Ever since Diamond Tiara's latest failed attempt to shut the club down, everything is back to normal...or what counts as 'normal' at the House of Pony anyway! Twilight and Ben continues working to pay the bills and making sure to keep within their budget, because going over it is bad.

However, one show, there was a bit of a budget crisis that threatens the friendship between two good pony friends...

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As the show begins, Spike smiles while calling out, "All right, everypony! Make sure to stay in your seats at all times and no flash photography, here's TWILIGHT SPARKLE!"

The audience applauds as the spotlight is on stage. Of course, they look confused while applauding as Twilight doesn't appear to have arrived yet. Where is she?

Just then, Twilight gallops out as she exclaims with a smile, "Sorry I'm late, folks! I got make a stop at the bank! I was overdrawn!"

"Overdrawn? You're lucky!" One of two pencil test characters at a table snaps to Twilight in annoyance.

"Yeah, we ain't even done yet!" The other pencil test character remarked, causing the audience to laugh.

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Yes, it's another busy day at the House of Pony. Rainbow is at the door shaking Tough Apple's hoof as he goes past. The mare now shake Tirek's hand while saying, "Hey, good evening, Mr. Tirek." The villain nods as he heads into the room. Rainbow now prepares to shake Zecora's hoof. "Welcome to my life!"

Of course, Zecora just trots past her, much to Rainbow's annoyance. She mutters, "Ugh, stupid rhyming zebra." The zebra heard that as she hits Rainbow with a trick, making her yelp in pain. "Ouch!"

At her desk, Rarity was talking to Baby Lickety-Split while asking, "Do you have a reservation here?"

"Sure do!" Baby Lickety-Split answers Rarity. The foal yelps as her horn flashes like mad, making Rarity suspicious. That does that when she lies.

"Are you sure?"

"Come on, I really do!"

Baby Lickety-Split's horn flashes once more. Rarity gave a side balance. Why is she not surprised to be seeing this?

In the kitchen, the Cakes are done making some spaghetti which they put into a bowl. Their foals Pumpkin and Pound Cake smile as they drool over the food. It looks so good that the foals wanted to eat it all. Of course, Mr. Cake pulls the spaghetti away while scolding his children, "Ah ah! This is for one of the guests, kids."

Here you go Pinkie Pie." Mrs. Cake said as she gave the bowl of spaghetti to Pinkie. Pound and Pumpkin frowns then got an idea.

When their parents weren't looking, Pound took a fishing pole nearby and Pumpkin uses her magic to attach a line to a strand of Spaghetti. Her brother begins reeling the noodles, meatball and all. The foals smiles as they eat the spaghetti eagerly.

Pinkie, before getting out of the kitchen, looks inside the bowl and is surprised to see no spaghetti. Instead of questioning it, the pink pony shrugs while saying, "Wow; must be a light lunch!"

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Back on stage, Twilight continues on, "We got a great show today with some new cartoons as well as our special musical guests Knightshade; But first, Luna's Shadowbolts!"

"All right, girls! Yew heard her, let's go!" Apple Bloom exclaims to her friends. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo nods as they play instruments. The audience applauds for that.

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"Wow, what a shame," Applejack said in concern as she, Rainbow, Rarity and Fluttershy gathers around Ben who looks over his planner. This doesn't look good.

"What's wrong?" Twilight ask her friends in concern as she trots in and sees some of her pals gathering like this.

"Folks at our show are threatening 'ta quit over 'de backlash o' Equestria Girls, some more celebrities bit 'de dust, Cartoon Network kept on losing good shows lately, an' the court lawsuit between Archie Comics an' Ken Penders is getting more intense than ever!"

"No, I mean what's wrong in here?"

"Oh, our club is over budget." Applejack admits to Twilight with a shrug.

"Yikes, how bad," Twilight ask in worry as she turns to Ben, fearing the worst.

"According to my calculations, we are 1 perfect over budget." Ben explains to Twilight, making the purple mare gasps in worry.

"Oh dear; is that bad?" Fluttershy ask Ben meekly and concerned.

"Sadly, Fluttershy, it is. In order to get back into the right budget, we must do the sad and inevitable: someone from the House of Pony must be fired."

"Gah, not me I hope!" Rainbow exclaims frantically and worried. "I worked hard for you girls!"

"Oh, I hope it isn't me...but if you want it to me, I guess I could go." Fluttershy said, hiding behind her mane in worry and concern.

"Relax, you two, we don't know who is going to be fired yet." Ben assures Rainbow and Fluttershy that it wasn't decided on whom should be fired to get back into the right budget yet. "But someone must go. If we want to fire somepony, it has to be someone who doesn't get their work done, make mistakes, asks for time off and break things."

Just then, Pinkie bounce in, smiling while saying, "Hiya, girls and Ben; Glad to see all of you in one place; Listen, while I'm here I got some stuff to say. Rarity, sorry, but I didn't finish setting the tables. Can you do that for me?"

"Uh sure..." Rarity said with a glare to her friend.

"Oh. Oh, Dashie? I accidentally locked the front door so no pony can get in."

"Ugh!" Rainbow groans in annoyance while slapping her own face. "Fine, I will get right on it ASAP."

"Thanks, Dashie! Oh, Ben? All right if I take other week off," Pinkie asks Ben happily, not noticing the frowns on some of her friends' faces. "I got so many parties and family events planned!"

"Fine, I will see what is available soon." Ben said to Pinkie with a frown.

"Fluttershy; My party cannon accidentally scared some of your animal friends off! You may wanna herd them up."

"Oh, right, I see." Fluttershy said with a frown, knowing how many times that she warns her friend to be careful with her party cannon.

"Righty; Oh, and Twiley, sorry but I broke your Star-Swirl the Bearded collection." Pinkie said to her purple mare friend, making Twilight look shocked and angry. "You should get those fixed."

"Yeah, I will get right on it." Twilight exclaims angrily and upset.

"Okie dokie lokie," Pinkie exclaims as she prepares to trot off. The others, especially Applejack though she doesn't have any reason to be upset, glares at her angrily. Looks like the pink pony would be the one to be fired. That is until Pinkie turn back to her friends, adding, "Oh, one more thing, girls and Ben! Yeah, I know I can annoy ponies sometimes but I really love this job and I love you all! You are great ponies!"

Upon hearing that, most of the gang's hearts begin to soften. Rarity, Fluttershy, Twilight, Ben and Applejack looks at each other in shame and guilty. While Pinkie did fit everything that Ben described to be fired, the ponies can't bring themselves to fire her. She is only a pony and is a nice friend!

"Okay, going on my break now! Later!" Pinkie exclaims happily as she bounces away. While most of her friends change their minds on firing her, Rainbow just frowns.

"Well, I think we know what must be done. We're firing Pinkie, she is out of here!" Rainbow exclaims while pointing a hoof at Pinkie sternly.

"Oh dear, no; don't fire Pinkie Pie!" Fluttershy yelps in worry upon hearing what Rainbow just said.

