Author's Notes:

Back with another chapter written already on deviant-art and narrated on Youtube. But this one is about Zara arriving in town and meeting the bakers of Sugarcube Corner.

Christ, did I ever write this one on the level. But, I did. It took months when I did write it.

BROWNIES - Meet the Bakers of Ponyville

An utter complete silence filled the room, tensity had built up since the Pie sisters giving off wicked grins. One pony finally broke the silence and had said "Who is this pony?", it was Blinkie.

"Her name is Za--" Pinkie happily announced, but Zara suddenly interrupted with a "I'm going now." turning around towards the door, and heading outside. Pinkie blinked, but didn't stop Zara from walking away. It seemed like Zara was bored of meeting new ponies, she doesn't want to associate with them or even work with them.

For the past few days, she locked herself in the treehouse so nopony can get in. Thus, the town of Ponyville becoming more suspicious of her.

Today was the day things had changed for good. Zara thought was the day to exercise her killing spree, so, she filled a small dart with some traquilizer in it. The dart contained a black tube with a red feather on top of it, she loaded it into a bamboo pea shooter, crawling up the stairs and seeing a glass window.

She quickly swung it open, carefully so it wouldn't break the glass, positioning herself so she could shoot the dart from a mile away.

She blew a excessive amount of air into the pea shooter, the dart quickly bulleting straight at a blue pony with a short red and tangerine curly mixed mane. The dart shot at her left flank, the pony felt dizzy within seconds, then suddenly hitting the ground with a "thud" sound. Bingo. Zara dropped her pea shooter, running downstairs to the sleeping pony. She looked around her surroundings, making sure that nopony was watching her moves, procceding to drag the pony back in the treehouse.

Applebloom was walking around the town, her eyes being searching for a new victim for some more cupcakes, Applebloom met her focus on Zara. She watched Zara's actions one by one.

She thought only 6 bakers where her 'sisters'. Curious as she was, Applebloom quickly made a move, following Zara behind into the treehouse. She quickly hid away in the closet but left a small peeping crack, seeing Zara tightly strapping down the pony she just tranquilized not to long ago. Applebloom stayed quiet as a mouse, not moving or making any sound. She even covered her mouth with her hooves.

Applebloom was lucky that Zara left after ten minutes, to her it felt like hours. She came out of her small hiding spot. Applebloom looked around, seeing the victim that she had tied down on a table. Noticing the medicine, and the torture kit with saws, knives and other gadgets were layed down in a fashionable order. Applebloom felt uneasy about her usual set up, usually since she was a murderer too. So, she snaked her way out quickly, scatting off, back to Sugarcube Corner.

"Pinkie! Derpy! Minkie! Inkie! Blinkie!!" Applebloom shouted, quickly grabbing everyones attention. "What is it, Applebloom?" Pinkie asked, worried. Applebloom's chest felt sunken in, her heart was banging rapidly like a drum.

"Are you okay? You look like a mess." Inkie asked in her smooth, low voice. "That new pony is...is!!" Applebloom began, but was struggling to make out her words.

"Is what?" Blinkie blurted out. "She's a murderer too!!" Applebloom shouted out, taking a breath for air. She continued on, "I saw everything! The medicine, the table! A victim!!"

"Another baker or just a plain murderer?" Minkie asked.

"I think she's a killer, but I see literally no cutie marks in her collection!!" Applebloom answered in panting. "I saw her cutie mark was a insane version of a smiley face..." Blinkie blurted out.

"Oh yeah. She did have a cutie mark like that. But, what does that tell us?" Minkie spoke up, but the question made everyone go silent in the room.

"It probably means Insanity, guys. She was destined to be like that. She probably has one of those mental illnesses with her." Inkie said with a scoff.

"Mental? She looked sane to me!" Blinkie blurted out again, this time her tone was harsh.

"It's probably isn't shown yet, sorta like a mask to hide it all. But, what can we do to make her talk?" Inkie questioned.

"Oh! I know! We can probably catch her in the act of doing it! That would make her talk!!" Pinkie exclaimed happily.

