Disclaimer: I don't own My Little Pony

Celestia's sun shone brightly over Ponyville as a new day began. Twilight Sparkle yawned and woke up staring at her ceiling. The unicorn really didn't want to get out of bed. Twilight threw her blanket over her head and decided to take an off day.

"Twilight!" called Spike from downstairs.

Twilight didn't answer.

"Twilight!" cried Spike again.

Twilight once more didn't answer and heard footsteps approaching.

"Oh great." thought Twilight bitterly.

"Hey Twilight, it's already past seven. You're usually up by now." noted Spike.

"I don't want to get up." said Twilight.

"Are you feeling okay?" asked Spike.

"I'm fine." answered Twilight.

"Twilight-" began Spike.

"I just want to sleep in." said Twilight.

"That's not like you." noted Spike.

"I don't care." said Twilight harshly.

Spike pulled the cover off Twilight.

"Do you want me to get a medical book?" asked Spike.

"I'm fine." answered Twilight.

"If you need help, I'm more than willing-" began Spike.

Before he could finish, Twilight enveloped Spike with her magic and lifted him up.

"Twilight! cried Spike.

"I want peace." snarled Twilight.

"Don't hurt me!" begged Spike.

"Too late." stated Twilight coldly.

Twilight threw Spike out the window with full force. His body splattered on the ground below as ponies gathered around it.

"Twilight, are you okay?" asked Spike.

Twilight shook her head to see Spike still standing before her.

"Another hallucination. Their frequency is increasing." thought Twilight.

The lavender unicorn sat up and cleared her throat.

"I am fine and I've also decided you're right. I'm going to try and master a new spell today." answered Twilight.

"What spell?" asked Spike.

Twilight had to think for a moment as she rubbed her chin with her hoof.

"Turning an apple into an orange." answered Twilight.

Twilight headed down stairs and washed up. Spike offered to make breakfast, but Twilight didn't have much of an apatite. She asked where the book she needed was and Spike had already retrieved it. At Spike's proposition, they went for breakfast at Spring's Muffin Brunch. Twilight ordered an apple (delivered from Sweet Apple Acres) and began to perform her spell. Despite her best efforts, Twilight could not perform the spell.

"Try again Twilight. You can do it." said Spike encouragingly.

Twilight used her leg to wipe sweat off her forehead.

"This spell's a thoughy. But, I feel lucky this time." said Twilight.

Twilight activated her magic and enveloped the apple.

"1...2..." began Twilight.

Before she could finish, Twilight was tackled by Pinkie Pie. Her magic shot off and ricocheted before hitting a blue jay. Twilight managed to shove the hugging pink party pony off her.

"Pinkie, why did you do that?" asked Twilight annoyed.

"Because hugs are fun-o-riffic." answered Pinkie, wrapping her front legs around herself "Especially when it's with a friend."

Pinkie un-hugged herself and her body sun around.

"I will never understand her." thought Twilight sternly.

"Whatca doing?" asked Pinkie innocently.

"Trying to turn that apple into an orange." answered Twilight, heading back to the table.

"But you kind of threw her aim off." added Spike.

As if on cue, the blue jay/orange hybrid flew by the ponies and baby dragon.

"What a cutie orange birdy! Do me next Twilight! Do me! Do me!" cried Pinkie Pie.

As Pinkie hopped up and down, a white unicorn with a love of fashion arrived wearing a cloak - until Pinkie bumped into her.

"Rarity , want to see Twilight turn me into an orange?" asked Pinkie, "It's gonna be fun-a fun fun!"

"As fun as creating this ooh couture ensemble I finished making?" asked Rarity removing her cloak, "Delightful, no?"

"This is terrible!" cried Pinkie.

"I admit perhaps it's not my finest work-" began Rarity, looking over her dress.

"You had total, awesome, amazing fun and I missed out on it?" asked Pinkie.

Pinkie thought for a moment before hopping back over to Twilight.

"What if there's more awesome, amazing fun with friends happening that I'm missing out on to?" asked Pinkie anxiously.

"We weren't going to turn her into an orange. I swear." stated Spike.

Rarity simply shrugged and ran off to her her new outfit to other ponies. Twilight decided to go back to her spell not really caring what Pinkie was up to at the current moment. Her peace lasted a bit as she still struggled to get to master the spell.

"I don't know Twi, maybe you just need a break." suggested Spike.

