The revenge of Gilda!by Tangerine BlastChaptersGilda is in townPinkie?Oh, No!The TruthGilda is in townDash was snoozing on a cloud one day. She always took a nap around this time a day so it wasn't a big surprise. What was a surprise is when she was rudely awoken by someone gently shaking her. "Nhnhn." Dash grunted, rolling away form the shaking, but it just continued, a little bit harder this time. "What?" Rainbow snapped, opening her eyes to see who had disturbed her nap. What met her eyes was a sight she never expected to see again. Standing before her on the cloud was the big powerful figure of a griffin. Not just any griffin though, her school pal and recently discovered bully, Gilda. Gilda was staring a Dash with a sheepish grin. "Gilda?" Dash asked, thinking that perhaps she was dreaming. "Hey Dash." The griffin greeted, seemingly embarrassed. "Listen Dash, I know I've been a real jerk, I see that now. I....l came over here to apologize. I want to start over with your friends Dash, you know get to know them better." Rainbow had blinked the sleep out of her eyes and was now watching the griffin intensely. "So....I'm hoping I can be your friend again Dash. I've changed, I've really have. So what do you say, friends?" Rainbow looked at her for a second before replying, "Of course I'll be your friend again Gilda, I just got mad because you were acting like a jerk." The rainbow Pegasus started to giggle. "Ya," Gilda agreed, "I was being a real grump wasn't I?" She started to chuckle along. Soon the to friends were laughing at nothing in particular. "So.....want to meet all my friends formally now?" Rainbow asked. "Ya, I'd like that." Gilda grinned. Rainbow introduced Gilda to Applejack and Rarity with ease. Neither of them had really been apart of when Gilda was first there and they were content with the explanation that the griffin had changed. Twilight was a little harder, but with a little encouragement she accepted that Gilda had indeed changed for the better. Fluttershy was really tricky, as soon as she saw the griffin, she ran into her house and cowered. Rainbow spent a good portion of time trying to convince her to come out. When she finally did though and Gilda had shown a lot of patients and kindness, Fluttershy started to warm up to her and become friendly. Then they went to Pinkie's house. "Don't worry Gilda." Rainbow reassured her friend. "Pinkie's the type of forgive and forget kind of mares, she'll totally accept that you've changed." "I don't know Dash." Gilda said uncertainly. "I was a real jerk to her you know. Do you really think she'll accept me that easily?" Rainbow nodded as the two friends walked into Sugarcube Corner. "Hello and welcome!" a cheery voice called. "Hey Pinkie." Dash greeted back. "You remember Gilda right?" The Pegasus stepped aside so the griffin was in full view." Pinkie Pie narrowed her eyes and asked "Why is she here?" "It's OK Pinkie." Dash reassured. "Gilda's changed, she came to ponyville to say sorry to everyone." "OH! OK then! Nice to meet you non jerk Gilda!" Pinkie exclaimed enthusiastically. "Hey, Dw......DASH." Gilda stated, quickly facing the Pegasus. "Can I um....buy something here? You know.....to show there are no hard feelings." "Of course you can silly." Pinkie giggled. "This is a bakery after all." "Me and Dash will have donuts then." Gilda handed Pinkie some bits and Pinkie handed Gilda the donuts. As they were exchanging though, Gilda's talon grazed Pinkie's hoof, cutting it slightly. Pinkie just let it go, after all, she reasoned with herself, If I had those super huge claws I would probably scratch people all the time on accident. Just before Dash and Gilda left Pinkie called out, "I'll throw you a 'Welcome BACK to Ponyville Party.' And no pranks this time Dashie!" "Ya, no pranks at all at this party!" Rainbow called back before she and Gilda got out of earshot. Pinkie?The party had been good, Reflected Applejack, there weren't any pranks and everyone seemed to have a fun time. That was the day before now the orange earth pony was in her orchard harvesting some apples. She had never been a big part with the Gilda 'issue' and hadn't really gotten what was going on, but the party was still a nice break from her life on the farm. But it was now back to the grind. Applejack was strolling though, just taking in her orchard. She suddenly heard something that sounded like crunching. The farmer stopped walking, the noise continued almost directly above her head. Applejack looked up, just to get a ton of apple cores dumped on her face. "What in the hey?" Applejack rubbed her head and took a couple steps back to look in the tree. What she saw there amazed her. There, in the tree, with a bright red apple in her mouth, sat Pinkie Pie. She saw Applejack and her blue eyes got wide. The party pony quickly spit out the apple in her mouth in a hurry. "Applejack! I'm so sorry for being in your orchard and..." "PINKIE!" Applejack called up, interrupting her friend. "What in the hay do ya think yur doin'? Why in Celestia's name did you eat my apples?" The pink pony stared at the ground below her and at Applejack's angry and confused face. "I guess it does look like I ate your apples doesn't it?" "LOOK LIKE IT?" Applejack hollered, she calmed her voice down a little before continuing. "Pinkie Pie, you had an apple in your mouth." Blue eyes widened even more, "I did, didn't I? But I didn't put it there or eat your apples. Gilda did it." "Gilda?" Applejack asked confused. "How in the hay would Gilda be able to eat my apples and leave without me noticein." "She flew of when the apple cores fell on you." Pinkie explained as if it were the simplest thing in the world. "I thought you were