AN: I do not own anything... MLP belongs to Hasbro, and Cupcakes, Rainbow Factory, and Pegasus Device to their respective owners
Everypony in the Dash house woke up extra early to get ready for the grand reopening, running on just 3 hours of sleep, they all made their way to Sugarcube Corner. After a few hours, Leafy pulled Pinkie off to the side
"Um...Pinkie...I had a question..." Leafy said a little nervous
"Nervous about how everypony is gonna react to your cake? Don't be, it is super duper yummy, everypony would probably swear on their lives me or Dashie made it" Pinkie cheerfully replied
"You really think so? Meh, I don't think it is up to your standards" Leafy said with a sad sigh "Anywho, the reason I wanted to talk to you was this; when we were talking to the Whooves you said you had a new baker, did you mean me?"
"Yes I did you silly filly, who else could I have been talking about?"
"Anypony really...I mean, you are Pinkamena Diane Dash, Ponyville's, and I will go as far to say Equestria's, number one baker and party planner. You are the reason I got into baking, I always dreamed of working with you. I can't tell you how many times I would whip something up and prepare it to come take it to you to taste it but everytime...I-I got..scared..."
"I really appreciate hearing that, and now is the chance you have been dreaming of. I must ask you though, why did you get scared?"
"Of not..imp-..." Leafy said in barely a whisper before she fell silent
"Impressing me? Leafy, listen, I want you to hear it straight out of this mare's mouth, I am impressed. You are an excellent baker, that is why me and Dashie are giving you the job. As for your one at the factory, we are putting you on a volunteer basis since you will be tied up here so much. Something has been troubling me about you, how did you know about that fact that blood can be used as a substitute for egg whites? You seem like a straight forward mare"
"Ye, I am most of the time, but everybody has a dark side to them...Pinkameana.. Nopony is perfect, everypony has flaws, myself included. To answer your question, I read it in an old book and decided to try it out. Despite my kingdom being filled with snow, we did have wildlife and citizens. At first, I would use small animals that I found alone, doing it in secret of course, and I was content with it. Then one day, the..."accident" happened. Me and Surprise were enjoying a nice relaxing day together, slowly walking and shopping through a village about half the size of Cloudsdale, when this stallion approached us. We recognized him, he was the most notorious raper in all the kingdom, but he only struck mares that had just gone into heat and made it his past time to break any filly's virginity. Unfortunately, me and her both had just gone into it and knew what he was up to. He was nice at first, offering to take us to get some hot cocoa..my one weakness.. We refused so he resorted to taunting and calling us all kinds of horrible things for being lesponies. He bucked up the second he grabbed Surprise's wing with his mouth and started to drag her away. I snapped, by the time I was through with him, I took "beat your brains out" to a whole new level. There was gray matter all over mine and Surprise's coats as well as the ground around the corpse. I took a vase that I had bought in the market and put the blood in it, leaving the corpse and making it look like a bat pony got the best of him. I took the blood and made a sweet Red Velvet Cake and gave it to Surprise, we ate the whole damn thing. However, a pony who hated me saw what happened and reported me to my parents. Like I told you before, they didn't care, so they ignored it. Fillies rejoiced my deed, freeing them from a curse, but a select few didn't. They ponynapped Surprise, filled with depression, grief, and regret, I left for Cloudsdale... I never told you this earlier because I feel like it is my fault that happened..."
"Wow...but it is not your fault, you were just doing what was best for the one you loved most, there is no shame in that" Pinkie said wrapping a wing around her
"Meh, still can't shake the feeling at times.." Leafy responded as the oven timer went off "Sounds like my last cake for start of the day is done, that makes 5"
"You are gonna need more than that...and have you noticed the way the display shelves are now?" Dash said with a warm smile as Leafy looked at all the shelves and was shell shocked, the display's were now split up, one on each side wall and one in front of the kitchen. The wall to the right had Dash's cutie mark above the display with her sweets in it, Pinkie's was on the left, and in the center was a display that had the goods she made and her cutie mark was above the kitchen window.
"I took the liberty of putting your goods in it while you were talking with my wife, and notice the prices I set for yours?" Dash said pointing a hoof at the display as Leafy walked over and read the price tags
"You can't be serious...there is no way my Double Dipped Chocolate Cake is worth more than y'all's cake"
"It is in our opinion" Dash and Pinkie said at the same time
"I hate to interrupt, but we still got to clean up" Scootaloo said in a flat tone
"Ye, let's do it" Leafy said as they all got started on the finishing touches before the real fun began
