Kidnapped
By VGMaster78
It was a beautiful sunny day in Ponyville ponies were frolicking around talking with friends and all sorts of tasks as they enjoyed their glorious day. Nopony had a care in the world at that moment. Ponyville’s local party pony was bouncing down the road to a picnic that had been scheduled to be between all of her friends. She peeked in on them seeing that everything had already been set up the picnic. Food everywhere placed upon the table cloth in such neat matter. Applejack and Rainbow Dash were off to the side having a fierce hoof wrestling match. Twilight and Fluttershy were having idle chat with each other and Rarity seemed to just sun bathing while they all waited for Pinkie to show up.
“Hiya girls!” Pinkie shouted as she greeted her friends.
“Oh, hi Pinkie we’re glad you could make it.” Twilight was the first to greet her as the others soon followed.
“Of course I would be here silly I always love to spend time with you all.”
“Well anyways since you’re finally here I guess we should dig into the snacks.” They all agreed and helped themselves to the assortment of treats that had been brought courtesy of Applejack.
The rest of the afternoon went smoothly as they all played games and chatted about recent events. However, like all good things had to come to an end with all of them heading their own ways. Dash flew as fast she towards her home. Fluttershy leisurely trotted of in the direction of her cottage. Twilight went to her library, Rarity to her boutique, and Applejack walked to Sweet Apple Acres. Pinkies just waved them all good bye before bouncing back to Sugar Cube Corner with a grin on her face. Only to come to a complete stop and have it disappear when she noticed that the windows were broken with glass all over the ground. She rushed inside to see Mrs. Cake on the ground forearms covering her eyes as she cried to herself Mr. Cake stood next to her trying to calm her down a bit.
“Mrs. Cake what’s wrong? Why are you and Mr. Cake and all saddy waddy?”
“Pinkie!” Mr. Cake exclaimed as he quickly rushed to her and drugged her over into the kitchen. “Pinkie I really don’t think you should bother Cupcake right now.” Mr. Cake outright told her.
“Why? Did something bad happen?” Pinkie asked in her usual naïve nature.
“Well, I don’t know how to say this but Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake have gone missing. We think somepony kidnapped them while we attended to a quick order. They were asleep so we really didn’t bother getting a sitter to look after them. We were only gone for a minute but when we got back we found our windows broken and they were gone.” Mr. Cake told his story of what had happened with tears starting to soak out of his eyes.
“What!” Pinkie screamed “ Who would do such a mean thing and steal someponies kid’s. We have to do something! We got to save them!” Pinkie was pacing in place frantically thinking of what to do.
“We already have Pinkie. We have contacted the Royal Guards and they will be here within the hour to help us.”
“By it might be too late by the time they get here something could happen to the twins by then.”
“I know Pinkie but there isn’t much we can do until they guards get here.” Mr. Cake assured her.
“That or maybe you just don’t care enough to go out and look for them! “ Pinkie shouted at Mr.Cake with complete anger in her eyes as she ran off to her room with tears rolling down her cheeks.
“Pinkie!” Mr. Cake called out for Pinkie to come back so they could talk it out but she had already slammed the door. Mr. Cake sighed and walked back to his wife who seemed to be already calming down a little.
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Pinkie laid on her bed with her head buried in the pillow letting the tears run slowly and freely soaking into the pillow case. She just couldn’t believe the thought of somepony in Ponyville running off with Mr. and Mrs. Cake’s foals. Ponyville was such a nice community nothing really bad ever happened in the town aside from a few accidents that occasionally happened but never anything like somepony kidnapping foals that thought was just awful. She lifted her head and look at a table with half eaten cake on it. Her eyes were puffy and red from all the tears she had produced. She got off of her bed and slowly trotted over to table with her mane and tail falling straight instead of the regular poofy and plush style it usually was. She looked upon the cake when she caught a glimpse of a knife that was still stuck in the cake. She pulled it and ran her tongue along it getting the frosting off of it once she was done she went and got her saddle bag where she carefully placed it in.
“Hmmph, if they’re not going to do anything to help then I guess Auntie Pinkie will.” She smiled as she spoke to herself. Her eyes held a determined look in them filled with bloodlust and revenge. She would find both the twins and return them to their family she Pinkie promised herself.
She pick up the bag and threw over her back as she snuck out her bedroom and went downstairs she almost went through the front door before she her Mr. Cake and someponies talking. She peeked in on them to see who could be there. It was a few Royal Guards who were questioning him about what had happened. Pinkie turned around and headed toward the back entrance only step on something she looked under her hoof to see that it was one of the twin’s pacifiers. Her eyes started to water a bit as reached down with mouth to pick it up. She slipped it into her bag and then continued her trek out into the cold night.
