"You could just tell them that a teenage girl in an outfit with crystal-embedded pauldrons ripped the hood off your truck to use as a shield in her duel against another version of the same girl that has big wings made of fire."
Applejack leveled a flat look on Pinkie. "Do ya think they'd really believe that?"
Pinkie simply pointed at the countless people who had whipped out their smartphones and started recording the battle in the sky.
"...Ah'll just check it off as hooligan damage," Applejack conceded. "Probably a lot easier that way." She glanced up at the duel and sighed. "Yeah, we're not goin' ta be able to get them calmed down any time soon. Ah'll call Rarity, maybe between her shield things and mah rope wranglin' skills we'll be able ta get them tied down."
"Okay, you do that. In the meantime, do you mind if I nip into this ice cream parlor?"
"Pinkie, now ain't tha time to be indulgin' your sweet tooth!"
"Well, duh, you know that and I know that but the Sunset Shimmer in there seems not to have gotten the memo."
Applejack blinked, looking through the window of the shop. Sure enough, a version of Sunset dress up in her Camp Everfree formal wear was holding a sundae dish to her face and nomming down on frozen sweets.
"Huh. Alright then." She nodded. "Let's go in and get her, Ah suppose..." She tapped a few keys on her phone. "Rares, when ya get this, come meet us in tha Marble Slab off the corner o' Stirrup street and Saddle Way, we've found a few of... Sunset, Ah guess?"
Pinkie skipped through the door, giggling as she sat down next to Sunset. "You seem to be having fun."
"OH MY GOD. PINKIE. PINKIE DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS."
"Literally or metaphorically? Cause both have like, ten different answers."
"THIS." Sunset licked the final stickiness off the sundae dish. "THIS IS... this is the total, the amazing, this is the amazing total. OF SWEET GOODNESS."
Pinkie nodded. "Well, not the total total. You, uh, got a little something on your cheek there."
Sunset blinked, looking at her reflection in the dish and trying to wiggle her tongue out to catch it.
Applejack rolled her eyes. "Hey, uh, look. If ya'll're done here, maybe we should getcha back to tha lab."
"But Twilight is still in the boring data analysis phaaaaaaase!" Sunset whined. "I don't wanna listen to statistics!"
"Actually, Ah got a text from her a short bit back. Starlight's back and she's brought yer..." Applejack glanced at the phone. "Ah think brother?"
"OH MY GOD." Sunset swiped the sundae dish aside as she lunged over the table. "SUNBURST IS HERE?!"
"Uh... yeah, that's what Ah just--"
"Ohmygod this is amazing! Wait no this is horrible, I'm split into so many parts--no, wait he's here to fix that, right? I mean duh, of course he is!" The girl dropped Applejack and started pacing. "But what if he needs me to go back to Equestria to fix this? I could miss the new Daring Do movie!"
"Oh my gosh that's kind of important!" Pinkie agreed. "But that's a month away, and I'm pretty sure he'll have this fixed by then."
"Oh right, right right! Yeah, time, it's a thing!" Sunset giggled. "I guess I could use the time to read some more of this world's history or find some more sweets to eat or something."
"Could you maybe consider going to the lab and lettin' yer brother do his fancy magic with ya?" Applejack offered.
"I wouldn't be able to stay put!" Sunset explained. "I think I'm the feelings, right? Like do you know how good this ice cream was? It was soooooooooo good!" She sniffled. "And now it's gone, forever!"
"Hey, hey hey!" Pinkie put an arm around her. "Do you know what I do when I realize I've run out of ice cream?"
"What?"
"I..." Pinkie grinned. "BUY MORE ICE CREAM!"
"Oh my gosh. You're right! There's an economic solution!" Sunset fumbled around her dress. "Wallet, wallet, where's my wallet--"
Applejack facepalmed. "Sunset, ya know that's gonna get you a stomachache, right?"
"What?!" Sunset whirled to her, tears in her eyes. "Really?!"
