Paradox in Equestria

My next meal was closer than I thought, a little happy pink mare. Delicious. I moved in for the kill, so to speak, she was greeting everypony she came across. I could tell she was friends with all of them by the way she geeted them all, it sickened me! I went to her ear to whisper my curse. I didn't feed like my other brothers, I planted seeds of potential energy to be consumed at my vantage.

Suddenly a zoom came by, I looked to see a rainbow streak across the sky.

"Oh, look at Rainbow Dash go!" The pink one proclaimed.

Rainbow Dash huh, I would have to keep that one in mind as well.

I laid my curse.

A strange little mare,

your friends all gawk and stare.

Let us see how you fare,

when nopony wants to be there.

I faded off to watch the events unfold.

Pinkie stood there she thought she heard somepony rhyming in her ear.

She thought it might be Zecora, but it couldn't be she didn't sound like that. Besides there was nopony beside her... except Rainbow up in the sky. She just left it to her imagination playing tricks on her, after all everypony told her she had an overactive imagination.

"Cheerilee, guess what just happened!?" She shouted seeing the school teacher.

"Please Pinkie I'm very busy right now." She replied uninterested.

It was strange, Cheerilee was always happy to hear what she had to say.

"But-" Pinkie began

"PINKIE!" She said exploding at me. "Uh... listen I have a lot to do right now Pinkie I don't have time for your games, ok?" She said.

"Um... ok..." Pinkie replied, ears down.

It seemed strange but she continued on, maybe foalsitting would cheer her up.

I laughed to myself. Behind the brushes I could feel my power growing. It was good, I knew it wasn't over yet, I followed her.

She made it to the Cakes' house and knocked on the door, she heard crying behind the door, nothing Pinkie Pie couldn't handle. Mr. Cake answered the door totally covered in flour. She giggled at him, he didn't return her chortle. He kinda looked mad.

"Um, is everything all right, Mr. Cake?" She asked.

"No!" He replied.

Now she was surprised.

"In fact ever since your last visit-" he ducked as bad of flour that was magically tossed at his head. "Ever since your last visit all the twins have done is throw flour around!" He finished.

"Oh," I said, "but I thought we had gotten past that stage." She explained.

"Apparently not, Pinkie." Mrs. Cake said chiming in.

She was busy trying to keep the two from using all of her flour stock.

"In fact until they stop this I don't think your foalsitting services will be necessary anymore!" Mr. Cake said.

He slammed the door in her face.

She welled up with tears thinking that she wouldn't see Pound and Pumpkin anymore. Her mane deflated, she shuffled her hooves and slowly walked back home. She tried greeting her friends like usual to cheer herself up but it seemed like everypony was in a sour mood.

"Muahahaha, discouraged you may be, it will only get better for me." I rhymed, "Don't fret, it isn't over yet. I've only just begun, although with you I've already won." I laughed as I went on to scout my next target.

I think I'd find the little rainbow colored one the pink mare was talking about, what was her name? Ah, yes, Rainbow Dash. My stomach growled in anticipation. I couldn't wait to get more power, maybe I would even use my new shapeshifting ability too.

As Twilight aproached Pinkies house it seemed strange. Usually she was throwing a party for some sort of occasion. But the house seemed quiet, almost dead silent. Strange indeed.

She knocked on the door.

"GO AWAY!" She heard the familiar high picthed squeal.

"Pinkie it's me, Twilight is everything all right?" I questioned.

The door cracked open slightly, "Twilight?" She squeeked, she sounded more like Fluttershy, "It really is you."

"Ya." I told her, "Why, were you expecting somepony else?" I asked her.

"Well..." she began, "no not lately." she opened the door.

I saw immediately that her usually fluffly mane now lay flat, that only ment that something had really upset her.

"Is everything all right Pinkie?" I asked her sincerely.

"No." She said simply, I waited for an update.

"Care to tell me?" I asked prying the subject a little.

"Well," she said, "at first I thought I heard a voice say something in my ear, than I tried to tell Cheerilee about it but she yelled at me." She told me.

Her story seemed strange, a whisper in her ear and suddenly she was being blown off by her friends.

"And then I went to go foalsit for the Cakes, and even they didn't want to talk to me, they said I couldn't foalsit for them anymore."

This was strange, very strange.

"Pinkie!" I said trying to excite her attention, it didn't work. "Do you remember what the voice said?" I asked her.

"Uh," she thought for a second, "Something about my friends all gawking and staring... and then nopony being there... I don't remember too well it was really quiet."

"Ok, just stay safe Pinkie you hear?" I told her, she only sighed and nodded.

I had to find out what was going on here. I just hoped I could figure out what it was before it was too late. I just hoped against hope it wasn't anything like Parydan Nox. But just in case I would pay a visit to Fluttershy's cottage to see if she noticed anything wrong, or I guess in this case hears, anything suspicious. I galloped off to set this back up plan in motion. I had no idea what was going on, but I sure as hay had to put a stop to it before it got out of hoof.

I knew I had to keep Demise from getting as much power as I could, the only thing that would stop him was the Elements of Harmony. Right now it seemed he had already started trying to corrupt Pinkie Pie and just like Discord I knew what would happen if we weren't united. This was our stand to save Equestria.