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Cakewalk is the eighth episode of the alternate seventh season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the one hundred fifty-first overall. The title is a reference to the phrase cakewalk, meaning that doing something in particular is easy.

During Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake’s second birthday, Pinkie Pie becomes afraid that they might be growing up too fast and that they will forget about her. Princess Luna tries to persuade her otherwise in her dreams.

Production
This episode was going to be in the Alternate Season Six fanfic, but it didn't make it in time.

No BG ponies appear in this episode, but Princess Celestia makes a quick cameo of the dream sequence of Pumpkin Cake getting accepted to her school, and so does Spitfire when Pound Cake gets accepted in the Wonderbolts.

Summary
Over at Sugarcube Corner, just as Gummy wakes up, Pinkie Pie sneaks up on him and yells out ‘good morning’ to him. She excitedly asks him to guess what day it is, but after licking his eyeball, she corrects him saying that it’s Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake’s second birthday that day. She then tells him of all the fond memories she had with them, and remembers the day they were born like it was just yesterday. In the middle of her story, she looks at the time on her silly Pinkie clock, causing her to freak out that she’s behind schedule of setting up the party. After she runs out of her room, she runs back and picks up Gummy saying that he is allowed to help her after she claims he asked her, and then she runs out again.

A while later downstairs, Pinkie helps Mr. Cake decorate the shop while Mrs. Cake bakes the cake. After Mr. Cake thanks Pinkie for helping him with the decorations, and Pinkie tells him that it isn’t a problem, and that she’d always want the best for her friends, Pound and Pumpkin. When Pinkie checks up on Mrs. Cake and her sister Maud Pie with the cake; while Mrs. Cake actually doesn’t know what they’re making, Maud explains that the cake is a clay rock cake with sedimentary layers and a magma molten frosting. While Pinkie was excited to see Maud and Mrs. Cake getting along (at least in her point of view), she hears shaking coming from the top of the counter. Pinkie spots Pumpkin Cake (now grown slightly with full eyes) trying to reach for a cookie in the cookie jar. After Pumpkin obeys Pinkie’s orders, she finds Pound Cake tossing Boulder around the kitchen. When Maud begins to freak out (in her own way), Pinkie orders Pound to put Boulder down, and he obeys. Maud worryingly walks over to Boulder to check if he’s okay, and then she says that he’s just dizzy from the tossing, and Pinkie suggests for Maud to lay him on her bed upstairs so he can rest. Pinkie returns downstairs and finds her friends amongst the Mane Six, Spike, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders walking in to join the party. They all mention how happy they are to join the party. Twilight Sparkle mentions how big they’re getting, and Fluttershy mentions that it felt like only yesterday that Pound and Pumpkin were sleeping in the nursery, and Scootaloo jokes that it felt like two years to her, even though Apple Bloom corrected her, even though she didn’t want to be corrected. Trying to get back on topic, Applejack agrees that the Cake babies are growing up really fast, and Mr. Cake teases that before they know it, they’ll be grown up and leaving Ponyville to become big successes, and leaving all of them behind and forgetting all about them, but just as Pinkie gets startled on Mr. Cake’s comment, Mrs. Cake points out that he’s just joking and that the babies are not going to forget about them. Rainbow Dash although disagrees saying that her and Fluttershy’s last school reunion didn’t have as much of their old friends returning as they thought, thinking that since they didn’t need the school anymore, they didn’t think there wouldn’t be any reason to come back, and Fluttershy agrees, but Rarity points out that everypony would always be grateful about all that they learned from their old friends, teachers, and families. Pinkie, however, starts to get nervous during all the talking, but during her anxiety, Mrs. Cake tries to get Pinkie’s attention in reminding her about the party games.

