• Published 20th Feb 2014
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The Awkward Explanation of Cupcakes - SirShadestrider



After a horrible misunderstanding, Pinkie tries to tell her friends what happened.

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Chapter 1

The awkward explanation of cupcakes

While Rainbow Dash was recuperating in Sugarcube corner, Pinkie Pie had decided to go out into town to see her friends.

"I wonder who I should visit first?" Pinkie asked herself. "Maybe I should go see Rarity." While Pinkie bounced down the street, she was rather oblivious to the reactions of the various ponies. Ponies who saw her coming screamed and ran inside their homes, eager to lock their doors, bolt their windows, shut their shutters, and replace their "Welcome" mats with "Stay away" mats. All of this went completely unnoticed by Ponyville's resident super party pony. When she got to Carousel Boutique, Pinkie noticed that the blinds were closed.

"Huh, I wonder what that's about?" Pinkie wondered aloud. Pinkie knocked, and just as Pinkie had come to expect, Rarity answered. For some reason, Rarity looked like she had been crying.

"Hello, and welcome to Caro-" Rarity began without any of her usual excitement, but paused when she saw the pink mare on the other side of the door. Rarity's face turned even whiter than normal, which was pretty impressive for a pony of her color.

"Hi, Rarity!" Pinkie chirped joyfully to her friend. Rarity screamed loudly and slammed the door, and Pinkie heard the unmistakable click of at least a dozen different locks being locked. "Maybe she forgot about an order she had to fill." Pinkie Pie shrugged. "Maybe I should go and hang out with Twilight." Pinkie mused. So Pinkie Pie, currently somehow unaware of the screams of terror caused by Ponyville's horrified inhabitants, bounced her way to Twilight's library. When Pinkie finally arrived at her destination, she promptly knocked on the door, and as usual, she was greeted by her good friend Twilight Sparkle. Twilight's bloodshot eyes suddenly went wide, as her mouth tried to form coherent words.

"Hiya, Twilight! Wanna have a party?" Pinkie asked. Twilight just stood there, shaking and whimpering pitifully. Pinkie did not seem to pick up on this social cue, as she decided to smile even wider, and lean in even closer to her purple unicorn friend. Pinkie's face was now practically right up against Twilight's tear stained one. Twilight took a deep breath, as Pinkie waited to hear her friend's response. It was not the response Pinkie Pie had hoped for, as her friend screamed at the top of her lungs
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Pinkie covered her ears with her front hooves, but that only did so much against Twilight's verbal assault.

"PINKIE-RAINBOW-CUPCAKES-CANNIBALISM-MURDER-HORROR-NOOOOO!!" Twilight yelled in rapid fire, before slamming and locking the door, and putting up a force-field. Pinkie just stared at the now force-field protected door in shock.

"Was it something I said?" Pinkie asked innocently. "Maybe Fluttershy is acting a little more normal today." Pinkie said to her self hopefully. It wasn't long before Pinkie Pie had reached Fluttershy's cottage

" I wonder what good ol' Fluttershy is up to? Whatever it is, I"ll bet it's fun!" Pinkie cheered. Once Pinkie Pie knocked, and Fluttershy opened the door however, Fluttershy simply went pale and fainted. "Fluttershy, are you okay?" Pinkie asked the yellow pegasus, but obviously got no response. Pinkie just decided to pick Fluttershy up, and carry her inside, and plop her on the sofa. Covering Fluttershy with a blanket, Pinkie could hardly fathom why everypony was acting so strangely today.

"Maybe I should give Applejack a try." thought Pinkie, and so, once again, Pinkie was off. It took some galloping, but Pinkie eventually made it to Applejack's farm. Pinkie knocked on the door, but received no answer. Pinkie Pie decided to try the barn. Pinkie pushed the barn door open, only to find not only Applejack, Big Mac, Applebloom, and Granny Smith, but also Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Spike, and an unconscious Fluttershy in the barn as well. At the sight of the dreaded pink party pony, everyone (sans Fluttershy) screamed and huddled together for protection from what they thought was their approaching doom. Pinkie Pie had had enough!

