Pinkie asks Twilight to make a portal to another world, and that leads her to a world of freakish ponies who are incredibly shallow and girly, otherwise known as G3 MLP.
When Pinkie asks Twilight to make her a portal to another world for no apparent reason and goes through it, she finds herself in Ponyville, but not the Ponyville she knows. All of the ponies are freakish and stupid and girly and shallow, and there are no talented unicorns to reopen the portal for her. How will she get back to her Ponyville before she goes insane from all of the creepy ponies here?
"Twilight! Twilight! I have a favor to ask you!" yelled Pinkie Pie to her friend. The light pink earth pony was bouncing through the streets as usual, but when she caught sight of Twilight Sparkle, a purple and magenta unicorn, she sped up to a gallop.
"Pinkie Pie!" greeted Twilight. "What is it? Do you want to borrow that book about party ponies in history again?"
"No, Twilight!" Pinkie was urgent. "I have a favor to ask you! It's SUPER-DUPER important!"
"What can I do for you?" Twilight smiled at the pony's crazy antics.
"Could you open a magic portal to another world for me?" Pinkie exclaimed.
"What?" Twilight's mouth fell open. "Why?"
"Because I really really REALLY..." she took a deep breath for effect. "...feel like it!" she finished.
"I'm sorry, Pinkie," the unicorn sighed. "I'll need a better reason than that to open a magic portal for you."
"Please?"
"No."
"Please?"
"No."
"Please?"
"No."
"PLEASE?!?"
"NO!!!"
"PRETTY PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP?!?!?"
"FOR THE LAST TIME, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Twilight was fuming now.
"Please?" Pinkie gave Twilight a poor-lost-sad-puppy-dog-look until Twilight sighed.
"Ugh, fine," she groaned. "Just will you stop being so annoying?"
"Yippee!!!" Pinkie did a cartwheel when she got her way. Works every time. "Now Pinkie Promise you'll do it."
"Ugh, cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye," Twilight groaned. "Now can we just get this over with?"
The two ponies walked towards the Golden Oaks Library, Twilight sighing every two seconds. Pinkie didn't care. She was going to another world!
"Ok, Pinkie," sighed Twilight again as they walked in. "I have to set a few rules first."
"Ok," she grinned, not really listening to what Twilight was saying.
"First, you will not go in until I say so," Twilight started.
"Yep."
"Second, I don't know where this will go, so make sure you remember where the portal is located so you can get back."
"Yep."
"And the most important of all, if you are not back in twelve hours, I will come looking for you. Got that?" Twilight finished.
"Yep." Pinkie blinked. "Can I go now? Please, please, please?"
"Were you listening to anything I was saying?" Twilight was outraged.
"Nope!" Pinkie hopped around the room looking at everything.
"I'm not going to open the portal if you don't listen!" Twilight snapped.
"You Pinkie Promised!" shouted Pinkie. Her face started to flush red with rage.
"Fine! Fine!" Twilight didn't want to break her promise. She'd seen what the pony would do if anypony broke a Pinkie Promise. She shuddered at the thought of what had almost happened to Applejack. "I'll do it!"
"Yay!" she went back to her bouncing while Twilight concentrated on a single spot on the floor. Her horn started to glow, and her face was beaded with sweat.
Suddenly a section of the floor opened into a hole that dropped straight out of the sky. Twilight didn't notice that at first, she was too busy sustaining the spell.
"Pinkie Pie!" she shouted. "You can go through now!"
"Whoopee!" The earth pony jumped straight through the hole, and as Twilight skillfully transferred the stream of magic to one of the many magic-holders kept around the room, she collapsed.
"That should hold for about fifteen hours," she approximated. "I hope Pinkie will be okay."
* * *
Pinkie was falling. As the wind whipped her curly pink mane across her face, she spotted really bright colors coming from below her. Pinks, blues, greens, yellows... all too bright to look at.
She spotted hearts everywhere, but that was all she saw. Soon the earth pony realized that the air was being ripped from her lungs, and she couldn't breathe. She started panicking, and her tail started twitching. Her Pinkie Sense was telling her that something was going to fall. Pinkie had a nagging feeling that something was her.
She flailed her hooves around wildly, but nothing slowed her decent. All she could do was watch as the lights got slowly closer, and closer...
THUMP. Pinkie saw a pair of small purple wings and a magenta eye, before her decent was slowed.
"Rainbow Dash?" she wondered out loud. Rainbow had magenta eyes. Wait. Rainbow didn't have purple wings. She had cyan-blue ones. So who was holding her up?
"No, I'm Starsong!" her savior nearly whispered. Maybe it was Fluttershy? No, Fluttershy was yellow, not purple. And who was Starsong? "Rainbow Dash is down on the ground in Ponyville. How did you get all the way up here?" she asked.
