"He's gone..." She mumbled. Her mane was as flat as an untouched piece of paper.

Rainbow's ears folded back at the sight of her said friend. She stepped forward.

"It's okay." Rainbow said. "We can get past it together." Pinkie looked down as a barely audible sob came from to her mouth.

"Uhuh." She mumbled as several teardrops from her eyes hit the floor.

"C'mon, let's go." Rainbow said as she put her hoof on her pink friends shoulder.

Pinkie solemnly payed the bill and followed Rainbow out of the building, her hooves dragging.

On the way back to Sugarcube Corner, Rainbow attempted to make conversation with Pinkie, but all the pink pony would say was 'hm' or 'uhuh'.

Rainbow gave up after ten minutes of failed conversation, and the two walked in silence. Pinkie's mane was flat, her vibrant colours faded, and her eyes were not a sparkling blue, but a flat grey.

When the two reached the door of Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie turned to face Rainbow and frowned.

"You can go now." She mumbled.

"No." Rainbow replied. "I'm not going to let you mope around for days!" She remarked. "You're the element of laughter for Luna's sake!"

"I just want to be alone for now." Pinkie said, ignoring most of what she just said. Rainbow grumbled.

"Okay, but I'm coming back tomorrow." Rainbow said.

"Whatever..." Pinkie mumbled as she opened the door to Sugarcube Corner.

Through the door, Rainbow could see Mrs. Cake. At the sight of Pinkie, she opened her mouth but closed it when she saw Rainbow slice her hoof across her neck and frowned with her teeth bared.

She nodded and went back to managing the cash register, still with a worried look on her face.

Rainbow sighed and took off towards her own home.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Pinkie sighed as she looked at Gummy's basket from her bed.

"Why why why why why why why why why, why!?" Pinkie shouted.

She lowered her head into her hooves into her folded forelegs and cried.

She cried in sorrow.

She cried for all the good times she had with Gummy.

She cried for his death.

She cried for breaking the Pinkie promise she made with Gummy.

She looked up. Her face was red and her eyes were puffy.

She felt like her heart had been ripped out of her chest and stepped on by somebody with a cold heart.

The image of the syringe stabbing Gummy lingered in her head, unable to get it out of her mind.

She pressed on her temples.

"Get out of my head!" She said between sobs. "It's only making matters worse!"

But the image did not exit her mind, instead, it just plagued her mind more.

She grumbled as flung her head back onto her pillow and covered her eyes with her hooves.

"I miss him already..."

Once again, her uncontrolled sobbing was the only sound to be heard in the room.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Rainbow soared through the sky at top speed, flipping and performing barrel rolls all over the place.

Through all the practicing she had done to clear her head, the image of Pinkie weeping by Gummy's side replayed in her mind over and over again.

She hit herself in the head a few times and shook her head.

"Go away, go away, GO AWAY!" She shouted in anger.

She earned a few weird looks from by passers, but she didn't care.

Why did she care that much? Yeah, Pinkie was a friend she dearly cared about, but it was bothering her too much for it to be normal.

She grumbled and darted towards her cloud mansion.

An awful feeling in her stomach made her think that Pinkie would never be the same again.

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Inside of the Sweetshop of Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie was still sobbing in her darkened room.

She was blankly staring downwards when she heard hoof steps on the stairs.

"Pinkie?" A voice rang out. "Pinkie, you have to come to work!" The voice who sounded a lot like Mrs. Cake.

"I don wanno." Pinkie mumbled.

"Pinkie, what's wrong?" Mrs. Cake asked. "Come out and talk to me."

"Nooo." Pinkie said.

"Pinkie, I'm coming in." She said.

Pinkie clenched her eyes shut as the light from the hallway streamed into her room.

She groaned as Mrs. Cake turned on the light. She gasped.

"Oh, Pinkie, is everything alright?" Mrs. Cake asked with a worried tone.

"Does it look like it?" Pinkie mumbled without any demeanour, except for sad.

"Come on, Pinkie. Can't you tell me what's wrong?" She asked. "Do you need a cuddle with Gummy?" She asked. Pinkie's heart started beating faster.

"No!" She said in a high pitched voice while choking back a sob.

"Why not?" She asked, taken aback.

"Cause he's gone." Pinkie said through her hooves.

"Excuse me?" Mrs. Cake asked with a confused look on her face.

"He's gone." Pinkie said, looking straight at her. "He's gone forever." She added sombrely.

"What do you mean, he's gone?" She asked with an even more worried look.

"The vet had to put him down." She said with tears filling her eyes. Mrs. Cake put a hoof over her mouth in surprise.

"Oh my goodness, dear!" She exclaimed. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"I dunno." Pinkie answered while shrugging her shoulders.

"Does anyone else know?" She asked.

"Yeah, Dashie does." She answered. Pinkie sighed. "I made a Pinkie promise I wouldn't be sad, but I can't help it."

"You made a Pinkie promise with Gummy?" Mrs. Cake asked.

"Yeah." Pinkie answered.

"Anyhow, where's the Pinkie I know, everypony knows?" She asked with a soft smile.

Pinkie looked up with a straight, sad face.

"Gone."

Author's Note

Tada!