraid…we can’t dodge that many attacks.  We can only endure them,” King Sombra said.

“What’s the plan, Nightmare?” Smog asked.

“Discord, contain as much of her chaos as you can.  Everyone else…attack.  And good luck,” Nightmare softly ordered.  Pinkamania’s attacks shattered the shield, and Nightmare flapped her wings and launched herself at Pinkamania.

Discord nodded and teleported himself right next to Pinkamania.  He launched himself at the powerful pink demon, and the two chaotic creatures grappled with each other.

Gilda flapped her wings and flew into the air towards Pinkamania, her claws clenched tightly as hundreds of magical lightning bolts came spiraling towards her.  Chrysalis buzzed her wings and took a similar path as changeling shaped balloons spread out and fired beams of magic at her.

Smog took a deep breath and spewed a huge stream of fire into the air, trying to set all the objects that Pinkamania had summoned on fire.  Explosions of pink smoke filled the air whenever a balloon, chickens, bubbles, stars, sink, fishbowl, rainbow colour rocks, or acid spewing confetti snake touched the flames.

“Hold on!” King Sombra ordered as he summoned a crystal mountain out of the ground underneath himself and Sunset and Trixie.  The crystal mountain pushed itself towards Pinkamania as the three unicorns all fired dark magic, fireballs, and fireworks at the pink demon.

While the visitors from Everfree continued to fill the air with a ridiculous amount of magical blasts, the ponies of Equestria could only stare in awe.

“Wow…this makes most of my parties look tame by comparison,” Pinkie said.

“Darling, what we’re seeing could make anything tame by comparison,” Rarity said.

“I…almost have to agree with her.  My battle with Tirek was insane…but not this insane,” Twilight mumbled.

“Why aren’t we helping them?  We have to get outta here!” Rainbow growled as she kicked at the bubble containing her.

“I think it might be too late for that Rainbow,” Fluttershy whispered.  “It looks like…they’re losing…”

One by one, the Element bearers and the king of Everfree crashed into the ground, completely exhausted and overwhelmed by Pinkamania’s unrelenting magic storm.  Nightmare groaned and turned her head to look at King Sombra.  “I’m sorry my king…I failed you.”

“No Nightmare…you could never fail me,” King Sombra groaned.  “You’ve made me…very proud of you…”

Nightmare sighed as she watched one of Pinkamania’s attacks strike Smog and shrink him back down to his normal size.  “I’ve been meaning to ask you something…when I was younger, did you find a…strange poem?”

King Sombra weakly chuckled.  “Yeah, I saw that…why do you bring that up?”

“I might as well tell you…considering we are likely to lose our magic now,” Nightmare sighed.  “When I was a filly I had a strange dream about my mother…and I felt strange around you too.  What I’m trying to say is…I see Prince Artemis as my father…but I also see you as a…sort of second father.”

King Sombra weakly smiled.  “You…honour me.”

“Thanks…guys,” Chrysalis sighed.  “Last meal…the love here tastes good.”

“Well, I’m not one for mushy stuff…but I love you guys too…” Gilda sighed.

Pinkamania hovered over her defeated enemies, biting her lip in thought.  “What to do now?  I can’t drain you like I did all the others, you guys deserve better than that.”  She clutched her stomach with her paw and groaned.  “I also feel like I’m gonna pop like the world’s biggest balloon if I eat something as small as Trixie’s magic.”

“Trixie hates you…so much,” Trixie groaned.

“Give it a rest Trixie…she didn’t mean that,” Sunset sighed.

“Get up!” Applejack cried.  “You can still beat her!”

Nightmare smiled as the Elements of Harmony urged them to get back up.  It was nice.  Even though the Nightmare Moon of this world almost plunged Equestria into eternal night, they knew that she wasn’t the same Nightmare Moon.  But from what Nightmare had learned about her counterpart, she could almost understand why Luna became so bitter and lonely.  Perhaps if she had met her counterpart, the Nightmare Moon of this world would have never become so angry in the first place…

Nightmare’s eyes widened as she realized something.  “Guys…do you still have your Elements?”

