//------------------------------// // The Cleanup // Story: Pinkie Pie Goes on a Diet // by Jam Rocker //------------------------------// "Pinkie Pie... Tell us where it is," Twilight said, pointing the lamp against the pink mare. They were in her bedroom, and Pinkie Pie had been tied to her bedroom chair. With the whole room dark, except for the lamp pointed towards her, Pinkie started to sweat. "I... I-I don't know what you're talking about!" "All yah have tah do is talk, sugarcube," Applejack said, "And we'll let yah go." "I don't believe you! I... I... Don't know! Please! Make it stop, make it stop!" Pinkie Pie's eyes started to water. Rainbow Dash banged the bedroom table and moved herself up to Pinkie's face. The pink mare eep'd. "Tell us where you hid it, or I will END you!" Pinkie Pie began to cry. "Okay, okay! It's in the attic on top of my ceiling, okay!? Please, DON'T TAKE MY BABIES!" They turned on the lights and Rainbow Dash went to the square compartment on top of the ceiling. "Okay, good." Twilight said. She looked at the square compartment that Rainbow Dash was trying to open, then looked at Applejack. "How did we not notice tha-" Twilight was interrupted by the giant pile of candy that attacked her from above. Twilight screamed as hundreds and hundreds of candies fell out from the attic, and after ten seconds of falling candy, it finally stopped. Twilight got out from under the sea of candy, dazed from the fall. "Well, we found your three-year, Nightmare Night candy stash... We can check that off the list." "Hey guys," Applejack screamed from upstairs. "We found ih't." The Cakes, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Spike went up to Pinkie's room to find the hundreds of candies piled up in the middle of the room. "Wow," Rarity said, looking at the candy. "Have we decided what to do with all this candy?" "I know what you guys can do!" Pinkie said enthusiastically, bouncing the chair that she was tied to. "You guys can put it in my mouth! It'll all be gone in seconds with no worries at all!" "How about," Mrs.Cake said, putting her blue hoof on her face, thinking. "We all just split the candy for ourselves?" "NO! NOOOO! Please, this is my life's work!" Mr.Cake ignored the outburst from Pinkie. "I don't think we'll be able to finish it. How about we sell it at the bakery?" "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-" Applejack talked through the screaming of the party mare. "That wouldn't seem too fair..." "Yes! Applejack is right! Please!" "How bout, instead, we give it tah the foals of Ponyville!" "NO! BIG NO! ABORT MISSION, ABORT MISSION!" "I've got a better idea, if that's okay..." Fluttershy began to talk in the conversation. "Maybe we should give it to charity! Or to the orphan ponies." "HDOSHOHASOAUJSOIUWIEUOIUDOIUSSDOIHOIHDSDOIHDOSIHDWDW-" The rainbow-maned pegasus grunted. "Even if this is bad for her, it's still her candy! Just taking it from her wouldn't be too cool..." "Exactly! Thank you Dashie!" "So we should give half the candy to the orphan ponies, and hide the rest of the candy until she is done with this whole thing." "NOOO! AHHHHHH- mph!" Pinkie Pie's face was covered by a levitated pillow, and Twilight smiled. "That's a great idea! But instead, let's just give her the quarter of the candy, and then after a couple months just give her it back to her slowly, week by week!" Everyone agreed with the idea they made except for Pinkie, who had been screaming her head off on the pillow. "What a fabulous solution!" Rarity began to walk out the door. "I have some neighbors who can help with this mess. I'll be back in a snap! Spike, come come." After Spike and Rarity left the room, Twilight continued with her plan. "Okay you guys! All we have to do now is clean Pinkie's room of any candy or form of sweets!... Do you guys hear that munching sound?" Everyone went silent as they all heard the sound of crunching and slurping. Twilight looked around, then back to the Pinkie Pie with the pillow to her face. As she took the pillow away from the pink pony's face, they all gasped. "Pinkie! Is there candy in your pillow!?" "Mwahahahah! You fell into my trap!" Pinkie continued to eat the candy that was already in her mouth, and all of her friends in the room facehoofed. "Okay... Let's start our search! And let's make sure we look hard, so then this doesn't happen again." Twilight levitated the broken pillow and threw it to the pile of sweets. They all began to search around the room, while Pinkie Pie sat nervously on the chair she was still tied to. "Found the three mini-fridges in her bathroom!" Mr.Cake yelled. "We have candy, cupcakes, sugar, and... Are these chocolate bunnies?" Fluttershy gasped when she heard what was in Pinkie's fridge. "They aren't real! I swear!" Pinkie said. Twilight looked through Pinkie's bed. "Wow, there are candies all over the creases of the mattress." Twilight looked under the bed and gasped in the confusion. "What the..." She magically lifted the bed, and found the whole corner covered with candy. "Pinkie! What is this?" "I ran out of space in the attic, okay? Don't take them, please!" Pinkie began to pucker her lips again, tears forming in her eyes. Twilight threw them to the candy pile. Applejack, from across the room, started throwing assorted sweets to the hoard of candy. "There's candy in the desks, drawers, the closet... Heck, ah even found candy in her piggy bank!" "I found candy in her shampoo bottles..." Mrs.Cake started to mutter as she looked closer to them. "What the... I don't even..." She threw the shampoo bottles to the middle of the room, "I tried to see if candy shampoo was healthy for your hair, okay?" Pinkie said while chewing something in her mouth. "And just so you know, it was working!" Twilight