Chapter 10: The Birthday Eve Mishap Part 2

Who shot Mister Burns? Who killed Kenny? What's the capital of Albania? None of these questions will be answered in this chapter.

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Chuck's Tavern

Quibble had up and left that morning, I guess he had decided that unspecified job opportunity was more important than his friends, how did Cheese take this you may ask? Not well, not well at all, I offered my friendship to him and he seemed grateful, but still quite upset, and I worried that might affect the performance of tomorrow's grand event.

"You feelin' better?" I asked.

"Yeah... I gotta say, the song helped." He said. It's true, a good musical number is the best medicine. But he was still down, and I felt bad about stressing him at this point, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do.

"Uh huh..." I said. Suddenly I saw Applejack walking outside the bar, so I went out to talk to her.

"Hey Applejack." I said.

"Howdy Sugarcube, how goes it?" (Sugarcube Counter: 4)

"Well, frankly, not the best. Cheese Sandwich's friend Quibble up and left this morning, and it was really important to Cheese that he'd stick around, and now Cheese is upset and I'd feel bad if I kept working him on the surprise party... So I'm in a bit of a knot right now." I said. She gave me a sympathetic look.

"Tell ya what, why don't I help?" She said.

"You'd do that?"

"Of course! I'd be more than happy to lend a hoof for a friend, and I'm sure Twilight and the others would too!" She smiled.

"Wow. You are a lifesaver, thanks a billion!" I said.

"No problem Sugarcube." (5) "Now let's round up the others."

"I'm with ya!" I said.

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Chuck's Tavern: About 25 minutes later

"In conclusion, that is why you were all called here, many hooves make light work." I said to Twilight, Spike, Applejack, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Cheese Sandwich from behind the counter.

"We're here to help Chuck, just let us know what you want and we'll do it." Twilight said.

"I was hoping you'd say that. Twilight, your job is this, take this bag of bits and place orders from the Cakes for as many ponies in town as you can, that should keep Pinkie Pie busy for the rest of the day." I gave her the bag.

"Affirmative." She said as she left.

"Rarity, Spike, I need the place decorated to a tee, designer streamers, bows, lights, all the stops pulled, comprende?"

"You got it!" Spike said.

"Don't worry about a thing darling." Rarity said.

"Rainbow Dash, Applejack, I need the two of you to tell everypony in town about this, I trust the two of you can handle this?" I said.

"You got it! Come on A.J!" Rainbow Dash charged out the door with Applejack behind her.

"Now, Fluttershy, your job is to keep Pinkie Pie company all day, and if she wants to know what's going on, remember, you're not the element of honesty." I winked.

"I won't let you down... hopefully." She left.

"Now Cheese, you and I will stay here and work on a few of the other details like music, and of course the cake, how are you with baking?" I asked.

"Baking is a pretty important skill when you're in my field." He winked.

"Great, let's do this!"

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Meanwhile, Manehatten

Quibble got off the train at his home city, he just needed to pack a few things from his apartment and he could make it to Califoalnia on time. He took a taxi to his apartment building and went to his room. Immediately he seemed to be flooded by memories, he did feel bad about the whole thing, every second he sat and remembered he felt worse.

"Damn it!" He yelled aloud. He resigned to his room and started to violently throw clothing into a suitcase. In his fit, a picture frame fell over. He stopped to pick it up. The picture was of him and Cheese, out at a nearby park.

"This was from the day we first met..." He said to himself, he remembered that day quite well, It had been a pretty rough day for him,Quibble was on his commute home from work trying to forget about it and Cheese ran into him, literally.

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Flashback Sequence

"Ow." Quibble said in quite an annoyed fashion. Cheese looked at him.

"Hiya! Sorry about running into you there buddy!" Cheese smiled.

"Don't mention it." Quibble said. "My fault for looking down."

"I'm Cheese Sandwich! The Super Duper Party Pony!"

"Nice to meet you, I'm Quibble, Quibble Pants."

The two started talking, eventually Quibble forgot about the bad day he had earlier. Before he knew it it was night time.

"I'd better get home." Quibble said.

"Oh, okay. See ya later then pal!" Cheese said, suddenly he whipped out a blanket and lied down.

"Wait." Quibble said. Do you have anywhere to go?

"Oh... Uhhhh no, no not really no." Cheese said.

"Oh.. Well, I've got a spare room, if you want I guess you could..."

"Okay! Great! I'd love to!" Cheese didn't even let him finish.

And then the rest was history.

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Back to reality

Quibble sighed. He didn't mean to let anypony down, Cheese especially. But he made up his mind. He was Califoalnia bound. He finished packing and went for the train station.

"One please." Quibble said.

"You got it, where to pal?" The station master asked.

"Cali... Califoal..." Quibble was lost for words. Suddenly he heard a familiar voice.

"Nonsense buddy! You gotta stick around!" It was Cheese's voice in his head.

"Are bits more important than your friend?" Rainbow Dashes voice asked.

"Where I come from, that is considered a 'dick move'." My voice said. The voices started swirling around in his head.

"Enough!" He yelled aloud, causing many ponies to look at him. Quibble then looked the station master straight in the eyes.

"Ponyville." He said.

