For those of you that have read the first two chapters before 3/28/13, I ask you to reread them. I got a chance to go over them with my editor Scarmask. They are much better now. I may still rewrite them more later on but for right now I'm just going to leave them the way they are. The next coming chapters are going to take longer to get out only because I'm going to take the time to look over them first. Thanks.
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"Hello Discord." Twilight announced as she and her friends moved into the front room.
"Hello, again, Twilight." Discord replied wary, "Are you going to stutter and run away again?" he asked with a wicked smile.
"No! I mean, we're here to help you. While Pinkie's away." Twilight replied proudly.
"Really? I know Applejack helps out from time to time, but the rest of you?"
"Yeah! We'll going to help make this place rocking for when Pinkie gets back." Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
He still wasn't so sure about having them help out. Especially since there was no major rush going on right now. But, Pinkie did say they could help out and it would be nice to just have to be by the counter, and have them do all the work. Yes, I think this might work out. he thought to himself, convinced.
"Okay, but first let me explain what I need you to do. Applejack and Rainbow Dash, I need you to finish the muffin order. It's a basic blueberry, so it shouldn't be any trouble. Twilight, you work on the cupcakes. The recipe's on the counter. Finally, Rarity and Fluttershy, you two get to watch the twins for me. I think they might be getting hungry, so give them some baby food. Okay?" They all nodded, "And I'll stay here to deal with the phone and customers."
With that, they all moved into the kitchen to get to work. Discord felt good about this. See Pinkie, I can manage the store on my own. I don't even need your friends to help but I'm still using them and getting along with them. Isn't that nice?
After a while, too short if you asked him, he started to hear a commotion in the kitchen. It was the twins sounding upset. When he went into the kitchen, he saw Rarity was trying to measure them while going on about what kind of designs she could make for the foals. Fluttershy, though, was trying to entertain them by waving different toys in front of them. The rapid movement agitated them. "Be more gentle with them Rarity, and Fluttershy, dear, they aren't dogs. Be slower with the toys." Discord said comfortingly. He went back to the front afterwards.
It was another few minutes when there was a crash behind him as Rainbow Dash had been fighting with Applejack for the bowl. "Your way takes too long!" Rainbow Dash yelled. "I do this all the time and this is the right, proper way to make muffins!" Applejack yelled back.
"Will you two stop it?" he commanded. Then the phone rang. He had to move back to the front to answer it.
"Hello? Yes, Okay that will be 5 bits. About 30 minutes. Thank you goodbye." he said as he hung up. He then moved back into the kitchen. "Applejack! Here's another order. Work on this one, and just leave Rainbow Dash to the muffins."
"Alrighty then." she said as she got to work on it.
Meanwhile, Twilight wasn't having as good of a time with the cupcakes as she had hoped. How exactly am I suppose to make sure I have a cup of flour? Do I pack it down so there are no air pockets or leave it loose? The latter doesn't make any sense. It's a cup of flour, not a cup of flour and air. The same goes with the sugar. I can always melt the sugar but then that will change the taste. Also, I don't get why it has me stir the sugar and eggs till fluffy. Aren't I just adding air? I'm pretty sure when the baking powder releases carbon dioxide; it will be adding the necessary fluffiness to the mix. Twilight continued to over-analyze the recipe for a while.
Fluttershy wasn't having a great time either as she started to worry more and more about how to care for the twin foals. The twins were getting a little fussy and were crying "Food!, hungry!" Fluttershy went to look for their baby food in the cupboards. "Oh where is it? Where do they keep the baby food?" she managed to find the jars in one of the cupboards. "Oh dear, do they always keep their food unrefrigerated? I hope it's alright." She then went to look for some spoons. When she did, she brought the foals their meal.
"Now say ahhh." she told them. They looked at her like she was crazy. "Choo choo, here comes the train." They were unimpressed but hungry. So, they ate the spoonfuls she gave them. It was going fine until they coughed and spit up their lunch.
Discord was feeling like everything was working out until Fluttershy came running out of the kitchen and toward the stairs. "Where's the fire?" he said with a laugh. Oh Chaos let the kitchen not be on fire. he thought internally.
