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Chapter 11: Crazy Pony

Well, just another day in Ponyville. Twilight is practicing magic on a baby dragon. Do ponies have Child Services, I wonder? So far all they have done is magic up Spike a suit, and a cane.

"Eyes over here, Spike!" Twilight said.

"Uh, sorry," Spike said, trying to look away from his new duds.

"For this to work, it's crucial we keep our concentration totally on the-" Twilight said, focusing on the rock on Spike's head, trying to change it.

"Ooh!" Pinkie yelled, distracting Spike. Where did she come from?

"Nyuh!" Spike said in pain, as the rock hit him in the head.

"Spike! This magic needs our full attention to make it happen. There's no other way!" Twilight yelled. Go easy on him, he may have a concussion now.

"I can't help it. Look!" Spike defended, pointing at Pinkie, as she ran from a tree, to numerous hiding places. Why does she look so scared?

"Ugh, never mind her. She's just being Pinkie Pie," Twilight said, dismissing Pinkie's behavior.

"Super-extra Pinkie Pie today," added Spike.

I continued to watch Pinkie's odder than usual behavior. I saw her in the middle of the street, holding her tail, as it starting twitching.

Finally overcome by her curiosity, Twilight comes over to Pinkie, with me and Spike following.

"Pinkie Pie? What in the wide-wide-world of Equestria are you up to?" Twilight asked.

"Oh! It's my tail! It's my tail!" Pinkie puts her tail in Twilight's face, "It's a-twitch a-twitchin'! And you know what that means!" The British are coming?

"Actually, Pinkie, I haven't the slightest idea," Twilight stated.

"The twitchin' means my Pinkie Sense is telling me that stuff's gonna start falling! You should better duck for cover," Pinkie warned Twilight.

"Oh, Pinkie, it's not gonna rain. Why there's barely even a cloud in the-ugh!" Twilight said, before she got a face full of frog. The frog then looks at Twilight and croaks.

"He just said "nice catch" in Frog," Pinkie said. She can understand animals like Fluttershy?

We then hear a voice in the sky. We look up, and see Fluttershy with a large amount of frogs. She had them in her saddle bags, a basket, and a cart. Must have been 2 dozen of the things.

"Oh, I'm so, so sorry. You okay, Twilight Sparkle? I just couldn't stand to see the pond getting so over-populated, what with the frogs all hopping into each other and all, so I decided to fly as many as I can on over to Froggy Bottom Bogg," Fluttershy explained.

"Of course you did," Twilight said.

" Bye-bye!" Fluttershy said, flying off.

"Um... Twilight? You gotta little somethin' on your face there," Pinkie said, pointing to the frog climbing on Twilight's face.

"Oh, really? Did your Pinkie Sense tell you that, too?" Twilight asked, sarcastically.

"Nah! I could just see it. La-la-la-la-la..."Pinkie said, walking away.

The frog, deciding it had best catch up to Fluttershy, jumped off and away as well.

"C'mon, Spike, let's continue our practice session where there's a little less commotion," Twilight said, walking off.

"Wow! That was amazing! Pinkie Pie predicted something would fall, and it did!" Spike exclaimed, climbing on Twilight's back.

"Oh, come on. She said that something would fall, and a frog just happened to fall right around the same time. A coincidence, nothing else to it," Twilight said. This coming from somepony who turned a rock into a hat.

Pinkie then suddenly zoomed right back to us, "My tail! My tail! Twitch-a-twitch! Twitch-a-twitch! Somethin' else is gonna fall!"

This got Spike worried, he already believed. I looked up in the sky to see what was going to fall this time. Not seeing anything I looked back to the ground, and saw where Twilight starting walking to.

"Oh, Pinkie, please," Twilight said, walking towards a trench. Knowing what was going to happen, I grabbed Spike before the fall, "Nothing else is gonna fa-AAAH!"

Twilight ended up in the trench, and Spike was safe, placed on the edge of the trench.

"Oh no, Twilight fell! Is it... safe to go help her?" Spike asked Pinkie.

