Pinkie Pie happily bounced through the forest, humming a bubbly tune as she did. She paused her song for a second and took a bite out of one of the trees. “Mmm! Peppermint!” The “tree” she’d just taken a chunk out was white on its most outer layer and covered in flecks of peppermint candy. Beneath the white exterior, the tree had a dark brown hue. “Oh wait! I get it now! Peppermint bark! Hee-hee!” Pinkie took another bite out of the tree and it fell with a thud and sent up a cloud of powdered sugar.
A bunch of gelatinous birds came out of the tree’s branches. They flew over and started pecking Pinkie. “Ow ow ow! Sorry!” The gummy birds continued their attack.
“Hey, leave her alone!” A voice cried out. The birds then dispersed. “You okay?”
“I am now.” Pinkie rubbed the spots where the birds had pecked her. “Thanks Pinkie.”
“No problem,” the other Pinkie replied as she decided to start doing the backstroke in the air, despite her lack of wings. “So what do we do now?”
Pinkie A trotted forward out of the forest and a huge smile creeped onto her face. “I think I found something to do.”
“What?” Pinkie B asked, but then saw what Pinkie A was looking at. Stretched before them was a vast land composed entirely of sweets. Lush hills of cake dripped with ice cream, lakes of caramel dotted the land, and pastures of lollipops went as far as the eye could see. “Oh wow! This is the most super awesome land ever. I wonder what the ground tastes like?”
Pinkie A flashed Pinkie B an odd look. “Who would want to eat the ground when there’s a bunch of sweets over that way?” Suddenly, Pinkie A frowned.
“What’s wrong?” Pinkie B asked.
“It’s great to be with you Pinkie, but I just wish my other friends were here too.” Pinkie A looked up at the sky, but then found herself shoved into a cannon.
“Then let’s go get them!” Pinkie B shoved herself into the cannon and merged with Pinkie A. Then she lit the match. “I always have the best ideas.” Pinkie launched out of the cannon and went zooming out over the land of sweets and somehow hit the sky and broke through it.
~~~
Pinkie Pie’s smile grew as she snuggled under her covers. Above her floated a cartoony bubble. Something pressed against the bubble and then a small ethereal Pinkie flew out. As she zoomed away from her home, she looked back and waved at her sleeping figure. “Bye dreaming Pinkie! I’ll be back soon!” She then continued to fly over Ponyville. “Hmm, um, how do I stop myself?”
Before she could find an answer to the question, she found herself hurtling toward a familiar cottage near the woods. “Oh no! If I crash into Fluttershy’s house, she’ll be all scared. Oh, why couldn’t I have landed at Dashy’s place first?” She slammed into the cottage and the world went white on her.
The sound of talking was the first thing Pinkie noticed when she opened her eyes. Then she noticed the bowl of punch she was in. “Wait…” Pinkie took a sip of the drink. “This is Gummy’s favorite mix. How’d Fluttershy figure it out? I’ll have to ask her.” She looked out from the punch bowl and saw that the room was filled with a ton of somewhat familiar ponies, but Fluttershy was nowhere in sight. “Guess I’ll have to look for her."
Pinkie swam over to the edge of the punch bowl and tried to crawl out. She grasped the edge of the bowl, but slipped when she saw she was grasping the edge with claws. “Well that’s new.” She then stared down at the punch as saw a pink alligator with wide blue eyes staring back at her. “That’s definitely new. Why would Fluttershy dream of me as an alligator?”
“There you are.” Pinkie found herself scooped up and placed in the purple mane of a green stallion. “Pinkie, you’re so crazy.”
“Gummy dear.” A white and fancy looking unicorn trotted over. “Please tell me you didn’t let that dreadful reptile into the punch again?”
“Oh come on, Opal,” Gummy pleaded. “It’s her favorite drink. Besides, Fluttershy wanted us to bring all our pets to the party today. Where is Rarity by the way?”
