All My Friends are Heathens

Eleanor woke up with a gasp, her hazel eyes scanning the dark room. However all she could see was darkness and barely visible blurs of shapes and colors. She wasn't wearing her glasses. The smell of damp concrete, baked goods, rust and blood entered her nostrils and made her feel badly nauseous.

A yawn reached her ears. Eleanor looked over and saw her unicorn cousin/sister, Samantha, was still sleeping. Eleanor tried to move, to wake her younger sister up, but she found to be restrained by cold metal cuffs and laying against a wooden operating table standing vertical, and striped naked, so she could see her pastel green fur coat.

Eleanor wiggled and was able to get her black, pastel violet and blue tail free. Sam was in the same predicament as she is. There was a ring over the base of her horn. Eleanor instantly recognized it as a magic suppression ring.

She nudged her sister with her tail, "Samantha, wake up!"

Samantha just moved, as if trying to turn her winged back to her older Earth Pony sister, "Five more minutes..."

Eleanor nudged her again, "I'm not kidding, Sam. I need your eyes. I can't see anything."

"Ooops. Sorry. Silly me. I forgot why you wear glasses, Nellie." A familiar energetic voice spoke from the darkness.

A pair of pink hands with raspberry pink nails reached a pair of black-framed glasses over Eleanor's muzzle. Eleanor blinked and her vision became clear and crisp.

Her ears perked up, as she heard a familiar giggle, "Rainbow Dash was right. Glasses do make you look like a nerd."

Eleanor looked and saw the face of a familiar grinning mare with light pink fur and a wild poofy mane of raspberry pink. Eyes of the sky in mid-day.

"Pinkie Pie?" Eleanor recognized.

"Were you expecting Applejack?" The voice asked.

Samantha yawned and opened her sapphire eyes, "I had the craziest dream. We were in the basement of SugarCube Corner, and Pinkie Pie was carving us into pieces. Then baking us into cupcakes."

"Aaawww! You spoiled the surprise, Sammie!" Pinkie Pie sighed in disappointment, "I guess I'll have to have fun with you first."

Like a bucket of ice-cold water thrown at her face, Samantha's ears perked up and her eyes widened, "Wait. What?"

Pinkie nodded, walking over to a switch, "Yeah. You see, I was running out of fresh ingredients, and your numbers came up at the same time. Twice the ingredients, twice the flavor. So I drugged your drinks with a simple sleeping powder and brought you here." She looked as Eleanor, "I gotta say, Nellie, for a tall pony, you sure are light."

She flicked the switch and a bright florescent light pierced the darkness. Eleanor and Samantha closed their eyes in recoil. Once their eyes adjusted, the two sisters looked and horror filled their psyche.

A large concrete room with chairs and tables made from bones of other Ponies. Candleholders of skulls. A large wooden table with an assortment of saws, knifes and other tools. Streamers hung from the ceiling, but they weren't paper. The were intestines and other organs. At the back, there was a banner that said in dark red 'paint';

'LIFE IS A PARTY'

Samantha quickly closed her mouth, as nausea hit her like a bolt and vomit threatened to rise up her throat. Eleanor just stared. But that wasn't the only thing that shocked them.

Pinkie stood before them in a dress and a white apron. The dress was made from patches of Cutie Marks, a necklace of unicorn horns and upon her back were four pairs of pegasi wings.

"Do you like it? I made it myself." Pinkie grinned.

"Pinkie! Why are you doing this? This is madness!" Samantha shouted.

Pinkie's grin fell, "Madness? Is it madness to see other ponies smile with my creations? Is it madness to find the perfect secret ingredient to make all baked goods taste fantastic? To bring those smiles?"

A small laugh broke the two pony's argument. Samantha and Pinkie turned, as the laugh got a bit louder. Eleanor was laughing. Eleanor's laugh got louder and started to sound insane.

Pinkie tilted her head in confusion. Samantha sighed, "Oh no. Eleanor.exe has crashed. The voices have got her. She's gone nuts."

Eleanor stopped laughing and sighed with a smile, "Nuts? This is rich. I wondered what happened to Rainbow Dash for the past week. Now, it makes sense."

Samantha tilted her head, "You're okay with Pinkie doing this to other ponies?"

Eleanor giggled, "Are you kidding? She's doing something right, although it's completely wrong."

Pinkie smiled, "Wow, Nellie. I didn't know you had a disturbed mind."

"You've been hanging out with the dead way too long, sis." Samantha sighed.

Eleanor ignored her sister's comment and turned to Pinkie, "Out of curiosity, Pinkie. Are you hiring?"

"What?!" Pinkie and Samantha exclaimed. Pinkie with a smile and Samantha with a shocked expression.

Eleanor nodded, "Yeah, cause there's no way you can keep this up on your own. Mr. and Mrs. Cake will catch you and turn you in."

Pinkie rubbed her chin in thought, "Well... I have been meaning to hire some assistants for the Cakes. That hiring sign has been on that window for weeks. I'm surprised nopony has applied."

"Maybe because you put the sign at the back door. Nopony looks at the back door, Pinkie." Samantha pointed out in a deadpan tone. Then looked at her elder cousin/sister, "You sure this is a good idea, Ellie. Pinkie is crazy!"

"She's not crazy. She's got the right mind. There's something wrong with world. The only way to find it is to do something about it." Eleanor nodded, then pointed out, "Besides, Rainbow Dash deserved this, since she bullied you. I've been thinking of a payback scheme for months."

Samantha smiled, "Huh. I never thought of it that way. I'm in." Then she frowned, "But just to keep an eye on you. I still think this is wrong."

Pinkie Pie grabbed a key and unlocked the restraints. Eleanor and Samantha landed on their hooves with a loud 'clop'. Sam remove the ring on her horn. Pinkie gave the sisters their clothes back and they got dressed. Pinkie turned around, so she wouldn't see them.

Pinkie was right. Eleanor was a tall, slender Earth Pony that stood around 5 foot 11 inches. Her hazel eyes had a green inner ring meeting the pupil. She had fetlocks of a Clydesdale. She wore a black and pastel blue stripped scarf around her neck with matching fingerless gloves. A pastel t-shirt with indigo sleeves and trimmings under a pair of black overalls.

Samantha was a short Unicorn Pony with sky blue fur, that complemented her sapphire eyes. A long, wavy, blonde mane and a matching leonine tail. She wore a blue t-shirt, with pink sleeves, under a sleeveless, magenta hoodie. Olive green pants and a gold chain necklace with a sapphire heart pendant.

Once dressed and got the feeling back to their arms and legs, Pinkie Pie hugged the sisters.

"Welcome to the Family."