Chapter 1:Remembering

Pinkamena Takes Over

The Remake

Chapter 1

Notice:This is an remake of an story that is based from a song called Something Broke: The Continuing Tale Of Pinkie Pie and Ponycide created by TarbyRocks, I'm remaking this story to fix the errors, plotholes, and make it stronger. Credit to TarbyRocks and thanks to VozDeSuenos for if it wasn't for him me and MrE380 wouldn't have made this fanfic, MLP FIM is (c) to the Hub, Hasbro and Lauren Faust. Shadow is (c) to MrE380, all rights reserved. Also if you want to read the original version of this story just message me and I’ll link it.

It was a sunny day in Equestria, an beautiful day with not a cloud in sight. It looks like the Pegasus wanted a day off, most of them were still tired from the computation they had the other day, and Rainbow Dash, still being her normal Rainbow Dash self was still bragging about how awesome it was to hang out with the Wonderbolts that day. She talked about it like it lasted for months.

The birds were singing a great little tune and little rabbits were hopping about in happy pairs, the wind blew calmly with the leafs in veriest trees blowing along with it, sometimes whistling in the wind. It was such a lovely day, everypony was outside enjoying the sun. Everypony except for Pinkie Pie that is, she was sitting down at a table in the middle of town eating a sundae. She was thinking about the Best Young Flyers Competition, and about Rainbow Dash's sonic rainboom.

While she was deep in thought Rainbow Dash was flying in the air just enjoying life, when she notices Pinkie Pie wasn’t really being her usual Pinkie Pie self. A bit worried she flew down right above her head, Pinkie Pie being unaware of Rainbow Dash kept on thinking.

"Are you OK Pinkie?" Pinkie Pie jump when she heard Rainbow Dash, as she fell her back hit the ground and she twitched a little.

"Oh Dashie you scared me." She said through her back pain.

"Hehe, sorry about that." Rainbow Dash said landing on the ground.

"Is everything OK Pinkie Pie? You're not being your usual self." Suddenly Pinkie Pie stood straight up and had her usual smile on her face, but Rainbow Dash didn’t mind the smile, in fact she welcomes it sometimes.

"Oh I'm perfectly fine Rainbow Dash just thinking, how about you?" Pinkie Pie asked as she went back to eating her sundae.

Rainbow Dash rubbed the back of her head, "I got an old friend coming over from Green Pains, want to make a party for him?" she asked hoping it wasn’t too much.
Pinkie Pie jump at the chance to greet any new pony coming into Equestria, “Sure! Oh I gotta set up Sugarcube Corner!” she said jumping up and down with joy. “I gotta get party supplies, you can finish my sundae Dashie I gotta get started!” Pinkie Pie smiled as she took off and got right into the party planning before Rainbow Dash could even tell her about her friend.

Rainbow Dash rubbed her head again, “Pinkie Pie sure is the hyper and quick type.” she told herself. With a quick stare she pushed Pinkie Pie’s sundae a few inches away from her, then quickly took flight again.

Over at a distance wasteland is a place called Green Plains, it's not a long ways from where Rainbow Dash lives over in Equestria, if you’re a Pegasus that is. Somewhere outside there was a blue horse, with green eyes and had a cutie mark of a heart talking to a close friend.

"Your leaving Shadow?" Ask Blue in confusion as Shadow had to repeat his friend what he just told him three seconds ago.

"I told you Blue, I am going to Equestria to meet a friend over there." Shadow was a black Pegasus with the cutie mark of a Yin-Yang symbol, he also had blue eyes.

"Remember the last time you went over there? You got banned from the princess and got thrown out by her guards, and was warned never to go back over there again." Blue reminded Shadow.

Shadow just laugh at the memory, as if it was not a big deal to him. "I told you Blue, I have a friend over there and she is able to get me inside there to help her celebrate a computation that she had yesterday."

Before Blue could even say the name that came to his mind when Shadow said the word computation, Shadow was already gone and was heading to Equestria leaving Blue wondering how he moves so fast.

Back at Ponyville Pinkie Pie was at SugarCube Corner, setting up party decorations, "La la la laaaaa.~" Pinkie Pie sang while setting up balloons, she loves to throw and attend parties, in fact she thinks she's the best at parties.

She looked around the room and saw everything was in place, now she just needs to invite ponies, which is usually everypony in town. She was so happy to greet a new pony who was coming over for a visit, so happy in fact she forgot all about the sonic rainboom.

"Okie dokie, everything is in place…wait what's this?" Pinkie Pie suddenly notices one of the many streamers wasn't hanging right.

She quickly got a small chair and sat it below the streamer, she got on top of the chair and tried to reach for it. She was having trouble reaching it however as balancing on a chair was hard, so she tried stretching herself. As she was doing that the chair was wobbling a little, when Pinkie Pie leaned forward to the streamer too much and the chair tipped over causing Pinkie Pie to fall hitting her head off the edge of a table.

"Ow...guess I leaned too much..." Pinkie Pie said laying on the floor.

She tried to get up but her head was hurting, she rubbed it but that made it worse. After she was finally able to get up she went to get something for her headache, when she suddenly had a flashback,. It was a sonic rainboom, the one Pinkie Pie was trying to remember earlier. Pinkie Pie even though her head was in pain was trying to remember the area which the flash in her head was, but with no luck.

"Aw cupcakes, I finally remembered where I saw that sonic rainboom, but now I don't know where it was." she told herself while rubbing her head.

As she took some headache pills she suddenly remembered something, Twilight had a memory spell she used to help Rarity remember where she left her work glasses once, and used it to restore her friends back to normal after being Discorded that one time. Maybe Twilight could help her to remember more about that flashback!

Pinkie Pie decided to do just that, she hated not being able to remember things, and maybe it'll help her to better remember her childhood. First she really needed to get her head better, she could find Twilight later, but right now she has a too bad of a headache to do anything right now.

A few hours later Pinkie Pie arrived at Twilight's house, she knocked on the door excitedly and after a few minutes Twilight finally open the door.

"Oh hi Pinkie, can I help you?" Twilight asked with a smile.

"Well I was wondering if you could use that memory spell of yours that you used to help Rarity before." Pinkie Pie told her as she hopped in place.

Twilight thought back and remembered the exact spell she meant, "Sure I can try, why lost something?" She asked letting Pinkie Pie inside.

"Yes, well no. Not exactly, see I'm having trouble remembering my past." Pinkie Pie told Twilight as she walked in and sat by a nearby table.

"So you want me to help you remember?" Twilight asked closing the door and
going to get the book that shows how to perform the spell Pinkie Pie wanted.

"Yes, I just can't remember it myself." Pinkie told her with a sigh, she really hated not being able to remember stuff.

Twilight quickly found the book and began reading it before looking up at Pinkie Pie, "Well the type of spell you want sometimes takes a bit of time to work." she told her.

Pinkie Pie was confused by that, "What you mean it takes time?" she asked.

"Well depending on the pony, or how much you want to remember, it can work right away or take a few minutes to hours to work. But it always works within one day." Twilight explained.

Pinkie Pie nodded ready for her to try the spell, Twilight put her book down and walked over to Pinkie Pie. She put her horn over Pinkie Pie's head and performed the spell, her horn lit up for a few minutes then went back to normal.

"...That's it?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"Yep, just give it a few, it'll work soon." Twilight told her.

"Okie dokie lokie, well I better get back to the party planning. Can you do me a quick favor and invite our friends? I still got to get everything set up, see you later alligator." Pinkie Pie said then skipped happily back to Sugarcube Corner excited.

Twilight watched as Pinkie Pie went off, she rolled her eyes with a smile on her face, she was happy that she could help out her friend but she kind of wonder what was in Pinkie Pie’s mind that she forgot. "Anything could happen if you go into her mind". She told herself.

Later Pinkie Pie had everything for the party all set up, all that was left was for Rainbow Dash's friend to show up. Pinkie Pie was in her room looking in the mirror, "That was a lot of work, but oh so worth it." she told herself.

She picked up her book that she kept her recipes in, it was pink and was covered with yellow flowers. “Hm, wonder if Dashie’s friend like chocolate cake?” She asked herself, as she was reading flashes suddenly started to go through her head.

At first it scared her but soon realized it must've been Twilight's memory spell taking effect, as the flash went through her mind she giggled at her childhood memories. Then the memory of that sonic rainboom was finally revealed, along with it was the memory of how she got her Cutie Mark. Among her childhood memories were memories of her family, and her sisters.

She forgot how she and her sisters were once close, heck she even almost forgot she had sisters by how far apart and distance they are now. She was almost giggling with tears of joy by these old forgotten memories, but then she remembered more memories that made her stop giggling.

“Wh-wha...” She asked herself as these memories had a different feel, as they continued her mane and tail flatten. Her Pinkie Pie smile was gone, new memories were coming back that were filled with sadness.

Pinkie Pie at first was uneasy at these new memories, but after more violent ones went through her head she grabbed her head dropping the book.

"No...no...stop...STOP!" She cried wanting the memories to go away.

As the memories were getting so violent it suddenly hit her, why she couldn't remember, they were suppressed memories that she never wanted to remember. The more she remembered the more she remembered the pain she felt when she was a filly and felt something that she hasn't felt in years...pain.

After a full ten minutes the memories stopped, Pinkie Pie laid her head down in tears. She had finally remembered her childhood, all of it, but she wished she hadn't now. "I-I feel woozy..." Pinkie Pie said holding her stomach.

She thought she was going to throw up, she was speechless as to what to say. She wished she never asked Twilight to use her memory spell, "I haven't felt like this since I was a filly." she told herself, remembering the suffering she had went through as a filly.

"Oh Celestia, why did...? Now I remember just how it scarred me..." She said remembering something, but didn’t want to think about it.

Pinkie Pie didn't know what to do, she felt so sick, she wanted the memories to go away again, she was in tears at the memories of her violent past. "Aw don't cry...Pinkie..." A voice said causing Pinkie Pie to jump.

Her hair flew back together and her color was coming back, she didn’t even knew her pink was going away when she was crying in pain. She turned and looked around, but saw no pony was around, maybe she was hearing things. She turned back to her mirror and immediately jumped backwards falling out of her chair, in her mirror was a reflection of her, but it was different.

Her reflection was a darker shade then she was, and her mane and tail was flatten, and her face looked like the face of an insane pony, "W-Who are...you..?" Pinkie Pie asked terrified.

