Rainbow darted across town. There was only one place she was headed for in the late afternoon.

It was only a day ago when Gummy was put down, but it felt like such a long time ago.

Maybe it was because Pinkie Pie wasn't all over the place like normal.

Rainbow Dash didn't know why she cared so much about her friend's well being. Sure, a good friend would worry about it, but this just seemed like too much.

Her only dream she had last night was plagued by sad, deflated Pinkie Pie. Her grey opposed to blue eyes were filled with tears and her face had the saddest face of all sad faces.

Through all the thought Rainbow did, she didn't notice the quickly approaching bakery.

"Woah!!" She shouted as she crashed through the window of Pinkie's bedroom.

Pinkie nearly jumped out of her fur and skin.

"Dashie! What are you doing here?" She asked. After Rainbow got up and brushed herself off, she turned to Pinkie.

"I said I was gonna come today and check in on you!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"Oh." She said. "Right."

"C'mon, you have to smile!" Rainbow said. "You may move on, but by the looks of it, you're gonna need some help!" She said, her voice cracking.

"Hm." Pinkie responded.

C'mon, let's go have some fun." Rainbow said.

"Fine...." Pinkie said. The pegasus chuckled.

"The good old Pinkie would've bounced up and responded with: c'mon, let's go!'." Where did that Pinkie go?" Rainbow asked. "I dot like sad and depressed Pinkie as much.

Pinkie was hit with major déjà vou from the new Fluttershy, old Fluttershy, nice Fluttershy and mean Fluttershy incident.

Her pink hooves wrapped around Rainbow Dash's waist, and she pulled her into a bone crushing hug as a few tears dripped from her eyes and dribbled down the blue mare's back.

Rainbow was already making progress, only the good old Pinkie Pie would give rib snapping hugs.

"Now there's-" she attempted to breathe. "Part of the-" and again. "Pinkie-" she gasped for air. "That I know!" She said in a high pitched voice.

"Oh." Pinkie said.

"Now, let's go outside." Rainbow said.

"Okay..." Pinkie answered.

Mr. Cake had a surprised look on his face when he noticed Pinkie Pie walking down the stairs.

"H-how did you do that?" He asked with wide eyes. Rainbow polished her hoof against her chest.

"Eh, it was easy, as, pie." She said as she looked at Pinkie.

A small smile that was on her face disappeared.

Rainbow waved her hoof towards the front door, and Pinkie slowly nodded.

The pair slowly walked out of the bakery and into the busy streets of Ponyville.

Rainbow glared at the ponies who gave Pinkie strange looks as they moved along.

"Hey, Pinkie?" She asked. "Why didn't you tell anypony else?"

"What?" Pinkie said as she looked up and raised her eyebrows.

"About Gummy. Why didn't you tell anyone else?" Rainbow repeated.

"Oh, we're back at that." Pinkie said as she looked back down.

Good job, doofus. Rainbow though to herself.

"Well, because I thought you'd be the most supportive." Pinkie answered.

"Fluttershy? Applejack?" Rainbow asked in surprise.

"Mm, maybe because you're my bestest of bestie best friends." Pinkie said.

She was making more progress. Everything Pinkie said was still flat and expressionless, but only the old Pinkie would say things like what she just did.

"Whatd'ya say we do some pranking?" Rainbow asked.

"Okie dokie lokie." Pinkie answered.

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Through all the pranks they did (a lot), Pinkie had only giggled a few times.

Her tail did happen to curl a little bit during the time, which was good enough for Rainbow, though she did still seem to sad to do something normal for Pinkie standards.

"What do you want to do now?" Rainbow asked.

"I dunno." Pinkie replied.

"A real help." Rainbow said sarcastically.

Pinkie shrugged.

"We could go swimming." Rainbow suggested.

"Mm." Pinkie answered.

"I'll take that as a no." Rainbow Dash noted.

"I still can't believe he's gone..." Pinkie mumbled out of the blue. Rainbow smacked her face.

"Well, it's good to know that your randomness is back." Rainbow groaned. "In one way somepony might not see." She mumbled the last part.

Rainbow gasped.

"We should make some cupcakes or something!" Rainbow suggested.

This made Pinkie's ears stand up.

"O-okay, we could try that." Pinkie said.

"Alright! Let's go!" She said as she flew off.

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"Ok, Pinkie. I'm no expert at baking, so you lead the way!" Rainbow said.

"Mkay..." Pinkie mumbled.

The pair made cupcakes for the entire day, and Pinkie was getting better. She had cracked a few true smiles this time.

"Well Pinkie, I've had fun today, I hope you did too." Pinkie slightly nodded. "Cool, well, I have to go now, catchya later!" Rainbow said as she waved and flew out the door.

"Bye, Dashie." Pinkie said, after she was long gone. She sighed.

"I did have fun today, in fact, I wanna do this again sometimes." She said to herself. "I bet the real Pinkie would've missed Dashie already." She finished.

Around the corner, Mrs. Cake smiled. Pinkie was having sort of fun again.

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Rainbow sighed. The sun was setting and her house was coming into view.

Okay, It was a fact that her face heats up when she laughs really hard, but she didn't laugh that hard At all today.

So why were her cheeks and heating up, and why did her heart flutter or skip a beat?

And why did it happen only when she looked at Pinkie Pie?

Author's Note

I'd appreciate it if nobody inserted a cupcakes joke there :|