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// XVIII 
// Story: Twilights Journey: Escape Equestria 
// by Merotik 
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Fluttershy hummed calmly to herself as she casually strolled to Sugar Cube Corner. She ignored all of the chaos that surrounded her as she did so. Mostly due to fear, the chaos appeared to be doing the same and keeping its distance away from Fluttershy. At one point a hay burger the size of a coach had tried to eat Fluttershy. She bit, clawed, and ferociously attacked the poor girl. 

After suffering for several minutes, the burger finally collapsed.

Upon seeing this display, any inanimate or animate chaos filled object did not dare to come close to Fluttershy.

Fluttershy entered Sugar Cube Corner finding little to no difference to the bakery at all. The store looked exactly the same it had before Discord took over (except for the dancing doughnut with the bikini in the corner, that was new).

"Pinkie Pie? Are you in here?" Fluttershy shouted, walking to the front counter. She rang a bell that sat on the counter a few times and waited. After receiving no response for several minutes, Fluttershy grabbed the bell and repeatedly smashed it against the counter. Making the bell ding until she heard a voice from upstairs.

"I'M COMMING!" the voice shouted.

"So that's where Pinkies been" Fluttershy said to herself.

She heard an aggravated Pinkie Pie mumbling to herself as she walked down the stairs. As soon as she arrived at the bottom step and made eye contact with Fluttershy, she growled and reached for a knife beneath the counter.

Thinking Pinkie Pie was going to attack her, Fluttershy reached for a dagger she had hidden within her flank pocket. She quickly relaxed when she saw Pinkie Pie reach into her mane and pulled out a large box of apples and began chopping them with the knife she had initially grabbed beneath the counter.

"So, what do YOU want? Here to laugh at me some more?"

Fluttershy smiled deviously at Pinkie, "As much as I would love to spend my time laughing at you, I have a very important errand to run. I'm not sure how long I'll be leaving Pony Ville for so I'm going to need you to make me two dozen of your "special" cupcakes!" she said, licking her lips.

Pinkie huffed as she aggressively stabbed the front counter. She then reached for a mixing bowl and a bag of flour beneath the counter. "No can do Shy, Discord made me stop making my "special" cupcakes".

Fluttershy's smile immediately dropped into an angry frown. "WHAT!?! WHY!?!"

"Pfft! Buck if I know! From what I got out of his annoying rambling he said that if I continued turning ponies into cupcakes then there won't be any ponies left in Pony Ville. Such a shame too, I was right in the middle of making a one of a kind rainbow cupcake when he just poofed in and stopped me. Dashy would have made such a great cupcake too!"

'Well that's stupid, you'd think the spirit of chaos would have enjoyed something like this'. Fluttershy sighed, "fine, no special cupcakes. Just get me two dozen pastries and I'll leave".

"Whatever" Pinkie said bluntly. She walked into the kitchen for a few minutes, then returned with two large pink boxes. "Here's your pastries Shy. Fifty bits or-"

"Or you'll shank me, I know, I know. Just wait!" Fluttershy reached into her flank pocket and pulled out a coin wallet. She dropped a fifty piece bit onto the counter and was about to grabbed the pastries before Pinkie Pie placed a hoof atop the boxes. 

"Hey, you said you were leaving Pony Ville? The buck are you going anyway?"

"Why the tartarus should I tell you?"

"Just curious, how long of a trip are you making that you need all this food?"

Fluttershy sighed and stared at Pinkie with a dull expression. "Pinkie, if I wanted you to know I would have already told you. As of right now I am trying to leave with my pastries and get on the road as soon as possible. Problem is, your disgusting pink hoof is on the box. So I'm going to ask you kindly to please remove your hoof before I keep it and put it on a plaque on my wall".

"Oh? Is that so? And what are you going to do if I do this?" said Pinkie, grabbing the boxes and placing it beneath her while seting her hind hoof on top of the boxes.

Fluttershy, now becoming extremely annoyed asked, "hey, would you like to come inside my shed?"

Before Pinkie could respond, the two mares heard someone laugh sinisterly behind them. Turning to see who it was, Fluttershy and Pinkie saw Discord sitting at one of the booths, sipping on a smoothie while watching the argument. "You should probably give those pastries to her Pinkie, Fluttershy's done some pretty unspeakable things inside that shed of hers!"

"Discord!?!" both mares shouted.

"Hello ladies! Sorry for interrupting that lovely argument you were having. But, something has popped up and I have a favor to ask of you both".

Fluttershy laughed. "Ya, sure, like we'll do any favors for you!"

"Actually Fluttershy, I think you'll be quite interested in this favor".

"And why's that?" asked Fluttershy.

Discord smiled sinisterly, "because your not the only one who wants Twilight to come back to Pony Ville!"