Eight Cupcakes: She Who Must Not Be Named

[sailorlaughter]

Hey, everyone! Guess what?

I'm big again! [Confetti flies from the sides of the scroll, to the sound of air horns.]

Yeeeeeah, being a filly's cool and all, but I like being this age WAY better! I've got my cutie mark, and I can throw parties whenever I want, and I actually remember who all of you are!

Anyway, y'know how I kinda-sorta brought Nemo back to life a little while ago? I was thinking about what he said, with the Pale Pony having all kinds of different names and stuff, and I had an idea! We should give her a new name! 'Cause she sounds like a really really biiiiiiig meaniehead, and Pale Pony's a really really cool name! And sorta scary! So if we give her a different name and make it a funny one, we can all just laugh at her instead and she won't be cool anymore!

So, does anyone have any ideas? I'll start! How abouuuuuuut...Gypsum A la Nastier? Chalk Bottom? Salt Peter?

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[vis]

[stormbroken]

That weird statue pony I saw you put together a few weeks ago? It became Nemo?

....so, then... statue ponies are actual statues possessed by dead ponies...?

[This... is information she could have used a couple of weeks ago.]

[vis]

[sailorlaughter]

Not just dead ponies. Nemo said that Miss Disciple and all the other people who ever came here and then disappeared again were with him too. They don't know where EXACTLY they are, but they're somewhere! And Chalky McRainbow's got them. [Clearly the obfuscating nicknames begin now.]

[vis]

[stormbroken]

...what about the ones who disappeared, and then came back? You can't say that sort of thing would fly with Kidnappio here.

[vis]

[sailorlaughter]

Yeah, I asked Surprise about that! She's the first pony to come back since I talked to Nemo, so I thought maybe she'd know where they'd been, but she said she just remembered going home for a little bit. And I never asked him if she was there specifically. So I dunno.

[vis] 1/2

[stormbroken]

But that doesn't add up if Bone Butt is bringing us all here. If that was the case, she wouldn't let anypony fall through the cracks.

...which implies that she's not actually controlling it, just abusing it for her own gain!

[There's a bit of an 'a-ha!' there, as if it's some big revelation...]

[vis]

[stormbroken]

[...but then reality sinks in.]

Which means we're even further behind in figuring out WHY we're here, or how to undo it. Flanks and fetlocks...

[vis]

[sailorlaughter]

Wellllllll...we should still try to save the other ponies. I mean, Miss Snowball ALREADY sent Nightmare Moon after us, and I bet she did the cockatrices too!

So I dunno how we're supposed to do it, but we totally should!

[vis]

[stormbroken]

I never said we shouldn't. It's just... we're no closer to finding the original answers we were LOOKING for.

[vis]

[sailorlaughter]

Well...if she's using whatever it is to grab people, then she's gotta know something about how it goes, right?

[vis]

[stormbroken]

I guess.

[Admittedly, Flare's not exactly...enthusiastic about interrogating the Pale Pony; she just wants to go god-killing, at this point. Because seriously, all she's heard? She's pissed.]