My Little Pony: Shipping Is Magic

My Little Pony: Shipping Is Magic

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Twilight Sparkle walked into the Cakes’ bakery. There was a sign on it that said Bakery Closed~ Owners on Vacation. Twilight was about to give up, when the door creaked open, and a deep, almost god-like, voice called her in.

“Twilight! Enter, if you wish to live.”

She cautiously entered the bakery. Once inside, she saw Cheerilee, Big Mac, Sweetie Belle, and Applebloom. However, Scootaloo and Pinkie Pie were there as well. Twilight Sparkle asked the ponies, “So, I feel as though I missed something. What’s going on?”

Pinkie Pie answered. “Well. I’m the new leader of the Ponies Against Love Poison Association. Otherwise known as P to the A to the L to the P to the A! PALPA!”

Twilight couldn’t believe Pinkie Pie became the leader of PAL… PAL- something. She’s not sure. Well, she couldn’t believe that Pinkie could become the leader of whatever-this-is so quickly.

“Alright. So, the only pony that wasn’t infected was Fluttershy.”

Sweetie Belle said, “So, my sister’s infected, too?”

“Where is Fluttershy, then?” asked Cheerilee.

“What do you mean? Fluttershy’s right…”

Apparently, Twilight Sparkle didn’t notice that Fluttershy was missing. In a last ditch attempt to change the subject, Twilight Sparkle asked, “Hey, I thought you said Scootaloo was infected?”

“I am not ‘infected’. I’m here, because no amount of time or space can keep me apart from my very special somepony.” Scootaloo latched on to Cheerilee. Cheerilee did not look thrilled.

“So, Twilight, do you think you know what’s been causing this outbreak?”

“Hmm… I think I know. Apple Jack mentioned that she fell ‘head over hooves’ over Rarity…”

Applebloom said, “Ewww… my sister fell in love with your sister Sweetie Belle? Does that mean we’re going to be sister-in-laws?”

Twilight Sparkle coughed. “As I was saying… She fell ‘head over hooves’ over Rarity after drinking some punch.”

“Well, what does that have to do with it?” asked Cheerilee.

“Well, she fell in love with Rarity. Rarity fell in love with Fluttershy, as did Rainbow Dash. So, they all drank the same elixir. Earlier today, before this whole mess started, Rainbow Dash said she was going to drink some of Berry Punch’s fruit punch.”

“So, the fruit punch is to blame?”

“Yes it is, Cheerilee. We’re going to take a visit to Berry Punch.”

“Got it. Anything we need?” asked Cheerilee.

“Yes. I have just the thing,” replied Twilight.

Spike began to complain. “But I don’t want to cure the Love Poison! Can’t I stay home and sleep?”

“No. You’re here in case I need to send a letter to Princess Celestia. In case anything goes wrong.”

“Yeah, whatever. Just hurry up. I got some gems at home that I’d like to eat, thank you very much.”

Twilight Sparkle ignored that comment and approached the house of Berry Punch.

The seven ponies and one dragon carefully knocked on Berry’s door, until Pinkie Pie brazenly tore down the door and yelled, “Come out with your hooves up!”

Berry Punch came out, but was not entirely sober.

“Huh? Oh, hi!” she said drunkenly.

Twilight Sparkle was the first to speak. “We know it was you who had been infecting these ponies with Love Poison. Admit it!”

“Oh yeah… I know. It was me. I just wanna part-ay!”

Pinkie Pie liked this idea. “Ooh! I like this filly!”

“But why have you been doing it?”

“For fun, and profit. I’m getting paid by that white unicorn to…”

Suddenly a flash of blue light appeared before the ponies’ eyes. Only moments after the light disappeared, the body of Berry Punch lay there. There were no signs of life left in her eyes.

“What in the hay?” Twilight looked around frantically. She was searching for the perpetrator.

Twilight finally saw a silhouette in the distance. She teleports directly toward the direction of the shadow. The words ‘she’s a very powerful unicorn danced in her head,’ as Twilight caught up with the Unicorn. She knew that it was not Trixie, for this unicorn is even more powerful than her. In fact, Twilight feared that this unicorn rivaled her in magical capacity.

“A-ha! I caught you!” As it turned out, Twilight caught a rock. The Blue Unicorn had used a replacement spell, which is a fairly high level spell. Twilight Sparkle knew how to use it, but never found the opportunity to do so.

Twilight growled. The others, who were so shocked at the death of Berry Punch, finally decided to move. Their journey to find out who had been spreading around the Love Poison has gone back to square one. However, now they know that somepony is doing this for a lot more insidious reasons.

“So, what do we know?” asked Twilight.

Not a single pony spoke up. They didn’t know what to say.

“We know that there are two perpetrators. A white unicorn and a blue unicorn.”

“How do you know that?” asked Pinkie Pie.

“The blue unicorn used blue magic, and Berry Punch mentioned a white unicorn was paying her.”

“Well, she was drunk,” commented Cheerilee.

So, the white unicorn may or may not actually exist. However, they are not going to just ignore that vital piece of information. Twilight Sparkle decided that they needed to look for any unicorns that fit that description in Ponyville. So, they traveled to Mayor Mare’s office at town hall.