Pinkie excitedly gets the party games in hoping that would help Pinkie bond with the Cake toddlers, and she swears to be the best auntie the Cake toddlers ever had, in hopes that they’ll never forget her after. When Pinkie comes back with the games, she excitedly gives them four different choices of games (even though Pinkie really wants to play the game Stack the Cookies), but unfortunately for her, Pound Cake was busy flying around the room as Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo were cheering for him, and Pumpkin Cake was trying to lift her toys with Sweetie Belle teaching her to, making Rarity proud of her sister. Just after Pinkie deflates, she inflates again with a new idea. Pinkie runs over to the, takes out a sack of flour, and she dumps it all over to try to humor the twins, but they weren’t even paying attention to her, which caused Pinkie to get more nervous since she knew they never ignored that running gag before. Pinkie then started juggling rubber chickens while balancing on a rubber ball and wearing a gag mask and an arrow on her head hoping that would gain the twins’ attention, but Pound did was bouncing on Spike’s belly after he crashed on him, and Pumpkin was eating cookies with Fluttershy, Applejack, and Apple Bloom. After the rubber ball pops, Pinkie lands face first on the floor, and then sighs in annoyance. Rarity was the first to discover that something was wrong with Pinkie, so she went over and asked what her problem is, but Pinkie immediately cheered up and told Rarity and that she wasn’t going to give up, and Rarity just ended up confused.

Pinkie then meets up with Maud and Spike who were really hitting it off because of their common love for gems. While Spike and Maud were debating about how gems are made, Pinkie looks over and overhears Rainbow Dash and Twilight talking to Mr. and Mrs. Cake about Pound becoming a Wonderbolt and Pumpkin being signed up for Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns. When Spike asks Pinkie if she’s paying attention, Pinkie lies and tells him yes, and then Maud tells him that Pinkie’s nervous about something, which caused Pinkie to laugh at Maud’s “joke”, and before Maud was able to correct her, Pinkie runs over to Twilight, Rainbow, and the Cakes and asks them what they’re talking about, and the Cakes explain that Twilight and Rainbow were giving them offers to help their gifted twins who are pretty advanced in their races a position in the Wonderbolt Academy for Pound, and Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns for Pumpkin, and then Pinkie, while in denial, doesn’t feel that the Cakes would want to let their foals go, because that would involve them moving out, but the Cakes tell her that it would hard, but they would eventually accept it because the twins would be able to help make Equestria a better place, and they would be proud of them. Pinkie suddenly melts before she hatches another idea to get the Cake twins’ attention again. Pinkie runs up on the top of the Sugarcube Corner counter with a microphone to try to get everypony’s attention. She dedicates a song to the Cake twins singing about the fun times they had in the past, and about the big future they have ahead of them, but then she was immediately stumped after she sang that. The Cake twins weren’t even paying attention to her, as they were playing with their newly opened presents. Pinkie suddenly screams before racing up the stairs and up into her room, which caused everypony to feel awkward, but the Cakes told everypony that she would be fine, and just to continue having fun for the rest of the party.

Later that night, Maud walks up to Pinkie’s room, and sees Pinkie lying down in sorrow with Gummy lying on her head. As Maud picks up Boulder from the edge of her bed, she asks Pinkie why she left the party. After much hesitation, she finally explains that she thinks Pound and Pumpkin Cake are growing up too fast and that they’re going to be leaving Ponyville before she knows it to move on with their lives, and during the time, they’ll forget about her. Maud tries to cheer her up by explaining that they won’t forget about her after all she did for them, and adds that they won’t be leaving anytime soon because they’re still young. However, Pinkie explains that Twilight and Rainbow Dash were giving Mr. and Mrs. Cake suggestions on taking Pound Cake joining the Wonderbolt Academy and Pumpkin Cake to Celestia’s school. Maud then reminds her again that they’re still very young and won’t be leaving anytime soon, and then tells Pinkie she’s not the only one that feels nervous about a loved one leaving. Pinkie then asks if Maud and the rest of the Pie family felt upset about Pinkie leaving the rock farm, and all Maud does is say goodnight and lied down on the sleeping bag on the floor with Boulder right next to her. Pinkie tells herself that her family wasn’t sad when she left, because they felt happy and was proud of her, and afterwards falls asleep with Gummy still on her head.

She begins to dream about playing with the Pound and Pumpkin as babies. She was looking after them, playing with them, amusing them, and teasing them. Pinkie began to sing about all the good times she had with the twins; but suddenly they began to age higher and higher until they were about CMC age. Pound and Pumpkin then got excited after they were accepted to the Junior Speedsters Flight Camp and Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns collectively. Pinkie kept asking them if they wanted to play, but they just ignored her and ran off. Pinkie felt sad and alone without them, and ends the song by facing down on an empty crib. That was when she heard a strange voice telling Pinkie not to worry.

