Two hours had passed since the human Fluttershy was injured by the Chaos Cultist Aria Blaze. Determined to prevent another assassination, Aries and the others made all haste to her location.

The hospital was too risky, and still under repair from the missile launcher attack two days prior, so Detective Neighsay arranged for her to be treated in the police station.

Aries breathed a sigh of relief when he learned the Federal Agents were following Aria Blaze's blood trail. And thus were not yet able to interrogate him...for now.

Now, Aries, Greenskin, Krae'nakh, the Ponies and their counterparts, minus the two Pinkies, were simply waiting in the police station for Fluttershy to come through...or not.

"Zoggin Dazzlin'. I'll Ave her ead fer dis I will." Greenskin snarled to himself while gripping the bloodstained collar of his departed Snotling.

"Get in line there missy, I'm gonna take a piece of'em fer Rainbow Dash." The human Applejack commented.

"We will be taking nothing if we cannot find them." Aries declared as he approached them.
"Tell me Ork, by some miracle did you uncover some clue as to their whereabouts, or intentions?"

Greenskin put a finger to her cheek, and Aries had to mentally shout at his juvenile hormones that the cute puzzled girl before him was a foul Alien brute with a very masculine true form. "Hmm, well da uvva Fluddashoy said sumfin about dem bein aftah six Gitz in total." The Orkette replied.

"Six?" Aries asked. "Yeh, Da Dazzlin' said 'too down, foor ta go' when she tried ta krump Fluddashoy." Greenskin clarified.

Aries pondered this. Sunset Shimmer and Twilight's group consisted of seven individuals. Eight if you included Spike the dog. If they were only targeting six, then this wasn't an attempt to remove their opposition...it was a sacrifice.

"The enemy is sacrificing this world's Element Bearers. They must be trying to summon Sindri's physical body into this world." Aries hypothesized.

"And they're planning to use me as the main sacrifice. Makes sense, my powers are the closest thing to a Psyker's perception of the Warp in this world." Sunset hissed while tightening her grip on her arms.

"So they're targeting...us." The human Rarity paled. "...Wuh- well, maybe we should stay here. In police custody."

"It would be better to escort the five of you to the portal to Equestria. You may return to your own world once the enemy has been annihilated." Aries suggested.

"...Four." Whispered an almost unrecognizable voice. The group of teens turned to the only door in the room and beheld a single Pinkie Pie, one with straight hair and grey skin.

Panicked stares of horrible realization swallowed the four true humans in the room. "Wuh...which one are..." The human Twilight couldn't finish the question. Everyone already knew the answer.

The grey Pinkie grabbed her face and pulled, her unnatural body stretching like taffy until she let go and it snapped briefly into the shape of her equine face before the pronounced muzzle melted back into a human face.

The human Twilight cupped her mouth and stepped back in shock, the human Rarity fell to her knees and started to cry, and the human Applejack refused to accept it. "No! Bu-but HOW!? Y'ALL WERE GOOFIN' OFF IN ANOTHER COUNTRY LIKE YA ALWAYS WE-"

GOOFING OFF!?? The abrupt shout from Pinkie Pie stole the room's attention. "DID YOU REALLY THINK WE LEFT RAINBOW DASH TO DIE SO WE COULD EAT KOREAN FOOD!!? NO! WAIT! I GOT A BETTER QUESTION!! DID ANY OF YOU ACTUALLY THINK A DAEMON PRINCE FROM THE ALPHA LEGION ONLY HAD ONE CULT ON THE ENTIRE PLANET!?"

Pinkie Pie took a breath and held up a closed fist and began opening her fingers one by one. "Vladimir Putin, Kim Jeong Un, ISIS, The Houthi Rebels. Certain Fanfic writers might not know what's going on inside their heads in his world. But do you know who caused them all here? SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNDDDRRRIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!"

Pinkie Pie took a few deep breaths and then analyzed the room. "... I'm sorry guys. I know you're all used to me doing crazy things that don't actually help us with things like this, but the truth is I want to. I want to just magically stop the bad guys before anyone else gets hurt, but I can't."

"Why not?" Aries asked.

Pinkie Pie locked eyes with the Astartes. Aries realized that her eyes still held their natural color, a deep icy blue that burned with a furious hatred for her predicament. "I can break normal physics all day every day without a care in the world. But I can't break my physics anymore than you can."

Krae'nakh snickered to himself. And as fast as lightning, Pinkie Pie turned her full attention towards the Death Jester. "... You think this is funny... YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY!?"

"Hehehehe, you take the Galaxy's cruelty too personally. You must learn to-" Whatever cryptic madness the Eldar intended to deliver was interrupted when Pinkie Pie, without Aries seeing her move, seized the Alien turned Emo kid by his jacket and slammed their heads together. "NO! YOU NEED TO LEARN!! THE ELEMENT OF LAUGHTER THAT HARMONY GAVE YOU IS ABOUT SPREADING AS MUCH JOY AND HAPPINESS AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN TO AS MANY CREATURES AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN!!! I KNOW THAT WE NEED TO TO PUSH THROUGH YOUR PRECIOUS 'GRIM DARKNESS' IF WE'RE GONNA SAVE THE GALAXY!! I KNOW THAT EVERY BAD THING THAT HAPPENS HERE WILL HELP US OUT IN THE LONG RUN!!! BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT I HAVE TO LAUGH AT THE FACT THAT I KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM ARE GOING TO DIE AND THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO TO SAVE THEM!!!"