"It's okay, my tail stopped twitching," Pinkie said, and tossing her hat away and walking off, "La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la..."

Spike turns to Twilight, "Ha ha! That was amazing!"

"Oh, please," Twilight said.

Oh hey, here comes Applejack.

"Uh, Twilight? Why are you hanging out in a ditch?" Applejack asked.

"Because, Pinkie Pie predicted it!" Spike explained.

"Honestly, Spike, she did not. Two coincidences in a row like this may be unlikely, but it's still easier to believe than twitchy tails that predict the future," Twilight said, dismissively.

Applejack gasp, "Twitchy tail? Pinkie Sense? Woah! Nyu-uh!" Applejack hides under a near by cart.

"Don't worry, it's safe. Prediction already came true," Spike said.

Twilight climbs out of the ditch.

"Oh, wait. Don't tell me you believe in this stuff, too?" Twilight asked.

"I know it doesn't make much sense, but those of us who have been in Ponyville a while, have learned over time that, if Pinkie's-a-twichin', you better listen," Applejack explained as she got out of spot. Sounds like good advice in this world.

Pinkie then appears out of nowhere, "My ears are flopping! My ears are flopping!" She yelled, with her ears wiggling about.

"Nyuh! What does that mean?!" Spike asked worrily.

"I'll start a bath for you," Pinkie tells Twilight.

"Huh?" Twilight chuckles, "A bath? This thing keeps on getting more ridiculous by the minute!"

Then a cart, with an old stallion pulling it came rushing behind Twilight, splashing her with mud, leaving a grumbling Twilight.

Pinkie ended up taking Twilight to her place to get her cleaned up, I followed them, but stayed out of the bathroom. I maybe a spirit, but I am not a pervert.

I could hear some muffled conversation, and then Twilight screaming. I decided to peak in to see what happened, and I saw Twilight on the rim of the bath tub, Pinkie and a baby alligator.

"No, it's not, silly! This is my pet alligator, Gummy. He's got no teeth. See? Haha!" Pinkie said to Twilight. Gummy then started to randomly clamp on to Pinkie's different body parts.

"Okay, okay... I get it," Twilight said.

I then left the room, seeing there was no emergency going on.

After Twilight had finished cleaning up, her and Pinkie started walking towards the library.

"Well, I still don't believe all this... "special power" stuff. It's just a bunch of mumbo-jumbo," Twilight told Pinkie, still in denial.

"What's not to believe? You do magic, what's the difference?" Pinkie asked. What is the difference?

"Huge! For one thing," Twilight then stands up on a soap box, "Magic is something you study and practice. It only happens when you decide to do it, and it's meant to make something specific that you choose to happen, happen. With you, uh, it makes no sense at all!"

Pinkie looked offended by this, "That's so not true, Twilight!" Then Pinkie went smiley again, "Sometimes it's a bunch of random things happening to my body at random times that supposedly predict the future. I call 'em "combos"."

"Combos?" Twilight asked, as they continued to walk

"Sure! You know, like, ear flop, then knee twitch, then eye flutter. That means the sky is about to be graced with a beautiful rainbow!" Pinkie explained while bouncing along.

We finally reach the library.

"Yeah, sure," Twilight said, not believing her.

"Uh-oh, I feel a combo coming on," Pinkie said, with her body freaking out, "Ear flop, eye flutter, knee twitch!"

The library door than slammed open, hitting Twilight. It seemed that Spike was carrying some books somewhere, and didn't look before he opened.

"Ughhh... You said that combo meant "beautiful rainbow"," Twilight moaned.

"Oh no-no-no-no-no. You're thinking of an ear flop, then knee twitch, then eye flutter. This was an ear flop, then eye flutter, then knee twitch. That usually means "look out for opening doors". You okay? Pinkie explained.

"I don't believe this," Twilight stated.

"You don't believe because you don't understand," Pinkie stated.

"Hmm..." Oh no, Twilight has got that experimental look on her face.

Twilight ended up bringing Pinkie down to her basement, which is full of electrical devices, and monitors.

