Between Chaos and Order
It all began on a beautiful morning in Ponyville, before, well… what would soon happen. This wasn’t anything to do with the Lord of Chaos, Discord himself, though he likely would have found a nice spot to watch what was about to happen. No before there was Discord, the Lord of Chaos, there was Pinkie Pie, this was waaaay before the seal snapped and broke him loose. It was a well known fact that even the most logical of ponies couldn’t make heads or tails of Pinkie Pie.
Though, how could Twilight Sparkle? A pony of Logic, science, order, and strong OCD tendencies. While she wasn’t the perfectionist that Rarity was, she still had to make sense of everything. With… one exception, Pinkie Pie, the one pony she could, and never would truly ever figure out. Who would be able to though? Or perhaps it’s more proper to say who could? After all this was… Pinkie Pie.
The one pony who, no matter what she did, was Twilights exact opposite if one would think about it. Pinkie didn’t think the way Twilight or any other pony did, and no one knew how she was able to bend the laws of physics the way she did, or how she was able to keep up with supposedly the fastest pony in Equestria. If there was one word to describe her character, just one, it would be enigma. Pinkie Pie, for all intensive purposes was an enigma. A fact that everyone who knew her, came to very quickly accept, if only to give their mind some peace.
To continue on, it was on this beautiful morning, where Rarity sat outside, enjoying a nice herbal cup of tea, some delightful biscuits, and of course reading up on the latest trends. That Pinkie Pie decided to pop out, yes, pop out of the tea kettle, right in front of Rarity. As always a huge smile followed her, which she caught and placed on her mouth. Rarity at that moment, screamed in surprise, after all it’s not everyday a Pinkie Pie comes flying out of a tea kettle.
“Pinkie Pie!” She began to chastise her. “You shouldn’t surprise a lady like that! You nearly gave me a heart attack, and more importantly I could of chipped part of my hoof.” In that same complaining tone of voice one, could always hear coming from her as soon as something she didn’t like happened.
Helping Rarity up, after her fall, thanks to the sudden surprise. “I’m super duper sorry about that!” Pinkie said as earnestly as she could, before she continued on, “but I had a really important question, and I thought to myself, well I talked to myself, well it was more me thinking out loud like I always do, and so I said to myself on that particular problem that my mind decided to come across, you know who can help you? Rarity, she’s always good at this sort of stuff, and it’s like one of her favorite subjects after fashion, so then I decided to appear in front of you to ask this question.” It was always a wonder how Pinkie Pie was able to ramble on without so much as taking a breath.
Brushing herself off, as she would, Rarity blinked once she was back on her seat at what Pinkie was saying. Finally after she finished fixing her dress, she would look back at Pinkie, already calmed down. “And this question would be what dear?” She asked as she proceeded to drink from her tea cup.
Without a single pause, or a batting of the eyes, Pinkie went straight for the jugular with her question. “How does a pony know if they’re in love?”
Rarity, the pony who considered herself to be a self proclaimed lady, at this moment did something very unlady like. She spit out her drink, but was at least polite enough not to spit it out in Pinkie Pie’s face. “Wh… what? did… I’m sorry Pinkie Pie, but… did you just ask me? How some one knows if they’re in love?” Her mind unable to believe she actually heard what she just did, as she wiped her face with a handkerchief.
To this Pinkie nodded rapidly… too rapidly. “Yeah huh!” She agreed readily eager to hear what Rarity had to say on the subject.
Tilting her head as she tried to figure out if Pinkie Pie was being serious or not, Rarity finally decided to ask her next question. “Are… you perhaps, as silly as this may sound, but Pinkie Pie darling… are you in love with anyone?”
Mirroring Rarity’s action, as Pinkie Pie pondered this, the gears in her mind whirling. Then her head sprang back shaking a little, before a grin appeared on her face. “Well duh, I wouldn’t be here if I knew the answer to that question!”
