Author's Note

Hi all, sorry for making you wait so long for the next chapter, but here it is. This chapter took a lot of time and work, so please enjoy. There was a chapter before this, but I disliked it so I rewrote it. The next chapter will be out around next month. Please like and comment, and pm me if you notice any errors or anything, such as grammar, spelling, or left off letters. Thanks for reading. Also, the next chapter is going to be describing why the characters are different, it'll also be describing the point of this chapter.

Chapter One: The Only Thing Worse Than Loneliness Is Betrayal.

Life is full of things, some good, some bad, but both are necessary. In my experience, I’ve only believed in a few things, some of them I've learned, others have burned themselves into me. One of those things is a rule, more like a law. Nothing can exist without its opposite, love can't exist without hate, light can't exist without the dark, heroes can't exist without villains, and good can't exist without evil. I believe this law represents everything, but most of all, it represents ponies.

Look at me for example, I'm an Element of Harmony, yet I have more darkness in me than Nightmare Moon, the difference is, I don't blame my demons on magic. Just proves that the more innocent one appears, the darker they truly are. There are also a few phrases I believe that this law has in common with, one of the few things I still think are true. The ones who are the shyest, are the ones who have had to endure the most. The ones who work the hardest, are ones who have made the most mistakes. The ones who have to focus on fashion are the ones who need the attention. The ones who always have the be on top, are the ones who lived most of their life on the bottom. The ones who have the highest expectations are the ones who have the lowest standards. And finally, my favorite, the ones who smile and laugh the most, are the ones who have cried and suffered more than most. This one represents me because I am the Element of Laughter, and I have suffered and cried all kinds of tears. I put on an act, as a way to keep away suspicion.

As for the rest, well, I'll let you decide. Now, enough with the sentimental stuff, it's time to tell you all a story. The story of who and what I am, how I got here, and why I am the way I am. The tale of Pinkamena Diane Pie, or as my victims call me, The Angel of Insanity.

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Friends.

What are friends? Are they someone you say hi to on the street? Is it a sibling, like a sister or a brother? Is it someone you've known since you were a foal until you were a mare? Or could it be someone you've told all your secrets to and gone through many adventures with to strengthen your bond?

These are questions I've never found an answer. I used to have ponies, who, once upon a time, I believed were truly my friends; I found out the hard way they were not. Some ponies say loneliness is one of the worst negative feelings someone could have, but I found something worse. What's worse you ask, than not having any friends to have fun with, to share your secrets and your pain?

Being lied to, betrayed, used by the ponies you thought were your friends. The thing about being a loner, is you don't have to worry about all the negative emotions of friends. You never have to worry or get angry at someone else or have the feeling of falling In love with a friend, but you're too afraid to confess because you might just get rejected. But, best of all, you don't ever have to worry about being betrayed, and that's one of the few things worse than loneliness. I wish I had the pleasure of being a loner; then I never would've had to feel pain like this.

It had been another beautiful day in Ponyville, the birds were singing, the sun was shining, thanks to Celestia and Pinkie didn't have a lot to do today. It was one of the few times a year where there weren't a lot of parties today or a lot of chores or business. Yesterday was fun though, they had celebrated Gummy's birthday party, and now she was going to invite all of her friends to the after party, before she could though, she had to make sure the party was ready. She went into the bathroom to brush her teeth, like an average day, but when she got to the mirror, she had a thought, one she hadn't had in years and had no idea why it came up now. Two years, two years since Pinkie's last nightmare.

They started the day she had first seen the Sonic Rainboom; you would think something as beautiful as that wouldn't start such horrible things. They didn't stop until she had become the Element of Laughter, but that doesn't mean they still didn't haunt her. It was something she didn't want to think about, but, when she was alone, or it was time to sleep, she couldn't avoid them then. That's partially the reason why Pinkie always throws parties for any random reason she can think of; she wanted to avoid thinking about it for as long as possible. It's also why she tends to avoid her family if she were to see them again after the things she dreamed of doing to them.

"Ow!!" Pinkie said sharply but tried to make it quiet so that she wouldn't wake the Cakes.

Gummy had bitten, well, more like gummed, her right hoof. She had gasped more out of surprise than actual pain, he didn't have any teeth after all, and she was kind of deep in thought she wasn't expecting Gummy to do that. It was almost like he was trying to say," Don't focus on the past! Concentrate on the now!" Or maybe he was just hungry. She then continued to do her daily hygienic routine, she brushed both her teeth and mane while running the bath, most likely due to the help of a particular toothless alligator, she was able to keep the thoughts from earlier in the back of her mind.

After she got out of the bath and dried herself, she grabbed the invites she had written the previous night and put them in a basket which Pinkie then put on her head, keep balanced as she trotted out the door, leaving Gummy behind to guard the place. She had already prepared the party before she went to sleep last night, so, she could spend all the next day partying with her friends. As she trotted out the door of the bakery, making a ding noise at the door as the ball hit the door. Waving goodbye to a bored looking Carrot Cake, working behind the counter. She started to trot towards the giant tree in the middle of the town that belonged to one of her Unicorn friends, it’s been here since the beginning, and will probably outlive all of them.

She got a weird sensation down her spine, it felt like the Pinkie Sense, but not one she had felt before, she suddenly had a horrible feeling about today. As Pinkie knocked on the door, waiting for Twilight to answer, she started to get Twilight's invitation but considered maybe she should have made one for Spike. Twilight opened the door looking like she usually did as Spike was organizing some books in the background.

"Oh! Hi, Pink-" Twilight was about to speak, but she was cut off.

"It's soon!" Pinkie said quickly, interrupting Twilight.

"Pardon me?"

"You said we should have another party soon... and it's soon! Here's your invitation!"

"You're invited to Gummy's 'after-birthday' party. This afternoon at three o'clock.

"All of our best friends are gonna b there, and there's gonna be dancing, and games, and cake, and ice-cream, and punch!"

"This afternoon? As in, ' today?"

"Yes, indeed!"

"Oh gosh. I wish I could make it, but I've gotten a bit behind in my studies. I've gotta hit the books."

