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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[sailorlaughter]

'Bout a month. Don was looking for you, you should probably go see him. But at least you got to miss Nightmare Night!

[It's nothing to do with Surprise not liking the holiday. It genuinely wasn't all that fun this year.]

[surpriserainbows]

[Others were looking for her. She couldn't even begin to understand that.]

...I will.

Did something happen on Nightmare Night?

[sailorlaughter]

Nightmare Moon came back! But just for a little bit, and then Rainbow Dash beat her up. She kiiiiiinda made these bad shadow things that ate people all night though, and that wasn't very fun.

[surpriserainbows]

What?!?

[Okay, that kind of causes Surprise to jump back a bit more in shock. Her breathing noticeably increases a bit at even the mention of Nightmare Moon.]

Is...is she still here then? I mean...how many got eaten?! Like...Like how many dead?!?

[sailorlaughter]

What? No one's dead! I mean, she doesn't REALLY eat people, that's just an old mare's tale! And all the people that got taken by the shadows came back once she'd gone.

[surpriserainbows]

Oh.

[And Surprise seems to calm down again immediately, slowly putting on a nervous smile.]

I mean...of course she doesn't! Who'd ever believe somepony was really eating other ponies, even if they were Nightmare Moon!

[She tries laughing and it sounds like someone a car engine hiccuping.]

So...names for the Pale Pony! I still don't think it's really necessary to maybe make her angry! I mean, maybe we're wrong and she isn't even really the pony doing all this!

[sailorlaughter]

She's still a big meaniehead who makes people be Nightmares.

[surpriserainbows]

Well, yes....

And that's why we shouldn't make her angry!

[sailorlaughter]

We're not doing it to make her MAD! We're doing it so people can be a little bit less scared of her! It's harder to be scared of someone when you're laughing at them, and funny names help!

[surpriserainbows]

Sometimes you shouldn't though...you know. Not be afraid of something. Sometimes fear is good.