Happy New Year Everypony! Here's a present for the second day of 2014!

Summary: Pinkie and Twilight investigate who not only took a bite of MMMM, but also who devoured the other bakers yummylicious treats. And Harry gets a small crush on a certain big, gruff and messy unicorn baker after Pinkie declares him the culprit!

Sorry this is late my faithful readers. had a bunch of RL crap to deal with shortly after New Year. Hope this makes up for it, I will be posting a Seventh Element verse one shot series about Harry's life in Equestria. Starting with what happened when Applejack brought Harry into the farmhouse for the first time as a baby alicorn in a basket. Please leave a review! And now the exciting conclusion of MMMMystery!

Chapter 26: MMMMystery on the Friendship Express Part 2

"Now we just need to find out who doned it." Pinkie Pie said with narrowed eyes.

"You mean "Who Did It?" Twilight corrected her pink maned friend.

"Exactly. Who Did Doned Doed It."

"Well having read many mystery novels, I know that the only way to find out is to investigate."

"Could be multiple culprits." Harry got between the two looking at the cake.

"What makes you say that?" Twilight asked the foal who studied the bites.

"Well for one, there's three different bites. One little, one medium, and one big bite." Harry lifted his hoof to each one. "And for second, the bite patterns are different. And we can rule out Monsieur LeGrande because he's got a beak not a muzzle. If he took a bite of MMMM, there would be," Harry opened his hooves apart from each other vertically and chomped down. "A beak impression."

Everypony glared at LeGrande who grinned nervously.

Twilight stared at the foal, impressed with his deduction skills.

"Your not the only one whose read mystery novels." Harry shrugged to the lavender unicorn and walked back to his mother who was looking proud.

"Exactly." Pinkie wasn't listening, she got out a "Manelock Hoolmes" style hat and pipe that blew bubbles. She blew a set into Twilight's face. "And as chief detective I WILL find out who destroyed the MMMM."

"Uh, your investigatin'?" Applejack asked with Harry inbetween her and Twilight.

"Exactly." Pinkie came up and put a bowler hat on Twilight. "And Twilight shall be my lowly assisstant who asks silly questions with obvious answers."

"Fine Pinkie." Twilight said with an annoyed huff and look on her face. "Shall we start to look for clues?"

"A perfect silly question my lowly assisstant. And the answer is; No! Because I know who did it!" Pinkie declared as she blew more bubbles.

Everypony gasped. Harry noted that three of their friends looked nervous.

"Pinkie Pie how could you possibly know?"

"How could I possibly NOT know?" Pinkie asked back as she trotted in front of the group. "Clearly this dastardly deed was done by the baker who knew their dessert couldn't possibly measure up to the mastery of the Marzipane Marscipone Mereignue Madness. I guess you figured your eclairs lacked flare! Gustave!: She glared in the griffon's face.

"I thought I cleared him?" Harry whispered to Twilight as Pinkie Pie set up an elaborate story in the style of one of those old silent movies and the classic maiden tied to a track story. Only this movie ended with MMMM being sawed in half by an electric table saw.

"I thought so too." Twilight said with layed back ears as she listented to Pinkies elaborate plot.

"I suppose he could have grabbed some with his claws and made it look like a bite mark." Harry suggested to the smart unicorn.

"Possibly but I doubt it. I don't think any of these bakers would deliberately sabatoge another bakers goods." Twilight told the alicorn prince. "I know Joe wouldn't do such a thing."

"But you know she's gonna accuse Mr. Joe right?" Harry asked.

"Yes." Twilight sighed frustratedly. She then had enough.

"Thus destroying the cake and the Cake's chance at the National Dessert Competition."

"But Pinkie that makes no sense!"

"What do you mean lowly assisstant?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"First of all if you where tied to the train tracks how are you still here?"

"Huh. I guess that isn't a silly question." Pinkie admitted.

"And second, like Harry pointed out earlier, the cake hasn't been sliced, its been bitten. Just look at the teeth marks."

