Chapter 3: Aftermath

"Your majesty, we have found her" Shining Armor said with a hint of sadness in his voice as his men brought Pinkie into the throne room behind him. The guards dropped her on the ground quickly, making everypony in the room grimace as she hit the ground. Shining Armor quickly moved to reprimand the guards, but Pinkie stopped him.

"It's okay, I probably deserve it" Pinkie said weakly, the hit having knocked the breath out of her. He smiled weakly as he walked out of the throne room after his men, it was his job to tell the dead guard's family the news. Pinkie smiled as he left the room, shakily getting to her feet so she could face Celestia. When she looked up she saw a soft smile on Celestia's face.

"You're the real Pinkie Pie, aren't you?" Celestia asked sweetly, making everypony look at her in surprise. Rainbow was the most surprised, but when she took a good look at Pinkie she could see why Celestia had asked. Unlike the Pinkie that had attacked her, this Pinkie looked scared, weak, and sad.

"I hope I am" Pinkie said sadly, looking over to Rainbow Dash, "I heard the fight, I'm really sorry for what happened...". Everypony in the room looked at Pinkie with pity, especially Celestia. The sudden change in behavior, even the difference in her appearance told Celestia that this Pinkie wasn't the same one that had attack Rainbow or the guard.

"Well that settles it" Celestia said firmly, her serious face making a return, "One month dungeon"

"One month?" Pinkie asked, looking at Celestia in confusion, "I killed a guard and attack Rainbow, shouldn't my sentence be worse?"

"Well, it would be if it had actually been you that did those things" Celestia said, her horn flaring with magic as she summoned a scroll from deep in the castle, "One month is the minimum for trespassing". Everypony looked at Celestia as the scroll appear, quickly being opened and read by the princess. After a few minutes of silence Celestia wrapped up the scroll and sent it back to wherever it came from.

"As I have suspected, the mirror brought out another version of you, that was previously locked deep within you" Celestia said firmly, looking Pinkie straight in the eyes. Celestia quickly scanned the expression of everypony in the room, only one of them, Twilight to be exact, seemed to understand what she meant.

"So this mirror is cursed by powerful magic?" Twilight asked slowly, not wanting to be incorrect in what she was trying to say. Celestia smiled happily at her student because she had guessed correctly.

"Yes, this mirror is an ancient weapon used to turn enemies to your cause" Celestia said while looking at Pinkie, "It usually affect those who were the most happy"

"Can she still be affected now?" Fluttershy asked, looking at Rainbow's hoof and ear. Celestia nodded slowly, looking at the two guards that had stayed behind to take Pinkie away after her sentencing. Now that she had been sentenced and everypony knew what had happened it was time for her to being serving her time.

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It's been a week since Pinkie had been tossed in the dungeon. Her friends, except for Rainbow, had all come to visit, even giving her toys and deserts to cheer her up, but she was still depressed. She had hurt Rainbow and killed a guard. How could anypony expect her to walk away from that? Not to mentioned she raped the guard before killing him, what if she got pregnant?

BANG BANG

"Hello?" Pinkie asked quietly, knowing it was either a guard coming to spit on her, or it was time to feed her. She watched carefully as the door opened, a light blue hoof pushing it open.

"Hey there Pinkie" Rainbow said sadly as she took a seat next to Pinkie on the bed. Rainbow wiggled around for a bit, trying to get comfortable, eventually giving up after it only got worse.

"How do you sleep on this thing?" Rainbow asked, her flanks starting to hurt from the hard mattress.

"I don't" Pinkie said sadly, looking at a spot on the floor, "Why are you here?"

"Well, you are my friend so..." Rainbow said sarcastically, but when she saw that Pinkie didn't take notice she sat back down, putting her hoof on Pinkie's back. She rubbed Pinkie's back slowly, but soon after Pinkie began to cry. Rainbow jumped in front of her to see what was wrong but Pinkie pushed her away.

"I don't understand why you came to see me, I hurt you" Pinkie said quietly, her sobbing making it almost incomprehensible. Rainbow looked at her worriedly before giving her a hug, making Pinkie cry even more, and then she left. She didn't want to see her friend crying like that because of her, but Pinkie wasn't crying because of her being there. Pinkie was crying because of what she had done to her before.

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"Miss Pie, it's time to wake up" a guard said while banging on Pinkie's cell door. When there was no response he put his ear to the door, hearing what sounded like vomiting. Being one of the few guards that didn't hate Pinkie he ran towards the nurse's station, urging on of them to come to her cell. As they got back the sound had gotten louder, being broken up by the occasional cry from Pinkie. She felt as if she was throwing up everything she had eaten for the past week, and her stomach was killing her.

"Miss Pie are you alright?!" the guard shouted as he threw open the door. When he saw Pinkie crouched over the hole she had for a toilet he rushed over and picked her up, running her all the way towards the castle hospital, confusing the nurse he had brought back with him.

"Where are you taking me?" Pinkie asked wearily, not being fully aware of her surroundings.

"To the doctors" the guard said as he turned a sharp corner. For all he knew one of the other guards could have slipped her poison. He wasn't stupid, he knew how much many members of the guard wanted her dead, many of them being his direct coworkers, but he had heard the story about what caused this, and he believed it. In his mind there was no way this kind mare could have done any of the things they say she did. Just as they got to the hospital Pinkie passed out, but not before whispering one thing to the guard.

"Thank you..."