//------------------------------// // 1. Pinkie // Story: Ponyville Days // by Brony_of_Brody //------------------------------// Disclaimer: Hasbro owns MLP:FIM. As does The Faust. 7:00 am: Pinkie Pie hears party-themed alarm clock. Lets clock use up about two party poppers worth of confetti before shutting it off and waking up. 7:15 am: Shower. Hums self-composed song “Smile Smile Smile” while washing. 7:30 am: Irons out loose hairs in bed-mane with cotton candy spinner in wardrobe (obtained from Rainbow Dash as a birthday present). Satisfied that mane is at acceptable level of poofiness, she comes downstairs. 7:35 am: Breakfast with Mrs Cake and the twins, Pound and Pumpkin (Mr Cake has finished his and is cleaning the Sugarcube Corner bakery). Pinkie encourages Pound being spoon-fed, with: “Here comes the airplane! Neeeeeeoooow!” Mrs Cake silently wonders what an airplane actually is as she feeds Pumpkin. 7:50 am: Feeds Gummy, her pet alligator with usual diet of sugar rich porridge, as he lacks teeth to chew anything. 8:00 am: Pinkie helps Mr Cake with getting last of the freshly baked goods out of the oven and preparing dough for new baked goods. Half an hour before Sugarcube Corner opens for the day. Pinkie told to make new dough to kill time. Pinkie reserves large bowl of chocolate icing for ‘motivational reasons’. 8:30 am: Sugarcube Corner is open! Mr Cake soon gets first customer in form of green unicorn with a lyre for a cutie mark. Asks for a dozen “Finger and Fumb” cookies (cookies in the shape of ‘hands’, whatever those are). Mr Cake silently pleased that unusually specific treat has niche somewhere. 8:40 am: Pinkie takes to stall as Mrs Cake takes over baking duty. Serves regular muffin 12 pack to blonde maned grey Pegasus. 9:00 am: Good friend Rainbow Dash drops by for a Cloud Toasty; the standard working breakfast. Pinkie spends next 2 minutes asking about if anything interesting will happen at Rainbow’s workplace, before Mr Cake quickly reminds her that she’s holding up the line. 10:00 am: Pinkie quickly nips back to kitchen for motivational chocolate icing. Exercising good hygiene in the workplace, she pours it into milkshake glass complete with favourite pink crazy straw, so as not to get hooves dirty. Spends time taking ‘occasional’ sips as she serves the customers. 11:30 am: Mr Cake receives odd request from pink earth pony with wild eyes and a screw with baseball for a cutie mark for a “purple themed cake that looks, sounds, and tastes exactly like purple, and it should be delivered on purple o’clock by the purpleth”. Request immediately redirected to Pinkie, who cheerfully tells her to leave an address and she’ll get started on it soon. Deciding that it probably wouldn’t make sense in context, Mr Cake gets back to work. 11:35 am: Pinkie gets started on purple-themed cake. Makes finished product the size of the Equestrian Royal Wedding Cake, but uses up a lot of the flour trying to get “the perfect level of purple taste”. 12:00 pm: Since Pinkie only works a half day on Thursdays, she is given rest of day off. Heads to ‘Screwball’s’ address with Purple Cake, which is towed by Gummy’s exercise trolley. 12:30 pm: Arrives at small house in back alley of Ponyville. Delivers cake, fretting about acceptable levels of purple look, sound and taste for next 5 minutes before ‘Screwball’ hands her some bits, quickly prompting Pinkie to remember to get back. 1:00 pm: Pinkie walks through town and encounters another close friend; Rarity, who has just come back from gem hunt with Spike. Spike is clearly struggling under weight of emeralds being carried. Amazed at Rarity’s haul, Pinkie makes several guesses as to what Rarity plans to do with them, including “Build an entire palace to house a small pony pretending to be a great and powerful wizard”. 1:05 pm: Spike groans out reminder that his arms are “killing him”. Loans out Gummy’s exercise trolley, much to Spike’s relief. 1:45 pm: Drops by Sweet Apple Acres farm to visit Applejack. Finds Applejack’s younger sister Applebloom trying to earn cutie mark in dogfighting by throwing apple cores at friends Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle on makeshift hang-gliders made from wood. Causes Pinkie to think out loud as to why it’s called dogfighting when there are no dogs involved, before remembering the Apple family have a dog and… 1:47 pm: Applejack arrives, muttering about an overturned cart. Spots Pinkie, exchanges polite pleasantries. Explains that cart got stuck in a ditch and can’t be removed. Without it, there’s nothing to carry the apples on the farm. Pinkie suggests Gummy’s exercise trolley… 1:48 pm: Pinkie remembers that the trolley is being borrowed by Rarity. Telling Applejack to wait, Pinkie heads to Rarity’s workplace, the Carousel Boutique. Decides to use quick shortcut using what Pinkie calls a ‘jump cut’. 1:49 pm: Arrives at Boutique. Rarity greets Pinkie, and tells her that the trolley was left at Sugarcube Corner. 1:50 pm: Arrives back in own bedroom and collects exercise trolley. 1:51 pm: Arrives back at Sweet Apple Acres with trolley. Asks why Applejack looks so astonished at prompt arrival back before handing the trolley over. 2:30 pm: Pinkie remains at farm, killing time watching the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They walk home covered in tree sap (again), with no cutie mark to show for it. Applejack returns with trolley, thanking Pinkie. 2:31 pm: Pinkie checks watch and remembers that she needs to get back and help out with the Sugarcube Corner outdoor café. (Pinkie works extra hours even when she’s given time off). Scoots off, leaving Applejack to wonder about these ‘watches’ that Pinkie seems to be looking at. Especially since she wasn’t wearing one when she arrived. 3:00 pm: Pinkie arrives back in Ponyville. 3:01 pm: Hears stomach growling, and remembers that she did not have lunch (again). Finds nearby tree and retrieves fried hay sandwich from tree, stored in case of ‘emergencies’. After finding baseball and saxophone in tree, she wonders if she should start storing things for more conventional emergencies. 3:20 pm: Trots to Sugarcube Corner, sees Mrs Cake with Pound and Pumpkin in prams outside, serving customers in the outdoors café. Spotting Pinkie, she requests help in waitressing. 3:30-6:59 pm: Spends rest of afternoon moving between kitchen and café, serving customers, and nicking some of baked goods from kitchen. Trolley is used to tow food. 7:00 pm: Closing time. Pinkie gives Gummy supper (spicy porridge). Given reasonable wage from Mrs Cake for the half day, as well as extra hours, which she pockets in satchel. Worried, Mrs Cake wonders where Pinkie was storing the satchel the whole time. 7:15 pm: Helps the Cakes in giving twins their bath. Somehow ends in her swallowing soap, despite only using only bubble foam throughout the whole thing. 8:30 pm: Pinkie moves trolley back to bedroom. Decides that she should store trolleys all over Ponyville for trolley emergencies from now on. 9:00 pm: Goes back to bedroom and brings out several sheets of music, working on secret night-time career as song composer. 9:05 pm: Continues to stare at blank page. 9:15 pm: Suddenly comes up with a word that rhymes with ‘fifth’. She then wonders how she can fit the two words together in a song about parties. 9:20 pm: Declaring tonight to have been ‘productive’, Pinkie makes mental note to visit ‘Chopping Block’s World of Handy Tools’ for mass purchase of trolleys. Falls asleep, ready for tomorrow.