Forgive The Forgotten

Dawn Star

Anything more that Aurora had planned to say was immediately derailed by a rather fearsome sound. A monstrous growl coming from a ways off startled Dawn somewhat but the origins of the beastly noise rose high above the buildings and was perhaps the oddest adversary he’d ever expected to face his the entirety of his career.

While his predecessor, Shining Armor, had battled Changelings, protected a kingdom and fought off a cursed Unicorn, the highlights of Dawn’s tenure as Guard Captain was…a giant cake. It wasn’t even chocolate.

The stallion deadpanned, looking somewhat disappointed and completely unafraid of the animated confection as Aurora urged him on.

“Right, right,” Spreading his wings and letting the wind roll through his feathers.

“Gotta fly!” His terrible little catchphrase came before he launched himself skyward and climbed high above the attacking frosting-covered creature.

A shout from below – somehow singled out above all the screaming ponies – reached him and was devising a plan. They wanted a hose?

A hose would work but where would they get one that could stretch to this length? Maybe that was the norm for them? Whatever the case might've been he did as bade and found a length of another hose, snatching it up and turning the water faucet as high as it could go before returning to the air again to spray the roaring dessert.

It was working! The water saturated the cake thoroughly and as more moisture was exposed to its spongy body the slower their confection creature became.

There simply was no way for it to continue to support its growing mass and it did not help that the ponies around it were effectively keeping it contained to one area. A brown stallion was working to keep the monster from squishing anyone and others had jumped into the fray, doing their part to subdue their adversary.

What did disturb him (just a little really) was that the villagers were…eating the monster.

High above them Dawn Star watched, letting his hose fall back to the ground and cringing almost sympathetically for the monster as it wailed loudly.

Suddenly, a blast of heated magic roared from across the sky and Dawn Star was thoroughly surprised to notice that Prince Phoenix had arrived – from where he could not be sure – and was assisting them.

No sooner had he come did Princesses Icis and then Skybolt as well enter the battle with their own magic, solidifying the cake, still being nibbled away at.

“Well, whatever works I suppose!” Laughing raucously as the monster gave a final groan before collapsing into a mushy heap with thick bits of frozen or fire-baked chunks.

And the villagers were still eating it! “I think I’ve lost my appetite for a while.” Grimacing despite the amusement he felt for the outrageous situation.

Taking a moment to assure himself of the cake monsters demise, the guard flew over toward the two royals. “Prince Phoenix, Princess Icis, what are you both doing here? I wasn’t notified that either of you would be traveling away from Canterlot.”

Danny Bullwhip

Most of the ponies had already got in on the action or were fleeing from it and another few apparently had plans to just soak the thing. A mare with a hose nearly got frosted by the monster confection before shouting up to another Pegasus that they needed more help.

If they planned on getting it all wet so that it toppled over from the moisture then it was better for them all if the monster cake was someplace where it wouldn’t crush anymore buildings or worse, somepony in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"Somepony call for the cavalry? YEEEHAW!"

Dashing forward he skidded to a halt in front of the vanilla cake and snapped his whip at it, "Down here ya overgrown cupcake!" earning its attention and a few large globs of frosting hurled his way.

The expert herder moved like a bull fighter, sidestepping and turning out of range as the cake continued to chase him despite how irritated it was getting with all the hose-wielding ponies. Whenever it tried to go after one Danny would step in and drive it in another direction.

Fighting a giant cake monster proved to be very much like dodging a rampant bull, except sweeter and without the horns.

Danny bobbed and weaved, offering himself as a distraction as well as keeping the enchanted cake in an open space. His whip cracked loudly whenever it attempted to bolt either to escape or to attack one of the ponies hosing it down and both the noise and the vengeful bite of leather quickly had it chasing him all over again.

He kept up this pattern successfully and didn’t let up until more had joined and were able to help him corral it.

Overhead he could hear Ashley, the Pegasus from earlier, shouting at it but then there was a silence that left him unsettled.

“What did that girl do now?” He grunted as another piece of wet cake sloughed off the creature and nearly caught him. A quick maneuver put him out of range long enough to look up for the mare that had gotten herself stuck at the very top.

Just what they needed, a damsel in distress… Looks like he still had a job to do.

Gathering speed, the stallion rushed his enemy and jumped straight in the air. Thanks to the pair of Alicorn’s alternatively frying and freezing portions of the cake, Daniel’s hooves were able to find purchase in the monsters unstable body without getting himself caught in the process.

He scaled it like it was a mountain and even though he slipped a few times thanks to globs of frosting he managed to make it to the top and grip Ashley by the waist.

"Ain't your parents ever tell ya not to stick your hooves in giant, pony-smashing dessert before?" With a hearty yank he pulled her free but didn’t let her go. “This thing’s bout to keel right over so hang on!” And she would if she didn’t want to end up buried in cake pudding.

Extracting his whip again he uncoiled the length just as the monster began to sink to the ground and let it snap out. The corded leather wrapped around a weathervane and with a hoot he swung them onto a rooftop.