"Hmm..." Pinkie said staring at the bite marks. "Your right my fine fellow." She pulled her head away from the remains of MMMM and trotted up and down the cart in front of the ponies, griffon and mule. "Gustav LeGrande is clearly in the clear. Which means that MMMM was destroyed by another baker. A baker whose doughnuts are DO NOTS!" She said angrily. "That's right. IT WAS JOE!" She pointed her hoof in his face. "Or as he's known in the spy world. Mane. Con Mane."

Harry slapped a hoof to his muzzle and shook his head as Twilight rolled her eyes while Pinkie went into another elaborate plot starring Joe as sleak, stealthy Con Mane who broke into the cart using a motorized glass cutter and used a gas bomb to knock out diligent Pinkie before using a mirror to slice the MMMM using a laser grid security system.

Harry blushed after hearing the part about the mares coming to him at the snap of a hoof. He had known for a while he liked colts more than fillies and was nervous about it. He made a mental note to ask his momma about it later.

"Pinkie there's no laser grid security system!" Twilight protested. "And ONCE AGAIN, the cake hasn't been sliced. Its been bitten. And Joe isn't sleak, stealthy Con Mane! He's big, gruff and messy!"

"Hey!" Joe said indignantly.

"Although you would look rather dapper in a tuxedo." Rarity pointed out. This made Joe perk up and feel a bit better."

Lastly, Pinkie accused Mulia after the other two bakers had been cleared. Her last elaborate story was that Mulia was a ninja assassin. Running atop the train at night with a ninja sword and slicing up MMMM to destroy it.

"Putting an end to the cake's dreams and stealing first prize. I HOPE YOUR PROUD OF YOURSELF MULIA."

"BACK OFF!" Harry got between Pinkie and the elderly mule who was terrified. "I wanna know who bit into MMMM just like you do Pinkie but if you attack an elderly mare like that again I will strike you down with all my authority as the crown prince!" Harry angrily stomped toward the pink mare who backed away cautiously from the angry prince.

The mane 6 watched the furious foal in awe. He was becoming more and more comfortable with asserting his royal title and the authority that came with it with each passing day..

"Pinkie this is ridiculus." Twilight said with a grateful look to Harry for protecting the cowarding mule female. "Look at her!"

Pinkie Pie watched Harry stand his ground in front of hte elderly mule who was trembling with fear.

"I guess your right." Pinkie sighed.

"Thank you."

"But I was so sure that it was one of the other bitter bakers that had destroyed the MMMM." Pinkie said as she made her way to the other desserts. Not noticing the glare Joe gave her. "That way their dessert would reigh supreme! Just look at Joe's Doughnutopia!"

She leaned in the delicious looking towering city of doughuts. "Its a spectacular city of doughnuty delight. Topped temptingly with sprinkleicious sprinkles."

Everypony awwed at her descriptions and a few ponies slurped their lips.

"And Gustaves' eclairs are incredibly edible with glistening glaziness." Fluttershy and Rarity smiled on either side of the eclairs. It seemed they where more partial to them than the others.

"And then theres Mulia Mild's Mousse Moose" Pinkie made her way over to the chocolate moose. "Why, this mouthwateringly mousse moose tempts the tastebuds with its silky smooth nummy yummy chocolatey goodness." LeGrande's mouth was watering at the description of the chocolatey delight.

"So why did the criminal take a bite of the Marzipan Marscipone Mereignue Madness while leaving this trio of tasty treats untouched?"

Suddenly there was a black out as the Friendship Express was going through a tunnel. Rarity shrieked as chewing noises where heard in the dark.

The light came back and everypony gasped.

"Sugarcube! Harry!" Applejack panicked as her son was missing.

The ponies in the cart and Mulia and Gustave started searching for the missing foal. In the carts of food that the train chefs left (There was a door for plates) To under tables with covers. Pinkie even checked under the fake castle in the fish tank.

"Come on out leetle foal." Gustav said as he pulled up the last table's cover. "Where ze devil is he?"

"I don't like the dark." Harry said pitifully under the table of MMMM. Applejack pulled him out and stood him up. She thanked everyone for looking and then everyone noticed the treats where bitten off of and gasped.

"Now I have no idea who did done doed it." Pinkie Pie said desperately.

All of the three bakers treats where eaten off of.

This mystery gets more mysterious by the minute!" Pinkie said as she examined the damage done to the treats in the cart. Mulia's moose head staring at her.

