Author: Karrakaz
Quotation: "We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." ~ Tobias Wolff
"Covered in tree sap AGAIN, oh Rarity is going to be so mad at me." The white filly unicorn wailed.
"Don't worry Sweetie Belle, ah took precautions this time around!" The yellow earth pony led her two friends towards their 'secret' hideout after their latest adventure, or crusade as they called it.
The latest crusade had revolved around sweets and the production thereof, they'd spent their whole day trying -and failing- to make chocolate cakes, pies and cupcakes.
Somewhere along the line though, things had gone wrong (as they are apt to around those colts foals and fillies looking for their cutie marks.)
The tree-sap was still somewhat of a mystery, even to the fillies themselves had no idea where the sticky substance had come from, but they were used to it by now.
And Applebloom was apparently prepared for it.
Upon arriving in their clubhouse (Scootaloo's suggestion to rename it to a chapel so they could become real crusaders had been rejected) the yellow filly undid the bow tie that was holding back her hair and jumped into the wooden tub she had apparently placed there earlier in the day.
"Wow Applebloom, that thing is huge! Did you carry that thing all by yourself?" Scootaloo asked eyes as wide as her mouth, which hung open slack-jawed.
The tub Applebloom had jumped into was about eight sizes too big, under no circumstances should the filly have been able to haul such a massive thing all the way out here by herself.
"nuh-uh, it was jus' here when Ah checked on the clubhouse after school was done." the red-maned filly replied. "now are ya'll comin' in or what, slowpoke fillies." she giggled and dove back into the tub.
The orange pegasus was about to join her earthpony friend in the swimming-pool sized tub when she was poked in the side.
Looking over to her left she saw a grinning (almost cackling) Sweetie Belle rubbing her hooves together, she looked positively evil, all she was missing was Rarity's cat to stroke.
"Maybe we can get out cutie marks for having an amazing water fight" the unicorn filly whispered,
suddenly she didn't look evil at all, Scootaloo laughed and whispered back "We already tried that once, but i'm up for trying it again if you are."
"Let's do it, Applebloom won't know what hit her!" the unicorn almost squealed.
Before they could put their plan into action though, they were both soaked by hoof-fulls of water thrown out of the tub by a giddy looking Applebloom.
"Got ya! Ah win again." She smirked.
Her two friends quickly climbed up and threw themselves into the tub.
In the distance, through the brush and several of the trees, a red earth pony stallion and an orange mare were watching the fillies play in their newly acquired water fighting arena.
"Amazing how wild those fillies can play, and how much fun they can have with that old tub, even after all that crusadin' don't ya think so mac?"
"Eee-yup," he chewed at the corn stalk in his mouth. "they're a persistent bunch Ah'll give em that."
The mare smiled as she turned around and started walking back to the farm. "They'll find out who they are sooner or later, although sometimes Ah wish it was sooner." Applejack laughed "But they'll get there, just like we did." the red stallion looked at the playing fillies for a moment longer before following his sister.
"Eeee-yup."