“Probably clawing up the furniture. I still have no idea how she's so calm around Fluttershy.”
Pinkie’s eyes went wider when she realized what was going on. “Oh I get it! Everypony is an animal here and every animal is a pony! But that means…” A devilish grin found its way onto Pinkie’s gumless mouth. “I need to find Dashy, then I’ll talk to Fluttershy.”
“Um, Gummy?” Opal raised an eyebrow as she watched the pink alligator on her friend’s head repeatedly close and open its mouth and then do what appeared to be a smile. “What exactly is Pinkie doing?”
“No clue,” he replied. “She just likes doing random things at random times. Kinda reminds me of myself.” Gummy flashed Opal a huge smile. Suddenly, Pinkie jumped off his head and onto Opal’s before jumping around some more.
“Oh, the nerve!” Opal brought a shaking hoof up to her mane. “Do you know how long it took to get my mane like this?”
“Looks fine to me,” Gummy replied. Minus maybe one loose end, Opal's mane looked just as it did before Pinkie jumped on it.
“It is not fine Gummy! This is. The. Worst. Possible. Thing!”
Gummy corked an eyebrow at her. “You’re silly Opal.”
~~~
“Okay,” Pinkie said as she jumped over the animals-turned-ponies’ heads. “I just need to look for a… there they are!” Pinkie quickly leaped over to two ponies talking. One was a brown pony with splotches of white dotting her coat. An orange dog playfuly jumped up around her. The other pony was a large muscular pegasus. His coat was teal and he mane a deep green. But what made Pinkie giggle insanely was the tu- um, tortoise the was hooked up to a flying contraption that flew next to the large pegasus. The tortoise had blue skin and a beautiful rainbow shell.
“So for my next trick I was thinking of pulling off a double sonic rainboom,” Tank excitedly said to Winnona.
“Heh, Tank, Ah can’t wait to see it,” replied Winnona. However, she stopped talking and looked up at Tank’s head. “Um, Tank, ya kinda got something on your head.”
Tank looked up and smiled. “Oh hey Pinkie. Guess you’re here to talk to your friends too. No pranks this time though. I’m still recovering from the electric shock.” Tank picked her up with a wing and set her down. Then he switched off Dash’s flying contraption and put her down next to Pinkie. “Play nice, okay?”
“Haha! This is too funny! Dashy, I never thought you’d ever be a tortoise! If you could only see yourself!” Dash just slowly smiled. Applejack then let out a loud friendly bark and licked Pinkie’s face. “You too Applejack!” Applejack just turned her head. “Wait, can you not understand me?” Applejack turned her head again and let out a wagged her tail. “Well it’s no fun if I can’t talk to you.” Pinkie climbed up AJ and stood on her head. “I’ll just find Fluttershy and I’ll ask her if she wants to come eat some candy.”
Pinkie scanned the party and saw that a large group of ponies were gathered around something. “Hmm, maybe somepony over there will know where Fluttershy is.” She leapt over some more heads and went off to the center of attention. In the middle of the crowd, she saw a yellow pony with a pink mane talking with all the other ponies. “Fluttershy?”
“So then I said, ‘Orange you glad to see me?’” All the ponies laughed at Fluttershy’s lame joke.
“Fluttershy, you should do standup,” said a white pony with especially long ears. “You’d take Equestria by storm!” He wiped a tear from his eye.
“Oh Angel, you’re such a jokester,” Fluttershy replied. “But if I did that I wouldn’t be able to have fun with all of you.” Pinkie then leapt onto Angel’s head.
“Eep!” Angel cried before dashing away, leaving Pinkie on the ground in front of Fluttershy.
Fluttershy chuckled a little and playfully shook her head back and forth. “That Angel, he’s such a nervous stallion, but he’s a good friend.” She looked down at Pinkie and smiled. “Wouldn’t you agree?”
“Wow! You are funny in your dreams Fluttershy. Anyway, this is a fun party, but I wanted to invite you to this super awesome candy land!”
