One day Pinkie Pie was sad, and did not want to be sad anymore. She was sad because she was not being kissed often enough, and decided that she would like to have makeouts more often. Specifically with Fluttershy, because Fluttershy had many admirable qualities and would be nice to make out with.
What Pinkie did not know was that another of her friends, Rainbow Dash, was also sad. Rainbow Dash was sad because she knew that Pinkie did not want to make out with her, because she loved Pinkie and thought that making out with her would be pretty great.
Rainbow Dash knew that Pinkie very much wanted to make out with Fluttershy, and had decided that she should help her two friends be happy. She was filled with pain and sadness by this, but because she was a good friend she put her own desire for makeouts aside so that she could help her friends achieve the makeouts they both desired.
Fluttershy, however, did not wish to make out with either Pinkie or Dash - she wished to make out with both Pinkie and Dash simultaneously, as the higher number of ponies would doubtless lead to superior makeouts and also probably because she loved them both or something.
She had not yet achieved her goal of bringing these makeouts about, and was very sad about this. Her inner pain caused her much sadness.
Fluttershy decided that to increase the number of makeouts she was engaging in she needed help, and so she paid a visit to her good friend Rarity. When she told Rarity of her dilemma, the unicorn was saddened because she secretly wished to make out with both Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash herself. But she did not say so, and instead suggested that Fluttershy visit Rainbow Dash and initiate makeouts, because Rainbow Dash would likely be receptive to makeout attempts.
Fluttershy, however, saw Rarity’s hidden desire for makeouts due to being very wise and perceptive. And she suggested that perhaps if Rarity came along, all three ponies could engage in makeouts at the same time. And perhaps, with careful planning, they could later increase that number to four.
Rainbow Dash was very surprised when Fluttershy and Rarity visited and expressed their desire to engage in makeouts, for she had not believed that she was worthy of their affection or their makeouts. Their desire to make out with her made her cry, but they were happy tears, and they led to kisses.
Many kisses.
At that same moment Pinkie Pie, who had been visiting her friend Twilight Sparkle for romantic advice, arrived with her friend Twilight Sparkle in tow. When she saw the pony she wished to make out with making out with ponies that were not her, she was very sad and angry.
Pinkie Pie believed that none of her friends could love her, for she was a silly pony who did not see her own value. Though all four ponies looked for her, it was Twilight Sparkle who found her. Twilight Sparkle was happy to see Pinkie, and listened as the earth pony explained that she felt she was not deserving of makeouts or love, and that this made her sad.
Twilight Sparkle was saddened, but also happy because she knew that she could cheer her friend up. She confessed her own long hidden desire to engage in makeouts with Pinkie Pie, and the fact that she had loved her for a long time, but had surpressed the fact for fear that Pinkie could not work. This had made her very sad, and the sharing of her burden relieved much of her deep inner pain.
Pinkie and Twilight made out for some time, until Twilight Sparkle realised that their friends were probably being made sad with worry. She also realised that their makeouts would be all the more satisfying if they involved five ponies, instead of two. Pinkie Pie smiled, because she liked this idea and it made her happy.
So it was that all five ponies coincidentally met in a clearing a few moments later, despite having not run into one another in the many hours before this. Pinkie explained the reason for her sadness, and the other ponies were sad. But then they were happy, for their shared pain was nullified by the shared desire for makeouts. As they expressed this sentiment, they each grew happier and attempted to initiate makeouts.
But the wise and beautiful Rarity, who had wisely realised that if five of their circle of friends desired to make out with each other then it was possible that they would be able to find one more addition and engage in the longsought - by all of them, though they had not realised - six pony makeouts.
Applejack was not a sad pony. She did not have deep inner pain, though she sometimes felt sad that she was not able to engage in makeouts with her best friend Rarity. She had much to be happy about in life, and was therefore the least sad of all the ponies. But that did not mean that there was no room for her to be happier, and she believed that the way to make it so was to locate Rarity and request make outs.
She was saddened when she discovered that Rarity was not at home, and though she did not have deep inner pain she still came close to tears. Then suddenly her five friends, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Rarity appeared before her. They expressed that they had been engaging in makeouts, and all wished to make out with her very much.
