Author's Note

The first part is Pinkie's POV

2: Easy as Pinkie Pie

Massive snake thing. But with a pony's head. And arms and legs. One arm ends in a lion's paw and the other in a birdish set of claws. One leg seems to belong to a dragon, and the other one might be a pony, I don't even know. Wings, too: one dark blue and one light blue. And two horns on his head, a blue crooked one and a white antler.

This must be Kimono's monster.

"What do you want?" I demanded, praying he wasn't going to hurt the others.

"Pinkie Pie!" he said happily. "Why does that name scare me? Must be something that hasn't happened yet. My life is very confusing, what with all the time travel...."

"H-how do you know my name?" I demanded.

"Oh, I have my ways. Parents are rather lazy nowadays, aren't they? 'Oh wow, after eleven months of pregnancy and a few weeks of trying for a foal we just realised we don't have a name! Err......Pinkie Pie!' Still, at least Cheerilee isn't a Pinkie Pie. So, you told Greeny Pie, Whitey Pie and the other one to leave you here? Perfect......now I have you all to myself....."

"What do you mean-"

He snapped his bird claws and suddenly I knew.

--I know everything now. It all makes sense. I even know how Equestria will be made. It will start with a little girl named Pinkie Pie. Me? No, this one has a darker mane and tail. She's my granddaughter, I think. Yes, and she works at a rock farm, and one day she sees this super cool rainbow and it gives her this amazing hairstyle, and then she-

Wait, what's Equestria? I really need to start starting at the beginning. I know everything now. Everything......everything.....everything......

Too much knowledge......I can't handle it.....Too much.........Too much.....

Not enough. I need more.

"Hey, Toola-Roola- wait for me-"

Rainbow Dash turned. For a second it looked like some idiot had covered the side of the tree in leaves, but as she looked closer she recognized Minty. "Minty? What are you-"

The green mare simply moved away from the tree she had bumped into and galloped away. Scootaloo stared. "Ooh, this game seems fun!"

She followed the older mare, grinning. "How do you play this game?"

"Game?" spluttered Minty. "This isn't a game! There's a monster!"

"Don't be silly!" scoffed StarSong. "Monsters aren't real!"

"Suit yourself!" snapped Minty. "But I'm not sticking around to find out!"

She galloped away. Cheerilee stared. "You don't think-"

"Trust me." answered Rainbow Dash. "Monsters are imaginary, darling!"

At that moment she felt something dripping onto her coat. She stared up. Drops of pale brown liquid were starting to fall from the sky. "Is this-"

"Mmmmm!" muttered Scootaloo, licking her hoof. "Chocolate milk!"

"Scootaloo!" snapped Cheerilee. "Don't just drink anything that comes out of the sky, that could have been poison!"

"Yeah, but it wasn't!"

"Hang on," asked StarSong. "Why is it raining chocolate milk?"

That was the least of their problems; Scootaloo thought it was pretty cool. So cool it took a moment for her to notice the blackness.

But for a little filly scared of the dark it was still only a second before she saw the entire town becoming darker in colour by the second. Rooves that were normally bright pink were turning to darker and darker pink, to reddish-brown, to greyish-pink, and then a colour nopony could deny had no traces of pink, and then black. Pitch black.

They galloped. They didn't know if anypony else had come with them, or what happened when ponies turned black like that. They just galloped, and they kept galloping until they got out of Ponyville. They were near Kimono's house when they looked back, still backing away in fear. They wished they had kept going.

The town where they had built so many memories, lived for all their lives, where all their friends but each other (and Kimono) and their family lived, the town they loved, their home.......gone. Just a veil of pitch black so thick nopony could see a thing.

Finally they black began to fade, first at the top, slowly starting to reveal the blue sky. Scootaloo, Rainbow Dash, Cheerilee and StarSong sighed in relief. But something was wrong. It just kept revealing the blue sky. It never got to the rooves of the houses, never revealed the windows or the lovely flowers. When finally there was no black left at all, all they saw was a patch of grass.

"I- I think we'll be safe here-" mumbled Minty as she caught up to Toola-Roola and Sweetie Belle. "Do you know if Pinkie Pie is okay?"

"I haven't seen her," answered Sweetie Belle. "She'll be here soon."

Minty bit her lip. "I hope she's okay..."

"Don't worry!" insisted Toola-Roola. "She's smart, she'll be fine."

"What if she's turned into a helicopter?"

"Dont' be silly! This isn't some fanfiction written by a twelve-year-old about a cartoon from years ago!"

At that moment they heard the familiar buzz of a helicopter. They looked up and saw Pinkie Pie, spinning her tail around at what looked like the speed of light and somehow managing to fly. "Woah!" Minty gasped. "The monster turned her into a pegasus!"

"Yeah, Minty," muttered Toola-Roola. "That's exactly why she's spinning her tail. Like a helicopter."

The pink pony landed next to them. "Hey, Minty! Toola-Roola! Thweetie Belle!Gueth what?"

"Err," guessed Sweetie Belle. "Your lisp suddenly got ten times as obvious?"

"I found the monthter and gueth what? He taught me the meaning of life!"

"The meaning of life?" repeated Minty. Already she was starting to consider that her friend had gone mad.

"No she isn't!" snapped Pinkie Pie. "Minty's my friend, she would never think I'm mad!"

"Who are you talking to?" asked Sweetie Belle, looking around.

"Duh, the narrator!"

"The who?"

"The narrator, the pothitively pink narrator!" She laughed. "Oh, I forgot you three are thtill ignorant. Disthcord taught me. He thaid that the fourth wall ith for lotherths!"

"The fourth wall?" asked Minty. "What's that?"

Pinkie Pie rolled her eyes. "You are thooo ignorant! Anyway, the meaning of life ith......"

She grinned, using her tail as a helicopter again and hovering above the ground. "Thcrew logic!"

"I can see that!" laughed Minty. "Let me try!"

She shoved her flank into the air like a filly showing off her Cutie Mark and spun her tail around as fast as she could. "Am I flying yet?"

"Not yet," answered Toola-Roola. "Maybe if you spin faster."

Nothing.

Minty stared at Pinkie Pie. "So how does she do it?"