Glowing Cupcakes

It was abnormally quiet around Fluttershy’s home. Twilight had noticed this when she arrived. She walked around, and walked towards the cottage. She knocked on the door, and no one answered. She looked around, and then found the giant yellow pegasus  pony resting behind the cottage. She could still see the drying tears on Fluttershy’s face. Twilight quietly jumped up on Fluttershy’s front hoof, going close to Fluttershy’s face.

“Fluttershy…?” Twilight whispered, trying to wake her up, “Fluttershy?”

Fluttershy opened her eyes slowly, and felt relieved when she saw Twilight.

“…Hello…” responded Fluttershy in a soft yet happy way. Twilight kept looking up at her.

“Um, Fluttershy,” Twilight said softly, “I got some good news, some bad news, and, if your willing to help, a favour.”

Fluttershy smiled softly. “What’s the good news?” She asked, keeping in the same position so as to not accidentally shake Twilight off her front leg.

“Well,” Twilight said, ”The good news is that Pinkie Pie is working on the cure, and that we will be back to normal soon enough. And so, other ponies and your animal friends won’t be afraid of you anymore.”

“Yay…” Fluttershy said happily in her normal shy tone. “That would be nice. All the animals here just ran away when they saw me…”

Twilight sighed sadly. “I guess it really hurt your feelings, didn’t it?” She said understandingly. Fluttershy sniffed, and nodded slowly.

“So what’s the bad news, and the favour?” Asked Fluttershy.

“Well, the bad news, “ Twilight explained, “is that the Cakes went away for a holiday and left Pinkie there, and you, accidentally of course, destroyed the roof of the dining area. It’s not your fault, and I’m not implying it, but it’s there, and the Cakes might go crazy if they find the roof broken!”

Fluttershy squeaked sadly. “What can I do? I’m really sorry for that…”

Twilight patted her softly on the cheek. “Don’t worry, it’s not your fault. I’m planning to get every ponies help to fix the roof before the Cakes arrive at 7. You could help us in the raw work, like, erm, picking and placing large slabs for the roof, for example. Basically, we’re going to need you to keep like this until it’s fixed. Are you willing to do this? I don’t want you to feel like I’m forcing you or anything…”

“But oh I must help, Twilight!” Fluttershy said, raising her right hoof in a determined salute, accidentally shooting off Twilight Sparkle in a direction without noticing, “I can’t let a friend down because of me! I’ll do anything I can, Twilight… …Twilight?”

Fluttershy looked around, and then saw Twilight’s back legs sticking out of a nearby bush. She blushed, embarrassed, and pulled Twilight out with ease with her mouth, letting her back on all fours again.

“I’m so sorry, Twilight! I was so caught up in the moment I forgot you where on my hoof…”

Twilight felt rather dizzy, trying to keep upright. “It’s…fine…Flutter-shy….uuugh…”

Later…

Rarity had just finished with her part of the deal with Applejack. She had apple-bucked nine trees, and now both of them walked happily out of the farm. It was starting to get dark, and the sun was starting to move down.

Suddenly, the land started to shake in a pattern. It was like there where giant thuds on the ground by some giant object. They already knew who it was.

“Fluttershy! Twi’! How mighty nice to meet ya’ll at this time. So, you got the cure? I can’t make another clothes design for another century!” AppleJack laughed. They all greeted, and Twilight explained to them about Pinkie’s broken roof.

“We’ve got to fix it before Pinkie’s carers come back home, and we need all the help we can get!” Twilight finished.

“Well, Twi, I’ll help ya’ll. Nobody gets forgotten.” Applejack agreed, nodding.

“We’ll do it in a short time span for sure!” Rarity added.

Twilight smiled, and they all walked towards SugarCube Corner.

When they got there, they all went inside, with the exception of Fluttershy, who now couldn’t fit unless she broke the rest of the remaining roof. Twilight examined the area, walking on the wood and rubble that lay in what was the dining room. She used her magic to start writing on a paper. She wrote a plan, and with Fluttershy’s help she took dimensions of the large hole in the roof, and soon had a plan on what had to be done.

“Alright, Fluttershy, you pick up the fallen slabs and keep them in place. Applejack, you use your magic along with me to attach them together. Rarity, you help us with directions on the decorations and cleaning up once were done on fixing the roof. Let’s all get working, ponies!”

Indeed the ponies had started working together, and in no time, they had repaired the roof, and the bell struck midnight as they had finished off the decorations. They all took a break from fixing the dining room and looked at each other happily. Fluttershy looked from outside, and smiled through the doorway that was also fixed. They all wiped their foreheads in triumphant exhaustion.

“Whew-ee!” Panted AppleJack, “We sure got the job done, didn’t we?”

Twilight Sparkle “Indeed we did, Rarity. I mean, Applejack.” The ponies laughed, when suddenly, the doors of the kitchen opened. Everyone became silent and looked.

They saw Pinkie Pie moving out a large trolley, filled with different pies. There where many pies, some that they never saw before. Indeed Pinkie Pie’s knowledge of different foods showed well. The room filled with the smell of different pies, and all the ponies sniffed with delight.

“I baked every pie that started with C…” Pinkie said sadly, sniffing, “I hope I didn’t mess up in making the pies too, being that I’m such a horrible pony…”

Twilight sighed in relief. “We’re so close! We’re so close! Let’s see…how will we test this? Hm….”

