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// The Bad Luck Cafe [Comedy] 
// Story: Salvaged from the Cutting Room Floor 
// by wishcometrue 
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Pinkie Pie bounced happily through the deserted parking lot towards a building that looked like a horrifying cross between an old diner and a run down motel. Sunset and the others stood by the bus, eying it warily.

Halfway through the parking lot, Pinkie stopped and turned around. “What are you doing just standing there, girls? C’mon!”

The rest of the Rainbooms trudged onwards, as if walking towards the gallows.

“Honestly, ‘The Bad Luck Cafe’? Why on Earth would Pinkie want to stop here?” Rarity complained.

Sunset rolled her hand through the air. “Well, she said something about it being an ironic name.” She grimaced. “I’m starting to think she was wrong about that.”

“It doesn’t matter whether she was wrong or right, fact is, we don’t really have any other options at this point.” Applejack tilted her hat up and gestured at the barren desert around them, interrupted only by this building and a poorly maintained two-lane highway. “Nearest hotel is miles away whether we backtrack or not, and I don’t think any of us are up for more driving tonight.”

Sunset forced a smile onto her face as the others groaned and sighed. “C’mon, girls, maybe it won’t be so bad.”





"You're lucky I love you, Pinkie." Sunset groaned, her head bouncing against the window of the bus.

Pinkie smiled nervously at Sunset, who still looked a little green. Outside the back window, The Bad Luck Cafe was in flames, and at the front Rainbow Dash was gunning the bus away away from it.

"Okay, so the name was a liiiittle more literal than I thought it would be."

Sunset glared at her. "A little? A little? They served all of you things you hate, and then they gave me horse meat!" Flames flickered on Sunset's hands briefly. "That place is cursed and they're lucky I only burnt it down."

Pinkie rubbed her back and whispered soothing nothings into her ear, watching her girlfriend untense and relax. "It's okay, Sunny Bunny, the next place I booked looks way better."

A collective cry of "No!" rang out through the bus.

"Whaaat, I was just gonna say I booked some rooms at the Mareiott!" Pinkie Pie frowned and muttered, "I didn't even say that loud enough for everyone to hear."

The girls all groaned and sank into their seats a little further.