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Ponyville: A few hours later.

Trains travel faster than Cheese with a cart, that's why the ride took a few hours and not a couple days. Anyway, Cheese and I were working hard at the cake, and it was looking great! it stood 6 feet high, 6 layers each a different flavor, pink frosting covered in chocolate hearts, I'd say it was perfect.

"Looks good Cheese, I'd say this whole thing was, shall I say 'a piece of cake'?" I joked, he laughed.

"I'll say! I'd say we could 'dough' it all again in record time!" He joked back. We shared a laugh together, Suddenly the doors swung open.

"We've got a stellar guest list!" Rainbow Dash announced.

"Yep! Just about every pony in towns comin'!" Applejack added.

"Oh that's wonderful!" I said. "I knew I could count on you two." Spike and Rarity came through.

"We've decorations fit for a coronation!" Rarity said happily, Spike followed holding them all, the two started setting them up.

"That's great, thanks a million." I said. Twilight followed,

"Pinkie and Fluttershy should be out the rest of the day!" She said.

"Thank you so much, all of you, I couldn't thank you all enough for the work you've done today." Suddenly I was met with a big hug... from Cheese.

"Come on everypony! Bring it in!" He said, the rest came into the hug. Suddenly, another figure walked through the door. We turned and looked.

"Is this a bad time?" Quibble asked.

"Quibble?" Cheese asked.

"Yeah... it's me... Cheese look, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for every-" Cheese cut him off.

"Don't want to hear it." He said.

"What? But... but Cheese.." Quibble said.

"Outside." He said. So the two went out.

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Outside

"Cheese look, I messed up... It wasn't right of me to leave you like that... And it definitely wasn't right of me to leave somepony else to tell you." He said.

"You think?" Cheese asked sarcastically. Quibble was taken aback, nopony said anything for a little while.

"I'm going inside." Cheese said angrily.

"Cheese wait!" Quibble said.

"What." He was pretty upset with him at this point.

Quibble: There are times you drive me, shall we say, bananas

And your mind is missin', no offence, a screw

Cheese Looked at him. "None taken..."

Quibble: Still, whatever mess I land in

Who is always understandin'?

Nopony else but you.

Cheese looked at him for a second, and sighed.

Cheese: Oh, your moodiness is now and then bewilderin'

And your values may be, so to speak, askew

Who deserves a hero's trophy as we face each "catastro-phee"?

Nopony else but you.

Both: Nopony else but you

It's just our luck

We're stuck together

Nopony else but you

Is crazy enough to believe we'll come through

Quibble: So your jokes are all, let's face it, prehistoric

Cheese: And your music sounds like monkeys in a zoo

Both: But when life becomes distressin'

Who will I be S.O.S'in?

Quibble: If you're havin' trouble guessing, here's a clue

Though he seems intoxicated

He's just highly animated

And he's nobody else but

Both: Nopony else but you

We've turned into a true-blue duo

Hard times we've had a few

Cheese: Like we're thrown in the drink

Quibble: Like we're tossed out of town

Both: But when I start to sink, hey, I'd rather go down

With nopony else but

Y-O-U!

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"What do you say? Friends?" Quibble asked.

"Friends!" Cheese started to tear up and he embraced Quibble with a big hug.

The rest of us exchanged smiles as we watched from the front window, I had a feeling everything would be A-Okay.

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Meanwhile

Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy strolled through town, at this point Pinkie Pie had pretty much wrapped up the colossal size delivery she had for the day.

"Oh boy Fluttershy! I had no idea I'd have that many deliveries today, a lot of ponies must have wanted cake huh?" She laughed.

"Mhm.." Fluttershy said.

"Thanks for spending time with me today Fluttershy!" She said. "But, no offence but I was hoping Chuckie could spend some time with me today... I haven't seen him in a few days, you know?"

"I guess..." Fluttershy said quietly.

"Do you have any idea what's going on?" Pinkie asked.

"Ummm... no." She said quietly.

"If you did know, you'd tell me?" Pinkie asked.

"Of course Pinkie..." Fluttershy blushed, her lie was visible and Pinkie could tell.

"Are you suuuuuure? Because I think you knoooooooow." She was eating at her. Fluttershy started getting nervous.

"He's... He's... Planning something." She said.

"Planning what?" Pinkie asked.

"Oh no..." FLuttershy thought. "She can't know about the party." She thought to herself.

"For the grand opening of his bar tomorrow. He wants it to be big and important, probably keep him busy the whole day." Fluttershy said.

"Oh... Okay.. WHAT!?" Pinkie flipped. "But... But... But my birth... my birthday..." She ran off.

"Oh dear..." Fluttershy said to herself.

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Pinkie Pie's Room

Pinkie laid in her bed curled up with a pillow, on the verge of tears. "I thought he cared..." She thought to herself. "I didn't think he'd completely forget.."

"Twilight told me.. -sniff- Not to expect much... not to -sniff- Get my hopes up... But... But... -sniff- I didn't think it would hurt to... Expect anything..." A tear ran down her face as she went to sleep.

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That concludes this chapter! Will everything work out in the next chapter? We'll have to find out won't we? Until next time!

Song used was "Nobody Else But You" from "A Goofy Movie".