"Besides, didn't you hear what Pinkie just said? While she does fit the description of some pony whose must be fired, Pinkie loves her job! At least she does her best to do good!" Twilight exclaims to Rainbow in agreement. "Anyway, we can't go and fire Pinkie Pie! She is our friend and when we first open this place, we made a Pinkie Promise to never do that to her! She is very sensitive and would get angry easily!"

"Ha, shows what you know!" Rainbow snaps to Twilight, still unconvinced.

"Twilight, you're back on!" Ben said to Twilight that she is due back on stage soon.

"Gah, right, how do I look?" Twilight ask her colt-friend as she checks her over, "Horn straight, mane not having parasprites in them?"

"You're fine, honey! Don't worry!"

Twilight smiles as she gallops off to do her thing. Of course, unknown to her and the others once they're out of earshot, Rainbow smirks devilishly while saying, "Yeah, don't worry...if you ain't going to do what must be right, then I will have to..."

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As Pinkamena, Golden Heart and Gold Wing watch the show. Pinkamena tenses up. Golden Heart sees this and asks, "What's wrong, little sister?"

"Ii think a pony is going to be fired due to over budget of The House of Pony." Pinkamena said to Golden Heart seriously.

"I see. Well let's wait if things get worse, we will see what we can do to help."

Pinkamena nods as she and Golden Heart keep watching the show. Meanwhile Pinkie bounces over to a table and gives a plate of food to Tough Apple, saying, "All right, here is your meal, Tough Apple!"

"Heehaw,” Tough Apple exclaims as he grabs a piece of hid food and eats it. To his confusion, the stallion begins expanding as he grows big, "What 'de hay?!"

Pinkie looks confused then saw a familiar name on the plate. She took it while saying sheepishly, "Oopsie, my bad! Wrong plate, this is for Megie!" The pony went over to Megan's table, giving her the grow food to the human.

Onstage, Twilight spoke up, "All right, everypony; Time for the first cartoon of tonight!'

The audience applauds as the first cartoon begins.

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It is another day at the Canterlot racetrack and the Wonderbolt Derpy is under way. Lightning Dust has entered in hopes to become a new candidate for the Wonderbolts. The Pegasus is getting tired and stop at the Pit Stop to recover and get filled up.

As Lightning Dust arrives, the Pegasus pony looks confused as she saw that no pony is around. Lightning frowns as she demands, "Where the hay is my Pegasus group?! Ugh, I told those three to arrive here earlier!"

Ligtning scowls as she grabs a cell phone and begins dialing a number. That Pegasus crew of hers better have a good reason for being late!

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In the library in Ponyville, Twilight and her friends Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie are having a new occupation for their list of jobs that got changed every month. This month, the trio of ponies is a Pegasus crew for Lightning Dust, despite the fact that Rainbow hated to work for her ever since what she did to her friends back at the Wonderbolt Academy a while back.

Just then the phone rang as Twilight, Rainbow and Pinkie got out from under their desk (probably sleeping). The unicorn uses her magic to pick up the phone, answering, "Hey, Pegasus Crew, we..."

"Well, if you three are my Pegasus Crew, THEN GET YOUR FLANKS OVER HERE SO YOU CAN CREW ME!" Lightning's voice yells over the phone, making Twilight yelps a bit.

"Yikes! We forgot that our first job is today; who is supposed to remind us of that?!"

"Pinkie Pie," Rainbow remarks to Pinkie with a frown, recalling that it was the pink pony who is supposed to keep track of these kinds of things.

"Oopsie; I was so busy with my parties, that it slipped my mind." Pinkie chuckles nervously to Rainbow.

"You three better get to the Canterlot racetrack! The Wonderbolt Derby is happening and I don't wanna miss my chance of being a Wonderbolt!"Lightning snaps furiously to her Pegasus crew. "Get down here right now or I will make sure that you will be send flying in the air without wings, especially Rainbow Dash! GOT IT?!"

"Right, we will be there in a few minutes!" Twilight exclaims with a yelp as she hangs up the phone.

"Honestly, why are we even working for her? She almost killed you, Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy with that reckless stunt back at the Wonderbolt Academy!" Rainbow snaps to Twilight in frustration as the trio of ponies rush out of the library, heading to their vehicle.

"I know, I know, but we got to earn some bits somehow...and we have to work for anypony, even a reckless one like Lightning Dust." Twilight admits in shock. But as the trio of ponies arrives to where the van is supposed to be, they stopped short...their van is in pieces, "Hey, what the hay happened to our van?!"

"Ooh, remember when you two girls asked me to deal with the squeak that we kept hearing 2 days ago?" Pinkie asks Twilight happily. "Well, I got to work to find out the source of that squeaking. I took out the seats, the squeak wasn't in there. Took out the doors, pulled out the hood and get rid of the engine. No sight of the squeak."

"But without an engine, the van won't run!"

"Yeah, I realize that now...but at least I found out what was causing the squeak. It was Pound's rubber ducky!"

Pinkie grins as she took out the rubber ducky. Rainbow slaps a hoof to her face, groaning, "Pinkie Pie, you are so random."

"Ugh, Pinkie! Put the car back to the way it was now!" Twilight orders in annoyance as she threw the steering wheel to Pinkie who caught it with her mouth. The pink pony shrugs as she got to work on getting the van back together.

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It was half-hour later as the van is restored. The trio is driving it towards Canterlot...of course, only 20 miles per hour! The van fixing ends up causing the vehicle to go slow. Rainbow would've flown her friends there faster but the equipment for Lightning Dust is in the van and the stuff is too heavy for every one of the ponies to carry.

Canterlot is still far away and already Twilight's group is worried. They remembered what Lightning said before Twilight herself hung up. The trio got to get to the Wonderbolt Derby and fast but this van is still not going fast.

Just then the girls heard the phone ring, much to their worry. Twilight said, "Must be Lightning Dust. Let's pretend not to hear it and hope for the best."

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Back in Canterlot, Lightning paces while waiting for her Pegasus Crew to pick up. The Wonderbolt Derby is continuing and the Pegasus pony is missing it!

As the other Pegasus ponies and Wonderbolts flew past, a ticked off Lightning snarls into the phone, "Come on, you wimps! I know you're there. Pick up, I know you're there!"

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"Come on, come on!" Twilight groans as she kept on pushing the gas. The van is still going too slow big time.

Rainbow, hearing some squeaking, looks concerned as she ask, "Err, what is that noise?"

"Oh, you girls told me to put the van back the way it was, remember?" Pinkie reminds her friends happily. At her friends' glare, the pink pony realizes something, "Oopsie. I guess that means not to put in the rubber ducky, huh?"

"Ugh! We gotta get a van...and a new partner." Twilight groans in annoyance. What she said made Pinkie shocked, her feelings got hurt.

"New partner; But...I thought we were friends."

"Gah! Of course, you're our friend, Pinkie! What I mean was...was..." Twilight said, feeling guilty. She didn't mean to say what she herself did in front of Pinkie. The pink pony meant no harm. In hopes to finding a way to reassurance her, Twilight saw her friend's mane flattening a bit. "...you need a new mane!"

