Iron Cake

Since Iron Will had entered the Everfree Forest, an hour has passed. He just couldn’t grasp how or why he had done such an act.

Iron Will stood there in disgust as he saw the remains of the baby. He had never seen something as horrific as this. Pumpkin Cake’s final expression on her face after the life of her had ended was the screams in pain. Her mouth wide open and eyes closed shut with force.

“I would never do this kind of thing…how in Celestia’s name could have I done this…” Iron Will scratched his head out of confusion looking away from the corpse.

“Better yet... how did Iron Will even end up here?” The Minotaur looked at his surroundings. He had never gone through the Everfree Forest before. The methods he traveled were just by his carriage being pulled by his several goat assistants.

He looked back at the remains and quivered. His instincts told him that people would start questioning, start searching, he had recognized this baby from when he entered the shopping center just a few hours ago from the ear shattering screams of babies before all of the previous actions happened, he had remembered the parents of the baby he had just killed, and also her twin brother.

Iron Will, without hesitation, quickly got back on his feet and ran in a random direction to get as far away as possible from the scene of the crime.

It was only a matter of time.

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“Okay sweetie I get it but WHAT DID YOU SAY?” Mrs. Cake shouted.

“PUMPKIN CAKE IS MISSING!”

The eyebrows of both Mr. and Mrs. Cake rose in an instant. Pinkie was shivering in fear of what might have happened to the young baby, Pound Cake simply sat there still wondering where his sister went, and Gummy stood there on the stairwell staring at nothing.

Mrs. Cake screamed to the top of her lounges. The sounds of cries echoed throughout all of Ponyville. All the ponies looked around to figure out where that was coming from.

Twilight Sparkle had stopped in her tracks while running some errands. She looked around as the screams still echoed through the air while Spike awoke from his nap while riding on Twilight’s back.

“Spike, do you hear that?” Twilight asked Spike as he rubbed his crusty eyes.

Spike sighed and murmured to Twilight “It sounds like it came—“ Spike yawned for a brief moment “—from Sugarcube Corner”

“You’re right Spike. Come on let’s go!” Twilight immediately ran as fast as her hooves could handle. Spike was about to go back to his nap, but almost flew off Twilight’s back, so he gripped onto mane. Her speed accelerated as she grew closer to the cries for help.

Back in Sugarcube Corner, chaos was amongst the entire building, with Pinkie Pie destroying everything in her sight trying to look for Pumpkin Cake, Mr. and Mrs. Cake doing the same, Pound Cake crying hysterically at the noise and loneliness, and Gummy being as useless as ever, the whole building was an utter mess.

Twilight stopped to notice Sugarcube Corner completely empty. She knew that it was supposed to be open at this time at the day so there had to be something wrong. The door was locked shut and had the close sign dangling from the window of the door. She teleported in and saw the three ponies running around going nuts, panting and screaming, destroying everything even more.

Twilight used her magic to pull all three of the ponies running around straight in front of her. Pinkie as always, still running in place as Mr. and Mrs. Cake stared at Twilight.

“What in the hay is going on here Mr. and Mrs. Cake?” Twilight said as she slowly positioned all the ponies down. Pinkie got down and continued to run around then, head first, rammed into a wall. Pots and pans fell on her head and she fell to the ground.

“I’m okay” Pinkie popped up from the debris and ran straight towards Twilight. Twilight rolled her eyes and continued.

“As I was saying… what’s going on here guys? I heard screams and—“ Mrs. Cake stopped her mid-sentence and explained everything.

“Our…little Pumpkin Cake! She’s gone missing!” Mrs. Cake cried and clung to Mr. Cake. Pinkie joined them only to be pushed away from Mr. Cake.

“What? How?” Twilight replied.

“I don’t know! I--I told Pinkie Pie to go up and check on the tw--twins and she said that Pumpkin Cake w-w--was missing!”  Mrs. Cake stuttered as she continued crying in agony.

“I—I went upstairs and she was gone! The window was opened  too! S-he—Must has been BABYNAPPED!” Pinkie cried.

“Pinkie, I think you mean foalnapped.” Twilight corrected Pinkie.

“Pumpkin Cake is just a baby! She isn’t a foal yet I mean duh, if you want to call her a kid that’s fine then but this is serious though she is just a baby who knows what the babynapper could have done she might be hurt or killed or something I don’t know!” Pinkie elaborated.

“Right…Spike! Write a letter to the princess. Tell her I’m going to be late on my letter today. We have a mystery to solve.” Twilight commanded.

“…Spike?” Twilight looked around only to notice that Spike was nowhere in sight. She shrugged as her horn started to glow. From outside of Sugarcube Corner layed a baby dragon resting in front of the door. A glow of magic then struck him and teleported him right next to Twilight in mid-air. He then fell to the ground and woke up.

“Gah—oh—what?” Spike got up and shifted left and right to adjust to his surroundings. He then noticed Twilight as she glared down upon him.

“What?” Spike questioned.

“Nevermind Spike, I need you to write a letter to the Princess.” Twilight looked back at Pinkie Pie

“Pinkie I need you to get Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy. We can’t do this alone.” Pinkie stopped crying, wiped her tears and straightened her face. “Yes sir—I mean Ma’am!—I mean--” “JUST GO” Twilight demanded. Pinkie immediately opened the front door and ran out leaving it open.

“Mr. and Mrs. Cake, clean up the mess here, we’ll take care of your problem. We will find Pumpkin Cake and she will return safe and sound, and we’ll get that mean-old foalnapper and bring him to justice, you can count on us.”

Twilight ran out the door, Mr. and Mrs. Cake huddled together comforting each other trying to believe that everything will be okay.

What they don’t know is what really happened.