Pinkamena and Cheese Sandwich

Pinkie Pie, Cheese Sandwich, Applejack, Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, Big Macintosh, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and even Spike stood around a hole in the ground. They all had tears in their eyes. Twilight had died, and they were all at her funeral. Twilight’s body was inside a little black coffin.

“Why?!” Spike cried. He was going crazy. His face was soaked with tears, they had dripped down his face and off his chin onto his little black suit, which was also soaked with tears. “Why did this have to happen to Twilight? Why her? It’s not fair!” Spike cried and screamed like a child.

“Spike.” Fluttershy said softly through her own tears. She placed a hoof on his shoulder to comfort him. “It’s ok. She’s in a better place now.” Fluttershy said, rubbing her hoof comfortingly on his shoulder.

“How could she be in a better place?” Spike asked through tears. “She’s gone, and she’s never coming back, it’s not fair. Why did it have to be Twilight?”

“Spike, it’ll be ok.” Fluttershy promised him. “You just need to calm down.”

“Ok.” Spike said taking a few deep breaths. “I’m alright.” He sniffed away some more tears.

“Poor Twilight…” Sweetie Belle said sadly, wiping away a few of her own tears. Apple Bloom, who was standing next to Sweetie, nodded in agreement.

They all stood around Twilight’s coffin, sobbing and talking about all of the great things she had done, about all her accomplishments. She was so smart, it would be a huge disappointment to Equestria now that she was gone. They could have used her smarts for science, but now that would be impossible. Princess Celestia would certainly grieve for her prized pupil.

A few stallions came around and lifted her coffin up and put it into the hole that had been dug for it. As they covered it up with dirt, and a few of them said a few words.

Spike spoke first, “Twilight Sparkle was a very special pony to me. You could call her my mother, she’s the one who hatched me from my egg. She took care of me all this time. I…” Spike stopped, cried a little and then continued. “I really cared for Twilight, and now that she’s gone….”

“It’s ok Spike, let it all out.” Fluttershy said. Spike nodded and stepped away from the view of all those who were watching him.

“I’d like to say a few words on Twilight’s behalf.” Rainbow Dash said. “Twilight was an egghead. But she was a cool egghead. She’s helped me out with a lot of things, and she’s always been there for me. She’s always been there for all of us, right girls?” Applejack, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie all nodded.

“Twilight should have had another chance, this shouldn’t have happened to her, not this soon. She was still young, she still had things to do in her life. Things that she’ll never get to do.” Rainbow Dash said as tears finally ran down her cheeks. “She…. Twilight…. I just can’t.” She stepped down and buried her head into Fluttershy’s mane.

“Twilight was very special to all of us. Nopony should have this happen to them so suddenly.” Pinkie Pie said. “I hope she’s happier now, wherever she is.”

After Pinkie said her words, the stallions had finished filling in the hole. The girls and Cheese and Big Mac stayed and talked for a little bit longer. Sweetie Belle placed a small bouquet of flowers on Twilight’s grave. Then, they all went their separate ways back to their homes.

Once Pinkie and Cheese made it back to Sugarcube Corner, they went straight to check on Gala Amour. She was fine and then they went down to the basement to lay out the next phase of Pinkie’s plan.

“Alright.” Pinkie said. “So, phase one - Twilight’s Death - is now complete.” Pinkie marked out a square on a piece of paper she had lying on  a table in the basement.

“So, now is it time to start phase two?” Cheese asked.

“Yeah, are you prepared? Phase two involves a number of steps.”

“Oh, I’m ready.” Cheese said grinning.

“Ok. So, for phase two, we need to destroy the apple family. Not Apple Bloom though. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle need to stay safe, if things go as planned, they’re going to be our daughters.”

“What? But Pinkie, we have Gala.” Cheese said.

“Yes, I know. Did you think I forgot?”

“No.. Just… Never mind, continue.”

“Applejack is abusing those poor fillies, we need to get them out of her care. I’m not sure how Big Mac treats them, but to stay on the safe side, we need to kill him and Applejack. Got it?”

“Yeah, I got it. How are we going to do that?” Cheese asked, looking over her plans, but not understanding any of them.

“I’m not quite sure. I was thinking poison, but we never see Big Mac, so I’m not sure how we’d get poison into him.” Pinkie stared down at her plans, tapping her hoof on the ground in thought.

“Any ideas?” Cheese asked.

“Not yet. Wait! Yes.”

“Well, what is it?”

“You need to befriend Big Mac. You need to get close to him and somehow sneak the poison into his food or a drink.”

“Why does it have to be me?” Cheese asked.

“Because you’re a guy. Guys do guy things, you guys will get along great. Please do this for me, Cheesie. I need this.” Pinkie begged. She looked up at Cheese with large, watery eyes, she gave Cheese the look that she knew he just couldn’t resist.

