Just so you all know, this chapter is based on the Chowder episode Taste of Marzipan.
Today was a big day for Ponyville and Equestria in general. Today was none other then the Taste of Equestria fair. A fair dedicated to holding booths where some of the best bakers around would gather and share their baked goods with other ponies. Of course, there was more than just food booths here. There were a bunch of stuff you would see at fair's and carnivals. Like rides, games, face painting, etc.
Currently walking along the paths of this fair, a group of ponies were dragging a serious of carts and wagons filled with boxes of various baked good. This group consisted of Mr and Mrs Cake, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Spike, and Fluttershy.
Currently Pinkie was bouncing forward happily with an expression so excited, it shouldn't be physically possible. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! I can't believe it!" Pinkie Pie said impossibly happily as the rest of the ponies and dragon followed behind her. "I always went to the Taste of Equestria festival every year but now I'm actually a part of it!"
Pinkie Pie then suddenly appeared in front of Mr and Mrs. Cake and said. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you so much!" Pinkie Pie told the Cake's as they chuckled in response.
"Well after helping us out at the ole shop for so long we figured it was finally time to let you help us out at the festival." Mr. Cake told Pinkie Pie as the party pony gave a happy squeal in response.
"And it was nice of you to let us help out to." Spike said as he carried a couple of boxes full of cupcakes. "And we do get to have some ourselves, right?"
"Of course, dearie!" Mrs. Cake told the dragon with a soft smile before she suddenly took a 180 as she gave Spike a stern look. "Afterwards."
Spike swallowed a lump in his throat as he gave a nervous smile and rapidly nodded his head. "O-of course! Afterwards."
"This will actually be me and Spike's first Taste of Equestria festival." Twilight said as she pulled a cart filled beyond the brim with boxes of cakes and pies. "I heard it's really fun though and has some of the best baked treats you can find."
"Oh, it is." Fluttershy spoke up as she pulled only a small wagon filled with a few boxes of cupcakes and such. "Me and Rainbow Dash went together every year." Just then Fluttershy frowned as her ears dropped. "I just wish she wasn't busy today."
"Yeah, strange how a lot of our friends were busy today." Spike commented as he remembered them asking Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Rarity said they were all busy today and couldn't come with them.
"Even Lincoln couldn't make it." Mrs. Cake said as she herself asked the Loud boy to help out them today but he said he couldn't.
"Awww, they're all gonna miss the festival today." Pinkie Pie said as she frowned sadly. But her sadness only lasted about a second as she quickly perked up and said. "Oh well, we'll just have to save them some goodies and tell them how amazing today was!"
The group then went on with all the baked goods the Cakes and Pinkie made until Mr. Cake stopped them all and pointed to a booth they were in front of. "Here it is everypony! Our booth!" Everypony looked to see a moderately sized carnival booth designed to look like a gingerbread house similar to the Sugarcube Corner itself.
"If it ain't broke don't fix it huh?" Twilight commented as she and her friends looked over the gingerbread house booth.
"We like to stay consistent." Mrs Cake commented as she turned to everypony in their group. "Well, let's set everything up everypony!"
Everypony cheered as they quickly started to help the Cakes set up their booth. It only took about 20 minutes as everypony set up shelves on the side of the booths and put the boxes of various baked goods on them as well as labeling them.
With a few of them they opened them up to set them on the front of the counter on the booth to show off what the cakes were selling as well as label the prices. Spike did try to act sneaky and take a cupcake when he thought nopony was looking, but right as he attempted it Mrs. Cake slapped his hand away and gave him a glare that quickly made him stop and continue working.
They all then stood and admired their work as they all looked around and admired their work and all the pastry's around them. Pinkie Pie's eyes were sparkling as she had a gigantic smile on her face. "Pinkie." Pinkie turned around at the call of her name and saw Mrs Cake standing behand her and hoofing her a little piece of folded up paper that said 'Open.' "Would you like to do you honors."
Pinkie Pie covered her mouth with her hooves as she let out a high pitched gasped and asked. "Really?"
"Really." Mr. Cake confirmed with a nod.
Pinkie Pie's smiled somehow grew twice as big as she quickly grabbed the little paper sign from Mrs. Cake and ran up to the front of the gingerbread booth and begun announcing. "I declare the Cake families Taste of Equestria pastry and sweet booth…OPEN!" Pinkie Pie screamed as she slammed down the sign on the counter declaring the booth open.