A dead silence gripped the room. Pinkie Pie had shaken the Eldar during the final sentence and slammed his head repeatedly into the wall. Blood stained the the holes in the wall as Krae'nakh gripped the back of his head, and yet he continued to laugh. "Sorry that my jokes and jests are not to your liking, but I'm afraid dark humor is all I know."

Pinkie Pie wrinkled her nose in disgust. "You can tell the funniest, most well thought out and put together joke the universe has ever heard, but if your audience doesn't laugh? You're. Not. Funny."

"Hehehehe, well then, it appears neither of us are comedians tonight." Krae'nakh stated.

Pinkie Pie froze up, realizing what she had just said out loud. She turned away from the laughing Eldar and beheld her friends staring at her in horror, none more so than the surviving humans.

They knew. One look into their eyes was all Pinkie Pie needed. They knew their roles to play.

Pinkie vanished. There was no comical pop, no blur of motion as she ran out of the room faster than the eye could see, the pink party pony had simply vanished into thin air.

"Wuh- where'd she go!??" Rainbow Dash asked.

No one answered her. They all just attempted to process what Pinkie Pie had unwittingly revealed.

Pinkie Pie was on the roof of the Police Station, curled into a ball and crying into herself, trying to regain control of her emotions.

She noticed Krae'Nakh ascend to the roof, but didn't acknowledge him. The Death Jester sat down beside the crying girl, and waited. "... I'm afraid I don't know how to cheer someone up. Could you at least give me a pointer."

Pinkie emitted an exasperated sigh. "You could say something hopeful, or happy, or something that would make me laugh."

Krae'Nakh held his chin in thought, pondering how he could accomplish such a difficult task. Hmm, I suppose I know one hopeful joke."

Pinkie side eyed the Eldar as he cleared his throat. "So, this one time in Commoragh-" "If this is about the Tau Ethereal who wouldn't leave his Fire Warriors behind and they all got tortured together, I already know that one." Pinkie interrupted.

Krae'Nakh snorted. "That's one of my favorites, but no. This one's about a Wych and an Incubus."

Pinkie narrowed her side eye. "If this ends horribly, I'm throwing you off the roof."

Krae'Nakh laughed at the notion and continued. "Well, as I'm sure you know. Wyches and Incubi look down on one another. Wyches drawing out they're prey's suffering while Incubi kill with efficiency. These two were no different at first, but since they worked with the same Cabal, they two centuries together. And in those two centuries, they did something that is considered taboo amongst the Drukhari...they fell in love."

Pinkie's side eye blinked as more of her face became visible. "Really?"

Krae'Nakh nodded. "Of course, the concept of love is seen as a weakness. So while they both loved each other, they were both convinced the other was manipulating their feelings."

Pinkie sighed in disappointment. "So, the punchline is they only realized the truth when one of them died horribly, right?"

"No, the punchline is that after the Wych sacrificed herself to save the Incubus, he became a Death Jester. Not because he truly believes in Ceogorach's schemes, but because he would rather die fighting for the Magic of Friendship, than leave her to She Who Thirsts." Krae'Nakh concluded.

Pinkie blinked, then looked Krae'Nakh eye to eye. "Well you get points for absurdity, but your backstory still isn't funny to me."

"Backstory? I'm not even in the same troupe as this guy." Krae'Nakh stated with a smile.

Pinkie's eyes shrank to pin pricks. "WHAT!?" Her head briefly disappeared from Krae'Nakh's vision before reappearing with a fresh scowl. "YOU LIAR!! THE AUTHOR'S NOTES CLEARLY STATE THAT'S YOUR REAL BACKSTORY!!"

"But it made you react, didn't it?" Krae'Nakh's smile widened as he shot finger guns at his audience, whom was overwhelmed by the absurdity of the action coming from an Eldar, and could no hold back.

"pffffHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE!! Hooo. That was good. I mean it was a good first try, and it'll make me laugh. But keep in mind that I'm as easily entertained as an Ork." Pinkie stated as she caught her breath and sighed again. "Thanks for trying."

Krae'Nakh tilted his head to the side. "Trying? Are you not ready to rejoin the others?"

"I would be...but the plot's about to accelerate in three, two, one." On Pinkie's cue, an explosion was heard.

Author's Note

So, y'all remember how I was stated I was getting back into this fic and then didn't touch it for a freaking year!!! How's that for a joke?

I won't make any promises this time, but I have a much clearer idea how I want this to go.

And yes, that is Krae'Nakh's backstory. (Thank you Pinkie)