Chapter 6:
Griffon the brush-off

It was another beautiful day in Ponyville and everyone was doing their thing. Since there was no Pokemon Center around Ash decided that the only time his creatures would go into battle is when evil was about, so he and Pikachu were taking a nap in the park; at least that was their plan until a voice began to speak. “Talk about an action overload! She starts going super-sonic going higher and higher, and then Rainbow Dash swooped down - swoosh! And right before she hit ground she swooped up - zoom!” Pinkie said as she explained what their speed factor has been up to.

“Uh-huh.” Twilight, who was reading a book on a bench in front of the tree Ash was sleeping under, said in a ‘I don’t really care’ tone.

“And then she looped around and around, like whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo.” PP said as she continued her story before falling to her back.

“Uh-huh.” The purple pony answered back as she continued to focus on her book. At that moment the young woman in question flew over head causing the fan to stand up on her hooves, and follow on the ground. This caused the two to sigh in relief before going back to what they were doing.

“Rainbow Dash!” Pinkie shouted out causing the creature in question to have a shocked eyed expression before looking down.

“Grr. Pinkie Pie? Not again.” Rainbow said before picking up the pace. The grounded one saw this and picked up speed.

“Rainbow Dash!” She called out again while alternating views between her target and the ground to make sure she didn’t bump into anything.

“Not now, Pinkie Pie!” RD shouted back down before picking up the pace even more.

“But…but Rainbow Dash.” PP said since she had something really important to say.

“I’m in the middle of something.” The speed factor explained since all she wanted was to loose her tag along as soon as possible.

“But…” The informant explained but was cut off.

“I said not now! Ugh!” The blue speedster said back before slamming into a wall of solid rock, and slid downward.

“I was going to say to watch out for that mountain.” Laughter informed once Loyalty reached ground. Once that was said the flier groaned in aggravation. Once that incident was done the speed warrior tried to loose her in town while going near her top speed.

‘Peace at last.’ RD thought as she rested on a cloud before hearing some annoying humming coming from down below, so she took some cloud in her hooves and shoved the cotton-looking material into her ears.

“Hi, I’m looking for Rainbow Dash. Have you seen her?” Pinkie questioned a group of ponies over by a cart. Once the pony in question heard this she wordlessly freaked out.

‘Gotta hide!’ The blue one thought before doing an ostrich thing in the cloud she was standing on.

“Hello, have you seen Rainbow Dash. No, thanks anyways.” PP questioned and stated after asking another pony. It was then the party animal saw Ash was about to go into his home to see to his Pokemon and decided to ask him. “Ash, have you seen Rainbow Dash anywhere?” She asked politely.

“Isn’t that her up there?” Ash questioned while pointing up to the cloud right above them with a rainbow colored tail sticking out of it. The young one said her thanks, and let Ash do what he had been doing.

“Rainbow Dash.” Pinkie said in a sing-song style causing the one in question to freak. As a means to an end she bolted as fast as she could while her pursuer simply hopped behind her.

‘She is still one of the strangest creatures I’ve ever met.’ Ash thought as he watched her hop away from his door window. The speedster rested behind the Sweet Apple Acres barn.

‘This should be far enough. Who knows maybe she had given up.’ RD thought while taking a few deep breaths. “That was close.” She said aloud once her breathing leveled.

“Hi!” PP said as soon as RD turned around. The winged one leaped into the air with a yelp of alarm before flying off again. ‘Here I come.’ She thought while happily hopping along.

‘The library - perfect! Pinkie will never look for me there.” Rainbow thought before taking refuge in a large gathering of leaves to catch her breath again.

“Hi again.” The piece that RD was sitting on said to her causing the speed factor to realize - that the pink one beat her to this location as well.

‘Not again.’ She thought before bolting and went passed a big hill which the other Element of Harmony followed. In reality as soon as she went passed the hill RD hid behind another cloud. ‘Now’s my chance.’ She thought while tip-hoofing in the air before gliding down to the edge of a lake.

“I need a favor Rainbow Dash.” Pinkie, who once again beat her to the location, stated after spitting out the mouth piece to a snorkel. Loyalty was about to flee again, but she quickly saw the pattern behind all of this.

“Oh, forget it.” Rainbow said before belly flopping back on the sandy terrain in defeat.

“I TOTALLY promise it’ll be TOTALLY fun!” Pinkie exclaimed with great enthusiasm.

“Okay.” Rainbow answered back with a sigh of defeat. With that Laughter explained her plan and Loyalty followed it. The two ended up at city hall with an average looking cloud.

“Over to the right.” Pinkie directed and the weather controller followed. “No, no. A little to the left.” She corrected before adding, “Wait back to the right.” The pony thought about it before continuing with, “Now a little left-ish while staying right. Stop. Hmm, maybe a few inches to the South. Now a couple centimeters North. Okay. One more smidg-e-meter to the…” Her comment was cut short by the puller.