on good terms with Gilda and didn't hate her anymore." Applejack said shaking her head. "I did too! And I never hated her. I don't like her anymore though because she ate all your apples." Applejack shook her head again, "Just don't eat anymore of my apples Pinkie, they cost a lot of money to grow." she said before walking off. "But I didn't eat them!" Pinkie called after her, but Applejack either didn't hear her or chose to ignored her. Fluttershy was gathering bunnies. It was there bath time and the rabbits really didn't like taking a bath. Some how they always new when the bath was coming (Angle Bunny probably told them) and were very hard to round up. So Fluttershy had been chasing around bunnies almost all afternoon. She had just finished gathering them and was urging them towards there bath when suddenly a loud roar disturbed the silence and sent the rabbits fleeing in all directions. Just after that there came the sound of giggling. Fluttershy looked around and saw Pinkie Pie on her back, laughing. "Pinkie Pie." Fluttershy said her voice a quiver. The pink pony instantly stopped laughing when she heard Fluttershy. "Oh Pinkie. That wasn't very funny, or nice, it took me so long to gather those bunnies." Fluttershy said her voice sad. "Fluttershy, I'm so sorry I was laughing. I didn't scare your bunnies and I wasn't laughing at that it was....." Fluttershy didn't listen to anymore, she went back to gathering up the bunnies, knowing it would take most of the day. Why did Pinkie have to be mean for a laugh? The yellow Pegasus wondered. Oh, No!The mane six (Not including Pinkie) had organized a meeting to discuss there friends strange behavior at Twilight's library. Pinkie had been upsetting other ponies around ponyville. Knocking over stands, ruining projects and such. Strangely, AJ and Fluttershy were the only ones of her close friends that she had visited. "It was just so rude of her." Applejack was saying. "I need those apples to live on, she can't just go around eat'n them." "And it took me so long to gather the bunnies." Fluttershy added softly. "And after everything she did she always said that Gilda did it?" Twilight asked, even though she already knew the answer. "That's right." Applejack said "Pinkie kept insisting that it was Gilda's fault even though Gilda wasn't any were near my orchard." "Pinkie did mention something about Gilda." Fluttershy said. "But I was to concerned on getting the bunnies to really hear her." Twilight sighed, this had been the story all the time. Pinkie would do something rude and then claim that Gilda made her do it, even though the griffon was no were to be seen. "Me and Gilda were napping on clouds all afternoon." Rainbow piped up. "Wow Rainbow." Applejack clicked her tongue in disappointingly. "Your friend from when you were a filly comes to visit again after you had a fight and all you do is nap." "Hey! That's just what we like to do to relax." Rainbow defended herself. "Can we get back on topic please?" Twilight asked. "I thought Pinkie didn't blame Gilda for being rude anymore." "She doesn't." Rainbow insisted. "I mean come on! Pinkie threw her a party for crying out loud." "Then why is she trying to blame Gilda for her upsetting everyone?" Twilight countered. "If her goal IS to frame Gilda she's doing an absolutely horrible job at it." Rarity commented."Doing mean things and then saying someone else made her do it is not very convincing. Pinkie can be scatter brained sometimes but she certainty is not stupid." "You're right Rarity," Twilight agreed, "but I don't see how Gilda could be making Pinkie do anything. How can someone make somepony eat something?" "Well, Pinkie did say that Gilda ate my apples, not her." Applejack admitted. "But Pinkie had an apple in her mouth, I don't see how that ain't enough evidence." "I for one believe Pinkie." The five ponies turned to face the voice, Spike was standing there, apparently listening to there conversation. "This is Pinkie Pie we're talking about." The little dragon continued. "She wouldn't do anything that she knowingly will hurt someone and, like Rarity said, she isn't stupid." Spike then walked off, having spoke his mind. The ponies sat there in silence, contemplating this thought before Rainbow muttered, "Well, I'll talk to Gilda about it." The other ponies nodded, "And we'll keep a watch on Pinkie." Twilight said. They then closed the meeting, each going home to think about their pink partying friend. "Hey Gilda!" Dash called when she spotted the familiar griffin sitting on a cloud relaxing. "Sup Dash." Gilda greeted. "Can I talk to you about something?" Dash asked. "Sure, what do you want to talk about?" "Pinkie, you see......" Dash told Gilda everything Pinkie did and said. Gilda stiffened up for some parts, but by the end was looking calm and cool. Rainbow guessed the stiffness was because she was shocked that Pinkie would blame her. "So do you know anything about it?" Dash finished. "Nope." Gilda replied, she thought for a moment before continuing. "I don't know what to tell you Dash, your pink friend and I never really saw eye to eye. Maybe she's just hoping to give me a bad name." "Maybe," Dash said uncertainly "It just doesn't seem like something Pinkie would do. Actually nothing she's been doing lately seems like something she would do." "Listen Dash, don't sweat it. I'm sure she has a good reason for doing everything." Gilda chuckled "at least that's the case for every level headed pony and griffon. Who knows? Maybe Pinkie's delusional." "Delusional?" "Ya, like she's seeing things or something." "Pinkie can act crazy sometimes." Dash admitted. "No pony ever knows what she's talking about." "Right, you can just wait