Everypony then stood at the front of the counter with Pinkie Pie and stood forward and waited for the ponies to show up looking for tasty treats.
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Silence.
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A quite long awkward silence.
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"So, um, what happens now?" Fluttershy asked as she looked around for anything notable happening.
"We wait dearie." Mrs. Cake said simply with a smile as Mr. Cake and Pinkie smile and nodded.
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"So, we just wait for ponies to show up?" Spike asked while scratching his head as he looked around as well for any ponies coming up to their booth.
"Yep." Mr. Cake answered simply with the same smile.
Twilight rubbed her foot against the ground as she started looking around as well. "So, how long does it usually take to-"
"Alright ya'll, here's our booth!" A familiar country accent was heard causing everypony at the Cake's booth to quiet down and look towards the source.
When they looked to the source of the voice they saw the Apple family themselves pulling their own carts and wagons full of all sorts of apple baked goods such as Apple Pies, Apple Fritters, Apple Crisp, Apple Bars, pretty much every desert that has apple in it.
But it wasn't just the fours members of the apple family with them. They also had some help with them. Such as…
"Rainbow Dash!" Fluttershy gasped as she saw her fellow Pegasus dragging a few wagons filled with apple pies.
"Rarity!" Spike said as she noticed the fashion pony walking next to her Marefriend as Applejack pulled a cart full of apple-based sweets.
And last but not least…
"Lincoln!" Mrs. Caked gasped out as she saw the white head helping out the Apple family with their baked good.
Lincoln heard his name being called and turned to everypony in the Cake booth and gave them a smile on a wave. "Oh, hey guys!"
"Howdy everypony!" Applejack said as she gave her friends a tip from her Stenson cap.
"How are you all doing today darlings?" Rarity asked kindly as she leaned against Applejack.
"R-Rainbow Dash, wh-what are you doing here?" Fluttershy asked with a bit of a hurt expression on her face. "I though you said you couldn't come with me because you were busy."
"I am busy." Rainbow Dash said matter of factly as she gestured to the apple family under her. "I'm helping out the Apple's with their booth."
"Eeyup." Big Mac, a rather large stallion with an apple red coat and an orange mane and tail and green eyes with his cutie mark being a green apple that's been cut in half.
"Same here darling." Rarity said as she gave Applejack a nuzzle. "I just had to help my little apple here."
"Aw shucks, you're making me blush." Applejack said as she was in fact blushing.
"And they said Ah'm finally old enough to help out!" Applebloom said excited as she jumped up in glee.
"But Lincoln, I asked you to help out with us yesterday." Mrs. Caked pointed out as she looked at the Ultimatrix user.
"Yes, you did. But the Apple's asked me first and I'm a man of my word." Lincoln said as he patted his chest with his fist. "Also they promised me a couple of fritters and pies to take home."
"And they promised me a barrel of cider." Rainbow Dash said as her mouth watered at the thought of getting a whole barrel of Apple family cider all to herself.
"And Applejack promised me-" Rarity was saying before Applejack interrupted her.
"Not in front of Applebloom!" Applejack said quickly as she covered her little sisters' ears with her muzzle apple red.
"Oh, right, sorry." Rarity apologized as an embarrassed blush came to her face.
"Gross." Lincoln and Rainbow Dash said in unison as they lightly glared at the couple.
"Hehehe." An old sounding laugh rang out as another pony made herself known. She was a very old pony to having wrinkly pale green skin and a white man and tail that, unlike Lincolns hair, was due to old age. She also had orange eyes and frilled scarf with apple's patterned over it and a cutie mark of a pie. This was Big Mac's, Applejack's, and Appleblooms grandmother, Granny Smith. "Looks like I beat ya to these yuggin's."
"Granny Smith." Mr and Mrs Cake said in unison as they narrowed their eyes at the old mare. Both the Cakes and Granny smith walked up to each other with challenging glares in their eyes.
The atmosphere got a bit tense as both parties gave each other challenging glares. Lincoln shifted his eyes around awkwardly as he asked. "Ok am I missing something because I thought they were friends." The Loud boy asked as they all witness the scene in front of them.
"Oh, we are dearie." Mrs Cake said reassuringly while still looking Granny Smith dead in the eye.