“PINKIE PIE!!!” RD shouted out of anger since this routine was getting old.

“Uh, perfect. Now, wait for my signal.” PP stated before going to one of the base windows, and saw her target. Spike, who was collecting scrolls, and humming a tune, did not know of the danger that lied before him.

‘That must be the signal.’ The speed factor thought before bucking the cloud causing a lightning to burst from it. This in turn startled the small dragon into releasing the scrolls.

“Oh, Rainbow Dash, we startled Spike into getting the hiccups.” Pinkie said as their target started to do just that. The Roy G BIV themed one floated down with the cloud to see for herself.

“Good one, Pinkie -hiccup- Pie. Your always pullin a fast one -hiccup- on me.” Spike said to the cause of his problem with a smile since he knew it was all in good fun.

“Oh no. Your not hurt, are you?” The prankster questioned after hearing a gasp of alarm from the purple/green creature.

“Na-hiccup-ah. Don’t be -hiccup-silly. Dragons are -hiccup- fireproof.” Spike explained while forgetting that the scroll had been sent to the princess as it always did when he breathed on it.

‘What is this? It’s too early in the day for Twilight Sparkle to have learned a friendship lesson.’ The princess thought as a scroll materialized before her and fell to the floor.

“Oh, okay. Good.” Pinkie said since she hated it when a prank went too far and actually hurt someone either on the inside, outside, or both.

“Wish the same thing -hiccup- were true with scrolls.” Spike stated after picking up and sending seven away. Back at the castle the princess was reading something rather interesting.

‘This is Ash’s health report.’ Celestia thought as she continued to read before the seven piled on top of her. Back in the town every time the dragon picked up a fallen scroll it was sent away, so he decided to wait the hiccups out before doing anything with them.

“Have you seen anything more hilarious?” PP questioned once she could catch her breath after her latest laughing fit. This gave the other one an idea: one that she didn’t mind one bit.

“I can think of one thing.” Loyalty stated before kicking the cloud again causing a scream out of her fellow Element of Harmony. “I didn’t take you for a prankster, Pinkie Pie?” RD questioned while gliding down to the laughing/hiccupping creature.

“Are you -hiccup- kidding? I love to pull pranks. It’s all -hiccup- in good fun, and Pinkie Pie lo-hiccup-ove to have -hiccup- fun. -Hiccup-.” The pink one stated with a smile on her face.

“You know, Pinkie Pie. Your not as annoying as I thought.” The winged one said and then decided to go one step further, “You wanna hang out?” She offered causing the other to smile out of joy. PP tried to express her joy, but her hiccups got in the way, so the asker decided to help with that. “I simple nod will do.” She said after putting her hoof in her happy friend’s mouth.

“Mm-hmm.” She said with a closed mouth. Once the hiccups stopped the two headed for the joke shop to arm themselves before setting off. The duo’s first target was Generosity.

“Is she even home?” RD questioned after the pink one rang the doorbell after dropping off their package.

“I don’t know, but look.” Laughter answered back before motioning to the top half of the door opening up and their friend’s head popping out. R looked around to the left and right, but saw no one, but when she glanced down the fashion expert spotted a bouquet of flowers. Intrigued she went down to sniff, but she came back up the young pony began to sneeze.

‘Why can’t I stop sneezing?’ She thought before hearing laughter beyond the bushes and saw her fellow Elements of Harmony with a can of Sneezing Powder in hoof. Rainbow Dash dropped the container and decided to move onto the next target, and when she did some powder got onto Pinkie.

“AHCHOOO!!!!” PP shouted out loudly while zipping away. The generous one did not take any offense to this little prank since it was a good, harmless joke. In the big tree in town Twilight was testing out a Science experiment, and was recording the steps.

‘Okay, green content into blue content.’ She thought after jotting some stuff down. The heroine of magic was about to write down that green and blue made a purple of sorts, but when she turned to the piece of paper she just wrote on - there was nothing there. “Huh?” She questioned aloud and then swayed her head to and fro between paper and experiment until the purple stuff made a small explosion. ‘Is that laughter, I hear?’ Twilight thought and went to her window and saw PP and RD laughing their heads off.

‘At least she’s not mad.’ The two thought while laughing as they saw their friend sport an understanding smile for their prank. The next target was Honesty, and the two knew exactly how to deal with her.

“Come on, Tauros. Let’s get to buckin`.” Apple Jack said as went to his barn stall. The bull Pokemon, who had been staying there for an over night visit, got up onto all four hooves. After strapping a wagon to there bodies the two set off, but stopped and starred at the apples.

“Who did this?” Tauros thought with an angry snort coming out his nostrils.