Sighing slightly, Rarity furrowed her brow slightly. “Well this is a rather… complicated… question dear. Is there a certain pony you always tend to think about? A tightening in your chest when you’re around… him?” Rarity eyed Pinkie to see her reaction to the gender, once she got a plain look she then changed it. “...Her?” Ah there it was, that bright smile Pinkie always wore.
Pinkie tapped her chin twice, and only twice, thinking about this. “Hmmm, I’m not sure, oh I know! Hold on I’ll be riiiiiiight back!” She said as she then zipped away before Rarity could blink.
This all left poor Rarity very confused, but also very intrigued, there was a mare that Pinkie Pie liked. Then it further dawned on her, there was… a mare… Pinkie Pie? Liked? Was that even possible? It had maybe been around five minutes, before Pinkie Pie zipped back in a pink blur while Rarity was thinking about all this. It was only the gust of wind that followed Pinkie Pie, that snapped her back to reality.
“The answer to your question is yes, yes there is!” Pinkie Pie said happily.
Rarity blinked, once. “I see… and who would this pony be exactly? More importantly.” A slight inquiring sly smile crept onto Rarity’s face. “Do I happen to know said mare?”
“Weeeellllll I could tell you, but that might ruin the surprise, and I don’t exactly know if I like her, ‘like’ her.” Pinkie began before she narrowed her eyes. “Waaait a moment, how did you know it was a girl?”
A small chuckle escaped Rarity’s lips. “Your expressions during the time I was trying to figure out what gender the pony was.”
Pinkie Pie smacked one hoof on top of the other. “Oh!” Before she blinked and smirked. “Oh you’re gooooood.”
Rarity smiled politely. “Why thank you dear, now you were saying?”
“Oh right! Well like I was saying, I could tell you, but I don’t know if I should, I mean that’s why I came to you in the first place, to figure out whether I liked her or not, so I don’t think I should really say who it is, buuuuuuuut if I did I might be able to get help in doing so.” Pinkie started as she continued on her tangent. “What other signs are there in being in love? Maybe if I knew more, I could confidently tell you who it was I think I like but don’t know if she likes me, though I know she likes me, but I don’t know if she ‘like’ likes me.”
Rarity then hummed and hawed, as she thought how she could help Pinkie Pie, and of course more importantly, satisfy her now dying need to know. “Well… would you do anything you could for this pony? More importantly, can you imagine a life without her?”
For reasons unknown, Pinkie Pie was suddenly upside down doing a headstand, before she shook her legs like one would their head in a no fashion. “Of course I’d do anything for her silly! At least I think I would, unless it made some other pony sad… then I don’t think I would, but I don’t think she’d ask me to make another pony sad. As for imagining life without her, well… I’d be super sad! I mean it’s just depressing thinking about that, I don’t even like imagining any of my friends disappearing, I don’t even know what I would do if that ever happened.”
A caring, yet still curious expression was upon Rarity’s face. “Well then dear, I think you might just actually like this special somepony of yours.”
Pinkie Pies eyes widened as she heard this, before flipping herself upright, and in one fluid motion going to hug Rarity. “Really? That’s the bestest! Thank you Rarity.”
Hugging Pinkie Pie back. “You’re welcome Pinkie Pie, but remember dear, you can’t truly know if you love her until you spend more time with her, and take her out on dates, getting to know her along the way. Though I still would like to know who this pony is that you think you like.”
Withdrawing from the hug. “Oh yeah! It’s Twilight Sparkle! The first new pony I met who moved to Ponyville! And since you know who it is, you can totally help me set things up for her, after all you’re like the best pony to come to for relationship advice!”
Did she hear right? Pinkie Pie… liked… Twilight Sparkle? Well this is certainly interesting, still… Twilight Sparkle… who would have guessed? Rarity knew she wouldn’t have, after all Twilight was practically Pinkie Pie’s polar opposite just about. “Did you just say Twilight Sparkle?” She asked in complete disbelief.
