The Hearth's Warming Bug

by Amereep

Rating: everyone
Tags: Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other, Comedy, Random, Pinkie Pie
Length: 2965

Hearth's Warming is coming for Pinkie Pie; but a war breaks loose, all account of a fly.

With Hearth's Warming coming, Pinkie prepares the confection for Sugarcubed Corner. She's a chef, so being sanitary is something she always keeps in mind.

However, having a germ free environment can be difficult if you have a fly in the room.

Just imagine music from 'The Nutcracker' being played when reading this story or click on the soundcloud links provided in the story. It just make it seem sillier.

Or if you like, you can read the chapter that rhymes. I heard poems are popular, around the holiday times.

Made for The Insane Creators Guild's Mega Super Awesome Christmas Contest (Won 3rd place), the 125th anniversary of The Nutcracker (Dec 18, 1892), and for all the pesky insects that I have to deal with at work........... oh and the flies, too.

Published 2017-12-18 21:20:06 UTC
Last updated 2017-12-18 21:20:06 UTC

The Hearth's Warming Bug

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*Ding*

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"♪Cookies are done!♫" sings an upbeat Pinkie Pie.

She dances around the kitchen of Sugarcubed Corner like a ballerina, invested into the holiday of Hearth's Warming. She leaps over her pet alligator, Gummy, who's just standing there on the floor with a blank stare. Pinkie pats the gator's head and bounces off. Gummy falls forward after a delay of his owner's action.

The mare twirls at the oven before opening the little door, revealing freshly baked cookies. She takes the pans that holds these crunchy treats into her hooves. Pinkie lifts them over her head as she tippy-hooves across the floor. She lays them on the counter and prepares for her masterpiece. Amongst the cookies were cupcakes lined up in a row, only twelve minutes old, each with whip cream decorating the crowns.

Pinkie washes her hooves, like any good chef does before they make art, and takes out a bowl. She hums a tune as she dumps the cookies in the container and begins to mash them into pieces. When they suited her desired size, she scoops up some and sprinkles them onto the frosting like they were tiny snowflakes falling from the sky. Pinkie takes some of the more bigger pieces and sticks some into each creamy pastry.

"A bit of cookie crumbs aaaaaaaand, voila! A treat fit for the holidays."

She marvels at her work for 'Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes.'

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The pink mare's ears begin to twitch at a sound being heard in the room. A type of buzzing sound coming in and out around her. The source zips by her gaze in a black streak through the air. The path it took is going in every direction with no certain destination. It gets closer to one of the cupcakes and lands on the frosting, showing that its a dirty fly.

Flies carry diseases, and whatever they land on, they spread that disease on the content.

"Hey!" Pinkie yells at the insect and starts waving her hooves at it, "Shoo shoo shoo!"

The fly is brushed back into the air.

The pink pony glares at the bug, "I hope you're happy, nopony will eat this now."

She scraps the frosting off and it goes flying across the room; splattering on Gummy's muzzle. He doesn't react at first, but his long forked tongue comes out and scraps the sugary cream into his mouth.

Pinkie washes her hooves, paste fresh frosting, sprinkles cookie crumbs and places a small chunk in it.

She admires it once more, and the fly lands on the remade cupcake.

Pinkie glares at it, "Oh, a wise fly, huh?"

The bug rubs his front legs together like it had wicked intentions.

"Okay, fly boy." Pinkie raises a hoof, "eeeeeeeaaaat THIS!" she slams it down at the fly, but it flies away before her hoof smashes into the cupcake. The pony felt foolish at realizing the mess she made, but the buzzing around her quickly nabs her attention off the food. Pinkie begins clopping her hooves together, trying to catch the insect while it's airborne.

The little bugger lands and the mare quickly swings down her hoof. It takes off, leaving Pinkie to strike a pastry bag. Frosting sprays on the pink pony and she broods on her carelessness.

She watches the pest zip around her, before it lands on the rim of a bowl. Gently moving her hoof up, she suddenly swings down. The bowl flips on her and the contents of cookie crumbs fall all over her and sticks to the frosting; making her look like one of her cupcakes.

