Part 15 Pinkamena Vs. Dan*: Epilogue
The Wheel and the Butterfly
A Dan X Pinkie Pie saga
Part 15 Pinkamena Vs. Dan*
Epilogue
-oooooo-
Dan and Pinkie walked up to the blue sedan as sunlight slowly brightened the empty parking lot, the couple leaning against each other as an evening of fatigue finally began to set in. Even Mr. Mumbles' eyelids were barely open as the cat clung to Dan’s shoulder.
“Ugh…” Dan grunted as he and Pinkie made the last few steps to the car. “I can’t believe how much being constantly drugged for an entire day while you hang from shackles takes its toll on you!” Dan held up one of his hands limply. “The only thing that hurts worse than my head are my wrists…”
“You think you had it bad? I was the one running around all day and night!” Pinkie shot back.
“Yeah, but you’re always running around,” Dan said with a grin.
“Not all through the night!”
Dan chuckled. “Right, that’s the time you designate to thrash from side to side and squeeze me until I have trouble breathing.”
Pinkie narrowed her eyes and grinned. “Oh hush, you!”
“Pinkie…! Dan…!”
The pair looked up as Wally jogged up to them, red-faced, and wearing jogging shorts and running shoes.
“Huff… Puff… I’m sorry!” Wally said as he ran up to the car. He stopped a few yards from the couple and leaned over, placing his hands on his thighs. “I… huff… wanted to help, and started… puff… to run down here, but then the clouds came in and…”
Dan furrowed his brow. “Wally… why are you wearing jogging shorts… and no shirt?”
“I’m trying to explain that!” Wally said standing up straight. “You see, I go jogging when the moon is full, wink, wink…”
Dan raised an eyebrow. “Did you just say ‘wink, wink’ as opposed to actually win— mmmpgh!”
Dan was cut off as he found a slender, nail-polished hand placed over his mouth.
“The important thing is you tried to help,” Pinkie said cheerfully.
Dan gently removed the hand from his mouth. “Also that you find a shirt,” Dan added.
Pinkie turned towards Dan. “Bodies are nothing to be ashamed of, Dan!”
“Well sure,” Dan replied. “Your body and my body but—”
“Dan, be nice! Better late than never…” Pinkie’s face turned slightly red. “Also I kinda yelled at him already and may have kinda insinuated I wanted to slice him up…” She gave Wally a sheepish grin. “Sorry about that…”
“It’s alright,” Wally said with a small smile. “I do feel a bit bad considering everyone else helped out.”
Pinkie smiled. “Well, there is something you can do to make it up to us.”
“YEAH! PUT ON A SHIRT!”
“DAN!” Pinkie said in a chastising tone.
“WHAT?” Dan protested.
“Just… be quiet for a second, alright?”
Dan sighed and folded his arms across his chest. “Oh… alright…” he answered grumpily.
Pinkie walked up to Wally, stood on her tiptoes and whispered something to his ears.
Wally grinned. “Alright, consider it done.” Wally turned and waved, a gesture Pinkie happily returned and one Dan responded to with an eye roll.
“What did you ask him to do?” Dan asked as Pinkie bounded up to him, reaching for his hand.
Pinkie gave Dan a wry grin. “You’ll see…”
-ooooooo-
“Oh for the sake of Celestia!” Pinkie cried in a pleading tone. “I’m fine! I’M FINE!” Pinkie punctuated her statement with a high-pitched girly shriek.
Dan shook his head at the black-with-a-white-collar dress-wearing Pinkie, who seemed permanently attached to his left arm. “No way! As fun as yesterday was, things went from ‘weird but kinky’ to ‘weird and kind of alarming’ much faster than usual!” Dan reached into a bowl of popcorn with his left hand and shoveled some into his face, chewed, then swallowed. “We’re getting this out of your system now.”