"You're too weak. Princess Celestia could have easily mastered that spell. It looks like somepony is falling behind in her studies." said an ominous voice.

"Spike, did you you say something?" asked Twilight, "I was...preoccupied."

"I said you might need a rest." answered the baby dragon.

"Great. Now I'm hearing voices." thought Twilight.

Twilight shook her head and decided to focus.

"1..2..." began the lavender unicorn.

Before she could finish, Pinkie jumped on Twilight's back causing the spell to again miss its target. This time, it ricocheted around and turned a frog into an orange. The party pony again flashed by Twilight and Spike.

"Pinkie." said Twilight.

The pink party pony stopped sliding into the dirt.

"What in the wide, wide world of Equestria are you doing now?" asked Twilight, walking over.

"Timing myself running back and forth between the swimming hole and Sweet Apple Acres." answered Pinkie.

Pinkie Pie began hoping up and down around Twilight and Spike.

"I'm trying to cut down my time so after Rainbow Dash dives off the swing I can go to Sweet Apple Acres to help with the barn raising then be back in time to see Rainbow Dash it the water after doing a double flip." explained Pinkie.

Twilight and Spike needed a moment to take this all in as Pinkie looked at the watch around her neck.

"If I can cut my time by twenty minutes, I'm good." said the Element of Laughter.

Twilight thought for a second and laughed

"Oh Pinkie, I'm afraid the only way to pull that off is if there's more of you to go around." said Twilight, using her magic to pick the table and apple back up.

Pinkie's head rotated clockwise and sprung back as she pupils rang like a clock complete with sound.

"That's it Twilight!" declared Pinkie.

"It's Pinkie Pie...don't question it." thought Twilight.

Pinkie jumped over and hopped on the table.

"The Legend of the Mirror Pool!" exclaimed Pinkie.

"The legend of the who-what now?" asked Twilight.

Pinkie didn't answer instead hopping off.

"I'm familiar with loads of legends but I've-" began Twilight.

"Does this mean practice is over?" asked a hopeful Spike.

"Of course not. Back to work." answered Twilight.

Twilight continued to work on her spell to no success. Exhausted, she decided to head back to Golden Oak Library to lay down and rest. Twilight uncharacteristically left the book behind so Spike grabbed it and ran after her. Twilight ignored his pleas and made her way back to her room. Once there, Twilight threw herself onto her bed and laid down. She took a nap before a voice awoke her.

"Giving up so soon?" asked the voice from before.

"Fuck off." answered Twilight.

"Such language." said the voice sarcastically.

"I'm losing my mind." sighed Twilight.

"Somepony is still pissed she doesn't know The Legend of The Mirror Pond." mused the voice.

" I remember something about a mirror in Canterlot, but it had nothing to do with a pond." noted Twilight.

"Can you even remember that?" asked the voice.

"No." answered Twilight.

"I guess you never paid attention in your studies." stated the voice.

"Shut up!" snapped Twilight.

"Twilight, are you okay?" asked Spike.

"I'm fine." answered Twilight.

"Lying to your number one assistance." said the voice, with mock disappointment.

"Don't give me that." sighed Twilight.

Twilight rubbed her face with her hoof.

"I'm losing my freaking mind." sighed the unicorn.

"I'm as real as you are." stated the voice.

Twilight rubbed her chin for a moment.

"Why do you sound familiar?" asked Twilight.

"I would have figured you would have by now." answered the voice.

"Twilight!" cried Spike.

Twilight went downstairs and looked out the window of the library where she saw an army of Pinkie Pies prancing around.

"Oh great, I'm seeing things." moaned Twilight.

"This is bad. Pinkie Pies...Pies...have overtaken Ponyville!" cried Spike.

Twilight blinked and looked at her assistant.

"You see this too?" asked Twilight.

"Yeah." answered Spike.

Before either of them could day anything, a loud collection of voices could be heard outside.

"What's that?" asked Twilight.

"I don't know." answered Spike.

The two went outside and found an mob of ponies.

"Calm down everypony." said Twilight.

"Why don't you go to Mayor Mare?" asked Spike.

"She's looked up in her office." answered Cloud Kicker.

"Worthless bureaucrat." thought Twilight

Twilight blinked as she realized how unusual thinking that about somepony was for her.

"The Pinkie Pies crushed my carrot seeds! I need to grow them to make a living!" cried Carrot Top.

"They knocked over Pina Colada!" cried Berry Punch.

