//------------------------------// // Pinkie's Dying Emotions // Story: After The Song // by BioQuillFiction //------------------------------// I woke up standing in front of Twilight. Surprised my blackout didn't have me fall on the floor. Twilight's eyes finally opened after a minute and started to freak at the sight of her situation. "Oh sweet Celestia what the heck!?" "Twilight calm down, Adagio told me that she gave you the combo for the lock what is it?" If I don't get her calm and out of this quick she'll go into a freaking panic attack! After a few heavy breaths Twilight had finally calmed down. "Right, sorry. It's 5-39-17." A few turns of a knob and the clicks of some rather confusing latches later Twilight was kissing the ground. I explained the situation to her and as if on Cue that ever so painful and annoying burst of static rang into the core of my ear. "How did you get her out of that!? You were all alone in there!" Adagio's voice rang with pure anger. "How did you know I freed Twilight?" "I sensed my spell of failure break, how did you do that!?" If I tell her about the pendant she'll most likely send some poor mind controlled guards to take us out again. "Looks like the magic of friendship is stronger than you think." "Perhaps, but even if you manage to free the rest of your group remember this, the whole facility is under my control and with those tracers pinned on your ears I can have you surrounded within minutes." The audio cut into a burst of static and went silent. "Creepy, but Dammit if she isn't right. Unless..." "Unless what?" Twilight questioned. "Well I freed you with the pendant just like I'm gonna do with the others so maybe I can free the people in the building the same way." "That's a great idea Sunset Shimmer, but one at a time will take to long." "True, what if we wait until the others are awake and then find a way to sneak up to where Adagio is." "But the tracers?" "We'll cross that bridge when we get there. Right now we gotta help our friends." Twilight nodded and we headed off the room across from hers. It was Pinkie; she was strapped down onto a bed with leather restraints. Thankfully not anywhere near as bad as Twilight but what's with pinkie's hair? It's all well... flat and lifeless not up and defying the laws of gravity. Then another burst of static rang into my ear. Dammit why only mine Twilight's here now to! Sonata's voice came from the speaker. "From the way Adagio was screaming earlier I take it you freed one of them already?" "Yeah it was Twilight, anyway we're with Pinkie right now any chance Adagio has a list of who's under what spell?" "No, sorry Sunset Shimmer but looks like that info is for Adagio to know and you to find out. I gotta go, don't want to risk getting caught good luck." The audio cut. I looked over to Pinkie Pie in fear of what dark magical torment she must be under right now. Twilight's worst fear was failure so is Pinkie's sadness or something? I cleared my head and placed my hand on Pinkie's forehead and I was lost into the black void. * * * I awoke in a dark cold room. I was barely able to see an inch away from my own nose, damn what nightmare is Pinkie stuck in? I walked around for several minutes following what I think is some kind of stone wall. "Dammit is there any light switch or something!?" "Why would one need light?" That voice, Pinkie!? Why does she sound... Depressed I guess. "Pinkie Where are you!?" "Everywhere and nowhere you could say." Oh great Pinkie logic. "Pinkie where are you!? I'm here to free you from this spell!" "This spell puts her in the cage and pulls me out, so why do I want to enter the cage after a lifetime of imprisonment!" The ground was shaking and there was a large explosion echoing everywhere. Shit what the hell is that!? Next thing I knew I was falling. It felt like hours since I started falling in this void within Pinkie's mind, then suddenly I hit a metal floor of sorts. Ouch! If it wasn't for the fact I'm in Pinkie's mined that might have killed me. "Sunset Shimmer!?" I was suddenly getting a bear hug from a wild haired Pinkie Pie. "Pinkie!? Wait... what's this? Why are you all happy now and back in that dark whatever you were rude and how come I couldn't see you!?" Pinkie quickly let go of me and a light started shining above us and I could finally see. Pinkie looked saddened. "That's not me Sunset Shimmer." "But she sounded just like you, granted a depressed you but..." "That's some other me. I don't know where she came from but one minute I was having a dream about cake frosting and the next I'm in a cage with her telling me to not wake up." Well that's... odd to say the least. IS each spells torment different? "Has she done anything to you? Make you made of sad or... anything?" "Not really. She just stuck me in this cage and said don't wake up." "She told me she used to be in the cage but the spell freed her. You know anything about that?" "Nope, not really. Maybe she's some kinda split personality the spell created." At this rate Pinkie's logic on the situation seems