On the second floor on Sugarcube Corner, a pink mare was passing from one side of the room to the other meanwhile a toothless alligator just stared at nothing.
“Summer party? No they probably will hate the heat, sun party? No that’s pretty much the same, beach party? No, Ponyville doesn’t even has a beach, what is it gummy? You think the lake can count as a beach party? HAHAHA don’t be silly-willy, that would be a lake party and I already made one of those for Prince Rutherford,” Pinkie threw her arms into the air and let herself fall on her back on top of the bed next to gummy, “come on Gummy, yaks are so hard to please and so far they have loved every single one of my parties, but I think I ran out of ideas for parties they would like,”
Gummy as always stared at her master, eyes as empty and at the same time as full as the universe entire, his goal is a mystery, his dreams an enigma, his thoughts are a riddle impossible to crack and at the same time his mere existence was as simple as the wind blowing and the rain falling. What would such a complex creature think of the conundrum her handler had gotten herself into, what would an alligator do to make the mare that feeds him, plays with him and gives him hugs and kisses happy again? Simple, he just blinked.
“Oh Gummy you are one hundred percent right, they won’t come until next week so I still have plenty of time to think of a-”Pinkie put on her yak helmet and imitated their tone”-PERFECT THEMED PARTY hihihihi,” she laughed at her own antics meanwhile Gummy kept staring and licked his eyeball, “You are right Gummy, I should ask my friends, they might be able to give me an idea for the theme of the party.” Pinkie kissed Gummy and then ran outside looking for her friends.
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“So pretty much I used every idea for parties that won’t upset the yaks, I was wondering if you have any ideas I could use Dashie” Pinkie was riding her cyclocopter thingy while following Rainbow Dash who was clearing some wild clouds from the Everfree Forest.
“Sorry Pinks but I’m a bit busy with this renegade clouds, we need to clear them before night fall, why don’t you ask Rarity? I bet she is at the spa right now.”
“Okie-dokie-lokie, see ya Dashie!” Pinkie left looking for Twilight at the School of friendship.
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“Well Ah’ll be, you were right sugarcube, this here mud bath is exactly what Ah needed,” Applejack sighed while she went deeper on the mud, both had towels on their manes and cucumber slices on their eyes, they were both in the same bathtub in front of each other.
“I know darling, I told you should have let me bring you here for a mud bath a long time ago, now relax and let your worries be spirited away by the magic of the mud, but tell me already, has everypony settled in your house, now that Sugar Belle started living there?”
“Well you know Sugar Belle, bless her heart, is a nice mare and all, but she ain’t much help when it comes to bucking apples, but Ah reckon she is really useful in everything else and she bakes even better than Granny Smith um… please don’t tell her Ah said that.
“Don’t worry darling, my lips are sealed I promise I’ll keep that secret-” Rarity was suddenly interrupted by Pinkie who came out of the mud between them saying.
“FOREVER!”
“AAAAAAH” both Rarity and Applejack screamed at the same time, making their towels fall and the cucumber slices pop from their eyes.
“Oh hi RariJack, I was wondering if you could help me out of a pickle,” Pinkie said while shaking her head to get rid of the mud from her face.
“Pinkie! You are going to give me grey hair if you keep popping out of nowhere! And how many times have we told you not to call us that, is embarrassing,” Rarity quickly reprimanded Pinkie breathing heavily with a hoof on her chest.
“Still 26 from Applejack and now 51 from you, well you can’t blame me if I find you together constantly,” Pinkie said while nudging Rarity with her elbow.
“Let her be sugarcube, you ain’t changing this mare’s mind, Ah swear Pinkie is as stubborn as a mule um… no offense,” Applejack directed herself to the mud bath next to theirs.
“None taken” said Rolando the mule, relaxing on his own mud bath.
“Uh-huh, so darling, you were going to ask us for help?”
“Oh yeah, Prince Rutherford is coming next week, but I used all my arsenal of themed parties that yaks could like, so I was going to ask if you have any ideas.”
“Why don’t you just repeat a theme?” replied Applejack getting comfy again.
“Are you kidding me? That would be the end of Ponyville as we know it, the yaks would hate to repeat the theme and they will revolt and cause chaos in all of Equestria! Remember the first time they came? They declared war just because the party wasn’t perfect!” Pinkie screamed on Applejack’s face while flapping her arms.
“Oh come on Pinkie Pie, we’ve known Prince Rutherford for quite a while now, I really don’t think they would go that far now that we are friends, am I not correct darling?” Rarity asked Applejack who nodded approvingly.
