Pinkies Torment

Three days ago I left the hospital and I've been hiding from my best friends super good.  They think showing up at a party will catch me.  I just hide anywhere and poof.  I'm gone.  They gave up and started having 'secret' times so I'm gonna sneak a listen like a super secret spy that never gets seen.  Whoosh.  I'm like that but I'm not really a secret spy, I'm Pinkie in a black unitard.  That's a fun word;  unitard.  UnItArD.  UniTard.  UNItard.  I appear under Twilights bed and crawl to the edge again to spy all sneaky.

"Rainbow, we have to take this seriously.  Pinkie's been avoiding us since she disappeared from the hospital and I'm really worried."

"Twilight, I know you lost her but how's that MY fault?"

"Rainbow, now don't ya get all huffy bout Twi when we're all worried.  I for one can't wait ta find her and ask her a couple a questions."

"Oh, this is going no where." Rarity.  Always a negative Nancy.  "I believe if we throw our own party she'll show up and we can talk with her about the problem."

"But, is there a real problem?  I mean, she seems happy as Pinkie.  I don't know if Pinkamena is really as bad off."

*PINKAMENA?  That dirty lying bitch?!  I'll tear her mind apart one strand at a time.  I knew I was too kind to have her live with me in this body.*  I growl loudly.  Too loudly and they look up too see me bearing my teeth like the beast I was.  No more miss nice consumer.

"When did she talk to you?"  I shout.  Her voice is so shrill.  I regret that sometimes.  "How long ago and what did she say?"

They gasp as I look at them.  I taste the fear from them.  I don't care, this is my life that's at risk now.  Suffering in this form is bad enough but now to have it at risk, I'll kill them all if I have to.  "Pinkie, I don't know what to tell you..."  Damn Twilight.  I'm going to stab her with her own horn soon.

"Shut up you annoying bitch.  Even Pinkamena's tired of your rambling.  How many ponies do you think care about you talking so much?  NONE.  You're going to answer me.  What did she tell you?"  I smile with Pinkies best smile and widest eyes.  I feel terror.  I taste it.  It's divine, oh, to be a changeling would be so nice right now.  I see them backing up.  "Oh buck this, who's going to answer me?  Will it be you, Rarity?  Rainbow Dash?  ... Applejack?  Whoever tells me first won't be hurt!"  I offer.  I think that's very fair.  Rainbow is hovering in the air like that's safe.  The earth ponies are grouped together and the Unicorns are at the front.

I sigh.  "I haven't had to hurt a pony for a long time and I wish I wouldn't have to now.  Please, just tell me what she told you and what you're planning to do to me."  No answer.  Great.  I have to make an example.  I always liked Rainbow Dash, she's the best prankster besides me.  Fluttershy, I can't hurt her, she's my best real friend.  Rarity makes me nice clothes and I really like the ones with real candy on it because I get to snack when I get hungry."  I look at Applejack and smile.  I giggle and teleport under her and peek at her and say 'Boo."

She jumps back and I teleport behind Twilight while everyone's looking at Applejack and I punch her right at the base of her stupid horn.  She screams and falls to the floor as I run back up the stairs and look down at them again.  "That's one, who's going to tell me?"

"Pinkie, dear?  I think you're overreacting over such a trivial matter, you don't need to harm us."

"Then tell me," I demand.  No more cuteness in my voice.  I speak like I have to.  "If you don't I'll hurt somepony else next.  Worse."  THey cower in fear and Rainbow tries to get to the door.  What a foolish Pegasus.  I run to the door and stand in front of it, she screams at me appearing there and stops.  I let a giggle leave my lips as I teleport behind her and buck her at the base of her wings.  I run to the top of the stairs again as she begins to shout and slams into the door, chest first.

"No pony is leaving.  I think I want to have some fun, who wants to play a game?"  None of them answer.  Fluttershy and Applejack are trying to console Rainbow Dash.  Looks like her wings are seriously damaged.  I think I broke the bones.  I laugh and point at Rainbow.  "If you're the best at everything, maybe you're the best a crying too.  Waa-waa baby, waa-waa."  I start dancing in place and teasing her but she's crying to loud to hear me.  It's not funny if she's not gonna laugh with me.

"Pinkie, why're you doing this to us?!"  Oh, Applejack.  She thinks she's the best at everything too.  I wonder how good she'll be when I break her rear leg.

Pinkie.

"Pinkamena?  What the buck are you- How are you out of your prison?!"  Ugh, I feel her fighting me for control... How?  How is she doing this?  She's stronger than she was before.  Maybe the injuries?

I woke up while you were asleep and- "Twilight gave me strength to fight you."

"How are you talking?  You're supposed to be locked in your mental prison.  No mage can break a mental prison."

"No, but I can.  She cast a spell that gave me more control of my body by helping me focus our mind.  My mind."

"You aren't in any place to challenge me, Pinkamena.  I'll kill your best friends in front of you!"  The girls gasp and Rarity, the coward, begins to cry.

"They're our friends.  Hurting them will hurt us both.  They're your first friends since Discord made you, do you really want to lose them?"  The girls gasp at hearing my creators name.  Rainbow still lays crying by the door trying to touch her broken wings.  Egomaniac.

