//------------------------------// // The Nut Room // Story: Pinkie Pie's Chocolate Factory // by violet-heart13 //------------------------------// "Without the boat, we have to move twice as fast to catch up, there's far to much to see!" Pinkie said as she lead her three remaining friends across a long corridor. "Um, Pinkie? Will Dashie always be a blueberry?" Fluttershy asked. "Yes!! No!! Maybe!! It's likely!! Not in a million years!! Who knows!? But she deserves it for being so cocky all the time..." Pinkie replied. "Any news on Applejack?" Twilight asked. "None so far... but hey, maybe we'll get lucky!" Pinkie responded. Meanwhile, in the fudge room, Applebloom sat by the top of the mixing barrel. She was stirring the chocolate in the vat, looking for her sister. "Come on big sis! Ya have ta be in here somewhere!" She kept feelings around until she had hit something that moved as soon as she hit it. It wasn't floating so Applebloom decided to dive in and fish it out herself. When she grabbed it she immediately submerged, and put it on the platform she was standing on and felt it... It was soft and it had hooves, It was Applejack! She then promptly started to perform CPR on Applejack, trying to restore her breathing. After about a minute of doing so her eyes started to open. "Boy! Ah sure ain't gonna skip breakfast again!" she said as she got up. "Applejack!! You're okay!!" Applebloom said hugging her. "Ah thought ah lost ya..." she said with an emotional tone. "At least ah'm okay..." Applejack said as she began walking with the chocolate covered Applebloom. "Oh, and ya breath tastes like apple pie!" she joked. Back with the others, they continued walking and wondering what could be next. "But, anyway, how about we move on?" Pinkie suggested. The others nodded as they came up to a door labeled 'Nut Room'. "Nut room? Oh, yes, for the stuff with nuts in it..." Twilight realized. "Correct-a-mundo mon ami! This is where all the nuts are harvested and separated!" Pinkie explained. Rarity then shouted, "I SWEAR, IF MY SISTER HAS TO SORT NUTS...!!!!" "Don't worry Rares!" Pinkie said. "I've got someone else!" She opened the door to show a light blue room with squirrels sorting out the nuts. As soon as Fluttershy saw them she got exited... "SQUIRRELS!!!!!" ...she yelled in a happy tone. "Yes-sirrie-bob! They have all been trained to get the nuts out of shells!" Pinkie replied. The squirrels work, not knowing that the others are there. "But why use squirrels?" Twilight asks. "Because only squirrels can get the nuts out every single time!" Fluttershy answered instead of Pinkie. "You see how they tap the nut to see if it's good or not?" Fluttershy points out. "If the nut is good they send it off to be use for stuff, if it's bad, they throw it into the shute in the middle of the room." she continued. "Is it best I let you explain this room Fluttershy?" Pinkie asks. "Oh, I'm sorry..." she replies. Pinkie smiles and asks Fluttershy, "Would you like to pet one?" "I wouldn't be me if I said no!" she replies. Pinkie opens the gate and let's Fluttershy into the room's main chamber. She walks over to one, it turns around and she starts petting it. "Aww! Aren't you the cutest wittle thing I've ever seen!?" she says as she pets the squirrel. While the petting was going on, Rarity asked Pinkie, "Can they sort anything else? Apart from nuts?" Pinkie simply replied, "I guess... I'm not entirely sure..." The squirrel with Fluttershy tapped her head to see is she was a good nut and then it just continued working. She then came back to the others to overhear the convention Pinkie and Rarity were having. "Please Pinkie, It'll really help out at the boutique." Rarity pleaded. Pinkie replied, "I know but the last owner will be furious if he finds out that I gave one of the squirrels away!" Rarity then said, "I'll pay you for one?" Pinkie said no, and Rarity started getting temperamental. "Well the others want one! Don't ya Fluttershy!?" Fluttershy looked at Pinkie then at Rarity. "I do, but I don't want to break the rules. We have to respect Pinkie and the factory." she said. Rarity had a small strop and told Pinkie, "Well if you won't let me have one, I'll get one myself!" She then opened the gate, slammed it shut when she got to the other side and starting walking to the same squirrel that Fluttershy petted. Twilight and Fluttershy both looked on as Rarity walked. "Rares! Don't even think of touching that squirrels nuts!!" Pinkie said. "It'll make him aggressive!!" Rarity, however, didn't care. She came up to it and it looked at her. "You'll do" she said as she began reaching for it, but when she grabbed it got free and grabbed her dress and Rarity panicked trying to get it off. "Get off me!! That dress cost a thousand Bits to make it!!!" she cried. The other squirrels began to run up to her and began trying to pin her to the floor. "Oh, no!" Fluttershy said. "I tried to warn her! The squirrels don't like to be interrupted!!" Pinkie yelled. "But how come Fluttershy go up there and cause no troub... Oh... right... good with animals." Twilight said until she realized. The squirrels pinned Rarity down and one came up to her head and started tapping it. "What are they doing to her!?" Twilight asked. "Oh, they're testing to see is she's a good nut or not..." Pinkie said as the squirrel looked at her and shook it's head. "Oh... That can't be good..." she then said. The squirrels then began dragging Rarity by her dress to the chute, "STOP!!!! YOU'LL RIP THE DRESS!!!" she said as they dragged her. "Where are they taking her!?" Twilight yelled. "To where all the bad nuts go... down the shute!" Pinkie replied. "And where does the shute go?" Fluttershy asked. "...To the incinerator..." Pinkie said with a troubled look on her face. The squirrels kept dragging her until she eventually fell into the shute. "PPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIINNNNNNKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!" she screamed as she decented, the scream echoing as she fell. "So... what'll happen to her?" Twilight asked. Pinkie looked at her and replied, "Not too sure, but we should let Sweetie Belle know..." She was called into the room where she said jokingly, "What's happened THIS time? Twilight shrunk in the wash?" Fluttershy replied, "No... your sister fell into the shute and she could be a part of the melting garbage." Sweetie Belle's smile soon faded. "My sister could be sizzled like a sausage!?" she yelled. All three of the others yelled, "YES!!!!!" As soon as she heard that Sweetie Belle did one of Rarity's trademark faints. "Well, that was unexpected..." Pinkie said. "It must run in the family..." Fluttershy said. A few seconds later Sweetie regained her consciousness and said, "Song time?" "Song time..." they all replied. Sweetie Belle then ran inside the main chamber and started singing: " Rarity, the heart of gold, Has been stuck in a chute, Even though that you’ve been told, You have done what’s not cute… All the gold, silver, and bronze, Wonderful elements, But we must not lose our heads, When we will get regrets… There are times when you’re amazed, Seeing something you like, Yet there’s nothing else to gazed, Then just go to dislike… Spoiled on gems and pampered, too, On anything that shines, Blame on yourself, this is you, Just cut out those grand fines… Hope you’ve learn something today, Don’t let your ‘Want’ fool you, Think twice about it, darling, Or else this will be you….. " And at that she jumped into the shute. After that, Pinkie gets a note in a small plastic ball roll towards her after it exits a small tube. She picks it up and reads it... "The incinerator is currently out of order and can not burn anything until next Monday!!? Oh that's fantastic news!!" "For us: yes, for Rarity: maybe not as good" Twilight said. "Looks like it's just you and me Twilight..." Fluttershy said. "Yeah, I hope the others are okay..." she replied. Pinkie simply smiled and adjusted her bow tie, "Let's move on!" she said, leaving the room...