//------------------------------// // Cupcakes and dresses. // Story: Try putting yourself in my hooves // by Thomani //------------------------------// "Well this has got to be the most not fun changing room I have EVER been in." Pinkity had spent the last half hour looking through changing room No. 4 but no secret dress to be found. "Hmm... I wonder what the heck this thing is..." She was looking at a tiny little red light in the corner of the changing room which she hadn't seen before. She prodded it. An electronic voice boomed from all around her. "THIS IS FABULOUSBOT-6000. STATE YOUR IDENTITY OR I WILL USE FORCE TO REMOVE YOU FROM THIS CHANGING ROOM!" "I'm Pink-I Mean, I am RARITY. Dresses and stuff?" A few seconds of pure tension passed. "YOU MAY ENTER, MISS RARITY." The wall of the changing room swung round to reveal a gleaming white elevator. She tried to walk into it, but there was no automatic system. In other words, she hit her head on the door. "OW! Hey, why the heck isn't this thing opening?" She looked to her right and saw what looked to be some sort of eye-scanner. "Wow Rarity, what's with all the security?" Pinkity wondered aloud as she put her eye to the scanner. The voice of FABULOUSBOT-6000 returned again "SCANNING RETINA... SCANNING RETINA... VERIFYING... RETINAL SCAN COMPLETE. ENTER LIFT WHEN READY." "Ooh boy I love lifts!" Pinkity hopped in and after a click and a whirr, the lift began descending the long 10 mile journey downwards... At Sugarcube corner, things were not going as smoothly. "Pinkie Pie! Where in Equestria have you been? You're half an hour late for Celestia's sake!" Raripie struggled to catch her breath. "I... was.... in... planning... meeting... for... big... party... that...I'm... meant... to... do... sorry.... I'm.... late!" Carrot Cake shrugged. "Better late then never! Listen Pinkie, I wouldn't normally ask you to do this but, well, me and Mrs Cake have to attend a cake baker's annual meeting in Canterlot, and, well I'll cut to the chase. Can you bake the entire cupcake batch for us?" Raripie's jaw dropped. "But I've never eve- I mean, um yes! I'll do it! I love to help out with fun hyper things because I'm a fun hyper pony and, um, stuff?" "Well in that case, we'd best get going. We'll leave you to it!" The Cake's walked out of the door and hopped into a taxi for Canterlot. "Oh well, I might as well try, after all, I am the element of Generosity! Me being Pinkie doesn't change that!" She began collecting the necessary equipment. Rarity had never baked a single cupcake in all of her life. "12 buckets of oats on the wall, take one down, pass it around, 11 buckets of oats on the wal- Hey! We're here!" Pinkity jumped out of the lift and it promptly slid shut behind her. "That was probably the longest lift journey of my entire life!" Pinkity studied her surroundings. She was in a small, glossy white room with the lift behind her, and a big heavy steel door in front of her. The steel door had single, smallish circular keyhole, but Pinkity had no idea where the key was. She checked her saddle-bag. Nothing She checked under her hoof. Nothing. She checked in her mane. Nothing. She checked her forehead. Nothing. Nothing except a boring old unicorn horn. "Wait a minute!" She stuck her horn into the key hole, and twisted. The door clicked and opened. "Bingo! Horns for the win!" She walked inside. Slap bang in front of her was another door. With another smallish circular key hole. "Oh wow! This is easy peasy cider squeezy!" She moved her horn into the keyhole, and twisted. Nothing happened. She twisted in a different direction. Nothing happened. "What in the hay? Hmm... I wonder..." She moved it into the key hole, but then whilst twisting it, used some magic. The door clicked open. "Oh come ON! Not another door! Crikey, Rarity surely doesn't want ANYONE seeing this dress!" The next door was a simple wooden door. "How do I open THIS one... hmm... this is gonna take some BRAINS." She sat down on the floor and pondered for a minute. "Wait a second..." She opened it like a regular door. And like a regular door, it slid open. "I knew that." She looked into the room. It looked a lot like Rarities bedroom, but no bed or personal belongings, just work stuff. "Looks like I'm In the right place." "OK, lets see... flour, sugar, eggs, milk, cream, cocoa powder, chocolate chips! I have everything I need! Lets go!" Raripie had neatly gathered the ingredients in the centre of the work place. "So, from what this is telling me, I need to smash up the eggs in the bowl? How hard can that be?" She took both eggs and smashed them both into the bowl in a rather ladylike fashion. "Hmm... Nah, I'll leave the eggshells in, it'll add some crunch!" Raripie looked at the next step. " Mix the butter and the sugar together so that they are light and fluffy... Well, I reckon I can pull that off." Raripie took the butter and sugar, plopped them in and mixed. And mixed. And mixed And mixed. "Hmm, I reckon THAT has got to be fluffy!" Raripie beamed at her sloppy, lumpy mixture of sugar and butter. After mixing the milk and smashed up eggs into the mix, she decided to add the chocolate chips. Or not. "The chocolate chip's will RUIN IT! It'll make it all brown and icky! Can't have those in my fabulous cupcakes!" She shoved the bowl into the oven, completely ignoring the step that said to put them in cases. "I can just carve them out of the cooked mixture! Yes, that'll be a much more stylish idea! Rather then glooping them into cases, ick." After leaving her abomination of a cake In the oven, she turned to look at the rest of the kitchen. "This place looks rather, drab... I reckon I can work my magic on this..." After moving the boulder form the steel cupboard, unlocking that, unlocking the chest, unlocking the slightly smaller chest, she finally got to Rarities dress. Not much is known about what the dress originally looked like, but according to Pinkie, it was the best darn dress she ever made. "This is the best darn dress she's ever made!" Pinkity squealed after staring at it for a while. She noticed that the centre of the front part of the dress was missing something... "Oh right, that's where this ruby comes in..." Pinkie pie attached it to the dress. "You know, this looks pretty much done. Guess I came down here for nothing." Pinkie Pie moved the dress off of the model. The entire thing ripped in half with a cliché ripping noise. "Oh buck."