"Pinkie, are you sure you can handle store buy yourself?" Mrs. Cake said while putting Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake's toys in their baby bag. She also runs to the fridge not forgetting to gather the twins's bottles in packing them up too.
"Don't worry Mrs. C! I'll be fine. Besides, whats the worst that could happen with me being in charge?" Pinkie said cheerfully hopping on her tail with excitement. She can hardly believe that the Cakes have been invited to a Bakers Convention all the way in Las Pegasus and will be gone for almost for 5 months. That feels more like a vacation then just some Convention. Shouldn't conventions be as long a just 3 or 4 days?
"Now Pinkie, need I remind of the 'Giant Cupcake' you created which took almost 2 clean up around here and half the street of Ponyville?" said Mr.Cake with a look of concerned and worry about his shop. As he trying to get that horrible image of his mine, he stared at Pinkie and his beloved shop. " I don't know! Maybe we should just cancel the trip!"
Mrs. Cake stopped packing up food from the refrigerator and trotted towards to give him a hug. "Now come on sweety! You know how important this is for business to expand. Not to mention were not the only ones going to this convention alone from here".
"That's Right!" Pinkie said still bouncing on her tail and now towards the cakes. " The Hooves family were also invited with you guys and they have pretty good muffins around here too! But wait, why are the twins going with you guys again? Wouldn't it get boring for them?"
"Not exactly Pinkie" Mrs.Cake said as she went to get the foals from upstairs and Pinkie just followed. "You do know their daughter, Dinky, right?" Pinkie nodded. " well turns out that she really wanted to go with them so they decided to tag her alone for the ride. Derpy was kinda against it but since it was the summer, she thought one little trip wouldn't hurt her". As Mrs. Cake and Pinkie entered the twins's room , they the two foals sleeping near their packed bags. "Looks like they must be excited as I thought."
As Mrs.Cake picked up Pound Cake, Pinkie picked up Pumpkin Cake and they both trotted out the room, in the hallway, and then down stairs. Mr.Cake was making sure they have everything as their suitcases were all near exit of the shop. As soon as the Cakes but their foals in the respectful cribs and both gave Pinkie a hug, the taxi and just pulled up near the entrance of the shop.
"Well, looks like our ride is here" Mrs. Cake said and started taking foals to the cab and getting them situated. Mr. Cake stared levitating all their suitcases and the twins' bags to the cab and sat them down near it. Pinkie trotted to the cab and started helping them getting their stuff rightly situated.
"Now Pinkie, are you sure you can handle shop while were gone?" Mr.Cake said with not worried face anymore but more of a smile as he remember the the Giant Cupcake incident last year and realized that Pinkie has since then matured then.
"Don't worry Mr. C! I will have this place looking jiffy when you all come back and see how much money I have raised selling our sweeties!" Pinkie said giving him a brightfull smile.
"Hahaha! Well we all will be looking forward to it" Mr. Cake said as he and wife were now getting into the cab. As the cab started leave they both waved goodbye to Pinkie and she waved back as now saw the Cab disappear down the road and heading toward the train station.
Pinkie looked up at the bright blue sky and saw a few Pegasi fly by looking cheerful. She also spotted good bit ponies all trotting on road and some standing near their respectful shops looking as cheerful as always these days. As she trotted back into her shop, she noticed the sign was saying 'OPEN' and chuckled a little think Mr.Cake probably forgot to switch it around to show it saying 'CLOSED'. As she switched them around, she trotted into the store and locked the door behind her. She looked around the shop to see if anything needed cleaning. The wooden floors looked mopped, the counters looked clean along with the utensils in their right places, and the tables looked spotless. After doing a quick inspection, she trotted towards the basement door.
As she entered the basement, she spotted a few flour bags on the floor and putted them back neatly on the shelves. After that was done, she started to the plain and grey looking wall at the end of the basement. She placed her hoof on the wall and gently zig zagged around it. Soon after, the wall splitted in two revealing a long and dark corridor. their were 2 torches that instantly lit up at opening of the door. Pinkie happily trotted inside as the hidden door behind her closed up and sealing itself like it never opened in the first place. As she trotted down this dark corridor, more torches, like the previous ones, started lighting up the more she trotted. On both sides of the wall looked like caged doors that if you listen closely, you could her moans and crying from them but these didn't bother Pinkie not one bit. Soon she came in sight of a doubled door twice the size her and as she opened them, the sight of what was inside would make even the strongest stallion faint from just one glance.
