Cupcakes Alternate Story

Original fanfic by Sergeant Sprinkles

Alternate Version created by Skywater1214

    The school bell rang, and all the fillies left for home in a hurry. It was Friday, the sky was bluer than ever, and the greenest grass danced back-and-fourth with the whistles of the warm summer wind. The Cutie-Mark Crusaders leaped from the doorway like they were ready for adventure. Scootaloo examines the peaceful surroundings, and takes a nice long breath of fresh air. “Hey girls, you wanna see if we can get some cutie marks? We got all summer to find out our special talent!” Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom were then quickly reminded of their goal after being distracted by the other fillies, who were celebrating for their summer break. “We’ve asked the other ponies for help and we couldn’t get any? You said we got all summer, so can’t we just go on an adventure, you know? Slay some dragons? Maybe we could get a cutie mark for slaying dragons?”  Apple Bloom doesn’t like the idea, she shakes her head in disagreement. “Slayin’ dragons? Are you a silly filly Sweetie Belle? Like we can slay a fire-breathing dragon.” The three fillies were hard at work for their cutie marks. The three took a minute of silence to think what they could do. However, their train of thought was derailed as they saw Rainbow Dash soaring through the air like a fighter jet. She flew through the whitest clouds with ease, doing her finest aerial stunts that would entertain all the eyes in Ponyville. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle watched with excitement, as Scootaloos mouth widened, “How cool would it be to be just like Rainbow Dash?”, “How cool would it be to do a sonic rainboom?” Sweetie Belle added. They watched as the blue pegasus descended. “Come on girls, let’s go talk to Rainbow Dash!” Scootaloo, being followed by Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom, ran off to try and talk with Rainbow Dash about cutie marks before she leaves again. They eventually catch up, but Rainbow Dash takes a turn into an alley way. Scootaloo runs into a nearby bush and the other two fillies follow in.

    “What are we doin’ in here Scoot? Hiding in a bush is doing no good to get us to Rainbow Dash.” “Well, what is she doing? You look then Apple Bloom.” Apple Bloom peaks her head outside the bush and then Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo join. “There’s Pinky Pie, I wonder what they’re talking about?” The Cutie Mark Crusaders examine the situation, Pinky Pie and Rainbow Dash seam to be talking about something. Their voices are faint and hard to hear as the sound of the citizens of Ponyville talking and doing their everyday things washes it out. Out from the croud of ponies comes two familiar voices, calling for Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle’s names.

“Umm, I think I hear my name.” The voices call out for their names again. Sweetie Belle adds to Apple Blooms comment, “Yeah, I hear that too.” These voices become more recognizable as they come closer. It’s actually Apple Jack and Rarity, they keep walking only to notice a shaking bush. Out comes Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom. “Big Sis’, what are ya up to?” Apple Jack hugs her little sister with a sigh of relief. “Apple Bloom, I thought I told you stay at school so I could pick you up? I was worried sick.” “I’m sorry Sis’, I forgot about today.” “Well, when we’re done with chores, you can come back and play with your friends.” Apple Bloom looked at Apple Jack then at her friends, “I’ll be back later girls, I just gotta take care of a few things at the farm, that’s all.” Sweetie Belle Looks at Rarity, she expected she needed to

leave Scootaloo behind for now. “I’m sorry Sweetie, but it’s just the way it has to be. Just like Apple Bloom, when you’re done with helping me, you got all the time in the world to play for the rest of the day.” Sweetie Belle faces the ground to this news from her big sister as well. “Oh well, I’ll catch you later Scoot.” Scootaloo was now alone, it’s a shame her friends weren’t there to see if Rainbow Dash can help. She looks back to find Rainbow Dash and Pinky Pie, who are still there talking. Scootaloo swore she heard something about Cupcakes. Cupcakes, what pony wouldn’t like cupcakes? Scootaloos mouth watered to the imagination of a chocolate Cupcake with a nice, colourful frosting that was sweet to the eyes as well as the taste. She didn’t become distracted though, she just wanted a cutie mark. Pinky Pie opens the door to her bakery and welcomes Rainbow Dash as she walks in. The door closes behind them.

    “Thank you so much for coming Dashy!” An excited Pinky Pie skips into the kitchen.