"Then you'll have to stop the wild allegations and search for the real truth Pinkie." Twilight said confidently. "Everypony go back to your rooms while we do a little investigatig." Harry went back to his room with Applejack and Mulia glared at both Gustave and Joe while everyone made heir way to their rooms.

A while later...

"Momma?" Harry asked the older earth pony as she was reading a book she brought along.

"What is it sugarcube? Ya hungry or somethin'?"

"Why do I like colts?"

That single question made Applejack drop her book. She saw Harry's ears lay back and start to back away from her nervously.

"Aw sugarcube..." Applejack said in a soothing tone as she brought him over to her with a leg. "Yer just startin' ta grow up. Your noticing differences between fillies and colts right?"

"Yeah." Harry said in a confused tone.

"I'll write a letter to yer uncle Macintosh." Applejack assured the foal. "A colt doesn't need to learn about the birds and the bees from his momma." Applejack said. "Go to Rarity and Twilight's cabin. Spend some time with yer godmomma."

"Kay." Harry said childishly with a blush as he left the cabin.

"Phwewy. That was a close one." Applejack said brushing her head with a forelimb. She got out a scroll and started writing with a pencil in her mouth.

Big Mac,

Harry needs "The Talk."

Yer Sister,

Applejack.

She put the short letter in an envelope marked "Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville." And put it in the mailbox outside her room. The mail pony would come get it later.

"Your not accusing me are you?" She heard Pinkie Pie say.

Back to Twilight and Pinkie Pie...

"Of course not Pinkie. But maybe you saw something that could help us." Twilight told the panicky mare.

Pinkie Pie thought for a moment."I saw a Silouette in the moonlight!"

"Good." Twilight encouraged. "Now let's retrace your steps."

Pinkie saluted Twilight and started backing away retracing her steps. "Then I chased the culprit down to the caboose." She lead Twilight to the caboose. "But when I got there, he was gone."

Twilight came in and looked around, blowing a few bubbles and thinking. She spotted something. "AHA! Our first clue." She said and pulled out a manilla envelope with her magic putting the clue inside. Pinkie tried to see it but couldn't. "I think I know who did it Pinkie." She narrowed it down to two possible ponies in their group.

"Already?" Pinkie gasped.

"Yes, but I need more evidence to confirm." The mare said to her friend "Tell me what happened next."

Pinkie scratched her chin. "I heard somepony else in the dessert car! And I chased them up to the engine!" The two made their way to the engine. "But when I got there, all I saw was the conductor shoveling coal."

"The Conductor huh?" Twilight asked grabbing the conductors hat with magic and bringing it over to her looking inside. "But...that doesn's make any sense." She now had three possible suspects." She put the new evidence in the envelope and made her way back to the dessert car. She placed the conductor's hat back on his head. The conductor happy he got his hat back.

"What happened next Pinkie?"

"Well, I went back to the dessert car." Pinkie swapped their hats quickly and got out her magnifying glass. She scoured the scene with it until she bumped into Twiligt again. She sadly took off the detective hat and accepted the assisstant hat with Twilight's magic.

"Yeeeesss?" Twilight urged the pink mare.

"The curtains suddenly closed, all on their own."

"Ineresting. Anything Else?" Twilight asked as she scratched her chin thinking about how curtains could close themselves.

"I heard hoofsteps." Pinkie said as she walked toward the painting. "A loud thud." She gave an example by walking into the painting. "And when the moon came back the painting was crooked."

"Hmm..." Twilight examined the painting. "Oh my...what is that?!" She asked. She got out the envelope and inserted their last clue making Pinkie growl with fury at not being in on the clues. "What next Pinkie?"

"That's it!" Pinkie said eagerly. "I was down here guarding the cake for the rest of the night!" Twilight gave her a look that said "Really?" "I mean, I slept here the rest of the night."

"And when you woke up, half the cake was gone?"

"Exactly!"

"By Jove I think I've got it!" Twilight said eagerly. "Call everypony back Pinkie, we have a cake culprit to catch."

Soon everypony was back in the dessert car.

"Uh...why are we all here again?" Mulia asked Joe and Gustave.