Princess Luna descends from above, and much to Pinkie’s surprise, she knew she was dreaming. Luna then explains to Pinkie that young loved ones grow up all the time, which is part of life, and after Pinkie tells Luna that she knows but just doesn’t want to lose them, Luna decides to give her examples since Pinkie isn’t the only one that feels that way. Luna takes Pinkie to Sweet Apple Acres to see Applejack, Big McIntosh, and Granny Smith setting up the dinner table. Applejack calls out for Apple Bloom telling her that dinner is ready. When Apple Bloom wasn’t responding, the Apple family all kept calling out, but when Apple Bloom finally responds in a slightly deeper voice, a grown-up Apple Bloom walks down to the dining room with a large suitcase and a satchel. Applejack asks her where she’s going, and Apple Bloom explains to her in a tone as if it was obvious, she and the crusaders are travelling throughout Equestria to help ponies who are in need of cutie mark advice. Applejack begged for her to not leave, but a grown up Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo walk in to say how excited they are to be helping other ponies throughout Equestria. Apple Bloom was about to walk out with them, but Applejack first asks for a goodbye hug. Apple Bloom gladly accepts but promises to be careful because the years haven’t been good on Applejack. Applejack then realizes she turned into a senior pony, and so did Big Mac, and Granny turns into skeleton while teasing Applejack about when she used to have wrinkles. Applejack then screams as the crusaders walk out of the farm. Pinkie felt surprised to see Applejack share the same feelings as her. Pinkie then asks if Rarity feels the same about Sweetie Belle, or Rainbow Dash with Scootaloo, but Luna tells her that Rainbow dreams about Scootaloo becoming a Wonderbolt cadet, and Rarity would dream about Sweetie Belle advertising her business.

Pinkie though believes that Applejack will only miss Apple Bloom because she’s family and Applejack is really close to her family, so Luna decides to give Pinkie another example that involves the two individuals not being family by flesh and blood. Pinkie and Luna end up in the Castle of Friendship and finds Twilight writing a scroll for Princess Celestia. She calls for Spike in hoping that he would send the scroll to her, but when Spike walks into the library, destroying the door on his way end because he is a fully-grown dragon, he apologizes for destroying the door and then accidently destroys the scroll with his huge fire breath after trying to send it to Celestia. Twilight then tells Spike that it’s alright and that they could try again, but Spike tells Twilight that he believes it is time for him to leave Ponyville because he has grown too big to live in pony society anymore. Twilight, feeling in denial, begs for him to stay in hoping they would work out their problem, but Spike tells her that it is no use, and that he has to return to dragon society before he destroys everything, and tells her that Princess Ember is backing down as Dragon Lord, and Spike is the only one that could lead the dragons, so he says goodbye to Twilight, and flies away while Twilight continues to beg for him to not leave. Pinkie was surprised to see Twilight dreaming about Spike growing up and leaving her, and then Luna mentions to her that Spike has the same exact dream, with the only difference being that Twilight asking him to leave and Spike begging to stay.

Pinkie then realizes that most of her friends feel the same way, and that growing up is going to happen, but she is still confused about how they all are able to accept it. Luna decides to give Pinkie one last vision: the day that Pinkie left the Pie family farm to move to Ponyville. Igneous Rock Pie and Cloudy Quartz try to consider Pinkie to stay, but Pinkie tells them that she needs to go to Ponyville because it is going through a crisis, and they need a party to help them smile again. Afterwards, her parents, and her sisters, Maud, and Limestone Pie and Marble Pie all eventually accept, and wish her the best of luck. After Pinkie leaves, her family starts talking about how much they’re going to miss her, but Limestone tells her parents that they shouldn’t be in Pinkie’s way so she could live up to her dream, and Marble agrees. Pinkie’s parents eventually agree, and they all return to work, leaving Maud alone as a tear drips down her cheek. Present day Pinkie was in shock to see her family sad after she left. While Pinkie was running to Maud to give her a hug, she ran right through her. Pinkie, feeling sad herself, starts to regret leaving her family behind, since they always told her that they were happy for her, she didn’t think they missed her that much. Luna tells Pinkie that they did miss her, but they knew that Pinkie wanted to live her dream of making ponies smile, and they didn’t want to stop her from being happy. Pinkie eventually realizes that she cannot stop Pound and Pumpkin Cake from growing up, and that they might want to leave Ponyville, and she can’t stop them, but she realizes that they would eventually come back to visit, and that they won’t forget about her because Pinkie always returned to her family from time to time. Luna eventually leaves Pinkie, leaving her confused to what’s going to happen next, and that’s when she wakes up.