"I know all the ponies in Ponyville, but I've never heard of a Starsong before!" exclaimed Pinkie as they touched down.
"I've lived in Ponyville for years," said Starsong. "Who are you?"
"I'm Pinkie Pie," Pinkie stated. She was too busy staring at Starsong to say it in her usual peppy voice. Her savior was a lavender pegasus with slightly darker wings and a magenta mane and tail. But that wasn't the weirdest thing about her. Her face was deformed and ugly, like some of the goofy faces Pinkie Pie made at Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake when their parents were too busy working. It was scary, even.
"My best friend's name is Pinkie Pie," Starsong's freakish face made an expression that could only be described as confusion.
"Why is your face so freakishly freakish?" asked Pinkie Pie. "Were you in an accident when you were a filly, or what?" Then Pinkie realized that all of the ponies had those faces. They were all staring at her, like she was the mutant here.
"Hello!" called a sugery, sweet voice. All the misshapen ponies turned their heads to see a bright pink pony with Pinkie's cutie mark. "My name's Pinkie Pie, and-" she was cut off as her mouth dropped open when she saw Pinkie. The earth pony didn't get why all the ponies were staring at her. She looked down and saw her normal self.
"Are you the other me?" she opened her mouth without even thinking about what she was saying. "Or maybe I'm the other other me, and then you're the other other other me, and then I'm the other other other other me, and..." she trailed off at all of the ponies staring. "Why are you staring at me? I'm perfectly normal," she said. "I've never seen such large mass deformity though. Did you all get dropped on your head when you were a filly? I don't mean to be rude, but you all look so weird! I never thought the other world would be a misshapen Ponyville, more like I get turned into an alpaca or something..." she kept rambling while the pink pony walked up to Pinkie.
"Who are you?" She said simply.
"I'm Pinkie Pie!" Pinkie jumped.
"No, I'm Pinkie Pie," the pink pony looked confused, but that just made her look even more creepy, if that was possible.
"No, silly, I am," Pinkie laughed.
"No, I am," argued Pinkie Two.
"I am!"
"I am!"
"I am!"
"Darlings, darlings, why don't you stop arguing and make nice!" a blue pony with a rainbow mane and tail came through. "And you, darling," she turned to Pinkie. "Why don't you be a darling and explain why you think you're Pinkie Pie, darling, and where you came from?"
"My name is Pinkie Pie and I'm from Ponyville!" she started. "Only not this Ponyville, a Ponyville from another world!" All the ponies oohed at that. "My best friends are Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Applejack, and Twilight used her magic to make me a portal to another world because I really wanted to, and OH, THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!!!!!" she shrieked.
"I never knew that the other me would be so annoying," muttered the other Pinkie.
"Funny, that's just what Twilight said," Pinkie stroked an invisible beard with her hoof. "Anyway, the portal's just up there..." she looked up. Where was the portal? "It's gone!"
"You can stay with me," said the other Pinkie. "You can stay as long as you want!"
Pinkie could only gape at the sky as the ponies led her to a bright pink house. It was in the shape of a giant heart, and when Pinkie looked around, all she could see were houses shaped as house-hold objects and decorated with loud colors and bright flowers. There was a bright pink castle with balloons and hearts all around it.
"Why is this universe so girly and stupid?" she spoke her mind without thinking again. She turned her head straight into the creepy smile of a pony. She screamed and scrambled away.
Would she have to deal with this freaky-ness forever?
As Pinkie walked through this twisted version of Ponyville, she had a realization. If there was another Pinkie Pie here, why not another of all her friends? She trotted faster to meet the other Pinkie, who was ahead and greeting every other pony she met.
"Hey, me!" she called. Pinkie could swear Pinkie rolled her eyes at her, but she ignored herself. "Hey! I want to talk to you about something!"
"Yes?" Other Pinkie had on a fake smile and was obviously trying really hard not to snort and sigh. Pinkie ignored that, too.
"If there's another me here, the there must be another of each of my friends, too, right?" she smiled.
"Go on," Other Pinkie waved her hoof like she wanted to get this over with. She probably did. Pinkie was finding a lot of things to ignore with this pony.
"Are there a Rarity, Applejack, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash here?" Pinkie Pie inquired.
"There's a Rainbow Dash," Other Pinkie said. "But I've never heard of a Twilight Sparkle."
"Are there any unicorns here?" Pinkie was getting worried. Was there anypony to send her back to her dimension?
"My friend Sweetie Belle is a unicorn," Other Pinkie pointed at a white pony with a horn on her head through the crowd. "But she's the only one is Ponyville. Unicorns are typically supposed to be in Unicornia."
"WHAT?!?" Pinkie's mouth fell open, drawing a lot of attention from the crowd. "Could you at least show me where Dashie's cloud house is at this time of day?" she asked weakly after she had partially recovered from the initial shock.