"I understand. Your studies come first, but don't worry. We'll be sure to save you some cake.

"Please do."

"Oh! and Twilight, you shouldn't hit the books. You should just read them."

"I'll keep that in mind."

At that, Pinkie trotted towards Sweet Apple Acres, with Twilight behind her dumbfounded. At the time, Pinkie hadn't noticed that Twilight was only just making up excuses and the look on her face, giving away she was trying to think of a way out of there, she was much too innocent and trusting then. All of her friends had given reasons as to why they couldn't go to Pinkie's parties, that's when she started to get confused about her friends. It wasn't until three out of five of her friends all said the same thing, which they had asked if it was this afternoon, that she had gotten suspicious. But it wasn't until all five of her friends had said that they were busy, that Pinkie had assumed they were making excuses. For the rest of the day, she had tried to see what it was that they didn't want her to know about, but first, she had to go back to home.

While Pinkie was 'talking' with Gummy, Twilight came to the bakery, asking Mrs. Cake for a package, but she left before Pinkie could find out what was in the box, and she didn't want them to know she was on to them, so she didn't follow her. Later that day, Pinkie saw that Rarity was what appeared to be shout whispering at Fluttershy, but Pinkie never was that good at muzzle reading, she had no idea what they were saying, this only made her more suspicious. She and Gummy later agreed that the only way to find out what they were hiding is to either follow one of them or to capture and interrogate one of them. She wasn't going to choose one to catch. Specifically, just anyone she can get close enough to. So, she left Sugarcube Corner with her disguise, waving goodbye to Gummy as she jumped out the window, they would have expected her to use the door.

She put on her costume and hid behind a box of oranges and waited until one of the five would come around. It didn't take long until Rainbow Dash had trotted by with saddlebags on her back, she had somehow seen through Pinkie's disguise and started to fly away, and thus, a chase began. Since she was a Pegasus and Pinkie was an Earth pony. Naturally, Dash was faster. But Pinkie knew every hiding spot in this town and around it, she also almost never runs out of energy. Eventually, Rainbow did. It took a long time, a lot of chasing, and a lot of screaming, but finally, Dash realized she was going to lose to the determined party pony, so she was just going to go to the rest of her friends and let them deal with her. Rainbow took a swift U-turn and started using her remaining stamina getting to the barn at Sweet Apple Acres, with Pinkie hot on her tail.

"Applejack, we got a problem!" Rainbow screamed towards the barn, hoping to get AJ's attention.

Said farmer pony was trotting around the entrance to the barn, and certainly didn't seem to be busy harvesting apples, Pinkie added that in her list of questions to ask. Rainbow rammed straight into the barn, with AJ following right behind, as soon as she ran in, then she slammed the door shut right behind her. Pinkie went up to the barn door and knocked on it repetitively then she almost yelled not really towards either of them individually.

"I know you're in there!" Pinkie said loudly and aggressively, as she repeatedly hit the barn door, intent on getting the attention of anyone in the barn.

The door opened by a very anxious looking orange pony.

Pinkie hadn't even begun to question her, and she already looked nervous, she was sweating like she just got done with a workout. Her eyes were dilated and were moving back and forth, it was bad enough that she was the Element of Honesty, but the combination of her apparently being worried made AJ the easiest one to get the truth from.

"Hey Applejack, would you mind if I take a look around the barn?" Pinkie said suspiciously, wondering what Rainbow was doing in The Apple Family's barn.

She seemed to get even more nervous, sweating even more and seem unable to stay still. She was barely able to say anything with how worried she looked.

"Yes - ah mean no - ah say, ya c-can't come in the barn." She finally stuttered out, apparently getting more nervous by the second.

"WHAT'S THE REAL REASON YOU DIDN'T COME TO GUMMY'S AFTER-PARTY!?" Pinkie screamed nearly in Applejack's face, showing just how much she didn't like lies.

If there was a one to ten scales on how nervous she was, that just made her skyrocket straight to eleven, Pinkie could see the gears in AJ's mind trying to come up with a reason why she couldn't come to the party that Pinkie would believe.

"Uh, well, you see, ah, construction! Ya, the barn needs fixing, so I had Rainbow go and pick me up some supplies, that's what was in the saddlebags she had on her." Applejack replied back, really hoping Pinkie bought it.

"Yeah, construction!" Rainbow said, as noises that sounded like ponies making electrical tool noises, which, unknowing to Pinkie, was what that was.

"Okey... dokey... Lokey...." She said backing away slowly and suspiciously, getting a relaxed sigh from AJ and whoever else was in the barn, most likely the only other four ponies who made excuses.

Almost on queue, the fake power tool noises stopped as soon as Pinkie had started to leave. It was at this point, Pinkie realized, she wasn't going to be able to interrogate any of her friends, considering that was probably them making noises in the barn. She was better off trying to trot through the Everfree Forest unharmed then to capture two Unicorns, two Pegasi, and a farmer Earth pony. So, she decided the best course would be to obtain someone else who may know what's going on but would be easy to catch, someone who they trust but would never expect her to go after. At that moment, Pinkie had a eureka moment, and she knew who to capture.

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Later that day, she invited Spike to the home part of the bakery where she lived, saying it was for a party. But in reality, this was just baiting Spike in. When Spike came into the bakery, becoming very confused as to why he was the only one to show up, he was still much too innocent and naïve to figure out exactly what was going on here; he noticed this didn't look anything like a party. There were no balloons, no streamers, no cakes or pastries of any kind, not even any other ponies, except the pink one that invited him there. The supposed party pony's home looked more like an interrogation room; it was dark and intimidating, the only thing indicating there was any life in the place was the occasional blink of purple eyes, which most likely belonged to Gummy. And the bright smile of satisfaction intended fully towards Spike.

"Spike! You made it! Why don't you sit down and we can get this party started." Pinkie said, in a very obviously fake happy voice, but Spike trusted the not very stable-mare, so he sat down in the chair she had gestured him to sit.