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She looked up seeing that the moon was out and glowing and it lit up the night sky she really felt like she had no need for a lantern or flashlight due to the brightness. She took a deep though on what she was going to do. Oh, the criminal would pay that was for sure but the only thing was that she had no idea where to even find them she had no leads at all. She thought of who could help without getting suspicious of her motives. She thought maybe Twilight could help her. Yeah Twilight she could help somehow she could be naïve at times she might not even suspect a thing.
“Perfect.” She smirked and walked off to the library slowly.
She had made it to her destination after a few blocks she pounded on the door with her forearm not caring if she woke them up at all. She listen to what was going on behind the door and heard somepony rushing down the stairs. Then the door open with a lavender unicorn standing there she let out a yawn and asked what was going on.
“Pinkie do you have any idea at what time it is? It’s almost midnight!” Twilight didn’t really want to talk to anypony right at the moment she was dead tired of the events that had transpired early.
“I need your help Twilight” Pinkie didn’t waste a single second to say hello to her friend.
“With what exactly? A party? I don’t have time to help you with that right now. Can’t it wait until the morning?”
“No, it can not. Also, it’s not a party I need your help with it’s a tracking spell.”
“A tracking spell? Why in Equestria would you need a tracking spell for Pinkie?” Twilight questioned her.
“That is none of your concern Twilight!” Pinkie snapped at Twilight for put her nose in other's business.
“Come on Pinkie you can tell me anything.”
“No…” Pinkie flatly stated to the unicorn.
“Fine, if you don’t tell me I won’t help perform the spell for you.” Twilight smirked. This would get her answers she seems desperate for the need of this spell for whatever reason but she wouldn’t help until she got a single reply from the Pink earth pony.
Pinkie just stood there thinking of what to do. If she told Twilight the truth behind her motives she might want to get involved by coming with her to keep she in check or maybe she would stop her from even attempting what she was going to do. If she didn’t confess though the spell wouldn’t get performed and she would never find the twins in time. She sighed as she came clean letting the words flow freely from her mouth.
“Pound and Pumpkin cake have been kidnapped by sompepony.”
She heard Twilight gasp and began relaying many questions about the situation but Pinkie interpreted her with cough to get her the attention.
“The spell would be nice to have right about now.” Pinkie said with no emotion at all.
“Oh, certainly let me just ge- Hey hold on one second why do you need the spell Pinkie? Haven’t the Royal Guards been alerted to this?” Twilight gave her a questioning look. She really wasn’t thinking about charging into danger all alone was she? She could except something like this from Rainbow Dash but not Pinkie.
“They have but they won’t find them in time it will be to late by then. I have taken matters into my own hoofs.”
“This sounds really dangerous Pinkie maybe we should at least wait until the morning. We can all form search teams and look for them together. How does that sound Pinkie?” Twilight tried to reassure her distressed friend.
“JUST PERFORM THE SPELL SPARKLE!” Pinkie snapped at her unicorn friend.
Twilight just moved back slowly and nodded she was starting to fear Pinkie a little. Twilight looked into her friends eyes. They were slightly soulless nothing but pure bloodlust and revenge held inside them for the culprit who had taken the children.
“Alright, but I need an item of theirs to even do the spell. Do you have anything I can use to cast it upon?”
Pinkie felt around inside her saddle bag and grabbed a hold of the pacifier and threw it in front of Twilight’s hoofs. Twilight starred down at the object that had been placed been before her. Pinkie spoke up to break her out of her trance.
“Will that work?”
“That will do it.” She quickly did a review over the spell in her book and let the magical aura build inside her horn she enchanted the pacifier. It levitated and went flying out the door and in the direction of the Everfree Forest.
“Thanks for your help Twilight.” Pinkie hastily said as she ran towards the door. She heard her pal hoof’s clopping behind her following her.
“Hold up I’m coming with you.” Twilight called as she ran behind the pink pony.
“Oh, no you’re not.” Pinkie out right stated to her pal.
“What do y-“ She didn’t finish her sentence as she felt a pair of back hoofs had meet her side knocking the wind out of her. She fell to ground clutching her side trying to get in fresh cool breaths of air in her lungs. Tears started to well up in her eyes as she turned her towards the pony that had kicked.
“I’m sorry but I can't let you get in my way of this.” Pinkie shouted as she ran out the door in the direction of the pacifier that had went flying towards the forest that was covered in complete and utter darkness. A place of complete fear and horror the thing nightmares were made of.
