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Two days after Mimir shared the knowledge of Equestria's origin, I was heading towards the Everfree forest with Pinkie Pie and Mimir. " So remind me why we're heading into the forest with this overly pink pony?"

" Something to do about a magic pond, I think?"

Suddenly Pinkie got in my face. " Not just any magic pond. This is the mirror pond! If what my Nana Pinkie said is true, then it'll allow me to duplicate myself so I can have fun with all my friends, even when they're in completely different places."

" Is that why my face is being scratched repeatedly by all these brambles, to look for a way to make more of you? That's absolutely insane."

" I don't know, it's certainly not her worst idea. Though I do think we should hurry up with our search, I promised Jackie that I would help raise a new barn with her."

" I know, that's one of the reasons I'm trying to find this mirraaaaahhhhhhh!" Pinkie fell down a hole in the forest floor, screaming as she went down.

" I suppose you're going to go and save her then?"

" You assume right head." I jumped feet first into the hole and found myself sliding through a winding tunnel. Once I made it to the end, I was greeted with a cave with bioluminescent plants and a clear pond in the middle of the underground sanctuary. While I admired the beauty of this place, I spotted Pinkie over by the pond. " Pinkie, you alright?"

" Yeah I'm good, hehe, that was really fun going down that tunnel, it was like an underground slide."

" It frightens me how cheerful she can be at times. For all we know, this could have been a trolls den."

" Shame it wasn't, would've liked to add that to my repertoire." I had a quick look around and came to the conclusion that my services were no longer needed. " Okay, so unless you need me for anything else, I'll be on my way." I slashed open a portal to where the barn was to be raised and made my way to it. " I suppose I'll see either you or your clone at the barn raising?"

" You can count on that." Pinkie made her way over to the pond, while Mimir and I went through the portal.

" You don't have to be the smartest man alive to know that hyper pony's plan will go horribly wrong."

" I know it will."

" Then why let her do it?"

" She needs to learn things on her own, and what better way to start an adventure."

" You remind me of Tyr when you talk like that." I chuckled at his observation and went up to the barn site.

When I got there, I was met with Jackie, Pear, Bloom and both the Macs, waiting for me so we could start building the barn. I snuck behind Jackie and gave her a kiss behind her ear. " Hey, Honey, you finished with that small errand?"

" For now, though I believe it'll come around in an hour or two and have to be dealt with. But for now, let's raise this barn." I went over to some six-by-eights and started carrying them over to where it was needed.

While I was doing that, Bloom came over to where Mimir was hanging from my belt. " Mimir, can you finish that story about Thor and the wedding dress?"

" I suppose so, now where did we leave off?" Mimir pondered where he left off while I continued working.

" Loki and Thor arrived at Thrym's kingdom."

" Ah yes. They both arrived at the giant's home with Thor posing as Freya in a wedding gown and veil. Given the difference between Thor and Freya, you would think the giant would tell the difference. But the giant had very poor eyesight and mistook Loki for being Thor and Thor as Freya. Now, before the ceremony, a feast was held and Thor almost broke his cover by eating twenty salmon, four sides of beef, and an entire boar all by himself."

" How can one person even eat all that much food?"

" Well, Lass, the Aesir are well known for their appetites, Thor especially. Anyway, Thrym noticed this and asked why Freya had such an appetite. Loki, being the clever god he is, told Thrym that when he told Freya the negotiation for Mjolnir, she was so excited that she didn't eat a thing for the three-day trip up here. Thrym, for the most part, accepted this and went on with the feast."

" After a few rounds of mead, Thrym felt bold and decided to take a peek under Freya's veil. While Thor was gulping down his twelfth horn of mead, Thrym moved the veil and recoiled in horror at the red eyes that stared back at him. Once Thrym recovered from the shock, he inquired why the Goddess of beauty had such red and scary looking eyes. Loki explained that Freya didn't sleep while they journeyed to his kingdom. Again, Thrym accepted the ruse and decided to push the ceremony so Freya could get to a warm bed."

" Heh, with Thrym sharing it with him right?"

" Correct brother. Anyway, the ceremony began with Thor and Thrym standing at the altar. Seeing as the Aesir held up their end of the bargain, Thrym brought Mjolnir forth and presented it to Freya. Once Thor got his hands around his hammer, he threw off his disguise and the slaughter of the whole wedding party began."

" And four of those bodies were used to make Equestria, right?"

" Indeed, in fact, judging from where we are, I'd say we're standing on Thrym's forehead."

" Ugh, it still makes me queasy, knowing that we're standing on dead giants." Bright voiced his thoughts while holding back some bile.

" It could be worse, we could be standing his decaying nuts." This got a chuckle from everyone except for Pear who slapped my leg in annoyance.

