Goldenpie

Chapters

Chapter 2. Mayhem At The Severnaya Station
Chapter 3. Murder At The Trans Siberian Express
Chapter 4. The Name's Bond, James Bond
Chapter 5. Behind Your Goldeneye's
Chapter 6. Pinkiemon Pie
Chapter 8. A Party To Long For
Chapter 9. This Face. Part 1
Chapter 9. This Face. Part 2
Chapter 1. Goldenpie
Chapter 7. A New Story
Epilouge

Chapter 2. Mayhem At The Severnaya Station

M ran her fingers along the arm holder of her office chair. She watched the skin of her old dented hands bend into long lines from root to top. Only yesterday it felt like those old hands had belonged to a young woman, now they belonged to a grumpy old witch with the very power of life and death at her disposal. She had her pointing finger write an invisible letter on the handle. The letter spelled B.

Her mind circulated around Bond. She still had confidence in him, still she could’t get her head around the events that occurred on his mission in Byelomorye several years ago. How accommodable it had been by Alec to finish the job all by himself. What a coincidence that Ourumov had showed up, giving the suspicions she already had on him. Could it be true that the Goldeneye truly exists? If so, what if Ourumov confirms her suspicions and betrays his country and steals it.

The analysts of MI6 were divided wether he actually fits the profile of a traitor, she herself wished that the theme of that conversation showed itself being what it suggests. Still she had a bad feeling about his calculating mind, the same calculating mind that now seemed to have helped him acquire a general title in the Russian army.

Yes, she had a bad feeling about him, mostly because he reminded her of her own calculating mind. How many women and male friends had she herself lost along the way to acquire this high position? How many numbers did she had on her cellphone that once called her out for dinners and parties but now stayed silent in the wake of her powers?

There were the sound of a door handle being pulled. M looked up and faced the door. A familiar figure walked in.

James Bond took one step into Ms office. He watched her old face glaring at him. As the case with all their encounters, her face appeared to be stuck in a infinite frowning position. He felt calm, but for some reason his mind still circulated around his failure at the Byelomorye Dam all those years ago. It wasn't that he was embarrassed by it in any way, as far as he knew he was fully capable of accepting this failure and move on. Still, he felt like he was reliving that same failed jump from the dam over and over again. How strange it may be, it almost felt like that one moment was some kind of turning point in space and time, like the things he were about to say here and now, in this very office, would have been completely different if he had been successful. He could feel himself dangling right now, bouncing up and down, even though he were standing in M’s office.

“Oh, there you are Bond.” M said. Her face met bonds confident smile. He opened his mouth. His perfectly formed white teeth showed pearly white as he exclaimed.

“OAAAAH!”

Ms looked at bond. Her constantly frowning face showed no sign of a reaction. She pointed her hand at the visitors chair.

“Have a seat.”

Bond stepped into the office. His calm face scanned the scenery. The room was brown in its whole, diplomas hanging on the wooden walls. M got up as Bond sat down in the visitors chair.

“Would you care for a drink?”

James Bond nodded.

“OAAAAH!”

James scream subdued inside the dense office

“I prefer bourbon.” M said calmly while opening the linker cabinet. After she had poured the drink she sat down and faced Bond. She pressed some buttons on the desk. Behind her a TV screen showed a picture of Ourumov.

“Recognize him?” M asked

James Bond looked at the screen, then at M.

“OAAAAH!”

M did not react.

“He sees himself as the next iron man of Russia, which is why our political analysts rule him out, he doesn’t fit the profile of a traitor.”

James Bond and M looked at each other silently for almost a half minute. James Bonds mouth bent sideways, forming a confident smile. His finger rested underneath his mouth in a confounding manner.

“OAAAAH!”

M, played by Dame Judie Dench, looked frowning at bond like he hadn’t said anything for half an hour. She raised her glass to take sip of the bourbon, but then changed her mind. The ice made chiming sounds against the glass inside the drink.

“You don’t like me Bond. You don't like my methods. You think I'm an accountant, a bean counter more interested in my numbers in your instincts.”

Bond took another sip of the drink. He lowered his glass. He opened his mouth wide.

“OAAAAH!”

“Good...” M said blankly. “...Because i think you’re a sexist misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the cold war who's boyish charms they wasted on me obviously appeal to all those young women i sent out to evaluate you.”

Bond nodded his head.

“OAAAAH!” He blasted.

“Not quite 007.” M seemed to answer an unspoken statement. “If you think for one moment i don't have the balls to send a man out to die your instincts are dead wrong, i have no compunction about sending you to your death, but i won't do it on a whim, even with your cavalier attitude towards life.

M leaned herself forward from her arm chair, bringing her authoritarian eyes closer to Bond as she gave him his mission.

“I want you to find out if goldeneye exists, if so i want you to find out if Ourumov plans to steal it. If that turns out to be the case i want you to find out what he plans to do with it and stop it.”

M leaned back into her chair again.

“Our intel indicates that the place to start looking might be an old satellite station, located in Severnaya in Siberia. Your college Alec will be waiting for you there.”

James Bond took another sip of the drink. He lowered his glass. His handsome eyes looked at M confidently. He opened his mouth wide.

“OAAAAH!”

Back in Equestria the entire scene was witnessed via a TV screen. The faces there were not as frowning as Dame Judie Dench. Twilight Sparkle wanted to be serious and find out why this scene she remembered so well from the movie had changed so much. But her mouth still formed into a laughter. Her alicorn body bumped by her held in chuckles. Behind her Apple Jack had tears in her eyes from laughing. Rainbow Dash along with Peter Dinklage and Ash Ketchum were on the ground holding their stomachs. They were laughing so hard they couldn't breathe. Outside the window Littlefoot did the same on the grass. Rainbow Dashs raspy voice came in hoarse intervals between her chuckles.

“Why...h...Why...Haha...Why? James Bond?”

“Poor man. What has gotten into him?” Rarity said sympathetically.

“Stop laughing you guys, it isn’t funny!” Fluttershy scolded.

"Woa...ha...h...Why...Fluttershy? Why are you such a dry head?" Rainbow Dash asked while still laughing.

"Why? Because this could be serious Rainbow Dash. You heard what Twilight said, if the story is altered then our friends wont be able to get home." Fluttershy said with her usual edge.

"Wah...ha...h...You know, Fluttershy. You realy need to cheer up." Rainbow Dash urged.

“H...h...What...What just happened...” Peter Dinklage tried to talk.

Pikachu looked confounding at the scene in front of him outside, not inside, the movie. He had no idea what just happened.

“Pikaaaaa...” He wailed while scraping his head. Littlefoot poked his head through the window again, still laughing.

“WaH...Wah...Was this a action movie or a comedy? Remind me again.”

Twilight paused the tape.

“Something must have caused the dialogue in this scene to change.” Twilights mouth bent in bewilderment. “But why is M still saying the same things that she said in the original script? It doesn’t make any sense.”

“But she didn’t Twilight.” Rarity reminded. Rarity, the white unicorn and renowned dressmaker in Ponyville, had a better sense of detail that any other individual in the group. Twilight turned to Rarity

“What do you mean?” She asked.

“I remember it from the first time we watched this scene the last evening. First of all, it takes place in the wrong order. This scene is supposed to take place after that helicopter theft and after Ourumov kills everyone inside that satellite station. Second of all the theme discussed is all wrong, James Bond and M is supposed to talk about the Janus group and their supposed involvement in both these acts.”

“Wow. What a memory you have.” Ash complimented Rarity.

“It comes with the art of dressmaking.” Rarity said hoity toity.

“The Janus group.” Twilight said. “Wasn’t that the terrorist group that Alec became the leader of?

“Yes it was, which brings me to the third, and probably the most important difference of all.” Rarity paused for a dramatic effect.

“In this scene M says that Alec is waiting for Bond outside that satellite station, but in the original version he is believed to be dead.”

Twilight felt her breath get caught. Her eyes widened in realization.

“Well of course! Alec blew up that facility in the beginning, not Bond. In the original movie Alec is shot by that Ouroromofof our whatever his name was, or fakes his death supposedly, and left to be scarred by the explosion.”

There was a short silence. Rarity looked at Twilight with big eyes as if to say ‘You got this darling’. Twilight continued.

“...And later in the movie, years after the facility blows up, inside that cemetery filled with human statues i remember, James Bond discovers that Alec is the leader of the Janus group. It is then that Alec tells Bond that his father killed his mother after being betrayed by the Bonds government...”

“Yes, yes darling, that is a good motive. Your family being betrayed, governmental plot lines and intrigues, lifelong plans for revenge.” Rarity spoke the last part dramatically. She continued in a soft tone.

“But James Bond were Alecs best friend, probably the only friend that he had. In the original plot James Bond set the timer of the facility bomb at 3 minutes instead of 6. Now remind me darling, what was it that Alec said to Bond at the end of that eerie cemetery scene?”

Twilight looked at Rarity. Raritys beautiful eyes laid themselves like sheets over Twilight. Twilights entire carrier as a friendship mender helped her remember.

“It was not God that gave me this face...” Twilight recalled Alecs words to Bond.

“...It was you.” Twilight and Rarity both said at the same time.

“In the original movie Alec betrays MI6, but in this version Alec decides to not follow through with his betrayal plans because he is still friends with James Bond.” Twilight said.

“Which means...?” Rarity asked. Twilight looked dead into the air before answering in a half whisper.

“...That the Janus group doesn’t exist.”

There was a moment of silence. Twilight looked at Rarity again.

“But how are we gonna set the movie back on track then? How are we gonna get our friends home if...?” Twilight paused as she came into realization. Raritys eyebrows lowered into sadness while looking at Twilight.

“We need to break James Bond and Alec Trevelyan's friendship.” Twilight concluded with a hoarse voice.

“It is regrettable, but it is probably the only way. The change is to major to be left as it is if we ever want to see our friends again.” Rarity pointed out.

Twilight lowered her head and closed her eyes. Her horn gave a glow.

“Starlight?” She transmitted.

Back inside the movie Starlight opened her eyes. She felt a biting sensation as the cold winter wind blew against her pupils. She looked around. She could barely see anything due to the raging snow storm. There were the sound of dogs whimpering. Starlight turned her head. The dogs seemed to be tied onto some kind of sleigh. It was now that Starlight heard Twilights calling.

“Starlight?” Twilight called.

“Twilight?” Starlight answered.

“Starlight. Is Alec still with you?” Twilight asked.

“Alec? Who is Alec?”

“The character played by Sean Bean, is he still with you?”

Starlight looked around. She saw Pinkie Pies curly mane raise itself ahead. She couldn't see Trixie.

“I don’t know, and Trixie seemed to be gone to. It looks like we’ll have to find her.” Starlight said.

There was a short moment of silence, the raging wind of the storm being the only one talking. Twilight sighed

“Thats brilliant news.” Twilight said sarcastically. “Well, We’ll se if we can’t find her on the TV screen. If we do i’ll be sure to let you know.”

“Thanks Twilight.” Starlight said.

“And by the way...” Twilight paused. “If you were to come across James Bond and Alec Trevelyan...” Twilight hesitated.

“Yes Twilight?” Starlight asked

“...If you were to come across them you'll need to find a way...” Twilight hesitated again. She sighed before saying it in a low voice.”...You need to brake up their friendship.” Twilights voice almost cracked.

“What?!” Starlight exclaimed bewildered. She couldn't believe the words coming from the princess of friendship.

Twilight explained to Starlight how the breakup was the only way to get them home again. Starlight Glimmer still felt gratitude for Alec for saving their lives. She wanted to scream at Twilight for wanting him to turn into a bad guy. But she heard that Twilight was as sad as she was, and after thinking about it herself she could also see why it was necessary. Starlight sighed.

“I see. Alright Twilight, i’ll se what i can do.” Starlight answered.

The transmission ended abruptly.

Back in Equestria Twilight raised her head. She snorted. Her eyes sparkled with tears as she opened them. Rarity walked up and laid her hoof around Twilights back.

“If it helps in any way, it is just a movie.” Rarity said. Twilight snorted again.

“If it is...” Twilight said and turned to Rarity. “...then why do the characters inside feel so alive.”

Trixie felt cold clinker stone underneath her belly as she laid down. She opened her eyes. They watered as they got used to the light coming from the roof inside what looked like a kitchen. Trixie moaned and raised her head. On the right wall there were an opening to a large area. She could hear talking outside and the pressing of small buttons. It sounded like humans using electronic devices.

Trixie felt her heart beat. She had no idea where she was, but she had a feeling that she probably shouldn't not be there. She got up on her four hoofs and took one step forward. Her flank touched a dinner plate laying on the desk beside her. The plate fell down onto the hard floor. There was a loud crash. Trixie panicked. She accidentally kicked the dinner plate forward, causing it to slide forward. The dentals on the clinker floor could be heard in intervals as the dinner plate didn't stop until it laid between Trixie and the doorway.

Data programmer Natalya Simonova was on her way to get some coffee when she heard a loud crashing inside the kitchen. Curious she went to see what it was.

As Natalya entered the kitchen her eyes festered upon a sight that would stay with her for the rest of her life. Right in front of her there was a pony, but not like any pony. This pony seemed to have an unnatural colorful appearance. She was dark blue and had a white mane with a magician hat and robe. She looked at Natalya with diminished pupils, her hooves shaking.

Natalya felt the scream laying at the tip of her tongue, but as she looked into the horrified eyes of the dark blue pony she realized that it posed no danger. She wondered were it came from. Should she call the guards? Unbeknownst to Natalya, while she was pondering about all this, a scene of nightmares was about to take place.

Ourumov were standing right in front of the entrance to the station. At his side he had his accomplice, a woman named Xenia Onatopp, an assassin that he had hired to help with the crime that he was about to commit. It was always better to leave the dirty work to either ground people or, in this case, a woman Ourumov thought.

In front of him all the programmers were facing him, believing him to be a loyal general. He had just ordered a test fire of the goldeneye. Ourumov’s plan was to eliminate everyone inside the station once he had been given the Goldeneye, an object shaped like a large disc with a orange core that indeed looked like a golden eye. He would then travel to a secret place where, unbeknownst to his government, another Goldeneye satellite would be within contact reach. But not before launching this Goldeneye satellite, targeting this station. The satellite would upon fire send out and electro magnetic pulse that would then fry everything running on electricity, wiping out any evidence of him being there.

The major approached Ourumov now and reached out his arms. He held the two golden keys used to initiate the countdown in his right hand and the Goldeneye in his left hand. Ourumov reached out and grabbed all three objects.

“Good.” Ourumov said and looked at his watch. “Thank you major.”

There then were the sound of a spring being pulled on a automatic weapon. Xenia stepped forward and pulled the trigger.

Trixie gasped when she heard the all to familiar sound of a automatic weapon being fired. Horrified Natalya turned around, accidentally putting her right foot on top of the dinner plate that Trixie had kicked. The dinner plate went sliding out of the kitchen, Natalya riding it with one foot. Her left leg stretched up into the air like an ice dancer about to preform a trick as she skated out to certain death. Trixie heard Natalya scream, the crashing of the dinner plate hitting the floor and the moaning of Xenia Onatopp, enjoying her kills like a lover enjoying the touch of her loved one.

Back in Equestria the ponies saw everything except Natalya’s fate on the TV screen. One by one the scientists and programmers was gunned down by the psychotic mad woman.

“Such violence.” Littlefoot remarked disdainfully.

“Pika pika.” Pikachu agreed.

Peter Dinklage wailed around and looked at Littlefoot, his right eye squinted.

“Ever seen Game Of Thrones?” He asked.

‘Such awesomeness!’ Rainbow Dash almost exclaimed but held her mouth. The horrible moments that would soon follow she would come to show herself being lucky for not saying anything.

After the shooting had stopped the ponies saw Xenia standing over all the people that she had killed, pools of blood forming underneath their bodies. Xenia smiled and moaned in pleasure.

“What a despicable lady!” Rarity stated in disdain.

“But you have already seen her once Rarity.” Rainbow Dash reminded, referring to the last evening the ponies saw Goldeneye.

“Yea, But in her case, every time feels like the first time!” Rarity said.

The scene now changed to the kitchen. Twilight gasped.

“Look! There’s Trixie!” Twilight exclaimed. Just as Twilight said this they saw Trixie bump a coffee cup. It fell down and shattered against the hard clinker floor. The movie then showed Xenia and Ourumov react to the sound.

“Go and check it out.” Ourumov ordered Xenia.

Panic spread amongst the movie viewers, way to horrified to wonder were Natalya had gone.

“Oh no, we have to do something!” Fluttershy wailed

“Don’t let that horrible woman find her!” Rarity shouted.

Twilights found herself paralyzed. She was about to signal Starlight glimmer. Instead she felt the powerlessness fall over her like day fever.

Trixie panicked. She tried to gallop and hide in one of the furnitures but slipped on a coffee stain and fell down to her back. She got up again. She was in the middle of her first hoof step when she froze. Xenia looked at her. Her pleasuring smile of death tore right into Trixie. She aimed her weapon at her. Trixie closed her eyes, ready for the eternal darkness. The silence festered itself inside the kitchen. Xenia looked in bewilderment at the strange pony.

‘What a beautiful creature.’ The thought raced through her mind.

‘To beautiful to simply get shot.’

Xenia lowered her weapon. Trixie opened her eyes. She calmed down once she saw that the human woman had lowered her gun. The calmness would turn out to be short lived.

Xenia looked lustfully at Trixie as she came walking toward her. Xenia pulled out a whip from her belt. She threw her arm around. Trixie felt a burning pain over the side of her flank. She screamed and fell down to the floor. What followed was a minute of misery for Trixie. Xenia moaned for every whipping she threw. All that Trixie could do was to lay on the floor and protect her face. She screamed in pain every time, sometimes before the whip even hit her.

There was a flash. Xenia looked behind Trixie, her face twisted in disbelief. Starlight Glimmers angry face had it’s white teeth growling. There was a laser sound. Xenia gasped and was thrown back several feet and hit the clinker wall. As she laid on the floor she reached for her weapon. Starlights horn gave another glow. Xenia roared before the kitchen was filled with loud gun blasts. The counter behind Starlight and Trixie obliterated by the bullets, but Starlight and Trixie had disappeared out of thin air. Xenia’s face dropped in disappointment.

Trixie felt relief once the cold winter air wrapped itself around her body, still burning from Xenia's whipping.

“Trixie. Are you alright.” Starlight asked.

Trixie looked at Starlight, her eyes filled with tears.

“Starlight.” She cried.

Trixie and Starlight hugged each other in the raging snow storm.

The whiteness of the storm was overwhelming. It covered both the ground, the air and in most cases the sky above. Everything else was either dark patches or gray, being forms of trees and other objects behind its thick inferno. Yes, in most cases this would be described as a white world with one occasional dark and gray patch. Seldom would anyone say that this was a world belonging to the shade of pink.

An yet that was exactly how anyone would describe it once they saw the jumping pink shape of Pinkie Pie. Her happy smile contrasted the storms melancholic nature. For some reason the thick snow below did not hinder her from jumping up and down into the air like she was on a trampoline. How happy the darkest parts of the world would be if only one would only dare to smile, and what better pony to lead that smile revolution than Pinkie Pie?

Pinkie Pie stopped jumping. She stared dead into the rage of the winter. A large smile formed on her pink face.

“Hi there, my name is Pinkie Pie! Nice to finally meet you again.”

There were only snow in front of Pinkie Pie. She appeared to be talking into thin air. Pinkie Pie kept on smiling.

“Sure, if you want to play hide and seek thats fine! Im up for anything really.”

Alec had no idea how the pink pony that said her name was Pinkie Pie could se him while in his MI6 approved winter camouflage. But then it suddenly dawned for him. It was the same pink pony that he had encountered in Byelomorye all those years ago.

The snow rose itself in front of Pinkie Pie. The human squinted his eyes against the storm as he looked at her.

“How did you know i was here?” Alec asked.

Pinkie Pie started jumping up and down again.

“Sometimes, when i play hide and seek, i'm having trouble finding ponies underneath the water, underneath the sand have also been a challenge for me but underneath the snow have always been extra challenging for me. Unless you’re hiding inside a small drawer, which i did once, then i’ll be finding you in no time. Shall we play again!?” Pinkie Pies ear piercing voice cut through the snow storm.

Alec turned his head to the side. He made an ‘all clear’ motion with his hand. There were another snow mountain rising, revealing a human figure.

“My name is Alec Trevelyan, and this is my college.” Alec said and pointed toward the mountain.

Pinkie Pie turned around. The handsome human looked at Pinkie Pie. He opened his mouth wide.

“OAAAAH!”

Pinkie Pie smiled.

“Well hello Oaaaah. Nice to meet you!”

Trixie and Starlight thought they saw shapes in front of them. One of the shapes was jumping up and down. It was formed as a pony and was pink.

“Pinkie Pie!” Starlight exclaimed in the roar of the storm.

“Well. There you are to.” Alec said as he saw Trixie and Starlight.

“Hi Sean. I cannot thank you enough for saving our lives back there.”

“Who is Sean?” Alec asked while laughing.

Starlight now remembered that in the movie the characters only knew them as themselves. Starlight laughed nervously.

“Oh. hehe. Sorry, wrong name. Still I'm very thankful mr...?” Starlight pretended to not know his characters name.

“Alec, Alec Trevelyan, and this is my colleague.” Alec said politely and motioned the man Starlight remembered were called James. James Bond looked at Starlight.

“OAAAAH!” He blasted.

Starlights pupils diminished.

“Eh, hehehe... mm. Well, nice to finally meet you James.”

Alec Trevelyan faced Starlight

“I would also like to thank you Starlight for helping me complete that mission all those years ago...”

“Years ago?!” Starlight exclaimed.

“Yes. Don’t you remember?”

There was a voice inside Starlights head.

“Starlight. There has been a time jump in the movie. The attack in Severnaya takes place nine years after the dam mission.” Twilight informed Starlight.

“Oh, hehe, right. Well you already know me Alec. James, my name is Starlight Glimmer, and these are my friends Trixie and Pinkie Pie.” Starlight motioned the ponies.

James Bond looked over at the ponies. He smiled handsomely.

“OAAAAH!”

Trixie was taken a back. She frowned

“Well, hi there cave man.” Se said.

Back in Equestria the questions flowed like a raging river.

“Why are Starlight, Pinkie and Trixie the only ones that react to James Bond shouting like that?” Apple Jack asked.

“I don’t know.” Twilight said in a whisper.

Unbeknownst to Twilight and Apple Jack a certain longneck had been pondering the same question ever since M and James Bond had their meeting inside M’s office. Littlefoots mouth bent sideways as he was thinking.

‘Could it possibly be because...?’ Littlefoots theory wasn’t quite finished for presentation yet.

Back in the movie Alec picked up his radio.

“Well, lets call in. Obviously there is nothing here to report.”

“Yes there is!” Trixie exclaimed. Alec looked at her. Trixie described everything that she saw inside the station.

“Well. Looks like M’s suspicions about him were right after all.” Alec said, referring to Ourumov. “And looks like the Goldeneye exists also.”

Alec looked at Trixie. He thought he saw bruises around her mane.

“You know, You’r a very brave one Trixie. A lot of more people would probably have died if it weren't for you telling us this.” Alec praised.

Trixie smiled. Her blushed smile slowly transformed into prideful one.

“Well, thats because i am the one and only, The Great Powerful Trixie!” Trixie stood up on her back hooves and pointed her front hooves into the air. There were scenery fireworks in the background. Alec laughed.

Alec picked up his radio and pushed the transmitting button. He was just about to radio in his report when there was a pulsating blast. Alec threw his head around in bewilderment. Once he looked at his radio again it had blacked out. He tried to hit it with his hand several times but it was dead. There was another pulsating sound. It rumbled the ground. The radio that Alec had in his hand caught fire.

“Oaaaah!” He exclaimed and threw it into the snow.

“OAAAAH!” James Bond blasted.

There were a loud explosion behind them. The entire group of humans and ponies wailed around and gasped. The Severnaya station with antenna and everything exploded into an inferno of electric currents. There were the sound of a jet plane above.

“What is happening!” Trixie exclaimed frightened.

“What... is... HAPPENING!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed exited with a large smile on her face.

“EMP! Get down!” Alec shouted.

Starlight threw herself down into the snow. The roaring sound of the Jet plane came from above. Starlight held her ears and looked toward the station. The ground rumbled underneath her hooves as the fighter plane, paralyzed by the Goldeneye pulse, crashed into the snow. It then bounced forward. Its journey ended forever once it rammed the antenna. The white world of snow lit up like a sunny day as both the jet plane and the antenna was engulfed in a huge inferno of fire and flying debris.

After the explosion had died down into a simple fire Alec got up on his feet.

“Well. Looks like we'll have to get out of here the old fashion way.” He said and looked to the right. Starlight looked in the same direction. She saw the dogs tied to a sleigh that she had spotted earlier.

Xenia Onatopp turned the wheel on her binoculars. The clearing image showed two humans and the cute colorful ponies take of in a dog sleigh. She recognized James Bond. She hoped that he wouldn’t become a problem. Ourumov had already left in the pulse proof helicopter that they had stolen earlier, the Goldeneye safely in his possession. When she had told Ourumov about the two ponies that escaped the station he had ordered her to stay behind and deal with the loose ends. But there were no need for worry. Before their knowledge became a problem she would have already filled them both with love, and bullets.

Chapter 3. Murder At The Trans Siberian Express

Dimitri Mishkin looked out of the big window overlooking the Palace Square in St Petersburg. There were the sound of brass and woodwind instruments playing outside. Mishkin watched the marching band below. They moved their feets unison, perfectly timed with the rhythm of which the snare drum provided. The harmonies of the flutes and the trumpets gave the otherwise static movements meaning and a sense of progression. That was how defense minister Dimitri viewed the state of Russia, a unison rhythm as a groundwork for all to follow, along with the harmonies of each individual contributing, creating a piece of music. As the situation was his job largely surrounded the rhythm part of the analogy.

But that was part of Dimitri’s identity he felt, to once in a while step out of the rhythmic part of state work and behold the chaotic side of the world. He felt like that part was just as important as a steady beat. Without chaos, there could be no order.

Was this how Dimitri actually felt? Or was all this just something he told himself to normalize what he spotted on that TV screen showing the satellite image of the burnt Severnaya station? The image of that jumping pink pony still festered itself inside Dimitri’s mind. Strange as it may be, it almost felt like that image was some kind of turning point in space and time, like everything that he was about to say right now, in this very council room, would have been completely different if he had seen something else. There were the sound of someone knocking.

‘Duty calls.’ Mishkin thought before walking back toward his seat.

At the sides of the long table there were eight more characters presence. All of them had important positions within the government and influences within the business sector. Dimitri Mishkin watched as the the double door opened at the end of the big room situated inside the Winter Palace.

As Ourumov entered through the door it sent large echoes resonating inside the lightly curtained room. He took of his general hat and walked toward the long table. Defense minister Mishkin were standing at the end of it.

“Good morning, general Ourumov.” Mishkin greeted. He talked slowly and had a constant edge in his voice, like if saying ‘i can't wait to hear what you have to say for yourself.’

“Defense minister Mishkin, gentlemen.” Ourumov addressed everyone in the room. They all looked at him with half closed eyes and expecting faces.

“Please, deliver your report.” Mishkin said as he sat down.

Ourumov threw down his hat on the table. He planted his hand on the chairs back holder without sitting down. He remained standing as he obliged the defense minister with an confident voice.

“As this council is aware, seventy-two hours ago, a secret weapon system code named Goldeneye was detonated over Severnaya. As head of space division i personally undertook the investigation.” Ourumov then went straight to the lie.

“I have concluded that this crime was committed by Siberian separatists, seeking to create political unrest.”

Ourumov turned his head down and faked a saddened appearance as he continued.

“Regrettably the peaceful work and much needed hard currency earnings of Severnaya has been set back by several years. Therefor i tender my resignation.” Ourumov said the last part fast and decisively.

There were gasping and talking among the state men and women around the table. Mishkin touched his chin. Never had he fully trusted Ourumov, and the report that he delivered today only cemented his distrust. The time had come for this man he had been forced to make a general to spill the beans!

“It seems that this council does not want your head Arkady Grigirovish, merely your loyal assurance that there are no other Goldeneye satellites.” Mishkin had his head raised high as he spoke.

“I can give you that assurance defense minister.”

Mishkin looked at Ourumov, his authoritarian head stretched and his glaring eyes hardened.

“And what about the pink pony?”

Ourumov's blood froze. He tried to hold his posture as he looked at Mishkin.

“I was aware only of the two. The blue unicorn dressed as Merlin the magician and the blue eyed unicorn with purple mane and lovely blue lines.” There was an obvious panic behind Ourumov’s confident appearance.

Mishkin looked down at his papers.

“There was a third also, spotted via satellite images. Curly hair, jumping happily up and down like she is on a trampoline. She will bring you party balloons and birthday cake Ourumov.”

“Birthday cake?” Ourumov asked.

“Birthday cake.” Mishkin’s eyes grew large.

The tension in the room was so thick that it indeed could have been sliced like a cake. Ourumov’s nervous eyes met Mishkin.

“I will investigate immediately, defense minister.” Ourumov said. It was now Mishkin’s turn to go straight to the point.

“It would seem presumptuous, general, to blame this incident on Siberian separatists before the ‘pony point of view’ have been determined.”

The serious eyes around the table glared at Ourumov as they waited for his answer.

“Do you agree?” Mishkin asked.

“Yes defense minister, thank you for bringing it to my attention.” Ourumov’s eyes grew angry as he said the last part.

“That would be all.” Mishkin said.

Ourumov’s angry eyes tore right through the TV screen straight into the souls of the ponies watching in Equestria. A raspy voice have had enough.

“Alright, Thats it! We have to do something, we can't just sit here and watch while all the villains of the movie, all the mad, crazy humans comes after our friends. We have to go in there and help them!” Rainbow Dash wailed her hooves around incredulously.

There was a mumble of approval among the ponies, all except for the alicorn princess.

“No Rainbow Dash.” Twilight said as she paused the tape.

Rainbow Dash looked at Twilight with a disapproving face. Twilight continued in a decisive tone.

“So far, all that our friends have done, for every action they have taken have only caused the movie to go further away from script. If we all go inside we will only make the situation worse.”

Rarity still had the image of Xenia whipping helpless Trixie on the ground.

“I do not doubt your judgement Twilight, but unfortunately i have to agree with Rainbow Dash. We have to get in there and do something.” Rarity said emotionally.

“Oh, i don't know.” Fluttershy whispered, saying neither yes or no.

“That mad Onatopp lady whipping Trixie have everything that I'm gonna do to her coming, of that you can be sure of!” Apple Jack blasted in her thick country accent.

The voices of the ponies blurred together, shutting out Twilights pleas. She started sweating. She was just about to decide to either give in and take them all into the movie or leave the room in tears when a savior entered the conversation, a savior with a long neck.

“Twilight is right.”

The ponies turned to Littlefoot, their faces twisting in bewilderment. Peter Dinklage, Ash and Pikachu stayed in the background.

“I have been thinking...” Littlefoot began. “...Ever since James Bond started shouting randomly like that. I thought that i remembered it from somewhere.”

The ponies looked curiously at Littlefoot.

“I remember it from the very first scene, the dam scene. That shout that James Bond keeps repeating is the very same shout that James Bond made when failing that jump because of your friends mistake. Now, i have doubted myself about that for a while, asking myself why in the world would he let the past bother him like that, but then i always come back to the question why all the other characters in the movie does not react to his shouts.” Littlefoot paused for a dramatic effect.

“The other characters does not react to his shouts because his shouts have already happened, but the movie keeps repeating them because the movie knows that something is not right. Another proof of this is i believe, i could hear they way you said it earlier Twilight, ‘Why are M saying the same things that she did in the original script?’ Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but does that mean that the scene setups in some scenes remains the same, even though the main plot have changed completely?”

“Yes, yes it does.” Twilight said enthusiastically. She hadn’t though about any of this.

“Right. But how can that be possible if the main story have changed so much?! Unless... When putting all these facts together, could really only mean one thing.” Littlefoot paused again before coming to his conclusion.

“THE MOVIE repeats the last phrase of the main character before things went astray, THE MOVIE tries to jam in the original scenes inside the already derailed main plot, THE MOVIE is trying to put itself back on track.”

The silence laid itself inside the living room. Littlefoot continued.

“Now, I know that you all want to help your friends, and i know that seeing them suffer inside while all you can do is watch, nothing can be harder. But the movie itself is on your side, if you go inside now and make things more difficult for it you might cause it to give up. And if that happens while you are all inside...”

The ponies were speechless. Littlefoot ended darkly

“...You will be stuck inside the same derailed plot line forever.”

Twilight couldn’t help but feel herself go into awe mode.

‘What a smart longneck this is.’ She thought.

Littlefoots word ‘forever’ echoed inside the heads of the ponies as they imagined trying to live the same lives they now live in ponyville inside that crazy foreign world, filled with gunfire, secret agents and mad villains. Rainbow Dash thought it would be awesome at first, until she realized that she would never see Scootaloo again.

“It is fascinating also...” Peter Dinklage spoke up, the others looking at him.”... Being an actor myself, that the characters inside the movie seem to have a will of their own, reacting to your friends actions, even though they are still being played by the actors portraying them. Sean Bean still portrays Alec in his own genius way, even though Alec himself has a will of his own inside the movie. It makes you wonder about the real relationship between actor and character, don’t you agree?”

The silence continued as the minds inside the room raced. The eyes turned toward Ash Ketchum. Ash closed his eyes and laughed nervously while touching his back.

“Did you know that Greninja can evolve to look just like his trainer, hehe!”

“Pikaaaaa...” Pikachu said while doing the same gesture as his trainer.

Starlight Glimmer couldn’t remember the last time she had so many eyes looking at her. Indeed, the movie made sure to let her know that she was an alien pony walking around in a human world. Neither could she ever have imagined that she would be meeting so many familiar faces, actors that she had watched in all those movies she owned back in Equestria.

Indeed, such were the case of traveling within a movie outside the locations intended for the main plot. The movie knows it needs people within it for it’s world to feel alive, so it therefore makes sure to fill itself with extras. Starlight had already seen Christopher Walken as a cab driver dropping of train travelers at the station. She thought she saw Sean Penn as a station employee.

“Oh, this is so exiting!” Pinkie Pie were exclaiming happily. “We will be riding the famous Trans Siberian Express...!” Pinkie Pie paused and looked bewildered ”...Whatever that is.” she said. Her face lit up again. “Still. It’s so famous!”

“All on board!” The station master exclaimed, sounding almost like Tom Hanks.

Starlight felt the nervosity boil up inside her as she approached the opening train doors. What if she ran into...?

“Oh, excuse me miss.” A handsome voice apologized as he bumped into Starlight. Starlight felt her heart stop.

“Jonny Depp?” Starlight thought out loud. A huge smile formed on her face.

“Jonny? Who’s Jonny?” The extra played by Jonny Depp asked.

Starlight had to restrain herself from shrieking. Jonny Depp was her number one favorite human actor. From his look he seemed to be in his late teens now. Starlight guessed that Goldeneye must have been made much earlier than those movies that she had seen him in. In other words, he was roughly at her age!

‘I’m a pony, he’s a human... I'm a pony, he’s a human... I’m a pony, he’s a human...’ She scolded herself repeatedly inside her head.

“Oh, I'm sorry, i thought you were somepony Ehm...some-human else.” Starlight said smiling.

The extra walked past her, looking bewilderingly back at her before continuing on into the station.

The group were on their way to Moscow where an underground MI6 office were situated. They had taken a boat over to the Russian mainland. They would now be taking the Trans Siberian railroad the rest of the way. Alec had decided that it would be best for Trixie to come along and tell the agent stationed there herself what she saw inside the Severnaya station.

The ponies however had something entirely different in mind. Just like Twilight had reluctantly been forced to accept, they needed to break up Alec Trevelyan’s and James Bond's friendship. This, the ponies hoped, would cause Alec to go through with his betrayal plans and put the original Goldeneye story back on track, allowing for Starlight or Twilight to bring them home again. Since they never saw the movie beforehand Starlight, Pinkie Pie and Trixie still didn’t know anything about Natalya's role in the original story. Neither had Twilight back in Equestria remembered her.

As the ponies entered the train they were greeted by a luxurious sight. The seats along the train cart were red with round tables for four. The curtains were also red but with a slightly lighter shade. Blue ornaments decorated the walls over the large windows. With all the waiters walking around they guessed that this must be the dining cart.

When the ponies entered their sleeping cart they gasped as they beholded the beautifully decorated, fairly large room for a train suite. Starlight had bought two luxury suites next to each other. One for James Bond and Alec and the other for the ponies. As for the payment of all this she had just used her horn magic and transformed a rock into four million Russian rubles.

“Now THIS is a bedroom suited for a master illusionist like myself.” Trixie bolstered while throwing herself onto the bed.

“Speaking of which, does everypony know what to do?”

“Sure Starlight. I go and keep James and Alec occupied while you two go down to the dining room and prepare for the show.” Trixie said.

“Right. And then i come back and invite them for a meal. As they both sit down at separate tables, you Trixie will do what you do best.” Starlight said.

“Im all over it Starlight.” Trixie said determined. “They are going to se me, the one and only, the great and powerful Trixie!” Trixie pointed her right hoof into the air.

“Great. And then it’s your turn Pinkie. You have the most important role of all.” Starlight said while looking at Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie looked at Starlight with half determined eyes. She opened her pink mouth to speak, but hesitated. She lowered her face. Starlight grabbed her chin and looked straight into her blue eyes.

“I know this must be very hard for you Pinkie Pie, but trust me when i say that it won't be for long. All that you need to do after Trixie’s show is to convince Alec Trevelyan that James Bond is not his real friend. And then, the moment he makes that final decision, to leave MI6 and work for Ourumov. Then, in that precise moment the movie will be back on script and i will be able to bring us back to Equestria immediately, right here inside this very train. Neither you or any of the characters will ever experience the consequences. Everything that would have happened here will be gone forever. It will be like this storyline never even existed.”

“If you say so Starlight.” Pinkie Pie said with a sad face. “I don’t want to be the cause of us beings stuck inside this movie forever, and i know that i am the perfect pony for the job.”

Indeed, Pinkie Pie was the perfect pony for the job. She was famous for being friends with every pony in ponyville. If her friend making skills allowed her to make friends that fast it could easily be turned around and be used as a weapon to break up other friendships. Pinkie Pie felt her heart sink lower and lower the more she thought about it. Pinkie Pie wished there was another way.

