Princess Pinkie Pie was on her usual afternoon flight about town when she spotted the nice little group activity happening down by the Causeway. As it was her duty to promote all things Friendship, she came in for a (slightly awkward, she wasn't born with these wings, you know!) landing in a cloud of magic glitter, then came trotting over to have a look.
"Hihihi," she greeted, with at least one "hi" for every duplicate. "Hihi. Hi! Hiya! Hi! Whatcha doin'?"
"It's nice to meet you!" Pinkie peered at the Jamies with one eye wide open and the other squinched nearly shut. All humans pretty much looked alike, but these guys were super-duper identical.
It was downright uncanny.
"I'm Princess Pinkamena Diane Pie of Equestria," she said. "Disciple oooooffffff. . . ." What did "disciple" mean, again? "Princess Celestia?" Eh, what would a human know about it, anyway? "What's a mutant? I thought you looked like a human, but then, when I first got here, I thought humans were all hairless bears, so."
"Oh, I'm like human/hairless bear but in the next evolutionary step up so I have powers. Mine is to duplicate myself through kinetic energy," Jamie explained. "Now I have to ask... I've never met a talking unicorn-winged-pony before. Is everyone like that in Equestria?"
"Oh, you're a magic human!" Pinkie understood magic things. "Neat! I'm an alicorn -- that's why I have a horn and wings. It means I'm a princess, but I wasn't born and alicorn, I was just an earth pony. Equestria has all kinds of ponies, like alicorns and earth ponies and unicorns and pegasuseseses and zebras and buffalos and dragons and draconequuseseses and crystal ponies and, well, pretty much everything! Except humans. You people are weird."
"You know I wish I could argue against that," Jamie said thoughtfully. "But I really can't. We are very very weird at times. Worse at others. So what do you do other than fly and disperse glitter?
Jamie looked down at Pinkie's hooves and wondered exactly how she managed to bake with them. "Well I can see how friendship and baking goes together," he said thoughtfully. "Because giving baked goods is always a good way to make friends."
"Prezactly!" Pinkie cheered, giving off a little excited *puff* of glitter from her horn. "Plus, in a class setting, it encourages teamwork, and friendship and teamwork go hoof-in-hoof!"
"I like the way you think, Pinkie!" Jamie said with a grin. "I only wish my duplicates would appreciate the value of teamwork."
Mostly because the duplicates were debating the quality of the dried stickbugs versus the fresh ones instead of actually working to get the spell set up.
"Well, then, you should teach them!" They were his duplicates, after all. Only he could be held responsible for their antics. "It must be super-neat to be able to duplicate yourself like that! Then you wouldn't ever have to worry about whether or not two or more of your friends would have different plans for you to have fun together!"
If there was one truth learned from the past and future Jamie Madrox's experience of Fandom... Pinkie Pie summarized it perfectly with that one statement.
"Oh, well," Jamie said with a shrug. "Hopefully I'll be a better magician. Time to do some spellcasting!"
"Hihihi," she greeted, with at least one "hi" for every duplicate. "Hihi. Hi! Hiya! Hi! Whatcha doin'?"
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Which meant he inhaled part of that cloud of glitter.
"Hi!" Jamie said after he coughed a few times. "We're doing a spell to help protect the future of Fandom Island-"
Jamie was interrupted by his duplicates who briefly held up a fist of solidarity and chanted "Campfire!"
"-of Fandom Island. I'm Jamie Madrox, by the way. Mutant and disciple of Dr. Strange. May I ask who you are?"
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It was downright uncanny.
"I'm Princess Pinkamena Diane Pie of Equestria," she said. "Disciple oooooffffff. . . ." What did "disciple" mean, again? "Princess Celestia?" Eh, what would a human know about it, anyway? "What's a mutant? I thought you looked like a human, but then, when I first got here, I thought humans were all hairless bears, so."
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"Prezactly!" Pinkie cheered, giving off a little excited *puff* of glitter from her horn. "Plus, in a class setting, it encourages teamwork, and friendship and teamwork go hoof-in-hoof!"
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Mostly because the duplicates were debating the quality of the dried stickbugs versus the fresh ones instead of actually working to get the spell set up.
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Jamie turned back at yelled at his duplicates. "Hey! Guys! Let's work together and get that spell going!"
All the duplicates turned to look at Jamie and blew a raspberry at him in unison.
"Well, I tried," Jamie said with a sigh.
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"Oh, well," Jamie said with a shrug. "Hopefully I'll be a better magician. Time to do some spellcasting!"
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