"It's just around this time of year…" Mr Cake was saying before being interrupted by Granny Smith.
"We can't help but get a little competitive." Granny Smith finished for the Cake male.
"See, around this time of year we both have booths for the Taste of Equestria fair." Applejack begun explained as she walked up to the Cake group. "We always compete to see who can sell the most goods."
"Eeyup." Big Mac confirmed with a nod.
"And I recall we whooped your flanks for the last 5 years straight." Granny Smith told everypony with a smirk.
Mr and Mrs Cake narrowed their eyes at the old mare as the latter said. "We'll see about that this year Smith." The Cake female said in a challenging tone.
"So, where's your booth?" Pinkie Pie chirped in her usual peppy tone, not really taking all the competitive stuffed seriously.
Rarity rose her eyebrow at the party pony and pointed behind her. "It's right there darling." Rarity said as everypony looked to see that right behind the Apple family and their helping hands was a both the same size as the Cakes only modeled around a barn similar to the one the Apple's owned.
"…How did we not notice that?" Fluttershy asked as she tilted her head.
"Not important right now." Mr Cake said as he stepped up. "Sorry Apple's but we really pulled out the stocks on this one and we intend to win this year!"
"Oh yeah," Granny Smith said back as she turned to her own group. "Alright yuggin's, set everything up! We got some Cakes to outsell!"
"Yes sir Granny Smith sir!" Everypony on the Apple's side said in unison as they quickly got to setting up the Apple family stand.
"Everypony, we got some work to do!" Mrs. Cake instantly said afterwards as she and her husband quickly got back to their stand.
"Yippee!" Pinkie Pie cheered happily as she bounced close behind.
"Uh, Twilight." Spike asked as he and the mare he called out stood in place. "What just happened?"
"I'm not quite sure Spike." Twilight said as she watched the Apple side set up their own stand. "But I think we just got ourselves into a booth war."
And so the great booth war began. For the next hour straight both groups had quite the number of ponies show up and buy treats from them. And both were making sure to keep score of how much items they've sold. However, they made sure the other group couldn't see it.
But to those of you curious, the score was currently Cakes - 43, Apples - 49. In fact the Apple's just hit 50 as Applebloom just sold an Apple fritter to an Earth Pony stallion. "Thank you! Enjoy you Apple family home cooked dessert!" Applebloom said as she gave the stallion a wave as he walked away enjoying his fritter.
Currently at the cakes stand, Fluttershy had her head down on the counter while looking at the Apple's stand. Or more specifically, the rainbow maned Pegasus helping out at the Apple stand. Fluttershy sighed sadly as Twilight gave her a concerned look. "Something wrong Fluttershy?" The Alicorn asked with concern.
"Oh, uh, no. I'm fine." Fluttershy muttered quietly, never taking her eyes off Rainbow Dash.
Twilight knew something was up, but ultimately decided not to pry about it yet. There would be plenty of time for that after this whole selling war between the Cakes and Apples. Just then Pinkie finished selling a chocolate cupcake to none other then Bon Bon and said. "Have a super-duper day!" The party pony said as Bon Bon nodded happily and took her cupcake.
Spike then changed the score the Cakes had to 44 after that sale. "Alright, we've made 44 sales so far. How do you think the Apple's are doing?" The dragon asked as he had to jump to see over the counter of the booth.
"I'm not sure Dearie, but I can't tell if they've gotten more sales or not." Mrs Cake explained as, just like them, the Apple's hid their sales sign from view so the other couldn't see.
"I haven't kept track of all the ponies that have shown up to them, but in my honest opinion, I think they've sold more then us." Mr. Cake admitted admitted as he watched the Apple's make three more sales. He didn't miss the smug grin Applejack sent them.
"Wow! They're doing really well today!" Pinkie Pie said happily as she waved to the barn designed stand in front of them.
However, Mrs Cake quickly grabbed Pinkie's hoof and pulled Pinkie to where she was looking into the Cake mare's eyes. "No, Pinkie. That's a bad thing. If they sell more, we'll lose. We have to sell more than them, understand?"
Pinkie Pie was silent for a moment before she gave Mrs. Cake her usual smile and said. "Okie doki loki!" Before going back to the front of the stand to make sales.
Mrs. Cake sighed at Pinkie not taking the competition seriously as a certain dragon walked up to Mrs. Cake. "Uh, hey, Mrs. Cake." Spike said as he had his hands behind his back.