The ponies waited for the train to start moving before they began their scheme. Outside the windows the beautiful wintery landscape of Russia went by like a realtime slideshow. The rumble of the train wheels hitting the lines were the train tracks join came in subdued intervals. Trixie stood outside James and Alecs room. She took a deep breath. She used her horn magic to open the door. She put on a large smile.

“Well hello there gentle colts!” She greeted as she walked in.

“Hello Trixie. Nice to see ya.” Alec greeted politely.

Bond looked at Trixie. He smiled handsomely.

“OAAAAH!” He blasted.

Trixie swallowed the awkwardness.

“I was just thinking i’d join you guys for a while. Is that ok?”

“Well of course Trixie. Come on in and sit down.” Alec offered.

“Thanks.” Trixie said and trotted in. She sat down opposite of Alec. Alec looked with interest at the blue pony.

“Trixie. I don’t think iv’e really had the time to ask ya, but where do ya ponies come from?”

“We come from a place called Equestria.” Trixie said. She raised her right hoof looked at it as if she were studying it. “Its kind’a dull, but i get by. I have a magic show there you know.” Trixie looked sideways at Alec in a bolstering manner. Alec took it positively.

“Thats interesting Trixie. You know, i used to want to become a magician myself.”

“Really?” Trixie asked gasping.

“Yea, really. I had a magic set that my father bought for me.”

“Wow. Thats so kind of him.” Trixie said without thinking.

“Yea.” Alec said with a dropping voice. “Thats so kind.” His eyeballs wailed around. Trixie now remembered to late what Twilight had told the ponies.

Apparently the humans had a big war around what they called year 1945. Alec's family had been Lienz Cossack's at the time. After being betrayed by their friends, unable to live with the shame, Alecs father had shot Alecs mother and himself, leaving Alec orphaned. It was part of the Ponies plan to remind Alec of this betrayal. Now was not the time though.

“Fathers love, eh?” Alec continued.

“Eh hehe... when did you and James meet each other?” Trixie changed the subject.

“We meet during school. I was kind of an outsider.” Alec laughed nervously, trying desperately to leave out the Cossack reason why he had been an outsider.

“It was tough, didn’t have many friends in school. But James was an orphan to. He protected me and i protected him. Didn’t we James?” Alec looked at James

“OAAAAH!” James blasted.

“Thats so kind of you both. You know, i was kind of an outsider myself” Trixie sighed. Her face dropped slightly. She continued in a whispering tone.

“...And i deserved it. I wasn’t always that nice to other ponies. I would have still been an outsider if it weren't for Starlight Glimmer. She was an outsider to. Together we helped each other discover what it meant to treat other ponies with respect, and to respect yourself enough to be able to do just that.”

“How far you can come if you only learn to connect to someone, heh?” Alec said.

“Hehe, yea.” Trixie laughed. Her laugh faded slightly. Why did her laugh fade? Was Trixie still ashamed of what she did to all those other ponies back then, or could there be a wave something called ‘Second thoughts.’ that just flushed over Trixie regarding this plan of theirs?

Inside the dining kart Pinkie Pie and Starlight had grabbed a seat next to each other. All the preparations had been finished exactly according to Trixies instructions. Starlight had her hoof around Pinkie Pies mane, who still had doubts.

“It will be ok Pinkie Pie.” Starlight said. Pinkie Pie still had her head turned to the floor. Starlight Glimmer put her hoof under her chin and turned it up to face her. “Hey Pinkie. Look at me.”

Pinkie Pie looked directly into Starlights eyes, which sparkled with understanding as she spoke with a soft voice.

“To me you will always be the same happy, kind and funny Pinkie Pie that I've always known, no matter how this turns out.”

Pinkie Pie looked at Starlight. She felt a smile form on her face. She laughed. Starlight laughed to.

“Now, lets get this over with.” Starlight said.

Pinkie Pie hesitated. In the end she kept her smile on and said.

“Yea. Lets do it.”

Starlight got up on her hooves and walked out of the dining cart. When she came back she had Trixie, James Bond and Alec with her. They were shown to their seats by the waiter. The waiter was in complete ecstasy. The Trans Siberian Express was filled with rich hurried passengers. It was an absolute tipping goldmine.

“Are you enjoying your stay? Could i offer you our vodka, made specially for you? Or maybe you want our soufflé, made by one of the best cooks in the Russia? Oh, can i offer you a handkerchief?”

Alec leaned over to Pinkie Pie.

“I think he can give you a run for your money eh.” Alec said referring to Pinkie Pies exploding personality.

James Bond turned his head and faced the waiter.

“OAAAAH!” He blasted. The hair wavered around the waiters head.

“It will be my pleasure sir, a vodka martini it is.” The waiter answered.

Alec now noticed that Trixie was nowhere to be seen.

“Where is Trixie?” He asked.

In that moment the light faded. Trixies voice echoed inside the cabin as the scenery smoke from Pinkie Pies party cannons seemed to come out nowhere. There were dramatic orchestral music in the background coming from Starlights enchanted speakers.

“It was a cold and wintery day, a group of unicorn ponies were on their way to have a party with the earth ponies.”

There were colored silhouettes of unicorns moving across the surface of the thick smoke. The unicorns were of three colours. Blue, red and silver. Awes could be heard among the other diners in the cabin. Trixies voice were deep and dramatic as she continued.

“Yes, they were on their way to a party, a party to make good of past mistakes. What past mistakes may you wonder? Well, hold on to you hats fillies and gentle colts, because here is were the story gets dark.”

There was a sudden explosion of thick dark smoke rolling over the unicorns. After it passed over them the smoke showed yellow pegasus ponies and lavender earth ponies along with the unicorns. A party cake was situated in-between them.

“Long ago the earth ponies the pegasus ponies and unicorn ponies partied together in harmony. That is, until IT came along.”

There suddenly were a big silhouette of a timber wolf towering over the Ponies.

“Together, the earth and pegasus ponies joined forces to fight this newly arrived foe. They asked the unicorns if they wanted to join them.”

The smoke now showed the earth and pegasus ponies talking to the unicorns.

“The red unicorns were more than happy to help...” The red shapes nodded. “...But the blue unicorns had been intimidated by the beast that wanted nothing but total world domination.”

The smoke showed frightened faces on the blue unicorns as they looked at the huge timber wolf.

”Reluctantly, they decided to join the monster and fight the earth and pegasus ponies.”

There was another explosion of smoke. The scenery changed. It now showed the silhouettes of a village in flames.

“The blue unicorns tarmac the sky villages of the pegasus ponies. They drove them from their homes and made them endure unspeakable things, all to bode way for the monsters lust for total control.”

The image showed the horns of the blue unicorns sparkle and send out a black smoke, engulfing the horrified pegasus ponies.

“But the earth ponies and pegasus ponies would not give up. With the loyal help of the red unicorns they were able to drive back the blue unicorns and annihilate this overpowered foe that threatened their world.”

The smoke showed the blue unicorns retreating to the sideline whilst the yellow pegasus, the lavender earth ponies and the red unicorns grew in size and towered over the timber wolf, who had its face dropped in fear as it shrunk down. It’s silhouette finally disappeared in a puff.

“Now, you may all think that now would be the time for things to go back to their usual happy normal, right...? WRONG!” Trixies ‘wrong’ hit the audience like a cannonball, who all looked on with exited faces.

“...Because the pegasus ponies were still angry. They were angry at the unicorns for burning their villages, even the ones that had not fought in the war at all!”

The smoke now showed the red and the blue unicorns backing away from the yellow pegasus ponies, who were shouting with their hooves wailing in the air. The neutral unicorns were represented by the silvery shapes.

“But the earth ponies appeared understanding. They approached the unicorns of all colours. They told them that they would convince the pegasus ponies to forgive them all so that they can all live happily together again.”

The smoke showed the earth ponies approaching the unicorns with happy faces. The smoke then went back to the first scene again.

“So that brings us back to were we are now, for it is at this very party that the earth ponies had promised the unicorns they would all be forgiven. But little did they know...”

The shapes shifted again. It now showed the party cake again. The lavender earth ponies stood with happy faces at one side of the cake, the unicorns with various colors approached from the other side. Slowly the happy faces of the lavender earth ponies turned into mean grins. Behind the unicorns more earth ponies arrived, trapping the unicorns in the middle.

“The earth ponies had decided that their relationship with the pegasus ponies was more important than the friendship of the unicorns. The earth ponies trapped the unicorns and arrested them all, even the red ones that had fought along side them, even the innocent silvery ones that never had fought in the first place. They were all sent to the city of the pegasus ponies, located above the clouds. There, they spent the rest of their lives in prisons, left to the mercy of a justice system that put cultural belonging before actual guilt.”

The image showed the, red, blue and silvery unicorns behind bars. Their sad faces was the last thing shown before a big puff of smoke wiped away the image for the last time.

“...The end!” Trixie ended darkly.

As the audience clapped their hands Alec did the same. His face appeared normal, but his mind was in complete turmoil. Once again he felt that doubt inside of him, that doubt that once caused him to approach Ourumov and make way for a deal, a deal that would allow him to wreak vengeance upon the British once and for all. But it wasn’t going to be, Alec thought. No, as long as he had friends at MI6 he had the wisdom to know that it was better for him to stay with James Bond, his best friend in the world.

As the ponies and humans were returning to their sleeping cabinets Starlight and Trixie made sure to invite James Bond into their cabinet, leaving Pinkie Pie alone with Alec.

“Nice that you wanted to join me Pinkie Pie.” Alec said as they both sat down inside the cabin. Alec threw his eyes toward the door.

“Where is bond?” He asked.

“Eh... Away. I don’t remember where, he’ll be back.” Pinkie Pie said modestly. She looked at Alec. She took a deep breath. This was it.

“Speaking of Bond...” She began. Alec seemed to listen. “I have been talking to him. He seems like a nice guy, don't you agree?”

“Yes? In fact, we have been friends since child legs.”

“Yes. I have a couple of friends in Equestria myself since my filly moons. One of them changed my life actually, a pegasus pony by the name of Rainbow Dash.” Pinkie Pie said.

“You don’t say?” Alec was interested.

“Yes, and as you probably know it is pretty important for friends to stand by each other, even when things are tough and...” Pinkie Pie felt her mouth jam.

The rest of Pinkie Pies speech, containing everything that James Bond had done in her majesty secret service instead of being with Alec, in contrast with Rainbow Dash who were always there for her friends, laid at the tip of her tongue. It wasn’t that she was worried about her ability to tear Alec and James Bonds friendship apart, she knew it would work if she only said it the way she had planned. Instead she opened her mouth, emptied her lounges, and followed her heart.

“...And nothing i have seen or heard points to James being any different. You are truly lucky to have such a loyal friend Alec.” Pinkie Pie said and smiled.

Alec looked bewildered at Pinkie Pie.

“Being any different? What do ya mean?” Alec asked. Pinkie Pie pretended to laugh.

“Never mind. I was thinking of somepony else.” Pinkie Pie answered, in her head concluding that Rainbow Dash and James Bond were probably more alike than any other pony or human that she had meet.

Outside the train the Russian wildlife laid underneath the white snow. The Trans Siberian Express train rumbled the ground as it past by. If one peaked inside the windows one would have seen a pink pony meeting a unicorn with blue lines across her mane.

“How did it go Pinkie? I have tried to bring us back to Equestria again and again but so far it doesn’t seem like he’s made a decision.” Starlight Glimmer said, her eyes sparkled with worry.

“Yea... About that.” Pinkie Pie said while touching her mane with her hoof. Starlights eye widened.

“You decided against it, didn’t you?” Starlight said understanding but with a slight edge in her voice.

Trixie was now poking her blue head out of the cabin door behind Starlight.

“In a way...” Pinkie Pie almost whispered.

“In a way?” Starlight said hoarsely. She started growing angry.

“... I mean, they have been friends for so long. It just doesn’t seem like the right thing to do.”

Starlight Glimmer had an image of her and Twilight hugging each other at her graduation day. Her face dropped.

“But what about our friends back in Equestria?!” Starlight wailed, letting her emotions get the best of her.

Pinkie Pie stared blankly at Starlight.

“What about how long they have been friends with you Pinkie? Don’t you want to see them again?!”

Only the rumble of the train tracks could be heard between Starlights shouts.

Pinkie Pies mouth opened halfway. Her eyes sparkled as tears swelled up inside them.

“I don't know.” She answered with a broken voice.

Pinkie Pie snorted. She closed her teary eyes, turned around and galloped down the train cart, leaving Starlight standing alone on the carpeted train floor. There was a moment of silence before another hoarse voice sounded.

“Starlight?” Trixie called.

Starlight turned around.

“Trixie! Good. Come, we need to go after her!” Starlight exclaimed and started galloping. She had only taken a couple of hoof steps before Trixie said it out loud.

“I agree!”

Starlight stopped dead in her tracks. She turned around. Trixie walked out of the cabin and stopped in front of Starlight. Starlight looked bewildered at Trixie.

“Yes...” Starlight hesitated. “Thats good. Now, lets go!”

“No Starlight. I agree with Pinkie Pie.” Trixie said and smiled.

Starlight opened her mouth, but no words came out. Trixie walked closer to Starlight.

“I talked with Alec earlier. He and James Bond were outcasts, just like we were Starlight. I know that it won't matter if we we’re able to get back, but in a way i feel like it does anyway.”

Starlight still looked silently at Trixie. Trixie continued.

“We have been through so much together, just like James Bond and Alec have. Together we can find another way back to Equestria.” Trixie smiled as if she was looking forward to it all.

Starlight Glimmer was speechless. A smile formed on her face. Never before had she been so happy of being wrong.

The following minutes the ponies spent looking for Pinkie Pie. Being unsuccessful, they grabbed a seat at the dining hall. Alec and Bond joined them. Alec noticed the downed faces of the ponies.

“Well, you seem like a sunny day.” Alec Trevelyan joked.

“Yea.” Trixie said. “Its Pinkie Pie. We’ve been arguing. And now we can't find her.”

“Sounds rough mates. I hope it sorts out for ya all.” Alec said and nodded in a manly gesture.

The dining cart was half full of people and ponies. A man had just stepped inside it. To the right he could se the ponies that his employer had been payed to have killed. So far he hadn’t known who, but judging by the talking from the other assassins on this train he seems to have been a high ranking general within the Russian government. He reached his hand underneath his coat, grasping the uzi he had hidden inside. All he needed was just one pull of the trigger and he would get the entire share for himself. A shadow closed itself over him. It was the waiter.

The waiter saw that the gentleman had reached into his pocket for his wallet. The time had come to make some money on the side. Maybe he could invite his wife to a luxury restaurant later.

“Can i offer you some the finest vintages in Russia?” The waiter offered.

“Im fine, thank you.” The man said. The waiter blocked his path

“But may i insist in a coffee maybe sir.”

“No, I'm fine!” The man insisted irritatingly. The waiter still didn’t move.

“I tell you what. How about i give you a cappuccino on the house?” He said and smiled.

The assassin now saw James Bond glaring at him. Panicked, he grabbed his uzi and pointed it at the waiters forehead. There was a subdued blast when the back head of the waiter exploded, sending a wide splatter of blood all over the dining guests behind him. There were the sound of a woman screaming as the already dead waiter crumbled to the floor. There were three more blasts. The body of the assassin jerked three times as the bullets entered him. He fell down to his knees and face down to the floor. From across the room the seasoned MI6 agent James Bond had gone from sitting to standing within half a second, his PPK smoked from the shots fired.

James Bond saw four more black coats down the other cart. The hands of the wearers reached underneath them. He fired three more shots, grounding one more of them. There then were the roaring sound of automatic gun fire. The sound of bullets entering wooden furniture jittered around the ponies.

“GET DOWN!” Alec shouted as he pushed the ponies over behind the seats. James grabbed for cover as he returned the fire.

Glasses placed on the tables shattered as bullets went through them. Wooden structures fell down to the floor as their bases exploded. Dining guests caught in the crossfire crumbled to the ground between James, Alec and the assassins.

“OAAAAH!” James Bond blasted. The ponies almost though he’d been shot until they remembered this was how he had sounded all the time.

“Check! Falling back! Ponies! Behind me!” Alec answered bond.

The group backed away, Alec and James suppressing the assassins firing from opposite cart. The had just entered the cart they backed away toward when suddenly a door opened behind them. A black figure pointed something at them. Starlight didn’t hesitate. She fired a spell, causing the assassin to stagger slightly. He raised his weapon again, but now Alec had seen him.

“Get down!” He exclaimed as he pushed the ponies and himself to the side. The assassin was just about to pull the trigger when the world suddenly went black.

The assasins head jerked backwards before his body fell in the same direction. James Bonds distinguished face didn’t show any sign of blinking behind his PPK .

Alec ran and grabbed the uzi dropped by the assassin while James Bond reloaded his pistol. Trixie and Starlight tried their best to not get in the way of the MI6 agents. The group continued pushing backwards toward the drivers booth. The assassins tried to hinder their retreat. Little did both groups know that the devil herself would soon be boarding the train, death and love being her tickets.

The gangster had just made a re-check of his uzi. He heard shooting toward the front of the train. He made a hand motion for his gangster friend to move out. When there was no answer he turned around, only to find that his friend had his chest jammed between two legs. It was a woman's legs. Her parachute went sailing away behind her. His friend gasped for air as the legs were choking him. The woman raised her hand. There were three blast before the world blackened.

Xenia Onatopp had no idea who these goons these were. Maybe it was a drug raid? Maybe they had been paid by Ourumov, the same employer that payed her? Who knows and who cares? This was going to be fun!

James, Alec, Trixie and Starlight had fallen back all the way to the drivers booth, only to find that the driver had been shot dead. Alec and James were out of ammo. They closed and locked the door behind them. They heard footsteps outside.

Pinkie Pie looked out from the bullet hole that had been made by a stray bullet through the bathroom of which she had locked herself in. From the hole she saw six gangster gathered. They seemed to plant some kind of bomb at the door to the drivers booth. The words of Starlight Glimmer echoed inside Pinkies head.

‘And then, the moment he makes that final decision, to leave MI6 and work for Ourumov. Then, in that precise moment the movie will be back on script and i will be able to bring us back to Equestria immediately.’

Pinkie Pie felt the guilt pour over her like ice cold water. They all could have been home in Equestria by now. And now she was about to watch her friends blow up, only because of her silliness! She would be all alone, forever trapped inside an endless movie, without friends. She looked down. She saw a pistol lying just outside the door to the bathroom.

‘Might as well die here and now.’ The thought pierced through Pinkie Pies shattered heart.

Suddenly Starlight heard single shots fire outside, along with men screaming and bodies crumbling.

“Shot her! Shot her!” Voices were crying outside. The same voices screamed before there were more shots and more bumping sounds of bodies hitting the floor.

“Where is she?!” A voice wailed.

There were silence. The heavy breathing of a horrified human could be heard outside. A single shot suddenly sounded close to the door, followed by one more crumbling body. The silence fell again.

After almost a minute of silence Alec opened the door, slowly. The bewildered faces of the group scanned the room. In front of them six gangster was lying dead on the floor. Starlight walked over the bodies. There were a pink patch behind the seat ahead. As Starlight rounded the seat she saw Pinkie Pie down on her hooves, a pistol lying in front of her. She whispered to herself while staring blankly at it.

“I am Pinkie Pie, and all i want is to see my friends smile... Smile... Smile...Smile” Pinkie Pie's voice faded.

Starlight stepped forward and helped Pinkie Pie up on her hooves.

“Come on Pinkie, we need to go. We can talk about this later.”

There suddenly was a gunshot. James bonds arm jerked backwards.

“Oaaaah!” He shouted, for real this time.

Alec grabbed a uzi from a fallen gangster and fired toward the shooter that took cover ahead.

Xenia Onatopp smiled. She knew what she saw ahead, all she needed was one shot. After Alec had stopped firing Xenia leaned out of cover. With one pull of the trigger she sent a bullet straight into the bomb the gagsters had planted by the booth earlier. It exploded right beside Alecs face. The explosion created a large hole at the side of the train of which Alec fell out. Bond followed shortly after.

“Bond! Alec!” Starlight exclaimed as the ponies grabbed for cover. There were the sound of fabric being cut as Xenia’s bullets went through the seats the ponies were hiding behind.

“Starlight!” Trixie tried to get Starlights attention.

Starlight looked out of the hole in the train. She thought she saw a small ridge above the track. She closed her eyes. She tried to memorize how it looked like and how big it was. Her horn gave a glow before the world flashed.

Xenia saw the ponies disappear behind the passenger seats ahead. She was about to curse herself when she suddenly had a realization. She recalled the last minutes of sweet carnage. A pleasuring smile formed on her face. She moaned. She knew how this was going to end.

Starlight felt the tension release inside her as she found that her extremely hard-pulled teleportation had worked. She saw Pinkie Pie standing in front of her.

“Pinkie. Are you all right?” She asked, still trying to catch up with her breath.

“Starlight.” Trixie called behind her

Pinkie Pie looked back at Starlight. Starlight saw her face calm down in relief, only to fall back into worry as she looked behind Starlight.

“Starlight.” Trixie repeated, with a weaker voice this time. Starlight wailed her head around and saw Trixies hooves weaken. She felt that tension rise inside her again.

“Trixie!?” Starlight exclaimed as she galloped to her. She was barely able to save Trixie from falling to the ground. Trixie laid in her hooves as she looked at Starlight, her eyes half shut.

“Starlight.” She whispered.

Starlight had a hoof underneath Trixies belly. She pulled it out and looked at it. Trixies blood was smeared all over it.

“No. No!” Starlight was shaking her head.

“Starlight... See...You...In...Equestr...ia...”Trixies voice faded. Her eyes closed. In the same moment Starlight felt Trixies entire body weight push down on her hooves.

“No! No! TRIXIE! NO!” Starlight wailed as tears formed in her eyes. Behind her Pinkie Pie looked on blankly in disbelief as Starlight Glimmers sobbing filled the air.

The snowy mountains rose toward the sky. The heavy snow pushed down on the pine trees giant twigs. Starlight Glimmers cries echoed through the Russian wilderness, a wilderness filled to the brink with bears and elks, animals that were more than aware of the death that awaited them all and the unavoidable grief when their loved ones faced it before they did.

Chapter 4. The Name's Bond, James Bond

The cold wind of the Russian spring blew through the treetops. Despite this birds could be heard singing over them. Despite the whiteness of the ground there were some patches peaking out from behind the snow. Pointy bushes were showing themselves in these patches that, when summertime came. would be filled with berries. These bushes with berries grew from the dirt, dirt nourished by the dead things that laid inside it.

Starlight Glimmers eyes were half shut. In front of her two long stones had been placed in the shape of an X. In front of the X a flat stone leaned. On the flat stone a shape had been carved, the shape was a half moon tail. The tail was holding a staff. The staff had a star engraved at the end of it. Together the composition made a half moon tail holding a magician staff. It was the cutie mark of Trixie the unicorn. The stone was her gravestone, and the dirt was her contribution to the berries that would be growing in the summer. But Starlight Glimmer would not be growing with her. It was exactly this thought that sent her into this state of depression that she were in. Starlight snorted. A tear ran down her right cheek as the thought ran on repeat inside her head.

Back in Equestria the mood was as dampened as inside the movie, so dampened that it could easily have been mistaken for a sheet and thrown over a bed like some kind of bizarre experiment by Discord, although the ponies inside the room doubted that even Discord would be able to lighten up this mood. Fluttershy’s sobbing could be heard at the back of the living room.

Littlefoot had a distinguished face. By now he was more than aware of what this feeling meant to everyone involved, a direct result of him loosing his mother when he was little.

“Pika, pikaaaa.” Pikachu said sympathizingly.

Ash Ketchum, being a man of action, had no idea what to say. In front of him Rainbow Dash was in a similar situation.

“I can't believe that she is gone.” Apple Jack said.

Twilight Sparkle looked with a sad face at the TV screen. She knew that Trixie wasn’t really dead in Equestria. She knew that Trixie would come back if they were able to reverse Starlights spell. She knew that Starlight knew this as well. But for some bizarre reason it didn’t matter, the same way it didn’t matter when a character that you loved in a TV series died. It was almost like Starlight Glimmer had become an actual character inside the Goldeneye movie and the ponies watching the movie were sympathizing with her like they would do with a movie character, even though they knew inside that she was the real Starlight Glimmer.

Twilight took a deep breath. She had to say something. Her horn lit up as she transmitted her words to Starlight.

“Starlight.” Twilights voice sounded inside Starlights head

Starlight didn’t react. Her half shut eyes remained in their melancholic state. Twilight continued in a soft voice

“Starlight. I know that it it doesn’t...” Twilight sighed. “...That it’s hard, even though she will be back if we sort this out, she still died in your hooves.”

Starlight still didn’t react. Twilight went straight to the point.

“But Pinkie Pie needs you Starlight. She has been gone for a while now and i fear that she might give up. She needs your help if you’re ever going to get through this.”

The silence laid itself over the forrest. Only the wind and the birds could be heard.

“Do you understand Starlight?” Twilight ended.

Starlight raised her pupils slightly. She lowered them again before falling back into melancholy. At least it was something, Twilight thought.

Around Starlight Glimmer the forrest laid thick. Above the forrest, further ahead, there was a tourist resort. Inside the tourist resort there was a bar. Inside the bar there was a pony, a pink pony.

Pinkie Pie was sitting down beside a poker table, ignoring all the curious looks from the Russians wondering what in the world a creature she was. A jazz piano was playing in the background .Much like Starlight, Pinkie Pies eyes were stuck in a constant state of melancholy. To her right she had Jack Black, or his character rather. Jack Black’s character was a card manager at the casino of which Pinkie Pie had made her retreat.

“Sure you don’t want a bomb?” Jack Black’s character offered Pinkie Pie a drink, “The bar guy owes me a favor, i could get you one on the house.”

Pinkie Pie did not answer. Her usually puffed up curly hair laid limply at the side of her head, the same head of which the memory of Starlight Glimmer crying over Trixie circulated. If only Pinkie Pie hadn’t been so silly about breaking up Alec and Bonds friendship they could all have been home in Equestria by now. Now they would probably be stuck inside this movie forever. Pinkie Pie remembered when she jumped happily between rooftops with her Ponyville friends. Why did all that feel like a dream now?

Alec Trevelyan opened his eyes. A dissy sensation followed as only one of his eyes gave a blurry image of the light shining down on him. He could hear the sound of hospital equipment beside him. He raised his hand and felt behind the dark part of his vision. A huge bandage had been placed all over the right side of his face, covering his right eye. A memory touched the back of his mind.

‘Bond.’

“It is unfortunate.” A voice said, almost like it was answering Alecs thought.

Alec immediately recognized that voice. There were the sound of wires being torn when Alec flew up from his hospital bed. With one motion of his strong arm he pressed Ourumov up against the wall.

“You!” Alec growled

Ourumov gasped for breath.

“Put... me... down...ah.”

“Give me one reason why i shouldn’t kill you here and now.” Alec said darkly.

“Your... family...” Ourumov gasped.

“My family?!” Alec tightened his grip.

Ourumov was unable to answer while being choked. Alec released Ourumov, who took almost a minute to catch his breath. Alec sat down on the hospital bed and faced down. Ourumov sat down in a chair beside the bed. Ourumov brought up a pistol and placed it on the side table. After Ourumov had gained his bearings he started speaking with perfect pronunciation.

“As i said, it is unfortunate. It pains me to see you like this Alec Trevelyan, especially after all the preparations that we made together before we lost contact.”

“I made a decision, old friend.” Alec said.

“Yes, Alec. You did. And I made mine. The Russia i knew is dead. So long i have only watched on as a mere space division general while my country falls into despair. But soon all that is going to change. Soon my autority will stretch far beyond even the greatest of world leaders." Ourumov paused. He looked down before saying with a stronger voice. “And as somene with that kind of authority, the first thing i will do is to pardon and support every last cossack in-between Ukraine and Russia.” Ourumov promised while moving his hand over to the pistol.

Alec looked at Ourumov. His left eye sparkled in disbelief.

“You know?”

Ourumov smiled.

“Yes, Alec, i know. And i am not here to pretend like this doesn’t make us enemies.” Ourumov took his hand of the pistol and continued.

“But as a wise man once said, keep your friends close but your enemies closer. As mortal enemies you may kill me and die alone, or i may kill you and lose a potential ally with insight in the British secret service. But isn't that the reason why you and i became the best of enemies, Alec?”

Alec looked down at the floor again. It was like Ourumov had read his mind.

“You are thinking about Bond, don’t you?” Ourumov asked. Ourumov took of his general hat.

“I am aware that you have no reason to trust me regarding his fate. Also, i might as well say it out loud, that i would have killed him if i had the chance.” Ourumov raised his voice and spoke the next part honestly.

“But even though you have no reason to trust me i will still give you my word that i am in the dark regarding James Bond. We found you next to an icy river but we never found Bond, he might have survived, he might have drowned.”

“Of course you would say that.” Alec said.

Ourumovs eyes hardened.

“It is my report. Take it or leave it.”

Alecs mind went around in circles. Ourumov leaned in closer to Alec and spoke in a personal tone.

“I will give you a luxury house overlooking London. From there you may watch Britain tear itself apart. The future will belong to you, and you alone. Dead or alive, James Bond may not like it, but he will be forced to accept it once MI6 realizes that our influences cannot be toppled over night, and like the obedient government dog he allways was he will stand down.”

Alec’s eyes grew dim. He found himself stuck between the notion that Bond might be dead and revenge for his family. He felt his heart hanging by a thread as his final decision slowly festered itself in his mind.

A presence sat down next to Pinkie Pie. Slowly she turned her sad pink face to see who it was.

James bond straightened his tie. He saw the restaurant waiter walking not far from there. He raised his finger until the waiter noticed him.

Pinkie Pie watched the waiter approach Bond. She turned her depressed face downward, ready for the redundant ‘Oaaaah!’ that would soon be blasting out from James Bonds mouth. Unbeknownst to both James Bond and Pinkie Pie, it was in that exact moment when, far away on a hospital bed, Alec Trevelyan decided to join Ourumov and help him with his plans.

“Vodka martini. Shaken, not stirred.” A handsome voice said. Pinkie Pie gasped. Her eyes widened. She looked to her side. James Bonds handsome eyes glanced sideways at her.

“And i think i’ll have one for this lady here as well.” He added.

Pinkie Pie was taken a back. Nopony had ever called her lady before, except for maybe Rarity.

“Good evening sir.” Jack Blacks character greeted Bond.

“Please, call me Bond, James Bond.”

“Well, in that case. Good evening mr Bond.” Jacks character said.

James looked at Pinkie Pie.

“Pinkie Pie?” His manly voice addressed. Pinkie Pie could not have imagined how handsome James Bonds voice would be. She felt a smile form on her face.

“Heheh. Yes?” She giggled.

“Have you ever played poker before?” James right eye squinted.

“No, i haven't.” Pinkie answered.

James turned to Jacks character.

“May i borrow some of your cards?”

The card manager gave Bond a set of cards. In the same moment the waiter returned to the table. He turned his right arm around and came from Pinkie Pies right as he put a round glass front of her.

The glass contained a spectral liquid with two olives floating on top. A thin wooden twig was impaled in one of the olives. Pinkie Pie picked up the glass and sipped it. There was a warming sensation inside her throat. Bond showed Pinkie Pie the card bundle.

“52 cards.” James bond instructed.

He laid down 14 cards in a row. He ran his finger across them.

“Highest and lowest.” James Bonds handsome voice pulled at Pinkie Pies heart strings. She couldn’t help but giggle.

“Hihihih...”

James laid down the card that had a A in its corner.

“This is Ace. When having no pair you can play this for a chance of the highest card.”

James laid down two cards of the same number.

“When having a pair you will always win over those with no pair. When up against another pair you win by having the higher pair.”

Pinkie Pie listened in awe as James Bond went over all the poker hands from lowest to highest, all while taking small sips of the vodka martini. Eventually she started feeling dissy.

“Well thats very interesting James. hihihi.” Pinkie Pie giggled.

Once James Bond had gone over all the possible hands Pinkie Pie had emptied her martini. Jack Blacks character had secretly sneaked in another one. He laughed in the background as Pinkie Pies cute voice got more and more tipsy.

“Now, this is how the game itself works. You start by having one of the players place a bet.”

“A bet...? Of whaaaat!” Pinkie Pie sailed.

“Well, a bet on yourself that you will win by having the highest hand of course.” James Bond said politely.

“Oh... RiHIght.” Pinkie Pie had a hiccup in the middle of the ‘Right’.

“Each player then get a chance to either call by placing the same bet as the last player or choose drop out. They also have the option to raise by placing a higher bet.”

Pinkie Pie felt herself ‘raise’ higher alright.

“A hiiiiiiigher bet yu saHI...yi.” She blurted.

Jack Blacks secret laughter could be heard somewhere behind the jazz piano playing in the background.

“But this is when the game gets interesting. You see Pinkie Pie, an opposing player could have one of the highest hands in the game, but if he sees you bet over everyone else he might start believing that he might not have such a high hand after all and drop out. And since no one can se your cards it is possible for you to have nothing but still win the game. That is called bluffing.”

“Bluffing? Like a Chaaaaaangeling turning into a priiiiincess and pretending to be yoHOuu’r mothers groom... hugh?!” Pinkie Pie blurted while looking dreamily at James Bond. Jack Blacks chuckles tried to subdue themselves.

James Bond didn’t even try to understand what that meant. After going over the rules of poker Equestria came into subject.

“So what exactly is Equestria?” James asked. Pinkie Pies head swayed as her vocals delayed.

“Oh... Its a biiiiiig place filled with laaaaaathter and freeeendship and... hugh...and ponies that you have paaaaaarties with.”

Pinkie Pie rose from her chair and started jumping happily up and down. Her jumps veered to the sides in her drunken state. There were angry voices when Pinkie Pie landed on top of a table.

“An as youaal knoHOw i’m allwais exHIteeeed to meet new friends and if we aaHAll gather we could have this giaaaant paaaartieeHE!”

Pinkie Pies hiccups sounded like corkscrews opening up champaign bottles. This combined with the image of the jumping pink pony became to much for Jack Blacks character. His hoarse voice could be heard over the jazz piano as he were laughing so hard he couldn’t breathe. James Bond leaned over Jacks character.

“Maybe you should have a glass of water ready for her before we get back.”

Jacks character caught up with his breath.

“Yea. Im all over it.”

The following morning the sun entered the window into Starlight and Pinkie Pies hotel room as Pinkie Pie woke up. She got out of bed. She saw that Starlight was still sleeping.

“Urg” She moaned as the blinding daylight met her eyes. She felt her stomach hurt. Her head ached. She decided that she needed some company. Pinkie Pie walked over to James Bonds hotel room. She raised her hoof and knocked at the door. As the door opened James Pierce Brosnan eyes seemed to see exactly what they expected.

“Well hello Pinkie Pie.” James greeted.

Starlight opened her eyes. She suddenly though she heard something. Was that a voice?

Pinkie Pie walked into James Bonds hotel room. James sat down at the table, his PPK pistol laying at the side of it. Pinkie Pie sat down opposite of James Bond.

Starlight Glimmer walked out of her hotel room. She knew she heard a voice. And not just any voice, but a voice she recognized.

“How are you feeling Pinkie Pie?”

“My head aches, but otherwise, I'm good. What happened last night?” Pinkie Pie asked with a confounding face.

Starlight leaned her ear against the door. She thought she heard Pinkie Pie as well.

“You swallowed one and a half vodka martini.” James Bond informed.

“Vodka martini?” Pinkie Pie had no idea what that was.

Starlight gasped.

‘James Bond? James Bond talks!? The movie is back on track!!!’ The thought exploded inside her head.

Starlight slammed opened the door, a large smile formed on her face. Pinkie Pie wailed her head around, accidentally bumping James Bonds PPK. There were a loud gun blast when the pistol slammed against the hotel floor and stray fired.

James Bond grumped. Starlight and Pinkie Pie looked at him in disbelief. He smiled handsomely at them as he fell backwards with his chair, a bump on the carpeted hotel floor followed.

There was a long silence. Starlight and Pinkie Pie looked at each other with horrified eyes.

“OAAAAH!” James Blasted from the floor.

“WHAT! You KILLED JAMES BOND! You killed THE MAIN CHARACTER!” Twilight blasted at Pinkie Pie while Starlight rewired the transmission to her head.

“It was an accident!” Pinkie Pies white teeth smiled nervously.

Back in Equestria Twilight wasn’t the only face in turmoil. A hoarse voice gave her conclusion.

“Alright, thats it! The villain is a good guy, the hero is a dead gorilla, the governmental stereotype talks about birthday cakes, the military stereotype guy is chasing party ponies and the Bond song is sung by Pinkie Pie. Can things possibly get more derailed than this!?” Rainbow Dash wailed her hooves around incredulously.

“Ah, hehe. Excuse me.” Fluttershy whispered. The other ponies looked at her. “I was thinking, natali....a” Fluttershys voice faded.

“What?!” Rainbow Dash blasted.

“Ah... hehe... na...ta...lia...”

“Im sorry Fluttershy, but you're gonna have to speak up, we can't hear you when you whisper darling.” Rarity said.

Fluttershy made a deep inhale. She released all of her air at once in one hoarse shout, a shout no louder than the leafs of a swaying tree crown.

“Natalya.”

Luckily Apple Jack could hear leaves talk as well as any Apple Tree.

“Oh no. The bond girl!” Apple Jack wailed.

“NATALYA!” Everypony said at once.

“Oh my goodness, i had completely forgotten about her!” Rarity exclaimed.

“Wasn’t she supposed to be at that Severnaya station earlier?” Rainbow Dash asked.

There were the sound of a phone ringing. The phone laid at the bed table in James Bonds hotel room. Pinkie Pie and Starlight looked at each other. Starlight walked over to the table. She picked up the phone. After seconds of hesitation she pressed the answer button. She pressed the phone against her ear. An old woman voice was at the other end.

“007?”

“Starlight.” Starlight answered

“Oh, yes. Hello Starlight, nice to finally speak to you. May i speak with Pinkie Pie please.” The woman voice asked politely.

Starlight looked at Pinkie Pie in disbelief. She reached out her hoof holding the phone.

“It’s for you Pinkie.” She said.

“Hello?” Pinkie Pie answered.

“Hello 007.” M said.

“My name is Pinkie Pie.” Pinkie Pie informed.”

“Yes...007. It’s about time we meet. A helicopter is on it’s way. Make your way up on the hotel roof and we will be there to pick you up.” The call then ended.

Pinkie Pie lowered the phone. She looked at Starlight

“It was Dame Judie Dench.” She informed with a static voice.

“So? What did she say?” Starlight Glimmer asked.

