Surprise and Pinkie's Past [Rewrite]
Rainbow slowly trotted down the Ponyville street, the whole area was illuminated by Luna's full moon. She had promised Pinkie Pie to watch the shooting stars, falling stars or meteors, as Twilight called them, with her, personally Rainbow didn't care what they were called as long as she and Pinkie got a nice display from them. She looked up at the sky, as her friend's face appeared in her head. 'Pinkie.....she's seemed kinda distant lately...' Rainbow thought for a moment, as she walked up the hill that she had promised to meet Pinkie on.
She continued to think about her pink friend as she walked up the hill. The pink earth pony had been smiling a lot recently, yet those smiles never seemed to reach her eyes, which clung to a dark sadness. It seemed to Rainbow that the Element of Laughter Bearer was remembering something she didn't want to see or think of. She eventually finished her trot up the hill to see that Pinkie was already sitting on a picnic blanket; she was looking up at the dark, night sky with a frown and those sad eyes.
The rainbow maned mare frowned softly as she walked closer to her friend, she moved her wing around Pinkie's back as she sat down next to the pink mare. Pinkie flinched, her head instantly moving around to stare at her friend. She sighed in relief. "Oh, it's only you Dashie...."
Rainbow frowned more as she wrapped her wing tighter. She looked up at the sky as the shooting stars started to fall. "Pinkie, are you okay? You seem a little out of it."
"Me, what makes you think that? You know I'm the happiest pony in the world, because I've got you and the girls as my friends, the best friends in the world!" Her voice was strained, as she attempted to smile brightly. Rainbow sighed when she saw the depression in her friend's blue eyes.
"Pinkie, don't try to hide it. You may be smiling, but your eyes are displaying something completely different. Please, tell me what's up. I can't help you if you don't tell me."
Pinkie's smile dropped, as tears filled her eyes. She pushed Rainbow's wing off her back, and pulled her straighter-then-normal mane off her back. The cyan mare's eyes filled with shock as she saw a pair of scars on the earth pony's back. The scars, if put together, looked like a wonky heart shape. "I usually...." She paused for a second, as her tears worsened. "C-Covered them up....with pink dye.....b-but I couldn't find...the dye today so I altered....my hair design to hide t-them...."
"How did you get them, Pinkie....they look like the bases of p-" She couldn't finish as Pinkie's sobbed loudly, she wrapped her hooves around the cyan mare's back.
"P-Please don't say t-that...."
Rainbow gasped as she realized what the scars were. Pinkie must have been a pegasus once but her wings must have cut off either on purpose or by accident. "Pinkie, please tell me what happened to your wings..." She whispered, causing Pinkie to sob harder.
It took a while, but her tears finally went down. She was still crying, but calmer. She hiccuped as she looked back up, her tears still evident and flowing. "F-fine, I'll tell you......be-because I trust you....to know about my wings and my other t-twin besides Marble....." Her voice got progressively quieter, but Rainbow could still hear her. "T-this is the true story....of my l-life..."
Igneous Pie paced up and down in the waiting room outside of the maternity ward. He was waiting for the birth of his unborn twins. Sat nearby were his already born children, Maud and Limestone. The older of the two, Limestone, had her hoof around Maud, a 2 year old. The older filly's eyes were sharp with aggression like she didn't want anyone coming near her baby sister. Maud on the other hand was simply playing with a rock, that she had called Boulder.
Limestone finally stopped her 'death glare' to look up at her father. "Are the twins here yet, papa?"
The brown stallion snapped out of his pacing and looked at his daughter, smiling softly. "Nay, not yet" He paused for a second, looking at the door. He puts his hoof to his chin. "I can't waiteth to seeth mine own daughters."
"Same, I can't wait to see my new baby sisters as well, what about you, Maud?'' said Limestone, looking down at her little sister.
The purplish-gray filly looked up and said, in a rather bored voice that seemed to opposite of what her words said. ''Yeah, I can't wait."
Limestone managed to giggle and nod in agreement, as the younger filly went back to playing with Bounder. A doctor pushed open the door and trotted over to the family. "Igneous Pie, your foals have been born, you may go in now. You can bring your children, but they have to be quieter because the infants are sleeping."
