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// Famine 
// Story: The Four Ponies of the Apocalypse 
// by JebtheDBAGpony 
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	"Well this is an absolute disaster!" Applejack shouted, looking over at the crops that had suddenly wilted away in the middle of the night. 

Every single Apple she and her brother had ever picked, planted, or even made something out of had just rotted in a single night. This was bad since apples were Equestria's biggest food source, and now there was nothing to feed anybody with!

"You think it might've been sabotage?" Applejack asked Big Macintosh.

"Eyup." He responded with.

"Well shoot!" Applejack threw her hat to the ground in anger. "Do you know who might want to sabotage Ponyville's biggest food source?!"

"Nope." Big Mac responded.

Applejack sighed and went inside the house. It looked like they were gonna have to find something else to eat for breakfast. Applejack grabbed a box of cereal and poured herself a bowl. The moment she opened up the carton, the smell of way old milk hit Applejack's nostrils. She gagged and dumped the milk down the sink, washing it out afterwords and throwing the carton in the backyard trash bin.

"Ah don't get it. Ah just bought that milk yesterday...." She went back inside and decided to eat the cereal dry. 

She ate one piece and spit it into the trash. Stale enough to be used as ammunition. Into the trash it went. maybe she could try a PB&J? Moldy bread, rotten peanut butter and jelly. Into the trash it went. Maybe some of that leftover cheese pizza? Spoiled.... Applejack did a full inspection of all the food in the house and the only thing that wasn't bad was the honey.

"This has GOTTA be some kind of prank set up by Rainbow Dash... Eh, i'll give her a peace of my mind later. I gotta go get some food for mah family....." Applejack picked up her hat from where she threw it down and wet to the store.

Applejack went up to Sugar Cube Corner and saw the "CLOSED" sign hanging on the front door. This was strange since Sugar Cube Corner almost never closed, especially during this time of the day. She looked inside and saw the cakes and Pinkie Pie sitting at the table talking. The cakes seemed to be talking to Pinkie who looked a little sad, like the were accusing her of something. Applejack knocked on the door to get their attention, and waited while Carrot Cake walked up and opened up the door.

"Hey Applejack...." He said glumly. "Sorry but we're closed for today... Things aren't going to well..."

"What's the matter?" Applejack asked, concerned, mainly though for Pinkie.

"Well, all the food and ingredients have just suddenly-" He started.

"Rotted away?" Applejack finished his sentence for him.

Carrot Cake looked surprised at Applejack. "How did you know?"

"Same thing happened over at mah farm!" She stated, much to the surprise of Carrot Cake.

Carrot cake looked back at Cupcake and asked Applejack to wait at the door. She agreed and he went to go and talk to her. After a while, Cupcake came to the door and asked Applejack to come in. She sat down next to Pinkie who wiped away some tears. The Cakes sat down and looked at the two at the table.

"Sorry i couldn't get you anything to drink dear. all of the milk and soda seems to have gone bad and the water's turned green...." Cupcakes apologized.

"Its no problem mam'" Applejack assured, "So what the matter here?"

"Well..." Carrot cake started. "Last night Cupcake and I went to go pick the twins up from their babysitter. We decided to leave Pinkie Pie in charge while we went away. When we came home we didn't notice the light on in the kitchen until the morning. We went inside and saw that all the food had suddenly just rotted away. We think it was because Pinkie Pie might have caused a power surge when she decided to stay up last night playing Kingdom Hearts 2 for hours straight."

"I wasn't on that long....." Pinkie sniffled, "I swear..... I was only on for an hour tops....."

"Well...." Cupcake said to her. "At first it seemed like a ridiculous story that the food just rotted away on it's own, but from the looks of it i'd say she's telling the truth..."

Pinkie brightened up a little, smiling at the fact that they believed her now. Then she looked over at the front door where she saw a woman in a blue Niqab was looking at her. Pinkie waved to the woman who raised the two scales on a chain she was holding. She pressed her finger down on one side and let it go. She then pointed to the glass case that held all the rotten goodies and left. Pinkie looked confused and looked over to the glass case where one, single, cupcake, was not rotten, but fresh....