A year had passed since Pinkie's last birthday and most of the mane6 forget the depth of Pinkie's psychotic breakdown; only Rainbow remembered the extent of Pinkie's downward spiral. It's hard to blame them though. So much had happened since Pinkie's last breakdown. Twilight became a princess and a whole new castle spawned in Ponyville. As the saying goes though, those who fail to learn from their history are doomed to repeat it.

It was about a week prior to Pinkie's birthday and all her closest 5 friends were meeting at Twilight's castle to plan things out. The timing worked in their favor to some extent. Pinkie was busy watching the Twins and wouldn't suspect a thing. Unfortunately, Spike was away at a comic convention. Seeing as none of the ponies were audacious to ask Pinkie her schedule, in fear that she'd think something was up, they didn't tell her and decided to meet on the one weekend when Spike was away.

Twilight pondered. "Hmm.. what about a surprise party?"

"What?! You gotta be kidding me! Don't you remember what happened last year?" Dash exclaimed.

Rarity seemed perplexed. "Don't you think you're being a little paranoid Dash? What even happened last year? All I remember is that she was a bit rude and suspicious of us. Then she forgave us. It was hardly an ordeal."

Dash raised her voice at that. "Hardly? Maybe that's because you didn't see what I saw."

Twilight rolled her eyes in an annoyed manner. "And what did you see that we didn't see?"

Dash didn't take a moment to cool down. "What I saw.. I saw her in her room talking to rocks and flower, acting like they were her new friends. Her hair didn't have her puffy-ness. She was insane. We can't do another surprise party. Believe me. I know what I'm talking about."

"Sugarcube, I highly doubt ya tellin' things accurately. I mean, i rememba her hair and her rude-ness, but that's just cus we made it plain as day."

"How are we supposed to hide it genius?" Dash rebutted.

AJ said in a deadpanned voice "I dunno know, but it seems awefully silly to not do somethin' cus we can't come up with a plan on the top of our heads."

Rainbow facehoofed. She wasn't getting through to any of them.

Twilight jumped in, asking their quiet friend her opinion. "What do you think Fluttershy? Does a surprise party sound good?"

Rainbow grinned her teeth at being ignored, while Fluttershy timidly raised her voice. "I-I I don't know what we should do. I think Dash might be right, but if we think we should, then that's okay too."

Twilight concluded "Alright.. then it's settled. We're throwing Pinkie a surprise party."

Rainbow slouched back in her chair in frustration. "Fine.. but I'm warning ya, she'll go insane."

Her friends just rolled her eyes.

About a week went by and the gang was more or less repeating the same mistakes, causing Pinkie to again become become might-y suspicious. This time, it was actually worse and Pinkie became insane a day earlier.

"Come on Dash, go talk some sense into her."

Dash sighed at AJ's conclusion. "I told ya, didn't I? But noooo, you all didn't listen to me."

"Ah, cut your whinin'. If ya know so much about this, then ya the best one to talk to her, right?"

Dash lightened up a bit at that. "I suppose..."

"Great! Well, I'll let the others know. You go run along now and fix up this mess."

Dash flew away rolling her eyes. How classic?! Her friends didn't listen to her and she had to go talk with insane Pinkie.

Dash flew to Sugar Cube Corner at a moderate pace. She wasn't in any hurry to see Pinkie like that again. That said, her "moderate pace" was still quite fast.

She came in with a clearly agitated facial expression and pulled up to the front desk. "Hey Mrs. Cake, can I see Pinkie? She's been in a mood lately."

Mrs. Cake seemed a little concerned by her question. "Uhh.. are you sure? She's not in the best of moods."

"I'm sure. That's why I'm here."

"Alright then, you know where it is. It's on the top floor."

Rainbow started walking to the stairs casually in mid sentence. Once Mrs. Cake finished talking, she spoke up. "Yea, yea, I know. Wish me luck."

"Be Careful."

"I know..." The agitation in Dash's voice was clear.

About a minute later, she knocked on the door. "Pinkie. Let me in, will ya."

"Go away! Traitor!"

"All right, if you wanna do it the hard way, then I'll do it the hard way!"

Rainbow flew back a little and then flew straight to the door, hoping to bust it open. Buuut, Pinkie opened it right before Dash hit it, causing the pegasus to crash inside.

"What do you want?" Pinkie asked in a rude manner. She looked the same as she did last year. Her hair went straight down and her expression was furious anger.

Dash grinned her teeth at being tricked like that and quickly got to her feet. "What I want... is for you to cheer up! This insane Pinkie act is getting old."

"Of course that's how you'd see it."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Dash stammered."

Pinkie snippy retorted "It means that you have little patience for things not going your way."

Dash was not, NOT, gonna take that sitting down. "Well, yeaaa, I have little patience for my friends acting like babies, getting cranky and sad when things don't go her way."

That rebuttal stung. Dash wasn't thinking straight. Her words only made matters worse.

A rare sight occured; Pinkamena broke down in silent tears. She was great at spitting out the snarky comments in this state, but no pony had really ever gone on the offensive when she was in this state.

Dash was blown away by this. Pinkie still had her vulnerability in this state! Dash tried to calm her down, albeit taking a moment to register things.

"Pi-Pinkie, I'm sorry. I went too far." This didn't work though. "Please calm down.."

In a tear-y angry tone, Pinkie snapped back "Go!"

Dash was taken back and walked out in shame. "I'm sorry."

Pinkie slammed the door in Dash's face right after Dash was out.

Great... she did it now. She walked down in shame.

Mrs. Cake, being concerned from the door slam, rushed to Dash when she came back down. "I-is everything alright?"

Dash sighed and continued walking. "Not really. I'm gonna give her some time to cool down. Thanks for letting me talk to her."

"Sure, I-I didn't mind. Are you sure everything is o-?"

"Yes." Dash was out of the sugar cube corner at that point and flew to one of the clouds on the outskirts of Ponyville to unwind. She had the day off and she was gonna use it.

Hours after Rainbow left, Pinkie's tears dried. "We'll see whose a baby tomorrow Dash!"

It was late and the Cakes were already asleep. This was the perfect time for Pinkie to go out and get some special ingredients. She was going to make her friends "apology" cupcakes.

Author's Note

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