"Really; huh; funny you mention that. My mane was getting a little dull lately." Pinkie said thoughtfully while looking at herself. "Plus, the old look is so 3 seasons ago! Yeah, you're right. Time for a new look."

Rainbow looks around then saw Rainbow's rainbow mane, getting an idea. A while later, the Pegasus pony felt funny and feel the top of her head...and realizes that her mane is gone! Rainbow turns to see Pinkie wearing it on top of her own head.

"Hey, that's my mane!" Rainbow scowls as she took her mane back, returning it to her own head. "Honestly, I don't even want to know how you did that!"

Pinkie pauses to think...and is now seen wearing Twilight's mane. The unicorn looks annoyed as she grabs it back, replacing the mane while scowling, "Give me that!"

Twilight looks back and looks alarmed as Pinkie is now wearing a familiar brown mane somehow. The mare takes it off while snapping, "That's Ben's mane!"

Pinkie shrugs as she puts on some familiar male Pegasus pony's blue mane. But Rainbow pulls it off while scowling, "That's Soarin's mane!"

Soon it's a war of the manes. Why, you might ask? It's because Pinkie kept grabbing and putting on Twilight, Rainbow, Ben and Soarin's manes with her friends kept taking them back. Of course, things got confused as it all ended with all of them upside down somehow.

Without warning, the van stops as it ran out of gas. Twilight groans as she and her friends look at the gas meter, "Oh great. We're out of gas."

Just then the car phone rings once more. Pinkie responds happily, "I'll get it!" Twilight stops her in time however.

"No, no, don't! That could be Lightning Dust calling! We don't want her to know that we're out of gas!"

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Back in the Wonderbolt Derpy, a colt on a bicycle cycled past Lightning as she is having a nervous breakdown. The mare's chances of being a Wonderbolt are breaking away every few seconds and it's all because of her delayed Pegasus Crew!

"Grr, I'm going to mount their heads for this..." Lightning groans, having a nervous breakdown. Where are those three?!

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"Just let it ring." Twilight reminds her friends. She and her friends got out and push their van. They found their way to Canterlot and found a local gas station. As the trio push their van over, Twilight calls over to a gas attendant sitting in his chair. "Don't get up, we got this!"

Twilight grabs the gas nuzzles and heads to the van...but saw no door to the gas tank. The mare frowns as she spoke to Pinkie, "Pinkie, what did you do witht he gas tank?"

"Hold on, I will check the back." Pinkie said happily as she open the back, showing assorted items. "Okay, we got the gas meter, the gas mask, gas valve, gas lamp, a gastropoda which is a snail...and of course our cameo 'gast' star; Okie dokie lokie!"

Sure enough, Pinkie pulls our Surprise from the truck, the Pegasus pony grins while exclaiming, "Hey everypony! What a gas!"

"Hey, I love your new mane look, Surprise!"

"Thanks; got it over there!" Surprise exclaims happily as she points a hoof to a mane store nearby. Perfect! Pinkie bounces over to the costume store as her friends watch her go. Surprise points to a door, adding, "Oh, your gas tank is in here, BTW!"

Twilight got to work until she fills the gas tank with enough; Time to go. The unicorn honks the horn while calling, "Pinkie, we got to go! Come on!"

Inside the costume store, Pinkie looks excited at certain manes. She can't wait to see what kind of said mane that she will have!

First off, Pinkie put on a construction worker's mane...but she got bricked. The pink pony then put on a cowpony hat but she ends up getting roped and hassled!

Pinkie now put on a mane that looks like its fit for Naponyleon! A short colt taps her while saying, "Miss, that is mine." The mare chuckles sheepishly as she gave the mane back to the colt. Weird!

Pinkie now put on a outfit for Coltham Lincoln but almost got shot. The mare not put on a beanie mane causing her to fly off. Pinkie puts on a scuba diver mane...but figured it's best underwater. Next, the pink pony put on a graduation mane, only for books to fall onto her like mad.

Pinkie put on an Saddle Arabian mane, causing her to dance like one...but Rainbow, having enough with this foolishness as well as waiting, came in and knock the manes away from Pinkie then drags her out of the store.

"Wait, there are a lot more manes for me to try!" Pinkie protests as she kept her hold onto the manes like mad.

Rainbow struggle as her friend kept her hold onto the mane. She then tied Pinkie's tail to a bumper than got into her seat, calling out to Twilight, "She's in the back seat!"

Quickly, Twilight steps on the gas, causing the van to get moving, pulling Pinkie and the mane shop in the progress.

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It was a few minutes later as Pinkie is sitting between her friends once more. And of course, the pink pony is trying out more manes, much to their annoyance.

"Come on, stop that!" Rainbow scowls as she removes a gentle-colt from Pinkie. This is getting ridiculous!

"Yeah, knock it off!" Twilight snaps as she took off a deputy mane from Pinkie's head. Now the unicorn is regretting even making her friend think that she needed a mane in the first place!

Pinkie shrugs as she kept on trying various manes, like a fire pony one, a Princess mane, a Royal Guard mane and a silly umbrella mane and each time, her friends took the said manes off. Pinkie finally put on a brown bag with holes on his head. Twilight has had enough of this nonsense now.

"Pinkie Pie; cut it out!" Twilight scowls to Pinkie in annoyance. "Your classic man was fine all this time, okay?!"

"Huh? Didn't you say..." Pinkie begins to say but Twilight cuts her off.

"Just forget what I just said, I only did so just to stop hurting your feelings. I am now sorry that I've ever said it in the first place."

"Uh...say what?" Pinkie, taking the bag off, asks confused, apparently forgetting what she said already. The pone begins to ring again making her friends whistle innocently. Pinkie pretends not to hear the phone either as she say, "Nope, not hearing that phone ring; Nah!"

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The Wonderbolt Derby is getting close to finish, even a snail is slithering by. Lightning frowns as she kept waiting on her cell phone, groaning, "Heads are sooooo going to roll for this!"

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On a top of a hilltop not too far away, the trio arrives at their destination. Twilight, seeing the Canterlot racetrack grins as she said, "There it is! About time too," As the van continues onward, the mare put her foot onto the brake to slow the vehicle down. But she realizes notice that the brakes aren't working so the van is going fast. "Something is wrong with the brakes! They must be out!"

"Nah, they aren't out! I put them back in!" Pinkie insists. She opens the glove box and pulls out a metal part. To Twilight and Rainbow's horror, they are for the brakes. "See? I put them right here in the glove box in case we ever need them! Smart, aren't I?"

"PINKIE," Twilight and Pinkie screams. Without the break, the van flew down the hill, going out of control face.

At the racetrack, Lighting is getting more nervous while she growls, "Heads...are going to be mounted or rolling. That's what I'll do...I am going to...UGH! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! WHERE ARE THOSE STUPID PONIES?!" Suddenly a horn is honking causing Lightning to turn. To her shock, a familiar van is heading right towards her. "Oh horse apples..."

