Back in Rainbow Dash, Meowth, and Josh's cloud home, the human had turned on Dash's computer and quickly discovered the internet in Equestria was just like the one back on his world. But by now, nothing about Equestria really surprised him. He'd grown to accept it being nearly identical to his world.

At the moment though, he was busy downloading a special program that would allow him to converse with his few friends back home. A special black box given by a techno-geek unicorn named Gigabyte gave the computer the ability to transcend dimensions and worlds, a feat that even Twilight Sparkle couldn't seem to figure out, and right now he had it put to good use to help carry out what the lavender unicorn had asked of him back on the farm.

"Josh, I need you to get recipes... lots of recipes and lots of food..."

Immediately, he knew of two of his friends that dabbled in cooking and actually had some secret recipes of their own... ones he knew could be of use to helping them all. Celestia had said that allowing him to head back to his world was easy and to pick up their foods and recipes that would be essential. As he signed onto the Equestrian Messenger, he discovered to his delight that both his friends were already on and within a few seconds, the three of them were in a chatroom, talking excitedly.

JRocket: Aramis, Graham! Hey!
DarkChaos: Rocket, yo! Sup? Where'd you go?
Gypsylover: Ari and I have been trying to call your house for days now! Where are you?
JRocket: I'm afraid I can't tell you that right now, but I need your help. How quick can you guys make me some of those special dishes that we used to snack on when we'd spend time at Ari's pad with his folks?
DarkChaos: You mean like that Goulash Surpreme and the Quad-Club Burgers?
JRocket: Yes! Exactly!
DarkChaos: Not long at all! Just give us an hour and we can whip them all up nice and delicious!
Gypsylover: Yeah! But how will we get it to you?
JRocket: Just meet me in the backyard of my house. You both have spare keys still, right?
DarkChaos: Of course! I even got mine copied!
JRocket: ....Aramis, why'd you get a copy of yours?
DarkChaos: In case Jason eats one of them.
JRocket: Right... he does enjoy eating shiny things, that Panopolis kid... Anyway, meet me in the backyard of my house in one hour. Bring as much food and as many recipe sheets as you can. I gtg for now. Got some business.
Gypsylover: Alright. Take care!
DarkChaos: Ciao!
JRocket has signed off

As he clicked off the messenger program, he knew his role wasn't even remotely done, he had to get Celestia's help and the assistance of as many eateries in Equestria he could locate... what Twilight had planned was something great... but also something that had to be done right.... and he got to his feet as he readied to get himself to Celestia's castle, looking out the bedroom window and getting his wings ready to go as he stepped onto the ledge...

"HEYAS JOSH! WHACHA DOIN'??"

Hearing that goofy voice from his side startled the teen bad enough to where he fell backwards back into the bedroom with a loud yelp. Looking up, he could see a familiar cross-eyed pegasus looking back at him with a big grin on her face.

"Ugh... Derpy Hooves? What is it?"

"Miss Twi-light asked me to look for you!", the mailmare replied, drawing out the unicorn's name, "She wanted to make sure the progress in your training was going ok-dokie!"

"Yeah.. yeah. It's going ok.", Josh sighed as he shook his head to get back his senses from the fall. "But you don't need to startle me like that!"

"Oops! Sorry!", Derpy grinned sheepishly, rubbing her hoof behind her head as she floated in the air, her gray wings keeping her afloat, "Should I let them know you're on your way?"

The human shook his head again before he replied, "I need to make a few trips before I come back down, but I'll be there in about an hour. What about Dash and AJ, how are they doing?"

"Oh, they're as'eep.", Derpy bubbled, "But they should be ok!"

"Good.. good. Anyways, just let them know I'll be there soon.... and try not to crash into anything this time, ok??"

"Got it!", the wall-eyed pegasus replied as she turned to fly out.. and promptly flew into the wall next to the open window before heading into the big blue sky and leaving Josh shaking his head one more time in amazement.

"Maybe they weren't joking when they said she'd had a lobotomy....."
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A few hours had passed since Applejack and Rainbow Dash had finally fallen asleep on the Apple family's couch and the two of them were fast asleep in dreamland, the murmurings coming from their mouths innocent and revealing of their inner desires.

"Oh yes... a week with the Wonderbolts training... that's so awesome!"

"20,000 orders of apple pie.... 10,000,000 bits..... no problem...."

As the two of them dozed off, in the kitchen and outside the opened back door, a whole mess of cooking and stewing was going on as Fluttershy, Meowth, Granny Smith, Josh, Twilight Sparkle, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Pinkie Pie, Big MacIntosh and even Rarity were all busy cooking up a storm... although none of them knew WHY Twilight had asked them to create so much.