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Pinkie had entered the forest but unlike Ponyvilie she couldn’t see anything at all except the floating pacifier which had the purple glow of her friend covering it. She thought about turning around and getting a flashlight or something but then dismissed the thought since it would cause time to be wasted. Time she didn’t have. She continued on her journey deeper into the Everfree Forest. She started getting memories of her first adventure with friends and how great it was to free Luna of her curse that she had been under for a thousand years these memories caused her to silently sing ‘Giggle at the Ghostie” to herself. It was odd though the pacifier had been leading in all the same places they had gone on that night as well. It stopped and fell to the ground right before the bridge of the old castle to the Eternal Pony Sisters. Pinkie picked the pacifier and put it back into her bag as looked towards the abandon castle she walked across the old bridge slowly so nothing broke and lead her to her demise. Once across she threw off her saddle bag and pull out the blade with teeth firmly gripped on the handle she got up and walked inside palace as she did she slid the blade across the stone walls making an unbearable screechy sound because of it. As she walked down the halls she heard lots of crying and yelling from the same room that her friends had help defeat Nightmare Moon in. Inside she spotted a figure that was slightly taller than a pony and seemed to support a brown coat with lion tail coming from it. It’s wings were also bigger than a pegasus’ she looked over to see if she could spot any of the twins. She saw that they were both weeping while the creature yelled at them some more.
“Will you brats just shut the fuck up?! You’re giving me a fucking migraine over here.” the predator spoke before them making stop the kids stop for a moment before they continued to wail more because of the outburst.
‘Wait a minute that voice sounds familiar. Gilda?’ Pinkie pondered a bit as she looked over to see the creature again.
It was true it was Rainbow Dash’s old friend or a former shadow of her old self to be exact. She had few cuts and bruises over her body. Her fur was dirty and ragged parts of her hair had been torn exposing bare flesh instead. She kept quiet to hear Gilda go into a semi-insane rant.
“Damn, that pink Dweeb she just had to show up and ruin mine and Dash’s relationship. Yeah, that bitch turned Dash into a real loser. I don’t know why she would want to hang out with those losers instead of me. What am I not good enough? Maybe getting revenge on the Pink loser will make me feel better. Which one of you two want to go flying first? What’s that? You both want to go for a ride? Well then come on!”
She grabbed them both by their fragile heads and was about to take off before she heard something yell at her.
“Hey don’t you fucking touch them you brute!” Pinkie yelled as she came out of hiding with the knife firmly grasped in her mouth as she gave Gilda look of pure hatred. Gilda would not harm them if she had anything to do about it.
Well if isn’t the dweeb herself. Look kids your stupid friend is here to save your pathetic asses. You want these kids!?” she screeched at the earth pony. A wicked grin spread across her mug. This was her moment she was going to teach this dweeb what happens when somebody messes with her life.
“Giving them back to me so I can return them back to their family Mr. and Mrs. Cake” Pinkie tried to offer and agreement. Maybe if she cooperated nobody would have to die. They could both just head their separate ways
“Why should I do that?” Gilda returned. “What’s in it for me?”
“I’ll see if Dashie will want to talk about what happened maybe you two can go back to being friends. What do you say? Let me just take the children back home and we can get this all sorted out.” Pinkie tried to offer with the griffon.
“Fine, here you go.” Gilda compiled and pushed Pumpkin Cake forward.
“Oh, thank you I’m so gla-” her sentence was cut off by seeing the sight of Gilda picking the foal back up.
“Go long!” she screeched as she threw Pumpkin Cake over head. Pinkie didn’t waste a second as she ran to catch the foal. She spit out knife just before she caught the kid. Pumpkin was startled by the action as started crying harder. Pinkie placed her on the cold stone floor as quickly picked up the knife to keep Pumpkin from putting it in her mouth to suckle on.
“Just stay put Pumpkin while I get your brother from that cold hearted bitch!” she cursed the griffon’s name. She would not allow herself to fall for that again. Pinkie just turned and faced Gilda looking as the griffon had a wicked smile plastered across her face.
“You going to try that again you big meanie pants!” Pinkie shouted towards the assailant.
“Nah, you’ll just catch it again.” As she spoke she slid one of her talons down Pound Cake’s stomach it made Pinkie cringe that she had to turn away she didn’t want to see him get hurt. She took a peek when she heard a thud she turned to see what happened Pound Cake was running towards her as Gilda rubbed her cheek. Pinkie could only snicker at this.
“You think that’s funny punk!” Gilda scream with pure anger. Her eyes shrunk into little beads.
"Yeah, I kinda do actually.” Pinkie spoke as she ran off with the twins on her back.
“Get back here you worm!” As she took off with blazing speeds to catch up with Pinkie.
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She ran as hard she could through the forest not daring to slow down in fear of being caught she looked for a place where she could hide the children while she dealt with the attacker seeing a hollowed out log quickly taking them off her back and lead them into it.