"What is a cloud house?" Other Pinkie looked confused and embarrassed at the same time. Pinkie didn't even know that was possible with such a grotesque face. "Rainbow Dash lives on the ground, like all of us!"
"Could you show me where she lives?" Maybe since the design on these buildings was so different, Dashie couldn't live in a cloud house. Other Pinkie shrugged and led the way through the winding streets. When they got to the edge of town, Other Pinkie pointed out a house that looked just like a giant, pink purse.
"What?" Now Pinkie was stumped. "Dash would never live in something like that! She's never gotten a hoofacure in her life!"
"Then you're Rainbow Dash is very different from mine," Other Pinkie sighed. "My house is the heart tower over there, come in whenever you feel like it." And then she walked away.
What was that supposed to mean? Pinkie hopped towards the purse thinking about that line. And based on the house...
"Now, hold still, darling!" said a muffled voice, but Pinkie would recognize it anywhere. It was that pony who split up Other Pinkie and her when they were fighting!
"Could you make it a bit more colorful?" asked a voice that Pinkie couldn't find in her memory. "I want the party to reflect all of our personalities!"
"Yes, darling, but you need to be patient, darling. Being a fashionista takes patience, darling!" said Voice 1.
Pinkie Pie opened the door. A bell attached to the top jingled, and two ponies looked towards her. One was in a pretty pastel dress, but quickly hid behind a curtain when she saw Pinkie. The other pony was making the dress.
She had a rainbow mane and tail, and a sky blue coat. On her flank was a pretty picture of a rainbow. This had to be Rainbow Dash, but something was wrong...
"Dashie? But where are your wings?" Pinkie blurted. "And why are you making clothes?"
"I'm simply doing what I've been doing since the day I was born, darling!" Rainbow was outraged. "Darling, may I ask you, is there something wrong with that, darling? Now please be a darling, darling, and tell me what you're doing here, darling?"
"One, I was just exploring," Pinkie was ticked. Why was everypony so mad at her here? "And two..." Pause for dramatic effect... "Why are you constantly calling me a darling? My Dashie would never do that!"
"And what is you're Rainbow Dash like?" asked the other pony who'd ducked behind the curtain. She no longer had on the dress, and Pinkie guessed that it was hidden in the dressing room somewhere.
"She's a stunt-pony daredevil who has never gotten a hoofacure in her life and gets filthy on a daily basis," replied the only normal pony in the room. "She's the fastest flyer in all of Equestria and the only pegasus pony able to do a Sonic Rainboom."
This Rainbow Dash's mouth fell open. So did the other pony's. Which, by the way, Pinkie was getting tired of calling her that.
"What's your name?" she asked the pink pony. She had bright pastel in her mane and tail, and on her flank was the picture of two paintbrushes.
"Toola Roola," the pony replied. "Umm..." she looked at the floor.
"Oh! Look at the time!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash. "I really have to get back to work, darling, so maybe you should visit Minty's house? The darling is always looking for someone to hang out with, darling. But she's kind of a klutz, darling, so be careful, darling," the earth pony ushered Pinkie out and slammed the door.
"Aren't you at least going to tell me where she lives?" the pink pony called. There was no answer, so Pinkie decided to move on.
As Pinkie trotted down the main street in Twisted, Sick Ponyville, she looked for key signatures in the buildings, like a giant minty green one that read "Minty Lives Here!" Pinkie wondered what had happened to this Rainbow Dash to make her so mean. The earth pony also kept an eye out for Sweetie Belle, the only unicorn in town. The pink pony needed to talk to her about sending her back to normal Ponyville, with all of her friends. At least there was one unicorn here.
Sweetie Belle had brought to attention how racist this whole place was. Other Pinkie had said that unicorns belonged in Unicornia. Pinkie wondered where pegasus ponies belonged. Probably someplace like Pegasopolis.
There! Pinkie was snapped out of her daze by a bright green building. There was a minty green pony with a light pink mane and tail putting streamers over the doorway. As Pinkie watched, she stepped slightly to the left while on the ladder, which, by the way, was purple and yellow striped, and slipped. She landed on her rump, but by the way she shrugged it off this sort of thing happened quite often. That must have been Minty.
"Hi!" shouted Pinkie, galloping over to the mutant pony. In her world, Minty would have been quite pretty, but here her smushed face ruined her whole complexion. "Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie from the other world! Rainbow Dash said that you were really nice, and I just wanted to meet you and-" Pinkie was cut off by the horrified look on the pony's face. "What?" she demanded.
Suddenly Minty took off running. She tripped over her own hooves quite often, and she kind of reminded Pinkie of her friend Derpy from her universe, except without the screwed up eyes. Minty ran as fast as she could around corners, trying to lose the pink earth pony hot on her heels.