"Um... Twilight...", Fluttershy squeaked as she tossed together a crisp salad, "Can you tell us please why we're making so much food? That is... if you don't mind.."

"Fluttershy, don't be so scared ta ask her!", Meowth coaxed, putting together a fresh set of multi-deck sandwiches, "I'd like ta know too!!"

"Cat's got a point!" Scootaloo couldn't help but add as she put the finishing touches on a set of hot dogs. In accordance with what Applejack had mentioned, they'd imported the meats from Neigh York City's meat district. Surprisingly, it'd taken less than an hour for all the meats to arrive. But from what Twilight and Josh had told them, when it was mentioned WHY all the food was needed, it seemed to make a proccess that would have normally taken days to fill due to all the orders ahead reduced to that of 60 minutes! "What's with all the food!"

Twilight sighed before she spoke, "You'll find out in about 10 minutes when all the food is ready... But it's not going to be pretty. Josh you got those special meals ready?"

The human nodded as he finished stirring up a meaty stew he'd come to the farm with. The smell had been intoxicating and even Rarity found herself drooling as the scent reached her. Josh wouldn't tell any of them what was in it, saying it was a private recipe that he'd gotten back in his world. But he had been willing to give out several bowlfuls to the others to sample and the reaction had been unanimously positive. "Just about! Think it's about time to wake up the sleepers?"

"Mr. Josh, sir?", Apple Bloom asked softly as she helped set up the big pile of burgers he'd brought, "Why do you think Twilight's having us make all this?"

The teen merely gave a half-smile before he knelt down towards the filly. "Sweetie, I may know... but you may not like it."

"C'mon, tell me!", she insisted, giving him a puppy-doggish pouty look.

"Apple Bloom... all I'll say is it's gonna be messy." he remarked before he stood back up and took in a spoonful of the stew for himself, slurping it. "Mmmmm... Hey, Sweetie Belle, can you toss me a thing of salt?"

"On it!", the little unicorn complied, grabbing a shaker with her mouth and tossing it out of the kitchen and to the human who caught it much to the amazement of the crowd around him.

"Nice catch.", Big Mac drawled before turning back to Granny Smith and the pies he was helping her make, "That's about 40 or 50 pies we've made so far. Think that's enough?"

"Oh ho ho no!", the wizened pony shook her head as she put another sheet into the oven, "I'm gonna keep baking and cooking til' the cows come home! We've got to get those whippersnappers ready..... for this is not just a contest! THIS IS A FIGHT FOR PONYVILLE'S LIVELIHOOD!"

"Ok...", Big Mac muttered as he backed away, "I think you got carried away a bit there.... Ya'll been listening to Josh's speeches?"

"Grandson, if we don't prepare for this and Rainbow Dash and Applejack lose... WE'LL lose everything!!!"

"Ya'll don't honestly think that fat unicorn would empty Ponyville's markets, do ya? No pony could be that selfish!"

"Remember Moosuri? Baas Angeles? Saddallas? Remember what happened to all those places after their competitors lost to Champagne?"

Almost immediately a horrifying set of images ran through the red colts head as he remembered the news reports he'd read.

Baas Angeles still recovering after 4 months...

Illinoisey market closes for good...

Albaneigh mayor hangs himself after city is driven to bankruptcy thanks to Champagne...

A shiver went through his body, shaking him to the core. He knew now that if Champagne could wipe out a huge city like Albaneigh to the point where its leader took their life... Ponyville would be decimated if that fat unicorn took out their own market!

"GRANNY FOR CELESTIA'S SAKE, WE NEED TO FINISH MAKING ALL THIS HERE FOOD NOW! WE NEED TO GET THEM TRAINED ASAFP!!!!!", he shouted to the old mare before turning to the pink party pony putting piles and pounds of pancakes perfectly perpendicular on plates, "Pinkie Pie! Progress on the pancakes?"

"Pppperfection!", she giggled as she poured another big container of syrup onto the stack, "I think we're just about ready-eddy-freddy to starty-warty the next part of their training-waining!"

At this, nearly all the crowd who could hear Pinkie Pie just looked at her like she'd grown an extra head. The more she spoke, the more everyone started to wonder if she had sugar in her bloodstream instead of the crimson liquid.

"Pinkie Pie.... what are we gonna do with you...", Twilight murmured to herself, placing a hoof to her head in confusion before turning to Josh and Apple Bloom, "We're just about ready! Can you two go inside and bring Dash and AJ into the kitchen... there I'll explain everything!"

"FINALLY!", the two said in unison as they set down the cooking tools and got ready to head inside........