The day of the trial had come, Pinkie and Carrot were outside of the building moments before the court was scheduled to begin.
Carrot took a deep breath. "I hope we come out on top..."
Pinkie fixed his hair a little and put her hooves on the side of his face in assurance, not touching the bandages from the blow a few days ago. She smiled and her smile made Carrot forget all of his worries.
They both entered the building and quickly found the court hall where on one side of the isle were their friends and customers that had seen Cup Cake's true nature. The other side of the isle had only three ponies as Cup Cake's character witnesses.
Pinkie took her seat next to Cherilee and began to chat lightly.
Carrot continued to the front and sat down at a desk with his civil attorney.
The guard next to the stand where the judge sat saw the judge come in. "All stand."
All of the ponies in the room stood up as the judge made his way to his elevated seat.
"Please be seated." The guard said as the judge sat.
The judge looked over the two ponies before him and surprisingly saw his daughter. "Why are we here?"
Carrot's attorney stood up and spoke clearly. "My client, Carrot Cake, wants to divorce his wife in hopes of no reimbursement."
"Very well, you may provide the jury with your evidence to prosecute or defend your client." He told the attorneys.
The court room was filled with tension, Cup Cake tried to look innocent but you could feel the hate radiating from her thoughts.
Several ponies were asked to give a brief example on their behavior and their opinions on the case.
Pinkie was the first to go to the stand and she was really nervous.
Pinkie spoke and tried to avoid the gaze of Cup Cake. "I've worked with the Cakes for several years and I always thought of Cup Cake as a good teacher..."
Cup Cake was relieved, she thought Pinkie was going to be against her.
"But then two weeks ago I found out that she is very aggressive and hit her husband, and that she has also been aggressive without my knowledge of it before I knew."
Cup Cake's mouth was gaped What?! How did she know?!.... I knew it..
The judge dismissed Pinkie and she returned to her new seat in the front next to Carrot.
Several more ponies were asked to give their character assessments.
"I always thought she was so sweet, but the other day I saw her hit her husband with all of her strength and he fell over backwards.. it was an awful sight." A mare had testified.
Another mare had defended Cup Cake's character. "She has always been a darling, and I'm sure that what happened the other day was just a misunderstanding."
Cherilee took the stands. "I never knew that she was a bad pony, but she is a drinker and thats not tolerable when shes always around children, I remember several times where she had slurred speech."
A colt took the stands for Carrot. "Ah sometimes saw Mr. Cake ther, with some bruises and asked him about a few of 'em, an' he always told me these weird things tha' happened. Ah guess it was Mrs. Cake beatin on the poor fella, and him bein a stallion an all, he couldn' hit back.
Regardless of Cup Cake's character defense, the numbers of the offense were alot higher, and all with bad opinions on Cup Cake.
The judge looked at his daughter and never thought that she was capable of being so cruel, and he blocked his emotions and memories of his daughter and now thought of her as just another pony.
After all of the evidence was gone through, Cup Cake's chances of winning were almost non existent. A long history of abuse, both verbal and physical, and working a bakery while intoxicated
The judge called for the jury to make their assessment, and it only took five minutes for them to make their decision.
The jury took their seats and one of the stallions had a piece of paper, ready to tell the judge the decision.
"What is the verdict?" The judge said as he gripped his gavel.
The colt stood up and spoke clearly, and with a tinge of hate in his voice. Just about everypony in the room now hated Cup Cake. "We find that the divorce should be final, and that no reimbursement is given to the defendant."
The judge tapped the gavel. "The jury has made their decision, this court is over in this decision." He tapped the gavel again and saw the crowds reaction.
The crowd that supported Carrot clapped and the crowd that supported Cup Cake just shrugged and left.
Pinkie had ran up next to Carrot and they hugged each other tightly.
Cup Cake's mouth was gaped in surprise. She saw Pinkie run up and hug Carrot and she lost her temper and her voice bellowed throughout the courtroom. "YOU LITTLE SLUT!"
Pinkie stopped hugging Carrot, the room was silent and she began to shrink at being called such a word.
Cup Cake looked on the desk and grabbed the glass of water and shattered the top of it on the table, sending the water splashing to the ground and she lunged at Pinkie.
Carrot saw his ex-wife grab the glass and he immediately knew her intention and he pushed Pinkie behind himself and extended his hoof forward, ready for the rampaging mare.
The guard was trained to always be ready for a situation like this and he galloped forward and grabbed Cup's hoof, inches before it was about to cut Carrot on his hoof.
Cup was being restrained by the guard, but was already becoming loose and still swinging the broken glass at Carrot and Pinkie.
Three other guards had come in the room and rushed to help restrain the mare, it took all four of them to fully restrain her and pull her out of the room.
The judge saw in disgust as his daughter behaved in such a manor, but then sighed and realized that she had just threatened someone in the courtroom with a weapon. He just stood up and left the courtroom to relax and press his hooves against his temples to help relieve the stress.
Pinkie had closed her eyes as soon as she saw Cup get up with the glass and only felt being moved a little. She opened her eyes and saw Carrot standing in front of her, he had protected her and she felt as if she owed her life to him now.
Carrot turned around as soon as he was sure that Cup was gone. "It's okay, I'm not going to let anyone hurt you, ever."
They happily left the courtroom together, and they were now free to show their relationship in front of others now that Carrot Cake had no wife.
They returned to the bakery and the first thing that they did was make sure that the sign said 'closed' before they disappeared inside of Carrot's bedroom.
~*~* 7 Years Later ~*~*
Everypony in Ponyville quickly knew of Pinkie's and Carrot's relationship with each other. At first it felt awkward for some, but everypony eventually accepted it as how it should be, seeing how happy they were together.
Pinkie's friends were very accepting of her love with Carrot. A year later when they were getting married Pinkie's friends all had wanted to be Pinkie's mare of honor and there was a little chaos in that time, but it was quickly resolved as Dash being her mare of honor.
On the week of their wedding they heard on the radio talk show news about a mare in prison being killed. The killer was a mare from Prance named Grindstone who was paid in cigarets to do the job, apparently the victim wouldn't learn to keep her mouth shut in prison and nobody liked her.
They had a good idea on who the victim was.
Pinkamena Pie had become Pinkamena Cake, but she still goes by Pinkie.
Two years after their marriage they had two children, there was nothing wrong with Carrot after all, Cup was indeed sterile. Two earth ponies named Pumpkin Cake, after Carrot's mother, and Clyde Cake, after Pinkie's father. The toddlers quickly showed their ability to defy the laws of physics like their mother did.
The family grew and the bakery had been more successful being ran by Pinkie and Carrot.
Pinkie was tucking her children in bed upstairs in her old room, they were now five years of age.
Pinkie nuzzled Clyde. "Good night my angels."
"Night mom.." Clyde said with a yawn.
Pumpkin was already fast asleep and snoring lightly.
Pinkie left the room and Carrot was waiting for her at the doorway.
They both tiredly went downstairs and went into bed. They both had everything they dreamed of, A loving partner, beautiful children, and the rest of their lives ahead of them.