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Eight Cupcakes: She Who Must Not Be Named

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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Yes. As a statue pony.

[Rainbow just sounds resigned to all this, not particularly baffled or confused. Poor girl's jaded as can be after everything she's seen.]

But I thought she was still here...

...maybe that's what bee statues look like!

It wasn't OUR Honeycomb. It was the Honeycomb from the other world.

Oh, not the other-world our Honeycomb's from? That makes sense!

That's how I understand it, yeah. They come from a horrible world where they're all spirits and I'm pretty sure all us girls are evil, and Owl Eyes is Twilight. They know all of the Elements except for Magic over there.

Really? [She's a little less surprised by that than maybe she should be. Evil alternate universes are a Thing.] How come you think that? I mean, maybe Twilight just never came to Ponyville. I dunno what we'd do with the Elements without her anyway, did she say they used them for stuff?

[Rainbow doesn't expect anypony to be surprised about her suggestion. Sickened or saddened, yes.]

Pinkie, we only got the Elements because Twilight came to Ponyville. And we only got the Elements when we used them. If we were the Element-bearers on that world, that means we had to have used them.

What I'm betting is that we ended up controlling Nightmare Moon, instead of turning her back into Princess Luna. Then we kept what happened and the name of the sixth Element a secret so nopony could take them from us or use them against us.

Well, THAT'S not very friendshippy.

[She just mutters it, though; even Pinkie gets that that would be a super-bad, super-serious thing.]

So if they've got the Elements, then we probably can't use the Elements against them again. What're we gonna do?

Sure it is, for THEM. It's just a selfish friendship.

[Rainbow sighs. The worst part is that she can almost kinda understand it.]

We can't rely on the Elements anyway. Who knows if they even work, with two of everypony running around. But we don't NEED them.

You're not gonna try to fight them all by yourself, are you?

I never fought anypony by myself. Even when I was up against Nightmare Moon, you all were there with me.

[She isn't just saying that; she means it, from the bottom of her heart. She'd even delivered a speech to that effect mid-battle!]

But I went up against her alone 'cuz I had to. If I didn't Draw her out, Twilight woulda been the one who got hurt. But if there is another Rainbow Dash out there using her Element and her friends for evil, I want a piece of her...

[Rainbow smacks one hoof into the other, a promise of vengeance made.]

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Eight Cupcakes: She Who Must Not Be Named

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