"I never get stomachaches," Pinkie pointed out."
"You're Pinkie Pie," Applejack reminded her.
"...Fair point. Still." Pinkie took Sunset's quaking shoulders. "Look at that face, AJ. Look at that sad sad face."
The farm girl looked at the quivering lips, sniffling nose, and water-drenched eyes.
"...Seen worse in the mirror," she replied, unimpressed.
"Whhhyyyyyyyyyy?" Sunset wrapped her arms around Pinkie, burying her head in her shoulders. "WHY IS AJ SO MEAN TO MEEEEEEEEE?!"
"There there," Pinkie cooed, patting her back. "She's just trying to be a level-headed responsible adult without realizing that the situation needs a delicate touch."
Applejack threw up her hands. "Pinkie, we gotta get all of them back to tha lab. Letting one of them pig out on ice cream is not 'gettin' them back to tha lab!'"
"It is if she's pigging out in the lab."
"The lab doesn't have ice cream."
"Not yet." Pinkie twirled out her cell phone, flicking it open. "Maud! Sister my sister, my beloved big sister, Maudalina Daisy Pie, I have a big huge super big ginormous humongous little favor to ask of you!"
"What is it?"
"You know my super-secret-special-stupendous-sugar-sweet-succulent supply of ultimate ice cream that I keep hidden in the back of the freezer that's in the room behind the locked door that's behind the heating unit in the cellar?"
"...I do now."
"Well there's a tub of mint chocolate ice cream beside it. Could you get that and bring it up to the laboratory at the school? It's a magical emergency type thing. Oh, and whatever you do, don't touch the SSSSSSS ice cream with your bare skin. Wear rubber gloves. It's technically legal, don't worry, it's just... kiiiiiiind of experimental right now."
"Okay. Be there in ten minutes."
"Thanks a bundle, Maud!" Pinkie flipped her cell phone shut. "So you'll get ice cream if you come with us to the lab, okay Sunset?"
"Oh my gosh that sounds incredible!"
"And we can watch a movie!"
"Can it be the one with the dogs?!"
"Absodutley!"
Applejack blinked as the two walked past her and out of the ice cream parlor. "Uh... okay then. That works, Ah guess..."
Rarity rushed in, grabbing her shoulders. "Applejack, I saw Sunset and Sunset. You have a plan?"
"Uh--right, those two." Applejack shook her head. "Sorry, got distracted by Pinkie's nonsense. Ah've got mah rope, you've got yer shields, so Ah was thinkin' maybe..."
*notices how similar THIS Sunset is to Pinkie Pie*
sweet Celestia: there's TWO of them!!!
Uh...Ah...Eh...She would have a stash of "ultimate ice cream" hidden in such an inconvenient place.
. . .EXCUSE ME?! Not only does she have the stash, but she apparently has also acquired liguid nitrogen ice cream?! wow.
Apparently the personification of Sunset's emotions is both more hyperactive and more emotionally fragile than Pinkie. How has the multiverse not imploded from this yet?
Nope.
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Could just be drugs, some of those work on skin contact ya know.
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Liquid nitrogen ice cream is a thing. Liquid Nitrogen's boiling point is -195 DEGREES CELSIUS, OR ABOUT -320 DEGREES FARENHEIT! Touching ANYTHING that is that cold with your bare hands will instantly freeze your skin, hence why Pinkie warned Maud to wear rubber gloves. Science.
To prove that liquid nitrogen ice cream is a thing, here is a video of a Russian and I believe an American making it:
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Oh yeah, it's been a thing for a while, it's just not as amazingly nasty as hollywood makes it look.
Yes, wear rubber gloves, yes, wear eye protection. No it is not going to be held at that temperature inside a regular fridge next to a normal tub of Mint-Choco Chip.
Hence, why it's probably just some of skin contact drug, most likely DMSO which is a skin contact vector combined with Cynarine which makes things taste much, much sweeter (it's found in artechokes).
