Something Broke
The Mini-Trilogy of Blizz, Pinkie Pie, and Ponycide
Part One: The Timepony
Author's Note: This is a little idea I came up with one day after listening to Something Broke: the Continuing Tale of Pinkie Pie & Ponycide by Tarbyrocks, and Party With Pinkie by DJ Alex S. Basically, it's a sort of "Cure For Cupcakes" story. I know, I should be working on the Oblivion story so that I can move on to the sequel in Skyrim, but as another author once said, the only way to get something out of your head is to write it down. Don't be afraid to post your thoughts on it. I am trying to improove all the time, so criticism is welcome. So, without further ado, welcome to my humble little trilogy!
Blizz was a normal pony, or brony, as some would say, seeing as he is male. Well, as normal as a Knight-Commander of the Lunar Guard could be. He was on vacation by orders of Princess Luna, who simply stated that "he worked too hard". He chuckled at the thought, because to him, being a member of the Lunar Guard was a way of life, not just a work position. Besides, as a Knight-Commander, all he really did was write official scrolls and give orders to the rest of the guard. And when there were no scrolls to write, he would write a fiction of his entitled "The Adventures of Starswirl the Bearded" based off of his favourite Unicorn of history. He had only released two books, so far and was working on the third. The first one netted him his cutie mark: a quill and inkwell; and helped him pass History of Magic in Trottingham University. The second one netted him a small fan base, along with the first, for he had them published at the same time.
He tried to explain his view to Luna, but then she pointed out all of the vacation days he'd saved up and not used. Every six days he had worked he had gained one vacation day, and they dated back all the way to the day he first joined. He had amounted one-hundred-twenty vacation days! Did that matter to him, though? No.
"But I don't need a break, your majesty!" He pleaded, on his flank, armour clanking from the unusual position.
"Then I order you to take a break. For all one-hundred-twenty days." Luna said, and smiled, knowing him like a book.
He sighed, facehoofing. "Fine, but I won't like it!" He said, a bit sarcastically.
"Blizz, please, think of your family! Pip wants to see you! Why, just the other night he had a dream of you visiting!" Luna said, now playing the family card, and smirking, because she knew she had just struck a hard blow to Blizz's thick-headedness when it came to the job.
Blizz sighed, knowing she was right, and feeling guilty. "Yes, your majesty." He said, and headed to his quarters and packed his things. The thing was, he had never been to the place his family now resided in, a pleasant little villa he had only heard tell of: Ponyville. He sent his pet raven, Nevermore: named after a famous earthpony poet's poem; to Ponyville to deliver a message to the post office there, which would be delivered to his family, simply stating that he is coming for a one-hundred-twenty day visit. That letter is gonna make Pip very happy, I just know it. He thought, smiling to himself. The next day, he took the train to Ponyville, not knowing what to expect.
He looked at the list of ponies the princess wanted him to meet, and, overthinking like he always does, judged each by their name. Hmm… Twilight Sparkle: Sounds pretty magic-y to me… Librarian, eh? Mental note: ask her if she knows of Starswirl the Bearded. Fluttershy: Probably what her name implies… Didn't I see her at flight camp? She takes care of animals? Sounds like a nice filly. Applejack: Wasn't she at the Gala? The one who sold those awesome tasting apples? Of course, she works at Sweet Apple Acres. RAINBOW DASH?: I definitely know who I'm visiting first! The first filly to do a Sonic Rainboom! TWICE! Who doesn't know her! I didn't know she was a weather pony… Pinkie Pie: Huh…Wouldn't it just be ironic if she wasn't Pink? Wait… Isn't she the sister of Octavia? Baker? That might explain her last name. Eh, I'm being too hard on her, after all, my name isn't exactly normal, either. Rarity: The fashionista who gave Hoity Toity some of his hottest designs? Eeyup, Dress Maker. Hmm… Seem like a pretty nice group of ponies. I wonder how the princess knows them, though…
Casting those thoughts aside and putting the scroll in his bag, he simply put on some headphones and listened to some DJ P0N-3 for the rest of the ride. Around an hour later, the train stopped, and, hopping off of the train, he saw a pink blur fly away from where Pip was. He was holding a sign that read "A Blizzard's Coming!" Blizz's catchphrase that he used on some occasions. "Oi, Pip!" He yelled getting his little brother's attention. He will never forget the smile on Pip's face at that moment for as long as he lived.
"Big bro!" Pip yelled as he ran over and pounced on Blizz. "You've been gone so long!"
