Everyone Needs Pinkie Pie

-Keep in mind! This is from Rainbow Dash's perspective and this will continue after the next chapter.-

Rainbow Dash, her mind filled with worried thoughts, flew at almost the sound of speed through Ponyville to get to Twilight's castle. She didn't want Pinkie to sit around any longer in this depression. She couldn't stand to see her friend so unhappy. It wasn't normal for Pinkie Pie. It was never normal for Pinkie Pie to be this way, not now. Not with her birthday coming up. After all, Pinkie was the most excited out of all of her friends about her birthday and every year, she was the happiest bundle of pink madness. Being like this now wasn't right. Something had to be wrong. Something so horrible that Rainbow couldn't even imagine what had happened to make her this way.

As she continued through the dusty yet grassy streets of Ponyville, and knocking down a few stands -and ponies- in the process, she saw the castle looming up ahead, coming into view. She was almost there. Almost there!

Crash!

And down went Rainbow Dash, running straight into Fluttershy. They tumbled and tossed on the ground, some wings, hooves and ears bending the wrong way in the process. Once the ruckus had seceded, Rainbow lay there on the ground trying to catch her focus. Everything was in a blur and she couldn't even see three inches in front of her. Though it took quite some effort, Rainbow finally caught her focus. However, she noticed one thing was wrong.

Where was Fluttershy?

The blue Pegasus looked around nervously, but as she tried to stand up, she felt a shifting weight bearing her down. She then titled her head up and saw the very yellow Pegasus laying right there on her back, her pink mane a complete mess and her wings extended out to her side.

"Flutters!" Rainbow carefully shoved Fluttershy off of her back and got to her hooves then turned towards her shy friend. "Are you alright?"

Fluttershy's eyes slowly opened, the teal color glimmering in the sunlight. "Oh, Rainbow Dash. Yes, I'm fine. The question is, are you okay? It looks as if you've got quite the injuries." Fluttershy pointed to her bent wings, feathers falling out onto the ground, her muzzle bent into a forced-derp look and her eyes a bit derped as well.

Rainbow shook her head, turning herself back to normal and closed her wings, then nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine. The Amazing Rainbow Dash will always be okay, even if I crash into the Canterlot Castle. S-Sorry about running into you, by the way. I was just trying to get to Twilight."

"Oh. Are you checking out the latest 'Daring Do'?"

"As much as I'd like to, no. I need to talk to Twilight. It's an emergency."

"Goodness! What happened?" Worry filled Fluttershy's eyes as well as a bit of anxiety, but this was barely noticed.

"Pinkie. She's... she's... not normal."

"Rainbow Dash!" Fluttershy scolded her, anger now filling her eyes as she prepared for The Stare.

"I don't mean it that way! Pinkie never has been normal, but this time, it's just worse. It's not... her. She slammed the door in my face. She yelled at me. She looked so gray that I couldn't even tell it was her." Rainbow looked down at her hooves, grief and sadness in the tone of her voice.

"Oh dear. W-We must get to Twilight immediately."

Rainbow looked up at her friend and too saw the worry in her eyes. She then nodded and rushed off with the yellow pony towards the bright, crystal and shining castle that shone in the sunlight.