//-------------------------------------------------------// The Friendship Problem -by Evictus- //-------------------------------------------------------// //-------------------------------------------------------// The Time Wasting Problem //-------------------------------------------------------// The Time Wasting Problem Pinkie Pie was baking a cake in an oven at Sugarcube Corner. She was in a hurry though as she wanted to get to Twilight's castle as she had to sort out a friendship problem that have been detected on the map that were signaling her. She was worried that she might not be able to handle it but shrugged those worries off as she had handled friendship problems before. As she baked the treat for the customer she paced back and forth as she couldn't contain her anxiousness. Once it was finished baking she got it out and packed it up for delivery which the Cakes would handle for her. She then announced that she was leaving and ran out the door. She knew that she could have solved the problems first before doing work at Sugarcube Corner but she had wanted to help the Cakes out that day so that's why she decided to do just that. As soon. As she got to the castle she ran inside and went to the map as quickly as possible. She saw that Spike and Twilight were looking at it while Starlight was in the back cleaning the room with her magic. She got to the map and stopped while she looked at Twilight. "I'm here Twilight. Where does the map need me to go?" Pinkie Pie asked as she looked down at the map. Twilight pointed to the area where Pinkie Pie's face was being projected at and Pinkie Pie saw that the map was telling her to go to Ponyville General which was the hospital. "The hospital huh? I wasn't expecting that. How would a friendship problem be happening there?" Pinkie Pie asked. Twilight shrugged. "I'm not sure. Maybe it's between some nurses or some doctors or even two patients. The map is saying that it's the right problem for you to solve. Just go and check it out. It's probably nothing." Twilight said. Pinkie Pie nodded and skipped out the door and walked to the hospital in Ponyville. Once she walked into the hospital she walked up to the pony at the front desk and spoke. "Hi I'm Pinkie Pie. I'm a friend of Twilight's and I saved Equestia numerous times...I'm here because of a supposed friendship problem. Have any patient or Doctor have trouble with their friends?" Pinkie Pie asked. The receptionist nodded and pulled out some files and read them. "I think we do in fact. I might have saved the file that I had borrowed from their primary care doctor just so I could see for myself. Hold on." The receptionist said as she looked through the documents. "Take all the time you need!" Pinkie Pie said with a cheerful voice. The receptionist looked through some of the documents before she found the report. She spoke. "Here it is. The report was filed early this morning and it speaks about a fight between to fillies in the hospital. The events happened in room 312. Would you like a doctor to guide you?" The receptionist asked. Pinkie Pie shrugged. "Sure I'll have a doctor guide me. If they could be there with me as a witness to my help as well then that would be helpful." Pinkie Pie said. The receptionist nodded and walked away from the desk for a few minutes. Pinkie Pie waited there patiently. A few minutes later the receptionist then walked back up to the desk with Nurse Redheart following her and spoke to Pinkie Pie "You know Nurse Redheart right? She will be your witness and will fill you in on the patient. Good luck Pinkie Pie." The receptionist said. Pinkie Pie thanked her and followed Nurse Redheart as they walked to the room. "So fill me in. They said there was a physical fight but that couldn't happen because there are some rooms were patients are separated but this one must have been big enough for both patients." Pinkie Pie said. Nurse Redheart nodded. "The two patients were sharing the same room." Nurse Redheart said as they continued to walk to the room. They walked up a flight of stairs to the next floor and saw more rooms. "Okay well there's your problem. This could have been avoided if the two patients were in separate rooms, this wouldn't have happened if they had not been in the same room." Pinkie Pie said. Nurse Redheart sighed. "I know Pinkie. It was dumb of us to have patients in the same room. We will consider separating patients when problems arise between them from now on." Nurse Redheart said. Pinkie Pie nodded. "That would be a good idea. Start doing that from now on starting today." Pinkie Pie said. Nurse Redheart nodded "I'll let every member on the staff here know about that." Nurse Redheart said. Nurse Redheart and Pinkie Pie stopped in the middle of the hallway