Mike thought that he now had things under control. At first, his plan was to use magic to cook the food. But now, with his limited time, he couldn’t risk messing up. He had decided to make sandwiches. There was really nothing else he could make.

Hell, I barely know how to make toast.

As he was scrambling, he noticed a filly yell “Hey, mister!”

He turned and looked down. It was no other than Sweetie Belle, the younger sister of Rarity.

“I’m sorry. I really am busy right now.” Mike said as he returned to his sandwich making.

“You’re busy making a sandwich? Sandwiches aren’t that hard to make.” Sweetie Belle said, confused. “Here, let me try.”

“Nonononono.” Mike said quickly. In the television show, Sweetie had shown no talent for cooking. He remembered that she had managed to not only burn toast, bust liquefy it as well. “I mean no thank you. I’m fine. You’re Sweetie Belle, right?”

“Yep!” Sweetie said with a smile. “I’m visiting my sister for the Summer Sun Celebration!”

“Huh, cool.” Mike said as he put some sunflowers on top of a piece of bread.

“Speaking of my sister, are you her new coltfriend or something?”

“Um. I don’t really know.” Mike said. “Why, did she say something?”

“I’m not telling.” Sweetie Belle said. Mike sighed.

“Sweetie Belle! Get out of the kitchen and leave Keen alone!” Rarity said as she as she walked in.

“But I was only-“

“Sweetie Belle!”

“Fine.” Sweetie Belle said as she walked away, her head hung low.

Rarity turned to Mike. “I’m sorry about Sweetie Belle. She can sometimes be a bit… much.”

“It’s no problem. She’s cute.” Mike replied. He peered over Rarity’s shoulders. “Sweetie Belle, will you stop spying on us?”

“Sorry!” Sweetie Belle said as she hurried away.

“Anyway, I hope sandwiches are romantic enough for you.” Mike said nervously.

“That’s perfect, Keen” Rarity said. In all truth, she could have cared less about the food. She was incredibly intrigued by
Keen. Even more so with his magical abilities.

Huh. Isn’t it ironic that I’m making a sandwich for her? No, this is different. Mike thought.

At the field…

“So, what’s the deal?” asked Soarin’.

“What?” Jake said as he averted his gaze from Rainbow Dash. She seemed to be enjoying herself with the Wonderbolts.

“You know what I’m talking about. You are, without a doubt, the fastest pony in all of Equestria. Have you ever even considered that you would be a great Wonderbolt?”

Jake shrugged. “Never really thought about it. You should really be thinking about Rainbow Dash. She actually wants to be a Wonderbolt.”

“Is she as fast as you? Can she do perform incredible feats like you?” Soarin’ asked.

“No and yes. As you said, nopony is as fast as me. But Rainbow Dash can do amazing things as well.” He turned toward Rainbow Dash. “Hey! Rainbow! Show them your Sonic Rainboom!”

Rainbow Dash tensed up at the mention of “Sonic Rainboom”. Jake realized exactly what he had done. She hadn’t been able to perform a Sonic Rainboom since she was a filly.

“A Sonic Rainboom? She can do one?” asked Soarin’.

Jake tried to figure out what to say.

“Um, yes. However she only did it when she was a filly.”

“When she was a filly? That’s amazing!” Spitfire said. Rainbow Dash blushed.

“Uh, yeah. But, like I was saying, she hasn’t been able to do one since.” Jake finished.

“That’s a shame.” Soarin’ stated bluntly.

“Why not?” Spitfire asked Rainbow Dash.

“I-I can so do a Sonic Rainboom. Agile doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” Rainbow said, trying to sound confident.

“Rainbow-“Jake tried to get Rainbow Dash to calm down, but by then it was already too late. Rainbow Dash soared into the sky high enough so that she could perform a Sonic Rainboom.

Shit! She’s going to embarrass herself! C’mon Rainbow Dash, calm down before you do anything stupid. Just as Jake finished his thought, Rainbow Dash dove straight down.

Maybe this will end nicely and she actually does a Sonic Rainboom. Rainbow Dash was reaching the speed needed, but she looked as if she couldn’t keep up her speed. For some principal of physics that Jake didn’t quite understand, just as he thought she was about to make the Sonic Rainboom, she was launched in the opposite direction.