"Yes dearie?" Mrs. Cake asked as Spike cleared his throat.
"Well, I think I have a way to attract more customers to us." Spike expained as Mrs. Cake's eyes widened a bit at the information. She gestured Spike to go on as the dragon eagerly pulled out a sign in the shape of an arrow with a gingerbread design to it that said 'Cake Family Baked Good' on it. "I figured I could head to the center of the fair and spin this sign around in the direction of our booth and encourage other ponies to go here."
"Spike that's a wonderful idea!" Mrs. Cake complimented as she clapped her hooves together. "If this works you may end up with a little extra afterwards."
Spike's mouth quickly started to drool and the thought of earning even more goodies after this. He quickly shook his head to get back into reality and gave Mrs. Cake a salutte. "I won't let you down!" The dragon said as he begun to run off with his sign.
However, he was quickly stopped by Mrs. Cake grabbing his tail the mare whispering to him. "Just make sure they don't see you going over there. We don't want them catching onto what we're doing." Spike gave a nod to Mrs. Cake as he began to walk off and hiding behind anything he could to make sure no one at the Apple stand could see him.
He hid behind everything from trash cans, to big stuffed animals, and even other ponies. All to make sure he wasn't seen. And thankfully, he managed to make it to the center of the fair without any of them seeing him and quickly got down to attracting customers.
45 minutes later, things were looking up for the Cakes. More ponies quickly swarmed their stand asking for their baked goods. To which the cakes and everypony helping out was more than happy to provide. "Ok everypony, single file line please!" Mr. Cake chuckled as he handed a cinnamon bun to a Pegasus mare.
"Oh dear, um, here you go. Please don't drop it." Fluttershy said as she was starting to feel a little more than overwhelmed at all the ponies at the stand.
"Don't worry everypony, there's plenty of sweets for all of you." Twilight reassured everyone while collecting the bits everypony was paying with her magic.
"I gotta give it to Spike." Mrs. Cake said as she saw the score for their sales was now in the triple digits. "He must know how to spin a sign."
At the Apple stand, they were all watching as the cakes stand was hounded by hungry ponies while hardly anypony seemed to arrive at their booth. "What the hay is going on?" Applejack asked as her group stared with widened eyes at the gingerbread booth. "How'd they get so busy all of a sudden."
"I have no idea darling." Rarity said, equally stunned. "We were doing so well and then suddenly it's like everypony in the festival rushed over there."
"Eeyup." Big Mac said in response to Rarity.
Lincoln looked around for any hints of that was happening and took notice of something. "They all seem to be coming from over there." Lincoln said as he pointed to the right. Everypony looked and, sure enough, all the ponies coming to the Cakes booth were all coming front the right pathway.
"That leads to the center of the fair." Granny Smith said as she put a hoof to her chin as she tried to think of any connections between that and the Cakes sudden boom of customers.
Rainbow Dash then flew up a bit and did her best to look inside the Cakes booth and noticed one thing. "You know, I can't seem to see Spike anywhere." Rainbow Dash as she pointed out the lack of a small dragon in the booth.
"Hmmm." Granny Smith hummed in response as she narrowed her eyes at the competition. She then turned to her youngest grandchild and ordered. "Applebloom, I want you to head to the center of the fair and see if anythings goin on."
Applebloom quickly gave the old mare a salute and said. "Yes sir Granny Smith sir!" Applebloom then started to move around in the same way Spike was earlier. Hiding behind every nook and cranny. Avoided being seen from anypony.
Applebloom then eventually reached the center of the Taste of Equestria fair. She then heard the familiar voice of Spike from nearby and turned to see Spike surrounded by a group of ponies while spinning around his sign. "Anypony looking for a great sweet treat! Then come on over to the Cake family both for high quality sweets you won't find anywhere else!" The dragon advertise as he started spinning the sign on his tail.
Applebloom narrowed her eyes at the dragon as she said. "So that's how were playing this huh?"
"So they got Spike putting on a little show for everypony huh?" Applejack said with an unpleased expression as Applebloom explained the situation to everypony once she back back to her family's booth.
"Yeah, he's spinning around a sign and advertising the Cakes booth to everypony at the center." Applebloom confirmed as everypony else looked to each other.