When he sat down, almost immediately, Gummy hopped off the table and grabbed Spike's tail, keeping him restrained, that's when things started getting weird. She had pushed what looked like a small spotlight on the table in front of him; this suddenly felt to Spike very much like he was under arrest, he was half right. Pinkie had briefly planned this out with Gummy earlier before she had invited Spike, not too long ago, she had gone through a mystery phase where she watched and read detective and police books and movies. From those, she learned how to get Spike to tell her what she wanted him to.

There were many different ways to make someone talk, but there were three main ones: Intimidation, bribery and violence, she was fully prepared for whichever one she had to do. She would have preferred to avoid the last one though, with all this pent-up frustration and anger she's been feeling, she had no idea if she would be able to stop herself.

"So, Spike, have the girls told you anything about me lately, or have you heard them talking about me?" Pinkie said as she pushed the lamp onto Spike's face, startling him and making him reconsider coming to this ‘party.'

At first, he thought this was a prank or something, then, he began to suspect this was something else.

"W-what do you mean, Pinkie, they talk about you all the time, like how you're so energetic, and all your parties and-" Spike tried to say quickly, not wanting to spill the beans this close, but Pinkie interrupted him.

"And how I'm annoying and stupid and so on?" Pinkie said quickly and loudly, hoping to catch Spike off guard.

Spike turned very pale at this, as he came very close to voicing his thoughts. She knew! How could Pinkie know about that? What else did she know? Pinkie noticed this and felt a bit of pride that her skills were working, she just had to give him a little push.

"SO, THEY HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT ME! I didn't know anything, but your reaction just proves it, oh, you're going to make this very...interesting." Pinkie said, not to anyone specifically, beginning to sound more and more like a villain.

Spike then had an angry, determined look on his face, he pushed back the lamp in his face and looked straight into Pinkie's crazy eyes and spoke with newfound confidence and loyalty.

"NO! I promised Twilight that no matter what anyone did to me or threatened to do, not to say what I heard her and the rest talking about."

Spike roared, putting his guard up.

Spike finished his declaration of loyalty by crossing his arms and huffing, looking away from Pinkie. At that moment, Pinkie had gotten a little angry at the innocent little dragon, but she was also proud. While it was the wrong thing to be loyal to, he was still a better Element of Loyalty then Rainbow Dash, maybe this is when bribery should come into play. She then slid a bowl of gems she got from the whole Diamond Dog incident; she had been keeping it for emergencies. When Spike saw the bowl of gems, he practically licked his lips in want; it had been a long time since he had eaten any gems, Pinkie smiled at this, being filled with delight as she realized this was going to work.

"I'll make you a deal Spike, if you tell me what I want to know, then I'll give you this whole bowl of gems." Pinkie said slowly, making sure Spike entirely understood what she was offering.

Spike had almost smiled despite his situation; he has been severely considering this offer. Despite the consequences.

"No catch?" Spike said while looking at the gems, his hunger clouding his thoughts.

Pinkie's smile seemed to grow even wider, while Spike's face seemed to get paler at this.

"No catch." Pinkie replied, making her joy known in her voice.

"What do you want to know?" Spike said guiltily, positive he would regret his decision. But, his greed for gems was making him focus on now.

Spike would later regret those words, but he would regret what those words put into action even more. Pinkie's smile faded changing to a face of absolute rage and betrayal.

"WHY HAS TWILIGHT AND THE OTHERS BEEN AVOIDING ME? WHAT ARE THEY DOING IN THE BARN? ARE YOU IN ON IT?" Pinkie suddenly screamed at Spike, releasing emotions Spike didn't even know she was capable of doing

If Pinkie hadn't soundproofed her room forever ago for party planner reasons, every single pony in Ponyville would have cringed at the sudden shrieking. Spike wasn't though, which would have knocked him backward on the chair if it wasn't for Gummy keeping him restrained. After he regained his balance and waited for his hearing to come back, he decided that he should tell her whatever she wants as soon as possible. He had no idea how full of rage and spite she was, and now that he knew just a portion of it, he wanted to get out of there as soon as possible.

"They, they’re planning to have an intervention. A little while ago, they had decided that they all don't want to be your friends anymore. So, they've been using the barn to talk about how they're going to break it to you, and they're also going to have the intervention at the barn." Spike replied quickly and nervously, both afraid of Pinkie, and fearful of how Twilight's going to react.

Unexpectedly, her smile seemed to grow a little wider, but this turned from an insane smile to one of satisfaction.

"Aha! I knew they were up to something, now I can-" She suddenly stopped, as what Spike just said hit her. Her hair deflating and her colors dimming, she suddenly wasn't as confident as she was before.

"So, since I told you what you wanted to know, can I have those gems now?" Spike said shakily to Pinkie, wanting the reward he promised.

The broken mess that used to be Pinkie pushed the bowl towards Spike, he started eating it happily, then grabbed it and began to leave with it while still eating it. He had no idea he had just pushed Pinkie over the edge she was already leaning over, and there was no coming back from that, nor did she want to.

While Spike took his bowl of gems and trotted out, full of ignorance of what he had just done, and joy that he had gotten some delicious snacks, Pinkie was having a psychological breakdown. She had some before, but this one was by far the worst. A good portion of her life has spent her time making other ponies smile, working herself to the bone to make others happy, despite how much it affected her. Now, they think after everything she's done for them after she's sacrificed so much, that they can just do this to her? That they can just wholly abandon her and act like they were never even really friends?

"NO! AFTER EVERYTHING THEY'VE BEEN THROUGH, ALL THE THINGS SHE DID FOR THEM, ALL THE HOPE SHE MADE HER FEEL THAT SHE MIGHT TRULY BE HAPPY, THERE'S NO WAY SHE WOULD LET THEM PULL A STUNT LIKE THIS!" Pinkamena suddenly shouted angrily, her emotions running wild.

