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// DIY - Aethraspex 
// Story: May - 2012 (T.W.G.) 
// by The Writer's Group 
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Author: Aethraspex


Prompt: Pinkie Pie goes shopping for party supplies.


Title: DIY




The bell tinkled. That pink earth pony trotted into the shop again.
Trotted... is not quite the right word. It was ever hard to describe what Pinkie did, now as ever.
She was acting strange today- not unusually unusual, but odd nonetheless. She seemed to slide around the shop, taking streamers, candy, colourful hats and the like, and dropped them before the cashier. While she tallied the items, counting products she didn’t realise they stocked, Pinkie gave her a nod.
It was that nod, the one that strictly speaking, never happened.
Whenever the nod that never happened occurs, Pinkie always checked the windows. This time was no exception, except that she seemed exceptionally careful as she peeked pusillanimously past the panes. Justifiably, apparently; merely peering sent her careening over the counter for cover in the cupboard, bringing along every article she now possessed. The slamming of one door barely preceded another’s opening, the cupboard’s shuffling lost under the tinkling of bells.
“Welcome to Piper’s party provision purveyors!” sang Piper the cashier. She clearly declared the same sentence to every mare, stallion or foal who fell through that door. More importantly, she always added “May I help you?”
“Yes, yes you may,” Said the first of the purple-maned unicorns “Have you seen a pink earth pony around here?”
“Do you mean Pinkie Pie? Why yes, I just saw her heading to Sugarcube Corner about fifteen minutes ago,”
“We were just there! Where could she be?”
Piper certainly did not look at the cupboard, instead, Piper shrugged. “It’s useless darling, who knows where Pinkie disappears off to all the time?”
“This is important Rarity! I need to ask her about the thing I found near the well”
“You’re absolutely certain you saw her there?” Twilight stared, saying It’s Pinkie Pie, all in the look. “Point taken.”
Piper certainly did not respond to the expletive she could have imagined hearing from the cupboard behind her, no matter her curiosity. “Pardon me, but could I see this thing you’re talking about” Piper interjected.
Twilight lifted a strange metallic orb from her saddle bag and placed it delicately on the counter. Piper perused the perplexing globe, unable to find a word to describe it. Where lexicon failed, however, memory served true. She had seen some of these parts- like that spiky thing that glowed- on this counter not more than five minutes ago, still fresh in her memory. “Do you have any clue what it is?” inquired Twilight.
“None at all” the cashier lied, making every effort to keep the rattling cupboard out of mind.
“Is something wrong with-” Twilight was cut off. Understandable, considering she suddenly found pink pony hurtling towards her from out of a cupboard amongst a flurry of streamers. Not only that, but the thing on the desk was exploding too, blowing colourful hats straight into everypony’s head. Outside it began to rain candy as all of Ponyville rang with one word from a hidden chorus.
“SURPRISE!!” they screamed, with suspicious similarity to a certain stunned party planner. That statement was redundant- everypony was stunned from Everfree to Sweet Apple Acres.
Then Pinkie, all of a sudden, as the party beats began to play, began to laugh.
“I DID IT!” she giggled “I finally planned my own surprise party!”