Her reflection giggled in a distorted version of Pinkie's voice that sent shivers down her spine,
"Hehehe....I'm you...your true self...I'm Pinkamena Diane Pie..." her reflection told her.

Pinkie Pie was crawling backwards out of fear, "B-But I haven't been Pinkamena since I left my life on a rock farm behind me." she told her reflection who giggled more.

"Oh my dear little Pinkie Pie...you can never escape your past..." Her reflection told her.

"What do you want..?" Pinkie Pie asked too scared of the answer, she took a few breaths then slowly stood up awaiting an answer.

Her reflection giggled with an unnatural smile, then she said. "To kill..."

Pinkie Pie stepped backwards with a blank look on her, "K-Kill..!?" she asked in
shocked.

"Yes...Like before...when we..."

"NONONONONO I'm not listening!" Pinkie Pie yelled covering her ears.

She held her ears and kept her eyes shut for a good few minutes, after a bit of silence she looked at the mirror and saw that her reflection was back to normal. She thought she was going mad, after a bit of quick thinking she decided it was just her random mind playing with her, but she wanted to be around ponies, before she goes even madder.

Over at Cloudsdale Shadow found out where his friend Rainbow Dash lives, he didn't even bother knocking on the door, he just slammed his way through yelling at the top of his lungs, but when he stopped he notice that there was no one home.

After a few seconds a voice so soft that you could almost mute it came from behind him and said. "Hello?"

Shadow turned around to see Fluttershy, he knows everypony here through his friend Rainbow Dash's notes, but he said nothing but a friendly hello back.

"Rainbow Dash is not here at the moment." Fluttershy whispered in her shy tune, “Wh…who are you?” she asked.

“My name is Shadow, I am looking for a Pegasus that is blue…but she has rainbow hair you can’t miss her.” He explained.

“Oh…yes…her name is Rainbow Dash, she is a wonderful friend of mine, and what do you need her for?” Fluttershy asked still in her shy and nervous tune.

Shadow paused for a second and smiled, but he got rid of his smile as soon as he started to have the flashbacks from the last time he was here, and he didn’t wanted to be rude in front of Fluttershy. “She wrote me saying that I have to come here A.S.A.P. but she is not around now is she?”

“No I’m sorry you just missed her, she left not too long ago.” Fluttershy answered.

“Well…I guess I can wait, do you think you can show me around a bit?”

Suddenly there was laughter in the air, as Shadow and Fluttershy look up to the sky they notice their friend Rainbow Dash laughing. “Flirting with Fluttershy Shadow? You used that trick on me!” She laughed.

Shadow blush with embarrassment, Rainbow Dash was laughing so hard that she fell from the sky onto the cloud, she laughed until she started to cry. “I’m glad you could make it Shadow.” Rainbow Dash said as she stood up and gave him the tightest hug that you could give someone.

But she may have made it too tight as Shadow desperately tried to get air back into his lungs, he tap his friend on her shoulder in order for her to let go, his eyes were about to pop out any seconded from now if his friend did not let go fast enough.

"I really am glad the princess allowed you to come Shadow, how long are you planning on staying?" Rainbow Dash asked easing the hug up a bit so her friend could breathe.

Still wheezing for air he said in between breaths. "Only for a few days...maybe three."

"That’s cool, you already know Fluttershy don't you?" Rainbow Dash asked letting Shadow go.

After Shadow caught his breath again he turned to see Fluttershy, but being Fluttershy she
just hid behind her friend again. She remembers her last friend she had over and was worried that he might also be like her.

Shadow nodded his head, "We met." he said giving Fluttershy a slight smile,. This made Fluttershy feel more comfortable around the new Pegasus., but just a little.

"I am glad that everypony is going to get to know you Shadow, there is a party that is being set up for my awesome victory yesterday and for your arrival." Rainbow Dashed smiled excited.

"Rainbow I'm not famous why would you be throwing a party for me?"

"Oh I’m not the one who will be throwing it Shad, my good friend Pinkie Pie is, you got to meet her. She is the most random pony I ever met, and there is also Twilight, Applejack, and Rarity!"

Shadow never seen Rainbow Dash this excited before, it has been a while, many years to tell the truth since he saw his friend again. Shadow gave her friend a welcoming smile and said, "I can't wait." with a little bit of worry in the back of his mind.

“Pinkie Pie should have the party all planned out by now, we just got to wait for the invitation. But in the meantime...” Rainbow Dash looked over Shadow and stared at her front door, “maybe you could fix my door that you broke down?” she laughed.

Back at Ponyville Pinkie Pie was walking through town looking for her friends, she was still thinking about her memories that came back and her little reflection in her mirror, Pinkamena. Soon she came to Fluttershy's house, she was lost in a trance and did not even know where she ended up until she bumped into her mailbox, “Ouch...” she said as she rubbed her nose.

Noticing where she was she got a big grin on her face, but it turned back to a frown as she saw that Fluttershy wasn't at home. Disappointed she went off to Twilight's, it didn’t take too long as soon she was at her front door and she immediately knocked on it hoping she was at home.

"Oh hi Pinkie." Said a voice from behind Pinkie causing her to jump.

Pinkie Pie quickly turned around and was relieved to see it was only Twilight ,she was carrying a saddle bag filled with paper that Pinkie Pie recognised.

"Sorry I didn't mean to scare you,” Twilight said as she walked by Pinkie Pie opening her door, “I just got done sending out your invitations." Twilight told Pinkie Pie as she was walking inside.

"Oh i-it's OK Twilight." Pinkie replied following her.

"So what brings you here? Did that memory spell work yet?" Twilight asked putting her bags away.

Pinkie Pie looked down moving her right hoof in a circle like she was about to be in trouble. "W-Well...no. No it hasn't." Pinkie said biting her lip. She wouldn't dare tell her friend what her real past was, but at the same time she felt as if she had to talk to somepony about it.

"Well don't worry it will soon." Twilight replied unaware of the lie.

"Hey twilight..I'm running behind on the party can you use a spell to change the the invitations for tomorrow?" Pinkie Pie asked embarrassed.

"Sure Pinkie, but it's going to use a little bit of a difficult type of magic and I need to look up in a book on how to do it, but that's possible, what day you want them for? Sunday?" Twilight asked with a smile.

"That will be fine." Pinkie Pie said looking at the ground not even making eye contact to Twilight.

"But why are you running late you never run late for parties? If I recall, you even worked through an entire night just to make a party?" Twilight asked starting to feel like there’s something she wasn’t being told.

"Its just that I ran out of stuff and the stores are close for the night, I forgot to get them first in my excitement...." Pinkie Pie answered her.

Twilight stared at her confused, she wasn't acting like herself.. "Pinkie Pie...is there something wrong?" She asked worried.

Pinkie Pie almost jumped backwards out of fear, she was hoping she could hide her feelings but guess that’s impossible for a mare like her, since she was usually overly happy whenever she has something troubling her everypony could tell just by the lack of her cheers.

"Huh? Oh no...why would you say that?" She asked with a worry looked.

"You're late for a party, and normally I see you jumping up and down all the time just at the mere thought of a party." Twilight explained.

"Oh......I hurt myself working so I'm a little down." Pinkie Pie said rubbing her head which was still shore, she wasn’t lying as she did hurt herself but that was not the real reason why she was late for the party. She wasn’t even late for the party at all, she just lost all of her energy for today.

"Do you need some medication? " Twilight asked more worried as she walked up looking at where Pinkie Pie rubbed her head..

"No I'm fine...” Pinkie Pie said as she pushed Twilight away, “I just need to get some air that's all." she giggled trying to change the subject.

"OK, well just don't over work yourself Pinkie Pie, I worry about you but whenever you do need me, I’ll be here." Twilight said with a smile.

Pinkie Pie wanted to tell Twilight about the memories she helped her to remember so badly, but she was scared too. A quick look at Twilight’s clock showed it was getting close to around midnight, even tho she wanted to be around somepony she knew she shouldn't keep them up. Besides, maybe she’ll forget them later like she did all those years ago.

"It's getting very late, I better get on home." Pinkie Pie told Twilight as she started to walk towards the door.

"OK Pinkie, take care." Twilight replied.

On her way out she stopped thinking about something, she wanted to ask Twilight about it but was unsure. She decided not to bother her and should just go home.

"Hey Pinkie?" Twilight asked stopping her just in time.

"Y-Yeah?" Pinkie Pie stopped at the door and turned around to see what Twilight wanted.

"Are you sure you're OK?" Twilight asked still worried and her face surely shows that.

Pinkie Pie stared at her confused, why she was so worried about her? Their just friends, friends...why did that word made her feel so awful now? "I'm fine silly." She replied with a slight nod and smile, "Just got a headache that's all." she told her.

"Well OK then...well be careful don't want you to end up in the hospital." Twilight told her.

Pinkie Pie giggled like her usual self. "Oh silly it's just a headache nothing that bad, okie dokie?"

"Yeah guess you're right. Still, I worry about you sometimes." Twilight replied.

That made Pinkie Pie stopped giggling and gave her a look of surprise, "How come?" she asked.

"Well for starters you're so random which I don't mind, second the fact that you needed a memory spell to remember your childhood. That makes it seems like you either had a bad childhood and locked the memories away subconsciously, or something happen like you had a terrible accident." Twilight explained.

As she kept on explaining Pinkie Pie was listening and trying to remember if what she was saying really happen, but it was too painful to think right now

"And another thin...oops was I scolding again?" Twilight facehoof herself, "Sorry about that I scold so much I sometimes think I need therapy for it." She giggled.

Just then a flash popped into Pinkie Pie's head, normally she would've freaked out or thought more on it but didn't want to show any signs to Twilight. But it did made her more feel terrible, "I-I gotta go, see you later." she said before running out of the door.

Twilight watched as Pinkie Pie ran out of view, "Hm...something's not right, Pinkie isn't acting like herself." She thought to herself. She knew she was hiding something, but thought it would best if she let it go for the night.

When Pinkie Pie was a few minutes from home she started to slow down and started walking, with nothing but the moonlight lighting her way. She was thinking about that new flashback of her as a filly, taking therapy for something horrible that she can't or didn't want to remember. She knew it had something to do with other ponies she knew as an filly.

"Why do I keep remembering these bad memories?" She asked herself, she stopped and looked at herself in a small puddle. She sighed wanting these memories to disappear, and to be her usual happy self again.

"Pinkie~..." A voice said out of nowhere.

