Sweet Bakes

“Come on Pinkie!” Rainbow pleaded with Pinkie pie while they walked through town.

“Sorry Dashie, but the cakes both said Sugarcube can't afford to do deliveries, It's just been to busy for us to send somepony out. Especially to the wonderbolts academy.” Pinkie pie said while the two walked around town aimlessly while on her break she would get.

“Could you maybe make an exception just this one time? It is for the Wonderbolts,” Rainbow Dash said while she flew above. She kept flying trying to figure how she could get her fix. She then started to think about all the pastries she been wanting. Everyday ever since the party she been going to Sugarcube and now Sweet Bakes a few times a day.

There's been a few days of where she try to not go,as to not ruin her physic. But it would be ultimately useless, as she would end up adding another cheat day to her growing number of them. “one more won't hurt. I can always work out a little harder,” She would reason as she would continue to stuff herself till she couldn't take another bite. Just like she has for all her other cheat days.

Then she would relax tell she felt hungry again. So she would go to either Sugarcube Corner or Sweet Bakes and eat tell she was sick again. It was a continues cycle of a bad habit. A bad habit that most of Ponyville has gotten.

When Rainbow got a letter a few days ago telling her that there was a mandatory wonderbolts training that was going to last for a few weeks. She was less worried about how out of shape she has gotten. More worried about not being able to have any of the irresistible pastries from her two favorite bakeries in the world.

“Maybe, I could fly back to get a few cookie or a few cupcakes.” Rainbow thought thinking about the wonderbolts. “Maybe pick up a few for the team,” Rainbow stopped flying for a second as she noticed that Pinkie wasn't with her. She looked around and saw no sign of her pink friend. It wasn't till she turned around that she was able to see Pinkie.

Pinkie was just standing still as if she was just frozen, in the middle of the road, just staring off in the distance. Rainbow flew over to Pinkie and landing down next to her.

“Rainbow who it that” Pinkie asked pointing of in the distance.

Rainbow looked trying to see who she was pointing to. “Who are you pointing to?” Rainbow asked looking at random ponies that were walking by or just stopped talking to somepony.

“The Crystal unicorn Stallion.” Pinkie pointed out again more forcefully.

Rainbow only had to take one good look before seeing the only crystal pony. “Oh! That's Starch Sweet.” Rainbow said. “Have you not met him yet?"

“No! I have not. So is he related to Honey and Sugar?” Pinkie asked.

“Ya he's Honeys younger brother. I guess it makes sense that you two haven't met since you're both working a lot.”

“I'll have to throw him a welcome to ponyville party too.” Pinkie said. “Whenever I get enough time to plan it.” Pinkie said.

“Maybe you should talk to the cakes about hiring more employees. If they do then maybe you would have more free time, more time to plan stuff and…..”

Pinkie Quickly interrupted Rainbow Dash, “Thats a great idea Dashie!” she said before she ran off somewhere. Leave Rainbow dash stunned and alone in the street.

Rainbow shrugged and flew of towards Sweet Bakes. To see if they would deliver. Also she is craving more pastry's after talking to Pinkie.

Rarity hummed to herself while she worked on a new dress. While she did this she would eat from a bag filled with over two dozen cookies. Taking a bite of one every few stitches. When she finished one she would retrieve another from the bag and would start to eat that one.

She stopped when she heard the service bell ring notifying her a costumer was here. She set down a half eaten cookie. When she came to the front of her boutique she was surprised to see Starch Sweet waiting there wearing a saddle bag that seemed filled to the bursting point.

“Hello Starch, how can I help you?” She asked walking up.

“Hey Rarity, me and my family need some uniforms made for some new employees we are probably going to hire soon.” He said. “We asked around and I was told to come talk to you,” he added.

“Well I can see what I can do, follow me to the back where we can talk.” She said.The two head to the back of the boutique, they then found a place to sit and talk. “Do you have any thing in mind?”

“Nothing much, we want something that can be cleaned easy no matter how dirty it gets, also we would want it to have are logo on it and to have a few in different sizes.” Starch pulling out a white bag with Sweet bakes logo on it. “I brought this so you could have a reference,also there's some cookies in there for you.”

“Well I can see what I can do, I could get some designs made and you could come by sometime to check them out.” Rarity said.

“How about in a week?” Starch said.

“Yes that should work,” she answered back.

With that Starch got his things and said goodbye and begin the track back to Sweet bakes. The whole way back silently cheering to himself for not embracing himself.

Mrs.Cake brushed off the sweat off her forehead with a rag. She was sweating from all the work she was doing in the kitchen by herself. The ovens didn't help either when she would open them and a gust of heat would come out and raise the temperature in the room a few degrees. With how many orders they still get the ovens would be opened multiple times before the day was over.

