//------------------------------// // Feeling Pinkie Keen or Screw Logic, I'm Pinkie Pie! // Story: Permanent Vacation // by Apple_Crack //------------------------------// “Permanent Vacation” Feeling Pinkie Keen or Screw Logic, I’m Pinkie Pie!         Surprisingly, I slept like a log after the events of yesterday. I had half expected for me to have some nightmare, but I may have had some divine intervention from above in that regard. I smile as I recall the events of my dream last night, gazing up at a brilliant night sky as the stars seemed to dance before my eyes. I chuckle and shake my head, rolling out of bed to start the new day.         Right after I finish breakfast, I hear a knock on my door. “Coming!” I open the door and see Spike and Twilight. “Hey Spike. Hey Twilight. What brings you two out of the book fort?”         Twilight cocks her head while Spike snickers. “Book fort?”         I nod my head. “Yeah, the thing you live in? Don’t tell me you forgot your own home! You’re too young to be going senile just yet! Personal protégé of Princess Celestia losing her mind! Wait till the presses get ahold of this!”         Twilight smiles and rolls her eyes. “Ha ha, very funny. Spike and I are going out for breakfast at the Hay Bale and thought you might want to come along.”         I glance behind Twilight to see Spike cupping his hands, begging me to come with. I raise an eyebrow. “Uh, sure. Just to hang out though, I finished eating right before you knocked.”         Twilight claps her hands. “Perfect! It’ll give us more time to talk then.” I shut my door and step outside, walking right alongside her. As we walk through the town, I notice that nothing seems to have changed. Ponies go about their daily lives, acting like nothing happened yesterday.         “At least they can bounce back from such events.”         “Yeah, but it must be hard on all of them.         “No doubt about that, but it’s easier when they have each other to rely on for support.”         “So,” Twilight talking snaps me back to reality, “I’ve wanted to ask you a few things about yesterday…”         Mentally, I sigh. This conversation had to be had at some point. I just wish she gave me more time to prepare for it. “What’d you want to know?”         She glances over at me. “Well, how did you feign your death like that? We thought you had died when that Dog snapped your neck.”         It’s my turn to glance at her. Really? That’s all she wants to know? I thought I was going to have another conversation like with Fluttershy. But hey, I’m not bringing it up if she isn’t! I laugh. “That means I’m doing my job right.”         Twilight looks at me. “Huh?”         I pull out the Dead Ringer. “This is the Dead Ringer. Anytime I get hurt, I will instantly become invisible and drop a fake corpse along with an accompanying death scream. At that point, I become highly resistant to damage. Unlike the Cloak and Dagger, the battery in this will eventually die and must recharge on its own. The only downside is that it makes a loud noise when I become visible again.”         “Fascinating. May I?” She holds her hand out.         I shrug my shoulders and hand her it. “I don’t see why not.”         She examines it from all angles before her horn lights up, the Dead Ringer covered in her magical glow. She hands the watch back to me, shaking her head. “I don’t understand it! There seems to be something magical about the properties of that watch, but it gives off no magic signature!”         I shrug my shoulders. “Well, Twilight, some things have no explanation and we just have to accept that.” She groans. “Fine. But I’ll eventually figure it out.” Spike snaps his fingers. “Hey, that other watch Twilight told me about, the Cloak and Dagger? Can you use both at the same time?” I shake my head. “Sadly, no. I can have both on me, but only one will work at a time. The same thing goes for my knives and revolvers.” Believe me, I tried yesterday night to wield both the knife and Spy-Cicle at the same time, but the knife wouldn’t leave my pocket until I put the Spy-Cicle away. I tried it with the revolvers too, only for the Diamondback to remain holstered. We reach the Hay Bale. We all grab a table, a waiter running up to us almost immediately. Spike and Twilight order the same thing, a pancake platter of eggs and hay bacon with a side of orange juice. For me, just a glass of water. It doesn’t take long for everything to arrive. When no further conversation is made, I assume I’ve quenched her