“Yup!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed happily. “I mean she’s generally always alone, I mean I know she has Spike and all, but I can’t bare to see her alone, I mean sure she’s just about as happy with her books as Fluttershy is with her animals, but other than that she’s super secluded and that makes me sad, and then I think of how sad it makes me, and I wonder if being alone all the time makes her sad, and then I thought I didn’t ever want to see her sad either, so I kept thinking to myself wondering if I liked her, and that’s when the idea to come and meet you came, so I could find out!”
“Well yes… I can imagine that… especially with her new home.” Rarity said as soon as she took in Pinkie Pies mouthful.
“Exactly! That’s what I thought too! And her new home is like super huuuuuge, I could totally throw the most epic parties in there too! But like with it being so huge, it would be even easier for Twilight to lose herself in there, and mope about the past like she always does, and I don’t want her to mope about the past either.” Pinkie Pie replied without missing a beat.
“Well in that case, if you feel so strongly about her, I would be delighted to help you.” Rarity then said, right after she stopped trying to make complete sense of it all, which was probably for the best.
“You’re the bestest Rarity!” Pinkie Pie said as she went to hug her for a second time. “Now that I have all the information I need, I should go and talk to her again!” She said before finally leaving in a pink flash towards Twilights Castle.
This only left poor Rarity in a slight daze, Pinkie Pie always tended to come in like a hurricane. Before a realization on Pinkie Pies last comment came to her. “Again? When did she go and talk to her the first time?” She asked herself as she watched Pinkie Pie disappear into the distance.
Author's Note
This was... an interesting write to say the least, this isn't after all my favorite ship, but I began to think as to how it might be possible, and well... felt compelled to write it. Hopefully I got the character of Pinkie Pie as close to canon as possible, but reading some of the other TwiPie stories I just felt... something more energetic needed to be created after all.
Ever heard that saying “A calm in the eye of the storm?” Of course you have, it’s a common statement, one that has become a cliche even. Yet that was exactly what Twilight Sparkle was, the calm in the eye of the storm. When things started to go out of control, she was the center everyone came to. For in the center there was a calm, and there was order, there has always been order, just like there has always been chaos.
Twilights entire life was based around structure, around order, around the law of order. For a while she had followed this routine without room for anyone else. This was of course before she met all her friends, especially Pinkie Pie who could never be predicted. Before all of this, Twilight followed a set schedule, everything worked in exacts. While her friends changed this, none changed it so much as Pinkie Pie.
Is it strange to say that without chaos and order, that nothing could be created? Or in simpler terms, imagination brought to life. These were the things Twilight often times mused on, especially now in her new… empty… hollow home. Twilight let out a sigh before shaking that thought away, before finally standing up and going towards her new bookshelf searching for a new book to read.
That… was until a pink blur entered the eyesore of a castle and stood in front of Twilight. Normally Twilight would have jumped, normally she would have screamed slightly. Yet the empty hollowness of the castle alerted her to a new presence, and due to the speed of hooves going down the halls, Twilight Sparkle was able to determine that Pinkie Pie would soon be paying her a visit. After all, Rainbow Dash didn’t run, and there would be a different sound should it have been her.
What Twilight Sparkle however, was not expecting was Pinkie Pie just… staring at her, not saying a word… just staring at her. Clearing her throat slightly. “It’s uh… good to see you too Pinkie Pie… So um… what exactly can I help you with?” Twilight finally asked.
“Oh nothing, just trying to see if I like you is all.” Came Pinkie Pies automatic response as she continued to look Twilight in the eyes.
Blinking at such a strange reply Twilight let out a slight chuckle. “Of course you like me Pinkie Pie, we’re friends, friends like each other, you out of all Ponies should know that.”
“Oh not that way silly! I mean like a special somepony type of way.” Pinkie Pie said without hesitation before continuing. “I think I’ve got it now, I’ll be back soon!” And with that she was gone, just like that, in a pink blur.
Pinkie Pie… liked her? Tilting her head to the side, with a baffled expression on her face. Pinkie Pie… liked… her? Since when? Well, this was definitely the biggest surprise Pinkie had ever pulled on her, Twilight decided as she sat down. What Twilight Sparkle was able to figure out rather quickly, was that now wasn’t the time to be sitting and gawking at such news. No… if she knew Pinkie Pie, that would mean she would be back relatively soon. This meant that Twilight didn’t have a lot of time to think, or even search through books.