He nodded, as Limestone and Maud walked after him. They went into the room where his newly born fillies were sleeping. It was brightly lit and his wife, Cloudy Quartz, laid in a bed. She was holding two foals in her arms, both were asleep. Yet as he glossed his eyes over the room, he saw another sleeping foal in a cradle next to his wife. Triplets? That didn't feel right, especially because he had only been told about 2 of the 3 infants. The 2 fillies in his wife's arms were very different in appearance; one was a grayish color with a dark gray mane, and the other had a pink coat with a dark magenta mane. The filly in the cradle was a white color with a blonde man, she stretched out and yawned as she woke up. Her hoof meet her lips as she suckled, her purple eyes shining bright. But the appearance wasn't what shocked Igneous, it was the fact that two feathery objects were on his daughter's back.
He looked at the other two foals instantly, to check with little wings. The gray filly didn't have them, nor did she have a horn. However, the pink filly, like her blonde twin, was a pegasus. He was shocked, and looked at his wife, almost with disbelief. Her voice left her lips faster then he could think, which was full of complete sincerity and truth. "The pegasi art thy fillies. I didn't commit adultery."
He blinked for a second, before nodding slowly. He walked over to the white pegasus and picked her up, looking down at the baby. She cooed gently, before babbling. He then gave a soft smile, it couldn't hate the little filly at all. She was simply too cute to hate. "Worry not, I loveth mine own new daughters dearly." He snuggled the foal, before looking at the other two. "So what art we gonna nameth our daughters?"
"Well, I wast bethinking Pinkie Pie, short for Pinkamena Diane Pie, for the pink pegasus. Marble Pie for the earth pony, and Surprise Pie, short for Surprise-amena Diane Pie, for the blonde filly," the tired mother responded, looking down at the two fillies in her hooves.
"Those art perfect names for our daughters." He replied, nodding gently.
Years past for the newborn triplets. It was fun for a time, they loved one another. Yet, from time to time, Marble felt left out because of her siblings abilities to fly and walk on clouds. But she didn't let it bother her to the most part, all it seemed to do was make her so quiet that only Pinkie Pie could tell what she wanted to say. Surprise would sometimes, but she mostly left it to her pink sister. As for the triplets' personalities; Marble had, like stated, developed a quiet personality, but it wasn't just that. She was also caring and sweet. Surprise was energetic and bubbly, almost always liking to surprise her sisters, much like her name. And lastly; Pinkie Pie, the middle child of the three, was nearly always sad and quiet. However, from time to time, she could become too energetic.
The three were insane in their own rights and it would only get worse when Pinkie earned her cutie mark. Surprise had already earned her by this point, being 3 purple balloons that represented her love of surprising others. Marble, however, plus their older siblings had yet to earn their marks.
That day, Pinkie was pushing some rocks around with her head. She didn't know at the time that her older twin sister, I.e Surprise, was sat on a cloud above her. The pink pegasus filly sighed as she lifted her head. With her wings floated, she looked around. She spread them open to flutter to the next rock, which was quite a walk away, when a boom shook their the heard. The boom was followed by a bright rainbow. But at the time, Surprise wasn't interested in the bright gleam. She was more interested in getting off her cloud as it crumbled into fog before going away in the current-like wind. It was hard to stay afloat and in a good place with the amount of wind gusting into her feathers.
The blonde pegasus looked down at her sister, to see that the pink filly was having it hard to stay in one place, but suddenly the rush of wind ended and her slightly younger sister's hair had puffed up into a frizzy mess, unlike it's traditional straightness. But the part that creep her out was her sister's ever-growing smile, she had seen Pinkie smile before but not like she was there. Surprise flew down, seeing that the pink pegasus was also a little lighter in color then before, how was that possible?
The pink filly looked up to see her sister and smiled even brighter. "Prisie, I've gotta make mama, papa and our sisters smile!" Her happy-go-lucky voice and bounciness was half-confusing and half-scaring her sister, who was more used to seeing this depressed thing, who followed her parents' every will.
"Pink......." muttered the aloft pegasus, shaking her head softly. "Fine, but I'm not helping as I know that it won't work. If you get mom and dad to smile, I'll bite my best feather out." And she wasn't kidding either, for she knew her parents weren't the happiest in the word, they were rather calm and focused on farming rocks. Then again, how could anypony, who farmed rocks for a living, be happy? "Besides, I'm gonna go check out Cloudsdale, find out what that explosion was."