Pinkie Pie put the pieces together in her head.

“That i am 007.”

Chapter 5. Behind Your Goldeneye's

“OAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!” Rainbow Dash’s raspy laughter sounded like a car engine failing to start up. She wiped the tears from her eyes.

“Pinkie Pie... is... 007? WahAAAAAHAHAHAHAH!”

“It’s not funny Rainbow Dash! She could get killed!” Fluttershy scolded.

Rainbow Dash ignored Fluttershys bad sense of humor, accidentally replacing it with her own.

“What...haha... What will she do? Smile the bad guys to death?!”

“But that is good news!” Ash Ketchum exclaimed.

“What do you mean Ash?” Rarity asked

“Well, just think about it. M made her 007, just like that? It means that the movie has replaced James Bond with Pinkie Pie. Which means that the movie hasn’t given up, that ...”

“...that there is still hope of them getting back.” Littlefoot took over.

“But does that mean that Pinkie Pie has to do James Bonds job now?” Apple Jack said while biting her hooves in nervosity.

“I don’t know.” Twilight said, all the others looking at her. ”But one thing is for sure. By now, Pinkie Pie and Starlight Glimmer, our friends, have become a part of this movie...” Twilight paused. The silence fell before she ended.

“...A part of Goldeneye.”

“But does that mean...?” Rarity was interrupted.

“Yes Rarity.” Twilight said darkly. “It means that our friends might have to finish the movie to get back home to Equestria.”

It felt strange. Something about this situation seemed entirely wrong, but at the same time it also made perfect sense. It was almost like Pinkie Pie had been a 00 agent for years, but at the same time M knew she had yet to meet the pony. The lines on her fingers gave the situation a tragic perspective. All her critics in congress suddenly got themselves an ally in their opinion.

‘I am getting old.’ M concluded inside her head.

There was knocking on the door. M raised her head.

“Yes, come in!”

The door opened slowly. A familiar face poked her head in.

“Hello ms Moneypenny.” M greeted her secretary.

“M. Pinkie Pie is here to see you now.”

“Good. Send her in.”

Pinkie Pie looked around the waiting room as she was sitting in its fancy chair. The room was filled with dark colors. The dark brown walls, gray curtains and black ornaments jittered inside it. The only daring color around was herself and some of the photos on the walls. Despite this comfy setting she felt her muscles pulling. Her chair made wooden sounds as her hooves were shaking. Why was she so nervous? She didn’t even know who this M was. She didn’t even know what it meant to be a 00 agent. But whatever it was, whatever her mind tried to visualize without her consent, it sent her into a inner state of panic. She started breathing heavily. She felt something warm move over her hoof. It was Starlight Glimmer. She was sitting next to her in the waiting room.

“Pinkie. It will be alright.”

Pinkie Pie was still shaking as she wailed her head nervously around the room.

“Pinkie Pie. Look at me.” Starlight said.

Pinkie Pie turned her nervous face around. Starlights eyes laid still like eggs in a birds nest inside her calm face. Pinkie Pies eyes widened. Was there a shape somewhere inside those eyes? A shape of a town? Ponyville? Pinkie Pie stopped shaking. Starlights hoof moved over Pinkies hoof, giving her a massage. Pinkie pie felt the calmness lay itself over her, despite this her heart kept beating. She felt a smile form on her face. Starlight laughed. Pinkie Pie laughed to.

“Pinkie Pie?” The woman secretary addressed. Pinkie looked at her. “M will see you now.”

Pinkie Pie rose from her seat. As she walked down the corridor toward the door at its end Pinkie Pie looked back. Starlight Glimmer smiled at her from afar. Pinkie Pie smiled back before moving on.

M heard the sound of hooves hitting the floor. She raised her head. Once again it was that same feeling again. Something about this situation felt entirely wrong, but at the same time it also made perfect sense.

“Pinkie Pie. Nice to finally meet you. My name is M, but i guess you knew that already, curtesy of my lovely secretary Ms Moneypenny”

Moneypenny and M nodded at each other before the secretary left the office. At first Pinkie Pie looked bewildered at the old woman, who people and ponies only knew as the letter M. She pulled herself together though as she didn’t want to seem rude.

“Hi M.” Pinkie Pie said forcefully with her highly pitched voice. M realized immediately that the pony was nervous.

“Please. Sit down.” M offered politely.

After Pinkie Pie had sat down in the visitor chair M rose and walked toward the cupboard.

“Do you want something to drink?” M offered.

Pinkie Pie still had vague memories from her evening with James. As crazy as she liked to be she preferred to actually remember it.

“No thanks. I'm good.” Pinkie Pie answered.

“I think i’ll have myself some Bourbon.” M said as she poured up a glass.

M sat down in her chair. Pinkie Pie studied the old human woman. There was something innocent and gentle about her, at the same time she could sense a hard shell somewhere underneath her soft appearance.

“I read your file Pinkie Pie. You recently held a position as a party planner in Ponyville, is that correct?”

“How did you know about that?” Pinkie Pie asked. M did not answer.

“Your family makes their living working at a rock farm, unless my information pulls tricks on me. You have three sisters, a mother and a father, happily married despite their facial appearances. During your carrier you’ve also been recognized as the element of laughter, an honorable member in a small independent parliament in Ponyville, lead by the princess of friendship, Twilight Sparkle.”

Pinkie Pie felt her mouth drop.

‘So thats what that feels like.’ She thought.

M continued

“You also seem to have a condition called ‘Pinkie sense’, or a gift, depending how one choose to look at it, which doesn’t really matter when you’re sitting here with me.”

M looked at Pinkie Pie. She put her old hand on the table.

“Do you know what it means to be an MI6 agent?” M asked. Her voice was old and soft. Despite this there was a hardened seriousness in it. Pinkie Pie did not answer. M proceeded.

“It means that you take your orders from me. You will complete your assigned mission using any means necessary. Your 00 status gives you the license to kill in this endeavor.”

“To kill? Will it come to that?” Pinkie Pie asked with a tinge of worry in her voice.

M looked at Pinkie Pie with a distinguished face. The answer came by itself through M's unmoving eyes.

“But do you think i’d be able kill somepony else?” Pinkie Pie asked.

M leaned back in her chair and studied Pinkie Pie from afar. She should be worried about Pinkie Pies hesitation to kill. But suddenly she was hit with the memmories of male and female agents that had reached 00 status by putting on a mask of determination and confidence, a wishful thinking that they would never hesitate, of which they all did in the end anyway. The fact that this pony wasn’t afraid to openly admit her hesitation somehow made M more confident in her.

“Let’s both hope it doesn’t come to that. But if we were to entertain the possibility of such unfortunate circumstances, from what iv’e heard, curtesy of my sources in Russia, you are more than capable of doing just that Pinkie Pie.”

Pinkie Pie thought back to the events at the Trans Siberian Express. She remembered the handgun throw back her hoof as she pulled the trigger. She remembered the sound when the poor soul she pointed the gun at crumbled to the ground. She remembered the reason for these horrible acts, her friends being stuck inside the drivers booth, about to be blown up.

“You’re thinking of what happened on the train? But i only did that because my friends were in danger.” Pinkie Pie pointed out. M’s eyebrows rose in a incredulous manner.

“You make that sound like thats a bad thing. You did it because of your love for your friends. That is called incentive Pinkie Pie, a reason, call it a cause if i may be patriotic. Which brings us to the very reason why our organization exists.”

M got up from her chair. She walked to her right and stared at the wall as she spoke.

“There are forces out there Pinkie Pie. Evil forces. Bad men and women that would not hesitate to wreak havoc upon our society if they had the chance, havoc that would kill thousands of innocent lives. That thing Ourumov stole from Severnaya is a weapons system called Goldeneye.”

“Goldeneye.” Pinkie Pie mirrored.

“Developed by the soviets during the cold war, it is a weapon capable of destroying anything electrical within a 30 mile radius. You should know, you were there when the Severnaya satellite fired.”

Pinkie Pie remembered when Alecs phone caught fire. She remembered when the fighter jet crashed into the station. M turned around and faced Pinkie Pie.

“I am aware that in your world, a world which uses magic, such things as electricity plays a minor part in society at best. But here in our world everything we do, every phone that we use to contact one another, every system developed to answer emergencies, fire fighters, police, ambulance.” M paused for a dramatic effect.

“...The military.”

M went back to her desk. The office chair made made squeaking sounds as she sat down.

“...Everything we have is dependent on electricity. The Goldeneye uses a satellite located in space to fire. Should it ever be used against us not only would it allow for these bad men to cause havoc, but it would also make way for other enemies, enemies that might have an army behind them. Men like Ourumov and Valentin.”

“Valentin?” Pinkie Pie asked.

“The leader of the Russian mob. It was his men that you killed inside that train Pinkie Pie.”

There was a moment of silence. M leaned over and put her old eyes close to Pinkie Pie.

“As i understand it was after the incident at the train that you lost one of your friends from Ponyville. A unicorn that went by the name of Trixie, correct?”

Pinkie Pie faced down in sadeness. She nodded.

“Xenia Onatopp.” M informed.

Pinkie Pie looked straight into M’s eyes. A firmness started growing in in Pinkies eyes as she heard the name of Trixies murderer. M continued.

“She’s an assassin. recently linked to Ourumov. We believe she might have helped him steal the Goldeneye.”

M leaned back into her chair again. Pinkie Pies pupils had a dark core of vengeance in them.

“We don’t know yet what Ourumov is planning. But whatever it is, it will with all certainty allow him to gain more influence over his government. He might even become one of the right hand men of the Russian leadership. Should he ever reach that high position thanks to Goldeneye you can be sure that he is going to remember Xenia Onatopp and the help she gave him, getting rid of your friend being one of them.

Pinkie Pies pupils hardened more the further M spoke.

“She might be given privileges, freedom against prosecution, freedom to do whatever she wants. I might order an agent to kill her, only to receive a phone call from some hoity toity accountant within the British government and be forced to back down. Not that i would hesitate to give my government the finger and go through with it anyway, but at that point even i might have been swayed. Influence is not a power to heed in the wake of justice ms Pie. Which is why...”

M leaned forward again. Her authoritarian voice sounded firmer ever.

“...Which is why i want you to find Goldeneye. I want you to find out what Ourumov plans to do with it and stop it. And despite the information i just gave you, if you should come across Xenia Onatopp i do not want you galloping into some kind of vendetta.”

“You didn’t get her killed.” Pinkie Pie said.

“And neither did you.” M said firmly.

Pinkie Pie snorted. Her eyes sparkled as tears were not far behind.

“It wasn’t your fault Pinkie Pie. Don’t make it personal.” M finished softly. She almost surprised herself by her own feeling of so called ‘sympathy’.

M grasped her glass and took a sip of the drink.

“Now. Of you go.” M waved her right arm about. “My people will be meeting you downstairs for evaluation. Then, after that you will begin your training.”

“But what about Bond?” Pinkie Pie asked.

M stared blankly at Pinkie Pie.

“What about him?” She asked.

There was a moment of silence. M continued

“I se you’ve noticed that i haven't talked about him at all, even though he was my best man for years.”

“...And friend.” Pinkie Pie said.

This time it was M’s turn to look into Pinkie Pies distinguished eyes. M was about to raise her voice and debunk such nonsense talk as ‘friendship’. But then she realized that Pinkie Pie had already seen through her. M sighed.

“Yes. Pinkie Pie... And friend. James Bond is dead, i have lost a good friend and agent. I will write a report and a death certificate. He will have a memorial service and be carved in stone at MI6 headquarters.”

M’s emotional tone still sounded like an old school teacher complaining about having bad kids. Pinkie Pies face lowered in sadness. M stared blankly at her

“I see that you’ve noticed my lack of compassion regarding my employees.”

Pinkie Pie kept the same sad look. M continued

“Good. Remember that ms Pie. Let that notion be the foundation of what I'm about to tell you, that if you were ever to get captured or killed MI6 will deny ever having any contact with you, and no bargain will be made to set you free.”

Pinkie Pie was taken a back. She wailed her eyes around. There was a short silence.

“You know ms Pie?” M began. Pinkie Pie looked at M. “It’s still not to late for you to turn back.”

Pinkie Pie took a moment to think. All her life she had been drawn by the power of friendship. For so long her call in life had been to make other ponies laugh and to make sure they had a great time in a world of smiling and laughter. It was now clear to Pinkie Pie that she was about to enter the world of espionage, a world were duty goes before friendship. Pinkie Pie remembered Trixie laying limply in the arms of crying Starlight Glimmer.

“I am ready to begin my training.” Pinkie Pie said with a final tone.

The following days M had Pinkie Pie running through some standard routines that all new agents go through. The movie goers in Equestria experienced these days via a two second time jump. Starlight and Pinkie Pie were now inside an apartment in central London. As of payment for all this Starlight had just transformed a park bench into 500000 British pounds.

Starlight was just about to finish her breakfast when there was a voice inside her head.

“Starlight?”

“Twilight!” Starlight exclaimed. “Twilight were have you been. Iv’e been waiting for...”

“I'm sorry Starlight, but there's been a time jump in the movie. For us it only took two seconds. Do you mean to say you actually lived it?”

“You know? I think you’re right Twilight.”

“That’s so strange.” Twilight said hoarsely. ”Anyhow, iv’e been thinking. Since the movie seem to want to take you to it’s very end by making Pinkie Pie it’s 00 agent instead of James Bond, why not just travel immediately to the end area of the movie? I mean, i doubt that Ourumov is going anywhere.”

“Ok. Sound fair enough. So where is it?” Starlight Glimmer asked.

“In Cuba. There is a underwater antenna there that can signal the second Goldeneye satellite. That's were the climax of the movie is supposed to take place. I think all that we need to do really is to destroy the antenna. That should end the movie.”Twilight hesitated. “Or maybe we need to wait for Ourumov? Anyhow, we travel there and then we’ll figure out what to do.”

“Pinkie Pie!” Starlight called.

“Yes Starlight.” Pinkie answered from the living room.

“Buckle up Pinkie Pie, were heading for a place called Cuba.” Starlight said proudly, enjoying being the one in the know.

“Huh?” Pinkie Pie blurted as she came into the kitchen.

“Come. I explain on the way.”

“Okay. Just wait a second.”

Pinkie Pie went into the bedroom. When she came back Starlight noticed that she had gun with her. And not just any gun, but a PPK pistol. Pinkie Pie had it placed in a gun sheet strapped around her belly.

“Is that a gun?” Starlight asked.

Pinkie Pie looked at the gun, then at Starlight.

“Yea?” Pinkie Pie answered bewildered. “I got it from M. The special sheet is made by a guy called Q. He’s some kind of inventor. Apparently he made all the gadgets for James Bond to.”

The ponies took a taxi to the airport. On the way Starlight explained to Pinkie Pie what Twilight had told her. They were now trotting toward the main terminal.

“Or maybe we should tell your employer, M.” Starlight proposed.

“nieee... I don’t know. She’s probably going to wonder how we got hold of the information.”

Starlight though about it for a moment.

“You’re probably right.” She agreed.

Just as Starlight said this two black vans drove up in front of them. Men in dark suits got out. Starlight felt a needle stick her from behind.

“STARLIGHT!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed.

Before Pinkie Pie knew it she was surrounded and overpowered by four muscular humans. One of them stuck a needle in her. She felt the world go blurry before finally blacking out.

The air felt cold and wet behind the mask Pinkie had over her head. There were the sound of boots hitting stone floor and the slam of a door shutting behind her. Suddenly her mask was removed. She looked around and noticed that she was inside some kind of basement. On her side she saw Starlight Glimmer. Further to her right there was a soldier with an automatic weapon, watching her every move.

“Pinkie Pie.” Starlight addressed in a whisper.

Pinkie Pie looked at Starlight. Starlight looked at Pinkie Pie with diminishing pupils.

“Where are we?” She whispered.

“I don’t know. Pinkie answered.

Suddenly there was that sound of a door opening again. A presence walked inside. The man had a dark coat and dark gloves. His face was covered in a dark beard. He sat down at the table in front of them. He reached out his hand and placed the PPK pistol that Pinkie Pie had received from M at the table.

“Zdravstvuyte commander Pie. I am defense minister Dimitri Mishkin. So, in what way shall we execute you Pinkie Pie, or should i call you 007?”

Pinkie Pie looked at Dimitri without knowing how to react. She remembered the first conversation she had with M. She remembered what M told her about her ever getting captured or killed. Indeed, this situation were either hopeless or a reason to panic. But did it need to be either? Pinkie Pie felt a new form of fun boil up inside her.

“What? No small talk? No, chit chat?” Pinkie Pie asked jokingly. She then pretended to speak to Starlight. “Thats the trouble with the world today, nopony takes the time to do a really sinister interrogation anymore. Its a lost art!”

“Your party face does not sway me pink pony, I'm sorry. Where is the Goldeneye?” Dimitri demanded.

“I assumed you had it.” Pinkie Pie said calmly.

“I have an Equestrian pony turned english spy and a former student of the princess of friendship and a stolen helicopter...”

“Or at least thats what some traitor in your government wanted it to look like...!” Pinkie Pie challenged the defense minister.

“Why did i see you jumping up and down outside Severnaya...?”

“Who had the authorization codes...!?”

“Russia may have changed but the penalty for terrorism is still death...!?”

“AND WHATS THE PENALTY FOR TREASON...!?”

“HOW WHERE YOU ABLE TO JUMP UP AND DOWN LIKE THAT IN THE THICK SNOW...!?

“WHY IS THE MOB IN YOUR COUNTRY ALLOWED TO RUN AMOC...!?”

“SO YOUR’RE THE PARTY PONY? WHERE’S THE BIRTHDAY CAKE...?!”

“WHY DOES EVERY RUSSIAN IN THIS MOVIE SPEAK ENGLISH...!?"

“WHY DID IT LOOK LIKE YOU WHERE JUMPING ON TOP OF A TRAMPOLINE! DO YOU HEAR ME?! TRAMPOLEEEEEEEEEN...!?” Dimitri’s mouth dropped as he sailed the word.

“BECAUSE I’M HAPPY!” Pinkie Pies angry face growled at Dimitri.

“ENOUGH!” Starlight glimmer blasted. She opened her mouth again but was met with Pinkie Pie and Dimitri Mishkin's angry eyes. She shrunk.

“...Or. Just go on and do your thing. Hehehe.”

The door slammed open behind them.

“Defense minister! I must protest. This is my investigation! You’re out of order!”

“No Ourumov. From what i am hearing it is you who is out of order!” Mishkin turned his head slowly and looked at Ourumov, who had walked up to his right.

Ourumov looked at Pinkie Pie, then at Mishkin. He felt his blood freeze. Mishkin stretched his cheek up in authority.

“I thought i told you specifically that you would investigate wether you’d received any birthday cakes!”

“Birthday cakes?” Ourumov asked.

“Birthday cakes.” Mishkin’s eyes grew large.

Ourumov opened his mouth, but no words came out.

“D...d...Dimitri...i...i” Ourumov stammered.

“Yes Arkady?!” Dimitri pressed.

“I was only able to...”

Ourumov reached out his hand and placed a small plate with a pastry no bigger than a fist in front of defense minister Mishkin. Mishkin turned his eyeballs down and studied from above the pathetic excuse of a party cake. Pinkie Pie looked on with a sad face. ‘Poor man.’ She thought. Mishkin turned his big chin up and faced Ourumov. At least it was better than nothing.

“Thank you, general Ourumov!” Mishkin boomed. Ourumov put on a fake smile.

“Now, if i may add my own input.” Ourumov was saying. “These ponies here are probably innocent, as my investigation into the theft of the Goldeneye concludes they were probably not present inside the station itself when it was stolen. Still, seeing that i haven't had a chance to talk to them myself, maybe i should take over from here.”

Mishkin looked at the Ponies, then at the pastry.

“Well, i see no reason to keep you from your investigation anymore. I’ll take my leave.” Mishkin rose from his seat and walked toward the exit. Starlights eyes met Ourumov’s snake look. Ourumov grinned.

“Wait!” Starlight exclaimed. Mishkin turned around by the door entrance and looked at Starlight. Ourumov kept his cool. Who would Mishkin believe? His own anointed general or a puny pony?

Starlight closed her eyes. She hoped that she’d remember this advance spell. Her horn gave a bright glow. Blinded, Mishkin and Ourumov covered their faces.

Mishkin opened his eyes. He suddenly found himself inside the Severnaya station. Except it wasn’t through his eyes he was looking. who’s was it? He saw the station major approach him.

“General Ourumov!” The major said as he gave salute. Mishkin then saw the major go up to the console. When he came back again he had the Goldeneye and the golden keys in his hands. He reached out his own hands and took them. He then looked at his watch.

“Good. Thank you major!” He heard himself say. Mishkin heard a gun being pulled before the station turned into a bloodbath. Mishkin then saw himself as Ourumov arm the Goldeneye and target the Severnaya station.

The world flashed again. Mishkin was back in the interrogation room. He looked at Ourumov, who looked back at him with a dropped guilty face.

“GUARDS!” Mishkin screamed.

Ourumov reached down and grabbed Pinkie Pies PPK that Mishkin had placed on the table. He shot the guard in the room before putting a bullet in Mishkin’s head. He then turned his maddened eyes toward the ponies, who had thrown themselves to the ground as the shots were fired. Ourumov unloaded the bullets from Pinkie Pies gun as he spoke.

“Defense minister Dimitri Mishkin. Murdered by a British agent, Pinkie Pie.” Ourumov threw the empty PPK. It landed in front of Pinkie Pie and Starlight.

“...And then shot while trying to escape...” Ourumov reached down for his own handgun.

“GUARDS!” He blasted.

Starlight Glimmer got up on her four hooves. Before Ourumov had time to react her horn blasted out a throwing spell, giving a loud laser sound. Ourumov was thrown halfway across the room, his gun sailing through the air. Starlight was about to help Pinkie Pie up when she suddenly stood eye to eye with a soldier pointing his assault rifle at her. Starlights horn lit up. There was a clonking sound when the wooden arm holder of the gun slammed the guard in the face, causing him to pass out. Starlight heard several footsteps outside the door. She used her horn magic to pull Ourumov’s pistol toward Pinkie Pie who laid on the ground right beside the door. Pinkie Pie picked up the gun. Three guards entered the door. One Pinkie shot in the chest, the other she put two rounds in the heart and one she ended through the head. The stone wall behind the guards splattered with blood.

“Come on Pinkie!” Starlight exclaimed as she picked up the assault rifle.

Once Starlight exited the interrogation room she saw one guard rounding the corner ahead. She pointed the rifle at him. She felt the rifle recoil by the force of the automatic fire as she pulled the trigger, causing every bullet to fly up to the roof. Starlight cursed herself and hid behind the doorframe again as the guard returned fire.

“Starlight, try this!” Pinkie Pie pressed a button on the rifle. After the guard had stopped fire Starlight rounded the corner again. As she pulled the trigger she felt relief in her hooves as the rifle only fired one shot at the time now. She saw the guard ahead fall to the ground. Pinkie Pie galloped out into the corridor. She picked up the rifle that the guard had dropped. Starlight heard footsteps around the corner.

“Pinkie Pie! I hear more!”

Without thinking to much about it Pinkie Pie threw herself around the corner and squeezed the trigger, several guards were coming down the corridor. They all screamed in horror as the small coverless space they where in turned into a death trap. Pinkie Pie watched from her iron sight one guard fall backwards. One guard grabbed his chest as his clothes shook by the entering bullets. Another one screamed and fell face down to the ground. Pinkie Pie felt the cold adrenaline run through her pink body like a river as all six guards in front of her turned into motionless heaps of uniforms.

“Pinkie Pie! BEHIND YOU!” Starlight screamed horrified.

While still lying on the ground Pinkie Pie wailed her rifle around and aimed toward an opening wooden door. She squeezed the trigger. She saw the bullets go through the door, creating small holes in it. She heard screams from the other side. Her rifle clicked and stopped firing. She was out of bullets. She saw one of the guards rounding the doorframe ahead. She felt herself slide sideways as Starlight used her horn magic to pull her out of harms way.

There were the sound of bullets hitting rocks as the guard stepped out of the door. He screamed in anger while firing. Pinkie Pie picked up the dropped handgun of the guard that Starlight had shot earlier. She closed her eyes. She could hear the footsteps around the corner. She could sense the bullets paths. She opened her eyes, laid herself down. She hurled herself forward. She saw the guard looking down at her in bewilderment as she rounded the corner ground level. She saw the body of the guard jerk back and forth as she put four rounds in him. He fell sideways and touched the wall before crumbling to the ground.

“Lets go before more of them shows up!” Starlight exclaimed

“Wait. We can't let Ourumov escape!” Pinkie Pie shouted as she galloped back toward the interrogation room.

After entering the room she looked around but couldn’t find the general. There was an open window. Ourumov had escaped. She bumped her hoof at something. She looked down. It was her PPK pistol. Ourumov had been so kind to leave it there for her.

Starlight Glimmer saw Pinkie Pie come out of the interrogation room.

“I see you found your gun.” Starlight said as they both galloped toward what the believed were the exit.

“Yea. Unfortunately it seems like Ourumov escaped.” Pinkie Pie sounded irritated.

The ponies found their way to the roof. There they found a shopper, the pilot waiting inside it. It had probably been Mishkin’s ride. Pinkie Pie approached the pilot seat. She opened the door. She pointed her PPK at the driver.

“Alright! Unbuckle, i need your ride!”

The pilot looked at Pinkie Pie, more bewildered that frightened. He raised his hands.

“GET OUT OF THE SHOPPER I SAID!” Pinkie Pie roared, her eyes blackened by the last minutes events. They looked like dark pitless holes, untouched by emotions and empathy. The eyes caused the pilots blood to freeze. He unbuckled himself. Pinkie Pie grabbed hold of him and tossed him out.

The spring laid itself over the forrest of Russia. The ponies had found two abandoned cottages with one bed in each. Their “borrowed” shopper stood mutilated further away in a forrest opening. Starlight Glimmer had always been a mare of practicality, but driving one of those things had turned out being a feat way above her usual learning skills. For every turn of the lever it had seemed like the chopper wanted to go in the opposite direction. It was a wonder they were both on the ground in one piece.

Starlight Glimmer looked around. She was waiting for Pinkie Pie. She said that said she would only get some fire wood but now she seemed to have vanished. Thinking of the last hours events, Starlight had a bad feeling inside.

The pink face stared blankly with blue eyes at the PPK pistol. It laid in the hooves of it’s owner, agent 007 Pinkie Pie, license to kill. And killed had it’s owner, indeed it had. Pinkie Pie closed her eyes. She tried to wipe them away. She tried to think of something else, still she couldn’t wipe the memory of those faces, those bodies crumbling, those screams, those blood stains that once belonged to the screamers.

But despite it’s appearance, that wasn’t the main thing that bothered Pinkie Pie.

Once again Pinkie Pie reached deep into her memories. She felt herself galloping, galloping after a plane. Behind her she had her friends Starlight Glimmer, Alec and the late Trixie. She jumped into the plane. The planes pilot turned around and looked at her. She put on a large party smile.

“Hi. My name is Pinkie Pie and i come from a far away land called Equestria...”

The human pilot looked bewildered at Pinkie Pie as she jittered in her memories.

“Aren’t you exited, cause I'm exited if you are exited and believe me I've never been more exited in my life and, believe me, my life have been full of excitement. So? What do you say?”

She felt the plane slow down as the pilot's face formed into a smile in her memories. After the plane had stopped Pinkie Pie poked her head and shouted to her friends.

“Come on. My new friend here is more than happy to give us a ride!”

Pinkie Pies troubled eyes squinted as she looked at the PPK pistol. A more recent memory went on repeat inside her head. She felt herself holding this very pistol against another pilot.

“Alright! Unbuckle, i need your ride!”

Pinkie Pie's world went blurry with tears.

“GET OUT OF THE SHOPPER I SAID!”

Pinkie Pie growled. She stood up on two hooves. With one powerful motion of her hoof she threw the PPK pistol into the lake ahead.

The pistol hovered just above the surface of the lake. It went sailing back toward the lakebed where Pinkie Pie had made her retreat. Pinkie Pie wailed her head around. Starlight Glimmers horn was sparkling fiercely.

Starlight saw Pinkie Pie looking at her ahead. Her eyes seemed shrouded in mist. Starlights eyes widened. It suddenly dawned for Starlight. She put on the largest party smile that she could.

“Heeeeeeey, Pinkie Pie! How glad i am to se you here!” She blasted with the highest pitched voice she could muster. Starlight started jumping happily up and down as she approached Pinkie.

“I was hoping we could all gather and have this giant party all of us and... you know... “Starlight wasn’t able to keep up the Pinkie talk. “Take out the cake cause i love cake but then i was thinking DUH why not just jump up and down happily until we all break the fabric of space and time and...”

Pinkie Pie laughed. Starlights hanging mane was way ahead of her in her jumping. It flung around and made her look like a bouncing air conditioner. Starlight stopped jumping.

“Or... What she said. Heheh.” Starlight met Pinkie’s eyes. She smiled as and continued. “...What you said.”

Pinkie Pies eyes widened. She could feel her worries disappear as she once again, in the eyes of her friend, saw Ponyville. It was just standing there, waiting for her to come home.

The night had fallen over the Russian wilderness. Pinkie Pie was lying awake in her cottage. Not that it meant that she didn’t had her eyes closed. But that was just the thing. Every time she closed her eyes she wished she could se Ponyville again. Her hooves were shaking. If she only she could visit it one more time.

She felt herself rise up to her hooves. She felt herself open the door, the cold air hitting her in the face. She felt herself walking. She reached out and open another door. Suddenly it was there again. Ponyville.

She could se Ponyville ahead. Its city hall laid majestically in the middle of the town. Twilights castle towered somewhere ahead, its crystal walls glistening in the sun. Sweet Apple Acres laid peacefully to the side, apple bucking season seemed just around the corner. She could see the school house. She could even see the treehouse of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. She could see Raritys boutique, white and majestic. She could see Fluttershys house tucked in somewhere close to the Everfree forrest. Finnaly she could see sugarcube corner, her home.

How long had it been since Pinkie Pie was there? She walked closer to Ponyville. Even as she closed her eyes she could still see it. She could now feel its warm breath hit her in the face.

She leaned in closer to Ponyville. She could feel Ponyville's nose nudge hers, it’s breath seemed to grow more intense as she slided against it.

She could feel Ponyville’s lips touch her lips. The lips opened. She opened her own lips to let Ponyville in.

She moved in yet closer to Ponyville. She felt Ponyville’s hooves wrap around her. Now Ponyville seemed to have gained a life of its own. Pinkie Pie didn’t know that a town could have a beating heart. Nor did she know that a town could moan. Suddenly Pinkie Pie felt herself lying in bed again, except now she had taken Ponyville with her.

Pinkie Pie opened her eyes. She took her lips away from Ponyville just to whisper her name.

“Starlight...”

“Pinkie...” Starlight whispered back in her heavy breath.

Starlight felt something nudge her belly. She reached down and grabbed it. She pulled out Pinkie Pies PPK pistol and placed it on top of the small cupboard beside the bed. She turned around in her bed, feeling Pinky Pies heavy breath all the way. Once turned she felt herself being mounted from behind. She felt Pinkies wet kisses moving all the way across her mane. Once the kisses reached over her head she felt Pinkie Pies teeth bite hold of her hears.

The still air laid thick inside the actual Ponyville. The image of the TV screen reflected on the various dropped faces inside Twilights living room.

Peter Dinklage watched Pinkie Pie moving back and forth on top of Starlight Glimmer. He reached out his hands incredulously.

“But her pistol is lying on the cupboard!” He complained.

Chapter 6. Pinkiemon Pie

“Are you sure it’s empty!” Twilight asked in panic.

“Yes Twilight.” Starlight answered irritatingly for the hundredth time.

“But are you really, really, reeeeeeeeealy sure!” Twilights mane had started getting a raggedy look. Her white teeth jutted out in a crazy manner. Starlight sighed inside the movie.

“Yes Twilight. We’ve been looking all around the base. There is nopony here!” Starlight insisted that the antenna installation in Cuba was empty.

Twilight started shaking her head.

“No. no. no. It doesn't make any sense!”

“But can’t you just destroy the antenna now?” Apple Jack made her input.

“Yes. Yes. Good point.” Twilight wavered her hoof in a ‘point taken’ manner. She then transmitted to Starlight the crazy version. “But Starlight, can't you just destroy the antenna now!?”

Starlight frowned inside the movie.

“Twilight, think. If there’s nopony here then the chances are pretty high that Ourumov might have found another antenna someplace else. In fact, how do we even know that he plans to fire the Goldeneye? Wasn’t that what the Janus group planned? How do we know that Ourumov is planning the same thing?"

Pinkie Pie was in the next room. She heard everything that Starlight said. She looked down at her PPK pistol. She still remembered the faces of all those humans that she killed. But thanks to Starlight Glimmer she also knew that she was still the same Pinkie Pie that she was when she left ponyville, despite all the bad things that she had done. Still, without that other Pinkie Pie they would never have escaped that interrogation room. She raised her ears and listened to the arguments next room.

Pinkie Pie picked up her PPK pistol. She placed it in the sheet around her belly. No, it wasn’t going to do. She admired her friends help. But she was 007 now, and if there’d ever be any hope of her and Starlight getting back to Equestria she would have to become two ponies. She also didn’t care what M said, if it hadn’t been for her silliness at the train Trixie would still be alive and they would all be home in ponyville. This was all her fault and she was the pony that would have to sort this out. The only pony that was out of context here was the pony that threw the chopper pilot out of the chopper, that pony named Pinkiemon Pie.

That pony she would never become again.

Starlight heard the door beside her open. She saw Pinkie Pie walk by without looking at her. Pinkie Pie opened the exit to the cottage they had taken residence in, the light outside patching through her curly hair.

“Where are you going Pinkie?” Starlight asked.

Pinkie Pie turned her head and looked sideways at Starlight.

“To find the Goldeneye, to find out what Ourumov plans to do with it and stop it.” She answered.

Back in Equestria the TV screen went black.

“What happened?” Fluttershy asked.

The image returned again. It now showed an overview of some kind of mansion, security guards surrounding it. A text showed up at the bottom of the screen. The text read in capital letters. ‘ONE YEAR LATER.’

Twilight paused the tape. The others saw Twilight sitting still in front of the TV screen. Slowly, she rose up on her four hooves, her lavender alicorn body silhouetted in front of it.

“Eh, Twilight?” Apple Jack asked.

Twilight wailed her head around. Her raggedy mane pointed straight upward. Her crazy eyes had hard pupils. There were the sound of a spring bouncing.

“Well, hello there fillies and gentle colts!” She said with her teeth jutting out of her mouth.

The faces of the others formed somewhere between disbelief and sadness as twilight started walking around in front of the TV, pretending to have a session.

“We’ve all ben gathered here today to watch us a movie. What movie you may ask? Well, it’s all part of our study into the topic How To Get Things Right. Now, as a volunteer to this deep diving endeavor i have my lovely student Starlight Glimmer and her lovely friend Trixie.”

Twilight flung her head around and placed her hoof underneath her mouth.

“What’s that? Trixie is dead? Well, i guess we’ll have to take my party planner instead. Starlight, would you be so kind and drag her along? Thank you Starlight. I’m so glad that you’re following the advice of your teacher.”

Twilights sarcasm and crazy talk sounded no different from one another.

“Now, as far as the experiment goes it have been a HUGE success. It all started with James Bond getting stuck on a wire, bouncing up and down turning into a porcupine. Since then he has been growling and barking all day with saliva flying through the air so i had my party planner Pinkie Pie put him out of his misery. Thank you Pinkie Pie.”

Twilight stopped in front of the TV. Her raggedy mane formed into a shadow that looked like a porcupine.

“And now we have entered the interesting part of the experiment were my party planner gets blamed for the murder of a cake hunting defense minister, chased by a crazy general accompanied by a mad lady with tight leather clothes and receiving a new job as a secret agent lead by a dried out vegetable. Now, does anypony have any questions?”

There were only awkward silence.

“Yes. Fluttershy, good question. What happens now? I’ll tell you that happens. What happens now is that my party planner is going to have to chase all these crazy humans down, all while the movie decides to jump years into the future, giving my party planner and my student ample time to BANG each other while I'm stuck here waiting for them to return as old mares after...”

Twilight flinched.

“Excuse me for a moment.” She said and trotted out to the balcony.

The loom of the sunlight sent flashing lines against the silvery Aston Martin. The small car sailed gently through the small streets of London. Neatly it parked itself beside the stone wall surrounding the Russian embassy. The inside of the car had vanilla colored seats and a dark base color with the occasional silvery button. Now, a modern designer might call this enough, but sometimes one might have the need for something more daring.

There was a pink hoof pressing the silvery button. A part of the vanilla interior next to the gear lever turned. It revealed a tv screen. A woman voice gave the driver context.

“Good evening 007, M here. 25 hours ago we’ve received reports about a former Russian hacker staying at the Russian embassy in London. The hacker is believed to be in possession of extremely sensitive information that neither the Russian nor the British government is aware of. Your mission is to find out who this hacker is and find out if he or she is willing to share their information with us. We don’t know his real name, but reports suggests that he might be using the codename Gerard Monterou. Use extreme caution ms Pie. This hacker is believed to be under grave threat given the kind of information he has. And please, try and be discreet on this one ms Pie.” M paused, then empathized. ”Try to keep your hair in check. M out.”

The pink hoof reached out into the hand compartment. It brought out an electric hair styler.

Boris Grishenko looked nervously around the lobby of the Russian embassy. His nerdy glasses sent shimmering lights about. The woman said she would meet him there, but where was she?

“Excuse me?” A woman voice said.

“Huh!” Boris heart jumped. He wailed his head around. The woman was in her late 20s. She had red lipstick. Her red hair hanged beautifully at the side of her head. Her eye brows had black mascara. She wore a dark blue dress.

"Are you mr handsome?" The woman asked the raggedy haired, straight faced, big mouthed, pointy nosed and dent skinned computer hacker.

"Wherever your sun shine." Boris said the code word in his thick Russian accent and smiled.

The woman looked blankly at the man she now knew was Boris, as if she was trying to swallow this situation.

"Right. Follow me."

The woman led Boris up some stairs. Boris watched her from behind. He straightened his glasses, believing that would help.

"So, do you work here?"

The woman didn't look back. Boris considered it a challenge.

"Have you ever been to Paris?" Boris retried.

The woman kept on walking, her short dress waving beneath her behind.

"You know? Iv'e been to Paris. They say it's the city of love."

