The Hive

Prized baki to princess celestia

Twilight’s mind was to say the least Fried. Pinkie was either missing or was a strange tall skinny creature and rainbow was most likely dead and had been killed by pinkie. Not to mention she was also strapped to a table and helpless. She started to twitch and applejack was starting to feel worried about the lavender unicorn. Though the farm ponies mind wasn’t exactly calm and quiet she was worried about all of them she was trying to find a way out or a plan which was usually Twi’s department. A soft sobbing brought her attention to the poor yellow Pegasus she was crying behind her hair.

“We’re all going to die aren’t we?” she asked and the farm mare opened her mouth but was cut off by Fluttershy “don’t lie. Please don’t lie to me” she said looking at applejack with one puffy eye with tears still running through her fur.

Apple signed but couldn’t meet those eyes “I don’t know sugar I just don’t know. But what I do know is that we need to get out of this place ya hear? She asked trying to get the others to at least have some hope Twi just kept twitching and Fluttershy went back to crying behind her hair.  But rarity spoke up

“your right darling we are not just going to lay down and die we are going to escape this dreadful place” she spoke with fire in her eyes and looked at the rest of her friends apple gave a respectful nod and Fluttershy stopped crying as hard she sniffed a few times before lifting her head to look at the white unicorn.  They all looked to each other and the hope spread applejack gave a determined smile and Fluttershy actually gave a small smile.  Rarity looked at twilight but her face made a slight duck face

“um where’s twilight?” she asked and the others looked to where the lavender unicorn should have been applejack lost all composer and started to freak out and Fluttershy had by far the most interesting reaction though

“Well….shit.” her head fell slightly at the last word and rarity couldn’t help but giggle at the shy Pegasus’s words

“Rarity!” applejack said looking shocked and rarity looked sheepish

“What I couldn’t help it was just so amusing how she said it but your right darling this is the WORST POSSIBLE…….THING to happen.” The white mare said putting as much emphasize into the words as she could.

Twilight was silently freaking out it was all she could think to do at the moment. The table was taking somewhere probably horrible.  Her mind raced for a way out and finally the more sensible part of her brain kicked in and she focused on teleporting. The table stopped and she tried to resist the urge to open her eyes. But an unfamiliar WHRRRRRING sound forced her eyes to investigate. However she regretted the decision as soon as she lay eyes on the demonic claw that unknown to her had already done its unholy task to two of her friends. She screamed and the survival instincts kicked in and she flash ported out of the table trap. The magic drain was instant but she pushed that to the back of her mind as she scrambled to a run.  Her eyes were wild and scared as she tried to run. She heard the WHRRING sound again and evaded her mechanical pursuers strike to her right. She was sucked in a sharp breath as the claw made contact with her side ripping a good size cut on her flank.  It burned but she still bolted forward hoping to find the edge of the room or a door, something to escape this nightmare.

But her hopes were quickly crushed as something closed around her neck. Not tight enough to choke but it wouldn’t relinquish its prey. Tears started to form again as more clamped around her legs and held her in place. Her cut screamed at the sudden pressure and she willed it not to drain her of the energy she needed to teleport again.  She struggled feebly as she moved the energy into her horn then something hit her in the chest her eyes flung open to see the claw buried in her. She knew that pain is what she should be feeling. She started to scream when an intense pressure seemed to stop the air from moving.    It was strangely peaceful the pain in her side was numbing and fading she knew it was shock but at the moment she didn’t care. She saw the black on the edges of her vision and before it completely engulfed her she saw that claw holding its glowing treasure like a dog that just found its bone and she smiled before fading away…

Pinkie slammed a her fist down on to the controls in front of her every screen every single one of them read the same celestia damned thing

                “Rebuild the hive!!” every one, pinkie had tried to stop the machine. To save twilight from this fate but the second she tried all the screens turned red and flashed that single message over and over.

