It was a typical day. At least, as typical as a day for Pinkie Pie could be. The sirens had just been defeated, and life at Canterlot High was finally starting to return to normal. Again, about as normal as life could be for one Pinkamena Diane Pie. Still, the walk to school was always a long one. Whether it was because there was no fun to be had or because she was anxious to see her friends again, she didn’t know.
What she did know, however, was that a noise she had never heard on any of her walks had become apparent. Stopping in her tracks, the party girl looked around for the source. Unfortunately, she couldn’t see anything. Maybe it had just been her imagination playing tricks on her? The sound of metal falling to the ground quickly threw that possibility out the window, however.
“Ow…” Okay, she did hear that. It sounded like it had come from the alleyway to her right. Normally she wouldn’t have investigated a strange noise alone, but it sounded like someone was hurt, or even worse. Steeling herself, she crept her way into the alley. It wasn’t well lit, but it didn’t take her long to find the source of the noises she’d been hearing, leaning up against a wall.
“Sonata?”
The siren didn’t reply, instead hugging her knees and burying her face in them. She’d likely been here for some time, if the stains on her clothes were any indication. Pinkie Pie couldn’t help but feel saddened. Sure, the sirens had tried to take over the world and stuff, but they were still people, and nobody deserved to live in an alley!
“Are you okay, Sonata?”
“Go away…” Sonata finally muttered a reply. It wasn’t what Pinkie wanted to hear, but it was certainly a start.
“Not until you tell me what’s wrong, silly willy!” A quick glare from Sonata wiped away the smile on Pinkie’s face, but she wasn’t going to give up. “Please?”
“Adagio kicked me out, okay!?” Sonata screamed, cramming her face back into her knees.
“What! But why?”
“Because…” The rest of Sonata’s reply was little more than mumbling.
“Uh… what?”
Sighing, the siren raised her head up a bit and looked right at Pinkie Pie. “Because I beat her at Mario Party.”
“Well that sounds like a bit of an overreaction.”
“Have you ever played Mario Party? It gets pretty intense,” Sonata replied. “She was just about to win when I beat her in a duel and stole all of her stars and coins.”
“Yeah, but my friends have never kicked me out onto the street for beating them!”
“Lucky you. I think she was just looking for a reason to kick me out…” She sounded glum, and with good reason.
“Well friends should never be mean to each other!”
“It’s different for us. We’re like, thousands of years old. Plus, Adagio’s been a bit on edge since we lost our battle...” Sonata sighed.
There wasn’t much more that Pinkie could say, especially to a girl she hardly knew, but darn it if she was determined to help everyone she could. “You wanna come to school with me?”
“I doubt anyone there would want to see me again…”
“Well they gave Sunset a second chance,” Pinkie offered. That was certainly true, so what would stop them from doing the same for Sonata and her friends? “‘Sides, you were actually pretty nice for a raging siren bent on taking over the planet!”
Staring blankly, Sonata replied, “Uh… thanks?”
“No problem!” Pinkie Pie was obviously oblivious to the confusion emanating from Sonata, but was quick to change the subject. “But first, you look like you need a shower!”
The siren took a quick whiff of her own arm and recoiled in disgust. That was all Pinkie Pie needed to see before she grabbed Sonata by the arm and began dragging her back to her place.
“Alright,” Pinkie opened her closet, Sonata behind her, “we need to get you some clothes…”
“Do you, uh, have a hoodie?” Sonata asked in little more than a whisper, obviously uncomfortable. She had never been in someone else’s home, at least not in this world.
“Is this okay?” Pinkie giggled, showing a hoodie that she had been given by Rainbow Dash. The words ‘Party Girl!’ were printed on the front in a rainbow pattern, and the hoodie itself was white.
“I guess,” her former enemy shrugged. Pinkie threw her the hoodie and she quickly put it on. “Can we go now?”
“Hold on, Ms. Demandy Pants, we need to get you some pants! Hopefully the un-demandy kind!” Pinkie snorted with laughter at her joke. Sonata couldn’t help but find the pink girl strange, yet she found that strangeness oddly endearing. “These ones should fit!” She exclaimed, throwing a pair at the siren.
As soon as she was done putting on the pants, Pinkie Pie smiled widely. “Okay, now we can go to school! You’re gonna meet everyone and it’s gonna be super duper fun!”
Before Sonata could say anything, she found herself being dragged away once again.
“And that’s the story of how Sonata became my waifu!”
“That’s… great, Pinkie Pie. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to fail you.”
“WHAT!? That story was totally cute!”
“It was also very outlandish. I sincerely doubt that Ms. Dusk and yourself became friends so quickly, let alone that her friends would kick her out onto the street for losing to her in a video game. Not to mention, you didn’t actually show anything.”
“Ohhh… so that’s why they call it show and tell! Well hold on, Mr. Write!” Pinkie exclaimed, running from her class. As her teacher and fellow students wondered what she could possibly be doing, she burst back into the room with someone in tow. “Here she is!”
Before the teacher could say anything, Pinkie planted her lips onto Sonata’s, eliciting a lot of whooping from the male students. Pulling her head back with a smirk, she looked at her friends in their seats. “See, I told you she was my waifu!”
Sunset, who had been sitting idly during the story up to this point, simply facepalmed.