Pinkie quickly jumped up looking around fastly, and saw no pony was around. They were all probably asleep or at least inside their homes. As she was looking around she caught herself in a display mirror, suddenly she remembered that moment from earlier. She gulped and slowly turned back to the puddle wishing she was wrong, but she wasn't, in the puddle was Pinkamena.

"Oh no...not you again I was hoping that wasn't real..." She said not wanting to talk with her alter ego, that word made her shiver for some odd reason.

Pinkamena just giggled in her distorted voice making Pinkie Pie uneasy. "Well Pinkie Pie do you...remember yet..?" She asked holding her hooves up to her mouth giggling.

"Remember what?" She asked, but knew she didn’t want the answer.

"Our...father..." Pinkamena replied making a weird face.

Pinkie Pie did remember him, and how he just disappeared one day. But she knew that wasn't what her alter ego meant, then she started to remember something about thirteen days where something got worse, then she remembered something bad happen during those thirteen days then...nothing, that must’ve been when she locked those bad memories away.

"I...I remember something, really bad happen. But what?" She asked Pinkamena.

Pinkamena just giggled and floated around in the puddle, "Oh the thirteen days? Hahaha...I can...show you what happen...if you want to remember but...you won't like it hehehe..." she giggled.

"I need to know, I'm gonna regret it but I just gotta..." She told herself, she just had to know. Maybe then she could move on from them.

Pinkamena smiled a wide, unnerving smile. Then she disappeared and in her place was a scene of some sort, as Pinkie Pie watched she saw it was the rock farm she used to live on, as it continued it seemed like a nightmare.

She was seeing her past, but wished she hadn't asked to see it as it got to her getting abused by somepony. She turned away but in her shock and dismay, everywhere her reflection should be at was replaced by the memories. Soon she started to cover her ears as she heard herself screaming.

"No...no...NO PLEASE! Make it stop!" She cried out in tears.

She saw herself abused and how much she was crying, then out of nowhere she saw herself pushing the pony away and running. She was scared as to what is about to happen next. She saw herself being chased by this unknown pony as she ran into a barn and hid on the top floor in some hay.

It didn't take long for him to find her tho, and he was more madder than ever. It looked like he was about to kill her as he raised a hoof to slap her, when suddenly somepony tackled him. It was her father, he was yelling at Pinkie Pie to run away as he engaged the enraged pony in a hoof fight.

But she was too frightened to move, she just watched the two stallions fight and saw them started to bleed a little. She wished for this to just end, and suddenly it did. Her father saw she was still there and yelled at her to go, the other pony took this chance to take out a knife he had hidden and tackled her father stabbing him in the back. With a metal sound he ripped it out and threw her father to the second floor. There was a scream followed by a loud thud, Pinkie Pie could hear her crying for her father, the pony carefully looked over the edge and laughed.

She could see her father’s blood dripping from the knife, suddenly Pinkie Pie heard herself talking but she knew it wasn't her by the voice tune. It was different but familiar at the same time, and what she was saying made no sense. She then notice the pony taking a heavy rock that was used to keep the hay ben close at night up and was about to throw it down to where her father fell, Pinkie Pie saw herself screaming as she grabbing a pitchfork and suddenly stabbed him with it.

She grabbed her mouth at seeing this, she saw herself pushing him off the top floor and suddenly became frozen. She stared at the blood dripping from the pitchfork and she just dropped it, and fell to her knees crying calling for her father, there the flash ended as Pinkamena took it place. Pinkie Pie was in complete shock, she couldn't move or speak at all.

"Now do you remember..?" Pinkamena asked, “There’s more to it but...you seen enough for now." she said.

Pinkie Pie was too much in tears to even reply, “We killed the pony that abused us...that killed our father...after so much pain he gave us he deserved it...” Pinkamena explained, “But we can't stop there...remember how everypony else but your sisters hurt you after that? Remember the therapy we had that made you forget everything!?” Pinkamena snapped but quickly held her mouth afterwards, a second later she started laughing. “ Hahaha...Now we can finish what we started so many years ago..." She told Pinkie Pie reaching a hoof out, as a sign she wanted to help.

"No..." Pinkie Pie replied barely looking away, but Pinkamena was everywhere her reflect was so she couldn’t ignore her easily.

"What? Why not? Don't you wan..." Pinkie Pie suddenly interrupts her by throwing a small rock at the puddle she first appeared in, Pinkamena looked at her like she was crazy, then just for giggles she grabbed her chest like she was hit then fell over..

"That was years ago! No pony does that to me anymore." She says in a very upset voice.

"Are you sure..? They might..." Pinkamena giggled standing back up.

Pinkie Pie stared at the puddle staring into her alter ego's face, "My friends will never hurt me, and you can't get me to hurt anypony anyways!" she told her alter ego who just looked unamused.

Pinkamena then started to laugh in an unnerving way, "Remember your first friends? Same friendship, but that turned into them hurting you too and you thought they wouldn't. So you can never know...until it's too late..." she explained just as another image was coming into view.

Pinkie Pie didn't want to listen so she rammed a hoof into the puddle stopping it, but knew she was right as she started to remember the friends she had before she came to Ponyville. But she didn't care, she had so many wonderful friends here. Pinkamena was just getting tired at Pinkie Pie's new self, she was stronger than she was as a filly and so...happy about friendship.

"Look Pinkamena I left my life behind me when those memories got locked away, my friends won't hurt me like my old ones did. I have a happy life here and there’s nothing you can do, say, or show me that’ll change my mind." She said hoping she was right.

"Hahaha...sure but what about...others..?" Pinkamena asked with a sadistic smile.

Pinkie Pie didn't answer which made her smile more to the point of looking unstable, she knew how to get to Pinkie Pie now. "Remember the thirteen days Pinkie...remember the pain...the sadness...The suffering we went through!" She told her.

"NO!" Pinkie Pie yelled as loud as she could.

Pinkamena was getting frustrated and it was showing very clearly as she started to look furious, but her face returned to normal as she notices a pony coming towards them. She looked and saw that Pinkie Pie was too busy talking and she hadn't even noticed, she smiled and waited.

"I'm not gonna hurt anypony, even tho I wanted too back then...Oh the pain I felt...” Pinkie Pie had to stop for a moment so she could wipe a tear away, “But that's in the past, yes all my friends turned on me after...that event, but I can't change it and so what can I do? What am I to say? Who would listen to it anyways? I don't want anypony to know about my past and the thirteen days..." Pinkie Pie told her alter ego her face nearly wet by her tears.

As she was talking she couldn't help but think about her past, and the more she did the more pain and sadness she felt from remembering them.

"Who was there for me but my sisters? No nopony but them took me seriously! I gave and gave, and they all used me..." Pinkie was starting to cry feeling hatred and becoming unstable from it.

"No pony cared for me back then...no pony...but...” Pinkie Pie buried her face in her hooves crying, after about a minute she wiped her tears away and said. “But I left my home and life behind me...And now I can mov..." Before she could finish she was interrupted by somepony putting their hoof of her shoulder.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............."
A voice screamed soon afterwards as everything suddenly went black.

A few minutes went by and everything was still black, then out of nowhere Pinkie Pie regain her senses and saw nothing but the night sky. She blinked a bit then leaned upward, “What happen..?” she asked herself.

She placed a hoof over her head to rub it as she had a little headache, when suddenly she felt a weird taste in her mouth. She placed a hoof in her mouth and back out, she stared at her hoof in terror as it was covered in a red liquid. She started to panic and she turned over trying to stand up as she wanted to run home, but what she saw before her and made more terrified than ever.

Right in front of her was a mare, she immediately jumped backwards and grabbed her mouth wanting to scream. Then, she noticed the mare had her neck bitten out,, this made her remember the red liquid in her mouth. ".......What have I done..?" She asked herself as tears started to run down her face, again.

She tried to remember what happen, but she knew in her bit of anger and sadness she snapped when she felt that hoof, and killed this pony. "I-I didn't m-mean too...it was an a-accident...an accident..." She told herself trying to comfort herself.

"I lost my focus, now this pony is gone..." She cried so much the fur around her face was all messy with her tears.

But through her crying and tears she heard Pinkamena talking to her, "We need a plan or else we'll never make a day..." She told her.

"Where can I go? I just don't know!” Pinkie Pie was panicking too much and could barely think, she was scared another pony would show up and catch her. “It's not the kind of thing that normal ponies know, who would forgive me for this..?” She asked herself, suddenly a thought came into her mind. She didn’t like it but she was too afraid to think clearly, “I need to get rid of the evidence...Somehow..." Pinkie Pie told herself.

In her confusion and fear she started to listen to her alter ego, who started to sing a song that she somehow remembers. "Step by step, checking every detail...Hook and knife, bring the body down into the cellar..." Pinkamena sang as Pinkie Pie took the body back to SugarCube
Corner and down into the basement.

"Struggle as we place her on the table...Frantic as we wonder if we're able to go through with all that I have planned..." Pinkamena sung, Pinkie Pie was struggling as she really was scared, as she did everything Pinkamena told her Pinkie Pie’s mane and tail flatten, and her color darken, then she fell silent.

She was silent for a few minutes until she slowly looked up into a mirror, she smiled then picked up a knife. As she looked at it she sung, "So far all my actions were unmanned..You're under so much stress..." she giggled as she place the knife near the pony's neck.

"Bare the neck, make a deep incision...Smell the blood as it pours out upon the surface...” She sang as she cut the pony’s neck open, sniffing the blood like it was a newly baked cupcake. “Trying not to care for consequences knowing that I have no good defenses~..." She sang as she finished cutting the pony open and draining her blood.

"Thinking hard of what I'm gonna make her...Though I know I'll have to clean it up later...” She sung deep in thought, suddenly she notices few a image of Pinkie Pie with her friends.

Laughing a bit she picked up one of just her and Twilight, “Ahahaha...Silly little Pinkie, you've grown colder...Time for Pinkamina to take over!~ Finish up the job that we have started!~" She sang in a distorted tone as she hold the image closer to her chest.

She took the knife now covered with blood and smiled like she was insane, "Feed her to the vein and the coldhearted...Don't expect to hear that much rejection, everypony loves our main confection..." She sang as she started to lick the blood from the knife.

"So sweet and tasty~...Don't be too hasty and if they like them, then I'll still make them...” She sang as she suddenly threw the image of Pinkie Pie and Twilight down, shattering it.

“I trust no pony!~ They all are phony!~" She sang as she threw the knife into and shattering the mirror, "I know my target...This is all her fault!~ And when I'm through with you...hehehe...Twilight is gonna pay..." She giggled as she licked her blood covered hooves.