until she gets over whatever she needs to get over." Gilda said happily "In the mean time you've got me for company. I might not be as hyper but I think I'm cool enough." "Ya, you sure are Gild." Rainbow replied, "But still, I just can't shake the feeling that something is off." "Just chill Dash, come on let's do something to get your mind of it. Bet you can't circle Ponyville twice and come back here before I do." Rainbow narrowed her eyes, "You really think you can beat the best flyer in all of Equestria?" "Never no till we try." "Oh, it is SO on!" Pinkie was in her bedroom, sulking. She didn't usually sulk but Gilda had gotten her so frustrated. The griffon kept hauling her off and making it seem like she, Pinkie, was doing really mean things. The worst part was, no one believed that Gilda made Pinkie do it. Why would the party loving pony ever do something mean and harmful? Sure she played a few pranks now and then, but they were always harmless. Stupid Gilda Pinkie thought, now because of her everyone thought Pinkie was some crazy maniac. Wait was that rhetorical? Or is the word redundant? Pinkie thought about that for a while and other random things until she heard a knock on her door. "Pinkie?" Came the voice of Mrs. Cake, "We have to go make a special delivery. If the twins wake up please look after them." "OK. Mrs. Cake, I will!" Pinkie called back, when she heard the hoof steps get softer she went back to sulking. The Cakes still trusted her, that was good. Pinkie Pie would hate it if she lost the Cakes trust. There was a sudden knocking at the window. Ether Pinkie hadn't heard it or she chose to ignored it, she was pretty deep in sulking right now. The knocking continued but Pinkie Pie didn't get up. She just sat on her bed, staring at the wall. It wasn't until the window swung open did the pink earth pony leaped to her feet. She started looking for a place to hid, anyplace. Pinkie new what was coming, and did not want to do it again. She couldn't find anywhere good to hid though and so just she backed up into the wall as towering figure approached her and a menacing voice said "Hey dweeb, ready for more?" The Truth"Gilda! Let Go!" Pinkie wailed as the griffon flew with the pink earth pony's tail in her talon. "Shut up or I will." Gilda growled. Pinkie became quite as she looked down at the houses far below her. Gilda had something in her other talon but Pinkie couldn't make out what it was from this angle. She couldn't tell where they were going ether, all the roofs looked the same. The earth pony new that where ever they were going it was to get her in trouble. Pinkie was suddenly jerked downward and Gilda landed. As soon as her hooves hit solid ground, the pink pony started pulling on her tail hoping to get it free of the griffons death grip. Gilda just yanked back, sending Pinkie tumbling. "Why are you doing this to me? Dragging me around and making me look like a jerk?" Pinkie asked. "Duh." Gilda said exasperated. "You made Dash uncool, you ruined her and made her a dweeb like you and you make me look like an idiot. This is pay back." Pinkie was stunned by that. She didn't know what to say to that so she took in her surroundings, they were outside Rarity's place. Oh No! Pinkie thought Not Rarity. She also noticed that Gilda was holding some fabric in her claws. The griffon found a mud puddle and started rolling the fabric around it. "What are you doing?" Pinkie asked. "These are Rarity's fabrics dweeb." Gilda growled. "And there getting ruined." "You can't do that!" Pinkie gasped. "That's Rarity's work. She's going to kill you." Gilda chuckled, "Not me, you." Then the griffon splashed mud on Pinkie, dropped her in the puddle and took off. Before Pinkie Pie could even blink, let alone get up, Rarity came storming out of her shop. She instantly saw the pink earth pony in the puddle of mud sitting on top her fabrics. "PINKIE!!!!" Rarity screamed running towards her friend. "What on earth do you think you're doing?" "Um..." Pinkie said hesitantly. That griffon sure had good timing. Apparently that was a rhetorical question because Rarity just yelled some more. "I stood up for you! I didn't want to believe that you did these things! But now," She tore the fabrics out from under Pinkie making her flip around and land on her face in the mud. "Look at what you did! I don't know what's going on in your brain but it certainly isn't good." She then stomped off in a huff. Pinkie called after her, "Wait Rarity! I didn't mean too! I didn't even do it!" But the unicorn was already out of earshot. Pinkie got up out of the mud and shook herself. It didn't get all the mud off though so she just started heading home, hoping to shower. Why did Gilda have to be so mean? She thought I didn't make Dashie uncool, heck, she isn't even uncool in the first place. Ask anypony, Dashie's still cool. Gilda had been making Pinkie look bad ever since she arrived. It was stupid, if you're going to get into trouble at least you could DO the thing that got you in trouble. Pinkie hadn't even eaten any of the apples from Applejack's farm. And she knew those were super yummy. As Pinkie thought about this, how to stop Gilda, and how to make the fabric up to Rarity, she plugged up to Sugercube Corner sadly. She stopped suddenly when she heard a shout and looked up. As she cast her gaze to the sky, Gilda swooped in from no where shouting, "Delivery!" before depositing two bundles into Pinkie's arms. Pinkie looked at the things in her hooves as Gilda soared off and realized it was Pound and Pumpkin Cake, covered in mud. She started to reach for the door of Sugercube corner before it flew open by a distraught Mrs. and Mr. Cake. "Pinkie!" They cried. Pinkie