became aware that Pinkie was eating, and slowly turned back to her. "Pinkie... What are you eating...?" "Hmm?" "What. Are. You. Eating...?" "Nothing..." Pinkie slowly swallowed before continuing her answer. "I'm not eating anything." Twilight stared at her for a moment before she turned back around. "Oh... Okay... I was just going to ask if you could share some of that candy. I'm a little hungry." "Oh! If you really wanted some, I have a couple more in my mane! What kind do you like?" "AHA! So you DO have candy?" Twilight ran towards Pinkie and began to look through the pink, messy jungle that many called "Pinkie's Mane". Twilight was in shock to find what she was looking for. "Why do you have candy in your mane?" "...It was from the candy shampoo..." "...Shake." "What?" "Shake. Shake your head." "But I don't want to...." "Do it, Pinkie." "NO." Twilight sighed, and looked down to the floor. "I didn't think I'd have to do this... Fluttershy, give Pinkie," Twilight shuddered before saying the last two words. "...The stare." Pinkie gasped, now trying to escape the bounds on her chair. "Is there any other way?" Fluttershy asked, also worried of Pinkie's health. "Maybe we can-" "No, Fluttershy. Just do it." Fluttershy sighed. "Okay..." Pinkie tried to look at anything but Fluttershy, but the yellow mare kept advancing toward her until their eyes met contact. Pinkie finally gave in to the staring, and was now looking straight into the eyes with fear. "Pinkie Pie, give us the candy." "Noo...?" "Give. It. Now." After ten seconds of intense staring, hypnotized Pinkie finally shook her head. Dozens of candies began to fall across the floor, and Twilight was both in shock and relieved to find the candy before Pinkie ate them. "Wow... How does that even work?" Rainbow Dash was about to check on the other side of the room until a floor board creaked under her hoof. She pressed on it again, and after concluding it was loose, looked under it. "WHAT THE BUCK!? Pinkie, is there candy under the floorboards!?" After finding candy in Pinkie's bed, desk, bathroom, drawers, closets, hair, and floorboards, the whole group managed to double the original pile in size (and create a river out of Pinkie's tears). Rarity, Spike, and other stallions came back and began to haul the candy away from the room. "Thank you again for taking care of that candy mountain, Charlie." Rarity winked at the white stallion, and he began to blush. "It was no problem at all, Ms.Rarity. Well, it's almost the end of the day, so me and my friends better be getting home." The stallions walked out of the room and Twilight sighed as she laid down on the bed. "Okay, so we found all the candy, triple checked that we found all of it, got it hauled away, made sure that three-fourths of it went to the Orphan Pony Foundation and the last quarter of it got hidden, and added the new alarm to Pinkie's door... Did we make sure all the candy and sweets for the bakery were locked away?" The Cakes nodded in agreement, and Twilight smiled. "Finally! We're done... I guess all that's left is to untie Pinkie." They all looked and saw her head down to her chest. Throughout the time they had been cleaning her room, they had to put three more strands of ropes to her original tie, due to her trying to bite her way out. Twilight untied all the ropes with her magic and Pinkie still sat on the chair, her head still down. They all just stared at her until Twilight finally spoke up. "Umm... Pinkie? You can get off the chair now..." The pink mare fell to the floor, and her hair deflated as her shoulders hit the ground. She buried her face to the floorboards so her friends wouldn't need to see her. "Okay Pinkie, we set an alarm to your door so we would know if you try to sneak out. We also told most of the ponies of Ponyville about your diet, so don't try to get candy from them. You officially have two months until your diet is done, and we'll give you a piece of candy as a reward if you keep at your diet for the whole week. We believe that you can do this, Pinkie." Pinkie muffled something from the floor, and the whole group looked at each other with confusion. "Umm... What was that, Pinkie?" The mare on the floor lifted her head slightly, and began to speak. "You're all dead to me," Pinkie said, scaring her friends due to her voice being darker and lower than usual. Fluttershy's mouth was wide open in terror. "...Okay. Well," Twilight slowly levitated Pinkie to her bed. "Um... Goodnight Pinkie Pie. We left a daffodil sandwich on your desk in case you were hungry. We'll see you tomorrow." Everyone greeted the pink mare a good night as she turned herself to the opposite direction of them and started to silently cry. They closed her door and all went downstairs. Rainbow Dash sighed as she slumped herself on one of the chairs. "Oh Celestia, today was tiring..." "Do you guys think she'll make it?" Fluttershy said, still a little scared from Pinkie's remark. "I shure hope she can, we've gone too far tah change ar' minds..." Applejack took off her stetson and joined Rainbow on another chair. "All we can do now is encourage her and hope for the best. Do you guys remember where we put the candy?" Twilight asked. Everyone replied with a "yup" and the purple pony nodded. "Then we're okay for now. I don't know about you guys, but I'm exhausted." Twilight levitated a sleeping dragon to her back and began to head for the door. "Goodnight everypony." They all said goodnight and went home. "Mmmmm.... Candy.... Candy......" Pinkie Pie sat up from her bed. Please excuse my horrible writing. I didn't think this story would get so much likes, and I have no idea where this is going.... Actually, I'm starting to get an idea about where this might be going. Stay tuned for the next chapter.