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// Prologue - How it all started  
// Story: My little beyblade - Friendship is metal 
// by The Demon of Sloth 
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     "Mummy, can you pass me the sauce pwwease?" Dinky asked in a polite yet sweet tone.
"Alright, here ya go." Derpy reached for the bottle of sweet sauce and handed it to her daughter.
"Yay!!" Dinky squealed in delight as she used her magic to pick up the bottle and pour the sticky and sweet sauce onto her food. Soon, she dunk into her food.
Derpy giggled. Even though sometimes Dinky forgets her table manners, she was still the apple of her eye.
After Dinky finished her lunch, she looked up at her mother and pleaded with the best puppy eyes she could make.
"Mummy, can I go out and play with my new friends?"
"Alright sweetie, you can go. Don't come home too late!" Derpy gave in, not able to resist those cute golden eyes.
Dinky squealed like a fanmare (fangirl) and rushed out of the door with her saddlebag full of materials, ready for the activity that she was going to do with her new friends.
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Dinky soon went to a pale brown clubhouse. Blue stairs reached the ground to the entrance. Dinky trotted up the stairs and knocked at the dark brown door. It was opened by a filly with brilliant amaranth coat, a pale light grayish olive coat and brilliant gamboge eyes. Upon seeing Dinky, she grinned widely and welcomed her in.
Two other fillies were sitting on the rug in the clubhouse. One was a pegasus and the other was a unicorn. They don't have cutie marks like the earth pony that welcomed Dinky in. 
"Hello gurlz! So nice to see you all again!" Dinky cheered in a melodious tone.
"Aren't we glad to see you too Dinky! Have you bought the materials that we need for the activity?" Applebloom asked.
"They are all right here!" Dinky said as she dumped out the contents from her white saddlebag with her magic. They were all stuff for pranking. Sneezing powder, spring trap, paint and all sorts of strange and weird items.
"What's all these stuff for?" Sweetie Belle asked in a curious tone, putting a hoof on her chin and raised an eyebrow. 
"You don't know? We are going to get our cutie marks in pranking, of course!" Scootaloo exclaimed in a fake, shocked tone, staring at Sweetie Belle in the eye.
'Alright, stop your blabbering! Let's get to it!" Applebloom said as the four cutie mark crusaders hoof  bumped as they put on their red silk capes with the CMC logo stitched on the bottom right side of the cape. They raced down the stairs with their materials, ready to begin their mission.
Dinky smiled excitedly. Being a blank flank made them easier targets of bullying, so she was invited to the CMC's. It was good to be in a group of fillies who also have blank flanks, so they won't feel left out. Twilight once said that being a blank flank is special, as they can feel the excitement of figuring who they are, and have all in the time to find out their special talent.
"C'mon Dinky! Hurry up!" Scootaloo called out to the daydreaming grey unicorn filly, who nodded back in agreement.
The four fillies soon arrived at Carrot Top's farm. They snickered in mischief as they used paint to paint the carrots in colourful colours and bizzare patterns. To add up, they even used whiteboard markers to draw graffiti on the windowpanes of the house (Carrot Tops was not at home). As soon as they finished their prank, they ran and hid in a bush, waiting for Carrot Tops to arrive.
Soon, trotting of hooves and humming could be heard. A pale, light grayish olive mare with brilliant orange amber mane and moderate chartreuse green eyes with three carrots for a cutie mark strolled soon appeared. She was carrying a basket of groceries that she bought from the market. As she pushed open the gate to her garden, she was shocked. Her garden was in a mess! She even saw graffiti on her window panes of her house.
Fuming with anger, the mare stomped into her house and get her cleaning materials to clean up the mess. 
As soon as she was out of sight, the four pranksters reappeared and giggled.
"That was a good one! We really hit her big time!" Scootaloo laughed as she slapped Applebloom's back roughly with her hoof, which caused her to stumble a little.
Sweetie Belle hoof bumped with Dinky as they exchanged excited glances. 
"Do you think that we have our cutie marks already?" Sweetie Belle squeaked as Dinky's eyes sparkled. Scootaloo and Appleblooom thought so too. They leaped out of the bush, exposing their flanks. As they stared at their flanks, their grins dissolved. It was still blank. The three fillies sighed. Maybe pranking wasn't their special talent.
Everyone sighed except Scootaloo, whose eyes widened.
"It's just too soon to give up just yet!!"
The CMC soon pranked many other ponies. They added sneezing powder in the flowers of Rose's stall. The ponies who sniffed them ended up sneezing non stop. They even placed a spring trap at the entrance of Sugarcube corner. Cherry Berry was flung a few meters away when she triggered the trap when she was leaving. Even though, their flanks were still blank.
The four fillies returned back to the clubhouse at sundown. Applebloom took out a peice of paper and used a red colored pencil to cross out the word 'pranking' on the list. So it definately was true that their special talent was not pranking. There were many other words that were crossed out with a red line too.
Applebloom sighed louder than before and asked "So, what are we going to do to get our cutie marks now?"
"I know! Explorer cutie marks! You know exploring mysterious places and uncovering acient stuff and all! That'll totally rock!" Scootaloo exclaimed excitedly, buzzing her wings vigorously, making noises which a bug makes when it flies.
"So that's settled then! Tomorrow we will get our cutie marks in exploring!" Applebloom announced.
"YEAHH!!!"
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Dinky broke into a full gallop as she pushed the door open loudly, causing her mother to jolt in surprise.
"Woah there my little muffin!"
"Mum! You won't believe what me and my friends did today to get our cutie marks! Even though we couldn't get them, at least we had fun!" Dinky exclaimed in a hyper manner, bouncing up and down with her saddlebag.
"Care to share with me what you did today at dinner?" Derpy asked while patting Dinky's head.
The unicorn filly nodded eagerly.
Derpy smiled sweetly at her filly before heading to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
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Dinky woke up grugely from the sound of her alarm clock. She groaned in annoyance, but soon her frown turned upside down when she remembered what she was going to do with the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Dinky shot out of bed and rushed to the bathroom to wash up. After that, she ran to the dining table and plopped herself on the soft cushion. She waited impatiently for her breakfast to be ready. As soon as it was served, she gobbled up her breakfast hungrily.
"Slowly, my little muffin.! You will choke if you eat like that!" Derpy advised her daughter who was chomping down a sausage. 
"But mom! Today I'm going to get my exploration cutie mark today! I'm so pumped up!" Dinky lamented.
"I know that! But if you get indigestion just because you ate too fast, you can't play with your friends!" Derpy chided her.
"Okay mummy." Dinky apologized as she ate her food at a normal speed, not wanting to disobey her mother further.
Derpy's frown soften as she patted her daughters head gently. 
"Now quickly finish up your food. You don't want to keep your friends waiting, do you?"
As soon as Dinky finished her breakfast, she wore her cape and galloped at full speed to Fluttershy's house, where they arranged to meet. When she reached there, the rest of her friends were waiting.
"Hiya Dinky! Ready to go to the Everfree forest to get or cutie marks?" Scootaloo asked her as she flapped her wings in excitement.
"As ready as ever!" Dinky said in a confident tone while adjusting her red cape.
"Let's go then!" Sweetie Belle squeaked excitedly as she charged to the Everfree forest as the others tailed along behind.