“Yeah,” Gilda groaned.  “But what good will those do?  We already used them on Pinkie…didn’t work.  She only lost her powers for a little while and look where that’s got us…”

“But Gilda…everyone else we’ve used the Elements on…they’ve worked.  Eternal Twilight, Eternity, Vengeance, Cadance’s love poison, Daybreaker…they’ve worked every other time.”

“It was only Pinkie and the Smooze that it didn’t work and the Smooze doesn’t count…because it was already under the Elements’ influence,” King Sombra said.

“Exactly.  But Cadance and Fluttershy could still control it, mostly because it didn’t know that it was doing something bad,” Nightmare said.  “Pinkie is the same way…she thinks she’s doing the right thing, mostly.”

“They worked on Eternal Twilight, Daybreaker, and Cadance…because they were all corrupted,” Smog said.  “Deep down inside they knew they were doing something bad but they couldn’t stop themselves.”

“And the Elements didn’t work on Pinkie…because she thought we were the bad guys,” Sunset said.

“That’s it!  WE can’t beat Pinkamania…but there are other ponies who can make her understand that what she’s doing is wrong,” Smog said as his eyes widened.

“Discord, free the Elements of Harmony,” Nightmare ordered.

“I don’t have much energy left in me…but I can manage that,” Discord said as he pointed his talons at the pink bubbles that trapped the Elements of Harmony.

The pink bubbles all popped and the princess of friendship, plus her six friends all landed on the ground.  They hurried over to Nightmare and her friends, standing their ground between the Everfree heroes and Pinkamania.  “Leave them alone!” Rainbow cried.

Pinkamania blinked in surprise.  “Dashie?  What are you…”

“Twilight Sparkle…take my Element,” Nightmare ordered.  Twilight stared at the princess of darkness in confusion, but nodded and levitated the Element of Power off of Nightmare’s head and onto her own.  The other bearers of the Elements of Harmony quickly realized what was happening, and removed the Elements from their necks.

“Applejack, take mine too,” Sunset said as she removed her Element of Knowledge and levitated onto Applejack’s neck.

“You got this Dash,” Gilda said as she removed her Element of Zeal and tossed it to Rainbow, who caught it in midair.

Pinkamania’s twitchy smile grew very nervous.  “What’s going on?”

“Make Trixie proud,” Trixie said as she levitated her Element of Nobility over to Rarity.

“Not to worry my dear.  We shall,” Rarity promised.

“I can sense your fear Fluttershy, but I need you to be brave now,” Chrysalis said as she levitated her Element of Love over to Fluttershy.

“Don’t worry Chrysalis,” Fluttershy smiled.  “I’m always brave when it comes to my friends.”

“Pinkie my dear, take this as a sign of our friendship…and kick her flank,” Discord said as he levitated his Element of Freedom onto Pinkie.

Pinkie smiled and gave him a serious salute.  “You got it!”  The six Equestria girls all turned to face Pinkamania.  “Alright everyone!  Let’s kick my flank!” Pinkie cheered.

Pinkamania’s eyes widened with fear as the Elements of Forgiveness began to glow around the bearers of the Elements of Harmony.  “T-that’s not supposed to happen!”

“Wow, these new Elements feel really weird,” Rainbow commented as the glow intensified.

“No time for discussion, here it comes!” Twilight shouted.

Pinkamania screamed as beams of light and darkness began to strike her.  “W-wait!  I…I thought it was doing it right!  W-why are you attacking me?!”

Pinkie’s eyes widened as her counterpart’s body began to spasm.  “Guys, the balloon thing she mentioned!  I think she’s about to burst!”

Pinkamania screamed as more dark beams of magic blasted in her face.  “Please don’t do this!  I’m sorry!  I just wanted to make my friends happy!  Please make it stop, it hurts, I’m sorry, I’M SORRY!”

Light and darkness engulfed Pinkamania and exploded outward…before an even bigger explosion came from Pinkamania herself.  Clouds of magic went spiraling off into the distance as the sky filled with power.  Eventually, the brilliant light faded away.

