The first thing that Fluttershy noticed as she started waking up was a sweet aroma. The next thing she noticed was that her head felt heavy, as if she was wearing an oversized helmet. She opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was... a pie. Judging from the aroma, it was a raspberry pie. Fluttershy lifted her head and, to her surprise, the pie moved with her. It was right in front of her, held right below chin-level by some kind of metal contraption. Fluttershy then realized the contraption holding the pie was also on her head, which explained why her head felt so heavy.
Fluttershy, realizing she was sitting in a steel chair, tried to move only to find that her hands were tied behind her back. She looked back to see a metal pole directly behind the chair. Her arms were between the opening behind the chair, tied behind the pole with rope. Now, she was scared.
She nervously looked around the room, which was dimly lit by a a few light bulbs dangling from the ceiling, and saw that the floor was covered by what appeared to be a bunch of keys, but nothing else. "H-Hello?" She called out. "Is... Is anyone there?"
Suddenly, a TV screen flashed to life on the wall directly in front of her. What appeared on screen was a puppet that resembled a cute pink pony with a red bow tie. "Hello, Fluttershy." It said to her.
Fluttershy jumped in her seat when she heard the voice. Hearing a voice so... demonic-sounding come from such a cute puppet horrified the poor girl.
"I want to play game." The puppet said sinisterly. "The device on your head is what I like to call the Pie Mask. One half of the mask is around your head while the other half holds a pie. In five minutes, starting from when this message ends, the mask will connect and you will receive a pie to the face. However, on the back of the mask, there is a lock that will allow you to take it off. The key to it is hidden in the room."
Fluttershy looked across the room at the hundreds of keys and started crying, really not wanting to be pied in the face; not in such a scary, pressure-inducing way.
"Don't worry, Fluttershy." The puppet continued. "I'll give you a hint: The key is not where you would expect it to be."
"Wh-Who are you? Wh-Why are you doing this?"
She could have sworn the puppet giggled. "It's a surpriiiise."
Fluttershy's eyes widened. "Pinkie?"
"Let the games begin. Good luck."
"Wait! I-I can't even get out of this chair!" Fluttershy pleaded.
"Oh, don't worry. It's a loose knot. You can wiggle your hands out." The screen changed to 5:00... 4:59... 4:58... 4:57...
In a panic, Fluttershy quickly wiggled her hand free and got up, rubbing her wrists as she looked across the floor that was littered with keys. With sweat running down her face and her heart beating so hard it made her ribs hurt, she started picking up keys at random, hoping and praying one would work. A small part of her knew she was overreacting and that a pie wouldn't hurt her, but the situation at hand made it scary and causing her to think irrationally.
With shaky hands, she fit key after key into the lock; none of them saving her from her fate.
3:12... 3:11... 3:10...
Fluttershy realized that she wasn't getting anywhere. "Okay... Okay... Calm down, Fluttershy. You can do this! Now, what did Pinkie say?"
I'll give you a hint: The key is not where you would expect it to be.
That's when it hit Fluttershy. "It's not any of the keys on the floor. But then... where is it?" In desperation, Fluttershy searched the walls of the room for a key, thinking one may be hidden in the walls.
1:25... 1:24... 1:23...
Fluttershy looked through each wall and corner and found nothing. She even checked the screen and noticed a door opposite from where she had been sitting. She tried opening it, but to no avail. She was getting more and more anxious, forcing herself to not look at the timer. She gulped and scanned the room. The only other thing there, aside from herself and the keys, was... the chair.
0:27... 0:26... 0:25...
Fluttershy ran to the chair and crouched down to look under it. Low and behold, there was a key taped to the bottom on the chair. She picked away at the tape and got the key.
0:11... 0:10... 0:09...
Fluttershy brought the key to the lock behind her head, but her hands were shaking too much to get it in. She steeled herself as best as she could and managed to get the key in. She heard a click and felt the mask loosing. In a flash, she pulled off the device and threw it on the ground just as it closed.
She sighed with relief and put her hands on her knees. She took several deep breaths before the screen changed from 0:00 to the puppet again.
"Wow! That was a really really close one! Ahem. Please proceed to the next room."
The door automatically opened to another room.
Fluttershy stood in silence for a moment before sighing and walking into the next room. "Maybe that was the only bad thing..." She let out an 'eep' as the door shut and locked behind her. "...Though I doubt it."