Damn you, universe! Damn you!

Carousel Boutique…

Sweetie Belle stood just outside the kitchen door. She was unimaginably bored and eavesdropping on Rarity and her new coltfriend, Keen, seemed like fun. Some parts were romantic, like when Rarity had thanked Keen for finishing her dress. Other parts were plain boring.

“Rarity, you do know that Sweetie Belle has been listening us for the entire time, don’t you?” Keen said out of the blue.
Oh no! Sweetie Belle thought.

“Sweetie Belle!” Rarity exclaimed.

“Sorry!” she said as she rushed up the stairs.

When Rarity was sure that Sweetie Belle was not eavesdropping anymore, she asked Keen, “Why didn’t you tell me earlier that she was there? A little filly shouldn’t listen in on romance!”

“Romance?” Mike said with a grin. Rarity blushed.

“Well, yes… I mean… I… you… “Rarity stammered.

“Don’t worry. It’s fine.” Keen looked out the window. “Yikes, it’s late. I should head back over to my apartment. I’m glad to have had this date, Miss Rarity.”

Keen started to walk towards the front door, and then stopped.

“If it means anything, I thought of it as romance too.” Keen said looking back towards Rarity. He then opened the door and departed.

“Goodbye, Keen.” Rarity said with a smile. Charming and Ridiculous.

Mike walked cheerily to the apartment.

Jake is going to have to try pretty hard to top my date.

After the short walk, Mike headed up the stairs to his friend’s room. On the second flight, he saw Jake moping.

“You okay?” Mike asked.

“I don’t want to talk about it.” Jake answered.

“Your date went crappy?”

“I don’t want to talk about it.” Jake said again.

“You’re not planning on sleeping out here are you? Cheer up and lets head to our rooms.” Mike said.

“Fine.” Jake sighed. They both headed up the flight of stairs and headed to Jake’s room.

“Knock, knock.” Mike said as he opened the door. He saw that Cameron was already in there along with Luna. Luna still slept soundly on the sofa.

“Hey, guys!” Cameron said rather cheerily. “How’d your dates go?”

Jake fell back into his depressed state and Mike facehoofed.

“Try not to bring the subject up with him. I can tell it didn’t go well.” Mike said to Cameron.

“How’d yours go?” Cameron asked.

“Awesome.” Mike said. He immediately regretted his words and turned back to Jake. Now he was on the floor, even more depressed than before.

“Hey, cheer up, buddy.” Cameron said.”Look, I made you both sandwiches.”

“Oh, please no. I had an entire dinner composed of just sandwiches.”

“Come on, Mike. I made them special for you guys.” Cameron said as he put a plate with two sandwiches on the table near Jake.

“Fine.” Mike said as he took a sandwich from the plate. Jake had already taken one, but seemed too depressed to eat.

Just as he was about to take a bite, Mike noticed that the sandwich had a blue plant inside of it.

Blue plant? Cameron making us sandwiches? Holy shit! Mike thought as the pieces started falling into place.

Jake was oblivious to the inside of his sandwich. He was about to take a bite when Mike smacked it out of his hoofs and onto the ground.

“Don’t eat that!” Mike exclaimed.

“What the hell?” Jake asked.

Mike turned to Cameron. “How the hell did you get ahold of Poison Joke?”

“You mean Troll Plant? I got it in the Everfree Forest. You actually know about that stuff?”

“I’m a Brony, you idiot!”

“Oh, right.”

“You seriously tried to put this crap on us?” Mike scolded.

“Yep. Sounded like fun.” Cameron said simply.

“Freaking imbecile! You put it inside of a sandwich! You could have put the plant literally anywhere.” Mike said.

“Shoot, I guess I didn’t think about that.”

“I’m going to bed. You can figure out what to do with Jake. Good night.” Mike said as he slammed the door.

Cameron looked over to Jake, who was already in his bed.

Cameron silently chuckled at his genius.

The sandwiches were only a ruse to get the two to lower their guard. They would never realize that he had put over a hundred of the flowers in their beds!

Cameron turned off the lights and got into his bed. He smiled as he closed his eyes.

Tomorrow is going to be the most fun I’ve had all week.

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