• Published 10th Oct 2014
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And A Cherry On Top - wizard32363



Pinkie Pie has just made her best cake ever, and the cherry is right in front of her! The only problem is that it's in a glass jar...

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It's Stuck!

With a final swirl of the icing, the cake was finished. Pinkie looked up quite proudly, cake frosting coating her face. She looked at the tall cake, and then back down at the book. She called all of her friends in to witness the masterpiece she had created.


Walking in, all of her friends wowed over the cake. The only time they had seen a more magnificent cake was at Princess Twilight’s coronation. Pinkie had always been good at baking, but this topped every single one of her creations. Rainbow Dash went to take a lick of the cider waterfalls on the side, but Pinkie pushed her back.


“This is for the Princesses, Rainbow Dash! You’ll get some in due time!”


Rainbow Dash started to whine in annoyance. “But...but...there’s cider on the cake! Cider season won’t start for another three months!”


Pinkie just shrugged it off, playfully nudging Rainbow Dash to the side. Twilight Sparkle stepped over to the book, looking at the perfect treat in front of it. Just as quickly, she drew a blank face, looking up. “There’s no cherry on the top.”


Pinkie Pie looked up from Rainbow Dash, gasping and pushing Twilight out of the way. She looked up and down, up and down, observing each one carefully. Finally, she came to the realization that Twilight was right. There was no cherry on this cake.


“Hold on, you guys! You can’t take another peek until I get this cherry!! Out out OUT!”


Nudging her friends out, she started to rush around frantically. She knew she had a cherry in the kitchen. She searched high and low, through all of the cabinets, coming to rest on the one place that she knew she hadn’t checked. The fridge. Opening it up, a bright light seemed to erupt from its recesses.


Right on the top shelf, glowing brightly to Pinkie’s eyes, was one large red cherry. She reached out to grab it, but her hoof fell short. It had run into an obstacle. She kept pressing towards the cherry, but the more she pushed, the further away it became. She quickly shoved both hooves inside of the fridge and grabbed it from both ends, bringing it out.


The cherry was trapped inside of a jar. Made of glass.


Pinkie shook the bottle a couple of times, watching the red topping bounce around inside. “This shouldn’t be a problem! It’s just a jar…”

Putting her mouth around the lid of the jar, she heaved her head to the side, twisting it until her teeth began to hurt. She tried once again, still failing to pop the cap open.


She didn’t know what to make of it. Was this a trick? Did somepony just shut the jar too tight last time they took a cherry? It made no sense to Pinkie.


She sighed, trying, with futile attempts, a few more times until she finally gave up. She ran to the front door, opening it up to her friends, who were still staring blankly at the door.


“Twilight! I need you to open this jar with your magic!”


Twilight looked, confused, at Pinkie. “Umm...sure thing, Pinkie…”


Twilight’s horn lit up, the jar floating beside her in the air. Twilight turned her head with a strain, imitating the opening of a jar. Her face broke out in a sweat, the lid of the jar making no leeway to her magic. After a few minutes of trying, her magic quit on her, the jar dropping to the dirt with a quiet thud.


“I’m sorry Pinkie,” Twilight panted, “but that jar isn’t going to open…”


For a moment, the other four friends stared at the jar like it was the devil. If a Princess of Equestria couldn’t open it, that jar was going to stay closed forever. Pinkie wasn’t going to settle for that, though.


“No! If Twilight can’t open this jar, there’s one pony who can open it! We need to get to Canterlot at once!”


