First week; Day 3
At the third day of visiting Ponyville, Carrie did another magical lecture with Princess Twilight after breakfast for 2 hours before Pinkie Pie came out from an unknown entry in the Castle. As soon as Carrie went to take out a book to read, Pinkie Pie jumped out of the bookcase, like a Jack-In-The-Box, making both Pinkie and Carrie scream like crazy, surprising the both of them in a heartbeat.
"Sweet Mother of Celestia, where did you come from??" Carrie shrieked after seeing Pinkie break the 4th wall.
"I just want to check up on you to see how you're doing, other than being all gloomy and afraid." Pinkie squeaked in a happy tone, followed by a huge grin. "Say Carrie, do you want to come hang out with me at Sugar Cube Corner? Do you? Do you? Do you?"
"I uh.... Well, I...." Carrie stuttered in a nervous tone.
"It's alright Carrie." Twilight said as she sympathized with the shy unicorn. "Pinkie may have a habit of breaking the fourth wall, as well as surprising and scaring other ponies, but she only does that just for fun. There's a lot of reasons why Pinkie bears the Element of Laughter."
"Come on, Carrie. I know you hated being laughed at." Pinkie Pie said. "But you just got to learn how to have fun with your friends. In fact, I always been through this more than once, even with little fillies. After all, I do my best to make ponies smile and laugh with me, regardless of how sad and gloomy they are."
Before Carrie could say another word, Pinkie grabbed her hoof immediately and went out the Castle doors without giving it another thought. The moment Carrie and Pinkie reached Sugar Cube Corner, Carrie was meet by exploding confetti and balloons flying up to the ceiling. Inside the bakery, Carrie sees all sorts of mares drinking, eating, and laughing with each other. Some were playing all sorts of partying games, ranging from pinning the tail of the donkey to battering the pinata. At first, Carrie thought that she was going to get humiliated again, but Pinkie shoved her to a pinata to have her whack it with a stick while being blindfolded. After a few minutes, Carrie reluctantly used her magic to lift the stick up and whacked the pinata a few times, only for all sorts of candy to spill on the floor, much to the excitement of the little fillies. After doing several more party games with Pinkie Pie, Carrie felt a little more confident in hanging out with exciting events in Sugar Cube Corner.
"I never had so much fun in all my life." Carrie said to herself as she drank a small glass of fruit punch with her magic.
"Like what I said, there's nothing is wrong with laughing when you're happy!!!" Pinkie said as she squealed. "Come on, Carrie, the party is just beginning."
"Thank you, Pinkie Pie." Carrie smiled. "I-I'm not worthy."
After the party hosted at Sugar Cube Corner, Pinkie introduced Carrie to every pony in Ponyville. In just several introductions from the other ponies, Carrie could feel her enthusiasm and her self-confidence slowly building up. Not a moment too soon, Carrie started smiling with Pinkie Pie as they went to the Rock Farm to meet with Pinkie's family.
During the detour, Chris and her gang snuck into the Apple Farm, with the Apple residents taking a vacation at Manehattan for three days. As soon as Chris and her friends entered the area, they ensnared one of the pigs with a huge net and placed a silencing muzzle on its face, reducing the noise that'll attract unwanted attention. The next thing they did was hauling the captured pig onto a wagon before moving out.
"Okay girls, we may need to do this quickly before any pony could see us." Chris ordered her friends. "Billy and his gang will be navigating around Canterlot undercover, trying to gather as much information as possible about the Grand Galloping Gala and who's going to be on guard there."
"Say, Chris, how did it go with Princess Twilight?" Tina asked. "You were feeling totally pale since yesterday, what happened?"
"I'm afraid I have just made things worse between me and her." Chris said, still shivering in fear due to Twilight's warning. "She gave me a bucking restraining order to increase the protection of that dumbass, little bitch Carrie!!! If only I had the courage to kick her flank into next week....."
"Well, don't worry about it, Chris." One of her other unicorn friends spoke. "She maybe an alicorn princess but she'll be outnumbered from five to one."
"Don't forget that Twilight has friends of her own too and that they're not to be underestimated with under any circumstances." Chris informed her friends. "I heard that Applejack's kicking is strong enough to knock down even a tall tree without breaking a sweat, for instance!!!"
"Then, we might as well make sure they don't catch us red-handed!!!" Tina suggested.
After hanging out with Pinkie's family, Carrie felt like that she is able to learn more about Pinkie Pie than what meets the eye. Pinkie invites Carrie to dinner at a nearby restaurant back in Ponyville with Cheese Sandwich. As Carrie sat down in front of the dinner table at the restaurant, a spotlight shines down upon the Pink pony, with her colt-friend Cheese Sandwich helping her out. He is a yellow orange earth pony with dark-brown mane that bears the cutie mark of a cheese sandwich cut in two. Just like Pinkie, Cheese had a habit of putting up parties rivaling to that of the pink pony's party antics.