The room was as wide as a ballroom floor except it the atmosphere horrifying to say the least. The walls were a darkish brown and contained specks of blood from the decor that was on them. The walls contains what looks like disembodied pony limbs,skinned skin that have pony's cutie mark on them, and what this room even stranger was how their was banner hanging up from the wall that is facing the entrance stating "Welcome to my Party". But what is interesting is the center of the room that contains a large table with somepony strapped to it and a large lamp that seems to shed some light around the room since it hardly showed any light in there.
Pinkie walks towards the center where the pony that is strapped down seems to be conscious at the moment. The pony looks like a mare who has a brown coat, white mane, dark blue eyes, and a cutie mark that resemble a cinnamon bun. The pony's mouth seems to be covered with a cloth that seems to prevent her from saying anything but her eyes seems to speak more then she would have anyway. They are expressing sheer terror like they just have seen monster kill a little foal in his sleep. When she spots Pinkie towering over her, she begins speaking over in mumbles since the cloth is preventing her from any sound. Pinkie takes a chair and sits it next to the strapped-down pony and begins talking to her with a smile.
"Well it seems the Cakes have finally left for their vacation so it looks like i'm in charge of the store. Even though i really wanted to go, there is a lot of hungry ponies out here in Ponyillle that needs their sweets and I ,the only party, can't let them down. You get where i'm coming from right?
The pony only mumbles.
"See? I knew you would understand. know if you don't mind i'm going to kill you so i can feed my hungry friends out there in Ponyville".
The other pony proceed to cry as this insane pony is talking to her when she isn't saying anything as her mouth is immobile at the moment.
"Don't worry! I'm sure you will be delicious as I too enjoy cinnamon, as well as a colleague I use to train back when I was still there".
Before the other pony could wonder what she was talking about, Pinkie starts to cut open her chest. As she begins to do her baking, she stops at the moment as she realized she completely forgot something. Then she remembered as her poofy mane and poofy tail drops and becomes straight. Her Light pink coat also turns into a darker pink.
"Ah! that's better" Pinkie says a little a colder than usual, " Now we can began our cooking. By the way, it would be best to remember me as Pinkamena Diane Pie, the Demon Baker, as your killer".
*2 hours later*
"Oh My Celestia! These are good!" said a red coated stallion pony sitting at a table in Sugar Cube Corner.
"Yes you are right! I never had cinnamon flavored cupcakes like these before." said a baby blue mare coated pony sittting across from him.
After hours of baking the cinnamon pony, Pinkamena never seen so many ponies run into shop at the same time. It would seem that cinnamon flavored cupcakes are hit right now. Business is blooming in only after a few hours. Even when she selling these cupcakes for 5 bits, it felt like they were giving more than the amount was suppose to be.
Pinkamena was never the type to be greedy over money so all the bits she gained didn't matter to her. What did make her happy was seeing all the ponies in town eat the sweeties that baked. After that, A thought popped up in her head.
Pinkamena, standing over the counter, looked at everypony from that's in the shop. "Even though I'm happy," she ponder with a thought, "Why for some reason do I want more?" Before she could continue anymore with her thought, A pony walked in the shop. As she heard the door open and was about to turn and greet the 51th pony in the shop, her eyes shrunk.
The pony walked in seems to be a stallion just a tad bit taller then her. He has a green coat that's on light side, A brown mane that's seems to be a little towards the eyes, and his eye color has a blue feature to them. He looked around and seemed to be astounded by crowd that's in the shop. As he decided to walk further in, he noticed the pink mare looking at him with such shock in her eyes. Somehow he figured she must be the owner so decided to trot towards her.
"Hi there! You probably don't know me but I own a bakery around the corner and I noticed a massive crowd coming here. My curiosity peeked so came over to see what all the commotion about." As he stopped talking for a while, he noticed the mare was still in shock mode. he chucked a little as realized he didn't introduced himself.
"Hahaha! I don't think I told my name yet" he said still staring at the mare. " Well my Name is Sco-"
"Scoutker"
"huh?"
As Pinkamena decided to get out of trance faze, she blinked frequently to make sure she wasn't seeing things.
"Scoutker!?" she screamed out, although everypony else in the shop were to into the pony flavored sweeties that they didn't know they were eating so they wasn't paying attention to Pinkie's outburst.
"Wow" Scouter thought. "How did you know my name?" I don't think we met befo-"
And then it hit him.
Scoutker never did get a good look at the pink mare but as he looked at her straight mane and dark pink coat, the pieces were coming together. She look familiar like the pony he met at the......organization..... wait it couldn't be! Could it?
"Mena!?" he also blurted out.
"Scoutker!?"
"Mena!?"
"Scoutker!?"
"Pat!"
The two ponies looked at the left and saw a light blue stallion looking at them. He had cutie mark that resembles a piano note on the side. the blue pony looked at them awkwardly then decided to back away slowly.