The Mare Behind Our Nightmares

Chapter 3

Mare Do Well Ends In Jail

“Is this your Mare Do Well costume?” Dashie told me as she grabbed the costume I made with my own hoofsies. Oh! Now that I remember, she doesn’t like to be called “Dashie”, so I’ll just call her Rainbow! Though I don’t see the problem with “Dashie”, it’s really cute! And I’m getting off topic… Twilight said that I couldn’t get off topic because the reader then would get bored and confused, and it feels HORRIBLE to be confused and… I’m getting off topic again…

“Oh! You found that?” I “dashed” next to “Dashie”, get it?

“Yeah… it brings back some BAD memories…” she… looked a little angry… I don’t like it when my friends are angry, so I just hid the costume.

“Why don’t we go play some pranks on Spike?”

“Hm… I really wanna do something new…” now, I had a HUGE idea… and it was THE idea!

“WHY DON’T WE TRY TO PLAY A PRANK ON THE PRINCESS?!” I was just SO exited! It would be written ALL OVER history books!

“ARE YOU CRAZY?! I DON’T WANNA END IN THE MOON OR IN A CASTLE DUNGEON!” I was on my haunches as Rainbow shot me a shocked stare, and she was even angrier…so I had to think of something…

“…I challenge you to eat more cupcakes THAN I CAN!” nobody could win against me! And I knew how Rainbow LOVED challenges and eating! So all of us would be happy!

“…Challenge Accepted…”

An hour and 53 cupcakes later, I was happily in bed, watching how a pegasus with a tummy ache flew off to her home muttering something about having to go to Twily's library later… poor Dashie…

…But I won anyways!

So I curled under my covers and closed my eyes… something told me I was about to have a dream… but not of the kind of dreams were I could eat all the cotton candy I wanted…

Oh, dummy Pinkie Sense, you should calm down! We are soon going to enjoy eating in the land of doughnuts!

I was in a place that looked very much like Sugarcube Corner… but I as soon as I saw the mountain of sweets, I couldn’t care less to look where I was! When I finished, I left the place… and saw Ponyville… but it looked so sad… The sky was grey, and everypony was walking slowly and with their heads down...

This is SO. WRONG.

I had to do something! My Pinkie Sense told me! These ponies were sad... it was my duty to make them happy!

Suddenly, for some reason, I had my Mare Do Well costume on. And I grinned at the great timing! I tried greeting everyone, but they ignored me... which made me sad. But I wouldn't give up! I needed to find my friends. They would know what to do!

I found them reunited at the fountain, Twily busy with her books, Dashie snoring on a cloud, Flutters with little Angel, AJ... well I couldn't spy her with my little eye, and Rares was nowhere too... But my three friends were all with very empty expressions; more empty than a deflated balloon! I tried talking to them, making all the faces I could come up, telling all the jokes I knew... They ignored me...

This was no dream... This was a nightmare!

I took of the mask, and my mane deflated... my gaze was glued to the floor, no longer caring about looking optimistically towards the horizon... I wandered through Ponyville just like the crowd around me until I finally heard a pony's voice talking to me!

...But he didn't say anything nice to me...

"Mare Do Well. You are under arrest for manifesting a state of pure joy and happiness"

I woke up. I had a mission now! I had to save Ponyville! I had to keep Equestria from being a place were happiness was a crime! The thought itself is a crime!

I took my Mare Do Well costume... I had to save happiness!

Author's Note

Sorry for the chapter being so short.