Granny Smith was in the school kitchen, preparing the lunch all the students. She just finished her checking her gelatin deserts for lunch and continued on the barbecue pulled pork when she noticed that the sugar bin barely had any sugar left. She'd have to go get more from the storage building on the other side of the school for breakfast tomorrow. Funny thing, new codes forcing stuff to be stored in new fancy ways making it harder on a school built back before it was considered a problem.
With the old hip she had acting up, she knew it was going to rain tomorrow. More so, however, she new she would be as sore as a dog after sticking its nose a mother bobcat's den while the bobcat mom was home if she moved around too much today. The kitchen was going to take a toll on her hip enough. She didn't need to be trudging across the school just to pick up one straggling kitchen supply after work.
A short time later, Pinkie Pie was walking through the cafeteria with her hair filled with confetti from who knows where.
"Ah! Perfect timing, Pinkie dearie. Could you help an old woman out?" Granny smith called out to her possibly related, possibly not related great niece a few times removed.
"Sure, Granny! What-cha need?"
"Well, seeing as my hips actin' up and you're in the home ec club, do you mind grabbin' me a new sack of sugar from the store closet across the school? I'd be in a ripe heap of pain if I had to go get it myself today."
"Abso-tiva-lootly, Granny! I'm done in Chemistry today anyway. Something about the teacher not wanting me to work with explosive chemicals without ether partner today. Pity Snips and Snails get sick so often on Chemistry day."
"Ahhh!!!" a student screamed from the soccer field close to the storage shed, pointing at what Pinkie was holding.
In her arms, Pinkie cradled a 25lb bag of pure sugar like a puppy. No really, she swung it to and fro as she hugged it and hummed, occasionally snuggling the bag, petting it and calling it George.
In seconds, the soccer field had cleared, save for the substitute teacher. He was waving his arms and asking why everyone had ran off and hid behind the building that housed the concession stand and bathrooms.
Pinkie Pie pushed her way into the main hallway from the back entrance. While she did so, Fluttershy saw Pinkie and was about to help her until she saw what she was carrying.
All that she managed to do was let out a small "Eep!" and fell down to her knees.
Rarity followed shortly behind, not offering to help carry the bag of course, but similarly gasping and cradling over Fluttershy with her diamond shield going up around the two.
"Ooh! Neat mini shield there, Rarity! Pity they won't let us use it in dodge ball," Was all that Pinkie said as she moved on.
Students dashed away and dove into the nearby classrooms as she skipped down the hallway toward the kitchen. Even Cheeralee pulled in the threesome of Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo right as they were exiting the door, yelling at her class to get to the far side of the room.
Finally, Applejack and Rainbow Dash spotted her as she turned the corner. Rainbow Dash just about ran off to catch her when Applejack caught her arm.
"Hey! What gives? We gotta get that sugar away from Pinkie!"
"Don't use your powers to go run her down! It will only amp her powers up even more. Remember what Twilight said about all of our powers being connected?"
Applejack then released her arm when Rainbow Dash stopped at this. "Besides, We don't know what will happen if we just take it away from her. It could blow the moment we snatch it. We have to find a way to get it away from her safely."
A moment later, Pinkie walked past the two of them with not a care in the world. "la-la la-la la!"
Rainbow Dash squinted her eyes and spied on Pinkie's neck. "Wait, she doesn't have her geode with her. We're okay!" she quietly cheered!
Just at that moment, Pinkie stumbled forward a little. She recovered her balance fine and held onto the sugar, but the geode necklace fell out of her pocket.
"Wops! Don't want to lose that!" Pinkie said with a giggle as she caught the necklace on her foot. With a kick, she lobbed the necklace in the air and landed it squarely around her head and onto her neck with a hula hoop like twirl. "Not in Chemistry anymore, so it can come back out!"
Applejack just deadpanned and skeptically turned towards an embarrassed Rainbow Dash.
"Got any other bright ideas, Rainbow Dash?"
"Hehe... So what's plan B?" was all that Rainbow Dash could mutter out.
"Seriously Pinkie," Applejack pleaded as they walked into the lunch room. At this point, three students that were just waiting for lunch period to officially open screamed and hugged the far corner of the room.
"That thing's dangerous! We need to get it away from the school and somewhere it can be blown safely!"
"Seriously Applejack?" Pinkie responded as she went into the kitchen area.
As she carefully set the bag down on the counter nearest to the door, Rainbow Dash quickly grabbed Applejack and dashed out of the lunchroom, hall, school building, and school yard.
Several seconds passed as nothing happened in the kitchen or bag of sugar. Another wisp of super speed could be heard and then Applejack and Rainbow Dash peeked back into the lunch room, slowly walking back into the kitchen.
"What?" Pinkie asked with a confused look on her face. Slowly, it donned on her.
"Oooooohhh!" she exclaimed. "You thought all that sugar was going to explode because I make sweets explode." She then chortled, laughed and giggled.
"Nope!" Pinkie continued with a grin, pulling up her hand to start counting stuff off. "That stuff only explodes when I toss it, throw it, role it or sprinkle it..." She thought for a moment then pointed up in exclamation. "Oh! and some sugar confetti exploded when I used it as a substitute filling to finish filling a hacky sack I played with."
"Setting it down or dropping it doesn't make it explode. I have to lob it on purpose somehow."
Applejack and Rainbow Dash both gave an "Uhh..." and cocked their heads.
"What?" Pinkie asked again. She then gave a confident stance and told them "Do you really think I'd give up making sweets just because I got magic? The day we got back from camp I just had to experiment to see what I could and couldn't do with sweets right then and there. I know what I'm doing."
Granny smith flipped the sign to show lunch was ready. With the situation explained, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and the three students in the back of the lunch room breathed a sigh of relief and started getting in line for lunch.
"Ah! good! You got the sugar dearie," Granny smith called to her. "But I'm going to need that front table. Would you be a dear and toss it on the back one?"
Pinkie promptly picked up the bag by the ends as if she were to toss it and responded over enthusiastically, "Sure thing, Granny! One cross table toss coming up!"