“Land sakes!” AJ shouted after seeing the multi colored apples and knew that it wasn’t time for those apples yet, so what was going on? The two hear laughter and saw pink and blue wearing artist beret and pallets.

‘They think it’s funny messing with food.’ Tauros thought out of anger. The two unhooked themselves from their carts, gathered ammo, and started chucking them at the two jokesters.

“Hold on their partner.” AJ called out when she saw the out of Towner was about to unleash a Fissure attack at them, but stopped when she spoke. The farm girl motioned for him to come to her at a barrel filled with water where an apple fell in.

‘Oh, water based paint.’ The hard headed one thought as the two watched the paint flow off of the item. The two laughed at it since it was a good gag, and the food was okay - they just needed watering.

‘Seeing Tauros gives me an idea.’ Rainbow Dash thought, but knew that most of Ash’s friends weren’t big on pranks. As if reading her mind Pinkie rushed out of sight, and came back with Totodile on her back. ‘That will work.’ Loyalty thought and decided to put her next plan into action.

‘There you go.’ Fluttershy thought as she tossed some bread crumbs into a stream to feed a few fish. Turned to see three others along with a strange looking turtle. From across the curved river were three lookers.

“Is someone over there? Who’s Toto gonna squirt? Who’s Toto gonna squirt?” Pinkie questioned the preceptor while Totodile a plunger connected to a hollow tube that was connected to the strange turtle since the gator planned to use a Water Gun attack.

“Fluttershy.” The speed factor answered back as she looked through the borrowed telescope at their target. After hearing that the water colored creature swallowed his attack while his pink toned friend gasped in alarm.

“We can’t prank Fluttershy. I mean she’s so sensitive that it’ll hurt her feelings. Even to the most harmless prank.” The Pokemon explained to Loyalty, and hoped that she would believe him.

“Yeah, your right. Phfft. We need a victim that’s made of tougher stuff.” Rainbow stated back after taking a break from the scope, but quickly went back to it. “So, who’s it gonna be?” RD questioned while looking around away from the device not knowing what the two Laughter factors were doing.

“Oh, I’ve got someone in mind. The toughest around.” Pinkie said as she said through her giggling fit. Her fellow prankster heard the giggling, but did not think much of it - just of the chance to prank someone else.

“Oh, awesome. Who? Who? Do I know them? Is it Ash himself?” Rainbow questioned while looking around again, and saw no one in the area. The two others continued to laugh, and since the third haven’t figured it out the two decided to show why they were happy.

“No, but your very close.” Pinkie said as she and Totodile walked her over to the body of water before them.

“Good one, Pinkie Pie.” The winged one said after looking at her reflection and offered her hoof for a low hoof, but all of her attempts were misses. The two shared a good laugh, and as they did FS was perplexed by the strange turtle.

‘I better handle clean up.’ Totodile thought before swimming over to Fluttershy and explained things to her. He then got help to give Twilight her telescope back, and by morning Laughter was ready to start this all over again.

“Rise and shine, Rainbow Dash. It’s a brand new day, and we’ve got a lot of pranking to--oooh.” Pinkie said after trotting to her fellow Element’s home while wearing novelty items on her head, but stopped speaking when a new head emerged from the cloud home.

“Morning Pink.” Rainbow said from a higher part of the cloud home before swooping down to the ground. “Gilda, this is my gal pal - Pinkie Pie.” She stated causing the new creature to come down to join them.

“Hey, what’s up?” The creature questioned: not really caring much for this one in pink at all.

“Pinkie, this is my Griffon friend - Gilda.” RD explained while motioning to the fully feathered one before them.

“What’s a Griffon?” PP questioned since she had never heard of such a creature before.

“She’s half eagle, half lion.” The ROY G BIV girl explained while the lady in question decided to add something else.

“And all awesome.” The girl said as she flew in closer to the two and wrapped her right upper arm around her old friend’s neck.

“Gilda’s my best friend since Junior Speedster Flight Camp.” RD explained after special hoof shake her friend. “Hey, remember the chant?” Loyalty questioned since she wanted her new friend to at least know that much of her school.

“Sha! They made us recite it every morning. I’ll never get that lame thing out of my head.” Gilda said back since she thought that much of it was a bore.

“So…” Rainbow stated to her hold friend, as if goading her into saying it with her.

“Only for you, Dash.” The fuzor said back, and with that the two began to recite the chant.

“Junior Speedsters are our lives! Soaring skies, and daring dives! Junior Speedsters is our quest! To someday be the very best!” The two of them said to her, and even though PP heard the emotionless tone from Gilda throughout the whole thing Laughter didn’t pay it any mind.