The deadpan eyes the mare was giving suddenly had a twitch in them from hearing the fly's wings flapping.

"Get ready, buzzer." she warns the bug, "Things are about to get gnatsy,,,,,,,, sorry you had to hear that Gummy."

The gator blinks with no interest of her bad pun.

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The little insect buzzes about the kitchen; basking in the warm air that fills the room. Flies tend to hibernate for winter, but they can be active as long as there's heat and food about; making the kitchen the ideal place for flies.

Speaking of which, it was looking for something to devour as it dances about in the air. The bug's ommatidia eyes notices another delicious cupcake in its sight. It bops down at a steady rhythm, making sure there wasn't a pink pony guarding it.

The little legs of the fly makes a soft mushy landing on the sugary frosting. It spins about, deciding where it should start eating. The bug rubs the front of its legs in anticipation.

It opens its mouth wide open and begins eating.

"NOW, GUMMY! NOW!!!"

Suddenly, the bugs world got darker as a giant mouth snaps down, gobbling up the fly and cupcake that was resting inside the open jaw of Gummy's mouth.

Pinkie jumps for joy, happy to see that the trap worked. She lifts up her gator and hugs him before holding him out. "That plan of yours really wo-"

The mare stopped her praising as she saw something.

It was the fly; coming out of the gator's nostril.

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The bug zips out and Pinkie drops her pet. "Oh no you don't!" the fly was in a panic state and the pony wasn't going to let it rest.

She chases the pest upstairs and locks the two of them in the loft room. The place was decorated for the occasion; garlands, reefs, ribbons, as well as a few presents stacked in the corner.

The fly faces the mare as she pulls out a weapon.

"Je te plumerai les ailes." Pinkie said as she channeled her spirit. She poses like a fencer, holding a giant candy cane like a sword and jumps at the insect, "EN GARDE!!"

She relentlessly swings at the pest, but it just won't accept being swatted. It charges at the focused mare and spooks her; causing her to stumble back. Pinkie trips on her tail and falls backwards into the pile of presents.

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A noise was heard coming from the pile of presents.

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It sounded like a chainsaw.

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Pinkie explodes out of the pile, holding an egg mixer and turning a crank to make it spin at a rapid speed.

She stabs at the bug, but it keeps avoiding the baking tool. The fly goes overhead and out of reach of the pink pony.

Pinkie responds by throwing the mixer at it and misses. She throws whatever she could get her hooves on; a toy block, a sled, a nutcracker.

The fly heads down low and Pinkie looms over it with her hooves wide open. It sees this and suddenly two cymbals clap him like a sandwich.

It falls to the floor as Pinkie watches the pest bounce on the ground until it stopped.

She was panting with a grin on her face, but it soon began to fade.

She dropped the instruments and knelt down closer to the insect.

........it wasn't moving......

"What have I done!!!!!!!" Pinkie yells out in regret.

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"No.... no no you're okay..........right?" she asks the fly.

It doesn't even twitch.

"Wait! I know what'll get you back up!" Pinkie zips downstairs and returns just as fast with a cupcake in her hoof. She places it down next to the fly and stands back.

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She pushes the pastry closer to the bug.

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The pink mare begins to panic, she didn't mean for this to happen, she just got caught up in the moment.

Pinkie paces back and forth, frantically trying to find a way to remedy this situation. As she walks under a light decoration, something clicks in her head. "I got it!" she yells and dives into the closet to pull out a wool sweater. The pink mare lifts up the woolly fabric and quickly wraps it over her head. She frantically rubs it all over herself and whips it off, showing a static frizzled mane.

"CLEAR!" yells Pinkie as she brings her hooves to the bug and a static shock is formed between the two of them. She leans in close, hoping that it jump-started it's heart.

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"CLEAR!" she tries again and waits in anticipation.

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It twitched.

"ITS ALIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!" the mare screams with joy to this miracle.

