Applebloom trotted down the old dirt path, she cleared away some bushes and came to the clearing of her clubhouse. She thought about how her two other friends had already discovered their talents, and received their cutie marks. As she ascended the steps, she could already hear her 2 friends talking. Applebloom knocked on the pink wooden door in a rhythmic pattern, and the door creaked open. Inside revealed 2 fillies sitting on the floor playing Monopony. "Hey guys. What'cha playin'?" she asked.
"Oh hey Applebloom!" said an orange pegasus with a purple mane, Scootaloo. "We were just playing Monopony while we waited for you!" a white unicorn with a pink and purple mane added, Sweetie Belle. "Yea! We had an awesome idea for Equestria Day!" Scootaloo explained, "We could get our cutie marks!" Sweetie Belle continued.
The yellow filly with a red mane sat down next to her friends. "Alrighty then. What's the plan?" Applebloom asked. The unicorn answered first, "We had an idea of becoming inventors!!!" She began, "Earth ponies and unicorns wanna be up in the clouds like pegasi, right? So we're gonna make a flying machine!" Sweetie Belle explained. "We dunno what we're gonna call it, but it'll be AWESOME!!!" Scootaloo added.
"Ok, cool! We're gonna build some sorta flyin' machine. And ah might be able to get my cutie mark... I'm in!" Applebloom stated. The three stood up and raced to the shed for building scraps. They picked through metal pieces and dug out all sorts of materials, walls of thin metal, bits and scraps lay scattered around the shed, nails, hammers, and screwdrivers.
The friends laid out all the supplies into neat stacks on the floor of their clubhouse. "Alrighty then, what now?" Scootaloo asked, "Well, we gotta organize what we still need into a list, then we can start buildin'!" Applebloom finished. "Ok!" The unicorn squeaked, and raced off, coming back with a scroll of paper and pencil.
After an hour or two, the fillies planned out their idea. "Ok then," Applebloom stated, "We'll need three hammers, three screwdrivers, 150 nails, paint, three paintbrushes, nails..." She continued, "Uh, Applebloom? You said nails twice." Sweetie Belle corrected. "Oh, right." The filly answered, crossing out the second 'nails' on the long list of supplies. "Ok then, three paintbrushes, 20 two-by-fours, an engine, four small pieces of wood, etc!" Applebloom finished.
"And just HOW do you plan on getting all of that stuff?" Scootaloo questioned, "Uh..... I have NO idea!" Applebloom said, stomping her hoof into the dirt.
The three fillies rushed to the barn, and stopped in their tracks in front of Big Macintosh. "Hey big brother!" The earth pony smiled, "We were just wonderin' if uh... You could help us get some supplies that's on this list," she finished. Big Mac set down a bail of hay in his teeth, each of the fillies were smiling as hard as they could. "Eeeeeeyup!" He answered, and trotted over to a small red wagon, and attaching it to Scootaloo's scooter. The pegasus jumped onto her vehicle, and buzzed off, with the other two fillies in the cart.