"FFUNFUNFUFNFUNFUNFUFNFUNFUFNUFNFUNFUNFUFNUFN!"

I cringed as I approached the door, only for Jen to poke my shoulder.

"Uh Kyth? We can fly. I'd rather not open the floodgates and fill our house with Pinkie Pies when we can just hop out the window."

I blinked and nodded. The two of us dashed up the stairs and jumped from the bedroom window. I asked her about our plan as we went.

"Okay, find the sad Pinkie and then get her to perk up and we can skip the paint drying stuff and have Pinkie fix everything herself!"

She nodded and pointed down.

"There she is! Let's go!"

We both set down. I spoke up, playing dumb.

"Hey Pinkie where'd all of these clones come from?"

"Why are you asking me? It's not like I'm the real Pinkie or anything."

"Of course you are!"

"Nuh-uh."

Jen chipped in.

"Ya-huh!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Ya-huh!"

"Nuh-uh!"

I watched the two go back and forth, Pinkie getting a tad miffed by the end.

"Ya-huh!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Ya-huh!

"Nuh-uh!"

"YA-HUH! I AM PINKIE PIE AND THAT IS FINAL!"

Pinkie's face got a blank expression, before she keeling over giggling. Jen spoke again as Pinkie jumped up and glomped her.

"See? You are the one Pinkie Pie!"

"Yeah!"

"You can prove it to everyone that no clone can be even close to being you!"

"Yeah!"

"And you're gonna help us gather the element bearers so we can exorcise all of the clones!"

"YEAH!"

I sighed in relief that our plan had worked and managed to out-Pinkie Pinkie and get her back to being herself. Jen reached up and took out a piece of string and wove Pinkie's mane into a ponytail (heh, ponytail), smiled at her, and spoke.

"There. Now we can know it's you. And here's the secret password for if your mane gets mussed up..."

She whispered in her ear, and Pinkie nodded emphatically.

"Okey-Dokey-Lokey!"

We started walking and saw the Apples herding all of the Pinkies. We flew up next to them, Pinkie planted on my back between my wings.

"Yo AJ! We got the real Pinkie right here!"

"Huh? Well how in tarnation do ya know that ones not just a clone?"

Jen spoke up.

"She's the only one not fun crazed! She even tried to deny being Pinkie Pie! It's like insanity, if you can see that you have it then you don't! This Pinkie can see that she might not be, and that means she is! She's the only one with Pinkie sense too, and she actually knows who all of you guys are!"

Applejack seemed to consider this as they finally herded the rest of the Pinkies into town hall. We flew in and went right to the stage and yelled out, even though Twilight had gotten them sat down.

"Would the real Pinkie Pie please stand up?!"

They all stood simultaneously, sans the real one.

"Kyth! I just got them down!"

"Yes but there's no need! We found the real Pinkie Pie!"

"What?! How? We couldn't figure out who the real one was, how did you?"

"Well it was the sad Pinkie obviously!"

"What? Kyth, Pinkie Pie isn't really the type to stay still for such a long time. What made you think it was her?"

"Well she was the only one that A. understood how useless it was to try and make everyone think she was the original and B. she was the only one who had a bigger vocabulary than,"

I leaned in to Twilight.

"FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN I'M THE REAL PINKIE PIE NO I AM NO-FUN FUN FUN! I'M PINKIE PIE LET'S GO DO FUN!"

She reeled back from my yelling.

"Ow! Still why would that make her the original?"

Jen spoke up now.

"Well the clones wouldn't have all of the mental faculties of the original, and besides,"

Jen's eyes turned bright blue for a moment as she glanced over all of the clones and the original.

"All of the Pinkies other than this one are energy constructs. I scanned them, they're all, like... Shells. Like they're just energy made into Pinkie-shaped shells. Kinda look like they're fulla bees of magic."

Twilight's face lost all expression.

"You can scan such a large crowd in such a large area... Just like that?"

Twilight looked to be on the verge of a mental breakdown.

"H-How!? Even the most advanced of magical scans take up massive amounts of power, and can only be used on a few ponies at the time! How can you take such a massive scan in such a small amount of time without even being slightly drained of magic!?"

Jen gained a sly/smug smile and leaned toward Twilight, eyes glowing.

"Science."

Twilight looked ready to have a melt down, and Pinkie leaned in nervously.

"Uh Twilight? How about you get out some of that frustration on the clones?"

Twilight nodded rigidly, and then screamed, eyes glowing white and beams of magic pulsing off of her horn and dissipating all of the clones in a few moments. She took a deep breath and then exhaled, giving Jen a crazed grin.

"Alright. So you can scan and get data on everything around you with more ease than even Starswirl the Bearded was supposedly able to do with all of his magical skill with... Science. How would you feel about me taking a look over you? I think that it's about time I continue studying on you two a bit, for the sake of Equestrian knowledge."

Jen and I looked at each other nervously and shrugged. Jen spoke.

"Alright... I think."

"Twilight. Twilight! TWILIGHT! PUT DOWN THAT POWER DRILL!"

"YOU SAID YOU WERE AN AUTOMATON! WE CAN JUST REASSEMBLE YOU WHEN I HAVE ALL THE DATA I NEED!"

"NOT IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE BLUEPRINTS FOR HOW I WAS MADE!"

I stepped between them.

"TWILIGHT THAT IS A TERRIBLE IDEA!  BESIDES, NO MEANS NO!"

"JUST GIVE ME THE DATA I NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW SCIENCE COULD EVER BEAT MAGIC!!"

She lunged with the drill, and I watched Jen karate chop her head in a panic. She dropped like a sack of potatoes and Jen started freaking out.

"Oh frack! I think I killed her!"

I put a hand on her neck.

"Okay she's still breathing! Um um um.... Okay! I have an idea!"

Twilight stood up with a groan, her head feeling like it had been smashed with a hammer... Or a robot. She read the small folded not that her horn had been stabbed into. She gained an angry expression and he mane flickered into flames for a brief moment, before she started for her basement. She mumbled as she descended.

"Show them to hit me... Gonna get my data somehow... Bucking 'science'...Honestly, 'fell down the stairs'.... I'll show them to- AHH!"

*whump whump whump whump whump*

"THIS PROVES NOTHING! NOT EVEN THAT I TALK TO MYSELF!"

Dear Twilight. You went crazy and tried to strip-scan me and then disassemble Jen for research, but you um... Fell down the stairs while you were chasing us. Yeah that sounds plausible, you fell down the stairs. Sincerely, Kyth.

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