“It’s no problem, so umm. We’re here to bake cupcakes?”, “Yep yep yep. They’re gonna be extra special.” Pinky Pie gathers ingredients from the pantry. The flour, the eggs, and the other stuff. Pinky turns on the lights. The bright colors brought life into the kitchen and the place felt like it was alive. The innocent pink kitchen was a joyful place to be. She sets the ingredients on the table. The bag of flour landed on the table leaving off some powder as she sets the other ingredients. Rainbow Dash is still looking around, “And tell me why we’re baking cupcakes?”, “Why not? I was planning on something, but the idea left my mind. But all I want is to just spend time with one of my best friends.”

    Scootaloo peaks into the glass window and finds Rainbow Dash and Pinky Pie in the kitchen. Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom are missing out a chance to bake cupcakes. Maybe there’s a cutie mark for baking cupcakes? Scootaloo peaked into the window again. Now Pinky Pie has a cupcake, it’s chocolate with a nice yellow frosting, and she hands it over to Rainbow Dash. “Here, try this sample. I made before you came!” Pinky Pie hands over the cupcake and smiles as Dash accepts it and takes a bite of it. “It’s pretty good! I have to admit Pinky.” She finishes the last few bites of the chocolate cupcake as it runs down her throat. “I’m glad you like it, there will be plenty of more to go around when we’re done.” The jealous Scootaloo just wants to get in to have a taste of some of Pinky Pies bakery. But she keeps watching anyways. “Pinky Pie, I don’t feel right. I think I have to go to the bathroom.” Rainbow Dash began to feel dizzy, she felt like everything around her was becoming dark. She felt like she would fall onto the floor. “Oh don’t worry, you’ll be fine. We got lots to do, so don’t drop out now. First we’re going to-” Rainbow Dash lost consciousness and Pinky Pies voice faded away. The drugged Rainbow Dash fainted and collapsed onto the floor of the kitchen. Scootaloo was now confused, “Was the cupcakes that good? That’s weird. I wonder what’s going to happen next.” Pinky Pie was now gone, Rainbow Dash laid there just as still as stone. Gears could be heard from behind the walls as a wall turned over to reveal a dark hallway, too dark to probably even see in front of you. Pinky Pie skipped back into the room a minute later. She grabbed Dash’s body and carried it into the secret hallway. Scootaloo was now a bit worried, the event she just witnessed seamed a bit suspicious. She ran to the front door to open it, but the locked door did not budge once. “Oh no! Pinky Pie!! Open up!!! Somebody!”, her voice wasn’t heard from the loud crowd of ponies that were busy in the streets. She pounded on the door to try and get attention but failed.

    Rainbow Dash began to awake, she felt dizzy and was hard at hearing. “Rainbow Dash? Dashy? Are you alive?” The blurry Pink figure that stood in front of her called her name out, Rainbow Dash couldn’t recognize the voice until she snapped back into consciousness. The room was dark, and the only light that shined was on her. She struggled to move, but her limbs were tied fast on a wooden table, but her wings were free to move as they frantically fluttered around. “Oh Pinky Pie, where are we? I’m stuck to this table and I can’t get off! Can you help me get off here?”, “No can do Rainbow Dash.”. “Huh? This doesn’t make any sense! we’re supposed to be baking cupcakes, not horsing around.” The pink pony giggled, “You still are helping me, but I never told you yet that I forgot the main ingredient.”,

  “Main ingredient? You had all of it back at the kitchen. Now please let me go, or I’m gonna seriously flip out when I do.” Rainbow Dash began to struggle at the ties by herself, but she failed to loosen them up and became exhausted. “Don’t get mad, you’re the special ingredient for my new batch of cupcakes. Isn’t that cool at least?”. Rainbow Dash froze in place, “Nuh-uh, are you serious?” she thought this was just a prank, so she played along with Pinky Pie. “Yep, what else could I do? Out of all the ponies, I chose you. You’re a loyal friend right? Do me a favor for once. You don’t have to run away from me anymore.”, “Ahaha, funny. This prank isn’t funny anymore. Just untie me and let me down please.” Pinky Pie ignored Rainbow Dash’s request as she turned around. “Hold on, I’ll be right back.” Pinky Pie skipped patiently across the room into the darkness, Rainbow Dash struggled for freedom again, for just a minute, she managed to loosen up the rope that held her left arm. Unfortunately, time came short as she heard a noise coming from the darkness. Pinky Pie came strolling a cart, the rusted wheels squealed as they rolled on the hard floor. She parked the cart near the table. Rainbow Dash saw inside the cart, it contained many sharp needles and blades, stained brown with aged blood. Her heart quickened, Pinky Pie took a hacksaw from the cart and sharpened it as the blue pegasus watched. “What are you doing with that? That’s dangerous!”

