Ten years later.

Chapter 2 - Pinkie Pie

"Mommy, mommy, a're you awake?" with loose knees and teary eyes the little colt stands in front of Pinkie's bed. "Mommy, I had a ba' d'eam" wriggles his nose and jumps on the bed.

Pinkie slowly opens her eyes, she waits until her vision isn't so blurry anymore and she can figure out what's happening in the dark. "What happened sweetiee?" her voice sounds unnaturally rough. "I had a ba' d'eam" he answers and slips under the blanket. "Awww sweetiee! The monsters aren't real, they're only in your imagination. Just laugh and they will disappear" she pokes her son's nose. "Look your father here" she points at the stallion with a white coat and a red mane. "Has nightmares too and I also have nightmares, it's normal to have them, but you have to keep in mind that they're not real"

She wipes Cheery Pie's tears away. "When I was a little filly and the sun was going down, the darkness and the shadows they would always make me frown. I'd hide under my pillow from what I thought I saw, but Granny Pie said that wasn't the way to deal with fears at all. She said: Pinkie you gotta stand up tall, learn to face your fears, you'll see that they can hurt you just laugh to make them disappear" she begins to sing and her son starts to giggle. "See? It works!" she puts him on her back and continues. "Sooo! Giggle at the ghostly, guffaw at the grossly, crack up at the creepy, whoop it up with the weepy, chortle at the kooky, snortle at the spooky!" she sings and lays him back into his bed. "Everything's alright, my little dear" the pink pony kisses his nose. "Good night Cheery"

"Good night mommy"

She turns off the lights, closes the door and goes back to bed. "Pinkie responsibility Pie! I can take care of my little one" she talks to herself. She cuddles herself under the blanket and falls asleep again.

Pinkie opens her eyes and looks around, her room looks like it always looks. She smiles and cuddles her blanket. She looks at her husband:"We should stand up right? I'm too tired to do so" she giggles.

Strawberry Pie shakes his head, he jumps off his bed and starts tickling her wife:"Come on, come on! Little Pinkie! It's time to get up"

Pinkie guffaws so loud that you think the walls vibrate. "St-stop it!" she jumps and tackles him down so that she can press him down and kiss his nose. "What do the abutters think? You torture me!" she complains about his behavior.

He turns around and both stand up:"Yes, but... it's not like we don't do that every day, but see! You stood up!" he chuckles in victory and trots down to open Sugar Cube Corner.

Pinkie rolls her eyes. I should finally know what he's doing to me she sighs and bounces downstairs. "Oh good morning Mrs. Cake" she smiles.

The blue earth pony with the pink mane which looks like icing smiles at Pinkie:"I just wanted to see if everything's okay. The new owners of Sugar Cube Corner are doing a great job"

Pinkie smiles in relief. "Thank you. How's the restaurant going?"

Mrs. Cake clears her throat:"It's simply divine! But there are two ponies who wanted to see me?" she steps back and looks outside. Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake run into Sugar Cube Corner right to Pinkie Pie. "Oh my favorite little foals!" she bursts out into laughter and hugs the teenagers. "We don't see each other enough since I'm not your babysitter anymore"

Pound Cake:"That's why we're here. We've missed you Pinkie" the pegasus detaches himself from Pinkie:"We want to work here at Sugar Cube Corner as temporary workers"

Pumpkin Cake:"Exactly! And I can look after Cheery Pie if you have no time to do so. You could sell much more candies"

Pinkie nods, she thinks about the offer. She loves the Baby Cakes, that's how she calls them, but she has to pay them too.

"Alright, my little cakes! You're hired. So when do you want to work?"

Before they can answer they jump on Pinkie Pie and give her a second tight hug to show their joy. Pumpkin Cake:"Ohhh thanks Pinkie! This means a lot to us. It's much better in Sugar Cube Corner than in our restaurant.

Pound Cake:"Yeah, much more fun you know!"

Pinkie chuckles:"Yeah I know exactly what you mean. So you come every day after school?"

They stand up again and the Cake twins nod in agreement.

The pink party pony nods:"Alright, I'll see you this afternoon. Have fun in school" she smiles while the three ponies are leaving again.

Pinkie is not just the owner of Sugar Cube Corner, she's also a party planer, she actually plans meetings all over Equestria. A few years ago princess Celestia gave her this royal duty. Pinkie plans all kinds of events, thus she planned the upcoming tour of Sweetie Belle's band Crusaders of Rock. With the letter for Sweetie Belle in her mouth Pinkie trost over to the post office. "Thanks for your help Featherweigt and happy birthday in a week" she smiles while she's giving him the letter. The pegasus nods:"Thanks Pinkie, I'll tell Derpy to deliver the mail as fast as possible"

Happily Pinkie bounces outside again. She doesn't head back to her home, she just makes a stroll through her beloved, beautiful town.

"Pinkie Pie! Pinkie Pie!" a voice clangs through her ears, she would recognize this voice always and everywhere. "Rainbow Dash!" the pink pony jumps up and hugs the cyan blue pegasus who's just dashed down to her. "Hey Pinkie, haven't seen you in a while" she snuggles her best friend and both of them stand up. "How about we do some pranks before you go back to work? How about a little competition? The one who pranks one of our four other friends first wins" the pegasus crouches down and has a challenging smile on her face.

Pinkie starts to bounce around Rainbow:"Oooooh! Yes, yes, yes, yeees. Let's have some fun!" Seconds after she said these words Rainbow was already in the sky again and flew away. "Hihihi, this is gonna be sooo funny" she makes big bounces. "Hmmm... what could I possibly do? .... Ah got it!" an evil grin appears on Pinkie's face and she gallops back to Sugar Cube Corner. "Cheery Pie! Cheery Pie my little sweetie, where are you?"

The little pony lumbers over the floor to her mother and hugs her. "Ah am he'e, mommy!" he grins brightly.

Pinkie puts him on her back and walks into the kitchen. "I wanted to show you how to make cupcakes" she explains and prepares the treats for cooking.

Cheery Pie smiles britghtly and jumps on his mother's back:"Wha' a're they fo'?" he asks and looks over Pinkie's shoulder.

Pinkie puts hot sauce into the dough. "Rainbow will eat those Cupcakes and gets a SURPRISE!" the party pony giggles and creates rainbow colored icing over the cupcakes.

"It's called a prank sweetiee" she explains.

Several hours have passed and it's late in the night now. "The elder sister took on responsibility for both sun and moon and harmony has been maintained in Equestria for generations since" Pinkie Pie reads to her child and smiles at him:"Good night" she kisses his forehead. The little colt frowns:"But mommy, I wanna hea' the sto'y about you and you' f

f'iends" he demands.

Pinkie shook her head:"I'll tell you that story tomorrow and now sleep it's late, good night, sleep tight" she smiles again and closes the door afterwards.

That was a pretty nice day, I wonder what the others are up- she couldn't end her thoughts, the pink party pony stepped over a cord, a second later she was hanging head first from the ceiling:"Hey, what's going on here?" she complains and folds her arms.

"I WON!"

That's a pretty familiar voice, a little too familiar. "Oh no..." Pinkie frowns, but has to giggle immediately while Rainbow Dash steps in front of her. "How did you even get here?" she asks and pokes her nose. "Your husband let me in" Rainbow chuckles and releases her friend:"I missed these jokes, there are several hidden pranks here. You should be careful!" The cyan pegasus looks around:"You'll find out, tomorrow at Sweetiee Belle's concert. Sugar Cube Corner does the catering, together with some other shops" she pokes her tongue out at Dash:"Do you want to help me prepairing everything?"

Rainbow Dash nods rapidly:"Of course, let's get started!"