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// CMC-4 - The Grey Pegasus 
// Story: July - 2012 (T.W.G.) 
// by The Writer's Group 
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Author: The Grey Pegasus
Prompt: The Cutie Mark Crusaders get explosives.
Title: CMC-4



The three Cutie Mark Crusader fillies stood outside Sugarcube Corner.
"Gee, it sure was nice of Pinkie Pie to give us some clay for our school project! But what did she mean by pressing this remote gives an added effect?" Scootaloo exclaimed.
"And what would blocks of clay be doin' in between fireworks, firecrackers, and other explode-y stuff anyway?" Applebloom wondered out loud. "Also, what kind of clay would be called such a weird name? 'Composition 4'? It sounds like somethin' from Twilight's books. Or some stupid classical music."
"Well," Sweetie Belle began, "a composition means it's made up of different kinds of things, right? And the 4 must mean that it's the fourth one they got to work or something."
"Who cares? Now we can start our school project!" Scootaloo stated.
"Yeah!" Applebloom agreed. "Maybe we can get clay sculptin' cutie marks!"
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADER CLAY SCULPTORS YAY!!"
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The three fillies spent all day molding the malleable blocks to a sculpture that they wanted. Deciding to keep it simple, they created a well-sized pony bust. The result was actually pretty decent. Granted, it took a while since they argued how the pony head was going to look like, with Applebloom wanting to make it look like Cheerilee, Sweetie Belle wanting it to look like one of those fancy ponies in Rarity's magazines, and Scootaloo typically wanting to model it after Rainbow Dash. There was also the problem of random metal pins stuck in some of the blocks of clay.
After a couple hours of half-planned, half-improvised work, the three fillies finally finished their school project. In the end, it looked comparable to some mare you could find off the street. Probably like Applejack without her hat. They were sure it was so good, it could blow away anything Diamond Tiara tried to rub in their faces.
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The next day's course ran as normal as possible. Diamond Tiara came in with some ridiculous metal abstract art that nopony really cared for. After getting her presentation time, she naturally walked up to the Crusaders and did some self-promoting while mocking their pony bust. The trio were the last to go up.
"Okay, last to go is Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo! Can you please show the class what you made and tell us a little bit about it," Cheerilee announced.
"Well, we decided to make a clay statue of somepony's head," Applebloom started.
"But we kind of went through some arguments and stuff, and we couldn't make it look like anypony," Scootaloo added.
"I think it looks like Applejack," Sweetie Belle commented.
"Oh, and we worked really hard to make it look good, in case we get clay sculpting cutie marks!" said Applebloom.
"How would you get sculpting cutie marks?! It doesn't look any good!" Diamond Tiara teased. "Who would want a cutie mark for that anyway?"
"Now, now, I think it looks very nice, and you girls put lots of effort into it," Cheerilee assured them.
"Yeah! Pinkie Pie even said this remote makes the clay do really cool stuff!" Scootaloo found the remote given to them earlier.
"What? How? What kind of clay is it?"
"Oh," Sweetie Belle answered, "It was something called 'Composition 4'. Whatever that is."
Cheerilee's eyes opened. "Composi-...C4?! W-"
*boom*