"So that's the kinda game they're playing huh." Granny Smith said with a determined look on her face.
"Eeyup." Big Mac said as he looked to the cakes booth.
"Advertising huh?" Lincoln said as he put a had to his chin and begun brainstorming idea's. He then smirked as something came to his head. "Well, I think we should fight fire with fire."
"What do you mean darling?" Rarity asked as everypony turned to the human of the group.
Lincoln simply gave his group a confident smirk before he turned to Rainbow. "Rainbow, come with me. We got some advertising to do." Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow at the white-head, but decided to comply and follow Lincoln.
"Ok, why am I wearing this again?" Rainbow Dash asked as she was currently wearing a some ropes on her that attached to a little flag that said 'Apple Family Treats' in bold red letters.
"It's simply, you simply fly around the festival and announce that our stand is the way to go." Lincoln explained as he finished securing the ropes to Rainbow and the flag. "It's what a lot of planes do to advertise stuff in my world."
"Well I don't know what these planes are but I feel completely ridiculous wearing this." Rainbow complained as she tried scratching the area where the ropes were tied around.
"You want that keg of cider or not missy?" Granny Smith said with a glare as Rainbow huffed in response.
"Fine, whatever." Rainbow Dash muttered at a lot volume.
"I DIDN'T QUITE HEAR YOU MISSY!" Granny Smith yelled, taking on a military officer-like persona.
"Yes sir Granny Smith sir!" Rainbow Dash quickly said in a frightened tone as she quickly flew out of the booth at high speeds.
Lincoln then leaned over to Big Mac's ear and said. "Your grandma is terrifying."
"Eeyup." Big Mac said with a nod.
Sure enough, it started working. Pony's from all over the festival quickly started to flock towards the Apple Family's stand. Thankfully the family along with their help were able to keep up with the ponies coming up to them. Especially since Lincoln turned into Ditto and cloned himself to create event more help for the stand.
"We're back in business ya'll!" Applejack cheered followed by the rest in her group.
"Round of apple fritters coming up!" Ditto number 3 of 5 said.
"Here is your apple pie ma'am!" Ditto number 2 said as he handed a Unicorn mare a pie.
"Hehehe, we got this in the bag!" Granny Smith said as she shot the Cakes a cocky smirk.
Mr and Mrs Cake glared back at the old mare when suddenly Spike come in with his head lowered and his sign dragging on the ground. "Sorry everypony, they kinda lost interest in me when Rainbow started flying around." The dragon explained as Twilight wrapped him up into a one hoof hug.
"It's alright Spike, you tried your best." The purple Alicorn reassured the Dragon.
Fluttershy looked up and saw her best friend flying around the sky with the flag advertising the Apple's stand flying right behind her. Fluttershy sighed sadly again as she muttered at a volume only she could hear. "I wish we could have been on the same team."
"Guess we gotta think of a new strategy otherwise that'll be our 6th lose in a row." Mr. Cake explained as his wife nodded in agreement.
"We are not going to lose again." Mrs. Cake said determinedly before she said. "Got any idea's Pinkie?" Mrs. Cake got silence in response. "Pinkie?"
Just then they heard the door that lead into the stand open up and everypony looked to see Pinkie Pie coming in...holding an Apple pie. "Hi everypony! I brought us something to snack one while we work!" Pinkie Pie said happily as she held out the pie.
Mr and Mrs Cake gasped when they saw the pie in Pinkie hands as the latter said. "Pinkie! Did you get that pie from the Apple's stand?"
"Yep!" Pinkie Pie said with a happy nod, not detecting the tenseness coming off everypony. "I just figured since we probably shouldn't eat any of the merchandise I can just go next door and get us something tasty to eat."
"Pinkie! You're just helping them out!" Mrs. Cake yelled as she took the pie from the party pony, making her pout. "Look, I know you mean well. But please try to take this seriously! No more going over there and no more buying their stuff!" Mrs. Cake finished by throwing the pie full force to the side.
"...Ok." Pinkie Pie said sadly with a lowered head.
"Good." Mrs. Cake said with a nod. "Now, we need to find a new way to-"
SPLAT!