"My share, Mademoiselle. It is our deepest pride and our greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight." Pinkie Pie announced. "And now, we invited you to relax, let us put up a chair as they dinning room proudly presents, your dinner."
Just when Pinkie begins her song, Carrie feels even more excited to see what kind of parties that Pinkie and her Colt friend Cheese Sandwich has in store for her.
Be our guest,
Be our guest
Put our services to the test
Tie your napkin around neck
And we'll provide the rest
Soup Du jour, hot hors d'oeuvre
Why we only live to serve
Try the grey stuff, it's delicious
Don't believe me, ask the Cakes
They can sing, they can dance
After all, Carrie this is Equestria
And a dinner here, is never second best
Go on and unfold your menu
Take a glance and then you
Be our guest oui, our guest
Be our guest
As Pinkie pulled out the door curtain from her right, several earth ponies pushed in various parts of food up to the dinning table that Carrie is sitting next to. Upon seeing new dishes appear before her, Carrie's eyes widened with surprise and awe before Pinkie continued with her song.
Cream ragoon, Cheese souffle
Apple pie and pudding in flambe'
We prepare and serve with flair
A culinary caberet
Your alone and your scared
But the banquet's all prepared
No pony's glooming or complaining
While Trixie's entertaining
We tell jokes, I do tricks, with my fellow pony friends
As Pinkie sang along, Trixie, Cheese, Lyra, Minuette, Moon Dancer, Lemon Hearts, and Twinkleshine joined in the melody.
And it's all in perfect taste that you can bet
Come on and lift your mug
You won you own free pass to be our guest
If you're stressed, it's fine dinning we suggest
Be our guest, Be our guest, Be our guest
The moment the other ponies, except Pinkie left the area, she continues her song in a temporary, solemn tone.
Life is so unnerving
For a servant who's not serving
She's not whole without a soul to wait upon
Ah, those good old days when we were useful
Suddenly, those good old days are gone
Too long in Twilight's Castle, she's been lonely, needed so much more than reading
Needed exercise, a chance for us to use our skills
Most days, she just lay around in the Castle
Flabby, fat, and lazy
You walked in and oops-a-daisy
Meanwhile at the kitchen, Cheese Sandwich volunteered in helping the waiters and waitresses serve food to the hungry customers. As Cheese preps the food for Carrie, he continues with Pinkie's song.
It's a guest, it's a guest
Sake's alive, I'll be blessed
Cider's been poured thank Celestia
I'll have the napkins freshly pressed
With dessert, she'll want tea
Why my dear, that's fine with me
While the chefs do their soft shoeing,
I'll be frying, I'll be cooking
I get tidy and enthusiastic
Sweet Celestia! Is that a spot?!
Clean it up, we want the company impressed
We've got a lot to do
Is it one lump or two?
For you, our guest (She's our guest)
She's our guest (She's our guest)
During the time Cheese did his part in Pinkie's song, he placed Carrie's dinner, along with a boiling tea kettle, tea cups, and cups filled with sugar and cream onto a moving tray and brought it to Carrie's table. Upon seeing such services respond in less than 10 minutes, Carrie started smiling again, finding the hospitality of Twilight's friends very impressive. Before she knew it, the entire restaurant staff started singing along with Pinkie Pie.
Be Our Guest, Be Our Guest
Our Command Is Your Request
It's Been Years Since We Had Any Pony In Town
And We're Obsessed
With Your Meal, With Your Ease
Yes Indeed, We Aim To Please
While the Candlelight's still glowing
Let us help you, we'll keep going
As the ponies lifted up their candles, Pinkie Pie appears at the end, wearing a top hat on her head and holding a big candy cane with her left hoof, leaning next to it. In the finale, Pinkie finishes off the song with her and Cheese dancing while lifting their canes and their hats up and down.
Course by Course
One by One
'Till you shout, "Enough I'm done"
Then we'll sing you off to sleep as you digest!!!
Tonight, we'll prop your hooves up
But for now, let's eat up
Be Our Guest
Be Our Guest
Be Our Guest
PLEASE........BE........ OUR....... GUEST........
Just when the song ends, ponies started popping up caps from their Apple Cider bottles, with juice squirting out from both left and right at each other. All around Carrie, she sees ponies cheering and laughing for fun, much to Carrie's amazement. Before she knew it, Carrie started clapping with her hooves out of happiness.
