//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: Bork & Pinkie // by anotheraccount //------------------------------// Chapter 2 - Chocolate Bombe         Pinkie Pie followed the Chef behind the counter, bouncing up and down as she went.  She watched as he put his equipment onto a table, setting everything out so that it was easily reached.  The Chef grabbed two wooden spoons and faced the counter, facing towards the tables where Twilight was sitting.  Taking a deep breath as he raised his wooden spoons in front of himself, the Chef began bouncing as music filled the air.  He bounced twice in time to the beat of the music, and then stepped to the side and bounced two more times to the beat.  As Pinkie watched what was happening, a grin appeared on her mouth, slowly growing into a great big smile as she also began bouncing to the beat in excitement.  A quiet "hee hee hee" escaped her mouth as the Chef began to sing.         "Yern gor shpeere, der yoon deritt degoo. Zee gor shpeere derr mittze goo, Bork Bork Bork!"  As he sang the final three words, he smacked the wooden spoons together to the beat and threw the spoons behind him.  The wooden spoons flew through the air in an arc and crashed against the cupboards in the back of the room with loud bang.         "Pinkie, be careful!" Twilight shouted as she saw the spoons become projectiles.         "Shh, it's ok," Pinkie said as she giggled at the Chef's antics.         "Gyoonde shpeere, deheare veborn, de Chocolate Bombe!"  Reaching down behind the counter, the Chef pulled out a metal bowl and put it onto the counter.  "Chilliwilli bowl der cookee."         Right on cue, Pinkie joined in with the cooking demonstration.  "Wow, that bowl is sure cold!  What are we going to put into it?  Let's see..." she opened a door underneath the counter.  "Fruit cake...no....last week's lasagna...no...ah ha!  Here it is...ice cream!"  Pinkie stood up on her back legs and put the ice cream container onto the counter. A bell rang from across the room.  Both Pinkie and Twilight looked over towards the door to see a white unicorn enter.  Both Pinkie and Twilight said "Hi, Rarity" with different levels of enthusiasm.  Twilight responded with a cheerful tone, while Pinkie nearly yelled with manic glee as she waved her hoof in greeting. Rarity looked first at Twilight before looking over at the counter and then back at Twilight again.  "Hello, darlings," she said with a nervous smile.  "Have I missed something?  I didn't realize that Pinkie Pie had a...guest..." Twilight gave Rarity a sheepish smile.  "Eh heh, heh heh, about that...I cast a spell on a whim and something didn't go quite right.  Somehow I summoned our guest, but I have no clue as to who he is or where he came from."  Twilight paused as she looked over at Pinkie and the Chef, who continued their cooking "demonstration" as they talked to the nearly empty room and prepared their dish.  Looking back at Rarity, she continued.  "He appears to be some kind of cook or a chef." "I see," said Rarity as she looked at the pair behind the counter. "Und poot zee bowl in zee chilliwilli freezie!" The chef said as he put the metal bowl into the freezer with a flourish. "Masterfully done, Chef!" Exclaimed Pinkie as she jumped up and down with great enthusiasm. Rarity looked over at Twilight.  "Twilight, darling," said Rarity, "do you know what he is saying?" Twilight lifted her front right hoof and scratched the side of her muzzle.  "I'm not really sure.  Sometimes it sounds as if he is using our words, and other times he isn't. I can't figure it out...but somehow Pinkie seems to somewhat understand him." Over at the counter, Pinkie clopped her front hooves together.  "And now,” she said, “we let it cool for a few hours.  Chef, go ahead and pull out the one we made earlier and we will show our audience what it looks like when it is done." Twilight's face became the proud owner of a very confused expression.  "Um, Pinkie...he just got here a few minutes ago..." The Chef nodded at Pinkie and pulled a second metal bowl out of the freezer.  "Okidoki!" he exclaimed, and with a flourish he flipped the bowl over onto a plate and pulled the bowl away to leave behind a frozen treat.  The Chef then picked up the plate and walked around the counter, and then continued walking over towards the table shared by Twilight and Rarity. Pinkie grabbed a jar of sweet cherries and bounced after the Chef.  She watched as the Chef placed the plate onto the table between Twilight and Rarity, and then she opened the jar of cherries a put one on top of the frozen treat. "Oh, my, that looks delicious," said Rarity as she looked at the frozen treat. "Yum yum, der Chocolate Bombe.  Is verdy guud, guud guud!" Said the Chef as he rubbed his hands together. "Chocolate Bombe," gasped Rarity as her eyes grew wide, "I have heard of this and I’ve always wanted to try it.  It is supposed to be simply devine!"  Rarity leaned closer to the dish and grasped the cherry stem in her telekinesis.  She slowly started pulling it and the the stem pulled out of the cherry. Slowly at first, and then gaining speed, smoke started billowing out from the dessert.  The Chef's eyebrows raised and his mouth opened in an expression of surprise.  Waving his hands in front of him, he began running back and forth in front of the table yelling "Ooooowaaaaahhh!"  Suddenly, a whistle came from the dessert and the a loud BOOM accompanied an explosion that filled the room with smoke. Coughing, Twilight used her magic to open a few windows and the door.  Once the smoke had dissipated enough to allow her to see, Twilight looked around the dining area.  "Oh...dear...that's a lot of chocolate."  Nearly everything had been covered in gooey chocolate, some things more than others.  Rarity, unfortunately, was closest to the chocolatexplosion.  She was completely covered in chocolate, and on the chocolate-covered ceiling there was a unicorn-shaped space that had no chocolate on it. Pinkie Pie blinked twice and then reached a hoof up to wipe chocolate off of Rarity’s face, paused, and then licked her hoof.  “Mmm, that’s pretty good!” Twilight looked at Rarity and noticed a twitching eyelid.  “Okay, time for a commercial-strength cleaning spell.”  Twilight closed her eyes in deep concentration and then her horn lit up.  The room filled with a soft glow as the chocolate gently pulled away from everything that it had become attached to, and slowly floated towards the center of the room.  Twilight’s eyebrow raised as her mouth opened in confusion when she saw that the chocolate pulled together to form a cube that was twice the size of an average pony.  Blinking twice, she banished the chocolate as she said to herself, “I probably shouldn’t even try to figure that out…”