Applejack considered this and, though she had not thought of anypony but Rarity previously, realised that she did indeed wish to engage in makeouts with all of her friends.
And so the six ponies made out, completely cured of their inner pain and destined to be happy and possess makeouts in abundance forever more.
This is a story inspired by a conversation I had with my good friend/nemesis, Donny's Boy, poking fun at the fact that all of our stories essential boil down to this in some form or another. I wasn't going to put it up here, because secretly it's not a serious attempt at a story at all, but I was asked to and so...here it is.
Magnum opus!
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I suppose that works, though it still presupposes time-travel as a go to solution before normal apology. This is Twilight Sparkle, though, so it's not unbelievable.
(throws head back dramatically, hand on forehead... assuming I have hands and a forehead, it's the internet, you don't know)
Sigh, I suppose I'll just have to do without my pony alternate self murder. How will I bear the loss?
I laughed. I cried. I enjoyed it.
1373808 Actually, I thought about that too. See, there are a few reasons that Twi feels the need to time travel to apologise: first, Pinkie stews when she's hurt. Terribly. She gets angrier and more bitter as time goes on, because she drags herself further and further down with her doubts and anxieties. As such, the longer she's left upset, the more hurt she'll become and the less chance there'll be that Twilight can fix things - especially with just words.
Second: She knows that words aren't going to be enough. Words were enough to create the wound, but she knows from many years of experience that they won't really fix it - and worse, Pinkie will pretend that they fixed it. She'll forgive Twilight, for real, but she'll also believe every word that Twilight said to her. The apology has to be something to show Pinkie that Twilight believes she was wrong - at the very least regarding the hurt she caused Pinkie. And she needs to do this quickly. Twilight refusing to let Pinkie use the time machine said a lot to Pinkie - it told her what Twilight thought of her, to her mind, but also that the time machine - and the testing of said time machine - was more important than she was.
That Twilight completely gave up her original plans, threw caution to the wind and used the time machine not for research but for Pinkie is partly her way of showing Pinkie that she was wrong - she's not aware of it, but that's a lot of where it comes from.
And you will bear the loss as we all do: by knowing in your mind that you're right, as you know that whichever ponies you ship are in love. *Nod*
Yep, that's basically the plot of almost every pony romance fix in maybe one page.
I'm getting a very winniie the pooh vibe from this, and I like it
I laughed out loud when Applejack was the only pony who didn't have deep inner pain. I think you have the right of it! Also, I don't think I can ever read "Applejack is in love with mare X but must bury her feelings!" stories again for this reason. I get no suspension of disbelief.
I almost expected this to end with Pinkie saying, "And that was how makeouts were made!"
I'm still not sorry I made you post this.
You're so mean to Applejack, by the way. So mean.
1379887 But...but...but I gave her make outs! It is not cruel to give her makeouts! Okay, so perhaps my depriving her of makeouts until last and threatening to replace her with Daring Do while writing was a LITTLE mean, but I made it right in the end!
I'm not sorry you made me post it, either.
1379065 She probably would have, if she hadn't been so busy making out.
1374824 I can read 'em when there's good reason for her to. Or I could, if I read Applejack stories at all. Probably. And heh - I actually do think AJ has a lot of pain inside her, but I just feel like she's made her peace with it - at least for the most part - healthily and without it overwhelming her too much, which is more than can be said for the others. She's decidedly the best adjusted of the main cast.
1373974 Hee. You've no idea just how much that makes my day - I love Winnie the Pooh, and the comparison put a smile on my face. Thanks.
1373920 It's certainly all of mine. :P Except for ponies other than Pinkie and whoever she's being shipped with on a given day making out, that is.
1373818 I'm glad.
1373687 Hehe. It may be my personal magnum opus, yes. i doubt I'll ever write better.
I...
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Can't.... Breathe.... Must... Use... Last... Oxygen.... To type comment... about how you killed me... with funniness... and desire for make outs...
I actually typed all this in one breath because I really, genuinely haven't stopped laughing.
2760777 I don't understand. This is the most serious of all my stories, my magnum opus. It's no laughing matter!
But seriously, glad you liked it. It's perhaps the most fun I ever had writing.