Red tries to escape from the pink pony but she forces him to stay there. She takes him into a candy shop and drops him on the ground. "Welcome to Ponyville! This is Sugarcube Corner! I live and work here! Are you hungry? I'll be right back!" She runs behind a counter into a different room leaving Red Star sitting there, alone. He decides to look around a little bit. He walks around looking at cupcakes and brownies, when a small crocodile walks into the room and looks at Red strangely. He walks up to it and looks at it very softly. "Hey little guy! What's your name?" The small crocodile jumps on his head and lays in his mane and falls asleep, putting Red in a very ackward position, but decides to leave it alone. At that moment, Pinkie rushes back into the room holding a small cake. "I'm kind of busy right now, so I can't throw you a proper welcome party yet, but here's a cake!" she sets down the cake and shoves Red to it. "Welcome!" Red sits there very ackwardly and inspects the cake. Pinkie gets slightly sad, "what's wrong? You don't like your cake?"
"No no it's not that it's just, I........"
"You what?"
"It's just kind of weird how a random pony walks up and gives me cake."
"What's wrong with that?"
"Never mind, what flavor is it?"
"Oh! It's chocolate! You can eat chocolate right?" Red Star nods then looks at the cake feeling guilty and decides to try the cake. He takes a bite and immediately regrets doubting Pinkie. He wolfs down most of the cake and gets up with cake all over his face. Pinkie laughs and says, "clean up yourself!" And hoofs him a napkin. He wipes off the cake and puts the napkin in the garbage. She grabs the crocodile from Red's mane and says, "Gummy! What did I tell you about going in other ponies manes?" She puts the small crocodile into her poofy mane and it seems to disappear. Pinkie smiles and looks at Red and the half eaten cake. "Ooohhhh, I know who you are, you're Red Star right?"
"Yea, why? what have you heard about me?"
"Oh nothing, you were in a coma for three weeks, wrecked a portion of a house, and have a 'romance' with little Scootaloo!" She winks at Red with that last part and he blushes. "Well I should get going now. Bye Pinkie!" They wave bye and Red leaves and walks down the street. He asks around for Scootaloo and finally comes across a white unicorn with her hair done up weird, curly. "Do I know where Scootaloo is? She's probably with Sweetiebelle at their clubhouse." Red thanks her and runs off toward the apple farm, and to Scootaloo's clubhouse. When he gets there, he opens the door to find four fillies standing there, one on a large podium, which he recognizes her to be Apple Bloom. There's a small white filly next to her, and on the other side of her is Scootaloo. There a brown filly next to her. They are all wearing dark red capes with a picture of a pony on it. Red asks nervously, "What's going on here?" Apple Bloom speaks, "Red Star, you have been accepted to be a brother....." She continues on with a long list of names, when she just starts skipping through them until she stops, "ah! And fellow Cutie Mark Crusader!"
"A what?" She looks at Red disapprovingly. "We basically try every activity we can to try and get our Cutie Marks!"
"A cutie....... Wha?" The three fillies stare at Scootaloo in shock. "Y'all haven't told him yet?!"
"I haven't really had time to yet. Just get on with it." They all stare at Red. Apple Bloom speaks again, " Scoot it doesn't look like you revised this."
"Oh, I forgot to sorry."
"Should I even finish it then?"
"You don't have to."
"Okay then." Apple Bloom throws confetti into the air and Scootaloo throws a cape on Red like they're wearing. Red can't help but smile. The fillies start laughing and they walk Red outside, where the white filly walks up to him. "Hi welcome to the Cutie Mark Crusaders! My name is Sweetiebelle! Nice to meet you!" She leans in close and says, "So I heard you got punched by Apple Bloom?"
"You heard about that?"
"Look, don't take it personally, she was feeling weird that day, okay?"
"Okay." She backs up and walks away toward Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. The brown filly walks toward Red but says nothing. She walks up close and looks him over throughly, then kicks him in his forelegs, making him fall to the ground. She then proceeds to kick him in the face, chipping his tooth and she breaks his foreleg. The other fillies run over and push her away from him and angrily ask, "What's wrong with you?! Babs! Why did you do that?!" She points to the broken, now crying colt on the ground, "He's a colt! Why should we let him in?!"
"Babs please stay away from him. He's very delicate, this is the 6th injury he's gotten since he fell from the sky! Please don't make his life worse!" She grunts and walks away angrily. Red lays in the grass, bleeding from his nose, mouth and broken foreleg. "We need to get him to the hospital!" They all three pick him up and carry him to the Ponyville hospital.