"Aaaaaannnnnnnd... done!" I cry out happily. I don't think I'll ever get used to losing so much time in my day but every day there is more paperwork for me to go through that takes me a few hours. A few mind numbingly boring hours. I lean back in my seat as I look over to the other desks in the room. I don't know why all of the princesses share one room for this stuff but all of the paperwork comes here and I frown at seeing that Celestia and Luna have yet to even touch their pile. Come to think of it I've never seen them working on their paperwork but it always gets done. After shaking the thought from my head I was about to get up and go study my new things some more. I had already gotten king Sombra's crystal conjuration spell down and wanted to work on how the magic of the beenades I got from that Terraria world worked. But before butt left chair the door opened to Celestia who walked in and over to her desk to work on her pile.

"Now?" I ask with a raised eyebrow. "Isn't day court starting soon? What were you doing all this time anyways?"

"Yes it will start soon. And if you must know I had a bubble bath followed by a massage and snuck out in disguise to play a round of mini golf." Celestia listed off pleasantly before frowning. "You know it's been some time since we've played. Why don't you make a course and you, me and Luna can have a ball." She said as she went back to her pleasant smile. I was about to respond when her horn flashed gold and I watched with blinking eyes as Celestia moved through her papers turning a job that should have taken hours into a job that took minutes. Her movement were like watching desk clerk the documentary on fast forward.

"...What?" I ask with an eye twitch.

"Hm? Oh the Slow Time spell. It was created by Starswirl the Bearded after you're petrification. It's much like your haste spell only it slows time instead of speeding up the target." Celestia said with a smile. "Well I should be off. I'll see you at lunch aunty." And just like that she was gone.

"Haste spell..." I said with a far away voice before getting up and walking over to the wall before banging my head against it. "Stupid, stupid, stupid! I could have saved so much time all these months! No wonder I've never seen them working on the papers before!" I shout in frustration as I continue to bang my head on the wall but stopped when I heard a sound like something tapping on glass. With a confused blink I turn towards the source of the noise to see a pigeon at the window tapping at the glass like it was trying to get my attention. With a groan I walk over and open the window allowing it to fly in and land on my desk and start cooing at me.

"Sorry buddy I don't speak pigeon." I say tiredly. The bird coos once before jumping up and flying over to one of the walls where a map of Equestria was hung up and while continuing to fly in place started pecking at it. "What is their something there?" I ask when I see it pecking the same spot over and over. "Hold on a sec." I say as I go into my desk drawer and grab a pack of peanut butter crackers before taking one and breaking it into crumbs setting it on my desk. "Take this food as payment for being my minion, at least temporarily so I can understand what you're saying." I tell him which he quickly accepts as he returns to my desk and started eating with gusto.

After a short waited while the little piggy scarfed down all of the crumbs the pigeon started cooing again but thanks to the connection it now had to my heart I could understand him. And what he said made me double take. I quickly rush over and grab him up in my paws and brought him up to my face.

"You're sure about this?" I ask in a hushed tone receiving another coo in response. "And they don't know you know?" I whispered conspiratorially. Once more I got a coo but knowing the answer I grew a Cheshire cat grin before taking a portal directly into my war room. Once the portal was closed I gave an excited "YES!" and danced around the table as I grabbed a tiny toy castle out of a drawer in the far wall.

"What's going on in here? Princess are you alright?" Octavia asked as she walked into the room. Drawn in by my excited cheer.

"Oh I'm better than alright!" I say excitedly as I pawed the toy castle with a little white flag I just put on it to my feathery new friend. "Do you know how frustrating it's been? The Goodly Heroes wait till they're prepared and attack when they feel they have the advantage. But when we get information on their bases from captured enemy's the bases they knew about were already abandoned and anything of value is taken or destroyed!" I say in an aggravated voice as I use my magic to pull Octavia over and lift her up so she could see the map as the pigeon placed the toy castle on the same part of the map he was pecking on the map in that office in the palace.

"Um...I can image?" She said in an unsure tone as I sat in the big boss chair and set her on my lap and started petting her like an evil genius pets their evil cats.