"Naw, 'twas only three years, Pip! And blimey, I see you've gotten bigger since Trottingham!" Blizz smiled, and turned to look at Pip as he hopped off of him.
"Do you think I'll be as big as you one day, big bro?" Pip said, smiling still.
"Aye, I bet you'll even be just as cool as me, too. Maybe even cooler." Blizz said with a small chuckle. "So… Where're Mum and Dad?"
"Manehattan… I think Dad said it was their… Annievewsawy?" Pip said, trying to say the word, but not knowing how to pronounce it.
"That's Anniversary, Pip, and they just left you here?"
"Oh, no, Pinkie Pie was babysitting me, but now you can!" Pip said, hopping up and down.
"Did you say Pinkie Pie?"
"Yup, why? By the way, why do you still have your armour on?"
"Huh?" Blizz said, and checked himself over, seeing that he had his body armour on over his dark sapphire blue fur, but not his helmet, his voltaic purple hair in it's classic style over one of his ice blue eyes. "Eh, force of habit. Must 'a put it on this mourning without thinking. So, you ready to show me our new home, Pip?"
"Sure am, big bro." Pip said, smiling. He started to trot away from the station, and Blizz followed, smiling all the while.
He looked around at some of the buildings in town. That must be where the Mayor lives… …A gingerbread house? …So the Library is a tree… What he didn't notice was that there wasn't that many to no ponies. Finally, they had made it to his and Pip's house. "Huh, so this is our new home, eh?"
"You go in first, big bro." Pip said, smirking, knowing something Blizz doesn't.
"Alrighty." Blizz said, not noticing his brother's smirk. The second he walked through the door, all of the lights came on, and a huge group of ponies with a blindingly pink pony were in the house, saying "SURPRISE!"
The pink pony walked up to him. "Hi! I'm-"
"Pinkie Pie?" Blizz said, visible eye wide, and standing still in slight shock, bat-wing disguised Pegasus wings standing at attention.
"Yeah, how'd you know?" Pinkie said, bouncing up and down. "Ooh! Ooh! Wait! Don't tell me, Pip told you about me! Am I right, huh, huh, huh?"
She must have some kind of never-ending energy or something… Blizz thought, sighing to relax himself, his wings folding back to normal position. "He sure did. Are you the one who-"
"Threw this party? Yep, yep, yep!" Pinkie said, blowing a kazoo promptly after.
This is gonna be one heck of a day… Blizz thought, smiling. Might as well enjoy it. "Then let's get this party started!" He yelled, holding a hoof up.
"YAY!" Everypony yelled.
"This party is gonna be a real gem!" Pinkie said to Blizz, smiling as wide as ever. She had a violent facial twitch, but then went back to smiling.
"You okay?" Blizz asked, confused.
"Yeah, why?" Pinkie said, tilting her head.
"…No reason." Blizz said, and shrugged it off, going over to the snack table.
*~"Wibbley-wobbley, timey-wimey… stuff."~*
~…Meanwhile, two months into the future…~
The Gallopfreyan brony known as the Doctor, or Doctor Whooves to some, was reading Equestria Daily news articles of the same topic, trying to figure out the cause. Princess Celestia assigned him to the case, knowing that if anypony could get the job done it would be him. His eyes were bloodshot, and his signature spikey brown mane was disheveled, both of these from two whole nights of no sleep. The title of one article read "Mysterious Disappearances In Ponyville" another read "The Disappearances Continue" and the article before the two in front of Whooves read "The Truth Revealed! Disappearances Actually Murders!" The title of the penultimately latest article, which was also the one the Doctor was reading, read "The Cupcake Killer strikes again!" He sighed, feeling slightly annoyed. "There has to be a certain point at which this all started… A certain pony who could have changed everything if they had known more." He slid it away and looked at the latest article, the title of which read "Interview with a Victim of the Infamous Cupcake Killer" It had a picture of Blizz on the front, his right wing missing, and a scar across his left cheek. The Doctor unfolded the page and read the interview.
"Interviewer: So you say you had an encounter with Pinkamena Diane Pie, also known as The Cupcake Killer?
Blizzard: An encounter? She used to be my friend! You may not know this, but I'm the one who discovered the truth!
I: Really? Could you elaborate?
