All She Wanted was a Nap...

Terra awoke to an abnormally large smile hanging in front of her face, blocking her view. "Look who's finally awake!" The smile--attached to an eerily happy pink mare with a cotton candy-esque mane--exclaimed. Terra jumped--or would have, if all her appendages weren't strapped to what seemed to be some kind of a torture table. "Hiya!" The pink mare greeted.

The pegasus moaned as she dropped her head on the wooden table she had been attached to. "I KNEW I shouldn't have gone outside today..."

The mare backed out of Terra's face, revealing a dim, candle-lit room. "I'm SO super-duper excited that you're finally awake! I just couldn't wait to test my cupcake experiment!"

"C-Cupcake experiment?" Terra stuttered, slight terror beginning to well within her soul.

The mare--now seen to be an earth pony--turned to what the pegasus believed to be a work bench. She giggled as moved around something metallic on the table. "Yeppers! I'm making a new type of cupcake!"  She heaved up something heavy and turned to face the strapped-down mare. With a smile of pure insanity and a chainsaw in her hooves, the mare exclaimed, "And your my assistant!"

Terra's eyes widened and ears dropped. "You gotta be-" Her words were interrupted by a revving of the chainsaw. She froze as the pink mare (who Terra deduced should definitely have been in an insane asylum) slowly stepped closer with the jagged, spinning blades that would surely be Terra's demise. Terra finally choked out a cry, "Help..."

As the pink mare grew ever closer, the pegasus' screams grew ever louder, "Help! HELP!!! SOMEONE! ANYONE! PLEASE!! HELP!!!! I! AM! GOING! TO! DIE!! HEEEELLLLPPPPP!!!"

But no one answered. Terra's screams became hysterical and unintelligible as the chainsaw approached her left wing. With only mere inches between the wing and the spinning teeth of the motorized death machine, lights illuminated the room. "Hey Pinkie, did you find what you were-"

The mare turned towards some now-enlightened wooden steps and waved at a lavender unicorn mare standing in front of a door at the top. "Oh, hi Twilight!"

'Twilight' gasped as her jaw dropped. "PINKIE!" She dashed down the stairs, unfurling some wings to aid her speed, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?"

'Pinkie' answered, "I'm just freeing my assistant, silly! Duh!" As the unicorn hit the dirt floor after the last stair, Terra flinched and shrieked slightly as 'Pinkie' swung her chainsaw deftly and swiftly. To her surprise, her torture table splintered and collapsed under her.

"The name's Pinkie Pie!" The mare powered down the chainsaw and rested it on her shoulders. She held out a hoof in greeting, "Party Pony Extraordinaire!"

Shocked at nearly no injuries to her body (aside from minor soreness in her rear from hitting the ground), Terra sat dumbfounded in the wooden wreckage of the torture table. Glancing around at the various shelves filled with old knick-knacks and dusty tomes, she absentmindedly answered as she rubbed her flank, "Ter...ra..."

The one called Twilight dashed to where Terra sat and nervously apologized, "OMIGOSH! I'm SO sorry Ms. Terra! Pinkie Pie usually doesn't behave like this..." The unicorn extended a hoof to aid the pegasus to her feet, "Are you alright?"

Returning to herself, Terra's face twisted in anger and ignored the hoof. Her tail swished angrily as she indignantly stood up, giving a heated glare to the winged unicorn, "Alright? ALRIGHT?!? I was kidnapped, strapped to a torture table, and had the living crap scared out of me... WITH A FREAKING CHAINSAW. Does that sound alright to you?!?"

Pinkie gasped, "Assistant! Language!"

"AND YOU," Terra's burning eyes shifted to their pink persecutor, "You keep quiet! How could you have the gall to just kidnap a random pony?"

Twilight stood, jaw ajar, "PINKIE! You KIDNAPPED her? You said she had passed out in the middle of the road! You said that you need my Cloranthy Ring so she could recuperate!"

"Now, Twilight," Pinkie smiled as she laid the chainsaw on her workbench. "I never said I needed the Cloranthy Ring for my assistant to help her recuperate." She turned back to Twilight and placed her front hooves on her hips. "I just said I needed it for her."

Terra barred her teeth, "You still KIDNAPPED me!" Just then, her legs wobbled like jelly and she felt a nauseating feeling well in her stomach,  "Oh gosh..." She was then slapped by a fact that her chemistry class had taught her, "WITH CHLOROFORM!" She glared at Twilight, "She used freaking chloroform!" She returned a slack-jawed face of disbelief to the pink captor, "You used freaking chlorofor-" Terra blocked her now nauseated mouth with a wing. "OH CRAP..."

