Chapter 1:
“There, four blueberry muffins, as usual.” I put the bag on the counter.
“Thanks Pinkie, you guys make the best muffins here.” Sparkler said as she placed the coins on the table.
“Thanks! Tell your mom I said hi!” I skipped around to the kitchen “Gummy! What are you doing in there?”
He gave me a look that seemed to say “I got bored.”
I rolled my eyes “Come on Gummy, out of the flour.” I picked him up. I put him on the floor out side of the kitchen. He shook and the flour went everywhere.
“You do realise that now I’m going to have to clean that up right?
The alligator looked at me “Soz bro.”
“Just checking”
I looked around the deserted bakery. The Cakes went to Manehatten for a vacation, and most ponies didn’t want to go anywhere in the rain, so me and Gummy were alone.
“You know what I think Gummy?”
He blinked “Enlighten me.”
“We should have a party soon! One even better than the last few!”
“Yes, we should, but this time we should most definitely put more sugar in punch, last time we did not quite put enough in.”
“Yeah, you’re probably right.”
Suddenly a loud sound started up
“What’s that?” I looked around. Nothing. My tail started twitching.
“Something’s gonna…” A blue box appeared from out of nowhere, tumbling around before crashing into the ground.
“…Fall.” I finished as the dust settled. A chestnut stallion in a tweed jacket staggered out of the box.
“Fingers, Fingers, no fingers.” He said before letting out a puff of gold dust and collapsing.
“Are you okay?”
Gummy poked his head out of the rubble.
He then latched onto the stallions head
I really wasn’t sure what to do next at this point. A blue box that made weird sounds had appeared in Sugar cube corner, demolished the floor, and a strange stallion that I had never seen before staggered out of said box. I decided that I would move the stallion, which was easier said than done.
First of all, I had to get Gummy of him. And Gummy did NOT want to let go. Then I had to decide where to move him, first thought about putting him on the couch upstairs. So, I rolled him out of the rubble and attempted to push him up the stairs. It didn’t work, so I tried dragging him up the stairs, again, it didn’t work.
Basically I couldn’t get him up the stairs.
Then I tried to slump him in a chair. He rolled off.
Eventually I got the mysterious stallion half on a table, half on a chair. Gummy had managed to get hold of his leg.
I giggled “Silly Gummy, get off his leg!”
He looked at me “No.”
“Gummy get off his leg.”
“No.”
“Gummy…”
“What?”
“Let go of his leg. Now”
He stared at me for a second then let go. “Fine, but you owe me one Pinkamena.”
I rolled my eyes “Thank you.”
I looked at the blue box. I had cleaned up the mess earlier, and the box was just sitting in small crater it had made. There was a sign on the door.
“Pull to open.” I read aloud
“Open it! Open it! Open it!” Gummy bit my tail.
“Alright, Alright! I’ll open it!” I giggled.
I pulled, it wouldn’t open. I pulled again, harder this time, but it still wouldn’t open.
“It’s locked.” I told Gummy.
“There’s probably a key in his pocket!”
“Gummy, I am not going through somepony’s jacket.”
“Thought it was worth a try.”
I skipped into the kitchen where I started making a cake.
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“I’m home!” Sparkler called from the next room
Derpy jumped. She didn’t realise that she had been reading for so long. She was about to get up when she remembered
Pinkie’s instructions Do not let anypony see it.
The mail mare placed a clean tissue on the page she was on and slid the journal under her pillow. She then trotted out into the living room, embracing her adopted daughter in a hug.
“Hello my little muffin, how was your day?”
“Good” the purple unicorn said handing Derpy a brown paper bag “Pinkie Pie says hello.”
Derpy thought back to the first part of the book.
“Did you hear anything…, Odd after you left sugar cube corner?”
Sparkler thought for a moment “Come to think about it, yes. Why?”
Derpy giggled nervously “no reason.”
She looked at her mother with concern “okay then.”
The grey Pegasus trotted back into her room. Sparkler heard something! Could she have heard…? Both of Derpy’s eyes rested on the pillow.