Pinkie's Trip - MLP-WTG 1

Pinkies (Super Funtabulous ) Trip

It was a calm spring day; everything seemed to be going smoothly. Everywhere except above Sugar Cube Corner, the residence of the town's most... eccentric pink pony. Crashes and noises of things being thrown around could be heard. Twilight Sparkle had originally been on her way there simply to see her friend, and perhaps purchase some of the bakeries wonderful treats, but had become quite worried now.

She approached the shop cautiously, entering to find a worried Mr. Cake, who was minding the counter right now; Mrs. Cake was in the kitchen working away. The yellow stallion smiled a bit, "Hey there Miss Sparkle, I'm guessing your here to see Pinkie Pie," Mr. Cake said, his worry more obvious in his voice then his form.

"Oh, yes I am... is everything alright though?" she asked, punctuated by another crash and a frustrated cry by the pink earth pony. "What is going on up there?" she added to her question.

The baker shrugged slightly, "Not sure, we went up there to see what was wrong but she just kept rambling on about being out of something," he said, looking up as they heard her move around above them, "We thought it would be best to stay out of her way," he admitted a bit fearfully.

Twilight nodded her head lightly, knowing that when her friend got frustrated over something (which was an accomplishment on its own), she could get a bit scary. She walked quickly moved to the stairs and up them, quickly approaching the room, sure that, as her friend, Pinkie Pie might be more open to explain what the problem was.

What she found when she reached her friend's home though looked more like a disaster area then a living room. Drawers and their contents were thrown about everywhere, and different party themed items were currently flying through the air as Pinkie dug through a chest against one wall. "Nooo!" The Pink pony cried, pausing in her diggings, "Even my super-duper emergency EMERGNCY stash is all gone!!!" she finished with a huff before sliding down, hanging over the edge of the trunk and her hair, Twilight worriedly noticed, was starting to straighten out.

"... P-pinkie pie," Twilight said nervously, taking a step towards her friend.

Pinkie's ears suddenly shot up, her hair instantly returning to its full poofieness. Twilight blinked once and suddenly Pinkie Pie was standing right in front of her, a big smile on her face, not quite as large as normal though. If she hadn't known Pinkie for as long as she had, this probably would have frightened her, however, she instead smiled a bit. "Hi Twilight!" the pink one said in her normal hyper way.

The lavender mare smiled a bit, "Hey Pinkie Pie, you okay, what exactly did you run out of?" she asked, hoping it wasn't something to important.

The earth pony's face drooped again, "Oh, you heard that..." she said, then looked back to the trunk, "... I'm completely and utterly out of," she paused dramatically and posed with her head tilted back and her left fore hoof over her face, ".... Balloons!" she said in a dramatic way.

Twilight stood silently for a moment, then sighed, of course it would be something like that, "Pinkie Pie, first off, that doesn't seem to constitute an emergency, sec-" Twilight tried to explain, but Pinkie Pie cut her off.

"Not an emergency!" she was back to her animated self, suddenly pushed face to face with Twilight, "Of course it's an emergency! I mean, what's a party without balloons?!" she stepped back and tilted her head, having stated that like it was the most obvious fact ever.

Twilight blinked, then shook her head, "Secondly," she continued from the point she was interrupted, "Why don't you just go buy more, somepony around town has to have some they could sell you," she concluded, seemed logical enough.

Pinkie Pie's eyes narrowed a bit, "Twilight you Silly Filly, I AM the person who sells Balloons in town, I have the market cornered on them! In fact I am the town's main supplier of party supplies, I mean, like duh," she said, extending the last word a bit longer than necessary.

Twilight tilted her head, about to come up with a response about how absurd that was, until she thought about it. She hadn't seen a single other person in Ponyville throw a party without Pinkies help, besides the one her other friends and herself had set up, but she remembered getting the supplied delivered to her from Canterlot to make sure Pinkie didn't find out from any of the shop owners. She didn't even remember seeing any party stores. "... Alright... I guess that makes sense... well then, you could always just order more from the suppliers," She suggested.

