Three fluffies are in an experiment room with simple padded floors, one way glass, a projection screen and a ceiling speaker. The maroon unicorn with layered off tones of red fluff and a white mane and tail named ‘Red Velvet’ chats with a fudge colored unicorn with lighter brown mane named ‘chocolate’. Meanwhile the generic Vanilla white Pegasus with rainbow mane and tale, along with multi colored accents splotches that look almost like sprinkles across its exterior is named ‘Birthday’. They stare ahead unflinchingly attentive with a smile.
“I hope you’re ready for a fun game fluffies.” The speaker blurts out.
Somewhat used to this but still surprised chocolate and red velvet look up. “Wed bewbet am bestes’ at gamesies.” The unicorn adds confident after a previous test where they managed to match three different shapes to their holes in a wooden board earlier that day.
“Chocowate wiek gamesies wiff fwiends.” Chocolate added excited to play with its two new friends it had just met an hour ago even if Birthday was a little quiet.
Birthday stared. “Excellent. To help explain the game, we’re going to show you a video. Enjoy.”
“Tebee time! Bestest expewiment ebah.” Red velvet exclaimed excitedly as the two relocated next to Birthday to view the screen in a line. They’re shown a series of ‘is it cake’ video. The fluffies becoming more shocked and surprised with each thing that should not be cake, being cake.
“Wha’ dis fwuffewy?” Chocolate eventually comments towards one of the last examples being a barkie monster getting beheaded.
Eventually the projector stops and the voice from the ceiling says “One of you fluffies is cake. You don’t have to choose, but you will not be getting any food until tomorrow unless one of you does. If you choose wrong the cake will be removed and you’ll have to eat the other fluffy before returning to your cage while the other specimens enjoy their cake.” There was a slight pause. “Oh and have fun!” The speaker went silent from that point.
There was complaining for a few minutes from Chocolate and red velvet but soon the tensions rose between them as birthday just stared forward at the screen.
“Come on you idiots, figure it out…” One of the assistants added while sipping tea from their mug on the other side of the one way glass.
“Chocowate nu know… Boff fwiends smeww pwetty wike cake…” Chocolate added after shifting over to birthday and giving them a sniff before giving red velvet a sniff as well.
Red velvet seemed offended and dropped to a squatted pose with puffed cheeks. “Dummie chocowate twy twick wed bewbet. Chocowate must be Cakie nummies!” Red velvet accuses angrily. Birthday remained neutral and said nothing.
“Am nu twue! Dummeh wed am dummeh! Gib sowwy hoofies an’ see if 'ou cakies~" Chocolate added preparing to rear back and use the most direct method of testing to see if Red velvet was indeed cake. However Red velvet was not about to let themselves simply receive sorry hoofies so they lanced out with their horn from their readied stance and as Chocolate came down their hooves slipped across the back spreading them broad as Red velvets horn impaled chocolates chest.
“Why fwiend~" was all chocolate could attempt to question before slumping over and getting tossed aside as Red velvet struggled to heft the earthies bulk from themselves.
The assistant sighed and hit the buzzer to send someone in to pick up the cake.
Red velvet stared at the booboo juice and licked a bit that drippled from their horn over their face to verify it was indeed blood. They began to cry before shifting over to hug their friend as they apologized. Birthday simply stared, perhaps traumatized by the experience as the door opened and a man in a labcoat approached. “Allright time to go.” The man said reaching over.
“Upsies? Why Upsies~”Red velvet added confused remembering the terms of the game.
“We said if any of you choose wrong we’d remove the cake from the room.”
The man behind the glass paused setting down his mug. “Wait~” they moved to the clip board as their fellow researcher exited the room with red velvet and entered the back room and set red velvet on the counter and pricked them in the neck with a needle causing paralysis. With his eyes taken from the experiment Birthday stood up and stretched before taking a long series of blinks and following. “No, this cant~”
“Cant it?” The other assistant added as they began to cut off Red velvets legs to the confusion of Red velvet and the man behind the glass as he was presented a roll cake of red velvet in the shape of a fluffy leg.
Meanwhile Birthday pranced into the room and sat next to the server. “Did biwthday do gud daddeh?” waiting for their share of the cake.
“He never suspected a thing.” He added setting the second leg before Birthday as he gave her a pat.
Red velvet was too shocked and not actually alive because they were cake to scream from being sliced into edible portions.
The assistant had no idea, they were the real subject all along as hidden cameras observed everything. Even the tears that fell onto the cake as he seized the fork and took a bite while pondering if he should use the fork on himself just to be sure…
‘Am I, Cake?’
(while the name is the same, this is not a cameo from OC - Birthday cake by cyclops burger. Though it was inspired by comments in that topic so hats off to you. )