concoursec | Dirt Poking [Forward dated to Dec 24th]

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Dirt Poking [Forward dated to Dec 24th]

Character(s): Pinkie and Dashie
Location: Outside of Garden, probably by the beach
Rating: G to PG?
Open/Closed/Finished: CLOSED
Summary: Pinkie is down in the dumps because of life.

So many things have happened in the span of a week, and Pinkie was not dealing well with it. Not only was she a total jerk to the people she cared about, but her BFF, Luna, and her pseudo-big brother left, and returned with no recollection of her, and SHE MAY LOSE HER ONE AND ONLY SPECIAL SOMEONE!

How did things get so wrong?

Currently, Pinkie is sitting cross legged near the beach, poking at a patch of dirt with a stick idly. No one was around, and she wanted it that way.

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One problem: flight.

From up high, Rainbow spotted her friend sitting outside, if not the details of her moroseness. Smiling, she dropped out of the sky, plummeting down at speed -- but gradually slower as she fell, until she stopped, upside down, just near the earth pony. Uh, human. And her smile turned to surprise, then concern, as she saw Pinkie's expression.

"Uh, hey Pinkie. Wanna... wanna hang out?"

Pinkie paused to look up at Rainbow Dash. Usually she would be really happy to see her other BFF, but this time she wasn't. She went back to poking the dirt.

"Hey Rainbow Dash. I'm not really in the mood to hang out..."

"Don't be silly," Dash said, folding her forelegs. "You're ALWAYS in the mood to hang out. Even when nopony else is! I'm surprised I didn't get an invitation to poke the dirt pile, knowing you."

Pinkie sighed, pausing yet again in her dirt poking.

"Well, not today. I just wanna be by myself. Or better yet, I should ALWAYS be by myself! Then Everyone will be better off because I'm just a big JERKY JERK JERK who can't keep friends or her Special Someone and ISN'T WORTH BEING REMEMBERED!!"

She buried her face into her hands as she burst into tears.

Rainbow stared at this in a mixture of horror and shock for a moment -- then, in a fit of incredible sensitivity, plopped down next to Pinkie and shoved her, with a shoulder, hard.

"Hey! Didn't we go through this once BEFORE? You may not have any rock piles and flour bags to talk to now, but you're just as wrong now as you were then!"

With being properly shoved, Pinkie fell over and blinked. What just happened?

She looked over at Rainbow Dash and crossed her arms. She would be mad, but right now it's a mix of angry and sad.

"I didn't LOSE friends before! No one FORGOT about me after they came back! I wasn't a JERK before!"

Okay, she was angry now, and was poking Dashie with a finger after each sentence.

"SO NO! We didn't go through this BEFORE BECAUSE WE NEVER WENT THROUGH THIS BEFORE!"

And Pinkie turned in her spot, her back to Rainbow Dash. Where was her stick?!

Edited 2012-12-14 02:03 (UTC)

"Okay, MAYBE it wasn't this exact same thing!" Rainbow said, lifting up in the air to gain the superior position in height. "But it was ALSO back in Ponyville! Where we all belonged, where we hadn't all been affected by Time Compression, and -- oh yeah, you were a pony! So of course it wasn't the same! But you were wrong THEN and you're wrong NOW."

"I'M NOT A PONY!"

There was a pause before Pinkie adds.

"Although it would be cool to be one." Who didn't want to be a pony?! "But I'm not wrong!"

Rainbow rolled her eyes and let it drop.

"I don't even know why you're so upset all of a sudden. What the hay's going on that's got you so worked up?"

Pinkie looked over her shoulder before slowly turning, her side to Rainbow Dash this time.

"I'm gonna blame Time Compression for me being such a JERK to everyone! Discord won with his chocolate rain and EVILNESS and I was just...a JERK! My best friend, Sharpie, Luna, and Reno left, but Reno's back but...he doesn't remember me." That hurt the most. One of her friends returning meant hope for others returning, but not being remembered?! That was a cruel punishment. "And what if Chammy doesn't want to be my Special Someone anymore?!"

Those bright blue eyes were watering up again before she grabbed Dashie and cried on her shoulders.

"WHERE DID I GO WRONG?!"

Whoa! Hey! Pinkie! Don't cry on Dash's shoulder! There were a million better people to cry on! In fact, EVERYONE was better to cry on!

Rainbow awkwardly patted Pinkie on the back. "Yeaaaah, that was pretty crazy. You know I ended up painting? No joke, I made like twenty paintings! I mean, how embarrassing is that?"

Let's talk about Rainbow for a bit, huh, Pinkie? That'll gloss over all these crazy problems.

