The Life and Times of Triple Threat (so far)
Knowing the Truth
Previous ChapterTriple Threat stared at the ceiling.
“Of all the ponies it could happen to, why me?” She asked herself as she looked out a nearby window.
It was still dark out, a glance at the clock showed it was a little after ten.
Triple Threat looked down at her chest. A curly pink mane obscured her view.
“I admit I prefer stallions, but who wouldn't want to go to bed with an elemental.” Triple thought to herself.
She thought about how she ended up in bed with Pinkie Pie.
***
The day was coming to an end, but that didn't spoil the good Triple Threat was in. She had reunited with her old friends, met the rest of the elemental six, and was on her way to a Pinkie Pie party. There was nothing that could make the day any better (well, maybe if she could go to bed with on of them). As she flew with Rainbow Dash, her vision began to get blurry. Triple shook her head, which corrected her sight.
"You okay?" Dash asked.
"Yeah, been a long day is all, I'm sure I can make it through this party though." Triple replied.
"Okay, if you sure." Rainbow said.
The two pegasi arrived at Sugarcube corner. As they landed, Triple turned to tell Dash something, but only gasped.
"What's wrong?" Dash asked.
"You, You, You look like you mother!" Triple exclaimed.
"Er, Triple, of course I look like my mom." Rainbow said.
"No, your fur is pink like hers, your hair is blue, your eyes are purple and you have her cutie mark!" Triple said with a panic.
Dash looked at herself, nothing about her seemed off. She slapped the red pegasus across the face.
"Hey, what..." Triple asked, only to nothing wrong with Dash. She shook her head again. "Thanks, I needed that."
"Are you sure you're okay?" Dash asked.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Triple said.
"Come in!" a voice called within the building.
RD and TT enter the bakery. To Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie was standing by tables of food smiling at them. To Triple Threat, a white pegasus pony with blonde hair was standing where Pinkie should have been. Triple could help but notice how much she looked Surprise, one of the Wonderbolts. She decided just to ignore it since only she could see it.
"Hey Pinkie, who else is coming." Triple asked.
"Just everypony in Ponyville!" Pinkie answered.
"Great, I can't wait to meet everypony in town." Triple said sarcastically.
"Good, I'm glad." Pinkie replied.
Triple wondered if Pinkie took everything anypony ever said seriously. If she did, you can have some real fun with her.
"We're here!" Twilight Sparkle called as she, Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy entered the room.
Triple's eyes widened as they did. Twilight was now pink with white hair, except for a purple streak that ran down it, and her cutie mark was changed to a bunch of five point stars.. Rarity was now a light bluish white. Her mane was still purple, but it had a dark pink highlight, and her cutie mark were three undetailed diamonds. Fluttershy had lost her wings and had a three flower cutie mark. Triple was relieved Applejack looked the same, except she didn't have her Stetson hat.
"Hey guys." Triple said weakly.
"Ya alright sugarcube?" Applejack asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine Applejack." Triple said shakily.
Applejack could tell by her tone said otherwise, but shrugged it off. Soon, the other ponies in town began to show up. Pinkie stood at the door at direct the guest to meet Triple Threat. She enjoyed meeting them, especial since her sight didn't seem to change their coloring. Once Triple had been acquainted to every pony living in Ponyville, her strange sight took over. Now everything was black and white, like an uncolored comic book, and everyone was crudely drawn. The pegasus turn to look at her reflection in a napkin holder and gasped. Her coat was white with blue lines in it. He eyes reflected no light, and her mane, tail and cutie mark where all a dark grey. Triple shook her head, it was too much for her. She spotted Berry Punch with her mouth under the tab of large barrel of apple cider. She walked over to her.
Note: Contrary to popular belief, apple cider isn't alcoholic, it's a juice, but in Equestria, a popular practice is to mix some Vodka in.That is not to say everypony does it.
"That stuff spiked?" Triple asked the drunk.
"*Hup*, Yeah." Berry Punch answered.
Triple pushed her away, got under the faucet and drank the barrel dry.
***
"Where's the guest of honor?" Pinkie asked.
"Here, *Hup*, I am." a shaky voice answered.
Everypony turned to see the red pegasus hobble over to the six elementals.
"Okay, somethings wrong with her." Rainbow Dash said.
"Yeah, she done got herself drunk." Applejack said, regretting the fact that she made the curse concoction in the first place.
"Exactly, Triple makes it a habit to keep sober, she wouldn't slam the bottle unless something is really bother her." Fluttershy said.