“That was awesome, and it gave me a great idea for a prank.” Pinkie said before face diving into her stuff, and finished with, “Gilda, you game?” Rainbow would like that her old best friend, and one of her knew best friends working on pranks with her, but the other winged one had other ideas.

“Well, I groove on a good prank as much as the next Griffon, but Dash you promised we could get a flying lesson in this morning.” Gilda stated before taking to the sky.

“Yeah, uh, well…Pinkie Pie, you don’t mind; do you? Gilda just got here. We’ll catch up with you later.” The Pegasus said back feeling bad she had to ditch her knew friend, but saw the last part with her best reassuring smile.

“Oh…um…sure, no problem. Have fun you guys. I’ll just catch up with you…later.” Pinkie said as she watched the two fly away, and felt pretty low. Unknown to any of them was that someone was watching them.

‘Poor girl.’ Heracross, who was eating early this morning thought, but decided to focus on this new tree sap rather than tending to PP’s feelings. The two kept flying until the Afternoon hours, but the two decided to take a break on a cloud.

“Whoa! That was sweet! Just like old times.” Gilda said to her fellow speed demon.

“Yeah, only faster.” RD said as she hoof-bumped her old friend, and added, “So, now what?” It was at that moment a familiar pink head popped through the cloud they were on.

“Hey there!” Pinkie said before her head disappeared. This confused them, but the third person continued to talk. “It’s later, and I caught up.” She said after popping in and out two more times. The two looked through the hole she was making and saw that PP was on a rather large trampoline.

“Pinkie Pie, you are so random!” Rainbow said with a smile on her face since she was always happy to meet up with a fellow Element. This did not go over very well with her old friend one little bit.

“Hey, Dash, think you got enough gas to beat me to that cloud?” Gilda questioned while pointing to said item several miles away.

“A race? You are so on!” RD said back and got ready for take off.

“1,2,3 - GO!” The Griffon shouted out and the two flew off. Laughter saw this, and felt bad again.

“Hey!” PP shouted out at them, but they were too busy with their race to notice.

“I win!” RD shouted out happily.

“As if! I won, dude!” The old friend said back while pointing at herself with one of her talons.

“No, way!” The blue horse shouted back in disbelief.

“Yes, way!” She said back; feeling good that they were a good ways away from that bothersome pony. The two began to argue, but stopped when a third voice was heard.

“Wow, guys, that was really cool! But I think Rainbow Dash beat you by a teeny weenie little hair, or a teeny weenie little feather.” Pinkie said to the two of them while being held up by several balloons.

“Ha! Good thing Pinkie’s here to keep you honest, G.” RD stated with a smile not knowing that this was getting under the Griffon’s skin.

“Okay, Dash, last one to that cloud up there is a gnarly Dragon egg. GO!” Gilda said as she pointed up to a higher cloud. The race started and a cloud of dust appeared, but when it cleared with brown winged one was still there.

‘That’s weird. Why didn’t she fly off too?’ PP thought, but received her answer with a rude tone by the creature before her.

“I think the high altitude is making you dizzy.” Gilda proclaimed before popping about six balloons, and let her slowly fall to Earth.

“Wait. Guys.” The balloon holder called out for assistance, but received none. Up on the new cloud RD landed calmly followed by her old friend.

“Oh, wow. You guys almost got away from me that time.” Pinkie said to the two while manning a strange peddle based helicopter. As Loyalty was happy to see Laughter was still with them the fuzor was not.

“So, Dash, got any new moves in your tricks-inary, or are you 100% old school?” The Griffon questioned since she knew this taunt would distract the pony long enough to rid the air of the pink one.

“New moves? Sit back, G. This is gonna take a while.” the flyer answered back, and went to work. As she showed off her latest moves the other put her latest plan into action.

“Hey, Pinkie, come here.” Gilda said and fingered her to come closer.

“Yeah?” PP questioned back since she was interested in knowing what her knew friend wanted to talk about.

“Don’t you know how to take ‘get lost’ for an answer? Dash doesn’t need to hang out with a dweeb like you now that I’m around. Your dorking up the skies, Stinkie Pie, so make like a bee and buzz-off.” She explained while grabbing the blades, held them for a bit, and then released which caused the operator to go spiraling back to the Earth.

“Try matching that?” Rainbow Dash questioned as she was done with her routine, and headed back to the cloud. “Hey, where’s Pinkie Pie, and her crazy contraption?” Loyalty questioned after looking around and not seeing it anywhere; not knowing what her old friend had done.

“Ah, she left. Something about being as busy as a bee.” Gilda answered back while looking down at the ground to see if she could see her accomplishment of where they are now. Down on the ground Ash was taking a stroll - enjoying that this world was pretty calm in comparison to his world which always had a situation that he had to fix.

“Oh look a helicopter.” Ash said as he looked at the sky before quickly adding, “A crashing helicopter!” Out of instinct he threw one of his spheres into the air to summon Snorlax.

