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// The Missing Cutie Marks: Prologue 
// Story: Doctor Whooves Adventures 
// by IHasApple 
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It was a normal day for Ponyville. Celestia’s sun shone down on all the ponies as they went about the day. All except for a few places. On the far side of Ponyville, near the everfree forest, there stood a cottage, surrounded by bird houses, a chicken coop and all sort of other animal habitats. Around this pony's house, it was this dark with clouds. This, of course, was Fluttershy’s house. Every day in the morn, she would go out and feed the animals and collect eggs. She stood in the doorway of the henhouse, counting the eggs she had gathered in her basket. 

“6...7…8…9? Oh dear, one’s missing.”

She looked back to the chickens. They all looked back to one chicken in the corner. The chicken looked saddened and just shrugged it's wings. 

"Oh my. Another day without an egg?" she walked towards the chicken roost, "Don't worry about it. You're new. Just give it time." The chicken perked up a little as Fluttershy walked out of the coop. 

Fluttershy stepped out and looked up at the sky. Clouds. Clouds were in the way of the beautiful skies and sun. There had been alot of clouds, recently. Rather dark, scary looking ones, too. Rainbow Dash was usually the one who would clear the stray weather that drifted in from the wild Everfree forest. Although, Fluttershy hadn't seen Rainbow in for at least two or three days.

"Hm. Rainbow must still be-"

SWOOSH

She was cut off by the aforementioned pegasus making her entrance. With a great swoop of her wings and a burst of speed, the dark sky exploded into a colourful rainbow blitz! The timid pony was starlted, but regained a small smile when she was what was happening. The rainbow maned pony went about, kicking away the clouds left and right, clearing the entire sky in a little less than 10 seconds, flat.  

"Wow, Rainbow Dash. Thank you for clearing the sky. That was fast, even for you." Fluttershy complimented her friend. "I guess you got over that nasty flu bug, huh?"

Dash flew down lower to the pink maned pony. "Heh heh, yeah. I woke up really early today, feeling GREAT!" she flew in loops to emphasize her point. 

Fluttershy continued to smile at her excited friend. "Well that's um.. great!" she tried to mimic Rainbow's enthusiasum.

Rainbow Dash continued to fly higher and faster. "Catch ya later, 'Shy! I gotta do some awesome tricks!"

Fluttershy continued to watch as Rainbow dashed off. Smaller and smaller Dash got. Fluttershy was about to turned to head inside, when her keen eyes and attention to detail caught something. It was Rainbow. She stopped getting smaller. In fact, instead of getting smaller, Rainbow's wings went straight out and then fell limp at her sides!

Then she began to fall. 

"Oh No!" Fluttershy screamed as she immediately flew off, forgetting about the nine eggs that soon became two. 

Now, usually, Fluttershy is not a strong flier. In fact, she's propably the weakest flyer to come out of Cloudsdale. However, threaten her friends or her animals, and Fluttershy's power and speed rival that of even Rainbow Dash. Which is good, because it was what was needed to catch Rainbow before she fell to her certain death. 

She held onto Dash's hoof with a death grip as they floated down. "Don't worry, Rainbow, I've got you." They both touched down on the grass below. The sat a moment to catch their breath. Silence loomed over the two frightened ponies; no sound but breathing, was heard. 

Dash was the first to speak, "What the heck happened?" She looked at her limp wing that just hung there. "Why did my wing just spaz up like that? I always exercise my wings before practice.." 

"Um... Rainbow?" Fluttershy tried to voice her opinion in amongst Dash's ranting. 

"I mean I was just flying! It's not like I was doing was a triple backwards loop or a 720 spin!" Dash just continued to rant on about herself. She didn't show it, but under her mask of frustration and confusion, Rainbow was very concerned about what happened. She was scared about losing her wings. 

"Rainbow."

"Really! I don't get it. This kind of thing hasn't happened to me since before I got my cutie mark!"

"Uh, Rainbow... Your cutie mark..."

"Yeah, it's pretty awesome, isn’t it?" Rainbow stopped to think about the day she got her cutie mark: The bullies the race and the sonic rainboom. Dash snapped out of her memories and turned to look at her friend, "What about it?"
Fluttershy just continued to stare at the cyan flank. Slowly, Rainbow turned her head to her own behind. She was confused and slightly freighted about what she would she. What she saw, was the last thing she wanted to see:

A blank flank. 

No, not Scootaloo. Her own flank. Blank. No lightning bolt mark. No cloud. Nothing. Just a blank flank. 

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!"



Doctor Whooves


The Missing Cutie Marks