Fluttershy chuckled again. “Pinkie, you’re such a random little gator. It’s almost like you’re trying to talk to me.”
“I am trying to talk to you!” Pinkie protested. She brought a claw to her chin and rubbed it. “Er, how can I talk to Fluttershy if I’m an animal?” Pinkie then snapped a claw. “Wait, this is a dream. I’ll just become a different animal, something that talks!” Pinkie thought hard as her form began to grow larger.
When the change stopped she looked down at the much smaller ponies now. They were all gawking at her. “There, this should work.” Pinkie still had scales, but was much larger now. Her bouncy mane had now turned into stylized spines that gave off the illusion of being bouncy. “Anyway Fluttershy, I just wanted to ask if you wanted to eat some candy.”
Fluttershy’s eyes went wide with fear as she backed away from Pinkie. “D-d-d-d…”
“Hey Fluttershy? What’s wrong? I know I’m a little bigger now, but I think you can understand me like this.”
“D-d-d-d…” Fluttershy shook violently.
“You’re acting weird Fluttershy. It’s just me, Pinkie, it’s not like I’m a dra- oh wait.”
“Dragon!” Fluttershy screamed. All the guests ran in a panic.
Pinkie wildly flailed her claws. “Sorry sorry! Oh this was a bad idea! How could I forget Fluttershy was afraid of dragons? Fluttershy!” Pinkie called out, but couldn’t find her in the stampede. “I’m really sorry! I didn’t mean to…” The ponies all galloping around had kicked up quite a bit of dust and now it had entered Pinkie’s nostrils. “Ah…” Pinkie reared back. “Ah…” He snout tingled. “Achoo!” A bright pink jet of flame flew out of her mouth and into the crowd. They all scattered away in time save for one timid white pony.
When the flames died down, Angel was still standing there, but now he was completely black and smoking. He fell to the ground. Fluttershy quickly rushed over to him. “Angel!” She cradled his head in her hooves. “Speak to me!”
“Ow,” he weakly replied before passing out.
Fluttershy now glared daggers at Pinkie. “How dare you.” A dark aura started to grow around Fluttershy.
Pinkie spastically moved her claws in front of her. “I-it was an accident Fluttershy! You know I’d never hurt anypony, um, anybunny… I mean… Oh, I’m confused now.” Pinkie brought a claw to her head.
Fluttershy kept advancing as the aura grew around her. “How dare you!” The aura looked like a violent flame now. “You think just because you’re a big nasty dragon that you can hurt my friends? Well you’ve got another thing coming!” The flames turned pure black and then a large demonic dragon with Fluttershy’s features emerged from them. “Let’s see how you like being bullied!”
Pinkie darted for it. She ran out of the party and into the streets where the sky was now tinted blood red. She heard a rumbling and Fluttershy’s dragon form burst through her cottage and started going after Pinkie. “You can’t run from me!”
“Ahhhh! Fluttershy this is scary! I don’t want to play dragon anymore!” Pinkie tried to scurry away, but Fluttershy caught up to her almost instantly and grabbed her in a claw. Fluttershy then let out a large roar. Pinkie shook in Fluttershy’s grasp. “I-I guess you don’t want sweets anymore?”
Fluttershy snorted a massive amount of steam on Pinkie, pulled her arm back, and then flung Pinkie into the sky. “And stay out, you mean dragon!”
~~~
Pinkie popped out of the Fluttershy’s dream and was sailing over Ponyville again. She saw that she was back to pony form. “That was way too scary. I hope Fluttershy isn’t mad at me in the morning. I'll need to probably say sorry for roasting Ang-” Pinkie slammed into a different dream before she could finish.
~~~
“Huh?” Pinkie looked around. She appeared to be in an auditorium of sorts that was filled with strange creatures she’d never seen before. They were white and hairless save for the weird black coats and dresses they were wearing. “Wonder where am I now.” Pinkie looked down. “Actually, what am I now?” Pinkie saw that what had been her hooves were now resting on a pink puffy dress. Her hooves now kind of looked like claws only they were soft. They also had some weird paint on them that was pink like her dress. “I guess I must be whatever these weird animals are.”