“Alright, you two stay here while I take care of Gilda.” She whispered to them trying to calm them down After quickly nuzzling them she turned around feeling a claw go around her neck.
“Oh yeah!? Will you now?” Gilda said as she grasped Pinkie by the throat pushing her into the log. Pinkie’s weapon fell onto the ground as she tried gasping for breath. Gilda squeezed harder. Pinkie’s eyes start turning bloodshot. She couldn’t breath Gilda held her in place as her wicked smile bore into her. Pinkie then got an idea as she used her back legs to kick Gilda in the stomach. She let go and clutched her wounded abdomen and rolled on the ground a bit. Pinkie had no time to get a quick breath as she reached over the log and picked up the fallen knife she charged towards the griffon and leapt on top of her she held down her claws with both of her hoofs as she left a deep slash across Gilda's throat. It had left a decent amount of blood on blade it dripped a bit as she threw it to the side into the bushes. Gilda however just tried gasping for breath as her vision became blurry. Pinkie got off of her and watched as she brought both claws up to her own neck as she tried to keep blood from seeping out from her wound. It was a futile effort she was going to die that was all there was to it nothing was going save the griffon. She stopped watching Gilda struggle for her life as she turned and walked back to the log where she had hid the twins. She looked inside to find that they had passed out from all the action and were sleeping in each others embrace. She smiled and let a tear fall from her. Such innocent creatures to somehow pass out during all of the violence. She carefully lifted them both out of the log and took of towards Ponyville with a smile.
Celestia’s beautiful sun was already peeking over the mountains of Equestria. A morning breeze flowed through the town as someponies were already waking up and beginning their day. Pinkie had trotted up to the door of Sugarcube Corner. She set both foals down before the door step and lightly kissed both of them on each of their foreheads.
“I finally got you home to Mrs. Cake and Mr. Cake like I promised myself I would. I hope you both grow up to be great foals. I however don’t think I’ll be able to show my face here in Ponyville anymore. I killed another creature and I hurt one of my friend Twilight. I don’t think I can live in such a happy place like Ponyville any longer. I’m a danger to all other ponies. I’m going back to my home on the rock farm where I’ll never be a threat to anypony again!” She finished off with as hastily knocked on the door to get their parents attention. She ran off when she heard one of them coming to the door.
“Um, hello anypony there” Mr. Cake asked before looking down and seeing his wonderful children sleeping there.
“Honey! Come quick! Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake have been brought back to us.” He scooped the kids up into his arms and held them close. Mrs. Cake ran over to her husband and embraced him with a hug and her children.
“Hey, Pinkie come quick somepony has brought Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake back to us!” Mr. Cake yelled for Pinkie to come down.
A few minutes went by with not even a sound coming from the upstairs. Mr. Cake decided to go check and see why Pinkie didn’t want to see the foals. He walk up to Pinkie’s room looked and saw that instead of Pinkie lying in bed it was just her pet Gummy. He closed the door and walked back to his wife.
“Hey honey muffin have you seen Pinkie Pie this morning.” Mr. Cake questioned his wife.
“Can’t say I have dear. Why?”
“Well she wasn’t in her in room at all.”
Just then Twilight busted through the door with bandages around her waist. After she quickly caught her breath she asked them if they had seen Pinkie they shook their heads no. She was about to run out the door again when the sight of the twins caught her eye. Pinkie had found them? She had succeeded in finding the lost foals. Twilight smiled at that and just took a seat as she relayed the story upon them about Pinkie had came in last night and forced her to use a spell to locate them. The story warmed their hearts that Pinkie ran off into danger to save their offspring. They asked how Twilight had become injured though. She lied by saying that it was just some magic accident as she didn’t want their opinion of the worker to come into question. They didn’t press into the issue any further taking her word for it. Twilight order a muffin for breakfast as she sat next to table thinking about where Pinkie could have ran off to after saving the kids.
Pinkie stood outside of her old home and gently knocked on the door where it then opened and inside stood her father with a stern look in his eyes. This was a surprise for him to say the least.
“Hello Pinkamena,” Clyde spoke with a stern voice. “What are you doing here?”
“ I've come back to work on the family rock farm.”
“Is that so? Well alright your sisters are in the back fields. Breakfast will begin in and hour or so.” As he retreated back inside to tell his wife that one of his daughter had returned.
Pinkie walked around the side of the house catching a glimpse of her sisters flipping over the rocks. They stopped for a brief moment to look over at her. She offered a light smirk before they got back to their labor. Her smile disappeared as she looked down at a rock and kicked it over with her front hoof. As she sighed an uttered one word.
“Family…”