The pink pony neared Rainbow Dash with the blade, with an edge hungry for pony flesh! Could this be it for Dash? She began to tremble in fear, this has gone too far. And there she was, Pinky Pie was standing next to Dash’s left side, she grabbed her wing and held it down on the cold wooden table. The hacksaw rested on the joint that the wing connected to the body, it’s weight pressed gently on the skin. Pinky Pie was aiming the saw blade for the finest cut. Too much for Rainbow Dash, her fear begins building into adrenaline. “Now don’tcha worry pal, this will be over with soon!”

    Pinky Pie rested the hacksaw in place, “This looks good...”.

Rainbow Dash frees her left arm from the rope and gives Pinky Pie a nice good smack on her face. She backed away from the table with a mark on her cheek. The saw blade barely scraped the skin on Dash’s wing as it fell to the floor. Pinky Pie regains focus as she picks up the blood-thirsty saw from the ground. “That hurt! No friend of mine hits me and gets away with it!” Pinky Pie is now more alert and focused, and wrestles Dash to keep her still, but she is overpowered by the frightened pegasus. The saw is knocked out of Pinkies hoof and cuts her on the side of the shoulder. Rainbow Dash leans forward as far as she could to try and get a hold of Pinky Pie, but falls back onto the table unconscious again after she is hit on the head with a mallet. “That shall do the trick. I’m sorry Rainbow Dash,  please forgive me. But you offered to help me, and there’s no turning back now!” Pinky Pie aims the hacksaw again, but is interrupted by a loud pounding from upstairs. “I’ll be right back, don’t make any sudden moves.” The hyperactive pink pony drops what she’s doing and skips back into the kitchen. The door is unlocked and opened, and it appears that Scootaloo is standing by the doorway.

“Hello Pinky Pie, is Rainbow Dash here?”, “No, I’m afraid she isn’t, she just flew off just two minutes ago.” Scootaloo was now fully aware something fishy is going on, she glances at the cut that stopped bleeding on Pinkies shoulder.  “What happened to you?”,

“Oh, I was washing dishes and I fell on the wet floor and hurt myself. Nothing much.” Pinky Pie acted innocent and tried to sugarcoat the situation.

“Umm do you mind if I come in for a bit?”

Scoot peaked into the doorway, but was shoved out of the way by the pink pony.

“You can’t come in now, the store’s not open until 30 minutes. Sorry!” Pinky Pie slammed the door shut in front of Scoots face. Scootaloo peaked into the window again. Pinky Pie went upstairs instead of through the secret passage way. “Before things get messy, I got to get messy!” She reaches in the closet and pulls out a dress made out of pony hides, decorated with cutie marks and 3 pairs of pegasus wings. The stench of the dress was horrid! Scootaloo was wondering what Pinky was up to now. She pounded at the locked door again and again, and no response this time. She looked through the window and no Pinky Pie. She raced to the other side of the bakery to find the back door, fortunately was unlocked. The orange filly opened the door and raced through the kitchen. She had reached the hidden dark hallway. She didn’t care how dark it was, she kept going until her hooves were not intact with the floor. She had ran off the top of the fleet of steps and fell. The filly was bruised, but her search for Rainbow Dash was not over. The room was dark, but from a short distance away was a light that shined on a lonesome table. There was something bright-blue lying on the table. Scoot neared towards the table. Rainbow Dash laid on her backside on the table, with a nasty bruise on the forehead.

    Scootaloo was surprised to find Dash alone in a cold room isolated in darkness. What could be hiding in the room with them? The darkness watched as she tried to wake the blue pegasus. “C’mon, wake up! Wake up!” She nudged Rainbow Dash, and grasped her hoof. The pegasus awoken as her colourful pink eyes opened slowly, and groaned.

“What happened? Pinky Pie...” Rainbow Dash looked to her left,  Scootaloo was there with her now.

