Half an hour later they were still brain storming for a name with little success. Applebloom was gently hitting her head against the wall, Scootaloo was pacing around the room and Sweetie Belle was looking through some of the books they had and was saying the weirdest names, "How about Ahuizotl?"
The colt just shook his head, "Daring Do villain names are out, remember?"
She rubbed her forehead under her horn and groaned in slight frustration, "Sorry, I forgot."
He gave shrug as Scootaloo let out a groan in exasperation, "This is taking forever! How can naming somepony be so hard?"
Applebloom stopped her method of kick starting her brain and turned to the others, "Now there's something I never thought I'd hear."
Sweetie shook her head, "And these are getting me nowhere." She said, gesturing towards the books laid out in front of her. She got up and grabbed a bigger book from the closet, dragged it over to the other books and opened it.
"Uh, Sweetie Belle," Scootaloo walked over to her and peered over her shoulder, "What are you doing now?"
Sweetie Belle lifted a hoof and pushed Scootaloo away before answering the question, "I'm checking a dictionary since the Daring Do books are getting me nowhere."
The other two Crusaders groaned as Applebloom shook her head and returned to hitting her head against the wall, "Even if you do find a good name in there, it will take forever just because that thing's so big."
Sweetie ignored her friend's lack of faith in the big book and continued to flip through the pages, "Well, everything else wasn't getting us anywhere."
As they were talking the colt decided to lay down with his back against the back wall, waiting for them to make any head way with the search for a name when Sweetie Belle asked him a question, "What do you like?"
The colt raised a brow quizzically, "What?"
Sweetie Belle turned to him and asked again, "I said, what do you like? Like for activities or something."
He put a hoof to his chin and gave a sound of contemplation and thought, Exactly what do I like? He mulled that over in his head before he gave his answer, "Well, I really like the night sky."
As Sweetie Belle was about to speak Scootaloo jumped in, "You could be called Star!" Sweetie Belle glared at her because of the interruption and her pegasus friend asked, "What?"
Sweetie continued to glare for a bit before giving an answer, "I had a good name too."
Scootaloo chuckled nervously, "Well, how about you give him another name to go with Star?"
Applebloom stopped hitting her head against the wall and sat near her friends and Sweetie Belle racked her brain for a good name and started pacing. After walking the length of the clubhouse a few times she stopped and turned to face them with a thoughtful expression, "I can't use anything having to do with the night or sky because I think that would be redundant, so... How about Enigma?"
The other three just tilted their heads and said, "Huh?" Simultaneously.
Sweetie Belle, seeing their confusion, continued, "You see, an enigma is something mysterious, puzzling or inexplicable. Just like him!"
The others said, "Oh." And nodded in understanding and Scootaloo muttered, "Dictionary."
The colt smiled, but was then struck with a thought, "But, what order will they be in? Star Enigma or Enigma Star?"
Scootaloo shrugged and started toward the door, quickly followed by her fellow Crusaders, "Whichever you want. It's your name after all."
He nodded mutely as he sat down to decide in what order his name should be, while the Crusaders had a meeting outside and away from his ears. The Crusaders walked to the tree line just in case he'd hear before Scootaloo started the sub meeting off, "So, what do you two think of him?"
Applebloom shrugged, "He seems to be an alright fella, though a little weird."
Sweetie Belle put a hoof to her chin and nodded, "I think he's nice. I mean, he hasn't done anything or acted that strange for a colt with no name who was wandering around the Everfree Forest."
Scootaloo nodded a little, "Yeah, I agree. But, I'm still keeping an eye on him."
Her friends groaned a little and Applebloom asked, "What's it going to take for you not to be suspicious of him?"
Scootaloo shrugged, "I don't know. I just want to be prepared. If he acts normally and doesn't do anything strange then I'll treat him normally. And besides, it's not like I'm going to be stalking his every move."
Sweetie Belle shook her head a little bit and gave a giggle, "It's okay Scootaloo. But, we better see what he's doing, I bet Scootaloo is dying to make sure he isn't doing something weird or dangerous."
Scootaloo frowned in annoyance as her friends shared a laugh, "Come on! Let's just see if he's made a decision yet." And they made their way back in.