“Shhh!” A girl hissed next to Pinkie. “It’s about to start.”
“What’s about to start?”
Pinkie got her answer from a loudspeaker. “Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Heartstrings’ rendition of Swan Lake on the lyre.”
Pinkie clasped her chin with her strange new appendage. “Heartstrings? Lyre? Oh! I know whose dream this is!”
To confirm her suspicions, a woman with white and dull green hair came onto the stage where a single lyre sat. She sat down, took a breath, and began to skillfully play the instrument with her hands. All the audience, even Pinkie, was silent as she played the beautiful melody. When she was done, she got up and bowed. Loud clapping accompanied the bow. However, when everyone else was done clapping, a loud voice continued cheering. “Yeah! Go Lyra! That was awesome! I wish I could use these weird claw things that well!”
Lyra stopped bowing and looked up in shock at the pink girl that was rushing towards the stage. “Pinkie?! What in Equestria are you doing here?” She then brought a hand to her mouth. “I mean Earth! I have hands on Earth!”
“So is Earth some place where all the animals have weird claw things instead of hooves?” Pinkie asked as she climbed onto the stage.
“Pinkie! You can’t come onto the stage! I’m in the middle of a performance! How did you even get here?! This is my dream… oh crap.” Lyra morphed back into a pony. “Now look what you did! I lost my hands! Now I’ll have to wake up and try again!”
“Sorry Lyra, I didn’t mean to intrude. I kinda got flung here by Fluttershy.”
“Good for you,” Lyra sarcastically droned. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to pinch myself awa- darn it! Ponies can’t pinch themselves!” Lyra spun around and bucked Pinkie out of her dream. “That’s what you get for ruining my performance!”
~~~
Pinkie shot out of Lyra’s dream and once more flew over Ponyville. “That’s two ponies whose dreams I’ve ruined! I’ll need to throw an extra special ‘Sorry I ruined your dreams’ party for them.” Pinkie then noticed the direction she was headed. “Okay, I can’t mess up the next location.” Pinkie was headed straight to Sweet Apple Acres.
~~~
Unlike the previous two dreams, Pinkie saw that she still had hooves, hooves that were holding on for dear life as she found herself being pulled in every direction by a raging bull. “What’s going on?!”
“Rodeo is what’s going on!” yelled an orange Earth Pony who was riding another bull. She kept her grip steady on the bull with one hoof and raised her hat with the other. “Yee-haw!” she yelled as the bull thrashed beneath her.
“Um, oof, Apple, ugh, jack? I, ow, have something to tell, eep, you!” Pinkie wasn’t doing a good job of staying on the bull. Despite using both her hooves, every buck the bull made nearly sent her flying.
“Ah don't think now is the best time Pinkie. Ah got a new record to set and ya just need to stay alive.”
“I’ll, ow, make this, ooh, quick then,” Pinkie yelled as the bull’s throws got rougher. “I want to, ouch, invite you to have some ca-” Before she could finish, she was launched from the bull and out of the dream.
~~~
Before Pinkie could complain again, she went straight into another dream. Once more, she found herself a pony. “Wonder whose dream I’m in…” The color drained from Pinkie’s face as she looked in a shop window and saw she was still a pink pony, but her flank was blank. “Wahhhh! My cutie mark! It’s gone! What sort of evil monster would steal a pony’s cutie mark!?”
“Don’t worry Pinkie Pie, Ah’m sure you’ll get a cutie mark someday. Everypony does,” came a voice with southern drawl.
Pinkie turned around to see the source of the voice. “Apple Bloom? Oh thank goodness. You have to help! Somepony stole my cuti-” Pinkie paused when she saw that a hammer, nail, and a board graced Apple Bloom’s flank. “Oh hey! You got your cutie mark! That’s great! But now we need to protect you from whatever stole my cutie mark.” Pinkie dashed over and started making guarding motions around Apple Bloom.
