They came from the Everfree

It was a sunny day in the town of Ponyville. As usual, Pinkie Pie, the pink, crazed party maniac, was making all kinds of pastries with enough sugar to fill a small lake. Mr and Mrs Cake, the owners of Sugarcube corner, didn't really mind, as it was how business worked. The customers would come one by one to buy food, and that is how every day was in Pinkie Pie's professional life.

Meanwhile, at the edge of the Everfree forest, Fluttershy was busy feeding her animals. Sure, the forest was dangerous, but it was the best spot to easily collect food for the animals. Whilst trying to give a carrot to the picky Angel bunny, she heard a sound coming from right outside her cottage. Being who she was, she let an inaudible terrified meep, then poked her head out by the window. What she saw was probably the most surprising thing of the week.

There, on the ground, stood a stallion. He was light green, and his mane was hidden by a black hat. She guessed it was a hat, but its shape reminded her of the guards' helmets. The stallion looked around, apparently looking for something. Then something else happened. A bush in the Everfree forest shivered, and out of it came a fully grown manticore. It roared at the stallion, who didn't pay any attention. Instead, he dropped on the ground. Fluttershy thought he was playing dead, a good tactic she used many times to escape the Everfree's creatures.

However, he got back on all four, then crouched. He walked towards the manticore like a spider, very swiftly, making strange cracking noises after each step. When he finally faced the beast, he tilted his head backwards, allowing Fluttershy to see his emotionless eyes. He pointed a hoof at himself, then declared to the manticore "I, am Painis Cupcake." He leaned closer, one or two inches to the creature's face. "I will eat ..." he pointed his hoof towards the manticore, "you." His neutral face turned into a horribly distorted smile.

The manticore stared for a few seconds, before letting out another cry and opening its mouth to chop the stallion's head off. Fluttershy closed her eyes as she heard the horrible screams of the stallion, and the terrifying cries of agony of the manticore. And then it all stopped. After what seemed to be an hour, Fluttershy gathered all of her courage, and looked outside. Where she expected to find nothing, as manticores take their meals deep into the forest, she saw a gruesome event taking place. The stallion was still here. So was the manticore. Except the latter was a bloody dismembered mess the former was feeding on.

The one who introduced himself as 'Painis Cupcakes' then tilted his head towards Fluttershy's cottage, slowly but surely, then let a disturbing smile creep on his face. On one of his teeth, Fluttershy could see a bleeding muscle of the manticore, hanging from his mouth. It was too much for her to handle. She fainted, dropping the apples in her basket, which Angel promptly ate.

Meanwhile, Painis Cupcake finished eating what was left of the manticore, then crouched, and, once again, moved at an extremely fast pace towards Ponyville, all whilst making these strange clicking noises. Fortunately for the townies, it was nap time, so Painis didn't cross the path of a potential meal. Until he arrived at a giant tree. With a door, and windows. Never questioning logic, he took a large bite of the door, chewed for a few seconds, then spat it in a random direction. Wood left a funny taste in his mouth.

The strong sound of wood being chopped down was enough to wake Spike up, since dragons have very developed ears. Going down, wondering who would try to mercilessly destroy the door he took three weeks to build, he found a light green stallion with a helmet of some sort. He had some remains of wood under the lips. "Huh ..." said Spike anxiously, "can I help you with anything ?"

The stallion stared. So did Spike. It lasted for minutes, until the former broke the silence. "I am Painis Cupcake", he said, earning a half-amused, half-worried look from the baby dragon, "I will eat you." A smirk slowly crept on his face. Spike did certainly not like this.

"Hum ... T-Twilight ?" He said hesitantly, turning to the staircase. He tried to walk towards it, but something was stuck on his leg. Looking down, he saw 'Painis Cupcake' trying to bit into his dragon scales. He stood there, speechless, for the longest time. Then, he screamed in a very unmanly way, then proceeded to run as fast as he could out of the library. Painis gave chase, and was catching up with him. "HELP ! THERE'S A MADCOLT AFTER ME !" Screamed Spike. From inside the library, Twilight Sparkle heard the S.O.S. from her number one assistant and, forgetting nap time, went after that 'madcolt' Spike seemed so worried about.

Meanwhile, Spike tried to find a way out. Or, in this specific situation, a way in, as he couldn't risk getting out of town. He checked the area. Every door was locked. Every door, except for ...

"SUGARCUBE CORNER !" He screamed at the top of his lungs, rushing inside the corner street sweet shop, closing the door behind him. Inside, he wasn't surprised to find Pinkie Pie, ignoring nap time, making more cupcakes and such. At least, here, he would be safe. Mr and Mrs Cake were the most prudent ponies in town, and bought a highly secured door, made out of pure iron, a very solid metal. There was no way this crazed stallion ...

A deafening cry came from outside, and soon, one big chunk of the door was missing. Spike could see from the hole, that 'Painis Cupcake' was now glowing red, his brown eyes turned yellow, easily biting through the steel remains of what once was a high security door. "I AM PAINIS CUPCAKE !" He shouted at Spike, who simply covered his ears and closed his eyes, whimpering. "I WILL EAT ..."

"Cupcakes !" Said a high-pitched voice from behind the baby dragon. "I just made them, wanna taste some ?" Said a pink colored mare, with a giant smile on her face, ignoring the cowering Spike and the crushed door. She was holding a plate with her right hoof. Upon seeing it, Painis's glow disappeared, and he simply stared at the cupcakes. Before eating the entire plate in a single bit.

"Nom !" He said. "Now, I will eat ..."

"More cupcakes !" Interrupted Pinkie, opening a door to an attic full of sugar-based goods. Painis simply jumped in and started eating every single thing, edible or not, in the room. As he was feasting on less living food, Twilight entered Sugarcube Corner, to find Pinkie giggling, Spike in foetal position, and a helmeted stallion eating ... food. "Oh hey Twilight !" Said Pinkie Pie, "I just met this really nice and hungry pony !"

At that precise moment, Fluttershy knocked on the open door, then entered. She seemed worried, but calm. However, upon seeing Painis Cupcake, she decided to follow Spike's example instead. "Will somepony explain me what just happened ?" Said Twilight, trying to reason with her traumatised friends. After hearing both stories and unsuccessfuly trying to convince Fluttershy that it was all a dream, she fetched Princess Celestia via one of Spike's letters and asked her to come pick up somepony.

It took eight of the bravest guards to transport Painis's cage, with still tons of food in it. Celestia, after hearing the complete report of the events, headed back to Canterlot. She decided to hide the story from the rest of the population, and assigned 'Painis Cupcake' to one of the unused prison cells under Canterlot. She would ask her sister what to do next, as she couldn't really do anything without any sort of advice in this kind of situations.