The only answer sounding were the woman’s high heels on the hard floor. Boris looked down at the floor and smiled to himself. When he looked up he saw a big door opening in front of the woman to her left. She walked in, a man in a black suit were holding the door. Boris figured he'd get a second chance with her i there.

As Boris walked into the room he saw a big presence in the middle.

"Hi Boris!" Valentin Zukovsky boomed and smiled.

Boris stared in disbelief at Valentin. He pulled himself together. He put on a smile.

"Hello Valentin. Nice to see you."

Valentin looked smiling at Boris. The smile seemed stuck in place, turning it more and more passive aggressive. Boris listened around. He heard people walking outside.

"Are you enjoying your London stay?" Boris asked politely.

Valentin looked at Boris. He studied his relaxed face and smug smile. He could just continue as normal, but this was going to be more effective the other way. He relaxed his face and put on a understanding appearance.

"Oh yes. Yes i have. Thank you for asking." Valentin answered politely.

Boris felt his muscles relax. He listened to all the people outside again.

"Please. Sit down" Valentin offered.

Boris sat down in the chair further away opposite of Valentin.

“So? How are you enjoying your stay Boris?” Valentin asked

“Good. Very good.” Boris nodded.

Valentin smiled statically at Boris. Boris grabbed his neck. He laughed nervously.

“Listen. If this is about the money, the rest is on it’s way, i can assure you.”

“Oh. No. No. No. This isn’t about the money Boris.” Valentin assured Boris. “Even though i was the one who made sure you got out of Russia, away from Ourumov, this isn’t about that.”

Boris smiled and nodded.

“So? What's this about then?” Boris asked.

Valentin made a hand motion.

"Christine?!" He called

"Yes Valley!" The red haired woman answered hoity toity.

"Get over here!" He blasted

The red haired woman came forward. She kissed Valentin on the cheek. Boris smiled at Christine. This time she smiled back. She wavered her hand.

“Boris. I want you to meet Christine. She and i were in Paris last year.” He looked at Christine. ”Where’t we dear?”

“Yes Valley.” Christine turned her head and looked at Boris, then added. “They say it’s the city of love.”

Boris laughed. Christine laughed harder. Valentin laughed the hardest.

“Tell me dear,” Valentin said while still laughing. “What did i buy you while you and i were in Paris?”

“Oh. You sweetheart! You bought me a diamond...”

“A diamond.” Valentin mirrored Christine while nodding his head.

“...this fancy new dress.”

“The new dress.” Valentine motioned her blue dress,

“...That lovely car.”

“The car.”

“...That beautiful apartment.”

There were silence.

“No i didn’t. You bought that.” Valentin said while still smiling.

“I did?” Christine asked, laughing nervously.

“Yea, with my money.” Valentins smile faded slightly.

There were awkward silence. Valentin continued.

“I borrowed you some. Don’t you remember?”

The silence festered inside the room. Christine looked nervously at Boris and around the room. Valentin smiled widely.

“But as we just said. This isn’t about the money.” Valentin said and started laughing.

The fake laughters filled the room, Christine’s being the loudest of them. Boris felt the laughter boil up inside him, Valentin is such a funny man he thought. His eyes met Valentins, who's big cheeks bent into long lines by his wide laughter.

Valentins face dropped. His eyes blackened. His big chin hanged down from his face.

“It really isn’t.” He said darkly.

There were decisive footsteps walking up behind Christine. A big man with silvery teeth bent her right arm. Christine's scream filled the room. Boris froze. His eyes widened in disbelief. He tried to stand up but was held down by two men standing behind his chair. Valentin stood up. His short legs and large body still had him towering somehow.

“Do you see Boris. I don’t need my money! We can all be friends here!” Valentin exclaimed sarcastically.

“Boris...”

Boris looked at Christine, her teary eyes begging.”

“Boris. Please, help...” Christine cried.

Valentin turned his head in a incredulous manner.

“Oh for petes sake!” Valentin said and brought up a pistol. He aimed it straight at Christine close range.

There were three loud bangs echoing the building. Christine's eyes were still looking at Boris as they froze in place. She fell face down to the floor. A puddle of blood formed under her. There were a moment of silence, Boris panicked breathing being the only thing that could be heard. The door to the room slammed opened.

“What in the bloody name is going on here...!” The man with pointy beard froze once he saw the dead woman. He looked up at Valentin. Valentin glared back at him. The man opened his mouth several times as if he was about to say something. Eventually he was able to.

“Please. Can you all just be quiet? I’m trying to have a meeting downstairs.”

Valentin smiled and nodded.

“Sure thing.” He answered.

The man looked again at the woman with sad eyes before leaving the room. Valentin walked over to Boris. He bent his knees and put his large chubby face right in front of him.

“Do you know who that was?” Valentin asked and pointed his gun at the door.

Boris shook his sweaty head.

“That was the chief of police, of London. Did you really believe that you would be safe from me outside of Russia Boris?”

Boris looked behind Valentin. The large man that held Christine’s arm smiled with his big iron teeth.

“Don’t look at Jaws! Look at me!” Valentin blasted. Boris looked at Valentin again, who now spoke with a understanding voice.

“So, you see. I hear what you say when you say ‘if this is about the money then...’. And i agree, i agree.” Valentin pointed his gun at the dead woman. “That, Boris. That was not about the money anymore. I’m never gonna to get her money now. Don’t you agree?”

Boris was shaking and sweating so hard that he could only muster a small nod. Valentin looked silently at horrified Boris. He then said understandingly.

“Shall we both agree that this IS about the money, for now?”

Boris nodded.

“Good, and i think we can both come to understanding that this will continue being about the money...” Valentin paused, letting the seriousness sink in, as if he needed to. “...Until seven days from now. huh?” Valentins eyes widened as he looked at Boris

Boris nodded again, feeling himself calm down.

“Good. Cause after that...” Valentin looked back at Christine, then at Boris again. “...it won't be.”

Boris felt his muscles relax as he was walking down the stairs, entering the lobby again. He closed his eyes, wiping the memory of Christine out of his head. It was easier this time. It had been way harder the last time, following the bloodbath at the Severnaya station.

‘Natalya...’

Boris eyebrows twitched. He shook his head. No, he had to forget about her, for his own survival. He opened his eyes. He squinted them as he caught sight of a pink pony entering the building.

'Did i drink that vodka again?' He asked himself.

The male receptionist looked bewildered at the rare sight. The pony had a pink fur. The pink mane of the pony hanged downwards from the sides of her head, curling up into hooks at the end. Her short tail hanged also, barely touching the ground. She had a pink tailored suit over her back and forelegs. Her back moved slightly back an forth sexily as her hooves sent echoes through the lobby. Despite being a pony her blue eyes looked suggestively at the human receptionist.

“Whats your business at the embassy?” The Russian receptionist asked curiously, somehow avoiding the question what in the name of the motherland she was. Pinkie Pie sensed the real curiosity. She answered in a slightly lowered highly pitched voice, slowly and seductively.

“I know what you’re thinking. It must be so rare for you to meet a pony.” Pinkie Pie flickered her eyebrows. “Tell me human, before i answer your question, have you ever seen a pony before?”

The receptionist was about to insist on an answer immediately, but his curiosity got the better of him.

“No, i haven't.”

“Well, there’s a first time for everything.” Pinkie Pie laid her hoof on the counter, her blue eyes leaned in closer as she looked at the human. “Tell me handsome, did you know that this is my first time here in London?”

The Equestrian ponies inside Twilights castle saw everything on the TV screen.

“Is she flirting with him?!” Rainbow Dash raised her hooves in confusion.

“This isn’t like her. She’s so seductive.” Fluttershy pointed out in bewilderment.

“This isn’t like her. She’s so fabulous!” Rarity wailed dreamily while holding her hoofs under her chin.

“Pinkie Pie?” Was all Twilight could say.

Back inside the movie the receptionist smiled. He laughed nervously.

“Well, i can’t say i knew that. Ms...”

Pinkie Pie looked confidently at the receptionist.

“The name is Pie, Pinkie Pie.”

“Pinkie Pie.” The man mirrored. “Well, what brings you to London then Ms Pie?”

“A man. Long and in his middle ages. He goes by the name of Gerard Monterou.”

Boris heard everything. His reaction did not delay. Fast as a fox he slipped out of the main door behind Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie heard the man she saw when she walked into the embassy slip out of the door the moment she said Gerard Monterou. She also knew that he had a lost friend that he was trying to forget, given the signals that he sent when she walked in here. Seems like this ‘Gerard’ was a man on the run. Pinkie Pie lowered her eyebrows in sadness and continued.

“Well. Im sorry but i have to go now, your answer will have to wait. I’ll come back later. Don't go anywhere handsome.” Pinkie Pie waved her hoof. The receptionist waved back as Pinkie Pie trotted out. Unbeknownst to Pinkie Pie there was a man in the corner. He picked up a walkie talkie.

Valentin and his men was on their way getting rid of the woman body. Valentin listened to what his lookout said through his walkie talkie. The more his man talked the more incredulous Valentin got.

“Well?! Don’t just stand there! Gather the men and go ahead and deal with it!” The skin on Valentins face shook as he talked. After the call had ended Valentin turned to Jaws. He pointed his finger at him.

“I got a job for you.” He said firmly.

Jaws face dropped in disappointment. So far this half as tall mob boss had barely given him anything useful to do.

“How would you like to squeeze a pink pony?!” Valentins eyes widened as he squeezed his walkie talkie so that it made cracking sounds

Jaws disappointed face quickly broadened into a wide smile of steel and industry. He loved ponies.

Pinkie Pie saw the man get into a cab further ahead. Quickly she made her way to her Aston Martin one street away. She used the hoof specialized handle to open the car door. Once inside she pressed a slivery button.

“Starlight?!” Pinkie Pie called.

“Pinkie Pie!” Starlight answered from MI6 headquarters.

“Starlight, I'm going to need some feedback on the cab traffic!” Pinkie Pie said and gave Starlight the cabs license number.

“I’m on it Pinkie.” Starlight answered.

Back at MI6 headquarters Starlight Glimmer the unicorn was sitting on a round rotating chair. Around her she had twelve different computer screens, all with their own hard drive. Starlight Glimmer spun her round chair around. Her horn lit up as she was using her horn magic to write commands into the hard drives remotely. Starlight Glimmers tongue hung out as she concentrated.

“Aaaaand. Got it! Alright Pinkie, i got feedback!” Starlight gave Pinkie Pie the location of the cab.

Boris took seat inside the fancy Greek restaurant.

He looked around. The restaurant building itself was square formed. A Roofless garden laid in the middle of it, filled with trees and flowers, a water stream was running through it with small bridges. In the corner of the garden there was a copy of the greek statute Discobolus. The garden could easily be entered by the diners downstairs thanks to the big oval openings to the sides. Boris couldn’t see that anyone would have been able following him.

“Can i take your order miss?” The waiter walked up to Boris. Boris looked at him in bewilderment.

“But I'm not a...”

“I’ll just have a coffee please.” A highly pitched female voice ordered beside Boris. Boris wailed his head around. The pink pony was looking down at the menu as she was talking to him.

“You know, not that many hackers like yourself carry around that much heartache.” The pony said confidently.

“Sir?” The waiter asked Boris. Boris turned to the waiter.

“Just coffee for me thanks.” Boris ordered quickly before turning to the pony again. The long pink mane covered half of her face.

“Listen. I don’t know who or what you are. But i am just a...” Boris was interrupted.

“Just a normal guy having meetings with Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky inside the Russian embassy under false name while running from a home where you left your loved ones behind. Look on the bright side, at least your decision to order coffee was all day, ‘Gerard’.”

“Who are...”

“I’m from the British secret service. My name is Pinkie Pie. But you are not ‘Gerard’, unless you like that name and prefer to keep it. But that won't help you if you don’t have friends.” Pinkie Pie turned her face and looked at him.

“What do you mean? I have friends...” Boris was interrupted again.

“In Russia. But not here, and not while in this pickle that you’re in.” Pinkie Pie softened her voice. “Listen, i know that you see Valentin as your friend, and maybe he is.”

“He is.” Boris said aggressively, letting slip that he’s indeed been in contact with Valentin.

Pinkie Pie looked back at her menu again.

“Good. Then, come back to me again when you’ve convinced your friend to stop being the most powerful mobster in Russia that you owe favors to, probably money. Tell me ‘Gerard’. You are a man on the run from people within your own government. Have you ever wondered what will happen after you’ve payed Valentin what you owe him? Have you ever wondered what will happen if someone within his giant organization let slip that he’s been in contact with you?”

“You know nothing about that.” Boris pointed out.

“No, i don’t, and neither will the guy waiting outside your apartment with a silencer.” Pinkie Pie looked up from her menu again, her flattened hair wavered as she turned pink head. ”I am an agent in her majesties secret service and I am your friend. Let me help you!” She exclaimed silently while looking at Boris with begging eyes.

“Mr and Ms?” The waiter came back with the coffee. He brought out a small note and pencil. “Would you like some cake on the house also?” The waiter asked.

There was a small hissing sound. Pinkie Pies confident smile was stuck in position as it intensified.

“What did you say?” She asked.

“Some cake Ms. Would you like some?”

The hissing sound became louder and louder. Pinkie Pies confident face slowly raised itself. Suddenly there were the sound of confetti exploding. Pinkie Pies straight mane puffed up into full Pinkie curliness, the surprised faces of Boris and the waiter buried somewhere behind it.

Jaws slam opened the door to the restaurant. His ironed face dropped in disbelief as he was greeted with flying confetti and half eaten birthday cakes. Around him every worker and diner were having the time of their lives. The waiter laughed widely as he was playing pin the tail on the pony in full waiter regalia. Jaws saw a minister blow a party horn, his old head covered in confetti as he smiled. On the restaurant floor oversized state women and men were dancing to a ditty electric tune. One after one the chefs of the restaurant brought out cake after cake, smiling widely all the way.

Jaws looked straight forward toward the garden. A big multi level party cake had been placed in the middle of it. Further ahead the Discobolus statue was throwing his frisbee unbothered like he always had done for the last 2000 years. Bewildered Jaws walked inside the garden. There were the sound of a cannon firing. A huge swarm of confetti and party regalia flew past his face, followed by a pink face.

“SURPRISE!” The pink pony blasted.

Jaws grunted. His lips bent in bewilderment whilst his iron teeth remained hard. The Pink pony was jumping happily up and down in front of him. She was talking fast with a highly pitched voice.

“I’m so glad that you could make it here whoever you are. Now let me guess, is it Iron Teeth? Iron Man? Long Leg? Bright Smile? Sun Tower? Oval Steps? Mountain Climb? Shorty? Harry...?”

The pink pony was spewing Equestrian names faster and faster. She sounded almost like a tape recorder in fast forward.

Jaws pulled his strong arm backwards. He thrusted it forward and punched the jittering spectacle whilst it was still smiling. The speeding tape recorder was abruptly cut with a short, highly pitched “hoaa!”. The pink pony went sailing through the air like a doll.

At the upper floor the rest of the dining guests were still eating like nothing was happening. There were the sound of something slamming into the window. The guests turned their heads and stared blankly at the flattened pink face outside.

“Whie!” The flattened face greeted before sliding down.

Jaws grunted and flung his heavy arms around like a colossus. The pink party pony was jumping around so fast that he missed every time. The smiling pink face kept flashing before his eyes, her constant talking fading in and out as well.

“Aren’y you exited...That makes me exited...I haven't seen you before...Taste the cake...Whats it like with those teeth?...” That last phrase had a bewildered face attached to it.

Jaws kept throwing his punches. His stiff movements created an image of his right arm bending downward after a punch, his left arm pointing straight backward, his long stiff body standing straight with his upper body bending slightly. Beside Jaws the ancient Discobolus statue were throwing his frisbee in the exact same manner. The curly hair made out of white stone laid still above the statuettes sad face.

Jaws stepped on the cake plate lying on the ground. The cake went rocketing up, smearing his face white.

“I see you tasted my...Isn’t it delicious...”

The cake landed on the ground. Blinded by the cream Jaws stepped on it. His giant body went sliding on one foot, his white face making him look like Santa Claus with teeth holders. Jaws foot jammed under one of the tiny bridges above the water stream. Jaws fell forward. He hit his head on the stone pavement and passed out. The ancient Discobolus was looking down at him from above with sad, sympathetic eyes.

“Come on everypony! There’s cakes for everyone!” Pinkie Pie shouted. At that same moment there were a cascade of gun blasts coming from the entrance.

Discobolus neck was hit with a bullet. Jaws woke up just to se Discobolus white sad face fall toward him. It hit him in the head. He then passed out again.

Pinkie Pie threw herself behind the statue. She poked her party face out.

“Sure you don’t want some as...!?” Pinkie Pie was interrupted as the bullets hit the side of the statue.

Pinkie Pie leaned herself against the statue as she took cover behind it. She heard the sound of stone breaking and screaming party guests fleeing as Valentins henchmen fired their guns. Pinkie Pie closed her eyes, her party smile staying in place. Slowly her fluffed up curly mane descended. The mane was still curly once it hanged limply at the sides of her head. Her party smiled changed slightly into to a serious grin. She opened her eyes, revealing a hardened blackness inside them.

“If that’s the party you want....” She mumbled darkly.

Pinkie Pie thrusted her front hoof forward, raising it slightly upward in a specific way. Out of the sleeve of her pink dress a contraption pushed out Pinkie Pies ten round PPK pistol. It turned at the end and placed it neatly in her right hoof before pulling back inside her dress.

Behind the statue one of Valentins henchmen had walked up into the middle of the garden, believing that this silly party pony can't be that dangerous.

Pinkie Pie wailed out of cover. She placed one round straight into the heart of the henchman. He screamed and fell sideways. The large white party cake behind him splattered with blood.

“Kill her! Kill her!” One of the henchmen screamed as they defiled what was left of the poor replica statue.

The frisbee arm of the statue was hit, sending the stone frisbee tumbling onto the pavement. Pinkie Pie looked at it. After a second of thinking she picked it up. She fastened a small bomb at it. She stood up on two hooves and threw the frisbee like it was meant to in ancient times.

Once the frisbee was in the middle above the garden she pressed a small button on her hoof watch. The frisbee exploded mid air, causing a huge cloud of stone powder to form all over the place. There were the sound of henchmen coughing.

Still behind the statue Pinkie Pie thrusted her right hoof forward, causing the pistol contraption to re appear. All that Pinkie Pie needed to do was to let go of her PPK pistol and the contraption pulled it right back underneath the sleeve of her dress again. She thrusted her left hoof forward, revealing a grappling hook in the same kind of contraption.

Pinkie Pie aimed upward, felling herself rise into the air after firing. She kicked the window in as she sailed into the upper floor of the restaurant. She could hear henchmen shouting below.

“Where is she? Where did she go?”

Pinkie Pie made a roll on the wooden floor, catching a glimpse of all the horrified humans hiding underneath the tables. A presence rounded the corner ahead.

“Look. There she is!” The man shouted and pointed his gun at her. He fired, the bullet going for her neck. Pinkie Pie moved her head sideways as she used her pinkie sense to doge it. In the same moment her PPK contraption had already delivered her fire arm.

“GAAAH!” The henchmen screamed as Pinkie Pie sent a bullet straight into his heart. Three more henchmen arrived and started filling the corridor with bullets. Pinkie Pie hid behind a wooden pillar.

“Come on guys! Kill her!” Pinkie Pie heard them shout as the pillar behind her diminished with bullets.

Pinkie Pie hid her pistol and equipped her grappling hook again. She wailed out of cover. She fired the grappling hook at one of the Henchmen, causing it to get stuck in his clothes. She galloped across the floor, hearing the bullets pass her before throwing herself out the window leading to the outside. She heard the henchman scream above as he was pulled against the window. She adjusted the grappling hook, allowing her to smash the window downstairs.

She released the rope through a very specific turning motion with her hoof. This took the two henchmen downstairs completely by surprise since they believed she was upstairs. She put two rounds in the chest of the first one. She threw herself forward as the second one fired at her. She fired three rounds in the air, two missed and one hit him in the chest.

The three henchmen left descended the stairs. One of them had grabbed a 13 year old human girl as a hostage.

Pinkie Pie heard the crying of the young human child as she was hanging above the ceiling in her grappling hook. She reminded herself that she had only three bullets left in her ten round PPK.

Pinkie Pie closed her eyes. She sensed the bullets path inside her mind. She released her grappling hook, landing in-between the henchman with the hostage and the two up front.

One of the henchmen up front fired in panic toward Pinkie Pie. She moved and let his bullet hit the hostage holder in the arm, causing him to stagger and release the human child.

Pinkie Pie fired two bullets, both through the hearts of the henchmen up front. Just as the hostage holder wailed his gun around Pinkie Pie sent her last PPK round through his lounges.

“AAAAH!” The man exclaimed before hitting the floor.

The girl went running to Pinkie Pie. Pinkie Pie heard the moaning of the last henchmen together with the crying of the human girl who had wrapped her arms around Pinkie Pies mane.

All around her the complete restaurant silence was only broken with the crying of the human child along with all the civilians in hiding. At least that was something, given the fact that her objective, the hacker, was nowhere to be seen.

Pinkie Pie lowered her pink head over the sink. She flung water all over her face, feeling its cold touch try to reach her troubled mind. The water went running down into the sink, just like the water in that greek restaurant garden ran when...

Pinkie Pie shut her blue eyes between her limply hanging pink hair. She shook her head as she blocked the memory. She breathed heavily as she looked into the bathroom mirror. In the mirror she saw a face, a face far away from the party pony that she knew she still was.

But why didn’t it help knowing this? Why did Pinkie Pie, once again, feel the panic rise within her. Was she finally about to lose her mind? Was she about to become that MI6 agent that went A-wall, the one that went insane? Pinkies eyes went dim as the last question hit her in the head.

‘Am i becoming Pinkiemon Pie?’

Pinkie Pie took another hoof full of water and tossed it all over her face. It still didn’t help. She could still hear the scream of the man she shot in the stomach. She could see the blood of the man she shoot through the heart smeared all over that large party cake.
The image reformed in her mind into an image of her friends standing in Sugarcube Corner. They all looked disappointed at her with frowned faces. Behind them was a large cake covered in blood. Spike was eating part of it. Was it her friends blood? That man...?

‘I’m not a real friend anymore...’ 

 As the last thought hit Pinkie Pie in the head she felt everything that she had ever lived for slip away. It left only a dark hole behind, a dark hole of screams and blood and happy memories twisted into bad ones. Pinkie Pie breathed more and more heavily. She felt herself grow dizzy. Her eyes started wailing around the bathroom.

All those good memories from Ponyville was gone. All that she could se around her was that colorless clinker floor. That hard sink. That tasteless water. That mirror that showed the image of herself, making her the only pony around. She only had herself. She was alone in the entire world.

Pinkie Pie turned her head downward. She screamed into the sink with her mouth closed, her screams subduing inside the small bathroom located in her and Starlights apartment in London. She screamed over and over and over again.

She screamed away the faces of the people that she killed only a second later, but she couldn’t scream back her friends happy faces. Tears filled her eyes. She crumbled down into the shower beside the sink and started crying uncontrollably.

Starlight Glimmer used the key to get inside their apartment even though she could easily just have used her magic to turn the lock inside the door mechanism. Or, duh, teleport herself, as Trixie would have expressed it.

‘Trixie...’

Starlight close her eyes. She still missed her best friend in the world. She knew that she would be waiting for her in Equestria if they managed to reverse the spell that brought them into the movie. But knowing that didn’t ease her longing.

It was now that Starlight heard the crying inside the bathroom. At first she raised her head in bewilderment. But as she heard who it was she immediately knew why.

The tears were running down the thumping party pony turned MI6 agent’s cheeks as she hid her face beneath her hooves. Starlight entered the bathroom. She looked with a sad face at the crumbled piece of pink inside the shower. She entered the shower. She sat down beside Pinkie Pie and folded her hooves around her. 

  “...h...h..h..Starlight...h” Pinkie Pie sobbed.

Starlights horn lit up. She turned the valve above them. The shower started pouring water over their manes. She turned the temperature valve to warm. As the water heated up she started swaying her sobbing pink friend back and forth.

“So, so, so Pinkie Pie. There, there. It will be alright. I’m here.”

“...h..h...Starlight...i can't remember...h....h....I can't remember them.” Pinkie Pie sobbed.

“Sssh, shhh, so, so. Remember who Pinkie?” Starlight asked comforting.

“h...h...My friends.” Pinkie Pie sobbed with a piping voice.

“So, so Pinkie. Your friends is all waiting for you home in Equestria.”

“...h...h...What friends? I don't have any friends!” Pinkie Pie wailed, contradicting herself.

Starlight waved her crying friend back and forth for a while, calming her down slightly before answering softly.

“Yes you have. You have Twilight, you have Fluttershy, you have Apple Jack, you have Rainbow Dash, you have Rarity. All of them is waiting for you to come home. We only need to sort this mess out so that we can reverse this foolish spell of mine that brought us here.” Starlight said the last part about herself with a tinge of scolding.

Pinkie Pie imagined getting home to Equestria again. She thought she saw herself meeting her friends again. At first it actually looked like them but the image slowly reformed into the face of that man. She imagined herself inviting him to a party in Equestria, but instead she... Pinkie Pie felt the crying boil up again. What had she become?

“Starlight...h...h... I can see him. I can see his face!” She wailed

Starlight Glimmer thought back on the last year they spent living inside this movie. She remembered the other times they had this same discussion. She knew immediately what ‘him’ was all about.

“Yes Pinkie. I know you can, but you only did what you had to do. You heard what M said about when these things happen. It’s on MI6 what happened to him, you only followed orders.”

“I am...” Pinkie Pies face widened in horror. “Pinkiemon Pie.”

Starlight raised her head. She pulled up Pinkies head with her hoof, having her own eyes meet her teary eyes. Starlight smiled.

“Hello Pinkie Pie.” She greeted.

“...h...h...I am?”

“Yes you are, and you have always been... The most funny, happy, smiling and uplifting pony that i’ve ever known. Long ago i thought i knew what smiling was. I thought that all you needed to do was to raise your mouth and show your teeth, until you came into my village and showed me how to smile from the inside.”

“But Pinkiemon...” Pinkie Pie blurted.

“Pinkie Pie, look at me, look at my smile.” Starlight urged.

Pinkie Pie studied Starlights smile. It was a smile that came from pure joy of seeing the pony you care about.

“It’s a good smile.” Pinkie Pie concluded with a broken voice. Starlights smiling mouth then opened and asked the question.

“Would Pinkiemon be able to tell the difference?”

Pinkie Pie felt her sobbing stop. Even though her mouth remained dropped she felt a smile form inside her. Pinkiemon Pie was gone.

“Oh Starlight.” Pinkie Pie cried and wrapped her hooves around Starlight and buried her face inside her mane.” Starlight, what would i do without you?”

Suddenly another horrifying thought festered itself inside Pinkies head. She felt the crying boil up again.

“But Starlight. What if my friends won't recognize me?” Pinkie Pie started sobbing again. “What if i’ll never be a party pony ever again?”

“You have a difficult job Pinkie Pie. Being a MI6 agent must be hard, but thats only temporarily. Trust me Pinkie, you WILL be that pony again once we return. And when we do we will all be having a big party together.”

Pinkie Pie breathed her sobs as an answer. She eventually managed.

“A party?”

“Yes, a party.” Starlight answered softly. “...And all of us will be there. Right there, at Sugarcube Corner. We will have a big cake. Trixie will be there.” Starlight Glimmer leaned her mouth close to Pinkies ear. “...I will be there.”

“And I will!” A voice exclaimed inside Starlight Glimmers head. Starlights face lit up.

“Twilight?” A huge smile formed on her face. “Twilight! Its really you?!"

Back in Equestria Twilight was sitting in front of the TV with tears in her eyes. Behind her she had her friends doing the same. Starlight continued inside the movie.

“Let me guess, there's been a time jump in the movie.” Starlight was still smiling as she talked.

“Yes. One year.” Twilight informed. “For us it only took a second, but for you... I wish i was there, i really do.”

“I know you do Twilight. But its probably better if...” Twilight interrupted Starlight.

“Starlight?”

“Yes?”

“Starlight, can i talk to her?” Twilight asked. Starlights horn lit up. She re-casted the transmission spell to Pinkie Pie.

“Sure Twilight.” Starlight obliged. Twilight then spoke softly to her party pony inside the movie.

“Pinkie Pie.” Twilight began softly.

Pinkie Pie didn’t say anything. Her sobbing continued.

“Pinkie Pie, do you remember Alec Trevelyan?”

“...h...Yes.” Pinkie Pie was able.

“Do you remember what you said to him when you met him at Severnaya?”

Pinkie Pie didn’t answer. She raised her teary face as she seemed to think. Twilight continued. 

  “...Cause i do. You were talking to him in the snow blizzard. You said ‘Hi there, my name is Pinkie Pie. Nice to finally meet you again.’

“h...h...You do?” Pinkie Pie piped.

“Yes, i do. We all do. We all do because we all saw you, right here on the TV screen in Equestria.”

“..h...You did.” Pinkie Pie told herself.

“Yes we did. And we have all been with you all the way. Me and the rest of my friends. In fact, lets se if i can't...”

Twilights horn gave a glow in Equestria. She widened her transmission spell. She then spoke to the movie goers.

“Say hi to Pinkie Pie ponies.”

“Hi Pinkie.” Fluttershy greeted.

Pinkie Pie raised her teary head. Her eyebrows lowered in disbelief.

“Fluttershy?”

“Hello Pinkie Pie.” Rarity took over. “I really adore your dress. Who made it for you?”

“A guy called Q.” Pinkie Pie answered. “Hello Rarity. Are you all there?”

There was a unison answer among the movie goers.

“Yes!”

A smile started forming underneath Pinkie Pies teary eyes.

“Howdy partner.” Apple Jack greeted.

“Hello Pinkie!” Rainbow Dash blasted.

“We are all here Pinkie Pie. In fact, there are more than just us ponies here. Isn’t that right guys?” Twilight turned to the none ponies in the room.

“Hello Pinkie Pie. Nice to see you again!” Littlefoot exclaimed whilst poking his long neck through Twilights window.

“Littlefoot!? Are you there to?” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, becoming less and less sad by the second.

“Hello Pinkie Pie!” Ash Ketchum blasted “Team Rocket says hello! They miss you. But at least we are here. Isn’t that right Pikachu?”

“Pika!” Pikachu exclaimed.

“Ask Ketchum?!” Pinkie Pie said incredulously. A large smile started to form on her face. A low voice rumbled Twilights transmission.

“Hello Pinkie Pie.” Peter Dinklage greeted. 

  “Peter?!” Pinkie Pie said. A huge smile had festered on her face. Her eyes now cried tears of joy instead of sadness. Peter continued.

“You owe me a rematch Pinkie Pie on that Game Of Thrones board game. I almost had you last time.” Peter Dinklage said. A raspy voice took over.

“Pinkie Pie. You... are... AWSOME! I didn't know you were such a badass!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed while raising her wings.

“But i killed those people.” Pinkie Pie pointed out weakly.

“What are you talking about!? You SAVED a little girl! You SAVED an entire restaurant! Those guys had it coming.” Rainbow Dash exclaimed cocky.

“Rainbow Dash!” Rarity scolded.

“But it’s the truth! Pinkie Pie didn’t choose to become an MI6 agent. What were she supposed to do, let them just kill her!?”

“But i did choose.” Pinkie Pie said weakly.

The silence laid itself. Pinkie Pie continued.

“If it hadn’t been for my silliness the movie would have been back on track long ago and Starlight would have been able to send us back way earlier. And Trixie...”  

 Pinkie Pie paused, letting the sadness about Starlights best friend sink in. “...She would still be alive. I know that killing James Bond later was an accident, but the movie still choose me. I must be the one to finish...”

“No Pinkie Pie.” Twilight interrupted, she then spoke passionately with a strong voice. “...We will! I know that there’s a lot of pressure on you alone, but from now on we will help you all the way. We promise! We will help you both make it to the end of this movie. And after that we will have that party, right here in Ponyville!”

There was a unison mumble of approval among the individuals inside and outside the movie.

“And then we can leave you two to it!” Ash Ketchum blasted without thinking. There were the sound of electricity running when Pikachu gave him a jolt.

“Ao!” He exclaimed.

"Pika!" Pikachu scolded

Pinkie Pie and Starlight Glimmer blushed inside the movie. There then were the sound of a door knocking.

“Who could that be?” Pinkie Pie asked bewildered while looking at Starlight. Starlights voice grew dark.

“I don't know.”

Starlight got up. She opened a drawer outside the hallway and brought out a pistol. She walked to the door and opened it halfway, hiding the pistol behind it.

“Yes?!” She asked.

“It’s me.”

“Who are you?!”

Starlight had never heard Boris voice before. She raised her pistol behind the door. Pinkie Pie trotted into the hallway.

“Gerard?” She asked confounded.

Starlight and Pinkie Pie opened the door. Boris Grishenko had his face turned down. He spoke as he raised it. His eyes looked serious at the ponies.

“I will help you find the Goldeneye and kill Ourumov.”

Chapter 8. A Party To Long For

“Woh!” The lightly dressed woman gasped as she felt Valentins big hand slap her behind.

She wanted to slap the chubby meat mountain over the cheek so hard that he’d feel it for days. She wanted it because she knew that she could do it. She looked at Valentin, who looked at her with squinted eyes. The green clothed dancer placed her profession before her emotions. She put on a fake smile.

“You dirty girl!” Valentin scolded and laughed. The four other girls in the room breathed a sigh of relief.

Once the girls pass had ended they all walked out of the room, leaving Valentin alone. In that same moment a presence walked in, a presence with four hooves. It had a dark cloak covering itself. Valentin almost reached down for his gun when he suddenly remembered that MI6 agent Pinkie Pie had no horn. The white horn jutted out from behind the dark cloak. A white hoof moved behind it, shoveling the cloak sideways. The cloak fell down onto the brothel floor and revealed a white unicorn. She had three diamonds at the side of her flank.

In Equestria the alicorn princess was biting her hooves, her face twisting in nervosity. Behind her there were boys.

“It’s not going to work.” Ash Ketchum sulked.

“Yes it will.” Littlefoot insisted.

“No it won't.”

“Yes it will.”

“No it won't.”

“Yes it will.”

There were silence. Twilight took a deep breath as her anger calmed...

“Yes it will.”

“No it won't.”

“Yes it...”

“Enough!” Twilight blasted. “Boys. Please. I am trying to be POSITIVE!”

“That’d be a start.” Ash remarked boyishly.

“What did you say?!”

Littlefoot leaned his long neck closer to Ash.

“Dude, i think you just made her angry.” He whispered.

“I think i just did.” Ash concluded hoarsely.

“Pika.” Pikachu agreed.

“Well, i for one think she’d makes an excellent candidate for this endeavor.” Peter Dinklage said cryptically.

“I agree. I think she can pull it together.” Littlefoot said about Twilight, misunderstanding Peter referring to Rarity.

“Do you really think so? I mean, there can’t be much more hoof left to bite there.” Ash said.

“Pika.” Pikachu agreed.

Twilights face twisted in anger. She growled as her skin turned red.

“Man, was there something i said?” Ash asked.

“Dude, i told you you should have apologized.” Littlefoot misremembered.

“No, you didn’t!” Ash bickered. “You’re the one who told her that she wouldn’t be able to pull it together.”

“No i didn’t! I told her i believed that she she could pull it together.”

“Come on man. Do you ever meet any girl dinosaurs in The Great Valley? It’s a fact about girls that when you say you believe it she’ll immediately assume you believed the opposite from the start.” Ash lectured.

“Come on man, so you mean that i can't be positive with her?” Littlefoot asked incredulously.

Ash shook his head

“No you can't.” He whispered hoarsely, thinking about Misty.

“You guys are such noobs.” Peter Dinklage turned to the dinosaur and the pokemon trainer. “Women aren't looking for what you where before... they are searching for who you are now. You just need to show them some understanding, listen. Hurm...” Peter coughed. He continued talking slowly.

“Twilight Sparkle, i know that Rarity is your friend and i know how much she means to you and that she is about to stand face to face with a ruthless, girl beating gangster with a loaded pistol in his pocket. But i am most... I mean, almost 86 precent confident, by my calculations, in the notion that your friend, Rarity, will not get shot in the face today.”

Twilights angry face relaxed into mere frowning.

“Thanks Peter.” She said.

The other boys looked at Peter. He raised his arms.

“Well i gave the notion that i understood girls, but i never said they liked me for understanding them.”

“What? Have you never seen a unicorn before?” Rarity answered Valentins studying look.

Valentin immediately felt challenged. He spoke firmly.

“Well. I can’t say i have. Have you come here just to show me that?”

“Oh, no. Darling please. I didn’t come here to show you anything. I just came here to talk.”

Valentin grabbed his chin.

“About what?!” He boomed.

“About Pinkie Pie of course” Rarity answered innocently.

Valentin felt a shudder at the mention of the pony MI6 agents name. He reached down his pockets and brought out his pistol.

“Pinkie Pie?” He asked darkly.

Twilight was biting her hooves so fast that she sounded like a woodpecker.

“What...? What are you doing? What is that?!” Rarity wailed, pretending to be bewildered. She backed away.

“What do you think it is?” Valentin asked, turning his weapon slightly. Rarity started breathing heavily. She put on a teary face.

“Please sir...h...h. I didn’t mean to offend you...h.... I was just looking for my long lost friend.” She sobbed.

“Friend?”

“Oh please. Please sir. Have mercy!” Raritys face bathed in tears as she crawled at the floor.

Valentin grumped as he heard the unicorn crying. Obviously she didn’t know that her friend was an MI6 agent. He could just throw her out, or something else. Still, she could prove useful to control Pinkie Pie.

“Alright. Alright.” Valentin put away his pistol. “Stop crying for heavens sake, you turn of my guests.”

Rarity looked up at Valentin. She wailed her eyes around the room as she stood up, acting confused. Valentin looked at the unicorn.

“What’s your name?” He asked. Rarity snorted before answering.

“Rarity.”

“Rarity.” Valentin said dreamily. “What a beautiful name.”

“Oh, thank you my dear.” Rarity answered hoity toity. I was like her crying had tripped and fallen down a hole.

Valentin looked bewildered the unicorn. He knew that he was a human and she was a pony. But he couldn’t lie to himself, he liked the way this unicorn controlled her emotions. Maybe he would even enjoy using her to get to Pinkie Pie. He smiled suggestively.

Valentins suggestive smile projected out of the TV screen.

“Ooookay, THIS is awkward.” Ash said with a bent mouth.

“I didn’t know pony fetish was a thing in the 90s.” Peter Dinklage said.