She looked at the trolley of baked pies, and looked at the ponies in the room.

“We’ve got to find which pie is the right one…We’ve got to test every one somehow.”

She looked at the ponies again. She was unsure at how this would be done.

“Okay, let me think…”

The other ponies looked at each other in thought, and slowly slowly all the ponies turned to look at Fluttershy, who was outside. Twilight was the last to look at Fluttershy, and nodded as a idea went into her head. She walked outside and looked up at Fluttershy.

“Okay, I have an idea,” Twilight said, “Fluttershy, are you hungry?”

Fluttershy looked downwards at Twilight, lowering her head to level, confused. “I…” she said shyly, “I guess I am kinda hungry…Why do you ask?”

Twilight looked back at the others who where inside, who all nodded at her, and then Twilight turned to look back at Fluttershy.

“Well,” Twilight explained slowly, “We need to find which one of these pies can cure us, and we need SOME pony to test every single pie…You know, one that can eat a lot without getting sick due to having a…giant stomach?”

Fluttershy stared at Twilight for a few seconds, unsure. Twilight moved inside the dining room and soon came out again with the trolley of pies, each of which was cut into several pieces. Twilight looked up at Fluttershy, who moved her head back slowly. Twilight lifted one of the pieces of pie, and with a rather strange facial expression, encouraged Fluttershy to eat a piece from a different pie one by one, so they could know which pie had the curing effect. Fluttershy squeaked, afraid of being the centre of attention. Twilight’s encouragement was followed by a the other three ponies.

“You can do it, Fluttershi’!” Rarity shouted.

“I’m absolutely positive you can do it, Fluttershy!” Applejack shouted.

“Please fix my horrible mistake, Fluttershy!” Pinkie cried.

“Fluttershy,” Twilight said, “we believe in you. We believe you can find the cure!”

Fluttershy squeaked awkwardly again, and lowered her head near Twilight. She opened her mouth slightly, and Twilight placed one of the pies into her mouth. Fluttershy closed her mouth and started to chew on the slice of pie which, compared to her, was tiny. She still ate it and gulped it down, looking at Twilight, expecting something to happen.

Nothing. They tried again and again with different types of pies, from cherry pies to chocolate pies to curry pies to different cream pies. All the pies tested had no effect on Fluttershy. There was only one pie left, and they where losing hope.

“It’s the last pie…Let’s hope it’s the one….” Twilight said, still hopefully, with her unfitting frozen smile, as she placed the last pie slice into Fluttershy’s mouth, hoping for the best.

Fluttershy ate the slice of pie and swallowed it, looking down at her friends, expecting something to happen. Nothing happened. They all hung their heads down sadly, ready to accept defeat. There was no hope. Silence fell.

Suddenly, they all looked up at Fluttershy, realizing that a small green glow had started to emit from her belly, and then realized that Fluttershy was becoming smaller and smaller! The cure was working!

“Fluttershi’!” exclaimed Applejack, “Your getting smaller!”

Indeed the yellow pegasus pony had decreased in size, and was now back to her normal height, sighing happily. The other ponies surrounded the table, ready to dig into the last baked pie. Twilight distributed slices of the pie evenly for the rest of the ponies, including herself. They all dug into their slices. It wasn’t too long before they all cringed at the taste of the pie, which was a horrible one. All where disgusted except for Pinkie Pie.

“What?” Asked Pinkie Pie sadly, while taking a big bite from her slice “It’s a sweet and spicy Chocolate Curry Cream Pie that was a traditional pie of my family…”

The other ponies looked at each other, confused and disgusted, and then looked at their pies with a even worse look. They forced themselves to eat their slices. A green glow emitted from all of them.

Twilight’s frozen smile had lowered to a normal, happy and triumphant smile.

“Whew,” remarked Twilight, “I’m glad I don’t look like a total idiot anymore…So, how do you feel? Rarity?”

Rarity looked at Twilight, nodding. “I am fine, and I’m glad to be back in my body again. I couldn’t bare in the body of a famer!”

Applejack raised her hoof, about to protest, but then lowered it with a smile.

“Ya kno’,” Applejack said happily, “I couldn’t bare in a body of a weak designer pony either. But then again, I don’t like it because, well, because I’m no’ used to it.”

Rarity smiled at her. “I agree with you, Applejack. I wasn’t used to Applebucking at all…”

Twilight smiled. “Well, friends, I think you two learnt a lesson today.”

The others listened.

“We learnt that we should appreciate on the differences of other ponies, and to respect their specialities, even if it doesn’t suit your own tastes.”

Applejack and Rarity nodded in a big sigh of relief, and agreed.

Twilight turned to Pinkie Pie, and saw that Pinkie Pie was back to her normal self. The little pink pony was happily jumping around the trolley singing some song that was muffled due to her mouth full of pie. Twilight smiled, and looked at all her friends, glad everything was back to normal. They heard the bell striking three in the morning.

Twilight stood up. “Well, we better get some sleep then. Bye!”

Applejack stood up as well. “Me too, sugarcube. Gonna hit the hay. Bye ya’ll!”

Rarity stood up, agreeing, “Well, I guess I need my beauty sleep too. Good night, all!”

Fluttershy nodded while moving out as well. “I kinda miss being big…But at least now no one will be afraid of little harmless me anymore…Goodnight everyone…”

They all said bye to Pinkie and left to their homes.

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