"I bet your all wondering why your all here again." Twilight said to the suspects in the Cake Assault 1 case.

"She's good." Joe said. Mulia nodded in agreement.

"We have discovered the culprit behind this cake carnage. " Twilight revealed.

"But how?" Gustave asked.

"Well you see, when committing a crime, its crucial that one never leaves behind clues. Especially obcious clues liiiiike, this!" She brought out a blue feather from the evidence bag.

Everypony gasped.

"Aha!" Pinkie said confidently pointing a hoof. "A blue feather! I knew it was you! Gustave Legrande!" Pinkie got into Gustaves face as she got into the suspects area.

"Pinkie, Gustave doesn't have blue feathers." Twilight reminded the determined mare.

"That's because he's been dyeing them!" She pulled up his neck feathers to reveal skin.

"No Pinkie! Remember how you chased down the suspect to the caboose but they suddenly disappeare? That's because they flew away!" The lavendar unicorn said as if it where so obvious. "But the thief left a little something behind. Didn't you, Rainbow Dash?!"

Everypony looked to the nervous rainbow maned pegasus. "Uh...I dont' even like cake!" Rainbow Dash protested.

"So Rainbow Dash did it! Case Solved!"

"No Pinkie." Harry reminded the mare. "Only One Truth Prevails. And There was more than one culprit. Right Twilight?" Harry asked the older unicorn eagerly.

"Right. See Pinkie when we went down to the engine I saw the conductor's hat. And inside the hat was..." She brought up a pink hair with magic.

"So it was you!" Pinkie got in Dash's face. "That pink hair came from your rainbow colored mane!"

"I don't have pink in my mane Pinkie!"

"So your wearing a wig?" She grabbed ahold of Dash's mane with her teeth and pulled.

"OW!" Dash cried out as she tried to pull her mane off. "Cut it out!" The pegasus rose into the air.

"Pinkie! Remember? You chased a pony to the engine room and thought you saw the conductor shoveling coal. But what you really saw was...Fluttershy!"

Fluttershy gasped and sat down. "Oh my."

"Yer goin' DOWN Fluttershy!" Pinkie got in the pink maned pegasus' face.

"But then another clue confounded my suspicions. You said the curtains mysteriously closed. That's no mystery. That's magic!"

Harry looked up at Rarity. She was the only other one besides him who could use magic and he knew Twilight wouldn't have eaten from MMMM.

"So it was you!" Pinkie got in Harry's face. "Thought you could get away with it because of your Princeness huh? Thought you could just get off scott free? Huh? Huh? Huh!"

"Back off sugarcube." Applejack hogtied Pinkie and pulled her away from her son. She was gettin' more annoyed by Pinkie by the minute. Plus she saw Harry getting ready for his fight or flight scenario. When he used to be bullied by older foals, Big Mac taught him to fight or flight. Meaning Fight or flee. Since he was so much smaller than his bullies, he usually chose the flee option.

"Pinkie, Harry's not the only one onboard who can do magic. And besides, you said you heard a thud and the painting was crooked remember? Well the culprit left a little addition to the painting!

She brought up a fake eyelash. "Anypony else notice that Rarity's wearing her hair rather differently today?"

She was wearing it over her right eye. She never wears it like that. "Why, is it a crime to change ones style now and again? Why I think its a crime not to."

"Really?" Twilight asked, her horn glowing as she used magic to move Rarity's bangs. The mare's eye closed.

"Alright I'm guilty! I WEAR FALSE EYELASHES!" The drama queen shouted as she fell forward. "Oh and I took a bite of the cake."

"So did I." Fluttershy admitted.

"Aw nuts, so did I." Rainbow Dash admitted.

"You just made it sound so delectable."

"So tasty." Fluttershy poked her head in their little three group.

"And boy was it!" Rainbow Dash admitted as she fluttered in the air.

"i only meant to take a little, ladylike bite." Rarity said to Pinkie.

"But it was so good." Fluttershy continued.

"I just dove right in!" Rainbow Dash finished.

The three mares bowed and said they where sorry.

"Oh its okay." Pinkie said to the three mares as Harry made his way to Applejack. "Well at least this mystery is finally solved."

