Three figures sat in the center of a tree house, arguing, breaking the silence of the night.
"No, ah don't think that would be such a good idea," one figure said to the other two.
"But it would be so cool! Just think about it, doesn't a knife juggling cutie mark sound awesome?" The second figure asked.
"No, no it doesn't Scootaloo," the other two said in unison.
"Aw, come on, guys. Please? Apple Bloom?" Scootaloo looked expectantly at her friend.
"No," AppleBloom shook her head.
"How 'bout you Sweetie Be-" She stopped in mid sentence while looking over to find that her other friend had fallen asleep. She sighed, and turned away, getting up to get her stuff and leave. "Fine then, I'll go and find a cutie mark myse-"
She looked up at her friends to find that they were now both asleep, and grumbled.
"Guess I'll go get a cutie mark myself; Some friends they are..."
And with that, The orange pegasus left the clubhouse into the night.
Her first stop was Ponyville Knife shop. Which, as it was almost midnight, was closed.
"Aw, ponyfeathers, I should have known. Now where am i going to get some knives?" She pondered. After a few moments, she glanced in a few directions, hoping for some inspiration to hit her. A few seconds later, she got her wish, as she looked at the detailed sign for Sweet Apple Acres.
'There,' she thought. 'Apple Bloom's family absolutely HAS to have knives. What else would they use to chop their apples with? Axes?' She laughed at that last thought. 'Yea, right. Axes. Sure,' She chuckled.
She Gingerly cantered over to the farm house, making sure not to be to loud. Stepping onto a twig or a sharp object in the middle of the night would only make other ponies wake up, question her about what she was doing, and most likely stop her from successfully getting her cutie mark.
As she quietly tip-hooved toward the kitchen window, she heard something. It sounded like a pep rally, but a pep rally with only one pony. Grunting. 'Thats right, There's grunting', she thought, now getting curious more about this "pep rally of one" than where the Apple family kept their butcher knifes.
"Yeah, yeah! You are going to this! You will ask out that mare!" The voice said, voice cracking at that last sentence. It sounded familiar, she realized. But what, or who, would be up this late, and in the middle of an apple orchard?
Curiosity got the better of her as she found herself start to gallop towards the noise. As she swerved in and out of the trees, the voice got louder, and she could see a silhouette against the moon light. It didn't look like any pony she knew. 'It looks like a monster," she thought, now getting a little scared and reluctant to move forward. Well, just a little reluctant, apparently, as she just kept on moving towards the creature.
'Wait a second,' She thought once again, as she finally matched up the voice with the shape of the creature. 'I know who that is! That's Iron will.'
With the identity of the encouraging minotaur confirmed, she now galloped at full speed towards the minotaur. A little to fast maybe, as he bumped into him and sent him flying a few yards backwards.
"Huh?! Flutters-" He stuttered as he waved his head around, looking at Scootaloo, and stopping, then blushing as he realized what he had just said. "Oh, um, hi," he said, looking at the filly. "What do you want?"
She sighed. "All I want is my cutie mark!" She said, exasperated at the truth behind the remark.
"Your cutie mark, eh?" He said, a mischievous grin now forming on his face. "Well then. I have a way to get yourself a cutie mark."
"You do?!" She perked up almost instantly. 'Finally,' she thought to herself. 'My own special talent! No more getting teased by that dumb Diamond Tiara.' "So, how do i get it?" She asked, excited now.
"Wait a second. I'll only do you a favor if you do me a favor," he said, now looking a little more nervous and blushing again.
The remark made Scootaloo sigh again, not really wanting to know what the favor was, but she asked anyway. Her cutie mark was on the line.
"Okay, what's the favor?" she asked.
"Well, um, do you know, um... Fluttershy?" He asked quietly.
"Im sorry, who?"
"Fluttershy," he restated. "I... I want to ask her out on a date, but I'm nervous. I'm not always shouting and being strict like ponies think I am, you know."
"Oh, um, sure. Now back to my cutie mark! how do i get it?" She asked.
He sighed once more. "Fine, I'll Tell you. All you have to is get close to somepony, about a few yards away, and picture the symbol on their flank onto yours. Just use your pegasus magic by flapping your wings while doing so, and theirs will now be yours," he said. "Now I have to go. Talk to her for me, okay? Thanks." With the last of his words said, he then ran off. Scootaloo was surprised at how fast he could run with only two legs.
She looked back in the direction she had come from, but all she could see was apple trees.
"Aw, ponyfeathers."
It was late afternoon when scootaloo finally reached town.
'Alright then, who's mark should I get first?' She asked herself, pondering the question for a few moments. "I know! Rainbow Dash! Then I'll be almost as awesome as her!" She decided. 'Now where would she be..."
After looking around Ponyville, she finally found herself in town square, which was filled with ponies. She was absolutely sure that her idol would be in this jumble of ponies.
'Perfect," she thought, a mischievous smile now forming on her face as she spotted all six of the Elements Of Harmony. She bumped and brushed against groups of ponies, going "oops, sorry!" And, "My bad!" until she was just a few yards away from the Elements.
She closed her eyes and pictured the crowd with Rainbow Dash Standing clearly in the middle of the bustling ponies. Flapping her wings, she thought of how jealous her friends would be with nothing on their flanks. Suddenly, and surprisingly , she felt something slowly build up in her wings, and she gladly let it out, knowing it to somehow be magic.
She opened her eyes, and saw a very clear essence flowing around everyone, unseen by most everypony except for one. And for a moment, she thought Twilight Sparkle had caught her, until her eye's started to turn... pink? Twilight looked away with an "Eeep!"
'What the hay? Um, okay...' She thought, then remembering what she had been doing. 'Oh yeah, My cutie mark!' She whirled around to look at her flank, only to find nothing on there once again, making her eyes bulge. And, like the true drama queen she was, she ran out of the crowd towards the CMC clubhouse shouting "Noooooooo!"
As she neared the club house, she wondered what her friends would think of her and what they did when they found out she was gone when they had woken up.
'Did they freak out? Did they tell AppleJack? No, if they had, she and her friends would probably have been looking for her instead of going to the town hall meeting. I wonder if they-' Bump!
She shook her head looking up at the clubhouse she had just bumped into. She reared towards the entrance, and heard a familiar voice.
"Of all of the thing that could happen, this is the worst possible thing! Why on earth would scootaloo leave!?"
Then another voice; "Cheer up, Sweetie! Ah'm Sure Sure SURE that we'll find them! Okie dokie lokie?" Scootaloo just stood there, blinking rapidly, trying to process what her friends had just said.
'they sounded just like Pinkie Pie and Rarity...' She thought.
"Oh this is going to be SO good," she said, an evil grin forming on her face.
To Be Continued