"Okay. Now when you get another twitch, we'll have all kinds of scientific information," Twilight said, as she strapped Pinkie's arms down, and placing connection wires to her.

"Okey-dokey-lokey!" Pinkie said, with a focused look on her face.

After just a few seconds, Twilight was getting impatience.

"Any twitches yet?" Twilight asked.

"Nopey-dopey!"

"Now? Anything?"

"Wait! Hold on! Uhh, no."

"Are you kidding me?! After a whole day of non-stop twitching, now that I've got you all hooked up, you're not getting a single one?" Twilight said disbelieving.

"I don't control it, they just come and go," Pinkie explained.

"That makes no sense!"

"Sometimes you just have to believe in things, even when you can't figure 'em out."

"I will not believe in anything I cannot explain," Twilight adamantly said

"Wait, hold on, I'm feeling something..." Pinkie said with a look on her face.

"Oh my gosh, what? What is it?!" Twilight said excitedly

Just to end up disappointed that it was Pinkie's stomach when it growled

"It's my tummy! That usually means I'm hungry! Let's eat!"

"Urgh... You know what?" Twilight removed the wires annoyed, "Just forget it! I don't need to know if this is real or not. I don't need to understand it! I don't even care!"

"Okey-dokey-lokey," Pinkie said," Um wait Twilight, the straps."

Twilight was already up on the stairs ranting to herself. So I just went over and undid them.

Pinkie pulled her hoofs out, "Thanks Chromie." And went to catch up with Twilight.

When Pinkie caught up her body starting acting odd again. She gasped," Uh-oh. Hu-bu-bu-bu-buh!"

And then the door to the basement slammed open, and hit Twilight

"Pinkie? Have you seen Twilight?" Spike asked from the door way.

"Uh-huh," Pinkie confirmed and continued bouncing along. Seeing Twilight was going to be annoying today, I stayed with Pinkie.

While I followed Pinkie, we talked about a few things, like pranks, her 'Pinkie Sense', and cooking. Mostly small talk.

When we came to a fountain, Pinkie decided to stop and smell some flowers, but while she was doing that I noticed a purple legs sticking out of a nearby bush.

As we continued on down the road, the legged bush followed us. Oh Twilight, you need to work better on your stealth.

"Hey Pinkie, looks like we got a tail," I said to Pinkie.

"Oh, you got a tail too?" She asked, completely missing what I meant.

"Sorry, wrong lingo. What I meant was that somepony is following us," I explained.

"Oh, really? Where, where, where?" Pinkie asked, looking around.

"I believe it is Twilight following us in that bush behind us. I think she is trying to study you."

"Ooohhhh. I was wondering how that bush got there. I know where all the bushes and Ponyville are."

I looked back, and saw Spike talking to the Twilight bush. A hoof shot out of it, and dragged Spike into it.

"Since this is may end in either humor or pain, let's just continue onwards, and hope for a good laugh," I said as we continued.

"Okay, Chromie," Pinkie said, as she bounced along.

We ended up outside the local school house, and Pinkie was just rolling around on the ground. I was keeping my eye on the bush, to see what Twilight might try to do.

Pinkie then got up, and started to scratch her nose, but she then looked around in fear, and hid under a giant horse shoe. I guess it was one of her signs.

"Pinkie what is wr-"I started, and then I heard buzzing. I looked up and saw a swarm of bees.

If I was still alive, I would be scared too.

I saw the bees then move towards Twilight, and I could only imagine what might happen to her. Luckly, I did see Spike run from cover before the bees arrived, but Twilight got stung by the sounds of her distant "ow"s.

Next, we went to Applejack's farm, where Pinkie smelled some of the local flowers.

From where I was floating, I could see where Twilight, and Spike hiding behind a hay bale. Twilight was covered in Band-Aids, my guess it was from the bee stings.

Suddenly Pinkie went into one of her combos, which I recognized as 'Beware of Opening Doors'. Twilight better watch out.

I watched as Twilight started to walk away, but a cellar door opened in front of her, and see fell down it. Hope she didn't break anything.