“What’s a fetish? Littlefoot asked enthusiastically.

Back in the movie the conversation continued.

“Now. Back to the reason why i’m here.” Rarity were saying. “I don’t know for sure if you would able to help me. But i heard that you might be the guy to turn to about my friend.” Rarity leaned in closer and looked straight into Valentins eyes. “...I really miss her. You know.”

Valentin was taken a back by the unicorns daring advance.

“Sure you do.” Was all Valentin could say.

“Maybe there’s a place we could ‘talk’ about this alone? I’m not a huge fan of crowds, you know.” Rarity lied.

Valentins face frowned slightly.

“I have an idea. How about we talk about it...” Valentin then empathized. “...Right here?”

“Here?” Raritys eye glimmered in sadness. Valentin felt himself pierced by those blue eyes. He stammered“...I mean...Right here in my office upstairs.” Valentin smiled. Rarity returned.

“Yes!” Twilight exclaimed while throwing her hoof in a display of success. The plan to get Valentin to go alone with Rarity into his study appeared to have worked.

“Alright. Shall we go?” Raritys beautiful blue eyes flickered. She turned her white pony body around.

“After you sweetheart!” Valentin boomed and smacked his big chubby hand behind Rarity. Rarity froze. There were a hissing sound.

In front of the TV screen Twilights white teeth smiled pearly white.

“Ooooooooooo boy.” Peter Dinklage said.

Rarity wailed around. Her furious face jittered with red veins.

“What in the WORLD DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING!”

Valentins face got stuck between bewilderment and seriousness.

“I’m doing what I'm allowed to do in my own brothel!” He blasted.

“Gi...K....A....What you are ALLOWED TO!? You’re ALLOWED to treat a LADY like she's some kind of piñata!”

Valentins face dropped. His eyes blackened. He took out his pistol again.

“This is MY brothel. And I'm ALLOWED to do anything i want you foolish girl!”

Rarity looked angrily at Valentin. Valentin aimed his pistol right in between her blue eyes. Raritys anger thickened inside the private room. Valentin pulled the trigger, slightly moving his hand to the right.

The bullet sailed right past Raritys head. The red curtain behind her shook as it went through it. Raritys angry eyes showed no sign of flinching. Valentins dark eyes hardened.

“What’s the matter girl? Do you WANT to die?!” Valentin asked darkly.

Raritys eyes remained hard. Valentin fired three more bullets. Two flew past the left side of Raritys head whilst the third cut the right side of her throat. A small sip of blood dripped down from her white coat. Raritys angry eyes showed no sign of flinching, as if saying ‘Aren't you going to apologize?!’

Valentins dark eyes veered left and right. His face twisted in confusion as his eyes grew dim. Raritys face softened slightly. She turned around rapidly, letting her tail slap Valentin over the face.

“Hum!” She exclaimed as she walked toward the exit. She stopped and turned around.

“Are you coming or what?” She asked with beautiful but hardened eyes.

Valentin stared blankly at the white pony. She was either the bravest or the stupidest creature that he had ever meet. His first instinct was to shoot her and send her to Pinkie Pie piece by piece. But still...

“Alright. Go up there and i’ll be there in a minute.”

“Well. I guess then you’ll apologize to a lady before she’s leaving the room?!” Rarity asked firmly.

Valentin looked around left and right. He didn’t want someone to hear him give in to this creature. He grumped as he rose up to his feet.

“Alright. Follow me white pony.”

“Unicorn darling” Rarity corrected.

Valentin grumped for an answer as he walked past her.

Rarity followed Valentin to the upper floor. The boys in front of the TV screen celebrated the way they knew how.

“Se. I told you it would work.” Littlefoot said smugly.

“Hurm. I guess you did.” Ash grumped.

“At least she's not dead.” Peter Dinklage said.

“Huuuuuuuuh!” Twilight Sparkle said as she fainted in front of the TV, of the boys inside or outside the movie she wasn’t sure.

As Rarity followed Valentin into his office she saw him walk to the table.

Valentin opened his drawer and took out a cigar. He lit it. There was a strange flashing sound under and behind him. He spoke to Rarity as he turned.

“So? About your friend...?” Valentin froze as he found that there were no white unicorn behind him anymore. The door had been closed.

“Hello Valentin.” A highly pierced voice greeted in the corner.

Valentin turned his head. A figure with a hanging curly hair were sitting in the corner, darkness covered her colors. Valentins face frowned.

“Pinkie Pie.” Valentin said. He noticed that she didn’t have a gun. He pulled out his pistol and aimed at her. The figure raised her head, revealing its pink shade as the light from the gaping window peaked inside.

“A shame. We barely got to know each other.” Valentin said and pulled the trigger of the gun he recently used on Rarity. The gun clicked. Valentin looked at it in confusion.

“But how? I just used it?!”

“On who? Another helpless girl, Valentin?” Pinkie Pie teased. Her voice had a dark core despite its high pitch.

Valentin ran to his office table and opened the gun drawer were he kept his magazines. He put in a new one and pulled the trigger. It clicked again.

“I know were you keep your magazines.” Pinkie Pie said. She hurled her hoof forward, causing the contraption she had under her Q suit to appear with her pistol. The silencer on Pinkie Pies PPK silhouetted against the entering sunlight from the gaping window.

“Are you here to kill me?” Valentin asked.

“Kill you? That depends.” Pinkie Pie spoke slowly.

Valentin walked behind his table and sat down in his office chair. He put out his vainly lit cigar.

“I should have known that Rarity woman was a worm.” Valentin said.

“Rarity? Can't say i know that name.” Pinkie Pie lied and shook her head. Valentin laughed. There were silence as Valentin studied Pinkie Pie.

“Why are you here?” He asked. Pinkie Pie leaned her head forward, showing her beautiful blue eyes glaring at Valentin.

“Hans Grunz.” Pinkie Pie said plainly.

Valentins eyes remained unmoved at the mention a pilot under his payroll.

“Hans Grunz? Who the (Beep) is that?!”

“You know? He really had a nice beard that guy. Pointing downward like an icicle, a pretty handsome voice to...”

“Alright. Alright! What about him?!” Valentin blasted.

“He worked for you. He was chasing me and a friend of mine, a Russian hacker, alongside the Ukraine border.”

Valentin looked down and pretended to study his fingers. He laughed nervously.

“Russian hacker? What Russian hacker?”

“Boris Grishenko.” Pinkie Pie answered slowly.

The silence laid again as Valentin seemed to make up his mind. He finally blasted.

“So what? He owes me money! Are you surprised, interfering in my affairs, that someone who is working for me ends up shooting at you?!”

“Oh no, not at all.” Pinkie Pie said understandingly. Valentin grinned. Pinkie Pie then added darkly. “I’m just surprised that his co pilot wasn’t...” Valentins face dropped.

“...working for you.”

The silence laid itself inside the office. Pinkie Pie relaxed into her chair again. She raised her pistol.

“How long have you and Ourumov known each other?” Pinkie Pie asked slowly.

“You know what? You’re a smart pony. Lets make a deal...”

“The same deal you gave Boris? You helped him get out of Russia, little did he know that you also received payment to kill him.”

Valentins hands started shaking.

“So what? I take some money here and take some money there. I’m the reason that worm is even alive. And this isn’t about the money. It’s about...”

“...Information." Pinkie Pie interrupted. "You don’t really care about the technical stuff Valentin, unless it is technical stuff that allows you to gain the upper hand against a possible future dictator of Russia.”

“Who knows what ideas that smug general has with his stolen government office supplies?” Valentin referred to the Goldeneye.

“Who knows? And who knows whats going to happen now? You see Vally, you never really gave Boris a way out of this. Sooner or later you were going to have to kill him, wether you'd received the information or not. And since iv’e received orders from my employer to keep him safe, using any means necessary, i don’t really have a reason to leave this office with you still alive Valentin.” Pinkie Pies high voice speared through the thick air, like a bullet spearing through flesh.

“Then why am i still alive?” Valentin asked. There was a hopelessness in his voice.

Pinkie Pie reached into her pink tailored suit. She picked up a thick envelope and tossed it across the room. It landed neatly at the table in front of Valentin, causing some documents to sail down from it. Valentin glared down at it with apathetic eyes.

“The British secret service would like to thank you for helping Boris out of Russia. Inside that document you’ll find payment for this. You will never speak of Boris Grishenko again and Boris will never have to se you or your goons ever again. And Ourumov...”

Valentin looked up at Pinkie Pie.

“...Ourumov is your problem.”

There were the sound of hooves walking. Valentins eyeballs wailed slightly sideways. Starlight Glimmer were appearing from a dark corner of the room. With her horn magic she was carrying the magazine recently placed in Valentins pistol, along with the bullet inside the gun. She tossed both objects at the floor under Valentins table.

“I believe this is yours.” She said.

Pinkie Pie rose up from her seat, still pointing her silenced PPK at Valentin. Starlight Glimmer walked up to her and placed her hoof around her.

“Don’t make me come back for you Valentin, cause if you do...” Pinkie Pie paused. Valentin looked at her, her dark pupils in-between her limply hanging curly hair tore right into him.

“...We’ll be having a party.” She said darkly.

Starlights horn lit up. In a flash the two ponies disappeared. Valentin looked down at the document, looking like it contained only one percent of the money he had been promised by Ourumov and Boris. He closed his eyes. His mind went to the lonely hacker that didn’t have a dime, then to the crazy general that seemed to have his mind set on wiping out thugs like him rather then help him.

Valentin grumped. He picked up the envelope. He opened it and started counting the money.

There were the sound of a door sliding open. The dancer with green clothes walked in. Valentin glared at her.

“And what do you want? Get down there and make me some money...”

The dancer raised her arm. The silencer sparkled in the light gaping from the window. There were four subdued puffs, followed by a bump. Valentin was laying face down at the table. His blood ran underneath the money envelope.

The dancer placed the tip of the silencer at her mouth. She smelled the gun powder. She licked its edge, tasting sweet death. She moaned.

Xenia Onatopp turned around and walked out of the room.

“Ourumov sends his regards.” She said before leaving the room.

The warmth from the fire still sailed up. Apple Jack placed her hooves above it, feeling its soft touch.

“So all i need to do is to look out for trouble?” Apple Jack asked.

“Yes.” Pinkie Pie answered. “The moment Boris and Starlight hack into Ourumov's system there will be a great risk of us being discovered. You will have to warn us in case somepony tries to sneak up on us.”

“And what do i do then?” Apple Jack asked. Pinkie Pie reached down inside a bag she had brought. She picked up a sniper rifle with a silencer.

“You’ll turn their element of surprise to your own.” She answered.

“But i can't use that. I don't know how.” Apple Jack said.

“I’ll teach you. Come here.”

Pinkie Pie had Apple Jack lay down at the snowy ridge they were on. They both took turn and looked through the sniper scope. Below laid the abandoned school house of witch the rest of the gang had set up camp. The ridge provided a perfect overlook of it. They both took turn firing the rifle at some small targets that Pinkie Pie had placed below. Apple Jack was in awe. Pinkie Pie hit every target bullseye. She was glad that she was on their side.

Apple Jacks mind went back to Ponyville. She remembered a party they had. She remembered who had been throwing that party. Apple Jacks awe faded slightly. She turned her face down.

Pinkie Pie saw that Apple Jack had her face turned down. She placed a hoof over her back.

“Hey. Apple Jack?”

Apple Jack looked at Pinkie Pie.

“I know you can do this. All you need to do is to remember what i told you.”

“Yes. Pinkie Pie. Yes, it’s not that.” Apple Jack shook her head.

“Then what is it?” Pinkie Pie asked bewildered.

“It’s just that...” Apple Jack paused. She looked at Pinkie Pie again. “You’ve changed so much since you left Ponyville.”

As Pinkie Pie trotted into the principals office she though about what Apple Jack said. She felt herself sink into melancholy again. Indeed, she was still trying to get used to her friends reacting to her being two ponies at once. It was not that she was disappointed at their reactions, on the contrary she were glad that they kept pointing it out for her. She remembered what Twilight said and Pinkie Pie knew that they would all be having a party if they all ended this movie and made their way back to Equestria. She only hoped that she would be able to return to her old partying self again at that point.

“Hi Boris.” Pinkie Pie greeted as she spotted the Russian hacker.

“Hello Pinkie Pie. So? Do we have our lookout.”

“Apple Jack is all over it.” Pinkie Pie answered. Her voice bathed in sadness.

Starlight was sitting next to Boris. Her eyes saddened as she caught sight of Pinkie Pies lowering pupils.

“Well. Maybe we should all get some sleep.” Starlight proposed. ”Tomorrow we’ll se if we can't do something about Ourumov.”

There were the sound of hooves walking into the room.

“Well hello yellow pegasus.” Boris greeted.

“Fluttershy.” Fluttershy corrected gently and smiled.

"Fluttershy. What a cute name." Boris said in his thick russian accent. Fluttershy giggled

"Thank you Boris."

Boris spotted a white pony.

“And hello white... uuuh... ?”

“I’m a unicorn darling. Rarity is my name, nice to meet you. You must be the Russian hacker that iv’e heard so much about.”

“Yes. Boris, Boris Grishenko.” Boris tipped his glasses.

“How is Rainbow Dash?” Starlight asked, turning to Fluttershy.

“Much better. She’s started to awaken the past moon. She’s still groggy though, and sad.”

“I can't imagine why. I don’t want to think about how it must feel for a Pegasus pony, especially someone as proud of her flying as Rainbow Dash to lose a wing.”

“Hard. Very hard. But don’t worry. I’ll take good care of her.” Fluttershy said and smiled.

“I know you’ll do...” Starlight said. She then turned her eyes and studied saddened Pinkie Pie. She smiled and ended. “...We all need to.”

Pinkie Pie had her face looking at the table as she heard the others leave the room. All except one, who's kind voice now spoke to her.

“Hey. Pinkie Pie.”

Pinkie Pie turned to Starlight, who was sitting at a school chair further away.

“Is it the faces again?” Starlight asked with worrying eyes.

“No, it isn’t.” Pinkie Pie looked down at the table again. “I'm just worried that when i come home i might never become myself again.”

There were silence. Starlight smiled. Her eyes became dreamy.

“Hey Pinkie.”

“Yes Starlight.”

“Do you remember what i told you at the Trans Siberian Express?”

Pinkie Pies eyes widened as she remembered what Starlight said.

‘To me you will always be the same happy, kind and funny Pinkie Pie that I've always known, no matter how this turns out.’

Pinkie Pie smiled as she remembered, catching sight of Starlights gazing eyes as she did. But now another question formed inside her head.

“But Starlight. You have killed people to. Don’t you ever see their faces?”

Starlights smile faded slightly. Pinkie Pie looked down at the table again.

“There’s only one face that i see.”

Pinkie Pie felt her chair being pulled against the floor. As she turned her head she found herself being nose to nose with Starlight, her horn glowing fiercely. She kissed Pinkie Pie on the mouth. Pinkie Pie pulled back and whispered.

“But what about the ponies watching in Equestriaaaaaaah...” Pinkie Pie never got to finish. Her voice was caught in a gasp as she suddenly felt Starlights hoof push hard in-between her hind legs. Starlights loving eyes looked directly into Pinkies.

“I...Don’t...Care.” She worded.

Even though Pinkie Pie didn’t have much in common with Starlight she felt every being of her widen at the touch of the pony that reminded her of herself. Her lips against hers, the feeling of her hooves wrapped around her, moving in rhythm within her warm body. She felt a boost of intensity inside that body as she heard her horn sparkle above.

Starlight and Pinkie Pie rose into the air. Starlights opened the window with her unicorn magic, magic powered by passion. She had them both hover out into the cold whilst still being connected mouth to mouth. They hovered outside until finally entering another window.

The window closed behind them, shutting out the cold world, entering one warmed by body touch. They landed in the only bed situated in there.

Back in Equestria Twilight was trotting out of the living room to leave her friends in privacy. Behind her there were boys.

Ash Ketchum, Peter Dinklage, Littlefoot and Pikachu were staring blankly at the TV screen. Pinkie Pie was laying over Starlight and kissed her over the belly. Starlight smiled meanly as her horn lit up. Pinkie Pie opened her mouth and screamed out in pleasure as Starlights magic flowed were no pony had gone before. The eyes of the boys remained wide open. Their mouths opened and screamed out in pain as Twilight used her alicorn magic to drag them of the room by ear.

Chapter 9. This Face. Part 1

“Today, begins a new era!”

Ourumov spoke from the top of a large catwalk. His strong voice echoed within his giant vessel. Below him he had hundreds of his elite soldiers. Further away he had hundreds of rebel soldiers. His speech he had written himself to reach out to both groups.

“Today, we’re about to bring an end, to a world that has left us crawling!”

Ourumov were walking back and forth as he spoke. His boots caused the steel platform below him to vibrate, sending steeled echoes inside the wide room.

“Our governments, have betrayed us! Our families, they’ve left desecrated, fighting for something that they were never meant to reach!”

Ourumov threw a glance to his side. Alec Trevelyan were standing right beside his general, his eyes were dim of memories. Alec tried to be focused on what needed to be done but for some reason he still could shake the memories of the past. Ourumov continued.

“Well, today is the day when we all, abandoned souls of our motherland, breaks this pre designed circle of injustice! Today we will break the chains around our necks that our families have been forced to wear, and take back that of which we were never meant to reach! May our weak leaders tremble as we march proudly through the streets of out main capital! May our families, in life or in death, shout our names as we force our weak leaders to give us what we have been kept from for all our lives!”

Ourumov stopped in the middle of the catwalk as he roared the last words.

“Glory, and freedom!” He turned to the Leinz Cossack tied Alec Trevelyan, then to the rebel part of the room.

“JUSTICE!”

There were a swelling roar of ‘hossas!’ coming from the soldiers. Ourumov looked to his side. Alec had certainly proven useful in gathering these rebels to their noble cause. Soon he, Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov would become the new president of Russia and the first thing Ourumov would do is to reward Alec with a luxury mansion for his services. There he would make sure that Alec received so much praise and luxury that he would be paralyzed by his presidents overflowing generosity. Ourumov would then launch major a offensive on the west and end the Cossacks misery once and for all, their life long struggle against governmental betrayals, at the hands of his execution squads.

Alec Trevelyan turned his head to take a glance at his general. It was Like Trevelyan were having two faces. The sleek side of his face laid still and handsome, rising into a mountain passage of red scars on the right side.

The general and the peoples leader entered the planning room together. Ourumov placed his general hat on top of the control panel.

“You seem distracted, Alec.” Ourumov remarked.

“Is it that obvious?” Alec answered

Ourumov walked up to Alec.

“Alec. You are the leader of the free people, i am your benefactor and together we are about to start a revolution. This is not the time to become distracted Alec Trevelyan!”

“Like becoming distracted from state responsibilities by dreams of revolutions?” Alec fired back.

Ourumov looked at Trevelyan like he was about to explode. He was about to roar at this wimp to respect his general. Instead he relaxed his face. He laughed. He put his right hand over Alecs shoulder and spoke slowly.

“Alec. Alec, Alec, Alec. How long have we two known each other?”

“Maybe to long.” Alec answered. Ourumov kept smiling.

“Thats the Spirit. It’s always good to keep your distance, both to your enemies and your friends. That is why i know that you are going to be a great man...”

“Don’t give me that flattering Ourumov!” Alec spat. Ourumov placed his left hand over Trevelyans other shoulder. He brought him closer as he spoke.

“Alec. Look at me.”

Alec looked up at his general. Ourumov spoke to him with long pauses.

“Alec. I am your friend. And you know it, Alec, you know it. And you need help, Alec. You know that i would do anything, you know... I would do anything to help you understand. All those ‘governments’ and ‘weak leaders’ that i spoke so passionately about out there that was all just for show. As long as you know what i mean, that i am your friend. Alec.”

Alec felt more and more depressed the further Ourumov spoke.

“You are a sad man, Alec.” Ourumovs dark eyeballs tore right into Alec.

“I am a sad man.” Alec said dimly. Ourumov smiled and nodded his head. Alecs felt his mind go numb, he spoke the first thing that went through it.

“James Bond...”

“Alec. Alec, Alec. I told you before, Alec. You know very well what i told you about those vanities?”

Alec felt his memory of Bond slip away as Ourumov dictated the complicated word.

“Vanities, is a force that lives within us all, Alec. It is a comfortable feeling, making it all the more dangerous. It is an idea, a conspiracy that drives shadowy governments like MI6 to watch your every move. And you know this, Alec.” Ourumov tightened his grip on Alecs holder.”...Your silence only confirms this, my best friend.”

Ourumov large eyes sparkled with understanding. But Alec didn’t feel understood. He felt paralyzed. The real meaning of vanities, ‘An excessive pride of one’s own appearance and achievements’, tried to crawl itself up into Alecs mind.

“B...but vanities. It means...” Alec stammered.

“You know what it means, Alec.” Ourumov raised his voice slightly.

“I...it’s...a pride...in ones...achievements.”

“Oh no, no, no Alec.” Ourumov shook his head. “No, not achievements. Now you’re walking down that path again, that same path that lead your father to shoot your mother.”

“Don’t d...dare bring my... f...f...father into this again.” Alec tried to be angry.

“Yes, yes, i know. I’m sorry Alec. I’m sorry that you forced me to remind you of him.”

An old image from his childhood flashed before Alecs eyes. His mother is lying on the wooden floor with strange red painting under her. His father sits crumbled on a chair, a gun lying on his bent knees. The tapestry behind him used to be blue.

“But he was a weak man, Alec. A weak, weak, weak man.”

For every time Ourumov said the word ‘weak’ it felt like a hammer was beating a nail into his Alecs head. Alec felt his chin jam inside his mouth.

“...And Bond, James Bond...”

Trevelyan looked blankly at Ourumov, guilt swimming in his eyes.

“...He would have been so disappointed in you.”

Ourumov took his hands away from Alec.

“I’ll be waiting for you inside the bridge.” Ourumov said blankly and walked out of the room, leaving Alec Trevelyan alone with his hatred for the world, and himself.

“See? There.” Boris pointed at the computer screen.

“Is that my entrance?” Pinkie Pie asked.

Starlight looked bewildered at Pinkie Pie.

“Your entrance? You’re not planning on going in alone do you?” Starlight asked.

“I only need to steal the Goldeneye key. Without it Ourumov won’t be able to fire the Goldeneye satellite and begin his military coup. It’s an easier theft with only one thief. Despite, you’re needed here Starlight. Fluttershy is busy taking care of Rainbow Dash and Rarity is... well, Rarity. They need somepony to protect them, somepony strong. Somepony like you.”

Starlight looked at Pinkie Pie with big eyes. She felt herself sink into a hole.

“No... no, no NO! That is ENOUGH!” Starlight snapped.

Pinkie Pie was taken a back by Starlights outburst.

“But Starli...?”

“No! NO MORE ‘But Starlight’ HERE and ‘But Starlight’ THERE!”

Tears were forming in Starlights eyes as she wailed.

“All those missions M sent you on and and all I could do was watch those computer screens not knowing if you’d come home alive or not! All those times you disappeared, not knowing if I'm suddenly gonna receive phone call or suddenly get contacted by Twilight Sparkle crying!”

“I had... no idea...”

“No idea WHAT?!” Starlights angry eyes widened. “Pinkie Pie, don’t you understand?! ...I love you! I don’t want to lose you! Not you to!”

The last phrase echoed inside the ponies head along with the memory of Trixie. Starlights wails turned into sobbing.

“I love you!” She repeated

“Starlight.” Was all Pinkie Pie could say.

Starlight Glimmer closed her teary eyes. She leaned forward and wrapped her hooves around Pinkie Pies curly mane and released her tears inside it. Boris watched silently, his eyes glimmering in fantasy.

“Don’t leave me...Don’t leave me...I love you...Don’t leave me in this movie ALONE!!!” Starlights sobbing suddenly exploded into a raging hurricane of crying.

Pinkie Pie stared blankly into the air as she held the shaking unicorn in her hooves. All this time she had thought Starlight Glimmer being a undemanding pony that put all other ponies on the same equal level. Pinkie Pie never realized how much somepony special would actually mean to her. Starlight kept wailing.

“Don't leave me...Don’t leave me...I’d never make it alone...I love you...Don't leave me here alone!”

“I’m not going to leave you alone Starlight.” Pinkie Pie spoke in her ear.

“You don’t have to!” A raspy voice exclaimed.

Pinkie Pie turned her head. In the doorway a one winged pegasus pony were standing with Fluttershy by her side. Rainbow Dashs face was formed in determination. She had taken an assault rifle from the schools customized armory that was hanging over her mane with it’s arm strap.

“I’ll protect the hacker and the others. You two go on ahead and finish this!” Rainbow Dash blasted.

“Do you know how to use that gun?” Pinkie Pie asked while holding the crying unicorn in her hooves.

Rainbow Dash looked down at the short stump that used to be her right wing.

“It’s not like i’ve had anything else to do the past hours.”

Pinkie Pie realized that it would be useless to try and talk Rainbow Dash out of finding a way to protect her friends.

“Same wise.” Raritys voice suddenly said. She appeared behind Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.

“I heard what you said about me Pinkie Pie. And you’re right, I'm not much use with a gun in my hoof. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have some tricks up my sleeve, and it just so happens that I brought some sleeves with me before i got here.”

“Who would have guessed?!” Rainbow Dash boomed.

“Now, I have gathered some of my less needed gowns...” Rarity said as Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. “...And iv’e re designed them into neatly hidden traps. Anypony who believes they will simply be walking down these corridors like taking a trot in the park is going to get the surprise of their lives!” Raritys beautiful white face bent in determination. Rainbow Dash turned around.

“Well, i for one am gonna have a ‘trot’ and scout the area for vantage points....oaaaaaaa!”

Pinkie Pie looked out of the doorway with the rest of the gang. She felt a smile form on her face.

In front of Pinkie Pie Rainbow Dash was wearing a dress, but not like any dress. She was wearing a human dress. It was white, almost like a wedding dress. Rainbow Dashs head protruded out of the left sleeve whilst her right hoof went out were the human head should be. She were hanging from the roof, bouncing up and down slightly. The eery abandoned school scenery in the background made it look like she had been captured by a ghost dress and, for some Celestia knows reason, the ghost dress had decided to go ‘Here. Try me on pony!’.

“Wait. Is this a human dress?!” Rainbow Dash asked incredulously.

“Yes of course it is, my darling trap tester there.” Rarity joked. The others laughed. Even Starlight had managed to light up behind her teary face.

“But why did you bring with you human dress? Aren't you a pony?!”

I always come PREPARED!” Rarity blasted proudly. The left arm of the ghost dress frowned.

“Guys!?” Apple Jack called via her walkie talkie.

“Yes Apple Jack.” MI6 agent Pinkie Pie answered.

Apple Jack was lying on her belly with her binoculars. Her face was formed in disbelief. She heard her friends arrive behind her.

“What is it Apple Jaaaaaaaaaah!” Fluttershy gasped as she caught sight of what Apple Jack saw.

In front of the gasping ponies a giant blimp were soaring toward the sky. It’s huge ballon was bigger than a football stadium. It carried a huge facility underneath it. At it’s end a giant antenna protruded.

“I guess we’ve found our transmitter.” Boris Grishenko said.

The blimp was still held to the ground by large steel wires.

“But how are we going to infiltrate that thing now?” Starlight asked. Her crying had stopped.

“Look, there.” Boris pointed at one of the wires. “It looks like that one leads to the area were the went system is.”

“I don’t understand. How are Ourumov going to position that thing to contact the Goldeneye satellite while the blimp is moving?” Starlight asked

“I don’t know, but I'm not ready to wait and find out if he’ve managed to find a way. Ourumov must be stopped at all cost.” Boris declared in his thick Russian accent. He turned to Starlight.

“Starlight, i heard you and Pinkie Pie said back there. And i...” Boris hesitated. An image of Natalya, the wife he never got to marry, sailed past inside his head. It helped him make up his mind. “...I think that you should go with the pony you love. I’ll hack Ourumovs system from here and see if i can't stall that thing.”

Starlight and Pinkie Pie looked at each other. A grin formed on Starlights face.

“What do you say Pinkie, shall we go and tear down Ourumovs treehouse?” Starlight asked meanly.

Pinkie Pie hesitated. She understood what Starlight said back there, but as she recalled Starlight crying in her mane her own feelings suddenly came into perspective. As much as she dreaded leaving Starlight alone she didn’t want to lose her either and this was really a mission for a trained agent.

Pinkie Pie lowered her head. Starlight grin faded slightly.

Pinkie Pie raised her head again. Slowly the reflecting light of the white snow revealed a grin on her pink face.

“Lets do this.” She said.

“Ready? On my count. Three... Two... One.” Ourumov turned the golden key at the same time as Alec turned his key. It was the same two golden keys that Ourumov had received from the major at the Severnaya station, seconds before his accomplice Xenia had turned it into a computerized tomb.

The Goldeneye key had been inserted into the main console. In front of them a world map showed a red dot over Moscow marking the satellites target. A bent line was running across the map. It now moved and lined with the red dot.

“Ready to fire in 15 minutes.” One of the technicians informed.

“No. I was gonna say that!” Another technician bickered.

“This isn’t Star Wars Charlie!” The first technician blasted.

“Soon, Ourumov, soon you will posses what has been rightfully yours all along.” Alec said.

“And soon you will have your revenge for the betrayal against your family. Soon the British will curse the day when they decided to cross a Trevelyan. Soon everyone is going to know your face, Alec.” Ourumov said. Alec turned his scarred appearance to Ourumov.

“Well, i doubt that anyone would want to remember this face.”

“People don’t know what they want.” Ourumov returned with a snarl.

Further away inside an abandoned school house a certain Russian hacker had successfully hacked into Ourumovs military system. The feedback he got wasn't good.

“Oh no. It is armed!” Boris exclaimed.

“Armed? How long do we have?!” Rarity asked.

“12 minutes!”

Raritys horn lit up. She used the spell Twilight taught her before she sent her into the movie. The transmission reached the alicorn watching in Equestria.

“Twilight? Did you hear that?” Rarity asked.

“I’m already on it!” Twilight exclaimed as she switched the transmission to Starlight. Behind her there were boys.

“Oh boy. Is this where the shit’s going down?!” Littlefoot wailed.

Peter Dinklage turned to Littlefoot.

“You know if you keep this up soon Universal Studios is going to sue Equestria for assassination of legal property.”

“Isn’t that what they always do?” Ash Ketchum sulked.

“Pika.” Pikachu muttered.

Back inside the movie the wind was blowing through the curly mane of Pinkie Pie. Behind her she had Starlight. They were scaling the steel wire by hurling themselves up with their hooves using smaller wires. The big wire swayed about by the wind as they went. Starlights reaction to Twilights information did not delay.

“What? But theres no time!” Starlight exclaimed, thinking about how much further they had before they even reached the air vent. “Isn’t there any way we can stall that thing?”

The school house on the ground responded.

“I’m already on it Starlight Glimmer.” Boris answered via Twilights communication. There were a cascade of keyboard pressing.

“Woa, you really know how to handle that machine Boris.” Rarity complimented.

Boris was way to deep inside his computer coded mind to answer Rarity. Suddenly he had a tinge of inspiration. He tried another approach. His eyes widened as there were no denial message anymore. He rose from his chair and fisted the roof with both his arms.

“Yes! I am INVINCIBLE!”

Raritys pupils diminished.

“So you are. Hehehe... hurm” Rarity pretended to cough. “What exactly are you invincible in?”

Inside the massive blimp people were finding out the hard way.

“Intrusion detected!” One of the technicians exclaimed.

“Intrusion?” Ourumov asked.

There were silence along with the pressing of a keyboard. The technician raised his arms.

“I don’t know. Iv’e been shut out of the system. My password don't work anymore.”

“I lost contact with the security cameras!” Another one shouted.

“The countdown has been halted!”

“Darn it, I was so close to high score!” Charlie blasted.

“Do we know where it comes from?” Ourumov asked as he and Alec approached the workers. Xenia Onatopp had now joined them.

“We pinpoint it somewhere on a nearby server. There are three houses in the vicinity.”

“And an abandoned school house.” Another one added.

Ourumov squinted his eyes. Password changes, countdown halted, security cameras hijacked, a workers gaming session interrupted. All within a minute. The name flowed through Ourumov and came out like hemorrhoids.

‘Boris Grishenko.’

And he is currently accompanied by...

A memory touches the back of Ourumovs head. In the memory he is holding a pistol against the head of a unicorn and tells the then MI6 agent Alec Trevelyan to throw down his weapon and walk towards him. Right beside Alec, Ourumov suddenly sees the head of a pink pony peak forth. Ever since that day that same pink pony had tormented him, ruined his plans and almost driven him to insanity. Her name made his head boil.

“Pinkie Pie.” He whispered darkly.

Xenia Onatopp watched Ourumov over his shoulders. She heard what he said. Her mind immediately went to Pinkie Pies programmer friend Starlight Glimmer. Xenia moaned. Her mind went back to the Trans Siberian Train carnage. She remember when she saw Trixies body jerk while swooping her uzi over her. Xenia was looking forward to experiencing Starlight Glimmers vengeance, the second before she putts a bullet inside her cute little unicorn head. Ourumov turned to his sergeant.

“Sergeant!” Ourumov adressed.

“Yes general!” The sergeant answered.

“Follow me!”

The general and the sergeant met alone around the corner. The admiral had his head raised high in salute as he received his orders.

“Send men down there. Spread out and search every house in the vicinity. Leave nopony alive!” Ourumov blasted.

The sergeants disciplined salute remained hard, his eyes sparkled with confusion.

“No pony, general?”

Pinkie Pie thrusted her left hoof forward and brought up her grappling hook. She switched it to steel cutting mode. The red laser shimmered like the steaks over Twilights mane as it burned the closed air went. She made a circle and kicked it inward.

Both ponies wore dark hoods as they made their way inside Ourumovs giant blimp. Pinkie Pies Q watch projected a small downloaded map of the air vent system that Boris had managed to steal digitally. All they needed to do was to find a way to the main console and either fry it with the Goldeneye still inside or steal the key itself.

Starlight Glimmer followed Pinkie Pie closely. Starlight felt her fear of narrow spaces slowly creep up on her. There were a sudden rumble. The air vent was filled with the sound of metal shaking. Starlight gasped. Her gasp resonated along the squared vent. Pinkie Pie wailed her head around. Her blue eyes between her hanging curly hair glared seriously at Starlight as the natural swaying of the blimp hitting air currents stopped. Before making it up to this skyward place Pinkie Pie had firmly instructed Starlight that there would be absolute silence. Only body language were to be used.

The ponies reached a dead end. Pinkie Pie cursed herself and bad construction blueprints. She turned to Starlight, who looked at her with worrying eyes. She turned her head as she heard footsteps outside. Pinkie Pie spotted a lid fastened by small screws. Pinkie Pie pressed a button on her Q watch, turning it into a magnet. She used it to loosen the screws.

Silently the both ponies stepped out of the air vent. Pinkie Pie looked to the left, then right. She heard another guard approaching around the corner. The corridor behind the ponies was long and offered no hiding and the guard would se the open vent if they tried to hide in there. Starlights eyes froze in horror whilst Pinkie Pies gained a dark determined appearance.

Pinkie Pie galloped forward. She rose on two hooves, thrusted her right hoof forward and received her silenced PPK from the sleeve contraption built into her Q suit. This ingenious invention allowed for the pony to switch between unhindered four hoof galloping and two hoof firing whilst keeping the belly free from things bumping into her legs.

The guard gasped and raised his assault rifle. Pinkie Pie pressed her hoof against his mouth, pushed the silencer underneath his body armor pulled the trigger three times. There were three small ‘piffs’ before the guard crumbled to the floor. Pinkie Pie then proceeded hiding the body inside the air vent. Starlight looked around nervously, her heart thumping at the notion that somepony might have heard something.

Pinkie Pie and Starlight Glimmer proceeded sneaking inside the Blimp facility. Their hooves they had silenced with soft Q made horseshoes. Starlight felt the entire construction sway as the big ballon outside reacted to the wind, although Starlight Glimmer had a feeling this Blimp would become more than air thick when all this was over.

The thick air ran through the light wings of the soaring pegasus pony. She took a deep breath. She could feel it’s freshness widen inside her throat. All her life Rainbow Dash had been flying. But why did it feel so rare now?

She gazed over at the horizon. Seagulls were calling over it’s blue line. She looked to her left. The blue feathers of her left wing swayed as they captured the sea breeze. She smiled and breathed in another fresh taste of life. She looked forward. She could now see the seagulls again. But was it seagulls? Did seagulls really have four legs? Her eyes squinted. Rainbow Dash gasped as she realized the truth.

‘Fire Streak! Soarin! Spit Fire!’

Rainbow Dash made a strong forward thrust to gain speed and catch up with her fellow wonderbolt colleagues. But did her left wing feel a little stiff? Rainbow Dash looked to her left again. The wing was flapping alright but the unmoving feathers revealed that it didn’t catch the wind the way it should. She tried to flapped even harder but for some reason her dear feathers didn’t seem to work. The wing disappeared from view as she lowered it. Once it came into view again she spotted a second wing. It was blue and it was blowing away limply with the wind. Rainbow Dash felt the horror creep up on her. Slowly, Rainbow Dash turned her head to the right. She raised her right human hand and stretched her five fingers.

Rainbow Dash flung her eyes open in panic. Her right wing hurt as she found herself in the waking world again.

“Aaaaaaah!” She moaned in pain.

“Rainbow Dash!” Fluttershy trotted up to her. “Rainbow Dash, are you alright?”

Rainbow Dash tried to stretch her right wing. It cut.

“GAAAAAAA!” She roared, tears forming in her eyes from the pain.

“It’s phantom pain Rainbow Dash. Remember, you don't have a right wing.” Fluttershy informed consequently.

Rainbow Dash looked to her right. Her eyes festered upon the short stub that ended with a bandage. Even though the pain had stopped her eyes widened in sadness. She looked down at her hooves. They still held the weapon that Pinkie Pie had informed her was an AKS 74, part of the Russian Kalashnikov family of assault rifles. She growled. Not from pain, but from determination. Even though she were useless as a pegasus she still needed to protect her friends at all cost. She felt Fluttershys hooves move over her back.

“Rainbow Dash.” Fluttershy said.

“Phantom pain?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Your body is trying to use something that it doesn’t have.” Fluttershy informed.

“Aaaaah!” It hurt again as Fluttershy reminded her of her missing right wing. “But how can something that i don't have hurt?”

“It is your brain that is sending you pain. You still have impulses to use your wing so your brain still cannot quite cope with it.”

Fluttershys eyes sparkled with worry as her voice grew firm.