“Okay, but…” Pinkie suddenly turned and stared forward. “Ohmygosh! Ohmygosh! Don’t go in there!” Tense music and another girly scream joined Pinkie’s as the warm glow that enveloped her and Dan turned red.
“… Besides,” Dan continued with a smile, “I’m making a killing off Elise here.”
A third girly scream suddenly broke out.
“I think Chris didn’t like your horrible pun, Dan,” Elise said dryly as she sat next to Dan on her and Chris’s blue couch.
“Na-NO!” Chris cried. “It’s this horrible horror-film I don’t like!”
Dan glared up at Elise. “You’re just mad because I’m so much better on betting at who’ll die when in this.”
With the sound of a blade hitting its target and three more screams, Elise’s face lit up.
“HAH!” Elise cried. “Back in the game!”
“Whatever,” Dan said dismissively. “I’m still fifty bucks ahead.”
“WHY AM I HERE?!” Chris cried. “I DON’T HAVE ANY LINGERING KILLER INSTINCTS TO GET OUT OF MY SYSTEM!”
Elise glanced up at the tall man who seemed permanently attached to her right arm. “I was not going be a third wheel tonight.”
“Well wha…why didn’t they just watch the movie alone?!”
“Don’t blame me!” Dan cried. “Your wife insisted it was in my best interest she be on hand to help with Pinkie…”
Another three shrieks erupted as Pinkie suddenly wrapped her arms around Dan’s neck and pulled him into her chest.
Dan held up an index finger. “…And she just hapffened to be wwright!” he said in a muffled tone.
Elise glanced to her side. “Pinkie, Dan probably can’t breathe like that…”
“Oh… right…” Pinkie said as she released Dan’s head and went back to holding his arm tightly. “Sorry, Da—”
Another scream erupted from the TV in front of the couples. Pinkie and Chris once again harmonized their shrieks with it.
“HA! Seventy!” Dan cried.
“That just means you have terrible taste in movies, Dan,” Elise replied.
“Hey, you picked it out!” Dan shot back.
Elise sighed. “Just keep watching... We still got a handful of teens the killer hasn’t gotten to yet…”
Elise and Dan returned to watching the film as their respective partners shivered in terror, eyes still somehow fixed on the screen in front of them.
“Hey Elise…”
“Yeah, Dan?”
“… I will eventually regain feeling in my arm, right?”
Elise looked down at her own arm that was in the vice-like grip of her husband. She nodded. “Yeah, about 30 minutes after the movie ends… I wouldn’t try to drive home or anything until your circulation is back to normal, though.”
“Oh… good… and the ringing in my ear?”
Pinkie and Chris let out another shriek.
“Goes away in about an hour or two,” Elise replied.
Dan sighed. “Lovely…”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”
Dan’s brow wrinkled in irritation. “As much money as I’m making off of your poor ability to predict this movie, I really hope I don’t get kidnapped again…”
Elise chuckled and shot a quick affectionate glance at Pinkie as she trembled in fear. “Me too Dan, me too…”
End part 15
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*Slow Clap gradually speeds up* Bravo! Bravo!
I can't wait for the next arc! But. . . . How are you going to do another TWO arcs unless. . . unless they go back to Equestria?
5379312
Eh, we're probably looking at a couple shorter, comedy arcs. I mean... I know everyone is kind of tapping their feet and looking at their watches when it comes to TOK, but I think the mood needs to be lightened slightly before anything really heavy happens.
This is one of your best arcs yet.
5379339
Thanks! I'm really happy you enjoyed it. It's gotten some mixed reactions I think largely from the length and also because there was quite a bit outside the norm, but I'm pleased to read it was liked.
yay movie night 8D
A nice little ending to the story arc. Hope the chapters to come will have more crazy adventures for the caste and lead to whatever grand schemes you have planned oh author!
5379346 We'll there were a lot of fighting scenes, hundreds of references, some development fir Sunset and Trixie, the Doctor actually appearing, and the possibility of Love Tap overreacting once she finds out that her son is seeing an older woman. What's not to love about this arc?