The sound of a splatting was soon followed by the sound of everypony in the area gasping. Everything soon when quiet as Fluttershy shakily turned to Mrs. Cake. "Um...M-M-Mrs. C-Cake. Yo-You might w-wanna see wh-where you threw th-that p-pie…"
Mr and Mrs Caked looked in the direction where Mrs. Cake threw the pie and their eyes widened like dinner plates at that they saw. The pie hit Granny Smith dead on in the face. Everypony present was completely silent was they saw the pie slide down slowly on the old mare's face until it fell off and showed Granny Smith covered in apple pie filling.
"Hehe, nice throw honey." Mr. Cake nervously said as Granny Smith gave them a fierce glare as she wiped off the pie on her face.
"Hold me." Ditto 1 said to Ditto 4 as he wrapped his arms around his clone.
"So, it's a food fight you want huh?" Granny Smith said with a challenging tone and glare. Everypony flocking the stands quickly ran away as Granny Smith suddenly threw an apple cake right at Mr. Cake and knocking him to the end of his stand and leaving his face covered in cake.
Mrs. Cake gasped loudly as she looked at her cake covered husbands and then growled at the Apple's stand. "That's it." She said as she glared daggers at Granny Smith. "This means war!"
And war it was. Not just a selling war. A food war! Everypony on both sides got equipped for the battle as they wore camouflage clothes, headbands, and straps containing various food items and pastries for ammunition. Both stands also fortified their defenses with bags of flour surrounding them.
Mr and Mrs Cake looked up from their stand with the former wearing a camo shirt and a soldier's helmet and the latter having face paint and a black vest with cupcakes attached to it. "Alright Apple's! Give us your best shot!" Mr. Cake challenged.
However both screamed and quickly duck back down as they were quickly assaulted with apple and apple based products and were forced closed to the ground as their stand took heavy damage.
"They got us pinned down!" Mrs. Cake said as Pinkie sat next to her and her husband.
"Mrs. Cake why are we fighting over who's stand is better?" The pink pony asked as she was just content in both her groups of friends having fun selling their baked goods and not competing over it.
"Pinkie this isn't about who's stand is better." Mrs. Cake said as she shook her head before her expression change to a fierce one. "It's about our stand being a lot better than theirs!"
Currently Granny Smith and Applejack were busy slingshotting small stuff like apple fritters and bars at the cake stands. When they ran out of ammo, Granny Smith turned to Applebloom and said. "Applebloom, arm the apples!"
"Yes sir Granny Smith sir!" Applebloom said as she saluted before grabbing an apple out of the bag next to her. Applebloom then bit off the stem and threw it at the Cake's stand.
Fluttershy peeked an eye out while wearing a ridiculous amount of safety gear. She let out a high pitched scream as she saw the apple incoming and ducked behind the stand. When the apple land it proceeded to explode like a grenade and left a small hole in the ground.
Fluttershy quickly got into a fetal position and started shaky and said. "I can't do this! I'm not cut out for war! I'll never survive a day!"
Just then Spike came up to her and gave her a light slap across the face and pulling her in close and saying. "Get yourself together women!" The dragon yelled at the mare. "We gotta a war to win!"
Just then Spike ran off before coming back while pushing a canon into view. Fluttershy watched with stunned eyes as the Dragon pushed the weapon forward and asked, "Where did you get a canon?"
"Not important." Spike instantly answered before turning to Twilight. "Load her up!"
Twilight gave a nod as she pulled up a desert with her magic. A three layered quadruple chocolate cake. Twilight loaded the cake into the canon as Spike went behind it and used his breathe to lit the fuse. "Ready...aim...fire!" Spike shouted as the canon fired the cake. However what the dragon didn't notice is who the cake was aimed at. Rarity.
Rainbow Dash gasped as she saw the cake incoming. "Rarity! Look out!" The Pegasus yelled to her fashionista friend.
Applejack looked and time seemed to slow down as she saw the cake heading towards her friend. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Applejack yelled in slow motion as she made it just in time to push Rarity out of the way and ended up taking the entirety of the cake herself.
Applejack was sent all the way to the back of the stand and splattered against the back wall with Applejack taking the full force of the attack. "Applejack!" Rarity yelled in concern as she ran towards the pile of chocolate cake. She was hestiate at first to reach her clean hooves inside it, but Applejack was in there.
Rarity quickly got to digging through the massive chocolate cake and quickly found her marefriend and dragged her out of the mess. Applejack looked a little dizzy as Rarity asked in a panicked tone. "Applejack! Applejack can you hear me?!"