" Alright, Joe, that's enough story-telling, we need to get some headway on this barn." I rubbed where she slapped me and started working on the left wall.

Within an hour, we had the rear and front of the barn completed and a silo to go with it. Now I started lifting the west wall into place while the others waited to hammer the wall in. " Just a little more Honey, then we'll start-" Jackie would've continued her instructions, but then this happened.

" Fun fun fun fun fun fun fun!" Suddenly the whole place was being overrun by at least a dozen Pinkie Pies all yelling fun on repeat.

" Well, seem's you were right brother, though did you suspect she would go this far?"

" I expected three or four," I grabbed the Pinkie that jumped on my back and held her upside down. " not a whole squad of them." I tossed the Pinkie I had in my hand and kept pulling the wall into position. Though my efforts were in vain as the Pinkies kept bouncing on the wood and distracting the Apple family.

After a few more seconds of bouncing and general horseplay ( Forgive the pun), all our hard work was destroyed. I dropped the rope I was holding and made my way over to my family. " Where in the wide world of Equestria did all these Pinkies come from?" Jackie then laid her sights on me. " Well, you were with Pinkie earlier, did she tell you what her plan was?"

" Well, when she saw that she was missing out on one person's fun while she was doing something fun with another. So she got the idea to clone herself with a magic pond that makes a copy of yourself. Apparently she went overboard."

Before Jackie could berate me for my stupidity, one of the Pinkies walked over to us instead of bouncing over. " Ooh, it looks like I haven't missed a thing." Jackie turned her anger towards her.

" I ain't got time to be talking to a clone if you see the real Pinkie or you are the real Pinkie. I want ya'll to take some responsibility for this whole mess!"

The Pinkie that walked up to us decided to make a break for it. " You guys look pretty busy right now, maybe we should talk a little later? OK bye." She then zoomed off to Heimdal knows where leaving us with a bunch of overly hyperactive ponies yelling fun over and over again.

" If I could put my two cents in, I think the one that walked up to us was the original, seeing as the others are acting like idiots."

" You might be right Mimir, but how about we clean this mess up and afterward, we can go and see if Twilight has a solution." Jackie led us over to the ruined barn and we started cleaning while the other Pinkies left for more 'fun'.

After we stacked our supplies and put them aside for another day, we headed over to the library. When we got there, a whole crowd had gathered in front of the library, all of them complaining about the rampage of Pinkies. Once they saw me, they directed their complaints to me. " Your Highness, we're being overrun by Pinkies!"

" They've eaten all my cakes from my stand without paying!"

" They ruined nap-time for the little ones at the daycare!"

Even our friends had complaints. " I just had a Pinkie hurricane raging through my shop!"

" They ruined our critter picnic."

" They poisoned our water supply, burned our crops and delivered a plague unto our houses!"

I directed my attention to the stallion who said that. " First off, no they didn't. Second, I make the pop-culture references around here." I gave him the stink-eye and he quickly backed away. " Alright, listen up everyone. I know how these extra Pinkies came about, and now I'm here to see what to do about them, so just go on back to your homes or places of business and hopefully, this situation can be cleared before the end of the day." Everyone left the area except for the girls and we went to Twilight. " So, any chance you might have a plan?"

One battle plan later.

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Jackie, Big Mac, Applebloom, Bright Mac, Winnona, Hercules and I were atop a hill, looking over the group of Pinkies who fell for the bait, a large three-layered cake with chocolate cream cheese. As they devoured that tasty treat, Bloom was pouting over the cake. " You could have at least saved me a piece, Joe. Maybe I can sneak one before they get all of it?"

As I looked down towards the bait, I saw they licked the plate the cake was on clean, some even tried to take a bite of the plate. " The cake is dead."

" Can we stay on target please?" Bloom and I shut our mouths and starred ahead at our target. " Okay, Twilight said to herd them to town hall so she can get rid of the extras and we get our Pinkie back."

" Pardon my asking, but how will any of you tell which one is the real Pinkie."

" Twilight said she had a test that would tell them apart. Alright, let's do this." I got up from the hill and our dogs followed me. We got behind the herd of Pinkies in the brush as the four apple family members got on either side to make sure none of the Pinkies scatter. I looked over to Hercules, then to Winnona. " Alright, time to start the hunt." All three of us stormed out of the brush with me wolfing out and charged towards the Pinkies.

This got them spooked and started running away from us, and towards the town hall. As the chase went on, a few tried to scatter somewhere else and I was telling my predator instincts to not go for the one that breaks away from the herd. Luckily, those thoughts went out the window when my wife or one of the other Apples pushed them back into the group. After a few more yards, we got them into townhall. Once they were all in, Jackie and I went in while the rest of the Apples barricaded the door.