She was feeling a lot of intense emotions at that moment, rage, betrayal, grief, loneliness, but most especially, she felt heartbroken. She had a mixture of wanting to break down and cry right there or to find and beat the nearest pony she could see. Gummy had just been standing on the table this entire time, watching as his owner was having a complete meltdown. Eventually, Pinkie had started letting out some of her emotions; she had thrown chairs against the wall to the point of breaking them, then, she had begun popping all the balloons violently and started stomping on all the party decorations, it was an excellent thing that she had soundproofed the room. All the while, Pinkie was taking out her feelings on the nearby objects, surprisingly not harming Gummy in the process. She was crying the entire time, until, at some point, she just broke down and began screaming while hitting the floor.

"THOSE TRAITORS! HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO ME?! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY?! WHAT HAPPENED TO ACCEPTING EACH OTHER AND PUTTING AWAY OUR DIFFERENCES?! SO MUCH FOR FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC!" She continued letting out her emotions, both verbally and physically.

These are among the many things she had begun screaming, along with a bunch of vulgar insults towards her ex-friends, which just eventually turned into sobs. All the while, she never once stopped punching the floor, making her hooves bleed and bruise, but the pain was nothing compared to the natural emotional distress. After a while, she stopped and just sat there, no longer sobbing or hitting the floor, just sitting there, staring at her bloody hooves. Then, a smile stretched across her tear-drenched face; this wasn't one of her natural smiles though. No, while it still contained her usual amount of insanity, it was no longer good-natured. After a solid five minutes of her staring at her bloody hooves, she had been imagining what she wanted to, no, what she was going to do to them. She had got up and trotted out the door, leaving Gummy by himself, with only one thought on her mind. Revenge.

As Pinkamena trotted down the street towards the barn, ponies she passed by were giving her strange looks. It was understandable, after all, they were used to her bouncing with every step with a huge smile on her face and bouncy hair, not dull with a straight mane and emotionless face. While she did appear like she didn't have a care in the world, she was feeling lots of emotion at that moment, rage, betrayal, grief, and hate. She had no idea where she learned it; perhaps she had inherited it from her stoic parents. But, for as long as she could remember, she could always keep a straight face. She could feel so angry that she could beat a pony to death, but look as calm as if she was watching a movie.

She most definitely intended to express these feelings, especially the beating a pony to death part, more specifically, five of them. But she wasn't going to beat ALL of them to death, what's the fun in that? She was going to give each of them an unique end. After all, they were her friends; she needs to treat each of them differently. At this personal remark, she seemed to begin to smile that insane smile again, it started to reach the corners of her mouth, and all the passersby seemed to speed up at this. Sure, they wanted her to cheer up and smile, but not like this. That wasn't the usual smile she had; this was the smile of someone who wasn't mentally stable. They've only seen this smile on one pony, Nightmare Moon, the smile of pure insanity. The smile comes from someone who watches others suffer and laugh at it. This smile though, it was different than that. It seemed that this was the smile that belonged to someone with a bloodlust, someone with experience and who's taken life and enjoyed every single second of it, and was getting ready to do it again; they had no idea how right they were.

When Pinkie got there, Rainbow Dash was in front of the barn door, almost like she was guarding it. She noticed her, but didn't run this time, instead, she opened the barn door and gestured her inside. Before she went in, Pinkie had to think about this, it seemed too easy, what were they up to? They have been avoiding her all day, and now they want her in? Then Pinkie remembered what Spike said, that they had an intervention for her or something like that. She hid her smile; this was the perfect opportunity to find out exactly what it was they thought of her. So, she decided she was going to indulge them, and when they least expect it, she will strike like a tiger to its prey, the difference was, she was doing this for fun.

It seems they want to talk to the apparent annoying, stupid and immature party planner they thought she was; they were very wrong. The pony standing in front of her right now was not the Element of Laughter they had once known, but it was the last pony they would ever see again. As Pinkie trotted past Dash to get in the barn, slapping her face with her tail, Rainbow noticed Pinkie's demeanor and hairstyle were very different, almost like she was a whole different pony. Rainbow knew that they had no intention of talking to Pinkie after this, but the way she was acting right now was very different than the way she usually was. Mature, confident, smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Coincidently, this was Rainbow's type; maybe she could secretly date her? No, it's doubtful Pinkie would forgive her after what was about to transpire, but there was no harm in trying, right? Before Rainbow could think about that though, she had to be as mean as possible, to make sure her friends didn't find out she was having second thoughts. If Pinkie had known what Rainbow was thinking then, she wouldn't have waited to torture her.

When Pinkie came in, she noticed that there were six standard wooden stools in a circle, two of them were empty. The other four had, you guessed it, Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity, and AJ. All of them had neutral looks on their faces, Rainbow Dash trotted past her, bumping into Pinkie's shoulder on her way to her stool, she had an annoyed look on her face, on like she didn't want to be here, or maybe it was directed towards her? Pinkie went to go sit down on the stool and looked at Twilight and the rest, it was a lot of awkward silence for a bit.

"Look, Pinkie, this is how it's going to work: all of us agree, for different reasons, why we can't be your friend anymore. We decided to get together and talk about how to deal with this. We also decided that the easiest way to do this was to have something like an intervention, but a little different. We're going to take turns telling you why we think you can't be our friends, then, all of us are going to leave this barn, and after that, we will no longer be your friends anymore. The only reason we would talk to you is if we have a problem only the Elements could solve, and that’s only if Derpy doesn’t work out. Since I'm the one who came up with the idea, I'll start: Pinkie, you are by far the most annoying, dense, and stupid pony I have ever met! You spend all your free time hosting parties that everyone has gotten sick of. You have a photographic memory that's better than mine, and you waste it on remembering birthdays and anniversaries! You can predict the future; you could be using to save lives and preventing disasters. Instead, you waste it! You are so useless!" Twilight started out calmly but finished with the face of a very annoyed and angry unicorn.

Twilight stopped with a very red face and started gesturing for Applejack to go next, Twilight had usually kept a very joyful and happy attitude, either she had been harboring these feelings for a while, or this was how she was. Pinkie was unfazed by this, on her way here, she already figured out they had planned to insult her during this whole thing. So, she mentally prepared herself before this, though despite this she couldn't deny that it had somewhat affected her.

