Double Repost Today : Although I split the chapter up, to make the story flow better.


Episode 2 : Wondercolts Forever . Part 3 : Warrior in Pink .


CHAPTER .


"Been a while since I got to see another warrior!?" Pinkie Pie cheered. The girl... certainly lived up to her name, being very very pink. Skin to hair, and even highlights of her dress, were a proper Bubblegum pink.

Sunset had sat Rose down at her table, and introduced the woman to the gaggle of teenage girls.

Pinkie looked on, nostalgically. "It brings me back to forward? To when i was un-squashing giant bugs in the swamps of the snowy desert." The girl smiled. "Will you be there? best to decide now instead of then."

"What?" Rose blinked.

The blue skinned girl, named Rainbow Dash, flicked the pink girl's ear. "You're doing it again."

Pinkie glared at the Rainbow haired, blue girl. "Not my fault you fruit cakes can't think right!"

Sunset explained, "Pinkie was taught reverse logic, by the Fae. Sometimes she has trouble ordering her brain down to our level."

Rose slowly nodded, "Reverse logic... you mean like moving a stone by not touching it?"

Pinkie froze, as Sunset groaned.

"Finally!!!" Pinkie grasped Rose's hands, "Someone who understands what can't be comprehended!!!"

Sunset banged her head on the table, "So you were supposed to move the stupid Rock by levitating it!"

"I never said that," Rose smiled at the girl. "You move the stone by not moving the stone."

"Like letting the waves take it?" Sunset was still reasoning. Not realizing the point was to unreason.

"Your thinking too literally," Rose shook her head. "Moving the stone without touching it is impossible. But by-"

"Hush," Pinkie pressed a finger to Rose's lips. "Luna wants her to figure it out on her own. Reverse Logic is harder to grasp for orderly minds."

"I've been trying to puzzle out that nonsense for 700 years!!!" Sunset pulled at her hair, head still on the table. "Celestia keeps eating my potential, whenever I get close to grasping it!!!"

"Celestia's best meals are ones not finished," Pinkie explained.

"That makes sense," Rose nodded. What with her eating potential, and all.

"HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE!?!" Sunset demanded.

"because it doesn't," Rose smiled, getting a wail from the girl.

Truthfully Rose didn't understand reverse logic. The Doctor just taught her it involves contradicting statements. She could talk the gibberish, but couldn't actively solve the puzzles... because you weren't SUPPOSED to solve them. That was kinda the point, to think in impossible riddles.

The answer to not moving the stone, was simply leave it alone. To ignore the stone, and not TRY to move it.

Sunset was failing because she was thinking about it too much. When it was purely a theoretical puzzle.

"You can do anything, because all things are impossible, and all that," Rose waved off.

Sunset banged her head on the table again, looking like she was on the verge of having a right fit. While Pinkie was beaming.

"Celestia was right!!!" Pinkie grinned, somehow knowing what Celestia said, without being told. "Luna will love to un-meet you!"

Rose frowned, then sighed. "Got to admit, not looking forward to that."

Pinkie gently pat Rose's hand, before finally letting go. The bubblegum girl eagerly returned to her meal.

"Getting higher beings, interested in you, will always be frightening," sympathized Rarity. An albino pale girl with deep purple hair. "We've all been through that initial hardship, and came out the better for it."

Rose sighed. "Wouldn't be the first 'god' that got in my way... though will be the first to be an obstacle, without trying to kill me... I honestly don't know how to react... Celestia probably won't help me if I kill this Luna."

The other girls gaped. While Rarity chuckled. "That's just more proof Luna will like you. Most of the Champions she approaches, debate about killing her."

Pinkie nodded adamantly. "Some of my best friends tried to un-alive me, when we first met. The mortals Luna goes after, are usually champions of the cosmos. People capable of great creativity through destruction. Luna needs to feed on their dreams of such... many appreciate her taking the nightmares away."

Rose froze... Luna... fed on bad dreams... Rose... wouldn't have constant nightmares of all the battles she's fought in... she could actually get a good night's sleep.

Shaking her head, Rose reminded herself that would be putting her in debt to a "higher being". The Doctor warned her against such things.

Wannabe gods and would-be gods were dangerous, and never kept there word... but did that deceit apply to real gods? Rose felt like she was in uncharted territory.

Applejack, an orange cow-girl, explained in greater detail. "Celestia can't grow, without eating potential. While Luna can't create or destroy, without absorbing those dreams. That means more than just nightmares, but their goals and motivations. People who serve her, literally want nothing but to continue serving her." That sounded terrible.

"You're doing a pretty lousy job of convincing her, AJ" Dash rolled her eyes. Obviously agreeing with Rose.

"Informed consent," Applejack shrugged. Before taking a bite out of her burger.

"Losing your goals can be a good thing," Pinkie insisted. "As Luna's goals become your own. You're filled with this incredible purpose, like your part of something bigger then yourself. There is meaning in Luna's tasks... I sometimes miss that clarity."

"Why'd you leave then?" Rose asked.

"I died... or was close to it. This is my reward for a life of service, a peaceful retirement. Got too admit, it's a hell of a pension. Still... i miss being part of something.

"We saved so many worlds that would have died without us. Luna collects only the greatest champions. As only our dream of a better tomorrow, a better way to live, combined with the horrors we see to protect those that can't protect themselves.

"I've battle true Cosmic Horrors, under Luna's guidance, saw what they did to people, and was able to feel empathy for them, without being consumed by it. Luna takes our dreams, but she gives so much more. She gives us purpose... Not to mention gives us such an epic power boost, and training, we can actually go toe to toe with universe devouring entities, and come out the victor.

"Think about it, the ability, and the power, needed to save entire dimensions. With an army of people, each making a stand, to tell the monsters 'no, that's far enough', to see the lives you saved, and the lives that came of it...

"You understand... I see it in your eyes. The idea moves you... as it did me... Luna is the means to an end, because every life we save... is a life we saved."

This girl... really did get it...

"I can do that without selling my soul," Rose insisted.

Pinkie just smiled. "I said the same thing... but then didn't. Luna is a general. The greatest kind of general. One that leads from the front lines."

"I already have someone like that," Rose insisted, thinking of her Doctor. The man who inspired a common, 19 year old, shop worker... to become a hero.

"But are they on Luna's scale," Pinkie insisted.

"They might not be," Rose confessed, "They might only save lives, one little planet at a time, but they have never once lost sight of the little people. Every single life matters to him, and I'll gladly die one day, fighting in his name.

"The Doctor never ask, and doesn't need to. He inspires people to be better."

Pinkie frowned, "The Doctor..." She eyed Rose critically. "You're a companion?"

Rose blinked, "You know about that?"

Pinkie shrugged, smiling again. "The Cosmos has many Doctor's, and they have many companions. Maybe when your time with him is over, you'll seek out Luna. Like others have, in your position."

"Fat chance of that," Rose grinned. "I'll be with the Doctor forever."

Pinkie's smile became more sad... almost pitying...

"Sure," was all Pinkie said... giving Rose a feeling of foreboding.