“Colgate? Is something wrong?” Twilight gave the blue furred unicorn mare a worried look. She was panting heavily as if she had just run a marathon, and had been hammering on the door to the Golden Oaks Library with a great deal of urgency.

“Pinkie Pie.... My office... Need help....” Colgate gasped out between wheezes.

“Pinkie is in danger?” Twilight gasped. “What are we waiting for? Let’s go!”

Rainbow Dash may have been the element of Loyalty, but Twilight’s instant response to a friend in need would have done her proud. As would her speed. She had her emergency saddle bags on and was out the door so fast it almost seemed like she had teleported. (She hadn’t of course. She was conserving her magic to deal with the emergency!)

Colgate nodded and gestured for Twilight to follow, taking off at a slow trot. The town’s dentist was clearly winded from her sprint across Ponyville.

“So what’s going on?” Twilight asked, easily keeping pace with the other mare.

“Pinkie Pie... Came to my office... With a toothache.” Colgate explained between gasps for air. “Bad cavity... Had to pull the tooth.”

“Well that’s surprising.” Twilight really meant that. With a diet that consisted of at LEAST 60% sugar, tooth decay should have been the LEAST of the party planner’s medical problems. So her ability to ignore reality shielded her from Diabetes, but not cavities? Just another fact to file under ‘Pinkie being Pinkie.’

“I started the procedure as usual.” Colgate continued, finally regaining her breath as they neared their destination. “But there were... Complications.”

“Complications?” Twilight gasped. Complications during a medical procedure were no laughing matter! “Shouldn’t we be getting Pinkie to the hospital then? I know a few medical spells, but I’m no doctor!”

Mind you, she WOULD have been a doctor, if those jerks at Canterlot University hadn’t refused to hear her PhD dissertation. So what if she was only 11 at the time? Not that a doctorate would help her right now, but Doctor Sparkle had such a nice ring to it...

“It’s not that kind of complication.” Colgate huffed, rushing through the front office and throwing open to the door to her dental suite. “See for yourself!”

The operating theater was a mess. Balloons drifted haphazardly along the ceiling. Streamers and confetti hung off the patient’s chair. The spittoon was running and appeared to be dispensing orange soda. The floor was covered in discarded dental tools and glitter. Misshapen cupcakes were scattered about randomly. It was like a distorted reflection of a proper Pinkie Party.

And there, in the middle of it, was Pinkie Pie. Giggling and smiling as she stood on two legs, one foreleg wrapped around a large compressed gas cylinder. A cylinder to which she had glued a pair of big, googly eyes, a black haired wig, and a handlebar mustache.

“And that’s how Equestria was shaved!” Pinkie slurred, giggling madly. “Get it? Shaved? It’s funny cause you gots a mustache!”

Twilight took in the scene, then facehoofed, groaning at Colgate.

“Please tell me you didn’t.” Colgate had the good grace to look abashed at Twilight’s request.

“She needed to be sedated before I could extract the tooth!” Colgate replied defensively. “And it’s a perfectly valid anesthetic! “

Twilight’s response was a disbelieving glare.

“You gave Pinkie Pie, the element of laughter, laughing gas.” She deadpanned. Colgate shrugged sheepishly, refusing to make eye contact.

“It IS standard procedure...”

“Oooohhh! It’s Twilight!” Pinkie giggled and waved madly. “Twilight! Twilight! Twiiilliigghht! Over here! It’s me! Pinkie!”

“Yes, I can see you Pinkie.” Twilight sighed

“You gotta meet my newest bessshhtest friend, TANKY!” She hugged the cylinder tightly, nuzzling it. “He’s a real gas! He’s under lotsa pressure right now, but he’s almost as full of laughter as I am!”

Twilight sighed and rubber her head with a hoof. She could FEEL the migraine coming. Of course, as soon as she blinked her eyes, Pinkie was suddenly beside her. Wobbling unsteadily on her legs, she whispered in Twilight’s ear.

“I’m gonna ask him to be my special somepony... Somethingy? My SPECIAL!” She giggled madly while nodding like a bobble head doll.

A lavender nimbus suddenly surrounded the pink pony, leaving her floating in the air.

“Come on Pinkie. It’s time to go home and sleep this off.” Twilight sighed, hauling her friend towards the door.

“Wheeeeeee!” Pinkie’s leg’s flailed wildly as she enjoyed the feeling of being weightless. “Forget laughter! Nitrous Oxide is the BEST medicine!”