Pinkie was sick of being pushed around in this universe. So what if she looked a little weird to these ponies? They looked like freakshows to Pinkie! So she chased after Minty, getting angrier with every step.
Soon her face was flushed red and there was literally steam coming out of her ears. What was with these ponies?
One thing troubled the Equestrian: Minty knew this town like the back of her hoof. Pinkie did not. Soon the enraged pony was lost in the winding streets of Ponyville. And she did something she promised never to do in her life: give up trying to befriend these ponies.
As she made her way back towards the flag on the heart tower, she had a bolt of realization: the freakish ponies would never like her. With a sound like a balloon deflating, Pinkie's mane came to rest on her shoulders without even a wave. Her sad, blue eyes downcast, she walked up the steps to the heart tower.
"WAIT!!!" shouted a sweet voice. Pinkamena looked around to see Sweetie Belle, the unicorn, rushing up the steps towards her.
"You can't go in there!" Sweetie blocked the door before Pinkamena could enter.
"Get out of my way," the pink pony growled through gritted teeth.
"But..." Sweetie looked around frantically. "Uh... don't you want to see the... castle? Yeah, the castle!" she smiled at Pinkamena.
"No."
"Um..." Sweetie looked around again. "Don't you want to meet Cheerilee? Or Scootaloo?"
"No." Pinkamena glared at the unicorn. Sweetie could see the hint of sadness in the pony's voice, and she could see her once fluffy mane now flat.
"How about I make you some cookies?" she offered. There was a tinge of fear in her voice. "Heh, heh, heh..."
"No. Now let me through." Pinkamena attempted to shove her way through Sweetie's blockade, but the freakish pony had a freakishly strong grip.
"Come... to... my... house! I'll... invite... Cheerilee and... Scootaloo... over for... cake?" she gasped as Pinkamena shoved her head into her rib cage.
"Fine," the pink pony grumbled, and allowed herself to be herded into a small bakery just down the street from Other Pinkie's place.
As Sweetie Belle went across the street to invite Cheerilee and Scootaloo, Pinkamena noticed that there were a ton of ponies coming into Other Pinkie's house from all over the place. They each held something in either a wagon or their mouths. Some held streamers. Some pulled balloons.
They're probably having a party without us, thought the depressed pony.
But what if they're setting up a party FOR you? said the Pinkie Pie that was still inside her mind.
You saw the way they treated us, yelled Pinkamena. They hate us! They want us gone!
But you remember what happened with our birthday party last year! argued Pinkie. They might still be our friends!
As Pinkamena looked into a cup of water, she saw Pinkie Pie arguing with her.
They have the precious tool to get back to Equestria, snarled Pinkamena. They are going to keep it from us!
Maybe you're right, Pinkie looked unsure in the water.
"Of course I'm right! We will get back to Equestria, no matter what it takes!" Pinkamena shouted out loud, knocking over the glass with her hoof.
"Uh, are you okay?" asked Sweetie Belle. She had seen Pinkamena's psycho fit with the water and had decided that this pony was nuts.
"Yes," grumbled the earth pony, now back to her normal, grumpy self.
"Hi! I'm Scootaloo!" said a rough voice. It was an orange earth pony with a pink and purple streaked mane. "This is my friend, Cheerilee!"
Pinkamena didn't respond.
"Oh, would you look at the time!" Sweetie Belle swooped into intervene the awkward silence that was brewing between the two ponies. "Pinkie Pie is probably expecting us for dinner!"
"Right! For dinner! We'd better get you home!" Cheerilee jumped in.
"Yeah! For you're wel-" Scootaloo was cut off by a kick from Cheerilee. "For you're wel..l-made dinner!" she obviously lied.
"I just got here," Pinkamena growled. She hit Sweetie Belle with an icy stare.
"W-well, Pinkie will get worried, you see," she stammered. "She'll wonder where you are! Ummm... we don't want to worry her, right?"
"I'm staying here," snapped the earth pony.
"No, you're coming with us!" Scootaloo grabbed her by the scruff of her neck and attempted to drag her out. Pinkamena twisted and galloped over her body. Scootaloo got back up alive, but the crazy Equestrian was gone.
"There!" shouted Cheerilee, and the three ponies galloped after the flat, pink tail. Sweetie Belle went around the building, so when Pinkamena came around the bend, Sweetie had her cornered. Before the Equestrian could weave around her, Sweetie nipped her tail with her teeth, and ended up dragging Pinkamena towards the heart tower.
When Scootaloo knocked on the door, Pinkie Pie answered right away. The house was dark, but when she saw the procession behind Scoots(Sweetie dragging Pinkamena followed by Cheerilee) she helped all of the ponies inside.
