The wind slowly travels between houses, shaking leaves and little bushes. The once filled with life streets of Ponyville are now empty, and silence rules the night. The moon proudly fills the world with its cold and white light. All the houses are dark, except one. The windows of bakery are piercing the night with weak spears of light, coming from several candles, and a candelabra on the first floor.

Ms. Cake was sorting the ingredients by their name, while Pinkie Pie was finding those ingredients and passing them to her. "Oh, thank you yet again, Pinkie, for your help! I wouldn't have even hoped to finish all this work by the next day without help." - Ms. Cake said

"Oh, don't worry, Ms. Cake! Pinkie Pie is always ready to help, especially when it concerns sweets!"- Pinkie said with her usual happy voice - "While Mr. Cakes is in Canterlot for supplies, I'll be your helper! I can even be a nanny again!"

"No, no, no, thank you, I think I can handle kids myself" - Ms. Cake answered, remembering the last time Pinkie tried to be a nanny. They had to borrow additional flour from Applejack that time.

The town was sleeping, the bakery was working. This peaceful agreement was broken when a sound of closing door pierced the silence. On the busy day no one would even notice, but in the dead silence it seemed like an explosion. But the two working at the bakery were too busy to notice.

"Oh, shoot, there's not enough sugar for the next day in this box! Pinkie, could you go down to the storage room and look for some more?"- Ms. Cake asked, while looking at half-full box, containing sugar.

"No prob, m'am! I'll be back in no time!" - said Pinkie as she rushed down the stairs to the basement, where the storage room was. She slowly opened the door, holding a candle in her mouth, then placed it on the nearby box. She was astonished by the amount of bags containing different pie ingredients! Sugar, flour, cream, lots of stuff! With supplies like these one could throw a huge pie-fight contest! Yes! Genius! The next party she'll throw for her friends will be a pie-fight! Pinkie climbed the ladder right up to the shelves with bags, marked with huge black letters reading "SUGAR". She grabbed one of the small bags, when suddenly she remembered that she forgot exactly how much sugar Ms. Cake needed.

"Ms. Cake, how much sugar do you need?!" - she shouted, trying not to wake up the kids. There was no answer. "Ms. Cakes! Can you hear me?!" - she shouted more loudly. There was still no answer.

"Agh, stupid basements! You can never hear stuff people shout inside them!"- Pinkie uttered to herself, descended down the ladder and went back to the kitchen.

"Ms. Cakes, I forgot to ask exactly how much sugar do you.." - she couldn't continue, as her words were stuck in her throat. It was dark, but she managed to see the bright reflection of the moonlight on the metall. Something moved in the darkness, and it was moving towards her. Scared, she thought about running away, but quickly discarded those thoughts, as Ms. Cake would probably need help. She quickly dashed towards the kitchen and grabbed a rolling-pin. She finally guessed that the metal, reflecting light was a knife, so the rolling-pin is not the best weapon imaginable, but there was no time to pick.

"You, mean...thing! I will not let you hurt Ms. Cakes and her children! AAA!" - she screamed and threw the rolling-pin at where the movement was. The pin hit the figure right in the head, forcing it to drop the knife. Breathing heavily, the stranger ran right through the open door and as escaped as fast as he could. Unfortunately, the darkness didn't allow Pinkie to see anything, except that it was a pony, and not anything else.

"Whew, he's gone" - Pinkie sighed with relief. After that, she started to look for something to light the room with. Finally, after walking in darkness almost blindfolded, she found a box of matches and lit one. The candle was not far ahead, and Pinkie lit it as well. Then, she looked around and saw the picture that would stay in her mind forever. Ms. Cakes was lying on the floor, as it was slowly filled with her own blood. She was unconscious and the gaping wood on her side was bleeding heavily. Terrified, Pinkie grabbed a towel and tried to bandage Ms. Cakes wound with it.

"HELP! SOMEPONY PLEASE HELP! DOCTOR" - she shrieked as she tried to stop the bleeding.

The most of the town woke up. More and more ponies gathered round to check out what's happening. Doctor finally got through the crowd, and attended to Ms. Cakes. Pinkie was sitting in the corner, almost crying. Why? Why would anypony do this?! What horrible mind could come up with such an idea?

Finally, the Doctor sighed with relief. "She is hurt pretty badly, but I've managed to stop the bleeding. We'll get her to the hospital, and she'll be all right".

"Oh, thank Celestia. This is just horrible" - Pinkie said, as she got up and started walking around. "This is monstrous, how evil can you be to attack such an innocent soul as Ms. Cakes?"- she lamented as she suddenly stepped on something. It was the knife that the attacker dropped, covered in Ms. Cakes blood.

Then, Pinkie noticed that Doctor is looking quite strangely at her. Only then, Pinkie figured out that she herself was covered in blood.

"Wait, it's not that! I...I tried to help her, tried to bandage her wound! That's how I got blood all over me!" - she said, as two guards entered the bakery, and started slowly walking towards her. The guards never show up on time. And when they do, it's always the wrong time!