The pink bubbles floating in the sky all popped, releasing the ponies trapped inside.  Princess Celestia, Luna, Cadance, and Prince Shining all hurried to Twilight and her friends as they floated back to the ground while Duchess Celestia, Luna, and Princess Twilight hurried back to Nightmare and her friends.

“Nightmare Moon, you did it!” Luna cheered as she pulled her daughter into a hug.

“Oh most wonderful of occasions!” Celestia cheered as she hugged Nightmare too.  “We knew you could do it!”  Nightmare smiled and hugged them both back.

Sunset and her friends blushed.  “Technically we didn’t do it…”

“Please!  We did most of it,” Trixie proudly bragged.

“What she said,” Gilda chuckled.  “We were awesome back there!”

“Ahem.  Excuse me?” Princess Celestia said as she and the Elements of Harmony walked towards them.

“Oh…” Duchess Celestia let go of Nightmare and turned to the princess of Equestria.  “It is a pleasure to meet you, Princess Celestia,” she said as she bowed to her counterpart.

“The pleasure is all mine…Duchess Celestia?” the sun princess asked her counterpart.

“Indeed.  I’m…afraid you outrank me,” Duchess Celestia admitted.

“I suppose we can’t all be princesses or princes,” the other Celestia joked.  Her gaze wandered over to the heroes of Everfree and she added, “Even if you brave ponies certainly deserve to be.”

“Hey, don’t forget us!” Discord said as he pulled Gilda, Chrysalis and Smog in for a hug.  The four of them grinned at Princess Celestia.

“Well, I’m glad we got that all sorted out!” another Discord said as he popped up beside them.  “Oh, what a relief it is to have my powers back again!” he sang as he wiggled his talons and fingers.  “And it appears I have myself and his friends to thank!”

The Element of Freedom grinned and floated over to his counterpart to shake his paw.  “My, my, what a privilege and honour it is to meet such a talented and handsome individual!”

The Equestria Discord chuckled.  “Oh no my boy, it is I who considers this a privilege and honour!”

“While I have your attention…Smog has already told me a little bit about this world and…you realize what we must do first, right?” the Everfree Discord asked.

“Oh ho, great minds do think alike!” the Equestria Discord agreed.

With that said, the two Discords floated over to Princess Celestia and began to poke her repeatedly.  The princess sighed.  “Please stop that.”

“Nope!” the Discords sang.  “You poke the pretty pony!  You poke the pretty pony!  You poke the pretty pony and that’s what it’s all about!”

Nightmare chuckled as the two chaos spirits sang their annoying song to Celestia.  She turned to her mom’s counterpart and smiled.  “I’m sorry about that.  It’s good to see that you’re okay-”

Princess Luna frowned and pushed past Nightmare.  “If I may have everypony’s attention!  Where is the alternate Pinkie Pie?”

“Well, the giant crater over there would be my first guess,” Smog pointed out with a roll of his eyes.  “But then again, who knows with her?”

“Sweet!” Gilda grinned.  “Anyone else think we turned her to stone this time?  Talons crossed for good luck!”

Everyone gathered around the giant crater and looked down into the bottom of it.  “There she is!” Rainbow said, pointing at the pony lying in the center of the crater.

Nightmare nodded.  “Right.  Pinkamania Disaster Pie, you have a lot to answer for!  Come out now and surrender!”

The pony twitched and slowly began to climb out of the crater.

“It’s over Pinkamania,” the Equestria Twilight said.  “You will never rule Equestria.  Any power you may have had in this world is gone.”

“…I know…it’s all gone…it’s all gone…”

“Right.  Today, you’ve shown…everyone…” Twilight trailed off as Pinkamania pulled herself out of the crater and collapsed onto the ground.

Smog blinked in surprise.  “What…what happened?”

“Physically, she’s fine,” Chrysalis said, her eyes widening as her magic scanned Pinkamania.  “But emotionally…she’s dead inside.”

Gilda groaned.  “Oh no…now I feel sorry for her.”