"Ha! I knew it!" Pinkamena shouted to the ponies now clustered around her. "I knew you were planning a party to say 'You are going to stay with us forever'! Well, I'm not buying it! I'm going back to Equestria whether you like it or not!" she screamed. She probably sounded like a spoiled filly that didn't get what she wanted, but Pinkamena didn't care.
"What are you talking about?" asked Pinkie Pie. "This isn't a 'You are going to stay with us forever' party! This is a 'Welcome to Ponyville' party!"
"But you were all running away from me and being mean to me..." Pinkamena trailed off.
"Oh, darling," laughed Rainbow Dash, trotting up to the Equestrian. "This was a surprise party, darling. Darling,we were just trying to keep it a secret! We honestly didn't mean to make you feel sad, darling!" she smiled at Pinkamena. "I was making this darling dress for Toola Roola, darling, and I wanted it to be a surprise, darling. Isn't it simply dashing?" she pointed at Toola Roola, who twirled in a dress made up of pastels so bright and loud it hurt to look at.
"And I figured that since I love parties so much..." Pinkie trailed off.
"...that I love parties, too!" Pinkie's mane poofed back into it's curly state with a sound like her party cannon going off. "And you're right! I love parties!" Pinkie's smile expanded from ear to ear. "But this party is missing something."
"What?" Scootaloo inquired. "I think it's perfect!"
"Me and my PARTY CANNON!" Pinkie grinned as she pulled out the blue and pink cannon from nowhere and blasted the wall. Soon it was covered with confetti, balloons, and a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-pony. It also spat out a DJ turn-table.
"Where's the Vinyl Scratch here? Let's PARTY!" she shrieked.
But something was wrong. All of the ponies were staring at her party cannon like it was an explosive. Which, when Pinkie thought about it, it actually was.
"What?" she asked. "I never leave home without my party cannon, even when I'm going to another world!" She grinned at the crowd, and soon raced to the turn-tables and started mixing some epic wubs.
She took a record of her favorite song out of nowhere and started remixing it, and soon everypony was jammin'.
"I've never heard music like this!" exclaimed Starsong from above. "Did you write it?"
"Yeah! I call it the Smile Song!" Pinkie shouted over the noise. Obviously these ponies had never experienced a party Pinkie Pie style before, and they loved it.
"WOO- HOO!!!" she cheered. Best Welcome Party EVER!!!
* * *
Pinkie Pie was exhausted. It was about midnight, and she was lounging on the couch in Other Pinkie's living room, since her huge heart tower did not have a single guest room.
That had been one of her best parties, and yet she was surrounded by mutant pony things the entire time. She had hardly noticed that the ponies had creepy faces and mutant smiles. If she just imagined that these ponies were normal-looking, then it was actually pretty fun.
Suddenly, something twitched under her rump. She looked down to see her tail shaking and shivering like crazy.
Pinkie raced upstairs to find Other Pinkie. The Equestrian shook her alternate self awake.
"My tail!" she exclaimed to a groggy Other Pinkie. "Twitch-a-twitch, twitch-a-twitch! Something's going to fall!"
"W-what?" yawned Other Pinkie.
"My Pinkie Sense is telling me something is going to fall right outside your house! Come on!" Pinkie urged Other Pinkie up from her bed and outside. It was dark, but Pinkie could still see something falling straight towards them. No, not something... someone!
"Go get Starsong!" Pinkie ordered herself. "Somepony's falling from the sky!"
Other Pinkie looked really confused, but did as she was told.
"AAAAHHHH!!!" screamed the pony, and Pinkie recognized her voice.
"Twilight?" she called. The earth pony vaguely remembered Twilight telling her that after twelve hours she would come looking for Pinkie. And she also remembered that the portal was at least one hundred feet above Ponyville!
Suddenly a dark shape swooped in and gathered the unicorn in her hooves. Starsong! The lavender pegasus pony gently set Twilight on the ground.
"Twilight!" Pinkie rushed towards her friend, giving her a hug.
"You know this pony?" asked Other Pinkie, raising an eyebrow.
"AAAAAHHHHH!!!" screamed Twilight.
"What's wrong, Twilight? You're on the ground now!" Pinkie eyed her friend nervously.
"Oh, sorry!" Twilight finally got a grip and looked around. "I just saw, um..." she stammered. Twilight obviously thought the ponies were freakish, too, but she was being a bit more polite that Pinkie had been.
"Yes, Pinkie here said that we looked a little weird to her," said Other Pinkie, stepping forward.
"Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle, and I'm just here to bring Pinkie Pie back to her own dimension!" the unicorn introduced herself formally, like she usually did. "I'll just make another portal and bring us back to our Ponyville!"
"Yes, darling, please! Though, you did make our lives a little interesting, darling, with that, what do you call it darling? Oh, yes, that party cannon. I thought that that was simply dashing, darling!" said Rainbow Dash.