"PINKIE PIE!" Twilight gawked.

Pinkie rubbed her chin quizzically, "So wait, kidnapping ponies to party with is wrong?"

"YES!" Terra and Twilight resounded.

"Even if they look super-duper lonely?"

Terra challenged, trying to keep her balance, "Who are you to decide that for me, whether look lonely or not?"

Without warning, Pinkie placed her two front hooves on Terra's face and wriggled them around as she smiled, "It was totally written all over your face! It was all like," she started moving Terra's mouth to form words, "'I'm Terra, I don't like anypony, l'm lonely, rawr!'"

"Oh, I'm gonna be sick..."

"Wait, you knew her name already?" Twilight asked.

Still mushing Terra's face, Pinkie replied, "Of course I knew my assistant's name, silly!  I AM Pinkie Pie after all! Now," she placed her hooves on the temples of the pegasus' cranium and stared with utmost seriousness, eyes mere inches apart, "assistant, are you ready try the most delicious cupcake you have ever tested in your life?"

Fed up with this menace of a mare, Terra growled as she batted the hooves away from her face, "Get your nasty hooves off of me!" She wobbly stomped heatedly towards the wooden stairway. She spat, "Pff! You're no different... You only care about you want."

That immediately silenced the two mares as Terra ascended the stairs, the nauseating feeling now completely dissipated. Then, another realization hit her. She stopped and looked down at her chest to find her WEMT Headphones were not dangling around her neck as they should have been. She felt all over body to find that none of her belongings were on her person.

She gasped with wide eyes, "Where..." she turned to Pinkie and Twilight, "Where did you take my things?"

The two mares remained silent as they tried to avoid Terra's glare. Pinkie, whose mane had somehow straightened itself, dolefully replied as she sat down, "Through the door... On a table in the corner..."

Terra nodded as she resumed her ascent. She stepped through the door at the top and stopped. The smell of paper and ink infiltrated her nasal cavities as she noted the hundreds of books lining the shelves along the walls of this new room. "Huh," she commented, "Golden Oaks Library." She gazed out the window near the front of the building and smiled, "Just across from Hay-Fil-A." She smiled waved at M working across the street, "And here I thought I was gonna be somewhere far away."

Soon after, she found the table that Pinkie had described, with all of her possessions neatly placed on it. Terra chuckled slightly as each had a little laminated note card under each item telling what it was. She began stuffing her belongings into her pockets when a quiet yet clear 'ahem' reverberated behind her. As she wrapped her headphones around her neck she barely glanced back to see Twilight standing at the door to the lower level, stirring her front right hoof against the hardwood floor.

"Yes?" Terra asked, slightly irritated.

Twilight took a quick breath, then spoke, "I have a feeling that we didn't exactly get off on the right hoof earlier..."

Terra rolled her crimson eyes as she replied sarcastically, "Oh really? How did you deduce that, Sherclop Pones?"

"Sherclop?" Twilight's face lit up instantly, "You mean that famous detective created by Sir Arthur Coltnan Doily in late 19th century Trotland? I absolutely adore his work!" She winked, "And it was Elementary, my dear Terra."

Terra responded as she turned to face the alicorn, "Actually, I was referring to the famous TV show from Bittain, but that works, I guess."

"O-Oh..." Twilight blushed. She coughed, attempting the shoo away the ensued awkwardness, "Anyway, is there anyway we could try a do-over?"

Terra took in a breath to deny the request, but then she remembered her mother's request to make friends.

But Mom... You couldn't possibly--these ponies kidnapped me!

As if her mother had entered her brain, she remembered a passage in the Creator's Book about being kind to her enemies.

Dangit, Mom. Even when you're not here, you still remind of how to conduct myself. She shook her head and chuckled.

"So... is that a 'no'?" Twilight asked, disheartened.

I'm SO gonna regret this later. Terra sighed and raised her hoof.  "Name's Terra Nova."

Twilight's face lit up again as she met Terra's hoof with her own, "Princess Twilight Sparkle. It's very nice to meet you! Now that we've properly acquainted, I've prepared a few questions to help us get to know each other better." She levitated a rather large stack of note cards with her magic.

Terra gasped slightly. Yep. Definitely a mistake.

Twilight cleared her throat and started her questions, "Where are you from?"

"Here in Ponyville," the pegasus replied nonchalantly. "About twenty minutes away, if you're walking."

"Okay..." Twilight nodded and shifted her cards, "How long have you lived here?"

"My entire life."

