A Creative Party
Today was another great day for Pinkie Pie as she added the final touches to a small cake with a single candle on it. The place she worked at, Sugarcube Corner, was one of many different shops throughout Canterlot City that sold all kinds of various treats and baked goods. Business was a little slow today, so she decided to take the opportunity to celebrate something special for the Cake family, who owned this shop.
Pinkie was humming a happy tune as she headed out of the kitchen while carrying that cake in one hand. It was the last item she needed for the small party she had planned for today, and if there was one thing she was known to do better than anyone else, it was throwing great parties. Today’s party was going to be especially heartwarming for her, as it would be for people she considered to be like her second family.
“Happy First Builtday, Pound and Pumpkin!” Pinkie cheerfully announced as she entered the dining room.
The young twins, Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake, giggled happily as their parents, Carrot Cake and Cup Cake, smiled in response to Pinkie’s arrival.
Being such young Lego people, Pound and Pumpkin’s bodies consisted of only two pieces; a head and a microfig body — which stood on a space of just one stud and a height of three bricks, with the head on.
Unlike in a biological world like Equestria, people in the Lego World are not born, but rather built. When a happily married couple wish to have a child, they are granted the starting pieces — a customized head and a microfig body — and give it life by sacrificing a small part of both of their creative sparks. After a few years, the microfig body would be replaced with a minifig body with short legs. After a few more years of maturing enough — which included gaining a creative mark — the child would finally be granted their “adult legs”, and thus would be considered fully grown up.
Pinkie Pie set the cake down on the table in front of the twins and cheerfully said, “Make a wish and blow out the candle!”
Pound and Pumpkin quickly obliged. But since they were infants, their blows not only put out the candle, but also got a lot of drool all over the cake.
The slightly disgusted looks on their parents’ faces did not escape Pinkie Pie’s attention. “That’s okay,” she assured them with a big smile. “I made that cake just for them, anyway. That’s why I also made another one for the rest of us!” As she happily skipped along back to the kitchen, she added, “Go ahead and cut that cake for them to share while I get the other one!”
Pinkie had already left the room by the time Mr. and Mrs. Cake turned their attention back to their children. Their eyes widened as they saw the twins grabbing handfuls of that cake and shoving it in their mouths. “Uh, I don’t think that’ll be necessary,” commented Mr. Cake.
While the little microfigs helped themselves to their builtday cake, their mother decided to take another look around at all of the party decorations that Pinkie Pie had set up. The party girl had really gone all out with balloons, streamers, and all kinds of party games. Perhaps what was most impressive of all was that Pinkie had built most of these decorations herself out of various Lego pieces she happened to have lying around.
“I have to admit, Pinkie,” Mrs. Cake complimented, “your creative talents will never cease to amaze me.”
“Thank you, Mrs. Cake!” replied Pinkie as she rushed back out of the kitchen with the other party cake in hand. “I always try my best— Whoa!” She suddenly stepped on one of the various toys that had been left on the floor, which rolled out under her foot, causing her to fling the cake into the air as she landed flat on her face.
Within a split second, as Mr. and Mrs. Cake gasped in shock, Pinkie glanced up and saw the other party cake reach the apex of its flight and began to fall down. “Oh no!” she shouted in panic as she quickly leaped to her feet and jumped over to where it was about to land.
Pinkie Pie failed to catch that cake, but she did manage to smack it away from some of the party decorations, which ended up destroyed by Pinkie herself slamming into them. She gasped as she saw that cake now heading for another bunch of party decorations. Another leap, and she smacked the cake away, only to smash those decorations herself. Again, she saw the cake flung away, and repeated her attempt to save it.
Pinkie’s unintentionally destructive game of hot potato with the party cake by herself continued on until nearly all of the contents of the living room and the dining room had been completely smashed to pieces. After one final dive, Pinkie stood up and looked around, but saw no sign of the cake she so desperately tried to save. “Hey! Where’d it go?” she asked as she quickly looked around. Her answer came when the cake landed right on her head with a loud splat, getting frosting all over her hair.
Pinkie wiped some of the frosting from her eyes and saw all four members of the Cake family staring at her with blank expressions. It was immediately clear to her that she had just ruined the very party that she had worked so hard on.
The first ones to react were Pound and Pumpkin. The twin microfigs actually laughed and giggled, surprisingly quite amused by the big mess that Pinkie had made. But their joy suddenly vanished when a loose piece dropped from the ceiling and landed on both of their heads, immediately causing them both to start crying and whining loudly.
“Oh dear,” said Mrs. Cake in concern. She picked up her babies and cradled them both in her arms in a futile attempt to calm them down.
“Aw, I’m so sorry,” said Pinkie Pie shamefully. She quickly knew that she had to find a way to salvage this party, so she started looking around while desperately saying, “Don’t worry! I can fix this!”
The first thing she did was remove her hair piece and whip it like a towel, instantly removing all of the cake and frosting that had ended up in it. Once she put her now-cleaned hair back on, Pinkie resumed glancing around the room at the big mess of pieces. She needed to somehow use these scattered pieces to build something that would make the two infants happy and forget about this disaster.
When it came to Pinkie Pie, the first idea was almost always the one she decided to go with. It took only seconds for her to come up with that first idea and cheerfully shout, “I know!” She then started hopping around, appearing to be in many places at once as she gathered up most of the loose pieces and quickly put them all together.
Mr. and Mrs. Cake watched with dumbfounded looks on their faces as Pinkie quickly went to work. Even the young twins stopped crying to watch her in awe. This wasn’t the first time this family had watched Pinkie Pie building with Lego pieces, but it was the first time they had seen her do it with pony-like ears and longer hair suddenly appearing on her as she built.
It wasn’t long until Pinkie Pie finished her creation and happily exclaimed, “Ta-da!” She had taken all of the ruined party decorations and built them into a small carousel. Each of the four “horses” was just a bunch of regular bricks put together in a way that was roughly the same shape as a horse, and was just big enough to fit a microfig on the back.
Pinkie quickly turned a crank to start the carousel spinning, which also started playing some slow polka music. She then ran over to Mrs. Cake and grabbed the twins from her. “C’mon! Who wants to ride the mini merry-go-round?” asked Pinkie. She didn’t bother waiting for an answer as she carefully placed them both on opposite sides of the miniature carousel.
The “horses” didn’t just go around in a circle, but also slowly rocked back and forth as they went around. It was an excellent type of gentle ride one would expect to see in an amusement park, and Pound and Pumpkin quickly showed their approval by smiling and laughing as they went around and around.
“Room for one more?” asked Pinkie right before she hopped onto one of the remaining “horses”, despite it being clearly too small for a full-sized minifig like herself. “Wheee! Best First Builtday Party ever!” she proudly declared.
Meanwhile, both Mr. and Mrs. Cake also began to smile as they saw that the party would not be a total disaster, after all. Despite the relief, Mr. Cake was still a little confused by what he had just witnessed. “That was very impressive, Pinkie, but how did you know that would work?” he asked.
“I have absolutely no idea!” replied Pinkie Pie excitedly with arms spread out wide. As soon as she said that, the pony-like changes to her body disappeared, though she showed no signs of even acknowledging that.
Mr. Cake turned to his wife in confusion.
Mrs. Cake understood why her husband was still confused, and she had to admit that she was also just as confused for the same reasons. She shrugged and told him, “Well, you know what she likes to say: ‘Don’t ask questions. Just have fun.’”
The loving parents simply placed an arm behind each other’s backs as they happily watched their children and Pinkie Pie continue to enjoy the miniature ride.