//------------------------------// // The Perfect Cupcake! [Lazy and Short Version] // Story: The Perfect Cupcake! // by PathOfTheAwesomePie //------------------------------// "Alright girls, do you know why we're gathered here today!?," Pinkie asked demandingly, trotting left to right in front of Rainbow Dash and Derpy Hooves. "Because you wanted to bother us 5 a.m. in the morning..?," Dash replied yawning. "To make muffins!," Derpy shouted. Pinkie pointed to Derpy. "Close! We're making a super duper batch of cupcakes!," She said. Rainbow Dash wiped her eyes of the last bit of drowsiness. "Seriously, is that all?," She asked. "Mhm, Mr. and Mrs. Cake went to deliver a huge chocolate sundae to Canterlot and they wanted me to bake the cupcakes!." She replied. "Don't you mean "you" as in "you alone" to bake the cupcakes...," Dash stated. "Well...technically ," Pinkie pondered over the idea. "I wouldn't mind, my mail delivering doesn't start until a few more hours!," Derpy said. "Yea, well I got somewhere to be, so I'll just be going.," Dash said, drifting towards the front door of the bakery. "Wait, Dashie, can't you stay and help?," Pinkie pleaded. "Sorry Pinkie Pie, I don't have time to help bake cupcakes!," Dash replied. "Pleeeeeeease?," Pinkie kept asking. "Pinkie, for the last time I hey, what the..!," Dash's hind legs were being held by Pinkie and Derpy, preventing her to make progress to the door. "Pleeeeeeease?," They both said in unison. Dash sighed. "Look, I heard the Wonderbolts were coming from Canterlot to Cloudsdale for some practicing and I gotta be there early!," She explained. Derpy and Pinkie looked at each other, nodded, then turned back to Rainbow Dash showing big eyes full of tears. Dash looked at the two with a serious expression. "I said no, now let me go!," She shouted. Sad violin music started playing out of nowhere. "Where's that music coming from?," Dash asked, looking around. Soon her entire view was blocked out by Derpy's and Pinkie's faces with even bigger eyes full of tears. "Ah!" She said, freaked out. "Pleeeeeeeease?," The two begged. Dash heavily sighed and gave in. "Ugh, fine, let's just get this over with already...," She said closing her wings and walking back to the kitchen. Derpy and Pinkie cheered for victory. "I knew adding an extra "e" would work, thank you Octavia!," Pinkie said, flipping two bits to Octavia. "Anytime, Pinkie.," She said, carrying her violin out of Sugarcube corner. "Let's go make some cupcakes!," Derpy shouted. ~*****~ "Alright girls, do you know why we're gathered here today!?," Pinkie asked demandingly, trotting left to right in front of Rainbow Dash and Derpy Hooves. "To make cupcakes!," Derpy cheered. "To make cup...wait, didn't we already do this, Pinkie?," Dash asked, glaring and Pinkie with and eerie look. "You were supposed to say "to make cupcakes!" Dashie, now we have to start over...," Pinkie stated, sobbing. Rainbow Dash flinched. "Uh, n-no, it's cool...we're here to make cupcakes!," She said, ending with a sarcastic smile. "That's right, we're making a super duper batch of cupcakes!," Pinkie said, putting a chef hat on every pony. "Wooo!," Derpy shouted. "Okay, so what do we need to make the cupcakes?," Dash asked, trying to keep the hat on her head. Pinkie grabbed a large bowl and answered. "Well I mostly put the things I like into what I bake!," She stated. "Really?," Dash asked. "Sometimes when I bake muffins I put chocolate chip, blueberry, raspberry, cherry, and even mint into them!," Derpy implied. "So you two already know how to bake and you've got some pony like me who doesn't?," Dash asked. "Yup!," Pinkie and Derpy said together. Rainbow Dash shook her head and facehooved herself. "Gee, that makes so much sense...," "I know right! Now we should start up this batch!," Pinkie said, zipping around the kitchen gathering flour, sugar, and things she loved. Derpy did exactly the