First things first… did Twilight like Pinkie Pie back? She wasn’t sure, but was she willing to give her a chance? Well sure, but what did that mean exactly? She’d been practically isolated for most of her life after all, she didn’t know the first thing required when it came to dating. As such her eyes wandered over towards that… particular area of books, and as much as she would have loved to go through looking towards them for answers, Pinkie Pie was different and would likely break all the rules.
If Twilight was the center, then Pinkie Pie was the chaos around her. Well in terms of friends at least, or something more special likely from the sound of things. What exactly did Pinkie Pie exactly like doing besides the typical? Twilight wasn’t entirely sure… this now started to bug her, did this mean she didn’t know her friend as well as she thought? Frowning slightly at this, before she decided to stand up and… started pacing.
Thankfully the floors were crystal and not wood now, so as to not cause a groove into the flooring by the amount of pacing she was doing. She began to ramble jargon that only a scientist like her could follow. All while trying to scientifically and mathematically figure out the situation, which only made her more confused, or more aware of just how much she didn’t know. Of course this was stopped when Pinkie Pie, appeared from out of an armored statue in front of Twilight once again.
“Oh silly you’re over thinking it. Being in a relationship isn’t a mathematical or scientific formula for you to figure out. It’s about finding out who the other person really is, while they find out who you really are. Then when the relationship becomes closer, it becomes more of a commitment, it’s not about strategies, or set plans, it’s about me and you having fun, and bringing ourselves closer to one another.” Pinkie Pie said as she pulled Twilight into a hug. “Oh and I totally do like you and want you to become my special somepony.”
Blinking in surprise, Twilight of course hugged Pinkie Pie back. “That was… surprisingly deep of you Pinkie Pie.”
Giggling as she let Twilight Sparkle go. “You know it! So does that mean you’re willing to go on a date with me?” Of course Pinkie pie was going to ask this, even if she already knew the answer to the question. It didn’t hurt to be sure after all.
Smiling at Pinkie Pie, Twilight nodded. “Of course Pinkie Pie, when were you hoping to go?”
“Now!” Came the excited exclimated reply of Pinkie Pie, as she cheerfully started to bounce.
“Wait… right now? As in right now, right now?” Twilight asked a little hesitantly.
“Huh… so this is what Deja vu feels like. Yes I mean right now silly.” Pinkie Pie replied as she pulled out some parchment paper. “And no you’re not busy, I just checked.”
Twilight looked at the parchment paper Pinkie Pie randomly pulled out, was that her schedule? “How did you…” letting out a breath before shaking her head. “You know what, nevermind. What did you have in mind?”
“I haven’t decided yet!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed cheerfully as she, in her usual energetic self trotted out of the castle with Twilight.
Did she just hear that right? No she couldn’t have… could she? Well it was Pinkie Pie, so should she really be surprised? “What do you mean-” Twilight began before Pinkie Pie cut her off.
“Dates don’t always have to be planned you know, besides planning things isn’t any fun, not when you want to give a pony a random surprise.” Pinkie Pie said as she giggled at this. “Besides I know the things you like besides books, so I’ll just have to pick one of those.”
Twilight Sparkle couldn’t help but purse her lips at this, as she went into a thoughtful state of mind. Sure there were other things she liked besides books… but which one would Pinkie Pie choose? Or had she already chosen it since Twilight asked her last question… should she ask again or just go along with it? Or maybe the entire thing won’t be planned at all, and all they’d be doing is going along with Pinkie Pies whims. Was that really a bad thing though? Not going along with any schedule or plans? Had Pinkie Pie really looked at her schedule? Would there be a reason why she wouldn’t have?
Shaking her head from her thoughts, and slight worrying, Twilight Sparkle decided to distract her thoughts with a completely different set of questions. Which, in themselves were a cause of curiosity for her. “So out of all the Ponies that you’ve met, why me?”
