Without the Impossible

by Chapter 13

Prologue: Everything must come to an end...

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Without the Impossible

By: Michael A.

"Twilight!" Pinkie screamed, slamming her hoof repeatedly into the front door of Twilight library.

Too quiet, too quiet!!! Everything is too quiet!!! Pinkie thought, slamming her hoof into the door harder and faster. Pinkie's heart rate continued to rise, feeling as if it was going to pop out of her chest. Sweat soaked the pink pony's fur, making her look as if she'd just got out of the bathtub.

Moments later, the door to the golden oaks library opened, reviewing a very tired looking Twilight Sparkle. "Pinkie," the purple mare began, rubbing the sleep out of her eye with a hoof. "Don't you know how late it is? What is so important that you needed me at this hour?"

Pinkie didn't respond, instead pushing past Twilight and trotting into the library. She immediately began to pace back and forth along the middle of the library's main room. Twilight went to question her pink friend when she noticed Pinkie's state. Her eyes widened, the grogginess in her brain instantly vanishing. She ran over to her friend, putting both hooves onto the mare's shoulders and forcing her to look into her eyes.

"Pinkie! What happened, what's wrong?!" Twilight screamed, staring into Pinkie's eyes. She couldn't be sure, but there was something different about them.

Pinkie sat on her haunches, staring into her unicorn friends eyes. "It's gone, Twilight... It's gone..." she said, her voice hollow.

The purple mare cocked her head in confusion. "Pinkie, what's gone?"

"Everything!" Pinkie screamed, causing Twilight to take a step back from her friend. Pinkie got up onto her hooves, looking around the library, almost as if looking for something. Too quiet, too quiet!!!

"Pinkie," Twilight began, getting back into her hooves and staring at tee friend in confusion. "What do you mean everything is gone? I need you to be more specific—I can't help you unless I understand what's going on."

If Pinkie herd Twilight, she didn't show it. Instead, the pink mare continued to look around. She eventually stopped, shaking her head and yelling, "No, No, No!!!"

Twilight was utterly speechless. Yes, she was used to her pink friend acting strange, but this was different. She didn't seem bouncy, random, or happy like usual. She looked... hollow.

Pinkie suddenly turned on her heels to face Twilight. "It's all wrong! Everything is wrong! My body is wrong, my head is wrong, everything is wrong!" she screamed, slamming a hoof into the ground. She turned to twilight, her face filled with tears. "I need help!!!"

Twilight lunged at her friend, wrapping her hooves around the pink mare. Pinkie fell into her friends embrace, crying openly into her shoulder. "Shhh," Twilight cooed, running a hoof through her friend's mane. "Done worry, Pinkie, I'm sure we'll be able to fix whatever's wrong..."

Pinkie suddenly tensed in twilights arms, her sobs instantly stopping. She pushing herself out from the unicorn's embrace, staring at an even more confused Twilight.

Before twilights could question anything, pinkie spoke, "Twilight, look around you, and tell me what you see," Pinkie said, her voice surprisingly calm and collected.

Twilight looked at her friend in concern, before doing as she asked. She looked around her library. "I see... I see my library; my home. Pinkie, I don't see what this has to do with what's going on wi-" she was cut off as Pinkie began to speak again.

"What else do you see?"

The purple mare blinked. "What do you mean?"

Pinkie's calm composure broke again as she slammed her hoof into the floor. "What do you see?!"

"Pinkie, we need to get you to a doctor," Twilight began, trotting towards her friend.

"No!" Pinkie cried, backing away from her advancing friend. "Don't touch me!!!"

"Pinkie," Twilight began in a soft tone. "Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you. I only want to help."

Pinkie shook her head. "You don't understand. You need to understand!" she screamed, before pacing again, much like how she did when she first entered the library.

Twilight stopped, watching over her friend with concerned eyes.

"It's too quiet," Pinkie mumbled over and over again as she continued to pace.

"What do you mean it's too quiet?" Twilight asked.

Pinkie stopped pacing to face her friend. "Usually, everything happened at once; I see everything at once," she began. "But now... Now I don't..." She finished, dejected.

"Wait, what do you mean you see everything?" Twilight asked, happy that her friend was finally giving her something she could understand.

"What I mean is that I can see everything that's happening at once. Not just what's happening, but everything that can happen. I see all possibilities, all connections—everything!" Pinkie screamed, shaking slightly. "You want to know about my Pinkie sense? Well, it's not that I can sense it, it's that I can see it coming. I see the patterns, I see the signs—and now it's gone!!!" With that, Pinkie collapsed, crying into her hooves and shaking.

Twilight ran over to her fallen friend, picking her up and cradling her in her hooves. Pinkie continued crying, shaking in Twilights embrace.

Twilight was at a loss. Her mind was split between trying to comfort her friend and figuring out what her friend had just said. This explains so much, Twilight thought as she continues to hold her crying, pink friend. Pinkie... Pinkie is just... Just a genius? Her brain must somehow be able to run at an almost super pony capacity... But, how is it gone? What happened?

Pinkie's sobs slowly died down until it was nothing more than a whimper. The whole time Pinkie cried, Twilight remain silent, only whispering comforting words to her friend. When Pinkie finally went silent, she shifted in Twilight's embrace to look up at her friend.

"Twilight... I'm scared..." she began, sniffling slightly. "I... I don't feel like myself anymore... Everything is just slow... I don't like it, Twilight..."

The purple unicorn only held her friend tighter, nuzzling Pinkie comfortingly. "Don't worry, Pinkie. We'll figure this out; you'll be back to your normal Pinkie self in no time!"

Pinkie smiled for the first time since she's arrived in Twilight's library. She snuggled herself into the unicorn's grasp more, letting her friends warmth calm her racing nerves. "Thank you, Twilight... You are a great friend..." Pinkie muttered before letting out a mighty yawn and closing her eyes. Soon afterwards, she was fast asleep, her only movements being the gentle rise and fall of her chest.

Twilight held Pinkie in her hooves until she was sure she was fast asleep before gently slipping herself away from Pinkie, igniting her horn and gently enveloping her friend in her magic. Quietly, Twilight carried her friend up the library stairs and into her room. She pulled back the covers to her bed and tucked Pinkie in.

Twilight looked at her pink friend, a mixture of fear and unease spreading across her muzzle. She feared for what was going to happen to her friend and still didn't completely know what had even happened. The only thing Twilight knew for sure was that she would be there for a friend, and try her best to fix whatever had happened to her.

Quietly, Twilight left the room, closing the door behind her has she exited. She let out a sigh, slumping to the floor and pressing her hooves to her temples. "Oh, Pinkie," Twilight muttered quietly to herself. "What happened to you?"

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