Pinkie Pie: Destroyer of Books
Author's Note
It's been a long time since I've written anything. I feel so newbie for saying this, but please bear in mind that it has been over a year since I've written a story and I am definitely rusty. Whether or not people like this story isn't really my focus. I mainly wrote this story because my conscience knew that there was a partially complete story that has been sitting around since sometime last year. I'm not completely done with it yet, but I feel like this is a good point for me.
Pinkie Pie: Destroyer of Books
"When I was Princess Celestia's student back in Equestria, she gave me this." Sunset Shimmer brushed the dust off of an old tome she had stored away in her locker for who knows how long.
"Even after I abandoned my studies, I still held onto it. Deep down I guess I knew I was making a big mistake and I wanted a way to reach out to her." Sunset opened the book and began flipping through its yellowed pages. "Maybe it still works."
"That's a book darling. What do you mean, 'maybe it still works?'" Rarity scoffed, completely unaware of its magical properties.
Sunset Shimmer explained to the group that anything she wrote down in this book would be magically transcribed onto the pages of another book in Equestria. The girls all knew that this was truly the best, and only, way of reaching Twilight. However, Pinkie Pie had a candy-filled plan hatch in her head. Lately she's been curious about Equestria. When Sunset Shimmer said that the portal lead to a mirror world that contained everyone except in equine form, Pinkie wanted nothing more than to see it for herself.
Pinkie Pie is what one would call a visual learner. Explanations bore her and when her focus shifts to something she deems more interesting, she's gone. Solving a jigsaw puzzle is best explained by showing more than telling and Pinkie Pie wanted to see that book more than ever. Just hearing the fact that there was another Pinkie Pie somewhere was enough to get her wheels spinning faster than a hamster on a five day sugar high.
"So what are you waiting for?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed holding out a pen, "Get to writing!"
The girls watched the words being scrawled onto the blank pages glow a vibrant pink.
"There you have it," Sunset Shimmer said, closing the book, "Now we just wait for Twilight to get the message and figure out some way to help us."
After a bit of waiting and almost losing hope, Twilight Sparkle came crashing through the portal. Over the next few days, they did the typical routine of solving friendship problems and defeating the enemy, in this case, The Dazzlings. They were a trio of sirens who were banished from Equestria and tried to steal Equestrian magic by plunging the school into a great big mess of distrust and manipulation. Of course, in the end, it turned out just fine and we all learned a valuable lesson, Twilight returned to Equestria. Now that their adventure was over, Pinkie found this to be the right time to reach out to her equine counterpart.
"Sunset Shimmer!" Pinkie squeaked, "You still have that magical book?"
"Yea, of course I do. I still use it to keep in touch with Twilight and the other princesses every week to let them know how things are going here in this world. Also for them to let me know how things are going over in Equestria too."
"I'll make this quick." Pinkie's tone changed from her typical self to something more akin a movie where two spies meeting up undercover and exchanging sensitive information.
Tensions got noticeably higher for Sunset Shimmer as the unexpected change in Pinkie's attitude caught her completely off guard.
"W-What's wrong?" Sunset gulped.
Pinkie glared into her cyan eyes with an unreadable expression. Was she mad? Did something happen that Sunset wasn't aware of? Was she not being a good friend?
"Can I use that book to write a letter?" Pinkie's glare snapped into a smile and all the tension seemingly melted away. However, Sunset Shimmer was more confused as to what events just transpired than relieved.
"A letter? To who?" Sunset Shimmer shook off her remaining confusion.
"Well, you said that everyone in Twilight's world aren't like us. They're all ponies, except they're not actually different because they're just like us only not us but they really are and omigosh i wanna talk to PPP!"
"PPP?"
"Pony Pinkie Pie, duuuh!"
"Oh. Of course, how silly of me." Sunset said under her breath as she rolled her eyes.
"It's just that I want to talk with her because it'd be like talking to myself but not me." Pinkie continued explaining her situation in circles.
"Pinkie, look, this book is very important to me and I'm not sure that I'm really comfortable putting it in anyone else's possession." Sunset was expecting Pinkie to be understanding and react to her dismissal as if nothing had ever happened like she usually did. However, instead of hearing, "Okie dokie lokie," Sunset heard a long heavy sigh and saw Pinkie Pie walking away with her head hung low.
