//------------------------------// // Fear // Story: Pinkie bakes some brownies // by F1utt3rshy //------------------------------// As the magically charge flew out the tip of Twilight's horn and coursed through the machine, the room went silent. That is, except for the sounds of the gears turning, the low whistle of the finely oiled mechanisms of the machine and the sound of increasingly heavy breathing coming from one Rainbow Dash, who was barely capable of staying seated as a feeling of pure distress as the machine started to do its work of diagnosing the sudden illness that was inflicting Spike. A cold sweat ran down her neck as the low beeping began, the lights on the machine slowly illuminating one by one. Many thought were rapidly forming in Rainbows head, most of which were strategy's on how to get out of the situation thrust upon her with as little confrontation as possible, hoping that, with a little effort and a lot of luck, she could get away unscathed from the ensuing battle of words and possible hoofs that was likely to happen any moment from then. She tried to calm herself but was failing to do so the worry being to much for her, all she could do was watch and wait and even that was turning out to be more challenging than expected. She just sat. Twilight focused her eyes on the contraption that would exposed the ailment inflicting Spike, barely noticing the nervous wreck that Rainbow was slowly become but she merely shrugged it off, more worried about her dragon and number one assistant Spike's well-being. She was quickly growing anxious but calmed herself using the breathing technique Cadence had taught her. She looked at Spike, who was squirming in the seat he was firmly strapped in. All eyes turned back towards the contraption,which held both the much wanted knowledge from Twilight and the assuredly dreadful confrontation with Twilight from Rainbow, as a thick scroll began flowing out, growing quite long exceedingly fast. it started coiling into itself after some time and abruptly stopped about three minutes later. Once she was sure the scroll was finished printing, twilight grasped it with her magic and pulled it close to her person, unraveling it as she did so. Just as the parchment got up to Twilight's now intrigued eyes, Rainbow, who couldn't stay seated and watch the situation unfolded any longer, burst from her seat and snatched the scroll from Twilight's magical grip, much to the surprise of the unicorn in question, and through it straight into the furnace that was position on the wall to the left of the machine which propagated the vile parchment. She then quickly unstrapped Spike, who was back to his normal self, picked him up, kicking and screaming and fled towards the door of the basement in a vain attempt to escape Twilight,s sure fury. "Rainbow, What do you think your doing?"Twilight said, right pissed, and attempted to chase the two and thinking quickly she used her magic to shut the door before Rainbow and her Captive could escape, but Rainbow, not having any of that yelled back. "What does it look like I'm doing Twi, I'm trying to escape here ...oh and its seems you forgot that I usually don't use doors" she said as she burst straight through the close door demolishing it in the process. She then proceed to crash into several bookshelves in her mad dash to escape the clutches of the local librarian, who most definitely wasn't an all powerful Alicorn, and made some quick apology's before slamming into the front door, shattering in into a fine mist of sawdust and running from the scene,quickly spotting Pinkie and running straight for her. While this was happening Twilight, who was already angry at Rainbow , gave chase, her anger building up to an uncontrollable level as Bookshelves and doors were thrown about without a second thought by Rainbow in her hurry. She growls angrily and curses Rainbow under her breath, subconsciously trying to figure out the cost of repair that would most certainly come out of her own pocket,that is if she had pockets, and her rage builds up to a critical point and she burst into flames"Rainbow, you come back with Spike right now!!"she says unknowing burning some of her books with her flaming mane but luckily now fire starts. She quickly exits her library and resumes chasing Rainbow, shinging the ground lightly as she passes over it. She see Spike burn Rainbows mane and escape and rushes over to him,but is stopped by Rainbow,who created a strong gust of wind that knocked her away. Rainbow,aggravated by Spike burning her mane and noticing Twilight approaching , created a gust of wind with her wings and chased Spike around until he ran up to Pinkie, who was walking around looking confused.She yelled out to Pinkie, gaining the mares attention and then took the opportunity to forcefully grab Spike and quickly jumped into the air and gained some altitude, so as to escape the ground bound unicorn. Pinkie,after hearing Rainbows words and noticing a raging Quickly approaching, thunks to herself and satisfied with her decision she walks over to Twilight."How are you today?"she asks with a smile,in typical Pinkie pie fashion,a hint of nervousness in her voice. Twilight stops upon hearing Pinkie and turns to the mare"Just great"she says with full sarcasm, not wanting to deal with the party planer at the moment,see quickly sidesteps Pinkie and is about to continue running when Pinkie, thinking quickly, uses her forth-wall breaking powers to conjures an apple pie into existence and proceeds to splatter it all over Twilight's face. "Looks like you got pie all over your face Twilight ...its a good look on you"she says giggling before running away after Rainbow and Spike,hoping that she bought herself and the duo some time. Twilight rubs the pie off her face, grumbles and just now remembering she could teleport, teleports nest to Rainbow, who was in mid flight"I,ve got you now"she yells victoriously. Then Rainbow crashes into a wall, out cold.