"And you are?" asked Twilight. Pinkie could read her friend well, and she knew that Twilight was just being polite.
"Rainbow Dash, darling," introduced the sky-blue earth pony, and Twilight's jaw dropped. "And yes, Pinkie, the darling, was surprised by me too, darling. Apparently, darling, in the other world I am a daredevil, am I right darling?" she added.
"Gah," was all Twilight could say.
"Well, you'd better get going!" threw in Sweetie Belle quickly, breaking the silence.
Twilight shook her head. "Right," the unicorn agreed, and focused on the wall of a nearby building. Her horn began to glow, and soon a hole appeared on the side of the building.
Pinkie waved a hoof to these mutant Ponyvillians as Twilight jumped through the portal. Then she followed her friend back into Equestria.
As soon as Pinkie's curly, pink tail disappeared through the portal, Minty was jittery. She felt just awful about how she had run away from the Equestrian when she was just trying to make friends with her. The green pony really wanted to say her sorry, but now it was too late. Unless...
Minty raced to the portal, which was now starting to close. She hurried faster, cursing herself when she tripped over her hooves.
"Minty, no!" shouted Starsong, zooming down to stop the pony. Just as Minty was about to reach the portal, she felt a sharp tug on her tail, and then was pulled away from the circle of light.
Pop! the portal closed, and Starsong let Minty go. The earth pony was still in momentum from pulling at Starsong's grip on her tail, and now she slammed straight into the building where the portal used to be.
"Bummer," she complained, rubbing her head. Now she would never get to apologize to Pinkie Pie.
"Wheee!" Pinkie Pie squealed as she spun around and around in the portal's vortex. The colorful swirls were nothing like the first portal she went through. She watched the purple-and-magenta blur in front of her spin out of sight, and closed her eyes as the colors bleached into white...
"Oof!" grunted Twilight as Pinkie fell on top of her. The portal disappeared with a pop!, and soon everything came into focus.
"Where are we?" Twilight looked around in confusion and awe. "This isn't Ponyville!"
"Hello!" said a cheesy voice, much like the ones in the last Ponyville the Equestrians visited. They looked up to a face, not as creepy as the last bunch, but still much different then they were used to. "Welcome to Pony Land!"
"Excuse me," said Twilight, shaking herself off. "Where are we? What is Pony Land?"
"My," commented the other pony. "What is that thing on your head?"
"Oh! You mean my horn?" the unicorn looked up at it. "I was born with it. Anyway, my name is Twilight Sparkle. What's your name?"
"My name's Bright Eyes!" smiled the teal pony. She had an orange mane and tail, and she was actually kind of pretty. She turned to Pinkie. "And you are?"
"I'm Pinkie Pie!" the earth pony did a cartwheel. "Nice to meet you, Bright Eyes!"
"Well, your welcome to stay a while!" Bright Eyes motioned towards a town. It was basically Ponyville under a different name. "You can come and meet my friends!"
"I'm terribly sorry, but I'm afraid I must be going!" Twilight smiled sadly. "You see, we are from an alternate dimension, and we came here by mistake, and we really must get home!" But as soon as the unicorn attempted to get up, her face paled and she nearly collapsed. "Or... maybe we can meet your friends," she gasped. Pinkie helped her up and the trio made their way towards the town. They eventually set down at a little park next to the school house.
"My girls will be here any minute now," Bright Eyes looked down the walkway were several ponies were roller skating through the park.
"Look! There's Clover and Melody now!" she cried with glee, and galloped down to meet them. Pinkie saw them exchange a few words, and Bright Eyes pointed at the Equestrians a couple times, but finally she led the two ponies towards the bench where Twilight was resting.
One was a light lavender color with a light pink mane and tail. On her flank was the image of a clover, so Pinkie assumed that was who she was. The other was a hot pink with a bright blue mane and tail, with a picture of a microphone with music notes all around it. Pinkie also assumed that that one was Melody.
"How many friends do you have?" asked Pinkie Pie as Bright Eyes led Clover and Melody to the ponies.
"This is Clover and Melody," she pointed to the corresponding pony as she stated each name. "My other friends are Starlight, Sweetheart, Patch, and Bon Bon."
"Did someone say my name?" demanded a voice. A yellow earth pony showed up with a royal purple mane and tail. Her cutie mark was a piece of blue candy, so Pinkie guessed this was Bon Bon.
She guessed right again. Soon everypony was coming to the bench, and Bon Bon brought cookies.
"Yum," said Pinkie after a mouthful.
"So who are you, and what is this about an alternate dimension?" inquired Bright Eyes.
"You see-" Twilight started.
