“Care for some carrot cake or apple cake or strawberry cake or chocolate cake or vanilla cake or strawberry-with-chocolate cake or double-layer chocolate cake or double-layer strawberry cake or double-layer apple cake or double-layer carrot cake or hay cake or choco-hay cake or—”
Nopony winced as Pinkie Pie talked on and on and on as she showed him various cakes on her hooves that she took out from behind the counter inside Sugarcube Corner. He doesn't even understand where those cakes are coming from, since the only items displayed inside the glass container were bread and muffin products.
Mr. Cake, who poked his head out from the room behind the counter, also winced at each cake being displayed before the brown earth stallion. He tried his best to flash him a supportive smile, mentally telling him to endure the pink mare's energetic bubbly rambles.
Of course, neither of the two earth ponies were telepathic. They're not sure if Pinkie Pie was or wasn't, though...
“—or the cookie-coated chocolate cake or the cookie-coated vanilla cake and oh we also have vanilla ice cream cake and carrot ice cream cake and apple ice cream cake and—”
The different types of ice cream cakes being flashed before him started to spread a cool air around the bakery, though it still didn't help him from wincing however.
He remembered he and Pinkie were walking on one of the many paths of the town when the stallion's stomach finally reminded him that he hadn't eaten anything since breakfast, and it was already a few hours past noon. Luckily, or scarily, depending on how a pony looks at it, the two of them were in front of the bakery when his stomach set off the alarm.
“—aaaaaaaaaaand—” Pinkie took a deep deep breath while the silence was broken by a sound of a drum roll somewhere. “—we have the ultra-mega-super-delicious...MMM...” the pink mare's closed and smiling lips stretched further than normal as her eyes twinkled like the stars in Luna's night.
A full minute flew by in silence. Three ponies stood there, moving nothing but their breathing. Finally, it was over. The brown stallion smiled, but as he let out a sigh, the damn dam broke again.
“And that's only our cakes! We also have muffins like blueberry—”
“Pinkie...”
“—muffins and strawberry muffins and chocolate-coated muffins and—”
“Pinkie...” two stallions spoke in unison.
“—apple-flavored muffins and zap-apple muffins—”
“Pinkie...!”
“—and I'm pretty sure we also have that sapphire-coated muffin—”
“Pinkie!”
“—but I'm not sure if a pony could eat that kind of muffin though...” Pinkie stopped and brought a hoof on her chin to think about that information.
The two stallions were about to shout their lungs out, but stopped, their screams got stuck in their throats, when they noticed that the pink mare became quiet.
Pinkie then shrugged. “Meh, I'll go and ask Twilight about it later.”
“Please, for the—wait...” the brown stallion blinked, “d-did you say that Twilight lives here?” Pinkie regarded him with an arch eyebrow, but she nodded. “Twilight? You mean the Twilight Sparkle?”
Pinkie rolled her eyes. “Well, duh... Who else would I be talking about?” she smiled at him.
The stallion could not believe it. “Get out of town!”
Pinkie blinked. “Why would I leave the town?” She frowned. “That's not a nice thing to say, you know...”
The stallion blinked, and shook his head. He smiled apologetically at the mare. “N-no... It's a figure of speech. It means...aw what the heck... Can I meet her?”
Pinkie smiled, and was about to reply, but she was interrupted by a loud grumpy tummy.
The stallion blinked and smiled sheepishly as he blushed. “Y-yeah, after I eat something, that is...”
“Okie-dokie-lokie! So watcha havin' today?” Pinkie beamed as she produced a plate-full of chocolate-chip cookies. The stallion's pupils shrunk. He didn't like where this was going...again... “We have some choco—”
“May I suggest—” Mr. Cake bursts out from the room behind the counter, and quickly shoved Pinkie away, “—that since the poor colt here's hungry, that he'll be having one of our finest, freshly-baked plain breads?”
“Bleayk,” Pinkie stuck her tongue out in disgust, while the brown stallion mouthed the words ‘thank you’ at Mr. Cake. “Who'd want to eat such a boring and flavorless bread, anyway?”
Nopony stared at her with a deadpan expression. “Why, the boring and flavorless brown earth stallion, of course...”
“Well, we're gonna work on that during the party later this evening,” Pinkie bounced as she followed the stallion towards one of the bakery's tables.
“I don't think so...” Nopony sighed as he sat on the stool and brought the bread on the table. “Anyway, can you uh...walk with me...” he cringed slightly at what he just asked, “...to Twilight...?”
Pinkie smiled and nodded. “Sure!”
“—and then there's gonna be lots of games that we could play with other ponies in the party later!” Pinkie explained to her unfortunate tourist as she gave a casual wave of a hoof to the ponies the two of them pass by as they walked and bounced their way towards the large oak tree on the edge of town. “Oh! We could play ‘pin the tail on the pony’ and—”
“GET OFF THE ROAD!!!” A powerful loud voice boomed, making each pony in the area stop on their tracks. Soon, a loud rackety sound of squeaky wooden wheels echoed louder and louder. “WHOA!!!”
“Stop that wagon!” another voice called as Pinkie and Nopony looked back, and gasped as a fast-approaching wagon was heading straight towards them. The said wagon however had a cyan head of a pony with a rainbow-colored mane that was stuck on the hole on the wagon's front.
Ponies jumped to the side to evade the fast wagon that threatened to flatten them. Nopony screamed in panic and started running ahead, the wagon getting closer and closer.
“Wheee!!!” Pinkie Pie squealed cheerfully as she stood inside the wagon. “This is fun!”
“Pinkie Pie!” the cyan pegasus cried, “a little help here?”
“Huh?”
There was a loud thud.
“Gah!” The brown stallion's back was pressed against the wagon as it carried him along for the unwanted and unexpected ride. “How you we stop this thing!?” He flailed his hooves in the air in panic.
“Tree!” Pinkie cheerfully announced.
“Huh?” Nopony and Rainbow turned their heads at the pink mare in confusion.
Pinkie Pie happily pointed with a hoof at the large majestic tree growing bigger and bigger in seconds. The two ponies followed her hoof, and saw the library tree straight ahead.
“Oh, that tree,” the two said in unison in a calm voice before letting out a scream.
“What in Equestria is all of that racket?” Twilight Sparkle asked while she wiped a book with a cloth with the help of her magic. It was the last book that she and his faithful assistant needed to clean that day.
“I dunno...” Spike said, growing concerned as the loud noise was getting louder and louder. He was on top of the ladder that leaned on the bookshelf. He just finished placing a book on its rightful place in the library. “B-but I got a funny feeling that...it's not gonna be funny...”
The loud racket was then accompanied by screams, and screams were accompanied by a thunderous explosion of wood as the library's door became splinters. Twilight yelped and Spike was startled, as the wagon continued its journey towards the stacks of books dead ahead.
Applejack stopped in front of the library's door, if there was one anyway. She winced as she heard low and painful groans from inside the library, where everything was covered by dust. Curious ponies started to crowd a few hooves behind the farm mare as she cautiously took a step inside the library.
“Is everypony okay?” Applejack called, coughing a bit.
“Wheeee!” was her answer, as a pink blob jumped out from the sea of books and dust. “Let's do that again!”
“Is anypony else okay in there...?” Applejack called.
Several ponies, and a dragon, groaned in response.
“Ah'll take that as ah...maybe...?”