The alicorn raised an eyebrow, setting her notes on a nearby table, "Oh? I haven't seen you around before. May I ask, how old are you?"

Terra shrugged, "Seventeen. Other than going to work and studies on the Creator's Book, I don't get out much."

"Work?"

"Yep," Terra smiled, "I work at my dad's Hay-Fil-A." She pointed a wing out the window. "It's actually right across the street from here."

"Very interesting!" Twilight smile with a genuine interest. "I've actually never eaten there before. Is it any good?"

The pegasus raised an eyebrow, "Really?" she kept her wing pointing out the window, "It's across the street! How have you never been there?"

The pegaunisuscorn chuckled nervously, "Never really noticed it. I usually like to eat at WcDonalds across town." She closed her eyes and her mouth began to water, "Their horseshoe fries are to die for!"

Terra paused, utterly disgusted, "...Ew. That place is nasty." Twilight snapped her eyes open and glared as Terra shrugged, "Whatever. But, lemme tell ya, our waffle fries blow those gross horseshoe fries out of the water."

"I don't know..." Twilight answered unsurely. Then, she smiled, "but I will try them sometime!"

"Cool." Terra nodded, "But hey, enough of that. Tell me about yourself."

"Sure!" Twilight's smile widened a bit, "Well, I'm an Alicorn princess."

"Oh, fun." Terra interrupted sarcastically.

The princess rolled her eyes and chuckled, "Tell me about it. Anyway, I'm studying friendship under the tutelage of Princess Celestia, and-" Twilight was interrupted by a raised hoof from her listener,  "Yes?

"Alicorn? Is that a thing that actually exists?"

Twilight paused, shocked, "...Really? You don't know what an Alicorn is? Princess Celestia's an Alicorn!

"Yeah, I kinda got a C+ in Biology, so I'm kinda sketch on some of this stuff. And who's this Celestia pony?"

Dumbfounded, Twilight almost wanted to make a snarky retort, but decided to roll with a facehoof instead. She replied in an irritated, monotone voice, "She's the princess of Equestria. Now-"

Terra interrupted again, "Woah, woah, woah, hold up. When did we become a monarchy? I thought we were a capitalistic government in which the economy is protected by our constitutional Bill of Rights. Y'know, the whole, "We the Ponies hold these truths the be self-evident that all creatures are created Equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights. In this, we create this government for the ponies, of the ponies, and by the ponies that shall not perish from this planet."'

Twilight's jaw dropped, dumbfounded once again, "...What?"

"Isn't that what Equestrimurica is based on?"

A small twitch tampered with the Alicorn's eye, "I- I don't even-" she just facehoofed, gave up and sighed, "It's Equestria. We have two presiding princesses, Celestia and Luna--and before you ask, they are sisters-- and I'm a princess of I-dunno-know-what."

"Ah. Gotcha." Terra scratched the back of her head and chuckled nervously, "Hehe... I, uh, kinda got a D+ in history. I was great in Economics and Literature though."

Twilight shook her head, sighed slightly, then resumed her content smile, "Right then. Anyway, I was born and raised in Cantorlot by a family not necessary to this particular fanfiction."

"Wait, what?"

"I moved to Ponyville about two years ago for the aforementioned studies."

"Okay, that's fine. Just ignore the fourth wall."

Twilight covered a light chuckle with her hoof, "Here in Ponyville, I met those who I would be studying under: Fluttershy, a shy pegasus who takes care of the local wildlife; Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer in Ponyville and beyond; Rarity, the local seamstress; Applejack, owner of Sweet Apple Acres and supplier of the town's apples; And Pinkie Pie, the--Well, you already met her."

Terra shifted her gaze to the wooden floor and mumbled, sarcasm dripping from her words, "Because that wasn't absolutely horrifying..."

Twilight laughed nervously, "Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Pinkie is a wonderful mare and wants the best for everypony. She's not exactly the best at reading a situation, though..."

"Oi... Try absolutely terrible." Terra sighed with a slight face hoof. She then realized something and shot an irritated glare at Twilight, "Why in heck did Pinkie not ask some of these other friends of yours--or you for that matter-- for this cupcake experiment? The heck is this experiment anyway?"

Twilight cocked her head to the left, "As for the latter, I haven't the slightest idea. As for the former, Applejack and Rarity are out of town on business, and Fluttershy took Rainbow Dash to a camp to help various Ponytarian needs up in Phillydelphia. And I asked her if I could help, but she denied me with an answer that I couldn't ever hope to understand or try to repeat."

Terra sighed, "So, she picked me randomly."

