//------------------------------// // Spreading Word #1 Pinkie Pie // Story: A Second Too Late // by Thunder Seethe //------------------------------// A Second Too Late Thunder Seethe Special Thanks: AppleMLP < Editor Follow me at my: Page Ch. 22 Spreading Word #1 Pinkie Pie After receiving the message, I was supposed to tell everypony else about the news... but yet, I find myself sitting in the everfree alone. Is it really true? I mean... the fastest, loyalest, and strongest pegasus I know, dead? Without a fight? This whole thing just sounds a bit fishy to me. Then again, Thunder would never lie to me... would he? The tears from Twilight's eyes came to a stop as she continued to think out loud. Well, if I'm not going to really... do anything about it, then perhaps I should just start telling everypony. Maybe not everypony, just her friends. She wiped the remaining tears off of her purple mane, then got up to tell her friends the horrific news, but who does she tell first? Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainb-... Pinkie Pie, Applejack. She thought to herself as she contemplated who to tell first. "Celestia knows what Pinkie's reaction would be... Pinkie is la-" "HELLO!" A Pink pony said as she randomly appeared in front of Twilight's incredibly droopy face, which was the first thing that she noticed. "What's wrong Twilight?" "Gah!" Twilight screamed as she flailed her hoofs until she landed on her back. So much for last... "What's wrong? I've never really seen you so sad before, except for the time when everypony went CrAzY when Discord returned! But he's all gone now and back into his stony stone! So why are you so sad?" Pinkie Pie exclaimed, and as usual, it was said as fast as a jet. "Pinkie..." Twilight said as she contemplated to tell her the news later, or now since she was already here. "Do you really want to know? It's just that I don't really want to ruin your day... until it's your turn to find out." "Twilight, you're one of my friends. Friends are here for each other whenever something bad happens. I'm your friend, so I will help you no matter what!" She paused for a few seconds, still as a tree. "Cupcake?" She said as she pulled one out of her invisible pockets. Everypony still wondered how she does it, but hey. It's good cupcakes. "Uh, no thanks Pinkie... I'm not quite in the mood." She said, and her head once again, drooping low to the ground, embarrassed of her tears. "Twilight, whats wrong? My job is to make everypony smile. Even when things are all dark and sad, Pinkie will find a way!" Pinkie exclaimed again with an attempt to make her spit it out. "Do you really want to know?" Twilight said looking up with more tears being soaked in her coat. "Yes." "Okay... well first you should know, that if cupcakes make you happy; bring many." Twilight said. "I have many enough." Not knowing what that meant, Twilight started slowly. "You know our good friend, Rainbow Dash right?" Twilight forced a smile on as she said that. "Yea, of course I know her! Fastest flier in all of Equestria, dream to be in the Wonderbolts, what about her?" Pinkie said ever so seriously. Perhaps, the first time she'd ever been so serious? "Well... something terrible happened to her. Fatal." Twilight's smile disappeared, and replaced with a frown and tears. "Terrible? Fatal?" Pinkie proceeded to sit down, and started listening attentively. "Yes... she... had been..." Twilight searched for the word in her head that wouldn't sound bad towards Octavia. She didn't feel like telling the whole story unless it was asked of her. "Eternally wounded." Were the words that escaped her mouth, which somewhat were the right ones she was looking for. "Oh... will she be okay?" Pinkie asked, her mane began to deflate and tears forming from her large eyes. "I don't know..." With that, both of them remained in silence. They both stared at the ground as puddles of tears began to form. It wasn't long before Pinkie got the message that her dear prankster friend, Rainbow Dash, was probably not coming back, causing more tears to fall. Her mane was now completely deflated and a darker color. It had been quiet for a good time before one of them spoke; barely audible. "I... think I should go... Pinkie?" Twilight looked up and found only the trees and bushes of the Everfree, and the pink blur that Pinkie must have left. Perhaps it was for the best that she didn't stick around too long; Twilight still had to spread the news to three more friends. +++ "Is it true, Dashie... is gone?" Pinkie asked herself more than once while pacing her room in the Sugar Cube Corner, tears still dropping heavily like hail. She walked around on her blue wooden flooring until she reached her pink carpet near her bed. She laid down covering her muzzle while letting more tears out. She sniffled a bit to try and ask herself another question. "I... But... Dash... Who? Who could have done this, surely someone as evil as Discord!" She paused again while thinking to herself. Her mane still deflated, but her tears stopped. Her frown turned into a small smirk, and she was soon standing up still contemplating on the events. "Nopony could really kill her right?" She flinched at the word kill as it was the type of vocabulary which Pinkie would barely ever use. "Yea, nopony could kill her. She knows the threats, so she would fly away! I know how fast she could fly, she could fly faster than anything! I mean, really, she could perform the Sonic Rainboom, come to think of it, that was probably the same thing I heard not to long ago, two weeks, three? I don't know, but I guess the point I'm trying to make for myself is that I do not believe that she's dead. She knows her limits right? So she wouldn't endanger herself. No-sir-ee! Dashie is too smart to do something so dumb! I mean I saw her right, zooming through the sky woosh, loop the loop, zoom, fly high, twirl around, fly back down - spinning, then kick the ground back up, zoom again - and - and - and there's no way! If she's missing, then I will do the best I can to find her! High, or low, I will find her!" Pinkie said determinedly. Her mane had become puffy once again, but had driven herself slightly insane... On a good note, she was insane to save somepony. She blurred out of her room, somehow closing the door behind her and began her search. Twilight still had three more friends to go; Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack. Knowing that they are more mature than Pinkie, they would be more likely to act upon this maturely, or so she hoped. Maybe as things go on, Twilight won't breakdown as much how she did with Pinkie. Maybe she can receive the details later, after she gets the help of her friends to hold her down, and stop her from murdering Octavia. Then again, we won't know what will happen until it happens.