//------------------------------// // Season 1: Episode 9 - Cutie Mark Stories // Story: Hamtaro x MLP:FiM - Little Hamsters, Pony Adventures // by RobtheMorpherPony //------------------------------// Sparkle was currently riding on Apple Bloom's back as she was meeting up with her three friends at the water fountain. "...There's a comment to be made about a hamster riding a pony here." Scootaloo said. "News flash: It's not that different from riding a dog. Hamtaro said he did that a few times. I tried it for a movie once. This is not different thant that." Sparkle said. "You sound like you have a crush on Hamtaro." Sweetie Belle said. "Hard not to. He's chrismatic, headstrong, and has a caring personality. The fact that he's also handsome to boot? Practically makes him catnip for female hamsters." Sparkle said. "...At least he would be, if Pashmina actually had a crush on him. And she's the only other one whose old enough. Penolope...she's not old enough to be thinking about it. And she's way too young for Hamtaro." "Who does Pashmina have a crush on?" Apple Bloom ask. "Beats me. Howdy and Dexter do fight over Pashmina a lot though." Sparkle said. "...And I'm not afraid to admit that I've butted heads with Bijou because of her crushing on Hamtaro too." "Wow. I thought Boss was crushing on Bijou." Sweetie Belle said. "Oh he does. But, if there's one thing I will agree with Bijou on, it's that she sees Boss as more like a big brother to her. And the same is with me too." Sparkle said. "I'm waiting for the day when Bijou reveals her crush on Hamtaro RIGHT in front of boss, and he faints." "Your starting to sound a bit like Diamond Tiara..." Scootaloo warned. "Don't lie, now that you know that Boss's crush on Bijou will never be returned, you want to see him have undeniable proof of such a thing laid out in front of him, don't you?" Sparkle asked. "...She's not wrong." Apple Bloom said. "...Yeah now that she mentions it..." Sweetie Belle said. "Kind of weird she could read that off us so easily." Scootaloo said. "Remember: I was a Hollywood actress. Nonverbal cues for when your next line are crucial. I was always paying attention to them whenever my caretaker was acting." Sparkle said. "But, speaking of cues, I just thought of something we could do." "Oh? Is it a crusade idea?" Scootaloo asked. "Not quite. See, I'm actually curious how the mane six got their cutie marks. Knowing how they each got theirs, would at least lay some groundwork for things we could end up trying out for future crusades." Sparkle said. "Yeah that's a good idea. Let's do it!" Sweetie Belle said. The CMC decided to start with Fluttershy's story, since she was the most out of the way. That's when a bunny rabbit hopped onto Apple Blooms back to look at Sparkle. "...Yes?" Sparkle asked. Breif AN: For this story, any animal speak that's happening will be done via itallics but they will surrounded by quotes like regular spoken diologue. And only if it's around the ham hams. "Are you one of them hamsters?" The bunny chittered. "Wait what?!" Sparkle was so started that she fell off Apple Bloom's back, and was caught. "Angel, how rude!" Fluttershy said, having caught Sparkle. "You should know better then to startle one of the hamsters like that." "Says you, miss pushover." Angel chittered. "ANGEL! HOW RUDE! I can and will take away your carrot pudding deserts. Apologize to Sparkle now." Fluttershy said. "Oh yeah? Ma--" "Um, Fluttershy? We were here to ask about how you got your cutie mark." Apple Bloom said. "Yeah. That was all we were here for." Sparkle said. But I am certainly keeping an eye out for that bunny in the future. "Oh. Well, one day in flight school I was being bullied by Hoops, Dumb-bell, and Score..." Fluttershy started. Wait, why are two of those names sports related? That's like asking your kid to do well in sports. Sparkle thought to herself. "When Rainbow Dash stood up for me. So, she flew so fast to win the race against the bullies, and in the process it knocked me off the cloud I was standing on. I was thankfully caught by a bunch of nice butterflies and soon got attention from a lot of different animals. So I quickly realized that, if I really started flying, I wouldn't get to meet all the wonderful critters of the land below just as a burst of rainbow light appeared in the sky. Angel here helped me notice that I had gotten my cutie mark because of that revelation." Fluttershy said. "Huh. Not gonna lie, that was pretty neat. But, we should go see Rainbow Dash to hear about that race." Scootaloo said. "Why now?" Sparkle asked. "It is the next logical thing to do. Rainbow Dash's story should build off of what Fluttershy just said since it was her race that caused Fluttershy to get her cutie mark in the end." Sweetie Belle said. "Well I can't argue with Checkov's Gun." Sparkle said. "What's Checkov's Gun?" Apple Bloom asked. "It's a principle. It's based on this one guy Checkov who wrote a play where in the opening of said play, there was a gun on the wall, and during the play's climax, the same gun was later used to kill someone. Not really kill anyone, the gun only fired blanks." Sparkle said. "Checkov's Gun is a principle built upon that sort of thing: Where logic dictates that if you introduce a 'gun' in the opening act of a movie, you are to then use that gun for a purpose later on in said movie." "Wh-why does it have to be a gun? Can't it be a flower instead?" Fluttershy asked. Sparkle sighed. "If you had noticed, I put air quotes around 'gun' when I explained the actual principle. The 'gun' can be anything you want it to be. An actual gun, a spear, your family history...the list goes on." Sparkle said. "...Oh. I get it now. It's an abstract term, which derived from when an actual gun was used in a play." Fluttershy said. "I still have to ask why it had to be a gun." "Because the play was about an evil crime mob boss who while being the main character, would get arrested at the end of the play. He is the one that uses the gun in the first place." Sparkle said. "Oh. I guess that would make sense for a bad guy to use a gun." Fluttershy said. The CMC soon started to leave. "So, is that really how the principle started?" Apple Bloom asked. "No idea, but it's the story I was told." Sparkle said. The CMC would actual run into every other Main Six Member before Rainbow Dash where it suddenly got revealed, all the main six's cutie marks were tied to Rainbow Dash's performance of the Sonic Rainboom. "...Well that's an odd coincidence. How often does that happen?" Sparkle asked. "Not often. And I wouldn't count on it happening with us." Apple Bloom said.