//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 I am pinkie's twin? // Story: my life as pinkamena // by ultrasolarflare //------------------------------// P.O.V normal Mind Mender spent his morning organizing his files that were sitting on his desk. Earlier he sent a dragonfire letter to princess Celestia to see if she could get Pinkamena’s sister to make an appearance. If what Celestia told him was true, not that he didn’t believe the princess, Pinkie Pie was the conduit to bringing Pinkamena to life. Her input as well as Pinkamena’s could help to zero in on why Pinkamena was depressed. From what he had heard in their session last week, she used to be human and a male, and was from an alternate world. The poor mare went through quite the traumatic experience. Her place of learning that was on her old world, came under attack by terrorists and she ended up with what was called a bullet, a small round of lead forced through a barrel of iron or steel, had ended her life. Today he hoped to begin with her memory of when she first came back to consciousness. Mind was about to put away the folder with the current information on Pinkamena, when all of a sudden he heard a voice behind him. “Hi” said the mysterious voice Mind Mender jumped making him accidentally throw the folder in the air spreading the papers everywhere. Mind quickly turned around and saw who was in his office. When Celestia said twins she should have said doppelganger. For the mare in front of him was like Pinkamena she was light pink with a darker pink mane and tail and her eyes light blue. The only difference he could see between them was this mare's mane and tail was all poofy and bouncy and her cutie mark had three balloons two blue one yellow. The mare began speaking again “I’m pinkie pie are you the psycho-whatsis? Are you helping my sister areyougoingtohelpmysisterbecomelessdepressedsoshecansmileand-” Mind mender waved his hooves in front of him whilst saying “HOLD IT MISS PIE!” And Pinkie shut her mouth before sitting down. Mind cleared his throat before saying “I’m glad you appeared here in a timely manner you are aware why you are here correct?” Asked Mind Pinkie Pie nodded before saying “uh huh my Pinkie sense told me so the combination was Itchy right hoof, twitchy eyes and a sneeze that means my sister needs help with something.” Said Pinkie holding out a folder full of papers. Mind Mender whipped around the room seeing that there were no more papers on the floor. “Wha-how?” asked Mind Mender “Trust me doc she’s just being Pinkie Pie you try to think on it too much and your brain will have an aneurysm.” said a voice in the doorway, Mind Mender turned to the door and saw Pinkamena walk in. “But the folder-the papers were just” stuttered Mind “Doc just...ok?” said pinkamena putting a hand on Mind’s shoulder. “I had a feeling you’d call my twin up so I got my other three sisters to help as well.” Said Pinkamena three new ponies walked into the room, The first was dark grey with a dull purple mane and tail that was styled very straight and orderly. She was five foot nine and wore a very plain blue dress with a black belt around her midsection. She also had a very emotionless look on her face. “This is my older sister Maud Pie she is second oldest in the family.“ Said Pinkamena the next mare was also five foot nine had a pale purple coat with a light grey mane and tail. Her mane style was straight like maud’s but had some spiked up hair on the back of her head. She wore a dark grey shirt with lime green jeans. She also had grey arm bands on her biceps and if it weren’t for the fact that this mare’s posture was neutral she looked as if she was very angry. Pinkamena pointed to her next “this is my oldest sister Limestone Pie.” Limestone looked at the doctor with a sceptical eye. “Are you sure that this” Limestone zipped up to the doctor giving him a close up stink eye “doctor can finally solve this issue with you?” Asked limestone “Ugh why does everypony keep saying I have an issue/depression I don’t” said Pinkamena “Then why do you always look so downcast all of the time. Sure I don’t smile much physically but Pinkie can sense when I am happy. But she never senses you being happy.” said maud speaking in a monotone voice. The doctor turned to Limestone before saying “I have several doctorates in psychology I am sure I can make your sister better.” He spoke with slight pride Limestone suddenly got a deadpan look on her face before saying “a bunch of papers don’t mean much to me at all. You have to prove you can do the job.” Limestone said whilst leaning on the far wall. Mind Mender looked at the last pony. She was light grey with a long, dark grey mane and tail. She had been looking everywhere with a nervous glance. She was also five foot nine and she wore a magenta shirt with a blue skirt. She noticed Mind Mender looking at her and she squeaked in fear before hiding behind her mane. Pinkamena walked over to her before saying “this is my younger sister Marble Pie she is the shy one.” Mind nodded and said “it’s nice to see all of you here to support your sister. This should go rather well with so many points of view of your history.” Limestone looked at Mind and said “ugh look, Mind Mender is it?” Mind Mender nodded “all of us here have particular roles in this family. Take me for example since I am the