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That's not Hot Sauce

“Come on Flutters, we gotta find Twilight! Can't ya fly?”

“... but I'm afraid those crows will find me.”

“Land sakes, Flutters! Yer an expert on animals! Why would crows follow ya like that?”

The two ponies galloped through the streets of Ponyville in search of their trusted friend, to hopefully find a cure for these odd powers they had recently obtained. Fluttershy was the most hasty about this for every minute or so, more of her black-feathered friends would continuously seek her. For every corner she turned, there were always three or more crows waiting. It puzzled her greatly, but she still felt fear when gazing into those birds' murderous eyes.

While it was a top priority to fix all of this, Applejack raced past ponies who commuted within the streets. Her new-found levitation power seemed to benefit in the current situation and could possibly help to increase apple bucking productivity. But if its side effect could lift one-ton stallions into the air, then she was determined to rid herself of such an ability.

Fluttershy ran along side the farm pony to keep up, but they pass the home and business of another unfortunate pony.

***

At Sugarcube Corner, Mrs. Cake was in the midst of trying to fulfil the orders of several hungry ponies. The line snaked out of the door while she worked as diligently as she could.

"Okay, so you would like a dozen chocolate chip muffins and two peanut butter cupcakes." the blue mare hummed as she wrote down the customer's order, "That will be 13 bits."

The customer happily paid and received in exchange a large box of muffins, topped with two medium-sized cupcakes.

"Thank you," Mrs. Cake called as the customer left, "come again!"

In the kitchen of this bustling business is where the next bizarre event shall occur, depending if it satisfies her rather than frightens her.

"Making cakes, making cakes, making scrumpdelicious cupity cakes." a pink mare with a poofy cotton-candy like mane sang a perky little song as she stirred a batch of batter, "Sweet and sour, add some flour, and maybe a dash of sprinkles!"

She snorted a laugh at her amusing melody.

"Pinkie Pie!" a stallion called as he poked his head into the room. Pinkie halted her song and turned to face him.

"We have a big order for super fudge brownies," he said, "could you get started on them?"

"Yes sir, Mr. Cake sir!" Pinkie saluted.

Mr. Cake nodded and left to help his wife handle the crowd while Pinkie trotted happily to the pantry. It was mildly dark with one light shining above her and the wide variety of ingredients. She scrolled through all the best of the bakery to cook up a batch of brownies.

"Let's see," she said as she analyzed the inventory, "chocolate mix, chocolate chips... A-HA! Here it is."

She grabbed a box of brownie mix from the back of the shelves. But as she removed it from the shelf it revealed a strange red object.

"Oooh," Pinkie said as she dropped the brownie mix and picked up the item, "what's this?"

She inspected it eagerly. Its top half was shaped like some sort of devil creature, and a red liquid inside sloshed around at every toss and turn.

"... Devil's Kiss." Pinkie read the label on its front, "Wow a new hot sauce!"

Mistaking it for her favorite topping she carried the bottle out of the pantry, making sure to grab the designated pastry mix before leaving.

The perky pink mare quickly got started on the first batch of delectable fudge brownies. She combined the ingredients with practiced speed before pouring the mixture into a baking pan and placing it into the oven.

When the ovens timer chimed a while later, Pinkie immediately decorated them with gooey white frosting and rainbow colored sprinkles.

"Order up!" Pinkie shouted as she placed the stack of freshly baked goods.

The Cakes were still busy managing the to-ing and fro-ing outside, but that wasn't going to stop Pinkie from performing her traditional 'taste testing' of her creation.

"I'd better see if these brownies are fit enough to eat. I wouldn't want anypony to eat 'Baked Bads' again." she said to herself, remembering the tainted muffin epidemic.

As flamboyant as she was, she lassoed her tongue around the treats and gobbled down three of the six brownies on the plate.

"Yep," she said with her mouth full, "these are definitely not bad."

Her sweet tooth just couldn't get enough, but she froze on her next brownie when she saw that the bottle still stood on the table. Deciding that it these treats needed some spice to go with them she grabbed the bottle, pulled the devil's head off, and poured a generous portion of the liquid onto a brownie. It smelled spicy, but the consistency was much more liquified than pasty. More sauce splotched onto the chocolate goodness, replacing the white frosting with red juices. Pinkie then threw what was left of the bottle behind her, shattering it in the distance.

"Time for the real test." she said as she licked her lips.

She then ate the whole spicy brownie with one swift bite, humming with euphoria at the mixture of sweet and spicy before swallowing.

"Even better with hot sauce!" she said gleefully.

With her taste testing duty achieved it was time for Pinkie to concoct another batch since her last one had been approved to eat, so to speak. She cooked them up in a split second without a hassle before carrying the finished brownies into the lobby and placing them in front of the Cakes.

"All done!" she said.

"Thank you very much Pinkie Pie." Mr. Cake smiled at the assorted chocolate confections, "Yessire, these are the most delicious brownies I've ever... seen."

He trailed off as he looked up at Pinkie's mane. Unbeknownst to the party pony, her cotton-candy mane had been replaced with a blazing fire that danced on top of her head.

"The most scrum-delicious fudgarific brownies yours truly can bake." Pinkie smiled, oblivious to the miniature inferno raging atop her head.

