After our break we regrouped at Sugar Cube Corner for the final event for today's competition. Then came Rarity and Sun Setter both looking beautiful!
"I'm back! Does every-pony see my perfect mane. The snorkeling, and ruining my mane earlier were worth it because I look absolutely amazing! What do you think Babs?," she said flipping her mane.
Babs walked up to Sun Setter and clapped. Then she said,"Wowza! Sun Setter you look great. I like it better than your old mane cut. I like how Rarity made your short mane look longer by making it curve down at the bottom and take away your bangs! I must say Rarity should be your new mane stylist!"
Rarity came up and shook Babs' hooves and cheerfully said, "Why thank you for the nice words Babs! You know ahh! Maybe I should do your mane and give you a makeover!Or make you all new capes, or make you all dresses!"
Quickly, Sweetie Belle put her hoove over Rairty's mouth and yelled, "Would you be quiet! Your embarrassing us! Now go to the stands with Rainbow Dash, Sillyena, and Applejack ok. Please!"
"Alright. Sweetie Belle, but only if I can give them all makeovers after the competition is over," Rarity asked.
Sweetie Belle nodded, and she gladly went to the stands inside Sugar Cube Corner.
"Hey! We didn't agree to be Rarity's dolls! What were you thinking Sweetie Belle?," Scootaloo ranted while shacking her head.
I broke the two up and then announced, "Enough! At least she went back to the stands. And oh my stars! The competition is about to start. So let’s go!."
The five of us rushed into the place and we saw a whole lot of ponies there who were not part of the competition in any way. The referee escorted us to our teams waiting area and told us that we were the last team to go. The bright side of this was so we could see what we need to do to pass and most importantly check out the competition!
"Alright every-pony it's time for the final event in the first round of the Talent Search Contest. Ten teams will be eliminated from the contest at the end of this exiting event! So what is the test this time. As you are aware Sugar Cube Corner is the main hub for sweets in Ponyville, and I thank Mr. and Mrs. Cake for letting us use their fine facility for this event. This is a combination test and is the most difficult to complete out of the first round tests. The objective is to run the place. Your team will be split up into three jobs: backing, selling, and delivering. You can split the jobs however you like but all of your team must participate. You have thirty minutes to bake 50 treats of your choice. And you have to take orders from the pony volunteers and then deliver then either to the tables or to their home which they will provide their location. You need to sell at least 40 of your treats in order to make it to round two. Also, if every team sells at least forty then the forty teams with the most sold move on too round two tomorrow! You only have 45 minutes to sell your treats so let’s get this party started!," the mayor explained to us and the crowd cheered.
I huddled the team around and explained the jobs.
"Me and Babs will make the sweets because we are from the apple family after all. Sweetie Belle will take the orders. And finally Scootaloo will deliver the ponies their sweets at their homes and Sun Setter will serve them here. Any questions?," I said then sat down on the bench.
Scootaloo fluttered up and said, "Hey. Maybe I can use my scooter to deliver the deserts on my scooter if it's allowed that is. I'm going to ask the judges."
She quickly ran over and talked with the judges for a little bit then came back and said," They said yes as long as if I don't carry more than two deserts at a time on my wagon. Oh, I got to go get it. See you in a bit!"
She raced out of the shop like a bolt of lightning and then quickly came back in ten minutes. We quickly got board of watching team after team, but finally it was our turn.
The referee blew the whistle and we all raced to our positions! Me and Babs wanted to make Granny Smith's bit size apple pies. I grabbed the dough while my cousin chopped the apples. Meanwhile, Sweetie Belle was organizing the counter while the two pegasi cleaned the place up from the big disaster the last team left behind. With one minute too go we put the pies in the boxes and waited for the orders. Sweetie Belle was great at organizing the money, keeping orders, and writing down the addresses of the ponies who wanted their pies to be delivered to their home. Scootlaoo delivered those pies like as fast as Rainbow Dashes' sonic rainboom! On the other hand, Sun Setter was really slow! I mean she walked so slow the ponies were yelling her to speed up. It seems she was worrying about spilling, but at least she should be a little faster. But we had only sold 20 of the forty sweets we need and we only have 15 more minutes! Sweat was dripping down my small neck at a break-left pace.
"Cousin we have a problem! The other thirty pies got burt while they were in the oven. Theres no more time to make more so were basicly done fore! I'm sorry for messing up our chances of finding out what we are meant to be," Babs pleaded on her knees.
I helped her get up and said, "The entire point of this was to do something fun and work as a team. I really wanted to make this summer great for you Babs. Let's try our best to sell these burt pies!"
Unfortunnly the crowd of ponies would't buy our pies, and in turn we were iliminated from the competition. Even though we had 3 strikes we used them all becuase no one got there cutie mark and we failed the task. With our heads down we slowly walked back to the clubhouse, sat in the corner weeping over our failure.