Grr! Who is this pickpocket? I stare at her, her bouncy curls and bright orange bow. She looks back, possibly terrified? I don't want to use any more bat power scanning her, so I finally release her wrist. 

"Who are you?" I ask.

But before she can reply, I feel something pulling on my neck. I look down and see that my power cord has wrapped around the leg of some unsuspecting AE or CAPTCHA. If I don't get untangled soon, I'll be dragged along into the messy crowd.

"Stop!" I yell.

They don't hear me over all the noise.

I bite my lip and try tugging the cord from my neck. It pops out with an electric spark, and the thick string is immediately lost in the loud hoop-lah, slithering along the ground like a snake. I rush after it, realizing I didn't get to fully charge up.

Along the way, I pass by AE's and CAPTCHA's humorously fawning over each other. I think about 65% have crushes. In my mind, my emotion-mimicker laughs at them. Idiotic hijinks*, I think.

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*Kudos to you if you get that reference. 

*Clears throat* We have an announcement.

Spyro's true crush had been revealed!!!!!

And it is........

SHIFTING SANDS!!!!!!

[Note from balletandbow: @Spyro and HAB, sorry 'bout all that. It was still funny! XD I'll fix my paper and repost it.] 

O MY GANDALF WE DID IT!!!  WE MADE AN ACTUAL AE LOVE DODECAHEDRON!! WE HAVE 12 AES IN THIS NOW!!!

NO WAIT, WE HAVE 13!!! 13 AES!!!!

Swift likes-

Heyy! stpt Coco! Iony cnsy myne! (Translation: Hey! Stop it, Coconut! I only can say mine!)

She likes Wubdub.

Heyy! yrbg meen Festy (Translation: Hey! You're being mean, Feisty.)

No reply.

Hmph. (Translation: Hmmph.)

Fiesty~

"I just... kind of like you," I say, and then immediately wish I hadn't. She hesitates, and that's all it takes. I'm gone. She whirls around, but it's too late. I hope she has some rope, 'cause I'm sure not helping her back! I storm into the hotel, whirling up to my room. Licorice looks up. "PSXtreme, the pie war, or both?" she asks. "None of your business." I fume. 

After cleaning myself up, I go out. No more pie war for me right now. I turn into an empty corridor and hear Pinkie PIEper calling "HellOOOOO? Mandy?" I turn away. She's too cheery. But Pinkie pops her head around the corner. "Hyee, Feisty!" she yells after me. "Where ya goING?" Great. "Um, nowhere in particular," I say uninthusiastically. "Oh. Have you seen Mandy? ManDYYYYYY!!!" 

"No, I haven't."

"Aww. But you aren't DOING anything in parTICuLAR, so you can HELP me! RIIIIGHT?" She practically yells in my face. I don't have anything better to do, and that's a pity. "Yeah, I guess," I say glumly. "YaYYYYY! I KNEW I could count on you!" she says enthusiastically. "So, any ideas?" Why would I have ideas? "Um... Y'know where the bakery is?" I ask, partly because I'm hungry. I pull out a cream pie from my PrankAndPie bag and start to eat. 

"YES! I forGOT about that! Mandy and I found a secret passage to the BAKERY!!!! Come on. This way!" Pinkie grabs my hand and bounces back the way she came from. I'm dragged along unwillingly. "There's COOKIES and PIES and MORE PIES and MUFFINS and EVEN MORE PIES!" No doubt the first 'pies' means 'cakes'. "In here." She pulls me literally into the wall. We come out- in the Bakery. And she wasn't kidding about the cookies and cakes and pies and muffins and more pies. And there's Mandy. "MAAAAAANDYYY!!!!" Pinkie screams. "I was looking ALL OVER FOR YOU!!!!!!!" She looks up guiltily from stuffing her bag- and her face -with muffins. "HI PINKIIIIIIIEEEEEEE! I LOVE THIS PLACE, DON'T YOU?!!!!!!!" Mandy yells through a mouthfull of muffins. Gross. "YEEEEEEESSSSSS I TOOOOOOTAAAAAAAAALLYYYYYYY DOOOO!!!!!" Pinkie yells back, and that's when I notice something. There's no one visible making the food, but dough is being kneaded and rolled out, pies are being put in the oven, vanilla pudding is being inserted into a pie. "Feisy?!" A voice says in surprise and dismay. I look up. PSXtreme is standing in the doorway.

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"Feisty?" I ask, standing in the doorway to the Bakery. A few minutes ago I had been standing dumbstruck on the hotel roof, but the delicious smell of baking pies had drawn me out of my confusion. I had followed the smell over to a small trapdoor, which had deposited me right outside this door where I now stood, gawking at a large pair of black dragon wings in the room. 

Feisty whips around and gawks right back at me for a moment, before I compose myself.

"Look," I say. "About the roof-" But he cuts me off there.

"I get it!" He yells, stomping up to me. "You don't like me!!! I understand that!!! So if you're here to stomp on my wings again, well, you can just buzz off!!!"

Pinkie PIEper and Mandy freeze inside the room, as shocked as I am. I really didn't think that Feisty was that well, feisty.  He moves to shove past me, but I grab the back of his hoodie and drag him back inside. Pinkie and Mandy both run out at full speed. Smart AEs. 

"Look," I hiss, pushing him against the wall. A pie crust rolls itself out on the countertop beside us as I continue. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I stomped on your wings, and I'm sorry that I hurt you ok?" Feisty just stares at me. "I'm not saying that I like you," I push on, anxious to finish before he comes out of his daze. "But I'm not saying that I don't either. Right now, I've got too much AE Crush War junk in my plate with Torstyn and his fangirls, but maybe..." I trail off, blushing just at the thought. Was I seriously about to try to possibly ask Feisty out?!?!

But he guesses the rest of my sentence, almost before I'm done speaking. Feisty grins ridiculously, muttering: "Did you really just say that? Do you actually like me???"

"I didn't say that!" I growl, shoving him harder against the wall. "I did not say that I like you, even a little."

"You totally like me."

"Fine! Maybe a bit. But please," I say, blushing the color of raspberry pie filling. "Don't tell anyone! That will MURDER my reputation. Then I will MURDER you, no matter how I feel."

"That I can do."

"Alright then. Everything said in this room, stays in this room. I'll see you later?"

He nods, and with that we both exit, heading opposite directions into the depths of the hotel.  

Oh wow. Btw, if someone could explain, what creature is Swift? I forgot.

Nooo

You have upsetted this baby griffin, for he thought he would be the only CAPTCHA left standing without a crush. I better be the  only  AE standing without a crush or I'll take over the CB

This sooo weird

Anyway, we actually all find this rather amusing, crushes are always amusing . . . 

Wait…Dev likes Hèmǐn back?!

Hèmǐn: OMG!!!!! Yay! ♡♡ Wingardium Leviosa!

And if it turns out to not be true, then I'll conjure up those yellow birds!