"They crushed our flowers!" cried Rose, Daisy and Lily in unison.

The three flowers ponies exclaimed about "the horror" they went through.

"They barely touched a stem." noted Colgate.

"Okay everpony. Please, calm down." requested Twilight.

"Calm down! I just had a Pinkie hurricane raging through my shop!" exclaimed Rarity.

"And they crashed our critter picnic." added Futtershy, usually upset.

The town ponies began to voice their complaints to Twilight.

"Please everypony, hang on while I try to figure something out." requested Twilight, "Come on Spike."

Twilight retreated into the Golden Oaks Library with Spike right behind her. The two quickly began digging through books as twilight found herself unable to remember the name of the legend Pinkie Pie talked about.

"Oh, it seems somepony really is losing her edge." said the voice, enjoying this site.

"Ignore it Twilight." thought the unicorn.

Twilight and Spike split up and continued hunting for the name of the legend.

"I've got to try and remember the name of the legend she mentioned." stated Twilight.

Spike pushed aside a couple of books and found a brown book which he yanked out. Twilight lifted the book her her magic and read through it.

"Here it is!" exclaimed Twilight, "The Legend of the Mirror Pond. It describes a spell I can use to send them back where they came from."

"That's perfect. Let's go." said Spike pleased.

"But, there's a catch. If I can't find out which one is the real Pinkie, I might send her back my mistake." noted twilight worried.

"Well we'll just have to figure out which is one is the real one then. Shouldn't be too hard." said Spike.

The two headed back outside where they found the mob waiting.

"Does anypony here know how we can tell the real Pinkie Pie from the rest of them?" asked Twilight.

The mob talked to themselves as a Pinkie bounced forward.

"Twilight, I need to talk to you! I need your help!" called Pinkie.

"Excuse me, who ever you are..." began Twilight.

The lavender unicorn didn't noticed another Pinkie came up beside her and started mimicking her.

"But, I'm not talking to any of you Pinkies, unless you're the real Pinkie." stated Twilight.

"But...but I am the real Pinkie." said the Pinkie.

"No you're not, I'm the real Pinkie." said another Pinkie, walking up to the first.

More Pinkies began claiming themselves as the real deal while the hoard of Pinkies began to gather.

"How in tarnation are we supposed to tell which is the real Pinkie?" asked Applejack.

"I have no idea." answered Twilight.

The swarm of Pinkie Pies spread across Ponyville. The townsponies mostly took shelter in their residences as the Pinkie Pies flooded the streets of the small town. Twilight and Spike walked in the midst of the chaos.

"This is hopeless." said Twilight overwhelmed.

"Celestia would have solved this by now." taunted the voice.

Twilight was currently doing her best to ignore the malevolent voice.

"Maybe that one is the real Pinkie." proposed Spike.

Twilight looked over to a depressed Pinkie resting her head at the restaurant.

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

"I'm going to go ask." said Spike, heading over to the Pinkie.

"Of course she's going to say she's the real Pinkie Pie. They all do. You're wasting your time." said Twilight.

"Let me guess, you're the real Pinkie Pie." said Spike.

"Heck if I now. Could be anyone of us if you ask me." replied Pinkie.

Twilight came over and shrugged surprised.

"And if you said I was the real Pinkie, you wouldn't believe me anyway." continued Pinkie walking away, "So just leave me alone. I've got some important poking the ground with my hoof to do."

"Spike, how are we going to do this?" asked Twilight, "I can't risk sending the real Pinkie back into the pond."

"I miss the real Pinkie." sighed Spike.

The duo began walking away.

"Hey! Hey! What if you gave them a test! Pick something really hard for a Pinkie to do. Something not fun at all. Any Pinkie that can't do it goes back into the pond and whoever wants to stay the most...that must be the real Pinkie." explained Pinkie.

"You know...that's not a bad idea." said Twilight.

Twilight and Spike raced off in search of the others. She found Applejack and explained the plan to her. The Apple farm was willing to help in anyway they could. After a they couldn't find her other three friends around Ponyville,the two headed to the wooded area just past Fluttershy's cottage. That's where they found Rainbow, Rarity and Fluttershy hiding with the forest animals.

"I've been looking for you ponies." said Twilight, "What are you all doing here?"

"Fluttershy talk to the woodland critters and they've agreed to take us to there home in until the Pinkie storm dies down." answered Rainbow.

