I walked down Sugarcube Corner's pink stairs, excited for today's picnic. I opened the door and walked out into the cold, stone path, soon to be graced by the morning’s sun.

I waved at everypony, but they didn't wave back. 'Huh. Weird...' I thought. I must’ve seemed very frustrated as all the ponies began to turn their back on me, with tears in their eyes.

I shrugged it off as I brushed off a drop of sweat, put on a smile, and walked towards the picnic place, and waved towards my friends.

But they didn't wave back.

I walked toward my friends, however, they didn't even notice my existence, creating more beads of sweat as I walked towards them.

"Hello, everypony!" I exclaimed, a weak smile holding my face from a concerned look. "Sorry, I'm late!"

Crack.

Twilight Sparkle's head twisted to look at me.

"Pinkie Pie, don't you remember? We're not friends anymore," she said, smiling. "Get lost before we have to run you out of Ponyville."

"W-w-what do you mean we're not friends?" I stuttered, backing away. My fake smile began to fade.

"Twilight's right!" hissed Rainbow Dash. "you're SO annoying! Every time you hear the word "Party", you pop like a balloon animal!" the rest of my friends laughed. I couldn’t hold it any longer. I cried and ran away as fast as I could.

I looked to the sides of me to see thousands of ponies laughing maniacally, pointing their hooves at me. the laughter bounced around the town. I closed my eyes and ran faster, the world had become nothing but a blur. An illusion, you could say.

I heard a popping noise and opened my eyes to see hundreds of balloon animals. the laughing ponies started throwing pins at them. Disgusting.

Pop!

Pop!

Pop!

I closed the door to the Sugarcube Corner behind me, gasping for air as I felt "Reality" slip from me.

"Hey! Did you hear about that new visitor?"

"Yeah! wasn't she cute? I hope she liked my painting!"

"I'm sure she liked it."

I heard a gasp, most likely from one of the ponies. "Princess! why are you here?"

"The visitor is leaving."

"Awww..."

I opened my eyes and saw an empty void. I turned around and saw Cozy Glow. The filly was on a gray couch, sewing a pink earth pony doll. Seeing the doll made my skin crawl.

I stomped my hooves on the ground. "Let me out!" I cried in anguish. Cozy Glow jumped, then looked at me, confused, still with that… Smile on her face.

"Oh!" exclaimed Cozy Glow. "Hello! Seems like you came early." She showed me the doll. it looked like me. "What do you think?" I didn't respond, giving the message that I wasn't in the mood. Cozy Glow put the doll away. "Golly! You want to leave? Sorry, but I can't let you!"

I was confused. "Why?" I hissed, however from her increasing smile I could tell I wasn’t very threatening.

She laughed. "I need you in order to make the best Pinkie Pie doll possible!" She looked like a sad puppy, falling to the floor. "if you ran away now, I'd be very sad!"

"Well... If all you need is me to be here... I'm sure I can wait a little,” I trembled. Her gleeful smile reclaimed its spot on her face, as she bounced back up on the couch.

"Golly, thank you so much!" chirped Cozy Glow, continuing her sewing. After a few minutes of silence, Cozy Glow finished the doll.

"I'm done!" exclaimed Cozy Glow. " Now just stand still..." she said sweetly, as she stood up, with a menacing smile on her face.

I knew I had to run.

I dashed to the side, as I heard the noise of a sharp object through the air. I looked to the side to see a small figure, however, it was blurred as I had little time to ponder the shape as another blade slashed through the air, barely missing me.

"What are you doing? Can't we compromise?" I pleaded as I dodged another knife, this time coming from the back.

"Oh, silly Pinkie!" laughed the small filly. "Sometimes you can't compromise a hard decision."

I began to look around and look for any place to go, but all was void.

I looked closer and saw the dolls from before, but they were armed with sharp weapons.

I bounced, walking to the side, I began to try to time bounce. I felt my hooves moving, and everything slowed down as my body felt itself changing its space and-

I dodged to the side as one of the dolls tried to stab one of my legs, I trembled as I was not accustomed to physical fighting.
I tried to pick up the doll, but as I picked it up it bit me, making me feel a sharp pain, dropping it in shock.

When I dropped the thing, one of the dolls came up behind me and tried to stab me while I was still shocked at the bite, although I threw it to the side, although I had kept it from injuring any vital organs, it still managed to stab me in the leg. Cozy Glow looked down at me.

"Hehe! Goodbye!" she said, smiling. But as she was about to stab me with the sewing needle-

Another small figure came, this time aiming at Cozy Glow. Cozy Glow shouted as the small figure began to drag me as I lost consciousness from the pain.

I woke up outside the mansion in the other Ponyville, relieved that I was outside. I got up, however, feeling a sharp pain in my left front hoof, making getting up much harder. Outside to see a large fountain that was still running. What interested me was a note on the side of the fountain. I walked up to it and picked it up. It was made of the same paper as the other letter from before. I read it.

A foal of power came through the pool to us
And pranced around the fountain while laughing,
Soon we’d know, it was at us.

"Huh..." I thought. "I wonder what these papers are..." I put it in my pocket, and walked around the fountain, looking for where to go.

As I walked around the fountain, a figure appeared.

"Well, look I'm not here for whispery, mysterious stuff," said the figure. It sounded raspy. "but in order for me to talk to you, I'm gonna need to wear this disguise or something." the figure seemed annoyed. I was confused. As I walked closer to see the figure, I saw it was covered by a dark velvet cloth, torn with small holes at the bottom.

"W-why?" I questioned, tensed in place, beginning to remember the pain of that knife striking my skin. I shivered.

"I-I said I'll tell you later, o-okay?" They said. "Just follow me."

I finally gave in, having no bucks to give, and followed the figure into the darkness.

Author's Note

I know I know I can't rhyme. I haven't written in a while. I'm sorry about taking a while, Its just for a while I had some irl stuff that made it so I couldn't write and I thought I would never be able to really write this story.