"I'll make new ones!"  I run straight for Twilight before she can blink and buck her horn twice snapping it in the middle.  I turn to see the look of pain and confusion on her face and I look around to see the others panic.  Her horn is only a foot away from her head before I run to Applejack and aim for her left back leg.

Stop.

I freeze in place and can't move.

I have control.  Finally I have control of my own body at my own free will.  Pinkie wrestles me and almost wins for a moment as I revel in the joy of having my hooves on the ground.  Twilight is throwing up behind me and the others have backed up encircling me.  "Girls, it's me.  Pinkamena.  I need your help.  I-I can control my body and I feel her powers, but I don't know what'll happen.  I won't try to move yet but she can teleport.  Where can I go that'll kill us?"

"Pinkamena?  I can't let you die, or Pinkie.  You're my friend."

"Darn it, Fluttershy.  She'll kill you all.  You see what she just did and what she was going to do!"

"P-i-n-k-a-m-e-n-a."  She's trying to talk through my mouth.  Concentrate.  Fight her.  For your friends.  FOR YOUR FRIENDS.

"NO!  You go to prison you monster."  I force her back into the recesses of my mind and feel my head throbbing with pain as she tried to do as much damage as she could on her way.  I think I've forgotten something, but I don't know what.  "Girls, I won.  Thanks to you, I beat her!"  I fall to the floor and feel my knees sting from the strike.  I giggle and hear my voice, Pinkies voice.  I feel odd.  I taste things.  I can't describe them.  I look at the mares around me, they're slowly moving together and around Rainbow Dash.  Even Twilight has hobbled over.  The scent of vomit is slowly wafting at me.

"What do I do?  I've never had complete control of my body.  I feel her powers.  I feel and taste your emotions.  I-I can see... Oh, I can see so much.  Can't you see it?"  What I see can't be described easily.  "I see- I see the magic.  I see the magic flowing through you all and where its going.  Our cutie marks.  Oh, oh my.  The cutie marks... They're channeling it into us all.  I wish you could see this.  It's beautiful."  I sit back and look around the room.  Swirling arcane energies fill the walls and ponies.  I see it circling around me but not touching me.  I wave my legs around and watch it disrupt but not stop its flow.  My legs.  They're not glowing, it's swirling with blackness.

"Twilight, why am I the only one swirling with black?  You all have beautiful colors but I'm black and grey."  Twilight winces but looks at me with one eye half open.

"That's dark magic.  You said she was made by Discord, it's probably chaos magic-"

"Okay, stop.  I get it.  Please, don't talk anymore."  Twilight scoffs while I feel amusement from the others. They feel the same way we do.  I do.  "I'm going to stand up."  Standing I use too much energy and jump to the ceiling and hit my head.  Flailing like a falling streamer I gasp and hold my breath stopping inches from the floor.  "So, that's how she did that!  Wait, I'm not breathing...  But I'm talking.  How can that be?"

The other mares look at each other and shrug.  Useless, all of them.  What else can I do?  I move carefully and breathe out slowly and float to the floor.  "That was so cool!  Oh, Rainbow?  I'm so sorry-"  I just teleported?  I'm outside the library door.  Should I knock?  I think I don't want to teleport in just yet.  I knock politely.  Applejack cautiously opens the door and they all look at me.  This is the weirdest I've ever felt.

"Look at me!  I'm outside!  I was JUST inside and now I'm here!" I look at them and breathe in through my nose and I see something new.  I see colors from them.  "I see your smell.  I see your feelings.  This is how Changelings see, I think.  Twilight, if you could see what I do right now you'd spend a year documenting everything.  Shh before you start."  Their colors change and I see amusement.  It smells and tastes sweet like lemon drop candy.  "Mmm, I like that."

"Pinkamena!  Are you tasting us?"  Rarity exclaims.  I nod with a peaceful smile and exhale with my eyes closed I turn my face to the sky.

"Best thing I've tasted in years.  I sound like a changeling.  I need help.  This isn't right, ponies shouldn't know what this is like."  I open my eyes and look at them.  Rainbow is laying on her belly glaring at me and the others are repulsed at me.  I taste bitter coffee.  "I ask for help and you hate me?  I save your lives and recover my own and you hate me?  Fine.  I'll fix this myself."  Before Twilight can ramble something I teleport away.  I moved two blocks away.  It's enough.

I know only one place to hide.  I focus and teleport to the bakery.  The Cakes yelp as I appear in the kitchen.  I look at them then trot happily to the display case just through the doors and begin eating desserts like a starving giant.  The Cakes yell at me to stop but I ignore them.  I haven't tasted food for years.  This is divine.  Sweet and the colors of frosting.  No wonder she never shared.

I stop eating and with a mouth full of cake I run upstairs at fell speed hearing windows crack below me as I enter my room.  I go to my bed and lift the mattress...  My bits.  My savings.  I run slower back downstairs and drop it on the counter then go back to eating.  I ate so much I could barely move.  I started to feel sleepy and yawned with the biggest smile and tastiest meal I've ever had.  I trot to the living room and lay on the couch and fall asleep with the biggest smile I've ever had. Well, since that day anyway.

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