Chapter 2:The Past Returns

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It was in the middle of the night, a few hours passed the time when every pony should be asleep, but Shadow only got about three hours of sleep when he suddenly woke up. His years in the army didn’t offer much time to sleep, he had meant to start sleeping for the full eight hours again but been lazy towards it. But he isn’t lazy towards anything else as he uses the time to work, deciding to fix Rainbow Dash’s door that he had broken down earlier was the first thing he thought of for example. However, it did make a few squeaky noises which caused Rainbow Dash to wake up.

"Huh...who's there?" She ask very tirelessly, trying to keep her heavy eyelids open.

"Just me Rainbow, getting some air. Go back to sleep." Shadow told Rainbow Dash who without a word fell back on her nice soft cloud bed, falling fast asleep within seconds.

Shadow smiled at how fast his friend went to sleep, to make sure he wouldn’t wake her again though he had made earmuffs out of small pieces from her wall, which was made of clouds. Carefully placing them over her ears he went back to work and minutes later he was done, then simply headed out the door. The air in Cloud Dale while fresh, was very high. If you weren’t use to it, the air might make you feel light headed to the point of dizziness. But Rainbow Dash’s home wasn’t nearly as high as Cloud Dale, so Shadow managed to take in a big and deep inhale with no trouble.

After exhaling he decided to take a flight to Ponyville and within minutes landed right in the center of town, he wanted to see what that place was like during the night, due him usually being nocturnal. He saw it was pretty dark, the only other light that was on besides the street lights was a building with what looked like a giant cupcake as a roof. Walking closer he saw a sign hanging over the door that read Sugarcube Corner and when he knocked on the door, no answer came. He knocked again but still no answer, he knew the lights inside being on meant somepony was there.

His instincts was telling him to check it out, but another part of him told him that he is here to relax, it also told him it's going to be a fun day tomorrow and that there is nothing to worry about. There could be more than a thousand reasons why there is a light left on, so Shadow went on his way completely forgetting about it. As he was walking he heard the sound of a door opening, turning he saw the front door was still closed so maybe it was the back door he heard. Going around back his instinct was right, there looking around was a pink pony. Mane puffy and her light blue eyes were scanning the area, holding what looked like a sack close to her chest.

After about a minute she hopped to a nearby dumpster to throw the sack away, “Need any help miss?” the pony froze in place hearing Shadow speak.

The last pony that came up to her unexpectedly didn’t end so well, she turned around looking for the voice’s owner but saw no pony in sight. Shadow caught on that his black fur might be making him invisible, walking forward into some light he apologized. When the pony’s eyes locked on him she again froze, clutching her sack close while hearing Remain calm, kill him if he gets too close being whispered in the back of her mind. However, that smile on his face got rid of the idea of killing him, for now at least.

"The name is Shadow. Ex-Army, captain of the squad Free Fly." Shadow introduced himself, seeing the confused and whether scared look on the pony’s face he dips his head in respect. "Sorry about that miss, I introduce myself like that so many times it just comes naturally I guess."

The pony tilted her head looking at him, then she spoke “I’m Pinkie Pie.” before taking a step or two back.

“Your sack seems to be leaking, Miss Pie.” Shadow pointed out, making Pinkie Pie look at her sack in terror.

It was beginning to drip some kind of red liquid, she was in the midst of getting rid of that pony’s remains. She no longer needed what was left so Pinkie Pie was getting rid of her, however she wasn’t expecting any pony to be awake at this hour so she assumed it was the perfect time.

“J-Just some bake bads I made earlier.” Pinkie Pie lied, slowly stepping closer to the dumpster. “My alligator Gummy accidently set the stove too high, I figured cupcakes soup wouldn’t taste so good. So just throwing them out.”

“You put melted cupcakes into a sack?” Shadow asked, finding that decision very odd. “By the looks of the liquid, cherr---” he paused suddenly smelling something, but was unsure where it was coming from.

It was awful and was sure he smelt it before, he started to sniff the air trying to find out where it was coming from. Thinking fast Pinkie Pie blurted out “Cherry? Yyyyyyeeeeeaaaaahhhhh that’s it...just plain cherry cupcake soup.” while giggling nervously.

Brushing the odd smell off Shadow asked if he could help with her bag, she repeatedly shook her head no. Walking around to the dumpster's front, eyes focused on Shadow, she tossed the sack inside and gave Shadow a awkward smile. She wanted to kill him, but the fact that he was Ex-Army wouldn't make it easy. If she was going to do it then she had to get him while he least expects it, which was clearly not tonight.

"So you are the one I keep on hearing about, right? Nice to meet you Pinkie Pie, it's a bit late to do cleaning don't you think?" Shadow spent a lot of time in the Army so he could read others with ease, and questions like these came naturally to him.

Pinkie Pie not wanting to set off any alarms to the soldier said, "Oh no, no, no, no, no. Just with the Cake twins and preparing your party, which has to wait until Sunday now, I’ve been super bu---WAIT A MINUTE! You’re a new pony a new friend I gotta get to know!!” suddenly she became very happy and hopped closer to him.

Shadow smiled, "Make it for Rainbow Dash will you? I'm not famous, I don't need a party. Rainbow Dash was the one who won the computation, make it for her instead." he tells her making Pinkie Pie tilt her head again.

“O-Oh?” She was confused by that request but nodded slowly, "It's going to be for both of you then, I love making new friends!" she smiled hopping up and down.

"It's getting kind of late out, how about we talk more...over lunch?" Shadow asked, making Pinkie Pie come to a screeching halt while in mid air.

"You mean like a date!?" She asked in shock as she slowly lands, the first few seconds meeting a pony and she was already getting hit on? The ironic part of this was that they were right in front of the dumpster that Pinkie Pie had just threw a corpse inside of.

Shadow blushed, "Call it a date, call it hanging out. If you don't want to, or too busy that's fine by me, it's just late and I am sure you are tired." he says keeping his smile.

"Yes, it has been a long day and you can't possibly imagine what type of a day that I had...well maybe Shadow, I'm not saying no but I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring to me." Pinkie Pie smiles.

Shadow nodded his head and flew off leaving Pinkie Pie to ponder, is she going to be busy tomorrow or is she going to use the opportunity to murder Shadow? He doesn’t know anything but something about that Pegasus she did not like, was it because he was asking too many questions? Or was it because that he was Ex-Army and that he could find out easily?

If he goes missing before his party then every pony would know that something is wrong, so she decided it would be best to leave him alone. Maybe not even go on that date he offered, just stay low key and be careful until he leaves. Then she wouldn't have to watch her back and once he leaves, she could focus her attention on Twilight Sparkle.

She started to head back inside but stopped suddenly, that was really close and she was almost caught literally red hooved. She could hear Pinkamena giving her an idea, smiling at it with joy. She looked around to make sure no pony was else watching, then reopen the dumpster and took the sack back inside.
Meanwhile Twilight was hard at work, after Pinkie Pie’s visit earlier she was too worried to sleep. She knew her friends very well and felt something was off about Pinkie Pie, she thought her memory spell worked but it made her remember something awful. She wanted to ask her about it but she could be upset for another reason completely, so she didn’t want to risk asking until she was sure enough. An hour after Pinkie Pie left Twilight had sent a letter to the princess asking about Pinkie Pie’s family records.

Maybe she should have gotten them for Pinkie Pie instead but it didn’t cross her mind at the time, within about thirty minutes Spike had coughed up quite a few scrolls. She immediately went to the start of her family records as Spike staggered up to bed, Twilight had spent like three minutes on the first scroll when she noticed something strange. She was confused, the start of Pinkie Pie’s family records was of her being adopted by the Cakes? That wasn’t a big surprise though as Pinkie Pie knew that herself, but what confused Twilight was that there was nothing before that.

Pinkie Pie once talked about a rock farm she remembers, but her family records shows no mention of a rock farm. The image of her with the Cakes showed she was about the Cutie Mark Crusaders’ ages, and she had her Cutie Mark so this rises a lot of questions. Where was the family records of her real family or at the very least, where she was adopted from? Twilight read on but there was no mention of Pinkie Pie being from or visiting a rock farm, her home before adoption, her Cutie Mark, nothing. It was as if somepony took them out.

Twilight became curious about this, she knew it was late but she needed to find out more. Maybe there’s a connection between Pinkie Pie’s strange behavior, and her lack of family records before her adoption. She thought hard for a few minutes on what to do, then she suddenly remembered something. Something that made a light go off brightly in her head, during the Gala she had met a mare that looked a lot like Pinkie Pie. She even remembered seeing her while she and the others were at the donut shop. It was weird as now that she thinks about it, that mare seemed as if she was watching Pinkie Pie, maybe she knew her? Twilight intended to find out for sure if her idea was correct, she just has to figure out where that mare is.

The very next day Pinkie Pie had set out freshly baked cupcakes, she hoped against hope that the customers approved of her new recipe. To her shock as well as her mind, they went over extremely well with the ponies who bought them to the point where they had completely sold out by the end of the lunch hour. Pinkie Pie was surprised they were sold out so fast, strangely enough, the normally sickening thought of her peers unknowingly committing cannibalism pleased her. For the first time since she had remembered her past Pinkie Pie genuinely smiled, and by the end of the day, her once faked happy demeanor was replaced by the jubilant mannerisms that she was known for. She felt great, better than she had in awhile.

But she knew if she was going to go through with her plan for Twilight, then she needed to be ready. She needed to think everything though and most importantly of all, leave no clues or traces that’ll lead back to her. Pinkie Pie never wanted to kill, nor like the idea, but Pinkamena change her mind and thoughts on it after last night’s event. After the cupcakes were completely sold out she went to her room up stairs and looked in her mirror, which Pinkamena appeared in quite quickly replacing her reflection.

"Told you they would like them did I not?" Pinkamena giggled.

"Yes, you did." Pinkie Pie replied happy.

"To think such a little...thin...pony would be so tasty…” Pinkamena paused for a moment, her mouth watering at the thought of how the cupcakes tasted. “We must make more."
She told Pinkie Pie as she started to lick her lips.

But Pinkie Pie was unsure, if they killed ponies for too long sooner or later somepony would catch on, most likely that Ex-Army pony. "I don't know, it's not like me to kill and I can't keep doing it or we'll be found out." She explained, beginning to worry.

Pinkamena giggled in enjoyment. "Hehehehahaha, All part of the thrill my dear, the thought and fear of being caught just adds to the enjoyment..."