This cause Pinkie Pie to stop completely in her tracks and look at Twilight. “I don’t know, and I mean it. I had to be sure, so I went and asked Rarity, and she told Pinkie to try and find out, and some advice as to what Pinkie could do. I just know I don’t want to see you end up alone, I don’t mean without any friends, although that would be sad too, but when you got that new castle… things became as cold as the castle, and I saw how sad you were, and I didn’t want you to be sad, or locked away in a distant castle away from every other pony.”
“And it hurt Twilight.” She continued as she placed Twilights hoof on her chest. “In here it hurt. I first thought I was sad for you, but then I realized that it was so much more as I went to the kitchen to eat a double chocolate vanilla cream cupcake. I know these feelings are real and they’re directed the strongest towards you.” Pinkie pie finished as she let go of Twilights hoof.
Twilight didn’t know what to say, trying to find the words for it were providing to be… difficult to say the least. What did one say in such a situation, and was saying thank you enough? She didn’t know, but it certainly didn’t seem like it would be enough. Well excluding the mention of the double chocolate vanilla cream cupcake… which sounded delicious, Twilight would have to remind Pinkie Pie to let her try one of those sometime. That still didn’t solve her dilemma, after all it was so rare Pinkie Pie said such things, or did she say them more than she thought and was just not paying attention? What did that say of their friendship then? If The Princess of Magic and Friendship, was indeed, not paying as close attention towards her friends as she should have?
Such a depressing line of thought to have for sure, and yet Twilight still didn’t know what to say, so instead she would say that. “Pinkie Pie I…” Before she was able to continue, Pinkie Pie once again interrupted and distracted her thoughts.
“Oh what’s that? I don’t think I’ve been in there before, hey Twilight! Lets go check this out!” Pinkie Pie stated near what seemed to be a tunnel.
Twilight blinked once… twice… three times. Since when had there been a tunnel? Or was this another one of Pinkie Pie’s elaborate schemes… though why would Pinkie Pie dig a tunnel? Well it wasn’t like she had explored every inch of Ponyville, and it’s surrounding areas, let alone the Everfree Forest… that she would leave until… another time. At the moment however, there seemed to be this tunnel… a tunnel that Twilight had seemed to look over.
“Um Pinkie Pie, I don’t think we know where this goes, or how safe it is, besides this could have been another tunnel dug by the diamond dogs.” Twilight stated as she walked towards Pinkie Pie while looking at the tunnel.
“Oh it could have been an earth dragon too!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed perhaps a little too excitedly.
Twilight deadpanned slightly. “Not helping your case Pinkie.”
“What about a giant worm?” Pinkie Pie then asked.
“Why a worm?” Twilight countered.
Which she was then provided with a shrug as Pinkie Pie continued. “I dunno, I heard there were giant worms beyond the badlands that dig tunnels.”
Twilight paled slightly, and was only thankful that Rarity was no where around to hear any of this. Though it was something to definitely look into… for curiosities sake. “And where did you hear this exactly?”
“Well Pinkie Pie heard it from this one pony, who heard it from another pony who got a story from another pony, how he had just come from a colony in the desert where a bunch of strange creatures and ponies live, apparently one of the things they have to deal with is a giant sandworm.” Pinkie Pie stated as she continued to look down at the hole.
“Well I think we’re safe from giant sandworms, though I’m still uncertain as to how safe this… particular tunnel is.”
“Well there’s only one way to find out!” Came Pinkie’s reply as she bounded into the tunnel.
“Pinkie wait!” Twilight shouted. “Oh… pony feathers!” she swore slightly, before she went in after Pinkie Pie, wasn’t it normally Rainbow Dash who did these kinds of reckless things?
Somewhere near Fluttershy’s cottage, Rainbow Dash sneezed.
Author's Note
Here is the second chapter to the Twipie fic I have challenged myself to write, sorry it took so long, I do have other things I've been working on after all, which do not relate solely to stories. Also anyone who is able to find all the subtle references to certain things... gets a cookie.
