Everything is so...boring

Beep! Beep! Beep!

A groan emitted from the bundle of cloth on the bed. A pink hoof shot out and came down on the button on the alarm clock, silencing it's wailing cry. The blanket shivered and another hoof came out and bashed into the bedside table, causing a small curse to come from the bundle. the hoof came back out, much more slowly this time and slowly felt out the top of the bedside table. It slowly shifted across the top until it came to the middle and moved down to the drawer. Using the power of the hoof it opened the draw and rummaged around inside of it. It retracted slowly with a small white pill in the center and disappeared from sight under the covers.

There was a miniature rainbow explosion and Pinkie jumped out of bed full of energy. She giggled and vanished from sight under the bed, appearing out of the cupboard on the other side of the room with Gummy clamped to her mane and looking very bewildered. Pinkie sat down with Gummy still in tow and put one hoof to her head in serious thought.

"I need to prepare for the party tomorrow. After all, It's not everyday Dashie completes a three day long marathon around Equestria. Now what are we going to need? Streamers!!"

Pinkie shot off towards the door and Gummy flew off from the wind resistance and landed on a purple balloon, bounced once and landed neatly on the floor. Pinkie came rushing back in a second later, invisible under the huge pile of sparkly ribbons. She shook herself like a dog and it came off in one go, scattered across the room. She giggled again and pulled out a checklist Twilight had given her.

"Silly Twilight, as if I would ever forget cake!" Pinkie bounced off towards the doorway with the perfect plan in mind. It would be a seven tier cake, each one would be a different colour of the rainbow. It would also be covered in lots of small clouds with a red lightning bolt. And glitter, can't forget the glitter. She was sure Mr and Mrs Cake would let her take a small break from work to bake the cake for tomorrow.

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!

This time the hoof came out from under covers a lot more violently. Crashing into the alarm clock and knocking it to the floor, where it mercifully landed on the button. The pink hoof then moved down into the already open drawer and fumbled around. This continued for the next few seconds, growing more and more frantic with each passing moment. Eventually it reached a point where it would be obvious that further blind searching would yield nothing.

A head poked out looking around suspiciously. Deeming it safe Pinkie dragged herself out of bed. Her mane came straight down on either side of her head with none of the usually bounciness. There were large bags under her eyes which were half closed from exhaustion.

"Too much effort" She moaned pitifully to herself. Limping forwards, using as little energy as possible she peered into the dark depths below her. She flicked a switch on the lamp casting light into her sensitive eyes and into the drawer. Shielding her eyes from the light above with a hoof she took another look down where a shocking amount of emptiness stared back at her.

She collapsed backwards and groaned. Today was not going to be a good day. She needed to get more of that medicine. She remembered the first time she had gotten the pills. She was just a filly and gone to the doctors to get help for her emotions.

*

The small pink filly sat down with a huff. No matter how hard she tried she just couldn't bring herself to enjoy those parties she had set up. She was still a master of them, there was no doubt about that. But it was like all of the colour and energy had been sucked out of the world. Everypony else was smiling and laughing and having the time of their lives, except her. She had resolved that something must be done about it. She was to visit the doctors later that very day.

She sat down in the waiting room leaning with her head balanced on one hoof. Ever since that day she just lacked the energy to bother with anything much.

The doctor put his head around the corner and spotted Pinkie. "This way Ms Pinkamena Diane Pie. She sighed and with a huge amount of effort got to her feet.

She walked in through the door where the doctor gestured towards the empty sofa with his hoof. Moving over Pinkie settled down, almost falling asleep due to both the comfortableness and the boredom. The doctor gave a small cough to get her attention before starting.

"Now, I've got the results right here, but I'm not sure if you'll want to hear them." He said, clearly nervous to be speaking to a child like this.

Pinkie rolled her eyes "Just tell me already." She was so bored and tired

"Well...it appears that the 'sonic rainboom' as I hear it's called has...um...shorted out your emotions."

At this Pinkie raised her head and considered the doctor carefully "Are you telling me...that I'm never going to enjoy anything again"

The doctor gave a nervous gulp "Well, basically yes." Pinkie looked down at the floor, she didn't even feel anything. She was just...bored. The doctor continued "But I may have a solution!" Pinkie looked up in surprise.

The doctor made his way over to a cupboard where he pulled out a large clear bag filled with tiny white pills.

He held them up in one hoof and looked down at Pinkie and spoke gravely "Listen carefully now, this is important. These are experimental and very dangerous. The last pony to try suffered such a rush it put him in a coma for ten days. He wouldn't touch the stuff again. However, I believe that with your lack of emotions it would, more or less, cure you for a single day with each pill."

He noticed the look in her eyes and glared at her to keep quite "This will allow you to feel all emotions again, but on a much higher level. You will enjoy everything so much more, even receiving smiles will fill you such joy. However this also works the other way as well. In fact I believe that if the depression is great enough it could push you into insanity a little. Something this powerful will also fill you with energy all day and cause extremely erratic behavior, and there were some brief cases of this even breaking the fabric of reality, but i believe that if just one pony uses these it will be fine. Now are you sure you want to use these, now you know everything?"

Pinkie looked with almost glee "Yes!" She reached over and took the bag. Reaching one hoof in she pulled out a white pill and quickly swallowed it. At once the world filled with colour and rainbows. Her mane expanded and bounced out and the smell of cotton candy filled the air. Pinkie did something she hadn't done since that day of the rainbow explosion.

She laughed

*

Modern day Pinkie rubbed her head thoughtfully. She needed to get her hands on more of that medication or all her days would become dull and lifeless like it once was. She still had a bit of after effects after using the pills for so long. She would have to hurry to the hospital near her old home/rock farm. She walked forwards and tripped over a ribbon that was just lying on the floor. She was sure she had a plan as for why it was on the floor, but in this state nothing she had done made sense.

Then she remembered. Dash's party. She groaned and rested her head on the floor. This was not going to be a good day at all.