eldest of the Pie sisters and since ma and pa had decided to leave the responsibilities of the rock farm to us. I took it upon myself to handle the majority of the rock farm’s finances and workload. Maud here can feel the rocks if they are ready for harvesting, if they are fresh, if they need to be disposed of that's her job. Marble can take any dull gem and shape it into a glowing work of art. Pinkie helps raise moral when things get hard on the farm. Pinkamena is the family's muscle, our farm has the tendency to be under siege by bandits often and she, with her combat cutie mark, has been able to drive them off with her strength for years. Sure she travels the world doing tournaments but somehow she has been able to be there for us to prevent thefts of our properties. Pinkamena being depressed like this could make it more likely for us being robbed or worse Pinkamena would get hurt. So you better be able to help her problem or I will be introducing you to Molders Bolder.” Said Limestone with a growl. “Y-yes I plan to” stuttered Mind Mender “so who wants to go first?” asked Mind Mender “OOH ME ME ME ME” yelled Pinkie “Alright cause after all you are the pony she came from.” said Mind Mender Pinkie Pie’s P.O.V Things on the rock farm, well at least to me, were always very dull. It was always grey and cloudy not a happy thing to be seen. Every day was the exact same thing, we all would wake up, eat breakfast and then head out to the fields. All day long we would plant small rocks into the ground, to allow them to absorb magic and grow. We also dug up some rocks that were in the ground for a few weeks to sell them. I was always responsible for digging holes, planting rocks and harvesting them when they were saturated with magic. I remember one day I was working in the field when a bright light engulfed Equestria when I looked out I saw an absolutely beautiful rainbow It swept across the farm bringing color and light. As soon as it was over I noticed my once flat mane was all poofy, and for the first time in my life I had a real smile on my face. After that I shared my happiness with the rest of my family with a party. Oops sorry I was rambling… Again. Anyway that day I was helping with the farm again when I felt my entire body shudder. That was my first doozy something unexpected was going to happen. I looked up and gasped several lights were falling all around the rock farm. There were probably thousands of them I saw one headed towards me before it headed into my belly. I looked in confusion at first why did the light go into my belly? But I quickly shook the thoughts out of my head, and quickly got back to work. I didn’t know exactly why but it seemed to me that the further along I went, the harder planting harvesting and digging got. It wasn’t until I had gotten to the fifteenth row of rocks that I had to stop and find out what was going on. When I looked I saw my dull pink dress had risen and my belly had grown huge in fact it was beginning to hurt. I yelled out in pain and fell on my flank all the while my belly grew bigger and bigger soon my belly was as big as me. It was at that point that I passed out. 3rd Person P.O.V. Mind Mender was thrown for a loop what she was describing was physically impossible. The equine body wouldn’t be able to handle that kind of trauma. How in Equestria did all those ponies that had a twin randomly appear, survive such an ordeal? It was certainly no magic he had ever heard of. “Don’t worry doc everything worked out just fine see I am intact.” said pinkie with a wide grin “But still you must have a little bit of pent up trauma I mean the pain you must have had to endure must have been staggering.” said Mind Mender “Nope I don’t and yes it was painful but it was worth it” said Pinkie jumping on Pinkamena squeezing her in a hug “PINKIE STOP DEFYING PHYSICS HUG ME NORMALLY!” yelled Pinkamena “Aww but If I just give you a normal hug you won’t feel it.” said Pinkie “Find a middle ground then your physics defying hugs hurt.” said Pinkamena. Mind Mender chuckled for a moment before asking “alright who’s next?” Maud stepped forward and said “I’m next” Maud Pie’s P.O.V. As everypony who comes to meet me knows my name is Maud Pie. I was born a few years after Limestone. I never really cried when I was born nor had I anytime afterwards. I used something a little different to get the care I needed. I would use gestures and sounds to get what I needed. This was the norm until I was old enough to speak and help on the farm. At an early age I discovered I could literally feel the rocks they would tell me whether they were freshly planted, partway along or if they were ready to be unearthed. But this was more of a gift to me than a curse I was always interested in rocks whether they were; grey, brown, red, flat, round, craggy. Anyway It’s what lead me to going for my rockterate. A few years after I had discovered my talent, Pinkie Pie was born. As Pinkie likely told you she used to have the straight mane and tail style but then the party happened. But I was off site at the time. I had found a rock outcropping that had some good rocks and boulders that we could bury for ambient magic absorbtion. By the time I returned everyone had smiles on their faces which was ok, though I was just a bit sad that I missed it. It was a couple of months later that that day happened. I