Pinkie Pie's "Why?"

Yes! Sorry for the longlonglonglonglonglong delay. I found this little thing called... Fallout: Equestria and well... I couldn't stop reading, haha. And then the finals at university... I'm really a mess over there... Anyways, here it is. Applejack's chapter. Yay. I hope you keep reading this, give me your opinions about it, whether you like it or not. Buh-bye~

It was past midnight, and the sound of hooves hitting trees could still be heard at Sweet Apple Acres. An orange mare had suddenly felt a lot of energy throughout the day, so she was still there, bucking apple trees, but she gradually began to feel tired. Maybe it was all the sugar she ate at Pinkie’s, also all the pastries she brought home.

—Ya’ still there? —Big Macintosh said, sticking his head out from the front door.—Ya’ don’t have to work ‘till now, ya’ know?

—Don’t worry, Ah know what Ah’m doin’, Big Mac. —The mare almost shouted — A couple more to finish today’s job… an’ ah’ll go to sleep. Ah swear.

Big Macintosh sighed and returned inside. Applejack knew she could make a final effort. She remembered that morning. Eating —a lot— at Sugar Cube Corner with her friends. She knew it was not healthy to ingest that amount of sugar, but the time was worth it, everyone enjoys staying with friends even if… even if they have some silly ideas about other friends. Like Rainbow Dash did. Applejack beamed in the dark. She was completely sure Pinkie didn’t have a tragic past like her pegasus friend thought. Maybe a boring one, yes. Applejack bucked one last tree.

—And that’s all for today… —She smiled again, proud of her hard work. She slowly walked into the house, entered her room and dropped asleep on her bed.

She woke up sweating, breathing heavily.

—You have to get out! Now! —somepony shouted. She stood up as fast as she could and began running. She pushed the door and stopped right out of the house. Frightened, she saw everypony fleeing, trying to get as far as possible from the not-so-far dust cloud. Roars and sound of debris falling came from inside it. The fear was present in the faces of all the ponies. Some of them tripped and got swallowed by the cloud, screaming. —What the hay are you waiting for?! Run, Pinkamena!

The little filly fled away. She ran between other fillies and colts, crying and yelping. A giant shadow covered the ones running at Pinkamena’s left, just before a huge arm-like cloud hit them and dragged them to its screaming insides. What was that? It just attacked out of nowhere, a brown cloud, although it seemed more like a giant ball of Lint.

—The horror! The horror! —A pink-coated mare with yellow mane screamed right before she was swallowed by the monstrous cloud as well.

The houses and shops fell down with thunderous crashes and noisy screams. Pinkamena lifted her sight as she heard the sound of pegasi fly. The Wonderbolts had come, trying to surround the monster with their thunder cloud, but they were quickly absorbed by the giant thing. “Well, that was stupid” thought the little pink filly.

—Father? Mother? Where are you?

—Run, Pinkamena! Save yourse-! —The filly could hear that only. The instant she turned her head, she glanced her parents being caught by the Cloud.

Suddenly, there was nopony running around her: She was completely alone.

—No… please, stop. Stop! STOP! — She could not avoid being in the reach of the monster. And it captured her.

It all turned black. And moisten. Disgustingly moisten. Her sight could only perceive dots of light floating around, like nothingness amongst nothingness. She could hear voices as well. Whispers, yelps and sobs.

—Ah! You are different! —A deep, strange voice resound all over the void. The little Pinkamena trembled. Who was that? No… what was that? She tried to cover her ears, but the voice seemed to pierce her hooves and her mind itself —You are the one who will embody my Will in this earth.

Pinkamena didn’t have any chance to answer, nor even complain or scream. Beams of light appeared, filling the darkness involving her. The black became white and the white gained color, changing that strange space into the reality Pinkamena knew. But she felt a lot different. As she looked back, she noticed the Cloud had disappeared, although the city was still destroyed. The filly began walking forward.

—You know what to do now —She said, apparently to herself, walking slowly out of the ruins —To wait until I have enough power to conquer all of Equestria. Meanwhile you have to gain the trust of all of its inhabitants, make them happy, make them smile. And then… — Her trotting grew faster, her smile wider and her eyes creepier —I’LL EAT THEM ALL, LIKE APPLES!