“Hey, Ash, what’s up?” The heavy set man questioned while looking down upon his partner.

“Snorlax, I need you to lie down right now.” Ketchum offered to the Sleeping Pokemon. Always having faith in his partner the big guy did as commanded, and just stayed there. “Now, who’s ever in that thing - jump.” He called out to the vehicle.

‘Okay.’ PP thought before leaping out of it and bounced a few times on the Pokemon before sliding to the side, and landing on the ground. “That was so super-duper fun!” The excitable one shouted out happily.

“Pinkie, are you alright? What happened to you?” Ash said, and it was that concerned tone that caused her to focus on what had happened above them. “I see, let’s get to Twilight. I’m sure she’ll have some idea of what to do.” He said while picking up the strange device.

“Sounds good. Let’s go.” She said back and the two set off. After making a slight detour to Sugar Cube Corner to work out the dents later the two made it to the library.

“So, Pinkie Pie, are you sure this fiend of Rainbow Dash is really so mean?” TS questioned while looking at one of her books.

“Um, yeah. She keeps stealing Rainbow Dash away. She popped my balloons, and she tells me to buzz-off. I’ve never met a Griffon this mean…well, I’ve never met a Griffon at all, but I bet if I had - she wouldn’t be as mean and grumpy as Gilda.” Laughter explained to Magic while putting her hoof down at the end.

“You know what I think, Pinkie Pie.” Twilight stated causing her friend to come closer out of curiosity causing her to continue with, “Well, I think…your jealous.” Even though she immediately regretted saying it since she knew how this emotional pony would react.

“Jealous?!” She shouted back in alarm.

“Green with envy? Well, in your case - pink with envy.” Spike commented while over hearing their discussion.

“Well, yes, jealous. Listen Pinkie, I don’t want to upset you, but just because Rainbow Dash has another friend doesn’t make Gilda a grump. I mean perhaps it’s you Pinkie, who needs to improve her attitude.” The student stated as she was trying to let her friend down as easy as she could.

“Improve my attitude?! But I…gah, but it’s Gilda that…are you seri…AUG!” Pinkie shouted back since she still couldn’t believe the founder of the six was taking the side of the fuzor over an Element of Harmony.

“I’ll keep an eye on her.” Ash, who had been sitting at the stairs - listening to the story a second time, and decided to see this Gilda with his own two eyes. With that Ash followed Laughter who still thinking of her talk with Twilight.

“Maybe Twilight is right? Maybe Gilda isn’t a great big, grumpy meanie-mean pants. Maybe I’m just a jealous, judgmental jealousy jealous-pants.” Pinkie said enroot to one of her favorite restaurants for a pick-me up.

“I hope she’s okay.” Ash muttered to himself after taking a seat across from her, and summoned Donphan to keep them both company. All was calm for a moment before the three heard a commotion from above.

‘They’re here.’ Pinkie thought as she tried hiding under the umbrella as best as she could. The monster tamer felt the bad vibes, and decided to do the ninja thing - watch through the shadows.

“I’ve got to handle a few weather jobs in the area. Shouldn’t take long. Just hang around town and I’ll come find ya.” Rainbow said as the two landed on the ground.

“That’s cool I guess. I’m gonna go chow down!” Gilda answered back and watched as he old friend took flight. She looked around, and saw the perfect thing to occupy her time.

“Aah! A rattler! A rattler! Run for the hills! Every-pony save yourselves!” Granny called out after encountering what she believed to be a snake at the corn stand before slowly walking away. Due to his fights with Jessie Ash knew a snake tail when he saw one, and the item in question was seriously not one.

“This stuff ain’t fresh dude.” Gilda said after tapping a tomato on the cart, and walked away.

“Aw, poor Granny Smith, she didn’t know it was a joke. How mean.” Pinkie stated about what she had just seen before adding, “No, no. I can’t misjudge her. It was kind of a funny prank…I guess.” PP and AK watched the fuzor further.

‘Time to put this tale of mine to good use.’ Gilda thought as she used her lion tail to seize an apple, and eat it in one bite.

‘Cruel jokester and thief - not good qualities.’ Ash thought as he saw both acts, and did not feel right letting them go unchecked.

“I did misjudge her! She’s not only a meanie mean-pants. She’s also a thief.” PP proclaimed, but quickly calmed down while adding, “No, no, no, no. She might give it back. It’s just a joke.” Ash doubted that highly since it was now in the beast’s stomach. They watched as Kindness did her thing for a duck family.

“Alright, little ones. This way. This way. Mama Duck, you are free and clear.” She said while walking backward to make sure that the family was always in her sight.

“Hey!” Gilda shouted to the one she let bump into her.

“Please excuse me.” Fluttershy said calmly.