When Pinkie wakes up that morning, she immediately runs out of her room to check on the twins. Meanwhile, at Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack suddenly wakes up and runs over to Apple Bloom’s room to check on her. Rarity does the same for Sweetie Belle, Rainbow Dash flies over to Scootaloo’s house and does the same, and Twilight teleports over to Spike’s room to do the same for him. Applejack tells Apple Bloom that she will grow up but she will accept it, and Twilight tells the same thing to Spike, and Rarity tells Sweetie Belle to advertise her business when she leaves, and finally, Rainbow Dash tells Scootaloo that they’re both going to the top together. Pinkie eventually runs into Pound and Pumpkin’s room to wake them up, and even though they were a little grouchy at first, they were happy to see Pinkie. Pinkie tells them that they are growing up so fast, and she will always support them no matter what they do, and that she knows that they won’t forget about her. Maud, overhearing the conversation, tells Pinkie that she is proud of her for accepting the twins’ fate. Pinkie then tells Maud that she knows the family missed her when she left, and that she missed the family too. Maud confesses to Pinkie that she missed her the most, but she didn’t want to stop her because she wanted Pinkie to be happy, and was relieved when Pinkie returned home to fill their hearts will joy, and that was when Pinkie and Maud shared a hug, and the Cake twins eventually got in and joined along.

Credits

 * Andrea Libman as Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Pumpkin Cake, Ma Pie
 * Tabitha St. Germain as Princess Luna, Rarity, Mrs. Cake, Granny Smith, Pound Cake
 * Ashleigh Ball as Applejack, Rainbow Dash
 * Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle
 * Cathy Weseluck as Spike
 * Ingrid Nilson as Maud Pie, Limestone Pie, Marble Pie
 * Michelle Creber as Apple Bloom
 * Claire Corlett as Sweetie Belle
 * Madeleine Peters as Scootaloo
 * Brian Drummond as Mr. Cake
 * Peter New as Big Mac, Pa Pie

Featured singers

 * Shannon Chan-Kent as Pinkie Pie

Quotes

 * Pinkie Pie: Guess what today is!
 * (Gummy licks his eye)
 * Pinkie Pie: No, it’s not Shoe-Shopping Day, silly! It’s Pound and Pumpkin Cake’s second birthday today!


 * Mrs. Cake: Oh your sister and I are making one of her delicacies! It’s… umm… what is this again, deary?
 * Maud Pie: It’s a clay rock cake with sedimentary layers and a magma molten frosting.


 * Pinkie Pie: No, Pumpkin Cake! For birthdays we don’t eat cookies; we eat birthday cake! Unless, of course, it’s birthday cookies, but it isn’t.
 * Pumpkin Cake: Sorwee, Auntie Pinkie.


 * Maud Pie: No, Boulder.
 * Pinkie Pie: Pound Cake, put Boulder down. He is Maud’s special friend, and she doesn’t appreciate you tossing him around the kitchen like that. If you want to toss stuff around, toss some grass outside.
 * Pound Cake: Ok, Auntie Pie.
 * Maud Pie: Boulder. Are you okay?
 * Pinkie Pie: Is he okay, Maud?
 * Maud Pie: He’s fine. He’s just dizzy from all the tossing.


 * Fluttershy: It felt like it was just yesterday when Pound and Pumpkin were laying down in the nursery.
 * Scootaloo: Really? Because it felt like two whole years to me.
 * Apple Bloom: Uh, that’s because it was two whole years, Scootaloo.
 * Scootaloo: (sighs) Can’t anypony ever make jokes without somepony correcting them?
 * Rainbow Dash: I know, right, Applejack?
 * Applejack: Ah only say what’s true to avoid confusion.


 * Pinkie Pie: Hey, hey, everypony! Here come the party games! We got so many super duper fun choices like Stairs and Slides, Rich Simulator – Pop Artists Edition, Pin the Tail on the Pony, and my absolute favorite: Stack the Cookies! (in a squeaky voice) Pick me, pick me! I’m fun!


