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Everypony was breathing heavily and sweating furiously, Rainbow Dash puked up her dinner, Fluttershy's body was shaking, Twilight was not moving from utter shock, Applejack and Rarity were crying. "We take it you have seen what was needed," Luna looked around at the ponies "We apologize for the trauma this must have put you through, but now you know what Pinkie sees every night."

"Every night?" Twilight barely whispered.

"Fluttershy," Luna spoke facing toward the shaking pony, "can you make out any properties of this dream that reflects her true feelings, we have a hunch but we do not know this pony like you do so we may be incorrect.

Fluttershy gulped at took a moment to calm herself, "I… I think that," Fluttershy paused for a moment collecting her courage to what she was about to say next, "Killing Rainbow was a sign to show that she was done with her." She turned to Rainbow," Is there anything that happened between you two that may have caused this thought?" Rainbow Dash shook her head and shrugged, "Well maybe… maybe she liked you but now she's over it, that's why she…" Fluttershy tried hard to get that word out, "baked you. She wanted to stay close to you while also moving on." Fluttershy turned to Twilight, "Because she found a new crush; that's why Twilight was tied up, she didn't want you to get away from her like Rainbow did." All the ponies looked to be in shock, that's not what they were thinking at all.

"She locked to rest of us in cages perhaps to protect us from herself, but Rainbow Dash and Twilight didn't have that much luck. There seemed to be three different Pinkie Pies." Fluttershy now started to get courage in her voice. "One looked like the happy Pinkie that we know who has some sense to her, I think she the one who put us in cages. The other was mad, the pony we saw when Pinkie thought we hated her parties, I think she's the one who is about to take over and the one we are being protected from. The third one seems to be the executioner, the one to get rid of the ponies she's done with." Fluttershy paused and looked towards the ground. "Gilda was there, she never liked Gilda, and Lyra and Bon Bon. Dashie you said that she didn't care about how your prank tore them apart?" Rainbow nodded, Fluttershy turned to Luna. "That's all I got."

"As we suspected the three separate Pinkies where designed as different parts of her subconscious, but it's interesting that you think her special treatment with Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle means that she liked and likes them, respectively." Luna turned to the rest of them, "Now, here's my question, how are you going to confront your friend about this?" The other ponies looked around at each other unsure. "It will be no easy task, you talking to her about it may spark something in her that could either fix her or push her further down the road to insanity." The other ponies looked uneasy. "One other thing, you friend is afraid of being alone, this may be because of the nightmares or the cause of the nightmares. I cannot be sure; I was banished when these dreams began. I can only say that your friend is not as tough as she seems." Then the guardian of the night was gone.


By the time the Ponies got to their respective houses, agreeing to work this out in the morning, nopony could sleep. They lie awake in their beds only thinking of what was to come of their friend.

The next morning the five insomniac ponies walked up to Sugar Cube Corner to greet their friend. They heard noises coming from inside.

"Pinkie are you absolutely sure you can handle opening the shop tomorrow?" Mr. Cake asked, uneasy.

"Of course!" The perky Pinkie sang.

"Now will be back by noon, you can handle it till then right?" Mrs. Cake asked.

"Yup, yup, yup!"

There was a pause then Mr. Cake sighed, "Alright Pinkie we can take it from here, go outside and play with your friends."

"Okie dokie lokie!" Pinkie chirped and opened the front door seeing her friends, "Hello everypony!"

"Pinkie we need to talk." Twilight insisted.

"What about, Twilight?" Pinkie said closing in to her face.

Twilight scrunched her eyebrows remembering that she needed to be delicate. "Princess Luna showed us a piece of your dreams." She blurted out.

Pinkie froze, her eye grew a bit wider as did her smile, then she took off. She was running as fast as she could, like she does when she chases Rainbow. "I got her!" Rainbow shouted and flew towards the pink mass zooming away. She was right on her tail when Pinkie ran into the Everfree Forest, Rainbow was slowed down by multiple branches but was able to catch up. She grabbed onto her tail and tried pulling back, she slowed the pink mare down slightly but she was mostly being dragged along with her.

Finally Pinkie stopped, "Get off!" She cried, it was not her; the Pinkie that just opened her mouth was the straight-haired pink fury Rainbow had the misfortune of meeting at Pinkie's 'party of one'. Rainbow was scared, but too determined to capture her friend, she let go of her tail and jumped onto her to pin her down. "Let go!"

"NO!" Rainbow shouted, "You are going to sit here and listen to us!" Pinkie stopped squirming but gave a death glare to Pinkie; soon the others came from behind, panting.