Pinkamania had transformed drastically due to the power of the Elements.  Her claw, paw, wings, and horns were all gone and she was back to having a normal pony body.  Her mane and tail were missing their extra colours and hanging limply.  But the most shocking change was that she had lost all colour.  Her entire body was completely gray and her eyes were full of tears.

“…finish your speech Twilight…” she whispered.

“Um…excuse me,” Twilight asked.

Pinkamania sighed.  “I’ve shown everyone who I really am…I’ve shown them what’s in my heart…”  She closed her eyes.  “Just get it over with.”

“Are you referring to your punishment?” Princess Celestia asked seriously.

“Yeah…go ahead and lock me up…turn me to stone…banish me to the moon…smash my statue…”

Rainbow blinked.  “Smash your statue?  What?”

“Do whatever you want with me…I don’t care anymore,” Pinkamania whispered.  “I don’t care about anything anymore…”

“Pinkie, you’re scaring me,” Fluttershy said, her voice dripping with concern.

“I…I’m sorry Fluttershy…I never meant to hurt anyone…”

“What about your plan?  All those other Equestrias you were traveling off to?” Applejack asked.

“I…I couldn’t do it,” Pinkamania admitted.  “Sunset, Nightie, Smog…I lied to you…and to myself.  I couldn’t do it.  No matter how evil that world’s Discord, or Nightmare, or Chrysalis was…I could never destroy them.  I toyed with them for a bit, but in the end I just stole their magic and left them in dream worlds…with those awful, fake smiles…”

“So then…you didn’t actually hurt anyone?  You only chased after villains, like you said you would?  That’s good, isn’t it?” Sunset asked.

“Good?!  I mean, I guess she only chased after other bad guys, but wasn’t that all part of her evil plan?” a unicorn mare in the crowd asked.

“So that she could come back with all the power and take over Equestria?” another pony added.

“I didn’t do it for me…this was never about me,” Pinkamania sighed as she stared up at Twilight and her friends.  “I did all this for you.  I wanted to get rid of all the evil in every Equestria…so that I could throw a party that would last forever…everything I did, no matter how creepy or cruel it was at the time…I did it all because I love you so much,” Pinkamania said.

“What?” Twilight asked incredulously.  “But why?  We never asked you to do this!”

“Because of the magic of friendship of course…” Pinkamania answered.

“What?!  But…but friendship isn’t worth what you did,” Twilight said.

Pinkamania frowned.  “You know that’s not true.  Friendship is magic.  Friendship is everything.”

“Ah can explain a little bit.  Pardon me,” Applejewel said as she made her way towards them.  “Pinkamania grew up in a time where it was impossible for her to make friends with anyone, no matter how friendly she was.  But we both knew about Equestria.  We learned about how important friendship was…and that if you don’t have friends, then you’re not important.”  She sighed.  “We learned that we HAD to get friends…no matter the cost.”

“Yeah…that’s why I’m so grumpy now,” Pinkamania sighed.  “So go ahead and turn me into a statue…it’s not like I’m useful to anyone.”

“Pinkie, stop talking!” Nightmare ordered.  “You should never say things like that!”

Pinkamania offered her a fake smile.  “That’s the hard part of being the Princess of Forgiveness, isn’t it Nightie?  No matter how much you hate me, you’re willing to forgive anyone eventually.  But it doesn’t matter anymore…don’t you get it?”

Pinkamania sank to the ground and wept into the dirt.  “I’m all alone.”

The people of both Everfree and Equestria were stunned at how lifeless Pinkamania had become.  What could they do?

Eventually, a pair of hooves reached out to grab Pinkamania’s.  She blinked and looked up to see her counterpart help her stand back up.  Pinkie sighed and began to sing:

“It’s true some days are dark and lonely
And maybe you feel sad
But Pinkie will be there to show you that it isn’t that bad.”

Pinkamania gasped in surprise as Pinkie gave her a gentle smile.

“There’s one thing that makes me happy and makes my whole life worthwhile
And that’s when I talk to my friends and get them to smile!”