We then went back to the park, where I and Pinkie started doing some more small talk. I looked over to where Twilight was hidden, behind a bench.

Twilight was in a wheelchair, with bandages wrapped up her arm.

"Twilight really needs to give up before she gets hurt anymore," I said to Pinkie.

"Oh don't worry, I don't think anything worse can happen to Twilight now," Pinkie said.

But right as she finished saying that, her tail started twitching. I looked up in the sky, and I saw an odd sight, a floating moving vehicle. If something fell out of that, and landed on Twilight, it may kill her.

I floated quickly over to Twilight with my eyes still on the vehicle. I made it just as somepony, who looks like Derpy and a yellow pegasus, dropped several things from the van.

I pulled Twilight's chair back quickly, gaining a shout from the unicorn. I moved her back just in time as the things hit the ground where Twilight was.

Twilight just sat there looking at the pile of splitters, metal, and hay that fell out of the sky, almost crushing her.

I left her there, and went back to Pinkie.

"That was close." I said to myself.

Pinkie was currently resting from her day of playing, while humming, and licking her hoof. Oh, there's Applejack again, she was carrying a basket of apples on her back.

"Hey, Applejack. Whatcha doin'?" Pinkie said, stopping her odd behavior.

"Takin' more apples to my new apple cellar. How 'bout you, Pinkie? Whatchu doin'?" Applejack asked.

"Oh, letting Twilight secretly follow us all day without us knowing," Pinkie explained.

"You mean you knew all along?! Why didn't you tell me?" Twilight yelled, coming up from behind us. She has healed up quite well from the wheelchair.

Pinkie giggles, "Silly, that would've spoiled the secret!"

"Urgh!" Twilight yelled agrivated.

"Tail... still twitching?" Spike asked. Oh didn't see you there.

"All done, clear skies from here on in, as far as I can tell- Hu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu!" Pinkie said, before her body started shaking.

"Oh no! What does that one mean?" Spike asked, worried.

"Dunno, never gotten any like it before, but whatever that shudder's about, it's a doozy. Something you never expect to happen is gonna happen!" Pinkie explained, before another doozy came, "Hu-bu-bu-bu-bu hu-bu-bu-bu! And its gonna happen... at Froggy Bottom Bogg!"

"That's where Fluttershy's headed!" Applejack gasped. Oh hell.

"Oh no! Is it about her?" Spike asked.

"Uh, I'm not sure," Pinkie said, worried for Fluttershy.

"We better go and make sure she's okay," Applejack said.

All of us, except for Twilight left towards the Bogg, knowing time was of the vitue, but after about a mile or so, Twilight showed up, and followed us/

"Hey! I thought you didn't believe in this stuff?" Spike said.

"I don't. I just want to be there to see the look on Pinkie's face when we find out nothing's wrong," Twilight said, looking smugly.

"Okey-dokey!" Pinkie said, not really caring.

While we were in the Everfree, Pinkie had another shake, "Hu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu!"

"Cold? Need a jacket or something?" Twilight asked, not really meaning it.

"No thanks, I'm fine. Hu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu!"Pinkie said, shaking again.

"So... Whadda'ya think happened to Fluttershy?" Spike asked Applejack

"I hope nothin'," She replied

"I know, but, whadda'ya think happened?" Spike asked again.

"I'm tryin' not to think about it," Applejack stated. If anything did happen to her, it will wish for death.

"Me too. But I'm thinkin' about it anyway. Like, what if she exploded?" Spike said. Exploded?

"Just exploded? For no reason?" Applejack asked.

"Yeah, like boom!"

"Woah!" Pinkie stated.

"I know."

"What if... What if she exploded, and then... and then exploded again!?" Did Pinkie get high at some point on this trip?

"Can you do that? Can you explode twice?"

"Of course not," Applejack said.

"But what if she exploded, and exploded again, and then- ugh!" Spike asked, before being stopped by Twilight.

"Will you two stop? She's fine, I'm sure of it," Twilight said..

"I hope you're right, for Fluttershy's sake. Look! There's Froggy Bottom Bogg!" Applejack said, while pointing to the Bogg.