“Yeah, you are right, but I REALLY want to make a new theme for their party,”
“How ‘bout you ask Twilight? Ah reckon she always knows what t’do,”
“Ooooh you are right, I’ll go right away, bye RariJack!” and so she dove in the mud and disappeared just like she appeared earlier.
“Pinkie don’t… oh whatever, I’ll let her be, so you were saying about Sugar Belle and Big Mac, darling? And please do tell all the juicy details,” Rarity sat next to Applejack who sighed and told her friend everything as she knew Rarity wouldn’t stop until she tells her.
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Two mares walked through the halls of the School of Friendship, they were going directly to the headmare’s office.
“Well here we go, Twilight’s office and I’m sorry I couldn’t help you but I’m terrible at preparing parties, just ask Maud or Trixie, gotta go I need to do some stuff on my own office before we go listen to a song at the castle,” Starlight waved goodbye Pinkie as she knocked at Twilight’s door without any answer.
“Twi-Twi are you there?” Pinkie finally opened the door and the sight she saw would be burn on her brain for the rest of her life, she saw Twilight with her headphones on and dancing like a maniac with her eyes closed, Pinkie stood there just watching Twilight dancing like her life depended on it until Twilight opened her eyes and froze at the sight of Pinkie watching her, she finally moved but lose her equilibrium and fell disconnecting the headset and now the world could hear what song she was listening to.
♪♫So baby that’s how you make me feel, you make my hooves tremble and my knees kneel♫♪
Twilight quickly turned the radio off now faced Pinkie but with her mane covering her eyes, “You saw that?”
“Nope, I didn’t see you dancing to your favorite boys band,” Pinkie replied grinning and slightly blushing.
“Good… wait… awww come on,”
“Hey what’s wrong Twilight, didn’t you say last week” Pinkie fixed her mane to look like Twilight’s “what was it… oh yeah ‘you never grow too old to enjoy the things you love’ or something like that?”
“Ok, ok, I'm a little bit hypocritical about that, but is not that I’m ashamed, is just that I’ve kept it secret for a long time ago and now it feels awkward to just say ‘hey look at me, I love boy bands and I even have a lot of their merchandise including some body pillows’ you can’t just say that out of the blue”
“Wait, do you have body pillows Twi-Twi?”
“Oh boy ok, please just promise that you won’t tell the others until I’m ready to tell them myself,” Twilight begged.
“Okie-dokie-lokie I pinkie-promise,” Pinkie did all the motions for the oath, giving Twilight the relief she was looking for.
“Anyway, what brings you here Pinkie, we are not supposed to get together until another half an hour,”
“Um… oh yea, Prince Rutherford is coming next week and I’m out of ideas for the party theme, can you help me?” Pinkie put on her puppy eyes grabbing Twilight by the neck.
“Oh, well if I’m not mistaken, most of the yak festivities revolve around smashing things, music or both, according to Yona.” Twilight remembered what she talked with Yona a few weeks ago.
“Well I can get things to smash and the music as well, but one thing is missing, something to give the party it's spirit,”
“I'm sure you will find something, hey since it’s almost time to listen to the song, do you want to walk together to the castle? I need to pick up Starlight as well,”
“No problemo, let’s go.” and both walked out of the office to pick up Starlight and go to the castle.
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Everyone was gathered on Twilight’s studio to listen to another song, Twilight as always prepared her equipment and the others were chatting about their day, Pinkie mostly was asking for ideas for the yak party, once Twilight was done with the preparations they pulled straws again to decide who will press the button now,
“YAY IT’S ME, IT’S ME!!” Pinkie screamed leaving everyone else deaf for a few seconds, “do you know what this means?” Pinkie grabbed Twilight and started shaking her.
“That, we will probably need an appointment with the otolaryngologist?” Twilight said while holding her ears.
“NoooOOooooo, it means that this song will give me an idea for the party!” Pinkie was excited with the prospect of getting help from the music box.
“How can you be so sure of that Pinks?” Rainbow asked her pink friend.
“Oh, well that’s the formula the author has been using these past chapters, so he is going to do the same with this one, aren’t you Mr. Author?” Pinkie was looking at the wall while making a face that could give even Cranky Doodle diabetes, her friends were starting to worry since there was no one ther- “Oh come on, don’t give me that crap you second-rate writer! I need your help and you need this chapter to be at least good enough for the readers to keep reading your story, soooo why don’t you help me and I’ll help you and everyone goes home with their kneecaps intact, capisce?” -e… Pinkie seemed to be waiting for an answer and for some reason she was sure that the answer to her question would be yes, satisfied she let out a sigh, “good, where was I? Oh yeah the music box,” Pinkie pressed the button and a sad and lonely song started kjhfgdvkjndfsjhed an upbeat and candid tune started playing.
