//------------------------------// // Two // Story: Six Seconds Left // by Taialin //------------------------------// No way, you're playing a joke with me! It's not the right day yet, and I didn't even do anything wrong! That's a funny joke, Rainbow Dash, but you can come out now! . . . No? Hee, that reminds of that time you pretended that someone ate all my cookies. The entire rack of them, poof, vanished! Even the pan! You wouldn't come out for the longest time because when I actually found you, you had been eating all the cookies for so long that there was only half of them left! You wouldn't come out because you thought I'd be mad. Silly Rainbow, I wasn't mad then, and I'm not mad now! Stop eating all the cookies and let me have some of them! I mean, I don't know how you'd be eating cookies at a time like this, but come on out and we can have a good laugh about it, would you? This is pretty serious for a prank, and I thought we promised we wouldn't hurt anypony's feelings with them! This . . . this isn't funny anymore, Rainbow. You made your point, but come out, please? This isn't a prank, is it? But-but . . . no! I can't go away now! Who's going to make everypony smile? Who's going to remember when everypony's birthday parties are and throw them a surprise two-weeks-until-your-birthday party two weeks early? And when I'm gone, no one's going to throw a party for me! A funeral isn't a party at all! Everypony's just all saddy-waddy and they go "but she was so young" and sniffle into napkins and throw flowers! Nopony would cry at my going-away party. They'd be all "she was so much fun" and they'd smile and eat the cookies I baked for them and they'd only throw flowers playing who-can-get-the-chrysanthemum-into-Pinkie's-belly-button! Dying is just something so sad, and I'd want to make sure that everypony remembered all the good times and not that I wouldn't be around anymore. One more smile to put on everyone's face. B-but this isn't a prank! I haven't planned the party yet! I was only going to put it on my schedule when I threw Twilight's 500th birthday! But if I don't plan the party, everypony's going to forget that I wanted ponies to be happy, and they'll be sad that I'm gone instead. There's no time left! Stop, stop, stop, I need to—