The first encounter

For full understanding of this chapter, please read the previous chapter, Magic Flowers

Pinkie, Iggy, and Wendy all returned to the castle.

"Damn!" Wendy looked at the clock. "I'm late for my pedicure!" She ran out the door.

Iggy followed her with his eyes. One of them returned to Pinkie when he turned to her, but the other one stayed where Wendy had ran.

Pinkie curled her lip, and the looked in her eyes looked disgusted.

"What's the matter?" Iggy asked.

"Your eye.."

"What about it?"

"It's still not back from looking, but your other one is."

"Oh yeah." Iggy chortled. He hit himself in the head and his eye returned to Pinkie. "I have a lazy eye."

"Okay.. then.." Pinkie tried to stop thinking of the image.

Iggy let out one last laugh. "Well I guess you better be going. And I better bring her to my dad."

Peach flailed viciously in her restraints.

"Yeah, guess you're right." Pinkie decided. She picked her flowers off the floor and started to trot away.

"One more thing before you go?" Iggy asked.

Pinkie stopped dead in her trails, and turned around to look at him.

Iggy walked up to her, grabbed her by the waist, stood her up on all hinds, and kissed her.

Pinkie had her eyes wide open again and she dropped the flowers in her mouth, that fell to the ground. She slowly closed them.

He stopped kissing her and stared Pinkie in the eye. "I love you Pinkie Pie. Okay?"

Pinkie looked at his beautiful, shining, cyan eyes. "Okay.." She replied.

"That's all." Iggy gave her one last hug and then let go of her, turned away, and headed down a dark hall.

Pinkie stood shocked for a moment. She picked up the flowers, turned away, finally, and headed out of the castle. She didn't exactly know how to get out of this odd place, but she figured it couldn't be too hard. She saw a forest, and headed toward it, figuring it must be the other side of the Everfree forest, where Iggy had come from.

She walked along, her hooves seeming heavy. It seemed like she was starting to develop feelings for this strange creature, and it was awfully hard to let him go so quickly. At the same time however, she longed to go home to Ponyville and see her friends; especially her really really really good friend...

Discord.

Pinkie stopped dead again, and found that she had made her way into the Everfree Forest. She realized something: if she was dating Discord, and had kissed Iggy twice, does that mean she was cheating on him?!

And if Pinkie ever returned to the Mushroom Kingdom, and Iggy found out Pinkie was Discord's coltfriend, Iggy would feel betrayed because he might have considered Pinkie his marefriend because they had kissed twice!

All this thinking made Pinkie frustrated, so she rushed through the forest quickly, tears stinging her eyes, and flowers held tightly between her teeth.

She finally saw Ponyville again. The town she loved. The town she had lived in for oh so long. Pinkie wiped the tears from her eyes and smiled. On the other side of the sign, it read "now entering Ponyville. The town where Pegasi, Unicorns, and Earth Ponies all live in harmony!". Pinkie smiled and rushed down the hill to her home town.

She ran through the streets again, a smile on her face. Lyra and Bon Bon were no longer on the bench, but a stray peppermint wrapper made Pinkie remember that they were once there. Spike wasn't singing to Rarity anymore, but a little family of unicorns was having a quaint little picnic in the same spot.

Pinkie raced to Twilight's castle, the one she had got when Tirek destroyed her little, tree house library. She ran through the door.

Twilight had her head rested on the keyboard. Her computer screen read: "The Curse Flowers will help the machine run, since the flowers have a magic no unicorn could preform. wefhufheiuwhfweiufuiw" The random letters were from Twilight's head pressing down on the keys.

Pinkie giggled at this, then shook her friend awake.

"Huh what?" Twilight wiped the drool away from her mouth with her hoof. She looked at Pinkie. "You're back! Where have you been? I have been waiting all day for those magic flowers."

"Sorry. I had quite an adventure today. But here are the flowers." Pinkie handed Twilight the flowers.

"These don't look like the curse flowers." Twilight noted.

"They're different. But they're still magic. I'll bet they'll work just the same!" Pinkie assured her.

"Okay.." Twilight reluctantly agreed, dropping the flowers down a chute.

The chute was simply a metal pipe that connected to a large, red machine. It had timers and dials all over it. There was a large lever on the left side and a metal latch on the right. Finally, there was a red button on the front of it.

"What is this machine going to do anyway?" Pinkie asked.

"Well." Twilight began. "I realized those curse flowers emit a powerful magic; a magic no unicorn could preform. By using the flowers, I could drain their energy and transfer it to every unicorn in Equestria. That way, we could better defend against enemies in the future. But, since you didn't give me the curse flowers, we'll have to use these. But after all, if they're magic, we can still use their powers."

Pinkie agreed, but she will still sort of nervous. She didn't actually know what these flowers did. What if they poisoned all the unicorns in Equestria? Pinkie shuddered at this thought. Hopefully, Twilight would analyze it to check the magic first.

"So where did you get those flowers anyway? Someplace far I suppose. I have never seen them around here before." Twilight asked, pulling down the lever on the side of the machine.

"You bet it was far! It was this gorgeous place called Princess Peach's castle."

"A Princess?" Twilight gushed. "You met another Princess? Can I meet her?"

Pinkie bit her bottom lip. She didn't want to go to The Mushroom Kingdom again and let Twilight find out about Iggy. "She's really far.." Pinkie truthfully said.

"We could take a train."

"It's on the other side of the Everfree Forest."

"Oh. How did you get there?"

"Long story. Twilight, I'm tired, can I take a nap?"

"Don't you want to see the result of the flowers?" Twilight asked.

Not really, Pinkie Pie thought to herself. "I guess." Pinkie said slowly. She sat down on the shiny, purple floor.

The machine stopped.

"What the?" Twilight looked at her machine with disbelief.

"What's wrong?" Pinkie walked over.

"My machine stopped working." Twilight felt the side of it with her hoof. "And ow! It's hot!" She quickly pulled it away.

Pinkie bit her lip again. She hoped that the flowers had nothing to do with this.

Twilight walked over to a timer and looked at it. "Oh.. It didn't stop working. It's finished. Sorry for freaking you out Pinkie." She apologized. Then she scrunched her snout. "I still don't know why it feels hot, but it's probably just because I don't have a fan on it yet."

Pinkie wiped a bead of nervous sweat from her forehead.

Twilight lifted up the latch and pulled out a hose-like thing with her magic. The hose had a tiny opening in the front that would attach to a unicorn's horn. She put it on her own. "Pinkie, please hit the red button." She pointed to the big button on the front of the machine.

"Sure thing.." Pinkie reluctantly and nervously made her way to the button and pressed it with her hoof.

The hose started to fill with red, magma-like liquid. It drained into Twilight's horn.

"I feel hot!" Twilight said, her skin starting to turn a much lighter purple.

"What do you mean?" Pinkie asked frantically.

"I feel..." Twilight's eyes turned all white. "HOT!" She finished. She pointed her horn and shot out five balls of fire.

"Ahh!" Pinkie dodged them by jumping out of the way. They hit the wall of her castle and they combusted into flames!

"Pinkie!!!!!" Twilight screamed.