This place looked like marshlands, but without all the usual pollution.

"Fluttershy?" Applejack called out

"Fluttershy?" Pinkie called, seeing the pegasus.

"Fluttershy! You're okay!" Spike hugged her, out of relief.

"Of course," Fluttershy said.

"Phew, what a relief," Applejack said.

"I'm so glad everything's alright," Pinkie said happily

"Sorry, I know it's not nice to gloat but... AHA! I told you there was nothing to worry about, and I was right," Twilight said, gloating. Too bad she didn't see the pillars rising behind her, "Pinkie Pie said whatever she was shuddering about was a, cough, doozy, and, cough, and the only, cough, doozy here is how right I am."

"Um... Twilight?" Applejack said, trying to get her attention.

"Pinkie's made a lot of predictions today but, cough, ugh, what is that smell? But what we've shown here is that there's no point in believing, cough, in anything you can't see for yourself," Twilight said, still obilivous of the danger behind her.

The others started to gather together, looking at the thing behind her.

"W-well t-then, s-see what's b-b-behind you, Twilight!" Spike stuttered, pointing at the thing.

Twilight looks behind herself, and up," I see it... But I don't believe it!"

The monster roars at the group, and they all back up.

"Is that a hydra!?" Pinkie asked. That thing is a hydra? I thought it would be darker, not orange.

"Who cares? RUN!" Applejack shouts.

The ponies start running out of the Bogg, and up a hill, trying to escape.

"Everypony up that hill!" Twilight orders.

"He-e-elp!" Spike said, clinging to Twilight for dear life.

"Coming, Spike! Hang on!" Twilight said, and looked at the Hydra, "I think we're gonna make it."

"But Pinkie's still shuddering!" Spike pointed to a shaking Pinkie

"Oh, lookie there, it stopped," Pinkie said as the shaking stopped, only to start again, "O-h-h-h, t-h-e-r-e i-t i-s a-g-a-i-n."

The ponies continue to run up the hill, with the Hydra close behind. They come up to a gorge, and the only way across is a stone platform jump.

"Ugh, he'll be up here in no time! Quick, one at a time, cross!" Twilight ordered.

Spike looked down the gorge, "Nyu-uh! Uh, do you know any spells for turning a hydra into a mouse?"

"No"

"How about a squirrel?"

"No!"

"How 'bout—" Spike tried again, but was interrupted.

"No small rodents of any kind!"

"That's too bad."

"A hop, skip, and a... jump!" Fluttershy said as she was the first to go. I guess she is getting braver.

"Woah-ho!" Spike yelled as Twilight threw him to the stone platform.

"Whoa-oa-oa-oa-oa!" Pinkie still shaking, almost fell off, but was pulled back by Applejack

"He's too close. I'll distract him. You two go, now!" Twilight said.

Applejack then jumps, while carrying Pinkie across the the gorge.

"Oh... What would a brave pony like Rainbow Dash do?" Twilight asked herself. Well Rainbow would… oh no, don't. "CHAAARGE!" Twilight yelled as she ran towards the Hydra.

Twilight then ran right under the Hydra, and its heads' followed, and ended up tripping the beast.

"T-t-t-twilight!" Pinkie called out to her.

Twilight then started to run towards the gorge, with the Hydra not far behind her.

They Hydra then used one of it's heads to try to hit her, but damaged the stone platforms, leaving her little time to jump.

"T-t-t-twilight! You have to jump!" Pinkie called out.

"I'll never make it!" Twilight said.

"You'll be fine!"

"I will not!"

The Hydra roars, getting ready for a second strike.

"Its your only ho-o-ope! You have to take a leap of faith!" Pinkie yelled

Twilight gave a gluped, and took a running start, and got ready to jump. She won't make it like this, I got to help.

As she made it to the end, the Hydra hit the ground near her, causing it to cumble, and making it so she wouldn't make it, but she jumped anyway.

I quickly floated over to her, and grabbed her while in the air.