possible. "Well whatever she is she doesn't want you to wake up too bad for her I know how to wake you up." "Really how?" I pulled out Sonata's pendent from my pocket. How did it get there!? Pinkie gasped. "But those things are evil!" "Not really, Sonata explained some new info to me and they can wake you up. All I got to do is sing." "Oh, oh, oh, oh sing a happy song! Giggle at the ghosties!" Pinkie sang her own little song. I've never heard this one before. "Quiet!" A loud scream came from outside the cage. it was that same depressed Pinkie Pie voice from before. "No more joy, no more HAPPY!" The other Pinkie came out of the shadows looking like a flat haired well... Pinkie. "Why!? Why do you care!? You're just a spell!" She grabbed the bars of the cage and slammed herself against them. "I'm not spell I am the one who was left to rot!" What the!? "What do you mean!?" "Perhaps it's better to show you." Another light shined on what looked like yet another Pinkie but mummified as if she has been dead for years. Dear mother of... Everything! "We are dying, we came together into one to stay alive but we are starving and will soon die." I covered my mouth to muffle my crying and tears started to come from my eyes sliding down my cheeks. "What are you!?" "We are the ones left to rot. Anger, Sadness, Grief, petty, Regret, Greed, Envy, Pride, and the one who has fallen was loneliness." "You're emotions!?" "Negative emotions, yes. We have been left to rot by the life she has lead, we all had to fuse into one in order to survive. Pinkie Pie has lead a life of joy and laughter practically since birth and we have had to savor every crumb from our few uses." "What does that mean?" Pinkie Yelled out. "It means that your neglect to use us is making us fade and die. Loneliness has already passed and soon we will too. This spell is fueling us, saving us from death but all those positive emotions built a barrier around her in an attempt to save her from the spell. It will fall soon and when that happens we will be saved." "I didn't know, I had no Idea." Pinkie hair practically deflated. "Of course you didn't. No human can understand the workings of a mined or the emotions residing inside, especially their own." "But there has to be an alternative! You can't just let this happen!" I screamed in protest. "Why not? even if miss Pie agrees to use us negative emotions more we would still be getting crumbs compared to what the positive emotions get!" "But the pendants, the thing casting this spell can absorb negative emotions and positive emotions, All of you would become food for it!" "Yes this sure seems to be the case, we've seen those memories but this spell isn't taking from us it's feeding us." Crap! Wait Sonata's pendent. I showed the negative Pinkie the pendent. "Not if I interrupt!" She took a few steps back. "You wouldn't!" "To save a friend I will!" "Stop it!" We both turned to see Pinkie Pie kneeling in a small puddle of tears. "Don't do it Sunset Shimmer." "But Pinkie we need to wake you up!" "I know but not before I settle things with my emotions, myself." The next thing I knew the cage was gone and Pinkie was walking over to her negative emotions. "You're right I'm just too cheery to express you properly and I hate that my lifestyle is causing you harm, but even so you're still a part of me and therefore don't want that meanie Adagio to win, right?" The negative emotion Pinkie Pie just looked back and forth at Pinkie and nothing. "... We share the same mined so your argument is correct." "And I'm the only one who can stop her?" "Correct." "Wrong." "Hu?" "My friends and I are the ones who can stop Adagio and if you're apart of me then we need to work together to stop her. I'm sure my positive emotions can help you when it comes to your 'feeding'." "No." The negative Pinkie walked over to me and grabbed the pendant. "There is no more room for us in this or any mined, even if the possessive emotions where to aid us the energy we need to survive is too different we would prefer it to die in an act of heroism rather than in a slow starvation." "Wait!" The negative Pinkie griped Sonata's pendant and she turned into a green mist that flowed into the pendant until there was no more and the pendent fell to the floor. I stood there unable to fully process what just happened. "Sunset Shimmer?" Pinkie snapped me back into focus. "Please put my negative emotions to good use." I was still at a loss for what exactly the fuck just happened and what kinda spell does this!? You know what fuck it, Pinkie Pie logic I'm just gonna leave it at that and not even try to understand anymore. Then the blackness left and Sonata's pendant started to glow and a bright red light flowed over Pinkie and I. * * * I woke up the same way I was when I entered Pinkie's mined. She was starting to open her eyes and I moved my hand to my head to ease my migraine that I apparently got, must be from the stress of Pinkie's mined. I heard a large poof and when I looked up Pinkie's hair had returned to defying gravity as usual.