Pinkie Pie frowned as she watched the white pegasus fly away. "Awwh, she could have helped." She pouted softly, looking around before heading into the nearest building from her locations to begin her work, that would make her family smile. It took all night to collect everything and build it up, but it was worth it to her.
The night ran through very slowly, the mare in the moon shining over the rock fields as Pinkie sorted out her plan to make her family happy. The morning came and started with Igneous saying to his family. "Timeth to moveth the rocks to the south field," his voice was full of command, it was the head of the family for sure.
Marble and Limestone were about to go over to the fields, but a random noise from the silo distracted them. Marble blinked, she wasn't sure if it was Surprise or Pinkie who had made the noise. Her mother seemed to share in the confusion, but asked out. "Who is't is in yond silo?"
Pinkie's head popped out of the door, giving a cute little smile. "Would everypony come in, please! I have something to show you!" she then darted back in, giving no chances for her family to question what she wanted them to do.
The family looked at each other confused, but they went into the silo. It was full of balloons, streamers and a massive cake below a banner that said 'smile'. Everypony's faces were full of shock, even Maud's expression was full of some shock that contrasted with her usual faint smile. Pinkie grinned, hopping into the limelight with a flap of her pink wings. "Surprise!" She then blinked and added. "Well, not our Surprise. But a happy surprise!"
Maud was the first to question what was going on with a simple, but calm. "Pinkie, what is this?" her expression had actually changed slightly to a some confusion.
"A party, duh! I thought you all knew what a party was at least!" the pegasus filly said, with cheerfulness in her voice. She was still bouncing around like a rocket or a high-pressure bouncy ball. She ran over to a nearby gramaphone and place in the disk. The music boomed out, playing a song known as the 'smile song'. The filly continued to speak, saying loudly to overcome to music. "Come on and party, everypony!"
The family was still stunned, in fact they weren't sure if they could smile like the pink pegasus. Pinkie looked nervous, whispering with sadness. "Oh, you don't like it....", but seconds later, smiles burst onto her family's faces and they were bright and cheerful. "You do like it! I'm so happy!"
The family began dancing, with the exception of Maud. The filly was smiling, but she wasn't going to get up and dance like the others. Surprise flew in a few minutes into the dancing, she was very surprised by the smiles on her parents' faces. "Okay, I lost," she chuckled, biting her best wing out as Pinkie looked up with a grin on her face. The white pegasus gave a returning grin, after she saw the balloons adorn on Pinkie's flank.
A few years passed by for Pinkie, she was the happy-go-lucky filly that was well beloved by the nearby town to the rock farm and she was always happy. She loved to host parties for birthdays and foal showers. Her wings made it easy for her to set up decorations and she owed a lot to them. One day, she was off to the store to get some cake ingredients for a birthday party she was planning. Her mother's birthday was coming up and she wanted it to be perfect. She held the list with her wings in front of her, reading it over and over to keep it in her memory.
It was getting late, but the filly was often trusted to be on her own. She was 10 now at the end of the day, and she was one of the those children who knew what was right and wrong despite her nature. She smiled, looking at the beautiful setting sun on the horizon. She planned to be back home before it fully set, so she had about half-an-hour to buy the ingredients and get back. So, she quickened her pace and was soon on the way back from the store. But.....
Crack. She had stood on a broken tile on the floor below her, it left her quite a bit paranoid of the random sounds. It was quite dark now and there was loads of shadowy alleys nearby, she needed to get moving to avoid any dangers of the night time. Suddenly, she was frozen. She struggled to step forward, but something was preventing her. She then realized when she saw the raspberry colored aura around her body. She screamed, wanting to escape the magical bind.
"Struggle as much as you want, you won't escape my magic," said a haunting voice from the shadows, a stallion soon stepped out. He was hooded, but his eyes were visible. They were a dark, blood red and sent shivers down Pinkie's body. "I am sick of your positive attitude, it doesn't belong in this dark world. You understand nothing, I thought you did but then you got that cutie mark!" he yelled at her face, levitating a knife near her left wing......
