Pinkie’s gone!
We were at my apartment. Just the five of us.
Five. Every time I write that, it feels wrong. We are six, we’ve always been six, but every time I say that the girls insist that there’s always been five of us. Always has been.
Anyway, we were playing some fighting games. Well, maybe “playing” is being a bit generous; it was more like “watching my character flail around drunkenly as Fluttershy waled on him”
(For the element of Kindness, she’s surprisingly good at fighters.)
Just as Fluttershy was about to finish off a combo and put the poor guy out of his misery, I was walloped by another headache. If the first one was like brain freeze, this one was like having brain freeze while having my head used as a chopping block.
When it finally faded, I shook my head and took a quick headcount, praying this was just a fluke. Fluttershy and I were on the couch. AJ and Rarity were laying on the floor. Pinkie…
I asked where Pinkie was. Everyone just looked at me. “Pinkie who?” Rarity had said.
I've spent the next few days trying to get someone, anyone to remember Pinkie. It’s no use: no one in this town remembers her; her family says they’ve never heard of her. Same with the Cakes.
Noone remembers Pinkie. Mull on that for a little while.
Also, this might just be me being paranoid, but I swear the cafeteria isn’t as full as it usually is. I’m seeing empty seats where there shouldn’t be any.
I figured this would happen. What concerns me the most is Twilight's continued silence. Is she dealing with something similar?
The written notes method of logging what is happening does add to the sense of dread I think...
Why is Twilight not responding?
The horror is really ramping up on this, well done.
Pinkie is gone, that's heartbreaking!
Maybe pony Equestria got erased and it's taking out the Equestria girls universe one by one. Dunno. Interesting to speculate.
Chills, man. Literal chills.
This story is fantastic. You, dear author, have somehow managed to get me to like the [Horror] tag, which is a genre I dislike and abstain from. Wonderful work. Can’t wait to see where this goes.
(Also, quick question. At what point in the Equestria Girls timeline are you setting this? Because Sunset here says they’ve always been six. When that’s not true. They’re seven, including Sci-Twi. So when is this set?)
This reminds me of The Twilight Zone episode "And When The Sky Was Opened"
Great story. I look forward to reading more, assuming I even exist when the rest is written.
Twilight's behind it all.
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No. More like to a world without magic, or the friends that harness it.
Lots of scary implications here... my first thought? False Hydra.
Problem: EGverse is generally a low-magic one, no native beasties and such.
Implication: So the hypothetical hydra isn't native.
Implication: So the false hydra is Equestrian.
Twilight isn't answering. Twilight won't be answering. Twilight cannot answer. And soon, neither will anyone else.
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It could realistically only be set with six between the start of Rainbow Rocks and the end of Friendship Games, so not that much of a window rlly
It could be Time travel that's involved or sunset is in a mantel hospital the whole time.
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Okay. Got it.
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That was one of the inspirations.
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There is a major hole in that idea. It wouldn't erase Rainbow from Sunset's photos, or any photo Rainbow was in.
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What do you think is going on?
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I think it's spelled "weird"?
Anyways, pretty interesting story you got here
The MLP equivalent of Langoliers?
Very intruiging, and the short form format is really working for the story.
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My money is on some new form of magic that not only removes an individual from time and space but also completely erases them from existance, as if they'd never been born.
That or Discord is having a laugh at their expense.
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My guess is that she was the first one to disappear.
Where's Sci-Twi (unless she got vanished too)?
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Possibly the Hydra encountered in Froggy Bottom is doing it?
I've always found silence scarier than anything else. For various reasons that are too complex to explain.
The feeling of losing someone you care about and having no one to help you shakes me to the core.
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Got the sneaking suspicion that she was the first.