"We'refromanalternatedimension,actuallyitiscalledPonyvilleandwereallyneedtogethome,butTwilightaccidentlytookushereinsteadofourhome,andnowshe'sreallytired,sowehavetostayherewhilesherests,butwehavenoideahowwegothere,sowewerewonderingifyouhaveanyunicornsheretoteleportusbacktoPonyville,buthereeveryponyisanearthpony,soweneedtogetbackhomeassoonaspossible,butfirstweneedtofigureouthowwegothereinthefirstplace,butwehavenoideawhereweare,and-" Pinkie Pie spoke at the speed of light until Twilight interrupted.
"Yes, Pinkie, thank you, but I'll take it from here," she smiled at the confused ponies, as if saying Sorry about that. Pinkie ignored that.
"You see, we're from an alternate dimension called Ponyville, and we need to get home. I think I have a hypothesis about how we ended up here in the first place, but I am still unsure. As you can see, I am very weak and tired from creating the first portal, and I need to rest before we can move on. It should take about ten minutes for my horn to charge up again-"
"Is that the thing on your head?" intervened Patch. She was a pretty golden pony with a light pink mane and tail, with a patch on her flank.
Twilight sighed. "Yes, that's my horn. Now, as I was saying-"
"I've never seen anything like it!" gasped Starlight.
"Were you born with it?" asked Sweetheart.
"Yes, I was born with it," huffed Twilight. "Now, if there are no more questions-"
The unicorn stomped her hoof as Clover raised her's.
"Can you do any tricks with it?" she asked.
"Yes," growled Twilight.
"Oooh! Can you show us?" demanded Melody. Twilight sighed again, and lifted a tree branch with her magic as the earth ponies oohed and ahhed.
"Now, can I please please PLEASE finish my sentence without being interr-"
"Yeah, yeah, we get the picture," interrupted Bon Bon. "You seem strong enough to go home now. So cast your gypsy magic and go back to your world, already!"
"Bon Bon, don't be rude," chided Bright Eyes.
"But she's right, Twilight," Pinkie argued. "You are ready to cast the spell!"
"Alright, I'll try," the unicorn focused her magic. Sweat appeared on her brow, and her horn began to glow magenta. As a circle of light appeared in the air in front of the bench, Twilight suddenly gasped. The spell faltered for an instant, then Twilight sat up as she regained balance.
As Pinkie stepped through the portal, she saw the wondered looks of these ponies, and then she was sucked in.
When Pinkie opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was a pink castle in the middle of a vast grassland, with a forest on the edge. She saw ponies dancing and playing in the meadow, pegasi flying through the air, and strange pony-fish hybrids splashing in a pond with a ball.
Twilight was gasping next to her, and Pinkie poked her side with her hoof to wake the unicorn up.
"Uh... Twilight?" she asked. "This isn't Equestria."
"What?" Twilight's purple eyes snapped open. "Where are we now?"
"LOOK OUT BELOW!!!" shouted a voice above them, and Pinkie looked up for an instant at the hot pink pegasus spiraling towards them. She pushed Twilight out of the way as the mare crashed into a mud puddle next to them.
WHOOM! The mud splashed all over the Equestrians, but Pinkie didn't notice. She recognized this mare.
"You act just like Rainbow Dash!" Pinkie exclaimed, trotting up to the mud coated pegasus. She had a hot pink coat, with a messy royal blue mane and tail, and three lightning bolts decorated her flank.
"I'm not Rainbow Dash, I'm Firefly!" she said as she shook herself off.
"Well, if you were cyan, with a rainbow mane and tail, and a different cutie mark, you'd be Rainbow Dash!" Pinkie rambled.
"Firefly!" called a voice. It belonged to a teal pegasus with pretty blue eyes, and a cutie mark of several music notes.
"Hey, I've seen you before!" Pinkie yelled to the pegasus. "In Ponyville!"
"Pinkie, how could you have seen this pony before?" Twilight demanded as the pegasus landed. She turned to Firefly. "Could you please tell me where we are?"
"You're in Ponyland!" said the teal pegasus. "I'm Medley!"
"Who are they?" Pinkie inquired, pointing at the five other ponies trotting up the hill towards them.
"You already met Firefly," Medley pointed at the hot pink pegasus. "And they are Sparkler, Posey, Surprise, Applejack, and Twilight!"
"There's a Twilight here?" the Equestrian Twilight gasped. She was still too weak to get up, so Firefly and Medley carried her down the hill.
"And an AJ?" Pinkie jumped up in happiness.
"Oh my goodness, you sound just like me!" A white pegasus with a bouncy yellow mane zoomed up to Pinkie and looked her directly in the eye. "I'm Surprise!" she squeaked.
"I'm Pinkie Pie! We're from another world!" the pink earth pony exclaimed to her pegasus counterpart. "I'm you, and you're me, and THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!" she and Surprise shouted in unison.