Given TOK desire order so much, can Dan and Pinkie get a whole arc where they Feed TOK the cmplete works of Wile E coyote, then stock up on the carrots? I want to see the chapter of the catapult.
At teh very least, Dan watches it because Pinkie says its the best documentary she seen on Earth, for the general behaviour and results of the CMC?
Ten bucks on the blond girl in the bathroom with the mirror.
Oh, thank god.
Here's looking forward to the obligatory "Dan meets Pinkie's sisters, including Maud" chapter. MAKE IT HAPPEN! I COMMAND YOU! AND IF YOU DON'T... that's fine. dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Emoticons/shrug_Twilight_Sparkle.png
-Kirb, possibly on drugs.
5379327 Makes sense.
5379355
I hope we'll see Sunset again sometime
5379442 Seriously this! Make this a thing! Dan meeting Maud practically screams comedy!
After seeing all the comments on TOK, I just wanted to say that I imagined them as the Midnight Crew. Is that weird?
Oh a couple comedy arcs would be great, but overall i did enjoy the last one even if there was a time or two it got a bit long for my taste. Can;t wait to see what comes next
Yaaaaaaay!
Looking forward to the next arc.
5379327 There's nothing wrong with the plot, I love the plot! It's just, after we get plot, we just need some comedy to unwind and get used to the new status quo, you know? Some Pinkie causing store clerks to become suicide cults(...I just typed that sentence) and hyper-competitive amateur skating competitions between our Wendigos and TOK, to try to illustrate.
5379530 Ikr? In fact, next chapter I hope will be:
Dan
Vs.
Pinkie Pie's Sisters
Or something like that.
-Kirb, possibly on drugs.
Featured again.
5379312 He means that he already has the next two arcs planned out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5379788
No. Really?
That is why I said: 'Makes Sense' READ THE COMMENTS BEFORE COMMENTING!
What's your problem?
NOT NOW VORTEX!
So glad Pinkie is back to pinkie normal
And so we close out the most epic and insane and epically insane saga where our heroes attained new levels of power to defeat the big bad and his henchmen!
Next time: A mysterious teenager named Slacks arrives from the future and warns of the Yellow Ribbon Army's super Mandroids!
5379806 My problems are listed on my blog thank you very much starting before my birth when my father left my mother in a Vietnamese hospital during her pregnancy as he went on trips with his friends.
But I'm not angry or anything!
Cause MLP:FiM fills the void of that story.
5379819 That sounded extremely sad. FUNNY!
5379819
Vortex was talking to me.
Not you.
Speaking of which. . . Hello! My name is Vortex, pleased to make your acquaintance!
Ahh...
Figures. But hey! Life is a flip a coin scenario!
I just realized something: just exactly how long has it been since we had Dan swear vengeance against something?!
Yes! Killer slashery movie night finale! A good end to this chapter of our belovable couples! Sadly, I have to admit, I have no one to help kill the circulation in my arm. So I shall instead ROOT FOR THOSE WHO DO! WOO!
Still pondering though... Will Dan swear vengeance on Pinkie's family? Will Pinkie swear vengeance on familial embarrassments? Will pizza ever lose it's deliciousness when it's ripe fresh from the oven? D- *bonk!* ow... right, shutting up. WRITE ON GRAND AUTHOR! TO GLORY!
What did Pinkie tell Wally? Pinkie's being really clingy today I see. Yeah, homicidal rage plus Pinkie is even worse than it is with Dan, best get it out of the pink pony's system ASAP.
Finally caught up. It took nearly an entire week, got sent to detention once, my grades are fucked... But it was worth it.
Get hype for whatever Pinkie told Wally to do!
Pinkie asked for the day off for her and Dan.
Sad to say, but I'm rather glad to see this arc come to an end.
