Day Five Twilight

"All right you evil pixie, talk!" Said Twilight as she swiveled a lantern on a hook towards the creature. "I'll give you one more chance to tell me how to fix my friends or you'll be sorry!"

The creature said, probably for the millionth time that she wasn't the creature. "I'm not an Imp!" said the Imp. It was still in the net, which was hanging from the ceiling, and squirming around but besides that, had given no fight. Twilight positively stomped her hooves on the ground.

"That's it!" She screamed. She bent down and sifted through her bag. She pulled out a stick. The stick was fine, smooth, and made of bamboo. She turned to the net and started whacking it like a piñata.

"Hey–OW–stop that–OUCH-that really–OW!" said the creature. Twilight stopped. This wasn't getting her anywhere. She had to try something else. She was the prized pupil of Princess Celestia for goodness sake! She was not going to be beaten by an Imp. She turned to the creature. "What's your name?" She asked. The creature turned its head.

"My name is Kepine Ipe and don't you forget it!" It snarled. Twilight turned away in disgust. It was time to use the fail safe. The rope holding the net untied itself from the top of the ceiling and moved through the air.

I wish that there was a better place for interrogation than my library. thought Twilight as she trotted across the floor. She had moved the net over a large kiddy pool. She had no pool of her own so she was forced to borrow Pinkie Pie's. She hadn't found Pinkie Pie when she had been over there to ask for the pool. She knew that Pinkie kept it in the shed by her house so she had taken it without asking. She tried to think where Pinkie Pie was. She was lucky that Pinkie Pie wasn't there, if she had been there she would have asked to many questions, but her absence was still troubling. Where was she? She was always around and yet the whole way home, even while trying to drag the heavy pool with her she hasn't seen hide nor pink hair of Pinkie Pie. Normally she couldn't go five minutes without seeing Pinkie somewhere or another.

Well these last couple of days haven't exactly been normal.

And then a thought struck Twilight. She turned and brought the net closer to her face.

"What did you do to Pinkie Pie?" She asked low and menacingly. The creature turned to Twilight and smiled.

"What did you say?" Asked the creature.

"I said what did you do to Pinkie Pie?" Twilight growled. The creature shrieked and snorted. Twilight thought it was having a fit. But, to Twilight's repulsion and horror, she saw that the creature was laughing. It was laughing so hard that it was wheezing and spluttering for breath. After a few minutes it had enough energy to turn its head and splutter

"I… I… am Pinkie p…p… Pinkie Pie!"

It was Twilight's turn to laugh now. "If you were Pinkie Pie then why are you dressed like that?" She asked. The creature stopped laughing at once. "What's wrong? Can't think of a good enough excuse?" Twilight jeered. The creature certainly wasn't laughing now. "Now tell me what you did to Pinkie Pie!" Said Twilight again.

"I am Pinkie Pie!" The creature said again.

"Is that so?" Said Twilight loudly and with that she dropped rope, net, creature and all into the kiddie pool. The creature hit the water with a loud splash. After some splashing about, the creature flopped out of the pool and pulled off the net. Twilight readied her stick again and waited. The creature got on its feet. It was completely soaked from head to hoof with peach juice and water. It was taking a fighting position. Twilight took a deep breath and braced herself. But to her surprise the creature didn't attack. It had positioned itself to dry itself off. It spread its hooves out and, like a dog, shook itself dry. And as it did so its brown hair flew off of it and hit Twilight in the face.

"Ah!" Screamed Twilight as she shook in of her face. "Gross!" She shuddered as it hit the floor with a large squelching sound like a suction cup being pulled from glass.

The creature must be molding its skin! Gross!

She turned back to the creature. Her mouth dropped open. The creature hadn't molded its skin. There on its head was a head of bright pink hair. She blinked. It blinked back. She didn't know what to do now. The book had said that water would cause the imp to change back but it hadn't. There was only one explanation.

"You're a really powerful Vexation Imp aren't you?" she said regaining herself at once. "You can regrow hair at once can't you? Well we'll see about that!" She dipped her hoof in the pool and splashed more water on the creature. Nothing happened. "Oh you want to play tricky do you? Well two can play at that! You cast an anti-water spell on yourself! But there is one thing you can't do! Make a cutiemark!" And with that she galloped to the creature and ripped the soaked piece of paper off of it. "There, see! No…" But as Twilight looked down she saw there was a cutiemark there. Not only one, but one she recognized! "So you tried to pull a fast one on me huh? Well this paint will come off with," she scooped up more water. "a little," She splashed some on the mark. "water," And with that she started rubbing on the cutiemark up and down. Nothing happened. "What? But that's impossible!" She said.

"I keep telling you I'm Pinkie Pie!" Said the creature. Twilight thought for a minute.

This creature says it's Pinkie Pie. Pinkie Pie is missing. Nothing I've tried has worked. What did the book say about Vexation Imps? It said it couldn't take cutiemarks, magical abilities, memories, emotions, and personalities. It had the cutiemark. But there were still other ways to check. As an earth pony, Pinkie Pie doesn't have any magical abilities. At least none that I can check. But I can check her memories and emotions! And Pinkie Pie does have special skills. She can bake, sing, and she has her Pinkie Sense! I can test for those!

She turned to the creature again and said, "Well if you aren't the Vexation Imp, than how do you explain what happened to Gummy?"

"What happened to Gummy?" Asked the creature sounding panicked.

"It was just awful!" said Twilight dramatically, studying the creature's reactions. Nothing happened. The creature stood perfectly still. "I knew it! You aren't–"

All of a sudden the creature sat down and cried. It cried so loud that Twilight had to cover her ears. "Wait! Wait! I lied! Nothing happened to him!"

"I want my alligator!" She wailed still louder.

"Pinkie!" Shouted Twilight. All at once the crying stopped.

"You think I'm Pinkie?" Pinkie asked.

"No I don't!" snapped Twilight. The creature bowed its head.

"Now answer this question!" Twilight said looking hard into the creature's eyes.

"Who was the one who convinced the big dragon to leave from his nap?"

"Well when we got there you tried to talk to him but he brushed you off, then Rarity tried to flirt with him but she got kicked out when he saw she wanted his gems, and then I tried to get him to laugh but he didn't want to and then Rainbow Dash kicked him and he got really mad and then Fluttershy scolded him and stared him down. Fluttershy is really brave. But sometimes not. One time she–"

"OKAY!" Said Twilight.

Her memory is the same as Pinkie. And she can talk your ear off the same as Pinkie. One last test.

She used her horn and made the pot on her window sill hover over the creature's head. She dropped it. It fell straight towards the creature. It was two feet from its head when its tail twitched. It had just enough time to move out of the way before the pot smashed on the floor.

"That was close! You should be more careful where you put your pots!" Said Pinkie Pie.

"But how did you do that? If you have Pinkie Sense than that means that…that…"

Twilight was not able to finish her sentence before she passed out.