Chapter 4 - It Was All Just a Dream
Apple Bloom was freaking out right next to her best friends, as was Pipsqueak who was watching the Cutie Mark Crusaders about to meet their end right before his very eyes. Apple Bloom could not fathom the fact that she was going to leave the love of her life, as well as the very confidant who had assisted them in achieving their dream of earning cutie marks, which they had very long craved for. Plus, her life was starting to flash before her very eyes, as did her best friends Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. Apple Bloom would never get to see or be with her crush ever again, nor would she be able to stay with all of her best friends. Before the Cutie Mark Crusaders are defeated by the chimera and its gang of monsters, everything suddenly becomes blurry. It turns out that the Cutie Mark Crusaders have been dreaming about the entire thing. Soon, they all wake up at the exact same time.
"Huh? What's goin' on?", said Sweetie Belle in utter confusion.
"Who's that?", said Scootaloo, also in confusion.
"What in the world?", asked Apple Bloom.
"Are we dead?", asked Scootaloo.
"I don't think so," said Apple Bloom.
Sweetie Belle looks at Apple Bloom with a blank expression. Of course, if they were dead, they obviously would not be here right now. "Of course not, genius," said Apple Bloom.
"Oh, good," said Apple Bloom relieved. She was mostly relieved that she and her friends are still alive, even Pipsqueak, whom she is now eager to see and be with once again after the horrendous nightmare. Suddenly, the Cutie Mark Crusaders all realize something just now.
"It was all a dream?!", they exclaim in unison.
"Great! That means we're okay! There were no monsters!", said Scootaloo. She was satisfied that it was all just a dream because if the monsters had actually existed, the entire universe of Ponyville would probably most likely be in complete, utter destruction, chaos, and shambles. And not the kind of chaos that Discord would conjure up or even enjoy for his own amusement, the chaos of evil villains attempting to takeover Ponyville and all of Equestria for their power and own avarice. But then she pauses. "Wait! No monsters?!", Scootaloo exclaimed out loud.
"So that means us defeating monsters with our cutie marks never really happened!", Sweetie Belle realizes. She and her fellow Cutie Mark Crusaders then shout, "Nooooo!".
Sweetie Belle tries to calm her friends down, despite their awesome dream of gaining cutie mark powers and battling a group of villainous monsters not being at all real. After all, there are pretty much always some good in Ponyville, regardless of any mishaps or days coming off to a bad start. "Well, at least we still have our cutie marks, right?", she said.
Apple Bloom and Scootaloo are calm and relieved now and nod in agreement. The Cutie Mark Crusaders let out a sigh of relief. They then look at their flanks to get a gander at their cutie marks. However, they all gasp in shock, upon seeing that their flanks have really never gotten cutie marks at all, ever. The Cutie Mark Crusaders lift their heads up.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!", they shouted.
Just then, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon pass by the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Both girls are still the same old mean, spoiled, rotten, rude bullies and brats they have always been ever since the entire Cutie Mark Crusader group many years ago. With a mean glare, Diamond Tiara laughs at the Cutie Mark Crusaders, thereby revealing that even she and Silver Spoon are still exactly the same old mean bullies that they always have been for years.
"You're looking well, blank flanks!", taunted Diamond Tiara and she continued to laugh.
"Yeah! What she said! Looking well, blank flanks!", said Silver Spoon with her own mean glare, giggling. Then she started to laugh alongside Diamond Tiara.
As they leave, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon continue to laugh maliciously. The Cutie Mark Crusaders are angered by this and mostly shocked since they thought that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon had finally changed their ways, turned over a new leaf, and became the Cutie Mark Crusaders' new best friends.
"Man, just wait 'til I get my hooves on you!", shouted Apple Bloom in a complete rage.
Apple Bloom leaps up to chase after Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon and show them a thing or two, only for Scootaloo to stop Apple Bloom by pulling her back.
"Wait!", said Scootaloo, pulling her friend back in with them.
"What?! She was laughin' at us still, so I'm gonna teach her a lesson!", said Apple Bloom. She was rather angry about this, especially considering their dream, in which it had seemed before that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon had supposedly changed their ways.
"Hold it, you guys! Here's the important thing: We never really needed cutie marks since we're good, special, and awesome the way we are," said Sweetie Belle.
Apple Bloom and Scootaloo begin to think about this and begin to realize the truth of Sweetie Belle's statement: Cutie marks or not, they still have a chance to be awesome.
"You know, you're right," said Apple Bloom as a smile slowly began to cross her face.
"Yeah! Cutie marks or not, we're still the coolest kids in Ponyville!", Scootaloo said with happiness and pride.
"Yeah!", Sweetie Belle agreed. Even she herself got extremely excited with her own statement as it could not be any more true.
"And never mind Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon 'cause they're just snooty, arrogant brats!", concluded Scootaloo. She could not be any more righter than she already is.
"That's right!", agreed Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo.
As the Cutie Mark Crusaders walk off together, they sing "Kids in Ponyville," a parody of "Kids in America" by No Secrets.
"We're the kids in Ponyville, ho-oh / We're the kids in Ponyville, ho-oh / We're all gonna go out and have fun today," they sang. "Yay!", they cheer in unison.