"Okay then. See you later Sunset Shimmer."
Sunset Shimmer was torn. She knew that sometimes you need to stick up for yourself and put your needs before others, but at the same time, Pinkie Pie is such a nice person and it was quite obvious that there was no ill will with her request.
"Pinkie! Wait!" Sinset Shummer called out, having made up her mind, "You can write your letter."
"Really?!" Pinkie Pie immediately perked up, "You'll let me?"
"Yea. I've already written my letters to Celestia and Twilight for the week and I guess it would mean more to you to learn about Equestria than it would be for me since I've already been there."
Before Sunset Shimmer knew what was going on, Pinkie Pie had already wrapped her arms around her.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You're the best friend anyone could ask for!"
"You're... quite welcome..." Sunset Shimmer was starting to feel the full effect of Pinkie's patented, 'Fantabulous-friendship hug,' and the amount of friendship she was receiving was rather suffocating. As well as rib crushing.
"I'll meet you at your locker after class is out. You can give it to me then."
Sunset Shimmer and Pinkie Pie went their separate ways and continued the day as they normally would. Sunset Shimmer knew she could trust Pinkie, but due to the high sentimental value of the item she was entrusting to her, she couldn't help but feel just a little uneasy. After all, this was a gift from Princess Celestia during a very happy time of her life too. Sunset found herself in a little back-and-forth tug-of-war battle with herself over this matter, constantly switching between feeling worried and feeling assured of her decision.
Three fifteen. Sunset Shimmer opened her locker and put everything she needed for the rest of the day in her bag. Sunset Shimmer took the magic book out of her locker and scanned over it. Her heart told her that she shouldn't worry so much. After all, Pinkie Pie is a good friend. However, she couldn't help but feel a little bit worried. After all, this is Pinkie Pie we're talking about here.
Realizing that she's overthinking the situation, Sunset Shimmer dismissed her doubts and shut her locker, only to find Pinkie Pie right behind it.
"Hi!"
"Waah!" Sunset yelped.
"It's after class o'clock. Time to go home." Pinkie Pie held out her hands ready to receive her much sought after tome.
"Before I give this to you, promise me one thing, Pinkie."
"Anything for a friend." Pinkie smiled.
"You need to promise me that you wont use up too many pages. I know there are a lot of blank spaces, but don't go too overboard, okay?"
"Cross my heart and hope to fly. Stick a cupcake in my eye." Pinkie Pie said as she went through the motions of a Pinkie Promise.
Satisfied, Sunset Shimmer placed the book in Pinkie's hands and waved goodbye before turning for the exit.
Even though it wasn't right to think such thoughts, especially of friends, Sunset Shimmer still couldn't shake the fear of something crazy happening that would make her regret trusting her only means of communication to the princesses to someone else.
Pinkie on the other hand, couldn't wait to get home and start writing. She had so many questions to ask. Things like, what do ponies in Equestria eat? What clothes do they wear? Do they even wear clothes? And if a deaf pony sneezes in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, who gave them cake that morning?
Pinkie skipped her way home, making sure to say hi to everyone along the way. Thankfully there weren't too many people to talk to. She wanted to get home as soon as possible so she could start writing.
When she finally arrived, her sister Maud was outside in the lawn with Boulder. She didn't really pay her too much mind though since her goal was within her grasp. All she had to do was open the front door and go to her room. Pinkie was just about to turn the knob when the soft monotonous voice of her sister called from behind her.
"Boulder was wondering how your day at school was."
Pinkie turned and smiled, "It was great. Sunset Shimmer lent me a book."
Maud looked down at her pet and back at Pinkie Pie, "Boulder says that's nice."
"Anyway, I gotta go. Bye bye!" Pinkie Pie waved at Maud and Boulder and quickly threw open the front door. Her eyes darted left and right, as if she was making sure she wasn't being tailed by anyone suspicious and then proceeded to head up to her room and softly shut the door behind her.
Super PPPPP (Pinkie Pie Pony Pen Pal)
Pinkie Pie dropped her bag at the foot of her bed and literally did a swan dive into her bed covers. She rolled herself up so that her sheets became like a sleeping bag.
"Nothing says home sweet home like a nice bed." Pinkie sighed comfortably.