curiosity. I see Twilight’s eyes go wide. “Could somepony else use them when you can’t?” “That… That is actually a good question.” “I have no idea. But we can test that right here.” I take the Cloak and Dagger off my wrist and hand it to her. “Put it on and hit the button on the side to cloak.” She eagerly puts it on and hits the button. Before my eyes, she vanishes. My eyes widen. “Shit, it actually worked!” Agent and I say. “This… This is amazing!” Twilight shouts, causing a couple of other patrons to turn our way. A fork disappears from the table, a piece of pancake following shortly after. “Everything I grab turns invisible too!” Twilight de-cloaks before us, grinning from ear to ear. I clap my hands and smile. “An unexpected event, but a very revealing one! Mind if I have it back?” “Oh, sorry. Here you go.” She magically levitates the Cloak and Dagger in the middle of table. “I need to try this!” Before either of us can move, Spike reaches out and grabs it. He slaps it on his wrist and hits the button, but doesn’t disappear. Twilight and I raise an eyebrow. “Come on! Why ain’t it working?” Twilight rubs her chin in thought. “I have a theory I want to test. Spike, give it back to Blake.” Spike hands me the watch. “Now, Blake, give it back to Spike.” I shrug my shoulders. “Here you go, Spike. Not sure how this is gonna change the outcome.” Twilight smiles. “Trust me on this. Okay, Spike? Try cloaking again.” Spike hits the button. This time, he disappears. “Whoa! You’re right, Twilight! This is amazing!” He de-cloaks and hands me the watch. I look at Twilight. “Care to explain your thought process, Twi?” She smiles, obviously proud for solving this. “It worked for me when you just gave it to me, right?” I nod my head. “Well, Spike just took it from me instead of you giving it to him.” “Still don’t see what…” I snap my fingers, “Oh! I get it now!” Spike looks between us. “What? Can somepony please tell me why it didn’t work the first time?” “You see, Spike, Blake gave me permission to use it. You, on the other hand, took it without asking. I figured that the watch must have an anti-theft system in place to prevent it from being used by the wrong hands! Blake actually giving you the watch removed the system, allowing you to use it!” Spike rubs his claws together and smiles menacingly. “just imagine the pranks I could pull with that watch…” I shake my head. “Spike, these are not toys to be carelessly tossed around. This is sensitive equipment only to be used in—” I laugh and lean back in my chair, “Ah, who am I kidding? Of course I’m gonna use them for pranks.” Twilight smirks and rolls her eyes, going back to eating her food. “Stallions…” She mumbles under her breath. Twilight and I make small talk about anything and everything while Spike greedily wolfs down his food. Twilight isn’t even finished with her food by the time Spike finishes his, his tongue licking the plate clean. Twilight glares at Spike. “Spike, where are your manners?” He burps, and then chuckles. “Sorry, Twilight. Just wanted to make sure the plate was clean.” Twilight sighs, going back to eating her food. Once she’s done, she tilts her head to the side and smiles at Spike. “So, ready to help me test out those new spells I’ve been working on, Spike?” Spike gets up from the table, shaking his head. “Sorry, but I promised Rarity I’d help her double check her inventory to make sure the Dogs didn’t steal any gems from her.” “But—” Spike runs away from the table. “SorrygottagomaybeBlakecanhelpyouinsteadbye!” “That sly little bastard just roped us into being her test subject.” “I want to get back at him, yet strangely want to applaud him.” Twilight sighs before turning her gaze to me. “Blake, would you be willing to help me?” She flutters her eyelashes at me. Looks like someone has been taking lessons from Rarity. I chuckle. “Sure, why not? I had nothing better to do today anyway.” She claps her hands. “Perfect, just let me pay the bill—” I flick a couple of bits on the table. “I got this.” “Blake, you really don’t need to pay for our meal.” I shrug my shoulders. “I don’t need to, but I am. Besides, I got more money than I know what to do with right now. Paying for a friend’s breakfast seems like a decent thing to do.” “I…Well, thank you then.” She stands up from the table. “Come on. I know the perfect place to practice my spells near the edge of town.”         “Excellent job, Twilight.” I twirl the cane, formerly a rock, in my hand.         