Lightning flew up and lands in the van that her Pegasus crew is in, causing it to enter the stadium and getting caught up in the 451 laps (yeah, no one knows how it's possible). As Lightning got up, seeing her Pegasus Crew, she snarls, "All right, I warned you! Now I'm going to mount your heads!"

Suddenly the van reach the last lap as everyone applauds for the winner. Okay, the van isn't a Pegasus pony and it's a last minute entry but whatever. The group took the money/trophy before getting out at the other end. Soon the van came to a complete stop hard.

Twilight smiles as she gave the trophy and money to Lightning saying, "Congratulations, Lightning Dust! You just won the racing tournament!"

"I..." Lightning stops and looks confused, wondering if she heard Twilight right. "Hang on. I won? Wow. I didn't even know how I got back in in the first place!"

Just then Pinkie pops in with a trophy on her head, smiling as she said, "Hey look; A neat hat for my mane!"

Everyone laughs as the cartoon comes to an end.

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Once the cartoon is over, everypony applauds eagerly for yet another good one!

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Onstage, Twilight smiles as she introduced the next act, "And now, our special guest act, a band based on Ponyland's earliest rock stars...Knightshade!"

The audience applauds as Knightshade prepares themselves; their lead singer Lefty grins as he held the mike to his phone while exclaiming, “All right! Let's do this!" The band begins to perform.

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While the music plays and Knightshade plays, Rainbow is backstage putting a CD in player. It is of course lessons on what to do in order to fire Pinkie. As the CD plays, Rainbow sat down and listens as Iron Will's voice came from it, "Oh yeah! Welcome to the lesson on 'How to Fire Your Friend' in 3 steps; 'Step One, Business and Friendship'. You got to understand: business is business, and friendship is none of your business!"

"Right, how true." Rainbow said with a nod of her head.

"'Step Two: Finding Just Cause'. The reason for firing your friend is 'cause you want to! And if you’re so-called other friends can't do you, you might as well be the one to do so; Yeah!"

"Agreed!"

Iron Will now put down the final lesson, "And finally, there's 'Step Three: Issue the pink slip'. Everypony knows that if they are given a pink slip, that means he or she are fired!"

"Pink slip...oh yeah, I get it! Yeah...I got to get Pinkie Pie to wear a pink dress then kick her out! Simple, right; I betcha there is a pink dress somewhere..." Rainbow exclaims with a smirk. She just got to find a pink slip and Pinkie is gone!

Rainbow has raid the wardrobe room and came out with a neatly folded pink dress. The mare remarks, "Yeah, this sounds mean and out of character of me to be betraying Pinkie Pie like this, but hey, it's script purposes. Plus, I can't wait for them to fire me instead!"

But as Rainbow heads to the kitchen, she is spotted by Twilight who glances at the dress then calls out suspiciously, "Rainbow Dash! Where are you doing with that pink dress?"

"Oh...nothing. This is actually a pink slip...for one of my good friends!"

"Rainbow Dash, a pink slip is actually a pink piece of paper that shows that you're fir...wait, hang on! You're still planning on firing Pinkie Pie are you?!"

"Well, uh...yeah, yeah I am!" Rainbow exclaims to Twilight with a frown. It's pointless to lie now. The mare might as well admit the truth since her unicorn friend can't stop her anyway. "Come on, admit it, egghead! Pinkie's the one, she got to go!"

"No, don't do it! Pinkie Pie won't like it if she finds out that you're trying to break your Pinkie Promise!" Twilight warns Rainbow, knowing that Pinkie would freak out if she realizes that her friend is trying to go against her Pinkie Promise by trying to get her fired. "We will find another way to save the one percent!"

"Twilight," Ben calls over to Twilight. "Knightshade is done with their act! You're back on!"

"Oh, okay!"

Twilight gallops back to the stage. Rainbow smirks devilishly, now is her chance to find Pinkie and get her the 'pink slip'.

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As Twilight slid back onto the stage, she smiles while saying, "Okay, everypony, let's give thanks once more to Knightshade, the most infamous rock band based on the original singer! And now..."

Of course, Twilight looks alarmed as she saw what's happening in the corner towards the corner: it's Rainbow, giving the dress to Pinkie and still intending on firing her! Hoo boy!

"Hey, try this on, Pinkie Pie!" Rainbow insists innocently while giving the 'pink slip' to Pinkie.

"Thanks, Dashie!" Pinkie exclaims happily as she put the pink dress on. "Very odd request but this pink dress looks Super Duper funny on me!"

"Good to hear you say that because I got something to say!"

"No, Rainbow, don't." Twilight say in worry...but realize that she herself is still on stage. Pinkie is going to get mad if she finds out that Rainbow is going to fire her! Twilight got to keep the show going but must keep her friend from being fired but to keep her from getting mad. The purple unicorn got an idea to do so while saving thee one percent. Yeah, the audience, especially her friends will be devastated, but it must be done! "Everyone, I got an announcement!"

Rainbow and Pinkie stops as they look confused upon hearing this. As everyone watches, Twilight quickly say, "I just wanted to say that...as of right now...I QUIT!"

The audience gasps in shock and disbelief. Twilight is quitting the House of Pony? In the control booth, a worried Applejack exclaims, "Hoo doggy; 'Dis could be bad fer business!"

In the audience, Prince Blueblood laughs while turning to Smaug, Discord and King Sombra, all of them were shocked by the announcement, and remarking, "See? I told you guys that Auntie Celestia's student wouldn't make it farther than this show! Now pay up!"

"Twilight's quitting?" Pinkie gasps in shock over at the kitchen. Rainbow on the other hoof looks delighted. Well, okay, maybe it isn't Pinkie getting fire but at least, to her, it means that she can host the show now!

"Awesome, yes; I got my wish!" Rainbow exclaims eagerly. She flew past Pinkie and stops near Twilight who is humming to herself, "Hey thanks for quitting so I can host the show again, Twilight! I will do better this time! I couldn't have done without ya!"

"Get real! Who said that I was picking you as host?" Twilight ask Rainbow with a smirk, much to her friend's surprise.

"Wait, but you...you..."

"I believe the agreement when this show first started was that if I was FIRED, you get my job. But since I QUIT, I get to pick my replacement host. And I would to pick...Pinkie Pie!"

"PINKIE PIE," Rainbow gasps in shock with her eyes widened.

As Golden heart and Pinkamena keep watching, the latter spazes out as Golden Heart sees this and ask, "What's wrong now, little sister?"

"Twilight has just quit her job and has put Pinkie Pie in charge." Pinkamena said to Golden Heart in surprise.

"Ok. I am sure things would get better, but if things get worse we will see what we can do."

"Ok but I have a feeling that it might get worse."

They both go back to watching the show. Pinkie, shocked and saddened, came up to her friends, saying, "Wow, I'm honored, Twilight, but I don't wanna host if you're quitting."

"Oh, Pinkie, I am not really quitting." Twilight assures Pinkie with a chuckle, "Just taking a break from hosting until we can figure out how to get the budget down. Besides, this was Rainbow Dash's idea in the word place!"

