Pinkamena

Pinkamena

Chapter 1

"This Party's going to be awesome!"

"Ah'm excited for it to!"

"These decorations are fabulous dear!"

"Thanks for inviting us Pinkie!"

"Cutie Mark Crusaders party ponies are go!"

"I'm so glad you could make it mom, and you too dad!"

Friends.

Family.

"Happy birthday dear Pinkie, happy birthday to you!"

Joy.

"Time to blow out the candles!"

Wish.

"Fire! Fire!"

"It's spreading!"

"We have to get out of here!"

"I don't wanna die! I don't even have mah cutie mark yet!"

"We're not going to die Applebloom, we need to get out of here though, fast!"

Accident.

Falling beams.

"Applejack!"

"She's unconscious!"

"We're trapped!"

"My wing is broken, I can't fly!"

"Help us Pinkie!"

"Go through the door to the twin's room, you'll be able to climb out the window."

"It's locked! I can't get it open!"

Fire.

Horror.

"There's too much fire!"

"Save yourself Pinkie!"

Escape.

Death.

Sorrow.

"She's badly burnt! Somepony help me get her to the hospital!"

"No!.. NO! We have to go... gogogo... back!... I have to save them!"

"Ms. Pie? I'm so sorry, we searched the wreckage... There were no survivors."

Guilt.

"All died on my account! I should have died as well!"

Mind.

Breaking.

"Is she alright?"

"She looks asleep."

Remedy the situation.

"I'm so sorry... Mom, Dad, Bella, Quarry, Twilight, Applejack, Gummy, Mr. and Mrs. Cake, Pumpkin and Pound cake, ...Dashie. I'm so so sorry."

"Oh Shit! Somepony cut her down!"

"She's barely breathing."

Remedy Failed.

"Let's check with Dr. Wilson."

"It's a case of survivors guilt from what I can tell."

"I'm afraid Ms. Pinkamena here has gone quite mad."

"So I must say that she will be sent to Rutledge asylum for an unknown period of time."

Trapped.

Forever.

10 years.

"She has gotten quite better. However she's still possibly dangerous so we must find someone to take care of her for now."

"I'll do it."

Kindness.

"Pleased to meet you Pinkie I'm Dr. Bumby, I'm going to take care of you now."

"Don't call me that... Only my friends called me Pinkie but they're gone now... My name is Pinkamena."

"You know Pinkamena, they say that everypony's mind is really just a huge world. That all memories and all things forgotten are still there."

Wonderland.

"They say everyone important in your life has a counterpart there."

"I have devised a method of hypnotism that I think will help you."

"I'll set you free, Pinkamena. Memory is more often a curse than a blessing."

Forgetting.

"Have you ever been on a train Pinkamena? I just love them."

"Relax, you're floating, weightless. Now go to Wonderland."

"I'd rather not doctor, if it's a representation of my mind then it's shattered, it's dead to me."

"Your preference doesn't signify girl, now go to Wonderland."

"These memories are unproductive Pinkamena, let's discard them shall we?"

"Time to wake up, Pinkamena."

The grey unicorn clapped his hooves and Pinkamena snapped to her senses, she was in Dr. Bumby's office and was lying back on the therapy sofa. Her eyes darted around the bland room. It was poorly decorated, no features particularly stood out aside from a large black desk that dominated the back near the window, Dr. Bumby was sitting in a chair in front of her, in his hoof he held a gold pocket watch with his lucky key dangling from the chain. He had thick black glasses that perfectly framed his hazelnut eyes, his mane and tail were a shade of dark brown.

"How do you feel Pinkamena?"

"Awful, my head is a mess and I feel like a rhino sat on my back."

"Yes, well the cost of forgetting is high, now then I have other patients to tend to but I need you to pick up your medications from the chemist."

"Yes doctor."

Pinkamena turned herself over, got up out of the therapist sofa and wandered out of the office. She could hear Dr. Bumby's voice talking to his next patient

"Now Peachy, your mother was put in jail for killing your father who beat you... Let's forget that shall we?"

Pinkamena wandered the streets of Ponyville glumly. She didn't talk to anypony anymore, and nopony talked to her. Some ponies thought that she was to blame for the fire, some avoided her because they thought she was dangerous, and some just felt didn't want to talk to her for fear of bringing up sensitive topics.

Then something caught Pinkamena's eye, a green reptilian tail flicked out from the corner of an alleyway.

"Gummy?"

Pinkamena shook her head. It couldn't be Gummy, he died in the fire as well.

"Still it couldn't hurt to look..."

The ex-party pony wandered into the alleyway and what she found was quite surprising indeed. In front of her was an alligator that looked almost identical to Gummy, except it was bigger, much bigger almost as tall as Pinkamena. The huge reptile looked malnourished and it's rib-cage was visible through it's scaly green hide.

The creature grinned at Pinkamena showing her a toothless smile.

"Did you miss me, Pinkie?" it said in a smooth voice that ran a chill up Pinkamena's spine

"But... you're supposed to be dead."

The Alligator flicked it's tail and wandered around her. "Yes, well, I am dead, so to speak. This is simply how your mind chooses to remember me. You know Dr. Bumby's theories about Wonderland? He's right about all that you know."

Pinkamena was backing out of the alley, thoughts spun through her head of being sent back to the asylum. "Y... You're not real."

"Not really, no"

"If Dr. Bumby taught me anything, it's that hallucinations appear for a reason. What's your purpose here Gummy?"

The alligator's demeanor changed, it's expression darkened and his eyes looked weary. "A new law reins in your Wonderland, and the destruction of Wonderland is the destruction of you. The world is corrupted Pinkie, madness is returning."

"I see... and what do you expect me to do about it? Most ponies just think of me as that crazy mare now, I'm no hero. I'm just the mare that everyone used to be friends with."

Gummy began to cover with a bright yellow light then he faded to nothingness . that's when Pinkamena noticed the cracks, small white cracks seemed to be forming around her, slowly getting wider and wider, until eventually the ground broke, the world around her shattered like a broken sheet of glass and she then began to fall...