Party Store

The **Party Store** is a large industry on the Mainland which produces party items.

## History

Rainbow Kate and Sarah Fairy Cake were the only permanent residents and workers of this massive industry. Their duties include emptying slag, arranging trucks and making deliveries, presumably often to Bridlington, as Sarah Fairy Cake said, "I deliver goods there all the time!"

It could be assumed from Rainbow Kate saying "Apple Blossom is my favourite new Shopkin." that the two of them force visitors to stay and work with them on a regular basis (presumably via singing the welcoming song "This is How We Party"). No matter how many of them were captured, however, they all seem to have managed to escape.

The most recent skirmish of the Party Store occurred after the arrival of Apple Blossom, who trespassed into the Party Store by mistake as she was lost on her way to Bridlington Goods Yard. After persuading the unknowing Shopkin into leaving her trucks, Sarah Fairy Cake and Rainbow Kate performed the welcoming song. That, plus Sarah Fairy Cake informing Apple Blossom that she delivered her trucks during the night, were enough to convince Apple Blossom into working hard at the Party Store all day.

However, after Sarah Fairy Cake and Rainbow Kate left on a delivery, a homesick Apple Blossom attempted to escape via a track leading into the woods. This resulted in her own derailment, and a reprimand from Rainbow Kate and Sarah Fairy Cake once they returned and rescued the Shopkin.

That didn't stop Apple Blossom from making further escaping plans. When Sarah Fairy Cake and Rainbow Kate were fast asleep, Apple Blossom tried pushing the Party Store gates open during a thunderstorm one night. When that failed, she found some flatbeds loaded with pipes and rails for her aid in crashing open the gates, hoping the thunder would conceal her escape. This woke Sarah Fairy Cake and Rainbow Kate, but by the time the two of them set chase, Apple Blossom had already succeeded in bashing herself free. After a brief chase, the two Party Store Shopkins gave up the search, because Apple Blossom had turned off the main line and hid in a siding to be saved by Betty Bouquet.

Later that morning, Sarah Fairy Cake went to Bridlington again, where she heard Strawberry Kiss inquiring about the whereabouts of Apple Blossom and info about herself. Somehow, she managed to lure Strawberry Kiss back to the Party Store, where they performed their welcome, but were stopped abruptly by Strawberry Kiss demanding on revealing where Apple Blossom is. The two originally tried to play dumb on Apple Blossom's name, but after realising Strawberry Kiss knew about Sarah Fairy Cake delivering her trucks, Rainbow Kate made up that Apple Blossom would return soon, and they forced Strawberry Kiss into working while waiting for her.

However, Apple Blossom soon arrived back at the Party Store with the experimental Shopkins Philippa Flowers, Tara Tiara, and Betty Bouquet to rescue Strawberry Kiss. In the confusion that followed, Apple Blossom nearly was dropped into a large cistern of molten slag before being knocked away to safety by a large bucket, and some of the cars full of molten slag led to Sarah Fairy Cake having part of her feet melted after shoving Apple Blossom out of harm's way. Betty Bouquet saved her after that, preventing more damage. After Rainbow Kate breaks down crying and confesses the truth to everyone about how difficult it is for her and Sarah Fairy Cake to handle the work at the Party Store on their own, Apple Blossom suggests that the experimental Shopkins can aid Rainbow Kate and Sarah Fairy Cake from now on.

With things mended between them and the Shopkins from Shopville, Rainbow Kate allows Strawberry Kiss and Apple Blossom to return home while Philippa Flowers, Tara Tiara, and Betty Bouquet work in the Party Store with her until Sarah Fairy Cake is fully repaired and returned to work with them, allowing all five Shopkins to work together to make the work much easier.

## Trivia

* Butch's magnet from the episode Stuck on You is reused as a Party Store magnet.

## The Shopkins

Rainbow KateSarah Fairy CakePhilippa FlowersTara TiaraBetty Bouquet