"Wait, what?" Rainbow asks Twilight in confusion. The mare wasn't suggesting Pinkie to be host; she was trying to get her fired!

"Yeah, remember? You said 'Pinkie's the one, she got to go!'"

Rainbow looks shocked. Twilight is twisting her words around from the conversion earlier! Pinkie eagerly said to Rainbow, "Dashie, you're a great friend! No worries, I won't let ya down!'

Pinkie hugs Rainbow. The Pegasus pony groans, "Aww, great."

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Although the audience and staff are stunned over Twilight's quitting (even for a while), the show must go on. Pinkie stood on stage while still wearing her pink dress that Rainbow gave her.

"Hey, everypony, I'm your new host. Uh...hmmm, I guess I should use the mike." Pinkie said. She motions Spike who came over to give her a mike to speak into it. "Hello?"

"Hello." Spike said, repeating what the mare just said, just for fun.

"Hello?"

"Hello." Pinkie said, making Spike chuckle a bit. He is enjoying this.

"Hello." Spike said with a chuckle. This thing is annoying Pinkie now.

"HELLO!"

"HELLO!"

"So what do you want?" Pinkie asks Spike with a smile.

"Pick up!" Spike laughs a bit.

"Aww, skip it!" Pinkie chuckles a bit while she attached a skipping rope to the mike's end, playing a game of jump rope with Spike.

"Skip it, sure!" Spike exclaims as he skips the rope with Pinkie bouncing up and down. "Oh, make sure you introduce the cartoon while you're doing this!"

"Okie dokie lokie! Folks, watch this new cartoon starring me!"

As the audience applauds, the next cartoon begins.

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"Skill...bravery...and probably incredible poor judgment! These are the qualities that can only be found in the extreme sports-pony!"

Sure enough, in a boat on the sea, Pinkie is all excited. She can't wait for another extreme sport. As the narrator spoke, her heart got pumped full of excitement. We see the underwater cameras set up by the narrator while the camera above water shows Pinkie putting on some suits...until she got naked somehow, causing the mare to cover herself in embarrassment.

Anyway, we now see the underwater camera as we see a shark underwater.

"And there is no better test of these qualities than the extreme sport of...shark feeding!"

We see a look around the water, checking out all sorts of teeth as well as items to use as them, especially an Ursa Major trap, a skull and a saw. Yeah, it doesn't make sense but nothing does in Equestria!

"The predator of the ocean uses rows of sharp teeth in which to eat, they include extra sharp teeth, more sharp teeth, sharper teeth, teeth that are sharp, teeth that look dull but are truly sharp, and..."

We see a shark putting a mint down his throat, much to the narrator's amusement.

"An after dinner mint for later."

We see another underwater camera, showing Pinkie wearing scuba gear while in a cage. The pink pony rings a dinner bell while saying happily, "Dinner time, sharkie! Come and get it!"

The narrator chuckles as the shark cycle around the cage and slams into it a few. Pinkie was squished alongside the cage which spells a letter of the word 'food' with a period time that the shark slammed into it.

"Enticed by the sports pony's call, the great white approaches; Check out the graceful moments of this aquatic giant that it makes while entering what is known as a feeding frenzy."

Once Pinkie raised the cage back up to get the thing fixed, she came back down with some food. The shark looks hungrily as the pony feed it food like...hot dogs, ice cream, cotton candy, popcorn...yeah, doesn't make sense if ponies don't read the history of sharks and what they eat, but this big menace doesn't seem upset by this.

"The extreme sports pony must act quickly to give a balanced meal to the shark."

"And don't forget your broccoli!" Pinkie exclaims happily as she put broccoli on a fork before holding it out. The shark yelps as he shook his head meaning 'no'. This guy is a meat eater and even the narrator knows it. "Come open, Mr. Shark, open wide!'

"Of course, sharks can be picky eaters."

Pinkie shrugs as she opens the cage and swimming to the shark with the broccoli on hold. This pink pony is going to make this guy eat his veggies, like it or no!

"Here comes the choo-choo!" Pinkie exclaims as she swim up to the shark. "Come on, open the tunnel."

The shark smirks as it did...by gobbling down Pinkie. The pink pony yelps in alarm as she tries to escape but the monster swallow her up anyway. The shark smiles in glee. Now that's a meal!

"And that...apparently..."

The sharp burps while giving out a familiar pink pony's chuckle.

"...concludes today's Extreme Sports. And no worries, folks. Pinkie will get out of that shark's stomach...err, eventually."

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As usual, the audience like the cartoon which ended, applauding eagerly.

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In the audience, a disguised Crarity smirks evilly as she gave an apple to Galaxy. The mare take a bite out of it but then her eyes widened before she fell down, dropping the apple before falling asleep.

The apple lands near Rainbow Chaos who spoke up, "Hey, Galaxy, you gotta eat that?" The rip off of Rainbow picks up the apple and sniffs it before looking suspicious. She turns to Starven Fran while asking, "Hey Fran; does this look bad to you?"

"Hang on..." Starven Fran said as she took the apple from Rainbow Chaos before taking a bite out of it. The mare's eyes widen before she too fell asleep.

"Ugh, figures. Another one of Crarity's tricks; Hey! I need a prince to kiss a mare here; Code Blue!"

Sure enough, Prince Artemis, a gender-bender lookalike of Luna, flew over, putting on lipstick while saying, "Just so you know, I don't do this with any mare."

Backstage, Pinkie, still in her dress, smiles to the applauding audience while saying, "Hey folks! Thank you! Trust me, folks, you don't wanna know how I got out of that shark." The pink pony cringed at this. Anyway, it's a pleasure being here with all of my good old pals!"

As the audience applauds, Rainbow, back at her position, frowns. As Rarity trots up, the Pegasus pony scowls, "I cannot believe that Pinkie Pie is the host now!"

"Relax, I know that you would be a better host but Pinkie and Twilight are very good friends...and with all of us. Twilight just doesn't pick favorites." Rarity explains with a smile. Rainbow scowls as she picks up a tomato from a passing turtle that is holding a plate. The mare is practicing to throw it.

"Oh, I will show her!"

"You know, I wouldn't have been here today if it weren't for my good bestest best friend, the one pony who suggested me for the job in the first place...Rainbow Dash!" Pinkie exclaims happily to the audience.

Rainbow is about to throw the tomato at Pinkie but upon hearing what the pink pony just said, she stops and ask, "Huh?" Did the mare heard right?"

"Which is why, I wanna thank her in a song, which is sung to the opening of the actual Donald Duck one in the actual show! Hit it girls!"

The Cutie Mark Crusaders nod as they begin to play. Pinkie then spins until she is wearing a disco outfit. The mare sings along to the lyrics of a familiar duck's theme song but change it to fit more of Rainbow's style.

Pinkie: Who's got the sweetest dispostion?
One guess, guess who!
Who never ever starts an argument?

"Hm," Rainbow ask, looking up in shock and amazement. Pinkie is actually singing in tribute to her!

