Kingpin

Pinkie Pie

Camper

It had been two days since the Krystal-7 incident, and Pinkie was still recovering. She could barely walk and her leg was still severely swollen. She had been all the couch all week, and there was no way she could help make crystal, so Twilight had to do by herself. Which also meant Twilight could not take care of Pinkie either, so she left Spike to do that. And besides, the less Spike knew, the better.

Spike checked on Pinkie every thirty minutes. A few times, Spike tried to ask a few questions like, "what happened" or "how did you get that" but Pinkie mostly ignored them. After all, Twilight had told her not to tell anyone anything. Especially Spike.

Pinkie still maintained, though. By the next week, Pinkie was all healed up and was slightly able to walk.

Twilight Sparkle

Not a sugarhead

Twilight was really running low on supplies for making the crystal. That meant another trip to Sugarcube Corner, which Pinkie was in no condition to do.

She needed to do it alone. She packed up the rest of her supplies and put them in a box labeled Rash Sugru, the best acronym she could make up for 'sugar rush', and put on a balaclava. It was pretty late in the evening, around nine o' clock. Surely Sugarcube Corner was closed, and it was too dark to see outside anyway. She found a box of military-grade gadgets she and Applejack had recovered from the CEA. She smiled as she took out a pair of night-vision goggles. She switched off the lights and turned them on to make sure they worked. She was blinded for a second, but eventually her eyes adjusted. Twilight took them off and turned the lights back on. She was startled for a minute, because standing directly in front of her was Pinkie.

"Wha--how--when--" Twilight was speechless.

"Hey, Twilight!" Pinkie exclaimed excitedly. "Going to Sugarcube Corner?"

"Ssh!" hushed Twilight. "We don't want Spike to know. And yes, I am, but you're in no condition to make the trip." Twilight removed her balaclava. "How are you feeling, anyway?" She put the back of her hand on Pinkie's head. "No fever. . .that's good."

"Yep! Feeling a lot better now, thanks to Spike. How's the crystal coming along?" Pinkie grabbed a one-hole balaclava from the box and slipped it over her face.

"Good. We need more sugar though. We're still good on the coloring and flavoring, we have another quart or so. Are you really well enough to come?"

Pinkie nodded, followed by Twilight. She put her balaclava back on and left another note for Spike.

"How much do we need?" asked Pinkie over the radio. She was holding the bag of sugar in her hands with a measuring cup, ready to get as much as they needed.

"Let's try twenty-one cups. . .that's enough for seven batches. $35,000 for each of us." Twilight nodded. Reasonable price.

Pinkie measured out twenty-one cups, and realized that that much is roughly the size of the entire bag, so she just took the entire bag, and moved quickly and quietly over to Twilight's location, across the room.

"Great. Let's get out of here." Twilight was the first to jump out the window. Pinkie tossed the bag to Twilight outside, then jumped out herself.

Mrs. Cake

Cupcakes mmm...

"Cup Cakes, can you go make sure we have enough frosting for today?" asked Mr. Cake. Mrs. Cake nodded and walked to the back room.

Hmm, she thought to herself. Could have sworn we had more sugar. She shook the thought out of her head. She wasn't in here for that.

Pinkie Pie

A crystal cook in the making

Pinkie slipped on her safety goggles and lab coat. Twilight was now properly teaching her how to make candy.

"So first, we bring the water to a boil." Twilight put the water on her stove and let it boil.

Once it was steaming, Twilight took it off of the stove and laid it on a folding table she'd set up.

"Now, we need to saturate it." Twilight poured a couple of tablespoons of sugar into the water and stirred it around. She observed it again, shook her head, and added more. Finally, she decided it was enough and moved onto the next step. "Now, we add the food coloring and flavoring." Twilight dropped in some cherry flavoring. It looked like a rosy brown, and that's where the food coloring came in.

Twilight dropped in thick red food coloring. It mixed well with the flavoring and was quite easy to stir without any struggle.

Following that step, she poured the solution into a glass jar. Then, she placed a small wooden stick on top of the jar, suspending a string that didn't nearly touch the bottom.

Twilight smiled. "Now we wait."

Pinkie was obviously excited. "It's that easy? Wow! I can't believe we didn't come up with this long ago? Does this really work?" She had a lot of questions.

"Yes; I know; Great minds think alike; Yes, to answer all your questions." Twilight carefully picked up the glass jar and carried it up to where she and Pinkie slept and then, as carefully as she'd picked it up, placed it down on an end table. Twilight dashed back down the stairs to where Pinkie was standing. She was being serious again. "Don't knock it over."

Pinkie just laughed and responded with, "I won't!" and giggled.

It was quite late, so both of the girls went upstairs to go to bed.

Detective Chief Inspector Hoffman

CEA Headquarters

Detective Chief Inspector Hoffman held up a bag of what looked to be rock candy in its fullest form. "Ladies and gentlemen," announced Hoffman, "I think we have a new kingpin in town."