“I’m sorry twilight, it’s all my fault again!” she was crying again even though it burned to cry she did it anyways she was sure she looked like a mess her eyes were surly puffy and red. She buried her face in her hands and sobbed.  Then something wrapped around her she looked down to see cyan arms wrapped around her then felt a head on her shoulder.  But what made it all truly real for her was a yawn before hearing dash’s voice

“What’s with all the noise… are you crying pinkie?” the cyan former pegasi asked moving a hand to her face to rub her eye as she yawned a second time.  Pinkie froze stiff DASH WAS AWAKE was all she could think at the moment was this her dashie or was this the vicious angle form hell that vowed to have her head mounted….well she didn’t actually say that but she did try to kill me, um.. True but WAIT!!! Why am I having a conversation with you get back in the story!

She stared at dash her eyes teary and wide at the same time but dash just yawned at her.

“Is that you rainbow?” she asked sounding small and frail and rainbow gave a confused smile back

“Is there more than one?” she asked and giggled a little at her own joke before pinkie hugged her.

“Oh dash I’m so glad it’s you oh my gosh do you remember what happened? Please say no.”  Pinkie shot off holding dash at arm’s length the tears had disappeared but the same wide scared eyes were very present. A silent hope in pinkie rose hoping she just didn’t remember what happened and……

“Yes I do remember.” Dash said looking away from her. If pinkie’s hair wasn’t already flat it would have deflated like a balloon. Her heart plummeted into her stomach before dash started talking again.

“And I’m sorry.”

”um wha?” pinkie cocked her head to one side looking at dash like she had just started pulling parasprites out of her mouth.

“I’m sorry for yelling at you I shouldn’t have said those things” dash said looking at pinkie looking for forgiveness and pinkie smiled a real pinkie smile

“And I’m sorry for stabbing you.” Pinkie said then stopped clamping her mouth shut mentally face hoofing herself for her own stupidity dash pushed away from her.

“Ya I’m still kind of sore about that.” She said poking pinkie in the chest. Pinkie was about to start crying again but dash continued “but going off the things I said to you I kind of deserved it and I’m sorry for pushing you to that, celestia knows what stress you were under I mean you were worried that we would reject you and that’s basically what I did, man I wasn’t a very good friend back there.”  She said and gave a weak smile to pinkie

“So no hard feeling for... Um well that” pinkie said pointing to dash’s body, and dash not understanding at first looked down at her new body then back to pinkie

“oh this um well I figure you did whatever happened to you to me to save me after you well… ya.” She stumbled at the end avoiding the stabbing part. Dash smiled and looked away suddenly feeling really awkward. But when she looked back pinkie tackled her with a hug that somehow turned into a kiss on the floor. Dashie’s wings flew open in a blatant wing boner but the kiss was cut off when pinkie realized what she was doing and sat up on top of dash

“Oh no I’m sorry I don’t know where that came from I’m sorry!” pinkie said turning bright pink in the cheeks before getting off of rainbow. Who was stuck in confusion to the highest degree?

“I don’t know that wasn’t too bad maybe if we try again?” she half mumbled to herself blushing trying to gain control over her wings again.

“What was that dash I’m sorry it’s not like you to mumble?” pinkie asked with her back to rainbow as she moved to her computer seat.

“Nothing just grateful that my wings still work” she quickly said trying to hide the blush that burned across her face.  She moved a piece of rainbow hair out of her face then took the time to look over her new hands strange how normal they felt but still weird to look at. She wiggled her fingers then giggled a little to herself.  Then a small fear started to form in her chest what if she couldn’t fly or was as fast as she use to be……..oh celestia what would this do to her chances to be a WONDERBOLT!!!!!!!!!!!! Her eyes were wide and she suddenly felt very cramped almost claustrophobic in the room with pinkie. She was starting to twitch and spas out.