Twilight lead me to a nearly empty park overlooking a rolling field near the eastern edge of Ponyville. She then grabbed two seemingly ordinary rocks and told me to hold one while balancing the other on my head. Doing so, she stepped back from me and took a deep breath before a beam shot out of her horn and hit me directly in the chest, giving me a nice tuxedo.         Twilight wipes her brow. “Thanks, that spell is harder than it looks. I wanna try it one more time, though.”         I nod my head. “Go for it. I know you can do it.” As Twilight’s horn charges up, I look behind her to see Pinkie, wearing an umbrella hat, diving under anything she can find. She is constantly grabbing her tail and looking up at the sky. “Uh, what’s up with Pinkie?”         Twilight shakes her head. “Blake, please. I need total concentration if this spell is going to work.”         I see Pinkie’s tail twitch. Oh right, her Pinkie Sense. And a tail twitch meant something was going to fall. I feel the rock on my head lift up.         “Hey! I live up here! For both our sakes, you may want to move!”         I step out from under the rock just as Pinkie jumps up behind Twilight, shaking her. The rock beelines for the ground, aided by Twilight’s magic. My tuxedo disappears while the cane reverts back to a rock. “Twilight! Twilight! My tail! It’s twitch-a-twitching!”         Pinkie stops shaking Twilight long enough for her to focus her eyes. “Uh, good? I’m not really sure what a twitching tail means.”         Pinkie grabs her tail, holding it close to her body. “It’s my Pinkie Sense. A twitching tail means that something is about to fall! You and Blake may want to take some cover!”         I throw my arms over my head and glance at the sky. “Really?! You got another one of those umbrella hats I could have?”         “Yeppers!” She reaches into her hair and pulls out another hat. I snatch it and put it on.         “God, you look like an idiot.”         “And by extension, so do you.”         “Did your tail stop twitching?”         “Nope! Something is still going to fall! Hold me, Blake!” Pinkie wraps her arms around me. I don’t resist at all, eagerly wrapping my arms around her as we huddle together.         “Still looking like an idiot. God, why couldn’t you have been someone cool?” “Pinkie, Blake, nothing is going to fall. We’re in the middle of a wide open park with not a single cloud—” A frog lands on Twilight’s face. I look up to see Fluttershy hovering above us (Thankfully, not wearing a skirt), a cartload of frogs being pulled by her. “Oh, I’m so sorry, Twilight!” Two more frogs jump out of the cart and land on Twilight. I throw my hands in the air and yell, “Bonus frogs!” Twilight grabs the frogs on her and gently sets them on the ground. “I’m fine, Fluttershy, but why are you transporting all these frogs?” Fluttershy plays with her hair. “Well, I couldn’t stand seeing all the ponds get overpopulated with frogs, so I’m moving some of them to Froggy Bottom Bog.” “Okay, have fun!” Pinkie says. “Oh, I most certainly will.” Fluttershy flies off, leaving us alone again. I shrug my shoulders. “So, did your tail stop twitching?” Pinkie nods her head. “Yeppers! Nothing else is gonna fall right now!” She bounces away, humming a little song to herself. “Well, that was certainly something. Come on, Blake, let’s get back to practicing before anything else happens.” I nod my head. “Sure. Ya know, I would like to predict the future like that.” Twilight rolls her eyes. “Please, you can’t possibly believe that Pinkie has a power like that. She just happened to say something was going to fall, and it did. It was just a coincidence.” I shake my head. “I believe that she has some power that nobody can understand. Just because I can’t see it or understand it, doesn’t mean I should ignore it. If that was the case, I’d be ignoring this entire planet right now.” Twilight groans. “Look, can we please just get back to practicing?” Pinkie runs back up to us. “My tail! It’s still twitching! See?” She holds up her tail. I can most definitely see it shaking. “Something else is gonna fall!”  