She heard a timer go off, she went over to the oven trying to figured what one was done. When she did she grabbed a oven mit and then she opened the oven. Just as she retrieved a pan filled with fresh cookies sompony came running right into the kitchen. Scaring Mrs.Cake almost causing her to drop the pan. She recovered quickly and set down the hot tray. She then turned around seeing Pinkie pie behind her.

Before Mrs.Cake could say a word Pinkie immediately started. “We should hire more help,so that we aren't working ourselves to the ground everyday! ” Pinkie said very quickly.

Mrs.Cake being a little more use to Pinkie than most ponies didn't take long to respond to the hyper active pink mare. “I know Pinkie Mr.Cake and I have been wanting to but we have been to busy to do so” she said.”We just don't have the time.”

“Sure you do,” Pinkie went thinking about it but the more she did the more she realized they really don't. “They can't do it before or after we open, they need time to prep. We need all of use to do it to make sure we have enough prepared for all the customers we receive. Maybe...no they shouldn't do it during their breaks we would only get maybe one interview a day and we need a few employees.”She thought.

“What about we close for one day maybe two?”Pinkie said.

Mrs.Cake went thinking about it for a minute “That might be what we would need to do. I think we could afford to miss a day to do some interviews. But I'll have to talk to Mr.Cake.” she said.

“I bet with a little talking you could convince him, especially since we would need a break.” Pinkie said.

“Six more orders coming in!” Mr.Cake said coming in dropping off slips of paper with the orders on them.

Pinkie and Mrs.Cake quickly got to work on the orders.

Pinkie had an extra spring in her step today as she headed towards Sweet Bakes. The reason she was happy was that the cakes had closed Sugarcube corner for two days, giving her the two days off. Today was the last day off and she had spent all day yesterday preparing for today.

She could see a line that stretched out along way from Sweet Bakes from where she was. “Its great seeing another bakery doing as great as we are” She thought as she walked closer.

She made her way through the crowded line to the door. Ponies where either hollering to her for cutting, or they were to busy talking to somepony else. Once inside she hurried up to the front so she could find the Sweets. She could see that Sugar Sweet was handling the front end of the store, while Honey was off to the side working.

“Hey Honey,” Pinkie said zooming up to her.

Honey stopped what she was doing and looked towards Pinkie,“Oh! hey Pinkie Pie, what are you doing here?” she asked.

Pinkie reached into her mane and pulled out a invitation card. “I came to invite you to a party I'm throwing.” she said giving Honey the invitation. She then reached back into her mane again and pulled out a notebook with a pencil in the spiral keeping the paper together. “Also I came to find out what is your favorite things to have at a party is,like a favorite punch, dessert, and snack,” she said as she pulled out the pencil and held it in her mouth.

“Why do you need to know all that?” Honey asked.

“I like to make sure that everypony is has something at a party,” Pinkie answered.

Honey thought for a second before speaking. She gave Pinkie a small list, most of it was baked goods. When Pinkie was satisfied she went moving on to Sugar Sweet. Pinkie knew she didn't have much free time so she quickly gave her the invitation and got a list of things she liked.

“Do you know where I can find Starch?” She asked when she was done.

“Yes he is just in the back, you can go talk to him,” Sugar said.

Pinkie nodded and let Sugar do her job while she went to the back.She came in to see task that would of taken a few ponies to do was able to be done by one. Pans floating with either cooked or uncooked baked goods. Dirty dishes in the sink getting cleaned while cleaned one where getting dried. Starch in the center of this using his magic to do all this while he went about doing other delicate tasks like frosting.

“Hey Starch!” Pinkie hollered.

Starch jumped to unfamiliar voice and the loudness of it. Everything he focused with his magic dropped. He quickly caught it most of it. A few pans fell to the ground and the pastries fell to the ground ruining them, and a few dishes fell into the sink filled with water splashing water all over the ground. He looked towards the pink mare. “Can I help Pinkie Pie?” he asked angrily and confused.

“Yes you can! tell me what your favorite things to have at a party” Pinkie said holding up the notebook and pencil.

Starch just looked at her confused. “Why?”

“Because I'm throwing a party that your family is invited to,”Pinkie said. Starch quickly gave in and rapidly gave his list of things he liked

With Sweet Bakes closed for the day he was quickly making his way to Carousel Boutique. “I hope it's not too late,” he thought.

When he got to the door of the boutique he stopped and fixed himself trying to look more presentable. When he got done he walked in hearing the bell ring that was just above the door. that was followed by a “Welcome to Carousel Boutique! I'll be there in a minute,” he heard. He waited for Rarity patiently.

