“Hey, isn’t that the pony obsessed with muffins?” Rainbow Dash asked, pointing to a clumsy-looking gray pegasus with a yellow mane. Discord shrugged.

“I don’t exactly know a lot of ponies… They tend to find me a bit unsettling, you see,” Discord said. “But I’m assuming you have something in mind?”

Rainbow Dash nodded as her eyes narrowed evilly. “Of course I have something in mind.”

Ten minutes later, Derpy Hooves had just finished delivering a parcel when she heard somepony call her name. “Hey Derpy! Would you mind helping me stomp the rain out of a couple of these storm clouds?” Rainbow Dash called. Always happy to help, Derpy flew up to join her with a smile on her face.

“Of course, Rainbow Dash, I’ll take this one over there,” she said, pushing the cloud away.

“What are you doing?” Rainbow Dash asked. “Can’t you do it over here?”

“Oh. No. I can’t. It’s to minimize the damage, after what happened last time,” Derpy said, smiling sheepishly as she pushed the cloud to the center of a clearing, a good distance away from any buildings. She positioned herself on the storm cloud and leaped enthusiastically into the air. As she landed, a small electric shock came out, making her mane stand on end. A few tries later, a small amount of water leaked out and the cloud turned white.

“All done!” Derpy beamed, pushing the cloud back in Rainbow Dash’s direction. When she got back, Rainbow Dash was nowhere to be found. “I’ll just leave this in the air then,” she called, leaving it behind. She glanced over at the cluster of storm clouds Rainbow Dash had asked her to help clear and blinked. There was something off about one of them.

Derpy flew closer to take a closer look. All of the clouds were raining, but there was one in the center that had a different rain, a wonderful smelling rain with raindrops as large as apples. Upon closer inspection, it appeared that the cloud was raining muffins, freshly baked blueberry muffins, to be accurate.

Derpy stuck her hoof out, catching one mid-flight. The heat of the baked muffin settled into her rain-soaked hooves, warming them as the tantalizing smell of a perfect blueberry muffin teased her nostrils. She looked around to make sure nopony was watching, and took a bite of the fluffy, crunchy pastry, going wall-eyed with bliss as the rate her wings were flapping almost doubled. “Wow… a muffin cloud,” she whispered, taking the cloud with her. She would need to store this somewhere safe.

Derpy gently nudged the cloud, being careful not to do anything that might damage it, towards the middle of the field where she stomped out the first one, leaving it over a nearby picnic basket somepony had left unattended. The basket began to fill with muffins, muffins she promised herself she’d enjoy when her job was done. Nodding approvingly at her muffin cloud, she flew back towards Rainbow Dash’s cloud cluster.

When she got there, two more muffin clouds had emerged. “Poppyseed and banana nut,” she said aloud, smelling the aroma and taking a bite out of each to be certain. She happily moved each cloud back to the center of the field over the nearly filled basket, rolling up the sides of the picnic cloth for more storage space after some consideration. She wouldn’t want any muffins to go to waste.

Returning to the cluster of storm clouds, she was pleasantly surprised to find that they were all raining muffins. Raspberry, chocolate chip, coffee, oatmeal raisin, and pumpkin muffin clouds all floated in front of her, showering the land with their delicious pastry rain. “This is a miracle!” Derpy declared, pushing the rest of the clouds all over to the center of the field, where a small storm of muffins was falling. She dove into the small hill of muffins, nuzzling her face into the nearest one and sighing contently.

“Derpy? What are you doing?” Rainbow Dash asked. All of a sudden, Derpy felt very cold, very wet, and very hungry. She blinked, staring up at the roof of storm clouds above her.

“Huh?” Derpy asked, looking around. She was on a rolled-up picnic cloth being showered by a dozen rain clouds, presumably the same ones that had been raining muffins a moment earlier. “But… those were full of muffins,” she said, realizing too late how silly she sounded.

A brown stallion ran over with his wife and kids. “Our picnic! Why would you do such a thing?!” he stared at Derpy in bewilderment. “Just one day! Is that too much to ask?” he shouted at the sky as his family cowered. “Well fine! You don’t want us to have a picnic? We’ll just go home then! Come on, we’re leaving,” he shouted again, then turned to his wife and kids, giving them an angry glare. They walked away dragging their hooves.

“I didn’t mean to! I swear!” Derpy shouted at them, then sighed. She moved out from under the rain and shook herself off. “Sorry, Rainbow Dash, I’ll get them clean in no time I promise!”

“Alright then, thanks for the help,” Rainbow Dash said, pulling out a muffin and taking a bite.

“Wait, where did you get that muffin?” Derpy asked, staring. It looked exactly like the muffins from the clouds she had eaten from.

“A friend baked a bunch and said I could have some,” Rainbow Dash said, finishing the muffin. “Here, why don’t you have a couple for when you finish working?” she handed Derpy three blueberry muffins that looked suspiciously familiar.

“Wait, I… what?” Derpy asked as Rainbow Dash flew away. She shrugged, putting the muffins aside and preparing to get to work.

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