"What is WRONG WITH EVERYPONY?!" Pinkie yelled.

"Wrong with us?!" Applejack exclaimed shakily, "It was you who ate Rainbow!"

Pinkie stared at Applejack dumbfounded.

"Ate her?!" Pinkie asked shocked, "What are talking about? I didn't eat her, she's fine!"

"B-b-but the basement...and the cupcakes, and the b-b-b-blood..." Twilight Sparkle stammered.

Pinkie thought for a minute. What did Twilight mean, what was she going on about? Then it dawned on her. Sweet Celestia! No wonder they were all scared of her! They only saw and heard everything out of context. It all made perfect sense now!

"Oooooohhhh." Pinkie said. "Allow me to tell you what actually happened..."


About an hour later Pinkie Pie had explained everything to her assembled friends. They all believed her thanks to Applejack being the element of honesty, and therefore, being the perfect lie detector.

"I...I can't believe that we all jumped to a conclusion like that! I'm so sorry that we didn't give you a chance to explain." Twilight Sparkle said.

"I agree with Twilight, it was most unbecoming of us. I'm sorry Pinkie" Rarity said.

"I'll say, mighty sorry Pinkie!" Applejack agreed.

Fluttershy, having woken up just before Pinkie Pie began her explanation, apologized as well "I feel awful, just awful!" Fluttershy whimpered. "Can you ever forgive us?" Fluttershy asked. Pinkie sighed

"Of course I can silly! I just can't believe it took me that long to put two and two and two and two together!"

"Friends?" Twilight smiled at Pinkie along with everypony else present,

"Friends!" Pinkie giggled and somehow stretched her limbs around the assembled ponies in a strange, yet sweet physics-defying hug. Rainbow Dash burst through the barn doors suddenly.

"Everypony, it's not what you think! I-" but Rainbow stopped when she saw the odd group hug, and let out a sigh of relief. "Looks like I don't have much to explain after all." Rainbow decided to join in the hug as well.
"You do all realize that we have a whole town full of ponies we need to talk to so we can set the record straight right?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Yeah let's go and do that." Pinkie said happily "Together." Everypony else nodded in agreement,

"Together!" they all cheered. And so, everypony in Ponyville learned a valuable lesson that day: always hear a friend out, and never assume the worst.

Comments ( 24 )

I'd love to know what the explanation actually was. :pinkiegasp:

Comment posted by Glowing Ember deleted Feb 20th, 2014

397660 I left that up to the reader to decide. :trollestia:

3976722 Yeah, I just noticed. :twilightsheepish:

3976722 By the way, what is a story ID? The story creation page mentioned one, but I don't know how to find out what they are. :applecry:

3976886

Y'know in the url, the story/insert number here

That's the story id. This one's is 170224

:twilightsmile:

I'm a little sad that it is so short, but it was funny.

Applejack the lie detecter, we meet again.:ajbemused:

3981027 Yeah, she sure is good at that isn't she? :ajsmug:

Meh, this could have been done so much better. I simply cannot up vote this when I see so much potential wasted, but I cannot down vote it since it is relatively well written. No vote then.

3983070 Fair enough, but fret not, for much better stories shall be written soon. :applejackunsure: Don't give up on me quite yet, I'm not finished! :flutterrage:

3983080 On a side note, if you are a relatively new writer, keep doing one off's. It's great for your writing skills.

I was expecting Rainbow Dash to pop out only for the other ponies to run screaming "Aaaaaahhhh! It's a zombie!" or "Rainbow Dash came back as the spirit of vengeance! WE ARE ALL DOOMED!" but I guess tying up the loose ends also works.:twilightsheepish:

Okay, I'm just wondering why you put the tag horror,when there's no horror. :pinkiecrazy:

4885144 I put it there because of mention of "murder" and "cannibalism". The tag is a fail-safe so that nopony can claim that I don't have the proper tags. :ajsmug:

4885144 Avatar = Adorable! AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Well... that's pretty much how everypony would react including me if I was there :trollestia:

6614138 Yeah, can't really argue with that.:twilightsheepish:

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