Brain Freeze
It was a warm day; warmer than most, actually. It was still fairly early in the morning, and the sun was not yet high in the sky. Everypony in Sugarcube Corner was sleeping soundly...except for one pink haired mare, who was snoring like a bear. Half of her blankets had been thrown off of her, and her pillows were slowly but surely sliding off of her bed. The loud sudden beeping of her alarm clock pulled her out of her dreams. Her eyes flashed open and she fell off the edge of the bed. “Oof..” She raised a small hot pink hoof and smacked the clock until it stopped beeping. She sat up on the floor and yawned. “Time for a snack!” She got to her hooves and went into the kitchen. Should I make breakfast for everyone else? Her mind reeled back to a time not too too long ago, where she had decided she was going to try to make breakfast for the rest of the family. She had woken up earlier than everyone else, just like this morning, and had the urge to be extra nice that day. So, she went into the kitchen and decided to make everyone pancakes. Although, at the time she didn’t know how to make pancakes exactly, so she looked up a recipe in Mrs. Cake’s cookbook and got to work. Everything was going fine until she put them in the pan. She had turned the stove up too high, and the stove caught fire!
When Pinkie Pie snapped back into the present, she decided that probably wasn’t the best idea. She opened the refrigerator and looked inside. “Hmmmm….” She scanned all the shelves only to find everything she didn’t want to eat at the time. She opened the freezer and instantly found what she wanted. “POPSICLES!!!!” She bounced in place and retrieved the box from the freezer. Closing the door, she sat down at the table and took one out of the box. She tore off the top part of the wrapper and put it to her mouth. “Mmm, cherry flavor, hehe.” She downed the chiller in seconds. “Hmm..” she opened another popsicle, and with the same speed she ate the first one, the second one was gone. “Hehehe.” Within a matter of mere minutes, the entire box of popsicles was empty, and all that was left was a pudgy pink mare sitting at a table, sucking on a popsicle wrapper.
Pinkie Pie pulled herself away from the table and hopped out of the chair, almost tipping over as she did so.Maybeeee I shouldn't have eaten all of those popsicles... She tried to walk, but could barely even do that with the weight of her belly holding her back. Then, it hit her. All of a sudden, an icy cold wind that seemed to blow only in her ears. Her head felt like it weighed 20 pounds all by itself, and she struggled to keep it up. If any pony was to wake up and look at her, they’d think she was drunk. Speak of the devils…
As soon as she completed a step, a blue earth pony came into the kitchen with pink sherbert colored hair. “Oh..my goodness, Pinkie Pie, what happened to you?” Pinkie could only look at her with regret filled eyes. If she spoke, she probably would’ve ended up seeing all the popsicles again, this time on the floor. Mrs. Cake looked at Pinkie, then to the table behind her and the empty box. “Great Celestia, Pinkie Pie, did you really eat all those popsicles?” Mrs. Cake looked at her with a slight bit of shock on her face. She knew Pinkie Pie could eat, but an entire box of popsicles?! Pinkie slowly shook her sluggish head yes. “Oh, Pinkie, why would you eat the entire box? Well, come on then, you are in no shape to be out and about. Back to bed, and I’ll get you some medicine.” Pinkie tried to object, but all she could do was put on her best disgusted look, which, given the circumstances, wasn’t too hard to come by.
“Come on, sugar, I know you don’t like medicine, but perhaps you should’ve thought of that before you ate an entire box of popsicles, hmm?”
Pinkie gave her a solemn look and started to trudge to her room. Mrs. Cake couldn’t help but to giggle a little. “Come on, we don’t have all day Granny Smith.” Pinkie wanted to give her a mad look, but couldn’t help to smile a little. She followed Mrs. Cake back to her room and, after a struggle, climbed up on her bed. “Now, you stay here while I go get the medicine.”
Pinkie Pie let out a sigh. I don’t want to take medicine...and what about my head? It still feels all weird. Did I get a brain freeze? Oh no! Brain, warm up, do some jumping jacks, please thaw out! Oh, if only Twilight were here. She’s so smart, she’d know what to do. Sighhh...but, I’m stuck in my room until I get better. I swear, when I get better, I’m never eating another popsicle ever again! Pinkie’s ear twitched. Okay, on second thought, I guess I don’t have to get THAT carried away… As soon as she finished her thought, Mrs. Cake came back with a spoon and a bottle. “Are you ready for this, Pinkie Pie?”
She shrugged her shoulders.
“Err...alright. Open up!”
Pinkie reluctantly opened her mouth and let the nasty liquid travel down her throat. When she swallowed it, she stuck out her tongue in disgust. “Eww, Mrs. Cake, did you have to give me the grossest--I can talk again! See, before I couldn’t talk because if I did I would’ve puked…” Mrs. Cake shriveled her nose in distaste. “But now, I don’t feel like throwing up anymore! I just have to deal with this big belly, hehe.” With a gentle hoof, she prodded her belly that jiggled when she did so. “Now excuse me Mrs. Cake, but I have to go see Twilight for a little while. Thank you!” She didn’t wait for Mrs. Cake’s response but instead got off of her bed, still a little sluggish, and ran as fast as her wobbly legs could take her out of the shop door.
When she got to the library, Twilight opened the door. Pinkie didn’t wait for her to say come in, but instead tackled her in a hug. “OhmygoshI’msohappyyou’restillhereIreallyneedyourhelpI’msohappytoseeyou”
“I’m...glad to...see you too...Pinkie…” The unicorn under her sputtered for air. Pinkie let go of her and closed the library door. Twilight got to her hooves and coughed a little. “What is it you wanted, Pinkie?” Twilight couldn’t help but to look at her in confusion, she had never seen Pinkie’s belly so pudgy before.
“OH! It’s kind of a long story. Ya see, I wanted something sweet for a snack, and so I couldn’t find anything so I opened the freezer and guess what I found! POPSICLES! And so I ate one but it was so good I ate another one but that one was good too so I ended up eating the ENTIRE BOX and I got really sick and Mrs. Cake gave me some medicine and so I came to see you since I felt better and because I have a brain freeze and I didn’t know how to get rid of it SOOOO” the mare gasped and took a deep breath. “I figured you would know!” When she finished, she sat down on her hindquarters and looked at Twilight with her bright blue expecting eyes.
Twilight sat down in front of her. “...Right. So let me get this straight, Pinkie. You ate an entire box of popsicles, and got a brain freeze, and you came to me because you didn’t know how to fix it.”
“Yup!”
“Alright. Pinkie, jam your tongue against the roof of your mouth a few times.”
“Huh?”
“Do it, it’ll get rid of your brain freeze.”
“O…kay.” She hit her tongue against the roof of her mouth, and sure enough, her brain freeze cleared.
“Wow, you’re my hero, Twilight!”
“Yeah...I’m glad I could help you, Pinkie Pie."
“Hehehe-hic.”
“Uh, what?”
“I dun-hic-no.”
Twilight rolled her eyes. “Oh, no…”