A sweet aroma filled the air, Pinkie the hyperactive pink party pony of Ponyville was in her kitchen in Sugarcube Corner, the local stop for all the sweets your heart could ever desire. She was preparing to make a delicious new tray of her super special awesome cupcakes, and right now was collecting the necessary ingredients and kitchen utensils to complete her task, when suddenly a white flash illuminated the whole kitchen from behind her. The mare looked over her shoulder, behind her hovered a certain creature composed of many mismatched parts of different animals.
"Hiya Disco, what's up ?" A smile spread over the pink ponies face.
An infectious smile as Discord instantly realized, he just couldn't stop his lips curling up to mimic that of the earth-pony. "Hello my little pink friend, I was just in the neighborhood and wondered if you want to do some pranking with good old Discord?"
Pinkie fully turned around and pointed a hoof at the oven with a sheepish grin. "Aw, I'm sorry Disco, I would love to, but the Cakes told me to replace the tray of cupcakes I ate this morning so we have some on sale, I hope I can resist eating the one I'm about to bake right now."
Discord huffed slightly disappointed, but then his face lit up again when a simple idea jumped into his mind. "Oh, if this is just about the cupcakes how about I just conjure up a whole bunch of them? Then we could go prank!" Discord snapped his talon-like fingers and with a small white flash a whole basket of cupcakes appeared in front of Pinkie Pie. They smelled freshly baked and looked absolutely amazing with all kinds of different complex frosting and a mysterious magical glow.
Almost instantly the pink mare grabbed one of these cupcakes to give them a try. Her eye widened in amazement after just one small bite, she could almost cry and scream at how good these cupcakes tasted.
"W-wow ... these are AMAZING!" Pinkie beamed.
The Lord of Chaos and Disharmony placed his lion-paw on his inflated chest, proud of the approval. "I'm glad you like them, now we c-"
"Well, there's one thing missing ..." interrupted Pinkie.
Discord raised an eyebrow, missing? What could be missing? He just created the perfect cupcakes with the help of one of the strongest magic in all of existence, WHAT could he possible have missed?
"What do you mean? Did I put too much magical dust on them? Is it the chocolate core? Too much frosting? Maybe the peppermint-chocolate flavour wasn't a good idea?" The horned god took a sample of his own cupcakes and tasted them, they were absolutely perfect in his mind, not a single thing wrong.
"Hm no, that's not it"
"Then ... what is it?" Asked Discord with his mouth full of his cupcake, causing several small crumbs to fall to the floor.
"I can't put my hoof on it ... just ... something. And you don't talk with a full mouth Disco," Pinkie giggled as Discord suddenly stopped his chewing at that remark ... only to continue a few seconds later.
"I'm enjoying my cupcakes, and I'm evil so I can talk with a full mouth." After he swallowed and cleared his throat he continued "So ... I will have to enrich the boring day of all the Ponyvillians by myself after all?"
"Well ..." the bakeress put a hoof under a chin "You could help me to bake some! You know, the -normal- way!"
Discord cleaned his ear with his talon claw before asking in the most unbelieving voice he could muster. "Excuse me, you want ME to bake cupcakes the -normal- way? Have you forgotten who I am?"
"Awww come on Disco, it will be fun and then we can go pranking again!" Pinkie hopped from leg to leg a big inviting smile on her face.
Discord sighed in defeat "Oh~ How could I say no to you?"
Pinkie beamed "Yay! We're baking cupcakes! Oh ... but first wash your hands"
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"Are they ready now?" Discord asked impatiently, giving the small pink ball in front of him a small poke causing it to roll away to the pink earth-pony sitting just a few meters away.
"Not yet." she replied, giving the small pink orb, now in front of her, another gentle push so that it rolls back right to the bored looking chimera.
"Are they ready now?" Repeated Discord in a monotone voice, sending the small ball back to Pinkie again.
"Not yet." and with this she let the ball roll back to her friend... again. It seemed like an eternity, how can twenty minutes pass so slowly?
"Are they-"
*beep* *beep* *beep*
"FINALLY!"
The odd couple rushed over to the oven and Pinkie removed the still hot tray from it's place. The cupcakes were a huge success, they looked great.
"Now they have to cool down for another ten minutes or so." the bakeress inhaled as much of the aroma as her lungs allowed, before she released it in a happy sigh.