"Rainbow move," Twilight commanded, Rainbow did so, reluctantly. Twilight pointed her horn to the pink mare magically attaching her rear hoofs to the ground, but left her front hoofs free so she could sit or stand comfortably. Pinkie stared angrily at her frightened friends.

"What the buck do you want? So you saw who I really am what are you going to do kill me?" Pinkamina spat out.

"Pinkie we just want to help." Twilight explained.

"No! There's no helping me!" Pinkamina tried to get out of her restraints, "Let me go!"

"Listen to us Pinkie! We want to help you; we don't like seeing you like this, we will do whatever it takes to help you!" Twilight insisted.

"NO!" Pinkamina screamed, she struggled harder to get out and eventually Twilight's magic could no longer hold her. She freed herself and took off, but Twilight, with evident motivation to help her friend was already on top of her restraining her body down with her magic.

"I will not let you GO! I won't let you get away from me!" Twilight yelled and Pinkie broke, she started crying, she couldn't stop. Tears flowed constantly down her cheeks like they usually do at night but this time she was around her friends, this time she could not hide.

"You don't know what it's like." She admitted, Twilight got off of her and undid her magic restraints. Pinkie sat up and put her front hoofs on the ground in front of her and suddenly became interested in the ground. There was a long pause as the ponies awaited Pinkie's response. "I never liked being alone, ever since I was a kid. When my parents decided my sisters and I were big enough to sleep in our own rooms I was scared. I couldn't handle the solitude, especially at the quiet rock farm. That's why I moved to Ponyville, there were more ponies to be with. So I befriended everypony in town, and things started getting better. But when your friends with everypony, you don't have anyone close to you." Everypony but Twilight looked around guiltily; they never really hung out with Pinkie until defeating Luna. "After the elements of harmony it started to get better, I had actual friends, but even you guys couldn't help me when I'm alone. I cry every night, I have horrible dreams," Pinkie laughed at herself, "They're not even nightmares anymore, there just dreams, I've grown so used to them." Pinkie began laughing and laughing losing her grip on reality.

"Pinkie don't do this," Twilight said. "Don't cover up your misery with laughter you don't have to hide from us. Some part of Pinkie heard her; she took a look at her friends who all seemed to care.

Pinkie began sobbing again, "Why me, why am I the stupid one who can never do stuff right, why do I waste my time on silly nonsense, why is it me who doesn't have a real purpose in life? Fluttershy takes care of animals, Rarity makes amazing clothes, AJ makes apples for the whole town, Rainbow Dash has important weather responsibilities and Twilight is the top student under the wing of the mighty Princess Celestia. And what do I do? I make silly parties that no cares about."

"Pinkie, you know we don't-" Twilight tried but Pinkie brushed it off.

"I'm always the last person anyone wants to be with, I'm the one who no one can trust. The first time I tried to hang out with Rainbow Dash she tried to run from me, I kept chasing her because I really wanted to hang out, we ended up having fun pulling pranks but it still hurt because I really did like you." Rainbow dash looked incredibly guilty.

"Pinkie I-"

"Mr. and Mrs. Cake can hardly trust me with the bakery, I've opened it up and closed it before many times, I've handled whole days with it and I've only ever screwed up once." Now it was Applejack's turn to look guilty, she knew it was her fault the first time Pinkie had the bakery to herself.

"Pinkie you know that was-" AJ tried but Pinkie continued to ignore her friends.

"I'm not important, I'm messed up, I don't deserve to exist." Pinkie finished and stared at her tears falling to the ground.

"That's wrong," Twilight replied and Pinkie looked up, "You are very important, to all of us. You make fantastic parties and bring a smile to everyone in Ponyville. You're the reason we can look forward to everyday, without you Ponyville would be a sad place."

"You're just saying that to make me feel better." Pinkie said.

"No I'm serious, in Canterlot it's not as joyful as it is here. You've got ponies that work all day and never get a break, they are stressed and tired all the time and it creates a bad atmosphere. People can get very mean there; however here it's the exact opposite, they are so happy here. I think it's because of you and your parties." Pinkie didn't say anything so Twilight continued, "We love hanging out with you, Rainbow Dash didn't know how fun you were back then, but now we all do. We love your parties, no matter how many of them you have. You're the joy of Ponyville Pinkie, please don't leave us.

Pinkie looked at Twilight, "Really?" she asked.

"Of course." Twilight stated, all the other ponies nodded their head in agreement. Pinkie smiled, it was not her crazy, large, 'let's play' smile, but a genuine smile full of gratitude. "Now let's go home." Twilight said helping Pinkie up, she held onto Pinkie's hoof, "Promise me you'll see somepony about you're nightmares." Pinkie nodded and did the 'cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye' motion without uttering a word. Then all six ponies walked back into Ponyville together.