“I’m walkin here.” Griffon shouted back.

“Um…um…I’m sorry. I…I…was just trying.” Fluttershy tried to explain in a quivering voice as she backed away from the Griffon out of fear.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Why don’t you watch where your going, doofus.” Gilda explained to the Element of Harmony before her.

“B-b-b-but I…I…” FS tried to explain to herself, but ended up getting roared by the beast before her. Kindness ran away while crying, and flew away from the others at the same time.

“That’s it. She’s a speed bump.” The elephant muttered to himself after seeing his friend cry. Donphan was about to Roll-Out on Gilda while her guard was done, but an Aura Sphere stopped him. “Why did you stop me, boss?” The powerhouse pachyderm questioned since he knew it was the human that through that sphere.

“Remember we are outsiders here, and if we raise our hand to a native may cause problems with the ponies around here.” Ash answered back from the passageway before gesturing to the woman in question.

“Oh, please, all these lame ponies are driving me buggy. I gotta bail.” Gilda said to the others in the area before taking flight. Donphan wasn’t the only one offended by what was seen before them.

“She’s a grump, and a thief, and a bully. The meanest kind of meanie mean-pants there is. I can take it, but no on hurts Fluttershy like that. No one! This calls for extreme measures - Pinkie Pie style.” PP said as an idea was forming in her head.

‘Something tells me I already know what she is thinking, so I better go with a plan of my own.’ Ash thought before walking off with Donphan following close behind him. Several hours from then their plans were set into motion.

“Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.” PP said to the ponies that were entering the Sugar Cube Corner building.

“Who’s this Gilda I’ve heard nothin about?” AJ questioned to R since she did not recall any creature with that name before.

“I hear she’s an old friend of Rainbow Dash - a Griffon, so rare.” Rarity answered back as the two decided to mingle with a few new arrivals.

“You’ve met Gilda, right? What’s she like?” Twilight questioned as she spotted, and walked closer to the timid one of the group.

“Oh, um, well…I’ll tell you later, Twilight.” FS said and even though she had the perfect words to describe the fuzor she did not wish to ruin the mood of the party with such language.

“Welcome. Welcome.” Laughter said to a few more ponies before hearing someone approaching her.

“Um, Pinkie Pie, about this party for Gilda. Um, do you really think it’s a good idea. I mean…” Fluttershy stated, but was cut off by the pony she was speaking to.

“Don’t worry your pretty little head over that mean old Gilda. Your Auntie Pinkie Pie has it all taken care of.” Laughter pointed out while patting her friend on the head, and then turned back to the door.

“I’m a year older than you.” FS informed before seeing the screamer from earlier at the door.

“Gilda! I am so honored to host you one of my signature Pinkie Pie Party, and I really, truly, sincerely hope you feel welcome here around all of us pony-folk.” PP said as she offered a hoof to the creature before her, and a big smile on her face. G accepted it, and got seriously shocked.

“Oh, Pinkie Pie, the ol` hoof-shake buzzer.” Rainbow said to her new friend while chuckled after seeing what went down. “You are a scream.” She added after her chuckling calmed down.

“Yeah…good one, Pinkie Pie.” Gilda congratulated in a forced tone.

“Come on, G. I’ll introduce you to some of my other friends.” RD informed before trotting off.

“Right behind ya, Dash.” She called out to the blue speedster. “I know what your up to.” She whispered to the MC of the party.

“Great.” Pinkie answered back with a smile.

“Ugh, I know what your planning.” The Griffon clarified what she said earlier.

“Well, I hope so. This wasn’t supposed to be a surprise party.” The party animal said back to the guest of honor.

“I mean - I’ve got my eye on you.” G explained back while getting aggravated with the pink one.

“And I’ve got my eye on you.” Laughter said back while getting in pretty close to Gilda. “Everyone, I’d like you all to meet Gilda. A long time, dear friend of Rainbow Dash. Let’s honor her and welcome her to Ponyville.” PP said to the others which they all did say ‘hello’ in various ways.

‘I knew they’d like her.’ RD thought as she put one of her arm’s around Gilda’s neck.

“Please, help yourself.” The water gator said as he gestured to the spread in the center of the room.

“Vanilla Lemon Drops? Don’t mind if I do.” Gilda said as she spotted one of her favorite foods. There was a problem with the first one - it was spicy. “Hot.” She shouted out after spewing an entry level Flamethrower which PP used to roast a marshmallow.

“Over here. Over here.” The electric rodent shouted out while pointing at one of the punch cups provided. The fuzor took the glass the mouse was pointing to and chugged it down greedily only to feel the drink was dribbling on her chest feathers instead.

“What do you know - Pepper in the Lemon Drops, and the punch served in a dribble glass!” Pinkie shouted with great joy in her tone.