In response, Apple Bloom just gave her a confused look. “Pinkie Pie, what are ya talking about? Everypony in Ponyville ‘cept for me, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo doesn’t have a cutie mark.”
“Oh! I get it now.” Pinkie smiled at Apple Bloom. “That’s pretty funny.”
“What is?”
“Nothing, just something I figured out.” Pinkie had learned to keep the fact that ponies were dreaming a secret from them.
“You’re acting kind we- oh what am Ah saying, you’re just acting like yourself. So what are ya doing today?”
“Oh, well I’ve been trying to ask everypony else to go to this awesome candy land, but I haven’t been having the best of luck.”
“A whole land made of candy?” Apple Bloom’s eyes went wide with excitement. “That sounds like a ton of fun. Ya can count me in!”
“Great!” Pinkie smiled. “Hmm, I should probably ask the other Cutie Mark Crusaders too.”
“Cutie Mark Crusaders?” Apple Bloom raised an eyebrow. “Why would ya call me a Cutie Mark Crusader unless…” A look of horror crossed over Apple Bloom’s face. “Unless Ah need a cutie mark!” She quickly turned around and could only watch in despair as her cutie mark flashed and disappeared. “Ma… ma…” Tears welled up in her eyes. “Wahhhhh! It’s not fair! Ah had it!” She broke down into sobs.
“Oh no!” Pinkie panicked and rushed over to comfort Apple Bloom. “I’m really sorry Apple Bloom! I didn’t mean to say that! It was a mistake!” But as she galloped over to the crying filly, the ground below Pinkie crumbled and she fell into the abyss.
~~~
Pinkie landed on the floor near Apple Bloom’s bed. A door was open and Applejack was comforting her little sister. “Oh Apple Bloom, what’s wrong?”
“Ah…” She rubbed the tears from her eyes. “Ah had ma cutie mark, but then Pinkie showed up and it disappeared. Ah didn’t even get to show the other Crusaders.” Apple Bloom then cried into Applejack’s shoulder.
“It’s okay.” Applejack gave her sister a pat on the back. “It was just a bad dream is all. Mighty strange that Pinkie was in your dream too though.”
Pinkie sighed and left the two alone. “Great, that’s two more ponies whose nights I’ve ruined.” She fizzled through the farm’s wall and looked at the sky. “Well, I’ve got three more friends to check on. Maybe I’ll have better luck with Dashy.” Pinkie leapt off the ground and soared to her destination. She quickly found the home of her friend and jumped into Dash’s dream.
~~~
Falling dreams are never pleasant to have, so Pinkie was quite shocked when she found herself hundreds of feet above the ground. “Ahhh!” she screamed as she fell to the ground. “Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! I gotta think fast or I won’t even be able to talk to Dashy! Um, wings! Gotta get wings!” Pinkie closed her eyes and imagined herself with wings like a pegasus.
She stopped just before she hit the ground. She opened her eyes and looked at the pink wings that now graced her back. “Oh wow! That’s even neater than being a dragon! No wonder Dashy loves to fly so much!” Pinkie quickly got used to her new appendages and did a few loops through the air. “Now I just have to find…”An earthshattering boom filled the air as a ring of multicolored light expanded across the entire horizon. “Found her!” Pinkie zoomed off to catch up with her speedy friend.
“Alright! Just got to stay focused!” Rainbow Dash said as she pushed her wings even harder. “This is my first big show and I’m not gonna screw it up! No distractions!”
“Hey Dashy!” Pinkie popped up next to her friend. “Ooh!” Pinkie looked at the blue and yellow uniform Dash was in. “You made it onto to Wonderbolts! That’s great!”
“Pinkie?!” Dashe slammed on her internal breaks. “What in Equestria are you doing here? And why do you have wings?!”