"Sugarcube, now don't get me wrong, you're ah sweet pony with ah kind heart, but you are mighty annoying, and you never know when you're not wanted, and you always bother me when I'm working. You're also a horrible influence on muh little sister Apple Bloom, If it weren't for you, she probably wouldn't be doing all the dangerous stuff she has been doing for her cutie mark! She would be a normal filly with an average life, not running around doing stupid things thinking she's going to get her cutie mark for it! You are a horrible influence on any filly or colt you've ever met or ever will meet! " Like Twilight, AJ had started out calmly. But, instead of stopping with an angry face, she had a much more...insulted look on.

Pinkie had... conflicting emotions about what AJ had said, on one hoof she was partial to blame for the CMC or at least the old Pinkie was, while on the left hoof this still hurt her as she hasn't been able to kill off the old Pinkie thoroughly, so these feelings remained there.

"Darling, I agree with a lot of what they're saying. You always invade someone's privacy and their personal space, you never even try to take care of your hygiene. I have to admit, what you did with your hair makes me a little jealous, but if you spruce yourself up a little, maybe you would get a stallion one day, but you won't if you stay the way you are. You don't have any shame or decency, and you always bother me, whether I'm working or not. Also, your parties are so childlike; you throw parties only a foal would like. When you learn how to throw adult parties, maybe I could tolerate you, but the way you are now you're so childish and immature! You're the most intolerable pony I have ever met!" Rarity started out angrily, ending with a disgusted face that very much suited her.

Pinkie had to hold back a giggle at Rarity's pathetic attempt at an insult, getting a look from Twilight that said ' Do you think this is funny?!' Before Twilight can put that expression into words, Rarity had put her hoof on her shoulder and then gestured towards Fluttershy. The reason Pinkie had almost laughed is that what Rarity said is the opposite of how Pinkie was now; it was hilarious how she thought that Pinkie was still like that. Though she couldn't ignore the part of her that still felt sadness and pain from Rarity's words, she wouldn't show it, but she had no idea how much longer she could hold off these feelings before it started affecting her if it hadn't already.

"Pinkie, you're a nice pony, you spend all your time planning parties for other ponies to make them happy, and I don't think that's a waste. You always offer to help me when I need it, but you're much too loud and social for my liking, you always invade my privacy and my personal space, and you always scare me and my animals. You always talk to me, and your parties take away time I could be spending with my animals. While it's true, other ponies do the same; you do much more often than them. I think it would be better if we just stopped being friends, I appreciate all the hard work you've done, but your personality and mine are just much too different." She finished the same way she started, with a smile.

Instead of a giggle, this time Pinkie had to hold back a sob. Her feelings had been tolerable so far, but if the Element of Kindness is your best friend, and even she insults you, it's going to be pretty emotionally devastating. Luckily, no pony noticed, that, or nopony cared. Pinkie was hurting on the inside, but she was determined to make sure they didn't see it. So, she wiped her eyes on her forehoof, claiming there was something stuck in her eye and gestured them to go on.

"Dash, you're up, I know that you wanted to do this, but could you, by any chance, try to be at least a little nice about it?" Fluttershy said quietly, her tone not changing in the slightest.

Rainbow looked at her and smiled; she probably should have assumed she would try something like this. Knowing Fluttershy, she's kind to everyone, even people who don't deserve it.

"Okay, Flutters, I'll try to go easy on her, no promises though." She said with a smile on her face, that was then replaced with an annoyed look when her face turned to Pinkamena, she still looked beautiful.

No matter how much Pinkamena tried to deny it or ignore it, it's true, that she loves Rainbow Dash, despite it being the old Pinkie's feelings. She loved her like she used to enjoy partying, maybe even a little more. Pinkie had no idea if she ever got the signs she was sending her, not that it seemed to matter.

Honestly, it was probably better if she didn't. Because if she did, and she uses that against her. No, even if she didn't. Just her telling her she can't be her friend anymore, that their relationship will be strictly business, that she'll never get to say to her that she loves her or what she would do for her, that would push Pinkie over the edge she's already falling off of. But, she is just barely clinging on, right now, it was possible to come back from this, but they wouldn't ever let her forget. Before Pinkie could continue her inner monologue, the cyan Pegasus started to speak.

"Pinkie, we have spent more time together than anyone else here, we have probably bonded more than anypony else here." Rainbow began, her voice and face remaining neutral.

Pinkie's heart skipped a beat at this, her hair poofed up a little. Was she considering changing her mind?

"Which makes it all the easier to get rid of you. Pinkie, sometimes you are unbearable, not only do you not know when you're not wanted, but you also don't know when to stop. You always bother me, and you always take everything too far, you just don't know when to stop! You kept bugging me even when I'm direct with how much I don't want to hang out with you, then that's when I realized something. You have feelings for me, we all figured this out and concluded that is why you bother me the most.

It sickens me Pinkie that you would think that of me, that you believe that someone like me: smart, brave, excellent, and responsible. With someone like you: stupid, fearful, lame, and carefree. Pinkie, I despise you, I just tolerated you because we needed you since you were one of the Elements, but Twilight has been doing some research, like the egghead that she is, and found that it's possible to find a replacement. So, I'm going to stop indulging you and tell you the truth. I will never like you; I will never be your friend, I will never even.

Consider dating you; you're not even my type. Most of all, I will never, EVER love you!" Rainbow finished with a strange look on her face; it wasn't anger or disgust, it was something more intense. But much more than any of the others had expressed, it was resent.

NO! NO! NO! This is too much I can't take this; it hurts too much, is what Pinkamena was thinking then, and what her face was most likely expressing. At first, she thought that the emotions weren't affecting her that much, that she would be able to keep composure until she left. Then, Rainbow did what she did, and the dam of tears broke. All the feelings from the old Pinkie began to pour out of her like rain from the sky; the pain was just too much for her to handle. At first, she thought maybe Rainbow was having a change of heart, but she was just baiting her in. Pinkie was crying at this point, she could have held it back until the end, but all the pain just kept piling up, and it just became impossible to ignore.

