The trotting dead

    "Spike!" Immediately after Twilights's call, Spike came rushing down to Twilight in a heart beat, being the loyal little dragon he was.

     "What is it? What's wrong? Are you hurt? Possibly injured? Or even damaged?" Twilight laughed at what she interpreted as a joke. Spike looked at her confused.

     "Oh Spike, your redundancy would usually tick me off, but I feel so well that it doesn't bother me. And you don't have to be so jumpy. I'm completely fine," Spike clawpalmed himself.

     Ignoring the fact that Spike didn't know what redundancy meant, he replied with, "Sorry, it's just that, when It's the morning and somepony suddenly interrupts my sleep, I assume something is wrong. You know, what did you call it....the flight or bite response?" Twilight chuckled again.

     "Close, it's called the fight or flight response. When your body pumps adrenaline into your system causing you to react to the situation with full attention, and having your muscles stimulated so you can either fight off the danger, or run away from it. Almost every animal has this instinct."

     "Oh..."said spike not fully comprehending what she just said.

     "Now spike I have called you down here to ask you if you want some pancakes." Spike smiled with glee.

     "Is that even a question? Its more like a sentence that has only one reply." Said spike jumping for joy.

     "So is that a yes?" Twilight asked expecting an obvious response.

     Spike pretended to paunder the thought, then simply said, "Uhh, duh!".

     Spike rushed to the kitchen and saw the food displayed before him. He dumped almost half the bottle of syrup on it and ate all 5 pancakes whole. It took on average 0.8 seconds for Spike to finish his serving, this took him 1.4 seconds. Twilight thought he was starting to get slower. She had thought that this would have no implications really on spike as a whole, but Spike still ate at lightning speeds so he was still normal. Twilight sat down and helped finish the rest of the pancakes.

     Ah yes this was the life of Twilight Sparkle. Being a princess, she thought that her life would get more complicated. Despite some regal duties, like attending stuff, her life had changed very little if not at all. Her life was really quite simple, and well, if Twilight were to be honest with herself, she found it quite boring. Well despite some adventures, she still thought her tasks were boring and tedious. She just wished for somthing to happen, maybe another weird adventure, or a threat to equestria, something that would really test her skills. But then she thought, knowing this place, somthing would eventaully turn up.

     "All done?" After Spike had his 3rd plateful (which was almost 13 pancakes) spike simply replied with a stuffed nod. Twilight was still eating when she heard a knock at the door. She trotted over and opened the door. As soon as she opened it, Pinkie screamed in Twilight's face. "Do you know what day it is!?" Twilight looked at Pinkie in confusion. Pinkie started frantically jumping about in excitment.

      "Oh wait that's right!" Twilight said as she finally remembered about the monthly meetup, where Twilight and her friends would go out, forget about there responsibilities and just have some fun.

     Pinkie got a slip of paper from out of her hair with her mouth and said, "Meef aft dish wocation." Her words were muffled because of the paper in her mouth. Despite this, Twilight understood what Pinkie had said. Pinkie spat out the slightly saliva drenched paper out and it landed on Twilight's nose. She used her magic to take it off and read the contents of the paper.

     "Were meeting at a bar tonight? But Pinkie, I..." When she looked up it was already too late. Pinkie was off in the distance shouting, "See you there!". Twilight whispered to herself, "I don't drink...".

     Twilight's life had changed very little, which was true. It changed a little, it hadn't not changed at all. She was a public figure now among equestrians, she had to be a good role model. If she drank alcohol, what would the citizens think of her? And if she got drunk, who knows what unpredictable things she would do? She thought that she would go, but she would be careful of what she consumed.

     Later that day, she had arrived at the bar. She arrived quite early, not wanting to be tardy. She sat down at the counter. The bartender glanced in her direction, joyful for his new costumer.

     "What can I get for you," he stared at Twilight's features and simply said, "Princess?" Twilight looked up. "Oh uhm..." She took a while, trying not to choose anything with alcohol. "I'll have some milk if you would..." Just then a familiar voice came from behind, " We'll have two Buckington's beers please!" The bartender nodded and went to get the beverages.

     "Twilight were you just about to order milk? I know your a princess and all but that's no excuse! Alicorn or not, there is no excuse to be so lame." Said Rainbow.

     "Darling, I agree with rainbow. Being regal is no excuse to embarrass yourself." Said Rarity.

     "Rarity? Rainbow? When did you girls get here?" Twilight saw as the rest of the gang started coming in.

     "We came with them." Said Rainbow.