"Genius Pinkie." Inkie chuckled, a smile forming on her face.

"What should we do at this point, go now?" Blinkie asked.

"No, we are going to get the things done in two weeks." Inkie replied quickly, her head turning to her pink furred sister.

It had been two weeks since they all had a group discussion about the new pony Zara.
Nothing else was shared except carefully laid out plans, in overall, they gathered all the tools they needed for both of their plans. This included a ladder, wrenches, rope, saws, etc.
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But, those plans were about to be foiled.
Pinkie was at the counter helping the customers in need of retrieving their custom orders, while Inkie and Blinkie where wrapping the tools safely up in a bag so they wouldn't get damaged on the way to Zara's house.

What they didn't know is that, Zara was out of her house carrying a medium sized black tote bag on her left, it containing a large head of a male green pony. The tote leaked of blood from the bottom lining of the bag, but the drops of blood where not present to the eyes of other ponies. The expression of Zara was imitating, her eyes looked darkened, and serious. She looked so lifeless, so grim within her face it scared the other ponies back into their homes.

Zara looked around all around her, seeing the cheery yet dim houses made her sick. Still, she continued to walk down the dirt path towards Sugarcube Corner, letting herself in. Pinkie's face lighted up with joy, but with also some confusion.

"Oh Zara! You're here! I'm so excited to see you again, I thought I was never going to see you again until now!!" Pinkie clapped with her joy, which kinda made Zara clench her teeth. Joy and laughter made Zara sick to the core, she hated the happy and being together. It almost reminded of her mom's fake smiles.

Zara didn't say anything back to her, instead, she zipped open her black tote bag open. Pulling out a severed head out of it, throwing it upon the white counter in front of Pinkie.

The pink mare froze in shock, she'd wished her eyes would betray her but didn't. Pinkie had made little squeaks underneath her breath, which notified her other sisters. Her eyes were still focused onto the severed head, which was leaking some blood. The blood was splattered across the other side of the counter. Pinkie was too scared to look Zara in the eye, she was forced to anyways. Slowly looking up back towards the purple mare.

When she gazed upon the dark red haired pony, her face and eyes where heavily shadowed. The look of blood red dragon eyes pierced straight through Pinkie's soul. This result made Pinkie shiver greatly with terror. Her shivering went down the spine within seconds. Dear god was she ever scary, scarier than Minkie Pie.

Zara gave her a lifeless like smile as the bakers walked on in, their eyes gazed upon the head on the counter. Zara dropped a plate of brownies on the counter still with the same smile on her face, making Pinkie feel a bit sick.

Inkie, out of all of the bakers looked shocked at the gruesome scene. She was a bit shooken up as well. The other bakers watched as Zara dragged the head by it's hair off the counter, holding it in her hooves. She still looked straight at Pinkie who kinda started to smile as well. All of the sudden, Zara laughed softly, as she ripped the skull from the dead pony's head forcefully but roughly than she originally intended. This time the blood rushed to the floor, scattering all over. Brain matter went plop onto the floor like nothing.

"I guess there is no need to get her to talk." Inkie said with a small wicked grin, this made the other bakers smirk.

"I guess she is a killer. With potential." Minkie added, watching Zara who was laughing it off with Pinkie. Zara's laugh was a cackle mixing in with Pinkie's happy laughing. By god, it was horrifying to hear.

Zara ceased her laughing automatically, going dead silent afterwards. "I want to be a baker." Zara slowly said with a grin forming.

"You want to be one? Like us?" Inkie was now behind her, with concerns.

Zara turned her whole body to her,

"Yes. I do. This is what I came for, you guys. And my search has ended." Zara giving a relieved sigh.

"Searching for...us?" Blinkie furrowed her brow, sounding even more confused.

"Yes, I traveled from a small town because I saw a newspaper with a title named 'Missing Ponies', so I basically came here. Unfortunately...those ponies from my old village seemed to have..." Zara cut off, holding back a small chuckle before finishing her last word.