and Nurse Redheart showed the room titled 208. "Here it is. I honestly can't describe anything else about what happened as I don't have those details since I didn't think they were important to remember." Nurse Redheart said. Pinkie Pie shrugged. "Don't worry about it. Just go in and tell them about me. It'll probably only take one minute." Pinkie Pie said. "I'm going in now. See you later." Pinkie Pie said as she opened the door. "Good luck Pinkie Pie." Nurse Redheart said as she waited out in the hallway. Pinkie Pie went inside and the door closed behind her. When she saw the two fillies in bed once rolled it's eyes. "Your the friendship ambassador to YakYakistan and the party planner from Ponyville right? I know about you and the story of how Princess Twilight got her wings. There's no problem here Pinkie Pie so just go." The filly said with an annoyed expression. "Well you see there is this special map that tells me and my friends were friendship problems occur and I got called by the map to come here so I can't go until this is solved, that is my duty!" Pinkie Pie said with a cheerful voice. "Yeah here's how you can solve it Pinkie Pie. Why don't you find a cure for my illness! Instead of acting all happy maybe you can actually help!" The first filly yelled. Pinkie Pie was startled by this but calmed herself. "I'm sorry....that's just the way I am I can't help it. I'm not trying to treat your problem as if it weren't worthy of being fixed I was just acting like that because that's who I am...look can't you two just tell me what the problem is?" Pinkie Pie asked. One of the fillies glared at her and ranted. "Fine I will, she stole my dolly. Im suspicious of her every day. I don't trust her at all. She lies all the time! I can't wait to get out of here so that I can get a new dolly and never see her again!" The first one ranted. "I'm telling you that I didn't steal it! Somepony probably moved it by accident. I would never steal something!" The second one argued back. Pinkie Pie could not believe she was sent all the way to the hospital over a dumb doll. "Alright hold on you two! Are you telling me that I was sent all the way over hear just to settle a dispute between two fillies because of a doll?! Are you kidding me!? There are real life issues going on in Equestria and you two are worried about a doll! Shouldn't you be worried about your health and not a doll!?" Pinkie Pie ranted. The two fillies looked at eachother in bewilderment and looked at Pinkie Pie. "Yes of coarse we should be worried about out Health. The one filly said. Pinkie Pie tried to keep her annoyance from showing as she responded. "We're did you see the doll last? Is it in another room?" Pinkie Pie asked them as she tried keep her cheerful demeanor. "I think so. Your going to have to look though as I don't remember. I'm sorry for that." The filly said. Pinkie Pie nodded and went off to find it. She looked all around the hospital for it and found it and brought it back to the filly. "See there you go. The doll is safe. We just need to figure out why it was far away from you two in another room." Pinkie Pie said. The filly then realized her mistake. "Oh! I remember what happened. I remembered that I got lost trying to find another bathroom because this one wasn't working so that's why I went off looking for another one. Once I found it I must of set this down around there and when I came back I forgot about where I put it and blamed it on her. Sorry about that." The filly said. The filly turned to look at her neighbor. "Sorry." She said. The other one shrugged. "That's alright." The other filly said. They both hugged and that was when Pinkie Pie's cutie mark started to vibrate. Pinkie Pie just stared in disbelief. After she told them to be more careful with stuff and they said that they would she left completely annoyed. When she got back to the castle she walked to where her friends here and ranted. "The fucking map wasted my Fucking time! The map sent me all the way to a damn hospital over a fucking doll. Fuck the map! There are more important things going on in Equestria that I could have handled but no! I have to help find a doll! That's hour of my life that I can't get back! Thanks a lot!" Pinkie Pie yelled. Twilight and her friends shrugged. "Sorry about that. I didn't know what it was calling you for so you can't blame us." Twilight said. "Yeah I know! How about if you girls fix it so that it only summons us to places where there are real friendship problems instead of the bullshit I went through!?" Pinkie Pie yelled. Twilight shrugged. "Uh....I don't think that's possible." Twilight said as she started to look through several books but couldn't find any spell to alter the map. She gave up. "Fuck!" Pinkie Pie cursed.