realized what they were seeing, Pound, Pumpkin, and Pinkie, covered and mud. To top it all off the babies started crying. The Cake's each snatched a kid and demanded. "What on earth are you doing with Pound and Pumpkin?" "I.......didn't do it?" Pinkie tried sheepishly. "Really? Then how do you explain that when we went upstairs to check on the twins, they were gone and now we find you outside with them covered in mud? What were you doing with them?"" Mrs. Cake demanded. Pinkie looked between the faces of, um....what would you call them? Her boss? Her Guardians? Anyway, she couldn't bare to see them angry, and after all that had happened today, she lost it. "I'm SORRY!" The pink mare cried, tears streaming down her face. She just sat there crying, moaning about how she didn't mean to hurt anypony. The cake's looked back and forth between each other, they didn't no how there confutation would go but they didn't expect something like this. "It's all right dear," Mrs. Cake soothed. "You go get washed up, alright dear?" Pinkie nodded, sniffling and went up to the bathroom. She washed all of the mud off and was about to go back downstairs when she heard the Cakes talking and decided to listen when she heard her name. "We have to do something." Mr. Cake was saying. "She can't get away with everything just because she starts crying." "I know," Mrs. Cake agreed. "But we can't simply ground her, we aren't her parents." "Maybe we could have her do a couple extra shifts, I'm sure she'll understand." "Maybe....." Pinkie stopped listening, she didn't want to be punished for something she didn't do. She went up to her room, not only would she be doing extra shifts, she probably wouldn't be able to play with the twins for some time. This really sucked, a lot, Pinkie hating that Mrs. and Mr. Cake probably didn't trust her now the most. Sure she had been goofy sometimes, OK a lot, but they had always trusted her. Now that trust with them, and all her friends, would take a long time to rebuild. Pinkie lay down on her bed and went to sleep, hoping tomorrow would be better. Pinkie's five closest friends came to Sugercube Corner, to talk to Pinkie and figure out what was going on. Or at least to gather some clues. They arrived in the bakery with a cheery voice of "Hello!" Pinkie Pie was standing behind the counter, smiling at them. "Hi, you guys!" "Hi Pinkie." They all greeting in there own way. Suddenly Mrs. Cake came in. "Pinkie, why don't you bake some more cupcakes, I'm sure we're running low." "OK Mrs. Cake." Pinkie said walking towards the kitchen. Before she entered, her friend could just see her hunch over in, well, sadness. Mrs. Cake waited until they heard the rustling of pans and such before continuing, no one heard any humming, which was very disturbing. "Sorry, Pinkie's been scheduled a lot lately, we found her and the twins covered with mud and had to do something." "That's just what we came to talk about." Twilight said, "Do you have any idea why Pinkie is being so, so......" "Rude?" Rarity huffed. "Inconsiderate?" Applejack suggested. "Mean?" Fluttershy added. Mrs. Cake shook her head, "I don't know, she's always been such a trustworthy pony." She sighed. "Maybe the stain of being so cheerful has made her want to be rebellious?" "Some reason, I just doubt that's the case." Twilight confessed. A loud noise came from the kitchen, followed by a muffled, "No! I won't let you! AHHHHHHH!" The six ponies rushed into the kitchen to see it in a mess, there was a note laying on the ground. Twilight picked it up with her magic and read, " 'I'm not going to wast the day at this dump. I think I'll go to the library instead. ~From Pinkie Pie' The Library!" Twilight dashed for the door, followed by four other mares, leaving Mrs. Cake to clean up the mess. When they got to the library, it was in state that looked like a tornado had gone through, books everywhere, things overturned. It was a mess, and in the middle of it all sat a very dazed looking Pinkie Pie. "PINKIE!" Twilight said, trying to keep calm, "What did you do?" "Where's Spike? Shouldn't he have saw what happened?" Rainbow asked. "He's out getting supplies." Twilight said dismissively, glaring at her pink friend. Pinkie opened her mouth, then closed it. What she wanted to say was that Gilda had taken her and swung her around like a bat, knocking her into things and giving Pinkie a terrible headache. Pinkie didn't say this though, she new her friends wouldn't believe her. So instead she collapsed at Twilight's feet, saying, "I didn't mean to! Please Twilight! Please! Let me make it up to you! Let me help you clean up!" She gave the unicorn the best puppy dog face she could muster. "Applejack, Fluttershy and Rarity didn't let me make things right. Please let me help you fix this mess!" Pinkie pleaded hopping so bad that Twilight would let her. The purple unicorn looked at her pink friend for a second, on one hoof she didn't want Pinkie messing anything else up, on the other the earth pony did look desperate to make things right. "I guess it's ok, just don't mess anything up." Twilight agreed. "OH THANK YOU TWILIGHT, THANK YOU!" Pinkie exclaimed, going over to the books and started shelving them. Twilight sighed, "Do you girls want to help too?" With six ponies helping, the cleaning of the library didn't take as long as it would have. It was still dark when they were done though, but despite this Pinkie felt a lot happier then she had. She had been able to make what Gilda did better, and even though Twilight kept checking the books she shelved, Pinkie thought that she had gained back some trust. She was in high spirits as she went to bed that night, thinking about the day a head and how she could help her friends some more.
