Pinkie ends up in a waitng room for some new supplies of cupcake batter and some extra sprinkles.
Pinkie has gone to pick up some shipments of cupcake batter that has been kinda late for a while. When she reaches there, she meets her greatest and well-known enemy, and she can feel it taunting her from all corners of her mind. She enters a Waiting Room.
Pinkie Pie hopped to the counter full of her usual amount of joy and happiness, and as usual the clerk at the counter was as most ponies were to Pinkie. But something was quite off to Pinkie about her, like as if she had some form of grudge towards her for something.
"Good Evening, Miss Pinkie Pie? Is that truly your name because it sounds and you seem to scatterbrained to be a professional baker? Please explain to me why I should allow you to take a number and wait the time for your "shipment"."
The clerk sounded very, very rude to Pinkie; but she didn't want to yell or try to seem rude back the clerk even though she was to her. So she tried to calm down and made herself seem more focused and slightly suave to the clerk in the tone of her voice.
"I'm sorry, but yes that is my name and I need those boxes of cupcake batters for my job at Sugar--"
She lost her tone and calmness when she saw the number on the ticker next to the clerk, it read: Number 236. Then began to panic about the time she'll be in here.
"Oh please please please~ I need that batter to make some ultra tasty rainbow-tastic cupcakes for my friends for our party because Rainbow Dash got allowed into the Wonderbolts Reserves!"
The clerk rolled her eyes at Pinkie and then told her to take a number from the deposit box, it read 264; as Pinkie read this she began to sweat and she gulped quite hard that the clerk heard it and snickered lightly to herself. Pinkie shook her head fast and brushed off the fact she heard the clerk snicker to herself, Pinkie sat herself down on the couch and began the time for her to wait. As she sat down, she knew this was going to be a long while just to pick up this shipment of cupcakes just for a party. She started to think about what her choices were the best in her favor for this to happen. But she smacked herself back into reality so she could focus onto what her task was right now, to get the batter, to get the mix for Rainbow, to help celebrate her party!
Then Pinkie heard heard the first two numbers tick away, she realized that she will be here for a long time. Her mind began to wonder all over the place so she started to do cart-wheels around the waiting room to waste time so she could have less time to wait. Another number ticked down, Pinkie knew that if she kept trying to pass time she would be done here much faster to the point where she will have more time to make super duper extra special cupcakes for the party. But as she thought of this little thing she noticed, someone else walked in and went to repair the number ticker; so it went dark for a while. Pinkie saw this and panicked in complete horror because seeing this made her scared, she wouldn't know what number it would be on. As the clock passed the first hour, things would be much more of a pain for her to deal with.
Pinkie Pie saw as things were going to be much more boring then she once thought when she originally walked into here, she was going to make things better. Her sight started to slowly devolve from what she normally sees. She saw the room for what it truly was, a boring, blank white room that sucks the time out of people. She then collapsed onto the couch and started to feel tired and near the point of passing out. Her mane started to slowly become a bit straight, not as puffy and fluffy as normal.
She placed her hooves in front of her eyes, trying to entertain herself with her own imagination. But it was to no avail, because the clerk called out a number and it made Pinkie realize what was going on. The number was moving slower and ever more so slower, it started to make her a bit more mad and bored. She then started to bang her head on the couch with some input to make her pass out so she would have less time to wait for the ticker to finish being fixed. She tried to fix herself up knowing this, she started to do with Applejack once taught how to do. To feel better about how time slows make use of that time to do some tasks.
So Pinkie jumped up and started doing many weird faces to some of the ponies outside and they laughed with her, that made her feel much better deep inside. Her hair started to re-inflate but the clerk was slowly getting annoyed, so she pulled down the blinds to block out sight from the real world and the Waiting Room.
"Why'd you do that? I was having so much fun fun fun with the people outside."
"Because you are being annoying to me, you have done nothing but have been loud and obnoxious whenever I see you out there. Do yourself a favor; sit down and keep your trap shut for once."
The clerk stomped off back to the desk and said another number, Pinkie was shocked and slightly breath-less after hearing what she to her. Pinkie would have started crying from what was said to her, but Rainbow Dash taught to ignore the people who treat her badly. Pinkie kept doing the things she'd do when bored, she started to hum to herself. She was humming her Smile Song to herself to keep herself happy and joyful. She could feel her emotions sparking up to their highest, so she began to sing it out-loud to everyone around her, and that got the people working on the ticker to sing with her and they felt happy with her. The clerk seemed a bit happy, but shrugged it off and counted a number down to the one she had to wait for. Pinkie just kept singing and the workers finished the ticker and put it back up on the wall for everyone to see. Instead of the normal red glow it had a Pink glow.
"Thank you Miss, for the amazing singing it helped us finish working on this count-down ticker box. Without your happiness and joy, it would have taken an hour to do so. Here for helping us feel better about this job, take this"
Pinkie was handed a tiny little biscuit with some frosting on it, Pinkie ate it when she sat down after waving to the workers who walked outside to get back to their homes. As she finished the biscuit, the clerk got up and told Pinkie her shipment was next in line, but said it has been delayed due to unknown issues. The clerk smirked saying this to Pinkie, which caused her heart to sink even further down about how this clerk feels about her. Pinkie had tears in her eyes but was about to cry until she stood up for herself to this jerk of a clerk.
"Why are you treating me like this? Because you can't learn to enjoy yourself for one? Is that why huh? Because you don't like having fun for once in your life?!"
The clerk looked at Pinkie in shock, she never expected her to stand up to her like that. She looked fully startled to the point where she tried to yell back at her but nothing came out of her mouth but the words
The clerk had some tears in her eyes now as well, she was fighting the urge to burst into crying.
"I'm sorry for lying to you, your shipment has been here for an hour now."
"Why did you lie to me? What was your reason?"
The clerk walked to the back-room and handed her the box of yeast mix. The clerk put her hand down on the desk and sobbed to herself, Pinkie walked up to her and hugged her and the clerk cried onto her back. Pinkie patted her back lightly to make her feel better about what happened. Pinkie took the yeast mix and walked back to the her place of business and started to make the cupcakes and she heard a slight knock on the door. It opened to show the clerk with some extra yeast mix for the cupcakes and she wanted to ask something.
"Could I please come to the party if I gave you this..?"
Pinkie replied to her and said in a sweet and loving tone of voice to make her feel much better.
"You silly, you don't need to give me that to come to the party but I'll still take it to make you, your own special batch of cupcakes because we are now friends!"
The clerk started to smile and hugged Pinkie again and she let go and walked back to her home to relax and wait for the party to start. Pinkie finished making Rainbow Dash's special cupcakes and the clerk's to make them both feel ultra special about themselves. Later on at the party, everyone enjoyed themselves and the clerk sat down with Pinkie and started telling her what and who she was.
"My real name is Blueberry Dreamdrops, most people call em Clerky for some dumb reason. I don't really understand it, but maybe one day I will; hopefully too."