"A spell to teleport from one dimension to another?" Equestrian Twilight and Ponyland Twilight were having a conversation about magic. "That takes winking out to a whole new level!"
"What's winking out?" Pinkie asked Surprise, who was floating right next to her.
"It's where a unicorn like Twilight or Sparkler-" she pointed her hoof at a pretty blue unicorn "-go from one place to another in the wink of an eye. Winking out," the pegasus explained.
"Where I come from, we just call it teleporting!" Pinkie said. She felt strangely calm now that she had found her alternate self, one that understood her perfectly.
"Do you have a Surprise Sense?" Surprise jumped the question at Pinkie unexpectedly.
"Yes, but I call it my Pinkie Sense!" the earth pony giggled. "Why are you a pegasus and I'm an earth pony?" she asked.
"I don't know, but-" Surprise was cut off by a timid cough by a yellow earth pony with a light pink mane.
"You really should meet Megan," she almost whispered. She looked just like Fluttershy, except that she didn't have wings, and her cutie mark displayed three flowers.
"Oh, yes, darling, you must meet Megan! She'll want to hear all about this!" said Sparkler. She looked just like Rarity, and sounded like her, too.
As the Ponylanders brought their guests to the castle, a strange creature came out. It was obviously female, judging by the hearts that decorated her overalls, but she stood on two legs, only had fur on the top of her head, and had strange, aposable sticks on the ends of her hooves. As Firefly zipped towards her, the creature hopped onto the pegasus's back and rode to the rest of the ponies.
Equestrian Twilight staggered towards the creature while Ponyland Twilight held her up.
"What do we have here, Firefly?" the Two-leg asked.
"I'm Pinkie Pie, and this is my friend Twilight Sparkle, and we're from another world!" Pinkie summarized their adventures through dimensions as quick as she could, then turned to Twilight for anything she missed.
"And I need to rest and recharge my horn before we can go back," Twilight inputted. "I think I know how we ended up here instead of Equestria. This whole dimension is part of a great loop, and you can't go backwards in it. You just have to go around and around until you get to the stop you want."
"So, when will we get back to Equestria?" Pinkie asked.
"I'm pretty sure it will be next stop. About 62% sure," she added.
"Megan! Megan! This pony's the other me!" Surprise flew up to the creature, Megan, and told her of their conversation on the way here. "-and she has a Surprise Sense, just like me, and-" Pinkie only caught bits and pieces.
"I think that I can make the portal now," Twilight interrupted. "Just give me a second..." as her horn glowed magenta, her forehead beaded with sweat. There was a flash of light, and soon a portal of light appeared before their eyes. Out of the corner of her eye, Pinkie saw Megan grab Surprise's tail so she wouldn't follow them through. Then Pinkie and Twilight stepped through, and the last thing she saw was Surprise's pouting face as her new friend was lost forever.
"Pinkie Pie! Pinkie Pie!" shouted a familiar voice. Pinkie's eyes blinked open to Rainbow Dash's annoyed face in the Golden Oaks Library.
Then Pinkie remembered. "Surprise!" she shouted as she jumped up. When she saw Dashie's confused face, she couldn't talk in complete sentences. "You.. portal... fashion... Firefly... me... party... Starsong... Twilight... Surprise!" she stammered.
"Pinkie Pie! Talk normal!" Rainbow grabbed Pinkie's shoulders, and looked at her with her magenta eyes. "Tell me what happened," she said in a calm voice.
But Pinkie didn't hear her. Her eyes rolled up to the top of her head, and everything went black.
"Oh dear... oh dear..." Pinkie woke up to a pair of teal eyes in her face. She groaned.
"She's awake!" said a voice with a Southern drawl. Pinkie focused on an orange earth pony with a blond ponytail over her shoulder.
"Now, Pinkie, darling," said another voice. "Please tell us what's wrong, and why you and Twilight were passed out on the floor."
"Rainbow Dash?" Pinkie tried to name the voice.
"Why would you think Rarity was me?" demanded an annoyed pegasus. "I sound nothing like her!"
"You were a fashion designer..." the earth pony trailed off. "In another world..."
"Fluttershy?" Twilight asked, just waking up. "Why are you in my face?"
"Twilight!" Rainbow Dash flew over to the unicorn's bed side. "Could you please make sense of what Pinkie is saying? What was that about me being a fashion designer?"
And so Twilight explained. Everything.
"Wow," was all the ponies could say.
"Wow is right," said Spike, just coming in to check on Twilight. "You probably just have magical strain," he mused when he saw his friend. "Even the most talented unicorn couldn't pull off three portals in less than an hour without side effects!"
"Don't worry, I'll be fine," she said. "We'll just leave this little adventure alone, until it's time to return to our friends in Ponyland..."