"Disappeared." she softly added. The Pie Sisters exchanged looks at one another, leaving Derpy and Applebloom really off about her joke. "What do you mean by...disappeared?" Applebloom tilted her head at her. "I think you should know by now, darling." Zara had her eyes locked on Applebloom. She chuckled a bit at her own joke, wiping the sweat from her forehead.

"It takes a lot of mental strength and some balls to do this. Are you sure you want to...bake?" Inkie looked at Zara deadshot in the eyes, the purple mare gave a nod.

"Trust me, I know how to do this." she bragged.

"Good. We can probably get you a project in. Right now, we have two ponies on the side for cupcakes, and other pastries. You are more then welcome to watch us!" Pinkie clapped.

"I will. I'm intrigued myself on how you do it." Zara brushed her mane, the tone of her voice was calm.

The night passed into the morning, Zara was awoken up to the sound of saws being activated. Rubbing her eyes, she noticed it was Pinkie cutting up some pony hide and shrugged it off. "What's up for today, Pinkie?" she yawned. "I'm just cutting up some pony skins to fry. Today, we will go into town to meet my other friends." Pinkie said with a small cheeky smile, and continued on to saw and cut. "Okay...but why do we need to go into town?" Zara was staring at her, waiting to answer.

"To grab a pony for our two projects, silly!!" Pinkie happily giggled within her words.

"You mean, you never got your ponies?" the purple mare sounded surprised, and confused.

"Nope! We where going to get those ponies today!" the pink mare shouted over the sawing noises.

"Damn." Zara mumbled to herself.

It had been a few hours since Pinkie was sawing off extra pony hide to fry, Zara knew because she was watching her. It had felt like forever to Zara.

Of course, Zara was in her little corner with Bender, talking to him again.
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"Are you sure these ponies are safe?" Bender asked firmly.

"I am very sure, Bender!" Zara scoffed, rolling her eyes.

"They don't sound safe, they sound insane!!" Bender shouted at her.

"Keep it down, Bend. They're my type of pony crew to hang out with anyways." Zara rested her head on the concrete walls, looking straight down.

"You sure? Did you get any future visions yet?" Bender slowly lifted his head to her eyes.

"Yeah, like some. It's not that much that bad happens. Though, I see some mare whos a shade lighter than me that I meet and fall in love with." Zara stated, sounding bored.

"You can't possibly fall in love with a female mare. They'll all betray you anyways. Plus, we are looking for your lost baby sister..and...Dollface." Bender slowed down at Dollface's name, he gulped.

"I want to. It's a good sign, that way I will feel powerful and do my tricks." Zara sneered looking away.

"What tricks, Zara? What is your plans?" Bender asked concerned.

"We finish off Ponyville's townsponies. We kill the Princesses." Zara chuckled at her brilliant plan.

"Impossible. Let's just start off kinda slow, and then we will see what happens." Bender scoffed.

"Fine then." Zara sighed to herself.

Applebloom came over behind her, and tapped on her shoulder.

"Uhm, Zara? We are ready to go, just waitin' on you!" and smiled.

"Okay then, I am coming." Zara perked herself up and walked herself over to Pinkie who was holding a brown basket. "Alright then, lets go then Pinkie." Zara faked her smile as the bakers began to walk outside in the town.

Ponies of the town began to see the scary seven walk down the dry mud road. Some of them began to back away, or their ears plopped down of the sight of them.

However, Pinkie was the one happily hopping towards a tree while the other bakers went with her while Zara stood there.

The pink mare insisted that Zara come, Zara couldn't say no so she went along with it all and followed Pinkie into another tree like house with less windows.

"I'M HERE! PINKIE IN THE HOUSE!" Pinkie shouted without hesitation as it caught the four ponies in the library. Zara's eyes feasted upon the very first pony who had three butterflies as a cutie mark, yellow fur, blue eyes and a long pink mane. The pony next to her had a pretty curly mane which was shown as a royal purple. She had blue eyes like water, and white fur clean as snow. Her cutie mark was three blue diamonds on her two flanks, and was a unicorn just like her.

She noticed Applejack from weeks ago, Applejack greeted her sister with a giant hug and her pink mare friend. Then, she recognized Zara again, greeting her with a big fat smile. "Nice to see ya again, Sugarcube."

