Pinkie Pie woke up with a start, she looked up at the sky only to realize that it was dark. Her head hurt and her powers weren’t working. A human was next to her unconscious as well, but the markings on his face reminded her of one of the people that Luna brought with her. ‘Hmmm, well time to figure out where we are.’ she thought climbing to her feet, her body hurt but she knew that she had to get out of the shady looking alley that they were in. She moved her pink hair to the side before looking at the clothes she was in. They were different than the ones she wore in Albion. These had pockets, and inside one of these pockets was a hair tie.

“Oooh, I was wondering where that went.” Pinkie said as she pulled her hair up before heading over to the stranger. “Come on let’s get out of here and find out where we are.”

Pinkie kept a low key while waiting for the stranger to wake up. Not having any money it was hard for her to get anything done, including finding them room. She did find out some information from passing people. They were in the City called Midgar, there were two levels divided by a large plate, each level was divided into sectors, they were in the Monster infested area called the Slums. At first it didn’t make any sense until she was attacked. Pinkie Pie had been travelling between Sector Four and Sector Five hoping to find something. Her companion didn’t seem to be doing to well to the transition of the worlds. He hadn’t woken up yet and seemed to be getting very ill and he was kind of slowing her down. She was just taking a rest when two very strange humanoid creatures with masks attacked her. Pinkie had dropped her companion and backed away her hands instinctively going to her sides. The touch of a familiar hilt caught her attention. Not looking down she pulled two daggers out giving these creatures a grin. Her eyes scanned the area before noticing a word in the air next to her name: Attack. Something also by her name was HP with a blue bar and some numbers, MP followed by a green bar, Limit with an empty box, followed by Time. There was her name and the name of her companion: Star Shaper.

“Let’s do this.” she said before moving forward to attack, the attack word glowed and she sliced down towards her enemy. As soon as the attack hit she saw the number eight rise up, the creature moved towards her using a move called Grind. Unfortunately for the creature Pinkie didn’t have any items on her so there was nothing to steal. She did her best to attack the creatures, only for it to be harder than she remembered. Especially when the creatures started hitting back. Thankfully she had someone to rescue her, a blonde haired pale stranger going by the name of Cole. He didn’t say where he was from but did tell them where they could stay while they were there.

It wasn’t too difficult with Cole by their side to get to safety. He managed to either fend off the monsters with his daggers or get them to leave the small group alone. They made it to a place called Wall Market in Sector Six where a inn was waiting for them. Star Shaper was still asleep, though he seemed to be getting better. Pinkie didn’t know what to do, her first instinct was to search for her friends. But she had no idea how, that was when the first pop sounded in her mind. Her next idea was to open up a tavern, figure out what she was supposed to do while cheering all those in this city up. Her only problem was the lack of funds.

“Money is always the problem.” she gripped sitting on the bed as Cole watched her unblinking. “In Albion Sparrow helped fund my tavern. Here I’ve got nothing.”

“When you kill the monsters of this world they drop money when they vanish.” he told her looking at the gil they had on the table. “Do they turn into the money or do they just dissolve?”

Pinkie paused in her thoughts at that, it was a good point. She didn’t know the answer to the question and sat there quietly for a moment pondering. Each time an idea popped into her head she brushed it away trying to figure out the inquiry presented to her.

“How about we focus less on where it comes from and how we can make more.” a voice from the bed spoke up and the two looked over to see Star Shaper sitting up. His golds eyes staring at the two of them.

“Well we know that it comes from Monsters.” the pink pony pointed out thoughtfully. “But we can’t just get money straight from them.”

“Sure we can.” the mysterious stallion pointed out not moving from his spot. “We can start doing bounties. Hunting certain creatures that are causing more problems than usual.”

“You will need to learn how to walk first.” Cole told Star Shaper who frowned. “You are afraid to move from the bed, don’t worry I won’t let you fall.”

“Was he at the Gala?” the golden eyed male inquired raising an eyebrow at the blonde. Pinkie shrugged as Cole continued. “Dancing, bright colors, Discord wanting attention from Fluttershy. She wasn’t the only one who he wanted attention from. She didn’t know it, but he does intrigue her. Illidan only wanting to protect his world even if it means defending yours. He doesn’t care but a way had already been open, long ago. Before he was sealed, Luna doesn’t want her sister to know just like the Tree of Harmony doesn’t want any pony to know about what it did.”

“How… do you know all about that?” the question was on both of the ponies minds and Cole looked at them saying. “It would help, not entirely but it would help them heal.”

“You want to help the hurts, the ones others can’t see.” Pinkie realized before tilting her head to the side. “Have you always been able to do that?”

“Yes.” was the only answer from the strange male. “Hunting monsters to help people is a good idea. No one gets hurt too bad travelling in the Slums anymore and Pinkie Pie can open her tavern again.”

“All we have to do is figure out how much money we need to open one.” Star Shaper said looking around for something to write with before sighing. “After we get some much needed supplies. I don’t think we can live here forever.”

“Not forever silly, just until we open up the Tavern. Then we can live there!” Pinkie told him giving them both hugs. “Thank you so much for doing this!”

“Well we are all trapped here together best make the most of it.” Star Shaper told her trying to get out of the hug. “How strong are you?”

“Earth pony!” she giggled squeezing them both tighter before staring straight ahead. “This is going to be awesome!”

Author's Notes:

I do not own MLP or any other series in this fanfic