“Rainbow Dash. I really think that you should be resting! I am not comfortable with you doing this. What if...?”

“Didn’t you hear what Pinkie Pie said?! Soon this place might be crawling with Ourumovs men. We’ll all be resting if we can't defend ourselves.”

“Of course. But you are putting way to much pressure on yourself!” Fluttershy grabbed Rainbow Dashs hoof and pleaded. “Please, let me help you.”

“You already have.” Rainbow Dash said softly and gazed into Fluttershys worrying eyes. “You saved my life Fluttershy. Without you i would never have been able to get out of bed. If you hadn’t...” Rainbow Dash wasn’t able to continue. Fluttershy had placed her hoof over her mouth. Fluttershy smiled before her face grew serious again.

“Just promise me that you’ll be careful. I know this is just a story in a video player, but it feels real to me. Promise me, Rainbow Dash!”

Rainbow Dash hesitated. She realized that a half answer would only anger Fluttershy. She closed her eyes. She thought about what Fluttershy meant to her, both as a friend and as something potentially more. Rainbow Dash imagined how she would feel if she lost Fluttershy. She opened her eyes again.

“I promise.” She answered softly.

Fluttershy immediately knew that she meant it. She smiled again.

Rainbow Dash had her back leaned against the wall. Above that same wall there was a window, an indoor variant. On the other side was the big playroom of the school. The playroom had a small plastic slide for human children along with old toys spread all over the floor. The room Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were in was a sub area. Across the room to the right were the kitchen. To the left the door to the office gaped wide open. Inside Rarity and Boris could be seen in front of a computer

“You have to do better than that to outsmart Boris Grishenko.” Boris talked cocky to the computer as he moved his fingers.

Rarity laughed nervously and wailed her eyes around the room. Rarity was a social pony. Even though she knew it contained important information, to her talking into a screen seemed crazy. There were the sound of a small speaker receiving a signal.

“Girls!?” Apple Jack exclaimed.

“What is it Apple Jack?” Boris answered via his walkie talkie.

Outside in the cold Russian winter Apple Jack was shaking, proving once and for all that fear is colder than the freeze. Her horrified eyes festered at the scene of several heavily armed soldiers entering the front door.

“Girls. We got company!” She wailed.

“Give it to me.” Pinkie Pie urged in a whisper.

Starlight Glimmer had managed to teleport the Goldeneye key out from the main console. It was now crucial that the ponies made it out of there with it. They had also planted a bomb on a nearby fuel tank in case they ran out of other options.

Starlight had the Goldeneye hover toward Pinkie Pie.

“Hello Starlight.” A male voice greeted.

Starlight Glimmer froze. Pinkie Pie wailed around like a hurricane. Within a second she had her pistol equipped. Her eyes widened in disbelief.

“Alec?”

Starlight turned around. It was like the past itself had come so say hello. A large smile formed on her face.

“Alec? Alec! How glad i am to see you!” She exclaimed in a whisper.

“Hello ponies. I see you made your way here as well. Ourumov have to be stopped.” Alec whispered determined.

“What has happened to your face?” Starlight asked.

“It was that train bomb Starlight. Do you remember?”

Starlight eyes became dreamy. They lowered in sadness as all the memories returned to her.

“I’m sorry about Trixie Starlight. I wish i had done more to protect her. She was a fine unicorn.” Alecs sad eyes met Starlights, of which studied Alec.

Alecs face had scars all over the right side. But Starlights own scars after Trixies death were just as apparent, and seeing Alecs scars she felt like somepony understood her. Starlight smiled. She trotted toward Alec to fold her hooves around him.

“Wait Starlight.” Pinkie Pie whispered darkly. Starlight stopped and looked back at her. The moment she saw Pinkie Pies angry face she knew what she was thinking. Starlight went silent.

“What are you doing here Alec?” Pinkie Pie demanded.

“Listen ponies. I know this looks like a to big of a coincidence. But i am here as Ourumovs right hand man.”

“You don’t say.” Pinkie Pie said darkly.

“For days now iv’e gathered rebels from both Ukraine and Russia to fight for Ourumov. They all listen to everything i say.”

Starlight looked at Alec, then back at Pinkie Pie. She still had the Goldeneye hovering with her horn. Its orange core combined with Starlights blue magic made the core look like the sand on a sea bed. Alec continued.

“Listen ponies. I know that you have no reason to trust me. But me and my men are planning a hostile takeover of this vessel. But thanks to you two Ourumov is now looking for the Goldeneye. He is furious, he suspects that i stole it. We need Ourumov to find the Goldeneye key again and give my men some time to get into position, then we will outnumber him and we will be able to end this without any more bloodshed. Ourumov will then stand trial for his crimes in a Russian court.”

Starlight remembered all the times when she had to comfort Pinkie Pie for remembering the faces of the men that she had killed. She felt a tinge of inspiration in her heart thinking that this all could be solved without any more bloodshed. Pinkie Pie was still skeptical.

“Why has it taken so long for you to get to it?”

“I’ve needed Ourumov to gather all his followers in one place. Trust me ponies, we can do this! No one else needs to die. But i can’t return to Ourumov now without the Goldeneye key, otherwise i will have to launch the takeover early” Alec looked straight into Starlights eyes. “...I will be forced to turn this blimp into a bloodbath. Both my men and Ourumovs men will die.”

Starlight turned her head so that she neither faced Pinkie Pie or Alec Trevelyan. She shook it as she bounced between her emotions. Pinkie Pies face relaxed slightly but she still aimed at Alec.

“Why didn’t you contact MI6?”

“Ever since Ourumov rescued me from the train tracks he’s had me under 24 hour surveillance. I’m so sorry, i truly wish that i’ve been able to contact you earlier but i simply could not risk it at the time.”

Starlight looked at Alec again. His eyes glimmered in sadness. His divided face put a man torn between heaven and hell into focus. Starlight didn’t want to cause this poor man any more suffering.

Pinkie Pie lowered her pistol. Starlight trotted up to Alec, looking at his sad eyes as she went.

“Then we’ll help you.” Starlight Glimmer said determined, remembering when she helped Alec blow up the facility at the very beginning of their adventure.

“Would appreciate it. I need all the help that i can get.” Alec said as a smile formed on his face. Starlight felt her face mirror Alec.

Starlight had the Goldeneye hover over to him. He reached out his hand and grabbed it. He put it away underneath his jacket.

Starlight watched Alecs smile remain static, turning it more and more insincere. Starlight felt her face drop along with her heart. She turned around and saw a shadow slam something hard at the back of Pinkie Pies head. She gasped and crumbled to the ground.

“NO!” Starlight wailed.

She felt pain when something sharp suddenly stuck her at the side of her flank. It was a poison arrow. She wailed her heart broken face toward Alec again, catching a small glimpse of his regretful eyes before the world went dark.

Slowly the group made there way toward the upper floor of the old school house. So far the search had turned out nothing for Ourumovs elite force. But this was only a small portion of them. All the others were searching the nearby houses. Hopefully they would be getting some loot from the weak elderly people living there. It would be nice to open a glass of champaign before they begun their quest to end the treacherous government of Russia.

The only regret so far was that they had to stand out with the petty rebels. But they had been hand picked to be Ourumovs honorary guard. As soon as the Russian government had fallen the rebels help would be outdated and they would all be able to tell those peasants to dig themselves back into the hole of which they came.

The door slided open. The man in front leaned around the doorframe and turned on the flashlight of his rifle. The light revealed a short corridor with a large playroom at the end. Toys and plastic balls were spread all over the floor along with a small slide.

The wall to the side of the corridor was filled with old children drawings of animals, looking nothing like the animals drawn. There were a plastic toy crane in the middle of the room that had been placed underneath some small wooden boxes with colored letters on them. Apparently someone had imagined constructing something before they were forced to leave this place to time. Only an A was missing from the letters to spell ‘Death’.

The soldier up front proceeded walking along the short corridor toward the main room while five of his colleagues were following him. As he entered the big playroom he spotted toys laying along a wall shelf at the end of the room. There were one doll, one plastic carrot and one small red and blue ball. Above the shelf there was a indoor window leading into to a sub area. A lamp could be seen peaking out from the window along with a fuzzy ball in the colors of the rainbow.

There were the sound of a wire snapping. A dress fell down. A long metal object rolled over the floor.

“FLASHBANG!” A soldier shouted before the blast came. The world went black as the soldiers eyes blinded.

The fuzzy rainbow ball behind the window rose, revealing a blue face with determined sapphire eyes. She aimed her AKS 74 at the blinded soldiers.

Rainbow Dash felt the military grade rifle shake violently against her hoof. The guards closest to her screamed and crumbled to the floor. She heard Fluttershy gasp beside her as she hid in the corner. Rainbow Dash saw three more soldiers along the short corridor fall while two more retreated through the door.

Her rifle clicked and stopped firing. As instructed by Pinkie Pie Rainbow Dash bent down behind her cover and pushed a button at the side of the rifle. The magazine fell out. She put in a new one and slapped the thing, causing the spring to click into place again.

She leaned out and proceeded keeping the soldiers at bay. She saw one soldier run out of the door and into another room. They were trying to flank her. The one’s behind the main door returned fire. Rainbow Dash heard the wall under her slam by the bullets.

Rainbow Dash made her way into cover again by making a turning motion. She used her right wing to make up for the weight of the rifle. There was a cutting explosion of phantom pain.

“GAAAAAA!” Rainbow Dash screamed and dropped her rifle.

Fluttershy though she might faint when she heard Rainbow Dash scream. She breathed a sigh if relief once she realized that it was only the phantom pain. The calmness quickly vaporized as she heard the advancing footsteps of the soldiers.

Fluttershy suddenly realized that this could be the position of which she saw Rainbow Dash crumble to the ground in a forming pool of blood. Fluttershy forgot all her fear. She galloped forward, grabbed the pistol Rainbow Dash had, leaned her yellow hoof out of the indoor window and started raining blind fire.

Rarity was shaking in panic as she watched Fluttershy try and keep the soldiers at bay alone. Se saw two of the soldiers approach her cover from the side, about to get a clear shot of her. Rarity threw her eyes toward the pistol lying on the table along with a shotgun. She wasn’t sure what went through her mind but suddenly she found herself walking on two hooves, her pistol she fired at the soldiers trying to flank Fluttershy.

“ROAAAAA!” She roared while watching the first soldier scream and fall backwards. The second one returned fire. Rarity heard his bullets said right past her head. She proceeded emptying her magazine. The last soldier jerked and fell sideways while the wall behind him splattered with blood. Rarity grabbed the shotgun. She saw Fluttershy lean out of cover wielding Rainbow Dashs AKS 74. Rarity suddenly heard a window shatter behind her.

“Rarity! Watch out” Boris shouted from his office chair. Rarity threw herself to the ground once the grappling soldier outside created a draft of bullets. Boris grabbed his pistol, leaned his hand around the corner and pulled the trigger. The soldier screamed and fell down to the snowy ground outside.

Fluttershy was reloading her rifle when she heard the sound of a window smashing. A soldier grappled into the room. Fluttershy gasped and dropped her magazine. She wished her animals good bye once she saw the soldier aiming at her. There was a cracking sound in the window glass. The soldier gurgled and crumbled to the ground.

“Apple sauce! Sorry human, but you threatened my friends.” Apple Jack stated as she saw the soldier inside the room crumble through her sniper scope.

Apple Jack proceeded pulling the pin of her rifle. She saw one guy trying to grapple the window below while another one was keeping watch. She aimed slightly above the mouth of the soldier and pulled the trigger. Her silenced rifle made a ‘piff’ sound before the bullet hit the soldier in the chest. She then aimed at the grappling soldier who fell to the ground once Apple Jack had bucked her last Apple for the day. At least she hoped so.

Rarity wailed out of cover. She felt the shotgun bump against her hooves as she fired. All around her the playroom was filled with flying lead projectiles and the roaring sound of automatic weapons and the pumping of her shotgun. The small plastic slide in the middle of the room shattered. The plastic balls lying on the ground were tossed sideways, deflating while flying through the air. The drawings of deformed ponies and the animals was replaced with big holes as Rarity tried her best to control the spread coming from her pump action shotgun. Rarity caught a glimpse of the empty kitchen at the other side of the corridor of which the soldiers suppressed Fluttershy.

“Cover me!” Rarity blasted.

Fluttershy laid down a rain of bullets toward the corridor. The guards took cover. Rarity galloped past and threw herself on the floor inside the kitchen. She aimed at the wall. She fired three shots, the hard walls of the kitchen resonating with the pumping of her shotgun. Large holes formed through the wall. She heard screams on the other side along with soldiers tumbling down the stairs.

Apple Jack aimed. She shot one soldier that tried to run around the school. She though she saw several soldiers throw something through the upper floor windows.

“Oh no!” She wailed.

Suddenly the play room started filling with thick smoke. Fluttershy still heard Rainbow Dash scream in pain below her. She heard soldiers advancing ahead. The smoke reached Fluttershys lounges. She started coughing. Her eyes watered. She raised her head and caught glimpse of a face wearing some kind of mask. She felt arms grab hold of her and violently pull her over the indoor window.

“Rainbow Dash!” She wailed.

Rainbow Dash watched in horror as Fluttershy disappeared over the window. Feeling the phantom pain burning Rainbow Dash growled.

“Rainbow Dash! Help!” She heard Fluttershy scream.

Rainbow Dashs growling remained, but as she heard Fluttershy cry it changed reason for existing. She rose and hurled herself over the window, screaming in pain while her body tried to use her non existing right wing for the hurl. She galloped through the thick smoke and caught glimpse of man beating Fluttershy with his rifle. She heard Fluttershys small cute voice gasp in pain. This along with the phantom pain put Rainbow Dash in a black state of fury. She jumped forward and rammed the soldier with her head.

“Huh!” She heard him gasp.

Rainbow Dash threw himself over him. The soldier pulled out a pistol and aimed at her. Rainbow Dash leaned forward and bit hard. She heard the soldier scream while she raised her head and spit out his bloody finger into thick smoke. She grabbed his pistol and put three rounds in his chest, the blood around her mouth flashed along with the muscle of the gun. She wailed around and dropped another soldier coming through the smoke. There was another soldier appearing from the smoke like some kind of derailed stage show. Rainbow Dash aimed her pistol at him. The gun clicked. She saw the soldier aim his gun at Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash threw herself over Fluttershy and used her own body as a shield.

“Im sorry Fluttershy. I love you!” She exclaimed and closed her eyes.

The soldier rose into the air. He was tossed halfway across the room. Rainbow Dash saw a large arm reach out and grab another soldier.

“Oaaaah!” The soldier screamed while he sailed right over Rainbow Dashs head and smashed into a cupboard.

Jaws big iron teeth sparkled through the thick smoke. He grabbed one soldiers weapon. He had him watch as he bent the gun pipe sideways with his fists. The soldier laughed nervously before turning around and strolling away like a little girl.

Rainbow Dash felt herself calm down. She looked down and caught sight of Fluttershys goggly eyes. She felt regret grab hold of her. Tears filled her eyes over her bloodied face.

“Fluttershy. I’m so sorry that you had to see me like that. This face, this isn’t me...” Fluttershy suddenly pressed her lips against hers. She closed her eyes, feeling love embrace her as she heard Jaws drive away the last soldiers. I’t didn’t matter what her face looked like. Fluttershy could still se Rainbow Dash behind it.

Chapter 9. This Face. Part 2

Starlight Glimmer gasped and flung her eyes wide open. The cold water that woke her dripped down from her mane and tore chilling lines down her hooves. There were a chiming sound behind her. Starlight flung her head around and saw that she had been fastened in chains. The room she were in was dark and empty. Starlight felt her head being heavier that usual. She looked up and found that some kind of device had been placed over her horn.

“Confess!” A familiar female voice demanded. Starlight shook from the cold. She wailed her eyeballs around. Xenia Onatopp had her red lipstick only inches away from her.

“Confess!”

Despite Xenia's exclaiming she didn’t seem angry at all. She smiled in pleasure as she seemed to enjoy every second of whatever she was doing. Starlight managed to growl despite her being scared.

“What have you done to Pinkie Pie?!”

Xenia's face dropped in a display of disappointment. She stepped back and grabbed her whip. She flung her arm around. Starlight closed her eyes and screamed in pain once the whip burned her stomach. Xenia looked at Starlight with dreamy eyes.

“That scream reminds me of someone.” Xenia said like to a lover. She bent her head sideways like an owl.

“Would you like to know what Trixie confessed?”

Starlight felt the anger overflow her every being. She shook the chains of which she had been fastened. She tried to use her horn but for whatever reason it had been rendered powerless.

“Well that magic of yours won't help you my little pony.” Xenia teased while lowering her lips in a display of sadness. She walked around Starlight and laid her hand on her hoof.

“It’s a shame. I never really had the chance to make my own magic with that cute little friend of yours. She was soooooo beautiful with that blue magician robe.” Xenia placed her hand over Starlights head and forced her too look into her eyes. “I can't imagine how beautiful it must have been once i painted it violet.”

Starlight Glimmers roaring could be heard echoing throughout the entire blimp. This was exactly what Xenia had been waiting for. She felt the excitement boil up inside her along with Starlights anger. Xenia leaned forward and kissed the raging unicorn on the mouth. She moaned in pleasure as she felt Starlight become even angrier.

“Wahahahahaha. Yes... Yes! Yes!!! YES!!!” Xenia moaned while smearing her human lips all over Starlights furious face.

Back in Equestria the movie goers were in a state of returning their purchase to the rental store. Twilight had galloped out to the balcony and made vomiting sounds over the railing. In the corner of the living room Peter Dinklage and Ash Ketchum were doing the same thing. Being neither pony nor human Pikachu and Littlefoot stared blankly at the TV screen like they were watching some kind of weird sexual fantasy put on film, starring only aliens.

There were the sound of a steel door opening inside the movie.

“That’s enough Xenia.” Alec Trevelyan walked into the holding cell. Xenia glared back at him like an angrily lion.

“Get out of here!” Alec ordered.

Xenia faced Starlight again.

“We’ll have plenty of time later, my little pony.”

Xenia turned around and walked out of the holding cell. The door closed behind her. Starlights anger remained.

“You. I trusted you! I TRUSTED YOU!”

Alec looked at Starlight with an open mouth. He answered with a tinge of incredulous in his voice.

“Trust? What a quaint idea.”

Alec walked around Starlight. He brought out a key. He opened the chains that held Starlights front hooves.

“Don’t want you to catch a cold now, do we?”

Once loosened Starlight galloped enraged toward Alec. She didn’t mind the pain once the chains around her neck and hind hooves stopped her dead in her tracks.

“Why?!” She growled, the chains chiming behind her. Alec laughed.

“Why? Did you ever asked why? Why we toppled all those dictators, undermined all those regimes? Only to come home ‘Well done, good job but sorry old boy. Everything you risked your life and limb for has changed.”

Starlight glared into Alecs eyes. His eyes seemed to swim in some kind of cloudy fantasy.

“It was the job we were chosen for.” Starlight said firmly.

“Of course you’d say that, and what a funny little coincidence that your pink friend said the same thing. Pinkie Pie, Her majesty’s loyal terrier, defender of the so called ‘faith’.”

Alec reached down into his pockets. He brought out Pinkie Pies Q watch. He compared it with his own Q watch of which he still owned.

“Ah, a new model.” He showed the front display to Starlight. “Still press here, do i?” Alec pressed the left button and disabled the bombs that Starlight and Pinkie Pie had planted on some fuel tanks earlier.

Starlight felt her last hope of ever seeing her Ponyville friends again slip away. Her angry face twisted into a tinge of pleading.

“Don’t give me that look. It’s insulting to think i haven't anticipated your every move.”

“Yes.” Starlight admitted with a cracked voice. “I trusted you Alec.”

“Trust can be misplaced. My parents trusted the British government. ‘A Conference’ they told my parents they would go to. ‘I assure you, on my word of honor as a British officer, that you are just going to a conference’ one of them said.”

Starlight snorting now filled the holding cell.

“I trusted you...” She repeated weakly.

“Oh yes. ‘I trusted you’, thats the way you feel now Starlight...” Alec then went on rant.

“...Can you imagine how my parents felt once those same British officers beat them to the ground with their guns and threw them into trucks like sacks of potatoes? Can you imagine how they felt once they were forced out again, only to be handed over and thrown into Soviet trucks instead? Can you imagine how they felt Starlight when they spent weeks inside a cold Soviet prison, thinking about what their ‘Trust’ meant to the British?”

Starlights angry eyes glimmered in sadness as Alec ranted.

“Can you imagine how they felt once they survived all of this only to spend the rest of their lives in regret. Can you imagine the shame Starlight? The shame that lead my father to make that final decision? MI6 figured i was to young to remember. And in one of life little ironies the son went to work for the government who's betrayal cased his father to take his own life along with his wife.”

“I considered you a friend.” Starlight cried.

“Friendship? Friendship is a vanity.”

Starlight shook her angry face in disbelief. She had no idea what Alec meant by that.

Alec turned around and walked toward the exit. He stopped and turned the unscarred side of his face toward Starlight.

“You will be called to face Ourumov soon. You will then confess of being a terrorist that seek to overthrow the president of The New Kingdom. If you do so i have convinced Ourumov to not kill you. As a friend that is the last thing I’m able to give you.”

Starlight squinted her angry eyes.

“You are not my friend.”

‘Friend’. The word seemed to echo between Starlight and Alec. Alec shook his head, as if he was trying to shake a memory.

“I’ll give you time to think about it.” He said and walked out.

The moment Pinkie Pie opened her eyes she knew she was in a prison. Her back and front hooves had been fastened to the wall by chains. She growled as her back hurt by being in this uncomfortable position. She tried to reach her Q watch with her hoof when she suddenly realized that it had been taken. So much for the bomb plan. It was now that Pinkie Pies thoughts went to her ponyville friends and...

‘Starlight!’

Pinkie Pie knew that she herself would surely be executed. But what would become of her friends? If she died wouldn’t they be stuck inside this movie for the rest of their lives? As she thought about this a dark panic started to rise within her. Her highly pitched gasps echoed inside the holding cell as she tried to break the chains. Suddenly there were the sound of a steel door opening. The moment Pinkie Pie heard the long decisive steps she knew who it was. She growled.

General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov and soon to be president of The New Kingdom did not bother to glance inside the bullet proof glass as he walked along the special holding cell. He stopped in front of the control panel, pressed a button and spoke his name.

“General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov”

The glass door leading into the cell opened. Ourumov stepped inside. He looked straight above Pinkie Pie as he approached her, avoiding eye contact like you always do with a overly enthusiastic dog. Pinkie Pies curly mane hanged straight down at the sides of her face. Her mood speared the air like her voice.

“Ourumov. I should have known that you would want to come here and show of your high horse!”

Pinkie Pie turns her head to the reader and speaks to you, annoyingly breaking the immersion that I've built up. *Which is unfair by the way! Ponies can be JUST AS HIGH!*

“You certainly have high thoughts about yourself Pinkie Pie, high like your annoying voice.”

Ourumov started breathing heavily, as if he was trying to control his emotions.

”You...Have...Really...Made me angry pink pony. I congratulate you on that, not many people can anger Ourumov without him wanting to be angry.”

“Who should really be angry are the Russians. What makes you think they are just going to accept you as their leader like that?” Pinkie Pie asked incredulously.

“Men will follow the highest cause. All your government is doing is to hold people down. I will give them something to strive for!”

This sent Pinkie Pie into a long rant of incredulous.

“How!? By using the Goldeneye? ...By frying every hospital within thirty miles from Moscow, hospitals that need electricity to run their life support for their patients? ...By frying every alarm system inside the fire departments that they need to respond to fires? ...By frying every phone line that the Russian civilians need to contact their loved ones when they’re in danger? ...By shutting down Russia's entire economy when every investor gets electronically stranded? Do you have any idea what damage the Goldeneye satellite will cause Ourumov!? You want to be president, president of what? A burning city!?”

Ourumov now looked Pinkie Pie in the eyes for the first time since he killed Mishkin.

“No revolution have come without people dying. Despite, i will create order. People like Valentin have been festering my streets long enough. Getting rid of him was just the start, soon the Russian people will know who their real benefactor is.”

Pinkie Pie grumped. Ourumovs intentions seemed clear to her. But one good question still remained.

“But why me?”

“Why you?”

“Why do you hate me? I’m just a party planner that happens to have employment as an agent. I only follow orders.”

Suddenly Ourumov felt that feeling again. The same feeling that he felt when he first heard about the ponies from Xenia after he stole the Goldeneye from Severnaya. It was almost like that one moment was a turning point in space and time, like if all that he was about to say right here, inside this very prison cell, would have been completely different if he hadn’t heard about them. A crazy passive aggressive smile festered on Ourumovs face.

“You are... You are.” He drooled. “But why did you...? Why...?”

Pinkie Pie closed her eyes. She was getting ready to turn out like that poster he had on her.

“Why did you force me to buy a cake for Dimitri Mishkin?!”

Pinkie Pie raised her pink head in bewilderment.

“Huh!” She blurted.

“It was small, i know, but it was all they had left! That darn pastry shop had a two our waiting line! Can you imagine, Pinkie Pie, how i felt after sweating inside that small condensed cafeteria in two hours!?”

Slowly Pinkie Pies hanging being-in-a-prison-cell-about-to-be-tortured-and-executed mouth rose, revealing her pearly white teeth one by one. Ourumov continued.

“All he wanted was a ‘birthday cake’. A birthday cake! It was not even his darn birthday and he ask that i get him a birthday cake. Who says a small pastry like the one i brought him can't be a birthday cake? Who says Pinkie Pie? Who says!?”

There were a sudden a blast of confetti popping, at the same time Pinkie Pies hanging mane puffed up into a pink fluffy cloud over her head. Her party smile widened.

“Well that depends. Is it the birthday of Us Moving In To Our New House, the birthday of Us Believing It Was Our Birthday, or the birthday of The Time Our Birthday Was All Just A Small Cake? Unless it’s the Birthday for your pet, in which case it’s tooooootally not ok, unless it was for him, in that case all we need to do us turn on the oven, throw in some unbaked cupcakes and let the ooze handle the rest!” Pinkie Pies party smile contrasted the dark cell.

“All those nights... All those nightmares i had. Why couldn’t you just be a secret agent that kills my men, blows up my blimp and ruins my evil plans for world domination? Why do you have to be a party pony? Why, Pinkie, Why!?”

Ourumov took a deep breath and pulled himself together. He stretched up and looked away from the smiling party pony.

“Well. Soon all that will be a time belonging to the old world.”

Ourumov turned around. He walked toward the exit.

“Now. I am about to have a hearing with your friend Starlight Glimmer. I heard that she had something she wanted to confess.”

Pinkie Pies mane lowered again as her thoughts went to Starlights fate. She had a bad feeling about the way Ourumov said the word ‘confess’.

Ourumov proceeded walking toward the bridge. He had decided to give in to Alecs plea and give the unicorn a chance. If she confessed of being a terrorist he would let her live, just like he had promised Alec. But Ourumov had a feeling that Starlight Glimmer would wish herself being dead once he had tortured her for hours and paraded her in front of his men. Soon the entire vessel would know the cost of crossing General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov.

Starlight felt a cutting pain. She gasped and fell down to her hooves after the escorting soldier slammed her with the rear of his rifle. Her horn device still hindered her from using magic. Starlight looked up and spotted Alec Trevelyan, who looked away as her bitter eyes tried to reach his. Another door opened beside Alec. Two of Ourumovs elite guards entered the room before the general himself Hitlered inside. Starlights anger did not delay.

“Ourumov. Do you have any idea how much damage you and your satellite are about to cause!?”

“I have just spoken to your pink friend. She have already failed to appeal to my soft side and can assure you that you will fail also Starlight Glimmer.” The generals decisive voice hammered everything Starlight had to say to the ground. He continued.

“Now. I have been told by my peoples leader that you are indeed a fine pony so i am going to give you a chance. You were caught planting a bomb here at this vessel. This along with the fact that nothing you have said so far points to any other reason of you being here leads me to believe that you are indeed a terrorist. But since i am a fair man i am going to give you a chance to respond. Now, did you have something you wanted to say?”

Starlight Glimmer took a deep breath. She had decided to swallow her pride and confess to her crimes. At least then she might be given some time to figure out a plan.

“I have decided, after everything that iv’e done, that i want to reprimand of my crimes.”

“So you confess?” Alec asked and looked at her.

Starlight opened her mouth to deliver her planned response. Suddenly she was hit with an image, an image of a blue head with a white mane. The blue head smiled at her as she spoke to her over the rumble of a moving train.

‘We have been through so much together, just like James Bond and Alec have. Together we can find another way back to Equestria.’ Trixies smile warmed Starlights heart as it projected inside her head.

“...Yes. I confess.” Starlight said and looked straight at Alec.

“You confess of being a terrorist?” Ourumov asked firmly. Starlight kept her eyes on Alec.

“I confess that i wanted it Alec, on the train.”

“The train?” Alec was interested.

“On the Trans Siberian Express, Trixie made a show for you. She showed you images of unicorns of different colors along with earth ponies and pegasus ponies.”

Alec lit up

“Oh yes, i remember that.”

“The show centered around the earth ponies betraying the unicorns under the cover of loyalty before handing them over to the pegasus. Now, I still haven't told you were i come from Alec. I come from a another world called Equestria.”

“Oh yes. Trixie told me about your world.” Alec said. Alec felt a tinge in his heart, like something was awakening inside him. But why?

“Yes. But what you didn’t know was that we thought that the only way for us to get back to Equestria was to make YOU forget.”

“Forget? About What?”

Starlights voice cracked as she said his name.

“James Bond!” Starlight started sobbing.

“James Bond?”

“That unicorn show...h...h... was only put up to remind you...h...h... of what happened to your family, to remind you what your father did you your mother...h...h”

The tears poured down the unicorns face. Ourumov looked nervously around the room.

“It was only set up....h...h....To make you forget what was really important to you....h...h, the times you had with James Bond. Pinkie Pie didn’t want to do it but i confess...h...h... I confess Alec! I wanted it! I wanted to break your friendship and i’m sorry, i’m so so sorry! Alec. I beg of you to forgive me! FORGIVE ME ALEC!!!” Starlight wailed.

Ourumov made a motion with his shaking hand. Starlights crying was abruptly cut when the escorting soldier smacked her over the head so hard that she passed out.

“Well, I guess she needed more time to think about it after all.” Ourumov said and looked at Alec. Alec starred blankly down at the ruffled up unicorn.

“Alec?”

Alec didn’t react. Ourumov walked up to him and laid both his hands over his shoulders.

“You and i have a job to do. Now is not the time to get distracted again.”

“Distracted? From what? Revenge?” Alec looked up at Ourumov. Ourumov opened his mouth to do what he had always done with Alec. The circumstances caused Ourumovs mouth to jam.

“What is it Ourumov? Are you going to ‘remind’ me?” Alec asked.

Ourumov relaxed. He shook his head and continued talking calmly.

“No Alec, i won't remind you. Although i will point out what i’ve told you about those vanities of yours.”

“Vanities? That’s not good, is it?” Alec asked.

Ourumov shook his head again and smiled. “No Alec, it isn’t.”

“Well. I guess if that ‘vanity’ ever comes around again...”

Alec looked at passed out Starlight on the ground, then at Ourumov with hardened eyes.

“...We’ll smack her over the head again while she's crying.” Alecs sarcasm tore a hole right through Ourumovs manipulation attempt. Ourumov gulped. He removed his hands from Alec. Ourumovs eyes gained a dark core as anger seemed to engulf him. He turned around and rapidly left the room.

Back in Equestria Twilight felt her stomach drop. She knew where he was going.

“Oh no!” Littlefoot wailed. Peter Dinklage was angry.

“The original Goldeneye is shaping up to be the Teletubbies compared to this! Someone must du something!”

Ash Ketchum raised his arms in bewilderment.

“What’s going on?!”

Pinkie Pie heard the steel door slam open as she had her head turned down. Once she raised it Ourumov had already walked through the glass corridor and was right in front of her. He smacked her over the head. The hit cause her ears to start ringing.

Ourumov pulled out a pistol and aimed it straight at Pinkie Pie.

“CONFESS!” Roared.

All Pinkie Pie could see was the stone floor while she had her face turned down. Her head was suddenly thrown sideways when Ourumov slammed his pistol at her. The world went blurry once her brain reacted to the trauma.

“CONFESS!”

Despite Ourumovs shouting his words sounded blurry to Pinkie Pie. The pain had just started to bite when Ourumov suddenly struck her again. She watched the stone floor as her own blood dripped down on it.

“CONFESS!"

Ourumov slammed the pink pony with his pistol over and over again. It’s handle was now stained with blood. His mind, numb with rage, kept on blasting.

“CONFESS!”

Pinkie Pie thought she was hit again, but they barely felt like hits anymore. Pinkie Pie was sure that this was her last moment in life. She used it to speak the things that meant the most to her.

“Apple Jack...” She mumbled.

“CONFESS!” Ourumov hit her again.

“Rarity...

“CONFESS!”

Rainbow Dash...

“I said CONFESS!”

“Fluttershy...”

Ourumov angry eyes riveted at Pinkie Pie. It was like his one tracked reptile mind only knew one phrase.

“CONFESS!”

“Twilight...”

“Twilight? Who the heck is Twilight?!”

“I am.” A voice answered firmly.

Ourumov felt himself freeze in place. He felt fear grab hold of him along with gravity itself as he suddenly rose into the air.

“Whats this? What is happening?!” He wailed.

Out from the shadows of the holding cell came a sparkling lavender light. The sound of hooves hitting stone floor accompanied it as it slowly closed in, eventually revealing a lavender unicorn with a blue and violet streaked mane, her face twisted in anger, her eyes glaring at him. Ourumov gasped when the unicorn suddenly spread out two wings, making her three times bigger. She spoke firm words.

“I am not usually an alicorn princess that commit myself of using brute force but YOU Ourumov have caused my girls suffering for the last time!” Twilight snarled.

Ourumov tried to raise his gun. He slowly managed. The gun was almost pointing at the alicorn when it suddenly disappeared from his hand and reappeared on the stone floor. His sweaty head reflected the angry face of the one and only.

“My name is Twilight Sparkle and i am SHUTTING THIS MOVIE DOWN!”

Twilight saw something move in the corner of her angry eye. A soldier came running on the other side of the bullet proof glass. He raised his assault rifle and leaned around the corner into the holding cell. Twilight released Ourumov and put up a protection spell around herself and Pinkie Pie. The bullets bounced all over the place. The soldier screamed when he was hit in the leg.

Ourumovs was running toward the exit when his arm was hit by a stray bullet. He was bleeding from it once he escaped the area. The soldier raised his gun again but became a military museum exhibition once Twilight used her alicorn magic and trapped him inside a lavender crystal.

Pinkie Pie opened her eyes. Her head was thumping as she slowly regained sight.

“Pinkie Pie...” She heard Twilight say. Pinkie Pie was sure she was dead. But the face that her eyes slowly adjusted to was not a heavenly sparkle. Pinkie Pies eyes filled with tears of joy.

“Twilight!” She cried and wrapped her pink hooves around the alicorn that she hadn’t seen for over a year. “Twilight. How glad i am to see you! We need to stop Ourumov.” Pinkie Pie said. This caused Twilights anger to change target.

“No Pinkie Pie! We need to get you and all of our friends to safety. I don’t care how long we have to spend living inside this movie, i am done watching you girls suffer.”

“But the people inside will suffer if we don’t do something about him.” Pinkie Pie pointed out firmly. Twilight quickly realized that it would be useless to try and talk MI6 agent Pinkie Pie out of doing something about Ourumov. She sighed.

“I’ll see what i can do, maybe we can fry that control panel. But from now on the main objective is to find Starlight and get you both out of here.”

“Or follow the general. We let him lead us to Alec and Starlight, then we can rescue Starlight and bring both culprits to justice in one swoop.” Pinkie Pie said diplomatically. Out of time Twilight decided to go with it.

“Well, then there’s no time to lose!” She exclaimed

As the ponies galloped out of the prison Twilights horn lit up.

”Rarity?” She transmitted. Rarity responded.

“Twilight! How glad i am that you called.”

“Rarity. I am inside the movie now. I’m going to try and get Pinkie Pie and Starlight out of here. What’s your status?”

“Not good. Thankfully everypony is alive but we are currently surrounded by Ourumovs soldiers and Alecs rebels. Who knows when they decide to attack us again?”

“How long before the...”

“Twilight!” Pinkie Pie shouted and pushed Twilight down to the floor. Three bullets sailed passed them both before Pinkie Pie used Ourumovs pistol and dropped two soldiers down the hallway. At the same time the alarm went of.

“...How long before the satellite fires?!” Twilight asked.

“8 minutes from now. I’m sorry Twilight but Boris has been hit in the arm. We have lost our grip on their system so i’m afraid that is all the time that you’ll get.”

Pinkie Pie suddenly had a realization.

“Twilight.” She addressed. Twilight looked at her. “If Ourumov has Starlight we might need the Goldeneye key for leverage!”

Twilights face froze for a moment. She hadn’t thought about that. She looked at Pinkie Pie

“The control room!” They both said at once.

There were a giant explosion. The double doors into the big gathering hall flew open. The guards aimed their guns at the lavender light only to have them be ripped from their hands and watch them de-magazine in front of them. Shots were fired from the other end of the room. This was immediately followed by screaming as the bullet teleported mid air and re appeared behind the shoulder of the shooter. One soldier shook his rifle annoyed, only to realize once he took a greater look that the magazine along with the entire bullet compartment had vanished from the weapon. The lavender light spread its wings and started hovering in the middle of the gathering hall, over three hundred soldiers and rebels watching. Her alicorn voice pulsated as it rumbled the blimp.

“LISTEN UP! My name is Twilight Sparkle and i am the princess of friendship. There is a criminal on this Vessel that goes by the name of Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov who have made himself guilty of tearing apart the friendship of James Bond and Alec Trevelyan for his own gaining!”

“One minute!” Rarity suddenly blasted inside Twilights head. Twilight looked down at Pinkie Pie, who immediately understood the urgency. She galloped toward the control room at the end of the hall, grabbing a uzi along the way.

Pinkie Pie slammed opened the door and stood face to face with two of Ourumovs elite guards. She threw herself to the floor and squeezed the trigger. They both made ballerina twists before hitting the floor. She saw that it was only 30 seconds until Goldeneye detonated. Another door openined. Pinkie Pie grabbed cover behind a steel counter while four guards rained down automatic fire, standing between her and the Goldeneye key.