She could have taken the first four, but what Rainbow Dash did just punch a crack in her emotional dam, and that set all the other feelings in motion. The other five ponies started to leave, abandoning Pinkie to cry to herself. While they were still going, talking with each other like nothing had happened, Pinkie had begun to think hysterically, this was just a prank, right? No, this wasn't a prank, even Pinkie wouldn't go this far with a joke.

How could they do this? After everything they've been through, they want just to stop being her friend? Then, something inside Pinkie snapped, she had remembered all the good times they had had together, and how much it hurt her that they were all most likely faking it. The funny part is, they weren't the only ones putting up an act. For as long as Pinkie could remember, she's always had the urge to kill, to torture, to control life and death in her hoof's, to play god. She's just had a lot of experience hiding it, it might be because she was the literal embodiment of Laughter, but ever since she became an Element of Harmony, things have been easier.

Before she had felt so cold inside, so freezing. She was emotionally dead, she didn't care if she lived or died, or even if she would get arrested for murder, she had wanted to kill somepony, anypony. Then, her life changed the day when she saw the Sonic Rainboom; she had experienced her first emotion that day, joy. Suddenly, Pinkie took over, and everything happened, but now things were entirely different. She's wanted to kill them for the longest time, she couldn't though, because they were her friends, but now they're just the ponies who broke her again.

They think they can make her feel alive again just to kill her like this? They believe they can betray her like this and get away with it? They think they can stop her from ruining their pathetic lives? They think they can run from Pinkamena Diane Pie? No, she wouldn't let them.

SHE WOULDN'T LET THEM! Pinkamena ran towards them and picked up a stool in her mouth, it was heavy, but she didn't care. All this rage they've made her feel, all this hate and spite she has pent up, she just had to release it on somepony, and who better than the ponies who she used to think cared about her?

While they were still leaving, she hit Applejack over the back of the head with the stool, though she didn't look like it, Pinkie was quite strong. All those years at the rock farm did make her strong, despite her not having been there for years, the muscle memory was still there, adrenaline and rage just made it worse for poor Applejack, if it weren't for her body mass due to her farm work, it would've killed her. What Pinkamena didn't know, was that hitting the wooden stool over AJ's head had knocked her unconscious, also breaking the stool. In the shock of everypony not expecting her to attack, Pinkamena tackled Twilight, hitting her head against the wall, making her dazed and temporarily unable to do magic. She took this chance to put her mouth around her horn and snap it off. Twilight screamed but was silenced with a hoof into her face, making her lose a few teeth. As Pinkamena stood on her hind legs, staring down at Twilight, Pinkamena noticed she had an insane smile on her face; she could tell because she could see her reflection in Twilight's eyes, though, it was hard to say with all the blood and tears.

"Pinkie, please stop, I'm sorry." Twilight looked up at Pinkie pleadingly, hoping she might be able to convince her not to kill her.

Her smile just grew wider at that. As her eyes dilated to unimaginable levels, and her head rose more as she spoke.

"Pinkies already dead," Pinkamena replied coldly, shattering the small hope in Twilight's heart.

The life left Twilight's eyes as her horn entered her heart, shame Pinkamena couldn't see her reflection anymore, due to the lack of life in her eyes.

Pinkamena turned around and looked at AJ, who was starting to wake up. She just crossed a line; there was no coming back from murder, she might as well have some fun. So, she trotted over to the Earth ponies unconscious body, and she started beating her. It felt perfect, beating her to a bloody pulp, all that pent-up rage was finally starting to be released. Twilight's death was too quick, too painless. This was precisely what these ponies deserved, and Pinkamena FULLY intended to make all of their deaths painful in there own unique way.

"YOU STUPID LITTLE BITCH! ME, A BAD INFLUENCE?! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO LETS HER DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS YOU INCEST, HYPOCRITE, PIECE OF HILLBILLY TRASH!" She spouted as her hits started to become more violent and her insults more vulgar, and she didn't stop for a long time, or at least, what felt like a long time.

She hit her until she couldn't feel either one of her hoof's anymore, there was just so much blood on her hoof's now. It was giving her such a feeling, and she couldn't help but smile wider. She loved every single second of it. By this point, AJ's head was nothing more but a mess of blood, brains, and bone, her body wasn't much better, covered in bruises and such. She wanted to continue beating her, despite her being dead awhile ago, but, she had three other guests to entertain. A certain unicorn was very eager.

Rarity used her magic to pick up a stool and threw it at Pinkamena.

"DIE, YOU MURDERER!" She screamed at her with a look of disgust and malice on her face; she wanted to kill her, she was going to try.

Pinkamena was caught slightly off guard, but not enough to get hit. She dove under the stool and towards Rarity, tackling her to the ground and was now on top of her. Rarity started to scream and push her.

"GET OFF ME YOU MONSTER!" Rarity screamed at Pinkamena, fighting with every amount of strength she could.

"What's wrong, Rarity? Not used to being on the bottom?" Pinkamena replied back, though, Rarity probably didn't hear her with the constant screaming and insults.

She screamed and insulted Pinkamena, trying to push her off, but Pinkamena wasn't going to give. So, she bit off her horn; she only did it fast with Twilight because she wanted them to see she was serious. She was going to kill Rarity slowly, just in a different way. Pinkamena decided to carve out her eyes with her own horn, and this made her scream louder. She eventually got feeling back in her hoofs; it felt weird to move them without touching them.

"Calm down, Rarity, here, have something to eat to make you feel better, it always worked for me," Pinkamena said as she looked into Rarity's eye sockets, which were currently flowing with blood.

Pinkie's smile resembled the smile she had when she threw her first party, except this time it was because she was shoving eyeballs down Rarity's throat, not the first time she's had balls in her mouth. She tried to bite the sadistic pony on top of her, but she was too fast. Then, Pinkamena watched as she choked on her eyes.

"I feel like there's a pun here, but I just don't SEE it, HA! I'm too funny." Pinkamena howled with laughter at her joke, though she was the only one who seemed even to notice it.

