It's Dinky Hooves here. Wow, I still haven't gotten used to writing letters to you. I suppose I should be, considering that I'm the bearer of the Element of Laughter and all. Come to think of it, I still can't believe I'm the bearer of Laughter!Oh, right. I forgot, I'm supposed to be telling you about friendship. Okay, well, I should probably start from the beginning. You already know some of this story, but not all. Here goes!
It all started on a dark and stormy night. Sounds cliche, right?But it was actually true. My friends, Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Pipsqueak, and Babs Seed were sitting in the one of the Sugarcube Corner's back rooms an chatting. Pinkie Pie, Mrs Cake, and Mr Cake had all passed away, and it was now owned by Pumpkin and Pound Cake, the Cake's two twins. Me and my friends had met to discuss what was going to happen now that the last bearer of the Elements of Harmony had passed away, Twilight Sparkle.
"Ah dunno. Ah think that if th' Princess wanted us ta do something, she woulda told us." Apple Bloom said.
"Well, I think we should still be working on finding new bearers," Sweetie Belle said. "After all, what if a dragon or something comes and attacks Equestria before the Princess finds new bearers by herself?!"
"But we could get in trouble!" Pipsqueak gasped.
"Well, would you rather have a dragon eat you?" Scoots scoffed.
"N..no." Pip said.
"See? Thought not. Now, all in favor of finding new bearers for the Elements of Harmony, say AYE!" Sweetie said.
"Wait!" I interrupted. "Why do we even want to find bearers ourselves?" "I thought I just explained why!" Sweetie said to me. "Yeah, but that's not a reasonable enough reason, so there must be some other reason, too!" I reasoned with reason, reasonably.(What?) Sweetie sighed before saying,"Okay, you got me there. I want to find the bearers ourselves so that we can make sure they're not awful, because I know Rarity would hate if her element were given to just anypony."
"Oh, that mahkes sense, I suppose." Babs said.
"Well, ah do wanna make sure it's somepony nice..." Apple Bloom agreed.
"Yup, that makes waayy more sense." Scoots said.
"Yeah, I suppose so." Said Pipsqueak.
"But will it matter if we find the bearers ourselves or not? Any way, there is only one set of bearers at a time, so it wouldn't matter if we found them or if Celestia did. Or even if a timberwolf did! Or a squirrel. Or a bunny. Or a...."I pointed out.
"But we don't know that for sure!," Sweetie interrupted. I sighed. It looked like I wasn't going to be able to talk my way out of this wild mule chase, so I'd just have to go along. Meh, maybe we wouldn't get in too much trouble, I thought. With Scootaloo and the rest involved, though, we probably would. Hey, there might even be muffins on this adventure! Mmm, muffins...oops, sorry, I got distracted!
Okay, so the next morning, we were totally prepared to go on an awesome adventure to find the bearers! Babs and Scoot and Bloom and Pip and Sweetie and I had met by my cottage, and we were all packed up and ready to go. Pip bounced a little in place before saying, "So where do we start?!"
"Uh...good question." Sweetie said.
"Wait, ya mean y'all don't have a plan?" Bloom drawled.
"Hey, just because I came up with the plan doesn't mean I actually have a plan!" Sweetie Belle said.
I face-hoofed. "So, does anypony actually have a plan?" I said.
Scanning the sheepish faces of the ponies around me, I could tell the answer was no. "Okie Doke, here's the plan, then. We each grab an element which we've stolen from the royal castle, and conceal it in our cloaks which we'll buy and then we'll get a hot-air balloon and soar above Equestria in it and randomly drop down the elements on ponies and if they light up they'll have landed on a bearer's head, but we'll have to wear ninja masks so nopony suspects a thing because ninjas are totally unsuspicious-looking and then after we find all the bearers we kidnap them and make them go to Princess Celestia and then when she sees them she'll know they must be the bearers so then she'll be happy and everypony will be happy and everypony will get muffins and live happily ever after!" I said, grinning as I finished my brilliant plan.
"Oorrr we could just give ponies intahviews for a "story," and the ponies who sound most bearer-like in their intahviews will probably be the bearahs?" Babs said.
"Oh, yeah, that works too, if you want to be a party-pooper!" I grumped. Everypony else obviously thought that Bab's plan was great, so we spent the next few hours interviewing random ponies! Sounds fun, but believe me, some ponies sure did like to complain about their problems to us! Eh, they're just complainy-pants, because they only complained more when I offered to give them muffins! Weirdos!
Oh, right. The story. Anyway, after a while, we gave up. We had spent the past seven hours interviewing ponies and we hadn't met with any success! There was no way we could interview all of Equestria to find the bearers! It would take forever! And forever is a reeaally long time! So Sweetie admitted we would just let the Princess find the bearers and we should all just go to sleep. I decided, though, seeing how depressed poor Sweetie was, that I'd try out my plan without telling her! Yeah, that didn't go too well. Anyway, I'm running out of paper so this is the end of the letter for now! I'll write and finish the story later!
It's me again, Dinky! So, last time I ran out of paper before I could finish the story. So now I'll finish it!