The fly's vision slowly begins to focus in it's surroundings. It spins around, seeing a pink pony jumping around with glee, but it's attentions lands on the cupcake next to it.

The insect flies on top of the frosting and Pinkie's stopped her celebration. She gave a forbidding look at it.

The fly turns around and notices her expression.

The atmosphere starts to feel frighteningly uncomfortable.

And...... Pinkie sit down next to the fly.

"Why don't we work something out."

/canonphilharmonicorchestra/the-nutcracker-op-71-xiv-waltz

Within a bedroom of the Sugarcubed Corner, a baby colt is playing with a toy mouse. He plays with it very roughly by swinging it around and punching it.

While this is happening, a fly is watching all of this from hanging on the wall. It heads out of the room and makes way to Pinkie Pie, currently making another set of treats. The insect makes buzzing sounds in front of the mare.

"Pound could use a punching bag?" She questioned the bugs suggestion, to which it confirmed, "He's becoming quite the aggressive one, isn't he."

The fly makes a few more buzzes.

"He is not becoming like his aunt Pinkie." she chuckles at the fly's remark. "Okay, so a punching bag for Pound, something for Mr. Cakes stamp collection, some fancy body shampoo for Mrs. Cake, and Pumpkin wants a stuffed penguin."

The bug buzzes.

"Great!" the mare spins happily, "All right, take your pick."

The fly spins in circles as well and finds something delectable. It land on it and eats its meal in peace.

It earned its meal for being a 'fly on the wall' at Pinkie's Hearth's Warming shopping list.

Author's Note

While the music is composed by, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, these renditions are made by, Carles Piles, excluding 'Waltz of the Flowers' (the last song) which is made by, Canon Philharmonic Orchestra.

Why don't you help me act out the part of a secret Santa and check out some of their work.

The Hearth's Warming Bug (Poem ver.)

Author's Note

I don't think it works very well (sense the sentences have been shortened), but I'll leave the soundcloud links intact if you wish to listen and read.

The Hearth's Warming Bug (Poem ver.)

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*Ding*

*Ding*

*Ding*

"♪Cookies! Cookies! Cookies!!!♫" Pinkie Pie sings with thrill at the tasty goodies;

She dances in the kitchen of Sugarcubed like a ballerina, invested into Hearth's Warming while laughing like a hyena;

She leapt over her pet, an alligator named Gummy. He may look dead, but he's definitely no dummy;

Pinkie pats the gator's head and then bounces off. Gummy falls forward, taking his owner's action as nothing to scoff.

The mare twirls at the oven before opening the door, revealing freshly baked cookies that she truly adore;

She took them in pan, holding these treats over head. She laid them on the counter, not to eat, she had something else planned instead;

With cupcakes displayed on the table as the centerpiece, Pinkie stretched herself and prepares for her masterpiece;

Pinkie washed her hooves, like all good chefs do. It helps to avoid diseases, you don't want to spread the flu;

Pouring cookies in bowl, she then mashed them up. Sprinkling the crumbs on the cupcakes, treating it like their makeup;

'Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes' is what she made. A treat fit for the holiday with negative centigrade.

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Suddenly, her ears twitched to a buzzing sound. She couldn't track the source as it was zipping around;

It landed on a cupcake in front of Pinkie Pie, and there she saw none other than a dirty old fly;

She waved her hoof at it and it flew. Glaring at it she yells, "Shoo shoo shoo!"

"Nopony will eat this now." she says sounding fume, she scraps the frosting off and flings it across the room;

Splattered on Gummy's muzzle, the frosting did. Did it fazed him? Never even batted an eyelid;

Pinkie spreads new frosting, giving it one more try. But it lands on it once again, that dirty old fly;

"Oh, a wise fly." she said as her teeth began to grind. The bug rubs its front legs together with wicked intentions in mind;

"Okay, fly boy." Pinkie raises a hoof into the air. She swings down, but the fly dodges, giving it quite a scare;

She smashed the cupcake, accidentally making a mess. Feeling foolish she did, but pursued the fly nonetheless;

Smashing the fly is what she desired, but it eventually escaped when she got tired;

"Get ready, buzzer." she warns the bug she detest, "Cause I'm not going to stop till you're gone, you icky pest."

