The Superiffic Spider-Mare

Pinkie Pie awoke in her bed, the warm sun trickling through her window. She sat up and the heaviness from her eyelids. In the other room she could hear Twilight saying something, followed by Rarity replying. It was hard to understand, since most ponies wouldn't be able to hear anything at all, but Pinkie was curious.

She leapt from her bed and trotted to the door. She opened it to see Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Applejack standing there, all three looking as though they had just woken up. Applejack lacked her hat and had her mane down, Rarity was missing her false eyelashes and was wearing a red robe and Rainbow's hair was even more unruly than ussual.

"Oh, you're up!" Rarity exclaimed "Twilight and Fluttershy just left."

"Oh, that's a shame." Pinkie replied "I'll go catch up to them and say goodbye!"

Before anypony could respond, Pinkie galloped out the door and down the path leading to the castle entrance.

"Hi Luna!" she yelled as she bolted past the princess before leaping from the castle wall to the town below, doing a flip as she flew.

Luna stared down at her as the pink mare ran off.

"Um... Hello." she said in confusion "I'll never understand modern greetings." she mumbled.

Pinkie walked down the streets of Canterlot. The street was mostly empty, since everypony was attending the final day of the magic exhibition. It was the overbooking that limited Twilight's amount of guests.

Pinkie sighed and looked around for something fun to do.

"I think I'm suffering from party withdrawal." she muttered to herself.

"Wait a second!" she suddenly exclaimed "I know something I can do!"

She looked around and spotted a shop with the words 'Fabric's Fabrics' above the entrance in large letters.

"Perfect!" Pinkie said to herself.

She ducked into the store which was, like the streets outside, empty. At the counter was a light brown mare with a blonde mane and a red patch-work cutie mark. She had fallen asleep and on her forehead was a note that read 'Do not disturb'.

Pinkie grabbed some fabrics from the racks and began working. After several minutes she trotted over to the counter, placed a few bits next to the sleeping pony's head and left the building.

"Perfect!" she said, admiring her work. Laid out before her was a dark pink, full-body suit with a black web patern. On the back of its kind legs were bright blue patches which matched her eyes. On either side of it where the cutie mark would be was a small spider symbol. The mask had eyes similar to the ones on her Mare Do Well mask and where light blue on the outside but clear on the inside. It also had holes in it so that Pinkie's mane and tail could escape.

"And I thought Rarity was the textiles expert!"

Suddenly, Pinkie's tail began to twitch. She looked up, just in time to see a teacup fall from a balcony above, smashing into pieces on the stone ground. A pastel green unicorn fell over the side of the balcony, grabbing the edge with her fore-hooves.

"Help!" she yelled, kicking at the air.

"Don't worry!" Pinkie yelled, pulling the mask over her head "I'm coming!"

She shot a web up to the side of the hotel building, pulling herself up the wall. As she approached the unicorn, who Pinkie now recognized as Lyra Heartstrings from Ponyville, she put her foreleg around her.

"I've got you!" Pinkie said, her voice muffled slightly by the mask "Everything is okay!"

Lyra grabbed onto Pinkie for her life, squeezing her tight.

"Thank you!" she yelled "Get me back up!"

Pinkie obliged, pulling herself up with the web and placing the green pony on the ground.

"Thanks!" she exclaimed "I owe ya one...uh..."

"Spider-Mare." Pinkie replied. She jumped from the balcony and swung away, shooting web from building to building.

"Thanks a lot, Spider-Mare!" Lyra yelled, waving a hoof. She galloped back into the hotel room the balcony extended from.

"Bon Bon!" she shouted "You'll never guess what just happened!"

"Well, that was fun!" Pinkie said to herself, disconnecting her web from one building and swinging to another "But as my first save, that was kind of boring and easy. Where's an Ursa when you need one?"

She was traveling in the direction of Canterlot Castle, ready to return to the suite. Before reaching it, she stopped and landed in the empty street, stripping her costume and hiding it in her mane.

"I should probably keep this close." she said cheerfully as she began to trot towards the castle's main entrance.

The guards parted, opening the doors and letting Pinkie enter. As she walked up the long, twisting path to the room, her Pinkie sense began to tingle slightly. She stopped, looking around for danger. After seeing nothing she continued.

She opened the door to the Harmony Suite. As she did, the scent of blood hit her nose. Inside she saw her three friends looking into the door of Fluttershy's room.

"Hi girls." Pinkie said, looking around for the source of the smell.

"Pinkie Pie!" Rainbow Dash yelled "Quickly! We've got some bad news!"

As Pinkie approached, she saw tears streaming down Rainbow's face.

"What's wrong, Dashie?" Pinkie asked.

Rainbow stepped out of the way and directed Pinkie into the room. Rarity was holding back tears and biting her lower lip, while Applejack was looking down at the floor.

In the center of the rug was Fluttershy, huddling in the fetus position. Her forehead was cut and blood was flowing out.

"Fluttershy?!" Pinkie exclaimed, galloping over and kneeling down "What happened?!"

Fluttershy looked at Pinkie and squeaked slightly. She was shivering as she rocked on the floor.

"Pinkie Pie." Applejack said. Her voice was cold and flat. "There's somethin' we gotta tell you."

"What?" Pinkie said, her eyes locked on the traumatized pony before her.

Applejack slowly trotted over, looking Pinkie in the eye. Her eyes glistened with tears.

"Twilight has gone missing."