"But the peace treaty with the Great Pigeon Empire has at last bared fruit! They have discovered the location of one of their bases and the best part is they don't know that I know where it is!" I shout excitedly.

"So they won't be gone when you get there!" Octavia said with realization from her place on my lap as she raises her head up to look at the map table once more. "Are we attacking it now or preparing the troops first?"

"None of the above!" I say excitedly getting a look of confusion from her. "They have a complex communication system so that no one knows where all of the other bases are. So I want to use this base and find out how they communicate with the others and follow that connection to the other bases and..." I say before cutting myself off. Leaving the rest for her to fill in.

"By following the bases connections to each other and the further connections those bases have you might be able to find them all." Octavia said with an approving nod before climbing down from my lap and started circling the map table. "But how are you going to find the connection? A pigeon would draw attention and if nothing else they would get taken outside by them. Are you going to use those little perverts that tried to steal my unmentionables?" Octavia asked with a slight look of anger.

"No I'll need to hire new minions for this job. Minions that would get ignored and make great spies. The minions that every dungeon keeper gets off the bat and almost always gets thrown back! All I need to attract them is the proper payment that they can't resist. Poop covered in sugar!" I shout out making her gag.

"Poop covered in sugar!?" Surprisingly that wasn't Octavia's voice and its tone was surprisingly excited for what was being said. "Is it yummy? What's poop? Is it fun?" I blink in confusion as I turn to see Pinkie Pie bouncing next to me.

"That's a strange and disgusting question Pinkie. No I wouldn't suggest eating or playing with poop." I deadpan. "You look more excited than usual. What's up?" I ask as I pull Pinkie off the table with my magic and away from the toy castle she was reaching for.

"Fun!" She replied excitedly as she flapped her forelegs like she was flying.

"Oh? You want to play? Ok but there is something important I need to do first before I stop to have fun." I say as I start to carry her out with my magic.

"Fun fun fun!" She repeated excitedly and an old memory clicked.

"Pinkie...What's my name?" I asked her.

"How should I know? You haven't told me yet!" She replies with a smile.

"Oh no Pinkie are you alright? You haven't hit your head have you?" Octavia asked in a worried tone as she rushed over to check Pinkie's head. After all Pinkie never forgot anyone.

"Pinkie where do you come from?" I asked in an even tone. She thought about it for awhile before coming up with an answer.

"And into her own reflection she stared. Yearning for one whose reflection she shared. And solemnly sweared not to be scared at the prospect of being doubly mare!" She sang out. "Hey why are your eyes all glowy?" She asked before I blasted her reducing her to a squeaky toy.

"What!? Why did you do that to Pinkie!?" Octavia screeched in panic.

"That's not Pinkie. That little poem she said was a spell used with something called the mirror pool. I've been looking for it for a long time but never found the thing. This is a magical construct like my imps made in Pinkie's image." I said as I grab my new toy out of the air with my paws and hug it.

"Everything's bigger...Fun!" The toy Pinkie Squeaked excitedly.

"That's right. You're my toy now so the only meaning in your little existence is fun!" I say to the pink toy getting an excited cheer from it. "I'll hire the flies after I grab up as many toy Pinkies as I can before they're all gone!" I call out as I create a portal and grab the minions that would be perfect for this.

Later in Ponyville.

"Ug, this is hopeless." Twilight complained as she walked through town.

"Maybe that one's the real Pinkie." Spike said as he pointed to the only Pinkie laying in a slump.

"Please, the real Pinkie Pie never sat that long in one place her whole life!" Twilight exclaimed.

"I'm going to go ask." Spike replied as he ran over to the depressed pink pony.

"Of course she's gonna say she's the real Pinkie! They all do! You're wasting your time." Twilight called out to the young dragon.

"So lemme guess. You're the real Pinkie Pie." Spike asked.

"Heck if I know. Could be any one of us if you ask me. And if I said I was the real Pinkie, you wouldn't even believe me anyway. So just leave me alone. I've got some important poking the ground with my hoof to do." Pinkie said solemnly as she tried to walk off...until I tackled her to the ground. "Hey what gives?" Pinkie asked as she looked up at me.

