//------------------------------// // Chase Part 1 // Story: Pinkie bakes some brownies // by F1utt3rshy //------------------------------// By the time Pinkie had gotten down the stairs and out the back door of Sugar Cube Corner, Spike was already two blocks away and heading straight for market square. What was worse was that it was rush hour and the market was packed. Ponies were going about their daily business as usual. Derpy was delivering mail, Lyra and Bon-Bon were sitting on their bench, time turner was standing by a blue phonebooth eyeing everypony suspiciously and holding some kind of stick with a blue top, and one could here the distant sound of wubstep. Pinkie started chasing after Rainbow and Spike, the former somehow covered in mayonnaise,when she was stopped by a speeding wagon attached to a scooter and carrying three screaming fillies. Pinkie, concerned for the general well being of the girls, trotted over to the crash site and checked to see if they were okay. "Hey, you girls okay?" Pinkie asked to the pile of fillies, who were crawling out of the wreckage. "Huh, oh, hi Pinkie. Yeah we're fine, can't say the same for my scooter though." Scootaloo said in a slightly saddened voice."It's all Sweetie Belles' fault, if she hadn't distracted me I wouldn't have hit that that rock." Scootaloo stated. Throwing glares at Sweetie Belle and the rock in question. "Dumb rock." she grumbled. "Hey, I only wanted to show you that Rainbow Dash was covered in mayonnaise and chasing Spike for some reason!" Sweetie Belle defended, her voice getting squeaky from agitation. "I figured you would want to know that seeing as you're in love with Rainbow!" Sweetie proclaimed, albeit a little too load, and several ponies turn their heads to see what was going on, but upon seeing Pinkie and the Cutie Mark Crusaders they decided to leave it alone and return to what they were doing. "I don't love her!" Scootaloo said hastily, a slight blush spread across her face. "Oh, really?" Sweetie Belle questioned."What about all the times you gush over her like Spike does with Rarity or the shrine you have in your room with all the pictures of you and Rainbow with tiny hearts around them? I mean really, it's pretty obivious with the way you look at her!" Sweetie stated matter o'factly. Scootaloo, whose blush was growing bigger by the second, trotted over to Sweetie Belle and was about to do something she would later regret, but was luckily stoped by Applebloom, who had heard enough and decided to put and end to the argument, finally butted in. "Will yall stop yer arguin, this isn't the time and place fer it!' Applebloom stated, her voice full of reasoning and authority."Yall are causin more of a ruckus than a tornado full of sharks!" Now, as soon as the argument started, Pinkie had pulled a lawn chair into existence and made some popcorn. After getting comfortable, she watched the arguing in silence, occasionally refilling her popcorn and replacing one lawn chair withone that could support the weight of the bouncy pony. She continued watching until Applebloom stepped in. Seeing as the argument was coming to a close Pinkie threw away her remaining popcorn and elbow dropped the lawn chair out of existence. Once she was done she finally joined the conversation. "Oh, girls!" Pinkie said, slightly giggling at the abnormal argument that had just unfolded. In front of her. A sudden realization then struck Pinkie and she started frantically searching for any sign of Rainbow or Spike, mumbling cries of worry and desperation. Applebloom, senseing something was wrong, trotted over to Pinkie and put a reassuring hoof on her shoulder. Pinkie then stopped searching and sat down with Applebloom. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo then decided to continue their argument later and sat down with Pinkie and Applebloom. "Pinkie, what's troubling ya? Did something happen?" Applebloom asked with genuine worry. "Well, I was with Dashie chasing Spike when you three crashed and I sort of got distracted. Now I don't know where they went and something bad could have happened. They could have died in a burning orphanage or got baked into cupcakes or gotten ponynapped or worst of all, having fun without me!" Pinkie exclaimed, her mane straightening itself slightly for her sadness. "Wait," Sweetie queried "why were you and Rainbow chasing after Spike in the first place?" "He's high and me and Dashie were watching him so he wouldn't do anything..." Pinkie then realized her slip and decided to just go with it "stupid." The Cutie Mark Crusaders looked at each other before turning back to Pinkie and shrugged. "Makes sense.You now what he took?" Scootaloo asked. "Nothing much, just about a half dozen pot brownies. It was really funny actually!" Pinkie stated, her usual bubbly attitude quickly coming back along with her mane returning to its naturally crazy look. "Oh, you know where he got them?" Sweetie Belle asked, with a hint of nervousness in her voice. "Yesiree, wait, why do you want to know?" Pinkie questioned, suspicion building up in her mind. "I ... I mean we ... we just wanted..." Sensing no easy way out, Sweetie Belle tried the first thing she could think of."Hey, look over there. A distraction!" Sensing it was time to leave, the Cutie Mark Crusaders turned around and trotted out of sight as Pinkie turned around, wondering how that even worked. "What am I supposed to be looking at?" Pinkie said, turning back towards the girls, who were nowhere to be seen."Huh, they must have bolted. Ah well" Pinkie then began to search for any sign of Rainbow and Spike again, asking ponies if they had seen where the duo had gone. She was about to stop looking when Spike ran behind her, cowering in fear. "There you are Spike, I've been..." Pinkie was cut off by the sound of Twilight screaming obscenitys at Rainbow, who was running straight towards pinkie. "RUN!" Rainbow yelled, grabing Spike with her hoofs and flying past Pinkie, who was completely confused, but decided not to question it and just run. After all, last time she got in the way of Angry Twilight she ended up with gum and putty melted into her mane. "How mad is she?" Pinkie asked with more than a bit of worry in her voice. "You remember how long it took you to get that stuff out of your mane last time?" Rainbow replied. "Yesiree, it took three weeks." Pinkie said with a huff. "Well you might not get it out for a couple of years." Rainbow said all the while picking up speed. "Twitchie-twitch!" was the only thing Rainbow heard, which made her speed up even more and she ended up going into a sonic rainboom. Spike flailing because of the added speed ended up puking. "Well there goes the last of you're lunch." Rainbow said slightly annoyed, her mane now covered in miscellaneous Sugar Cube Corners sweets, but more worried about her pursuer so she let it go at that.