Okay, so I had decided to carry out my plan without telling the others so that Sweetie wouldn't be so sad about not finding the bearers. Of course, the first problem I encountered with my plan was that you had the Elements locked up in your castle. No problem, I'd just "borrow" them!
So I put on a ninja mask because ninjas are awesome, then I got on a train for Canterlot. A lot of ponies in the train stared at me kinda funny, but I don't get why. Oh, wait, it was probably because I was dressed like a ninja-pony. Anyway, when we got to Canterlot, I got out of the train and got in full spy mode, complete with a trench-coat and Groucho Marex glasses! Wait, I was already wearing a ninja suit, I was mixing up disguises. Oh well, three disguises is better than one!
So I sneaked to the palace, where I was confronted with a problem. There were guards everywhere! I face-hoofed and reminded myself that one does not simply trot into the Royal Castle. So, I went around the city gathering supplies, and when I finally had all the stuff, I made a parachute! I was going to parachute down into the Castle from an overhanging tree-branch! So I got my parachute, which I had nicknamed Archibald by then, then I scurried up the tree to the overhanging branch and parachuted down!
Yeah, the plan would have worked better if the Castle didn't have a roof. It did, though, so then I decided to just teleport inside instead. I know what you're thinking, the Castle has anti-teleportation spells on it, but Twilight had taught me how to teleport past those with a special spell! Twilight was the best, I thought to myself as I teleported into an empty storeroom near where the Elements of Harmony were kept.
I peeked my head out the door of the storeroom and gasped. There were guards guarding the Elements of Harmony! I started to come up with a plan before I remembered, I can just teleport so I'm right next to the Elements! So I tried to, but then I got knocked back by a super-strong force field around the Elements!
Okay, now I was seriously in trouble. All the guards had surrounded me, and it looked like there was no way I could get out, since they had made a second, stronger magic force-field around me! I sheepishly scrambled to my feet and asked them if there was any chance they could let me borrow the Elements?
Yeah, they said no. Just then, though, Sweetie Belle and the rest came running inside with you, Princess Celestia!
"Dinky, whatever possessed you to try and carry out your plan?" Sweetie groaned.
"Uh..." I eloquently said.
"We figured since we couldn't find you in Ponyville, you must have come here to try out your plan!" Scoot cried, obviously proud of her logic.
"Uh..." I repeated.
Then you, Celestia, said, "Dinky, why are you here? Sweetie Belle and the rest just told me that they thought you were here, then they insisted on coming here immediately to make sure you were okay."
"To steal the Elements of Harmony?" I lamely said.
"But whyever would you want to do that?!" Celestia said.
"Because Sweetie wanted to find te bearers herself so she could make sure they were nice ponies, but she couldn't so I decided to find them for her!" I blurted.
You smiled and said, "When did I ever say you couldn't just ask to help find the bearers?"
We all gaped at you. "Wait, seriously?" Pip said.
"Yes! But I think it's unfortunately a bit too late for that, since I have already found bearers." You smiled again.
Sweetie cried, "Wait, what?! Well are they at least ponies that my sis would approve of?!"
"Yes, I think that she would very much approve of them." You said, looking at Sweetie Belle. "Now, Sweetie, would you please step forward for a second?"
You levitated the Element of Magic out of the force field. "I believe that you and your friends are the bearers."
This time we all cried, "Wait, what?!"
You just reached for the other elements with your magic and laid them on our heads. I suddenly felt the strangest bursting sensation inside of me, as I lifted slightly of the floor. I felt like I could laugh forever and the whole universe would laugh with me and everypony would be happy again!
As I slowly returned to the floor, I noticed that my friend's were doing the same thing. The elements on them had each changed to match their cutie marks.
You looked at us and said, "Sweetie Belle. You may not know it now, but you have much magic inside your heart. You are the Element of Magic," then you turned to Apple Bloom and said, "Apple Bloom. Even though you are often busy, you are always willing to give time up to help your friends. You are the Element of Generosity," then you turned to Pipsqueak and said, "Pipsqueak. You are always willing to listen to other ponies' problems and help them through it. You are the Element of Kindness," then you turned to me and said, "Dinky Hooves, you are always trying to make everypony smiling and happy. You are the Element of Laughter," then turned to Babs and said, "Babs Seed, you may appear rude at first, but once you become friends with a pony, you never let them down, you are the Element of Loyalty," then finally you turned to Scoot and said, "Scootaloo, you always tell the truth, no matter how hard it may be. You are the Element of Honesty."
We all ran and hugged each other, and everypony was really happy. I even ran up to you and hugged you, saying, "Thanks so much! This is so awesome and fun! You're not going to get me in trouble for trying to steal the Elements, right?" I grinned at you. You just chuckled and hugged me back. Then, we all threw a huge party with lots of muffins to celebrate that we had found out we were the new bearers!
Anyways, after all that stuff, we headed back home to Ponyville. I smiled to myself as I thought of all the stuff that had happened today, and now, with us as bearers, what could possibly go wrong?