"Oh Discord! It's the twins, I think they're sick. I was going to get them some medicine." she said trembling.
"Let me see them." he said, worried now. This is just great, Pinkie will never forgive me if something bad happened to the twins. Not to forget, they looked fine just a few minutes ago.
Once he got inside the kitchen, he saw that they were fine, just spitting up like babies do some times. Only problem was Rarity had been left with them and was frantically trying to clean them up. Pound cake just so happen to need to spit up when Rarity was trying to clean him.
"Aaahhhh!" she yelled, reeling back after Pound cake almost threw up on her. She ended up hitting the island and knocking over Twilight's bowl and the stack of ingredients around her. The bowl itself was near empty as Twilight had been spending way too much time trying to figure out how to get the right amount of ingredient in the measuring cup. "Oh goodness, I'll clean it up." Rarity stated.
"No, it's fine. Just focus on the twins. And stop worrying Fluttershy. Babies will do that sometime. The twins look fine too." he reassured again. The twins were fine, just a little messy. Twilight though was upset about all her hard work going to waste.
"Twilight?" he asked.
"Yes?"
"Can you restock the candy shelves? They are looking a little low."
"Okay." She replied as she left for the basement to get the box of candies. Applejack had managed to get the cake in the oven but hadn't yet completed the muffins. With Twilight gone, she and Rainbow Dash had to take over the cupcakes as well. Discord moved back into the front as there were customers entering.
It was while he was gone that the true chaos began. Rainbow Dash was getting impatient with how long it was taking to mix together one kind of cupcake--"It's taking forever!"--and decided to help speed up the process by dumping a bunch of the ingredients in the bowl "Are ya crazy!?" This obviously caused a mess as the flour and partial batter went everywhere. And unknowingly to Applejack, Rainbow Dash had turned up the temperature on the oven, "That will make it go faster for sure!"
Rarity, on the other hand, was having a fit. She had to clean up the twins and get them in some new clothes. They hadn't been wearing clothes but, "They would look so cute!" Fluttershy was still a little upset over them spitting up their food, but now had to try to calm them down as Rarity dressed them up. "I don't think they like it."
Twilight wasn't having as much luck. She had to use the ladder as there wasn't any room for her to stand back and see up to the shelves. There were a few customers in the store, looking around the many different displays. They would have consistently bumped into her and gotten in the way. It was hard for Twilight to balance on the ladder while holding the candy. She didn't use a ladder very often as she either used her magic to get something or Spike got it. How is it Spike manages to do this all the time? It was unfortunate that she didn't get much practice seeing as how she was now falling backwards. In an attempt to keep from falling, she grabbed the shelf in front of her. That only succeeded in pulling out the entire shelf and its contents.
"Aahhh!" she yelled as she came crashing down. "By Chaos! Are you alright!?" Discord called, stunned. "Yeah! Don't worry, I'll clean it up." She called back as she started to attempt to clean up the disaster she caused.
Discord was trying to finish up with the customers when a bowl of batter came flying out of the kitchen and smashing on the wall to his left. Rainbow Dash came flying out soon after covered in batter yelling at Applejack, "Is that your best shot?" The batter on her flapping wings sprayed out everywhere causing the already startled customers to rush out of the way. That succeeded in knocking over the tables and a few of the displays.
Twilight, upon seeing the on coming mess, dove to close a box of cupcakes. The cupcakes ended up knocking into each other which got the frosting moved around. And of course, We can't have that. I'll fix it so there is an even amount of frosting. She then moved into the kitchen to get a spatula and fix the frosting problem.
"What do you think you're doing!?" Discord yelled at Rainbow Dash. She didn't listen to him as Applejack had yelled to, "Get back here so ah can teach you a lesson!" Rainbow Dash then proceeded to fly back into the kitchen.
Discord was rather stunned by the sudden turn of events. With the customers now gone, scared off by the batter flinging pegasus and broken glass, Discord could now go to the kitchen and see what kind of hell the Elements had created.