Pinkie grinned and began to tickle her counterpart.  “Who’s a silly pony?  Who’s a ticklish pony?”

“W-wait!  Stop!  I’m n-not ticklish…I…pff, bah, ha, ha, ha!  He, he, he!” Pinkamania giggled.  Pinkie grinned with her and continued to sing:

“I really am so happy!
Your smile fills me with glee.
I give a smile I get a smile
And that’s so special to me!

As the two Pinkies giggled and tickled each other, Pinkamania’s hair began to gain its puffiness back.  Her colour returned to her, washing away the gray.

“‘Cause I love to see you beam, beam, beam
Yes I do
Tell me what more can I say
To make you see
That I do
It makes me happy when you beam, beam, beam
Yes it always makes my day!”

Pinkamania’s body was back to normal…but Chrysalis could sense that her mind was filled with a kind of happiness that she had never had the joy of experiencing before.  She glanced at Nightmare, Discord, and all her friends and smiled.

The Everfree Discord grinned.  “Well, what do you think?  I don’t know about you, but I am an Element of Forgiveness.  And she is sort of our friend.”

The Equestria Discord shrugged.  “Not really my style…but I suppose she is our friend.”  With that, the two Discords began to sing along:

“Come on everybody smile, smile, smile
Fill our hearts up with sunshine, sunshine
All we really need’s a smile, smile, smile
From these happy friends of mine!”

Nightmare chuckled, rolled her eyes…and sang along:

“Come on everybody smile, smile, smile
Fill our hearts up with moonbeams and sunshine”

“All we really need’s a smile, smile, smile
From these happy friends of mine!” Chrysalis sang as she joined in.

There were many people from Ponyville who were still confused about what had happened…but they still knew that this was a time to celebrate.  Soon, everyone in the crowd sang along:

“Come on everybody smile, smile, smile
Fill our hearts up with sunshine, sunshine
All we really need’s a smile, smile, smile
From these happy friends of ours!”

“So smile…smile…smile…SMILE!”

“Come on and smile,” Pinkie sang.

Pinkamania sighed as the song drew to a close.  “At last…I can truly smile.”





King Sombra bowed to Princess Celestia.  The rulers of Everfree and Equestria plus the two groups of Elements were all gathered in the room containing Twilight’s crystal mirror.

“It was an honour to meet you Princess Celestia.  I only wish our visit could have been less…explosive.”

“It was no trouble at all.  You helped save our Equestria from a threat most dire…and you brought joy back to a mutual friend who has been missing true joy from her heart for far too long,” Princess Celestia said.

Princess Cadance’s gaze briefly wandered over to Nightmare Moon and Chrysalis.  “Although there may still be leftover tension between our people…”  She sighed and smiled again.  “Feel free to visit us again.”

“We would be happy to have you,” Princess Celestia added as she smiled at Sunset.

“You’ll take care better care of yourself now…right?” Pinkie asked her counterpart.

Pinkamania smiled sadly at her.  “There are a lot of things I need to fix up…”

“Try not to worry too much about the other worlds you visited,” King Sombra said.  “If you visited worlds where an evil version of myself was successful in conquering the kingdom, perhaps it’s best if those other Sombras are missing some magic.”

Pinkamania weakly chuckled.  “Well that cuts my workload in half…but I still have a lot of work to do.”  Frowning a little, she turned to King Sombra.  “Which reminds me…I kinda banished Eternity a while ago…but before I banished her, she told me she knows who escaped from Tartarus.  I don’t know who it is, but I thought I could defeat them myself.  Wherever he or she or it is…I couldn’t find them.”

King Sombra frowned.  “That’s worrisome…but it can also wait.”  He sighed.  “Whoever has escaped, if they haven’t made their move by now then they likely won’t attack us until later.  But thank you for telling me.”

The two Twilights bowed to each other.  “It was an honour to meet you Twilight.”

“The honour is all mine Twilight.”

The two Applejacks smiled sheepishly at each other.  “Um…sorry about locking you up and pretending to be you.  And for what Pinkie did.”

“Uh…apology accepted.  You just promise me you’ll take better care of yer sister.”