"Hey, *hup* I'd like to say *hup* a few words." the red pony said when she reached them.
"Um, go ahead." Twilight said.
Triple cleared her throat, getting everypony's attention. "Everypony, I'm truly *hup* honored to be in Ponyville, and to *hup* have met all of you.
The town's ponies "awed" at this.
"I just hope you know *hup* how lucky you are *hup* to have the mane six to live in your humble *hup* town. You know *hup* I had the pleasure of *hup* growing up with two of them, Firefly and Posey." Triple said drunkenly, much to the confusion of the other ponies.
"And through *hup* them, I met the rest, Twilight, Applejack, *hup* Sparkler, and Surprise."
"You met a Wonderbolt?" Time Turner asked.
"Be quiet while I talk!" Triple snapped, "So let me say *hup* I'm proud to be among the ponies to *hup* know you all on a personal *hup* level," she continued, looking at the six bearer of the Elements of Harmony.
"That said, I'd like to tell you all of a conspiracy *HUP* that has been going *hup* on for to long, and eveypony in this town deserves *hup* the truth." the drunk said.
The ponies looked at the visitor with interest.
" OUR EXISTENCE IS A LIE!" the drunk pegasus pony screamed. Every last pony in the room gasped.
" We were created *hup* by these creatures called human beings to entertain their own kind. A thousand years ago, ponies like us didn't even exists. Our kind was created in 1983 as line of toys for little girls *hup* that eventually inspired some TV shows,*hup* but they sucked!, giving us a bad name, and believe me, G1 ponies weren't pleasant to look at. *hup* This carried on for two more generation, until a woman with sense named Lauren Faust was hired to revamp the show, she created everything we know and love, from Equestria to the all mighty Princess Celestia and Luna. She wrote our history, designed us *hup* to be "easier on eyes" as the humans would say it, and just made the show so awesome that 21 year old guys watch it. But, that's just it. EVERYTHING HERE IS PART OF A TV SHOW, NONE OF IT REALLY EXISTS." Triple said angrily, with the other ponies looking at her with mouths hanging open.
"And it doesn't stop there! You have ponies like me who where created by fans of the show running around Equestria doing Celestia knows what in fanfiction stories, and those stories are rarely *hup* even that good half the time..."
Clonk!
A cyan hoof was slammed on top of Triple Threat's head, knocking her out and sending her to the floor. Everypony stared at Dash.
"She needed it, believe me." Rainbow Dash said.
"Oh, my head." Triple complained as she can around.
"Daring, do you remember what you just said?" Rarity asked.
Triple wished she didn't. "Yeah. I do." she said, and looked around at the ponies staring at her. "I'm sorry everypony, I got drunk and..."
A pink hoof closed her mouth. Triple looked up at the element of laughter. She had an uncharacteristically serious look on her face.
"Come with me." Pinkie Pie said shortly. Triple Threat got up and followed the pink earth pony upstairs.
"Wait, Pinkie Pie being serious?" the pegasus asked herself.
She wanted to believe she was going to get what could make the day better, but it was more likely Pinkie was going to tell her off for ruining the party. Pinkie lead Triple to her bedroom and closed the door behind her.
"Do you have idea what you said can do?" Pinkie asked in a serious tone. "Your only lucky your where drunk."
"Wait, are you saying everything I said down there is true?" the red pegasus asked.
Pinkie shook her head. "I wish it weren't, but as it stands, yes you're correct, our existence is a lie. I've seen humans for myself." she said.
"Then, why couldn't they know?" Triple asked. She was going to ask how Pinkie knew, but had the sense to just leave that be, especially with somepony as unpredictable as Pinkie Pie.
"Because they can't handle it! I don't know how, but you learned the truth and what did you do? You resorted to drinking to cope with it." Pinkie declared.
Triple Threat shook her head and sighed. "I don't know what to think, it feels like I don't know anything anymore, like life sin't worth living anymore." That statement was punctuated with a pink hoof slap across the face.
"Then tell me who you are! You should at least know that." Pinkie said seriously.
TT sighed at how stupid that was. "I'm Triple Threat."
"Who is Triple Threat?" Pinkie asked.
That caught the pegasus mare of guard. "What do you mean?"
"I mean, what's Triple Threat's talents, interest, flaws, what kind of personally does Triple Threat have?" the pink party pony declared.
Triple thought for a moment. Nopony could really answer that question right away. She decided to start simple. "I can beat any challenge present to me three times."