It had a lot of good moments: D.H.'s family scenes, Sunset's ... um... surprisingly intelligent apathy, and Trixie! Just to name a few. However, watching Pinkie sink lower and lower into becoming not-Pinkie was getting tiring.I understand that it may have been necessary to move the overall plot forwards, and it was even good for a few laughs, but I feel that you went way too far -- far enough, that I'm wondering why Equestria would even let her come back home as dangereous as she's become. Maybe I missed this part in an earlier arc, but I'm seriously surprised that neither the Princesses or Pinkie's pony friends have made mention of her downward spiral yet, and what it means for them. The Pinkie that you have now is no Element of Laughter at all. On the other hand, you've got to reach the bottom in order to push off, rise back up, and break the surface, so I'm interested to how she'll get there. I'm just worried how much farther she'll need to sink first.
Still, the arc was good, and I rarely -- if ever -- complain about length per se (I tend to favor longer stories), but there were times that I was eagerly waiting for the story to update so that i could read about all the little subplots going on rather than read about Pinkie herself. I fully expect to see the H's and Trixie with her new-best-fan be fully included into the story, even if just in the background. There is so much to work with there.
I'm glad to see that the next arc will be more light-hearted, and I look forward to see where this goes.
--Spade
As much as I love this story, I think it's hightime to start wrapping things up.
Something tells me this is going to get even more EPIC! Personally I'm hoping for a Equestria Girls Arc where Chris swears vengeance on Human Sombra. I don't know how it'd work, but I just love the idea of it. Another fantastic chapter good sir!
5381604 HERESY!
5381296 Sure she is, black humor is great if you can appreciate it. Besides, people change, I doubt the elements would stop working because she had one revelation too many.
5383922
Hardly.
As I said before. This last arc had some funny moments with Pinkie, and I can appreciate gallows humor as much as any who have served. After all, "If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined," still rings true to this day.
But, how much darker and angsty does Pinkie need to get before she's fully broken. How "funny" will that be? Maybe it will be hilarious to some, but then there are those that think that snuff films are high art. Right now we've seen Pinkie even trippier than she ever was in the show, and lower as well. Her extreme emotions are becoming more extreme. That's deliberate on the author's part, and I'm interested to see where this goes, just as long as there's a way back.
And as for the elements, who knows. They stopped working for Celestia after she used (all of) them against her sister. Why wouldn't they stop working if Pinkie completely breaks? And besides, what if she never makes it back to Equestria voluntary or not.
Of course the elements are rather irrelevant; my concerns are of a different matter. if I had a friend of mine that went completely around the bend so far that I considered him dangerous, I would still go out of my way to help him. That's what friendship is about. However, there's no way I would let him near my family until he was brought back to some sense of normality... or at least until the dangerous elements were purged or at least controlled.
Celestia's Family is All of Equestria. Even if the author is playing up the comedy role for the pony side, I still think that when (if they haven't already) Celestia and Pinkie's friends notice that Pinkie's fallen just that much further, they will have some concerns. That's what I hope to see -- how they deal with those concerns. Heck, I can even accept a comedic answer to those concerns, but to ignore them entirely would be a bad thing for the story IMO.
I don't see a random tag on this story, so there should be some logic in the overall plot, but I also don't see Tragic or even a Dark(?!?) tag, so I'm pretty sure that Pinks will find herself, and the story will end on a happy -- even sappy -- note. I just want this story to be the best it can be.
--Spade
5379916
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
Taitou
VS
Dan's Lack of Vengenace
5382200 There is a really, really like button. It's called the Favorites button.
I will not stop until all of FimFiction learns that fact.
‘Dan and Pinkie Take a Slice out of Life’ has a new chapter and I'm not reading it? I must rectify this at once
Cute.
Have a suggestion, Dan gets Sarge & Tyra to do cupcake home deliveries!
Ah, Wally. Don't worry, we know you would have joined the fray if you were able. Established routines can be a pain sometimes.
Just so you know, you forgot to add an ending with Amber, Gibson, and Trixie...