"Y-ugh! No! Oh no! Noooo! " Twilight shouted, thinking she was still falling. But she then noticed she wasn't falling anymore, but was floating towards the others.

The other ponies cheered when she made it across.

"I knew you could do it, Twilight!" Pinkie yelled.

"I don't know how it happened, it was like something else was there, but you said there'd be a doozy here at Froggy Bottom Bogg, and I'd say we just had ourselves one heck of a doozy. I mean that hydra" Twilight said, before Pinkie started shaking again, "Pinkie?"

"That wasn't it," Pinkie stated.

"Huh?" Twilight asked.

"What wasn't what?"

"What are you talking about, Pink?" Applejack asked.

"The hydra wasn't the doozy," Pinkie explained, "I'm still getting the shudders. Oo-o-oh, oo-o-oh. You see? There it is again. Whatever the doozy was at Froggy Bottom Bogg, my Pinkie Sense says it still hasn't happened."

"Huh? But I- WHAT?! The hydra wasn't the doozy?! How could it not be the doozy?! What could be doozier than that?!" Twilight said, getting agitated.

"Dunno, but it just wasn't it."

Suddenly Twilight turns white, and her mane, and tail turns into fire,"Rrrgh," she growls.

Then the flames and the new color faded back to normal, "Ooh... I give up..." Twilight said.

"Give what up, Twi?"Spike asked.

"The fight. I can't fight it anymore. I don't understand how, why, or what, but Pinkie sense somehow... makes sense. I don't see how it does, but it just does. Just because I don't understand doesn't mean its not true."

"Y-y-y-you m-m-mean you b-b-b-believe?" Pinkie said, still shaking.

"Eyup, I guess I do," Twilight admitted.

Pinkie's body started bloating, and twisiting, "Oo-woo-oo-oo-oo, woo-oo-oo-oo-oh, woo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh. Ooh!", then it died down, "That was it. That's the doozy."

"What? What is?" Twilight said not understanding.

"You believing. I never expected that to happen. That was the doozy, oh and, oh what a doozy of a doozy it was!" Pinkie explained, then walked off, "La-la-la-la-la..."

That is Pinkie for you.

Well, I ended up back in the library after all this happened, after doing something like that, everything becomes boring.

Twilight and Pinkie were here too, talking about the Pinkie Sense again, and wearing those umbrella hats again.

Spike then enters the library.

"Oh, good, Spike, you're here. Take a letter," Twilight said.

"With pleasure, Twilight," Spike said, as he pulled out parchment, and a quill.

"Dear Princess Celestia, I'm happy to report that- Spike, what have I been saying about focus?" Twilight says, noticing his stare at her hat.

"I know, but I... Well..."

"What's wrong, Spike, never thought you'd see me with an umbrella hat on?"

"Not really, no."

"Pinkie's tail's a-twitchin'. What else can I do?"

That caused them to laugh.

"I am happy to report that I now realize there are wonderful things in this world you just can't explain, but that doesn't necessarily make them any less true. It just means you have to choose to believe in them, and sometimes it takes a friend to show you the way," Twilight said continuing the letter.

"Honk!" Pinkie honks Twilight's nose.

"Honk," Spike said, writing it in the letter.

"Always your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle," Twilight ended the letter.

"There it goes again," Pinkie's tail twitched again.

"I wonder what's gonna drop outta the sky this time?"

"You never know."

"Hey Pinkie, do you know why I was floating back at the gorge," Twilight asked.

"Oh, that was Chromie. Me and him were spending the day together. He was also the one who stopped all that stuff from the moving cart from falling on you," Pinkie said, smiling.

"Oh, well I guess I am I owe him a thanks," Twilight said. So she now accepts my existence.

"Why don't you just tell him, he is right there," Pinkie said, pointing at the open book I was reading..

"Oh… Well than, thank you Chrome for saving me twice today!" Twilight said loudly, like I couldn't hear her.

"Shhhh," I hushed her, "No yelling in the library."

The look on Twilight's face when I said that was a mix of surprise, and embarrassment by the looks of the blushing. I guess she didn't think she had been living with a guy for the past for months.