"Rarity? Is that you?" Applejack asked in a tired tone with her eyes covered in cake.
"Yes darling, it's me! Are you alright?!" Rarity asked as she held the farm pony's hoof tightly.
"Rarity...I've been...caked." Applejack said before being knocked out.
"Applejack! No! No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Rarity screamed dramatically while looking to the sky.
"That's it! No more mister nice guy!" Lincoln said as he looked towards the one stallion in their group. "Big Mac, ready the Pieapults!"
Big Mac gave a salute as he pulled four catapults and proceeded to load them all with the biggest apple pies they had. "Fire!" Lincoln ordered as Big Mac pulled a rope which had the catapults launch all the pies toward the Cakes.
Mrs. Cake peaked out of her group's stand with binoculars. However she quickly gasped and retreated back into the stand as she announced. "Pie incoming!"
But it was two late as the four pies quickly came in and ended up hitting Twilight, Spike, and Mr. Cake. A pie did come down on Pinkie but the mare easily caught the pie in her mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.
Mrs. Cake looked at Pinkie when she did this and an idea quickly came to her as she grabbed a box full of cupcakes and called to the pink pony and said. "Pinkie, open up!"
"Ok, how com-" Pinkie was saying but was interupted by Mrs Cake stuffing all the cupcakes inside of Pinkie's mouth causing her cheeks to puff out like a chipmunks. Mrs. Cake then picked up Pinkie over her shoulder and pulled on the pink mare's tail causing a gun cocking sound to be heard. Just then Mrs. Cake started to fire cupcakes out of Pinkie's mouth like a machine gun at the opposing stand.
"Everypony duck for cover!" Granny Smith yelled as she and the rest of her group quickly hit the dirt as the cupcake barrage hit them.
And so the battle waged on and on. Both groups working to get the upper hand on the other and unleashing all sorts of deserts on them. Never letting up for a second.
'Day 43. I'm not sure how much of this war we can take. The will of this team is slowly being broken.' Lincoln mentally said as he wrote down his thoughts in a journal.
"Granny Smith can ah go home? Ah'm getting tired." Applebloom asked as Granny Smith looked forward at the opponent.
"Less talk more bang-bang." Granny Smith ordered as Applebloom sighed in response and went back to throwing more food.
'We have sustained many casualties on our side.' Lincoln wrote down as Rarity was crying over the still unconscious and cake covered Applejack.
'Local businesses have suffered as a result of this battle.' Lincoln wrote as suddenly a misfired vanilla caked was fired right at a cabbage cart.
"MY CABBAGES!" The stallion running the cart yelled as his cabbages were destroyed by the cake.
'Innocent lives have also been taking.' Lincoln narrated as two unicorn stallions were walking next to each other.
The first unicorn had black fur and an orange mane and tail and wore a white scarf that also acted as a cape that went to his flank that covered most of his muzzle while still showing his blue eyes, black horn and mane. His Cutie Mark was of a piece of paper being written on by a pencil. The second stallion had green fur, a brown mane and tail along with a brown goatee on his muzzle with black eyes and his Cutie Mark being a canvas with a paintbrush painting on it.
As the two stallions were walking, suddenly a pie came in and struck the green Unicorn's side. "Ouch! Aaaaaah! I'm...dying!" The green stallion yelled dramatically as he held the spot the pie struck him as his black unicorn friend gave him a deadpanned look. "Ah I'm to young a beautiful to die!"
'It's been months-' Lincoln was mentally saying before being interupted by the green Unicorn's dramatic wailing.
"Did I mention I'm dying!"
'It's been months-'
"So much pain! All the pain! Ah dying! DYING! Why now!? I had so much to live for!"
"Oh my Celestia! Petrus! Shut up!" The black Unicorn said as he-
Smack!
"Ow!"
'...It's been months since I've seen my beloved wife and kids!' Lincoln narrated quickly before he could be interrupted again.
"What are you talking about sonny?" Granny Smith said in response to Lincoln's thoughts...somehow. "It's only been a few hours and you don't have a wife or kids."
'...I hate it when that mare reads my thoughts.' Lincoln thought with an annoyed look on his face.
"Then stop thinking out loud!" Granny Smith yelled as she walked away from the human.