Gilda is in townDash was snoozing on a cloud one day. She always took a nap around this time a day so it wasn't a big surprise. What was a surprise is when she was rudely awoken by someone gently shaking her. "Nhnhn." Dash grunted, rolling away form the shaking, but it just continued, a little bit harder this time. "What?" Rainbow snapped, opening her eyes to see who had disturbed her nap. What met her eyes was a sight she never expected to see again. Standing before her on the cloud was the big powerful figure of a griffin. Not just any griffin though, her school pal and recently discovered bully, Gilda. Gilda was staring a Dash with a sheepish grin. "Gilda?" Dash asked, thinking that perhaps she was dreaming. "Hey Dash." The griffin greeted, seemingly embarrassed. "Listen Dash, I know I've been a real jerk, I see that now. I....l came over here to apologize. I want to start over with your friends Dash, you know get to know them better." Rainbow had blinked the sleep out of her eyes and was now watching the griffin intensely. "So....I'm hoping I can be your friend again Dash. I've changed, I've really have. So what do you say, friends?" Rainbow looked at her for a second before replying, "Of course I'll be your friend again Gilda, I just got mad because you were acting like a jerk." The rainbow Pegasus started to giggle. "Ya," Gilda agreed, "I was being a real grump wasn't I?" She started to chuckle along. Soon the to friends were laughing at nothing in particular. "So.....want to meet all my friends formally now?" Rainbow asked. "Ya, I'd like that." Gilda grinned. Rainbow introduced Gilda to Applejack and Rarity with ease. Neither of them had really been apart of when Gilda was first there and they were content with the explanation that the griffin had changed. Twilight was a little harder, but with a little encouragement she accepted that Gilda had indeed changed for the better. Fluttershy was really tricky, as soon as she saw the griffin, she ran into her house and cowered. Rainbow spent a good portion of time trying to convince her to come out. When she finally did though and Gilda had shown a lot of patients and kindness, Fluttershy started to warm up to her and become friendly. Then they went to Pinkie's house. "Don't worry Gilda." Rainbow reassured her friend. "Pinkie's the type of forgive and forget kind of mares, she'll totally accept that you've changed." "I don't know Dash." Gilda said uncertainly. "I was a real jerk to her you know. Do you really think she'll accept me that easily?" Rainbow nodded as the two friends walked into Sugarcube Corner. "Hello and welcome!" a cheery voice called. "Hey Pinkie." Dash greeted back. "You remember Gilda right?" The Pegasus stepped aside so the griffin was in full view." Pinkie Pie narrowed her eyes and asked "Why is she here?" "It's OK Pinkie." Dash reassured. "Gilda's changed, she came to ponyville to say sorry to everyone." "OH! OK then! Nice to meet you non jerk Gilda!" Pinkie exclaimed enthusiastically. "Hey, Dw......DASH." Gilda stated, quickly facing the Pegasus. "Can I um....buy something here? You know.....to show there are no hard feelings." "Of course you can silly." Pinkie giggled. "This is a bakery after all." "Me and Dash will have donuts then." Gilda handed Pinkie some bits and Pinkie handed Gilda the donuts. As they were exchanging though, Gilda's talon grazed Pinkie's hoof, cutting it slightly. Pinkie just let it go, after all, she reasoned with herself, If I had those super huge claws I would probably scratch people all the time on accident. Just before Dash and Gilda left Pinkie called out, "I'll throw you a 'Welcome BACK to Ponyville Party.' And no pranks this time Dashie!" "Ya, no pranks at all at this party!" Rainbow called back before she and Gilda got out of earshot.
Pinkie?The party had been good, Reflected Applejack, there weren't any pranks and everyone seemed to have a fun time. That was the day before now the orange earth pony was in her orchard harvesting some apples. She had never been a big part with the Gilda 'issue' and hadn't really gotten what was going on, but the party was still a nice break from her life on the farm. But it was now back to the grind. Applejack was strolling though, just taking in her orchard. She suddenly heard something that sounded like crunching. The farmer stopped walking, the noise continued almost directly above her head. Applejack looked up, just to get a ton of apple cores dumped on her face. "What in the hey?" Applejack rubbed her head and took a couple steps back to look in the tree. What she saw there amazed her. There, in the tree, with a bright red apple in her mouth, sat Pinkie Pie. She saw Applejack and her blue eyes got wide. The party pony quickly spit out the apple in her mouth in a hurry. "Applejack! I'm so sorry for being in your orchard and..." "PINKIE!" Applejack called up, interrupting her friend. "What in the hay do ya think yur doin'? Why in Celestia's name did you eat my apples?" The pink pony stared at the ground below her and at Applejack's angry and confused face. "I guess it does look like I ate your apples doesn't it?" "LOOK LIKE IT?" Applejack hollered, she calmed her voice down a little before continuing. "Pinkie Pie, you had an apple in your mouth." Blue eyes widened even more, "I did, didn't I? But I didn't put it there or eat your apples. Gilda did it." "Gilda?" Applejack asked confused. "How in the hay would Gilda be able to eat my apples and leave without me noticein." "She flew of when the apple cores fell on you." Pinkie explained as if it were the simplest thing in the world. "I thought you were on good terms with Gilda and didn't hate