Suddenly, both of the Cakes screamed in terror, as well as the customers who also bore witness to the party mare's wild mane. They scrambled for the exits with the proprietors and their children following behind.

Pinkie just stood there, tilting her head in confusion.

"What was all that about?" she questioned, "Was it something I said?"

With her curiosity triggered Pinkie walked outside in time to see the ponies from the bakery as faint dots on the horizon. It was then that she began to smell something. It smelled like baked goods from her perspective, but to the passing ponies who lingered near the building, they smelled burning hair.

"FIRE!!!" somepony shouted, causing the whole street corner to scamper like roaches.

By this time Pinkie was very confused, because she couldn't see a fire for miles. She smelled something that was burning, but in her mind there was no sign of any fire.

"What?" Pinkie asked as some of the ponies nearby ran off, "There's no fire."

"Ma'am!" one pony called, "Your tail is on fire!"

Pinkie craned her head behind her to see that her puffy pink tail was ablaze.

"Oh yeah, it is on fire." Pinkie seemed calm for a moment until her pupils suddenly shrank into pinpricks and she screamed, "My tail is on fire!"”

It an effort to douse her fiery mane and tail she ran to the square not too far from Sugarcube Corner, where there was a fountain. She ran at a very high speed, higher than normal, leaving behind a burning trail past the scattering crowd. Her mane was getting more furious in its blaze as she galloped straight to the fountain. Without a thought she jumped in, creating a minor tidal wave which splashed the ponies nearby. They murmured with anger, their manes and tails flattened by the sudden cascade of water, which sizzled like eggs on a frying pan before Pinkie Pie finally emerged.

"Whew!" she said as she hung her upper body over the edge of the fountain, "That was close."

Relieved that her spontaneous combustion was finally over, Pinkie jumped out of the fountain with a flattened mane and tail that were back to their original pink colors. The nearby ponies started to shake themselves dry, but Pinkie shook hers more vigorously, causing all the water in it to rain down on the ponies. Their manes were once again ruined while Pinkie's exploded back into its puffy shape. They tossed harsh glares at Pinkie, who smiled sheepishly.

"Heh," she chirped, "sorry everypony!"

"Pinkie Pie!" Roseluck yelled, "What was all that about?"

"About what?" Pinkie asked in confusion.

"The fire in your mane." Roseluck replied.

Pinkie began to panic.

"What?" she yelped, "My mane's on fire again?!"

She attempted to jump back into the fountain but was stopped by Roseluck.

"No, Pinkie, wait!" Pinkie froze in mid-air over the water and Roseluck continued talking, "I mean the fire that just happened."

"Oh that." Pinkie said as she landed on the ground, "I don't know. I was just eating brownies, when the whole store screamed like 'AHHH!'. And then I was like 'What's wrong?', then I noticed my tail was on fire and then I zoomed over to this fountain and jumped in, like this."

She then jumped into the fountain for a second time, causing another splurge of water to hit the ponies nearby. Pinkie burst out of the fountain with a flourish.

"And that's what happened." she finished, her mane once again wet.

"Uh huh..." Roseluck said dully as she shook her mane dry, "And what did you do before that?"

"I was just baking the goods," Pinkie replied as she climbed out of the fountain, "and ate them with a new hot sauce Mrs. Cake bought."

"I never bought any hot sauce." Mrs. Cake said within the crowd, now back from their evacuation. Mr. Cake and the twins also returned, completely unharmed by the fire. Pinkie tilted her head in confusion.

"So if you didn't buy that hot sauce," Pinkie replied, "then what did I..."

She gasped as the realisation caught up with her.

"The hot sauce caused my mane to catch on fire!!" she exclaimed, "Wow, I knew it was spicy but not THAT spicy."

"You're feeling okay now though?" Roseluck asked, "... right?"

"Oh sure," Pinkie answered cheerfully, "I'm fit as Fiddlestick's fiddle. But I do feel kind of funny after I drank that sauce."

Suddenly Pinkie belched up a large fireball, flying threw the air towards a nearby wooden wagon and catches fire instantaneously.

Everypony gasped in shock.

"Oh no... I'VE BECOME A DRAGON!" Pinkie shouted, "I've got to find Twilight and get her to help me with this!"

She then dashed towards the library, leaving the crowds very much confused at what just occurred.

"That mare is just full of surprises." Bon Bon muttered.

"Yeah," Lyra said from beside her, "but I hope that's just one problem."

Just then their attention was caught by a raspy scream above them. They looked up to see Rainbow Dash flying for her life from a murder of crows, which were cawing with savage determination.

"Too late." Bon Bon sighed.

Author's Note:

Enormous thanks to my good friend GeodesicDragon for proofreading this chapter. I noticed my last chapter had some grammar error, and I felt unconfident to post a new one. So I just asked Geo through Skype and he happily gave me results. Again thank you very much, Geo. I'll repay you with a new drawing ASAP.

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Grey Warden

Grey Warden #1 · May 6th, 2013 · · ·

pinkie with devils kiss say that from a mile away. but still good.

Inferno demon Dash

Inferno demon Dash #2 · May 6th, 2013 · · ·

Best chapter yet, laughed so hard on this. Love it, now I'm tempted to play Bioshock 3 for a third time DAMN IT!!!! I don't want to play it when nothing changes Shit...I can't wait for more