same thing, while Rainbow Dash stood there looking at the two speeding by with different ingredients. In less than three minutes the entire bowl was full and ready to be laid out and divided on a cooking sheet. "Wow, that took like 10 second and you needed me? pfft.," Rainbow Dash said, rolling her eyes. "Good job girls, so what did you add to the batch, Derpy?," Pinkie asked. "Chocolate chip, blueberry, raspberry, cherry, and mint!," She replied cheering. Dash's ears perked up. "Wait, you said those were the things you would put into making muffins!," She stated. Derpy nodded her head. "That's right!," she replied. "Ugh, next thing you'll tell me is that you put a muffin into a cupcake batch...," Dash said. Derpy looked at Rainbow Dash in awe. "How'd ya know!?," She asked. Dash gave a deadpanned look at Derpy and shook her head. "Aaaaaanyways...what'd you put in the batch, Pinkie? Since you bake cupcakes all the time, I'm sure you put normal ingredients in it.," Dash said. Pinkie nodded. "Of course, I added sugar, spice, everything nice, some carrots, whipped cream, a four leaf clover, a rubber duck, apples, bananas, lemons, bubble gum, oranges, and one laaaaaaast ingredient...," Pinkie stared at the batch and a tail popped up. "Gah!," Dash screamed, Pinkie picked up the tail and it turned out to be Gummy. "You tried to bake your own pet? Are you crazy!?," Dash asked. "Of course I'm not, I wouldn't eat my little Gummy!," Pinkie stated. Gummy bit her mane and stayed planted there. "He'd probably not taste all that good!," Pinkie said. "Wha ," Dash facehooved herself again, and sighed. "The last ingredient I added was this!," Pinkie said, holding a weird vile up with a label. "Chemical...X?," Dash asked. Pinkie nodded. "I'm not sure what it taste like, but I found it in a strange place.," Meanwhile In the city of Townsville "I, Mojo Jojo, have temporarily immobilized the entire town and the Powerpuff Girls so that I can gain access to the Chemical X to start my unstoppable army, Muhahaha!," Mojo shouted, laughing maniacally in front of the frozen Powerpuff Girls. "Um, that's gonna be a problem.," Blossom said. "What do you mean?," Mojo asked with a serious look. "Professor couldn't find his chemical X, he said it was gone.," Bubbles stated. "Yea, so tough luck for you, monkey butt!," Buttercup said mockingly. The girls all started laughing at Mojo. "What, NOOOOOOOOOO!," Mojo shouted to the sky. Back in Sugar Cube Corner "Yup...a strange place.," Pinkie said looking at the vile. "So what did YOU add Rainbow Dash?," Derpy asked. "M-Me? Uh...I added...," Dash started looking around the kitchen. "I added Gummy Bears!," She said. Derpy and Pinkie looked at Rainbow Dash like she was crazy. "Let's just bake the cupcakes already!," Dash commanded. "Okey dokey lokey!," Pinkie replied, and with the help of Derpy and Dash, they put the batch on a cooking sheet and into the stove. "Okay, so now what?," Dash asked. "We wait!," Derpy cheered. Dash groaned. "Wait? About how long!?," She asked impatiently. Pinkie looked at the clock above the refrigerator. "About an hour.," She replied. "An HOUR!? But I've gotta be in Cloudsdale in 40 minutes or I'll miss the Wonderbolts in action!," Dash reacted, flying around in circles, hoping that time would speed up for the cupcakes. "Oh settle down, Dashie.," Pinkie said moving a pawn on the chessboard Derpy and her were playing on. "Yea, you could find a way to kill time!," Derpy stated, moving her Queen. "Oh, I can kill more than time right about now...," Rainbow Dash grumbled, looking at the two settled ponies. Time passed and the girls were running out of things to do, until suddenly a ringer went off. "Oh, they're done!," Pinkie said, putting down the golf club, along with Derpy and Dash. "About time!," Dash said. She stared at the clock above the stove and noticed something. "...it only passed 15 minutes...," She said under