"O'Malley, move onto the icing with Theta, Sigma and the girls. Simmons, you watch Delta while he watches us. Spike, you go help Gary with the souffles. Church, you're with Caboose and I." Pinkie said firmly, giving a stern salute to everyone in the room.
"Okay." Everybody but Church, Simmons and Spike nodded.
"Uh, what exactly are we doing?" Church asked, watching as the fragments legitimately went to work on cooking of all things.
"Caboose, you tell him, I need to go get some more supplies." Pinkie said, quickly jumping into the closet.
Church lifted his brow at Caboose, watching as he stuffed his head into a pantry, looking through the pots and pans.
"Caboose, what are we, and by we I mean you and Pinkie, doing?" Church asked.
"We're... um, food." Caboose said simply, coming out of the cupboard with a large pot over his head. "Oh no, I am blind! I had so much to live for!"
Church rolled his eyes and hit the bottom of the dish, flipping it over Caboose's head. Caboose blinked dumbly at Church and smiled. Church let out a reluctant sigh, already growing angry at Caboose.
"Church, I'm not blind anymore!" Caboose whooped happily, jumping up and down.
"Yeah, I saved you. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo, can I go now?"
"I don't know, I think Pinkie wants you to stay and help with the cake." Caboose said, scratching his head.
"I can't bake so I'd probably just get in your way." Church muttered, taking off his hat, tossing it onto the counter. "How about I go tell the girls while you guys cook?"
"I don't know..."
"Trust me, it'll be faster this way." Church sighed, but when he turned around he saw Gary glaring at him. "What's wrong now? Don't want me to go talk to the shisnos?"
"You cannot leave." Gary hissed, eyes darting from side to side.
"What are you talking about?" Church grunted, not wanting to waste anymore time here.
"You cannot leave." Gary repeated. "I mean that in quite possibly the most literal and truthful way."
"Why not?"
"You can try to walk out, but you'll just find yourself back inside." Gary muttered shiftily. "Tell him, O'Malley."
"It's scary." O'Malley whispered in a low voice as he walked up to them. "I was the first to try leaving, but when I walked out the front door she was standing there, grinning wildly at me. I just slowly walked back inside."
"I was after that. I jumped out the window and ended up back inside due to a trampoline." Gary shivered. "She's a force to be reckoned with, Epsilon. Don't try and run. We are prisoners of her domain. It is best to do as she says and just finish this insufferable kitchen detail."
"Are you guys being serious?" Church asked sarcastically.
"Hey, what are you guys doing?" Pinkie asked after kicking the closet door open, suddenly wearing a general's hat.
"Er, nothing, just helping Church with his, um, caking." O'Malley saluted.
"Oh, good." Pinkie giggled as she hopped over to them, back to her sporadic self.
Church smirked at the two, but they continued staring at her warily. Pinkie stopped hopping when she reached them and nodded at them. They nodded back and hurried back to their stations. when she turned back to nod at Church, he was walking out.
"Where're you going?" Pinkie asked.
"Going to go tell the others about the picnic." Church replied, not stopping. "Got any time they need to be here by?"
"Well, it should be ready in less than two hours if you help, but it could take longer without you." Pinkie said, putting the chef's hat back on his head. "Come on, Churchy. I know you'd rather be somewhere quieter, but cooking is fun and relaxing. Caboose feels as if he hasn't seen you in fiveever." Pinkie leaned in and smiled. "That's more than forever, in case you didn't know."
"Who is going to tell the girls? And to a lesser extent, Tucker and the Reds?"
"We'll tell them when it's almost done. I don't like making them wait for time to pass, I'd rather just tell them right before it's done, that way when they get here they don't have to wait!"
"Fair enough." Church said reluctantly.
"So, how were things when we were gone?" Pinkie asked Church as she walked with him back to Caboose.
"Eventful is putting it lightly." Church muttered. "To make it short, two more fragments showed up."
"Aw, really? I was hoping we could have all of you here." Pinkie said sadly as she grabbed some dough and began flattening it with a rolling pin. She then shrugged and began humming. "Oh well, maybe next time."
"Yeah." Church said quietly, watching as Gary and O'Malley scrambled to get things done. "So, they are pretty scared of you now, huh?"
"Yeah, I felt he could use a good scare." Pinkie snorted, then leaned in to not let O'Malley hear her. "It was actually an accident, too. I had to go check on the twins, but I used a different way of getting up, and when I came back down the normal way, O'Malley was just leaving."
"Smooth." Church chuckled.
"Besides, Sigma was telling me how sad he was that you're never all really in the same place together." Pinkie continued. "When he said that, I said, "Really?" And he said, "Yes." And I said, "Well that is just unacceptable." So then I brought you all here."
"That was nice of you." Church said reluctantly, eyes now on Sigma as he smiled with Theta and the three Crusaders. "Hey, mind if I talk to Sigma for a second?"
"Sure. Just don't tell the others that it was an accident, okay? It's funnier this way."
"Deal." Church nodded and stood by the counter near Sigma.
Sigma continued doing work for half of a minute, talking idly with the Crusaders, until he saw Church standing near him. Quickly excusing himself, Sigma walked up next to Church and smiled wanly, but Church stared at him with dead seriousness.
"Doing things together certainly is... enriching, wouldn't you say Epsilon?"