After that the Apple's stand was taking heavy fire from Twilight as she launched baked good after baked goods using her magic. "Excellent work Twilight!" Mrs. Cake complimented as she grinned. "Continue the onslaught!"
"That's it!" Granny Smith said as she and the rest of her group except for a certain white haired boy peaked through the counter of their stand. Granny Smith then pulled out a walkie talkie and said. "Time to call in the air raid!"
The centerpiece of the entire fair was a giant mixing bowl with a banner hanging off it that said 'Taste of Equestria.' and currently on the top of the giant bowl was a creature covered in dark green-teal armor with three grill plates on the helmet and the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest. This was one of Lincoln's forms NRG.
NRG brought his arms forward and then proceeded to jump off the bowl in a skydiving position. "GERONIMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" NRG screamed as he fell closer to the ground when…
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
A giant mushroom cloud explosion of cake batter occured that spread throughout the entire fair.
When the smoke from the explosion cleared, it showed the entire area was devastated. All stands and rides at the fair were destroyed as both the Cake's group and the Apple's group laid spread out and completely covered in the remains of baked goods.
Pinkie was the only pony still standing as she looked to everypony and said. "Look at what you've done!" The party pony cried out in despair. "All this wonderful food gone to waste!" At this point Pinkie face planted to the ground and started crying over all the destroyed pastries and sugary treats.
"Pinkie's right." Mrs. Cake said as she got up from the rubble of what used to be her stand. "It's not about who sells the most, it's about coming together to bring Equestria the best of what baked goods can bring!"
Mrs. Cake then walked up to Granny Smith and offered her hoof to her. "What do you say Granny?"
Granny Smith then look to Mrs Cake and gave her a smile and took the offered hoof. "Maybe this competition of ours has gotten silly." Granny Smith said as Mrs. Cake helped her up.
"Next year, let's do a stand together." Mrs. Cake offered with a kind smile to which Granny Smith nodded.
"Sounds like a plan." The old mare agreed as they both walked away together, bringing this year's Taste of Equestria fair to a close.
THE FAR NORTH
In the far northern parts of Equestria was an empire where everything was completely made of crystal. The house, the shops, the streets. Even the ponies that lived there shined like crystal. Even the castle was completely made of crystal.
And currently in said castle, two ponies were walking through its halls together. One of the was princess Celestia herself. And walking next to her was another smaller Alicorn that had pink fur and a mane and tail that were colored a darkish violet, a pale gold, and a rose color. This was Princess Cadance, ruler of the Crystal Empire.
"It's always nice to get to see you auntie." Cadence said as she looked up to Celestia with a smile.
"And I'm grateful I could get some time off to spend with my niece." Celestia said as she gave Cadence a warm motherly smile.
As the two walked together through the hallways of Cadence's castle, the Princess of Love spoke up. "I hope you don't mind, but I sent a letter to Twilight and asked her if she and her friends wanted to come for a visit." Cadence told her aunt who simply smiled at the information.
"It's no trouble at all. I always enjoy getting to see Twilight and her friends." The Princess of the Sun said reassuringly.
"Great!" Cadence said happily as she then looked up in thought. "I'll admit, I'm rather curious about this 'Lincoln Loud' she mentioned to me in a letter."
Celestia than chuckled lightly as she said. "Well you're in for a surprise that's for sure." Celestia says as she remembered her and Luna's experience with meeting the transforming human. "He's quite the interesting fellow."
"Well, I look forward to meeting him." Cadence said as both her and Celestia kept walking down the halls and continued their small talk.
But, as they were walking, they passed a room with an open door. The room was mostly empty except for one single object that stood out. A crystal mirror. A crystal mirror with a purple rim around it that resembled a horseshoe.
As Celestia and Cadence passed the room with the mirror, the crystal glass gave off a dim glow for a brief moment before going back to normal.
Next time on Loud 10 and MLP Unite
Lincoln: So this is the crystal empire huh?
Twilight: I'm still not quite comfortable with all this Princess stuff.
Cadence: You must be Lincoln, it's so nice to meet you!
Twilight: My crown! She's got my crown!
Lincoln: Damn it!
Celestia: She was a former student of mine.
Lincoln: I'm going. I'm not taking no for an answer.
Twilight: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
Spike: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
Lincoln: AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
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Lincoln: Twilight that only makes you taller then me in Canada!
EQUESTRIA GIRLS
