Fun Time with SunPie

"So what do you girls have planned for spring break?" Sunset asked as she sipped some more of her soda as she sat around her friends at their usual table at the sweet shoppe.

"My parents secured us a lovely vacation in Las Vegas this year! Sweetie Belle is of course quite excited to be allowed to finally go on a big vacation with us." Rarity exclaimed with an elegant smile.

"I'm goin' to visit family in Cloudsdale and I'm going to a pro soccer game with my dad! He got us front row seats to the Strikers game!" Rainbow said practically vibrating in her seat with excitement.

"I'm going on a nature retreat with Tree hugger and Wallflower Blush, apperently there is a very rare animal in the Everfree forest they wanted my help finding." Fluttershy said as she nibbled on a piece of a cupcake she had ordered.

"It's harvest season for me, Spring time is fruit time and that means I've got a heck of a lot a apple pickin' to do but on the bright side? The Zap apples are comin' in a few days!" Applejack said with gleeful excitement as she finished off the apple cider she had ordered.

"Well my parents, shinning and Cadence are going on vacation but asked me to stay behind and babysit Flurry Heart which I am more than happy to do! Oh she's gotten so big" Twilight said with starry eyes and a happy smile to be spending time with her niece for a whole week, she then looked to Sunset curiously. "What about you Sunset? Any plans?"

Sunset Shimmer would ponder that question, she often spend her spring break time cleaning her apartment, gaming and if she had time, she'd make a hop over to Equestria to partake in the annual spring friendship festival held in Ponyville but that was her normal thing to do after they'd graduated from Highschool a few years ago. She figured she would do the same thing this year though she did yearn to spend a little more time with her friends like she used to back when they were in Highschool oddly enough.

There hadn't really been any magic crisis to deal with in the past few years which was good all things considered but it did leave the naturally energetic and proactive Sunset Shimmer feeling rather bored and in a rut, she needed some more excitement in her life but wasn't quite sure how to get it. After pondering for longer than she would've liked, she gave a nonchalant shrug.

"Eh, not much, the usual I guess. If anything I'll just hang out with one of you girls or maybe hop over to Equestria for a few days." Sunset said with total honesty.

"Oh, oh, how about we hang out?" Pinkie asked with joy in her eyes as she skated over to the table wearing her work uniform and carrying a metal tray stacked with milkshakes and ice-cream.

"Hey Pinkie, your shift almost done?" Sunset asked

"Yupperoni! Just gotta make one last table run and clean up!" Pinkie replied dashing off on her skates to do just that, giving the ice cream and shakes to those who had ordered them in spectacular fashion. Soon after she would skate around and clean up any dirty tables she had served quickly and effectively and once she was done she wiped the sweat from her brow and smiled widely. "All done! Clock out time!" Pinkie raced over to her time clock and punched out and then made her way over to her friends table to join them.

"So you wanna be my hang out buddy for spring break huh Pinks?" Sunset asked with a cheerful grin as she playfully nudged her party loving friend. "It'll be a real party of two"

"Totally! It'll be seven days of Sun-Pie!" Pinkie said with a big smile and giggle not noticing the roll of Sunset's eyes only focusing on her smile.

"Hehe you are still so goofy for calling us that." Sunset said with a giggle in her voice.

"Goofy is my middle name after all!" Pinkie smiled and took a sip of a pink milkshake she pulled from...somewhere.

"I thought your middle name was Diane?" Sunset said with a smug grin.

"Yeah, everyone knows your Pinkie D. Pie" Rainbow said with a smirk as she sipped her soda.

"Eater of the fun-fun fruit and one day? I'll be queen of the parties!" Pinkie said as she put a straw hat on her head and struck a heroic pose in her seat.

"You watch WAY to much anime" Sunset giggled and motioned Pinkie to sit back down.

"guilty as charged." Pinkie giggled in response and her friends followed suit.

"Well darlings, this was fun as always but I must be going; need to finish packing and pick up Sweetie Belle so she is ready to go for the trip. Ta-Ta" Rarity said as she stood to leave, waving kindly to her friends and looked to Applejack to whom she extended her hand. "Coming darling?"

"Ah reckon I should mosey along too, gotta get back to the farm and make sure everything is set up for the harvest, plus gotta get dinner started, I'll drive sugarcube." Applejack said tipping her hat to her friends as she got up to leave, taking Rarity by the hand as they walked out together; Rarity blushing as she stood close to Applejack.