Who never shows a bit of temperment?
Who's never wrong, but always right?

"Yeah..." Rainbow said with a bit of smile. The mare is now feeling guilty as to wanting to fire Pinkie in the first place. What was she even thinking in the first place?

Who'd never dream of starting a fight?

"Says who?" Rainbow asks Pinkie with a shrug.

Who gets stuck with all the bad luck?
No one...

Rainbow made some noises a bit but gave a grin.

...but Rainbow Dash!

"Yeah," Rainbow exclaims eagerly. As the audience applauds, the Pegasus pony smiles as she flew over to Pinkie, "Pinkie Pie!"

"Hey, Dashie," Pinkie giggles as she and Rainbow hug each other.

"That was awesome! Man, I can't believe that I tried to get you fired in the first place!"

"Oh, that's..." Pinkie stops as she realizes what Rainbow just said, much to her shock. "Wait, fire me?!"

"Uh oh..." Rainbow said nervously. Perhaps she shouldn't have said that.

"You were going to fire me?!"

"Some Element of Loyalty," Spike comments in the backstage area.

After Pinkamena and Golden Heart heard Rainbow Dash revealing that she was trying to fire Pinkie Pie, Pinkamena says to Golden Heart, "I was right, things did just get really worse."

"Indeed. I think now we should help with getting the budget down." Golden Heart said, seeing a furious look on Pinkie's face.

"Let's go."

Both Pinkamena and Golden heart head off to help in getting the budget down. Soon Pinkie screams furiously, her eyes grew yellow with steam coming out of her ears, "RAINBOW DASH! YOU PINKIE PROMISE!"

"Gah," Rainbow screams in alarm as Pinkie bounces the Pegasus pony, starting an insane cartoon fight cloud that went over the two as they fight each other. Pinkie stops for a moment to speak to the crowd with Rainbow being pushed.

"Folks, while I teach Rainbow a lesson on friendship and for not breaking Pinkie Promises, check out this next cartoon!"

The cartoon cloud fight continues between Pinkie and Rainbow. The next cartoon begins as the audience applauds.

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Rainbow grins as she waits at the door of her home for her newspaper to arrive. Once it shows up, the mare grins while saying, "All right! The paper's here!" She reaches for the door and tries to open it...but it was stuck. "What the hay? Oh great, the door is stuck!"

Rainbow tries to pull on the door but slips, causing her to hit the wall, her head contact with the photo of her friends that she got. The mare scowls in annoyance. Time for somepony to fix that stupid door! Why did it have to be one that can't be the cloud ones used by Pegasi?!

Rainbow grabs a phonebook and looks for a number for a door fixed. She found something and exclaims, "All right, here we go! Ponyville Door Fixes! This should get my door working in no time!"

Rainbow calls in the number, explain her problem and waited. Soon a knock came to the door, making her trots over...until it was kicked right into her face, knocking Rainbow aside. And of course, who just entered just now? It's our favorite party pink pony with a tool box on her back.

"Hello! This is Ponyville's Door Fixers, where I fix doors!" Pinkie exclaims with a smile.

Rainbow seeing who is it, groans, "Pinkie Pie? You're the pony who comes to fix doors? Since when did you have this job?"

"Oh, I needed to earn some extra bits on the side! Anyway, you got it, Dashie, the one and only! I will fix your door in no time flat!"

Pinkie hums as she took out her toolbox and begins pulling out assorted items. Rainbow blinks a bit, how can her friend fit a lot of tools in one small toolbox? Then again, this is Pinkie Pie that she's talking about!

Pinkie, taking out a toilet plunger, bounces out the door and closes it. Rainbow heard some noises outside, making her look a bit curious. Suddenly, without warning, the Pegasus pony finds herself outside due to the door flipping on her. As a result Pinkie bounces into the place and sit on the couch, reading a magazine.

Rainbow, looking annoyed, knocks at the door while scowling, "Hey, Pinkie Pie! Open up!"

"Huh? Who is it?"

"RAINBOW!"

"Rainbow who," Pinkie ask curiously as if playing a game of 'Knock Knock'.

"Ugh. Rainbow Dash," Rainbow groans in annoyance as she slaps her forehead. Pinkie blinks a bit, trying to think then smiles.

"Rainbow Dash; Oh...sorry, Dashie ain't here right now! Come back later!"

"GAH, NO! PINKIE PIE, YOU DOPE! I'M RAINBOW DASH, OUTSIDE!"

"Oh, okie dokie lokie, be right there!" Pinkie exclaims happily as she bounces over to the door. But then the mare pauses as she look skeptic. "Wait a moment. How do I know that you're really Rainbow Dash?"

"Gah! Open this door right now!" Rainbow exclaims furiously; having enough, the mare back up a moment in hopes to break the door down. She is usually toleration of Pinkie's random nature but even the Pegasus pony has had enough!

Of course, it's at this moment that Pinkie opens the door causing Rainbow to fly right into the house. The mare couldn't stop herself in time as she crash right into a wall hard before falling to the floor. As Rainbow recovers, she saw Pinkie laughing happily. Needless to say, this was the last straw!

Rainbow, getting up, march right to Pinkie's face and push her out yelling, "PINKIE PIE, YOU CLUMSY STUPID DOLT! THAT DOES IT! I DON'T EVER WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN, NOT AT HEARTH'S WARMING EVE, NOT AT NIGHTMARE NIGHT, NOT EVEN AT PET THINGS! I WANT YOU OUT OF MY LIFE FOR GOOD!"

Pinkie looks stunned then her mane and tail went flat as she said sadly, "You don't wanna see my face again? I'm...I'm sorry Dashie...I was only trying to help..."

"Well, help me...by not helping me!" Rainbow scowls furiously. Pinkie sadly trots off, making her frown as she picks up hew newspaper before going back into her home. "Who needs that pink freak? I no longer do!"

Rainbow slams the door close before going into her chair to relax. She opens the paper and begins to read, "All right, let's see...'President Pinkie Pie wins in a landslide'...wait, what? Pinkie is the president? Since when; and why does Equestria needs a president anyway?"

Rainbow looks confused before shaking her head. She probably imagined the headline so the mare flips to the next few pages. To her surprise, there is a picture of Pinkie punching herself ina boxing ring...with Pinkie in a dress doing a 'Dear John' column. What the hay?

"Huh? What the hay? What kind of paper would put Pinkie Pie one very page?" Rainbow asks in suspicion. She looks at the title, her eyes widened at the title, "'The Pinkie Pie Gazette'? That explains but who wanna read something this random?"

Rainbow got rid of the paper and grabs the remote, remarking, "Something's weird going on..."

Rainbow turns the TV on and it shows an old show. A TV announcer booms, "All right, now it's time for another wacky adventure as we go back in a wacky neighborhood with our famous Pinkie Pie crew, including Pinkie Pie..." We see Pinkie on the TV in a Bugs Bunny outfit, laughing, "...going on more misadventures...on 'The Pinkie Pie Show'!"

