One Trip We Didn't Plan
Chapter 2
"...And thats how we're here." Doug said glumly to a pony officer. He and Kevin were in what looked like a jail cell. It was a simple room with bars going dividing it and a door on the other side that led to more of the building and freedom. They had been stripped of their bags and were being interrogated by a pony officer. The officer did not have to force the information out of Kevin and Doug. They just answered as well as they could hoping they would be granted an audience with the princesses.
"That's quite a tale." The pony on the said. She was an earth pony. She had a cyan coat and bright yellow mane with a magnifying glass for a cutie mark. Doug did not recognize her from the show, and Kevin never watched the show so how could he possibly know who she was.
"Eeeeyyuuup." Doug imitating Big Mac.
"Can I ask a question for once?" Kevin said annoyed. He had been cut off by the officer pony every time he tried to ask a question.
"You just did." The mare chuckled. "But yeah go ahead."
"How'd we end up here? Like in jail?"
"Oh, right! A group of ponies were trying to chase off some timberwolves with fire when, what was that mare's name?... Fluttershy! When flutter shy led the group to you two. They took you here and you've been asleep when they found you."
"so much for taking shifts sleeping... Doug." Kevin muttered.
"Okay, I fell asleep on the job, what do ya want? An apology? Looke here. I'm sorry. Okay?" Doug replied.
"Whatever..."
"Well then I guess my work here is done..." The officer pony said.
"Can we go now?" Kevin asked, "I would like to get out of this crazy world of talking ponies soon ya know..."
"Sorry boys just 'cuz my work is done, doesn't mean everypony's business is done." The officer said with a smirk. "Now you two, err... 'hyoo-mahns' have a choice. Pick a color: purple or pink?" The officer pony's question sent Doug and Kevin for a loop. Kevin looked at Doug, and before Doug could say anything, Kevin said "Pink?"
The mare questioning them laughed like she had heard the funniest joke in the word, and with a devious smile she said, "Alright pinks-Your'e up!" Doug's pupils shrank. He knew what was about to happen, and he wouldn't be happy.
"Ooooooooh so that's what they look like!" Pinkie Pie said as she entered the room. "Thanks for letting me in here Sea Breeze!"
"No problem Pinks, just keep the partying down okay? We don't need a repeat of the last time yo tried to use your 'Welcome to Ponyville' machine indoors..." Pinkie looked sad for a moment and then replied as if nothing was said with her trademark "okie-dokie-loki!" Doug and Kevin just sat there looking at Pinkie. Neither had anything good to say about their situation.
"Well... If I can't give you two a party now, I'll just give you cupcakes!" Doug tensed up. He could only think of the one story with that very title. Cupcakes. The idea of the gore and torture went through his mind. realizing that he and Kevin could be in serious danger if they were in a 'cupcakes' universe he uneasily asked, "H-hey... P-Pinkie?"
"Yes?"
"Did you...ummm...Did you add a ummm... a 'dash' of something special?"
"Yes! Of course I did!" Doug nearly fainted.
"Doug, something wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost." Kevin asked.
"Y-yeah... f-f-fine... We are so going to die..."
"What?" Everypony in the room, plus Kevin, asked.
"Give me a sec..." Doug said as he stood up, turned toward the wall, and... BDUM! Slammed his head on the wall and collapsed on the floor.
"Holy shit! Doug!" Kevin said. Pinkie Pie looked at Doug's unconscious body. She was puzzled. Never before had somepony (or someone) knocked themselves out when she said she added her a dash of something special. She asked innocently, "Does he not like guacamole or something?" Sea Breeze looked at her and asked. "Thats your special ingredient?"
"Well duuuuh! What'd you think it was? Salt?"
"I never really thought about it..." Sea Breeze mused.
It hit Kevin like a fastball to the face. The fact that Doug had been trying to get him and a few other guys to listen to or read an story called Cupcakes. Doug said it was about ponies torturing, murdering, and baking each other into cupcakes. Definitely not his kind of story. Pinkie had offered him a cupcake with a dash of something special. Doug must have thought the something special was baked pony or something. "Uhh... girls?" Kevin started.
"Yeah?" They both replied.
"Doug didn't know what your special ingredient was..."
"So?" Pinkie asked.
"He thought it was... ummm... How do I say this..."
"Come on get it out!" Sea Breeze said mildly annoyed that Kevin was withholding information that could be important to the psychological state of her new 'guest'. Doug seemed unusually calm when she had entered the room. Which was odd because ponies rarely did truly bad things, so when she saw them, most were fearing the consequences to come.
"He thought the special ingredient was pony meat." Kevin said flatly. The two mares were taken aback. They never heard of cannibalism in a pastry before. Both mares dropped their jaws. Pinkie's hit the floor.
"Can I have one of those cupcakes now that the...the...the misconception was taken care of?" Kevin asked. He looked over to his unconscious friend and started laughing. The two mares were confused now. Did they just stumble upon two lunatics from another world?