Before she could continue torturing her precious little marshmallow, she had choked on her eyes.

"Strange, I thought she was good at choking, with all the 'sessions' I trotted in on with a lot of her clients. Aw well, looks like I will have to move on to my nex-."

Before Pinkamena could get off of Rarity and go toward the still whimpering yellow Pegasus, Rainbow Dash had flown straight into Pinkamena, knocking her over with Dash on top.

"Wow, Dashie, I knew you would want to be on top, but this is cra-."

Before she could finish her sentence, Rainbow hit her in the face; she probably should have expected that. Then, she tried again, but Pinkamena expected this, so she used this opportunity to bite her hoof and then kick her to the side, then, she flipped her over with Pinkamena on top.

"Well, Dash, it looks like I'm on top this time, get used to it!" Pinkamena said as she began her assault on Rainbow Dash.

She broke Rainbow's left leg and continued to break the rest of her limbs. She was pretty tough; she didn't even scream until her wings broke, a moan here or a grunt there, but never any screaming until the wings. Then, Pinkamena forced her head into the ground, so only her muzzle and her eyes were above ground, she didn't want her dead, not yet. She wanted her to be forced to watch as she tortured the most innocent pony left, so Pinkamena bit off her eyelids so she can't close her eyes. She then continued to move forward towards Fluttershy, who was trying to sneak away, thinking maybe she could get away and find help, she wasn't.

After putting Dash where she wouldn't go anywhere, Pinkamena started trotting towards Fluttershy. She didn't intend to torture her, much. She was the one who was nicest to her after all; she was just going to use Rarity's horn to cut off her wings, it was pretty hard since the horn wasn't very strong or sharp. She knew she could have just ripped it off, but that would have been much too fast for her liking. Eventually, it cut through, and she was LOUD, she was screaming and crying the whole time. Dash probably would have too, if her mouth weren't full of dirt from how far Pinkamena shoved her muzzle into the ground, she could still breathe and cry though. Pinkamena then just cut off her head, slowly. It was WAY harder than the wings because it was thicker and tougher. But, it finally came off with the sick noise of flesh ripped from bone, this gave Pinkamena an immense pleasure she's ever felt.

Then she brought over her head to Rainbow and put it right in front of her, so she couldn't see what she was doing and was stuck looking into Fluttershy's cold lifeless dead eyes. Then, she had a thought, as Dash was crying her eyes out at seeing her foal hood friend’s decapitated head in front of her, Pinkamena went to look for the saddlebags she had seen Dash bring to the barn earlier that day. Eventually, she found the bags behind a stack of hay, she wasn't sure what they intended to do with this stuff, but she didn't think they would need it anymore. She found exactly what it was she would need for her specific punishment for her favorite little Pegasus, a roll of duct tape.

"MHHHHHHMMMMMHHHMMM!!!" Rainbow had suddenly let out a series of screaming and other unintelligible noises, due to her mouth being underground, this had startled Pinkamena causing her to drop the duct tape.

What Pinkamena didn't know is that she had accidentally left Fluttershy's head at an angle to where it was slowly tipping forward, this had eventually lead to the head colliding with Rainbows half underground one. It would have looked quite romantic if there was a body under that head.

"Damn it, Dash! I was hoping to be the one to get your first kiss, not Fluttershy! I mean, I always figured you had feelings for her and that you would probably have gone for the first kiss, but I guess her losing her body didn't stop you. I guess you could say she got AHEAD of me!" Pinkamena made another pun, which, once again, resulted in her being the only one to laugh.

Despite Pinkamena losing all her sanity, the part of her that still makes terrible puns never did or will die. She then bent down and picked up the roll of duct tape she had dropped from the sudden outburst, and placed it on a nearby crate of apples. Then, she went over to both Rarity and Twilight's bodies and pulled out both of their severed horns, coming out with a similar popping sound as Fluttershy's head coming off, but not nearly the same amount of pleasure. She then laid both the horns beside the roll of duct tape; then she went over to one of the other apple crates looking for a loose board, she found one.

It wasn't very noticeable unless you paid attention, but it was precisely what Pinkamena was looking for. She used her teeth to pull the board out as much as she could before it bent at an angle to where it was sticking horizontally from the crate. Then she turned around and kicked it with all her might, snapping it off almost instantly, then picked it up and put it with the rest of the things. Pinkamena had gotten a nearby hammer and put it into her mouth, which she used to get the tip of Rarity's horn off, making it look like somepony had broken their horns. She then taped the broken horn to the bottom of Twilight’s, and taped that to the piece of wood, creating a makeshift spear, with horns. The reason behind this is because she wanted to penetrate through both Fluttershy's head and Rainbows at the same time, she could try as much as she would want to, she couldn't do that with just one horn. She needed to be able to apply as much pressure as possible, and now she could.

She put the spear in her mouth and began to move over to the now silent, broken, rainbow Pegasus, and her friends decapitated head. Rainbow had stopped crying while Pinkamena was making her 'special' toy, most likely she finally realized that crying wasn't going to get her anything except dirt in her mouth, or maybe she just ran out of energy and her throat hurt from all that constant screaming. However, before she had begun to use the tool for the punishment she intended, she sat it behind Flutter's head and trotted over to Rainbow and just stared, for the longest time she just stared. Beautiful, that's the first thought that came to Pinkamena's mind whenever she saw the Pegasus she fell in love with, despite her not being the same Pinkie that fell in love with her, that thought still hasn't changed. Rainbow stared back with those beautiful, velvet eyes full of hate and malice, but that did nothing but turn Pinkamena on.

"You know, Rainbow Dash, they say in a situation like this, getting killed first is the worst thing that could happen to you, but that's wrong. Watching as all the ponies, you love and care for as they’re ripped apart in front of you by someone you used to call a friend. Then being killed last knowing it won't matter in the slightest whether or not said murder will be caught. Because even if by some miracle I do get caught by guards right now, you'll have to live the rest of your life knowing you couldn't do a single thing as you watched the pony that's obsessed with you brutally kill all of your friends. That's not why I left you for last though. No, you see, I was hoping maybe you would join me." Pinkamena began to say to Rainbow Dash, being serious for the first time through her rampage.

