For the Love of Cake --// MLP Fanfic // FiM // Fluttercord //

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"Fluttershy, I need you to come with me right away!"

The honey-colored pony peaked out from between her front legs, which she had used to shield her face when the ceiling of Twilight's library crashed in. Fluttershy had dropped by to spend the afternoon with her friends, playing games and eating snacks, who were currently sitting around the table and in various states of surprise.

"Discord?" Fluttershy asked, seeing the familiar draconequus standing on the table before them. He was dressed in a cream-colored suit, complete with a top hat. "What are you doing here?"

"What did you do to my roof?" Twilight asked with a glare. Discord looked lazily up, considering the ceiling he had smashed through just mere moments ago as though for the first time.

"Oh right, sorry. Still getting used to this whole... good guy thing." He snapped his fingers and the ceiling pieces that were scattered around them grew legs and began to walk up the walls single file. They fell into the place bit by bit until the ceiling was repaired. "Anyway- Fluttershy, we really must be going."

"I-" Fluttershy began, only to be cut off by Rainbow Dash stepping in front of her.

"No way, Discord. Fluttershy is hanging out with us today. You have been hogging her lately."

Discord snapped his fingers again, and Rainbow Dash poofed from one end of the room to the other, letting out a frustrated cry before a zipper appeared on her lips and zipped shut. She pawed desperately at her mouth, a muffled voice raging beneath.

"Where was I...? Right! Come along, Fluttershy. I can not stress enough how we must go right now ."

"Well, I'm not going anywhere with you until you undo what you did to Rainbow." Fluttershy crossed her arms and gave him a contemptuous look.

"Oh, you're no fun." He snapped again, and Rainbow Dash's mouth unzipped. Rainbow was about to let loose a torrent, but Twilight used her wing to block the multicolored pony.

"Where are you going that's so important?" Asked the alicorn.

"Yeah, what's the rush?" Asked Pinkie Pie, bouncing up close to Discord and inspecting his cream suit. She gasped. "Are you going somewhere fun? You're dressed all fancy shmancy."

"I'll say," said Rarity approvingly. "This is quite the suit, darling. Just what kind of event are you attending?"

Discord had a look of growing frustration. He tapped his foot and looked down at his wrist, where a watchface was spinning out of control. "None of that is important right now. The only thing that matters is us leaving. Right now. Us being me and Fluttershy of course. No offense, ponies, but only one mare is need-"

"Discord," said Fluttershy, soft but firm. "Thank you for fixing Rainbow, but if you don't tell me what this is about, how can I go with you? What are we doing?"

"Is it good enough to say we're going to have fun?"

A chorus of no's resounded from the ponies. Fluttershy gave her friend a hard stare, willing him silently to be more forthcoming. He hopped anxiously from one mismatched foot to another, the top hat twisting and springing back in his twisting paws. It almost made her want to smile, seeing him behaving so childishly, but she did not show one. If she smiled, he would win.

He let out a groan, then snapped his fingers and vanished in a puff. He reappeared in front of Fluttershy, now transformed into a small, gray puppy with big pleading eyes. "Fluttershy, don't you trust me?"

"Well, yes, but-"

"Then trust me when I tell you this will be fun."

"I don't trust you," muttered Rainbow Dash.

Fluttershy felt all eyes on her, and a wide array of emotions in all of them. She wanted to shrink away, to sink down into the floor and become part of the wood. Her wings hugged close to her torso, trying to take up less room, and her long strawberry pink tail swirling around body. She just wanted the moment of unbearable, intense scrutiny to be over. To disappear. To just pop out of the situation like-

"Ok," she squeaked. "I'll go with you."

Discord's eyes lit up and he cried, "Yahoo!" He snapped his fingers and returned to his original form, the cream colored suit returned. Another snap and this time Fluttershy was wearing a light green floral dress of her own, with a cream colored sash and flowers to matched his attire. A third and final snap, and without another word, they were gone before the others could finish their protests.

"That guy," grumbled Rainbow Dash. She let out a groan of frustration and started to punch one of Twilight's pillows, taking it out on the fabric. "He has no right to just steal Fluttershy like that."

"They've been spending an awful lot of time together lately," mused Applejack. She settled back into her seat and munched away on some of the apple goodies she had brought to share.

"I think it's nice that Discord is trying to be good. Emphasis on trying, of course, because he's still far from what I would consider good." Twilight watched Rainbow Dash sidelong as the colorful pony beat up her pillow.

"He's chaotic neutral!" Exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

"Yes, I suppose he-" but Twilight was cut off by Pinkie gasping, her whole body reacting to the gasp. "What is it, Pinkie?"

"Idea! I could track down Discord and Fluttershy and find out what he's up to!"

"Discord's magic is incredibly powerful. He could be anywhere in Equestria, or not Equestria." Twilight tapped the nearby map on the wall to emphasize her point. "No offense, but I don't think your chances of finding them are great."

"Twilight's right, Darling. Just how do you possibly expect to find them?"

"Oh that's easy, Rarity. I'm a licensed private investigator."

The other ponies looked at their friend with incredulity, but to their astonishment she produced a PI badge. 'Pinkamena Diane Pie' was emblazoned on the front. Twilight used her magic to levitate it away from Pinkie and inspected it with a critical eye.

"I think... Wow, yeah I think this is real."

"Pinkie," asked Applejack, her head shaking in unconscious disbelief. "Just how in the hay did you wind up with that thing?"

"You see the Cakes were having a problem where their cookies were going missing. They were doing a test run on some cranberry cookies, they were super yummy, but they weren't ready to put them out yet. The problem was they'd make the cookies, go to bed, and then the next morning the cookies were gone!" She emphasized her point with a gasp, hooves to her face in shock. "They were getting really frustrated, so I decided to help. I figured who better to help solve a mystery than a detective, but it's actually not easy to become a detective so I became a private investigator instead. It comes in handy."

"Wait, what happened to the Cake's missing cookies?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Oh! Turns out it was me the whole time! I was sleep eating the cookies because they were so super duper mega delicious! On the bright side, the Cakes decided the cookies were good enough and put them up for sale. Anyway, there's a mystery ahoof and I need to get going before I lose the trail."

They watched as Pinkie bounced out of the library in a flurry, speaking rapidly about red herrings and clues and the like. Twilight sighed, and used her magic to clean up the game board and pieces that had been scattered by Discord.

"I guess we should start a new game. Now that we have less players."

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A/N:

'does somebody wanna be fake engaged to me for like 2 hours to try free wedding cake samples.' by alrightev on tumblr

cannon is... loose. do with that what you will lol. thank you for reading!