The place was a mess. Applejack and Rainbow Dash were fighting over how long the cake was going to take, Fluttershy was trying to keep the twins from crying too loud as Rarity put them into more 'fashionable' clothes, and Twilight was trying to make sure all the cupcakes had the same amount of frosting on them but just ended up with taking almost all of it off. Not to forget, the front was a mess and the phone was ringing. But worse of all, Pinkie could be coming back at any moment.
"Enough! Out! Get out! All of you. I don't need your help, I don't want your help. Okay!?" Discord was fuming. He had worked so hard to keep everything as orderly as he could but it had just blow up in his face. Oh no, did I just say orderly!? Looking around, he fully realized the situation. It was chaos. Unadulterated, nonsensical chaos. And he hated it. That's it, I've gone mad. I've gone so mad I've gone sane. He face-palmed and dragged his hand down his face. When he looked up all the ponies were still.
"Well? You heard me. Leave."
"We were just trying to help..." Twilight replied. She was a little scared as she didn't know what he would do.
Sighing, "Does this look like helping to you?"
They looked around at the mess they had made. The cake was most likely burning, the twins were whimpering, and the phone had started to ring. "Just leave, don't even try to clean up or move anything. Just leave." He said. He then moved toward the counter and answered the phone.
"No, your order won't be ready for another half hour....Yes....I understand, sorry for the delay." He then hung up the phone. When he turned around he saw that the ponies had moved toward the front. When they got there, they stopped.
"We're awful sorry for making such a mess Discord" Applejack said apologetically. "We were just trying to help ya out until Pinkie got back."
"No, you weren't." he started, leaning on the counter with both arms straight. "You were here to spy on me, see if there was any dirt you can get on me and report it back to your precious princess! Or no, maybe you were seeing if I was going to hurt the twins or worse. Maybe you were trying to help me because you want to protect Pinkie Pie's home. Whatever your reason, it wasn't to help me. And even if it was, you did a horrible job at it." Exhausted, he leaned back to get a good look at them. They seemed sincerely apologetic, but it still didn't fix the mess they had made.
Sighing, I seem to be doing that a lot today, he moved around the counter toward them. He stopped in front of them and waved his hand in the direction of the wall. The mess started to disappear and the displays righted themselves. "Look, Pinkie left me in charge because she trusts me. I know how to run the bakery in her absence and I can assure you, no harm will come to the twins. It'll be easy for me to clean the mess myself. I have all the powers of chaos and part of that is being able to make chaos disappear. Though, I would rather not in most cases." he said, chuckling at the last part.
"Okay then." Twilight said resignly. "But," biting her lip, "If you do need help, we can help you. We'll do better next time."
"Fine, now off with you. I have som... a lot of work to do." he said mutely as he saw the full extent of the mess.
With that, they said their goodbyes and left the store. He quickly set off to snapping his fingers at the various locations in the bakery and the mess started to right itself. Order. Unwanted chaos. Who would ever, ever! think I would be saying, or rather thinking, that way. Certainly not me.
He went into the back and accessed the damage. It was messy, that was for sure. But it was manageable. After he snapped to get the kitchen cleaning itself he went to check on the twins. They were in their play pin and looking none too pleased with the recent events.
"Ahh, did you not like the prissy pony dressing you up?" he said in a baby talk manner. "Pppphhhhlllllbbbb" he got a raspberry in respond.
"Well, I agree. I don't think I would have liked it anymore than you did." he said scrunching up his face.
"Ppphahaha" they laughed. He smiled, happy they weren't upset anymore.
When he turned back around the kitchen was still in a sorry state but at least it's clean. The first thing he did was refrost the cupcakes. Which was easy as Twilight had pretty much taken all of it off. He then went back to the twins to see if they would be needing a bath later. Turns out they didn't, seeing as Rarity got them cleaned up to try on new clothes. The burning cake was the next issue. It had to be taken out and simply thrown away. He then remade the batter for the cake and poured it into the cake tin. He then put it in the oven after turning the temperature to the right setting. He still needed to finish the muffin order and start on the cupcakes.
He had managed to get the second batch of muffins in the oven when the door chimed. Discord went to go see who it was. By everything I hold dear and my own developing sanity, please let it not be Twilight and her friends again.
It turned out to be the pony who ordered the cake. "Hello, we talked on the phone. I had ordered the strawberry cake."
"Coming right up. It's cooling right now so I'll need a second to frost it." he said trying not to upset the already disgruntled customer.
"Just what is going on here? It's been almost than an hour and my cake still isn't done." she commented.
"I had run into an unexpected problem. I assure you it isn't always this way." he said smoothly. He then went back into the kitchen. He had removed the cake before putting in the muffins. It had cooled down by now. He snapped his fingers and the frosting set off to decorating the cake itself. How does Pinkie manage to run this place by herself at times? Of course she doesn't have a disaster happening every time but still. All this running back and forth. Checking on everything. And she doesn't even have magic! Or... at least I'm not sure you can consider whatever it is she's able to do 'magic'.
With the cake done he moved back to the front and delivered the cake. It was pretty obvious she didn't tip well. So, with her gone he moved to make the last batch of muffins. They were just getting in the oven when the door chimed again.
It was three mares. They had come to pick up their muffin order.
"I'm terribly sorry. The last batch was just put in the oven so it's going to be about 15 minutes" he explained.
"That's okay. Can we have the ones that are done while we wait for the rest?" the orange maned mare asked. It was nice that she was cool with the wait. He didn't want to have to deal with three unhappy customers.
Fifteen minutes later, the muffins were done and he brought them out the awaiting group. A blonde maned grey mare paid for the muffins. "Here you go!" she said as she gave him a muffin. The other mares just shook their heads at the 'tip'. They were nice enough to wave as they left.
Then the phone rang again.
It was the stallion who had ordered the cupcakes. He had sent his son to pick them up and would be there shortly.
There's no time to make those. Well, so much for homemade. He thought as he snapped up a box full of freshly made cupcakes.
A colt he can only assume as the son of the stallion on the phone came in.
"Hello? My father sent me here to pick up the cupcakes." He was nervous. Either it was because of who he was talking to or cause he was uncertain of what to say. Maybe both. Discord thought to himself.
"Yes, they're right here." He said as he waved his hand over the box on the counter. "Did your father give you the right number of bits?"
"Y-Yes, I think so. Here you go." he said.
"Okay, here's your receipt. Have a nice day!" he said as he waved to the exiting pony.
"Ahhhaaa!" he sighed slumping over the counter. Please let the rest of the afternoon be uneventful. I don't think I can stand this order thing for much longer. Not to forget, having to be polite to all the different ponies.
The universe probably would have listened to his plea if it wasn't time for the lunch rush. But it was.