Twilight was trotting through the southern part of Ponyville, waving to the ponies she passed. She felt a chill go up her spine when she felt a claw touch her left wing. She turned her head to the left, her cheeks blushing a bit.

"Gumdramon, will you please calm down." She said, flustered.

"I can't, she could be anywhere." Gumdramon said, his worried voice coming from an unknown location.

"Why are you so worried? She can't see you." Twilight said, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, but she can still hear, feel, smell, and taste me. I wouldn't be surprised if she had any other senses."

Twilight was about to mention the 'Pinkie Sense', but didn't, thinking it would freak him out even more. After a couple minutes of walking, they finally made it to the entrance of the Everfree Forest. Twilight was hesitant at first, remembering the incident with the cockatrice. She started to shiver, but she shook it off for the sake of her friend.

"Let's head on in Gumdramon." She said, looking to her left.

"Um, Twilight? I'm over here." He said, his voice coming from her right.

"Oh!" She turned her head to the right. "Let's head on in." She repeated with a embarrassed smile.

"All right! What are we waiting for?" He said as footprints could be heard quickly moving away from Twilight.

"Hey, wait up. You don't even know where her hut is." Twilight yelled, running after him.

As they entered the Everfree Forest, two pink pony ears popped out from a nearby bush.

Twilight and a now visible Gumdramon walked up to the hut that belong to the only zebra in all of Ponyville. Twilight knocked on the door, waiting for the zebra to answer it. After about few second a voice came from hut.

"My house is in a messy state, would you be so kind and wait?" Zecora asked.

Twilight turned to Gumdramon, he shrugged. The were standing outside for nearly fifteen minutes, awkward silence being their only companion. Twilight was shuffling her hoof in the dirt, while Gumdramon whistled a generic tune. After a few more minutes of awkwardness, the door slowly opened, revealing the zebra.

"Sorry, my house looked like there was a stampede. Now how may I help you in your time of need?" She asked.

"Zecora, there's something wrong with Pinkie and we don't know what it is. Can you help us figure out what's wrong with her?" Twilight asked.

"I believe to know what to do, come inside and help with my brew." Zecora said, waling into her hut.

Twilight and Gumdramon looked at each other and simply shrugged, following the zebra inside.

Gumdramon was nervously pacing around Zecora's small table, biting his claws.

"How's it going?" He asked, a sense of impatience in his voice.

"Almost, just stay calm Gumdramon." Twilight reassured him.

Zecora grabbed a small mixing bowl filled with a green powder substance. She gently blew it over the pot, creating a puff of green smoke. It slowly started taking the shape of Pinkie before entering the cauldron. Once all of the smoke entered the bubbling, purple liquid it turned into a lite shade of pink.

"The brew is nearly done, I just need something from the loved one." Zecora stated, turning towards Gumdramon.

"Oh, uh..." Gumdramon mumbled to himself, looking for something to give to her. After a second or two, He snapped his fingers and plucked a hair from his right arm.

"Will this do?" He asked, rubbing his arm in pain.

"Precisely, this will do nicely." She said, Gumdramon placing the hair in one of her hooves. She walked back to the cauldron and added the hair. A huge puff of dark purple smoke exploded out of the cauldron, but was quickly sucked back in.

"It is done and without a book, come here and take a look." She said, gesturing Gumdramon and Twilight to join her.

They walked up to her and looked inside the cauldron. The liquid started swirling like a whirlpool, an image starting to emerge from the center of it. After a few seconds, the image turned out to be Dark Shoutmon on top of a hill.

"Dark Shoutmon?!" Gumdramon angrily questioned.

"You know him?" Twilight asked Gumdramon, turning her head towards him.

"Unfortunately." He replied, a clear tone of annoyance in his voice.

"Now Rascal, this chemical will make that pony fall for Gumdramon." The image of Dark Shoutmon said.

"So how long do we have before it wares off?" Rascal asked, not showing him in the cauldron.

"This was just a quick and small dosage of the chemical, so we only have about seven hours."

"Ten we better get going then." Rascal said, fading out.

The liquid in the cauldron turned back into water, no longer showing the image.

"So that's why Pinkie's been acting like that, she's under a spell." Twilight said, shocked by what she just say.

"Technically Twilight, it's a chemical that is forcing Pinkie's brain to increase the creation of love and directing towards me." Gumdramon corrected her.

Twilight gave Gumdramon a displeased glare.

"Uh, s-sorry." He apologized, nervously laughing and rubbing the back of his head.

"As I was saying, whatever happened to Pinkie won't last much longer." Twilight stated, placing a hoof on her chin. "If she was injected at 8:30 and it's almost 3:00, that means we only have half an hour before the chemical wears off."

"So what do we do until then?" Gumdramon asked with a shrug.

"It doesn't really matter, your perfectly safe now." Twilight said, giving him a warm smile.

Before Gumdramon could reply, a lasso flew threw the open window and wrapped around Gumdramon. He was then pulled threw the window, the rope wrapping around him in the process.

"Hiya Gummy Bear!" Pinkie said, fluttering her eyelashes.

"HELP!!!" He screamed while Pinkie rode her part cannon back to town with him inside it.

"I hate to admit, but I believe you jinxed it." Zecora said to a shocked Twilight.

Author's Note

Sorry this chapter took me so long, I just had a lot of other projects.