B: It happened before that article was released… I was trying to find my little brother… Pip… I had heard he was helping Pinkie make cupcakes at Sugarcube Corner, just down the road from here. This was a week after Rainbow Dash had disappeared. I went to investigate… It was the beginning of night, just after dusk. Pip should have been home an hour before. I knocked on the door with my hoof, but got no answer. I slowly pushed the door open to find no one there, Mr. and Mrs. Cake were both on a trip to manehattan with me mum and dad, you see, but Pinkie and Pip should have still been there, so I was very confused. But then… I heard a scream. Pip's scream! It came from behind the counter and under the floor. I moved some bags of flour and found a trapdoor. After I opened it I galloped down the stairs and into that Lunad****d cellar as fast as I possibly could, but I was too late. Pip was already dead… And she was there… Pinkie- I mean, Pinkamena… I screamed, and she came at me with a butcher knife. Three years in the Lunar Guard doesn't prepare you to see your own little brother dead, so naturally, I was stiff from shock. She got a hold of my wing with her teeth, and chopped it off. The pain woke me from my spell, and I turned and bucked her as hard as I could in the chest, and tried to make a run for it. She threw the knife at me as I was galloping away, and it got me on my cheek here, as you can see. And I got out of there shortly after…
I: I'm… I'm sorry for your loss, Mr. Blizzard.
B: Please, just call me Blizz.
I: Right… So, do you where Pinkamena's current whereabouts could possibly be?
B: No, I do not, I am sorry.
I: Now, I noticed that you corrected yourself when you said Pinkamena's old nickname-
B: It wasn't a nickname. Pinkie Pie and Pinkamena are two different ponies.
I: …Excuse me?
B: Pinkie Pie was a happy, fun-loving, party-hard pony. Pinkamena is a murderer.
I: But they are the same pony.
B: Not to me. Something had to have happened to turn Pinkie into that monster. Pinkie would never do those things.
I: Many people have said the same thing as you, erm, Blizz, but for the record what is your exact opinion on it?
B: If I had known more, I'm sure I could have stopped it from happening. But that chance is lost to me now, and here I am, left without a brother.
I: Well, that is a very good point, Blizz. Now then, it would seem out time is almost up. Do you have any parting words for our readers?
B: Yes. Hello readers. These are dark times in Equestria. So if you want to stay safe, I'd carry a sword or any kind of weapon with you at all times. This advice comes straight to you from Blizzard, Knight-Commander of the Lunar Guard. That is all."
That was all Whooves needed to read. He stepped out from his study into the control room of the TARDIS, and set his coordinates and point in time. He knew just what to do, and how he was going to accomplish it with out directly interfering himself. Blizz had to be the link. The one who could save all of the ponies that have been lost in this killing spree. He thought, and pulled a lever. He could only hope that this time, unlike a few times before when dealing with a situation, he didn't show up late.
*~"I hope there's still time to set things right…"~*
~…Two months back into the past…~
Blizz and Pip were picking up the remains of the party: streamers, balloons, food and drink, and even one plum covered pony. Blizz helped her up. "Erm, Berry Punch, was it? The party's over."
"Whu- huh? Oh, okay." She stumbled out the door, seemingly in a daze.
Blizz chuckled. "For village ponies, they sure do party hard around here." He turned around to see the house in order, everything finally cleaned up.
Pip trotted over to the door. "I'm going to go play with some of my friends, big bro." He said, smiling.
"Alright, just don't hurt yourself." Blizz said and smiled back. As Pip trotted out the door, Blizz looked around at the house, which he hadn't really been able to do while partying. It was normal enough, sofa, family pictures, and a small kitchen. Blizz looked at one of the family pictures. It was back from before he joined the Lunar Guard. He'd just graduated college, and was in his graduate's uniform. He was wearing his glasses, rectangular, black rimmed. At seeing this, he grabbed his glasses from his bag that he set down next to the door, and after clearing the lenses a bit, put them on. He'd have to get used to them again, now that he didn't have to wear his helmet all the time. Speaking of which… He thought, and looked over his body, armour still on. He drank a potion, and his wings slowly turned back into normal pegasi wings. He flapped them a bit, getting used to their normal appearance. Just as he was about to remove his armour, however, he heard a grinding sound. But not the displeasing kind. It was almost like a kind of white noise that relaxed you and helped you fall to sleep. Wind started to blow a bit from the middle of the room, and a big blue old Guard Box from Trottingham faded into the room. Blizz's eyes went wide, remembering where he had heard of a blue box that could do what the one in front of him was doing.
Once it was done phasing in, one of the doors at the front of it opened. Out trotted the ever so awesome Doctor, still weary looking, but upon seeing Blizz, a smile formed on his face. He took a few more trots and shut the door behind him. "'Ello, I'm the Doctor, or to some, Doctor Whooves." He said, looking back at Blizz.
"No… You're not… You can't be real!" Blizz said, taking a few trots back.