     As the bartender came to deliver the drinks, he was taken aback when he saw the new group of ponies that had formed in front of him. He set down the two beers down on the counter, and took everyone's orders. Everyone ordered somthing different. Rarity ordered wine, Pinkie ordered some weird drink that was pink, and extremely fizzy. Surprisingly Fluttershy ordered three shots of whiskey, and even more suprisingly Applejack ordered some vodka.

     "Vodka!?" Rainbow exclaimed. "You never order vodka! Usually it's just cider!"

     "Well I've decided that I want to try somthing different. You can't keep eating apples your whole life..." Everyone was astonished. "Said no sensible pony ever!" Applejack cried. Everyone in the group of friends giggled and resumed to there drinks. It was a terrible joke. However when with friends, everything is heightened to appear joyous. She still had the vodka, which didn't make sense after her statement, but Applejack was not going to be a sensible pony tonight.

     "Here Twilight, drink up." Rainbow handed Twilight the beer. "Oh, rainbow, no thanks, I just..." Rainbow grabbed the glass and said, "Fine," She drank half of the beer and gave it to twilight. "That's all you have to drink."

      Twilight thought about drinking the beverage. She finally reached her conclusion and decided, " I guess a little can't hurt," Everyone hoorayed in unison. Of course, as drinks go, you can't just have one.

     The night continued, they all talked and laughed, Fluttershy eventaully drank almost 16 shots of whiskey, the gang was being hit on by some boys, but got rejected as Rarity ranted about how there fashion choice was a crime against pony kind. The night continued as the transition between sober and drunk began to unfold.

     Somehow they all ended up drinking cider. Except for Fluttershy who was muttering about somthing and was half conscious. She wasn't allowed to be given anymore alcohol.

     "Hey Applekack," said Rainbow, her speech smudged by the alcohol. "Did you know, that just before you came in here, Twilight was going to order milk? Insane right!"

     "Is that so? What, she thinks that just because she is a princess she has to keep up an image? This is girls night for celestia's sake!" Applejack turned towards Twilight, "It don't matter, wings or no wings, you should have the time of your life. Even if it means you gotta take down you image, especially when your with your friends."

     "Oh your right AJ, I just....I dunno what I was thinking. I mean like, I really do like milk." Applejack laughed.

     "You know, I thought things between us would change after the coronation, but you ain't so different Twilight, your still the same old you, just somone put some usless wings on the back of you." Twilight was offended by Applejack's use for the term useless.

     "Useless!?" Applejack smirked. "Well yah, I mean face it Twi, your not a very good flyer, and people don't exactly recognize you for your princess hood to much. They haven't done anything for you but weigh you down." What Applejack said was partially true, people didn't exactly respect her more for her wings, not like they did the other princesses as much, but Twilight knew she was a good flyer.

     "I am an amazing flyer! Heck, I bet you that I can do my very own sonic rain boom!" Applejack laughed at Twilight.

     "Ah don't think that a nitty pretty sissy little princess like you has got the guts to even attempt one!" Twilight flustered in anger.

     "You don't think so huh!? Well I'll show you! How dare a peasant like yourself, not to mention an earth pony! Question my princess hood!"

     "Uh girls, I think you should, take it down a notch," Rainbow intervened. "Stay the buck out of this!" Applejack yelled, before finally turning to Twilight. "How dare you mock my stature, not to mention my race! Just cause you've got a crown, don't mean you can say whatever you want!" Fluttershy then muttered in the background, "That escalated quickly..."

     "Well sorry, but you should be bowing down to me right now! Who are you to adress me as such? I never did like farm folk, just picking things for us is all there good for," Applejack looked like she was about to explode.

     "I wish you had never come to ponyville! I wish that everything would change! I wish that I lived in a world where I never had to see your stupid face again! You don't even deserve those wings of yours! You don't deserve your title! You don't deserve us as friends! Your just a snouty pony who cares nothing but herself! You are not worthy of my time!" Harsh and hurtful words kept spewing out of Applejack until she just tried to put Twilight down.

     "Not worthy eh? Tsk." Twilight walked outside. She looked up at the dark sky, only a few stars had come out. She flew up onto the highest cloud she could find. "Watch this! I'll show you not worthy!" Twilight jumped off, not even in a good position to perform the sonic rainboom.

     "Silly princess, your just gonna fail and get hurt! Probably die! Your just a..." Suddenly at that moment Applejack snapped out of her drunken stupor. "Twilight! Stop! Pull up! Your going to hit the ground!" After those words Twilight also snapped out. But it was too late. Twilight was meters from the ground. There was no turning back.

     "Oh Celestia....what have I.....". A loud snap and the sound of broken cement filled the air. The last sound, of Princess Twilight Sparkle.