“Um…” Pinkie nervously looked back at her wings. “I got them from Twilight?” She flashed Dash a nervous smile.
Dash shrugged in response. “Whatever, I can’t really talk right now. I’m doing my first big show with the Wonderbolts and I’ve got to make sure everything is perfect.” Dash sped off away from Pinkie.
“Wait Dashy!” Pinkie cried out from far behind the pegasus. “I need to tell you something!”
“Can it wait after the show? I need to do a double rainboom.”
“Oh that’s funny, Tank said the same thing. What a weird coincide-” Pinkie slammed into a cloud and out of the dream.
~~~
“Er!” Pinkie swatted the air in front of her as she floated down to Ponyville. “I definitely wouldn’t have gotten a cutie mark for dreaming.” She sighed. “Well, two more places to visit. Pinkie looked down and saw she was closer to the Boutique. “How bad could Rarity’s dream be? It’ll probably just be a fashion shoot or something.”
~~~
Pinkie emerged from Rarity’s dream with a dark red face and steam shooting out her ears. “I’ll, um, just let her keep dreaming about that. I don’t think it would be a good idea to mix that and candy.” Pinkie made a shaky exit out of the boutique.
“Alright, I’ve just got one place left to visit. There is no way this dream could go wrong. She’ll probably just be reading a ton of books or something.” Pinkie floated across Ponyville and made her way to the large tree the housed the town’s library. She nervously stepped into her friend’s dream.
~~~
Pinkie found herself not in a library, but rather in the throne room of Canterlot. She was in a crowd of ponies who were all gossiping and starring up at the pony in the throne. “Guess Twilight must be dreaming of impressing Princess Celesti-huh?” Pinkie’s jaw dropped when she saw the pony sitting in the throne.
The pony was purple with violet hair that had streaks of magenta and pink running through it; it flowed despite there not being a breeze in the room. A sharp horn stuck out of her head and large wings graced her sides. She was also quite bigger than the average pony. She looked at the crowd and smiled as her horn glowed and the door on the other side of the room opened. An average sized white unicorn with multi-colored hair and a sun on her flank walked up to the thrown and bowed. “Princess Twilight, it’s an honor to be back in Canterlot to receive this recognition.”
“My faithful student Celestia.” Twilight got up and walked over to Celestia and gave her a nuzzle. “You and your friends have repeatedly demonstrated the power of friendship to overcome all sorts of challenges. I’ve watched you grow into a mare wise beyond her years. In recognition of your maturity, I’d like to award you with a grade of A in friendship.”
“Princess… I don’t know what to say,” Celestia replied. “All I know is that I wouldn’t be here without my friends.” A group of five familiar ponies trotted up next to Celestia and bowed to Twilight.
“Yes, they truly are great friends that have helped you immensely. I only wish I could have friends as great as this.”
Pinkie popped out of the crowd and trotted over to Twilight and the other five ponies. “But Twilight, you do have great friends like us.”
“Pinkie Pie? What in Equestria is going on? Why are there two of you?” Twilight’s eyes darted back and forth between the Pinkie standing in front of her and the one that was next to Celestia.
“I’m as surprised as you are,” said Pinkie B. “I should really learn how to do that trick.”
“Oh.” A nervous sweat drop appeared on Pinkie A’s forehead. “I guess that does make things a little confusing.”
Twilight now glared at Pinkie A. “If Pinkie doesn’t know what’s going on then there is only one explanation. You are a changeling spy, trying to once more brainwash my sister Cadance and imitate Prince Armor!” Twilight’s horn started to glow. “Luckily, I prepared countermeasures for such an event.”
“Wait!” Pinkie yelled out. Twilight paused. “I can prove I’m the real Pinkie! Only the real Pinkie would remember that one sleepover we had where you kept Smartypants under your pillow and hugged him when you went to sleep that night!”
