Spike was fast asleep in his and Pinkie's joint room when Pinkie jumped upon him and bounced him awake.
"Spike! Do you know what day it is?!" Spike did a spin maneuver and ended up on top of Pinkie.
"Oh, I love this game! Is it......Train Day?!" Pinkie somehow ended up on top of Spike again
"Yes! It’s train day! We have forty minutes to get on the train!" Pinkie jumped up and started unpacking the dresser, pulling out clothes, a rubber chicken, some confetti and streamers, a bucket of glitter, and paint. "We have to hurry or we’ll miss breakfast!"
"Let’s kick it up a notch!" Spike yelled, and in a blur of pink, green and purple, the room turned into a tornado of confusion. Suddenly everything stopped and there were Pinkie and Spike, each with two suitcases, each impossibly stuffed with everything they owned. "I think we accidentally packed our dresser and beds," Spike said, noticing that the room was completely empty.
"Then we don't have to wait for movers," Pinkie said happily. "Now," she frowned, "time for the goodbye part." She and Spike left their room and found their family waiting for them at the kitchen table. Igneous and Cloudy looked at each other.
"Well," Igneous began, "It's time to say ou–" Pinkie, Spike, and Marble all broke into tears
"I'm gonna miss you!" Pinkie sobbed, giving her parents a hug. Cloudy started crying at the thought of two of her babies leaving the house at once while Igneous let out a single tear that could have just been a splash of water from his glass, at the same time Spike and Marble were hugging and crying.
"I'll miss you," Spike sobbed.
"Mhh."
"Well *SNIFF* said."
Pinkie and Spike switched places so she could hug Marble goodbye, and Spike could hug their parents.
Both Pinkie and Spike cried out at the same time, "WE'LL MISS ALL OF YOU!" then turned and Pinkie hugged Maud and Spike hugged Limestone.
"I'll miss you, Maud!"
"I'll miss you too Pinkie." She answered stoically.
"And I'll mi-" Spike was interrupted by Limestone's backbreaking hug stopping him from breathing.
"I'll miss you," she cried either in some form of anger or sadness or possibly a combination of the two.
Spike and Pinkie switched and while Pinkie was having her back snapped in half Maud said, "Boulder said goodbye."
"Tell him I said bye will ya?"
"I will."
"Thanks, sis," Spike sniffed. Both Pinkie and Spike went around hugging everyone again, and again, and again, not stopping until they absolutely had to go to the train station. Once on the train, Pinkie and Spike stuck their upper bodies out their individual windows and waved goodbye to their family. After they couldn't see them anymore they pulled their heads back into the train.
"Ok," Pinkie declared, "Let's try to say goodbye to people as little as possible."
"Yeah, that was super sad," Spike agreed.
They sat in the train compartment when they heard a mare and a filly talking outside. "I'm telling ya, sis. All the compartments are taken."
They heard a sigh. "Great."
Not wanting to miss an opportunity to make a new friend, Pinkie stuck her head through the door and saw a mare with a stetson and a filly with a simple red bow in her mane. "Hey," she said, causing the two to turn and look at her. "Over here, we have more than enough room for you in here!"
"Why thank ya. Applebloom, say thank ya," the mare said.
"Thank you," Applebloom said.
"I'm Applejack,” the mare continued, “and y'all are?"
"Well, I'm Pinkie Pie and..." Pinkie looked around just now noticing Spike had disappeared, "Well...Spike Pie was in here a second ago.... mind if I borrow your hat for a second Applejack?"
"Mah hat?" Applejack asked confused, "What about your brother?"
"Hat first, answer second."
"A....alright?" Applejack said, giving Pinkie her hat. Pinkie stuck her hoof in Applejack's hat, further in than should be possible.
"Woah!" Applebloom gasped, "How'd you do that!?"
Pinkie, however, didn't answer, just kept shuffling around with her tongue out in concentration until she said, "Ah ha!" and removed her hoof and pulled Spike out of the hat. Applejack fell out of her seat and Applebloom looked amazed, while Spike was now upside down wearing Applejack's hat. "Spike, what were you doing in Applejack's hat?"