Rainbow's eyes seemed to expand out of surprise as much as Pinkamena's eyes dilated out of pleasure.

"Because I see insanity as... a special kind of pleasure, it's a feeling you have to experience to understand it, but I'll try to describe it to you. It feels like you're experiencing every single emotion there is at once, but at the same time, you feel empty. It feels like you have nothing to lose like you just don't have a single care in the world. Like you're out of touch with reality, and your mind is in a whole different place. Like you have all the power you could want, but there's nothing to do with it.

Insanity is the most pleasurable feeling there is, but it's also the hardest feeling to get. Some ponies are born with it; others obtain through trauma. Though there are the sporadic cases in which the pony born with it experiences a traumatic event, creating the most beautiful form of insanity, I am one of those. I had fully intended to kill you first before I killed the rest, then this idea came to my mind. If I were genuinely going to release myself onto Equestria with nothing else to do now, then I would like to have a partner in crime.

I've only ever encountered one other pony who was born with it and believe me; she won't want to work with me. So, what do you say, Dashie? Did watching me kill all your friends brutally traumatize you enough to want to help me, no, us. Become the most evil that's come to Equestria in over a thousand years? Or do I have to kill you too?"

Pinkamena bit down on Rainbow's hair and pulled her head out of the ground, leaving it on the ground waiting for an answer.

"Well?! I'm waiting."

After a small coughing fit, Rainbow had said something, but it just came out as an incomprehensible mumble. Pinkamena had leaned down to her, putting her ear almost directly to her muzzle.

"I'm sorry, could you repeat that? I don't speak mumble."

"I said, BUCK YOU!"

Dash then head-butted her in the face, knocking her on her back with a bleeding nose. She then got up and wiped the blood of her muzzle. She walked over to Rainbow and hit her in the face, and then shoving her head back in the hole she pulled her out from, in the same position as before, allowing enough to see and breath.

"In the face of the pony that killed all of your friends, broke all your limbs plus wings, and is completely insane. You head-butt them when they offer you a way out, that's insane, just not the insane I'm looking for. What a shame, having a Pegasus would have been useful. Well, there would have been some setbacks, like how only the ones that act like their civilized go unnoticed and yet be as you would put it 'bonkers,' it's because we've had years of experience. You, on the other hand, would have gone insane due to trauma, so you wouldn't have any idea how to deal with it or how to make it seem like you're normal.

I would have had to keep you hidden until you learned how to act, and I would have to teach you what I know. Ughh! It's just this whole frustrating process I'm not going to have to deal with because I'm going to kill you. Before I do though, I want to tell you I'm incredibly disappointed in you, Dash, I expected better." Pinkamena began once again, seeming to lose the seriousness she had completely.

Pinkamena then walked over to where she left the spear and put it back in her mouth. She then got back in her previous position of the spear pointed towards the back of Fluttershy's head, though, this time, she had bloodlust sparked determination in her eyes. She pulled her head back, almost like she was playing a game of golf, then, she dropped her head quickly pushing the horn-spear full force through the already decapitated head.

The reason she had done this is because she wanted to be able to put enough pressure into the spear to the point where it penetrated through Fluttershy's head and straight into Dash, it worked. With Fluttershy's head angled to where it was right on top of Dash, it made penetrating through both of them easier. It went through her head with ease, though when it got to Dash's head, it had problems. It didn't go all the way out of Flutter's head, so, it was just barely poking the area between her beautiful velvet eyes of hers. Pinkamena had turned around and lifted up her hind legs, preparing to push it through the rest of the way.

"Goodbye, Rainbow Dash."

She kicked the end of the piece of wood that was sticking out of the back of Fluttershy's head, pushing through Rainbow's skin and skull, puncturing her brain and killing her. Any slight amount of sanity Pinkie still had left, was completely gone the second she kicked that wood. She walked over to her best friend's body and smiled, thinking of a great pun.

"Hey , Dash, there's a bunch of jokes I could say, but I'll SPEAR you the details."

She had started laughing at that one, for a very long time. It got to the point to where she fell onto the floor beside Rainbow's body, but in the opposite direction, almost immediately she began to cry, but never stopped laughing. She just laid there crying and laughing for a long time; it wasn't about the pun, these weren't tears of happiness, these were tears of pain.

"G-giggle at the ghosties, snorkel at the spookies, chortle at the kookies. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!"

Her laughing got louder and sounded more forced, while her crying also got louder but was very much real. Ever since Pinkamena was on the rock farm, she had always heard a voice apparently nopony else could hear, even after the Sonic Rainboom it only talked when she was alone. She could still feel it there though, watching everything she does and thinks, much like a stalker, but in her head and only she knows about. Then, she became the Element of Laughter, and that changed everything, maybe it cleansed her or restored her sanity? She had never really figured it out, but she knew it had never really left. For the first time in a long time, it spoke, not even during her rampage did it so much as whisper, but now, when she lost almost every scrap of sanity, it was there. It only said one sentence, but it was enough to destroy Pinkamena completely.

*How do you giggle at the ghostie, when you are the ghostie?*

She finally stopped crying and laughing, realizing the gravity of everything that just happened, and that realization came with guilt, lots of guilt. She had just killed her friends! Not just that, but she hadn't even created herself an alibi, everypony saw her go towards the barn. Plus, she had killed the star pupil of Princess Celestia herself, there was no way she wasn't going to get caught! Most of all, she felt pain, deep emotional pain, the kind of pain that even if by some miracle, she did survive, she would be stuck with it for the rest of her life. She wanted to kill herself, she truly did. At that moment, probably for the rest of her life, she honestly wanted to die. That was for later though, right now, she was tired, so very tired. Maybe she could just take a short nap, and when she wakes up, if she isn't behind bars, then she'll kill herself, but first, a nap. Pinkamena turned on her side and closed her tear-drenched eyes and fell asleep.