Twilight groans and starts walking away. “Pinkie, what just happened is a coincidence. Nothing else is going to ahh!” In the process of walking away, Twilight neglected to watch where she was going and fell into a muddy ditch. Pinkie and I walk over to the edge of the ditch. “So, willing to believe it now?” Twilight pushes herself up. “Still just a coincidence.” “Howdy ya’ll!” I glance over my shoulder at Applejack. “What’s going on, Applejack?” She shrugs her shoulders. “Not much. After the events of yesterday, ah figured we all needed a day ta unwind.” I mentally cringe. “Yeah, we all need to forget yesterday.” Pinkie hugs me. “Ah, it’s okay, Blake! We don’t blame you for anything.” Applejack pats me on the back. “Yeah, partner. Ya did what ya needed to do.” I turn around to face Applejack. “I get that, but it doesn’t mean I need to like it.” She nods her head. “Exactly.” She glances over my shoulder and raises an eyebrow. “Uh, why is Twilight in a muddy ditch?” Pinkie grabs her tail. “Oh, my tail was twitching again.”  Applejacks eyes go wide. “Is it done twitching now?” I can hear a slight waver in her voice. Pinkie nods her head and Applejack visibly relaxes. “Good. For ah second there, ya had me worried.” Twilight pulls herself out of the ditch, covered head to hoof in mud. “No, it’s fine. I’ll just help myself here, really.” I hear a whistle. “She looks good covered in mud.” “I’m doing my best to keep calm, and you ain’t helping the situation, Agent!” “Well, you wouldn’t be in there if you listened to Pinkie in the first place.” Applejack nods her head. “He’s right, Twilight.” Twilight rolls her eyes. “Applejack, you can’t possibly believe in this Pinkie Sense too?” Applejack pulls her hat down over her eyes. “Twilight, there’s just some things ya have to believe in, and one of those things is Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense. If’n her tail is twitching, you better believe something is gonna fall.” Twilight groans. “Again, those are just coincidences. She said something was gonna fall, and a frog happened to fall from the sky around the same time. She said something was gonna fall, and I fall into a muddy ditch around the same time. There is no hard evidence to indicate Pinkie predicted those events.” I shake my head and chuckle. “Alright, you’ll learn the hard way. Before you do anything else though, you may want to clean yourself up.” Pinkie raises her hand. “I can take care of that! Come on, Twilight, we’ll clean you up at my place! This is sorta my fault anyway.” Twilight nods her head. “Thank you, Pinkie.” “Hey, I’ll see you later at the library, Twilight.” “If’n any of ya’ll need me, ah’ll be around town.”         We each go our separate ways, Twilight and Pinkie heading to Sugercube Corner, Applejack to who knows where, and I heading to the library to read up on some history of Equestria.         The door to the library slams open, jolting me out of my riveting read on the history of the Wonderbolts. No, really. It turns out they used to be a full-fledged air force trained for combat, not the aerial stunt flyers of today. I glance at the door to see Pinkie and Twilight walk in, the former with a spring in her step. “So, Twilight, you ready to believe in the Pinkie Sense yet?”         Twilight smiles. “Yes, right after we run some tests to show that Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense is nothing more than simple superstition.” She heads over to a door and opens it up, revealing a staircase leading into the basement.         I raise an eyebrow. “And you’re actually going to let her test on you, Pinkie?”         Pinkie nods her head. “Yeah! It’ll be fun!”         Shrugging my shoulders, I stand up and follow them. The basement itself is fairly large, almost the size of the main floor of the library, with various machines and vials scattered around the room. I notice most of the machines have straps to tie down the test subject. I smirk, a nasty thought crossing my mind. “Geez, Twilight, I didn’t know you were into the kinky stuff.”         Twilight spins around, her cheeks red. “I am not into that kind of stuff! Everything in here is for science, nothing more!”         Pinkie and I laugh. “Oh, you make it too easy, Twilight! I’m only messing with you. What you do behind closed doors is your business, not mine.”         “Let’s get this fun started!” Twilight and I turn to Pinkie, who has already strapped herself to a table.         Twilight facepalms. “Pinkie, how did you even do that? Unless you’re a unicorn, you can’t possibly strap yourself down.”         I pat Twilight’s shoulder. “Let it go girl. Just run your tests, and then we will figure out if the Pinkie Sense is real.”         Twilight sighs. “Fine. The faster we run these tests, the faster we can get back to practicing my magic.” She walks over to Pinkie, placing a helmet covered in diodes with wires running off it on her head.         “I assume you’re going to study her brainwaves to find any noticeable difference from her normal activity when compared to her Pinkie Sense?”         Twilight nods her head, reading from a chart being spewed out from a machine. “Not only her brainwaves, but her magical field as well.”         I shake my head. “Ah, but of course. Can’t forget about her magic field now, can I? I mean, I can’t see it but have to accept that it’s there. How silly of me to forget about an abstract concept foreign to me.”         Twilight looks up from her chart, smiling. “It’s alright. You’re not from around here, so it makes sense you wouldn’t think of it right away.” She looks back at her chart.         “How oblivious is this pony?”         “Should I make a sarcasm sign for her? I could do it. I have some crayons stashed around here somewhere.”         I look at Pinkie, who simply shrugs her shoulders. “Okay, Pinkie, just let me know when you get a Pinkie Sense so I can get a reading on it.”         Pinkie nods her head. “Yeppers!”         Pinkie scrunches her face up in concentration as Twilight glances at multiple charts simultaneously. This goes on for what seems like forever, and I’m just about to walk up the stairs when Pinkie blurts out, “Wait! I feel something!”         Twilight snaps her attention to Pinkie. “Really?!”         Pinkie burps, and then giggles. “Sorry, false alarm. It was just gas!” Her stomach rumbles. “And hunger!”         Twilight groans. “Well, is there any way to tell when one is coming?”         “Nope! They just come and go!”         I shake my head and laugh. “Twilight, let the poor mare go. You trying to figure out Pinkie in general, no offense, is like me trying to explain quantum physics to college professors. In both cases, we look like idiots.”         Twilight sighs. With a glow of her horn, Pinkie is released from her bindings. “I can’t let this go, not without hard evidence. Pinkie, take a quick break until I set up the next test.”         I jerk my head towards the stairs. “Come on, Pinkie. I can get us something to eat while we wait.”         Pinkie leaps from the table, doing a cartwheel before stopping in front of me. “Sounds good to me.”         Just as I put my foot on the first step of the stairs, Pinkie starts violently twitching and shuddering, falling to the floor.         Twilight rushes over. “What happened?!”         I grip the sides of my head, running my hands through my hair. “How should I know?! She was fine just ten seconds ago!”         Twilight places two of her fingers on Pinkie’s neck. “Pinkie?! Pinkie?! Can you hear me?!” Twilight looks up at me. “She’s got a pulse, but we still need to get her to the hospital! Blake, grab her—”         Pinkie’s eyes shoot open, causing Twilight and I to jump back. Dammit, this girl is going to kill me one of these days! She pops up from the ground         Pinkie shudders. “Ooh, that one was a doozy!”         “Pinkie, what was that?” Twilight asks.         Pinkie tilts her head and rubs her chin. “Hmm, I’m not sure what Pinkie Sense that was,” Twilight groans at this, “but it was a real doozy.”         I raise an eyebrow. “Is there at least anything you can understand from this Sense?”         “All I know is that something big is gonna happen at Froggy Bottom Bog, and it’s gonna be bad!”         I grasp Pinkie’s shoulders and stare into her eyes. “Froggy Bottom Bog?! Isn’t that where Fluttershy is?!”         “I’m sure she’s fine, Blake.”         Pinkie gasps. “Oh my gosh, you’re right! We need to go check on her!”         “Come on! Every second wasted here is another Fluttershy could be in danger!”         Twilight rolls her eyes. “Fine, we’ll go check on Fluttershy, but only to prove to you both that this is all nonsense.”         “Says the talking magical unicorn.”         We all sprint up the stairs. I’m the first one to barrel out the front door to the library, nearly falling over Applejack. “Woah, what’s the rush there, Blake?”         I grab her shoulders. “It’s Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense! Something big and bad is gonna happen at Froggy Bottom Bog, where Fluttershy is!”         Applejack’s eyes widen. “Say no more! We gotta get there!”         I sidestep Applejack, rushing by her. “You ain’t telling me anything I haven’t already said!”         “Uh, Froggy Bottom Bog is this way!”         I about face, seeing everyone else running in the opposite direction of me. I sprint to catch back up with them. “I didn’t know that but now I do!”         