The seven girls in the living room dove for a pillow to throw at Soarin. He shielded himself by using his wings to cover his body. When he felt it was safe, he peeked out from behind his wings and asked “Did I say something wrong?” He re-shielded himself as another set of pillows were thrown at him. Under his wings he said loud enough for all of them to hear “This is NOT how I pictured a pillow fight between a room full of girls would look like!” Pillows flew everywhere. Soarin started laughing devilishly.
Minutes later the laughing and pillows died down. Soon, everyone was hungry.
“Ah’d offer ta cook fer all ya’ll but mah kitchen seems ta be real darn disgustin!” Apple Jack shakes her head sadly. “Apparently, so does the whole resta the house it seems.”
“We got your back A.J.” Rainbow Dash says to her friend. “But, speaking for everyone…” she looks around the whole room before continuing her speech “…not till we’re fueled up with food and energy.”
“And, not till after we stretch our wings completely with a quick fly by!” Spitfire chimed in.
“Why don’t we all head over to my bakery/café that I just started owning? We can eat brunch there!” Pinkie Pie offered.
“Or we can go to Sugar Cube Corner!” Twilight Sparkle suggests.
“I do have to agree with Twilight, dear.” Rarity says in her sing song voice. “It is a little closer. Sorry.”
“It’s okay!” Pinkie started to bounce all happy. “It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve visited Mr. and Mrs. Cake and twins! It’ll be fun!”
“Sugar Cube Corner has a small parking lot. We cannot fit all our cars there.” Twilight says all worried.
“It’s okay. Like I said, us pegasi have to stretch our wings out completely. We’ll fly!” Spitfire replies to Twilight.
“We’ll race!” Rainbow got up getting excited.
“LOSER PAYS THE BILL!” Soarin declared getting himself off the couch eagerly. “ALL of us will race. We’ll fly and you can drive.”
“Ah’ll drive mah Subaru Rally Car instead of mah Dodge Viper car. It will fit the four of us that don’t have wings.” Apple Jack was readying herself for her win.
Fluttershy tugs at Rainbow Dash and kisses her on the cheek and then looks at Apple Jack. “If you two, ummm, don’t really mind at all… if it isn’t such a burden… can I… ummm. May I just fly over to the car to do my wing stretch and ride in the vehicle? Please?” She pleaded looking back and forth between the two.
“Ah don’t mind. Do ya, R.D.?”
“Nope! It’s cool, Babe!” Rainbow Dash kisses Fluttershy on the cheek too.
“Should we tell Spikey Wikey?” Rarity asks.
“Nope, nope, noperoo! He’s already having breakfast in the back barn with the girls.” Pinkie Pie giggles in response to Rarity.
“No cheatin… ya hear!?” Apple Jack says to make sure.
“We’ll even start flying from the ground. Once you step on your gas pedal, we’ll shoot to the sky.” Rainbow Dash assured her.
“How is it fair when you three are flying and its one direction and Apple Jack has to drive on streets turning lefts and turning rights dealing with stop lights?” Twilight asks confused.
Apple Jack grinned. “Don’t ya worry bout nuttin, Twi! Ah am awesome at driftin. And Ah made a dirt path long time ago as a short cut ta make it to our meetins over there yonder in the past. Ah use that path up ta taday as exercise for the Annual Runnin of the Leaves we keep on havin in the fall.”
*******
“YeeeHAW!” Apple Jack says as she pulls up her car with Fluttershy in the back seat already. “Thank ya kindly, Fluttershy, for walkin… irrr, actually, flyin ta get the car with me!”
“Oh, no, Apple Jack! Not a problem! Th-thanks again, for letting me ride with you.” Fluttershy says in her normal hushed voice.
Apple Jack got out of the driver’s seat and ran around the car just to open the front passenger door for Rarity. Everyone gushed at that gesture. Pinkie and Twilight simply squeezed themselves through the driver’s side to get in the back with Fluttershy making them situated all cozy-like in the backseat.
“Get yerselves ready for this ride, it’s gonna git a lil bumpy here ‘n’ there. Brace yerselves!” Apple Jack pre-warned all the passengers in her car.
*******
Rainbow Dash, Spitfire, and Soarin were having a little side conversation themselves as they did their pre-flight stretches.
“I’ll bet you two ladies will lose to me by 3 minutes, no doubt!” says Soarin all cocky.
“In your dreams.” Spitfire smacks his arm.
“You’re always in my dreams.” Soarin winks at her.
Rainbow Dash laughs. “Awe, how sappy.”
“Don’t talk to me about being sappy, dude!”
“It’s you verses me anyway, Freshie!” Spitfire says to Dash. “We’re the only real competition in the sky. If we were using our cars, it’d be you, me, and A.J.!”
“Damn straight!” Dash high fived Spitfire.
“Which you’re not.” Soarin says laughing. “Which isn’t a bad thing or anything… ya know. Mmmm, the things that goes on in my mind when I think about lesbians.” He got smacked on both arms with both girls on each side of him doing so.
*******
VROOOM VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!! Apple Jack’s car engine revs up.
Inside the back barn the teenagers heard commotion outside. They scrambled out the barn doors to see what was up.
Spike was the first to speak. “Where are you all going!?”
“Just to get breakfast lunch.” Twilight answers him back. “Don’t worry about cleaning up this mess till after we come back! But, I left my check list in the living room if you can just make a double check list and see if I missed anything?”
“You got it, Twi!” Spike says saluting her.
“Good Morning, Spikey Wikey!” Rarity called to him. “Can you be a doll, and give us a go signal to start this race? Please?”