her anymore." Applejack said shaking her head. "I did too! And I never hated her. I don't like her anymore though because she ate all your apples." Applejack shook her head again, "Just don't eat anymore of my apples Pinkie, they cost a lot of money to grow." she said before walking off. "But I didn't eat them!" Pinkie called after her, but Applejack either didn't hear her or chose to ignored her. Fluttershy was gathering bunnies. It was there bath time and the rabbits really didn't like taking a bath. Some how they always new when the bath was coming (Angle Bunny probably told them) and were very hard to round up. So Fluttershy had been chasing around bunnies almost all afternoon. She had just finished gathering them and was urging them towards there bath when suddenly a loud roar disturbed the silence and sent the rabbits fleeing in all directions. Just after that there came the sound of giggling. Fluttershy looked around and saw Pinkie Pie on her back, laughing. "Pinkie Pie." Fluttershy said her voice a quiver. The pink pony instantly stopped laughing when she heard Fluttershy. "Oh Pinkie. That wasn't very funny, or nice, it took me so long to gather those bunnies." Fluttershy said her voice sad. "Fluttershy, I'm so sorry I was laughing. I didn't scare your bunnies and I wasn't laughing at that it was....." Fluttershy didn't listen to anymore, she went back to gathering up the bunnies, knowing it would take most of the day. Why did Pinkie have to be mean for a laugh? The yellow Pegasus wondered.
Oh, No!The mane six (Not including Pinkie) had organized a meeting to discuss there friends strange behavior at Twilight's library. Pinkie had been upsetting other ponies around ponyville. Knocking over stands, ruining projects and such. Strangely, AJ and Fluttershy were the only ones of her close friends that she had visited. "It was just so rude of her." Applejack was saying. "I need those apples to live on, she can't just go around eat'n them." "And it took me so long to gather the bunnies." Fluttershy added softly. "And after everything she did she always said that Gilda did it?" Twilight asked, even though she already knew the answer. "That's right." Applejack said "Pinkie kept insisting that it was Gilda's fault even though Gilda wasn't any were near my orchard." "Pinkie did mention something about Gilda." Fluttershy said. "But I was to concerned on getting the bunnies to really hear her." Twilight sighed, this had been the story all the time. Pinkie would do something rude and then claim that Gilda made her do it, even though the griffon was no were to be seen. "Me and Gilda were napping on clouds all afternoon." Rainbow piped up. "Wow Rainbow." Applejack clicked her tongue in disappointingly. "Your friend from when you were a filly comes to visit again after you had a fight and all you do is nap." "Hey! That's just what we like to do to relax." Rainbow defended herself. "Can we get back on topic please?" Twilight asked. "I thought Pinkie didn't blame Gilda for being rude anymore." "She doesn't." Rainbow insisted. "I mean come on! Pinkie threw her a party for crying out loud." "Then why is she trying to blame Gilda for her upsetting everyone?" Twilight countered. "If her goal IS to frame Gilda she's doing an absolutely horrible job at it." Rarity commented."Doing mean things and then saying someone else made her do it is not very convincing. Pinkie can be scatter brained sometimes but she certainty is not stupid." "You're right Rarity," Twilight agreed, "but I don't see how Gilda could be making Pinkie do anything. How can someone make somepony eat something?" "Well, Pinkie did say that Gilda ate my apples, not her." Applejack admitted. "But Pinkie had an apple in her mouth, I don't see how that ain't enough evidence." "I for one believe Pinkie." The five ponies turned to face the voice, Spike was standing there, apparently listening to there conversation. "This is Pinkie Pie we're talking about." The little dragon continued. "She wouldn't do anything that she knowingly will hurt someone and, like Rarity said, she isn't stupid." Spike then walked off, having spoke his mind. The ponies sat there in silence, contemplating this thought before Rainbow muttered, "Well, I'll talk to Gilda about it." The other ponies nodded, "And we'll keep a watch on Pinkie." Twilight said. They then closed the meeting, each going home to think about their pink partying friend. "Hey Gilda!" Dash called when she spotted the familiar griffin sitting on a cloud relaxing. "Sup Dash." Gilda greeted. "Can I talk to you about something?" Dash asked. "Sure, what do you want to talk about?" "Pinkie, you see......" Dash told Gilda everything Pinkie did and said. Gilda stiffened up for some parts, but by the end was looking calm and cool. Rainbow guessed the stiffness was because she was shocked that Pinkie would blame her. "So do you know anything about it?" Dash finished. "Nope." Gilda replied, she thought for a moment before continuing. "I don't know what to tell you Dash, your pink friend and I never really saw eye to eye. Maybe she's just hoping to give me a bad name." "Maybe," Dash said uncertainly "It just doesn't seem like something Pinkie would do. Actually nothing she's been doing lately seems like something she would do." "Listen Dash, don't sweat it. I'm sure she has a good reason for doing everything." Gilda chuckled "at least that's the case for every level headed pony and griffon. Who knows? Maybe Pinkie's delusional." "Delusional?" "Ya, like she's seeing things or something." "Pinkie can act crazy sometimes." Dash admitted. "No pony ever knows what she's talking about." "Right, you can just wait until she gets over whatever she needs to get