“Hello Starch it's nice to see you.” Rarity said finally coming up to the front greeting Starch with a smile. “I do hope your heart to look at the dressings I came up with.” she said.

“Its nice to see you too. Sorry I came so late though, I had to clean up a huge mess made at work,” Starch said.

“It's alright. Now let's head back.” Rarity said.

The two unicorns walked to the back of the store. Dresses and mirrors aligned the way back. Rarity led the way into one of the rooms. She then levitated a large note book off a table and flipped it open and showed Starch.

“These are a few designs I have thought of,” Rarity said.

Starch looked at the first design and his first opinion was that it was over complicated. It looked to be formal wear with the logo on the side of it. “This looks like it would be for a fine dining restaurant, not a bakery.” Starch said. He turned the page to see.

The next design looked to be to simple. It was just a tie with Sweet bakes logo on it, then a head band with the logo on it. “To simple,” was all he said. He turned to the next page

What he saw on the next page was in his opinion perfect. It was just a apron with Sweet bakes on it. “this is perfect!” he said.

Rarity took the notebook and looked at the design. “This? I only did this one to go with whatever you picked, I got other designs.” she said.

“No this is great for a bakery,” Starch said.

“Can't argue with that,” She said.

“So will you do it?”

“Of course I should have a few done in a few days?” Rarity said.

When Starlight thought of Picnics and the food they would eat she would commonly think of, sandwiches, maybe a salad and a dessert. But what is in front of her was Only Desserts. Cupcake, turnovers, a few cakes, and pies, donuts if it was dessert it was probably here in front of her. But what would you suspect when all of her friends is addicted to the stuff.

Looking at her friends she could see one of the problems with the spell she casted. All of them have put on a little weight each. Everyone seemed to put on at least twenty or so pounds easily more.

Twilight seems to have put on the most, not a lot but enough to be considered chubby but not all out fat yet. Her face is rounder with a double chin coming along, her cheeks are softer. Her plot now has a jiggle to it where before was muscular but was defined. Her stomach was no longer flat and was more curved.

Applejack, didn't seems to have gotten too fat just softer all over more specifically her butt seemed to lose some of the muscle definition she has earned from the years of Apple farming.

Rainbow was similar to Applejack but her weight was more pronounced as more seemed to accumulate in her stomach as it seemed to curve out and was on its way to a pot belly.

Rarity seemed to be more pear shaped with heat gains. her plot and thighs have thicken a little from the weight she has gain. Her face wasn't rounded yet but was softer. “If Rarity wasn't careful she might be the biggest from the way she gaining.”Starlight thought observing her friend.

Fluttershy gain wasn't in one spot but was more distributed all over her. She wasn't fat yet but was more softer all over. If fluttershy was to walk around and Sompony focused on her carefully they'd see a small jiggle present ot her body.

Pinkie though didn't seem any different weight wise. It seemed strange that she was looked the same even though she lives in a bakery and probably eats more pastries than anypony else. “She probably has some high metabolism,” Starlight thought.

Starlight herself hasn't really gained any weight as she is one of the few ponies who doesn't eat pastries all day everyday.

When Starlight thought about it the ponies she could see when she saw when she was heading to the picnic seemed to have gained a few pounds. She remembers seeing Derpy with a developing double chin. Vinyl and Octavia seemed to have larger plots than Starlight remembers seeing. Then there was Big Mac who seemed to have a less defined muscle tone.

“Hope fully this doesn't go out of control,” she thought to herself before she just shrugged. “I bet I could just stop the spell before it gets to out of control, besides even with the spell working it seems like Sweet Bakes is still doing good.” Starlight thought remembering the line that she seen at the bakery.

What Starlight couldn't get tough was that everypony seemed to be oblivious to there and maybe everypony's else's. Nopony has brought it up. Not even Rarity has even said a word.

“Im going to miss these when i'm with the wonderbolts,” Rainbow said catching her attention reminding her that the group was here to have this picnic before Rainbow leaves.

“Im sorry that we couldn't figure out a way to get deliveries to the wonderbolts.” Pinkie said.

“Maybe we could send a care package,” Fluttershy offered.

“Maybe, but I going to hate waiting that long,” Rainbow said.

“Well nothing is stopping you from enjoying the food right now.” Rarity said.

Starlight looked back to the food that was all set out on the large blanket they occupied. Her attention suddenly was grabbed from the white boxes with Sweet Bakes on it. She has yet to try the bakery yet since it's been as busy as Sugarcube.

Her stomach growled reminding her that she hasn't eat anything today. Curious Starlight Levitated up a Cupcake from a open box from Sweet Bakes. She opened her mouth wide and took a good chunk out of the Cupcake.