Zara seemed zoned out this time, but she wasn't. Zara had her eyes upon the most beautiful mare in the whole entire room. Twilight Sparkle, who had just flipped her hair while reading a book. Sparkles flew around her like diamonds in the sky.

Twilight was a purple skinned pony just like Zara but a tad bit lighter than she was, she also had purple eyes, a navy blue mane with purple and pink highlights in her hair. She was also a unicorn who used her magic for good. "Who is that..." Zara was dazed out by her beauty.

"Twilight Sparkle, the element of magic." Applejack stated.

As soon Applejack turned her head back to Zara, she seemed gone straight to Twilight. Which left Applejack such in a confused state but shrugged it off, heading towards her other friends.

"H-Hey..so you're the element of magic?" Zara almost quietly said, with a small lump in her throat. Sparkle looked up to the mare who was standing above her, nodding with a smile.

"I am." Twilight sat back up, holding out a hoove towards Zara, and was happy to shake her hooves. "I-I am Zara!" Zara more almost shouted at her making Twilight recoil back.

"Zara? That's an interesting name. Where do you come from?" Twilight had asked in a curious manner.

"I come from...Wonderfree...but we don't talk about that." Zara again, forcing herself to smile once again. Sparkle raising a brow at her statement but just instead looked the other way feeling awkward.

"So...uh...I see you read books for a living?" Zara's tail twitched a bit, waiting on her to answer.

"Yeah. I do! I'm pretty much am Princess Celestia's best student in studies." Zara saw that she was bragging, but kept on listening on.

"Whoa, that's awesome!!" She was still smiling that it hurt badly. But, she didn't care as long she was by her side, just seeing her made Zara feel happy. True happiness.
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It had been hours ahead and dawn was peaking at the skies. The bakers headed back out to Sugarcube Corner on the dirt patch road.

The Pie Sisters seemed to have talked alongside the way home, while Zara stayed quiet amongst Minkie, Applebloom and Derpy. They seemed to have a hell of a time talking about the next plans for future victims, and hoping to come up with other methods of torture and murder. On the flipside, Zara walked behind them keeping quiet, not saying a word.

It had felt awkward once they all went in, setting down items like flour, eggs and so on. Zara sighed going to her corner, and just layed herself down to sleep aside Bender. She had never felt so damn sleepy in all of her life before, maybe it was the energy that she put into with the smiling. It really is going to kill her own self, if she keeps this up.

It didn't matter to her now, she was asleep dreaming about Twilight Sparkle. Oh! How in her dreams, she would glisten at the hair, eyes and hooves. Zara dreamt she was marrying her in peace, or just dancing with her hand in hand on cold glistening ice. It was just as wonderful when she pictured it. Derpy came over to check upon Zara's well being, but caught her smiling in her sleep.

She backed away slowly with a small giggle, going over to Pinkie to report Zara's status. Pinkie gave off a small laugh telling Derpy to let her sleep off for it was her big day tommorow.
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It was early morning, and Pinkie was setting up her device for the big event planned out for Zara. The red eyed pony rubbed the underneath of her eyes, throwing Bender onto her back. She happily walked up the stairs into the brightly colored bakery. She stopped as eyes where all on her, Pinkie having the same smile upon her face.

"Good morning you sleepy head!" Pinkie bounced, her hooves flutter a bit.

"Well, good morning Pinkie." Zara awkwardly had said with a tired look.

"I think you know what time it is, right?" Inkie tilted her head.

"Yes, I do. Don't you think it's a bit early?" Zara yawned a small bit.

"It's never too early for a party!!" the pink mare jumped up, landing on the ground.

"Did you get them?" Zara asked Inkie.

"In fact, we did...darling." Inkie mocked her words.

"That's good...so where do we do it?" Zara looked around, catching Blinkie's expression to be giggling.

"Follow us." Applebloom began to open a cellar door to a dark room, the bakers descended down the stairs, which with each step made the wooden planks creak. She saw Minkie was the last to go down, so she followed shutting the door to the room.

It was no turning back now, she just sealed her soul with the devil.