her breathe. "An hour my hoof...," "Cupcakes here, cupcakes there, cupcakes almost everywhere~♪," Derpy sang, waiting for Pinkie Pie to pull out the cupcakes. They gathered around the stove for the revealing, Pinkie slowly opened it to the point where all they saw was a hint of color then once it was completely opened, they gasped and their eyes sparkled in excitement. "Whooooooa!," They all said in awe. "Wait a minute, something's not right...," Pinkie said, pulling out a magnifying glass and observing the cupcakes. "I don't see what's wrong, they look DELICIOUS!," Derpy stated, slightly drooling. "Is it because they don'y look like cupcakes, but like muffins instead!?," Dash said, glaring at Derpy unpleasantly. "And why are they rainbow colored!?," She asked. "Oh silly Dashie, why wouldn't they be rainbow colored, I did add a little of your hair in it after all!," Pinkie happily answered. "WHAT!?," Dash said, shocked. "Nothing~," Pinkie said, throwing the magnifying glass away. "I knew it, that's the problem!," Pinkie said. Dash and Derpy looked at each other and shrugged. "We have a LOT of cupcakes!," Pinkie shouted. She took the cupcakes off the stove and placed them on the counter. "How is that bad?," Derpy asked flying overhead of the baked treats. "For once I agree with Derpy, didn't we plan on making a lot of cupcakes...or muffins or whatever they came out as?," Dash said. Pinkie shook her head. "No, no, the name of the story is The Perfect CUPCAKE, not CUPCAKES!," Pinkie stated with a displeased look. "What are you...talking about?," Dash asked tilting her head. "I mean we weren't supposed to make so many, wasn't there supposed to be some dramatic tragedy that was supposed to happen so that we'd be left with only one?," Pinkie asked, waving her hooves wildly in the air. Dashed laughed and Derpy titled her head this time in confusion. "Pinkie seriously, whatever you're talking about is NOT going to happen, okay? Now let's just deliver those things and I can head up to Cloudsdale!," Dash said picking up the cooking sheet. Pinkie sighed then Gummy jumped off her mane, landed on the sheet and immediately scarfed down all but one cupcake, then burped. Dash, Pinkie, and Derpy showed shocked expressions with their jaws dropped. Dash sat the cooking sheet back down on the counter and turned her focus to Pinkie, who was blowing bubbles from a pipe with a smug smile. "Didn't see that coming!," Derpy said, snickering. ***** Rainbow Dash covered her face with her hooves and started flying around the kitchen, Derpy kept tickling Gummy's belly as he laid beside the last remaining cupcake, and Pinkie Pie continued to blow bubbles out and went back to the cooking sheet and stared Gummy dead in his little green eyes. "Dashie, you shouldn't be mad at poor Gummy for being hungry, that was just how the story was supposed to go.," Pinkie explained, throwing the pipe away. "Yea, what has Gummy did wrong, it was part of the story.," Derpy added in, then she fled over to Pinkie. "What story are we talking about?," she whispered to her. "Ugh, I don't know what you two are talking about, but all I know is that Gummy just ate my ticket out of here to see the Wonderbolts!," Dash shouted, crossing her hooves and pouting in mid air. "At least we still have one left!," Derpy said sniffing the cupcake. "She's right, we'll just deliver this one instead!," Pinkie said. "Oh yea, like delivering one cupcake out of a dozen that were eaten by an alligator would make sense, how do we even know it taste good? And it STILL looks like a muffin!," Dash stated, still staring at Gummy angrily. "You do have a point...," Pinkie said, putting some thought into the situation again. "And you know what's worse!?," Derpy asked. "What could be worse than what I just said?," Dash asked nonchalantly. "We don't know if we have to put frosting on it or not!," Derpy shouted out then fainted. Rainbow