“Ugh, what happened?” asked Scootaloo.
Apple Bloom suddenly gasped, “Girls, look!”
All three looked around and realized that the entire town of Ponyville was back to the way it was before all of the chaotic turmoil began.
“Everything is back to normal!” shouted Sweetie Belle in happy relief, “No more chaos!”
Suddenly, something came to Scootaloo’s mind, “Hey wait a minute, anypony seen Screwball; where did she go?”
The three crusaders suddenly heard a familiar voice nearby, “Hey there, crusaders.”
They turned around to see Twilight Sparkle and the others coming towards them with little smiles on their faces; and behind them was Discord, back to the way he was before… trapped in stone.
“Hey Twilight!” they all shouted in happiness; it was great for them to see all of them back to their normal selves.
“Are you squirts alright?” questioned Rainbow Dash.
“More than ever, Rainbow Dash!” said Scootaloo while she zipped up to her and glomped on her, “I’m so glad that you’re not lazy and stubborn anymore!”
Rainbow was struggling a bit while trying to breathe, “Um… a l-l-little breathing s-space please?”
Scootaloo quickly got off of her and blushed in embarrassment, “Oh, right… s-s-sorry.”
“Hey Rarity,” said Sweetie Belle, “you’re not still in love with that rock that you called a gem, right?”
“Not anymore, Sweetie Belle,” Rarity responded with a nervous smile, “but please, let’s not talk about that anymore, okay?”
“Ah just don’t understand;” stated Apple Bloom, “we did everything we could to fix all of this ourselves; to get you guys back together! What in the hay happened when we gave up?!”
“Twilight happened!” shouted Pinkie Pie while smiling brightly and bouncing up and down in place.
“She did?” questioned the crusaders.
“That’s right,” Applejack responded, “No matter how hopeless it may have seemed for her and all of us, in the end Twilight never gave up on our friendship!”
So that’s how things turned out great. The crusaders were quite happy and relieved that things worked out well after all.
“Ah knew it,” said Apple Bloom with a confident smirk, “Ah knew she was never gonna give up, just like Ah said.”
However, twilight became quite curious of the crusaders little meddling earlier, “So… what made you three think that changing everything back to normal was your responsibility?”
All of the crusaders were prepared to tell them the truth about everything, and they all had a feeling that it wasn’t going to be easy.
“Well about that,” said Apple Bloom, “we have somethin’ to say.”
The mane 6 all got curious of what the crusaders had to say about the whole ordeal that just happened.
“We’re… kinda the reason that Discord… got free in the first place.”
“WHAT!!!?” the mane 6 gasped.
“Don’t be talkin’ nonsense, Apple Bloom,” said Applejack, “Discord must’ve been messin’ with yer heads!”
“But she’s right!” whined Sweetie Belle, “Yesterday on our little field trip to the Canterlot Gardens, we… kinda got into a little fight with each other.”
“A fight?!” raged Rarity and Applejack.
“It was just a little dispute about what discord was about;” said Scootaloo, “no big deal.”
Sweetie explained some more, “But our fight help weaken the spell on him and he eventually got free; our chaos set him free.”
“Oh my goodness,” Fluttershy gasped.
“Sweet merciful Luna, is this all true?” Rarity asked.
All three crusaders lowered their heads in shame as Apple Bloom sadly answered, “Yeah it is, and… we’re sorry that I didn’t tell you about it before, Applejack.”
“Me too, Rarity,” Sweetie Belle added.
All of this was quite a shock to the main six; who would have thought that three little fillies like the Cutiemark Crusaders had the capabilities to release Discord, the king of chaos. But in any case, they didn’t care much; even if all of this was their fault it wasn’t intentional. Also, they were just glad that everything was okay.
“Well don’t worry you three;” said Twilight with a smile, “none of us are upset at any of you.”
“You’re… y-y-you’re not?” said Sweetie Belle.
“Of course we’re not,” said Applejack, “Everypony makes mistakes all the time.”
“Well it’s not exactly every day that your mistakes bring out chaos and disorder to the world,” Scootaloo brooded.
“Well… what’s done is done and we can’t rewrite history,” said Twilight, “But at least everything is back to normal and everypony is alright, okay?”
“Y-y… yeah, I guess it is,” Apple Bloom responded with a light smile.
Twilight and her friends were glad and felt happy as they saw all three crusaders smiling together again no longer feeling down about what had happened.
“Well, you three go continue your crusading,” said Twilight, “we have to report to the Princess that our mission is complete.”
Twilight and her friends all said good-bye to the crusaders for now and they headed off towards the tree house to meet with Spike. The crusaders all just sat there just letting the entire sudden relief settle in as they watched Twilight and the others walk off in the distance.
“Well, that went better than we expected,” said Apple Bloom.
“What do you think happened to Screwball,” asked Sweetie Belle, “Do you think she’s alright?”
The crusaders looked all around them looking for any signs of the chaotic troublemaker, but she was nowhere in sight.
“Ah don’t know Sweetie Belle,” Apple Bloom responded, “she was good in a sense, but she didn’t care for what we were fightin’ for. Mah guess is that she became invisible to the world again and lost most of her chaotic powers as well.”
“Well I say good riddance,” Scootaloo boasted, “That screwed-up pony… or whatever the hay she was supposed to be, and her… daddy were going too far in their troublemaking. I’d rather deal with regular every day chaos, thank you very much.”
The crusaders went over to the statue that was Discord and were looking upon it being curious of how it must feel being turned into stone like that; it probably wasn’t pleasant.
“Well girls,” said Apple Bloom feeling more upbeat again, “the day is still going on, so what should we do now that the chaos has past?”
“I say we do something that is not crusading for now,” stated Sweetie Belle.
“Yeah, I agree,” said Scootaloo, “I think I had enough excitement for one day.”
All three crusaders; Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, they were all walking forward feeling quite proud of themselves even though they technically didn’t succeed in their plan. But in the midst of this happy ending, they felt like trying their best and being determined was all they needed to do, and doing that was a reward on its own.
“Onward crusaders; let’s…”
‘Trip’
“Whoooooa!!!”
However… their proud little walks were interrupted as all three crusaders suddenly tripped on something and fell flat on their faces in unison.
“Ow, that hurt!” said Sweetie Belle as she rubbed her forehead.
Apple Bloom looked behind them and noticed what caused them to fall, “Hey girls were those… three little stones there before?”
Scootaloo got up and shook herself off and groaned feeling aggravated, “Don’t know, don’t care; come on, let’s go.”
Apple Bloom looked at the stones again and noticed that strangely they were aligned with each other in a straight line; and they were positioned in the exact walking path of each of them. It was quite a strange coincidence, but she soon decided to ignore it and continued walking off with her crusader friends.
“Did you see that,” said a certain voice, “did you see what I did there, Daddy? Those three totally fell for that rock trick; get it, fell? Oh man, that was simple yet a total winner.”
Screwball, unknown to any passing pony was lying on top of her statue father chuckling and laughing as she watched the crusaders walk off in the distance; never wanting to witness pure chaos again.
“’Sigh’ Revenge is sweet; take that, crusader dummies.”