Pinkie Pie still wasn't too sure, but knew she couldn't go back. After what she did, nopony would ever forgive her. Pinkamena saw how confused she was of her feelings so she tried to comfort her.

"Hey Pinkie...don't worry too much my dear. It'll be OK." She spoke smiling.

"How will it be OK!?” Pinkie Pie suddenly snaps at her then quickly grabbed her mouth, she waited a few moments to see if any pony heard her but the lack of noises calmed her down. “I killed an innocent pony...Sooner or later some pony will be looking for her and sure after almost being caught last night, that pony Shadow will catch on..." She explained, she wasn’t sure why but suddenly she started to feel regret, just like last time.

"Don't be so worried about it...he'll leave before any pony starts to notice, and if any pony does catch on...hehehehe, they'll be next~" Pinkamena told her, rubbing her hooves together hoping to kill very soon.

Pinkie Pie just looked at her with a blank look, then agreed by nodding her head slowly.

"Good, good my dear hehehehahaha. Twilight is the case of all of this...she made you remember...your past...me...everything...she must pay..." Pinkamena explained laughing.

"Yes...but how?" Pinkie Pie asked pressing her face against the mirror, almost like she was trying to enter it somehow.

"Hehehe...well my dear it's quite simple, really. Here's the plan." Pinkamena leaned in close as if she’s whispering to her.

Meanwhile Twilight was still worried about Pinkie Pie, she was hoping the pony she meet at the Gala would be able to give some answers. As luck would have it, her band was performing the night before and she managed to get in contact with her. She agreed to talk with Twilight the next day and had arrived little after lunch.

“Thanks again for meeting with me, I’m just awfully worried about Pinkie Pie so I’m very grateful.” Twilight says as she handed the mare a cup of tea.

“Think nothing of it, I’m just happy somepony cares enough to be willing to track me down.” She replied taking the cup and sipping it, being careful not to get her fur messy.

Twilight took a sip of tea herself, “So, how you do know Pinkie Pie?” she asked after debating what her first question should be.

“If I tell you, promise not to tell her? It’s very important she doesn’t know.” The mare asked with Twilight nodding and doing Pinkie Pie’s Pinkie Promise, managing to poke herself in the eye by mistake. The mare smiled a little, then sighed before she started to talk. “I’m her sister.”

“Sister?” Twilight asked confused, why wasn’t she in Pinkie Pie’s family records then? She started to wonder what else could be possibly be cut out. “Pinkie Pie never said she had a sister?”

“That’s because at a very young age, she lost her memories.” The mare said making Twilight even more worried.

“Octavia is it? Could you tell me why she lost her memories?” Twilight asked her, making her more comfortable.

Octavia sighed again before sipping some tea, “It’s pretty terrible, are you sure want to know as it may change how you look at her?” she asked with Twilight nodding.

“I wouldn’t have brought you here if I didn’t want you to explain her past for me.” Twilight stated, Octavia closed her eyes thinking just before she nodded.

She could still remember that terrible day as if it was yesterday, as it still haunts her dreams. “Very well then, I’ll start a bit before it so you can understand how terrible it truly was.”

“I’m all ears.” Twilight said while sipping more of her tea.

“When me, Pinkie Pie and our two other sisters were fillies we lived on a rock farm. It wasn’t the best nor happiest home but it was still home, day in and day out we harvested rocks.”

“I won’t even begin to imagine how you can harvest rocks.” Twilight interrupted her and upon realizing she grabbed her mouth, “Oops I’m so sorry, please continue.” she asked hoping Octavia wasn’t mad at her for interrupting.

“It’s quite alright, we worked on the farm for a while. As Earth ponies it was very hard, but our family believed you don’t need magic to do work. Dad always said doing it by hoof was more rewarding in the end.” Octavia paused for a few moments, thinking back to those times and it wasn’t until Twilight asked her if she was alright when she snapped out of it. “Sorry was going off topic,” She paused to gulp a little. ”the four of us were the best of friends. Sure we had other friends but the four of us were inseparable.”

“Sounds like a happy memory, Pinkie Pie would smile bigger than ever if she remembers that.” Twilight started to feel a lot better at hearing this, but knew it was bond to get bad.

“It was, the best moments I can remember.” Octavia started to smile a little but lost it very quickly, she was about to explain what were the worst memories she ever had. “One day a pony that lived close by was call in to baby sit us, our parents were going to visit some of their friends as they started a business in another town. They were going to leave in the following days so our parents wanted to say goodbye, the babysitter was a nice pony that was always good friends with our father, or so we thought...”

“What happened?” Twilight asked wondering where this was about to go, hoping her worse idea wasn’t it.

“All the other times we met him he was such an nice and friendly pony, but that day…” Octavia had to pause and used this time to sip some more tea , it was almost starting to feel like she was using the tea to avoid speaking. “He was drunk, when he babysat us that day we were just playing one of our usual games. Guess he got annoyed as he at one point yelled at us to stop, but when Pinkie Pie talked back to him...that’s when it happen.” Octavia paused for a few seconds longer trying to calm herself down.

“When what happened?” Twilight asked, terrified of the answer.

It took a few silent moments before Octavia looked up at Twilight, she at first hesitated on finishing but figured Twilight wouldn’t let her leave until she does. So after one more gulp she started to finish her sentence.

“He hit her, causing her to cry. When she wouldn’t stop he hit her again and we tried to stop him, but he hit us too.” She yet again pauses, this time to rub the side of her upper leg. “Finally Pinkie Pie manages to break free from his grip and ran outside with him chasing her, yelling so loudly..We were scared and wasn’t sure what to do. Then as if Celestia herself was helping us, our parents got home just at that moment. As we were telling them what just happened we heard Pinkie Pie yelling again, our father galloped off as fast as he could as our mother tried comforting us. We could hear what sounded like yelling and fighting, when suddenly..”

Twilight looked at Octavia’s face, she could tell something terrible happen as she started to shed a few tears, it made her feel so sad just staring at her.

“Nothing, after a few minutes our mother went to the barn where we store rocks and hay in. What happened next changed our lives forever…” Octavia had to stop as her tears started to get worse and had to wipe them away, “S-Sorry I don’t want to relive what happened next again..” Octavia said in more tears.

Twilight quickly stood up and went over to hug her, “It’s OK, I think I understand why now.” she said as she tried to comfort her the best she could.

“It’s alright..” Octavia spoke embracing the warm hug, after a few moments Twilight levitated a box of tissues over. After using a few to wipe her eyes she went on to say something. “After that day we went to live with our parents’ friends, the ones they went to meet that day.”

Twilight thought that had explained everything a little bit, but not why her real family wasn’t in her family records and as she went back to sit down she couldn’t help but ask a question.

However Octavia had beaten her to it, “You said Pinkie Pie wanted to remember her past, correct? And that’s why you wanted to see me?”

“Well yes..” She answers, again Octavia beats her to speaking first.

“Well now you know why you can’t tell her, after that event she started to talk strangely. As if she had an imaginary friend, or was a different pony all together, she just changed…” Octavia explained.

“Changed how?” Twilight asked, it took a few moments before Octavia finally answered her.

“Well she had to have therapy, she….did things, that if I tell you, you’ll never be able to be around her the same ever again. Yes, it was that terrible. She had therapy for months before she just suddenly blocked out her memories and couldn’t remember anything, she couldn’t even remember us. She just forgot everything.” Octavia sighed as she took a few more sips of tea. “But we were told it was for the best, she doesn’t need to grow up knowing what she did. We were told it was best for her if we...never see her again, until she’s a full grown mare at least. So me and our other sisters, one you may know as Photo Finish, was put in a different family than her.”

Twilight nodded in reply but paused suddenly, “Wait Photo Finish? She met Pinkie Pie when she tried making one of our friends a fashion star, why didn’t she say anything?” she never imagined one of her best and closest friends could have a secret like this. It sounded like a mystery novel she would read on lonely nights.

“Maybe she didn’t want too, we had saw her a few times but never directly talked to her in fear of her reverting back to that terrible stage. To ensure seeing us wouldn’t make her remember, we had to go under aliases. Well besides Maud, she took up the old farm as a teenager.” Seeing the look on Twilight’s face, Octavia answered her quest before she could even ask. “My real name is Marble Pie, we had to use fake names and dye our fur. Why? We had to be sure nothing about us tips her off, even if she just glimpses us.”

“Why would you need to go so---”

“When you see her again, please tell her you can’t help with her memory.” Octavia asked, almost begging her.

Twilight bit her lip unsure how to tell Octavia this, “I kinda did already...Yesterday she asked me to use a memory spell and I di---” suddenly Octavia gagged on her tea, dropping the cup to the floor.

“YOU WHAT!?” She asked terrified, “Oh no oh no...how long until that memory spell kicks in?” she asked in a full panic.

“It depends on the memory, but when she visited last night I could tell she wasn’t her normal self.” Twilight awkwardly replied.

Octavia had a lot of thoughts going through her mind, she remembered when Pinkie Pie was in that stage she did terrible things and after what she did to their mother, she was terrified. “You don’t know what you may have done...do you know where she’s at?”

“Probably at home baking stuff, she’s planning a part---”

“Oh no...dear Celestia I hope she isn’t…”

“Why what’s so bad about her baking--” Before Twilight could finish Octavia had raised a hoof for her to stop.

“I can’t do anything I’m afraid, but you need to go to her.” She asked Twilight, who like her, was starting to panic.

“Why me why can’t yo---is it because your not suppose too?” She asked, her legs running in place.

“No, we can now. But since you helped her remember she needs any pony that’s close to her, she needs somepony before---if---she reverts back. Please, I’ll wait here for you. If you feel she needs to see me then fine but at the moment I may just cause even more of her memories to come back, your spell might have not restored that event entirely. But I just can’t risk it, please go over and see if she did remembered it and if she had...get her help.” Octavia pleaded to her.

Twilight wasn’t sure what she should do, she could hear the worry in Octavia’s voice. “Alright...I’ll go. She doesn’t live that far away so if I’m not back within an hour...well that should be a sign.” Twilight said as she walked to the door, when she had started to walk outside Octavia said something to stop her.

“Thanks, I’m just worried for her and everypony’s safety.” After saying this Twilight nodded with a slight smile before galloping outside, after a few seconds Octavia sat back down and picking her cup of tea up, looking inside at her reflection in what little bit of tea had remained. “Please Celestia, don’t let her past repeat itself…” she whispers as she get up to clean her spilled tea.