Dash shook her head at Derpy's comment. "Well I'm not wasting my time making another batch, so let's just use your idea, hey what are you ," Dash's sentence was cut short once she saw Pinkie Pie licking the cupcake. "What? I'm testing to make sure it taste good like you said!," Pinkie stated. She started lashing her tongue to savor the taste. Rainbow Dash and Derpy Hooves stared at Pinkie as her whole body started to change colors dramatically, then she started making weird noises, then ended with a sigh of relief and delight. "Um...," Dash and Derpy said. "So...how was it?," Dash asked. Pinkie's eyes were widened, then she took two tiny pieces off of the cupcake and shoved it into both of their mouths. "Pinkie, what the WHOOOOOOOA !," Dash shouted as she started to see muticolored shapes and animals swirl around in her vision, then she started to spin around, seeing everything Equestria had, but better. In the end a giant explosion occurred, making Dash return to reality. "Whoa, that...was...AWESOME!," She said shaking her head. "I'll say!," Derpy added on, putting her eyes back into their disfigured state. "Well, was it delicious?,"Pinkie asked, anxious of their answer. "W-well it's hard to say, I mean it's good but...," Dash scratched her head. "Yea, yea it was.," She admitted. "I saw a bunch of dancing parasprites that had bear hands!," Derpy said. Rainbow Dash stared at Derpy, unable to comment her. "Hey, I saw my fair share of crazy right now, so I'll let you off the hook on that one!," She said laughing. "But...I'm not a fish...," Derpy stated bluntly. "Wha ," Dash favehooved. "Well since we all agreed that this cupcake was tasty enough, let's head to Canterlot!," Pinkie said, raising her hoof in the air, cheering. 5 seconds later... "And now we're in Canterlot!," Pinkie cheered. "Wait, how did we just skip EVERYTHING that we had to go through just to get to Canterlot!?," Dash asked, freaked out. "Oh that's because the writer would think adding too much writing into a short story wouldn't work and he also thinks that using too many played out cliches from the original show would ruin the effect of the story some viewers may find weird and too random for their taste, and by passing it all up he could instantly call this story a short story that he thought up in his mind by only looking at a picture of me, Derpy, and you staring at a delicious muffcake!," Pinkie explained. "Muffcake..?," Dash asked. "Ooh, it's a muffin and cupcake mixed together, right?," Derpy said. Pinkie pointed to Derpy. "Bingo!," She said. "Yay, Bingo, Bingo, Bingo, so what do I win!?," Derpy happily asked. "You win a muffcake!," Pinkie replied, throwing the cupcake into the air to Derpy. "Huh, wait NOOOOOOO!," Dash panicked, trying to urge the gray pegasus to cease her hunger, but she grabbed a hold of the cupcake with her mouth and immediately started to gulp it down. Rainbow Dash's eyes were widened and she flopped to the ground in utter shock with her head hung down. "Ah Pinkie Pie, is that you?," said a voice from the skies. "Oh, hi Princess Celestia, how have you been?," Pinkie asked happily. "Well, I've been rather well, a bit too busy so I decided to ask the Cakes to bake a special batch of cupcakes for me so I could relax a bit.," She explained. Rainbow Dash put her hooves over her face in shame. "They told me you were to bring the cupcakes as they brought my sister's sundae to the castle, so...do you have it?," asked the eager princess. "Of course I do, it's right...over...here ," Pinkie blinked her eyes and pointed to Derpy, who was finishing off the last of the cupcake. Celestia stared at Derpy with a shocked expression. Derpy ate the last crumb and saw Celestia and Pinkie looking at her. "That was one delicious muffcake!," She said. "I bet it was Derpy...I bet it was...," Dash said, flying out of the scene. <<<[FILLER AND FULL VERSION IS AVAILABLE, ENJOY!!!]>>>