We reached Froggy Bottom Bog with no trouble. Now comes the fun part of trudging through it to find Fluttershy. “Fluttershy! Fluttershy!” I call out to the surrounding area, straining to hear any response. I look around for any sign of yellow or pink that stands out from the dull, foggy landscape around me. It doesn’t help that plenty of low hanging trees obscure my vision.         “Oh, I hope she’s alright,” Pinkie says.         “Ah’m sure she’s fine, sugercube. Fluttershy! Fluttershy!”          Twilight groans from behind me. “How do we know she hasn’t already left and is back at her home?”         I shake my head, my hand hovering over the Ambassador. “We don’t, but I still want to check just to be sure.”         “Do you think she exp—”         I slap my hand over Pinkie’s mouth. “Shh, be quiet. Listen.” Everyone freezes. Over all other sounds, I can make out the faint sound of someone singing and the croaking of frogs. “Do you hear it?”         “Is that…”         I nod my head. “Singing. We’re getting close, people.”         Pinkie pulls my hand away from her mouth. “Fluttershy! Fluttershy!”         Before I can stop her, Pinkie runs off towards what I’m assuming to be Fluttershy. Applejack tries to grab her, but Pinkie spins out of her reach and keeps going. “Pinkie, get back here!” Applejack sprints off after her.         “This is how people die in horror movies. They just broke almost every rule in the book!”         I motion for Twilight to follow. “Come on, we can’t lose them!”         “Right!”         Twilight and I run after them, trying to keep up. We burst out of the tree line, coming to a large swamp area. Standing on a little stretch of land separating two inlets of water is Fluttershy, with Pinkie hugging her and Applejack standing off to the side. “Fluttershy! Thank God you’re okay!”         Fluttershy turns to us, Pinkie still clinging to her. “Twilight? Blake? What are you all doing here? And why wouldn’t I be okay?”         Twilight and I walk over. I can’t help but notice that Twilight has a shit-eating grin on her face the entire time. “Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense told us something bad was gonna happen here, but I don’t rightly see anything wrong,” Applejack explains.         “Well, I hate to say it, but…” Twilight thrusts her fist in the air, “Ha! I told you your ‘Pinkie Sense’ is nothing more than coincidence! There is no logical way a pony should be able to predict the future!”         I turn to Twilight, my fists clenched. “Okay, enough of this! Twilight, give it a rest! Pinkie does have something that we will never be able to see, feel, or understand!”         Twilight turns to me, her eyes going wide. She slowly backs up towards everyone else. “Blake…”         “No, let me finish! I don’t understand most of the things in this world, like magic or someone being able to control the sun, but do I beat myself up or my friends trying to understand it?! No! I accept that it is there, and while I may never understand it, I at least acknowledge that it is there and that it works! If I can do it, so can you!”         “Blake!” Applejack shouts.         “What?!” I turn my gaze to her, only for her to point behind me. I raise an eyebrow, noticing that things have gotten a little darker. I slowly turn my head, seeing a towering, four-headed hydra staring down at us. “Oh, fuck me with a shovel.”         I hear someone gulp. “Should we run?” Pinkie asks.         I nod my head, drawing the Ambassador. “Run, run, run, run!” I scream, running towards the girls while blind firing over my shoulder.         “Ya don’t have to tell me twice!”         A massive roar from behind me spurs everyone to run faster. Coming to a muddy incline, we all scramble up it, some with more success with others. I reach the top first and start pulling them up once they’re within reach.  I see the hydra struggling to free itself from the goopy swamp water. As I pull up Fluttershy, I fire a few more rounds at it. After she’s up, I turn around to see Pinkie, Applejack, and Fluttershy leaping onto the pillars of stone to cross a chasm.         “Blake!”         