//------------------------------// // Cheesecake // Story: New Year's Kiss // by scarves-n-converse //------------------------------// "Let's see... Ah! Some streamers here, a banner there... and-- oh yeah! Confetti!" A cannon's boom echoed throughout the decorated bakery. Within seconds, floor was now covered in tiny colorful squares of paper. "Eeheehee! Oops! Maybe that was a bit too much!" A magenta hoof tapped the chin of its pony. "Hm... Nah!" Pinkie Pie was absolutely ecstatic. True, this wasn't the first year that Mr. and Mrs. Cake had allowed her to throw a New Year's party in Sugar Cube Corner, but this was the first year that they were allowing her to invite all of Ponyville! The mare jumped with glee. "Oh my gosh! It's almost time! I'm so excited! And nervous!" Pinkie halted in mid-air. "Hm... Didn't I make a word for that once?" *** "My name is... Briearty. Cheese Briearty!" The tangerine stallion maliciously stroked his curled mustache and heaved a mighty, "Muahahahaha!" The suited colt sitting across from the villain scowled, taking out the bubble pipe from his mouth for the first time that day. "So you were the one who stole all of the cake!" Briearty cackled. "Yes! And now I and Sebastian--" he pulled a rubber chicken with the number 2 painted on its belly from his pocket. "-- shall eat it in front of all of you, Fetlock Holmes, and all of your foalish friends!" The other foals that crowded the room gasped. What a fiend, to come to their party and take their delicious treat for his own! It was a travesty! They had spent the entire day trying to find the culprit of this heinous crime. What a devastation to discover that it had been Pip-- er, Fetlock Holmes' party planner all along! But Fetlock was undaunted. "Not if I can help it, you vile pony!" The dappled colt sprang across the table and tacked Cheese Briearty to the floor. Everypony in the room cheered. Briearty scowled, but his expression morphed into surprise when his black mustache fell from his nose. "Oh no! My beautiful mustache!" The stallion began to feign tears, his pride now broken. Fetlock's victorious grin flipped into a frown. He couldn't stand to see even someone as evil as Cheese Briearty look so sad. The colt climbed off of the stallion. "Mister Briearty?" Cheese stopped crying. "...Yes, Fetlock?" "Would you...like to share the cake with us?" The villain blinked. "But, why would you show such kindness to me? I stole your cake and was going to eat it! With Sebastian!" The rubber chicken sprawled out on the floor stared into space. Fetlock picked up Cheese's mustache and placed it back on the orange pony's nose. "Because, even bad ponies deserve to be happy sometimes." "Oh, Fetlock... Thank you." The detective and the villain shared a hug. All of the foals cheered once again, for friendship had won the day. *** "Ah..." Cheese Sandwich smiled to himself as he pranced down the road of Trottingham. "Another great party. Eh, Sebastian?" Boneless Two's head bobbed in agreement as he rode on his best friend's back. "I thought so too. And that cake was amazing!" Suddenly, Cheese's right foreleg began to wobble. His left back leg decided to join as well. Soon, all of the stallion's body was wiggling. "Woo-hoo! It's another big one, Boney!" Jumping into the air, the pony flipped about. "And I think it's in..." Cheese halted, suspended in the air. "Ponyville?! Hot dog! What are they doing there?" A sudden realization popped into his mind. "Oh my sweet Saint-Marcellin! New Year's Eve?! That's today?! Why didn't you tell me, Boneless Two?" The rubber chicken didn't reply, obviously shamed that he hadn't informed his friend of this occasion. "Eh, that's alright. Don't beat yourself up over it. Now let's go!" And with that, Cheese Sandwich bounced his way toward his favorite town on the map. Or maybe Canterlot was his favorite. Or Manehattan. Or-- *** Pinkie was shaking from head to hoof. "Ooh, it's almost time! I can hardly wait!" Eleven o'clock was almost here. Where was everypony? "Oh, they're probably just getting ready. Obviously. They read the invitation! It said eleven! ...Didn't it?" Suddenly, Pinkie's heart stopped beating. "Oh my gosh! I didn't send out invitations!" The mare sank to the floor. "If they got no invitations, they won't come to the party! And if no one comes to the party..." The bubbly mane upon the pony's head flattened like a balloon with no helium. "There won't be a party at all." I can't believe you forgot the invitations, a voice in Pinkie's head spat. You spent all this time planning and decorating, and now it's going to amount to nothing at all! Pinkie Pie sniffed. "I know. I'm a foalish pony." New Year's Eve is ruined, all thanks to you. "I know..." It's not like you can just move the party to Town Square, where everypony will be at. "Yeah... Wait a second. What did you say?" Um... that you can't move the party to-- "Town Square! That's it!" The mare's mane inflated once again, and she bounced about the room. "I'll just move everything to Town Square, by the clock tower! Everypony will be so happy!" But how do you expect to move everything before everyone arrives? "Oh... yeah." Again, Pinkie fell to the floor. "There really won't be a party..." Suddenly, the door slammed open, and an orange blur flew inside the bakery. "Whoa!" The intruder landed upon Pinkie Pie, reaping a surprised squeak. "Oops! Sorry-- Pinkie Pie?" Pinkie's cerulean eyes grew so large one would think they'd explode. "Cheese Sandwich!" The pony jumped up to her hooves, spinning her visitor around in circles. "What are you doing here?" Cheese laughed while he spun about. "My Cheesey Sense smelled the most radical New Year's Eve party Ponyville's ever going to see! So here I came!" Pinkie stopped spinning her friend. "Oh. Well, there's not going to be a party. You see--" "You spent the whole week planning and getting decorations and decorating and were so excited about the whole thing that you forgot to send out any invitations?" The magenta mare smiled. "Wow! You're good!" "Just a hunch. Now, let's see if we can move all of this stuff into Town Square!" "But I didn't even tell you about that part yet!" Cheese winked. "Planner's Intuition! Now let's go!" *** The Town Square was bustling with ponies from all over town. Everyone was impatiently awaiting the moment that the clock would strike twelve, and it would be the New Year in Equestria! "Have you seen Pinkie anywhere?" Twilight turned all about, searching for the mare. "I haven't seen her at all today." Fluttershy shook her head. The three other ponies and dragon with the group all had the same reply. Twilight scratched her head. "That's so strange. I would have thought she'd be bouncing around Ponyville all day." A boom from the sky interrupted all of the ponies' conversations. "What was that?" "I don't know! Is a thunderstorm scheduled?" "The pegasi haven't said anything about a storm..." But all went quiet for a brief moment as tiny flakes of every hue fell from the heavens. "What's this?" "There's color everywhere!" Two voices then called from the sky. "Hello, Ponyville! Who's ready to celebrate the New Year?!" Everypony began to cheer, immediately recognizing both voices. Cheese and Pinkie were now floating above everyone's heads in a large hot-air balloon. Music began to play from the device, heard by all ears down below. Ponies began to either dance or simply bob their head to the music. That was when the clock struck twelve. Mares and colts alike pulled their significant others close in a kiss. Cheese threw his hoof into the air. "This is fantastic! Best New Year's Eve party ever!" Pinkie giggled in agreement. Suddenly, Boneless Two fell from Cheese's back onto the floor of the balloon. "Whoops!" As Cheese was about to stoop down and pick his friend up again, his hoof slipped, and he fell forward. Right into Pinkie Pie's lips. Pinkie blinked in brief astonishment. Cheese quickly stood back up. "Oops! Sorry!" But the pink pony just laughed. "You taste like frosting!" "I do? Cool!" The friends embraced as Ponyville partied through the night.