Twilght’s face turned bright red. She looked around at the crowd of ponies who had stunned looks on their faces. “I, um, don’t know what you’re talking about. A princess like myself would never sleep with a stuffed doll, no matter how cute it was.”
“Well I was just saying it to prove I’m really Pinkie Pie.” She was then pushed back by a purple aura along with the rest of the ponies standing in front of Twilight.
“Yes, that’s very nice, but I think the day is getting late. You should probably all go back to Ponyville now and enjoy a good night’s rest, you’ve earned it.”
“Aren’t you forgetting something Twilight?” A voice called out. A grey pony-like creature with braided hair and wearing a pair of pants walked into the room. “How could you just disown me like that? I’ve been with you through the toughest times, helping you do the work you thought you couldn’t do. I even got you through magic kindergarten.”
Smartypants!” Twilight cried out. “I didn’t mean it! I just didn’t want anypony else to find…” She slowly turned around and looked the group of ponies around her. “Out.” The color drained from her face. Then the worst thing happened: somepony snickered. Then another pony giggled, and another pony chuckled. “Stop it!” The laughing started growing louder. “No! I’m an adult mare! I can keep Smartypants if I want to! Stop laughing!” Instead of stopping, the laughing continued to grow louder.
“That’s it!” Twilight’s horn crackled with magic. “I am a princess and you won’t laugh at me! Let’s see if you get a chuckle out of being sent to the moon!” Twilght’s calm demeanor had been completely eradicated by this point. A maniacal grin was stretched across her face. “It so simple! If I just send everypony to the moon nopony can laugh at Smartypants. Hee-hee-hee!”
“Wait Twilight!” Pinkie pleaded. “I think this is going a bit…” Pinkie was zapped out the dream in an instant. “Overboard.” She sighed as she floated in the middle of the quiet Ponyville streets. “Well, I think this has been a crazy enough night. Time to go back to bed.” She made her way back to her room; slightly saddened that nopony else would join her in the sweets. “Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to throw everypony a party to make up for not going to a candy land.”
“Hmm,” came a voice from the shadows of her room. “A land of candy you say? I hadn’t thought of doing that. I mean, I had the chocolate rain and the cotton candy clouds, but I never thought of going full scale with desserts. I knew you were a keeper Pinkie Pie.”
Pinkie let out a gasp and then assumed a battle position. “How’d you get out of that statue, you big chaotic meanie?!”
Out of the shadows emerged a creature made of various animal parts. “I’m not really out so much as taking a midnight stroll. By the way, I prefer Discord. It’s much quicker to say that than ‘big chaotic meanie.’”
“You here to make me a grumpy-wumpy again? Well, it’s not gonna work this time! I’ve made sure to increase my daily anti-grump intake!”
The last statement gave Discord a blank stare for a second, but then he fell to his side and laughed. “Oh Pinkie Pie, you slay me. Why I thought it would be a good idea to make you a grump is beyond me. You’re much more entertaining like this!” He wiped a tear from his eye.
“You’re up to something funny, and not the good ‘ha-ha that’s a great joke’ funny.” Pinkie kept her eyes on the draconequus.
“Would it help if I tied my hands behind my back?” Discord did just what he said and bent his hands so that they formed a wiener-dog like shape, like some sort of twisted balloon animal. “See? Besides, I’m not here as an enemy. I’m here as a friend. You like making friends with everypony, right?”
“Well I do. But you’re a meanie, so apologize first and Pinkie promise not to do any more bad things.”
“Oh, phew.” Discord acted like he was wiping sweat off his brow. “I thought you’d ask something crazy of me. I apologize for all the chaos I caused and I Pinkie promise to never be bad again.” He stuck a paw over his eye to signify a completion of the promise.
“Um, that was really easy.” Pinkie stared dumbfounded at her former enemy.
“Well, you see I’m in need of a vacation anyway, what with being stone and all. Somepony else needs to fill my shoes. Your little stint tonight proved you have quite the knack for making dreams into nightmares. Reminds me of myself back in the good old days.”
