You know what's scarier than Twilight when a minuscule detail wrecks the plan she had been carefully designing for weeks with a single specific day in mind? Here's a hint: it's Pinkie Pie when a not-so-minuscule porcelain plate full of gems flies out of the window and into her face as she's coming over to pay us one of these random visits of hers. It was kinda hard to see, but her whole face was bloodied. And she was missing a tooth.

Almost made it understandable that she immediately pounced Twilight, I'm guessing because she was closer to the door than I was, and started shaking her and demanding answers. What wasn't so understandable was the fact that her mane and tail appeared to be perfectly straight... oh, yeah, and the terrifying otherwordly demonic echo to her voice.

"Did you do this on purpose?", "is it a MESSAGE?", "DO YOU NOT LOVE ME?", stuff like that. And then she just goes sad and begins mumbling about her friends not loving her anymore and something about cupcakes. Worst part is that, throughout all this, Twilight's expression hadn't changed at all. In fact, I realised she hadn't blinked once since that morning.

Then out of nowhere, and I really mean out of nowhere, Pinkie's right up against my face and ordering me to talk. I just told her the truth, that it was all an accident and PLEASE DON'T KILL ME, the usual. She then proceeded to bounce around the library, mane and tail puffy and curly once again, saying that we were forgiven and that she was going to throw a "let's-forgive-Twilight-and-little-Spike-for-ruining-my-face-for-weeks" party. Slightly disturbing, but probably less likely to get me killed.

While the... party maniac calmed down, Twi started flipping through the book again. Have you ever wondered if she's actually reading when she does that? Apparently she is. Don't ask me how. She shrieked and said she'd found it, which made Pinkie Pie noticeably excited, even though I'm pretty sure she had no idea what Twi was talking about. My suspicions were confirmed when she simply asked Twilight what was happening. I... faceclawed?

"We're doing SCIENCE!" she said. And then she stared directly at me. The eye twitching was a nice detail, real nice. Pinkie was very obviously distracted blowing a magical candle that created sparks and colorful figures and that kind of thing that mesmerizes her. I think she didn't hear what Twi said.

Grinning even more widely she started casting a spell, which I guessed was the same one Trixie had somehow messed up earlier that dreadful day. Pinkie didn't notice until a few seconds later, when she saw the unusually bright lighting engulf the room, and jumped Twilight excitedly asking her what she was doing. For the first time since she went neurotic, her grin disappeared. Pinkie had startled her and it was obvious to me that something was about to go wrong... to be honest, everything that had happened that day made it obvious that something was about to go wrong. The entire day WAS wrong.

My wishes for an accidental laws-of-nature-breaking wildfire once again didn't come true. Despite her Pinkie-induced loss of concentration, Twilight still managed to open a portal to that strange place, which made that creepy smile return to her. And then it happened.

Something came out of the portal. It resembled one of Fluttershy's monkeys very, very vaguely, but it sure wasn't one. It initially stood on two legs and had these wiggly appendages where hooves would be on a pony, but it was almost completely dressed in what looked like combat gear. Intelligent, perhaps? Its brown helmet partially obscured its eyes. At the same time it appeared, eerie music began to play, but Twilight wasn't using her magic and Pinkie was too dumbfounded to do anything. I still don't know where that music came from and nobody but me seemed to even be aware of its existence, either.

We stood still in silence looking at the strange creature. With a sudden jerk it crawled into a ball and quickly slid across the floor, making strange cracking noises. It stopped just about a metre away from Twilight and recomposed itself with a particularly painful sound, this time with its head tilted backwards so its helmet no longer obscured its sight. It looked at her straight in the eyes. She looked back.

"Test subject, please confirm or deny your identity as 'The Great and Powerful Trixie' immediately!" she chimed in, with an unusually cheerful tone. Sure, the Great and Powerful Trixie had somehow transformed into The Weird and Not-Trixie-At-All Trixie. The creature didn't seem to mind. Then, it spoke.

"I am Painis Cupcake. I will eat you."

Its face contorted into something ghoulish and undescribably frightening. At the same time, seemingly out of nowhere, the mysterious music of indeterminate origin turned into an extremely menacing tune of indeterminate origin that signalled something bad was about to happen. I guess his threat had something to do with it. That was when I started to understand.

This is the part where he eats you.

Before I even fully realised the implications of this, the thing lunged at Twilight and took a big bite out of her left hind leg. The wound didn't look deep, but it was pretty big and started bleeding profusely. Her face suddenly morphed back into normal, but it was evident she was scared out of her mind, and that made me even more terrified. I started crying and... hey, why that look? Seeing Twi get attacked like that made my heart sink. And I'm not used to seeing blood, you know?

So Twilight had finally come back to her senses only to realise her portal was no longer there and the damned creature was feasting on her flesh. I'm not sure if it was the blood loss or the shock, but she fell unconscious. I stood in awe while the thing nonchalantly chewed and swallowed the bloody meaty mess it had acquired, then made a disgusted expression and moaned. Guess it didn't like the taste of pony flesh... can you imagine if it did?

Just as fast as before, the thing slid towards me and pinned me against the wall. It, again, wore the same expression and told me it was going to eat me, which was quite enlightening. Ignoring my begging for mercy, the demon bit my arm, and immediately flinched. Yeah, the scales were too thick, and that's kind of awesome, actually. Although at that time I was too busy imagining the relationship between my digestive system and the pants I wasn't wearing.

Its face returned to the same expression of disgust it bore a few moments earlier and immediately let me go. It didn't like the taste of dragon scales, either. Cool, I guess. I thought maybe things would stop becoming weirder by the minute for once, maybe even go back to normal before the day ended. But it wasn't over yet. Not at all.

Get this: I caught something moving just out of the corner of my eye. Something vaguely yellow and pink... that something instantly launched towards the creature and landed a hoof right onto its face. Don't ask how, but the impact's force was enough to send the demon flying straight into a wall and make it  stay there, nice and quiet and not trying to eat anything else. I turned to the source of the mess that had just unfolded and couldn't believe what I saw. There stood a very pink and very impressed earth pony next to a not so yellow and extremely agitated Pegasus.

"Fluttershy!?"