From her position, she reached over her foot board, reach into her bag, and swiftly retrieved Sunset Shimmer's magic book and her favorite ballpoint pen. With pink ink of course.
"Now, what to ask first." Pinkie scratched her head. Nobody would be surprised if Pinkie's desire to converse with her otherworldly self through a magic book was just an idea she thought up on a whim. She hadn't thought it through very well. She hadn't even considered if pony Pinkie would even get her messages. Meticulously planning things was not her forte, everyone at CHS knows that.
"I could ask her the examples I gave to Sunset..." Pinkie quickly rejected her idea. Those questions were the big ones. She couldn't possibly play her royal flush on the first hand of the game! She needed a way to break the ice, but how?"
Almost instinctively, as Pinkie pondered possible questions pony Ponkie could possibly answer, she began doodling on the first blank page she found.
On the vast blank canvas of endless creative possibility, she drew a crude drawing of herself and all her friends hugging pony versions of themselves, the pony versions showed a rather uncanny similarity to what they actually looked like. Just a hunch of hers.
"Oh! I know how to start!" Pinkie's eyes lit up and sparkled so much that if she cried, glitter would come pouring out. She cleared her throat and began writing, reading aloud each word.
"Dear Pony Pinkie Pie,
Hi! You probably know a lot about me since Twjlight must have told you all about her time in our world. Based on what Twilight said, if we're like, the same, then you'd know that I love cake, balloons, cute animals, cute animal shaped balloons, parties, birthday parties, friendship parties, surprise parties, wedding parties, anything sweet, candy parties, and apples... I feel like I could go on, but I think you get the idea. After all, you're me and I'm you. Ha ha! Hope to hear from you soon!
Your bestest friend, Pinkamena Diane Pie."
"That should do it." Pinkie wiped her brow as if she had been doing manual labor, "now to just wait for-"
Before Pinkie could finish talking to herself, bright glowing words began forming on the space below where she had written. It was just like magic! New words would have to be invented to describe how happy Pinkie was to finally be in touch with her ponified self.
"OMYGOSH! Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!!! I can't believe you I mean me is talking to me or myself I mean! Haha! This is like, so amazing. When Twilight came back and told us that there were versions of us that stood up on two legs and wore weird clothes, I was all NO WAY TWI! YOU CRAY! But now that I got your message through this magic book thingy, it's gotta be true! Are there no cutie marks, wings, horns, or magic in your world?! I can't contain how excited I am to be pen pals with you!
Your number one friend, Pinkamena Diane Pie."
Just as the last word was magically scrawled onto the page, Pinkie knew she wasn't going to get any of her homework done tonight. All the time she would spend on that would be completely devoted to her new best friend.
Sunset Shimmer sat at her desk, staring at her partially complete homework. She was distracted. No. Being distracted couldn't even begin to describe her feeling of dread she had having submitted her magic book to the mercy of her unpredictable pink friend.
Sunset Shimmer groaned as she rubbed her forehead, "I know it's not good to think badly of your friends," Sunset slouched in her chair and looked up at the ceiling, "but was it actually a good idea? I mean, who knows what could happen."
Sunset was in a bit of a predicament, she felt like a horrible friend for having such negative thoughts.
"I know! I'll ask Twilight for advice." Sunset's face lit up only to immediately lose its shine as she remembered that she'd be asking Twilight about a friendship problem that involves the book used to converse with ponies from Equestria. The very same book that was not currently in Sunset Shimmer's possession.
"What if I go to her and ask for the book back?" Suddenly things didn't seem as gloomy. "Yea! I'll ask for the book back real quick, consult with Twilight, get my answer, and give the book back to Pinkie. The issue will be resolved and I'll be able to finish my homework without anything to worry about." Sunset Shimmer looked at her purple desk clock. Five thirty. Still early enough for a quick trip to Pinkie's house.
The friendship-troubled teen left her room and dashed out the door. While there wasn't a need to rush, Sunset felt that it would be better to get there sooner rather than later. She just hoped to Celestia that Pinkie kept things under control.
After a quick ten minute run down the street, Sunset Shimmer arrived at Pinkie's house. Without hesitation, Sunset Shimmer cheerfully knocked on the door.
No answer.