Applejack opened her eyes.

—What in tarnation…?

She knew what that was. Or at least she suspected it. She had her thoughts messed up by Rainbow’s crazy idea. Yeah… It was that. She got surprised when she realized it was still very early in the morning. Applejack sighed and walked out of her home. The mare didn’t even want to think about the stupid dream she had just had. Pinkie as some kind of slimy monster? Swallowing everypony in her (its?) way? Haha, no, thank you. She found herself trotting out of the farm and way beyond, with a sudden urge of finding out more about Pinkie, thanks to the rainbow pegasus, when she heard an acute but low scream. The farmer was already near Fluttershy’s cottage. Had she walked that long? The blonde mare approached as fast as she could to her friend’s home

—…Fluttershy? —Applejack said when she reached the door —Fluttershy! Is that ya’ tryin’ to shout?

—Ahm… A-applejack? Is that you? —The cute voice of the yellow pony came out.

—Is there somethin’ wrong, sugarcube? May ah come in?

—Sure… —Applejack waited a couple moments, sighing at the moment the pegasus opened the door — Oh, Applejack, I’m so glad you came here. I had the most terrible nightmare!

—Lemme guess —The orange coated’s face was almost inexpressive, with rings under her eyes. She was almost sure Fluttershy had dreamed about the same thing she had. She even thought Twilight and Rarity had dreamed about that topic as well —Pinkie Pie.

Fluttershy was surprised.

—Y-yes! Oh, you too? It was awful! Pinkie (and Derpy, for some reason) was making… making… animal crackers! —she jumped and hugged Applejack.

—Huh? Crackers? —Honestly? Well, it may looked bad to Fluttershy’s eyes, but it was a dream as silly as that pony-swallowing-Pinkie-monster —That was yer nightmare?

—You don’t understand… They were animal crackers. Made-from-animals!

—Ya’ know those aren’t actually made from animals. Right, hun’?

—Then why are they called like that, Applejack?! WHY?!

—Come on, Fluttershy—she said, trying to calm her down, as the pegasus seemed to be about bursting in tears— Let’s go chat a bit with Pinkie.

—And… Applejack?

—Yeah, sugarcube?

—Can we… speak with Rainbow Dash as well?

—The hay we’re gonna speak with her. Maybe after we kill ‘er.

And after convincing Fluttershy they were not going to actually kill Rainbow, they made their way to Sugar Cube Corner, where they found two unicorns in front of the cake shop, already talking about one pink mare.

—I still don’t understand your point —the purple one said, frowning —You think Pinkie’s… erhm… reason is her missing sister?

—I’m not saying that exactly, Twilight! I just think her sister is a key piece in this puzzle…

—Do Ah hear well, Rarity? —Applejack asked the white unicorn. She waved with her head, as Fluttershy was still trying to hold her tears with all of her strength —Did Rainbow actually transmit you her silly idea?

—My, of course not. But I still feel quite strange about her sister…

—I guess we are all here because of one reason —Twilight sighed and turned to the building’s door. She knocked two times.

—Yes? —Pinkie Pie’s voice answered from above, her head floating through her room’s window. —Oh, it’s you! — She entered again, closing the window, and less than a second later she appeared at the door, waving happily at her friends —Hello everypony! How are you this beautiful morning? Wanting to have breakfast together as the good friends we all are? That’s amazing! We could…!

—Ahm… Pinkie?

—Yes, Twilight? —How could she? How could such an incredibly happy pony have a tragic past? It felt like sunshine came from Pinkie Pie, like her smile warmed the hearts of everypony else. And it was because of that Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Fluttershy and Applejack exchanged nervous looks. Maybe Pinkie Pie didn’t want to revive that past… Maybe —and just maybe— Rainbow was right…

—We… We want to ask you about something…

—Of course! —She said with a wide grin — It’s about my past, isn’t it? —The ponies felt like their jaw hit the floor —Haha, you look funny! Rainbow Dash already told me about it. She spent the night here! She’s such a noisy spy, you know?