Secrets in Equestria

Pinkamena limped to Sweet Apple Acres with a large smile on her face. She was almost to excited and keeping the secret that she was attempting to get her friends back was driving her insane. The more she thought about it, the more it drove her further and further into that state. Everything going on was pushing her in the direction of insanity but she had to stay calm. The more insane she felt, the more impatient she became. She couldn’t lose her cool, she had to stay calm. “One more step toward destroying those goody goody sides of my friends.”

Pinkamena reached the farm and saw Applejack in the distance working away. She felt that on such a nice day, Applejack should be in a competition, destroying others, no mercy. Unfortunately, those weren’t how things were done anymore. Ever since the day everypony got “fixed”, everything fell apart. This meant nopony were themselves. They had lost who they were and it was all thanks to a certain princess of the sun. Pinkamena growled angrily at the thought of Celestia. “Had it not been for Celestia; Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, myself, and to an extent Rainbow Dash, would be ruling Equestria.”

“Pinkie, what on Equestria happened to ya and what were you saying? Answer the first question first please.” Applejack asked wiping the sweat off her brow.

Pinkamena jumped at hearing Applejack. When did she get to Applejack? Pinkamena scowled inside at herself but showed a pained look on the outside. Normally, she would never have been snuck up on but she had been too enthralled with her thoughts. At least AJ hadn’t clearly heard what Pinkamena had said. “What; oh, my injuries. I hate to say it but Sunset did this. She doesn’t believe that I am who I am.”

Applejack took a moment to think about this. Sunset had hurt her and this was worse but was Sunset really capable of this? Applejack stared into her friends eyes but couldn’t see any hint lying. She didn’t expect any less but with how crazy things have been with both Pinkie and Sunset, more so Sunset, she couldn’t be sure. “I’ll go have a word with her.” Applejack turned to leave but something told her this wasn’t right. Sunset was a creep and AJ couldn’t deny that she, herself was hurt by Sunset but this was extensive. It just didn’t sit right with Applejack.

“No, crap.” Pinkamena thought and flinched at the realization of her mistake. She spoke too quick and Applejacks reaction confirmed it.

Applejack turned and shoved her face into Pinkamena’s. “You’re Pinkamena aren’t you?”

Pinkamena let out a defeated sigh and shook her head. “Oh Applejack, you just can’t be fooled can you? I suppose I should have expected it, after all, look who I’m talking to. The Element of Honesty. All well, in time, you will join me again.” Pinkamena readied a syringe in her mane. She knew having it would come in handy.

“I would never revert back and neither would Pinkie Pie. Get out of here Pinkamena, no one wants you around.” Applejack snorted and huffed. “The others will know about this Pinkamena and then you will be sent right back to the crazy bin.” AJ turned to leave but felt something in her side. She felt tired and then fell to the ground.

Pinkamena pulled the needle out of Applejacks side. Pinkamena kneeled down so she could look into Applejacks closing eyes. “Oh Applejack, surely you didn’t expect me to be unprepared?” Pinkamena chuckled with a large grin on her face. “You won’t remember anything that happened in the last few minutes.” Pinkamena stood and left Applejack to sleep. “Getting my friends to turn against Sunset will be more difficult then expected and maybe impossible. Still, this is the easiest solution and i have to try even if Applejack does risk ruining this for me.” She sighed and rubbed the back of her neck. “This was expected though but I’d hoped she wouldn’t have figured it out. All well, Rainbow will be easy to convince as will Rarity.”

Pinkamena limped her way to Rarity’s but Rainbow Dash saw and stopped her. “What happened, wait, don’t tell me. This was Sunsets fault right, she doesn’t like you.”

“Yes but please, don’t worry. I was just on my way to Rarity’s, if you would like to come along.” Pinkamena offered. “You and Rarity were the last on the list to tell.”

“Oh no, you need to go rest and I’ll talk to Rarity and then whatever you want to do, we’ll help out.” Rainbow flew off before Pinkamena could say anything.

“Well what do you know, loyalty is the biggest fool.” Pinkamena walked to Sugarcube Corner and up to her bedroom. She sat down on her bed and realized how tired she was. “Between the Therapy crap and the institute and the fight with Zecora, ugh, I’m actually really tired.” Without getting comfortable, she fell asleep and began to snore. When she woke the next day, all her friends were around her bed. “What is everypony doing here?”

“We came to ask what you wanted us to do darling.” Rarity said worried about her friend.

“We’re going to beat her up for you right?” Rainbow asked throwing punches at the air.

“Oh, I don’t think we should get violent, possibly just a stern talking to.” Fluttershy said but it went unheard.

“Girls please, I’ve thought about it and we should go over tomorrow and talk with her. She is a part of the group after all.” Pinkamena threw up in her mouth a little. Being even a little reasonable on top of trying to act like Pinkie made her sick.

“Sounds good to me Sugarcube.” AJ agreed having forgotten about earlier events but something felt wrong. Then again, Pinkie was willing to talk about things. How could that be wrong? Yet something felt off.

“Excellent, we will go to her home and talk things out with her.” Rarity was happy to see Pinkie so civil about everything.

“Oh come on, can’t we beat her up, she deserves it.” The others glared at her. “Come on, she hurts Applejack, makes fun of Fluttershy, beat up Pinkie, she deserves something.

“Really Rainbow Dash, Sunset may be a bully but nothing was ever solved with violence. Look at our past, what did anything we do solve?” Rarity sat on the floor and folded her hooves.

Rainbow Dash threw her hooves in the air in defeat. “Fine, we’ll talk things out but if she pulls a knife out on Pinkie or does anything else questionable, she is gonna get more than a few punches to the face.”

Rarity sighed but agreed. “Fine, but only in self defense, we aren’t animals.” Rarity thought about what she said and corrected herself with a chuckle. “Well we are but not the vicious kind.”