All of her friends knew exactly who they were going to. The only pony with enough power to open this jar was the most powerful pony in Equestria. They were going to see Princess Celestia.


~~~


Walking into the throne room with a jar concealing a cherry, they all felt ridiculous. They were coming to Celestia, who probably had a million other things to do, to ask her to open a cherry jar.


“Hello, all of you. How are you doing today?”


Pinkie opened her mouth to speak, but found herself suddenly interrupted by Rainbow Dash, who flew up to Celestia. “Princess Celestia, Pinkie baked this amazing cake for the Summer Sun Celebration! It has apples and cider and frosting and everything! All it requires is one cherry on top, but Pinkie can’t open the jar!”


Trying to hide a chuckle, Celestia suggested the obvious. “H-have you tried asking Twilight to open it for you?”


Finally, Pinkie got her turn to speak. She stepped up towards Princess Celestia, opening her mouth once again. Unfortunately, the voice that came out was not hers.


“Yes, Princess, she did ask me to open it. Even my magic was not strong enough to open it. Can you please help us? This is very crucial to the success of this celebration.”


Princess Celestia just rolled her eyes, a smile on her face. “Yes, of course, Princess Twilight. Without this cherry, I don’t doubt that the Summer Sun Celebration would be a wreck.”


This time, Celestia’s horn flared up, the jar flicking into the air with a whoosh. Celestia, just as Twilight, turned her head, but with much more force. The jar failed to agree with any of her magic. Celestia gave an angry look, a new wave of magic sparking from her horn, her whole body beginning to float up into the air. This went on for a couple of minutes before she just dropped down. Using a simple levitation spell, Celestia threw the glass jar all the way across the room, hearing it shatter at the door.


“There, now it’s open. Please, never ask me to open a jar again. Now finish that cake. I don’t want any more issues…”


All the ponies failed to move, their eyes fixed on Princess Celestia. She had gotten angry! Did she seriously just fling a jar all the way across the room!? It was open, but the ponies standing before Celestia were too terrified to move.

And all the while, Princess Luna hid in the shadows, watching Pinkie Pie. Her laughs were barely audible. Teleporting back to Sugarcube Corner, she placed another jar, with a super-glued cap, into Pinkie’s fridge, waiting for the next time she would need a cherry for a recipe.

Author's Note:

I don't even know what to say...this was just a filler story while I wait for ideas for the other really long stories! I can't say this will or will not be enjoyable, but I hope that the plot twist gets a good laugh.

Comments ( 47 )

God damnit luna:facehoof: oh yes what was i going to say? oh yes AHM No coffin can contain ME from commenting on this story so FIRST!!!:yay:

5120006 Well alrighty then :rainbowlaugh: Haha yea, I actually just wrote this on quick notice, but now will work on a chapter for "Fighting in a World of Harmony!" This story was just for laughs :P I hope you liked it! :rainbowwild:

5120010 Oh yes vury much so i need humor in my life again after dying from reading the YouTube comment section and seeing some "attractive" pony pics:pinkiesick: *shudders* thank Gaben for the dead ringer tho.

5120031 Oh goodness...scary...:pinkiecrazy: Haha so, is this your favorite story so far?
:derpytongue2:

5120048 I like all story's and considering my mouse broke i can no longer TF2 so might as well catch up on reading from all possible sources, good work by the way i shall now read the other story's of yours ive yet to stare at. :derpyderp1:

5120058 Haha Determining Fare, Broken Pieces, and Fighting in a World of Harmony are the recommendations. Not Lost and Searching...that one isn't as good :derpyderp2:

This is why it's important to mise en place before you begin a recipe.

Comment posted by Mad deleted Oct 10th, 2014
Mad

5120006 Good to see another soviet Comrade :pinkiehappy:

5120457 Hello fellow comrade. Actually its War Hammer 40K but close enough right?

Mad

5120474 What's war hammer 40k?

Mad

5120657 Sounds like my type of military leader :pinkiehappy:

5120712 Commissar fuklaw is my favorite hehehe:yay:

5120061 That is true. We could have done better at that :twilightsheepish:

Mad

5120768 I like his completely not suggestive/rude name.

5122223 Yeah just don't spook him by saying "HERESY!!!" he's as excitable as Lyra with humans sooo...... Yeah. Have you heard about the Almighty lord Gaben or Lord Miyamoto?

Mad

5123655 No, I don't watch/read/play war hammer 40K and I don't know what it is.

5123834 Then you have new orders man!!! Get to it gogogogo!!!

Mad

5123944 Not right now, gotta go to my prizefight match. The winnings are 300$ Bye :pinkiehappy:

The story was short but not half bad:twilightsmile:

5136860 thanks! Haha it was originally just a filler while I was thinking for everything else XD I'm glad you liked it :)

5136870 I should do something like this while I have writers block for my main story :rainbowlaugh:

5136880 it's a great thing to do while you try to think! My main two stories are so hard to write when they're so long @~@ so I thought, why not let Luna have some fun! I highly recommend it!

5136889 Thanks for the idea!:twilightsmile:

Ok guys, new idea. PRINCESS TROLLUNA. Fanart now!

5140494 yes!! Omg I would love adding that!

Considering glue used to be made out of horse, i wouldn't be suprised if she used her own "glue". I'm sorry. this one (the "pun" if you can even call it that) not funny. I couldn't get anything out of this one :ajsleepy: :pinkiegasp: Ikr, that is a shock!!

5141771 nuuuuuuu!!! There is only a few more short stories I have, not the long ones XD bit I think you're tired of my stories for the night :3 but hehe, maybe you'll come up with one later! You sure are "stuck" on this pun.

5141785 as a cherry jar! :rainbowlaugh:

5141798 :3 thank you for reading that trio!! When you get around to it (from shortest to longest, skipping "lost and searching," I can't wait to see more comments from you!!!)

5141812 I will definatly look into them. In the meantime, I'd like it if you checked out my fic. would you prefer me to PM or just go ahead and put it into the comments? It's your fic and I don't want some trolluna yelling at me for self advertising, so if you give me the go, i will do it. WARNING: it is NOT a warm fic like this one and the rest of your trio.

5141830 (don't worry, I have my fair share of darker stories. I'd prefer a PM :)

5141883 I'm assuming you got the link

5142167 was it decent? I read your comment to it and most errors were done on purpose for memory loss sake. I already have another chapter underway ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... thats been in progress for about a month now. Let's hope my school and band life allow me to write on it some more soon. (I play trumpet, if you were wondering)

5142945 Fairly decent :) I hope there's a lot more!

5140563 :pinkiegasp: Really? Please do it would be epic! -makes fanart-

5144902 Well, I couldn't! Too busy with my writing! But if you can find somepony who could, I would be eternally grateful!!! :rainbowkiss:

5144947 Ooh, maybe I could do it... heh heh heh -continues to create fanart-

5145527 Yuppedy-doodaw! -does fanart while starts the weirdest and most randomest trolluna story in existence-

So THAT'S why Luna isn't ever around!

6063654 The secret is finally out o-o But you didn't read it from me...

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