Cheese looked at her stubbornly for a moment, then he gave in. “Alright, alright. Fine I’ll do it.”

“Yay!” Pinkie squealed excitedly. “Thank you so much!” She hugged Cheese and kissed him a few times.

“Anything for you.” He said smiling at her. “So are you ready to go to bed now?”

“Not quite, I’ll be a bit longer. You can go on if you like.” She said, studying her plans.

“Alright, well, I’ll be waiting for you to finish up. Hurry, or I’ll be cold and lonely all night.” Cheese said as he climbed up the stairs.

“Yeah, yeah.” Pinkie said, obviously distracted by something she was thinking about. She wrote down a few more things on the paper.

Cheese sighed and headed up the stairs. He left Pinkie to do her planning thing, and decided he would just wait for her to turn up in bed later that night.

Pinkie spent a few more minutes adding and deleting things to and from her plan. She wanted it to be perfect. She wanted it to be simple to pull off, but difficult for other ponies to find leads that led to her and Cheese. It would take a lot of work, but it would be so damn worth it once she had it all sorted out. Once she had done what she needed to do she went up to the bedroom where Cheese was waiting.

Pinkie skipped into the bedroom smiling. “Hi Cheesie.” She said happily.

“Hi Pinkie, how’d the planning go?”

“Fantasterrific!” Pinkie said happily as she skipped over to the bed and hopped in.

“I see somepony is in a good mood.” Cheese said smiling. He nuzzled Pinkie and nibbled on her ear a little.

“Yes I am.” Pinkie said giggling slightly.

“Should we close the door?” Cheese asked, kissing down Pinkie’s neck. “We don’t want to startle Gala.”

“I don’t want to get up.” Pinkie whined.

Cheese sighed. “I’ll get it.” Cheese got out of the bed and closed the door. He trotted back to the bed. “Now where were we?”

“I think you know.” Pinkie said tilting her head up slightly and giggling.

* * *

The next morning Pinkie Pie was ready to put phase two of her plan into action. Cheese, however, wasn’t. Cheese told Pinkie multiple times that he didn’t feel like doing much today.

“Is this because of last night?” Pinkie asked.

“What? No of course not.” Cheese said. “Maybe, but only because I enjoyed it so much that it’s all I can think about. I don’t want to be distracted by something and forget about last night.” Cheese thought to himself.

Then Cheese looked at Pinkie and how sad she was. “Oh man, I hate seeing her like this. I wish there was something I could do to make her happy. Oh wait, there is.”

“Alright, I’ll go hang out with Big Mac.” Cheese said, waiting for Pinkie to jump on him in excitement.

“Thank you Cheesie!” Pinkie cried happily, hugging him with such force that they almost fell over. They laughed a little and Cheese hugged her back.

“I guess I should get going now?” Cheese asked.

“Wait, don’t forget the poison.” Pinkie said, giving him a small bottle. “Please make sure you don’t take it by mistake.”

Cheese took it and hid it in his shirt pocket. “I won’t I promise.”

“Pinkie promise?”

Cheese smiled, “Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.”

Pinkie smiled back. “Thank you. Now go, I can take care of Gala and run Sugarcube Corner by myself no problem. Go on, have fun.”

“Alright, I’m going. Bye, see you later, I love you.” Cheese kissed her goodbye and then left the store to go find Big Mac. Pinkie went into the kitchen and started baking sweets for the day.

Cheese walked through Ponyville to Sweet Apple Acres where he hoped to find Big Mac. Once he got there, he looked around a little to see if he could spot him. He didn’t see anypony, but he did hear some noises coming from the barn, probably some equipment being moved around, so he decided to check there.

Once Cheese got closer, he could hear voices. He heard Applejack, and she was yelling. She didn’t sound too happy. Cheese trotted the rest of the way to the barn, he peeked through the partially opened door. Inside he saw Applejack holding a cup of cider and she was yelling at something Cheese couldn’t see.

“Now listen here you two!” Applejack screamed. “I don’t want ya’ll to be doin’ things yer not supposed to, ya hear me?” She sounded drunk.

The ponies she was yelling at must have been Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. Cheese watched as they Applejack kicked a box at them. The girls screamed and dodged it.

“Now, get!” Applejack yelled, pointing toward the door. The little fillies nodded and scurried out of the barn as fast as they could. On their way out, they bumped into Cheese. He could see the scared looks on their faces, and the cuts and bruises they had all over them. There were tears in their eyes and tear streaks in their dirty fur.

“You shouldn’t be here.” Sweetie Belle said as she left the barn with Apple Bloom behind her. Apple Bloom was in much worse shape than Sweetie Belle. Sweetie looked behind her at Applejack and hurried away quicker, staying slow enough for Apple Bloom to keep up.