Meanwhile over at Rainbow Dash’s place, she was getting ready to head out for her usual work day as she was talking to Shadow. "What did you do in the Army? You left here and never came back till...like ten years later." She asked as she was grooming her main to be messy, she hated having it too neat and clean.

"It's a war Rainbow Dash, what do you think I did over there? Don't worry about it, it does not affect you at all." He told her while fixing a hole in the door, turns out the earmuffs fell off and she had mistook him for a intruder.

Rainbow Dash was silent for a few seconds, her friend was always the fun type who loves to flirt with other ponies, but ever since he came back he had changed a lot. He had came back by a discharge and got kick out of the Army a week later, he won't say why though. She tried time and time again in the past to find out but he just won’t tell.

"Come on Shadow lets meet Twilight, you might like her." Rainbow Dash said flying up in the air holding a hoof out to him.

"Might?" Shadow repeated back in a question followed by a little laugh, "Unless she is a complete psychopath who murders pony's for no reason, I don't see why not." he laughed again.

Rainbow Dash giggles thinking how Twilight would pull that off, it just doesn’t suit her and makes the idea too funny for her to take seriously. “Yeah and Fluttershy is the Grim Reaper.” she jokes as that was just as unlike and too funny, “Come on she might be stuck in a book, she is a egghead after all.” she joked as she took off with Shadow following right behind her.

It didn’t take long to find Twilight though as they spotted her not two minutes later, she was galloping and Rainbow Dash wondered why she was in such a hurry. Brushing it off she flew down over her, turning herself upside down in the progress.

"Hey Twilight I’d like you to meet my friend Shadow!" She said scaring Twilight out of her wits.

Coming to a completely stop just before she tripped and crashed, she snapped at Rainbow Dash. “Why did you do that you scared me!?”

Rainbow Dash turned rightside up before she replied, “Sorry Twi, I just wanted you to meet my old friend.” Shadow had just landed by her side right as Twilight was about to yell again. "I was hoping to show every pony at once at the party, but we just got the notice that it's going to be tomorrow and Shadow tells me that he might not make it."

"I don't like parties all right?" Shadow said rolling his eyes.

Twilight giggled a bit then dips her head, "Well it's nice to meet you Shadow, I was---" She was about to say heading over to Pinkie Pie's house, but thought if there were too many ponies over there at once then talking to Pinkie Pie wouldn’t be easy. "I was just out for a walk, you need to thank Rainbow Dash and the other Pegasi for the great weather we’ve been having lately." She replied smiling and hoping they would buy her lie.

Shadow laughed at what she just said, "I will thank her when she does something useful for once, where I came from the clouds move all by themse---" he couldn't finish his sentence as he was laughing so hard but after a minute or two, he managed to stop so he could finish. "This whole place is a joke to me Twilight, I don't take any of this stuff seriously.”

Twilight took that comment like it was a shot, Rainbow Dash was about to interrupt but couldn’t in time. “I was never raised here and where I come from it's very different than here, I will tell you that. Your town works too hard to be perfect, what happens if something goes wrong, how will you react?" He asked her.

Twilight thought about that question for a little while, the whole time her thoughts were on Pinkie Pie and that terrible thing Octavia was afraid of. Pinkie Pie has always been a friendly type, she wouldn’t hurt anypony as far as Twilight knew, but she wasn’t there in her childhood so there might be secrets she doesn’t know about. That was why she called Octavia, but she was more confused than ever now by her refusal to say what happened, just what terrible thing did she do?

“Um are you OK Twilight?” Rainbow Dash asked, snapping her out of her thoughts.

“O-Oh yes I’m fine, I was just thinking…” She replied as her thoughts suddenly turned to Shadow, "So where did you grow up at Shadow?" Twilight asked curious and trying to get her thoughts calm again.

Shadow smiled at Twilight then started to blush, he said nothing as he just simply flew away, making her wonder if she had said something. Rainbow Dash said nothing either other than goodbye to her as she followed Shadow. Twilight would normally wonder what she could’ve said, but at the moment she was more worried about her friend Pinkie Pie. Maybe she will ask the princess if there was a file on him as well, although the chances are that if he didn’t grow up here then there wouldn't be any file on Shadow. In fact the the truth was Shadow might not even exist here on paper, no birthplaces, no job history, nothing.

There is no file on Shadow but the story's that are told, other than the place he grew up at. After a few moments of thinking Twilight decided to head on over to see Pinkie Pie, for a little talk like she was going to do before those two showed up.

After a couple of minutes Twilight came to SugarCube Corner, she looked up at the window on the upper floor where Pinkie Pie's room was. "Pinkie pie? Are you there?" She called out.

After a few seconds of no reply Pinkie Pie popped her head out, "Oh hi Twilight, what are you doing here?" she asked smiling.

"I was hoping we can talk." Twilight answered while returning the smile.

Pinkie Pie was surprised, she took her time to think about something before she replied to her friend. "Sure Twilight come on up here." She said this a bit nervously but at the moment Twilight didn’t notice.

She just nodded as Pinkie Pie moved her head back in, Twilight walked in SugarCube Corner and saw the place was quite empty. As she walked along she noticed the Cakes were out, probably doing something with Pound and Pumpkin Cake as she didn’t see them anywhere either. As she walked up the stairs leading to Pinkie Pie's room, she thought on what to exactly say, she open Pinkie Pie’s door slowly and saw on her bed, waiting for her.

"So Twilight what you wanna talk about?" Pinkie Pie asked her close friend.

"W-Well..." Twilight wasn't sure how to say what she wanted to ask her, she didn't want to make her upset or mad. "I looked up some stuff Pinkie, and---"

"And what Twilight?" Pinkie Pie interrupted with a smile on her face.

Twilight took a deep breath, exhaled it and then just came out with it. "I know about what happen in your past Pinkie."

Pinkie Pie's face suddenly went from happy to surprised as Twilight said that, she was shocked. "Y-You do..?" she asked sadly.

"Yes, after you left last night I was worried by how you acted. So I asked the princess for files on you as a filly and when that just brought up more questions, I found somepony that knew you as a filly and she told me what happen." Explained Twilight.

Pinkie Pie stared at her totally speechless, and soon enough, she saw Pinkamena forming in her mirror behind Twilight. She kept her eyes on Twilight but when her eyes were off her she would take a quick peak at Pinkamena.

“The time is near for us too---” Pinkamena was trying to call out, but Pinkie Pie ignored her.

"So, you know about my past?" Pinkie Pie asked in a very sad tone.

"Yes, I know about your parent’s friend and what he did to you, and I know what happen."
Twilight replied.

Twilight could feel the tension in the room rising and it made her feel unconformable, she hoped she didn't make things worse by saying that. Pinkie Pie was looking at the floor thinking, all the while hearing Pinkamena talking but again, she was ignoring her for now.

"So, why are you here? To tell me what I already know? What I wish I could forget or that I never asked for your memory spell?" She asked and Twilight never saw Pinkie Pie this upset before.

"I came to comfort you, your past is too much for anypony to deal with alone." Twilight told her, hoping her smile would show that she’s being sincere.

But Pinkie Pie was just staring at her confused, making her smile turn into a frown whether quickly. Pinkie Pie didn't know what to say or think, she just stared at Twilight making her feel more uneasy.

"Pinkie, I'm sorry I helped you remember. But it'll be OK, you don't need to worry about the past." Twilight tried comforting her but Pinkie Pie just sighed, then stared at her with a look that made Twilight extremely nervous.

"Comfort me?” Pinkie Pie asked angrily, “Twilight look, I can't just forget or ignore my past. Not after what I di---" she stopped herself just before she told Twilight about last night.

"Pinkie that's not what I'm saying, I'm saying you don't need to worry about it. You have friends that you can talk too. That's why I'm here...to help you." Twilight replied, trying to convince Pinkie Pie she wasn’t there to hurt her.

Pinkie Pie didn't know whether to believe her or not, so she looked over at Pinkamena who was still in the mirror, she was shaking her head. "She's lying...Pinkie, don't trust her...like you did the friends you had before..."

Pinkie Pie felt like she’s going insane, she was talking to a pony only she can see and hear. She sighed once more, looked at Twilight and said "This is all your fault." and looked like she was about to cry.

"I know..." Twilight replied looking down, feeling just terrible. "And I'm sorry I made you remember,
if I knew about your past I would've---"

"Would've what? Hurt me too?!" Pinkie Pie interrupted.

"What?! Hurt you?” Twilight was starting to worry she made a mistake coming here so soon, but she needed to get her friend to understand that she wasn’t here to hurt her. “Why would I hurt you Pinkie? You're my friend." Twilight said as she started to feel nervous and even shocked at the outburst.

"Because the friends I had as an filly did! And I trusted them like I do you and the others, how can I tell you won't hurt me too!?" Pinkie shouted, feeling both enraged and sad.

Twilight was stepping backwards a little as she was getting scared, she did make things a lot worse than they were and needed to do something quickly. "Pinkie I would never hurt you, promise." she tried convincing her.

Pinkie Pinkie sighed as she looked at Pinkamena again, then back at Twilight. ".....Pinkamena said not to trust you."

Twilight looked around but saw no pony around, "Who's Pinkamena? Isn't that your real name?" she asked extremely confused now. Was there a pony here in hiding?

"No...Pinkamena is the real me, the one I locked away years ago.." Pinkie Pie replied shedding some tears.

Twilight was shocked and was about to go into her flight mode, until she saw Pinkie Pie crying and immediately wanted to help, but she didn’t know how too. "I don't follow," She said confused. “but I care for yo---”

"I don't expect you to understand…” Pinkie Pie interrupted her, “I'm not Pinkamena anymore but...but she won't leave me alone..." she started to cry more.

"Pinkie, you sound like you're going insa---” Twilight stopped herself just in time, she was starting to think that her friend was going insane but didn’t want to say it. “Your old self is...another mind or something?" she asked hoping to get an answer that’ll make her feel better.

"I might be insane, I don't know I feel like I am sometimes..." Pinkie Pie placed her hooves on her head, trying to decide whether to listen to Pinkamena or warn Twilight.

"Pinkie, if you want we can get you help." Twilight didn’t mean for that to sound like she thought she really needed help, but because she wanted to help her friend.

"Thanks Twilight, but..it's too late for that." Pinkie Pie had started to feel alone again, and took Twilight’s help comment the wrong way.

Twilight lowered her head, this wasn't what she wanted to happen. She wanted to help Pinkie Pie and comfort her, not make her feel alone and more scared.

