Root of laughter.

"Hello! Is someone there?" Spike called out towards the sound of laughter, carefully making his way through the cavern Spike's footing suddenly escaping him and he found himself sliding down the path arms flailing as he ducked and dove over a number crystalline stalactites and stalagmites that almost seemed to appear out of nowhere until finally he found himself on the very edge of a sudden cliff. Swinging wildly Spike just caught himself at the last moment....and then it hit him that he had come in with a bag of gems and then they hit him. Knocking him off the slide he fell tumbling head over heels rolling out of control Spike saw in the center of the room was a large pink jeweled stalagmite that he smashed into legs spread, squeaking out in pain Spike collapsed to the ground and then the bag of gems landed on him face first.

Spike's display was met with a uproariously chorus of laughter filling the chamber "Stop stop I'm gonna pee" cried out a familiar voice, Spike pulled the bag free and saw along the walls were hundreds of reflections of Pinkie in various states of laughter, some clad in various joke apparel like groucho glasses or an arrow headband.

"Pinkie?" Spike called out to the various forms of her friend "Where are you?"

"Well Pinkie Pie is back at the bakery babysitting." a voice called from behind turning Spike thought he saw his friend but as she approached he saw that he could just barely see through her. "Sorry about having a little fun with you, its been longer than I can remember since I had someone fun to play with." Fake Pinkie offered a hand up that Spike could see had a sparking joy buzzer in it. Ignoring the obvious prank he helped himself up.

Brushing some dirt off himself "So if Pinkie isn't here who are you? And why do you look just like her." Spike asked scanning the room the various Pinkie's seemed to have coalesced into Fake Pinkie Finkie? he thought.

"Element of laughter pleased to meet'cha stranger" Finkie offered her hand which Spike accepted as a thousand volts shot through his arm and across his body, Finkie let out another cackling of laughter at the singed Spike"Gotcha!".

"Yep you got me" Spike groaned "Well best be going" he huffed grabbing his jewels.

"No no wait." Finkie called out poofing in front of Spike "As the proud jokester of the Root of Laughter its my rib tickling pleasure to reward you with the power of Laughter" she announced cannons appearing on both sides spraying confetti and streamers.

"What is that like some kind of jokebook?" Spike asked blowing the streamers out of his face.

"What no of course not!" Finkie said slowly tucking 'A 1001 fart jokes' back where it came from "Its a mighty magic to make whatever you do seem hilarious. Make a bad joke folks will find it hilarious, forget someone's name and its a stitch, Start juggling babies and just try to have folks keep a straight face. Heck honk someone's honkers and they'll bust a gut." Finkie punctuated by squeezing her ample bosom which made a comical honking noise.

"So I'm basically a clown now?" Spike exclaimed exasperated.

"No no no" Finkie assured him "Clowns get paid" Another round of laughter .

"So how do I get out of here?" Spike asked not believing that Finkie had actually done anything to him.

"Oh, well you could go down the totally innocent door" Finkie said pointing to what was clearly a painted on door "Or you could press the big red button of safety" she said pulling out an innocuous red button from her cleavage "Or you could take the stairs of doom" she finished pointing to a perfectly normal set of stairs leading to a cave opening with the setting sun shining and birds tweeting in a symphony of nature's splendor.

"Yeah I think I'll take the stairs of doom" Spike said climbing the stairs.

"Yeah so would I" Finkie laughed pressing the big red button of doom, as the stairs suddenly catapulted Spike up with a comical SPROING as he was sent flying towards Poneyville. "Have fun" waved Finkie as she faded into the cavern walls. Spike's flight while swift landed him just a few inches shy of a large pile of hay left in the middle of town.

"Crazy fake Pinkie" Spike growled twisting himself back into a regular shape. Now blessed with the power of laughter he found himself with a get out of jail free card and didn't even realize it...and then the bag of gems hit him for the third time.