"What's my name?" I ask her as I got in her face.

"Rin" She replied in confusion.

"What was your favorite picture I showed you on the first day we met?" I continued.

"The one where baby Celestia and baby Luna are trying to feed you with a giant baby bottle!" She said with a laugh at the image.

"They didn't just try. They succeeded despite my efforts. Though I would have greatly preferred it if they had filled it with milk instead of soy sauce." I respond as I think back to that day.

"What is going on here?" Twilight asked as she walked up to us.

"The fakes don't know anything that the original hadn't taught them. The fact that she answered and is the only one of them I've seen with a soul proves this is the real Pinkie!" I shout out in victory as I hold the pink pony over my head. "And I'm not letting her go till all the fakes are caught!"

"That's great! And I can't believe I didn't think of that." Twilight said as she charged up her horn. "Now I can hunt down all the Pinkie clones and-" She began to say before I bop her horn with a paw and pick her up. "Hey!"

"No! Bad Twilight. Sit back and learn." I say as I grab the two in my tails and sneak through the alleyways and send the command.

"Welcome one and all Pinkies!" A voice called out as fireworks go off in the air and music starts to play. "Come to Trixie's funhouse! Don't know where it is? Just follow the fireworks and the music! Hurry the fun will begin soon!"

"Oh I get it. You're rounding them up before you send them back." Twilight said with a nod of understanding.

"No I'm going to keep them and turn them into toys." I reply happily.

"What? Why?" Twilight asked in confusion.

"Because toys that play back are some of the best ones!" I say.

"I don't know. It seems wrong to leave them existing considering all of the damage they've caused." Twilight complained.

"No, what's wrong is how you found that spell in the first place. Why was it in a hidden compartment that only had a book on the mirror pool in it that you just so happen to find when you're looking for info on the mirror pool!?...By the way, I sent one of my minions to your library to...check out, that mirror pool book for an unknown amount of time. No late fees if you'd please." I tell her with a smug smile.

"Hey! I wasn't done reading that! And it's not wrong it's good luck!" Twilight wined before pausing for a moment before giving me a suspicious look. "Wait...how do you know about how we found that book?" I pause at her question and slowly turn my head to look up at her while giving her a deathly serious look. Time for trollyloly

"The same way Celestia knew that having the Summer Sun Celebration next to the Everfree on that night and sending you there would just so happen result in you making the friends with just the right qualities and being in walking distance of the Elements to free Luna. Did you really think all of that was just a coincidence?" I asked her while giving her a brief 'are you kidding me?' look before bringing her in so our faces touched and I used illusions to rapidly flash random images. Most of them from works of fiction but still looked credible if only seen for a moment. "I'm a princess. We know lots of things... Lots of things." I say that last part in a distorted tone before dropping the illusions and going back to a friendly smile. "Ok?" With that done I happily start bouncing along humming a happy tune with a mind blown Twilight wrapped in one of my tails. I also take the time to pick spike up as he's trying desperately to keep up with me and the poor guy is out of breath. Not that it mattered much because we were soon at Trixie's fun house on the outskirts of town.

"That's your trap? It looks like it's made out of cardboard." Spike said as I set him down.

"Cardboard and a jar!" I said enthusiastically as I set them down and started blasting the dollification spell through the opening in the fake house before reaching in through the cut out door and shrinking the giant jar back down to its normal size. and putting a lid on it. "Mine!" I call out cheerfully as I hug the jar now full of toy Pinkies. "Good work girls." I say to Trixie and Vinyl as they come out.

"What do you expect from the great and powerful Trixie other than perfection in her work?" Trixie asked with a smug smile before looking at the still stunned Twilight. "Twilight if you don't close your mouth you're going to catch flies." Trixie said as she waved a hoof in front of Twilight's face. "Is she going to be alright?" I look at Twilight after Trixie's question and use the tip of one of my tails to tickle the purple unicorn's nose and pulling it away just before Twilight sneezed. After a few sniffles Twilight used her magic to summon forth a large roll of paper.

"Spike take a letter." Twilight instructed causing Spike to groan at all that paper rolled into one large scroll but still he pulled out a quill and got ready to write.