Once they traveled to the City Hall, Twilight noticed that the clouds were hanging ominously overhead. They continued to the Mayor’s office and knocked on the door.

I think this is a perfect time to pause for a moment and see what Fluttershy had been doing this entire time. Well, after Fluttershy raced out of there for fear of the dark barn, she ran into that one group of stupid male pegasus ponies. The same group that bullied Rainbow Dash in the Sonic Rainboom episode. Yeah, those three. The ones who don’t seem to have names. Well, once they saw Fluttershy there, they began to mess with her and call her ‘The grounded Clutzershy’.

“Umm… if you don’t mind, can you not…?”

“Can we not… what?” sneered one of pegasus ponies. “We do what we like!”

Another pony gave a sinister remark. “What’s it like to have wings, but still be a weak flier, Miss 2.3 wingpower?”

Fluttershy felt like she was about to cry. She did not wish to remember her troubled past. However, right when the tears were about to enter her eyes, Rainbow Dash sprinted at the pegasus ponies, and knocked them down like bowling pins.

“Don’t you dare say anything about my Fluttershy! If I ever catch you doing anything like that again, I will tie you to a flagpole, and dismember you with my sonic rainboom!”

The pegasus ponies took note of Rainbow’s threat. They sulked off, and did not appear for the rest of the fanfiction.

“Um… thank you Rainbow…”

“No problem, love. Hey, want to get a bite to eat? I know this great place in Cloudsdale that you’ll just love! Let’s go!”

Fluttershy felt conflicted. She never had any pony treat her this way. However, this wasn’t really Rainbow Dash, and she’s never been to Cloudsdale in such a long time. Maybe things will go well. Nopony will make fun of her, not when Rainbow Dash is around.

“Uh-huh. I’ll go.”

Rainbow Dash leaped fifty feet into the air, and somersaulted with absolute joy.

“Alright then, I’ll pick you up tonight, then.”

The two ponies said their goodbyes, and they left to their respective homes.

Rarity had stumbled across them, but did not interrupt what they were doing. This was mostly because she did not notice what they were talking about, until it was too late. Once Rarity figured out that her Fluttershy was going on a date with Rainbow Dash, she said to herself, “Of all the worst things that could happen! This is the… worst… possible… thing!”

Rarity sulked off, in a pout of disappointment. This emotion quickly changed when Apple Jack ambushed her.

“Apple Jack? What is the meaning of this?”

“Hi, my sweet Rarity, did I mention that I think you have pretty eyes?”

“I’m flattered, but I need to stop something from happening.”

“Well, whatever it is, I want to help you with whatever it is. After all, what are friends for?”

“Exactly, Apple Jack. That is what friends are for.”

Apple Jack mumbled to herself, “And maybe, by the end of this, we can be more than just friends, Miss Rarity.”

Okay, time to bring this story back to Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie. They slowly opened the door to the mayor’s office. Pinkie Pie ran straight into the room, while Mayor Mare turned around and saw her.

“Ohh… Pinkie Pie, you look absolutely lovely. Is that a new coat colour?”

Pinkie Pie responded by saying, “Huh?!”

Twilight Sparkle looked at Mayor Mare’s office desk. Some of Berry Punch’s fruit punch was right there.

“Pinkie Pie! Mayor Mare’s been infected!”

“Oki-doki-loki!”

The mayor continued to stare at Pinkie Pie.

“Mayor Mare, I am Twilight Sparkle. May I see some of the residential records, please?”

“No. Go away.”

Twilight Sparkle thought that to be quite rude. Pinkie Pie, however, decided to ask the exact same question.

“Of course, Pinkie. Anything for you!” Mayor Mare took out a large book, which made Twilight Sparkle look absolutely thrilled.

“These are all the ponies living in Ponyville. There are Earth Ponies first, Unicorns second, and Pegasus Ponies last.”

“Thank you, Mayor Mare.”

“Anything for you Pinkie Pie.”

Twilight Sparkle searched throughout the Unicorn section. She found only two blue unicorns (not including Trixie) but not a single white unicorn. Okay, she found Rarity, but she doubted that she was responsible. The two blue unicorns were Colgate and Lyra. Twilight Sparkle could not believe that either unicorn could murder Berry Punch like that.

Twilight Sparkle decided to talk to Colgate first. She didn’t know if Colgate had anything to do with that. She knocked on the door.

“Colgate? Are you home? It’s me, Twilight!”

Colgate opened the door. “How are you Twilight?”

“I’m doing very well. However, there has been a problem. Berry Punch has been murdered by a blue unicorn.”

“Wait, do you think I had something to do with this? In case you haven’t noticed, Berry Punch was very close to me. I can’t believe she’s dead…”

“Oh, I’m sorry. Well, there’s only one other suspect, and that’s Lyra. But I think that’ll be a dead end, too.”

Twilight Sparkle noticed a bottle of Love Poison in its purest form in Colgate’s closet.

“Wait a minute, why do you have this?”

Colgate suddenly used an extremely powerful Teleportation-Counter spell on Twilight Sparkle, trapping her into a sphere of darkness.

“What, Colgate?! What are you doing?! Any pony? Help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”