"But it isn't." Twlight told Pinkie. "We figured out who ate off of the Marzipan Marscipone Mereignue Madness but we still don't know who devoured the other bakers goods."

"Your right Twilight, know what we have to do?"

"Well...yes I do. Do you?" Twilight asked nervously.

"Look for CLUES!" Pinkie Pie said eagerly.

The Pinkie mare rejoiced at having the detectives hat once again and crawled everywhere with her magnifying glass looking for clues.

"Well Pinkie, did you find the devourer of the desserts?" Twilight asked.

"I most certainly did Twilight. It was...HARRY!" She pointed to the foal and everypony gasped even the mane 6 mares.

"But...how?" Twilight asked in shock.

"For one, he has Mouuse in his mane!" Pinkie pulled Harry's mane to show the ponies, griffon and donkey that there was indeed Chocolate Mouuse in his mane. "And he has eclair in his hair!" Again, there was eclair on the top of his messy mop of mane hair. "And Sprinkles on his cheeks!" There where several sprinkles on both sides of Harry's cheeks.

"Sugarcube." Applejack said in shock.

"Yummy sprinkles." Harry slurped his tongue from cheek to cheek and smacked his lips. Then he noticed the three bakers angry at him. He cowered. "Its true!" Harry said in an upset tone. He hated his sweet tooth. It was more trouble than it was worth. "I have a sweet tooth. I can totally blame grandma for this actually!"

"How can you blame Princess Celestia for this?" Twilight asked the foal curiously.

"Well, it was before Dash and I went to Wonderbolt Academy..."

Harry had had another nightmare about Chrysalis. Though it was the first one at the castle. The foal was making his way to his grandmother's quarters when he heard naughty giggling coming from it.

"Grandma?" Harry asked curiously. He creaked the door open and gasped. Mountains of cakes, eclairs, cupcakes, candy and lots of sugary delights where piled high in the Princess's bedroom.

"We spent all night talking and eating." Harry said in shame.

"So that's why you had a tummy ache when you came home that Sunday." Applejack said snapping a hoof to the floor as if finally realizing something. "And that explains the cavity you had at the dentist your next visit."

"Since then I keep a horde of sweets in our room at home that Applebloom and I share. She's not allowed to touch 'em." He said with narrowed eyes. Woe be to Applebloom if she ever snatched one of the Crown Prince's precious sweets.

"But did you take a bit of MMMM?" Twilight asked.

"Of course not. I know how much this contest means to Auntie Cup and Uncle Carrot." Harry protested. "Pinkie made the others entries sound soooo yummy I couldn't control myself."

"I guess my descriptive powers can do more harm than good if given the right opportunity." Pinkie shrugged.

"I'm sorry." Harry said pitifully to the bakers. "I have a trust fund at Canterlot National Bank. I'll reimburse you for ingredients, entry fee and extra as an apology."

"No need your highness." Joe said confidently. "I got an idea."

The bakers and Pinkie Pie combined what was left of all their fabulous desserts to make one Super Dessert! It was a tower of eclairs, doughnuts and MMMM cake, with a chocolate mouuse glaze!

"Our winner!" The judge presented the ribbon to Pinkie Pie. Who sliced a piece to hand to Princess Celestia who had her grandfoal beside her.

"You know your grounded when we get back to Ponyville right Sugarcube?" Applejack asked her alicorn son.

"Yes Momma." Harry pouted and layed his ears out with his wings hanging down pitifully.

"And Big Macintosh's gonna take ya out to the barn?"

"Yes Momma." Harry blushed in shame.

"How's that for a lesson Princess Celestia?" Pinkie asked Harry's grandmother after explaining her friendship lesson about not jumping to conclusions.

"Won't you have some yourself Pinkie Pie?" Celestia asked the sweet loving mare.

"I'd love one!" The Earth Pony opened her jaws wide and ate the cake in its entirety with one chomp. Shocking everypony there. Including Harry and his grandmother.

Everypony laughed.

To Be Continued...

Up Next: Dragon Quest! Harry, feeling like an outcast because of his alicorn heritage, goes with Spike on the Dragon Migration after hearing about Celestia and Luna bathing in lava with Dragon Elders on goodwill conferences. To seek answers about possible Dragon origins of Alicorns.