Pinkie Pie was about to consider this mission failed when she suddenly had a flash from before she took cover behind this counter. Inside this flash she spotted a watch lying on top of it. And not just any watch, but her Q watch. Pinkie Pie leaned out her uzi and used it’s last rounds to suppress the soldiers. Slim as a fox she reached out and grabbed the watch. She turned the time wheel while holding a button. She tossed the watch so that it slided right in the middle of the group of soldiers. They watched bewildered at the thing the second before it’s built in flashbang blinded them all.

Pinkie Pie galloped forward, her face hardened by stress. She grabbed a dropped assault rifle ended all the blinded soldiers. She tossed the weapon to the ground, threw herself to the control panel and tore out the Goldeneye key.

The timer stopped at 1 second.

As Pinkie Pie tried to catch her breath there was an authoritarian voice coming from the speakers.

“Listen up party pony! I have your unicorn friend here in the engine room. Come alone. If i see so much as a glimpse of your alicorn friend she dies. If i hear so much as a hint of a teleportation being made she dies.” Ourumov paused. Then added darkly. “And don’t bother bringing any cakes on this one. This isn’t that kind of party.”

Starlight had her eyes closed. She felt the cold metal floor underneath her coat, although she was cold for that other reason. All she wanted was for all this to end. Her tears was still drying along her cheeks, reminding her of the truth. She didn’t want to die. She dreaded the bullet entering her body along with the following darkness. She dreaded her family crying over her. Her father, her mother, despite all the bad things they did to her when she was a filly she dreaded the emptiness that would haunt them for the rest of their lives.

The steel door opened at the other at the other end of the room. Ourumov looked toward it with four of his elite guards by his side. Starlight opened her eyes. She felt her heart stop once she saw the pink hoof step inside, followed by the pony she loved. She felt Ourumovs pistol point at her head. She closed her eyes as she felt her shaking begin again.

Pinkie Pie studied the situation. She noticed the barrels to her right when she walked into the room. Ourumov was looking at her with a mean grin on his face. His arm was covered in blood from the bullet wound.

“See? Doesn't this look familiar?”

Pinkie Pie didn’t answer.

“I heard that you were a pony in the habit of celebrations. Well, maybe we should celebrate this, i believe it’s a 10 year anniversary now, of me about to shoot your friend here while I'm telling you...” Ourumov leaned his pistol closer to Starlight. Starlight gasped and shook in fear. “Come out. Throw down your weapon and walk towards me!”

Starlight shook her head. She didn’t want to die but she didn’t want Pinkie to die either.

“I do as you say Ourumov, for what it’s worth to you.” Pinkie Pie said as she slowly laid down her pistol.

“For what it’s worth.” Ourumov mirrored. Pinkie Pie continued.

“Ourumov, the countdown has been halted, your men shattered. We have the Goldeneye.”

Ourumov analyzed Pinkie Pies confident look. Ourumov didn’t buy Pinkies lie.

“You have it.” He said plainly and fired his pistol at her. Pinkies hoof jerked backwards when the bullet entered her body, the blast echoing inside the engine room.

“NO!” Starlight wailed.

Pinkie Pie galloped and threw herself behind the barrels. She felt her hoof burn in pain. She avoided looking at the blood.

Ourumov made a head motion. Two of his elite guards approached the barrels.

Pinkie Pie leaned her head and spotted her pistol lying on the floor. She brought up her Q watch. The guard were only centimeters from getting a clear shoot at her. She activated and enhanced the magnet function of the watch, watched her gun slide against the floor, feeling through her pinkie sense were the guards bullet would go half a second in the future.

She picked up her pistol and moved her head, dodging his first bullet. His head jerked backwards when Pinkie Pie shot him. She heard the other guard approach fast behind the barrel. She kicked it forward, causing it to fly of into him. He staggered and aimed his rifle at her. He made a gurgling sound when Pinkie Pie shot him through the neck.

Ourumov raised his arms incredulously as he watched his guards fall.

“Whats the matter with you?!... She is ONE... SILLY... PARTY PONY! Cakes! Ice cream! Cupcakes! What are you waiting for, an INVITATION!?”

Pinkie Pie thought that sounded like a splendid idea. She leaned out her pistol and fired toward Ourumov. The pistol clicked. Pinkie Pie cursed.

Ourumov smiled as he heard that she were out of bullets. The realization came like a Christmas card from hell. Pinkie Pie would suffer more if she watched her friend die.

“Well. I guess we can take you now instead party pony!” Ourumov snarled and leaned his pistol closer to Starlight. Starlight exploded into a inferno of crying.

“No! No! Please! Help! I don't want to die!”

Five gunshots of familiar character echoed inside the engine room. Ourumov dropped his gun. His two elite guards crumbled beside him. Ourumov wailed around.

Alec Trevelyans scarred face showed no sign of flinching behind the smoking barrel of Pinkie Pies PPK pistol. Somehow Ourumov managed to smile nervously despite being shot in both arms.

“Alec? Hello Alec, how nice to see you my friend.”

Alec didn’t answer, the heat from the air pressure machines being the only thing that could be heard.

“L...listen...Alec.” Ourumov stammered. “All those things that i said back there. That was all for your own good.”

Alec still didn’t say anything. He aimed coldly at Ourumov.

“This...This is what we’ve built together.” Ourumov said desperately.

Alec didn’t answer. His hair wavered from the pressure machines.

“What i mean to say, my friend, is that...”

“James Bond was my friend.” Alec finally broke the silence.

Ourumovs face became stuck for a second. It eventually raised in a smile. He nodded.

“Yes Alec, yes. I know that he was. But look at you, look at your face.”

Alec remained silent. Ourumov became incredulous.

“Who in James Bonds country is going to accept that face?! You, and me, we only have each other.”

The VHC recorder made a clicking sound in Equestria. The Goldeneye movie inside gave a shimmering light.

Alec lowered the pistol.

“It wasn’t Bond who gave me this face, it was you.”

The gunshots echoed inside the engine room. Two bumps followed, one when Ourumovs knees hit the floor and one when his body did. Starlight looked at Alec with goggly eyes. There were moaning behind Alec.

“Alec! WATCH OUT!” Starlight screamed.

Alec wailed around. His body jerked back and forth when he was hit with Xenia Onatopp's uzi burst. Alec fell on his back. He heard Onatopp approach him as he laid there. He looked at Starlight.

Starlight saw Alec looking at her with sad eyes. He laughed. He aimed his pistol at her. His PPK pistol pulled backwards as he fired. Starlight felt her head jerk. The device she had on her horn fell broken to the floor.

Xenia moaned in pleasure. She rapidly turned around toward Starlight and pulled the trigger. Her face twisted in disbelief as her bullets sailed right past the empty area where the unicorn had currently been. Xenia turned her confused face upward. She caught as small glimpse of the hovering unicorn before her horn flashed blue of her most dangerous spell. A laser sound followed.

“Hoooooooooa!” Xenia made a long gasp. There were a cracking sound. Starting from her legs, proceeding up through her body the assassin turned into ice. The ice sculpture toppled by it's side weight. A crack followed once it hit the ground. Xenia's ice head went rolling over the engine room floor. The gasp she made once turned still echoed as it went.

“For Trixie.” Starlight said.

After landing Starlight immediately trotted up to Alec. Pinkie Pie limped up from her hiding place.

“Alec!” Starlight exclaimed as her horn started glowing.

“No Starlight. No’t this time.” Alec said weakly, remembering the teleportation they made from in Byelomorye ten years ago. “This time i’ll stay. My parents are waiting for me.”

“No.” Starlight shook her teary face. Alec reached out his hand and touched it.

“Maybe we’ll see each other in Equestria.” Alec said. There were the sound of hooves trotting. “Ah. So you are Twilight Sparkle?”

“Yes.” Twilight answered. “The rebels and the soldiers have made pease, i made sure of that.” Twilights joy quickly faded as she realized what had just happened.

“In that case i thank you Twilight Sparkle, for giving them what my parents wanted from the start.” Alec said. He coughed up blood. Starlight cried out her broken words.

“No. Alec, please! Darn it Seas Bean i won't let you DIE IN ANOTHER MOVIE!”

Alec laughed weakly.

“Sean? I like that name. And if this is a movie then it’s yours...” Alec reached out and placed the PPK pistol in Pinkie Pies hooves. “...This is your story now.”

“For England Alec.” Starlight cried.

“No...” Alec shook his head. “...For you.”.

Alec closed his eyes. He let his fading mind go to when he and James Bond drank vodka martini together.

M ran her fingers along the arm holder of her office chair. She watched the skin of her old dented hands...

Oh, who where she kidding?! Of course she was old. An old grumpy witch that the others may try to sway if they had the patience of a lifetime, that meaning her lifetime. But Pinkie Pie had her entire lifetime ahead of her. The thought circulated M’s mind: Had she been reckless allowing Pinkie Pie to become a 00 agent?

One cannot argue with the result though. So far she had been one of the best new recruits in MI6 history. Pinkie Pies marksmanship had been described by testers as ‘Fantasy like’. But what had been her most commendable quality, at least in M’s own opinion, had been her sense for other peoples feelings and therefore their intentions, probably a quality owned by her friend making skills acquired in Equestria.

But this quality had also presented her greatest weakness M feared, the weakeness that she remembers everyones faces, the same way she remembered all the faces as a party planner in Ponyville. Oh yes indeed, she did remind her of...

“M?”

“Yes Moneypenny.”

“Ms Pie is here to see you now.”

“Oh yes. Send her in.”

Pinkie Pie walked into the office.

“Is the others with you?” M asked, knowing the answer but wanting Pinkies reaction.

“Yes ma’am. They are waiting outside.”

“Have a seat. I’d like to have a few word with you alone first.” M offered.

Pinkie Pie sat down in the visitors chair. M got up.

“Would you care for a drink?” M asked as she walked toward the cupboard. Pinkie Pie laughed.

“You know very well that i don’t drink that stuff M.”

“I think i’ll have some Bourbon.” M said and grabbed one herself. She sat down and continued.

“I read your report 007. I suspected Ourumov for a while but i could never have imagined a military coup. Good work turning it on it’s head Ms pie.” M was unusually nice.

“Thanks M.” Pinkie Pie said with a tinge of surprise in her voice. “Although i didn’t do it alone.”

“So i heard.”

Pinkie Pie lowered her eyes in sadness.

“It’s a shame about Alec’s fate.” M said

Pinkie Pie nodded for an answer. Eventually she asked.

“What will become of the Goldeneye?”

“It will be given back to the Russian government, although i doubt that it will be valuable for long. Since we know about the satellite now they are probably gonna want to end the program, or hand it over to some underfunded agency that will have it gather dust like our nuclear weapons.” M grumped.

”M?”

“Yes.”

“What was James Bond like?” Pinkie Pie asked.

“You know very well how i keep my personal relationships with my employees Ms Pie.” M said nice but firmly.

“Yes M, i know. But...” Pinkie Pie hesitated. M studied Pinkie Pie. She leaned back into her chair and put her hand on the table. She stared into the air as she spoke.

“He did much for this agency that old lad. Many mad men and women who crossed the line have fallen at the hands of James. He was quite cold, you know.”

“He was?” Pinkie Pie seemed surprised.

“Yes he was, and a charmer. That old stallion brought mares along with him like they were flowers growing on a field.”

Pinkie Pie giggled. “Yea. I know i’m a pony, but the short time i spent with him i can se why.” Pinkie Pie sighed. She lowered her head. M now realized why Pinkie Pie still looked up to Bond. M leaned closer her.

“You know Ms Pie?”

“Yes M?”

“If there are things from the field that you would like to forget we at MI6 can give you a psychologist to help you with that.”

Pinkie Pie looked at M. She opened her mouth. The silence laid as her face turned into hesitation again.

“...At least thats the offer i gave Bond.” M finally said.

“You did?” Pinkie Pie asked, her face twisting in bewilderment. M didn’t answer. “Did he see faces to?”

M smiled for an answer. She leaned back into her chair. She pressed the buzzer on the table.

“Alright. You can send them in now.”

There were the sound of hooves behind Pinkie Pie.

“Ah. And here comes the princess of friendship herself.” M greeted Twilight as she walked in with Starlight Glimmer and the rest of the mane 6. “I heard that you prevented a meltdown between Alecs rebels and the remainder of Ourumovs forces.”

“Once creatures realizes their similarities friendship is never out of bounds.” Twilight said.

M studied the group of ponies that stood before her. She saw Twilight looking at her with pride but a lack of hope in her eyes. She saw a one winged pegasus with a rainbow mane and a similar look. She saw a yellow pegasus that was looking worried at the rainbow pony. She saw a yellow earth pony that had her face completely lowered in sadness, probably a country pony with a family that she misses. She saw Starlight Glimmer putting her one hoof around Pinkie Pies back. M squinted her eye.

“Are you really sure that you don't want a drink 007?” M insisted. Pinkie Pie laughed again.

“No M. Im fine.”

“Maybe i can offer you something different?” M proposed.

“Do you have something without that throat warming stuff that makes you forget what you did last night?” Pinkie Pie asked.

M got up from her chair. She walked toward the cupboard.

“How about a taste of life?” M asked and reached her old dented hand inside the cupboard and pulled something. There were the sound of wood moving. Slowly the cupboard opened and revealed a flashing light. All the ponies gasped. The light blinded their eyes.

The blinding light from the cupboard slowly disappeared. A familiar sight shaped around her. Starlight gasped. Her gasp resonated inside Twilights living room.

“Twilight!”

Twilight looked at her. Her wings opened in happiness.

“Starlight! Were back!”

Rainbow Dash looked to her right. She smiled. She rocketed up into the air and felt her right wing react to the flow of the wind. As she landed she was faced with Fluttershy.

“I really liked our story Rainbow Dash.” Fluttershy said.

Rainbow Dash blushed. She laughed nervously. She smiled and looked confidently at Fluttershy.

“Yea.” She said. Fluttershy giggled.

“Starlight. We did it!” Pinkie Pie shouted joyfully. Her mane had puffed up to its full pinky fluffiness. There was a hoarse voice coming from behind.

“Starlight?”

Starlights eyes widened. A tear ran down her right eye as her mouth raised, creating a broad orchestra of white teeth. She turned around and galloped. She rose up on two hooves and wrapped herself around her best friend in the world.

“Trixie!” Starlight cried.

“I told you i’d see you in Equestria.” Trixie looked confidently into Starlights joyful eyes. ”Such a useful movie character i was huh, i was dying like a quarter in.” Trixie laughed and waved her right hoof about.

“Trixie, what are you talking about?! You’re the reason Pinkie Pie managed to become the agent she needed to be?!”

“I was?”

“Of course you were!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed as she approached Starlight and Trixie. “Without you i would never have managed to overcome my fears. Our friendship helped us through this movie, even after you were gone, the same way Alecs friendship with James Bond helped him.”

Starlight leaned her face closer to Trixie.

“You’re the most important character of all, inside and outside the movie.”

The rest of the mane 6 watched with smiles upon their faces as all three ponies hugged each other to the sound of their own laughters. Pinkie Pie nudged the table beside the TV. The box case that laid on top of it was labeled ‘GOLDENEYE 007’. It fell down from the cupboard. It bounced as it hit the floor, pressing the eject button on the video player as it did. The tape inside ejected and revealed its title in capital letters.

‘GOLDENPIE 007’

Chapter 1. Goldenpie

“Trixie, wait up!” Starlight Glimmer the unicorn were calling.

“What? Afraid i’ll get to the ‘fun’ without you Starlight?” The unicorn named Trixie teased. Starlight laughed.

“No Trixie, i know that the tapes can be rewinded, even if you were to start without me...” Starlight was interrupted.

“Yea, yea. Whatever?” Trixie wailed her right hoof about. ”Rewind, replay, pause, whatever the terms are. Now, ‘rewind’ and remind me again why we need this VHS thingys? I mean, why go through the trouble of ‘rewinding’ when you can just use magic to view whats in there?”

“No Trixie!” Starlight exclaimed, the enthusiasm sparkled in her eyes. ”You should not use magic. These VHS tapes are unique in both sound and image, only VHS players could possibly do them justice. Any shortcut would ruin the experience...”

“Yea, yea, yea, whatever, go on and do it your way picky.” Trixie said arrogantly. Starlight didn’t react. She had known Trixie long enough to know that this was her personality. Trixie now looked at Starlight with goggly eyes. “Im just glad that i get to do it with you Starlight. My best friend.”

Starlight and Trixie smiled at each other.

“So? shall we move on to Twilights castle and watch us a movie?” Starlight offered.

“Sure thing friend!” Trixie answered.

Starlight Glimmer was referring to the new hot trend in Ponyville. VHS tapes. Ever since one had been brought back from another dimension by Discord along with a VHS player the device had been the craze all over Equestria. Movies had also been brought back along side them, starring the two legged humans that lived there. Starlight had become an addict. She had sleeping lines over her eyes from watching VHS movies non stop for several days. Trixie had been avoiding them non stop for several days. But now she felt herself getting dragged along because of her one best friend in the world.

The living room was empty when Starlight and Trixie entered it.

“Now? Were do Twilight keep her movies?” Starlight asked and looked around the shelves.

“Why not just watch whats inside the player now?” Trixie said. She used her horn magic to turn on the player and the TV. The pony friends were immediately greeted with the end credits rolling over a jungle landscape. There were bland, forgettable pop music playing in the background.

“Well, this doesn’t look like anything.” Starlight said with a frowned face.

“Maybe we should rewind and see whats in the middle.” Trixie said fast, terrified that Starlight would go into Twilight mode and browse movies all day. Twilight Sparkle was an alicorn princess and Starlights past mentor. Trixie rewinded the tape a short way and stopped. There were loud gunfire over what looked like a steel bowl hovering over a jungle. Two human characters appeared to be firing at each other between railings. The screen flickered with lines now and then as only a VHS player can.

“Wow! Now were talking!” Trixie was suddenly exited.

“Yea, now were talking.” Starlight Glimmer sounded disinterested. “Meaningless gun fights without either character development or suspense.”

“But you haven't even seen the rest of the movie yet Starlight.” Trixie said.

“Sometimes you can just tell things Trixie.” Starlight said.

Trixie rewinded again, further this time.

The next scene seemed to take place in some kind of cemetery filled with what looked like statutes made out of humans.

“Hello James.” A male voice said inside the movie.
The camera zoomed in on the character called James.

“I know him, his name is Pierce Brosnan.” Starlight said.

The camera changed perspective. The figure that spoke came out of the shadows and revealed his face.

“And thats Sean Bean.” Starlight paused, her face frowned. “His probably gonna die.”

“Why do you think that?” Trixie asked.

“Because he always dies in all his roles.” Starlight said.

“But thats ridiculous Starlight, how can one die making a role and then make another one?”

“No Trixie, his character always dies, Sean Bean is just the actor playing him.”

“Yea, duh, I'm in show biz, of course i know that!” Trixie said irritatingly. “But you did say his real name and not his characters name.” Trixie reminded.

“Yea, yea, never mind.” Starlight said and wailed her right hoof about. Starlight looked at the TV screen. Her eyes widened. She suddenly had an idea.

“Do you know what Trixie?”

“Yes Starlight?”

“I know something that is going to make this movie even more fun.” Starlight teased.

“Whats that?” Trixie looked at Starlight suspiciously.

“Living it.” Starlight grinned.

“Living it? You mean getting inside by using magic? But isn’t that dangerous, i mean, you saw those gun fights right? Despite, didn’t you say a moment ago not to use magic on a VHS”

Starlight laughed

“Yes i did Trixie. But you should now me by now, I'm always up for an adventure. Concerning the danger i know a spell that, apart from taking us into the movie is going to make us invisible to the humans inside. They will never even know we’re there.”

Trixie smiled. This was exactly the danger seeking Starlight Glimmer that she had befriended.

“Lets do it!” Trixie said.

Starlights face lit up in determination

“Alright. Just Rewind the tape and start from the beginning, then we’re going to have some fun.”

“Fun?! I Know fun!” A ear piercing voice exclaimed happily behind them. Starlight wailed her head around.

It was Pinkie Pie. The pink party pony with curly hair was jumping happily up and down behind them. There was a clicking sound when the VHS player stopped. Trixie looked at Starlight with worrying eyes as if to say, ‘She will tell Twilight’.

There was a moment of silence. Starlight sighed.

“Alright then. We’ll take her with us.” Starlights horn gave a glow.

“Oaaaaaah!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed as Starlight dragged her toward them with her horn magic. The world flashed around the ponies when Starlight casted her powerful spell.

“Wooooow!” Trixie awed as the light faded. Starlight felt herself go into awe mode to.

The world seemed like nothing they had never seen before. It looked exactly like in the movie, but at the same time it felt like something entirely new. In front of them a gigantic snowy mountain rose. The ground felt like polished stone. Further ahead the world dropped, a steel fence ran against its edge. Starlight and Trixie walked forward and looked down. Their eyes widened as they found themselves standing on top of a huge dam. Trixie shrugged.

“Thats a long drop.” She concluded.

“You can say that again.” Starlight said. There were moaning coming from behind them.

“Urgh. Where am i?” Pinkie Pie asked. Starlight Glimmer didn’t want Pinkie Pie to feel caught in the moment.

“You’re inside a VHS movie Pinkie. Don't worry, we’re all invisible to the characters inside. As long as we don’t...”

Just as Starlight said this there were the sound of someone running. She felt something bump her flank.

“Oaaaah!” A male voice exclaimed as its source tumbled over Starlight and gasped as he hit the ground.

James Bond heard the sound of metal hitting rock when his grappling hook slammed onto the ground in front of him. He wailed his head around. There was nothing there. What was it that he had tripped over? James didn’t let the thought bugger him for long. Her rose up, grabbed his grappling hook and ran to the edge of the dam. He fastened the bungie rope on the railing, the other end on his shoe. He stood on the edge. Looked down, then up. He took a deep breath. He remembered the saying of his old friend waiting for him inside.

‘For England James.’

He rose his hands like an eagle, then jumped.

The air blew against James Bonds face as he dove straight down. After a long fall he felt the bungie rope stretch behind him. He pulled the grappling hook out from his belt. The outcropping containing the entrance to the dam, an air vent easily melted with the built in laser inside the hook, came closer below.

Just as he felt the bungie rope reach its limit he aimed the grappling hook at the stone below and pulled the trigger. The grappling hook clicked, but no wire fired from it. Something must have broken when it hit the ground earlier.

“Oaaaah!” James exclaimed as the bungie rope pulled him back up again. He bounced up and down in shorter intervals until he found himself dangling helplessly at the side of the dam. He cursed himself. Unbeknownst to him he wasn’t the only one.

“Oh no, oh no, oh no, ono ono ono ono!” Starlight exclaimed, her head shaking in panic. She tried to cast the spell to bring them back to Equestria. Her horn gave a small sparkle, but the sparkle faded quickly. Starlights pupils diminished.

“Whats the matter Starlight?” Trixie asked.

“We need to get him down from there!” Starlight exclaimed.

“But why?!”

“I believe we have accidentally altered the story of Goldeneye! I can't get us back unless we get Bond down so he can continue on with his scripted actions!”

Trixies mouth bent in disparagement.

“But aren’t you Starlight Glimmer? Do you mean to say that your spells aren’t powerful enough?”

Starlights was in to much panic to feel insulted.

“Yes, of course they are! But the spell that brought us here was only cast on the tape inside the VHS player inside Twilight castle. It only responds to the story inside that specific tape. But this isn’t that story anymore Trixie, by altering the events inside my spell that connects us to Equestria has been render powerless.”

Starlight grabbed Trixies head and pulled it toward her.

“We need to get Bond down from there and put the story back on script!”

Meanwhile back in Equestria. Twilight Sparkle, the alicorn princess, trotted into her living room with a smile upon her face.

“Huh?” She blurted once she found the TV and the video recorder turned on.

She immediately recognized the movie. It was James Bond Goldeneye, the movie that she and her friends, minus Pinkie Pie and Starlight, had watched the last evening. It seemed to be stuck as it was showing the same scene constantly. But who had turned it on? Twilight trotted up in front of the screen. She were just about to turn it of when she saw that something was moving up and down in front of the dam shown on the TV screen. Alright, so the VHS player wasn’t stuck... But in a way it was?! Twilights face twisted in bewilderment.

“Hi Twili.” Rainbow Dash the pegasus pony greeted as she trotted into the room.

Twilight didn’t answer.

“Whats going on Twili?” She asked with her raspy voice.

“Are we watching another movie?” Fluttershy the pegasus pony asked happily as she, Rarity and Apple Jack trotted into the living room. They all festered their eyes at the screen. One by one they all put on the same confounding face as Twilight.

“What in Celestia is going on?” Rarity the white unicorn asked bewildered.

“Oaaaah!” James Bond exclaimed as he was bouncing up and down on the bungie wire. Some unknown force seemed to pull him from above.

Above the dam panic ruled.

“What are you doing Trixie?!” Starlight exclaimed as Trixie pulled the wire with her horn magic. Behind them Pinkie Pie was jumping up and down with excitement.

“Im trying to get him down!” Trixie answered irritatingly.

“Can i ride the bouncy wire later?!” Pinkie Pie asked happily.

Below them James bond had started to swing sideways. His hands got tided up into the wire. He looked like a shrimp as he bounced up and down, his short black hair swaying on his head.

“Oaaaah!” He exclaimed.

Back in Equestria Twilights eyes squinted at the TV screen. Her face twisted in disbelief.

“Starlight?!”

“Is that Trixie up on that dam?” Apple Jack the earth pony asked.

“And look! Pinkie Pie is there to.” Rarity pointed out.

The ponies all looked on in bewilderment at the scene in front of them, literarily, not metaphorically. But why was it a different scene than that from the original Goldeneye movie?

“Look at poor James Bond.” Rainbow Dash said, her face seemed too laugh rather that feel sympathy.

Twilight suddenly realized which spell Starlight must have used. A shimmering light came from Twilights horn. She used her magic to locate traces of Starlights spell inside the room. She then used her own spell to send a transmitting signal.

“Starlight!” Twilights voice boomed inside Starlight Glimmers head.

“Hiiii Twilight.” She said nervously, her white teeth smiling.

“Starlight, What in the name of Celestia are you doing?! I know that i'm not your teacher anymore but i still insist that you get out of there. Don’t you know that movie traveling can be dangerous?” There was an edge in Twilights voice.

“I’m trying Twilight! But the movie story has been altered, i can't bring us back!” Starlight exclaimed.

“What?!” Twilight exclaimed back.

Starlight explained to Twilight why she couldn’t bring them back.

“So what?” Twilight answered Starlights explanation. “Just put the story back on track then!”

“I’m trying!” Trixie shouted in panic while pulling the wire frantically.

Below them James bond had been tangled in the most embarrassing way possible. His right hand had been tied with his left shoe. His left arm had been stretched out in the opposite direction. His body was formed like a bent ruler.

“Oaaaah!” The face in the middle of the ruler exclaimed over and over again.

Twilight had started to bite her hoofs. Her pupils diminished. What was she going to do? What if her friends never got out of there? Rainbow Dash grew impatient.

“So, Twilight? What shall we do? We can't just leave them...?”

“Hello there.” A voice suddenly greeted from the window, interrupting Rainbow Dash. The ponies turned around. The longneck named Littlefoot used what his race name suggested to poke his head through the window into Twilights living room.

“Hi there Littlefoot.” Rarity greeted before abruptly looking at the TV screen again.

Littlefoot joined the faces of bewilderment.

“Whats going on?” He asked.

“Twilights friends, Starlight Glimmer, Trixie and Pinkie Pie have been trapped inside a James Bond movie.” Fluttershy answered.

“James Bond?” Littlefoot asked.

There was no answer. By now everypony knew about Littlefoots strange habits of constantly raining down vain questions about small things.

“...As i said. What should we do about...!” Rainbow Dash was interrupted again.

“Hello Ponies!” The Pokemon trainer named Ash Ketchum greeted as he strolled into Twilights living room, his Pikachu walking by his feets. He gasped once he saw Littlefoot.

“What!? Bayleaf? How in the world did you get out of your pokeball? Get back in this instance!”

Ash picked up a pokeball and threw it. There was a clonking sound when the ball hit Littlefoot in the head.

“Ao! What did you do that for?!” Littlefoot blasted at Ash.

“Oaaaah! It talks? Why in the world does every pokemon talk these days?!” Ash wailed his arms around incredulously. Littlefoot grumped.

“And why does every human act like they own you?” He muttered.

Rainbow Dash looked at Littlefoot, then at Ash. Her face twisted in anger.

“Is that it?! Huh...? Any more random characters about to make an appearance?!” Rainbow Dash paused. There were silence.

“No? Alright, as i was trying to...”

“Excuse me?” A low male voice said.

“Gaaaaah!” Rainbow Dash roared incredulously and crumbled to the floor. Everyone else turned to the door.

“Excuse me... Hi.”

Out from behind the door frame Peter Dinklage poked his large bearded head with raggedy hair, his white teeth smiling.

“Do you know where i can find Pinkie Pie?” Peter asked.

Peter Dinklage were soon about to get his question answered. There were clicking sounds coming from the VHS player. The TV screen started flickering. Twilights face turned into horror.

“No, no, no! Wheres the image?!”

Inside the movie things weren't any better. Starlight felt a strange feeling inside her as the world around her started bending.

“What is happening Starlight?” Trixie asked.

The scenery around the ponies changed. Suddenly they found themselves inside some kind of facility. Large silvery tanks towered over them. Pipes ran across the tanks with one occasional stone pillar.

“Look!” A male voice echoed inside the room.

Horrified Starlight turned her head. She barely got a glimpse of the uniformed human pointing something at her before the entire room was filled with loud gun blasts. The pillar behind Starlight obliterated, sending dust of stone fragments over her mane.

“STARLIGHT!” Trixie shouted before throwing herself at Starlight, pushing her out of the way. They both managed to hide behind a large pipe. The pipe slammed loudly as the bullets hit it. The repeated blasts from the automatic weapons came in such short intervals and echoed so much that it was like being right beside the downpour of large waterfall. Trixie and Starlight couldn’t hear their own screams as they held their ears, way to horrified to wonder why they suddenly weren’t invisible anymore. Pinkie Pie was overjoyed.

“Wooooo! That is some intense fireworks!” Pinkie Pie shouted happily while jumping up and down. The metal behind Pinkie Pie bent as the bullets seemed to hit everything except her.

Starlight watched in horror as the door right in front of her opened. A soldier came out of it. He looked at her and pointed his gun at her.

‘Good bye friends.’ The thought raced through Starlights mind. There were the sound of a single shot coming from across the room. The soldier grumped and fell backwards to the ground.

Back in Equestria Twilights horn blasted light frantically as she desperately tried to send her friends back, her horrified eyes reflecting on the tv screen. She breathed a sigh of relief as she saw the soldier that were about to shot Starlight getting shot by what appeared to be Alec, James Bonds partner played by Sean Bean. He immediately threw himself behind a corner as he too was pinned down.

Back in the movie Starlight heard another door open above her. A soldier ran out of it onto the railing and pointed his gun at Alec across the room. Without thinking to much about it Starlights horrified face lit up. She used her horn magic to pull the handgun from the soldier that Alec had shot earlier. She grabbed the gun with her hoof and pointed at the soldier on the railing. She felt her hoof throw backwards as she pulled the trigger. She saw the soldier fall, his automatic weapon firing into the roof.

Alec was looking for an opening. Once he saw the guy on the railing get shot he found it. Alec threw himself forward, shooting one of the soldiers with his Walter PPK while he was flying through the air. As he landed he wailed his arm around and shot another one standing by the corner, who made a pirouette like a ballerina before hitting the ground.

Starlight Glimmer knew it was either they or them. She cleared her mind. She felt herself turn cold. She wailed out of cover and fired several shots at the last soldiers. They all grabbed for cover, the wall around their covers cracked, creating small holes in them as Starlights bullets came flying.

Pinned down, the soldiers backed of out of the doorway. Alec took this opportunity. He wailed out of cover and fired at the door panel. The door closed, shutting the last soldiers out of the room.

Alec ran out of cover and toward the large gas tanks. He readied his explosives. He took three magazines from his pocket and threw them toward the strange colored ponies that he had no time asking who, or what they were. To Alec, the mission was all that mattered. Starlight saw the gun magazines land in front of her.

“I don't know what or who you are but thanks for the...”

“Starlight Glimmer!”

“...Help. Well, thanks Starlight, but i have a mission to do. Unless you can arm a bomb you stay here and guard the entrance!”

Starlight had no time to ask questions before Alec ran in behind the tank, although Starlight only knew him as Sean Bean.

“Fire!” A authoritarian voice shouted above them. Starlight grabbed for cover as a large window above them was shot into pieces by a large group of soldiers. One of the soldiers appeared to be wearing a special uniform. He looked like some kind of commander.

“Hold of general Ourumov if you’d be so kind!” Alec shouted from behind the tank.

Starlight didn’t really need the hint. Within a second she had emptied her pistol magazine, shooting one of the soldiers. The soldier fell down the railing staircase. Out of ideas Starlight grabbed his automatic weapon mid air with her horn magic and had it hover over the other soldiers. They all stared in horror as the hovering assault weapon fired non stop, grounding five more of them. Pinkie Pie had joined Sean in the back.

“This is commander Ourumov. Come out with your hands above your head!”

“Trixie, run back to Sean and stay out of sight!” Starlight shouted in the heat of the firefight.

Trixie opened her mouth to complain about leaving her best friend alone. Instead she felt her fear get the better of her. She did what Starlight said.

As Trixie rounded the tank she saw Sean press small buttons on the bomb he had planted. Pinkie Pie was still jumping happily up and down. Trixie gasped as there was a large explosion at the other end of the room.

Alec leaned his head around the tank. He saw that one of the doors had been blown up, more soldiers pouring out of it.

“Shut the door Starlight, theres a draft!” He shouted as he went back working with the bomb.

“Starlight?” He asked.

The shooting had stopped, the silence laid itself over the facility.

Alec grabbed his PPK and slowly leaned himself around the tank. He saw general Ourumov with a large group of soldiers around him. Starlight was down on her hoofs. Ourumov was holding a pistol at her head.

“Move out. Throw down your weapon and walk towards me.” General Ourumov commanded.

Starlight Glimmer was shaking. Of course Starlight knew that she wouldn’t actually die if Ourumov shot her, she would only die in the story. Twilight would still be able to bring her back again if her friends managed to put the story back on track. Still she felt the fear grab hold of her. Tears ran down her face as she started sobbing.

Pinkie Pie had stopped jumping. Her mood dropped as she felt sadness in the room. She leaned her pink head out beside Alec. She saw General Ourumov looking at her, his large eyes tearing right into her.

“You have ten seconds.” Ourumov said. “Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five...”

Starlights sobbing echoed inside the room, making Alecs decision easy. He walked out. He stopped. Slowly he laid down his pistol. Despite this Ourumov kept counting.

“Calm down Starlight.” Twilights voice spoke inside Starlight Glimmers head. “You know you can escape from this.” Starlight felt her sobbing stop as she heard her old mentor speaking.

“four, three, two, one...”

There were a flash. Ourumov big eyes stared in disbelief as the pony he held his gun at disappeared out of thin air. There were another flash behind the tank. Alec grabbed his pistol again and sprinted back behind it. There were fire coming from the soldiers.

“Wait!” Ourumov commanded. “You’ll blow the gas tanks!” The soldiers stopped firing.

Behind the gas tank Alec turned to Starlight.

“How did you do...?”

“How does the outside of the facility look like?!” Starlight interrupted Sean, who knew himself only as Alec in the movie.

“What do you...?” Alec was interrupted again.

“There is no time, tell me how it looks like?!” Starlight repeated.

Alec described the hangar airport outside the facility. Starlight concentrated. Her horn gave a bright glow. In a flash she, Trixie, Pinkie Pie and Alec had all been teleported outside the hangar. The cold air of the winter wrapped itself around them. Alec was taken a back. He had to convince himself to restrain his curiosity and ask questions when there was time to do so. He saw an airplane being parked not far from there.

“Come on!” He shouted and started running towards it. He could hear the hooves of the ponies behind him. It was then that the plane suddenly started taking of. Alec started sprinting, hoping to catch it. He heard the hooves behind him intensify. He stared in bewilderment as the much faster pink pony galloped past him. She jumped through the open door into the moving airplane. He then heard an ear piercing voice coming from inside the plane.

“Hi. My name is Pinkie Pie and...”

There then were a cascade of words coming from inside the plane. It was almost like the pony inside had an unlimited amount of air supply.

“...Aren’t you exited, cause I'm exited if you are exited and believe me I've never been more exited in my life...” Her voice jittered inside. Slowly the plane stopped. Pinkie Pie poked her pink head out from it.

“Come on. My new friend here is more than happy to give us a ride!” She exclaimed and smiled. Her party smile were almost as big as the landing gear wheel.

As they all took of in the plane Starlight suddenly felt that strange feeling again. The world around her started to bend.

Back in Equestria the TV started flickering again. Twilight slammed it with her hoof.

“Come on! Stupid machine!”

“Soooo, where is Pinkie Pie?” Peter Dinklage repeated his earlier question.

The TV screen cleared again, showing the image of the facility in flames. James Bond were still hanging limply at the side of the dam like a hearts warming eve cloth over a cold fire place. There then were the sound of pizzicato strings. The TV screen slowly filled with a stylish smoke screen at the same time as the drums started beating. The Bond song was about to begin.

Out from the smoke a pink figure slowly revealed herself as the strings intensified. She were standing up on two hooves and bended her body in a suggestive fashion. Her blue eyes flickered. Her pink curly hair swayed back and forth as she moved slowly to the beat. The mouths of the entire mane 5 dropped, their faces twisting in disbelief. Pinkie Pie opened her mouth and started singing.

“Se reflections in the fondue,
more than darkness, pinky sense...”

“Oh my god.” Peter Dinklage said

“...se me surface in every shadow,
on the wind you feel it’s breath...”

Pinkie lowered her body and let her rump almost touch the ground, her tail scraping against the floor as she sang the chorus.

“...Goldenpie i found your weakness.
Goldenpie you’ll do what i please.
Goldenpie get a taste of that sweetness,
as golden flour blowing in the breeze...”

Pinkie Pie spun her sexy pink body around and pointed her hoof at the viewers.

“...You’ll never know how i watched you from the shadows as a filly.
You’ll never know how a cupcake burns when adding chi...hi hi...hi...hi hili...”

Pinkie wailed at the word ‘chili.’

“...You'll never know the days i ate, that pie, on my own.
But now my time has come,
And time, time is one goldenpie!”

Pinkie Pies sexy eyes pierced the screen and the minds of the viewers. There were no words.