Pinkie Pie sighed, then turned away, while Twilight was thinking, she somehow managed to clean up the entire room, catching the unicorn off guard a bit, "You don't think I already tried that, the problem is they are a bit under stocked, so my order won't be here for a FULL Week!" She said, slightly deflating again, "And I have 3 parties planned this week..." muttering at the end sadly.

"Well..." the purple unicorn said quietly, ".... why don't you just go buy direct?" she offered, when Pinkie gave her a look, she quickly elaborated, "I mean, Canterlot is less than a day's travel from here, and they have plenty of party shops there, you could easily go stock up be back in plenty of time for your par-... Pinkie?" Twilight said, somewhere while she was talking, the Pink one had vanished, as had her saddle bags that had been sitting by the trunk. Twilight glanced out the window and already saw Pinkie Pie hopping away happily, ".... how in Celestia's name does she do that?"

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Pinkie Pie was already well on her way, giggling as she bounced rapidly down the path, though to the casual viewer it seemed like an average pace, she somehow was covering ground far faster than the other travelers on the path. It boggled the mind of everyone that watched her just to see her suddenly far further down the path then she should have been every time she got out of sight for a moment.

There was one group that was actually heading the other way, 4 of them to be precise. Among them was a large dark grey earth pony with brown mane and tail, pulling behind them there cart, his cutie mark was a boulder. He grumbled lightly, "Why are we going out to this... Ponyville again Lints?" he asked in a gruff voice.

"We are planning to set up a new shopping center there Rocky," explained the pegasus gliding above him, he was a very light brown color with a cream mane and tail, his cutie mark looked fuzz ball. "Though I still don't know why..."

A sigh comes from the cart, sitting on the front of it in front of their supplies was an elder white unicorn mare with greying brown mane and tail, her unseen cutie mark underneath her elaborate dress was a sack of flour, "The reason for it is simple, it is an up and coming town, and has far less competition then the big city," she said, having an obvious accent, turning to the faded purple and white stallion beside her, "It also has some land you're interested in farming, Correct Turnip?"

He simply nodded, a bit of a farmer, his coat and main were matching purple, but his color shifted to white gradually at his hooves, his cutie mark being(you guessed it), a Turnip. "Right you are Madame..." he said simply, a stallion of few words.

They continued traveling in silence for a bit, when there flyer suddenly stopped midair, eyes widening a bit, then shaking his head, "You alright up there, Sir Lintsalot?" the Madame asked her fabric cleaning friend.

Lints, as he preferred to go by, looked back down, "... just... just thought I recognized some pony...." he said allowed, then looked back down the path towards the hoping figure, "... can't be though..."

Rocky glanced up, "Can't be who?" he asked, looking back towards the path, then stopping in his tracks, "... what in the... Her???" he said quietly, the pink figure appearing for him too.

Lints looked down at his friend, a bit shocked, "Wait, you recognize her too?" he asked.

Madame and Turnip leaned a bit, opposite directions to see past there large friend, both almost saying in unity, "Pinkie?" Then looking at each other.

"But... how do you know-" started Turnip, being quickly interrupted.

He was cut off by Madame, "Me? What about you, she was in my dream!" The others looked at her, stunned, "Some sort of... insane party... though you were all there too.."

Lints lands next to the cart, "... and we were all wearing party hats... and... and she was serving us cake and tea..." he continued.

Rocky finished, "... and... talking to us about her bad friends..."

Turnip's eyes were very wide at this point, "... but that's impossible... isn't it?" he asked.

What they didn't notice was Pinkie getting closer a lot faster, but they did hear her, she spoke as she bounced by, "Oh, Hey Sir Lintsalot, Rocky, Madame LeFlour, Mister Turnip, great to see you again! Hope to have a party again with you soon!" she said as she bounced past, the group turned and watched her move away, in a stunned silent.

"..... It was a dream.... right?" Lints asked, now entirely confused.

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Pinkie Pie made the rest of the trip to Canterlot in record time, and easily found her way to several of the stores. Within an hour, he was either a VIP customer or banned from just about every party supply store within the city.  She ended up leaving with more than she had originally planned, having actually rented a cart to get it all back easily.

She had rather enjoyed her trip to Canterlot, thinking she would have to come here more often and show these ponies how to really party.