"Dear princess Celestia. Princess Rin has brought to my attention that you know more than you let on in a way that leads me to believe that you are aware of the things that I have been keeping secret from you. Now that I know you are aware of them however I would like to take the time to apologize and clarify a few things on such subjects including but not limited to, foal hood pranks, secret late book returns, secret pornography stashes and sneaking into restricted areas. I will list this things in chronological order."

"My first apology is when I wrote a twenty paragraph essay entitled 'Why the Nobles Are Big, Stinky, Stupid Heads' on the blank lower half of the scroll you wrote that speech on when I was five. Though after I grew older I always wondered why you continued to read it to the crowd even after your speech ended. It should have been clear to you that it was not your work not just from memory or contents but also by the fact that it was written with crayons." I raise my eyebrow at Twilight before looking at Trixie who was giving Twilight's confessions her undivided attention.

"You stay and listen. I'm going to want all the juicy details later." I whisper getting a small nod from Trixie before I turn to Vinyl. "Let's go."

Later at the dungeon.

"It looks like you shrunk your play room and turned it into a town." Swift comments as she looks inside the tank containing the toy Pinkies as well as the dollified monsters from the Terraria world.

"That's because I took all my toys and fused them to build this town. It will keep them occupied when I'm not playing with them." I respond as I watch two toy Pinkies using some wind up cars to race through the streets. "Besides I can make more toys later.

"Have you ever considered using them as recruits?" Swift asked.

"If you think you can train them to fight and take orders go for it. Till then they're just playthings. I could always use more troops for the attack on the Goodly Hero's bases. I don't know how long it will take the flies I've hired along with the Pigeon's to find them all." I say with a shrug just before a note appeared over my head. After reading it I smile and with a flash of inspiration manifestation I'm back in my Riddler costume from Nightmare Night. "Well I just got an invite to a displaced Halloween party! Good luck with the toys I'll be back later." I say with a wave as I create a portal.

"Wait what about the Goodly Heroes? Shouldn't you be planning the attack?" Swift asked.

"Not much I can do till more info comes in. All we can do is prepare our troops, wait and hope they don't have anything big planned before we're ready." I reply before I leave.

Meanwhile in an undisclosed location.

"What is wrong with you boy?" An older pony said as he whacked Hunter upside the head. "Not only did you fail to bag your prey twice but you failed both times in the most idiotic and undignified ways possible. Flushed down a toilet. Really? I know you want to get a trophy for the family collection but you need to control yourself."

"Sorry father. But at least I got us a weapon that could defeat the dark fox and any other darkness user." Hunter replied.

"Well at least you did something right boy. Now we just need to wait for sister Lyra and her flock to recharge the artifact." The older pony said as they watched the ponies around the Crystal Heart work.

"Let our light fill the heart with love and happiness as it was meant to be as foretold by the prophesies of the great Strong Heart!" Lyra called out to the ponies bowing before the Crystal Heart.

"Season three episode one and two. The Crystal Empire part one and two." The ponies chanted in unison. No one knew why the great Strong Heart listed his prophesies as episodes or seasons but no one ever bothered to change it.

"Once the dark one is gone we can get back on track and guide the land in a new age of piece once the betrayer Discord is also destroyed and a new princess rises to bring friendship to the land!" Lyra shouted with joy.

"Season three episode thirteen. Magical Mystery Cure." They chanted again. Soon. So very soon. Hunter thought to himself.

Later that night in the palace.

Celestia walked up to her cake as she licked her lips. Ready to gorge herself on the delectable sweet treat in front of her. But just before she could take a bight she felt Spikes mail magic in the air and looked up but was too surprised by the size of the scroll to catch it causing it to hit her on the head forcing her face into the cake.

"Oh my, that must have been some friendship problem." Celestia's muffled voice came from inside the cake. A short moment passed with Celestia just standing there with her head buried in the cake before the sound of munching came from within the dessert. "Mmmmmmmmmmm."

Author's Notes:

A picture of the Halloween party.

There was a Halloween fanart picture with Rin and several other displaced in a costume party. Sorry to way it's no longer up.