over." Gilda said happily "In the mean time you've got me for company. I might not be as hyper but I think I'm cool enough." "Ya, you sure are Gild." Rainbow replied, "But still, I just can't shake the feeling that something is off." "Just chill Dash, come on let's do something to get your mind of it. Bet you can't circle Ponyville twice and come back here before I do." Rainbow narrowed her eyes, "You really think you can beat the best flyer in all of Equestria?" "Never no till we try." "Oh, it is SO on!" Pinkie was in her bedroom, sulking. She didn't usually sulk but Gilda had gotten her so frustrated. The griffon kept hauling her off and making it seem like she, Pinkie, was doing really mean things. The worst part was, no one believed that Gilda made Pinkie do it. Why would the party loving pony ever do something mean and harmful? Sure she played a few pranks now and then, but they were always harmless. Stupid Gilda Pinkie thought, now because of her everyone thought Pinkie was some crazy maniac. Wait was that rhetorical? Or is the word redundant? Pinkie thought about that for a while and other random things until she heard a knock on her door. "Pinkie?" Came the voice of Mrs. Cake, "We have to go make a special delivery. If the twins wake up please look after them." "OK. Mrs. Cake, I will!" Pinkie called back, when she heard the hoof steps get softer she went back to sulking. The Cakes still trusted her, that was good. Pinkie Pie would hate it if she lost the Cakes trust. There was a sudden knocking at the window. Ether Pinkie hadn't heard it or she chose to ignored it, she was pretty deep in sulking right now. The knocking continued but Pinkie Pie didn't get up. She just sat on her bed, staring at the wall. It wasn't until the window swung open did the pink earth pony leaped to her feet. She started looking for a place to hid, anyplace. Pinkie new what was coming, and did not want to do it again. She couldn't find anywhere good to hid though and so just she backed up into the wall as towering figure approached her and a menacing voice said "Hey dweeb, ready for more?"
The Truth"Gilda! Let Go!" Pinkie wailed as the griffon flew with the pink earth pony's tail in her talon. "Shut up or I will." Gilda growled. Pinkie became quite as she looked down at the houses far below her. Gilda had something in her other talon but Pinkie couldn't make out what it was from this angle. She couldn't tell where they were going ether, all the roofs looked the same. The earth pony new that where ever they were going it was to get her in trouble. Pinkie was suddenly jerked downward and Gilda landed. As soon as her hooves hit solid ground, the pink pony started pulling on her tail hoping to get it free of the griffons death grip. Gilda just yanked back, sending Pinkie tumbling. "Why are you doing this to me? Dragging me around and making me look like a jerk?" Pinkie asked. "Duh." Gilda said exasperated. "You made Dash uncool, you ruined her and made her a dweeb like you and you make me look like an idiot. This is pay back." Pinkie was stunned by that. She didn't know what to say to that so she took in her surroundings, they were outside Rarity's place. Oh No! Pinkie thought Not Rarity. She also noticed that Gilda was holding some fabric in her claws. The griffon found a mud puddle and started rolling the fabric around it. "What are you doing?" Pinkie asked. "These are Rarity's fabrics dweeb." Gilda growled. "And there getting ruined." "You can't do that!" Pinkie gasped. "That's Rarity's work. She's going to kill you." Gilda chuckled, "Not me, you." Then the griffon splashed mud on Pinkie, dropped her in the puddle and took off. Before Pinkie Pie could even blink, let alone get up, Rarity came storming out of her shop. She instantly saw the pink earth pony in the puddle of mud sitting on top her fabrics. "PINKIE!!!!" Rarity screamed running towards her friend. "What on earth do you think you're doing?" "Um..." Pinkie said hesitantly. That griffon sure had good timing. Apparently that was a rhetorical question because Rarity just yelled some more. "I stood up for you! I didn't want to believe that you did these things! But now," She tore the fabrics out from under Pinkie making her flip around and land on her face in the mud. "Look at what you did! I don't know what's going on in your brain but it certainly isn't good." She then stomped off in a huff. Pinkie called after her, "Wait Rarity! I didn't mean too! I didn't even do it!" But the unicorn was already out of earshot. Pinkie got up out of the mud and shook herself. It didn't get all the mud off though so she just started heading home, hoping to shower. Why did Gilda have to be so mean? She thought I didn't make Dashie uncool, heck, she isn't even uncool in the first place. Ask anypony, Dashie's still cool. Gilda had been making Pinkie look bad ever since she arrived. It was stupid, if you're going to get into trouble at least you could DO the thing that got you in trouble. Pinkie hadn't even eaten any of the apples from Applejack's farm. And she knew those were super yummy. As Pinkie thought about this, how to stop Gilda, and how to make the fabric up to Rarity, she plugged up to Sugercube Corner sadly. She stopped suddenly when she heard a shout and looked up. As she cast her gaze to the sky, Gilda swooped in from no where shouting, "Delivery!" before depositing two bundles into Pinkie's arms. Pinkie looked at the things in her hooves as Gilda soared off and realized it was Pound and Pumpkin Cake, covered in mud. She started to reach for the door of Sugercube corner before it flew open by a distraught Mrs. and Mr. Cake. "Pinkie!" They cried. Pinkie realized what they were seeing, Pound, Pumpkin, and