A Sprinkle of Surprise

   When the two ponies in the cave were beginning to leave, Twilight flashed out. She didn't want to make things worse by letting them know she was there the whole time! It was hard to look at the pegasis right because of tying up the fourth alicorn in the world down in a cave for a cutie mark, but she still felt bad for her. So she remained as if she knew nothing happened.

   When the two other ponies flashed out of the caves, Twilight ran up to them to greet them, as if she'd never seen them before. "Hi! My name is Twilight Sparkle." she said. "Hello, Twilight! Oh, Spike has told me much about you!" Sprinkles exclaimed happily. Twilight wasn't sure if it was a good thing, so she just smiled and nodded.

   "Who's this?" the purple unicorn asked. Sprinkles nudged her. "Go on." she whispered. "Uhm... Hello...?" Mindy said. She looked at Sprinkles, as if to ask if she was doing good. In return, Sprinkles nodded. "Uh, I'm... I'm Mindy." the gray pegasis said, sounding more confident. Once more, she looked in the direction of the alicorn. And again, she nodded. Mindy mustn't of had a real conversation with anyone other than Sprinkles in years. And the only reason Mindy was so brave and hostile was because of anger. So she was shy at the new beginning. So Twilight was easy sounding in reply. "Nice to meet you!"

   Twilight noticed that Mindy's cape was no longer on her. They must have taken it off before exiting the caves-after Twilight had flashed out-most likely to help improve her new reputation. "Likewise.." Mindy said, slightly smiling. She was beginning to come out of her shell.

   Suddenly, Pinkie Pie bounced quickly to the three ponies. "TWILIGHT! YOU FOUND SPRINKLES!!" Pinkie shouted happily. Mindy's smile slowly faded as she lowered her head. Sprinkles was popular, and Mindy was no-pony. "Wait a second..." Pinkie said, examining the gray pegasis. "MINDY! IS THAT YOU?!" Pinkie asked, a bit over enthusiastically. Mindy looked up, and began to smile.

   "You... You remember me?" Mindy asked. "Well of course I do, silly-filly! You and Sprinkles were my bestest of the best competitors! Why wouldn't I remember you?" Pinkie asked, hugging her tightly and happily. Twilight was starting to feel warm inside at this sight. Mindy was finally happy.

   "And I remember the last competition that you two had, too!" Pinkie said, bouncing. "And what was that?" Twilight asked. "To see which pony could make me laugh the most!" the pink pony said, giggling. "And I remember how I won..." Sprinkles said, smiling. Her horn began to glow bright cyan.

    Suddenly, Twilight heard Pinkie Pie laughing and giggling like crazy. She looked at her, and saw a large magical, fuzzy orb glowing cyan and running its self all around Pinkie's most ticklish spots.. Her belly and her hooves.

   The fuzzy orb began to multiply and run its self through everyone's most ticklish spots as well. The one on Twilight, her ears and belly. The one on Mindy, her hooves, her neck, and her wings. Everypony was laughing and giggling and trying to escape the orbs, but it was no use. The more they tried to get away, the more and more it tickled.

   Twilight's horn began to glow dark pink and another large, magical, fuzzy orb was conjured up. It floated towards Sprinkles, and ran its self through her most ticklish spots. Her sides, her ears, and her wings. Sprinkles tried her hardest to not laugh, but the orb finally won. She was laughing and squealing and trying to get away, but the dark pink orb just tickled more and more.

   It lasted this way for five minutes.

   And it only got worse when AJ, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Spike got there.

   And the other five were attacked, too, by the tickle orbs.

   When the tickle war finally ended, and everypony caught their breathe, the eight ponies and one dragon headed backed to Sprinkles' shop. Mindy was finally starting to live her dream as becoming a cupcake chef when the eight of them began baking the cupcakes. Sprinkles was showing Pinkie her new recipe, and Pinkie was showing Sprinkles HER new recipe. Things were starting to go as planned.