"Huh? Pinkie has a TV show?" Rainbow asks confused as she flips the channels.

We see another show that said 'Pinkie Lantern: The Animated Series' with Pinkie in a Green Lantern outfit exclaiming, "All right, we got Meanie Lanterns to fight; Okie dokie lokie!"

Rainbowe, shocked, change the channel once more. We see another show that said 'Pinkie X' as Pinkie in a Sonic the Hedgehog outfit run fast while exclaiming, "Go gotta fast! Gotta speed and other words that I forgot what they are!"

Rainbow is getting more worried as she changes the channels once more; we see a title of the next show. The announcer said, "And now it's time for 'My Little Pinkie: Friendship is Magic'." We see somepony doing a Pinkie Pie like laugh.

Rainbow flips the channels but no matter what happens, she keeps seeing Pinkie on a different character on every channel, as well as the news. The mare groans, "Awww, I think I don't feel so good..."

Rainbow rush over to the mirror to check herself. The Pegasus pony yelps as one of her pupils looks like Pinkie Pie, causing her to shake her head. She opens her mouth...showing one of Pinkie's teeth, making Rainbow yelps as she spits the tooth out. The Pegasus pony even put a thermometer on herself...which broke as it got all the way to 'Pinkie Pie'.

"Okay, okay, I am freaking out...I haven't been outside so I should get some fresh air." Rainbow mumbles to herself. The Pegasus pony figures that a flight through Ponyville can calm her down, right?

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As Rainbow flew through Ponyville, things got weird. She passed by a chubbier Pinkie who calls out, "Hey there, Dashie!"

"Right, hello..." Rainbow said, not really paying attention.

"Hey there, Dashie," A skinnier Pinkie calls out to Rainbow with a grin.

"Hey there..." Rainbow's eyes widened as she turns. There is a street full of Pinkie Pies. The mare gasps, no! This cannot be possible! She is out of her mind, "What?! No, no, no! Not this clone mess! I'm seeing too many Pinkie Pies again; AAAARGH!"

Rainbow quickly flew all the way into the Everfree Forest. The mare breaths in and out then sighs a bit upon stopping in the middle, "Okay, fresh air...and no one around. Nothing ever happened here...barely. I feel better already."

Rainbow smiles as she take a flower to smell and eat it...but then it blooms and shows Pinkie's face who exclaims, "Hey there Dashie! How do I smell?"

Rainbow screams as she drops the flower and stomps on it. But the mare looks around to see every animal in the forest now having Pinkie's face. Rainbow is beginning to freak out, this cannot be happening! What the hay is going on with Equestria?! Is Discord causing trouble again?!

Rainbow screams as she flew out of the Everfree Forest...then looks up and saw, to her shock, Pinkie's face in the sun. She smiles and exclaims, "Smile, smile, smile, Rainbow Dash! It's beautiful out! Celestia just raised me!"

Rainbow screams as she flew back to Ponyville and heads to the library. The mare got to get Twilight and tell her what's going on! Upon arrival, the mare knocks on the door frantically before it opens and she almost fainted. After recovering, Rainbow sighs as she saw her friend Twilight's head saying, "Twilight! You gotta help me! Something is going on with Equestria!"

"Relax, Rainbow Dash! You can always count on your good friend..." Twilight spoke up. As Rainbow looks up, her eyes bugged out and for a good reason. Twilight's face has transformed into that of Pinkie's! "...Pinkie Sparkle! Okie dokie lokie," She said the last part in half her voice, half Pinkie's as she laughs.

"NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!"

Pinkie screams as she flew off...and collides into Rarity who exclaims, "Excuse me!" The white unicorn turns around...and shows Pinkie's face, making her yelp in shock.

Twilight in Pinkie's voice ask happily, "What's wrong, Dashie? You remember one of our good and fashionable friends, Pinke-rity?" The mare grins as she saw three familiar fillies and turn Rainbow's face towards her, "As well as the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Pinkie Bloom, Pinkie Belle and Pinkie-aloo!"

Rainbow looks shocked as Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo now has Pinkie's faces on them. Is Equestria turning into Pinkie-ville?! The mare screams and flew off until she accidentally run into another pair of legs. Rainbow sighs as she recognizes them to be the ones belonging to her colt friend, Soarin'.

"Rainbow Dash, what's wrong?" Soarin' ask in a familiar voice.

"Soarin', thank goodness, you're here! I am having a very random crazy day! But at least since you're here..." Rainbow said in relief at first. That is until she looks up and saw, to her shock, that Soarin' has Pinkie's face as wel,. "...what the hay?!"

"Awww, how cool, Rainbow; How about a kiss for your stallion, okie dokie lokie?"

Rainbow screams in terror as she flew off, leaving a confused Soarin' behind. The mare flew right back to her home before closing the door, nailing it shut like mad. This is insane! The whole world has been turned into a world of Pinkie Pies!

"I cannot take this! I'm tired of everyone every pony as Pinkie Pie!" Rainbow exclaims frantically. "No more Pinkie Pie, please, no more!"

"Aww, come on, Dashie! It's not bad being me!" A familiar voice spoke up. Rainbow jumps as she saw the Pinkie in the newspaper speaking to her.

"Right, you oughta try it!" The Pinkie wearing the Green Lantern clothes on the TV said.

"No, not a chance," Rainbow protested in alarm.

"Come on, you are already wearing my coat and mane!" One of the Pinkie Pies points out to Rainbow. The mare looks at herself and saw that she is indeed wearing Pinkie's coat and mane.

"What?!"

"Plus, you're starting to look like yours truly too, Dashie!"

Rainbow looks in the mirror and saw Pinkie's face right on herself. As she gasps, the Pinkie on the TV said happily, "Yep! Now you're Pinkie Pie too!"

"No, no, no! I don't wanna be Pinkie Pie!" Rainbow screams in terror. She flew towards the door and slams right into it, causing the door to flip around and sending Rainbow falling to the ground with a groan.

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As Rainbow saw Pinkie's faces, a familiar voice spoke up, "Hey Dashie? You okay?" The Pegasus pony woke up and found herself outside again. "Wow, when I let you in, you did the wall so hard that you took a big hit to the head."

"What?" Rainbow asks puzzled. She saw Pinkie smiling then check herself out. The mare gasps as she saw that she herself is her real self. "Hey, wait...I am not Pinkie Pie?"

"Not unless you're keeping secrets. I brought you outside to recover, Dashie!"

Rainbow eagerly flew into her house and look in the mirror. So trace of Pinkie on the blue mare. The Pegasus pony flew outside and all around Ponyville. To her happiness, she saw Twilight, Soarin', Rarity and the Cutie Mark Crusaders doing their regular thing...and they're the same as they themselves are supposed to be! No sign of Pinkie Pie at all!

"It was all a dream!" Rainbow exclaims happily as she lands back on the cloud of her home. The whole Pinkie Pie world was a bad dream. The mare frowns as she turns to Pinkie. "And it was your fault, Pinkie Pie! Get out of here now!"

