The next day, Twilight came back to visit Pinkie Pie.
"So how did your visit go with the dentist, Pinkie?" Twilight asked.
"Mfff Umfff Mphhh MMMMPPH!" Pinkie replied.
Twilight looked at Pinkie's mouth. She was drooling a bit and her face looked rather swollen. She finally made the connection that she was still experiencing the effects of the novacain.
"Oh goodness! The novacain must still be strong in your mouth. How about you make me a cup of tea and I'll talk to you in an hour."
"Mmmmph mmmph," Pinkie replied.
Twilight Sparkle sat down and sipped her tea. She made a few mental notes about what she wanted to say to Pinkie.
Within time, Pinkie came bouncing over to Twilight. "Oh! That was just terrible! Not being able to speak is like the worst thing in the whole world! Did I ever tell you how much I just love to speak? Speak is such a funny word. Speak rhymes with weak, beak, meek, tweak, leak, geek..."
"PINKIE!" Twilight shouted angrily. "How did your visit with the dentist go?"
"Oh! I only had a few cavities. It's no big deal. I even got a lollipop for being so good!" Pinkie Pie took out a lollipop and ate it in one bite.
"How many cavities did you have filled, Pinkie?"
Pinkie put her hoof to her chin and said, "About twenty."
Twilight spit out her tea and gasped. "Twenty cavities!? Pinkie, that's insane! You'd better come up with a healthy diet."
"Well, at least they didn't have to pull out any of my teeth. I would imagine that it would be hard for me to..." Pinkie Pie paused for a moment with a little smirk on her face and then finished her sentence. "Pull through with something like that. They did have to sedate me because I couldn't sit still in the chair and I couldn't stop talking, but I was still somehow talking even though I was supposed to be knocked out. The Dentist got so frustrated with me that he ended up taking a mallet and hitting me hard in the back of the head and that seemed to do the trick." Pinkie Pie turned her head and pointed to the large throbbing lump on the back of her head with her front hoof. "It's a pretty big bump, but I don't even feel it right now because he gave me painkillers for that too. It seems kind of unethical to hit a patient over the head with a mallet, but I guess they have to go to extreme measures sometimes." Pinkie Pie then bounced joyfully over to the counter and asked, "Want to see what I eat now?"
Twilight nodded her head yes.
"COOKIES AND CUPCAKES!"Pinkie joyfully cheered.
Twilight face-hoofed and said, "Pinkie, you didn't change anything! You have been eating that all along!"
Pinkie grinned and said, "Oh Twilight, you silly filly. These aren't just any old cookies and cupcakes, they are sugar free! Look! I even drink diet soda now too!" Pinkie Pie took out a two liter bottle of sugar free soda and gulped the whole thing down. "Want some, Twilight?"
Twilight Sparkle looked angry. "Pinkie, that is incredibly unhealthy. In fact, all the stuff that you're consuming contains nothing but chemicals and when sugar is taken out of something that is meant to be sweet, like your soda, it often is full of something else that is unhealthy like sodium and artificial sweetners. They are loaded with chemicals that often make you more thirsty resulting in you buying and drinking more and more of that product. It's all just a gimmick, Pinkie and you're falling for it!"
Pinkie Pie frowned and walked over to eat another cupcake.
"Oh no you don't!" Twilight called out. She used her magic to teleport Pinkie Pie back to the counter.
"Hey! Cut it out, Twilight! That's not nice!" Pinkie Pie cried out as she lunged at the cupcake, but Twilight was quick and kept teleporting her back to where she started. Pinkie Pie eventually became tired. She laid on the floor and began to cry. "Twilight, why are you being so mean to me? I need my cupcakes!"
Twilight walked over and put her hoof on Pinkie Pie's shoulder. "You just need a better diet plan and some exercise. I'm worried that you might be a type two diabetic."
Pinkie Pie wiped the tears from her eyes and asked, "How do I know if I'm diabetic?"
"Well," Twilight said, "Do you have any symptoms like fatigue, increased hunger and thirst, blurred vision?"
Pinkie Pie nodded yes to each one.
"What about increased urination?" Twilight asked.
Pinkie Pie jolted up with a look of seriousness on her face. She crossed her legs and yelled out, "Be right back!"
Twilight Sparkle tapped her hoof on the counter as she waited.
Pinkie Pie came bouncing back into the room. "So, Twilight. What do you think?"
Twilight sighed and said, "Pinkie, I think you need to go see a doctor. How about we make a little deal?"
"Oh! What kind of deal? Deals can be fun and I just love fun!" Pinkie Pie said as she bounced up and down in place.
Twilight continued, "How about you go see a doctor, and if you don't have diabetes, you can continue your diet of sugar free pastries and diet soda, but if you do have diabetes, you have to follow my special diet plan. Deal?"
Pinkie Pie sunk low to the ground and said, "But that doesn’t sound like a fun deal, Twilight."
"Sometimes we all need to be shown a little tough love Pinkie. I really care about you and I can't stand the thought of one of my best friends getting sick," Twilight said as she hugged Pinkie Pie. Twilight stepped back and giggled.
"Hey! What are you laughing at!?" Pinkie demanded to know.
"Oh, it's just your mane. The girls were right. It really does smell like sugar and cinnamon."
Pinkie Pie sunk back down to the floor. "Yea, two things I can't have anymore."
Twilight smiled and said, "You can still have cinnamon. Cinnamon has tons of benefits! It can even stabilize your blood sugar."
Pinkie ran over to the drawer and took out some cinnamon. She poured the entire container into her mouth.
Twilight giggled at the sight. "Pinkie, I don't think that's a good idea."
Pinkie Pie's eyes opened wide. She ran over and put her head under the faucet, desperately trying to drink as much water as she could.
"Everything in moderation, Pinkie! So, how about our deal? Do you accept?" Twilight asked.
Pinkie was confident that her sugar free diet was the way to go, so she stuck out her hoof and shook Twilight's front hoof. "DEAL!" Pinkie yelled.
"Pinkie Pie swear?" Twilight asked.
"PINKIE PIE SWEAR!" Pinkie yelled back.