"Hat Party," he said simply, taking off the hat and placing it on her head.
"What in the...." Applejack began, looking and sounding confused, "Di– did ya just pull a dragon outta mah hat!?"
"Yup," Pinkie said, "I pulled my brother out of your hat."
"Yer brother's a dragon?" Applebloom questioned in amazement.
"Oh yeah," Pinkie said. "My dad found his egg, and then it hatched on the day I was born, so yeah, we're basically twins," she explained. The Pies and Apples continued in a manner such as this until an hour had passed and they were unpacking their lunch.
"So," Applebloom said, "why don't you have wings?"
"I'm a ground dragon."
"A ground dragon?" Applebloom asked.
"Basically I'm the earth pony equivalent of a dragon"
"And," Pinkie said, "He can speak rock!"
"He what now?" Applejack asked with a raised brow.
"Well it's more like he can hear rocks, but that has nothing to do with being a dragon. Our sister Maud can hear rocks too!"
"I like the sound of your family," Applebloom said as she ate some of the apple pie she and Applejack had brought back with them on their trip to see Aunt and Uncle Orange.
"I like my family too," Pinkie said happily as she and Spike drank from their thermos of rock soup. "What's yours like?"
"Our family are all apple farmers, and are almost everywhere in Equestria." Applejack began, "you see it all started 'bout a hundred years ago....."
For the rest of the trip Spike, Pinkie, and Applebloom listened to Applejack's stories about her family. ".....And that's how the Apples helped Ponyville become what it is today." Applejack finished, just as they rolled into the station. Applejack was about to say goodbye when she noticed the Pies were grabbing their things. "Y'all wouldn't happen to be movin' to Ponyville would ya?"
"We are," Pinkie said happily. "It was so nice to meet you beforehoof. Spike and I will definitely come and get some of your cider when it's cider season," Pinkie said happily as she and Spike got off the train and said goodbye.
"Alright," Spike said as he looked around, "We're supposed to be going to...Sugar Cube Corner.
The newspaper ad said that they have a room available for any pony as long as they can bake."
"And we can bake!" Pinkie said happily as she and Spike made their way downtown, it was easy to get there as everypony ran away from Spike.
♪ “They'll get used to me after a while,” ♪ Spike sang out as they made it to Sugar Cube Corner. When they walked in, the place fell silent. Pinkie went to the mare at the register.
"Hello," Pinkie said happily, "are you Mrs. Cake?"
"Yes indeed!" Mrs. Cake replied happily before noticing the purple dragon, "Is that dragon a....a friend of yours?"
"You could call him that too," Pinkie said happily, then she lifted up the newspaper cut out. "Are we too late to get the job?"
Mrs. Cake looked shocked. "You came to work here?" she asked in surprise. "Can you bake?"
"How about we show you what we can do?" Pinkie offered.
"Sure," a voice behind Pinkie answered. She turned and saw that Spike had been talking to somepony too. "Honey," the stallion Pinkie now identified as Mr. Cake said, "let's see what they can do." Pinkie and Spike both walked into the kitchen and started mixing ingredients. Pinkie grabbed some eggs, Spike the flour, then the milk, and off they went until they had some cake mix. Pinkie poured it into a cake pan.
"That's looking good," Mrs. Cake said as she and Mr. Cake watched.
Spike and Pinkie put the cake in the oven then Pinkie ran back to the Cakes and hurriedly said, "Might wanna look away for a second." The Cakes complied, then there was a blinding flash from behind them. The couple turned and saw Spike take the cake out of the oven with his bare claws, looking like it had finished 30 to 40 minutes of baking time in 5 seconds flat.
"Wow," Mr. and Mrs. Cake gaped in unison.
"One of the perks of being a dragon is that I never need to use an oven," Spike grinned.
Mr. and Mrs. Cake looked at each other. "You're both hired," they answered simultaneously.