"Pinkie, I can ask the princess to get you help, if you want too."

Pinkie Pie looked up at her, very sad and feeling unstable, Twilight could tell by the increased tension that her next words had to be very thought out, least she’ll be unable to fix the situation.

"My friends as a filly, I trusted them like I do you and the others, but they hurt me too. How can I be sure you won't?" Pinkie Pie asked, hoping more than ever that Twilight’s answer would make her feel better.

"Because I'm your friend Pinkie, and I promise. Cross my heart hope to fly and stick a cupcake in my ey--OW!!” Twilight had poked herself in the eye yet again, Pinkie Pie let out a loud chuckle.

"Don't listen to her, she's lying Pinkie…” Pinkamena spoke, trying hard to get Pinkie Pie’s attention. “Trust is hard to take and give, test her..." she old Pinkie Pie who in her mind asked how.

Pinkie Pie stared at Twilight as she started thinking, if she tells Twilight what she did last night, what would she do? Would she panic and call the guards? Would she comfort her and try to find a way out? She wanted to know, she needed to know but was just too afraid of what she might say.

"I...I don't know, if you knew what I did then you'll likely hurt me too." Pinkie Pie spoke, looking down at the floor.

"I promise I won't, now what is it?" Twilight asked, offering the best heartwarming smile she could give.

Pinkie Pie sighed, without looking at Twilight she decided to tell her. "....Last night, me and Pinkamena were arguing. I was so upset by what I remembered and what she was telling me, that when a pony put their hoof on my shoulder I-I snapped..." She bursted into tears.

Twilight immediately rushed up to Pinkie Pie, embracing her in a hug as she cried onto her shoulder. "What happen Pinkie?" She asked hoping nothing terrible had happened to her.

It was hard for Pinkie Pie to talk, she was crying so much she almost flooded her room. Finally, after about a minute, she just blurted it out. "I KILLED HER!"

Twilight became frozen, her mind unable to progress what she had just heard. Slowly she moved back and looked into her friend’s face, it was so wet with tears she almost looked unrecognizable. Twilight was now in full flight mode, usually you would have two reactions at certain moments. Sometimes you choose to run or do nothing out of fear, others you take action and in a situation this, it could mean life or death.

"I-I didn't mean too Twilight...honest I didn't…” Pinkie Pie cried, trying to stop Twilight from leaving. “Everything went black and I didn't know I did it, until it was too late."

Twilight didn't know what to do or think, she wasn’t sure if she was scared of or for her friend. She just knew whatever she says now, had to be true or it'll cause a rift between them.

"Pinkie, you killed somepony?"

"I didn't mean to hurt her..." Pinkie Pie shedded more tears, wishing she would just die.

"Pinkie, we need to tell the princess about this." That was one of the few words that Twilight
wished she had never spoken, but it just came naturally for her to get the princess’ help in dire situations like these.

"NO TWILIGHT!” Pinkie Pie shouted so loudly Twilight nearly jumped. “If ponies finds out I'll have to take therapy or be hospitalized again! And I won't go through those again I just WON’T!" Pinkie Pie snapped, not caring if anypony outside heard her.

Twilight had started backing up out of fear, with Pinkie taking steps in sync to her’s. "W-Where are you going Twilight..? Please don't leave me..." Pinkie Pie started begging.

It's hard to tell but Twilight could could swear Pinkie Pie’s voice had started to chance, it felt like her very personally was changing right in front of her. "Pinkie, you need help, I don't know how but we need to tell the princess." Twilight relied, trying to convince Pinkie Pie to turn herself in. “Look, if we go to her she’ll protect you. If you don’t and they find out, Pinkie...you could be banished or worse..if it was an accident then she’ll understand!”

Pinkie Pie sighed once more, she hated to admit it but Pinkamena was right. "I knew she was right...you are going hurt me..." Pinkie Pie spoke as a few tears dripped from her cheeks, hitting the floor that to both mares, felt it had shook the house on impact.

"No Pinkie Pie, I wanna help you before you hurt yourself or any other pony." Spoke Twilight, taking a step forward instead of back. “You know me Pinkie you know I woul---”

"Then don't tell anypony!” Pinkie Pie snapped again, her body starting to shiver. “J-Just keep this as a secret...a secret between friends..." She begged Twilight, pleading to her friend for support.

"How can I? I can't just keep something like this a secret! If it was me, what would you do? You would help me just as I’m trying to help you now!”

"I told you Pinkie Pie...she isn't a true friend...hehehehahaha, you know what to do..." Pinkamena whispered to Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie looked at the mirror, Pinkamena was acting out the act of stabbing Twilight in the back, Pinkie Pie shook her head begging no, but Pinkamena said in a firm voice “Do it. Do it now or she’ll expose you as a monster, do you want your best friend to spread rumors like that around? She’s your friend...think of it like...giving her the greatest gift you can offer.”

Pinkie Pie had looked back up, she was slowly shaking her head but as Pinkamena said “A quick death, a death given by her closest friend.” she stared at Twilight, then at the floor.

"...I’m sorry Twilight..." Pinkie Pie spoke, rubbing her eyes free of any more tears.

"It's OK Pinkie Pie,” Twilight walked up embracing Pinkie Pie in another hug, then gave her a warm smile “now I'm going to tell the princess that it was an accident. And maybe, just maybe everything will be OK. Wait right here until I get back."

As Twilight left the room Pinkie Pie’s eyes were fixed on her, gulping at what she has to do. When Twilight got to the stairs she paused, wondering if she’s really doing the right thing. Maybe she should go and see Octavia first, but what if Pinkie Pie follows or skips town? She should’ve made her Pinkie Promise, Twilight facehooved that it hadn’t crossed her mind. She would turn back and ask her to make one, but realized it would probably be better to give her some space for now. She started to walk, her hoof touching the first step when---SMACK--she was hit from behind.

She tumbled down the stairs, smacked against the floor face first and entered a roll that didn’t stop until he ran over a table. “O-Ooooowwwwwww……” Twilight gasped in pain, trying to stand but quickly lost balance.

She heard hoof steps coming down the stairs, after a bit of a struggle she manages to flip over to see who had attacked her. It was Pinkie Pie, but her mane and tail had flatten and she gave the most, un-Pinkie-est stare Twilight had ever seen. Then she lost conscious and didn’t regain it until later that night, her head was in serious pain. She attempted to open her eyes but her vision was so blurry, it was like looking through plastic. After a couple minutes had went by she tried to move, it was then she noticed her arms were hanging above her head and that her legs felt like they were strapped down

Suddenly lights flashed on blinding her already blurry eyes, she closed them but the light was so bright it felt like was it burning through her eyelids. But as soon as they had turned on, they went darker, she could still see the light but it was a lot more bearable. After another couple minutes had passed Twilight opened her eyes again, they were still blurry but she could make out a pink blur moving around. It seemed to be moving something across the room, stopping only once or twice to check Twilight’s hanging hooves, then would dart out of site.

"Oh goody you're awake!" Spoke a voice.

Before she could answer Twilight had something wet thrown over her eyes, she tossed in a panic but was held down as the wet object was rubbed against her eyelids. After about another minute it was removed and to Twilight’s surprise, her eyesight was 100% normal again.

“Sorry about the light,” Spoke the same voice, “I didn’t realized I had it set up to ultra blinding.” Twilight blinked a few times to make sure what she was seeing was real.

She was scared as she looked around the room, it looked like a basement but so heavily party based. There were balloons everywhere, so many file cabinets she could hardly see the wall, there was a slide, and a desk lamp shining right into her face. Looking over at Pinkie Pie, who was messing with what looked medical tools on the movable table the lamp sat on, she hoped to Celestia this was all a bad nightmare. She opened her mouth to speak but once more, Pinkie Pie had placed a wet rag over her eyes.

“Oh silly, don’t give a fuss~” Spoke Pinkie Pie as she rubbed the rag against Twilight’s eyes again. “Just a second coat to be sure, Zecora gave me a potion to restore eyesight. I was worried the light blinded you...so I opened it up for you!”

"P-Pinkie..? Where am I?" Twilight asked as Pinkie Pie removed the rag from her eyes, tossing it into a bottle with some kind of purple liquid.

"That's for me to know, and for you to...well, find out silly!" Pinkie Pie replied giggling.

Twilight had a thousand thoughts going through her mind, and none she could make out other than pure fear. "Pinkie, why are you doing this? This isn't like you."

"Because Pinkamena says I got to. Believe me, I don’t want too, but she says I have too." Pinkie Pie answered Twilight, giving her a sudden thought.

This Pinkamena Pinkie Pie keeps talking about, maybe she's a split personally or something. Of course Twilight didn’t put any stock into that stuff, how could a pony have two personalities? It doesn’t make any sense to her, but maybe Pinkie Pie does believe it. There was only one way for her to find out, she’ll have to ask.

"Pinkie, who exactly is Pinkamena? And, why are you listening to her?" Twilight decided to ask the two basic questions she could think of, maybe knowing about her could give her a chance out of this situation.

Pinkie Pie titled her head confused, then frowned. "Well, Pinkamena is the real me as she keeps saying. I thought I left her behind with my past, with my memories...But after I started to remember them she came back."

“So she’s---”

"The only one I can really trust." Pinkie Pie interrupted.

Twilight still didn't believe that Pinkie Pie had another mind, what she was thinking was the complete opposite. But whatever she thinks, to Pinkie Pie she is real, and she needed to get her to not to listen to Pinkamena.

"And why did Pinkamena tell you to do this?" Twilight asked, hoping that answer could shed some light on her sudden kidnapping.

"Because, she says this is all your fault and that you need to pay...She's evil Twilight, just nasty..." Pinkie Pie explained.

"Then don't listen to her, Pinkie listen. You don't need to listen to Pinkamena as she has no control over you." Twilight tried convincing her.

Pinkie Pie didn't want to believe her, she was so scared. Scared of being hurt again and of herself, she was even scared of acting on her own again fearing what she might do. She just wanted this to end, and according to Pinkamena, killing Twilight was the only way.

"Pinkie Pie please...don't do this, the only one hurting you is Pinkamena. That’s why you had to forget abo---"

"Don't say that!!!" Pinkie Pie snapped, picking up a sharp medical tool. "She's me, and even tho I hate her I can't get rid of her. I hate her so much yet she was always my only friend...." Pinkie Pie started to cry again, hoof shaking uncontrollably.