 * Spike: Pinkie, your sister Maud is awesome! I never met anypony who loved gems as much as I do! I have no idea why Twilight always found her to be weir- (zips)
 * Twilight Sparkle: (laughs) Spike, you’re so funny! (through gritted teeth) You really are.


 * Pinkie Pie: What? Are you here to cheer me up? Because nothing’s wrong with me! Not at all!
 * Maud Pie: Actually, I was just here to pick up Boulder, but now that you mention it, what’s wrong, Pinkie Pie? Why did you leave the party soon?


 * Pinkie Pie: Princess Luna?! I can’t be dreaming! There’s no taffy fields here or colorful rainbows made of candy!
 * Princess Luna: Trust me, Pinkie Pie. You’re the first dream I go to when it comes to getting a late-evening sweet, but now I come to assist you with your problem.


 * Applejack: Are you goin’ somewhere, Apple Bloom?
 * Apple Bloom: (sighs) Applejack, ah already told you. The crusaders and ah travellin’ throughout Equestria to help ponies out with their cutie mark problems.
 * Applejack: But… you’re actually leaving?
 * Apple Bloom: Ah have to get to them somehow. It’s our destiny as Cutie Mark Crusaders, isn’t it?
 * Applejack: Yeah, but… all of you are goin’?
 * Apple Bloom: Yeah, all twenty-five of us are needed.


 * Applejack: Okay… ah’ll… ah’ll let you go. But… mind if ah… have a goodbye hug before you go?
 * Apple Bloom: Um, sure, Applejack! Although not to tight now, because the years have been pretty rough on you.
 * Applejack: (in old lady voice) What? What has happened to me? Am ah… old?!
 * Big McIntosh: (old voice) Eeyup.
 * Granny Smith: (as a skeleton) Ah remember when ah used to have wrinkles like it was just yesterday!


 * Pinkie Pie: Wait, so if Applejack feels this way about Apple Bloom, does Rarity feel the same way about Sweetie Belle, or Rainbow Dash with Scootaloo?
 * Princess Luna: Actually… Rainbow Dash dreams of flying in the Wonderbolts with Scootaloo, and Rarity dreams of Sweetie Belle advertising her business.


 * Igneous Rock Pie: Pinkamena Diane Pie, thy urge thou to reconsider!
 * Cloudy Quartz: Thou are still so young!
 * Pinkie Pie: But ma, pa, sisters! There are so many different ponies out there that are sad and need to smile! Ponyville is going through a crisis right now, and I need to throw a big party for them! But if you don’t want me to leave… I’ll understand.
 * Igneous Rock Pie: No matter what happens… we will support thou.
 * Limestone Pie: Yeah, I mean, we want you to go! It’s not like we’re going to miss you nothin’! Don’t let us stop you!
 * Marble Pie: Mhm.
 * Maud Pie: Go on and live your dream, little sis. Boulder and I will be waiting for your return.


 * Cloudy Quartz: Thy am going to miss our daughter, husband.
 * Igneous Rock Pie: We are all, dear. We all are.
 * Limestone Pie: But if that’s what she wants to do, then we shouldn’t be in her way to stop her. Ain’t that right, Marble Pie?
 * Marble Pie: Mhm!


 * Apple Bloom: Um, Applejack? (nervous chuckles) Are you okay?
 * Applejack: Oh Apple Bloom! Ah know one day you’re goin’ to grow up, and when that times comes, ah’ll accept it!
 * Twilight Sparkle: Spike, I know we’re not going to be together forever, but that time won’t be for a long time!
 * Spike: I agree!
 * Rarity: Sweetie Belle, when you finally leave… just remember to advertise your big sister’s business!
 * Sweetie Belle: Um, sure, Rarity!
 * Rainbow Dash: I know you’re growing up one day, Scoots! But we’re going to the top together, just remember that!
 * Scootaloo: You betcha!


 * Maud Pie: Actually, I have to confess, I missed you the most after you left.
 * Pinkie Pie: You did? Oh I must be the worst sister ever!
 * Maud Pie: No, you’re the complete opposite. I didn’t want to stop you because I wanted you to be happy, and I was relieved when you came back. We were so happy, and knew you wouldn’t forget about us.