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Pinkie specifically said ice cream. If it was drugs, she would have just said so outright. This is Pinkie after all, everybody else would have passed such a comment off as Pinkie being Pinkie.
And who said the fridge was a regular fridge? Pinkie is expecting a normal tub of Mint-Choco Chip to stay frozen, going from a fridge in the Pie family basement, stashed behind a heating unit, which it will inevitably have to go past, to one of the labs at CHS, which is who knows how far away from the school. In a car. I highly doubt that is a normal fridge that Pinkie has it stashed in. That fridge is at least cold enough to make that tub of MCC harder than a concrete cinder block.
It is amusing to watch people try to use science to understand Pinkie Pie.
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We are not trying to understand Pinkie Pie, we are trying to understand her ice-cream.
There is a significant difference, as the show showed that pinkie does have to follow basic baking laws, otherwise the baked bads would have edible solely from the fact they passed though pinkie's hooves.
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But Cynarine is an extract from Artechoke, one of the more common ingredients in the world (that nobody likes, but what ho!), and DMSO is common enough that Pinkie might think it was a good idea (it's really not), those things combined might sweat out of ice-cream.
Also a freezer keeping that cold on the inside would be a heating unit on the outside...wait a second.
We've solved part of the mystery.
Plus everyone know that Ice-cream is at perfect eating temperature when you've just driven it home from the shop and it's partly melted, and soft enough to cut with a spoon.
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This is good. I need more of this in my life.
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What is DMSO?
And why else would Pinkie be using a heater to block the door to her stash?
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DMSO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide
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If we can decipher her methods of making experimental ice cream(did I really just say those three words in that order?), then we could be one step closer to figuring out her in general! A brony can dream.
Also, what if she used both liquid nitrogen and Cynarine, and DMSO? Who is to say she didn't?
It's really unfair of you to throw something like that into one of your zany, wacky stories.
Delightful insanity aside from that solemn moment.
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Someone get this man a small cigar and get me a coffee, we're crackin' this code!
On the discussion about Pinkie’s experimental ice cream, it’s most likely her version of MMMM or maybe it’s Smile Dip ice cream.
So, I'm guessing that Crystal Ball!Sunset is the peppy, ditzy teenage girl that you generally only see in her when something cool happens?
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I knew processed "cheese product" was an abomination, but I had no idea...
this was over way too fast after not being updated in so long
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One of my favorite tidbits of information is that cheese lobbyists tried to get velveeta legally classed as "embalmed cheese" when it hit the market, in order to make it sound more unappetizing.
Wow... Whether here or in Equestria, AJ really does cry on the inside.
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Wasn't that the whole point of Feeling Pinkie Keen way back in Season One?
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Apples cries on the inside.
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Hmm... it seems to have an effect on skin content. The idea of liquid nitrogen is one to keep in mind, but surely Pinkie knows the magic of soft serve, and wouldn't want it to be as hard as concrete. So what edible chemicals are skin absorbent? My first thought went to caffeine, perhaps dissolved with sugar alcohols. That would diffuse through skin, however that much pure caffeine would be potentially lethal to ingest. In the same manner most active chemicals that could have a demonstrable effect when absorbed through skin after brief contact would likely cause an overdose when consumed. So I think it is safe to say any drug (of the legal variety) or mind altering chemical can be ruled out. My final suggestions is that it could be color additives that stain most anything, a highly sticky compound from her many sweeteners, or the previous stated liquid nitrogen theory.
'technically' legal? Sweet Celestia... do we even want to know what's in that ice cream?
Good golly Molly, this is about to get fun:-)
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....the fact that "embalmed" would make it sound more appetizing is concerning.
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I'm kinda surprised that Pinkie didn't just pull out random ice cream from one of her stashes all over Canterlot in case of an ice cream emergency.
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actually liquid nitrogen ice cream is softer than you would expect, go have ice cream at subzero ice cream, and you will find it's really good and not as hard as you expect
This is so incredibly beautiful. Like holy cow. You dun gud.