“Rainbow are you ok?” pinkie asked worried about her friend before her friend exploded

“Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh what if I can’t fly or I’m not fast enough to join the WONDERBOLTS!!! Oh celestia the wonderbolts what would they think me right now?!!” she asked scratching her head so hard pinkie was afraid that hair was going to start falling out or… her head was going to catch fire suddenly from the friction .  Then the image of rainbow’s hair on fire came to her mind and she started giggling uncontrollably. Rainbow dash looked at her like she had lost her mind which was probably true before this happened.  “sorry dashie but your right and I don’t know but don’t worry maybe your even faster now I mean whatever this is maybe it’s made us stronger and faster?” pinkie said smiling at her. It was the type of smile that you just saw and couldn’t help but smile back she actually started to giggle

“Dash if anything you’re even zoomyer than ever now.” Pinkie said lying across the arms of the chair looking at dash upside down

“Pinkie you’re so crazy.” Rainbow started to laugh with her but pinkie’s giggling started to slow down then flipped over to be laying on her stomach to just look at rainbow dash as she laughed.

“It’s almost like…..” pinkie started but stopped with a worried look she couldn’t even meet rainbow’s eyes. She hung their letting her arms dangle over the arms of the chair. Rainbow wiped a tear away from her eye she noticed the sudden silence in the room.  “Pinkie….. What’s wrong?” she asked starting to worry about the friend again. “It’s almost like before, us joking, playing pranks...” she felt the tears start to form again.   “Before all this crazy shit happened…. This place, what’s happened to us and now the others it’s happening to all of us and I can’t stop it.” Pinkie said looking utterly defeated.  Her hair flowed over her face covering her from site.  “When I woke up in a tube in this nightmare... I was scared and alone… I was scared that my friends would be afraid of me. That they would run from me abandon me…..”  She just fell silent.

Rainbow lifted a part of her hair and got closer she seemed to hesitate before kissing the surprised pinkie. From the outside it looked like pinkies hair had swallowed rainbow’s head after a moment she pulled out of the forest of hair and pinkie looked up letting her hair fall away. She was blushing brightly and looking at rainbow dash. “Pinkie look not all of this is your fault, you did this to me to save me and I’m ok…. I don’t blame you.” Rainbow looked at her with a smile wiping the tears from pinkies eyes

“But does twilight…. And the others?” pinkie said before rainbow hit one of the ticklish spot on her neck making her giggle

“If you’re worried then go get her and I’ll get the others see if I can stop it” rainbow dash said standing up and pinkie sat up in her chair and started typing she didn’t understand how but she was tracking down where twilight it was as if the computer was guiding her the purple former unicorn was still in one of the pods but it was on the other side of the place. With a few quick key strokes she started the rail to bring the unicorn to her… while dash dashed off to find the others.

It was dark… but light was there just out of reach to twilight it felt like the world was moving without her; she opened her eyes to see a small pod like thing surrounding her. She looked at her new hands in curiosity they were nimble and fast. She pushed against the glass that sealed her and felt it give a little she stopped then pushed slightly harder till it flung open and the light blinded her. She was high in the air but that hadn’t registered yet she was looking over what looked like a huge city of buildings and tubes. She was moving along a monorail system she could only see small dots everywhere maybe they were others like pinkie and herself she guessed.  Before she felt the pod shift her heart just had time to register sheer terror before she lost balance and fell at an alarming rate.  She was screaming her head off as what looked like cat walks fell around her. She started looking for something to grab, anything to slow her decent. Then she teleported and landed on a catwalk to her right. She hit the cat walk with a thud and looked around with surprise she had teleported and yet she felt little magic drain next to nothing. She looked at herself

“Fascinating!” she said out loud then smiled a little excited smile “oh think of the research I can do about this place what it’s for, who built it?” she asked to no one in particular. But all those questions took a backseat in her mind she suddenly had an urge to see herself see. What exactly she had become.

She looked around for anything shiny and clean enough to use as a mirror. What she found was a large mirrored window it was broken on parts but a section still stood large enough to see her entire self in its reflective surface. She was like she figured looked like pinkie in figure a slim hourglass. Her cutie mark had actually carried over her sparkle for magic and stargazing was on the little skirt type thing that covered her hips and upper thighs. Her tail was still there and could feel it swaying around the back of her legs.  Then an almost insane smile crept across her face as an idea came to her mind

“I can write a letter to celestia about this new body and about pinkie as well” she said out loud all of the worries of her new body forgotten even going as fair as making her feel great about her new self she was stronger at magic now then she stopped “what if she was as powerful as celestia now?” she thought to herself and her eyes filled into till there were the size of dinner plates.  Then images of her and celestia raising the sun together came to her mind and she started hopping up and down in a small circle going “yesyesyesyeyesyesyesyesyesyesyes” repeatedly.