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The insect buzzes about, unaware of its doom. Basking in the warmth of the toasty kitchen room;

As long as there's food and heat, it'll be in active state. It wouldn't need to slow down and hibernate;

It searches from the sky for food to partake, and suddenly spotted and unguarded cupcake;

With agile stealth, it lands on the frosting. Unaware of what it'll be costing;

It takes a bite and a mare yells, "NOW, GUMMY! NOW!!!" The fly's world abruptly went dark, as it was now some gator chow;

Gummy's mouth is where it was stuck, it seemed like the fly just ran out of luck;

Pinkie however was jumping for joy, happy for the results of her pastry decoy;

The mare hugs her pet in a warm embrace, but she soon saw something appearing on his face;

She couldn't believe it, she didn't know how to comply, but coming out of Gummy's nose was that dirty old fly;

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The bug took this moment and flew past the mare. She dropped her pet and yelled, "You're not going anywhere."

She chased it, making the floor boards rattle. Until she trap it in a room, where they will do battle;

Pinkie held a candy cane, her bizarre nature was truly diehard. Swinging it like a sword, she yelled the words, "EN GARDE!!"

The fly was getting exhausted through these troubling events. So it spook the mare backwards, falling into a pile of presents;

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An odd sound was coming from the pile.

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A chainsaw? That's crazy. Have I gone senile?

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Pinkie exploded out of the pile, holding an egg mixer. Cranking a gear to make it spin, certain that this was going to be her elixir;

The fly goes higher, out of reach of Pinkie Pie. That didn't stop her, she threw the mixer towards the fly;

It misses, but it didn't stop the pink attacker. She throws at it a block, a sled, and even a nutcracker;

To avoid the debris, the bug flew down low. Pinkie seized this chance, and unleashed the final blow;

Swinging her hoof, she hit the fly with a thwack. It bounced on the floor, and settled on its back;

Pinkie stared at it, waiting for something to occur; but the fly did nothing, it didn't even stir;

She did it, she finally won! And yet she yells out, "What have I done!!!!!!!"

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She didn't mean to kill it, it was all overreaction. And yet there it laid, the result of her transaction;

"This must be a joke. Here, I'll show proof!" Pinkie ran out and came back with cupcake in hoof;

She laid it on the ground and pushed it towards the fly; but it didn't react towards it, it didn't even try;

It wasn't working, she didn't know what to do. If only she could go on something, had some kind of clue;

She considered something that might make everything better, so she ran to the closet and pulled out a wool sweater;

The mare rubs herself with the fabric, feeling very epigrammatic. With her mane floated in a spark, she was now completely static;

Jump starting the fly's heart is what she plans to do. She shock the bug body and hope that this idea works through;

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She tried again, she was competently bewitched. It seemed like it failed when suddenly, it twitched;

"ITS ALIVE!!!!!" the mare screams with glee. She bounces around with joy, that happy pony;

The fly was getting up, feeling its body ache; but soon found its second wind, once it saw the cupcake;

The bug flew on the treat, despite of the presence of Pinkie Pie. The mare saw this and she glared at the dirty old fly;

The fly witnessed the pony approach, expecting another bout; but instead, she sat next to it and said, "Let's work something out."

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Later that day, somewhere in the house. You could find a colt, playing with a stuff mouse;

The little one was beating it up, treating it like a bad guy. Unaware of the presence on the wall, it was the fly;

After watching the boy, it took to the air. Flying through the house to Pinkie and spoke to the pink mare;

Pinkie replied saying, "A punching bag for Pound? With a gift like that, I'm sure to be the best aunt around!"

They looked past each other's presence, no longer having a brawl. After the bug decided to help, at being her 'fly on the wall;'

For the work, she willingly gave a cupcake to her new ally. They accepted the other's company, both Pinkie and the fly.