"You guys, we're going to fix this and I know exactly how." stated Twilight confidently.

"Are we going to lose our real Pinkie Pie?" asked Fluttershy concerned.

"I don't think so." answered Twilight, "Now come along, I've already got Applejack and her family rounding up all the Pinkies."

The ponies quickly went to work. Twilight quickly grabbed a white board and propped it up in town hall. Rarity and Futtershy returned with blue paint...which the unicorn was very picky about it. They began to paint as the others rounded up the Pinkies.

"Good work Twi." said Spike.

"Um...thanks." said Twilight surprised.

"What's wrong?" asked Spike.

"I've never seen a fashion show in town hall before." answered Twilight.

"What are you talking about?" asked Spike.

"That's...why we're here." answered Twilight.

"No we aren't. This was your plan to find the real Pinkie and send the others back to the Mirror Pool." explained Spike.

"Oh yeah. It must have slipped my mind." giggled Twilight.

Spike frowned as Twilight monitored the painting. Rarity and Fluttershy were painting as Twilight attempted to stay focused hoping it would keep her mind distracted from her deteriorating mental status. Moments later; Applejack, Apple Bloom and Big Mac lead the Pinkie Pies into town hall.

"Welcome Pinkies welcome. Please have a seat and make yourselves comfortable." said Twilight.

Twilight waited a moment before quickly realizing the Pinkies were paying her no attention.

"Okay, I supposed you can't be comfortable sitting in one place, but have a seat anyway." requested Twilight.

The Pinkies continued to ignore Twilight crying out "Fun!" as the bounced around.

"Sit down!" cried twilight, losing her patience.

The Pinkies finally took notice and quickly sat down.

"Better. Now, I suppose you're all wondering why I've gathered you here today." began Twilight.

"For fun?" asked one of the Pinkies.

"No, just the opposite actually." answered Twilight.

"Wait, I've got one more!" called Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow flew through the doors carrying another Pinkie Pie.

"Found this one poking at the dirt with her hoof drawing frowny faces." noted Rainbow clearly surprised.

"Have here come hit with the others." said Twilight.

Rainbow dropped the Pinkie and flew off to the side.

"Pinkies, you've been brought her to take a test." stated Twilight.

This revelation was met with a less thank jubilant tone from the Pinkies.

"Don't worry, it's a simple test. As simple as the come. And whoever passes gets to stay." explained Twilight, "Curtain please."

Spike drew back the curtain as Twilight continued.

"The test...will be watching paint dry." revealed Twilight, "On your mark...get set...go!"

The Pinkies set all of their attention on the paint and focused. They were surprisingly attentive as twenty minutes went by with no Pinkie so much as blinking. Finally, one of the Pinkie Pies began to rock back and forth. Twilight fired the Pinkie with her magic which caused it to turn into a balloon. The Pinkie exploded causing blood and intestines to spew everywhere.

"Oh sweet Celestia!" cried Rarity.

Twilight fired a red beam at the Pinkie Pies sweeping from right to left. The beam bifurcated the the Pinkie Pies until the floor was littered with dead bodies.

"Oh my Celestia." said twilight in awe..

"Twilight...Twilight...Twilight..." said Rainbow repeatedly.

Twilight blinked and found the Pinkies alive and well while staring at the paint dry.

"Are you okay?" asked Rainbow.

"I'm fine." answered Twilight.

The wait continued and the Pinkie Pies quickly began to fall until there were two more left. It took a distraction from Rainbow Dash to get the real Pinkie back. The entrance to the Mirror Pool was blocked with Tom and the storm of Pinkies was finally over.

The rest of the day went by uneventful, but this all changed in the middle of the night. The Mane 5 (save Twilight) had a similar dream telling them to gather outside the Everfree Forest. They next day, all five of the ponies gathered.

"What are y'all doing here?" asked Applejack surprised.

"I got this weird dream telling me to come here." answered Rainbow.

"That's so weird! That happened to me too!" cried Pinkie.

"Um...I...think...I had the same dream." said Fluttershy.

"The question is why are we." noted Rarity.

A sudden burst of light appeared overhead and an immortal alicorn landed in front of the ponies.

"I can answer that." said Celestia.

Author's Notes:

A/N: There is chapter three finished. I will only cover episodes where Twilight has an important role and they will heavily deviate from here on out. The voice is important and the identity of the pony who it belongs to will be revealed. Next time, Celestia talk to the Mane 5. Please review.