Then reality hit her dead in the face and at a single thought she stopped bouncing in mid air and she hung there magically for a moment “what if the opposite is true and she sees you as a freak, a monster to be destroyed?”  she landed with a thud and stood there like a statue as images of her being chased down by the palace guards or worst the princess herself burning her with the power of the sun then even worst her friends being destroyed as well. She saw pinkie getting burned by the sun’s rays. Parts of her hair started to curl and stick out as panic started to take over. But a sound that started out small but was starting to grow louder brought her back to the situation at hand. She looked up and with slight terror and confusion found the source of the noise it was a “wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” she looked up to see pinkie falling at great speeds right towards her. But pinkie grabbed a hanging pipe used her momentum to swing up and over the pipe then let go flipped several times in the air and landed with her feet together and arms an even length out. She had her eyes closed then she looked at twilight but quickly turned to face the mirror and she put her hands on her hips and gave the reflection light scowl

“What do you mean an 8.5 on the landing I stuck that perfectly she said in a hurt voice then leaned back away from the mirror “oatmeal is you crazy”?  She finally said then looked at twilight over her shoulder and gave her a smile that said I’m just joking then tackled her friends to the floor in a hug.

“Oh please don’t hate me please don’t hate me I’m so super sorry” pinkie said sounding on the brink of tears. Twilight sat up and pated the mare’s head or whatever there were now. She looked into twilights eyes and a friendly smile greeted her not a hint of malice showed and pinkie smiled a true pinkie smile and sat back on her knees.

“Not going to lay I kind of like this new form there’s so much new thing to learn and do.” Said a glint of excitement sparked in her eyes and pinkie smiled back but before pinkie could say anything twilight poked the little knob on her chest causing pinkie to giggle uncontrollably

“Twilight quit it that tickles.” She said slapping twilight’s hand away playfully.

“Sorry pinkie I got curious it seems that you and I both have this little knob on are chest.” Twilight said still focusing on the weird knob.

“Then study your own knob she said with a straight face that she couldn’t hold for long before giggling more at the use of knob.

Twilight looked down and touched the strange knob she applied pressure to it and felt it shift in her hand. Then her entire chest opened up with an almost sci-fi whoosh sound. Her eyes flew wide and she fell backwards as if trying to run away from it.  Pinkie looked at Twi with wide eyes and she looked curious she moved forward as twilight started to freak out.

“Pinkie what’s going on?” she asked with an edge of panic in her voice. But pinkie didn’t answer right away.

“I don’t know but this is cool.” She said looking into twilight’s chest, in the center sat her soul almost on a bed of velvet.  Organs all lead to the glowing sphere she just couldn’t help herself and placed a hand on the small orb making twilight eep at the sudden touching. She blushed and Pinkie withdrew her hand. Twilight’s chest resealed and pinkie found the button on her chest and her chest opened for twilight to see.

“wow.” Is all the unicorn could say as she saw the pink soul in her chest and she placed a hand on it as pinkie had done earlier? The former mare giggled at the touch

“Hey that tickles.” She said as a blush spread against her already pink cheeks.

“It’s warm.” Twi stated and withdrew her hand from her friends chest and pinkie resealed it with one last little giggle. She stood up and looked at twilight who still sat on the ground.

“Let head back to the control room and from there we can check on the others “she said with a warm smile and twilight got up to follow the former mare.

Elsewhere

    Applejack was the first to notice the sound of hoof steps coming out of the darkness. She looked hopefully towards the noise.  But the familiar face that came into view made the farm mare go silent. Rarity looked at her friend then to the newcomer and her jaw dropped

“Hi girls, I’m super duper happy to see you girls” it was pinkie pie right down to the hooves and frizzy pink mane.  When Fluttershy noticed all that came out of her mouth was

“what?”