Secrets in Equestria

Pinkamena walked through the Everfree forest, looking like Pinkie, but with an evil smile. The flora and fauna of the Everfree turned and ran from the pink mare. Timberwolves ran off with their tails between their legs. The Cockatrice hid in distant bushes. Even the Manticore shook in fear when it looked at the mares grin. The plants acted is if they were trying to run and the clouds above thundered as if to try and scare her off. There wasn’t a thing in the forest that wasn’t scared of the mare.

Pinkamena chuckled at the sight. “Even the Everfree forest is scared of me.” She had a nice stroll in the forest and then came to a hut. It was decorated with totems and masks that hung from the branches of the tree the hut was built into. She walked up to the hut and knocked on the door. It didn’t take long for the door to open. “Hello.”

“I take it you must be, the one that your friends call Pinkie? I am Zecora.” Zecora looked outside and saw an interesting sight. The plants were acting odd and there were no creatures in sight. “You…”

“Yes, I am rather terrifying but don’t you worry, I have no interest in you. I simply came to ask, what are you?”

“A Zebra and…”

“Yeah, that’s all I wanted to know.” Pinkamena walked over to the cauldron and looked at the green goop inside. She dipped her hoof in and sniffed the gunk. She scrunched her nose and wiped the gunk off on Zecora. “I don’t really care about you in any way other than by name. Here is the deal little miss zebra, I have friends that aren’t themselves. I only tell you this now because sooner or later you would figure out everything, I can tell that much. What I want from you is to keep your mouth shut. Do that and I won’t have your skull there for a trophy.” Pinkamena flicked Zecora’s head.

“You can’t threaten me…” Zecora was cut off for the third time.

Pinkamena pinned Zecora up against the wall. “I believe I can, after all, I have all the tools I’ll need to kill you.” She pulled a knife out of her mane and pressed it up against Zecora’s chest. “Now, tell anypony I was here or say anything about what happened and ugh.” Pinkamena stumbled back from the head-butt she received. She cracked her neck and shook it off in time to get punched. She fell back a bit from the punch and wiped her mouth clean of the blood that flowed from her mouth. “Ok, let’s dance.” Pinkamena attacked, cut Zecora’s cheek and tried to kick her away but failed. The two exchanged blows for a while before Zecora kicked Pinkamena into a wall and ran off leaving a trail of blood behind her.

Pinkamena stood and limped toward the door. “You’ve made my list of victims Zecora, you should find yourself honored.” She smiled as she cleaned her lip of blood. Her eye was black and her nose was broken along with one of her hind legs. Pinkamena limped out of the hut and walked back toward Ponyville. “She’ll keep quiet, if she was confident, she would have killed me. I can’t say I blame her for running away, she knows my power now. I will give her some credit though, she can fight. It’s not often I meet a creature that can stand up to my power. The only exception being the Princesses but soon enough, that won’t be a problem. Unfortunately that Zebra isn’t afraid of me to the extent that I would like. She is scared just enough to not say anything, I hope, for her sake.”

Pinkamena, even while limping, she scared the Everfree forest. “Zecora may be bleeding out right now but I’m broken. I’ll have to see what I can do about that, until then, I think my dear friend Fluttershy needs a visit.” Once Pinkamena was out of the forest, she came to a realization. What could she say to explain her condition? She could say she tripped and sprained her ankle but that would hardly be believable or she could blame it on Sunset. “Yes, I’ll blame Sunset, she hates us anyway. What’s to keep her from hurting me when she didn’t have a problem with hurting Applejack.” Pinkamena put a fake look of pain and limped sadly towards Fluttershy’s home.

Pinkamena reached the cottage and knocked on the door. When Fluttershy opened the door she gasped. “Pinkie, what happened?”

Pinkamena let out a fake yet convincing cough. “May I come in.” Fluttershy opened the door and let the pink mare in. “Thank you Fluttershy, I’ve had a bad day.” Pinkamena sat down on the couch while Fluttershy was running around getting the items she needed to help her injured friend. “Thank you Fluttershy.”

Fluttershy ran back into the room and began fixing up Pinkamena. “Now would you mind telling me what happened?”

Pinkamena faked the pain of her bruises as ice packs were placed on them and Fluttershy apologized. “Don’t apologize Fluttershy. Now as for what happened, it was Sunsets fault. She still thinks I’m you know who. She called me a liar and attacked me when I told her I wasn’t that pony still.”

Fluttershy stopped working and looked up. “I know that Sunset is a bit of a bully but she wouldn’t hurt anypony.”

“Fluttershy, do remember when she attacked Applejack?” Pinkamena smiled on the inside at seeing her friends face. She had Fluttershy right where she wanted her. Now it was just a matter of time before she had her real friends back but before she could do that, she had to turn everypony against Sunset and force Sunset to leave. She didn’t need the element of magic to interfere with her plans. Pinkamena needed Sunset gone and the other elements would be the cause for it.

“Oh, you’re right, I will go tell the others.” Fluttershy finished cleaning up Pinkamena and turned to leave.

“Oh, please don’t, I’ll talk to them. Thank you though.” Fluttershy grabbed a crutch from her closet and gave it to Pinkamena. “I’ll be fine, don’t worry about me.” With her injuries tended to, Pinkamena waved goodbye and left. When there wasn’t a pony in earshot, she chuckled and went over her plan. “Step one part two apparently, complete. Step two, run Sunset Shimmer out of town by any means necessary. Part one of five, check, so long as nothing interferes with my plans from here on in, now for the others.” Pinkamena stopped and thought for minute. You know, perhaps I shouldn’t make a plan thought out so far ahead. Seeing how things are going, I should just take it part by part. Then again, I should probably just forget the plan all together and just take things as they come. At this rate, my original plan will have completely changed by the time I complete it.” Pinkamena paused a moment and shook her head from the distracting thoughts. Zecora may not have been part of the plan but her injuries thanks to Zecora will serve its purpose. “Zecora, thank you so much for helping me by beating me up. She did such a wonderful job too and she doesn’t even know it.” She gave a low demonic-like chuckle as she limped toward Applejacks. Everything was falling right into place.