I spin around to grab Twilight’s outstretched hand. Looking up, I see the free Hydra now gaining on us. “Come on, we gotta go now!” Turning, I run towards the chasm, leaping from pillar to pillar to safety. Reaching the other side, I turn around to see Twilight still on the other side. She backs up, getting ready to take a running leap, just as the hydra comes up behind her. The middle-left head dives towards her. “Twilight, look out!” Pinkie yells. Twilight glances behind her, diving to the side just in the nick of time. The head smashes into the ground, knocking the first pillar and part of the cliff off. The hydra staggers back, the other three heads laughing. Twilight gets up, looking at us. “I can’t make it!” She yells over. Pinkie arms shake, along with her ears folding back and her left leg twitching. “Twilight, you have to jump!” “Are you crazy?!” “Trust me!” Twilight shakes her head, turning her back to us. “We have ta do something!” I toss Applejack the Diamondback. “Applejack, catch!” She grabs it out of the air. “Know how to work it?” “Ah seen you use it enough! What ah don’t know, ah can figure out!” With a battle cry, Twilight charges the hydra and vice versa. “Give Twilight some covering fire!” Applejack and I fire at the hydra, but most of our bullets are absorbed by its think skin. Twilight runs right between the legs of the hydra. The right head follows her, tripping its entire body over its own neck. Seeing her chance, Twilight starts running back towards us. I shout over the gunfire, “Get up on the hydra’s back!” “What would that do?” Fluttershy asks. I reload my empty clip. “No idea, but it’s what people commonly say in times like this!” As Twilight nears the cliff face, Pinkie cups her hands over her mouth. “You have to take a leap of faith, Twilight! Jump!” The middle-right head of the hydra slams the ground next to her, launching the part of the ground she’s on closer to a pillar. She leaps, only to fall short of the pillar. We run to our side of the chasm. “Twilight!” I watch as she lands on a gas bubble far below. Surprisingly, it holds her weight and launches her back up towards the pillar, landing perfectly in the center of it. With no hesitation, she leaps the rest of the way to us as the hydra roars. We don’t give Twilight time to get her bearings as we all hug her. Breaking out of the hug, I pat Twilight’s shoulder. “That was amazing!” “Oh, I’m so happy you’re okay!” Fluttershy flaps her wings in excitement. Applejack shakes her fist at the hydra. “Ha! Take that ya varmit! Ain’t getting an easy meal outta us!” She hands me the Diamondback, which I hostler. The hydra heads back into the swamp, grumbling about its lost meal. Twilight smiles and shakes her head. “I don’t know how you knew, Pinkie, but you knew a doozy was going to happen here, and I say that this was one massive doozy.” “You know, I have to question the word doozy. Who really says it anymore?” “Apparently, they do. I could see Pinkie saying it often, but Twilight?” Pinkie has another massive sense, the same one from back at the library. Fluttershy and Applejack look at me. “Doozy sense,” They say at the same time. I nod my head. “Doozy sense.” Pinkie shakes her head. “That wasn’t it.” Twilight tilts her head. “What do you mean?” “The hydra. It wasn’t the doozy.” Pinkie puts a hand to her chin. “Whatever the doozy is, it’s still gonna happen.” Twilight’s eye twitches. “The hydra wasn’t the doozy?! How can it not be the doozy?! What could be dozier than that?!” “Ah’m not sure, Twilight.” Fluttershy plays with her hair. “I’m not sure, but I wouldn’t want to see it. Unless somepony else wants to.” I shrug my shoulders. “It could be anything really. It all depends on our personal views and experiences to classify what one would consider a doozy. To me, that experience was since I have never encountered a hydra before in my lifetime. To someone who’s been around them enough, it’s another story.” Pinkie nods her head. “Exactly what Blake said. Whatever the doozy was, it wasn’t the hydra.” Twilight grips the side of her head. With a scream, she throws her hands down. Her hair and tail burst into flames. Pinkie holds a stick with a marshmallow on it out towards Twilight’s hair. After a couple of seconds, she pulls out the now flaming marshmallow. She blows on it before stuffing it in her mouth. “Toasty!” Twilight’s fire goes out. I’m surprised that her clothes didn’t catch fire, but hey, magic. She slumps down to the ground. “I believe.” I cup a hand over my ear and leans towards Twilight, a smirk on my face. “I’m sorry, what was that?” “I believe in Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense.” I turn to everyone else. “Did you hear that? She believes in the Pinkie Sense! It’s a miracle! Better break out the winter gear again cause it’s going to snow tomorrow! In case you can’t tell, this is sarcasm, Twilight!” “Um, if