Songs of Innocence

Chapter 72: A Full Moon, Or Just A Weird Day?

The streets of Ponyville

Derpy was just sitting on the couch when she heard a knock at the door. She didn't want to get up, but since whatever was at the door might be important, she just decided to get Dinky to answer the door instead. With a call of her name, the filly came as fast as lightning, and opened the door to see The Spirit of Chaos standing beside some stallion she'd never seen before. The stallion (Cheese Sandwich, obviously) was holding a giant bag filled with something Dinky couldn't quite discern.

"Hello, young mare." Cheese Sandwich greeted the filly. "Is your mother home?"

Dinky just stood there staring at the two for about half a second before she turned around and called Derpy's name. "Uh, Derpy?"

The wall-eyed pegasus came to her side, and looked at the two with a raised eyebrow. "Could I help you, sirs?" she asked, with a subtle tone of impatience because Derpy is pure and incapable of malice.

"Why, yes, you could." Discord replied, "Could we interest you in some... chocolate?" He snapped his fingers, and from a flash of light, a single chocolate bar appeared, hovering just above his palm. 

"I-I mean... maybe..." Dinky answered sheepishly.

"Wait a second!" Derpy interjected, reestablishing herself as the one who is supposed to answer for Dinky. 

(Writer's note: Who named her that, by the way? What kind of name is Dinky? Like, being named Derpy is one thing, but Dinky just sounds stupid, but I digress.)

Derpy continued, "I'll buy your chocolate... IF... you have it in muffins."

Discord sighed, "I'm surprised you haven't asked me to turn you into a muffin yet."

"Of course I haven't! I'd just eat myself! Anyways, you don't have any chocolate muffins?"

"No."

"Well, have a good day, then. Now, I have to get back to some important business." Derpy said in a suddenly pleasant tone before closing the door on the two.

"Aaaaaaaand, our first try was a failure. Why are we doing this again?"

Cheese grabbed Discord close, and reassured him, "Sure, it was. But we're not gonna give up, for Sun's sake! Trust me, my plan is flawless! We'll sell chocolate, and once our chocolate-selling skills get noticed by some big business hotshot, we'll make our own chocolate-selling business, and soon enough, our brand will be inescapable! Our names will be in every newspaper in Equestria, and everycreature will know our names!"

"Oh, I get it... And Sun will come crawling to us, begging to be apart of our multi-billion bit business? It's genius!" Discord grinned, and the two of them galloped/floated off to the next house to make their absolutely absurd goal a reality... or die trying.

But when they got to the next house, a certain kirin-yak pair noticed them, and stopped in their tracks. Maple gasped at the sight of the salesponies, and looked at Yakta, silently asking her if she was seeing what she was seeing.

"Why is Maple looking at Yakta like that?" Yakta furrowed an eyebrow from behind her lush, face--covering hair. 

"DUDE!" Maple quietly yelled to her friend in utter appallment, "THOSE TWO'RE STEALING OUR BUSINESS!" She grabbed the yak's head, and turned it towards the stallion and draconequus, who were none the wiser to Maple and Yakta's shock and horror. 

Yakta gasped, "They're--"

"Stealing our idea to have Sun come to us by making her envy our soon-to-be multi-billion bit chocolate-selling business after it gets bought out by some big business hotshot!" Maple growled, finishing Yakta's sentence while the two's minds raced to think of a way to stop the salesponies from accidentally performing the exact same scheme that they had. It was a pure coincidence, but the two girls knew what they had to do...