had awoken first like I always do and was responsible for getting everyone up every day. “Time to get up everypony.” I said as I kicked the wall. Several soft alarm rocks fell off the shelves above and woke everypony.”I’m surprised at this point that we still don’t have brain damage. Can’t you use anything other than rocks maud?” those suckers hurt.” said Limestone I looked at her and said “you won’t wake any other way I have tried all kinds of noise and physical stimulus rocks work best.” we all walked downstairs Limestone muttering “rasel frasen Maud friggen duped rocks fallen on my head in celestia forsaken hours of the fricken fraken morning.” As soon as we got downstairs we had breakfast that our mother, Cloudy Quartz, made. After our breakfast of rock oatmeal it was time to go to work. “Come along children it’s time to go to work.” said Cloudy things on the rock farm was always sort of grey and cloudy like some rocks. I was busy scanning the ground with my gaze when I heard Pinkie scream. My heart instantly leapt into my throat. See as of late our farm had a tendency of being raided by bandits. Taking all of our hard earned bits sometimes hurting one of us as a reminder not to go to the equestrian guard. So I ran as fast as my hooves could carry me over to pinkie. I certainly was not expecting what I saw pinkie’s stomach was bloating incredibly fast. It was the size of a soccer ball and it kept growing. Bigger it grew until it was the size of Pinkie. Then the bulge fell off and hit the ground making Pinkie pass out. To my shock the blob began to stretch out. Hooves appeared first followed by barrel and head. Finally a straight dark pink mane and tail grew. I could not believe what I was seeing it was a second pinkie. 3rd Person P.O.V normal “Hmm sounds kind of boring on the rock farm besides the incident.” said Mind Mender Maud shrugged and said “it was just our life we did what we could to provide for each other.” “When did the bandits appear first?” Asked Mind Mender “They appeared around the time Pinkie was two years old. They would demand our bits at knife point. After that they would back hand one of us as a reminder that we wouldn’t be able to be rid of them.” Said Maud “Ok doc I suppose it’s my turn.” said Pinkamena Pinkamena’s P.O.V My ears were ringing quite painfully probably a remnant of the gunshot. I tried opening my eyes to see what was going on but I was too weak. I remember hearing female voices above my head. Before long I felt myself being dragged somewhere, but before I could even guess what was going on I once again found myself unconscious. I soon found myself in a white expanse nothing to be seen for miles around. I was about to start walking when a voice spoke behind me. “Ah the five hundredth soul to speak, worry not young one all will be explained.” Said someone behind me I looked behind me and saw a really tall pony with a red mane and tail. Her cutie mark was an inkwell and feather pen. She also has a horn and a pair of wings. “Greetings young one I am Lauren Faust the creator of Equis and all of its creatures.” said Lauren. I looked at Lauren shyly I had no idea what was going on. All I had wanted to do this morning was go to school, learn, go home, and hang out the rest of the day rinse repeat, but now I was captured, shot had a migraine and had no idea what the future held. “hi “ I said shyly “I am sorry for what has happened young one to have your life taken from you so early. It’s absolutely despicable what those men have done.” said Lauren, I looked with a sad expression and asked “but why why would you save our souls from going to limbo?” I asked The pony looked at me and said “as a creator of life I have come to appreciate all life. As my power grew these five thousand years I gained the ability to look through dimensions. I saw the siege your place of learning was under. Every life that was ended I grabbed their souls and directed them here so they could have a second chance at life for what was so unfairly taken.” said Lauren. Tears began to appear in my eyes as I said “but what about my family what will I do without them.” “oh don’t cry you will have a new family that will care for you just as much as your old one. You will never be alone.” said Lauren everything began to fade “enjoy your new life and pony family!” yelled Lauren as everything faded. ‘Wait pony family?’ I thought Consciousness returned to me and luckily my headache was gone. I heard soft breathing next to me. I slowly opened my eyes and winced from the bright light. I looked to the left and saw what looked like a small pink filly. She had a dark pink poofy mane and tail and she also had a picture on her flank. It was three balloons, the two on the left and right were blue while the one in the middle was yellow. She was sleeping pretty comfortably with her head on the bed. Her rising and falling chest signifying how deeply she slept. I sat up in bed and looked around I was in a fairly grey room. Not a splash of color to be found. I looked down and froze my hands were covered in pink fur. I reached towards my head and felt my hair longer than usual. I brought a lock of my hair in front of my face. It was dark pink but unlike the filly resting on the bed my mane was straight instead of poofy. Looks like Lauren has a bit of a sense of humor. She made me this filly’s twin.