“Priceless. Priceless.” Rainbow added as she, like the others, were laughing at the guest of honor’s expense. The new girl spotted a jokeless cup, rushed to it, and swallowed its contents in one gulp.

“Yeah. Hilarious.” Gilda replied back after feeling her throat cool down to normal limits. The old friend decided to keep the Griffon in good mood, so she decided to point out one good thing to any party.

Hey, G, look - presents.” Loyalty called out while pointing at a end table full of presents, which the bird rushed over there in a micro-second with a huge grin on her beak.

“Spitting snakes. Ha, some-pony pulled that prank on me last month.” The farm girl said after watching Gilda grab a cylinder shaped object, pulled on the main ribbon, and saw several fake snakes spew all over the winged woman’s face.

“Ha, ha. I bet I know who that was.” G said after over hearing that piece of news from the apple worker, and glared at the pony she believed to be responsible for humiliating her.

“You do?” Pinkie questioned after seeing that the guest of honor was looking right at her, and added fluttering eyes for good measure. A small while later everyone was talking amongst themselves and listening to Fluttershy’s birds sing a beautiful song. “Cake time every-pony!” PP shouted out to all while wheeling out a delicious two layer cake.

“Oh! Can I blow out the candles?” The baby dragon questioned since, to him, that was always a fun thing to do.

“Why don’t we let Gilda blow out the candles, Spike. She is the guest of honor after all.” TS informed her little brother about that fact.

“Exactly.” The Griffon stated after shoulder checking the little one onto the floor before blowing them out. ‘Let’s eat.’ She thought with a big smile to those around her, but heard the candles re-light themselves, so she tried seven more times. Each attempt had the same results: they re-light and every creature at the party laughed at her.

“Re-lighting Birthday candles, I love that prank! What a classic!” Spike said to no one in particular before going back to laughing about it.

“Now, I wonder who could have done that?” Laughter questioned while looking at all of the party guests for any guilty faces.

“Yeah, I wonder.” Gilda stated with her anger slowly rising to the surface/

‘It’s almost time.’ Ash thought as he watched the Griffon while leaning on the far wall.

“Who cares! This cake is amazing!” The dragon of the party commented while tunneling through the cake and emerging at the top.

“Spike!” The Magic factor shouted out to him.

“What? It’s great cake. Try some.” He informed back, and offered to the student of Celestia. Hearing that caused Totodile, Pikachu, and even Quilava to burrow as the dragon did while Bulbasaur simply cut pieces of cake with Vine Whip for the others to enjoy starting with - Staraptor.

“Hey, G, you’re not upset about some silly candles?” RD questioned out of concern because her friend did not seem to be in a very happy mood at the moment.

“No way, Dash. Like I said - I’m done with a good prank.” The Griffon answered back in a forced happy tone which the Monster Tamer caught, and knew that his exposure plan was working just fine.

“Come on, then, let’s have some cake.” The speed factor stated and trotted over to the Grass/Poison type. G decided to address something to some-pony before she ate by grabbing PP by the neck and forced her to have a conversation behind the cake.

“Hey, I’m watching you - like a hawk.” The Griffon said in her best tough girl tone.

“Why, can’t you watch me like a Griffon?” PP questioned back; completely unfazed by her tone. While Ash’s creature were dishing out the cake AJ decided for them to have some fun as they waited for their slice.

“Hey, y’all, it’s pin the tail on the pony. Let’s play!” Apple Jack called out after spotting a familiar poster on the wall.

“Oh, my favorite game! Can I go first? Can I have the Purple Tail?” Generosity stated to the others before reaching for it with her mouth, but it was snatched up by the guest of honor.
“Well, I’m the guest of honor, and I’ll have the Purple Tail.” Gilda said just to make Rarity feel bad before walking over to the poster.

“Yeah, Gilda should definitely go first! Let’s get you blindfolded.” The party animal informed as she let the dragon have the honor of blindfolding her.

“What are you doing?!” G shouted to the creature she heard walking away from her. With her guard down PP grabbed hold of their main guest and spun her really fast.

“We’re spinning you around and around, and you pin the tail on the pony. Now, walk straight ahead and pin the tail.” Pinkie informed while guiding Gilda to the poster.

“Now walk straight ahead and pin the tail.” G mocked back to the helper before adding, “Ha, yeah right. This is another prank isn’t it. I’m going this way.” The feathered one then proceeded to do just that, and walk into the completely wrong direction.

“Wait, the poster is this---.” Pinkie informed, but stopped to watch the guest of honor step into some cake frosting causing her to slid and crash into the kitchen. After the crash the brown feathered one walked out, and heard the party planner’s voice. “Uh, Gilda, you pinned the tail on the wrong end.” PP stated as they saw that Gilda now had a Purple mustache on her beak.