While the Pinkie horde was bouncing around the place yelling fun over and over and over and over and all work and no play makes Joe a dull boy.....sorry. Twilight and Spike came out from behind the curtain and called the Pinkies to order. " Welcome Pinkies welcome, please have a seat and make yourselves comfortable." Her smile dropped when the horde kept bouncing around. " Okay, I suppose you can't be comfortable staying in one place but have a seat anyway." She might as well be talking to herself since the horde kept bouncing around. Finally, she had enough. " Sit down!" All at once, all the Pinkies sat down in neat little rows, starring directly ahead. " Better, now I suppose you're all wondering why I gathered you all here today?" You, gathered them?

" For fun?" One of the Pinkies questioned while shrugging.

" No, just the opposite in fact." Before Twilight could continue, Dash came through the doors holding a very depressed looking Pinkie.

" Wait, I got one more. I found this one drawing frowny faces in the ground."

" Have her come sit with the others." Dash unceremoniously dropped the Pinkie she had in the middle of the group. " Pinkies, you've been brought here to take a test." Every Pinkie then gripped at the notion of taking a test. " Don't worry, it's a simple test, as simple as they come, and whoever passes gets to stay." The horde looked confused about the objective. " Curtain, please." Spike pulled the rope, lifting the curtain to reveal Rarity and Fluttershy finished painting a wall. " The test. We'll be watching paint dry." A loud gasp was heard by near every member of the horde. " On your mark. Get set. Go!" Every Pinkie then stared straight at the wall, in hopes that they could stay.

" This is so exciting!" Spike munched away at some popcorn while he watched the little show. This was going to be a long test.

" Nevermind, this is pretty boring." Spike finished off the last of his popcorn as he stared at the horde that was still staring at the painted wall.

" This is just, painful brother, I'd much rather be back at the treasure room on that wooden boat than have to watch paint dry."

" Well, we could add some obstacles for them, might speed things up a bit." I went over to Twilight to see if it was alright, the last time I went against her plan, she lit my ass on fire. " Should I give them a few things to distract them? It might speed things up some."

" Please do, my eyes are starting to hurt from watching nothing."

I went over to the side so I could give an indirect distraction so the real Pinkie could still have a chance. With a bit of magic, I started the distraction.

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At the intro, we got rid of two members of the horde and the third one after Nick said ' Goddammit' with the spell twilight mentioned earlier. Six Pinkies were given the boot when that mother zombie showed up. We got rid of one when Ellis announced laser beams. Five were butchered when the guy told them to shut up so he could masturbate. When the humping zombie attacked Ellis, Twilight got rid of three of them, then another when Coach threw the football. Ten Pinkies vanished when Ellis commented on the Charger for being the feller who masturbates all-day long. For a bit, none of the Pinkies looked my way until Ellis used the heroine, uh I mean adrenaline. Four Pinkies bit the dust at the end when Nick used a chainsaw on himself.

When the video was over, we were left with two Pinkies left, and one of them was about to go gangrene. " All right time to pull out the big guns."I projected another screen, this time projecting action.

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After many minutes of temptation, the second to last Pinkie looked to watch the fight, this led to her undoing. Twilight used her spell to deport the false Pinkie back into the pond.

With one Pinkie left, we went to congratulate her. " Pinkie, you can stop starring at the wall."

" But this my favorite part." When she realized she was the only Pinkie left, she looked to us. " Wait I passed?"

" Knew you would, what with you being the only one that didn't constantly yell fun. Should have told you that earlier, but I was just so engrossed with the whole endeavor."

" That and you wanted to see the other Pinkies get vaporized."

" That too."

Pinkie took the conversation back. " All I know is that I had to pass, I just couldn't leave my friends." She brought us all in a group hug, she then had this to say. " Even though I may not be able to be around for all the fun things each one of you do, that doesn't mean I should try and duplicate myself so I don't miss a single moment." She then got all cheery and started jumping about. " I'm me, I'm me, I'm me!" She did a flip on that last one.

" Well, now that the situation is over, Jackie and I have a barn to raise." I led Jackie out the door where the rest of the apples were, and started heading for the farm. " Honey, do me a favor. If Pinkie asks me to go along with a non-party plan ever again, you and Luna will slap me upside the head."

" Like you even have to ask." She giggled at her little joke and brought me in for a kiss. After that, we headed home so we could finally get that barn up.

Author's Notes:

For those who are curious, I will be trying to do all the season three episodes. As for this chapter, I thought it would be nice to see what Joe would do in an ordinary crazy situation. Also, I thought it would be nice to have Mimir share a small story about the Aesir, and if it's well-liked, I might have him do more.

Now, it's time for the clip.

https://youtu.be/j5ej7v9zKoI

One more.

https://youtu.be/tMKN-TFGcWQ