"Can't I just blow on them really hard? You know, with magic? Just to cool them a bit?" Discord obviously didn't want to wait another ten minutes, he wanted to get out into the sun and play pranks on unsuspecting ponies.
"Well ... okay, but only cooling them off a bit, I get the frosting ready." With that the horned demon blew softly over the tray, removing the heat of the oven and allowing the cupcakes to cool down in mere seconds.
Pinkie returned with a frosting tube between her teeth. "No' jst ah swendw"
With a little pressure the colorful frosting was released from the tube and gave the cupcakes a finishing touch, after which they found their new places in the front of the shop. But one cupcake remained on the tray and just as Discord was about to ask what's wrong with this one Pinkie offered him the cupcake with her signature big smile . "Here, for your hard work."
Discord levitated the cupcake in front of him ... he spent almost an entire hour of his infinite time to create this little sweet. He had to wash his fingers only to make them dirty again, even the Lord of Chaos couldn't figure out the logic behind that. This little thing in front of him was the reason he couldn't just grab his friend and have a good time, no he had to -work-, and what an ugly word that was.
He finally took a bite ... it was good, pretty good, the flavour was nice, the consistence was great, the frosting had just the right balance of different colors but ... all in all the draconequus wasn't impressed.
"I still don't see what's better about this cupcake? Like I said, I could've conjured up a whole mountain of better cupcakes with the snap of a finger, there was no need for us to waste your precious lifetime."
The chimera didn't mean to sound mean, he was just honest and voiced his critic with a neutral tone.
"Oh ... yeah you're right, your cupcakes did taste a lot better and we could've finished the order in seconds," Pinkie nodded, with a small grin on her face.
Discord swallowed and looked at the pink pony. "So ... you admit we wasted time baking these ordinary cupcakes? I'm gla-"
"Oh, they aren't ordinary, they're pretty special!" The pink earth-pony interjected, her small grin growing slightly larger.
Discord raised an eyebrow. "How so?" He took another bite out of his cupcake.
"Well ... I had to replace eight cupcakes, we baked nine."
"I noticed you left one on the trail." it was kind of odd, why wouldn't she just put the extra cupcake next to the others? Why did she even bake an extra one in the first place? Was it a simple mistake?
"This cupcake ... is just for you. I wanted to show you how it tastes. I made it super mega special awesome just for you."
After a few seconds Discord suddenly stopped to chew. "Just ... f-for me?" A strange feeling warmed his chest.
"Yep, a special cupcake for my special friend Discord!"
A short silence filled the kitchen and time itself seemed to have stopped for the chaotic Lord.
His voice drifted into an unfamiliar slow-spoken tone. "You know Pinks ... this is the best cupcake I've ever tasted."
Pinkie hopped over and nudged Discord gently in the side.. "Let's go prank some ponies. I've planned something special for Twilight."
"Oh that Twilight, she's always good for a laugh," replied Discord now holding the cupcake in his lion-paw like a valueable treasure, a gem or a jewel maybe.
With a snap of his finger and a bright flash they were off to new adventures.
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Authors notes: First of all thanks for reading !
If you haven't read it in the summary I would like to point out again that this is not only my first released fanfiction ever, but also my first english fanfiction and first fanfiction I've written in years. However, like I said in the summary, I don't want this to be any excuse for poor quality at all, I've written this story for for fun and most importantly to learn and improve. So please, give me all the (constructive) feedback you can come up with, I really mean it.
I've planned to write several fanfictions, I always enjoyed imagining stories, but I rarely, if ever, write them down, and most of the time there will never be more than a few character profiles. I have two stories I really want to write down and propably submit, but before I even try to start with them I think it's a good idea to actually gather some experience first.
There're a lot of "first FFs" lately from all sort of bronys, and the feedback is usually pretty supportive and helpful, so why not try it myself ?
The idea for this story is propably pretty weak, I'm aware of that. And I think I can't deny that it's kind of similar to a certain episode of Spongebob, but I digress.
So, the "technical" standpoint is much more important to me than the story points. I know Discord and Pinkie aren't fully "in-character" and there's no reason for Discord to be free or considered a friend by the Pink Pony. I just wanted to tell a short story about these two without making it a big epic "Discord escaped" drama. Kind of short-story-like.
And ... wow, thanks for reading my Authors note รด,o