"But...but I was only trying to..." Pinkie said sadly as her mane and tail went flat again.

"NO MORE EXCUSES; JUST GET AWAY FROM ME!"

"...just trying to help Dashie..."

As Pinkie trots away in sadness, Rainbow yelps, feeling bad and guilty. She is wrong. It isn't the pink pony's fault, it was Rainbow's. She got mad at Pinkie and almost let her temper ruin what is more important: her friendship with the pink pony. Perhaps her dream was an experience of what happened if the two stop being friends.

"Pinkie, wait, don't leave!" Rainbow exclaims as she flew up in front of Pinkie, stopping her from leaving. "Listen, I'm sorry. I guess I was so mad about the door and about what happened...I shouldn't have taken it out on you. Don't feel bad anyway. At least there's one of you, right?"

Pinkie, hearing that, grins as her mane and tail became poofy once more. The pink pony exclaims, "Yep, the one and only...and I'm going to fix your door!"

Pinkie happily bounces back into Rainbow's hope and closes the door, locking it up tight before going back into her friend's chair. Rainbow soon realizes that she's locked out of the house again! Ugh, not again!

Rainbow rush to the door and knocks at the door while yelling, "Hey, Pinkie Pie! Open up, it's me!"

"Me who," Pinkie ask puzzled. Rainbow screams as she hits the door angrily. This is going to be a long day.

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Despite the fighting still happening on stage, the audience laughs at another cartoon done. Back in the backstage area, Golden Heart and Pinkamena were helping Ben in the number in hopes to get the 1 percent back and end the fighting.

"Better find a way that we can hire Twilight back, Ben. That fighting backstage is getting intense." Pinkamena said to Ben.

"Wait, I found something!" Ben gasps as he notices something that made him smile eagerly. Golden Heart checks the numbers then smiles excitedly upon noticing what the stallion just did.

"Perfect! Pinkamena, go get Twilight! She needs to see this!" Golden Heart orders Pinkamena who salutes her big brother and rush off to find Twilight.

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The audience applauds the cartoon, with Starven Fran nudging Rainbow Chaos a bit. The fight between Pinkie and Rainbow continues like mad.

As Golden Heart and Ben wait, they see Pinkamena with some cuts and Twilight behind her. Golden Heart says to his little sister, "You found Twilight but what happened to you?"

"Well I found Twilight and she was trying some magic. When I tap her shoulder, she jumped and the spell hit a crab and...well it got big." Pinkamena explains to Golden Heart with a cringe. "So what I am saying is.................... I HAD TO FIGHT A GIANT CRAB. But on the bright side, the cook there now has big sales on crab base foods."

"Ok, well, while Ben shows Twilight the numbers, let's try to stop the fight."

"Ok, I got Pinkie Pie and you get Rainbow Dash."

He nods as they both head off to stop the fighting. Twilight spoke, "Ben, what's this? Pinkamena told me that you found a solution to the budget."

"You betcha! There has been a mistake in my calculation in the budget!" Ben explains to Twilight with a smile.

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Back on stage, Pinkamena held Pinkie while Golden Heart held Rainbow; the two struggling ponies try to get free to fight each other all over again. Twilight trots in while calling out, "Girls, hey, girls, wait a minute!"

"What?" Rainbow and Pinkie demands as they stop their fighting in time to see Twilight coming over, "Oh, hey Twilight."

"Good news! Turn out that Ben made a mistake! We aren't really 1 percent over budget. We were actually one percent under it! That means we can hire someone back to the staff!"

Hearing that made Pinkie grins as she stops her fighting as did Rainbow; so there wasn't a problem with the budget at all! Just a miscalculation on Ben's part after all!

As Pinkamena and Golden Heart let the formerly fighting ponies go, Pinkie exclaims happily, "Ah, well, in that case, since I'm the host, I decided...I'm going to hire you back, Twilight, to be full time host! I am going to retire to being waiter for the guests again!"

The audience applauds excitedly. Twilight has been hired back. The mare grins as she comments, "That's what I call a true 'TRUE' friend!"

"Aw brother," Rainbow groans a bit. Looks like she misses out her chance on being host...again!

"You really are an arrogant egotistical mare, aren't you; Trying to fire your own friend!"

"Right, shame on you," Pinkamena scolds Rainbow, making the Pegasus pony feel even badder for trying to fire Pinkie in the first place.

"Hey, look, Pinkie, I know I'm the Element of Loyalty, but that also means I have to be loyal to the whole House of Pony and everypony working here. If the budget says we have to fire somepony so the rest can keep their jobs, it's not an easy decision but it has to be done." Rainbow explained Pinkie. "And besides, every time there's a hard job here that nopony wants to do, I'm the one who ends doing it. And obviously, firing you is something nopony wants to do."

"Well, I think I heard a sorry in there somewhere so it will have to do. But I will expect a full apology later!" Pinkie exclaims sternly, deciding to take the apology from Rainbow, even a half one in a way, for now. The pink pony jumps off the stage while exclaiming, "Rarity, catch me!'

Rarity, who is nearby, gasps as she saw Pinkie falling towards her, "Pinkie, no!" Too late as the pink pony lands on her, sending both ponies to the floor.

As everyone laughs, Rainbow chuckles, "Pinkie Pie, you are so random." The two fallen ponies got back up, Rarity gave a glare to Pinkie who smiles a silly smile towards her.

Spike, appearing, spoke to give out another advertisement to end the show, "Accounting and book keeping for the House of Pony has been provided by..."

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"Ponyland's Mathland! When you make a math magical mistake next time, make sure you visit Ponyland's Mathland!"

We see a picture of chalk drawn number while they are served with complicated equations.

"The quotation staff will serve some of the most uncomplicated but awesome denomenators in town! Ponyland's Mathland! Located in Equestria on Square Root two; all you got is follow the signs and cosines!"

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As the audience applauds, Twilight smiles while saying, "Well, that's it for today, everypony! I hope to see you all very soon!"

Author's Notes:

Another episode done, folks. Whatcha think? In the next episode 'Rent Day', Twilight ends up messing up as he spend 50 bits on a day to herself and a lot of books...and that money is needed to pay Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon for the rent! The mare got to figure out how to get the 50 bits without Ben finding out AND the Snotty Duo shutting the club down because of no rent! Read, review and suggest!

What Applejack talking about is that recently, some crew on both the show that we loved as well as 'Equestria Girls' is threatening to quit over the backlash after the trailer for the former is up.

She also mentioned great celebrities who died like Roger Ebert and Jonathan Winters who passed away recently.

As for Cartoon Network, some of their shows are gone like Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and it looks like The Looney Tunes Show is going as well.

And of course, the Archie Comics and Ken Penders is a lawsuit that occurred in the past.

Starven Fran is one of the Apocalypse Ponies.

Prince Artemis is the gender-bender version of Princess Luna.

The shows on the TV references The Looney Tunes Show, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Sonic X and of course Rainbow and Pinkie's actual show.

This chapter has a reference to 'The Last Roundup' episode of the Gen 4 series.