My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Cupcakes(Alternate story)

Chapter 1

By pegasis23

The air in Ponyville was slightly cooler than usual, leaving Rainbow feel the enthralling rush of wind as she swooped up and down, perfecting a particularly complicated routine before returning to the ground with an epic nose dive. As she returned to the ground, Rainbow felt more alive than ever as she felt the cool wind caress her colorful mane and her cheeks gently.

Rainbow landed on her hooves and turned to look Ponyville, the very place her heart and best friends belonged in. As she gazed at her village with pride and love, Rainbow noticed it was five minutes to three in the afternoon.

An alarm rang in her head as Rainbow remembered that she was supposed to meet Pinkie Pie, her best friend in Sugarcube Corner at three o'clock. She wasn't quite sure of what Pinkie wanted to do there, but Rainbow knew that with Pinkie -anything is possible.

Rainbow inwardly groaned at her seeming inability to remember important things before kicking off, her wings propelling her away to the bakery, where her friend waited impatiently for Rainbow to arrive.

"Omigosh,I'm sorry I'm late!"Rainbow gasped as she arrived at last, to Pinkie's relief.

"It's okay, I understand about the Wonderbolt training."Pinkie assured her friend before rushing to her cupcakes from the oven.

Rainbow sighed in relief at her friend's seeming indifference at her late coming before asking,"So, what are we doing today, Pinks?"She asked as she eyed a cupcake hungrily.

"We're doing CUPCAKES!"Pinkie grinned in delight, a spark of manic madness danced in her irises, unnoticed by Rainbow who was busy protesting.

"Pinkie, you do know that I can't bake right? Remember the last time I baked with AppleJack? And how the oven exploded before we could get the apple pie out?"Rainbow raised a brow at the activity the pink party pony brought up.

"Don't 'cha worry, with your ole' Pinkie Pie around, what could go wrong?"Pinkie grinned.

"Must I start?"Rainbow muttered under her breath as she took the pan of cupcakes from her friend and placed it on the kitchen counter.

"But, before we start, I need you to do something for me, Dashie."Pinkie said, pulling out a cupcake with a light blue lining out of a cabinet full of similar looking cupcakes.

"I want you to try this cupcake. I call it Cloudy Cake Spectacular!" Pinkie smiled, finishing with an explosion from her party canon for dramatic effect.

"Cool,so we're taste testing cupcakes and stuff now?"Rainbow asked hopefully.

"Just try it! I just wanna test to see if it will sell well."Pinkie replied a little too innocently as she watched Rainbow picking up the cupcake and chomping it into half with a grin.

Rainbow licked her lips as she swallowed. The taste was perfectly sweet, if not for the nearly unnoticeable bitter medicine taste.

"Mm…Pretty good. Except that bitter taste of medicine...Ugh..."Rainbow shuddered absentmindedly before continuing ,"Now that's done ,what's next, Pinkie?"

"Now, "Pinkie grinned evilly at Rainbow, "You take a nap."

"W...What…?"Rainbow asked but as the words left her mouth, Rainbow fell unconscious on the floor.