"Thank you so much, Pinkie." Carrie said congratulating the pink party pony. "That is the most wonderful party and dinner I've ever had in all my life!!"
"Hehehehehehehe!!!!" Pinkie said while smiling and laughing at the same time. "Oh, it was nothing, Carrie. It's always been my job to make every pony smile and laugh with me. "So, do you want to party some more or do you want to go back to Twilight's Castle and rest up for the next day?"
"I want to hang out with you little more, Pinkie Pie." Carrie requested, showing a weak smile on her face.
"All righty then." Pinkie cheered while taking Care to Sugar Cube Corner again.
Meanwhile back at Twilight's Castle, Princess Twilight received a letter from Princess Celestia that she requests a meeting with her and Sue Snell back at Canterlot. As Twilight and Spike left the Castle and took flight all the way to Canterlot, Chris and Billy emerged from a nearby bush and snuck into the Friendship Castle to perform a heist, right after they butchered and drained the pig of its blood. As for Billy, right after they did some recon on the guards that'll be stationed at the Grand Galloping Gala, Chris called him over help her in her heist. From his experience, Billy is known for his strong lock-picking skills. Just when the two trouble maker ponies made their way up the stairs and into the main foyer, Billy reminded Chris on what they're looking for.
"Um, Chris. What are we looking for again?" Billy asked his female unicorn mare-friend. "You do know that breaking entry into royal property could mean trouble for us, right?!"
"I don't care, Billy!!!" Chris said in anger. "Tina informed me that a few days after Twilight got a Castle of her own in Ponyville, her sister-in-law, Princess Cadence, gave Princess Twilight a magic spell book that once belonged to an evil shadow pony known as King Sombra, who once ruled over the Crystal Empire with an Iron Fist. She wants Twilight to keep that spell book in a safe place deep within her Castle so that no pony would get their hooves on it. It's known as the 'Book of Forbidden Dark Magic.' So if anything goes wrong with our plan to humiliate Carrie White at the Gala, we need a backup plan of our own, starting with that book."
"Where do you think Princess Twilight will stash that spell book into?" Billy asked Chris. "It could be anywhere, hiding from plain sight. We might even get caught stealing or trespassing inside her castle."
"We're just going to have to take our chances then." Chris persisted. "It might be down below somewhere in the Castle's basement because no pony ever ventured anywhere in that creepy area. Instead, it's filled with spiders and cow webs and the hallways down below are barely even lit."
After Chris quietly closed the Castle doors behind her, she and Billy went downstairs leading to the dark bottom level of the Castle. In the dark hallways of the bottom level, Chris lights up her horn, casting a blue-pink light to illuminate the hallway. As they proceeded towards the end of the hallway, the two ponies see as arch, wooden door with two chains wrapped in a cross. When they got closer to the chained up door, Chris sees a metal lock attached to the chains, which is also right next to the door knob. Despite this, Billy took out a bobby pin and a screw driver from his mane and started picking the lock. After several failed attempts, Billy finally unlocked the door.
As soon as the door opened, the chains that were barring it fell to the floor. Beyond the unlocked door, the room happens to be pitch black. However, Chris spots a switch next to the door inside the room. The moment Chris used her magic to flip the switch on, the entire room lit up revealing three bookcases at their left, a paige crystal chandelier hanging right above the ceiling, several podiums on their right, and one podium in the middle of the room. As Chris got closer to the middle podium, she sees the Book of Forbidden Dark Magic. It was a black-thick book with an attached red bookmark on its front page. On the book's cover, it displays a full image of King Sombra. In the image's background, it shows a darker version of the Crystal Empire. Impressed by the book's ominous features, Chris could not help but cackle in a sinister tone. However, just when she used her magic to lift the book up, the alarm started ringing throughout the entire castle.
"Oh Shit!!!" Billy said while startled by the alarming noise. "Chris, we've got to get out of here, NOW!!!"
"I'm on it." Chris said as she stuffed the book inside her duffle bag. "Billy hold my hoof. We're teleporting ourselves out of here!!!"
As three of Twilight's Royal Guards stormed through the dark hallways of the Castle, Chris lit up her horn and conjured a teleportation spell. Before the Royal Guards entered the room that the two ponies are in, Chris and Billy both disappeared immediately. Upon seeing the room completely empty, the guards started to have big question marks above their heads, not even understanding on who pulled off the alarms.
Meanwhile, back at the Everfree Forest, Chris and Billy appeared at the Old Castle of the Two Sisters. With the Book of Forbidden Dark Magic in their hooves, Chris and Billy laughed in a evil tone as they went inside the old Castle to meet up with the rest of their friends.