Je t'aime

A bubblegum pink earth pony with three balloons for a cutie mark and a darker pink mane and tail with an appearance akin to cotton candy and baby blue eyes stood out like a sore hoof as she bounced along one of the many paths in the canterlot maze while whistling tunelessly. as she turned a corner she found herself in a much wider section of the maze that, oddly engouh, was decorated with a vast array of balloons that resembled smiling faces of various shapes and sizes.

As if happy to see her the ballons laughed cheerfully in an almost eerie manner, but this escaped the notice of the pink mare as she chuckled along with them.

"Whee! This is the greatest balloon garden I've ever seen! It's the first balloon garden I've ever seen, but still!-Wah! " she exclaimed in delight but then fell to the ground, landing in a mud puddle.

She looked down to see one of the balloons had snagged her rear leg and tripped her and all the while the laughter around gained a much cruler tone.

"Hey what gives?" she asked sounding annoyed.

In a yellow-white flash her question was answered as, the reason she was here in the first place, Discord Spirit of chaos and disharmony appeared before her with his mismatched arms folded behind his back and his small yet entirely different wings flapping to keep him aloft.

"What's the matter, Pinkie Pie? I thought you appreciated a good laugh?" he asked.

"It's different. They're laughing at me" she replied looking a bit upset.

"It's hardly different." the dranconequs replied casually as he moved his head behind a ballon, his face becoming visible on the rubbery green surface as it turned to face her "Your friends laugh at you all the time"

"My friends laugh with me, not at me" Pinkie stated

"Oh really?"

In the recesses of Pinkie's mind another pony sat watching the events unfold, like the happier pony outside this onlooker was bright pink, though that was where the similarities ended. within Pinke's subconscious this pony took on a look all her own with a long blood red mane and tail that was as straight as ruler and deep blue eyes as opposed to the element of laughter's cotton candy style mane and light blue eyes. And again in cantraast to the normally happy pony this mare was a unicorn.

"Pinkie! Pinkie Pie don't you dare listen to him!" she yelled out as the world outside spun around her counterpart, dipositing the party pony once more in the mud as Discord laughed at her misfortune.

"Oh what have we here a spy perhaps?" came the voice of the draconequs as he popped into existence, the world outside freezing in motion as if he had hit a universal 'pause' button.

"Au contraire My name is Pinkamena" the unicorn mare introduced herself.

"Not that Pinkamena by any chance?" Discord replied sounding slightly uneasy.

"Pfft no, if you wish to be technical the pink pony that stars in cupcakes is nothing more than a very, very crazy version of Pinkie Pie. It is the fanbase that gave that persona the straight maned and far more darker look of 'Pinkamena'. Quite frankly I don't much like the idea of my little sister parading around turning the villagers into confectionary.."

"Ah excellent! Let's see if I can have some fun then care to join me?" Discord asked and offered a paw.

"No and you are going to pay for hurting Pinkie!" Pinkamena declared and pointed her horn at him.

Discord placed his paw over his heart in mock pain.

"Oh 'Mena you wound me I would never hurt anypony" he replied.

"...Certainement..." the pink mare deadpanned

Discord didn't look very pleased with the remark, but instantly went back to his playful demeanor.

"Oh you are such a bore you know? I think it's high time you got to experience a litle chaos!" he declared and in a yellow flash both the pony and draconequs vanished.

As I awoke I was assualted by a myriad of colours and unfamiliar shapes. that was not frightenning. No for the fifteen years I have been alive i have grown accustomed from waking up to an abnormal setting, such is the life of a pony with two souls. I was fine with the fact that the surrounding landscape was a feild of paper flowers of all shapes and colours. It was almost normal to look up and se a purple sky and cotton candy clouds and it was almost reassuring to realise that his scene was one giant reference to an Evanescence song.

What frightened me the most that day, what me reeling onto my back hooves and sent my red mane whipping into my face as I frantically looked around in a wild panic, was a sensation I had not been accustomed to. There was sign, no frightened murmour or loud bubbly exclamation that pointed to Pinkie's presence somewhere in our shared mindscape. No laughter flittered across my thoughts in voice too high a pitch to be my own and not even the reassuring weight of my sister's sleping mind could be felt.

For the first time in my life, I was completely alone.

The balloons that surrounded the party loving Pinke Pie continued their mocking laughter, each one morphing into one of her closest friends as they spun around her.

"No! Stop it"

Her request went ignored as the mockery of her element continued

"Stop laughing at me!"

There was no reassurance from her other half, soul crushing silence filed her mind as Discord reappeared once more.

"Oh, poor Pinkie Pie" he said in fake sympathy "And here I thought laughter made you happy"

There was nopony left to object to that statement and Pinkie gave in.

"Happy? I don't think so.." she grumbled her mood turning sour and pushing away the small amount of sadness that had built in that short time.

But as everypony knows, you can't stay mad forever....

TO BE CONTINUED