"Yeah, I gotta bounce too; wanna hit the gym for a bit before I turn in for the day." Rainbow said giving a two finger salute to her friends as she got up and dashed off using her powers, Sunset would've told her off but by this point? They'd gained enough mastery of their powers to use them in normal day life without overdoing it.

"Oh, that reminds me I need to pick up Spike from your place Fluttershy, thanks for watching him this week by the way." Twilight said to Fluttershy kindly.

"Oh it was no worry at all, he's a sweetheart as always. Hehe I think he might also have a crush on one of the stray puppies we took in lately, little smolder seems to like him a lot too." Fluttershy said with a euphoric giggle as she remembered the two pups getting along.

"Awww my little Spike is growing up, let's go then, see you Sunset, Pinkie; if you wanna come and see me and Flurry with the Twins I'm sure she'd love to see you all."

"Oh that sounds super duper Twi! I'll ask Mr. and Mrs. Cake if we can schedule a playdate!" Pinkie responded gleefully.

With that the rest of the friends would take their leave, now only leaving Sunset and Pinkie Pie alone at the table. Sunset would smile at her party loving friend and brought an arm around her and brought them close together.

"Welp, guess that just leaves you and me then."

"So what're we gonna do tonight Sunset?"

"Same thing we do every night Pinkie."

"Try and take over the world?!"

"Hehe no, no. Have fun!" Sunset said with a chuckle as she pinched Pinkie's nose and giggled more when it honked like she had a clown nose. "Oh now you're just doing that on purpose!"

"It made ya laugh though didn't it?" Pinkie replied with a smile and stuck out her tongue at her friend making a silly face at her.

"Ohoho you think you're sooooo funny don't ya?" Sunset said pinching and wiggling her nose some more.

"Hehehe I think I'm hilarious! Element of laughter remember?" Pinkie said with a big smile that just didn't seem to waver.

"Heh yeah, how could I ever forget? After all you were the first one out of everyone to really give me a chance back when I was still a big meanie." Sunset said with melancholy having released Pinkie's nose, remembering the past didn't bring her pain anymore though she did still harbor some small bit of guilt for how she used to be back then.

"Hey, everyone needs a friend to make them happy! You didn't have any back then and so I wanted to be! Sure you told me to buzz off like, a lot; but remember what finally got you to open up?" Pinkie said with a smile as she remembered their interactions back them, her hand atop Sunset's.

"We shared a milkshake. I was surprised you knew what my favorite was and as it turned out? We shared a favorite flavor. Strawberry" Sunset said as she remembered too, a chuckle escaping her lips as the memory came flooding back as she activated her magic when Pinkie touched her hand.

The Sweet Shoppe: 4 Years ago~

"ooooorder up! Here ya go Sunny!" Pinkie said with a smile as she skated up to the scowling former Queen B.

"I told you to stop calling me that but thanks. Now go away." Sunset said sourly, taking her milkshake, paying for it and shooing Pinkie off as she slurped from her plastic cup.

"Okie dokie loki!" Pinkie replied still smiling, taking the payment and skating off, not the least bit bothered by Sunset's attitude.

Sunset sighed and huffed, she didn't understand why she kept coming here, she didn't have any friends, she had no power, no influence; nothing. She had to pay for her own milkshakes now and that meant she couldn't order the usual large size strawberry blast she often got. This delicious drink was one of the few comforts she found in this world upon coming here and when she was the queen of the school, this shoppe was a frequent hangout spot of hers and anyone who was anyone would try and get a seat with her and more curry her favor by buying her a milkshake.

However now? Now no one wanted to be anywhere near her, much less buy her anything. With a deep frown and huff, Sunset suppressed a sniffle as she looked around to see others talking and laughing with their friends, she envied them but was too prideful to admit it. Suddenly though something broke her out of her brooding when a tray landed on the table in front of her. Looking up at it, she saw two large milkshakes and the one presenting them was Pinkie Pie who was now out of her work uniform and in her more casual clothes.

"Hiya!"

"Didn't I tell you to go away?"

"Yep!"

"So, why are you still here?"

"Hehehe I work here silly filly!" Pinkie replied with a giggle as she sat down and took one of the shakes and began to drink from the silly straw inside of it.

"Yeah well, you can sit somewhere else you know"

Pinkie simply ignored her and continued slurping her milkshake. Sunset huffed and looked at the other shake sitting on the tray and back at the one she had been drinking which by this point had melted and ceased to taste good. Looking at the second one Pinkie brought, she didn't notice anyone else coming and so she would reach her hand for it and took it.

"Thanks...I guess."

Pinkie didn't respond and just kept slurping her shake.

