It was a beautiful day in Ponyville, a bright clear crisp day without a cloud in sight, the perfect weather for doing some manual labor, reading the newest edition of Daring Do, showing off a dazzling new ensemble around town, taking a nap in your favorite tree or best of all playing a few harmless pranks on some unsuspecting victims. The latter is the day plan for a certain bubblegum colored mare, who was at the moment currently asleep in the loft of the village's main confectionary shop, dreaming literally sweet dreams about creamy frosting and other such things, in a bed with enough stuffed animals to smother a dragon. Beside the bed there happened to be a nightstand with several empty glasses of various sugary punches, sodas and other such similar drinks. Among the items on the nightstand there happened to be a large parcel wired to an alarm clock, but unbeknownst to the ponies peacefully going about their business below, that particular package held quite a volatile payload, and it was almost time for its explosive awakening.
In another part of Equestria, The royal Canterlot palace to be exact, there sat a dejected creature, who was more akin to some horrible cotton candy machine accident than a actual animal, but regardless there he sat wondering when he let himself get so drab and boring, cooped up in places he would rather not be in, waiting to be called upon like some maid to clean up whatever mess that his "friends" couldn't handle.
"There's only one thing for it." He said to no one in particular.
"I'll just have to take a vacation to somewhere a little less stuffy and uptight, it will be good for me, not to mention for ol' Sunbutt."
And with that he was off in a puff of smoke. Elsewhere in the castle a very irate princess was combing cotton candy swabs soaked in chocolate milk out of her mane and tail muttering to herself.
"If I ever get my hooves you Discord I swear I'll send you to the moon for the rest of your endless life."
Back in Ponyville Pinkie woke up rubbing the sleep from her eyes and letting out a yawn at the same time. Looking around the room she noticed the package, her eyes went
wide and she barely had time to shout;
"Omigosh its!" before the package detonated.
Under the bedroom, in the kitchen of Sugarcube Corner, Mrs. Cake was in the process of mixing some batter when without warning there came from up the stairs a loud POP! Spilling batter all over herself, she ran upstairs to see whether Pinkie had finally gone and blown the roof up, instead what met the middle aged mare left her jaw hanging at the messiest sight she had ever witnessed.
A few seconds earlier over a little ways in the town market stood Discord, arguing with a large red stallion about the price of apples, just for the fun of it.
"Two bits for apples is outrageous, why with hundreds of trees and only four ponies to split all that money between I think you can more than afford one bit for apples." Discord said with a smirk, unknown to Discord, Big Mac had an education under his belt and
excelled at math.
"Nope, don't try to muddle the matter with your ridiculous mathematics, the price is two bits."
"Bah! You are no fun at all, isn't there anypony who is up for some fun in this town?" Then almost as if on queue a loud POP! caught Discord's attention.
"What... who.... how....." was all Mrs. Cake could stammer as she looked around the walls and ceiling of her once beautiful loft.
"Oh! Hi Mrs. Cake! how do you like my special event alarm clock?" Chirped Pinkie unaware of the many emotions Mrs. Cake was feeling right now.
Glancing around at the confetti and streamers plastered to every surface she barely contained a shoutyell of anger.
"I suppose I should be used to it by now" muttered Mrs. Cake under her breath. Trying to get the state of the room off her mind she asked dryly: "Well what is the occasion today Pinkie?"
"I'm glad you asked, its prank day!" said Pinkie enthusiastically.
"Oooh! That sounds like fun!" said a third party entering from a door in the wall of the third floor that wasn't there before, it was Discord, who was happy that he finally found something fun to do. Mrs. Cake however was not so happy, in fact the sight of Discord walking into the room from the third floor window was too much for her, as such she just quietly walked backwards out of the room as if she had never seen him enter. She decided it would be better to claim to have not seen nor heard of him at all until he left.
"Oh hi Discord! what brings you here?" Asked Pinkie.
"You know how it is, o was in the neighborhood and decided to see if you had anything fun planned for today that you might want help with." He said, trying to look as innocent as possible.
"Well you sure have some good timing, I was just about to go pranking by my self since Rainbow Dash is helping AJ today with her apple orchard. Buuuuut now that you're here I happen to have a free space, if you want to help me?" said Pinkie with a knowing smile on her face.
"I would be delighted to help you pull one over on your friends." Discord said almost endearingly.
"Great! with you here we can do some super-duper-duper pranks! and I know just how to pull them off." Said Pinkie with a hint of mischief in her voice.