Slowly they began to appear, first one, then three, then many. They stumbled from the shadows and shambled along the darkened streets of Ponyville, all heading in a single direction. They ambled along unimpeded and unnoticed for the tiny village still slumbered, Luna's moon hanging just above the mouton's to the west.
As they descended on their destination, driven by a singular need, they began to merge into small groups. Outside Ponyville's one and only bakery, they began to bump and stumble into other small groups, quickly converging into a hoard of mindless beings, driven on by one coherent thought. Together then crashed like a wave against the locked front door of Sugarcube Corner, the bakery with the sweet name.
And just as the hoard began to grow irritated at the wooden obstacle, the sun poked its first rays of morning over the horizon and there was a click from the lock. As one they surged forth, forcing themselves past the doorway and filling the room beyond. The bright lights above caused the first to enter too flinch and cover their bloodshot eyes, yet they continued on towards the counter at the other side of the room and the bouncing pink pony who happily cheered then on.
"Come in, come in, everypony is welcome," she giggled. "There are fresh doughnuts and crawlers on the tables, along with suggestion cards. Please help yourselves and let us know how we can enhance your experience here at the corner."
However, the mass of humanity only cared for one thing at the moment and one by one they began to chant their need as they surged forward. "Coffee… Coffee… COFFEE!"
Moments later Mark, the leader of Ponyville's human military, barged in demanding to know what the hell was going on. To his astonishment he found almost all of his troops clustered within the shop, smiles on their faces as they contently munched on doughnuts and sipped at their mugs.
Taking pity on the General, Luke stepped around the counter and handed him a fresh mug. "So, what do you think, Sir?" he asked and waited for Mark to take a sip.
"Holy shit," he blinked in dismay while regarding the obsidian liquid. "There is no way this is the instant shit out of the MRE's!"
"No Sir," Gallan smiled back. "Pinkie found out that the burrows of South Equestria still grow and use the coffee bean, so she ordered a large shipment along with her cocoa beans." He said as he looked around at all the happy humans. "And as it turns out, while I'm all thumbs in the kitchen, that I know how to brew up a mean cup of joe."
"Isn't this great," Pinkie beamed from the counter. "My Lukey found he has a talent."
"I have to emit, this is dam good," Mark nodded, yet in his mind there was a flashback to a pink Alicorn and her reaction to Coffee. "Wait, what about the ponies?"
"It seems the fresh ground bean coffee doesn't affect the ponies like the instant shit does," Gallan reassured his commanding officer. "Seems it's something in the dehydrated powder that may have caused Cadence to go batshit."
"And you know this how?"
"We asked Twilight to do a study on the effects of coffee before we even thought of serving it," the pink wonder giggled as she darted about the shop refilling any mug held out to her. "She says its okey-dokey for ponies… Anypony else need a refill?"
Mark shrugged and held out his now empty mug, while Gallan watched his hyper pony happily bound around the shop refilling empty mugs.