Pinkie, covered and mud. To top it all off the babies started crying. The Cake's each snatched a kid and demanded. "What on earth are you doing with Pound and Pumpkin?" "I.......didn't do it?" Pinkie tried sheepishly. "Really? Then how do you explain that when we went upstairs to check on the twins, they were gone and now we find you outside with them covered in mud? What were you doing with them?"" Mrs. Cake demanded. Pinkie looked between the faces of, um....what would you call them? Her boss? Her Guardians? Anyway, she couldn't bare to see them angry, and after all that had happened today, she lost it. "I'm SORRY!" The pink mare cried, tears streaming down her face. She just sat there crying, moaning about how she didn't mean to hurt anypony. The cake's looked back and forth between each other, they didn't no how there confutation would go but they didn't expect something like this. "It's all right dear," Mrs. Cake soothed. "You go get washed up, alright dear?" Pinkie nodded, sniffling and went up to the bathroom. She washed all of the mud off and was about to go back downstairs when she heard the Cakes talking and decided to listen when she heard her name. "We have to do something." Mr. Cake was saying. "She can't get away with everything just because she starts crying." "I know," Mrs. Cake agreed. "But we can't simply ground her, we aren't her parents." "Maybe we could have her do a couple extra shifts, I'm sure she'll understand." "Maybe....." Pinkie stopped listening, she didn't want to be punished for something she didn't do. She went up to her room, not only would she be doing extra shifts, she probably wouldn't be able to play with the twins for some time. This really sucked, a lot, Pinkie hating that Mrs. and Mr. Cake probably didn't trust her now the most. Sure she had been goofy sometimes, OK a lot, but they had always trusted her. Now that trust with them, and all her friends, would take a long time to rebuild. Pinkie lay down on her bed and went to sleep, hoping tomorrow would be better. Pinkie's five closest friends came to Sugercube Corner, to talk to Pinkie and figure out what was going on. Or at least to gather some clues. They arrived in the bakery with a cheery voice of "Hello!" Pinkie Pie was standing behind the counter, smiling at them. "Hi, you guys!" "Hi Pinkie." They all greeting in there own way. Suddenly Mrs. Cake came in. "Pinkie, why don't you bake some more cupcakes, I'm sure we're running low." "OK Mrs. Cake." Pinkie said walking towards the kitchen. Before she entered, her friend could just see her hunch over in, well, sadness. Mrs. Cake waited until they heard the rustling of pans and such before continuing, no one heard any humming, which was very disturbing. "Sorry, Pinkie's been scheduled a lot lately, we found her and the twins covered with mud and had to do something." "That's just what we came to talk about." Twilight said, "Do you have any idea why Pinkie is being so, so......" "Rude?" Rarity huffed. "Inconsiderate?" Applejack suggested. "Mean?" Fluttershy added. Mrs. Cake shook her head, "I don't know, she's always been such a trustworthy pony." She sighed. "Maybe the stain of being so cheerful has made her want to be rebellious?" "Some reason, I just doubt that's the case." Twilight confessed. A loud noise came from the kitchen, followed by a muffled, "No! I won't let you! AHHHHHHH!" The six ponies rushed into the kitchen to see it in a mess, there was a note laying on the ground. Twilight picked it up with her magic and read, " 'I'm not going to wast the day at this dump. I think I'll go to the library instead. ~From Pinkie Pie' The Library!" Twilight dashed for the door, followed by four other mares, leaving Mrs. Cake to clean up the mess. When they got to the library, it was in state that looked like a tornado had gone through, books everywhere, things overturned. It was a mess, and in the middle of it all sat a very dazed looking Pinkie Pie. "PINKIE!" Twilight said, trying to keep calm, "What did you do?" "Where's Spike? Shouldn't he have saw what happened?" Rainbow asked. "He's out getting supplies." Twilight said dismissively, glaring at her pink friend. Pinkie opened her mouth, then closed it. What she wanted to say was that Gilda had taken her and swung her around like a bat, knocking her into things and giving Pinkie a terrible headache. Pinkie didn't say this though, she new her friends wouldn't believe her. So instead she collapsed at Twilight's feet, saying, "I didn't mean to! Please Twilight! Please! Let me make it up to you! Let me help you clean up!" She gave the unicorn the best puppy dog face she could muster. "Applejack, Fluttershy and Rarity didn't let me make things right. Please let me help you fix this mess!" Pinkie pleaded hopping so bad that Twilight would let her. The purple unicorn looked at her pink friend for a second, on one hoof she didn't want Pinkie messing anything else up, on the other the earth pony did look desperate to make things right. "I guess it's ok, just don't mess anything up." Twilight agreed. "OH THANK YOU TWILIGHT, THANK YOU!" Pinkie exclaimed, going over to the books and started shelving them. Twilight sighed, "Do you girls want to help too?" With six ponies helping, the cleaning of the library didn't take as long as it would have. It was still dark when they were done though, but despite this Pinkie felt a lot happier then she had. She had been able to make what Gilda did better, and even though Twilight kept checking the books she shelved, Pinkie thought that she had gained back some trust. She was in high spirits as she went to bed that night, thinking about the day a head and how she could help her friends some more.