“Not a problem at all! Anything for you, R-rarity!” Spike grins to the older woman that he secretly crushes on. He would be with her and do anything for her if he ever got the chance. Which after the announcement last night, he never will. ‘So, it’s only in my dreams, Lady Rarity!’ he thinks to himself, inwardly sighing. He just stands there.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING SPIKE!? POSING FOR A PICTURE!?” Rainbow Dash snaps him out of his daze.
Spike shakes his whole body for a quick sec “Oops! Eh-heh. Sorry guys!”
*******
Spike stands roughly 12 yards away from Apple Jack’s car and the three pegasi next to it. He starts to wave his arms frantically yelling “GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle were all cheering on the sidelines.
Apple Jack steps on her gas and the back tires spun producing dust clouds in her trail.
The pegasi launched up into the air like fireworks.
Keeping calm and collected, Apple Jack’s first drift moment was after the first set of 4 trees her car went through to the right. Inside her car, with the exception of one “YIIIIIIIIIIIPIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!” from a certain dark pink, curly haired, puffy head friend, came screams of terror. Apple Jack felt a wild grin creep onto her face as she drifted to the left and then back to the right receiving the same reactions as the first drift. She was having fun. She looked up in the sky for her competition. She only saw Spitfire. She wonders where the heck the other two are as she drifted some more only a few more minutes away from their destination.
Soarin soared into the air and went the direction he knew to be correct. Yes. Very correct if he was supposed to go to Pinkie Pies bakery/café!!! ‘Shit!’ he says to himself half way there and turns around.
Rainbow Dash dashed straight up as high as she could go. Her plan was to win showing off with style. She’ll go down, breaking through sound barriers making an array of rainbows and beat everyone in the process in one small, ‘Okay, huge', she says to herself, dive. ‘Here, goes!' Down she goes, somersaulting from her invisible diving board in the sky.
“I’m no idiot!” Spitfire talks to herself and she punched through the air. “I don’t know what these two morons are up to but, it’s straight ahead!” She stayed focus and aiming for her goal. “I’m going to win. There’s no way in Hell I am paying this bill!”
*******
Waiting at the finish line, Sugar Cube Corner had an enchanted inflatable bouncy wall set up on all sides just in case someone accidently crashed. There were known incidents where they wish they had these walls before, such as Rainbow Dash practicing her tricks on her way to visit Pinkie Pie at work.
The Cakes stood outside with a bunch of other onlookers.
“Thank goodness that Spike called us, right dear?” Mr. Cake says to his wife.
“That’s right, honey!” Mrs. Cake was able to say before ducking both of them safely out of the way.
Rainbow Dash had accomplished that Sonic RainBoom she wanted to do and touched the ground as Apple Jack did one last drift into a parking spot slightly blinded by the colourful lights. The two of them walked over to an already waiting Spitfire who had her arms crossed.
“Ah woulda beaten ya’ll if Ah didn’t have passengers.”
“I would have beaten you guys if I didn’t think I was going to slam into A.J.’s still moving car everywhere I wanted to land.”
“And I did beat you because I remembered my flight goggles this morning and was not affected by your colours and I saw where A.J. was swerving not drifting!”
A couple minutes later Soarin landed and got the 20 question treatment of the same question in different variations. Instead of answering what took him so long, he says “I guess I got this tab… can you all lend me a few dollars to do so?”
“NO WAY!!!” chorused his three lady competitors.
*******
After everything settled down everyone situated themselves.
Fluttershy ran over to her Rainbow Dash telling her how she was in Pinkie terms ‘Nervicited’ through the whole trip there.
Rarity was yelling at Apple Jack about how dangerous that ride felt. But, she rewarded Apple jack by starting to make out with her because she felt the thrill in her heart and they survived it.
Pinkie Pie ran to the Cakes and their twins and pulled them into a group hug. “Your Pinkie Senses tell you we were coming!?” Not wanting to let Pinkie’s smile turn upside down letting her know that Spike called them, they said yes, continuing their group hug.
“Come on everyone!” Mr. Cake says to the crowd. “Mrs. Cake has the best brunchy buffet set up today!!!”
“Oh no… we forgot to put the tables together.” Mrs. Cake apologizes.
Twilight came out through the doors. “Don’t worry about that Mrs. Cake. I did it all already! Come on guys!” The group and the already eating guests turned to the doors and went in following Twilight’s lead.
*******
It really was the best feast in the world. Especially, after a really big drinking celebration party!
Soarin settled for 3 different individual personal sized pies (banana custard, French silk, and apple cinnamon), a stack of 5 pancakes, 2 Sunnyside up eggs, Canadian bacon, a slice of wheat toast, orange juice, and two shots of espresso.
Spitfire, Rainbow Dash, and Apple Jack ordered the ‘Breakfast of Champions’. It is a 3 egg omelet with all the meats and veggies of the day tossed in with potato hash browns wrapped around it as a crispy outer shell but soft when you crack it open with cheese oozing out, 2 huge waffles, a muffin and a set of toast of their own choice, coffee, and apple juice.
Pinkie Pie went to the kitchen and made herself an extremely sugar loaded breakfast and picked at the buffet.
The rest of everyone picked little things here and there from the buffet.
Pinkie was on her 4th trip to the buffet line when loud tire drifting noises sounded through the windows.
Everyone turned to look because they all knew their favourite show offs, the only show offs in the town, were already inside eating.
Apple Jack stood up to make sure her car wasn’t crashed into. And the Pegasi speedsters got up after hearing the being that they heard slam the car door was a pegasus.