"Are yawl ready to get our cutie marks in PLANT GATHERING!" shouted Apple Bloom.
"That doesn't sound very fun Apple Bloom," said Scootaloo with a shrug.
"Well how do you know if you aren't going to even try," argued Apple Bloom.
"Lets see what Sweetie Belle thinks," Scootaloo then walks over to Sweetie Belle in the corner of the club house. "Anyone there? Sweetie Belle?"
Sweetie Belle slowly snapped back into reality after staring at a lady bug, or staring past a lady bug would be more correct.
"Sweetie Belle are you sure your alright? It's been a week sense you hit your eye yet your still acting, well.. Out of it," asked Apple Bloom.
"Yeah, also. Have you been getting any sleep, you don't look to good." Scootaloo asked.
"Oh.. I'm fine, I have just been reading a good book and staying up to late. Uh what was the original question?" said Sweetie Belle.
"The question was: who do you think is the cutest colt in class?" asked a smiling Scootaloo.
"Uh, Button Mash I guess." answered Sweetie, mind obviously on other things.
"Really Sweetie Belle?" asked a dead panned Apple Bloom while raising an eye brow.
Scootaloo burst into laughter, falling over and rolling on the floor in the progress.
After noticing both of her friends reaction Sweetie Belle began to realize what she said and turned red. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME SCOOTALOO? That is not funny at ALL! Its not like that stuff matters to me anyways! That's it, I'm going home."
Sweetie Belle threw open the door and left the club house still red, while Scootaloo still was dying on the floor. Apple Bloom quickly ran after Sweetie Belle, leaving the club house to a laughing filly.
"Sweetie Belle wait. I want to apologize for Scootaloo, we didn't think you would actually say anything." said a frowning Apple Bloom.
"SO! Like I said it doesn't even matter," stated Sweetie Belle, her red face faded.
"You say that but ah can see it still bothers you. What do you want me and Scootaloo to do to make it up to you?" asked Apple Bloom.
"I said it doesn't matter, I.. I.. Just want everything to be right again." Sweetie stopped and took a seat on the dirt path.
Apple Bloom gave Sweetie Belle a warm hug from behind. "It sounds like you need one of these."
several minutes pass and Sweetie Belle finally spoke up: "I'm okay now Apple Bloom, you can let go."
"Hmm, let me think... Nope. You need probably around ten more years or so." said a laughing Apple Bloom.
"TEN MORE YEARS?" Sweetie yelled.
"Yep and your not getting a parole, go ahead and try to leave this hug, you don't stand a chance!" said a confident Apple Bloom.
After a bit of wiggling out of Apple Blooms hug, Sweetie was eventually set free. "Thank you, Apple Bloom. Really!" Sweetie Belle almost had a genuine smile but fell a little short.
"No problem, if you ever want to continue your sentence just let me know. Oh hey, you know that me and Scootaloo are coming over tomorrow right? We are going to help our sisters and their friends by making them some food while they work on some dresses. If you are really not up for it then you don't need to help," said Apple Bloom with a small smile.
"Yeah I know, Rarity really needs some help with her dresses. I can, although I can't promise I'll be much help," said Sweetie Belle with a frown.
"Sweetie Belle... Is there something we can do to help you? Ah know when something is wrong with one of my friends," said a serious Apple Bloom.
Sweetie Belle's eyes narrowed.
"Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo is here," said Rarity giving a knock on Sweetie's door.
after a few seconds Sweetie opened the door and gave Rarity a small smile.
"Sweetie Belle if you really don't want to help, you don't need to," said a frowning Rarity.
"What, no. I can help with cooking," Sweetie forced a larger smile.
Rarity did not look very impressed but didn't push it any further. Both Rarity and Sweetie Belle walked down stairs and saw Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo talking. Sweetie wasn't really paying attention to the conversation but some words did break through her focus, such as: "COOL!" and "AWESOME!" that came from Scootaloo until they both realized that they were there.
"Oh, hey um. Sweetie Belle, I'd like to say I'm sorry about yesterday. It wasn't fair to ask that, if you need a favor or something let me know and Ill take care of it," said a smirking Scootaloo while rubbing that back of her head.
"Um, thank you, but I can't. Lets just forget about it," asked Sweetie Belle also rubbing the back of her head.
"Roger that!" said Scootaloo placing her hoof up to her forehead.
"Glad to see yawl make up, now we can get our cutie marks in COOKING!" said Apple bloom walking in the room with Applejack.
The CMC began to start cooking, all of the cooking tools have been set out for them by Rarity. Apple Bloom gave each pony their jobs, Sweetie Belle had the job of making a cake which made her happy and helped her focus on something other then her dread.
"Alright I think I'm done," said a cheerful Sweetie belle.
Apple Bloom then comes over with a confused expression and taps the cube of ice sealing the burnt cake. "Um, Sweetie Belle. How'd you even, both burn this and make it into an ice cube within ten minutes?"
"What do you mean? Its not that bad is it?" Sweetie Belle raised an eyebrow.
"Hey girls, how does this look?" Scootaloo waves to Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle to come over.
Scootaloo then shows her two friends a large tray filled with apple slices, all in the shape of rainbow dash. Not every slice was cut evenly however.
"I tried my best to make rainbow dash but its difficult with only reds and greens" said a happy Scootaloo.