“Oh this is good, I like it,” Pinkie said, hopefully satisfied with this song “we’ll see.”
“What is a Moscow, Twilight?” Rainbow asked which Twilight scratched her jaw.
“I‘m not sure, but by the song’s description, it must be a place… a cold place.”
“Like Yakyakistan, well maybe you were right Pinkie,” Rainbow nudged Pinkie on the side.
“So it seems that this Moscow is a rather cold place, but that it has its charm, that sound lovely, darling,”
“What could be a Cossack or a Natasha?” Starlight asked herself.
“They’re probably names, sugarcube and it seems they’re toastin’, they are probably having a party of some sort,”
“Oh my, why would they throw their glasses to wall?” Fluttershy said confused at the disregard for the well being of the tableware.
“They remind me of the yaks, ready to smash stuff,” Pinkie was really entertained by the song “wait a minute, weren’t they talking about Moscow? What is this Russia?”
“Maybe they are the same place, but with a different name, or maybe one is a town and the other a city, or something like that,” Starlight explained Pinkie, “for example, we are on Ponyville but at the same time we are on Equestria. But what could possibly be the Devil? Another name? And what does it mean for it to be loose? Is it like a beast or something?”
“Caviar? eww , do they seriously eat that disgusting stuff in there?” Rainbow made gagging noises at the mention of that dish.
“But Rainbow, darling, I thought you liked seafood, that is quite a delicacy and is from the sea.”
“Yeah but that’s fish eggs, I mean I like chicken eggs but fish eggs are so small and slimy, at least they have vodka on that planet. Hey, it's been a while since we went out drinking, we should totally go one of these days,” Rainbow suggested flying directly to Spike, holding him and laughing a little bit “don’t you agreed Spike?”.
“You know I’m still too young to drink Dash” Spike complained struggling to get free from Rainbow’s grasp “You do the same joke every time you girls go to drinking,” he said annoyed.
“And it’s always funny, but seriously, it’s really been a while and cider season isn’t even close,” Rainbow let go of Spike and sit down.
At that moment Pinkie had a brilliant idea “It was about time, I mean THAT’S IT!” she said surprising everyone in the room.
“What is it Pinkie?” Fluttershy asked, startled by her friend’s sudden outburst.
“I’ll make the yaks a drinking party and you are all invited too!”
“Surely you can’t be serious darling, a drunk Yak sounds too dangerous,”
“I am serious and don’t call me Shirley,” Pinkie said rushing out of the room.
“This is going to be… interesting,” Starlight said giggling.
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“Ok, Yak ate raw egg already, what does Pink Pony call this?” Prince Rutherford asked while holding a glass of a colorless liquid.
“Oh this is Vodka, it’s gooood” Pinkie said while chugging her glass in one gulp, Prince Rutherford drank his glass.
“This is good drink,” he said and threw the glass at the wall, “ANOTHER!” Pinkie served the prince another drink and he did the same thing, everyone else was starting to freak out watching the yaks chug drink after drink.
Who would have thought that dunk yaks were actually calm yaks, a couple of hours later, all the snacks were gone and most of the vodka as well, most of the yak were unconscious, Fluttershy was singing on the stage, something about misbehaving, Twilight was sleeping under the table holding a bottle like a baby bottle, Rarity and Applejack left a few minutes ago, hopefully they arrived at the boutique before one of them falls unconscious, a yak was hitting on Starlight and Trixie, the former arrived at the party at some point, they were having none of that though, luckily the yak fell asleep right at that moment, Rainbow was making out with a broom, finally Pinkie was talking with Prince Rutherford.
“Pink pony, *hiccup* yak needs to make a confession~” the prince told Pinkie Pie who just turned “yak might not be best at everything,” Pinkie stared with a small smile, she was too drunk to respond to any of that or to even know what was going on, “yak not best at everything *burp* and yak know they are note best, we strong *hiccup* and we make good music, but yak really like Pink Pony parties, this party the best party Pink Pony ever made,” Pinkie kept staring actually sleeping with her eyes open, “I like Pink Pony, she is good listener, Pink Pony important for yak, and important for yak prince, so Pink Pony would like to be yak princess?” Pinkie’s hoof finally gave up and let her head fall on the table, Prince Rutherford thought of it like a nod, “ok, it’s decided, Pink Pony is now yak princess, yak prince’s wife!” with that Prince Rutherford finally succumbed to his drunkenness and fell asleep, everyone spend the rest of the night at the castle and everything was alright.
To be continued