Harmonic Shuffle

by pasieka17


Orange

One would often wonder how is it possible to ride a sky bike, talk to your friend and celebrate friday by playing your one-pony-band set all at once, but hey, it's Pikie we're talking about, don't you remember?

"You see, Spike, my silly assistant", Pinkie said to the baby dragon, "Ponyville is a great, great, great chance for us to have a new start! To meet new ponies! To find love! And, as the Princess's emmisaries we'll surely live like kings! Or queens. Wait, that doesn't make sense. Why in Celestia's name isn't Celestia a queen?" Pinkie Pie stopped pedaling and the sky bike slowed down.

Spike cocked his eyebrow. "Do you honestly think I will find love down there?"

"Oh, why, yes! I wouldn't be that surprised if you fell in love at the first sight with somepony! Maybe even today!" Pinkie frowned. "Well, but I guess that unless both your voice and testicles are low enough, you don't have a chance for nothing more that increasing frustration and unfullfillement in your love life."

"Thanks, Pinkie. You never fail to cheer me up." Spike mumbled and looked down. "Looks like we are close."

The village of Ponyville was underwhelming to say the least. It appeared that the most interesting place in the town was the library, in front of which laid a huge pile of Pinkies luggage and devices. A small crowd of ponies of all sorts surrounded it.

"Ah, excellent!" Shouted Pinkie. "Look Spike, our first targets!" The party mare winked at her scaley minion. They were almost right above the library, few hundred hoofs high.

"I'm not sure, Pinkie... well, just try not to harm anypony." Spike sighed. "I hope I won't have to fix that bike again."

"LIGHTS!?!" Pinkie shouted.

"It's noon, Pinkie."

"CAMERA!?!"

"I don't know what camera is, Pinkie."

"MUSIC!?!"

"Well, you're wearing this instrument set since we took off."

"FUN FROM ABOVE!!!" Pinkie yelled, took the harmonica in her mouth and the sky bike piked down.

*

The ponies gathered around the library were inspecting Pinkies luggage and machinery when they heard loud polka sounds from above their heads.

"Is it a bird?" An orange filly pegasus asked, raising her head.

"Is it a human?" An aquamarine unicorn squinted her eyes, looking at the pink comet falling down from the sky.

"Is it a what?" The rest of ponies asked the unicorn in unison.

"Is it a muffin?" A grey pegasus asked, pointing at the muffin lying in front of her.

"Is it friday?" Asked a sleepy pony still in her nightcap, leaning out of the window of the house near the library.


THWOOOOM!!! Something that looked like a love-child of a bike and a helicopter crashed almost right in the middle of the crowd, causing a mushroom cloud of confetti, baloons and streamers.

"Is... is anypony hurt?" An orange mare with three apples on her flank searched the wreckage, but it looked like there was nopony there.

"Up here!"

The ponies raised their heads again and saw a pink pony holding a baby dragon falling down on a parachute. They landed right on top of the twisted metal along with the confetti rain.

"Ehrm, 'scuse me?" The orange mare asked. "Name's Applejack. Who are you?"

"Oh, I'm so glad you asked!!!"

*

"Well, that's very nice", said Applejack after the song finished, "But what exactly are you doing here?"

"We have special orders from Princess Celestia herself! We must find a uni-mbwwmbwwmm wbbighbw..." Pinkie gagged Spike's mouth with her hoof, so he just rolled his eyes and stopped speaking.

"Yes, Applejack, I have special orders from Princess to make as many friends as possible and to prepare the Summer Sun Celebration!"

"Well, I'm more than okay with this." Applejack said. "The Sumsuncels are usually kinda boring, f'you ask me..."

"... and that's exactly why Pinkie Pie, the Party Pony Extraordinaire is here!" Pinkie exclaimed. "So, Applejack, can you give some little hints where do I start?"

Applejack thought for a while. "Well... last year the food was quite awful and there wasn't that much of it... so you should probably check Sweet Apple Acres and make sure it won't happen again." She looked at the clouded sky. "Yeah, the weater sucks as always, so you'd better get the weather supervisor to work... oh, and don't forget about decorations and music!"

"Decorations... music! Got it! Anything else?" Pinkie made a checklist on the backside of Celestia's letter.

"Well... if you're askin'..."

"What is it, Applejack?"

"A little before-and-after party would be appropriate. The official celebrations are always such a pain, with mayor talkin' and me sleepin', if you know what I mean. We aren't even allowed to have a drink there! Or even a little bit of gambling. Or even call-studs!" Applejack raised her hooves to the sky.

"The horror!" Some indistinguishible voice cried in the background.

"Oh, I completely get it! We'll make our own party! With blackjack! And hookers! And I, Pinkie Pie, hereby anoint you as my Party Plenipotentiary!" Pinkie put her forehoof on Applejack's hat. "When I'll be handling the official Summer Sun Celebrations, you'll invite everypony to the library for the most epic homemade party ever! Now, do you know any respectable beverage suppliers in Ponyville?"

"As a matter of fact, ma'am", Applejack blushed a little, "Ah got it completely covered. The Applejack's Swig is one of the finest businesses in town."

"I see!" Pinkie smiled. "That is most relevant to our interests." Pinkie hoofed Applejack a set of keys and a thin book. " Here are the keys to the library and the manual for my Party Cannon. Okay Spike, let's go!" she shouted and ran into random direction.

"Pinkie wait! You don't even know where are you going!" Spike yelled, but the pink mare was already too far to hear him.

Spike turned around. "Now, miss Applejack, as a matter of fact we are looking for a unicorn named Twi-" He broke off in mid-sentence, as the orange mare was already gone too. He sighed and started going wherever Pinkie ran.