“...Se me move through smoke and mirrors,
Feel my presence in the crowd.
Other ponies may try and cheer you,
If I had you I wouldn't let you out...”

Pinkie Pie got down on her four hooves. She curved her backside as she faced the camera, turning it sideways in a suggestive pony manner. Behind her barely clothed human women danced.

“...Goldenpie not hay or crackers,
Golden cream take you to the spot...”

“To the spot.” Fluttershy mirrored in a whisper, her face being stuck somewhere in-between disbelief and excitement.

“...Goldenpie, I'll show you forever,
It will take forever to see what I've got.”

Pinkie Pie laid herself on the floor. She slided herself against it.

“You’ll never know how i watched you from the shadows as a filly.
You’ll never know how a cupcake burns when adding chili.”

The music got louder. The smoke effects behind Pinkie Pie started turning red, making her pink body stand out even more. Her high voice got stronger.

“It's a gold and sugar trap,
I've got for you take note!
Revenge it's a pie, so open it wide,
Now it’s going down your throat!”

Pinkie Pie stood up on two hooves again. She pointed at the viewers.

“My goldenpiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!” Pinkie Pie jumped an octave. That last ‘ie’ had already been high when Tina Turner had sung it. Pinkie Pies note could barely be heard how high it was.

“Golden, goldenpie!
My goldenpie!”

Pinkie Pies face twisted in determination.

“GOLDENPIE!!!”

Pinkie Pie almost sounded like queen Chrysalis at the last ‘pie’. The music stopped. The screen turned black. Twilight paused the tape while her face were stuck in subdued disbelief.

The silence festered itself inside the living room. One could barely hear breathing before Peter Dinklage broke it.

“Im confused.” He said.

Littlefoots face lit up.

“Whats a Goldenpie?” He asked enthusiastically.

“This isn't Goldeneye.” Rainbow Dash concluded hoarsely as if trying to hide the emotions in her voice.

“No, it isn’t” Twilight agreed in a whisper.

Twilight had a sinking feeling this would only get worse, or better, depending on which part of the brain was asked.

Chapter 7. A New Story

The cigar smoke laid tick inside the small private room. Curtains hanged all around the large presence in the middle of it. The cigar providing these thick layers of lung cancer was tightly jammed in the big teeth of Valentin. The Russian mob boss had four women around him. The private room was situated inside his brothel. Outside the room the pole dance music could be heard blasting. One of the women had her legs around him. She looked at him suggestively while she was grabbing him down below.

“Well, you dirty little girl!” He scolded pleasurably.

The women dancers around him giggled. The pleasure was all theirs, making it pretty much his. They had already been payed double just to be there with him. A generous offer, considering how little of their earnings that was usually left for them when the day was over. As long as nothing went wrong, that is.

The woman stood up. As she turned around there were a sudden smack, followed by a burning pain on her back. The woman gasped. Luckily she managed to hold it out of hearing. She turned around and faced her smacker. She put on a professionally masked fake smile.

"You are a dirty girl. You know that?" Valentin scolded smiling. He then hand motioned the dancers. "Now, get out of here and make me some money! That goes for all of you."

Still feeling the pain, the woman walked out of the room with her colleagues. There was a beeping sound in her ears when the tensions released inside her muscles, along with the memories of the girls that never came out of that private room again. But now it seemed like someone else didn't fear risks.

A tall presence entered the private room. The presence wore a dark fedora hat and had a long black coat. The figure sat down opposite of Valentin. Valentin opened his mouth. He was about to tell this daring man to beat it when the authoritarian face revealed itself under the hat. Valentins face frowned. The figure rose his big nose straight into the air.

“You already know why I'm here.” The man declared after a moment of silence.

“Are you playing guessing games with me Ourumov?” Valentin asked irritatingly. “Cause the last man who tried that left in a box... Oh, excuse me, five boxes. Yes, five it was.” Valentin showed five fingers.

“Are you threatening a general!” Ourumov asked firmly. Valentin pointed his chubby finger at Ourumov and shook it decisively.

“No. I am threatening a business partner. Remember Ourumov that I MADE YOU. I made the phone calls that forced the defense minister to make you general, and now i’m doing your dirty work outside of Russia...”

“And i pulled the strings that allowed you to do that. Without me you would not even had been able to set foot inside of Britain...!”

“...Yea, yea, yea. Go ahead! Pretend that i needed you all along. I could have easily pulled those strings myself.”

“Then why did you help me become a general?”

Valentin leaned forward. His eyes hardened. Ourumov and Valentin then kept interrupting each other.

“You told me that you had a plan that would make us both the riches men in the world...!”

“That was 8 years ago. I told you already Valentin, Alec Trevelyan changed his mind. He made a choice and he choose to work for the enemy...”

“And you choose to go easy on him! Had he been in my organization at the time he would have faced a silencer the moment he walked out of his apartment! But thats just the way with you two isn't there, you friends until the end mother(bleep)...?”

“I made a a judgement, and my judgement were correct. I convinced Alec to join us again...”

“YOU WENT SOFT!” Valentin roared.

This time there were silence. Ourumov straightened his coat.

“Well, it matters little now. Alec is pretty much a dead pawn anyway. What really matters now is my programmer. Tell me ‘business partner’, why have i not heard about Boris Grishenko’s demise yet? I thought i payed you to get rid of him!”

“You did, you did.” Valentin admitted. “And we’re still looking for him.” Valentin lied.

“Well. Then you just have to look HARDER.”

Valentin laughed. A mean grin formed on his face.

“As hard as you’re looking for ‘her’, Ourumov?” Valentin teased.

“As hard as I'm looking for her? Whatever do you mean?”

Valentin raised his eyebrows in a incredulous manner.

“Well now you’re playing guessing games with me general.” He said.

Ourumov stared silently at Valentin. Valentin continued, the incredulous in his voice increased as he talked.

“Don’t sit there and pretend like nobody knows, everybody knows! The way you talk about her, the way you turn when someone’s mentioning her. The things you do to that poster of her, those throwing knives, those cut marks along her pink body. You sick little (bleep) of (bleep)...!”

“You would kill her as well if you had the chance!” Ourumov fired back.

Valentin laughed meanly. He enjoyed finding this generals weak spot.

“So now what?” Valentin asked. “You told me that both of us would become the richest men in the world. I have the buyer, but i don't have the Goldeneye. I can’t sell to someone something that i don’t have.” Valentin complained.

“You’ll have the military hardware as soon as i have made sure that it is safe to sell.” Ourumov lied.

“Ourumov is going to fire the Goldeneye.” Boris warned the ponies. His thick Russian accent bounced upon his english words.

Boris Grishenko, Starlight Glimmer and MI6 agent Pinkie Pie had thrown themselves down at the dinner table inside the ponies apartment in London. In front of them coffee cups were sending up steam pillars.

“Fire it? But then we’ll have to warn the military, we have to warn...” Starlight Glimmer was interrupted.

“He’s not going to fire it on the west.” The ponies looked bewildered at Boris. “He's going to fire it at his own country. The target is Moscow. He has a private army waiting just outside the Ukraine border. Once the capital city is blackened by the Goldeneye blast he’s going to storm it and overthrow the government. After that he plans to install himself as a dictator.”

“Whats your name friend?” Pinkie Pie asked.

“Oh, yea. right. My name is Boris. Boris Grishenko.” Boris tipped his glasses upward before continuing.

“As i said, Ourumov is going to start a military coup with the help of the Goldeneye. This cannot happen! Ourumov is a micro manager and has a personal lust for control. If he succeeds every minister is probably going to be rounded up and face trial and execution. And thats just the ones in power. I do not want to think about what’s going to become of the citizen of Russia. I also do not want to think about what’s going to happen too you.” Boris looked at Pinkie Pie as he said the last part.

“Me? Whatever do you mean?” Pinkie Pie asked bewildered.

“Listen, Pinkie Pie. Ourumov might seem like a stable man that stands straight and knows exactly what he wants. But i worked for him for over a year. He is a mad man. Ever since the Severnaya attack he has had a picture of you on his wall. He uses it for target practice. He’s obsessed with you Pinkie Pie. He hates you.”

Pinkie Pies face lowered in sadness.

“Hate me? But why? I know I'm an enemy, but this seems a little crazy.”

“Ourumov is crazy.” Boris said darkly. ”That is why you have to either kill him or take the Goldeneye away from him. Thats the only way you are going to stop him.”

“You said ‘ever since Severnaya’.” Starlight remarked. “How do you know all this Boris?” Starlight looked suspiciously at him.

“Because i helped Ourumov steal the Goldeneye.” Boris let out.

Starlight looked blankly at Boris. She didn’t know what to feel. She was there when all those innocent programers were murdered. Boris sensed her conflict.

“Listen. I didn’t know that there would be so much bloodshed, i swear. At first i tried to live with it but eventually the guilt of what happened became to much. That was why i defected from Ourumov.”

Pinkie Pie looked at Boris suspiciously. She sensed that there was more to it than that.

“But there’s more to it than that. Isn’t it Boris?” Pinkie Pie asked while looking at him sympathetically.

“More to it? What do you mean?” Boris dropped face revealed to Pinkie Pie that he already pictured her.

“You lost someone special in that attack. Didn’t you?” Pinkie Pie asked.

Pinkie Pies intuitions didn’t fail her. She wasn’t the only one that had tried to remember life instead of death. A tear formed in Boris right eye. He snorted and wiped it away.

“I didn’t know...” Boris cracked. Suddenly everything came at once. He took of his glasses and hid his face behind his hands as the tears ran down his cheeks. He tried to continue.

“They were all good comrades. I was crushed to see them all dead, even though i probably should have known.” Boris wiped the tears from his eyes. Starlight and Pinkie Pie looked at him sympathetically as he continued with a broken voice

“But as i saw all those bodies i told myself that maybe i could live with it. Until...” Boris snorted again.

“Until what?” Starlight asked.

“...Until i saw her.” Boris started crying again.

After another minute of crying Boris was able to pull himself together. He spoke slowly to the ponies.

“She was a level 2 programmer. She was responsible for the guidance system at the station. I worked with her for only a year but i never knew, i never knew...”

“That you would fall in love with her.” Starlight Glimmer put the words in his mouth. Boris hesitated before answering proudly.

“Yes. Yes i’s true. I was always bad with women, i know. But with her i felt like all that was ok. I felt like i could be myself. I wanted to grow old with her, i wanted to raise kids with her...” Boris paused. “I wanted to marry her.” Boris felt the anger boil up inside him.

“...And then they killed her. THEY KILLED HER!” He roared and slammed his fist onto the table, the coffee tipping over as he did.

“But what was her name?” Pinkie Pie asked.

“Natalya Fyodorova Simonova.” Boris answered.

“Starlight?” Twilight spoke inside Starlights head.

“Yes Twilight!” Starlight answered without thinking. Boris looked at her in bewilderment. His eyebrows rose slightly. Starlight looked at him with diminished pupils and laughed nervously.

“Hehehe. Yes! Twilight is the time of day alright. So sparkle and so full of magic!” Starlight threw her hoof in a ‘bet ya’ manner. Boris face did not move.

“Eh, heheh. hurm.” Starlight pretended to cough. ”Excuse us for a moment.”

Starlight and Pinkie Pie went into the bedroom to have a session with Twilight outside the movie. In Equestria Twilight looked at the TV screen with hopeless eyes.

“So Natalya is dead?” Rarity asked

“So it seems.” Twilight concluded weakly. A pegasus pony started breathing heavily.

“But how is the story ever going to be finished without her?!” Fluttershy asked in panic.

Twilight looked saddened at the TV screen. Inside the movie Pinkie Pie and Starlight looked nervously at each other. The silence were complete. The underlying notion that Starlight and Pinkie Pie would be stuck inside the movie forever pressed down on the group.

“Then we create our own!” Ash Ketchum blasted.

The movie goers wailed their heads around and looked at the Pokemon trainer. Ash got nervous.

“On the other hand, never mind.” Ash shrunk and grabbed his neck. The movie goers looked at each other in bewilderment. Starlight though for a moment about what Ash said. Her face lit up in excitement.

“No. I want to hear!” She exclaimed.

“Huh?” Ash blurted.

“I want to hear what you had to say Ash!” Starlights eyes sparkled with energy. Ash raised his arms.

“Well? I just thought that...” Ash hesitated. His face remained in hesitation as he gave in. “...That we have the secret agent, we have her sidekick, we have the nerdy hacker and we have a threatening villain that plans to take over the world. Why let it all go to waste? Why not just create a new story? If the movie decides later that he wants to be a dry head about it then it’s his loss. At least then we’ll have a great story.”

“Pika!” Pikachu approved cutely.

There was a long silence. Twilight looked at the TV screen. She caught sight of Starlights mean grin. Twilight smiled.

“You know what Ash? You’re totally right! It’s not like the movie hasn’t sinned itself. I mean, i never saw Jaws having a role in Goldeneye. Did you girls?”

The ponies all looked around at each other. There were a unison mumble of agreement. Twilight wailed her determined eyes toward Littlefoot. Earlier Littlefoot had been the one to convince them all that they should respect the movie by not changing it at their own will. Littlefoot was taken a back. He wailed his eyes around the room. He then said hesitantly.

“Well. I guess part about having respect for a movie by not changing it at your own will must be...” Littlefoot sighed. His longneck face twisted in anger. “...must be to be honest with it and tell it when it’s time for it to go ahead and fuck itself.”

Peter Dinklage turned to Littlefoot. His eyebrows raised.

“Woa there! ...Main character spawning 13 popular straight to DVD children movie sequels.”

Littlefoot raised his eyebrows incredulously.

“I’m 29!” He exclaimed.

The European highway seemed to stretch for miles as the two ponies and the human were traveling along it inside Pinkie Pies Aston Martin. All around them large mountains rose majestically. Below them the cliffs dropped, revealing some forrest patches below. They had been driving for a while. They were now looking searching an opening, free from other humans. Boris was getting nervous.

“So? Who exactly are these ‘friends’ of yours?” Boris asked the ponies for the tenth time, secretly worried that he might be about to disappear soon.

“Look Pinkie, there!” Starlight pointed her hoof at a gravel area beside the road.

The group got out of the car. Boris looked nervously at the ponies as they stood in the middle of the opening.

“Alright Twilight. You can send her now!” Starlight glimmer shouted out into the blue.

Boris laughed nervously. He was getting ready to make a run for it before the ceremony was about to start. In that moment there was a bright flash. Boris covered his eyes. Slowly he lowered them again. His eyes widened in disbelief. Right in front of him another pony seemed to have appeared out of thin air. The pony was light brown and had her mane tied into a knot in a country manner. She looked bewildered at him, then at the scenery.

“Woooyeee, this is amazing!” The pony had a thick American country accent. “Howdy partner.” The pony greeted as she looked at him.

There were the sound of snorting.

“Apple Jack.” Pinkie Pie approached teary eyed her country friend that she hadn't seen for over a year in movie time count. Starlight followed shortly after. All three ponies hugged each other. The ponies had agreed that they would only send one pony at the time just in case the movie would become unstable. Apple Jack was aware the risks, along with the fact that Twilight still couldn't send her back again before the movie was finished. Fluttershy and Rarity had said no so far, fearing the loud gun fire. Twilight had also chosen to stay behind since they needed the link between the movie and Equestria.

“So? Where’d we go now?” Apple Jack asked confounded.

“Check that device again Pinkie Pie.” Starlight said, referring to a small portable map screen connected to the MI6. Pinkie Pie picked it up but hit a patrol once she had it.

“It’s password protected.”

“Huh?” Starlight Glimmer blurted.

“Oh, yea. It may have been me. I just wanted to take a small peak and see were we where, just for curiosity.” Boris Grishenko lied.

“But this was password protected. How did you get in?” Starlight asked.

The former Russian level 1 hacker Boris Grishenko looked confidently at Starlight as if to say. ‘Oh please.’

“Alright. So whats the password now?” Starlight asked.

Boris looked around the scenery. Starlight frowned

“Boris?”

Boris hummed a tune to himself. He wailed his head around arrogantly.

“Boris!”

Boris looked at Starlight again. He laughed and started walking toward her.

“I though i’d post it on the internet, you know.”

“Whats the password?” Starlight repeated the question.

“I made it easy this time.” He nodded his head. “Even you should be able to break it.”

Starlight grumped. Pinkie Pie held her mouth as she contained her laughter.

“Alright, alright. I give you a hint... ‘They’re right in front of you and can open very large doors’.”

Starlight looked angrily at Boris. She had a silvery pencil in her hoof. She pressed it two times to relieve the stress. Pinkie Pie looked seriously at it.

‘Two clicks.’ She noted

Starlights horn started glowing. She had the device in her other hoof as she used her magic to try and break Boris code. She clicked nervously at the pencil.

‘One click.’ Pinkie Pie noted.

Inside Starlights head suggestions of the answer started pouring in from the movie goers.

“Is it ‘Key’?” Fluttershy asked happily

“Is it ‘Handle’?” Twilight guessed exited.

“Oh! I know! Try ‘Mouth’!” Rainbow Dash blasted.

Most of the guesses came from Littlefoot, who's enthusiastic voice jittered Twilights transmission.

“...Is it codeword? Password?... Door picks?... Sledge?...Hammer?... Influences?... Power?... Relativity?...Chaos?...The Circle Of Life?“ The answers quickly started to soar the skies, leading Starlight further and further away from ‘Knockers’.

‘One click followed by four clicks.’

Starlight started to sweat, her horn glowing more and more fiercely. The device kept on denying her.

‘Two clicks followed by one click.’ Pinkie Pies serious eyes studied the pencil. Apple Jack was happy.

“Well, take me on a cart and hoof me all the way to heaven fillies, how long did ye all say you been here? I wonder if one’d be able to grow apple trees here?”

Apple Jacks thick country accent circulated Starlights head, putting all the answer she’d received already on repeat. Except this time they all wore fedora hats and mud boots. By the time Relativity was feeding the household pigs Starlight Glimmer snapped.

‘Three clicks!’

Starlight turned to Boris, her throat covered in vanes underneath her furious face.

“GIVE ME THE CODES BORIS GRISHENKO! GIVE THEM TO ME!”

Pinkie Pie slammed her hoof at Starlights, causing the pencil to fly into the nearby ditch. A large bang filled the air. Starlight looked bewildered at the growing dust cloud ahead.

“What was that?!”

“It was an exploding pen.” Pinkie Pie informed. “Q made it. Three clicks and it turns into a grenade of apocalyptic inferno and mass destruction!”

“But why didn’t you say anything?!” Starlight wailed.

Pinkie Pies hanging mane puffed up. There were the sound of confetti popping.

“Of course not silly. That would have ruined the surprise!” Pinkie Pies party smile widened in front of Starlights frowned face.

“Can i plant one in that there ditch now?” Apple Jack countrysided.

Apple Jacks face sunk. Her mouth fluffed up repeatedly as she blocked her desire to throw up. She looked out of the car window while traveling inside Pinkie Pies Aston Martin.

“I told you Apple Jack. Keep your eyes on the road in front of the car.” Starlight reminded Apple Jack.

Apple Jack had never traveled inside a car before. Her head spun around in circles as she tried to get used to the moving vehicle.

“Turn left here.” Boris Grishenko guided Pinkie Pie.

The group were heading for one of Boris’s many hideouts. An abandoned school house. It would have a MAC and IP protected computer and be situated in perfect distance from Ourumov’s troops. It would allow for Boris and Starlight to hack into his military system and plan the retaking of the Goldeneye.

“Uuuuuh, are we there yet?” Apple Jack mumbled, her eyes half shut.

“Soon. Just a little more.” Boris said.

Around the ponies the mountainside passed by. The sound of Pinkie Pies Aston Martin sent long echoes. The only other thing sounding was the wind as it slided against it’s stony roughness. There then were the sound of something flapping. The flapping was constant, almost machinery like. It became louder and louder. It was now that Pinkie Pie inside the car started hearing it. Her first thought was a strong hurricane flapping against the sides of the car, but then it sounded more like cutting. Almost like a blade was spinning around. Or a rotor?

In that exact moment a presence rose from the cliffs below the road. It swayed back and forth as it hovered. The rotor blade spun above it, a small one spun at its tail. The lower side of the helicopter had a wing like contraption with ten missiles. Two mini guns were placed at the sides. In the middle there was a windshield. Inside the windshield a lipstick wearing woman with leather clothes were smiling pleasurably. Behind her she had a co pilot.

“Hello ponies. Miss me?” Xenia Onatopp said through the large speaker of the chopper. At the same moment the mini guns started rotating.

“HOLD ON!!!” Pinkie Pie screamed.

Apple Jack, Starlight Glimmer and Boris were violently pressed against their seats as Pinkie Pie slammed the acceleration pedal to the floor. She started driving zig zag. A popping sound filled the air as the mini guns started firing 5000 rounds per minute. The bullet proof windows of the Aston Martin absorbed the bullets. But the large caliber of the mini guns caused them to crack slightly.

“What in the world is going on!?” Apple Jack wailed in panic. Around her the jittering sound the bullets hitting the car slammed against her ears. There were a swooshing sound. The chopper had fired a heat seeking missile. Pinkie Pie pressed a silvery button. The backside of the Aston Martin lit up as flares were deployed. There were a large explosion rocking the car when the missile exploded mid air.

“Oaaaaaah!” Apple Jack screamed horrified, almost tumbling over Starlight.

Pinkie Pie pressed another button. Two large guns appeared behind the car. A TV screen with a crosshair appeared in front of the first ever pony MI6 agent. Pinkie Pie pressed the button at the top of the gear lever. Xenia Onatopp dogged the bullet rain from the car by pulling the chopper sideways.

There were another swoosh. A cliff exploded in front of the car, sending a huge rock tumbling down. Pinkie Pie steered sideways. Apple Jack gasped as the it sailed by only inches away from the side window, her eyes diminished in pure panic. She had barely been able to pull it together while the car was driving normally.

In Equestria the TV screen reflected inside the panicked lavender eyes Twilight Sparkle. She was biting her hooves.

“Twilight!” Rainbow Dash was trying to get her attention.

Inside the movie a tree had been shot down by the mini guns. It fell over the road. Pinkie Pie turned the gear lever, causing the car to change weapon. She pulled the trigger. There was a popping sound in front of the car followed by a loud blast. Wooden pieces from the obliterated tree jittered the car’s sides. A missile sailed by above the car. It turned around ahead, heading straight for the car. Pinkie Pie were able to veer at the last second. The blast of the missile hitting the ground sounded just outside of Apple Jacks window.

“OAAAAAH! Help! Please! Someone Help me!” Apple Jack wailed.

“We need to take down that chopper somehow!” Starlight screamed.

In that same moment there was a huge explosion. Except for the ponies it wasn’t an explosion, just a thin beeping sound inside their ears.

The Aston Martin went sailing through the air, spinning around in circles. It landed on the grass. Cows galloped horrified from the scene as the car went sliding, creating a crater of dirt behind it.

Apple Jack opened her eyes. The world were blurry. She could still hear the beeping sound inside her ears. As the world cleared around her she saw the chopper hover above. She imagined this being the last thing she saw.

‘Good bye granny smith. Be sure to raise Apple Bloom and help her lead the farm in the future.’ She thought to herself.

There was a swooshing sound, followed by a crack. Suddenly the chopper was thrown sideways. Xenia gasped. Part of the windshield had been shattered. She turned her hovering bringer of death and faced her attacker.

Rainbow Dash’s wings flapped majestically against the patching sun behind her. Her red eyes glared cocky at the clumsy machine. A pleasuring voice sounded through its speakers.

“Oh. Another blue one? Are you going to scream and beg like that unicorn did when i whipped her?”

Rainbow Dash’s cocky face showed no sign if flinching. Her rainbow mane sent colored beams against Xenia's flying monster.

“Oh, such beautiful wings you have. A shame that i have to ruin them!” Xenia snarled. The mini guns started rotating.

Rainbow Dash dove toward the ground. She heard the popping sound of the mini guns along with the flowing bullet streams pass her by. She sailed around the chopper and landed another hit. Xenia's gasping could be heard from the speakers.

The rainbow pony kept circulating the chopper. Xenia tried to turn around and get a clear shot but Rainbow Dash was just way to fast. Xenia's moaning quickly changed into annoyed growling.

“Can you please be still so that i can blow you up into little pieces?!” Xenia asked incredulously.

Rainbow Dash rocketed toward the shopper. She made a sudden zig zag move, fooling Xenia to fire the mini guns in the wrong direction. She landed another hit on the windshield. The crack became bigger. She quickly disappeared again above the clouds.

“Oh. You annoying Rainbow. Would you please just die!” Xenia roared. She ascended the chopper until she was above the clouds. She saw the rainbow ahead. The heat seeker gave a beeping sound. It became static once it detected the blue pony.

“I have something for you. ONLY FOR YOU!” Xenia roared and fired the heat seeking missile.

Rainbow Dash heard a burning sound behind her.

“It’s a heat seeking missile Rainbow Dash!” Twilight screamed inside her head.

“Yea! I know that!” Rainbow Dash shouted irritatingly.

Rainbow Dash started flying zig zag, hearing the burning sound of the missile turning behind her. She wailed her head around. She saw Xenia's shopper hover about above the clouds. Its mini guns started firing again. Rainbow Dash turned around and flew straight toward it.

She twisted and turned, hearing the bullets sail right past her head. She thought she felt her mane get cut. The burning missile closed in behind her. Xenia's shouts echoed the sky.

“Only for you Rainbow Pony! Only for you!”

Rainbow Dash felt the choppers bullet stream swoosh above her. At that exact moment Rainbow Dash descended below the chopper. She then turned upward, flying toward the rotating tail blade. She turned sideways and flew past, barely touching it. She heard a huge explosion behind her when the missile hit the tail.

“To slow!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed cockily and turned around. She watched proudly as the chopper spun downward ahead, leaving behind a tail of black smoke and fire. She noticed something sharp shimmering in the sun. Suddenly Rainbow Dash felt like a part of her had been lost.

The blue rainbow pony jerked. Her body went sailing in one direction, her right wing the other. There were a small spurt of blood. The loosened tail blade kept falling toward the ground, slightly bloodied.

“RAINBOW DASH! NO!” Twilight wailed in Equestria.

Starlight Glimmer galloped as fast as her hooves could carry her. She saw Rainbow Dash falling ahead. Starlights horn gave a glow, turning a tree into a huge bouncing castle. It crumbled once the Rainbow Dash fell into it. Behind the castle there were a loud crash when Xenia's chopper crumbled into the forrest.

Pinkie Pie saw the chopper crash further ahead. She galloped faster, knowing she only had seconds to catch Xenia if she survived. Once she had broken through the last bush she saw the chopper stuck inside a tree. The windshield was open, but no pilot was in it. Xenia had escaped!

“Curse!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed. There were a rustling sound. Someone was running ahead.

The co pilot thought he heard hoofs behind him. He pulled out his magnum. He wailed around and fired, its high caliber blast echoing among the trees. He looked around. But he saw no one. His hand started shaking. He turned around. He felt his nose flatten before falling backwards. A pink hoof pressed down his hand once he laid on the ground, causing him to loose grip of the revolver.

“Who are you working for?!” A highly pitched voice demanded.

Once Starlight Glimmer arrived at the crumbled bouncing castle she frantically started turning its plastic walls. The walls had laid themselves in layers above the pony below. It felt like she had turned plastic for a days once the last turning revealed the blue pony. But Rainbow Dash wasn’t blue anymore. She was red. A red mess of blood and feathers. A large puddle was forming under her body. Starlight felt her hoofs weaken.

“Oh no.” She whispered.

Boris followed Starlight, still groggy from the car crash. Starlight felt somepony bump her flank. Her eyes widened in disbelief.

“Fluttershy!?”

“Yes! Twilight sent me here! But theres no time, we need to cover up her severed wing and stop the bleeding now!” Fluttershy blasted.

“Only for you... Only for you...”

The last words of Xenia circulated Rainbow Dashs head. It made her dizzy. It wasn’t good she thought. It was never good to be dizzy when flying. She felt no wind current changes. Her mane did not waver in the way it usually does.

“Only for you... Only for you...”

Rainbow Dash looked to her right, then her left. Her wings flapped as they should. Her feathers wavered against the wind. Strangely the wind did not cool her underneath them. The night around her was bright with stars along with the the loom of the hovering full moon.

“Only for you... Only for you...”

Rainbow Dash felt her head spin faster and faster in circles. She felt herself fall, tumbling sideways. She crumbled into the darkness below that had no ground.

Rainbow Dash woke up. She thought she saw roof lights above her. They spun around in circles as she tried too look at them. She found herself shaking in cold.

“Aaaaah!” She wailed.

She had fever. She immediately felt that she had. And it wasn’t a pretty, a small happy excuse to not show up for wonderbolt training and read Darin Do instead.

‘Only for you...Only for you...’. Xenia's voice kept on circulating her mind. Her head spun faster the more it did.

“Aaaaah!” She wailed louder.

There were the sound of hoofs hitting hard floor.

“There, there. Easy Rainbow Dash.” She heard Fluttershy say. “Don’t get yourself worked up.”

‘Only for you...’

Rainbow Dash felt the panic rise. She started wailing her wings around. It was now that Rainbow Dash felt her brain being pulled to the left in a strange way.

‘Only for you...’

“Ahaaaaa!”

“Easy Rainbow Dash. Easy.” Fluttershy said.

Rainbow Dash felt a hoof touch her forehead. She didn’t know who it was, even though she just heard Fluttershy’s voice. Her head spun so fast she couldn’t see anything in front of her. She felt herself fall into a vacuum again.

Rainbow Dash was flying, soaring the breeze as it came. It still didn’t feel cold. The night sky was open with white clouds underneath her.

‘Only for you...” Xenia's words still went on repeat. Rainbow Dash started feeling dizzy again.

The night sky was suddenly filled with the presence of a big object. A giant book came soaring underneath her. The book was open. It only had one big letter in it. The letter sparkled. A shimmering light came rocketing out of it. A missile...ONLY FOR TOU!!!

Rainbow Dash panicked and opened her eyes. The world spun around her like an everlasting carousel.

“Waaaaaaa!”

Rainbow Dash felt something wet and cold laying on her forehead.

“There there. Rainbow Dash. easy.” Fluttershy was speaking softly and gentle. ”I made you this ice bag. It’s good for the fever you know, since it cools you down.”

Every word Fluttershy said felt like a cold pillow being pushed gently against her body. Rainbow Dash felt herself calm down slightly. As her brain finally got some peace she found that she had no idea what was going on. Rainbow Dash was scared. She started shaking again. She snorted. Tears formed in her eyes.

“Fluttershy.” She called with a broke voice.

“Easy. Rainbow Dash. Hold on, you’re in chock. I’m sorry but i might as well tell you. Your right wing has been severed, but I'm sure its noting that can't be fixed.”

For some reason Rainbow Dash didn’t react to that horrifying information. All that she could say was her name.

“Fluttershy.” She sobbed again. Rainbow Dash was crying of fear as well of the severe fever. She felt Fluttershys hoof grab hold of her hoof. There it stayed as her own tears slowly put her to sleep.

Rainbow Dash was flying again. She saw that light rise from the open book again. She readied herself to escape the missile. But for some reason she didn’t feel scared. The light flew away from her. It wasn’t a missile, it couldn’t be.

‘Only for you...’ Xenia said in a softer, teasing voice.

Curious, Rainbow Dash flew after the light. She flew after Xenia

‘Only for you...’

In front of her the light kept on flying away. It lead Rainbow Dash into eternity.

Rainbow Dash woke up. The world wasn't spinning anymore. She could se the roof lights above her, still and slightly flickering. Rainbow Dash tried to rise up but she felt herself falling the the right. She looked right. She saw the beginning of her right wing. It abruptly ended with a large bandage. But she wasn’t surprised. Fluttershy had already told her the truth. Around her a large number of simple chairs were placed behind school benches. A board was placed at the end with a teacher altar. She looked down. She was lying on a cloud

“I made you a bed.” Fluttershy said.

Rainbow Dash turned to Fluttershy. She was sitting at the other end of the room. Her eyes sparkled with worry, Yet a smile festered on her face .

“Rainbow Dash, how are you feeling?”

“Where am i?” Rainbow Dash asked instead of answering.

“I know it must be confusing Rainbow Dash. You have been asleep for almost 5 days.”

“5 days?!” Rainbow Dash whispered incredulously. She was about to ask what she had missed. Her thoughts instead went to the wonderbolts. She imagined all those trophies that she had won from being the fastest flyer. She felt a dark panic rise within her along with her breathing.

“I’m not a pegasus...” Rainbow Dash mumbled. She turned to Fluttershy and raised her voice slightly.

“I’m not a pegasus.”

Fluttershys eyebrows shrunk.

“I’m not a pegasus!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

“Rainbow Dash. Calm down.” Fluttershy started walking toward her.

“I’m not a pegasus!!!” Rainbow Dash wailed.

“Yes you are, calm down!” Fluttershy started panicking herself.

“Im never gonna fly again! I’m finished! I’M NOT A PEGASUS!!!”

Rainbow Dash felt her head start spinning again. She fell backwards down onto the soft cloud. As she laid there she felt Fluttershy grab hold of her hoof. She tried to feel her right wing. She tried to stretch her feathers. She felt like she did, but in a way she didn’t. She started to moan again as the phantom pain set in. She started shaking.

“Rainbow Dash. It’s going to be alright. You’re inside a...” Fluttershy’s voice faded as Rainbow Dash passed out from chock.

Rainbow Dash flapped her wings. She flapped them faster than she had ever flapped them before. She was chasing the light coming out of the book.

‘Only for you...’ Xenia whispered. Her voice had started to grow softer. Rainbow Dash closed in on the light. She expected to see Xenia's chopper as it faded. Instead she saw wings spread out ahead.

‘Only for you...’ The soft voice spoke. It didn’t sound at all like Xenia anymore. The yellow pegasus pony turned to Rainbow Dash and looked at her. She opened her mouth.

“Only for you.”

Rainbow Dash opened her eyes again. She took a minute to get used to the light. She saw Fluttershy sitting in a chair close by. She turned and looked at her.

“Rainbow Dash, you’re awake.” She spoke.

Rainbow Dash got up and sat herself at the side of the cloud. She looked around. Around her clouds had been formed into sculptures. Plants had been placed in vases alongside it.

“I made sure to make things as comfortable as possible for you.” Fluttershy said.

“Why?” Was all Rainbow Dash could ask. Fluttershys face bent in bewilderment.

“What do you mean, why?” She asked.

“Why does it matter? I’m done. I’m finished. Theres no place for me in Cloudsdale. Theres no place for me in the wonderbolts. There no place for...”

“Oh. But Rainbow Dash.” Fluttershy interrupted Rainbow Dash. She smiled. She didn’t seemed bothered at all. ”That’s another story.”

“Another story?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“You’re talking about your story that you live in Equestria. But we are inside a movie now Rainbow Dash, this doesn’t need to be that story.”

Rainbow Dash looked bewildered at Fluttershy. Fluttershy got up on her hooves. She walked up to Rainbow Dash and looked straight into her eyes.

“This could be a new story.”

“A new story?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Yes...Yes...A new sto...ry” Fluttershys voice faded as her beautiful blue eyes became dreamy. She grabbed hold of Rainbow Dashs hoof. “A new story... Only for you.”

Rainbow Dash eyes widened at the familiar voice.

“What kind of story?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“What kind of story would you prefer?” Fluttershy asked.

Rainbow Dash thought about it for a moment. She felt every worry she recently had fade away. She opened her mouth and spoke the only phrase she could think of.

“...For your eye’s only.”

Fluttershys pupils widened. She leaned slightly forward and nudged her head in a ‘come here’ manner. Rainbow Dash felt the fever rise again. But this wasn’t that kind of fever. She felt her heart beat up to her head as she slowly realized that Fluttershys wide eyes were not caring, but suggestive. Fluttershy closed her eyes half way and leaned forward. She stopped as her nose barely touched hers.

Suddenly a memory passed by, a memory from long ago. A memory about a shy little filly pegasus, living in cloudsdale, that were constantly tormented by bullies. Rainbow Dash recalled the pride she felt after she had defended this shy little filly. 'Whats your name?' she had asked. The answer she recieved that day she now spoke herself in whisper.

"Fluttershy..." Rainbow Dash felt her mouth widen as Fluttershy suddenly came. Her breath shifted to her nose. Her lips made smaking sounds as she moved her head. Her Hooves reached around her back. Her yellow wings unfolded slightly. She moved in on her and gently laid her down into the cloud

‘For...your...eyes...only...” Rainbow Dash whispered in-between feeling Fluttershys mouth against hers. Rainbow Dash felt Fluttershy lay her wings under her head like a pillow. She didn’t need her right wing, she had Fluttershy’s now that kept her from tumbling down the high sky that she soared.

Epilouge

Pinkie Pie opened the door into her room at sugarcube corner. There were the sound of confetti popping.

“SURPRISE!” All the ponies in the room exclaimed at once. Pinkie Pie smiled, widely outside but wider inside. Her eyes wiped the old memory of a bloody cake with disappointed faces and replaced it with what she saw now.

Twilights horn were shining brightly as it held a party hat mid air.

Twilight Sparkle was smiling.

Apple Jack stood beside her with one on her head.

Apple Jack was smiling.

Fluttershy stood beside Apple Jack in her usual nervous pose.

Fluttershy was smiling.

Rainbow Dash was standing with both her wings raised into the air in a cocky way.

Rainbow Dash was smiling.

Rarity was posing with a fabulous pink party dress.

Rarity was smiling

Starlight Glimmer and Trixie stood side by side covered in confetti wearing a party hat each.

Both Starlight Glimmer and Trixie were smiling.

Peter Dinklage watched the party gain intensity by the arrival of the jumping pink party pony. Beside him there were boys.

“Well? What did you think of the movie guys?” Peter Dinklage asked Littlefoot and Ash Ketchum.

“It was amazing!” Ash exclaimed.

“Magnificent!” Littlefoot agreed.

“It was so full of amazing characters.” Peter said dreamily. “Especially that Alec character. He makes himself so much better as a anti hero rather than a plain villain, don't you agree guys?”

“Sure.” Littlefoot agreed. “And i bet that if ALL this was just one big fan story this wouldn’t count as bragging seeing we are referring to a story INSIDE the actual story.”

“Yes it would!” Ash bickered.

“No it wouldn’t.”

“Yes it would.”

“No it wouldn’t”

“Yes it would.”

“Hey, fuck you, you cap wearing 90s kid stereotype!” Littlefoot blasted. Peter sighed.

“Well, might as well continue when you’re ahead.” He said.

The end