"Please?"
"No."
"Pretty please?"
"No way."
"Pretty pretty-"
"No means no, Rarity." Said Pinkie. "As in noperooni."
"Oh, but you don't understand!" Rarity wailed. "This is important! For old times sake?"
"Sorry, Rarity." Said Fluttershy. "We're already searching up here."
"Well, perhaps we could combine our-wait a second, what are you doing up here?"
"We think that it's something in the food!" Pinkie Pie said. Fluttershy nodded solemnly.

"The food." Rarity repeated.
"You see that guy over there?" She whispered, pointing at a burley unicorn baking cupcakes.

Rarity squinted. "Yes…"

"Does he look shifty or what?"
Rarity took him in. "No, not really…"
"Maybe at first glance," Fluttershy murmured.

"But with we told you," Pinkie whispered, "Every two hours, another pony comes and changes spots with him! THEN, after another two hours, he comes back!"
Rarity raised her hoof. "Darling, it's called a shift-"

"Pinkie works shifts at Sugarcube corner everyday!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "She knows stuff like that!"
"I dunno, Dashie, maybe it's different in the movie." Said Pinkie Pie.
"And every time he gets back, he's carrying a box...and he never lets anyone see in it!"

"We know because we tried," Fluttershy whimpered. "He yelled at us."
"Girls, there's a perfectly logical-"
"And he never wears wears a manenet! Ever! The other guy does, but he doesn't!"
"Oooh, she's good." Pinkie remarked.

"Girls-"
"We think that he sprays his hair with some kind of reaaalllllyyyy sleepy-tired virus and then when nobody's looking he sprays some of it into the batter!"

"Nice one, Pinks!" Said Rainbow Dash approvingly.

"But where does wearing a hairnet fit in with that scheme? He wouldn't even be using it on his hair!" Twilight pointed out and was ignored.
Fluttershy nodded. "We think it's best if we stay here and see if their are any more clues."
"Alright then," Said Rarity, "If you think there's something suspicious about the food that stallion is preparing, then why are you eating it?"
Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy froze and turned to her. Pinkie was in the middle of stuffing a cupcake into her mouth, and Fluttershy and frosting smudged over her face.

Pinkie Pie quickly swallowed the cupcake. "It's for a good cause!" She insisted. "How else are we supposed to know if the cupcakes are contaminated?"
"It's a tough job," Added Fluttershy, "But someone has to do it."
Rarity rolled her eyes. "Well, then, let me 'relieve' you of your investigation for an hour or two and stretch your legs in a nice cave."
"Nah." Said Pinkie.

"Is it dark?" Whispered Fluttershy.
"Yes."
"Then no."
"Pleeeeaaasssseeeee?"

"No."
Rarity stomped her hoof, at her wit's end. "Oh, I don't know why I even bother! You're useless! Completely useless! To wimpy to even go into a silly little cave that might have unspeakable danger! I HOPE that those cupcakes are what's causing the problem, so nobody will ever have to put up with you doofuses!"
Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy's jaws dropped. Then they exchanged a glance.
"Well," Said Pinkie, calmly biting into her cupcake, "If that's how you're going to be."
"You can just leave." muttered Fluttershy, sulking over her plate.

"Nonononono!" Rarity wailed, immediately regretting her outburst. "Let's not be hasty! I need your help!"

"Gee, Fluttershy," Pinkie remarked, "Why would Rarity want our help?"
"We're just useless doofuses." Fluttershy huffed.

"Well, that was a little mean of us." Fluttershy commented.
"But Fluttershy," Said Twilight, "Rarity was mean first."

"And how! A lady does not lose her temper in public!" Rarity sniffed.

"Temper, schmemper! It happens to all of us!" Rainbow Dash told her.
"It's the principal of the thing, Rainbow Dash." Rarity explained. "Have you ever lost it? I mean, really, really, lost it?"
"Sure! The time with Nightmare Moon, the time with the dragon, the time with Tirek, the time with Discord-"
"I mean, really, really, lost it, Rainbow." Rarity explained. "Not at some leering opponent, but at one of us, or an innocent passerby."

"Eh…" Rainbow pondered.

"See?" Rarity asked triumphantly.

"Now look who's holdin' up the movie!" Applejack grunted.

Rarity blushed. "Sorry, dearest. Everyone ready?"
Everyone was, so Rarity resumed the film.

"You really are just interested in the sweets, aren't you?"
"And the parties!"
"Don't forget the animals."
This proved to be the last straw for Rarity. "Grr! Fine! I'll go do this myself! I'll figure it all out all by myself, and then you'll wish you came!"
"Alright."
"Fine."
Rarity turned and made for the exit. "I mean it!" She called over her shoulder. "Last chance to be on the winning team!"
"No thanks!"
"Have fun!"
"Last chance to, I don't know...prove to me that you're not...useless doofuses?"

Pinkie sipped on her milkshake.

"Very well!" Rarity said. "I'm off!" She shouted, striding off out the door. "Out to venture to the dangerous…" Her stride faltered. "Possibly lethal…" She slowed down. "D-death trap…" She stood before the door, not opening it, but not turning back either. Then she abruptly whipped around and galloped back to Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy's table. "PLEASE! I'M SORRY! I'LL DO ANYTHING! JUST DON'T MAKE ME DO THIS ALONE! I MAY BE USEFUL, BUT I'm not STUPID!"
Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy stared down at her passively.

"Why don't you just have AJ or Twilight help you?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yeah?" Asked Pinkie. "Why bother with 'useless doofuses' like us?"
"Because Twilight and Applejack will see it as a sign of weakness on my part!" Rarity ground out. "But you...you're different. You're kind and fun and silly. And you're not useless. You brighten my day and everyone's day. You are a blessing, and I have missed you so, so, much."
"Aaawwww," Cooed Twilight, Applejack, and Rarity.

Rainbow Dash made a face. "Yuck." She relented a bit when Pinkie Pie wrapped a forehoof around her and gave her a squeeze.

But now, I ask for your assistance," Rarity concluded. "So will you join me?" Rarity stuck out her hoof.

Pinkie and Fluttershy stared at her blankly.

"Mmm...no thanks." Pinkie said finally.

"Maybe later." Fluttershy whispered.

"Gah!" Rarity facehoofed with frustration. "You...YOU! You! You…" Rarity's voice trailed off as she eyed Pinkie preparing to wave down a waiter.

"You will each receive a plate of deep fried clover turnovers with chocolate sauce."
Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy looked at eachother, then at Rarity expectantly.

Rarity rolled her eyes. "TWO plates of deep fried clover turnovers with extra chocolate sauce each, AND a plate for Fluttershy's animal friends."

Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie's faces morphed into identical grins.

"She knows her stuff alright." Said Pinkie Pie approvingly.

"But clover? With chocolate sauce?" Twilight sounded rather repulsed.

A/N: Another day, another chapter. I'm starting school now, so updates will take longer.

PS: Movie!Dash exists. (Fair Warning: You probably won't be very happy. At all.)