“I’m so happy to see you again Dash... I’m sorry I haven’t came earlier..”

“Thank god it’s not Pinky Pie. I’m so happy you’re here! You need to help me.”

“How can I help you?”

“In that cart over there is a bunch of knives. Go get one and cut me loose.”

Scootaloo didn’t hesitate, she hurried over and cut the knots that held Rainbow Dash.

Dash jumped off the table, the two pegasi hugged tightly for relief. They almost didn’t want to let go, but now was not the time to celebrate. The two immediately picked up a fowl stench that came from the darkness. A horrid smell that smells like rotten pony skins. A silhouette appears from the darkness with a wide smile. “Curiosity kills the little filly. Haven’t you heard that one before?” Stepping out into the light, Pinky Pie is showing off her dress that she made.

“I hope you like it! I made it myself.”

The two pegasi looked in terror at the hoof-crafted dress. Cutie Marks of ponies stitched together, all combined in a colorful pattern to form a dress, with 3 pairs of pegasi wings stitched on the back.

“What in your right mind is wrong with you! Snap out of it Pinky!”

Rainbow Dash smacked the pink pony across the cheek. Pinky Pie lunged forward and pins her down on the floor.

“You should have stayed like a good little pony. But you just have to make things worse for yourself.” Pinky Pie lets off a shriek of pain as Scootaloo bites her on the back of her leg. She is then kicked off.

“And as for you little one. You need to be taught a lesson.”

Pinky approaches a frightened Scootaloo who cowers in the corner.

“SCOOTALOO, RUN!!!”

Rainbow Dash attacks Pinky Pie and pushes her into the table. Scootaloo runs to the steps but stops on the way, “I’m not leaving without you Dash!”

Dash takes one more swipe and knocks Pinky to the floor. She takes a run for it wiith Scootaloo. Then the stunned pony gets back up and chases after the two.

    Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo ran as fast as they can through the dark hallway, there’s light at the end of the tunnel as they near the exit, but they are beaten by Pinky Pie, who attempts to block their way of escape. The filly squeezes through the fit and the other pegasus flies over Pinkies head. They’ve now reached the kitchen, knocking over pans and bakery to the floor as they bang against the walls. This was it, the backdoor exit was just ahead, Rainbow Dash was ready for freedom. As soon as she’d be outside, she would fly far away. Her mind raced as fast as she flew outside the bakery. She finally took her first breath of  warm fresh air after being in that humid basement for so long. The sense of freedom filled her lungs. Her celebration of freedom was over when a loud scream came from behind her.

“RAINBOW DASH! NOOOO! HELP ME!”

The blue pegasus rushed back to help Scootaloo. However, it was too late. Pinky Pie has dragged Scootaloo into the dark room. The gears from behind the walls operated as the doors closed. It was now an ordinary wall. It was too late to help the poor filly now. Rainbow Dash pounded against the wall. She gave up in a burst of tears. There was nothing she can do now, but to just go home.

    Scootaloo lies helpless, tied to the wooden table. She attempts to free herself by loosening the ropes that held her still, but miserably failed. She was too weak and easily fatigued. Sounds of loud crying and shrieking filled the entire room. Pinky Pie returns.

“Awww, it’s okay! I brought someone special to see you! It’s mister horsey!”

Pinky Pie shows the screaming filly the lifeless head of a pony, the eyes, skin and hair were poorly stitched together with a wide smile.

This attempt to cheer Scootaloo has failed, and she continues to cry and pant.

“LET ME GO, LET ME GO, LET ME GO!!”

The muscles of a filly were young and tender, especially easy to cut. Pinky Pie grabs the hacksaw and approaches Scootaloo’s left side. “Now I’ve learnt my lesson this time. I better not screw around now.”

The blood-thirsty hacksaw was ready again, the teeth gently rested on the joint of Scootaloo’s tiny wing as Pinky Pie aimed.

“Hmm, this seems like the spot.”

Scootaloo was not lucky enough, nor did she have the strength to escape. She has now became the next helpless victim of Pinky Pies massacre. Nopony has seen her again. Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom has questioned her dissappearance, as it felt like she has gone missing. As the rumor of the missing filly spread, it was the images of the dismemberment of the poor filly that haunted Rainbow Dashes dreams for the rest of her life...