you don’t mind me asking, what made you change your mind?” Twilight throws her hands out. “All of this. Everything Pinkie Sense has predicted has come true. I don’t know how or why, but Pinkie Sense actually works. It makes sense, even though I can’t understand it. Just because I can’t see it or understand it, doesn’t mean it isn’t true.” I cross my arms. “So, you truly believe in the Pinkie Sense and what it can do?” Twilight nods her head. I look over at Pinkie, raising an eyebrow. “Well?” Pinkie goes through the reverse of what happens for a doozy. She gasps. “That was it! That was the doozy!” “What was?” Applejack asks. “Twilight believing! I never expected for that to happen, not in a million, trillion years!” I snap my fingers and laugh. “And again, I am right!” Twilight glares at me, poking me in the chest. “You knew?!” I shake my head, taking a step back. “No, I had a hunch. The doozy would have to be something no one would expect, ergo, you believing in Pinkie Sense. It’s a concept so abstract that you, one of the most analytical and logical minds of Equestria, would most likely never believe in.” Twilight sighs. “You’re right, I would have never believed in it if today didn’t happen. I just wish I would have known this sooner so we could’ve avoided all this.” I scoff. “Please, did I need to spell it out for you? I’ve been dropping hints to this lesson all day.” Twilight raises an eyebrow. “Really? When?” “My outburst about five minutes ago, back in the library during your tests on Pinkie, when we both had our first encounter with Pinkie Sense, and when you examined the Dead Ringer.” Twilight waves her hands in front of her, shaking her head. “Wait, wait, wait. You mean to tell me that was your first encounter with Pinkie Sense too? How come you were so accepting of it?” I turn to Fluttershy and Applejack, noticing Pinkie standing off to the side with a carton of popcorn. “First, let’s start with Applejack and Fluttershy. When you first encountered the Pinkie Sense, what were your reactions?” Applejack tilts her head back, scratching the side of her head. “Well, ah reckon I felt like Twilight at first, being highly doubtful of Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense. After seeing it in action a couple of time, I guess I sorta learned to accept it. Ah don’t fully understand it, but it’s there.” Fluttershy nods her head. “I felt the same way. Pinkie may have an ability that we don’t have, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore it.” I nod my head, turning back to Twilight. “I will admit, I really want to understand Pinkie Sense down to its very core.” “Then why weren’t you like me today, trying to figure it out?” “Because we know what the Pinkie Sense is because you’re all from a television show that we’ve watched before? Seems legit.” I sigh. “Because, I quickly learned upon coming to Equestria that there are many things I will have to accept. For example, magic. I can’t see it or understand how it works, but I accept that it’s there. I guess that I accepted Pinkie Sense so easily because I accepted so many things about Equestria already, why not add another thing to that list?” “Well, I guess that makes sense. You did have to accept a lot of things here.” Twilight sighs, a small smile on her face. “I’m sorry for putting you through all this, Blake.” I shake my head. “I’m not the one you should be apologizing to, but I’ll accept in nonetheless.” Twilight turns to Pinkie, giving her a hug. “I’m sorry I didn’t believe your Pinkie Sense sooner, Pinkie.” “Aww, it’s okay, Twilight. You were only being yourself in your pursuit of knowledge. Besides, you’re not the first pony to try and understand my Pinkie Sense.” We all look at Pinkie. I raise an eyebrow. “Really?” “How come we ain’t ever heard of this before?” Pinkie shrugs her shoulders. “Silly, I haven’t seen them since they got those nifty white jackets with all the buckles and locks to wear!” Twilight rubs the back of her head, a sheepish smile on her face. “Okay, wow. Glad I got pulled back before I got that far.” Pinkie starts happily skipping away. “Come on! Since this all happened because of my Pinkie Sense, I’ll buy us all something sweet! It’ll be my treat!” She giggles, “Hey, that rhymed! Maybe I should take over for Zecora!” I shrug my shoulders. “I got nothing better to do. And hey, free food! Yo, Pinkie, wait up!” I run to catch up with Pinkie. After everything that Twilight just put me through, I at least deserve something from this.