//------------------------------// // Chapter Two: Pinkie Pie // Story: Nice Catch // by Night Princess //------------------------------// Pinkie Pie's dress was sky blue cotton with pink swirls embroidered into it. White fluff was sewed onto the edge and it came with a white headband covered in blue flowers.  "I do hope you like it, Pinkie," Rarity told her, exhausted from working so hard on the dresses.  "It's super-awesome-fantabulously-perfect!" Pinkie swirled around and gazed at herself in the mirror. "I wonder who my date will be?" "Knowing Princess Luna, he's probably a charming gentlecolt who respects your interests."  "I hope he's super-duper fun! And he likes parties! And cake!" Pinkie finished brushing her tangly mane and trotted off, with Gummy following, to the place Luna told her to go; the Ponyville Theater.  Pinkie took the note the princess gave her out of her secret pocket and read it out loud. "'As I know you are the Element of Laughter, I thought a comedic play would be best for your date location.' Sounds fun!" When she entered the theater, the first thing she saw was a stallion dressed in a simple suit and tie. She recognized him immediately.  "Hiya, Big Mac! I guess you're my date?" the pink pony trotted up to him and giggled. "E-yup," was all he said.  "Cool! Say, have you met Gummy? He's my pet alligator! He doesn't have any teeth!" The red stallion looked down and his eyes widened. He took a step back a a frightened look came over him. "You're scared of alligators?" Pinkie didn't know what to make of this.  "E-yup." This was a slight letdown. "Well, we can still have fun together! What's the play called?" He shrugged, his eyes still on Gummy.  "Want me to send him home? I trained him. Watch this! Go home, Gummy!" The alligator blinked slowly, and began waddling in the direction of Sugar Cube Corner.  "Let's go watch the play! Princess Luna says its a comedy! I love comedies, probably because I'm the element of Laughter! Did you know that? I guess so, since your sister was the element of Honesty. Hey, if we get married, I'll be related to Applejack! And Apple Bloom! And Granny Smith! And Apple Fritter! And Apple Bumpkin! And Apple Cobbler!" Pinkie yammered on while Big Macintosh helped her into a theater seat. "Do you like comedies? I sure do! Since I'm the element of Laughter and all! Oh, I already said that. Once, I accidentally said I'm the elephant of Laughter! That reminds me. Few days ago, Twilight made Spike have an elephant trunk! It was soooo funny!" Pinkie was still talking when the play began.  It was entitled "Heart of Danger" and was supposed to be a very well-done satire comedy. However, nopony in the audience could hear a word of the okay because of a certain mare's yakking.  "Oh my gosh! Does that guy have an awesome mustache or what? One time, Spike grew a mustache! It was the funniest thing I've seen in my entire life! Hey, have you ever eaten a chimi-cherry-chunga?" "Excuse me, miss, could you keep the chatter down a bit?" Somepony in the audience called politely.  "And the platypus kept getting bigger and bigger! Weird, huh?" Pinkie wasn't even listening to the complaints around her. "Keep it down, will ya?" "She always had the strange fear of being seen in a tutu and stilts! Can you believe that?" "SHUT UP!" About forty ponies yelled at the same time. "And that is why there are pumpkins!" And through the whole chaotic play, Big Macintosh said nothing, and stayed very, very still. ### After a while, Pinkie shut up and discovered that (shocker alert) someponies were actually trying to make her stop talking! But wasn't that what you were supposed to do when seeing somepony? Tell your date all about yourself? Big Macintosh surely knew a lot about her now. But the problem was she didn't know a thing about him! If only he had said something more than "E-yup". That would have been helpful.  And on top of all that, he was scared of alligators! That alone could ruin their relationship.  "I think I ruined it, Gummy," she said sadly as she walked home, and let out a sigh. "Princess Luna said that she found the super-duperest stallions for us, and this date definitely was not super-duper." Instead of going to Sugar Cube Corner, she ran to Twilight's library. She was itching to tell somepony about her first date, and Twilight was great at listening. "Pinkie! How'd it go? Who was it?" Twilight Sparkle asked as Pinkie burst in. "I think I ruined it," the pink mare said, flopping on the couch.  "Well, tell me!" "It was Big Mac, and we went to see a play-" "Big Macintosh? But he's so quiet and shy. Are you sure that's who Luna picked?" Pinkie nodded. "I was talking through the whole play, and everypony was yelling at me. And, he's afraid of alligators! Can you believe that?" The unicorn nodded, recalling her first introduction to Gummy. "It's strange that Luna picked Mac, because I saw him just a few minutes ago, talking to Cheerilee. The Cutie Mark Crusaders say-" "What?! Cheerilee? Great!" Pinkie slumped to the floor. "He's cheating on me because I ruined our first date!" "Calm down, Pinkie Pie. Just because he was talking to another mare doesn't mean he hates you." "Did you see their pictures on HoofBook? Those two are practically married." Twilight sighed. "The other five dates can't be as bad as this, I'm sure. Can they?" "I don't know, but for now, I'm going to complain on HoofBook about my terror-rific love life."