“What? I just did that by accident. I’d never want to ruin a pony’s dream on purpose!”
Discord lost his smile. “Oh come now Pinkie Pie. You’ve always had a knack for chaos. Besides, you wanted to invite everypony to candy land. If you were like me you could make everypony live in candy land. Isn’t that fun?”
“No means no,” Pinkie replied.
Discord sighed. “Well I guess this matter is out of my control.” He smirked. “Which is just the way I like it. Too bad my power is already yours and there’s no way to stop it.”
“What?!” Pinkie yelled. “You Pinkie promised!”
“I gave you my power before I made the promise. Aren’t loopholes fun?”
“Take it back! I don’t want it!” Pinkie felt strange all of the sudden.
“Sorry Pinkie Pie, this gift is non-refundable.” Discord rubbed his chin before grabbing a mirror. “Results may vary.”
Pinkie screamed when she looked in the mirror. She was still pink with bouncy hair, but now her body was serpent-like and each of her limbs belonged to a different creature. Two-non matching antlers adorned her head and one fanged tooth stuck out of her mouth. “Change me back!”
“No can do Pinkie Pie. Now if you’ll excuse me…” Discord snapped his fingers and was then in sunglasses and a Hawaiian shirt with luggage at his side. “I’m off to Las Pegasus to test my luck. Have fun!” He snapped again and was gone, leaving the pony turned draconequus alone in her room.
“No! I…I didn’t mean to ruin other ponies’ dreams! This… this is just a big mistake! Please make me normal again!” Suddenly, Pinkie's room started to morph into melting candy and ice-cream. Pinkie tried to get out of the room, but the sugary tide rose too fast. She screamed just before it covered her completely.
Pinkie sat up in a flash and bonked heads with somepony else. “Ow!” both of them yelled.
“Who did I- Rainbow Dash?” Pinkie looked at he azure pegasus that was rubbing her head. “What are you doing here?”
“Well I was enjoying this radical dream until a certain pink pony showed up.” Dash’s voice filled with sleepiness.
“We all were,” came several other voices. Pinkie looked up and saw that all the ponies whose dreams she had visited were in her room.
Pinkie then remembered her own dream and quickly looked at her body. She was very relieved to see that she was her normal pony self. “Oh thank Celestia! I had the worst dream.”
“It’s not that fun when somepony else invades your private space, is it?” Twilight said as she walked forward.
“Twilight? What’s going on?” Pinkie asked.
“Well, after your little adventures in our dreams, we started getting together, seeing as all of us were woken up by your intrusions,” Applejack explained.
“We decided to go to Twilight to give you a taste of your own medicine,” Dash continued.
“They caught me just as I finished…” Twilight looked at the floor. “Sending them to the moon.” She looked back up at Pinkie. “I then quickly found my book on spells related to dreams and pulled up the spell that lets you create a vague idea of a dream and put it into a pony’s head. I think we got the message across.”
“Definitely!” Pinkie nodded her head. “That was a really scary dream. Although…” Pinkie looked over at the mare that was standing in the back and had remained quiet this entire time. “Fluttershy’s was easily the scariest. She makes a terrifying dragon.”
“What?!” Everypony else in the room replied.
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“Dear Princess Celestia,
Today, um, tonight I learned that even if you want to tell somepony something, you should be respectful of their personal space. Also, while it may be fun to see what other ponies want to be, some stuff can be really personal and they might be embarrassed in other found out about it. So from now on, I’ll remember to be more careful about stuff like that.
Your faithful subject,
Pinkie Pie”
“You get all that?” Pinkie asked Spike as he finished writing the letter.
“Yep!” He snorted out a blast of green fire and he letter was gone. “Um, just one thing Pinkie.”
“What is it?”
“Was I in Rarity’s dream?”
Pinkie turned deep red. “Spike what did I just write about?”
“Oh right, sorry, heh-heh.”