Pinkie titled her head.  “That’s going to get pretty confusing.  We need to call you guys something to tell the difference between you guys and us.  What about Equestria Twilight and Everfree Twilight?”

“Ooh!  What about Mirror Twilight and Canon Twilight?” Pinkamania asked.

“Why…Canon Twilight?” Fluttershy asked.

“Because, party canon!” Pinkamania waved her hoof and a party canon appeared over Twilight’s head and spewed confetti and cake batter all over the purple alicorn.

Twilight groaned as the two Pinkies grabbed two spoons and began to scoop the cake off her.

“Hey, look on the bright side.  At least they’re not using their tongues,” Spike told her.

“Well, we can just let the fans decide what we’ll call each other,” Pinkamania said.

“Fans?  What fans?” Rainbow asked.

“These fans!” Pinkamania waved her hoof again and conjured up several paper fans that spun around in the air.

“Everfree!  Mirror!  Everfree!  Mirror!” the fans sang.

“I think I’m starting to get a headache,” Rarity groaned.

Pinkamania giggled and vanished the paper fans with another hoof wave.  “I’ll guess I’ll check back with them.”

Nightmare chuckled before she turned to smile at her mom’s counterpart.  “Princess Luna, I just wanted to say-”

Princess Luna frowned and turned to face the mirror.  “Shouldn’t you return home before the portal closes?”

Nightmare’s smile faded.  “Yeah…I guess we have worn out our welcome.  Well…goodbye everyone.”

One by one, the visitors from Everfree went through the mirror until only the people from Equestria remained in the library.

“Well…that was a long and crazy day,” Spike sighed.  “I think I’m going to go take a nap.”

“I hear ya buddy.  Napping sounds pretty good right now,” Rainbow sighed.

“Still…it was nice to meet them.  They seem like very nice ponies…I mean, people,” Fluttershy whispered.  “Even Pinkamania wasn’t that horrible, deep down.”

“If you can ignore the time I was trapped in that pony’s body…the whole experience was extremely enjoyable!” Discord chuckled.  “They spread chaos and friendship at the same time!  Oh, I’m going to miss them.”

“Yeah…I wish they coulda stayed a little longer.  Or at least, we could visit them more often,” Pinkie said.

The mirror wobbled a little as Discord and Pinkamania came back into Equestria.  “Hello again!  We just wanted to ask you something!” Discord said cheerfully.

“Um…okay.  What did you want to ask me?” Twilight said.

“Um…what’s this button do?” Pinkamania asked, pointing at a big red button on the machine hooked up to Twilight’s mirror.

“Don’t touch that!” Twilight cried.

“Okay…ooh, what about this button?” Pinkamania asked, pointing at another button.

“Don’t touch that either!  Don’t touch anything!” Twilight cried.  “Those buttons weren’t even on that machine before!”

The two Everfree chaotic creatures exchanged glances…and promptly went nuts.

“TOUCH ALL OF THE BUTTONS!” Pinkamania cheered as she poked the machine.

“I’m touching everything!  I’M TOUCHING EVERYTHING!” Discord cheered.

Twilight gasped.  “Discord, Pinkie, stop!”

Eventually, they stopped poking the machine and pressing buttons.  Pinkamania grabbed Pinkie’s hoof and jumped inside the mirror, followed by Discord.  The two Pinkies zoomed back and forth and into and out of the mirror.  Then a single Pinkie bounced out the mirror and grinned.  “We added a new setting!  This way, Twilight can visit her Canterlot High School human friends, and now we can all visit our new Everfree friends!  Now then…guess which Pinkie I am!”

The Equestrians all let out an exhausted sigh…before they allowed themselves a group laugh.





On the other side of the mirror, Princess Nightmare and her friends sighed happily.  There was still a lot of work to do.  The aftermath of Pinkamania’s rampage, building bridges between Everfree and Equestria, and whoever or whatever escaped from Tartarus.

However that was a story for another time.  For now…the greatest battle of Nightmare’s life was over and she was looking forward to what the new season would bring them.