Cheese watched them scurry away, and then he turned his attention back to Applejack. He watched her for a minute, and then he saw Big Mac come into view.

“Applejack,” He said in his intimidating deep voice. “You shouldn’t be treating those poor fillies like that.”

Applejack took a couple swigs of the cider she had, “You ain’t the boss of me.” She said, stumbling over her own hooves and falling to the ground.

“Actually, Applejack, I kind of am.” He said helping her back up. “And I don’t want you treating those fillies the way you do.”

“They deserve it. You should see how bad they act.” Applejack said, taking more large gulps of cider, some of it running down her chin and chest, staining her fur.

Big Mac shook his head. “This needs to stop now, understand?”

“Yeah, yeah, sure thing, boss.” Applejack said mockingly.

“Maybe I don’t need to kill Big Mac. He seems to care for the fillies just fine. Maybe it’s just because he’s so busy that he can’t actually take care of them, so he leaves it to Applejack. I’ve got to tell Pinkie, and if she still wants me to kill him, then I guess I’ll have to.” Cheese thought, turning around to leave.

He heard angry screams and banging and crashing sounds coming from the barn as he was leaving. Cheese broke into a run and ran until Sweet Apple Acres was out of sight. He made it back to Sugarcube Corner, where Pinkie was serving a customer. She looked at him with a confused look and he walked over to her.

“Cheese? What are you doing here? You’re not supposed to be at work today.” Pinkie said.

“Yeah, I know, but there’s something I need to tell you.” He said nervously. “Can we talk in the kitchen?”

“Yeah sure I-” Cheese walked into the kitchen, attempting to pull her along with him. “Cheese!” Pinkie said.

“Pinkie, it’s urgent, you need to know this now."

“Alright, I get that, just please don’t drag me.” She looked behind her and once they were in the kitchen she said, “I’m still sore from last night. Anyway, what is it you wanted to tell me?”

“Oh, I’m so sorry, are you ok?” Cheese asked.

“Yes, fine, I thought you had something urgent.”

“Right, right. Well, I was at Sweet Apple Acres, and I saw Applejack yelling at Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom, and she even kicked a crate at them. And they had bruises all over their little bodies.”

“I already know Applejack abuses them, Cheese. If this isn’t important then I have to get back to work.” She said turning around.

“No, wait. That’s part of my point. It’s only Applejack. Big Mac has nothing to do with it, he’s trying to get Applejack to stop hurting them, but he’s just too busy with his work and such. I don’t think I can kill him if he’s innocent.”

“I want you to kill him so we can take custody of Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. I want them to learn how to do what we do and enjoy it. That way when we die, then the little ones will be able to carry on our work.”

“Oh, that’s smart.” Cheese said.

“Yes, I know. So, you still have to kill him, get going.”

“No wait. If he’s dead then there will be nopony to work on the farm. He’s too busy to take care of the girls anyway, you could keep custody of them without having to kill Big Mac. I say we just kill Applejack.”

“Alright fine, just go, I really need to get back to work.” Pinkie said hurrying out of the kitchen with a tray of freshly baked cupcakes.

“Ok, bye.” Cheese said as he left once again to go to Sweet Apple Acres.

On the way there Cheese was thinking up his plan to kill Applejack. “Alright, so I should try to sneak up on her and dump the poison in a pint of cider, then she’ll drink it and be intoxicated with the poison. It’ll be perfect as long as she doesn’t see me.” Cheese thought. He felt his shirt pocket for the little bottle of poison but it wasn’t there.

“Oh no! I must have just dropped it, I’m sure I’ll find it. I bet I dropped it when I bumped into Sweetie Belle. It’ll probably still be on the ground by the barn.” Cheese began trotting so he could get to Sweet Apple Acres faster.

Once he got there, he hurried to the barn, which was oddly quiet. He looked through the barn doors and saw Applejack lying on the ground on the other side of the barn. There was a pint of beer spilled on the ground next to her. Cheese cautiously walked over to her. “Ummm…. Applejack?”

Her body didn’t move or stir, it didn’t even seem like she was breathing. Cheese got closer, and he saw the bottle that had held the poison open on the ground next to her. “She must have seen it, gotten curious and drank it, and now she’s dead. Well, it sure saved me a lot of trouble.” Cheese thought, looking at her dead body.

He shrugged and left the barn. He saw Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom doing some work on one side of the farm and saw Big Mac a few trees away from them, bucking trees. Cheese watched them for a moment, smiling. “Well, my work here is done. I should get back to Pinkie now.” He thought as he left Sweet Apple Acres.

When Cheese made it back to Sugarcube Corner, he pulled Pinkie into the kitchen again and told her it was done, and then he began helping her work. Part one of phase two had been a success.