"It looks good Scootaloo. Oh, you know what? I heard Zecora talk about a plant that grows in the Everfree Forest that makes food taste, like one hundred times better," said a scheming Apple Bloom.
"That sounds awesome! I could definitely impress Rainbow Dash with that.. I mean 'we' could." said a hyper Scootaloo.
"But girls its almost night, I don't think we should go in the Everfree. Don't you remember last time?" said a skeptical Sweetie Belle.
"Ah know but we will be in and out, it won't even take five minutes," replied Apple Bloom.
Around eight minutes into walking through the Everfree Forest, Sweetie Belle noticed some text in her right eye.
-:: 1 Hostile Detected ::-
-:: Hostile's Position: 40 Feet, Southwest ::-
Sweetie Belle looks back, stopping in her tracks trying to look at what the text mentioned, however even with her night vision she couldn't see what it was. Her friends notice her stop and turned around.
"Sweetie Belle, what's wrong?" asked Scootaloo.
"I have a feeling we are being watched," said a serious Sweetie Belle.
"Ah sure am sorry, ah thought this would have been a lot faster, lets pick up the pace. Hopefully whatever it is won't follow," answered Apple Bloom.
-:: Hostile's Position: 55 Feet, Southwest ::-
-:: Hostile's Position: 80 Feet, Southwest ::-
"Yeah, that's a good idea," said Sweetie.
After a few more minutes of looking around, Apple Bloom finally found a few of the flowers she was looking for, it was bright pink with purple dots, although it was hard to tell in the darkness. When they started to head back Sweetie noticed more text in her right eye.
-:: 8 Hostile Detected ::-
-:: Hostile's Position: 40 Feet, In All Directions ::-
-:: You Are Surrounded ::-
"Girls, we are surrounded." said Sweetie with many mixed emotions.
As if on queue eight pairs of green eyes pierce through the dark and begin to close in on the group of three. The trio of ponies had a mix of fear and dread as they looked all around.
'Is there any ponies that can help nearby?' Sweetie thought hoping to either wake up or Rarity be a few inches away.
-:: Nearest Help: 1.5 Miles, South ::-
'It looks like we are on our own,' thought Sweetie.
"Um, Apple Bloom this is were you tell us what to do and then we do it to get out of this situation." said Scootaloo with a fake smirk.
"APPLEJACK! PLEASE HELP!" yelled Apple Bloom.
"RAINBOW DASH! HELP!" Scootaloo started to yell
-:: Hostile's Position: 30 Feet, In All Directions ::-
'I can't.'
"PLEASE, APPLEJACK!" yelled Apple Bloom once more, her voice started to crack.
"RAINBOW DASH, COME OUT, PLEASE!" Scootaloo continued to scream, her voice began cracking as well.
-:: Hostile's Position: 20 Feet, In All Directions ::-
The wooden creatures inch towards the three ponies, their breath smells of putrid death.
'I can.'
"PLEASE!" shouted Apple Bloom, face running with tears.
Scootaloo laid on the ground with her hooves over her eyes shaking uncontrollably.
-:: Hostile's Position: 10 Feet, In All Directions ::-
The wooden creatures began to growl, revealing their sharp fangs to their pray.
'I have to!'
-:: Large Mini Missile Launcher: Activate ::-
Sweeties eyes began to glow red, a moment later a hatch opens on the back of her barrel reveling two large boxes emerging. The two boxes held many explosive missiles.
-:: Target: 8 Hostiles ::-
-:: FIRE ::-
Eight missiles unlatch themselves from the two boxes on Sweeties back, then at high speeds shot out, zig zagging and landing a blow on each of the Timber Wolves. The wooden creatures got blasted into millions of pieces. Sweeties eyes then went back to normal while also bringing the two boxes back inside her barrel and closing the hatch.
-:: Hostiles: Eliminated ::-
-:: Large Mini Missile Launcher: Deactivate ::-
Sweetie looked back at her two friends, one was still on the ground shaking with her eyes covered, the other however was staring at her with a mix of dread and shock while tears still fell down her face.
"Appl-"
"P-PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!" yelled Apple Bloom.
Apple Bloom jumped on the ground covering her wet eyes and also began shaking... A few minutes pass. Apple Bloom then gets enough courage to look up, only seeing her shaking friend and the dark forest that surrounds her.
'Here should be good' thought Sweetie Belle.
Sweetie laid down on some grass resting her head on a hard root from the ugly tree that towered above her. She closed her eyes, then started shifting around but couldn't get comfortable.
'So... This is it huh?' Sweetie heart ached.
Sweetie tried to keep her mind occupied, like: what was food for tomorrow, no sleep schedule, and no rules, however her mind continued to sink further and further away from happiness. Suddenly she heard a voice from above her.
"SWEETIE BELLE! SWEETIE BELLE, WHERE ARE YOU?" yelled Rainbow Dash.
'Shoot, she can't see me here or else. I have to hide and ditch town,' thought a desperate filly.
"SWEETIE BELLE! SWEETIE BELLE!" yelled Rainbow as she got further and further away.
'Radar, keep an eye on Rainbow Dash and anyone else from Ponyville' thought Sweetie.
-:: Five Ponies: Detected ::-
-:: Ponies Location: Within Everfree Forest ::-