‘Here we go.’ Ash thought as he could see that the Griffon could no longer suppress her anger, and general loathing to this whole thing.

“This is your idea of a good time?! I’ve never met a lamer bunch of dweebs in all my life! And Pinkie Pie, you! You are Queen Lame-O with your weak little party pranks! Did you really think you could make me loose my cool?! Well, Dash and I have TEN TIMES as much cool as the rest of you put together. Come on, Dash, we’re bailing on this pathetic scene. COME ON, RAINBOW DASH. I said - WE’RE LEAVING!” Gilda explained to the whole group, and wanted to leave with her one true gal pal.

‘You knew she had this side to her, didn’t you?’ RD thought as she glanced back to Ash, and now knew why someone as honorable as him would want her to prank the party. “You know, Gilda, I was the one who set up all those weak pranks at this party.” She confessed which surprised her old friend greatly.

“What!?” Gilda answered back in alarm, and could see that the pink one was just as surprised as she was.

“So, I guess, I’m Queen Lame-O.” RD continued on from where she left off.

“Come on, Dash, your joshing me.” The Griffon answered back - not believing that her friend was responsible for all those pranks.

“They were not all meant for you specifically. It was just dumb luck that you set them all off.” RD explained, and did feel sort of bad that her friend was that unlucky at the party.

“I should have known! That Dribble Glass had Rainbow Dash written all over it.” Laughter stated to Spike. Gilda tried to disprove what her friend was saying - believing that she was saying that to defend the pink one.

“No way, it was Pinkie Pie! She set this party up to set me up - to make a fool out of me!” Gilda informed them about how she viewed Pinkie Pie.

“Me? I threw this party to improve your attitude. I thought this would turn that frown upside down.” The party animal explained back while twisting her entire head until her mouth was facing the ceiling.

‘How does she do that?’ Pikachu thought while rubbing the back of his own neck since, to him, that would really hurt.

“And your sure didn’t need any help making a fool of yourself.” RD said before walking forward, and added, “You know this isn’t how I thought my old friends would treat my new friends. If being cool is all you care about maybe you should find some new cool friends someplace else.” Her comments has once again fueled the bird woman’s anger.

“Yeah?! Well…you…you…you…you are such a flip-flop! Cool one minute and lame the next. When you decide not to be lame anymore give me a call.” Gilda explained before walking out the door.

“Not cool.” The ROY G BIV said after her old friend left Sugar Cube Corner.

“Wow! Talk about a party pooper.” The dragon informed while pointing to the door that had just closed shut. Every-pony was talking about what just happened and RD decided apologize to what had just happened.

“I’m sorry, every-pony for bringing Gilda here. I didn’t know how rude she was, and Pinkie Pie, I’m really sorry she ruined that awesome party you threw for her.” The weather controller informed in a sincere tone.

“If you want to hang out with party poopers that’s your business.” PP answered back with a smile on her face.

“I’d rather hang out with you. No hard feelings?” The blue speed demon stated, questioned, and offered a hoof.

“No hard feelings.” The party animal said back and shook the hoof causing both to be shocked. When the shock stopped every-pony laughed because they were both wearing hoof-buzzers.

“Hey, Pinkie, sorry I accused you of misjudging Gilda. Looks like I’m the one that misjudged you.” TS apologized for her earlier comment, and should have had more faith in her friend’s gut instincts.

“It’s okay Twilight. Even you can’t be a super smart smarty smart-pants all the time.” Laughter commented to Magic since she was okay with ponies underestimating her calls. “Come on, every-pony, there’s still a whole lot of party to finish.” She said to all of the guests, and with Gilda gone Ash released the rest of his friends, and joined in on the celebrating himself. When the party was done, and they were at their homes TS decided to do one last thing before heading to bed - write a letter which read -

“Dearest Princess Celestia

Today I learned that it’s hard to accept when some-pony you like wants to spend time with some-pony that is not so nice. Though it is impossible to control who your friends hang out with. It is possible to control your own behavior. Just continue to be a good friend. In the end, the difference between a false friend, and one who is true will surely come to light.


Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle”

“Dear Twilight Sparkle, My most faithful student…” Princess tried to write back while using the ink the Purple Pony gave to her, but saw the words disappear. The royal one saw the sticker slide off revealing that it was invisible ink. “Oops, wrong ink.” She said to herself before using her own supply to write her reply, and even chuckled at the joke. As everyone was resting Ketchum was visited by familiar thoughts - thoughts of some old gym battles.

“Weird. Why would I be thinking about my fights with: Brock, Erika, Bugsy, Jasmine, Roxanne, Roark, Gardenia, Byron. I guess I’m just a little homesick - nothing to worry about.” Ash said to himself after waking up to have a midnight snack, and then went right back to bed.

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