"If by enriching you mean I have to learn how to grow eyes on the back of my heads to feel even a fraction safer, then yes." Church muttered, eyeing Sigma curiously. "So, this was your idea?"
"Don't say it. I know what you're thinking. For now, the matters you're accusing me of can wait. This is all in good fun." Sigma said, watching as Theta scooped up some cookie dough and shoved it in his mouth.
"Sure it is." Church said non-trustingly.
"I assume Pinkie told you about our little pranks, hm?" Sigma asked quietly.
"Your little pranks?"
"Yes. After she gave O'Malley a little scare, I helped her to deal with Gamma." Sigma said bemusedly. "She still hasn't gotten used to them yet, but I can read them with general ease. Knowing Gamma was going to jump out the window, I asked Pinkie if she could place a trampoline outside."
"So that one was your idea." Church said with a half-smirk. "Gary is scared shitless by her now, they think she can bend the laws of the universe."
"The girls told me a bit about Pinkie on our way here, like how friendly she is and how strange her behavior is. After being around somebody for a few hours, she flawlessly finds out every little bit of ones character, finding herself able to predict what they're going to do." Sigma chuckled. "I believe she simply plays it off like she doesn't know what she's doing, when in fact she knows exactly what is going on."
"Sig, you have to try this stuff!" Theta called out, waving a spoonful of cookie dough at him.
"Now, I know you came here to inquire more of me, but how about you put this little interrogation off for another day?"
"Fine." Church said, remembering that Sigma was not to be fully trusted. "Don't want Pinkie to break out her day planner again."
I have no idea what I wrote, all I know is I wrote it in forty-five minutes with my stomach full of thanksgiving turkey.
hey he didn't even attempt to break out
Yeah, that's my interpretation of Pinkie too. Always knows exactly what's going on.
For once Gary and O'Mally are scared shitless
1404103 From last year? Or from this year, just extremely early?
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On October 7th? You must have some amazing way of preserving meat. Please share your secrets.
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>MFW Canadian Thanksgiving is in October.
1404183 A freezer could do it, I've done it before. It's just not the greatest tasting thing in the world.
1404197 Ah, Canada. So how are things in the Soviet Republic of Canuckistan?
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Winterful.
1404221 Is Halloween still the 31st of October for Canadians?
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Keep forgetting you're a fellow canuck.
Yay! More Sigma! this time! I wonder. I wonder if he plans it all out, or if he just makes it up as he goes along?
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if we travel to the highest peak of the north-western glaciers we can use a star map to tell when Halloween will be that year.
but for the past 200 years it's always been October 31st just like in good ol' MURRICA.
yes i'm from the united provinces and territories of Canada, hold your applause.
Sigma and Pinkie. May Celestia have mercy on our souls.
Also, Sigma Pinkie Caboose silly love triangle. Someone must make this happen
This story almost makes me like sigma..... Almost.
1404329 you sir, are my hero.
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that means alot to me,
i give you traditional thanks in the form of Tim Horton's coffee and 4.5 pounds of bacon.
Brilliant, as alwayes, good sir
Haven't expected to see O'Mally and Gary terrified of Pinkie
awesome so far! keep it up.
really theta
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Oh dark wing, you and your turkey.
hmmm, maybe sarge and I could have a thanksgiving competition....
When I check my updated list before doing homework and see this:
i.imgur.com/BmHnz.gif
"Now, I know you came here to inquire more of me, but how about you but this little interrogation off for another day?"
Should be put.
Sorry for being a grammar smartass.
Filler chapter!
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Nope, this is a setup chapter.
1407847 what's it seting up?
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Why on Earth would I tell you that?
1408677 not that. why is pinkie forcing the fragments to bake cakes?
"You cannot leave." Gary hissed, eyes darting from side to side
"I was after that. I jumped out the window and ended up back inside due to a trampoline." Gary shivered. "She's a force to be reckoned with, Epsilon. Don't try and run. We are prisoners of her domain.
GENIUS!
1404329 I'm jealous of you my northern cousin. Thanksgiving and Halloween, all in the same month.
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Dude you should totally use some of what happened in season 10 episode 18 in future chapters, Church or one of the ai's gets pissed and turns huge and red lol. That would be awesome.
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Yes!
tis the month to gorge ourselves on candy and turkey.
we have to fatten up to keep warm when the blizzards start.
1412261 ok, and to get ready for hibernation, i have placed a nice bed -of lettuce- in the oven,er...cave.
You'd think Celestia would be suspicious of not having received a letter from the girls by now. And with the way things are, it shouldn't be long until Doc, Donut, Lopez, Wash, Sis, Junior, and Jenkins drop in on them.
4763662 docs away donuts dead Lopez is broken wash is in prison sis lives in blood gulch junior was Ina a pelican crash
I don't even know what the story on Jenkins is
5014591 He was the extra guy in green armor.
The "one more than forever" bit made me genuinely sad. Please never do it again.
5712983 How did that make you sad? It's just a bad pun.
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Donut isn't dead, is living in Valhalla with doc. Lopez is their scarecrow. Wash is outside the base, possibly shooting bad guys. Since time moves slower for an AI and the Reds and blues are inside an AI unit, the same could be said for them with time moving slower.
Jenkins is, possibly gone. Don't know.