"Ah know Ah sound like a silly pony askin' this here question Pinkie Pie. But is that trick of yours for real? Ah mean, you just describe somethin' delicious and boom they want it like a pig wants mud?" Applejack asked her friend.
Instead of being in Sugar Cube Corner like the ponies normally did when meeting, AJ had chosen to ask Pinkie Pie at the outdoor cafe instead.
"Well yeah, duh, of course it's real." Pinkie Pie smiled and nodded.
"Ah know you ain't sellin' snake oil but Ah still find it hard to swallow."
"Well . . . wanna see how good it is? I mean really REALLY see how good it is?" Pinkie Pie grinned perhaps a little too wide.
"Don't tell me you can make a pony eat rocks or somethin'."
"Oh no no no, I can't make ponies eat something they -can't- eat, and I don't think I can describe something so super duber good they'd risk getting hurt for it . . . I think, it's not like I experiemented, exper-mints, uh, tried to figure out the details."
"Well, okay. Go ahead. Show me," AJ invited the thunder.
"Okay." Pinkie nodded happily. "See those pears over there?"
"Yeah, what about them? Ah don't care much fer 'em. At all. In fact, Ah avoid 'em whenevah possible."
"Don't they look scrumptious? All juicy. Not quite round but just round about, the looking like a little man who wants to be in your stomach. The way the sunlight glistens off its chartreuse skin. The texture on the surface is so delectable, the flavor on the inside a divine river down your throat. And having soaked up all that sunshine and pure spring water, just makes it to die for doesn't it Applejack?"
"No, it doesn't, and, what-the-hay-!?" AJ startled as she began trotting towards the pear cart. She tried to trot the other way but her hooves wouldn't cooperate.
"Can I help you?" Said the pear seller.
AJ hoof lifted on its own accord and began to hoof bits to her.
"Ah'd like a pear please! Ah changed mah mind! No Ah haven't! I want one! No Ah don't! Yes Ah do! NO Ah don't!" AJ began wrestling with her own hoof.
"Erm, are you okay?"
Ah'm just. . . p-peachy-peaches," Then something clicked. The center of AJ's eyes became little pears.
"Here ya go." AJ smiled giving the money.
The confused stand pony gave the fruit.
AJ happily inhaled it on the spot. AJ stood smiling for a second enjoying the taste. Then her eyes went back to normally. "Huh? Wha?"
She whipped her head around and growled, "PINKIE!"
"Oh AJ I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't think it would upset you badly!"
"Pinkie . . ." AJ said darkly, then grinned. "You are SO our guest at dinner tonight!"
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At dinner...
Applebloom gobbled the 'icky tasting' asparagus one after the other like they were candy. "Why can't ah stop-!?"
"I don't believe it!" Rainbow Dash said stomping on a storm cloud, and somewhat startling Tank. "How dare they! HOW DARE THEY?! How dare Applejack and Pinkie Pie make Apple Bloom eat asparagus!"
Tank stared, and just rolled his eyes.
"I mean! Pinkie Pie using her talent to make anything sound super delicious to make fillies eat their vegetables?! I never knew she could be soooo diabolical!"
Tank said nothing.
Rainbow Dash stood up, on her rear legs, her chest puffed out, her wings flared, and the sun behind her back. She pointed to the distance. "There's only one sane thing to do Tank! I'm gonna prank the heck out of them without explaining! That's sure to send the message of Pinkie Pie never using her super powers to get foals to eat healthy EVER AGAIN!"
Rainbow Dash zoomed off. Tank politely trailed behind.
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Prank 1
Joy-buzzer in hoof, Rainbow Dash asked, "Hey Pinkie Pie! High hoof!"
"Sure Dashie!"
The two high-hoofed, and Rainbow Dash let out a yelp as she was electrified and fell to the ground twitching.
"Huh?" Pinkie Pie looked at the joy buzzer in Rainbow's hoof. "Looks like there was a loose wire or something. So, want me to fix it and we can try again?"
"What? Thank you but no, I... I... Ugh! Later Pinkie!" Rainbow zoomed off again.
Prank 2
With a bucket of glue in hoof, Rainbow Dash flew to Sweet Apple Acres. "Heheh! This is gonna drive AJ nuts when she bucks these trees and no apples come off!" As Rainbow Dash landed and began to try and glue the apples in place... the apples fought back. "OW! HEY! AGH! Get away! Since when do apples have pinchers!?"
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"Hey Big Mac, ya finish plantin' those new crab apple trees we got from Aquastria?" Applejack asked.
"Yep!"
Prank 3
Rainbow Dash knew how this normally went, so she put the hyper windigo-ghost-pepper sauce on BOTH cupcakes. There was no way Pinkie Pie could take the wrong one!
"Hey Pinkie Pie! I tried my hoof at baking cupcakes! Wanna try one?"
"Sure Dashie! I love cupakes!" Pinkie Pie ate one without miss a beat. "Thanks Dashie!" Pinkie Pie gave her a hug and bounced off.
"... What?... How... That isn't... Why?" Had she gotten the wrong recipe? Poor poor sweet wonderful Rainbow Dash took a bite of the other cupcake.
Prank 4
After having drank enough milk that guaranteed Daisy Jo would be getting a raise, and having had to explain to Twilight, NO, Rainbow HADN'T tried to sneak her transformation spell to turn into a fire breathing dragon...
Rainbow Dash went with the tried and true method of just throwing a stink bomb at Applejack's window... which bounced right off and hit Rainbow Dash in the face.
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"Hey Applejack! Ah finished cleanin' all the windows! They're mighty see-through!"
"Thank ya kindly Apple Bloom!"
~~Prank 5~~
One tomato juice bath courtesy of ever loyal Tank later...
"I don't get it! I prank ponies ALL THE TIME! Stuff doesn't backfire like this! I mean, I usually pull off the prank perfectly, THEN stuff backfires! What's going on?!"
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"And so you see Pound and Pumpkin," Pinkie Pie said wearing a graduate hat, a teacher's stick pointing at a little blackboard. "According to the rules of pranki-dynamics, which I totally didn't just make up: when pranking would normally result in a normal prank, if the motive for the prank isn't a prank for prank's sake, but instead for a motive that is misplaced, misdirected, or goes against basic karma in a way that doesn't affect the world on a large scale, the pranks will invariably begin to misfire back. That is why it is is important that all party ponies keep their intents pure, and not seek personal vendettas via our pranks, as are the words of wisdom passed down from St. Surprise the First."
