Sweet as Cupcakes

"Come on Alice, you have to at least give me a hint!" Sour playfully pouted as Alice pulled a brush through her hair. "It's my birthday, and I'm certain that the others have enough surprises in store for me today as it is."

"But this is your gift. I cant tell you that, those by definition have to be a surprise. unless it's arriving late, but even them you cant know until it's revealed in some other way." Placing down her brush Alice pulled her hair into it's partial ponytail, turning to face her girlfriend. "Besides it's not quite your birthday, but this dose need to be done today."

"What is this?" The two toned unicorn tilted her head. With the exception of her horn Sour was a pale yellow to her stomach, her arms and waist downward turning a warm orange. Like Pinkie Pie her hair and tail were large and impressively curled, though her pale orange horn stuck out a fair bit more than Cherry's ever did. Her curles were primarily an impressively bright pink striped with dark green. Her large round eyes having three colors to them. Red on top then blue, then green.

"I can't tell you. But- I'll give you a hint, we need to go to the Mirror world for this, that's why I said to just dress simple. Clothes don't- they don't transfer between worlds, but there is nothing against being naked there since you know." Alice shrugged. She was dressed in her 'Cheshire' cat suit, and was smirking mischievously. Sour herself had simply chosen a white t-shirt and blue jeans as per her partner's request. "I just hope you like this."

"it's hard to like something when you don't know what it is." She chuckled, pulling the slightly shorter unicorn into a kiss. "Let's get going, Flutter Flare and Marvel want to bring me shopping for my birthday outfit."

"Alright alright, but you have to put this on." Reaching into her desk Alice pulled out a deep purple mask that matched the sun lined swirl of her cutie mark, holding that and the outlined bleeding heart in black off to the side. "While most things don't transfer this mask is one of the things that do."

"Alright, alright." Sour playfully rolled her eyes, accepting the fabric and trying it around her eyes. "Now lets hurry, your starting to worry me a bit Alice."

"I'm sorry Sour, but it will all be with it I promise."

"Where are we? It- it smells kind of like Sugar Cube Corner." Sour muttered, following closely behind her friend as they headed into a long stairwell. "Can't I take this thing off. This suspense is killing me as it is. Why didn't you just teleport us into the room."

"You know messing with you like this makes me horny." Alice purred, "And, I miss calculated. You know your Pinkie Pie affiliation throws me off a bit."

"Gee, you seemed to know where you were going?" Sour teased, audibly relaxing a bit. "But I'm guessing this is hide out territory and you have certain magical things in place that it would mess with to teleport with me."

"Exactly." Alice sheered, pushing open a creaky door. "Remind me to oil that. I keep meaning to, and then every time I come down here I just don't."

"I'll do my best."

As the door closed behind them Alice heard a light click on, following Alice's guidance before the blind fold was pulled off. her eyes quickly adjusted to the sill dim light before landing on a snow white unicorn, with all to familiar chin length two toned grape hair. Around her eyes was a 'mask' of dark blue, speckled with stars, a similar spot on her left ear tip, the back of her neck and decorating the rest of her body. She was strapped to a tilted table, and while Sour had a feeling the restraints were magic poof she couldn't help the anxiety that flooded her chest.

"R-rarity!"

"Don't worry Sour, she cant hurt you."

"Did, did you kill her?" Sour's vision blurred as she turned to Alice, taking in the morbid scene around her. It was a fairly standard ingredients closest, decorated with ribbons and balloons. But that was far from everything. There were skills on display of varying creatures decorated the room as well. Not to mention the mannequins. They had dotted the room but Sour didn't have to get too close to see that several were dressed in, dresses. The tops were typically short sleeved, the occasional long sleeved, but some of the skirts were patchworks of leather. Colorful leather spotted with cutie marks.

Not all of them remained in their base 'earth' pony state either. Some had horns of unicorns, and a Kirin or two, and others had wings of all sorts.

"Did you kill her?"

"No, she's still alive. I- I'm sorry. Maybe I should have given you at least something of a warning. But she's sedated for the time time being." Alice soothed, smiling as Sour relaxed slightly. "No, he best flavor is gained when the death is much slower."

"Flavor?" Sour's fear was draining as she tilted her head, poking the unicorn's chest as her partner pulled out a large cart of tools. "And we couldn't do this in our world because?"

"Well one, we are in the basement of Sugar Cube corner, the original as that's the only one this world has. It's the last place anyone would look for a cannibal serial killer. It's all sound proof and warded, so it would be hard to relocate, and well Tourmaline hasn't been back here in years."

"And the cakes?"

"My first two batches. Save Sugar and Spice; you know Pumpkin and Pound cake, look surprisingly similar enough. There absolute in on it, and they run the place, but they do not to come down here and mess with my shit. I do my thing and they do theirs" Alice explained, playfully nipping Sour's ear. "She should be waking up rather soon, I'll be teaching you what to do and well. If you enjoy it you can make use of this little hideout that we've got."