She knocked on the door again, this time a little harder. Maybe nobody heard her the first time.
Still no answer.
Sunset decided to look through the window panes surrounding the door to check for signs of anyone being home. Normally she wouldn't do something like this since it was a little rude to peek in on privacy of someone in their home. However, this was rather important. She scanned the left side of the door and saw nothing, she shifted over to the right side window to come face to face with Maud Pie, nearly sending her heart flying out of her chest and into the sky. Wasn't the first time this has happened.
"Can I help you?" Maud's already monotone voice was made even quieter by the glass.
"Um, hi Maud. Uhh, is Pinkie around?"
Maud paused and continued to give Sunset her patented blank stare.
"She's upstairs."
"Oh, thank you." Sunset replied. However, the situation got awkward again and she realized that you have to be a bit more direct with Maud. "Can I come in and see her?"
"Sure." Maud moved away from the window and opened the door for her sister's friend.
Sunset thanked Maud and they both went their separate ways. Maud went into the kitchen and Sunset went upstairs to retrieve her book.
Once up the stairs, anyone would be able to recognize which room belonged to Pinkie Pie.
"There's no way that the bright pink door with streamers, confetti, and balloons attached could belong to Pinkie." Sunset chuckled sarcastically. All the other doors were some shade of a purplish grey that gave off no happy vibes. It's still strange to think that the most energetic person in the world came from a family of people that well... weren't energetic. Sunset couldn't really think of a nice way to put it.
Putting away her off-hand thought, she knocked on Pinkie's door.
"Pinkie, it's me, Sunset Shimmer, can I come in?"
"Uhhh. I'm not here right now! Please leave a message after the beep. BEEP!"
Sunset Shimmer's face went from her normal self to Maud Pie level of blankness in an instant. She raised an eyebrow thinking that, while this is Pinkie Pie, it's a little too crazy and a little too stupid for even her.
"Pinkie, come on. I came to ask for my book back."
"Eek!"
"Don't worry. I need it just for a little bit and I'll give it back to you right after I'm done."
"A book? What book? I dunno of any book. What is this book you speak of, stranger?"
"Pinkie, it's painfully obvious that you're in your room and I know you have my book. If there's something bothering you, please let me come in and talk it out with you. We're friends, right?"
Slowly, the door opened to show Pinkie Pie sitting on her bed with the book on her lap. How the door opened while she was on her bed will be a secret that she'll probably take to the grave.
"Hi Sunset." Pinkie greeted, a little more anxious and timid than her usual self.
"Hiya Pinkie." Sunset sat down on the bed next to Pinkie Pie, "So what's the matter?"
Pinkie paused and looked down, almost as if she was afraid of making eye contact, "Well, it's about the book."
"Don't worry about that. I was just being unecesarrily cautious when I told you not to write too much. I know you have lots of questions for the Pinkie in Equestria, so it's okay if you filled up a few pages."
Pinkie broke out in a cold sweat, "Yea... about that... I think I may have written more that, uh, just a few pages. Ehehe..."
Sunset Shimmer raised an eyebrow in complexion. She reached for the book and when she opened it, was instantly swept over by a wave of shock and amazement. On the page right after her last message to Twilight, were endless paragraphs, written rather sloppily, countless doodles lined the margins and some were even incorporated into her writings. There were splotches of ink that bled through the pages and onto the ones behind them, and it wasn't until after flipping through the, literal bakers dozen worth of pages, did Sunset notice that the bottom right corner of the right page was actually part of a flip book drawing. Sunset flipped through to see two bakers kneading dough and then they start slapping each other with the dough and then the world explodes and turns into cake. For such a small drawing, it sure was detailed.
"Ehehe... I guess I went a little overboard, huh?" Pinkie timidly apologized, trying to play it off like a joke.
Sunset didn't really pay attention to what she said though. She was too busy being amazed that so much had been done to the book in such a short amount of time. She couldn't be angry. Not only was Pinkie Pie a good person at heart and never meant harm on purpose, but also that Sunset Shimmer was too busy being impressed to be angry at anything. After flipping through the pages a little more, Sunset reached the final page of Hurricane Pinkie and saw a little message in purple ink that read,
"For the love of all that is good in both our worlds, please stop.
Yours truly, Twilight Sparkle."