"Why can't I be? Dragons are, and unlike me, they're a real menace. Trust me, if you can go face to face with a dragon, you have to be made of some pretty strong stuff, like me." He said, smiling his signature smile. He tossed his usual bragging-ness to the back of his mind to deal with the situation at hand. "Now then, you are Blizzard, Knight-Commander of the Lunar Guard, if I'm not mistaken?"
"Y.. Yea, why do you ask?" Blizz said, slowly dealing with the fact that one of his favourite childhood tales was standing in front of his very eyes.
"I've been assigned by Princess Celestia to a murder case. Now, if I have come back in time far enough, then it hasn't happened yet, and there's time to save all the ponies that were killed. Tell me, has there been any disappearances here lately?" The Doctor asked in his usual detective-like way.
"Erm… No. I would know if there was. It's my job." Blizz said, standing proud. "Well, it was my job…"
"What do you mean?" Whooves said, looking at the family photo that Blizz had been looking at. "You mind?" He said, pointing to it.
"Forced vacation." Blizz said, sighing. "And no, I don't mind."
The Doctor took the picture down and looked at it, more specifically, at Pip. He noticed the cap and gown Blizz was wearing in the picture. "You went to Trottingham University? I was there just a year ago, I think it was. Dalek's were trying to brainwash the students. Blasted things just never stop trying to take over the world."
"Uh…" Blizz was speechless. Did the Doctor really do that much? He wondered, also wondering how as Knight-Commander of the Lunar Guard, he never heard of this incident. Then again, he did say he was working for Celestia... Damn Solar Guards never tell us anything. I swear, the way they're so uptight about everything, you'd think they were part of an Empire of some sort.
"This is your little brother, correct?" Whooves said, pointing at Pip in the picture.
"Oh, yeah. His name's-"
"Pip?" The Doctor finished.
"Yea…" Blizz said, getting a little annoyed that the Doctor's asking questions about things he already knows.
The Doctor set the picture down. "Right. Now then, listen up, because I won't be repeating myself. This is very important."
"What did you say?" Blizz said, smirking.
"I said I won't be repeat- You clever colt, you." Whooves said, smiling at Blizz's sense of humor. "But in all seriousness, we need to focus on the matter at hand, the murders." He began his signature pacing that he does when explaining things. "In the future I come from there has been a series of murders, all made by one pony- Miss Pinkamena Diane Pie."
"You mean Pinkie Pie?" Blizz said, now shocked once again.
"Quite. Now, I predict that in two weeks or so, the murders will start happening. That is, if we don't stop them from happening." Whooves said, his face grim.
"How are we gon-"
"Or, more correctly, if you don't stop them from happening." Whooves said, smiling at Blizz.
"Wha-?" Blizz mumbled, even more confused than before.
"Being me, I cannot change time, I can merely alter it, like I am doing right now by telling you about all of this. Now, there is always a certain point, and a certain pony, who causes every event or can change it. You are the pony that can change the event, and the pony who causes it is Pinkie. The point is when she makes her first kill and turns into Pinkamena. Are you following me so far?" The Doctor explained, and looked over to Blizz, who was dumbfounded.
"So basically, you're telling me that if I can stop Pinkie from making her first kill, then I'll save dozens of ponies more?" Blizz said, hoping he understood everything correctly.
"Exactly." Whooves said, smiling. "Now, as to how you're going to do it, we're going to have to think… Perhaps you could follow her subtly at night, and go to every party she throws during the day."
"How will I get any sleep? That pony is a ball of energy!" Blizz said, worried for his own health and sanity.
"Everypony sleeps sometime, and when she sleeps, that's when you will too." Whooves said, slowly trotting over to the TARDIS. "Now then, you know what to do. All that matters now is how you do it."
"But-"
The Doctor opened the door to the TARDIS. "If you do everything right, then in two months, you'll still have your little brother. I'll be back if everything goes right. Or if it goes wrong. Remember, that's IF. I have faith in you Blizz, I know you can do this." He trotted in, closing the door behind him. Shortly after, the wind started to pick up again, and the TARDIS faded out, the grinding sound of it's breaks almost like a lullaby.
Blizz sat there for a few minutes, taking everything in. He just met the Timepony, and now the fate of the lives of many ponies, and his brother's, rests in his hooves. He could only thing of one word to describe the situation he's in. A word that would show how heavy his shoulders now are. "…Fook."
Author's Note: Well, that's the end of part one of our Trilogy, everypony! I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! Until next time, this is Kashiratama Voltaire Shinigami, signing off!