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"Don't ya think forcin' him's a bit too much?" Applebloom asked.
"It's only this one time, Applebloom," Scootaloo argued, "Besides, it'll be fun."
"How's forcing him to eat something he DOESN'T want to eat fun?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"He probably just made it up, to escape!"
"I didn't make it up," Spike said, still tied up, "Now untie me!"
"I don't believe you," Scootaloo said, her face close-up on Spike's, "But if you ARE, then we need to prove it."
Spike responded by turning his head away, which started to irritate Scootaloo.
"Okay Crusaders, looks like we have got go through with it," the pegasus filly said, as the other crusaders approached.
"Are you sure about this?" Applebloom asked.
"I'm sure."
The two fillies then looked at each other and shrugged, as they got closer towards Spike, which he was apparently getting nervous about, but tried to not show it.
"W...what do you plan on doing?" Spike asked, in a little startled tone.
Apparently his answer came, when he started to feel something brush against his soles. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle had gotten two large feathers from the bag, and started stroking both his feet. He tried to hold back laughing, as his lips curled into a smile, as he bit his lower lip. Unfortunately, it was getting harder and harder for him to keep it in. It started to become unbearable, as tears were now welling up in his eyes, and he saw Scootaloo smirking.
He had finally cracked, when they reached his toes, and he burst out laughing. But it was soon cut short, as Scootaloo took the chance and got as many green peppers as she could hold in her hoofs, which were seven at most, into his mouth. Before he could spit them out, Scootaloo blocked his mouth with her hoofs. Spike tried to shake her hooves off his mouth, but the sudden taste of the green peppers, even if they were uncooked, delivered that same desirable satisfaction that he had before. Try as he hard, he couldn't stop himself from chewing and swallowing it, which he was wide-eyed about.
"Uh oh...this isn't good," he said.
"That should do it, for now," Scootaloo said.
Spike was about to argue, but then felt a twinging feeling in his guts. Though it was cut short, when Scootaloo took out a bottle of soda, and had him drink it. (A/N: Logic? What's that?) When the bottle was finished being downed, Spike felt like he was going to be sick, when the other fillies got him on his feet, and Scootaloo having him look up.
"Okay, Applebloom," Sweetie Belle said, "Go for it!"
The next thing he knew, Spike was then kicked in the stomach by Applebloom, and let out a loud belch and a roaring fire going into the balloon. Soon enough, they started to feel the ground beneath them feel lighter, as they levitated off the cliff towards Ponyville.
"Alright!" the three of them shouted, "CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS SKY DIVING IS IN SESSION!"
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As that's going on, Twilight and the others were still going through Ponyville, trying to see what the doozy was that Pinkie was sensing.
"Any closer yet, Pinkie?" Twilight asked.
"N-n-n-n-n-not y-y-y-y-yet," Pinkie said, shuttering.
"This is hopeless!" Rainbowdash exclaimed, "We've searched almost every inch of Ponyville, and it's cutting into my sleep schedule! Plus, weren't we suppose to be looking for Spike, Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle?"
"Yes, but-"
Twilight was then cut off by the sudden crowd of people looking up at the sky, muttering things like "What is that?", "What's going on?", "Are those fillies insane?". They soon looked up, only to see the hot air balloon, and the crusaders ready to jump off the edge. Their eyes were wide at this, gasping in horror.
"APPLEBLOOM!" Applejack shouted, "WHAT IN TARNATION ARE YOU DOING UP THERE?"
Unfortunately, Applebloom didn't hear her, due to being too high up. Without hesitation, the three of them jumped off the ledge, thankful that they had their parachutes, diving down. Rainbowdash soon did the first thing that came to mind, and flew towards them as fast as she could. The crusaders started to do a couple air tricks as the fell, and just when Rainbowdash could catch them, they opened up their parachutes, with Rainbowdash passing under them.
"What the...?" she said, trying to stop herself, causing a screeching noise. (A/N: Hey, if she can cause tiptoe noises in the sky, then she can cause screeching noises to stop herself in the sky.)
As Spike watched from above, he couldn't help but admire some of their tactics as they descended before pulling out their parachutes.
"Huh," he said, "That's kind of..."
Unfortunately, Spike soon felt himself feel again uneasy, but soon let out another stream of fire onto the basket, as he burped a bit. He then started to back away, because if he got anywhere near the fire, then it would be in the danger zone after eating green peppers. But as the fire started to circle around the basket's brim, having some of the strings supporting the basket catch fire too. Spike was now in serious trouble now. Either he lets it all out, causing an explosion, or let the strings burn slowly.
"Might as well get it over with anyway," he said to himself.
As Rainbowdash finally came to a stop, by a nearby cliff tree, she looked back, just after hearing a sudden explosion, and seeing seeing some fireworks too. It looked impressive for a while, but then remembered to get the crusaders as she dashed towards them.
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"Ooh! This is the best sky show I've seen in a while," Pinkie said, with sunglasses and a bag of popcorn, shuttering again.
As for the rest, they had to cover their eyes from the sudden brightness of the explosion, to a point were even Twilight can't even see it with her magic. But she knew it was trouble.
"I hope Applebloom's safe," Applejack said, praying for Rainbowdash to save her.
"Hey, Pinkie," Twilight said, "Was THIS the doozy?"
Before she answered, Pinkie Pie checked all around her, chasing her tail for a bit, then coming to a stop.
"Yep, looks like it," she said, then starting to feel her tail twitch.
"But looks like we're not out of the woods yet!"
"Pinkie, we're in town, how would we be in the woods?" Applejack asked.
"Aj, she means we've still got trouble coming," Twilight corrected.
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As Rainbowdash got closer and closer, she swooped the fillies up, even though their parachutes were still open.
"Rainbowdash?" Scootaloo said in surprise.
"That's right!" said pony answered, "You have no idea...wait, where's Spike?"
Her question was answered, as she saw Spike, screaming, and the flaming basket fall out of the cloud of smoke. It then landed into the open parachutes, pulling tightly onto them. The crusaders and Rainbowdash soon were in terror as they saw it.
"Oh crud," Rainbow said, looking at the forth wall, scared, before getting pulled down with the fillies.
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As the brightness cleared up, the others soon took their hoofs away from their faces, except Pinkie who kept her sunglasses on, and looked up to see the others falling, and gasped greatly.
"Oh no! Twilight, do something!" Applejack exclaimed, shaking Twilight.
"I would teleport them," Twilight said, "but I'm even NEAR close range, and...Oh no."
"What is it?" Fluttershy asked.
"If I'm right, then...they're right above...RARITY'S!"
With that, they all charged towards Rarity's show, as quickly as they could.
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