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"Scootaloo!" Apple Bloom turned from her podium and looked at the orange filly. "What are ya doin'?"
"I'm beating the ceremonial drums," Scootaloo whispered back to Apple Bloom.
"Ah thought Ah told ya to beat it five times." She sighed. "Twice."
"I thought this would be cooler. I mean, ponies might actually understand this Doctor Who reference." The pegasis smiled.
"Ugh." With that, Apple Bloom turned back to face the audience of two fillies. "The Cutie Mark Crusaders meeting is now in session."
The three fillies applauded. Once again, the leader of this meeting, Apple Bloom, began to speak.
"There is important business that we must discuss. First... Ummm... Ugh," Apple Bloom paused for a moment. After her brief moment of hesitation, she continued, "Ah got no'hing."
The pegasis sighed. "Let's go and try to get cutie marks."
All three fillies wondered out of their tree house, all three fillies were also looking depressed.
"Any ideas for our cutie marks?" the only unicorn of the group asked.
"Eenope," Apple Bloom replied, attempting to sound like her older brother.
"I got nothin'," Scoots said afterwords.
All three fillies sulked off in the direction of Ponyville.
..........
A scream was heard. Then a loud "RARITY!" rang through the air.
"My sister!" Sweetie Belle shouted. "I know what we're doing today!"
All three fillies looked at each other and screamed, in unison, "Cutie Mark Crusaders... SUPER HEROES!"
They rushed in the direction of the scream. Ponies all around them were shouting and hurrying to get out of their way. Others were staring at the three little fillies running towards a very dangerous place. The Everfree Forest.
As they arrived at the edge of the forest, they saw two creatures oddly placed at the edge of the forest. One a dragon, who was cradling the other creature in its claws.
"What is that thing? And why do both of them look so familiar?" Scootaloo was the one to ask.
The dragon's head turned. Then, it spoke. "Oh! Hello, Crusaders." Now they knew that the voice was familiar.
Sweetie Belle decided to acknowledge the question all three crusaders were thinking. "Fluttershy?" It nodded. "What are you holding?"
The thing in Fluttershy's claws squeaked. "I am not a what!!! I am a who!"
Fluttershy spoke up. "She's just mad because she was turned into a penguin." Fluttershy chuckled.
"Dash?!?" the little orange filly shouted in surprise.
Rainbow turned away, ashamed of being seen like this, scared and flightless, in front of her number one fan and Scootaloo immediately regretted her words, though she was still happy to see her hero.
Then, the unwanted question was asked. "Where's my sister? I thought I heard her scream..." the unicorn spoke rather calmly, for one in her situation.
Fluttershy sighed and pointed in the general direction of inside the Everfree Forest. "In there," she whispered.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders decided to be extra energetic about this. Scootaloo was flying everywhere, or at least attempting to. Sweetie Belle was sprouting fireworks from her horn. And Apple Bloom just jumped up and down. Until she noticed a very fine detail which was missing.
"Where are th' others?" she asked. "Like, Twilight an' all 'em?"
Both Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash shivered, as if a cold breeze was among them.
The three little fillies stood there, confused. Until, that is, until all of them came to the same realization. "They're not here?" the Cutie Mark Crusaders said in unison. "Where are they?"
Then, Apple Bloom asked, "Did the'all change inta weird creature thingies like ya'll?"
"Did they get attacked by things while going out into the," Sweetie Belle shivered, "Everfree Forest?"
"How did you change into these things anyway?" came Scootaloo's question.
Fluttershy answered the first one. "Yes, but they don't even act like our friends anymore. They act like the monsters they've turned into."
Rainbow Dash the penguin answered the second. "This one's just kinda confusing. Rarity did, definitely. Pinkie Pie went in on her own. And we have just about no idea about Applejack. We think she wanted to hide herself from us, but seeing as Twi and Pinkie Pie turned... Kinda evil, we're... um... we're not... uh... we're not quite sure." The fillies showed their flabbergasted and bewildered faces. "But we'll find a way to get them out," the penguin added.
And then there was the last question. The one where they weren't completely sure what had happened. Then, both the dragon known as Fluttershy and the penguin known as Rainbow Dash, answered simultaneously. "I have no idea. Twilight may have found out before she turned all changeling like on us."
Smiling, Fluttershy told the fillies to go get ready for the adventure they were about to have, wondering into the mysterious Everfree Forest and to be back within the course of an hour so that they can save their very best friends.
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Gilda the griffon and Trixie the unicorn cowered in front of Discord. What would he do to them? They were scared that now since he got his revenge, he would kill them off.
"Now, I want you to go back to Ponyville," the god of chaos said. "And I want you to..." He paused for dramatic effect.
"GIVE THEM THIS ANTISERUM BECAUSE THIS IS GETTING REALLY BORING!" he explained.
"Seriously. Or you can just kidnap them and bring them to me. That might be a little more fun... Wait, can you do both?"
The unicorn and griffon sighed and walked away with the antiserum.