In present time, Pinkie froze. Her mouth was clenched, as her eyes remained wide. Tears gently dripped down her cheeks and onto the grass below. Rainbow's expression was filled with shock and some pity for the pink mare, she reached over and wrapped Pinkie's shaking body in her wings. "You can stop if you want..."
"I shouldn't......I need to get it off my chest..." the pink haired mare sobbed slightly, but she gave a half-confident smile to Rainbow. "I need to..., it won't stop hurting after all...."
The stallion had no sympathy for the young filly, as he dug the knife into the bone of her wing. Being only a filly, the bones weren't fully developed and were very weak - prone to breaking. They snapped within instances, sending a large amount of pain through Pinkie's body. She cried out, filling the skies with her loud screams and sobs. "Stop it!" she yelled, trying to block the pain out now. Her face scrunched with the pain, it was also very pale from blood lose.
The wing fell to the floor, the pink feathers getting dyed by Pinkie's ruby blood. The filly felt weak, she couldn't run if she wanted to now. The stallion's magic let her go, as she panted weakly. Her body fell to the ground, shaking and convulsing in pain. But the unicorn wasn't done, as he turned to her right wing and chopped that one off with the same ease as the other one. He levitated the two wings in front of Pinkie and said. "See these, you don't need them. You were always supposed to be an earth pony anyway. You're just a sad little filly, trying to be happy-go-lucky when your truly not."
Pinkie's eyes dilated at the sight of her wings, a weakened scream leaving her throat. He held the knife once more in his magic and was prepared to finish the job, but he got the strength of a filly's hoof on his cheek. He turned to see Surprise, her angry face glaring at him. She yelled, in a booming voice that showed no fright. "Leave my sister alone!"
"Tch," the stallion muttered, he didn't want to face both of them. He turned and began to head back to the shadows, before talking in looming voice. "Pinkamina Diane Pie, being positive will only get you so far. The world isn't a kind place, so I would stop whilst you can."
Surprise gave a short sigh of relief, before turning to Pinkie. Her face then fulled with horror, the sight of Pinkie's bloody and mangled wings on the floor. And Pinkie's bloody back, leaving streaks of red on her pink fur. She would have gone over, but Pinkie's distressed and heart-broken cries kept her away. She didn't know, nor did she want to, how it must have been to lose a part of the body like this. She didn't know how to comfort Pinkie......and she knew it wouldn't work anyway.
"You know.....it didn't take long before I left......," the mare whispered, looking at the scars on her back with teary eyes. "I couldn't stay there, it was full of memories of the time I had my wings to carry me above the skies.......I don't have that freedom anymore..."
Rainbow frowned, nodding her head in sorrow for her best friend. She wasn't sure, but she knew what she needed to ask now. "What happened to Surprise, did she stay at the rock farm?...."
"No....," Pinkie sighed, closing her eyes for a little while as tears dribbled down her muzzle. "I asked Maud when she was here what happened after I ran away..........from what I heard Surprise couldn't take it, she left the rock farm too. Apparently left for Cloudsdale, pegasi leave there and she probably felt like she didn't belong with me there...." a ragged sob filled her as she fell to the grass below and cried into it. "I want her back!.......Tomorrow's the anniversary of the day I got my cutie mark, I wanted to share it with her.....it's been so long, but I'm not gonna see her........I can't fly, I don't want to go something like Cloudsdale with remainders of my pegasus past..."
Rainbow thought for a bit, before gently resting her cyan wing on Pinkie's back. "Well, I don't know if I can. But I'll try to look for her tomorrow, to reunite you two..."
"You don't have to, Dashie.......this isn't your problem," Pinkie tried to protest, though the truth was that she wasn't sure if Surprise could be found or what even want to see her again.
"Well, I'm not gonna to stand around and not help you out. What kind of friend would I be if I didn't try to help," she gave a confident smile, she didn't want Pinkie to cry. That was against everything that Pinkie represented, so she would definitely find Surprise and reunite the sisters once again.
Author's Note
I love the episode Hearthbreakers, but it confuses up this story with Marble and Pinkie being twins, so that means in this story, I have triplets to deal with....Oh well, half the reason for updating this is to make it canon to Hearthbreakers and the other is 'cause I wanted it better then before.
And I'm used a Shakespearean translator so if any of it is wrong, blame the translator. I love Igneous and Cloudy but I hate Shakespearean.