"So it seems." Twilight replied.

A long, awkward pause crashed the conversation. The Alicorn started stirring her hoof again, "So... Will you do it?"

Terra brought a silver hoof to her chin to think about the request. Every fiber of her being screamed "OH HECK NO! BAKA, DON'T YOU DARE!"

After figuring denying the notion would be the best course of action, Terra smiled and made her decision, "Sure, why not." You idiot.

"That's great!" Twilight smiled and turned back to the door the lower level, "I'll let Pinkie know immediately!"

Terra continued to smile. I feel this was a mistake.

"PINKIE!" Twilight called down the stairs, "Terra changed her mind! She said she'd go through with your cupcake testing!"

An audible gasp resounded from the basement, "Really?" Just then, a pink blur whizzed up the stairs into a nearby kitchen, "OHBOYOHBOYICAN'TWAITOMIGOSHTHISISGONNABESOGREAT!"

Terra just kept smiling. I am so afraid right now.

Twilight turned around and returned pegasus' smile with her own. An awkward anvil of silence fell as the two mares awaiting the earth pony's concoction. Terra took this time to take a better view of her surroundings, although aside from the shelves of slightly musty books, there wasn't much to see. She did notice a loft with a bed on an upper floor, but beyond that, it was a pretty simple building-tree hybrid.

She then focused her attention to her phone, which displayed a message from Simply.

"So, we're doing a thing tonight at Itch's?"

"Yeah." She typed, "Dunno what we're gonna do yet. Got any movies?"

It didn't take long for him to respond, "Eh, probably Ponynormal Activity. You finish Pony Geass yet?"

She replied, "Almost. Got like three more episodes."

A few seconds passed before he responded again, "Alright. We'll probably finish that off. I swear, one of the best ending in anime ever."

Terra smiled, "Coo."

Twilight coughed, shifting the pegasus' attention back to the real world. Terra slipped her jPhone back into her pocket as Twilight asked, "So... what do you like to do?"

Terra replied with a shrug, "Meh, play video games and watch anime mainly. I do little fanficiton writing sometimes..." she paused, "Oh, a few friends and I are actually in the process of abridging the anime 'Equa Magi Madoka Magica'. It's pretty fun."

Twilight cocked her head, "Abridging?"

Terra shrugged, "Y'know, taking the audio out of a video and replacing it with our own, making the characters say what we want them to. I just recently finished the script."

"Oh." Twilight replied awkwardly, "That's cool, I guess."

Awkward silence had been in abundance that day and decided to descend once more on the two mares. Twilight returned to stirring her hoof on the wooden floor while Terra checked her phone once again.

"So..." Twilight tried to break the silence, "you mentioned studies on the Creator's Book. Are you a follower of the Creator?"

Terra gave a genuine smile, "Yep. He's the God of the Universe, y'know. What's even cooler, He even came down to Equis in the form of pony and died to save us. Even cooler than that, He's not dead anymore;" she reclined both her front hooves behind her head. "As if death could keep it's nasty clutches on the Creator." she chuckled, "Yep, my God's not dead. He's alive."

Twilight frowned slightly, "That's... interesting I guess..."

Terra raised her eyebrow, "I don't like this vibe you're giving off..."

"Well... You see..." Twilight furrowed her brow, "the Creator's just a myth. He doesn't exist, just a legend for ponies who aren't... Academically Advanced. It's an idea that just gives ponies false hope."

Terra fell back on all four hooves, displaying a scowl, "Wait, what?"

"I mean," the Alicorn continued, "belief in an All-Powerful Creator being is simply illogical! There's no evidence. Even 'his' book is wrought with discrepancies."

Terra's scowl deepened, "Prove it."

"What?" Twilight asked, taken aback slightly.

The pegasus took a step and challenged, "Your claims mean nothing without proof to back it up. So, prove it."

The Alicorn sighed, "Fine. It's simple, really-"

"AAAANNDDD here we are!" Pinkie suddenly appeared between the two mares with a strange cupcake in her hoof, "What'd I miss?"

After Twilight and Terra exchanged glances, Terra affirmed, "It's nothing."

Pinkie smiled, "Okie, doki, loki then!" she presented the cupcake to Terra, "Alrighty, assistant! This is assignment: Eat the cupcake and tell me whether it tastes wonderful or absolutely-scumdoodily-irresistably-amazingfullly-delicious!"

Terra examined the cupcake momentarily, noting the chocolate cake adorned with frosting that seemed nearly identical to grass. "I really don't want to." She sighed, "But I said I would..." She grasped the cupcake with her wing, "I may be lazy and indifferent, but let no pony ever say that Terra Nova doesn't keep her word."