"No she's not! Think about it Pinkie Pie!” Twilight had snapped back, only realizing she did when Pinkie Pie started to cry more. “I can't tell you if she isn't real or not, that’s for you to decide. But, what I can tell you is that you don't have to listen to her!" Twilight said this with a slight urgency in her voice, being desperate trying to get Pinkie Pie to realize she didn’t need to do this.

"You should listen to you and only you, she's saying I'll hurt you but I won't!” Pinkie Pie shook her head and drew the medical tool towards Twilight. “Pinkie Pie I promised you!!! Remember? Losing a friend's trust is the fastest way to lose a friend forever? Remember that Pinkie Pie?" Twilight blurted out, swearing her heart was about to burst from her chest.

Pinkie Pie at that moment became speechless, she forgot all about saying that and was surprised Twilight remembered it. Maybe she could trust Twilight after all, but she heard Pinkamena’s voice telling her to kill Twilight before she tells her more lies.

Twilight could see how Pinkie Pie was struggling by the pain in her eyes, she was starting to think this was all her fault. If she hadn’t used that memory spell then this never would had happen, "I'm sorry Pinkie Pie." Twilight had started to shed tears of her own now.

Pinkie Pie was caught off guard by seeing her cry, "Why are you sorry?" she asked taking the rag and started to wipe away her tears.

"Because this is all my fault, I made you remembered by using my memory spell. I'm sorry for everything, but you don't need to hurt me or others. That's not you Pinkie, the Pinkie pie I know and love as a friend is kind, friendly, and ever so random." Twilight explained.

Just then Pinkie started to think about her life ever since she moved to Ponyville, she had forgotten all about her new memories ever since she started to remember the old ones. But that didn’t undo what she had done, she hadn’t even told Twilight how Pinkamena made her dispose of the body. Should she tell Twilight and if not, then what could she possibly do? Pinkie Pie had no idea, she was too scared to even think straight.

Deep in the back of her mind she could hear Pinkamena’s voice, Kill her….kill her now! Don’t fall for her fake tears, she wants to turn you in remember? If she was a true friend than she wou--- but Pinkie Pie had enough. Against Pinkamena’s yelling at her she dropped the medical tool, and embraced Twilight in the biggest hug she could muster.

“I’m so scared Twilight….” Pinkie Pie cried, nearly squeezing Twilight to death.

“Ack!!!” Can’t--breathe--!” Pinkie Pie’s grip as she hugged her was so tight, Twilight thought her lungs were being squeezed.

After a bit of a struggle Pinkie Pie had loosen her grip, finally letting flesh air enter Twilight’s lungs. “It’s OK to be scared Pinkie,” Spoke Twilight, she would embrace Pinkie Pie’s hug if her legs weren’t suspended. “everypony gets scared, who wouldn’t in thi---um, look Pinkie.”

Twilight nudged her head to get Pinkie Pie to look at her, “You're going to have to be brave, and the Pinkie Pie I know is very brave.” taking a moment to catch her breath more, she spoke as small tears had started to run down her cheeks. “Can you ever forgive me?”

“YYYYYEEESSSS!!!!” Pinkie Pie cried, immediately squeezing her to near suffocation again.

“Ack! P-Pinki---ACK!” Twilight was beginning to gag but to her dismay Pinkie Pie wasn’t noticing, she would have to speak in gasps. “If--you--are--ready---*GASP*---confident--can---
*gasps*---you--let me go--*gasps*...”

Pinkie Pie finally let go, and Twilight had never gasped for air so badly in her whole life.
"Oh, sure thing Twilight!” She spoke reaching up, trying to unlock her legs. “And after that we can tell the princess all abo---" Suddenly she was interrupted by a sharp pain in the back of her head.

"OW MY HEAD!" Pinkie Pie yelled out, she stumbled backwards holding her head.

"Pinkie? What's wrong!?" Twilight asked, watching as her friend stumbled and knocking over everything.

She stumbled first to the movable table with the medical tools, holding onto it for support but it slides away. She stumbles to some file cabinets, but ended up knocking them off as her headache worsens. She stumbles to the slide, falling face first into it and attempts to climb but as if pulled by a invisible leash, she jerked backwards onto the floor.

"It's---my---head---it hurts..." Pinkie Pie cried, now violently knocking over everything in her path.

Twilight was trying to speak to her but all she could do was watch in terror, it appeared like Pinkie Pie was fighting an unseen foe.

Kill her...kill her now!

"No...no! NO! STOP IT! I won't...” Pinkie Pie Shouted, punching a cabinet to the point it was entirely covered in hoof dents.

You must----

“NO! I WON’T DO IT!”

…..Then I will.

Suddenly as if hit by something, Pinkie Pie gave the highest and most high pitch scream Twilight had ever heard. Balloons popped, Twilight swearing her eardrums had burst, then she just stopped. She was still screaming but no sound could be heard, Twilight tried taking this moment to get the attention of anypony who might’ve heard the scream, but no responses came. She struggled against her locks, managing to free one leg, but the other three were still tightly lock.

All she could do was watch her friend silently screaming, had she screamed so loudly her voice box had burst? She watched Pinkie Pie’s silent scream for what felt like minutes, until her mane and tail had flaten. It was like taking a pin needle to a balloon, Twilight had never seen her mane so flat since the time Pinkie Pie thought her birthday was forgotten.

"P-Pinkie..?" Asked Twilight as Pinkie Pie lowers her head.

But Pinkie Pie didn't reply, she just stared at the floor, then up at Twilight as if looking straight through her. Twilight felt more uneasy than she had all day, one of her best friends giving her a stare that sent more than just shivers through her body. A full minute had went by before a single reaction was given from Pinkie Pie, she smiled. But it only made Twilight feel more uncomfortable, the smile resembles that of an insane pony as it gets even wider, and her eyes got darker.

"Pinkie Pie.......isn't here. Not anymore, hehehe.." Pinkie Pie spoke in a low, almost deeper pitch of her voice that sounded a bit scratchy.

"What do you mean? You're right here!" Twilight asked confused by what Pinkie Pie had just said.

Pinkie Pie started to giggled, it would’ve made Twilight shiver more but the laugh she gave shortly after, made Twilight truly feel she was insane.

"Hehehehahahaha......why I'm Pinkamena silly! Pinkamena Diane Pie...." Pinkie Pie laughed some more, but she wasn’t Pinkie Pie anymore.

Pinkamena had taken over, taken control of Pinkie Pie’s body but unlike her, there was no voices in the back of her head telling her what to do. Twilight's eyes became wider as Pinkamena kneeled by the medical tools, picking up a scalpel that sparkled with the light from the knocked over lamp.

"W-What do you m-m-mean..?" Twilight asked, sweating heavily as the scalpel was placed on her cheek, luckily on it’s less sharp and flatten side.

"Pinkie Pie was weak...So I simply took over." Pinkamena answered her, but Twilight was too focused on the scalpel nearing her eye to hear her.

"Oh what's wrong..? You're turning so white...hehehehehahaha!" Pinkamena
giggled, noticing Twilight’s purple turning pale. “You know, you remind me of---just wait here for a second! Hehehehe!”

As Pinkamena moved to behind Twilight, she kept repeating over and over “You're not real...you're not real…” and as she heard Pinkamena picking something up her speech became more panicked. "I-I don't believe you're real...you're not real! You’re not! you're just---OH CELESTIA WHAT IS THAT!?!?!?"

A skull had suddenly came face to face with her, heart beating so violently she couldn’t even scream by the amount of terror she was in.

"Oh I'm very real Twilight…” Came Pinkie Pie’s altered voice, the skull moved to the side revealing her face.

Twilight’s mouth spoke soundless words as Pinkamena winked at her, placing the skull back over her face as if it were a mask. ”I made Pinkie Pie kill this pony, and baked her into such delicious cupcakes, the ponies really liked them you know..." Pinkamena explained, pretending the skull was her actual face.

Twilight wanted to scream, the pony Pinkie Pie admitted to murdering was baked into cupcakes and her skeleton was---”Y-YOU MONSTER!!!!! Pinkie Pie would never---”

“Oh but she did~” Pinkamena interrupted, rubbing the skull against Twilight’s cheek. “It was quite easy, she was so scared she would’ve jumped off a cliff if I asked~ Altho, that would’ve ended badly for me too..I gotta thank you Twilight, it’s annoying when nopony will listen to you...I guess sometimes you just gotta take matters into your own hooves.”

Going around Twilight Pinkamena places the skull back on the wall, admiring it before returning to Twilight. She saw that Twilight wanted to throw up but couldn’t do more than gag, she giggled as she enjoyed watching others in pain. But Twilight wasn't in pain just yet, Pinkamena wanting to see Twilight’s reaction started to lick the scalpel. The resulting reaction was so funny to her she could laugh for weeks on end, but her work had to come first. Although it would be one of her prized memories from now on, licking the scalpel some more she spoke to Twilight.

"Oh what's wrong my dear..? You don't like parties anymore?" Pinkamena mock as she moved the scalpel closer to Twilight’s throat, but froze as something caught her eye.

As she bends down picking up a knife she tried to decide whether to use it or the scalpel, "W-Why are you doing this?" Twilight asked, unable to take her eyes off the two tools she knew were about to be used on her.

Pinkamena giggled, deciding to just use both. Placing one of them between her teeth she answered Twilight’s question, "Well it's quite simple really...You see I enjoy other's pain, all ponies...no, every living creature deserves it...after what they did to us..." and Twilight could swear she was biting down very hard on the tool in anger.

"But...that's not true! You can't hurt others just because---"

"Oh but I can~ The only ones that didn't hurt us were our sisters. Every---pony else did, you can't trust no pony or you risk them hurting you." Pinkamena interrupted, biting down on her second tool more and likely leaving teeth marks in it.

"But you can't hurt others just because of that! It's not right!” Twilight shouting, almost enraged now. “Not every pony will hurt you and even if they do, you shouldn't hurt them back! Real friends will--what are you laughing at!?!?"

Pinkamena was giggling so much she dropped the second tool from her mouth, she was just enjoying Twilight's attempt at trying to get to her a little too much.

Pinkamena giggled for a good full minute before she spoke again, "Well this is going on for far too long...as much as I enjoy our talk, I'm afraid it's time..." and the smile she gave made Twilight gulp.

The skull that was in her face not mere minutes ago was flashing in her mind, but she imagined it was her own skull instead and gulped a second time.

"Hehehe...oh yes my dear, you're going to die..." Pinkamena laughed insanely with Twilight wishing that somepony, anypony, would could to her rescue.