"So...what, is this supposed to make us friends or something?" Sunset asked as she took a sip

Pinkie would keep slurping her shake but nodded.

"How? I don't know the first thing about friendship and no one likes me or wants to be my friend after what I did."

Pinkie kept slurping her shake but shook her head as if to disagree with that claim, pointing to herself and then holding up 4 fingers.

"Okay but that's YOU girls, you're all...weirdly friendly. I still don't understand how you could wanna be my friends after everything I put you all through."

Pinkie Pie would finish slurping her shake and exhaled a small sigh of satisfaction and looked at Sunset. "Well, we promised princess Twilight we would help you but more than that? I can tell you just wanna be happy and no one who wants to be happy can be all that bad!"

"But..."

"Sure...you were a meanie, you did lots of bad things and hurt our feelings really, really bad. But you said you were sorry, you haven't tried to do anything bad since then and we all forgive you because we want to, not because the princess told us to." Pinkie said with a odd sense of seriousness that was rare for the goofy pink girl.

"I...I don't understand. I made you so miserable, I made it my mission to hurt all of you as much as I could but you want me to be happy?" Sunset asked Pinkie, befuddled.

"Of course I do silly! Sure I was sad back then but that was then! Not now, I'm happy now and I want you to be happy too! That way you'll wanna make people happy rather than sad from now on. Isn't that what you REALLY want?" Pinkie asked curiously, her innocent blue eyes staring at Sunset intently.

Sunset would think about it as she continued to sip her milkshake. What DID she want? At one point she had thought it was power but she had gotten that and instantly regretted it. So what could she say she wanted now? As she looked at Pinkie Pie, then to the other groups of friendly folk chatting and having a good time, it clicked. She just wanted to be happy, to have friends.

"Yeah, I guess...but do I deserve it? To be happy I mean?"

"I think everyone has a right to be happy as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. I can tell you don't wanna be a big stick in the mud meanie beanie anymore, right?"

Sunset shook her head and Pinkie giggled and pat her on the back and extended her pinky finger.

"Then how about this, lets make a Pinkie Promise, if you promise you try and be happy and make friends? I promise to always be by your side to make you happy!" Pinkie said gleefully.

Sunset stopped slurping her shake and looked at Pinkie's extended tiny finger and raised her own hand to look at her own. She had heard of pinky promises before but she felt like this was particularly special to Pinkie herself and she had heard that she NEVER broke them. Deciding to take a leap of faith, sunset would lock her finger with that of her pink friend.

"Yay! Now repeat after me! Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye! I Pinkie Promise!"

Pinkie and Sunset would shake their hands with their pinky fingers connected and would recite the chant that went with the promise , using their free hands to cross their hearts and placing a palm over one eye. Once the promise was sealed, Pinkie smiled at her new friend, taking the silly straw out of her milkshake and placing it in Sunset's so they could share.

"Cheers! Betcha I can finish first!" Pinkie began slurping quickly

"H-Hey, no fair!" Sunset replied quickly beginning to slurp her straw as well, though not soon after the two would be seen clutching their heads and pounding the table laughing and groaning through a killer bout of brain freeze.

"Ow, ow, ow, ow! Make it stop, oh sweet Celestia make it stop!" Sunset groaned but for some reason was smiling and laughing despite the pain in her forehead.

"B-B-Brain freeeheheheheheheze!!!!" Pinkie giggled and groaned as she clutched her head, her face having turned blue from the brain freeze.

After they'd gotten their brain freeze to thaw, the two shared a good laugh and Pinkie would order them a large strawberry sundae to share. One thing that always made fast friends was sharing ice cream!

As the memory faded, Sunset and Pinkie were brought back to reality with only seconds having passed them by. Pinkie giggled happily and Sunset did as well, she adored that memory and ever since then she had come here to share a frozen treat of some kind with the pink party animal.

"And you kept your promise!" Pinkie smiled and hugged her friend to reassure her.

"What can I say? I've had good friends to keep me on the right track. Now I do believe we have some fun to partake in; so whatdya say we head to the mall? I feel like hitting up Fun Zone" Sunset knew that Pinkie would be overjoyed to hear this as Fun Zone was her FAVORITE hangout spot.

As expected, the party animal lit up like a Christmas tree, her smile threatening to split her mouth in two as she hugged Sunset and giggled gleefully.

"Oh yay! I was thinking the same thing! I hear they have a new trampoline dodgeball court!" Pinkie said with a devious smile.

"Oh game on, lets go." Sunset would get up from their booth with Pinkie tagging along, both of them smiling ear to ear as they got ready to go and paint the town pink and red.