"Okay, so that explains your cutie mark, but not your personality." Pinkie said.
Triple continued, " I'm more of a tomcolt, I like guys stuff. I like flying fast and doing tricks, and fiery explosions, among other destructive things."
"I guess your a pretty good flyer?" Pinkie asked.
"Second best to Rainbow Dash." Triple Threat said proudly.
"Now, I know no ponies perfect, especially Dashie." Pinkie said.
"Well, I have be known to jump into things without really thinking about them." Triple said, slightly embarrassed.
Pinkie urged her to continue.
"Jealousy can get me good sometimes. I can't stand losing to anyone other than Rainbow Dash. Also, I have a bit of a temper."
"Not unlike Dashie herself." Pinkie commented.
Suddenly, various vision came to Triple Threat, and they each showed her something about her development.
"I get it now!" she exclaimed.
"What?" Pinkie asked.
"My origin. I was created by by this kid after his mid term test. There he is with nothing to do, so he starts drawing cutie marks. His favorite is a three lightning bolt cutie mark. He's drawn it many times before. He decides that this cutie mark needs a pony. Naturally, he bases me off his favorite pony, Rainbow Dash, he even made me her cousin,until he told that that wasn't really a good thing to do. But, he still wanted RD to be the best pony ever, so makes it so I can't win anything against her." Triple told Pinkie.
" And then?" Pinkie inquired.
"He's with his best friend, who shows him his OC, and my creator suggest they write a fan fiction about us." Triple answered
"Whose the other OC pony?" Pinkie asked.
"IDK, I haven't met him yet. Anyway, this inspires my creator to write more stories about me. He submitted one to fimfiction about how Dash introduced me to the rest of you guys." TT continued.
"How did that go?"
"It could of been better, it got a few likes, but alot of dislikes. But you have it better Pinkie."
"How come?"
"Because you've a canon TV character. Everyone knows you, hay, everyone who's a fan LIKES you. Me, my creator wronged me from the very beginning. You only get one chance when you make your debut, and if it goes sour..." Triple ended sadly looking down at the ground.
Pinkie looked at the pegasus sympathetically. "You weren't the first OC dealt a bad hand, and you wouldn't be the last."
The pegasus pony look up at her.
"You know, now that you know the truth, I think you'll find it has it perks."
"Like what?" the pegasus asked the earth pony.
"Well, you can manipulate our reality to you liking." the party pony said.
Triple looked at her funny. "How?"
"Just imagine what you want, want it to happen, and then, It'll happen." Pinkie said excitedly, her old perky persona coming back out of the hole from which it hid from her serious side.
The red pony imagined Pinkie Pie with wings and whimmed it. In a puff of smoke, two wings appeared on the earth pony.
"Ooooohhhh!" the new pegasus was surprised, put started to fly around the room.
Triple giggled. Trying her newfound power further, she recolored Pinkie's coat, hair, eyes, and cutie mark to match that of "G4" Surprise.
The other pony laughed when she saw herself in the mirror. "I wouldn't mind keeping this look." Pinkie said aloud. The pony who'd done all returned Pinkie to her normal state. She liked new abilities, but decided not to use them on a regular basis, it would after all, creep everypony out if she did.
"I can't thank you enough for what you did for me Pinkie Pie." Triple said gratefully.
"Hey, no problem, I had to go through with it too." Pinkie replied.
"Really, how..."
"It's best if you don't ask." Pinkie cut the pegasus off.
Triple looked at her with some confusion.
"You know what you can do to thank me?" Pinkie Pie asked.
Triple Threat shook her head, and watched in surprise as Pinkie crawled into her bed, eye ballooning up as she did. Pinkie half closed her eye and motioned for the red pony to join her. A wingboner later, you could hear the two ponies going at it from the downstairs floor. By this point, everypony else decided it was best to leave.
"Wow, Ah didn't think Triple liked it...rough." AJ told Dash.
"I didn't either and I knew her for 10 years." Dash replied as they walked out.
***
Reflecting on this, Triple smiled. It was worth it. She knew now that her creator only wanted the best for her, to make her stand out from the other OCs to come along, even if she had to go through a rough time to get it. What other OC pony was going to know what she does, can do what she can?
"No other one can." Triple said to herself.
She pulled Pinkie Pie in closer and fell alseep. Triple knew she'd have some explaining to do for the others next morning, but she'd cross that bridge when she got their. Right now, Triple only wanted to enjoy what made this the perfect day.