With that, she tossed the pastry up in the air, catching the entire thing in her mouth. She started chewing, only to taste bitterness and a gritty texture, with other horrifying tastes that she couldn't even describe. She quickly swallowed the bitter mess in her mouth, only to nearly throw it back up again. She covered her mouth with her wings, "NYEH!" She opened her mouth and tried to scrub the awful taste off of her tongue. "GYEH! BLEH! HNGGHGGGEHH!!!"

"So?" Pinkie smiled, "Was it wonderful? Or was it-"

"It was bloody freaking terrible!" Terra exclaimed, spitting in an attempt to remove the taste. "The heck did you put in it?"

Pinkie brought her hoof to her chin, "Oh, nothing special really: just some salt, sugar, a +2 Cloranthy Ring, eggs, et cetera."

Both Terra's and Twilight's jaws dropped as Terra growled, "YOU PUT JEWELRY IN THE-" she threw her hooves in the air, "You know what, I don't even car- OHGOSH..." Just then, tiny green dust particles began emanating from her gut. Once again, she brought her wings to her mouth, "Oh, I feel sick... This was a mistake..."

Twilight's face twitched in uncontrollable anger, "She... She didn't... That... That ring was... Was a gift from a faraway land... it was... given to Celestia... and she gave it to me... and now..." the Alicorn's face twisted in absolute burning rage, "PIIIINNNNNNKKKKIIIIIEEEEEEEE PIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

"Hello!" The eccentric earth pony giggled, "How can I help ya?"

"Do you understand what in Tartarus you've just done?" The princess fumed.

"Not really," the pink mare smiled, "but those dust particles REALLY like Terra! They've completely surrounded her now!"

"Wha-" Twilight turned her attention to the pegasus, whose torso had now been completely encompassed by the strange green particles. The Alicorn sighed, "Oh no..."

Terra sighed, "I freaking knew this was a bad idea..." she then noticed she was a full head taller than both the other mares. "Oh, you've gotta be kidding..."

"Are you..." Twilight took a step towards Terra, her forehead now only reaching the pegasus' chest. She sighed and growled, "Great. You're growing. Rather rapidly too. Absolutely wonderful. I have no idea how to fix this."

Terra replied, irritated, "Well, crap." With the mares shrinking before her, Terra slipped on her headphones--thankful that they were growing with her, as well as everything else on her person--pulled out her phone and sighed, "Well, this seems like a good time for music." Just before putting on a song, she saw Twilight mouth, 'Really?', to which she simply shrugged, "Hey, music is wonderful for all occasions."

With her head just growing past the loft she saw earlier and her backside squeezing against a wall filled with bookshelves, she set her music playlist to her favorite band, Pans. She sat down in order to conserve space, but it didn't last long as her rear hooves stretched from once end of the room to the other. This didn't phase her, though; she just nonchalantly started singing along with her music.

"The walls between... You and I, always squishing us inside, nothin' left but scars, fight after fight." Terra head had finally squished against the ceiling. Figuring Twilight would figure something out, she rolled herself into a ball to buy her more time. However, it wasn't very useful since, even in the fetal position, her body was easily taller than the loft, and it pretty much covered the entire bottom floor. Thank the Creator that Twilight and Pinkie climbed onto one of her legs before that happened. Bloody messes aren't fun to clean up.

Her head had once again reached the ceiling, her body being squeezed by every inch of the building. "The space between, our calm and rage," Terra found it growing increasingly more difficult to breathe as the confines of the building compressed her body ever tighter. "started growing smaller, disappearing slowly day after day." Even through her headphones, she could hear the creaking and groaning of the wooden building-tree around her. It wasn't gonna last much longer. Well, Twilight better do something, or this building's gone.

"And I was sitting there, waiting in my room for you." Now completely immobile, Terra figured she'd grow out of the building in approximately seven seconds. Or sooner. She was always pretty horrible with math. "You were waiting for me too. And it makes me wonder..."

Just then, Terra's eyes were assaulted with a blinding light, and in the next moment, she was outside, still growing. Surprising to her though, the shrinking Golden Oaks Library was still intact, meaning she hadn't grown out of it. She pulled out her phone, paused her music and dropped her headphones around her neck.

She looked down at the Library's entrance as Twilight and Pinkie Pie exited. As the tips of the treetop reached up to about Terra's stomach, the green dust particles finally dissipated and she stopped growing.

She gazed back to the mares on the ground and cocked her head to the left, "Well, this seems slightly problematic."