The other side of the Mirror Pool

"And I said oatmeal, are you crazy!"

"Pinkie, we have listened to your story five times now, can you be quiet for a while," I asked the excited pink horse. I was sitting at the dining table poking at a stack of pancakes. The pony had so many things to talk about that her stories started to morph together, to a point where we had to either get her to stop or slow down.

"I'm going to take Pinkie to the vet's today, to do a check up on her make sure she's healthy and not broken," my mother told me from her room, which was down the hall from the kitchen. She came back out and walked over to the table. "When you finish your pancakes, could you wake Tyler up for me, I'm going to be leaving in 20 minutes to get to work and won't be able to wake him up."

"Yeah, I'll wake him up," I told her. Pinkie was bouncing up and down like had done all last night. My mother left the room, to continue getting ready. "Why do you bounce like that Pinkie?"

"I don't know, I just do it cause I find it as fun," she told me while still bouncing up and down. "Why do you eat really slowly, you haven't even taken a bite yet?"

"I'm just not hungry," I told her. The truth was, I was starving. I was just curious as to why my family got stuck with a pink fluffy pony from an entirely different dimension. I stood up and went to through my pancakes away before Pinkie stopped my and grabbed the plate. She devoured the pancakes in less than a second and sat on her haunches her belly comically jutting forward. I grabbed the plate and made a subconscious note to let Pinkie eat my leftovers. I threw the plate into the dishwasher and closed the dishwasher's door. I left the kitchen and walked into the living room and laid on the couch, grabbing the remote and turning the TV on. "What was the name of the show that Serenity had suggested I watch?"

"My Little Pony, and why do you want to watch that show, it's for little girls," my mother told me getting a jacket on. I was about to ask why she was wearing a coat until I looked outside and noticed the downpour. "Strange, it was clear yesterday and now we're two inches deep in rain water."

"Yeah, strange, bye," I told her. She grabbed an umbrella and left. I heard the garage door open and her Subaru start up. I looked back to the TV and flipped through the endless list of channels and TV shows. I finally spotted what I was looking for. My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. I looked at the info on the episode, which was episode 3 of season 3. Too Many Pinkie Pies. I turned on the episode, but it was nothing like what the info had said it was. Instead of Pinkie Pie creating hundreds of clones of herself so she could be in more places than one, her friends, I guess, were looking for Pinkie Pie, they stated that they didn't know where Pinkie had gone, but that they would find her. I felt the cushion next to me shift. I looked over and spotted a teary-eyed Pinkie watching the episode intently. The rest of the episode was the Mane Six looking for Pinkie, but inevitably going back to Ponyville. The episode ended with her friends crying over their lost friend. The episode clicked off and I heard a sob from next to me, then rivers of tears came from the small pony. I hugged her and told her we'd get her home to her friends. She eventually fell asleep, so I laid her down on the couch and went to wake up Tyler. I had a lot to think about.