Pinkie looked up at Rainbow Dash with a wet face and confusion.

"....were they colorful?"

"O-oh yeah! Real colorful, and bright..." Ha ha, Pinkie wasn't sad any more now, right?

"Well...that isn't embarrassing! If they were all GLOOMY, then yeah! TOTALLY EMBARRASSING!"

Pinkie found her stick and retrieved it, poking at the dirt again.

"It was to ME!" Rainbow said. "Me PAINTING is like Rarity being a trash collector! Or Twilight being some musclebound jock. Or you being a jerk! It's all not right, not normal, and not us!"

There was a nod of agreement at that. Nothing was going right this week. Or last week.

"...so what's the moral to the story?" Because every story had a moral??

"Uh, the moral is don't blame yourself for something you can't help and didn't do on purpose," Rainbow said. "That wasn't you, it was just... I dunno, another Pinkie Pie. Like I guess your friend that doesn't remember you is another him."

"Okay, OKAY! I get it! But what about all the other stuff?!" Like that Special Someone part! "And shouldn't YOU take your own advice?!"

"Uh, I'm NOT beating myself up for being a painter. Just embarrassed by it," Rainbow said, sheepishly. "And as for the other stuff --"

Wait. "...what was the other stuff again?"

She facepalmed before repeating what she said.

"What if Chammy doesn't wanna be my Special Someone anymore?!"

Frankly the idea of Pinkie having one to BEGIN with was still pretty weird, so Rainbow stalled.

"Why would he not want to?"

"I DUNNO! It could happen! ANY DAY NOW!" Pinkie stopped poking the dirt and gave Rainbow Dash a crazed look. "ANY. DAY."

"But why would it?" Rainbow persisted. "I mean... Pinkie, you're crazy, not STUPID. Are you really gonna tell me that you like a guy who'd just ditch you?"

Pinkie tapped her chin in thought. "I guess not?" She was no expert with romance, so she really wasn't sure.

"Anypony crazy enough to want to date you is never gonna find anypony who's better at being you and doing you-things than you," Rainbow said. She didn't mean it harshly... even if was kinda harsh depending on how you look at it.

THAT'S HER PBFF!!

Pinkie gave Rainbow Dash a tight hug. She missed these heart to hear talks.

"Oh, Dashie, YOU'RE RIGHT! Only I can do the things I do, because there's only ONE of me and no one can out do the things I do!"

Then suddenly, Pinkie came upon a realization.

"BUT WHAT IF I GET CLONED BY THE MIRRORPOOL AGAIN AND ALL THE PINKIES RUN AROUND TRYING TO DO THE AWESOME THINGS I DO AND HAVING ALL THE FUN I LIKE TO DO?!"

She squeezed Rainbow Dash in fear, because she didn't want that to happen again. Staring at paint dry was TORTURE!

Rainbow, with some effort, rolled her tongue back into her mouth and took a breath in between squeezes.

"What."

Oh, did Dashie not heat that? That's okay. Pinkie will just repeat it faster.

"BUTWHATIFIGETCLONEDBYTHEMIRRORPOOLAGAINANDALLTHEPINKIESRUNAROUNDTRYINGTODOTHEAWESOMETHINGSIDOANDHAVINGALLTHEFUNILIKETODO?!"

"Look, whatever crazy problem you just came up with, you know me'n Twilight will help you out. And your other friends here too." She patted Pinkie awkwardly on the back, wishing she knew exactly what she was reassuring the earth pony -- uh, human girl -- over. "Don't worry about problems until they become problems!"

See, why couldn't anyone say that before?! Pinkie squeezed Rainbow Dash more.

"You're right, Dashie! I'm sssooooooooooooOOOOOOOooo glad we had this talk!"

From now on, Pinkie was going to Dashie for her problems!

"Pinkie!" Rainbow gurgled. "Breaaaaathiiiiing..."

"OOPS!" She let go and smoothed down Dashie's mane. "Better?"

Rainbow inhaled deeply a couple of times, then giggled. "Yeah, better."

She lifted into the air to pat Pinkie Pie on the shoulders. "You feelin' better? Not so freaked out any more?"

"Yeah, I'm good! I really needed to hear that! Thanks, Dashie! The next time I get freaked out, I'll come look for you!" Pinkie grinned before standing and tossing aside her stick.

Rainbow briefly wondered how she kept getting stuck with this job... then conceded that between her and Twilight, she was probably better-equipped to deal with Pinkie's particular brand of...

Pinkieness.

"Sure, what are friends for?"

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Dirt Poking [Forward dated to Dec 24th]

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