When they walked in they saw him sitting and tapping a hoof against his forehead just bellow his horn, lost in thought. Scootaloo rolled her eyes and slammed the door, bringing him back to reality, "So, have you made up your mind?"
He shook his head, "I just can't decide. Both sound good, but..."
Scootaloo gave a small sigh, "Fine, we'll just call you Enigma for now." She walked to the closet and looked inside, "And now that we've gotten you a name, you can join us as a fellow Cutie Mark Crusader!" After finding what she was looking for she pulled out two big bongo drums.
Sweetie Belle smiled, "Yeah, luckily I took it upon myself to fix up the Crusader oath after Babs left."
Scootaloo frowned, "So it was a little long."
Applebloom raised an eyebrow at Scootaloo, "A little?"
Scootaloo sighed loudly, "Fine! It was really long."
Sweetie Belle walked over to the drums and eyed them warily, "And I don't think we should use the drums this time."
Scootaloo groaned as she walked to Sweetie's side, "Why not? They're fun to play."
Sweetie Belle pushed the bongos back into the closet, "They're a little loud and I'd rather not have the entire town assume that a new Crusader has been chosen every time they hear drums."
Scootaloo just huffed and grabbed a podium from inside the closet but stopped and turned around with an annoyed expression when she heard Applebloom clear her throat, "What is it Applebloom?"
Applebloom walked over to her fellow Crusaders and started pushing the podium back into the closet, "It's just we don't have time for the Crusader ceremony. We have to get Sweetie home to at least let Rarity know she's alright like Applejack said."
Sweetie Belle suddenly got a nervous expression and nodded, "Yeah, I don't think we need a worried Rarity on our hooves." She then went from nervous to excited as she turned to Enigma, "Hey, you can meet my sister while we're there!"
Enigma looked at the Crusaders, slightly nervous, "I'm not sure if I should be excited or scared."
Applebloom smiled and gave a light chuckle, "Don't be worried. Rarity ain't that bad unless you let her wrangle you into modeling for her."
Sweetie's look of being excited went to one of nervousness again, "Uh, guys? I think we have a problem."
Scootaloo sighed for what she felt was the thousandth one that day, "What is it now Sweetie Belle?"
Sweetie Belle moved closer before answering, "How are we going to explain him exactly?" Seeing her friends confused faces for the second time she sighed and continued, "How will we explain him not having parents or a guardian and where he is staying?"
Scootaloo thought for a moment and grinned as she got an idea, "How about we say he took the train from Manehattan and that his parents were going to take the next train but something happened and they had to stay there so he has to take care of himself, so us being the Cutie Mark Crusaders seeing a new pony with no Cutie Mark decide to get to know him, learn of his predicament and try to help him out!"
Applebloom smiled as she trotted over to her friend, "That's actually a great idea! What do you think Enigma?"
Enigma nodded and smiled, "So, we were going to Rarity's right?"
Sweetie Belle started walking out the door with her packed saddle bags on her back, "Yup! and if anypony asks just tell them that story."
The Crusaders and Enigma then left the club house and made their way down the main road that would lead them out of Sweet Apple Acres. They were walking until they saw a cart being pulled by a big red stallion. When seeing him Scootaloo grabbed Enigma and her friends and dashed into the trees.
Applebloom was annoyed by her friends actions and wrestled Scootaloo's hoof from her mouth and whispered to her, "Why did you just do that?"
Scootaloo recovered her friends mouth until the red stallion had passed and then uncovered both of their mouths, "How would we explain him? We wouldn't have been able to. And our whole story relies on us getting to Ponyville without anypony seeing him outside of it."
Applebloom thought this over before answering, "And how will we explain his lack of luggage?"
It took a moment for Scootaloo to process that small bit of information and before she could answer Sweetie Belle cut in, "Wouldn't have been better to say we let him store his belongings in our club house until he found a place to stay?"
Scootaloo groaned, moved out of the trees and back on to the road, "We'll add that to the story. Let's just get him and Sweetie Belle to Rarity's before we run into her on the way there."
They then left Sweet Apple Acres and headed to Ponyville, not knowing that a certain pink pony was on her way to greet Ponyville's newest occupant.